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INDIANA  AND  INDIANANS 


A  HISTORY  OF  ABORIGINAL  AND  TERRITORIAL 

INDIANA  AND  THE  CENTURY  OF 

STATEHOOD 


JACOB  PIATT  DUNN 

AUTHOR  AND   EDITOR 


VOLUME    IV 


THE  AMERICAN  HISTORICAL  SOCIETY 

CHICAGO  AND  NEW  YORK 
1919 


Allen  County  Pubto  '  :Urary 
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Copyright,   1919 

by 

THE   AMEKICAN   HISTOKICAL  SOCIETY 


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Gen.  Jefferson  C.  Davis.  One  of  the 
most  distinguished  Indianans  who  made 
military  life  his  profession  was  Gen.  Jef- 
ferson C.  Davis,  who  first  volunteered  his 
services  to  the  profession  of  arms  at  the 
outbreak  of  the  war  with  Mexico,  and  was 
a  member  of  the  regular  army  thereafter 
for  thirty  years. 

He  was  born  in  Clark  County,  Indiana, 
March  2,  1827.  He  was  of  an  old  Ken- 
tucky family.  His  grandparents,  William 
and  Charlotte  Davis,  died  in  Kentucky, 
the  former  in  1840,  at  the  age  of  sixty- 
seven,  and  the  latter  on  May  6,  1851.  Wil- 
liam Davis,  Jr.,  father  of  General  Davis, 
was  born  July  29,  1800,  and  died  March  21, 
1879.  He  married  Mary  Drummond,  who 
was  born  June  24,  1801,  and  died  Novem- 
ber 24,  1881.  Their  children  were:  Jef- 
ferson C. ;  James  W.,  born  February  24, 
1829,  died  October  12,  1906;  John,  born 
December  27,  1830,  died  May  6,  1859 ;  Jo- 
seph, born  November  14,  1832,  died  Au- 
gust 6,  1867 ;  George,  born  November  21, 
1834,  died  in  March,  1901;  William,  born 
March  5,  1838,  died  November  25,  1910; 
Matilda  Anne,  born  September  5,  1841, 
died  July  19,  1890 ;  Thomas  Benton,  born 
August  22,  1844,  died  in  October,  1911. 
Joseph,  George  and  William  all  also  served 
in  the  Civil  war,  and  Dr.  Thomas  Davis 
was  contract  surgeon  in  the  regular  army. 

Jefferson  C.  Davis  spent  his  boyhood 
days  near  Charleston  in  Clark  County,  In- 
diana, on  his  father's  farm.  His  military 
genius  was  inherited  from  a  military  an- 
cestry, some  of  his  forefathers  having 
fought  in  the  Indian  wars  of  Kentucky. 
While  a  school  boy  in  Clark  County  attend- 
ing a  seminary  he  heard  of  the  declaration 
of  war  with  Mexico,  and  enlisted  in  Colo- 
nel Lane's  Indiana  Regiment.  For  gal- 
lant conduct  at  the  battle  of  Buena  Vista 
he  was  made  second  lieutenant  of  the  First 


Artillery  June  17,  1848.  He  became  a  first 
lieutenant  in  the  regular  army  in  1852. 
In  1858  he  was  assigned  to  duty  in  the 
garrison  at  Fort  Sumter,  South  Carolina. 
About  three  years  later  he  was  with  that 
garrison  when  Major  Anderson  consoli- 
dated the  forces  in  Charleston  Harbor  at 
Fort  Sumter,  and  General  Davis  was  of- 
ficer of  the  guard  when  the  first  shot  whis- 
tled over  the  fort  April  12,  1861,  this  be- 
ing the  first  shot  fired  by  the  Confederates, 
the  act  that  precipitated  the  long  and 
costly  Civil  war.  For  this  service  he  re- 
ceived a  medal  from  the  New  York  Cham- 
ber of  Commerce,  one  of  these  medallions 
being  presented  to  each  of  the  defenders. 
In  May,  1861,  General  Davis  was  pro- 
moted to  a  captaincy  and  was  given  leave 
of  absence  to  raise  the  Twenty-second  In- 
diana Volunteers.  As  colonel  of  the  regi- 
ment he  saw  active  service  in  the  Missouri 
campaign,  participating  in  the  battles  of 
Lexington,  Boonville  and  Blackwater,  and 
later  at  Pea  Ridge,  Arkansas.  In  Decem- 
ber, 1861,  he  was  promoted  to  command  of 
a  brigade,  and  was  under  General  Fremont 
and  later  under  Generals  Hunter  and 
Pope.  For  services  rendered  at  Milford, 
Missouri,  December  18,  1861,  when  he  aided 
in  capturing  a  superior  force  of  the  enemy 
and  a  large  quantity  of  military  supplies, 
he  was  made  brigadier  general  of  volun- 
teers. At  the  battle  of  Pea  Ridge  he  com- 
manded one  of  the  four  divisions  of  Gen- 
eral Curtis'  army.  He  was  also  at  the  siege 
of  Corinth,  and  was  then  assigned  to  the 
Army  of  the  Tennessee.  He  led  his  old 
division  of  the  Twentieth  Army  Corps  into 
the  fight  at  Stone  River,  and  for  his  bravery 
was  recommended  by  General  Rosecrans 
for  major  general.  In  1864  he  commanded 
the  Fourteenth  Corps  of  Sherman's  army 
in  the  Atlanta  campaign,  and  in  the  march 
from  Atlanta  to  the  sea.    In  1865  a  brevet 


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major  generalship  was  given  him,  and  he 
was  made  colonel  of  the  Twenty-third  In- 
fantry in  the  regular  army  July  23,  1866. 

After  the  war  he  was  employed  as  an 
army  reorganizer,  and  was  sent  to  the 
Pacific  coast,  and  from  1868  to  1871  was 
commander  of  the  military  forces  in  the 
newly  purchased  Territory  of  Alaska. 
While  in  Alaska  he  resided  with  Price 
Maksutoff,  who  gave  him  valuable  aid  in 
understanding  characteristics  of  that 
country.  On  several  occasions  General 
Davis  was  consulted  by  Governor  Seward, 
who  left  everything  to  General  Davis' 
judgment. 

In  1873,  after  the  murder  of  General 
Canby  by  the  Modoc  Indians  in  the  lava 
beds  of  northern  California,  General  Davis 
took  command  of  the  forces  operating 
against  them  and  in  a  remarkably  short 
time  compelled  the  Modocs  to  surrender. 
During  the  last  years  of  his  life  he  was  in 
command  of  the  Twenty-third  Infantry 
and  he  died  in  Chicago  while  in  line  of 
duty  November  30,  1879. 

General  Davis  married  Miss  Mariette 
Woodson  Athon,  of  Indianapolis,  daughter 
of  Dr.  James  S.  Athon.  A  niece,  Ida 
Davis  Finley,  resides  at  2038  New  Jersey 
Street,  Indianapolis. 

John  Carlisle  Davis,  M.  D.,  is  a  suc- 
cessful physician  and  surgeon  and  has  been 
in  active  practice  at  Logansport  for  the 
past  eight  years. 

He  was  born  in  Jefferson  Township,  Cass 
County,  Indiana,  September  22,  1884,  son 
of  George  B.  and  Minnie  (Cullen)  Davis. 
His  parents  are  both  natives  of  Indiana 
and  are  still  living.  Doctor  Davis,  one  of 
four  children,  received  most  of  his  literary 
education  in  the  Anderson  High  School. 
In  1909  he  graduated  from  the  Medical 
Department  of  Indiana  University,  and 
during  the  following  year  served  as  an 
interne  in  the  Deaconess  Hospital.  He  lo- 
cated at  Logansport  in  1910  and  rapidly 
won  his  way  to  favor  and  the  enjoyment 
of  a  large  general  practice.  He  is  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Indiana  Medical  Society  and  is 
very  prominent  in  Masonry,  being  affiliated 
with  the  Lodge,  Chapter,  Council,  Knights 
Templar  and  Mystic  Shrine.  He  is  also 
an  Odd  Felow,  is  a  democratic  voter  and 
a  member  of  the  Logansport  Chamber  of 
Commerce.      February    22,    1911,    Doctor 


Davis    married    Georgia    Masters. 
David  died  March  4,  1917. 


Mrs. 


Rev.  John  Cavanaugh,  C.  S.  C,  D.  D. 
Appreciation  of  Dr.  John  Cavanaugh 's 
many  graceful  and  eminent  qualities  is  by 
no  means  confined  to  the  Catholic  people 
or  that  great  body  of  students  who  have 
known  him  as  teacher  and  administrative 
head  of  the  University  of  Notre  Dame.  As 
preacher  and  lecturer  and  speaker  at  num- 
berless formal  and  informal  occasions  Dr. 
Cavanaugh  has  probably  been  heard  in 
every  important  town  and  city  of  America. 

Doctor  Cavanaugh  was  born  at  Leetonia, 
Ohio,  May  23,  1870,  son  of  Patrick  and 
Elizabeth  (O'Connor)  Cavanaugh.  Twen- 
ty years  later,  in  1890,  he  was  graduated 
with  his  Bachelor's  degree  from  the  Uni- 
versity of  Notre  Dame.  In  the  meantime 
he  had  attended  parochial  schools  at  Lee- 
tonia and  entered  Notre  Dame  in  1886,  at 
the  age  of  sixteen.  He  continued  at  the 
university  as  a  student  of  theology,  and 
was  ordained  priest  April  21,  1894,  and 
said  his  first  mass  in  his  native  town  of 
Leetonia.  The  degree  Doctor  of  Divinity 
was  conferred  upon  him  by  Ottawa  Uni- 
versity. 

Since  1894  Doctor  Cavanaugh 's  primary 
interests  have  been  identified  with  his  alma 
mater.  He  was  associate  editor  of  the  Ave 
Maria  Magazine  from  1894  to  1905,  and  at 
the  same  time  was  professor  of  Freshmen 
English.  He  was  promoted  to  professor 
of  Senior  English  and  had  that  work  until 
1898.  In  that  year  he  was  appointed  rec- 
tor of  Holy  Cross  Seminary  at  Notre  Dame, 
where  the  priests  of  his  order  are  trained. 
He  was  rector  and  superior  of  the  semi- 
nary from  1898  to  1905.  In  July,  1905, 
he  was  elected  president  of  the  university. 
His  big  work  in  the  past  fourteen  years 
has  of  course  been  directing  and  adminis- 
tering the  affairs  of  this  institution,  one 
of  the  foremost  universities  of  Indiana 
and  the  Middle  West.  His  great  capacity 
for  work  and  energy  have,  however,  en- 
abled him  to  do  much  of  a  formal  liter ary 
character  and  as  a  public  speaker.  He 
has  written  a  number  of  magazine  articles 
and  is  author  of  ' '  The  Priests  of  the  Holy 
Cross,"  published  in  1905.  Many  of  his 
speeches  cover  patriotic  subjects.  Doctor 
Cavanaugh  has  long  been  regarded  as  one 
of  the  indispensable  guests  at  the  annual 


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banquet  of  the  Indiana  Society  of  Chicago. 
He  was  preacher  at  the  Pan-American 
mass.  Doctor  Cavanaugh  is  a  member  of 
the  Rotary,  Indiana,  University,  Knife  and 
Fork  and  the  Round  Table  clubs  of  South 
Bend.  In  politics  he  is  independent  and 
has  often  exercised  an  important  influence 
toward  the  amelioration  of  political  and 
social  conditions.  He  is  a  member  of  the 
Rhodes  Scholarship  Commission  for  In- 
diana and  also  of  the  Indiana  Historical 
Commission. 

Walter  Quinton  Gresham  was  born 
near  Lanesville,  Indiana,  March  17,  1832. 
Admitted  to  the  bar  in  1853,  he  became  a 
.successful  lawyer,  was  elected  to  the  Legis- 
lature in  1860,  -resigning  in  the  following 
year  to  become  lieutenant  colonel  of  the 
Thirty-eighth  Indiana  Regiment.  He  was 
afterward  brevetted  major  general  of  vol- 
unteers for  his  gallantry  at  Atlanta. 

After  the  close  of  the  war  Judge  Gresham 
resumed  practice  at  New  Albany,  Indiana. 
In  1869  he  was  made  United  States  judge 
for  the  District  of  Indiana,  resigning  that 
office  to  accept  the  place  of  postmaster  gen- 
eral in  President  Arthur's  cabinet,  and  in 
1884  was  transferred  to  the  treasury  port- 
folio. In  October  of  the  same  year  'Judge 
Gresham  was  appointed  United  States 
judge  for  the  Seventh  Judicial  Circuit. 

Edward  A.  Smith.  No  city  of  its  size  in 
the  country  can  claim  better  qualified  or 
.more  honorable  business  men  than  Ander- 
son, where  may  be  found  prospering  en- 
terprises in  every  line,  and  in  the  lead  of 
these  are  some  that  have  been  established 
within  the  past  few  years.  An  example 
to  which  attention  may  be  called  is  the 
"Store  for  Men,"  a  thoroughly  modern, 
metropolitan  concern  owned  and  con- 
ducted by  Edward  A.  Smith,  a  leading 
citizen  of  Anderson  and  alderman  of  the 
Second  Ward.  Mr.  Smith  has  had  wide 
mercantile  experience  here  and  at  other 
points,  is  acquainted  all  over  the  state, 
conducts  his  large  business  with  energy 
and  efficiency  and  has  reason  to  be  proud 
of  the  stable  reputation  he  has  built  up 
through  honorable  methods. 

Edward  A.  Smith  was  born  on  his 
father's  farm  in  Monroe  Township,  Madi- 
son County,  Indiana,  not  far  from  Alex- 
andria, September  11,  1872.     His  parents 


were  William  and  Amanda  (Eppard) 
Smith.  This  branch  of  the  Smith  family 
came  many  generations  ago  from  England 
and  settled  first  in  North  Carolina  and, 
with  pioneering  spirit,  later  became  identi-  ■ 
fied  with  the  settlement  of  Indiana.  The 
main  business  of  the  family  as  far  back 
as  records  have  been  preserved  show  it  to 
have  been  largely  agricultural,  law-abiding 
and  patriotic. 

In  boyhood  Edward  A.  Smith  attended 
the  country  schools  but  later  attended 
school  at  Alexandria,  four  miles  distant 
from  his  home,  where  he  took  a  special 
teacher's  course  and  was  only  eighteen 
years  old  when  he  received  his  certificate 
entitling  him  to  teach  school.  Mr.  Smith, 
however,  never  entered  the  educational  field 
but  continued  to  assist  his  father  for  sev- 
eral years  longer  and  then  came  to  An- 
derson with  an  ambition  to  enter  business. 
In  1892  he  secured  a  position  with  the 
Lion  store,  then  owned  by  the  firm  of 
Kaufman  &  Davis,  and  during  the  eight- 
een months  that  he  worked  there  picked 
up  quite  a  bit  of  business  knowledge  and 
when  he  entered  the  employ  of  the  firm  of 
Blank  Brothers,  Anderson,  was  accepted 
as  a  salesman  in  their  clothing  establish- 
ment, and  two  years  of  mutual  satisfac- 
tion followed.  During  the  next  three  years 
he  was  a  salesman  with  a  clothing  com- 
pany of  Anderson  and  made  such  an  ex- 
cellent business  record  that  the  company 
made  him  manager  of  their  branch  store 
at  Elwood,  and  he  continued  there  for 
two  years. 

Mr.  Smith  returned  then  to  Anderson 
and  for  the  next  fifteen  months  managed 
the  home  store  of  the  above  company.  In 
the  meanwhile  he  had  been  cherishing  an 
ambition  to  go  into  business  for  himself, 
and  when  the  opportunity  came,  on  June 
22,  1903,  in  partnership  with  Harry  M. 
Adams  he  purchased  a  bankrupt  stock  as 
a  beginning,  and  the  firm  of  Smith  & 
Adams  opened  their  clothing  store  at  No. 
911  Main  Street,  where  they  remained 
until  March,  1904,  when  removal  was 
made  to  the  west  side  of  the  Square,  where 
the  firm  secured  more  commodious  quar- 
ters. On  January  9,  1912,  Mr.  Smith  pur- 
chased Mr.  Adams'  interest  and  has  been 
sole  proprietor  since  that  time.  In  March, 
1915,  he  took  possession  of  his  present 
store  building,  and  has  one  of  the  most  de- 


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sirable  business  locations  in  the  city.  Mr. 
Smith  is  recognized  as  one  of  the  city's 
progressive  business  men,  and  the  thor- 
oughly modern  stock  of  goods  he  carries 
not  only  proves  his  good  taste  but  his  de- 
termination to  provide  suitable  and  up-to- 
date  apparel  for  men  residing  at  Ander- 
son and  in  the  vicinity,  offering  so  wide  a 
choice  that  particular  people  have  learned 
to  rely  upon  his  taste  and  good  judgment 
in  this  line.  His  goods  include  a  full  line 
of  men's  wear  exclusive  of  shoes.  He  is 
the  sole  agent  for  the  Standard  line  of 
men's  wear,  and  his  stock  is  so  large  that 
he  occupies  two  whole  floors  and  employs 
a  large  force  of  salesmen.  His  is  the 
leading  business  of  its  kind  at  Anderson. 
Mr.   Smith  was  married   in  September, 

1895,  to  Miss  Lura  W.  Welker,  who  is  a 
daughter  of  George  W.  and  Mrs.  (Hurst) 
Welker.  The  father  of  Mrs.  Smith,  who 
is  now  deceased,  was  for  many  years  chief 
of  police  at  Anderson.  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Smith  have  two  children,  a  son  and  daugh- 
ter, namely :  George  W.,  who  was  born  in 

1896,  is  a  student  in  De  Pauw  University, 
and  Colleen  Jane,  who  is  attending  school 
at  Greencastle,  Indiana.  Mr.  Smith  and 
his  family  belong  to  the  Central  Christian 
Church,  Anderson.  In  politics  Mr.  Smith 
is  a  republican  and  since  youth  has  been 
an  active  and  loyal  party  worker.  He 
was  elected  alderman  from  the  Second 
Ward  with  a  handsome  majority,  performs 
his  public  duties  carefully  and  is  a  valued 
member  of  the  Chamber  of  Commerce.  He 
belongs  to  Anderson  Lodge  No.  77,  Free 
and  Accepted  Masons,  and  at  Mt.  Moriah 
Commandery,  and  also  to  the  Elks. 

Horace  Anson  Comstock.  It  would 
scarcely  be  possible  to  do  justice  to  the 
success  and  good  citizenship  of  Horace  An- 
son Comstock  in  a  few  sentences  or  a  few 
paragraphs.  Mr.  Comstock  has  been  a 
resident  of  Indianapolis  over  forty  years, 
and  his  part  as  a  good  and  trustworthy 
citizen  has  been  as  conspicuous  as  the 
energy  and  success  with  which  he  has  di- 
rected his  private  business. 

Mr.  Comstock  was  born  at  Dayton,  Ohio, 
September  29,  1856,  a  son  of  Thomas  C. 
and  Margaret  J.  (Watson)  Comstock.  His 
father  was  born  in  New  York  State,  and 
in  1857,  soon  after  the  birth  of  his  son 
Horace,  moved  from  Dayton,  Ohio,  to  Har- 


rodsburg,  Kentucky.  He  lived  there,  or 
did  his  best  to  maintain  his  residence  in 
that  community,  until  after  the  close  of 
the  Civil  war.  He  was  a  manufacturing 
jeweler.  When  the  war  came  on  he  was 
one  of  the  nineteen  Union  men  in  Harrods- 
burg,  and  it  is  needless  to  recount  the 
many  persecutions  imposed  upon  them  and 
the  constant  threatenings  of  danger  to 
which  they  were  exposed  on  account  of 
their  loyalty  to  the  old  flag.  Though  Hor- 
ace A.  Comstock  was  then  a  boy  of  six  or 
seven  years  he  has  some  vivid  memories  of 
war  times.  He  recalls  how  his  father  took 
part  in  some  raids  to  repel  the  notorious 
brigade  of  John  Morgan.  His  father  took 
several  shots  at  General  Morgan  during  his 
raid.  After  the  war  the  activities  of  the 
Ku  Klux  Klan  drove  the  Comstock  family 
away  from  Harrodsburg,  and  they  made 
the  journey  suddenly  and  by  means  of  a 
stage  coach  to  Covington.  Horace  Com- 
stock has  himself  seen  the  Ku  Klux  Klan 
riding  in  a  force  more  than  300  strong. 
Thomas  C.  Comstock  was  a  witness  at  the 
trial  of  General  John  Morgan  at  Frank- 
fort, Kentucky. 

In  1873  the  Comstock  family  removed  to 
Indianapolis,  where  Thomas  Comstock  re- 
sumed his  business  as  a  manufacturer  of 
jewelry  until  his  death  in  1886.  His  widow 
is  still  living,  now  aged  eighty-five,  and  re- 
sides with  her  daughter,  Mrs.  James  M. 
Blythe,  in  Springfield,  Missouri. 

Horace  A.  Comstock  attended  common 
schools  in  Covington,  Kentucky,  up  to  the. 
age  of  fifteen.  He  then  went  to  work  on 
the  bench  as  an  apprentice  jeweler  with 
William  "Wilson  McGrew  at  Cincinnati. 
In  1873  he  came  to  Indianapolis,  worked 
for  a  time  with  W.  P.  Bingham  as  a 
jeweler,  but  from  1878  to  1884  was  a  part- 
ner with  his  father.  In  the  latter  year 
Mr.  Horace  A.  Comstock  established  a 
jewelry  store  on  Illinois  Street  opposite 
the  Bates  House,  and  was  afterwards  for 
over  twenty-five  years  on  Washington 
Street,  between  Pennsylvania  and  Meri- 
dian streets.  This  business  was  discon- 
tinued April  1,  1915,  and  on  the  first  of 
August  of  the  same  year  Mr.  Comstock 
organized  the  Auto  Equipment  Company, 
with  a  capital  stock  of  $10,000.  This  is 
now  one  of  the  successful  concerns  of  its 
kind  in  the  city,  located  at  the  corner  of 
Illinois  and  New  York  streets.     Mr.  Com- 


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stock  is  president  and  general  manager,  and 
Mr.  Charles  B.  Fletcher  is  secretary  and 
treasurer. 

Mr.  Comstock  is  a  member  of  the  Marion 
Club  and  is  a  republican  in  politics.  He 
has  the  honor  of  twenty-five  years  of  con- 
tinuous membership  in  Indianapolis  Lodge 
No.  56,  Knights  of  Pythias.  During  the 
drive  for  both  the  Red  Cross  and  Young 
Men's  Christian  Association  campaigns  for 
funds  he  was  a  member  of  the  local  solicit- 
ing teams. 

Mr.  Comstock  is  a  splendid  example  of 
the  virile  young  old  men  active  in  business 
and  taking  a  large  and  genuine  interest  in 
all  affairs  that  may  develop  lasting  good 
to  the  community.  In  September  of  1918 
Mr.  Comstock  motored  to  his  old  home  in 
Harrodsburg,  just  fifty  years  from  the 
time  he  left  there.  He  saw  the  same 
house,  in  good  order,  as  though  it  had 
only  been  a  few  years.  From  the  house  he 
heard  the  booming  of  cannon  at  the  battle 
of  Perryville,  Kentucky,  only  ten  miles 
away,  and  was  over  this  battlefield  three 
weeks  afterward. 

"William  A.  Rubush  has  played  an  ac- 
tive role  in  business  affairs  in  and  around 
Indianapolis  for  many  years,  and  is  still 
in  the  harness  as  a  business  man,  being 
associated  with  his  son  in  the  manage- 
ment of  a  successful  grocery  house  at 
2702  East  Washington  Street. 

Mr.  Rubush  was  born  at  Indianapolis  in 
1856.  His  birthplace  was  a  house  built  by 
his  father  on  what  was  then  known  as 
the  National  Road,  now  Washington 
Street,  at  the  corner  of  La  Salle  Street. 
He  is  a  son  of  Jacob  and  Elizabeth  (Joyce) 
Rubush  and  a  grandson  of  Alexander 
Rubush,  who  was  a  minister  of  the  United 
Brethren  Church.  Jacob  Rubush  was  born 
in  Virginia  in  1823  and  was  about  nine 
years  old  when  the  family  came  from  that 
state  to  what  is  now  Clark  Township  of 
Johnson  County,  Indiana.  The  Rubush 
family  settled  here  in  1832.  Jacob  Rubush 
had  very  slight  educational  advantages, 
since  Indiana  had  no  real  public  school 
system  when  he  was  a  boy.  His  success  in 
life  was  a  matter  of  self  achievement.  He 
early  learned  brick  making  and  brick  lay- 
ing, and  his  brick  yard  was  the  source 
of  manufacture  for  much  of  the  brick  used 
in   the   construction   of  many  of  the   old 


buildings  at  Indianapolis.  He  developed 
an  extensive  business  as  a  contractor,  and 
his  specialty  was  the  erection  of  gas  plants. 
Indianapolis  was  a  small  town  when  he 
located  on  the  National  Road  and  built  his 
home,  and  as  a  contractor  he  built  the  old 
Union  Station  at  Indianapolis,  and  at  one 
time  was  manager  of  the  local  gas  plant. 
His  work  as  a  contractor  was  confined  to 
no  local  bounds,  and  really  extended  all 
over  the  country.  At  the  beginning  of 
the  Civil  war  he  lost  his  modest  fortune 
and  in  1863  accepted  an  opportunity  prof- 
fered him  by  the  pioneer  Indianapolis 
banker,  Stoughton  Fletcher,  who  owned 
160  acres  of  land  that  is  now  within  the 
city  limits,  to  clear  away  the  heavy  timber 
from  this  land.  Mr.  Jacob  Rubush  oper- 
ated a  saw  mill  for  this  purpose,  and  made 
much  of  the  timber  up  into  lumber  and  the 
rest  of  it  into  cordwood.  It  proved  a  very 
profitable  contract  and  started  him  anew 
on  a  successful  business  career.  He  be- 
came owner  of  a  fine  farm  at  Acton,  and 
he  always  took  a  great  deal  of  pride  in  this 
property.  In  1872  he  was  elected  a  county 
commissioner,  and  that  was  his  chief  polit- 
ical connection  with  the  county,  and  it 
came  without  solicitation  on  his  part.  He 
was  a  strong  abolitionist  before  the  war, 
and  when  the  war  came  on  offered  his 
services  to  the  United  States  Government, 
but  they  were  not  accepted.  Jacob  Rub- 
ush died  in  1886,  and  at  the  time  of  his 
death  was  holding  the  office  of  deacon  in 
the  Presbyterian  Church.  Elizabeth 
Joyce,  his  wife,  was  born  in  North  Caro- 
lina in  1825  and  was  a  small  girl  when 
her  people  moved  to  Johnson  County,  In- 
diana.    She  died  in  1895. 

William  A.  Rubush  attended  the  old 
First  Ward  school  of  Indianapolis  and  also 
some  private  schools  and  the  public  schools 
of  Acton.  At  the  age  of  seventeen  he  went 
to  work,  taking  charge  of  the  home  farm 
at  Acton.  At  the  age  of  twenty-three  Mr. 
Rubush  married  Alice  N.  Fry,  daughter 
of  Shepler  Fry.  Mrs.  Rubush  was  born  in 
Marion  County. 

Soon  after  his  marriage  Mr.  Rubush 
moved  west  to  Winfield,  Cowley  County, 
Kansas,  which  was  then  almost  out  on  the 
frontier.  For  two  years  he  was  engaged 
in  business  as  a  sheep  rancher.  On  re- 
turning to  Indiana  he  drove  overland  with 
a  mule   team.     Near  Acton  he   set   up   a 


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tile  factory  arid  out  of  the  profis  of  that 
business  bought  his  fine  farm  and  for  a 
number  of  seasons  also  operated  a  thresh- 
ing machine  and  shredder.  In  1904  Mr. 
Rubush  returned  to  Indianapolis,  and  at 
that  time  established  his  grocery  store  at 
2218  East  "Washington  Street,  and  soon 
afterward  bought  his  present  location.  Mr. 
Rubush  is  a  member  of  the  Presbyterian 
Church  at  Acton,  is  a  republican  and  a 
worker  in  behalf  of  his  party,  and  in  the 
course  of  his  active  lifetime  has  acquired 
many  substantial  interests.  He  was  one 
of  the  organizers  of  the  Indianapolis  Bak- 
ing Company,  is  a  director  of  the  Sanitary 
Cake  Company,  and  owns  a  fine  orange 
grove  in  Polk  County,  Florida. 

Five  children  have  been  born  to  the 
marriage  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Rubush :  G.  "W., 
who  is  a  successful  physician  at  Indianap- 
olis; Blanche,  wife  of  Charles  Francis,  of 
Adrian,  Michigan;  Cary  E.,  partner  with 
his  father  in  the  grocery  business;  Fern 
and  Only,  both  at  home. 

Dick  Miller,  a  prominent  figure  in  In- 
dianapolis financial  circles,  being  president 
of  the  City  Trust  Company,  is  a  lawyer 
by  profession,  and  represents  families  that 
have  been  identified  with  Indiana  for  over 
a  century. 

He  was  born  in  Parke  County,  Indiana, 
January  12,  1871,  son  of  James  N.  and 
Sarah  A.  (Snow)  Miller.  His  grandfather 
was  Tobias  A.  Miller,  of  Butler  County, 
Ohio.  Located  in  Franklin  County,  In- 
diana, in  1803  and  moved  to  Parke  County, 
Indiana,  in  1817.  Mr.  Dick  Miller's 
father  was  born  in  1827  and  his  mother 
in  1826.  They  lived  together  on  the  same 
farm  in  Parke  County  for  fifty-eight  years. 
James  N.  Miller  died  in  1908.  He  was  a 
Methodist,  was  a  greenbacker  and  later  a 
Bryan  democrat,  and  he  took  the  keenest 
interest  in  politics  and  in  all  public  ques- 
tions. 

Dick  Miller  is  the  youngest  of  fourteen 
children,  seven  of  whom  are  still  living. 
He  attended  the  common  schools  near  the 
old  farm  when  a  boy,  also  a  graded  local 
school,  and  the  Friends  Academy  at  Bloom- 
ingdale.  Later  he  graduated  from  Indiana 
University  and  took  his  law  course  in  the 
Indianapolis  University  Law  School.  He 
practiced  law  in  Terre  Haute  from  April, 
1897,  to  1901.    In  1897  he  served  as  a  mem- 


ber of  the  State  Legislature  one  term. 
Since  1901  his  home  has  been  in  Indianap- 
olis, where  he  has  since  been  engaged  in 
buying  and  selling  of  investment  securi- 
ties. He  was  formerly  a  member  of  the 
firm  Miller  &  Company,  and  on  January 
1,  1918,  this  business  was  absorbed  by  the 
City  Trust  Company,  Mr.  Miller  going 
with  the  company  as  president  and  general 
manager  of  the  investment  department.  He 
is  also  chief  owner  of  the  Hogen  Transfer 
and  Storage  Company,  which  has  a  capital 
investment  of  $200,000.  He  is  president 
of  the  Business  Men's  Indemnity  Com- 
pany. This  is  a  company  writing  health 
and  accident  insurance.  Mr.  Miller  is  a 
Knight  of  Pythias  and  a  Mason. 

June  28,  1906,  he  married  Miss  Cather- 
ine Trimble,  of  Indianapolis. 

Fred  J.  Stimson,  one  of  the  prominent 
operating  officials  of  the  Pennsylvania  lines 
west  of  Pittsburg,  is  a  veteran  in  railroad 
work,  having  begun  as  a  chainman  with 
a  surveying  party,  and  the  greater  part  of 
his  service  was  given  the  Grand  Rapids 
and  Indiana  Railroad  Company.  He  is 
now  division  superintendent  at  Richmond 
for  the  P.  C.  C.  &  St.  L.  Railroad. 

Mr.  Stimson  was  born  at  Kalamazoo, 
Michigan,  October  30,  1868,  son  of  M.  M. 
and  Susan  (Evans)  Stimson.  In  the  pa- 
ternal line  his  first  American  ancestor  was 
George  Stimson,  who  in  1676  settled  in 
Massachusetts.  His  great-grandfather  was 
a  pioneer  in  Monroe  County  near  Roches- 
ter, New  York.  M.  M.  Stimson  at  the 
age  of  twenty-one  went  to  Michigan  and 
was  an  axe  man  with  the  surveying  party 
which  laid  out  the  route  of  the  Michigan 
Central  Railroad.  After  the  Michigan 
Central  was  completed  to  Chicago  he  did 
civil  engineering  work  for  the  Illinois  Cen- 
tral Railroad,  served  as  county  surveyor 
of  Kalamazoo  County,  and  was  division 
engineer  of  the  Grand  Rapids  &  Indiana 
Railroad  and  eventually  chief  engineer  un- 
til 1884,  when  on  account  of  failing  health 
he  retired  to  his  farm  and  died  there  in 
1888. 

Fred  J.  Stimson  was  the  youngest  of  a 
family  of  seven  children.  He  was  born 
on  a  farm,  attended  the  public  schools  of 
Kalamazoo,  graduated  from  high  school  in 
1886,  and  then  entered  the  Kalamazoo  Bap- 
tist   College.      Before    graduating   he   left 


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college  to  take  up  railroad  work  as  rear 
ehainman,  and  was  thus  employed  on  dif- 
ferent surveys,  being  advanced  in  responsi- 
bility to  ehainman,  rodman  and  in  1889 
was  employed  as  clerk  and  rodman  by  the 
Grand  Rapids  &  Indiana.  In  1890  went  to 
Colorado  and  was  assistant  engineer  for  the 
Colorado  Midland  Railroad  with  head- 
quarters at  Colorado  Springs,  for  two  and 
a  half  years.  In  March,  1893,  Mr.  Stim- 
son  became  assistant  roadmaster  and  later 
roadmaster  on  the  Grand  Rapids  &  In- 
diana, being  located  at  Petoskey,  Michigan, 
for  six  years.  He  was  then  transferred  to 
Grand  Rapids  as  roadmaster  and  remained 
in  that  position  until  1904,  in  which  year 
he  became  division  engineer  of  the  North- 
ern Division  of  the  Grand  Rapids  &  In- 
diana. On  July  1,  1915,  he  was  transfer- 
red to  Zanesville,  Ohio,  as  superintendent 
of  the  Zanesville  Division  of  the  Pennsyl- 
vania lines  west  of  Pittsburg,  and  was 
transferred  to  his  present  post  as  division 
superintendent  at  Richmond  in  1917. 

Jefferson  Helm  Claypool.  Three  years 
before  Indiana  Territory  was  admitted  to 
the  Union  Newton  Claypool,  a  native  of 
Virginia,  settled  at  Connersville,  after  a 
previous  residence  in  Ross  County,  Ohio. 
With  a  residence  in  his  state  of  more  than 
a  century  the  Claypool  family  has  been 
represented  chiefly  in  two  of  the  oldest 
cities,  Connersville  and  Indianapolis,  but 
the  distinguished  talents  of  individual 
members  in  law,  politics  and  business  have 
made  the  name  generally  valued  and  known 
throughout  the  state. 

Newton  Claypool,  the  founder  of  the 
family  in  Indiana,  was  a  man  of  liberal 
education  for  his  day,  and  possessing  a 
remarkable  degree  of  strong  common  sense 
he  was  naturally  a  leader  in  the  pioneer 
community  of  Connersville,  where  he  lo- 
cated in  1813.  Several  times  he  was 
honored  with  a  seat  in  the  Senate  and 
House  of  Representatives. 

The  second  generation  of  the  family  was 
represented  by  Benjamin  F.  Claypool,  who 
was  born  at  Connersville  in  Fayette  County 
December  12,  1825,  and  lived  there  until 
his  death  December  11,  1888.  His  instruc- 
tion in  the  public  schools  of  Connersville 
was  supplemented  by  private  instruction 
under  Professor  Nutting,  a  prominent  edu- 
cator who  came  from  Massachusetts  to  In- 


diana in  the  early  days  of  the  state.  From 
Professor  Nutting  he  acquired  a  general 
knowledge  of  the  branches  usually  taught 
in  the  seminaries  of  that  time,  including 
an  acquaintance  with  the  Latin  and  French 
languages.  In  the  fall  of  1843  he  entered 
as  a  student  Asbury,  now  DePauw,  Uni- 
versity at  Greencastle,  and  remained  until 
the  spring  of  1845,  leaving  college  before 
graduation.  Among  his  fellow  citizens  he 
was  especially  known  for  his  ability  as  a 
writer  and  speaker.  He  was  peculiarly 
fortunate  in  the  choice  of  his  instructor  in 
the  law,  Hon.  O.  H.  Smith,  then  the  rec- 
ognized leader  of  the  Indianapolis  bar  and 
one  of  the  eminent  pioneer  lawyers  of  In- 
diana who  are  best  remembered  by  the 
present  generation.  Benjamin  F.  Claypool 
was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  March,  1847, 
and  soon  afterward  opened  an  office  in  his 
native  town  of  Connersville.  The  Fayette 
County  bar  at  that  time  contained  some 
of  the  ablest  lawyers  in  the  state,  and  it 
was  in  competition  with  them  that  his  in- 
dividual talents  were  developed,  and  in  a 
few  years  his  study,  industry  and  close 
attention  to  business  gave  him  rank  among 
the  foremost  civil  and  criminal  lawyers  of 
Indiana.  Most  of  the  important  cases  in 
the  surrounding  counties  had  him  engaged 
on  one  side  or  the  other,  and  the  opinion 
of  his  contemporaries  that  he  was  one  of 
the  ablest  lawyers  of  the  state  has  been 
reenforced  by  the  perspective  of  years. 
During  the  last  century  it  was  almost  in- 
evitable that  the  able  lawyer  should  wield 
a  great  influence  in  public  affairs.  Benja- 
min F.  Claypool  not  only  had  the  native 
talent  of  public  leader  but  was  a  student 
of  politics  and  of  government  all  his  life. 
He  was  a  man  of  most  emphatic  convic- 
tions, fearless  in  their  expression,  always 
advocated  whatever  he  thought  was  right 
regardless  of  consequences,  and  had  none 
of  the  qualities  and  always  refused  to  ex- 
ercise any  of  the  arts  of  the  demagogue. 
It  is  consistent  with  this  character  that  he 
seldom  sought  an  office.  His  original  po- 
litical affiliations  were  with  the  whig  party. 
He  was  one  of  the  men  who  organized  the 
republican  party  in  Indiana,  and  in  1856 
served  as  a  delegate  to  the  Philadelphia 
Convention  which  nominated  John  C.  Fre- 
mont for  president.  In  1864  he  was  a  pres- 
idential elector  in  the  Fifth  Congressional 
District,  and  in  1868  one  of  the  electors 


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for  the  state  at  large,  canvassing  the  entire 
state  in  the  interests  of  the  republican 
party  that  year.  In  1860  he  was  elected 
State  Senator  from  the  counties  of  Fayette 
and  Union,  and  proved  one  of  the  invalu- 
able men  to  the  state  government  in  up- 
holding the  names  and  purposes  of  its  ex- 
ecutive administration  and  in  favoring  a 
vigorous  prosecution  of  the  war.  The 
emergencies  of  the  times  called  into  the 
Legislature  many  able  men,  but  even  so 
Benjamin  F.  Claypool  was  conspicuous  in 
the  Senate.  In  1874  Mr.  Claypool  became 
republican  candidate  for  Congress  in  the 
old  Fifth  Congressional  District.  His  op- 
ponent on  the  democratic  side  was  the 
Hon.  W.  S.  Holman.  Mr.  Claypool  made 
a  brilliant  canvass  of  his  district,  charac- 
terized by  a  series  of  joint  debates  with 
his  distinguished  adversary.  In  that  year 
the  democrats  swept  almost  everything 
before  them  in  the  congressional  election, 
and  it  was  one  of  those  familiar  reversions 
of  public  opinion  in  Indiana  which  was 
chiefly  responsible  for  the  defeat  of  Mr. 
Claypool.  He  was  never  again  a  candi- 
date for  office,  but  was  steadfast  in  his 
devotion  to  the  principles  and  success  of 
his  party. 

As  his  work  in  this  last  campaign  proved 
he  was  an  especially  ready  debater,  and  an 
earnest,  impassioned  and  logical  speaker 
whether  before  a  jury  or  in  a  political 
campaign.  The  later  years  of  his  life  were 
divided  between  his  profession  and  agri- 
culture. He  owned  a  large  body  of  im- 
proved land  in  Delaware  County,  and 
under  his  supervision  it  became  noted  as 
the  home  of  many  fine  cattle.  Benjamin 
F.  Claypool  was  a  highly  successful  man, 
whether  measured  from  the  viewpoint  of 
his  profession  or  as  a  financier  and  public 
leader. 

August  4,  1853,  he  married  Miss  Alice 
Helm,  daughter  of  Dr.  Jefferson  Helm  of 
Rushville,  Indiana.  Mrs.  Claypool  was  a 
highly  educated  woman  and  contributed 
much  to  the  successful  career  of  her  hus- 
band.    She  died  in  August,  1882. 

Of  their  four  children  the  last  survivor 
was  the  late  Jefferson  Helm  Claypool  of 
Indianapolis,  distinguished  as  an  attorney 
and  capitalist,  who  died  after  a  brief  ill- 
ness January  22,  1919.  He  was  born  at 
Connersville    August    15,    1856,    was   pre- 


pared for  college  in  the  public  schools  and 
under  private  teachers,  and  in  1870  en- 
tered Miami  University  at  Oxford,  Ohio. 
He  was  a  student  there  three  years  and 
later  was  a  member  of  the  class  of  1875  hi 
the  University  of  Virginia  at  Charlottes- 
ville. In  1912  Miami  University  conferred 
upon  him  the  honorary  Master  of  Arts 
degree.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Phi  Beta 
Kappa  and  Delta  Kappa  Epsilon  college 
fraternities. 

He  prepared  for  the  bar  under  the  direc- 
tion of  his  gifted  father  at  Connersville 
and  was  admitted  to  practice  in  1887.  Dur- 
ing the  next  ten  years  he  and  his  father 
were  in  partnership,  and  with  increasing 
exjjerience  the  son  handled  the  bulk  of  the 
great  volume  of  practice  committed  to  their 
care.  In  1893  Mr.  Claypool  removed  to 
Indianapolis,  chiefly  in  order  to  keep  in 
close  touch  with  his  real  estate  interests 
in  the  city.  After  that  his  activities  were 
less  professional  and  more  connected  with 
banking,  farming  and  real  estate  develop- 
ment. 

Under  the  inspiration  of  his  honored 
father  he  readily  accepted  the  allegiance 
of  the  republican  party  and  had  several 
merited  distinctions  in  politics.  In  1889 
and  1891  he  represented  Fayette  and  Henry 
Counties  in  the  General  Assembly.  For 
fourteen  years  he  served  on  the  State 
Board  of  Election  Commissioners,  and  in 
the  noted  campaign  of  1896  was  chairman 
of  the  Advisory  Committee  of  the  Repub- 
lican State  Central  Committee.  The  late 
Mr.  Claypool  also  had  literary  abilities,  and 
was  a  frequent  contributor  to  newspapers 
and  magazines  on  public  questions.  Some 
of  his  articles  on  account  of  their  force 
and  clearness  of  expression  have  been  wide- 
ly copied. 

In  1893  he  married  Mary  Buckner  Ross 
of  Connersville.  He  was  survived  by  Mrs. 
Claypool  and  their  only  son,'  Benjamin 
F.,  who  graduated  with  the  class  of  1916 
from  Miami  University.  This  son  at  the 
time  of  his  father's  death  was  with  the 
American  armies  in  France.  By  instruc- 
tions of  the  War  Department  General 
Pershing  had  him  released  from  duty,  and 
he  returned  to  Indianapolis. 

Joseph  Cates,  who  was  a  resident  of 
Anderson  from  1892  until  his  death,  was 
a  veteran  business  man  of  Indiana.     His 


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career  covered  more  than  half  a  century 
of  activity  along  varied  lines.  He  began 
with  a  mechanical  trade,  developed  from  a 
cabinet  maker  into  a  contractor  and 
builder,  and  from  that  into  a  furniture 
merchant.  Mr.  Cates  was  in  the  furniture 
business  during  the  greater  part  of  the 
time  he  lived  at  Anderson,  though  with  a 
man  of  his  capacity  it  was  only  natural 
that  his  interests  should  become  wide- 
spread. In  his  time  h&  handled  many 
acres  of  land  in  different  states,  was  a 
large  land  owner,  and  had  extensive  prop- 
erty interests  in  Chicago  and  elsewhere. 
His  business  position  at  Anderson  was  as 
senior  partner  in  Cates  &  Son,  furniture 
merchants. 

Mr.  Cates  was  born  in  1849  at  New  Al- 
bany in  Floyd  County,  Indiana,  a  son  of 
Barney  and  Deliah  (MrCormack)  Cates. 
He  was  of  Welsh  and  Irish  ancestry.  Mr. 
Cates  had  four  brothel's  who  served  in  the 
Civil  war.  Some  of  his  ancestors  fought 
as  soldiers  in  the  War  of  1812  and  also 
in  the  war  of  American  independence.  His 
people  were  pioneers  in  the  Middle  West. 
His  great-grandfather,  Albert  Cates,  do- 
nated the  land  on  which  was  built  the  Vil- 
lage of  Catestown  in  the  State  of  Ten- 
nessee. 

Joseph  Cates  had  very  limited  oppor- 
tunity to  gain  a  liberal  education  when  a 
boy.  At  the  age  of  three  he  was  left  an 
orphan,  and  his  total  school  attendance 
was  hardly  more  than  thirty  days.  He 
was  the  adopted  child  of  John  and  Sarah 
Coserrove  at  Orleans  in  Orange  County, 
Indiana,  but  at  the  age  of  twelve  he  began 
learning  the  trade  of  cabinet  maker  with 
John  Oakes,  with  whom  he  remained  two 
years.  He  was  practically  master  of  that 
mechanical  art  at  the  a?e  of  fourteen.  He 
developed  his  skill  in  this  special  line  into 
a  general  knowledge  of  contracting  and 
building.  He  spent  a  year  and  a  half  in 
that  work  with  Joseph  Morris,  and  a  simi- 
lar time  with  Jacob  Stephens.  He  was 
an  industrious  and  skillful  worker,  thrifty 
in  handling  his  financial  affairs,  and  finally 
had  enough  capital  to  enable  him  to  start 
in  business  for  himself.  One  of  the  secrets 
of  his  success  is  revealed  in  the  fact  that 
very  early  in  life  he  made  a  rule  to  save 
part  of  what  he  made  every  day,  and  as 
seldom  a  day  went  by  that  he  did  not 
make  something,  this  rule  in  time  brought 
him   considerable  capital.     As  a  building 


contractor  Mr.  Cates  continued  his  work 
for  a  number  of  years,  and  most  of  his 
contracts  were  executed  at  Orleans  in 
Orange  county,  at  Bloomington  in  Monroe 
County,  at  Washington  in  Daviess  County, 
and  at  Crawfordsville  in  Montgomery 
County. 

In  1868,  during  his  young  manhood, 
Mr.  Cates  went  to  the  far  West,  to  Cali- 
fornia, and  spent  a  year  as  a  contractor  at 
Webb  Landing  in  Tulare  County.  He 
then  returned  to  Indiana  and  located  at 
Crawfordsville  for  eighteen  months  and 
after  several  other  locations  he  came  to 
Anderson  in  December,  1892.  Here  he  es- 
tablished a  furniture  store  on  North  Main 
Street  and  six  months  later  formed  a  part- 
nership with  J.  W.  Johnson  under  the 
name  Cates  &  Johnson.  Their  store  was 
on  Meridian  Street  for  three  and  a  half 
years,  at  the  end  of  which  time  Mr.  Cates 
bought  his  partner's  interest  and  for  six 
months  was  in  business  as  Cates  &  Canaday. 
Later  he  re-established  a  new  store  on 
Meridian  Street,  but  after  about  three 
and  a  half  years  traded  the  store  for 
407  acres  of  land  in  Union  County 
near  Marysville,  Ohio.  His  next  store  was 
at  the  corner  of  Main  and  Eleventh  streets, 
and  after  building  it  up  to  profitable  pro- 
portions he  traded  it  for  710  acres 
in  Orange  County.  Mr.  Cates  repeated 
this  experience  several  times,  and  his 
success  in  building  up  a  growing  and 
prosperous  business  has  enabled  him  to 
sell  out  or  trade  to  advantage,  and  in  that. 
way  he  acquired  extensive  land  interests 
both  in  Indiana  and  in  other  states,  includ- 
ing Arkansas. 

In  1908  Mr.  Cates  started  in  the  furni- 
ture business  at  the  present  location,  and 
carried  on  the  store  largely  with  the  energy 
and  assistance  supplied  by  his  son.  At 
the  same  time  he  continued  his  operations 
in  the  buying  and  trading  of  lands.  Among 
his  holdings  at  the  time  of  his  death  were 
a  thirtv-six  apartment  building  known  as 
the  "Glencader"  on  Ellis  Avenue  near 
Fortieth  Street  in  Chicago.  He  also  had 
considerable  farm  lands  and  city  property 
at  Anderson,  and  he  owned  the  largest 
house  furnishing  store  in  Madison  County. 

Mr.  Cates  was  affiliated  with  the  lodges 
of  various  fraternities  at  Anderson,  includr- 
ing  the  Masons,  the  Independent  Order  of 
Odd  Fellows,  the  Improved  Order  of  Red 
Men,  the  Tribe  of  Ben  Hnr  and  the  Forest- 


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ers.  Politically  lie  was  a  republican  and 
a  member  of  the  First  Methodist  Episcopal 
Church. 

On  May  16,  1877,  he  married  Miss 
Caroline  Ratcliffe,  and  they  enjoyed  a 
happy  married  companionship  of  over 
forty  years.  Mrs.  Cates  is  a  daughter  of 
Stephen  and  Mary  Ratcliffe.  Three  chil- 
dren were  born  to  their  marriage,  Oscar  A., 
business  partner  with  his  father,  married 
in  1905  Emma  Clark,  and  they  have  two 
daughters,  granddaughters  of  Mr.  Cates, 
Caroline,  born  in  1907,  and  Geraldine,  born 
in  1909.  The  daughter  of  Mr.  Cates  is 
Miss  Dora  Jane  Gates.  Another  daughter, 
Mary,  born  in  June,  1883,  died  in  in- 
fancy. 

"In  the  midst  of  life  we  are  in  death," 
is  a  sentence  that  applies  peculiarly  to  the 
sudden  end  of  this  well  known  Anderson 
merchant.  Enjoying  extraordinary  health 
for  a  man  of  his  years,  busy  with  affairs 
and  the  interests  of  his  home,  on  March  8, 
1919,  he  fell  on  a  snow  and  ice  covered 
street  in  Anderson  and  sustained  injuries 
from  which  he  died  the  following  Monday, 
March  10th.  He  was  buried  in  the  Maple- 
wood  cemetery  at  Anderson  on  March  13th. 
What  his  life  and  his  death  meant  to  the 
community  was  well  expressed  in  the  edi- 
torial columns  of  the  Anderson  Herald : 
"In  the  death  of  Joseph  Cates  one  of  the 
very  interesting  as  well  as  one  of  the  very 
successful  merchants  of  the  city  passes 
away.  Mr.  Cates  was  a  furniture  mer- 
chant here  for  upwards  of  a  score  of  years. 
In  that  time  he  built  up  a  very  large  busi- 
ness, and  through  this  and  trading  in  real 
estate  accumulated  a  considerable  fortune. 
Mr.  Cates'  life  was  in  his  business  and  in 
his  home.  He  was  rarely  at  public  gather- 
ings and  when  in  the  city  was  all  the  time 
about  his  store.  In  his  merchandising  work 
he  came  in  contact  with  a  great  mass  of 
people,  and  there  were  thousands  who  re- 
posed full  confidence  in  him.  They  recog- 
nized in  him  an  unchanging  sympathy  with 
the  working  classes  and  success  did  not 
'change  his  head.' 

' '  Those  who  knew  Joseph  Cates  best  will 
miss  him  most.  To  all  our  people  he  was 
an  interesting  and  a  forcible  character, 
and  his  place  will  be  difficult  to  fill." 

Thomas  W.  Bennett,  a  soldier,  lawyer 
and  prominent  public  official,  was  born  in 
Union  County,  Indiana,  February  16;  1831. 


In  1854  he  graduated  from  the  Law  School 
of  Indiana,  Asbury  University,  and  began 
practice.  In  1858  he  was  elected  to  the 
State  Senate,  but  resigned  in  1861  to  enter 
the  national  service  and  became  succes- 
sively captain,  major,  colonel  and  brigadier 
general.  In  October,  1864,  Mr.  Bennett 
was  again  chosen  to  the  Senate,  serving 
until  March,  1867.  He  also  served  as 
mayor  of  Richmond,  Indiana,  and  was 
afterward  appointed  governor  of  Idaho 
Territory,  resigning  the  latter  office. 

James  M.  Propst.  An  Indiana  man, 
native  of  Vigo  County,  where  he  has  spent 
practically  all  the  years  of  his  life,  James 
M.  Propst  has  made  an  enviable  record  as 
an  educator,  and  is  now  upon  his  second 
consecutive  term  as  county  superintendent 
of  schools  for  Vigo  County. 

Mr.  Propst  was  born  May  26,  1882,  at 
Riley  in  Vigo  County,  son  of  Charles  and 
Duella  Propst.  Mr.  Propst  had  the  ad- 
vantages of  the  local  schools  near  his  fath- 
er's home  and  completed  his  technical  edu- 
cation in  the  Indiana  State  Normal  School 
at  Terre  Haute.  He  has  been  teaching 
for  many  years,  and  his  record  as  a  teacher 
and  as  a  school  administrator  was  at  the 
basis  of  his  first  election  to  the  office  of 
county  schools  superintendent  in  1911.  He 
was  reelected  in  1917,  and  now  has  the 
complete  administration  over  the  school 
system  of  one  of  the  largest  and  most  pop- 
ulous counties  in  the  state. 

Mr.  Propst  is  affiliated  with  the  Inde- 
pendent Order  of  Odd  Fellows,  Knights  of 
Pythias,  Improved  Order  of  Red  Men,  the 
Benevolent  and  Protective  Order  of  Elks 
of  Terre  Haute  and  the  Free  and  Accepted 
Masons,  Lodge  No.  86  of  Terre  Haute.  He 
is  a  member  of  the  Fort  Harrison  Country 
Club  and  the  Terre  Haute  Chamber  of 
Commerce,  and  is  a  member  of  the  Meth- 
odist Church. 

December  23,  1908,  at  Prairieton,  In- 
diana, he  married  Mary  Ethel  Hanley, 
daughter  of  James  and  Emma  Hanley  and 
of  a  pioneer  Vigo  County  family.  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Propst  have  one  daughter,  Mil- 
dren  Blanche. 

Frank  S.  Fishback.  The  name  Fish- 
back  has  an  honorable  part  in  the  records 
of  Indianapolis  covering  a  period  of  over 
sixty  years.  As  a  family  the  Fishbacks 
have  been  prominent  in  business  and  also 


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in  the  larger  and  broader  activities  and 
movements  connected  with  the  welfare  and 
progress  of  the  city. 

The  late  John  Fishback  was  at  one  time 
proprietor  of  the  old  Indianapolis  Sentinel 
and  gave  to  that  paper  some  of  the  distinc- 
tive qualities  which  made  it  an  influential 
factor  in  Indiana  journalism.  John  Fish- 
back  was  born  in  Batavia,  Ohio,  in  1825 
and  came  to  Indianapolis  in  1855,  at  the 
age  of  thirty.  In  this  city  he  established 
a  tannery,  also  developed  a  wholesale 
leather  business,  and  for  many  years  these 
enterprises  required  his  time  and  energy 
and  brought  him  the  foundation  of  a 
generous  fortune.  John  Fishback  was 
owner  and  publisher  of  the  Indianapolis 
Sentinel  from  1872  to  1875.  Many  old 
time  newspaper  men  of  Indiana  recall  his 
work  as  an  editor  and  publisher,  and  the 
Sentinel  never  had  a  more  prosperous  nor 
influential  period  in  its  history  than  when 
under  the  Fishback   ownership. 

John  Fishback  was  a  strong  democrat 
in  politics  and  while  working  always  for 
the  interests  of  his  party  he  was  first  and 
last  concerned  with  the  real  vital  welfare 
of  his  home  city.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
Presbvterian  Church.  His  death  occurred 
in  1884.  He  married  Sarah  E.  Riddle, 
who  was  born  at  Kingston,  Ohio,  July  27, 
1832.  They  were  the  parents  of  five  chil- 
dren, the  youngest  being  Mr.  Frank  S. 
Fishback. 

Frank  S.  Fishback  was  born  at  Indian- 
apolis May  14,  1866.  After  leaving  the 
public  schools  he  went  to  work  for  the  old 
Indianapolis  Times,  being  assistant  book- 
keeper in  its  office  two  years.  In  1887  he 
entered  a  new  field  as  a  merchandise  broker, 
and  that  is  the  business  upon  which  he  has 
concentrated  his  best  energies  for  thirty 
years  and  through  which  he  has  gained 
his  prominence  and  success  in  Indianapo- 
lis. His  business  for  many  years  has  been 
conducted  under  the  name  The  Fishback 
Company,  Importers  and  Roasters  of  Cof- 
fee. He  is  also  head  of  The  Fishback- 
Launne  Brokerage  Company. 

Prominent  like  his  father  in  the  demo- 
cratic party,  Mr.  Fishback  has  made  a  most 
creditable  record  in  handling  the  affairs 
of  several  important  offices  entrusted  to 
his  management.  In  1903  he  was  the  only 
democrat  elected  to  the  City  Council,  be- 
ing elected  as  councilman  at  large.  He 
gave  valuable  service  to  the  city  during 


the  administration  of  Mayor  John  W. 
Holtzman.  In  1908  he  was  elected  county 
treasurer,  and  filled  that  office  until  De- 
cember 31,  1911.  Mr.  Fishback  is  a  member 
of  the  Indiana  Democratic  Club,  the  In- 
dianapolis Board  of  Trade,  the  Commercial 
Club  and  is  affiliated  with  Landmarks 
Lodge  No.  319,  Ancient  Free  and  Accepted 
Masons,  and  with  Lodge  No.  7  of  the 
Knights  of  Pythias.  He  and  his  wife  are 
members  of  the  Second  Presbyterian 
Church. 

June  12,  1889,  he  married  Miss  Mary 
E.  Stone.  She  was  born  in  the  city  of 
Washington,  the  oldest  of  the  six  children 
of  Daniel  E.  and  Abbie  (Stoker)  Stone. 
Her  father  was  a  native  of  Vermont,  of 
New  England  colonial  stock,  and  for  many 
years  was  president  of  a  company  manu- 
facturing veneer  at  Baltimore.  The  three 
children  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Fishback  are 
John  S.,  Frank  C.  and  Martha  L. 

Jacob  L.  Bieler,  who  served  with  the 
rank  of'  captain  in  the  famous  Sixth  In- 
diana Light  Artillery  during  the  Civil  war, 
was  for  nearly  half  a  century  closely  iden- 
tified with  the  business  history  and  the 
enlightened    progress   of   Indianapolis. 

He  was  born  in  Baden,  Germany,  and 
died  at  St.  Vincent's  Hospital  in  Indian- 
apolis following  an  operation  for  appendi- 
citis on  October  5,  1913,  at  the  age  of 
seventy-four.  Though  he  came  to  Amer- 
ica at  the  age  of  sixteen,  he  acquired  a 
liberal  education  in  the  Fatherland.  His 
father  was  a  man  of  considerable  influence 
in  Baden,  and  his  family  were  of  that 
high  class  of  Germans  that  characterize 
the  early  emigration  to  American  shore 
following  the  Revolution  of  1848.  While 
Captain  Bieler  was  not  a  participant  in 
the  revolutionary  troubles  which  drove 
thousands  of  the  German  youth  beyond  the 
sea,  he  measured  up  the  same  social  class 
and  standards.  It  was  these  Germans,  one 
of  the  most  conspicuous  leaders  among 
them  being  Carl  Schurz,  who  brought  with 
them  their  thrift  and  industry,  their  bind- 
ing sense  of  individual  and  civic  duty,  their 
moral  fervor  and  love  of  home,  and  in 
America,  both  in  peace  and  in  war,  in 
every  branch  of  human  endeavor  and  hu- 
man achievement,  by  brave  and  honest 
service  made  compensation  to  the  land  of 
their  adoption. 

Jacob   L.   Bieler  finished  his  education 


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at  Stuttgart.  He  inherited  the  political 
independence  and  love  of  liberty  of  his 
father,  and  he  embraced  with  zeal  the  life 
and  principles  of  America  and  his  Amer- 
icanism was  of  the  most  robust  type.  It 
is  said  that  he  never  liked  the  term  Ger- 
man-American. 

Coming  to  this  country  at  the  age  of 
sixteen,  he  made  his  home  for  a  time  with 
an  uncle  at  Selma,  Alabama.  While  there 
he  became  a  sergeant  in  the  local  fire  de- 
partment, and  at  the  outbreak  of  the  Civil 
war  with  the  rest  of  his  command  was 
drafted  into  the  rebel  army.  Through  his 
uncle  and  aunt  he  got  away  and  came 
north.  Before  he  left  Germany  his  father 
had  given  him  as  his  parting  injunction 
the  phrase  ' '  Stick  to  your  flag, ' '  and  he 
interpreted  that  as  meaning  a  steadfast 
loyalty  to  the  flag  and  principles  of  the 
Union.  He  made  his  way  not  without 
considerable  risk  and  danger  to  Indiana, 
arriving  at  Indianapolis  in  1861.  Here  he 
joined  the  army  and  was  the  first  man 
to  erect  a  tent  of  the  famous  Morton  Bat- 
tery, afterward  the  Sixth  Indiana  Light 
Artillery.  He  not  only  became  one  of  the 
officers  in  this  battery,  but  supplied  much 
of  the  funds  for  its  equipment.  He  served 
loyally  all  through  the  war,  rose  to  the 
rank  of  captain,  and  was  in  many  of  the 
notable  campaigns  of  the  Mississippi  Val- 
ley. His  battery  did  splendid  service  in 
the  battle  of  Pittsburg  Landing  and  Cor- 
inth. 

After  the  war  Captain  Bieler  returned 
to  Indianapolis  and  engaged  in  the  harness 
business  as  a  partner  with  Rudolph  Frauer 
on  Washington  Street  opposite  the  Court 
House.  In  later  years  he  was  in  the  com- 
mission business,  and  at  the  time  of  his 
death  was  vice  president  and  had  long 
been  active  in  the  management  of  the 
American   Foundry   Company. 

In  politics  he  was  a  strict  republican, 
but  his  interest  in  the  progress  of  his  home 
city  transcended  all  his  party  affiliations. 
He  was  the  first  republican  councilman 
ever  elected  from  the  old  Thirteenth  Ward. 
While  in  the  Council  he  fought  the  grant- 
ing of  a  francise  to  the  Belt  Railway.  He 
was  a  member  of  the  City  Council  from 
1878  to  1880  and  in  1880  was  elected 
county  recorder,  filling  that  office  until 
1884. 

Of  his  record  in  public  affairs  one  of  the 
most  important  responsibilities  he  ever  held 


was  as  government  agent  to  open  the  Sho- 
shone Indian  Reservation  in  the  far  north- 
west. He  became  greatly  attached  to  that 
country,  and  he  carried  out  his  official 
duties  without  fear  or  favor,  and  at  the 
risk  of  his  own  life  drove  away  the  gam- 
blers and  illicit  liquor  sellers  from  the 
reservation.  Captain  Bieler  was  selected  by 
the  United  German  American  Alliance  to 
go  to  AVashington  to  oppose  the  Hepburn- 
Dolliver  Bill.  It  was  his  testimony  that 
helped  establish  the  contention  of  Gen.  Lew 
Wallace  in  regard  to  the  latter 's  attitude 
at  the  battle  of  Shiloh.  Captain  Bieler  was 
always  fond  of  old  army  comrades  and  of 
every  meeting  where  old  soldiers  congre- 
gated and  where  patriotism  abounded.  He 
was  a  most  lovable  character,  democratic 
in  manner,  an  excellent  speaker  and  was 
often  chosen  to  address  local  gatherings. 

At  the  time  of  his  death  the  Indian- 
apolis Star  editorially  gave  a  very  fine 
tribute  to  the  life,  and  in  reading  the  fol- 
lowing quotation  from  that  editorial  it  is 
well  to  bear  in  mind  that  it  was  written 
in  1913,  before  the  opening  of  the  Euro- 
pean war.     The  editorial  reads  as  follows: 

"Unpleasant  criticisms  of  Americans 
who  go  to  the  other  countries  for  extended 
stays  often  drift  back  from  foreign  shores, 
the  chief  faults  complained  of  being  two 
that  are  diametrically  opposed  to  each 
other.  It  is  asserted  of  one  class  of  these 
exiles  that  they  refuse  to  adjust  them- 
selves to  their  new  environment,  that  they 
can  see  no  good  in  the  institutions  and 
prevailing  conditions  of  the  new  home  com- 
pared to  those  of  their  native  land  and  are 
continually  drawing  invidious  and  offensive 
comparisons  in  favor  of  the  latter.  The 
other  class  of  Americans,  on  the  contrary, 
are  effusive  in  their  praise  of  the  adopted 
country  and  correspondingly  deprecatory 
of  their  own.  They  seem  to  feel  it  neces- 
sary constantly  to  apologize  for  the  United 
States  in  order  to  ingratiate  themselves 
with  their  new  associates,  not  realizing 
that  their  course  arouses  the  contempt  even 
of  the  foreigners. 

"How  different  is  the  attitude  of  for- 
eigners who  come  to  this  country  to  seek 
a  home,  especially  that  of  certain  nation- 
alities. Take  the  Germans,  by  way  of  il- 
lustration, and  Captain  Bieler  of  Indian- 
apolis, who  died  on  Sunday,  as  a  type.  He 
came  from  Germany  in  the  late  fifties,  with- 
in five  years  was  a  volunteer  soldier,  fight- 


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ing  to  save  the  Union  of  which  he  had 
become  a  citizen.  His  citizenship  was  not 
an  empty  thing ;  it  involved  love  of  liberty 
and  love  of  free  institutions  and  a  deep 
feeling  of  patriotism.  The  war  over,  this 
patriotic  sense  led  him,  together  with  other 
German- American  veterans,  to  establish  the 
custom  of  firing  a  salute  on  the  Court 
House  lawn  each  anniversary  of  Washing- 
ton's birth.  It  is  a  significant  thing  that 
it  remained  not  for  native  Americans,  who 
proudly  trace  their  lineage  to  colonial  fam- 
ilies, but  for  newcomers,  to  originate  this 
tribute  to  the  first  president." 

Captain  Bieler  married  Caroline  M. 
Heun,  also  a  native  of  Germany,  who  sur- 
vived him,  together  with  a  son,  Charles  L. 
Bieler,  and  two  daughters,  Mrs.  S.  H. 
Malpas  and  Miss  Bertha  Bieler. 

Captain  Bieler  was  one  of  the.  oldest 
members  of  the  Board  of  Trade  and 
Chamber  of  Commerce,  was  a  member  of 
the  Masonic  Order,  the  Odd  Fellows,  Im- 
proved Order  Knights  of  Pythias ,  the 
Knights  of  Cosmos,  the  Maennerchor  and 
Musikverein.  He  was  the  first  president 
of  the  Liederkranz,  organized  at  Indian- 
apolis during  the  eighties. 

Charles  L.  Bieler,  his  only  son,  was  born 
at  Indianapolis  June  14,  1867,  and  was 
educated  in  the  grammar  and  high  schools. 
He  is  now  president  of  The  American 
Foundry  Company,  a  business  in  which 
his  father  was  actively  interested  until  his 
death.  The  American  Foundry  Company 
is  one  of  the  largest  industries  of  Indian- 
apolis and  gives  employment  to  about  650 
hands.  September  20,  1893,  Charles  L. 
Bieler  married  Miss  Effie  Henley.  Her 
father,  William  F.  Henley,  was  a  promi- 
nent wholesale  merchant  of  Indianapolis. 
Charles  L.  Bieler  and  wife  had  one  son, 
Louis  Henley,  who  is  now  a  first  lieu- 
tenant and  has  been  assigned  as  personal 
aide  on  the  staff  of  Brigadier-General  Ed- 
ward M.  Lewis.  He  was  attending  Prince- 
ton University  as  a  junior,  but  gave  up  his 
college  career  to  fight  for  his  country. 

Mrs.  Effie  H.  Bieler,  the  mother  of  this 
American  soldier,  died  October  6,  1917, 
at  her  home  3104  North  Pennsylvania 
Street.  Besides  her  son  and  husband  she 
was  survived  by  her  mother,  Mrs.  William 
F.  Henley,  and  by  two  sisters,  Martha 
Henley  and  Mrs.  Stoughton  A.  Fletcher. 
She  was  laid  to  rest  at  Crown  Hill  ceme- 
tery. 


Charles  L.  Bieler  has  a  splendid  record 
as  a  member  of  the  National  Guard,  and 
his  son  makes  the  third  successive  genera- 
tion to  fight  for  Uncle  Sam.  Charles  L. 
Bieler  joined  the  National  Guard  in  1882 
as  a  member  of  the  Gatling  Squad  of  In- 
dianapolis Light  Artillery.  He  retired  in 
1910  with  the  rank  of  captain.  For  four 
years  he  was  a  member  of  Governor  Dur- 
bin's  staff  with  the  rank  of  major. 

Roscoe  Kipee,  a  present  valued  member 
of  the  State  Senate  of  Indiana,  has  been 
a  lawyer  at  Boonville  in  active  practice 
for  a  quarter  of  a  century,  and  is  also  a 
former  judge  of  the  Circuit  Court  of  his 
district. 

Mr.  Kiper  was  born  at  Litchfield,  Ken- 
tucky, June  2,  1874,  son  of  Rev.  J.  D. 
and  Louisa  (Fuller)  Kiper.  His  father, 
who  is  still  living  at  the  advanced  age 
of  eighty-three,  is  one  of  the  oldest  min- 
isters of  the  Indiana  Methodist  Conference. 
He  entered  the  ministry  in  1863  and  con- 
tinued active  for  nearly  half  a  century, 
until  he  retired.  The  family  came  to  In- 
diana in  1884,  locating  at  Cannelton. 

Judge  Kiper,  the  seventh  in  a  large 
family  of  children,  was  educated  in  the 
common  schools  of  Indiana  and  received 
his  legal  education  in  the  Indiana  Law 
School.  He  began  practice  at  Boonville  in 
1893.  He  was  deputy  prosecuting  attorney 
and  held  the  office  of  judge  of  the  Circuit 
Court  six  years.  He  was  elected  to  the 
State  Senate  on  the  republican  ticket,  rep- 
resenting the  district  of  Warrick  and  Van- 
derburg   Counties. 

Howard  W.  Beckman  and  Elmer  Krei- 
meier.  Senior  member  of  Beckman- 
Kreimeier  Shoe  Company  of  Richmond, 
Howard  W.  Beckman  has  been  in  the  shoe 
business  the  greater  part  of  his  career, 
and  his  knowledge  and  long  experience 
have  brought  the  present  firm  a  most  en- 
viable success. 

Mr.  Beckman  is  a  son  of  William  F. 
and  Anna  Elizabeth  (Lindermann)  Beck- 
man. He  was  educated  in  the  common 
and  high  schools  and  at  the  age  of  seventeen 
went  to  work  as  a  wagon  driver  for  Adam 
H.  Bartel  &  Company.  After  a  year  he 
went  to  work  as  salesman  for  the  Hoosier 
Mercantile  Company  of  Richmond,  shoe 
merchants,  and  during  the  next  year  and 
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has  been  valuable  to  him  all  the  rest  of  his 
career.  For  two  years  he  was  a  shoe  sales- 
man for  Harry  S.  Cone  in  Shelbyville,  then 
a  year  and  a  half  with  the  Curme-Felt- 
man  Shoe  Company,  four  years  with  the 
Kahn-Williams  Shoe  Company  at  Conners- 
ville,  and  in  1919  formed  a  partnership 
with  Elmer  Kreimeier  and  bought  the 
Walk-Over  shop  on  Main  Street  in  Rich- 
mond. 

Mr.  Beekman  married  in  1917  Irene 
Smith,  daughter  of  W.  J.  Smith  of  Con- 
nersville.  In  politics  he  is  independent 
and  is  a  member  of  the  Fraternal  Order  of 
Eagles. 

Elmer  Kreimeier,  junior  member  in  the 
Beckman-Kreimeier  Shoe  Company,  was 
born  in  Richmond  in  1881,  son  of  Edward 
and  Catherine  (Eggelman)  Kreimeier.  At 
the  age  of  fourteen,  leaving  public  school, 
he  went  to  wrork  with  the  Nickolson  book 
bindery,  and  spent  more  than  three  years 
with  that  concern,  being  employed  in  cut- 
ting paper  boxes  and  in  delivery  work. 
His  longest  business  experience  was  with 
the  Starr  piano  factory,  working  on  piano 
actions.  He  became  an  action  regulator 
and  had  charge  of  that  branch  of  the  fac- 
tory for  ten  years,  also  being  connected  in 
other  capacities  for  a  total  of  eighteen 
years.  In  July,  1918,  Mr.  Kreimeier  went 
to  the  Curme-Feltman  Shoe  Company  as  a 
salesman  to  learn  the  business,  and  in  1919 
formed  his  present  partnership  with  Mr. 
Howard  Beekman. 

In  1908  he  married  Alice  Lichtenfels, 
daughter  of  Jacob  and  Anna  (Coon)  Lich- 
tenfels of  Richmond.  They  have  two  chil- 
dren. Mr.  Kreimeier  is  an  independent 
in  politics,  is  affiliated  with  the  Lodge  of 
Masons,  Independent  Order  of  Odd  Fellows 
and  Knights  of  Pythias,  and  has  held 
numerous  offices  in  St.  Paul's  Evangelical 
Lutheran  Church. 

Howard    Albert    Dill,    treasurer    and 

superintendent  of  the  Richmond  City 
Waterworks,  is  a  civil  engineer  of  wide 
technical  experience  and  for  many  years 
has  been  engaged  in  business  where  his 
profession  serves  him  well. 

Mr.  Dill  was  born  at  Richmond  August 
7,  1869,  son  of  Matthew  H.  and  Emily 
(Hutton)  Dill.  He  attended  the  grade 
schools  of  Richmond  and  in  1884  became 
a  student  in  Swarthmore  College  and 
graduated  in  1889.     From  Swarthmore  he 


entered  the  Massachusetts  Institute  of 
Technology,  and  was  graduated  with  the 
degree  S.  B.  in  1891.  During  1893-94 
Mr.  Dill  was  connected  with  the  City  En- 
gineering Department  of  Indianapolis,  and 
on  returning  to  Richmond  in  1895  became 
treasurer  of  the  Richmond  Bicycle  Com- 
pany. In  1898  he  joined  the  Richmond 
City  Water  Works,  becoming  its  treasurer 
in  1899.  He  is  also  a  stockholder  and 
director  of  the  J.  M.  Hutton  &  Company. 
In  the  meantime  Mr.  Dill  had  found  many 
opportunities  for  valuable  public  service 
and  has  a  wide  range  of  interests.  He 
was  president  of  the  Richmond  Commer- 
cial Club  in  1918-19,  is  president  of  the 
Social  Service  Bureau  of  Richmond  a 
member  of  the  Richmond  Country  Club, 
the  Richmond  Tourist  Club  and  the  Rotary 
Club.  He  is  an  elder  in  the  First  Presby- 
terian Church,  a  member  of  the  Benevolent 
and  Protective  Order  of  Elks,  and  an 
independent  republican  in  polities. 

In  1892  he  married  Miss  Camilla  L. 
Walker,  daughter  of  Judge  L.  C.  and  Ca- 
milla (Farquhar)  Walker.  Mrs.  Dill  died 
in  April,  1910,  the  mother  of  two  children : 
Dorothy  and  Malcolm  Howard.  The  son 
was  born  in  1899,  and  at  the  close  of  1918 
was  in  the  artillery  service  at  Camp  Tay- 
lor, Louisville,  Kentucky.  In  December, 
1911,  Mr.  Dill  married  Mary  Kinsey  Ham- 
mond, daughter  of  Thaddeus  Wright. 

Henry  C.  Smither,  who  is  head  of  the 
oldest  gravel  roofing  and  modern  fireproof 
roofing  enterprise  in  Indianapolis,  has  been 
an  active  business  man  in  that  city  for 
half  a  century.  He  is  a  veteran  of  the  Civil 
war  and  member  of  a  family  that  was 
established  in  the  capital  of  Indiana  more 
than  ninety  years  ago. 

Some  of  the  most  interesting  memories 
of  the  old  days  in  and  around  Indianapolis 
have  been  preserved  by  Mr.  Smither,  and 
no  one  has  studied  early  conditions  more 
carefully  and  can  speak  with  more  author- 
ity on  the  persons  and  events  of  the  times. 

The  Smither  family  in  all  generations1 
have  been  distinguished  by  sturdy  Ameri- 
can characteristics,  including  a  patriotism 
that  has  never  required  propaganda  or  spe- 
cial urging  to  respond  to  every  call  by 
their  country.  Mr.  Smither 's  grandparents 
were  James  and  Nancy  Smither,  and  their 
home  was  in  Owen  County,  Kentucky, 
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passing  the  century  mark.  Nine  of  their 
sons  and  one  daughter  grew  to  mature 
years,  namely :  Robert,  William,  Sarah, 
Lewis,  James,  John,  Ezekiel,  Willis,  Wyatt 
and  Coalman. 

John  and  Elizabeth  Smither,  parents  of 
Henry  C,  were  natives  of  Kentucky  and 
came  to  Indiana  about  the  year  1825,  set- 
tling in  what  is  now  Indianapolis.  John 
Smither  once  owned  the  property  where 
now  stands  the  Claypool  Hotel,  also  part 
of  the  State  House  grounds,  the  land  at 
the  corner  of  Indiana  Avenue  and  Illinois 
Street  for  half  a  square  or  more  on  the 
avenue,  and  constructed  the  first  little  one- 
story  brick  house  on  the  avenue.  He  owned 
several  •  other  valuable  properties  in  the 
city.  He  was  a  gunsmith  by  trade  and 
even  after  he  sold  his  shop  and  tools  his 
services  were  sought  to  make  some  rifles 
for  special  customers,  and  these  rifles  stood 
every  test  of  accuracy  and  fine  workman- 
ship. After  selling  his  Indianapolis  prop- 
erty John  Smither  moved  to  a  farm  on  the 
old  Michigan  Road  near  New  Bethel,  eight 
miles  southeast  of  Indianapolis.  The  pres- 
ent Village  of  New  Bethel  is  located  on 
ground  once  owned  by  him.  John  Smither 
was  typical  of  the  hardy,  rugged,  resource- 
ful pioneer,  had  a  high  order  of  business 
ability  and  conducted  to  enviable  success 
many  large  affairs.  His  name  in  fact  de- 
serves a  permanent  place  among  the  found- 
ers and  upbuilders  of  the  city  of  Indianap- 
olis and  Marion  County.  He  cleared  away 
a  large  amount  of  land  of  its  timber,  and 
as  was  the  custom  of  the  time  had  to  roll 
together  and  burn  immense  logs  of  the 
finest  hardwood  timber  which  would  now 
constitute  a  fortune  for  a  practical  lum- 
berman. In  those  days  the  woods  were 
filled  with  game,  and  Henry  C.  Smither 
during  his  boyhood  was  regaled  with  many 
interesting  stories  of  the  exploits  of  his 
father  and  other  nimrods  in  shooting  and 
trapping  such  wild  game  as  deer,  bear  and 
turkeys.  The  first  country  home  of  the 
Smither  family  in  Marion  County  was  a 
log  house  with  a  big  fireplace,  a  blanket 
over  the  door  opening,  but  in  course  of 
years  by  hard  efforts  John  Smither  de- 
veloped not  only  a  fine  farm  but  erected 
a  most  substantial  home.  This  home  was 
on  the  old  Michigan  Road,  the  famous 
thoroughfare  that  stretched  north  and 
south  through  Indiana  from  the  Ohio  River 
to    Michigan    City,    passing    through    In- 


dianapolis. After  erecting  a  large  and 
commodious  house  John  Smither  turned  it 
to  good  account  as  a  tavern,  known  as  the 
Smither  Tavern.  The  nine  room  house 
was  situated  on  a  pleasant  knoll,  sur- 
rounded with  blue  grass  lawn,  shade,  fruit 
and  flower  trees.  The  Smither  Tavern  was 
one  of  the  points  in  the  old  time  civiliza- 
tion of  Indiana  which  could  furnish  count- 
less themes  for  romance  and  history.  The 
hospitality  and  good  cheer  were  unbounded. 
The  Smithers  set  a  table  that  would  make 
the  good  living  of  modern  time  seem  poor 
indeed.  The  house  was  filled  with  travelers 
night  and  day,  and  many  of  the  foremost 
celebrities  of  the  time  stopped  there,  in- 
cluding especially  the  statesman  journey- 
ing back  and  forth.  In  fact  the  Smither 
station,  being  the  last  public  house  on  the 
road  before  entering  Indianapolis  from  the 
South,  was  well  called  the  "primping  sta- 
tion." Travel-worn  legislators  and  others 
who  desired  to  make  the  best  appearance 
on  reaching  the  streets  of  Indianapolis 
would  spend  the  night  or  at  least  several 
hours  at  the  Smither  Tavern,  getting  their 
boots  greased,  their  linen  changed,  and  all 
the  niceties  of  good  dress  arranged. 

Besides  the  politicians  and  regular  trav- 
elers who  stopped  there,  the  Smither 
Tavern  was  the  headquarters  for  the 
preachers  of  the  Baptist  denomination,  and 
every  Sunday  particularly  the  neighbors 
for  miles  around  would  gather  at  the 
Smither  home  to  partake  of  the  bountiful 
provisions  of  the  table  and  enjoy  the  so- 
ciety of  their  fellows.  To  their  neighbors 
Uncle  John  and  Aunt  Betsey,  as  they  were 
known,  opened  the  privilege  of  their  house 
and  table  without  pay,  and  there  was 
never  a  case  of  the  poor  or  hungry  being 
turned  away  from  their  door.  They  were 
active  members  of  the  Baptist  Church  at 
New  Bethel,  and  nearly  all  their  children 
were  also  affiliated  with  that  church.  The 
old  church  so  well  remembered  has  long 
since  disappeared  and  has  been  replaced  by 
a  substantial  brick  edifice  a  short  distance 
east  of  the  old  site. 

The  old  Michigan  Road  is  today  one  of 
the  fine  modern  thoroughfares  of  Indiana, 
and  only  those  historically  inclined  have 
any  knowledge  as  they  ride  along  in  their 
automobiles  of  the  historical  significance  of 
the  highway.  Of  the  old  time  landmarks 
still  standing  along  the  road  the  old 
Smither  house  was  one  of  the  most  inter- 


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esting.  It  is  as  firm  as  a  rock  today, 
having  been  constructed  of  heavy  poplar 
logs  grown  on  the  land.  Many  years  ago 
the  house  was  sold  to  the  McGauhey  family, 
former  County  Commissioner  John  Mc- 
Gauhey having  owned  it,  and  it  is  now 
the  property  of  McGauhey 's  son-in-law, 
J.  E.  Wheatley.  John  Smither  also  erected 
a  saw  mill  on  his  land  and  worked  up  much 
of  the  timber  into  lumber.  There  is  no 
person  now  living  who  has  witnessed  as 
many  changes  brought  by  civilization  in 
central  Indiana  as  the  old  Smither  house. 
It  was  built  before  there  were  any  rail- 
roads, when  all  travel  in  this  section  was 
by  stage  coach  or  wagon  over  the  dirt  and 
corduroy  roads.  Its  windows  have  looked 
out  upon  statesmen  going  by  on  horseback 
with  their  high  hats  and  old  fashioned 
stocks,  upon  stage  and  mail  coaches  drawn 
by  four  and  six  horses,  until  gradually  the 
conditions  which  made  the  Smither  Tavern 
prosperous  have  yielded  to  the  railroad, 
the  automobile  and  the  electric  railway,  a 
line  of  which  is  just  across  the  road  from 
the  old  house.  Today  there  are  telephone 
wires  bearing  intelligence  instead  of  the 
mail  cart  and  post  rider.  Henry  C.  Smither 
when  a  small  boy,  holding  his  father's 
hand,  had  the  privilege  of  witnessing  the 
first  railroad  train  over  the  Madison  Rail- 
road as  it  entered  Indianapolis. 

John  and  Elizabeth  Smither  had  thirteen 
children,  four  daughters  and  nine  sons, 
four  of  the  sons  dying  in  infancy.  Those 
who  grew  up  were  all  happily  married. 
Their  names  were :  Sarah  Catherine, 
Nancy  Jane,  Mary  Frances,  James  Wil- 
liam, Henry  Clay,  Elizabeth  Helen,  Theo- 
dore Freelinghyson,  Robert  G.  and  John  W. 
John  Smither  was  a  whig  in  early  life  and 
gave  the  name  of  the  great  whig  states- 
man to  the  son  mentioned  above.  Later 
he  was  a  republican  and  was  a  man  of 
exalted  patriotism  during  the  Civil  war. 
He  furnished  his  four  oldest  sons  to  the 
Government.  James  W.  was  in  the  railway 
mail  service  during  the  war.  The  record 
of  Henry  C.  is  given  below.  Theodore  F. 
was  a  member  of  the  Twenty-sixth  Indiana 
Infantry  and  served  faithfully  until  hon- 
orably discharged  for  disability.  The 
youngest  son,  John  "W.,  was  too  young 
to  get  into  the  Civil  war  and  too  old  for 
the  European  conflict,  but  his  son,  Dr.  J. 
A.  Smither,  at  Jamestown,  California,  did 
some  work  in  examining  recruits  for  the 


recent  war.  John  W.  Smither  is  now  in 
the  insurance  and  brokerage  business  at 
Burlington,  Iowa. 

The  best  and  most  faithful  soldier  of  all 
the  Smither  brothers  was  Robert  G.  He 
enlisted  at  the  same  time  with  his  brother 
Theodore  in  the  Twenty-sixth  Indiana 
Regiment  and  was  called  the  baby  of  the 
regiment,  being  only  a  little  over  fourteen 
when  he  went  in.  The  boys  used  to  carry 
him  around  all  over  camp  on  their  shoul- 
ders. He  finally  was  badly  wounded  in 
the  right  leg,  the  bone  being  shattered.  He 
remained  out  only  about  six  months  after 
being  discharged,  and  then  again  enlisted, 
at  the  time  of  the  first  Morgan  raid,  in 
Company  E  of  the  107th  Indiana.  Later 
he  became  first  sergeant  of  Troop  H,  Sev- 
enth Indiana  Cavalry,  on  August  9,  1863, 
was  commissioned  second  lieutenant  in 
1864,  and  afterward  promoted  to  first 
lieutenant  March  7,  1865,  and  to  captain 
on  June  1,  1865.  He  was  wounded  through 
the  base  of  the  neck  and  was  complimented 
for  soldierly  bearing  and  conduct  at  Rip- 
ley, Mississippi,  and  was  finally  discharged 
at  Indianapolis  March  16,  1866.  He  then 
made  application  to  the  regular  army,  was 
appointed  first  lieutenant  of  the  Tenth 
United  States  Cavalry  June  12,  1867;  ad- 
jutant, January  27,  1877,  to  November, 
1881;  captain,  November  18,  1881.  He 
saw  much  service  in  the  "West  when  the 
Indians  were  still  hostile,  being  stationed 
at  Fort  Riley,  Kansas,  Indian  Territory 
and  New  Mexico,  and  many  other  places. 
After  many  years  of  service  he  attained  the 
rank  of  major,  and  finally,  on  account  of 
trouble  from  his  old  wound,  he  had  to 
retire  on  April  23,  1904,  but  for  several 
years  afterward  continued  on  duty  as  a 
recruiting  officer.  He  is  now  living  at 
Pasadena,  California.  Major  Smither 's 
army  record  is  highly  commended  not  only 
by  his  comrades  who  served  with  him  but 
by  his  superior  officers  in  official  publica- 
tions. 

Another  military  member  of  the  family 
is  Col.  Henry  C.  Smither,  a  son  of 
Major  Smither  and  a  nephew  of  Mr.  Henry 
C.  Smither  of  Indianapolis.  Col.  Henry 
C.  Smither  was  born  while  his  father  was 
in  the  regular  army,  was  admitted  to  the 
West  Point  Military  Academy  during  the 
administration'  of  President  Harrison,  and 
for  three  years  after  his  graduation  re- 
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was  assigned  to  a  regiment  in  the  West, 
was  twice  sent  to  the  Philippines,  holding 
the  rank  of  captain,  was  promoted  to  major, 
and  after  General  Pershing  went  to  France 
was  ordered  to  return  to  Washington  and 
was  assigned  to  Pershing's  staff  with  the 
rank  of  colonel.  High  praise  has  been 
given  him  as  one  of  the  officers  in  com- 
mand of  the  American  army's  supply  serv- 
ice in  France,  and  he  was  especially  cited 
by  one  of  his  commanding  generals  in 
France.  In  the  spring  of  1919  he  rejoined 
his  wife  and  three  children  at  Washington. 
Mr.  Henry  C.  Smither  of  Indianapolis  is 
greatly  interested  in  and  proud  of  his 
nephew  and  namesake.  Colonel  Smither 
and  wife  have  two  daughters  and  one  son. 
The  second  child  was  named  after  its  uncle 
before  it  was  born,  and  when  it  proved  a 
girl  the  name  was  changed  from  Henry  to 
Henry-Etta.  The  third  child  was  a  son 
and  was  given  the  full  name  of  his  great- 
uncle,  Henry  C.  Smither. 

A  significant  fact  in  the  patriotic  rec- 
ord of  the  Smither  family  is  that  both  in 
the  Civil  and  in  the  World  wars  all  the 
soldier  participants  volunteered,  none  of 
them  being  drafted.  In  the  Civil  war  be- 
sides the  four  brothers  above  noted  there 
were  two  brothers-in-law,  Wharton  K. 
Clinton  of  the  Thirteenth  Indiana  Volun- 
teers and  Mexican  war  veteran,  and  George 
E.  Tiffany  of  the  Volunteers.  Mr.  Smither 
of  Indianapolis  besides  his  famous  nephew, 
Colonel  Smither,  had  four  grand-nephews 
in  the  World  war,  Charles  Wharton  Eich- 
rodt,  a  first  lieutenant  still  in  France; 
Frederick  C.  Wright,  troop  sergeant  in 
the  Motor  Truck  Service ;  William  S.  Gard- 
ner of  the  Seventeenth  Iowa  Cavalry;  and 
Emory  Tiffany  in  the  navy. 

Mr.  Henry  C.  Smither  was  born  at  In- 
dianapolis in  1840.  His  first  military 
service  was  with  the  Home  Guards,  Zou- 
aves, and  he  drilled  under  Gen.  Dan 
Macauley,  who  afterwards  entered  the  mili- 
tary service,  and  then  the  drill  master  and 
captain  was  Col.  Nicolas  Ruckle.  Mr. 
Smither  in  1863  gave  up  a  good  position 
to  enlist  in  Company  D  of  the  Seventy- 
ninth  Indiana  Infantry,  and  served  until 
honorably  discharged  for  disability.  After 
recuperating  he  ran  away  from  home  and 
tried  to  rejoin  his  regiment,  but  got  only 
as  far  as  Chattanooga,  which  was  then  in 
ruins,  and  after  a  very  lonely  time  in  the 
mountains  he  boarded  a  freight  train  and 


returned  to  Nashville.  There  he  took  a 
place  in  the  quartermaster's  department 
vacated  by  a  man  on  the  sick  list,  and  when 
he  was  relieved  of  that  duty  he  sought  a 
new  job  in  the  Old  Hoss  freight  depart- 
ment for  the  Express  Company.  He  was 
promoted  over  a  hundred  persons  to  as- 
sistant cashier,  but  declined  the  promotion 
in  view  of  his  approaching  wedding,  which 
was  to  be  celebrated  in  Indianapolis  Feb- 
ruary 15,  1865,  Miss  Emma  Barnitt  becom- 
ing his  bride. 

Before  the  adventure  above  noted  in 
seeking  to  rejoin  his  regiment,  there  oc- 
curred the  John  Morgan  raid  through 
Southern  Indiana.  Companies  were  quickly 
formed  in  Indianapolis,  and  Capt.  Whar- 
ton R.  Clinton,  a  retired  soldier  of  the 
Thirteenth  Indiana,  was  made  captain  of 
a  company,  with  Henry  C.  Smither  as 
second  lieutenant.  Changes  were  quickly 
made  and  upon  the  promotion  of  Clinton  to 
colonel  Henry  C.  Smither  was  promoted 
to  captain.  While  the  company  was  in 
instant  readiness  to  march,  a  telegram 
came  that  Morgan  had  been  captured,  and 
Mr.  Smither  recalls  this  incident  rather 
humorously  and  says  that  he  was  captain 
for  about  half  an  hour  altogether. 

In  1868  he  entered  the  business  which 
he  has  continued  for  half  a  century,  gravel 
roofing,  and  in  subsequent  years  he  has 
handled  other  forms  of  modern  fireproof 
material  for  roofing.  At  first  he  was  in 
partnership  with  the  late  J.  M.  Sims,  whose 
interests  he  bought.  His  house  is  widely 
known  to  the  trade  as  one  of  the  highest 
honor  and  reliability,  and  his  own  name 
is  a  guarantee  of  the  high  quality  of  every- 
thing sold  and  handled. 

Mr.  Smither  has  also  at  various  times 
been  engaged  in  a  number  of  business  and 
industrial  enterprises  at  Indianapolis.  He 
has  used  his  means  and  influence  liberally 
for  making  Indianapolis  a  progressive  me- 
tropolis. Many  people  recall  that  he  built 
the  old  Virginia  Avenue  Rink  in  the  day 
when  roller  skating  was  a  great  craze. 
Later  he  was  in  the  bicycle  business ^wh en 
that  was  an  important  industry  at  In- 
dianapolis. Mr.  H.  C.  Smither  served  as 
city  councilman  for  four  years  during  the 
Bookwalter  administration.  He  is  a  mem- 
ber of  the  First  Baptist  Church,  is  affil- 
iated with  Mystic  Tie  Lodge  No.  398,  An- 
cient Free  and  Accepted  Masons,  and  is1 
past    master,    is    a    Knight    Templar    and 


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Scottish  Rite  Mason,  and  Shriner,  also  a 
member  of  George  H.  Thomas  Post,  Grand 
Army  of  the  Republic.  He  is  a  republican 
in  politics  and  a  member  of  the  Marion 
Club.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Smither  had  a  most 
happy  married  life  of  nearly  half  a  cen- 
tury until  the  death  of  Mrs.  Smither  on 
July  6,  1914. 

Schuyler  Colfax  was  born  in  New 
York  City  March  23,  1823,  and  died  in 
Mankato,  Minnesota  January  13,  1885.  He 
was  a  statesman  and  was  identified  with  the 
public  life  of  Indiana  for  many  years.  He 
came  to  this  state  in  1836,  settling  with  the 
family  in  New  Carlisle. 

In  subsequent  years  Vice  President  Col- 
fax was  a  successful  candidate  of  the 
newly  formed  Republican  party  for  Con- 
gress, serving  by  successive  reelections 
from  1854  until  1869.  In  May,  1868,  the 
Republican  National  Convention  at  Chi- 
cago nominated  him  for  vice  president  of 
the  United  States,  General  Grant  being  the 
nominee  for  president,  and  he  took  his  seat 
as  president  of  the  Senate  on  March  4, 
1869.  The  later  years  of  Mr.  Colfax  were 
spent  mainly  in  retirement  at  his  home  in 
South  Bend  although  he  delivered  public 
lectures.    Mr.  Colfax  was  twice  married. 

Frank  Irvin  Reed.  Of  the  firm  Irvin 
Reed  &  Son,  dealers  in  hardware,  imple- 
ments and  automobiles,  Frank  Irvin  Reed 
is  a  merchant  of  long  and  varied  business 
activities  and  experience.  His  father  was 
one  of  the  first  merchants  of  Richmond, 
and  sixty-five  years  ago  established  a  hard- 
ware business  in  that  city,  which  through 
his  son  has  been  continued  to  the  present 
time.  The  business  is  still  known  as  Irvin 
Reed  &  Son  and  is  the  largest  house  of 
its  kind  in  eastern  Indiana. 

Frank  Irvin  Reed  was  born  in  1854, 
son  of  Irvin  and  Mary  (Evens)  Reed.  He 
represents  an  old  American  family  of  Eng- 
lish, Scotch  and  Irish  origin.  His  father 
was  about  twenty-one  years  old  when  he 
came  to  Richmond  in  1831  and  established 
the  first  drug  store  in  what  was  then  the 
largest  town  in  the  state.  As  the  pioneer 
druggist  his  methods  of  doing  business  were 
in  great  contrast  to  those  of  the  present 
time.  He  went  around  on  horseback  with 
his  saddle  bags,  visiting  such  cities  as  In- 
dianapolis, Fort  Wayne  and  many  smaller 
towns,  and  took  orders  for  drugs,  which  he 


filled  in  his  laboratory  at  Richmond.  He 
continued  in  the  drug  business  until  1854, 
when  he  removed  to  Cincinnati  and  estab- 
lished a  wholesale  drug  house.  That  was 
a  very  successful  enterprise,  but  eventually 
he  returned  to  Richmond  and  on  account 
of  failing  health  sold  out  his  business.  In 
1857  he  started  a  hardware  store  on  Main 
Street  between  Fifth  and  Sixth  streets.  In 
1865  the  business  was  removed  to  where  it 
is  today,  in  a  three-story  and  basement 
building. 

In  1834  Irvin  Reed  married  at  Rich- 
mond Mary  Evens,  and  their  son  Frank 
I.  is  the  youngest  of  nine  brothers  and 
two  sisters.  His  father  died  in  1891,  at 
the  age  of  eighty-one,  and  his  mother  in 
1898,  aged  eighty-six. 

Frank  Irvin  Reed  grew  up  in  Richmond, 
attended  the  public  schools  and  Richmond 
Business  College,  and  even  as  a  boy  was 
associated  with  his  father  in  business.  He 
became  an  active  factor  in  the  manage- 
ment in  1876,  at  which  time  the  firm  used 
only  one  floor,  but  today  all  three  floors 
and  basement  are  crowded  with  the  stock 
handled  by  this  firm.  The  business  employs 
many  people,  and  the  trade  is  extended 
over  the  city  and  surrounding  country  for 
a  radius  of  thirty-five  miles.  Mr.  Reed  is 
now  the  sole  proprietor. 

In  1892  Mr.  Reed  married  Miss  Tessa 
Irene  Cooper,  daughter  of  H.  B.  Cooper  of 
Richmond.  Mr.  Reed  is  affiliated  with  the 
Masonic  bodies  including  the  Knights 
Templar,  and  politically  is  a  republican. 
His  father  was  a  subscriber  in  1831  to  the 
Richmond  Palladium,  and  Mr.  Reed  is 
still  on  the  subscription  list,  the  paper  hav- 
ing come  regularly  into  the  Reed  house- 
hold for  nearly  ninety  years. 

William  E.  Stevenson,  who  died  in 
1913,  was  for  many  years  a  commanding 
figure  in  the  commercial  life  and  affairs 
of  Greencastle  and  of  Indianapolis.  He 
was  successively  merchant,  banker  and 
operator  and  controller  of  many  activities 
and  interests  represented  in  the  real  es- 
tate field.  His  name  will  always  have  a 
special  significance  in  Indianapolis  as 
that  of  the  man  -who  had  the  faith  to  pro- 
mote and  build  the  first  steel  skyscraper 
in  the  city. 

He  was  born  at  Greencastle,  Indiana, 
October  2,  1850,  son  of  James  D.  and 
Sarah  E.   (Wood)  Stevenson.     His  father, 


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a  native  of  Kentucky,  was  of  Scotch- 
Irish  lineage.  His  mother  was  born  -in 
Vermont  and  belonged  to  a  New.  England 
family.  James  D.  Stevenson  for  over 
thirty  years  was  a  hardware  merchant  at 
Greencastle.  His  wife  died  in  that  city 
at  the  age  of  seventy-five,  and  he  spent 
his  last  years  at  the  home  of  his  son  in 
Indianapolis,  where  he  passed  away  at  the 
age  of  eighty-three. 

The  formal  education  of  William  E. 
Stevenson  was  finished  at  the  age  of  four- 
teen. He  then  went  to  work  for  his  father, 
and  remained  active  in  the  business  for 
fifteen  years,  including  the  period  of  his 
apprenticeship  and  learning  as  well  as  of 
his  active  management.  He  succeeded  his 
father  in  the  business  and  finally  selling 
out  his  interests  in  that  line,  became  cashier 
in  the  Putnam  County  Bank  at  Green- 
castle. He  was  also  one  of  the  organizers 
and  directors  of  the  Central  National  Bank 
of  Greencastle. 

Mr.  Stevenson  came  to  Indianapolis  in 
1888  as  a  field  better  fitted  for  his  expand- 
ing interests  and  business  ability.  For  a 
quarter  of  a  century  he  was  prominent  in 
the  real  estate  field,  and  head  of  the  firm 
W.  E.  Stevenson  &  Company,  which  rep- 
resented a  highly  specialized  organization 
for  the  handling  of  city  property.  It  was 
more  than  twenty  years  ago,  in  1896,  that 
Mr.  Stevenson  matured  his  plans  and  in 
the  face  of  many  obstacles  began  and  com- 
pleted the  Stevenson  Building  on  Wash- 
ington Street.  It  was  the  first  modern 
steel  construction  office  building  in  the 
city,  and  was  a  pioneer  of  the  type  of 
construction  which  is  now  practically  uni- 
versal in  American  cities.  It  is  twelve 
stories  high,  and  while  it  no  longer  domi- 
nates the  sky  line  of  Indianapolis  it  is  a 
particularly  significant  landmark  to  all  the 
older  business  men  of  Indianapolis  who  ap- 
preciate the  wonderful  forward  strides 
made  by  this  city  during  the  year  this 
building  has  been  standing.  The  structure 
continued  to  bear  the  name  of  Stevenson 
Building  until  1905,  when  Mr.  Stevenson 
practically  withdrew  his  interests  and  it 
has  since  been  the  State  Life  Building. 

While  this  was  the  largest  single  enter- 
prise undertaken  by  Mr.  Stevenson,  it  was 
in  many  ways  typical  of  his  initiative,  far 
sightedness,  and  progressive  character  as 
an  Indianapolis  builder  and  citizen.  He 
came  to  be  looked  upon  as  a  man  whose 


judgment  was  accepted  as  authority  on  ac- 
count of  his  experience  and  keen  insight. 
For  a  number  of  years  he  was  active  in  the 
promotion  of  railway  lands,  particularly 
the  work  of  interurban  electric  roads  cen- 
tering at  Indianapolis. 

The  big  values  and  interests  of  his  life 
were  represented  in  his  business  achieve- 
ments. He  was  a  republican  but  never  an 
office  seeker,  was  a  member  of  the  Com- 
mercial and  Columbian  Clubs,  the  Board  of 
Trade  and  the  Marion  Club.  October  22, 
1872,  he  married  Miss  Margaret  W.  Wirth, 
who  was  born  and  reared  in  Cincinnati, 
daughter  of  Joseph  Wirth.  Mr.  Steven- 
son is  survived  by  one  child,  Edna  W., 
wife  of  Louis  F.  Smith. 

The  late  Mr.  Stevenson  has  a  grateful 
memory  among  the  many  whom  he  be- 
friended. He  assisted  a  number  of  young 
men  to  get  an  education  and  start  in  busi- 
ness, and  in  a  quiet,  unostentatious  way 
was  always  giving  something,  either  of  his 
money  or  the  other  means  at  his  command. 
Generosity  was  one  of  his  most  dominant 
personal  traits. 

Mrs.  Anna  Weiss  is  the  widow  of  the 
late  Siegfried  Weiss  of  Richmond.  Sieg- 
fried Weiss  established  an  antique  furni- 
ture store  on  Fourth  and  Main  streets  in 
1906,  and  had  the  business  fairly  imder 
way  when  death  intervened  and  inter- 
rupted his  career  on  June  4,  1907. 

Mrs.  Weiss  has  proved  herself  a  most 
capable  business  woman.  She  has  kept 
the  business  up,  moved  it  to  larger  quar- 
ters at  519  Main  Street,  and  in  1912  en- 
tered the  present  quarters  at  505-511 
Main  Street,  where  with  the  assistance  of 
her  son  Leo  H.  she  conducts  one  of  the 
leading  house  furnishing  enterprises  in 
Wayne  County. 

Leo  H.  Weiss,  son  of  Siegfried  and 
Anna  (Puthoff)  Weiss,  was  born  at  Rich- 
mond June  28,  1891.  He  attended  the 
parochial  schools  only  until  he  was 
twelve  years  old,  and  then  spent  one  year 
working  in  a  casket  factory,  and  after 
that  put  in  his  time  largely  with  his 
father's  business.  His  mother  was  again 
left  with  the  chief  responsibilities  of  the 
concern  when  her  son  on  May  1,  1918,  en- 
tered the  government  service  at  Camp 
Forrest,  Chattanooga.  A  few  weeks  later 
he  was  transferred  to  Camp  Wadsworth 
at  Spartanburg,  South  Carolina,  and  ten 


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days  later  was  sent  to  the  target  range 
at  Landruni  in  the  same  vicinity.  He 
was  again  .returned  to  Camp  Wadsworth, 
from  there  to  Camp  Mills,  Long  Island, 
and  on  July  7,  1918,  was  sent  overseas 
as  member  of  the  Seventeenth  Machine 
Gun  Battalion  with  the  Sixth  Division. 
They  landed  at  Le  Havre,  and  after  a 
time  in  the  rest  camp  was  sent  to  the 
fighting  zone,  and  Mr.  Weiss  was  on  duty 
there  from  July  22,  1918,  to  March  17, 
1919.  Mrs.  Wieiss  is  a  member  of  St. 
Andrew's  Catholic  Church. 

Lloyd  D.  Clay  combe  is  one  of  the 
younger  lawyers  of  the  Indianapolis  bar 
"and  has  enjoyed  a  successful  practice  there 
for  the  past  four  years.  He  represents 
an  old  and  honored  family  of  Crawford 
County,  and  was  born  at  Marengo  in  that 
county  February  7,  1889.  His  maternal 
grandfather,  John  M.  Johnson,  was  one  of 
the  early  settlers  of  Crawford  County,  and 
was  widely  and  favorably  known  all  over 
that  section  of  the  state.  He  was  an  edu- 
cator, minister  and  farmer,  and  was  a 
visible  example  to  an  entire  community 
for  good  works  and  good  influence.  He 
was  a  man  of  education,  having  attended 
the  State  University  of  Indiana  when  its 
building  equipment  was  merely  one  frame 
building,  as  elsewhere  illustrated  in  this 
publication. 

Lloyd  D.  Clavcombe  is  the  only  son  and 
child  of  Victor  E.  and  Roma  A.  (Johnson) 
Claycombe,  and  a  grandson  of  Samuel  A. 
Claycombe,  who  was  a  soldier  in  the  Union 
Army.  He  enlisted  in  an  Indiana  regi- 
ment, was  wounded  and  captured,  and 
died  '  in  Andersonville  Prison.  Victor 
Claycombe  was  born  at  Alton,  Indiana,  and 
is  now  fifty-seven  years  of  age.  For  thirty- 
five  years  or  more  he  has  been  a  station 
agent  with  the  Southern  Indiana  Railroad 
Company.  . 

Lloyd  D.  Claycombe  received  his  early 
education  in  the  public  schools  of  Jasper, 
Indiana.  He  took  his  law  course  in  the 
Indiana  State  University.  On  July  1, 
1914,  he  began  the  practice  of  law  at  In- 
dianapolis, and  has  made  rapid  progress 
in  achieving  a  substantial  reputation  in 
that  field.  He  served  as  deputy  prosecut- 
ing attornev  of  Marion  County  in  1917- 
18.  In  1915  he  was  appointed  receiver  in 
trustee  in  bankruptcy  for  the  Winona  As- 
sembly at  Winona  Lake,  Indiana.    He  suc- 


cessfully reorganized  this  institution,  with 
William  J.  Byan  president  of  the  new  cor- 
poration and  Mr.  Claycombe  as  member 
of  the  board  of  directors  and  an  officer. 

Mr.  Claycombe  is  a  republican,  a  member 
of  the  Methodist  Church,  is  a  Knight  Tem- 
plar Mason  and  Shriner,  and  is  affiliated 
with  the  Lambda  Chi  Alpha  and  Gamma 
Eta  Gamma  college  fraternities,  September 
14,  1918,  he  married  Miss  Jenetta  Wuille, 
daughter  of  Louis  Wuille,  of  Hamilton, 
Ohio. 

Fred  C.  Gardner.  Something  concern- 
ing the  monumental  character  and  impor- 
tance of  the  great  Indianapolis  industry 
conducted  under  the  name  E.  C.  Atkins  & 
Company  is  a  matter  of  record  on  other 
pages  of  this  publication.  A  position  of 
executive  responsibility  in  such  a  business 
is  sufficient  of  itself  as  a  proof  that  the 
holder  has  the  experience  and  qualifica- 
tions of  a  successful  business  man. 

About  thirty-five  years  ago  Fred  C. 
Gardner  entered  the  plant  of  the  Atkins 
Company  in  the  capacity  of  an  office  boy. 
Fidelity,  hard  work,  concentration  of  ef- 
fort, study  of  his  surroundings  and  oppor- 
tunity to  improve  his  usefulness  were  the 
main  reasons  that  started  him  on  his  up- 
ward climb  from  one  position  to  another 
until  in  1900  he  was  elected  assistant  treas- 
urer and  then  in  1912  was  promoted  to 
treasurer. 

Mr.  Gardner,  who  has  otherwise  been 
prominent  in  civic  affairs  at  Indianapolis 
as  well  as  a  factor  in  its  business  life,  has 
lived  here  since  early  boyhood.  He  was 
born  in  DeWitt  County,  Illinois,  August 
23,  1863,  a  son  of  Anson  J.  and  Mary 
Elizabeth  (Watson)  Gardner.  Anson  J. 
Gardner  was  born  in  Ohio  September  13, 
1831,  and  as  a  young  man  removed  to  De- 
Witt  County,  Illinois.  He  secured  govern- 
ment land,  and  in  the  course  of  time  had 
about  3,000  acres. and  was  one  of  the  lead- 
ing farmers  and  stock  growers  in  the  state. 
He  made  a  specialty  of  breeding  high-grade 
Shorthorn  cattle.  In  1875  he  sold  his  farm 
and  stock  interests,  and  coming  to_  In- 
dianapolis established  himself  in  business 
as  a  buyer  and  shipper  of  grain.  He  was 
one  of  the  leading  grain  merchants  of  In- 
dianapolis until  1901,  at  which  date  he  re- 
tired. He  died  January  8,  1906,  and  his 
wife  followed  him  in  death  on  the  next 
dav.     Anson   Gardner  was   an   active  re- 


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publican,  was  affiliated  with  the  Independ- 
ent Order  of  Odd  Fellows  and  with  his 
wife  was  a  member  of  the  Second  Presby- 
terian Church.  Mary  Elizabeth  Watson 
was  born  in  Illinois  January  24,  1845.  Her 
father,  James  G.  Watson,  was  a  large  plan- 
tation and  slave  owner  in  Kentucky.  It 
was  a  station  to  which  he  was  in  part  born, 
but  he  had  no  sympathy  with  the  tradi- 
tions of  the  slave  holding  class,  and  as  he 
could  not  free  his  slaves  and  live  in  har- 
mony with  his  neighbors  in  the  South  his 
antagonism  finally  reached  a  point  where 
at  a  heavy  financial  loss  he  gave  liberty  to 
his  negroes,  sold  his  real  estate,  and  moved 
across  the  Ohio  River  into  DeWitt  County, 
Illinois. 

Fred  C.  Gardner,  who  was  second  in  the 
family  of  four  children,  gained  his  first 
education  in  the  public  schools  of  Illinois, 
and  after  he  was  twelve  years  of  age  at- 
tended the  city  schools  of  Indianapolis. 
When  he  was  about  seventeen  years  old 
he  began  his  business  career  as  a  clerk  in 
the  auditor's  office  of  the  I.  B.  &  W.  Rail- 
way, now  a  part  of  the  Big  Four  system. 
From  that  position  about  six  months  later 
he  went  into  the  E.  C.  Atkins  &  Company 
as  office  boy,  and  since  then  his  career  has 
been  fixed  so  far  as  his  business  sphere  is 
concerned,  though  his  own  progress  has 
been  one  of  constantly  changing  and  im- 
proving status. 

However,  a  number  of  other  interests 
and  activities  are  part  of  his  record.  He 
has  served  as  treasurer  of  the  Marion 
County  Republican  Club  and  of  the  Re- 
publican City  Committee,  and  was  one 
of  the  republicans  appointed  as  a  member 
of  the  Board  of  Park  Commissioners  by 
Mayor  Bell,  and  is  now  serving  in  that 
capacity.  He  was  at  one  time  treasurer  of 
Butler  College  and  is  a  member  of  the 
Chamber  of  Commerce,  the  Columbia, 
Marion  and  Woodstock  clubs,  the  Turn- 
verein,  the  Maennerchor,  and  of  the 
Christian  Church.  In  Masonry  he  is  affil- 
iated with  Oriental  Lodge  No.  500,  Ancient 
Free  and  Accepted  Masons,  Keystone 
Chapter  No.  6,  Royal  Arch  Masons,  Raper 
Commandery  No.  1.  Knights  Templar,  In- 
diana Consistory  of  the  Scottish  Rite  and 
Murat  Temple  of  the  Mystic  Shrine. 

November  28,  1883,  Mr.  Gardner  mar- 
ried Miss  Cara  E.  Davis.  She  was  born  in 
Franklin  County,  Indiana,  October  1, 
1862,  daughter  of  William  M.  and  Mary 


Jane  (Jones)  Davis.  Her  father  was  born 
in  Kentucky  October  14,  1837,  and  her 
mother  in  Johnson  County,  Indiana,  March 
6,  1837.  William  M.  Davis  on  moving  to 
Indiana  engaged  in  general  merchandising 
at  Franklin  and  then  came  to  Indianapolis, 
where  as  senior  member  of  the  firm  Davis 
&  Cole  he  was  for  many  years  prominent 
in  the  dry  goods  trade.  He  died  July  9, 
1882.  He  is  well  remembered  by  the  old 
time  citizens  of  Indianapolis,  was  past 
master  of  Capital  City  Lodge  No.  312,  Free 
and  Accepted  Masons,  member  of  Raper 
Commandery,  Knights  Templar,  a  thirty- 
second  degree  Scottish  Rite  Mason,  and 
also  an  Odd  Fellow  and  Knight  of  Pythias. 
He  and  his  family  were  members  of  the 
Central  Christian  Church.  To  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Gardner  were  born  three  children, 
Mary  Elizabeth,  Margaret  Lucy  and  Fred 
C.     The  only  son  died  in  infancy. 

John  Palmer  Usher  was  born  in  Brook- 
field,  New  York,  January  9,  1816.  After 
coming  to  Indiana  he  studied  and  practiced 
law,  and  after  a  service  as  a  legislator  was 
made  attorney  general  of  the  state.  In 
1862  Mr.  Usher  was  appointed  first  assist- 
ant secretary  of  the  interior,  later  becom- 
ing head  of  the  interior  department,  and 
resigned  that  office  in  1865  and  resumed 
the  practice  of  law,  also  becoming  consult- 
ing attorney  for  the  Union  Pacific  Rail- 
road. The  death  of  this  prominent  Indiana 
lawyer  occurred  in  Philadelphia,  Pennsyl- 


H.  L.  Nowi/iN  is  secretary  of  the  Indiana 
Mutual  Cyclone  Insurance  Company  and 
has  held  that  office  continuously  since  the 
company  was  established  in  1907.  In 
eleven  years  this  has  become  one  of  the 
largest  insurance  organizations  in  the 
state,  with  almost  17,000  patrons  or  mem- 
bers, and  with  nearly  $25,000,000  insur- 
ance in  force. 

Until  recently  Mr.  Nowlin  had  his  offi- 
cial headquarters  in  his  old  home  county 
of  Dearborn,  but  in  order  the  better  to  look 
after  the  affairs  of  his  company  he  moved 
to  Indianapolis  in  June,  1918,  and  the 
company's  office  is  now  at  148  East  Market 
Street  in  that  city.  The  other  officers  of 
the  company  are :  A.  H.  Myers,  of  Nobles- 
ville,  president ;  Emmett  Moore,  of  Hagers- 
town,  vice  president;  E.  C.  Mercer,  of  Ro- 
chester, treasurer;  while  the  directors  are 


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N.  A.  McClung,  of  Rochester,  Philip  S. 
Carper,  of  Auburn,  I.  M.  Miller,  of  Up- 
land, Harry  P.  Cooper,  of  Crawfordsville, 
J.  N.  Gullefer,  of  New  Augusta,  Clinton 
Goodpasture,  of  Muncie,  I.  H.  Day,  of 
Greenfield,  C.  M.  Nonweiler,  of  Boonville, 
and  Frank  C.  Dana,  of  Lawreneeburg. 

The  Nowlin  family  is  one  of  the  oldest  in 
the  history  of  Dearborn  County.  The  Now- 
lins  originally  are  of  Irish  stock,  but  Mr. 
Nowlin 's  great-grandfather,  however,  was 
born  in  Vermont  and  came  west  in  pioneer 
times  to  locate  in  Dearborn  County.  The 
grandfather,  Jeremiah  Nowlin,  lived  and 
died  in  Dearborn  County,  and  though  he 
began  life  with  comparatively  no  capital 
his  success  as  a  farmer  and  business  man 
enabled  him  to  accumulate  several  well  im- 
proved places  in  the  county.  His  wife's 
people  were  among  the  earliest  settlers  in 
that  county.  Jeremiah  Nowlin  had  his 
home  and  residence  near  Lawreneeburg. 
Of  his  seven  or  eight  children  the  oldest 
was  Enoch  B.  Nowlin,  who  was  born  in 
Miller  Township  of  Dearborn  County 
April  17,  1832,  and  died  in  1900.  He  was 
educated  in  the  common  schools,  also  in 
a  business  school  at  Indianapolis,  and  gave 
practically  all  his  life  to  farming.  He 
was  never  a  member  of  any  church  and  in 
politics  was  a  republican.  He  married 
Jane  H.  Langdale,  and  of  their  four  chil- 
dren the  oldest  is  H.  L.  Nowlin  and  the 
only  other  survivor  is  R.  J.  Nowlin,  who 
still  lives  in  Dearborn  County. 

H.  L.  Nowlin,  who  was  born  February 
12,  1860,  was  educated  in  the  public 
schools  of  his  native  county,  also  attended 
college  at  Ladoga  and  Danville,  and  at  the 
age  of  twenty-two  took  up  a  farming  career 
independently.  He  rented  at  first,  but 
about  1897  bought  a  place  of  his  own, 
and  continued  its  operation  until  he  left 
the  farm  in  1907  because  of  the  various 
business  connections  he  had  formed  in  the 
meantime.  For  about  two  years  he  was  a 
merchant,  a  business  he  carried  on  in  addi- 
tion to  his  responsibilities  as  secretary  of 
the  insurance  company. 

Mr.  Nowlin  is  widely  known  among  the 
agricultural  interests  of  the  state,  es- 
pecially because  of  his  service  as  a  mem- 
ber of  the  State  Board  of  Agriculture  dur- 
ing his  residence  in  Dearborn  County.  He 
was  president  of  the  board  one  year,  was 
superintendent  of  the  swine  department 
three  years  and  of  the  concession  depart- 


ment twelve  years,  having  charge  of  the 
swine  exhibits  and  of  the  sale  of  all  con- 
cessions. His  membership  on  the  board 
was  contemporary  with  a  period  of  great 
progress  and  prosperity  in  the  State  Fair. 
The  receipts  of  the  concession  department 
were  increased  from  $2,100  to  $13,000,  and 
other  departments  were  also  enlarged  and 
developed. 

Mr.  Nowlin  has  been  a  lifelong  repub- 
lican. He  was  once  a  candidate  for  county 
surveyor  and  was  formerly  a  member  of 
the  school  board  of  Moores  Hill,  for  two 
years  was  trustee  of  Moores  Hill  Village, 
and  for  a  similar  period  was  connected 
with  the  town  government  of  Greendale. 
He  is  secretary  of  the  Dearborn  Concrete 
Tile  Company  of  Aurora,  Indiana,  and  for 
seventeen  years  was  secretary  of  the  Pat- 
rons Mutual  Fire  Insurance  Company. 
During  that  time  this  company  increased 
its  business  from  $180,000  to  $4,200,000. 
Mr.  Nowlin  is  affiliated  with  the  Independ- 
ent Order  of  Odd  Fellows  and  is  a  member 
of  the  Presbyterian  Church  of  Lawrenee- 
burg. 

December  25,  1882,  he  married  Miss 
Lana  Martha  Smith,  daughter  of  David 
and  Martha  Smith.  Her  people  came  from 
England  and  the  centennial  of  their  resi- 
dence in  Indiana  was  observed  with  prop- 
er ceremonies  in  1918.  Mrs.  Nowlin  was 
educated  in  the  common  schools  of  Dear- 
born County  and  has  made  the  supreme 
object  of  her  life  her  home  and  children. 
Of  the  five  children  born  to  their  marriage 
four  are  living:  Archy  E.,  born  October 
6,  1884;  J.  Gertrude,  born  May  31,  1886; 
Ama  Lana,  born  August  11,  1893 ;  and 
Martha  Belle,  born  March  6,  1901.  The 
son  Archy  was  educated  in  the  common 
schools  of  Dearborn  County,  is  a  graduate 
of  the  Lawreneeburg  High  School,  attended 
college  at  Danville,  Indiana,  and  is  now  a 
farmer  in  Dearborn  County.  He  married 
Elizabeth  Huddleston.  The  daughter 
Gertrude  was  educated  in  the  schools  of 
Dearborn  County  and  a  private  school  at 
Lawreneeburg,  and  is  now  the  wife  of  Mil- 
ton L.  Taylor  of  Indianapolis.  Ama  Lana 
has  had  a  liberal  education,  beginning  with 
the  schools  of  Dearborn  County  and  the 
Academy  of  Moores  Hill  College,  and  sub- 
sequently took  special  work  in  voice  and 
elocution  in  Moores  Hill  College.  The 
'  youngest  of  the  family,  Martha  Belle,  at- 
tended  school   in   Dearborn    County,   high 


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school  at  Lawrenceburg,  and  in  1918  en- 
tered the  Manual  Training  High  School 
of  Indianapolis. 

Oliver  P.  Nusbaum  has  been  a  factor  in 
business  affairs  at  Richmond  for  upwards 
of  thirty  years,  was  formerly  an  aggres- 
sive insurance  salesman  and  agent,  but  for 
many  years  has  been  a  member  of  the 
firm  Neff  &  Nusbaum,  shoe  merchants. 

Mr.  Nusbaum  was  born  in  Olive  Town- 
ship of  Elkhart  County,  Indiana,  in  1867, 
son  of  C.  W.  and  Elizabeth  (Bechtel) 
Nusbaum.  He  grew  up  in  that  section  of 
Indiana,  attended  the  district  schools  in 
the  winter  terms  and  during  the  summer 
worked  on  the  farm  until  he  was  sixteen 
years  old.  He  also  attended  high  school 
and  taught  country  school  from  the  age 
of  sixteen  to  twenty-one.  He  taught  one 
term  in  Harrison  Township  of  his  native 
county,  and  then  removed  to  Marion 
County,  Kansas,  where  he  was  engaged  in 
teaching  until  1889.  In  that  year  he  came 
to  Richmond  and  became  bookkeeper  for 
Robinson  &  Company,  dealers  in  agricul- 
tural machinery.  He  was  thus  employed 
for  five  years,  and  then  took  up  insur- 
ance. He  held  an  agency  for  the  State 
Life  of  Indianapolis  and  for  the  Mutual 
Life  of  New  York.  In  1895  he  did  much 
to  promote  the  interests  of  the  State  Life 
in  Wayne,  Randolph,  Jay  and  Blackford 
counties,  Indiana. 

Mr.  Nusbaum  left  the  insurance  business 
to  become  associated  with  E.  D.  Neff,  who 
was  formerly  associated  in  the  shoe  busi- 
ness with  J.  W.  Cunningham,  under  the 
name  Neff  &  Nusbaum  as  shoe  merchants. 
For  3y2  years'  their  place  of  business  was 
at  710  Main  Street,  and  when  they  then 
bought  the  shoe  stock  of  J.  W.  Cunning- 
ham and  later  the  building  at  the  corner 
of  Seventh  and  Main,  where  their  business 
has  been  a  landmark  in  the  retail  district 
for  the  past  twenty  years.  Mr.  Nusbaum 
in  1915  was  elected  vice  president  of  the 
American  Trust  &  Savings  Bank  and  has 
other  local  interests. 

In  1899  he  married  Mayme  Neff,  daugh- 
ter of  E.  D.  and  Alice  (Compton)  Neff,  of 
Richmond.  They  are  the  parents  of  two 
children,  Mildred  and  Edward.  Mr.  Nus- 
baum is  an  independent  republican  in  poli- 
tics, a  member  of  the  First  English 
Lutheran  Church,  and  is  affiliated  with  the 
Commercial    Club    and   the    Rotary    Club, 


and  is  interested  in  Sunday  School  and 
Young  Men's  Christian  Association  work 
and  local  musical  and  charitable  work. 

Mr.  Nusbaum  does  not  claim  all  the 
credit  for  the  wonderful  success  of  the 
business  with  which  he  is  associated,  but 
prefers  to  give  much  of  it  to  those  asso- 
ciated with  him,  whose  knowledge  of  and 
devotion  to  the  business  have  been  large 
factors  in  making  it  a  success. 

Raymond  H.  Wickemeyer  is  one  of  the 
younger  business  men  of  Richmond,  but  is 
one  of  the  veterans  in  the  Curme-Feltman 
Shoe  Company,  and  has  progressed  from 
errand  boy,  his  first  place  on  the  pay  roll, 
to  manager  of  that  well  known  Richmond 
establishment. 

He  was  born  in  Richmond  November  8, 
1892,  son  of  August  and  Emma  (Flore) 
Wickemeyer.  He  attended  public  school 
at  Richmond,  including  Garfield  High 
School,  and  after  working  six  months  as 
errand  boy  for  Charles  H.  Feltman  took 
a  course  in  the  Richmond  Business  College 
to  better  fit  himself  for  advancement:  in 
his  chosen  field.  He  was  then  floor  sales 
man  for  the  company,  which  was  incor- 
porated in  1913,  and  from  that  he  was  ad- 
vanced to  assistant  manager. 

He  resigned  his  place  as  assistant  man- 
ager and  on  March  1,  1918,  enlisted  as  a 
soldier  in  Casual  Company  No.  452  of  the 
Eighth  Provisional  Regiment  in  the  State 
of  Washington.  He  was  on  duty  in  Wash- 
ington and  later  at  Vancouver  barracks, 
and  after  some  months  of  intensive  train- 
ing was  mustered  out  January  16,  1919. 
On  the  same  date  of  his  muster  out  he  was 
appointed  manager  of  the  Curme-Feltman 
Shoe  Company.  Mr.  Wickemeyer  is  un- 
married, is  an  independent  in  politics  and 
is  a  member  of  St.  John's  Lutheran 
Church. 

Volney  Thomas  Malott  was  born  in 
Jefferson  County,  Kentucky.  His  ancestry 
combines  the  blood  of  the  French  Huge- 
not  and  Scotch-Irish.  His  father's  ma- 
ternal grandfather  and  his  mother's  pater- 
nal grandfather  performed  distinguished 
services  in  the  Revolutionary  war.  (See 
Pennsylvania  archives).  His  grandfather, 
Hiram  Malott,  a  native  of  Maryland,  re- 
moved between  1785  and  1790  to'  the  State 
of  Kentucky,  and  was  a  pioneer  planter 
in  Jefferson  County,  near  Louisville.     He 


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died  in  that  county  at  the  age  of  sixty- 
three.  During  the  War  of  1812  he  was  a 
captain  of  the  Kentucky  Militia,  and  after 
the  war  was  made  a  major.  William  H. 
Malott,  son  of  Hiram  Malott  and  father  of 
Volney  Thomas  Malott,  was  born  in  Ken- 
tucky about  1813,  and  lived  the  life  of  a 
farmer  in  his  native  state  until  1841,  when 
he  came  to  Indiana.  Here  associated  with 
his  brother,  Major  Eli  W.  Malott,  he  en- 
gaged in  the  "lower  river  trade,"  trans- 
porting breadstuff's  and  other  provisions 
from  the  upper  Ohio  to  the  planters  of 
Louisiana.  This  was  a  profitable  business, 
but  William  H.  Malott  engaged  in  it  only 
a  few  years,  when  his  activities  were  ter- 
minated by  his  early  death  at  the  age  of 
thirty-two,  in  November,  1845. 

The  mother  of  Volney  Thomas  Malott 
was  Leah  Patterson  McKeown.  Her  father 
was  John  McKeown,  who  served  under 
Gen.  William  Henry  Harrison  in  the  In- 
dian war.  After  the  close  of  the  war  Mr. 
McKeown  removed  from  Kentucky  and 
settled  in  Corydon,  Indiana,  where  Leah 
was  born  June  8,  1816.  After  her  father's 
death,  which  occurred  soon  after  her  birth, 
the  family  returned  to  Kentucky.  In  1837 
she  was  married  to  William  H.  Malott, 
and  in  1841  went  with  him  to  make  their 
home  in  Salem,  Indiana.  Two  years  after 
the  death  of  William  H.  Malott  his  widow 
married  John  F.  Ramsay,  and  in  1847  she 
came  with  her  two  small  children  to  live 
with  him  in  Indianapolis. 

The  first  schooling  of  Volney  Thomas 
Malott  was  received  in  Salem,  Indiana, 
when  at  the  age  of  3%  years  he  was  sent 
to  the  private  school  kept  by  Mr.  Thomas 
May.  Later  he  attended  the  Washington 
County  Seminary,  kept  by  Mr.  John  I. 
Morrison.  After  coming  to  Indianapolis 
he  attended  the  private  school  of  Rev. 
William  A.  Holliday,  the  Marion  County 
Seminary  and  the  Indianapolis  High 
School. 

During  his  vacations  he  worked.  He 
early  realized  that  he  would  have  his  own 
way  to  make,  and  sought  every  oppor- 
tunity to  gain  a  knowledge  of  business 
methods  that  would  prepare  him  for  a 
business  career.  First  he  was  employed 
during  school  vacation  in  Roberts'  Drug 
Store;  the  next  vacation  in  Wilmot's  Hat 
Store.  The  year  he  was  fifteen  his  vacation 
was  spent  in  the  Traders'  Bank,  one  of  th« 
state's   "free"   banks,   where   he  learned 


to  count  money  and  become  a  judge  of 
spurious  and  counterfeit  money,  in  which 
he  became  an  expert  under  the  tutelage  of 
late  Chief  Justice  Byron  K.  Elliott,  whom 
he  later  succeeded  as  teller  in  the  Woolley 
Banking  House. 

At  the  age  of  sixteen  he  entered  the 
banking  house  of  John  Woolley  &  Com- 
pany, subsequently  the  Bank  of  the  Capi- 
tol, having  been  pre-engaged  to  enter  the 
bank  when  he  should  leave  school. 

In  1857  he  was  offered,  and  accepted 
the  position  of  teller  of  the  Indianapolis 
Branch  Bank  of  the  State  of  Indiana, 
which  had  been  recently  organized,  the 
predecessor  of  the  Indiana  National  Bank. 
He  served  five  years  as  teller,  until  in 
1862  he  resigned  the  office  upon  being 
elected  a  director,  secretary  and  treasurer 
of  the  Peru  &  Indianapolis  Railroad.  Al- 
though offered  the  position  of  cashier  of 
the  bank  at  a  better  salary  than  he  would 
receive  from  the  railroad  company,  he  de- 
clined for  the  reason  that  the  railroad  work 
would  give  him  a  wider  experience  in  the 
business  world,  having  in  mind,  however, 
to  later  reenter  the  banking  business.  In 
fact,  he  did  not  quit  banking  entirely,  as, 
following  his  resignation  as  teller  and  his 
refusal  to  be  cashier,  he  was  elected  a  di- 
rector of  the  Indianapolis  Branch  Bank 
of  the  State  of  Indiana,  and  served  until 
1865. 

In  the  spring  of  1865  he  obtained  from 
Hon.  Hugh  McCullough,  then  secretary  of 
the  treasury  of  the  United  States,  a  char- 
ter for  the  Merchants  National  Bank,  as- 
sociating himself  with  Messrs.  Henry  and 
August  Schnull,  Alexander  Metzger  and 
David  Macy,  and  opening  '  the  bank  for 
business  on  the  7th  of  June  of  that  year, 
and  tendering  his  resignation  as  treasurer 
of  the  railroad,  which  had  then  become 
the  Indianapolis,  Peru  &  Chicago  Rail- 
road Company,  which  resignation  was  not 
accepted.  Consequently  he  continued  until 
1905  to  be  actively  engaged  both  in  operat- 
ing railroads  and  in  banking. 

In  1870  the  strenuous  work  Mr.  Malott 
had  been  called  upon  to  perform  so  affected 
his  health  that  he  found  it  necessary  to 
retire  from  the  bank,  and  he  was  then 
asked  to  build  an  extension  of  the  Indian- 
apolis, Peru  and  Chicago  Railroad  to 
Michigan  City,  Indiana,  which  was  com- 
pleted in  the  spring  of  1871.  Thereafter 
he  took  more  active  interest  in  the  manage- 


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ment  of  the  railroad,  becoming  later  vice 
president  and  manager,  which  office  he  re- 
tained until  1883,  the  Indianapolis,  Peru  & 
Chicago  Railroad  having  in  the  meantime 
gone  into  the  control  of  the  Wabash  Rail- 
road Company  in  1881,  when  he  resigned 
to  become  vice  president  and  manager  of 
the  Indianapolis  Union  Railway  Company, 
operating  the  Belt. 

In  1889  Mr.  Malott  was  appointed  by 
Judge  Walter  Q.  Gresham,  of  the  United 
States  District  Court,  receiver  of  the  Chi- 
cago and  Atlantic  Railway  Company,  now 
the  Chicago'  &  Erie  Railroad  Company. 
In  1890  he  was  elected  president  of  the 
Chicago  &  Western  Indiana  Railway  Com- 
pany, operating  the  Chicago  Belt  Railroad. 
Later  he  became  chairman  of  the  board  of 
directors  of  that  company,  having  charge 
of  the  principal  financial  matters  of  these 
roads.  Upon  the  close  of  the  receivership 
of  the  Chicago  &  Atlantic  Railway  Com- 
pany, in  1891,  Mr.  Malott  was  elected  a 
director  in  the  reorganized  company, 
known  as  the  Chicago  &  Erie  Railroad 
Company.  In  1892  he  was  elected  a  di- 
rector of  the  Louisville,  New  Albany  & 
Chicago  Railroad  Company  (Monon)  and 
served  during  the  period  that  road  was 
under  the  control  of  J.  P.  Morgan  &  Com- 
pany. In  1895  he  resigned  his  positions  as 
chairman  of  the  board  of  the  Chicago  & 
Western  Indiana  Railway  Company  and  of 
the  Chicago  Belt  Railroad  Company,  to 
take  a  much  needed  rest  with  his  family 
in  Europe. 

In  1896  Mr.  Malott  was  appointed  by 
Judge  William  A.  Woods,  of  the  United 
States  District  Court,  receiver  of  the  Terre 
Haute  &  Indianapolis  Railroad  Company 
and  its  leased  lines,  known  as  the  Vandalia 
System  of  Railroads,  and  operating  the 
East  St.  Louis  &  Carondolet  Railroad,  and 
later  the  Detroit  &  Eel  River  Railroad  as 
trustee,  closing  his  receivership  of  these 
lines  in  1905,  when  the  system  passed  un- 
der the  control  of  the  Pennsylvania  Rail- 
road Company.  He  remained  as  a  director 
of  the  Vandalia  System,  and  represented  it 
on  the  board  of  the  Indianapolis  Union 
Railway  until  January  1,  1917. 

In  1879  Mr.  Malott  was  elected  presi- 
dent of  the  Merchants  National  Bank  of 
Indianapolis,  serving  until  1882,  when  he 
sold  his  interest  in  that  bank,  having  pur- 
chased an  interest  in  the  Indiana  National 


Bank  of  Indianapolis,  of  which  he  was 
elected  president.  He  filled  that  office  un- 
til July  1,  1912,  when  the  Capital  National 
Bank  and  the  Indiana  National  Bank  were 
consolidated,  and  he  became  chairman  of 
the  board,  which  position  he  still  holds. 

In  1893  Mr.  Malott,  with  Mr.  John  H. 
Holliday,  organized  the  Union  Trust  Com- 
pany of  Indianapolis,  one  of  the  most  pros- 
perous financial  institutions  of  the  state. 
He  is  now,  and  has  been  continuously,  a 
director  and  member  of  the  executive  com- 
mittee. 

Mr.  Malott 's  ability  to  organize  and  his 
strict  adherence  to  correct  business  prin- 
ciples have  enabled  him  to  reconstruct  and 
place  on  a  sound  financial  basis  the  vari- 
ous corporations  which  he  has  been  called 
upon  to  manage.  During  his  long  resi- 
dence in  Indianapolis  he  has  been  identi- 
fied with  nearly  all  the  important  civic 
and  commercial  organizations,  being  a  cor- 
porator and  president  of  the  board  of 
managers  of  Crown  Hill  Cemetery  Asso- 
ciation, a  member  of  the  Board  of  Trade, 
the  Chamber  of  Commerce,  the  Columbia 
Club,  the  University  Club,  which  he  served 
as  president  several  years,  the  Indianapolis 
Art  Association,  in  which  he  has  been  a 
director  for  years,  and  he  and  his  wife  are 
members  of  the  Meridian  Street  Methodist 
Episcopal  Church,  of  which  he  is  president 
of  the  board  of  trustees.  He  is  also  an 
honorary  member  of  the  Bankers  Club  of 
Chicago.  He  was  a  member  of  an  associa- 
tion of  gentlemen  in  Indianapolis  who 
started  a  library,  and  when  their  accumu- 
lation of  books  reached  8,000  volumes  they 
contracted  with  the  city  to  take  it  over  and 
increase  the  number  of  volumes  to  20,000. 
This  was  the  foundation  of  the  new  mag- 
nificent   City   Library    of   Indianapolis. 

In  1862  Volney  Thomas  Malott  was  mar- 
ried to  Caroline  M.,  daughter  of  Hon. 
David  and  Mary  (Patterson)  Macy,  of 
Indianapolis.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Malott  be- 
came the  parents  of  the  following  children : 
Mary  Florence,  wife  of  Woodbury  T.  Mor- 
ris, Indianapolis;  Macy  W.,  now  vice  presi- 
dent of  the  Indiana  National  Bank  of  In- 
dianapolis; Caroline  Grace,  wife  of  Ed- 
win H.  Forry,  Indianapolis ;  Katharine  F., 
wife  of  Arthur  V.  Brown,  Indianapolis ; 
Ella  L.,  wife  of  Edgar  H.  Evans,  Indian- 
apolis; and  Margaret  P.,  wife  of  Paul  H. 
White,   Indianapolis. 


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Emsley  W.  Johnson,  who  has  been  in 
the  active  practice  of  law  at  Indianapolis 
for  fifteen  years,  has  a  well  won  position 
as  a  lawyer  and  a  no  less  worthy  distinc- 
tion as  a  business  man  and  citizen. 

Apart  from  the  interest  attaching  to  his 
individual  career  it  is  an  appropriate  rec- 
ord for  a  publication  designed  to  cover  the 
leading  old  families  of  Indiana  that  some 
mention  should  be  made  of  his  ancestors, 
which  include  some  of  the  very  earliest 
settlers  of  Marion  County  and  represents 
old  American  stock,  some  of  whom  were 
participants  in  the  war  of  the  Revolution. 

Mr.  Johnson's  paternal  ancestor  came 
from  England  about  1745  and  settled  in 
Virginia.  He  was  one  of  the  colonial 
farmers  or  planters  of  that  old  common- 
wealth, spent  his  life  there,  and  reared  a 
large  family.  His  son,  Thomas  Johnson, 
of  the  next  generation,  moved  from  Vir- 
ginia to  Ohio  in  1806.  Through  him  the 
family  vocation  of  farmer  was  continued, 
and  he  acquired  a  considerable  tract  of 
land  in  Preble  County.  The  founder  of 
the  family  in  Indiana  was  his  son,  Jesse 
Johnson,  who  was  born  in  June,  1785,  and 
accompanied  his  father  from  Virginia  to 
Ohio.  During  the  War  of  1812  he  served 
with  an  Ohio  regiment  throughout  the 
period  of  hostilities.  Jesse  Johnson  moved 
to  a  farm  near  Clermont  in  Marion  County 
in  1823,  and  thus  constituted  one  of  the 
scattered  settlements  in  this  locality  when 
the  state  capital  was  moved  from  Corydon 
and  the  new  City  of  Indianapolis  estab- 
lished. On  his  homestead  he  spent  the  rest 
of  his  life  and  died  July  9,  1878,  a  few 
weeks  after  the  birth  of  his  great-grandson, 
the  Indianapolis  lawyer  above  mentioned. 

Of  the  eight  children  of  Jesse  Johnson, 
one  was  William  K.  Johnson,  who  was  born 
March  20,  1819,  in  Ohio,  and  was  four 
years  old  when  the  family  moved  to  Marion 
County.  He  acquired  a  large  farm  near 
the  line  between  Hendricks  and  Marion 
counties  and  was  a  resident  there  until  his 
death  April  2,  1906. 

Joseph  McClung  Johnson,  son  of  Wil- 
liam K.,  was  born  April  1,  1843,  on  the 
Rockville  Road  in  Marion  County.  His 
early  education  was  a  product  of  the  com- 
mon schools  of  Marion  County  and  later 
of  the  Danville  Normal  School.  His  de- 
scendants have  every  reason  to  be  proud 
of  his  record  as  a  soldier  in  the  Civil  war. 
He  enlisted  in   1862   as  a  private  in  the 


Fifth  Indiana  Cavalry,  Ninetieth  Regi- 
ment, Indiana  Volunteers,  and  served  three 
years  from  the  date  of  his  enlistment  in 
August.  During  the  early  part  of  his 
service  he  was  in  the  campaign  against 
John  Morgan's  Cavalry  in  Indiana  and 
Kentucky.  The  chief  battles  in  which  he 
participated  were  those  of  Glasgow, 
Jonesboro,  Blountsville,  Bulls  Gap,  Dan- 
dridge,  Strawberry  Plains,  Atlanta,  Stone- 
man's  raid  toward  Macon,  and  at  Macon, 
Georgia,  he  was  captured  and  sent  to  An- 
dersonville  Prison,  where  he  was  confined 
for  a  period  of  seven  months.  Altogether 
he  took  part  in  twenty-two  battles  and  skir- 
mishes. In  the  month  of  June,  1864,  in 
Georgia,  he  was  engaged  in  a  battle  al- 
most every  day. 

Near  New  Augusta,  Indiana,  March  21, 
1867,  Joseph  McClung  Johnson  married 
Mary  Wright.  Concerning  their  family 
and  ancestry  many  interesting  facts  can 
be  told. 

Richard  Wright,  Sr.,  her  paternal  ances- 
tor, came  from  Scotland  to  the  State  of 
Maryland  in  1742.  His  four  sons  were 
William,  Amos,  Richard,  Jr.,  and  Phil- 
burd. 

Philburd  Wright,  was  born  in  Mary- 
land, saw  active  service  as  a  Revolutionary 
soldier  with  a  Maryland  regiment.  About 
the  close  of  that  war  he  moved  to  Ran- 
dolph County,  North  Carolina,  and  for 
forty  years  served  as  a  justice  of  the  peace 
in  that  community.  In  advanced  years  he 
came  west  and  settled  at  Brownsville, 
Union  County,  Indiana,  May  12,  1813.  He 
died  in  1833.  He  was  the  father  of  eleven 
children. 

Joel  Wright,  one  of  his  sons,  was  born 
in  Randolph  County,  North  Carolina,  Feb- 
ruary 5,  1795,  and  was  still  a  youth  when 
his  parents  came  to  Indiana  territory.  In 
November,  1815,  he  moved  to  the  west  fork 
of  White  River,  in  what  is  now  known  as 
Wayne  County.  December  22,  1821,  he 
brought  his  family  to  the  Broad  Ripple 
north  of  Indianapolis,  and  thus  was  an 
even  earlier  resident  in  this  pioneer  com- 
munity than  the  Johnson  family.  He 
owned  a  large  tract  of  land  which  is  now 
a  part  of  Meridian  Heights. 

Emsley  Wright,  for  whom  the  Indian- 
apolis lawyer  was  named,  was  one  of  the 
eight  children  of  Joel  Wright,  and  was 
born  in  Wayne  County,  Indiana,  February 
18,  1820.    He  was  not  two  years  old  when 


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his  parents  removed  to  Washington  Town- 
ship of  Marion  County,  and  there  he  spent 
his  entire  life.  He  died  January  11,  1897. 
He  owned  a  large  tract  of  land  in  Wash- 
ington Township  and  cleared  up  several 
farms  in  the  county.  He  also  helped  build 
the  canal  reaching  from  Broad  Ripple  to 
Indianapolis.  For  several  years  he  served 
as  justice  of  the  peace  and  for  thirty  years 
practiced  law  in  this  county.  His  name- 
sake therefore  had  a  family  precedence  to 
guide  him  in  the  choice  of  a  profession. 
Enisley  Wright  had  two  children,  Mary 
and  John. 

Mary  Wright  was  born  on  the  old  home- 
stead in  Marion  County  November  23, 
1848.  By  her  marriage  -to  Joseph  Mc- 
Clung  Johnson  she  was  the  mother  of  three 
children,  Cora  Josephine,  Emsley  W.  and 
William  F.  Cora  Josephine  was  born  July 
21,  1868,  has  never  married  and  now  lives 
with  her  parents  on  the  old  farm  in  Marion 
County.  The  son  William  F.  Johnson  was 
educated  in  the  Marion  County  schools 
and  took  the  degree  Doctor  of  Medicine  at 
the  Indiana  Medical  College  in  1904.  He 
has  practiced  medicine  at  Indianapolis 
since  his  graduation  and  has  enjoyed  much 
success  as  a  physician  and  surgeon.  He  is 
now  a  first  lieutenant  in  the  United  States 
army  at  Fort  McPherson,  Atlanta,  Geor- 
gia. 

Emsley  W.  Johnson  was  born  on  his 
father's  farm  in  Marion  County  May  8, 
1878.  He  attended  the  new  Augusta  High 
School,  received  the  degree  Bachelor  of 
Arts  from  Butler  College,  Bachelor  of  Phil- 
osophy at  the  University  of  Chicago,  and 
the  degree  Bachelor  of  Laws  at  the  Indiana 
Law  School  in  1903.  During  his  practice 
Mr.  Johnson  has  appeared  as  an  attorney 
in  many  important  trials  in  the  county 
courts.  His  practice  is  of  a  general  nature 
and  has  included  the  defense  of  a  num- 
ber of  important  murder  trials,  and  he 
has  also  been  attorney  in  many  will  contest 
cases  involving  large  estates.  For  two 
years  he  was  deputy  prosecutor  of  Marion 
County  and  for  four  years  county  attor- 
ney. His  professional  service  in  the  latter 
capacity  was  especially  notable  in  the  ac- 
tive part  he  took  with  the  board  of  county 
commissioners  in  the  elimination  of  law- 
less saloons  and  dives.  For  the  past  two 
years  he  has  also  devoted  much  time  to 
the  building  of  permanent  improved  high- 
ways in  Marion  County. 


Mr.  Johnson  is  vice  president  of  the  New 
Augusta  State  Bank,  a  director  in  the 
Broad  Ripple  State  Bank,  and  the  People's 
State  Bank  of  Indianapolis,  and  is  also  en- 
gaged to  some  extent  in  agriculture  on  a 
farm  which  he  owns  in  Marion  County. 

As  a  republican  Mr.  Johnson  has  been 
one  of  the  leaders  in  his  local  party  for 
many  years.  As  a  speaker  he  has  cam- 
paigned not  only  in  his  home  county  but 
gave  his  services  several  weeks  to  the  state 
republican  committee  in  different  cam- 
paigns. During  the  last  year  or  so  his 
services  have  been  availed  by  the  various 
war  causes.  He  is  a  member  of  one  of  the 
conscription  boards  of  Indianapolis  and 
chairman  of  the  general  conscription  board 
of  the  city.  Among  the  war  relief  cam- 
paigns he  was  an  organizer  of  the  Liberty 
Loan  drive  and  chairman  of  the  War 
Chest  organization  for  Marion  County. 

Mr.  Johnson  is  a  member  of  the  Indian- 
apolis Bar  Association,  the  Indiana  State 
Bar  Association,  the  Chamber  of  Com- 
merce of  Indianapolis,  Marion  Club,  and 
several  minor  civic  organizations.  He  is  a 
Scottish  Rite  Mason,  a  Noble  of  the  Mystic 
Shrine,  an  Odd  Fellow,  belongs  to  the  Sons 
of  Veterans,  and  is  a  past  sachem  of  the 
Improved  Order  of  Red  Men. 

August  8,  1906,  Mr.  Johnson  married 
Katherine  Griffin.  Her  parents  are  Dr. 
Loyal  B.  and  Denny  Griffin  of  Greenfield, 
Indiana.  Mrs.  Johnson  was  educated  in  the 
Greenfield  common  schools  and  the  Green- 
field High  School,  and  afterward  received 
the  degree  Bachelor  of  Arts  at  Butler  Col- 
lege, and  the  degree  Bachelor  of  Phil- 
osophy at  the  University  of  Chicago.  For 
a  number  of  years  before  her  marriage  she 
taught  in  the  Hancock  County  schools  and 
the  Greenfield  High  School.  Mrs.  Johnson 
was  active  in  several  literary  clubs,  and 
at  the  time  of  her  death  January  29,  1918, 
was  president  of  the  Zataphia  Club.  With 
all  her  home  interests  and  activities  she 
was  an  accomplished  musician  and  was 
skilled  in  china  painting. 

Mr.  Johnson  is  left  with  two  children, 
Mardenna,  born  June  23,  1910,  and 
Emsley  Wright,  Jr.,  born  August  11,  1913. 

Herbert  Willard  Foltz.  Through  his 
profession  as  an  architect  Herbert  Willard 
Foltz  has  done  much  work  that  would 
serve  to  identify  his  name  for  many  years 
with  his  native  city  of  Indianapolis  and 


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over  the  state  at  large.  He  is  a  man  of 
great  technical  ability,  sound  taste  and 
judgment,  and  the  profession  has  come  to 
recognize  him  as  one  of  its  real  leaders. 

Mr.  Foltz  is  a  descendant  of  Indiana 
pioneers.  His  grandfather,  Frederic,  bore 
the  family  name  of  Von  Foltz.  His 
parents  were  born  in  Holland.  Frederic 
von  Foltz  was  born  in  Maryland  in  1799. 
He  finally  dropped  the  "von"  and  spelled 
his  name  simply  Foltz.  He  had  an  ordi- 
nary education  and  when  a  young  lad  went 
to  Ohio,  where  he  married  Sabina  Willard, 
a  native  of  Highgates,  Vermont,  and  at  the 
time  of  her  marriage  a  teacher  in  Ohio. 
In  1833  Frederic  Foltz  came  to  Indian- 
apolis and  made  his  home  on  what  is  now 
West  Washington  Street.  He  established 
a  wagon,  coach  and  carriage  factory,  and 
also  operated  a  blacksmith  shop  where  the 
American  National  Bank  Building  now 
stands  at  the  corner  of  Pennsylvania  and 
Market  streets.  He  continued  business  un- 
til 1853,  when  he  sold  out.  His  industrial 
property  subsequently  became  the  site  of 
the  old  postoffice  building.  His  private 
affairs  absorbed  his  attention  after  he  re- 
tired from  business,  and  he  died  in  1863. 
Though  he  was  the  type  of  man  who  looks 
strictly  after  his  own  affairs,  he  was  rec- 
ognized as  a  strong  and  virile  personality 
in  the  early  days  of  Indianapolis.  He 
voted  the  whig  ticket  and  afterwards  was 
a  democrat.  He  and  his  wife  had  five  chil- 
dren, two  of  whom  died  in  infancy.  The 
others  were :  Henry,  who  died  in  1854 ; 
Mary  Isabel,  born  in  1843  and  now  de- 
ceased, married  George  Carter;  and 
Howard  M. 

Howard  M.  Foltz  was  born  at  Indian- 
apolis January  17,  1845.  He  finished  his 
education  in  the  old  Northwestern  Chris- 
tian (now  Butler)  University.  In  1864, 
at  the  age  of  nineteen,  he  enlisted  in  the 
Union  Navy  and  was  assigned  to  duty  on 
Admiral  Porter's  flagship  on  the  Missis- 
sippi River.  He  was  on  duty  on  this  ves- 
sel when  it  was  burned.  Later  he  was  on 
a  receiving  ship  until  the  close  of  the  war. 
After  his  return  to  Indianapolis  he  was 
for  six  years  representative  of  the  Howe 
Sewing  Machine  Company,  and  then  for 
thirteen  years  developed  an  extensive  In- 
diana business  for  the  D.  H.  Baldwin 
Piano  Company.  For  the  last  twenty-one 
years  he  has  been  connected  with  the 
Union  Trust  Company,  of  which  he  is  now 


one  of  the  vice  presidents.  He  is  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Columbia  and  Commercial  clubs, 
the  Board  of  Trade,  and  the  Grand  Army 
of  the  Republic.  He  also  belongs  to  the 
Navy  League.  In  1866  Howard  M.  Foltz 
married  Mary  Virginia  Jones.  Two  chil- 
dren were  born  to  them,  Herbert  W.  and 
Anna  Louise.  The  daughter  died  in  1890, 
at  the  age  of  twenty. 

Herbert  Willard  Foltz  was  born  at  In- 
dianapolis February  23,  1867.  This  city 
has  always  been  his  home.  He  was  edu- 
cated in  the  city  schools  and  in  1886  gradu- 
ated from  Rose  Polytechnic  Institute  at 
Terre  Haute.  With  this  specialized  and 
technical  training  he  served  what  amounted 
to  a  practical  apprenticeship  in  structural 
engineering  with  the  Illinois  Steel  Com- 
pany for  four  years.  In  1891  Mr.  Foltz 
established  himself  as  an  architect  at  In- 
dianapolis, and  has  been  busy  with  his 
professional  engagements  for  more  than  a 
quarter  of  a  century.  Some  of  the  con- 
spicuous buildings  of  Indianapolis  attest 
his  architectural  ideas.  He  planned  both 
the  Young  Men's  Christian  Association 
buildings,  the  Bobbs-Merrill  building,  and 
many  others  less  well  known,  and  outside 
of  Indianapolis  he  was  architect  for  the 
Hospital  for  the  Insane  at  Madison,  the 
Epileptic  Village  buildings  at  Newcastle, 
the  Indiana  Masonic  Home  at  Franklin, 
and  a  number  of  other  buildings  for  state 
institutions. 

Mr.  Foltz  is  a  Fellow  of  the  American 
Institute  of  Architects  and  of  various  local 
technical  societies.  In  1918  he  was  presi- 
dent of  the  Century  Club  of  Indianapolis, 
and  is  also  president  of  the  Indianapolis 
School  Board  and  is  deeply  interested  in 
all  matters  affecting  education.  He  is  a 
thirty-second  degree  Scottish  Rite  Mason 
and  Shriner  and  in  politics  is  a  republican. 
In  1893  he  married  Louise  Bowen,  a  daugh- 
ter of  Horatio  F.  and  Ann  Amy  (Mowry) 
Bowen,  of  Joliet,  Illinois.  They  have  three 
children,  Bertina  Louise,  Howard  Frank- 
lin and  Barbara  Louise.  Bertina  Louise 
is  now  a  student  in  Vassar  College. 

Vincent  A.  Lapenta,  M.  D.  Profession- 
ally Doctor  Lapenta  is  one  of  the  able  sur- 
geons of  Indianapolis,  a  skilled  specialist 
in  abdominal  surgery.  But  his  range  of 
influence  and  service  is  not  confined  within 
the  strict  limits  of  his  profession. 

Doctor  Lapenta  is  a  native  of  Italy,  and 


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was  educated  in  the  Royal  University  of 
Naples,  from  which  he  graduated  with  the 
degree  Doctor  of  Medicine  in  1906.  His 
home  in  Naples  where  he  was  reared  was 
in  the  midst  of  a  colony  of  English  people. 
He  early  learned  to  speak  English  fluently 
and  with  the  Englishman's  accent.  After 
leaving  the  University  of  Naples  he  came 
to  America,  and  did  post-graduate  work 
in  Harvard  Medical  School  and  in  the 
Medical  School  of  the  University  of  Illi- 
nois at  Chicago,  specializing  in  abdominal 
surgery. 

Doctor  Lapenta  located  at  Indianapolis 
in  1912.  That  city  has  since  been  his  home, 
and  his  practice  is  confined  to  abdominal 
surgery.  He  is  a  member  of  the  County 
and  State  Medical  societies  and  the  Amer- 
ican Medical  Association,  the  Clinical 
Congress  of  Surgeons,  and  all  other  organ- 
izations relating  to  the  profession.  In  1916 
Doctor  Lapenta  was  elected  a  member  of 
the  American  Association  for  the  Advance- 
ment of  Science  and  in  1918  he  was  ap- 
pointed by  the  Italian  government  a  dele- 
gate of  the  Italian  Red  Cross. 

Demands  upon  his  professional  services 
frequently  call  him  to  other  cities  and 
communities.  Among  the  thousands  of 
Italians  in  Indiana  he  is  generally  regarded 
as  a  great  and  good  man,  a  reputation 
which  his  attainments  and  character  thor- 
oughly justify. 

It  is  among  the  people  of  his  own  racial 
origin  that  his  influence  has  been  most 
widespread.  He  takes  an  unselfish  interest 
in  the  welfare  of  his  people.  There  are 
many  thousands  of  people  of  Italian  origin 
now  American  citizens  engaged  in  the 
great  industries  of  Indianapolis  and  Marion 
County,  and  also  in  the  great  industrial 
centers  of  Gary  and  the  Calumet  region, 
in  the  coal  mines  of  the  state,  in  mer- 
chandising and  in  the  various  professions. 
Most  of  these  are  home  owners,  thrifty,  in- 
dustrious and  altogether  ideal  citizens. 

Doctor  Lapenta  is  a  prominent  member 
of  the  King  Humbert  Society,  a  social  and 
beneficial  organization  that  was  formed  in 
1884.  His  far  reaching  influence  has  been 
exercised  as  president  of  the  Italian  Propa- 
ganda Committee  of  Indiana.  This  organ- 
ization is  engaged  in  the  educational  work 
of  making  good  American  citizens  of 
Italians  who  have  come  here  and  become 
naturalized  or  who  though  natives  of  Amer- 
ica have  never  received  sufficient  enlighten- 


ment on  the  principles  and  ideals  of  our 
democratic  citizenship.  There  are  no  spe- 
cial obstacles  or  complicated  problems  in- 
volved in  this  propaganda,  since  the  Italian 
race  are  the  heirs  of  the  oldest  civilization 
we  have  and  by  nature  and  early  training 
are  thoroughly  democratic. 

After  coming  to  America  Doctor  La- 
penta married  Miss  Rose  Mangeri.  She 
was  born  in  Southern  Italy.  They  have 
two  children,  Catharine  and  Blase. 

John  Tipton  who  was  born  in  Tennessee 
in  1786,  and  died  at  Logansport,  Indiana, 
in  1830,  became  a  resident  of  this  state  in 
1807  and  was  one  of  the  fearless  early  ex- 
ponents of  law  and  order.  He  joined  the 
''Yellow  Jackets,"  and  subsequently  at- 
tained the  rank  of  brigadier  general  of 
militia.  In  1819  General  Tipton  was  sent 
to  the  Legislature,  and  was  appointed  by 
that  body  in  1820  to  select  a  site  for  a  new 
capital  for  Indiana,  and  it  was  on  his  mo- 
tion that  Fall  Creek  was  chosen.  He  was 
later  a  commissioner  to  determine  with  an- 
other commissioner  from  Illinois  the  boun- 
dary line  between  the  two  states. 

After  a  further  service  as  Indian  agent 
General  Tipton  was  made  a  United  States 
senator  to  fill  a  vacancy  in  1831  and  was 
reelected  for  that  office.  He  was  always 
intensely  interested  in  the  progress  of  In- 
diana and  an  efficient  worker  for  its  insti- 
tutions. He  also  held  high  office  in  the 
Masonic  fraternity,  becoming  finally  grand 
master. 

"W.  H.  Disher  is  secretary  and  treasurer 
of  the  Thomas  Moffat  Company,  Incor- 
porated, one  of  the  important  jobbing  con- 
cerns located  at  Indianapolis.  Mr.  Disher 
represented  this  firm  on  the  road  for  many 
years,  and  is  now  the  chief  executive  in 
its  management.  The  Thomas  Moffat  Com- 
pany, Incorporated,  are  dealers  in  heavy 
chemicals,  laundry  supplies,  and  a  varied 
line  of  kindred  products. 

Mr.  Disher  was  born  in  Preble  County, 
Ohio,  March  13,  1877,  son  of  Peter  L.  and 
Catherine  (Allen)  Disher,  natives  of  the 
same  county.  His  father  came  to  Indian- 
apolis in  1888,  becoming  foreman  in  a 
local  lumber  company,  and  was  in  the  lum- 
ber business  for  twenty  years. 

"W.  H.  Disher  was  the  oldest  of  five 
children,  four  of  whom  are  still  living. 
After  his  education  in  the  public  schools 


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of  Indianapolis  he  went  to  work  in  a  fur- 
niture factory  for  two  years,  also  at  plumb- 
ing and  gas  fitting  two  years,  and  for  a 
year  and  a  half  was  with  the  Udell  Manu- 
facturing Company.  In  1899  he  entered 
the  service  of  the  Moffat  Chemical  Com- 
pany and  for  fourteen  years  was  the  com- 
pany's traveling  representative  carrying 
their  goods  and  products  over  practically 
the  entire  United  States.  Mr.  Disher  is  a 
preeminent  salesman,  and  the  great  volume 
of  business  he  turned  in  annually  was 
largely  responsible  for  the  steady  growth 
and  development  of  the  Thomas  Moffat 
Company.  In  1913  he  acquired  a  con- 
trolling interest  in  the  business,  and  has 
since  been  its  secretary  and  treasurer. 

Mr.  Disher  is  affiliated  with  Lodge  No. 
319,  Ancient  Free  and  Accepted  Masons, 
with  the  Knights  of  Pythas  and  Loyal 
Order  of  Moose,  and  is  a  member  of  sev- 
eral social  clubs.  October  5,  1903,  he  mar- 
ried Miss  Bessie  F.  Codcly.  Mrs.  Disher 
was  educated  in  the  public  schools  of 
Rush  County,  Indiana. 

George  C.  Fobrey,  Jr.  Few  young  men 
have  gone  so  far  and  so  rapidly  toward 
high  standing  and  successful  position  in 
the  financial  circles  of  Indianapolis  as 
George  C.  Forrey,  Jr. 

Mr.  Forrey,  who  was  born  at  Anderson, 
Indiana,  January  31,  1882,  is  the  only  son 
of  the  late  George  C.  and  Mary  (Baxter) 
Forrey.  His  father,  who  died  in  1918, 
was  a  successful  and  well  known  business 
man  of  Anderson.  He  retired  from  busi- 
ness activities  in  1908. 

George  C.  Forrey,  Jr.,  attended  public 
schools  at  Anderson  until  1898,  and  then 
entered  Culver  Military  Academy,  from 
which  he  graduated  in  1899.  He  is  an 
alumnus  of  Williams  College  in  Massa- 
chusetts, from  which  he  received  his  Bach- 
elor of  Arts  degree  in  June,  1903. 

His  business  experience  has  been  con- 
tained within  the  fifteen  years  since  he 
left  Williams  College.  At  first  he  was  a 
bond  salesman  with  E.  M.  Campbell  & 
Company,  an  Indianapolis  investment  con- 
cern. In  1905  he  became  associated  with 
Breed  &  Harrison  of  Cincinnati,  a  firm 
which  rewarded  him  for  his  efficient  and 
productive  service  by  making  him  a  part- 
ner in  the  business  in  1912.  The  following 
year  Mr.  Forrey  assisted  in  organizing  the 
firm  of  Breed,   Elliot   &  Harrison  of  In- 


dianapolis, Cincinnati  and  Chicago.  He 
was  elected  vice  president  of  the  company 
and  has  active  charge  of  the  Indianapolis 
branch  of  the  business.  Mr.  Forrey  has 
also  been  honored  with  the  offices  of  sec- 
retary, vice  president  and  president  of  the 
Indianapolis  Stock  Exchange.  He  was 
one  of  the  three  members  of  the  committee 
for  the  State  of  Indiana  promoting  the 
sale  of  the  first  two  issues  of  Liberty 
bonds.  In  the  last  two  issues  of  Liberty 
bonds,  in  addition  to  being  a  member  of 
the  state  committee  he  was  director  of  the 
State  Speakers'  Bureau.  He  was  also  ap- 
pointed during  the  latter  part  of  the  war 
as  assistant  chief  of  the  Educational  In- 
dustrial Section  for  Indiana  of  the  United 
States  Ordnance  Department,  and  was 
offered  a  commission  as  captain  and  de- 
clined for  the  reason  that  he  felt  he  could 
more  effectively  conduct  the  department 
as  a  civilian.  Fraternally  he  is  an  active 
Mason,  having  affiliated  with  the  blue 
lodge  at  Anderson,  and  with  the  Scottish 
Rite   Consistory  at  Indianapolis. 

April  23,  19i3,  Mr.  Forrey  married  Miss 
Lucia  Hurst,  of  Anderson,  Indiana,  daugh- 
ter of  Alfred  D.  and  Iva  (Bridges)  Hurst. 
Mrs.  Forrey  graduated  from  DePauw  Uni- 
versity at  Greencastle,  Indiana,  with  the 
class  of  1904,  and  before  her  marriage  was 
teacher  of  German  and  mathematics  in  the 
public  schools  of  Crown  Point,  Indiana, 
and  Bryan,  Ohio.  Mr.  Forrey  has  two> 
children:  George  C,  third,  born  May  8, 
1907 ;  and  Elheurah  J.,  born  February  19, 
1906. 

Columbus  Horatio  Hall,  D.  D.,  A.  M. 
The  deepest  appreciation  of  the  scholarly 
services  of  Doctor  Hall  is  cherished  by 
that  great  body  of  former  students,  both 
men  and  women,  who  at  different  times  in 
the  past  forty  years  have  prepared  for  the 
duties  and  responsibilities  of  life  within 
the  walls  of  old  Franklin  College.  Doctor 
Hall  has  never  achieved  wealth  and  high 
business  station  in  the  State  of  Indiana. 
He  has  done  that  which  mature  judgment 
of  men  at  all  times  has  pronounced  greater 
and  better,  has  devoted  his  talents  and 
years  to  the  education  and  training  of 
young  men  and  women  and  has  lived  the 
simple  life  of  the  scholar  and  is  one  of 
the  finest  examples  of  the  old  time  college 
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Doctor  Hall  was  bom  at  the  little  Town 
of  Chili  in  Miami  County,  Indiana,  No- 
vember 17,  1846.  His  grandfather, 
Horace  Hall,  was  a  New  York  State  man, 
settled  at  Perrysburg,  Ohio,  owned  a  black- 
smith and  forge  in  the  town  and  was  a 
deacon  of  the  Baptist  Church.  Nelson 
Columbus  Hall,  father  of  Doctor  Hall,  was 
born  in  New  York  State,  grew  up  in  Ohio, 
and  after  coming  to  Indiana  established 
himself  in  the  dry  goods  business  at  Peru, 
where  he  was  in  partnership  with  his  only 
brother,  Horatio  Hall.  They  afterward 
established  a  branch  of  their  store  at  Chili, 
where  Nelson  C.  Hall  spent  his  most  ac- 
tive years.  He  was  a  highly  influential 
citizen  in  the  community,  was  a  pioneer  of 
that  locality,  a  deacon  in  the  Baptist 
Church,  and  ever  ready  to  support  any 
movement  that  meant  increased  good.  He 
died  at  Chili  in  February,  1889.  The  first 
church  established  in  that  locality  was  of 
the  Methodist  denomination.  It  was  con- 
sidered a  guarantee  of  the  success  of  any 
meeting  for  any  cause  whatsoever  if  Nel- 
son C.  Hall  could  be  persuaded  to  act  as 
leader.  While  a  man  of  special  talent  in 
this  direction,  he  preferred  the  simple, 
quiet  life  and  never  sought  public  office 
of  any  kind. 

Columbus  H.  Hall  spent  his  early  d.ays 
at  Chili.  When  he  was  eleven  years  old 
the  family  moved  to  Akron,  Indiana,  living 
there  for  seven  years,  until  the  close  of 
the  Civil  war.  They  then  returned  to 
Chili.  Doctor  Hall  spent  a  year  in  the 
Peru  High  School  and  was  also  given  a 
business  training  as  clerk  in  his  father's 
store.  When  about  nineteen  years  old  he 
was  a  student  for  one  year  in  the  Ladoga 
Seminary.  He  prepared  there  to  teach 
school,  and  at  that  time  his  ambition  was 
for  the  medical  profession.  In  1866  Doctor 
Hall  entered  Franklin  College  at  Frank- 
lin, finishing  his  preparatory  work  and 
remaining  a  student  until  February,  1872, 
when  the  college  was  temporarily  sus- 
pended. He  then  entered  the  old  Uni- 
versitv  of  Chicago,  where  he  was  gradu- 
ated A.  B.  in  June,  1872.  In  1895  the 
University  of  Chicago  under  its  present 
incorporation  conferred  upon  him  the 
honorary  degree  B.  A.  He  prepared  for 
the  ministry  by  three  years  in  the  Baptist 
Union  Theological  Seminary  of  Chicago. 
graduating  B.  D.  in  1875. 

In  the  meantime  he  had  been  invited  by 

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Doctor  Stott,  president  of  Franklin  Col- 
lege, to  accept  a  professorship  in  that 
school  in  the  science  department.  This 
gave  Doctor  Hall  an  opportunity  to  do 
special  work,  and  he  afterward  filled  the 
chairs  of  Latin,  rhetoric  and  history.  In 
1879,  when  Professor  J.  W.  Moncreith  re- 
tired from  the  chair  of  Greek,  Doctor  Hall 
at  his  own  request  was  made  professor  of 
Greek  and  Latin.  For  over  thirty  years 
he  was  head  of  the  department  of  these 
classical  languages  and  retired  from  the 
Greek  professorship  in  1912.  For  twenty- 
five  years  he  also  served  as  vice  president 
of  Franklin  College,  and  during  an  illness 
of  Doctor  Stott  was  acting  president  in 
the  spring  of  1885. 

Doctor  Hall  is  one  of  the  leading  Greek 
scholars  of  the  country.  He  has  written 
a  number  of  lectures  on  the  tragedies  of 
Sophocles  and  other  Greek  writers,  and  has 
read  the  Greek  Testament  from  beginning 
to  end  107  times.  As  a  teacher  Doctor 
Hall  always  sought  to  infect  his  pupils  with 
his  own  enthusiasm  and  do  much  more 
than  merely  inspect  them.  How  well  he 
succeeded  in  this  aim  needs  no  testimony 
beyond  the  grateful  acknowledgment  of 
his  older  students.  He  has  carried  his 
scholarship  abroad,  has  frequently  ad- 
dressed graduating  classes  at  high  schools, 
has  lectured  throughout  Indiana  and  also 
at  the  University  of  Wisconsin.  Many 
times  he  appeared  in  formal  addresses  be- 
fore the  Baptist  Association.  Doctor  Hall 
has  reinforced  his  scholarship  with  ex- 
tensive travel,  especially  in  the  tropical 
countries  of  Greece  and  Italy,  the  Holy 
Land  and  Egypt.  He  is  a  member  of  the 
old  Classical  Association  of  Indiana  Col- 
leges. He  represents  Franklin  College  at 
the  present  time  on  the  war  safety  pro- 
gramme. He  is  a  member  of  the  Phi  Delta 
Theta  and  is  a  thirty-second  degree  Scot- 
tish Rite  Mason  and  has  taken  all  the 
York  Rite  degrees.  He  has  been  a  pre- 
late of  Franklin  Commandery  of  the  Grand 
Lodge  for  thirty-four  consecutive  years, 
and  in  1913-15  was  grand  prelate  and  for 
four  years  was  grand  chaplain  in  the 
Grand  Council. 

There  is  a  proverb  that  "The  Glory  of 
Children  are  Their  Fathers,"  and  it  is  also 
true  that  the  glory  of  fathers  is  in  their 
children.  With  all  the  wide  range  of 
achievement  and  experience  to  his  credit, 
Doctor   Hall   doubtless   finds   his    greatest 


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comfort  in  his  declining  years  in  the  nohle 
sons  and  daughters  who  have  come  to  man- 
hood and  womanhood  at  his  old  home  in 
Franklin.  Doctor  Hall  married,  June  15, 
1875,  Theodosia  Parks.  They  were  mar- 
ried in  the  house  where  Doctor  and  Mrs. 
Hall  still  reside.  She  was  horn  at  Bedford, 
Indiana,  and  graduated  from  Franklin  Col- 
lege in  1874  and  for  a  time  was  a  tutor  in 
Latin  at  Franklin.  For  many  years  she 
was  president  of  the  Baptist  Missionary 
Society  and  also  its  general  director  and 
finally  became  its  honorary  president.  Her 
parents  were  Rev.  R.  M.  and  Jane  T. 
(Short)  Parks,  both  of  Bedford  and  now 
deceased.  Her  father  was  a  Baptist  mi- 
nister of  that  city.  Of  the  children  born  to 
Doctor  and  Mrs.  Hall  two  are  deceased.  Zoe 
Parks  Hall,  the  eldest,  who  was  born  in  1876 
and  died  in  December,  1907,  married  John 
Hall,  of  Johnson  County,  and  was  the 
mother  of  one  daughter,  Catherine  Zoe, 
born  in  July,  1907.  Her  husband  is  a 
farmer  in  Johnson  County. 

The  second  child,  Mary  Griswold  Hall, 
born  in  October,  1878,  is  the  wife  of  Dr. 
G.  M.  Selby,  of  Redkey,  Indiana,  and  has 
one  son,  Horace  Hall  Selby,  born  in  July, 
1906. 

Arnold  Albert  Bennett  Hall,  a  son  who 
inherits  many  of  the  scholarly  talents  of 
his  father,  was  born  in  July,  1881.  He 
graduated  from  Franklin  College  and  from 
the  law  department  of  the  University  of 
Chicago.  While  at  University  he  was  as- 
sistant to  President  Judson  and  also  an 
instructor.  He  is  now  assistant  professor 
of  the  department  of  political  science  and 
law  at  the  University  of  "Wisconsin.  He 
has  had  a  wide  range  of  work,  haying 
taught  one  year  at  Northwestern  Univer- 
sity, was  employed  by  the  Carnegie  Foun- 
dation of  Peace,  and  for  two  years  was  an 
instructor  at  Dartmouth  College.  He  has 
lectured  at  institutions  throughout  the  va- 
rious states  and  his  work  as  lecturer  is  in 
great  demand.  He  has  high  qualifications 
as  a  speaker,  but  these  qualifications  serve 
only  to  enlarge  the  breadth  of  his  scholar- 
ship, and  he  is  today  recognized  as  one 
of  the  men  most  gifted  in  educating  and 
influencing  popular  opinion.  He  wrote 
and  revised  ' '  Fishback's  Elementary  Law, ' ' 
and  is  author  of  ' '  Outline  of  International 
Law"  He  is  now  serving  on  the  board  of 
directors  of  the  Lasalle  Extension  Univer- 


sity of  Chicago.     He  married  Grace  Car- 
ney, of  Franklin,  in  June,  1911. 

Doctor  Hall 's  fourth  child,  Theodore,  was 
born  in  1883  and  died  in  infancy. 

Letitia  Theodora  Hall,  born  in  Sep- 
tember, 1886,  married  Prof.  R.  E.  Carter, 
of  the  University  of  Kansas. 

Warren  Short  Hall,  born  in  January, 
1889,  is  now  a  sergeant  major  in  the 
Fourth  Battalion  of  the  One  Hundred  and 
Fifty-Ninth  Depot  Brigade  at  Camp  Tay- 
lor. 

Nelson  Clarence  Hall,  born  in  January, 
1891,  is  a  sergeant  in  Camp  Custer.  Esther 
Marguerite  Hall,  born  in  September,  1895, 
is  now  a  teacher  at  Lawrence,  Kansas. 
Florence  Christine  Hall,  born  in  June, 
1903,  is  a  student  in  high  school.  All 
the  children  except  the  youngest  and  oldest 
are  graduates  of  Franklin  College.  The 
service  flag  in  the  home  of  Doctor  Hall  at 
Franklin  has  two  stars,  indicating  that  he 
has  given  two  of  his  sons  to  the  world-wide 
war  for  freedom. 

D.  L.  Seybert.     Perhaps  no  subject  of 
the  present  time  comes  oftener  into  con- 
versation than  that  of  saving,  or,  in  other 
words,   thrift,   for  saving  is  the   child  of 
thrift.    There  are,  undoubtedly,  many  ways 
to  be  frugal  with  an  eye  to  the  future,  and 
people,  according  to  their  training,  knowl- 
edge  and   intelligence,   probably   conscien- 
tiously carry  out  their  own  ideas,  more  or 
less  successfully.    Under  the  head  of  thrift 
no   well    informed    individual    would   hes- 
itate   to    place    life    insurance,    for    noth- 
ing in  the  way  of  saving  can  be  more  prac- 
tical.    It  offers  not  only  an  easy  way  to 
save,  but  in  its  many  advantages  as  pro- 
vided not  only  by  the  sound  and  stable 
insurance  companies  of  the   country,  but 
in  these  days  as  a  recognized  government 
measure,    it  means    a   safe   investment  of 
funds  and  the  assurance  that  old  age  and 
unprotected  childhood,  alike,  will  be  saved 
from  suffering  and  disaster.   To  bring  these 
facts  to  the  attention  of  the  public  has  been 
the    business    for   a   number   of   years    of 
D.   L.    Seybert,  who  is  the   able  superin- 
tendent of  the  Conservative  Life  Insurance 
Companv  of  America,  with  offices  at  Ander- 
son, Indiana. 

D.  L.  Seybert  was  born  in  Anderson 
Township,  Madison  County,  Indiana,  July 
11,  1873.  His  parents  were  Joseph  W.  and 
Zoa   (Harrison)   Seybert,  who  have  many 


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generations  of  good  American  ancestors 
back  of  them.  The  father  has  always  been 
a  farmer,  the  Seyberts  as  a  family  having 
always  followed  agricultural  pursuits.  D. 
L.  Seybert  obtained  his  education  in  the 
public  schools  and  was  graduated  from  the 
Anderson  High  School  in  1902.  He  then 
went  to  work  with  the  Anderson  Carriage 
Company,  contracting  to  oversee  and  build 
the  running  gear  for  carriages.  Mr.  Sey- 
bert displayed  great  executive  ability  in 
the  management  of  the  men,  and  during 
the  five  years  he  continued  with  that  com- 
pany proved  satisfactory  and  efficient  and 
was  able  to  lay  aside  some  capital.  Subse- 
quently Mr.  Seybert  entered  the  employ 
of  the  Art  Mirror  Company,  of  Anderson, 
with  which  concern  he  remained  for  three 
years,  and  during  that  time  was  foreman 
of  the  polishing  department. 

Mr.  Seybert  then  embarked  in  the  gro- 
cery business  at  Anderson,  and  successfully 
conducted  this  enterprise  for  two  years  and 
then  sold  advantageously.  In  the  mean- 
while he  became  interested  to  some  extent 
in  investments  in  southern  land  which, 
however,  did  not  prove  profitable,  although 
he  spent  a  year  in  looking  after  his  interests 
in  the  Delta  Farms  proposition  near  New 
Orleans,  Louisiana.  Finding  his  usual  good 
business  judgment  somewhat  at  fault  in 
relation  to  this  land,  Mr.  Seybert  returned 
then  to  Anderson  and  subsequently  ac- 
cepted the  superintendency  of  the  con- 
struction of  the  Anderson  turnpike,  one 
of  the  concrete  highways  of  which  the  city 
is  justly  proud.  About  this  time  Mr.  Sey- 
bert became  interested  in  the  insurance 
business  and  entered  the  Prudential  Life 
Insurance  Company  as  an  agent  and  sold 
insurance  for  that  company  until  1915  and 
then  transferred  to  the  Conservative  Life 
Insurance  Company  of  America,  and  after 
one  year  as  an  agent,  on  December  28,  1916, 
was   made    superintendent. 

Mr.  Seybert  was  married  in  1909  to  Miss 
Grace  Smelser,  who  is  a  daughter  of  Solon 
and  Mattie  (Wood)  Smelser.  The  father 
of  Mrs.  Seybert  is  a  man  of  prominence 
in  Madison  County  and  served  as  sheriff 
from  1905  to  1909^  During  this  time  Mr. 
Seybert  served  under  Sheriff  Smelser  as 
deputy  sheriff.  He  has  always  been  a  re- 
publican and  very  loyal  to  his  party,  but 
with  the  exception  of  the  above  public  posi- 
tion has  accepted  no  political  preferment. 
He  was  reared  in  the  faith  of  the  Baptist 


Church  and  has  continued  a  member  of 
that  body,  but  is  liberal-minded  and  con- 
tributes to  the  support  of  other  religious 
organizations  and  to  benevolent  movements 
generally.  In  the  many  calls  on  personal 
generosity  in  these  weary  days  of  world 
conflict  Mr.  Seybert  has  been  as  helpful 
as  his  means  will  permit  and  has  lent  his 
influence  to  the  support  of  law  and  order 
in  recognition  of  his  responsibility  as  a 
representative  citizen.  He  is  identified 
fraternally  with  the  Knights  of  Pythias 
and  the  Red  Men. 

John  T.  Beasley,  a  lawyer  whose  ad- 
mission to  the  Indiana  bar  was  chronicled 
in  1881,  has  enjoyed  many  of  the  finest 
honors  of  his  profession,  and  while  his 
home  has  nearly  always  been  in  Terre 
Haute  he  is  also  equally  known  in  Indian- 
apolis and  other  cities  of  the  state.  He 
is  also  prominent  as  a  banker. 

A  native  of  Indiana,  Mr.  Beasley  was 
born  in  Sullivan  County  May  29,"  1860, 
aon  of  Ephraim  and  Sarah  (Williams) 
Beasley.  He  grew  up  in  Sullivan  County, 
attended  the  common  schools  and  in  1880, 
at  the  age  of  twenty,  began  reading  law 
with  the  firm  of  Buff  &  Patten  at  Sullivan. 
He  had  the  type  of  mind  which  assimilates 
knowledge  without  difficulty  and  in  1881 
he  was  admitted  to  the  bar  at  Sullivan 
and  began  practice  with  his  preceptors 
as  member  of  the  firm  Buff,  Patton  &  Beas- 
ley. Two  years  later  he  bought  the  in- 
terests of  his  partners  and  formed  with. 
a  partnership  with  A.  B.  Williams  under 
the  name  Beasley  &  Williams.  They  main- 
tained offices  both  at  Sullivan  and  at  In- 
dianapolis until  November,  1893,  at  which 
time  Mr.  Beasley  removed  to  Terre  Haute 
and  became  associated  with  Hon.  John 
E.  Lamb.  The  firm  of  Lamb  &  Beasley 
gained  prominence  all  over  the  state. 

Mr.  Beasley  has  been  more  or  less  active 
in  politics  for  many  years.  He  was  three 
times  elected  a  member  of  the  Indiana 
General  Assembly.  His  first  election 
came  in  1886,  when  he  represented  Sul- 
livan, Vigo  and  Vermilion  Counties.  Dur- 
ing the  sessions  of  1889  and  1891  he  was 
chairman  of  the  Judiciary  House  Com- 
mittee. 

Mr.  Beasley  was  the  first  president  of 
the  Commercial  Club  of  Terre  Haute. 
Much  of  his  time  and  attention  is  now 
given   to   his    duties   as   president   of   the 


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United  States  Trust  Company  of  Terre 
Haute.  November  5,  1895,  he  married 
Cora  Hoke.  They  have  one  son,  John 
Hoke  Beasley,  born  April  7,  1897. 

Francis  M.  Williams.  Apart  from  the 
faithful  and  splendid  service  he  has 
rendered  as  county  auditor  of  Delaware 
County,  the  fact  that  gives  the  career  of 
Francis  M.  Williams  special  interest  is  the 
enthusiasm  and  almost  unanimity  on  the 
part  of  his  fellow  citizens  regardless  of 
party  affiliations  in  supporting  him  for  a 
second  term  in  that  office.  At  a  time 
when  the  old  division  in  the  republican 
party  was  rapidly  healing  and  Delaware 
County  was  resuming  its  normal  complex- 
ion as  a  republican  stronghold,  Mr.  Wil- 
liams' personal  popularity  and  signal  abil- 
ity he  had  shown  through  his  previous 
incumbency  caused  his  candidacy  to  be 
looked  upon  as  a  non-partisan  matter,  and 
as  such  deserving  of  renewed  support. 
Thus  it  was  that  he  came  into  his  second 
term  of  office  with  what  amounted  to  a 
non-partisan  vote. 

Mr.  Williams  has  long  been  a  resident  of 
Muncie  and  went  into  county  office  after 
many  years  of  service  with  local  banks 
and  financial  institutions.  He  was  born 
in  Grant  County,  Indiana,  on  a  farm,  Feb- 
ruary 3,  1872,  son  of  E.  B.  and  Catherine 
M.  (Nesbitt)  Williams.  His  father  was  of 
Scotch  and  English  parentage  and  a  na- 
tive of  Ohio,  while  the  mother  was  of  an- 
cestry that  goes  back  to  England  and  to 
very  early  colonial  times  in  America.  Mr. 
Williams'  grandfather  was  a  pioneer  in 
Adams  County,  Ohio,  where  he  spent  the 
rest  of  his  life  as  a  farmer.  Besides  operat- 
ing a  farm  he  also  operated  a  flour  mill  in 
the  county  for  many  years.  E.  B.  Wil- 
liams, a  native  of  Adams  County,  practi- 
cally grew  up  at  his  father's  mill  and 
learned  the  trade  of  millwright  and  mill 
manager.  He  was  a  very  expert  mechani- 
cal engineer,  but  after  removing  to  Grant 
County,  Indiana,  engaged  in  farming  on 
a  place  twelve  miles  west  of  Marion,  the 
county  seat.  That  was  his  home  for  more 
than  half  a  century.  He  died  there  in 
1882.  He  was  an  exemplary  citizen,  had 
the  confidence  of  the  entire  community, 
and  for  many  years  served  as  justice  of 
the  peace.  He  was  a  sterling  democrat, 
and  did  much  to  build  up  the  party  in  his 
county.      He   was   affiliated   with    the    In- 


dependent Order  of  Odd  Fellows  and  was 
one  of  the  early  members  of  the  Church 
of  Christ  in  his  community.  He  was  a 
close  student  of  the  Bible,  and  having  the 
ability  to  express  himself  in  a  manner 
that  was  at  once  convincing  and  pleasing, 
he  used  this  faculty  to  do  good  in  many 
ways. 

Francis  M.  Williams  was  the  youngest 
in  a  family  of  six  children,  four  sons  and 
two  daughters.  He  grew  up  in  Grant 
County,  had  a  country  school  education, 
and  in  1889,  at  the  age  of  seventeen,  sought 
the  larger  opportunities  of  the  then  grow- 
ing oil  center  city  of  Muncie.  For  six 
years  he  was  connected  with  the  Standard 
Oil  Company.  He  then  entered  the  Mer- 
chants National  Bank  of  Muncie  as  book- 
keeper, held  that  position  over  five  years, 
and  then  joined  the  Muncie  Savings  and 
Loan  Company  in  charge  of  its  books,  and 
was  only  called  from  its  duties  there  when 
he  was  first  elected  auditor  of  Delaware 
County  in  1910.  His  first  term  ran  until 
1914.  In  that  year,  nominated  again  on 
the  democratic  ticket,  he  succeeded  in  over- 
coming a  normal  republican  majority  in 
a  county  of  4,000,  and  received  a  large 
percentage  of  republican  votes. 

Throughout  his  career  at  Muncie  Mr. 
Williams  has  been  greatly  attached  to  the 
city,  has  worked  in  harmony  with  the  move- 
ments calculated  to  bring  it  larger  growth 
and  better  facilities,  and  whether  in  official 
or  in  private  life  his  career  is  one  that 
will  reflect  honor  on  any  community.  As 
a  county  official  he  has  looked  upon  him- 
self as  the  servant  of  the  people,  and  has 
conducted  his  office  to  the  best  interests 
of  all. 

Mr.  Williams  was  one  of  the  progressive 
workers  at  Muncie  who  sustained  the  long 
campaign  which  resulted  in  the  erection 
of  the  handsome  Young  Men's  Christian 
Association  building,  and  he  has  been  iden- 
tified with  that  institution  for  a  number 
of  years.  He  is  one  of  the  leading  laymen 
of  the  Church  of  Christ,  has  been  a  church 
official,  and  for  over  twenty-eight  years 
served  as  superintendent  of  its  Sunday 
School.  In  a  period  of  a  quarter  of  a 
century  Mr.  Williams  missed  attending  the 
services  of  his  home  church  only  twelve 
Sundays.  In  Masonry  he  has  filled  all 
the  chairs  of  his  local  lodge  and  is  a  thirty- 
second  degree  Scottish  Rite  Mason  and 
Shriner. 


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September  3,  1892,  he  married  Ada 
Spradling,  daughter  of  J.  F.  Spradling, 
who  for  many  years  was  a  well  known 
hardware  merchant  at  Quincy.  Mrs.  Wil- 
liams' ancestors  on  both  sides  were  soldiers 
of  the  Revolutionary  war.  They  have  three 
children,  two  sons  and  one  daughter. 

John  E.  McGettigan  during  his  forty- 
five  years'  residence  in  Indianapolis  has 
contributed  materially  to  the  civic  and  in- 
dustrial advancement  of  the  community. 
For  many  years  he  was  engaged  in  the 
promotion  and  building  of  railroads  and 
other  industrial  enterprises.  He  has  been 
identified  with  the  development  of  a  num- 
ber of  the  best  known  industrial  and  trans- 
portation enterprises  in  the  states  of  In- 
diana, Illinois  and  Ohio. 

Mr.  McGettigan  was  born  in  Ireland, 
and  when  he  was  four  years  of  age  his 
parents  came  to  this  country  and  settled 
on  Kelley's  Island  in  Lake  Erie,  Ohio.  On 
that  island,  and  near  Sandusky,  he  spent 
his  youth.  At  the  age  of  about  fifteen  he 
went  to  Cincinnati,  where  he  was  elm- 
ployed  by  the  private  freight  car  line 
known  as  the  Great  Eastern  Dispatch. 
When  he  was  about  twenty-three  years  old 
Mr.  McGettigan  formed  a  partnership  with 
Col.  E.  C.  Dawes,  of  Cincinnati.  Col- 
onel Dawes  held  his  official  rank  and  title 
from  service  in  the  Civil  war.  The  part- 
nership was  formed  for  the  purpose  of 
contracting  for  the  construction  and  op- 
eration of  railroads  under  the  name  E.  C. 
Dawes  &  Company.  They  were  engaged 
in  business  a  short  time  before  the  panic 
of  1873,  when  railroad  building  and  other 
industries  were  at  a  boom  period  of  de- 
velopment. E.  C.  Dawes  &  Company  han- 
dled the  financing  and  construction  of  hun- 
dreds of  miles  of  railroads  in  Illinois, 
Indiana  and  Ohio — lines  which  are .  now 
part  of  several  great  railroad  systems. 

Mr.  McGettigan  came  to  Indianapolis 
in  1874  and  has  been  a  resident  of  this 
city  since  that  time.  In  Indianapolis  the 
partnership  name  of  E.  C.  Dawes  &  Com- 
pany was  changed  to  Dawes  &  McGettigan, 
and  the  range  of  operations  included  not 
only  railroad  building  but  also  dealing  in 
railroad  supplies  and  promoting  coal  mines. 
In  coal  development  their  chief  exploit  was 
opening  in  1900  the  famous  St.  Louis  &  Big 
Muddy  coal  mine  at  Cartersville  in  Wil- 
liamson  County,   Illinois,   with   a   capital 


stock  of  $300,000.  E.  C.  Dawes  was  presi- 
dent and  Mr.  McGettigan  was  treasurer. 
Williamson  County  coal  has  long  had  a 
special  significance  in  coal  trade  circles. 
For  the  past  year  or  so  Williamson  County 
coal  has  become  recognized  almost  as  the 
highest  standard  of  soft  coal  among 
hundreds  of  thousands  of  householders 
throughout  the  middle  West.  Thus  the 
firm  of  Dawes  &  McGettigan  were  pioneers 
in  developing  what  has  since  become  the 
largest  coal  mine  district  in  Illinois. 
Sometime  afterward  this  coal  company 
was  sold  to  the  Illinois  Central  Railroad. 

In  1888  this  firm  also  organized  the  In- 
dianapolis Switch  &  Frog  Company,  one 
of  their  associates  being  the  late  vice  pres- 
ident of  the  United  States,  Charles  W. 
Fairbanks,  who  was  also  interested  in  some 
of  their  railroad  enterprises.  It  is  per- 
haps unnecessary  to  state  that  this  was 
one  of  the  large  and  conspicuous  manufac- 
turing industries  of  Indianapolis,  and 
since  its  removal  to  Springfield,  Ohio,  has 
become  one  of  the  biggest  concerns  of  its 
kind  in  the  country. 

In  1893  Mr.  McGettigan  was  appointed 
receiver  for  the  Premier  Steel  Company,  a 
large  beam  and  Bessemer  steel  plant  located 
in  Indianapolis. 

Colonel  Dawes  died  in  1895,  and  the 
partnership  was  dissolved,  after  which  Mr. 
McGettigan  continued  his  operations  indi- 
vidually. His  most  important  achieve- 
ment after  that  time  was  the  promotion  of 
the  Indianapolis  Southern  Railroad,  which 
is  now  the  Indianapolis  Division  of  the  Illi- 
nois Central  Railroad. 

Mr.  McGettigan  has  been  prominent  in 
the  civic  affairs  of  Indianapolis  for  many 
years.  He  has  served  as  chairman  of  the 
local  finance  committees  for  many  conven- 
tions and  public  movements,  including  the 
following:  The  Gold  Democratic  Conven- 
tion in  1896,  the  Monetary  Conventions  in 
1897  and  1898,  the  public  reception  to 
President  McKinley  in  1898,  the  dedication 
of  the  General  Lawton  monument  in  1900, 
the  dedication  of  the  Soldiers  and  Sailors 
monument  in  1902.  He  was  general  chair- 
man of  the  committee  on  arrangements  for 
entertaining  the  Japanese  Commission  in 
1909.  Since  March,  1911,  Mr.  McGetti- 
gan has  been  secretary  of  the  Greater  In- 
dianapolis Industrial  Association,  and  his 
associates  freely  credit  his  efforts,  business 
skill  and  experience  with  much  of  the  sue- 


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cess  of  the  Association.  This  Association 
was  organized  in  November,  1910,  for  the 
purpose  of  developing  a  tract  of  land  com- 
prising approximately  900  acres  as  an  in- 
dustrial suburb  of  Indianapolis.  Besides 
a  large  number  of  lots  for  business  and  in- 
dividual homes  218  acres  were  held  for 
free  sites  for  factories.  One  of  the  greatest 
obstacles  to  carrying  out  the  plans  of  the 
executives  of  the  Association  was  the  ab- 
sence of  ready  transportation  to  and  from 
Indianapolis.  Though  a  franchise  and 
right  of  way  were  secured  the  street  rail- 
way interests  were  not  disposed  to  hazard 
the  investment  required  to  construct  the 
line.  To  overcome  this  difficulty  the  di- 
rectors of  the  Association,  believing  that 
street  car  service  was  essential  to  the  de- 
velopment of  "Mars  Hill,"  paid  out  of 
their  own  treasury  over  forty  thousand 
dollars  for  the  construction  of  the  track 
and  its  equipment  with  poles  and  trolley 
wire,  and  then  leased  the  line  to  the  In- 
dianapolis Traction  &  Terminal  Company 
for  operating  purposes.  Operation  of 
street  car  service  began  in  November,  1914, 
and  though  the  first  ten  months  showed  a 
small  deficit,  the  net  income  is  steadily  in- 
creasing, and  during  1918  it  was  reported 
that  the  net  earnings  to  the  Association 
from  the  line  averaged  over  $900  a  month, 
or  approximately  $11,500  for  the  year 
1918. 

With  good  transportation  assured  the 
progress  of  "Mars  Hill"  has  been  steadily 
forward,  and  the  suburb  has  now  a  popula- 
tion of  over  five  hundred  and  the  directors 
of  the  Association  firmly  believe  that  within 
a  few  years  the  population  will  be  in- 
creased to  several  thousand. 

The  Association  made  contracts  with  the 
Indianapolis  "Water  Company  to  extend  its 
water  mains  to  the  suburb,  sewers  have 
been  constructed,  and  the  Indianapolis 
Light  &  Heat  Company  and  the  Merchants 
Light  &  Heat  Company  have  also  extended 
their  service  to  this  community. 

The  Greater  Indianapolis  Industrial.  As- 
sociation is  by  no  means  a  close  corpora- 
tion, since  more  than  800  persons  own 
stock,  and  the  lot  owners  in  the  suburb  are 
also  stockholders  in  the  Association  and 
have  a  direct  voice  in  the  management  of 
it's  affairs.  The  executive  officials,  elected 
by  the  board  of  directors,  for  the  year 
1918-1919  are:  O.  D.  Haskett,  president; 
John  F.  Darmody,  vice-president;  John  R. 


Welch,  treasurer;  and  John  E.  McGetti- 
gan,  secretary. 

Mr.  McGettigan,  in  addition  to  the  work 
he  does  as  secretary  of  the  Association,  is 
also  secretary  of  the  Advance  Realty  Com- 
pany, which  is  composed  of  a  number  of 
stockholders  of  the  Association  and  is  em- 
ploying its  capital  stock  for  the  purpose 
of  improving  vacant  real  estate  in  "Mars 
Hill ' ' — most  of  these  houses  being  retained 
by  the  company  for  rental  purposes. 

Maurice  Thompson,  one  of  Indiana's 
noted  authors  and  public  men,  was  born 
in  Fairfield,  Indiana,  in  1844.  His  parents, 
who  were  Southerners,  moved  to  Kentucky 
and  later  to  Northern  Georgia.  Maurice 
Thompson  was  educated  by  private  tutors, 
and  early  became  interested  in  nature 
study.  During  the  Civil  war  he  was  a 
soldier  in  the  Confederate  army,  and  after 
the  close  of  the  struggle  he  returned  to 
his  native  State  of  Indiana  and  became  a 
civil  engineer  on  a  railway  survey  and 
later  became  chief  engineer.  Mr.  Thomp- 
son then  studied  law  and  began  practice 
at  Crawfordsville.  He  was  elected  to  the 
Legislature  in  1879,  and  in  1885  was  ap- 
pointed state  geologist  of  Indiana  and  chief 
of  the  department  of  natural  history.  He 
is  the  author  of  many  noted  works. 

Edward  Constantine  Miller.  When 
Mr.  Miller  was  made  postmaster  of  Fort 
Wayne  three  years  ago  his  appointment 
was  justified  by  a  host  of  reasons  besides 
political  allegiance.  He  is  a  man  of  long 
and  thorough  business  experience  and 
training,  and  the  postoffice  has  responded 
to  the  efficiency  with  which  he  formerly 
conducted  his  private  affairs. 

Mr.  Miller  was  born  in  Allen  County, 
Indiana,  November  30,  1872,  son  of  Sam- 
uel and  Louisa  M.  (Null)  Miller.  Samuel 
Miller  is  still  well  remembered  at  Fort 
Wayne.  He  was  born  in  Wells  County, 
Indiana,  January  14,  1850,  and  at  the 
age  of  eighteen  removed  to  Fort  Wayne, 
and  in  a  few  years  had  made  his  mark 
in  local  journalism.  He  died  in  1887,  at 
the  age  of  thirty-seven,  and  at  the  time 
of  his  death  was  proprietor  of  the  Fort 
Wayne-  Journal.  His  wife,  a  native  of 
Ohio,  born  in  1856,  removed  to  Fort  Wayne 
with  her  parents  in  1863  and  is  still  living 
in  that  city.  There  were  three  children: 
Edward  C. ;  August,  a  resident  of  Wash- 


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ington  D.  C. ;  and  Glo  D.,  wife  of  E.  J. 
Ricke,  of  Fort  "Wayne. 

Edward  C.  Miller  was  educated  in  the 
public  schools  of  his  native  city  and  after 
his  father's  death  worked  as  a  paper  car- 
rier, also  as  bookkeeper  and  from  1893 
for  ten  years  was  a  traveling  salesman. 
He  represented  the  Mcintosh-Huntington 
Company,  wholesale  hardware,  of  Cleve- 
land, and  also  the  Bassett-Presley  Steel 
and    Iron    Company   of    Cleveland. 

In  1903  Mr.  Miller  became  local  manager 
for  the  Fort  Wayne  Brick  Company,  and 
was  the  responsible  director  of  that  im- 
portant industry  for  twelve  years.  On 
May  15,  1915,  President  Wilson  appointed 
him  postmaster  of  Fort  Wayne,  and  he 
entered  upon  his  duties  in  the  following 
June. 

Mr.  Miller  is  secretary  and  treasurer  of 
the  Fort  Wayne  Concrete  Tile  Company 
and  a  director  of  the  Morris  Plan  Bank. 
He  is  now  serving  his  second  term  as  pres- 
ident of  the  Fort  Wayne  Commercial  Club 
and  is  member  of  the  State  Board  of  the 
American  Red  Cross.  There  are  many 
proofs  of  his  leadership  in  community  af- 
fairs. At  the  age  of  twenty-six  he  was 
elected  a  member  of  the  City  Council  and 
held  that  office  until  1903.  In  1916  he 
was  general  chairman  of  the  Executive 
Committee  for  the  Fort  Wayne  Centennial 
Celebration. 

Mr.  Miller  is  one  of  the  best  known  Ma- 
sons in  Indiana  and  has  been  honored  with 
the  thirty-third,  Supreme,  degree  in  the 
Scottish  Rite.  He  is  also  affiliated  with 
Fort  Wayne  Lodge  of  Elks  and  the  Royal 
Order  of  Moose,  and  is  a  member  of  the 
Rotarv  Club  and  Quest  Club.  March  12, 
1893,  Mr.  Miller  married  Miss  Nellie  H. 
Fahlsing,  daughter  of  Charles  W.  and  Hen- 
rietta E.  (Zollars)  Fahlsing.  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Miller  have  one  daughter,  Ednell. 

Paul  Baker  is  a  well  known  young 
business  man  of  Anderson  and  his  record 
has  been  one  of  consistent  hard  work  ever 
since  he  started  life  on  his  own  responsi- 
bility. 

He  was  born  in  Indianapolis  in  1888, 
son  of  Manville  and  Johanna  (Butterfield) 
Baker.  The  Bakers  are  an  old  Vermont 
family,  moving  from  there  to  Ohio,  where 
Manville  Baker  was  born,  one  of  seven 
sons.    Manville  died  in  Ohio  in  1915. 

Paul  Baker  only  child  of  his  parents, 


was  educated  in  the  Indianapolis  public 
schools.  At  the  age  of  thirteen  it  became 
necessary  for  him  to  leave  school  and  find 
means  of  self  support.  For  a  time  he 
worked  in  the  old  Park  Theater  of  Indian- 
apolis, then  for  three  years  was  stock  boy 
for  Levi  Brothers  &  Company,  and  also 
learned  the  paper  cutting  trade.  For  six 
months  he  was  night  clerk  with  the  In- 
dianapolis Sentinel. 

Moving  to  Anderson  in  1903,  he  was 
for  six  years  in  the  Anderson  Carriage 
Works,  learning  the  trade  of  carriage 
painter,  later  for  a  year  and  a  half  was 
driver  for  the  United  States  Express  Com- 
pany, spent  three  months  as  a  traveling 
messenger  for  the  same  company  between 
Fort  Wayne  and  Indianapolis,  resumed 
his  old  job  at  Anderson  as  driver,  and 
after  three  years  was  appointed  bill  clerk, 
then  cashier,  and  in  September,  1917,  be- 
came manager  of  the  company's  business 
at  Anderson. 

December  25,  1908,  Mr.  Baker  married 
Miss  Fannie  Cornelia  Raison,  daughter  of 
John  and  Delia  (Speaker)  Raison  of 
Anderson.  They  have  one  daughter,  Jua- 
nita,  born  January  10,  1910.  Mr.  Baker 
is  an  independent  republican  and  is  affili- 
ated with  Anderson  Lodge  No.  209,  Benev- 
olent and  Protective  Order  of  Elks,  and 
has  filled  all  the  offices  in  the  Anderson 
Chapter   of   the   Order   of   Moose. 

Ernest  L.  Tipton  has  been  a  factor  in 
the  life  and  business  enterprise  of  El- 
wood  for  the  past  fourteen  years  as  a 
cigar  manufacturer,  and  as  president  of 
the  Tipton  &  Berry  Cigar  Company  he  is 
head  of  one  of  the  important  industries 
of  the  city,  one  whose  products  are  widely 
distributed  and  equally  appreciated,  not 
only  in  that  locality  but  over  several 
states. 

Mr.  Tipton  is  a  native  of  Ohio,  born 
at  Bethseda  in  Belmont  County  in  1869, 
son  of  James  E.  and  Clara  (Carpenter) 
Tipton.  He  is  of  Scotch-Irish  stock,  and 
his  people  as  far  back  as  the  record  goes 
have  been  agriculturists.  They  settled  in 
Ohio  from  Pennsylvania.  Mr.  E.  L.  Tip- 
ton spent  his  early  life  on  his  father's 
farm  and  worked  in  the  fields  except  for 
the  winter  terms  he  attended  school.  That 
was  his  experience  and  environment  to  the 
age  of  seventeen.  Seeking  something  bet- 
ter than   a  farmer's  life   he  learned   the 


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cigar  maker's  trade  at  Bethseda,  spending 
four  years  with  Phillip  Hunt,  whose 
daughter  he  afterwards  married.  For 
seven  years  he  was  with  the  James  Lucas 
Cigar  Company  at  Bethseda.  On  the  death 
of  Mr.  Lucas  the  business  was  reorganized 
and  he  continued  with  the  new  firm  for 
three  years. 

In  1904  Mr.  Tipton  removed  to  Elwood, 
Indiana,  and  in  partnership  with  White- 
ford  Berry  began  the  manufacture  of  a 
line  of  stogies,  gradually  expanding  the 
industry  to  include  the  better  grades  of 
domestic  and  Havana  cigars.  Their  prim- 
ary lines  were  "Spanish  Cuban"  and  "El- 
wood" stogies.  Besides  these  standard 
makes  they  now  manufacture  "Hoosier 
Maid,"  "Gray  Bonnet,"  "Big  Havana," 
and  " Tipton-Berry  All  Havana."  These 
are  very  superior  goods,  and  through 
brokers  the  output  is  sold  all  over  Ohio, 
Indiana,  Illinois  and  Michigan.  The  cigar 
factory  is  a  modern  plant  employing 
eighty-five  hands. 

Mr.  Tipton  married  in  1900  Miss  Lilly 
B.  Hunt,  of  Bethseda,  Ohio,  daughter  of 
Phillip  and  Emma  (Buehler)  Hunt.  They 
have  two  children,  Donald  H.  born  in  1902, 
and  Lottie  Lorel,  born  in  1903.  Mr.  Tip- 
ton is  a  republican  in  politics.  He  was 
a  few  years  ago  an  unsuccessful  candidate 
for  councilman  from  the  Third  "Ward  of 
Elwood.  He  is  a  member  of  the  First 
Methodist  Episcopal  Church,  and  served  as 
treasurer  in  1916  of  Elwood  Lodge  of 
Eagles. 

W.  Edwin  Smith.  One  of  the  largest 
corporations  manufacturing  standard  food 
products  in  the  middle  west  is  the  Blue 
Valley  Creamery  Company.  When  this 
corporation  came  in  to  establish  a  branch 
house  and  factory  at  Indianapolis  they  sent 
one  of  their  most  expert  and  experienced 
men  to  take  charge,  W.  Edwin  Smith, 
under  whose  direction  the  factory  was  com- 
pleted in  1910.  Thus  Mr.  Smith  became 
a  factor  in  Indianapolis  business  and  social 
life  and  has  been  one  of  the  live  and  enter- 
prising men  of  the  capital. 

Mr.  Smith  has  had  a  wide  and  varied 
training  in  the  law,  banking  and  partic- 
ularly in  the  dairy  and  food  business.  He 
was  born  at  Storm  Lake,  Iowa,  in  1877. 
His  mother  is  still  living.  He  spent  his 
boyhood  at  Storm  Lake,  and  from  school 
became    a    stenographer    in    the    office    of 


Judge  Bailie  of  Storm  Lake,  one  of  Iowa's 
distinguished  lawyers  and  jurists.  While 
there  he  studied  law  under  the  Judge, 
and  passed  a  creditable  examination  for 
admission  to  the  bar.  However,  he  never 
took  up  the  formal  practice  of  this  pro- 
fession. 

For  several  years  he  was  assistant  cashier 
in  the  Commercial  State  Bank  at  Storm 
Lake.  Then  came  an  opportunity  to  iden- 
tify himself  with  one  of  the  most  import- 
ant departments  in  the  State  Government 
of  Iowa.  For  five  years  he  was  assistant 
dairy  and  food  commissioner  at  Des  Moines, 
and  in  that  time  accumulated  a  vast  amount 
of  technical  knowledge  and  experience,  as 
a  result  of  which  he  was  called  to  Chicago 
to  the  general  offices  of  the  American  As- 
sociation of  Creamery  Butter  Manufactur- 
ers. A  year  later  he  became  identified  with 
the  Blue  Valley  Creamery  Company  of 
Chicago,  and  from  there  came  to  Indian- 
apolis for  the  purpose  above  noted. 

The  Indianapolis  plant  of  this  company 
began  operations  in  1910,  and  its  business 
has  been  growing  steadily  until  it  ranks 
high  among  the  twelve  other  factories  of 
the  company  throughout  the  middle  west. 

So  many  thousands  of  households  in  In- 
diana and  other  central  states  have  used 
and  appreciated  the  quality  of  the  Blue 
Valley  Creamery 's  products  that  little  need 
be  said  on  that  score.  The  factory  is  en- 
gaged exclusively  in  the  manufacture  of 
the  highest  grades  of  butter  known.  It 
is  a  corporation  of  large  resources.  While 
its  principal  function  is  of  course  a  com- 
mercial one,  its  interest  in  the  dairy  in- 
dustry as  a  whole  has  been  stimulated  by 
a  broad  and  enlightened  policy  and  has  led 
it  into  wide  fields  of  usefulness  to  the 
general  public.  The  company  employs  the 
finest  talent,  college  professors  as  well  as 
practical  men,  who  are  recognized  authori- 
ties in  the  science  of  milk  and  butter  pro- 
duction. The  company  maintains  exten- 
sive laboratories  through  which  their  ex- 
perts maintain  a  close  watch  upon  every 
process  from  the  original  point  of  supply 
to  the  ultimate  consumer.  The  company 
has  freely  used  the  results  of  the  investiga- 
tions and  discoveries  made  in  their  labora- 
tories to  promote  the  welfare  of  butter 
making  in  general.  The  vice  president  of 
the  corporation  is  Mr.  J.  A.  Walker  of 
Chicago.  He  is  a  man  of  broad  public 
spirit,  and  spends  much  time  in  efforts  to 


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advance  the  dairy  industry  as  a  whole, 
without  regard  to  his  own  personal  con- 
nection with  it.  The  company  freely  co- 
operates with  dairy  associations,  indivi- 
dual farmers,  and  all  who  have  an  interest 
in  the  dairy  industry. 

Mr.  Smith  has  been  in  complete  sympa- 
thy with  this  broader  policy  of  the  com- 
pany, and  in  Indiana  he  was  chairman  of 
the  committee  that  raised  $18,000  to  co- 
operate with  the  dairy  section  of  Purdue 
University  to  increase  the  number  of  dairy 
cows  in  the  state.  The  result  of  that  cam- 
paign has  already  brought  beneficial  re- 
sults, and  a  number  of  statements  have 
been  made  in  the  public  press  in  the  last 
two  or  three  years  including  the  enor- 
mous increase  of  dairy  production,  so  that 
Indiana,  while  not  claiming  preeminence 
in  that  respect,  is  really  one  of  the  first 
states  in  the  Union  as  a  dairy  center. 

Aside  from  his  immediate  work  Mr. 
Smith  has  found  many  opportunities  to 
cooperate  with  the  general  business  and 
public  welfare  of  Indianapolis.  In  No- 
vember, 1918,  he  was  honored  by  election 
to  the  presidency  of  the  Optimists  Club 
of  Indianapolis.  This  is  the  original  of 
the  Optimists  Club  which  are  now  being 
rapidly  established  in  the  principal  cities 
of  the  country.  The  club  is  composed  of 
active  business  men,  one  representative 
from  each  line  of  business  or  profession, 
and  is  an  exceedingly  interesting  and  use- 
ful organization,  both  to  themselves  and 
their  community.  Mr.  Smith  is  also  a 
member  of  the  Chamber  of  Commerce  and 
the  Columbia  Club.  He  married  Miss 
Estelle  Hicks,  of  Des  Moines,  Iowa.  Their 
children  are:  Madeline,  Lucille  and 
"Walker. 

Charles  Bright  Vawter.  The  family 
of  Vawter  has  been  prominent  at  Franklin 
and  in  Johnson  County  since  pioneer  days. 
Charles  Bright  Vawter  is  one  of  the  lead- 
ing merchants  of  Franklin  and  has  been  in 
business  there  as  a  hardware  merchant  for 
over  twenty  years. 

His  uncle,  the  late  John  T.  Vawter,  was 
one  of  the  county's  wealthiest  and  most 
generous  citizens.  John  T.  Vawter  was 
born  at  Vernon,  Indiana,  son  of  Smith  and 
Jane  (Terrill)  Vawter,  and  in  1859  estab- 
lished the  Indiana  Farmers  Bank,  of 
which  he  was  president  for  twenty  years. 
He  was  one  of  the  organizers  of  the  Sec- 


ond National  Bank  of  Franklin,  which  has 
since  become  the  Franklin  National.  John 
T.  Vawter  among  other  acts  which  deserve 
mention  and  the  grateful  memory  of  the 
present  generation  donated  the  Soldiers 
Monument  at  Franklin. 

Charles  Bright  Vawter  was  born  April 
29,  1862.  His  father,  Samuel  L.  Vawter, 
gained  his  chief  distinctions  in  business  on 
what  was  then  the  Northwestern  frontier 
in  territory  and  state  of  Minnesota.  He 
had  the  distinction  of  establishing  the  first 
wholesale  drug  house  in  that  state,  and  the 
business  is  continued  today  under  the  name 
Noyes  Brothers  &  Cutler.  Samuel  L. 
Vawter  died  at  St.  Paul,  Minnesota,  in 
1868.  He  married  Maria  Bright,  who  was 
born  at  Franklin,  Indiana,  and  died  in 
1880.  Her  father  was  one  of  •  the  early 
settlers  of  Franklin. 

Charles  Bright  Vawter  came  to  Frank- 
lin with  his  mother  after  his  father 's  death 
and  was  here  reared  and  educated.  He 
attended  the  common  schools,  had  two 
years  of  high  school  work,  and  in  1880  en- 
tered Butler  College,  where  he  took  a  gen- 
eral course  for  two  years.  On  returning 
to  Franklin  he  entered  upon  his  business 
career  as  clerk  in  the  hardware  store  of 
J.  M.  Storey.  He  remained  with  Mr. 
Storey  until  1896,  when  he  bought  the 
business  of  Duncan  &  Stewart,  which  was 
then  a  general  farm  implement  concern. 
Mr.  Vawter  has  since  enlarged  it  to  a 
general  hardware  and  stove  business,  and 
has  made  it  one  of  the  best  business  houses 
in  the  city.  Mr.  Vawter  is  also  a  director 
of  the  First  National  Bank  of  Franklin. 

Fraternally  he  is  affiliated  with  the 
Benevolent  and  Protective  Order  of  Elks 
and  with  Hesperian  Lodge  No.  12  of  the 
Knights  of  Pythias.  On  April  18,  1888, 
he  married  Leila  Hunter  Holman,  of 
Franklin,  daughter  of  A.  B.  Hunter,  who 
was  one  of  the  leading  attorneys  of  the 
Johnson  County  bar.  Mrs.  Vawter 's 
mother  was  a  member  of  the  Donald  fam- 
ily. Mrs.  Vawter  died  June  7,  1901,  with- 
out children. 

Charles  Rowin  Hunter.  In  1916  the 
people  of  Terre  Haute  determined  to  re- 
deem their  city  and  place  it  in  the  front 
rank  of  Indiana  municipalities  both  on 
the  score  of  political  cleanliness  and  ma- 
terial improvement.  The  leader  of  the 
ticket   they   selected   was   Charles   Rowin 


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INDIANA  AND  INDIAN ANS 


Hunter.  Mr.  Hunter  was  elected  mayor 
nominally  as  a  republican  and  by  a  major- 
ity of  2,750  votes,  the  largest  majority 
ever  given  a  candidate  for  that  office  in 
the  history  of  the  city.  He  was  elected 
and  went  into  office  on  the  slogan  "bigger, 
cleaner,  better.  Terre  Haute, ' '  and  in  three 
years  his  administration  has  served  to  ex- 
press and  realize  the  essential  planks  of  his 
platform.  He  was  head  of  the  city  ad- 
ministration during  the  critical  war  period, 
when  so  large  a  share  of  private  and  public 
resources  were  diverted  to  the  aid  of  the 
government  and  nation.  At  the  close  of 
the  war  he  has  led  in  the  inauguration  of 
the  new  period  of  public  improvements, 
and  the  plans  for  1919  contemplate  the 
expenditure  of  upwards  of  $500,000,  for 
streets,  new  city  hall,  and  other  civic  enter- 
prises. 

Mayor  Hunter  has  been  a  resident  of 
Terre  Haute  since  early  boyhood.  He  was 
born  at  Farmersburg  in  Sullivan  County, 
Indiana,  January  19,  1855.  His  grand- 
father, Samuel  C.  Hunter,  came  from  Ken- 
tucky and  was  one  of  the  pioneers  of  Vigo 
County.  Mayor  Hunter  is  a  son  of  Eli- 
phalet  and  Sarah  C.  (All)  Hunter,  both 
of  whom  were  born  at  Bardstown,  Ken- 
tucky. Eliphalet  Hunter  was  a  farmer  and 
merchant  and  business  man  and  located  at 
Terre  Haute  in  1871,  where  he  was  in  the 
teaming  and  transfer  business  for  a  number 
of  years.  He  died  in  December  1896,  at 
the  age  of  seventy-three.  His  wife  passed 
away  in  1895,  at  the  age  of  seventy-two. 
They  were  the  parents  of  nine  children. 
Those  now  deceased  are  Sarah  C,  Ben- 
jamin F.,  James  T.,  "William  L.,  Elizabeth 
and  Nancy  M.  The  living  children 
are  Samuel  W.,  Charles  R.  and  Martin  "W. 
Charles  R.  Hunter  was  fifteen  years  old 
when  he  came  to  Terre  Haute.  He  ob- 
tained his  early  education  in  the  public 
schools  of  Farmersburg  and  also  attended 
Ascension  Seminary  in  that  town.  At  the 
age  of  eighteen  he  went  to  work  at  Terre 
Haute  as  a  driver,  later  was  with  a  firm 
of  agricultural  implement  dealers,  and  for 
a  year  was  with  the  Star  Union  Transfer 
Company.  He  was  also  with  a  local  flour 
milling  concern,  but  his  longest  connection 
was  with  the  wholesale  dry  goods  house  of 
H.  Robinson  &  Company.  He  learned  the 
business,  and  finally  the  company  sent  him 
on  the  road  as  sales  representative.  For 
over  thirty  years  Mr.  Hunter  was  a  travel- 


ing salesman,  and  developed  a  business  for 
several  large  wholesale  houses  in  the  state. 
In  1905  he  engaged  in  the  dry  goods  busi- 
ness on  his  own  account  at  Terre  Haute, 
and  now  has  one  of  the  best  equipped  and 
stocked  stores  of  its  kind  in  western  In- 
diana. 

Mr.  Hunter  has  served  as  vice  president 
of  the  Indiana  Division  of  the  Travelers 
Protective  Association,  is  a  member  of  the 
United  Commercial  Travelers,  the  Tribe 
of  Ben  Hur,  the  Terre  Haute  Commercial 
Club,  and  has  been  a  steadfast  republican 
ever  since  casting  his  first  ballot.  At  dif- 
ferent times  he  has  given  his  time  to  the 
benefit  of  his  party  in  primaries  and  other 
elections,  but  never  sought  an  important 
office  for  himself  until  he  became  candi- 
date for  mayor. 

In  1877  Mr.  Hunter  married  Miss  Mary 
S.  Hagerdon,  daughter  of  Henry  Hager- 
don  of  Terre  Haute.  She  died  five  years 
later,  the  mother  of  one  daughter,  Ger- 
trude May,  who  died  in  infancy.  Mr.  Hun- 
ter married  for  his  second  wife  Miss  Grace 
E.  King,  daughter  of  Robert  C.  and  Re- 
becca J.  King,  natives  of  Carroll  County, 
Ohio.  Mrs.  Hunter  was  born  at  Spencer, 
Indiana,  June  22,  1876. 

Charles  Walter  Roland  is  senior  part- 
ner of  the  firm  Roland  &  Beach,  heating 
contractors  and"  sheet  metal  works  in  Rich- 
mond. He  is  an  expert  in  this  line  of  busi- 
ness and  has  followed  it  most  of  his  active 
life. 

He  was  born  in  Randolph  County,  In- 
diana, in  1873,  son  of  J.  J.  and  Chrizella 
(Snyder)  Roland.  He  attended  public 
school  at  Greenville,  Ohio,  and  Lynn,  In- 
diana, and  when  only  twelve  years  of  age 
began  learning  the  printing  trade  at  Union 
Citv,  Indiana.  Later  he  worked  for  his 
father,  who  had  a  sheet  metal  business  at 
Lynn,  and  continued  there  until  he  was 
twenty-one  years  of  age. 

In  1894  Mr.  Roland  married  Mary 
Chenowith,  daughter  of  Murray  and  Sep- 
reta  (Cadwallader)  Chenowith,  of  Ran- 
dolph County.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Roland  have 
four  children :  Frances  Leta,  who  is  mar- 
ried and  has  a  daughter  named  Mary  El- 
len ;  Robert  J.,  born  in  1900,  who  in  1918 
was  a  member  of  the  Students  Army 
Training  Corps  at  Purdue  University; 
Helen,  born  in  1905;  and  Ruth,  born  in 
1908. 


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After  his  marriage  Mr.  Roland  engaged 
in  the  sheet  metal  business  at  Union  City 
on  his  own  account.  In  1898  he  moved  to 
Richmond,  and  for  four  years  worked  at 
his  trade  for  Miller  Brothers,  then  for  a 
year  and  a  half  was  manager  of  the  stove 
department  of  the  Jones  Hardware  Com- 
pany, and  for  two  years  owned  a  half  in- 
terest in  the  firm  of  Johnson  &  Roland. 
He  then  bought  a  hardware  store  at  Win- 
chester, Indiana,  conducted  it  two  years, 
and  continued  a  sheet  metal  shop  at  that 
town  until  he  returned  to  Richmond  in 
1911.  Here  he  engaged  in  the  sheet  metal 
business  with  H.  E.  Morrman,  the  part- 
nership continuing  three  years  and  for 
about  a  year  his  partner  was  R.  J.  Behr- 
inger,  under  the  name  of  Roland  &  Behr- 
inger.  He  bought  his  partner's  interests, 
and  after  being  alone  in  the  business  for 
four  years  sold  a  half  interest  to  L.  W. 
Beach,  which  made  the  present  firm  of 
Roland  &  Beach.  Mr.  Roland  is  a  repub- 
lican and  a  member  of  the  First  Christian 
Church. 

Leslie  W.  Beach,  of  the  firm  Roland  & 
Beach,  heating  and  sheet  metal  works  con- 
tractors at  Richmond,  has  been  in  busi- 
ness in  Indiana  in  different  lines  for  the 
greater  part  of  his  life,  and  is  well  known 
in  several  communities  of  the  state. 

He  was  born  at  Norborne  in  Carroll 
County,  Missouri,  in  1875,  son  of  George 
P.  and  Alice  (Shaw)  Beach.  He  is  of 
English  ancestry,  and  most  of  the  Beach 
family  have  been  professional  men.  His 
father,  however,  was  a  farmer  and  had 
eighty  acres  in  central  Missouri.  He  died 
January  10,  1919,  and  the  mother  is  still 
living   at   the   old   home. 

Leslie  W.  Beach  was  the  youngest  in  a 
family  of  six  children,  four  sisters  and 
two  brothers.  He  attended  country 
schools,  worked  on  the  farm  in  summers, 
and  spent  three  months  in  the  high  school 
at  Spiceland,  in  Henry  County,  Indiana. 
Then  after  another  year  on  the  home  farm 
he  engaged  in  the  livery  business  at  Spice- 
land as  a  member  of  the  firm  of  Beach  & 
Pierson.  This  was  a  profitable  experience 
but  at  the  end  of  three  years  he  sold  out 
to  his  partner,  and  the  next  eight  months 
lived  at  Elwood,  Indiana,  and  wrote  in- 
surance for  the  Prudential  Life  Assurance 
Company.  In  the  meantime  he  took  a  busi- 
ness course  in  the  Elwood  Business  College, 


pfter  which  for  ten  months  he  was  book- 
keeper for  the  Elwood  Furniture  Com- 
pany, then  for  three  years  was  bookkeeper 
and  cashier  with  the  Elwood  Lumber  Com- 
pany. 

In  1903  Mr.  Beach  married  Miss  Leonora 
Griffin,  daughter  of  Joseph  and  Mary 
(Brenneman)  Griffin,  of  Spiceland.  They 
have  one  child,  Corwin,  born  in  1908.  After 
his  marriage  Mr.  Beach  moved  to  New- 
castle and  was  employed  as  bookkeeper  and 
cashier  for  the  C.  C.  Thompson  Lumber 
Company  six  years.  The  next  three  years 
lie  spent  as  sales  representative  in  north- 
ern Indiana  and  southern  Michigan  for 
the  South  Bend  Sash  and  Door  Company. 
Mr.  Beach  removed  to  Richmond  in  1915, 
hnd  for  two  years  was  estimator  for  the 
Richmond  Lumber  Company.  He  then 
bought  a  half  interest  in  the  Charles  W. 
Roland  Plumbing  and  Heating  Company, 
at  which  time  the  firm  was  organized  as 
Roland  &  Beach,  heating  contractors  and 
sheet  metal  works.  They  do  an  extensive 
business  over  western  Ohio  and  Indiana, 
and  have  installed  many  large  contracts. 
The  firm  are  agents  for  the  Front  Rank 
Steel  Furnace  Company  of  St.  Louis. 

Mr.  Beach  is  a  member  of  the  First 
Christian  Church  and  is  affiliated  with 
the  Lodge  of  Masons  at  Spiceland.  In 
politics  he  is  a  republican. 

Oliver  Hampton  Smith  became  a  resi- 
dent of  Indiana  in  1817,  and  was  admitted 
to  the  practice  of  law  in  1820.  He  attained 
high  rank  in  his  profession,  and  after  rep- 
resenting the  state  in  the  Legislature  and 
Congress  he  was  chosen  a  United  States 
senator  in  1836,  as  a  whig.  On  retiring 
from  that  office  he  located  at  Indianapolis, 
and  was  afterward  largely  engaged  in  rail- 
road enterprises,  he  having  been  the  chief 
factor  in  the  construction  of  the  Indian- 
apolis and  Bellefontaine  road. 

Mr.  Smith,  who  was  born  on  Smith's  Is- 
land, near  Trenton,  New  Jersey,  in  1794, 
died  in  Indianapolis  in  1859. 

Charles  P.  Lesh  came  to  Indianapolis 
in  1878,  at  the  age  of  nineteen,  and  his 
first  business  experience,  with  the  old  In- 
dianapolis Sentinel  and  later  with  a  book 
and  stationery  house,  doubtless  gave  him 
his  insight  into  and  prepared  the  way  for 
his  permanent  career,  which  has  been  as  a 
paper  merchant  and  dealer.     Mr.  Lesh  is 


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founder  and  for  many  years  has  been  presi- 
dent of  the  C.  P.  Lesh  Paper  Company. 

He  was  born  at  Kankakee,  Illinois,  May 
13,  1859,  son  of  Dr.  Daniel  and  Charlotte 
(Perry)  Lesh.  His  father,  who  for  a  num- 
ber of  years  was  one  of  the  representative 
physicians  and  surgeons  of  Indianapolis, 
was  born  on  a  farm  near  Eaton,  Ohio, 
February  23,  1828.  He  acquired  a  good 
education  and  sound  training  in  prepara- 
tion for  his  career,  and  in  1855  he  married 
Charlotte  Perry,  a  native  of  Butler  Coun- 
ty, Ohio.  Thev  had  only  two  children, 
Carrie  C.  and  Charles  P.  In  1857  Doctor 
Lesh  removed  to  Kankakee,  Illinois,  but 
about  the  beginning  of  the  Civil  war  re- 
turned to  Ohio.  In  August,  1862,  he  en- 
listed for  three  years  in  Company  C  of 
the  Fiftieth  Regular  Ohio  Volunteer  In- 
fantry. He  was  promoted  to  sergeant  in 
October,  1862,  and  was  on  detached  duty 
in  Cincinnati  until  his  honorable  discharge 
on  account  of  physical  disability  in  1864. 
In  the  fall  of  that  year  he  removed  to  Rich- 
mond, Indiana,  practiced  there  until  1870, 
then  at  New  Paris,  Ohio,  and  in  1878  came 
to  Indianapolis,  where  he  handled  a  grow- 
ing business  as  a  physician  until  1894. 
Impaired  health  then  caused  him  to  move 
to  California,  but  eventually  he  returned 
to  Richmond,  Indiana,  where  he  died  De- 
cember 18,  1901.  He  had  high  ability  in 
his  profession,  and  won  the  love  and  re- 
spect of  several  communities  because  of  his 
self-sacrificing  work  among  his  patients. 
He  was  a  friend  of  humanity,  an  active 
member  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church, 
and  after  retiring  from  professional  work 
gave  much  of  his  time  to  the  church.  He 
was  a  member  of  the  Grand  Army  of  the 
Republic  and  the  Independent  Order  of 
Odd  Fellows.  His  wife  died  October  16, 
1881,  at  Indianapolis,  and  both  were  laid 
to  rest  in  the  cemetery  at  Eaton,  Ohio. 

Charles  P.  Lesh  was  educated  in  the  pub- 
lic schools  of  Richmond,  Indiana,  and  New 
Paris,  Ohio.  On  coming  to  Indianapolis 
in  1878  he  spent  two  years  with  the  Sen- 
tinel Publishing  Company,  following  which 
he  was  a  clerk  with  the  book  and  stationery 
firm  of  Merrill,  Hubbard  &  Company,  and 
from  that  entered  the  employ  of  the  In- 
diana Paper  Company.  During  the  nine 
years  of  his  service  with  this  company  he 
studied  every  detail  of  the  business,  and 
laid  a  careful  and  well  considered  founda- 
tion   for   his   permanent    business   career. 


Later  for  a  time  he  was  the  Indianapolis 
representative  of  the  Lewis  Snyder's  Sons 
Paper  Company  of  Cincinnati. 

In  May,  1896,  Mr.  Lesh  engaged  in  the 
wholesale  paper  business  on  his  own  ac- 
count, organizing  and  incorporating  the 
C.  P.  Lesh  Paper  Company.  He  has  been 
president  of  this  concern  ever  since.  The 
company  is  one  of  the  largest  distributors 
of  paper  throughout  the  State  of  Indiana, 
and  occupies  main  offices  and  warehouse 
quarters  in  Indianapolis,  the  offices  being 
at  121  to  125  Kentucky  Avenue. 

While  essentially  a  business  man,  Mr. 
Lesh  has  been  generous  of  his  influence  and 
means  in  promoting  everything  that  is 
helpful  to  Indianapolis  as  a  civic  and  social 
center.  He  and  his  family  are  active  mem- 
bers of  the  Meridian  Street  Methodist 
Episcopal  Church,  in  politics  he  is  a  re- 
publican, and  is  one  of  the  honored  Masons 
of  the  city,  being  affiliated  with  Mystic 
Tie  Lodge  No.  398,  Ancient  Free  and  Ac- 
cepted Masons,  of  which  he  is  past  master, 
Keystone  Chapter  No.  6,  Royal  Arch 
Masons,  Raper  Commandery  No.  .  1, 
Knights  Templars,  and  Indiana  Consis- 
tory of  the  Scottish  Rite. 

June  15,  1892,  Mr.  Lesh  married  Miss 
Ora  Wilkins.  Three  children  have  been 
born  to  their  marriage.  Charlotte  B.,  Perry 
W.  and  Helen  L.  Perry  W.  Lesh  enlisted 
July  26,  1917,  in  Battery  A,  One  Hundred 
and  Fiftieth  Field  Artillery,  Rainbow 
Division.  He  landed  in  France  October 
31,  1917,  and  spent  nine  months  with  that 
division  at  the  front.  He  fought  in  Cham- 
pagne, second  battle  of  the  Marne;  St. 
Mihiel  and  in  Argonne  and  is  now  in  Army 
of  the  Occupation  at  Neuenahr,  Germany. 

Mrs.  Lesh  is  a  daughter  of  John  A.  and 
Lavina  (King)  Wilkins.  Her  father  was 
born  at  Indianapolis  May  6,  1836,  and  her 
mother  in  Washington  County,  Indiana, 
January  1,  1840.  Her  paternal  grand- 
parents were  John  and  Eleanor  (Brouse) 
Wilkins.  John  Wilkins  was  born  in  the 
Shenandoah  Valley  of  Virginia  in  1797, 
and  in  May,  1821,  came  from  Ohio  to 
Marion  County,  Indiana,  and  established 
his  home  here  at  the  very  beginning  of  the 
history  of  Indianapolis  as  the  capital  city. 
He  was  well  known  in  pioneer  business  ac- 
tivities, and  for  years  was  associated  with 
Daniel  Yandes  in  the  operation  of  the  first 
tannery  in  the  city.  He  and  his  wife 
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Chapel  Methodist  Episcopal  Church.  He 
was  also  one  of  the  first  trustees  of  Asbury, 
now  DePauw  University,  serving  from 
1839  until  1868.  John  Wilkins  died  in 
July,  1868,  and  his  wife  in  1889. 

John  A.  Wilkins,  father  of  Mrs.  Lesh, 
was  as  prominent  in  his  generation  in  In- 
dianapolis business  affairs  as  his  father  had 
been  in  the  pioneer  epoch.  For  many 
years  he  was  senior  member  of  the  firm  of 
Wilkins  &  Hall,  furniture  manufacturers. 
He  was  a  stockholder  and  for  a  number  of 
years  before  his  death  secretary  of  the 
National  Accident  Association.  He  died 
at  Indianapolis  December  26,  1906.  He 
was  one  of  the  organizers  of  the  Ames  In- 
stitute, which  afterwards  became  the 
Young  Men's  Christian  Association  of  In- 
dianapolis. He  became  well  known  in 
army  circles.  September  6,  1861,  he  en- 
listed in  the  Thirty-Third  Indiana  Volun- 
teer Infantry,  was  made  quartermaster's 
sergeant  and  November  23,  1863,  was  com- 
missioned first  lieutenant  and  regimental 
quartermaster  of  the  Thirty-Third  Regi- 
ment. He  resigned  October  4,  1864.  More 
than  thirty  years  later,  when  the  Spanish- 
American  War  was  in  progress,  he  was 
appointed  chief  clerk  in  the  Quarter- 
master's Department  at  Jefferson  Bar- 
racks in  St.  Louis,  Missouri.  He  was  offi- 
cially honored  in  the  George  H.  Thomas 
Post,  Grand  Army  of  the  Republic.  He 
was  a  charter  member  of  the  Robert  Chapel 
Sunday  School  and  for  twenty-eight  years 
was  steward  of  Robert  Park  Methodist 
Church. 

i 

Lilburn  Howard  Van  Briggle,  of  In- 
dianapolis, is  a  lawyer  by  profession,  but 
on  the  basis  of  his  achievements  to  date 
and  the  promise  for  the  future  is  likely 
to  be  better  known  as  an  inventor  and 
manufacturer.  He  had  two  brothers  in 
the  great  war  and  his  own  inventive  genius 
supplied  the  government  with  some  of  the 
most  perfect  appliances  to  airplane  manu- 
facture. Mr.  Van  Briggle  is  president 
of  the  Van  Briggle  Motor  Device  Com- 
panv.  manufacturers  of  the  Van  Briggle 
Carburetor  and  other  motor  devices,  in- 
cluding a  shock  absorber. 

Mr.  Van  Briggle  was  born  on  a  farm  in 
Tipton  County,  Indiana,  in  1880,  son  of 
Ira  and  Mary  Elizabeth  (Cox)  Van  Brig- 
gle. His  mother  is  still  living.  Both 
parents  were  born  in  Indiana.     The  Van 


Briggles  are  of  Holland  Dutch  and  French 
ancestry.  Mr.  Van  Briggle 's  paternal 
grandfather,  Rev.  Joseph  D.  Van  Briggle, 
is  a  venerable  Baptist  minister,  now  living 
at  Helena,  Arkansas,  more  than  ninety 
years  of  age.  The  maternal  grandmother 
of  Mr.  Van  Briggle  was  a  first  cousin  of 
the  late  vice  president  Thomas  A.  Hen- 
dricks of  Indianapolis.  Mr.  Van  Briggle 's 
two  brothers  who  were  in  the  army  are 
Elza  D.,  with  the  Twentieth  Engineers 
and  Joseph  W.,  with  the  Forty-First  En- 
gineers. 

Lilburn  H.  Van  Briggle  acquired  his 
early  education  in  district  schools.  After 
leaving  the  farm  he  worked  for  several 
years  in  his  father's  machine  shop.  Later 
in  Arkansas  he  learned  the  brass  and  iron 
molding  trade.  For  a  time  he  was  em- 
ployed by  the  Fairbanks-Morse  Company 
in  installing  gasoline  engines. 

In  the  intervals  of  this  work  and  ex- 
perience he  secured  a  higher  education. 
He  worked  his  way  through  the  Short- 
ridge  High  School  at  Indianapolis  and  for 
eight  years  he  attended  night  school.  Mr. 
Van  Briggle  graduated  from  the  Indianap- 
olis Law  College  in  1907,  and  in  the  same 
year  began  the  practice  of  law.  He  is 
still  a  member  of  the  bar  of  the  city, 
having  office  with  Judge  U.  Z.  Wiley  in 
the  Fletcher  Savings  &  Trust  Building. 
However,  he  has  about  given  up  his  prac- 
tice to  devote  his  entire  time  to  building 
up  the  great  industry  in  the  manufacture 
of  the  Van  Briggle  carburetor  and  other 
motor  devices  of  his  own  invention. 

Mr.  Van  Briggle  became  interested  in 
carburetors  in  the  fall  of  1914.  He  per- 
fected a  carburetor  which  is  still  one  of 
the  models  manufactured  by  his  company, 
and  applied  for  patent  June  23,  1915,  the 
patent  being  granted  June  20,  1916.  A 
second  patent  on  carburetors  was  granted 
July  23,  1918.  The  Van  Briggle  Motor 
Device  Company  was  incorporated  August 
14,  1915,  with  an  authorized  capital  of 
.$300,000.  The  factory  and  office  are  in 
Indianapolis.  While  there  were  many 
types  of  carburetor  on  the  market  before 
Mr.  Van  Briggle  entered  the  field,  he  dis- 
covered and  adapted  and  perfected  en- 
tirely new  principles  of  carburetion,  and 
the  carburetors  have  had  wide  applica- 
tion to  all  types  of  motor  vehicles.  But 
the  culminating  test  of  efficiency  came  when 
the  Van  Briggle  carburetor  was  adapted 


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for  several  types  of  the  war  planes  manu- 
factured for  the  United  States  Govern- 
ment. 

Mr.  Van  Briggle  has  also  been  connected 
with  the  business  and  civic  affairs  in  In- 
dianapolis. He  helped  organize  and  is  a 
director  of  the  E.  G.  Spink  Building  Com- 
pany, builders  of  several  large  flat  build- 
ings in  Indianapolis.  He  is  vice  president 
of  the  John  H.  Larrison  Brick  Company. 
At  one  time  he  took  a  prominent  part  in 
politics.  In  1912  he  was  candidate  for 
state  senator  on  the  progressive  ticket, 
and  in  1913  was  candidate  of  the  same 
party  for  city  judge.  He  is  a  republican, 
and  a  member  of  the  Masonic  Order,  the 
Optimist  Club  and  the  Columbia  Club. 

Mr.  Van  Briggle  married  Miss  Frances 
Mary  Stephenson,  of  Indianapolis.  They 
have  three  children:  Elizabeth  Jane,  Tur- 
ley  Frank  and  Howard  Henry. 

John  N.  Hurty,  M.  D.  In  any  conven- 
tion of  American  public  health  officials  and 
workers  a  place  of  special  distinction  is 
accorded  to  Dr.  John  N.  Hurty  by  reason 
of  his  long  and  enviable  service  as  State 
Health  Commissioner  of  Indiana.  Long 
before  the  public  health  movement  received 
such  general  approbation  and  recognition 
as  is  now  accorded  it  Doctor  Hurty  was 
quietly  and  efficiently  going  ahead  with  his 
dirties  in  his  home  state  at  safeguarding 
the  health  and  welfare  of  his  fellow  citi- 
zens. He  has  done  much  to  break  down 
the  barriers  of  prejudice  which  have  inter- 
fered with  regulations  for  health  and  sani- 
tation, and  has  seriously  discharged  his 
duties  whenever  and  wherever  occasion  re- 
quired and  has  constantly  exercised  his 
personal  influence  and  his  official  prestige 
to  spread  the  campaign  for  better  sanitary 
conditions  and  educate  the  people  in  gen- 
eral to  the  necessity  of  such  precautions. 

Doctor  Hurty  has  spent  most  of  his  life 
in  Indiana  but  was  born  at  Lebanon,  Ohio, 
February  21,  1852.  He  was  the  fourth 
among  the  five  children  of  Professor  Josiah 
and  Anne  I.  (Walker)  Hurty.  His  father 
was  of  German  and  his  mother  of  English 
lineage,  and  both  were  born  in  New  York 
and  were  married  at  Rochester.  Josiah 
Hurty  was  an  educator  by  profession  and 
for  many  years  carried  on  his  worthy  work 
in  Indiana,  He  first  moved  to  Ohio  but  in 
1855  located  at  Richmond,  Indiana,  and 
was  the  first  superintendent  of  the  public 


schools  in  that  city.  He  was  afterwards 
successively  superintendent  of  schools  at 
Liberty,  North  Madison,  Rising  Sun  and 
Lawrenceburg.  For  the  purpose  of  re- 
cuperating his  health  he  finally  went  to 
the  State  of  Mississippi,  where  he  died  at 
the  age  of  seventy-five.  His  wife  passed 
away  at  seventy-nine  in  1881.  Josiah 
Hurty  was  a  Mason,  a  republican,  and  he 
and  his  wife  were  active  in  the  Presby- 
terian Church. 

In  the  several  towns  where  his  father's 
vocation  identified  the  family  residence 
Doctor  Hurty  was  educated  in  the  public 
schools.  In  1872  he  completed  one  year  of 
study  in  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Phar- 
macy and  Chemistry.  He  became  founder 
of  the  School  of  Pharmacy  of  Purdue  Uni- 
versity at  Lafayette,  and  was  its  head  for 
two  years.  Doctor  Hurty  was  honored 
with  the  degree  Doctor  of  Pharamacy  by 
Purdue  in  1881. 

From  pharmacy  he  turned  his  attention 
to  the  study  of  medicine,  at  first  at  Jef- 
ferson Medical  College  at  Philadelphia  and 
later  in  the  Medical  College  of  Indiana  at 
Indianapolis,  where  he  graduated  M.  D. 
in  1891.  Since  1897  he  has  occupied  the 
Chair  of  Hygiene  and  Sanitary  Science  in 
the  Medical  College  of  Indiana,  the  medi- 
cal department  of  Indiana  University.  In 
1894,  without  solicitation  or  suggestion  on 
his  part,  Doctor  Hurty  was  appointed  sec- 
retary of  the  Indiana  State  Board  of 
Health.  The  position  at  the  time  he  was 
appointed  was  regarded  as  one  of  pre- 
functory  duties  and  performance,  and  it 
was  left  to  Doctor  Hurty  to  vitalize  the 
office  and  make  it  a  medium  of  effective 
service  to  the  entire  state.  Doctor  Hurty 
superintended  the  hygienic  exhibits  at  the 
Louisiana  Purchase  Exposition  in  St.  Louis, 
and  was  largely  responsible  for  making 
that  exhibit  a  source  of  .education  and  in- 
struction to  the  many  thousands  of  people 
who  attended  the  exposition. 

Doctor  Hurty  is  a  member  of  the  Ameri- 
can Medical  Association,  the  American 
Public  Health  Association,  the  American 
Association  for  the  Advancement  of 
Science,  the  American  Pharmaceutical  As- 
sociation, the  Indiana  State  Medical  Asso- 
ciation, which  he  served  as  vice  president 
in  1911,  and  the  Indianapolis  Medical  So- 
ciety. Every  school  in  Indiana  is  familiar 
with  his  hygienic  text  book  entitled  "Life 
with  Health."     He  has  contributed  many 


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articles,  particularly  on  his  special  field,  to 
medical  journals  and  other  periodicals. 

Doctor  Hurty  is  a  republican  in  his 
political  affiliations,  but  he  has  never  re- 
garded his  public  services  as  political  or 
in  any  way  connected  with  parties. 

October  25,  1877,  he  married  Miss  Ethel 
Johnstone,  daughter  of  Dr.  John  F.  John- 
stone. She  was  born  and  reared  in  Indian- 
'  apolis.  Their  two  children  are  Gilbert  J. 
and  Anne  M.  Hurty. 

William  D.  Allison's  prominent  part 
in  Indiana  business  affairs  has  been  taken 
as  a  manufacturer  of  furniture  specially 
designed  to  equip  physicians'  offices,  and 
he  has  built  up  one  of  the  major  industries 
of  Indianapolis  in  that  line.  His  services 
in  various  appointive  and  illustrative 
offices  of  trust  have  also  kept  his  name  be- 
fore public  attention. 

William  David  Allison  was  born  in  Coles 
County,  Illinois,  February  10,  1854.  His 
ancestors  came  from  County  Donegal,  Ire- 
land. Some  time  after  the  Revolution 
they  came  to  America  and  in  1785  settled 
in  Mecklenberg  County,  North  Carolina. 
Mr.  Allison's  grandfather  left  North  Caro- 
lina in  1825,  moved  over  the  mountains  in- 
to Tennessee,  and  in  1834  located  with  his 
family  in  Coles  County,  Illinois.  William 
David  Allison  is  a  son  of  Andrew  H.  and 
Hannah  E.  Allison.  His  father  died  in 
November,  1864,  but  his  mother  is  still  liv- 
ing and  is  now  past  ninety-five,  and  at  this 
writing  was  in  fairly  good  health  and, 
more  remarkable  still,  has  perfect  use  of 
all  her  faculties. 

William  D.  Allison  was  educated  at  Lees 
Academy  in  Coles  County  and  in  the  Uni- 
versity of  Wisconsin  at  Madison.  His  first 
business  experience  was  selling  pianos  and 
organs,  but  in  1884  he  set  up  a  shop  and 
began  in  a  small  and  somewhat  experi- 
mental way  the  manufacture  of  physicians' 
furniture.  He  has  kept  the  business  grow- 
ing, its  facilities  enlarging,  the  standard 
of  his  product  at  a  high  point,  and  today 
the  Allison  special  furniture  is  recognized 
for  its  quality  and  is  in  demand  as  part  of 
the  necessary  equipment  of  all  up-to-date 
physician's  offices. 

Mr.  Allison  is  a  republican,  has  served 
as  a  director  of  the  Indianapolis  Com- 
mercial Club  and  is  now  a  member  of  the 
Indiana  State  Council  of  Defense.  In  1907 
Governor  Hanley  appointed  him  a  trustee 


of  the  Indiana  Reformatory  at  Jefferson- 
ville,  and  he  filled  that  office  four  years. 
In  November,  1917,  he  was  elected  to  the 
office  of  school  commissioner  for  four  years 
beginning  January  1,  1920. 

Mr.  Allison  is  a  member  of  the  Chamber 
of  Commerce,  the  Board  of  Trade,  the 
Hoosier  Motor  Club,  the  Rotary  Club,  the 
Columbia  Club,  is  a  Scottish  and  York 
Rite  Mason,  a  member  of  Oriental  Lodge, 
Free  and  Accepted  Masons,  and  is  affiliated 
with  the  Mystic  Shrine.  He  and  his  fam- 
ily worship  at  the  Memorial  Presbyterian 
Church.  October  11,  1882,  at  Charleston, 
Illinois,  Mr.  Allison  married  Mary  Mar- 
garet Robbins.  They  have  five  children: 
Frances  L.,  wife  of  F.  A.  Preston;  Lila  E., 
wife  of  Dr.  C.  D.  Humes;  Charles  W.,  who 
married  Hazel  Lathrop ;  Ruth  H.,  and 
Mary  Aline. 

John  G.  Wood  since  he  graduated  with 
the  degree  Mechanical  Engineer  from  Pur- 
due University  ten  years  ago  has  been  one 
of  the  very  busy  professional  men  of  In- 
diana, and  while  he  began  at  the  very 
bottom  in  a  workman 's  overalls,  his  present 
position  and  responsibilities  are  such  as 
to  place  him  high  among  the  industrial  en- 
gineers of  the  country. 

For  the  past  five  years  Mr.  Wood  has 
been  identified  with  the  Remy  Electric 
Company  of  Anderson,  and  is  now  general 
manager  of  that  nationally  known  corpora- 
tion. He  was  born  in  Indianapolis  August 
6,  1883,  and  is  of  Scotch-English  stock  and 
comes  of  a  family  of  business  men.  His 
parents  were  Horace  F.  and  Rose  A. 
(Graham)  Wood.  His  great-grandfather, 
John  Wood,  was  a  pioneer  Indianapolis 
business  man.  At  one  time  he  operated  a 
stage  line  over  the  old  National  Road  be- 
tween Greenville  and  Indianapolis.  He 
also  had  in  connection  a  livery  barn  located 
on  the  "Circle"  at  Indianapolis.  His  son, 
John  Wood,  followed  the  same  business, 
and  spent  his  life  at  Indianapolis,  where  he 
died  in  1898.  Horace  F.  Wood  followed 
in  the  footsteps  of  his  father  and  grand- 
father, but  in  his  time  the  automobile  in- 
vaded the  province  formerly  occupied  by 
horse  drawn  vehicles,  and  he  is  now  in 
the  automobile  business  at  Indianapolis. 

John  G.  Wood  attended  grammar  and 
high  school  at  Indianapolis,  also  the  In- 
dianapolis Academy,  and  for  his  profes- 
sional and  technical  training  entered  Le- 


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land  Stanford  University  in  California.  He 
pursued  the  course  towards  the  degree  of 
Mechanical  Engineer  from  1902  to  1906, 
and  in  the  latter  year  his  university  work 
was  interrupted  by  the  great  San  Fran- 
cisco fire  and  earthquake.  Returning  to 
Indiana,  he  continued  his  studies  in  Pur- 
due University,  and  in  1907  graduated 
with  the  degrees  A.  B.  and  M.  E.  He  is 
a  member  of  the  Phi  Kappa  Psi  college 
fraternity. 

While  he  possessed  a  college  degree  and 
had  several  years  of  practical  and  theoret- 
ical experience  in  shops  and  laboratories, 
Mr.  Wood  chose  to  enter  industry  at  the 
very  bottom.  During  the  first  year  he 
carried  a  dinner  pail  and  worked  at  17  ^ 
cents  an  hour  with  the  National  Motor 
Vehicle  Company  at  Indianapolis.  He  was 
then  promoted  to  the  drafting  room  and 
subsequently  for  three  years  was  chief  en- 
gineer with  the  Empire  Motor  Company 
and  for  another  period  of  three  years  was 
general  manager  of  the  Indiana  Die  Cast- 
ings Company. 

Mr.  Wood's  services  were  acquired  by 
the  Remy  Electric  Company  of  Anderson 
in  1913.  He  served  as  assistant  to  the 
president,  S.  A.  Fletcher,  until  1917,  since 
which  time  he  has  been  general  manager. 
He  is  also  vice  president  of  the  Indiana 
Die  Casting  Company  of  Indianapolis  and 
is  one  of  the  directors  of  the  National 
Motor  Vehicle  Company  and  is  consulting 
engineer  for  the  Stenotype  Company  of 
Indianapolis.  In  August,  1918,  he  became 
the  president  of  the  Midwest  Engine  Com- 
pany of  Indianapolis,  the  new  company 
having  been  formed  by  a  merger  of  the 
Lyons  Atlas  Company  of  Indianapolis  and 
the  Hill  Pump  Company  of  Anderson. 

Mr.  Wood  is  not  only  a  thorough  tech- 
nical man  but  has  given  much  attention 
to  the  scientific  side  of  business  manage- 
ment and  especially  to  the  chart  system 
of  factory  management.  He  is  unmarried. 
At  Anderson  he  holds  membership  in  the 
Chamber  of  Commerce,  the  Anderson 
Country  Club,  is  a  member  of  the  Colum- 
bia Club  of  Indianapolis,  of  the  Society 
of  Automotive  Engineers  of  America,  and 
is  a  member  of  the  Presbyterian  Church 
and  a  republican  voter. 

Edgar  H.  Evans.  For  upwards  of  half 
a  century  the  name  of  Evans  in  Indianap- 
olis has  been  prominently  associated  with 


the  milling  industry,  and  some  of  the  big- 
gest and  best  flour  mills  in  the  state  have 
been  developed  through  the  activities  of 
these  masters  of  flour  manufacture. 

George  T.  Evans  was  in  the  milling  busi- 
ness at  Indianapolis  for  nearly  fifty  years. 
In  1861  he  managed  the  Capitol  Mills  on 
Market  Street  west  of  the  State  House. 
In  1878  he  became  associated  with  the 
Hoosier  Flour  Mills,  the  logical  successor 
of  the  first  flouring  mill  established  in  In- 
dianapolis, which  was  a  grist  mill  built 
by  Isaac  Wilson  in  1821.  It  was  a  water 
mill,  situated  on  Walnut  Street  near  the 
present  site  of  the  City  Hospital.  In  the 
early  '50s  Samuel  J.  Patterson,  a  son-in- 
law  of  Isaac  Wilson,  associated  with  James 
Blake  and  James  M.  Ray,  moved  the  busi- 
ness of  the  old  grist  mill  to  the  National 
Road  and  White  River,  building  a  new 
mill,  also  a  water  mill,  known  as  the 
Hoosier  State  Flour  Mill.  In  1864  this 
was  torn  down  and  the  present  brick  struc- 
ture erected  in  its  place,  steam  power  being 
later  added.  At  that  time  its  owners  were 
C.  E.  and  J.  C.  Geisendorff,  who  were 
succeeded  in  the  Seventies  by  D.  A.  Rich- 
ardson &  Company,  and  in  1881  by  Rich- 
ardson &  Evans. 

In  1893  the  business  became  George  T. 
Evans  &  Son.  This  firm  developed  the 
Hoosier  Mill  from  a  200  barrel  mill  to  a 
1,000  barrel  daily  capacity.  This  partner- 
ship was  consolidated  in  1909  with  the 
Acme  Milling  Company,  owning  two  large 
flour  mills,  under  the  name  of  Acme-Evans 
Company,  the  president  being  George  T. 
Evans,  who  was  then  recognized  as  In- 
diana's foremost  miller. 

Edgar  H.  Evans  succeeded  to  the  presi- 
dency of  the  Acme-Evans  Company  on  the 
death  of  his  father  in  the  latter  part  of 
1909.  A  new  era  in  the  milling  business 
was  gradually  developed,  Mill  B  being  con- 
verted into  a  corn,  meal  and  stock  feed 
mill,  and  the  flour  mills  being  gradually 
improved  and  enlarged. 

In  October,  1917,  the  largest  mill,  Mill 
A,  was  completely  destroyed  by  fire.  It 
was  immediately  decided  to  rebuild  and 
about  a  year  later  Mill  C  was  completed. 
It  is  a  concrete  structure,  nine  stories  high, 
with  a  capacity  of  2,000  barrels  of  flour 
daily,  and  a  concrete  grain  storage  for 
nearly  300,000  bushels,  all  representing  the 
last  word  in  milling  construction.  It  is 
not  only  the  largest  and  best  mill  in  In- 


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diana,  but  has  been  called  the  best  mill  in 
the  world. 

Edgar  H.  Evans  was  born  at  Saratoga 
Springs,  New  York,  July  18,  1870.  He 
was  educated  in  the  public  schools  of  In- 
dianapolis, graduating  from  the  City  High 
School  in  1888  and  from  Wabash  College 
with  the  A.  B.  degree  in  1892.  His  alma 
mater  conferred  upon  him  the  Masters  of 
Arts  degree  in  1906.  Mr.  Evans  has  de- 
voted himself  largely  to  milling,  in  which 
he  is  everywhere  recognized  as  a  past 
master.  He  is  also  president  of  the  In- 
dianapolis Elevator  Company,  and  is  in- 
terested in  the  management  of  two  other 
companies.  For  one  year  he  was  presi- 
dent and  two  years  vice  president  of  the 
Board  of  Trade,  being  now  a  member  of 
its  board  of  governors.  He  was  also  a 
director  for  a  term  in  the  Chamber  of  Com- 
merce and  is  a  member  of  the  Chicago 
Board  of  Trade,  the  St.  Louis  Merchanls 
Exchange,  and  the  National  Chamber  of 
Commerce. 

Mr.  Evans  is  a  republican  of  progressive 
tendencies,  is  an  elder  of  the  Tabernacle 
Presbyterian  Church,  a  trustee  of  Wabash 
College,  a  director  of  the  Indianapolis 
Young  Men's  Christian  Association  and 
a  trustee  of  the  Indianapolis  Young 
Women's  Christian  Association.  He  be- 
longs to  the  University,  Country  and 
Woodstock  clubs,  the  Dramatic  Club  and 
the  Contemporary  Club.  In  1899  he  mar- 
ried Miss  Ella  L.  Malott,  They  have  two 
daughters,  Eleanor  and  Mary. 

Hon.  Charles  Monroe  Fortune,  whose 
services  both  as  a  lawyer  and  former  cir- 
cuit judge  at  Terre  Haute  have  made  his 
name  familiar  throughout  the  state,  is  an 
Indianan  whose  distinctions  have  been  in 
every  case  worthily  earned.  As  a  young 
man  he  was  not  unacquainted  with  hard- 
whip  and  with  honest  manual  toil,  and  he 
knows  how  to  appreciate  and  sympathize 
with  all  classes  and  conditions  of  men. 

Judge  Fortune  was  born  in  Vigo  County, 
Indiana,  on  a  farm,  November  25,  1870. 
His  grandfather,  Zachariah  Fortune,  was 
an  early  settler  in  Meigs  County,  Ohio, 
where  Henry  Cole  Fortune,  father  of 
Judge  Fortune,  was  bom  in  1831.  Henry 
Cole  Fortune  married  in  Mason  County, 
West  Virginia,  Frances  Howell,  who  was 
born  in  that  countv  in  1838.     Her  father, 


Nelson   Howell,  went  as  a  soldier  in  the 
Civil  war  and  lost  his  life  in  battle. 

Henry  C.  Fortune  came  into  the  Wabash 
Valley  during  the  '50s,  and  while  the  Civd 
war  was  in  progress  he  operated  as  a  con- 
tractor a  ferry  on  the  Wabash  River  at 
Darwin,  Illinois.  In  1869  he  bought  a 
farm  of  170  acres  in  Prairie  Creek  Town- 
ship of  Vigo  County,  and  subsequently  op- 
erated another  farm  which  he  owned  in 
Clark  County,  Illinois.  He  died  at  his 
home  in  Clai-k  County  in  July,  1883.  His 
widow  survived  him  until  February  28, 
1907.  They  were  the  parents  of  nine  chil- 
dren, seven  of  whom  reached  maturity  and 
two  are  now  living,  DeKalb,  a  farmer  in 
Prairie  Creek  Township  of  Vigo  County, 
and  Judge  Fortune. 

Judge  Fortune  was  the  youngest  of 
seven  sons.  He  was  only  twelve  years  of 
age  when  his  father  died,  and  that  event 
in  the  family  history  caused  him  to  come 
face  to  face  with  the  serious  responsibili- 
ties of  life,  and  he  had  to  do  his  own 
thinking  and  at  an  early  age  was  earning 
his  own  living.  At  the  age  of  sixteen  he 
left  the  home  farm,  where  he  had  acquired 
most  of  his  schooling,  and  for  two  years 
he  worked  as  a  hand  in  a  factory  at  Terre 
Haute.  Later  as  a  clerk  he  worked  at  the 
watchmaker 's  trade,  and  while  that  gave 
him  employment  for  his  daylight  hours  he 
spent  the  evenings  in  the  study  of  law.  In 
1898  he  entered  the  law  office  of  Cox  & 
Davis  at  Terre  Haute,  and  after  three 
years  passed  a  successful  examination  be- 
fore the  examining  committee  of  the  local 
bar  association.  Forthwith  he  entered 
upon  an  active  practice  in  1901,  and  for 
1  hree  years  was  associated  with  Judge 
James  H.  Swango.  In  November,  1905, 
Mr.  Fortune  accepted  the  democratic  nom- 
ination for  the  office  of  city  judge.  It  was 
popularly  understood  that  this  was  only 
a  nominal  honor,  since  Terre  Haute  was  a 
stronghold  of  republicanism,  and  it  was 
with  gratified  surprise  on  the  part  of  his 
friends  and  party  associates  and  with  con- 
siderable consternation  in  the  opposite 
camp  that  he  was  elected  by  a  majority  of 
seventy  votes.  Judge  Fortune  entered  upon 
his  duties  as  city  judge  in  January,  1906, 
and  served  thirty-three  months.  He  re- 
signed to  take  up  his  duties  as  judge  of 
the  Vigo  Circuit  Court,  to  which  he  was 
elected   on   the   democratic    ticket  by  the 


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largest  majority  ever  given  a  circuit  judge 
in  that  district. 

Judge  Fortune  was  on  the  Circuit  bench 
six  years.  In  that  time  he  handled  on  the 
average  1,500  cases  every  year,  and  with- 
out reviewing  his  judicial  career  here  it  is 
sufficient  to  say  that  among  all  that  great 
number  of  decisions  which  he  rendered  only 
five  cases  were  appealed,  and  there  was 
only  one  reversal  by  higher  courts.  It  was 
Judge  Fortune  who  more  than  any  other 
individual  led  the  movement  in  Terre 
Haute  which  brought  about  not  only  re- 
form in  local  politics  but  gave  a  decided 
impetus  to  political  reform  throughout  the 
nation,  when  a  large  group  of  prominent 
Terre  Haute  men  were  indicted  and  tried 
in  the  Federal  Courts. 

Judge  Fortune  has  long  been  prominent 
in  local  fraternities  at  Terre  Haute,  being 
a  member  of  the  Young  Men's  Institute 
and  Knights  of  Columbus  No.  541,  is  a 
member  of  the  Commercial  and  the  Young 
Men's  Business  clubs,  and  in  his  profession 
and  in  his  capacity  as  a  private  citizen  has 
found  many  ways  to  indulge  a  practical 
philanthropy  in  behalf  of  many  worthy 
persons  and  causes. 

Judge  Fortune  first  married,  March  18, 
1897,  Myrtle  L.  Sparks,  who  died  the  same 
year.  She  was  well  known  in  literary 
circles  in  Terre  Haute  and  a  number  of 
her  verses  which  were  first  published  in 
the  old  Terre  Haute  Express  were  after- 
ward put  into  book  form.  In  July,  1911, 
Judge  Fortune  married  Gertrude  Maison, 
a  native  of  Terre  Haute  and  a  daughter  of 
A.  W.  and  Caroline  (Myer)  Maison. 

Caleb  Blood  Smith  was  a  native  of 
Boston,  Massachusetts,  born  April  16,  1808, 
but  at  the  early  age  of  six  years  he  went 
with  his  parents  to  Ohio.  He  received  his 
professional  training  in  Cincinnati,  and  in 
Connersville,  Indiana,  being  admitted  to 
the  bar  in  1828,  and  he  began  practice  at 
Connersville. 

Mr.  Smith  served  several  terms  in  the 
Indiana  Legislature,  was  elected  to  Con- 
gress as  a  whig  in  1843-9,  and  he  returned 
to  the  practice  of  law  in  1850,  first  in  Con- 
nersville and  later  in  Indianapolis.  Mr. 
Smith  was  influential  in  securing  the  nomi- 
nation of  Abraham  Lincoln  for  the  presi- 
dency, and  was  appointed  by  him  secretary 
of  the  interior  in  1861.  He  resigned  that 
office  to  become  United  States  circuit  judge 


for  Indiana.     The  death  of  Caleb  B.  Smith 
occurred  in  Indianapolis  in  1864. 

John  Jennings.  For  nearly  a  century 
the  family  of  Jennings  have  lived  in 
Marion  County,  where  in  an  unobtrusive 
way  they  have  been  identified  with  the  ma- 
terial welfare  of  the  community  and  with 
its  best  civic  interests  and  ideals.  Many 
of  the  older  citizens  of  Indianapolis  still 
remember  kindly  and  gratefully  the  late 
John  Jennings,  who  died  at  his  winter 
home  in  Mobile,  Alabama,  in  November 
30,  1907. 

He  was  a  son  of  Allen  Jennings,  a  na- 
tive of  Virginia,  who  first  came  to  In- 
diana the  same  year  the  state  was  ad- 
mitted to  the  Union,  in  1816.  His  pur- 
pose in  coming  into  this  trackless  wilder- 
ness was  to  seek  a  home  where  land  was 
abundant  and  cheap  and  where  practically 
unlimited  opportunities  existed  for  the 
future.  The  place  he  selected  was  at 
Bridgeport  in  Marion  County.  The  capital 
of  Indianapolis  had  not  yet  been  selected 
and  Marion  County  was  far  out  on  the 
very  frontier  of  civilization.  Having  made 
his  tour  of  Indiana  Allen  Jennings  re- 
turned to  Virginia,  where  in  1818  he  mar- 
ried Eleanor  Thornbrough.  In  1820  he 
brought  his  bride  and  took  up  his  per- 
manent home  at  Bridgeport.  The  work  of 
the  pioneer  is  often  unappreciated  because 
of  the  very  fact  it  must  necessarily  be  done 
somewhat  remote  from  other  human  so- 
ciety and  in  a  quiet,  inconspicuous  way 
that  does  not  lend  itself  readily  to  the  field 
of  heroic  description.  It  was  the  life  of 
the  pioneer,  filled  with  all  its  adversities 
and  wild  attractiveness,  that  Alien  Jen- 
nings lived  for  over  forty  years  in  Indiana. 
He  died  in  1864.  His  wife  passed  away 
in  1849.  They  were  the  parents  of  five 
sons  and  five  daughters. 

John  Jennings  was  born  on  the  old  Jen- 
nings homestead  in  Pike  Township  of 
Marion  County  June  27,  1837.  He  lived  to 
be  a  little  more  than  three  score  and  ten 
years  of  age.  As  a  boy  he  helped  grub, 
clear,  plant  and  reap,  as  was  customary 
for  the  farmer's  son  of  that  time.  As  op- 
portunity afforded  he  attended  the  neigh- 
boring district  school.  In  young  manhood 
he  began  an  extremely  active  career  by  be- 
coming a  merchant  at  Augusta.  Later  he 
was  a  merchant  at  Trader's  Point  in  Pike 
Township,  where  with  an  associate  he  built 


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and  operated  a  burr  water  power  flour 
mill.  He  also  bought  livestock  extensively. 
These  activities  made  him  widely  known. 
In  the  livestock  business  he  was  associated 
with  the  well  known  Indiana  packers  Kin- 
gan  &  Company.  In  1870  Mr.  Jennings 
moved  to  Oswego,  Kansas,  where  for  five 
years  he  operated  a  pork  packing  estab- 
lishment. Later,  on  his  return  to  Indian- 
apolis, he  was  in  the  general  contracting 
business  and  finally  moved  to  Grand 
Tower,  Illinois,  on  the  Mississippi  River, 
where  he  operated  a  general  store  and 
bought  livestock.  In  a  business  way  he 
was  fairly  successful,  and  personally  pos- 
sessed many  sterling  qualities  that  made 
him  an  object  of  universal  esteem.  He  was 
a  member  of  the  Presbyterian  Church  and 
a  republican  voter. 

His  first  wife,  whom  he  married  March 
31,  1859,  was  Martha  McCurdy.  David 
McCurdy,  her  father,  was  born  in  Ireland, 
was  brought  to  America  when  young,  and 
from  New  York  State  moved  to  Marion 
County,  Indiana,  in  1818,  being  one  of  the 
very  first  settlers  there.  John  and  Martha 
Jennings  had  five  children:  David,  now 
a  resident  of  Arizona ;  Albert,  deceased ; 
Conrad  and  Augustus,  who  constitute  the 
present  real  estate  firm  of  Jennings 
Brothers  of  Indianapolis;  and  Martha, 
wife  of  John  P.  Howard,  of  Marion  Coun- 
ty. Of  the  Jennings  brothers  Augustus 
is  the  only  one  who  married.  June  12, 
1895,  he  married  Miss  Katherine  Broun- 
ley,  who  died  June  11,  1918.  John  Jen- 
nings married  for  his  second  wife  Mrs. 
Laura   (Reagan)   Wallace. 

Hugh  Alvin  Cowing,  M.  D.  A  mem- 
ber of  the  medical  professional  in  Dela- 
ware County  since  1890,  the  name  of  Doc- 
tor Cowing  is  sufficiently  associated  with 
able  and  skillful  service  and  with  high 
attainments  to  give  him  rank  among  the 
foremost  physicians  and  surgeons  of  the 
state.  Apart  from  his  own  valuable  work 
and  citizenship  he  represents  a  family 
name  that  everywhere  is  spoken  with  the 
respect  it  deserves  in  this  part  of  Indiana. 

He  is  a  grandson  of  Joseph  and  Rachel 
(Horner)  Cowing  and  is  a  son  of  Gran- 
ville and  Lucy  (Moran)  Cowing.  The  life 
of  Granville  Cowing  covered  nearly  a  cen- 
tury. He  was  born  near  the  Town  of 
"Weston  in  Lewis  County,  in  what  is  now 
"West  Virginia,  March  1,  1824,  and  he  was 


taken  in  1830  by  his  parents  to  Fairfield, 
Ohio.  It  indicates  something  of  his  in- 
tellectual gifts  when  it  is  stated  that  before 
this  removal  he  had  learned  to  read  under 
private  instruction  at  home.  During  his 
youthful  days  he  served  an  apprenticeship 
at  the  printing  and  newspaper  business,  and 
came  to  the  maturity  of  his  powers  as  a 
journalist  in  the  critical  period  of  the  na- 
tion's history  covering  the  growing  hostil- 
ity to  the  institutions  of  slavery.  In  1849 
he  went  to  Washington,  D.  C,  and  spent 
a  year  with  the  National  Era,  at  that 
time  one  of  the  strongest  anti-slavery 
papers  of  the  country.  In  the  fall  of  1850 
he  was  appointed  to  a  position  in  the  sec- 
ond auditor's  office  of  the  treasury  depart- 
ment, and  remained  in  the  national  capi- 
tal for  six  years.  On  account  of  failing 
health  in  the  beginning  of  1857  he  returned 
to  Indiana,  and  soon  afterward  settled  up- 
on a  farm  close  to  the  City  of  Muncie, 
where  he  lived  until  his  death,  December 
20,  1917.  Though  his  later 'years  were 
spent  in  the  modest  occupation  of  farm- 
ing and  fruit  culture,  he  always  mani- 
fested a  keen  interest  in  politics  and  great 
social  questions,  and  frequently  contrib- 
uted articles  from  his  forceful  pen  to  mag- 
azines and  newspapers. 

On  the  old  home  farm  near  Muncie,  a 
place  originally  acquired  by  his  grand- 
father and  so  long  occupied  by  his  father, 
Doctor  Cowing  was  born  July  28,  1860. 
He  was  educated  in  the  common  schools, 
graduated  from  the  Muncie  High  School 
in  1882,  and  had  already  begun  teaching, 
a  vocation  he  followed  for  eight  years,  un- 
til 1887.  In  1886  Doctor  Cowing  took  up 
the  study  of  medicine  under  Dr.  G.  W.  H. 
Kemper  of  Muncie.  Later  he  attended  lec- 
tures at  the  Miami  Medical  College  in 
Cincinnati  and  was  granted  his  M.  D.  de- 
gree March  11,  1890.  On  the  24th  of  the 
same  month  he  began  a  partnership  with 
Doctor  Kemper  at  Muncie,  and  they  were 
associated  until  1897. 

Doctor  Cowing  served  as  secretary  in 
1893  and  president  in  1906  of  the  Dela- 
ware County  Medical  Society.  He  has  al- 
ways been  a  leader  in  medical  organiza- 
tions and  in  public  health  movements.  He 
is  a  member  of  the  Indiana  State  Medical 
Association,  the  American  Medical  Asso- 
ciation and  the  American  Public  Health 
Association.  In  1908  was  a  member  of  the 
Indiana    State    Committee    of    the    Inter- 


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national  Congress  on  Tuberculosis,  and  for 
twenty-three  years  served  as  secretary  of 
the    Delaware    County    Board    of   Health. 

In  April,  1917,  Doctor  Cowing  was  ap- 
pointed by  Governor  Goodrich  to  serve  as 
a  member  of  the  State  Board  of  Health 
of  Indiana,  and  the  board  then  elected  him 
vice  president.  He  was  elected  president 
of  the  board  in  April,  1919.  He  has  also 
been  president  of  the  Delaware  County 
Children's  Home  Association  and  of  the 
Delaware  County  Board  of  Children's 
Guardians. 

His  individual  experience  and  his  serv- 
ices to  the  medical  profession  at  large  are 
well  indicated  by  the  following  list  of  his 
contributions  to  literature :  Tobacco ;  Its 
Effect  upon  the  Health  and  Morals  of  a 
Community ;  Diseases  of  the  Cornea ;  Para- 
centesis Thoracis  published  in  the  Indiana 
Medical  Journal  of  May,  1892;  A  Case 
of  Tetanus;  Recovery,  in  the  same  journal 
January  1893 ;  Fracture  of  the  Skull ;  re- 
port of  two  cases  with  operation  and  re- 
covery, June,  1894;  report  of  a  case  of 
Purpura,  Cincinnati  Lancet  Clinic,  Janu- 
ary 27,  1894;  history  of  a  smallpox  epi- 
demic at  Muncie  in  1893,  and  management 
of  an  outbreak  of  smallpox,  Twelfth  An- 
nual Report  of  the  Indiana  State  Board 
of  Health,  1893 ;  How  Shall  we  Solve  the 
Tuberculosis  Problem?  1905;  The  Adul- 
teration of  Food  and  Drugs,  read  before 
the  Delaware  County  Medical  Society; 
Twins,  and  their  Relation  to  Obstetric 
Procedures,  1901 ;  The  Modern  Sanatorium 
Treatment  of  Tuberculosis,  1906,  before 
the  Indiana  State  Medical  Society ;  Shall 
Indiana  Improve  her  Laws  to  Regulate 
the  Practice  of  Medicine?  1906;  The 
Tuberculosis  Sanatorium,  1905,  read  be- 
fore the  Health  Officers  School  at  Indian- 
apolis ;  The  Relation  of  the  Physician  to 
the  Tuberculosis  Problem,  1906,  before  the 
American  Public  Health  Association  at 
Asheville,  North  Carolina;  The  Hospital 
and  the  Sanatorium  a  Necessity  in  the/ 
Combat  of  Tuberculosis,  1906 ;  and  Six 
Hundred  Cases  of  Labor  in  Private  Prac- 
tice, 1907,  before  the  Indiana  State  Medi- 
cal Society;  Need  for  the  Whole-Time 
Health  Officer,  read  before  the  Annual 
Health  Officers  Conference,  Indiana  State 
Board  of  Health,  1914. 

Doctor  Cowing  is  a  member  of  the 
Methodist  Episcopal  Church.  June  23, 
1892,  he  married  Miss  Alice  E.  Frey,  of 


Cincinnati.  They  have  two  children,  Kem- 
per Frey  Cowing  and  Rachel  Cowing.  His 
son  Kemper  recently  a  corporal  in  the 
Marine  Corps,  resides  in  Washington,  D. 
C,  and  is  a  successful  writer.  His  recent 
book,  "Dear  Folks  at  Home,"  the  story 
of  the  Marines  in  France,  was  published 
by  Houghton  Mifflin  Company,  Boston,  in 
January,  1919.  His  poem,  "When  Peace 
Comes,"  published  in  The  Educator- 
Journal,  Indianapolis,  January,  1919,  has 
received  very  favorable  criticism. 

Rev.  John  Christopher  Peters.  One 
of  the  fine  old  church  congregations  of 
Indianapolis  is  Zion's  Evangelical  Church, 
around  which  the  spiritual  aspirations  of 
a  large  community  have  rallied  for  three 
quarters  of  a  century.  For  almost  half 
of  this  time,  since  1883,  the  pastor  and 
spiritual  leader  has  been  Rev.  John  Chris- 
topher Peters. 

He  has  been  a  resident  of  America  and 
an  American  in  thought  and  action  since 
young  manhood.  His  birth  occurred  near 
Halberstadt  in  Saxony,  Germany,  Janu- 
ary 21,  1854.  His  parents  were  Andreas 
and  Sophia  (Rohrbeck)  Peters. 

The  only  child  of  his  parents  still  living, 
John  Christopher  Peters  in  early  youth 
determined  upon  a  ministerial  career,  and 
thus,  though  he  was  a  resident  of  Ger- 
many, through  his  twentieth  year  he  was 
exempted  from  military  duty.  He  attend- 
ed the  Mission  Seminary  in  Berlin,  and 
after  coming  to  the  United  States  in  1874 
he  entered  the  Pro-seminary  of  the  Evan- 
gelical Synod  of  North  America  at  Elm- 
hurst,,  Illinois.  From  there  he  entered 
Eden  College,  then  located  about  fifty 
miles  west  of  St.  Louis,  to  which  city  it  has 
been  removed.  Through  these  advantages 
and  having  made  a  favorable  impression 
upon  the  church  authorities  by  his  zeal 
and  readiness  to  assume  obligation,  he  was 
sent  as  a  missionary  to  Pawnee  County, 
Nebraska,  and  Nemaha  County,  Kansas. 
Among  the  German  families  of  those  coun- 
ties he  organized  the  Salem  Evangelical 
Church  at  Steinauer.  His  next  field  of 
labors  was  at  Creston,  Iowa,  where  he  or- 
ganized St.  John's  Evangelical  Church. 

His  work  at  Creston  has  been  further 
memorable  to  him  because  there  he  took 
out  his  first  papers  in  the  process  of 
qualifying  as  an  American  citizen.  He 
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when,  in  February,  1886,  the  last  paper 
and  proof  of  his  naturalization  was  made. 

Zion's  Evangelical  Church,  to  which  Mr. 
Peters  came  in  1883,  was  organized  in 
1841.  The  first  church  edifice  was  erected 
•at  32  West  Ohio  Street  in  1845.  The 
ground  cost  $750.  The  second  church  was 
built  on  the  same  lot,  but  in  1912,  when 
the  growth  of  the  congregation  necessi- 
tated another  location  and  a  larger  build- 
ing, it  was  determined  to  sell  the  original 
site,  which  had  become  valuable  for  busi- 
ness purposes  and  brought  a  price  of 
$105,000.  Having  bought  new  ground  at 
their  present  location,  the  congregation 
erected  a  church  costing  $138,000,  which  is 
still  one  of  the  better  examples  of  ecclesi- 
astical architecture  in  the  city. 

When  Rev.  Mr.  Peters  took  charge  of 
Zion's  Church  its  membership  consisted 
of  only  sixty-eight  soids.  Of  these  six  are 
still  living.  Today  this  congregation  com- 
prises 500  members  and  is  one  of  the  large 
and  flourishing  churches  and  an  effective 
instrument  of  good,  doing  much  to  build 
and  support  orphanages  and  other  insti- 
tutions and  all  causes  of  worthy  benev- 
olence. 

In  the  thirty-six  years  of  Eev.  Mr. 
Peters'  pastorate  he  has  officiated  at  2,700 
funerals.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Deacons' 
Society  and  is  vice  president  of  the  Ger- 
man Home  for  the  Aged.  He  is  a  pro- 
nounced believer  in  democratic  institu- 
tions, and  though  he  had  to  learn  the 
English  language  after  coming  to  this 
country  he  has  been  more  than  satisfied 
with  the  choice  which  led  him  here. 

In  1880  Mr.  Peters  married  Marie  Nes- 
tel,  daughter  of  Rev.  C.  Nestel,  of  Her- 
man, Missouri.  Their  married  companion- 
ship continued  for  twenty-seven  years,  un- 
til interrupted  by  her  death  in  1907.  By 
this  marriage  Mr.  Peters  has  one  child, 
who  is  now  the  wife  of  Rev.  P.  S.  Meyer 
of  Bethel  Evangelical  Church  in  St. 
Louis.  In  1908  Rev.  Mr.  Peters  married 
Elizabeth  Unger,  who  was  born  in  Ger- 
many, daughter  of  Rev.  Herman  Unger, 
who  during  the  boyhood  of  Mr.  Peters  had 
befriended  him  in  many  ways  and  did 
much  to  encourage  him  and  direct  his 
efforts  toward  a  higher  education. 

) 

Arthur  A.  Alexander.  For  over  fifty 
year  Alexander  has  been  one  of  the  promi- 
nent names  in  the  business,  financial  and 


civic  life  of  Franklin  and  Johnson  County. 
The  late  Robert  A.  Alexander  was  a  busi- 
ness man  and  banker  of  this  city  until  a 
few  years  ago,  and  his  son  Arthur  A.  has 
been  active  both  in  general  business  and 
banking  for  over  a  quarter  of  a  century. 

The  late  Robert  A.  Alexander,  who  died 
November  21,  1915,  established  a  hardware 
store  at  Franklin  in  1855.  For  a  number 
of  years  he  was  vice  president  of  the 
Franklin  National  Bank,  and  finally  be- 
came president  of  the  Citizens  National 
Bank  of  Franklin,  holding  that  office  until 
he  was  succeeded  by  his  son.  He  also 
served  as  a  member  of  the  board  of  direc- 
tors of  Franklin  College  for  a  number  of 
years.  Robert  A.  Alexander,  while  promi- 
nent in  business  and  a  man  of  large  affairs, 
resided  in  the  State  of  Indiana  his  entire 
life,  where  he  was  born  and  where  he  died, 
but  he  traveled  extensively.  He  married 
Serepta  E.  Riley,  who  died  August  30, 
1915.  They  had  only  two  children,  Ar- 
thur A.  and  Clara  A.,  now  deceased. 
Clara  married  Rev.  T.  N.  Todd,  a  minister 
of  the  Presbyterian  Church. 

Arthur  A.  Alexander  was  born  at  Frank- 
lin in  Johnson  County  July  1,  1870.  He 
was  educated  in  the  common  schools  and 
in  1883  entered  the  preparatory  depart- 
ment of  Franklin  College,  taking  the  scien- 
tific course  and  graduating  in  1890  with 
the  degree  Bachelor  of  Science.  He  is 
now  on  the  board  of  trustees  of  Franklin 
College. 

In  1891,  when  only  twenty-one  years  of 
age,  Mr.  Alexander  organized  the  Frank- 
lin Canning  Company  and  was  its  secre- 
tary for  a  number  of  years  and  also  a 
director.  For  several  years  he  was  located 
at  Campbellville,  Kentucky,  in  the  inter- 
ests of  the  Franklin  Lumber  Company,  of 
which  he  was  secretary,  treasurer  and  di- 
rector. In  1900,  returning  to  Franklin, 
he  resumed  his  active  connection  with  the 
business  life  of  this  city  and  in  1903  was 
appointed  vice  president  of  the  Citizens 
National  Bank.  In  1909  he  was  elected  his 
father's  successor  as  president  of  that  in- 
stitution. Mr.  Alexander  is  a  successful 
but  very  unassuming  business  man,  has 
associated  himself  with  the  best  things  in 
community  life,  and  has  always  been  gen- 
erous of  his  time  and  efforts  in  behalf 
of  those  who  are  deserving. 

As  a  banker  he  served  as  chairman  of 
both  the  first  and   second  campaigns  for 


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the  sale  of  liberty  bonds  in  Johnson  Coun- 
ty, and  he  has  also  added  to  the  gratifying 
results  of  this  county 's  contribution  to  war 
causes  as  a  member  of  the  executive  com- 
mittee of  the  Red  Cross.  Mr.  Alexander  is 
vice  president  of  the  Franklin  Building  & 
Loan  Company,  was  master  and  treasurer 
of  the  Masonic  Lodge  ten  years  and  is  a 
Knight  Templar  Mason. 

December  18,  1902,  he  married  Rose 
Willis  Tyner,  of  Fairfield,  Indiana,  daugh- 
ter of  Richard  H.  and  Anna  (Miller)  Ty- 
ner. Mrs.  Alexander  is  the  only  sister  of 
Mrs.  Albert  N.  Crecraft,  under  which 
name  on  other  pages  will  be  found  an  ex- 
tended account  of  the  prominent  Tyner 
family  and  its  connections.  Mrs.  Alexan- 
der is  chairman  of  the  woman's  commit- 
tee for  the  Third  Liberty  Loan  campaign 
in  Johnson  County.  Both  she  and  her  hus- 
band are  active  in  the  Presbyterian 
Church,  Mr.  Alexander  being  a  member  of 
the  board  of  deacons. 

Harmon  H.  Friedley.  No  one  appoint- 
ment of  Governor  Goodrich  since  he  took 
office  has  done  more  to  strengthen  the  con- 
fidence of  the  people  in  the  efficiency  of 
his  administration  than  when  he  selected 
Harmon  H.  Friedley  as  state  fire  marshal. 
Mr.  Friedley  is  not  a  politician,  and  has 
never  been  in  politics  more  than  any  good 
citizen  is.  The  field  of  his  work  for  many 
years,  and  that  in  which  he  has  gained 
special  distinction,  has  been  fire  insurance, 
and  it  was  as  an  expert  and  on  account 
of  his  long  and  honorable  record  in  in- 
surance circles  that  he  was  selected  for  the 
important  responsibilities  of  his  present 
office. 

Mr.  Friedley  is  a  native  of  Indiana, 
born  on  a  farm  in  Harrison  County  and 
reared  in  the  rural  districts  of  that  section 
of  the  state.  His  father,  Jacob  D.  Fried- 
ley, was  born  at  Bardstown,  Kentucky, 
in  1816.  In  1820,  when  four  years  of 
age,  he  was  brought  to  Indiana  by  his 
parents,  who  settled  on  what  was  known 
as  the  "Barrens"  in  Harrison  County, 
when  Corydon  was  still  the  state  capital. 
Henry  Friedley,  the  grandfather  of  the 
state  fire  marshal,  and  his  wife  spent  the 
rest  of  their  days  in  Harrison  County. 

Jacob  Friedlev  followed  farming  all  his 
active  career.  He  was  a  sturdy  character, 
in  keeping  with  his  Swiss  ancestry,  and 
was  a  man  of  powerful  physique.    He  was 


a  Methodist  class  leader  for  half  a  century 
and  noted  for  his  strict  probity  and  high 
standing  in  his  community.  He  married 
Elizabeth  Ann  Evans,  who  died  in  1844, 
the  mother  of  twelve  children.  The  oldest 
of  these  children  was  Francis  A.  Friedley,  - 
who  became  a  noted  Methodist  minister 
and  widely  known  over  practically  the  en- 
tire state  of  Indiana.  Jacob  Friedley  mar- 
ried a  second  wife  and  lived  until  1884. 
Most  of  the  men  of  the  Friedley  family 
have  been  farmers. 

Harmon  H.  Friedley  grew  up  on  the 
home  farm,  attended  school  during  the 
winter  months,  and  acquired  sufficient  edu- 
cation to  enable  him  to  pass  the  county 
superintendent's  examination  and  secure  a 
teacher's  certificate.  For  about  ten  terms 
he  taught  school,  and  with  the  means  thus 
secured  attended  higher  institutions  of 
learning.  He  put  in  two  terms  at  work  in 
the  old  Muncie  Central  Academy,  where 
he  came  under  the  instruction  of  those 
noted  educators,  Hamilton  S.  McCrea  and 
his  wife,  Emma  Mont  McCrea.  In  the 
fall  of  1872  he  entered  the  freshman  class 
of  the  Indiana  State  University  at  Bloom- 
ington,  and  was  there  through  the  junior 
year.  From  the  age  of  sixteen  Mr.  Fried- 
ley had  to  make  his  own  way  in  the  world. 
In  the  fall  of  1875,  leaving  university,  he 
bought  the  Bedford  Gazette,  and  operated 
that  paper  until  after  the  fall  election  of 
1876.  He  then  sold  out  and  the  material 
was  later  moved  to  Oskaloosa,  Iowa.  On 
leaving  newspaper  work  Mr.  Friedley  en- 
tered the  law  office  of  Putnam  &  Friedley, 
the  junior  member  being  his  cousin,  George 
W.  Friedley,  one  of  Indiana's  foremost 
lawyers.  He  was  clerk  in  this  office  and 
had  charge  of  some  of  the  minor  prac- 
tice of  the  firm  until  the  spring  of  1879. 
He  then  became  the  junior  member  in 
charge  of  the  Bloomington  branch  office 
of  the  firm  of  Friedley  &  Friedley.  While 
there  he  took  up  fire  insurance,  represent- 
ing the  Royal  Insurance  Company  of 
Liverpool. 

In  the  summer  of  1884  Mr.  Friedley 
was  made  special  agent  for  Indiana  of  this 
company,  and  a  few  months  later  removed 
to  Indianapolis.  With  the  exception  of 
five  years  Indianapolis  has  been  his  home 
ever  since.  This  period  of  five  years,  un- 
til 1901,  he  was  superintendent  of  the 
loss  department  of  his  company  at  Chi- 
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1901  he  represented  the  Insurance  Com- 
pany of  North  America  as  state  agent  and 
adjuster,  and  finally  as  general  adjuster. 
Insurance  men  generally  look  upon  him 
as  an  expert,  and  his  appointment  as  state 
fire  marshal  on  March  24,  1917,  had  the 
complete  support  of  the  insurance  frater- 
nity, which  in  itself  is  the  highest  testi- 
monial to  Mr.  Friedley 's  qualifications. 

In  politics  Mr.  Friedley  is  a  republican. 
He  married  in  lv881  Miss  Sybil  Hines. 
Her  father,  Jesse  Hines,  was  a  brick  con- 
tractor and  constructed  the  old  brick 
Union  Depot  at  Indianapolis.  Later  he 
moved  to  Bloomington.  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Friedley  have  one  child,  Jesse  Durr,  who 
is  a  graduate  of  Harvard  University  and 
in  the  development  of  his  special  talents 
attended  Kensington  Art  Schools  in  Lon- 
don, England.  He  is  now  assistant  cura- 
tor of  the  Metropolitan  Museum  of  New 
York  City. 

Orlando  D.  Haskett  is  head  of  the  0. 
D.  Haskett  Lumber  Company,  one  of  the 
larger  wholesale  and  retail  lumber  plants 
in  Indianapolis,  situated  on  Twenty-fifth 
Street  at  the  Lake  Erie  &  Western  Bail- 
way.  Mr.  Haskett  is  an  old  and  tried 
man  in  the  lumber  business,  both  in  the 
manufacturing  and  distribution  ends,  and 
is  also  representative  of  a  very  old  and 
honored  name  in  Indiana. 

He  was  born  in  Hamilton  County  of  this 
state  October  30,  1868.  His  father,  Daniel 
Y.  Haskett,  was  born  in  North  Carolina 
and  was  one  of  the  many  Quakers  of  that 
state  who  sought  homes  in  Indiana.  He 
came  to  this  state  at  the  age  of  twenty, 
first  locating  at  Germantown  in  Wayne 
County,  where  a  larger  part  of  the  popula- 
tion were  former  North  Carolinans.  Not 
long  afterward  he  bought  a  large  tract  of 
land  where  Tipton  is  now  located.  The 
entire  population  of  Tipton  at  that  time 
was  housed  in  a  single  small  log  cabin. 
After  a  few  years  he  moved  to  Hamilton 
County.  In  North  Carolina  he  was  an  ap- 
prenticed coach  maker,  but  in  Indiana  fol- 
lowed the  business  of  farming,  and  very 
profitably,  and  was  an  influential  citizen 
of  his  locality.  He  held  the  office  of  town- 
ship trustee,  and  as  a  young  man  voted 
with  the  whigs  and  later  was  an  active 
republican.  During  the  Civil  war  he  broke 
with  the  Quaker  Church,  in  which  he  had 
been  reared  and  to  which  he  had  always 


given  his  faithful  allegiance,  because  the 
church  would  not  endorse  the  active  war 
against  slavery.  During  that  period  he 
affiliated  with  the  Wesleyan  Methodist 
Church.  Later  he  resumed  his  member- 
ship in  the  Quaker  faith,  but  did  not  break 
his  bond  with  the  Masonic  fraternity, 
which  he  had  also  joined  during  the  period 
of  the  war.     Daniel   Y.   Haskett  died  in 

1902,  at  the  age  of  eighty-six  years.  He 
was  three  times  married.  His  first  wife 
was  Elizabeth  Godfrey,  and  two  of  the 
sons  of  that  marriage,  Caswell  W.  and 
Albert  A.,  were  soldiers  in  the  Union 
army.  Albert  is  still  living,  a  resident  of 
Hamilton  County,  Indiana.  Daniel  Y. 
Haskett  married  for  his  second  wife  Han- 
nah Lowry.  His  third  wife  and  the  mother 
of  Orlando  D.  Haskett  was  Hannah  B. 
Day,  who  was  born  near  Mooresville  in 
Morgan  County,  Indiana,  and  died  in  1892, 
at  the  age  of  fifty-eight. 

Orlando  D.  Haskett  spent  his  boyhood 
days  on  a  farm  in  Hamilton  County  and 
was  reared  under  the  influences  of  the 
Quaker  religion,  attending  the  Quaker 
Academy  at  Westfield.  At  the  age  of 
twenty  he  quit  school  and  went  out  on  the 
plains  of  Nebraska,  where  he  spent  a  year 
on  a  cattle  and  corn  ranch.  That  gave  him 
a  sufficiency  of  western  life  and  on  his  re- 
turn to  Indiana  he  lived  as  a  farmer  until 
his  marriage  on  May  8,  1890.  His  bride 
was  Elma  Talbert,  daughter  of  Milo  Tal- 
bert.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Haskett  have  one 
daughter,  Reba  E. 

After  his  marriage  Mr.  Haskett  became 
associated  with  his  brother-in-law,  O.  E. 
Talbert,  in  the  lumber  business  at  West- 
field.  That  was  the  beginning  of  an  active 
business  relation  which  has  continued  now 
for  over  a  quarter  of  a  century.  In  March, 
1893,  Mr.  Haskett  became  manager  of  the 
Cicero  Lumber  Company  and  in  1902  he 
went  to  Mississippi  to  become  president 
and  manager  of  the  Mount  Olive  Lumber 
Company  and  had  charge  of  the  three  saw 
mills   of  the   company  in  that  state.     In 

1903,  returning  to  Indiana,  he  located  at 
Indianapolis,  where  he  had  charge  of  the 
wholesale  department  of  the  Greer-Wilkin- 
son Lumber  Company  for  two  years.  He 
then  organized  the  Adams-Carr  Company, 
of  which  he  was  treasurer  and  manager, 
and  in  1909  became  vice  president  of  the 
Burnet-Lewis  Company.  His  last  change 
was  made  in  1914,  when  he  organized  the 


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0.  D.  Haskett  Lumber  Company  and  is 
now  head  of  a  business  which  represents  a 
large  investment,  of  capital  and  has  a  very 
pleasing  volume  of  business  throughout 
the  territory  served  by  Indianapolis  as  a 
lumber  center. 

Mr.  Haskett  has  been  a  man  of  affairs 
in  Indianapolis,  was  formerly  president  of 
its  Chamber  of  Commerce  and  president 
of  the  Greater  Indianapolis  Association. 
He  is  a  director  of  the  Associated  Em- 
ployers and  a  director  of  the  Commercial 
National  Bank.  He  also  belongs  to  the 
Marion  and  Columbia,  clubs,  is  a  repub- 
lican, a  member  of  the  Fourth  Presby- 
terian Church,  and  in  Masonry  is  affil- 
iated with  Ancient  Landmarks  Lodge, 
Ancient  Free  and  Accepted  Masons, 
Reaper  Commandery,  Knights  Templars, 
Murat  Temple  of  the  Mystic  Shrine,  the 
Modern  Woodmen  of  America,  and  retains 
his  membership  in  the  Knights  of  Pythias 
Lodge  at  Cicero,  of  which  he  is  past  chan- 
cellor. For  ten  years  he  has  been  a  deacon 
in  the  Presbyterian  Church. 

Arthur  Wylie,  secretary  and  manager 
of  the  Elwood  Lumber  Company,  has  com- 
pressed a  great  volume  of  substantial  ac- 
tivity into  his  comparatively  brief  career. 
He  enjoys  the  responsibilities  of  several 
official  connections  with  business  affairs  at 
Elwood,  and  is  alsdj  a  man  of  trusted 
leadership  in  civic  affairs. 

Mr.  Wylie  was  born  at  Stellarton,  Nova 
Scotia,  in  1873,  a  son  of  William  and  Mar- 
garet (McKenzie)  Wylie.  The  original 
borne  of  the  Wylies  was  in  Renfrewshire, 
Scotland.  His  grandfather,  Andrew  Wylie, 
was  born  there,  married  Agnes  Pollock, 
and  later  emigrated  with  his  family  to 
Nova  Scotia,  and  settled  at  Stellarton.  He 
had  five  children,  all  born  in  Scotland  ex- 
cept William,  who  was  born  at  Stellarton. 
William  Wylie  spent  his  life  in  Nova 
Scotia  and  for  many  years  conducted  a 
mercantile  business  at  Stellarton  and 
Spring  Hill.  He  died  at  Spring  Hill  in 
1897,  and  his  widow  is  still  livng  at  Stel- 
larton. They  had  six  children,  four  sons 
and  two  daughters. 

Fifth  in  age  among  the  family,-  Arthur 
Wylie  grew  up  in  his  native  province,  and 
attended  school  at  Stellarton  and  Spring 
Hill.  At  the  age  of  twelve  he  went  to 
work,  being  the  handy  boy  in  a  general 
store   for   a  year   and   a   half.     He   then 


clerked  in  a  drug  store,  and  practical  ex- 
perience enabled  him  to  pass  a  Board  of 
Provincial  Examiners  in  pharmacy,  and 
for  several  years  he  was  a  registered  phar- 
macist at  Amherst,  Nova  Scotia. 

Mr.  Wylie  came  to  the  United  States  in 
1896,  and  for  a  year  attended  the  Lincoln 
Business  College  at  Lincoln,  Illinois.  Then, 
in  1897,  he  came  to  Elwood  to  join  his 
uncle,  Alexander  McKenzie,  in  the  latter 's 
lumber  business.  He  worked  as  yard  man 
and  bookkeeper,  and  mastered  successively 
the  various  details  of  the  lumber  business, 
and  in  1904,  when  the  business  was  reor- 
ganized as  the  Elwood  Lumber  Company, 
he  became  a  stockholder  and  manager  and 
secretary.  This  is  one  of  the  important 
firms  of  its  kind  in  Madison  County,  has 
twelve  employes  on  the  pay  roll,  and  does 
a  large  business  throughout  the  surround- 
ing district  in  lumber,  planing  mill  work, 
building  hardware  and  coal. 

Mr.  Wyle  also  is  a  director  and  stock- 
holder in  the  Elwood  Rural  Savings  and 
Loan  Association.  In  1916-17  he  was  pres- 
ident of  the  Elwood  Chamber  of  Com- 
merce, and  has  been  elected  to  again  serve 
in  that  capacity  during  the  present  year. 
He  is  a  member  of  the  Indiana  State  Cham- 
ber of  Commerce.  He  is  also  secretary 
and  director  of  the  Powell  Traction  Com- 
pany of  Elwood.  He  is  president  of  the 
Public  Library  Board  of  Elwood,  is  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Columbia  Club  of  Indianapolis, 
and  is  a  Royal  Arch  Mason  chancellor 
commander  of  Elwood  Lodge  No.  166, 
Knights  of  Pythias,  a  member  of  the  Bene- 
volent and  Protective  Order  of  Elks,  the 
Independent  Order  of  Odd  Fellows,  and 
the  Improved  Order  of  Red  Men  at  El- 
wood. Politically  he  votes  his  sentiments 
as  a  republican  and  is  a  trustee  of  the 
Methodist  Episcopal   Church. 

In  1908  he  married  Miss  Laura  Belle 
Brown,  daughter  of  Dr.  H.  M.  and  Metta 
(Dowds)  Brown  of  Elwood.  Mrs.  Wylie 
is  prominent  in  social  and  civic  affairs  at 
Elwood,  especially  in  those  activities  de- 
signed to  promote  the  success  of  the  great 
war.  Since  April,  1917,  she  has  been  chair- 
man of  the  Woman's  Executive  Board  of 
the  Elwood  Chapter  of  the  Red  Cross.  She 
is  also  president  of  the  Department  Club, 
a  civic  organization  of  Elwood. 

Mr.  Wylie  has  been  active  in  all  war 
activities  and  was  chairman  of  the  Young 
Men's  Christian  Association  drive.    At  the 


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organization  of  the  first  company  of  In- 
diana Liberty  Guards  at  Elwood  he  was 
elected    captain,    and    was    later    commis- 
sioned lieutenant  colonel  of  the  Fifth  Kegi-  . 
ment. 

James  Noble  Tyner,  prominent  in  the 
public  life  of  Indiana  for  many  years,  was 
born  in  Brookville  of  this  state  in  1826. 
He  began  the  practice  of  law  in  Peru,  and 
a  few  years  later  was  chosen  to  Congress 
as  a  republican  to  fill  a  vacancy.  After  re- 
tiring from  that  office  he  was  appointed  by 
President  Grant  second  assistant  postmas- 
ter general,  and  from  the  resignation  of 
Marshall  Jewell  until  the  close  of  Grant's 
administration  he  was  postmaster  general. 
In  April,  1877,  he  became  first  assistant 
postmaster  general,  serving  in  that  office 
until  his  resignation  in  1881.  Mr.  Tyner 
was  the  delegate  from  the  United  States 
to  the  International  Postal  Congress  at 
Paris  in  1878. 

Charles  J.  Waits  is  now  rounding  out 
nine  years  of  consecutive  service  as  super- 
intendent of  the  city  school  system  of 
Terre  Haute.  Mr.  Waits  is  a  veteran  in 
the  educational  field,  and  has  filled  all 
grades  in  the  service  from  a  country  school 
teacher  to  head  of  a  big  independent  city 
school  system. 

Mr.  Waits  was  born  in  Jennings  County, 
Indiana,  March  5,  1863,  a  son  of  Reuben 
and  Nancy  (McGannon)  Waits,  the  former 
a  native  of  Ohio  and  the  latter  of  Indiana. 
He  was  the  third  child  and  second  son  in  a 
family  of  seven,  five  of  whom  reached  ma- 
turity. 

Professor  Waits  as  a  boy  attended  com- 
mon school  in  Jennings  County.  In  1884 
he  graduated  from  a  Quaker  Academy  at 
Azalia,  and  since  then  his  service  has  been 
almost  continuous  in  school  work,  though 
several  years  have  been  spent  in  higher 
institutions  of  learning  as  a  student.  In 
1889  he  graduated  from  the  Indiana  State 
Normal  School.  From  1889  to  1891  he  was 
principal  of  the  Prairie  Creek  School,  and 
then  entered  the  Indiana  State  University 
at  Bloomington  for  a  year.  During  1892-93 
he  was  principal  of  the  high  school  at 
Centerville  in  Wayne  County  and  then  re- 
entered Indiana  University,  where  he 
graduated  A.  B.  in  1894.  From  that 
year  until  1898  he  was  superintendent 
of  schools  at  Carlisle  in  Sullivan  County. 


During  1898-99  he  was  a  graduate  student 
in  the  University  of  Illinois,  from  which 
he  has  his  Master  of  Arts  degree.  In 
1899  Professor  Waits  came  to  Terre  Haute, 
was  head  of  the  mathematics  department 
of  the  high  school  for  five  years,  was 
principal  from  1904  to  1910,  and  in  the 
latter  yean  became  superintendent.  He 
has  done  much  to  vitalize  and  build  up  the 
local  schools,  and  is  one  of  the  broad 
minded  and  progressive  educators  of  the 
state  today. 

Professor  Waits  has  been  affiliated  with 
the  Independent  Order  of  Odd  Fellows 
since  1887.  In  1894  he  married  Minnie  B. 
Rundell  of  Owen  County,  Indiana.  They 
have  three  children,  Alice,  Agnes  and 
Charles. 

Theodore  Stempfel,  vice  president  of 
the  Fletcher-American  National  Bank  of 
Indianapolis,  has  been  a  resident  of  the 
capital  city  for  over  thirty  years,  and  came 
to  Indiana  with  a  thorough  training  in 
banking  acquired  during  his  early  youth 
in  Germany.  Mr.  Stempfel  has  had  many 
associations  with  the  business  life  of  his 
home  ctiy,  and  has  always  shown  the  in- 
clination to  make  his  business  position  a 
source  of  benefit  to  those  movements  and 
interests  which  constitute  the  community. 

Mr.  Stempfel  was  born  at  Ulm,  Wuer- 
temberg,  Germany,  September  20,  1863. 
AVhen  he  was  seven  years  of  age  he  lost 
both  his  parents.  He  turned  to  a  business 
career  and  for  two  years  worked  as  clerk  in 
one  of  the  leading  banking  houses  of  his 
native  city.  He  served  in  the  German 
army,  as  a  one  year  volunteer.  He  was 
then  nineteen  years  old,  and  on  being  let 
out  of  the  ranks  he  was  offered  an  assist- 
ant cashiership  in  the  bank  where  he  had 
formerly  served.  However,  just  at  that 
point  he  had,  as  he  says,  an  inspiration  to 
come  to  America.  Acting  on  this  inspira- 
tion he  came  direct  to  Indianapolis, 
whither  he  was  attracted  by  the  fact  that  a 
distant  relative  lived  here. 

His  first  experience  in  Indianapolis  was 
as  an  employe  of  the  wholesale  department 
of  Charles  Mayer  &  Company.  In  this 
establishment  many  of  the  German  Amer- 
ican citizens  of  Indianapolis  gained  their 
early  business  training.  Later  Mr.  Stemp- 
fel began  work  as  a  bookkeeper  with  the  H. 
Lieber  Company,  and  was  with  that  firm 
seven  years.     He  then  joined  other  local 


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men  in  organizing  the  Western  Chemical 
Company,  manufacturers  of  medicinal  tar 
products.  Within  one  year  three  dis- 
astrous fires  occurred  and  destroyed  the 
factory,  and  as  a  result  Mr.  Stempfel  lost 
all  the  savings  and  accumulations  of  eight 
years'  work  in  Indianapolis. 

Undismayed  by  temporary  adversity, 
Mr.  Stempfel  in  1893  went  to  work  as 
clerk  in  the  trust  department  of  the  In- 
diana Trust  Company.  He  remained  with 
that  prominent  financial  house  until  1900. 
Upon  the  organization  of  the  American 
National  Bank  in  that  year  he  was  made 
assistant  cashier,  and  filled  that  office  for 
ten  years  or  more.  With  the  consolidation 
of  the  American  National  with  the  Fletcher 
Bank  as  the  Fletcher-American  National 
Bank  Mr.  Stempfel  became  vice  president, 
and  is  now  one  of  the  executive  officers 
in  the  handling  of  one  of  the  largest,  if  not 
the  largest,  banks  of  Indiana,  an  institu- 
tion with  two  million  dollars  of  capital 
and  resources  of  upwards  of  twenty  mil- 
lions. In  1914  he  was  elected  as  a  member 
of  the  Indianapolis  School  Board. 

In  politics  Mr.  Stempfel  has  rigidly  ad- 
hered to  the  principle  of  independent  vot- 
ing, looking  to  the  qualifications  of  the  man 
and  the  principles  at  issue  rather  than 
party  affiliations.  He  is  well  known  in 
civic  and  social  affairs  of  Indianapolis,  and 
has  had  many  pleasant  relations  with  the 
literary  circles  of  the  city.  A  number 
of  years  ago  he  wrote  a  book  on  the  subject 
of  the  German-Americans  of  Indianapolis, 
which  was  published.  Mr.  Stempfel  mar- 
ried a  daughter  of  Herman  Lieber,  one  of 
the  best  known  of  the  old  time  citizens  and 
business  men  of  Indianapolis. 

William  F.  Fisher  is  active  head  and 
organizer  of  the  Capital  Contractors  Sup- 
ply Company  of  Indianapolis.  This  busi- 
ness was  organized  April  19,  1918,  but  had 
been  in  existence  under  another  name  for 
a  number  of  years.  It  handles  a  large 
volume  of  business  supplying  machinery 
and  other  materials  to  contractors,  and  its 
trade  relations  cover  practically  the  entire 
state  of  Indiana. 

Mr.  Fisher  was  born  at  Peru,  Indiana, 
December  19,  1885,  son  of  Frank  and 
Bridget  (Carr)  Fisher.  His  father,  who 
was  born  in  county  Donegal,  Ireland,  in 
1849,  came  alone  to  the  United  States  in 
1863  and  located  at  Indianapolis.    In  1875 


he  located  at  Peru,  Indiana,  and  was  con- 
nected with  the  Peru  Water  Works  Com- 
pany and  was  later  foreman  in  a  lumber 
yard  there  for  fifteen  years.  He  was  a 
man  of  successful  achievement,  of  honor- 
able character,  and  was  recognized  as  one 
of  Peru's  leading  citizens.  He  and  his  wife 
had  a  family  of  seven  sons  and  one  daugh- 
ter, all  living  but  one  son. 

William  F.  Fisher,  fifth  in  age  among 
the  children,  attended  parochial  schools  at 
Peru  and  also  St.  Joseph's  College  at 
Rensselaer.  For  one  year  he  was  in  the 
service  of  the  Northwestern  Railroad  Com- 
pany, was  for  three  years  traveling  auditor 
with  the  Wisconsin  Central  Railway,  and 
then  returned  to  Indiana  and  was  ap- 
pointed Pure  Food  Inspector  in  1909  by 
William  J.  Jones,  who  was  then  the  In- 
diana state  chemist.  After  a  short  time  he 
located  at  Indianapolis,  engaged  in  general 
railroad  work,  and  finally  took  over  the 
business  of  the  Albert  Zearing  Supply 
Company,  which  was  an  organization  fur- 
nishing supplies  and  machinery  to  all 
classes  of  contractors.  The  offices  of  the 
Capital  Contractors  Supply  Company  is  in 
the  Castle  Gall  Building  at  230  East  Ohio 
Street. 

Mr.  Fisher  is  a  Catholic,  a  Knight  of 
Columbus,  an  Elk  and  a  democrat.  His 
name  was  prominently  mentioned  in  con- 
nection with  the  candidacy  for  the  office 
of  county  sheriff  recently.  Mr.  Fisher 
married  April  7,  1910,  Miss  Mary  E. 
Walker. 

Hon.  William  A.  Roach.  Throughout 
the  past  twenty  years  the  name  William 
A.  Roach  has  been  one  of  growing  signifi- 
cance and  influence,  first  in  the  Town  of 
Delphi,  extending  from  that  over  Carroll 
County,  gradually  over  the  district,  and 
now  it  is  identified  with  one  of  the  strongest 
personalities  in  the  state,  every  Indianan 
recognizing  it  as  the  name  of  the  present 
secretary  of  state.  Mr.  Roach  is  a  lawyer 
by  profession,  and  his  ability  as  a  public 
leader  in  his  county  and  district  and  his 
efficient  business  methods  were  the  causes 
that  operated  most  powerfully  in  produc- 
ing his  appointment  to  the  office  of  sec- 
retary of  state  by  Governor  Goodrich  as 
successor  to  Ed  Jackson. 

Secretary  of  State  Roach  was  born  at 
Delphi,  Indiana,  December  24,  1874,  one  of 
four  children,  two  now  living,  born  to  Wil- 


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liam  and  Anna  (Morgan)  Roach.  William 
Roach,  a  native  of  Canada,  came  to  this 
country  at  the  age  of  nineteen  and  located 
at  Delphi,  Indiana,  in  1865.  There  for 
a  time  he  drove  a  team  for  a  local  con- 
tractor, and  afterwards  for  about  fourteen 
years  was  in  the  ice  business.  For  five 
years  he  lived  on  a  farm,  and  in  1888 
bought  an  interest  in  the  City  Flouring 
Mills  at  Delphi,  a  business  with  which  he 
is  still  identified.  His  life  has  been  one 
of  industry  and  integrity  and  he  is  one  ot 
Delphi's  most  honored  citizens.  His  first 
wife  died  in  1880,  and  he  afterward  mar- 
ried Lavina  Roach,  and  their  three  chil- 
dren are  still  living. 

William  A.  Roach  grew  up  at  Delphi, 
and  that  has  been  his  home  all  his  life. 
He  attended  the  Delphi  High  School,  and 
read  law  in  the  office  of  Michael  A.  Ryan. 
In  1895  he  entered  the  Indiana  Law 
School,  graduating  in  1896  as  a  member 
of  the  second  graduating  class  from  that 
school.  He  gained  his  first  experience  and 
won  his  first  cases  at  Delphi  while  prac- 
ticing in  the  office  of  his  preceptor,  and 
when  Mr.  Ryan  moved  to  Indianapolis  in 
1900  Mr.  Roach  succeeded  to  the  vacated 
offices.  In  the  same  year  he  was  made 
city  attorney  of  Delphi,  and  handled  all 
the  legal  business  of  the  city  for  five  years. 

Practically  from  the  time  he  began  prac- 
ticing law  he  has  been  a  figure  of  rising 
prominence  in  the  republican  party.  He 
served  as  secretary  of  the  Republican 
County  Central  Committee  in  1902  and 
1904,  was  chairman  of  the  County  Commit- 
tee in  1910  and  1912,  was  republican  chair- 
man of  the  Ninth  Congressional  District  in 
1914  and  1916,  and  had  much  to  do  with 
bringing  about  some  of  the  results  which 
were  so  noteworthy  in  the  republican  suc- 
cess in  Indiana  in  1916.  In  December, 
1917,  he  was  appointed  secretary  of  state 
by  Governor  Goodrich  as  successor  to  Ed 
Jackson,  who  had  been  elected  to  that 
office  in  1916. 

Mr.  Roach  is  affiliated  with  Delphi  Lodge 
No.  80.  Knights  of  Pythias,  Mount  Olive 
Lodge  No.  48,  Ancient  Free  and  Accepted 
Masons,  with  Red  Cross  Chapter  No.  21, 
Royal  Arch  Masons,  Delphi  Commandery 
No.  40,  Knights  Templar,  and  is  a  member 
of  Murat  Temple  of  the  Mystic  Shrine  at 
Indianapolis.  He  also  belongs  to  the  Co- 
lumbia Club  and  Marion  Club  of  Indian- 


apolis and  is  well  known  socially  in  both 
cities. 

October  6,  1897,  he  married  Miss  Georgia 
Newell,  of  Chicago.  Mrs.  Roach  was  born 
at  Rockfield  in  Carroll  County,  Indiana, 
a  daughter  of  Henry  M.  and  Julia  (Van 
Gundy)  Newell.  Her  maternal  grand- 
father, Adam  Van  Gundy,  was  one  of  the 
early  pioneers  of  Carroll  County. 

William  Wheeler  Thornton,  judge  of 
the  Superior  Court  of  Marion  County  and 
an  Indiana  lawyer  of  more  than  forty  years 
active  experience,  has  long  been  regarded 
both  at  home  and  abroad  as  one  of  the 
foremost  authorities  on  many  and  diverse 
subjects  of  jurisprudence.  Few  active 
members  of  the  profession  are  not  familiar 
with  his  work  as  an  author  and  editor,  and 
his  enduring  reputation  will  no  doubt  rest 
upon  his  extensive  contributions  to  legal 
literature,  though  his  active  services  on 
the  bench  and  bar  have  been  of  no  ordinary 
calibre. 

A  native  of  Indiana,  William  Wheeler 
Thornton  was  born  at  Logansport  June  27, 
1851.  He  has  behind  him  an  American 
ancestry  dating  back  to  colonial  days.  His 
great-grandfather,  James  Thornton,  was  a 
resident  of  North  Carolina  but  moved 
across  the  Allegheny  Mountains  to  JTigh- 
land  County,  Ohio,  about  1805.  In  1835 
he  came  with  his  family  to  a  farm  in  Cass 
County,  Indiana.  Judge  Thornton's  fore- 
fathers were  all  farmers,  and  he  inherited 
from  them  both  the  physical  and  mental 
attainments  that  are  associated  and  in- 
herent in  agricultural  pursuits.  His  grand- 
father was  William  Thornton.  Judge 
Thornton's  parents,  John  Allen  and  Ellen 
B.  (Thomas)  Thornton,  were  married  at 
Logansport,  his  father  being  a  native  of 
Ohio. 

Judge  Thornton  grew  up  on  a  farm  in 
Cass  County,  attended  district  schools,  the 
high  school  or  seminary  at  Logansport,  and 
also  the  old  Smithson  College,  a  Univer- 
salist  educational  institution  of  Cass  Coun- 
ty. He  read  law  with  an  uncle,  Henry  C. 
Thornton,  whose  son,  Henry  W.  Thornton, 
is  now  general  manager  of  the  Great  East- 
ern Railway  of  England.  Judge  Thornton 
began  the  study  of  law  at  Logansport  in 
1874,  and  in  October,  1875,  entered  the  law 
department  of  the  University  of  Michigan 
at  Ann   Arbor,   where  he  was   graduated 


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LL.B.  in  March,  1876.  He  opened  his  first 
office  at  Logansport,  hut  in  November,  1880, 
came  to  Indianapolis  as  deputy  attorney 
general  under  Daniel  P.  Baldwin.  He 
served  under  Mr.  Baldwin  and  Francis 
T.  Hord  until  January  1,  1883,  when  he 
resumed  private  practice  at  Crawfords- 
ville.  While  there  he  served  two  years  as 
city  attorney,  and  was  at  Crawfordsville 
until  August  1,  1889.  On  September  1  of 
that  year  he  was  appointed  librarian  of 
the  State  Supreme  Court.  In  February, 
1893,  he  resumed  private  practice  at  In- 
dianapolis, and  continued  to  handle  the 
diverse  litigation  entrusted  to  him  until 
he  became  judge  of  the  Superior  Court  of 
Marion  County  November  20,  1914. 

At  one  time  it  was  claimed  for  Judge 
Thornton  that  he  had  written  more  ar- 
ticles for  legal  periodicals  than  any  other 
one  man  in  America  or  England  except- 
ing only  two.  These  articles  appeared 
chiefly  in  the  Central  Law  Journal,  Al- 
bany Law  Journal,  American  Law  Reg- 
ister, Green  Bag,  Southern  Law  Review 
and  the  American  Law  Review.  Outside 
the  field  of  authorship  his  life  has  been 
an  extremely  busy  one,  and  at  one  time  he 
was  a  lecturer  in  the  Indiana  Law  School 
at  Indianapolis. 

The  works  of  authorship  by  which  he 
is  best  known  to  the  legal  profession  are 
noted  briefly  as  follows.  In  1887  he  pub- 
lished "Statutory  Construction,"  a  com- 
plement to  the  revised  statutes  of  1881. 
A  supplement  to  this  was  published  in 
1890.  Still  earlier,  1883,  he  edited  the 
Universal  Encyclopedia,  and  wrote  more 
than  half  of  its  articles.  This  work,  as  is 
generally  known,  consists  of  over  1,400 
pages  in  two  volumes  and  formed  the  basis 
for  the  American  and  English  Law  Ency- 
clopedia. That  was  followed  by  several 
articles  which  were  published  in  the 
American  and  English  Encyclopedia  of 
Law.  In  1888  appeared  his  book  "Juries 
and  Instruction."  In  1889,  associated  with 
others,  he  published  "Indiana  Practice 
Code,  Annotated."  His  small  volume  en- 
titled "Lost  Wills,"  appeared  in  1890.  In 
1891  his  "Indiana  Municipal  Law"  first 
appeared,  a  second  edition  being  issued  in 
1893,  while  a  sixth  edition  of  this  monu- 
mental work  was  published  in  1914.  In 
1893  was  published  "Railroad  Fences  and 
Private  Crossings,"  and  in  1893  two  vol- 
umes on  ' '  Indiana  Practice  Forms  for  Civil 


Proceedings."  Judge  Thornton  did  pioneer 
work  when  he  published  in  1893  "Gifts 
and  Advancements."  In  1893  he  prepared 
a  new  edition  of  the  "Annotated  Code" 
and  in  1907  a  third  edition.  Other  succes- 
sive works  are:  "Decedents'  Estates," 
1895;  "Revised  Statutes  of  Indiana," 
1897;  "Indiana  Township  Guide,"  1898; 
assisted  in  the  production  "Building  and 
Loan  Associations,"  1898;  "Government 
of  Indiana,"  1898;  "Oil  and  Gas,"  1904; 
Indiana  Negligence,  a  two  volume  work, 
1908;  prepared  a  treatise  on  "The  Statutes 
of  Congress  Concerning  the  Liability  of  In- 
terstate Railroads  to  their  Employes  En- 
gaged in  Interstate  Commerce,"  1911;  and 
this  reached  the  third  edition  in  1915;  "In- 
toxicating Liquors,"  1910;  "Pure  Food 
and  Drugs  Act,"  a  treatise  on  the  "Sher- 
man Anti-Trust  Statute,"  1912,  and  a  two 
volume  work,  "Indiana  Instruction  to 
Juries,"  1914.  His  work  on  "Indiana 
Township  Guide, ' '  reached  its  sixth  edition 
in  1919.  He  has  edited  several  editions  of 
the  school  laws  and  numerous  other  pam- 
phlets and  booklets  on  legal  subjects  in  ad- 
dition to  the  formal  treatises  above  named. 
Judge  Thornton  is  a  member  of  the  In- 
dianapolis and  Indiana  State  Bar  Associ- 
ations, is  a  republican,  a  Royal  Arch  and 
a  thirty-second  degree  Scottish  Rite  Mason 
and  a  member  of  the  Mystic  Shrine.  Jan- 
uary 25,  1882,  he  married  Miss  Mary  F. 
Groves,  of  Logansport,  who  died  July  22, 
1905.  June  20,  1911,  he  married  Irene  F. 
Blackledge,  of  Indianapolis. 

Capt.  David  D.  Negley.  One  of  the 
by-products,  as  it  were,  of  the  present 
great  world  conflict  is  the  increased  esteem 
paid  to  the  gallant  old  soldiers  of  our 
own  Civil  war,  whose  sacrifices  are  better 
understood  and  appreciated  in  the  light 
of  the  trials  and  ^sufferings  of  the  present 
generation.  One  of  the  oldest  survivors  at 
Indianapolis  of  that  four  year  war  in  which 
the  divided  states  were  again  joined  in  a 
complete  and  efficient  nation  is  Capt. 
David  D.  Negley,  who  recently  passed  his 
eighty-fourth  birthday.  Captain  Negley  is 
the  central  figure  in  a  family  that  has  been 
prominent  in  Marion  County  for  a  full 
century  even  before  Indianapolis  came 
into  being  a  city,  and  there  are  a  few  of 
the  older  Indiana  families  whose  records 
can  be  more  worthly  recalled  at  this  time. 

It  was  nearly  a  century  before  Captain 


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Negley 's  birth  in  Marion  County  that  his 
ancestors  found  a  home  in  America.  He 
is  descended  from  Jacob  Negley,  a  native 
of  Switzerland  and  a  zealous  follower  of 
the  teachings  of  the  Protestant  Reformer 
Zwingli.  It  was  largely  on  account  of 
religious  differences  that  he  left  Switzer- 
land and  went  to  Germany,  where  he  mar- 
ried in  1734  a  good  woman  whose  Christian, 
name  was  Elizabeth.  In  Germany  he  be- 
came a  teacher  of  the  Protestant  religion, 
but  in  1739,  with  his  wife  and  three  chil- 
dren, set  sail  for  America.  He  died  while 
on  the  voyage  and  was  buried  at  sea.  The 
rest  of  the  family  continued  on  their  way 
and  established  a  home  in  Bucks  County, 
Pennsylvania.  The  three  children  were 
named  Alexander,  Caspar  and  Elizabeth. 
Alexander  became  the  founder  of  a  promi- 
nent family  in  and  around  Pittsburgh,  to 
which  locality  he  moved  in  1778  and  took 
part  in  the  organization  cf  the  first  Ger- 
man United  Evangelical  Church,  the  first 
church  organization  of  the  city.  Among 
his  descendants  was  Gen.  James  S.  Negley. 
Alexander's  brother  Caspar  moved  from 
Pennsylvania  to  the  wilderness  of  Ohio  and 
settled  in  the  southern  part  of  the  state. 
Prom  him  are  descended  various  families 
of  the  name  now  found  in  the  central  and 
western   states. 

Peter  Negley,  a  grandson  of  Caspar  and 
grandfather  of  Captain  Negley,  under  the 
promptings  of  the  pioneer  spirit  finally 
came  from  Butler  County,  Ohio,  to  Marion 
County,  Indiana,  and  in  1819,  two  years 
before  Indianapolis  was  established  as  a 
capital  of  the  state,  took  up  his  home  at  the 
little  town  of  Millersville.  His  old  log 
cabin  home  was  still  used  as  a  dwelling 
until  about  1905  and  was  probably  the 
oldest  structure  in  actual  use  for  any  pur- 
pose in  the  county.  Millersville  was  a 
rather  important  stopping  place  between 
the  settlements  of  Upper  Pall  Creek  and 
Lower  White  River.  In  that  community 
Peter  Negley  was  a  farmer,  miller  and 
distiller,  and  altogether  one  of  the  historic 
characters  of  the  pioneer  epoch  of  Marion 
County. 

His  son  George  married  Elizabeth  Lud- 
wic  and  acquired  and  developed  a  sub- 
stantial farm  along  Fall  Creek.  He  was 
one  of  the  pioneer  preachers  of  the  Meth- 
odist Episcopal  Church  and  made  his  in- 
fluence count  for  good  in  both  the  social 
and     material     development     of     Marion 


County.    He  and  his  wife  were  the  parents 
of  twelve  children. 

One  of  these  children  was  David  Dun- 
can Negley,  who  was  born  at  the  old  home- 
stead in  Lawrence  Township  of  Marion 
County  September  22,  1835.  He  had  only 
the  advantages  of  the  primitive  schools  of 
his  locality,  and  at  the  age  of  fourteen, 
when  his  father  died,  took  upon  himself 
heavy  responsibilities  in  aiding  his  mother 
to  manage  the  farm  and  provide  necessi- 
ties for  the  younger  children.  To  these 
duties  he  devoted  himself  until  at  the  age 
of  twenty-five  the  great  war  broke  out  be- 
tween the  states. 

In  the  first  summer  of  the  rebellion  he 
and  his  two  brothers  Peter  L.  and  John 
W.  left  the  home  farm  in  charge  of  their 
mother  and  another  brother,  George  W., 
and  on  August  31,  1861,  David  D.  Negley 
was  mustered  into  Company  H  of  the 
Eleventh  Indiana  Volunteer  Infantry,  com- 
manded by  Col.  Lew  Wallace.  His  captain 
was  Frederick  Knefler,  afterward  General 
Knefler,  and  under  his  strict  discipline 
he  rose  to  the  rank  of  orderly  sergeant.  He 
was  with  his  command  at  Fort  Donelson, 
Fort  Henry  and  Pittsburgh  Landing  or 
Shiloh.  In  the  second  day's  fighting  at 
Shiloh  he  was  seriously  wounded  and  with 
other  wounded  men  was  brought  home  by 
a  party  personally  conducted  by  Governor 
Morton.  As  soon  as  he  had  recovered  his 
strength  he  was  assigned  to  duties  at  home 
in  recruiting  and  was  also  made  provost 
marshal.  Early  in  the  war  he  had  become 
a  personal  friend  of  Governor  Morton,  who 
appointed  him  to  the  duties  of  provost 
marshal.  This  was  an  office  exposing  him 
to  constant  danger  since,  as  is  well  known, 
Indiana  had  large  numbers  of  the  Tory 
element  and  his  vigilance  and  determined 
course  in  ferreting  out  the  Knights  of 
the  Golden  Circle  and  suppressing  their 
nefarious  activities  made  him  a  marked 
man  and  daily  exposed  to  personal  injury 
and  insult.  The  responsibilities  of  such 
a  position  can  be  better  appreciated  at  the 
present  time  than  at  any  period  since  the 
close  of  the  Civil  war.  Eventually  Cap- 
tain Negley  recruited  a  new  company  of 
volunteers,  and  on  January  16,  1864,  was 
commissioned  captain  of  Company  C  of 
the  One  Hundred  and  Twenty-fourth  In- 
diana Volunteer  Infantry.  With  this  or- 
ganization he  went  to  the  front  and  led 
his  men  until  at  the  battle  of  Franklin, 


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Tennessee,  toward  the  close  of  that  year, 
he  and  his  company  were  sacrificed  at 
Franklin  Ford  in  order  to  enable  the  re- 
mainder of  the  army  to  make  good  their 
retirement  from  that  section  of  a  hotly  con 
tested  battle  ground.  He  was  captured  by 
the  enemy  and  was  soon  sent  to  Ander- 
sonville  Prison,  where  he  endured  all  the 
terrible  hardships  of  starvation  fare  and 
the  cruelties  imposed  upon  the  unfortunate 
Union  men  who  were  kept  in  that  notorious 
stockade.  He  was  not  exchanged  until 
shortly  before  the  closei  of  the  war  and 
was  so  weakened  by  prison  life  that  he 
did  not  enter  active  service. 

With  the  close  of  the  war  Captain  Neg- 
ley  returned  to  farming  and  stock  raising 
in  Marion  County  and  became  one  of  the 
local  leaders  in  that  business.  A  number 
of  years  ago  he  retired  to  a  home  in  In- 
dianapolis. He  has  long  been  one  of  the 
prominent  and  influential  republicans  of 
Marion  County,  at  one  time  served  as  pres- 
ident of  the  board  of  trustees  of  the  subur- 
ban town  of  Wrightwood,  and  is  a  member 
of  the  Masonic  order  and  the  Grand  Army 
of  the  Republic. 

March  10,  1864,  in  one  of  the  intervals 
of  his  service  to  the  state  and  government, 
he  married  Miss  Margaret  Ann  Hildebrand. 
She  was  born  and  reared  in  Marion  County, 
daughter  of  Uriah  and  Delilah  (O'Rourke) 
Hildebrand,  early  settlers  in  this  part  of 
Indiana.  Her  mother  was  a  native  of  Ire- 
land. Captain  Negley  and  wife  became  the 
parents  of  nine  children,  three  of  whom 
died  in  infancy. 

Harry  Elliott  Negley,  one  of  the  sons  of 
Captain  Negley,  has  attained  distinctive 
prominence  and  success  as  a  lawyer  and 
is  one  of  the  well  known  public  men  of 
Indiana.  He  was  born  on  his  father's 
farm  in  Lawrence  Township  of  Marion 
County  August  31,  1866,  the  oldest  of  his 
father's  children.  His  mother  died  in 
1893.  Though  his  active  life  has  been 
largely  spent  in  the  City  of  Indianapolis, 
he  has  always  regarded  it  as  fortunate  that 
his  early  environment  was  a  farm  with  all 
its  wholesome  atmosphere  and  its  incentive 
to  good,  honest  toil.  He  attended  the  pub- 
lic schools,  the  high  school  at  Brightwood, 
studied  law  privately  and  in  1890  entered 
the  law  office  of  Harding  &  Hovey  at  In- 
dianapolis. He  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in 
November  of  the  same  year  and  opened  his 
first   office   at   Indianapolis   in   November, 


1894.  For  over  twenty  years  Mr.  Negley 
has  been  recognized  as  one  of  the  strong 
and  resourceful  attorneys  of  Indiana, 
has  conducted  a  general  practice,  and 
has  become  especially  well  known  as  an 
authority  on  real  estate  titles.  At  one  time 
he  was  associated  in  practice  with  the  late 
Judge  William  Irvin,  former  judge  of  the 
Criminal  Court,  and  until  1906  he  shared 
offices  with  Judge  James  A.  Pritchard,  who 
in  the  latter  year  was  elected  to  the  Crim- 
inal Court  bench. 

Mr.  Negley  has  been  prominent  in  city 
affairs  and  in  local  republican  politics.  In 
1899  he  was  elected  from  the  First  Ward 
to  the  Common  Council  and  was  chosen 
by  a  greatly  increased  majority  as  his  own 
successor  in  1901.  Throughout  his  term 
in  the  council  he  was  the  only  lawyer 
member,  and  his  colleagues  naturally  re- 
ferred to  him  nearly  every  question  in- 
volving legal  phases  of  municipal  legisla- 
tion. During  his  second  term  he  was 
elected  secretary  of  the  Marion  County 
Republican  Central  Committee.  Mr.  Neg- 
ley is  now  one  of  the  state  senators  of  In- 
diana, having  been  elected  from  Marion 
County  in  1916.  In  the  session  of  1917 
he  was  made  chairman  of  the  committees 
on  prison  and  of  soldier  and  sailors  monu- 
ments. In  the  Legislature  he  chose  the  role 
of  a  vigilant  and  uncompromising  oppon- 
ent of  bad  and  ill  advised  legislation  and 
performed  a  more  valuable  service  in  that 
respect  than  if  he  had  exerted  himself  to 
introduce  a  number  of  inconsequential 
measures.  In  the  Senate  he  had  charge  of 
the  bill  calling  for  a  new  state  constitu- 
tional convention,  a  non-partisan  measure 
which  passed  with  the  votes  of  seventeen 
republicans  and  seventeen  democrats.  Mr. 
Negley  has  always  been  a  great  admirer 
of  Abraham  Lincoln,  and  a  special  honor 
was  given  him  when  he  was  chosen  to  de- 
liver the  eulogy  on  the  great  emancipator 
in  the  State  Senate  on  Lincoln's  birthday, 
February  12,  1917.  In  passing  it  should 
be  noted  that  this  memorial  address  called 
out  a  grateful  letter  of  appreciation  from 
Hon.  Robert  T.  Lincoln.  The  address  was 
widely  published  and  read  all  over  Indiana, 
and  without  attempting  to  give  any  idea  as 
to  its  merits  or  contents  the  following 
sentences  are  interesting  as  indicating  some 
of  Mr.  Negley 's  individual  ideals  in  poli- 
tics. Analyzing  Mr.  Lincoln's  political 
character,  he  says:  "His  manhood  was  de- 


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veloped  in  a  period  when  statesmanship 
was  a  dignified  honor  and  not  a  trade. 
When  the  only  known  method  of  swaying 
the  minds  of  others  was  by  earnest  and 
honest  argument  and  not  by  studied  sub- 
terfuge and  deception.  It  was  only  natural 
that  in  any  community  in  which  he  might 
be  found  he  should  rise  to  a  prominent 
place,  for  his  every  thought  was  for  cleaner, 
bigger  and  better  things  than  then  sur- 
rounded him ;  and  the  thought  that  they 
might  be  attained  by  the  political  tricks 
of  the  unscrupulous  politician  never  found 
lodgment  in  his  brain.  He  was  astute  in 
the  analyzing  of  a  political  situation,  but 
he  met  it  always  face  to  face  with  argu- 
ments which  all  could  understand."  Upon 
the  organization  of  the  Session  of  1919  of 
the  Indiana  State  Senate  Mr.  Negley  was 
elected  by  the  other  members  as  president 
pro  tempore,  which  position  carried  with 
it  the  floor  leadership  of  the  republican 
majority  during  that  session. 

Mr.  Negley  has  been  quite  active  in 
fraternal  affairs,  is  affiliated  with  Millers- 
ville  Lodge  No  126,  Free  and  Accepted 
Masons,  and  Clifton  Lodge  No.  544, 
Knights  of  Pythias.  He  is  a  past  sachem 
of  the  Improved  Order  of  Red  Men. 

On  June  1,  1895,  Mr.  Negley  married 
Miss  Edith  Lee  Grandy,  youngest  daugh- 
ter of  Rev.  Ira  B.  and  Julia  (Lee)  Grandy. 
Mrs.  Negley  was  born  at  Mount  Carmel, 
Franklin  County,  Indiana,  November  14, 
1869.  Her  father  was  a  clergyman  of  the 
Universalist  Church.  Her  mother  was  a 
descendant  of  the  Lee  family  of  Virginia. 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Negley  have  one  child,  Mar- 
garet Lee  Negley,  born  December  29,  1902, 
who  has  the  distinction  of  having  an  an- 
cestral line  on  her  paternal  side  of  one 
hundred  years  continuous  legal  residence 
in  Marion  County. 

A.  A.  Charles  is  a  prominent  Kokomo 
manufacturer,  president  of  the  Kokomo 
Steel  and  Wire  Company,  and  a  man 
whose  experience  in  American  industry 
covers  more  than  forty  years.  He  is  one 
of  the  men  properly  credited  with  a  large 
share  of  Kokomo 's  present  prosperity  as  a 
manufacturing  and  civic  center. 

Mr.  Charles  was  born  in  New  Jersey  De- 
cember 3,  1852,  son  of  John  and  Amanda 
(Loper)  Charles.  He  is  of  English  an- 
cestry, and  the  Charles  family  has  been  in 
New    Jersey    since    colonial    times.     His 


grandfather  spent  his  life  in  that  state  as 
a  farmer.  He  was  a  very  fine  type  of  citi- 
zen and  was  extremely  interested  in  the 
Methodist  Church,  and  that  religious  affil- 
iation has  continued  to  be  a  characteristic 
of  his  descendants.  Of  his  ten  children 
John  Charles  was  the  second  in  age,  was 
educated  in  public  schools  of  New  Jersey, 
and  for  many  years  was  connected  with  a 
canned  goods  packing  house.  After  re- 
tiring from  that  business  he  spent  twenty 
years  of  his  life  on  a  farm  in  Bridgton, 
New  Jersey.  He  was  also  a  devout  Meth- 
odist, was  a  class  leader  and  always  prom- 
inent in  the  musical  activities  of  his 
church.  He  was  a  democrat  in  politics. 
John  and  Amanda  Charles  had  five  chil- 
dren, four  sons  and  one  daughter.  The 
daughter  is  now  deceased,  but  the  sons  are 
all  living. 

A.  A.  Charles  was  educated  in  the  public 
schools  of  his  native  state,  and  as  a  boy 
went  to  work  to  earn  his  living  in  a  pack- 
ing house.  For  thirty  years  he  continued 
to  live  in  New  Jersey,  and  on  coming  west 
located  in  Howard  County,  Indiana,  bring- 
ing with  him  a  wife  and  daughter.  He  set 
up  the  machinery  to  make  tin  cans  for 
Jim  Polk,  of  Greenwood,  Indiana,  but  soon 
resumed  his  business  in  food  packing,  and 
with  N.  S.  Martz  organized  and  promoted 
the  Brookside  Canning  Works,  under  the 
firm  name  of  Charles  &  March.  Three 
years  later  G.  W.  Charles,  a  brother  of 
A.  A.,  bought  the  interest  of  Mr.  Martz, 
and  the  business  was  continued  by  the 
Charles  Brothers  for  a  number  of  years. 
A.  A.  Charles  also  erected  a  large  packing 
can  goods  factory  at  Warsaw,  Indiana,  and 
operated  it  for  five  years.  Mr.  Charles  on 
returning  to  Kokomo  became  interested  in 
the  Globe  Steel  Range  Company.  Later 
he  organized  the  Kokomo  Steel  &  Wire 
Company,  which  company  occupies  the  en- 
tire fifth  floor  of  the  Citizens  Bank  Build- 
ing for  offices.  They  built  the  North  End 
Wire  Mill,  a  rod  mill,  a  galvanizing  mill 
and  nail  mill,  and  the  company  now  has 
one  of  the  largest  and  most  complete  plants 
of  the  kind  in  the  United  States.  The 
business  was  started  in  1895,  and  the  first 
year  the  volume  of  sales  aggregated  $100,- 
000,  whereas  now  the  yearly  aggregate  is 
more  than  $8,000,000.  '  Mr.  *A.  A.  Charles 
is  president  of  the  company,  G.  W.  Charles 
is  treasurer,  and  J.  E.  Frederick  is  sec- 
retary. 


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A.  A.  Charles  is  one  of  the  founders  of 
the  Great  American  Refining  Company  at 
Jennings,  Oklahoma,  and  is  one  of  its  di- 
rectors. He  is  also  heavily  interested  in 
Haytian  American  Corporation  Syndicate 
of  New  York,  is  a  stockholder  and  director 
in  Haynes  Automobile  Company  and  the 
Sedan  Body  Company  of  Union  City,  In- 
diana, and  he  has  been  connected  with 
the  Citizens  National  Bank  and  has  been 
on  its  board  of  directors  since  its  organiza- 
tion. 

Mr.  Chaises  during  his  long  residence 
at  Kokomo  has  identified  himself  with  a 
number  of  other  business  and  civic  enter- 
prises. He  has  given  much  of  his  time  to 
the  Methodist  Church,  and  out  of  his  in- 
dividual contributions  one  church  of  that 
denomination  in  Kokomo  was  largely 
built.  Mr.  Charles  is  affiliated  with  the 
Benevolent  and  Protective  Order  of  Elks. 
He  married  Miss  Lydia  Riley,  of  New  Jer- 
sey. Their  daughter,  Edna,  is  now  Mrs. 
R.  Conrad,  of  Warsaw,  Indiana. 

Dr.  Hubbard  M.  Smith,  a  well  known 
physician,  writer  and  educator,  located  in 
Vincennes,  Indiana,  in  1847,  following  his 
graduation,  and  in  Vincennes  he  began  the 
practice  of  medicine,  and  there  he  con- 
tinued its  work  until  his  death  in  1907.  He 
was  the  first  physician  in  that  city  to  recog- 
nize the  presence  of  cholera  in  1849. 

Doctor  Smith  was  patriotic  in  the  in- 
terests of  his  city,  state  and  nation,  and 
outside  the  work  of  his  chosen  profession 
he  was  also  a  poet  and  author  of  recognized 
ability. 

Henry  W.  Klausmann.  Considering  his 
achievements  and  experience  of  more  than 
a  quarter  of  a  century  Henry  W.  Klaus- 
mann deserves  to  rank  among  Indiana's 
leading  civil  and  construction  engineers. 
Much  of  his  service  has  been  of  a  public 
nature,  in  connection  with  the  county  sur- 
veyor's office  and  the  city  engineer's  re- 
sponsibilities at  Indianapolis,  though  he 
has  also  handled  a  large  and  extensive 
private  practice. 

Mr.  Klausmann  was  born  at  Centralia. 
Marion  County,  Illinois,  September  2,  1868, 
son  of  Henry  and  Ernestina  (Hansslar), 
Klausmann.  Both  parents  were  natives  of 
Germany,  the  father  a  cabinet  maker  by 
profession,  and  in  1878  they  removed  to 
Indianapolis,     where     Henry     Klausmann 


died  November  21,  1909.  They  were  the 
parents  of  three  children,  the  two  now 
living  being  Henry  W.  and  Lena,  wife  of 
Rudolph  H.  Henning  of  Indianapolis. 

Henry  W.  Klausmann  received  most  of 
his  education  in  the  Indianapolis  public 
schools,  and  he  showed  a  decided  inclina- 
tion for  mathematics  as  a  boy  and  per- 
fected his  knowledge  in  that  science  largely 
by  self  application  and  by  instruction 
under  private  tutors.  He  also  served  an 
apprenticeship  at  the  wood  carving  trade, 
that  being  while  he  was  still  in  school,  and 
study  and  experience  have  developed  in 
him  a  high  proficiency  in  architecture  as 
well  as  in  civil  engineering.  Mr.  Klausmann 
has  been  steadily  engaged  in  his  profession 
as  a  civil  engineer  since  1891.  For  six 
years  he  served  as  deputy  county  surveyor 
of  Marion  county  and  in  1901  was  ap- 
pointed county  surveyor  and  filled  that 
office  by  three  successive  elections  until 
January,  1910.  At  that  date  he  was  ap- 
pointed by  the  mayor  of  Indianapolis  to 
the  office  of  city  engineer.  After  return- 
ing from  this  office  Mr.  Klausmann  was 
engaged  until  1918  in  engineering  and  con- 
struction work.  Among  other  buildings 
that  attest  his  skill  may  be  mentioned  the 
City  Trust  and  Occidental  buildings  at 
Indianapolis,  the  Coliseum  at  Evansville, 
a  large  addition  to  the  French  Lick  Hotel 
at  French  Lick,  and  the  Marion  National 
Bank  building  at  Marion. 

In  January,  1918,  by  appointment  from 
Mayor  Charles  W.  Jewett,  Mr.  Klausmann 
returned  to  the  public  service  as  city  civil 
engineer  of  Indianapolis.  He  is  already 
thoroughly  familiar  with  many  of  the  tech- 
nical problems  connected  with  municipal 
engineering  in  Indianapolis,  and  his  pre- 
vious experience  gives  him  the  highest 
qualifications  for  effective  and  valuable 
service  to  his  home  city. 

Mr.  Klausmann  is  in  fact  one  of  the  men 
of  broad  and  exceptional  interests  and  most 
varied  associations  with  the  life  and  affairs 
of  the  capital  city.  He  is  well  known  in 
musical  circles,  and  for  many  years  was 
musical  director  of  the  Indianapolis  Mili- 
tary Band.  He  has  also  done  much  or- 
chestral work.  In  republican  politics  he 
has  served  as  chairman  of  the  Republican 
City  Committee  of  Indianapolis.  He  is  a 
member  of  the  Indianapolis  Commercial 
Club,  the  Marion  Club,  the  Turnverein,  and 
the  Indianapolis  Liederkranz. 


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Mr.  Klausmauu  has  an  interesting  Ma- 
sonic record,  his  affiliations  being  with  the 
Oriental  Lodge  No.  500,  Free  and  Ac- 
cepted Masons,  Keystone  Chapter  No.  6, 
Royal  Arch  Masons,  Raper  Commandery 
No.  1  Knights  Templar,  Indiana  Consis- 
tory of  the  Scottish  Rite,  in  which  he  lias 
attained  the  thirty-second  degree,  and 
Murat  Temple  of  the  Mystic  Shrine.  In 
December,  1916,  he  was  elected  illustrious 
potentate  of  Murat  Temple,  and  for  one 
year  under  trying  circumstances  accept- 
ably and  efficiently  served  as  exe&utive 
head  of  that  organization.  He  is  also  a 
member  of  Indianapolis  Lodge  No.  56, 
Knights  of  Pythias. 

Mr.  Klausmann  married  September  27, 
1893,  Miss  Jessie  Coyner,  who  was  born 
and  reared  in  Indianapolis,  daughter  of 
John  V.  and  Anna  (Anderson)  Coyner. 
Her  grandfather,  Martin  M.  Coyner,  was 
one  of  the  pioneer  contractors  of  Indian- 
apolis. John  V.  Coyner  was  a  civil  en- 
gineer and  for  a  number  of  years  he  and 
Mr.  Klausmann  were  associated  together 
professionally.  Mr.  Coyner  was  for  six 
years  county  surveyor  of  Marion  County. 
He  died  at  Indianapolis  in  1905.  Of  the 
two  children  born  to  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Klaus- 
mann the  older,  Catherine,  died  in  infancy. 
The  other  is  Berthelda  E. 

M.  H.  Camden.  During  the  last  ten 
years  some  of  those  transactions  that  have 
made  history  in  Indianapolis  real  estate 
have  been  arranged,  negotiated  for  and 
transacted  by  M.  H.  Camden.  Mr.  Cam- 
den is  now  senior  member  of  the  firm  Cam- 
den &  Foster,  real  estate,  with  offices  in  the 
Hume-Mansur  Building. 

His  home  has  been  in  Indianapolis  for 
a  number  of  years,  but  his  boyhood  was 
spent  in  the  rural  districts  of  Decatur 
County,  Indiana,  where  he  was  born  Oc- 
tober 12,  1870,  a  son  of  James  Oscar  and 
Margaret  A.  (Hooten)  Camden.  The 
father  was  a  native  of  Virginia.  When  a 
young  man  he  was  enrolled  in  the  service 
of  the  Confederate  army,  but  had  no  taste 
for  service  with  the  secession  forces,  and 
finally  deserted  from  the  ranks  and  reached 
the  Union  State  of  Ohio.  At  Jackson, 
Ohio,  he  regularly  enlisted  in  the  Union 
army,  and  saw  active  service  with  an  in- 
fantry regiment  and  was  on  the  firing  line 
most  of  the  time  until  discharged.  After 
leaving  the  military  service  he  came  to  In- 


diana and  located  in  Decatur  County, 
where  he  became  a  farmer.  Later  he  lived 
in  Shelbyville,  and  in  1893  came  to  In- 
dianapolis, where  for  a  time  he  owned 
and  operated  a  dairy.  Later  he  sold  this 
property  and  lived  retired  until  his  death 
on  February  22,  1898. 

M.  H.  Camden  was  second  in  a  family 
of  three  children.  He  obtained  his  early 
education  in  the  public  schools  of  Decatur 
County,  and  at  the  age  of  thirteen  began 
earning  his  first  money  as  a  farm  laborer 
at  50  cents  a  day.  When  he  left  the  farm 
in  1889  he  went  to  Newport  and  worked 
in  a  sawmill.  He  was  also  clerk  in  a  gen- 
eral store  at  Batesville,  Indiana,  and 
through  these  various  experiences  laid  the 
foundation  of  knowledge  and  skill  in  men 
and  affairs  that  has  served  him  so  well 
in  later  years.  For  a  time  he  was  work- 
ing in  a  furniture  factory  and  was  assist- 
ant foreman  for  three  years.  He  also 
operated  a  general  store  at  Batesville  as 
assistant  manager  for  one  year,  and  then 
again  entered  the  furniture  business  in 
Decatur  County.  He  traveled  7%  years 
representing  a  firm  of  furniture  manufac- 
turers, and  did  much  to  build  up  the  trade 
of  the  company  over  a  wide  territory. 

On  July  4,  1897,  Mr.  Camden  came  to 
Indianapolis  and  formed  a  partnership 
with  Mr.  Ralston  under  the  firm  name  of 
Ralston  &  Camden,  real  estate.  In  the  fall 
of  1902  Mr.  Camden  entered  business  for 
himself.  Among  the  large  deals  which  he 
has  carried  out  may  be  mentioned  the  sale 
of  the  lot  on  which  the  city  hall  was  built. 
He  negotiated  the  sale  of  this  property  in 
1907  for  the  sum  of  $115,000.  He  also 
sold  the  old  Rink  property  owned  by  Ster- 
ling R.  Hill  to  Captain  Hayworth  for  the 
sum  of  $100,000.  A  number  of  other  trans- 
actions of  similar  magnitude  have  passed 
through  his  firm.  The  sales  of  real  estate 
have  often  reached  a  figure  upwards  of 
$200,000  a  year.  He  also  deals  extensively 
in  Chicago  apartment  properties  and  Illi- 
nois farm  lands. 

Mr.  Camden  is  a  thirty-second  degree 
Scottish  Rite  Mason  and  Shriner  and  a 
republican  voter.  November  14,  1890,  he 
married  Miss  Pearl  E.  Vincent,  of  Ripley 
County,  Indiana.  Her  father  was  one  of 
the  prominent  physicians  of  that  county. 

Estle  C.  Routh  has  been  a  business  man 
in  Richmond  for  a  long  period  of  years, 


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and  his  expert  services  as  a  carriage  maker 
he  has  capitalized  until  he  is  now  pro- 
prietor of  a  nourishing  business  for  the 
manufacture  of  automobile  bodies  at  158- 
60  Wayne  Avenue. 

Mr.  Routh  was  born  in  Economy,  In- 
diana, September  6,  1876,  son  of  R.  W. 
and  Martitia  (Edwards)  Routh.  He  is  of 
Scotch  ancestry.  Estle  attended  the  pub- 
lic schools  of  Richmond  and  at  the  age 
of  fifteen  went  to  work  for  L.  A.  Mote,  a 
carriage  maker,  whose  shop  was  on  the 
same  ground  now  occupied  by  the  Routh 
establishment.  He  learned  the  trade  of 
carriage  maker  and  blacksmith  during 
four  or  five  years  of  earnest  apprentice- 
ship and  then  tried  to  buy  out  his  em- 
ployer. Failing  in  that  he  started  a  small 
shop  of  his  own  in  a  room  at  176  Fort 
Wayne  Avenue.  He  was  there  two  years, 
and  during  that  time  got  the  contract  for 
doing  all  the  city  work,  especially  for  the 
fire  department.  In  1899  he  was  able  to 
buy  out  his  old  employer's  stock,  and  for 
twenty  years  that  has  been  the  home  of 
his  growing  business.  In  early  years  prac- 
tically all  the  facilities  of  his  shop  were 
devoted  to  carriage  making,  but  in  1906 
he  began  specializing  in  the  manufacture 
of  automobile  bodies.  He  has  designed  and 
built  every  kind  of  vehicle  body  and  he 
was  designer  of  the  New  City  ambulance. 
His  business  covers  a  territory  forty  miles 
in  extent  around  Richmond.  Mr.  Routh 
has  also  made  some  judicious  investments 
in  local  real  estate. 

In  1899  he  married  Mary  K.  Collett, 
daughter  of  Nicholas  and  Anna  (Mackey) 
Collett  of  Richmond.  They  are  the  parents 
of  two  children:  Frank  A.,  born  in  1900, 
and  Wayne  6.,  born  in  1911.  The  older 
son  was  in  the  United  States  Marines  for 
two  years,  part  of  the  time  being  stationed 
at  Hayti  and  was  sent  to  France  on  the 
battleship  Hancock.  He  lost  his  health 
in  the  service  and  the  government  is  now, 
in  pursuance  of  its  regular  policy,  giving 
him  re-training  for  civilian  career,  and  he 
is  pursuing  a  course  in  commercial  ac- 
counting at  Valparaiso  University. 

Mr.  Routh  is  a  republican  in  politics  and 
is  affiliated  with  the  Knights  of  Pythias. 

Ulric  Z.  Wiley.  Forty-five  years  of 
continuous  membership  and  activity  at  the 
Indiana  bar  have  brought  Ulric  Z.  Wiley 
some  of  the  most  substantial  honors  and 


achievements  of  his  profession.  For  many 
years  he  practiced  in  Benton  County,  and 
was  first  elected  judge  of  the  Circuit  Court 
while  living  at  Fowler.  The  service  which 
makes  him  most  widely  known  among  In- 
diana lawyers  was  his  twelve  years  work 
on  the  Appellate  Court  Bench.  Judge 
Wiley  since  retiring  from  practice  has  been 
a  resident  of  Indianapolis. 

He  was  born  in  Jefferson  County,   In- 
diana,   November    14,    1847,    youngest    of 
the  five  children  of  Preston  P.  and  Lucin- 
da   Weir    (Maxwell)    Wiley.      The   Wiley 
family  came  to  Indiana  when  the  country 
was  a  territory,  more  than  a  century  ago. 
His  grandfather,  Joseph  Wiley,  on  leaving 
Pennsjdvania     first      settled     in     Brown 
County,  Ohio,  where  he  developed  a  farm, 
and  in  1811  pioneered  to  Jefferson  County, 
Indiana,  and  was  one  of  the  first  to  de- 
velop the  agricultural  lines  around  Kent, 
whei'e  he  lived  until  his  death.    Preston  P. 
Wiley  was  born  in  Brown  County,  Ohio, 
November  25,  1809,  and  was  two  years  old 
when    the   family   came  to    Indiana.      He 
spent   about  fifty  years   of  his  life  on   a 
farm  in  Jefferson  County,  and  died  there 
August  21,  1895.     For  several  years  after 
his  marriage   he   taught  school  in  winter 
terms,  and  spent  the  summers  at  farming. 
His  early  education  was  very  limited,  but 
after  his  marriage  he  set  himself  to  dili- 
gent study  and  not  only  mastered  the  com- 
mon English  branches  but  became  a  thor- 
ough Greek  scholar.   He  eagerly  read  every 
book  he  could  secure  in  a  time  when  cir- 
culating  libraries   were   almost   unknown. 
Along  with  farming  he  became  a  preacher 
of  the   Gospel,   and   continued   that  work 
for  about  fifty  years.     He  also  assisted  his 
children  as  far  as  possible  to  secure  good 
educations.     In  politics  he  was  an  early 
whig,  a  strong  abolitionist  and  anti-slavery 
man,  and  afterwards  an  equally  ardent  re- 
publican.    He  was  the  first  man  in  Jeffer- 
son   County,    Indiana,   to  respond   to   the 
call  for  troops  in  the  Civil  war,  but  was 
too  old  to  be  accepted   for  field  service, 
though  he  rendered  the  Union  his  hearty 
support  in  every  other  way.     He  was  a 
member  of  the  Home  Guards  in  Southern 
Indiana,   and   was   called   out   during  the 
Morgan  raid. 

Judge  Wiley  and  a  brother  are  the  only 
surviving  members  of  his  father's  family. 
During  his  youth  he  was  privileged  to  at- 
tend school  only  three  months  each  year, 


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1627 


but  at  the  age  of  nineteen  entered  Hanover 
College  at  Hanover,  Indiana,  and  gradu- 
ated with  the  class  of  1867.  At  that  time 
the  degrees  A.  B.  and  A.  M.  were  con- 
ferred upon  him  and  subsequently  he  was 
honored  with  the  degree  LL.  D.  Teaching 
furnished  part  of  the  funds  by  which  he 
educated  himself.  He  also  had  charge  of 
his  father's  farm  for  one  year  while  his 
parents  were  visiting  a  daughter  in  Cali- 
fornia, Judge  Wiley  began  the  study  of 
Jaw  with  William  Wallace,  son  of  Ex- 
Governor  Wallace  and  a  brother  of  Gen. 
Lew  Wallace.  He  was  a  student  in  Wal- 
lace's office  at  Indianapolis  two  years,  and 
then  entered  the  law  department  of  old 
Northwestern  College,  now  Butler  Uni- 
versity, from  which  he  received  his  degree 
in  May,  1873.  In  October,  1874,  Judge 
Wiley  located  at  Fowler,  where  his  abilities 
brought  him  all  the  practice  he  could 
handle  in  a  few  years.  In  March,  1875, 
he  was  appointed  county  attorney,  serv- 
ing two  years,  and  in  1882  was  elected  to 
the  Lower  House  of  the  State  Legislature. 
In  1892  he  was  appointed  judge  of  the 
Thirtieth  Judicial  Circuit,  composed  of 
Benton,  Jasper  and  Newton  counties,  to 
fill  a  vacancy.  Later  he  was  nominated 
and  elected  and  served  from  1892  to  Oc- 
tober, 1896.  On  the  latter  date  he  re- 
signed from  the  Circuit  Bench  to  become 
a  candidate  for  judge  of  the  Appellate 
Court  of  the  Fifth  District,  and  was  elected 
and  was  a  member  of  that  tribunal  for 
three  terms  of  four  years  each. 

Judge  Wiley  is  a  thirty-second  degree 
Scottish  Rite  Mason.  He  has  long  been 
prominent  in  Odd  Fellowship  and  was 
grand  master  in  1891-92  and  four  terms 
was  grand  representative  to  the  Sovereign 
Lodge  of  the  World.  He  is  also  a  Knight 
of  Pythias,  and  is  an  active  republican. 
Judge  Wiley  is  an  elder  of  the  Christian 
Church  and  has  filled  that  office  for  two 
years,  and  for  eight  years  has  taught  the 
Business  Men's  Bible  Class. 

May  6,  1874,  he  married  Miss  Mary  A. 
Cole,  of  Indianapolis.  They  are  the 
parents  of  four  children :  Carl  C,  Nellie 
E.,  Maxwell  H.  and  Ulric  Weir. 

William  H.  Wishard,  M.  D.  Among 
the  men  who  made  the  history  of  medicine 
in  Indiana  doubtless  none  occupied  a 
higher  place  consequent  upon  his  services 
and   in   the   esteem   of  his   fellow  practi- 


tioners than  the  late  William  H.  Wishard. 
The  quality  and  value  of  his  service  was 
not  less  remarkable  than  the  sustained 
power  which  enabled  him  to  continue  his 
work  longer  than  the  average  length  of 
human  existence. 

While  it  is  not  possible  in  so  brief  a 
sketch  as  this  to  estimate  from  the  pro- 
fessional point  of  view  the  extent  and  na- 
ture of  his  services  to  the  profession,  it 
is  permitted  to  quote  what  his  old  personal 
and  professional  friend,  Dr.  Nathan  S. 
Davis,  the  founder  of  the  American  Medi- 
cal Society,  said  of  him  some  years  ago: 
"Dr.  William  H.  Wishard  of  Indianapolis 
is  one  of  the  oldest,  most  intelligent,  use- 
ful and  patriotic  general  practitioners  of 
medicine  in  that  state.  Rendered  strong 
and  self  reliant  by  abundance  of  physical 
labor  in  his  youth,  with  educational  ad- 
vantages limited  to  the  public  or  district 
schools  of  his  neighborhood,  he  is  in  the 
best  sense  of  the  word  a  self-made  man. 
Though  contributing  but  little  to  the  pages 
of  medical  literature,  he  has  for  sixty- 
three  years  efficiently  sustained  the  regular 
medical  organizations,  both  state  and  na- 
tional, and  as  surgeon  in  a  volunteer  regi- 
ment from  Indiana  during  the  Civil  war, 
especially  during  the  siege  of  Vicksburg, 
his  services  were  more  than  ordinarily  effi- 
cient and  valuable  in  the  removal  and  care 
of  the  sick  and  wounded  soldiers,  many  of 
whom  had  to  be  removed  to  Northern  hos- 
pitals. He  is  one  of  the  pioneers  whose 
integrity,  industry  and  efficiency  have 
been  his  prominent  characteristics  in  every 
position  he  has  been  called  upon  to  oc- 
cupy. ' ' 

As  a  family  the  Wishards  have  given 
more  than  one  prominent  character  to 
American  life  and  affairs.  Outside  of 
their  services  the  distinguishing  character- 
istic is  longevity.  Old  age  with  them  is 
apparently  a  natural  prerogative.  Dr. 
William  H.  Wishard  was  born  January 
17,  1816,  and  died  when  near  the  century 
mark,  on  December  9,  1913.  His  brothel*, 
Rev.  Samuel  E.  Wishard,  D.  D.,  who  made 
a  distinguished  record  as  a  Presbyterian 
minister  and  scholar,  reached  the  age  of 
ninety.  Doctor  Wishard 's  father  died  at 
eighty-six,  and  one  of  his  uncles  lived  to 
be  ninety,  and  an  aunt  to  the  age  of  ninety- 
five  years  and  seven  davs. 

The  paternal  grandfather  of  Doctor 
Wishard  was  William  Wishard,  a  native  of 


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St.  Andrews,  Scotland,  who  emigrated  to 
County  Tyrone,  Ireland,  and  was  of 
Scotch  Covenanter  stock.  William  Wish- 
ard  came  to  America  in  1774,  locating  in 
Delaware,  later  going  to  Pennsylvania, 
where  he  joined  the  American  forces  in 
the  war  of  the  Revolution.  He  fought  at 
the  battles  of  Brandywine  and  German- 
town  and  later  saw  service  on  the  Western 
frontier  of  Pennsylvania.  At  the  close  of 
the  Revolution  he  moved  into  South- 
western Pennsylvania,  locating  at  Red- 
stone Fort,  now  Brownsville,  and  in  1794 
penetrated  still  further  into  the  Western 
wilderness  to  Nicholas  County,  Kentucky. 
He  spent  his  last  years  there  on  his  farm, 
and  died  from  apoplexy  at  advanced  age. 
He  was  the  father  of  tifteen  children. 

Col.  John  Wishard,  father  of  Doctor 
Wishard,  was  a  native  of  Pennsylvania, 
but  was  taken  to  Kentucky  at  the  age  of 
two  years,  and  grew  up  in  that  then  far 
western  district.  Farming  was  his  steady 
vocation  throughout  his  active  years.  In 
1825  he  followed  the  wave  of  migration 
close  up  to  the  limits  of  the  newly  estab- 
lished city  of  Indianapolis,  and  located 
about  ten  miles  away,  near  Glenn's  Valley, 
on  the  edge  of  Johnson  County,  where  his 
labors  reclaimed  a  heavily  timbered  tract 
of  land.  He  was  member  of  a  company  of 
riflemen  in  the  Black  Hawk  war,  and  later 
was  a  colonel  in  the  Fifty-Ninth  Indiana 
Militia.  He  died  at  Greenwood,  Indiana, 
September  8,  1878.  John  Wishard  married 
Agnes  H.  Oliver,  who  died  in  August, 
1849,  in  her  fifty -eighth  year.  Her  parents 
were  John  and  Martha  (Henderson)  Oli- 
ver, her  father  of  English  descent,  a  na- 
tive of  Virginia  and  a  settler  in  Kentucky 
as  early  as  1782.  He  was  a  friend  and 
companion  of  Daniel  Boone.  John  Oliver 
assisted  in  building  the  blockhouse  at  Lex- 
ington, in  which  his  oldest  child  was  born. 

Of  such  sturdy  ancestry,  William  Henry 
Wishard  was  born  at  the  home  of  his 
parents  in  Nicholas  County,  Kentucky, 
January  17,  1816,  and  was  about  ten  years 
old  when  the  family  moved  to  Central  In- 
diana. With  only  the  opportunities  of  a 
log  cabin  schoolhouse  he  managed  by  self 
application  to  acquire  much  more  than  the 
ordinary  education  of  a  youth  of  that  time 
and  gained  much  of  it  in  the  intervals  of 
hard  labor  on  his  father's  farm.  He  be- 
gan reading  medicine  in  the  winter  of 
1837-38  under  Dr.  Benjamin  S.  Noble.    He 


afterwards  took  a  course  of  lectures  in  the 
Ohio  Medical  College  at  Cincinnati,  and 
received  his.  Doctor  of  Medicine  degree 
from  the  old  Indiana  Medical  College  at 
LaPorte,  Indiana.  He  did  post-graduate 
work  in  the  Ohio  Medical  College  and  be- 
gan practice  in  Johnson  County  April  22, 
1840. 

For  many  years  he  carried  on  the  ardu- 
ous and  self-sacrificing  labors  of  the  coun- 
try practitioner,  riding  far  and  wide  over 
the  country  in  Johnson  and  adjoining 
counties.  Altogether  his  work  as  a  prac- 
ticing physician  covered  a  period  of  sixty- 
six  years,  not  ending  until  January,  1906. 

Early  in  the  Civil  war  he  became  a 
volunteer  surgeon  in  the  Fifty-Ninth  In- 
diana Infantry  and  later  with  the  Eighty- 
Third  Indiana  Regiment.  The  words  of 
Doctor  Davis  above  quoted  indicate  one 
splendid  service  which  he  rendered  during 
the  war.  It  should  be  noted  here  that  it 
was  as  a  direct  result  of  his  investigations, 
reports  and  vigorous  presentation  of  the 
condition  of  the  sick  and  wounded  soldiers 
on  Southern  battlefields  that  the  govern- 
ment after  much  delay  on  the  part  of 
bureau  and  cabinet  officials  was  moved,  by 
the  direct  order  of  President  Lincoln  him- 
self, to  bring  about  the  general  removal 
of  the  sick  and  wounded  from  the  South 
to  the  more  healthful  environment  of  the 
Northern  states.  His  services  in  this  par- 
ticular were  especially  directed  to  the  re- 
moval of  the  wounded  after  the  siege  of 
Vicksburg,  into  which  city  he  marched 
with  General  Grant's  army  the  morning 
of  July  4,  1863.  He  was  the  first  surgeon 
to  make  a  trip  with  a  river  steamboat  in 
carrying  out  the  order  issued  by  President 
Lincoln  for  the  transportation  to  the  North 
of  the  sick  and  wounded.  Many  prominent 
army  men,  including  Gen.  Lew  Wallace, 
repeatedly  stated  that  the  entire  credit  for 
this  service,  which  brought  untold  relief 
to  the  suffering,  was  due  to  Doctor  Wish- 
ard. All  the  time  and  services  Doctor 
Wishard  gave  to  his  country  during  the 
war,  a  period  of  over  21/-;  years,  were  given 
without  any  compensation  except  for  his 
personal  expenses. 

In  the  spring  of  1864  Doctor  Wishard 
left  his  former  residence  at  Glenn's  Val- 
ley on  the  old  homestead,  which  he  had 
bought  from  his  father,  and  removed  to 
Southport,  Marion  County.  He  practiced 
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elected  county  coroner  and  removed  to  In- 
dianapolis. There  his  work  went  on  un- 
til after  celebrating  his  ninetieth  birthday 
he  formally  retired  from  practice.  His 
remarkable  vitality,  both  in  mind  and 
body,  has  an  interesting  proof  in  what 
was  written  concerning  him  in  1908 :  ' '  To- 
day Doctor  Wishard  occupies  a  unique 
position  in  the  medical  and  social  life  of 
Indianapolis.  He  has  frequently  been 
called  a  walking  historical  encyclopedia. 
His  remarkable  memory  enables  him  to  re- 
call quickly  and  perfectly  events  and  dates, 
even  the  days  of  the  week  upon  which  they 
occurred.  This  marked  characteristic  has 
not  lessened  his  interest  in  current  events, 
as  is  often  the  case  with  elderly  persons, 
but  he  manifests  an  interest  in  religious, 
professional  and  political  questions  of  the 
day  equal  to  that  of  a  man  in  the  prime 
of 'life." 

Doctor  Wishard  was  long  a  prominent 
figure  in  Indiana  medical  organizations. 
He  was  the  last  survivor  of  the  first  Medi- 
cal Convention  of  1849  and  therefore  a 
charter  member  of  the  Indiana  State  Medi- 
cal Society,  was  its  president  at  the  time 
of  its  fortieth  anniversary  and  at  the  fif- 
tieth anniversary  gave  the  address  of  wel- 
come, which  included  a  history  of  the  so- 
ciety. Doctor  Kemper's  Medical  History 
of  Indiana  quotes  Doctor  Wishard 's 
papers  on  the  early  history  of  the  medical 
profession  of  the  state.  He  also  wrote  an 
interesting  account  of  his  experiences  as 
an  army  surgeon.  He  was  a  charter  mem- 
ber of  the  Marion  County  Medical  So- 
ciety, was  its  president  in  1905,  and  on 
his  eighty-ninth  birthday,  the  day  his  serv- 
ices ended,  the  members  of  the  society  pre- 
sented him  with  a  parchment  testimonial, 
appropriately  dedicated  and  inscribed. 
For  many  years  he  was  active  in  the  mem- 
bership of  the  American  Medical  Associa- 
tion. Doctor  Wishard  became  a  repub- 
lican upon  the  organization  of  the  party 
and  was  one  of  its  oldest  and  most  constant 
voters.  He  was  a  Presbyterian,  and  reli- 
gion was  always  a  large  factor  in  his  life. 
Except  in  emergencies,  he  did  not  allow  his 
professional  work  to  interfere  with  his 
church  and  religious  duties.  ■  For  over 
sixty  years  he  was  a  ruling  elder  in  the 
church  and  served  as  commissioner  in  six 
meetings  of  the  General  Assembly,  the  last 
time  at  Winona  Lake  in  May,  1905,  just 
fifty-nine  years  from  the  time  he  first  rep- 


resented the  Indianapolis  Presbytery  in 
that  capacity.  He  was  for  many  years  a 
member  and  for  fifteen  years  surgeon  of 
George  H.  Chapman  Post  No.  209,  Grand 
Army  of  the  Republic.  Doctor  Wishard 
lived  well  into  the  twentieth  century,  and 
the  remarkable  era  of  invention  and  im- 
provement covered  by  his  career  is  well 
indicated  in  the  fact  that  he  was  a  pas- 
senger on  the  first  through  train  which' 
came  from  Madison  to  Indianapolis.  He 
often  told  the  fact  that  on  his  return 
trip  he  sat  beside  Rev.  Henry  Ward 
Beecher,  who  on  that  day  left  the  Second 
Presbyterian  Church  of  Indianapolis  to 
take  the  pastorate  of  Plymouth  Church  at 
Brooklyn. 

On  December  17,  1840,  the  same  year 
that  he  began  the  practice  of  medicine, 
Doctor  Wishard  married  Miss  Harriet  N. 
Moreland.  She  was  to  him  the  ideal  wife 
and  companion  both  in  the  early  days  of 
struggle  and  the  later  years  of  prosperity 
and  honor,  and  their  companionship  was 
prolonged  for  more  than  sixty-one  years. 
Mrs.  Wishard  died  April  28,  1902.  She 
was  the  youngest  daughter  of  Rev.  John 
R.  and  Rachel  (McGohon)  Moreland.  Her 
father  was  an  early  Presbyterian  minister 
in  Indiana  and  at  one  time  the  pastor  of 
the  First  Presbyterian  Church  of  Indian- 
apolis. Doctor  and  Mrs.  Wishard  were  the 
parents  of  nine  children.  The  first  four 
died  in  infancy  or  early  childhood.  Those 
to  grow  up  were :  William  N. ;  Albert  W., 
who  became  a  prominent  Indianapolis  law- 
yer; George  W.,  a  Minneapolis  business 
man ;  Harriet  J.,  who  married  Dr.  John 
G.  Wishard;  and  Elizabeth  M. 

William  N.  Wishard,  M.  D.  Putting 
the  services  of  father  and  son  together, 
the  name  Wishard  has  been  continuously 
prominent  in  Indiana  medical  circles  for 
over  three  quarters  of  a  century,  the  ac- 
tivities of  the  two  being  a  large  measure 
contemporaneous.  Dr.  William  N.  Wish- 
ard began  practice  over  forty  years  ago, 
and  while  his  father  was  one  of  the  most 
useful  of  the  old  time  general  practitioners, 
his  own  work  has  been  largely  as  a  special- 
ist. 

He  was  born  at  his  father's  home  in 
Greenwood,  Johnson  County,  October  10, 
1851,  and  at  the  age  of  nine  his  parents 
removed  to  Glenn's  Valley,  Marion  Coun- 
ty.    As   a  boy  he   attended   local  public 


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schools,  spent  one  year  in  a  private  school 
at  Tecuniseh,  Michigan,  and  finished  a  high 
school  course  at  Southport,  Indiana.  From 
there  he  entered  Wabash  College  at  Craw- 
fordsville,  but  was  unable  to  complete  his 
literary  course  on  account  of  ill  health. 
In  view  of  his  subsequent  attainments  that 
college  conferred  upon  him  the  well  meri- 
ted degree  of  Master  of  Arts  in  1891.  In 
1871  he  entered  the  Indiana  Medical  Col- 
lege of  Indianapolis,  from  which  he  gradu- 
ated in  li874,  and  for  a  brief  time  he 
was  with  his  father  in  practice  at  South- 
port  and  during  1875-76  continued  his 
medical  education  in  the  Miami  Medical 
College  at  Cincinnati,  which  also  awarded 
him  the  degree  Doctor  of  Medicine  in 
1876.  Since  that  year  his  home  and  ac- 
tivities have  been  centered  at  Indianapolis. 

Among  other  distinctions  connected  with 
his  service  Doctor  Wishard  has  long  been 
known  as  the  "father"  of  the  Indianapolis 
City  Hospital,  of  which  for  7%  years  he 
was  superintendent.  He  not  only  super- 
vised the  technique  and  efficiency  of  the 
hospital,  but  had  much  to  do  with  the  con- 
struction of  the  buildings  and  the  equip- 
ment. As  an  auxiliary  to  the  hospital  he 
brought  about  the  founding  of  the  Indian- 
apolis Training  School  for  Nurses,  the  first 
institution  of  its  kind  in  Indiana  and  the 
second  in  the  entire  west.  After  retiring 
from  the  superintendency  in  1887  Doctor 
Wishard  continued  for  many  years  a  mem- 
ber of  the  consulting  staff  of  surgeons. 
While  hospital  superintendent  he  was  also 
lecturer  on  clinical  medicine  in  the  Medi- 
cal College  of  Indiana.  Doctor  Wishard 
has  also  served  on  the  consulting  staff  of 
the  •  St.  Vincent  Hospital,  the  Protestant 
Deaconess  Hospital,  the  Methodist  Epis- 
copal Hospital,  the  Bobbs  Dispensary,  and 
the  Indianapolis  City  Dispensary. 

After  leaving  the  management  of  the 
hospital  he  spent  a  period  of  post-graduate 
study  in  New  York  City,  and  since  then 
has  specialized  almost  entirely  in  genito- 
urinary and  venereal  diseases.  On  return- 
ing to  Indianapolis  he  was  elected  pro- 
fessor of  the  chair  of  those  diseases  in  the 
Medical  College  of  Indiana.  Doctor  Wish- 
ard has  also  spent  much  time  abroad,  and 
has  improved  his  own  technique  by  exten- 
sive associations  with  the  most  eminent 
specialists  in  his  field  in  the  world.  For 
upwards  of  thirty  years  he  has  been  one 
of   Indiana's   foremost   specialists   in   this 


field,  and  patients  have  come  to  him  from 
all  over  the  state  and  outside  the  state. 
He  is  credited  with  having  performed  the 
first,  or  one  of  the  very  first  operations 
on  record  for  removal  of  the  lateral  lobes 
of  the  prostate  gland  through  a  perineal 
opening.  He  also  invented  an  instrument 
for  use  of  the  galvanic  cautery  on  the 
prostate  gland  through  perineal  opening. 

Besides  his  individual  work  and  promi- 
nence as  an  authority,  Doctor  Wishard, 
like  his  father,  has  rendered  an  invaluable 
service  to  the  medical  profession  in  general 
and  especially  through  its  organizations. 
It  was  largely  under  his  leadership  that 
the  three  schools  of  medicine,  the  Medical 
College  of  Indiana,  the  Central  College  of 
Physicians  and  Surgeons  of  Indianapolis, 
and  the  Fort  Wayne  Medical  College  were 
merged  into  one  complete  and  adequate 
school.  For  a  number  of  years  he  served 
as  chairman  of  the  committee  on  medical 
legislation  for  the  Indiana  State  Medical 
Society.  In  that  capacity  he  wrote  the 
larger  part  of  the  Indiana  law  governing 
the  practice  of  medicine  as  passed  by  the 
Legislature  in  1897.  He  is  an  honored 
member  of  the  Marion  County  Medical  So- 
ciety, the  Indiana  State  Medical  Society, 
which  he  served  as  president  in  1898,  the 
American  Medical  Association,  the  Ameri- 
can Association  of  Genito-Urinary  Sur- 
geons, the  American  Urological  Associa- 
tion and  the  Mississippi  Valley  Medical 
Association,  having  served  as  president  of 
the  last  two  associations.  As  president  of 
these  organizations  he  showed  unusual 
ability  as  an  executive  officer.  His  work 
in  this  connection  brought  forth  the  fol- 
lowing admiring  comment:  "Considerate 
of  the  opinions  of  others,  courteous  to 
those  who  hold  views  different  from  his 
own,  forceful  and  clear  in  argument,  calm 
in  judgment,  energetic  and  persevering  in 
whatever  he  undertakes,  his  marked  char- 
acteristics of  leadership  have  gained  for 
him  a  notable  record  in  the  profession  of 
medicine.  In  medical  legislation,  college 
and  hospital  management,  his  counsel  and 
advice  are  sought,  and  to  their  advance- 
ment he  has  given  his  time  at  the  sacrifice 
of  his  own  personal  interest.  Selfishness 
has  no  part  in  his  nature. " 

A  concise  survey  of  his  influence  and 
work  in  the  medical  profession  was  made 
some  years  ago  by  Doctor  Brayton,  editor 
of  the  Indiana  Medical  Journal,  in  these 


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words:  "Dr.  W.  N.  Wishard  has  practiced 
medicine  continuously  in  Indianapolis  for 
over  thirty  years.    He  was  deputy  coroner 
of  Marion  County  two  years,  and  for  over 
seven    years    superintendent   of   the    City 
Hospital,  changing  it  from  a  rude  barrack 
into  a  modern  hospital  with  a  full-fledged 
training   school    for   nurses,    making   it   a 
model    for    all    the   hospitals   since    estab- 
lished in  Indianapolis.     For  twenty  years 
Doctor  Wishard  has  confined  his  medical 
work  to  genito-urinary  surgery,  and  stands 
in  the  front  rank  in  the  country  in  this 
department   of  surgery.     He   has  been  a 
leader  in  Indianapolis  in  establishing  the 
Medical     Registration     and     Examination 
Board,    and    the    Indiana    State    Health 
Board,  of  which  he  was  president.    Doctor 
Wishard  has  also  been  a  leader  in  medical 
education   as   well   as   in   medical   legisla- 
tion.    He  belongs  to  the  middle  group  of 
Indiana    physicians — those    who    were    in 
touch  with  the  great  physicans  and   sur- 
geons of  the  Civil  war  period,   and  who 
have  also  taken  an  active  part  in  the  medi- 
cal and  surgical  renaissance  which  is  the 
chief  glory  and  beneficence  of  modern  bio- 
logical research.     In  all  of  Doctor  Wish- 
ard's  relations,   in  medical,   sanitary   and 
civic  life,  he  has  been  a  wise  and  conserva- 
tive counsellor,  but  whenever  the  occasion 
required  an  aggressive  and  successful  ac- 
tor, serving  as  conditions  demanded,  either 
as  the  watchman  at  the  bow  or  the  helms- 
man at  the  wheel.     He  is  now  only  in  the 
height  of  his  medical  and  civic  usefulness 
and  has  a  large  fund  of  acquired  knowl- 
edge and  experience  upon  which  he  draws 
readily  in  surgical  and  general  discussions 
and  lectures." 

Doctor  Wishard  is  a  republican  voter 
and  an  active  member  of  the  First  Pres- 
byterian Church  of  Indianapolis,  in  which 
he  holds  the  position  of  elder  and  has 
served  as  commissioner  to  the  General  As- 
sembly of  the  church.  May  20,  1880.  he 
married  Miss  Alice  M.  Woollen,  daughter 
of  William  Wesley  Woollen  and  Sarah 
(Young)  Woollen,  of  Indianapolis.  Mrs. 
Wishard  died  December  9,  1880.  June  17, 
1896,  he  married  Miss  Frances  C.  Scoville, 
who  was  reared  and  educated  at  Evans- 
ville,  Indiana,  daughter  of  Charles  E.  and 
Frances  (Howell)  Scoville.  Doctor  and 
Mrs.  Wishard  had  five  children,  three 
dving  in  infancy,  the  other  two  being 
William  Niles.  Jr.,  and  Charles  Scoville. 


Hon.  Emmet  H.  Scott.  While  the 
greater  part  of  half  a  century  a  resident  of 
LaPorte,  Emmet  H.  Scott  by  his  interests, 
his  work  and  experience  is  a  man  of  broad 
affairs  upon  whom  the  enviable  title  of  big 
American  business  man  might  well  be  be- 
stowed. How  fitting  this  description  is 
can  best  be  told  by  reciting  the  larger  ex- 
periences and  achievements  of  his  active 
career. 

He  was  born  in  Broome  County,  New 
York,  in  1842,  son  of  Wiley  H.  and  Aseneth 
(Locke)  Scott.  His  father  was  born  on 
the  Unadilla  River  in  Otsego  County,  New 
York,  and  was  an  early  settler  in  the  town 
of  Nineveh  on  the  Susquehanna,  where  he 
owned  and  operated  a  hotel  for  twenty- 
seven  years  and  carried  on  a  large  farm 
of  more  than  four  hundred  acres.  His 
death  occurred  in  1872.  His  wife  was  a 
native  of  New  York  and  of  Revolutionary 
ancestry.  Several  members  of  the  Locke 
family  had  already  joined  the  patriotic 
army  as  soldiers  under  Washington  when, 
the  colonists  being  sorely  oppressed  and 
in  great  need  of  others  to  enlist,  a  younger 
member  of  the  Locke  family  was  singled 
out  for  immediate  urgent  duty,  and  in 
order  to  get  him  ready  in  time  the  women 
of  the  household  sheared  a  sheep,  carded 
and  spun  the  wool,  and  made  a  pair  of 
trousers  for  him  all  within  twenty-four 
hours. 

There  is  probably  some  significance  in 
the  fact  that  the  early  life  of  Emmet  H. 
Scott  was  spent  on  his  father's  farm. 
This  environment  gave  him  a  sturdy  dis- 
cipline in  addition  to  the  advantages  he 
had  in  the  common  schools  of  his  native 
village  and  in  the  Blakesley  School,  a  select 
school  at  Harpersville,  two  miles  away.  At 
the  age  of  twenty  he  taught  school  for  one 
winter  in  Tioga  County,  New  York.  In 
February,  1863,  he  went  to  work  in  the 
joint  express  office  of  the  Adams  and 
American  Express  Companies  at  Centralia, 
Illinois.  That  was  in  the  midst  of  the 
Civil  war.  Vicksburg  was  in  a  state  of 
siege  and  the  only  railroad  outlet  and  inlet 
to  the  Mississippi  Valley  was  over  the 
single  track  of  the  Illinois  Central  Rail- 
road. When  Mr.  Scott  went  into  the  of- 
fice in  February  he  was  the  second  clerk 
to  be  employed.  The  express  business  in- 
creased so  tremendously  that  when  he  left 
in  October  the  same  year,  on  account  of 
poor     health,     there     were     twenty-seven 


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clerks  employed  in  the  same  office  to  take 
care  of  the  business. 

The  following  winter  he  spent  recuperat- 
ing on  the  home  farm  in  New  York.  In 
1864  he  was  employed  by  George  S.  Marsh, 
a  railroad  contractor  building  the  Albany 
and  Susquehanna  Railroad  between  Cen- 
tral Bridge  and  Cobleskill,  New  York,  and 
between  Oneanta  and  Unadilla,  New  York. 
This  work  was  completed  in  the  latter  part 
of  1866. 

A  college  or  university  is  supposed  to 
give  a  young  man  preparedness  for  the 
serious  responsibilities  of  life.  Mr.  Scott 
never  went  to  college,  but  he  found  in  these 
early  experiences  just  noted  the  kind  of 
preparation  he  needed  for  his  future 
career.  In  February,  1867,  he  arrived  at 
LaPorte,  Indiana,  to  become  superintendent 
of  the  Chicago,  Cincinnati  &  Louisville 
Railroad  Company.  That  company  owned 
the  wornout  track  between  LaPorte  and 
Plymouth,  and  was  incorporated  to  build 
between  Plymouth  and  Peru  to  connect 
with  the  Peru  &  Indianapolis  Railroad. 
DurinE:  1867-68  the  road  between  LaPorte 
and  Plymouth  was  rebuilt,  including  the 
filling  in  of  several  miles  of  trestles  over 
the  Kankakee  marshes.  Between  Ply- 
mouth and  Peru  the  road  was  finished  and 
opened  July  1,  1869.  During  18'67  Elisha 
C.  Litchfield  was  president  of  the  C,  C.  & 
L.  Railroad,  and  Mr.  Scott  became  well 
acquainted  with  him.  Mr.  Litchfield  had 
two  large  sawmills  and  a  large  salt  works 
upon  the  Saginaw  River  in  Michigan. 
Having  observed  closely  the  young  rail- 
road superintendent  and  taken  measure  of 
his  abilities,  Mr.  Litchfield  engaged  Mr. 
Scott  to  go  to  Saginaw  and  take  charge  of 
the  Litchfield  properties  and  operate  them. 
Mr.  Scott  accordingly  resigned  from  the 
railroad  company  in  October,  1869,  and 
went  to  Saginaw.  The  following  year  he 
returned  to  LaPorte  and  married  Miss 
Mary  R.  Niles.  Mrs.  Scott  was  born  on 
the  same  block  of  ground  on  which  the 
Scott  residence  now  stands  in  LaPorte. 
She  is  a  sister  of  Mr.  William  Niles,  a  dis- 
tinguished citizen  of  northern  Indiana 
whose  life  career  is  sketched  on  other  pages. 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Scott  have  two  living  chil- 
dren, Emmet  Scott  and  Fanny.  The 
daughter  was  married  to  Dr.  E.  A.  Rumely 
in  1909. 

During  1872-73  Mr.  Litchfield  was  en- 
gaged in  trying  to  build  the  New  York, 


Rondout  &  Oswego  Railroad.  Railroad 
building  at  that  time  was  exceedingly  ex- 
pensive. Steel  rails  cost  more  than  $100 
a  ton  and  iron  rails  eighty-five  to  ninety 
per  ton.  Moreover  there  was  a  dearth  of 
capital.  When  bonds  were  issued  they  gen- 
erally bore  7%  and  if  sold  to  English  in- 
vestors they  had  to  be  disposed  of  at  much 
less  than  par  value.  Besides  the  mills  and 
salt  works  on  the  Saginaw,  Mr.  Litchfield 
had  43,000  acres  of  timberland  on  the  Flint, 
Cass,  Bad  and  Tittabawassee  rivers  in 
Michigan.  When  the  Jay  Cook  panic 
came  in  September,  1873,  and  gold  went  to 
280,  Mr.  Litchfield  was  sick.  His  liabili- 
ties for  railroad  building  were  so  large 
That  early  in  November  followng  he  was 
adjudged  a  bankrupt.  He  died  within 
twenty  days  after  the  adjudication.  There 
was  much  difficulty  in  the  appointment  of 
a  receiver,  as  the  railroad  creditors  were 
firm  creditors,  and  others  were  individual 
creditors.  The  latter  claimed  that  the  in- 
dividual creditors  were  first  entitled  to 
the  share  of  his  individual  estate  and  if 
there  was  any  surplus  it  should  be  paid 
over  to  the  assignees  of  the  bankrupt  rail- 
road firm.  The  individual  creditors  won 
out  and  the  court  held  that  the  individual 
estate  should  be  disposed  of  to  pay  the 
individual  creditors. 

Jesse  Oakley  of  New  York  was  appointed 
the  assignee,  and  he  employed  Mr.  Scott 
to  take  charge  of  the  estate  in  Michigan 
and  to  manage  it,  this  employment  being 
approved  by  the  court.  Within  a  few 
months  after  the  assignee  was  appointed 
,a  suit  in  chancery  was  brought,  covering 
the  larger  part  of  the  property  in  the  State 
of  Michigan  on  the  theory  that  the  Litch- 
field title  was  only  that  of  mortgage  secur- 
ity. This  prevented  the  disposal  of  any 
real  estate  covered  by  the  chancery  suit 
until  the  claims  of  the  petitioners  had 
been  heard  and  decided  in  the  courts. 

About  15,000  acres  of  the  lands  in  Tus- 
cola and  Saginaw  counties  not  included 
in  the  suit  were  valuable  for  farming  pur- 
poses, and  Mr.  Scott  disposed  of  a  great 
quantity  of  those  lands.  One  of  the  saw 
mills  and  salt  works  were  taken  over  by 
the  holders  of  a  mortgage  and  the  other 
saw  mill,  opposite  Bay  City,  was  leased 
by  Mr.  Scott  from  year  to  year  while  this 
suit  was  in  progress.  In  the  meantime,  in 
the  fall  of  1876,  Mr.  Scott  returned  with 
his   family   to   LaPorte.     He   had  bought 


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an  interest  in  the  LaPorte  Wheel  Com- 
pany, which  was  being  managed  and  eon- 
trolled  by  his  brother-in-law,  Mr.  William 
Niles.  They  acquired  all  the  stock  of  the 
company,  and  business  was  then  carried  on 
by  the  firm  of  Niles  and  Scott  until  1881, 
when  they  organized  a  corporation  known 
as  the  Niles  &  Scott  Company,  of  which 
Mr.  Scott  was  vice  pi'esident  and  general 
manager.  He  and  Mr.  Niles  remained  in 
active  control  until  January,  1902,  when 
they  sold  their  entire  interests.  Theiir 
management  had  been  so  successful  and 
so  honorable  that  the  firm  title  was  con- 
sidered a  valuable  asset  in  itself,  and  there- 
fore the  business  has  since  been  conducted 
as  the  Niles  &  Scott  Company.  It  has  been 
one  of  the  chief  industries  in  making  La- 
Porte  a  great  manufacturing  center. 

At  the  same  time  Mr.  Scott  retained  his 
authority  and  control  of  the  Litchfield  es- 
tate in  Michigan  and  made  frequent  visits 
to  Saginaw.  In  1880  the  long  pending 
chancery  suit  was  settled  by  Mr.  Scott  be- 
fore it  came  to  trial  by  the  payment  of 
$17,000.  The  creditors  were  then  called 
together  and  Mr.  Scott  was  authorized  by 
them  to  cut  the  logs,  drive  them  down  the 
rivers  and  have  them  sawed  and  sell  the 
lumber.  After  three  or  four  camps  were 
established  another  set  of  litigants  ap- 
peared and  sought  an  injunction  to  prevent 
the  cutting  of  the  timber.  This  injunc- 
tion was  denied  by  the  Federal  Court.  The 
following  summer,  when  the  logs  began 
to  come  out,  notices  were  filed  with  the 
Boom  companies  so  that  bonds  had  to  be 
given  to  the  companies  for  the  value  of 
all  the  logs  delivered.  After  several  mil- 
lion feet  was  sawed  and  had  been  sold  by 
Mr.  Scott  and  when  the  lumber  came  to 
be  shipped  the  same  parties  replevined.  In 
three  years  they  brought  over  thirty  suits 
of  various  kinds,  and  Mr.  Scott  was  the 
acting,  vital  defendant  in  each  of  them. 
He  was  almost  continuously  harassed. 
Finally  he  filed  a  plenary  bill  in  the  name 
of  the  assignee,  making  each  of  these  ten 
or  twelve  parties  who  had  been  bringing 
suits  as  defendant.  An  injunction  was 
granted  and  issued  immediately  upon  the 
filing  of  the  bill.  The  court  also  ordered 
that  all  the  claims  should  be  consolidated 
and  decided  in  one  action.  Testimony  was 
taken  and  submitted  within  a  year  and  the 
verdict  made  for  the  plaintiff.  One  of  the 
principal  defendants  took  an  appeal  to  the 


Supreme  Court  of  the  United  States,  but 
before  the  time  elapsed  for  perfecting  the 
appeal  he  settled  with  Mr.  Scott  and  paid 
$22,000  and  all  the  costs  of  this  principal 
suit  and  dismissed  all  the  twenty-nine 
smaller  suits  and  paid  costs.  Thus  after 
trials  and  difficulties  that  might  furnish 
material  for  an  interesting  business  ro- 
mance Mr.  Scott  found  his  hands  free  to 
finish  the  lumbering  of  the  property.  He 
realized  very  large  net  sums  for  the  bene- 
fit of  the  creditors,  and  in  1886  the  estate 
was  wound  up  and  closed.  The  Litchfield 
creditors  got  eighty-four  cents  on  the  dol- 
lar, more  than  any  bankrupt  estate  had 
paid  in  the  City  of  New  York  up  to  that 
time.  All  this  was  largely  due  to  Mr. 
Scott's  efforts. 

During  these  years  Mr.  Scott  had  been 
acquiring  timber  lands  in  Michigan  of 
his  own.  In  1894  he  organized  at  LaPorte 
the  Lac  La  Belle  Company  and  bought 
100,000  acres  of  timber  lands  in  Alger  and 
two  adjoining  counties.  The  purchase  was 
made  from  the  North  of  England  Trustee 
Debenture  &  Assets  Corporation.  Oppo- 
site Grand  Island  on  the  south  shore  of 
Lake  Superior  in  Alger  County  is  a  most 
beautiful  bay,  furnishing  a  great  and  nat- 
ural harbor  of  refuge  for  all  the  vessels 
sailing  on  Lake  Superior.  Mr.  Scott  con- 
ceived the  idea  that  the  location  on  the 
Bay  would  be  unrivaled  for  the  building 
of  a  town  and  the  establishment  of  a  great 
lumber  manufacturing  center.  He  bought 
nearly  500  acres  on  the  shore,  organized  a 
railroad  company  which  built  a  line  thirty- 
seven  miles  long  from  Munising  out  to 
Little  Lake  on  the  Chicago  &  Northwest- 
ern Railroad.  The  town  site  was  conveyed 
to  the  railroad  company,  and  in  a  short 
time  a  tannery,  stave  and  lumber  mill  and 
other  industrial  enterprises  were  built. 
Largely  due  to  this  development  Alger 
County  during  the  decade  from  1890  to 
1900  had  the  largest  growth  in  population 
in  its  history. 

Something  should  now  be  said  about  Mr. 
Scott's  connection  with  his  first  railroad 
enterprise  in  Indiana.  The  Chicago,  Cincin- 
nati &  Louisville  Railroad  Company  was 
leased  to  the  Indianapolis,  Peru  &  Chicago 
Railroad  Company  for  a  long  term  of  years. 
It  was  operated  by  the  last  company,  but 
about  1882  the  latter  company  leased  the 
line  from  Michigan  City  to  Peru  and  to 
Indianapolis  to  the  Wabash  Railroad  Com- 


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pany.  In  1884  the  Wabash  Company  hav- 
ing failed  was  placed  in  the  hands  of  a  re- 
ceiver. The  trustees  of  the  mortgage  bonds 
got  an  order  of  the  court  compelling  the 
receivers  of  the  Wabash  Company  to  turn 
over  the  lines  of  the  railroad  between 
Michigan  City  and  Indianapolis  to  the  two 
trustees,  one  of  whom  was  Gen.  Wager 
Swayne  and  the  other  Col.  George  T.  M. 
Davis  of  New  York,  according  to  the  con- 
ditions in  the  mortgages.  These  two  trus- 
tees deputized  Mr.  Scott  to  take  charge 
and  operate  the  line  of  railroad  between 
Michigan  City  and  Indianapolis.  Thus  for 
several  years  he  had  a  new  responsibility. 
During  1885-86  the  mortgages  were  fore- 
closed and  the  ralroads  were  bid  off  by 
purchasing  committees  representing  each 
of  the  two  companies.  These  purchasing 
committees  sold  the  line  outright  to  the 
Lake  Erie  and  Western  Railroad  Company, 
and  Mr.  Scott  turned  over  the  lines  and 
took  a  receipt  from  Mr.  Bradbury,  the  gen- 
eral manager,  in  April,  1887. 

In  1886  Mr.  Scott  became  interested  in 
the  mining  of  coal  in  Greene  and  Sullivan 
counties,  Indiana.  He  bought  884  acres, 
composing  all  of  seven  adjoining  farms, 
for  the  most  part  on  the  westerly  side  of 
the  Dugger  and  Neal  Coal  Company 's  mine. 
He  then  organized  the  Superior  Coal  Com- 
pany, of  which  he  owned  all  the  stock  ex- 
cept a  few  shares  owned  by  the  officers  of 
the  Island  Coal  Company.  This  latter  com- 
pany was  operating;  extensively  at  and 
near  Linton.  After  building  some  miners' 
houses  and  getting  a  shaft  sunk  Mr.  Scott 
was  so  harassed  by  the  conduct  of  the  coal 
miners  that  he  concluded  it  was  best  for 
him  to  consolidate  with  the  Island  Coal 
Company.  When  this  was  done  the  Island 
Coal  Company  spread  out  and  operated 
coal  mines  over  a  large  territory.  In  1903 
the  Island  Company  sold  this  property  to 
the  Vandalia  Coal  Company  for  more  than 
$250  per  acre. 

Much  of  this  interesting  business  experi- 
ence is  hardly  known  even  to  Mr.  Scott's 
close  friends.  A  large  number  of  people 
know  him  chiefly  for  his  extensive  opera- 
tions in  the  development  and  reclamation 
of  agricultural  lands  in  Northern  Indiana. 
Mrs.  Scott,  his  wife,  had  some  2,200  acres 
of  land  bequeathed  to  her  by  her  father  in 
1879.  One  farm  on  the  Tippecanoe  river 
was  upland,  but  about  1,900  acres  in  four 
different   tracts   were  swamp   land,  being 


located  in  the  Mud  Creek  region  of  Fulton 
County.  Mr.  Scott  sold  500  acres  of  the 
swamp  lands  for  $15  per  acre,  but  he  sub- 
divided the  remaining  1,400  acres  into  five 
farms,  erected  barns  and  houses  and  other 
buildings,  spent  many  thousands  of  dollars 
in  open  drains  and  tile  drains,  and  after- 
ward sold  the  lands,  some  as  high  as  $70 
an  acre. 

In  1884  he  bought  1,387  acres  of  marsh 
land  for  himself  in  the  same  county.  This 
he  subdivided  into  four  farms,  and  again 
undertook  extensive  drainage  work  and  im- 
provement. Today  these  four  farms  are 
worth  much  more  than  $100  an  acre.  On 
the  four  farms  he  has  laid  more  than  a 
hundred  miles  of  tile  drains,  has  caused 
four  miles  of  big  dredge  ditches  to  be  dug, 
and  the  example  and  woi*k  of  this  one  in- 
dividual owner  has  been  a  great  factor  of 
benefit  to  the  improvement  of  swamp  lands 
and  all  lands  generally  in  Fulton  County. 
Since  selling  his  interest  in  the  wheel 
factory  in  1902  Mr.  Scott  has  given  most 
of  his  time  to  looking  after  his  farms.  He 
was  a  pioneer  in  the  modern  reclamation 
work  in  Northern  Indiana.  That  work  re- 
quired courage  and  foresight  as  well  as  a 
large  amount  of  capital.  The  entire  region 
where  his  operations  have  been  centered 
is  now  under  cultivation,  and  is  no  longer 
known  as  a  marsh,  but  as  a  prairie. 

Only  a  broader  outline  of  the  career  of 
Mr.  Scott  can  be  attempted  here,  since  that 
broader  outline  constitutes  real  history. 
Mr.  Scott  has  been  a  history  maker  in  both 
Indiana  and  Michigan,  and  the  public  has 
an  interest  in  what  he  has  done.  He  is  a 
keen  and  forceful  American  business  man, 
and  through  it  all  has  pervaded  a  public 
spirit  that  in  many  ways  has  inured  to  the 
progress  and  development  of  his  home  city 
of  LaPorte.  Mr.  Scott  was  for  five  years 
mavor  of  LaPorte,  serving  from  May,  1889, 
to  September,  1894.  Of  larger  constructive 
enterprises  credited  to  his  administration 
should  be  mentioned  the  improvement  of 
the  channels  between  Lily,  Stone  and  Pine 
lakes,  for  the  purpose  of  furnishing  the 
city  a  permanent  water  supply.  The  first 
brick  pavement  in  LaPorte  is  also  attrib- 
uted to  his  administration.  In  politics  Mr. 
Scott  is  a  democi'at. 

Dr.  Theophilus  Parvin  was  born  Janu- 
ary 9,  1829,  at  Buenos  Aires,  South 
America,  where  his  parents  were  residing  as 


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missionaries.  After  receiving  his  medical 
degree  from  the  University  of  Pennsylvania 
he  located  in  Indianapolis  as  a  medical 
practitioner  in  1853,  and  except  for  the 
year  he  resided  in  Cincinnati  made  Indian- 
apolis his  home  until  the  fall  of  1883,  when 
he  removed  to  Philadelphia.  To  Doctor 
Parvin  belongs  the  honor  of  being  the  first 
physician  of  Indiana  to  write  a  medical 
text  book,  ' '  Science  and  Art  of  Obstetrics, ' ' 
and  he  was  also  honored  with  the  presi- 
dency of  the  Indiana  State  Medical  Society 
in  1862. 

Doctor  Parvin  excelled  as  a  lecturer  and 
teacher.  His  death  occurred  in  Philadel- 
phia January  29,  1898. 

Earl  E.  Stafford  is  owner  and  head  of 
"The  House  of  Ideas,"  as  he  calls  the  Staf- 
ford Engraving  Company  of  Indianapolis. 
Mr.  Stafford  has  been  himself  a  house  of 
ideas  ever  since  he  started  his  career,  and 
it  was  his  ambition  to  do  things  in  the 
engraving  and  illustrative  field  much  bet- 
ter and  along  new  lines  that  led  him  into 
founding  a  business  which  now  has  a  his- 
tory of  a  quarter  of  a  century. 

Mr.  Stafford  belongs  to  one  of  the  old 
and  honored  families  of  Eastern  Indiana, 
being  a  descendant  of  some  of  the  Quakers 
who  have  been  most  conspicuous  in  the 
development  of  Wayne  and  Henry  coun- 
ties. 

His  grandfather,  Dr.  Daniel  H.  Stafford, 
was  born  in  Wayne  County,  Indiana,  Aug- 
ust 30,  1818,  son  of  Samuel  and  Nancy 
(Hastings)  Stafford,  and  a  grandson  of 
Daniel  and  Abigail  Stafford,  who  came 
from  North  Carolina  and  settled  in  Wayne 
County,  Indiana,  in  1812.  Nancy  Hast- 
ings was  a  daughter  of  William  and  Sarah 
(Evans)  Hastings.  William  Hastings  was 
a  native  of  New  Jersey  but  went  south 
to  Western  North  Carolina,  and  in  1807 
moved  to  Wayne  County,  Indiana,  where 
he  was  a  school  teacher  in  the  first  colony 
that  settled  in  Eastern  Indiana.  Dr. 
Daniel  H.  Stafford  was  only  six  months 
old  when  his  mother  died.  In  1822  his 
father  moved  to  Henry  County  and  thir- 
teen years  later  to  Hamilton  County.  His 
father  was  a  minister  of  the  Society  of 
Friends.  Doctor  Stafford  served  an  ap- 
prenticeship of  four  years  at  the  carpen- 
ter's trade,  and  while  working  at  the  trade 
in  Henry  County  studied  medicine.  In 
1843  he  began  practice,  and  while  the  Civil 


war  was  in  progress  he  took  post-graduate 
work  in  the  Physio-Medical  Institute  at 
Cincinnati.  For  a  number  of  years  he 
devoted  much  of  his  time  to  agriculture, 
but  eventually  found  his  time  fully  oc- 
cupied by  his  profession.  He  married  in 
1838  Sarah  G.  Stretch,  whose  parents  set- 
tled in  Wayne  County  in  1823. 

Dr.  James  A.  Stafford,  father  of  Earl 
E.,  was  oldest  of  the  nine  children  of  his 
parents.  He  was  born  in  Henry  County 
September  28,  1839.  He  was  educated  in 
the  common  schools  and  in  Earlham  Col- 
lege at  Richmond,  was  a  teacher  for  sev- 
eral terms,  and  in  1864  began  reading 
medicine  with  his  father.  In  1867  he 
graduated  from  the  Physio-Medical  Insti- 
tute at  Cincinnati,  and  during  succeeding 
years  built  up  a  large  practice  at  Millville. 
He  also  owned  a  large  farm  there  and  was 
especially  successful  in  bee  culture.  He 
was  also  a  merchant  at  Millville.  He  con- 
tinued the  practice  of  his  profession  at 
Millville  until  1907,  when  he  moved  to 
Newcastle,  and  there  established  a  home 
hospital,  which  he  has  successfully  con- 
ducted ever  since.  Though  now  in  his 
eightieth  year,  he  has  the  vigor  of  many 
men  years  younger,  and  spends  part  of  his 
time  on  his  large  farm  near  Millville.  He 
is  a  faithful  member  of  the  Friends 
Church,  has  been  active  in  medical  so- 
cieties, and  is  a  republican  in  politics.  For 
a  long  period  of  years  he  has  given  his 
advocacy  to  prohibition.  In  1860  he  mar- 
ried Miss  Martha  Payne,  who  died  in  1866, 
leaving  two  sons,  Horace  and  Charles.  In 
1868  he  married  Elizabeth  C.  Worl,  daugh- 
ter of  John  Worl,  one  of  the  early  settlers 
of  Henry  County. 

Earl  E.  Stafford,  only  child  of  his 
father's  second  marriage,  was  born  in 
Henry  County,  Indiana,  December  25, 
1870.  He  attended  the  public  schools  of 
Millville  and  as  an  amateur  had  made  con- 
siderable progress  in  the  printing  art  be- 
fore he  was  thirteen  years  old.  In  1887 
he  entered  Purdue  University,  and  after 
leaving  college  he  went  to  work  at  Indian- 
apolis in  the  advertising  department  of  the 
Sun.  He  left  the  Sun  in  1891  to  engage 
in  the  advertising  business  for  himself,  and 
for  a  time  conducted  an  advertising  trade 
paper.  Then,  in  March,  1893,  he  organized 
the  Stafford  Engraving  Company,  and  has 
built  a  business  which  is  undoubtedly  one 
of  the  foremost  exponents  of  artistic  en- 


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graving  in  the  Middle  West.  It  is  now  a 
large  organization,  with  a  great  plant  and 
equipment  and  with  a  staff  of  expert  men 
in  all  lines  of  commercial  art  and  engrav- 
ing. This  is  the  only  engraving  establish- 
ment in  Indiana  making  process  color 
plates.  Mr.  Stafford  has  devoted  consid- 
erable time  to  agriculture  and  owns  a  farm 
of  139  acres  in  the  suburbs  of  Indianapolis, 
which  is  devoted  to  the  growing  of  small 
grains  and  live  stock. 

Mr.  Stafford  is  a  republican  and  has  been 
quite  active  in  his  party.  October  20, 
1897,  at  Indianapolis,  he  married  Miss 
Laura  Coulon.  They  are  the  parents  of 
two  children,  Robert  E.  and  Dorothy  Staf- 
ford. 

Hon.  Richard  Lowe,  representative  from 
Montgomery  County  in.  the  Sta+e  Legisla- 
ture is  widely  known  in  many  parts  of  the 
state  besides  his  home  county,  and  his  rec- 
ord from  young  manhood  to  the  present 
time  has  been  marked  by  great  efficiency 
and  ability  in  every  undertaking. 

He  was  born  April  6,  1860,  in  the  Vil- 
lage of  Newton,  Richland  Township,  Foun- 
tain County,  Indiana.  When  he  was  six 
years  of  age  he  removed  to  Tippecanoe 
County,  where  he  grew  to  manhood  on  a 
farm.  He  gained  a  higher  education 
largely  by  his  earnings  as  a  farm  laborer 
and  as  a  teacher.  He  attended  the  North- 
western Normal  University  of  Indiana  at 
Valparaiso  and  also  the  Normal  University 
of  Lebanon,  Ohio.  For  ten  years  he  taught 
school,  his  work  in  that  profession  being 
in  the  states  of  Ohio,  Kentucky  and  In- 
diana. Mr.  Lowe  in  1889  was  appointed 
a  special  agent  for  the  United  States  Pen- 
sion Bureau.  It  was  in  that  work  that 
his  experience  and  abilities  brought  out  his 
finest  service.  His  duties  took  him  to 
many  parts  of  the  United  States,  and  he 
was  more  and  more  appointed  to  difficult 
cases  requiring  the  services  of  an  expert 
examiner.  He  held  his  office  until  1910, 
and  from  that  year  until  1915  was  dili- 
gently engaged  as  a  farmer  and  stock 
raiser  in  Tippecanoe  County.  On  retiring 
from  his  farm  Mr.  Lowe  located  at  Craw- 
fordsville,  and  has  since  conducted  a  pen- 
sion office  with  branch  offices  at  Indianap- 
olis and  Lafayette.  He  has  successfnlly 
prosecuted  and  adjusted  many  important 
claims  for  old  soldiers  and  their  repre- 
sentatives.   During  our  war  with  the  Cen- 


tral Powers  of  Europe  Mr.  Lowe  as  an 
attorney  assisted  gratuitously  hundreds  of 
soldiers  and  their  heirs  with  their  claims 
for  allotment,  compensation  and  insurance, 
and  is  yet  engaged  in  this  field  of  active 
usefulness. 

He  was  elected  to  represent  Montgomery 
County  in  the  legislature  November  5, 
1918,  on  the  republican  ticket,  and  as  a 
member  of  the  Seventy-First  General  As- 
sembly of  Indiana  achieved  the  reputation 
of  being  a  hard  working,  painstaking  legis- 
lator. He  is  affiliated  with  the  Independ- 
ent Order  of  Odd  Fellows,  is  a  member  of 
the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church,  and  has 
always  been  a  student  and  lover  of  books 
and  has  a  large  private  library  in  his  com- 
fortable home  at  209  East  Pike  Street  in 
Crawfordsville. 

July  30,  1885,  Mr.  Lowe  married  Miss 
Gelesse  Louella  Jeffery,  a  native  of  Ohio. 
She  died  September  16,  1903,  mother  of 
one  son,  Sylvan  Russell  Lowe,  born  August 
14,  1886,  and  now  a  resident  of  Rochester, 
New  York.  October  19,  1905,  Mr.  Lowe 
married  for  his  present  wife  Mrs.  Olive 
Riggs,  a  native  of  Putnam  County,  In- 
diana. 

John  Glasscott.  The  Glasscott  family 
has  had  an  active  part  in  the  history  of 
Michigan  City  for  many  years.  It  was 
founded  here  by  the  late  John  Glasscott, 
and  two  of  his  sons  continue  the  prestige 
of  the  name  in  business  and  civic  affairs. 

John  Glasscott  was  born  in  New  Ross, 
County  Wexford,  Ireland,  in  1838,  son  of 
Thomas  and  Anastasia  (Cullerton)  Glass- 
cott, who  were  lifelong  residents  of  County 
Wexford.  Four  of  their  sons,  Thomas, 
James,  John  and  Nicholas,  came  to  Amer- 
ica, also  two  daughters,  Margaret  Glasscott 
of  Chicago  and  Eliza  Glasscott  Howard  of 
Detroit,  Michigan,  while  two  sons,  William 
and   Robert,   remained   in   Ireland. 

John  Glasscott  left  the  home  of  his 
parents  when  only  nine  years  of  age,  and 
came  to  America  on  a  sailing  vessel,  being 
five  weeks  on  the  ocean.  Landing  at  New 
York,  he  went  on  west  to  Chicago,  where  he 
joined  an  uncle  named  John  Redmond. 
He  was  employed  in  various  lines  until  he 
reached  manhood  and  then  moved  to  Mich- 
igan City  and  learned  the  trade  of  brass 
moulder  in  the  car  shops.  After  a  short 
time  he  entered  the  service  of  the  Michigan 
Central  Railway  Company,  and  continued 


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that  employment  until  late  in  life,  when  he 
resigned  and  engaged  in  the  coal  business. 
He  died  in  March,  1917,  and  left  a  good 
name  in  the  community.  He  married 
Mary  Olvaney,  who  was  born  in  Defiance, 
Ohio.  Her  father,  John  Olvaney,  was  a 
native  of  Dublin,  Ireland,  and  he  and  his 
brother  Patrick  were  the  only  members  of 
the  family  to  come  to  America.  John  Ol- 
vaney was  a  young  man  when  he  reached 
this  country,  and  in  New  York  he  met  and 
married  Mary  Frazier.  They  started  west 
with  a  team  and  wagon,  and  having  limited 
means  they  had  to  stop  at  different  times 
along  the  road  to  earn  sufficient  money  to 
keep  them  in  supplies,  and  thus  by  stages 
they  continued  westward  until  they  ar- 
rived in  Michigan  City,  then  a  small  town. 
John  Olvaney  died  there  a  few  years  later, 
leaving  his  widow  and  several  small  chil- 
dren. One  son,  named  John,  served  four 
years  in  the  Union  army  during  the  Civil 
war.  About  a  year  after  the  war  he  met 
his  death  by  drowning  in  the  lake  while 
attempting  to  save  the  life  of  another.  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Glasscott  had  four  children,  Alex- 
ander, who  died  at  the  age  of  seven  years, 
John,  Thomas  and  Matie,  the  latter  the 
wife  of  Rudolph  Krueger. 

Thomas  Glasscott  attended  the  parochial 
schools  and  public  schools  of  Michigan 
City,  and  after  finishing  his  education  took 
up  clerical  work.  For  the  past  six  years 
he  has  discharged  the  responsibilities  of 
savings  teller  in  the  Citizens  Bank.  He  is 
a  member  of  St.  Mary's  Church,  as  were 
his  parents,  and  is  affiliated  with  Council 
No.  837  of  the  Knights  of  Columbus,  and 
with  the  Chamber  of  Commerce. 

His  brother,  John  J.  Glasscott,  was  also 
born  in  Michigan  City,  was  educated  in  the 
parochial  schools,  and  as  a  young  man 
entered  the  retail  coal  business.  After  sev- 
eral years  he  broadened  his  enterprise  to 
include  real  estate  and  insurance  and  also 
the  wholesale  coal  trade,  and  he  is  now 
at  the  head  of  a  large  and  successful 
enterprise.  In  1894  he  married  Evan- 
geline McCrory,  a  native  of  Michigan  City 
and  a  daughter  of  John  and  Catherine  Mc- 
Crory. They  have  four  children :  Eulalia, 
Lorenzo  A.,  Robert  and  Evangeline.  Eul- 
alia is  a  teacher  of  domestic  science  in  the 
Michigan  City  schools  and  Lorenzo  gradu- 
ated from  the  law  department  of  Notre 
Dame  University  at  the  age  of  twenty- 
one.  The  family  are  members  of  St. 
Mary's  Church  and  John  Glasscott  is  affil- 


iated with  Michigan  City,  Council  No.  837, 
Knights  of  Columbus,  and  is  a  member  of 
the  Chamber  of  Commerce. 

i 
Eugene  C.  Dolmetsch.  This  is  one  of 
the  honored  names  in  wholesale  circles  at 
Indianapolis,  and  also  suggests  the  career 
of  a  man  who  coming  to  America  compara- 
tively poor  and  unknown  has  carved  his 
destiny  as  a  substantial  citizen  of  Indiana 
and  has  a  record  which  his  own  children 
and  every  other  citizen  may  read  with  in- 
spiration and  encouragement. 

He  was  born  in  Wuertemberg,  Germany, 
September  11,  1855,  one  of  the  nine  chil- 
dren of  Christian  and  Maria  (Haueisen) 
Dolmetsch.  The  first  fourteen  years  of 
his  life  were  spent  in  Germany.  He  at- 
tended the  common  schools,  and  before 
beginning  the  second  period  of  a  German 
youth,  that  of  a  practical  apprenticeship  at 
some  trade,  he  accompanied  an  uncle,  Wil- 
liam Haueisen,  to  the  United  States.  They 
came  direct  to  Indianapolis,  where  Mr. 
Dolmetsch  arrived  with  a  very  imperfect 
knowledge  of  the  English  language  or 
American  customs.  It  was  his  purpose  to 
make  this  country  his  future  home  and  to 
win  success  if  perseverance  and  industry 
would  accomplish  that  end.  For  several 
years  he  attended  night  school  in  Indian- 
apolis, and  therein  perfected  his  knowl- 
edge of  the  language  and  gained  other 
qualifications  for  worthy  and  useful  citi- 
zenship. 

It  was  nearly  fifty  years  ago  that  Mr. 
Dolmetsch  came  to  Indianapolis,  and  in 
all  those  years  his  interest  and  employ- 
ment have  been  practically  along  one  line. 
His  first  experience  was  as  clerk  in  the 
wholesale  and  retail  toy  establishment  of 
Charles  Mayer  &  Company.  He  remained 
with  that  firm,  giving  the  best  that  was  in 
him  of  faithful  service  and  hard  work,  for 
a  period  of  thirty-four  years.  In  1902 
the  original  firm  retired  and  was  succeeded 
by  five  of  the  older  employes,  Eugene  C. 
Dolmetsch,  John  G.  Ohleyer,  Herman  H. 
Sielken,  Otto  Keller  and  George  Hofman. 
These  five  men  organized  and  incorporated 
the  E.  C.  Dolmetsch  Company.  Since  that 
time  Mr.  Dolmetsch  has  been  the  active 
president  of  the  corporation.  The 
specialty  of  the  company  is  wholesaling 
druggists  sundries,  toys  and  fancy  goods. 
It  is  a  large  and  important  firm,  and  one 
that  has  added  not  a  little  to  the  prestige 
of  Indianapolis  as  a  wholesale  center. 


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Besides  his  business  affairs  Mr.  Dol- 
nietsch  has  always  entered  fully  into  the 
responsibilities  of  American  citizenship. 
He  is  independent  in  politics,  is  a  member 
of  the  Lutheran  Church  and  is  identified 
with  the  Knights  of  Pythias.  Many  times 
his  name  has  appeared  in  connection  with 
some  movements  which  have  brought  im- 
portant institutions  into  the  life  of  In- 
dianapolis. Since  America  entered  into 
war  with  Germany  his  patriotism  has  been 
signally  demonstrated,  and  he  was  one  of 
the  proud  American  fathers  who  welcomed 
the  fact  that  his  youngest  son,  Walter  K., 
volunteered  as  a  soldier  in  the  National 
Army.  His  only  other  son,  Eugene  C. 
Dolmetsch,  Jr.,  is  actively  associated  with 
him  in  business. 

May  26,  1886,  Mr.  Dolmetsch  married 
Miss  Ida  Kevers.  She  was  born  in  Ohio  of 
German  parentage. 

Clara  Margaret  Sweitzer.  Of  Indiana 
women  who  have  chosen  independent  voca- 
tions in  spheres  and  fields  outside  the  rou- 
tine of  woman's  labors,  Clara  Margaret 
Sweitzer  of  Richmond  has  the  distinction 
of  success  and  professional  attainments  as 
an  optometrist.  She  has  a  large  and  pros- 
perous clientage  and  business  in  the  West- 
cott  Hotel  Building. 

She  was  born  at  Shakopee,  Minnesota, 
daughter  of  Nicholas  and  Christine  (Hoe- 
ing) Sweitzer,  both  of  whom  were  born  in 
Bavaria,  Germany.  Miss  Sweitzer  was 
educated  in  parochial  schools  and  also  in 
the  Notre  Dame  Convent.  After  some 
business  experience  in  different  lines  she 
entered  the  Rochester  School  of  Opto- 
metry, graduated,  and  in  1905  located  at 
Richmond,  opening  an  office  and  consulting 
rooms  at  927%  Main  Street.  She  soon 
had  a  growing  business  and  on  December 
16,  1918,  opened  a  newly  appointed  office 
in  the  Westcott  Hotel.  Hers  is  one  of 
the  largest  business  of  its  kind  in  Wayne 
County.  She  carries  a  complete  stock  of 
optical  goods  and  has  all  the  facilities  for 
perfect  adjustment  and  fitting  for  indivi- 
dual use.  Much  of  her  business  comes 
from  outside  towns,  and  no  small  share  of 
it  from  outside  the  state. 

Miss  Sweitzer  is  a  member  of  the  State 
and  National  Associations  of  Optometrists. 
She  has  been  actively  engaged  in  state  as- 
sociation work  and  has  served  on  various 
committees  for  several  years.     She  has  also 


represented  the  state  as  a  delegate  in  na- 
tional conventions.  She  believes  in  suf- 
frage for  women  but  is  rather  averse  to 
office  holding  for  the  sex.  She  is  a  mem- 
ber of  St.  Mary's  Catholic  Church  and  is 
an  independent  in  politics. 

John  J.  Harrington,  Jr.,  is  an  execu- 
tive of  one  of  the  old  established  business 
concerns  of  Richmond,  the  John  J.  Har- 
rington Wholesale  Accessories,  Saddlery 
and  other  supplies  house. 

He  was  born  at  Richmond  in  September, 
1882,  a  son  of  John  J.  and  Anna  (Ross) 
Harrington.  As  a  boy  he  attended  paro- 
chial schools,  also  the  Garfield  School,  and 
was  an  honor  graduate  from  the  Richmond 
High  School  in  1900.  In  September  of 
that  year  he  entered  Notre  Dame  Univer- 
sity, and  took  the  two  years '  course  leading 
to  the  degree  Master  of  Accounts  in  one 
year,  graduating  in  1901.  He  at  once  re- 
turned to  Richmond  and  entered  his 
father's  business,  and  has  been  given  in- 
creasing responsibilities  in  that  concern 
with  passing  years. 

In  1907  he  married  Henrietta  Luken, 
daughter  of  A.  G.  Luken,  a  pioneer  drug- 
gist of  Richmond.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Har- 
rington have  four  children.  Mr.  Harring- 
ton is  a  republican  and  was  elected  un- 
animously Grand  Knight  of  the  Knights 
of  Columbus,  and  had  charge  of  all  their 
war  work  drives  in  Richmond.  He  is  a 
member  of  the  Commercial  Club,  the 
Benevolent  and  Protective  Order  of  Elks, 
is  a  member  of  the  National  Association  of 
Wholesale  Saddlery  Dealers,  and  a  mem- 
ber of  St.  Mary's  Church. 

Capt.  Silas  E.  Taylor,  who  was  a  cap- 
tain of  engineers  in  the  Civil  war,  earning 
promotion  from  the  ranks  to  a  captaincy, 
has  been  a  resident  of  LaPorte  for  over 
half  a  century,  and  for  many  years  was 
head  of  one  of  the  largest  printing  concerns 
of  that  city.  He  learned  the  printing  trade 
when  a  boy  and  followed  it  steadily  with 
the  exception  of  the  Civil  war  period  until 
he  retired  quite  recently. 

Captain  Taylor  was  born  at  Bath  in 
Steuben  County,  New  York,  July  16,  1837. 
His  great-grandfather,  Nathan  Taylor,  was 
a  native  of  Connecticut  and  served  in  the 
war  of  the  Revolution.  After  that  war  he 
became  a  pioneer  settler  in  Washington 
County,  New  York.     John  Taylor,  grand- 


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father  of  Captain  Taylor,  was  born  in 
Washington  County,  New  York,  learned 
the  trade  of  millwright,  and  established 
one  of  the  early  homes  in  Steuben  County, 
traveling  from  Washington  to  Steuben 
County  with  wagon  and  team.  He  bought 
a  tract  of  timber  land  at  $1  an  acre,  sup- 
plied his  family  and  home  with  the  necessi- 
ties of  life  by  working  at  his  trade,  and 
also  superintended  the  management  of  the 
farm,  where  he  lived  until  his  death,  when 
upwards  of  ninety  years  of  age.  He  mar- 
ried Miss  Baker. 

Daniel  Bacon  Taylor,  father  of  Captain 
Taylor,  was  born  at  Fort  Ann  in  Washing- 
ton County,  New  York,  in  1805.  He  also 
learned  the  trade  of  millwright,  and  fol- 
lowed it  all  his  active  career  in  New  York 
State.  He  married  Dorcas  Cothrell,  a  life- 
long resident  of  New  York  State. 

Captain  Taylor  is  the  only  surviving 
child  of  the  seven  born  to  his  parents.  At 
the  age  of  fourteen,  having  had  some  for- 
mal instruction  in  the  schools  of  that  time, 
he  began  learning  the  printer's  trade  in 
the  office  of  the  Steuben  Courier.  He 
worked  at  this  occupation  steadily  until 
1860,  when  he  went  west  to  Port  Clintdn, 
Ohio,  and  established  a  newspaper.  He 
did  not  long  remain  connected  with  that 
enterprise,  owing  to  the  fact  that  the  Civil 
war  broke  out  and  he  responded  to  the 
call  for  his  services  by  returning  to  New 
York  State  and  enlisting  in  the  Fiftieth 
Regiment  of  New  York  Engineers.  The 
first  year  he  served  as  a  private,  then  for 
one  day  as  first  sergeant,  later  as  second 
lieutenant,  was  promoted  to  first  lieuteriant, 
and  finally  as  captain  commanded  the 
company  and  in  many  ways  distinguished 
himself  by  the  enterprise  and  intrepidity  of 
his  organization  during  several  of  the  im- 
portant campaigns  of  the  war.  The  war 
over,  he  returned  to  New  York  and  resumed 
employment  in  a  printing  office  at  Hornell. 

Captain  Taylor  came  to  LaPorte  in.  1867 
for  the  purpose  of  accepting  a  position  in 
the  office  of  the  LaPorte  Herald.  At  that 
time  the  principal  machine  for  printing  in 
the  office  was  a  hand  press.  With  the 
growth  of  the  city  the  facilities  of  the  office 
were  increased,  and  for  many  years  Captain 
Taylor  was  connected  with  one  of  the  larg- 
est printing  establishments  in  Northern 
Indiana.  This  company  also  published  for 
some  years  the  LaPorte  Herald,  and  at  one 
time  Captain  Taylor  owned  a  half  interest 


in  that  publication.  He  became  president 
of  the  printing  company  and  held  that 
office  until  he  retired  February  4,  1916. 

Dr.  James  F.  Hibbard  is  one  of  the  noted 
and  well  remembered  Indiana  physicians 
who  have  been  called  to  the  life  beyond. 
He  was  long  prominent  in  the  medical  socie- 
ties of  the  state,  and  as  early  as  1862  was 
elected  president  of  the  State  Medical  So- 
ciety, and  in  1893  was  chosen  president  of 
the  American  Medical  Association.  His 
contributions  to  the  former  were  numerous 
and  valuable.  Indiana  claims  Doctor  Hib- 
bard among  the  eminent  men  who  graced 
her  medical  profession.  His  home  was  at 
Richmond. 

William  M.  Ferree.  The  Ferree  fam- 
ily has  been  in  Indiana  since  pioneer  times 
and  are  well  known  in  several  different 
counties  of  the  state.  William  M.  Ferree 
has  been  in  the  lumber  business  for  the 
greater  part  of  his  active  career,  and  is 
now  a  partner  in  one  of  the  large  retail 
lumber  establishments  of  Indianapolis. 

The  first  member  of  the  Ferree  family 
in  America  was  a  Huguenot  who  came 
from  France  for  the  purpose  of  seeking 
freedom  of  religious  worship.  Through 
the  influence  of  William  Penn  he  received 
a  land  grant  in  what  is  now  Lancaster 
County,  Pennsylvania.  The  family  thus 
established  became  numerous,  produced 
many  estimable  men  and  women,  and  one 
branch  of  it  subsequently  moved  to  Vir- 
ginia. From  Virginia  in  the  early  part  of 
the  last  century  the  Ferrees  came  to  Rush 
County,  Indiana,  where  Oliver  S.  Ferree, 
father  of  the  Indianapolis  merchant  and 
son  of  William,  who  was  the  son  of  John, 
was  born  April  9,  1836.  Oliver  Ferree 
when  a  boy  was  thrown  from  a  horse  and 
was  a  cripple  all  the  rest  of  his  life.  De- 
spite this  handicap  he  developed  sterling 
business  qualities  and  for  many  years  was 
one  of  the  prosperous  merchants  at  Somer- 
set in  Wabash  County.  He  spent  his  later 
years  on  his  old  farm  in  that  county.  In 
the  days  when  Indiana  still  furnished  a 
large  quantity  of  the  finest  of  hard  wood 
timber  he  built  a  home  which  was  finished 
throughout  with  walnut,  a  timber  now  al- 
most priceless  and  as  valuable  as  ma- 
hogany. This  fine  old  home  was  only  re- 
cently destroyed  by  fire.  Oliver  Ferree 
was    active    in    the    Methodist    Episcopal 


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Church,  served  as  a  church  official,  and  in 
politics  was  a  republican.  .  His  first  wife 
was  Mary  L.  Miles,  who  was  born  at 
Marion,  Grant  County,  Indiana.  She  died 
in  1878,  the  mother  of  two  sons,  Francis 
M.,  and  William  M.,  the  former  a  farmer 
occupying  the  old  homestead  in  Wabash 
County.  Oliver  Ferree  married  for  his 
second  wife  Annie  White,  who  now  lives  at 
Thorntown,  Indiana. 

William  M.  Ferree  was  born  on  Wash- 
ington's birthday,  February  22,  1870,  at 
Somerset  in  Wabash  County,  Indiana.  In 
that  locality  he  spent  the  years  preceding 
manhood,  and  finished  his  education  in  the 
Somerset  High  School.  His  energies  were 
employed  on  the  home  farm  until  the  age 
of  twenty,  at  which  date  he  removed  to 
Elwood,  and  there  gained  his  first  experi- 
ence in  the  lumber  trade.  For  eleven  years 
he  was  connected  with  the  Elwood  Planing 
Mill,  most  of  the  time  as  yard  foreman. 
From  Elwood  he  removed  to  Indianapolis, 
and  entered  the  service  of  the  Kies  Lum- 
ber Company.  The  Kies  lumber  plant  is 
now  operated  by  the  Brannum  &  Keeneler 
Lumber  Company,  situated  on  East  Wash- 
ington Street.  Mr.  Ferree  was  connected 
with  these  two  organizations  for  ten  years 
and  for  two  years  was  with  the  Fayette 
Lumber  Company  at  Connersville.  Sell- 
ing his  interests  there  he  returned  to  In- 
dianapolis and  in  1914  organized  the  Fer- 
ree-Case  Lumber  Company,  of  which  he  is 
secretary  and  treasurer.  This  company 
conducts  a  general  lumber  supply  business 
at  State  Street  and  the  Big  Four  Railway 
tracks,  and  they  also  have  a  business  con- 
nection with  the  Case  Lumber  Company  of 
Rushville,  Indiana. 

September  15,  1892,  Mr.  Ferree  married 
Miss  Jeanette  A.  Seward,  daughter  of  Jack 
and  Margaret  Seward.  Six  children  have 
been  born  to  their  marriage.  Two  of  them, 
Dale  Oliver  and  Mary,  are  deceased,  the 
former  at  the  age  of  three  and  the  latter 
at  eight  years.  John  R.,  the  oldest  child, 
senior  at  Butler  College,  Indianapolis,  is 
now  in  the  uniform  of  a  soldier,  member 
of  the  Three  Hundred  and  Twenty- 
Seventh  Field  Artillery,  American  Ex- 
peditionary Forces  in  France.  The  son 
Paul  is  a  student  in  the  Technical  High 
School  of  Indianapolis.  The  two  younger 
children  are  Elizabeth  and  Jeanette. 

Mr.  Ferree  is  affiliated  with  the  Lodge, 
Royal  Arch  Chapter  and  Council  of  Ma- 


sonry, with  the  A.  A.  Scottish  Rite,  thirty- 
second  degree,  with  the  Independent  Order 
of  Odd  Fellows,  the  Improved  Order  of  Red 
Men  and  the  Modern  Woodmen.  Politir 
cally  he  casts  his  vote  as  a  democrat. 

Charles  A.  Korbly,  Sr.,  was  one  of  the 
very  able  members  of  the  Indiana  bar  dur- 
ing the  last  third  of  the  nineteenth  century. 
He  was  never  prominent  in  politics  and 
his  reputation  rests  most  soundly  upon  the 
work  he  did  as  a  lawyer,  and  as  such  his 
reputation  was  not  confined  to  any  one 
county  of  the  state.  The  honored  name 
he  made  as  a  lawyer  has  been  sustained  by 
the  splendid  abilities  of  his  two  sons, 
Charles  A.,  Jr.,  and  Bernard,  both  promi- 
nent members  of  the  Indianapolis  bar.  In 
public  affairs  the  member  of  the  family 
known  is  Charles  A.  Korbly,  Jr.,  former 
congressman  from  Indiana. 

Charles  A.  Korbly,  Sr.,  was  born  at 
Louisville,  Kentucky,  January  16,  1842. 
His  father,  Charles  Korbly,  was  a  native  of 
Bavaria  but  married  in  France.  From 
there  he  came  to  the  United  States  and 
lived  at  Louisville,  Kentucky,  for  some 
years.  He  was  a  man  of  adventurous  dis- 
position and  in  1849  with  others  started 
overland  for  California.  The  last  word 
received  from  him  was  at  St.  Joseph,  Mis- 
souri, and  whether  he  lost  his  life  on  the 
way  or  after  reaching  California  has  never 
been  known.  His  widow  then  took  her 
family  to  Ripley  County,  Indiana,  where 
Charles  A.  Korbly,  Sr.,  was  reared.  He  re- 
ceived some  education  at  home,  also  taught 
school  during  his  youth,  and  began  the 
study  of  medicine,  but  turned  from  the 
preparation  for  that  profession  to  the  law. 
The  man  who  directed  and  inspired  most 
of  his  researches  in  the  law  was  Wiliiam 
Henrv  Harrington,  then  a  prominent  law- 
yer of  Madison  and  later  at  Indianapolis. 

Charles  A.  Korbly  became  a  partner 
with  Mr.  Harrington  and  for  nearly  thirty 
years  practiced  law  in  Jefferson  County 
and  surrounding  counties.  In  1895  he 
removed  to  Indianapolis,  where  he  formed 
a  partnership  with  Alonzo  Green  Smith,  a 
former  attorney  general  of  Indiana.  This 
partnership  continued  until  the  death  of 
Mr.   Korbly. 

As  a  lawyer  Mr.  Korbly  was  known  not 
as  a  brilliant  advocate  nor  for  his  forensic 
ability,  but  rather  for  his  deep  and  thor- 
ough knowledge  of  the  law  and  its  appli- 


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cation.  He  would  not  take  a  case  unless 
it  had  merit.  When  once  employed  his 
clients  could  rest  assured  that  their  in- 
terests were  sacred  and  that  he  would  be 
indefatigable  in  conserving  them.  This 
was  the  basis  of  the  reputation  which  be- 
came widespread  over  Indiana.  He  was 
in  every  sense  a  safe  counsellor,  and  well 
deserved  the  high  position  he  gained  at  the 
bar.  Though  an  ardent  democrat  in  polit- 
ical belief  he  never  showed  an  inclina- 
tion for  official  honors.  About  his  only 
official  work  was  several  years  as  United 
States  commissioner.  He  served  in  the 
Union  army  during  the  Civil  war  until  in- 
jured. He  was  a  member  of  the  Catholic 
Church. 

Charles  A.  Korbly,  Sr.,  died  June  13, 
1900.  He  married  Mary  B.  Bright,  who  sur- 
vived him.  Her  father,  Michael  G.  Bright, 
was  a  native  of  New  York  State  and  of  Re- 
volutionary American  stock.  For  many 
years  he  was  a  successful  lawyer  at  Madi- 
son and  finally  came  to  Indianapolis,  where 
he  continued  in  practice  for  a  number  of 
years.  Charles  A  Korbly,  Sr.,  and  wife 
had  five  children.  The  three  still  living 
are  Charles  A.,  Jr. ;  Mary  B.,  Mrs.  John  G. 
McNutt;  and  Bernard. 

Charles  A.  Korbly,  Jr.,  was  born  at  Madi- 
son, Indiana,  March  24,  1871,  and  he  was 
educated  in  the  parochial  schools  of  that 
city,  attended  St.  Joseph's  College  in  Illi- 
nois for  two  terms  and  studied  law  under 
his  father.  He  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in 
1892,  and  in  1895  came  to  Indianapolis  and 
became  connected  with  his  father's  firm, 
Smith  &  Korbly.  After  the  death  of  his 
father  in  1900  he  practiced  with  Alonzo 
Green  Smith  and  with  his  brother  Bernard 
until  1902.  Since  then  he  has  practiced 
alone.  Mr.  Korbly  has  a  number  of  busi- 
ness interests  at  Indianapolis,  and  in  the 
spring  of  1908  he  was  nominated  on  the 
democratic  ticket  for  congressman  from  the 
Seventh  District.  He  was  elected  on  that 
ticket  against  a  large  normal  republican 
majority  and  was  one  of  the  leading  mem- 
bers of  the  Indiana  delegation  in  the  House 
of  Representatives  during  the  Sixty-first, 
Sixty-second  and  Sixty-third  congresses, 
from  1909  to  1915. 

Mr.  Korbly  is  a  recognized  student  of 
politics  and  affairs  and  a  number  of  years 
ago  prepared  some  articles  on  currency 
and  banking  for  the  Indianapolis  News. 
These    articles    were    widely    copied,    and 


had  much  to  do  with  molding  opinion  and 
educating  the  public  on  these  great  issues. 
Mr.  Korbly  is  a  member  of  the  Indiana 
State  Historical  Society,  the  Hoosier  His- 
torical Society  at  Madison,  the  Indian- 
apolis Board  of  Trade  and  Commercial 
Club,  the  Indiana  Bar  Association,  and  is 
a  member  of  the  Catholic  Church.  June 
10,  1902,  he  married  Isabel  Stephens  Pal- 
mer, daughter  of  Edward  and  Elizabeth 
(Stephens)  Palmer  and  granddaughter  of 
Hon.  Nathan  B.  Palmer,  speaker  of  the 
Indiana  House  of  Representatives  in  1832 
and  later  was  treasurer  of  the  state.  Mrs. 
Korbly  is  of  a  family  containing  Revolu- 
tionary ancestors. 

Bernard  Korbly  has  had  a  highly  suc- 
cessful career  as  an  Indianapolis  lawyer. 
He  was  born  at  Madison  June  29,  1875,  and 
was  educated  in  the  schools  of  that  city 
and  at  St.  Joseph's  College  at  Teutopolis, 
Illinois.  He  read  law  with  the  firm  of 
Smith  &  Korbly  at  Indianapolis  and  since 
1896  has  been  one  of  the  leading  members 
of  the  bar.  Mr.  Korbly  has  also  been  prom- 
inent in  democratic  politics  and  was  dem- 
ocratic state  chairman  of  Indiana  from 
the  spring  of  1912  until  January,  1918.  He 
is  a  member  of  a  number  of  clubs  and  or- 
ganizations. He  married  Margaret  E. 
Crim. 

Joseph  Doty  Oliver.  Were  it  not  that 
invention,  expansion  and  accomplishment 
have  marked  so  many  lines  of  industry  in 
these  modern  days  all  over  the  world,  still 
greater  attention  than  ever  would  have 
been  given  to  the  amazing  growth  and  un- 
paralleled success  of  one  of  Indiana 's  larg- 
est industries,  which  the  name  of  Oliver  has 
been  identified  since  its  birth.  In  the  long 
years  of  national  peace,  as  well  as  in  world 
war  times,  the  Oliver  Chilled  Plow  has  been 
recognized  as  a  necessary  adjunct  to  agri- 
cultural production.  South  Bend  has  al- 
ways been  the  home  of  this  manufacturing 
plant,  which  now  covers  seventy-five  acres, 
and  South  Bend  is  the  home  of  Joseph 
Doty  Oliver,  who  is  president  of  the  Oliver 
Chilled  Plow  Works. 

Joseph  Doty  Oliver  was  born  at  Mish- 
awaka,  Saint  Joseph  County,  Indiana, 
August  2,  1850.  His  parents  were  James 
and  Susan  (Doty)  Oliver.  James  Oliver 
was  born  in  Roxburyshire,  Scotland,  and 
died  at  South  Bend,  Indiana,  March  2, 
1908,    surviving    his   wife   six   years,    her 


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death  occurring  September  13,  1902.  The 
Olivers  came  to  Indiana  in  1836  and  settled 
at  Mishawaka  in  Saint  Joseph  County. 
Mr.  James  Oliver  remained  there  for  sev- 
eral decades,  and  in  1855  moved  to  South 
Bend,  where  he  found  a  chance  to  invest 
in  an  established  foundry,  paying  $88.76 
of  his  sole  cash  capital  of  $100  for  a  one- 
fourth  interest.  Among  the  products  of 
the  foundry  were  cast  iron  plows,  con- 
sidered by  farmers  a  decided  advance  over 
the  old  wood  mold-board  plows  of  earlier 
days.  James  Oliver's  judgment  convinced 
him  that  the  cast  iron  plows  were  too  heavy 
and  not  adapted  to  many  soils,  and  he  be- 
gan experimenting  and  for  twelve  years 
put  his  inventive  genius  into  the  work,  and 
finally  evolved  the  Oliver  Chilled  Plow, 
which  remains  to  this  day  the  accepted 
implement  of  its  kind  the  world  over,  and 
at  the  same  time  is  a  lasting  testimonial 
to  the  perseverance,  patience  and  construc- 
tive skill  of  its  inventor. 

The  plant  of  the  Oliver  Chilled  Plow 
"Works  is  the  most  extensive  of  its  char- 
acter in  the  world,  with  a  manufacturing 
capacity  of  more  than  half  a  million  plows 
annually,  besides  other  implements  and  re- 
cently patented  devices.  The  plant  is  situ- 
ated along  the  New  York  Central  Rail- 
road tracks  south  for  a  distance  approxi- 
mately six  city  blocks,  and  from  Chapin 
Street  over  four  city  blocks  to  Arnold 
Street.  There  are  twenty-six  different 
buildings,  including  a  six-story  warehouse, 
and  its  offices  are  at  533  Chapin  Street. 
Employment  is  given  3,000  hands  and  the 
products  are  shipped  all  over  the  world. 

An  interesting  example  of  what  is  being 
carried  on  at  the  plant  in  the  way  of  ad- 
ding to  the  industrial  power  of  the  agri- 
culturists in  the  present  situation,  when  the 
world  is  looking  to  the  United  States  for 
bread,  is  the  hastening  up  of  the  manu- 
facture of  one  of  the  company's  inventions 
of  1914.  Its  description,  without  technica- 
lities, stamps  it  as  a  combined  rolling  colter 
and  jointer  device,  to  be  used  with  many 
patterns  of  Oliver  plows.  A  feature 
of  the  utility  of  this  device  is  that  it  will 
thoroughly  cover  under  weeds  as  high  as 
a  man 's  head  and  bury  them  at  the  bottom 
of  the  furrow,  and  when  it  comes  into  uni- 
versal use,  as  it  will,  there  will  be  no  more 
trouble  for  the  farmers  from  such  destruc- 
tive pests  as  grasshoppers,  bollweevil,  white 
grubs  or  Hessian  fly.     This  is  but  one  of 


the  many  inventions  completed  and  under 
way  of  this  company,  and  all  of  them,  in 
order  to  satisfy  the  present  head  of  the 
company,  Joseph  Doty  Oliver,  must  have 
specific  value  for  the  farmer,  and  he  ac- 
cepts no  other  under  the  name  of  improve- 
ments. 

Joseph  Doty  Oliver  since  leaving  Notre 
Dame  Academy  and  De  Pauw  University 
has  been  closely  identified  with  the  man- 
ufacturing business  above  described,  enter- 
ing the  factory  and  obtaining  thereby  a 
practical  working  knowledge  in  which  he 
has  never  lost  interest.  He  is  not  only  the 
nominal  but  actual  head  of  the  Oliver  Chil- 
led Plow  Works,  taking  pride  in  its  success 
and  intelligently  assisting  in  working  out 
its  problems.  In  his  devotion  to  business 
sometimes  his  friends  have  declared  that 
he  has  not  taken  time  to  accept  political 
and  other  preferments,  but  business  first 
has  always  appealed  to  him.  However, 
Mr.  Oliver  has  never  shirked  responsibil- 
ities and  as  an  ardent  republican  has  been 
ready  to  respond  to  the  legitimate  calls  of 
his  party,  but  in  large  measure  he  has 
preferred  to  loyally  support  others  and 
advance  their  ambitions  rather  than  to  en- 
joy their  fruits  for  himself.  He  has  served 
on  several  occasions  as  a  delegate  to  state 
and  national  conventions,  and  is  an  active 
member  of  the  South  Bend  Chamber  of 
Commerce.  He  is  also  a  trustee  of  Purdue 
University  and  at  this  time  president  of 
the  board. 

When  the  affairs  of  this  nation  became 
critical  Mr.  Oliver  put  aside  his  reluctance 
to  assume  heavy  public  responsibility,  sub- 
ordinating all  private  interests  when  called 
upon  by  the  secretary  of  the  treasury  of 
the  United  States  to  accept  the  office  of 
state  director  for  Indiana  of  the  savings 
certificate  plan  of  the  government.  He  is 
president  of  the  Saint  Joseph  County 
Council  of  Defense,  and  in  every  way  is 
working  for  the  patriotic  objects  that  are 
the  heart  and  soul  of  Americanism. 

Mr.  Oliver  was  married  at  Johnstown, 
New  York,  December  10,  1884,  to  Miss 
Anna  Gertrude  Wells,  and  they  have  four 
children :  James  Oliver,  who  is  vice  pres- 
ident of  the  Oliver  Chilled  Plow  Works; 
Gertrude  Wells,  who  is  the  wife  of  Charles 
Frederick  Cunningham,  secretary  of  the 
company;  Joseph  D.,  of  South  Bend,  who 
is  treasurer  of  the  Oliver  Chilled  Plow 
Works,    was   married    April   30,    1917,    to 


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Miss  Ellinor  F.  McMillin,  who  is  a  daugh- 
ter of  Hon.  Benton  McMillin,  present 
United  States  minister  to  Peru,  South 
America,  and  formerly  governor  of  Ten- 
nessee; and  Susan  Catherine,  who  resides 
with  her  parents.  The  family  residence, 
one  of  the  finest  private  homes  in  the  state, 
stands  on  Washington  Avenue,  South 
Bend. 

Mr.  Oliver  is  a  director  of  the  National 
Park  Bank  of  New  York  City ;  of  the  First 
National  Bank  of  Chicago,  and  of  the  P.  C. 
C.  &  St.  L.  Railroad  Company.  While 
his  home  training  and  personal  beliefs  have 
made  him  a  Presbyterian  in  religious  faith, 
Mr.  Oliver  in  this  as  in  other  attitudes  is 
liberal  minded  and  he  gives  generous  sup- 
port to  many  church  bodies.  Personally 
he  is  very  approachable,  and  a  visitor  soon 
senses  the  sincerity  that  is  in  the  genial 
smile  and  hearty  hand-shake,  and  finds 
no  difficulty  in  understanding  his  popular- 
ity with  his  army  of  employes  as  well  as 
his  fellow  citizens. 

George  H.  Wilcox,  senior  partner  of 
Wilcox  Brothers,  men's  furnishing  goods 
merchants  of  Newcastle,  has  been  more  or 
less  identified  with  business  at  Newcastle 
for  the  past  nine  years,  and  his  career  as 
a  traveling  man  and  merchant  covers  a 
number  of  localities  in  Ohio  and  Indiana. 

George  H.  Wilcox  was  born  at  Allens- 
ville  in  Vinton  Countv,  Ohio,  December 
3,  1874,  a  son  of  N.  C.  and  Margaret  (Culy) 
Wilcox.  The  Wilcox  family  is  of  Scotch- 
Irish  ancestry.  His  maternal  grandfather, 
David  Culy,  came  from  London,  England, 
and  at  Lebanon  Ohio,  served  an  apprentice- 
ship at  the  cooper's  trade.  Later  he  stud- 
ied medicine  and  became  one  of  the  capa- 
ble old  time  country  practitioners  in  the 
vicinity  of  Good  Hope  and  Jeffersonville, 
Fayette  County,  Ohio.  He  practiced  in 
true  pioneer  style,  riding  horseback  and 
carrying  medicines  in  a  saddlebag.  He 
continued  his  profession  until  about  five 
years  before  his  death,  which  occurred  in 
1908.  Of  his  four  children  three  are  still 
living,  the  second  in  age  being  Margaret 
Culy  who  was  married  at  Allensville,  Ohio, 
to  N.  C.  Wilcox.  They  have  four  children, 
all  living. 

George  H.  Wilcox  acquired  his  educa- 
tion in  the  public  schools  at  Jefferson- 
ville, Ohio,  graduating  from  high  school 
in   1891.     His  initial   experience   in   mer- 


chandising was  acquired  by  work  in  his 
father's  dry  goods  store.  In  1895  he  went 
to  Cincinnati,  and  traveled  out  of  that  city 
representing  the  Meyer,  Wise  &  Karchen 
Company,  wholesale  furnishing  goods  and 
notions.  His  territory  was  Southern  Ohio, 
Kentucky  and  West  Virginia,  including 
most  of  the  Ohio  river  towns  as  far  east  as 
Charleston,  West  Virginia.  He  was  on  the 
road  fifteen  years.  In  the  meantime  he 
was  acquiring  interests  in  several  -local 
establishments.  In  1906  he  bought  his 
father's  dry  goods  business  at  Continental, 
Ohio,  and  put  his  brother,  Leo  D.,  in 
charge.  In  1909  this  business  was  moved 
to  Crooksville,  Perry  County,  Ohio,  where 
it  was  continued  until  1915.  At  that  time 
the  dry  goods  and  women's  furnishings 
were  sold  over  the  counter,  while  the  men's 
clothing  department  was  moved  to  Elkhart, 
Indiana,  and  continued  there  until  July  1, 
1918. 

After  leaving  the  road  in  1909  Mr.  Wil- 
cox moved  to  Newcastle  in  1910  and  bought 
the  Campbell  Brothers'  dry  goods  store. 
He  proceeded  to  sell  that  stock  over  the 
counter  and  then  established  a  new  and 
complete  stock  of  furnishing  goods,  cloth- 
ing and  shoes  on  March  10,  1910,  and  to 
this  business  he  has  given  his  personal 
attention  and  has  built  up  a  trade  that 
satisfied  all  the  demands  of  the  city  trade 
and  much  of  the  country  district  surround- 
ing. His  stock  is  complete  in  men's  fur- 
nishings and  shoes,  and  his  long  experience 
enables  him  to  furnish  the  highest  quality 
consistent  with  the  price. 

In  August,  1904,  Mr.  Wilcox  married 
Viola  Schath,  daughter  of  George  and  Min- 
nie Schath,  of  Cincinnati.  Mr.  Wilcox 
is  a  republican,  a  York  Rite  Mason  and 
Shriner,  having  affiliations  with  Syrian 
Temple  at  Cincinnati,  is  a  member  of  the 
United  Commercial  Travelers,  has  filled  all 
the  chairs  in  Cincinnati  Council,  of  which 
he  is  still  a  member  and  is  a  member  of 
Cincinnati  Lodge  No.  5,  Benevolent  and 
Protective  Order  of  Elks,  and  has  also 
identified  himself  in  a  public  spirited  man- 
ner with  all  movements  affecting  the  local 
welfare  of  his  home  city  of  Newcastle. 

Gustave  G.  Schmidt  has  known  Indian- 
apolis as  a  resident  for  a  half  a  century,  is 
a  native  of  the  city  and  represents  one  of 
the  familiar  and  honored  names  there.  He 
has  himself  been  one  of  the  valuable  in- 


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fluence  in  the  upbuilding  and  progress  of 
the  city.  He  has  had  many  interesting 
experiences  and  achievements,  and  some  of 
the  more  important  details  of  his  career 
are  a  real  contribution  to  local  history. 

Mr.  Schmidt  was  one  of  the  pioneers  in 
introducing  to  Indianapolis  the  most  mod- 
ern of  amusements,  the  moving  picture 
show.  He  is  now  president  of  the  Atlas 
Amusement  Corporation,  which  owns  and 
operates  three  of  the  best  known  moving 
picture  houses  in  the  city,  the  Crystal,  the 
Atlas  and  the  Stratford. 

Mr.  Schmidt  was  born  December  27. 
1865,  son  of  Adolf  and  Elizabeth  (Voss) 
Schmidt.  His  father  was  a  native  of  Ger- 
many and  his  mother  of  Alsace.  Adolf 
Schmidt  grew  up  and  was  educated  in  the 
fine  old  university  city  of  Heidelberg.  One 
of  his  college  mates  was  the  strenuous 
American  citizen  and  patriot  Carl  Schurz, 
and  both  of  them  shared  in  the  enlightened 
liberalism  and  ideals  of  political  freedom 
which  threw  Germany  into  the  throes  of 
revolution  in  1848,  and  it  was  an  aftermath 
of  that  struggle  that  Schurz  and  many  of 
his  compatriots,  including  Adolf  Schmidt, 
had  to  leave  the  fatherland  and  transplant 
their  lives  and  their  ideas  to  -the  New 
World.  Adolf  Schmidt  possessed  consider- 
able property  and  enjoyed  a  good  social 
position  in  his  home  city,  but  the  property 
was  confiscated  and  he  barely  made  escape 
with  his  life  through  France  to  America. 
The  presence  of  friends  and  relatives  led 
him  to  Indianapolis,  and  ever  afterward 
he  was  a  true  lover  of  American  institu- 
tions. His  first  employment  in  this  city 
was  as  a  baker,  and  he  afterward  opened 
a  shop  of  his  own  on  Massachusetts  near 
New  Jersey  Street,  and  later  on  East  Wash- 
ington Street,  and  here  built  up  an  ex- 
tensive news  business,  handling  all  foreign 
periodicals,  and  was  Indiana  representa- 
tive of  the  International  News  Service.  At 
one  time  he  contributed  to  the  numerous 
pages  of  Puck  and  Judge.  He  was  also 
interested  in  the  publication  of  the  In- 
diana Tribune,  a  German  paper,  and  was 
financially  identified  with  other  Indian- 
apolis publications. 

It  was  in  a  home  that  radiated  the 
atmosphere  of  political  freedom  and  the 
best  American  ideals  that  Gustave  G. 
Schmidt  grew  to  manhood.  After  getting 
his  education  his  first  occupation  was 
in     the     news     service     selling     papers, 


and  subsequently  he  worked  as  a  messenger 
for  the  Western  Union.  He  rapidly  ac- 
quired a  knowledge  of  the  telegraph  key, 
and  was  employed  at  the  old  central  office 
taking  press  reports  and  handling  the  wire 
for  the  Indiana  State  Journal  when  John 
C.  New  was  its  editor.  During  the  big 
strike  of  the  commercial  telegraphers  in 
1883  he  lost  his  position  and  then  sought 
work  as  a  railroad  telegrapher.  He  was 
operator  and  dispatcher  on  the  I.  B.  &  W. 
road  before  he  was  twenty-one  years  of 
age.  Not  long  afterward  an  accident  oc- 
curred through  the  mistake  of  another  op- 
erator, but  which  involved  him  in  the  in- 
vestigation and  caused  him  to  throw  up 
his  job.  During  the  interval  that  followed 
he  put  in  ninety  days  as  an  employe  of 
the  Northern  Pacific  Railway  at  Dickinson, 
North  Dakota.  He  also  worked  as  dis- 
patcher and  operator  with  the  T.  St.  L. 
and  K.  C.  and  the  Monon  Railroad,  being 
at  Bloomington,  Indiana,  for  the  latter. 
While  there  he  took  up  the  study  of  law 
but  did  not  continue  it  to  the  point  of 
admission  to  the  bar.  When  the  Schmidt 
brewery  installed  a  telegraph  and  cable 
line  Mr.  Schmidt  went  to  work  as  operator 
and  bookkeeper  for  the  plant.  Subse- 
quently the  firm  sent  him  out  as  salesman 
and  southern  representative  with  an  office 
at  Louisville,  Kentucky,  where  he  had 
charge  of  their  extensive  interests  and  ju- 
risdiction over  the  southern  trade  of  the 
company  for  six  years.  Returning  to  In- 
dianapolis, Mr.  Schmidt  was  local  repre- 
sentative of  the  Pabst  Brewing  Company, 
and  afterwards  of  the  Schmidt  brewery. 
It  was  while  in  this  business  that  he  fur- 
nished some  financial  resources  to  establish- 
ing the  Airdome  near  the  Atlas  Engine 
Company  plant.  That  was  his  introduc- 
tion to  the  picture  show  business,  and  in 
later  years  the  promotion  of  this  amuse- 
ment has  occupied  most  of  his  time  and 
energies.  Mr.  Schmidt  is  an  active  repub- 
lican in  politics. 

Mr.  Schmidt's  first  wife,  was  Carrie  Wil- 
lings.  She  died  in  1895,  leaving  one  son, 
Raymond  Voss.  This  son  possesses  the 
patriotic  ardor  of  his  father  and  grand- 
father, and  has  made  strenuous  efforts  to 
get  his  services  accepted  by  the  United 
States  government  in  the  present  war.  He 
has  volunteered  four  times,  and  attended 
the  officers  training  camp,  but  on  account 
of  slightly  defective  eyesight  was  barred 


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from  the  service.  A  special  trip  by  his 
father  to  Washington  and  the  exercise  of 
political  influence  has  so  far  failed  to  se- 
cure him  the  opportunity  of  any  service. 
Mr.  Schmidt  married  for  his  present  wife 
Elnore  Hartman.  Her  father,  Fred  Hart- 
man,  served  as  a  soldier  in  the  Civil  war 
with  the  Union  army,  and  for  fifty  years 
was  a  well  known  wagon  manufacturer  in 
Indianapolis.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Schmidt  have 
one  daughter,   Catherine. 

Robert  J.  Meuser  has  spent  his  life  in 
the  meat  business,  as  a  stock  buyer,  packer 
and  retailer,  and  represents  a  family 
through  whose  record  the  history  of  pork 
and  general  meat  packing  in  Indiana  might 
easily  be  told.  The  Meusers  for  three 
generations  have  been  identified  with  the 
packing  industry  in.  this  state.  Robert 
J.  Meuser  is  now  conducting  a  high  class 
market  at  440  East  "Washington  Street,  and 
is  a  pioneer  in  establishing  the  now  fa- 
miliar "cash  and  carry"  system  of  selling 
food  products. 

Mr.  Meuser  was  born  in  Madison,  In- 
diana, May  25,  1875,  a  son  of  John  R.  and 
Wilhelmina  (Dietz)  Meuser.  His  grand- 
father, George  Meuser,  was  one  of  the  first 
if  not  the  first  pork  packers  at  Madison, 
Indiana.  That  was  in  the  days  of  river 
transportation,  when  meat  packing  was 
confined  almost  entirely  to  the  salt  curing 
of  pork  and  long  before  refrigerator  cars 
were  even  dreamed  of.  John  R.  Meuser 
was  born  at  Madison  December  25,  1849, 
and  when  a  boy  helped  carry  the  brick 
which  entered  into  the  construction  of  the 
Meuser  Packing  House.  This  business  did 
a  large  export  trade.  Most  of  their  prod- 
ucts were  packed  on  barges  in  the  river 
and  meat  was  cured  as  it  floated  down  the 
river  to  New  Orleans.  John  R.  Meuser 
succeeded  his  father  in  business,  and  in 
1888  moved  to  Indianapolis,  where  he  re- 
sumed his  work  with  the  Indianapolis  ab- 
batoir,  the  public  slaughter  house.  Later 
he  built  the  packing  house  which  now  be- 
longs to  Brown  Brothers,  packers.  For 
two  years  before  his  death  he  retired.  He 
passed  away  February  2,  1912,  and  his 
wife  died  in  1914.  Her  people  were  from 
Germany.  John  R.  Meuser  was  a  repub- 
lican and  stood  high  in  Masonry,  filling 
all  the  chairs  in  Lodge  No.  2,  Ancient  Free 
and  Accepted  Masons,  at  Madison  and  be- 
ing member  of  the  Scottish  Rite  and  Shrine 


at  Indianapolis.  His  wife  was  active  in 
the  English  Lutheran  Church.  They  have 
six  children:  George  E.,  who  is  in  the 
United  States  Navy ;  Alice,  a  trained  nurse 
living  at  Indianapolis ;  Robert  J. ;  Mary 
R.,  wife  of  James  Badorf,  of  Kansas  City; 
G.  R.  wife  of  Captain  Ralph,  who  is  now 
in  the  United  States  service;  and  William 
H.,  connected  with  the  automobile  business 
at  Indianapolis. 

Robert  J.  Meuser  received  his  education 
in  Madison  and  in  early  life  became  his 
father's  assistant  in  the  packing  business. 
He  has  had  experience  in  every  detail  of 
that  work.  He  has  bought  livestock  on  the 
hoof,  has  studied  and  worked  at  every 
phase  of  the  slaughter  and  packing  of 
meat  products,  and  has  also  supervised  the 
sale  and  distribution  both  as  a  jobber  and 
retailer.  In  1901  he  was  at  the  Indianap- 
olis stockyards  as  a  commission  man,  and 
his  ability  enabled  him  to  make  money 
very  rapidly.  He  finally  financed  a  pack- 
ing business  at  the  old  Reiffel  packing 
house.  This  began  on  a  small  scale,  and 
gradually  increased  until  it  was  one  of  the 
leading  concerns  of  its  kind  at  Indianap- 
olis, conducted  under  the  name  Meyer- 
Meuser  Packing  Company.  Mr.  Meuser 
remained  a  factor  in  that  business  until 
1911,  when  he  retired  to  establish  his 
present  retail  market  at  440  East  Wash- 
ington Street.  From  the  very  first  this  has 
been  a  "cash  and  carry"  business. 

Mr.  Meuser  and  family  reside  at  Edge- 
wood  on  the  Madison  road  in  Perry  Town- 
ship. In  1900  he  married  Lena  R.  Sum- 
mers, who  died  in  1903,  leaving  two  daugh- 
ters, Margaret  and  Ruth.  In  1913  Mr. 
Meuser  married  Ruby  R.   Hester. 

Mr.  Meuser  is  affiliated  with  Capital 
City  Lodge  No.  97,  Ancient  Free  and  Ac- 
cepted Masons  and  Pentalpha  Chapter  No. 
564,  Royal  Arch  Masons.  He  has  always 
been  an  earnest  worker  for  the  success  of 
the  republican  party. 

William  Marshall  Walton,  of  La- 
Porte,  is  known  all  over  the  State  of  In- 
diana in  horticultural  circles  and  is  a  rec- 
ognized authority  on  every  phase  of  the 
fruit  industry  in  the  northern  counties  of 
the  state  in  particular.  Mr.  Walton  was 
the  youngest  man  ever  elected  as  president 
of  the  Indiana  State  Horticultural  Society. 

He  was  born  at  LaPorte.  His  father, 
William  Marshall  Walton,   Si\,  was  born 


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at  Kingston,  New  York,  February  4,  1844. 
His  grandfather  James  Walton,  was  a  na- 
tive of  Lincolnshire,  England,  grew  up 
and  married  there,  and  on  coming  to  the 
United  States  located  at  Kingston,  New 
York,  and  later  moved  to  Hurley  in  Ulster 
County  of  that  state,  where  he  died  April 
1,  1888.  He  married  Ann  Phoenix,  also  a 
native  of  Lincolnshire.  She  was  born 
March  31,  1815,  and  died  March  26,  1884. 
Her  four  sons  were  named  George,  James, 
John  and  William  Marshall. 

William  Marshall  Walton,  Sr.,  as  a 
youth  learned  the  trade  of  cigar  maker  and 
followed  that  occupation  in  New  York 
State  until  the  early  '70s.  He  then  came 
west  to  LaPorte  and  continued  as  a  cigar 
manufacturer  there  until  failing  health 
compelled  him  to  seek  a  change  of  occupa- 
tion. At  the  same  time  he  had  bought  a 
tract  of  land  in  the  southeast  part  of  La- 
Porte,  and  there  made  his  primary  efforts 
as  a  fruit  raiser.  He  planted  a  variety  of 
trees,  including  nearly  if  not  all  the  dif- 
ferent kinds  of  fruit  species  suitable  to 
that  climate  in  addition  to  a  large  variety 
of  small  fruits.  He  made  a  close  study  of 
the  business,  and  in  a  few  years  had  a 
highly  developed  orchard  of  twenty  acres. 
He  improved  his  land  with  good  buildings 
and  lived  there  until  his  death  December 
20,  1912.  He  married  Anna  E.  Polly,  who 
was  born  at  Bardstown,  Kentucky,  and 
died  January  15,  1914.  Her  children  be- 
sides William  Marshall  were  Bessie,  Grace, 
Mary,  Rose  and  Nell  Gordon,  who  was  born 
in  1888  and  died  in  1897. 

William  Marshall  Walton,  Jr.,  gradu- 
ated from  the  LaPorte  High  School  in 
1906.  As  a  boy  he  helped  his  father  in 
the  orchard,  and  took  naturally  to  the  busi- 
ness of  fruit  growing.  Horticulture  is  a 
business  in  which  experience  and  practice 
counts  for  more  than  anything  that  can 
be  learned  from  books,  and  Mr.  Walton 
knows  the  industry  in  every  practical  de- 
tail. For  three  winter  terms  he.  also  at- 
tended Purdue  University,  where  he  made 
a  special  study  of  horticulure,  and  at  dif- 
ferent times  represented  the  university  as 
orchard  demonstrator. 

In  1914  Mr.  Walton  formed  a  partner- 
ship with  Harry  L.  Stanton  of  LaPorto, 
and  with  two  other  parties  bought  the 
Spawn  orchard  at  Rochester,  Indiana. 
They  reorganized  as  the  Orchard  Develop- 
ment Company,  of  which  Mr.  Walton  is 


president.  Later  he  and  Mr.  Stanton 
bought  the  other  interests  are  now  sole 
owners  of  that  property,  which  constitutes 
the  finest  orchard  in  Indiana,  and  it  has 
produced  many  thousands  of  dollars  worth 
of  fruit. 

Mr.  Walton  is  now  president  of  the  In- 
diana Fruit  Growers  Association  and  also 
one  of  the  board  of  directors  of  the  Inter- 
national Apple  Show  Association. 

September  16,  1915,  Mr.  Walton  mar- 
ried Margaret  Leona  Wright.  She  was 
born  at  LaPorte,  daughter  of  George  and 
Theresa  (O'Reilly)  Wright.  Her  mater- 
nal grandparents,  Thomas  and  Ann 
(Gillam)  O'Reilly,  were  born  in  County 
Leitrim,  Ireland,  and  are  still  living  at 
LaPorte. 

Grandfather  Edward  Wright  was  born 
at  Paterson,  New  Jersey,  a  son  of  Samuel 
and  Amelia  (Whartell)  Wright.  Edward 
Wright  came  to  LaPorte  County  in  early 
days  and  later  removed  to  Bangor,  Michi- 
gan, where  he  followed  the  trade  of  brick 
mason.  Mrs.  Walton's  parents  have  been 
lifelong  residents  of  LaPorte.  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Walton  have  two  children :  Mary  Mar- 
guerite and  William  Marshall  III. 

Dr.  Joseph  Eastman  was  born  in  Fulton 
County,  New  York,  January  29,  1842. 
During  the  Civil  war  he  was  a  member  of 
the  Seventy-seventh  New  York  Volunteers, 
served  in  actual  battle,  and  later  was  ap- 
pointed hospital  steward  in  the  United 
States  Army  and  graduated  from  the  Uni- 
versity of  Georgetown  in  1865.  Until  1866 
he  served  as  a  surgeon  in  the  United  States 
Volunteers. 

Doctor  Eastman  engaged  in  the  general 
practice  of  medicine  at  Clermont  first  and 
later  in  Brownsburg,  Indiana,  and  in  1875 
located  in  Indianapolis,  where  he  became 
demonstrator  of  anatomy  in  the  College  of 
Physicians  and  Surgeons.  He  has,  since 
become  noted  in  abdominal  surgery,  and 
for  many  years  has  been  a  contributor  to 
the  more  prominent  medical  journals  of 
the  United  States. 

William  R.  Secker,  general  manager  of 
the  Hotel  Lincoln  at  Indianapolis,  went 
into  the  hotel  business  in  New  York  City 
at  the  age  of  twenty-one,  and  has  shown 
an  aptitude  amounting  to  genius  in  the 
management  of  every  phase  of  the  com- 
plicated business.     He  has  been  manager 


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of  some  of  the  largest  and  best  patronized 
hostelries  both  north  and  south. 

Mr.  Seeker  was  born  August  14,  1869, 
at  Guelph,  Ontario,  Canada,  son  of  Kobert 
and  Sarah  (Marshall)  Seeker.  His  par- 
ents were  both  born  in  England.  His 
father  was  an  Ontario  farmer,  and  died 
in  1880. 

William  R.  Seeker  was  the  second  of 
three  children,  two  of  whom  are  still  liv- 
ing. He  attended  public  schools  and  also 
the  Upper  Canada  University,  and  from 
school  went  to  Detroit  and  was  employed 
as  a  clerk  there  for  a  year.  When  about 
twenty-one  he  went  to  New  *ork  City, 
and  had  seven  years  of  practical  training 
and  experience  in  the  Imperial  Hotel. 
Later  he  opened  three  summer  resort  hotels 
in  Canada,  and  there  showed  his  versa- 
tility and  ability  as  a  hotel  man.  After 
disposing  of  his  leases  he  came  to  Indian- 
apolis and  took  management  of  the  Uni- 
versity Club.  He  was  there  four  years  and 
for  two  years  was  manager  of  the  Columbia 
Club.  Later  Mr.  Seeker  was  for  five  years 
manager  of  the  Ainsley  Hotel  of  Atlanta, 
Georgia,  one  of  the  largest  hotels  in  the 
South. 

Mr.  Seeker  returned  to  Indianapolis 
January  29,  1918,  and  has  since  been  gen- 
eral manager  of  the  Hotel  Lincoln.  Under 
his  management  this  hotel  has  been  taxed 
to  its  capacity  and  there  is  now  under 
contemplation  a  lacge  addition  to  existing 
facilities.  Mr.  Seeker  is  affiliated  with  a 
lodge  of  Masons  in  Kansas  City,  Missouri, 
is  an  Elk  and  republican.  In  1902  he  mar- 
ried Miss  Evelyn  Sheffield,  of  Virginia. 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Seeker  have  two  sons. 

Hilton  U.  Brown  by  reason  of  nearly 
forty  years  active  and  continuous  connec- 
tion with  the  Indianapolis  News,  of  which 
he  is  now  general  manager,  is  an  Indiana 
man  by  birth,   education  and  occupation. 

His  father,  Philip  A.  Brown,  was  a  suc- 
cessful business  man  of  Indianapolis,  where 
he  located  in  1855.  He  was  a  native  of 
Ohio  and  on  moving  to  Indianapolis  estab- 
lished one  of  the  pioneer  lumber  yards. 
This  yard  was  at  the  corner  of  Massachu- 
setts and  Bellefontaine  avenues.  A  private 
switch  known  as  Brown's  Switch  was  ex- 
tended from  the  old  Peru  railroad  to  his 
yard,  and  it  is  said  this  switch  led  to  the 
establishment  of  the  railroad  station  on 
Massachusetts  Avenue.     He  was  a  man  of 


scholarly  attainments  and  one  of  the 
friends  of  early  education  in  this  city.  He 
died  in  1864,  at  the  age  of  sixty-four.  Be- 
ing beyond  the  age  limit  for  duty  as  a 
soldier  he  served  as  enrolling  clerk  of  the 
Home  Guards  and  as  a  member  of  the 
draft  boards  during  the  Civil  war.  In  his 
political  career  he  was  successively  a  dem- 
ocrat, whig  and  finally  a  republican.  He 
married  at  Hamilton,  Ohio,  Julia  A. 
Troester,  who  was  born  in  Germany  and 
came  to  America  with  her  parents,  who 
left  Germany  with  Carl  Schurz  and  other 
revolutionary  Germans.  She  died  in  1874, 
at  the  age  of  forty-four.  Of  their  children 
only  two  attained  maturity,  Demarehus  C, 
present  state  librarian  in  Indiana,  and  Hil- 
ton U. 

Hilton  U.  Brown  was  born  at  Indian- 
apolis February  20,  1859,  was  educated  in 
the  local  public  schools  and  then  entered 
Butler  College  at  Irvington,  where  he  was 
graduated  A.  B.  in  1880.  He  has  since 
had  conferred  upon  him  the  honorary  de- 
gree Master  of  Arts.  After  leaving  col- 
lege he  spent  a  year  at  the  head  of  what 
was  known  as  Oaktown  Academy,  a  public 
school  at  Oaktown  in  Knox  County.  In 
the  meantime  he  had  made  application  to 
John  H.  Holliday  for  work  as  a  reporter 
on  the  Indianapolis  News.  The  opportu- 
nity came  following  the  assassination  of 
President  Garfield  in  the  summer  of  1881, 
when  the  News  required  extra  men,  and 
Mr.  Brown  was  given  a  humble  position 
on  the  payroll.  He  began  as  market  re- 
porter, and  since  then  has  served  in  prac- 
tically every  capacity  and  position  in  both 
the  news  and  business  departments.  In 
1890  he  was  made  city  editor.  In  1898  he 
was  appointed  receiver  during  the  litiga- 
tion growing  out  of  a  dissolution  of  part- 
nership proceedings.  As  receiver  he  sold 
the  paper  for  the  litigants  for  nearly  a 
million  dollars,  a  big  price  for  a  newspaper 
at  that  time.  The  purchasers  of  the  News 
at  once  made  him  general  manager,  and  he 
has  retained  this  responsibility  for  nearly 
twenty  years,  deserving  much  of  the  credit 
for  the  high  position  the  Indianapolis  News 
now  enjoys  among  the  metropolitan  jour- 
nals of  the  nation.  Mr.  Brown  also  ne- 
gotiated the  purchase  for  the  owners  of  the 
News  of  the  Indianapolis  Press  and  the 
Indianapolis  Sentinel.  He  has  long  been 
one  of  the  directors  of  the  American  News- 
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Mr.  Brown  is  a  progressive  republican 
in  politics.  He  is  affiliated  with  Irving- 
ton  Lodge  No.  666,  Ancient  Free  and  Ac- 
cepted Masons,  and  is  a  member  of  the 
Christian  Church.  He  has  been  a  trustee 
of  Butler  College  for  a  number  of  years 
and  in  1903  was  elected  president  of  the 
college  board  of  directors. 

Mr.  Brown  married  in  1883  Miss  Jennie 
Hannah,  daughter  of  Capt.  Archibald  A. 
Hannah,  of  Paris,  Illinois.  Ten  children 
have  been  born  to  their  marriage :  Mark 
H.,  Philip,  now  deceased,  Louise,  Mrs. 
John  W.  Atherton,  of  Indianapolis;  Mary, 
Hilton,  Jr.,  Jean,  Archibald,  Paul,  Jessie 
and  Julia.  The  daughter  Mary  is  the  wife 
of  George  A.  Stewart  and  lives  in  Indian- 
apolis. Three  sons  Hilton  Jr.,  Areh 
A.  and  Paul  entered  the  army  when  war 
was  declared  against  Germany.  All  three 
became  lieutenants  in  artillery.  Hilton, 
Jr.,  was  killed  in  action  in  the  Argonne 
Forest  while  serving  in  the  Seventh  Field 
Artillery,  First  Division.  His  brother 
Paul  was  in  the  same  regiment  and  was 
cited  for  efficiency.  Arch  was  discharged 
into  the  reserves  when  the  war  closed. 

Arthur  H.  Jones  is  senior  member  of 
the  firm  Jones  &  Call,  attorneys  in  the 
Pythian  Building  at  Indianapolis.,  Mr. 
Jones  is  a  lawyer  of  wide  experience  and 
demonstrated  ability,  and  has  been  en- 
gaged in  practice  and  other  affairs  for  over 
twenty  years,  and  is  regarded  as  one  of 
the  most  eloquent  and  convincing  cam- 
paign orators  the  democratic  party  has  in 
the  state. 

Mr.  Jones  was  born  in  Franklin  County, 
Indiana,  April  27,  1873,  a  son  of  Phillip 
Tenley  and  Lydia  (Goff)  Jones.  His 
grandfather,  Abraham  Jones,  was  a  native 
of  Virginia,  and  on  coming  west  first  set- 
tled in  Hamilton  County,  Ohio,  but  after- 
ward removed  to  Franklin  County,  In- 
diana, where  as  a  pioneer  he  bought  land 
in  Bath  Township  and  was  busied  with 
the  work  of  clearing  and  developing  a  farm 
there  the  rest  of  his  life.  In  his  family 
were  six  children,  three  sons  and  three 
daughters.  Phillip  Tenley  Jones,  the  old- 
est son,  was  born  in  Franklin  County,  was 
educated  in  the  local  schools  there  and  the 
Brookville  Academy,  and  put  his  education 
to  use  as  a  teacher.  He  had  a  keen  mind 
for  mathematics,  acquired  an  expert  knowl- 
edge of  surveying,  and  was  widely  known 


as  a  civil  engineer.  Surveying  occupied 
much  of  his  time  apart  from  that  he  gave 
to  the  management  of  his  farm.  It  is  said 
that  he  surveyed  and  laid  out  more  than 
half  of  the  land  in  Franklin  County.  His 
life  was  one  of  long  and  consecutive  use- 
fulness and  service,  and  he  gained  the 
esteem  of  many  friends.  He  was  a  devout 
christian,  leader  in  the  Baptist  Church, 
and  was  largely  responsible  for  the  up- 
building of  the  Pittman  Creek  Baptist 
Church,  located  about  ten  miles  east  of 
Brookville.  He  lived  and  practiced  Christi- 
anity, and  had  a  knowledge  of  the  Bible 
and  theology  such  as  few  ministers  of  the 
Gospel  possess.  He  was  also  given  to  the 
old  time  hospitality,  and  his  home  was 
filled  with  his  many  friends  whenever  the 
opportunity  presented,  and  the  talk  inva- 
riably turned  around  religious  themes.  He 
was  a  democrat  in  politics,  but  never  be- 
came over  enthusiastic  on  that  subject.  He 
was  twice  married.  His  first  wife  was 
Miss  Girton,  who  became  the  mother  of 
one  son,  Benjamin  Jones.  By  his  second 
marriage,  to  Miss  Lydia  Goff,  he  had  five 
children    Arthur   H.    being   the   youngest. 

Arthur  H,  Jones  attended  public  schools 
in  Franklin  County,  took  his  higher  literary 
education  in  Miami  University  at  Oxford, 
Ohio,  also  attended  Lebanon  Normal 
School  in  Ohio  and  is  a  graduate  of  Cincin- 
nati Law  School.  In  1894  he  began  the 
practice  of  his  profession  at  Summitville  in 
Madison  County,  subsequently  removed  to 
Alexandria  in  the  same  county,  and  four 
years  later  opened  his  office  in  the  county 
seat  at  Anderson.  Mr.  Jones  was  at  Ander- 
son about  five  years.  Later  he  came  to 
Indianapolis  to  take  up  work  as  an  organ- 
izer for  the  Loyal  Order  of  Moose,  and 
is  credited  with  having  largely  built  up 
and  strengthened  that  order  in  the  state. 
He  held  every  office  in  its  jurisdiction  ex- 
cept one.  In  1911  he  was  elected  supreme 
dictator  and  general  counsel,  and  per- 
formed the  duties  of  general  counsel  until 
1,915.  After  a  year  or  so  in  Chicago  Mr. 
Jones  returned  to  Indianapolis  in  1917, 
and  is  now  once  more  identified  with  a 
large  and  growing  legal  practice. 

He  has  been  a  strenuous  worker  in  the 
democratic  party,  though  not  an  aspirant 
for  official  honors  himself.  His  services 
as  an  orator  have  been  in  great  demand, 
and  in  some  campaigns  he  has  been  called 
beyond  the  borders  of  his  home  state.    Mr. 


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Jones'  first  wife  was  Daisy  E.  Baker,  who 
died  leaving  two  children,  Harry  S.  and 
Nellie  E.  For  his  present  wife  Mr.  Jones 
married  Maude  E.  Gortner,  of  Cincinnati. 
Her  people  came  from  Canada. 

Croel  P.  Conder  is  a  member  of  the 
firm  Conder  &  Culberston.  general  contrac- 
tors, with  offices  in  the  Odd  Fellow  Build- 
ing at  Indianapolis.  Mr.  Conder  is  a 
graduate  civil  engineer,  and  with  his  firm 
has  had  an  extensive  experience  in  the  con- 
struction of  many  high  grade  dwelling 
and  apartment  houses  in  Indianapolis,  this 
being  their  chief  specialty  as  builders. 

Mr.  Conder  probably  inherited  some  of 
his  tastes  and  inclinations  as  a  builder  and 
engineer  from  his  grandfather,  Shadraeh 
Conder,  who  at  the  time  of  his  death  in 
November,  1918,  had  reached  the  advanced 
age  of  ninety  years,  and  during  his  active 
career  was  a  bridge  builder  of  more  than 
ordinary  note.  He  also  served  as  a  soldier 
of  the  Civil  war  throughout  that  struggle 
and  was  promoted  to  captain  of  his  com- 
pany. He  had  as  a  boy  volunteered  in  the 
American  army  for  service  in  the  Mexican 
war. 

Croel  P.  Conder  was  born  July  5,  1888, 
at  Orleans  in  Orange  County,  Indiana,  son 
of  Charles  A.  and  Kate  (Richards)  Con- 
der. His  father  was  born  in  Orange  Coun- 
ty in  1854,  and  took  up  the  business  of 
lumberman.  He  was  in  the  lumber  busi- 
ness for  a  number  of  years  at  Orleans  and 
was  also  active  in  a  sand  and  gravel  com- 
pany in  Indianapolis.  On  coming  to  In- 
dianapolis he  entered  the  real  estate  busi- 
ness, and  built  and  had  the  management  of 
a  number  of  residences  and  apartment 
houses.  He  died  in  1909.  He  was  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Methodist  Church,  and  for  a 
number  of  years  attended  worship  at  Cen- 
tral Avenue  Methodist  Episcopal  Church. 
He  was  a  republican  and  affiliated  with  the 
Independent  Order  of  Odd  Fellows.  He 
and  his  wife  had  two  children :  Earl  R., 
born  March  31,  1877,  and  Croel  P. 

Croel  P.  Conder  began  his  education  in 
the  Orleans  public  schools,  later  attended 
the  Manual  Training  School  of  Indiana, 
and  took  his  professional  training  in  Pur- 
due University,  from  which  he  graduated 
with  the  class  of  1911  and  the  degree  of 
Bachelor  of  Science  and  Civil  Engineer. 
The  year  following  his  graduation  from 
Purdue  Mr.   Conder  spent  in  a  technical 


position  at  the  Toledo  branch  of  the  Ameri- 
can Creosoting  Company.  In  1912  he  re- 
turned to  Indianapolis  and  engaged  in  the 
contracting  business,  and  he  and  his  part- 
ner Mr.  Culberston,  has  supplied  the  tech- 
nical skill  and  the  equipment  and  facili- 
ties of  a  perfect  organization  in  the  con- 
struction of  a  large  number  of  fine  resi- 
dences and  apartment  houses  in  the  state. 
Mr.  Conder  is  treasurer  of  the  Indian- 
apolis Screw  Products  Company,  located 
at  31  East  Georgia  Street.  This  company 
furnished  parts  for  the  Liberty  Motor  used 
in  aeroplanes  for  the  United  States  Gov- 
ernment during  the  great  European  war, 
and  is  still  manufacturing  parts  for  the 
general  trade. 

Mr.  Conder  is  a  member  of  the  Civil 
Engineering  Society,  the  Purdue  Athletic 
and  Alumni  Association,  the  Phi  Delta 
Kappa  and  Triangle  fraternities,  the  In- 
dianapolis Canoe  Club,  Chamber  of  Com- 
merce, and  Hoosier  Motor  Club.  He  is  a 
republican  in  politics. 

August  25,  1907,  he  married  at  Lebanon, 
Indiana,  Miss  Sarah  H.  Scott,  of  Craw- 
fordsville,  Indiana.  Mrs.  Conder  was  edu- 
cated in  the  Shortridge  High  School  of 
Indianapolis.  They  have  two  children: 
Richard,  born  October  20,  1911,  and  Eliza- 
beth, born  March  25,  1913. 

Nathan  Ridgway  is  sole  proprietor  and 
president  of  the  Nathan  Ridgway  Com- 
pany of  Newcastle,  but  many  other  in- 
terests in  that  city  know  him,  and  his 
name  is  one  that  has  been  held  in  esteem 
in  Henry  County  for  eighty  years  or  more. 
His  grandfather,  Elihu  Ridgway,  was  des- 
cended from  one  of  three  brothers  who 
came  from  England  to  America  and  were 
colonial  settlers  in  Pennsylvania.  Elihu 
Ridgway  was  born  in  West  Virginia,  or  in 
what  is  now  the  State  of  West  Virginia, 
June  6,  1799.  He  married  there  Nancy 
Cornwell,  a  native  of  East  Virginia.  In 
1835  they  came  to  Henry  County,  Indiana, 
and  made  their  home  in  that  county  about 
ten  years  and  then  went  to  Jay  County. 
Elihu  Ridgway  died  in  1873. 

Mr.  Nathan  Ridgway  was  born  on  a 
farm  near  Newcastle  in  Prairie  Township 
March  22,  1865.  His  father,  Allen  Ridg- 
way, was  born  in  Henry  County  April 
23,  1837,  but  was  reared  in  Jay  County 
and  remained  at  home  until  the  age  of 
twenty-two.     He  then  started  farming  for 


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himself,  and  acquired  a  fine  place  of  185 
acres  in  Prairie  Township  and  lived  there 
until  his  death  in  1908.  Allen  Ridgway 
married  February  28,  1862,  Eveline 
Frazier,  a  daughter  of  Solomon  and  Mary 
A.  Frazier,  also  natives  of  Henry  County. 
Mrs.  Allen  Ridgway  is  still  living.  She 
was  the  mother  of  two  children,  Emma, 
now  deceased,  and  Nathan. 

Nathan  Ridgway  attended  country  school 
during  the  winter  terms  and  early  assumed 
some  share  of  the  responsibilities  on  the 
home  farm.  He  also  attended  school  at 
Newcastle  two  years.  When  eighteen 
years  of  age  much  of  the  management  of 
the  home  farm  greatly  depended  upon 
him.  He  lived  there  and  directed  the  pro- 
duction and  the  management  of  the  place 
until  1889.  In  that  year  he  married  Miss 
Ollie  Bouslog,  a  daughter  of  Enoch  and 
Sarah  (Kauffmann)  Bouslog.  The  Bous- 
log family  settled  in  Prairie  Township  of 
Henry  County  from  Virginia  in  1835,  and 
Enoch  Bouslog  was  born  there  and  during 
his  lifetime  was  a  prominent  farmer  and 
stock  raiser. 

After  his  marriage  Mr.  Ridgway  as- 
sumed the  responsibility  of  the  $3,000 
mortgage  resting  on  the  old  homestead, 
and  with  the  help  of  his  good  wife  turned 
himself  to  the  task  of  making  the  farm 
pay  a  living  and  also  his  debts.  He  worked 
hard,  gradually  reduced  his  obligations, 
and  continued  with  the  farm  until  about  fif- 
teen years  ago.  Then  on  account  of  failing 
health  he  sold  his  stock  and  rented  the  farm 
and  spent  one  year  in  the  South.  On  return- 
ing to  Newcastle  he  became  agent  for  the 
American  Express  Company  and  filled  that 
office  twelve  years.  August  7,  1913,  he  en- 
tered the  business  by  which  his  name  is 
now  best  known  as  a  five  and  ten  cent 
store  proprietor  at  1328  Broad  Street.  Mr. 
Ridgway  knew  nothing  of  this  particular 
business,  and  confesses  that  he  has  made 
his  way  to  practical  knowledge  and  suc- 
cess as  a  result  of  numerous  hard  knocks. 
His  business  has  been  growing  every  month 
and  it  is  now  one  of  the  largest  variety 
stores  selling  five,  ten  and  twenty-five  cent 
goods  in  Henry  County,  much  of  its  trade 
coming  even  from  adjoining  counties.  The 
motto  of  the  store  is  service,  courtesy,  qual- 
ity. 

Mr.  Ridgway  has  a  number  of  other 
local  interests.  He  is  a  stockholder  in  the 
Farmers  National  Bank  of  Newcastle  and 


of  the  Central  Trust  and  Savings  Bank. 
He  is  one  of  the  prominent  members  of 
the  prohibition  party  in  Henry  County. 
At  one  time  he  was  defeated  by  a  small 
margin  as  candidate  on  the  citizens  ticket 
for  city  treasurer.  He  is  an  elder  in  the 
Church  of  Christ. 

i 

Wayman  Adams.  Indiana  is  not  Paris 
or  New  York,  and  yet  while  without  the 
traditions  and  the  age  of  the  old  world 
and  hardly  competing  numerically  with 
older  and  larger  centers  of  artistic  effort, 
the  quality  of  its  literary  and  artistic  pro- 
duction needs  no  apology.  Already  the 
names  of  a  dozen  first  rate  men  and  women 
in  literature  and  painting  have  a  ready 
and  current  acceptance  among  those  who 
are  conventionally  informed  on  matters  of 
culture,  and  recently  through  recognition 
paid  him  in  the  east  as  much  as  through 
what  he  has  done  in  his  studio  at  Indian- 
apolis the  name  of  Wayman  Adams  is  ris- 
ing rapidly  and  high  into  the  firmament 
of  Indiana  celebrities. 

This  young  portrait  painter  was  born 
in  the  City  of  Muncie  in  1883,  a  son 
of  Nelson  and  Mary  Elizabeth  (Justice) 
Adams.  His  parents  are  also  natives  of 
Indiana.  Wayman  was  educated  in  the 
schools  of  Muncie,  and  for  three  or  four 
years  studied  art  in  the  Herron  Art  In- 
stitute at  Indianapolis.  Going  abroad,  he 
was  a  student  of  portrait  painting  under 
those  well  known  masters  William  N.  Chase 
at  Florence  and  Robert  Henri  (American) 
at  Madrid. 

Returning  to  this  country  Mr.  Adams 
established  his  studio  at  Indianapolis  in 
1909,  where  for  nine  years  he  has  been 
doing  serious  portrait  work,  and  he  has 
also  studios  in  both  Philadelphia  and  New 
York,  where  he  spends  some  of  his  time. 

Of  his  position  as  an  artist  and  his 
growing  fame  the  records  of  fact  speak 
more  eloquently  than  could  rhetorical  ap- 
preciation and  praise.  In  1914  his  por- 
trait of  Alexander  Ernestinoff  of  Indian- 
apolis won  the  Thomas  R.  Proctor  prize 
at  the  animal  exhibition  of  the  National 
Academy  of  Design  in  New  York.  In  1915 
his  portrait  of  Caroline  Hendricks  won 
first  prize  at  the  Indiana  Artists'  Exhibi- 
tion in  Richmond,  Indiana.  In  1916  his 
portrait  of  Alexander  Ernestinoff,  above 
mentioned,  won  the  J.  I.  Hoi  comb  _  prize 
at  the  Indiana  Artists  Exhibition  in  In- 


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dianapolis.  In  August,  1918,  his  portrait 
of  John  McClure  Hamilton,  the  Philadel- 
phia artist,  won  first  prize  at  Newport, 
Rhode  Island,  in  the  annual  exhibition  of 
the  Art  Association  of  that  city.  Portrait 
of  Joseph  Pennell,  well  known  etcher  and 
lithographer,  won  the  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Frank 
G.  Logan  medal  and  $1,500,  Chicago  Art 
Institute,  1918. 

Among  Indiana  celebrities  he  has  painted 
the  best  known  are  Governor  Frank  Hanly, 
Governor  Ralston,  the  late  Charles  W. 
Fairbanks,  Booth  Tarkington,  Meredith 
Nicholson,  James  Whitconib  Riley,  Henry 
Douglas  Pierce,  Henry  Talbott,  Elias 
Jacoby,  Theodore  C.  Steele  and  Charles 
Dennis. 

Besides  the  portrait  of  John  McClure 
Hamilton,  mentioned  above,  Mr.  Adams 
has  within  the  past  year  or  two  painted  at 
his  Philadelphia  studio  the  portraits  of 
Charles  M.  Burns  and  Joseph  Pennell.  Of 
these  three  pictures,  which  were  exhibited 
at  the  annual  exhibition  of  the  Pennsyl- 
vania Academy  in  February,  1918,  the  fol- 
lowing remarks  were  made  by  the  art  critic 
of  the  Nation  (New  York)  in  its  issue  of 
March  7,  1918: 

"Nothing  could  be  in  stranger  contrast 
to  Sargent's  portraits  of  President  Wilson 
and  Mr.  Rockefeller  than  the  three  por- 
traits of  McClure  Hamilton,  Charles  M. 
Burns  and  Joseph  Pennell  by  Wayman 
Adams,  a  painter  whose  work  I  now  see 
for  the  first  time.  The  men  in  his  por- 
traits are  alive,  they  fairly  bristle  with 
character.  Indeed,  if  a  criticism  must  be 
made,  it  is  that  Adams  is  too  engrossed  in 
character  to  bother  about  anything  else. 
He  appears  to  be  indifferent  to  atmosphere, 
troubles  little  about  the  subtleties  of  color, 
has  no  particular  use  for  a  background. 
But  it  is  his  interest,  not  his  art,  that  is 
limited.  When  he  does  suggest  a  back- 
ground, as  in  the  portrait  of  Pennell,  he 
does  it  admirably,  the  tower  of  the  city 
hall  and  the  surrounding  tall  buildings 
grouping  and  losing  themselves  in  the  Phil- 
adelphia smoke  and  mist  as  he  has  seen 
them  from  the  window  of  his  high  studio. 
There  is  here  no  lack  of  atmosphere.  But 
he  seems  to  detach  his  sitter  entirely  from 
the  background,  the  figure  is  like  a  black 
silhouette  set  against  it,  tower  and  sky- 
scrapers and  smoke  forgotten  in  his  intent 
search    after   the    character   in    the    pose, 


the  long  legs  and  long  arms  of  the  artist 
extended  as  he  sits  on  his  sketching  stool, 
holding  his  sketch  block;  in  the  hang  of 
the  coat,  the  bulging  of  the  pocket  full  of 
papers,  and  still  more  in  the  character  of 
the  face,  the  serious  face  of  a  man  at 
work,  the  eyes  concentrated  on  their  sub- 
ject under  the  soft  gray  felt  hat  drawn 
down  to  shade  them— the  hat  alone  an 
amazing  study.  In  the  McClure  Hamil- 
ton portrait  there  is  no  background  at  all. 
He  stands,  with  long  black  overcoat  drawn 
close  round  him,  his  gloved  hands  folded, 
one  holding  a  silk  hat,  his  head  finely 
modeled,  face  full  of  vivacity,  eyes  look- 
ing out  with  frank  amusement  as  if  at  the 
joke  of  finding  himself  for  once  the  model 
and  not  the  painter — a  portrait  cynical, 
gay,  vivid.  But  the  most  astonishing 
study  of  character  is  the  third,  the  por- 
trait of  Professor  Charles  M.  Burns,  Phil- 
adelphia's most  distinguished  architect, 
though  Philadelphia,  in  Philadelphia's 
fashion,  may  be  chary  to  admit  it.  The 
portrait,  a  half  length,  is  smaller  than  the 
other  two,  and  is  badly  placed  on  the  walls, 
but  there  is  nothing  better  in  the  Academy. 
It  is  marvelous  in  the  rendering  of  the 
strong,  old  face,  of  the  lines  marked  by 
age  and  experience,  of  the  keen,  humorous 
eyes  under  the  bushy  eyebrows,  of  the 
droop  of  the  white  mustache.  And  how 
the  clothes  are  a  part  of  the  man,  how 
they  help  to  explain  him! — the  round, 
brown  felt  hat,  the  scarf,  the  overcoat  open 
and  thrown  back,  the  very  gloves!  No 
model  could  have  sat  for  these,  no  model 
could  have  worn  them,  could  have  been  as 
unmistakably  at  home  in  them  as  the  man 
to  whom  they  belong.  Adams  has  not  at- 
tempted more  than  a  study,  but  from  a 
painter  who  can  make  a  study  of  such 
breadth  and  such  vitality  one  has  a  right 
to  expect  even  greater  things." 

Habry  Edmund  Jennings.  Many  of 
Henry  County's  most  important  activities, 
whether  concerned  with  patriotic  and  war 
endeavor  or  with  business  affairs,  concen- 
trate and  center  around  the  personality  of 
Harry  Edmund  Jennings.  Mr.  Jennings 
represents  a  type  of  citizenship  that  has 
been  especially  brought  out|  during  the 
present  war.  He  has  stood  ready  and  will- 
ing to  sacrifice  every  immediate'  advantage 
and  his  private  business  to  promote  that 


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broader  success  of  the  nation  at  war,  and 
assist  in  every  movement  for  the  welfare 
of  the  soldiers  and  their  families. 

Mr.  Jennings  was  born  in  Newcastle 
March  1,  1874,  son  of  Simon  P.  and  Ange- 
line  (Pickering)  Jennings.  The  Jennings 
family  is  of  English  nationality.  His 
grandparents,  Obadiah  and  Mary  Jennings, 
were  natives  of  Pennsylvania,  and  in  pio- 
neer times  left  that  state  and  with  all  their 
possessions  in  a  wagon  drawn  by  a  single 
horse  moved  over  the  mountains  into  Ohio. 
Among  their  two  children  were  two  sons, 
Levi  A.  and  Simon  P.  Jennings,  both  of 
whom  made  history  in  Newcastle,  the  for- 
mer being  known  as  "father  of  Henry 
County's  industries"  and  the  latter  hardly 
less  prominent  as  a  manufacturer,  business 
man  and  citizen. 

Simon  P.  Jennings  was  born  in  Wayne 
County,  Ohio,  August  11,  1840,  and  grew 
up  on  a  farm.  He  attended  the  country 
schools,  Otterbein  University  for  two 
years,  and  on  leaving  the  farm  taught 
school.  He  came  to  Indiana  as  instructor 
in  the  high  school  at  Auburn,  and  was 
also  in  the  grocery  business  there  for  two 
years.  He  then  joined  his  brother,  Levi 
A.,  and  his  father  at  Newcastle,  becoming 
a  resident  of  this  city  in  1867.  In  1875  he 
erected  a  two-story  brick  building  which  for 
many  years  was  the  home  of  his  mercantile 
activities.  He  was  associated  with  his 
brother  in  the  hardware  business,  but  later 
Levi  sold  his  interest  to  his  father,  Oba- 
diah, and  the  latter  and  Simon  conducted 
business  here  for  many  years.  In  the  mean- 
time Simon  Jennings  entered  the  lumber 
and  builders  supplies  industry,  and  begin- 
ning about  1886  established  saw  and  plan- 
ing mills,  sash,  door  and  blind  machinery, 
and  developed  one  of  Newcastle's  chief  in- 
dustries. One  of  its  largest  departments 
was  the  manufacture  of  tool  handles.  He 
and  his  associates  also  extended  their  inter- 
ests to  other  states  for  source  of  raw  mate- 
rial. Through  this  and  related  interests 
Simon  Jennings  was  one  of  the  monumen- 
tal figures  in  Newcastle's  life  and  prosper- 
ity for  many  years.  During  1896-97  he 
also  served  as  president  of  the  Town  Coun- 
cil, but  his  best  public  service  was  doubt- 
less through  establishing  and  maintaining 
for  forty  years  an  industry  which  em- 
ployed many  hands  and  brought  much 
wealth  to  the  entire  community.  Simon 
Jennings  died  in  November,  1914,  and  his 


brother,  Levi,  died  in  April  of  the  same 
year. 

Simon  P.  Jennings  married  March  23, 
1870,  Angeline  Pickering,  who  was  born 
in  Henry  County  December  2,  1846,  daugh- 
ter of  Jacob  J.  and  Mary  Pickering.  Her 
people  were  Quakers  and  she  was  a  birth- 
right member  of  that  faith  and  was  edu- 
cated in  the  old  Spiceland  Academy. 
Simon  Jennings  was  reared  as  a  member 
of  the  United  Brethren  in  Christ,  but  after 
their  marriage  he  and  his  wife  were  iden- 
tified with  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church 
at  Newcastle.  Mrs.  Simon  Jennings  died 
December  31,  1903.  They  had  lived  since 
1871  in  a  fine  old  home  at  the  corner  of 
Broad  and  Twenty-first  streets,  where  all 
their  children  were  born,  and  their  children 
were  one  daughter  and  three  sons:  Mary 
Ada,  who  died  November  9,  1901 ;  Harry 
Edmund ;  Charles  Wesley  and  Walter  Pick- 
ering. 

Harry  Edmund  Jennings  grew  up  in 
Newcastle  at  the  old  home,  graduated  from 
high  school,  and  at  the  age  of  nineteen,  hav- 
ing already  had  much  experience  in  his 
father's  industry,  he  established  a  factory 
for  the  manufacture  of  barrel  hoops.  He 
conducted  this  general  cooperage  business 
for  sixteen  years  and  closed  it  out  only 
after  the  sources  of  raw  material  had  gone 
so  far  toward  exhaustion  as  to  make  the 
further  continuance  of  the  plant  at  New- 
castle unprofitable.  He  has  also  been  inter- 
ested in  cooperage  mills  at  Reynoldsville 
in  Union  County,  Illinois,  at  Maiden,  Mis- 
souri, and  various  other  points  in  hardwood 
districts.  In  1912  Mr.  Jennings  entered 
the  real  estate  and  farm  loan  business,  but 
has  many  other  business  interests  that  di- 
vide his  time. 

He  is  president  of  the  Pan-American 
Bridge  Company  of  Newcastle,  a  structural 
steel  works  requiring  the  employment  of 
sixty  men.  He  is  president  of  the  Citizens 
State  Bank  of  Newcastle  and  a  director  and 
stockholder  in  the  Farmers  Bank  of  New 
Lisbon,  Indiana,  the  Mount  Summit  Bank 
of  Mount  Summit,  the  Bank  of  Blount.s- 
ville,  the  Farmers  Bank  of  Losantville,  the 
Kennard  Bank  of  Kennard,  the  First  Na- 
tional Bank  of  Hagerstown,  the  Mooreland 
State  Bank,  the  People's  Bank  of  Sulphur 
Springs,  in  the  organization  of  which  he 
took  an  active  part. 

In  any  case  and  under  any  circumstances 
Mr.  Jennings  would  have  entered  heartily 


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into  every  patriotic  endeavor,  but  his  co- 
operation with  war  activities  has  a  doable 
inspiration  in  the  fact  that  his  older  son  is 
wearing  a  uniform  in  the  American  army. 
Mr.  Jennings  married  January  1,  1896, 
Miss  Edna  Kinsey.  She  was  born  July  1, 
1874,  daughter  of  David  W.  and  Sophia 
J.  (Shirk)  Kinsey  at  Newcastle.  Their 
son  David  Harry,  was  born  June  22,  1897, 
was  liberally  educated,  and  soon  after  the 
war  with  Germany  broke  out  entered  the 
officers  training  camp  at  Fort  Benjamin 
Harrison  and  was  commissioned  second 
lieutenant  in  June,  1917.  He  is  now  first 
lieutenant  in  Battery  C  of  the  One  Hun- 
dred and  Thirty-seventh  Field  Artillery. 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Jennings  have  a  younger  son, 
Harry  E.  Jr.,  born  in  1909. 

Mr.  Jennings  is  a  republican  and  has 
been  a  delegate  to  various  conventions.  He 
has  been  a  leader  at  Newcastle  and  in 
Henry  County  in  the  promotion  of  all  the 
Liberty  Loans,  has  served  as  county  chair- 
man of  the  War  Savings  Committee,  and 
under  his  leadership  the  county  raised 
$660,000  in  sales  of  stamps  in  two  weeks' 
time.  He  is  also  a  member  of  the  Red 
Cross  Committee,  and  is  county  chairman 
of  the  Relief  Civilian  Committee,  looking 
after  the  families  and  dependents  of  absent 
soldiers.  Mr.  Jennings  is  affiliated  with  the 
Benevolent  and  Protective  Order  of  Elks, 
Knights  of  Pythias,  and  he  is  member  of 
the  Methodist  Church. 

Dr.  William  Lomax  was  born  in  Guil- 
ford County,  North  Carolina,  March  15, 
1813,  and  his  death  occurred  at  Marion, 
Indiana,  in  1893.  He  was  a  graduate  of  the 
University  of  New  York,  and  at  the  begin- 
ning of  the  Civil  war  was  appointed  sur- 
geon of  the  Twelfth  Indiana  Infantry  and 
was  later  medical  director  of  the  Fifteenth 
Army  Corps. 

As  early  as  1855  Doctor  Lomax  was 
elected  president  of  the  Indiana  State 
Medical  Society,  presiding  until  1856,  and 
ten  years  later,  in  1866,  when  the  society 
was  changed  into  a  delegated  body,  he 
took  an  active  part  in  the  plan  of  reorgani- 
zation. For  a  time  he  held  the  chair  of 
surgeon  in  the  Fort  Wayne  Medical 
College,  for  several  years  was  president  of 
the  board  of  trustees  of  the  Medical  College 
of  Indiana,  and  he  contributed  many  val- 
uable articles  to  the  medical  profession. 


John  Day  DePrez.  The  work  that 
gratifies  every  ambition  for  service  and 
his  modest  desires  as  a  business  man  John 
Day  DePrez  has  found  in  publishing  a 
daily  and  weekly  newspaper,  and  in  the 
almost  innumerable  responsibilities  and 
opportunities  which  come  to  a  publisher, 
whether  he  is  willing  or  not,  bring  him  in- 
to active  and  vital  relationship  with  every- 
thing of  concern  in  the  community. 

Mr.  DePrez  is  the  chief  man  and  chief 
owner  of  the  Democrat  Publishing  Com- 
pany, publishers  of  the  Daily  and  Weekly 
Democrat  at  Shelbyville.  These  are  among 
the  oldest  newspapers  of  Northern  In- 
diana, the  weekly  edition  having  been  es- 
tablished in  1848  and  the  daily  in  1880. 

Mr.  DePrez  was  born  on  the  edge  of 
Shelbyville  in  Shelby  County,  October  1, 
1872,  oldest  son  of  John  C.  and  Zora  L. 
DePrez.  After  getting  his  education  in 
the  Shelbyville  High  School  and  two  years 
at  Hanover  College,  he  entered  the  Shelby 
Bank  and  ten  years  in  its  employ  would 
also  classify  him  as  a  banker.  On  leav- 
ing the  bank  he  formed  the  company  which 
bought  the  Daily  and  Weekly  Democrat, 
and  he  is  chief  owner  of  these  publications. 

While  America  was  engaged  in  the  war 
with  Germany  Mr.  DePrez  served  as  coun- 
ty publicity  agent  for  all  the  Liberty  Loan 
drives,  Was  chairman  of  the  Shelbyville 
Council  of  Defense,  chairman  of  the  Shel- 
byville War  Chest,  and  on  the  Executive 
Committee  of  the  State  Allied  War  Ac- 
tivities drive.  If  a  busy  man  like  Mr.  De- 
Prez can  be  said  to  have  a  fad,  his  is1 
boosting  Shelbyville.  He  is  a  democrat, 
has  served  on  the  Executive  Committee  of 
the  State  Democratic  Committee  and  as 
a  director  of  the  Indiana  Democratic  Club 
of  Indianapolis.  Fraternally  he  is  affil- 
iated with  the  Phi  Delta  Theta,  Masons, 
Elks,  Knights  of  Pythias,  Red  Men  and 
Ben-Hur,  and  is  a  member  of  the  First 
Presbyterian  Church  of  Shelbyville.  Oc- 
tober 28,  1902,  he  married  Miss  Emma 
Senour. 

O.  L.  Brown.  Admitted  to  the  bar  in 
1898,  O.  L.  Brown's  abilities  have  brought 
him  many  of  the  larger  opportunities  of 
the  law  and  of  related  business  affairs. 
For  many  years  he  has  been  in  practice  at 
Indianapolis,  where  his  offices  are  in  the 
Hume-Mansur  Building. 


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Mr.  Brown  was  born  at  Jewett,  Illinois, 
November  2,  1874,  son  of  Bazil  and  Laura 
Brown.  His  father,  a  native  of  Ohio,  was 
educated  in  the  public  schools  of  that 
state  and  in  early  life  followed  farming 
and  the  lumber  business.  He  settled  in 
Cumberland  County,  Illinois,  at  an  early 
date  and  finally  gave  up  a  business  career 
to  study  law.  His  is  an  example  of  those 
successful  professional  careers  won  after 
most  men  are  practically  ready  to  retire. 
He  moved  from  Illinois  to  Terre  Haute, 
Indiana,  in  1890  and  has  since  conducted 
a  general  practice.  He  is  now  living  at 
Terre  Haute  at  the  venerable  age  of  eighty- 
three. 

0.  L.  Brown  was  a  twin  in  a  family  of 
seven  children,  four  of  whom  are  still  liv- 
ing. He  was  educated  in  the  public 
schools,  attended  the  State  Normal  at 
Terre  Haute,  and  for  three  years  taught 
a  district  school.  He  read  law  in  the 
office  of  McHamill  at  Terre  Haute  and  be- 
gan practice  alone  in  1898.  He  was  ad- 
mitted to  the  Indiana  Supreme  Court  in 
1901,  the  United  States  Circuit  Court  in 
1903,  the  United  States  Supreme  Court  in 
1907,  and  in  1909  was  also  admitted  to  the 
Illinois  Supreme  Court.  After  ten  years  of 
private  practice  Mr.  Brown  temporarily 
left  his  profession  to  promote  and  organize 
interurban  electric  lines  in  Chicago  and 
Kansas  City,  Kansas.  Later  he  returned 
to  Indiana  and  located  at  Indianapolis, 
where  he  has  since  enjoyed  a  large  prac- 
tice. 

Mr.  Brown  is  a  Knight  of  Pythias.  A 
stanch  republican,  he  did  much  political 
work  while  in  Terre  Haute,  organizing 
a  strong  and  efficient  republican  club  of 
300  members.  Many  times  he  was  called 
by  the  State  Central  Committee  to  do 
campaign  work,  and  has  always  had  the 
ability  to  influence  and  instruct  large 
audiences  for  political  discussion. 

Mr.  Brown  married  for  his  present  wife 
Miss  Margaret  Brainard.  By  his  first  mar- 
riage he  had  one  son,  now  sixteen  years 
of  age  and  a  student  in  the  public  schools 
of  Indianapolis. 

Richard  Henry  Schweitzer  is  secre- 
tary, treasurer  and  general  manager  of  the 
Parish  Alford  Fence  and  Machine  Com- 
pany at  Knightstown.  About  the  first  ex- 
perience he  had  in  the  business  world  was 
as  a  minor  employe  with  a  wire  fence  fac- 


tory. "Working  hard  along  one  line,  and 
with  ability  increasing  in  proportion  to 
his  experience,  Mr.  Schweitzer  has  been 
able  to  give  Knightstown  one  of  its  most 
flourishing  and  important  industries,  the 
product  of  which  is  distributed  all  over 
the  central  states,  thus  serving  to  adver- 
tise Knightstown  and  its  resources  to  the 
outside  world. 

Mr.  Schweitzer  was  born  at  Crawfords- 
ville,  Indiana,  October  25,  1877,  son 
of  Christian  and  Theresa  (Hermann) 
Schweitzer.  His  grandfather,  Frederick 
Schweitzer,  came  from  Bavaria  about 
seventy  years  ago,  locating  at  Columbus, 
Ohio.  He  was  a  professional  musician 
and  reared  his  family  and  died  in  Colum- 
bus. Christian  Schweitzer  was  reared  in 
Columbus,  and  afterwards  moved  to  Craw- 
fordsville,  Indiana,  where  he  died  in  1916. 
His  widow  was  born  at  Reading,  Pennsyl- 
vania, and  is  still  living  in  that  state. 

Richard  Henry  Schweitzer  attended  the 
public  schools  of  Crawfordsville,  was  at 
high  school  until  his  senior  year,  and  first 
went  to  work  for  the  Indiana  Wire  Fence 
Company  under  O.  M.  Gregg  of  Craw- 
fordsville. For  a  short  time  he  was  ship- 
ping clerk,  later  general  traffic  manager, 
and  subsequently  was  secretary  of  the 
Crawfordsville  Wire  Company  for  a  year 
and  a  half.  He  next  became  associated 
with  C.  D.  Voris  of  Crawfordsville  in  or- 
ganizing the  Crawfordsville  Wire  and  Nail 
Company,  and  was  its  secretary  and  sales 
manager  from  1901  to  1906. 

Mr.  Schweitzer  then  became  associated 
with  Sears,  Roebuck  &  Company  of  Chi- 
cago in  purchasing  in  1906  the  wire  fence 
factory  at  Knightstown,  and  has  since  been 
secretary,  treasurer  and  general  manager 
of  the  company.  This  plant  at  Knights- 
town, employing  100  hands  and  manufac- 
turing several  substantial  grades  of  wire 
fencing,  supplies  a  large  part  of  the  great 
volume  of  wire  fencing  sold  and  distrib- 
uted by  the  Sears,  Roebuck  &  Company 
organization. 

Mr.  Schweitzer  is  also  a  stockholder  and 
director  of  the  First  National  Bank  and  a 
director  of  the  Citizens  National  Bank  of 
Knightstown.  He  is  also  a  stockholder  in 
the  Crawfordsville  Wire  and  Nail  Com- 
pany, and  has  an  interest  in  the  One  Piece 
Bi-Focal   Lens   Company  at  Indianapolis. 

In  1899  he  married  Miss  Effa  Strauss, 
daughter  of  Charles  and  Sarah  (Schooley) 


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Strauss  of  Crawfordsville.  They  are  the 
parents  of  two  children :  Elizabeth  Kather- 
ine  and  Richard  Karl,  the  latter  born  in 
1902.  In  politics  he  is  a  republican.  He 
is  a  past  master  of  Golden  Rule  Lodge  No. 
16,  Free  and  Accepted  Masons,  at  Knights- 
town,  is  past  commander  of  the  Knights 
Templar  Commandery  No.  9,  and  is 
present  senior  grand  warden  of  the  Grand 
Lodge  of  Masons.  He  also  belongs  to 
Murat  Temple  of  the  Mystic  Shrine  at  In- 
dianapolis. He  has  been  deeply  interested 
in  Masonry,  and  was  a  member  of  the 
building  committee  and  secretary  when  the 
Indiana  Masonic  Home  was  built  at  Frank- 
lin, Indiana.  He  is  now  a  member  and 
secretary  of  the  board  of  directors  of  that 
home. 

Meyer  Lerman,  of  Newcastle,  is  one  of 
the  most  interesting  young  citizens  of  that 
city,  being  a  former  member  of  the  United 
States  navy,  an  organization  that  has  cov- 
ered itself  with  glory  in  the  present  war. 
Mr.  Lerman 's  service  was  marked  by  par- 
ticipation in  the  noted  exploit  when  the 
navy  landed  at  Vera  Cruz,  Mexico,  and 
took  possession  of  that  town  for  the  Ameri- 
can forces. 

Mr.  Lerman  was  born  at  Cincinnati 
March  14,  1890,  a  son  of  Joseph  and  Clara 
(Spielberg)  Lerman.  He  is  of  Hebrew 
ancestry.  His  father  was  born  near  War- 
saw in  Russian  Poland,  and  in  1887,  at  the 
age  of  twenty-one,  came  to  Cincinnati.  He 
had  married  in  the  old  country.  In 
America  he  spent  four  years  peddling 
with  a  pack  of  granite  ware,  using  Cin- 
cinnati as  his  headquarters  and  traveling 
all  over  Kentucky  and  Virginia.  Later  he 
learned  the  cigar  trade  and  opened  a  fac- 
tory at  Cincinnati.  He  was  a  very  suc- 
cessful business  man,  and  continued  in 
the  cigar  business  until  February  10,  1911. 
Having  lost  his  health,  he  was  for  over 
six  years  an  invalid  and  died  in  June, 
1917.  His  widow  is  still  living  at  Cin- 
cinnati. They  had  six  children,  Meyer 
being  the  second  in  age. 

Meyer  Lerman  finished  the  work  of  the 
public  schools  at  Cincinnati  when  fifteen, 
and  then  for  two  years  was  messenger  boy 
with  the  Postal  Telegraph  Company.  He 
had  various  other  employments  and  for  a 
time  worked  on  a  farm  in  South  Dakota. 
He  also  managed  his  father's  branch  es- 
tablishment    at     Mer    Rouge,     Louisiana. 


"While  living  in  Ohio  he  had  joined  Com- 
pany M  of  the  First  Regiment,  National 
Guard,  and  had  the  rank  of  corporal.  At 
Birmingham,  Alabama,  he  clerked  in  a 
store  two  years  and  while  there  enlisted  in 
the  navy  for  a  four  years  cruise.  His  en- 
listment was  dated  September  11,  1911, 
and  he  was  mustered  out  September  10, 
1915.  Part  of  his  service  was  on  the 
United  States  mine  layer  San  Francisco, 
and  also  the  Prairie.  During  those  four 
years  he  covered  90,000  miles.  The  crown- 
ing event  of  his  service  came  in  April, 
1914,  when  forces  from  a  United  States 
warship  landed  at  and  captured  the  City 
of  Vera  Cruz,  Mexico,  from  Huerta's  gov- 
ernment. He  participated  in  the  three 
days  fighting,  during  which  time  nineteen 
Americans  were  killed  and  seventy-one 
wounded.  Mr.  Lerman  while  with  the 
navy  visited  all  the  ports  of  England  and 
the  Americas.  After  his  honorable  dis- 
charge he  lived  at  home  in  Cincinnati  for 
one  year. 

October  29,  1916,  he  married  Miss  Fan- 
nie Watelsky,  daughter  of  Nathan  Watel- 
sky  of  Newcastle  and  Cincinnati.  He  was 
in  the  service  of  Mr.  Watelsky  at  New- 
castle and  a  year  later  was  made  manager 
of  the  Newcastle  establishment  of  that 
business,  later  becoming  proprietor.  Mr. 
Lerman  is  a  member  of  the  B'nai  B'rith 
of  Muncie  and  has  his  membership  in  the 
Orthodox   Synagogue  at  Cincinnati. 

Harry  E.  Raitano.  With  a  knowledge 
and  experience  acquired  by  many  years  of 
work  for  law  firms  as  well  as  by  concen- 
trated individual  study,  Mr.  Raitano  was 
well  qualified  to  achieve  success  in  the 
legal  profession  when  he  came  to  Indian- 
apolis six  years  ago,  and  his  record  since 
then  has  justified  his  most  sanguine  ex- 
pectations. 

Mr.  Raitano  drew  his  first  conscious 
breath  on  American  soil  and  is  an  Ameri- 
can citizen  in  every  sense  of  the  word, 
though  he  was  born  January  17,  1879,  in 
Naples,  Italy,  just  previous  to  the  immi- 
gration of  his  parents,  Bart  Raitano  and 
Anna  (Valestra)  Raitano,  to  America  in 
the  same  year.  His  parents  have  since 
lived  in  New  York,  where  his  father  is  still 
a  resident  and  hatter  by  trade.  Harry  E. 
Raitano  was  the  fourth  among  sixteen  chil- 
dren. 

His  early  education  was  acquired  in  the 


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grade  and  high  schools  of  New  York  City, 
and  at  a  later  date  he  was  a  student  in 
the  Chicago  Law  School.  For  about  fif- 
teen years  he  worked  as  clerk  in  different 
law  offices,  and  it  would  be  difficult  to 
conceive  of  a  better  preparation  for  the 
legal  profession  and  one  that  could  confer 
more  ability  to  meet  the  exigencies  and 
problems  which  continually  confront  the 
lawj^er.  Mr.  Raitano  came  to  Indianapolis 
in  July,  1912,  taking  up  his  residence  in 
this  city  with  his  family,  consisting  of 
wife  and  three  children.  After  the  sis 
months  required  to  establish  his  residence 
he  was  admitted  to  the  Marion  County 
Bar,  and  since  then  has  been  engaged  in 
general  practice. 

That  part  of  his  professional  career 
which  has  received  most  attention  from 
the  general  public  has  been  his  service  as 
city  prosecuting  attorney,  an  office  to  which 
he  was  appointed  January  5,  1914,  and 
in  which  he  served  four  years.  During 
that  time  he  has  given  his  personal  atten- 
tion to  the  prosecution  of  thousands  of  city 
cases,  including  the  prosecution  of  a  large 
number  of  offenders  against  the  city  or- 
dinances. He  has  also  handled  a  number 
of  murder  cases,  and  several  very  import- 
ant civil  litigations.  This  work  and  the 
ability  he  has  displayed  in  his  private  prac- 
tice are  the  basis  for  the  very  excellent 
reputation  he  now  enjoys  as  an  Indianap- 
olis lawyer. 

In  1914  Mr.  Raitano  formed  the  Colum- 
bian Savings  and  Loan  Association  of  In- 
dianapolis, with  a  capitalization  of  $250,- 
000.  He  was  its  president  three  years.  In- 
cidentally it  may  be  stated  that  the  cor- 
poration is  doing  a  large  and  successful 
business  and  is  one  of  the  leading  insti- 
tutions of  its  kind. 

In  politics  Mr.  Raitano  has  been  a  demo- 
crat by  conviction  and  allegiance  since  he 
attained  the  qualifications  of  manhood 
suffrage.  He  has  been  deeply  interested  in 
the  success  of  his  party,  both  at  Indian- 
apolis and  in  the  East,  and  in  different 
campaigns  has  done  much  to  discuss  and 
clarify  the  political  questions  of  the  day. 
In  1914  the  State  Democratic  Committee 
of  Indiana  appointed  him  a  member  to 
travel  over  the  state  organizing  democratic 
clubs  and  meetings.  Mr.  Raitano  resides 
at  2237  Park  Avenue,  in  the  third  precinct 
of  the  Second  Ward,  and  is  democratic 
precinct  committeeman  of  the  ward.     As 


native  of  one  of  the  allied  countries  en- 
gaged in  the  present  great  war  against 
Germany,  but  especially  as  an  American, 
Mr.  Raitano  has  sought  to  use  his  influence 
for  the  successful  prosecution  of  the  war, 
is  a  member  of  Company  H  of  the  In- 
diana State  Militia,  and  is  also  a  member 
of  the  Italian  Executive  Committee  of 
Propaganda.  He  is  also  a  member  of  the 
King  Humbert  Mutual  Aid  Society,  of  the 
Democratic  Club,  of  Aerie  No.  211  Fra- 
ternal Order  of  Eagles,  the  Italian  Red 
Cross  Society  and  the  American  Red  Cross. 
In  church  affiliation  he  is  a  member  of  Sts. 
Peter  and  Paul  Cathedral. 

July  9,  1902,  at  Jersey  City,  New  Jer- 
sey, Mr.  Raitano  married  Miss  Frances  di 
Mauro.  Her  people  were  also  Italians. 
They  have  four  children,  all  living :  Anna 
L.,  born  April  21,  1904;  Arthur  B.,  born 
July  28,  1905 ;  B.  Alfred,  born  October  3, 
1907;  and  Henrietta,  born  May  5,  1914. 
Mr.  Raitano 's  office  is  in  the  Indiana  Trust 
Building. 

William  Rollin  Zion.  Though  he  has 
had  a  wide  and  varied  business  experience 
Mr.  Zion  has  given  most  of  his  time  and 
energies  to  the  sawmill  and  lumber  in- 
dustry, and  is  a  member  of  the  firm  Wood- 
ard  &  Zion,  a  successful  organization  at 
Knightstown  operating  a  general  sawmill 
industry,  also  manufacturing  hard  wood 
and  a  special  line  of  poultry  coops. 

Mr.  Zion  was  born  in  Rush  County,  In- 
diana, on  a  farm,  January  31,  1859,  son 
of  John  Quincy  and  Maria  (Pickering) 
Zion.  He  is  of  Scotch-Irish  ancestry.  As 
a  boy  he  attended  country  schools  and  also 
Spiceland  Academy.  Up  to  the  age  of 
twenty-seven  he  lived  on  his  grandfather's 
farm  of  110  acres.  He  then  went  to  Carth- 
age, and  there  had  his  first  experience  in 
the  sawmill  industry,  working  for  two 
years.  Moving  to  Knightstown,  he  was  for 
six  years  clerk  in  a  hardware  house  and 
was  a  butcher  one  year.  On  returning  to 
Carthage  Mr.  Zion  bought  a  sawmill,  and 
for  four  years  operated  it  successfully  un- 
der his  individual  name.  He  then  bought 
a  mill  in  Knightstown  and  conducted  it  as 
a  partnership  under  the  name  Zion  and 
Applegate  four  years.  He  then  bought  out 
his  partner  and  conducted  it  alone  for  two 
years.  The  following  year  Mr.  Zion  spent 
in  the  gas  business.  At  that  time  he  be- 
came associated  with  Mr.  H.  G.  Woodard, 


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buying  the  sawmill  of  J.  T.  Barnes,  which 
they  conducted  under  the  name  Zion  & 
Woodard  from  1903  to  1911.  At  that  date 
Mr.  Zion  sold  out  to  his  partner.  He  was 
appointed  postmaster  of  Knightstown  un- 
der President  Taft,  and  filled  that  office  to 
the  eminent  satisfaction  of  all  concerned 
four  years.  On  leaving  the  postoffice  Mr. 
Zion  rejoined  Mr.  Woodard  under  the  new 
firm  of  Woodard  &  Zion,  and  they  built  a 
mill  and  plant  at  their  present  location 
and  they  sell  the  output  of  this  plant  to 
many  of  the  large  centers  in  Indiana  and 
Ohio,  and  have  built  up  a  specially  large 
trade  in  poultry  coops.  Mr.  Zion  also  has 
a  fire  insurance  agency  for  the  American 
Company  of  New  Jersey. 

He  first  married  October  20,  1883,  Miss 
Mary  Kitley,  daughter  of  John  Kitley  of 
Marion  County.  Mrs.  Zion  was  the  mother 
of  one  child,  Herbert,  who  died  when  three 
months  old,  and  she  died  September  15, 
1885.  For  his  second  wife  Mr.  Zion  mar- 
ried on  October  20,  1887,  Laura  Newby, 
daughter  of  Dr.  Oliver  and  Margaret 
(Macey)  Newby  of  Carthage,  Indiana. 
They  have  one  daughter,  Ruby  M.,  wife 
of  Mark  A.  Wilson,  of  Indianapolis.  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Wilson  have  one  child,  George 
William. 

Mr.  Zion  has  been  very  deeply  inter- 
ested in  republican  politics  and  was  a  dele- 
gate to  the  Indiana  State  Convention  in 
1918.  He  is  affiliated  with  the  Knights  of 
Pythias  and  is  a  member  of  the  Friends 
Church. 

A.  G.  Seiberling,  of  Kokomo,  is  a  mem- 
ber of  a  prominent  family  of  manufacturers 
and  business  executives  known  all  over  the 
middle  west,  but  especially  at  Akron,  Ohio, 
where  the  name  Seiberling  is  synonymous 
with  a  large  part  of  the  great  rubber  and 
other  industrial  enterprises  which  give  that 
city  its  unique  fame. 

It  was  on  a  farm  in  Summit  County, 
Ohio,  not  far  from  Akron,  that  A.  G.  Sieb- 
erling  was  born  January  4,  1865.  His  par- 
ents were  Monroe  and  Sarah  L.  (Miller) 
Seiberling,  both  now  deceased.  Monroe 
Seiberling  lived  on  a  farm  in  Summit 
County  until  his  thirtieth  year,  and  after 
that  took  an  active  part  in  some  of  the 
large  business  enterprises  controlled  and 
directed  by  his  family  and  associated  in 
Akron.  The  Seiberlings  had  among  other 
interests    a    controlling    share    in    several 

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strawboard  factories,  and  it  was  for  the 
purpose  of  organizing  the  Kokomo  Straw- 
board  Company  that  Monroe  Seiberling 
came  to  Kokomo  in  1888.  He  was  here  two 
years  in  that  business,  and  then  promoted 
and  organized  the  Diamond  Plate  Glass 
Company.  In  1895,  when  this  was  ab- 
sorbed by  the  Pittsburg  Glass  Company,  he 
removed  to  Peoria  and  built  the  plant  of 
the  Peoria  Plate  Glass  Company.  Five 
years  later  he  established  a  similar  plant 
at  Ottawa,  Illinois.  For  many  years  he 
was  widely  known  for  his  enterprise  in  pro- 
moting and  building  large  industrial  con- 
cerns. Thus  his  name  belongs  in  a  group 
of  manufacturers  and  business  organizers 
in  which  men  of  the  Seiberling  name  have 
long  been  so  prominent.  Monroe  Seiber- 
ling was  a  republican,  a  Knight  Templar 
Mason,  and  had  a  family  of  ten  children, 
eight  of  whom  are  living. 

A.  G.  Seiberling  grew  up  at  Akron,  at- 
tended public  school  there,  and  spent  one 
term  in  Buehtel  College.  His  first  business 
service  was  as  office  boy  with  the  Akron 
Strawboard  Company.  He  was  bookkeeper 
of  that  concern  one  year,  and  then  was  ap- 
pointed manager  and  treasurer  of  the  Ohio 
Strawboard  Company  at  Upper  Sandusky. 
In  1887  he  came  to  Kokomo,  and  was  treas- 
urer of  the  Diamond  Plate  Glass  Company 
until  1895.  For  a  time  he  was  connected 
with  the  Pittsburg  Glass  Company  as  gen- 
eral purchasing  agent  and  was  associated 
with  his  father  in  promoting  and  establish- 
ing the  Peoria  Rubber  Company,  and  was 
its  manager  and  treasurer  five  years.  He 
was  similarly  connected  with  the  plate  glass 
plant  at  Ottawa,  Illinois,  but  in  1905  re- 
turned to  Kokomo  and  became  secretary 
and  treasurer  of  the  Apperson  Brothers 
Automobile  Company.  He  was  with  that 
company  5y2  years.  Since  then  Mr.  Seib- 
erling has  been  general  manager  of  the 
Haynes  Automobile  Company,  one  of  the 
largest  industries  of  its  kind  in  Indiana. 

He  is  a  Knight  Templar  and  thirty-sec- 
ond degree  Scottish  Rite  Mason,  a  member 
of  Mohamed  Temple  of  Peoria,  Ulinojs,  and 
is  affiliated  with  the  Elks.  He  is  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Chicago  Athletic  Association, 
and  a  director  of  the  Kokomo  Chamber  of 
Commerce.  Mr.  Seiberling  is  a  republican 
and  affiliated  with  the  Lutheran  Church. 
July  3,  1889,  he  married  Miss  Anna  Tate, 
of  Kokomo. 


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Dr.  William  B.  Fletcher,  of  Indian- 
apolis, was  a  man  of  varied  attainments 
both  as  a  physician  and  scientist.  His  life's 
work  encompassed  the  experience  of  a  sol- 
dier, physician,  teacher,  author  and  spe- 
cialist, and  in  every  relation  he  bore  his 
part  well  and  placed  his  name  in  the  front 
rank. 

Doctor  Fletcher  was  a  valuable  contribu- 
tor to  the  State  Medical  Society.  He  re- 
ceived a  high  compliment  in  the  poem  "The 
Doctor"  by  James  Whitcomb  Riley. 

Horace  Greeley  "Woodard  is  a  veteran 
in  the  sawmill  and  lumber  industry,  being 
senior  partner  in  the  firm  of  Woodard  & 
Zion  with  a  plant  for  the  manufacture  of 
hardwood  lumber  and  poultry  coops  at 
Knightstown. 

Mr.  Woodard  was  born  at  Ogden,  Henry 
County,  December  10,  1857,  son  of  Thomas 
Cox  and  Anna  (Reynolds)  Woodard.  He 
is  of  English  ancestry.  His  father  was  a 
flour  miller  at  Ogden,  and  later  was  con- 
nected with  the  Eagle  Mill  in  Henry 
County.  Horace  Greeley  Woodard  at- 
tended the  public  schools  at  Raysville  and 
also  the  Knightstown  Academy.  He  had 
earned  his  living  by  farm  labor  from  an 
early  age,  and  after  leaving  school  worked 
as  a  farm  hand  for  a  year  or  so.  Later 
for  three  years  he  had  his  headquarters 
at  St.  Louis  and  was  employed  as  a  freight 
brakeman  and  conductor  with  the  Mis- 
souri Pacific  Railroad.  Upon  returning  to 
Indiana  he  became  a  laborer  in  the  saw- 
mill of  Watts  &  Parker  near  Knightstown 
and  was  advanced  to  bookkeeper  and  fore- 
man, remaining  with  that  mill  three  years. 
He  then  became  head  sawyer  for  a  mill  at 
Fairfield,  Indiana,  for  a  year.  Returning 
to  Knightstown,  Mr.  Woodard  became 
member  of  the  firm  Parker  &  Woodard, 
and  a  vear  later  formed  a  partnership  with 
Mr.  W.  R,  Zion.  They  bought  the  local 
mill  of  J.  T.  Barnes  and  conducted  it  un- 
der the  name  Zion  &  Woodard.  Mr.  Zion 
left  the  firm  to  become  the  Knightstown 
postmaster,  but  after  four  years  he  re- 
joined Mr.  Woodard  and  the  firm  was  reor- 
ganized as  Woodard  &  Zion.  Mr.  Woodard 
also  has  local  real  estate  interests.  He  is 
an  active  republican,  served  one  term  as 
supervisor  of  Wayne  Township  and  was  a 
member  of  the  Knightstown  City  Council 
from  1914  to  1917.  He  is  a  charter  mem- 
ber of  Knightstown  Camp,  Modern  Wood- 


men of  America,  and  is  a  member  of  the 
Friends  Church. 

In  1879  Mr.  Woodard  married  Eliza- 
beth Newby,  daughter  of  John  T.  Newby 
and  Martha  W.  (White)  Newby,  of  Rays- 
ville, Indiana,  who  later  went  to  Iowa, 
where  they  both  died.  The  Woodard  chil- 
dren are :  Minnie  Era,  now  deceased ; 
Edith  Anna  and  John  Earl.  Edith  Anna 
married  Reginald  Bell  and  they  have  two 
children,  Miriam  and  Barbara.  John  Earl 
is  by  profession  an  architect,  and  is  at 
present  in  the  employ  of  the  government. 

Charles  Myron  Risk  is  proprietor  of 
the  largest  fancy  grocery  establishment 
in  Knightstown,  and  has  been  a  progressive 
factor  in  business  affairs  for  many  years. 

He  is  of  Scotch-Irish  ancestry,  son  of 
Joseph  and  Virginia  (Pur cell)  Risk.  His 
grandfather,  John  Risk,  came  from  Great 
Britain  to  America  when  a  young  man  and 
located  in  the  Shenandoah  Valley  of  Vir- 
ginia. There  he  reared  his  family.  He 
was  an  all  around  mechanic.  Joseph  Risk, 
youngest  of  ten  children,  came  to  Indiana 
and  settled  on  a  farm  in  Rush  County. 
He  married  at  Newark,  Ohio. 

Charles  Myron  Risk  was  born  on  a  farm 
February  16,  1864.  He  attended  country 
schools  in  winter  and  in  summer  helped  on 
the  farm.  As  his  years  increased  he  bore 
larger  responsibilities  in  handling  a  large 
farm  of  160  or  200  acres.  In  1890  Mr. 
Risk  came  to  Knightstown  and  went  to 
work  driving  a  wagon  for  the  wholesale 
grocery  house  of  A.  O.  Morris.  He  after- 
wards was  wagon  driver  for  other  firms 
and  in  1893  became  clerk  for  Frank  E. 
Tritt.  In  1899  he  bought  an  interest  in 
a  grocery  house  and  since  then  has  been 
extending  and  expanding  his  business,  now 
under  his  sole  proprietorship,  until  he  has 
one  of  the  best  appointed  grocery  stores 
in  Eastern  Indiana. 

In  1893  Mr.  Risk  married  Miss  Susan 
McClammer,  daughter  of  William  and 
Nancy  (Beeman)  McClammer  of  Spice- 
land,  Henry  County.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Risk 
have  no  children  of  their  own,  but  they 
reared  a  nephew,  W.  H.  McClammer,  who 
since  the  spring  of  1918  has  been  in  the 
army  in  the  Ordnance  Department.  Mr. 
Risk  is  a  member  of  the  Knightstown 
Lodge  of  Masons,  having  filled  all  its 
chairs  and  is  also  a  Knight  Templar.  He 
is  a    democrat,   and   for  many   years  has 


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been  an  elder  in  the  Bethel  Presbyterian 
Church  at  Knightstown. 

Reginald  L.  Bell,  cashier  of  the  Citi- 
zens National  Bank  of  Knightstown,  repre- 
sents an  old  and  prominent  family  of  that 
locality.  His  grandfather,  Harvey  Bell, 
was  born  in  Virginia  in  1806  and  came  to 
Indiana  in  1832.  He  and  his  family  first 
located  in  Rush  County,  but  in  1840  moved 
to  Knightstown,  where  for  many  years 
Harvey  Bell  was  a  prominent  business 
man  and  hardware  merchant.  He  died  in 
1886.  His  wife,  Nancy,  was  born  in  1809 
and  died  in  1842. 

Reginald  L.  Bell  is  a  son  of  William  M. 
and  Adeline  (Noble)  Bell.  His  father  was 
also  in  the  hardware  business  at  Knights- 
town, and  died  there  an  honored  citizen 
in  1910.     His  wife  passed  away  in  1912. 

Reginald  L.  Bell  attended  the  public 
schools  of  Knightstown  and  for  two  years 
studied  electrical  engineering  at  Purdue 
University.  After  leaving  college  he  as- 
sisted his  father  in  the  hardware  business 
until  1908,  when  he  entered  the  services 
of  the  Citizens  National  Bank  as  a  clerk  for 
one  year  and  then  for  seven  years  was  as- 
sistant cashier,  and  since  1916  has  been 
cashier  of  that  old  and  substantial  insti- 
tution. He  is  also  one  of  the  bank's  stock- 
holders and  has  considerable  real  estate  in- 
terests in  and  around  Knightstown. 

In  1908  Mr.  Bell  married  Miss  Edith 
Woodard,  daughter  of  Horace  G.  and 
Elizabeth  (Newby)  Woodard.  To  their 
marriage  have  been  born  two  children, 
Miriam  and  Barbara.  Mr.  Bell  is  a  re- 
publican, a  member  of  the  Presbyterian 
Church  and  is  affiliated  with  the  Knights 
of  Pythias  and  the  Sigma  Nu  fraternity 
of  Purdue  University. 

Bernard  Gernstein.  Now  proprietor 
of  the  Gernstein  Grocery  Company  of  New- 
castle, Bernard  Gernstein  is  one  of  the 
interesting  American  citizens  of  Indiana, 
coming  here  from  a  foreign  land,  without 
money  or  influence,  and  gradually  working 
into  a  position  where  he  might  be  inde- 
pendent and  by  his  service  as  a  merchant 
command  the  respect  and  esteem  of  an  en- 
tire community. 

Mr.  Gernstein  was  born  in  Russia  April 
18,  1890.  He  attended  Hebrew  schools 
and  some  Russian  schools,  and  at  the  age 
of  seventeen  came  to  America.    From  New 


York  City  he  came  west  to  Indianapolis, 
where  a  brother  was  living.  He  arrived  at 
Indianapolis  with  only  three  cents,  and 
the  first  week  his  salary  was  $3.40,  and  out 
of  that  he  paid  $3  for  board.  Since  then 
he  has  made  rapid  progress  up  the  ladder 
of  success.  He  first  worked  at  Indianap- 
olis in  the  cabinet  making  trade  at  a  glue 
machine,  and  learned  cabinet  making  in 
all  its  details.  After  six  years,  having 
saved  his  money,  he  opened  a  grocery  store 
at  1205  Kentucky  Avenue,  and  was  in 
business  in  Indianapolis  four  years.  Then 
selling  out  he  came  to  Newcastle  and 
bought  the  Green  Grocery  Company  at 
1704  I  Avenue.  He  has  made  this  a  first 
class  grocery  store,  and  he  also  owns  real 
estate  both  in  Indianapolis  and  Newcastle. 
Mr.  Gernstein  is  independent  in  polities, 
is  an  orthodox  Jewish  Zionist,  and  has  con- 
tributed liberally  to  his  church  and  other 


Louis  Dawson  is  an  expert  florist,  one 
of  the  men  who  have  contributed  to  the 
well  deserved  fame  of  Newcastle  as  "The 
Rose  City"  of  Indiana.  He  has  been  iden- 
tified with  that  typical  industry  of  New- 
castle for  a  number  of  years,  and  is  now 
member  of  the  firm  Lindey  &  Dawson,  one 
of  the  most  progressive  younger  organiza- 
tions for  the  growing  of  flowers  and  vege- 
tables under  glass. 

Mr.  Dawson  was  born  in  County  Kent, 
Ontario,  Canada,  May  22,  1867,  son  of 
Albert  and  Harriet  (Coatsworth)  Dawson. 
He  is  of  English  and  French  ancestry. 
His  grandfather,  John  Dawson,  came  from 
England  and  established  the  family  in 
Canada.  Mr.  Dawson  had  the  advantages 
of  the  country  schools  until  he  was  four- 
teen years  of  age.  After  that  he  worked 
on  the  farm  in  summers  and  spent  his  win- 
ters in  the  lumber  camps.  This  was  his 
routine  of  life  until  about  1904,  when  he 
came  to  Newcastle  and  went  to  work  for 
his  uncle  in  the  firm  of  Benthe  &  Com- 
pany and  learned  the  florist  business  in 
every  detail.  He  was  with  that  firm  ten 
years,  and  then  established  himself  in  busi- 
ness with  Carl  Lindey  under  the  name 
Lindey  &  Dawson  at  1519  South  Seven- 
teenth Street.  Both  were  practical  men 
in  greenhouse  work,  and  they  built  their 
first  greenhouse,  40  by  80  feet,  with  their 
own  hands.  The  following  year  they  put 
up   another  house  18  by  52  feet,  and  in 


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1917  their  third  structure,  22  by  52  feet. 
They  now  have  5,000  square  feet  under 
glass.  While  they  specialize  in ,  flowers, 
they  also  have  some  part  of  their  estab- 
lishment devoted  to  tomatoes,  lettuce  and 
spring  plants.  Mr.  Dawson  since  coming 
to  Newcastle  has  acquired  some  real  es- 
tate interests,  and  is  looked  upon  as  one 
of  the  substantial  citizens. 

In  1888  he  married  Miss  Anna  Eliza 
Cottingham,  daughter  of  William  and  An- 
nie (Perkins)  Cottingham  of  Kent,  Can- 
ada. Nine  children  were  born  to  their 
marriage,  seven  of  whom  are  still  living. 
Ruby  is  Mrs.  Woolums,  of  Fort  Wayne, 
Indiana,  and  has  four  children.  Cleo 
Dawson  is  at  home.  Clarence  is  married 
and  lives  at  Erie,  Pennsylvania.  Earl, 
of  Newcastle,  is  married  and  has  one  child. 
Bertha  and  Carmen  are  still  at  home.  Mr. 
Dawson  is  a  socialist  in  politics. 

Walter  Alban  Tapscott,  of  Newcastle, 
is  a  young  business  man  of  varied  and  suc- 
cessful experience,  and  has  made  an  envi- 
able record  during  the  past  few  years  as 
manager  of  the  Morris  Five  and  Ten  Cent 
Store  at  Newcastle. 

Mr.  Tapscott  was  born  at  New  Decatur, 
Alabama,  November  1,  1892,  son  of  Wiley 
William  and  Ella  (Kennedy)  Tapscott. 
He  is  of  Scotch-Irish  ancestry.  He  ac- 
quired his  early  education  in  the  public 
schools  of  New'  Decatur,  finishing  the 
eighth  grade  at  Iuka  in  Marion  County, 
Illinois.  At  the  age  of  sixteen  he  came  to 
Newcastle  and  for  a  year  was  employed  in 
the  Hoosier  Kitchen  Cabinet  Company. 
For  2y2  years  he  worked  with  the  Max- 
well-Briscoe  Company,  and  then  for  a  year 
and  a  half  was  yard  clerk  with  the  Lake 
Erie  Railway.  In  1914  Mr.  Tapscott  be- 
came assistant  manager  of  the  Morris  Five 
and  Ten  Cent  Store  at  Newcastle,  and  on 
January  1,  1915,  was  promoted  to  man- 
ager. He  is  a  very  capable  executive, 
master  of  detail,  and  has  not  only  carried 
out  the  general  policy  of  the  company  but 
has  done  much  to  increase  the  volume  of 
annual  sales  through  his  own  ideas  and 
systematic  efficiency. 

In  1913  Mr.  Tapscott  married  Miss 
Helen  Shaw,  daughter  of  Daniel  Franklin 
and  Fannie  (Utterbach)  Shaw  of  New- 
castle. They  have  two  children :  Joseph 
Walter,  born  in  1914,  and  Mary  Alice, 
born  in  1916.     Mr.   Tapscott  is  an   inde- 


pendent voter,   and   he  and  his  wife   are 
members  of  the  Church  of  Christ. 

Rt.  Rev.  Herman  Joseph  Alerding. 
Many  Catholic  clergymen  in  all  parts  of 
the  country  have  reverted  with  pleasure 
to  the  fact  that  they  received  their  Holy 
Orders  at  the  hands  of  the  Bishop  of  the 
Fort  Wayne  diocese,  Bishop  Aldering, 
whose  work  has  been  that  of  a  great  con- 
structive force  in  the  Catholic  Church  of 
the  middle  west,  both  as  a  priest  and  in 
larger  responsibilities  for  upwards  of  half 
a  century. 

Bishop  Alerding  was  born  in  Westphalia, 
Germany,  April  13,  1845,  a  son  of  B.  Her- 
man and  Theresa  (Schrameier)  Alerding. 
He  was  too  young  to  remember  the  voyage 
which  brought  his  parents  to  America  and 
to  a  new  home  at  Newport,  Kentucky.    At 
Newport  he  attended  the  parochial  school 
of   Corpus    Christ!    Church.      This   school 
was  taught  in  one  room  by  one  teacher,  but 
there  were  150  pupils.    Bishop  Alerding  in 
preparation  for  his  chosen  career  was  given 
his  first  instruction  in  Latin  by  Rev.  John 
Voll,  pastor  of  Corpus  Christi  Church,  and 
from   1858   until   1859   attended  the  Dio- 
cesan Seminary  at  Vincennes.     The  next 
year  he  was  a  student  in  the  old  St.  Thomas 
Seminary  at  Bardstown,  Kentucky,  and  in 
the    fall'  of    1860    entered    St.    Meinrad's 
Abbey  of  the  Benedictine  Fathers  in  Spen- 
cer County,  Indiana.     There  under  Bishop 
de  St.  Palais  he  received  his  Holy  Orders, 
the  tonsure  and  minor  orders  on  September 
18,  1865,  sub  deaconship  on  June  18,  1867, 
deaconship  June  21,  1867,  and  priesthood 
September  22,   1868.    Following  that   for 
three  years  he  was  assistant  at  St.  Joseph's 
Church  at  Terre  Haute  and  also  had  charge 
of  neighboring  missions.    October  18,  1871, 
he  became  pastor  of  St.  Elizabeth's  Church 
at    Cambridge    City,    where    he    remained 
until    August,    1874.     Here    he    first    dis- 
tinguished   himself   as    an    organizer    and 
builder.    He  rehabilitated  a  practically  dis- 
organized parish,  started  it  toward  renewed 
prosperity,    and    also    built    churches    at 
Knightstown   and   Newcastle,   which   were 
also  under  his  charge. 

In  the  summer  of  1874  Father  Alerding 
was  transferred  to  Indianapolis  as  procu- 
rator for  the  newly  established  St.  Joseph's 
Seminary,  and  was  also  pastor  of  the  con- 
gregation that  worshiped  in  the  Seminary 
chapel.     After  a  year  the  Seminary  was 


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abandoned  and  Father  Alerding  was  di- 
rected to  build  a  new  church.  St.  Joseph's 
Church  of  Indianapolis  was  dedicated  July 
4,  1880,  and  he  remained  as  its  first  and 
beloved  pastor  until  1900. 

Father  Alerding  was  consecrated  Bishop 
of  the  Diocese  of  Fort  Wayne  November  30, 
1901,  as  the  successor  of  the  late  lamented 
Bishop  Rademacher.  As  administrative 
head  of  this  diocese  he  has  carried  forward 
the  work  of  building  and  extension  of 
church  causes,  and  both  his  work  and  per- 
sonal character  have  earned  him  a  high 
place  among  the  Catholic  dignitaries  of 
America. 

Bishop  Alerding  is  also  well  known  as 
a  writer,  and  much  of  the  history  of  the 
church  in  Indiana  has  been  recorded  by  his 
pen.  In  1883  he  published  "A  History  of 
the  Catholic  Church  in  the  Diocese  of  Vin- 
cennes."  In  1907  was  published  his  "His- 
tory of  the  Diocese  of  Fort  Wayne,  a  Book 
of  Historical  Reference."  He  is  also 
author  of  "Plymouth  Rock  and  Mary- 
land," published  in  1886. 

Dr.  Robert  N.  Todd.  Prominent  among 
the  early  Indiana  physicians  was  Dr.  Rob- 
ert N.  Todd,  of  Indianapolis.  Although 
born  in  Kentucky,  he  came  with  his  parents 
to  Indiana  in  1834,  and  in  1850  he  gradu- 
ated from  the  Indiana  Central  Medical  Col- 
lege, afterward  practicing  for  a  time  at 
Southport.  In  1869  he  was  chosen  teacher 
of  theory  and  practice,  in  which  he  con- 
tinued until  the  spring  of  1874,  when  he 
was  assigned  to  the  same  department  in  the 
College  of  Physicians  and  Surgeons.  In 
1877  he  was  elected  to  the  chair  of  prin- 
ciple and  practice  of  medicine,  which  he 
continued  to  hold  until  his  death.  In  1870 
Doctor  Todd  was  elected  president  of  the 
State  Medical  Society. 

Josephus  Williams  is  a  member  of  the 
well  known  mercantile  house  of  Stout  & 
Williams  on  Broad  Street  in  Newcastle, 
and  has  been  identified  with  the  commer- 
cial life  of  the  county  seat  for  many  years. 

Mr.  Williams  was  born  on  a  farm  in 
Dudley  Township  of  Henry  County  in 
1858,  son  of  Levi  and  Barbara  (Bennett) 
Williams.  His  birth  occurred  in  a  log 
cabin.  His  grandfather,  Israel,  was  a  na- 
tive of  Bedford  County,  Pennsylvania,  and 
married  in  Montgomery  County,  Ohio, 
Susanna  Ritter,  a  native  of  North   Caro- 


lina. In  the  fall  of  1836  they  moved  to 
Wayne  County,  Indiana,  where  Israel 
Williams  followed  farming  until  1859,  and 
after  that  was  keeper  of  a  toll  gate.  He 
died  July  3,  1863,  and  his  wife  in  1878. 
Levi  Williams,  father  of  Josephus,  was 
born  in  Ohio  October  27,  1832,  and  mar- 
ried in  1857  Miss  Barbara  Bennett.  They 
had  five  children,  three  of  whom  grew  up, 
Josephus,   Benjamin  F.   and   Ida  L. 

Josephus  Williams  lived  on  his  father's 
farm  to  the  age  of  fifteen.  His  parents 
having  been  in  ill  health  he  had  to  put  his 
effort  to  good  use  in  helping  support  his 
brother  and  sisters,  and  he  worked  out  on 
a  farm  and  contributed  his  wages  to  the 
family  until  he  was  twenty-five  years  of 
age.  His  first  experience  in  merchandiz- 
ing was  as  an  employe  in  the  general  store 
of  Doctor  and  Mrs.  Stafford  at  Millville. 
Mr.  Williams  then  married  Martha  A. 
Young,  daughter  of  William  and  Fannie 
(Stamm)  Young  of  Blue  River  Township, 
Henry  County.  They  were  married  in 
1885.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Williams  have  one 
daughter,  Olive  Louise,  at  home. 

In  March,  1886,  Mr.  Williams  moved  to 
Newcastle  and  went  to  work  for  Bowman 
Brothers  at  1549  Broad  Street.  He  was 
with  this  old  grocery  and  hardware  house 
for  ten  months,  and  then  formed  a  part- 
nership with  Mark  Davis  under  the  name 
Davis  &  Williams,  and  bought  the  Bow- 
man store.  At  the  end  of  four  years  Mr. 
Davis  sold  his  interest  to  F.  W.  Stout,  thus 
forming  the  present  firm  of  Stout  &  Wil- 
liams. They  have  a  large  business  and 
trade  in  groceries,  clothing  and  notions. 
Mr.  Williams  is  also  interested  in  real  es- 
tate and  has  been  a  man  of  affairs  at  New- 
castle for  many  years.  He  served  two 
terms  on  the  City  Council,  from  1906  to 
1908,  and  1916  to  1918.  He  is  a  repub- 
lican, and  an  active  member  of  the  First 
Methodist  Episcopal  Church,  which  he  has 
served  as  recording  steward. 

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Carl  S.  Lindey.  Newcastle's  reputa- 
tion as  "The  Rose  City"  is  not  only  upon 
the  extent  of  its  floral  industry  but  also 
upon  the  high  quality  of  the  men  who  have 
been  attracted  to  that  industry.  There  is 
no  city  in  America  that  has  men  of  more 
authoritative  knowledge  and  skill  as  flor- 
ists, and  one  of  them  is  Carl  S.  Lindey, 
who  received  his  expert  training  in  his 
native  country  of  Sweden,  and  is  now  as- 


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sociated  with  the  firm  of  Lindey  &  Daw- 
son in  building  up  one  of  the  fine  green- 
houses of  Newcastle. 

Mr.  Lindey  was  born  twenty  miles  from 
Stockholm,  Sweden,  February  7,  1881,  son 
of  Gustave  and  Clara  (Janson)  Lindey. 
He  attended  the  public  schools  of  his  na- 
tive land  to  the  age  of  fourteen  and  spent 
one  year  in  a  Lutheran  Academy.  After 
that  he  worked  at  home,  and  served  his 
apprenticeship  in  the  florist  business  for 
four  or  five  years  on  the  large  estate  and 
in  the  greenhouses  of  Baron  Hamilton. 
In  1907  he  came  to  America  alone,  lived 
at  Boston  two  years,  and  in  1909  located 
at  Newcastle,  where  for  four  years  he 
worked  at  his  trade  with  the  firm  of  Weil- 
and  &  Oelinger,  florists.  Two  years  were 
then  spent  in  Chicago,  after  which  he  re- 
turned to  Newcastle  and  with  Mr.  Dawson 
established  a  florist  business  of  his  own 
under  the  firm  name  of  Lindey  &  Dawson. 

Ray  May  is  a  member  of  the  Newcastle 
firm  of  Compton  &  May,  wholesale  and  re- 
tail meat  merchants  at  1557  Broad  Street. 
Mr.  May  has  lived  in  Henry  County  most 
of  his  life  and  has  had  a  varied  and  alto- 
gether successful  experience  as  a  farmer, 
merchant  and  citizen. 

He  was  born  on  a  farm  a  mile  and  a  half 
from  Newcastle  in  1882,  one  of  the  five  sons 
of  James  F.  and  Mary  (Whittingen)  May. 
He  grew  up  on  the  farm  and  attended 
the  country  schools  in  winter  and  worked 
on  the  old  homestead  in  the  summer.  In 
this  way  he  spent  the  first  twenty-five 
years  of  his  life.  In  1906  Mr.  May  came 
to  Newcastle  and  for  one  year  conducted 
a  butcher  shop  on  Broad  and  Twelfth 
streets.  Illness  compelled  him  to  sell  out 
his  business  and  he  recuperated  by  man- 
aging a  small  farm  which  he  bought.  On 
returning  to  Newcastle  he  and  Earl  May 
entered  the  hardware  business  under  the 
name  May  Brothers  on  Broad  Street.  They 
were  partners  in  this  enterprise  five  years, 
and  Mr.  May  then  resumed  the  butcher 
business  as  a  salesman  for  H.  A.  Compton. 
After  three  years  he  bought  an  interest, 
and  since  May,  1918,  the  business  has  been 
Compton  &  May. 

In  1903  Mr.  May  married  Miss  Jessie 
Keever,  daughter  of  Levi  and  Nancy 
(Hoover)  Keever  of  Henry  County.  They 
have  two  children :  Harry  A.,  born  in  1905, 
and  Howard,  born  in  1907.    Mr.  May  is  a 


democrat,  and  is  affiliated  with  the  Eagles, 
the  Independent  Order  of  Odd  Fellows 
and  the  Knights  of  Pythias. 

William  Clement  Bond.  While  Mr. 
Bond  is  best  known  in  Newcastle  as  a 
manufacturer,  it  would  not  be  fair  to  him 
to  speak  of  him  solely  through  any  one  in- 
terest. He  has  been  identified  with  every- 
thing in  recent  years  for  the  betterment 
and  upbuilding  of  that  city,  making  it  an 
industrial  center,  a  city  of  good  homes,  and 
more  recently  a  source  of  enlightened  pa- 
triotism in  national  affairs. 

Mr.  Bond,  who  is  proprietor  of  the  New- 
castle D-Handle  Company,  was  born  in 
Henry  County,  son  of  Calvin  and  Mary 
(Murphy)  Bond.  The  Bonds  are  of 
English  stock  and  have  been  in  America 
for  many  generations.  The  Bonds  were 
settlers  in  Henry  County  100  years  ago. 
William  C.  is  the  second  of  three  children. 
His  father  served  as  railroad  agent  of  the 
Pennsylvania  lines  in  Newcastle  from 
1858  to  1883.  He  died  in  1897.  The 
widowed  mother  is  still  living. 

William  Clement  Bond  attended  the 
public  schools  of  Newcastle  under  Profes- 
sor Hufford.  At  the  age  of  eighteen  he 
went  to  work  with  the  Pennsylvania  Rail- 
road Company  under  his  father  and  for 
seven  years  was  an  operator  and  ticket 
clerk.  Following  that  for  sixteen  years  he 
was  in  the  grocery  business  on  Broad 
Street.  Selling  out  his  store,  he  organized 
a  shovel  factory,  known  as  the  Newcastle 
Shovel  Company.  Less  than  a  year  later 
he  sold  his  interest  to  his  partners,  and 
then  established  a  business  on  his  own  ac- 
count known  as  the  Newcastle  D-Handle 
Company.  He  manufactures  one  type  of 
handle  and  altogether  of  ash.  These 
handles  are  shipped  all  over  the  country. 

Aside  from  this  successful  business  Mr. 
Bond  is  stockholder  and  vice  president  of 
the  Pan-American  Bridge  Company,  is 
president  of  the  Greater  Newcastle  Build- 
ing Company,  an  organization  for  the  pur- 
pose of  constructing  better  buildings  for 
factory  and  other  industrial  purposes,  and 
is  a  director  of  the  First  National  Bank. 
He  is  also  interested  in  local  real  estate  and 
several  business  blocks.  Mr.  Bond  served 
as  food  controller  for  Henry  County  dur- 
ing 1917,  resigning  that  office. 

He  married  Miss  Mary  Elliott,  daughter 
of  Stephen  and  Caroline  Elliott  of  New- 


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castle.  The  Elliotts  located  at  Newcastle 
about  1820,  and  one  of  her  ancestors  helped 
clear  away  the  brush  and  woods  from  the 
Public  Square.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Bond  have 
one  child,  Jean  Elliott,  who  attended  In- 
diana University. 

Mr.  Bond  is  a  republican  and  was  one 
of  the  five  republican  members  of  the  City 
Council  from  1910  to  1913.  During  that 
time  he  gave  valuable  service  as  chairman 
of  the  Finance  Committee  and  the  Public 
Health  Committee.  He  is  prominent  in 
Masonry,  having  held  all  the  chairs  of 
the  Lodge,  is  a  member  of  the  Council  and 
Commandery,  and  also  belongs  to  the  Scot- 
tish Rite  Consistory  and  the  Mystic  Shrine. 
He  is  a  past  chancellor  commander  of  the 
Knights  of  Pythias. 

Harry  Burris  is  owner  and  active  di- 
rector of  one  of  Newcastle's  larger  manu- 
facturing establishments,  the  Newcastle 
Casket  Company,  a  business  which  has 
served  to  make  Newcastle  widely  known 
all  over  the  United  States  as  an  industrial 
center. 

Mr.  Burris  has  had  a  varied  and  suc- 
cessful career.  He  is  of  old  English  and 
American  ancestry.  His  grandfather,  Dan- 
iel Burris,  settled  in  Fayette  County,  In- 
diana. His  maternal  grandfather  Cole  was 
one  of  the  early  day  pork  packers  and  also 
operated  a  woolen  mill  at  Baltimore,  Mary- 
land. 

Harry  Burris  was  born  in  Fayette 
Countv,  Indiana,  September  21,  1865,  son 
of  John  and  Sallie  (Cole)  Burris.  To  the 
age  of  fourteen  he  attended  country  schools 
in  Fayette  County.  The  family  then  moved 
to  Henry  County,  and  here  he  continued 
attending  the  public  schools  and  later  spent 
one  year  in  the  State  Normal  School  at 
Terre  Haute.  Mr.  Burris  did  his  first  work 
as  a  teacher,  and  for  five  years  was  con- 
nected with  the  graded  schools  of  Jefferson 
Township .  He  also  farmed  for  several 
years  in  that  township.  In  1904  he  located 
at  Newcastle,  and  for  two  years  traveled 
over  this  and  other  states  as  the  represen- 
tative of  the  Pan-American  Bridge  Com- 
pany of  Newcastle.  He  then  formed  a 
partnership  with  W.  D.  Williams  and  es- 
tablished the  Newcastle  Casket  Company. 
This  business,  of  which  Mr.  Burris  is  now 
sole  owner,  manufactures  a  line  of  caskets 
and  linings  which  find  distribution  over  all 
the  states  except  New  England.    Mr.  Bur- 


ris is  also  president  and  treasurer  and  a 
director  of  the  New  Process  File  Company 
of  Newcastle  and  has  various  other  inter- 
ests. 

In  1895  he  married  Miss  Addie  J.  Gar- 
man,  daughter  of  George  and  Kate  (Bal- 
lard) Garman  of  Henry  County.  They 
have  two  children,  Mary  Pauline  and 
Joseph  C,  the  latter  born  in  1901.  The 
daughter  is  now  a  student  in  the  Indiana 
State  University  at  Bloomington. 

Mr.  Burris  served  as  a  member  of  the 
City  Council  of  Newcastle  two  terms,  from 
1898  to  1902.  He  is  a  democrat,  and  has 
been  a  member  of  various  state  conventions. 
For  four  years  he  was  a  trustee  of  Jeffer- 
son Township.  Fraternally  his  affiliations 
are  with  the  Knights  of  Pythias,  the  Be- 
nevolent and  Protective  Order  of  Elks  and 
the  Masons.  He  and  his  family  are  mem- 
bers of  the  Christian  Church. 

Jesse  D.  Smith  is  general  manager  and 
stockholder  in  the  Pan-American  Bridge 
Company  of  Newcastle.  He  has  been  con- 
nected with  bridge  constructing  and  gen- 
eral iron  and  steel  contracting  for  many 
years,  and  is  recognized  as  one  of  the  force- 
ful citizens  who  have  much  to  do  with  the 
commercial  and  general  civic  prosperity  of 
Newcastle. 

Mr.  Smith  was  born  at  Brownsville,  In- 
diana, August  29,  1871.  He  is  of  an  old 
American  family.  His  grandfather,  Ebe- 
nezer  Smith,  came  from  Abbeville  County, 
South  Carolina,  about  1836  and  was  a  pio- 
neer in  Rush  County,  Indiana.  He  ac- 
quired and  owned  a  farm  of  a  half  section 
there.  Dr.  J.  A.  Smith,  father  of  Jesse 
D.,  was  one  of  eleven  children.  He  gradu- 
ated from  the  Kentucky  School  of  Medicine 
at  Louisville,  practiced  two  years  at  Laurel, 
Indiana,  and  later  established  his  home  at 
Brownsville.  He  practiced  medicine  for 
over  half  a  century  in  Union  and  Fayette 
counties,  and  is  now  living  retired  on  his 
farm  in  Union  County.  He  is  one  of  the 
highly  esteemed  men  in  that  section  of  the 
state,  not  least  for  his  long  and  conscien- 
tious service  as  a  physician.  Doctor  Smith 
married  Abigail  McVieker.  They  had  three 
children.  Jesse  D.  and  two  daughters. 

Jesse  D.  Smith  attended  public  school  at 
Brownsville,  for  two  years  was  a  student 
in  the  Central  Normal  College,  and  began 
his  active  career  as  a  teacher.  For  three 
years  he  was  principal  of  the  Brownsville 


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schools.  In  1897  he  removed  to  Newcastle 
and  for  two  years  was  connected  with  the 
school  supply  house  of  Eugene  Runyan. 
Later  he  and  Mr.  Runyan  and  T.  J.  Burk 
established  the  Newcastle  Bridge  Company. 
This  was  in  1900,  and  Mr.  Smith  became  its 
general  sales  agent.  In  1902  he  moved  to 
Indianapolis  and  was  with  the  Central 
States  Bridge  Company  until  1905.  Since 
then  he  has  been  general  manager  of  the 
Pan-American  Bridge  Company  of  New- 
castle, and  has  much  to  do  with  the  ex- 
panding success  of  that  concern  during  the 
past  thirteen  years.  This  company  are  fab- 
ricators of  structural  steel  for  bridge  and 
general  building  construction.  They  fur- 
nished the  steel  for  the  Second  National 
Bank  Building  at  Cincinnati  and  for  many 
other  large  structures.  As  contractors  the 
firm  put  up  the  Avery  Building  at  Peoria, 
Illinois,  the  plants  of  the  Haynes  Automo- 
bile Company  and  the  Kokomo  Steel  and 
Wire  Company  at  Kokomo,  also  the  Max- 
well automobile  plant  at  Newcastle. 

Mr.  Smith  is  a  director  in  the  Citizens 
State  Bank  and  a  stockholder  in  the  First 
National  Bank.  He  owns  some  Newcastle 
real  estate  and  has  neglected  no  opportu- 
.  nity  to  identify  himself  with  every  forward 
and  constructive  movement  in  his  city. 

In  1891  he  married  Miss  Elvia  Idella 
Coffman,  daughter  of  Joseph  and  Eliza- 
beth (West)  Coffman  of  Union  County. 
Mj\  Smith  is  a  democrat  in  politics.  In 
1904  he  was  candidate  for  state  statistician. 
For  four  years,  from  1909  to  1913,  he  was 
a  member  of  the  City  Council.  He  still  re- 
tains his  church  membership  in  the  Chris- 
tian Union  Church  at  Brownsville.  Mr. 
Smith  is  affiliated  with  the  Newcastle 
Lodge  of  Masons  and  with  the  Loyal  Order 
of  Moose. 

George  W.  Landon  is  a  veteran  figure 
in  the  business  and  industrial  life  of  Ko- 
komo. During  the  past  forty  years  he  has 
carried  some  of  the  heaviest  responsibili- 
ties, whether  constructive  or  administra- 
tive, and  it  is  not  strange  therefore  that 
his  fellow  citizens  and  associates  should 
regard  his  approval  and  cooperation  as 
practically  indispensable  in  any  collective 
forward  movement  affecting  the  city's  wel- 
fare or  its  relationship  with  the  nation  at 
large. 

.Mr.  Landon 's  first  connection  with  In- 
diana citizenship  was  as  a  teacher,  an  oc- 


cupation he  followed  both  before  and  after 
the  Civil  war,  in  which  he  had  a  brief  but 
gallant  service  as  a  soldier  of  the  Union. 
He  was  born  in  Franklin  County,  near 
Columbus,  Ohio,  February  6,  1847,  son  of 
Oren  and  Delilah  (Triplett)  Landon.  His 
father  and  grandfather  were  of  English 
descent  and  were  natives  of  New  York 
State.  His  grandfather  was  a  farmer  and 
a  local  preacher  of  the  Methodist  Church. 
He  died  near  Columbus,  Ohio,  at  the  age 
of  eighty-three.  Oren  Landon,  one  of  a 
family  of  fourteen  children,  was  reared  in 
Franklin  Count}',  Ohio,  and  married  there 
Delilah  Triplett.  She  was  born  in  Virginia 
and  was  brought  as  a  child  to  Ohio,  where 
her  father  was  a  Franklin  County  farmer 
for  many  years  and  died  at  the  age  of 
eighty-three.  Delilah  was  one  of  three 
children.  In  1866  Oren  Landon  and  fam- 
ily removed  to  Ligonier,  Indiana,  where  he 
followed  farming,  contracting  and  build- 
ing. In  1884  he  moved  his  home  to  Ko- 
komo, and  died  in  that  city  in  1890,  at  the 
age  of  seventy-six.  His  wife  passed  away 
in  1889,  aged  seventy-two.  They  were 
members  of  the  Methodist  Church.  Their 
children  were  Hannibal,  Imogene,  George 
W.  and  Eugene. 

George  W.  Landon  received  his  primary 
education  in  Columbus,  Ohio,  and  was  a 
student  during  the  early  part  of  the  war 
in  Otterbein  University  at  Westerville, 
Ohio.  He  had  also  taught  school  a  year. 
In  1864  he  enlisted  in  Company  B  of  the 
One  Hundred  and  Thirty-third  Ohio  In- 
fantry. Though  he  was  in  the  army  only 
five  months  until  discharged  for  disability, 
his  service  was  practically  one  continuous 
battle.  His  regiment  at  that  time  was  sta- 
tioned in  front  of  Petersburg  during  the 
siege  of  that  city. 

On  leaving  the  army  Mr.  Landon  taught 
school  at  Columbus,  Ohio,  Leavenworth, 
Kansas,  Muscatine,  Iowa,  and  Lafayette, 
Indiana.  For  several  years  he  was  em- 
ployed as  collector  over  different  states 
by  the  Buckeye  Reaper  &  Mowing  Machine 
Company. 

In  March,  1874,  Mr.  Landon  came  to 
Kokomo  and  formed  a  business  connection 
that  has  been  continuous  since  that  date. 
Nearly  twenty  years  before,  in  1855,  A.  P. 
Armstrong,  associated  with  Dr.  J.  A.  James 
and  Horace  Armstrong,  both  physicians, 
had  engaged  in  the  hardware  business  at 
Kokomo.     In  subsequent  years  there  were 


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various  changes  in  the  firm,  and  just  be- 
fore Mr.  Landon  arrived  in  Kokomo  the 
business  was  known  as  Armstrong,  Nixon 
&  Company.  Zimri  Nixon  died  in  March, 
1874,  and  George  W.  Landon  brought  part 
of  A.  F.  Armstrong's  interest.  The  re- 
organized name  of  the  firm  became  Arm- 
strong, Pickett  &  Company,  the  partners 
being  A.  F.  and  Edward  A.  Armstrong, 
Nathan  Pickett  and  George  W.  Landon. 
January  1,  1883,  Mr.  Pickett  having  retired 
and  E.  S.  Hunt  joining  the  firm,  the  name 
was  changed  to  Armstrong,  Landon  &  Com- 
pany. On  January  1,  1888,  the  Armstrong, 
Landon  &  Hunt  Company  was  incorporated 
with  A.  F.  Armstrong  as  president,  E.  A. 
Armstrong,  vice  president,  George  W.  Lan- 
don, secretary,  and  E.  S.  Hunt,  treasurer. 
January  1,  1898,  another  change  occurred 
and  the  present  corporate  name  was 
adopted,  The  Armstrong-Landon  Company, 
with  A.  F.  Armstrong,  president,  A.  B. 
Armstrong,  vice  president,  and  George  W. 
Landon,  secretary  and  treasurer.  On  the 
death  of  A.  F.  Armstrong  Mr.  Landon  was 
elected  president.  The  other  officers  at  the 
present  time  are  Thomas  C.  Howe,  vice 
president,  W.  A.  Easter,  vice  president,  H. 
McK.  Landon,  secretary,  and  H.  L.  Moul- 
der, treasurer. 

The  Armstrong-Landon  Companj^  is  one 
of  the  largest  as  well  as  one  of  the  oldest 
corporations  engaged  in  hardware  and 
lumber  business  in  Northern  Indiana. 
They  have  sold  hardware  and  implements 
to  two  generations  in  Howard  County,  and 
have  also  operated  large  planing  and  saw 
mills,  manufacturing  special  lines  of  build- 
ing products,  especially  interior  finishings, 
church  seats  and  chairs  and  bank  furniture. 

While  this  business  has  commanded  the 
utmost  fidelity  of  Mr.  Landon  for  a  period 
of  two  score  years,  he  has  been  identified 
with  a  number  of  other  achievements  and 
undertakings  in  local  business  history. 
When  natural  gas  was  discovered  in 
Howard  County  Mr.  Landon  was  president 
of  the  Kokomo  Natural  Gas  Company  and 
was  a  liberal  subscriber  to  the  fund  which 
was  used  to  sink  the  first  gas  well  in  the 
county.  He  continued  as  president  of  the 
gas  company  until  the  production  of  nat- 
ural gas  became  unprofitable.  He  is  secre- 
tary of  the  Kokomo  Rubber  Company, 
which  manufactures  bicycle  and  auto  tires 
and  also  vice  president  for  the  past  twenty- 
five  years  of  the  Citizens  National  Bank, 


one  of  the  largest  and  strongest  banks  in 
Northern  Indiana.  Of  his  interests  in 
benevolences  and  broader  citizenship,  the 
most  notable  is  perhaps  his  active  connec- 
tion with  Y.  M.  C.  A.  work.  He  is  presi- 
dent of  the  association  of  Howard  County, 
and  is  now  president  of  the  State  of  In- 
diana Young  Men's  Christian  Association. 
For  many  years  he  has  been  an  official 
member  of  the  Congregational  Church  of 
Kokomo,  is  a  republican  in  politics,  and  is 
affiliated  with  the  Knights  of  Pythias  and 
the  Benevolent  and  Protective  Order  of 
Elks. 

October  2,  1866,  he  married  at  Leaven- 
worth, Kansas,  Miss  Emma  Alice  Reeves, 
daughter  of  William  and  Mary  (McLane) 
Reeves.  Her  father  was  at  one  time  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Ohio  Legislature.  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Landon  have  one  son  and  one  daughter, 
Hugh  McKennan  and  Maud.  Hugh  is  a 
prominent  business  man  of  Indianapolis, 
was  secretary  of  the  Manufacturers  Nat- 
ural Gas  Company  and  a  director  and 
treasurer  of  the  Indianapolis  Waterworks, 
and  is  now  secretary  of  the  Armstrong-Lan- 
don Company.  He  is  a  graduate  of  And- 
over  Academy  and  of  Harvard  University. 
He  married  Miss  Susette  Davis,  of  Indian- 
apolis. Maud  Landon  married  Oscar  Wat- 
son, of  Peru,  Indiana,  and  now  of  Ko- 
komo, Indiana. 

Dr.  Thaddeus  M.  Stevens  was  born, 
reared  and  died  in  Indianapolis,  and  in  this 
city  he  also  attained  prominence  in  the 
medical  profession.  In  1870  he  was  pro- 
fessor of  toxicology,  medical  jurisprudence 
and  chemistry  in  the  Indiana  Medical  Col- 
lege, and  four  years  later  occupied  the 
same  chair  in  the  College  of  Physicians 
and  Surgeons.  He  was  the  first  secretary 
and  executive  officer  of  the  State  Board 
of  Health,  was  prominent  in  all  reforms 
for  the  advancement  of  the  profession  in 
the  state,  and  contributed  a  number  of 
papers  to  the  State  Medical  Society. 

William  Mendenhall  is  one  of  the 
most  energetic  and  successful  insurance 
men  in  Indiana.  He  is  now  head  of  a  large 
general  agency,  handling  fire,  life  and  other 
branches  of  insurance,  and  also  has  the  dis- 
tinction of  having  organized  the  first  local 
association  to  work  in  co-operation  with  the 
Federal  Farm  Loan  Act.  Mr.  Mendenhall 
is    also    secretary    and    treasurer    of    the 


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Henry  County  Farm  Loan  Association,  and 
has  his  general  office  and  headquarters  in 
the  March  Building  at  Newcastle.  He  was 
born  near  Unionport  in  Randolph  County, 
Indiana,  December  31,  1874,  son  of  Nathan 
J.  and  Anna  (Denton)  Mendenhall.  He 
is  of  Quaker  English  ancestry.  His  early 
education  was  acquired  in  the  public 
schools  of  Unionport,  Winchester  and 
Trenton,  Indiana,  and  for  two  years  he 
studied  the  teachers'  course  in  the  Eastern 
Indiana  Normal  University.  His  father 
was  a  carpenter,  and  the  son  took  up  that 
trade  and  became  a  building  contractor, 
doing  work  all  over  Randolph  and  Dela- 
ware counties  in  town  and  country  for  a 
period  of  fourteen  years. 

He  first  entered  the  insurance  field  at 
Modoc,  Randolph  County,  establishing 
agencies  for  fire  and  life,  representing  the 
German-American  Insurance  Company  of 
New  York,  the  Aetna  Company  of  Hart- 
ford, and  the  North  British  of  London  and 
Edinburgh.  He  represented  these  com- 
panies at  Modoc  nine  years.  As  the  insur- 
ance company  increased  he  gradually  aban- 
doned his  active  connections  with  the  con- 
tracting business,  and  also  took  up  the  han- 
dling of  farm  loans  and  mortgages.  In 
August,  1915,  Mr.  Mendenhall  came  to 
Newcastle. 

In  1916,  after  the  passage  of  the  Federal 
Farm  Loan  Act,  Mr.  Mendenhall  made  a 
careful  study  of  its  provisions,  and  in  1917 
organized  the  first  Federal  Farm  Loan 
Association  in  District  No.  4,  including  the 
states  of  Indiana,  Ohio,  Kentucky  and  Ten- 
nessee. Through  his  agency  was  effected 
the  first  loan  in  this  district  and  also  the 
first  interest  payment  to  the  Federal  Land 
Bank  at  Louisville,  Kentucky.  Since  the 
organization  was  completed  and  up  to  Sep- 
tember, 1918,  this  local  association  has 
secured  $400,000  in  farm  loans.  Mr.  Men- 
denhall in  the  insurance  business  represents 
the  Aetna  Fire  of  Hartford,  the  Colonial 
Fire,  the  Underwriters,  the  Scottish  Union, 
the  National  Fire  Insurance  of  Hartford. 
Every  year  his  volume  of  business  entitled 
him  to  membership  in  the  Pan-American 
Convention  of  Pan-American  Agents  at 
New  Orleans. 

In  1903  he  married  Miss  Maud  Hanscom, 
daughter  of  James  and  Elizabeth  (Stump) 
Hanscom.  They  have  two  children :  Eliza- 
beth A.,  born  in  1904,  and  Paul  William, 
born   in   1907.     Mr.   Mendenhall  is  a  re- 


publican, is  affiliated  with  the  Masonic 
Order  and  the  Knights  of  Pythias,  and  is 
a  member  of  the  Christian  Church. 

Frank  Duncan  Brebuer.  As  one  of  the 
largest  complete  industrial  plants  in  In- 
diana the  Maxwell  Motor  Company  has 
become  one  of  the  cornerstones  of  New- 
castle's prosperity  and  progress,  and  the 
general  superintendent  of  the  plant,  Frank 
Duncan  Brebuer,  occupies  a  corresponding 
position  of  power  and  influence  among  the 
industrial  leaders  of  the  state. 

Mr.  Brebuer  is  of  Scotch  ancestry,  of 
a  family  established  several  generations 
ago  in  America,  and  was  born  at  Alpena, 
Michigan,  September  2,  1880.  As  a  boy  he 
attended  school  at  Port  Huron,  Michigan, 
and  was  only  fourteen  years  of  age  when 
he  went  to  work  to  earn  his  living  as  a 
call  boy  with  the  Grand  Trunk  Railway  at 
Port  Huron.  He  was  with  the  railway 
company  three  and  a  half  years,  and  then 
spent  three  years  and  three  months  learn- 
ing the  machinist's  trade  with  the  Jenks 
Shipbuilding  Company,  Mr.  Brebuer  occu- 
pies his  present  position  because  he  is  an 
expert  in  many  lines  of  mechanical  indus- 
try, and  though  a  young  man  has  a  vast 
fund  of  experience  and  successful  executive 
work  to  his  credit.  He  was  employed  as 
a  journeyman  machinist,  was  machinist 
with  the  Great  Lakes  Shipbuilding  Com- 
pany and  with  other  enterprises,  and  en- 
tered the  automobile  business  at  Port 
Huron  as  foreman  of  the  axle-housing  de- 
partment for  the  E.  M.  F.  Automobile  Com- 
pany. Later  he  was  made  general  foreman 
of  the  entire  plant,  and  was  then  assigned 
as  assistant  superintendent  of  Plant  No.  3 
in  the  Flanders  "20"  Automobile  Com- 
pany at  Detroit.  A  year  later  he  became 
assistant  superintendent  of  the  United 
Motor  Company  at  Detroit,  and  from  that 
entered  the  service  of  the  Maxwell  Com- 
pany, being  made  superintendent  of  the 
assembly  plant  on  Oakland  Avenue  in  De- 
troit. He  had  charge  of  all  the  automobile 
assembling  plants  for  a  year  and  a  half, 
and  was  then  transferred  and  made  gen- 
eral superintendent  of  the  plant  on  Mil- 
waukee Avenue  seven  months.  In  Decem- 
ber, 1916,  Mr.  Brebuer  came  to  Newcastle 
as  general  superintendent  of  the  entire 
factory,  with  2,500  men  under  his  super- 
vision. 

In  October,  1902,  at  Port  Huron,  Miehi- 


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gan,  he  married  Miss  Stella  May  Brown, 
daughter  of  George  W.  and  Meada  Brown. 
They  have  one  son,  George  Brown  Brebuer, 
born  in  1904.  Mr.  Brebuer  is  a  republican, 
is  a  Knight  Templar  Mason  and  a  mem- 
ber of  Murat  Temple  of  the  Mystic  Shrine 
at  Indianapolis,  and  is  an  Odd  Fellow.  His 
family  attended  the  Methodist  Church. 

Benjamin  F.  Netz  is  a  man  of  wide  ex- 
perience in  foundry  and  general  machine 
work  and  is  assistant  manager  and  is  a 
stockholder  in  the  Davis  Foundry  Com- 
pany at  Newcastle,  one  of  the  many  indus- 
tries which  give  character  to  that  city. 

Mr.  Netz  was  born  at  Ashland,  Indiana, 
April  3,  1871,  son  of  Peter  and  Phoebe 
(Pickets)  Netz.  He  is  of  German  and 
"Welsh  ancestry.  As  a  boy  he  attended  the 
public  schools  of  Sulphur  Springs,  In- 
diana, but  at  the  age  of  fourteen  went  to 
work  for  his  father,  a  sawmill  man.  At 
the  age  of  twenty-eight  Mr.  Netz  went  into 
the  Southwest,  Oklahoma  and  other  sec- 
tions, and  for  one  year  worked  as  a  jour- 
neyman carpenter.  Later  he  was  employed 
as  an  expert  machinist  with  the  Safety 
Shredder  Company  at  Newcastle.  After 
four  years  he  joined  the  Newcastle 
Foundry  Company  in  1904,  and  served 
that  business  in  different  capacities,  as 
timekeeper  and  foreman,  until  the  com- 
pany was  sold  and  reorganized  as  the  Davis 
Foundry  Company.  Since  then  Mr.  Netz 
has  been  assistant  manager  and  one  of  the 
stockholders  of  the  business.  He  has  also 
acquired  some  real  estate  interests  and 
is  looked  upon  as  one  of  the  substantial 
men  of  this  city. 

In  1903  he  married  Miss  Catherine  So- 
wash  daughter  of  John  and  Susan  (Mc- 
Clelland) Sowash  of  Sulphur  Springs,  In- 
diana. They  have  three  children :  John 
Richard,  born  in  1907 ;  Phoebe  Anna,  born 
in  1909 ;  and  Charles  Gibson,  born  in  1912. 
Mr.  Netz  is  a  democrat  and  has  been  quite 
active  in  the  ranks  of  his  party.  He  was  a 
delegate  to  the  Indianapolis  State  Con- 
vention of  1892.  Fraternally  he  is  affil- 
iated with  Newcastle  Lodge  of  Masons,  and 
with  the  Improved  Order  of  Red  Men  at 
Sulphur  Springs.  He  and  his  family  are 
members  of  the  Christian  Church. 

James  Clarence  Richey,  of  Newcastle, 
one  of  the  able  younger  business  men  of 
that  city,  is  manager  of  the  Consumers  lee 


and  Fuel  Company,  and  has  been  active 
and  closely  connected  with  that  line  of 
business  for  over  eight  years. 

Mr.  Richey  is  a  member  of  an  old  family 
in  Henry  County,  and  was  born  on  a  farm 
in  Prairie  Township  September  14,  1878, 
son  of  Wilson  W,  and  Lucinda  V.  (Stigle- 
man)  Richey.  His  grandfather  was  James 
Richey,  who  was  born  in  Bedford  County, 
Pennsylvania,  November  20,  1815,  son  of 
George  and  Mary  (Walker)  Richey,  the 
former  a  native  of  Pennsylvania  of  Irish 
parentage,  and  the  latter  a  native  of  Ire- 
land. George  Richey  died  in  1841  and  his 
wife  in  1847.  James  Richey  was  one  of 
seven  children,  had  a  limited  education, 
learned  the  cabinet  making  trade  but  never 
followed  it,  and  about  1851  came  to  Henry 
County  and  bought  160  acre's  in  Prairie 
Township.  He  became  one  of  the  pros- 
perous and  successful  farmers  of  that  local- 
ity. In  1838  he  married  Ann  Beam,  who 
was  born  in  1818.  To  their  marriage  were 
born  nine  children,  Wilson  W.  having  been 
born  October  2,  1844. 

James  Clarence  Richey  grew  up  on  his 
father's  farm  in  Prairie  Township,  attended 
the  country  schools  in  winter  and  worked 
at  home  during  the  summer.  He  was  also 
a  student  for  one  year  in  the  Springport 
High  School.  At  the  age  of  twenty  he 
went  to  work  for  the  Starr  Piano  Company 
at  Richmond,  Indiana,  and  had  charge  of 
the  assembling  room  for  two  years.  In 
1901  he  married  Miss  Lottie  Courtney, 
daughter  of  Jacob  J.  and  Hannah  E. 
(Pugh)  Courtney  of  Prairie  Township. 

On  coming  to  Newcastle  in  1902  Mr. 
Richey  went  to  work  at  $1  a  day  with 
the  Murphy  grocery  house.  He  was  there 
three  years,  spent  one  year  with  the  Good- 
win Clothing  Store  and  a  year  and  a  half 
with  the  Hub  Clothing  Company.  Then 
as  partner  with  Omer  Berry,  he  established 
the  Berry-Richey  Grocery  Company,  con- 
ducting the  business  on  the  present  site  of 
the  Farmers  Bank.  At  the  end  of  six 
months  he  sold  out,  and  then  went  into  the 
ice  and  coal  business  as  bookkeeper  for 
James  M.  Loer.  On  the  death  of  Mr.  Loer 
in  January,  1912,  he  continued  with  the 
reorganized  business  under  the  name  of  the 
Consumers  Ice  and  Fuel  Company,  and  in 
May,  1918,  was  promoted  to  manager  of 
that  important  concern.  It  is  the  largest 
artificial  ice  plant  in  Henry  County,  a 
forty-one  ton  capacity  plant.    They  are  also 


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among  the  leading  fuel  distributors  of  the 
county.  Mr.  Richey  is  a  democratic  voter, 
is  affiliated  with  the  Knights  of  Pythias, 
Independent  Order  of  Odd  Fellows  and 
Loyal  Order  of  Moose,  and  is  a  member 
of  the  Christian  Church. 

George  Washington  Ruff,  well  known, 
in  Henry  County  business  circles,  is  a 
member  of  the  firm  Ruff  &  Son,  wholesale 
and  retail  flour,  feed  and  grain  merchants 
at  Newcastle.  Mr.  Ruff  has  an  interesting 
experience  since  he  left  the  home  farm 
in  Ohio  when  a  young  man,  and  has  made 
a  success  of  nearly  every  undertaking. 

He  was  born  on  a  farm  of  100  acres  in 
Rush  Creek  Township,  Fairfield  County, 
Ohio,  October  18,  1873.  He  is  of  remote 
German  ancestry.  His  grandfather,  George 
Ruff,  was  born  in  Hamburg,  Germany. 
George  W.  Ruff  is  a  son  of  John  and  Sophia 
(Strock)  Ruff.  His  mother  was  also  born 
in  Germany  and  was  brought  to  America 
when  a  child.  Nearly  all  the  members  of 
the  family  in  America  have  been  farmers. 
G.  W.  Ruff  had  three  brothers  and  four 
sisters. 

During  winter  times  he  attended  country 
schools  and  worked  on  his  father's  farm 
to  the  age  of  twenty-two.  Then  came  his 
first  business  venture.  Buying  a  hay  baler, 
he  baled  hay  all  over  Fairfield  County, 
and  for  one  season's  operation  made  $2,100. 
He  invested  that  capital  in  a  grain  elevator 
at  Rushville,  Ohio,  and  managed  it  success- 
fully for  two  years,  selling  out  and  associ- 
ating himself  with  his  brother  Louis  in 
building  a  flour  mill.  Ruff  Brothers  con- 
tinued this  business  four  years,  and  selling 
out  Mr.  Ruff  then  bought  an  elevator  at 
Amanda,  Ohio,  conducted  it  three  years, 
and  put  much  of  his  capital  into  stoeking 
a  large  ranch  of  4,000  acres  at  North  Platte, 
Nebraska.  There  followed  two  years  of 
continuous  drought  and  practically  all  his 
investment  was  swept  away.  Returning 
east  Mr.  Ruff  then  engaged  in  the  opera- 
tion of  a  flour  mill  at  Springport,  Indiana, 
for  several  years,  and  then  traded  the  mill 
for  a  farm  of  160  acres  in  Ripley  County. 
He  still  owns  that  farm.  In  June,  1914. 
Mr.  Ruff  and  his  only  son,  Herschell,  estab- 
lished the  present  business  at  Newcastle 
under  the  name  of  Ruff  &  Son.  They  buy 
large  quantities  of  grain  all  over  Henry 
County  and  have  done  a  very  extensive 
business  during  the  last  four  years. 


In  1895  Mr.  Ruff  married  Margaret 
Huston,  daughter  of  Alexander  and  Sallie 
(Murphy)  Huston  of  Fairfield,  Ohio,  Their 
only  child,  Herschell,  was  born  in  1896. 
Mr.  Ruff  is  an  independent  democrat  in 
politics  and  is  affiliated  with  the  Independ- 
ent Order  of  Odd  Fellows  at  Fairfield, 
Ohio.  He  and  his  wife  are  members  of 
the  Christian  Church. 

Vaughn  Wimmer  is  one  of  the  leading 
business  men  of  Newcastle,  for  a  number 
«of  years  was  a  building  contractor,  and  is 
still  interested  in  the  development  and  im- 
provement of  several  important  additions 
to  Newcastle.  His  chief  business  at  pres- 
ent is  as  a  manufacturer  of  concrete  pro- 
ducts and  the  handling  of  all  classes  of 
building  supplies. 

Mr.  Wimmer  represents  an  old  and  well 
known  family  of  Liberty  township,  Henry 
County.  His  grandfather,  William  Wim- 
mer, was  born  in  Liberty  Township  in 
1829,  a  son  of  William  and  Susan  (Mul- 
len) Wimmer,  both  of  whom  are  natives  of 
Ohio  and  coming  to  Indiana  in  1820  en- 
tered Government  land  near  the  site  of 
Ashland  and  later  acquired  a  farm  in 
Liberty  Township.  Susan  Wimmer  died  in 
1840.  In  1820,  when  the  Wimmer  family 
came  to  Liberty  Township,  there  were  only 
four  other  families  in  that  locality.  Wil- 
liam Wimmer,  Sr.,  died  in  1894.  William 
Wimmer,  Jr.,  grandfather  of  Vaughn, 
grew  up  in  pioneer  days  and  had  a  limited 
education.  He  farmed  for  many  years  in 
Henry  County  and  also  for  a  time  in  How- 
ard County.  In  1851  he  married  Eve 
Evans,  daughter  of  George  and  Catherine 
Evans,  the  former  a  native  of  Virginia  and 
the  latter  of  Ohio.  They  had  ten  chil- 
dren. 

George  Wimmer,  father  of  Vaughn,  was 
born  in  Liberty  Township  in  1856,  had  a 
good  common  school  education,  and  became 
a  farmer,  acquiring  a  fine  tract  of  160 
acres  of  land.  In  1876  he  married  Izetta 
A.  Sowash,  daughter  of  John  and  Minerva 
Sowash.  They  had  five  children,  Vaughn, 
May,  Pearl,  William  C,  and  Donnetta. 

Vaughn  Wimmer  was  born  in  a  log  cabin 
on  a  farm  in  Liberty  Township,  attended 
the  local  schools  when  a  boy,  worked  on 
the  farm  in  summer,  and  at  the  age  of 
fifteen  entered  Spiceland  Academy  and 
later  spent  four  months  in  the  Tri-State 
Normal  School  at  Angola,  Indiana.     After 


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this  preparation  he  taught  school  in  Liberty 
Township  four  terms,  from  1897  to  1901. 
He  also  spent  three  years  learning  the  car- 
penter's trade  with  Michael  Lockwood,  and 
following  that  for  seven  or  eight  years  was 
a  carpenter  contractor  on  his  own  account. 
He  erected  a  number  of  high  grade  resi- 
dences. About  that  time  he  became  inter- 
ested in  concrete  manufacture  and  erected 
a  modern  plant  33  by  132  feet  in  New- 
castle, where  he  had  facilities  for  the  man- 
ufacture of  all  types  of  concrete  work  and 
made  somewhat  of  a  specialty  of  concrete 
burial  vaults.  He  also  handles  a  large  line 
of  building  supplies  and  is  utilizing  bis  ex- 
perience for  the  improvement  of  several 
real  estate  tracts.  His  important  division 
comprises  thirteen  acres  in  Newcastle,  and 
he  is  interested  in  Gilbert's  Addition  of 
twenty  acres  adjoining  the  corporation. 

In  1898  Mr.  Wimmer  married  Veleda 
Lawell,  daughter  of  A.  T.  and  Emma 
(Goldsbury)  Lawell  of  Liberty  Township. 
They  have  one  daughter,  Marcella.  Mr. 
Wimmer  is  a  democrat  in  political  affilia- 
tions. He  served  as  city  councilman  from 
the  Second  Ward  during  1914-15-16,  re- 
signing during  his  last  year.  He  also 
served  on  the  Public  Utilities,  Health  and 
Charities  committees.  Mr.  Wimmer  is  a 
member  of  the  Quaker  Church. 

Edward  Campbell  DeHority.  During 
many  years  of  residence  in  Madison  County 
Edward  Campbell  DeHority  has  reached 
that  enviable  position  where  his  word  is 
accepted  in  business  matters  the  same  as  a 
bond,  and  all  his  friends  and  acquaintances 
repose  the  utmost  confidence  in  his  judg- 
ment and  integrity.  Mr.  DeHority  repre- 
sents a  family  long  prominent  in  business 
affairs  at  Elwood,  and  is  now  serving  as 
president  of  the  First  National  Bank,  an 
institution  in  the  founding  of  which  both 
his  father  and  grandfather  had  an  active 
part  and  responsibility. 

Elwood  is  the  native  home  of  Edward 
Campbell  DeHority.  He  was  born  there 
June  23,  1874,  and  is  of  Scotch-Irish  an- 
cestry. His  people  first  settled  in  Delaware 
on  coming  to  America.  His  grandfather 
was  James  Madison  DeHority,  who  was  a 
man  of  varied  talents  and  had  ability  and 
skill  as  a  physician,  lawyer  and  minister 
of  the  Methodist  Church.  He  came  from 
Delaware  and  died  in  Elwood  in  July,  1890. 
His  first  location  was  a  few  miles  below 


Elwood.  The  parents  of  Edward  C.  De- 
Hority were  James  H.  and  Jane  Hannah 
DeHority.  The  former  was  a  general  mer- 
chant at  Elwood,  and  in  1882  he  and  his 
father  established  the  first  Farmers  Bank 
at  the  corner  of  Main  and  Anderson 
streets,  and  in  1892  this  was  reorganized 
under  a  national  charter  as  the  First  Na- 
tional Bank.  James  H.  DeHority  was  the 
first  cashier  and  subsequentlv  was  presi- 
dent.    He  died  April  30,  1899. 

Edward  C.  DeHority  grew  up  at  El- 
wood, attended  the  public  schools,  and 
from  high  school  spent  a  year  in  Earlham 
College  at  Richmond,  Indiana,  was  also  a 
student  in  De  Pauw  University  at  Green- 
castle,  and  finally  for  one  year  in  Michi- 
gan University  Law  School  at  Ann  Arbor. 
At  the  age  of  twenty-one  he  began  work 
in  his  father's  bank  as  collection  clerk. 
Thus  he  has  had  the  practical  and  routine 
experience  in  every  position.  Later  he  was 
made  assistant  cashier  and  in  January, 
1899,  was  promoted  to  cashier  and  since 
1908  has  been  president  as  well  as  one  of 
the  large  stockholders  and  directors.  This 
bank  is  an  institution  patronized  by  de- 
positors and  other  users  living  in  three 
counties.  Mr.  DeHority  is  president  of  the 
Elwood  Rural  Savings  &  Loan  Associa- 
tion, also  president  and  director  of  the 
Home  Ice  and  Coal  Company  of  Elwood, 
and  has  varied  investments  in  farms,  local 
real  estate  and  other  business  affairs. 

In  1898  he  married  Miss  Myrtle  Powell, 
daughter  of  James  M.  and  Mary  Powell  of 
Lebanon,  Indiana.  Her  father  was  a  drug- 
gist at  Lebanon.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  DeHority 
have  a  family  of  six  vigorous  and  whole- 
some young  people,  the  youngest  not  yet 
out  of  infancy  while  the  oldest  is  a  college 
boy.  Edward  H.  was  born  in  1899  and  is  a 
sophomore  in  the  Indiana  State  University. 
Morris  M.  was  born  in  1901,  Marv  Jane,  in 
1905,  Martha  Ellen,  in  1906,  Dorothv  Jean, 
in  1913,  and  Doris,  in  July,  1916. 

While  so  many  interests  in  a  business 
way  have  absorbed  Mr.  DeHority 's  time 
he  has  not  neglected  the  public  welfare. 
He  served  one  term  as  school  trustee  and 
in  1904  was  democratic  candidate  in  the 
Eighth  District  for  Congress.  He  led  his 
ticket,  but  that  year  was  not  favorable  to 
democratic  party  successes  anywhere  in  In- 
diana. Mr.  DeHority  is  affiliated  with 
Elwood  Lodge,  Independent  Order  of  Odd 
Fellows,  is  a  member  of  the  Knights  of 


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Pythias,  a  charter  member  of  Lodge  No. 
368,  Benevolent  and  Protective  Order  of 
Elks,  and  a  member  of  the  Improved  Order 
of  Red  Men.  He  is  a  member  of  the  In- 
diana Democratic  Club  at  Indianapolis. 

Dr.  O.  W.  H.  Kemper.  The  professional 
life  of  Doctor  Kemper  has  covered  a  period 
of  fifty  years,  years  devoted  to  the  uphold- 
ing of  the  ideals  of  the  profession.  He 
was  born  in  Rush  County,  Indiana,  De- 
cember 16,  1839,  and  he  began  the  study  of 
medicine  in  his  twenty-first  year.  But 
after  only  a  few  weeks  of  study  he  was 
called  to  the  colors  and  had  the  distinction 
of  being  present  at  the  first  battle  of  the 
Civil  war.  In  1865  he  located  in  Muncie, 
his  present  home. 

Doctor  Kemper  in  the  long  number  of 
years  of  his  practice  has  gained  success  and 
distinction  in  the  different  fields  of  obstet- 
rics, medicine  and  surgery,  and  is  also 
known  as  the  historian  of  the  Indiana  medi- 
cal profession.  He  has  served  as  treasurer 
and  president  of  the  Indiana  State  Medical 
Society,  as  professor  of  the  history  of  medi- 
cine in  the  Indiana  Medical  College  and 
in  the  Medical  School  of  Indiana  Univer- 
sity. It  has  been  well  said  that  Doctor 
Kemper  may  be  regarded  as  a  section  of 
the  great  arch  which  unites  the  medicine 
of  the  early  fathers  with  that  of  the  pres- 
ent century. 

Harry  A.  Martin,  of  Newcastle,  is  one 
of  the  veterans  among  Indiana  grain  mer- 
chants and  feed  and  food  manufacturers. 
He  has  been  at  Newcastle  nearly  a  quarter 
of  a  century  and  has  built  up  a  business 
in  grain,  flour  manufacture,  coal  and  other 
products  that  now  constitutes  a  service  for 
all  of  Henry  County. 

Mr.  Martin  is  a  son  of  George  R.  and 
Agnes  P.  (Shipley)  Martin,  of  Scotch- 
Irish  stock,  his  ancestors  having  come  out 
of  County  Down,  Ireland.  He  is  of  Revo- 
lutionary ancestry  on  both  sides.  One  an- 
cestor, Allen  Randolph,  served  as  a  soldier 
on  Washington's  staff.  There  were  three 
Martin  brothers  who  came  out  of  Ireland 
and  settled  in  Philadelphia.  Jacob  Mar- 
tin, grandfather  of  Harry  A.,  was  a  son 
of  one  of  these  original  settlers,  and  he 
served  this  country  in  the  War  of  1812. 

Harry  A.  Martin  was  born  at  Mount 
Vernon,  Ohio,  October  20,  1858.  He  at- 
tended school  there,  graduated  from  high 


school  in  1877,  then  entered  the  Ohio  State 
University  and  spent  three  years  in  the 
scientific  course.  He  paid  his  way  through 
college.  After  leaving  school  he  went  west 
to  Colorado  and  was  Connected  with  a 
smelter  company  for  a  time.  Returning 
to  Mount  Vernon  he  engaged  in  the  mill- 
wright business  under  his  uncle,  Albert  T. 
Martin,  and  in  that  capacity  helped  build 
flour  mills  all  over  the  country.  He  is 
thoroughly  experienced  in  the  technical  as 
well  as  the  business  side  of  flour  manufac- 
ture. 

In  1887  Mr.  Martin  married  Miss  Laura 
K.  Brittain,  daughter  of  Dr.  S.  H.  Brit- 
tain,  of  Loogootee,  Indiana.  They  have 
two  children,  both  sons.  Clarence  S.  is  a 
graduate  of  the  Ohio  State  University  with 
the  Bachelor  of  Science  degree  and  a  di- 
ploma in  forestry.  He  is  now  a  teacher 
of  chemistry  in  the  Chillicothe,  Ohio,  High 
School.  He  married  Hazel  Breese,  of  Co- 
lumbus, Ohio,  and  they  have  one  daughter, 
Dorothy  Phyllis.  The  second  son,  Dean 
Arthur,  born  in  1891,  graduated  in  law 
from  the  Colorado  State  University  in 
Boulder,  practiced  two  years  at  Castle 
Rock,  and  early  in  the  war  entered  actively 
upon  Red  Cross  work,  later  was  with  the 
Young  Men's  Christian  Association,  and 
finally  enlisted  in  a  cavalry  troop  in  Col- 
orado sent  for  training  to  Camp  Kearney, 
California.  He  is  now  a  member  of  Com- 
pany L  of  the  One  Hundred  Fifty-Seventh 
Infantry  Regiment,  Fortieth  Division,  and 
is  sergeant  and  company  clerk.  He  is  with 
the  colors  in  France. 

In  1889,  on  leaving  the  mill  building 
business,  Mr.  Martin  entered  milling  with 
Chase  T.  Dawson.  They  built  their  mill 
at  Odon  in  Daviess  County,  Indiana,  and 
for  five  years  conducted  the  Odon  Milling 
Company.  Mr.  Martin  then  sold  his  in- 
terest in  that  enterprise  and  in  1895  came 
to  Newcastle  and  with  his  uncle,  Albert  T. 
Martin,  built  the  present  mill.  The  firm 
of  'Martin  and  Martin  was  in  existence 
until  1912,  since  which  time  Albert  T.  Mar- 
tin has  retired  and  left  all  the  responsi- 
bility of  the  business  to  Harry  A.  The 
business  now  consists  of  several  depart- 
ments. They  manufacture  the  well  known 
"White  Heather"  brand  of  wheat  flour, 
also  manufacture  corn  meal  and  a  varied 
line  of  feeds.  Formerly  they  shipped  large 
quantities  of  flour  to  the  foreign  trade  in 
Liverpool   and   Ireland.     The  mill   is   100 


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barrel  capacity.  They  also  have  a  retail 
coal  yard,  and  Mr.  Martin  is  half  owner 
of  the  Newcastle  Elevator  Company.  He 
has  acquired  some  real  estate  interests  in 
Newcastle,  and  is  a  well  recognized  man 
of  affairs  in  that  city.  He  votes  as  a  re- 
publican, and  has  filled  all  the  chah"s  in 
the  local  Masonic  Lodge,  is  a  member  of 
the  Knight  Templar  Commandery  and  a 
good  student  of  Masonry  in  general.  He 
is  also  a  member  of  the  Improved  Order 
of  Red  Men,  and  for  fifteen  years  has  been 
clerk  of  the  session  and  elder  of  the  First 
Presbyterian  Church. 

Rayman  H.  Baker.  Youth  is  no  bar  to 
successful  and  substantial  business  achieve- 
ment, and  some  of  the  most  forceful  men 
in  every  community  have  not  yet  passed 
their  thirtieth  birthday.  One  of  these  at 
Newcastle  is  Rayman  H.  Baker,  who  has 
had  a  wide  experience  in  different  lines  of 
business,  but  is  now  concentrating  his  en- 
tire attention  upon  automobile  salesman- 
ship and  is  a  member  of  the  firm  Baker 
Auto  Company. 

Mr.  Baker  was  born  August  11,  1890,  in 
Monroe  township,  Madison  County,  In- 
diana, son  of  William  and  Eunice  A. 
(Hunt)  Baker.  The  Bakers  have  been 
Americans  for  many  generations,  and  in 
earlier  times  they  lived  along  the  Blue 
Ridge  Mountains  in  North  Carolina.  To 
the  occupations  they  have  furnished  chiefly 
farmers  and  professional  men. 

Rayman  H.  Baker  secured  his  early  edu- 
cation in  his  home  district  in  Madison 
County,  and  in  1906  graduated  from  the 
commercial  course  of  the  Fairmount  Acad- 
emy in  Grant  County.  He  put  his  special 
talents  and  inclinations  to  work  when  he 
began  trading,  and  in  a  few  years  had  cov- 
ered a  large  territory  in  different  counties 
of  Indiana  as  a  buyer  and  seller  of  live 
stock.  This  was  his  means  of  business 
service  and  earning  a  living  until  about 
1913,  when  he  took  the  agency  of  the  Max- 
well motor  car  for  four  townships  in  the 
northern  half  of  Madison  County.  At  first 
this  was  in  the  nature  of  a  side  line  to  his 
chief  business  as  an  implement  dealer  and 
hardware  merchant  at  Alexandria,  under 
the  name  of  the  Alexandria  Implement  and 
Auto  Company.  Mr.  Baker  was  in  busi- 
ness at  Alexandria  three  years,  and  on  sell- 
ing out  turned  his  exclusive  attention  to 
automobile    salesmanship.     November    25, 


1917,  he  bought  the  old  established  auto- 
mobile agency  at  Newcastle  from  James  C. 
Newby  on  Race  Street,  and  with  his  brother 
W.  T.  Baker  organized  the  present  Baker 
Auto  Company.  This  company  has  the  ex- 
clusive selling  agency  for  the  Chalmers 
and  Maxwell  cars  over  Henry  County,  and 
also  in  three  townships  on  the  western  side 
of  Wayne  County. 

In  i908  Mr.  Baker  married  Nellie  R. 
Little,  daughter  of  James  and  Elizabeth 
(Abbott)  Little  of  Buck  Creek  township, 
Madison  County.  Mrs.  Baker,  who  died 
May  16,  1915,  was  the  mother  of  three 
children,  Opal,  Ethel  and  Irene.  On  Feb- 
ruary 16,  1916,  Mr.  Baker  married  Grace 
Jackson,  of  Delaware  County,  daughter  of 
J.  F.  and  Laura  (Williams)  Jackson.  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Baker  have  two  children,  Cath- 
erine and  Myrtle  Eunice. 

Fraternally  Mr.  Baker  is  affiliated  with 
the  Independent  Order  of  Odd  Fellows  and 
the  Masonic  Lodges  at  Alexandria.  He 
belongs  to  the  Christian  Church  and  in  pol- 
itics votes  as  a  republican. 

Joseph  Elmer  Calland  has  been  a  resi- 
dent and  business  man  of  Newcastle  for  a 
number  of  years.  The  people  of  that  city 
now  when  bicycle,  clock,  gun  or  almost 
any  other  implement  refuses  to  work  satis- 
factorily take  it  to  129  North  Main  Street 
and  turn  it  over  to  Mr.  Calland,  who  is 
proprietor  of  the  "Everything  Fixer" 
shop. 

Mr.  Calland  was  born  on  a  farm  in  Cen- 
ter township  of  Greene  County,  Indiana, 
March  11,  1882,  a  son  of  John  H.  and  Ce- 
lestia  E.  (Resler)  Calland.  He  is  of  Scotch 
and  German  ancestry.  His  grandfather, 
Robert  Calland,  came  from  Scotland  when 
a  boy,  settled  in  Ohio  and  later  moved  to 
Indiana  and  farm  in  Greene  County.  John 
H.  Calland  was  a  mechanic  and  a  wagon 
maker,  and  died  when  his  son  Joseph  E. 
was' only  ten  years  old.  The  latter  because 
of  the  early  death  of  his  father  had  heavy 
responsibilities  thrust  upon  him  when  un- 
der normal  circumstances  he  would  have 
been  attending  school.  He  received  his 
education  at  Worthington,  Indiana,  to  the 
eighth  grade,  but  in  the  meantime  had 
helped  support  the  family  by  driving  a  de- 
livery wagon.  He  drove  a  delivery  wagon 
for  two  years  after  school  work,  but  being 
naturally  of  a  mechanical  turn  of  mind  he 
opened  a  small  repair  shop  at  Worthing- 


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ton  and  was  in  business  there  for  eight 
years,  repairing  bicycles  and  other  imple- 
ments and  tools. 

In  1908  he  came  to  Newcastle  and 
opened  a  shop  at  1516  East  Broad  Street. 
Here  in  addition  to  a  repair  business  he 
carried  a  stock  of  general  sporting  goods. 
A  year  later  came  a  fire  which  entailed  a 
loss  of  $1,500,  and  after  that  setback  he  be- 
came a  journeyman  repair  man  for  two 
years.  He  spent  most  of  his  time  driving 
about  the  country  for  a  radius  of  seventy- 
five  miles  around  Newcastle,  and  was  prin- 
cipally employed  in  repairing  slot  ma- 
chines. Mr.  Calland  invented  a  very  suc- 
cessful device  used  in  automatic  vending 
machines.  In  1912  he  established  his  pres- 
ent store  at  129  North  Main  Street,  and 
has  a  very  successful  and  growing  busi- 
ness, with  facilities  for  repair  work  of  every 
kind,  and  also  carrying  a  general  line  of 
bicycle  supplies.  He  also  owns  a  half  in- 
terest in  the  Lester  and  Calland  Transfer 
Company,  one  of  the  largest  establishments 
of  its  kind  at  Newcastle. 

Mr.  Calland  is  affiliated  with  the  Knights 
of  Pythias  and  Loyal  Order  of  Moose  and 
has  filled  all  the  chairs  in  the  Worthington 
Camp  of  the  Modern  Woodmen  of  America. 
In  politics  he  is  a  republican. 

Joseph  R.  Leakey  is  the  present  county 
treasurer  of  Henry  County,  and  has  been 
identified  with  official  affairs  and  with  pub- 
lic school  education  in  that  part  of  the 
county  most  of  his  life. 

Mr.  Leakey  was  born  on  a  farm  in  Dud- 
ley Township  of  Henry  County  July  9, 
1858.  The  Leakey  family  were  among  the 
first  to  enter  land  in  that  township,  this 
transaction  identifying  them  with  the 
county  in  1821.  The  Leakeys  are  of  Eng- 
lish and  German  ancestry,  and  many  gen- 
erations of  the  family  have  lived  in 
America.  Joseph  R.  Leakey  is  a  son  of 
Ephraim  and  Catherine  (Stombaugh) 
Leakey.  He  was  reared  on  a  farm,  at- 
tended country  school,  also  Spiceland 
Academy,  and  spent  the  summer  seasons 
of  his  boyhood  working  for  his  father.  He 
began  teaching  in  the  country  at  an  early 
age,  and  was  in  that  profession  steadily 
for  thirty-five  years,  part  of  the  time  in 
the  country  and  part  of  the  time  in  village 
schools.  He  was  principal  of  schools  at 
Blountsville  six  years,  and  also  at  Lisbon 
and  Spiceland.     In  1908  Mr.  Leakey  was 


appointed  deputy  county  treasurer  by  Max 
P.  Gaddis,  serving  two  years  under  him 
and  during  1910-11  was  deputy  treasurer 
under  O.  P.  Hatfield.  In  1912  the  repub- 
licans nominated  him  for  the  office  of 
county  treasurer,  but  he  was  defeated  by 
seventy-two  votes.  During  the  succeeding 
years  Mr.  Leaky  was  assistant  cashier  in 
the  Farmers  Bank  at  Newcastle  most  of  the 
period  and  also  looked  after  his  farm  until 
November  1,  1914,  when  he  was  elected 
county  treasurer  and  was  re-elected  for  a 
second  term  in  November,  1916.  He  has 
the  unique  distinction  of  being  the  only 
county  treasurer  re-elected  in  Henry 
County  during  a  period  of  seventy-five 
years.  His  present  term  expires  Decem- 
ber 31,  1919.  Mr.  Leakey  also  owns  a  val- 
uable farm  of  eighty-seven  acres  and  is  in- 
terested in  other  business  affairs. 

His  first  official  service  was  as  assessor 
of  Liberty  Township  for  two  years,  serving 
in  that  office  by  appointment.  He  is  a  re- 
publican, is  an  active  member  and  elder 
of  the  Christian  Church,  and  is  affiliated 
with  Newcastle  Lodge  No.  91,  Ancient  Free 
and  Accepted  Masons,  and  the  Improved 
Order  of  Red  Men. 

In  August,  1893,  he  married  Miss  Ger- 
trude Hollinger,  daughter  of  Doctor  and 
Caturah  (Hetsler)  Hollinger  of  Blounts- 
ville. Their  only  son  is  Newton  E.,  born 
in  1895.  He  was  in  his  junior  year  in  the 
chemical  engineering  department  of  Pur- 
due University  when  the  war  broke  out. 
February  1,  1918,  he  enlisted  in  the  avia- 
tion division  in  the  spruce  department,  and 
was  sent  to  Vancouver,  Washington.  In 
July,  1918,  he  was  transferred  to  the  quar- 
termaster's department,  and  on  July  23, 
1918,  was  transferred  to  Camp  Johnson, 
Florida,  and  commissioned  as  second  lieu- 
tenant in  charge  of  Supply  Company  333. 
In  September  he  was  transferred  to  Camp 
Merritt,  New  Jersey,  and  embarked  for 
France  October  5,  1918.  He  was  stationed 
at  St.  Nazaire,  in  the  quartermaster's  serv- 
ice, effects  bureau  department.  It  was 
optional  with  him  at  the  signing  of  the 
peace  negotiations  whether  or  not  he  was 
to  be  discharged,  and  he  choose  to  serve 
the  Government  as  long  as  his  service  was 
required. 

J.  J.  Carroll  is  proprietor  of  the  larg- 
est plumbing  and  heating  establishment  at 
Newcastle,  a  business  which  he  has  rapidly 


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developed  and  built  up,  and  which  now 
furnishes  a  service  not  only  all  over  the 
city  but  throughout  a  surrounding  terri- 
tory for  a  radius  of  thirty  miles. 

Mr.  Carroll  has  been  in  this  line  of  work 
since  early  boyhood.  He  was  born  at  In- 
dianapolis October  23,  1887,  son  of  Charles 
W.  and  Annabelle  (Oakey)  Carroll.  He 
is  of  Irish  and  English  stock.  Mr.  Carroll 
attended  the  public  schools  of  Indianapolis 
to  the  age  of  fourteen,  and  later  acquired 
a  knowledge  of  mechanical  drawing  by 
study  in  night  school.  At  fourteen  he  be- 
gan his  apprenticeship  in  the  plumbing 
shop  of  Foley  Brothers  at  Indianapolis.  A 
year  later  he  went  on  the  road  as  a  travel- 
ing worker  in  plumbing  shops  in  different 
towns  of  Colorado,  Oklahoma  and  Texas, 
seeing  a  great  deal  of  life  in  the  West  and 
Southwest.  At  the  end  of  two  years  he 
returned  to  Indianapolis  and  resumed  his 
employment  with  Foley  Brothers  for  a 
year,  and  for  one  year  was  with  Thomas 
Barker.  Out  of  this  experience  he  gained 
a  thorough  knowledge  of  his  trade  and 
business,  and  in  1908  he  first  came  to  New- 
castle. Here  in  1909  he  married  Miss 
Ethel  McCormick,  daughter  of  Richard 
and  May  (Stout)  McCormick  of  Anderson. 
After  his  marriage  Mr.  Carroll  went  south, 
first  located  at  Houston,  Texas,  for  eight 
months,  again  worked  at  Indianapolis,  and 
in  1911  returned  to  Newcastle,  and  in  Sep- 
tember, 1916,  opened  his  shop  at  1309  Li- 
berty Street.  A  year  later  he  located  at 
109  North  Fourteenth  Street,  and  in  Feb- 
ruary, 1918,  came  to  his  present  location 
at  220  South  Main  Street. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Carroll  have  three  chil- 
dren :  Marie  Jean,  Annabelle  and  Jesse  W. 
Mr.  Carroll  is  an  independent  voter.  He 
is  affiliated  with  the  Knights  of  Pythias 
and  is  a  member  of  the  Methodist  Church. 

Ernest  H.  Bender.  The  place  of  Mr. 
Bender  in  business  circles  at  Newcastle  is 
as  manager  of  the  local  branch  of  Dilling 
&  Company,  the  well  known  candy  manu- 
facturers of  Indianapolis.  Mr.  Bender 
has  been  a  worker  since  he  was  a  boy  and 
has  promoted  himself  through  his  own 
abilities  and  industry  to  the  responsibili- 
ties and  achievements  of  a  business  man. 

He  was  born  at  Chicago,  Illinois,  in  1893, 
son  of  Ernest  and  Anna  (Hoffman) 
Bender.     His  parents  were  natives  of  Ger- 


many, married  there,  and  came  to  America 
with  one  child,  Mary.  They  first  located 
at  Detroit.  Ernest  Bender,  Sr.,  was  a 
florist  by  trade,  and  for  several  years  was 
identified  with  that  business  at  Chicago. 
Later  he  became  manager  of  a  large  busi- 
ness at  Newcastle,  where  the  family  lo- 
cated in  1899. 

Ernest  H.  Bender  began  his  education 
in  the  public  schools  of  Newcastle,  but  left 
at  the  age  of  fourteen  to  work  as  veneer 
inspector  with  the  Hoosier  Kitchen  Cabinet 
Company.  He  was  there  three  years,  then 
for  a  short  time  was  operator  of  a  drill 
press  with  Fairbanks,  Morse  &  Company 
at  Indianapolis,  for  two  years  drove  ai 
grocery  delivery  wagon,  and  in  1915  en- 
tered the  service  of  Dilling  &  Company, 
candy  manufacturers.  His  first  job  was 
molding  chocolate  bars.  He  was  soon 
transferred  to  the  shipping  room,  then  to 
the  office,  and  in  October,  1916,  was  sent 
to  Newcastle  to  take  charge  of  the  New- 
castle branch  and  office. 

Mr.  Bender  married  in  1915  Velera 
Cain,  daughter  of  J.  D.  and  Mamie  (Jack- 
son) Cain.  Her  mother  is  related  to  the 
Gen.  Stonewall  Jackson  family.  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Bender  have  two  children:  Loren 
Ernest,  born  in  1916,  and  Dorothy  Eliza- 
beth, born  in  1918.  Mr.  Bender  is  an  in- 
dependent in  politics,  a  member  of  the 
Travelers'  Protective  Association,  and  he 
and  his  wife  belong  to  the  Christian 
Church. 

Charles  Bruce  Thompson,  whose  name 
has  been  identified  with  Newcastle  as  one 
of  the  leading  men  engaged  in  the  real 
estate,  loan  and  fire  insurance  business, 
has  many  interesting  family(ties  to  connect 
him  with  Henry  County. 

He  was  born  at  Sulphur*  Springs  in 
Henry  County  in  1869,  a  son  of  Joseph  H. 
and  Sarah  Ann  (Yost)  Thompson.  His 
maternal  grandfather,  William  S.  Yost, 
was  born  in  Rockingham  County,  Virginia, 
in  1802,  and  married  in  1824  Mary  Cath- 
erine Weaver,  who  was  born  in  the  same 
Virginia  county  in  1800.  In  order  to  es- 
cape conditions  of  slavery  William  S.  Yost 
left  his  native  state  and  moved  to  Ohio  in 
1840,  and  soon  afterward  came  to  Henry 
County  and  was  the  most  influential  man 
in  establishing  the  Village  of  Sulphur 
Springs.     He  served  as  the  first  postmas- 


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ter  there,  from  1844  until  1848,  and  held 
the  office  again  for  six  years.  He  also 
started  the  first  country  store.  William 
S.  Yost  died  in  1863  and  his  wife  in  1870. 

Joseph  H.  Thompson,  who  married  a 
daughter  of  "William  S.  Yost,  was  born  at 
Middletown  in  Henry  County  April  17, 
1841,  and  died  October  18,  1893.  During 
the  Civil  war  he  enlisted  in  Company  G 
of  the  Eighty-Fourth  Indiana  Infantry, 
having  assisted  in  raising  the  company,  and 
became  a  private  in  the  ranks  August  21, 
1862.  Later  he  was  made  quartermaster 
sergeant  and  was  with  his  regiment  until 
mustered  out  June  14,  1865.  He  was  once 
taken  prisoner,  but  was  soon  paroled.  It 
was  during  his  army  service  that  he  mar- 
ried Miss  Yost  on  December  27,  1863.  For 
many  years  after  the  war  Joseph  H. 
Thompson  was  engaged  in  the  drug  busi- 
ness at  Sulphur  Springs.  He  was  a  good 
business  man  and  a  respected  leader  in  his 
community.  He  and  his  wife  had  five 
children :  William  E.,  George  C,  Charles 
B.,  Claudia  M.  and  John  R. 

Mrs.  Sarah  A.  Thompson  is  still  living 
and  enjoying  good  health. 

Charles  Bruce  Thompson  received  his 
early  education  at  Sulphur  Springs  and  in 
the  Spiceland  Academy.  At  the  age  of 
twenty  he  went  to  work  for  his  father,  and 
when  the  latter  died  in  1893  he  took  over 
the  business  and  continued  it  until  1906. 
Selling  out  he  then  came  to  Newcastle  and 
established  his  first  office  in  the  Burr  Build- 
ing, where  he  is  today.  Since  then  he  has 
successfully  handled  real  estate  and  loans, 
and  represents  some  of  the  best  known 
fire  insurance  companies  and  has  extended 
their  business  to  a  large  volume  all  over 
Henry  County.  Mr.  Thompson  is  greatly 
interested  in  everything  that  makes  for 
the  betterment  and  upbuilding  of  New- 
castle and  vicinity.  He  does  a  large  busi- 
ness in  buying  and  selling  town  property. 

In  1890  he  married  Miss  Maude  Edle- 
man,  daughter  of  Richard  Johnson  and 
Eleanor  (Griffith)  Edleman.  Their  son 
Ivan  Blaine,  born  in  1892,  married  in  1914 
Grolla  Norton,  daughter  of  William  and 
Josephine  (Smith)  Norton  of  Alexandria, 
Indiana.  They  have  one  child,  Mary 
Louise,  born  in  1915.  Joseph  Richard,  born 
August  16,  1895,  married  in  1917  Grace 
M.    Sweeney,   of  Los  Angeles,   California. 

Mr.  Thompson  is  an  active  republican. 
He  has  served  as  secretary  of  the  County 


Republican  Committee.  He  is  a  Knight 
of  Pythias  and  a  member  of  the  Christian 
Church. 

Ben  Havens  was  first  elected  to  the  office 
of  city  clerk  of  Kokomo  on  the  score  of 
his  business  qualifications  and  knowledge 
and  experience  as  an  expert  accountant. 
He  has  been  elected  three  consecutive  terms, 
and  today  no  one  has  a  more  thorough  and 
accurate  knowledge  of  municipal  affairs 
of  Kokomo  than  Mr.  Havens.  He  has  made 
his  office  a  model  of  efficiency,  has  that 
courtesy  and  sense  of  obligation  which 
eliminates  the  conventional  official  atmos- 
phere and  makes  transactions  in  the 
clerk's  office  a  matter  of  convenience  and 
pleasure.  The  people  have  seen  fit  to  con- 
tinue Mr.  Havens  in  office  so  long  that  his 
tenure  is  no  longer  a  matter  of  party  suc- 
cess but  is  to  be  decided  entirely  by  his 
personal  wishes  in  the  matter. 

Mr.  Havens  was  born  July  28,  1878,  in 
Rush  County,  Indiana,  son  of  Henry  C. 
and  Ann  R.  (Grewell)  Havens.  His  father 
and  his  grandfather  were  both  natives  of 
Rush  County  and  both  were  farmers  by 
occupation.  They  were  men  of  model  citi- 
zenship, and  contributed  much  from  their 
lives  to  the  advancement  of  their  locality. 
Henry  C.  Havens  lived  for  many  years  in 
Howard  County. 

Ben  Havens  received  his  early  education 
in  the  public  schools  of  Kokomo,  graduat- 
ing with  the  class  of  1897.  He  began  his 
career  in  the  lumber  business,  and  for  ten 
years  was  connected  with  ■  the  firm  of 
Blanchard,  Carlisle  &  Company.  For  three 
years  he  was  also  bookkeeper  for  the  Pa- 
troleum  Hoop  Company.  It  was  from  those 
business  duties  that  he  was  called  when 
elected  city  clerk  of  Kokomo.  Mr.  Havens 
is  a  loyal  member  of  the  republican  party, 
has  served  eight  years  as  county  chairinan, 
but  his  citizenship  is  by  no  means  based 
on  party  loyalty,  but  makes  him  a  cooper- 
ating factor  in  every  movement  for  the  gen- 
eral welfare. 

Mary  Wright  Plummer.  As  a  contribu- 
tor to  various  periodicals  and  as  an  author 
and  librarian  Mary  Wright  Plummer  has 
won  distinction  among  Indianans.  She  was 
born  at  Richmond,  Indiana,  a  daughter  of 
Jonathan  W.  and  Hannah  A.  Plummer. 
She  was  a  student  at  Wellesley  and  Colum- 
bia, and  has  since  been  prominently  asso- 


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ciated  with  library  and  literary  work.  She 
served  as  a  United  States  delegate  to  the 
International  Congress  of  Libraries,  Paris, 
1900,  and  is  a  member  of  the  prominent 
library  clubs  and  associations.  Since  1911 
she  has  been  principal  of  the  Library 
School  of  the  New  York  Public  Library. 

Hiram  Lyman  Smith  has  been  a  New- 
castle business  man  for  a  number  of  years 
and  is  proprietor  and  head  of  a  large  pro- 
vision house  at  202  South  Fourteenth 
Street. 

Mr.  Smith  was  born  at  Eyota,  Minnesota, 
April  4,  1875,  a  son  of  J.  C.  and  Leila 
May  (Wright)  Smith.  He  is  of  English 
stock,  his  ancestors  having  first  located  in 
New  York  State.  His  parents  moved  out 
to  the  Minnesota  frontier,  but  subsequently 
returned  east,  and  when  Hiram  L.  Smith 
was  ten  years  of  age  located  at  Cleveland, 
Tennessee.  The  latter  acquired  his  edu- 
cation in  the  common  and  high  schools, 
and  at  the  age  of  seventeen  entered  busi- 
ness. He  also  went  to  work  for  his  father 
in  a  dry  goods  store,  and  for  seveu  years 
was  employed  in  that  capacity  at  Bowl- 
ing Green,  Tennessee.  About  twenty  years 
ago  the  family  removed  to  Newcastle,  In- 
diana, where  his  father  opened  a  dry  goods 
store  on  Broad  Street.  After  two  years 
with  his  father  Hiram  L.  Smith  entered 
the  grocery  business  for  himself  on  North 
Fourteenth  Street.  Two  years  later  he 
moved  to  1426  Broad  Street,  and  was  there 
until  1912.  During  the  next  two  seasons 
he  represented  the  distribution  of  the  Max- 
well Automobile  at  Newcastle  and  Ander- 
son, but  then  returned  to  the  grocery  busi- 
ness at  802  South  Fourteenth  Street,  where 
he  had  his  store  until  July  1,  1918,  when 
he  moved  to  his  present  location  at  202 
South  Fourteenth  Street. 

Mr.  Smith  married  at  Anderson  in  1900 
Leotta  May  Hudson,  daughter  of  Reville 
and  May  Hudson.  Mr.  Smith  is  a  dem- 
ocrat, is  affiliated  with  the  Royal  Arch  and 
Council  degree  of  Masonry,  and  is  also  a 
member  of  the  Improved  Order  of  Red  Men 
and  the  Modern  Woodmen  of  America. 

Frederick  John  Pope  is  not  an  old  man 
but  he  is  a  veteran  in  the  service  of  the 
express  business,  and  it  was  his  long  stand- 
ing and  successful  and  efficient  record  that 
retained  him  under  the  new  dispensation 
by  which  the  larger  express  companies  have 
been  consolidated  under  the  direction  of 


the  Federal  Government  and  now  operated 
as  the  American  Railway  Express  Com- 
pany. Mr.  Pope  has  the  management  of 
this  company  at  Newcastle,  and  came  to 
this  city  after  a  number  of  years  of  serv- 
ice at  Indianapolis. 

He  was  born  at  Indianapolis  November 
8,  1882,  a  son  of  Christian  F.  and  Elizabeth 
(Laatz)  Pope.  He  is  of  German  ancestry. 
His  grandfather  Pope  came  from  Germany 
and  settled  on  a  farm  near  Mohawk,  In- 
diana, and  spent  the  rest  of  his  days  there. 
Christian  F.  Pope  was  born  on  that  farm, 
but  at  the  age  of  eighteen  moved  to  In- 
dianapolis and  entered  business  as  a  mer- 
chant. He  developed  and  built  up  the 
Pope  dry  goods  business  of  that  city,  but 
he  is  now  retired  and  he  and  his  wife  re- 
side at  Indianapolis.  F.  J.  Pope  has  a 
younger  brother,  Raymond  W.,  who  is  mar- 
ried and  lives  in  Indianapolis. 

Frederick'  John  Pope  was  educated  in 
the  public  schools  of  Indianapolis,  graduat- 
ing from  the  Manual  Training  High  School 
in  1902.  Since  then  his  service  has  been 
continuous  with  the  express  business.  He 
first  was  a  wagon  driver  four  years  with 
the  Adams  Express  Company  at  35  South 
Meridian  Street,  Indianapolis.  He  was  then 
promoted  to  assistant  cashier  in  the  Union 
Station  office  of  that  company  for  two 
years,  following  which  he  accepted  a  posi- 
tion with  the  American  Express  Company 
as  clerk  in  the  uptown  office  one  year.  For 
three  years  he  was  assistant  cashier  of 
this  company  at  the  Union  Station,  and  was 
then  returned  to  the  uptown  office  as  gen- 
eral correspondent.  With  those  duties  he 
was  identified  until  May  1,  1918,  when  he 
was  transferred  to  Newcastle  as  agent  and 
manager  of  the  American  Express  Com- 
pany's business  in  that  city.  Two  months 
later  he  was  appointed  manager  of  the 
Newcastle  business  of  the  American  Rail- 
way Express  Company. 

In  1904  Mr.  Pope  married  Clara  Brink- 
man,  daughter  of  Frank  and  Wilma  (Hol- 
ler) Brinkman  of  Indianapolis.  They  have 
one  son,  Kenneth  Frank,  born '  in  1905. 
Mr.  Pope  is  a  republican  and  is  affiliated 
with  Ancient  Landmark  Lodge  No.  319, 
Ancient  Free  and  Accepted  Masons,  at  In- 
dianapolis. He  and  his  wife  are  members 
of  the  Methodist   Episcopal    Church. 

Trevor  D.  Wright  is  the  responsible 
executive  carrying  on  a  business  that  was 
established  at  Newcastle  more  than  thirty 


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years  ago  under  the  name  of  Wright  Broth- 
ers, grocers. 

The  Wright  family  is  of  English  ancestry 
and  they  were  early  settlers  in  South- 
ern Ohio.  The  grandfather  of  the  present 
generation  was  at  one  time  a  dry  goods 
merchant  at  Cincinnati.  John  D.  and  Tre- 
vor Wright  came  to  Newcastle  in  1885, 
and  under  the  name  of  Wright  Brothers 
bought  out  the  old  established  grocery  house 
of  Samuel  Arnold  on  Broad  Street.  They 
occupied  that  old  location  for  a  number 
of  years,  and  the  site  is  now  where  the 
Citizens  State  Bank  stands.  From  that 
location  they  moved  to  1200  Broad  Street, 
where  the  business  is  today.  From  that 
Wright  died  some  years  ago,  and  his 
brother  Trevor  F.  conducted  the  store  for 
several  years  and  then  sold  his  share  to 
Mrs.  Cora  Davis  Wright,  widow  of  John 
D.  Wright. 

Trevor  D.  Wright  was  born  February 
6,  1885,  son  of  John  D.  and  Cora  Davis 
Wright,  and  during  his  boyhood  attended 
the  grammar  and  high  schools  at  Newcastle. 
In  1898  he  went  to  work  as  errand  boy  in 
his  father's  store,  and  his  experience  com- 
prises every  detail  of  the  business.  At 
the  death  of  his  father  he  took  the  manage- 
ment, and  is  handling  the  enterprise  very 
successfully.  The  firm  does  a  large  busi- 
ness both  in  country  and  town,  some  of 
its  custom  coming  from  a  distance  of 
twelve  miles  from  Newcastle. 

Mr.  Wright  is  a  bachelor.  He  is  one  of 
six  children.  His  sister  Barbara  Alma  is 
bookkeeper  and  cashier  of  the  store.  Mr. 
Wright  is  affiliated  with  the  Elks,  Knights 
of  Pythias  and  Masonic  Lodge  at  Newcastle, 
and  is  a  member  of  the  Presbyterian 
Church. 

Martin  L.  Koons,  president  of  the  Henry 
County  Building  and  Loan  Association,  is 
a  lawyer  by  profession,  and  is  a  descend- 
ant of  one  of  the  old  and  prominent  Quaker 
families  of  Eastern   Indiana. 

His  American  ancestry  goes  back  to  Da- 
vault  Koons,  a  native  of  Pennsylvania.  He 
married  Susan  Dicks,  a  native  of  Germany. 
One  of  their  three  sons  was  Gasper  Koons, 
who  was  born  in  Pennsylvania  November 
8,  1759.  He  was  twice  married,  his  second 
wife  being  Abigail,  a  school  teacher,  and 
a  daughter  of  Jeremiah  and  Rachel  Pickett. 
The  Picketts  were  devout  Friends  or 
Quakers. 


About  1800  Gasper  Koons  took  his  family 
from  Pennsylvania  to  North  Carolina,  and 
in  the  fall  of  1808  they  led  the  way  from 
North  Carolina  and  after  six  weeks  of 
travel  by  pioneer  routes  and  conveyances 
arrived  in  Wayne  County,  Indiana.  Here 
Gasper  Koons  and  family  found  them- 
selves in  congenial  surroundings,  since 
many  of  the  first  settlers  there  were  active 
Friends.  Gasper  Koons  died  November 
8,  1820,  and  his  widow  in  1850,  at  the  age 
of  seventy-eight.  They  had  twelve  chil- 
dren, nine  sons  and  three  daughters. 

Joseph  Koons,  seventh  son  of  Gasper 
and  Abigail  (Pickett)  Koons,  was  born  on 
a  farm  southeast  of  Richmond,  Indiana, 
February  17,  1811.  He  was  a  farmer  but 
was  also  widely  known  as  an  expert  ax 
maker.  He  died  November  10,  1878. 
Joseph  Koons  married  Lucinda  Ray  in 
1834.  She  was  a  daughter  of  Thomas  and 
Martha  Ray,  a  family  that  came  from  Vir- 
ginia and  were  identified  with  the  early 
settlement  of  Henry  County.  Lucinda  Rav 
Koons  died  November  21,  1880.  Both 
were  lifelong  adherents  of  the  Quaker 
Church.     They  had  ten  children. 

Joseph  Koons  was  the  grandfather  of 
Martin  L.  Koons.  The  latter  was  born  on 
a  farm  in  Henry  County  June  2,  1875,  son 
of  Pleasant  M.  and  Louisa  (Bookout) 
Koons.  Martin  L.  Koons  grew  up  on  a 
farm,  attended  country  schools,  also  school 
at  Mooreland,  and  at  the  age  of  seventeen 
took  up  the  study  of  law  with  James  and 
William  A.  Brown,  composing  the  firm  of 
Brown  &  Brown  at  Newcastle.  He  was 
with  that  firm  diligently  studying  for  three 
and  a  half  years.  For  one  year  he  was 
with  Meredith  &  Meredith,  attorneys  and 
abstractors,  at  Muncie.  On  September  6, 
1897,  Mr.  Koons  returned  to  Newcastle, 
was  admitted  to  the  bar,  and  for  ten  years 
carried  on  a  large  practice  in  probate  and 
real  estate  title  law.  On  April  1,  1903,  he 
was  elected  secretary  of  the  Henry  County 
Building  and  Loan  Association,  at  first  per- 
forming his  duties  in  his  own  law  office. 
Later  he  was  with  the  company  in  the 
Koons-Bond  Building  for  three  years,  and 
then  erected  the  building  in  which  the  com- 
pany has  its  headquarters,  and  he  has  been 
located  there  since  1910.  Mr.  Koons  was 
elected  president  of  the  companv  April 
1,  1917. 

He  is  also  a  stockholder  and  director 
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Trust  Company  of  Newcastle,  and  looks 
after  a  large  volume  of  real  estate.  He 
handles  the  local  interests  of  Ma j. -Gen. 
Omar  Bundy  at  Newcastle,  and  also  man- 
ages a  number  of  trust  funds. 

February  3,  1897,  Mr.  Koons  married 
Nora  B.  Moore,  daughter  of  Cornelius  M. 
and  Elizabeth  (Shonk)  Moore  of  New- 
castle. They  had  four  children :  Fred  M., 
born  December  1,  1897 ;  Paul  M.,  born 
October  6,  1900;  Mabel  Louise  and  Ann 
Claire. 

Mr.  Koons  has  accepted  those  duties  and 
responsibilities  that  come  to  the  public  spir- 
ited citizen.  In  1913,  at  the  urging  of  his 
friends,  he  accepted  a  place  on  the  repub- 
lican ticket  as  candidate  for  mayor  of  New- 
castle, and  lost  the  election  by  only  seventy- 
two  votes.  In  1914  he  was  elected  by  the 
City  Council  as  a  member  of  the  Board  of 
School  Trustees,  and  was  re-elected  in 
1917.  Mr.  Koons  is  affiliated  with  the 
Masonic  Order,  the  Benevolent  and  Pro- 
tective Order  of  Elks  and  Knights  of 
Pythias,  and  attends  worship  in  the  First 
Methodist  Episcopal  Church. 

George  Hasty  Smith,  M.  D.,  a  specialist 
whose  work  is  limited  to  the  eye,  ear,  nose 
and  throat,  is  one  of  the  progressive  group 
of  physicians  and  surgeons  of  Newcastle 
who  organized  and  incorporated  the  New- 
castle Clinic,  an  institution  that  serves 
many  of  the  purposes  of  the  public  hos- 
pital and  is  housed  in  a  modern  building 
of  its  own,  with  equipment  and  facilities 
that  are  the  equal  of  any  found  in  the 
largest  hospitals  of  the  country.  Doctor 
Smith  is  secretary  of  the  clinic  and  has 
an  active  part  in  its  work  in  addition  to 
his    private   practice. 

Doctor  Smith  is  a  son  of  Dr.  Robert  An- 
derson and  Mary  Jane  (Evans)  Smith.  His 
grandparent  were  Isaac  M.  and  Catherine 
Smith,  both  natives  of  Ohio.  His  grand- 
father migrated  from  Preble  County,  Ohio, 
to  Hancock  County,  Indiana,  in  1830  and 
cleared  up  a  tract  of  land  in  Brown  Town- 
ship. At  the  age  of  seventy  years  he  sold 
his  farm  and  moved  to  Garnett,  Kansas, 
where  he  bought  another  farm  and  lived 
until  his  death  in  1890,  at  the  age  of  eighty 
years. 

The  late  Robert  A.  Smith  was  one  of  the 
prominent  physicians  of  Henry  County  for 
many  years.  He  was  born  in  Hancock 
County,  Indiana,  April  13,  1843,  and  his 


early  life  was  spent  on  a  farm.  He  missed 
many  of  the  advantages  given  even  to 
country  boys  of  this  generation.  In  1861, 
at  the  outbreak  of  the  Civil  war,  he  enlisted 
in  Company  A  of  the  Fifty-seventh  In- 
diana Infantry,  under  Capt.  Robert  Alli- 
son. He  was  in  the  battles  of  Shiloh,  Stone 
River,  Chickamauga,  Missionary  Ridge, 
Resaca,  Kenesaw  Mountain  and  many  oth- 
ers, including  the  battle  of  Nashville  in 
December,  1864.  He  was  wounded  and 
disabled,  and  recommended  for  discharge-, 
but  refused  to  accept  this  discharge  and 
spent  the  last  months  of  the  war  as  an 
orderly  for  General  Wood.  He  was  mus- 
tered out  with  the  rank  of  color  sergeant 
in  1865.  In  the  fall  of  1866  he  took  up  the 
study  of  medicine  under  Dr.  H.  S.  Cun- 
ningham at  Indianapolis,  and  two  years 
later  entered  the  Physio-Medical  Institute 
of  Cincinnati,  where  he  graduated  in  1870. 
He  began  practice  in  Henry  County  at 
Grant  City,  and  seven  years  later  moved 
to  Greensboro,  where  he  was  accorded  all 
the  business  his  time  and  energies  allowed 
him  to  handle,  and  remained  an  honored 
resident  and  physician  *of  that  locality  until 
his  death  in  1913.  He  was  a  member  of  all 
the  leading  medical  societies,  was  a  repub- 
lican in  politics  and  was  a  member  of  the 
Society  of  Friends.  April  9,  1868,  he  mar- 
ried Mary  J.  Evans,  daughter  of  Thomas 
J.  and  Jane  Evans,  who  were  of  Welsh 
ancestry.  Mrs.  R.  A.  Smith,  who  died  in 
1900,  was  also  a  physician  of  many  years 
experience  and  had  been  educated  in  Doc- 
tor Traul's  School  of  New  York.  Dr.  R. 
A.  Smith  and  wife  had  three  children: 
Katie  E.,  George  H.  and  Nettie  E. 

George  Hasty  Smith  was  born  at  Grant 
City,  Indiana,  in  1873,  and  received  his 
early  education  in  the  public  schools  of 
Greensboro,  spent  three  years  and  gradu- 
ated in  1893  from  the  Spiceland  Academy, 
and  during  1894-95  was  a  student  in  Val- 
paraiso University  and  in  the  latter  year 
entered  the  Physo-Medical  College  of  In- 
dianpolis,  from  which  he  graduated  in  1898. 
The  following  four  years  he  practiced  medi- 
cine at  Greensboro  with  his  father.  In  1902 
he  entered  the  Illinois  Medical  College  at 
Chicago  from  which  he  received  his  M.  D. 
degree  in  1903.  Doctor  Smith  was  a  res- 
ident physician  of  Knightstown  for  eight 
years,  handling  a  general  practice.  With  a 
view  to  relieving  himself  of  some  of  the 
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practice  he  went  to  New  York  City,  took 
work  in  the  New  York  Eye  and  Ear  In- 
firmaiy  and  in  Knapp's  Ophthalmic  and 
Aural  Institute,  and  part  of  the  time  was 
clinical  assistant  there.  In  1914  he  re- 
turned to  Newcastle  and  has  since  been  giv- 
ing all  his  time  to  practice  as  ear,  eye  and 
throat  specialist.  He  was  associated  with 
the  other  local  physicians  in  establishing 
and  in  corporating  the  Newcastle  Clinic,  of 
which  he  is  secretary  and  treasurer. 

Doctor  Smith  is  a  member  of  the  County 
Medical  Society,  which  he  has  served  as 
secretary,  for  two  years  was  secretary  of 
the  District  Medical  Association,  and  is  a 
member  of  the  Indiana  and  American  Med- 
ical associations.  He  was  elected  and 
served  from  1898  to  1900  as  coroner  of 
Henry  County,  but  declined  to  become  a 
candidate  for  re-election.  He  is  a  repub- 
lican, a  Knight  Templar  Mason  at  New- 
castle, is  also  affiliated  with  the  Benevolent 
and  Protective  Order  of  Elks  and  Knights 
of  Pythias,  and  is  a  member  of  the  New- 
castle Country  Club  and  the  Friends 
Church. 

In  1895  Doctor  "Smith  married  Laura 
Cook,  daughter  of  Seth  and  Minerva 
(Hiatt)  Cook  of  Greensboro.  Mrs.  Smith 
died  in  1905,  leaving  three  children,  who 
are  still  living.  In  1908  Doctor  Smith 
married  Anne  Cunningham,  daughter  of 
Dr.  John  C.  Cunningham  of  Crawfords- 
ville,  Indiana.  By  his  second  marriage 
Doctor  Smith  has  one  child. 

Henry  Kahn  is  the  founder  and  presi- 
dent of  the  Kahn  Tailoring  Company  of 
Indianapolis,  a  business  that  has  been  de- 
veloped under  his  personal  supervision  now 
for  more  than  thirty  years,  and  is  one  of 
the  largest  and  most  substantial  establish- 
ments of  its  kind  in  Indiana. 

A  native  of  Indiana,  and  of  a  family  of 
business  men,  Henry  Kahn  was  born  at 
Bloomington  March  31,  1860.  His  father, 
Isaac  Kahn,  was  born  in  Alsace,  France, 
in  October  1829,  and  at  the  age  of  fifteen, 
in  1844,  came  to  the  United  States  and  lo- 
cated at  Bloomington,  Indiana.  He  was 
one  of  the  pioneer  merchants  of  that  city, 
developed  a  large  and  extensive  trade,  and 
remained  there  on  the  active  list  until  1866. 
That  year  he  brought  his  family  to  Indian- 
apolis and  lived  retired  until  his  death  in 
September,  1887.  In  1856  Isaac  Kahn  mar- 
ried Miss  Belle  Ilirsch.     She  was  born  in 


Paris,  France,  a  daughter  of  Nathan  and 
Clara  Hirsch.  There  were  three  children 
of  this  union,  Clementine,  Cora  and  Henry. 
The  mother  died  in  1886,  and  both  parents 
are  now  at  rest  in  Indianapolis. 

Henry  Kahn  was  six  years  old  when  his 
parents  ca,me  to  Indianapolis,  and  in  this 
city  he  grew  to  manhood  and  gained  his 
education.  His  work  in  the  public  schools 
was  supplemented  by  a  course  in  Butler 
College.  Then  followed  a  varied  routine 
of  employment  giving  him  much  expe- 
rience, so  that  he  was  well  qualified  for 
executive  responsibilities  when  in  1886  he 
entered  merchandising.  He  has  given  the 
closest  attention  to  all  the  details  of  a  pros- 
pering enterprise,  and  is  thoroughly 
skilled  in  all  departments  of  merchant  tail- 
oring and  many  of  his  oldest  and  most 
regular  customers  are  also  among  his  clos- 
est  friends. 

June  4,  1884,  Mr.  Kahn  married  Miss 
Sara  Lang,  daughter  of  Abraham  and 
Rosa  (Guggenheim)  Lang.  Her  parents 
came  to  Indianapolis  in  1870.  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Kahn  have  one  daughter,  Claribel. 
She  is  a  cultured  young  woman,  a  grad- 
uate of  Vassar  College,  and  is  now  the 
wife  of  Mortimer  C.  Furscott,  secretary 
of  the  Kahn  Tailoring  Company,  of  In- 
dianapolis. In  politics  Mr.  Kahn  is  a  re- 
publican but  has  never  manifested  any  de- 
sire to  hold  public  office. 

Casselman  Lee  Bruce  came  to  Elwood 
when  this  was  one  of  the  important  indus- 
trial centers  of  the  natural  gas  district  in 
Eastern  Indiana,  and  his  first  service  here 
was  with  one  of  the  old  glass  companies. 
For  the  past  twenty  years,  however,  he  has 
been  in  the  lumber  business  and  is  proprie- 
tor of  the  Heffner  Lumber  &  Coal  Com- 
pany, with  which  he  began  a  number  of 
years  ago  as  an  employe. 

Mr.  Bruce  was  born  in  Allegheny 
County,  Pennsylvania,  in  1874.  He  is  of 
Scotch  ancestry,  and  a  son  of  Charles  J. 
and  Phoebe  (Shrodes)  Bruce.  His  people 
during  the  many  generations  they  have 
been  in  America  have  been  chiefly  farmers 
and  merchants.  His  father  died  in  Penn- 
sylvania in  1885  and  his  mother  in  1887. 
Mr.  C.  L.  Bruce  had  one  brother  and  five 
sisters. 

He  was  born  on  a  farm  and  as  a  farm 
boy  attended  a  country  school  at  Sheffield, 
Pennsylvania.      At    a    very   early   age   he 


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began  working  during  the  summer  vaca- 
tions, and  at  the  age  of  nine  years  was  a 
boy  laborer  with  the  Phoenix  Glass  Com- 
pany at  Monaca,  Pennsylvania.  His  first 
position  was  as  "carrying  boy,"  and  when 
he  left  that  firm  in  1891  he  had  advanced 
several  degrees  in  the  art  and  trade  of  glass 
making.  Coming  to  Elwood  in  1891,  Mr. 
Bruce  went  to  work  for  the  McBeth  Glass 
Company  as  "gathering  boy,"  and  re- 
mained with  the  glass  works  there  until 
1899.  He  gave  up  the  trade  and  occu- 
pation of  glass  worker  to  operate  a  rip  saw 
with  the  lumber  yard  and  saw  mill  of  Lewis 
Heffner.  He  was  promoted  to  yard  fore- 
man and  finally  took  over  the  entire  busi- 
ness for  Mr.  Heffner,  and  under  his  man- 
agement it  has  grown  and  prospered  and  is 
one  of  the  largest  businesses  of  its  kind  in 
Madison  County.  Mr.  Heffner  lived  re- 
tired for  several  years  and  died  in  1916. 
The  business  is  now  lumber  and  coal,  build- 
ing supplies  and  material,  and  the  trade 
comes  from  all  the  country  ten  miles 
around  Elwood. 

Mr.  Bruce  also  owns  two  farms  aggregat- 
ing 340  acres,  and  is  thus  one  of  the  very 
substantial  citizens  of  Elwood.  In  1914 
he  was  republican  candidate  for  mayor  of 
that  city,  being  defeated  by  a  small  mar- 
gin. He  is  affiliated  with  Elwood  Lodge  of 
Masons,  Independent  Order  of  Odd  Fel- 
lows, Improved  Order  of  Red  Men,  Knights 
of  Pythias  and  all  the  auxiliaries  of  these 
orders.  He  was  state  treasurer  or  state 
keeper  of  wampum  for  the  order  of  Red 
Men  five  years,  1912  to  1917.  He  and  his 
family  are  members  of  the  First  Presby- 
terian Church,  and  for  ten  years  he  was 
an  elder  in  the  church  and  for  the  past 
fifteen  years  has  been  superintendent  of 
its  Sunday  school.  Thus  he  is  more  than  a 
successful  business  man,  and  his  interests 
go  out  to  all  institutions  and  movements 
that  affect  his  home  community  and  the 
nation. 

June  26,  1895,  Mr.  Bruce  married  Miss 
Abbie  Heffner,  daughter  of  Lewis,  and 
Emaline  (Ferguson)  Heffner  of  Elwood. 
They  have  a  family  of  nine  children,  five 
daughters  and  four  sons :  Vinnetta  Clair, 
born  June  26,  1896 ;  Charles  Lewis,  Jpom 
August  21,  1899;  Harper  Glenn,  born  May 
8,  1901 ;  Margaret  Lillian,  born  June  15, 
1903 ;  James  Samuel,  born  September  10, 
1904;  Emma  Esther,  born  June  5,  1906, 
and    died    December    12,    1914 ;    Roberta 


Olivia,  born  August  2,  1907  ;  Dorotha  Ruth, 
born  November  24,  1911 ;  and  Robert  Lee, 
born  August  26,  1913. 

Charles  Lewis  soon  after  graduating 
from  the  Elwood  High  School  enlisted  No- 
vember 24,  1917,  became  a  member  of  the 
medical  department  of  the  army  at  Camp 
Greenleaf  and  June  8,  1918,  landed  in  Eng- 
land and  in  a  few  days  was  transferred  to 
the  Forty-Second  Division,  or  Rainbow 
Division,  and  was  at  the  front  when  the 
armistice  was  signed.  He  is  at  Coblenz 
at  this  writing.  Vinetta  Clare,  the  oldest 
daughter,  spent  six  months  in  the  service 
of  the  Government  at  Washington,  from 
June  to  December,  1918.  Mr.  Bruce  is  a 
member  of  the  Chamber  of  Commerce  of 
Elwood. 

Mary  Wright  Sewall,  lecturer,  author 
and  prominent  in  the  cause  of  woman  suf- 
frage and  the  education  of  women,  is  promi- 
nently associated  with  the  National  Ameri- 
can Woman  Suffrage  Association  and  a 
former  and  honorary  president  of  the  In- 
ternational Council  of  Women  and  the 
National  Council  of  Women.  She  served 
as  a  United  States  delegate  to  the  Univer- 
sal Congress  of  Women  at  Paris,  in  1889, 
and  traveled  over  many  countries  of 
Europe  in  the  interest  of  the  Congress  of 
Representative  Women,  Chicago  Exposi- 
tion, of  which  she  was  the  chairman.  She 
also  served  as  delegate  to  congresses  meet- 
ing at  the  Halifax,  Ottawa,  London,  The 
Hague,  and  was  president  of  the  Interna- 
tional Congress  of  Women  Workers  for 
Permanent  Peace,  San  Francisco. 

Mrs.  Sewall  was  born  in  Milwaukee  May 
27,  1844,  a  daughter  of  Philander  and 
Mary  (Brackett)  Wright.  On  the  30th  of 
October,  1880,  she  was  married  to  Theodore 
L.  Sewall,  who  died  in  1895. 

Rev.  Lewis  Brown,  rector  of  St.  Paul's 
Episcopal  Church  at  Indianapolis,  has 
been  active  in  the  ministry  of  his  church 
more  than  thirty  j-ears.  His  work  has 
been  distinguished  by  a  high  degree  of  con- 
structive efficiency  and  also  by  scholarship 
and  an  influence  by  no  means  confined  to 
his  own  church  and  parish. 

Doctor  Brown  was  born  at  Cincinnati, 
Ohio,  June  4,  1855.  He  was  one  of  the 
five  children  of  David  Meeker  and  Lucy 
(At water)  Brown.  His  mother  was  a 
daughter   of   the  noted   Judge   Caleb  At- 


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water,  distinguished  as  an  archaeologist, 
educator,  and  historian.  Judge  Atwater 
was  author  of  the  first  comprehensive  his- 
tory of  Ohio,  and  was  also  known  as  the 
father  of  the  public  school  system  of  that 
state. 

Lewis  Brown  was  educated  in  the  public 
schools  of  his  native  city,  attended  the 
classical  department  of  Ottawa  University 
in  Kansas,  and  then  after  his  father's  death 
entered  the  banking  business  in  Cincinnati. 
He  finally  resumed  his  studies  in  prepa- 
ration for  the  ministry  at  Kenyon  Lollege, 
from  which  he  was  graduated  with  the 
degree  of  Bachelor  of  Divinity,  and  later 
he  received  the  degree  of  Doctor  of  Phil- 
osophy from  the  Northern  College  of  Illi- 
nois. '  In  his  active  ministry  he  spent 
eleven  years  in  Cincinnati,  six  years  at 
Battle  Creek,  Michigan,  and  in  1900  be- 
came rector  of  St.  Paul's  church  in  Indian- 
apolis. Doctor  Brown  is  independent  in 
politics  and  is  a  member  of  the  Sons  of  the 
American  Revolution  and  the  Society  of 
Colonial  Wars,  and  has  occupied  a  high 
place  in  Masonry.  He  has  been  a  member 
of  the  Standing  Committee  of  the  Diocese 
of  Indianapolis  and  a  deputy  to  the  gen- 
eral conventions  of  the  church  in  this 
country. 

Robert  Geddes,  vice  president  and 
treasurer  of  the  wholesale  drygoods  firm 
of  Havens  &  Geddes  Company,  of  Indian- 
apolis, is  one  of  the  oldest  active  business 
men  in  Indiana,  with  a  continuous  record 
as  a  salesman  and  merchant  of  more  than 
half  a  century.  For  many  years  his  home 
and  business  headquarters  were  at  Terre 
Haute. 

The  immediate  occasion  of  Mr.  Geddes' 
entrance  into  the  commercial  field  was  one 
of  those  circumstances  that  so  often  affect 
and  change  the  destinies  of  men.  In  the 
summer  of  1865,  then  a  young  man  of 
twenty-one,  Mr.  Geddes  was  working  hard 
to  raise  a  crop  on  the  homestead  farm  west 
of  Terre  Haute  in  Illinois.  In  August  of 
that  year  came  an  unprecedented  period 
of  cold,  followed  by  a  frost  which  blighted 
vegetation  and  spread  ruin  and  discour- 
agement among  all  the  farmers  of  that 
section.  There  was  no  immediate  remedy 
for  the  heavy  loss,  and  to  the  Geddes  fam- 
ily it  came  as  a  real  calamity. 

Robert  Geddes  lost  little  time  in  bewail- 
ing his  misfortune,  and  in   September  of 


the  same  year  went  to  work  as  a  salesman 
for  the  wholesale  dry  goods  house  of  Jef- 
fers  &  Miller  at  Terre  Haute.  From  that 
day  to  this  the  dry  goods  trade  has  ab- 
sorbed the  best  of  his  time  and  energies. 

Mr.  Geddes  is  a  native  of  Illinois,  born 
about  forty  miles  west  of  Terre  Haute  on 
December  24,  1844.    His  grandfather,  John 
Geddes,   was    a    Scotchman    and    came    to 
America  from  the  city  of  Edinburgh.    The 
father  of  the  Indianapolis  merchant  was 
James  R.  Geddes,  a  farmer  and  stockraiser 
and  later   a   merchant   at   Casey,   Illinois. 
Robert  Geddes,  the  oldest  son  among  seven 
children,   was   very  young  when  brought 
face  to  face  with  the  heavy  responsibilities 
of  life,  and  before  he  was  fifteen,  owing 
to  the  death  of  his  father,  was  taking  his 
part    with    his    mother   in   managing   the 
home  farm.     He  lived  in  his  native  county 
until  he  was  eighteen,  attending  the  com- 
mon schools  and  also  a  college  at  Marshall 
in  Clark  County,  Illinois.     Before  he  was 
eighteen  he   was   teaching,   and  he   spent 
two  years  in  the  graded  schools  of  Casey. 
The  organization  of  Jeffers  &  Miller  at 
Terre  Haute,  with  which  he  became  con- 
nected as  a  salesman  in  1865,  was  one  of 
the   notable   business    firms   of   that   city. 
Its  senior  proprietor,  U.  R.  Jeffers,  made 
a  fortune  as  a  merchant  at  Terre  Haute, 
and  it  is  said  that  he  was  the  pioneer  in 
developing  the  notion  trade  and  stocked  a 
number    of    large    covered    wagons    with 
goods   which   he   sold  throughout  a  large 
territory.     For  nine  years  Mr.  Geddes  re- 
mained  on   the   staff   of   salesmen   of   the 
firm.     Then,  on  January  1,  1874,  he  and 
Elisha  Havens  bought  the  business  of  Jef- 
fers &  Miller  and  re-established  it  under 
the  name  Havens  &  Geddes.     They  were 
worthy    successors    of    the    old    firm    and 
rapidly   developed   a   large  jobbing   trade 
with  connections  throughout  Indiana  and 
Illinois.     The  firm   continued  in  business 
at  Terre  Haute  until  a  fire  in  December, 
1898,   destroyed   the   wholesale  and  retail 
plants,  which  were  located  at  the  corner 
of  Fifth  and  Wabash  avenue.     After  that 
they  traded  their  ground  interest  for  the 
wholesale  house  of  D.   P.   Irwin  &   Com- 
pany on  South  Meridian  Street  in  Indian- 
apolis.    On  February  6,  1899,  the  Indian- 
apolis house  of  Havens  &  Geddes  Company 
began    business,    and    for    nearly    twenty 
years  it  has  occupied  a  place  of  prominence 
in  the  Indianapolis  wholesale  district. 


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While  living  at  Terre  Haute  Mr.  Geddes 
helped  organize  the  first  Board  of  Trade, 
was  its  first  president  and  for  a  number  of 
years  a  director.  He  is  a  member  of  the 
Columbia  and  Country  clubs,  the  Com- 
mercial Club,  the  Woodstock  Club,  the 
Chamber  of  Commerce  and  in  politics  is 
a  republican. 

December  19,  1878,  he  married  Miss  Ger- 
trude Parker.  They  have  three  children, 
Robert  Parker,  Felix  R.  and  R.  Went- 
worth.  The  youngest  died  at  the  age  of 
four  years.  The  other  sons  are  both  iden- 
tified with  the  business  house  of  their 
father,  and  Felix  was  a  member  of  the 
State  Legislature  of  1917. 

Joseph  Allerdice  has  been  a  figure  in 
the  commercial  history  of  Indianapolis  and 
Indiana  for  over  forty  years.  Largely 
through  him  the  Indianapolis  Abattoir 
Company  was  established,  and  his  efforts 
and  those  of  the  associates  whom  he  called 
to  his  assistance  developed  and  made  that 
business  prosper  for  thirty-five  years. 

Born  in  Glammis,  Forfarshire,  Scotland, 
June  4,  1846,  he  is  a  son  of  William  and 
Esther  M.  (McDonald)  Allerdice,  being 
one  of  their  nine  children,  six  still  living. 
His  father  was  a  tanner,  and  it  was  in  the 
leather  business  that  Joseph  Allerdice  had 
his  first  experience,  and  he  was  in  the  hide 
business  some  years  after  coming  to  In- 
dianapolis. 

In  the  latter  part  of  June,  1852,  when 
he  was  six  years  of  age,  he  and  his  parents 
sailed  from  Glasgow  for  New  York  in  the 
ship  George  Washington,  reaching  New 
York  after  a  voyage  of  forty-two  days. 
After  living  in  Lansingburg,  New  York, 
with  his  parents  for  about  five  years,  the 
family  moved  to  Saratoga  County,  New 
York. 

In  1863  Joseph  Allerdice  left  home  and 
accepted  a  position  with  a  leather  and 
findings  store  in  Saratoga.  He  remained 
there  about  two  years,  then  removed  to 
Toledo,  Ohio,  where  he  worked  in  a  leather 
store  about  three  years,  and  then  entered 
the  hide  business  on  his  own  account.  On 
December  23,  1869,  he  married  Miss  Mar- 
tha A.  McEnally,  who  was  a  school  teacher 
of  Indianapolis,  having  gone  there  from 
Clyde,  Ohio. 

In  1874  Mr.  Allerdice  came  to  Indian- 
apolis and  engaged  in  the  hide  business. 
In  1882  he  and  the  late  Edmund  Mooney 


and  the  latter 's  brother,  Thomas  Mooney, 
organized  the  Indianapolis  Abattoir  Com- 
pany. Mr.  Allerdice  was  elected  its  pres- 
ident and  general  manager  and  continued 
to  hold  that  office  until  May  20,  1917,  for 
a  period  of  about  thirty-five  years.  He 
retired  on  account  of  ill  health.  In  the 
meantime  the  business  had  a  remarkable 
growth.  During  1882-83  it  employed  about 
fifteen  men,  while  in  1917  it  is  one  of  the 
largest  concerns  of  its  kind  in  Indiana  and 
employs  about  600  men. 

Samuel  0.  Pickens.  A  member  of  the 
Indiana  bar  forty-four  years,  Samuel  0. 
Pickens  has  practiced  law  at  Indianapolis 
for  over  thirty  of  these  years,  and  his  long 
and  honorable  connection  with  the  law 
and  with  the  civic  life  of  his  home  com- 
munity and  state  makes  his  record  note- 
worthy among  Indianans. 

He  was  born  in  Owen  County,  Indiana, 
April  26,  1846,  a  son  of  Samuel  and  Eliza 
(Baldon)  Pickens,  both  natives  of  Ken- 
tucky. His  father  was  a  farmer.  Samuel 
O.  Pickens  grew  up  on  a  farm,  attended 
the  common  schools  of  Owen  County  and 
the  Academy  at  Spencer,  and  studied  in 
the  Indiana  State  University,  graduating 
LL.  B.  in  1873.  He  at  once  opened  his 
office  in  Spencer.  He  was  twice  elected 
prosecuting  attorney  of  the  Fifteenth  Ju- 
dicial Circuit,  composed  of  Morgan,  Owen 
and  Green  counties,  holding  the  office 
from  1877  to  1881. 

In  November,  1886,  Mr.  Pickens  became 
a  resident  of  Indianapolis,  and  has  de- 
voted himself  to  the  practice  of  law  and 
to  several  benevolent  institutions  reflecting 
the  religious  and  moral  enlightenment  of 
the  city  and  state.  He  is  senior  member 
of  the  law  firm  Pickens,  Moores,  Davidson 
and  Pickens. 

Mr.  Pickens  has  served  as  chairman  of 
the  Board  of  Trustees  of  the  Crawford 
Baptist  School  of  Zionsville,  Indiana,  and 
is  a  member  of  the  state  executive  commit- 
tee of  the  Indiana  Young  Men's  Christian 
Association.  Both  he  and  his  wife  are 
active  members  of  the  First  Baptist 
Church,  which  for  many  years  he  served 
as  trustee.  He  belongs  to  the  University 
and  Country  clubs.  Since  leaving  the  of- 
fice of  prosecuting  attorney  he  has  sought 
no  official  honors,  though  always  active  in 
behalf  of  the  democratic  organization. 

In  1872  Mr.  Pickens  married  Miss  Vir- 


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ginia  Franklin,  daughter  of  Judge  Wil- 
liam M.  Franklin,  of  Spencer.  Five  chil- 
dren were  born  to  their  marriage:  Vir- 
ginia, deceased,  Rush  F.,  Mary,  Owen 
and  Marguerite.  The  son  Rush  is  a  civil 
engineer  at  Indianapolis,  while  Owen  is  a 
lawyer  and  junior  member  of  the  firm  of 
his  father. 

Merritt  A.  Potter  is  one  of  the  older 
active  business  men  of  Indianapolis,  and 
for  forty  years  has  been  identified  with 
E.  C.  Atkins  &  Company,  beginning  as  an 
employe  and  achieving  partnership  and 
executive  responsibility  through  the  con- 
spicuous business  merits  he  possessed. 

Mr.  Potter  was  born  at  Clarkston,  Mich- 
igan, August  1,  1855,  a  son  of  Rev.  Aaron 
and  Frances  A.  (Shaw)  Potter.  His 
father  was  born  in  Waterford,  New  York, 
April  9,  1820,  was  liberally  educated,  at- 
tending Union  College  at  Schenectady  and 
the  Theological  School  at  Hamilton,  now 
a  department  of  Colgate  University.  In 
1851  he  married  Miss  Frances  A.  Shaw, 
who  was  born  at  Fort  Edward,  New  York, 
May  31,  1830.  In  the  same  year  they 
moved  to  Michigan,  where  he  entered  upon 
his  career  as  pastor  of  the  Baptist  Church. 
Later  he  had  a  pastorate  at  Sheboygan, 
Wisconsin,  and  finally  removed  to  Cham- 
paign, Illinois,  where  he  became  identified 
with  the  State  University  at  its  opening. 
He  died  in  1873.  Both  he  and  his  wife 
were  cultured  and  highly  educated  people, 
and  were  greatly  loved  for  their  nobility 
and  integrity  of  character.  They  had  a 
family  of  eight  children. 

Merritt  A.  Potter  received  his  early  edu- 
cation at  Sheboygan,  Wisconsin,  and  the 
University  of  Illinois.  His  business  career 
began  very  early,  when  only  fourteen  years 
of  age.  For  several  years  he  was  book- 
keeper in  a  dry  goods  store,  and  in  1873 
was  made  a  traveling  salesman  for  a  paper 
house  and  blank  book  concern.  Mr.  Pot- 
ter came  to  Indianapolis  in  1874,  was  a 
teacher  during  the  winter  of  1874-75,  and 
then  for  a  time  clerked  in  a  local  carpet 
house. 

In  the  fall  of  1878  he  entered  the  service 
of  E.  C.  Atkins  &  Company,  won  a  part- 
nership in  the  business  in  1881,  at  the  age 
of  twenty-six,  and  since  1885  has  been 
treasurer  of  the  company.  The  years  have 
been  devoted  to  business  affairs  and  with 
well  earned  success.     Mr.  Potter  is  a  mem- 


ber of  the  Woodstock  Club,  the  Contempo- 
rary Club,  the  Art  Association,  the  Com- 
mercial Club,  and  the  Board  of  Trade,  the 
First  Baptist  Church  and  in  politics  is  a 
republican.  On  October  17,  1881,  he  mar- 
ried Miss  Dora  A.  Butterfield.  She  was 
born  at  LaPorte,  Indiana,  December  15, 
1858,  and  died  June  26,  1890.  The  three 
children  of  this  marriage  are :  Helen 
Frances,  who  died  October  3,  1918 ;  Justin 
Albert,  who  married  Alice  Buckmaster,  of 
Portsmouth,  New  Hampshire,  and  they 
have  one  child,  Grace  Frances ;  and  Laura 
Agnes,  who  died  November  29,  1918,  was 
the  wife  of  Leslie  A.  Perry,  a  native  of 
Athol,  Massachusetts.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Perry 
were  the  parents  of  one  child,  Daura  Helen. 
June  29,  1909,  Mr.  Potter  married  Miss 
Mary  Katharine  Stiemmel,  a  native  of  Co- 
lumbus, Ohio.  Mrs.  Potter  is  treasurer  of 
the  Indianapolis  Young  Women 's  Christian 
Association,  is  Regent  of  Caroline  Scott 
Harrison  Chapter,  Daughters  of  the  Amer- 
ican Revolution,  and  Miss  Helen  Frances 
Potter  was  also  a  member  of  the  same  or- 
ganization. 

Henry  W.  Bennett  since  1877,  a  period 
of  forty  years,  has  occupied  a  conspicuous 
position  in  the  business  administration  and 
the  civic  and  political  life  of  Indianapolis. 

He  was  born  at  Indianapolis  August 
26,  1858,  was  educated  in  the  public 
schools  and  in  early  youth  entered  the  es- 
tablishment of  D.  Root  &  Company,  with 
which  his  father  was  identified.  This  man- 
ufacturing firm  was  succeeded  by  the  In- 
dianapolis Stove  Company,  organized  and 
incorporated  in  1877.  Henry  W.  Bennett, 
then  only  nineteen  years  of  age,  became 
secretary  and  treasurer  of  the  company. 
With  the  passing  years  this  company  be- 
came one  of  the  leading  manufacturing  in- 
dustries of  its  kind  in  the  United  States, 
with  an  output  distributed  to  practically 
every  section  of  the  Union.  The  success 
and  development  of  the  company  was  in 
no  small  degree  due  to  the  initiative  and 
progressive  ideas  of  Mr.  Bennett. 

Having  laid  the  foundation  of  a  success- 
ful business  career  Mr.  Bennett  manifested 
that  tendency  so  wholesome  in  America  to 
make  his  influence  felt  in  civic  and  politi- 
cal life.  He  has  been  an  active  leader  in 
the  republican  party  of  Indiana  since 
1890,  and  from  1898  to  1906  was  treasurer 
of  the  Indiana  Republican  State  Central 


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Committee.  While  his  position  and  influ- 
ence have  always  made  him  something  of 
a  public  character,  his  chief  official  dis- 
tinction was  as  postmaster  of  Indianapolis. 
He  was  appointed  postmaster  January  25, 
1905,  upon  the  recommendation  of  Senator 
Beveridge.  He  administered  the  postmas- 
tership  until  May  15,  1908.  During  his 
term  the  handsome  Federal  building  of  In- 
dianapolis was  completed  and  occupied. 

Mr.  Bennett  resigned  from  the  local 
postoffice  in  order  to  devote  himself  unre- 
servedly to  the  affairs  of  the  State  Life 
Insurance  Company  of  Indianapolis,  of 
which  he  had  been  elected  president  in 
1907.  This  is  one  of  the  strongest  and 
best  supported  life  insurance  organizations 
in  Indiana,  and  for  ten  years  its  affairs 
have  been  ably  directed  by  Mr.  Bennett. 

October  8,  1890,  he  married  Miss  Ariana 
Holliday.  She  was  born  and  reared  in  In- 
dianapolis, daughter  of  William  J.  and 
Lucy  (Redd)  Holliday.  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Bennett  have  two  children,  Edward 
Jacquelin  and  Louise. 

John  Francis  Seramur,  vice  president 
and  manager  of  the  Stein-Canaday  Com- 
pany, largest  and  best  known  furniture 
house  in  Anderson,  is  an  expert  in  the  fur- 
niture trade  and  manufacturing  circles, 
having  learned  the  business  in  all  its  details 
when  a  youth.  Mr.  Seramur  has  a  position 
as  a  business  man  in  Indiana  which  is  well 
reflected  in  the  fact  that  he  was  elected 
first  vice  president  of  the  Indiana  Retail 
Furniture  Dealers'  Association  in  the  La- 
fayette Convention  in  June,  1917,  while 
on  June  4,  1918,  he  was  elected  president 
of  the  association. 

Mr.  Seramur  was  born  at  Fayetteville, 
Ohio.  July  23,  1884.  His  parents,  John  W. 
and  Margaret  (Meighan)  Seramur,  are  now 
living  retired  on  their  old  homestead  farm. 
Mr.  Seramur  is  of  French  and  Irish  stock, 
and  the  family  has  been  in  America  at  least 
three  generations.  He  was  educated  in  the 
public  schools  and  graduated  with  honors 
from  the  Fayetteville  High  School. 

His  first  work  was  a  job  in  the  shipping 
room  of  Steinman  &  Myers,  furniture 
manufacturers  of  Cincinnati.  He  worked 
for  them  four  years,  and  neglected  no  op- 
portunity to  acquire  a  definite  and  thor- 
ough knowledge  of  furniture  manufactur- 
ing in  every  department.  He  then  became 
shipping  clerk  for  P.  Dine  &  Company  of 


Cincinnati,  and  was  subsequently  promoted 
to  salesman  and  for  nine  years  managed 
the  business. 

On  leaving  Cincinnati  Mr.  Seramur 
moved  to  Hartford  City,  Indiana,  and  for 
two  years  had  charge  of  the  furniture  de- 
partment of  A.  A.  Weiler  &  Company.  In 
1914  he  came  to  Anderson  as  manager  of 
the  Stein-Canaday  Company,  and  three 
3*ears  later,  on  January  1,  1918,  was  also 
elected  vice  president  of  the  company. 
This  company  handles  the  best  grades  of 
furniture  and  is  one  of  the  leading  houses 
of  its  kind  in  eastern  Indiana. 

In  1906  Mr.  Seramur  married  Bertha 
Bomkamp,  daughter  of  Augustus  and 
Mary  (Neimeyer)  Bomkamp,  of  Cincinnati. 
They  are  the  parents  of  six  children,  four 
sons  and  two  daughters.  Mr.  Seramur  is 
affiliated  with  the  Benevolent  and  Protec- 
tive Order  of  Elks,  the  Knights  of  Colum- 
bus, the  Rotary  Club  and  the  Travelers 
Protective  Association,  and  he  and  his  fam- 
ily worship  in  St.  Mary's  Catholic  Church. 

James  Whitcomb  Riley.  The  loved 
"Hoosier  Poet,"  James  Whitcomb  Riley, 
was  a  native  Indianan  and  Indiana  contin- 
ued his  home,  its  capital  city  claiming  him 
among  her  celebrated  residents.  He  was 
born  at  Greenfield  in  1853,  a  son  of  Reuben 
A.  and  Elizabeth  Riley.  As  early  as  1873 
Mr.  Riley  began  contributing  poems  to 
Indiana  papers,  and  his  facile  pen  since 
gave  to  the  world  many  contributions. 
Much  of  his  verse  is  in  the  Hoosier  dialect. 
Mr.  Riley  held  the  Honorary  A.  M.  de- 
gree from  Yale,  1902,  the  Litt.  D.,  degree, 
Wabash  College,  1903,  and  the  University 
of  Pennsylvania,  1904,  and  the  LL.  D.  de- 
gree, Indiana  University,  1907.  He  was  a 
member  of  the  American  Academy  of  Arts 
and  Letters. 

Howard  Shaw  Ruddy,  editor,  was  born 
August  22,  1856,  at  Bridgeport,  in  Law- 
rence County,  Illinois,  just  across  the 
Wabash  from  Vincennes,  Indiana.  His 
early  education  was  in  the  public  schools 
of  Lawrenceville  in  the  same  county.  He 
is  a  son  of  Matthew  Ruddy,  an  Irish  im- 
migrant farmer,  and  Elizabeth  Ann 
(Wheat)  Ruddy.  He  went  to  Vincennes 
in  1870,  and  was  successively  newspaper 
carrier,  chair  factory  worker,  grocery 
clerk,  and  billposter.  In  the  latter  work 
he  made  many  valuable  friends  among  the 


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business  section  of  the  theatrical  profes- 
sion in  the  '70s. 

Mr.  Ruddy  began  newspaper  work  in 
1876,  and  was  city  editor  of  the  Vincennes 
Sun  from  1878  to  1888,  during  which  time 
he  developed  an  interest  in  Indiana  his- 
tory that  still  abides.  He  made  a  depar- 
ture in  journalism  by  preparing  a  chro- 
nological record  of  the  year  1878,  which 
was  published  in  the  Western  Sun  Almanac 
and  Local  Register  of  1879,  and  which 
attracted  the  attention  of  Maj.  Orlando 
Jay  Smith,  one  of  the  notable  Indiana  edi- 
tors. Smith  was  born  near  Terre  Haute, 
June  14,  1842.  He  graduated  at  DePauw, 
enlisted  in  the  Sixteenth  Indiana  Regiment 
in  1861  and  served  during  the  war,  after 
which  he  was  successively  editor  of  the 
Mail,  Gazette  and  Express  at  Terre  Haute. 
From  there  he  went  to  New  York  City, 
where  he  founded  the  American  Press  As- 
sociation, of  which  he  was  president  after 
1881.  He  introduced  the  chronological 
record  into  his  press  plate  matter,  and 
gave  it  its  widespread  popularity. 

Mr.  Ruddy  went  east  in  1889,  locating 
at  Rochester,  New  York,  where  he  was 
employed  as  exchange  editor  on  the  Roch- 
ester Herald.  In  1893  he  was  given  the 
literary  department,  which  he  continues  to 
hold.  In  1905  he  was  appointed  and  con- 
tinues to  fill  the  position  of  associate  edi- 
tor. He  also  edited  a  volume,  "Book  Lov- 
ers' Verse"  in  1899.  One  evening  while 
calling  at  Mr.  Ruddy's  Rochester  home, 
Mr.  Lee  Burns — then  with  the  Bobbs- 
Merrill  Company — mentioned  the  desire  of 
the  house  for  a  new  romance.  Mr.  Ruddy 
handed  him  Law's  History  of  Vincennes, 
and  suggested  a  novel  based  on  it.  Mr. 
Burns  was  interested,  and  a  discussion  of 
the  possibilities  ensued.  The  idea  was  pre- 
sented to  the  house,  which  promptly  in- 
dorsed it,  and  after  consideration  proposed 
to  Maurice  Thompson  to  write  it. 

Mr.  Thompson,  who  at  the  time  was  in 
Florida,  had  just  finished  his  "Stories  of 
Indiana"  for  the  American  Book  Com- 
pany, and  accepted  the  proposition  with 
enthusiasm.  The  contract  was  soon  closed, 
and  the  result  was  "Alice  of  Old  Vin- 
cennes." Mr.  Ruddy  was  advised  of  the 
success  of  the  project,  and  made  several 
suggestions  for  the  treatment  of  the  sub- 
ject, particularly  giving  belated  justice  to 
Francis  Vigo.  In  recognition  of  his  serv- 
ices the  heroine  was  named   for  his  wife, 


Alice  (Gosnell)  Ruddy,  whom  he  married 
at  Lawrenceville,  February  14,  1877.  She 
is  a  daughter  of  Allen  C.  and  Mary  I.  Gos- 
nell, long  since  deceased.  The  only  fruits 
of  this  union  was  a  daughter,  Wanda  Alice, 
born  May  8,  1886,  now  Mrs.  Chester  A. 
Haak. 

Charles  F.  Koehler  is  a  well  known 
Indianapolis  merchant  whose  career  has 
been  out  of  the  ordinary,  both  with  respect 
to  its  experiences  and  its  accomplishments. 

He  was  born  in  Saxony,  Germany,  Feb- 
ruary 12,  1871,  son  of  Charles  F.  and  Car- 
oline (Wirrgang)  Koehler.  In  the  old 
country  his  father  was  a  miller.  In  1885, 
when  Charles  F.,  Jr.,  was  fourteen  years 
old,  the  family  came  to  America  and  lo- 
cated at  Indianapolis.  Here  the  father 
learned  the  trade  of  carpenter,  and  he  con- 
tinued to  follow  that  vocation  as  long  as 
he  was  physically  able.  He  is  still  living 
in  Indianapolis.  His  wife  died  here  in 
1908. 

The  second  in  a  family  of  ten  children, 
Charles  F.  Koehler  had  a  common  school 
education  during  his  life  in  Germany. 
When  the  family  came  to  Indianapolis 
they  were  in  humble  circumstances  and 
Charles  had  to  assume  some  of  the  respon- 
sibilities of  providing  for  his  own  way  and 
keeping  the  household  in  food  and  cloth- 
ing. The  day  after  his  arrival  in  the  city 
he  was  sent  into  the  country  and  secured 
employment  on  a  farm  for  a  man  named 
Lucas.  This  farm  where  he  had  his  pre- 
liminary labor  experience  in  America  is 
located  on  the  Churchman  Pike.  This  and 
other  work  busied  him  for  two  years,  and 
then  came  the  opportunity  which  he  made 
the  opening  for  his  real  life  work. 

Mr.  Koehler  was  put  on  the  payroll  of- 
the  Queiser  Grocery  House  on  Virginia 
Avenue  as  delivery  boy  and  clerk.  There 
was  nothing  about  the  store  in  form  of 
work  which  did  not  come  within  the  scope 
of  his  experience  and  his  assignment  dur- 
ing the  next  few  months.  But  busy  as  he 
was  in  the  day  he  helped  to  improve  his 
education  by  attending  a  night  school. 

Thirty  years  ago  Mr.  Koehler  with  his 
brother  William  opened  the  store  at  2122 
East  Tenth  Street,  and  in  that  locality  he 
has  been  ever  since.  His  entire  personal 
capital  at  the  beginning  was  only  six  dol- 
lars. Having  ability  and  some  friends  he 
borrowed  two   hundred  dollars,   and  that 


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was  the  foundation  of  a  rapidly  increasing 
enterprise  which  was  soon  more  than  pay- 
ing its  own  way  and  giving  the  brothers 
opportunity  to  discount  their  bills.  They 
continued  the  partnership  twenty-two 
years,  when  William  withdrew.  Since 
then  Mr.  C.  F.  Koehler  has  continued  busi- 
ness alone  and  has  a  large  and  well 
equipped  grocery  store  and  meat  market. 
His  success  is  due  to  the  application  of 
fundamental  business  principles  and  eth- 
ics, and  it  stands  out  the  more  remarkable 
because  at  the  start  he  was  little  more 
than  a  green  German  boy  without  even 
the  ability  to  express  himself  in  the  Eng- 
lish language. 

In  1900  Mr.  Koehler  married  Miss  Con- 
stance Grauel,  who  was  born  in  Wisconsin, 
daughter  of  Julius  Grauel.  They  have 
four  young  sons,  Arthur,  Carl,  Herbert  and 
Harold.  Mr.  Koehler  and  wife  are  active 
members  of  the  Butler  Memorial  Reformed 
Church.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Grocers 
Association,  and  fraternally  he  has  affilia- 
tions with  Brookside  Lodge  of  the  Knights 
of  Pythias  and  with  Lodge  No.  18  of  the 
Independent  Order  of  Odd  Fellows.  A 
few  years  ago  Mr.  Koehler  bought  a  farm 
of  eighteen  acres  near  the  city  on  Pendle- 
ton Pike,  and  this  is  the  summer  home  of 
the  family.  Mr.  Koehler  is  extremely 
loyal  to  the  land  of  his  adoption,  where  his 
opportunities  developed  themselves,  and 
recently  he  has  responded  generously  to 
the  cause  of  this  country's  prosperity  by 
investing  heavily  in  Liberty  Loan  Bonds 
and  Thrift  Stamps. 

John  A.  Soltau  has  been  a  merchant 
and  business  man  of  Indianapolis  thirty- 
six  years.  He  is  one  of  those  fortunate 
men  who  as  they  reach  their  declining 
years  find  themselves  relieved  of  their 
heaviest  responsibilities  through  the  coop- 
eration of  their  sons.  Mr.  Soltau  has  five 
vigorous  sons,  all  good  business  men,  and 
handling  most  of  the  actual  work  of  the 
two  grocery  stores  of  which  he  is  proprie- 
tor, one  at  2133  East  Michigan  Street  and 
the  other  at  301  Sherman  Drive. 

Mr.  Soltau  was  born  in  Holstein,  Ger- 
many, November  17,  1847,  son  of  Jergen 
and  Rebecca  (Schumacher)  Soltau.  His 
grandfather  Soltau  was  a  native  of  France. 
Jergen  Soltau,  leaving  his  family  behind, 
came  to  America  in  1854  and  joined  an 
uncle  in  the  gold  fields  of  California.  After 


three  years  of  western  life  and  experience 
he  returned  to  the  middle  west  by  way  of 
the  Panama  Canal  and  then  as  a  pioneer 
penetrated  the  woods  and  prairies  of  Min- 
nesota, which  was  still  a  territory.  In  Le- 
Seuer  County  he  pre-empted  160  acres  of 
government  land.  After  getting  this  land 
and  making  some  provisions  for  their  com- 
fort he  had  his  wife  and  three  children 
come  on  in  1857.  They  embarked  on  the 
sailing  vessel  Bertrand,  and  after  twenty- 
eight  days  at  sea  landed  in  New  York. 
John  A.  Soltau  was  ten  years  old  when  he 
made  that  eventful  journey  to  the  New 
World.  Jergen  Soltau  developed  a  good 
farm  in  Minnesota  and  was  quite  active 
in  local  politics  in  LeSeuer  County  as  a  re- 
publican. A  few  years  before  his  death 
he  sold  his  Minnesota  property  and  came 
to  Indianapolis.  He  died  in  1895,  at  the 
age  of  seventy-five,  and  his  wife  passed 
away  in  1880,  aged  fifty-five.  They  had 
six  children :  John  A. ;  Henry,  who  resides 
in  Minnesota ;  Lena  Theis ;  Bertha,  wife  of 
A.  H.  Seebeck,  of  Redwood  Falls,  Minne- 
sota ;  George,  of  Minnesota ;  and  Peter  W., 
superintendent  of  Oakwood  Park,  Wa- 
wasee  Lake  at  Syracuse,  Indiana. 

John  A.  Soltau  after  coming  to  America 
spent  most  of  his  time  working  with  his 
father  on  the  pioneer  Minnesota  home- 
stead, and  consequently  his  school  days 
were  limited.  In  1868,  at  the  age  of 
twenty-one,  he  went  to  St.  Paul,  learned 
the  carpenter's  trade  and  worked  at  it  dil- 
igently until  1871. 

Mr.  Soltau  has  been  a  resident  of  Indian- 
apolis since  1871,  and  his  first  employment 
here  was  as  foreman  for  the  building  con- 
tractor Conrad  Bender.  He  was  a  good 
workman,  was  also  thrifty  and  looked 
ahead  to  the  future,  and  about  ten  years 
after  coming  to  this  city  he  used  his  capi- 
tal to  open  his  first  grocery  store. at  David- 
son and  Ohio  streets.  That  was  his  place 
of  business  for  thirty  consecutive  years. 
He  closed  out  his  store  there  and  became 
established  in  a  better  location  at  2133 
East  Michigan  Street,  and  subsequently 
opened  his  other  store  on  Sherman  Drive. 

Soon  after  coming  to  Indianapolis,  in 
1873,  Mr.  Soltau  married  Elizabeth  Koeh- 
ler, daughter  of  William  Koehler.  Mrs. 
Soltau  was  born  in  Indianapolis,  her  birth- 
place being  not  far  from  the  present  Union 
Station.  She  was  born  April  7,  1851.  Her 
father,  William  Koehler,  was  a  native  of 


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Germany  and  for  a  number  of  years  con- 
ducted a  restaurant  in  the  old  Market 
House.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Soltau 's  five  sons, 
all  associated  with  their  father  in  the  gro- 
cery business,  are  named  William,  Edward, 
John,  Garfield,  and  Benjamin. 

For  a  number  of  years  Mr.  Soltau  took 
an  active  part  in  local  politics,  voting  and 
working  for  the  success  of  the  republican 
party.  Of  recent  years  he  has  been  a  pro- 
hibitionist. He  is  one  of  the  prominent 
members  of  the  Evangelical  Association 
Church  at  New  York  and  North  East 
streets,  has  served  twenty-five  years  as  a 
member  of  its  board  of  trustees,  and  was 
also  a  teacher  in  its  Sunday  school.  The 
Soltau  family  reside  at  604  Jefferson  Ave- 
nue. This  comfortable  home,  now  in  one 
of  the  attractive  residential  districts  of 
the  city,  was  when  built  at  the  very  edge 
of  the  city  and  surrounded  by  cornfields. 

Charles  C.  Perry,  president  of  the  In- 
dianapolis Light  and  Heat  Company,  has 
an  interesting  personal  record.  His  father 
was  one  of  the  substantial  men  of  Rich- 
mond, Indiana,  but  the  son  early  showed 
an  independence  and  self  reliance  which 
prompted  him  to  earn  his  own  spending 
money.  He  carried  a  city  newspaper 
route  while  attending  school,  worked  as  a 
messenger  boy  for  the  Pittsburg,  Cincin- 
nati, Chicago  &  St.  Louis  Railway,  and 
applied  all  his  spare  hours  to  the  diligent 
use  of  a  borrowed  telegraph  instrument 
and  mastered  telegraphy.  Once  on  the 
pay  roll  as  a  regular  operator,  he  showed 
a  skill  in  handling  the  key  and  also  an 
ability  to  take  increasing  responsibilities. 
He  was  eventually  made  manager  of  the 
Western  Union  Telegraph  Company  at 
Richmond,  a  position  he  filled  from  1880 
to  1884. 

Mr.  Perry  came  to  Indianapolis  in  1886 
to  represent  the  Jenny  Electric  Company, 
and  his  principal  field  of  business  activity 
has  always  been  with  something  connected 
with  electrical  or  public  utility  plants.  In 
1888  he  became  one  of  the  financiers  of  the 
Marmon-Perry  Light  Company,  and  in 
1892  was  one  of  the  chief  promoters  of 
the  Indianapolis  Light  &  Power  Company, 
Avhich  since  1904  has  been  the  Indianapolis 
Light  &  Heat  Company.  Of  this  import- 
ant local  public  utility  Mr.  Perry  has  been 
president  and  treasurer  for  a  number  of 
years. 


He  was  born  at  Richmond  in  Wayne 
County  December  15,  1857.  His  father, 
Dr.  Joseph  James  Perry,  was  born  and 
reared  and  received  his  professional  edu- 
cation in  Somersetshire,  England,  where  the 
family  had  lived  for  many  generations.  He 
came  to  America  in  1840,  practiced  for  ten 
years  at  Detroit,  Michigan,  and  in  1850 
removed  to  Richmond,  Indiana,  which  was 
his  home  until  his  death  in  1872.  During 
the  Civil  war  he  was  appointed  a  surgeon 
of  the  Forty-second  United  States  Infantry 
in  1864  and  was  with  the  command  until 
mustered  out.  He  was  a  very  capable 
physician  and  surgeon  and  highly  honored 
citizen  of  Richmond.  He  was  prominent  in 
religious  affairs  and  was  founder  of  Grace 
Methodist  Episcopal  Church  at  Richmond 
and  filled  some  office  in  the  organization 
until  his  death.  His  second  wife  was  Miss 
Ruth  Moffitt,  who  was  born  at  Richmond  in 
1821.  Their  only  child  is  Charles  C.  Perry. 
The  latter  in  addition  to  the  advantages  of 
the  Richmond  public  schools  attended  Earl- 
ham  College  for  a  time.  Mr.  Perry  is  a 
republican  in  politics.  He  is  a  member  of 
the  Board  of  Trade  and  the  Commercial 
Club,  the  Columbia  Club  and  has  served 
as  a  trustee  of  the  Indianapolis  Young 
Woman's  Christian  Association.  He  mar- 
ried Miss  Capitola  Adams,  daughter  of  T. 
J.  Adams,  of  Indianapolis. 

Mr.  Perry  is  a  patriotic  American,  and 
a  local  publication  recently  paid  him  honor 
in  its  columns  in  commenting  on  his  mil- 
itary work.     The  article  was  as  follows: 

"When  Company  C  of  the  Indiana  State 
Militia  was  organized  recently,  Charles  C. 
Perry,  president  of  the  Indianapolis  Light 
and  Heat  Company,  entered  the  ranks  as 
a  private  in  order  that  he  might  make  an 
indelible  impression  upon  the  minds  of  his 
associates  of  the  great  necessity  of  obtain- 
ing a  military  education,  especially  at  a 
time  when  this  country  is  an  epoch-mak- 
ing period. 

"Upon  being  asked,  at  a  meeting  last 
week,  why  a  man  engaged  actively  in  busi- 
ness and  with  pressing  diities  should  desire 
to  take  up  military  duty,  he  said :  '  I  '11  tell 
you,  I  am  60  years  old,  but  the  man  doesn't 
live  in  this  country,  if  he  is  every  inch 
an  American,  whose  blood  doesn't  boil  in 
these  days.  No  matter  his  age,  he  wants 
to  fight,  '  He  should  fight.  I  feel  too.  that 
no  man's  affairs  are  too  big,  too  important 
that  he  can  afford  to  stand  aside  when  his 


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country  needs  him.  The  head  of  the  big- 
gest corporation  mustn't  shirk  responsibil- 
ity when  the  boys  under  him  aren't  trying 
to.'" 

Frank  D.  Stalnaker.  It  is  as  a  banker 
that  this  name  is  most  widely  known 
throughout  the  central  west.  Mr.  Stal- 
naker is  now  president  of  the  Indiana  Na- 
tional Bank,  and  is  the  fourth  man  to 
succeed  to  the  responsibilities  of  that  office 
during  the  half  century  this  institution 
has  been  in  existence.  One  of  the  largest 
banks  in  the  central  west,  Mr.  Stalnaker 's 
responsibilities  are  correspondingly  great, 
and  the  honor  is  befitting  one  who  has  been 
identified  with  local  banking  in  practically 
every  capacity  and  stage  of  service  from 
clerk  to  executive  head. 

Mr.  Stalnaker  has  been  a  resident  of 
Indiana  the  greater  part  of  his  life,  and 
his  mother  was  born  in  this  state.  His 
own  birth  occurred  at  Bloomfield,  Davis 
County,  Iowa,  December  31,  1859.  His 
father,  Lemuel  E.  Stalnaker,  was  born  at 
Parkersburg,  West  Virginia,  was  reared 
and  educated  in  that  state,  and  became 
a  pioneer  of  Iowa.  For  a  number  of  years 
he  was  engaged  in  business  as  contractor 
and  builder  at  Sioux  City,  and  then 
removed  to  Cambridge  City,  Indiana,  where 
as  superintendent  of  the  Car  Works  he 
remained  until  1879.  In  that  year  he 
brought  his  family  to  Indianapolis  and  was 
superintendent  of  the  old  Car  Works  on 
the  site  later  occupied  by  the  Atlas  Engine 
Works.  When  the  manufacture  of  cars 
was  abandoned  in  this  plant  he  removed  to 
Tennessee,  and  he  died  at  McMinnville  at 
the  age  of  sixty-eight.  He  married  at 
Sioux  City,  Iowa,  Miss  Martha  J.  Jamie- 
son.  After  his  death  she  returned  to  In- 
diana and  lived  at  Indianapolis  until  her 
death  at  the  age  of  sixty-five.  They  were 
the  parents  of  three  children :  Frank  D., 
William  E.  and  Olive,  who  married  Charles 
Faidkner. 

With  his  early  education  in  the  public 
schools  of  Sioux  City,  Iowa,  and  Cambridge 
City,  Indiana,  Frank  D.  Stalnaker  was 
twenty  years  old  when  he  came  with  the 
family  to  Indianapolis.  Here  he  completed 
a  course  in  a  business  college,  and  from 
that  went  into  clerkship  in  a  local  bank. 
It  is  evident  that  Mr.  Stalnaker  made  no 
mistake  in  his  choice  of  a  business  career. 
He  early  earned  the  confidence  of  his  sen- 


iors and  made  every  item  of  his  growing 
experience  a  factor  in  further  advance- 
ment. One  of  his  first  important  promo- 
tions in  the  banking  field  was  when  he  suc- 
ceeded William  Wallace  at  his  death  as  re- 
ceiver for  the  Fletcher  &  Sharpe  Bank. 
Though  a  comparatively  young  man,  he 
handled  the  affairs  of  this  institution  with 
such  ability  and  discrimination  that  when 
the  receivership  ended  in  1893  he  had  ac- 
complished all  that  could  have  been  ex- 
pected and  as  a  result  was  in  a  position 
to  connect  himself  with  still  higher  honors 
and  responsibilities.  After  that  he  was 
actively  connected  with  other  local  banks 
until  June,  1906,  when  he  was  elected  pres- 
ident of  the  old  Capital  National  Bank. 
Then  a  few  years  ago  he  succeeded  the 
venerable  Volney  T.  Malott  as  president 
of  the  Indiana  National  Bank,  a  position 
which  in  itself  is  one  of  the  highest  honors 
to  which  a  financier  could  attain. 

Along  with  banking  Mr.  Stalnaker  has 
over  thirty  years  been  a  factor  in  other 
commercial  affairs  in  Indianapolis.  In 
1885,  at  the  age  of  twenty-six,  he  became 
associated  with  James  W.  Lilly  under  the 
name  Lilly  and  Stalnaker  in  the  hardware 
business.  Beginning  as  a  modest  enter- 
prise, the  two  partners  carried  it  forward 
until  it  came  to  rank  as  one  of  the  leading 
wholesale  and  retail  hardware  houses  of 
the  state. 

Outside  of  his  private  business  affairs 
Mr.  Stalnaker  has  been  a  willing  coworker 
in  many  of  those  movements  and  organiza- 
tions which  have  created  the  Greater  In- 
dianapolis. He  has  served  as  president  of 
the  Merchants  Association,  for  two  years 
was  president  of  the  Indianapolis  Board 
of  Trade  and  the  Board  of  Trade  Build- 
ing was  completed  during  his  administra- 
tion, was  one  of  the  first  Board  of  Direc- 
tors of  the  Commercial  Club,  was  secretary 
for  two  years  and  in  1903  president  of  the 
Columbia  Club,  and  has  membership  in 
the  University  Club  and  the  Country  Club. 
He  is  a  thirty-second  degree  Scottish  Bite 
Mason,  a  member  of  the  Mystic  Shrine,  and 
for  many  years  has  been  a  leader  in  the 
republican  party  in  the  state.  At  one 
time  he  was  treasiTrer  of  the  Bepublican 
State  Central  Committee.  Mr.  Stalnaker 
married  October  8,  1890,  Miss  Maude  Hill, 
who  died  in  1910.  She  was  a  native  of 
Indianapolis,  but  was  reared  in  Milwaukee 
and  Chicago.     Her  father,  James  B.  Hill, 


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was  at  one  time  general  freight  agent  for 
the  Pennsylvania  Railroads  west  of  Pitts- 
burg. Mr.  Stalnaker  has  one  daughter, 
by  that  marriage,  Marjorie.  On  August 
25,  1914,  he  married  Mrs.  Cecilia  Mausun 
Wulsin. 

Andrew  Smith.  As  the  happiest  na- 
tions are  those  shorn  of  annals,  so  perhaps 
the  individuals  are  those  whose  lives  pre- 
sent none  of  the  abnormal  eventfulness  and 
experience  which  is  found  in  works  of  fic- 
tion. Uneventfulness  has  perhaps  no  di- 
rect or  vital  connection  with  real  substan- 
tial achievement,  as  the  career  of  Mr.  An- 
drew Smith  of  Indianapolis  abundantly 
proves. 

Mr.  Smith  has  spent  all  his  life  in  In- 
dianapolis and  is  a  son  of  Andrew  Smith, 
Sr.,  who  came  from  near  Belfast,  Ireland, 
to  the  United  States.  He  was  of  Scotch 
parentage.  Andrew  Smith,  Sr.,  located  at 
Indianapolis,  and  was  one  of  the  early 
locomotive  engineers  on  the  I.  &  C.  Rail- 
road. In  1865  he  transferred  his  service 
to  the  Indianapolis,  Peru  and  Chicago 
Railroad,  and  remained  faithful,  compe- 
tent and  diligent  in  its  service  until  his 
death  in  1893.  Andrew  Smith,  Sr.,  is  re- 
membered as  a  man  of  practical  education 
and  particularly  for  his  great  love  of 
Scotch  poetry.  He  knew  Bobby  Burns  al- 
most by  heart,  and  could  recite  that  fa- 
mous bard's  works  and  others  of  Scotland 
seemingly  without  end.  He  was  a  hard 
worker,  though  he  was  an  equally  liberal 
provider  for  his  children  and  family,  and 
never  accumulated  what  would  have  suf- 
ficed for  a  competency.  About  1855  he 
married  Catherine  Kennington.  Of  their 
eight  children  five  are  still  living. 

Andrew  Smith,  Jr.,  was  born  at  Indian- 
apolis November  8, 1860.  He  was  educated 
in  public  schools  and  in  1875,  at  the  age 
of  fifteen,  went  to  work  as  a  messenger 
boy  for  the  Western  Union  Telegraph 
Company.  In  the  intervals  of  carrying 
messages  he  was  diligent  in  his  practice  at 
the  telegraph  key  and  mastered  the  art  so 
rapidly  that  in  a  few  months  he  was  work- 
ing as  telegrapher  for  the  grain  firm  of 
Fred  P.  Rush  &  Company.  He  remained 
with  them  one  year,  and  in  1877  found  a 
more  promising  opening  as  an  employe  in 
the  Fletcher  Bank.  He  was  with  that  in- 
stitution twenty-two  years,  and  for  sixteen 
of  those  years  was  paying  teller. 


In  1900,  upon  the  organization  of  the 
American  National  Bank,  Mr.  Smith  be- 
came assistant  cashier.  In  1904  he  was 
made  vice  president  of  the  Capitol  Na- 
tional Bank.  In  1912,  when  the  Capitol 
consolidated  with  the  Indiana  National 
Bank,  Mr.  Smith  joined  the  latter  institu- 
tion and  has  since  been  its  vice  president. 

Continuous  since  1903  Mr.  Smith  has  be- 
come well  known  among  Indiana  bankers 
as  secretary  of  the  Indiana  Bankers  Asso- 
ciation. He  is  a  member  of  the  American 
Bankers  Association,  was  for  several  years 
treasurer  of  the  Indianapolis  Chamber  of 
Commerce,  is  a  member  of  the  German 
House,  the  Maennerchor,  and  fraternally 
is  affiliated  with  the  Knights  of  Pythias 
and  in  Masonry  has  attained  the  thirty- 
second  degree  of  Scottish  Rite  and  is  a 
member  of  the  Mystic  Shrine.  Mr.  Smith 
is  a  republican. 

Away  from  business  his  chief  interest 
and  hobby  is  music.  He  was  director  and 
treasurer  for  a  time  of  the  old  May  Music 
Festival  Association.  He  has  sung  in  va- 
rious church  choirs  of  the  city  and  at 
present  has  charge  of  the  choir  of  the 
First  Congregational  Church.  September 
15,  1886,  Mr.  Smith  married  Miss  Katie 
Wenger,  daughter  of  Michael  and  Cath- 
erine Wenger.  They  have  one  son,  George 
Andrew  Smith. 

George  J.  Eberhardt,  who  has  been  a 
resident  of  Indianapolis  since  March,  1875, 
is  a  prominent  and  well  known  manu- 
facturer of  the  city.  Mr.  Eberhardt  .is  an 
American  citizen  whose  loyalty  was  ex- 
pressed as  a  Union  soldier  during  the  days 
of  the  Civil  war,  and  one  of  his  grandsons 
is  now  doing  duty  with  the  American 
armies  in  the  World  war. 

He  was  born  on  a  farm  in  Butler  County, 
Ohio,  May  14,  1843,  one  of  a  large  family 
of  seventeen  children,  ten  of  whom  reached 
maturity.  His  parents,  John  George  and 
Louisa  (Bieler)  Eberhardt,  were  both  na- 
tives of  Wurtemberg,  Germany,  where  they 
were  married.  The  father  was  involved  in 
some  of  the  early  revolutionary  troubles 
of  Germany  and  'finally  left  that  country 
altogether  and  brought  his  family  to  the 
United  States.  He  located  in  Butler 
County,  and  he  and  his  wife  spent  the  rest 
of  their  years  on  a  farm  there. 

Mr.  George  J.  Eberhardt  grew  up  on  a 
farm    in    that    county,    attended    district 


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school  in  a  limited  way,  and  as  soon  as 
old  enough  developed  his  strength  by  the 
duties  of  the  home.  He  was  only  eighteen 
when  on  October  17,  1861,  he  enlisted  in 
the  Union  army  in  Company  I  of  the  Fifth 
Ohio  Cavalry.  He  served  continuously  un- 
til his  honorable  discharge  November  29, 
1864.  He  was  appointed  corporal  Septem- 
ber 30,  1864,  and  was  discharged  with  that 
rank.  He  first  took  part  in  the  battle  of 
Shiloh,  then  at  Corinth,  then  went  to  Chat- 
tanooga, and  was  in  Lew  Wallace's  Brigade 
during  the  charge  up  Lookout  Mountain. 
He  was  under  Sherman  at  Missionary 
Ridge,  and  was  in  the  continuous  fighting 
from  that  time  until  the  final  reduction  of 
Atlanta.  At  the  beginning  of  the  Chat- 
tanooga campaign  he  was  orderly  for  Gen- 
eral Sherman,  and  subsequently  served  in 
the  same  position  for  General  Logan.  At 
Resaca  he  was  injured  by  the  fall  of  a 
horse. 

His  patriotic  duty  done  after  the  war 
Mr.  Eberhardt  returned  to  Ohio  and  for 
several  years  was  a  farmer  and  also  oper- 
ated a  threshing  machine.  Going  to  Ham- 
ilton, Ohio,  he  spent  five  years  employed 
in  a  brewery,  and  was  similarly  employed 
at  Indianapolis  the  first  five  years  after  he 
came  to  this  city.  Later  he  worked  for  the 
old  wholesale  dry  goods  house  of  Murphy 
&  Hibben.  In  1890  Mr.  Eberhardt  bought 
a  tent  and  awning  manufacturing  business. 
He  has  kept  that  business  growing  and 
prospering,  and  has  made  it  one  of  the  suc- 
cessful industries  of  the  city.  Mr.  Eber- 
hardt is  a  member  of  the  St.  John  Evan- 
gelical Reformed  Church  and  in  politics  is 
a  republican. 

May  19,  1868,  half  a  century  ago,  he 
married  Miss  Emma  Theis.  She  was  born 
at  Hamilton,  Butler  County,  Ohio,  April  3, 
1848,  daughter  of  Seibert.  and  Elizabeth 
(Metz)  Theis.  Her  parents  were  natives 
of  Hesse  Darmstadt,  Germany,  and  came  to 
the  United  States  in  1842.  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Eberhardt  became  the  parents  of  seven 
children:  Ferdinand,  Elizabeth,  Frank 
George,  one  that  died  in  infancy,  Ida 
Marie,  Arthur  W.  and  Caroline,  the  latter 
a  teacher  in  the  public  schools  of  Indian- 
apolis. Ferdinand,  who  is  president  of  the 
Compac  Tent  Company  of  Indianapolis, 
married  Minnie  "Weller,  and  their  son 
Frank  George  is  now  a  sergeant  major  in 
the  United  States  Army  in  France,  con- 
nected with  the  aviation  department.     The 


son  Frank  George  died  in  April,  1912,  and 
by  his  marriage  to  Stella  Bash  had  one 
daughter,  Alice  Emma.  The  daughter  Ida 
Marie  is  the  wife  of  Eugene  Bottke,  and 
has  a  son  named  Carl.  Arthur  W.  is  asso- 
ciated with  his  father  in  business,  and 
has  a  daughter,  Janet,  by  his  marriage  to 
Ora  Elder. 

Addison  C.  Harris,  a  lawyer  of  note  and 
president  of  the  Indiana  Bar  Association, 
was  born  in  Wayne  County,  Indiana,  Oc- 
tober 1,  1840.  He  was  admitted  to  the 
bar  in  1865,  and  engaged  in  practice  in 
Indianapolis,  which  city  is  still  his  home. 
During  1877-79  Mr.  Harris  served  as  a 
member  of  the  Indiana  Senate,  and  a  few 
years  later,  in  1888,  was  a  candidate  for 
Congress,  while  in  1899-1901  he  was  con- 
nected with  foreign  affairs  in  Austria-Hun- 
gary. His  political  affiliations  are  with 
the  republican  party. 

On  the  8th  of  May,  1868,  Mr.  Harris 
married  India  C.  Crago,  of  Connersville, 
Indiana. 

Frank  R.  Manning  is  one  of  the  alert 
and  progressive  business  men  of  Newcastle, 
member  of  the  firm  Manning  and  Arm- 
strong, plumbing,  heating  and  electrical 
contracting. 

Mr.  Manning  was  born  near  Maysville, 
Kentucky,  in  1889,  son  of  B.  P.  and  Lettie 
(Horton)  Manning.  He  is  of  Scotch-Irish 
ancestry,  and  most  of  his  ancestors  have 
been  identified  with  agriculture.  As  a  boy  in 
Kentucky  he  attended  the  country  schools 
and  helped  on  the  farm.  In  1903,  when 
he  was  fourteen  years  old,  his  parents 
moved  to  Knightstown,  Indiana,  where  soon 
afterward  he  obtained  work  in  a  buggy 
factory.  Later  for  two  years  he  was  in  the 
Action  Department  of  the  French  &  Sons 
Piano  Company.  He  acquired  a  practical 
knowledge  of  gasfitting  with  the  Indiana 
Public  Service  Company  for  a  year  and  a 
half,  and  with  other  firms  gained  an  expert 
knowledge  of  plumbing  and  heating.  Fin- 
ally he  capitalized  his  experience  and  pro- 
ficiency by  joining  Mr.  R.  J.  Armstrong 
under  the  name  Manning  &  Armstrong, 
and  they  have  developed  a  business  of  sub- 
stantial proportions  reaching  far  out  in  the 
country  districts  of  Henry  County. 

In  1913  Mr.  Manning  married  Miss 
Eugene  Poindexter,  daughter  of  J.  J.  Poin- 
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Eugene,  born  in  1914.  Mr.  Manning  votes 
independently  in  local  affairs  but  is  a  strong 
supporter  of  President  Wilson  in  the  na- 
tional and  international  policies  of  the  pres- 
ent administration.  He  and  his  wife  are 
members  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal 
Church.  Mr.  Manning  has  depended  upon 
his  own  efforts  to  advance  him  in  life, 
and  with  good  ability,  honest  intentions 
and  straightforward  performance  has  gone 
far  along  the  road  to  success. 

Charles  Otis  Dodson  was  a  successful 
merchant  and  business  man  of  Indianap- 
olis before  his  name  was  associated  with 
any  important  public  office.  He  was  ap- 
pointed to  fill  an  unexpired  term  as  sheriff 
of  Marion  County,  and  the  courts  of  jus- 
tice never  had  a  more  prompt  and  effi- 
cient administrative  officer. 

His  home  has  been  in  Indianapolis  since 
early  childhood,  but  he  was  born  in  Coles 
County,  Illinois,  September  10,  1878.  His 
grandfather  Dodson  was  a  Civil  war 
soldier.  His  father  is  William  T.  Dodson, 
who  for  many  years  has  been  a  salesman 
representing  furniture  stores  and  factories. 
Sheriff  Dodson 's  mother  was  a  Robinson, 
of  the  noted  family  of  that  name  long  con- 
spicuous in  the  circus  and  show  business. 

The  schools  Sheriff  Dodson  attended 
when  a  boy  were  schools  Nos.  5  and  15  in 
Indianapolis.  He  was  only  a  lad  when 
he  entered  the  grocery  establishment  of 
O.  F.  Calvin  on  West  Washington  Street. 
He  drove  a  delivery  wagon  for  that  firm 
several  years,  was  promoted  to  salesman, 
and  twelve  years  from  the  time  he  began 
work  he  was  in  a  position  to  buy  out  the 
business.  He  became  proprietor  in  June, 
1903,  the  store  having  in  the  meantime 
been  moved  to  545  Indiana  Avenue.  Mr. 
Dodson  was  one  of  the  enterprising  grocers 
of  the  city  until  1915,  when  he  retired  from 
business  to  accept  the  position  of  inspector 
of  weights  and  measures  for  Marion  Coun- 
ty. Then  when  Sheriff  Coffin  left  the 
county  government  to  become  chief  of 
police  of  the  city  Mr.  Dodson  was  appointed 
his  successor,  holding  the  office  until  Janu- 
ary 1,  1919. 

He  has  been  a  factor  in  republican  party 
affairs  through  a  number  of  state  and  local 
campaigns.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Marion 
Club,  is  a  Scottish  Rite  Mason  and  Shriner, 
and  is  affiliated  with  the  Knights  of  Py- 
thias and  the  Fraternal  Order  of  Eagles. 


November  4,  1903,  Mr.  Dodson  married 
Miss  Minnie  T.  Carpenter,  who  was  born 
at  Madison,  Indiana.  They  have  two  chil- 
dren, Lida  Elizabeth  and  Howard  Otis. 

William  N.  Picken.  The  name  Picken 
has  had  honorable  associations  with  the 
life  of  Indiana  for  the  past  seventy  years, 
and  particularly  with  banking  and  busi- 
ness affairs  at  Tipton  and  latterly  at  In- 
dianapolis. 

The  older  generation  of  the  family  was 
represented  by  the  late  William  Picken. 
He  was  born  in  Glasgow,  Scotland,  Nov- 
ember 21,  1833.  At  the  age  of  fourteen, 
with  his  widowed  mother  and  two  sisters 
and  two  brothers,  he  crossed  the  ocean  to 
America  on  an  old  slow  going  sailing  ves- 
sel. The  family  came  on  to  Indiana  and 
located  on  a  tract  of  land  in  the  south- 
western part  of  Tipton  County.  The  three 
sons,  Robert,  John  and  William,  always 
continued  as  partners  in  business  and  they 
grew  up  on  the  farm  with  their  widowed 
mother.  Too  much  cannot  be  said  of  the 
courage  and  fortitude  of  the  mother  of 
these  sons.  She  did  not  hesitate  to  brave 
the  uncertainties  of  American  pioneer  life 
in  order  that  those  near  and  dear  to  her 
might  have  opportunities  beyond  those  ob- 
tainable in  the  old  world  conditions.  She 
reared  her  children  through  adversities, 
molded  them  into  good  citizenship,  and 
they  became  a  credit  to  her  name  and  to 
her  sacrifices. 

From  the  farm  the  Picken  brothers  fin- 
ally removed  to  Tipton,  where  they  en- 
gaged in  merchandising  in  the  early  his- 
tory of  that  city.  Prosperity  came  to  them, 
for  they  were  thoroughly  honorable  and 
had  the  thrift  that  is  proverbial  with  the 
Scottish  people.  In  1881  the  Picken 
brothers  founded  the  Union  Bank  at  Tip- 
ton. This  was  continued  in  successful 
operation  until  1906,  when,  owing  to  the 
death  of  members  of  the  firm,  the  bank 
liquidated  all  its  obligations  and  went  out 
of  business. 

While  William  Picken  had  no  more  than 
an  ordinary  education  he  was  a  close  stu- 
dent and  observer,  knew  and  appreciated 
the  importance  of  current  events,  and  came 
to  be  recognized  as  an  authority  on  many 
matters  connected  with  the  conduct 
of  banking  and  business  affairs.  In  poli- 
tics he  was  a  republican,  but  never  ap- 
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religion  he  was  a  strict  Presbyterian.  He 
was  a  man  of  charity,  took  broad  and  lib- 
eral views  toward  his  fellow  men  and  in  an 
unostentatious  way  contributed  to  worthy 
benevolent  objects.  William  Picken  mar- 
ried Alzena  Campbell.  She  was  born  in 
Rush  County,  Indiana,  daughter  of  Na- 
thaniel Campbell.  In  1901  William  Picken 
and  his  family  removed  to  Indianapolis, 
where  he  died  April  26,  1907.  His  widow, 
Mrs.  Picken,  is  still  living. 

Their  only  son  is  William  N.  Picken, 
widely  known  in  business  circles  at  the 
capital.  He  was  born  at  Tipton,  Indiana, 
January  28,  1869,  was  reared  and  educated 
in  his  native  city,  and  from  boyhood  had 
a  thorough  training  in  the  work  of  a  mer- 
chant. After  coming  to  Indianapolis  in 
1901  he  became  interested  in  the  United 
States  Encaustic  Tile  Works,  and  is  i;cw 
vice  president  of  that  large  and  important 
corporation.  He  has  various  other  priv- 
ate business  interests  to  which  he  gives  his 
attention,  is  a  republican  and  a  member 
of  the  Presbyterian  Church.  February  8, 
1893,  Mr.  Picken  married  Annie  G.  Mc- 
Colley,  daughter  of  Henry  B.  McColley, 
of  Tipton.  They  have  one  daughter,  Ag- 
nes. 

Ulysses  G.  Leedy  is  an  Indianapolis 
manufacturer.  The  point  in  significance 
to  his  career  is  that  he  has  been  content 
not  merely  with  the  manufacture  of  a 
standard  line  of  goods,  which  might  be 
duplicated  by  other  factories,  but  has  gone 
forward  in  his  specialization jintil  his  prod- 
uct is  now  probably  the  premier  of  its  kind 
in  the  entire  world,  and  the  patronage  is 
enough  to  convince  and  demonstrate  this 
unique   standing. 

Mr.  Leedy,  who  is  president  of  the 
Leedy  Manufacturing  Company,  manufac- 
turers of  "everything  for  the  band  and 
orchestra  drummer,"  was  born  in  Han- 
cock County,  Ohio,  in  1867,  a  son  of  Isaac 
B.  and  Mary  (Struble)  Leedy.  When  he 
was  four  years  old  his  parents  removed  to 
Fostoria,  Ohio,  where  he  grew  up  and  re- 
ceived his  education. 

The  beginning  of  his  career  as  a  drum 
manufacturer  was  not  by  the  simple  pro- 
cess of  following  an  ambition  to  become  a 
manufacturer  of  some  article  and  deliber- 
ately choosing  to  manufacture  drums. 
The  making  of  drams  was  in  fact  a  grad- 
ual development  from  a  previous  experi- 


ence as  a  drummer,  and  he  was  called  one 
of  the  most  expert  professional  drummers 
long  before  his  name  was  thought  of  in 
connection  with  manufacturing.  Probably 
every  drummer  is  a  boy  drummer,  since 
the  art  does  not  lend  itself  readily  to  mas- 
tery after  the  period  of  boyhood  is  past. 
His  first  regular  engagement  as  a  drum- 
mer was  with  the  Great  Western  Band  at 
Cedar  Point,  Ohio,  and  he  was  with  that 
organization  for  three  years.  For  several 
years  he  also  traveled  on  the  road  with 
theatrical  organizations.  These  wander- 
ings brought  him  to  Indianapolis,  and  for 
ten  years  he  was  trap  drummer  of  the 
English  Opera  House  Orchestra. 

His  father  was  a  proficient  mechanic, 
and  probably  from  him  he  inherited  me- 
chanical traits.  Thus  while  traveling  about 
the  road  he  made  drums  for  himself  and 
other  performers,  and  it  was  his  success 
as  an  amateur  drum  maker  that  brought 
him  into  the  manufacturing  field  in  earnest. 

His  present  industry  began  in  1898, 
when  he  established  a  small  shop  in  the 
old  Cyclorama  Building  at  Indianapolis. 
There  was  a  gradual  but  steady  growth  to 
the  business.  In  1903  this  was  incorpor- 
ated as  the  Leedy  Manufacturing  Com- 
pany. Altogether  twenty  years  of  experi- 
ence have  gone  into  this  industry,  and  the 
organization  today  represents  and  reflects 
the  experience,  the  study,  personal  skill 
and  organizing  ability  of  Mr.  U.  G.  Leedy. 
The  company  has  had  several  locations  and 
plants,  but  the  greatest  period  of  expan- 
sion has  come  within  the  last  decade.  At 
present  the  Leedy  plant  on  Palmer  Street 
comprises  several  large  modern  factories 
and  warehouses  and  offices,  and  the  liter- 
ature of  the  Indianapolis  Chamber  of 
Commerce  mentions  it  as  one  of  the  largest 
musical  instrument  factories  in  the  world. 
About  sixty  people  are  employed,  most  of 
them  skilled  specialists,  who  received  their 
training  directly  from  Mr.  Leedy  himself, 
who  is  accorded  the  position  by  competent 
authorities  of  being  a  master  dram  maker. 
The  principal  product  is  the  drum,  though 
numerous  accessories  for  the  band  and  or- 
chestra are  manufactured,  chiefly  those  be- 
longing to  the  trap  drummer's  extensive 
equipment.  It  is  of  necessity  a  highly 
specialized  industry,  and  is  from  first  to 
last  the  product  of  the  genius  and  industry 
of  Mr.  Leedy. 

Mr.  Leedv  married  Miss  Zoa  I.  Hachet, 


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Her  father  was  a  native  of  Alsace  Lor- 
raine. They  are  the  parents  of  four  chil- 
dren, Eugene  Bradford,  Mary  Isabel,  Ed- 
win Hollis  and  Dorothy  May. 

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Mark  Storen  is  a  lawyer  by  profession, 
with  about  thirty-five  years  of  membership 
in  the  Indiana  bar.  He  has  filled  many 
places  of  trust  and  honor  in  local  and  state 
politics,  and  in  recent  years  is  most  widely 
known  through  his  incumbency  of  the  office 
of  United  States  marshal  of  Indiana. 

Mr.  Storen  has  spent  most  of  his  life  in 
Indiana,  but  was  born  in  Columbia  Comity, 
New  York,  April  12,  1857.  His  parents, 
Michael  and  Mrs.  (Whalen)  Storen,  were 
both  natives  of  Ireland.  His  father  came 
to  the  United  States  when  about  thirty 
years  of  age  and  married  in  New  York. 
A  farmer  by  occupation,  he  lived  in  Scott 
County,  Indiana,  from  1865  until  his 
death. 

Mark  Storen  was  eight  years  old  when 
his  parents  came  to  Scott  County,  Indiana, 
and  he  grew  up  on  the  home  farm  near 
Lexington.  He  was  educated  in  the  com- 
mon schools,  and  also  spent  two  years  in 
the  State  Normal  School  at  Terre  Haute. 
To  pay  his  tuition  in  the  State  Normal  he 
taught,  and  continued  that  work  for  a 
time  after  leaving  school.  Mr.  Storen  took 
up  the  study  of  law  in  the  office  of  Judge 
Jeptha  D.  New  at  Vernon,  Indiana,  and 
was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1882.  For  a 
year  before  beginning  active  law  practice 
he  served  as  a  railway  mail  clerk  between 
Indianapolis  and  Louisville. 

Mr.  Storen  was  a  practicing  lawyer  of 
Scottsburg,  Indiana,  until  July,  1914. 
However,  he  had  in  the  meantime  many 
other  responsibilities.  In  December,  188-4, 
with  Charles  C.  Foster  he  founded  the 
Scott  County  Journal,  a  democratic  organ. 
This  paper  is  still  in  existence.  In  1889 
Mr.  Storen  relinquished  his  newspaper, 
having  been  elected  county  clerk  of  Scott 
County.  He  served  in  that  position  eight 
years,  having  been  reelected  in  1892.  In 
1912  Mr.  Storen  was  elected  to  represent 
his  home  county  in  the  State  Legislature, 
and  during  the  following  session  was  chair- 
man of  the  judiciary  committee,  a  member 
of  the  committee  of  ways  and  means,  rail- 
roads committee  and  others.  He  has  the 
distinction  of  being  author  of  the  first  reg- 
istration law  in  Indiana  and  also  was 
author  of  the  law  compelling  interurban 


railways  to  carry  freight,  and  introduced 
a  number  of  other  well  advised  measures. 

In  July,  1914,  Mr.  Storen  was  appointed 
by  President  Wilson  United  States  marshal 
of  the  State  of  Indiana,  and  in  the  dis- 
charge of  those  duties  has  had  his  home  at 
the  capital  city.  As  the  executive  officer 
of  the  United  States  courts  in  Indiana  it 
has  been  Mr.  Storen 's  disagreeable  duty 
to  carry  out  the  orders  of  those  courts 
during  the  recent  election  fraud  cases  of 
the  state.  As  a  result  of  these  trials  there 
followed  a  wholesale  arrest  of  many  promi- 
nent men  of  the  state  involved  in  the  elec- 
tion frauds,  and  it  has  been  stated  that 
Mr.  Storen  as  United  States  marshal  was 
called  upon  to  arrest  more  individuals  than 
any  other  previous  incumbent  of  that 
office. 

He  is  a  loyal  democrat,  is  active  in  Ma- 
sonry, in  the  Lodge,  Chapter  and  Council 
of  the  York  Rite  and  in  the  thirty-second 
degree  Scottish  Rite,  also  belongs  to  the 
Mystic  Shrine,  to  the  Independent  Order 
of  Odd  Fellows,  the  Benevolent  and  Pro- 
tective Order  of  Elks,  and  the  Knights  of 
Pythias.  In  1888  Mr.  Storen  married 
Minerva  E.  Cravens,  of  Scottsburg.  They 
have  one  daughter,  Merle,  now  Mrs.  Law- 
rence E.  Reeves,  of  Indianapolis. 

Oliver  T.  Byram,  president  of  the  By- 
ram  Foundry  and  also  president  of  the 
Byram  Estate,  both  institutions  that  have 
solid  standing  among  Indianapolis  business 
men,  has  doubtless  found  one  of  his  great- 
est satisfaction  in  his  ability  to  continue 
the  business  and  in  some  important  respects 
the  influences  that  emanated  from  the  char- 
acter of  his  honored  father,  the  late  Nor- 
man S.  Byram. 

Norman  S.  Byram,  a  resident  of  Indian- 
apolis from  1842  until  his  death  in  1902, 
was  born  in  New  York  State  and  was  a 
small  child  when  his  parents  came  to  In- 
diana and  located  at  Brookville.  There  he 
attended  school  for  a  brief  time,  but  at  the 
age  of  twelve  came  to  Indianapolis.  His 
own  exertions  gave  him  his  education,  and 
he  had  to  look  to  the  same  source  for  his 
success  in  business.  His  first  employer  was 
Oliver  Tousey,  a  pioneer  merchant  of  In- 
dianapolis, who  found  in  young  Byram  an 
assistant  whose  value  was  not  measured  by 
his  salary  alone.  In  time  the  firm  of  Oli- 
ver Tousey  became  the  Tousey-Byram  Com- 
pany, later  was  conducted  as  Byram,  Cor- 


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nelius  &  Company,  and  the  great  business 
of  this  firm  was  finally  sold  to  D.  P.  Irwin 
&  Company.  Norman  S.  Byram  among 
other  important  financial  interests  was 
president  of  the  Capital  National  Bank. 

His  contemporaries  say  he  was  always 
seeking  some  opportunity  to  better  condi- 
tions in  the  city.  Once  he  frankly  sought 
the  office  of  councilman,  was  elected  and 
became  president  of  the  board,  and  in  that 
capacity  personally  conducted  raids  on  the 
vice  and  gambling  places,  and  probably 
cleaned  up  the  city  as  effectually  for  the 
time  as  eve»  in  its  history.  He  was  also 
a  member  of  the  county  council  one  term. 
His  contributions  to  charity  were  many, 
but  given  quietly.  During  one  of  the  worst 
floods  in  the  Ohio  Valley  he  was  a  member 
of  the  committee  representing  the  local 
board  of  trade  and  worked  unremittingly 
for  days  until  hundreds  of  cases  of  real 
distress  were  provided  for.  He  was  a  Ma- 
son and  in  politics  a  republican. 

He  was  seventy-two  when  he  died  in 
1902.  He  married  Isabel  Pursel,  from  Har- 
rison, Ohio.  They  were  the  parents  of  four 
children :  Henry  G.,  who  for  a  number  of 
years  was  connected  with  the  Byram  Foun- 
dry, died  in  1909 ;  Mrs.  William  Gates,  of 
Indianapolis;  Oliver  T. ;  and  Norman  S. 

Oliver  T.  Byram  was  born  at  Indian- 
apolis in  1869.  The  business  and  civic  posi- 
tion of  his  father  naturally  lent  favorable 
auspices  to  his  own  youth.  He  finished  his 
education  in  the  city  high  school,  and. ac- 
quired his  business  training  in  his  father's 
store.  In  1892  he  went  to  work  for  the 
Cleveland  Fence  Company,  which  after  a 
few  years  was  changed  to  the  Byram  Foun- 
dry. ■  This  is  one  of  the  industries  that 
give  character  to  the  city.  Its  plant  covers 
nearly  two  acres,  located  at  the  intersection 
of  Biddle  Street  with  the  railroad  tracks. 
The  principal  output  is  grey-iron  castings, 
and  at  this  writing  fully  90%  of  the  work 
is  directly  or  indirectly  for  the  United 
States  or  the  Allies. 

A  very  active  business  man,  Mr.  Byram 
is  also  secretary-treasurer  of  the  Indian- 
apolis Warehouse  Company,  is  treasurer  of 
the  Grocers  Coffee  Company,  and  is  execu- 
tive head  of  the  Byram  Estate.  He  is  a 
republican,  member  of  the  University  Club, 
Marion  Club,  Country  Club,  Canoe  Club, 
German  House  and  Turnverein,  and  has 
Masonic  connections  with  Mystic  Tie 
Lodge,  Ancient  Free  and  Accepted  Masons. 


the  Scottish  Rite  bodies  and  the  Mystic 
Shrine.  Religiously  he  is  a  member  of  All 
Souls  Unitarian  Church. 

Mr.  Byram  married  Miss  Natalie  Driggs, 
daughter  of  N.  S.  Driggs  of  Indianapolis. 
Mrs.  Byram  died  in  1915,  leaving  one 
daughter,  Betsy. 

F.  G.  Heller.  The  spirit  of  initiative 
and  enterprise  has  been  moving  in  the 
career  of  F.  G.  Heller  from  early  boyhood, 
and  accounts  for  his  various  rapid  promo- 
tions and  his  achievements  in  business  af- 
fairs. He  is  now  widely  known  in  amuse- 
ment circles  in  Indiana  and  is  secretary  and 
managing  director  of  the  Meridian  Amuse- 
ment Company  of  Anderson,  where  he  re- 
sides. 

He  was  born  at  Washburn,  Illinois,  in 
1885,  and  when  he  was  two  years  of  age 
his  parents,  George  F.  and  Emma  (Beyer) 
Heller,  moved  to  Fort  Wayne,  Indiana, 
where  they  still  reside.  His  father  has 
been  a  traveling  salesman  and  has  repre- 
sented different  houses  in  his  day.  The 
ancestry  is  a  mixture  of  French  and  Ger- 
man, and  Mr.  F.  G.  Heller's  grandfather, 
George  Heller,  came  from  Alsace-Lorraine 
when  a  young  man  and  settled  in  Henry 
County,  Indiana,  where  he  cleared  up'a  fine 
farm  of  260  acres.  He  lived  there  until 
his  death  at  the  age  of  ninety-two.  It  was 
on  that  farm  that  George  F.  Heller  was 
born,  the  second  in  a  family  of  eight  chil- 
dren. 

At  Fort  Wayne  F.  G.  Heller  attended 
the  public  schools  and  for  three  months 
was  in  high  school.  He  left  school  to  begin 
work  as  rate  clerk  and  inspector  with  the 
Fort  Wayne  Electric  Company,  ngw  a 
branch  of  the  General  Electric  Company 
of  America.  While  he  was  working  there 
he  was  improving  his  advantages  by  at- 
tending a  night  commercial  college,  and  he 
paid  his  tuition  in  that  school  by  solicit- 
ing pupils  for  the  college.  Thus  Mr.  Hel- 
ler devised  a  practical  system  of  vocational 
education  himself,  making  his  education  fit 
into  the  needs  of  his  growing  experience. 
After  his  work  in  the  Fort  Wayne  Com- 
mercial School  he  took  correspondence 
courses  with  the  International  Correspond- 
ence School.  In  the  meantime  he  was  ad- 
vanced to  the  position  of  time  and  cost 
clerk  in  the  Electric  Company,  and  was 
given  those  responsibilities  when  only 
twenty  years  of  age.     From  that  he  was 


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promoted  to  stock  clerk  and  assistant  to 
the  purchasing  agent  and  continued  with 
the  company  until  1913. 

In  the  meantime  his  energies  had  sought 
other  outlets.  In  such  spare  time  as  he 
had  from  his  main  employment  he  con- 
structed a  moving  picture  house,  seating 
a  hundred  twenty-five  people.  He  did  the 
actual  work,  even  to  putting  in  the  seats 
and  making  his  own  screens.  He  operated 
this  little  theater  at  a  profit  and  sold  the 
business  in  September,  1912.  During  those 
years  in  business  at  Fort  Wayne  Mr.  Hel- 
ler had  his  home  at  Monroeville,  traveling 
back  and  forth  every  day. 

Coming  to  Anderson,  Mr.  Heller  went 
to  work  for  G.  H.  Heine  in  the  Meridian 
Amusement  Company,  a  Fort  Wayne  con- 
cern. This  company  built  the  present 
Meridian  Theater  at  1035  Meridian  Street, 
and  under  the  management  of  Mr.  Heller 
this  has  proved  one  of  the  most  profitable 
amusement  houses  in  Madison  County.  He 
is  an  equal  stockholder  in  the  company. 
Later  he  bought  the  Starland  Theater,  the 
largest  in  Anderson,  and  has  put  this  on 
a  paying  basis.  He  is  also  managing  di- 
rector of  the  Fischer  Theater  at  Danville, 
Illinois,  the  largest  amusement  house  in 
that  city,  and  in  March,  1918,  he  bought 
the  Washington  Theater  at  Richmond,  In- 
diana. He  is  a  stockholder  in  the  Madison 
Motor  Company  of  Anderson. 

At  the  age  of  twenty-two  Mr.  Heller 
married  Miss  Maud  Lackey,  daughter  of 
Aloysius  and  Martha  (Westover)  Lackey 
of  Fort  Wayne.  Her  father  was  a  con- 
tractor and  builder.  The  Westovers  are 
an  old  English  family,  and  on  coming  to 
this  country  first  settled  in  Massachusetts. 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Heller  have  one  child,  Milton 
Frank,  born  in  1913. 

Outside  of  his  business  Mr.  Heller  has 
many  interests.  He  is  a  member  of  the 
National  Organization  of  the  Advertising 
Club,  is  active  as  a  democrat,  member  of 
the  Presbyterian  Church,  belongs  to  the 
American  Exhibitors'  Association,  and  in 
Masonry  is  affiliated  with  S.  B.  Bayless 
Lodge  No.  359,  Ancient  Free  and  Accepted 
Masons,  at  Fort  Wayne,  and  with  the 
Anderson  Grotto  of  Master  Masons.  He 
also  belongs  to  Anderson  Lodge  of  Elks, 
Anderson  Lodge  No.  747,  Independent 
Order  of  Odd  Fellows,  and  is  a  member  of 
the  Phi  Delta  Kappa  of  Anderson. 


John  James  Piatt,  famous  as  an  author, 
poet  and  editor,  was  born  at  James  Mills 
in  Dearborn  County,  Indiana,  March  1, 
1835,  a  son  of  John  Bear  and  Emily 
(Scott)  Piatt.  His  early  connections  with 
industrial  life  were  as  a  clerk  in  the  United 
States  treasury  department,  later  as  lib- 
rarian in  the  United  States  House  of  Rep- 
resentatives, and  as  a  United  States  Con- 
sul at  Cork,  Ireland,  and  later  at  Dublin. 
His  many  contributions  of  prose  and  poetry 
have  won  him  renown. 

Mr.  Piatt  on  the  18th  of  June,  1861,  was 
married  to  Sarah  Morgan  Bryan.  They 
reside  at  North  Bend,  Hamilton  County, 
Ohio. 

Charity  Dye  is  an  Indianan  who  by  rea- 
son of  her  long  and  valuable  service  could 
not  be  denied  a  place  among  the  notable 
women  of  the  state.  The  service  by  which 
her  name  is  now  best  known  to  the  people 
of  Indiana  is  as  a  member  of  the  Indiana 
Historical  Commission,  to  which  she  was 
appointed  in  1915  and  reappointed  in  1917. 

She  was  born  of  Huguenot-Dutch  and 
English  ancestry  in  Mason  County,  Ken- 
tucky, October  15,  1849,  was  educated  in 
country  schools,  in  Mayslick  Academy  and 
in  McClain  Institute  at  Indianapolis.  She 
is  also  a  graduate  of  the  Normal  School  of 
Indianapolis,  has  taken  advanced  work  in 
the  summer  schools  of  Cleveland  and  of 
Harvard  University,  and  in  1900  received 
her  degree  Ph.  B.  from  the  University  of 
Chicago. 

For  over  thirty-seven  years  Charity  Dye 
was  a  teacher  in  the  graded  and  high 
schools  of  Indianapolis,  and  when  all  is 
said  doubtless  that  is  the  work  for  which 
she  will  longest  deserve  the  gratitude  of 
the  people  of  that  city.  She  has  always 
been  prominent  in  suffrage  and  club  work, 
and  as  an  author  she  is  known  by  the  fol- 
lowing titles:  "The  Story  Tellers  Art," 
"Letters  and  Letter  Writing,"  "Once 
Upon  a  Time  in  Indiana,"  and  "Some 
Torch  Bearers  in  Indiana. ' '  She  also  wrote 
"The  Word  Book"  of  the  New  Harmony 
Pageant  for  the  Centennial  in  1914.  She 
resides  at  1134  Broadway,  Indianapolis. 

Anthony  Prange.  One  of  the  substan- 
tial business  men  and  highly  respected  citi- 
zens of  Indianapolis,  with  the  interests  of 
which  citv  he  has  been  honorably  identified 


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for  many  years,  was  born  February  24, 
1841,  in  Cammaer,  Westphalia,  Schaum- 
berg-Lippe,  Germany.  His  parents  were 
Henry  and  Christiana  (Meier)  Prange. 

Henry  Prange  spent  his  entire  life  in 
Germany  and  died  there  in  1861,  when 
aged  fifty-eight  years.  He  was  a  farmer 
and  also  a  public  official,  for  a  number 
of  years  being  the  revenue  collector  in  his 
district.  He  married  Christiana  Meier, 
who  was  born  in  the  same  neighborhood, 
and  died  in  Germany  in  1865,  at  the  age 
of  sixty-five  years.  Both  were  lifelong 
members  of  the  Lutheran  Church.  To 
their  marriage  one  daughter  and  five  sons 
were  born,  and  of  the  latter  three  came 
to  the  United  States :  William,  Charles 
and  Anthony. 

William  Prange,  the  eldest,  left  Ger- 
many in  early  manhood  and  after  reach- 
ing the  United  States  located  first  in 
Rhode  Island,  where  he  found  employment 
in  the  woollen  mills,  and  from  there  went 
to  Brooklyn,  New  York,  and  finally  died 
there.  Charles  Prange  came  to  the  United 
States  in  1854  and  embarked  in  the  grocery 
business  at  Cumberland,  Indiana,  which  is 
not  far  distant  from  Indianapolis,  and 
afterward  came  to  this  city  and  entered 
the  employ  of  Henry  and  Gus  Schnull,  and 
continued  with  them  during  the  period  of 
the  Civil  war  and  so  engaged  their  confi- 
dence that  he  frequently  was  entrusted 
with  the  shipment  and  delivery  of  poultry 
even  as  far  south  as  New  Orleans.  After- 
ward he  was  in  partnership  with  Frederick 
Ostermeyer  in  a  grocery  business  on  East 
Washington  Street,  Indianapolis. 

Anthony  Prange  was  given  the  usual 
educational  advantages  of  his  class  in  Ger- 
many, and  afterward  during  the  summer 
seasons  worked  at  the  carpenter  trade  and 
in  the  winters  in  the  sugar  mills.  In  1864, 
when  twenty-three  years  old,  he  followed 
his  two  brothers,  William  and  Charles,  to 
the  United  States.  His  first  work  here  was 
done  as  an  employe  of  the  Big  Four  Rail- 
road, as  a  carpenter.  Later  on,  when  Mr. 
Ostermeyer  and  his  brother,  Charles 
Prange,  dissolved  partnership,  the  former 
going  into  the  wholesale  business,  Charles 
Pranjre  continued  in  the  retail  line  and  em- 
ployed Anthony  in  his  store  for  one  year 
as  a  clerk  and  later  admitted  him  to  a 
partnership.  The  brothers  continued  to- 
gether on  Washington  Street  for  ten  years 
and  then  Anthony  sold  his  interest  to  his 


brother  Charles  and  moved  to  Massachu- 
setts Avenue  and  St.  Clair  Street,  where 
he  opened  a  general  store.  Three  years 
later  he  erected  the  commodious  and  con- 
venient store  building  at  No.  812  Massa- 
chusetts Avenue. 

Mr.  Prange  continued  active  in  business 
in  this  city  for  forty-five  years.  He  came 
with  but  little  capital  but  has  accumulated 
a  comfortable  fortune  through  persistent 
industry  and  honorable  business  methods. 
Very  soon  after  reaching  the  United  States 
Mr.  Prange  indicated  his  intention  of  mak- 
ing this  land  his  permanent  home  and  in 
1865  took  out  his  first  citizenship  papers 
and  in  1870  received  his  final  papers.  He 
is  a  loyal  and  patriotic  citizen  and  is  hon- 
ored and  respected  wherever  known. 

At  Indianapolis,  Indiana,  on  March  10, 
1865,  Mr.  Prange  was  married  to  Miss 
Caroline  Schwier,  who  is  a  daughter  of 
August  Schwier.  She  was  born  July  13, 
1845,  in  Todhenhausen,  Prussia,  about  ten 
miles  distant  from  the  birthplace  of  Mr. 
Prange.  She  was  a  passenger  on  the  same 
ship  that  brought  Mr.  Prange  to  the 
United  States  in  1864.  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Prange  have  had  nine  children,  the  sur- 
vivors being :  Edward,  who  is  secretary  of 
the  Indiana  Dry  Goods  Company  of  In- 
dianapolis ;  Caroline  M.,  who  resides  at 
home ;  Bertha,  who  is  the  wife  of  Oscar 
Theobald,  of  Peru,  Indiana;  and  Walter 
C.  Those  deceased  were  Anthony,  Mary, 
Theodore,  Frank  and  John. 

On  coming  to  Indianapolis  Mr.  Prang 
identified  himself  with  St.  Paul's  Lutheran 
Church.  In  1875  he  became  one  of  eighty- 
one  charter  members  of  Trinity  Lutheran 
Church  and  for  five  years  served  as  treas- 
urer of  the  organization  and  for  twelve 
years  was  a  member  of  the  board  of  trus- 
tees. He  has  been  earnest  and  consistent 
in  his  religious  activities  and  has  given 
substantial  assistance  to  the  building  of 
four  churches  in  this  city  and  has  been 
very  helpful  in  the  matter  of  Lutheran 
schools  and  the  maintenance  of  the  Luth- 
eran Orphans'  Home.  In  summing  up 
the  men  who  have  contributed  to  the  up- 
building of  Indianapolis  as  a  great  trade 
center  and  a  prosperous  city  the  name  of 
Anthony  Prange  must  be'  included  in  the 
list. 

George  A.  Weidely.  This  is  a  name 
that  probably  stands  for  as  much  in  the 


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modern  industrial  Indianapolis  as  any 
that  might  he  spoken.  Weidely  motors 
now  lend  efficiency  to  both  national  and 
international  industry,  and  it  is  his 
achievement  in  developing  one  of  the 
highest  types  of  motors  that  probably  will 
give  Mr.  Weidely  his  permanent  fame. 

All  the  real  experiences  and  achieve- 
ments of  his  life  have  identified  him  with 
America.  However,  he  was  born  in  Switz- 
erland, December  19,  1870,  and  his  parents 
were  also  natives  of  that  Republic.  His 
work  at  high  school  in  Switzerland  was  of 
such  grade  that  he  was  given  a  scholarship 
in  one  of  the  national  technical  schools, 
where  he  spent  two  years.  That  scholar- 
ship is  equivalent  in  this  country  to  an 
appointment  to  West  Point,  since  the 
technical  training  thus  afforded  was  in  lieu 
of  a  more  formal  military  discipline.  At 
the  end  of  two  years  of  hard  study  the 
spirit  of  adventure  which  could  no  longer 
be  repressed  brought  Mr.  Weidely  at  the 
age  of  seventeen  to  America.  He  reached 
this  country  in  1887  and  was  soon  working 
at  the  machinist's  trade  at  Akron,  Ohio. 
He  also  acquired  in  that  city  a  practical 
knowledge  of  the  rubber  industry,  and  for 
a  time  was  with  the  B.  F.  Goodrich  Com- 
pany. Mr.  Weidely  came  to  Indianapolis 
in  October,  1897,  and  for  a  time  was  master 
mechanic  and  later  superintendent  of  the 
G.  &  J.  Tire  Company.  He  was  associated 
with  H.  0.  Smith  in  giving  the  G.  &  J. 
tire  its  wonderful  success. 

Recently  the  Horseless  Age,  the  oldest 
automobile  journal  in  the  world,  published 
a  brief  sketch  of  Mr.  Weidely,  two  para- 
graphs from  which  will  serve  to  describe 
his  later  achievements:' 

"On  the  day  before  Christmas,  1902, 
these  two  men  "(Mr.  Smith  and  Mr.  Weid- 
ely) were  instrumental  in  organizing  the 
Premier  Motor  Manufacturing  Company, 
with  Mr.  Weidely  in  charge  of  engineer- 
ing, and  the  splendid,  sterling  worth  of 
that  car  in  the  hands  of  the  public,  in 
Glidden  tours  and  record  runs  demon- 
strated that  George  Weidely  was  not  only 
a  successful  tire  manufacturer  but  an  auto- 
mobile designer  above  the  ordinary. 

"Finally,  after  fourteen  years,  the 
disintegration  of  the  old  Premier  Company 
paved  the  way  for  the  realization  of  a  long 
cherished  dream — the  exclusive  manufac- 
ture of  a  '  Weidely '  motor.  And  though  the 
Weidely  Motors  Company,  with  George  A. 


Weidely  as  vice  president  and  general  man- 
ager, was  organized  late  in  the  spring  of 
1915,  twice  in  this  short  time  has  it  had 
to  seek  more  commodious  quarters,  and 
the  busy  hum  of  machines  in  its  present 
modern  factory  building,  covering  128,000 
feet  of  floor  space  devoted  exclusively  to 
the  manufacture  of  motors,  tell  its  own 
story  of  a  dream  materialized." 

As  this  quotation  indicates  Mr.  Weidely 
really  made  the  Premier  Motor  car  famous, 
but  the  motor  designed  by  him  and  which 
bears  his  name  has  overshadowed  his  earlier 
accomplishments  as  an  automobile  designer. 
Mr.  Weidely  has  various  mechanical  de- 
vices which  he  has  patented.  He  had  the 
first  patent  on  the  Q.  D.  rim  now  univer- 
sally used.  All  his  inventions  are  applied 
to  the  automobile  industry. ' 

Mr.  Weidely  is  justly  proud  of  his 
American  citizenship  and  America  is 
justly  proud  of  him  as  a  citizen.  His  work 
is  really  one  of  the  chapters  in  the  history 
of  American  industrialism. 

Mr.  Weidely  is  a  Protestant  in  religion, 
is  a  member  of  the  Masonic  Order,  belongs 
to  the  Columbia  and  other  social  and 
benevolent  organizations  and  has  affilia- 
tions with  many  automobile  societies  and 
clubs.  In  1893  he  married  Miss  Jennie 
Long.  They  have  one  son,  in  whom  they 
take  a  great  deal  of  pride,  Walter  A. 
Weidely,  service  manager  of  the  Stutz  Mo- 
tor Company  of  Indianapolis.  He  married 
Miss  Helen  Link. 

Hon.  William  D.  Woods,  a  member  of 
the  State  Legislature  from  Marion  County, 
and  for  the  past  seven  years  practicing 
law  in  the  capital  city,  belongs  to  a  family 
that  has  been  in  Indiana  for  a  full  cen- 
tury. 

John  Woods,  his  great-grandfather,  came 
from  Pennsylvania  and  settled  on  a  virgin 
tract  of  land  in  what  was  then  Dearborn, 
now  Ohio  County  in  1817.  John  Woods 
spent  the  rest  of  his  days  reclaiming  his 
share  of  the  wilderness  and  was  one  of  the 
men  who  bore  the  hardships  and  burdens 
of  pioneer  life  in  the  southern  part  of  the 
state.  William  Woods,  one  of  his  children, 
was  born  in  Pennsylvania  in  1816  and  was 
just  a  year  old  when  the  family  came  to 
Indiana.  He  married  Lydia  Downey  of  a 
family  long  prominent  in  the  affairs  of 
the  nation.     One  of  the  children  born  to 


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this  union  was  Robert  E.  "Woods,  father  of 
the  Indianapolis  lawyer. 

The  Woods  family  for  the  most  part  has 
not  attained  to  nor  sought  the  distinctions 
which  are  out  of  the  ordinary.  As  a  rule 
they  have  followed  agricultural  pursuits, 
have  lived  clean,  upright  lives,  paid  their 
honest  debts,  worshiped  as  Methodists  and 
voted  the  democratic  ticket.  That  to  a 
large  degree  was  the  experience  of  Robert 
E.  Woods,  who  grew  up  as  a  farmer  boy 
and  during  his  early  manhood  taught 
school  about  ten  years.  Later  he  was 
elected  and  served  a  term  as  county  super- 
intendent of  schools.  He  married  Ruth  A. 
Armstrong,  and  they  now  reside  at  In- 
dianapolis. 

Mr.  William  D.  Woods  was  born  Febru- 
ary 5,  1883.  He  had  only  the  usual  ex- 
periences of  an  Indiana  boy,  and  acquired 
his  education  beyond  the  common  schools 
as  a  result  of  his  own  earnings  and  ambi- 
tion. In  1904  he  went  to  work  as  a  clerk 
for  the  Big  Four  Railroad  Company.  In 
1907  he  was  made  freight  claim  investi- 
gator for  the  Illinois  Central  Railway  Com- 
pany, with  headquarters  in  Chicago,  and 
had  his  home  in  that  city  until  1910.  In 
the  meantime  he  was  employing  all  the 
time  he  could  get  for  the  study  of  law,  and 
in  June,  1910,  was  graduated  from  the  Chi- 
cago Law  School.  Since  that  date  he  has 
followed  his  chosen  calling  in  Indianapolis, 
where  he  is  now  looked  upon  as  one  of  the 
abler  members  of  the  younger  contingent 
in  the  local  bar. 

He  has  always  taken  a  keen  interest  in 
public  affairs,  and  during  the  administra- 
tion of  Mayor  Shank  was  a  member  of  the 
Board  of  Safety.  Mr.  Woods  has  departed 
from  the  political  customs  and  precedence 
of  his  forefathers  and  is  a  republican.  In 
1916  he  was  elected  to  represent  Marion 
County  in  the  State  Legislature,  and  took 
an  active  part  in  the  seventieth  session. 
In  that  session  he  was  chairman  of  the  com- 
mittee on  corporations,  and  he  introduced 
three  bills  which  became  laws.  One  of  these 
is  for  simplifying  appellate  court  proced- 
ure, another  defines  and  relates  to  second 
degree  arson,  and  a  third  is  a  law  affecting 
the  jurisdiction  of  the  Probate  Court. 

Mr.  Woods  is  affiliated  with  the  Masonic 
fraternity,  and  is  a  past  master  of  Logan 
Lodge  No.  575,  Free  and  Accepted  Masons, 
is  present  high  priest  of  Indianapolis 
Chapter  No.  5,  Royal  Arch  Masons,  is  mas- 


ter of  Indianapolis  Council  No.  2,  Royal 
and  Select  Masons,  and  is  a  member  of 
Indiana  Consistory,  Valley  of  Indianapolis, 
of  the  Scottish  Rite  and  of  Murat  Temple 
of  the  Mystic  Shrine.  October  10,  1916, 
Mr.  Woods  married  Miss  Lillian  Clinger. 

t 

Hervey  Bates.  Ninety-five  years  ago 
every  person  then  living  within  the  limits 
of  Marion  County  knew  Hervey  Bates, 
most  of  them  personally.  If  the  same 
name  is  not  known  so  universally  in  the 
county  at  the  present  time  it  is  merely 
due  to  the  physical  impossibility  of  any 
one  man  to  have  a  personal  acquaintance 
■with  several  hundred  thousand  people.  At 
the  present  time  there  are  living  in  In- 
dianapolis three  men  named  Hervey  Bates, 
grandfather,  father  and  son. 

The  original  Hervey  Bates  was  ap- 
pointed the  first  sheriff  of  Marion  County 
by  Governor  Jennings  in  1822.  His  ap- 
pointment came  before  he  had  taken  up  his 
residence  in  Marion  County.  Hervey 
Bates  was  born  at  old  Fort  Washington, 
now  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  in  1795.  He  was 
given  his  father's  name,  so  that  the  name 
Hervey  has  persisted  through  at  least  five 
successive  generations  of  the  family. 
Hervey  Bates,  Sr.,  served  under  Generals 
Wayne  and  Harmer  as  "Master  of  Trans- 
portation" during  the  Indian  wars  in  the 
Northwest.  His  duties  were  to  forward 
provisions  and  munitions  of  war  from  the 
frontier  posts  to  the  soldiers  at  the  front. 
Sheriff  Bates  through  the  early  death  of 
his  mother  and  the  remarriage  of  his  father 
went  to  Warren,  Ohio,  where  he  grew  up 
and  received  his  early  education.  At  the 
age  of  twenty-one  he  went  to  Brookville, 
Indiana,  and  there  met  and  fell  in  love 
with  Miss  Sidney  Sedgwick,  a  cousin  of 
Gen.  James  Noble,  one  of  the  most  con- 
spicuous early  characters  in  Indiana  his- 
tory. Owing  to  parental  objections  the 
young  couple  ran  away  and  were  married. 

In  1816,  at  Brookville,  Hervey  Bates 
cast  his  first  vote.  This  was  for  a  delegate 
to  form  a  constitution  for  the  new  state 
of  Indiana.  A  short  time  later  he  re- 
moved with  his  young  wife  to  Conners- 
ville,  and  from  there  in  1822  came  to  In- 
dianapolis, which  Mras  then  a  mere  site  in 
the  wilderness,  deriving  its  importance 
from  the  fact  that  it  had  been  established 
as  the  future  capital  of  Indiana.  The 
town  consisted  of  only  a  small  collection 


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of  log  cabins.  As  the  first  sheriff  of 
Marion  County  Hervey  Bates  issued  a 
proclamation  calling  for  an  election  on 
April  1,  1822.  This  was  the  first  election 
in  the  county.  Hervey  Bates  was  not  so 
much  of  a  politician  as  he  was  a  business 
man,  and  for  many  years  he  was  prominent 
as  a  pioneer  merchant  of  Indianapolis,  a 
business  which  gave  him  a  substantial 
fortune. 

His  name  is  associated  with  many  of  the 
first  undertakings  and  institutions  of  In- 
dianapolis. He  was  the  first  president  of 
the  "Branch  of  the  State  Bank"  at  In- 
dianapolis and  filled  that  office  ten  years. 
He  was  also  instrumental  in  the  forma- 
tion of  the  earliest  insurance  company, 
was  a  stockholder  in  the  first  hotel  cor- 
poration, and  in  the  first  railroad  finished 
to  the  capital.  He  was  identified  with  the 
first  Gas,  Light  &  Coke  Company  and  in 
many  other  enterprises  having  for  their 
object  the  public  welfare.  He  was  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Masonic  Lodge  of  Indianapolis. 
In  1852  Hervey  Bates  began  the  erection 
of  what  became  known  far  and  wide  as  the 
Bates  House,  one  of  the  foremost  hotels 
of  its  day.  Hervey  Bates  possessed  a  vast 
amount  of  energy,  mental  and  physical, 
and  with  it  came  the  rugged  honesty  that 
made  his  name  as  long  as  he  lived  a 
synonym  of  integrity.  His  death  occurred 
July  6,  1876,  at  the  age  of  eighty-one.  He 
and  his  wife  had  three  children,  their  only 
son  being  Hervey  Bates. 

Hervey  Bates,  the  second  of  the  name 
to  have  lived  in  Indianapolis,  was  born  in 
this  city  in  1834.  He  inherited  many  of 
the  characteristics  that  made  his  father  a 
man  of  note.  He  grew  up  in  Indianapolis 
and  it  has  always  been  his  home.  For 
many  years  he  was  connected  with  one  of 
the  first  wholesale  grocery  houses  and  was 
also  an  active  banker.  He  was  one  of  the 
originators  of  the  American  Hominy  Com- 
pany. Of  late  years  he  has  been  retired 
and  has  attained  the  age  of  eighty-three. 
As  a  matter  of  personal  recollection  he 
has  practically  witnessed  every  phase  in 
the  growth  and  development  of  his  native 
city.  He  married  Charlotte  Cathcart,  and 
they  were  the  parents  of  a  son  and  a 
daughter. 

Harvey  Bates  III  was  born  at  Indian- 
apolis in  October,  1858.  He  was  educated 
in  the  city  public  schools,  in  the  Phillips 
Exeter  Academy  and  in  Harvard  Univer- 


sity. He  began  his  career  through  experi- 
ence as  an  apprentice  at  the  machinist's 
trade  and  for  a  number  of  years  was 
connected  with  the  Atlas  Engine  Works. 
Mr.  Bates  has  served  almost  from  the  be- 
ginning as  president  of  the  American  Hom- 
iny Company,  one  of  the  large  and  im- 
portant industries  of  Indianapolis.  In 
1884  he  married  Susan  Martingale.  Of 
their  two  children  the  only  survivor  is  Her- 
vey Bates,  representing  the  fourth  genera- 
tion of  the  name  in  Indiana. 

August  Tamm.  As  an  old  time  disciple 
of  the  printer's  art  August  Tamm  found 
his  sphere  of  usefulness  by  which  he  is 
best  known  in  Indianapolis,  and  for  many 
years  he  has  been  a  printer  and  publisher 
of  some  of  the  oldest  and  most  influential 
newspapers  of  Indiana  published  in  the 
German  language.  Mr.  Tamm  has  also 
been  a  figure  in  public  affairs  at  Indian- 
apolis. 

Most  of  his  life  since  early  childhood 
has  been  spent  in  Indianapolis.  He  was 
born  at  Essen  in  the  Rhine  valley  of  Ger- 
many July  2,  1857,  one  of  the  ten  children 
of  August  and  Caroline  (Michel)  Tamm. 
Of  their  children  seven  are  still  living. 
August  Tamm,  Sr.,  was  a  blacksmith  and 
for  eleven  years  worked  in  some  of  the 
great  factories  at  Essen.  Having  a  large 
family  to  provide  for  he  sought  improve- 
ment of  the  conditions  of  life  and  prospects 
for  them  by  coming  to  the  United  States 
on  board  a  sailing  vessel  in  1868.  He  left 
his  family  behind,  and  as  opportunity  of- 
fered he  "worked  at  his  trade  in  Pittsburg, 
Logansport  and  Chicago,  and  in  1869  lo- 
cated permanently  at  Indianapolis.  Soon 
afterward  his  wife  and  children  joined  him 
in  this  country.  At  Indianapolis  August 
Tamm,  Sr.,  had  his  first  employment  at  the 
old  Washington  foundry,  subsequently 
known  as  the  Eagle  foundry  and  also  as 
the  Hasselman  foundry.  He  was  one  of 
the  industrial  workmen  of  Indianapolis 
for  many  years,  but  his  later  years  were 
spent  in  dairying.  He  took  little  active 
part  in  public  affairs,  was  a  lover  of  home 
and  domestic  environment,  and  there  spent 
his  happiest  hours.    He  died  in  1899. 

August  Tamm,  Jr.,  grew  to  manhood  at 
Indianapolis  and  was  educated  both  in  the 
parochial  and  the  business  schools  of  the 
city.  On  coming  of  age  he  began  the 
process  which  as  soon  as  possible  made  him 


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a  naturalized  American  citizen.  Largely 
due  to  a  fault  in  American  public  opinion 
and  education  naturalization  has  been 
thought  of  lightly  and  consequently  has 
been  entered  into  by  the  foreign  born  with 
little  more  consideration  than  would  be 
given  to  the  most  trivial  routine.  Mr. 
Tamm  is  an  honorable  exception  to  the  rule 
and  from  the  first  assumed  the  responsi- 
bilities of  citizenship  seriously.  Then  and 
ever  since  he  has  entertained  lofty  ideals 
as  to  what  constitutes  American  citizenship 
and  has  lived  up  to  those  ideals  himself 
and  in  many  ways  has  wielded  a  wide  in- 
fluence in  promoting  them  through  his 
writings  and  through  the  medium  of  his 
newspapers. 

His  life  career  began  as  a  printer  on  the 
Daily  Telegraph,  a  German  paper.  He 
completed  a  thorough  apprenticeship  at 
the  printer's  trade,  and  with  the  exception 
of  nine  months  while  a  grocery  clerk  and 
during  the  period  he  was  in  public  office 
has  always  been  connected  with  the  print- 
ing or  publishing  business.  Prom  a  posi- 
tion as  apprentice  on  the  Daily  Telegraph, 
one  of  the  German  papers  published  at 
Indianapolis,  he  was  advanced  to  foreman 
in  the  office.  For  six  years  during  Tag- 
gart's  administration  Mr.  Tamm  was  chief 
deputy  clerk.  The  democratic  party  also 
honored  him  by  making  him  its  candidate 
for  city  clerk  and  once  for  state  represen- 
tative. 

While  in  the  city  clerk 's  office  Mr.  Tamm 
bought  from  Philip  Rappaport  in  1900  the 
Daily  Indiana  Tribune,  a  German  daily 
paper.  In  1902  this  paper  was  consoli- 
dated with  the  Daily  Telegraph,  the  lat- 
ter being  issued  as  a  morning  and  the 
Tribune  as  an  evening  paper.  The  two 
were  consolidated  as  one  paper  in  1907  and 
conducted  as  the  Telegraph  Tribune  until 
June  3,  1918,  when  for  patriotic  reasons 
Mr.  Tamm  suspended  publication.  Mr. 
Tamm  was  best  known  as  the  owner  and 
publisher  of  the  Telegraph-Tribune  and  of 
the  Sunday  Spottvogel.  He  had  really 
made  these  papers  what  they  were,  a  me- 
dium of  news  and  an  instrument  of  whole- 
some citizenship. 

Mr.  Tamm  is  of  the  Protestant  faith. 
He  married  in  1879  Miss  Minnie  Schmidt. 
They  had  two  sons,  August  Carl  and  Otto 
E..  who  were  associated  with  their  father 
in  business.     August  Carl  died  April  27, 


1918,  leaving  a  wife,  who  before  marriage 
was  Clara  Youngman,  of  Indianapolis. 

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Dr.  Leonard  E.  Northrup.  Indiana  in 
line  with  its  normal  progressiveness  among 
the  states  has  recently  established  a  Re- 
organized State  Veterinary  Department, 
of  which  the  head  is  Dr.  Leonard  E. 
Northrup,  a  prominent  veterinarian  who 
has  given  most  of  his  time  for  the  past  ten 
or  twelve  years  to  veterinary  work  under 
the  Indiana  state  government  auspices. 

Indianans  are  justly  proud  of  the  work 
that  is  being  accomplished  by  Doctor 
Northrup  in  his  department.  It  is  a  de- 
partment vitally  connected  with  the  wel- 
fare and  prosperity  of  the  state.  In  order 
to  meet  the  increasing  demand  for  more 
livestock  and  better  livestock  one  of  the 
first  essentials  is  to  eliminate  as  far  as 
possible  disease,  and  consequently  healthy 
livestock  is  a  prerequisite  to  more  and  bet- 
ter livestock.  Since  the  creation  of  this 
department  it  has  been  the  means  of  greatly 
increasing  the  production  of  pork  and 
beef  in  Indiana,  and  for  that  reason  In- 
diana has  increased  its  quota  of  food  sup- 
plies for  the  great  war.  In  fact  the  war 
has  influenced  the  State  Veterinary  De- 
partment in  so  many  ways  that  its  service 
and  its  personnel  are  four  times  what  they 
were  before  the  war.  The  state  has  been 
divided  into  seventeen  districts,  each  in 
charge  of  a  veterinarian  working  under 
the  direction  of  the  State  Department,  and 
giving  help  to  the  local  practitioners  of 
his  district  when  it  becomes  apparent  that 
such  help  is  needed.  There  are  also  spe- 
cial men  located  at  the  great  stockyards 
centers  of  Evansville,  Indianapolis,  Fort 
Wayne  and  other  places.  The  State  De- 
partment also  has  the  co-operation  of  a 
large  force  of  trained  Federal  veterinari- 
ans from  the  Bureau  of  Animal  Industry. 
A  recent  booklet  sent  out  by  the  State 
Veterinary  Department  gives  statistics 
showing  that  livestock  valuation  in  Indiana 
is  second  to  real  estate  only,  and  from  this 
fact  it  is  obvious  that  next  to  the  safe- 
guarding of  human  health  there  is  nothing 
that  calls  for  more  scientific  and  expert 
care  than  the  safeguarding  of  livestock  in- 
terests from  disease  and  consequent  loss. 

Leonard  E.  Northrup  is  a  native  of  New 
York  State.  He  was  born  in  Schuyler 
County  in  1872.     His  parents.  F.  W.  and 


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Josephine  (Seaman)  Northrup,  are  still 
living  at  the  old  home  at  Beaver  Dams  in 
Schuyler  County.  His  father  is  of  English 
lineage.  The  first  ancestors  came  to 
America  early  in  the  sixteen  hundreds  and 
settled  on  the  Hudson  River.  Doctor 
Northrup 's  direct  ancestor  came  over  with 
a  brother  who  many  years  previously  had 
gone  to  Normandy,  Franice,  with  King 
George  II,  and  remained  there  until  com- 
ing with  his  English  brothers  to  America, 
and  reared  a  family.  Doctor  Northrup 's 
great-grandfather,  John  Northrup,  joined 
Lafaj'ette's  army  upon  the  latter 's  land- 
ing in  America  and  fought  in  the  Revolu- 
tion. Doctor  Northrup 's  mother  on  her 
maternal  side  was  a  member  of  the  famous 
Holland  Dutch  Van  Wagner  family.  Her 
great  -  great  -  grandmother,  Annaka  Jans 
Van  "Wagner,  who  lived  in  New  York  City 
when  it  was  called  New  Amsterdam,  owned 
the  land  on  which  Trinity  Church  now 
stands.  F.  W.  Northrup  was  formerly  a 
merchant  but  has  always  been  a  farmer 
and  stockman. 

Doctor  Northrup  grew  up  at  Beaver 
Dams  in  Schuyler  County  and  attended 
the  Cook  Academy  at  Montour  Falls.  His 
first  ambition  was  to  become  a  physician, 
and  he  studied  in  New  York  City.  Per- 
haps due  to  early  associations  on  his  fath- 
er's farm  he  subsequently  abandoned  this 
in  favor  of  becoming  a  veterinarian.  He 
therefore  entered  the  Toronto  Veterinary 
College  in  Ontario,  graduated,  and  after 
that  for  several  years  was  in  the  govern- 
ment veterinarian  service  in  New  Mexico 
and  Arizona.  Doctor  Northrup  came  to 
Indianapolis  in  1908,  and  resumed  veter- 
inary work  under  Dr.  W.  E.  Coover,  who 
at  that  time  held  a  position  in  the  state 
government  corresponding  to  the  present 
head  of  the  State  Veterinary  Department. 
The  office  was  reorganized  by  Doctor 
Northrup  and  March  23,  1917,  Governor 
Goodrich  appointed  him  to  the  office  of 
state  veterinarian.  He  entered  upon  the 
enlarged  scope  and  program  of  his  depart- 
ment with  great  enthusiasm,  and,  as  al- 
ready noted,  has  thoroughly  organized  the 
department  all  over  the  state  until  today 
there  is  not  a  stockman  in  any  section  who 
cannot  obtain  the  expert  services  offered 
by  the  department  within  a  few  hours. 

Doctor  Northrup  is  a  thirty-second  de- 
gree Scottish  Rite,  Mason.  ED©  married 
Miss  Margaret  Couden,  a  native  of  Colum- 


bus, Georgia,  and  a  very  accomplished 
woman  formerly  prominent  in  educational 
affairs.  She  was  educated  in  Cedar  Ra- 
pids, Iowa,  and  for  several  years  was  a 
teacher  in  the  city  schools  of  Indianapolis. 

Timothy  Edward  Howard.  Soldier, 
lawyer,  judge  and  senator,  these  are  some 
of  the  distinctions  which  entitle  Timothy 
Edward  Howard  to  rank  with  the  promi- 
nent Indianans.  He  was  born  on  a  farm 
near  Ann  Arbor,  Michigan,  January  27, 
1637,  and  after  a  military  service  in  the 
Civil  war,  in  which  he  was  wounded  at  the 
battle  of  Shiloh,  and  after  a  thorough 
literary  and  professional  training,  he  was 
admitted  to  the  bar  in  1883.  He  subse- 
quently served  as  a  member  of  the  South 
Bend  Common  Council  and  in  other  offi- 
cial positions,  and  was  made  a  member  of 
the  Indiana  Senate  in  1886-92,  and  ele- 
vated to  justice  of  the  Supreme  Court  of 
Indiana  in  1893.  In  addition  to  his  many 
distinctions  in  the  line  of  his  profession 
Judge  Howard  is  also  a  writer  of  both 
prose  and  poetry. 

He  married  Julia  A.  Redmond,  of  De- 
troit. 

Alfred  B.  Gates,  who  died  at  his  home 
in  Indianapolis  in  1901,  was  for  many 
years  one  of  the  men  of  distinction  in  the 
commercial  and  civic  life  of  that  city.  A 
great  many  people  entertain  most  kindly 
memory  of  this  Indianapolis  merchant,  and 
the  worthy  place  he  enjoyed  in  business 
and  civic  life  is  now  being  filled  by  his  sons. 

A  period  of  almost  eight  decades  sep- 
arated his  death  from  his  birth.  He  was 
born  in  Fayette  County,  Indiana,  in  1822, 
a  son  of  Avery  Gates  and  a  grandson  of 
Joshua  Gates.  Joshua  Gates  spent  the 
greater  part  of  his  life  in  the  State  of 
New  York.  Avery  Gates,  who  was  born 
in  that  state  May  22,  1780,  married  Polly 
Toby.  Together  they  came  West,  traveling 
by  natboats  down  the  Ohio  river  and  locat- 
ing near  Connersville  in  Fayette  County, 
Indiana.  The  date  of  their  settlement  was 
about  1807.  Those  familiar  with  the  his- 
tory of  Indiana  need  not  be  reminded  of 
the  wilderness  and  desolate  conditions 
which  then  prevailed  over  practically  all 
of  Indiana  from  the  Ohio  river  to  the  Great 
Lakes.  Indiana  had  been  a  territory  but  a 
few  years,  and  nearly  ten  years  passed  be- 
fore'it  was  admitted  to  the  Union.     Fay- 


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ette  County  was  sparsely  settled  and  much 
of  it  unexplored,  and  its  dense  woods  had 
been  broken  only  here  and  there  by  the 
work  of  the  axe  man,  and  was  filled  with 
Indians  and  wild  game.  Avery  Gates 
lived  the  life  of  a  typical  pioneer,  and  died 
honored  and  respected  January  4,  1865. 
His  widow  passed  away  September  9,  1873. 

It  was  in  the  stimulating  period  of  pio- 
neer things  in  Indiana  that  Alfred  B. 
Gates  spent  his  early  youth  and  manhood. 
Though  country  born  and  country  bred 
he  made  his  abilities  count  in  a  larger 
business  way.  He  was  a  resident  of  Indi- 
ana practically  all  his  life  except  four 
years  from  1861  to  1868,  during  which  time 
he  was  engaged  in  business  in  Philadel- 
phia. In  the  latter  year  he  took  up  the 
grocery  business  at  Indianapolis,  and  now 
for  fully  half  a  century  the  name  Gates  has 
been  identified  with  that  department  of 
commerce.  His  retail  establishment  he 
built  up  and  broadened  out  into  a  whole- 
sale concern,  and  remained  active  in  its 
management  until  he  retired  in  1894. 
Alfred  B.  Gates  was  a  stanch  republican 
and  was  a  Scottish  Rite  Mason. 

Aside  from  the  success  he  won  in  busi- 
ness he  is  remembered  and  deserves  to  be 
remembered  especially  for  his  predominant 
characteristic  of  an  unfailing  good  humor. 
He  had  a  pleasant  smile  and  word  for 
everyone,  was  generous  to  a  fault,  was  al- 
ways helpful  to  the  needy  and  believed  in 
and  practiced  the  Golden  Rule.  Through- 
out a  long  and  busy  life  he  never  lost  his 
faith  in  humanity. 

Alfred  B.  Gates  married  Elizabeth  M. 
Murdock,  who  was  born  in  Kentucky  in 
1838.  She  survived  her  husband.  They 
were  the  parents  of  five  children :  Charles 
M.,  who  was  born  at  Connersville,  was  edu- 
cated at  Butler  College  at  Indianapolis, 
and  after  graduation  became  associated 
with  his  father  in  business.  He  married 
Maria  Frazee  and  died  at  the  age  of  twen- 
ty-eight, when  success  was  coming  rapidly 
to  him.  The  next  two  in  age  are  Harry 
B.,  who  died  October  10,  1916,  and  Wil- 
liam N.  Gates.  The  daughter,  Mary  Alice, 
born  at  Philadelphia,  is  Mrs.  "William  H. 
Lee,  of  Minneapolis.  The  youngest  son  is 
Edward  E.  Gates. 

Harry  B.  Gates,  a  son  of  the  late  Alfred 
B.  Gates,  was  an  active  business  man  at 
Indianapolis    thirty-five    years    and    had 


many  associations  with  the  larger  life  and 
affairs  of  this  city. 

He  was  born  in  Fayette  County,  In- 
diana, September  5,  1858,  and  when  he  was 
six  years  of  age  his  parents  moved  to  Phil- 
adelphia, where  he  received  his  early  in- 
struction in  the  public  schools.  After 
1868  he  attended  school  at  Indianapolis 
and  in  1871,  at  the  age  of  thirten,  went  to 
work  in  his  father's  grocery  and  coffee 
store.  He  was  admitted  to  a  partnership 
in  1882  under  the -name  A.  B.  Gates  & 
Company.  He  continued  to  be  associated 
with  his  father  until  1894,  when  the  latter 
retired.  Mr.  Harry  Gates  then  organized 
the  Climax  Coffee  &  Baking  Powder  Com- 
pany. As  its  president  he  built  up  the 
manufacturing  and  wholesale  branches  of 
this  business  to  extensive  proportions  and 
made  it  one  of  the  largest  concerns  of  its 
kind  in  Indiana.  Harry  B.  Gates  was  also 
largely  responsible  for  organizing  the  New 
Telephone  Company  and  the  New  Long 
Distance  Telephone  Company  of  Indian- 
apolis in  1897.  He  was  secretary  of  both 
companies  until  1893,  and  before  selling 
his  interests  he  had  the  satisfaction  of  see- 
ing the  plants  thoroughly  organized  and 
modernized  and  the  business  firmly  estab- 
lished. Among  other  business  interests  he 
was  president  of  the  American  Color  Com- 
pany, manufacturing  dyes,  was  a  director 
of  the  Columbia  National  Bank  and  other 
corporations.  He  promoted,  owned  and 
operated  before  his  death  the  Hotel  Sev- 
erin,  Indianapolis,  and  the  Hotel  Miami,  of 
Dayton,  Ohio.  He  was  succeeded  upon  his 
death,  by  his  son,  A.  Bennett  Gates,  who 
is  now  president  of  both  these  well  known 
hotels. 

As  a  republican  Mr.  Harry  B.  Gates 
was  quite  active  in  local  affairs,  and  was 
a  delegate  to  the  National  Convention  of 
1900.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Columbia, 
Commercial,  Marion  and  Country  Clubs, 
the  German  House,  and  was  affiliated  with 
Pentalpha  Lodge  No.  564,  Ancient  Free 
and  Accepted  Masons. 

Harry  B.  Gates  died  at  Indianapolis  Oc- 
tober 10,  1916,  at  the  age  of  fifty-eight  and 
when  still  in  the  high  tide  of  his  powers 
and  usefulness.  November  6,  1881,  he 
married  Miss  Carrie  E.  Patrick,  daughter 
of  E.  W.  Patrick  of  Evansville,  Indiana. 
Mrs.  Gates  died  in  1901,  leaving  one  son. 
This  son,  A.  Bennett  Gates,  was  associated 
with  his  father  in  the  coffee  and  baking 


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powder  business.  He  married  Lena  Hem- 
mingway,  daughter  of  James  A.  Hemming- 
way,  United  States  Senator  from  Indiana. 

William  N.  Gates,  one  of  the  promi- 
nent wholesale  merchants  of  Indianapolis, 
has  been  a  resident  of  that  city  half  a  cen- 
tury, and  his  own  career  has  served  to 
make  a  well  known  family  still  better 
known  and  honored  in  this  state. 

He  was  born  October  31,  1862,  and  at 
the  age  of  six  years  came  to  Indianapolis 
with  his  parents.  Here  he  attended  the 
public  schools  and  also  Butler  University. 
At  the  age  of  sixteen  he  went  to  work  in 
his  father's  wholesale  grocery  house,  and 
his  entire  career  has  been  identified  with 
the  activities  and  interests  of  the  whole- 
sale business  at  Indianapolis.  In  1895  he 
embarked  in  the  wholesale  coffee  and  bak- 
ing powder  business,  and  has  built  up  one 
of  tfee  largest  concerns  of  its  kind  in  In- 
dianapolis. 

Mr.  Gates  is  a  republican  and  is  a  char- 
ter member  of  the  Columbia  Club.  In 
1886  he  married  Miss  Alberta  Byram.  Her 
father,  N.  S.  Byram,  was  in  his  day  one 
of  the  prominent  men  of  Indianapolis. 
Three  children  have  been  born  to  their 
marriage,  Isabel,  William  Byram  and 
Alfred  Gerald.  The  daughter  is  Mrs.  Kelly 
R.  Jacoby.  Both  sons  are  actively  asso- 
ciated with  their  father  in  business. 

Edward  E.  Gates  is  member  of  the  law 
firm  Myers,  Gates  &  Ralston  of  Indianap- 
olis. The  name  of  this  firm  is  sufficient  to 
indicate  his  standing  as  a  lawyer  apart 
from  several  individual  achievements  in 
the  law  which  stand  to  his  high  credit.  He 
has  always  been  active  in  Indianapolis  citi- 
zenship, and  also  enjoys  the  distinction 
of  having  been  an  actual  campaigner  in 
the  brief  war  with  Spain. 

Mr.  Gates  represents  one  of  the  earliest 
families  of  Indiana  pioneers.  His  grand- 
father, Avery  Gates,  located  in  Payette 
County  as  early  as  1807,  considerably  more 
than  a  century  ago.  This  is  one  of  the 
few  families  of  the  state  who  have  more 
than  a  century  of  residence  to  their  credit. 
Edward  E.  Gates  is  a  son  of  the  late  Alfred 
B.  Gates,  whose  career  is  told  briefly  on 
other  pages. 

Edward  E.  Gates  was  born  at  Indianap- 
olis August  23,  1871.  He  was  educated  in 
local    schools,    graduated    Ph.    B.    in    1891 


from  Yale  College,  and  in  1894  completed 
his  studies  in  the  New  York  Law  School. 
In  1895  he  also  graduated  from  the  In- 
diana Law  School,  and  his  actual  career 
as  a  lawyer  covers  a  period  of  over  twenty 
years.  During  the  greater  part  of  this 
time  he  has  enjoyed  a  most  enviable  repu- 
tation as  a  lawyer.  Out  of  his  large  and 
varied  practice  one  particular  case  can  be 
recited  as  one  of  public  interest  and  which 
redounded  much  to  his  credit. 

Prior  to  1906  railroads  had  generally 
discriminated  against  the  citizens  of  In- 
dianapolis, giving  to  neighboring  cities 
special  rates  and  privileges  that  consti- 
tuted a  heavy  if  not  prohibitive  burden 
upon  this  city.  Protests  and  formal  pro- 
cedure seemed  unavailing  to  bring  redress. 
Then  Mr.  Gates  was  employed  as  chief 
counsel  by  the  Indianapolis  Freight 
Bureau  and  the  Chamber  of  Commerce  to 
effect  an  equitable  adjustment.  He  entered 
the  cause  with  a  determination  to  leave  no 
stone  unturned  in  the  accomplishment  of 
the  object  in  view.  When  he  appeared  be- 
fore the  Interstate  Commerce  Commission 
he  was  fortified  with  an  array  of  testimony 
and  evidence  and  facts  which  were  indis- 
putable, and  after  an  extended  and  bitterly 
fought  trial  before  that  commission  the 
decision  was  rendered  in  favor  of  the  com- 
plainant in  1907.  The  result  of  this  de- 
cision has  saved  hundreds  of  thousands  of 
dollars  to  the  shippers  of  Indianapolis  and 
has  also  acquired  the  value  of  a  precedent 
from  which  equal  shipping  treatment  has 
since  been  extended  to  other  cities. 

Mr.  Gates  is  widely  known  in  civic  and 
social  affairs.  While  at  Yale  College  he 
was  identified  with  the  Berzelius  Society. 
He  is  a  member  of  the  Columbian  and 
Marion  clubs  of  Indianapolis,  the  Ki- 
wanis  Club,  of  which  he  is  president,  of 
the  Athletic  and  Canoe  clubs,  Chamber  of 
Commerce,  Board  of  Trade,  the  Turn- 
verein,  the  Maennerchor,  the  Royal  Ar- 
canum, Knights  of  Pythias,  Mystic  Shrine, 
Spanish  War  Veterans  and  the  Christian 
Church. 

During  the  war  between  our  country 
and  Spain  Mr.  Gates  volunteered  and  be- 
came a  member  of  the  famous  Indianapolis 
Field  Artillery,  known  as  the  Twenty- 
Seventh  Light  Battery,  Indiana  Volun- 
teers. This  battery  was  called  into  actual 
service  and  was  assigned  to  duties  in  the 
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with  a  rather  dramatic  incident.  The  bat- 
tery had  been  unlimbered  and  was  on  the 
point  of  firing  upon  Spanish  posts  when 
hostilities  were  halted  by  a  truce  pending 
the  final  conclusion  of  the  war. 

As  a  republican  in  politics  Mr.  Gates  has 
been  quite  active  in  his  party  and  for  two 
terms  served  as  president  of  the  Lincoln 
League.  His  wife  was  formerly  Miss  Dor- 
othy Fay  Odoms.  He  has  three  children, 
Virginia,  Edward  and  Elizabeth. 

Fred  Prange  came  to  Indianapolis  from 
Germany  over  thirty  years  ago,  poor  and 
all  but  friendless  in  this  new  world,  and 
has  achieved  a  degree  of  definite  success 
which  makes  him  one  of  the  honored  busi- 
ness men  and  citizens  of  Indianapolis  to- 
day. He  is  member  of  the  well  known 
business  firm  of  Prange  Brothers,  his  ac- 
tive associate  now  and  for  many  years  be- 
ing his  brother  Anton. 

Mr.  Prange  was  born  at  Minden,  West- 
phalia, Germany,  August  6,  1863,  son  of 
Fred  and  Christinia  (Roesener)  Prange. 
His  father  was  a  man  of  considerable  prop- 
erty and  of  substantial  position  in  his  na- 
tive country,  owned  land,  did  an  extensive 
business  as  a  contracting  carpenter,  and 
was  also  revenue  collector  for  his  district. 
Fred  Prange  and  wife  spent  all  their  lives 
in  Germany,  and  were  active  members  of 
the  German  Lutheran  Church.  A  brother 
of  Fred  Prange,  Sr.,  is  Anthony  Prange, 
a  prominent  old  time  resident  of  Indian- 
apolis elsewhere  referred  to.  Fred  Prange, 
Sr.,  and  wife  had  a  large  family,  and  five 
of  them  came  to  the  United  States.  Chris- 
tina is  the  wife  of  Mr.  Fred  Stahlhut,  of 
Indianapolis.  The  second  among  those 
that  came  to  this  country  is  Mr.  Fred 
Prange.  His  brother  Anton  H.  was  born 
February  19,  1870.  Mary  was  the  first 
wife  of  Mr.  Fred  Stahlhut.  They  were 
married  in  Germany,  and  she  died  soon 
after  they  came  to  this  country,  and  Mr. 
Stahlhut  then  married  her  sister  Christina. 
The  other  member  of  the  family  in  Amer- 
ica is  Louis,  a  machinist  with  the  Penn- 
sylvania Railway  Company. 

Fred  Prange  attended  the  schools  of  his 
native  town  and  district,  and  as  a  boy 
served  an  apprenticeship  which  gave  him 
a  practical  knowledge  of  the  carpenter's 
trade  and  also  of  the  butcher  trade.  In 
1883,  when  he  was  twenty  years  of  age,  he 
came  to  the  United  States.     Having  rela- 


tives in  Indianapolis,  he  sought  this  city 
as  his  first  destination  and  there  secured 
the  opportunities  which  gradually  by  the 
exercise  of  his  industry  and  independent 
judgment  brought  him  a  secure  business 
position.  For  a  time  he  worked  at  the 
carpenter  trade,  was  in  the  employ  of 
Charles  Nuerge,  and  for  five  years  was  in 
the  grocery  store  of  his  uncle,  Anthony 
Prange.  Having  during  this  time  gained 
experience  and  some  small  means  of  his 
own  he  bought  a  meat  market  where  the 
Idle  Hour  Theater  is  now  located.  This 
he  sold  in  1893  and  for  the  next  twelve 
years  managed  a  store  on  Michigan  Street 
for  H.  E.  Shortemeyer.  In  1908  Mr.  Prange 
became  associated  with  his  brother  Anton 
H.  in  the  purchase  of  a  stock  of  goods  on 
Massachusetts  Avenue  belonging  to  their 
uncle  Anthony.  They  conducted  a  very 
satisfactory  business  as  grocery  merchants 
for  ten  years,  selling  out  their  grocery 
stock  in  1918  and  now  giving  most  of  their 
time  and  attention  to  the  operation  of  a 
meat  market  in  the  City  Market. 

Anton  Prange  was  an  employe  in  the 
grocery  business  for  William  Peak  for 
eleven  years  after  coming  to  this  country. 

Fred  Prange  married  in  1886  Mary 
Meusing,  daughter  of  Charles  Muesing. 
They  have  one  daughter,  Clara,  wife  of 
William  F.  Rathert,  a  well  known  gro- 
cery merchant  on  South  Meridian  Street 
in  Indianapolis. 

Anton  H.  Prange  was  married  in  1897, 
and  he  and  his  wife  have  a  daughter, 
Emma,  and  a  son,  Frank.  Both  families 
are  members  of  the  Trinity  Lutheran 
Church. 

William  A.  Umphrey  is  one  of  the 
prominent  factors  in  the  development  of 
the  Indianapolis  modern  industrial  pro- 
gram, a  program  which  is  rapidly  bring- 
ing this  city  to  a  place  ranking  with  the 
other  large  manufacturing  centers  of  the 
Middle  West.  Most  of  the  men  who  fur- 
nish the  spirit  and  enterprise  to  this  move- 
ment are  comparatively  young  men,  and 
Mr.  Umphrey  is  no  exception  to  that  rule. 

He  was  born  at  Indianapolis  December 
26,  1877,  forty  years  ago,  a  son  of  Louis 
and  Emma  Umphrey.  His  parents  still 
live  in  Indianapolis,  having  come  here 
many  years  ago  from  Cincinnati,  Ohio. 
The  father  was  born  June  8,  1842,  and 
spent  three  years  and  three  months  of  his 


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early  manhood  as  an  enlisted  soldier  in  the 
Union  army.  Seven  months  of  that  time 
he  endured  the  frightful  hardships  of  An- 
dersonville  prison.  Until  he  retired  Louis 
Umphrey  was  for  a  long  period  of  years 
superintendent  of  the  Piel  Starch  Works 
at  Indianapolis.  His  wife  is  now  seventy- 
one  years  of  age.  William  A.  Umphrey 
finished  his  early  education  in  the  Manual 
Training  High  School  of  Indianapolis. 
Then,  while  still  a  boy,  he  began  working 
in  a  seed  store  and  then  followed  another 
line  of  experience  with  an  insurance 
agency  at  Indianapolis. 

But  the  work  which  has  taken  his  chief 
time  and  attention  for  many  years  has 
been  furniture  manufacturing.  He  is  now 
at  the  head  of  two  companies,  one  with  a 
plant  at  Morgantown,  Indiana,  and  the 
other  located  at  Crawfordsville.  He  is 
president  of  one  and  secretary  and  treas- 
urer of  the  other.  The  plant  at  Morgan- 
town  makes  a  specialty  of  chairs,  while  the 
Umphrey  Manufacturing  Company  of 
Crawfordsville  concentrates  its  output  up- 
on library  tables.  Mr.  Umphrey  is  also 
secretary  and  treasurer  of  the  Glover 
Equipment  Company  at  412  Capitol  Ave- 
nue, Indianapolis.  His  business  associa- 
tion which  is  of  most  interest  at  this  par- 
ticular time  is  as  secretary  and  treasurer 
of  The  Weidley  Motor  Company.  He  is 
one  of  the  three  active  men  in  this  busi- 
ness, the  other  two  being  the  inventor,  Mr. 
Weidley,  and  Mr.  W.  E.  Showers.  The 
Weidley  motor  is  an  American  invention 
with  a  performance  which  has  astonished 
the  entire  world.  The  Weidley  motor  is  a 
four-,  six-  and  twelve-cylinder  motor,  de- 
signed and  manufactured  for  strictly  high 
class  cars,  but  in  the  last  year  or  so  the 
four-cylinder  has  been  used  extensively  on 
the  caterpillar  tractors  of  the  Cleveland 
Tractor  Company.  The  motors  are  manu- 
factured in  the  company's  plant  at  Geor- 
gia and  Shelby  streets,  where  the  concern 
now  occupies  an  entire  block.  Three  years 
ago  the  company  employed  less  than  ten 
men,  but  now  650  contribute  their  labors 
in  the  different  departments  and  offices, 
and  the  industry  is  rapidly  becoming  one 
of  the  largest  and  most  important  of  its 
kind  in  America.  The  company  now  has 
a  three  year  contract  to  supply  motors  to 
the  value  of  $20,000,000.  Hardly  a  month 
passes  that  some  addition  and  extension  is 
not  made  to  the  company 's  plant  and  busi- 


ness, and  the  men  connected  with  it  com- 
prise such  a  group  of  organizing  and  orig- 
inal genius  that  they  are  never  satisfied  for 
a  moment  with  present  achievement,  how- 
ever great  it  may  be,  and  are  constantly 
experimenting  toward  a  future  goal  of  per- 
fection. 

Mr.  Umphrey  therefore  has  a  decidedly 
active  executive  part  in  several  different 
organizations,  and  finds  his  time  and  ener- 
gies so  completely  engaged  by  them  that 
he  has  never  felt  justified  in  accepting 
directorship  with  various  other  organiza- 
tions offered  to  him.  He  is  a  member  of 
the  Columbia  Club,  the  Turnverein,  is  a 
Knight  Templar  Mason  and  also  belongs 
to  the  Scottish  Rite  of  that  order  and  the 
Mystic  Shrine.  In  politics  he  is  a  repub- 
lican, and  a  member  of  the  Presbyterian 
Church.  Mr.  Umphrey  has  one  son,  Law- 
rence Louis. 

Harry  T.  Hearsey,  of  Indianapolis,  is 
a  man  who  has  participated  in  and  has 
made  history  in  one  of  the  greatest  indus- 
tries of  the  age.  Forty  years  ago  he  was 
doing  practical  mechanics  in  the  limited 
and  meager  bicycle  industry.  He  has  never 
relaxed  his  attention  to  the  bicycle,  and 
knows  probably  more  about  that  business 
that  any  other  man  in  America.  He  was 
the  pioneer  in  the  industry  at  Indianap- 
olis, and  at  a  later  date  had  a  similar  re- 
lationship to  the  automobile  business.  He 
is  president  of  the  H.  T.  Hearsey  Com- 
pany at  408  Capitol  Avenue. 

Mr.  Hearsey  is  a  native  Englishman, 
born  in  London  February  11,  1863,  son 
of  H.  T.  and  Flora  Hearsey.  His  mother 
is  still  living.  Both  parents  were  born  in 
London,  and  when  he  was  a  boy  they  came 
to  America  and  located  at  Boston.  Harry 
T:  Hearsey  grew  up  and  attended  school 
at  Boston,  and  had  a  training  in  the  me- 
chanical trades  in  several  shops  of  that 
city. 

The  facts  of  his  early  experience'  of 
greatest  interest  here  is  found  in  the  year 
1878,  when  he  became  connected  with  the 
bicycle  industry  as  a  bicycle  mechanic  and 
repair  man.  There  has  been  no  interrup- 
tion to  his  connection  with  the  bicycle  busi- 
ness since  that  day.  He  was  first  em- 
ployed by  the  Cunningham-Heath  Com- 
pany of  Boston,  manufacturers  and  im- 
porters of  bicycles.  He  was  with  them 
seven  vears  as  a  machinist  and  was  a  rac- 


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ing  expert.  Mr.  Hearsey  could  ride  a  bi- 
cycle as  well  as  make  one,  and  when  it  is 
recalled  that  thirty  or  forty  years  ago 
the  only  type  of  bicycle  was  the  high 
wheel  or  ordinary,  the  riding  was  a  matter 
of  much  more  expert  performance  than 
what  is  required  today. 

As  a  rider  Mr.  Hearsey  gave  exhibitions 
for  his  company  in  various  cities  of  the 
United  States.  In  1885  he  came  to  In- 
dianapolis, the  city  that  has  been  his  home 
now  for  over  thirty  years.  After  coming 
here  he  was  for  a  time  connected  with  the 
business  of  Charles  Finley  Smith  of  Wav- 
erly  bicycle  fame.  In  1886  he  established 
a  shop  of  his  own  in  a  little  room  at  New 
York  and  Delaware  streets.  Here  he  sold 
and  repaired  bicycles  of  the  old  type,  hav- 
ing the  shop  at  one  end  of  the  room  and 
operating  a  coal  office  at  the  other.  A 
year  or  two  later  he  moved  to  a  somewhat 
larger  building  on  Pennsylvania  Street 
near  Ohio,  occupying  a  site  that  is  now 
taken  up  by  the  east  portion  of  the  new 
Federal  Building.  Here  he  conducted  be- 
sides a  repair  shop  a  salesroom  and  riding 
academy.  This  was  probably  the  first 
salesroom  and  riding  academy  in  the  mid- 
dle west,  and  certainly  the  first  in  Indian- 
apolis. It  was  about  1890  that  the  first 
form  of  the  "safety"  bicycle  was  intro- 
duced, and  in  two  or  three  years  its  devel- 
opment rendered  the  old  "ordinary"  prac- 
tically obsolete,  and  for  a  number  of  years 
no  one  has  seen  the  high  wheel  except  in 
museums  and  circuses.  The  safety  bicycle 
grew  in  popularity,  especially  after  the 
introduction  of  pneumatic  tires,  and  Mr. 
Hearsey  was  in  a  position  to  become  the 
central  figure  around  which  the  bicycle 
activities  of  Indianapolis  revolved.  His 
shop  was  headquarters  for  all  the  famous 
racing  men  of  fifteen  or  twenty  years  ago, 
and  he  was  a  leading  spirit  in  the  great 
meet  which  were  as  much  events  in  the 
'90s  as  automobile  races  have  been  since. 

With  the  advent  of  the  automobile  and 
the  decline  in  popularity  of  the  bicycle 
Mr.  Hearsey  naturally  gravitated  into  the 
automobile  business.  Thus  he  became  the 
first  automobile  dealer  in  Indianapolis.  In 
a  historical  article  on  the  bicycle  and  kin- 
dred industries  in  a  recent  number  of  the 
Bicycle  News  of  New  York,  this  paper 
credits  Mr.  Hearsey  with  being  the  oldest 
dealer  and  jobber  of  bicycles  in  the  United 
States ;  while  his  record  for  being  the  pio- 


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neer  dealer  in  automobiles  at  Indianapolis 
is  well  known  to  all.  Carl  Fisher,  Indian- 
apolis' widely  known  automobile  magnate, 
worked  as  a  youth  in  Mr.  Hearsey 's  plant. 
Mr.  Fisher  calls  Mr.  Hearsey  "daddy" 
and  freely  gives  him  credit  for  his  start 
in  the  automobile  industry.  The  history 
of  Mr.  Hearsey 's  connection  with  the 
automobile  business  is  in  fact  the  history 
of  the  beginning  and  early  years  of  the 
industry-  in  Indianapolis,  a  city  that  now 
ranks  second  in  automobile  trade  and  man- 
ufacture in  the  United  States. 

Mr.  Hearsey  has  done  his  part  as  an 
originator  and  inventor.  He  devised  and 
put  on  the  market  the  famous  Hearsey  bi- 
cycle tires,  known'  from  coast  to  coast.  He 
was  also  the  originator  of  the  interchange- 
able tire  tube  for  Ford  cars,  a  tube  that 
has  come  into  universal  use.  Mr.  Hear- 
sey discontinued  the  automobile  end  of  his 
business  in  1915,  but  has  never  discontin- 
ued handling  bicycles,  even  during  the 
slackest  years.  He  is  now  jobbing  bicy- 
cles, bicycle  parts  and  automobile  acces- 
sories, and  in  August,  1918,  moved  his 
plant  to  its  splendid  modern  building  at 
408-410  Capitol  Avenue.  There  he  has 
spacious  and  well  arranged  quarters,  con- 
stituting an  ideal  location.  Mr.  Hearsey 's 
continuance  in  the  business  has  been  well 
justified,  since,  as  he  foresaw,  the  bicycle 
in  recent  years  has  again  found  favor  and 
place  in  the  world  of  trade  and  industry, 
fulfilling  a  need  that  cannot  be  filled  in 
any  other  way.  This  has  been  well  recog- 
nized by  its  classification  as  an  essential 
war  industry.  Mr.  Hearsey  is  president 
of  the  H.  T.  Hearsey  Company,  and  also 
active  manager  of  the  business. 

Mr.  Hearsey  was  also  very  active  in  In- 
dianapolis civic  life,  a  member  of  the 
Board  of  Trade,  and  having  served  eleven 
years  as  a  governor;  a  member  of  the 
Marion  Club,  having  served  as  director 
and  treasurer;  a  member  of  the  Academy 
of  Music;  a  member  of  the  Automobile 
Trade  Association  and  Hoosier  Motor 
Club ;  prominent  in  Masonic  life,  a  thirty- 
second  degree  Scottish  Rite  Mason,  also  a 
Knight  Templar  and  a  Shriner  and  a  mem- 
ber of  Centre  Lodge,  Ancient  Free  and 
Accepted  Masons ;  also  a  member  of  Christ 
Episcopal  Church.  In  politics  he  is  a  re- 
publican. He  served  four  years  as  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Advisory  Board  of  Centre 
Township,   Marion  County,  and  while  he 


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always  took  an  active  part  in  politics  as  a 
republican  he  never  aspired  to  any  other 
office,  preferring  his  business  career. 

He  married  Miss  Nellie  Kirk,  of  Mun- 
cie,  Indiana,  where  she  was  born  and 
reared.  They  have  four  daughters :  Nellie, 
wife  of  R.  H.  Colburn,  and  they  have  two 
children,  Harry  Hearsey  and  Mariadna; 
Vivian ;  Edith,  wife  of  Herbert  Jose,  and 
they  have  one  child,  Joanna  Jose;  and 
Kathryn,  wife  of  Robert  R.  Adams. 

Ida  Husted  Harper,  a  well  known 
writer  and  lecturer,  was  born  near  Brook- 
ville,  Indiana,  a  daughter  of  John  Arthur 
and  Cassandra  (Stoddard)  Husted.  Her 
early  literary  training  was  secured  in  the 
high  school  of  Muncie,  Indiana,  of  which 
she  is  a  graduate.  She  was  also  a  student 
in  the  Indiana  University  two  years,  spent 
two  years  in  Leland  Stanford,  Jr.,  Uni- 
versity, and  afterward  became  principal  of 
the  high  school  of  Peru,  Indiana.  She  also 
spent  a  number  of  years  in  literary  work 
in  Terre  Haute,  and  since  her  writings 
and  work  have  identified  her  with  the  prin- 
cipal cities  of  this  country  and  Europe. 
Among  her  many  contributions  may  be 
mentioned  the  "History  of  Woman  Suf- 
frage to  Close  of  Nineteenth  Century ' ' 
(with  Susan  B.  Anthony).  Her  home  is 
in  New  York  City. 

William  Buttler  was  for  many  years 
until  his  death  prominently  identified  with 
the  glass  manufacturing  industry  of  In- 
diana, and  the  City  of  Indianapolis  today 
has  as  one  of  its  important  industries  a 
business  which  he  established  and  built 
up   from  small  beginnings. 

He  was  a  native  of  Pennsylvania.  His 
father,  Christopher  F.  Buttler,  was  a  na- 
tive of  Germany,  coming  to  America  after 
his  marriage  and  living  for  many  years  at 
Pittsburg.  Late  in  life  he  removed  to  In- 
dianapolis, and  is  still  living  there  at  an 
advanced  age. 

One  of  a  family  of  seven  children,  Wil- 
liam Buttler  grew  up  in  a  home  marked 
by  great  simplicity  of  comforts  and  living 
conditions.  His  parents  were  quite  poor, 
and  from  the  age  of  nine  years  he  had  no 
scholastic  advantages  and  had  to  get  out 
and  make  his  own  living.  He  became  a  boy 
worker  in  the  glass  industry.  By  Oie  slow 
and  arduous  apprenticeship  then  in  vogue 
he  learned   every  detail   of  glass   making. 


and  in  time  was  promoted  to  the  responsi- 
bilities of  manager  for  Dithridge  &  Com- 
pany. He  was  an  apt  student,  and  pos- 
sessing an  original  mind  he  invented  when 
still  not  more  than  a  boy  a  machine  fcr 
putting  a  "crimp"  in  the  top  of  lamp 
chimneys.  The  sale  of  this  invention 
brought  him  enough  money  to  embark  in 
business  for  himself. 

At  Fostoria,  Ohio,  he  began  the  manu- 
facture of  what  is  known  as  Cathedral 
glass,  but  after  about  a  year  his  plant 
burned.  About  that  time  the  natural  gas  dis- 
coveries in  Eastern  Indiana  had  made  that 
field  an  attractive  one  for  glass  manufac- 
turers, and  Mr.  Buttler  removing  to  Red- 
key  built  a  plant  which  he  continued  to 
operate  for  some  thirteen  or  fourteen  years, 
until  the  natural  gas  supply  failed.  In 
1903  he  removed  his  plant  to  Indianapolis, 
and  there  continued  the  Marietta  Glass 
Company  which  was  founded  at  Redkey. 
At  first  the  Indianapolis  business  was  a 
small  one,  but  it  prospered  under  William 
Buttler,  and  at  one  time  he  owned  some 
four  or  five  factories.  These  factories 
turned  out  Cathedral  glass,  lamp  chim- 
neys, tumblers,  fruit  jars,  window  glass, 
and  he  also  operated  the  old  Eureka  Re- 
frigerator Company. 

William  Buttler  was  a  keen  business  man, 
an  indomitable  worker,  clean  in  his  rela- 
tions with  his  fellow  man  and  a  credit  in 
the  community  in  which  he  lived.  He  built 
up  the  Marietta  Glass  Works  until  it  now 
gives  employment  to  nearly  a  hundred  peo- 
ple. While  a  Protestant  in  belief,  he  was 
not  a  church  member,  and  in  politics  was 
a  republican.  Socially  he  was  identified 
with  the  Columbia  and  Marion  clubs  and 
was  a  thirty-second  degree  Scottish  Rite 
Mason. 

William  Buttler  died  at  his  home  in  In- 
dianapolis February  14,  1916.  He  married 
Mary  Russner,  who  passed  away  in  March, 
1904.  They  had  seven  children :  William, 
who  died  in  early  childhood;  Clara,  Mrs. 
George  Greenwood ;  Edna,  Mrs.  Zedock  At- 
kinson ;  Arthur,  now  president  of  the  Mari- 
etta Glass  Company ;  Mamie,  Mrs.  Charles 
Ertle;  Howard,  who  died  in  infancy;  and 
Stella. 

Arthur  Buttler,  the  only  living  male  rep- 
resentative of  his  father's  family,  was  born 
at  Pittsburg,  Pennsylvania,  July  7,  1887. 
He  received  his  education  at  Redkey,  In- 
diana, and  from  boyhood  has  been  identi- 


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tied  with  the  glass  business,  working 
through  all  the  different  departments  and 
was  well  qualified  to  assume  the  responsi- 
bilities devolving  upon  him  at  his  father's 
death  as  president  of  the  company.  June 
9,  1909,  he  married  Miss  Essie  H.  Green- 
wood. They  have  one  son,  John  David. 
Mr.  Buttler  is  a  member  of  the  Masonic 
Order  and  in  politics  a  republican. 

Hon.  Aaron  Wolfson  has  been  a  suc- 
cessful Indianapolis  business  man  since 
1903,  and  is  widely  known  and  his  services 
appreciated  as  a  factor  in  civic  affairs.  He 
is  now  serving  his  first  term  as  state  sen- 
ator. 

He  has  come  to  be  valued  as  one  of  the 
most  useful  members  of  the  Senate,  and  be- 
sides his  routine  duties  has  used  his  prac- 
tical good  sense  many  times  in  helping 
shape  wise  legislation  and  also  to  defeat 
the  many  bills  introduced  every  session 
which  eventually  encumber  the  statute 
books  of  the  state.  Mr.  Wolfson  above 
everything  else  is  an  American  citizen, 
proud  of  his  native  country,  and  there  is 
nothing  he  leaves  undone  which  will  con- 
tribute in  any  way  to  the  betterment  and 
welfare  of  his  country. 

Mr.  Wolfson  was  born  in  Boston,  Massa- 
chusetts, July  24,  1871,  son  of  Leopold 
and  Emily  (Tentler)  Wolfson.  His  father 
was  born  in  the  free  city  of  Hamburg, 
Germany,  while  his  mother  was  a  native 
of  New  England.  Leopold  Wolfson  came 
to  America  when  a  small  lad,  and  for 
many  years  was  in  business  at  Boston, 
where  he  died.  The  mother  is  still  living 
in  that  city. 

Aaron  Wolfson  attended  the  public 
schools  of  Boston,  including  the  English 
High  School,  and  had  prepared  for  en- 
trance to  Harvard  University.  He  was 
dissuaded  from  a  college  career  by  oppor- 
tunities that  enabled  him  to  engage  in  busi- 
ness, and  for  some  years  was  associated 
with  his  father  in  the  manufacture  of 
athletic  garments.  He  became  quite  well 
known  in  Massachusetts  and  in  Boston, 
being  secretary  and  treasiirer  of  the  Massa- 
chusetts Division  of  League  of  American 
Wheelmen.  About  1897  he  was  an  asses- 
sor of  the  City  of  Boston.  While  there 
he  was  an  officer  in  the  Ancient  and  Honor- 
able Artillery  Company,  the  oldest  mili- 
tary organization  in  America. 

On  coming  to  Indianapolis  in  1903  Mr. 


Wolfson  engaged  in  business  and  is  now 
treasurer  of  the  Kahn  Tailoring  Company 
at  the  southwest  corner  of  Capitol  and 
St.  Clair  streets,  and  is  also  president  of 
the  Kahn  Realty  Company  and  vice  presi- 
dent of  Washington  Meridian  Realty  Com- 
pany, also  vice  president  of  the  Horner 
McKee  Company. 

In  1916  he  was  nominated  and  elected 
as  a  republican  to  the  State  Senate.  Dur- 
ing the  first  session  he  was  chairman  of 
the  committees  on  insurance  and  natural 
resources  and  was  member  of  the  commit- 
tees on  railroads,  reformatories  and  manu- 
factures. Senator  Wolfson  is  also  a  mem- 
ber of  the  staff  of  Governor  Goodrich  with 
the  rank  of  colonel.  He  has  always  been 
active  in  republican  circles,  but  his  elec- 
tion to  the  State  Senate  was  his  first  polit- 
ical office. 

Senator  Wolfson  is  a  thirty-second  de- 
gree Scottish  Rite  Mason,  a  member  of  the 
Mystic  Shrine,  and  is  a  member  of  the 
various  civic,  social  and  charitable  organi- 
zations. He  has  served  as  vice  president 
of  the  Chamber  of  Commerce,  former  pres- 
ident of  the  Indianapolis  Association  of 
Credit  Men,  president  of  the  Jovian 
League,  vice  president  of  the  Optimists 
Club,  is  a  former  member  of  the  Sales- 
manship Club,  and  a  member  of  the  Colum- 
bia, Marion,  Indianapolis  Canoe  and  In- 
dependence Turnverein. 

December  16,  1908,  Mr.  Wolfson  married 
Florence  Swope,  of  Dallas,  Texas.  They 
have  one  daughter,  Emily. 

Allen  W.  Conduitt.  The  name  Con- 
duitt  has  been  a  familiar  one  in  commer- 
cial and  civic  affairs  of  Indianapolis  for 
more  than  half  a  century.  For  about  thirty 
years  the  interests  of  the  Conduitts  were 
chiefly  centered  in  the  wholesale  district, 
and  several  of  the  old  and  substantial 
houses  today  owe  some  of  their  original 
spirit  and  enterprise  to  this  family. 

To  the  business  of  wholesale  and  retail 
merchandising  Allen  W.  Conduitt  gave 
many  years  of  his  energies,  but  in  later 
years  has  been  chiefly  known  as  a  con- 
tractor, and  with  the  leisure  achieved  by 
successful  business  has  also  been  a  promi- 
nent figure  in  Indianapolis  public  affairs. 
He  was  born  at  Mooresville  in  Morgan 
County,  Indiana,  Aiigust  28,  1849,  son  of 
Alexander  B.  and  Melissa  R.  (Hardwick) 
Conduitt.     His  parents  were  both  natives 


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of  Kentucky  and  of  English  descent.  The 
Conduitts  and  Hardwicks  came  from  Ken- 
tucky to  Indiana  in  pioneer  times. 

The  late  Alexander  B.  Conduitt  grew  up 
in  Morgan  County,  attended  the  primitive 
schools  and  gained  his  first  knowledge  of 
business  as  clerk  in  the  general  store  of 
Samuel  Moore,  founder  of  Mooresville.  He 
and  his  brothers  later  bought  this  busi- 
ness, and  he  continued  a  participant  in  it 
until  failing  health  obliged  him  to  retire  to 
a  farm  in  Morgan  County.  Having  recov- 
ered his  physical  vigor,  he  removed  with 
his  family  in  1864  to  Indianapolis,  and 
here  entered  the  wholesale  dry  goods  busi- 
ness. His  associates  were  Willis  S.  "Webb, 
Capt.  W.  H.  Tarkington  and  Frank  Lan- 
ders. The  busines  was  known  as  Webb, 
Tarkington  &  Company.  Later  it  became 
Webb,  Conduitt  &  Company,  and  finally 
Mr.  Conduitt  retired.  A  later  generation 
of  Indianapolis  people  know  the  old  firm 
chiefly  through  the  title  of  Hibben,  Hollweg 
&  Company.  From  the  wholesale  dry  goods 
business  Alexander  B.  Conduitt  entered  the 
wholesale  grocery  trade  in  1870  as  senior 
member  of  Conduitt,  Daugherty  &  Com- 
pany. In  1875  his  son  Allen  entered  the 
partnership  and  the  title  was  changed  to 
Conduitt  &  Son.  This  business  was  con- 
ducted on  a  prosperous  scale  until  1893, 
when  it  was  sold  to  Schnull  &  Company. 
After  that  Alexander  B.  Conduitt  lived 
retired  until  his  death  in  July,  1903,  when 
nearly  eighty-five  years  old.  In  the  middle 
years  of  the  last  century,  he  was  a  promi- 
nent leader  in  the  democratic  party  of  In- 
diana. He  served  as  a  member  of  the 
State  Constitutional  Convention  of  1852, 
represented  Morgan  County  two  terms  in 
the  Legislature,  and  in  1862  was  demo- 
cratic nominee  for  Congress  and  made  a 
most  creditable  race  in  a  heavily  repub- 
lican district.  He  is  remembered  as  a  busi- 
ness man  of  the  highest  principles,  and 
through  his  business  he  gave  an  important 
service  to  his  state  and  never  held  himself 
aloof  from  those  public  spirited  movements 
which  are  vital  to  the  progress  of  any  com- 
munity. Both  he  and  his  wife  were  active 
members  of  the  Methodist  Church.  His 
wife  died  in  1898,  at  the  age  of  eighty. 
They  had  nine  children,  seven  of  whom 
l-eached  maturity. 

Allen  W.  Conduitt  grew  up  in  Morgan 
County  and  was  sixteen  years  old  when  the 
family  removed  to  Indianapolis.     In  addi- 


tion to  the  common  schools  he  attended 
old  Northwestern  Christian,  now  Butler, 
College  for  two  years.  He  learned  busi- 
ness in  the  wholesale  dry  goods  establish- 
ment in  which  his  father  was  a  partner  and 
in  the  latter  part  of  1868  became  asso- 
ciated with  his  brother  Henry  in  a  general 
merchandise  store  at  Switz  City,  Indiana. 
Later  they  moved  their  store  to  Moores- 
ville, their  native  town.  Then,  in  1875, 
Allen  W.  Conduitt  returned  to  Indianap- 
olis and  became  junior  member  of  the 
wholesale  grocery  house  of  Conduitt  & 
Son.  When  this  business  was  sold  in  1893 
Mr.  Conduitt  spent  some  years  contracting 
for  street  improvement  work.  In  1903  he 
entered  the  wholesale  coal  business,  and  has 
since  been  a  member  of  the  Cochrane  Coal 
Company.  He  was  also  one  of  the  or- 
ganizers and  incorporators  of  the  Conduitt 
Automobile  Company,  one  of  the  leading 
automobile  sales  agencies  of  Indianapolis. 
Politically  Mr.  Conduitt  has  given  al- 
legiance to  the  same  principles  as  his 
father.  He  has  the  distinction  of  being 
chosen  the  first  president  of  the  Indianap- 
olis Board  of  Public  Works.  He  filled  that 
office  during  the  administration  of  Mayor 
Thomas  L.  Sullivan,  and  the  responsibility 
largely  devolved  upon  him  of  instituting 
and  formulating  the  early  policies  of  the 
department.  He  is  a  prominent  Mason, 
both  in  York  and  Scottish  Rite,  is  affiliated 
with  Raper  Commandery  No.  1,  Knights 
Templars,  with  Indianapolis  Consistory  of 
the  Scottish  Rite  and  Murat  Temple  of  the 
Mystic  Shrine.  Mr.  Conduitt  is  a  charter 
member  of  the  Commercial  Club,  and  was 
its  first  vice  president.  He  and  his  wife 
are  members  of  St.  Paul's  Episcopal 
Church.  January  11,  1870,  he  married 
Miss  Elizabeth  Thornburg,  who  was  born 
and  reared  in  Morgan  County.  Her  father, 
John  H.  Thornburg,  was  a  substantial 
Morgan  County  farmer.  Two  children  have 
been  born  to  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Conduitt : 
Mabel,  wife  of  John  A.  Boyd,  and  Harold 
A.,  a  real  estate  dealer  in  Los  Angeles, 
California. 

John  F.  Wallick,  who  still  observes 
with  unclouded  mind  the  current  life  of 
his  home  city  of  Indianapolis  and  the 
events  of  a  great  world,  serves  as  a  re- 
minder to  the  people  of  the  State  of  In- 
diana of  the  marvelous  achievements  in  the 
span  of  one  man's  life. 


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1709 


What  gives  special  significance  to  Mr. 
Wallick's  career  is  that  he  is  a  pioneer 
telegrapher,  having  entered  that  profession 
or  art  only  about  six  years  after  the  first 
triumph  of  telegraphy  and  its  first  applica- 
tion as  a  practical  form  of  communica- 
tion. Mr.  Wallick  has  been  identified  with 
and  could  recite  from  personal  memory  the 
history  of  the  telegraph  in  Indianapolis 
since  1852.  For  a  long  period  of  years  he 
was  manager  of  the  Western  Union  Com- 
pany in  Indianapolis,  but  is  now  retired. 
When  Mr.  Wallick  was  a  youth  Europe  was 
six  weeks  removed  from  Indianapolis.  To- 
day the  space  of  a  breath  serves  to  bring 
this  city  into  touch  with  remote  continents. 
With  the  crude  and  uncertain  instruments 
of  sixty-five  years  ago  he  helped  establish 
verbal  communication  between  the  towns 
and  cities  of  the  Middle  West,  and  since 
then  has  been  a  factor  in  and  has  lived 
to  see  transportation  communication  de- 
veloped from  steam  railroad  trains  to  elec- 
tric motors  of  land,  the  joining  of  conti- 
nents by  telegraph  wires  under  the  sea, 
and  the  electric  spark  which  he  often  had 
so  much  difficulty  in  controlling  when  a 
youth  now  flashes  incontinently  through  all 
the  elements  of  air,  land  and  water  and 
brings  the  news  of  a  war  3,000  miles  away 
in  the  space  of  a  few  hours. 

Mr.  Wallick  was  born  in  Juniata  County, 
Pennsylvania,  March  2,  1830,  a  son  of 
Samuel  and  Mary  (Glenn)  Wallick.  His 
maternal  grandfather,  William  Glenn, 
spent  his  life  in  Pennsylvania  as  a  farmer 
and  was  the  father  of  twelve  children.  The 
paternal  grandfather,  John  W.  Wallick, 
was  born  in  Germany,  but  came  to  America 
in  early  youth  and  was  one  of  the  rugged 
and  prosperous  farmers  of  Juniata  County, 
Pennsylvania,  where  he  died  when  past 
three  score  and  ten  years  of  age.  Samuel 
Wallick  was  a  farmer  and  merchant  in 
Tuscarora  Valley  of  Pennsylvania,  and 
died  there  in  1841  at  the  age  of  fifty  years. 
His  widow  survived  him  more  than  half  a 
century,  and  died  in  1891  at  Seville,  Ohio, 
aged  eighty-four.  She  and  her  husband 
were  members  of  the  Presbyterian  Church. 
Of  their  children  to  reach  maturity  there 
were  six:  Margaret,  who  married  Stewart 
McCulloch ;  John  F. ;  Mary,  widow  of 
James  Stokes ;  Samuel ;  Amanda ;  and  Al- 
fred R. 

John  F.  Wallick  during  his  youth  in 
Pennsylvania  had  a  common  school  educa- 


tion, taught  one  winter  term,  and  at  the 
age  of  nineteen  moved  to  Fredericksburg, 
Ohio,  and  worked  in  a  dry  goods  store  and 
in  the  local  postoffice  at  Wooster.  In  the 
meantime  the  practical  success  of  the  pio- 
neer telegraph  instrument  was  being  re- 
flected in  the  rapid  extension  of  wires 
across  the  Middle  West  and  was  calling 
into  being  a  new  profession  of  operators. 
In  1851  Mr.  Wallick  did  his  first  work  in 
handling  a  telegraph  key  with  the  Wade 
Telegraph  Company  at  Wooster,  Ohio.  His 
principal  instructor  in  the  art  was  General 
Eekert,  who  later  was  chairman  of  the 
board  of  directors  of  the  Western  Union 
Telegraph  Company.  In  1852  the  Wade 
Telegraph  Company  sent  Mr.  Wallick  to  its 
office  at  Indianapolis.  This  old  telegraph 
company  was  later  merged  with  the  Ohio, 
Indiana  and  Illinois  Telegraph  Company, 
and  that  in  turn  in  1856  became  a  part 
of  the  Western  Union  Telegraph  Company. 
Mr.  Wallick  was  manager  at  Indianpolis 
until  1864,  and  then  became  superintend- 
ent of  the  Indianapolis  office,  and  was  a 
faithful  and  efficient  incumbent  of  that 
post  for  nearly  half  a  century  until  he  re- 
tired, serving  from  April  1,  1864,  until 
November,  1911. 

His  ambition  might  well  have  been  satis- 
fied by  his  business  and  professional  work 
and  service,  and  it  constitutes  for  him  a 
most  honorable  record.  In  politics  he  has 
been  affiliated  with  the  republican  party, 
is  an  Odd  Fellow  and  Scottish  Rite  Mason, 
and  has  been  especially  interested  in  Odd 
Fellowship  and  has  sat  in  the  Grand  Lodge 
of  the  state  and  the  United  States.  He 
has  long  been  a  faithful  member  of  the 
Second  Presbyterian  Church,  and  his  wife 
was  equally  devoted  with  him  in  attend- 
ing to  their  religious  duties. 

June  10,  1862,  Mr.  Wallick  married  Miss 
Mary  A.  Martin,  who  was  born  and  reared 
at  Rahway,  New  Jersey,  daughter  of  Dr. 
John  and  Mary  A.  (Brockfield)  Martin. 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Wallick  had  a  most  happy 
home  life,  and  their  companionship  not 
only  endured  so  as  to  allow  them  the  pleas- 
ure of  celebrating  their  golden  wedding 
anniversary,  but  for  six  years  longer,  un- 
til it  was  terminated  by  the  death  of  Mrs. 
Wallick  June  15,  1918,  at  the  age  of  sev- 
enty-eight. Mrs.  Wallick  was  a  home 
woman,  devoted  to  her  intimate  friends 
and  family,  but  during  a  residence  of  more 
than  half  a  century  in  Indianapolis  had 


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also  gained  a  wide  acquaintance  in  the 
social  circles  of  the  city.  The  children  of 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Wallick  were :  Martin  Henry, 
Edward,  Mary  A.,  Adele,  Catherine  P., 
John  G.,  Edith,  Frederick  W.,  and  Edwin 
E.  Martin  and  Frederick  are  both  resi- 
dents of  Indianapolis.  Edward  died  in  in- 
fancy. Edwin  E.  is  now  in  the  Red  Cross 
service  in  France.  John  G.  is  a  resident 
of  New  York  City.  Mary  A.,  the  wife  of 
John  A.  Butler,  and  Mrs.  Fred  I.  Tone 
also  live  in  Indianapolis,  while  the  other 
surviving  daughter,  Mrs.  Winfleld  Dean 
Loudon,  resides  at  Scarsdale,  New  York. 
Catherine,  deceased,  was  the  wife  of  Louis 
E.  Lathrop. 

Harvey  Coonse  in  the  early  '90s  was 
performing  a  useful  though  not  distinctive 
service  as  conductor  on  one  of  the  lines 
of  street  railway  in  Indianapolis.  It  is  the 
purpose  of  this  article  to  tell  briefly  the 
successive  steps  by  which  he  has  found 
success  and  prominence  in  the  life  of  the 
state's  capital.  Mr.  Coonse  is  now  presi- 
dent of  the  East  Tenth  Street  State  Bank, 
secretary-treasurer  of  the  Coonse-Caylor 
Ice  Company  and  has  other  business  and 
civic  l'elations  by  which  he  is  well  known. 

He  was  born  on  a  farm  in  Scott  County, 
Indiana,  March  24,  1870.  His  father,  Tay- 
lor Coonse,  was  for  a  number  of  years  a 
farmer  in  that  county,  but  for  more  than 
twenty  years  was  manager  for  Gentry 
Brothers  Dog  and  Pony  Shows.  The 
mother,  now  deceased,  was  Mary  Ridge. 
Her  father  was  killed  while  a  Union  soldier 
in  the  Civil  war. 

The  early  boyhood  of  Harvey  Coonse 
was  spent  near  Lexington  in  Scott  County. 
He  attended  the  country  school  there  and 
had  such  discipline  and  environment  as  the 
average  farm  boy  of  that  time.  He  left 
the  farm  for  a  time  and  worked  in  car 
shops  at  Jeffersonville,  later  did  farming, 
and  in  1889,  at  the  age  of  nineteen,  arrived 
in  Indianapolis.  Here  for  seven  years  he 
was  an  employe  of  the  street  railway  serv- 
ice. For  six  months  he  drove  a  mule  team 
that  in  those  antiquated  days  hauled  a 
clumsy  street  car  back  and  forth  over  the 
tracks  from  downtown  to  the  outskirts. 
Later  he  was  promoted  to  conductor,  and 
he  continued  to  ring  up  fares  for  nearly 
seven  years.  He  had  only  a  few  dollars 
when  he  came  to  Indianapolis,  and  it  was 
as  a  result  of  a  purposeful  campaign  of 


thrift  that  brought  him  his  first  real  capi- 
tal. In  1896  he  invested  his  slender  means 
in  a  dairy  business.  Incident  to  the  con- 
duct of  this  business  he  began  handling 
ice  to  the  retail  trade,  and  as  the  oppor- 
tunities of  the  ice  business  seemed  greater 
than  dairying  he  finally  disposed  of  his 
herd  and  gave  all  his  attention  to  the  ice 
industry,  a  work  which  he  has  continued 
to  the  present  time.  Mr.  Coonse  also  oper- 
ates a  small  truck  farm  nine  miles  east  of 
Monument  Circle. 

Soon  after  the  organization  of  the  East 
Tenth  Street  State  Bank  in  1913  Mr. 
Coonse  became  one  of  its  stockholders,  and 
by  increase  of  his  holdings  was  elected  a 
director,  then  vice  president,  and  in  Janu- 
ary, 1918,  became  president  of  an  insti- 
tution which  is  one  of  the  substantial 
smaller  banks  of  Indianapolis,  with  a  capi- 
tal stock  of  $25,000.  Mr.  Coonse  is  also 
president  of  the  Crescent  Packing  Com- 
pany, a  small  independent  meat  packing 
concern. 

He  is  a  member  of  the  Methodist  Church, 
a  republican  voter,  is  a  Knight  Templar 
and  thirty-second  degree  Scottish  Rite 
Mason  and  Mystic  Shriner.  He  is  identi- 
fied by  membership  with  the  Chamber  of 
Commerce  and  the  Marion  Club.  In  1896 
Mr.  Coonse  married  Miss  Mary  B.  Caylor. 
Their  only  daughter,  June,  is  the  wife  of 
James  M.  Breeding,  and  Mr.  Coonse 's  only 
grandson   is   Harvey   James   Breeding. 

Harry  D.  Kramm  is  treasurer  and  man- 
ager of  the  Kramm  Foundry  Company  at 
Indianapolis.  This  is  a  highly  distinctive 
industry  and  one  which  has  brought  not  a 
little  fame  to  Indianapolis  as  the  center  of 
modern  progressiveness  in  the  line  of 
manufactures. 

The  special  output  of  this  foundry  is 
aluminum  castings,  which  largely  supply 
the  automobile  industry.  It  is  probably 
the  only  concern  in  the  State  of  Indiana 
that  has  complete  facilities  for  the  manu- 
facture of  aluminum  castings  of  different 
types,  sizes  and  other  specifications.  But 
the  unique  honor  of  this  business  is  that 
it  is  the  only  establishment  in  the  world 
making  casting  of  maluminum.  This  word, 
like  the  product  it  describes,  is  of  recent 
coinage  but  among  metal  manufacturers  it 
has  excited  much  interest  and  the  product 
itself  is  regarded  as  one  of  the  most  im- 
portant of  new  creations.     Maluminum  is, 


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1711 


as  the  name  indicates,  derived  from  the  two 
words,  malleable  and  aluminum,  and  it  is 
a  combination  or  an  alloy  which  is  chiefly 
distinguished  by  its  great  tensile  strength 
and  malleability,  a  quality  which  natural 
forms  of  aluminum  do  not  present.  The 
creator  of  maluminum  is  Mr.  Harry  D. 
Krannn,  who  for  a  long  time  carried  on 
experimental  work  in  the  cellar  of  his  In- 
dianapolis home,  until  he  had  satisfied  him- 
self of  the  thoroughly  practical  value  of 
the  product  which  bears  the  name  malu- 
minum. Maluminum  is  gaining  special 
favor  as  one  of  the  materials  that  enter 
into  the  construction  of  automobiles,  and 
the  product  is  now  shipped  to  all  parts  of 
the  country. 

The  Kramm  Foundry  Company  is  lo- 
cated at  1116-1130  East  Georgia*  Street. 
While  Mr.  Kramm  is  the  builder  and  the 
active  head  of  the  business,  the  other  offiT 
cers  of  the  company  are  W.  S.  "Wilson, 
president,  and  B.  F.   Kelley,  secretary. 

Mr.  Kramm  was  born  at  Peoria,  Illinois, 
May  22,  1871,  son  of  Erhart  and  Emily 
(Caquelin)  Kramm.  The  father  was  born 
in  Germany  and  was  fifteen  years  old  when 
he  sought  the  opportunities  of  the  New 
World.  His  wife  was  born  in  France  and 
was  about  seven  or  eight  years  old  when 
her  people  came  to  this  country  and  lo- 
cated in  Ohio.  Erhart  Kramm  and  wife 
married  in  Ohio,  moved  from  there  to  Illi- 
nois; the  latter  is  still  living,  being  about 
eighty  years  of  age.  The  father  died  aged 
about  eighty-five.  The  following  incident 
possesses  significance  and  much  interest  at 
the  present  time.  In  1875  Erhart  Kramm 
and  wife,  having  gained  a  considerable 
measure  of  material  success,  went  back  to 
Europe  to  vist  the  lands  of  their  birth. 
This  was  only  a  few  years  after  the  close 
of  the  Franco-Prussian  war,  and  in  Ger- 
many Erhart  Kramm 's  friends  and  rela- 
tives several  times  asked  him  how  it  was 
that  he  could  marry  a  French  woman. 
His  simple  reply,  which  spoke  a  volume  in 
three  words,  was:  "We  are  Americans.'' 
He  had  in  fact  come  to  America  to  become 
an  American,  and  in  all  the  years  remained 
truly  and  sincerely  devoted  to  the  land 
of  his  adoption. 

Erhart  Kramm  early  in  life  became  in- 
terested in  coal  mining  in  Illinois,  was  an 
operator  and  later  built  up  a  large  busi- 
ness as  a  real  estate  man  at  Peoria.  He 
has  always  been  a  republican.     Of  the  five 


sons  born  to  him  and  his  wife  four  are 
still  living,  Charles  B.,  Harry  D.,  E.  and 
William. 

Harry  D.  Kramm  grew  up  in  his  native 
city,  attended  the  local  schools  there  and 
gained  a  technical  education  in  the  Uni- 
versity of  Illinois  and  the  Rose  Polytechnic 
Institute  at  Terre  Haute,  Indiana.  Hav- 
ing taken  a  course  in  mining  engineering 
and  having  considerable  experience  in  that 
line,  he  spent  some  time  operating  coal 
mines  in  the  vicinity  of  Peoria,  and  after- 
ward was  in  Colorado,  superintendent  of 
the  Humboldt  and  Hudson  gold  mines  in 
Boulder  County.  Returning  to  Illinois,  he 
was  for  a  time  a  merchant  selling  dry 
goods  and  shoes  at  London  Mills,  Illinois. 

Mr.  Kramm  came  to  Indianapolis  twenty 
years  ago  and  at  first  was  an  employe  of 
the  Pioneer  Brass  Works.  "  He  remained 
with  that  firm  until  he  organized  the  com- 
pany which  now  bears  his  name  and  of 
which  he  is  the  active  head.  This  is  a 
rapidly  growing  business,  and  during  the 
great  European  war  the  company  filled 
some  extensive  and  important  orders  for 
war  material  for  the  Government. 

Mr.  Kramm  married  at  Terre  Haute,  In- 
diana, Ada  Shewmaker,  daughter  of  Abra- 
ham and  Annie  S.  Shewmaker,  of  Marion 
County,  Indiana.  The  old  Shewmaker 
farm  is  now  a  part  of  the  City  of  Indian- 
apolis, at  Forty-Second  and  Central  Ave- 
nues. Mr.  and  Mrs.  Kramm  have  one  son, 
H.  Wayne,  who  is  a  graduate  of  a  college 
at  Manassas,  Virginia,  and  is  now  giving 
a  measure  of  his  patriotism  as  an  Ameri- 
can by  training  in  the  aviation  camp  at 
Fort  Leavenworth. 

Mr.  Kramm  is  well  known  both  in  social 
and  technical  organization  in  Indianapolis. 
He  is  a  member  of  the  Association  of  Auto 
Motive  Engineers,  is  a  member  of  the  Ro- 
tary Club,  Columbia  Club  and  the  Inde- 
pendent Athletic  Club,  the  Canoe  Club  and 
the  Motor  Club.  Politically  he  votes  as  a 
republican. 

William  P.  Jungclaus  has  been  a  resi- 
dent of  Indianapolis  more  than  forty  years 
and  during  that  time  has  built  up  a  busi- 
ness widelv  known  as  a  contractor  and 
builder.  With  a  big  business  organization 
to  his  credit,  and  enjoying;  the  universal 
esteem  of  all  who  know  him,  Mr.  Jung- 
claus is  one  of  the  prominent  Indianans 
of  the  present  time. 


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However,  comparatively  few  people 
know  that  this  substantial  business  man 
is  one  of  the  most  widely  traveled  and 
world  experienced  residents  of  the  state. 
His  early  life  reads  like  romance  or  a 
tale  of  travel.  He  roamed  over  all  the 
seven  seas,  went  to  nearly  every  civilized 
port  on  the  globe,  and,  oddly  enough,  when 
he  left  seafaring  he  came  to  a  remote  in- 
land city  and  only  occasionally  during  the 
last  forty  years  has  smelled  or  tasted  salt 
water. 

Mr.  Jungclaus  was  born  near  Hamburg, 
Germany,  February  22,  1849.  His  father, 
Peter  Henry  Jungclaus,  was  a  sea  captain 
and  for  thirty-five  years  took  his  ships 
out  of  the  port  of  Hamburg.  He  was  a 
veteran  mariner  of  long  and  arduous  ex- 
perience, and  lived  to  the  venerable  age 
of  ninety-seven. 

At  fourteen,  after  completing  his  com- 
mon school  education,  William  P.  Jung- 
claus started  out  to  see  the  world  and  taste 
of  adventure,  perhaps  hoping  to  emulate 
the  example  of  his  father.  For  seven 
years  he  was  a  sailor,  visiting  every  for- 
eign land,  and  during  that  time  acquired 
a  fluent  knowledge  of  English,  French  and 
German  and  also  of  other  languages  suffi- 
ciently for  business  purposes.  Beginning 
as  a  deck  boy  he  was  acting  second  mate 
when  he  quit  the  sea.  Mr.  Jungclaus  was 
not  only  an  efficient  sailor  but  had  an  ap- 
preciation of  all  that  he  saw  and  expe- 
rienced, and  penetrated  through  the  ro- 
mance and  wonder  of  the  countries  and 
lands  which  he  visited  on  his  many  voy- 
ages. He  was  twice  around  the  world, 
rounded  Cape  Horn  four  times,  was  in  all 
the  principal  seaports  of  southern  coun- 
tries, and  north  72°  to  the  north  cape  of 
Sweden  and  Norway  in  the  Arctic  ocean, 
was  up  and  down  both  east  and  west  coast 
of  South  America,  and  also  coasted  the 
shores  of  Africa.  He  was  in  South  Africa 
when  the  great  diamond  fields  were  dis- 
covered, and  he  knew  Capetown  in  its 
palmiest  days.  Mr.  Jungclaus  visited  Na- 
poleon's tomb  at  St.  Helena  in  1868.  In 
1867  he  was  at  Hongkong  and  Nagasaki 
and  saw  both  of  these  great  oriental  ports 
about  the  time  China  and  Japan  were 
awakening  to  touch  with  the  western 
world.  In  1867  he  also  visited  the  Sand- 
wich Islands,  and  altogether  he  made  two 
trips  to  Australia.  He  had  perhaps  an 
inherited  talent  for  keen  observation,  and 


wherever  he  went  scenes  impressed  them- 
selves indelibly  upon  his  memory,  and  to- 
day he  knows  more  about  many  foreign 
countries  than  most  of  the  tourists  who 
travel  primarily  to  see  and  observe. 

In  1870  Mr.  Jungclaus  came  with  a 
load  of  whale  oil  from  Oakland,  New  Zea- 
land, to  Bedford,  Massachusetts.  That 
was  the  end  of  his  experience  as  a  sailor. 
Quitting  the  sea,  he  met  his  father  at  New 
York,  and  together  they  came  west  to  In- 
dianapolis. The  father  later  returned  to 
Germany. 

William  P.  Jungclaus  began  his  career 
in  Indianapolis  in  a  sufficiently  humble 
and  inconspicuous  manner.  He  jworked 
as  a  laborer  in  construction,  but  being  a 
sailor  born  and  trained  and  naturally 
handy  with  tools,  he  was  in  a  few  days 
pronounced  a  master  workman.  About 
1875  he  began  contracting  on  his  own  ac- 
count, and  has  been  steadily  in  that  line 
now  for  more  than  forty  years.  He  has 
handled  not  only  small  but  many  large 
and  important  contracts.  To  mention  only 
a  few  there  should  be  noted  the  Masonic 
Temple  of  Indianapolis,  several  of  the 
theaters,  the  New  York  Store,  and  Mer- 
chants National  Bank  Building.  His  bus- 
iness grew  and  prospered  and  for  the  last 
twenty-two  years  has  been  conducted  as 
an  incorporated  company. 

Mr.  Jungclaus  is  a  Lutheran  and  in  pol- 
itics votes  for  the  man  rather  than  the 
party.  He  has  long  been  active  in  Ma- 
sonry and  in  1889  attained  the  thirty-sec- 
ond degree  of  the  Scottish  Rite.  He  is 
also  a  member  of  the  Mystic  Shrine. 

In  1872  he  married  Miss  Marie  Schu- 
macher. They  have  four  living  children: 
Fred  W. ;  Dorothea,  wife  of  Dr.  Clarence 
Ihle,  of  Dayton,  Ohio;  Henry  P.;  and 
Marie  S.,  Mrs.  Samuel  L.  Patterson.  Both 
the  sons  are  associated  with  their  father 
in  business. 

Strickland  W.  Gillilan,  journalist, 
was  born  in  Jackson,  Ohio,  and  began  his 
newspaper  work  on  the  Jackson  Herald. 
He  subsequently  became  city  editor  of  the 
Daily  Telegram  of  Richmond,  Indiana, 
1892-95  ;  city  editor  of  the  Richmond  Daily 
Palladium,  1895-1901 ;  reporter  and  editor 
of  the  Marion,  Indiana,  Daily  Tribune, 
1901 ;  and  on  leaving  Indiana  was  identi- 
fied with  newspaper  work  in  a  number  of 
the  principal  cities  of  this  country. 


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1713 


Mr.  Gillilan  was  first  married  to  Alice 
Hendricks,  of  Springfield,  Ohio,  who  died 
in  1901.  He  was  subsequently  married  to 
Harriet  Nettleton,  of  Baltimore. 

Mr.  Gillilan  is  also  a  well  known  writer 
of  humorous  stories  and  verse. 

Michael  O'Connor.  A  noble  old-time 
citizen  and  business  man  of  Indianapolis 
was  the  late  Michael  O'Connor.  He  had 
been  a  resident  of  the  capital  city  nearly 
half  a  century,  and  in  that  time  his  works 
and  character  had  given  his  name  many 
substantial  associations,  not  least  among 
them  being  the  M.  O'Connor  Company, 
which  during  his  lifetime  and  since  has 
been  one  of  the  larger  wholesale  organiza- 
tions in  the  state. 

Nearly  fourscore  years  were  allotted  him 
for  his  life  and  achievements.  He  was 
born  in  Ireland  May  18,  1838,  and  died  at 
the  home  of  his  daughter,  Mrs.  M.  J. 
Ready,  in  Indianapolis,  November  1,  1916. 
In  1850,  when  he  was  eleven  years  old, 
his  parents  came  to  America  and  settled 
in  Pendleton  County,  Kentucky.  The  voy- 
age was  made  in  a  three-masted  vessel, 
and  for  that  type  of  ship  the  trip  was 
executed  in  the  rather  brief  time  of  twen- 
ty-three days.  The  life  of  a  Kentucky 
farm  was  not  congenial  to  Michael  O'Con- 
nor. At  thirteen  he  went  to  Madison, 
Indiana,  where  he  found  a  place  as  clerk 
at  $15  a  month  in  the  wholesale  grocery 
house  of  Connell  &  Johnson.  Part  of  what 
he  made  he  sent  back  home  to  sustain  and 
encourage  the  O'Connors  in  their  difficult 
struggles  to  get  a  living  in  the  new  world. 
Later  he  worked  as  shipping  and  bill  clerk 
in  Francis  Prenatt's  wholesale  grocery 
house,  and  remained  with  him  three  years, 
until  1859,  when  he  went  into  business  for 
himself  as  head  of  the  wholesale  grocery 
firm  O'Connor,  Clark  &  Company.  From 
this  he  retired  in  1862,  and  was  again 
with  Francis  Prenatt  &  Company  until 
1867. 

After  the  Civil  war,  in  which  Mr.  0  'Con- 
nor had  done  his  part  as  a  home  guard 
to  protect  the  Town  of  Madison  from 
threatened  incursions  from  the  rebels  south 
of  the  river,  it  seemed  that  Indianapolis 
offered  better  business  opportunities  than 
any  other  town  in  the  state.  Therefore, 
in  March,  1867,  Mr.  O'Connor  and  family 
arrived  at  the  capital,  and  for  several  years 
he  was  in  the  employ  of  Thomas  F.  Ryan, 


a  wholesale  liquor  merchant.  Then  Fran- 
cis Prenatt,  Jr.,  a  son  of  his  old  employer 
in  Madison,  came  to  Indianapolis,  and  to- 
gether they  took  up  the  wholesale  liquor 
trade  under  the  name  Prenatt  and  O'Con- 
nor. 

Retiring  from  this  business  in  1875,  Mr. 
O'Connor  in  February,  1876,  bought  the 
interest  of  John  Caldwell  in  Landis,  Cald- 
well &  Company,  wholesale  grocers.  After 
another  year  Mr.  O'Connor  bought  the 
other  parties,  and  the  name,  then  changed 
to  M.  O'Connor  &  Company,  has  been  re- 
tained to  the  present  time,  with  offices 
and  warerooms  at  47-49  South  Meridian 
Street.  Forty  years  ago  when  it  was  es- 
tablished only  two  or  three  salesmen  were 
evangels  of  the  firm  and  its  goods  over  the 
state.  Now  a  staff  of  fifteen  or  more  dis- 
tribute the  goods  of  this  old  house  over 
a  large  section  of  the  Middle  "West. 

Michael  O'Connor,  though  at  his  offices 
nearly  every  day,  had  been  only  nominally 
at  the  head  of  the  business  for  some  twelve 
years  or  more  before  his  death.  He  had 
been  well  satisfied  to  turn  the  business 
over  to  his  competent  sons,  five  in  number, 
who  continue  the  business  institution 
founded  by  their  honored  father. 

The  late  Michael  O'Connor  was  a  man 
of  importance  to  Indianapolis  for  more 
reasons  than  one.  For  a  time  he  served  as 
president  of  the  Capital  National  Bank 
and  of  the  Marion  Trust  Company,  and 
was  a  stockholder  in  the  Fletcher  Ameri- 
can National  Bank  and  in  various  other 
corporations.  Church  and  charity  had 
long  learned  to  depend  upon  his  generous 
gifts  and  support.  When  the  SS.  Peter 
and  Paul  Cathedral  was  built  he  contrib- 
uted the  three  marble  altars,  and  gave  even 
more  to  the  general  building  fund  of  the 
church,  his  total  contributions  being  esti- 
mated at  more  than  $25,000.  His  funeral 
was  preached  in  the  cathedral  where  he 
had  worshiped  so  manj^  years,  and  he  was 
laid  to  rest  in  the  Holy  Cross  Cemetery. 

On  September  1,  1859,  Mr.  O'Connor 
married  Miss  Caroline  Pfau,  of  Madison. 
Her  father,  Sylvester  Pfau,  was  a  retail 
grocer.  The  family  of  seven  children  who 
survived  them  are  Charles  M.,  William  L., 
Joseph  S.,  Maurice,  Bernard  E.,  Mrs.  M. 
J.  Ready  and  Teresa.  Their  mother  died 
in  September,  1913. 

William  L.  O'Connor,  president  of  the 
M.    O'Connor   &    Company,    was   born    at 


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INDIANA  AND  INDIANANS 


Madison,  Indiana,  July  26,  1866,  and  was 
educated  in  Indianapolis  and  went  to  work 
for  his  father  in  the  wholesale  grocery 
business  in  1881.  He  has  been  president 
of  the  company  since  1903.  Politically  he 
is  a  democrat,  and  is  a  faithful  Catholic. 
In  1904  he  married  Miss  Nellie  Carr,  who 
came  from  Ireland.  Their  children,  seven 
in  number,  are  named  Eileen,  William  S., 
Thomas  J.,  Patricia,  Michael,  John  and 
Richard. 

Oliver  J.  Dellett,  M.  D.  For  a  quarter 
of  a  century,  Doctor  Dellett  has  been  a 
member  of  the  medical  profession  in  In- 
dianapolis. He  enjoys  a  large  practice,  an 
honorable  station  in ,  the  profession,  and 
by  training  and  experience  has  worthily 
filled  his  niche  in  the  world. 

Doctor  Dellett  was  born  in  Cincinnati, 
Ohio,  September  30,  1851,  and  is  the  only 
survivor  of  the  two  children  of  Jacob  and 
Ann  Jane  (Kincannon)  Dellett.  His 
father,  a  native  of  Harrisburg,  Pennsyl- 
vania, in  early  life  learned  the  butcher's 
trade.  At  the  age  of  twenty-five  he  lo- 
cated at  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  and  established 
a  retail  meat  business  in  that  city,  con- 
ducting it  until  his  death  in  1855.  He  was 
a  good  business  man,  and  was  widely 
known  and  esteemed  because  of  his  strict 
integrity,  his  thorough  honesty  and  his 
genial  personality.  He  had  many  promi- 
nent friends  in  Cincinnati,  one  of  them 
being  his  neighbor  Nicholas  Longworth, 
father  of  the  present  Ohio  congressman. 
He  conducted  a  model  place  of  business, 
and  made  it  a  point  to  supply  his  patrons 
not  only  with  the  standard  qualities  of 
meat  but  also  game  of  all  kinds  in  season. 
It  was  perhaps  the  only  place  in  Cincin- 
nati in  those  early  days  where  customers 
could  secure  supplies  of  venison,  buffalo 
steak,  and  various  kinds  of  small  game. 
He  made  his  market  a  medium  of  service 
and  it  was  correspondingly  appreciated 
and  patronized.  He  was  also  a  member  of 
the  Masonic  order  and  lived  and  practiced 
the  Golden  Rule. 

Doctor  Dellett  was  four  years  old  when 
his  father  died  and  he  grew  up  in  the 
home  of  his  mother  in  Jefferson  and  Switz- 
erland counties  in  Indiana.  He  acquired  a 
district  school  education  there  and  in  1873 
came  to  Indianapolis.  He  read  medicine 
in  the  office  of  Dr.  T.  M.  Culver,  one  of  the 
notable  physicans  and  surgeons  of  the  city 


at  that  time.  Later  he  pursued  a  course 
of  studies  in  the  Indiana  Eclectic  School 
of  Physicans  and  Surgeons,  and  was  gradu- 
ated M.  D.  with  the  class  of  1893.  For 
twenty  years  Doctor  Dellett  had  his  offices 
in  the  Commercial  Block,  and  his  profes- 
sional headquarters  are  now  in  the  Saks 
Building. 

Doctor  Dellett  is  a  charter  member  of 
Monument  Lodge  No.  657,  Free  and  Ac- 
cepted Masons.  He  married  Miss  Laura 
Tilford,  of  Madison,  Indiana,  and  they  be- 
came the  parents  of  two  daughters  and  one 
son.  The  daughters,  Edna  and  Etella, 
are  both  married.  Etella  married  Howard 
E.  Wagner,  of  Indianapolis,  Indiana,  and 
lives  in  New  York  City.  They  have  no 
children.  Edna  married  Bert  Ward  and 
has  five  children,  Lois  V.,  Charlotte,  How- 
ard, Gaine  and  Deborah.  The  son,  Bruce 
J.,  was  educated  in  the  public  schools  of 
Indianapolis  and  was  formerly  publicity 
manager  of  the  West  Coast  Florida  Asso- 
ciation in  New  York  City.  He  left  this  re- 
sponsible position  to  qualify  for  army  serv- 
ice. He  attended  a  training  camp,  and 
was  the  only  member  of  his  class  without 
previous  attendance  at  military  school  who 
received  the  commission  of  lieutenant.  As 
an  army  officer  he  has  been  assigned  to 
the  commissary  department,  and  is  now  in 
active  service. 

Gustav  A.  Recker  is  a  member  of  a 
family  that  has  been  prominent  in  furni- 
ture manufacture  and  a  wholesale  and  re- 
tail dealers  for  two  generations  in  Indian- 
apolis. 

He  is  a  son  of  the  late  Gottfried  Recker, 
who  came  from  Germany  in  1849,  landing 
at  New  Orleans  and  coming  to  Indianap- 
olis by  way  of  Cincinnati  and  Madison,  In- 
diana. At  Indianapolis  he  married  Lina 
Kuntz,  of  Madison,  Indiana.  She  was  born 
at  Karlsruhe,  Germany.  For  many  years 
Gottfried  Recker  was  in  the  employ  of  H. 
Lieber  &  Company  of  Indianapolis,  and 
subsequently  became  associated  with  Theo- 
dore Sander  in  the  Western  Furniture 
Company,  of  which  he  was  secretary  and 
treasurer  and  Mr.  Sander,  president.  This 
company  was  one  of  the  pioneer  firms  of 
Indianapolis  manufacturing  furniture,  and 
also  conducted  a  retail  store.  Later  the 
firm  dissolved  and  Sander  &  Recker  took 
over  complete  control  of  the  retail  store, 
which  has  existed  at  its  present  location 


INDIANA  AND  INDIANANS 


1715 


in  Indianapolis  for  forty  years,  including 
five  years  under  the  old  regime. 

In  1901  the  Sander  &  Recker  Furniture 
Company  was  incorporated,  the  leading 
spirit  in  that  corporation  being  Gustav 
A.  Recker,  who  became  president  and 
treasurer  of  the  corporation.  Carl  Sander, 
son  of  Theodore  Sander,  is  vice  president, 
and  Carlos  Recker  is  secretary. 

Gottfried  Recker  died  in  1900  and  his 
wife  in  1914.  He  was  the  organizer  and  for 
many  years  president  of  the  Indianapolis 
Academy  of  Music,  and  was  musically 
talented  himself  and  interested  in  the  pro- 
motion of  good  music  in  this  city. 

Gustave  A.  Recker  was  born  at  Indian- 
apolis July  19,  1866.  He  attended  the 
grammar  and  high  schools  and  from  his 
studies  went  into  his  father's  business  as  a 
salesman  and  collector.  Long  and  thorough 
experience  qualified  him  to  take  charge  of 
the  business  at  the  time  of  his  father's 
death.  The  Sander  &  Recker  Furniture 
Company  now  occupies  the  building  con- 
structed for  and  formerly  occupied  by  the 
Dan  Stewart  Drug  Company. 

Mr.  Recker  is  a  member  of  the  Merchants 
Association,  the  Board  of  Trade,  the  Cham- 
ber of  Commerce  and  the  Columbia  Club 
and  has  always  been  active  on  various  com- 
mittes  of  these  organizations.  He  is  a 
member  of  the  Kiwanis,  and  one  of  the 
organizers  of  the  Better  Business  Bureau. 
To  these  institutions  and  movements  he 
has  always  given  freely  of  his  time,  and 
his  entire  career  has  been  an  asset  in  In- 
dianapolis citizenship. 

June  30,  1893,  Mr.  Recker  married  Miss 
Estelle  Rogers,  of  Indianapolis.  Her  father, 
J.  N.  Rogers,  is  a  well  known  figure  in  the 
wholesale  lumber  business  at  Indianapolis. 
Her  mother,  Florence  Walingford  Rogers, 
died  in  1914.  Mrs.  Recker  is  a  graduate 
of  Mrs.  Sewall  's  Classical  School  of  Indian- 
apolis. She  takes  an  active  part  in  Red 
Cross  work.  They  have  a  daughter  and 
a  son.  The  daughter,  Margaret  Recker.  is 
an  art  student,  but  is  now  giving  most  of 
her  time  to  the  Red  Cross  work  and  is 
stationed  at  Washington,  D.  C.  The  son, 
Max  Rogers  Recker,  was  a  student  in  a 
mditary  institute  for  a  commission  in  the 
army,  and  was  honorablv  discharged  De- 
cember 2,  1918. 

Frederick  J.  Meyer  is  a  veteran  busi- 
ness man  of  Indianapolis,  having  come  here 


nearly  half  a  century  ago,  and  for  over 
forty  years  has  been  a  merchant  at  one 
stand,  S02  South  East  Street.  He  is 
founder  of  the  well  known  firm  of  F.  J. 
Meyer  &  Company. 

Mr.  Meyer  was  born  in  Minden,  Ger- 
many, January  2,  1847,  a  son  of  Henry 
and  Mary  (Schakel)  Meyer.  His  father 
was  a  well-to-do  citizen  of  the  old  country, 
had  a  large  farm  and  was  the  leading  man 
of  his  community,  serving  at  one  time  as 
burgomaster  or  mayor.  He  died  two  months 
before  his  son  Frederick  was  born.  The 
widowed  mother  lived  to  be  eighty-one. 
Frederick  J.  Meyer  was  one  of  a  family 
of  five  sons  and  three  daughters. 

His  older  brother,  Christian,  came  to 
America  when  Frederick  was  still  a  school 
boy  in  Germany.  Christian  during  the 
American  Civil  war  served  as  a  Union 
soldier  and  was  quartermaster  at  Fort  Lar- 
amie at  the  close  of  the  war.  Afterward 
he  was  a  leading  citizen  of  St.  Joseph, 
Missouri,  and  for  many  years  was  financial 
reporter  and  was  prominent  in  Masonic 
circles. 

Frederick  J.  Meyer  attended  the  Luther- 
an schools  of  Germany,  also  a  high  school, 
and  continued  his  education  quite  regular- 
ly until  he  was  seventeen  years  old.  In 
1867,  at  the  age  of  twenty,  he  came  to 
America,  The  presence  of  a  friend,  Andrew 
Prange,  at  Indianapolis  caused  him  to  lo- 
cate in  that  city,  and  he  made  his  home 
with  Mr.  Prange  for  some  time.  His  first 
employment  was  with  Doctor  Funkhouser, 
with  whom  he  remained  a  year,  and  for 
another  year  was  employed  in  the  whole- 
sale house  of  Holland  &  Austemeyer.  Later 
he  took  a  contract  to  sprinkle  Washington 
Street  west  of  Meridian.  In  October,  1875, 
Mr.  Meyer  started  in  business  at  his  present 
location.  At  first  he  had  a  general  store, 
selling  all  kinds  of  merchandise  to  meet  the 
demands  of  his  patronage.  For  a  number 
of  years  now  Mr.  Meyer  has  confined  his 
business  to  the  grocery  and  meat  trade. 

During  his  long  residence  in  Indianap- 
olis he  has  been  identified  with  both  public 
and  private  interests.  He  served  as  the 
democratic  member  of  the  Board  of  Public 
Works  during  Mayor  Denny's  administra- 
tion, and  his  work  in  that  capacity  was 
highly  creditable.  For  many  years  he  has 
had  a  helpful  part  in  church  maintenance 
and  e>  tension,  and  helped  to  build  the 
Trinity  Luthei*an  Church  in  Indianapolis. 


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For  eighteen  years  he  has  been  president 
of  St.  Paul's  Congregation,  and  for  thirty- 
two  years  trustee  of  the  Orphans  Home. 
Mr.  Meyer  has  been  an  honored  member 
of  the  Indianapolis  Board  of  Trade  since 
1893,  practically  throughout  its  entire 
existence. 

October  31,  1871,  Mr.  Meyer  married 
Mary  Budclenbaum.  She  was  born  in  Ger- 
many August  12,  1847.  Their  only  child 
died  in  infancy,  but  their  home  has  been 
a  haven  and  refuge  for  many  children 
who  have  spent  part  of  their  boyhood  or 
girlhood  under  the  kindly  care  of  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Meyer.  One  daughter  they  adopted, 
Addie,  who  is  now  the  wife  of  H.  E.  Bud- 
denbaum,  a  partner  in  business  with  Mr. 
Meyer. 

Sol  H.  Esarey.  There  are  few  law  firms 
in  Indianapolis  that  enjoy  as  good  a  pres- 
tige and  more  select  practice  than  that  of 
Watson  &  Esarey,  whose  offices  are  in  the 
Pythian  Building.  The  members  of  this 
firm  are  Ward  H.  Watson,  James  E.  Wat- 
son and  Sol  H.  Esarey. 

The  junior  member  of  the  firm  was  for 
a  number  of  years  assistant  reporter  for 
the  Supreme  Court  of  Indiana,  and  is  a 
man  of  wide  legal  training  and  experience. 
He  was  born  in  Perry  County,  Indiana, 
May  17,  1866.  No  other  family  has  been 
known  so  long  or  so  prominently  in  Perry 
County  as  the  Esareys.  It  is  said  that  his 
great-great-grandfather,  John  Esarey  was 
either  the  first  or  the  second  permanent 
white  settler  in  that  part  of  the  state.  The 
grandfather,  Jesse  Esarey,  lived  his  entire 
life  in  Perry  County.  Associated  with  his 
name  are  a  long  list  of  pioneer  activities. 
He  was  a  miller,  owning  and  operating  the 
first  grist  mill  in  Perry  County,  the  machin- 
ery of  which  was  operated  by  horse  power. 
He  also  had  the  first  lumber  and  saw  mill 
in  the  county,  and  was  the  first  to  irttro- 
duce  steam  power  in  the  operation  of  such 
a  mill.  He  was  also  a  man  of  affairs 
viewed  from  a  public  standpoint.  He  was 
a  whig  and  later  a  republican,  a  strong 
temperance  man  when  temperance  advo- 
cates were  few,  and  served  as  captain  of 
the  Home  Guards  of  Perry  County.  He 
reared  a  large  family  of  twelve  children, 
all  of  whom  grew  to  manhood  and  woman- 
hood. One  of  them  was  John  C.  Esarey, 
father  of  the  Indianapolis  lawyer.  John 
C.  was  born  in  Perry  County  in  1842  and 


made  his  life  occupation  farming.  He  is 
still  living,  at  the  age  of  seventy-five,  and 
enjoying  the  best  of  health.  He  has  done 
much  to  develop  Perry  County's  life  in 
religious  and  educational  affairs.  As  a 
republican  he  served  two  terms  as  town- 
ship trustee  and  one  term  as  county  com- 
missioner and  has  been  deeply  interested 
in  the  Methodist  Church.  In  1864  he  en- 
listed in  Company  G  of  the  Fifty-third 
Indiana  Infantry,  and  joined  his  regiment 
at  Atlanta,  Georgia,  participating  in  Sher- 
man's March  to  the  sea  and  thence  through 
the  Carolinas  until  the  surrender  of  Johns- 
ton's army  after  the  battle  at  Benton- 
ville,  North  Carolina.  At  the  close  of  the 
war  he  received  his  honorable  discharge 
at  Indianapolis,  and  going  back  to  Perry 
County  took  up  the  vocation  which  has 
busied  him  to  the  present  time.  He  mar- 
ried Barbara  Ewing,  and  they  had  nine 
children,  eight  of  whom  are  still  living. 

The  second  oldest  of  the  family,  Sol  H. 
Esarey  was  born  in  Perry  County  May 
17,  1866,  and  largely  through  his  own  exer- 
tions acquired  a  liberal  education.  He  at- 
tended the  Academy  at  Rome,  Indiana, 
the  Central  Indiana  Normal  School  at  Dan- 
ville, where  he  was  graduated  with  the 
class  of  1890,  and  had  his  legal  education 
in  Boston  University  Law  School,  gradu- 
ating LL.  B.  in  1902.  Mr.  Esarey  practiced 
law  at  Cannelton,  Indiana,  and  was  one 
of  the  leading  lawyers  of  that  locality  un- 
til 1905.  In  the  latter  year  he  removed  to 
Indianapolis  to  take  up  his  duties  as  as- 
sistant reporter  of  the  Supreme  Court,  and 
was  chiefly  known  to  the  local  profession 
of  the  capital  city  in  that  capacity  until 
1913.  Mr.  Esarey  is  a  stanch  republican, 
and  during  his  residence  at  Cannelton  he 
served  as  a  member  of  the  School  Board 
and  was  a  leader  in  establishing  and  build- 
ing the  Cannelton  Public  Library,  the  first 
institution  of  that  kind  between  Evansville 
and  New  Albany.  He  is  a  member  of  the 
Knights  of  Pythias  fraternity,  the  Modern 
Woodmen  of  America  and  other  orders. 
For  a  number  of  years  he  has  been  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Methodist  Church  at  Indian- 
apolis, and  for  the  last  two  years  has  taught 
a  large  Bible  class  of  young  ladies.  Dur- 
ing his  practice  at  Cannelton  Mr.  Esarey 
established  the  principle  affirmed  by  deci- 
sion of  the  Supreme  Court  of  the  right  of 
a  tax  payer  to  compel  a  public  official  to 
return  money  unlawfully  obtained. 


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April  8,  1893,  at  Cannelton,  he  married 
Miss  Emma  L.   Clark. 

Sidney  L.  Aughinbaugh  is  secretary  and 
treasurer  of  the  Spencer  Aughinbaugh 
Company,  an  incorporated  Arm  that  has 
handled  a  number  of  the  most  important 
transactions  in  Indianapolis  suburban  real 
estate  in  recent  years,  and  also  covers  a 
large  field  as  dealers  and  brokers  in  farm 
lands. 

Mr.  Aughinbaugh  is  a  real  estate  expert 
largely  through  self  training  and  experi- 
ence. He  was  born  in  Marion  County  June 
29,  1882,  a  son  of  Edward  L.  and  Mary 
(Lewis)  Aughinbaugh.  His  father,  a  na- 
tive of  Pennsylvania,  came  west  about  the 
close  of  the  Civil  war  and  located  in  In- 
dianapolis. He  is  now  one  of  the  capital 
city's  oldest  and  best  known  merchants. 
His  first  experience  here  was  as  a  clerk  in 
the  old  Browning  &  Sloan  wholesale  drug 
house.  He  has  now  been  in  business  for 
himself  as  retail  druggist  for  fully  half  a 
century,  and  is  owner  of  one  of  the  best 
known  drug  stores  in  the  city,  at  the  corner 
of  Michigan  Street  and  Emmerson  Ave- 
nue. Probably  no  druggist  in  the  city  has 
a  larger  acquaintance  with  the  medical 
profession  of  Indianapolis,  and  a  number 
of  the  oldest  and  most  prominent  physi- 
cians have  regularly  for  many  years  had 
most  of  their  prescriptions  filled  at  the 
Aughinbaugh  store.  Edward  L.  Aughin- 
baugh is  an  independent  in  politics  and 
has  always  thrown  the  weight  of  his  in- 
fluence to  assist  any  worthy  movement  in 
the    city. 

Sidney  L.  Aughinbaugh  is  the  second  in 
a  family  of  three  children,  all  of  whom 
are  living.  He  was  educated  in  the  gram- 
mar and  high  schools  of  Indianapolis,  and 
began  his  career  as  clerk  in  a  grocery  store. 
After  two  years  he  took  up  the  real  estate 
business,  and  with  no  special  capital  he 
worked  alone  for  eight  years,  and  showed 
the  value  of  his  service  to  a  number  of 
clients  and  thus  opened  the  way  for  the 
larger  success  which  has  come  to  his  com- 
pany. He  then  became  associated  with 
Mr.  Spencer  and  organized  the  Spencer- 
Aughinbaugh  Company,  of  which  Mr. 
Spencer  is  president  and  Mr.  Aughinbaugh 
secretary  and  treasurer.  While  their  work 
has  especially  featured  suburban  tracts 
around  Indianapolis  in  recent  years,  they 
are  now  more  and  more  pinning  their  re- 


sources to  the  handling  of  Indiana  farm 
property. 

Mr.  Aughinbaugh  married,  June  3,  1911, 
Miss  Sue  E.  Hare.  They  have  two  chil- 
dren, Susan  and  Sidney,  Jr.  Mr.  Aughin- 
baugh is  a  member  of  Indianapolis  Lodge 
No.  56,  Knights  of  Pythias,  and  is  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Indianapolis  Real  Estate  Board. 

Stanley  Wyckopf  is  a  specialist  in  busi- 
ness. During  twenty  years  of  residence 
in  Indianapolis  he  has  both  as  a  matter  of 
business  routine  and  by  personal  inclina- 
tion kept  his  energies  and  his  studies 
largely  directed  along  the  line  of  food 
supply  and  distribution.  The  fact  that 
he  knows  all  the  ins  and  outs  of  food  sup- 
ply, its  principal  local  sources,  the  man- 
ner of  its  handling,  its  conservation,  and 
the  problems  affecting  its  distribution  was 
the  reason  he  was  appointed  in  the  fall 
of  1917  as  Federal  Food  Administrator 
for  Marion  County.  It  was  also  his  va- 
ried knowledge  and  experience  that  has 
made  his  administration  of  that  difficult 
public  service  so  strikingly  successful.  Mr. 
Wyckoff  himself,  ascribes  his  measure  of 
accomplishment  in  this  position  merely  to 
the  application  of  good  business  methods. 

Mr.  Wyckoff  was  born  at  Oxford  in 
Butler  County,  Ohio,  November  22,  1874. 
He  is  of  Dutch  ancestry.  His  ancestoi*s 
located  at  New  Amsterdam  or  New  York 
City  about  1700  and  some  later  members 
of  the  family  took  part  in  the  Revolu- 
tionary war  as  patriot  soldiers.  His 
grandfather,  Peter  C.  "Wyckoff,  moved  to 
Ohio  in  1837  and  was  a  pioneer  in  the 
southwestern  part  of  the  state.  At  Darr- 
town,  on  the  stage  route  to  Cincinnati,  he 
was  proprietor  of  a  hotel.  Alfred  G. 
Wyckoff,  father  of  Stanley,  is  still  living 
at  Oxford,  Ohio.  He  is  an  honored  old 
soldier  of  the  Civil  war,  having  gone 
through  all  that  struggle  with  the  47th 
Ohio  Infantry.  He  was  present  at  Pitts- 
burgh, Chickamauga,  Missionary  Ridge, 
in  the  hundred  days  Atlanta  campaign, 
on  the  march  to  the  sea  and  up  through 
the  Carolinas,  and  hardly  had  the  climax 
of  fighting  been  ended  between  the  North 
and  South  when  with  his  comrades  he  was 
hurried  to  the  Mexican  border  to  check 
the  threatened  uprising  on  the  part  of 
Maximilian.  In  business  affairs  he  has 
been  a  farmer  and  stock  raiser  and  has  al- 
ways kept  blooded  stock,  particularly  the 


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Poland  China  hogs.  Alfred  G.  Wyckoff 
married  Elizabeth  Hancock,  and  they 
were  the  parents  of  three  children,  two  of 
whom  are  living. 

Stanley  Wyckoff  grew  up  on  his  father's 
Ohio  farm  and  had  a  public  school  educa- 
tion. In  1895  he  arrived  in  Indianapolis. 
Having  only  fifteen  cents  in  his  pocket, 
he  necessarily  connected  himself  with  em- 
ployment at  the  earliest  possible  moment 
and  was  enrolled  in  the  commission  house 
of  Arthur  Jordan  at  a  wage  of  six  dollars 
a  week.  That  was  his  apprenticeship  in 
the  commission  business,  and  from  the 
first  he  thoroughly  studied  every  detail 
and  promising  opportunity  in  addition  to 
the  performance  of  his  routine  tasks. 
Subsequently  he  became  interested  in  the 
firm  of  the  Glossbrenner-Dodge  Company. 
In  1910  Mr.  Wyckoff  bought  the  Indian- 
apolis Poultry  Company,  of  which  he  has 
since  been  president  and  manager.  As 
head  of  this  concern  his  first  day's  busi- 
ness brought  him  fifty-four  dollars.  As 
an  indication  of  the  business  today  the 
receipts  for  January  24,  1918,  may  be 
cited  as  over  eight  thousand  dollars.  It  is 
a  business  that  employs  about  thirty 
people. 

As  already  noted,  Mr.  Wyckoff  has  made 
a  study  of  food  products  for  years,  not 
alone  from  the  business  standpoint  but 
from  a  scientific  view  as  well.  He  was  in- 
strumental in  having  established  at  In- 
dianapolis a  field  experiment  station  of 
the  United  States  Department  of  the  Agri- 
culture Bureau  of  Chemistry.  Conserva- 
tive estimates  are  that  this  station  in  1917 
saved  to  Indiana  alone  more  than  a  million 
dollars,  and  has  also  been  an  important 
source  of  education  and  information  to 
thousands   of  people. 

Mr.  Wyckoff  was  appointed  federal 
food  administrator  of  Marion  County 
November  22,  1917.  He  is  well  known  in 
Indianapolis  life,  is  identified  with  various 
clubs  and  social  organizations,  and  is  a 
republican  in  politics.  May  29,  1893,  he 
married  Gertrude  Pottinger.  Three-  chil- 
dren were  born  to  their  marriage :  Mildred, 
Rees  and  Elizabeth.     Mildred  is  deceased. 

I 

Albert  Eugene  Sterne,  M.  D.  The 
annals  of  the  Indiana  medical  profession 
during  the  past  twenty  years  indicate  a 
number   of   distinguished    honors   paid   to 


the  Indianapolis  specialist,  Doctor  Sterne, 
and  any  one  of  these  special  marks  of 
honor  would  be  ordinarily  deemed  a  suffi- 
cient reward  in  itself  for  almost  a  life- 
time of  conscientious  effort  and  attainment 
in  the  profession.  His  is  undoubtedly  one 
of  the  big  outstanding  names  of  American 
medicine  and  surgery. 

He  was  born  at  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  April 
28,  1866,  son  of  Charles  F.  and  Eugenia 
(Fries)  Sterne,  the  former  a  native  of 
Wuertemberg  and  the  latter  of  Furth, 
Bavaria.  His  maternal  grandfather  was 
a  great  scientist  and  scholar,  was  professor 
of  physiology  in  a  German  University,  and 
a  member  of  the  Legion  of  Honor.  Both  he 
and  his  son  were  knighted  by  the  King  of 
Spain  for  certain  discoveries  in  chemistry. 

Charles  F.  Sterne,  father  of  Doctor 
Sterne,  came  to  Indiana  about  1842  and 
became  one  of  the  wealthy  and  influential 
business  men  of  Peru.  He  founded  and 
owned  the  Peru  Woolen  Mills,  which  at  one 
time  manufactured  all  the  woolen  blankets 
used  by  the  Pullman  Car  Company.  He  also 
established  a  gas  plant  at  Peru,  and  his  in- 
vestments in  business  interests  were  widely 
diversified.  At  one  time  he  was  an  Indian 
trader.  He  died  at  Peru  August  28,  1880, 
at  the  age  of  fifty-two,  and  his  wife  passed 
away  six  months  later,  in  1881. 

Son  of  a  wealthy  father,  Doctor  Sterne 
was  fortunate  in  the  possession  of  ample 
means  to  prepare  himself  adequately  for 
his  chosen  career,  and  was  even  more  for- 
tunate in  the  possession  of  energy  and  am- 
bition to  strive  for  the  highest  attainments 
and  the  complete  use  of  his  talents  and 
opportunities.  His  early  education  was  ac- 
quired in  the  public  schools  of  Peru,  Cin- 
cinnati and  Indianapolis.  At  the  age  of 
eleven  he  was  placed  in  the  Cornell  School 
under  Professor  Kinney  at  Ithaca,  New 
York.  After  a  year  he  entered  Mount  Plea- 
sant Military  Academy  at  Sing  Sing,  New 
York,  where  he  studied  five  years,  and  in 
1883,  at  the  age  of  seventeen,  entered  Har- 
vard University.  He  graduated  in  1887 
with  the  degree  A.  B.  cum  laude. 

The  six  years  following  his  graduation 
from  Harvard  College  he  spent  abroad, 
studying  medicine  at  Strassburg,  Heidel- 
berg, Berlin,  Vienna  and  Paris,  and  also  at 
Dublin,  Edinburgh  and  London.  In  1891 
the  University  of  Berlin  awarded  him  the 
degree    Doctor    of    Medicine    magna    cum 


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laude.  He  also  had  extensive  clinical  ex- 
perience, and  was  the  assistant  in  such 
institutions  as  the  Charity  Hospital  in  Ber- 
lin, the  Salpetriere  in  Paris,  the  Rotunda 
in  Dublin  and  the  Queen's  Square  London. 
He  helped  promote  and  found  a  Society  of 
American  Physicians  in  Berlin. 

Returning  to  America  in  1893,  Doctor 
Sterne  soon  established  himself  in  practice 
at  Indianapolis.  For  a  number  of  years 
his  work  was  in  the  general  field  of  med- 
icine and  surgery,  but  more  and  more  his 
talents  have  been  concentrated  upon  the 
special  field  in  which  his  attainments  rank 
highest,  nervous  and  mental  diseases  and 
brain  surgery.  Indiana  is  indebted  to 
Doctor  Sterne's  initiative  for  one  of  the 
highest  class  sanatoriums  for  the  treatment 
of  mental  and  nervous  disorders  in  the 
Middle  West.  This  is  "Norways"  San- 
atorium, the  original  building  of  which 
was  the  old  Fletcher  homestead  opposite 
Woodruff  Park.  The  buildings  have  been 
extensively  enlarged  and  remodeled,  and 
occupy  a  beautiful  location  in  the  midst 
of  four  and  a  half  acres  of  ground.  From 
year  to  year  the  staff  has  been  increased 
by  associated  consultants  in  every  depart- 
ment of  medicine  and  surgery,  though  the 
requirements  of  the  war  have  seriously  de- 
pleted the  staff  organization,  as  has  been 
true  of  practically  every  other  big  hospital 
in  the  country.  The  Norways  Sanatorium 
is  normally  devoted  to  research  diagnosis 
and   intensive  study. 

In  1894  Doctor  Sterne  was  appointed  to 
the  chair  of  mental  and  nervous  diseases 
in  the  Central  College  of  Physicians  and 
Surgeons,  and  subsequently  was  given  a 
similar  chair  in  the  Indiana  University 
School  of  Medicine.  Nearly  all  of  his  in- 
dividual work  at  present  is  in  consultation 
on  nervous  diseases  and  diagnosis.  He  is 
connected  unofficially  with  clinics  at  Cen- 
tral Hospital  and  has  held  clinics  on  mental 
diseases  there  continuously  every  year 
since  they  were  inaugurated.  His  con- 
nection with  the  City  Hospital  and  Univer- 
sity has  also  been  unbroken  from  the  begin- 
ning, and  he  is  one  of  the  few  men  whose 
official  record  has  been  so  continuous. 
Doctor  Sterne  has  witnessed  all  the  changes 
in  amalgamation  of  state  medical  schools  in 
Indiana.  He  has  served  as  consulting 
neurologist  to  the  City  Hospital  and  dis- 


pensary, to  the  Deaconess  Hospital,  Flower 
Mission  and  other  local  institutions.  He 
was  at  one  time  associate  editor  of  the 
Journal  of  Mental  Nervous  Diseases  at  New 
York  City  and  also  of  the  Medical  Monitor. 

Some  of  his  most  valuable  work  has  been 
in  the  educational  side  of  the  profession. 
Many  able  physicians  all  over  the  country 
speak  of  him  as  their  authority,  and  many 
of  the  results  of  his  personal  experience 
and  observation  have  been  co-ordinated  and 
reduced  to  writing  in  the  form  of  mono- 
graphs on  nervous  diseases  and  diagnosis. 
These  monographs  have  been  published  and 
extensively  incorporated  in  various  text 
books. 

Doctor  Sterne  is  a  member  of  the  med- 
ical section  of  the  National  Council  of 
Defense,  and  is  chairman  of  the  Medical 
Defense  Committee  of  the  State  Medical 
Association,  and  prepared  the  by-laws  of 
that  committee.  He  was  honored  with  the 
presidency  of  the  Ohio  Valley  Medical  As- 
sociation in  1911  and  in  1913  was  president 
of  the  Mississippi  Valley  Medical  Associa- 
tion. He  is  also  a  member  of  the  various 
local  medical  societies,  the  American  Med- 
ical Association  and  the  Medico-Legal  So- 
ciety of  New  York. 

In  a  business  way  Doctor  Sterne  is  pres- 
ident of  the  Indiana  Oaxaca  Mining  Com- 
pany, of  which  he  was  organizer.  This 
company  controls  gold  mining  properties 
in  Mexico.  He  is  interested  in  other  in- 
dustrial concerns  in  Indianapolis.  He  is 
a  member  of  the  University,  Columbia, 
Highland,  German  House,  and  Independ- 
ent Athletic  Clubs  at  Indianapolis,  and 
takes  his  recreation  chiefly  in  golf  and 
hunting.     In   politics  he   is  republican. 

March  4,  1905,  Doctor  Sterne  married 
Miss  Laura  Mercy  Laughlin,  daughter  of 
James  A.  and  Mary  (Carty)  Laughlin  of 
Cincinnati.  Mrs.  Sterne  was  an  accom- 
plished musician.  She  died  May  25,  1909, 
at  the  age  of  thirty-five.  October  18,  1913, 
Doctor  Sterne  married  Stella  Gallup, 
daughter  of  John  Gallup  of  Evanston, 
Illinois.  Doctor  Sterne  is  also  a  member 
of  the  American  Association  for  the  Ad- 
vancement of  Science  and  from  1901  to 
1905  served  as  assistant  surgeon  general 
on  the  staff  of  Governor  W.  T.  Durbin, 
and  holds  the  rank  of  lieutenant  colonel 
in  the  Indiana  National  Guards. 


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Louis  Koss.  A  genius  for  machinery 
and  mechanical  enterprise  has  been  the 
actuating  principle  in  the  life  and  career 
of  Louis  Koss,  president  of  the  Capital 
Machine  Company  of  Indianapolis.  This 
business  has  grown  and  developed  almost 
entirely  upon  the  basis  of  the  inventive 
originality  and  energy  supplied  by  Mr. 
Koss,  and  is  now  one  of  the  important  com- 
panies in  the  United  States  manufacturing 
veneer  machinery.  It  is  one  of  Indianap- 
olis' most  distinguished  industries. 

As  a  boy  Louis  Koss  entered  the  old 
Eagle  machine  shops.  These  shops  were 
then  located  where  the  Union  Station  now 
stands.  Here  for  Ave  years  he  accepted 
every  opportunity  to  cultivate  his  natural 
aptitude  for  machinery  and  inventions,  and 
in  that  time  he  also  became  a  finished 
workman.  With  this  experience  though 
with  limited  capital  he  opened  a  shop  of 
his  own  on  Biddle  Street.  At  that  time 
he  began  manufacturing  machinery  for  the 
making  of  veneer.  It  was  about  that  pe- 
riod that  Indianapolis  became  one  of  the 
large  centers  of  the  veneer  industry  in 
the  Middle  West,  and  there  was  much  local 
demand  for  machines  capable  of  making 
materials  used  in  nail  kegs  and  barrels. 
His  business  grew  and  prospered,  and  he 
next  moved  to  a  better  location  on  Ala- 
bama Street,  opposite  the  Marion  County 
Jail.  When  these  quarters  were  outgrown 
he  moved  the  plant  to  502  South  Penn- 
sylvania Street,  where  the  Coil  Heating 
Plant  is  now  located.  The  final  move  was 
made  in  1908  to  the  present  extensive  plant 
of  the  Capital  Manufacturing  Company  at 
2801  Roosevelt  Avenue.  Mr.  Koss  has 
from  the  first  been  the  guiding  spirit  in 
the  development  of  this  industry.  The 
firm  now  manufactures  all  kinds  of  ma- 
chines and  appliances  for  making  veneer. 
This  machinery  has  three  distinct  classifi- 
cations, depending  upon  the  general 
method  used  in  manufacture,  and  com- 
prises what  may  be  described  as  rotary 
cutting  machines,  sliceing  machines  and 
saws.  The  Koss  veneer  making  machines 
have  been  distributed  to  all  parts  of  the 
world  and  are  now  being  more  extensively 
used  than  ever. 

Hon.  Fred  A.  Sims.  While  essentially 
a  business  man  and  banker,  no  man  has 
done  more  in  recent  years  to  infuse  vitality 
and  strength  into  the  republican  party  of 


Indiana  than  Hon.  Fred  A.  Sims  of  In- 
dianapolis. He  is  president  of  the  Bank- 
ers Investment  Company  of  that  city,  and 
during  the  Goodrich  administration  has 
also  served  as  a  member  of  the  Indiana 
State  Board  of  Tax  Commissioners. 

From  pioneer  times  the  Sims  family 
has  been  a  prominent  one  in  Clinton 
County,  Indiana.  Fred  A.  Sims  was  born 
at  Frankfort,  county  seat  of  that  county, 
October  8,  1867,  son  of  James  N.  and  Mar- 
garet (Allen)  Sims.  He  was  reared  and 
educated  at  Frankfort,  and  with  the  ex- 
ception of  a  year  in  1887-88  spent  in  Chi- 
cago, was  a  resident  of  Frankfort  until  he 
removed  to  Indianapolis.  He  served  four 
years  as  mayor  of  that  city  and  his  grow- 
ing strength  in  the  republican  party  of 
that  section  gradually  brought  him  a  state- 
wide leadership.  For  eleven  years,  begin- 
ning in  1896,  he  was  a  member  of  the  Re- 
publican State  Executive  Committee  from 
the  Ninth  District.  In  1904  he  was  secre- 
tary of  the  State  Executive  Committee. 

Mr.  Sims  came  to  Indianapolis  in  March, 
1906,  to  become  secretary  of  state  of  In- 
diana by  appointment  from  the  governor. 
He  filled  that  office  five  years  lacking  three 
months.  In  December,  1910,  the  demo- 
cratic governor,  Marshall,  appointed  him 
a  member  of  the  Board  of  Trustees  of  the 
Southeastern  Hospital  for  the  Insane. 
Early  in  1911  Governor  Marshall  also  ap- 
pointed him  a  member  of  the  Board  of 
Tax  Commissioners  of  Indiana,  but  he 
resigned  after  serving  a  year. 

Mr.  Sims  was  chairman  of  the  Republi- 
can State  Committee  in  1912,  and  led  his 
party  in  a  campaign  that  was  strenuous 
even  in  the  annals  of  Indiana  politics.  He 
continued  as  state  chairman  until  1914. 
In  that  year  Mr.  Sims  reorganized  and  be- 
came president  of  the  company,  which  is 
now  his  principal  business  connection. 

September  1,  1917,  Governor  Goodrich 
appointed  him  a  member  of  the  State 
Board  of  Tax  Commissioners.  This  honor 
was  fittingly  bestowed  since  Mr.  Sims 
was  one  of  the  originators  of  the  present 
tax  commission  law  and  was  largely  instru- 
mental in  having  it  enacted.  Because  of 
his  wide  business  and  financial  experience 
he  is  able  to  give  the  state  useful  and  ex- 
ceedingly valuable  services.  June  6,  1918, 
Mr.  Sims  married  Miss  Elsa  A.  Dickson. 
She  was  born  and  reared  in  Indianapolis, 


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1721 


and  is  a  member  of  the  city's  most  promi- 
nent families. 

Henry  Lane  Wilson.  In  the  last  quar- 
ter of  a  century  probably  no  Indianan  has 
played  a  larger  and  more  important  role 
in  the  complexities  of  modern  diplomacy 
and  the  adjustment  of  international  rela- 
tions than  Henry  Lane  Wilson,  who  for 
nearly  a  score  of  years  had  front  rank 
among  American  diplomats  abroad.  For 
several  years  he  was  United  States  minister 
to  Belgium,  but  the  work  which  brought 
him  his  chief  fame  was  as  minister  to  Chile 
and  later  to  Mexico,  where  he  remained  at 
his  post  of  duty  until  the  disruption  of  that 
republic  through  revolution.  His  long 
residence  in  Latin  America  has  brought 
him  a  knowledge  of  the  people  and  the 
economic  and  political  affairs  of  those  coun- 
tries such  as  probably  no  other  living 
American  possesses. 

His  diplomatic  services  constitute  only 
one  phase  of  a  notable  family  record  in 
Indiana,  and  through  several  generations 
the  Wilsons  of  Indiana  have  been  men  of 
prominence  in  their  own  state  and  in  the 
nation. 

The  founder  of  the  family  in  Indiana 
was  John  Wilson,  who  was  born  November 
29,  1796,  at  Lancaster,  Lincoln  County, 
Kentucky.  His  father,  Rev.  James  Wil- 
son, D.  D.,  a  Presbyterian  clergyman,  with 
his  wife  Agnes  (McKee)  Wilson,  came 
from  Staunton,  Augusta  County,  Virginia, 
to  Lincoln  County,  Kentucky,  when  the 
latter  commonwealth  was  on  the  frontier 
and  the  scene  of  active  conflict  between 
advancing  civilization  and  the  barbarous 
red  men  and  forest  conditions.  The  fam- 
ily ancestor  goes  back  to  County  Down, 
Ireland.  One  of  the  name,  James  Wilson, 
attained  the  rank  of  colonel  in  the  colonial 
armies  of  the  Revolution.  Another  served 
in  Congress  for  a  number  of  years  from 
Virginia.  Agnes  (McKee)  Wilson  was  a 
daughter  of  Col.  William  McKee,  a  prom- 
inent figure  in  the  early  history  of  the 
United  States.  He  was  a  native  of  County 
Down,  Ireland,  and  came  to  America  as  a 
colonel  in  the  British  army,  taking  part  in 
the  war  in  Canada  against  the  French. 
Later  he  settled  in  Virginia,  married,  and 
when  the  Revolutionary  war  came  on  es- 
poused the  cause  of  the  colonies  and  at- 
tained the  rank  of  colonel.  He  was  also 
on    the   border    during   the    Indian    wars. 


He  commanded  the  fort  at  Point  Pleasant, 
and  that  place  today  is  known  as  McKees- 
port,  Pennsylvania,  named  in  his  honor. 
He  was  a  member  of  the  Constitutional 
Convention  of  Virginia,  and  for  valiant 
services  in  war  was  awarded  4,000  acres 
of  land  in  Kentucky,  and  moved  west  to 
occupy  these  possessions. 

Such  ancestry  constituted  John  Wilson 
a  man  of  sturdiest  mold,  of  keen  intellect, 
and  of  unusual  force  of  character.  On  ac- 
count of  his  dislike  of  slavery  he  left  Ken- 
tucky, spent  a  year  in  Illinois  and  in  1822 
settled  at  Crawfordsville,  Indiana.  In 
1823  he  married  Margaret  Cochran.  John 
Wilson  was  Crawfordsville 's  first  postmas- 
ter, keeping  the  office  in  a  log  cabin.  In 
1823  he  was  elected  the  first  Circuit  Court 
clerk  of  Montgomery  County,  a  position  he 
held  continuously  for  fourteen  years.  At 
this  election  the  total  voting  population  of 
the  county  was  only  sixty.  In  1825,  with 
two  others,  he  laid  out  the  town  of  La- 
fayette. In  1840  he  was  elected  to  the 
State  Legislature  and  served  one  term. 
John  Wilson  became  a  wealthy  man  for 
those  days,  his  possessions  comprising 
farms,  stores  and  other  properties.  In 
1857  he  retired  from  the  more  active  cares 
of  life,  and  moving  to  a  large  tract  of  land 
he  had  bought  in  Tippecanoe  County  lived 
there  until  1863,  when  he,  returned  to 
Crawfordsville  and  died  in  that  city  the 
following  year. 

Among  his  large  and  interesting  family 
probably  the  best  known  was  James  Wil- 
son. He  was  born  at  Crawfordsville,  April 
9,  1825.  In  1842,  at  the  age  of  seventeen, 
he  graduated  from  Wabash  College.  He 
read  law  with  Gen.  Tilghman  H.  Howard 
at  Rockville,  but  though  qualified  was  not 
admitted  to  the  bar  on  account  of  his  youth. 
He  volunteered  his  services  in  the  war 
against  Mexico,  and  was  in  all  the  engage- 
ments of  the  campaign  under  General 
Scott.  Thus  as  a  boy  Henry  Lane  Wilson 
heard  from  his  father's  lips  many  facts 
concerning  the  people  of  the  republic  to 
which  years  afterward  he  was  sent  as  a 
minister.  After  the  war  James  Wilson 
practiced  law  in  Crawfordsville  until  1856. 
In  that  year  he  was  elected  to  Congress, 
defeating  the  "Sycamore  of  the  Wabash" 
Dan  Voorhees.  He  was  re-elected,  but 
declined  a  third  nomination.  His  con- 
gressional career  fell  in  the  stormiest  pe- 


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riod  of  national  destiny,  and  he  went  to 
Congress  as  an  ardent  republican  and  stood 
consistently  on  the  platform  of  his  party 
and  was  an  avowed  enemy  of  slavery. 
Both  in  Congress  and  at  home  he  helped 
to  bring  those  forces  together  which  were 
gaming  momentum  and  eventually  saved 
the  Union  from  destruction.  At  the  close 
of  his  Congressional  career  and  the  begin- 
ning of  the  war  he  was  made  post  quarter- 
master by  President  Lincoln.  Later  he 
rendered  active  service  in  the  ranks  as 
major  and  lieutenant-colonel,  and  at  the 
close  of  the  war  was  honorably  mustered 
out  as  colonel  A.  D.  C. 

Again  he  resumed  his  legal  practice  at 
Crawfordsville,  but  in  a  short  time  was  in- 
duced to  become  minister  to  Venezuela  at 
a  time  when  gravely  important  matters 
were  pending  between  that  country  and  the 
United  States.  He  was  suddenly  stricken 
with  a  fatal  illness  and  died  at  Caracas  in 
1867,  at  the  age  of  forty-two.  While  fully 
ten  years  of  his  brief  active  life  had  been 
given  to  public  affairs,  he  attained  rank  as 
one  of  the  ablest  members  of  the  Indiana 
bar,  and  was  a  splendid  type  of  the  unself- 
ish, high-minded  and  energetic  citizen. 
James  Wilson  married  Emma  Ingersoll. 
Their  three  sons  were  John  Lockwood, 
Tilghman  Howard,  and  Henry  Lane. 
Tilghman  H.  died  in  early  manhood. 

Space  should  be  given  here  for  a  brief 
record  of  the  career  of  John  Lockwood 
Wilson,  oldest  brother  of  Henry  L.  Wil- 
son. He  was  born  August  7,  1850,  grad- 
uated in  the  classical  course  from  Wabash 
College  in  1874,  and  for  a  time  was  em- 
ployed in  a  department  at  Washington. 
Later  he  practiced  law  at  Crawfordsville. 
In  1880  he  was  elected  to  the  State  Legis- 
lature from  his  native  county.  President 
Harrison  appointed  him  land  agent  at 
Colfax  in  Washington  Territory,  and  while 
there  he  became  actively  interested  in  ter- 
ritorial affairs.  He  was  sent  as  a  delegate 
to  Congress  from  the  territory,  and  when 
Washington  was  admitted  to  the  Union 
was  one  of  the  first  congressmen  elected 
from  the  state.  For  four  years  he  repre- 
sented Washington  State  in  the  United 
States  Senate.  Senator  Wilson  died  No- 
vember 6,  1912.  He  married  Edna  Hart- 
man  Sweet,  of  Crawfordsville,  and  their 
only  child  is  Mrs.  H.  Clay  Goodloe,  of  Lex- 
ington, Kentucky. 


Henry  Lane  Wilson,  only  surviving 
member  of  his  father's  family,  was  born 
at  Crawfordsville,  Indiana,  November  3, 
1856.  He  graduated  from  Wabash  Col- 
lege A.  B.  in  1879,  and  subsequently  was 
honored  with  the  degree  Master  of  Arts 
from  the  same  institution.  Mr.  Wilson 
studied  law  with  the  firm  of  McDonald  & 
Butler  at  Indianapolis.  But  after  a  brief 
experience  as  a  practicing  lawyer  he  took 
up  journalism  as  owner  and  editor  of  the 
Lafayette  Daily  Journal.  He  was  a  citizen 
of  Lafayette  from  1882  to  1885,  and  on 
selling  the  newspaper  went  west  to  Spo- 
kane, Washington,  where  he  built  up  a 
highly  successful  and  remunerative  law 
practice  and  also  engaged  in  banking. 
Washington  Territory  was  then  rapidly 
developing  and  Mr.  Wilson  gradually 
abandoned  law  for  the  more  profitable  busi- 
ness of  real  estate.  He  organized  several 
trust  companies,  banks  and  other  corpora- 
tions, and  acquired  a  considerable  private 
fortune,  most  of  which,  however,  was  lost 
in  the  panic  of  1893.  Mr.  Wilson  re- 
mained a  resident  of  Washington  until 
1896.  In  the  meantime  he  had  become 
identified  with  politics  not  as  a  candidate 
for  office  but  as  a  man  interested  in  good 
government.  Upon  the  election  of  Benja- 
min Harrison  as  president  he  was  offered 
the  post  of  minister  to  Venezuela  in  1899, 
but  declined.  In  1896  he  took  a  promi- 
nent part  in  the  campaign  through  Wash- 
ington, Idaho  and  Montana  in  the  election 
of  William  McKinley  as  president.  Mr. 
McKinley  tendered  him  the  post  of  min- 
ister to  Chile  and  he  remained  in  that 
South  American  country  in  that  mission 
for  eight  years,  from  1897  to  1905. 

Mr.  Wilson  never  regarded  any  of  his 
diplomatic  honors  as  a  sinecure.  He  was 
an  indefatigable  worker,  and  during  his 
ministry  to  Chile  he  succeeded  in  estab- 
lishing cordial  relations  between  that  gov- 
ernment and  that  of  the  United  States,  and 
gained  the  unlimited  confidence  of  the  Chil- 
ean people.  He  was  credited  on  two  occa- 
sions with  being  chiefly  responsible  for  pre- 
venting the  outbreak  of  war  between  Chile 
and  the  Argentine  Republic.  An  unusual 
mark  of  regard  and  appreciation  of  his 
valued  services  was  paid  in  1911  when  the 
National  University  of  Chile  conferred 
upon  him  the  degree  Doctor  of  Philosophy, 
Philology  and  Pine  Arts.     This  distinction 


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1723 


comes  from  the  oldest  university  in  the 
Western  Hemisphere,  and  is  an  honor  that 
was  never  before  conferred  upon  a  North 
American. 

While  Mr.  "Wilson  was  at  Chile  he  was 
twice  transferred  to  other  posts,  to  Portu- 
gal and  Greece,  but  at  his  own  request  he 
was  permitted  to  retain  the  Chilean  post 
In  1903,  in  recognition  of  his  important 
work  in  preventing  war  between  Chile  and 
Argentine,  President  Roosevelt  appointed 
him  minister  to  Greece,  but  at  his  own  re- 
quest he  was  permitted  to  remain  in  Chile. 

In  1904  President  Roosevelt  appointed 
him  minister  to  Belgium.  In  announcing 
this  appointment  to  the  Associated  Press 
Mr.  Roosevelt  said  :  ' '  This  appointment  is 
not  made  for  political  consideration,  but 
solely  for  meritorious  service  performed." 
As  Envoy  Extraordinary  and  Minister 
Plenipotentiary  Mr.  Wilson  remained  in 
that  now  unhappy  and  stricken  country 
of  Belgium  from  1905  to  1910.  When 
President  Taft  came  into  the  White  House 
he  was  offered  first  the  Russian  and  then 
the  Austrian  ambassadorship,  but  declined 
each.  He  was  appointed  ambassador  to 
Turkey,  but  before  he  qualified  this  ap- 
pointment was  changed  to  ambassador  to 
Mexico.  His  appointment  was  confirmed 
by  the  Senate  within  one  hour  after  his 
name  had  been  submitted. 

During  the  period  from  1909  to  1913  no 
American  ambassadorship  involved  more 
complexing  and  delicate  responsibilities 
than  that  of  minister  to  Mexico.  Mr.  Wil- 
son was  head  of  the  American  embassy 
in  Mexico  during  the  various  successive 
waves  of  revolution  which  eventually 
plunged  that  country  into  anarchy  and 
brought  about  the  first  steps  of  interven- 
tion on  the  part  of  the  armed  forces  of 
the  United  States.  Mr.  Wilson  continued 
his  work  as  ambassador  until  July,  1913, 
when  he  was  summoned  to  Washington  by 
President  Wilson  and  resigned  the  post, 
his  resignation  taking  effect  in  October, 
1913.  That  closed  a  diplomatic  career  of 
seventeen  years,  the  longest  consecutive 
service  by  an  American  as  chief  of  foreign 
missions. 

Since  that  time  Mr.  Wilson  has  remained 
a  resident  of  Indianapolis,  and  has  spent 
much  of  his  time  on  the  lecture  platform. 
In  the  presidential  campaign  of  1916  he 
was  one  of  the  leading  speakers  in  pro- 


moting the  candidacy  of  Mr.  Hughes. 
Among  other  honors  he  was  special  am- 
bassador from  the  United  States  at  the 
crowning  of  King  Albert  of  Belgium,  and 
was  American  delegate  to  the  Brussels  Con- 
ference on  Collisions  at  Sea  and  also  to  a 
conference  to  regulate  the  use  of  arms  in 
Africa.  Mr.  Wilson  has  served  as  vice 
president  of  the  World  Court  League,  of 
the  Security  League  and  the  League  to 
Enforce  Peace.  He  has  written  extensively 
for  magazines  and  periodicals  on  political, 
scientific,  and  fictional  themes,  his  work  as 
a  fiction  writer  being  under  a  nome  de 
plume.  Mr.  Wilson  is  a  member  of  the 
Sons  of  the  American  Revolution,  Society 
of  Colonial  Wars,  of  the  Columbia  Club 
at  Indianapolis,  of  the  Masonic  Order,  and 
the  Theta  Delta  Chi  college  fraternity. 

In  October,  1885,  he  married  Miss  Alice 
Vajen,  daughter  of  John  H.  Vajen,  a  citi- 
zen of  wide  prominence  in  Indiana.  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Wilson  have  three  children. 
John  Vajen,  the  oldest,  is  a  graduate  of 
Wabash  College  and  a  practicing  lawyer 
at  Indianapolis.  Warden  McKee,  the  sec- 
ond son,  is  a  graduate  of  Cornell  Univer- 
sity, was  formerly  attache  of  the  Foreign- 
Department  of  the  Guarantee  Trust  Com- 
pany of  New  York  City,  and  is  now  a 
lieutenant  in  the  Interpreters  Corps  of  the 
General  Staff  of  the  United  States  Army. 
The  youngest  son,  Stewart  C,  also  a  grad- 
uate of  Cornell  University,  is  serving  with 
the  rank  of  lieutenant  in  the  One  Hundred 
and  Thirteenth  United  States  Engineers 
in  France. 

Medpord  B.  Wilson,  more  than  forty 
years  active  in  banking  circles  in  Indiana, 
is  an  honored  figure  in  the  business  life  of 
this  state,  and  though  he  has  been  nomi- 
nally retired  since  attaining  the  age  of 
three  score  and  ten,  is  still  an  executive 
officer  in  one  or  two  business  institutions 
and  still  occupies  a  place  of  usefulness  and 
influence  in  his  home  city. 

Though  a  resident  of  Indiana  since  early 
manhood  Mr.  Wilson  was  born  at  Pales- 
tine, Crawford  County,  Illinois,  in  Decem- 
ber, 1845.  He  was  the  seventh  among 
nine  sons  and  one  daughter  born  to  Isaac 
N.  and  Hannah  Harness  (Decker)  Wilson. 
This  branch  of  the  Wilson  family  is  Scotch- 
Irish,  and  was  founded  in  America  by  a 
Presbyterian    clergyman   who   came   from 


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INDIANA  .AND  INDIANANS 


Belfast  before  the  Revolutionary  war.  In 
the  maternal  line  the  Deckers  were  Hol- 
land Dutch.  Mrs.  Isaac  Wilson  had 
some  uncles  by  the  name  of  Decker,  who 
were  very  prominent,  one  of  them  serving 
on  the  first  Grand  Jury  ever  held  in  the 
Territory  of  Indiana,  and  two  others  by 
the  name  of  Mullady  being  founders  of 
the  Catholic  University  in  Washington. 
Isaac  N.  Wilson  and  wife  were  both  born 
in  the  same  section  of  what  is  now  West 
Virginia,  the  former  at  Moorefield  and 
the  latter  at  Romney.  Isaac  Wilson  when 
a  young  man  went  to  Illinois  in  1816  with 
his  parents,  and  Miss  Decker  went  to  that 
state  with  her  parents  the  following  year. 
Isaac  Wilson  was  a  successful  business 
man  and  honored  citizen  of  Crawford 
County,  Illinois,  until  his  death. 

Reared  in  a  home  of  substantial  char- 
acter, Medford  B.  Wilson  received  an  edu- 
cation to  those  of  most  boys  and  girls  of 
his  day.  He  attended  the  public  schools 
and  an  academy  in  his  native  town,  spent 
two  years  in  Vincennes  University  at  Vin- 
cennes,  Indiana,  and  then  went  abroad 
and  completed  a  four  years'  course  in  com- 
mercial law  and  other  subjects  at  the  Uni- 
versity of  Marburg,  Hesse  Cassel,  Ger- 
many. Mr.  Wilson  was  one  of  the  few 
young  men  of  the  Middle  West  of  his  gen- 
eration who  went  abroad  to  finish  their 
education. 

On  returning  to  the  United  States  in 
1870  he  established  the  first  bank  at 
Sullivan,  Indiana,  known  as  the  Sulli- 
van County  Bank,  incorporated  under  the 
state  banking  laws.  This  was  subsequently 
reorganized  as  the  First  National  Bank, 
and  Mr.  Wilson  continued  its  president  for 
more  than  twenty  years.  His  experience 
and  success  as  a  country  banker  opened 
up  a  still  larger  field  for  him  at  Indian- 
apolis, of  which  city  he  has  been  a  resident 
since  1889.  Here  he  brought  about  the 
organization  of  the  Capital  National  Bank, 
which  was  incorporated  in  December,  1889, 
with  a  capital  stock  of  $300,000.  He  was 
president  of  the  Capital  National  until 
January,  1904,  when  he  resigned  and  dis- 
posed of  his  stock  to  become  president  of 
the  Columbia  National  Bank.  At  the 
time  of  the  consolidation  of  the  Columbia 
National  and  the  Union  National  banks 
Mr.  Wilson  retired  from  direct  participa- 
tion in  banking,  and  has  since  devoted  him- 


self to  his  private  business  interests.  He 
is  now  vice  president  of  the  American 
Buncher  Manufacturing  Company  of  In- 
dianapolis and  is  treasurer  of  the  Crown 
Potteries  Company  of  Evansville. 

It  is  as  a  successful  financier  and  busi- 
ness man  that  Mr.  Wilson  is  best  known 
throughout  the  state,  and  through  these 
lines  he  has  contributed  his  chief  services. 
He  has  always  been  a  democrat  but  with- 
out political  ambition,  is  a  thirty-second 
degree  Scottish  Rite  Mason  and  a  mem- 
ber of  Murat  Temple  of  the  Mystic  Shrine. 
He  has  been  a  working  member  of  the 
Indianapolis  Board  of  Trade,  of  the  Com- 
mercial Club,  the  University  and  Country 
clubs,  and  he  and  his  wife  are  active  in 
the  Presbyterian  Church. 

In  1872  he  married  Miss  Nettie  A.  Ames. 
She  was  born  at  Geneva,  Ohio,  but  was 
reared  in  Detroit  and  Cleveland,  being 
a  resident  of  the  latter  city  at  the  time 
of  her  marriage.  The  five  daughters  of 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Wilson  are :  Daisey,  who 
married  Frank  F.  Churchman,  of  Indian- 
apolis, and  they  have  two  sons.  Wilson 
and  Frank  L. ;  Sarah,  wife  of  James  L. 
Floyd,  of  Indianapolis ;  Ruth,  who  mar- 
ried George  M.  B.  Hawley;  Edith,  wife  of 
William  H.  Stafford,  and  their  four  chil- 
dren are :  Edith  Ann,  William  H.,  Sybil, 
and  Barbara;  and  Clare,  who  married 
Capt.  Reginald  W.  Hughes,  of  the  Eightjr- 
Ninth  Division  U.  S.  A.,  and  now  in  the 
Army  of  Occupation  in  Germany. 

George  S.  Schauer.  For  a  quarter  of 
a  century  George  S.  Schauer  has  been  one 
of  the  quiet,  hard  working,  successful  busi- 
ness men  of  Indianapolis,  an  expert  ma- 
chinist by  trade,  gradually  promoting 
himself  to  successful  business  as  a  con- 
tractor. 

Mr.  Schauer  was  born  in  Germany, 
though  for  years  an  American  citizen. 
His  birth  occurred  at  Roettingen  on  the 
Tauber,  Bavaria,  January  20,  1869.  He 
is  thus  of  the  South  German  people,  which 
more  than  any  other  class  has  distin- 
guished itself  as  followers  of  the  flame  of 
liberty  and  furnished  perhaps  a  bulk  of 
the  patriots  to  the  German  revolution  of 
1848.  His  own  father  was  a  participant 
in  that  revolution,  and  after  it  failed  fled 
to  Switzerland.  Later  he  was  allowed  to 
return  to  his  native  Bavaria. 


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George  S.  Schauer  was  educated  in  the 
common  school  system  of  his  native  city, 
and  was  apprenticed  to  and  learned  the 
trade  of  machinist.  That  has  been  his 
lifelong  occupation.  His  apprenticeship 
over,  he  traveled  as  a  journeyman  through 
various  cities  of  Germany,  and  on  reach- 
ing the  prescribed  age  also  answered  the 
call  to  military  service.  On  account  of  a 
physical  disability  he  served  only  a  year 
and  a  half  instead  of  the  required  three 
years. 

Early  in  his  vigorous  young  manhood 
Mr.  Schauer  came  to  America  and  arrived 
at  Indianapolis  May  5,  1893.  This  city 
has  since  been  his  home,  and  here  he  mar- 
ried and  brought  up  a  family.  For  a 
number  of  years  he  was  employed  at  his 
trade  of  machinist,  but  finally  took  up  con- 
tracting and  built  up  a  good  and  substan- 
tial business.  He  is  a  democrat  in  politics, 
and  for  years  has  been  identified  with  those 
various  movements  which  have  sought  the 
welfare  and  advancement  of  people  and 
institutions  of  his  home  city  and  state. 
Mr.  Schauer  married  Miss  Margreth  Kun- 
kel.  She  is  of  German  ancestry,  a  native 
of  Franklin  County,  Indiana.  Twelve 
children  were  born  to  their  marriage,  and 
the  seven  now  living  are:  Harry  G., 
Helena,  Marguerite,  Amelia,  Marie,  Paul 
and  Francis. 

"While  this  record  constitutes  Mr. 
Schauer  a  representative  and  useful  citi- 
zen of  his  home  state,  and  as  such  entitled 
to  special  recognition,  it  is  his  part  in  the 
larger  program  of  national  affairs  that 
makes  his  name  of  special  interest  at  the 
present.  He  followed  with  the  keenest  in- 
terest and  appreciation  the  early  phases 
of  the  great  World  war,  and  after  America 
was  drawn  into  the  vortex  he  felt  that  he 
had  an  individual  part  to  play  above  the 
normal  and  routine  sacrifices  of  an  Amer- 
ican citizen.  He  is  a  man  of  education, 
and  his  long  practice  of  reading  and  ob- 
servation has  given  him  a  more  than  ordi- 
nary knowledge  of  German  history  and 
American  institutions.  He  knows  the  Ger- 
man character  thoroughly,  and  offered 
some  interesting  commentaries  that  serve 
to  explain  to  the  American  some  of  the  ap- 
parent anomalies  existing  between  the 
German  people  and  its  military  and  gov- 
ernmental system.  Mr.  Schauer  says  that 
the  Prussian  military  caste,  as  represented 


by  the  Kaiser,  plays  upon  two  of  the  most 
noble  of  human  traits — obedience  and  loy- 
alty—which are  thoroughly  grounded  in 
German  character,  in  order  to  further  its 
terrible  ambitions.  This  German  military 
system,  in  the  opinion  of  Mr.  Schauer, 
serves  to  debase  and  brutalize  the  soldier 
and  make  him  a  ready  tool  to  do  any  act 
of  atrocity,  no  matter  how  inhuman.  In 
America  the  average  German's  love  and 
reverence  for  the  Fatherland  is  directed 
not  toward  the  peculiar  military  institu- 
tions, but  is  based  on  happy  memories  and 
traditions  and  the  beauties  of  home  life. 
Many  Germans  in  their  own  country  as 
well  as  in  America  have  been  brought  to 
believe  that  these  institutions  are  at  stake 
in  the  war,  and  not  the  military  system. 
This  view  has,  of  course,  been  carefully 
cultivated  by  the  German  ruling  class,  who 
have  in  effect  exploited  the  German  masses 
and  deluded  them  into  believing  that  their 
very  life  and  existence  were  threatened, 
carefully  concealing  the  head  and  front  of 
offense,  German  militarism. 

Realizing  these  distinctions  himself,  Mr. 
Schauer  has  felt  it  his  duty  to  educate 
others  of  German  birth  and  descent  and 
convince  them  of  the  actual  condition  of 
affairs  in  Germany  of  today.  Therefore, 
at  a  great  sacrifice  of  his  own  business, 
he  has  taken  up  work  that  deserves  to  be 
better  known  by  the  nation  at  large. 
Without  realizing  that  an  organization  had 
been  perfected  in  New  York  known  as  the 
Friends  of  German  Democracy,  Mr. 
Schauer  in  February,  1918,  called  a  meet- 
ing of  German  people  in  Indianapolis,  for 
which  he  prepared  resolutions  setting  forth 
his  principles  and  his  ideas  of  an  organi- 
zation. About  that  time  he  received  some 
literature  from  the  national  headquarters 
from  the  Friends  of  German  Democracy 
at  New  York,  and  at  once  allied  himself 
with  this  organization,  giving  it  his  enthu- 
siastic support.  The  expressed  purpose  of 
the  national  organization  is  "to  further 
democracy  by  aiding  the  people  of  Ger- 
many to  establish  in  Germany  a  govern- 
ment responsible  to  the  people,"  in  line 
with  President  Wilson's  oft  repeated  dis- 
tinctions between  the  German  people  and 
their  rulers,  and  to  require  of  all  society 
members  that  they  ' '  favor  a  vigorous  pros- 
ecution of  the  war  until  the  aims  of  the 


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United    States    Government    shall    be    at- 
tained. ' ' 

Mr.  Schauer  was  one  of  the  organizers 
of  the  Indiana  branch  of  this  society  and 
was  made  its  secretary.  Since  then  he  has 
been  appointed  to  his  present  position  as 
state  organizer  for  Indiana  of  the  Friends 
of  German  Democracy,  and  as  such  he  is 
constantly  busy  lecturing  through  the 
state,  distributing  literature,  writing  let- 
ters, etc.  Before  he  was  appointed  to  this 
position  he  gave  up  his  own  business  and 
devoted  several  weeks  at  his  own  expense 
to  teaching  and  spreading  the  principles 
of  the  society.  He  lectured  to  the  German 
people  in  their  own  language,  and  his  work 
is  converting  thousands  of  them  from  their 
former  views.  Thus  he  is  one  of  the  indi- 
viduals whose  influence  is  of  the  greatest 
value  to  our  government  in  these  times. 
The  object  and  activities  of  the  Friends  of 
German  Democracy  have  received  the  sanc- 
tion and  encouragement  of  the  authorities 
at  Washington.  The  president  of  the  Na- 
tional Society  is  Franz  Sigel,  a  son  of  Gen. 
Franz  Sigel,  who  was  one  of  the  famous 
Union  commanders  in  our  Civil  war. 

Feed  J.  Schlegel.  From  an  appren- 
ticeship in  a  furniture  factory  at  wages 
of  two  dollars  and  a  half  a  week  Fred  J. 
Schlegel  has  laboriously  improved  his  abil- 
ities and  his  opportunities,  and  is  now  one 
of  the  leading  building  contractors  of  In- 
dianapolis. 

Born  in  Germany  April  4,  1876,  son  of 
Frederick  and  Margaret  (Rieder)  Schle- 
gel. he  was  only  six  years  old  when  his 
father  died  in  Germany  in  1882.  In  1891, 
at  the  age  of  fifteen  he  accompanied  his 
widowed  mother  to  America  and  located 
at  Indianapolis.  Mr.  Schlegel  is  an  Amer- 
ican citizen,  and  since  early  youth  has 
been  devoted  to  the  institutions  and  ideals 
of  this  country. 

It  was  soon  after  he  came  to  Indian- 
apolis that  he  went  to  work  in  a  fiu-niture 
factory  at  the  small  compensation  named. 
Though  it  hardly  provided  him  with  a 
bare  living,  he  determined  to  serve  out 
his  time  in  order  to  have  a  mechanical 
trade  upon  which  he  could  depend  in  the 
future.  He  worked  as  an  apprentice  five 
years,  and  later  for  eight  months  was  in 
the  employ  of  Brown  &  Ketcham,  but  is 
indebted  for  his  best  training  as  a  carpen- 


ter and  general  contractor  to  William  P. 
Jungclaus  of  the  William  P.  Junpclaus 
Company.  He  was  in  his  service  for  eigh- 
teen years,  and  during  that  time  was 
made  familiar  with  every  detail  of  the 
building  business.  For  eight  years  he  was 
the  firm's  superintendent,  and  for  three 
years  was  estimator  of  contracts. 

In  1914  Mr.  Schlegel  utilized  and  cap- 
italized his  long  experience  and  training 
by  engaging  in  business  for  himself  in 
partnership  with  Frank  E.  Roehm  under 
the  name  Schlegel  &  Roehm.  They  are 
general  contractors  of  buildings,  with 
offices  in  the  Lombard  Building,  and  have 
a  complete  organization  and  service  espe- 
cially adapted  to  the  construction  of  large 
buildings,  many  examples  of  their  work 
being  in  evidence  in  Indianapolis. 

Mr.  Schlegel  is  affiliated  with  Pentalpha 
Lodge  No.  564,  Free  and  Accepted  Ma- 
sons^with  Keystone  Chapter,  Royal  Arch 
Masons,  with  Scottish  Rite  Consistory, 
thirty-second  degree,  and  with  Murat  Tem- 
ple of  the  Mystic  Shrine.  He  is  also  an 
Odd  Fellow  and  Red  Man  and  votes  as  a 
republican. 

In  December,  1901,  Mr.  Schlegel  mar- 
ried at  Indianapolis  Miss  Margaret  Staen- 
del.  They  have  one  son,  Frederick  G., 
born  December  16,  1909. 

Janet  Scudder.  Terre  Haute  claims 
the  well  known  sculptor,  Janet  Scudder, 
among  her  native  daughters.  She  was  edu- 
cated in  the  public  schools  of  Terre  Haute, 
and  afterward  attended  some  of  the  most 
celebrated  art  institutes  of  this  country 
and  Europe.  She  was  awarded  the  Bronze 
Medal  in  the  Chicago  Exposition  in  1893, 
the  prize  medal  at  the  St.  Louis  Exposi- 
tion in  1904,  received  honorary  mention 
in  the  Salon,  Paris,  and  her  works  are 
now  exhibited  in  this  country  and  abroad. 
She  resides  in  New  York  City. 

Ira  A.  Minnick.  Twenty  years  ago  Ira 
A.  Minnick  selected  Indianapolis  as  the 
center  of  his  business  activities.  For  sev- 
eral years  he  occupied  a  very  inconspic- 
uous role,  quietly  and  industriously  per- 
forming his  duties,  but  he  has  made  a, 
steady  climb  to  the  heights  of  achievement 
and  is  now  widely  known  as  president  of 
the  National  Dry  Kiln  Company  of  that 
city. 


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1727 


He  belongs  to  a  pioneer  Indiana  family. 
His  great-grandfather  was  born  in  Ger- 
many and  founded  the  family  in  this  coun- 
try. The  first  two  generations  retained 
the  old  spelling  of  the  family  name  as  Min- 
nich.  The  grandfather  of  Ira  A.  Minnick, 
William  Minnick,  a  native  of  Virginia, 
moved  from  that  state  to  Pennsylvania  and 
then  brought  his  family  to  Wayne  County, 
Indiana,  when  this  was  one  vast  wilder- 
ness inhabited  mostly  by  Indians  and  wild 
animals.  William  Minnick  finally  located 
near  Somerset  in  Wabash  County,  where 
he  had  his  home  the  rest  of  his  life.  He 
was  the  father  of  seven  children. 

Jacob  Minnick,  father  of  Ira,  was  born 
in  Pennsylvania,  but  grew  up  in  Indiana 
in  close  touch  with  pioneer  scenes.  As  a 
boy  he  helped  denude  the  land  of  its  heavy 
growth  of  timber,  to  grub  stumps,  to  plant 
the  grain  by  hand,  to  reap  and  thresh  in 
the  old  fashioned  way,  and  thus  had  a  part 
in  making  Indiana  what  it  is  today.  He 
was  a  man  highly  esteemed  for  his  up- 
right life  and  sterling  qualities.  In  the 
latter  part  of  1840  he  located  in  Richland 
Township  of  Grant  County,  and  on  his 
farm  there  pursued  its  quiet  vocation  until 
his  death  in  May,  1900.  He  reared  his 
children  to  useful  lives  and  to  good  Amer- 
ican citizenship.  Jacob  Minnick  married 
Sarah  G.  Lawshe,  a  daughter  of  Peter 
Lawshe,  who  was  a  pioneer  Dunkard  of 
Northeastern  Indiana.  She  died  in  May, 
1909.  Jacob  Minnick  was  well  known  in 
Grant  County  in  a  public  way,  served  as 
county  commissioner  and  in  other  positions. 
He  and  his  wife  had  eight  children,  and 
the  six  to  reach  mature  years  were :  Hor- 
ace R.,  Charles  S.,  Henry  F.,  Cary  F., 
who  married  Rev.  Henry  Neff,  Amanda, 
wife  of  Oscar  E.  Haynes,  and  Ira  A. 

Ira  A.  Minnick  is  an  example  of  what 
a  young  American  can  accomplish  through 
his  own  unaided  efforts.  He  was  bom  on 
his  father's  farm  in  Grant  County,  Octo- 
ber 23,  1878,  and  there  grew  to  man's  es- 
tate. While  he  had  no  particular  liking 
for  school  work,  he  managed  to  secure 
the  foundation  of  a  practical  education  in 
spelling  and  mathematics.  In  1897,  at 
the  age  of  nineteen,  he  came  to  Indianap- 
olis as  a  student  in  a  business  college.  In 
the  fall  of  1898  soon  after  leaving  college, 
he  became  a  bookkeeper  for  the  Standard 
Dry  Kiln  Company.  While  connected 
with  that  corporation  in  the  above  capac- 


ity, he  gained  much  valuable  knowledge 
of  general  business  routine  and  a  thor- 
oughly practical  and  detailed  acquaint- 
ance with  the  dry  kiln  industry.  Then, 
in  1905,  he  became  a  salesman  for  the  Na- 
tional Dry  Kiln  Company,  and  with  that 
business  his  connection  has  since  been  con- 
tinuous. He  soon  acquired  a  stock  inter- 
est in  the  company  and  since  1914  has 
been  its  president  and  active  head. 

Mr.  Minnick  is  essentially  a  progressive 
business  man  with  modern  ideas  and  char- 
acteristic American  push.  He  is  a  Mason, 
being  a  member  of  Oriental  Lodge,  No. 
500,  Free  and  Accepted  Masons,  a  mem- 
ber of  Adoniram  Grand  Lodge  of  Perfec- 
tion of  Indianapolis,  Indiana,  has  attained 
the  thirty-second  degree  of  Scottish  Rite 
and  is  a  member  of  Murat  Temple,  An- 
cient Arabic  Order  Nobles  of  the  Mystic 
Shrine. 

June  22,  1904,  he  married  Miss  Clara 
C.  McLaughlin,  daughter  of  Thomas  Mc- 
Laughlin, of  Indianapolis.  They  have  one 
daughter,  Mary  Louise. 

Alic  J.  Lupear.  One  of  the  most  im- 
pressive and  at  the  same  time  simplest  cere- 
monies that  ever  marked  an  Independence 
Day  celebration  in  America  occurred  July 
4,  1918,  when  at  Mount  Vernon  before 
President  Wilson  and  a  host  of  visitors 
the  representatives  of  thirty-three  differ- 
ent nations  of  the  world,  but  all  Americans 
in  citizenship,  filed  before  the  tomb  of  the 
immortal  Washington  and  quietly  laid 
their  tribute  of  flowers  and  pledged  their 
loyalty  and  allegiance  to  America  and  the 
principles  and  ideals  for  which  this  coun- 
try and  its  government  have  stood. 

Of  the  thirty-three  representatives  in 
that  delegation  perhaps  none  emphasized 
more  perfectly  the  forces  and  influences 
which  mold  the  emigrant  received  from 
foreign  lands  than  the  man  who  stood  for 
the  race  of  the  Roumanian  people.  This 
Roumanian  representative  was  Alic  J.  Lu- 
pear, a  well  known  Indianapolis  lawyer 
who  had  come  to  America  from  Roumania 
about  fifteen  years  ago,  poor  and  friend- 
less, without  knowledge  of  the  English  lan- 
guage, but  has  achieved  a  place  of  success 
and  dignity  as  an  American  citizen,  and 
upon  selection  and  request  of  the  Com- 
mittee on  Public  Information,  of  which 
Mr.  George  Creel  is  chairman,  was  chosen 
to  represent  his  entire  race  at  the  historic 


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occasion  above  noted.  The  dignity  and 
honor  were  especially  appreciated  by  Mr. 
Lupear  since  it  is  estimated  that  about 
300,000  Americans  are  of  Roumanian 
race  and  ancestry,  about  25,000  of  whom 
are  in  Indiana. 

Mr.  Lupear  was  born  in  1886  in  the 
town  of  Lucia,  Roumania,  son  of  John 
and  Anna  (Buhoi)  Lupear.  When  he 
was  a  small  child  his  parents  moved  to  the 
town  of  Mercurea,  Transylvania,  which  is 
the  Roumanian  section  of  Austria-Hun- 
gary, and  there  Mr.  Lupear  grew  up  and 
attended  school.  Papers  which  he  still 
preserves,  issued  by  his  professors,  show 
that  he  made  excellent  grades  in  school. 
His  parents  were  communicants  of  the 
Greek  Orthodox  Church  and  the  son  was 
baptized  in  that  faith. 

At  the  age  of  seventeen,  in  1903,  he 
came  to  America,  first  going  to  Youngs- 
town,  Ohio,  whither  an  older  brother  had 
preceded  him.  For  about  six  months  he 
worked  in  a  rolling  mill  in  that  city.  He 
was  later  employed  in  the  Ohio  coal  mines. 
Since  1906  Mr.  Lupear  has  had  his  home 
in  Indianapolis.  The  first  day  of  his  ar- 
rival he  found  employment  as  a  laborer  on 
the  construction  of  the  New  York  Store. 
Later  for  a  time  he  was  in  the  sausage  de- 
partment of  Kingan  &  Company,  meat 
packers. 

Even  without  the  influences  which  have 
been  recently  set  in  motion  for  the  educa- 
tion and  training  of  foreign  born  residents 
for  utilization  of  the  opportunities  of 
American  citizenship,  this  young  Rouman- 
ian set  himself  seriously  to  work  to  adapt 
himself  to  American  life  and  traditions, 
and  put  himself  upon  the  plane  of  equal 
opportunity  with  those  of  native  birth 
and  parentage.  It  was  largely  an  indi- 
vidual process,  one  of  the  instruments  of 
which  was  the  night  schools  of  Indiana- 
polis, which  he  attended  altogether  for 
eight  years,  including  his  course  in  the 
Benjamin  Harrison  Law  School.  He  at- 
tended a  business  college  for  six  months. 
Through  those  schools  and  his  work  he  ac- 
quired a  thorough  knowledge  of  the  Eng- 
lish language,  so  that  when  he  was  grad- 
uated from  the  law  school  in  the  class  of 
1916  he  was  enabled  to  enter  at  once  into 
practice.  He  is  a  graceful,  and  accom- 
plished speaker  and  writer.  He  carries  on 
a  general  practice  of  law  in  the  County, 
State,  and  Federal  Courts. 


Mr.  Lupear  in  addition  to  the  signal 
honor  recently  paid,  him  was  also  one  of 
the  six  delegates  who  drew  up  the  resolu- 
tions and  eloquent  address  which  was  de- 
livered by  Felix.  J.  Streyckmans  of  Chi- 
cago, a  native  Belgium,  at  the  time  of  the 
Mount  Vernon  gathering.  Mr.  Lupear  is 
a  prominent  leader  among  his  people  for 
the  union  of  Roumanian  beneficial  socie- 
ties. He  is  one  of  the  leaders  active  in 
marshalling  the  forces  of  Roumanians  in 
America  to  aid  in  the  prosecution  of  the 
present  war  for  democracy. 

At  Chicago  October  23,  1914,  Mr.  Lu- 
pear married  Miss  Ellen  Hanes,  of  In- 
dianapolis. Mrs.  Lupear  was  born  at  Vin- 
cennes,  Indiana,  and  is  a  young  woman  of 
the  highest  attainments.  She  is  a  grad- 
uate of  the  Teachers  College  of  Indiana- 
polis and  was  at  one  time  a  kindergarten 
teacher  in  the  city  schools,  and  then  took 
up  educational  work  in  connection  with 
the  Foreigners'  House  at  617  Pearl  Street. 
She  became  prominent  in  settlement  work 
in  the  foreign  colony  of  Indianapolis,  and 
her  quiet  and  unostentatious  manner  and 
the  vital  service  which  she  rendered 
among  the  Roumanians,  Servians,  and 
Hungarians  brought  her  the  title  in  that 
quarter  of  the  city  of  "The  Little  Angel." 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Lupear  have  two  little  daugh- 
ters, Elana  Marie  and  Jannette  Frosina 
Lupear. 

Mr.  Lupear  is  a  member  of  the  Masonic 
Order  having  joined  Oriental  Lodge,  No. 
500,  Free  and  Accepted  Masons,  Oriental 
Chapter,  Royal  Arch  Masons,  Indianapolis 
Council  Royal  and  Select  Masons,  and  Ra- 
per  Commandery  No.  1,  Knights  Templar 
and  also  member  of  Murat  Temple  Ancient 
Arabic  Order  Nobles  of  the  Mystic  Shrine. 

Lewis  Meier.  Indianapolis  has  known 
two  men  by  the  name  Lewis  Meier,  father 
and  son,  and  both  of  them  have  contrib- 
uted in  notable  measure  to  the  business 
upbuilding  of  the  city. 

The  senior"  Lewis  Meier  was  one  of  the 
pioneer  manufacturers  of  garments  in  In- 
dianapolis. During  the  Civil  war  he  was 
in  the  dry  goods  business  with  William 
Buschman.  His  store  was  located  just 
north  of  where  the  Thornburg  drug  store 
now  is.  About  thirty-two  years  ago,  Mr. 
Meier  began  the  manufacture  of  overalls 
and  various  other  garments,  and  gradually 
built  up  a  business  and  extended  the  plant 


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until  its  present  successor  is  one  of  the 
large  institutions  of  the  city,  located  at 
Central  and  Fort  Wayne  avenue.  The 
products  of  this  plant  now  go  all  over  the 
world.  Its  most  familiar  output  is  the 
Auto  brand  of  overalls. 

Lewis  Meier,  Sr.,  was  born  in  Germany 
in  1841  and  died  in  February,  1901.  He 
came  to  Indianapolis  when  a  youth  of 
eighteen  and  his  first  work  here  was  in 
the  shipping  room  of  Schnull  &  Company. 
At  the  same  time  he  attended  night  school 
in  order  to  perfect  his  knowledge  of  Eng- 
lish. He  is  remembered  as  a  very  strong 
and  resourceful  man,  one  who  was,  never- 
theless, slow  to  anger,  but  when  thoroughly 
aroused  was  a  match  for  several  men  of 
ordinary  size.  During  Civil  war  times 
there  were  many  tough  characters  who 
threatened  peace  and  order.  Mr.  Meier 
had  considerable  money  about  his  prem- 
ises, concealed  there  rather  than  entrust  it 
to  the  banks,  which  were  not  so  reliable  in 
those  days  as  now.  Some  drunken  pests 
attempted  to  break  into  the  store,  and  Mr. 
Meier  met  them  on  their  own  ground  and 
after  a  brief  but  severe  conflict  routed  the 
entire  lot.  His  business  character  was 
that  of  a  sturdy,  honest  and  upright  man, 
who  had  no  great  desire  for  wealth  or  its 
accumulation,  valuing  money  merely  for 
the  benefit  it  would  bring  his  family. 

He  married  Caroline  Finke,  who  was 
born  in  Germany  and  came  with  her  par- 
ents to  America,  first  locating  at  Musca- 
tine, Iowa.  She  died  in  September,  1916, 
at  the  age  of  sixty-seven.  She  was  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Zion  Evangelical  Church.  Lewis 
Meier,  Sr.,  was  affiliated  with  the  Maen- 
nerchor,  the  Turn  Verein  and  other  Ger- 
man societies.  He  and  his  wife  had  four 
children,  Lewis,  Charlotte,  Elsie  and  Anna. 

Lewis  Meier,  Jr.,  has  been  conspicuous 
in  Indianapolis  business  affairs  as  a  meat 
packer.  Some  years  ago  he  organized  the 
Meier  Packing  Company,  of  which  he  is 
the  active  manager.  This  plant  was  for- 
merly conducted  as  the  Reiffel  Packing 
and  Provision  Company.  It  has  become  the 
instrument  of  a  large  and  extensive  busi- 
ness, and  its  products  are  sold  all  over 
Indianapolis  and  surrounding  territory. 
He  is  active  in  the  Board  of  Trade.  Mr. 
Meier  is  a  member  of  Oriental  Lodge, 
Free  and  Accepted  Masons,  of  Indianapolis, 
and  the  Scottish  Rite  bodies. 


Henry  Zwick.  Some  of  the  finest  char- 
acters in  American  life  are  often  hidden 
and  fail  to  receive  the  attention  and  the 
tributes  which  they  deserve  because  they 
never  sought  nor  attained  to  the  honors 
of  politics  and  those  positions  which  are 
popularly  considered  the  distinctions  of 
life.  One  of  these  unassuming  men  whose 
work  nevertheless  contributed  to  the  well 
being  of  humanity  and  whose  worth  is 
appreciated  by  his  many  friends  as  well 
as  by  his  family  and  descendants,  was  the 
late  Henry  Zwick  of  Indianapolis,  who  died 
in  that  city  April  7,  1916. 

He  was  born  December  23,  1836,  in  West- 
phalia, Germany,  and  had  lived  to  be  al- 
most fourscore.  He  wTas  one  of  the  five 
children  of  Henry  and  Carlotta  (Myer) 
Zwick.  His  mother  died  in  Germany  about 
the  time  he  had  completed  his  education 
in  the  common  schools.  Then  in  1851 
Henry  Zwick,  Sr.,  emigrated  alone  to  the 
United  States,  and  locating  at  Fort  Wayne, 
Indiana,  established  himself  in  his  trade 
as  a  tailor.  In  those  years  it  was  custom- 
ary for  a  tailor  to  go  from  house  to  house 
cutting  and  fitting  garments  for  his  patrons 
instead  of  having  a  shop  at  which  his  cus- 
tomers sought  him.  After  thus  getting 
established  in  business  his  two  sons,  in- 
cluding Henry,  joined  him  in  1852. 

The  late  Henry  Zwick  rapidly  took  up 
American  ways  and  proved  himself  reliant 
and  sturdy,  and  became  skilled  and  well 
versed  in  the  carpenter's  trade.  Before 
reaching  his  majority  he  came  to  Indian- 
apolis, and  many  houses  and  barns  still 
in  use  in  this  city  were  erected  by  him. 

When  the  Civil  war  came  on  he  displayed 
his  patriotism  by  offering  his  services  to 
the  government,  and  on  June  22,  1861,  was 
enrolled  in  the  Bracken  Rangers,  a  cavalry 
organization.  He  was  in  the  army  three 
years.  He  was  in  the  early  West  Virginia 
campaigns,  participating  in  the  battles  of 
Beverly,  Blue  Ridge  and  Cheat  Mountain. 
Later  he  was  captured  and  spent  five 
months  in  Libby  Prison  at  Richmond.  At 
the  end  of  his  military  career  after  receiv- 
ing his  honorable  discharge  he  participated 
in  the  Grand  Review  at  Washington. 

After  the  Civil  war  Henry  Zwick  came 
to  Indianapolis  and  for  thirty-five  conse- 
cutive years  was  employed  as  a  carpenter 
by  the  Pennsylvania  Railway  Company. 
These  long  continued   services  finally   re- 


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ceived  recognition  and  he  was  granted  a 
life  pension  and  given  an  honorable  retire- 
ment. 

Thus  Henry  Zwick  attained  no  distinc- 
tion in  letters  or  politics,  and  yet  in  the 
everyday  sphere  of  life  he  was  a  part  of 
all  that  stood  for  good  citizenship,  as  meas- 
ured by  skillful  performance  of  duty  and 
the  bearing  of  all  obligations  imposed  upon 
him.  He  lived  unostentatiously,  and  when 
his  day's  work  was  done  he  found  his 
greatest  happiness  in  the  quietude  of  his 
home  surrounded  by  those  who  knew  and 
loved  him  best.  His  counsel  and  advice 
are  cherished  in  the  hearts  of  his  descend- 
ants. 

He  married  Caroline  Vogt,  and  they  be- 
came parents  of  five  children:  Henry  F., 
Charles  F.,  Fred  C,  Caroline,  now  Mrs. 
Luther  W.  Yancey,  and  Emma.  All  are 
living  except  Emma  who  died  at  the  age 
of  five  years. 

Charles  F.  Zwick,  son  of  the  late  Henry 
Zwick,  is  one  of  Indianapolis'  prominent 
manufacturers,  and,  in  fact,  as  head  of 
the  Indianapolis  Glove  Company  is  direct- 
ing one  of  the  important  industries  of  the 
middle  west. 

He  was  born  at  Fort  Wayne,  Indiana, 
February  7,  1869,  but  from  early  child- 
hood has  lived  in  Indianapolis.  He  was 
educated  here  in  the  local  schools  and 
learned  the  machinist's  trade  with  Nor- 
dyke  &  Marmon,  and  subsequently  was 
employed  by  C.  F.  Smith,  a  pioneer  manu- 
facturer of  "Safety"  bicycles.  For  eight 
years  he  was  also  in  the  employ  of  the 
United  States  Playing  Card  Company,  at 
first  at  Indianapolis  and  later  at  Cincin- 
nati. 

For  about  a  year  Mr.  Zwick  conducted 
a  hat  store  in  Indianapolis,  and  then,  as- 
sociated with  Brodehurst  Elsey  and  M.  E. 
Reagan,  he  founded  the  Indianapolis  Glove 
Company.  For  a  year  or  so  the  industry 
was  not  sufficient  to  attract  much  atten- 
tion and  it  was  one  of  the  smallest  con- 
cerns of  its  kind.  However,  it  had  within 
it  the  possibilities  of  growth  and  it  did 
grow  under  the  efficient  direction  of  Mr. 
Zwick  and  his  associates  until  it  is  today 
one  of  the  largest  commercial  establish- 
ments of  Indianapolis.  In  1907  a  branch 
factory  was  established  at  Eaton,  Ohio,  one 
at  Zanesville,  Ohio,  in  1912,  and  in  1914 
another  branch  was  opened  at  Richmond, 
Indiana.   Today  the   corporation   in   these 


various  cities  furnishes  employment  to 
about  a  thousand  individuals.  Charles  F. 
Zwick  is  president  of  the  company,  M.  E. 
Reagan  is  vice  president,  and  Brodehurst 
Elsey  is  secretary  and  treasurer. 

Mr.  Zwick  is  a  thirty-second  degree  Scot- 
tish Rite  Mason  and  Mystic  Shriner,  and 
is  a  member  of  the  Rotary  Club  and  the 
Hoosier  Motor  Club.  He  also  belongs  to 
the  Athenaeum  and  the  Indianapolis  Cham- 
ber of  Commerce.  Mr.  Zwick  has  been 
especially  fortunate  in  his  life  companion. 
Her  maiden  name  name  was  Corinne  Free- 
man, and  they  were  married  in  1896. 

Edmund  Robert  Stilson  is  a  lawyer  by 
profession,  but  left  a  successful  practice 
in  Ohio  a  number  of  years  ago  to  engage 
in  a  special  line  of  manufacturing,  making 
costumes  and  other  paraphernalia  used  in 
fraternal  organizations.  A  few  years  ago 
Mr.  Stilson  moved  the  business  to  Ander- 
son, Indiana,  and  is  now  president  of  the 
Ward-Stilson  Company,  probably  the  larg- 
est concern  of  its  kind  in  the  state  of  In- 
diana. 

Mr.  Stilson  was  bom  in  Ruggles,  Ash- 
land County,  Ohio,  October  5,  1866,  son 
of  Frederick  H.  and  Anna  (Potter)  Stil- 
son. He  is  of  English  and  Scotch  ancestry, 
and  the  first  of  his  family  located  in  Con- 
necticut many  generations  ago.  Mr.  Stil- 
son while  a  boy  lived  on  a  farm  and  at- 
tended district  schools,  and  afterward 
graduated  from  the  high  school  of  New 
London,  Ohio.  At  the  age  of  eighteen  he 
went  to  work  to  earn  his  living  and  fol- 
lowed different  occupations,  for  two  terms 
teaching  school  in  Ruggles  Township.  Dur- 
ing the  summer  he  worked  at  wages  of 
seventy-five  cents  a  day  in  a  butter  tub 
factory,  and  walked  night  and  morning 
two  and  three  quarters  of  a  mile  between 
his  home  and  the  factory. 

For  two  years  he  diligently  applied  him- 
self to  the  study  of  law  in  the  offices  of 
Dirlew  &  Leyman  at  Mansfield,  Ohio,  and 
was  admitted  to  practice  in  1890.  During 
the  next  five  years  he  built  up  a  good 
business  as  a  lawyer  at  New  London.  The 
cause  of  his  leaving  the  legal  profession 
was  an  opportunity  which  he  and  his 
brother-in-law,  C.  E.  Ward,  accepted  at 
New  London  to  buy  a  previously  estab- 
lished regalia  business.  They  acquired  this 
in  1895,  and  continued  it  under  the  name 
Ward  &  Stilson.    At  that  time  thev  manu- 


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factured  robes,  collars  and  other  regalia 
used  by  the  Junior  Order  of  United  Amer- 
ican Mechanics.  In  1905  Mr.  Stilson  ac- 
quired the  other  interest  of  the  business  at 
New  London  and  incorporated  as  the  Ward- 
Stilson  Company,  with  himself  as  pres- 
ident. Business  was  conducted  with  a  satis- 
fying degree  of  prosperity  at  New  London 
until  1913,  when  it  was  moved  to  Ander- 
son. 

Here  the  industrj^  has  assumed  much 
wider  proportions  and  is  a  general  costume 
regalia  and  uniform  manufacturing  estab- 
lishment, employing  250  work  people  and 
now  handling  some  large  and  important 
contracts  from  the  government  for  uni- 
forms. The  company  still  puts  out  a  large 
line  of  regular  and  costume  work  in  the 
line  of  regalia,  paraphernalia  and  costumes 
for  secret  societies  and  ceremonial  pur- 
poses. Three  or  four  buildings  are  oc- 
cupied by  the  various  branches  of  the  busi- 
ness at  Anderson. 

In  1893  Mr.  Stilson  married  Rose  C. 
Ward,  daughter  of  Jacob  "Ward  of  New 
London,  Ohio.  She  died  in  1905  leaving 
one  child,  Ward  K.  Stilson,  who  was  born 
in  1896.  In  1907  Mr.  Stilson  married 
Victoria  Sackett,  daughter  of  Justice  H. 
and  Irene  (Beach)  Sackett,  of  New  Lon- 
don. Mr.  Stilson  is  a  republican  in  politics. 

Franklin  R.  Carson,  present  mayor  of 
South  Bend,  is  one  of  the  veteran  members 
of  the  dental  profession,  and  has  been  an 
interested  student  and  practitioner  of  his 
calling  for  thirty-five  years. 

He  was  born  at  Kewanee,  Henry  County, 
Illinois,  in  1861,  son  of  Hugh  G.  and  Bmiiy 
(Doty)  Carson.  His  father  was  one  of 
the  very  successful  citizens  of  central  Illi- 
nois, a  farmer  and  stock  raiser  and  also 
a  banker.  He  died  at  Kewanee  at  the  age 
of  eighty-five  and  his  wife  at  eighty. 

Franklin  R.  Carson,  one  of  their  seven 
children,  attended  the  public  schools  of 
Kewanee  and  in  1884  took  his  degree  from 
the  dental  school  of  the  University  of  Mich- 
igan. For  a  short  time  he  practiced  at 
Shenandoah,  Iowa,  one  year  in  Kewanee 
and  then  joined  the  ranks  of  his  profession 
in  LaPorte,  Indiana.  In  1898  Doctor  Car- 
son moved  to  South  Bend,  and  for  the 
past  twenty  years  has  had  a  busy  practice 
in  that  city. 

So  far  as  professional  responsibilities 
would  permit  he  has  always  been  interested 


in  city  affairs.  While  in  LaPorte  he  served 
four  years  as  mayor,  and  he  was  elected 
mayor  of  South  Bend  for  the  term  of  four 
years  beginning  January  1,  1918.  Since 
college  days  he  has  been  interested  in  ath- 
letics. For  ten  years  he  was  a  member  of 
the  National  Board  of  Arbitration,  a  mem- 
ber of  the  South  Bend  Chamber  of  Com- 
merce, of  the  Kiwanis  Club,  of  the  South 
Bend  Country  Club  and  is  a  member  of 
the  Masonic  fraternity. 

In  1882  Doctor  Carson  married  Carrie 
Belle  Rogers,  a  native  of  LaPorte  and  a 
daughter  of  Joshua  R.  and  Louisa  A.  Rog- 
ers. The  only  son  of  Doctor  Carson  is 
Capt.  Clark  R.  Carson,  who  was  captain 
of  Battery  A  in  the  One  Hundred  and 
Thirty-Seventh  Field  Artillery  in  the 
World  War.  Since  leaving  the  army  he 
has  been  engaged  in  the  dental  supplies 
business. 

James  H.  Taylor,  M.  D.  For  nearly 
forty  years  a  resident  physician  and  sur- 
geon at  Indianapolis,  Doctor  Taylor's  posi- 
tion as  a  citizen  of  the  state  rests  upon  a 
long  and  successful  professional  career  and 
also  through  notable  humanitarian  serv- 
ices rendered  partly  through  his  profes- 
sion and  partly  as  a  citizen  and  well  wisher 
of  mankind.  It  is  indicative  of  the  gen- 
eral esteem  that  he  enjoys  in  his  home  city 
that  he  is  now  serving  as  president  of  the 
Indianapolis  Board  of  Trade,  an  office  to 
which  he  was  chosen  at  the  last  annual 
election. 

Doctor  Taylor  has  been  identified  as  a 
founder  of  and  one  of  the  most  constant 
workers  in  the  noted  summer  missions  for 
sick  children.  His  prominence  in  that 
work  makes  this  an  appropriate  place  in 
which  to  consider  the  history  of  the  mis- 
sion and  its  work,  than  which  nothing  is 
more  worthy  of  a  place  in  this  publication. 

The  Indianapolis  Summer  Mission  for 
Sick  Children,  of  which  Doctor  Taylor  is 
now  president,  began  its  work  in  1890. 
For  over  a  quarter  of  a  century  this  mis- 
sion has  fulfilled  its  purpose  of  affording 
an  ideal  summer  home  and  proper  care 
and  environment  for  sick  babies,  and  also 
has  been  conducted  as  a  sort  of  intensive 
training  school  for  mothers,  who  have  fre- 
quently needed  care  as  much  as  their 
babies.  This  mission  was  one  of  the  first 
to  put  into  concrete  practice  the  fact  long 
known   to   the   medical  profession    of  the 


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close  relationship  and  mutual  dependence 
between  the  welfare  of  the  mother  and 
her  child.  Thus  besides  furnishing  fresh 
air,  sunshine,  careful  nursing,  regulated 
diet  for  the  infant,  the  mission  has  fur- 
nished similar  facilities  to  the  mother,  and 
has  instructed  her  in  methods  of  how  to 
care  for  her  baby,  and  this  instruction  of 
itself  has  doubtless  borne  a  continually 
accumulating  fruit  in  the  better  educa- 
tion of  mothers  as  to  their  responsibilities. 
The  first  suggestion  as  to  such  an  insti- 
tution as  the  Summer  Mission  is  said  to 
have  been  given  by  John  H.  Holliday  in 
an  editorial  he  wrote  for  the  Indianapolis 
News,  of  which  he  Was  then  editor.  It 
was  a  suggestion  originating  from  his  own 
experience  in  watching  his  sick  child  toss 
about  in  illness  in  his  own  comfortable 
and  liberally  provided  home,  a  condition 
which  contrasted  in  his  fertile  mind  with 
what  he  knew  sick  babies  must  be  suffer- 
ing in  the  restricted  environment  of  poorer 
districts.  The  editorial  was  put  to  good 
use  and  served  as  an  inspiration  to  Rev. 
Oscar  C.  McCullogh,  then  pastor  of  Ply- 
mouth Church  and  president  of  the  Char- 
ity Organization  Society.  After  confer- 
ring with  Mr.  Holliday  Rev.  Mr.  McCul- 
logh brought  about  an  organization,  and 
a  committee  was  appointed  to  make  inves- 
tigation and  report.  In  an  address  which 
he  made  some  time  ago  before  a  charitable 
organization  of  Indianapolis,  Doctor  Tay- 
lor described  what  this  committee  did  and 
how  the  first  summer  mission  was  opened 
on  July  14,  1890:  "Twenty-five  years  ago 
in  company  with  the  Rev.  Oscar  C.  Mc- 
Cullogh I  made  my  first  visit  to  this  place 
now  known  as  the  Summer  Mission.  It 
was  filled  with  tall  grass,  weeds,  rocks, 
limbs  from  dead  trees,  dead  leaves,  all  of 
which  reminded  one  of  the  wild  and  wooly 
west.  We  were  in  search  of  a  summer 
home  for  the  child  of  the  tenement.  'This 
is  ideal,'  said  Dr.  McCullogh  'and  I 
wish  it  were  possible  to  leave  these  dead 
limbs,  their  snapping  noise  under  our  feet 
is  a  song  of  nature.'  Our  recommenda- 
tion of  this  site  was  approved  and  for  a 
quarter  of  a  century  the  Summer  Mission 
has  sheltered  and  cared  for  thousands  of 
sick  babies  and  tired  and  worn  out  moth- 
ers. The  fresh  air,  the  restful  environ- 
ment among  the  trees,  the  well  selected 
diet,  the  tender  care  of  a  trained  nurse, 
the  daily  medical  observation,  the  whole- 


some advice,  sympathetic  aid  and  ma- 
ternal influence  so  carefully  bestowed  by 
the  visiting  committees — all  combined — 
have  made  thousands  comfortable  and 
happy  and  have  saved  the  lives  of  many." 

The  first  season  of  its  work  proved  so 
beneficial  that  it  was  decided  to  continue 
the  camp  through  succeeding  summers. 
Mr.  McCullogh  died  a  few  years  later  and 
then  Charles  S.  Grout,  secretary  of  the 
Charity  Organization  Society,  conceived 
the  plan  of  erecting  permanent  buildings 
on  the  grounds.  The  first  building  was 
erected  during  the  summer  following  the 
founder's  death  and  was  named  "The  Mc- 
Cullogh Cottage"  in  his  memory.  Other 
permanent  buildings  sprang  up,  some 
built  by  clubs  and  societies  and  some 
erected  as  memorials  to  departed  loved 
ones.  A  generous  bequest  by  A.  Burdsal 
made  possible  the  erection  of  a  modern  dis- 
pensary. Thomas  H.  Spann  erected  a  day 
nursery  in  memory  of  his  little  grand- 
daughter. 

The  work  of  the  Mission  is  dependent 
upon  the  generosity  of  the  citizens  of  In- 
dianapolis, but  there  has  never  been  a  year 
when  its  friends  have  failed  to  respond 
loyally  to  its  needs  and  keep  the  work  go- 
ing. Even  the  panic  of  1907-08  proved 
a  real  boon  to  the  Summer  Mission.  Work 
was  needed  for  hundreds  of  unemployed 
men,  many  of  whom  were  mechanics,  and 
employment  was  given  in  making  concrete 
blocks  and  building  Mission  homes.  The 
large  dining  room,  laundry,  bath  house, 
and  a  number  of  other  buildings  are  mon- 
uments to  the  unemployed  of  that  winter. 

Dr.  James  H.  Taylor  comes  of  an  old 
and  patriotic  American  family.  His  great- 
grandfather, Col.  David  Taylor,  com- 
manded a  regiment  in  the  war  of  the  Rev- 
olution and  was  a  personal  friend  of.  Gen- 
eral Washington.  Doctor  Taylor's  father 
wa-s  James  Taylor,  who  was  born  in  Jef- 
ferson County,  Kentucky,  January  14, 
1822,  and  at  the  age  of  nineteen  accom- 
panied his  parents  to  Washington  County, 
Indiana,  where  as  he  grew  up  on  a  farm 
he  learned  the  carpenter's  trade.  At  the 
age  of  twenty-one  he  located  at  Salem,  In- 
diana, and  subsequently  became  manager 
of  a  dry  goods  store  of  Bryantville  in 
Lawrence  County.  There  he  married,  De- 
cember 20,  1849^  Miss  Susan  Mahala  Wil- 
liamson. She  was  a  native  of  Indiana, 
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and  Mrs.  (Martin)  Williamson.  The  lat- 
ter was  a  granddaughter  of  one  of  the 
Earls  of  Warwick,  England,  one  of  the 
most  celebrated  lines  of  nobility  in  Great 
Britain.  A  brother  of  James  Taylor, 
Washington  Taylor,  was  a  surgeon  in  the 
Confederate  army  during  the  war  between 
the  states,  and  practiced  his  profession  in 
the  South  for  forty  years. 

In  1851  James  Taylor  and  wife  removed 
to  Greencastle,  Indiana,  where  he  contin- 
ued in  business  as  a  dry  goods  merchant 
until  1885,  and  remained  in  that  city  re- 
tired the  rest  of  his  years.  He  and  his 
wife  were  active  in  the  Methodist  Episco- 
pal Church  and  were  liberal  contributors 
to  church  and  charity  and  also  to  the  sup- 
port of  Asbury,  now  DePauw,  University. 

Dr.  James  Henry  Taylor  was  born  at 
Greencastle  November  15,  1852.  He  was 
educated  in  the  public  schools,  under  pri- 
vate tutors,  and  for  a  year  in  the  Ohio 
Wesleyan  University  at  Delaware.  He 
graduated  A.  B.  from  DePauw  University 
and  in  1881  received  the  degree  Master  of 
Arts  from  that  institution.  Beginning  the 
study  of  medicine  under  Doctors  Ellis  and 
Smythe  at  Greencastle,  he  finished  his 
course  in  1878  at  the  Indiana  Medical  Col- 
lege at  Indianapolis  and  at  once  .began 
practice  in  the  capital  city.  The  Indiana 
Medical  College  is  now  the  Indiana  Uni- 
versity School  of  Medicine. 

Always  enjoying  a  large  private  practice, 
Doctor  Taylor  has  at  the  same  time  been 
one  of  the  most  devoted  workers  in  behalf 
of  medical  organizations  and  as  a  medical 
teacher.  Many  capable  medical  men  re- 
member him  kindly  for  his  active  connec- 
tions with  the  Medical  College  of  Indiana. 
He  served  as  demonstrator  of  anatomy 
from  1884  to  1889,  was  elected  to  the  chair 
of  diseases  of  children  in  1889,  and  that 
position  he  now  holds  in  the  Indiana  Uni- 
versity School  of  Medicine.  He  was  as- 
sistant demonstrator  of  anatomy  in  the 
Medical  College  of  Indiana  from  1880  to 
1884.  He  has  presided  over  many  dispen- 
sary and  hospital  clinics  and  is  active 
in  the  Indiana  Medical  Society,  and  the 
Indiana  and  American  Medical  associa- 
tions. In  1880,  the  year  the  office  was 
created,  he  was  appointed  medical  exam- 
iner in  chief  of  Endowment  Rank,  Knights 
of  Pythias  of  the  World.  He  is  also  a 
thirty-second  degree  Scottish  Rite  Mason, 


and  is  a  member  of  the  First  Presbyterian 
Church  of  Indianapolis. 

During  1888-89  Doctor  Taylor  was  a 
member  of  the  Board  of  Aldermen  of  In- 
dianapolis, and  is  a  member  of  the  National 
Council  of  the  National  Chamber  of  Com- 
merce of  the  United  States  of  America, 
representing  the  Indianapolis  Board  of 
Trade.  He  was  one  of  the  organizers  and 
president  of  the  Arsenal  Building  and 
Loan  Association — a  million  dollar  con- 
cern. While  not  a  veteran  himself,  Doc- 
tor Taylor  has  alwa}rs  had  a  warm  spot  in 
his  heart  for  the  old  soldiers  of  the  Civil 
war,  and  on  numberless  occasions  has  sac- 
rificed his  personal  interests  for  their  wel- 
fare and  in  order  to  preserve  the  memory 
of  their  deeds  and  hardships.  During  the 
Great  World  War  Doctor  Taylor  was  ap- 
pointed medical  examiner  for  Trial  Board 
for  Division  4,  and  examined  nearly  1,000 
conscripts. 

Doctor  Taylor  married  September  13, 
1880,  Miss  Lelia  E.  Kern.  Her  father,  the 
late  David  G.  Kern,  was  for  many  years  in 
the  drug  business  at  Milton,  Wayne 
County,  Indiana.  The  two  children  of 
Doctor  and  Mrs.  Taylor  are  Margaret  Ann 
and  John  Moore,  the  former  a  teacher, 
who  resigned  her  position  in  the  profes- 
sion at  Tutor  Hall  to  accept  the  office  of 
manager  of  Jumble  Inn  at  13  West  39th 
Street,  New  York  City.  This  is  a  war  re- 
lief for  stage  women.  She  has  done  much 
in  a  philanthropic  way  and  is  very  patriotic. 
The  son  is  a  student  of  medicine. 

Harvey  Washington  Wiley,  the  cele- 
brated chemist,  is  identified  with  Indiana 
through  ties  of  birth  and  early  associations, 
and  the  work  which  he  has  so  splendidly 
carried  forward  was  begun  in  the  State  of 
Indiana.  He  was  born  at  Kent,  Indiana, 
October  18,  1844,  a  son  of  Preston  P.  and 
Lucinda  Weir  (Maxwell)  Wiley.  In  1867 
he  received  the  degree  A.  B.  from  Hano- 
ver, Indiana,  College,  and  that  of  A.  M. 
in  1870,  received  his  M.  D.  degree  from 
the  Indiana  Medical  College  in  1871,  B.  S. 
from  Harvard  in  1873,  also  the  honorary 
Ph.  D.  from  Hanover,  1876,  LL.  D.  in 
1898,  LL.  D.  from  the  University  of  Ver- 
mont, 1911,  D.  SC.,  Lafayette,  1912. 

Doctor  Wiley  since  entering  upon  the 
active  work  of  his  profession  has  won  re- 
nown as  a  chemist  in  both  America  and 


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Europe.     His  name  is  also  prominent  be- 
fore the  public  as  an  author. 

Felix  T.  McWhirter,  Ph.  D.  (Written 
by  Susan  McWhirter  Ostrom.)  Dr.  Fe- 
lix T.  McWhirter,  of  Indianapolis,  gave 
his  best  efforts  to  the  national  prohibition 
movement.  The  breadth  of  his  vision  con- 
cerning the  needs  of  humanity,  especially 
as  affected  by  the  liquor  traffic,  led  him 
early  to  espouse  the  then  very  unpopular 
prohibition  party,  of  which  he  was  a  lead- 
ing figure  and  staunch  supporter  until 
death.  He  bore  the  ridicule,  ostracism, 
and  even  in  a  few  instances  the  insulting 
remarks  from  the  pulpit  which  were  occa- 
sioned by  his  prohibition  principles  with 
the  same  fortitude  and  patience  and  faith 
in  victory  of  the  cause  which  his  ancestors 
had  manifested  in  the  various  persecutions 
which  they  had  suffered  for  the  cause  of 
religious  freedom  and  for  the  cause  of 
abolition  of  slavery. 

Felix  T.  McWhorter  was  born  at  Lynch- 
burg, Tennessee,  July  17,  1853,  and  died 
at  his  home  in  Indianapolis  June  5,  1915, 
at  the  age  of  sixty-two.  He  was  a  son  of 
Dr.  Samuel  H.  and  Nancy  C.  (Tyree)  Mc- 
Whirter. He  received  his  early  education 
from  his  mother  who  tutored  him  until  he 
was  ready  to  enter  the  academy.  He  re- 
ceived his  A.  B.  degree  from  the  East  Ten- 
nessee Wesleyan  University  (now  Grant 
Memorial)  in  1873  and  in  1876  took  his 
Master's  degree.  From  1872-76  he  was 
editor  of  the  "Athens  News"  and  from 
1877-78  he  was  mayor  of  Athens,  Tennes- 
see. In  the  year  1885-86  he  took  his  post- 
graduate work  in  Johns  Hopkins  Univer- 
sity, and  after  subsequent  work  in  De- 
Pauw  University  he  received  his  degree  of 
Doctor  of  Philosophy  from  the  latter  in- 
stitution. From  1886-87  he  was  instruc- 
tor in  rhetoric  and  English  literature  in 
DePauw  University  and  from  1887-88  he 
was  associate  professor  of  English  litera- 
ture. Resigning  from  the  faculty  of  De- 
Pauw University,  Doctor  McWhirter  moved 
to  Chattanooga,  Tennessee,  where  he  be- 
came the  owner  and  editor  of  the  "Chatta- 
nooga Advocate,"  which  paper  is  now 
owned  and  edited  by  the  Methodist  Epis- 
copal Church.  Later,  having  sold  the 
paper,  he  moved  to  Indianapolis,  Indiana, 
to  begin  work  in  mercantile  lines  in  con- 
nection with  a  large  wholesale  house. 
Later  he  established  his  own  business  in 


1901  in  Indianapolis  real  estate  and  related 
lines.  As  a  real  estate  man  he  was  well 
known  and  he  became  an  expert  in  ap- 
praising property.  He  was  largely  re- 
sponsible for  the  selection  of  the  site  of  the 
Robert  W.  Long  Hospital.  His  financial 
success  in  real  estate  was  sufficient  to  war- 
rant his  founding  the  Peoples  State  Bank 
in  Indianapolis  in  1900.  Of  this  institu- 
tion, which  is  the  oldest  state  bank  in 
Marion  County,  he  was  the  first  and  only 
president  until  his  death,  when  his  son 
Felix  M.  McWhirter  succeeded  him  as 
president.  He  was  also  the  first  treasurer 
of  the  Ostrom  Realty  Company,  which  office 
he  held  at  the  time  of  his  death. 

Dr.  McWhirter  assisted  in  founding  the 
Children's  Home  Finding  Society  of  In- 
diana and  was  vice  president  of  the  organ- 
ization. He  was  a  consistent  and  faithful 
attendant  of  Central  Avenue  Methodist 
Episcopal  Church ;  a  member  of  the  In- 
dianapolis Chamber  of  Commerce ;  a  mem- 
ber of  the  DePauw  chapter  of  Delta  Kappa 
Epsilon  fraternity;  and  he  was  also  a  Ma- 
son. But  it  was  in  the  temperance  move- 
ment and  in  the  prohibition  party  that 
Felix  T.  McWhirter  achieved  a  national 
reputation.  He  served  the  party  as  In- 
diana state  chairman  from  1892-98.  At 
the  noted  Pittsburg  National  Prohibition 
Convention  in  1896  out  of  four  hundred 
representative  men  he  was  one  of  the 
twelve  selected  to  debate  the  "Silver  Is- 
sue." He  took  the  negative  and  spoke 
with  power.  For  sixteen  years  he  was  a 
member  of  the  national  committee  of  the 
prohibition  party,  serving  most  of  the  time 
as  national  treasurer.  In  1904,  as  candi- 
date for  governor  of  Indiana  on  the  pro- 
hibition ticket,  he  with  others  campaigned 
the  state,  speaking  in  every  town  of  any 
size  in  Indiana,  with  the  result  that  his 
party's  vote  was  trebled. 

Mr.  McWhirter 's  ability  as  an  analyti- 
cal thinker  and  a  forceful  public  speaker 
gained  for  his  utterances  wide  publicity. 
With  his  command  of  the  English  lan- 
guage, his  keen  insight  into  political  af- 
fairs, his  own  unassailable  integrity,  his 
distinguished  bearing,  he  was  both  elo- 
quent and  convincing.  He  was  one  of  the 
first  leaders  in  the  prohibition  movement 
to  explain  and  to  emphasize  the  economic 
side  of  the  liquor  question  as  opposed  to 
the  purely  moral  or  sentimental  side.  Be- 
sides using  his  power  as  a  public  speaker 


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and  debater  he  wielded  a  big  influence 
with  his  pen,  writing  many  articles  for 
the  public  press,  periodicals  and  for  leaf- 
lets published  by  various  organizations. 
Among  his  old  associates  at  the  several 
universities  with  which  he  had  been  con- 
nected and  among  his  more  intimate 
friends  he  was  regarded  as  an  authority 
on  literature  and  rhetoric,  and  was  a  mem- 
ber of  a  close  literary  coterie  containing 
the  most  brilliant  lights  of  Indiana  liter- 
ary men  and  women.  Reading  was  one 
of  his  chief  delights,  and  he  was  author 
of  several  unpublished  books  and  com- 
mentaries on  literary  subjects.  Like  many 
students  of  literature,  he  knew  the  Bible. 
To  the  end  of  his  life  he  maintained  a 
deep  interest  in  DePauw  University  and 
for  ten  years  served  as  secretary  of  the 
board  of  trustees.  He  sent  his  four  chil- 
dren, Luella,  Ethel,  Felix,  and  Susan, 
there  to  be  educated. 

Of  the  business  career  of  Felix  T.  Mc- 
Whirter  much  could  be  said  of  the  many 
instances  where  he  helped  the  young  man 
to  save  his  first  dollar  or  to  buy  his  first 
piece  of  property ;  or  of  the  widows  whom 
he  assisted  in  saving  their  homes  or  in 
making  wise  investments ;  of  the  business 
men  he  tided  over  stringent  times  by  loan- 
ing them  money.  In  writing  of  him  his 
associates  say:  "He  measured  his  every 
act  by  the  rule  of  his  own  conscience,  and 
having  the  highest  of  ideals  and  a  fine 
sense  of  honor  his  treatment  of  those  who 
entrusted  their  affairs  and  earnings  to  his 
care  were  sure  to  profit  to  the  highest  de- 
gree. He  was  the  embodiment  of  honor 
and  integrity.  To  say  of  him  that  he  was 
an  ideal  citizen  in  every  sense  that  the 
term  implies  is  to  attribute  to  him  the 
highest  compliment  we  can  conceive."  In 
public  utterance  Dr.  John  P.  D.  John  paid 
this  tribute  to  Felix  T.  McWhirter :  "With 
his  vast  ability  as  a  scholar,  a  thinker,  a 
public  speaker,  both  in  debate  and  formal 
oration,  and  his  unquestioned  power  as  a 
leader,  he  could  easily  have  swept  into  high 
positions  in  the  political  world  if  he  had 
been  willing  to  stifle  his  convictions"  (re- 
ferring to  his  prohibition  convictions). 

Bv  his  marriage  November  18.  1878,  to 
Luella  Frances  Smith,  Doctor  •  McWhirter 
found  a  noble  companion  and  a  wise  coun- 
sellor in  all  the  activities  and  tastes  which 
adorned  his  useful  career,  for  his  wife  has 
long  been  a  prominent  temperance  worker, 


serving  for  many  years  as  president  of 
the  Indiana  Woman's  Christian  Temper- 
ance Union  and  also  as  editor  of  The  Mes- 
sage, the  state  official  organ.  She  also  is 
a  gifted  public  speaker.  She  was  presi- 
dent of  the  Indiana  Federation  of  Clubs, 
1911-13,  and  at  the  same  time  a  director 
of  the  Woman's  Council  of  Indiana 
Women,  of  which  she  was  the  second  pres- 
ident, serving  during  the  1917  legislature 
which  voted  Indiana  dry.  Mrs.  McWhir- 
ter is  the  founder  of  the  Woman's  Depart- 
ment Club  of  Indianapolis  and  a  member 
of  the  Daughters  of  the  American  Revo- 
lution and  many  others  organizations. 
She  is  the  director  from  Indiana  on  the 
bonrd  of  the  General  Federation  of  Wom- 
en's Clubs. 

Lemuel  Ertus  Slack.  Just  twenty 
years  ago  Lemuel  Ertus  Slack  was  qualified 
to  practice  in  Indiana  and  essayed  his  first 
modest  efforts  at  earning  a  fee  from  his 
clients.  Two  decades  have  sufficed  for  the 
evolution  and  development  of  his  charac- 
ter, abilities,  influence  and  reputation,  and 
there  are  none  who  would  dispute  the  as- 
sertion that  he  is  today  one  of  the  best 
qualified  lawyers  in  Indiana  and  one  of 
the  best  known  of  its  public  men.  Mr. 
Slack  is  now  United  States  district  attor- 
ney for  Indiana. 

He  was  born  on  a  farm  in  Johnson 
County,  Indiana,  October  8,  1874.  He 
was  one  of  five  children.  His  parents 
were  Elisha  0.  and  Nancy  A.  (Teeters) 
Slack.  His  father,  a  carpenter  by  trade, 
was  in  moderate  circumstances  and  unable 
to  give  his  children  educational  opportun- 
ities beyond  those  of  the  public  schools. 
This  was  perhaps  fortunate  since  the  pres- 
ent district  attorney  had  to  devise  means 
of  his  own  to  secure  the  higher  education 
which  he  coveted,  and  the  opportunities 
which  he  made  stepping  stones  into  the 
legal  profession  were  largely  of  his  own 
creation.  As  a  boy  he  learned  the  black- 
smith's trade,  and  when  he  was  not  stand- 
ing by  the  anvil  he  was  studying  law. 
His  surplus  capital  grew  very  slowly,  but 
in  1896  he  was  able  to  enter  the  senior 
class  of  the  Indiana  Law  School  at  Indian- 
apolis, and  graduated  LL.  B.  in  1897. 

Returning  to  Franklin,  he  opened  his 
office  and  in  a  short  time  had  a  good  clien- 
tage. Soon  after  his  admission  to  the  bar 
he  was  appointed  deputy  prosecuting  at- 


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torney  of  Johnson  County  and  eighteen 
months  later  became  county  attorney.  He 
served  Johnson  County  in  that  capacity 
for  six  years.  In  1901  he  was  elected  to 
the  Lower  House  of  the  State  Legislature, 
serving  through  the  session  of  1903,  when 
he  received  the  complimentary  vote  of  his 
party  for  speaker.  He  was  elected  and 
served  as  a  member  of  the  State  Senate 
in  1905  and  1907.  While  in  the  Legisla- 
ture Mr.  Slack  attracted  wide  attention  be- 
cause of  his  progressiveness  and  became  a 
leader  of  that  element  of  his  party  in  the 
state.  His  popularity  and  strength  made 
him  a  formidable  candidate  in  1908  for  the 
nomination  for  governor  of  Indiana,  and 
he  yielded  that  honor  to  Hon.  Thomas  R. 
Marshall  by  only  thirty  votes.  In  1909 
Mr.  Slack  extended  his  acquaintance  among 
the  people  of  the  state,  and  attracted  fur- 
ther favorable  attention  during  his  cam- 
paign for  the  office  of  United  States  sen- 
ator. The  successful  candidate  that  year 
was  the  late  B.  F.  Shively  of  South  Bend. 

Even  before  he  attained  his  majority  Mr. 
Slack  showed  an  inclination  and  a  profi- 
ciency for  polities  and  public  affairs.  Thus 
the  foundation  of  his  public  career  was  laid 
even  before  he  was  qualified  for  admis- 
sion to  the  bar.  For  a  time  he  was  a  mem- 
ber of  the  board  of  control  of  the  Central 
Insane  Asylum.  Since  1913  Mr.  Slack  ha 
lived  at  Indianapolis,  and  in  1916  he  was 
appointed  United  States  district  attorney 
for  the  state. 

In  religious  belief  he  is  a  Christian  Sci- 
entist, and  is  a  democrat  in  all  that  na: 
implies.  He  has  attained  the  thirty-second 
degree  of  Scottish  Rite  in  Masonry,  also 
the  order  of  Knights  Templar  in  the  York 
Rite,  has  served  as  Eminent  Commander 
of  Franklin  Commandery  No.  23,  Knights 
Templars,  and  is  a  member  of  the  Mystic 
Shrine.  He  also  belongs  to  the  Independ- 
ent Order  of  Odd  Fellows  and  Knights  of 
Pythias.  October  31,  1897,  he  married  Miss 
Mary  Shields,  of  Columbus,  Indiana. 
Their  only  child  died  in  infancy. 

Herman  Lieber  was  born  in  the  famous 
City  of  Duesseldorf,  Germany,  August  23, 
1832,  came  to  Indianapolis  in  1854,  was  a 
resident  of  the  city  over  half  a  century, 
and  died  March  22,  1908,  while  on  a  pleas- 
ure journey  to  California. 

In  addition  to  building  up  a  large  and 
successful  business  the  activities  and  the 


influences  which  made  Herman  Lieber  so 
greatly  esteemed  and  beloved  in  Indian- 
apolis were  concisely  summarized  by  the 
Indianapolis  News  editorially  at  the  time 
of  his  death  in  the  following  words: 
"While  he  never  had  any  desire  to  serve 
the  city  or  state  in  an  official  capacity 
he  was  long  recognized  as  a  force  in  this 
community  in  all  that  tended  to  build  up 
and  strengthen  good  citizenship.  His 
ideals  of  civic  righteousness  were  high  but 
always  practical,  and  he  was  ever  ready 
to  give  his  best  efforts  in  any  cause  that 
appealed  to  him  on  the  score  of  community 
interests.  Though  a  quiet  man,  cool  and 
collected  in  manner,  he  had  deep  sensibili- 
ties, and  when  these  were  stirred  he  was 
at  his  best.  He  delighted  in  a  good  fight. 
When  the  sixty-cent  gas  movement  began 
he  was  again  at  the  front,  and  to  no  one 
man  was  the  success  of  that  movement  due 
as  much  as  to  Herman  Lieber.  He  was 
perhaps  best  known,  especially  among  the 
German  citizens  of  Indianapolis,  by  the 
name  that  had  been  lovingly  given  him  by 
his  associates,  'the  father  of  the  German 
House. '  ' '  His  father  was  a  manufacturer 
of  brushes  in  the  City  of  Duesseldorf  and 
also  an  honored  citizen  of  that  community. 
Herman  Lieber  was  well  educated,  finish- 
ing in  a  typical  German  Gymnasium  or 
College.  The  events  of  the  German  revolu- 
tion of  1848  did  not  pass  without  making 
a  strong  impression  upon  his  youthful 
mind,  and  it  especially  affected  him  be- 
cause of  the  prominence  which  America 
assumed  soon  afterward  as  a  haven  of 
refuge  for  so  many  thousands  of  the  high 
class  Germans  who  left  their  fatherland  at 
that  time.  In  1853  Herman  Lieber  also 
came  to  America.  He  brought  with  him 
the  knowledge  gained  by  a  thorough  ap- 
prenticeship at  the  trade  of  bookbinding. 
Unable  to  find  work  in  that  line  at  New 
York  City  he  answered  an  advertisement 
which  took  him  to  Cincinnati,  and  was 
there  employed  at  $7  a  week  as  bookbinder 
and  maker  of  pocket  books.  It  was  a  time 
of  general  business  depression,  and  his 
earnings  were  so  meager  that  he  was  finally 
obliged  to  acknowledge  his  necessities  to 
his  uncle.  In  response  his  uncle  sent  him 
$600.  With  this  capital  he  came  to  In- 
dianapolis in  1854  for  the  purpose  of  set- 
ting up  in  business  for  himself. 

Renting  a  small  room  14  by  25  feet  on 
the  south  side  of  Washington  Street,  just 


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east  of  Meridian,  at  $14  a  month,  he  set 
up  with  a  stock  of  stationery,  and  also  set 
aside  one  part  of  the  room  as  a  shop  for 
the  binding  of  books. 

He  once  described  his  business  start  at 
Indianapolis  in  the  following  words :  "I 
spent  $96  of  my  capital  in  tools.  Then  I 
bought  some  shelving  and  applied  the  bal- 
ance to  purchasing  a  stock  of  stationery. 
Although  I  had  lived  in  Cincinnati  but  a 
short  time,  I  found  I  had  more  credit  than 
money,  and  I  purchased  there  a  stock  cost- 
ing about  $2,000,  giving  notes  due  in  six 
months  for  the  principal  part  of  the  pur- 
chase price.  Two  months  before  the  notes 
came  due  I  knew  I  could  not  pay  them, 
and  when  they  matured  I  wrote  to  my 
creditors  stating  that  I  was  unable  to  pay 
the  notes  but  would  return  the  goods. 
They  replied  that  they  did  not  want  the 
goods  but  that  I  could  have  all  the  time  I 
desired  to  pay  the  notes.  The  receipts  in 
my  store  were  very  meager  in  the  early 
days.  If  I  had  from  $1.50  to  $2  of  gross 
receipts  in  the  drawer  at  night  I  felt  that 
I  wasn't  doing  badly.  My  revenue  was 
chiefly  from  the  book  binding  branch  of  my 
business.  I  slept  in  my  store  and  took 
my  meals  at  a  boarding  house  kept  by  Mrs. 
Walk,  mother  of  Julius  Walk.  The  board 
was  excellent  at  $2.50  a  week." 

With  all  his  trials  and  discouragements 
Mr.  Lieber  stuck  to  his  business.  After  a 
time  he  introduced  a  stock  of  pictures,  and 
was  the  pioneer  in  establishing  an  art  busi- 
ness at  Indianapolis  when  its  population 
was  only  12,000.  But  from  a  financial 
standpoint  he  scored  his  first  important 
success  when  he  began  the  manufacture  of 
picture  frames  and  moldings.  This  busi- 
ness, beginning  in  a  small  way,  developed 
until  it  utilized  a  large  plant,  and  the  pic- 
ture frame  factory  together  with  the  art 
store  were  incorporated  in  1892  under  the 
name  the  H.  Lieber  Company.  Mr.  Lieber 
continued  active  head  of  the  concern  until 
his  death,  at  which  time  the  business  was 
giving  employment  to  250  persons  in  the 
factory  and  store.  It  is  said  that  this  com- 
pany has  sold  frames  and  moldings  in 
every  large  city  in  the  United  States,  and 
also  has  handled  a  large  export  trade  to  the 
principal  European  countries. 

Though  not  a  wealthy  man  at  the  time, 
Herman  Lieber  was  one  of  the  most  en- 
thusiastic in  supporting  the  cause  of  the 
Union  during  the  Civil  war  and  did  all  in 


his  power  to  insure  the  success  of  the  great 
task  which  the  North  had  undertaken.  He 
was  a  republican  at  the  time  of  the  or- 
ganization of  the  party  in  Indiana,  and 
continued  in  its  ranks  until  the  nomina- 
tion of  Cleveland.  Later  he  became  dis- 
satisfied with  the  democratic  party  on  the 
plank  of  free  silver,  and  thus  in  politics 
as  in  other  things  he  showed  a  decided 
liberality  of  opinion  and  an  independence 
quite  free  from  narrow  partisanship.  Her- 
man Lieber  was  one  of  the  founders  of 
the  noted  German-English  School  at  In- 
dianapolis. He  was  a  member  of  the 
North  American  Gymnastic  Union,  of 
which  he  was  president  from  1900  until  his 
death.  In  1882  he  was  president  of  the 
Anti-Prohibition  League  of  Indiana.  It 
was  in  1889  that  he  started  the  movement 
which  resulted  in  the  erection  of  the  Ger- 
man House,  and,  as  already  noted,  has 
been  chiefly  credited  with  the  success  of 
that  Indianapolis  institution  and  especially 
with  the  founding  of  its  beautiful  home. 
He  was  one  of  the  original  incorporators 
of  the  Crown  Hill  Cemetery,  and  helped 
promote  the  Consumers  Gas  Trust  Com- 
pany and  later  the  Citizens  Gas  Company.- 
In  1857,  three  years  after  coming  to  In- 
dianapolis, Mr.  Lieber  married  Miss  Mary 
Metzger.  She  was  born  at  Freusburg, 
Germany.  Her  brothers,  Alexander, 
Jacob  and  Engelbert  Metzger,  all  became 
prominent  citizens  of  Indianapolis.  Her- 
man Lieber  and  wife  had  four  sons  and 
two  daughters:  Otto  R.,  Carl  H.,  Robert 
and  Herman  P.,  all  of  whom  became  iden- 
tified with  the  H.  Lieber  Company.  The 
daughter  Ida  is  the  widow  of  Henry  Kothe. 
and  Anna  married  Theodore  Stempfel,  the 
Indianapolis   banker. 

Otto  R.  Lieber,  a  son  of  the  late  Her- 
man Lieber,  has  done  much  to  typifv  and 
represent  in  the  modern  Indianapolis  the 
spirit  and  the  business  ability  which  char- 
acterized his  honored   father. 

He  was  born  in  Indianapolis  October  1. 
1861,  was  reared  in  this  city,  and  has  al- 
ways made  it  his  home.  Most  of  his  early 
education  was  acquired  in  the  German- 
English  School  of  Indianapolis.  Before 
he  was  sixteen  years  old  he  was  workins: 
in  his  father's  picture  establishment,  and 
nearlv  every  vear  brought  him  increased 
knowledge  and  newr  responsibilities  in  the 
business  until  at  the  death  of  his  father  he 


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was  made  his  successor  as  president  of  the 
corporation,  the  H.  Lieber  Company  being 
one  of  the  most  widely  known  of  Indianap- 
olis industries. 

Mr.  Lieber  married  in  1885  Miss  Flora 
Pfaff,  who  died  in  1901,  leaving  three  chil- 
dren :  Otto  H. ;  Marie  Hilda,  wife  of  Harry 
Howe  Bentley ;  and  Charlotte.  In  1005 
he  married  a  sister  of  his  first  wife,  Ma- 
tilde  Pfaff  of  Columbus,  Ohio.  They  have 
one  daughter,  Flora  Elizabeth. 

Mr.  Lieber  has  long  been  recognized  as 
one  of  Indiana's  stanchest  citizens  and  is 
actively  interested  and  a  liberal  contributor 
to  all  that  tends  to  the  betterment  of  his 
city,  state  and  nation.  He. is  a  member  of 
the  Indianapolis  Chamber  of  Commerce, 
Board  of  Trade  and  the  Athenaeum. 

Joseph  G.  Brannum  is  president  of  the 
Brannum-Keene  Lumber  Company;  one  of 
the  largest  firms  of  its  kind  doing  business 
in  the  State  of  Indiana.  Its  plant  is  at 
3506  East  Washington  Street  in  Indian- 
apolis. 

Mr.  Brannum  has  had  a  long  experience 
in  timber  and  lumber  manufacturing  and 
lumber  dealing.  He  was  born  in  Wells 
County,  Indiana,  October  28,  1863,  a  son 
of  Henry  C.  and  Rebecca  Brannum. 
The  father  died  at  the  age  of  seventy-eight, 
and  the  mother  is  now  eighty-four  years  of 
age.  His  father  was  a  contractor  and 
builder  and  for  a  number  of  years  con- 
ducted a  lumber  business  at  Montpelier, 
Indiana.  Grandfather  Brannum  probably 
built  the  first  saw  mill  in  Union  County, 
Indiana,  and  another  one  of  the  family 
connections  was  the  first  auditor  of  Union 
County.  Joseph  G.  Brannum 's  brother, 
William  S.  Brannum,  is  secretary  of  the 
Brannum-Keene  Lumber  Company  and  a 
resident  of  Chicago. 

Frederic  Rich  Henshaw,  D.  D.  S., 
Dean  of  the  Indiana  Dental  College  since 
1914  and  a  member  of  the  Indiana  State 
Council  of  Defense,  is  through  his  work 
as  an  educator  and  his  long  service  as  a 
member  of  the  State  Board  of  Dental 
Examiners  one  of  the  best  known  members 
of  his  profession  in  the  state. 

Doctor  Henshaw  was  born  at  Alexan- 
dria, Madison  County,  Indiana,  October  8, 
1872,  a  son  of  Seth  B.  and  Mary  Jane 
(Rich)  Henshaw.  His  parents  were  also 
natives  of  Indiana  and  represented  the  fine 


old  Quaker  stock  that  in  such  numbers 
was  transplanted  to  Eastern  Indiana  from 
Greensboro,  North  Carolina,  in  pioneer 
days. 

Doctor  Henshaw  was  reared  and  edu- 
cated at  Alexandria  and  is  also  a  graduate 
of  the  high  school  at  Anderson,  and  during 
1889-91  was  a  student  of  the  Central  Nor- 
mal College  at  Danville,  Indiana.  He  was 
a  school  teacher  for  several  years,  so  that 
his  experience  as  an  educator  is  not  con- 
fined to  the  dental  profession.  In  Sep- 
tember, 1894,  he  entered  the  Indiana  Den- 
tal College  of  Indianapolis,  from  which  he 
graduated  April  6,  1897.  Doctor  Henshaw 
had  located  at  Middletown,  Indiana,  in 
1895,  and  an  unusual  professional  success 
followed  his  labors  there.  In  1909  he  re- 
moved to  Indianapolis,  and  established  his 
offices  in  the  Pythian  Building,  where  he  is 
still  located. 

As  to  his  work  and  attainments  as  a 
dental  practitioner  it  is  best  to  allow  a 
member  of  his  own  profession  to  speak. 
Dr.  Otto  U.  King,  of  Huntington,  presi- 
dent of  the  Indiana  State  Dental  Society, 
wrote  for  the  Quarterly  Bulletin  of  that 
society  upon  the  occasion  of  Doctor  Hen- 
shaw's  election  as  Dean  of  the  Dental  Col- 
lege an  appreciation  from  which  the  fol- 
lowing paragraphs  are  fitly  quoted : 

"It  is  fitting  and  wise  that  the  life  long 
friend  of  Doctor  Hunt  should  be  selected 
by  the  trustees  of  the  Indiana  Dental  Col- 
lege to  serve  as  its  Dean.  The  Indiana 
Dental  College  ranks  among  the  best  dental 
colleges  in  the  country.  The  growth  of 
this  institution  and  its  present  efficiency  is 
due  largely  to  the  incessant  hard  work  of 
Doctor  Hunt.  Dr.  Frederic  R.  Henshaw 
on  July  18,  1914,  was  selected  as  Dean  of 
the  Indiana  Dental  College.  He  is  the 
logical  successor  to  Dr.  George  E.  Hunt 
and  it  is  predicted  by  his  friends  in.  the 
dental  profession  that  as  Doctor  Henshaw 
possesses  all  the  qualifications  necessary  for 
this  position  to  which  he  has  been  honored 
that  the  Indiana  Dental  College  will  not 
only  maintain  its  high  standard  but  will  be 
a  leader  in  all  educational  lines  pertaining 
to  the  advancement  of  the  dental  profes- 
sion. 

"Doctor  Henshaw  has  been  untiring  in 
his  efforts  to  raise  the  standard  and  effi- 
ciency of  the  dental  profession  ever  since 
he  began  his  practice.  He  has  been  held 
in  the  highest  esteem  bv  the  members  of 


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the  dental  profession  as  witnessed  by  the 
many  honors  bestowed  upon  him.  He  was 
selected  in  1897  vice  president  of  the 
Eastern  Indiana  Dental  Society.  In  1898 
he  was  elected  secretary  of  the  Indiana 
State  Dental  Association,  which  position 
he  held  for  two  years. 

"He  is  probably  better  known  in  In- 
diana as  a  member  of  the  Board  of  Dental 
Examiners,  having  served  on  this  board 
for  thirteen  years,  ten  years  of  which, 
1903-14,  he  has  been  its  capable  and  effi- 
cient secretary.  He  was  elected  vice  presi- 
dent of  the  National  Association  of  Dental 
Examiners  in  1907.  He  was  also  elected 
president  of  the  Indianapolis  Dental  So- 
ciety in  1912.  He  is  a  member  of  the 
Northern  Indiana  Dental  Society,  Eastern 
Indiana  Dental  Society,  Indiana  State  Den- 
tal Society,  National  Dental  Association 
and  a  member  of  the  National  Association 
of  Dental  Examiners. 

"Doctor  Henshaw  has  contributed  a 
number  of  papers  to  our  dental  literature 
on  a  variety  of  subjects  and  always  takes 
a  leading  part  in  the  review  and  discussion 
of  papers  in  our  society  meetings.  Doc- 
tor Henshaw  has  not  only  the  educational 
qualifications  to  fill  the  position  of  dean- 
ship  in  the  Indiana  Dental  College,  but  he 
also  has  the  business  capacity  to  maintain 
and  increase  the  efficiency  of  the  institu- 
tion. Every  dentist  in  Indiana  should  feel 
proud  of  the  promotion  of  Doctor  Henshaw 
to  this  high  position  of  honor  in  our  state. 
He  possesses  the  necessary  initiative,  en- 
thusiasm and  tact  to  make  a  successful 
Dean." 

The  profession  generally  throughout  the 
state  has  come  to  realize  that  the  predic- 
tions made  by  Doctor  King  concerning  the 
new  dean  have  been  amly  fulfilled.  Besides 
the  responsibilities  of  that  office  he  has 
conducted  a  very  busy  practice  of  his  own. 
It  was  a  special  honor  when  in  July,  1918, 
Governor  Goodrich  appointed  him  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Indiana  State  Council  of  De- 
fense. In  July,  1918,  Doctor  Henshaw, 
who  had  served  as  special  examiner  for 
Indiana  for  the  Surgeon  General's  office 
from  the  outbreak  of  the  war,  obtained 
leave  of  absence  as  Dean  of  the  Dental 
College  and  accepted  a  commission  as  first 
lieutenant  in  the  Dental  Corps,  United 
States  Army,  and  was  assigned  to  duty  in 
the  attending  surgeon's  office  at  Washing- 
ton, D.  C,  being  promoted  to  the  grade  of 


major  on  September  9,  1918,  serving  as 
such  until  January  1,  1919.  While  a  resi- 
dent of  Middletown  Doctor  Henshaw 
served  nine  years  as  a  member  of  its  school 
board.  He  is  a  member  of  the  John  Her- 
ron  Art  Institute  of  Indianapolis,  is  a 
Delta  Sigma  Delta  college  fraternity  man 
and  a  Knight  Templar  Mason.  He  is  a 
member  of  the  Independent  Turnverein 
and  the  Indiana  Democratic  Club  of  In- 
dianapolis. 

September  1,  1897,  Doctor  Henshaw 
married  Mary  Edith  Strickler,  of  Middle- 
town.  They  have  one  son,  Frederic  R. 
Henshaw,  Jr.,  of  whom  his  parents  are 
very  naturally  proud.  This  young  man 
was  a  student  in  the  Virginia  Military  In- 
stitute at  Lexington,  "the  West  Point  of 
the  South,"  and  was  sent  from  there  to  the 
Officers  Reserve  Corps  Training  Camp  at 
Plattsburg.  After  the  course  of  training 
he  returned  to  Indianapolis  and  in  July, 
1918,  was  recalled  to  Plattsburg,  where  he 
served  as  instructor  in  the  bayonet  until 
September  16,  1918,  when  he  was  com- 
missioned second  lieutenant  of  infantry 
and  assigned  as  an  instructor  in  the  school 
of  this  line  at  the  University  of  Georgia. 
There  he  served  until  February,  1919, 
when  he  was  discharged.  He  is  now  a  stu- 
dent in  Wabash  College.  Though  only 
nineteen  years  old,  he  is  six  feet  in  height, 
and  in  brain  and  in  character  and  high 
purpose  as  well  as  in  physical  perfection 
is  "every  inch  a  soldier." 

Harry  Wade.  The  exceptional  business 
and  financial  abilities  of  Mr.  Wade  have 
been  exerted  chiefly  in  behalf  of  the 
Knights  of  Pythias  Order.  The  member- 
ship of  that  order  throughout  the  Western 
Hemisphere  is  familiar  with  the  work  and 
position  of  Mr.  Wade  as  president  of  the 
Insurance  Department  of  the  Supreme 
Lodge.  In  that  office  he  has  his  business 
headquarters  at  Indianapolis,  where  he  has 
also  had  his  home  for  a  number  of  years. 

He  represents  a  pioneer  family  of  Craw- 
fordsville,  Indiana,  where  he  was  born  in 
1863,  son  of  H.  H.  and  Clara  (McCune) 
Wade.  The  Indiana  pioneer  of  the  family 
was  his  grandfather,  I.  F.  Wade.  A  na- 
tive of  Virginia,  I.  F.  Wade  in  early  life 
moved  to  Middletown,  Ohio,  and  from  there 
in  1831  drove  an  ox  team  and  wagon 
loaded  with  a  printing  press  and  outfit 
across  the  country  to  Crawfordsville,  In- 


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diana.  There  he  founded  the  Crawfords- 
ville  Record,  one  of  the  few  newspapers 
published  in  Indiana  eighty-five  years  ago. 
He  was  its  editor  and  proprietor  for  a 
number  of  years,  and  some  of  the  early 
files  are  still  preserved  and  constitute  prac- 
tically the  only  original  sources  of  the 
early  history  of  that  part  of  the  state. 

When  Harry  Wade  was  fourteen  years 
old  in  1877  his  parents  moved  from  Craw- 
fordsville  to  Lafayette,  where  his  father 
and  mother  still  reside.  His  father  served 
throughout  the 'war  with  an  Indiana  regi- 
ment in  the  Union  army.  Harry  Wade  at- 
tended school  both  at  Crawfordsville  and 
Lafayette.  He  was  still  under  age  when 
he  went  into  business  for  himself  at  La- 
fayette. His  first  effort  at  merchandising 
was  with  a  bookstore,  but  gradually  he  en- 
larged a  small  stock  of  jewelry  until  it  be- 
came the  dominating  feature  of  his  busi- 
ness, and  was  also  one  of  the  leading  shops 
for  that  merchandise.  Mr.  Wade  gave  up 
the  role  of  merchant  to  enter  the  life  in- 
surance business.  Therein  he  found  the 
field  where  his  talents  as  salesman  counted 
for  most.  He  won  a  quick  success.  His 
proved  abilities  as  an  insurance  man  were 
called  into  requisition  in  1898  in  connec- 
tion with  the  insurance  department  of  the 
Supreme  Lodge  Knights  of  Pythias,  the 
headquarters  of  which  are  at  Indianap- 
olis. He  had  many  of  the  responsibilities 
of  the  insurance  department  until  1903, 
when  he  was  elected  grand  keeper  of  rec- 
ords and  seals  for  the  Indiana  Grand 
Lodge,  and  served  faithfully  in  that  ca- 
pacity until  July,  1915.  At  that  date  he 
was  chosen  to  his  present  office  as  president 
of  the  insurance  department  of  the  Su- 
preme Lodge  Knights  of  Pythias.  His 
jurisdiction  embraces  all  of  the  United 
States,  Canada,  Hawaii,  Alaska,  Cuba  and 
the  Philippines.  There  are  few  of  the  old 
line  companies  that  extend  the  benefits  of 
their  organization  over  a  wider  territory. 

Mr.  Wade's  official  work  has  been  dis- 
tinguished by  more  than  routine  perfor- 
mance. One  of  the  achievements  credited 
to  him  is  the  building  of  the  Indiana  Py- 
thian Building,  a  modern  office  building 
at  Indianapolis.  He  originated  the  idea 
for  the  building,  presented  the  plan  to  the 
Grand  Lodge,  and  personally  took  upon 
himself  the  responsibility  of  selling  the 
$450,000  worth  of  bonds  throughout  In- 
diana, the  proceeds  of  which  were  applied 


to  the  construction  of  the  building.  It 
was  begun  in  1905  and  completed  in  1907. 
It  was  one  of  the  first  modern  office  build- 
ings of  the  sky  scraper  type  in  Indianap- 
olis, and  is  an  interesting  and  effective 
monument  to  the  enterprise,  ability  and  in- 
itiative of  Mr.  Wade.  It  is  also  recog- 
nzed  as  the  finest  Pythian  building  in  the 
United  States.  Mr.  Wade  has  rendered 
similar  services  to  other  cities  in  the  state 
in  the  erection  of  local  Pythian  buildings. 
He  married  Miss  Anna  E.  Fullenwider, 
of  Lafayette.  They  have  two  sons,  Fred- 
erick H.  and  Harry  Lee. 

William  L.  Sandage.  The  history  of 
Indiana  industry  contains  many  noted 
and  honored  names,  and  there  is  place 
alongside  the  greatest  of  them  for  the 
Sandage  family.  William  L.  Sandage,  one 
of  the  prominent  manufacturers  and  inven- 
tors of  the  state,  undoubtedly  inherits 
some  of  his  ability  at  least  from  his  father, 
the  late  Joshua  Sandage,  who  though  he 
never  achieved  the  fame  that  is  associated 
with  many  of  the  wagon  and  plow  man- 
ufacturers, supplied  much  of  the  inventive 
genius  and  skill  which  has  brought  so  much 
fame  to  several  industrial  centers  of  the 
Middle  West. 

Joshua  Sandage,  now  deceased,  was  born 
in  Indiana  and  from  early  youth  conducted 
a  country  blacksmith  shop  at  his  home  in 
Perry  County.  Even  while  there  he  was 
a  recognized  mechanical  and  inventive 
genius.  His  invention  largely  took  the 
direction  of  the  making  of  plows.  During 
the  war  in  his  home  county  of  Perry  he 
organized  and  was  first  lieutenant  of  a 
company  which  he  hoped  to  take  into  the 
regular  service.  With  that  company  he 
joined  the  troops  that  drove  the  Confed- 
erate raider  Morgan  out  of  Indiana.  How- 
ever, he  was  never  assigned  to  regular 
duty,  but  with  his  company  was  stationed 
at  Indianapolis  and  formed  part  of  the 
Home  Guards  organization  on  duty  at 
Camp  Morton.  This  organization  served 
without   pay. 

During  the  early  '70s  Joshua  Sandage 
took  his  family  to  Moline,  Illinois,  and 
there  became  identified  with  the  great 
plow  manufacturing  industry  which  has 
made  the  names  of  Moline  and  Rock  Is- 
land synonymous  with  plow  manufacture. 
At  that  time  plow  making  was  in  its  in- 
fancy.    Joshua  Sandage  was   patentee  of 


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the  first  steel  plow  made  at  Moline.  He 
also  devised  and  was  the  first  to  use  the 
process  of  the  drop  hammer  for  welding 
the  plow.  The  patent  office  also  records 
him  as  the  patentee  of  the  Sandage  steel 
wagon  skein.  On  account  of  his  success 
and  ingenuity  in  the  plow  industry  he  was 
called  to  South  Bend,  Indiana,  and  a  short 
time  afterward  organized  what  was  known 
as  the  Sandage  Brothers  Manufacturing 
Company.  He  spent  the  rest  of  his  life  in 
that  city.  His  enthusiasm  and  ambition 
were  contented  with  the  working  out  of 
processes  that  in  his  case  had  their  own  re- 
ward, and  apparently  he  did  not  have  the 
business  ability  to  capitalize  all  the  fruits 
of  his  genius.     His  widow  is  still  living. 

A  son  of  these  parents,  William  L.  San- 
dage was  born  in  Perry  County,  Indiana, 
in  1866.  He  had  the  advantage  of  his 
father's  companionship  and  direction  in 
the  mastery  of  mechanical  trades,  and  was 
an  efficient  journeyman  from  early  youth. 
His  education  was  acquired  in  the  schools 
of  Moline  and  South  Bend.  Mr.  Sandage 
developed  his  ability  along  the  special 
line  of  die  casting.  In  1900  he  came  to 
Indianapolis,  and  that  city  has  been  his 
home  for  nearly  twenty  years.  In  1905 
he  established  the  die  casting  business  that, 
beginning  on  a  small  scale,  has  developed 
into  the  present  Modern  Die  and  Tool 
Company,  the  largest  and  most  successful 
plant  of  its  kind  in  the  Middle  West. 

The  plant  was  a  particularly  valuable 
unit  in  America's  history  because  of  its 
chief  product,  what  is  known  as  the  bronze 
back  bearing,  invented  by  Mr.  Sandage, 
and  known  commercially  as  the  Victor 
bearing.  With  a  normally  large  activity 
and  demand  for  this  product,  the  industry 
was  forced  to  expand  in  every  department 
through  the  exactions  of  the  war,  and  it 
was  a  recognized  war  industry  and  sup- 
plied the  government  under  contract  with 
large  quantities  of  Victor  bearing  for  mil- 
itary trucks,  tractors,  aeroplanes,  automo- 
biles and  other  machinery  used  for  war 
purposes.  That  the  company  is  not  a  big 
manufacturing  corporation  is  due  to  the 
unwillingness  of  Mr.  Sandage  to  accept 
many  tempting  offers  to  use  his  plant  as 
the  basis  of  an  extensive  corporate  stock- 
holding concern,  since  he  has  preferred  to 
continue  his  individual  ownership  on  the 
successful  basis  which  he  established  a 
number  of  years  ago  and  which  is  a  credit 


to  his  name.  Mr.  Sandage  is  now  greatly 
assisted  and  relieved  of  many  of  the  exact- 
ing details  of  the  business  by  his  son-in- 
law  H.  C.  Weist,  a  young  business  man  of 
great  capability  who  has  brought  both 
skill  and  enthusiasm  into  the  business. 

In  the  field  of  invention  and  other 
achievements  to  Mr.  Sandage 's  credit  is 
the  National  Voting  Machine.  With  the 
manufacture  of  this  product  he  is  not  now 
connected,  however.  His  business  for  a 
number  of  years  has  been  an  important 
accessory  of  the  great  automobile  indus- 
try of  America,  and  he  is  himself  an  en- 
thusiast on  the  subject  of  automobiles  and 
understands  practically  every  phase  of 
automobile  manufacture  and  the  business 
in  general.  The  employment  of  automo- 
biles for  pleasure  purposes  has  constituted 
perhaps  his  chief  recreation.  He  was  on? 
of  the  pioneer  members  of  the  Hoosier 
Automobile  Club  and  similar  organizations 
in  various  other  cities  and  states.  He  be- 
longs to  the  Chamber  of  Commerce,  and 
other  Indianapolis  civic  organizations,  in- 
cluding the  Indianapolis  Rotary  Club. 

At  South  Bend  Mr.  Sandage  married 
Miss  Laura  Klingel,  daughter  of  Jacob 
Klingel.  The  Klingel  family  for  over  half 
a  century  have  been  identified  with  the 
show  business  in  South  Bend.  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Sandage  have  a  daughter,  Katharine, 
wife  of  Mr.  H.  C.  Weist,  and  they  have  one 
son,  William  H.  Weist. 

In  1917  Mr.  Sandage  bought  a  beauti- 
ful country  home  known  as  Walnut  Hill, 
on  the  Illinois  State  Road  seven  miles  north 
of  the  center  of  Indianapolis.  There  he 
and  Mrs.  Sandage  and  their  daughter  and 
her  husband  have  most  happy  and  restful 
surroundings  for  their  domestic  life.  The 
residence  is  on  an  estate  of  several  acres. 
The  charm  is  enhanced  by  the  beautiful 
floral  and  arboreal  growth  surrounding  the 
residence,  which  is  both  costly  and  com- 
modious, possessing  every  comfort  and  con- 
venience, and  arranged  with  all  that  per- 
fect taste  and  good  artistic  proportions 
could  demand. 

William  Temple  Hornaday,  whose  work 
as  a  zoologist  has  brought  him  renown,  was 
born  in  Plainfield,  Indiana,  December  1, 
1854.  He  studied  zoology  and  museology 
in  both  the  United  States  and  Europe,  and 
his  work  has  taken  him  to  all  parts  of  the 
world. 


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Mr.  Hornaday  married  Josephine  Cham- 
berlain, of  Battle  Creek,  Michigan.  He 
maintains  his  offices  in  Zoological  Park, 
New  York. 

Daniel  S.  Goble,  M.  D.  A  physician 
and  surgeon  at  Evansville,  where  he  has 
been  in  practice  since  1906,  Doctor  Goble 
is  a  man  of  high  standing  in  his  profession, 
and  the  confidence  of  the  public  and  his  fel- 
low practitioners  in  his  ability  is  attested 
to  by  the  fact  that  he  is  now  serving  as 
president  of  the  Vanderburg  County  Medi- 
cal Society. 

Doctor  Goble  was  born  in  Clark  Town- 
ship of  Perry  County,  Indiana.  His  an- 
cestors were  pioneers  in  Perry'  County. 
His  great-grandfather  was-  a  native  of 
Massachusetts  and  served  in  the  Revolu- 
tionary war ;  later  removing  to  North 
Carolina.  The  grandfather  Will  Goble 
came  to  Indiana  from  North  Carolina  pos- 
sibly the  state  of  his  birth. 

At  that  time  Ohio  was  the  only  state 
north  of  the  Ohio  River,  and  Indiana  was ' 
a  territory.  There  was  no  railroads  and 
Will  Goble  followed  one  of  the  pioneer 
trails  over  the  Blue  Ridge  Mountains  and 
across  the  states  of  Tennessee  and  Ken- 
tucky to  Indiana.  He  located  in  what  is 
now  Clark  Township  of  Perry  County. 
This  was  then  a  wilderness,  filled  with  In- 
dians who  claimed  it  as  their  hunting 
ground.  He  acquired  a  tract  of  land  and 
began  the  tremendous  task  of  making  a 
farm.  He  was  in  every  way  fitted  for  pio- 
neer life,  being  of  strong  athletic  build,  a 
tireless  worker,  yet  very  fond  of  sports 
and  hunting.  The  Indians  frequently  pit- 
ted their  fleetest  runners  against  him  in 
foot  races.  He  and  his  wife  spent  their  last 
years  in  Perry  County. 

Daniel  Goble,  father  of  Doctor  Goble, 
was  also  born  in  Clark  Township  and  grew 
up  amid  pioneer  scenes.  He  attended  rural 
schools  when  it  was  the  custom  for  the 
teacher  to  board  around  in  the  families  of 
the  pupils.  Reared  on  a  farm  he  inherited 
land,  and  his  good  judgment  and  ability 
enabled  to  build  up  one  of  the  best  farms 
in  Perry  County.  He  died  at  the  age  of 
eighty-one  and  was  buried  in  the  Lan- 
man  cemetery,  on  the  farm  where  he  had 
lived  since  his  marriage. 

Daniel  Goble  was  married  to  Louisa  Lan- 
man.  a  native  of  Clark  Township,  daughter 
of  George  Lanman  and  grand-daughter 
of  John  Lanman.     John  Lanman  was  one 


of  the  first  settlers  of  that  township  and 
owned  one  of  the  first  horse  mills  operated 
for  the  public  in  Perry  County.  Mrs. 
Louisa  Goble  died  at  the  age  of  sixty  years, 
the  mother  of  the  following  children: 
George,  John,  Keith,  Daniel  S.,  Susan, 
Martha  and  Sarah. 

Doctor  Goble  spent  his  youth  in  the  en- 
vironment of  his  father's  farm.  He  at- 
tended district  schools,  and  finished  his  lit- 
erary education  in  the  Central  Normal 
College  at  Danville,  Indiana.  He  began 
his  life  of  usefulness  as  a  teacher  at  the 
age  of  seventeen,  and  taught  five  terms  in 
Perry  County. 

In  the  meantime  he  was  diligently  study- 
ing medicine  under  Doctor  Lomax  of  Bris- 
tow,  Indiana,  and  subsequently  entered  the 
Kentucky  School  of  Medicine  at  Louis- 
ville, where  he  graduated  with  the  class 
of  1892.  In  1907  he  took  a  post-graduate 
course  in  the  same  institution.  Doctor 
Goble  was  in  practice  at  Chrisney,  Indiana, 
until  he  sought  a  larger  and  better  field  for 
his  skill  and  experience  and  removed  to 
Evansville  in  1906.  Beside  his  official  as- 
sociation with  the  Vanderburg  Medical 
Society,  he  is  a  member  of  the  Indiana 
State  and  the  Ohio  Valley  Medical  Associa- 
tions and  is  for  1919  Vanderburg  County's 
Health  Commissioner. 

He  is  affiliated  with  Evansville  Lodge, 
No.  64,  Free  and  Accepted  Masons,  and 
Orion  Lodge  Knights  of  Pythias.  He  and 
wife  are  active  members  of  Olivet  Presby- 
terian Church. 

He  married  in  1893  Oma  R.  Cooper,  a 
native  of  Perry  County.  Her  father, 
Gabriel  Cooper,  for  many  years  was  a 
prominent  and  successful  teacher  in  that 
county. 

Doctor  and  Mrs.  Goble  have  two  daugh- 
ters, named  Mildred  and  Marjorie. 

H.  R.  Porter,  though  one  of  the  younger 
men  in  the  industrial  life  of  Indiana,  has 
had  experiences  and  connections  which  are 
important  items  in  industrial  history,  es- 
pecially at  Richmond. 

He  is  superintendent  of  the  Simplex 
Machine  Tool  Company's  Richmond 
h^anch.  The  head  offices  of  the  Simplex 
Machine  Tool  Company,  one  of  the  largest 
organizations  of  its  kind  in  the  United 
States,  are  at  Cleveland.  It  was  in  Feb- 
ruary, 1917,  that  the  corporation  acquired 
the  Richmond  Adding  and  Listing  Machine 
Company,  a  plant  well  adapted  for  light 


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manufacturing.  It  has  since  been  used  for 
the  manufacture  of  light  tool  machinery, 
especially  12-inch  lathes,  and  under  pres-' 
ent  operating  conditions  it  employs  about 
200  persons. 

Mr.  Porter  was  born  at  Springfield,  Ohio, 
in  October,  1887,  son  of  James  G.  and 
Laura  (Moore)  Porter.  He  attended  gram- 
mar and  high  schools  at  Springfield  and  in 
1901,  at  the  age  of  fourteen,  went  to  work 
with  the  Springfield  Metallic  Casket  Com- 
pany, working  two  years  to  learn  the  ma- 
chinist's trade.  He  spent  another  three 
years  with  the  Kelly-Springfield  Road  Rol- 
ler Company,  then  was  emploj^ed  one  year 
at  Indianapolis  by  the  Atlas  Engine  Works 
as  a  machinist,  and  in  1907  came  to  Rich- 
mond and  spent  four  years  as  machinist 
with  Gaar,  Scott  &  Company.  For  another 
four  years  he  was  machine  shop  foreman 
of  the  Pilot  Motor  Car  Company  at  Rich- 
mond, and  another  year  as  tool  maker  for 
the  Teetor,  Hartley  Motor  Company  of 
H^gerstown,  Indiana. 

Mr.  Porter  had  been  a  tool  maker  with 
the  Adding  and  Listing  Machine  Com- 
pany of  Richmond  about  one  year  prior  to 
its  being  taken  over  by  the  Simplex  Ma- 
chine Tool  Company.  On  April  15,  1917, 
under  the  new  ownership,  he  was  made 
foreman  of  the  assembly  department,  and 
since  July  18,  1917,  has  been  general  su- 
perintendent of  the  entire  plant,  having 
especially  heavy  responsibilities  during 
the  rush  of  war  work. 

Mr.  Porter  married  April  15,  1913,  Miss 
Lucile  Polglase,  daughter  of  Peter  and 
Susan  Paxson  Polglase  of  Richmond.  Mr. 
Porter  is  an  independent  in  politics,  is 
affiliated  with  Webb  Lodge  No.  24,  Free 
and  Accepted  Masons,  and  the  Independent 
Order  of  Odd  Fellows,  and  is  a  member  of 
the  First  Lutheran  Church. 

Thomas  Ralph  Austin,  M.  D.,  LL.  D., 
was  born  in  the  parish  of  Hackney  (origi- 
nally  Hackenaye),  London,  England,  June 
16,  1810.  He  was  an  uncle  of  Alfred  Aus- 
tin, Poet  Laureate  of  England.  He  grad- 
uated at  Oxford,  and  in  1832  came  to  New 
York,  where  on  May  2d  of  that  year  he  mar- 
ried Miss  Martha  Haigh.  He  went  back 
to  England  and  graduated  in  medicine, 
and  then  returned  to  America.  He  came 
West,  and  located  in  Indiana,  in  Harrison 
County,  where  his  wife  died  in  1841.  On 
November  17,  1847,  he  married  Miss  Jane 
McCauley  in  Harrison  County,  Indiana. 


Mr.  Austin  entered  the  ministry  of  the 
Protestant  Episcopal  Church,  and  served 
at  Jeffersonville,  Terre  Haute  and  Vin- 
cennes,  coming  on  Easter,  1872,  to  St. 
James  Church  at  the  last  named  place — 
the  historic  building  erected  by  Rev.  B.  B. 
Killikelly  (see  Sarah  Killikelly).  He 
was  an  enthusiastic  Mason,  and  in  May, 
1861,  was  elected  Grand  Master  of  In- 
diana. On  July  29,  1861,  he  enlisted  as 
surgeon  in  the  Twenty-Third  Indiana  Regi- 
ment. He  was  detached  from  the  regiment 
in  February,  and  appointed  acting  medical 
director,  in  which  capacity  he  established 
the  army  hospitals  at  Paducah,  Kentucky, 
and  Bolivar  and  Dunlap  Springs,  Ten- 
nessee. 

Mr.  Austin  resumed  the  ministry  after 
his  military  service,  and  died  at  Vincennes 
February  5,  1884,  highly  honored  in  church 
and  Masonic  circles. 

Benjamin  Franklin  Tbueblood.  Out- 
side of  political  life  no  native  of  Indiana 
has  exercised  so  great  an  influence  on 
world  conditions  as  Benjamin  F.  True- 
blood.  He  was  a  descendant  of  John  True- 
blood,  an  Englishman,  born  in  1660,  who 
married  Agnes  Fisher  and  emigrated  to 
Carolina,  where  he  died  in  1692.  His  son 
Amos  married  Elizabeth  Cartwright,  a 
Quakeress,  who  was  disowned  by  the  meet- 
ing for  marrying  outside  of  the  church,  but 
later  she  and  her  husband  were  received 
into  the  meeting,  and  thenceforth  the  fam- 
ily were  Friends. 

Abel  Trueblood,  grandfather  of  Benja- 
min F.,  was  born  in  North  Carolina  De- 
cember 8,  1771.  He  married  Mary  Symons, 
and  removed  in  1816  to  Washington 
County,  Indiana,  where  he  died  in  1840. 
His  son,  Joshua  Abel  Trueblood,  who  was 
born  March  25,  1815,  and  died  November 
7,  1887,  at  El  Modena,  California,  was  mar- 
ried in  1841  to  Esther  Parker,  daughter  of 
William  and  Elizabeth  Parker,  who  died 
in  Hendricks  County,  Indiana,  in  1884. 
Their  second  son,  Benjamin  Franklin  True- 
blood, was  born  at  Salem,  Indiana,  Novem- 
ber 25,  1847. 

There  was  no  lack  of  good  schools  at 
Salem,  and  Benjamin  prepared  for  college 
at  the  Blue  River  Academy,  the  Friends' 
school  near  Salem,  and  entered  Earlham 
College,  from  which  he  graduated  in  1869. 
He  then  studied  theology,  entered  the  min- 
istry, and  became  professor  of  Greek  and 
Latin  at  Penn   College,   Oskaloosa,   Iowa. 


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In  the  fall  of  1871  he  returned  to  Earl- 
ham  as  governor,  remaining  for  two  win- 
ters. In  1874  he  was  made  president  of 
Wilmington  College,  Ohio,  continuing  un- 
til 1879,  when  he  went  to  Penn  College, 
Iowa,  as  president,  and  remained  until 
1890. 

By  this  time  Professor  Trueblood  had 
become  an  accomplished  linguist,  familiar 
with  a  dozen  modern  languages,  and  he  was 
sent  to  Europe  as  representative  of  the 
Christian  Arbitration  Society  of  Philadel- 
phia to  lecture  in  European  cities.  In 
May,  1892,  he  was  elected  general  secre- 
tary of  the  American  Peace  Society.  He 
held  this  position  until  May,  1915,  when  he 
retired  on  account  of  failing  health,  and 
was  elected  honorary  secretary  of  the 
society. 

He  was  practically  "the  publicity  de- 
partment" of  the  American  Peace  Society. 
He  edited  The  Advocate  of  Peace,  its  offi- 
cial organ,  and  The  Angel  of  Peace,  a 
periodical  for  children,  and  in  addition  de- 
livered lectures  and  addresses  throughout 
the  country,  wrote  for  newspapers  and 
magazines,  published  a  book  and  numerous 
pamphlets,  attended  and  took  part  in  all 
the  international  peace  conferences  from 
that  of  London  in  1890  to  that  of  Geneva 
in  1912,  excepting  the  Budapest  conference 
of  1896  and  the  Monaco  conference  of  1902, 
from  which  he  was  kept  by  health  consid- 
erations; he  also  attended  and  addi'essed 
the  dozen  or  more  peace  congresses  held  in 
this  country. 

An  early  member  of  the  International 
Law  Association,  and  of  its  executive  coun- 
cil from  1905,  he  was  a  recognized  author- 
ity on  international  law  and  a  prominent 
member  of  the  American  Society  of  Inter- 
national Law.  He  was  accorded  private 
interviews  with  President  McKinley  con- 
cerning the  Spanish-American  war,  with 
President  Roosevelt  concerning  the  Russo- 
Japanese  war,  with  President  Taft  con- 
cerning the  arbitration  treaties,  and  with 
President  Wilson  concerning  the  army  and 
navy  program.  Not  even  excepting  his  fel- 
low-townsman, Secretary  John  Hay,  no 
other  American  did  so  much  to  promote 
the  world  peace  doctrine  as  Benjamin 
Trueblood. 

"Federation  of  the  World,"  the  book 
mentioned,  was  published  in  1899,  with  a 
later  edition  in  1907.  Among  his  pamphlets 
were  "A  Stated  International  Congress," 
"Washington's     Anti-Militarism,"     "The 


Christ  of  the  Andes, "  "  International  Arbi- 
tration at  the  Opening  of  the  Twentieth 
Century,"  "The  Historic  Development  of 
the  Peace  Idea,"  "History  of  the  American 
Peace  Society  and  Its  Work,"  "A  Periodic 
Congress  of  the  Nations,"  "The  Cost  of 
War,"  "How  the  Sunday  Schools  May  Aid 
the  Peace  Movement,"  "Women  and  the 
Peace  Movement,"  and  accounts  of  the 
two  Hague  conferences. 

On  July  17,  1872,  Mr.  Trueblood  mar- 
ried Sarah  Huff  Terrell,  of  New  Vienna, 
Ohio,  whom  he  had  known  as  a  student 
at  Earlham.  They  had  two  daughters, 
Lyra  Dale  (Mrs.  George  Gregerson  Wolk- 
ins),  and  Florence  Esther  (Mrs.  Jonathan 
Mowry  Steere),  and  a  son,  Irvin  Cuyler, 
who  died  in  1877.  After  giving  up  the 
work  as  active  secretary,  Mr.  Trueblood 
retired  with  his  family  to  his  home  at 
Newton  Highlands,  Massachusetts,  where 
he  died  October  26,  1916. 

David  H.  Teeple.  While  not  one  of  the 
oldest  David  H.  Teeple  is  one  of  the  most 
widely  experienced  merchants  and  busi- 
ness men  of  Richmond,  and  is  now  senior 
partner  of  Teeple  &  Wessel,  shoe  mer- 
chants. Since  boyhood  he  has  come  to  know 
nearly  every  line  of  merchandising,  but 
is  an  especial  authority  on  the  shoe  trade, 
and  has  not  only  sold  shoes  at  retail  but 
was  a  traveling  salesman  for  a  number  of 
years. 

He  was  born  on  a  farm  in  St.  Mary's 
Township  of  Adams  County,  Indiana,  in 
1879,  son  of  Isaac  Teeple  and  of  Scotch- 
Irish  ancestry.  He  lived  on  his  father's 
farm  for  a  number  of  years,  attended 
school  in  winter,  also  spent  three  terms  in 
the  Tri-State  Normal  School  at  Angola, 
and  at  the  age  of  eighteen  was  given  a  cer- 
tificate and  entrusted  with  the  manage- 
ment of  a  country  school  in  Wabash  Town- 
ship of  his  native  county.  He  also  taught 
the  Bunker  Hill  School,  the  Fravel  school 
and  the  Mount  Zion  school,  all  in  Adams 
County. 

Beginning  in  1901  Mr.  Teeple  was  for 
five  years  associated  with  the  clothing  and 
shoe  business  of  his  uncle,  S.  H.  Teeple 
&  Company,  at  Geneva,  Indiana.  His  uncle 
then  sold  to  Samuel  S.  Acker  and  the  firm 
continued  as  Acker  &  Teeple  four  years. 
David  Teeple,  selling  out  to  his  partner, 
bought  a  shoe  store  at  Shelbyville  in  Shelby 
County,  Illinois,  and  was  in  business  there 
for  a  year  and  a  half.     He  first  came  to 


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Richmond  in  1910,  opening  a  shoe  store 
under  the  name  Teeple  Shoe  Company.  He 
developed  this  as  a  very  prosperous  enter- 
prise and  remained  for  seven  and  a  half 
years,  when  he  disposed  of  his  interests  to 
accept  the  post  of  traveling  representative 
of  the  Holland  Shoe  Company  of  Holland, 
Michigan,  with  headquarters  at  Chicago. 
For  a  year  and  a  half  he  interested  the  mer- 
chants of  Chicago  in  his  line,  and  also  trav- 
eled over  the  states  of  Illinois  and  Missouri. 
Mr.  Teeple  then  returned  to  Richmond  and 
bought  a  half  interest  in  his  old  store,  and 
is  now  congenially  and  profitably  located 
as  one  of  the  leading  merchants  of  the  city. 
Mr.  Teeple,  who  is  unmarried,  is  affi- 
liated with  Masonry,  including  the  thirty- 
second  degree  Scottish  Rite  and  Mizpah 
Temple  of  the  Mystic  Shrine  and  in  politics 
is  an  independent  republican. 

Henry  F.  Campbell,  of  Indianapolis,  is 
a  typical  representative  of  the  best  type 
of  American  business  men  today,  virile, 
strong,  aggressive,  successful.  His  name 
has  already  been  associated  with  some  of 
the  outstanding  institutions  of  the  state, 
and  even  more  substantial  results  may  be 
expected  from  him  in  the  future. 

Mr.  Campbell  was  born  at  Williamsport, 
Pennsylvania,  February  26,  1882,  son  of 
Eben  B.  Campbell.  In  1904  he  graduated 
with  the  degree  Civil  Engineer  from  Le- 
high University  and  has  always  had  ex- 
pert technical  qualifications  to  guide  him 
in  his  broad  business  enterprises.  Mr. 
.Campbell  came  to  Indianapolis  in  1908  to 
represent  his  father's  and  his  own  finan- 
cial interests  in  the  Overland  Automobile 
Company  and  the  Marion  Motor  Car  Com- 
pany. In  1910  the  Campbell  interests  in 
these  corporations  were  withdrawn,  since 
which  time  Mr.  Eben  B.  Campbell  has  had 
no  financial  investments  in  Indiana. 

About  that  time  Henry  F.  Campbell  be- 
came associated  with  the  organization  of 
the  Stutz  Motor  Car  Company,  and  was 
one  of  the  men  primarily  responsible  for 
the  development  and  success  of  that  Hoos- 
ier  enterprise.  For  a  short  time  he  was 
president  and  later  was  secretary  and 
treasurer  of  the  corporation  until  Febru- 
ary, 1917,  at  which  time  he  withdrew  from 
the  management. 

The  chief  direction  of  Mr.  Campbell's 
present  activities  is  in  agriculture  and 
stock  raising.  He  is  owner  of  a  two  hun- 
dred fifty  acre  farm  in  Morgan  County, 


Indiana.  On  that  farm  he  has  developed 
the  nucleus  of  a  herd  of  Poland  'China 
hogs  which  are  unexcelled  in  point  of  se- 
lection, breeding  and  other  points  admired 
by  judges  of  swine.  Conducting  a  hog 
ranch  is  not  merely  a  diversion  or  a  labor 
of  love  with  Mr.  Campbell.  It  is  a  busi- 
ness proposition,  and  incidentally  is  doing 
much  for  the  betterment  of  stock  stand- 
ards throughout  the  state.  He  also  owns 
and  operates  a  large  cattle  ranch  in  Col- 
orado and  Wyoming,  stocked  with  about 
2,400  head  of  choice  white  face  Here^fords. 
"With  several  others  Mr.  Campbell  is  in- 
terested in  probably  the  largest  wheat 
ranch  in  the  United  States,  located  in  the 
San  Joaquin  Valley  of  California. 

Mr.  Campbell  is  a  man  of  means  who 
is  never  content  to  be  idle.  He  is  always 
working  and  getting  work  done,  and  his 
presence  in  any  community  is  an  invalua- 
ble asset.  As  a  resident  of  Indianapolis  he 
is  a  member  of  the  Columbia  Club,  is  affil- 
iated with  the  thirty-second  degree  of  Scot- 
tish Rite  Masonry  and  Murat  Temple  of 
the  Mystic  Shrine.  He  is  married  and  has 
two  children. 

Daniel  Wait  Howe,  eminent  lawyer  and 
judge,  was  born  at  Patriot,  Indiana,  Oc- 
tober 24,  1839,  a  son  of  Daniel  Haven  and 
Lucy  (Hicks)  Howe,  and  a  descendant  of 
John  Howe,  the  first  settler  of  Marlbor- 
ough, Massachusetts.  Judge  Howe  gradu-  ■ 
ated  A.  B.  from  Franklin  College  in  1857, 
and  is  a  graduate  of  the  Albany  Law 
School,  LL.  B.,  with  the  class  of  1867.  After 
a  service  in  the  Civil  war,  in  which  he  took 
part  in  many  of  its  hard  fought  battles, 
he  began  the  practice  of  law  at  Franklin 
in  1867,  where  he  also  served  as  city  at- 
torney and  state  prosecuting  attorney.  In 
1873  he  became  a  resident  of  Indianapolis. 
Here  he  served  as  judge  of  the  Superior 
Court  from  1876  until  1890,  when  he  re- 
sumed the  practice  of  the  law,  but  is  now 
retired. 

Judge  Howe  married  Inez  Hamilton,  a 
daughter  of  Robert  A.  and  Susan  Hamil- 
ton, of  Decatur  County,  Indiana. 

Charles  E.  Coffin,  formerly  president 
of  the  Central  Trust  Company  of  Indian- 
apolis and  now  treasurer  of  the  Star  Pub- 
lishing Company,  has  had  an  active  posi- 
tion in  business  and  civic  affairs  at  the 
capital  for  nearly  half  a  century. 

He    was    born    at    Salem,    Washington 


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County,  Indiana,  son  of  Zachariah  T.  and 
Caroline  (Armfield)  Coffin.  His  father 
was  a  tanner  by  trade,  and  enjoyed  a 
highly  respected  place  in  his  community 
and  served  as  justice  of  the  peace.  In 
1862  the  family  removed  to  Bloomington, 
Indiana. 

It  was  in  that  university  town  that 
Charles  E.  Coffin  acquired  part  of  his  edu- 
cation. At  the  age  of  twenty  he  came  t^ 
Indianapolis  and  went  to  work  for  the  real 
estate  firm  of  Wylie  &  Martin.  At  the  end 
of  six  years  his  experience  and  other  quali- 
fications justified  him  in  setting  up  a  busi- 
ness of  his  own,  and  for  over  thirty  years 
Mr.  Coffin  was  one  of  the  leading  experts 
in  realty  values  and  in  handling  many  of 
the  larger  operations  involving  real  estate 
in  the  city.  He  was  not  only  a  broker,  but 
has  to  his  credit  the  opening  up  and  placing 
on  the  market  of  a  number  of  subdivisions 
in  and  around  Indianapolis. 

In  1899  Mr.  Coffin  organized  the  Central 
Trust  Company  and  was  its  president  until 
the  company  sold  its  building  and  business 
to  the  Farmers  Trust  Company.  Mr. 
Coffin  was  also  one  of  the  organizers  of  the 
Indianapolis  and  Eastern  Railroad  Com- 
pany, was  one  of  its  first  stockholders  and 
for  a  number  of  years  its  vice  president. 
He  still  has  a  number  of  interests  in  busi- 
ness organizations,  but  gives  most  of  his 
time  to  his  duties  as  treasurer  of  the  Star 
Publishing  Company. 

Mr.  Coffin  takes  a  due  degree  of  proper 
pride  in  the  fact  that  he  was  one  of  the 
organizers  and  incorporators  of  the  Indian- 
apolis Commercial  Club  in  1890  and  was 
closely  identified  with  the  organization 
through  its  great  constructive  work  in  the 
making  of  a  modern  municipality.  He 
served  as  president  of  the  club  in  1900.  He 
was  also  one  of  the  incorporators  and  served 
;is  a  director  of  the  Country  Club  and 
the  Woodstock  Club,  has  been  a  director 
of  the  Indianapolis  Art  Association,  has 
served  as  a  member  of  the  Board  of  Gov- 
ernors of  the  Indianapolis  Board  of  Trade, 
and  is  now  serving  his  twentieth  year  on 
the  City  Board  of  Park  Commissioners. 
He  is  a  charter  member  of  the  Columbia 
Club,  a  member  of  the  Contemporary  Club, 
the  University  Club,  the  Marion  Club,  the 
Society  of  Colonial  Wars  and  treasurer  of 
the  Indiana  Historical  Society.  Mr.  Coffin 
is  a  republican,  a  member  of  the  Methodist 
Episcopal  Church,  is  a  thirty-second  de'gree 


Mason,  and  a   member  of  Murat  Temple 
of  the  Mystic  Shrine. 

John  F.  Ackerman  has  been  a  promi- 
nent merchant  of  Richmond  for  over  thirty 
years,  and  is  president  of  the  John  F. 
Ackerman  Company,  the  highest  class  dry 
goods  and  notions  store  in  Eastern  In- 
diana. Mr.  Ackerman  is  a  man  of  the 
highest  standing  in  his  community,  and  his 
successful  record  is  due  to  his  long  and 
close  attention  to  his  steadily  increasing 
business  interest.  He  has  little  of  the  thirst 
for  adventure  and  travel  which  made  of  his 
son,  Carl  Ackerman,  one  of  the  most  fam- 
ous correspondents  developed  by  the  great 
war. 

Mr.  Ackerman  was  born  at  Richmond, 
September  7,  1863,  son  of  Herman  Henry 
and  Caroline  Elizabeth  (Kruval)  Acker- 
man. His  father  came  from  Neuenkirchen 
in  Hanover  when  a  young  man  of  thirty 
years,  while  the  mother  came  from  Osna- 
brueck,  Hanover,  at  the  age  of  fifteen. 
Herman  Henry  Ackerman  settled  at  Rich- 
mond and  was  employed  as  an  engineer  by 
Swavne,  Dunn  &  Companv.  He  died  in 
1867. 

John  F.  Ackerman  was  the  second  in 
a  family  of  four  children.  He  attended 
public  school  very  little  during  his  youth, 
completing  only  the  third  grade.  He  then 
went  to  work  at  wages  of  $4  a  week  stack- 
ing tanbark  for  the  Wiggins  tannery,  and 
in  1878  was  employed  as  errand  boy  and 
cashier  by  Leonard  Haynes  &  Company, 
dry  goods  merchants.  He  worked  along 
through  different  responsibilities,  became 
manager  of  the  calico  stock,  woolens,  hos- 
iery, underwear,  and  every  other  depart- 
ment of  the  store,  until  they  went  out  of 
business  in  1888.  In  the  meantime  he  had 
carefully  saved  his  money  and  after  his 
marriage  he  took  charge  of  the  dry  goods 
department  of  the  L.  M.  Jones  Company  in 
1888,  and  remained  there  until  1892,  build- 
ing up  his  branch  of  the  business  to  very 
successful  proportions.  He  and  W.  F. 
Thomas  bought  the  Railroad  store  at 
Eighth  and  L  streets,  and  the  firm  of 
Ackerman  &  Thomas  were  in  business  until 
1899.  He  then  rejoined  the  L.  M.  Jones 
establishment,  and  was  again  manager  of 
the  drygoods  department  until  1902,  in 
which  year  with  Albert  Gregg,  he  bought 
a  half  interest  in  the  Hoosier  store  and 
was  one  of  the  responsible  managers  of  that 


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drygoods  house  until  1910,  when  he  sold 
his  interest.  He  then  enjoyed  a  well 
earned  rest  for  about  a  .year,  and  in  1912 
started  at  his  present  location  on  Main 
Street  the  John  F.  Ackerman  Company, 
which  is  the  premier  store  of  its  kind  han- 
dling dry  goods  and  notions  in  Richmond. 
The  business  is  incorporated  for  $10,000, 
and  has  a  trade  extending  twenty-four 
miles  in  a  radius  around  Richmond.  Mr. 
Ackerman  also  owns  the  building  in  which 
his  store  is  located.  He  is  a  member  of  the 
Commercial  Club,  of  which  his  son  Everett 
is  treasurer.  He  is  independent  in  politics, 
and  a  member  of  the  Trinity  Lutheran 
Church. 

In  1887  Mr.  Ackerman  married  Miss  Mary 
Alice  Eggemeyer,  daughter  of  John  and 
Caroline  (Stiens)  Eggemeyer  of  Richmond. 
The  three  children  of  their  marriage  are 
Carl  W.,  aged  twenty-nine ;  Everett  J., 
aged  twenty-seven,  and  Rhea  Caroline,  age 
twenty-live.  Everett  married  Charlotte 
Allison,  of  Richmond,  in  1912,  and  their 
two  children  are  Margaret  Ann,  born  in 
1916,  and  Thomas  Fielding,  born  in  1918. 
Rhea  Caroline  is  a  graduate  of  the  Reid 
Memorial  Hospital,  where  she  took  a  three 
years'  course  as  a  nurse,  and  has  served 
as  a  nurse  with  the  Red  Cross. 

Carl  W.  Ackerman,  the  famous  war 
correspondent,  is  twenty-nine  years  old  and 
a  native  of  Richmond.  He  graduated 
from  high  school  and  from  1907  to  1911 
was  a  student  in  Earlham  College.  While 
in  college  he  started  the  Press  Club,  the 
college  paper,  and  successfully  managed 
it.  Earlham  conferred  upon  him  an  hon- 
orary degree  in-  June,  1917,  at  the  same 
time  that  Orville  Wright  of  Dayton  was 
similarly  honored.  After  graduating  Carl 
Ackerman  went  to  work  for  the  Sidner- 
Van  Riper  Advertising  Company  of  In- 
dianapolis, serving  nine  months  as  a 
stenographer.  About  that  time  he  heard 
Talcott  Williams  of  the  Columbia  Univer- 
sity School  of  Journalism  talk,  and  nothing 
would  satisfy  him  short  of  a  course  in  that 
newly  established  branch  of  Columbia.  He 
entered  in  1912,  and  after  nine  months 
graduated  as  a  member  of  the  first  class 
of  twelve.  He  soon  received  an  assign- 
ment with  the  United  Press  as  a  detail  and 
office  man,  and  had  two  important  assign- 
ments which  tested  his  mettle  as  a  corres- 
pondent and  reporter.  One  of  these  was  an 
interview  with  President  Wilson.     When 


the   famous    Captain   Becker   of1  the   New 
York    police   scandal   was    convicted  and 
sent  to  Sing  Sing,  Carl  Ackerman  secured 
an  interview  while  Becker  was  on  his  way 
to  prison  and  brought  out  many  facts  not 
before   made   public    concerning   that    re- 
markable conspiracy.     After  three  months 
in   New  York   Carl   Ackerman  was  given 
charge   of   the    Philadelphia   office   of   the 
United  Press,   was  legislative  reporter  at 
Albany,  New  York,  in  the  1913  session,  and 
was  then  sent  to  Washington  to  interview 
all  foreign  embassies,  remaining  there  until 
February,  1915.     He  was  then  given  the 
coveted  honor  of  Berlin  correspondent  for 
the  United   Press,  and  remained  in   Ger- 
many all  through  the  early  years  of  the 
war,  finally  coming  out  with  Mr.  Gerard, 
the     United     States     ambassador,     when 
America    became    involved.    Carl    Acker- 
man's  reports  on  conditions  in   Germany 
have  generally  been  accepted  as  the  clear- 
est and  most  accurate  in  all  the  great  mass 
of  correspondence  that  burdened  the  cables 
during  the  early  years  of  the  war.    Several 
of  his  most  widely  read  articles  were  pub- 
lished in  the  Saturday  Evening  Post,  and 
after  his  return  from  Germany  the  Post 
sent  him  to  Mexico  and  later  to  Switzer- 
land, and  he  reviewed  conditions  in  both 
countries.    He  is  author  of  two  widely  read 
books,  ' '  Germany  the  Next  Republic, ' '  and 
"The  Mexican  Dilemma,"  both  published 
bv  the  George  H.  Doran  Company.     More 
recently  the  New  York  Times  sent  him  as 
eastern    correspondent   to    Japan,    Siberia 
and  China,  and  he  gave  the  first  authentic 
account  for  American  newspapers  concern- 
ing the  murder  of  the  ex-Czar  and  family 
at  Eketerinburg  in  Siberia  by  the  Bolshe- 
vists.    Carl  Ackerman  now  has  his  home 
at    New    Hope,    Pennsylvania.    In    recent 
months  he  has  appeared  before  audiences 
all  over  the  United  States  lecturing  on  his 
war   experiences  and  particularly   on  the 
subject  ' '  The  Menace  of  Bolshevism. ' '    He 
married  Mabel  Van  der  Hoff  of  New  York 
City  in  May,  1913.    They  have  a  son,  Rob- 
ert Van  der  Hoff  Ackerman,  born  in  1914 
in  Germany,  six  months  after  his  parents 
had  gone  to  Berlin.     Carl  Ackerman  is  in- 
dependent in  politics.     He  is  a  member  of 
the  Lotus  Club  of  New  York,  and  an  hon- 
orary member  of  the  Rotary  Club  of  Rich- 
mond.    He  is  also  a  member  of  the  Wash- 
ington Press  Club. 


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Frank  S.  Scheibler.  One  of  the  oldest 
and  best  patronized  establishments  in 
Richmond  for  retail  meats  is  under  the 
present  proprietorship  of  Frank  S. 
Scheibler,  and  it  was  founded  many  years 
ago  by  his  father. 

The  present  proprietor  was  born  at 
Richmond  December  19,  1877,  son  of  Frank 
and  Caroline  '  (Minner)  Scheibler.  His 
father  came  from  Germany  at  the  age  of 
twenty-one,  learned  the  butcher  trade  in 
Cincinnati,  and  then  came  to  Richmond, 
where  he  married  and  where  he  continued 
active  in  business  until  1915.  He  died  in 
1917.  He  was  an  old  and  honored  resi- 
dent of  the  city.  Frank  S.  Scheibler  was 
third  among  four  children.  He  attended 
St.  Andrew's  parochial  schools,  and  after 
leaving  school  at  the  age  of  eighteen  went 
to  work  for  his  father,  and  acquired  a 
thorough  knowledge  of  the  business  in  gen- 
eral details  and  also  became  skillful  on  its 
technical  side.  He  was  with  his  father  for 
several  years  and  since  1915  has  been  ac- 
tive head  of  the  shop. 

Mr.  Scheibler  is  a  republican  in  politics 
and  is  affiliated  with  the  Fraternal  Order 
of  Eagles.  In  1914  he  married  Miss  Hen- 
rietta Lea,  daughter  of  Harry  and  Phili- 
pine  (Miller)  Lea  of  Richmond.  They 
have  two  children :  Joseph,  born  in  1915, 
and  Eleanor,  born  in  1916. 

Robert  Sanpord  Foster.  There  is  noth- 
ing of  which  America  and  Americans  will 
be  more  proud  in  future  years  than  the 
spirit  of  willingness  with  which  men  promi- 
nent in  business  and  social  affairs  have  left 
those  positions  to  engage  in  the  grim  busi- 
ness of  war,  accepting  places  wherever 
duty  called  them,  content  and  satisfied 
only  that  they  could  be  of  use  and  service 
in  forwarding  the  great  cause. 

At  the  time  this  is  written  in  1918  the 
Red  Cross  and  related  activities  call  for 
far  more  of  the  time  and  strength  of  Rob- 
ert Sanford  Foster  than  his  private  busi- 
ness. Mr.  Foster  is  president  of  the  Rob- 
ert S.  Foster  Lumber  Company,  a  business 
which  is  a  continuation  of  the  old  Foster 
Lumber  Company,  established  more  than 
forty-five  years  ago  in  Indianapolis.  The 
name  Foster  probably  has  as  many  and  im- 
portant associations  with  the  lumber  busi- 
ness of  Indiana  as  any  other  that  might 
be  mentioned.     It  is  also  a  name  honored 


and  respected  in  many  ways  in  the  capital 
city. 

The  Fosters  have  been  residents  of  In- 
diana for  more  than  a  century,  and  came 
to  the  bleak  shores  of  New  England  nearly 
three  centuries  ago.  The  first  American 
ancestor  was  Edward  Foster,  a  practicing 
lawyer  from  Kent  County,  England.  He 
arrived  in  America  in  1633  and  founded 
the  Scituate,  Massachusetts,  branch  of  the 
English  Fosters.  For  six  generations  the 
Fosters  remained  in  Massachusetts.  Riley 
Shaw  Foster,  grandfather  of  the  Indian- 
apolis business  man,  was  of  English  and 
New  England  descent,  and  was  a  son  of 
Jonathan  and  Elizabeth  (Wright)  Foster 
of  Bristol,  New  York,  who,  however,  were 
born  and  married  in  Massachusetts.  They 
moved  to  New  York  State  in  1800.  On 
his  maternal  side  Riley  Shaw  Foster  was 
seventh  in  descent  from  Deacon  Samuel 
Chapin,  who  was  the  original  of  St. 
Gaudens  statue  of  "The  Puritan"  at 
Springfield,  Massachusetts. 

Riley  Shaw  Foster  was  born  in  Ontario 
County,  New  York,  December  30,  1810,  and 
came  to  Indiana  in  1814.  He  conducted  a 
furniture  store  and  a  cabinet  making  shop 
at  Vernon  in  Jennings  County,  Indiana, 
and  afterwards  for  many  years  was  the 
leading  druggist  of  that  town.  In  1868  he 
moved  to  Indianapolis,  where  he  lived  re- 
tired. He  was  a  whig  and  republican,  and 
he  and  his  wife  members  of  the  First  Chris- 
tian Church  at  Indianapolis.  Riley  Shaw 
Foster  married  Sarah  J.  Wallace,  a  native 
of  Ireland  and  of  the;  famous  Wallace 
Clan  of  Scotland. 

The  founder  of  the  Foster  lumber  busi- 
ness in  Indianapolis  was  the  late  Chapin 
Clark  Foster,  who  died  at  Indianapolis 
June  28,  1916.  He  was  born  at  Vernon, 
Indiana,  April  15,  1847,  obtained  his  early 
education  in  the  schools  of  his  native  vil- 
lage and  in  1861,  at  the  age  of  fourteen 
entered  the  institution  at  Indianapolis  now 
known  as  Butler  College.  His  studies  there 
were  interrupted  when  on  May  18,  1864,  he 
volunteered  and  enlisted  as  a  private  in 
Company  D  of  the  One  Hundred  and 
Thirty-second  Indiana  Volunteer  Infantry. 
This  regiment  was  in  the  Army  of  the  Cum- 
berland and  he  was  on  duty  the  hundred 
days  of  his  enlistment.  Subsequently  he 
was  assigned  as  a  member  of  the  commis- 
sion   which   took    testimony   and   received 


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claims  made  by  the  citizens  of  Southern. 
Indiana  who  had  been  injured  or  suffered 
property  loss  through  the  raid  of  General 
Morgan  through  that  portion  of  the  state. 
Chapin  Clark  Foster  was  the  youngest  of 
five  brothers  who  served  in  the  Civil  war. 
The  others  were  William  Foster,  in  the 
Morgan  raid,  Major  General  Robert  S. 
Foster,  Captain  Edgar  J.  Foster  and  Cap- 
tain Wallace  Foster. 

After  his  army  service  Chapin  C.  Foster 
continued  his  work  in  Butler  College,  but 
in  the  spring  of  1865  became  disbursing 
officer  for  the  State  Asylum  for  the  Deaf 
and  Dumb  at  Indianapolis.  He  was  there 
for  six  years  and  then  for  two  years  was 
bookkeeper  in  the  old  mercantile  house  of 
L.  S.  Ayers  &  Company.  Chapin  Clark 
Foster  identified  himself  with  the  lumber 
business  at  Indianapolis  in  1872.  From 
that  time  forward  practically  until  his 
death  he  was  one  of  the  leading  lumbermen 
of  Indiana.  He  had  various  business  asso- 
ciates and  operated  under  different  firm 
names,  but  for  many  years  was  president 
and  executive  head  of  the  Foster  Lumber 
Company.  His  success  as  a  lumber  dealer 
naturally  made  him  prominent  in  lumber- 
men's organizations.  He  was  a  charter 
member  and  one  year  president  of  the  In- 
diana Lumbermen's  Association  and  for 
several  years  was  president  of  the  Indiana 
Lumbermen's  Mutual  Insurance  Company. 
He  served  as  vice  president  two  terms  and 
member  of  the  executive  committee  of  the 
Indiana  Manufacturers  Association,  and 
was  a  charter  member  and  for  a  number  of 
years  on  the  executive  committee  and  later 
secretary  of  the  Indianapolis  Employers 
Association.  He  was  also  a  charter  mem- 
ber of  the  Indianapolis  Board  of  Trade, 
served  twice  as  its  vice  president,  was  a 
member  of  the  Indianapolis  Commercial 
Club  from  the  time  of  its  organization  and 
was  its  first  vice  president,  was  the  first 
president  of  the  Columbia  Club  after  its 
incorporation,  was  one  of  the  organizers 
and  incorporators  of  the  Country  Club  and 
its  first  president.  He  was  also  a  member 
of  the  Marion  Club,  charter  member  of 
George  H.  Thomas  Post  No.  17,  Grand 
Army  Republic  and  for  many  years  an 
elder  in  the  First  Presbyterian  Church. 
Politically  he  was  a  devoted  supporter  of 
the  republican  party,  though  he  never 
sought  official  honors. 


Chapin  Clark  Foster  married  in  1873, 
Harriet  Mclntire,  who  is  still  living  in  In- 
dianapolis. She  has  long  been  prominent 
in  social  and  charitable  affairs  and  her 
name  is  permanently  linked  with  Indiana 
authors  and  literary  work.  In  1894  she 
founded  the  Indiana  Society  of  the  Daugh- 
ters of  the  American  Revolution  and  was 
the  first  state  regent,  holding  that  office 
six  years,  and  afterwards  being  made  the 
first  honorary  state  regent.  She  also 
founded  the  first  eight  chapters  in  Indiana. 
Her  father,  Rev.  Dr.  Thomas  Mclntire,  was 
for  twenty-six  jrears  superintendent  of  the 
Indiana  State  Asylum  for  the  Deaf  and 
Dumb  at  Indianapolis,  and  out  of  those 
early  associations  Mrs.  Foster  acquired  a 
knowledge  and  sympathy  which  have  made 
her  an  effective  instrument  in  every  move- 
ment toward  the  solution  of  problems  con- 
nected with  the  administration  of  public 
institutions  for  defective  and  unfortunate 
people.  In  1878,  at  the  request  of  Rev.  0. 
McCullough,  she  wrote  a  pamphlet  upon 
the  education  of  the  feeble  minded,  ad- 
dressed to  the  Legislature  then  sitting,  and 
this  pamphlet  changed  the  minority  vote 
to  a  majority  vote  in  favor  of  building  the 
school  for  the  feeble  minded  at  Fort 
Wayne.  In  1888  she  was  author  of  a  paper 
on  Indiana  Authors,  prepared  for  the 
Indianapolis  Woman's  Club.  This  con- 
tained besides  personal  reminiscences  a  list 
of  over  250  Indiana  writers.  The  paper 
was  widely  used  in  the  public  schools,  In- 
diana University,  Technical  Institute,  and 
Indiana  Library  School.  In  1885  she  also 
prepared  a  Memoir  of  her  father,  Rev.  Dr. 
Thomas  Mclntire,  and  in  1908  she  wrote 
a  Memoir  of  Mrs.  Benjamin  Harrison,  the 
first  President  General  of  the  National  So- 
ciety of  the  Daughters  of  the  American 
Revolution.  Mrs.  Foster  for  many  years 
was  vice  president  for  Indiana  of  the 
Northwest  Genealogical  Society.  She  is 
also  a  member  of  the  Indiana  Historical 
Society  and  of  the  Red  Cross,  and  wrote 
for  the  Indiana  Historical  Society  "Mem- 
ories of  the  National  Road,"  published  in 
the  Indiana  Historical  Magazine  in  March, 
1917.  Mrs.  Foster  is  a  member  of  the  First 
Presbyterian  Church,  and  was  director  and 
secretary  and  is  now  director  emeritus  of 
the  Indianapolis  Orphans  Society.  For 
fourteen  years  she  was  a  member  of  the 
Citizens    Library    Committee,    Public    Li- 


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brary,  and  gave  much  time  to  the  careful 
selection  of  new  books  for  the  public  library 
of  Indianapolis. 

Her  father,  Dr.  Thomas  Mclntire,  was 
born  at  Reynoldsburg,  Ohio,  December  25, 
1815,  and  died  at  Indianapolis  September 
25,  1885.  He  was  educated  in  Hanover 
College  and  Franklin  College,  graduating 
from  the  latter  in  1840  and  from  Princeton 
Theological  Seminary  in  1842.  Forty 
years  of  his  life  were  given  to  the  educa- 
tional and  administrative  work  of  public 
institutions  for  the  deaf  and  dumb.  He 
was  instructor  in  the  Ohio  Deaf  and  Dumb 
Institute  from  1842  to  1845,  founded,  and 
from  1845  to  1850  was  superintendent  of 
the  Tennessee  Deaf  and  Dumb  Institute 
at  Knoxvilie,  Tennessee,  and  following  an 
interval  in  which  he  conducted  a  book- 
store at  Columbus,  was  made  superintend- 
ent in  1852  of  the  Indiana  Deaf  and  Dumb 
Institute,  an  office  he  filled  until  1879. 
From  1879  to  1882  he  was  superintendent 
of  the  Michigan  Deaf  and  Dumb  and  Blind 
Institute  at  Flint,  and  then  founded  the 
Western  Pennsylvania  Institute  for  the 
Deaf  and  Dumb,  where  he  served  from 
1883  until  shortly  before  his  death.  Sep- 
tember 26,  1843,  he  married  Miss  Eliza- 
beth Barr,  of  Columbus,  Ohio,  daughter  of 
John  Barr  and  Nancy  Nelson,  granddaugh- 
ter of  two  of  the  founders  of  Columbus, 
Ohio.  Doctor  and  Mrs.  Mclntire  had  five 
daughters,  Mrs.  Chapin  C.  Foster ;  Alice, 
who  died  in  childhood ;  Mrs.  Merrick  N. 
Vinton,  of  New  York;  Mrs.  Charles  Mar- 
tindale; and  Mrs.  Morris  Ross,  of  Indian- 
apolis. 

Chapin  C.  Foster  and  wife  had  three 
children:  Mary  Mclntire,  Robert  Sanford 
and  Martha  Martindale.  Mary  Mclntire, 
who  died  June  13,  1905,  was  the  wife  of 
Charles  H.  Morrison,  and  mother  of  Robert 
Foster  Morrison,  born  June  10,  1905. 
Martha  Martindale  Foster  married  July  16, 
1911,  Maj.  Howard  C.  Marmon,  United 
States  America,  now  in  command  of  Mc- 
Cook  Aviation  Field  at  Dayton,  Ohio. 

Robert  Sanford  Foster,  whose  career  is 
in  many  important  respects  a  continuation 
of  his  father's  activities  and  influences,  in 
the  City  of  Indianapolis,  was  born  in.  the 
sixteen  block  on  East  Washington  Street, 
Indianapolis,  June  16,  1876.  His  early 
education  and  training  would  have  been 
an  adequate  preparation  for  any  profes- 
sion or  vocation  he  might  have  chosen.    He 


attended  the  Boys  Classical  School  at  In- 
dianapolis, Butler  College,  and  finished  in 
Princeton  University.  He  was  a  student 
at  Princeton  when  Woodrow  Wilson  was 
one  of  the  professors  of  that  institution. 

From  college  he  returned  home  to  be- 
come associated  with  his  father  in  the  lum- 
ber business,  and  several  years  ago  he 
organized  the  R.  S.  Foster  Lumber  Com- 
pany, which  continues  at  the  old  location 
of  his  father's  company.  Mr.  Foster  is 
an  active  member  of  the  Chamber  of  Com- 
merce, the  Columbia  Club,  and  the  First 
Presbyterian  Church. 

His  interests  and  sympathies  and  activi- 
ties have  made  him  respond  to  every  call 
upon  his  services  since  America  entered 
the  great  war.  At  the  present  time  he  is 
serving  as  field  director  of  the  Red  Cross 
for  Fort  Benjamin  Harrison  and  Speed- 
way, and  also  for  the  Vocational  Training 
Detachments  within  the  state. 

October  16,  1906,  Robert  S.  Foster  mar- 
ried Miss  Edith  Jeffries,  daughter  of  Rev. 
W.  H.  and  Elsie  (McFain)  Jeffries.  Her 
father  is  a  graduate  of  Princeton  College. 
Mr.  and  Mi's.  Foster  have  one  daughter, 
Mary  Edith,  born  July  31,  1907. 

i 

Homer  V.  Winn.  Indianapolis  has 
present  abundant  opportunities  to  Homer 
V.  Winn  in  its  business  and  civic  affairs. 
He  is  an  Illinois  man,  but  after  a  varied 
experience  as  a  sales  manager  and  mer- 
chant in  that  state  and  elsewhere,  removed 
to  Indianapolis  and  became  identified  offi- 
cially with  some  of  the  older  organizations 
and  has  helped  promote  some  of  the  newer 
forces  in  the  commercial  and  civic  life  of 
the  capital  city. 

Mr.  Winn  was  born  at  Brocton,  Illinois, 
March  12,  1883,  a  son  of  Marion  and  Sa- 
mantha  H.  (Haines)  Winn.  His  grand- 
father went  to  Edgar  County,  Illinois, 
from  Zanesville,  Ohio,  and  became  a  well 
known  figure  in  that  section  of  the  Prairie 
State.  He  was  a  farmer,  a  republican,  a 
Methodist,  and  died  at  Kansas,  Illinois,  in 
1917,  in  advanced  years.  The  oldest  of 
his  eight  children  was  Marion  Winn,  who 
had  the  distinction  of  being  the  only  re- 
publican sheriff  Edgar  County  ever  had, 
and  even  at  that  he  was  elected  by  the 
largest  majority  ever  given  in  any  previous 
campaign  for  that  office.  He  served  as 
sheriff  of  Edgar  County  from  1894  to 
1902.     He  was  a  man  of  good  education, 


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a  farmer  by  occupation,  and  for  several 
years  has  lived  retired  at  Brocton,  being 
now  sixty-eight  years  of  age.  He  served 
a  number  of  years  as  a  member  of  the 
County  School  Board.  He  is  a  Scottish 
Rite  Mason. 

Homer  V.  Winn  was  the  youngest  of  the 
six  children  of  his  parents  and  received  his 
early  training  in  the  public  schools  of 
Illinois.  For  a  time  he  was  deputy  United 
States  marshal  at  Springfield,  Illinois,  un- 
der Marshal  C.  P.  Hitt.  Later  he  engaged 
in  the  retail  clothing  business  at  Paris, 
Illinois,  under  the  name  of  The  Winn  Com- 
pany, and  was  its  managing  partner.  He 
was  in  that  business  for  ten  years.  He 
also  served  as  .sales  manager  for  the 
Southern  Motors  Company  of  Louisville, 
Kentucky,  and  as  manager  of  the  sales 
promotion  department  of  the  Cadillac 
Company  of  Indiana.  Mr.  Winn  is  now 
giving  most  of  his  time  to  a  broader  serv- 
ice of  sales  organization  and  advertising, 
and  until  March,  1918,  was  member  of  the 
firm  Aldred  and  Winn,  which  was  estab- 
lished in  1915  as  an  advertising  agency, 
especially  adapted  to  the  promotion  of 
sales  of  large  industrial  and  manufactur- 
ing enterprises. 

Mr.  Winn  is  secretary  of  the  Indianap- 
olis Real  Estate  Board  and  is  also  secre- 
tary of  the  Community  Welfare  League, 
which  he  organized  in  1916.  He  is  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Advertising  Club  of  Louisville, 
Kentucky,  and  the  Kiwanis  and  Optimist 
clubs  of  Indianapolis.  December  20,  1906, 
at  Paris,  Illinois,  Mr.  Winn  married  Miss 
Emma  Link.  They  have  a  daughter, 
Katherine,  born  August  20,  1917. 

William  P.  Malott.  The  Malott  fam- 
ily, represented  by  William  P.  Malott  of 
Indianapolis,  is  one  of  the  best  known  in 
Indiana.  The  Malotts  were  pioneers  and 
through  different  generations  have  been 
dynamic  forces  for  business  ability  and 
probity.  None  of  the  name  has  ever  been 
other  than  honorable  and  straightforward 
in  his  relationships,  and  many  of  them 
have  been  real  leaders  in  educational,  re- 
ligious and  charitable  affairs. 

At  a  time  when  the  maps  of  the  western 
country  showed  very  few  towns  and  when 
the  Falls  of  the  Ohio  were  a  conspicuous 
point,  Hiram  Malott,  who  was  of  French 
Huguenot  ancestry,  journeyed  down  the 
Ohio   and   established  his  home  near  the 


Falls  at  the  budding  village  of  Louisville, 
Kentucky.  A  son  of  this  pioneer  Ken- 
tuckian  was  Michael  A.  Malott,  who  was 
born  near  Jeffersontown  in  Jefferson 
County,  Kentucky,  about  ten  miles  from 
Louisville.  He  grew  up  and  married  in 
his  native  state.  His  mother's  maiden 
name  was  Mary  Hawes.  From  Kentucky 
Michael  Malott  moved  across  the  Ohio 
River  into  the  largely  unbroken  and  un- 
settled country  of  Southern  Indiana,  and 
established  a  home  at  Leesville  in  Lawrence 
County.  Still  later  he  removed  to  Bed- 
ford, where  for  years  he  was  prominent  in 
business  and  public  affairs.  He  was  a 
banker,  long  held  the  office  of  president  of 
the  Bedford  Bank,  and  in  1847  was  elected 
to  represent  Lawrence  County  in  the  State 
Senate.  He  was  one  of  the  forceful  men 
in  the  legislative  session  and  in  order  to 
reach  Indianapolis  in  the  absence  of  rail- 
road facilities  from  Lawrence  County  he 
made  the  journey  on  horseback.  He  was 
a  strict  business  man,  proverbially  honest 
and  upright  in  all  his  dealings,  and  his 
record  can  be  recalled  with  satisfaction 
not  only  by  his  family  but  by  all  who  take 
pride  in  Indiana  citizenship.  He  was  a 
democrat  in  politics.  He  died  in  1875. 
The  maiden  name  of  his  wife  was  Elizabeth 
Moonev,  and  of  their  children  the  fifth 
was  William  P.  Malott. 

William  P.  Malott  was  born  at  Bedford, 
Indiana,  February  16,  1840,  one  of  seven 
sons  and  three  daughters.  His  home  re- 
mained at  Bedford  until  1895,  when  he 
came  to  Indianapolis.  As  a  youth  he  re- 
sponded to  the  call  for  military  service 
and  on  July  21,  1861,  upon  the  organiza- 
tion of  the  Twenty-First  Indiana  Infantry, 
he  joined  the  band  and  was  its  leader. 
The  regiment  was  later  reorganized  and 
became  part  of  the  First  Indiana  Heavy 
Artillery.  Mr.  Malott  was  in  service  about 
eighteen  months.  As  the  result  of  a  special 
act  of  Congress  disbanding  all  regimental 
bands  he  was  granted  an  honorable  dis- 
charge at  New  Orleans  September  11,  1863. 
During  his  service  as  band  leader  he  had 
under  him  the  youngest  man  known  to 
have  had  his  name  on  the  muster  rolls  of 
the  United  States  army.  The  name  of  this 
man,  or  rather  boy,  was  Eddie  Black,  who 
at  the  time  of  his  enlistment  was  8%  years 
old.  Mr.  Malott  was  in  the  Butler  cam- 
paign around  the  coast  to  New  Orleans 
and  was  present  when  Baton  Rouge  was 


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conquered  by  the  Union  troops.  On  May 
2,  1862,  his  band  was  the  first  to  play  in 
New  Orleans  after  it  was  captured  by  But- 
ler's army. 

Mr.  Malott  had  begun  his  business 
career  at  the  age  of  sixteen  as  a  dry  goods 
merchant.  In  1874  he  took  up  the  opera- 
tion of  the  Bedford  Woolen  Mills.  In  1882 
he  became  cashier  of  the  Bedford  Bank. 
Since  coming  to  Indianapolis  Mr.  Malott 
has  been  engaged  in  the  retail  coal  busi- 
ness. In  politics  he  is  a  democrat.  In 
1916  he  completed  a  half  century  record 
as  a  member  of  the  Independent  Order  of 
Odd  Fellows.  He  joined  the  order  at  Bed- 
ford and  has  always  kept  his  membership 
there.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Christian 
Church. 

Mr.  Malott  among  friends  and  associates 
has  always  been  noted  for  the  sunshine  of 
his  temperament  and  disposition  and  his 
unselfish  devotion  to  the  amelioration  of 
the  griefs  of  his  fellow  men.  What  he 
has  been  able  to  do  through  acts  of  per- 
sonal kindness  perhaps  furnishes  him  a 
greater  consolation  in  his  declining  years 
than  any  of  his  business  successes.  For 
over  fifty  years  he  was  happily  married. 
Mr.  Malott  is  a  lover  of  music  and  in  his 
younger  days  played  several  instruments. 
His  wife  was  an  accomplished  pianist  and 
often  accompanied  him.  Music  was  one  of 
a  number  of  common  resources  which 
brought  them  the  greatest  of  enjoyment. 
It  was  true  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Malott  that 
they  were  mated  as  well  as  married.  Their 
lives  were  congenial,  and  the  heaviest  sor- 
row Mr.  Malott  has  been  called  upon  to 
bear  was  when  his  beloved  companion  was 
taken  from  him  six  years  ago. 

On  June  20,  1865,  he  married  Florence 
0.  Mitchell,  daughter  of  Jesse  A.  Mitchell. 
Mrs.  Malott  died  October  5,  1913.  They 
were  the  parents  of  six  children :  Frank ; 
Charles  M. ;  Kate,  deceased;  Albert,  de- 
ceased ;  Attia,  who  married  Harvey  B.  Mar- 
tin;  and  Charlotte,  deceased. 

Colonel  John  T.  Barnett.  An  hon- 
ored resident  of  Indianapolis  for  many 
years,  a  native  of  Hendricks  County,  In- 
diana, the  career  of  Colonel  John  T.  Bar- 
nett is  one  that  reflects  honor  upon  his 
native  state.  He  was  the  first  Hendricks 
County  boy  to  graduate  from  the  United 
States  Military  Academy  at  West  Point, 
and  he  saw  much  active  service  as  an  offi- 


cer of  the  regular  United  States  Army  in 
the  far  west  when  that  section  of  the  coun- 
try needed  the  constant  vigilance  and  pro- 
tection of  the  military  forces.  He  also 
has  the  distinction  of  being  the  second  man 
of  Hendricks  County  to  command  a  regi- 
ment in  a  war,  and  was  the  only  demo- 
cratic colonel  in  the  Spanish-American 
war  from  the  State  of  Indiana.  Aside 
from  his  military  record  Colonel  Barnett 
has  long  been  prominent  in  business  af- 
fairs and  in  civic  life. 

He  was  born  three  miles  west  of  Dan- 
ville, Indiana,  September  2,  1851.  He  is 
a  son  of  William  and  Nancy  (Buchanan) 
Barnett,  and  of  most  honorable  ancestry. 
His  mother  was  a  direct  descendant  of 
George  Buchanan,  eminent  as  a  Scottish 
scholar,  historian  and  poet.  Colonel  Bar- 
nett's  maternal  great-grandfather,  Alex- 
ander Buchanan,  was  born  in  Scotland,  a 
member  of  the  old  Buchanan  clan,  and  on 
emigrating  to  the  United  States  became 
identified  with  the  colonial  cause  in  the 
war  for  independence  and  saw  active  serv- 
ice in  a  New  Jersey  regiment  throughout 
the  Revolutionary  war.  Colonel  Barnett 's 
father  was  a  native  of  Virginia.  The  rec- 
ord of  the  family  there  begins  with  John 
Barnett,  who  died  about  the  beginning  of 
the  Revolutionary  war.  James,  son  of 
John,  moved  to  Kentucky  in  1808,  and  was 
a  farmer  and  died  in  Shelby  County. 
William  Barnett,  father  of  Colonel  Bar- 
nett, came  to  Indiana  in  1833  and  was  a 
pioneer  in  Hendricks  County,  where  he 
acquired  land  from  the  government,  and 
it  was  on  that  farm  Colonel  Barnett  was 
born.  William  Barnett  was  unusually 
well  educated  for  his  time  and  was  a 
teacher  as  well  as  a  farmer.  He  gave  each 
of  his  children  the  best  obtainable  educa- 
tional advantages  and  did  much  for  the 
general  cause  of  educational  enlighten- 
ment in  his  home  county.  Colonel  Bar- 
nett 's  father  lived  to  the  age  of  seventy-one 
and  his  mother  died  at  the  age  of  seventy- 
nine. 

As  a  boy  Colonel  Barnett  attended  the 
schools  of  his  native  township  and  also  the 
old  Danville  Academy.  For  one  year  he 
taught  school.  In  1871  he  entered  As- 
bury,  now  DePauw,  University,  and  as  a 
member  of  the  class  of  1875,  completed  his 
freshman  year  in  that  institution.  About 
that  time  upon  the  recommendation  of 
Gen.   John    Coburn,   then  a   congressman, 


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from  his  district,  he  was  appointed  to  a 
cadetship  in  the  United  States  Military 
Academy  at  West  Point,  New  York.  En- 
tering the  Academy  in  June,  1873,  he  grad- 
uated in  June,  1878,  standing  fourteenth 
in  his  class  and  with  specially  creditable 
marks  in  mathematics  and  kindred  sub- 
jects. His  course  had  been  interrupted  in 
the  academy  for  a  year  on  account  of 
severe  illness  from  typhoid  fever.  On  his 
graduation  he  was  assigned  as  second  lieu- 
tenant in  the  Fifth  United  States  Cavalry. 
After  his  leave  of  absence  he  joined  his 
regiment  October  1,  1878,  at  Fort  D.  A. 
Russell,  near  Cheyenne,  Wyoming.  It 
will  serve  to  indicate  the  period  in  which 
Colonel  Barnett's  military  services  were 
rendered  when  it  is  recalled  that  only  two 
years  before  his  graduation  had  occurred 
the  tragedy  of  the  Custer  massacre  in  the 
northwest,  and  for  nearly  a  decade  there- 
after there  was  more  or  less  constant  dan- 
ger of  Indian  uprising.  In  addition  to 
this  special  seiwice  the  United  States 
troops  were  kept  almost  constantly  on  duty 
as  a  primary  source  of  law  and  order  in 
territories  and  domains  where  white  settle- 
ment was  just  beginning  and  where  the 
conditions  of  the  border  still  prevailed. 
Colonel  Barnett  was  an  active  officer  in  the 
regular  United  States  Army  for  nine  years, 
and  was  stationed  at  various  posts  and  on 
detached  duty  both  in  Wyoming  and  Texas. 
On  account  of  disability  incurred  in  the 
line  of  duty  he  was  compelled  to  retire  in 
1886,  and  his  name  has  since  been  on  the 
retired  list  of  the  United  States  Army. 

On  leaving  the  army  Colonel  Barnett 
located  at  Danville,  Indiana,  but  in  1693 
removed  to  Indianapolis.  His  health  hav- 
ing improved  in  the  meantime,  he  engaged 
in  the  hardware  business  at  Piqua,  Ohio, 
in  the  spring  of  1894,  as  the  principal 
owner,  president  and  manager  of  the  Bar- 
nett Hardware  Company.  He  remained  a 
resident  of  that  Ohio  city  until  1899,  when, 
selling  his  interests,  he  returned  to  Indian- 
apolis. Here  he  was  engaged  in  the  phar- 
maceutical business  until  a  return  of  his 
old  disease  caused  him  to  give  it  up. 
Later,  his  health  improving,  he  entered 
the  real  estate,  loan  and  insurance  busi- 
ness, which  he  still  continues  with  offices 
at  50  North  Delaware  Street  in  Indianap- 
olis. His  interest  in  military  affairs  has 
always  been  keen,  and  in  many  ways  he 
has  rendered  invaluable  service  to  his  na- 

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tive  state  in  keeping  up  military  organi- 
zations. In  1893  Governor  Matthews  ap- 
pointed him  assistant  inspector  general  of 
the  Indiana  National  Guard,  with  the  rank 
of  major.  He  resigned  in  1894  on  account 
of  his  absence  from  the  state.  At  the  be- 
ginning of  the  Spanish-American  war  he 
offered  his  services  to  the  secretary  of  war 
and  to  the  governors  of  Indiana  and  Ohio. 
The  Indiana  governor  gladly  availed  him- 
self of  his  experience  and  abilities,  appoint^ 
ing  him  colonel  and  commander  of  the 
159th  Indiana  Volunteer  Infantry.  Fol- 
lowing his  appointment  in  May,  1898,  he 
took  his  regiment  to  Camp  Alger,  Virginia, 
where  the  regiment  was  stationed  and  also 
at  Thoroughfare  Gap  in  the  same  state 
and  at  Camp  Meade,  Pennsylvania, 
throughout  the  following  summer.  The 
regiment  was  mustered  out  at  Camp  Mount 
in  Indianapolis  about  the  last  of  Novem- 
ber, 1898.  During  about  half  of  this  time 
Colonel  Barnett  was  commander  of  his 
brigade,  and  while  at  Camp  Alger  for  a 
short  time  commanded  the  Second  Division 
of  the  Second  Army  Corps. 

Colonel  Barnett  is  a  member  of  the  Sons 
of  the  American  Revolution,  has  served  as 
president  of  the  Indiana  Chapter,  and  has 
been  on  the  Board  of  Managers  since  1899. 
He  is  a  member  of  the  Military  Order  of 
Foreign  Wars,  Spanish  War  Veterans  and 
Spanish  War  Camp,  and  has  been  comman- 
der of  all  these  organizations.  As  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Chamber  of  Commerce  of  In- 
dianapolis he  is  chairman  of  its  military 
committee.  While  at  DePauw  University 
he  was  affiliated  with  the  Sigma  Chi  Greek 
letter  fraternity,  and  was  president  of  the 
Alumni  Chapter  at  Indianapolis  for  a 
year.  He  has  been  a  Mason  since  the  age 
of  twenty-one,  and  in  politics  has  always 
been  identified  with  the  democratic  party 
and  is  a  member  of  the  Democratic  Club 
and  a  member  of  its  advisory  committee. 
He  also  belongs  to  the  Central  Christian 
Church. 

While  his  own  name  will  always  have 
associations  with  the  military  affairs  of  his 
country,  the  military  spirit  and  the  mili- 
tary record  of  the  family  will  not  close 
with  him.  In  the  present  great  World  war 
he  has  two  nephews  who  are  serving  with 
the  rank  of  captain  and  one  who  is  a,  lieu- 
tenant. And  it  must  be  a  source  of  great 
pride  and  satisfaction  to  Colonel  Barnett 
that     his     onlv     living     son     and     child 


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won  distinction  as  an  American  soldier 
and  officer  in  the  present  crisis.  As  a 
major  in  this  great  conflict  he  served  in 
France  for  one  year. 

Colonel  Barnett  married  December  18, 
1879,  Emma  Charlotte  Peirsol,  only  daugh- 
ter of  Isaac  and  Elizabeth  Peirsol,  a  promi- 
nent family  of  Hendricks  County.  Her 
father  was  a  successful  merchant  and 
banker  at  Danville.  Mrs.  Barnett,  who 
died  in  May,  1892,  was  the  mother  of  two 
sons:  William  P.,  who  died  at  birth;  and 
Chester  P.,  born  January  14,  1887.  In 
1893  Colonel  Barnett  married  Cora  B. 
Campbell,  daughter  of  L.  M.  Campbell,  a 
well  known  lawyer  of  Danville,  Indiana. 

Chester  P.  Barnett,  emulating  the  career 
of  his  father  is  a  graduate  of  the  United 
States  Military  Academy  at  West  Point, 
and  was  assigned  with  the  rank  of  second 
lieutenant  to  the  Fifteenth  United  States 
Cavalry.  In  July,  1916,  Governor  Ralston 
of  Indiana  appointed  him  major  of  the 
Third  Battalion  with  the  Third  Regiment 
of  the  Indiana  National  Guard  for  service 
on  the  Texas  border.  He  was  mustered  out 
of  that  service  in  March,  1917,  and  socn 
afterward,  with  the  outbreak  of  the  war 
with  Germany,  was  appointed  major  in  the 
Adjutant  General's  Department  of  the 
United  States  Army  and  put  in  charge 
of  the  Intelligence  Bureau  of  the  Depart- 
ment of  the  East  in  the  latter  part  of  June, 
1917.  From  those  duties,  continued  until 
the  middle  of  December,  1917,  he  was  or- 
dered to  France  as  adjutant  general  of  the 
Second  Brigade  of  Field  Artillery  of  the 
Second  Division  of  regular  troops,  and  is 
now  on  duty  with  the  Expeditionary  Forces 
under  General  Pershing. 

Major  Barnett  has  his  home  in  Indian- 
apolis. He  is  owner  of  a  large  and  val- 
uable estate  in  Hendricks  County.  In  1911 
he  married  Katharine  Davis  Brown,  a 
granddaughter  of  Henry  Gassaway  Davis, 
former  United  States  senator  and  one  time 
democratic  candidate  for  vice  president. 
Major  Barnett  and  wife  have  one  son, 
Davis  Peirsol  Barnett,  born  January  27, 
1913. 

Gene  Stratton  Porter,  who  has  won 
fame  as  an  author,  was  born  on  a  farm  in 
Wabash  County,  Indiana,  in  1868,  and  In- 
diana is  still  her  home.  She  is  a  daughter 
of  Mark  and  Mary  (Shellenbarger)  Strat- 


ton,   and    in    1886    she    was    married    to 
Charles  D.  Porter. 

Among  her  most  celebrated  works  may 
be  mentioned  "Laddie"  and  "The  Girl  of 
the  Limberlost,"  and  her  home  is  Limber- 
lost  Cabin,  Rome  City,  Indiana. 

Harry  B.  Smith.  By  reason  of  the  un- 
precedented conditions  then  prevailing 
there  were  more  interests  and  vital  con- 
siderations involved  in  the  appointment  of 
an  adjutant  general  of  the  state  in  1917 
than  had  been  true  for  the  previous  thirty 
or  forty  years.  To  this  office  Governor 
Goodrich  called  in  January,  1917,  Harry 
B.  Smith,  than  whom  probably  no  man 
in  the  state  was  better  fitted  by  reason  of 
previous  experience  and  long  and  studied 
familiarity  with  state  military  affairs. 

Forty  years  previously,  on  September 
27,  1877,"  Harry  B.  Smith  as  a  private 
joined  the  Indianapolis  Light  Infantry  of 
the  National  Guard.  He  rose  through  the 
different  grades  until  he  became  brigadier 
general.  During  the  Spanish-American 
war  he  was  colonel  of  the  One  Hundred 
and  Fifty-Eight  Indiana  Volunteer  In- 
fantry. Military  technique,  military  or- 
ganization, the  strengthening  of  the  per- 
sonnel and  development  of  an  effective  sys- 
tem, are  all  subjects  with  which  Mr.  Smith 
is  familiar  through  his  forty  years'  ex- 
perience, and  in  his  present  capacity  he  is 
in  a  position  to  infuse  the  proper  spirit 
into  the  military  affairs  still  under  the 
jurisdiction  of  the  state,  and  thereby  ren- 
der a  splendid  service  not  only  to  Indiana, 
but  the  nation  as  well. 

General  Smith  was  born  at  Brownsburg, 
Hendricks  County,  Indiana,  October  20, 
1859,  son  of  Fountain  P.  and  Jane  Z.  (Par- 
ker) Smith.  His  parents  were  natives  of 
Fleming  County,  Kentucky,  and  were  chil- 
dren when  their  respective  families  moved 
to  Hendricks  County,  Indiana.  They  grew 
up  there  and  married,  and  Fountain  P. 
Smith  after  mastering  the  common 
branches  of  learning  in  the  public  >chcols 
attended  the  summer  normal  schools  com- 
mon in  those  days  and  fitted  himself  for 
teaching.  For  a  number  of  years  he  taught 
school,  and  during  the  Civil  war  Avas  in 
the  Quartermaster's  Department.  Tn  Jan- 
uary, 1866,  he  moved  to  Indianapolis,  and 
for  many  years  was  engaged  in  mercantile 
pursuits.    He  died  in  March,  1913,  and  his 


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wife  in  August,  1914.  They  were  the  par- 
ents of  two  sons  and  two  daughters,  Gen- 
eral Smith  being  the  only  survivor. 

The  latter  grew  up  at  Indianapolis  from 
the  age  of  seven,  and  that  city  has  for 
the  most  part  been  his  home  throughout 
his  life.  He  was  educated  in  the  grammar, 
high  and  commercial  schools  of  the  city 
and  for  many  years  was  in  business  as  a 
traveling  representative  of  a  large  steel 
plant.  He  also  became  interested  in  poli- 
tics at  an  early  day,  and  has  been  one  of 
the  stalwart  figures  in  republican  ranks 
for  many  years.  He  was  nominated  and 
elected  auditor  of  Marion  County  in  1894 
and  was  re-elected  in  1898,  filling  that  office 
with  admirable  efficiency  for  eight  years. 

He  is  a  member  of  the  Columbia  and 
Marion  clubs,  and  is  a  Knight  Templar 
and  thirty-second  degree  Scottish  Rite 
Mason  and  a  member  of  the  Mystic  Shrine. 
In  1881  he  married  Miss  Lillie  G.  Boyn- 
ton.  Her  father,  Dr.  Charles  S.  Boynton, 
was  surgeon  of  the  Twenty-Fourth  Indiana 
Volunteer  Infantry  during  the  Civil  war. 
General  and  Mrs.  Smith  have  one  daugh- 
ter, Ethel.  She  is  the  wife  of  James  M. 
Davis,  of  Indianapolis,  and  they  have  a 
daughter,  named  Dorothy. 

John  Lauck  is  president  of  the  South 
Side  State  Bank  of  Indianapolis.  While 
in  point  of  aggregate  resources  this  is  not 
one  of  the  largest  banks  of  the  state,  it 
stands  among  the  best  in  matter  of  solid- 
ity, financial  service  and  in  every  element 
of  true  prosperity.  It  is  to  banks  of 
this  character  that  the  great  bulk  of  the 
nation's  resources  are  committed  and  in 
them  will  be  found  the  representative 
power  and  character  of  American  finance. 
The  South  Side  State  Bank  has  enjoyed  a 
wonderful  growth  since  its  establishment, 
and  while  its  capital  is  still  $50,000  the 
confidence  of  the  public  in  its  manage- 
ment is  reflected  by  over  $500,000  in  de- 
posits, while  the  total  resources  are  over 
$625,000.  Besides  Mr.  Lauck  as  presi- 
dent the  vice  president  is  William  Hart 
and  the  cashier  L.  A.  Wiles. 

The  president  of  the  institution  has 
spent  nearly  all  his  life  in  Indianapolis 
and  is  a  son  of  Michael  Lauck,  a  native  of 
Germany,  born  in  Alsace,  the  border  coun- 
try between  Germany  and  Prance,  in  1818. 
He    was    of    German    ancestrv-      However 


much  America  may  at  the  present  time  re- 
gard with  distress  and  fear  the  methods 
and  character  of  the  ruling  house  in  the 
German  Empire,  there  is  reason  for  all 
the  more  emphasis  upon  the  sterling  char- 
acter of  the  real  German  people,  particu- 
larly those  who,  impelled  by  a  spirit  of 
freedom,  left  that  country  in  the  eventful 
days  of  the  '40s  and  transplanted  their 
homes  and  their  ideas  to  free  America. 
Michael  Lauck  was  a  real  product  of  the 
German  revolution  of  1848.  Up  to  that 
time  he  had  lived  in  the  old  country  and 
had  learned  and  followed  the  architectural 
iron  worker's  trade.  In  Germany  he  mar- 
ried Mary  Augustin.  On  account  of  the 
political  struggles  which  drove  thousands 
of  the  best  sons  of  Germany  to  the  New 
World  following  1848,  he  came  to  America 
in  1849,  and  lived  for  some  years  in  Pitts- 
burgh, New  Orleans,  and  Newport,  Ken- 
tucky. In  1861  Michael  Lauck  brought  his 
family  to  Indianapolis,  and  this  was  his 
home  until  his  death  in  1866.  Soon  after 
coming  to  America  he  became  a  naturalized 
citizen  and  none  could  surpass  him  in 
loyalty  to  the  land  of  his  adoption.  He 
was  a  democratic  voter,  and  a  member  of 
the  Catholic  Church.  He  and  his  wife  had 
nine  children,  the  three  now  living  being 
Peter  W.,  John  and  Anthony  J.,  all  resi- 
dents of  Indianapolis. 

Mr.  John  Lauck  was  born  in  Kentucky 
in  March,  1854,  and  came  to  Indianapolis 
with  his  parents  at  the  age  of  seven  years. 
Here  he  attended  the  parochial  schools,  and 
in  1882  engaged  in  business  for  himself 
in  the  sheet  metal  and  hardware  trade. 
He  was  active  in  that  line  until  1912,  and 
still  has  large  interests  in  the  business,  be- 
ing vice  president  of  the  Indianapolis  Cor- 
rugating Company. 

He  was  one  of  the  men  who  organized 
the  South  Side  State  Bank  in  1912,  and 
the  service  of  that  institution  and  its  rapid 
growth  and  prosperity  must  be  largely 
credited  to  his  efficient  management  as 
president  from  the  beginning. 

Mr.  Lauck  is  a  democrat  and  a  member 
of  the  Catholic  Church.  In  1881  he  mar- 
ried Caroline  Wagner.  They  became  the 
parents  of  nine  children.  Three  are  de- 
ceased, George,  Gertrude  and  Clara.  Those 
still  living  are:  John  P.,  Charles  M., 
Frank  A.,  Agnes  J.,  Albert  F.  and  Cecelia. 
Agnes  is  now  Mrs.  August  Mueller. 


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Austin  B.  Gates.  Of  the  older  Indiana 
families  few  have  sustained  so  well  their 
pristine  vigor  and  have  shown  greater 
ability  to  adapt  themselves  to  the  chang- 
ing conditions,  whether  those  of  the  wilder- 
ness or  modern  business  affairs,  as  the 
family  of  Gates.  It  is  widely  and  honor- 
ably known  in  several  counties  of  the  state, 
and  a  number  of  the  family  have  been  and 
are  connected  with  the  City  of  Indianap- 
olis. 

Of  the  older  generation  one  of  the  last 
survivors  was  the  late  Austin  B.  Gates, 
who  died  at  his  home  in  Indianapolis  Feb- 
ruary 1,  1909.  Throughout  a  long  and 
active  career  he  was  identified  with  many 
branches  of  the  livestock  industry  and  was 
best  known  to  Indianapolis  people  through 
having  founded  a  livery  stable  at  Alabama 
and  Wabash  streets  in  1864,  an  institution 
which  he  conducted  until  his  death,  for  a 
period  of  forty-five  years. 

His  earliest  ancestor  of  whom  there  is 
record  was  Joshua  Gates,  his  grandfather, 
who  lived  and  probably  died  in  the  State 
of  New  York.  The  father  of  Austin  B. 
Gates  was  Avery  Gates,  who  was  born  in 
New  York  State  May  22,  1780.  He  mar- 
ried there  Polly  Toby,  and  early .  in  the 
last  century  brought  his  wife  and  one  child 
to  the  trackless  wilderness  of  the  West, 
traveling  down  the  Ohio  Eiver  on  flat- 
boats,  and  about  1807  located  on  land  near 
Connersville  in  Fayette  County,  Indiana. 
As  the  date  indicates,  he  was  there  seven 
or  eight  years  before  Indiana  was  admitted 
to  the  Union  and  his  home  was  in  fact 
on  the  very  northern  frontier  of  the  then 
inhabited  section  of  Indiana.  His  children 
grew  up  in  the  midst  of  the  wilderness 
filled  with  wild  game  and  Indian  neigh- 
bors. Avery  Gates  was  a  farmer  and  stock- 
man and  also  operated  a  sawmill  in  Fay- 
ette County.  He  died  January  4,  1865, 
and  his  widow  on  September  9,  1873.  They 
had  seven  children :  Celina,  who  was  born 
in  New  York  State  and  came  west  with  her 
parents  in  infancy ;  Avery  B.,  who  was 
the  first  child  born  in  Indiana,  the  date 
of  his  birth  being  January  14,  1808 ; 
Luiann;  Emeline;  Caroline;  Alfred  B., 
who  was  born  November  13,  1823,  and  con- 
cerning whom  and  his  branch  of  the  Gates 
family  more  particulars  will  be  found  on 
other  pages  of  this  publication ;  and 
Austin  B. 

Austin   B.    Gates,    the   youngest    of   his 


father's  family,  was  born  near  Conners- 
ville, on  a  farm  in  Fayette  County,  July 
22,  1825.  That  he  was  of  most  hardy 
and  long  lived  stock  is  indicated  by  the 
fact  that  he  and  all  the  other  children 
were  close  to  or  past  the  age  of  four  score 
when  they  died.  He  lived  with  his  parents 
until  after  his  marriage,  attended  sub- 
scription schools  in  the  country,  worked  on 
the  farm  and  also  helped  his  father  in 
the  operation  of  the  sawmill.  In  early 
manhood  he  carried  out  a  plan  which  he 
had  carefully  considered  of  going  to  Iowa, 
which  in  the  meantime  had  become  the 
western  frontier,  and  there  bought  up 
cattle  and  drove  them  on  the  hoof  to  Cin- 
cinnati to  market.  These  early  activities 
as  a  cattle  drover  gave  him  his  start  in 
life.  During  the  Civil  war  period  the  old 
homestead  was  sold  and  the  family  re- 
moved to  Dublin,  Indiana.  Here  Austin 
B.  Gates,  through  his  interest  in  livestock, 
established  a  livery  business  and  operated 
a  feed  and  sales  barn.  From  there  he  re- 
moved to  Indianapolis  in  1864,  and  con- 
tinued the  livery  business  as  above  stated. 
While  the  Civil  war  was  in  progress  he  also 
was  a  Government  contractor,  buying  up 
horses  and  mules  all  over  the  country. 
Even  into  old  age  he  continued  operations 
as  a  livestock  dealer.  While  at  Dublin  he 
had  organized  the  firm  of  Gates  &  Pray, 
auctioneers,  and  this  firm  became  widely 
known  throughout  the  entire  State  of  In- 
diana. 

Austin  B.  Gates  is  remembered  as  an 
exceedingly  reserved  man,  quiet  but  firm, 
generous  to  a  fault.  He  was  slow  to  make 
up  his  mind  but  when  once  made  up  he 
was  rarely  moved  from  his  objective.  He 
was  kind  and  just  in  his  family,  but  held 
a  firm,  governing  hand.  He  could  not  re- 
sist the  importunities  of  the  unfortunate, 
and  this  failing  cost  him  the  greater  part 
of  his  wealth.  Few  men  had  more  friends 
than  Austin  B.  Gates. 

On  February  10,  1863,  at  Dublin,  In- 
diana, he  married  Emily  Thayer.  She  sur- 
vived him  and  died  in  Indianapolis  May 
14,  1911.  They  were  the  parents  of  six 
children :  Mamie  E. ;  Frank,  deceased ; 
Frederick  E. ;  Stella  F.,  wife  of  Robert  W. 
Jordan ;  Anna,  deceased ;  and  Ernest  M. 

An  active  representative  of  the  family 
in  business  affairs  at  Indianapolis  today  is 
Frederick  E.  Gates,  who  was  born  at  In- 
dianapolis October  6,  1866.     He  was  edu- 


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cated  in  the  public  schools  and  when  still 
a  boy  started  out  to  make  his  own  way  in 
the  world.  His  first  employment  was  as  a 
designer  of  tiles  in  the  employ  of  the 
United  States  Encaustic  Tile  Works.  The 
tile  business  in  its  various  ramifications 
has  been  his  chief  line  of  work  ever  since. 
A  thorough  groundwork  and  experience 
was  acquired  in  the  six  years  he  spent  with 
the  Encaustic  Company.  From  that  he 
started  for  himself  in  the  wood  mantle  and 
tile  business,  and  on  abandoning  this  he 
removed  to  Cincinnati,  where  for  several 
years  he  was  in  the  marble  mosaic  tile  busi- 
ness. In  1898,  returning  to  Indianapolis, 
Mr.  Gates  founded  a  new  industry  under 
his  individual  name,  and  in  1905  incor- 
porated the  F.  E.  Gates  Marble  &  Tile 
Company.  In  1912  this  company  estab- 
lished at  Brightwood  the  first  and  only 
marble  mill  in  Indiana.  It  is  a  flourish- 
ing and  distinctive  industry. 

Mr.  Gates  is  a  republican,  a  Knight  Tem- 
plar Mason,  also  a  thirty-second  degree 
Scottish  Rite  Mason  and  is  affiliated  with 
Murat  Temple  of  the  Mystic  Shrine.  In 
August,  1888,  he  married  Miss  Belle  M. 
Beatty,  who  died  November  26,  1916,  leav- 
ing three  daughters,  Grace  E.,  Dorothy  W. 
and  Emily. 

! 

Charles  E.  Carter  has  been  a  resident 
of  Anderson  more  than  fifteen  years,  much 
of  his  time  having  been  taken  up  by  em- 
ployment with  the  industries  of  that  city, 
but  he  is  now  the  capable  manager  of  the 
Atlantic  and  Pacific  Tea  Company  store  of 
the  city.  While  this  is  one  of  hundreds  of 
similar  stores  scattered  throughout  the 
country,  exemplifying  the  standard  meth- 
ods and  merchandise  of  a  business  which 
has  found  favor  with  the  American  buy- 
ing public,  it  is  also  true  that  no  small  part 
of  the  success  of  the  Anderson  store  is  due 
to  the  personality  and  the  ability  of  its 
manager. 

Mr.  Carter  was  born  at  Hartford  City, 
Indiana,  October  3,  1875,  a  son  of  Isaac 
J.  and. Mary  (Reynolds)  Carter.  He  is  of 
Scotch-Irish  stock,  but  the  family  has  been 
in  America  for  many  generations.  Mr. 
Carter  grew  up  as  a  farm  boy  and  attended 
the  public  schools  of  Fairmont  in  Grant 
County.  At  the  age  of  sixteen  he  went 
to  work  in  a  restaurant  as  a  cook,  and  dur- 
ing his  spare  hours  attended  public  school. 
He  was  with  that  restaurant  four  years, 


and  then  became  a  "gatherer"  in  a  glass 
factory  at  Converse,  Indiana.  His  next  job 
was  in  a  tin  plate  mill  at  Elwood,  Indiana, 
as  "catcher,"  and  that  was  his  principal 
work  for  a  period  of  fourteen  years.  The 
factories  with  which  he  was  connected  were 
part  of  the  American  Sheet  Steel  &  Tin 
Plate  Company,  and  in  1902  Mr.  Carter 
moved  to  Anderson  and  went  to  work  in 
the  local  mill  of  the  corporation  here. 

On  leaving  the  mills  he  formed  a  part- 
nership with  Joseph  Sobell  in  the  Sobell 
Furniture  Company.  At  the  end  of  two 
and  a  half  years  he  sold  out  and  started 
a  craftsman  shop  and  did  a  successful 
business  in  manufacturing  period  and 
antique  furniture.  When  he  retired  from 
that  business  a  year  and  a  half  later  he 
became  solicitor  for  the  Atlantic  and  Pa- 
cific Tea  Company,  and  from  that  in  Sep- 
tember, 1916,  was  promoted  to  the  man- 
agement of  the  Anderson  business. 

In  1899  Mr.  Carter  married  Miss  Pearl 
Lehman,  daughter  of  Samuel  Lehman. 
They  have  two  children,  Virginia,  born  in 
1900,  and  Cleon,  born  in  1902.  Mr.  Car- 
ter is  a  republican  and  a  member  of  the 
Christian  Missionary  Alliance. 

John  H.  Ryan,  of  Anderson,  is  one  of 
the  well  equipped  young  business  men  who 
have  turned  their  faculties  and  energies  to 
the  comparatively  new  field  created  by  the 
automobile  industry.  He  is  proprietor  of 
the  Automoble  Company  of  Anderson,  and 
is  the  leading  sales  agent  in  that  city  and 
in  eight  adjoining  townships  of  Madison 
County  for  the  Maxwell  car.  Mr.  Ryan  is 
regarded  as  an  expert  in  many  lines  of 
automobile  manufacture  and  salesmanship, 
and  went  into  the  business  with  an  equip- 
ment and  training  which  would  have  made 
him  successful  in  almost  any  other  line  of 
work  which  he  had  chosen. 

Mr.  Ryan  was  born  in  Jackson  Town- 
ship of  Madison  County  October  3,  1887, 
and  representing  as  he  does  one  of  the 
oldest  pioneer  families  in  that  section  of 
the  state  it  is  important  that  some  of  the 
record  should  be  noted  in  this  publication. 

He  is  descendant  in  the  fifth  generation 
from  George  Ryan,  a  native  of  Scotland, 
who  on  coming  to  America  settled  in 
Pennsylvania  and  followed  his  trade  as  a 
millwright  until  his  death.  The  next  gen- 
eration is  represented  by  Davis  Ryan,  who 
was  born   near  Pittsburgh,   Pennsylvania, 


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and  became  an  early  settler  in  Boss  County, 
Ohio,  where  he  followed  the  same  trade  as 
his  father.  About  1837  he  moved  to  In- 
diana and  established  a  home  near  Straw- 
town,  where  he  lived  until  his  death,  at  the 
age  of  seventy-six.  He  married  Mary  Peck, 
a  native  of  Virginia  and  of  German  an- 
cestry, whose  parents  were  pioneers  in 
Hamilton  County,  Indiana.  John  Ryan, 
grandfather  of  John  H.  Ryan  of  Anderson, 
was  born  in  Ross  County,  Ohio,  March 
11,  1822,  and  was  about  fifteen  years  of 
age  when  his  parents  moved  to  Indiana. 
After  reaching  manhood  he  moved  to  Madi- 
son County  and  secured  a  tract  of  heavily 
timbered  land,  having  to  clear  away  a  part 
of  the  woods  in  order  to  make  room  for 
his  humble  log  house.  He  was  one  of  the 
pioneer  agriculturists  of  Madison  County, 
where  he  lived  until  his  death  at  the  age 
of  fifty-five.  He  married  Lovina  Wise. 
Her  family  was  especially  conspicuous  in 
the  settlement  and  development  of  Jackson 
Township,  and  her  father,  Daniel  Wise, 
entered  the  first  tract  of  Government  land 
in  that  township. 

John  H.  Ryan  is  a  son  of  Noah  and 
Samantha  (Wise)  Ryan,  who  are  still  liv- 
ing on  their  old  homestead  in  Jackson 
Township.  Noah  Ryan  is  one  of  the  oldest 
native  residents  of  Madison  County,  where 
he  was  born  October  24,  1845,  in  the  log 
house  built  by  his  parents  in  Jackson  Town- 
ship. Though  the  opportunities  for  an 
education  during  his  youth  were  limited, 
he  acquired  more  than  an  average  train- 
ing in  the  local  schools  and  academies,  and 
for  four  years  was  a  teacher.  Aside  from 
that  his  chief  activity  has  been  as  a  farmer, 
and  since  1879  he  has  lived  on  one  farm 
in  Jackson  Township.  He  married  De- 
cember 2,  1869,  Samantha  Wise,  also  a 
native  of  Jackson  Township. 

The  youngest  child  and  only  son  of  four 
children,  John  H.  Ryan  grew  up  in  the 
rural  surroundings  of  Jackson  Township, 
attended  the  district  schools  there,  and  in 
1906  graduated  from  the  Anderson  High 
School.  In  1907  he  entered  Purdue  Uni- 
versity, and  made  the  most  of  his  opportu- 
nities in  that  splendid  institution  of  learn- 
ing, from  which  he  was  graduated  Bachelor 
of  Science  in  1912.  In  the  meantime  for 
four  years  he  had  been  associated  with  his 
father  under  the  name  Ryan  &  Son  in  con- 
tracting for  road  building  in  Madison 
County.      From    that   business    he   turned 


his  attention  in  the  fall  of  1913  to  the  auto- 
mobile industry,  opening  salesrooms  as 
agent  for  the  Maxwell  cars  at  Anderson. 
In  the  spring  of  1915  he  built  a  well 
equipped  garage,  known  as  the  Auto  Inn, 
but  in  January,  1917,  sold  this  part  of  his 
business,  and  now  concentrates  his  chief  at- 
tention upon  his  sales  agency  at  1225  Me- 
ridian Street  under  the  name  Ryan  Auto- 
mobile Company,  of  which  he  is  sole  pro- 
prietor. He  is  also  a  stockholder  and  di- 
rector in  the  Baker,  Ryan  &  Coons  Com- 
pany, general  distributors  of  the  Maxwell 
cars. 

In  1913  Mr.  Ryan  married  Mary  Aldred, 
of  a  well  known  family  of  farmers  near 
Lapel,  Indiana,  daughter  of  R.  K.  and 
Laura  (Conrad)  Aldred.  They  have  one 
child,  Margaret,  born  in  1915.  Politically 
Mr.  Ryan  is  an  independent  republican. 
His  father  is  also  a  republican  and  cast  his 
first  vote  for  General  Grant. 

Julius  W.  Pinnell,  who  became  identi- 
fied with  the  lumber  business  in  Indiana 
thirty-five  years  ago  and  has  since  become 
one  of  the  best  known  men  in  the  field  in 
that  state,  was  recently  honored  with  elec- 
tion as  president  of  the  Indiana  Lumber- 
men's Mutual  Fire  Insurance  Company, 
with  headquarters  at  Indianapolis. 

He  represents  an  old  and  prominent  fam- 
ily of  Boone  County,  Indiana.  His  father, 
James  H.  Pinnell,  who  died  in  1893  at  Le- 
banon in  that  county,  was  a  native  of  Vir- 
ginia but  when  a  small  child  was  taken  by 
his  parents  to  Oldham  County,  Kentucky, 
and  grew  up  on  a  Kentucky  farm.  His  first 
wife  was  a  Miss  Wilhoit,  who  bore  him  six 
children.  Farming  was  his  early  occupa- 
tion in  Kentucky  and  in  1856  he  left  that 
state  and  came  to  Indiana,  locating  in 
Boone  County.  There  he  resumed  farm- 
ing, and  as  a  side  line  bought  and  became 
identified  with  several  local  enterprises. 
He  was  one  of  the  leading  men  of  his  day 
in  Boone  County,  active,  intelligent,  pro- 
gressive, and  commanded  everywhere  he 
was  known  much  respect.  He  was  success- 
ful in  a  business  way.  He  was  a  democrat 
in  polities  but  was  always  too  busy  to  seek 
or  aspire  to  office.  He  is  remembered  by 
those  who  knew  him  as  a  generous,  chari- 
table and  public  spirited  citizen  and  an 
active  member  of  the  Christian  Church. 
James  H.  Pinnell  married  for  his  second 
wife    Avaline    (Bramblett)    Higgins.      By 


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her  first  marriage  she  had  two  children, 
Judge  B.  S.  Higgins,  of  Lebanon,  Indiana, 
and  William  L.  Higgins,  of  Indianapolis. 

Julius  W.  Pinnell,  only  child  of  his 
father  and  mother's  second  marriage,  was 
born  in  Boone  County,  Indiana,  October 
30,  1858.  He  grew  up  on  a  farm  there, 
moved  to  Lebanon  in  1880,  and  since  1898 
has  been  a  resident  of  Indianapolis.  He 
is  a  pioneer  in  the  lumber  industry,  has 
financial  interests  in  thirteen  retail  yards, 
and  is  also  vice  president  of  the  First 
National  Bank  of  Lebanon,  director  and 
stockholder  in  the  Citizens  Loan  and  Trust 
Company  of  Lebanon,  and  still  owns  a  large 
farm  near  that  city. 

As  a  boy  he  attended  country  schools 
and  in  1877  entered  old  Asbury,  now  De- 
Pauw,  University  at  Greencastle.  His  col- 
lege career  completed,  he  engaged  in 
country  schools  teaching  for  four  years, 
and  when  not  in  the  school  room  indus- 
triously followed  farming.  In  1880  he 
went  to  work  as  a  clerk  for  his  half  brother, 
W.  L.  Higgins,  who  was  then  a  grain  mer- 
chant and  also  had  a  lumber  yard  at  Leb- 
anon. 

At  the  time  of  Mr.  Pinnell 's  election 
as  president  of  the  Indiana  Lumbermen's 
Mutual  Fire  Insurance  Company  the  St. 
Louis  Lumberman  published  an  interesting 
sketch  of  his  career  and  as  it  is  a  good  de- 
scription of  the  experiences  which  made 
him  a  big  factor  in  the  lumber  business  of 
the  state  the  following  paragraphs  are  sub- 
joined as  a  part  of  the  present  article : 

"Mr.  Higgins  disposed  of  his  elevator 
and  grain  business  in  August,  1882,  and 
induced  Mr.  Pinnell  to  take  over  the  lumber 
business,  the  stock  of  which  invoiced  fifteen 
hundred  dollars.  Mr.  Pinnell  possessed  five 
hundred  dollars,  earned  as  a  school  teacher, 
to  apply  on  the  purchase.  There  was  very 
little  pine  lumber  sold  in  that  neighbor- 
hood when  Mr.  Pinnell  entered  the  busi- 
ness, Boone  County  being  heavily  timbered 
with  such  hard  woods  as  poplar,  oak,  ash 
and  walnut,  and  these  native  lumbers  ac- 
cordingly were  used  almost  exclusively  ex- 
cept for  shingles,  sash  and  doors.  Mr.  Pin- 
nell applied  himself  to  the  lumber  business 
with  the  same  energy  that  he  applied  to 
teaching  school  and  running:  the  grain  busi- 
ness. He  did  all  the  work  himself  and  at 
the  end  of  the  first  year  had  sold  ten  thou- 
sand dollars  worth  of  stock.  He  proceeded 
at  once  to  make  improvements  in  his  yards 


and  sheds  and  to  put  things  in  order  for 
the  extension  of  his  business  on  a  more 
modern  basis.  It  was  hard  work  but  he 
stuck  to  it,  although  at  times  he  became 
so  weary  of  the  load  he  was  carrying  that 
he  was  prompted  to  throw  up  his  hands 
and  go  back  to  the  farm. 

"In  the  town  at  that  time  there  was  a 
large  planing  mill  which  did  all  kinds  of 
planing  mill  work  and  in  addition  carried 
a  general  stock  of  building  material,  and 
the  owners  enjoyed  a  large  prestige  by  rea- 
son of  their  facilities.  Mr.  Pinnell  was 
quick  to  see  that  in  order  to  keep  pace  with 
his  competitors  he  would  have  to  go  and 
do  likewise.  He  accordingly  secured  power 
from  a  machine  shop  and  installed  such 
planing  mill  machinery  as  his  scanty  means 
enabled  him  to  do.  His  business  immedi- 
ately began  to  grow  and  he  added  to  his 
machine  equipment  from  time  to  time. 
Later  his  income  justified  him  in  building 
a  small  planing  mill,  and  as  the  years  went 
by  it  was  increased  in  size  and  capacity 
until  finally  the  output  included  interior 
finish,  veneered  doors,  etc.  While  other 
yard  men  and  retailers  looked  with  dis- 
favor upon  the  planing  mill  proposition, 
Mr.  Pinnell  considered  it  one  of  his  most 
valuable  assets  in  increasing  the  volume 
of  his  business  and  also  found  it  a  con- 
siderable source  of  profit.  The  business 
grew  with  the  passing  years  and  he  found 
many  imitators  in  the  country  round  about. 

"Mr.  Pinnell  secured  as  his  assistants 
the  very  best  men  possible  to  be  had  in  the 
several  departments  of  the  plant,  and  their 
industry  and  fidelity  were  rewarded  by 
giving  them  an  interest  and  participation 
in  the  profits  of  the  company.  As  a  result 
of  this  his  business  grew  and  prospered 
continuously  and  he  succeeded  in  gather- 
ing about  him  a  corps  of  lieutenants  second 
to  none  in  the  state  of  Indiana.  These 
men  developed  along  with  himself,  most  of 
them  becoming  citizens  of  standing  and 
prestige  both  financially  and  morally  in 
the  community  in  which  they  live.  Some 
of  them  are  now  directors  of  banks  and 
trust  companies  and  are  filling  places  of 
honor  in  the  cities  and  communities  where 
they  reside.  While  Mr.  Pinnell  is  proud 
of  his  success  as  a  lumberman  and 
financier,  he  is  more  than  proud  of  the 
records  made  by  the  men  who  have  been 
associated  with  him,  two  of  whom  have 
held  positions  as  postmasters  in  presiden- 


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tial  offices  paying  large  salaries,  one  of 
them  becoming  mayor  of  the  town  in  which 
he  lived  and  others  occupying  positions  of 
high  honor  and  trust. 

"As  president  of  the  Indiana  Lumber- 
man's Mutual  Fire  Insurance  Company 
J.  W.  Pinnell  will  bring  to  its  administra- 
tion the  large  fund  of  valuable  experience 
which  he  has  had  during  his  many  years 
in  connection  with  the  lumber  business 
and  with  the  financial  institutions  of  Leb- 
anon and  the  country  round  about." 

The  Indiana  Lumbermen's  Insurance 
Company  was  organized  in  1897  as  a  mu- 
tual company,  primarily  for  the  benefit 
and  service  of  Indiana  retail  lumber  deal- 
ers. It  was  founded  as  a  protection  and  a 
saving  against  the  arbitrary  and  high  rates 
for  indemnity  by  board  companies.  For 
several  years  the  business  was  conducted 
on  the  original  plan,  adhering  to  a  local 
and  intra-state  business,  but  its  success  at- 
tracted outside  attention,  and  gradually  the 
business  grew  until  today  policy  holders 
are  found  in  every  state  of  the  Union  and 
also  in  Canada.  In  fact  the  company's 
business  in  Indiana  is  only  a  little  more 
than  a  tenth  of  the  total  volume.  It  is  a 
strictly  mutual  company,  every  policy 
holder  being  a  stockholder  and.  getting 
insurance  absolutely  at  cost.  Its  manage- 
ment has  always  been  entrusted  to  repre- 
sentatives and  successful  lumbermen.  The 
company  had  been  in  existence  five  years 
before  its  gross  assets  passed  the  $100,000 
mark,  but  during  the  last  dozen  years 
these  assets  have  mounted  rapidly,  passing 
the  $1,000,000  mark  in  1912  and  at  present 
more  than  $2,000,000.  Mr.  J.  W.  Pinnell 
has  had  an  active  part  in  this  business  from 
the  beginning,  being  elected  vice  president 
when  the  company  was  organized,  and  re- 
maining in  that  office  until  elected  pres- 
ident in  1916. 

Mr.  Pinnell  is  a  democrat  and  a  member 
of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church.  In 
November,  1879,  he  married  Miss  Mary  E. 
Lewis,  daughter  of  Harvey  Lewis.  The 
Lewis  family  lived  on  a  farm  adjoining 
that  of  the  Pinnells  in  Boone  County.  The 
four  living  children  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Pin- 
nell are:  Mary  L.,  wife  of  Dr.  N.  P.  Gra- 
ham ;  William  Ormal ;  James  Victor ;  and 
Herbert. 

Louis  W.  CvRNEprx^  Irrespective  of 
commercial  ratings  the  most  successful  men 


in  the  world  are  those  who  early  or  late 
fix  their  purpose  upon  a  definite  goal  and 
strive  unrelenting  and  with  no  heed  to 
sacrifice  of  effort  and  personal  ease  to  at- 
tain that  goal.  In  other  words,  they  know 
where  they  are  going  and  they  go  steadily 
in  one  direction  without  wavering  or  fal- 
tering. 

It  is  this  quality  of  steadfastness  and 
purposeful  energy  which  distinguishes 
Louis  W.  Carnefix  as  one  of  the  successful 
business  men  of  Indianapolis.  He  was  born 
in  Bedford  County,  Virginia,  in  1880,  a 
son  of  Charles  and  Sallie  (Panel)  Carnefix, 
natives  of  the  same  state.  He  was  or- 
phaned at  an  early  age,  his  mother  dying 
when  he  was  only  five  years  old  and  he 
was  the  oldest  of  three  children.  Thus  it 
befell  that  he  could  make  no  practical  ac- 
count of  the  old  and  prominent  family  an- 
cestry which  he  possesses.  The  Carnefix 
family  is  of  French  Huguenot  origin,  and 
for  a  number  of  generations  they  have  lived 
in  Virginia  and  have  been  socially  promi- 
nent there. 

After  the  death  of  his  mother  Mr.  Carne- 
fix was  reared  in  the  home  of  his  grand- 
parents, but  only  until  he  was  twelve  years 
of  age,  when  he  started  out  to  earn  money 
of  his  own. 

In  1892  Louis  W.  Carnefix  came  to 
Middletown,  Henry  County,  Indiana.  De- 
spite his  youthful  age  he  had  the  spirit  of 
self  reliance  and  independence,  sought  no 
favors  anywhere,  and  was  willing  and  glad 
to  earn  his  living  by  hard  work  on  the 
farm.  From  that  time  until  he  became 
established  in  business  for  himself  he  knew 
nothing  but  hard  work,  and  his  environ- 
ment during  those  years  was  a  truly  rigor- 
ous one.  What  schooling  he  could  he  ob- 
tained from  the  country  schools,  and  in 
1905,  at  the  age  of  twenty-five  he  came  to 
Indianapolis  a  young  married  man,  with  a 
cash  capital  of  only  $18.  Here  he  entered 
the  Indianapolis  College  of  Pharmacy.  He 
had  to  earn  the  money  for  his  tuition  and 
to  keep  his  family,  and  in  the  light  of  those 
facts  it  is  remarkable  that  his  studies  were 
pursued  with  such  intensity  that  when  he 
graduated  Ph.  G.  with  the  class  of  1906  he 
stood  second  among  his  fellows,  who  con- 
stituted a  numerous  class.  This  was  an  in- 
teresting honor,  and  one  touched  with  real 
distinction,  since  it  was  given  one  who  had 
no  preliminary  adequate  education  and  was 


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handicapped  by  the  necessity  of  paying  his 
own  way  by  labor  while  attending  school. 

Within  a  year  or  so  Mr.  Carnefix  was 
able  to  start  in  business  for  himself  as  a 
druggist,  locating  in  West  Indianapolis, 
first  on  Ray  Street  and  later  at  his  present 
location  on  River  Avenue.  Here  he  has 
built  up  a  fine  business  and  has  the  com- 
plete confidence  and  respect  of  his  patrons, 
and  is  a  business  man  of  the  very  highest 
rating  in  commercial  circles. 

In  the  fall  of  1917  Mr.  Carnefix  became 
a  candidate  for  member  of  the  Indianapolis 
City  Council  on  the  republican  ticket.  He 
was  elected,  and  upon  taking  his  seat  in  the 
body  in  January,  1918,  was  unanimously, 
and  without  previous  opposition,  elected 
president  of  the  Council.  Such  an  honor 
has  never  befallen  any  member  of  that 
body,  and  is  the  more  significant  because 
it  was  bestowed  upon  a  young  man  who  is 
in  no  sense  a  politician  and  has  built  up 
no  organization  behind  him,  and  is  in  office 
solely  through  the  confidence  and  good 
will  of  the  people.  Mr.  Carnefix  has  many 
loyal  friends  in  Indianapolis,  as  the  above 
facts  would  indicate.  He  is  prominent  in 
fraternal  affairs,  being  a  past  noble  grand 
of  the  Independent  Order  of  Odd  Fellows, 
past  master  of  Indianapolis  Lodge  No.  669, 
Free  and  Accepted  Masons,  is  a  thirty-sec- 
ond degree  Scottish  Rite  Mason,  and  a 
Noble  of  Murat  Temple  of  the  Mystic 
Shrine.  He  and  his  wife  are  members  of 
Robert  Park  Methodist  Episcopal  Church. 

Mr.  Carnefix  married  in  Henry  County, 
Indiana,  Miss  Mamie  Cummins,  of  that 
county.  Their  three  children  are  Thelma, 
Virginia  and  Louis  W.,  Jr. 

James  Alexander  Hemenway,  a  former 
United  States  senator,  was  born  in  Boon- 
ville,  Indiana,  March  8,  1860,  a  son  of 
William  and  Sarah  (Clelland)  Hemenway. 
He  gained  his  admission  to  the  bar  in  1885, 
and  has  since  practiced  law  at  Brookville. 
He  has  served  as  a  prosecuting  attorney, 
as  a  republican  state  committeeman,  as  a 
congressman,  and  on  the  18th  of  January, 
1905,  was  elected  a  United  States  senator 
for  the  unexpired  term  of  Charles  W.  Fair- 
banks. 

Charles  E.  Hayes.  In  the  field  of  motor 
manufacturing  men  and  firms  engaging  in 
this  business  have  to  meet  great  competi- 
tion, and  this  necessitates  the  highest  degree 


of  perfection  attainable  in  products  in 
order  to  make  investments  profitable.  The 
motors  that  measure  highest  in  general  effi- 
ciency, those  that  are  as  correct  in  mech- 
anism as  they  are  simple,  are  sufficiently 
varied  as  to  the  demands  to  be  made  on 
them,  and  that  are  dependable  in  perform- 
ance under  all  circumstances  naturally  fill 
the  requirements  of  the  public,  and  such 
motors  are  manufactured  at  Anderson,  In- 
diana, by  the  company  operating  as  the 
Laurel  Motors  Corporation,  of  which 
Charles  E.  Hayes,  an  experienced  man  in 
the  business,  is  general  manager. 

Charles  E.  Hayes  was  born  at  Marlboro, 
Massachusetts,-  in  1872.  His  parents  were 
Patrick  and  Anastasia  (Delaney)  Hayes, 
both  now  deceased.  The  father  was  born 
in  County  Tipperary  and  the  mother  in 
County  Kilkenny,  Ireland.  After  coming 
to  the  United  States  they  lived  at  Marlboro, 
where  they  were  known  as  the  most  worthy 
people  and  faithful  members  of  the  Cath- 
olic Church.  ,  They  were  not  possessed  of 
abundant  means  but  were  able  to  keep  their 
son  Charles  E.  in  school  until  he  was  six- 
teen years  of  age  and  had  been  graduated 
from  the  high  school.  He  started  then  to 
work  in  a  shoe  factory,  later  was  connected 
with  a  clothing  house  in  Marlboro,  and 
as  he  was  prudent  as  well  as  efficient  he 
later,  when  the  opportunity  came  to  buy 
the  clothing  store,  had  the  capital  necessary 
to  make  the  investment.  He  conducted  that 
business  profitably  for  six  years  and  then 
sold  in  order  to  enter  a  wider  business 
field.  He  then  established  a  brokerage  busi- 
ness in  Boston,  and  for  nine  years  sold  on 
the  curb,  meeting  with  success  in  this  ven- 
ture because  of  his  extraordinary  business 
ability.  In  the  meanwhile  he  had  become 
interested,  as  a  keen  business  man  will,  in 
different  directions  and  learned  the  auto- 
mobile business,  not  only  from  the  out- 
side but  in  a  practical  way.  He  had  con- 
siderable experience  prior  to  becoming  sales 
agent  (general)  for  the  Pilot  Car  Sales 
Company,  where  he  had  entire  charge  of 
the  output.  During  this  time  a  car  was 
built  on  his  specifications  and  it  was  so 
satisfactory  that  he  decided  to  go  into  the 
business  of  manufacturing  small  pleasure 
cars,  and  with  this  end  in  view  organized 
the  Laurel  Motor  Car  Company.  Changes 
have  come  about  incident  to  the  expansion 
of  the  earliest  plans  and  increase  of  capital 
and  the  business  is  now  conducted  as  the 


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Laurel  Motors  Corporation  of  Anderson, 
Indiana.  A  new  factory  building  has  just 
been  completed  and  the  business  has  been 
incorporated  with  a  capital  of  $2,000,000. 
They  also  manufacture  certain  patented 
devices,  including  sixteen  valve  cylinder 
heads  for  gasoline  motors,  and  will  also 
build  sixteen  valve  motors  complete.  Mr. 
Hayes  is  general  manager  of  this  entire 
business,  in  which  he  is  a  stockholder  and 
a  director. 

Mr.  Hayes  was  married  in  1914  to  Miss 
Katharine  E.  Broerman,  who  is  a  daughter 
of  Henry  and  Mary  (Bnglebert)  Broer- 
man. They  are  members  of  the  Catholic 
Church,  and  through  its  many  avenues  of 
benevolence  both  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Hayes  dis- 
pense charity. 

Mr.  Hayes  has  been  interested  in  politics 
since  early  manhood,  believing  that  it  has 
its  necessary  place  in  every  system  of  gov- 
ernment, and  because  of  his  public  spirit 
and  sound  business  convictions  he  was 
elected  a  member  of  the  City  Council  of 
Marlboro,  Massachusetts,  when  but  twenty- 
one  years  old.  In  the  following  years  he 
was  elected  a  member  of  the  board  of  alder- 
men, and  he  is  able  to  recall  with  satis- 
faction the  substantial  measures  that  he 
successfully  promoted  for  the  benefit  of  the 
city  during  his  official  terms  there.  Later 
he  was  elected  a  member  of  the  Democratic 
State  Central  Committee,  and  served  one 


Carl,  F.  Morrow.  For  a  half  dozen 
years  or  more  the  name  Morrow  has 
been  one  of  increasing  prominence  in  the 
Madison  County  bar.  Mr.  Morrow's  abil- 
ities have  gained  him  a  large  clientele  in 
all  branches  of  practice  at  Anderson,  and 
he  has  also  enjoyed  his  share  of  political 
honors  and  responsibilities.  At  this  writ- 
ing he  is  republican  candidate  for  mayor 
of  the  city  and  twice  he  figured  in  cam- 
paigns for  the  office  of  prosecuting  attor- 
ney. 

His  secure  position  in  a  learned  profes- 
sion has  come  as  a  result  of  a  long  and 
steady  climb  and  tbe  putting  forth  of 
strenuous  efforts  from  boyhood.  Mr.  Mor- 
row was  born  on  a  farm  in  Brown  Town- 
ship of  Ripley  County.  The  old  home- 
stead was  twelve  miles  from  a  railroad. 
The  Morrows  are  of  Irish  stock,  and  the 
family  was  establisbed  in  America  in  1832 
by  his  grandfather,  William  Morrow,  who 


came  from  County  Kilkenny,  Ireland,  and 
acquired  a  tract  of  Government  land  in 
Southern  Indiana.  This  land,  comprising 
forty  acres,  was  located  in  Switzerland 
County,  and  he  made  vigorous  use  of  his 
energies  and  his  opportunities  in  develop- 
ing a  good  home  there. 

Carl  F.  Morrow  is  the  third  in  a  family 
of  ten  children  of  A.  J.  and  Emeline 
(Jolly)  Morrow.  His  father  was  the 
youngest  of  ten  children,  and  his  mother 
the  oldest  in  a  similar  number.  Emeline 
Jolly  was  of  Pennsylvania  Dutch  and  Cava- 
lier Virginia  ancestry.  A.  J.  Morrow  is 
still  living  and  occupies  a  farm  in  Ripley 
County.  This  farm  during  the  Civil  war 
was  raided  by  Morgan's  cavalry,  and  all 
the  horses  were  taken  away. 

When  Carl  Morrow  was  ten  years  of 
age  his  mother  died,  and  he  grew  to  man- 
hood in  a  rural  community  where  there 
were  few  opportunities  and  where  the 
struggle  for  existence  was  a  strenuous  one. 
His  ambition  and  tastes  led  him  to  studious 
pursuits,  but  he  had  to  read  and  study 
his  lessons  in  the  intervals  of  work  on  the 
farm.  Many  times  he  read  his  books  by 
the  light  of  the  fire  place  and  also  by  il- 
lumination furnished  by  grease  lamps.  He 
developed  a  good  physique  among  other 
things  by  helping  his  father  clear  and  put 
into  cultivation  some  twenty  acres  of  land. 
This  strenuous  routine  continued  until  he 
was  about  nineteen  years  of  age,  and  later, 
in  1901,  he  entered  the  Marion  Normal 
School  at  Marion,  Indiana,  where  for  three 
years  he  pursued  the  normal  course  and 
received  his  diploma.  In  the  meantime 
he  taught  a  term  or  so  of  winter  school  in 
Ripley  County,  and  from  1903  to  1905 
continued  teaching  in  the  country  districts 
of  that  county.  In  the  latter  year  he 
entered  the  University  of  Michigan  in  the 
law  department,  and  received  his  LL.  B. 
degree  in  1908.  He  did  not  immediately 
take  up  practice,  but  for  two  years  traveled 
on  the  road  as  salesman.  This  business 
gave  him  some  valuable  experience  and 
also  enabled  him  to  save  the  small  sum 
which  he  used  as  capital  while  establishing 
himself  in  law  practice  at  Anderson.  He 
opened  his  office  in  that  city  in  June,  1910, 
and  has  since  condiicted  a  general  practice 
in  all  the  courts. 

In  1912  Mr.  Morrow  married  Bertha 
Hyatt,  daughter  of  Corydon  and  Emeline 
(Kennan)  Hyatt,  of  Anderson.    They  have 


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one  daughter,  Virginia  Emeline,  born  June 
28,  1913. 

Mr.  Morrow  has  always  been  an  inter- 
ested participant  in  republican  polities.  He 
was  elected  township  chairman  of  the  Re- 
publican Township  Committee,  serving 
from  1912  to  1914.  In  1914  he  was  candi- 
date for  prosecuting  attorney  in  the  Fif- 
tieth Judicial  District,  and  went  down  to 
defeat  with  the  rest  of  the  ticket  in  that 
year.  In  1916  he  was  candidate  for  nomi- 
nation for  the  same  office.  On  March  16, 
1917,  he  was  nominated  for  mayor,  there 
being  five  other  rivals  for  that  office  in 
the  republican  primaries,  and  he  received 
more  votes  than  all  the  rest  put  together. 
Mr.  Morrow  was  affiliated  with  the  Benev- 
olent and  Protective  Order  of  Elks,  the 
Knights  of  Pythias,  and  the  Loyal  Order 
of  Moose,  and  has  filled  all  the  chairs  in  the 
last  named  fraternity.  His  church  is  the 
First  Methodist  Episcopal. 

Earl  Berkebile.  Among  the  energetic 
and  successful  citizens  of  Anderson  none 
is  better  known  than  Earl  Berkebile,  who 
coming  \p  that  city  as  a  boy  completed  his 
education  there,  went  to  work  as  clerk  for 
a  shoe  merchant,  and  by  study  and  practice 
in  the  business  and  the  gradual  accumula- 
tion of  capital  finally  launched  out  in  an 
enterprise  of  his  own  and  is  today  one  of 
the  leading  shoe  merchants  in  the  eastern 
part  of  the  state. 

Mr.  Berkebile  was  born  at  the  City  of 
Johnstown,  Pennsylvania,  January  31, 
1875.  About  fourteen  years  after  his  birth 
that  city  was  destroyed  in  the  calamitous 
flood  which  has  been  one  of  the  epochal 
disasters  of  American  history.  However, 
in  the  meantime  his  parents,  David  A. 
and  Lucy  (Ferner)  Berkebile,  had  removed 
to  Anderson,  coming  to  this  city  about  the 
time  Anderson  attracted  attention  as  a 
manufacturing  center  due  to  the  discovery 
of  the  natural  gas  area  of  Eastern  Indiana. 
The  Berkebiles  are  of  old  American  stock 
and  have  lived  in  America  for  a  number 
of  generations. 

Earl  Berkebile  acquired  his  early  edu- 
cation in  the  public  schools  of  Johnstown 
and  attended  the  public  schools  of  Ander- 
son until  he  was  eighteen  years  of  age. 
At  that  time  his  father  died  and  necessity 
forced  him  out  to  become  a  wage  worker 
and  wage  earner.  His  first  position  was  with 
C.  W.  Prather,  a  veteran  shoe  merchant 


of  Anderson.  He  spent  ten  years  in  his 
store,  and  in  that  time  acquired  a  thorough 
knowledge  of  every  branch  of  the  shoe  busi- 
ness and  also  developed  special  qualities 
of  salesmanship.  Following  that  for  five 
years  he  was  salesman  for  J.  F.  Fadley, 
and  then,  possessing  every  qualification 
that  experience  could  bestow  and  with  some 
capital  which  represented  his  modest  sav- 
ings, he  engaged  in  business  for  himself 
with  Mr.  E.  P.  Prather  as  a  partner.  The 
firm  of  Prather  &  Berkebile  established 
their  store  on  the  north  side  of  the  Public 
Square  at  Anderson,  and  they  did  a  flour- 
ishing business  for  five  years.  In  1911 
Mr.  Berkebile  sold  his  interests  and  soon 
afterward  established  a  business  of  his  own 
at  1011  Meridian  Street,  where  he  has  since 
developed  what  is  today  regarded  as  the 
largest  store  of  the  kind  in  the  city.  He 
makes  a  specialty  of  high  grade  footwear, 
handles  only  the  best  quality  of  merchan- 
dise supplied  by  some  of  the  leading  man- 
ufacturers of  the  country,  and  has  devel- 
oped a  trade  that  now  comes  from  a 
country  many  miles  in  a  radius  around 
Anderson.  Mr.  Berkebile  while  not  a 
farmer  owns  160  acres  of  land  near  Pendle- 
ton, and  this  place  is  conducted  by  a  renter. 

In  1900  he  married  Miss  Elsie  Barrett, 
daughter  of  Isaac  Barrett,  a  well  known 
farmer  near  Pendleton.  Two  children  have 
been  born  to  their  marriage,  Helen,  born 
in  1903,  and  George,  born  in  1904. 

Mr.  Berkebile  has  taken  an  active  in- 
terest in  Masonry,  was  master  in  1899  of 
Mount  Moriah  Lodge,  Ancient  Free  and 
Accepted  Masons,  is  past  high  priest  of 
his  Royal  Arch  Chapter,  and  is  past  em- 
inent commander  of  the  Knights  Templar. 
He  is  treasurer  of  Ononga  Tribe  of  the 
Improved  Order  of  Red  Men,  is  a  repub- 
lican, in  politics,  an  active  member  of  the 
Anderson  Chamber  of  Commerce,  and  a 
trustee  of  the  Frst  Methodist  Episcopal 
Church. 

R.  A.  Zeigler.  One  of  the  enterprising 
business  men  of  Anderson,  Indiana,  who 
fills  the  important  office  of  manager  of  the 
Madison  Division  of  the  Central  Indiana 
Gas  Company  with  the  greatest  efficiency, 
is  R.  A.  Zeigler,  who  has  been  intimately 
associated  with  oil  and  gas  interests  since 
boyhood,  his  father  having  been  likewise 
interested  for  many  years."  Mr.  Zeigler  has 
been  a  resident  of  Anderson  since  January, 


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1914,  and  has  proven  himself  a  public 
spirited  citizen  and  a  welcome  addition  to 
the  city's  business  and  social  circles. 

R.  A.  Zeigler  was  born  in  1879,  at  Emlen- 
ton,  Pennsylvania,  and  is  a  son  of  H.  C. 
and  Harriet  J.  (Perrine)  Zeigler.  This 
branch  of  the  Zeigler  family  has  belonged 
to  America  for  generations.  H.  C.  Zeigler 
has  practically  spent  his  life  as  an  oil  and 
gas  producer,  operating  in  the  Pennsyl- 
vania, Ohio,  Indiana  and  Oklahoma  fields 
and  at  present  is  operating  at  Tulsa,  in 
Oklahoma.  He  is  well  known  in  the  busi- 
ness all  over  the  country,  and  as  his  ex- 
perience has  been  so  wide  he  is  somewhat 
of  an  authority. 

During  boyhood  R.  A.  Zeigler  attended 
the  public  schools  at  Sandy  Lake  in  Mercer 
County,  Pennsylvania,  later  had  high  school 
advantages  at  Montpelier,  Indiana,  and 
subsequently  attended  the  Pennsylvania 
State  Normal  School  at  Slippery  Rock.  Al- 
though thoroughly  prepared  for  profes- 
sional life,  Mr.  Zeigler  decided  upon  a  busi- 
ness career  and  his  nearest  opportunity  was 
found  in  the  oil  fields.  For  three  years 
he  was  a  pumper  at  Montpelier  in  the  great 
Indiana  oil  fields,  where  for  a  time  it 
seemed  as  if  every  owner  of  Jand  in  the 
county  would  ultimately  be  able  to  count 
his  millions.  It  is  needless  to  add  that 
all  the  dreams  of  wealth  did  not  come  true, 
but  oil  production  was  great  for  a  time  and 
many  fields'  are  yet  profitably  operated  by 
the    Standard    Oil    Company. 

In  1898  Mr.  Zeigler  came  to  Muncie, 
Indiana,  and  became  connected  with  the 
Heat,  Light  &  Power  Company  of  that 
city,  and  six  years  later  he  became  secre- 
tary of  this  company,  with  which  he  con- 
tinued until  1910,  and  then  also  became 
auditor  for  the  Central  Indiana  Gas  Com- 
pany and  filled  both  offices  until  1914.  In 
January  of  this  year  he  came  to  Anderson 
and  took  charge  as  manager  of  the  Madison 
Division  of  the  Central  Indiana,  to  the 
duties  of  which  office  he  has  given  his  en- 
tire time  ever  since. 

In  1900  Mr.  Zeigler  was  married  to  Miss 
Ethel  Dawson,  of  Wells  County,  Indiana, 
and  they  have  two  children :  Claude  Daw- 
son, who  was  born  in  1903,  and  Helen 
Jane,  who  was  born  in  1905. 

In  his  political  affiliations,  Mr.  Zeigler 
has  always  been  a  republican  and  consis- 
tently has  worked  for  the  success  of  his 


party,  but  with  no  desire  for  any  political 
favors  for  himself.  He  belongs  to  the 
Masonic  Lodge  at  Anderson  and  also  to  the 
Benevolent  and  Protective  Order  of  Elks. 
He  is  a  member  of  the  First  Presbyterian 
Church,  is  liberal  in  his  charities  and  is  a 
valued  member  of  the  Anderson  Chamber 
of  Commerce. 

George  McFall  has  spent  his  life  in  In- 
diana, for  a  number  of  years  followed  farm- 
ing and  a  mechanical  trade,  but  for  the 
past  fifteen  years  has  been  proprietor  of 
one  of  the  leading  jewelry  stores  at  Ander- 
son. 

Mr.  McFall  was  born  on  a  farm  in  De- 
catur County,  in  Sand  Creek  Township, 
February  5,  1866,  son  of  John  H.  and  Jane 
(Keeley)  McFall.  He  is  of  Irish  ancestry, 
but  the  McFalls  have  been  in  this  country 
for  a  number  of  generations,  first  settling 
in  Virginia.  John  H.  McFall  was  born 
in  1817,  was  a  brick  mason  by  trade,  fol- 
lowed that  occupation  in  Indianapolis  for 
a  number  of  years,  and  in  1861  moved  to 
a  farm  in  Decatur  County. 

Seventh  in  a  family  of  ten  children, 
George  McFall  grew  up  on  a  farm,  and 
being  a  member  of  a  numerous  household 
he  had  to  work  early  and  late  and  got  only 
the  ordinary  advantages  of  a  country 
school.  At  fourteen  he  left  school  alto- 
gether and  spent  several  years  learning 
the  stone  cutter's  trade.  He  followed  that 
occupation  and  was  also  a  farmer  on  the 
old  homestead  for  his  mother.  In  1903 
Mr.  McFall  moved  to  Anderson  and  estab- 
lished a  jewelry  store  on  "West  Eleventh 
Street.  A  year  later  he  moved  to  his  pres- 
ent location  at  918  Main  Street,  and  has 
developed  a  very  satisfactory  business.  Be- 
sides his  interests  as  a  merchant  at  Ander- 
son Mr.  McFall  owns  farm  lands.  He  has 
been  very  active  in  the  Independent  Order 
of  Odd  'Fellows  with  Lodge  No.  131,  in 
which  he  has  filled  all  the  chairs  and  was 
a  member  of  the  Grand  Lodge  in  1894.  He 
is  a  member  of  the  United  Brethren 
Church  and  a  democratic  voter. 

In  1901  Mr.  McFall  married  Sarah  C. 
Ponsler,  of  Jennings  County,  Indiana. 
They  are  the  parents  of  seven  children : 
Alta,  born  in  1902;  Lottie,  born  in  1904; 
Bertha,  born  in  1906  :  Leatha,  born  in  1908  ; 
George  H.,  born  in  1911;  Hester,  born  in 
1913;  and  May,  born  in  1915. 


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1765 


F.  E.  Hart  has  been  in  the  drug  busi- 
ness in  Indiana  for  thirty  years  or  more 
and  is  now  proprietor  of  perhaps  the  larg- 
est and  best  equipped  establishment  of  the 
kind  in  the  City  of  Anderson. 

Mr.  Hart  is  of  English  parentage  and 
was  born  near  Kankakee,  Illinois,  in  1864, 
son  of  Esau  and  Julia  (Cooke)  Hart.  Both 
his  father  and  mother  were  natives  of  Eng- 
land, his  father  of  Herefordshire  and  his 
mother  of  Worcestershire.  The  families  for 
many  generations  have  been  principally  en- 
gaged in  mercantile  pursuits.  '  Esau  Hart 
was  just  twenty-one  years  of  age  when  he 
came  to  America  and  settled  in  Illinois, 
where  he  took  up  the  vocation  of  agricul- 
ture. 

Mr.  F.  E.  Hart  attended  common  schools 
in  Illinois  and  also  high  school  at  Reming- 
ton, Indiana.  He  was  only  fifteen  years 
of  age  when  he  began  work  and  acquired 
his  first  experience  of  the  drug  business 
in  a  drug  store  at  Remington.  He  spent 
three  years  there  learning  the  business,  and 
after  that  for  two  and  a  half  years  was 
prescription  clerk  in  a  store  at  Mattoon, 
Illinois.  On  returning  to  Remington  he 
resumed  connection  with  his  former  em- 
ployer for  two  years,  and  in  1888  he  ac- 
quired a  half  interest  in  a  drug  store  at 
Wolcott,  Indiana,  which  was  conducted  for 
two  years  under  the  name  Briggs  &  Hart. 
Mr.  Hart  then  became  sole  proprietor  and 
was  one  of  the  leading  business  men  and 
merchants  of  Wolcott  until  1914.  In  that 
year  he  sold  his  store  and  moved  to  the 
larger  city  of  Anderson,  where  he  bought 
the  old  established  drug  house  of  E.  E. 
Ethell  at  the  corner  of  Eight  and  Meridian 
streets,  practically  in  the  heart  of  the  busi- 
ness district.  He  has  a  large  and  well 
stocked  store,  handles  a  complete  line  of 
pure  drugs,  and  besides  the  usual  druggist 
sundries  he  specializes  in  wall  paper,  which 
is  the  principal  item  of  his  annual  trade. 

Mr.  Hart  has  prospered  in  a  business 
way,  owns  farm  real  estate  and  other  in- 
terests and  is  a  stockholder  in  the  State 
Bank  of  Wolcott,  Indiana. 

In  1888  he  married  Dorothy  Morris, 
daughter  of  J.  E.  and  Sarah  (Davis)  Mor- 
ris, of  Madison  County,  Indiana.  They 
have  two  children,  Harold  H.,  born  in  1891, 
and  Frank  Morris,  born  in  1898,  the  latter 
now  associated  in  business  with  his  father. 
Harold  H.  graduated  from  the  Wolcott 
High  School,  spent  two  years  in  Wabash 


College,  where  he  did  much  special  work 
in  chemistry,  and  then  entered  the  Ohio 
Northern  University  at  Ada,  where  he  pur- 
sued the  pharmacy  course  and  graduated 
in  1903.  He  acquired  a  practical  knowl- 
edge of  the  drug  business  under  his  father. 
He  is  now  in  France  and  has  been  for  eight 
months  sergeant  of  the  first  class  in  Am- 
bulance Company  No.  3  with  the  United 
States  Army.  Mr.  Hart  is  a  republican 
in  politics. 

John  C.  Perry  is  one  of  the  few  active 
survivors  of  the  pioneer  wholesale  mer- 
chants of  Indianapolis.  While  his  business 
activities  have  continued  into  the  modern 
era,  Mr.  Perry  belongs  with  that  group 
of  business  men  who  upheld  the  prestige 
and  developed  the  resources  of  the  city 
during  the  middle  period  of  its  history, 
from  about  1850  to  1890.  Mr.  Perry  has 
lived  in  Indianapolis  since  1853,  and  his 
earliest  recollections  of  the  city  are  of  a 
town  that  was  little  more  than  a  village 
and  with  the  institutions  of  the  state  gov- 
ernment as  still  its  chief  source  of  pres- 
tige. Mr.  Perry  has  been  one  of  the  makers 
of  modern  Indianapolis,  and  has  grown 
along  with  the  city.  With  all  his  business 
activity  he  has  preserved  an  unassuming 
and  unostentatious  manner,  but  his  fine 
spirit  of  comradeship  and  his  personal  in- 
tegrity have  brought  him  to  a  place  of  high 
honor  in  the  community. 

Mr.  Perry  was  born  at  Paoli,  a  suburb 
of  Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania,  February 
21,  1834.  The  Perrys  have  lived  for  many 
generations  in  America.  The  father,  Arba 
D.  Perry,  a  native  of  Saratoga  County, 
New  York,  was  a  contractor  and  died  in 
1843.  He  married  Christiana  Hann,  a  na- 
tive of  England,  who  died  in  1837.  Of 
their  three  children  John  C.  was  the  second 
and  the  only  one  now  living. 

At  the  age  of  nine  years  by  the  death 
of  his  father  he  was  left  an  orphan.  From 
that  time  forward  he  was  reared  in  the 
home  of  an  uncle  by  marriage  on  a  farm 
in  Hamilton  County,  Ohio.  Those  were 
years  of  strenuous  occupation  both  of  mind 
and  body,  the  duties  of  farm  mingling 
with  an  extremely  limited  attendance  at 
school.  He  became  dissatisfied  with  his 
farm  environment  and  when  about  seven- 
teen years  of  age  went  to  the  Town  of  Har- 
rison, Ohio,  where  he  learned  the  wood 
turner's  trade.     It  was  the  influence  of  a 


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INDIANA  AND  INDIANANS 


boyhood  friend  that  induced  Mr.  Perry  to 
come  to  Indianapolis  in  1853.  He  walked 
the  entire  distance  from  Ohio,  arriving 
here  April  28,  1853,  without  a  dollar  to 
his  name.  His  first  employment  was  at  his 
trade  with  the  firm  of  Sloan  &  Ingersoll, 
a  firm  that  is  still  kindly  remembered  by 
some  of  the  old  settlers  of  Indianapolis. 
Later  he  worked  with  Spiegel  &  Thorns. 
After  several  years  of  this  employment  at 
a  trade  Mr.  Perry  took  the  job  of  porter 
in  the  wholesale  grocery  house  of  Andrew 
or  Andy  Wallace. 

That  was  hard  work,  but  he  used  it  as 
an  opportunity  to  gain  knowledge  rapidly 
of  the  business,  and  after  a  time  in  part- 
nership with  George  L.  Rittenhouse  he  en- 
gaged in  the  retail  grocery  business  for 
himself  on  Washington  Street  near  Dela- 
ware. This  store  was  soon  in  a  fair  way 
to  prosperity.  James  Saylor  bought  out 
the  Rittenhouse  interest,  but  a  short  time 
after  that  Mr.  Perry  sold  his  share  in  the 
firm,  and  then  went  on  the  road  as  a  trav- 
eling representative  for  the  wholesale  gro- 
cery establishment  of  E.  B.  Alvord  &  Com- 
pany. From  that  house  he  transferred  his 
services  to  Aquilla  Jones,  another  well 
known  wholesale  merchant  of  that  day. 

About  1869  Mr.  Perry  became  associated 
with  James  E.  Robertson  of  Shelbyville, 
and  the  two  bought  the  Jones  wholesale 
grocery  house  in  Indianapolis.  Mr.  Perry 
was  a  fourth  owner  of  the  business.  In 
order  to  secure  his  share  he  went  in  debt 
for  $10,000  and  besides  paying  10%  inter- 
est on  the  money  by  hard  work  he  was  able 
to  liquidate  the  principal  and  entire  obliga- 
tion witbin  three  years.  After  a  time 
James  E.  Robertson  was  succeeded  in  the 
business  by  his  son  A.  M.  Robertson,  but 
about  1872  Mr.  Perry  bought  the  entire  es- 
tablishment. Since  then  for  a  period  of 
forty-five  years  he  has  been  one  of  the  most 
prominent  figures  in  the  wholesale  grocery 
circles  of  Indianapolis.  He  is  president  of 
J.  C.  Perry  &  Company,  Incorporated, 
one  of  the  honored  titles  in  Indianapolis 
business  affairs.  Mr.  Perry  has  been  suc- 
cessful in  a  financial  way  and  by  careful 
attention  to  details,  invariable  courtesy  to 
all,  he  has  made  his  firm  secure  in  standing 
and  patronage. 

Mr.  Perry  married  Katharine  Rebstock, 
of  Kenton,  Ohio.  Pour  children  were  born 
to  their  marriage:  Bettie,  who  died  in  early 
childhood;    Katie,    who    died    in    infancy; 


Katie,  second  of  the  name,  now  widow  of 
Ernest  Morris,  and  her  only  daughter, 
Enid,  is  the  wife  of  Walter  Brown  of  the 
Century  Biscuit  Company;  and  Arba  T., 
a  resident  of  Minneapolis,  Minnesota. 
Mrs.  Perry,  the  mother  of  these  children, 
died  in  September,  1901. 

Mr.  Perry  was  one  of  the  original  or- 
ganizers of  the  Columbia  Club.  He  has 
membership  in  the  Marion  and  Commer- 
cial clubs  and  in  politics  is  a  republican. 

J.  Otis  Adams,  who  was  born  at  Amity, 
Indiana,  July  8,  1851,  has  gained  renown 
as  an  artist.  He  is  a  graduate  of  Wabash 
College,  studied  art  in  this  country  and 
abroad  and  has  made  a  specialtj^  of  land- 
scape painting.  At  the  St.  Louis  Exposi- 
tion he  was  awarded  a  bronze  medal,  re- 
ceived honorable  mention  at  the  Interna- 
tional Exhibition,  Buenos  Aires,  1910,  and 
was  awarded  the  Fine  Arts  Building  prize, 
Chicago. 

Mr.  Adams  married  Winifred  Brady,  of 
Muncie,  Indiana.  Their  home  is  The  Her- 
mitage, Brookville. 

Frank  E.  DeHority.  One  of  the  oldest 
and  most  honored  names  in  Madison 
County  from  pioneer  times  to  the  present 
has  been  that  of  DeHority.  The  home  and 
business  interests  of  the  family  have  been 
chiefly  centered  around  Elwood.  One  of 
the  family,  Charles  C.  DeHority,  was 
county  treasurer  of  Madison  County  from 
1898  'to  1900,  and  his  brother,  Frank  E. 
DeHority,  is  the  present  county  recorder. 

Frank  E.  DeHority  was  born  at  Elwood 
January  15,  1875,  a  son  of  John  W.  and 
Jane  (Moore)  DeHoritv.  The  family  is 
of  Scotch-Irish  stock.  Grandfather  James 
M.  DeHority  was  born  near  Dover,  Dela- 
ware, and  came  as  an  early  settler  to  Madi- 
son County,  Indiana,  locating  on  the  banks 
of  White  River.  By  trade  he  was  a  black- 
smith, later  studied  medicine,  and  was  one 
of  the  kindly  and  skillful  old  doctors  who 
rendered  beneficent  service  to  many  fam- 
ilies in  his  neighborhood.  He  was  also  an 
itinerant  preacher,  and  was  one  of  the 
founders  of  the  Methodist  Protestant 
Church  at  Elwood.  At  one  time  he  was 
in  the  grain  and  general  merchandise  busi- 
ness at  Elwood,  being  associated  with  his 
sons  under  the  name  J.  M.  DeHority  & 
Sons.  John  W.  DeHority  was  roared  in 
Madison  County,  and  besides  his  interests 


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as  a  merchant  at  Elwood  he  owned  some 
farm  lands  and  pursued  an  active  career 
until  his  death  in  1881,  at  the  early  age 
of  forty  years. 

Frank  E.  DeHority  was  the  youngest  in 
a  family  of  eight  children,  four  of  whom 
grew  to  maturity.  The  oldest  son,  William 
A.,  served  as  chief  of  the  State  Board  of 
Accounts  under  Governor  Marshall. 

Frank  E.  DeHority  was  six  years  old 
when  his  father  died.  He  attended  the 
common  schools  of  his  native  village  and 
in  1890,  at  the  age  of  fifteen,  entered  Pur- 
due University  at  Lafayette,  where  he  re- 
mained three  years,  taking  the  course  in 
electrical  engineering.  He  had  many  and 
varied  business  experiences  during  his  early 
youth.  For  two  years  he  was  in  the  employ 
of  a  local  gas  company  at  Elwood,  he  also 
bought  and  sold  horses,  and  for  a  time 
was  a  contractor.  In  1900  he  entered  the 
fire  insurance  business  at  Elwood,  and  that 
business  he  has  developed  to  large  and 
generous  proportions.  He  now  represents 
twenty-six  companies,  including  some  of 
the  oldest  and  largest  organizations  of  the 
kind  in  the  world.  Mr.  DeHority  also 
owns  considerable  farm  land. 

Since  early  manhood  his  influence  has 
gone  in  a  helpful  way  to  upbuilding  and 
strengthening  the  democratic  organization 
in  his  home  county.  For  two  years  he  was 
chairman  of  the  Democratic  Central  Com- 
mittee, but  he  was  never  disposed  to  put 
himself  in  the  way  of  office.  However,  in 
May,  1915,  he  accepted  the  position  of 
county  recorder  tendered  him  by  the  coun- 
ty commissioners  to  fill  the  unexpired 
term  of  E.  V.  Lee.  His  present  term  ex- 
pires in  January,  1919.  Mr.  DeHority 
went  about  his  public  business  at  Ander- 
son with  much  of  the  spirit  which  he  put 
into  his  private  business  at  Elwood.  Many 
years  ago  he  became  convinced  of  the  prin- 
ciple that  a  public  official  is  a  public  serv- 
ant, and  he  put  that  principle  into  prac- 
tice. Anyone  who  is  conversant  with  the 
conduct  of  the  recorder's  office  has  discov- 
ered its  efficiency  and  the  general  thorough- 
ness of  everything  done  there. 

For  ten  years  Mr.  DeHority  was  sec- 
retary of  the  Madison  County  Fair  Asso- 
ciation. He  is  an  active  fraternal  man, 
being  affiliated  with  Quincy  Lodge  No.  30, 
Ancient  Free  and  Accepted  Masons,  El- 
wood Chapter  No.  109,  Royal  Arch  Masons, 
Anderson    Commandery   No.    32,    Knights 


Templar,  and  with  the  Indianapolis  Con- 
sistory of  the  Scottish  Rite.  He  has  served 
as  master  of  his  lodge,  high  priest  of  his 
chapter,  and  is  also  past  exalted  ruler  of 
Elwood  Lodge  No.  368,  Benevolent  and 
Protective  Order  of  Elks.  He  is  a  member 
of  the  Indiana  Democratic  Club. 

March  19,  1894,  Mr.  DeHority  married 
Miss  Myrtle  Clymer,  of  Elwood,  daughter 
of  Royal  H.  and  Elizabeth  (Hart)  Clymer, 
old  time  residents  of  Elwood.  They  have 
one  son,  Robert  L.,  born  in  1900.  Mrs. 
DeHority  has  the  distinction  of  being  the 
first  woman  to  register  as  a  voter  in  Madi- 
son County. 

i 

Halbert  R.  Hayes.  An  Anderson  busi- 
ness man,  president  of  Kimball  &  Hayes, 
Incorporated,  Mr.  Hayes  has  had  a  career 
of  varied  activity  in  the  drug  business, 
and  though  a  young  man  has  gained  a  sat- 
isfying degree  of  material  prosperity  and 
stands  high  in  the  esteem  of  local  citizen- 
ship in  his  home  city. 

He  was  born  in  Richland  Township,  Ran- 
dolph County,  Indiana,  on  a  farm,  in  1880, 
son  of  William  A.  and  Marietta  (Hunt) 
Hayes.  He  is  of  English  ancestry  and  his 
people  have  been  in  this  country  for  many 
generations.  Some  of  the  family  were 
soldiers  in  the  American  Revolution.  As 
a  rule  the  principal  activity  as  far  back 
as  the  record  goes  has  been  agricultural 
pursuits.  William  A.  Hayes,  who  died  in 
1915,  was  postmaster  of  Albany,  Indiana, 
during  1908-09,  and  was  a  very  influential 
republican  in  that  section  of  the  state. 

Halbert  R.  Hayes  as  a  boy  attended  the 
country  schools  of  Albany  and  Redkey, 
and  graduated  from  the  Albany  High 
School.  He  also  attended  the  pharmacy 
department  of  Valparaiso  University  and 
received  his  Ph.  G.  degree  when  only  nine- 
teen years  of  age.  Having  thus  laid  the 
foundation  of  his  professional  equipment, 
Mr.  Hayes  satisfied  the  natural  desire  of 
a  young  man  for  travel  by  spending  seven 
years  in  different  parts  of  the  West,  Wash- 
ington, Oregon,  Idaho  and  British  Colum- 
bia, most  of  the  time  working  at  his  pro- 
fession in  the  emplov  of  different  concerns. 
For  four  years,  from  1904  to  1908,  he 
served  as  a  hospital  steward  with  the 
United  States  navy.  His  principal  serv- 
ice was  on  the  schooner  Marblehead. 

Mr.  Haves  came  to  Anderson  in  1908. 
He  was  with  J.  C.  Lee,  druggist,  one  year, 


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for  several  years  was  with  the  Anderson 
Drug  Company  and  for  two  years  was  em- 
ployed by  the  Meyers  Brothers  Drug 
House.  In  1914  he  combined  his  modest 
capital  with  money  supplied  by  Dr.  H.  C. 
Heaton  and  the  firm  of  the  Hayes-Heaton 
Drug  Company  was  launched  with  a  com- 
plete stock  of  goods  at  1105  Meridian 
Street.  A  year  later  Mr.  D.  W.  Kimball 
bought  the  Heaton  interests,  and  thus  the 
business  of  Kimball  &  Hayes  Drug  Com- 
pany was  established  and  incorporated. 
Mr.  Hayes  has  been  president  and  active 
manager  of  the  business,  and  under  his 
skillful  supervision  one  of  the  best  stores 
of  the  kind  in  Anderson  has  been  devel- 
oped. 

Mr.  Hayes  married  in  1910  Sadie  M. 
Finney,  daughter  of  John  and  Artie  (Ro- 
mine)  Finney,  of  Anderson.  Mr.  Hayes 
is  affiliated  with  Anderson  Lodge  No.  209, 
Benevolent  and  Protective  Order  of  Elks, 
is  a  member  of  the  First  Methodist  Epis- 
copal Church,  and  in  politics  is  a  repub- 
lican. 

Frank  W.  "Weer.  The  duration  of  the 
vitality  of  seeds  has  been  a  much  discussed 
question,  modern  scientists  not  very  gen- 
erally accepting  as  fact'  the  tales  of  cen- 
turies-old seed  that  had  been  discovered 
in  strange  places  yielding  fine  crops  when 
brought  to  light  and  sown.  Modern  agri- 
cultural experience  is  also  against  it.  It 
is  recognized  by  farmers  that  one  of  the 
most  important  elements  in  their  success 
is  good  seed  in  which  the  germinal  prin- 
ciple is  not  only  alive  but  full  of  vitality 
and  vigorous  as  only  fresh  seed  can  be. 
And  not  only  must  it  be  fresh  but  care- 
fully selected.  Any  student  of  contem- 
porary history  can  recall  disasters  that 
have  resulted  in  certain  agricultural  areas 
from  the  sowing  of  widely  exploited  seed 
unknowingly  procured  from  irresponsible 
dealers.  The  farmers  of  Indiana  and  her 
sister  states  have  no  excuse  if  they  court 
such  misfortune,  for  at  Anderson  through 
an  old  and  dependable  business  house,  that 
of  F.  W.  Weer,  may  be  secured  guaran- 
teed farm  seeds  that  will  fulfill  every  ex- 
pectation. This  feature  has  been  made  a 
specialty  by  Frank  W.  Weer  ever  since  he 
became  proprietor  of  the  business  bearing 
his  name,  which  includes  dealing  in  gen- 
eral farm  supplies  and  agricultural  im- 
plements. 


Frank  W.  Weer  was  born  on  a  farm  in 
Hendricks  County,  Indiana,  August  21, 
1859.  His  parents  were  David  and  Mary 
A.  (Paris)  Weer.  It  was  his  grandfather, 
Elijah  Weer,  of  Irish  extraction,  who  es- 
tablished the  family  in  Hendricks  County, 
settling  here  on  government  land  after  the 
end  of  his  service  in  the  War  of  1812.  He 
died  during  the  forties,  a  man  well  known 
all  over  the  county.  David  Weer  was  born 
and  reared  in  Hendricks  County,  a  farmer 
by  occupation.  He  enlisted  for  service  in 
the  Civil  war,  in  the  Sixty-Third  Indiana 
Volunteer  Infantry,  and  was  a  brave 
soldier  and  faced  many  battle  dangers  but 
died  of  typhoid  fever  while  at  home  on  a 
furlough.     He  left  two  sons. 

Frank  W.  Weer  attended  the  country 
schools  in  Washington  Township,  Hen- 
dricks County,  in  the  winter  seasons  dur- 
ing boyhood  and  early  youth,  and  in  the 
summer  time  worked  on  the  home  farm. 
When  twenty  years  of  age  he  took  charge 
of  the  farm  of  eighty  acres  owned  jointly 
by  his  brother  and  himself,  and  conducted 
it  for  two  years.  Mr.  Weer  then  accepted 
the  position  of  manager  for  the  H.  T. 
Conde  Implement  Company's  branch  house 
at  Plainfield,  Indiana,  where  he  continued 
for  four  years.  In  1888  he  came  to  An- 
derson and  in  partnership  with  J.  Almond, 
purchased  an  implement  and  seed  busi- 
ness, conducted  at  Mr.  Weer's  present 
business  location,  No.  734  Main  Street,  un- 
der the  firm  style  of  Weer  &  Almond.  This 
firm  bought  the  business  of  Carrol  &  Han- 
nah, who  had  started  it  five  months  pre- 
viously. Subsequently  Mr.  Almond  sold 
his  interest  to  Andrew  Blount,  and  for  the 
next  ten  years  the  business  was  conducted 
under  the  name  of  Blount  &  Weer. 

In  1900  Mr.  Weer  bought  Mr.  Blount's 
interest  and  since  then  has  been  sole  pro- 
prietor and  has  made  many  improvements. 
In  1916  he  erected  an  entire  new  plant 
with  superior  facilities  for  warehousing 
and  storage,  and  has  developed  one  of  the 
most  extensive  concerns  in  his  line  in  the 
country  and  has  built  up  so  trustworthy 
a  reputation  that  he  not  only  furnishes 
reliable  seeds  to  Indiana  agriculturists  but 
does  an  immense  business  in  other  states 
in  general  farm  seeds,  including  clover  and 
timothy.  He  also  handles  the  bulk  of  the 
local  implement  trade  and  for  nearly  thirty 
vears  has  been  agent  for  the  McCormick 


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farm  implements.  He  has  additional  busi- 
ness interests  of  lesser  importance. 

Mr.  Weer  was  married  in  1887,  to  Miss 
Maude  Jessup,  who  was  born  in  Hendricks 
County,  Indiana,  and  is  a  daughter  of 
Ellis  and  Millicent  (Heinshaw)  Jessup. 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Weer  have  the  following 
children :  Charles  Jessup,  who  was  born  at 
Anderson  in  1889 ;  Clarice,  who  is  now 
Mrs.  James  B.  Davis,  of  Louisville,  Ken- 
tucky; Helen,  who  is  an  actress  of  great 
talent  and  is  connected  in  the  season  of 
1917-18  with  David  Warfield,  playing  the 
part  of  Jennie  in  ' '  The  Music  Master ' ' ; 
David,  who  was  born  in  1901 ;  Millicent, 
who  was  born  in  1906 ;  and  John  Franklin, 
who  was  born  in  1909. 

In  his  political  affiliations  Mr.  Weer  has 
always  been  a  republican  but  has  seldom 
accepted  public  office.  He  is  a  wide  awake, 
earnest  citizen  and  is  a  valued  member  of 
the  Anderson  Chamber  of  Commerce  and 
is  ever  ready  to  lend  his  aid  to  further 
movements  for  the  general  good. 

J.  Lewis  Palmer  began  his  business 
career  a  number  of  years  ago  as  clerk  in 
his  father's  tobacco  house,  later  traveled 
as  a  tobacco  salesman,  but  what  he  regards 
as  his  real  opportunity  came  when  he  en- 
tered the  service  of  the  May  Supply  Com- 
pany at  Anderson.  He  has  helped  build 
up  the  business  of  this  extensive  concern 
all  over  Northern  Indiana  and  is  now  man- 
ager of  the  plant  at  Anderson. 

Mr.  Palmer  was  born  at  Davton,  Ohio, 
December  20,  1879,  son  of  E.  S.  and  Alice 
(Evans)  Palmer.  He  is  of  English  an- 
cestry. The  'Palmers  originally  lived  in 
Vermont,  and  from  that  colony  some  of  the 
family  went  with  the  Revolutionary  soldiers 
on  the  American  side.  The  different  gen- 
erations have  produced  business  men  and 
merchants  rather  than  farmers.  The  fam- 
ily located  at  Dayton,  Ohio,  in  early  days. 
E.  S.  Palmer  was  for  a  number  of  years  a 
wholesale  tobacco  jobber  at  Noblesville, 
and  continued  in  the  same  business  after 
his  removal  to  Anderson,  Indiana,  in  1892. 
He  is  now  retired  from  business  and  lives 
at  Anderson. 

J.  Lewis  Palmer  had  a  public  school  edu- 
cation in  Noblesville,  graduating  from  the 
high  school  of  the  latter  city.  After  he  had 
learned  much  of  the  tobacco  business  un- 
der his  father  he  went  on  the  road  selling 

tobacco  in  Indiana,  and  traveled  over  his 
vol.  rv— 14 


territory  for  five  or  six  years.  Mr.  Palmer 
located  permanently  at  Anderson  in  1900, 
and  for  a  year  was  assistant  cashier  in  the 
Anderson  Branch  of  the  American  Straw- 
board  Company.  He  then  was  with  the 
May  Supply  Company  as  bookkeeper,  but 
three  years  later  was  sent  on  the  road  as 
salesman  to  cover  the  Northern  Indiana 
Territory,  and  during  the  next  eight  or  nine 
years  he  covered  almost  every  foot  of  that 
territory  and  spread  the  fame  of  his  house 
in  every  locality  and  made  a  splendid  indi- 
vidual record  in  swelling  the  annual  vol- 
ume of  business  transacted  by  the  firm. 
He  was  finally  called  back  to  Anderson  to 
take  the  active  management  of  the  local 
establishment.  The  May  Supply  Company 
is  one  of  the  chief  businesses  of  its  kind 
in  Indiana,  handling  mill,  plumbing,  water 
and  steam  fitting  supplies  of  all  kinds.  Mr. 
Palmer  is  also  a  stockholder  and  director 
and  treasurer  of  the  George  O.  Palmer 
Furniture  Company  at  Lebanon,  Indiana. 
June  28,  1916,  he  married  Miss  Leafy 
Wharton,  daughter  of  Jesse  M.  and  Anna 
(Armstrong)  Wharton,  of  Anderson.  Mr. 
Palmer  is  a  thirty-second  degree  Scottish 
Rite  and  Knight  Templar  Mason  and  a 
member  of  the  Mystic  Shrine.  In  matters 
of  politics  he  is  independent  and  belongs 
to  the  First  Methodist  Episcopal  Church. 

J.  S.  McIntire  is  senior  partner  of  Mc- 
Intire  &  Hilburt,  proprietors  of  one  of  the 
largest  wholesale  baking  establishments  in 
Eastern  Indiana,  at  Anderson.  Mr.  Mc- 
Intire is  a  baker  of  long  and  thorough 
practical  experience,  having  learned  his 
trade  by  apprenticeship  and  having  worked 
at  it  as  a  journeyman  for  many  years  be- 
fore establishing  a  business  with  Mr.  Frank 
Hilburt. 

He  was  born  on  a  farm  in  Boone  County, 
Indiana,  in  1868,  and  is  of  Scotch-Irish 
and  German  ancestry,  a  son  of  J.  W.  and 
Mary  B.  (Weaver)  McIntire.  His  grand- 
father, Daniel  McIntire,  came  from  Edin- 
burg,  Scotland,  to  America  when  sixteen 
years  old  and  located  in  Pickaway  County, 
Ohio.  After  his  marriage  he  moved  to 
Lebanon,  Indiana,  and  there  on  his  farm 
reared  a  family  of  seven  sons  and  two 
daughters.  J.  W.  McIntire,  the  third  of 
these  children,  spent  his  life  as  a  farmer 
in  Indiana,  and  reared  five  children,  three 
sons  and  two  daughters,  among  whom  J.  S. 
McIntire  was  the  second. 


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Mr.  J.  S.  Mclntire  attended  public  school 
to  the  age  of  fourteen  and  then  went  to 
work  in  a  factory  at  Lebanon  and  was  em- 
ployed there  two  or  three  years.  Then  came 
his  apprenticeship  of  five  years  in  the 
bakery  shop  owned  by  J.  W.  Schulemire. 
Following  his  apprenticeship  he  traveled 
over  the  country  as  a  journeyman  for  some 
fifteen   years. 

At  Richmond,  Indiana,  in  1893,  Mr.  Mc- 
lntire married  Miss  May  Wilkins,  daugh- 
ter of  John  and  Elizabeth  (Donohue)  Wil- 
kins, of  Jay  County,  Indiana.  They  have 
two  daughters:  Hazel  R.,  who  is  a  gradu- 
ate of  the  Anderson  High  School,  is  the 
wife  of  Jack  Brannberger,  now  in  Camp 
Taylor  serving  in  the  army.  The  other 
daughter  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Mclntire  is 
Irene,  also  a  graduate  of  the  Anderson 
High  School. 

After  six  .years  of  residence  at  Richmond 
Mr.  Mclntire  moved  to  Fort  Wayne,  where 
he  followed  his  work  for  seven  years  and 
then  came  to  Anderson  and  formed  a  part- 
nership with  Mr.  Frank  Hilburt  under  the 
name  Mclntire  &  Hilburt.  Their  business 
has  increased  by  leaps  and  bounds,  neces- 
sitating change  of  quarters  from  time  to 
time,  and  a  few  years  ago  they  erected  a 
model  bakery  establishment,  built  on  lines 
and  according  to  plans  and  ideas  that  Mr. 
Mclntire  had  gathered  by  a  close  study  of 
some  of  the  largest  bakeries  in  the  country. 
They  now  have -a  model  plant,  fireproof  in 
construction,  and  with  equipment  and 
facilities  including  the  most  modern  ma- 
chinery. The  daily  capacity  is  10,000 
loaves.  The  firm  began  business  on  a  very 
modest  scale.  They  bought  their  first  car- 
load of  flour  on  credit  from  R.  L.  Pithian. 
The  price  of  this  carload  was  $1,065,  and 
it  was  paid  for  after  the  flour  had  been 
manufactured  into  bread  and  sold. 

Mr.  Mclntire  is  a  member  of  the  Loyal 
Order  of  Moose  and  Fraternal  Order  of 
Eagles.  He  is  a  republican  in  politics  and 
has  always  shown  much  public  spirit  in  the 
different  communities  where  he  has  had  his 
home. 

M.  I.  Masters  has  been  closely  identified 
with  the  commercial  life  of  Anderson  for 
a  long  period  of  years  and  almost  a  gen- 
eration of  people  have  bought  from  his 
store  the  necessities  of  daily  life  and  many 
residents  of  the  city  would  hardly  expect 
to    do   their   trading  with    anyone    except 


Mr.  Masters.  He  is  senior  partner  of  the 
firm  Masters  &  Shackelford,  whose  high 
grade  store  for  groceries,  meats,  bakery 
and  other  provisions  is  located  at  1031 
Meridian  Street, 

Mr.  Masters  is  an  Ohio  man  by  birth, 
born  in  Ashland  County,  in  Clear  Creek 
Township,  on  a  farm,  December  15,  1867, 
a  son  of  George  B.  and  Melissa  (Burgett) 
Masters.  He  is  of  Scotch-Irish  family. 
His  grandfather  came  to  Ohio  early  in  the 
last  century,  secured  a  tract  of  government 
land,  made  a  good  farm  of  it,  and  reared 
there  a  family  of  six  children,  among  whom 
George  B.  was  the  third.  George  B.  Mas- 
ters not  only  played  an  honorable  role  as 
a  citizen  and  substantial  farmer  but  was 
also  a  soldier  during  the  Civil  war.  He 
enlisted  in  the  Forty-Second  Ohio  Infantry 
and  became  orderly  sergeant.  The  colonel 
of  that  regiment  was  James  A.  Garfield, 
later  president  of  the  United  States,  and 
there  was  a  personal  friendship  between 
this  eminent  statesman  and  George  B.  Mas- 
ters.   He  died  May  12,  1918. 

M.  I.  Masters  received  his  early  educa- 
tion in  the  schools  of  Clear  Creek  Town- 
ship of  his  native  county  and  also  at 
Savannah  Academy,  from  which  he  was 
graduated  in  1886.  For  a  year  he  taught 
a  country  school  in  Clear  Creek  Township 
and  three  years  was  engaged  as  a  teacher 
in  Ruggles  Township.  The  vacations  of  all 
these  years  were  spent  on  the  home  farm, 
and  he  had  a  very  thorough  training  in 
agricultural  matters,  though  farming  has 
never  been  an  important  element  in  his 
business  career. 

After  a  course  in  the  Fostoria  Business 
College  Mr.  Masters  returned  to  Savannah, 
Ohio,  spent  a  year  with  a  general  store  and 
learned  much  about  merchandising,  and 
with  this  equipment  in  1894  came  to  An- 
derson, bringing  with  him  a  modest  capital 
of  $250.  He  used  this  to  purchase  an  in- 
terest in  a  grocery  store  on  the  east  side  of 
Main  Street  between  Ninth  and  Tenth 
streets,  in  the  Bronnenburg  Block.  His 
partner  was  J.  D.  Shipley..  It  was  known 
as  the  Checkered  Front  Grocery,  and  for 
a  year  Shipley  &  Masters  continued  in  that 
location,  but  in  1895  moved  to  1031  Meri- 
dian Street,  where  the  business  of  Mr.  Mas- 
ters remains  at  the  present  time.  At  the 
end  of  two  years  a  change  was  made  in 
the  firm,  which  then  became  Masters  & 
Pierce,  and  subsequently  for  a  brief  time 


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Cates  was  a  partner  with  Mr.  Masters.  Mr. 
Cates  sold  his  interest  in  1900  to  J.  S. 
Shackelford,  and  that  was  the  origin  of 
the  firm  of  Masters  &  Shackelford,  which 
has  continued  steadily  now  for  seventeen 
years.  Without  doubt  it  is  the  largest 
store  of  the  kind  in  Anderson,  and  prac- 
tically everything  in  the  provision  line  can 
be  found  in  their  large  and  well  arranged 
establishment.  Mr.  Masters  is  also  inter- 
ested in  various  other  local  concerns  as  a 
stockholder. 

In  1895  he  married  Miss  Minna  Ship- 
ley, daughter  of  Levi  and  Melissa  (Gibson) 
Shipley,  of  an  old  pioneer  family  of  Ash- 
land County,  Ohio.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Masters 
have  two  children,  Marjory  Melissa  and 
Paul  Irving,  the  latter  born  in  1902.  The 
daughter  is  now  Mrs.  Carl  Eastman  of  An- 
derson. 

Mr.  Masters,  while  a  very  busy  man  and 
tied  down  with  the  responsibilities  of  his 
store,  has  always  taken  a  public  spirited 
interest  in  the  welfare  and  upbuilding  of 
Anderson  as  a  city,  is  a  member  of  the 
Chamber  of  Commerce,  votes  as  a  repub- 
lican and  is  a  deacon  in  the  First  Presby- 
terian Church. 

Millard  E.  Mogg,  of  Indianapolis,  is 
perhaps  a  conspicuous  example  of  the 
power  of  suggestion  from  early  experience. 
When  he  was  a  boy  eleven  years  he 
went  to  work  in  his  father's  retail  coal  and 
lumber  yard.  He  subsequently  had  other 
interests  and  employment,  but  apparently 
coal  always  exercised  upon  him  a  powerful 
fascination.  Many  men  with  greater  op- 
portunities have  remained  clerks  or  in  the 
modest  roles  of  industry  all  their  lives.  Mr. 
Mogg  along  with  other  qualities  had  the 
initiative  and  bearing  of  the  real  business 
leader,  and  the  result  is  that  he  is  today  one 
of  the  biggest  coal  operators  and  producers 
in  the  Middle  West. 

Mr.  Mogg  is  president  of  the  Linton  Col- 
lieries Company,  one  of  the  largest  selling 
organizations  of  Indiana.  He  is  also  vice 
president  of  the  Linton  Fourth  Vein  Coal 
Company,  vice  president  of  the  Rose  Hill 
Coal  Company,  vice  president  of  the  Pan- 
handle Coal  Company,  president  of  the 
Dana  Coal  and  Mining  Company,  and 
president  of  the  Green  River  Collieries 
Company.  These  latter  corporations  are 
all  large  producing  coal  companies. 

Mr.  Mogg  was  born  at  Momence,  Illinois, 


January  13,  1870,  son  of  Jeremiah  J.  Mogg, 
who  came  from  New  York  State.  He  lo- 
cated at  Momence,  Illinois,  just  prior  to 
the  Civil  war.  Millard  E.  Mogg  was  reared 
and  educated  in  his  native  town.  The  fam- 
ily finally  removed  to  Luverne,  Minnesota, 
and  from  there  in  1889  to  Chicago. 

When  a  youth  Mr.  Mogg  came  to  the 
conclusion  that  has  had  much  to  do  with 
his  subsequent  career.  This  conclusion  was 
that  a  man  with  sufficient  determination 
and  pluck  could  accomplish  almost  any- 
thing within  reason  that  he  started  out  to 
do.  It  was  this  spirit  that  enabled  him  to 
overcome  handicaps  that  prevent  insur- 
mountable barriers  to  the  average  man  of 
good  capacity.  A  big  opportunity  came 
to  him  when  he  secured  the  rights  and 
privileges  of  handling  a  "stripping  propo- 
sition" in  the  vast  coal  region  at  Linton, 
Indiana.  That  was  the  beginning  of  a 
rapid  and  successful  career  as  a  coal  pro- 
ducer. He  had  a  genius  for  organization, 
and  though  he  began  with  practically  no 
capital  he  has  built  the  Linton  Collieries 
Company,  a  concern  that  now  produces 
nearly  $3,000,000  worth  of  coal  annually. 

Mr.  Mogg  is  essentially  a  man  of  busi- 
ness. While  interested  in  politics  and  the 
social  side  of  life,  his  energies  and  pleasure 
are  in  the  activities  of  business. 

September  11,  1893,  he  married  Miss 
Mary  Owen,  of  Chicago.  They  have  four 
children  :  Clayton  O.,  Jeremiah  Owen,  Har- 
riet E.  and  Millard  E.,  Jr. 

Francis  Elisha  Baker.  Indiana  claims 
among  her  honored  native  sons  Francis 
Elisha  Baker,  United  States  circuit  judge 
of  the  Seventh  Circuit.  He  was  born  at 
Goshen,  Indiana,  October  20,  1860,  a  son 
of  John  Harris  and  Harriet  (Defrees) 
Baker.  He  was  a  student  of  Indiana  Uni- 
versity and  the  University  of  Michigan, 
and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1885.  In 
the  same  year  he  began  the  practice  of  law 
at  Goshen  with  his  father  as  Baker  & 
Baker,  was  afterward  a  member  of  the  firm 
Baker  &  Miller,  was  made  a  judge  of  the 
Supreme  Court  of  Indiana  in  1899,  and  on 
the  4th  of  February,  1902,  was  made  a 
United  States  circuit  judge. 

Judge  Baker  married  May  Irwin,  of 
Goshen,  where  they  maintained  their  home. 

George  T.  Beebe.  A  resident  of  Madi- 
son  County  forty  years,   now  completing 


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his  second  term  of  service  as  county  treas- 
urer, George  T.  Beebe  has  had  a  busy 
career,  and  one  of  more  than  ordinary 
service  to  the  people  of  his  section  of  the 
state. 

At  an  early  age  he  learned  to  depend 
upon  himself  and  has  to  a  large  degree 
been  the  architect  of  his  own  destiny.  Mr. 
Beebe  was  born  at  Drawbridge,  Sussex 
County,  Delaware,  January  23, 1856.  Some 
of  his  remote  ancestors  were  Norwegians 
and  others  were  Irish.  The  first  Beebe  in 
America  of  whom  there  is  record  was  his 
gi-eat-grandfatber,  Ichabod  Beebe,  who 
was  employed  as  a  government  pilot  on 
Delaware  Bay,  and  on  account  of  his  serv- 
ices at  the  time  of  his  death  a  monument 
was  erected  to  him  by  the  government  at 
Lewistown,  Delaware.  Mr.  Beebe 's  father 
was  for  many  years  a  steward  on  a  gov- 
ernment privateer,  and  had  many  exciting 
experiences,  which  he  often  told  his  son 
George.  Mr.  Beebe 's  parents  were  John 
Selby  and  Elizabeth  (Carey)  Beebe.  His 
father  was  for  many  years  engaged  in 
farming  in  Delaware.  The  father  died  in 
1910  and  the  mother  in  1905,  and  they 
had  a  family  of  eight  children. 

George  T.  Beebe  spent  his  early  life  on 
the  Delaware  farm,  attended  country 
schools  in  Sussex  County,  and  at  the  age 
of  nineteen  began  teaching  in  his  home 
community.  At  the  age  of  twenty-one,  in 
1877,  he  left  home  and  came  to  Madison 
County,  Indiana,  locating  at  Elwood.  For 
a  term  or  so  he  was  a  student  in  Normal 
School,  and  then  began  teaching  in  the 
country  districts  of  Pipe  Creek  Township 
near  Elwood.  He  also  taught  at  Wind- 
fall in  Tipton  County,  then  for  two  years 
was  in  the  Elwood  public  schools,  and 
many  people  in  those  communities  still  re- 
member his  services  as  a  capable  instruc- 
tor. In  the  meantime  he  began  learning 
the  art  of  telegraphy,  and  after  fitting 
himself  for  that  work  was  appointed  agent 
of  the  Lake  Erie  and  Western  Railroad 
at  Elwood.  He  served  there  three  years, 
and  then  for  two  years  was  bookkeeper 
and  weighmaster  in  the  Harting  Elevator 
at  Elwood. 

Mr.  Beebe  came  to  Anderson  to  accept 
the  appointment  of  deputy  sheriff  under 
Thomas  R.  Moore.  He  was  in  the  sheriff's 
office  two  years,  and  on  leaving  it  he 
bought  an  old  established  abstract  and  title 
business.     The  George  T.  Beebe  Abstract 


Company  with  offices  in  the  Masonic  Build- 
ing at  Anderson,  has  the  most  complete 
records  of  titles  in  Madison  County,  cov- 
ering all  the  transfers  of  land  back  to 
government  and  Indian  ownership.  To 
this  business  Mr.  Beebe  has  given  his  chief 
attention  for  many  years.  For  four  years 
he  was  president  of  the  Citizens  Gas  Com- 
pany of  Anderson. 

Mr.  Beebe  has  been  a  leader  in  the  demo- 
cratic party  throughout  the  greater  part 
of  his  residence  in  Madison  County.  He 
was  chairman  of  the  Democratic  County 
Committee  one  term,  secretary  two  terms, 
for  one  term  was  chairman  of  the  Anderson 
City  Committee,  was  elected  to  the  Indiana 
State  Committee  in  1911,  and  was  a  dele- 
gate to  the  National  Convention  at  St. 
Louis  in  1904,  where  Judge  Parker  was 
nominated  for  president.  In  November, 
1912,  Mr.  Beebe  was  elected  county  treas- 
urer, was  reelected  in  1914,  and  his  present 
term  expires  December  31,  1917.  When 
the  Anderson  police  board  was  first  or- 
ganized Governor  Matthews  appointed  Mr. 
Beebe  one  of  its  first  members,  and  he  was 
reappointed  for  a  second  term.  He  and 
his  family  are  members  of  the  First  Meth- 
odist Episcopal  Church,  and  he  is  affiliated 
with  Anderson  Lodge  No.  106,  Knights  of 
Pythias,  and  for  fifteen  years  was  treas- 
urer of  the  lodge. 

In  January,  1887,  he  married  Miss 
Florence  Wright,  who  was  born  in  Cottage 
Grove,  Indiana,  daughter  of  William  T. 
Wright.  Mrs.  Beebe  was  a  teacher  for 
several  years  before  her  marriage.  Two 
daughters  have  been  born  to  them,  Helen 
E.  and  Rachel,  the  latter  dying  at  the  age 
of  sixteen.  Helen  is  a  graduate  of  the 
Anderson  High  School  and  of  the  Indiana 
State  University,  and  is  now  the  wife  of 
Charles  Crick,  of  Kokomo. 

Thomas  McCullough  is  president  and 
manager  of  the  Bulletin  Printing  and 
Manufacturing  Company  of  Anderson, 
publishers  of  The  Anderson  Bulletin,  one 
of  the  most  influential  and  prosperous 
papers  in  Eastern  Indiana. 

Mr.  McCullough  was  born  December  19, 
1868,  at  a  now  forgotten  town  of  Madison 
County,  Indiana,  known  to  older  residents 
as  Prosperity,  located  in  Richland  Town- 
ship. He  is  a  son  of  James  and  Catherine 
(Keough)  McCullough,  and  as  the  names 
indicate  is  of  Scotch-Irish  ancestry.     His 


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mother  was  born  in  County  Sligo  and  his 
father  in  Londonderry,  Ireland,  came 
when  single  to  America  and  were  married 
at  Richmond,  Indiana.  They  had  a  family 
of  four  sons  and  four  daughters.  The 
father  was  a  veterinary  surgeon  and  died 
in  Madison  County  in  1876.  The  mother 
survived  him  many  years  and  passed  away 
at  Anderson  September  10,  1910,  at  the 
age  of  eighty-one. 

Thomas  McCullough  finished  the  com- 
mon schools  in  Richland  Township,  did 
summer  normal  work  at  Anderson,  and  for 
three  months  was  in  the  G.  W.  Michael 
Business  College.  For  seven  years  Mr.  Mc- 
Cullough had  the  experience  of  a  country 
school  teacher  in  Union  Township.  He 
came  to  Anderson  in  1892,  and  from  1893 
to  1896  was  in  the  postoffice  and  for  seven 
years  was  a  member  of  the  Anderson  police 
force,  rising  to  the  rank  of  captain.  He 
got  into  the  newspaper  business  as  circula- 
tion manager  for  the  Anderson  Daily 
News.  Three  years  later  that  paper  was 
consolidated  with  the  Anderson  Bulletin, 
on  September  1,  1907,  and  has  since  been 
published  as  The  Anderson  Bulletin.  Mr. 
McCullough  was  job  man  and  had  charge 
of  the  commercial  and  business  office  of 
the  Bulletin  until  1913,  when  he  was  elect- 
ed president  and  general  manager  of  the 
company.  The  Bulletin  carries  the  Asso- 
ciated Press  service  and  goes  into  most  of 
the  homes  of  Madison  County  and  also  in- 
to adjoining  counties.  The  business  also 
includes  a  large  commercial  printing  es- 
tablishment. 

Mr.  McCullough  is  a  stockholder  of  the 
Security  Investment  Company  and  its  vice 
president.  He  is  one  of  Madison  County's 
leading  democrats  and  from  March,  1916, 
to  May,  1918,  was  chairman  of  the  Madi- 
son County  Committee.  He  is  a  Knight 
Templar  Mason  and  has  filled  a  number  of 
chairs  in  the  various  orders,  and  is  also 
affiliated  with  the  Knights  of  Pythias. 

In  1897  Mr.  McCullough  married  Cath- 
erine Tobin,  daughter  of  Matthew  and 
Sarah  Tobin  of  Anderson.  They  have  two 
children,  Catherine  Mary,  who  is  now  a 
sophomore  in  De  Pauw  University,  and 
Sarah  B.,  in  the  senior  year  of  the  Ander- 
son High  School. 

Rev.  Joseph  F.  Weber.  Ordained  to 
the  priesthood  nearly  thirty  years  ago, 
Father  Weber's  services  have  been  chiefly 


in  Indianapolis.  He  is  founder  and  pastor 
of  the  Church  of  the  Assumption  of  West 
Indianapolis,  and  to  the  people  of  that  sec- 
tion of  the  city,  regardless  of  sect  or  creed, 
his  name  is  as  a  benediction. 

He  was  born  February  5,  1865,  at  the 
little  town  of  Spades,  near  Lawrenceburg, 
Ripley  County,  Indiana.  It  was  in  direct 
opposition  to  his  father's  wishes  that  in 
boyhood  he  commenced  study  for  the 
priesthood  in  a  Jesuit  college  at  Cincin- 
nati. He  finished  his  classical  and  theo- 
logical studies  in  the  well  known  St.  Mein- 
rad's  Seminary  in  Spencer  County,  In- 
diana. He  was  ordained  June  5,  1889,  and 
immediately  was  sent  to  Indianapolis  as 
an  assistant  at  the  cathedral  of  St.  John. 
Bishop  Chatard  was  then  bishop  of  In- 
dianapolis, and  his  assistants  in  order  of 
rank  were  Father  Gavisk,  Father  Dowd  and 
Father  Weber. 

After  5y2  years  at  the  cathedral  Father 
Weber  was  assigned  the  duty  and  oppor- 
tunity involved  in  the  pastorate  of  the 
newly  created  Church  of  the  Assumption. 
Only  fourteen  families  comprised  the  par- 
ish when  he  took  charge,  but  its  growth 
and  prosperity  have  been  apace  with  the 
city.  His  interest  has  been  keen  not  only 
in  behalf  of  everything  that  concerned  the 
welfare  of  the  church  and  his  people,  but 
also  in  matters  of  broader  community  par- 
ticipation. When  something  has  been 
needed  in  that  part  of  the  city  requiring 
special  leadership  and  cooperation  no  one 
has  been  turned  to  more  frequently  than 
Father  Weber.  His  intervention  has  come 
again  and  again  in  matters  of  securing  ex- 
tensions of  gas  and  light  facilities,  and 
in  construction  of  sidewalks.  His  parish 
is  in  that  section  of  the  city  which  suffered 
most  during  the  flood  of  1913.  When  hun- 
dreds of  people  were  driven  from  their 
homes  and  distress  and  suffering  were  on 
all  sides,  Father  Weber  was  showing  him- 
self more  than  a  spiritual  leader  and  was* 
heading  an  organization  that  fed  800  per- 
sons daily.  For  this  and  many  other  acts 
of  civic  helpfulness  the  board  of  public 
safety  presented  him  with  a  vote  of  thanks 
in  behalf  of  the  entire  city. 

Father  Weber  is  a  son  of  Frank  and 
Josephine  (Hammersle)  Weber.  His 
father  had  an  interesting  and  successful 
career.  Born  at  Landthul,  Bavaria,  his 
family  enjoyed  considerable  wealth  and 
good  position,  his  father  being  a  miller  and 


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grain  dealer.  But  the  early  environment 
of  Frank  Weber  was  not  congenial  for  all 
that.  At  thirteen  he  practically  had  charge 
of  his  father's  flour  mill,  and  to  escape  a 
drudgery  and  responsibility  beyond  his 
years  he  ran  away  from  home,  crossed 
France,  and  after  a  voyage  on  a  sailing 
vessel  for  sixty-five  days  arrived  in  New 
York  City.  At  that  time  his  uncle  George 
A.  Weber  was  a  man  of  more  than  ordinary 
business  distinction  at  Cincinnati.  This 
uncle  was  the  builder  and  proprietor  of 
the  Gait  House,  which  for  many  years  was 
one  of  the  most  noted  hostelries  of  the 
West.  Frank  Weber  earned  a  living  and 
found  freedom  from  the  restrictions  of 
European  life  by  working  for  his  uncle  in 
the  Gait  House  until  he  was  eighteen  years 
of  age.  Having  at  an  earlier  stage  of  his 
experience  acquired  much  knowledge  of 
grain,  he  was  able  to  fit  in  as  a  useful 
worker  in  a  Cincinnati  brewery  also  owned 
by  his  uncle. 

While  thus  employed  he  was  sent  on  a 
business  trip  to  Dover,  Indiana.  Most  of 
his  transactions  were  with  Balthazar  Ham- 
mersle,  and  while  at  his  home  Frank  Weber 
met  Miss  Josephine  Hammersle.  Acquain- 
tance ripened  fast  into  affection,  and 
though  she  was  only  sixteen  years  old,  and 
against  her  father's  wishes,  they  were  mar- 
ried and  had  many  years  of  happiness  and 
usefulness  together.  Mr.  Hammersle  had 
come  from  France  and  was  a  man  of  con- 
siderable wealth.  At  the  time  of  his  mar- 
riage Frank  Weber  had  shown  the  quali- 
ties of  a  good  business  man  and  later  years 
brought  him  substantial  rewards.  He  had 
a  large  business  as  dealer  in  livestock  and 
grain,  and  had  finally  become  owner  of 
the  G.  A.  Weber  Brewery  in  Cincinnati. 
During  the  Civil  war  his  property  lay  in 
the  path  of  the  Confederate  raiders  under 
Morgan,  and  it  took  a  number  of  years  to 
recover  the  losses  then  sustained.  His  good 
wife  died  January  9,  1894,  at  the  age  of 
fifty-live.  After  her  death  he  spent  much 
of  his  time  in  the  home  of  Father  Weber 
at  Indianapolis,  where  he  died  June  28, 
1898,  at  the  age  of  sixty-eight.  Death  in- 
terrupted his  cherished  plan  to  revisit  the 
scenes  of  his  childhood,  which  he  had  left 
at  thirteen  and  to  which  he  never  returned. 

Of  the  children  the  oldest  is  J.  B.  Weber, 
who  until  recently  was  connected  with  the 
White  Swan  Distillery  at  Indianapolis,  but 
is    now    living    retired     in    Los    Angeles. 


Frank  H.,  the  second  son,  is  manager  of 
the  Indianapolis  Brewing  Company.  The 
third  son  is  Father  Weber,  and  the  fourth 
is  George  A.,  of  Indianapolis.  The  daugh- 
ter Clara  is  the  wife  of  Frank  Fronapel  of 
Cambridge  City,  Indiana.  Ida  M.  married 
Charles  A.  Rink,  of  Indianapolis.  Edward 
Weber,  the  remaining  child,  died  quite  re- 
cently. 

Amos  N.  Gustin.  The  widening  field  of 
electric  transmission  of  energy  has  within 
the  last  half  century  become  one  of  the 
most  important  lines  of  modern  business. 
The  nrysterious  agent,  electricity,  has  been 
so  captured,  harnessed  and  utilized  that 
now  the  wheels  of  commerce  would  scarcely 
turn  without  the  motive  power  of  the  elec- 
tric current,  armies  both  industrial  and 
belligerent  would  be  shorn  of  their  power 
to  a  large  extent,  railroads  could  no  longer 
sweep  like  the  wind  across  a  continent, 
agricultural  activities  would  lag,  and  ac- 
customed comfort  and  convenience  would 
be  lacking  in  multitudes  of  homes.  It  is 
not  remarkable  then  that  ambitious,  in- 
telligent, progressive  men  enter  the  elec- 
trical business,  and  many  find  hidden  for- 
tunes in  this  line  of  work  when  they  are 
thoroughly  competent.  Anderson  has  more 
than  one  electric  business  firm  here,  but 
none  are  more  reliable  or  better  prepared 
or  more  experienced  than  the  firm  of  Gus- 
tin &  Epply,  the  senior  member  of  which 
is  Amos  N.  Gustin,  one  of  the  big  con- 
tractors and  representative  business  men 
of  this  city. 

Amos  N.  Gustin,  president  of  the  In- 
diana Electric  Company,  was  born  on  his 
father's  farm  in  Lafayette  Township, 
Madison  County,  Indiana,  not  far  from 
Anderson,  in  1869.  His  parents  were  John 
Quincy  and  Mary  (Miller)  Gustin.  In 
tracing  the  family  far  back  it  is  found  that 
it  may  justly  lay  claim  to  be  of  Revolu- 
tionary stock  and  Huguenot  ancestry,  and 
for  many  years  it  has  been  an  old  family 
in  Madison  County,  Indiana,  and  always 
a  highly  respected  one. 

Amos  N.  Gustin  obtained  his  education 
in  the  public  schools,  mainly  during  the 
winter  seasons,  as  he  assisted  his  father  on 
the  farm  during  the  summers  until  he  was 
eighteen  years  old.  There  were  eighty 
acres  in  the  home  farm  and  the  father  spent 
the  larger  part  of  his  life  there,  with  the 
exception  of  about  five  years  when  he  and 


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his  son  Amos  N.,  conducted  a  grocery  store 
on  West  Main  Street,  Anderson. 

After  his  father  sold  the  grocery  busi- 
ness Amos  N.  Gustin  went  to  work  for 
the  Anderson  Nut  &  Bolt  Company,  and 
remained  there  for  six  years,  during  a  part 
of  the  time  being  a  shipping  clerk,  and 
here  gained  a  large  amount  of  practical 
and  useful  information.  From  that  con- 
cern he  went  with  the  Hoosier  Chemical 
Company,  manufacturers  of  pharmaceu- 
tical preparations  and  specialties.  He 
owned  a  half  interest  in  the  company  and 
during  his  two  years  connection  had  an 
opportunity  to  make  some  headway  in  the 
study  of  medical  science.  Following  this 
experience  he  was  engaged  for  Sy2  years 
in  the  commercial  department  of  the  Mu- 
nicipal Electric  Light  Company  of  Ander- 
son, and  had  charge  of  tha  city  lights  and 
had  an  opportunity  again  to  increase  his 
knowledge,  which  he  seized  and  made  a 
study  of  electricity  and  electric  installa- 
tion. 

Mr.  Gustin  then  spent  a  year  at  Pasa- 
dena, California,  working  as  an  order  clerk 
for  the  Model  Grocery  Company.  Al- 
though that  highly  lauded  section  of  the 
country  has  many  advantages,  it  did  not 
appeal  to  Mr.  Gustin  as  did  the  recollec- 
tion of  his  old  home  in  Indiana,  hence  he 
returned  to  Anderson  when  he  felt  ready 
to  establish  himself  in  a  permanent  busi- 
ness. In  1906  he  purchased  a  one-third  in- 
terest in  the  Indiana  Electric  Company 
of  Anderson,  his  partners  being  Frank  B. 
Stratton  and  Frank  Epply.  In  1913  Mr. 
Stratton  sold  his  interest  to  his  partners, 
and  they  have  continued  in  the  electrical 
business  here  ever  since.  They  deal  in  elec- 
trical supplies  and  do  a  general  electric 
contracting  business  and  have  satisfac- 
torily handled  some  of  the  heaviest  con- 
tracts in  this  entire  section.  They  have 
first  class  quarters,  fine  equipments,  a  large 
stock  and  expert  electricians.  Mr.  Gustin 
has  additional  business  interests. 

In  1893  he  was  married  to  Miss  Louise 
Stritmater,  who  is  a  daughter  of  Martin 
Stritmater,  of  Toledo,  Ohio.  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Gustin  have  two  sons:  Joseph  Quincy,  who 
was  born  in  1891,  and  Robert  Louis,  who 
was  born  in  1907.  The  elder  son.  who  is 
a  resident  of  Anderson,  married  Miss  Irene 
Sweetman,  of  this  city. 

In  his  political  affiliation  Mr.  Gustin  has 
always  been   a  republican  but   has   never 


been  a  politician  in  the  accepted  sense  and 
has  never  desired  public  office.  He  has 
always  been  a  hearty  supporter  of  law  and 
order  and  has  many  times  shown  his  sin- 
cere public  spirit  in  favoring  civic  move- 
ments, and  has  been  a  liberal  contributor  to 
charities  of  all  kinds  both  before  and  since 
the  outbreak  of  the  World  war.  He  is 
identified  fraternally  with  the  Knights  of 
Pythias  and  the  Fraternal  Order  of  Eagles. 

George  E.  Nichol.  The  family  repre- 
sented by  George  E.  Nichol,  a  prominent 
Anderson  banker,  has  been  identified  with 
that  section  of  Indiana  more  than  sixty 
years.  Many  associations  gather  around 
the  name,  as  soldiers,  leaders  in  republican 
politics,  merchants,  bankers  and  citizens 
whose  reliability  and  integrity  pass  with- 
out question. 

The  Nichols  of  Anderson  are  of  English, 
Irish  and  Scotch  descent.  It  was  an  old 
and  substantial  family  in  England  for 
many  generations  and  the  Nichols  possess 
a  coat  of  arms.  Francis  Nichol  was 
born  in  Ireland  in  1737,  and  with  his 
brother  William  came  to  America  and  set- 
tled in  Cumberland  County,  Pennsylvania. 
William  Nichol  was  later  a  captain  in  the 
American  army.  Francis  Nichol  also  en- 
listed in  June,  1775,  was  promoted  to  the 
rank  of  second  lieutenant,  was  taken  pris- 
oner at  Quebec  December  31,  1775,  was 
released  in  August,  1776,  and  by  his  later 
attainments  and  service  rose  to  the  rank  of 
brigadier  general.  At  the  close  of  the  war 
he  was  elected  first  United  States  marshal 
of  Eastern  Pennsylvania.  He  died  in 
Pennsylvania  February  13,  1812.  This 
distinguished  early  American  was  the 
great-great-grandfather  of  George  E. 
Nichol  of  Anderson.  The  head  of  the  next 
generation  of  the  family  was  Thomas 
Nichol,  who  became  a  pioneer  settler  on  the 
Ohio  side  of  the  Ohio  River  near  Wheeling, 
West  Virginia,  and  afterwards  moved  to 
Butler  County,  Ohio,  where  his  sturdy 
arms  cleared  up  160  acres  of  wild  land. 
Of  his  children  Joseph  was  a  soldier  in  the 
War  of  1812. 

Thomas,  Jr.,  grandfather  of  George  E. 
Nichol,  was  born  about  1803  in  Belmont 
County,  Ohio,  and  was  three  years  old 
when  the  family  moved  to  Butler  County. 
He  married  Jane  Marshall,  daughter  of 
Gilbert  and  Mary  (Taylor)  Marshall.  The 
young  couple  went  to  a  home  in  the  woods, 


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and  spent  many  years  of  their  industrious 
lives  in  clearing  up  and  developing  a  fine 
farm.  This  Thomas  Nichol  was  a  Jack- 
sonian  democrat  in  politics.  His  children 
were:  William  M.,  born  in  1828,  George, 
Mary,  Joseph  W.,  Martha,  Gilbert,  Jen- 
nie, Francis,  Catherine,  John  and  Robert. 
George  Nichol,  who  was  born  in  Butler 
County,  Ohio,  January  14,  1830,  is  still 
alive  at  the  age  of  eighty-seven  and  has 
been  one  of  the  foremost  characters  of  An- 
derson for  a  long  period  of  years.  He  had 
limited  opportunities  as  a  boy  to  gain  an 
education  in  Butler  County,  Ohio,  and  ac- 
quired most  of  his  knowledge  in  his  work 
as  a  teacher  and  by  a  year's  attendance  at 
Farmer's  College  in  Cincinnati.  In  1852 
he  went  west  to  Keokuk,  Iowa,  where  he 
was  employed  as  clerk  in  a  hardware  store, 
and  in  March,  1854,  arrived  at  Anderson, 
Indiana. 

Here  he  entered  iipon  a  career  as  a 
hardware  merchant,  and  that  business  has 
been  in  the  Nichol  family  continuously  now 
for  more  than  sixty  years.  His  first  asso- 
ciate was  Amos  J.  King.  George  Nichol 
under  the  weight  of  years  and  with  an 
ample  competence  retired  from  business  a 
number  of  years  ago,  turning  over  the  in- 
terests to  his  sons  Thomas  J.  and  George 
E. 

George  Nichol  put  patriotism  and  duty 
to  his  country  above  his  business  when  the 
Civil  war  came  on.  In  September,  1861, 
he  enlisted  from  Anderson  in  the  Forty- 
Seventh  Indiana  Infantry,  was  appointed 
quartermaster  of  his  regiment,  and  saw  ac- 
tive service  until  1864.  He  attained  the 
rank  of  first  lieutenant.  George  Nichol 
was  about  twenty-six  years  of  age,  a  young 
man  in  the  flush  of  enthusiasm  and  man- 
hood, when  the  republican  party  was  or- 
ganized and  chose  its  first  presidential 
candidate,  and  he  voted  for  John  C.  Fre- 
mont in  1856  and  steadily  supported  every 
other  party  candidate  down  to  the  present 
time,  his  record  of  party  allegiance  run- 
ning without  a  break  from  1856  to  1916. 
He  was  the  first  republican  elected  by 
Madison  County  to  the  office  of  county 
auditor.  He  was  chosen  to  that  office  in 
1870,  at  a  time  when  the  county  was  demo- 
cratic by  a  large  majority.  It  was  one  of 
the  notable  triumphs  in  the  political  his- 
tory of  the  county.  His  service  as  auditor 
was  rendered  from  1871  to  1875.  Tn  1904 
he  was   chosen   a   member  of  the   Indiana 


Legislature,  and  in  1907  Governor  Hanly 
appointed  him  a  member  of  the  board  of 
trustees  for  the  Indiana  Epileptic  Village 
at  Newcastle.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
board  until  1911,  since  which  time  he  has 
been  practically  retired  from  public  life. 
For  a  number  of  years  he  was  chairman 
of  the  Republican  County  Central  Commit- 
tee. He  was  the  first  president  of  tne  An- 
derson Board  of  Trade  and  was  actively 
identified  with  that  organization  through- 
out its  existence.  He  is  a  charter  member 
of  Major  May  Post,  Grand  Army  of  the 
Republic,  and  a  member  of  the  First  Pres- 
byterian Church  at  Anderson.  George 
Nichol  married  December  4,  1855,  at  An- 
derson, Harriet  Robinson,  who  was  born 
in  Ripley  County,  Indiana,  in  1835,  daugh- 
ter of  Josephus  and  Matilda  Robinson, 
and  a  sister  of  Colonel  M.  S.  Robinson. 
Her  father  was  for  many  years  a  well 
known  member  of  the  Indiana  bar.  George 
Nichol  and  wife  became  the  parents  of  two 
sons,  Thomas  J.,  born  September  13,  1856, 
and  George  E.  Their  mother  died  May  25, 
1896.  September  27,  1899,  George  Nichol 
married  Mrs.  Mary  Eglin,  widow  of  Capt. 
John  F.  Eglin  of  the  Forty-Seventh  In- 
diana Infantry.  She  died  September  24, 
1907. 

George  E.  Nichol,  younger  son  of  the 
venerable  George  Nichol,  was  born  at  An- 
derson October  4,  1861,  and  after  finishing 
his  education  in  the  local  public  schools 
entered  his  father's  hardware  store  at  the 
age  of  seventeen.  As  a  clerk  he  learned 
every  detail  and  routine  of  the  business, 
and  later  with  his  brother  Thomas  assumed 
the  responsibilities  of  managing  that  large 
and  old  established  house.  He  was  per- 
sonally identified  wth  its  management  un- 
til 1912,  being  secretary  and  treasurer, 
while  his  brother  was  president  of  the  com- 
pany, and  he  still  holds  those  offices.  In 
1912  Mr.  Nichol  took  the  post  of  vice  presi- 
dent of  the  Citizens  Bank  of  Anderson, 
and  his  time  was  largely  occupied  with  the 
executive  duties  of  that  position  for  several 
years,  and  he  still  remains  in  the  office  of 
vice  president.  However,  since  January, 
1915,  his  chief  post  of  responsibility  has 
been  as  president  of  the  Farmers  Trust 
Company.  He  was  one  of  the  local  citi- 
zens who  promoted  this  company  in  Janu- 
ary, 1912.  He  is  thus  actively  identified 
with  three  leading  business  and  financial 
institutions  of  his  native  citv. 


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In  1888  Mr.  Niehol  married  Catherine 
Malone,  daughter  of  Wi.  K.  and  Eleanor 
(Duffey)  Malone,  of  Hamilton,  Ohio.  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Niehol  have  two  children :  George 
"W.,  born  in  1895,  and  Robert  E.,  born  in 
1900. 

Mr.  Niehol  is  affiliated  with  Fellowship 
Lodge,  Ancient  Free  and  Accepted  Masons, 
with  the  Royal  Arch  Chapter,  with  the 
Knights  of  Pythias,  served  as  exalted  ruler 
of  the  Anderson  Lodge  of  Elks  in  1895,  is 
a  member  of  the  First  Presbyterian  Church 
and  in  politics  is  a  republican  without  as- 
pirations for  any  of  the  honors  or  emolu- 
ments of  politics. 

Andrew  Jackson  Spaulding,  D.  C.  As 
a  doctor  of  chiropractic  Doctor  Spaulding 
ranks  high  in  the  medical  fraternity,  and 
is  one  of  the  leading  exponents  of  chiro- 
practic in  the  eastern  part  of  the  state. 
He  is  junior  member  of  the  firm  James  & 
Spaulding,  with  offices  in  the  Union  Build- 
ing at  Anderson,  and  with  a  practice  ex- 
tending all  over  that  county  and  surround- 
ing counties. 

Doctor  Spaulding  was  born  at  Ovid,  In- 
diana, in  1885,  a  son  of  Robert  Y.  and  An- 
na (Talbot)  Spaulding.  He  comes  by  his 
professional  inclination  partly  by  inheri- 
tance, since  his  father  was  an  earnest,  hard 
working  and  conscientious  pioneer  phy- 
sician and  did  a  worthy  work  for  many 
years.  Andrew  J.  Spauldng  was  educated 
in  country  schools.  He  spent  two  years  in 
high  school  and  in  1902  secured  a  position 
as  a  traveling  representative  for  the  St. 
Louis  Range  Company.  In  their  interests 
he  traveled  all  over  Southern  Indiana, 
Kentucky,  Ohio  and  West  Virginia  for% 
three  years.  He  proved  himself  a  success- 
ful salesman,  and  doubtless  would  have 
reached  a  high  mark  in  that  business  had 
he  chosen  to  continue  it.  Later  for  four 
years  he  was  shipping  clerk  with  the  Big 
Four  Railway  at  Anderson,  but  in  1913 
gave  up  business  to  enter  the  Indiana 
School  of  Chiropractic  at  Anderson,  where 
he  spent  two  years  and  from  which  he  re- 
ceived his  degree  D.  C.  in  1915.  He  at 
once  set  himself  up  in  practice  at  Ander- 
son, and  a  year  and  a  half  later,  in  July, 
1917,  joined  Dr.  J.  H.  James  under  the 
firm  name  of  James  &  Spaulding. 

Doctor  Spaulding  married  at  Chester- 
field, Indiana,  Ida  Rinker,  daughter  of 
Samuel    and    Jane    (Mills)    Rinker,    well 


known  people  in  the  farming  section  east 
of  Anderson.  While  Doctor  and  Mrs. 
Spaulding  have  no  children  of  their  own 
they  have  reared  three  or  four  and  have 
provided  them  with  good  home  and  ad- 
vantages. Doctor  Spaulding  is  a  democrat 
in  politics,  is  affiliated  with  the  Knights 
of  Pythias  at  Anderson,  and  is  a  member 
of  the  First  Methodist  Church  at  Dales- 
ville.  He  is  also  a  member  of  Camel  Lodge 
and  the  Central  Business  Men's  Associa- 
tion  of   Chicago,   Illinois. 

Alexander  Taggart.  It  was  a  matter 
of  good  fortune  both  to  the  City  of  Indian- 
apolis and  for  Alexander  Taggart  person- 
ally that  he  became  identified  with  this 
community  about  the  close  of  the  Civil  war, 
and  continuously  for  over  half  a  century 
he  continued  a  resident,  a  capable  and  pro- 
gressive business  man  and  one  whose  life 
meant  much  beyond  the  immediate  sphere 
of  his  private  business.  The  baking  busi- 
ness has  been  a  family  trade  with  the  Tag- 
garts  for  several  generations,  and  it  was  in 
that  line  that  Alexander  Taggart  gained 
his  secure  position  in  Indianapolis  business 
affairs.  He  was  still  active  at  the  end  of 
half  a  century  and  was  treasurer  of  the 
Taggart  Baking  Company.  However,  he 
spent  much  of  his  time  in  the  mild,  dry 
climate  of  Colorado  and  Arizona.  The 
active  direction  of  the  Taggart  Baking 
Company  is  handled  by  his  son  Alexander 
L.,  its  president. 

Of  English  and  Manx  lineage,  Alexander 
Taggart  was  born  at  Ramsey,  Isle  of  Man, 
April  5,  1844,  and  died  November  12,  1918. 
He  was  a  son  of  James  and  Elizabeth 
(Lewthewaite)  Taggart.  His  parents  spent 
all  their  lives  on  the  Isle  of  Man,  his  father 
being  a  baker.  With  the  advantages  of  the 
common  schools  of  his  native  town  Alexan- 
der Taggart  at  the  age  of  fifteen  began  an 
apprenticeship  at  the  baker's  trade  in  his 
father's  shop.  He  learned  the  business  with 
systematic  thoroughness  and  remained 
there  as  a  wage  earner  until  he  reached  his 
majority.  Coming  to  the  United  States,  he 
remained  a  short  time  in  New  York  City 
and  in  1865  came  to  Indianapolis.  Here 
he  found  employment  in  the  shops  of  one 
of  the  pioneer  bakers  of  the  city,  Mr. 
Thompson.  A  year  later  he  went  back  to 
his  native  country,  but  for  only  a  year, 
when  he  returned  to  Indianapolis.  Mr. 
Taggart  had  a  great  affection  for  theland 


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of  his  birth,  and  as  his  means  of  later  years 
justified  it  made  several  visits  to  the  scenes 
of  his  early  life. 

April  12,  1869,  Mr.  Taggart  left  the  role 
of  a  jurneyman  baker  and  established  a 
business  of  his  own.  He  was  sole  pro- 
prietor until  he  established  a  co-partner- 
ship with  B.  E.  Parrott.  The  firm  of 
Parrott  &  Taggart  was  a  factor  in 
Indianapolis  business  a  period  of  eighteen 
years.  In  that  time  the  establishment  be- 
came the  largest  and  best  equipped  in  the 
city,  and  as  such  it  was  finally  merged  with 
the  United  States  Baking  Company,  with 
Mr.  Taggart  as  a  director  and  in  charge  of 
the  local  factory.  Still  later  the  plant  be- 
came a  local  branch  of  the  National  Biscuit 
Company.  In  1904  Mr.  Taggart  resigned 
his  office  as  director,  selling  his  stock  in  the 
company,  and  for  a  year  lived  retired. 

Then  in  1905  the  Taggart  Baking  Com- 
pany was  organized  and  incorporated,  with 
Alexander  Taggart  as  treasurer.  This  com- 
pany now  has  the  largest  baking  plant  in 
the  state,  and  its  high  class  products  are 
distributed  all  over  Central  Indiana. 

Consistently  through  all  the  years  of  his 
residence  Mr.  Taggart 's  part  was  that  of 
a  citizen  of  fine  ideals  and  one  willing  to 
work  in  the  interest  of  any  movement  that 
affected  the  local  welfare.  He  did  not  seek 
participation  in  practical  politics,  was  a 
republican  voter,  and  enjoyed  a  well  mer- 
ited popularity  in  business  circles  and  in 
the  modest  social  life  which  appealed  to 
him.  He  was  an  active  member  of  the 
Meridian  Street  Methodist  Episcopal 
Church  as  is  his  wife.  He  identified  him- 
self with  this  church  in  1865,  the  year  he 
came  to  Indianapolis. 

January  9,  1873,  Mr.  Taggart  married 
Miss  Louise  Alice  Bell.  Mrs.  Taggart  was 
born  and  reared  in  Indiana,  daughter  of 
the  late  Charles  Bell  of  Plymouth.  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Taggart  had  six  children :  Ger- 
trude, Lillian  B.,  Mona  L.,  Alexander  L., 
William  L.  and  Edward  B.  Alexander  L., 
now  president  of  the  Taggart  Baking  Com- 
pany, married  in  October,  1904,  Lillian 
Atkins.  Their  children  are  Alexander  L., 
Jr.,  Adelaide  L.,  Florence,  Elizabeth, 
Mona,  Lillian  and  Helen  A.  The  second 
son  of  Mr.  Taggart,  William  L.,  married 
November  9,  1912,  Marion  Thomson,  de- 
ceased, and  they  had  a  son  named  William 
L.,  Jr.  Edward  B.  Taggart,  youngest  of 
the    three   sons,    married,    May    15,    1917, 


Adelaide  Rawles  and  they  have  one  child, 
Adelaide  Patricia. 

Albert  Barnes  Anderson,  who  was 
elected  United  States  district  judge,  dis- 
trict of  Indiana,  December  18,  1902,  was 
born  near  Zionsville,  Boone  County,  In- 
diana, February  10,  1857,  a  son  of  Phil- 
ander and  Anna  (Duzan)  Anderson.  He 
is  a  graduate  of  Wabash  College,  was  ad- 
mitted to  the  bar  in  1881,  practiced  at 
Crawfordsville  from  1881  to  1902,  and 
prior  to  entering  upon  his  duties  as  judge 
served  as  prosecuting  attorney  of  Mont- 
gomery County.     He  is  a  republican. 

Judge  Anderson  married  Rose  Camp- 
bell,  of   Crawfordsville. 

Erastus  W.  Hubbard,  members  of  whose 
family  are  still  prominently  identified  with 
the  business  and  civic  affairs  at  Delphi  and 
Indianapolis,  was  of  a  former  generation 
of  Indianans.  His  life  and  character  were 
such  that  it  is  not  straining  the  truth  to 
say  that  to  such  men  Indiana  owes  its  high 
and  proud  position  among  the  states  of  the 
Union. 

He  was  really  a  product  of  the  pioneer 
era  of  Indiana,  though  his  own  character 
and  abilities  enabled  him  to  rise  superior 
to  his  environment.  He  was  born  June 
30.  1819,  and  thirteen  years  later  his 
father,  Brigham  Hubbard,  journeyed  into 
Northeastern  Indiana,  when  it  was  prac- 
tically a  wilderness.  The  family  made  its 
first  settlement  in  Tippecanoe  County, 
where  Brigham  Hubbard  preempted  a 
tract  of  land.  In  order  to  reach  this  land 
it  was  necessary  to  blaze  a  way  through 
the  forest.  Brigham  Hubbard  fell  a  vic- 
tim to  his  pioneer  enterprise.  Tippecanoe 
County  in  those  days  was  unwholesome  with 
the  plagues  and  fevers  that  rose  from  the 
undrained  marshes  and  swamps,  and  he 
died  before  realizing  his  ambitions  to 
achieve  a  home  and  an  honored  place  in 
the  community.  About  1833  his  widow  re- 
moved with  her  family  to  Delphi,  where  a 
son-in-law,  David  R.  Harley,  was  then  liv- 
ing. Brigham  Hubbard  had  twice  mar- 
ried. His  first  wife  died  in  New  York 
State,  the  mother  of  three  children.  These 
three  children  and  the  second  wife  con- 
stituted his  family  when  he  came  to  In- 
diana. There  was  one  daughter  by  his  sec- 
ond marriage. 

Erastus  W.  Hubbard  was  about  fourteen 


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1779 


years  old  when  he  went  to  Delphi.  In  that 
town  he  grew  to  manhood  and  had  only 
such  advantages  as  were  supplied  by  the 
subscription  schools.  Later,  however,  for 
two  years  he  was  a  student  in  Hamilton 
College  in  Chenango  County,  New  York. 
His  early  ambition  was  to  become  a  law- 
yer. He  was  diverted  from  this  and  took 
up  the  manufacture  of  lime  at  Delphi, 
where  he  developed  a  large  industry.  He 
was  in  that  business  during  the  era  of 
primitive  transportation  in  Indiana,  and 
most  of  his  shipments  outside  of  the  im- 
mediate locality  were  made  over  the  Wa- 
bash and  Erie  Canal.  He  finally  sold  that 
business  and  in  1877  organized  the  Citi- 
zens Bank  at  Delphi,  of  which  he  became 
the  president.  About  1888,  when  in  his 
seventieth  year,  he  retired  from  active 
business,  and  he  died  at  the  home  of  a  son 
in  Indianapolis  January  28,  1902. 

Congressman  Charles  B.  Landis  once 
said  that  Erastus  W.  Hubbard  would  have 
made  a  superior  lawyer,  that  he  had  the 
analytical  and  judicial  turn  of  mind  and 
oratorical  abilities  requisite  for  high  suc- 
cess in  that  profession.  In  the  opinion  of 
otber  contemporaries  he  would  have  suc- 
ceeded in  almost  any  line  of  endeavor 
chosen.  He  was  old  fashioned  in  his  in- 
tegrity, and  his  entire  life  was  completely 
above  reproach.  He  was  a  charter  member 
of  the  Christian  Church  at  Delphi  and 
kept  his  membership  in  that  church  the 
rest  of  his  life.  It  was  in  keeping  with  his 
well  rounded  character  that  he  was  known 
for  his  generosity  and  his  liberality  in 
views  and  actions.  He  was  one  of  the  pro- 
moters of  the  old  I.  D.  &  C.  Railway,  now 
part  of  the  Monon  system.  The  road  fin- 
ally became  badly  involved,  and  Mr.  Hub- 
bard was  appointed  trustee  for  the  credi- 
tors. Under  his  administration  the  affairs 
were  so  ably  handled  that  not  a  single 
creditor  lost  a  dollar. 

Mr.  Hubbard  was  a  staunch  republican, 
but.  it  is  not  known  that  he  ever  sought  a 
single  public  honor.  He  served  as  school 
trustee,  but  did  so  as  a  practical  means 
of  expressing  his  strong  friendship  in  be- 
half of  education.  Possessing  great  energy, 
virile  and  active  in  every  way,  his  capaci- 
ties were  guided  by  a  superior  intellect 
and  above  all  by  a  thoroughly  honorable 
and  upright  character.  Much  praise  was 
given  him  for  the  admirable  manner  in 
which  he  handled  estates  for  widows  and 


oi'phans,  and  other  trusts  committed  to 
him.  He  not  only  taught  the  Golden  Rule 
but  he  lived  it,  and  he  had  friends  wher- 
ever he  had  acquaintances. 

Erastus  W.  Hubbard  married  Arabella 
Wright.  Of  their  five  children  one  died  in 
infancy,  the  others  being:  Henry  C,  who 
died  at  the  age  of  fourteen ;  Clara  A., 
who  became  the  wife  of  Rev.  J.  M.  Monroe ; 
Willard  Wright,  and  Walter  J. 

Willard  W.  Hubbard,  son  of  Erastus 
W.,  was  born  at  Delphi,  Indiana,  August 
5,  1854,  and  has  sustained  much  of  the 
strength  and  ability  of  his  father  in  busi- 
ness affairs.  He  was  educated  at  Delphi, 
and  in  1877  graduated  from  Butler  Col- 
lege. Soon  after,  upon  its  organization,  he 
became  cashier  of  the  Citizens  Bank  at 
Delphi,  and  filled  that  office  until  1883. 
He  also  organized  the  Island  Coal  Com- 
pany, operating  mines  in  Greene  County. 
Since  1884  his  home  has  been  at  Indianap- 
olis, and  he  has  acquired  extensive  inter- 
ests in  coal  and  railroads.  He  is  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Sigma  Chi  college  fraternity, 
and  his  family  belong  to  the  Central  Chris- 
tian Church  in  Indianapolis.  Willard 
Hubbard  married  Josephine  S.  Niles,  of 
Mishawaka,  Indiana.  Their  three  children 
are  Harry  N.,  Willard  W.,  Jr.,  and  Helen 
J.  The  daughter  is  the  wife  of  Charles  S. 
Bygate. 

Walter  J.  Hubbard,  second  son  of  Eras- 
tus W.  Hubbard,  was  born  at  Delphi,  In- 
diana, September  23,  1862.  The  education 
received  in  the  public  schools  of  Delphi 
was  supplemented  by  three  years  of  at- 
tendance at  Butler  College.  While  in  col- 
lege he  became  affiliated  with  the  Sigma 
Chi  fraternity.  He  left  college  to  become 
connected  with  the  Citizens  Bank  at  Del- 
phi, but  in  1888  removed  to  Indianapolis, 
where  he  has  since  built  up  prominent  con- 
nections in  the  real  estate  and  investment 
business.  He  is  a  republican  in  politics 
and  a  member  of  the  Central  Christian 
Church.  September  29,  1887,  he  married 
Ella  Hurst.  Their  two  children  are  Wal- 
ter J..  Jr.,  and  Ruth. 

James  I.  Dissette's  name  is  especially 
associated  with  some  of  the  big  and  grow- 
ing industries  of  Indianapolis.  During  the 
last  thirty  years  he  has  been  connected  with 
a  number  of  undertakings  which  have 
proved  successful  from  a  financial  stand- 
point and  have   brought   much  benefit   to 


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the  community.  Mr.  Dissette's  active  life- 
time has  been  during  the  half  century  of 
unexampled  prosperity  and  industrial  de- 
velopment since  the  close  of  the  Civil  war, 
and  it  is  perhaps  more  indicative  of  his 
attitude  toward  the  larger  affairs  of  the 
world  than  anything  else  that  he  regards 
the  action  of  his  two  sons  in  volunteering 
for  service  in  the  great  European  war  not 
only  with  great  personal  pride  but  that 
this  action  was  a  matter  of  patriotic  duty 
incumbent  upon  all. 

Mr.  Dissette  is  a  native  of  Canada,  born 
in  County  Simeoe,  Ontario,  June  13,  1859, 
the  youngest  of  thirteen  children.  His 
grandfather  was  a  native  of  France  but 
lived  in  Ireland  while  Napoleon  was  threat- 
ening the  invasion  of  Britain.  He  finally 
came  to  Canada  and  settled  in  that  country 
permanently.  John  E.  Disette,  father  of 
James  I.,  was  born  in  Ireland  and  acquired 
his  farm  in  Canada  direct  from  the  British 
crown.  That  property  is  still  owned  by 
his  son  James.  John  E.  Dissette  married 
Joanna  Chapman. 

On  the  Canadian  farm  James  I.  Dissette 
spent  the  first  thirteen  years  of  his  life. 
His  father  then  removed  to  Cleveland, 
Ohio,  and  James  continued  his  education 
in  the  public  schools  of  that  city,  spending 
one  year  in  Baldwin  University.  As  he 
looks  back  over  his  career,  he  finds  that 
perhaps  his  most  profitable  lessons  were 
gained  in  the  school  of  experience.  At  fif- 
teen he  went  to  work  as  a  printer's  devil  in 
a  newspaper  office  at  Ashland,  Ohio.  Later 
he  was  employed  as  compositor  and  repor- 
ter on  the  Cleveland  Herald.  That  was  at 
the  time  when  James  A.  Garfield  was  the 
dominating  character  in  Ohio  as  well  as 
in  national  politics,  and  when  Garfield  was 
nominated  and  elected  to  the  presidency 
printing  and  newspaper  work  was  not  his 
permanent  field,  however.  Much  valuable 
experience  came  to  him  as  clerk  in  the 
Cleveland  Malleable  Iron  Company  at 
Cleveland. 

In  1884  Mr.  Dissette  was  sent  to  Indian- 
apolis as  manager's  assistant  of  the  In- 
dianapolis Malleable  Iron  Company,  which 
is. now  a  part  of  the  National  Malleable 
Castings  Company,  with  plant  and  head- 
quarters at  Haughville,  now  a  part  of  this 
city.  Through  the  rapid  accumulation  of 
experience  Mr.  Dissette  felt  justified  in 
1888  in  embarking  in  business  for  himself 
as  one  of  the  owners  of  the  Indianapolis 


Foundry  Company.  This  was  a  profitable 
enterprise  to  whose  great  success  Mr.  Dis- 
sette's identity  contributed.  It  was  re- 
cently succeeded  by  the  Indiana  Castings 
Company. 

In  the  meantime  Mr.  Dissette  organized 
and  was  the  first  shareholder  of  the 
American  National  Bank,  which  subse- 
quently became  part  of  the  Fletcher  Ameri- 
can National  Bank.  He  served  as  director 
continuously,  and  is  now  a  director  of  the 
latter  bank.  In  1907  he  became  a  director 
of  the  State  Life  Insurance  Company  and 
a  member  of  its  executive  committee,  and 
for  a  number  of  years  has  been  its  second 
vice  president. 

In  1913  Mr.  Dissette  incorporated  the 
Federal  Foundry  Company  of  Indianap- 
olis, which  has  grown  and  prospered  under 
his  direction  as  president.  In  1911  he  be- 
came principal  stockholder  of  the  Indian- 
apolis Wire  Bound  Box  Company,  and  is 
now  president  of  that  corporation.  He  was 
president  of  the  Realty  Investment  Com- 
pany from  the  time  of  its  organization  un- 
til it  finally  went  out  of  business  in  1917. 

Mr.  Dissette  is  a  republican  in  politics. 
He  is  a  member  of  the  Columbia  Club  and 
the  Indianapolis  Board  of  Trade  and  is  a 
Knight  Templar  and  thirty-second  degree 
Scottish  Rite  Mason  and  Mystic  Shriner. 
He  and  his  wife  are  members  of  the  Cen- 
tral Avenue  Methodist  Episcopal  Church, 
of  which  he  is  a  trustee. 

In  1885  Mr.  Dissette  married  Grace  Wil- 
cox, of  Akron,  Ohio.  She  died  twenty 
years  later,  in  August,  1905,  the  mother 
of  three  children,  John  W.,  Joseph  C.  and 
Anna  Lois.  In  1907  Mr.  Dissette  married 
Alice  DePree,  of  Grand  Rapids,  Michigan. 
They  have  two  young  children,  Mary 
Eunice  and  Alice  Joanna.  When  America 
became  involved  in  the  World  war  Mr.  Dis- 
sette's two  sons  both  volunteered  and  en- 
listed. John  W.  received  the  rank  of  first 
lieutenant  in  aviation  in  the  officers'  train- 
ing camp  and  Joseph  C.  that  of  first  lieu- 
tenant in  infantry  in  the  training  camp 
for  officers  at  Louisville. 

Charles  Lewis  Henry  has  been  de- 
scribed as  one  of  the  most  active  partici- 
pants in  the  modern  commercial  regenera- 
tion of  Indiana.  Indianans  have  a  lively 
memory  of  many  important  enterprises 
with  which  he  has  been  identified  at  dif- 
ferent    times,     but    perhaps     chiefly     for 


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pioneer  work  in  developing  the  interurban 
railway  system  of  the  state.  A  lawyer  by 
profession,  he  practically  gave  up  the  prac- 
tice of  office  and  courtroom  upon  the  dis- 
covery of  natural  gas,  and  through  his  ef- 
forts many  industrial  institutions  having 
gas  as  their  basis  were  established  at  An- 
derson and  other  cities.  Mr.  Henry  might 
be  appropriately  called  the  father  of  in- 
terurban electric  railroading  in  Indiana. 
The  first  cars  propelled  by  electricity  out- 
side of  cities  were  operated  under  his 
direction.  He  has  continued  at  the  very 
forefront  of  the  electric  railroad  movement 
even  to  the  present  time.  His  record  as  a 
lawyer,  statesman  and  business  man  is  a 
notable  one. 

He  was  born  on  a  farm  in  Hancock 
County,  Indiana,  July  1,  1849,  son  of 
George  and  Leah  (Lewis)  Henry.  His 
father,  a  native  of  Ireland,  came  to  the 
United  States  at  the  age  of  twelve  years, 
learned  the  cabinet  maker's  trade  in  Vir- 
ginia, now  West  Virginia,  married  in  Green 
Brier  County,  that  state,  and  was  a  pioneer 
settler  in  Hancock  County,  Indiana.  He 
became  a  man  of  considerable  prominence 
in  civic  affairs.  He  served  as  a  member 
of  the  Indiana  House  of  Representatives, 
and  in  the  old  judicial  system,  which  re- 
quired one  lawyer  and  two  laymen  to  pre- 
side over  the  local  courts,  he  served  in  the 
capacity  of  an  associate  judge. 

Charles  Lewis  Henry  accompanied  his 
parents  when  he  was  a  small  boy  to  Pendle- 
ton, Indiana,  and  spent  his  boyhood  and 
early  manhood  there.  He  attended  the 
public  schools  and  finished  his  literary  edu- 
cation in  old  Asbury,  now  DePauw,  Uni- 
versity at  Greencastle.  He  studied  law 
with  Judge  Henry  Craven  at  Pendleton, 
and  in  1872  graduated  LL.  B.  from  the 
law  department  of  the  State  University. 
Mr.  Henry  was  in  the  practice  of  law  at 
Pendleton  until  1875,  and  then  removed 
to  the  county  seat  of  Madison  County,  at 
Anderson,  which  was  his  home  for  over 
a  quarter  of  a  century. 

With  the  discovery  of  natural  gas  in  East- 
ern Indiana  he  became  an  active  factor 
in  utilizing  this  natural  resource  through 
the  establishment  of  many  factories  at 
Anderson  It  was  almost  by  casual  cir- 
cumstances that  he  became  interested  in 
interurban  roads,  but  that  has  been  devel- 
oped  latterly  as   his   chief  business.      On 


January  1,  1899,  the  first  interurban  line 
in  Indiana  was  put  in  operation  between 
Anderson  and  Alexandria.  Mr.  Henry  was 
general  manager  of  the  company  operating 
this  road.  About  that  time  with  associates 
he  established  and  organized  what  is  now 
the  Union  Traction  Company  of  Indiana, 
and  had  a  prominent  part  in  developing 
the  first  constituent  properties  of  that 
present  great  corporation.  Some  of  these 
earlier  lines  were  those  from  Anderson  to 
Marion,  from  Alexandria  to  Elwood,  the 
line  from  Muncie  by  way  of  Anderson  to 
Indianapolis,  including  the  city  lines  in 
Muncie  and  Anderson.  Mr.  Henry  later 
sold  his  interests  in  the  Union  Traction 
Company  and  in  1903  assisted  in  organiz- 
ing the  Indianapolis  &  Cincinnati  Trac- 
tion Company,  of  which  he  has  since  been 
president  and  general  manager.  In  1915-16 
Mr.  Henry  was  president  of  the  American 
Electric  Railway  Association. 

Until  railroad  building  absorbed  his  time 
and  energies  Mr.  Henry  was  one  of  the 
leading  republicans  of  Indiana.  He  was 
elected  and  served  during  1880-81  as  a 
member  of  the  State  Senate  from  Madison 
and  Grant  counties.  In  .1894  he  was 
elected  to  Congress  and  re-electd  in  1896, 
serving  through  the  Fifty-fourth  and  Fifty- 
fifth  Congresses,  and  at  the  end  of  his  sec- 
ond term  declining  renomination  in  order 
to  give  his  tme  to  his  varied  business  inter- 
ests. While  in  Congress  he  was  a  member 
of  the  foreign  affairs  committee  during  the 
Spanish-American  war.  During  1903-4  Mr. 
Henry  owned  the  Indianapolis  Journal. 

He  was  one  of  the  first  trustee  of  the 
Indiana  Epileptic  Village,  and  for  nine 
years  he  was  a  trustee  of  the  Indiana  State 
University.  His  home  has  been  in  Indian- 
apolis since  1903.  He  is  a  member  of  the 
University  Club  and  of  the  Methodist 
Church.  His  offices  are  in  the  Traction 
Terminal  Building  and  his  home  at  1414 
Broadway.  September  2,  1873,  he  married 
Miss  Eva  N.  Smock,  of  Greencastle.  They 
have  seven  children:  Edna  G.,  Atta  L., 
Alice  C,  Edith  S.,  George  S.,  Lewis  W.  and 
Leah  E.  Edna,  the  oldest  daughter,  is  now 
head  of  the  Social  Service  Department  of 
the  Indiana  University. 

Eben  H.  Wolcott,  president  of  the 
State  Savings  &  Trust  Company  of  Indian- 
apolis, is  a  man  of  many  varied  business 


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interests  in  Indiana  and  has  been  promi- 
nent in  the  various  counties  and  cities  of 
the  state. 

He  is  a  son  of  the  late  Anson  Wolcott, 
distinguished  among  other  things  as  the 
founder  of  the  town  of  Wolcott  in  White 
County.  Anson  Wolcott  was  born  at  West- 
ern New  York,  October  19,  1819,  was  edu- 
cated and  taught  in  the  Empire  state,  and 
at  the  age  of  twenty-one  went  to  Louisiana 
and  studied  law.  He  remained  in  the  South 
about  a  year  and  a  half,  then  returned  to 
New  York,  and  in  1847  was  admitted  to 
the  State  Supreme  Court  at  Buffalo  and 
in  1852  to  the  United  States  Supreme 
Court.  For  a  time  he  practiced  law  in 
New  York  City.  After  about  six  years  of 
professional  life  he  came  to  Indiana,  hav- 
ing purchased  a  large  body  of  land  in 
White  County.  After  the  railroad  was 
completed  in  the  fall  of  1860  he  purchased 
a  large  tract  of  land  and  platted  a  town 
and  arranged  for  a  station  under  his  own 
name.  Thus  he  became  the  founder  of 
Wolcott  in  1861.  From  first  to  the  last 
for  nearly  forty-six  years  Anson  Wolcott 
was  the  inspiration  of  the  place.  He  gave 
his  indirect  or  direct  encouragement  to 
practically  every  business  enterprise.  He 
was  a  man  of  broad  education,  and  while 
chiefly  interested  while  a  resident  of  In- 
diana in  practical  business  affairs,  he  also 
had  a  notable  public  record.  In  1868  he 
was  elected  on  the  republican  ticket  to  the 
State  Senate,  where  he  did  valuable  service 
as  chairman  of  the  finance  committee  dur- 
ing the  sessions  of  1869  and  1871.  He 
was  afterwards  prominently  mentioned  as 
a  candidate  for  Congress.  He  finally  dis- 
agreed with  the  republican  party  and 
joined  the  national  or  greenback  party  and 
was  its  nominee  for  governor  of  Indiana. 
While  in  the  Legislature  he  was  instru- 
mental in  having  taxation  abolished  on 
Catholic  Church  property  to  the  extent 
that  it  was  taxed  only  as  other  church  prop- 
erty. Formerly,  clue  to  the  fact  that  much 
Catholic  property  is  held  in  the  name  of 
the  bishop  of  the  church,  taxes  were  levied 
as  on  other  personal  real  estate.  Anson 
Wolcott  was  a  student  at  all  times  and 
wrote  extensively  on  many  financial  and 
public  matters.  He  died  at  his  home  in 
Wolcott  January  10,  1907.  He  was  a 
Knight  Templar  and  thirty-second  degree 
Scottish  Rite  Mason.  He  was  twice  mar- 
ried, his  first  wife  being  a  member  of  the 


Walbridge  family.  By  that  union  there 
was  one  son,  Henry  Walbridge  Wolcott. 
Anson  Wolcott  married  for  his  second  wife, 
at  Philadelphia,  Georgiana  (Sayen)  De 
Mosquera.  Eben  H.  Wolcott  of  Indian- 
apolis is  the  only  son  of  this  union. 

The  latter  was  educated  in  the  public 
schools  of  Wolcott  and  at  Logansport  and 
in  Wabash  College,  where  he  was  grad- 
uated in  the  scientific  course  in  1886.  Mr. 
Wolcott  was  born  at  the  old  home  of  his 
father  in  White  County,  Indiana,  May  5, 
1866,  and  was  thus  twenty  years  of  age 
when  he  completed  his  college  course. 
From  that  time  forward  he  more  and  more 
assumed  business  responsibilities  from  his 
father,  with  whom  he  was  associated  in  the 
grain  business  at  Wolcott,  but  for  the  past 
twenty  years  his  interests  have  taken  on 
a  larger  scope  and  have  identified  him  with 
several  cities  of  the  state. 

About  1901  he  helped  organize  the  West- 
ern Motor  Company,  now  the  Reutenber 
Manufacturing  Company  of  Marion.  In 
1908  he  removed  to  Logansport  to  take  an 
active  part  in  the  business  as  head  of  the. 
sales  department.  In  1909  they  built  the 
new  plant  of  the  company  at  Marion.  In 
February,  1912,  Mr.  Wolcott  was  ap- 
pointed a  member  of  the  State  Tax  Com- 
mission by  Governor  Marshall  and  was  re- 
appointed December  1,  1912.  He  resigned 
this  office  April  1,  1915,  to  become  pres- 
ident of  the  State  Savings  &  Trust  Com- 
pany of  Indianapolis.  Mr.  Wolcott  is  also 
vice  president  of  the  American  Mortgage 
Guarantee  Company,  director  of  the  Lo- 
gansport Oxygen  Company,  director  of  the 
Standard  Livestock  Insurance  Company, 
director  of  the  American  Playground  De- 
vice Company  of  Anderson,  and  of  many 
other  business  interests. 

In  1900  he  was  elected  state  senator  from 
White,  Jasper  and  Newton  counties,  and 
during  the  following  session  was  chairman 
of  the  committee  on  ediication.  He  served 
on  Governor  Durbin's  staff  with  the  rank 
of  lieutenant-colonel,  and  was  also  on  the 
staff  of  Gov.  Frank  Hanley.  For  about 
ten  years  Mr.  Wolcott  has  been  a  trustee 
of  Wabash  College.  For  four  years  he  has 
served  as  president  of  the  Society  of  De- 
scendants of  Henry  Wolcott,  the  progenitor 
of  the  family  in  America  who  settled  at 
Windsor,  Connecticut,  in  1730.  Mr.  Wol- 
cott is  a  member  of  the  Phi  Gamma  Delta 
college  fraternity,  is  a  thirty-second  degree 


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Scottish  Rite  Mason  and  Shriner,  is  treas- 
urer of  the  Columbia  Club  of  Indianapolis, 
has  served  as  president  of  the  Economic 
Club  and  is  a  member  of  various  social 
organizations.  Politically  he  is  an  active 
republican. 

On  April  22,  1899,  he  married  Miss 
Lida  L.  Brown,  of  Indianapolis.  Both  are 
active  members  of  the  Central  Christian 
Church  of  Indianapolis.  Mrs.  Wolcott  is 
a  daughter  of  Walter  S.  Brown  and  a 
granddaughter  of  that  eminent  Indiana 
physician,  Dr.  Ryland  T.  Brown,  who  was 
also  one  of  the  early  ministers  of  the  Chris- 
tian Church.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Wolcott  have 
two  sons :  Ryland  Anson,  born  April  4, 
1901 ;  and  Roger  Gould,  born  September 
21,  1903. 

Uz  McMurtrie.  Forecasting  human  des- 
tiny and  achievement  is  a  difficult  and 
hazardous  undertaking  even  when  some  of 
the  finest  elements  of  human  character  and 
personal  attributes  are  involved.  Only  two 
or  three  years  ago  the  people  of  Grant 
County  were  priding  themselves  in  the  fact 
that  they  had  the  youngest  county  treas- 
urer in  the  state  and  were  predicting  big 
things  for  the  future  for  Uz  McMurtrie, 
but  probably  the  most  sanguine  would  have 
hesitated  to  say  that  Mr.  McMurtrie  would 
step  from  the  office  of  county  treasurer 
into  one  of  the  biggest  positions  in  the 
state  service  and  would  become  treasurer 
of  the  State  of  Indiana.  But  this  very 
thing  happened,  and  the  honors  and  re- 
sponsibilities of  politics  were  never  better 
bestowed  than  when  Mr.  McMurtrie  was 
elected  treasurer  of  the  state  in  1916. 

He  was  not  yet  thirty-three  years  of  age 
when  he  took  up  the  duties  of  his  new 
office  at  Indianapolis.  He  was  born  July 
12,  1884,  at  Attica,  Indiana,  son  of  William 
and  Elizabeth  (Starr)  McMurtrie.  His 
father  was  a  native  of  Fountain  County, 
and  his  mother  of  Vermilion  County,  In- 
diana. William  McMurtrie  was  the  young- 
est member  of  Company  B  in  the  One  Hun- 
dred and  Thirty-Fifth  Indiana  Infantry 
during  the  Civil  war.  Evidently  it  is  a 
characteristic  of  the  McMurtrie  family  to 
assume  serious  responsibilities  at  an  early 
age.  William  McMurtrie  and  wife  removed 
to  Grant  County  in  1892.  Their  two  liv- 
ing children  are  Uz  and  Joseph. 

Mr.  McMurtrie  began  attending  the  pub- 
lic schools  of  Attica,  later  graduated  from 


the  Marion  High  School,  and  in  1908  after 
the  full  four  year  course,  graduated  A. 
B.  from  Indiana  University.  While  in  the 
university  he  specialized  in  those  subjects 
and  showed  a  high  degree  of  ability  in  the 
departments  of  economics  and  social  sci- 
ence, closely  connected  with  the  service  he 
has  since  rendered  to  the  public.  He  gave 
two  years  of  research  work  to  problems  of 
taxation,  and  his  studies  gave  him  the  ma- 
terial for  his  graduation  thesis  on  "The 
Separation  of  the  Sources  of  State  and 
Local  Taxation."  He  was  also  president 
of  his  class  in  the  university,  a  member 
of  the  Phi  Kappa  Psi  fraternity  and  one 
of  the  ablest  and  most  popular  men  during 
his  four  years  there. 

The  work  which  he  carried  on  with  so 
much  enthusiasm  while  in  university  has 
been  followed  up  with  practical  applica- 
tion ever  since,  and  he  is  today  one  of  the 
recognized  experts  in  matters  of  taxation 
in  the  state.  After  leaving  university  he 
was  deputy  county  treasurer  of  Grant 
County  under  W.  H.  Sanders,  serving  from 
1909  to  1912,  inclusive.  In  November, 
1912,  he  was  elected  county  treasurer  on 
the  republican  ticket,  taking  that  office  Jan- 
uary 1,  1913. 

While  many  duties  and  responsibilities 
have  been  crowded  into  his  brief  space  of 
years,  Mr.  McMurtrie  has  always  been  ac- 
tive in  social  service  work  and  fraternal  and 
civic  affairs.  He  has  been  a  director  of 
the  Young  Men 's  Christian  Association  and 
Federated  Charities  at  Marion,  and  is  a 
member  of  the  Country  Club  and  the  Mecca 
Club  of  Marion.  He  is  a  Shriner  and 
thirty-second  degree  Mason  and  is  also  af- 
filiated with  the  Knights  of  Pythias  and 
the  Elks. 

February  11,  1914,  Mr.  McMurtrie  mar- 
ried Elizabeth  Hogin,  daughter  of  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  William  E.  Hogin.  This  is  one  of 
Marion's  oldest  families.  Mrs.  McMurtrie 
is  a  graduate  of  Wilson  College  at  Cham- 
bersburg,  Pennsylvania,  has  studied  vocal 
and  instrumental  music,  and  has  been 
prominent  in  Marion  musical  circles. 

Lynn  B.  Millikan  came  to  Indian- 
apolis about  thirty-five  years  ago  with  a 
modest  capital  of  $150,  representing  his 
earnings  and  savings  chiefly  as  a  farm 
hand.  Some  twenty  years  later  his  busi- 
ness as  a  general  contractor  and  builder 
had  reached  such  proportions  as  to  involve 


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an,  annual  total  of  $1,000,000  or  more. 
While  Indianapolis  has  been  his  home  dur- 
ing all  these  years  Mr.  Millikan's  opera- 
tions have  extended  over  many  states,  both 
East  and  West,  and  he  has  attained  an  un- 
doubted leadership  in  the  building  profes- 
sion in  Indiana. 

This  is  his  native  state.  He  was  born 
at  Newcastle,  Henry  County,  March  20, 
1860,  fourth  among  the  five  sons  of  Eli 
B.  and  Margaret  C.  (Martindale)  Millikan. 
His  father  was  a  native  of  Tennessee  and 
his  mother  of  Indiana.  Eli  Millikan  came 
to  Indiana  in  young  manhood  and  in  sub- 
sequent years  built  up  a  large  business  as 
a  buyer  of  livestock,  representing  a  meat 
packing  concern  at  Cambridge  City,  In- 
diana. He  finally  developed  a  large  farm 
in  Liberty  Township  of  Henry  County, 
and  was  a  practical  agriculturist  until  his 
death  in  1883,  at  the  age  of  sixty-nine. 
He  was  a  staunch  democrat,  a  man  of  more 
than  ordinary  influence  in  his  home  town- 
ship and  county,  was  a  Lodge  and  Chapter 
Mason  at  Newcastle,  and  he  and  his  wife 
were  active  in  the  Christian  Church.  His 
widow  survived  until  1894,  passing  away 
at  the  age  of  seventy  years. 

Lynn  B.  Millikan  has  always  been  grate- 
ful for  his  early  environment  of  an  Indiana 
farm,  its  duties  and  hard  work,  inter- 
spersed with  more  or  less  regular  attend- 
ance at  the  district  schools.  At  the  age  of 
twenty-one  he  entered  upon  an  apprentice- 
ship at  the  carpenter's  trade  at  Newcastle. 
From  there  in  1882  he  came  to  Indian- 
apolis, and  continued  to  work  two  years 
as  an  apprentice.  In  1884  he  engaged  in 
contracting  and  building  on  his  own  re- 
sponsibility, showing  an  enterprise  exceed- 
ingly unusual  in  men  of  his  age,  and  his 
work  is  only  another  proof  that  character 
and  energy  are  more  important  than 
financial  capital.  One  of  the  first  products 
of  his  work  as  a  building  contractor  was 
the  erection  of  a  modest  home  of  his  own, 
which  he  built  primarily  to  shelter  his  wid- 
owed mother,  who  came  to  Indianapolis 
and  spent  her  last  years  with  her  son.  For 
the  first  twelve  years  Mr.  Millikan  gave 
his  attention  principally  to  the  building 
of  houses  upon  his  own  responsibility.  He 
sold  them  almost  as  fast  as  they  were  com- 
pleted. The  first  house  sold  on  this  plan 
brought  only  $1,100.  Some  years  later  he 
sold  another  property  which  be  had  built 
for   $35,000.      In    the    exclusive    residence 


district  between  Sixteenth  and  Twenty- 
fifth  street  on  Meridian  Street  Mr.  Millikan 
erected  sixteen  fine  homes,  and  in  that  sec- 
tion may  be  found  some  of  the  best  ex- 
amples of  his  work  as  a  contractor  on  pri- 
vate residences.  His  business  has  extended 
to  even  larger  and  more  important  build- 
ing operations,  both  in  Indianapolis  and 
elsewhere.  He  handled  some  of  the  large 
building  contracts  for  the  New  York  Cen- 
tral Railway  Company  at  Buffalo  and  Al- 
bany, and  the  services  of  his  skilled  and 
highly  efficient  organization  have  been  used 
in  the  construction  of  some  of  the  most 
substantial  factories  and  business  build- 
ings of  Indianapolis.  At  1723  North  Me- 
ridian Street  he  erected  for  himself  one  of 
the  magnificent  homes  of  the  city. 

Mr.  Millikan  has  always  been  essentially 
a  business  man  and  through  his  work  has 
rendered  his  chief  public  service.  In  pol- 
itics he  is  a  republican  voter  merely,  is 
affiliated  with  Mystic  Tie  Lodge  No.  398, 
Ancient  Free  and  Accepted  Masons,  Key- 
stone Chapter  No.  6,  Royal  Arch  Masons, 
Raper  Commandery,  Knights  Templar,  the 
Mystic  Shrine,  he  and  his  wife  are  members 
of  the  First  Baptist  Church  and  he  be- 
longs to  various  civic  and  social  organiza- 
tions. 

December  9,  1891,  he  married  Miss  Ma- 
dora  Maude  Pierson.  She  is  a  daughter  of 
John  C.  and  Martha  Jane  (Fowler)  Pier- 
son,  both  natives  of  Indiana.  Her  father  for 
many  years  was  a  successful  contractor  and 
builder.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Millikan  have  one 
child,  Gaylord  Barton. 

Thomas  Madden.  For  over  sixty  years 
the  Madden  family  have  been  residents  of 
Indiana  and  for  half  a  century  have  been 
identified  with  Indianapolis.  Their  accom- 
plishments and  their  contributions  to  the 
life  of  the  state  and  the  city  justify  more 
than  passing  mention  of  the  family,  which 
was  founded  here  by  the  late  Thomas  Mad- 
den, who  was  a  gallant  soldier,  a  public 
leader  and  a  manufacturer,  and  whose  son 
is  now  at  the  head  of  one  of  Indianapolis' 
leading  industries. 

A  raw  Irish  lad,  imbued  with  abundance 
of  pluck  and  vitality,  Thomas  Madden 
came  to  Indiana  in  1853  and  first  located  at 
Delphi.  He  was  born  in  Galway,  Ireland, 
in  1836.  At  the  age  of  seventeen  he  braved 
the  ocean  in  a  sailing  vessel,  leaving  family 
and  friends  behind,  and  threw  in  his  for- 


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tunes  with  the  new  world.  He  had  but  lit- 
tle schooling,  and  it  was  largely  by  self 
application  that  he  mastered  the  common 
branches  of  learning.  Near  Delphi  he 
taught  a  country  school.  An  incident  of 
his  career  as  a  teacher  was  characteristic 
of  the  man  throughout  his  life.  The  school 
of  course  had  its  typical  bully,  a  big,  red 
fisted  boy  who  promised  the  younger 
scholars  that  he  would  make  short  work 
of  the  master  and  run  him  out.  The  clash 
between  authority  and  insubordination 
came  at  recess.  It  terminated  in  a  few 
minutes  and  the  bully  was  given  a  well 
deserved  thrashing,  which  immediately 
raised  the  young  schoolmaster  in  the  esti- 
mation of  the  entire  community  and  made 
his  success  as  a  teacher  assured. 

Thomas  Madden  was  tall,  of  athletic 
build,  straight  as  the  proverbial  arrow  and 
had  an  Irishman's  happy  way  of  acquiring 
friends.  He  possessed  will  and  the  courage 
of  his  convictions,  and  when  the  Civil  war 
broke  out  there  was  no  hesitation  or  linger- 
ing on  his  part.  He  was  among  the  first 
to  volunteer.  The  date  of  his  enlistment, 
April  22,  1861,  shows  this.  His  first  serv- 
ice was  in  West  Virginia.  December  13, 
1861,  he  was  wounded  by  gunshot  through 
the  lungs,  and  so  severely  that  only  his 
splendid  constitution  saved  his  life.  On  re- 
covering he  was  eager  to  get  back  into  the. 
fray  and  rejoined  the  army  in  time  to 
participate  in  the  battle  of  Shiloh.  His 
was  a  long  and  honorable  military  career. 
The  list  of  the  battles,  great  and  small,  in 
wmich  he  participated  is  a  long  one  and 
there  was  no  cessation  to  his  fidelity  and 
duty  as  a  good  soldier  until  at  the  close  of 
the  war  he  was  mustered  out  captain  of 
Company  A  of  the  Ninth  Indiana  Volun- 
eer  Infantry. 

After  the  declaration  of  peace  Thomas 
Madden  returned  to  Indiana  and  soon  mar- 
ried Ellen  Connolly,  daughter  of  Judge 
Connolly,  of  Lafayette.  He  brought  his 
bride  to  Indianapolis,  and  here  soon  be- 
came prominent  and  influential  in  local 
politics.  He  served  as  a  city  councilman, 
deputy  county  clerk,  chairman  of  the  board 
of  public  works,  and  also  in  the  office  of 
collector  of  internal  revenue.  This  can  be 
well  said  of  him  that  he  was  honest,  in- 
dustrious and  a  painstaking,  efficient  public 
official.  Many  of  his  old  friends  still  recall 
his  pleasing  personality. 

He  also  gave  an  impetus  to  Indianapolis ' 
vol.  rv— is 


industrial  affairs.  About  1881,  as  a  mem- 
ber of  the  firm  of  Ott  &  Madden,  he  began 
manufacturing  bed  lounges.  In  1887  he 
established  himself  alone  in  this  business. 
Success  came  to  him  in  generous  measures 
and  his  later  years  were  spent  in  compara- 
tive affluence.  About  two  years  before  his 
death  he  retired  from  the  more  active  cares 
of  business  and  divided  his  property  among 
his  children.  He  died  in  February,  1910, 
his  wife  having  passed  away  in  1900. 
Thomas  Madden  was  a  Catholic  and  in 
politics  a  democrat.  His  children  were : 
Mary,  Mrs.  William  J.  Griffin;  Thomas, 
who  died  when  twelve  years  old ;  Clara, 
Mrs.  C.  A.  O'Connor,  of  Louisville,  Ken- 
tucky ;  John  J. ;  and  Florence,  Mrs.  E.  J. 
0  'Reilly,  of  Louisville,  Kentucky. 

John  J.  Madden,  only  surviving  son  of 
the  late  Thomas  Madden,  has  much  of  the 
business  ability  which  distinguished  his 
father,  from  whom  he  inherits  both  religion 
and  politics,  but  unlike  the  elder  Madden 
has  earnestly  kept  away  from  politics  so 
far  as  it  involves  campaigning  or  office 
seeking,  and  has  been  content  with  the 
mere  exercise  of  his  right  of  franchise. 

Mr.  Madden  wTas  born  in  Indianapolis 
October  8,  1869,  and  acquired  his  early 
training  in  the  parochial  schools.  Early  in 
his  career  he  became  associated  with  his 
father  in  manufacturing  and  carried  many 
of  the  heavier  responsibilities  of  the  busi- 
ness which  his  father  had  founded.  In 
1912  he  established  the  John  J.  Madden 
Manufacturing  Company,  manufacturers 
of  bed  davenports.  It  is  a  big  industry, 
furnishes  employment  to  about  200  people 
and  is  one  of  the  concerns  that  add  to  the 
prestige  of  Indianapolis  as  an  industrial 
center. 

Mr.  Madden  married  June  7,  1893,  Miss 
Josephine  Owings,  daughter  of  Major  Na- 
thaniel Owings.  They  are  the  parents  of 
five  children,  Dorothy,  John  J.,  Jr.,  Rich- 
ard F.,  Thomas  and  Josephine.  Dorothy 
is  the  wife  of  Daugherty  Sheerin,  and  they 
have  two  daughters,  Margaret  Mary  and 
Barbara  Ann.  The  son  John  J.,  Jr.,  was 
sworn  into  service  in  the  United  States 
Aviation  Corps  on  August  18,  1917,  served 
overseas  and  received  a  commission  as  lieu- 
tenant. 

Oliver  Wayne  Stewart  was  ordained 
to  the  ministry  of  the  Church  of  Christ  in 
1887,   and  his   life  has   largely  been   de- 


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voted  to  the  work  of  prohibition.  He  was 
born  in  Mercer  County,  Illinois,  May  22, 
1867,  a  son  of  Charles  and  Eliza  Stewart. 
Mr.  Stewart  was  the  prohibition  can- 
didate for  Congress  from  the  Ninth  Illinois 
District  in  1890,  has  served  as  a  member 
of  the  state  and  national  prohibition  con- 
ventions, is  a  member  of  the  Flying  Squad- 
ron of  America  and  has  taken  an  active 
part  in  its  work,  and  is  associate  editor  of 
the  National  Enquirer,  Indianapolis.  He 
is  also  well  known  as  a  lecturer.  Mr. 
Stewart  married  Elvira  J.  Sears,  of 
Arthur,  Illinois. 

Wilbur  George  Austin  is  well  and 
favorably  known  in  business  circles  at 
Anderson,  where  he  has  been  identified 
with  several  live  and  going  concerns  and 
is  now  member  of  the  firm  Roseberry  & 
Austin,  one  of  the  leading  firms  of  mer- 
chants. 

Mr.  Austin  was  born  in  Southern  In- 
diana, at  Moores  Hill,  Dearborn  County, 
October  3,  1876,  a  son  of  George  W.  and 
Louisa  M.  (Wright)  Austin.  The  Austins 
are  of  English  and  Scotch-Irish  stock.  On 
coming  to  America  the  first  of  the  name 
settled  in  Vermont.  It  is  a  family  that  fur- 
nished several  generations  of  pioneers  to 
the  conquest  of  the  Middle  West.  Mr.  Aus- 
tin's grandfather,  Theron  Austin,  came  to 
Dearborn  County,  Indiana,  from  Vermont 
in  1816,  the  year  that  Indiana  was  admitted 
to  the  Union,  and  acquired  his  land  by  di- 
rect title  from  the  Government.  He  was  an 
industrious  farmer,  and  he  reared  twenty 
children.  George  W.  Austin  was  the  third 
son  in  the  large  family,  and  besides  its 
number  it  is  notable  for  the  fact  that  the 
first  death  did  not  occur  until  the  Civil 
war,  when  five  of  the  sons  entered  the 
Union  army  and  were  killed  on  the  field  of 
battle. 

George  W.  Austin  has  always  been  a 
farmer,  which  is  in  the  nature  of  the  fam- 
ily pursuit,  and  is  now  living  retired,  at 
the  age  of  eighty  years,  at  North  Vernon, 
Indiana.  Another  ancestor,  great-grand- 
father Jonathan  Cunningham,  was  a  pio- 
neer in  Switzerland  County,  Indiana,  and 
lived  to  be  more  than  a  century  old. 

Wilbur  George  Austin  grew  up  in  his 
native  village  of  Moores  Hill,  attended 
the  public  schools  there  and  also  pursued 
a  scientific  course  in  a  Methodist  college 
up  to  the  junior  year.     Leaving  old  home 


scenes,  he  went  to  Indianapolis  and  entered 
the  employ  of  Doctor  Edenharter,  super- 
intendent of  the  Central  Indiana  Hospital 
for  the  Insane.  He  was  one  year  an  at- 
tendant and  was  then  appointed  assistant 
storekeeper,  duties  he  performed  effici- 
ently for  seven  years,  and  was  then  pro- 
moted to  storekeeper  and  remained  in  that 
position  five  years. 

In  1910  Mr.  Austin  resigned  his  duties 
with  the  state  institution,  and  coming  to 
Anderson  joined  Mr.  Roseberry  under  the 
name  Roseberry  &  Austin  in  the  grocery 
business  at  1724  Arrow  Avenue.  They  were 
together  a  year  and  a  half  when  Mr.  Austin 
sold  out  and  spent  a  year  on  the  Pacific 
coast.  After  returning  to  Anderson  he 
bought  a  half  interest  in  a  wholesale  bakery 
establishment  with  the  present  mayor, 
J.  H.  Mellett.  The  firm  of  Mellett  and 
Austin  continued  three  years.  In  October, 
1916,  Mr.  Austin  resumed  his  relations 
with  his  old  partner,  Mr.  Roseberry,  and 
the  new  firm  opened  business  at  926  Main 
Street. 

Mr.  Austin  has  various  other  interests, 
including  local  real  estate,  and  is  secretary, 
treasurer  and  a  stockholder  of  the  Brown 
Molasses  Food  Company.  He  is  a  repub- 
lican voter,  a  member  of  the  First  Meth- 
odist Church,  and  is  affiliated  with  the 
United  Commercial  Travelers,  the  Marion 
Club  of  Indianapolis,  Indiana,  and  Ander- 
son Lodge  of  the  Independent  Order  of 
Odd  Fellows.  In  1907  he  married  Miss 
Bessie  Lee,  daughter  of  George  and 
Amanda  Lee,  of  Dupont,  Indiana.  They 
have  one  child,  Robert  Lee  Austin,  born 
in  July,  1917. 

Thomas  M.  Norton,  who  died  in  1908, 
was  one  of  the  sterling  business  men  of 
Anderson  and  founder  of  the  T.  M.  Nor- 
ton Brewing  Company,  an  industry  which 
he  developed  and  at  which  he  remained 
the  active  head  until  his  death. 

He  was  born  in  Ireland  in  1835,  and 
when  he  was  six  years  of  age  his  parents 
came  to  America  and  settled  at  Dayton, 
Ohio,  where  he  was  reared  and  educated. 
He  learned  the  trade  of  carpenter,  did 
some  contracting,  but  during  the  '60s  be- 
came associated  with  Louis  Williams  in  the 
brewing  of  ale  at  Union  City,  Indiana.  In 
1866  he  removed  to  Anderson,  and  with 
Patrick  Sullivan  as  a  partner  established 
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state.  In  1882  he  began  brewing  beer  on 
his  own  account,  and  kept  that  business 
growing  until  at  his  death  twenty-five  years 
later  his  was  one  of  the  best  known  brew- 
eries in  the  state. 

Thomas  M.  Norton  was  a  man  noted  for 
his  good  citizenship.  He  was  a  member 
of  the  first  board  of  workers,  trustees,  in 
Anderson,  serving  on  the  board  ten  years. 
He  was  a  member  of  the  Ancient  Order  of 
Hibernians,  and  was  an  active  member 
and  liberal  supporter  of  St.  Mary's  Cath- 
olic Church.  He  had  gone  back  to  his 
native  land  in  1896  on  a  pleasure  tour, 
and  soon  after  his  return  to  this  country 
turned  over  his  business  affairs  to  his  sons 
and  lived  practically  retired  for  more  than 
ten  years. 

Thomas  M.  Norton  married  at  Piqua, 
Ohio,  in  1861,  Miss  Catherine  McCarthy. 
They  had  four  children :  Mrs.  J.  C.  Kreuch, 
Mrs.  M.  J.  Crowley,  Martin  C.  and  Wil- 
liam J.,  all  residents  of  Anderson. 

The  president  of  the  Norton  Brewing 
Company  is  Martin  C.  Norton ;  William 
J.  Norton  is  secretary  and  treasurer;  and 
Mrs.  J.  C.  Kreuch  is  vice  president. 

Wiliam  J.  Norton  was  born  at  Ander- 
son April  9,  1869,  and  grew  up  in  that 
city,  attending  the  public  schools  and  one 
year  in  high  school.  At  the  age  of  sixteen 
he  started  working  for  his  father  in  the 
brewery,  and  has  been  in  practically  every 
department,  acquiring  both  the  technical 
and  business  training.  The  Norton  Brew- 
ing Company  is  widely  known  all  over  Cen- 
tral Indiana  for  its  high  products,  the 
"Gold  Band"  and  "Special  Brew"  of  bot- 
tled beers,  besides  the  Norton  draft  beers. 
A  modern  brewing  plant  was  constructed 
in  1910,  and  from  seventy-five  to  eighty 
people  find  employment  in  the  business. 

William  J.  Norton  is  an  active  democrat, 
has  filled  all  the  chairs  in  the  Benevolent 
and  Protective  Order  of  Elks  and  the 
Eagles  at  Anderson,  and  is  one  of  the 
citizens  who  can  always  be  depended  upon 
for  cooperation  in  every  public  welfare 
movement.  On  June  14,  1893,  Mr.  Norton 
married  Miss  Josephine  Elters,  daughter 
of  Stephen  and  Anna  (Cleland)  Elters. 
They  have  three  children,  two  sons  and 
one  daughter;  Charles  T.,  born  in  1894; 
Kathleen  Anna  and  Harold  S.,  born  in 
1896. 


Morley  W.  Peart  has  been  a  resident 
of  Anderson  over  twenty  years,  and  for 
thirteen  years  worked  "at  the  rolls"  in 
the  Anderson  branch  of  the  United  States 
Steel  Company.  Mr.  Peart  is  an  all  around 
mechanic  and  machinist,  and  while  various 
interests  have  engaged  his  time  and  atten- 
tion his  special  place  in  the  community 
at  present  is  represented  by  his  proprietor- 
ship of  the  City  Bicycle  Shop,  where  he 
handles  sporting  goods,  and  bicycles,  has 
a  complete  establishment  as  a  locksmith, 
and  is  doing  a  very  satisfactory  business. 
His  business  is  located  at  13  West  Eighth 
Street. 

Mr.  Peart  was  born  at  Toronto,  Ontario, 
in  1874,  a  son  of  William  and  Anna  (Rid- 
ley) Peart.  His  father,  a  native  of  York- 
shire, England,  came  to  Canada  at  the  age 
of  twelve  years,  and  in  Toronto  was  edu- 
cated for  the  teaching  profession,  securing 
a  second  class  normal  certificate.  For  many 
years  he  taught  district  schools  outside  of 
Toronto,  was  also  a  professional  vocalist 
and  vocal  teacher  and  was  a  local  minister 
of  the  Methodist  Church.  He  died  at  Brant- 
ford,  Ontario,  in  1884.  His  widow  is  still 
living  in  Toronto. 

Morley  W.  Peart  was  educated  at  To- 
ronto and  at  district  schools  at  Pickering, 
but  the  death  of  his  father  when  the  son 
was  only  ten  years  of  age  threw  him  upon 
his  own  responsibilities  when  quite  young. 
Between  the  ages  of  fifteen  and  eighteen  he 
worked  on  a  farm  near  Pickering,  Ontario. 
His  next  position  was  as  a  cabin  boy  and 
mail  carrier  on  an  old  lake  boat  known 
as  the  Chicora,  running  between  Toronto 
and  Lewiston.  He  spent  one  season  on  that 
boat  and  left  it  to  go  to  Detroit,  where  he 
acquired  considerable  practical  knowledge 
of  the  electrical  trade.  He  followed  other 
lines  of  employment  at  Detroit,  and  in  1895 
came  to  Anderson,  where  his  first  work 
was  six  months'  employment  with  the 
American  Steel  &  Wire  Company.  Fol- 
lowing that  he  put  in  thirteen  years  in  the 
rolling  mill  of  the  United  States  Steel  Cor- 
poration. Mr.  Peart 's  ability  commanded 
good  wages,  measured  by  the  standards  of 
that  time,  and  he  used  his  income  thriftily 
and  with  an  eye  to  the  future.  On  leav- 
ing the  rolling  mills  he  bought  a  bicycle, 
locksmith  and  repair  shop  at  his  present 
address.  A  year  later,  however,  he  en- 
gaged in  the  wholesale  and  retail  confec- 


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tionery  business.  At  the  end  of  one  year 
he  went  to  work  for  Charles  E.  Miller  as 
salesman  for  automobiles  and  bicycles.  Six 
months  later  he  resumed  his  present  busi- 
ness at  the  old  address  and  has  kept  it 
growing  every  year. 

Mr.  Peart  is  also  owner  of  an  apple  or- 
chard of  five  acres  near  Portland,  Oregon, 
and  is  a  stockholder  in  the  Mutual  Tire  & 
Rubber  Company  of  New  York,  the  Minto 
Peps  Company  of  Anderson,  and  has  va- 
rious other  financial  interests.  He  has  al- 
ways been  a  hard  worker,  and  without  de- 
pending upon  favors  from  others  has  made 
his  own  way  in  the  world  to  his  own  satis- 
faction and  to  the  benefit  of  his  commun- 
ity. Mr.  Peart  is  a  republican,  a  member 
of  the  First  Methodist  Episcopal  Church 
and  is  affiliated  with  Anderson  Lodge  No. 
131,  Independent   Order  of  Odd  Fellows. 

In  1910  he  married  Miss  Bettie  Akin, 
daughter  of  William  and  Martha  Akin,  of 
New  Albany,  Indiana.  They  have  one  son, 
Gilbert  M., 'born  in  1911. 

Charles  A.  Martindale.  One  of  the 
successful  men  in  the  industrial  affairs  of 
Anderson  is  Charles  A  Martindale,  who 
when  a  boy  out  of  high  school  learned  a 
mechanical  trade,  worked  for  others  a 
number  of  years,  and  finally  put  his  cap- 
ital and  experience  into  a  business  of  his 
own.  He  is  now  president  and  manager 
of  the  Reliable  Machine  Company,  a  local 
industry  that  is  not  an  insignificant  part 
of  the  general  industrial  activities  of  the 
city. 

Mr.  Martindale  represents  a  family  that 
has  had  relations  with  Indiana  since  earli- 
est pioneer  days.  Some  of  his  ancestors 
were  not  only  good  woodsmen  and  farmers 
who  helped  to  clear  up  the  wilderness,  but 
were  equally  active  in  fighting  away  the 
Indians  from  their  homes.  Mr.  Martin- 
dale. was  born  at  Anderson  September  18, 
1869,  a  son  of  S.  C.  and  Eliza  (Benbow) 
Martindale.  The  first  members  of  the 
Martindale  family  settled  around  Rich- 
mond and  Newcastle,  Indiana,  and  the 
majority  of  them  have  been  farmers.  S. 
C.  Martindale,  however,  became  a  lawyer 
and  was  long  actively  identified  with  the 
bar  at  Anderson.  He  served  as  mayor  of 
the  city,  and  is  still  living  in  honored  re- 
tirement there  at  the  age  of  eighty-nine. 
The  mother  died  in  1914. 

Charles   A.   Martindale   after   attending 


public  schools  and  high  school  at  Anderson 
for  one  year  went  to  work  learning  a  trade 
in  the  machine  shops  of  the  Hill  Machine 
Company.  He  spent  an  apprenticeship 
and  remained  with  that  company  seven 
years  as  a  workman,  then  for  four  or  five 
years  was  with  the  American  Strawboard 
Company  at  Anderson  and  with  the  Amer- 
ican Steel  and  Wire  Company  about  five 
years. 

In  1901,  having  saved  a  little  money, 
he  and  James  Farrell  established  a  ma- 
chine shop  of  their  own  known  as  the  Re- 
liable Machine  Company.  They  were  lo- 
cated on  Seventh  and  Eighth  streets  for 
four  years  and  then  bought  a  lot  and  built 
their  own  building.  A  year  and  half  later 
they  sold  that  property  and  moved  to  29 
West  Twenty-Ninth  Street,  where  they 
were  located  four  years.  In  1910  the  busi- 
ness was  opened  at  the  present  address, 
914  Jackson  Street,  and  in  1915  Mr.  Mar- 
tindale bought  out  his  partner  and  in- 
corporated the  business  with  himself  as 
president  and  manager,  Mr.  Maag,  vice 
president,  and  Charles  Rawlings  as  sec- 
retary and  treasurer.  The  company  does 
general  machine  work,  manufactures  gaso- 
line engines,  and  has  a  complete  equip- 
ment for  the  repair  of  automobiles  and 
other  machinery.  The  company  also  han- 
dles the  local  agency  over  part  of  Madison 
County  for  the  Studebaker  and  Oakland 
automobiles. 

Mr.  Martindale  married  in  1892  Miss 
Leona  Jackson,  daughter  of  Harry  and 
Margaret  (Griffith)  Jackson  of  Henry 
County,  Indiana.  Their  three  children  are 
Edith  N.,  Kenneth  H.  and  Mabel.  Mr. 
Martindale  is  a  republican  in  politics,  is  a 
member  of  the  Central  Christian  Church 
and  is  affiliated  with  the  Modern  Woodmen 
of  America. 

Eliza  Gordon  Browning,  librarian  of 
the  Indianapolis  Public  Library  for  a 
quarter  of  a  century,  has  accomplished 
pioneer  work  in  library  management  and 
administration.  When  she  began  her  woi'k 
at  Indianapolis  there  were  few  libraries 
and  few  librarians  in  the  State  of  Indiana, 
and  to  the  word  librarian  chief  popular 
significance  would  have  been  better  de- 
scribed as  a  custodian  of  books  rather  than 
of  one  who  makes  books  a  vital  interest  and 
source  of  usefulness  in  the  community.  In 
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libraries  both  in  the  spirit  and  in  the  prac- 
tice Miss  Browning  undoubtedly  deserves 
a  large  share  of  credit. 

She  first  became  associated  with  the  In- 
dianapolis Public  Library  in  the  capacity 
of  substitute  in  1880,  and  worked  an  en- 
tire year  without  salary.  In  whatever  de- 
partment she  was  assigned  she  proved  her 
value,  whether  it  was  in  the  routine  of 
library  duty  or  in  executive  responsibili- 
ties. In  April,  1892,  she  was  elected  libra- 
rian and  has  filled  that  post  continuously 
for  almost  a  generation.  The  people  of  In- 
dianapolis have  a  peculiar  admiration  and 
esteem  for  the  wise  and  efficient  woman 
whose  work  has  been  truly  a  community 
service,  and  there  is  probably  not  a  libra- 
rian in  the  state  who  does  not  know  of 
her  and  appreciate  her  dignity  as  the  dean 
of  Indiana  librarians. 

The  words  that  Charles  W.  Moores  of  the 
Indianapolis  bar  wrote  of  her  a  few  years 
ago  are  still  applicable,  with  merely  added 
truth  and  significance.  Mr.  Moores  said: 
"Miss  Eliza  G.  Browning,  librarian  of  the 
Indianapolis  Public  Library,  carries  greater 
responsibilities  in  the  library  world  than 
any  other  woman  and  has  held  that  position 
longer  perhaps  than  any  woman  ever  has. 
Her  wide  acquaintance  as  a  library  expert 
among  library  people  in  this  country  and 
abroad  and  her  large  circle  of  friends  in 
Indianapolis  have  made  her  a  most  accept- 
able public  official  and  have  added  greatly 
,to  the  reputation  of  the  library  abroad  and 
to  its  popularity  at  home.  She  has  grown 
up  in  the  atmosphere  of  books  and  has 
given  many  years  of  an  active  and  useful 
life  to  the  service  of  the  people,  so  that  it 
goes  without  saying  that  no  librarian  is 
better  liked  than  she  or  secures  more  loyal 
and  efficient  cooperation  .from  assistants. 
She  has  been  particularly  active  in  the 
promotion  of  public  movements  among 
librarians  and  the  reading  people,  and  was 
the  first  woman  enrolled  in  the  member- 
ship of  the  Indiana  Historical  Society. " 
She  is  also  a  member  of  the  Society  of 
Indiana  Pioneers,  and  was  one  of  its 
founders. 

Miss  Browning  is  an  Indiana  woman 
not  only  by  her  own  life  and  services  but 
by  virtue  of  many  prominent  family  con- 
nections. She  was  born  at  Fortville  in 
Hancock  County,  Indiana,  September  23, 
1856,  and  a  few  months  later  her  parents, 
Woodville  and  Mary  Ann  (Brown)  Brown- 


ing, came  to  Indianapolis.  In  this  city 
she  was  reared,  was  educated  in  both  pub- 
lic and  private  schools,  and  from  an  early 
age  was  distinguished  by  her  love  of  books 
and  has  always  lived  in  an  atmosphere  of 
literary  work  and  literary  fellowship. 

In  her  ancestral  record  are  found  a 
number  of  notable  family  names.  The 
Brownings,  Lewrights,  Mosses,  Browns, 
Johns  and  Wyatts  were  all  colonial  Vir- 
ginians, and  she  is  also  related  to  the  Gor- 
dons of  Philadelphia  and  the  Tompkins 
family  of  Staten  Island,  New  York.  Four 
of  her  great-great-grandfathers,  Thomas 
Brown,  Hugh  Moss,  John  Wyatt  and  John 
Johns,  as  also  her  great-grandfather, 
George  Brown,  were  soldiers  on  the  Pa- 
triot side  in  the  war  of  the  Revolution. 
Miss  Browning  has  long  been  a  member  of 
the  Daughters  of  the  American  Revolution, 
and  has  served  as  state  historian  of  the 
Indiana.  Society  and  was  joint  editor  with 
Mrs.  Harriet  (Mclntire)  Foster  of  the 
Year  Book  of  the  Daughters  of  the  Ameri- 
can Revolution  in  Indiana.  Miss  Brown- 
ing is  a  member  of  the  Fortnightly  Lit- 
erary Club  of  Indianapolis  and  the  Ameri- 
can Library  Association.  She  is  an  active 
member  of  Christ  Church  Parish  of  the 
Protestant  Episcopal  Church. 

Her  paternal  grandfather,  Edmund 
Browning,  a  son  of  Thomas  and  Eliza- 
beth (Lewright)  Browning,  was  born  at 
Culpeper,  Virginia,  in  1795,  fought  in  the 
War  of  1812  and  was  an  early  resident  of 
Indianapolis.  For  many  years  he  was  pro- 
prietor of  a  hotel  that  stood  on  the  site  of 
the  present  New  York  store  on  "Washing- 
ton Street.  From  1860  until  the  office  was 
abolished  about  six  years  later  he  was 
register  of  public  lands  in  Indiana.  His 
death  occurred  in  1877.  Edmund  Brown- 
ing married  Eliza  Gordon,  daughter  of 
George  and  Sarah  Wynn  (Moss)  Gordon 
and  a  granddaughter  of  Major  Hugh  and 
Jane  (Ford)  Moss.  Miss  Browning's 
father  was  an  Indianapolis  merchant  who 
died  in  1861,  her  mother  passing  away  in 
1875. 

In  the  maternal  line  her  great-grand- 
father, George  Brown,  above  mentioned,  in 
addition  to  his  Revolutionary  service  was 
engaged  in  the  Indian  wars  subsequent  to 
1783  and  in  the  War  of  1812.  George 
Brown  was  a  son  of  Thomas  and  Mary 
(Ball)  Brown.  George  Brown  married 
Hannah  John,  daughter  of  John  and  Bar- 


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bara  (Evans)  John.  In  1825  Hannah 
(John)  Brown  was  left  a  widow  with  a 
number  of  little  children.  Her  home  was 
then  in  the  pioneer  wilds  of  Rush  County, 
Indiana,  and  she  showed  great  fortitude 
and  bravery  in  living  in  that  country  after 
the  death  of  her  husband  and  rearing  her 
family.  There  were  few  physicians  and 
in  their  absence  she  sent  to  Cincinnati  for 
the  necessary  books,  studied  medicine  and 
became  widely  known  for  her  capable  serv- 
ices as  a  physician.  She  did  not  practice 
the  work  as  a  profession,  and  ministered 
unselfishly  to  all  who  were  in  affliction  and 
distress.  So  far  as  the  records  are  ob- 
tainable she  was  the  first  woman  physician 
in  the  State  of  Indiana.  It  was  from  her 
that  her  son  Dr.  Eyland  T.  Brown  gained 
Ms  first  knowledge  of  medicine.  Ryland 
T.  Brown  became  one  of  the  prominent 
men  of  Indiana,  serving  as  state  geologist, 
later  as  chemist  in  chief  in  the  Department 
of  Agriculture  at  Washington,  and  carried 
out  the  government  work  of  making  a  sur- 
vey of  Indiana's  natural  resources.  Dur- 
ing his  last  years  he  occupied  the  Chair 
of  Natural  Science  in  the  Northwestern 
Christian  University,  now  Butler  College, 
and  the  Chair  of  Chemistry  and  Physiol- 
ogy in  the  Indiana  Medical  College  of  In- 
dianapolis. 

Hon.  William  John  Brown,  maternal 
grandfather  of  Miss  Browning,  was  a  dis- 
tinguished lawyer  and  journalist  of  In- 
diana, was  editor  of  the  Indianapolis  Sen- 
tinel from  1850  to  1855,  a  member  of  the 
Indiana  Legislature  from  1829  to  1832, 
prosecuting  attorney  for  the  Indiana  Dis- 
trict from  1832  to  1836,  was  secretary  of 
state  from  1836  to  1840,  a  member  of  the 
General  Assembly  in  1841-42,  and  repre- 
sented his  district  in  Congress  in  1843-44 
and  1849-50.  From  1845  to  1849  he  was 
assistant  postmaster  general.  As  a  public 
man  his  high  sense  of  personal  responsi- 
bility in  the  discharge  of  the  duties  en- 
trusted to  him,  his  thorough  comprehen- 
sion of  the  people  he  represented,  and  his 
desire  to  fulfill  to  the  utmost  the  expecta- 
tions regarding  his  services  made  him  an 
admirable  public  servant  and  he  main- 
tained a  position  of  power  and  prominence 
for  many  years.  William  J.  Brown  mar- 
ried Miss  Susan  Tompkins,  daughter  of 
Nathan  and  Mary  (Wyatt)  Tompkins. 
Her  paternal  grandfather  was  a  near  rela- 
tive of  Vice  President  Daniel   D.    Tomp- 


kins. William  J.  Brown  and  wife  had  two 
distinguished  sons,  Admiral  George  Brown 
of  the  United  States  Nav}'  and  Hon.  Austin 
H.  Brown,  one  of  Indiana's  leaders  in  pub- 
lic affairs. 

Fred  D.  Wright,  secretary  and  treas- 
urer of  the  Wellington  Milling  Company 
at  Anderson,  is  a  veteran  in  experience  as 
a  flour  miller  and  has  traversed  the  en- 
tire road  and  route  so  far  as  the  items 
of  experience  in  that  industry  are  con- 
cerned. Mr.  Wright  is  also  a  veteran  of 
the  Cuban  war  of  1898,  and  thus  has  a 
record  of  military  service  to  his  credit. 

He  was  born  on  a  farm  near  Modoc, 
Randolph  County,  Indiana,  September  13, 
1877,  and  is  of  Scotch  ancestry.  His  par- 
ents, Willis  C.  and  Molly  (Vardaman) 
Wright,  were  natives  of  Indiana.  The 
first  of  the  Wright  family  to  come  from 
Scotland  settled  in  Maryland,  and  later 
they  were  pioneers  of  Randolph  County, 
Indiana,  and  bought  a  release  of  a  tract 
of  government  land,  becoming  its  second 
purchasers. 

Fred  D.  Wright  attended  the  district 
schools  during  winter  sessions  and  gained 
a  practical  experience  in  the  duties  of  the 
home  farm.  At  fifteen  he  gave  up  his 
school  work  in  order  to  help  support  the 
family,  and  continued  at  the  old  homestead 
until  September,  1894.  Then,  at  the  age 
of  seventeen,  he  made  his  first  acquain- 
tance with  the  flour  milling  industry  as 
driver  of  a  team  of  mules  for  the  flour 
mill  of  W.ysor  &  Hibbetts  at  Muncie,  In- 
diana. He  was  with  that  mill  until  1898, 
and  was  given  increasing  responsibilities 
and  opportunities  to  acquire  a  knowledge 
of  the  technical  processes  of  flour  manu- 
facture. 

On  May  12,  1898,  Mr.  Wright  enlisted 
at  Muncie  in  the  Twentieth  Regiment  of 
Infantry,  Company  H.  This  regiment  was 
one  of  the  few  from  Indiana  that  saw 
actual  service  on  the  Island  of  Cuba.  Mr. 
Wright  was  in  the  fight  at  El  Cancy  and 
in  the  siege  and  battle  of  Santiago.  His 
company  was  the  one  ordered  to  assist  the 
Rough  Rider  Regiment  of  Colonel  Roose- 
velt, but  its  services  were  not  required. 
Mr.  Wright  was  mustered  out  October  22, 
1898. 

Returning  to  Muncie,  he  resumed  em- 
ployment with  the  local  flour  mill  until 
June,  1901.     At  that  date  he  came  to  An- 


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derson  and  became  a  packer  in  the  flour 
mills  of  Wellington  &  Son.  After  eight 
months  he  was  promoted  to  head  miller, 
and  filled  that  position  until  February, 
1904.  In  the  meantime,  in  order  the  bet- 
ter to  fit  himself  for  larger  business  re- 
sponsibilities, he  took  a  night  course  in  the 
Anderson  Business  College.  Failing  health 
finally  compelled  him  to  give  up  his  work 
temporarily  and  in  February,  1905,  he 
went  west  and  spent  three  months  at 
Los  Angeles  and  other  California  points. 
Having  recuperated,  he  returned  to  An- 
derson, and  soon  took  charge  of  a  coopera- 
tive farmers  mill  at  Linn  Grove  in  Adams 
County,  Indiana.  He  was  there  until  Sep- 
tember, 1907,  when  he  returned  to  An- 
derson and  took  charge  of  the  business 
office  of  the  Wellington  &  Son  mill.  In 
December,  1912,  this  business  was  incor- 
porated with  Mr.  Wright  as  secretary  and 
treasurer  and  general  manager  and  Joseph 
D.  Van  Camp  as  president.  The  company 
does  a  large  business  in  the  manufacture 
of  flour  and  feed,  also  handle  various  grain 
products,  and  their  market  extends  in  a 
radius  around  Anderson  of  fifty  miles. 
The  principal  and  best  known  brand  manu- 
factured by  the  company  is  the  A  X  A 
flour. 

September  3,  1901,  Mr.  Wright  married 
Miss  Iva  E.  Longfellow,  daughter  of 
Samuel  C.  Longfellow  of  Rush  County, 
Indiana.  They  have  three  children :  Nolean 
May,  born  in  1902;  Noland  C,  born  in 
1907 ;  and  Ruby  Catherine,  born  in  1914. 

Mr.  Wright  is  a  republican  voter.  He 
is  a  member  of  the  First  Methodist  Church 
of  Anderson,  is  affiliated  with  the  Inde- 
pendent Order  of  Odd  Fellows  and  the 
United  Commercial  Travelers,  and  belongs 
to  the  Chamber  of  Commerce. 

George  L.  Maas.  When  the  men  promi- 
nent in  the  lumber  industry  at  Indian- 
apolis are  considered  special  mention  is 
due  George  L.  Maas,  president  and  treas- 
urer of  the  Maas-Xeimeyer  Lumber  Com- 
pany. Mr.  Maas  is  an  old  timer  in  the 
lumber  business,  and  out  of  his  experience 
and  extensive  connections  has  built  up  a 
plant  which  now  has  a  reputation  among 
the  trade  generally  as  one  of  the  most  re- 
sponsible and  complete  in  the  manufacture 
of  all  classes  of  mill  work  and  especially 
the  better  type  of  wood  finish. 

The  company's  plant  and  headquarters 


are  between  Twenty-first  and  Twenty-sec- 
ond streets,  adjoining  the  Monon  Railway 
tracks.  The  company  was  organized  in 
1901  with  $20,000  capital.  It  now  has  a 
surplus  of  $60,000,  which  has  accumulated 
as  an  index  of  its  prosperous  operations. 
Recently  increased  yardage  was  added  so 
as  to  comprehend  an  additional  half  block 
on  the  north  and  also  other  ground  on  the 
south. 

Mr.  George  L.  Maas  has  been  president 
of  the  company  from  the  time  of  its  or- 
ganization. A.  J.  Neimeyer  was  the  first 
vice  president,  but  is  no  longer  active  in 
the  management,  A.  C.  Calley  being  vice 
president.  Albert  E.  Metzger  is  secretary. 
Three  years  after  the  company  was  or- 
ganized a  planing  mill  was  established,  and 
the  facilities  of  this  plant  have  been  in- 
creased from  time  to  time.  The  company 
now  mairufactui'es  everything  that  enters 
into  the  construction  of  homes,  factories  or 
office  buildings  in  the  form  of  wood,  and 
they  get  their  raw  material  from  the  pine 
and  hemlock',  birch  and  cypress  fields  of 
the  north,  far  west  and  south,  and  also 
from  many  of  the  hard  wood  districts  of 
the  middle  west.  The  business  has  grown 
apace  with  the  growth  and  development  of 
Indianapolis,  and  the  company  is  by  no 
means  a  purely  local  concern.  An  instance 
of  one  of  its  long  distance  contracts  was 
when  the  company  recently  supplied  ma- 
hogany finishings  for  the  fine  courthouse 
at  Memphis,  Tennessee. 

Mr.  George  L.  Maas  is  a  son  of  Louis  and 
Fredericka  (Wuest)  Maas.  His  father  was 
born  in  Prussia,  Germany,  March  21,  1835, 
son  of  a  ship  builder.  About  1847  Grand- 
father Maas,  unable  longer  to  endure  the 
political  and  military  conditions  which 
were  peculiarly  irksome  to  every  aspiring 
German  of  that  day,  left  the  fatherland 
and  came  to  America,  landing  at  New 
Orleans,  where  he  worked  for  a  time.  As 
soon  as  possible  he  sent  back  money  to 
enable  his  wife  and  two  sons,  Louis  and 
George,  to  follow  him,  and  when  they  had 
joined  him  the  entire  family  came  up  the 
Mississippi  River  to  Louisville,  Kentucky. 
In  that  city  Louis  Maas  learned  the  cigar 
maker's  trade,  and  a  few  years  before  the 
Civil  war  he  moved  to  the  City  of  Indian- 
apolis and  worked  at  his  trade  for  Charles 
Meyer. 

Louis  Maas  was  fired  by  that  patriotic 
ardor  which  took  so  many  men  of  German 


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birth  and  parentage  into  the  ranks  of  the 
Union  array  during  the  Civil  war.  Early 
in  that  struggle  he  volunteered  his  services, 
but  was  twice  rejected.  Despairing  of 
eluding  the  vigilance  of  the  examining 
board  at  Indianapolis,  he  determined  to  try 
elsewhere  and  went  to  Franklin,  Indiana, 
where  he  found  the  authorities  less  exacting 
about  some  of  the  details  of  physical  fit- 
ness. He  was  accepted  in  the  service  and 
enrolled  in  the  First  Indiana  Volunteer 
Battery,  and  spent  three  years,  doing  his 
full  duty  as  a  soldier,  testimony  of  which 
is  found  in  the  fact  that  he  left  a  leg  on 
one  of  the  Southern  battlefields.  After  the 
war  he  returned  to  Indianapolis,  and  here 
he  and  an  old  sweetheart,  Fredericks 
Wuest,  were  soon  united  in  marriage.  She 
was  born  in  Wuertemberg,  Germany,  and 
was  about  fourteen  or  fifteen  years  of  age 
when  her  family  came  to  America.  For 
many  years  Louis  Maas  continued  to  be 
identified  with  the  tobacco  business  at  In- 
dianapolis, and  was  head  of  the  firm  Maas 
&  Kiemeyer,  with  a  store  well  known  to  all 
the  older  citizens  of  Indianapolis,  located 
on  Washington  Street  just  across  from  the 
Marion  County  Courthouse.  Mr.  Maas  re- 
tired from  active  business  in  1902.  He  was 
a  republican  in  politics. 

George  L.  Maas,  the  oldest  of  the  six  chil- 
dren of  his  parents,  was  born  July  19,  1866, 
in  Indianapolis,  on  East  Michigan  Street 
near  Noble  Street.  During  his  boyhood  he 
attended  the  local  public  schools,  and  at 
the  age  of  seventeen  went  to  work  as  a  de- 
livery boy  for  the  Mueller  grocery  store  at 
the  corner  of  Seventeenth  and  Bellefon- 
taine  streets.  Later,  through  family  influ- 
ence, he  went  to  work  for  A.  B.  Meyer 
&  Company,  and  had  charge  of  a  coal  yard 
at  Christian  Avenue  and  the  Lake  Erie  and 
Western  Railroad  tracks.  Another  trans- 
fer of  employment  made  him  a  bookkeeper 
in  the  Bee  Hive  Planing  Mill,  which  was 
operated  by  the  well  known  old  firm  of  M. 
S.  Huey  &  Son.  It  was  here  that  Mr.  Maas 
really  laid  the  foundation  of  his  experience 
and  success  as  a  lumber  man.  He  was  with 
Huey  &  Son  fourteen  years,  and  then 
utilized  this  experience  and  his  capital  and 
credit  in  organizing  the  Maas-Neimeyer 
Lumber  Company.  Mr.  Maas  is  an  active 
republican,  is  affiliated  with  Pentalpha 
Lodge,  Ancient  Free  and  Accepted  Masons, 
and  is  both  a  Scottish  and  York  Rite  Mason 


and    Shriner.      He    also    belongs    to    the 
Knights  of  Pythias. 

November  28,  1893,  he  married  Miss 
Bertha  Metzger,  daughter  of  Alexander 
Metzger,  who  for  many  years  was  a  promi- 
nent real  estate  dealer  in  Indianapolis.  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Maas  have  a  son  and  daughter, 
Hugo  G.  and  Wilhelmina,  both  still  at 
home.  Hugo  is  a  graduate  of  the  Univer- 
sity of  Michigan  and  has  shown  some  of 
the  same,  spirit  as  his  grandfather  in  a 
desire  and  willingness  to  serve  his  country 
in  the  time  of  war.  He  is  now  serving  as 
lieutenant  at  Edgewood  Arsenal,  Balti- 
more, Maryland. 

George  A.  Bicknell,  rear  admiral, 
United  States  navy,  was  born  at  Batsto, 
New  Jersey,  May  15,  1846,  a  son  of  George 
A.  and  Elizabeth   (Richards)  Bicknell. 

From  acting  midshipman  from  Indiana, 
to  which  he  was  appointed  December  2, 
1861,  Mr.  Bicknell  has  risen  in  command 
to  the  high  place  he  now  occupies  in  the 
United  States  navy.  He  served  as  a  first 
lieutenant  during  Morgan's  raid  in  In- 
diana, commanded  the  United  States 
Steamship  Niagara  in  the  Spanish-Ameri- 
can war,  and  performed  work  of  inesti- 
mable value  until  his  retirement  from  the 
service  May  16,  1908.  He  is  a  life  mem- 
ber of  the  United  States  Naval  Institute. 

Mr.  Bicknell  married  Annie  Sloan,  a 
daughter  of  John  Sloan,  M.  D.,  of  New 
Albany,  Indiana.  Mr.  Bicknell's  home  is 
also  at  New  Albany. 

August  D.  Sturm  is  an  Indianapolis 
citizen  who  has  done  much  and  is  doing 
much  to  insure  the  world  a  supply  of  food. 
He  is  one  of  the  leading  canners  of  the 
state  and  was  the  organizer  and  founder 
of  the  Central  State  Canning  Company,  of 
which  he  was  president  until  recently. 

Mr.  Sturm  was  born  in  Marion  County, 
Indiana.  His  birthplace  was  only  two 
miles  from  where  he  now  lives.  His  birth 
occurred  January  5,  1865.  His  parents, 
John  and  Elizabeth  (Greenwalt)  Sturm, 
were  both  natives  of  Germany,  where  the}' 
married.  Two  of  their  children  were  born 
in  the  old  country.  "Owing  to  the  restric- 
tions and  conditions  of  life  in  Central 
Europe  John  Sturm  sought  better  oppor- 
tunities industrially  as  well  as  politically 
in  the  New  World,  and  about  1862  arrived 


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with  his  family  at  Indianapolis.  He  was 
a  man  of  very  humble  means  and  had  to 
practically  break  his  way  into  the  strange- 
ness of  American  life  and  make  for  him- 
self a  position  and  reasonable  success.  His 
first  employment  here  was  in  a  brick  yard. 
A  few  years  later  he  went  to  farming,  and 
save  for  a  short  time  continued  that  occu- 
pation all  the  rest  of  his  life.  He  was  also 
a  teamster  in  the  city.  John  Sturm  was 
born  March  1,  1830,  and  died  May  7,  1895. 
His  wife  was  born  January  15,  1835,  and 
died  February  2,  1898.  They  were  quiet, 
hard-working  people  but  enjoyed  high  es- 
teem in  their  community.  They  were  mem- 
bers of  the  Zion  Evangelical  Church.  Of 
their  nine  children  only  three  are  now  liv- 
ing, August  and  two  sisters :  Annie  Kirk- 
hoff,  wife  of  Christian  Kirkhoff,  and  Min- 
nie, wife  of  Richard  Blank. 

August  D.  Sturm  attended  the  common 
schools  of  Marion  County  and  for  a  short 
time  was  a  student  in  the  Lutheran  paro- 
chial school.  As  a  very  small  boy  he 
helped  earn  his  own  living  by  selling 
papers  on  the  streets  of  Indianapolis  and 
also  blacking  shoes.  At  the  age  of  thirteen 
he  began  regular  employment  as  a  farm 
hand.  After  his  marriage  he  rented  a 
small  farm  south  of  the  city,  lived  there  for 
a  year  or  two,  and  his  thorough  knowledge 
of  intensive  farming  is  naturally  of  great 
value  to  him  in  his  present  business.  From 
the  farm  he  went  to  work  as  drayman  for 
Charles  Roesener  of  the  Central  Transfer 
Company. 

Mr.  Sturm's  introduction  to  the  canning 
business  was  gained  when  after  two  years 
as  a  drayman  he  went  to  work  for  the  Van 
Camp  Packing  Company.  He  was  given 
many  responsibilities  in  their  plant,  having 
charge  of  the  packing  and  shipping.  With 
this  experience  and  with  his  modest  capi- 
tal he  organized  in  1914  the  Central  State 
Canning  Company,  and  was  made  presi- 
dent. The  Central  State  Canning  Com- 
pany has  a  large  plant  near  Indianapolis, 
and  for  several  years  has  turned  out  an 
enormous  product  of  canned  goods,  prin- 
cipally corn,  peas,  beans  and  pumpkins. 
These  goods  have  been  distributed  prin- 
cipally through  the  retail  trade  over  the 
Middle  "West.  Recently  Mr.  Sturm  re- 
signed from  the  Central  States  Company 
and  he  and  his  son  are  now  building  a 
model  new  canning  plant  at  Bargersville  in 
Johnson  County,  Indiana. 


Mr.  Sturm  and  his  family  reside  on 
Hanna  Avenue  south  of  the  city  limits  of 
Indianapolis.  He  married  in  1890  Emma 
Hartman,  daughter  of  William  Hartman, 
who  was  a  native  of  Germany,  came  to  In- 
diana many  years  ago  and  is  still  living 
on  his  farm  in  Marion  County.  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Sturm  have  three  children,  Ada, 
Richard  J.  and  Annie,  all  at  home. 

Percy  Hunter  Doyle  has  built  up  at 
Anderson  one  of  the  largest  concerns  of 
the  kind  in  this  state,  an  agency  for  the 
handling  of  high  class  securities,  stocks 
and  bonds.  He  is  also  general  agent  for 
the  Equitable  Life  Assurance  Society  of 
New  York. 

Mr.  Doyle  is  a  native  of  Indiana,  born 
at  Fairfield  in  Franklin  County  July  11, 
1876,  son  of  L.  B.  and  Lavina  (Quidley) 
Doyle.  He  is  of  Irish  stock  on  both  sides, 
but  the  Doyles  have  been  in  America  for 
generations.  They  are  an  old  Virginia 
family  of  Augusta  County,  where  they 
owned  a  plantation  and  from  which  county 
they  went  as  loyal  defenders  of  the  South 
in  the  time  of  the  Civil  war.  L.  B.  Doyle 
was  born  in  Augusta  County,  and  in  1861 
went  into  the  Confederate  army  and  at- 
tained the  rank  of  major.  He  was  wound- 
ed at  Chancellorsville  and  made  a  prisoner 
of  war. 

P.  H.  Doyle  received  a  public  school 
education.  When  he  was  sixteen  years 
of  age  his  parents,  removed  to  Anderson, 
and  he  was  a  student  in  the  high  school 
of  this  city  three  years.  His  first  regular 
employment  was  with  the  Anderson  plant 
of  the  United  States  Steel  Company.  He 
remained  with  that  industry  for  ten  years 
and  was  manager  of  the  plant  the  last 
three  years  of  his  employment.  In  19u6 
he  went  to  Louisville,  Kentucky,  and  for 
two  years  was  in  the  electrical  construc- 
tion and  contracting  business  with  the 
Chowning  Electric  Company. 

Returning  to  Anderson  in  1909,  he  was 
connected  with  an  automobile  firm  for  a 
year,  and  then  contracted  with  the  Equit- 
able Life  Assurance  Society  of  New  York 
to  represent  them  in  the  Eighth  District 
of  Indiana.  Along  with  life  insurance,  a 
field  to  which  his  abilities  gave  him  prom- 
ising entrance,  he  subsequently  took  up 
the  handling  of  gilt  edged  stocks  and  bonds 
and  securities,  and  now  has  a  business  sec- 
ond to  none  of  the  kind  in  this  part  of  the 


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state.  He  is  also  a  stockholder  in  various 
local  industries,  including  the  Mid  West 
Engine  Company,  Pierce  Governor  Com- 
pany and  the  Hughes-Curry  Dressed  Beef 
Company. 

In  1902  Mr.  Doyle  married  Miss  Mildred 
McCullough,  daughter  of  C.  K.  and  Har- 
riet (Black)  McCullough,  of  Anderson. 
They  have  one  child,  John  McCullough 
Doyle,  horn  in  1905.  Mr.  Doyle  is  a  demo- 
crat, a  member  of  the  First  Congregational 
Church,  a  Scottish  Rite  Mason  and 
Shriner  and  was  master  of  Mount  Moriah 
Lodge  in  1914.  He  is  also  affiliated  with 
Lodge  No.  209  of  the  Benevolent  and  Pro- 
tective Order  of  Elks.  Mr.  Doyle  is  a 
member  of  the  Anderson  Chamber  of  Com- 
merce. 

He  has  done  much  to  keep  up  an  inter- 
est in  Anderson  in  military  affairs.  In 
1894  he  enlisted  in  the  local  company  of 
the  National  Guard  and  for  three  years 
was  in  Company  C  of  the  Second  Indiana 
Regiment.  In  1913  he  organized  Company 
M  of  the  Second  Regiment,  of  Infantry, 
and  for  three  years  was  its  captain.  In 
1918  he  was  commissioned  by  Governor 
Goodrich  as  captain  Company  L,  Indiana 
State  Militia. 

Edwin  Francis  Creager,  who  is  works 
manager  of  the  Remy  Electric  Company 
at  Anderson,  is  one  of  the  veteran  and 
pioneer  electrical  engineers  of  America. 
When  electricity  as  motive  power  was  in 
its  infancy  Mr.  Creager  did  much  experi- 
mental and  construction  work  both  in  the 
east  and  west,  and  his  experience  suggests 
many  of  the  most  interesting  phases  of 
electrical  development  in  this  country. 

He  was  born  in  Harrisburg,  Pennsyl- 
vania, September  24.  1866,  of  Scotch- 
Irish  stock,  son  of  Calvin  M.  and  Henri- 
etta M.  (Culmerry)  Creager.  His  ancestors 
on  coming  to  this  country  first  settled  in 
Maryland  and  afterwards  went  to  Penn- 
sylvania. Mr.  Creager  was  only  eleven 
years  old  when  his  father  died,  and  from 
that  date  he  was  dependent  upon  his  own 
resources  and  has  directed  his  ship  against 
the  winds  of  fate  through  his  own  judg- 
ment and  abilities.  Men  in  the  electrical 
industry  are  apparently  immune  to  the  ef- 
fects of  hard  and  continuous  work,  the  most 
familiar  example  being  of  course  the  great 
wizard  of  electricity.  Thomas  A.  Edison 
himself.     Mr.  Creager  is  not   far  behind, 


since  in  an  active  career  of  forty  years 
he  has  lost  only  one  month  on  account  of 
illness  and  has  never  allowed  himself  a 
single   vacation. 

In  the  course  of  his  youthful  wander- 
ings he  picked  up  a  knowledge  of  the  drug 
business  in  Senatobia,  Mississippi,  and  for 
three  years  worked  as  a  registered  phar- 
macist at  Springfield,  Ohio.  He  then  re- 
turned east  to  Lancaster,  Pennsylvania, 
and  for  six  years  was  an  electrical  worker 
with  the  Edison  Company.  He  did  wiring 
and  became  acquainted  with  all  the  tech- 
nical processes  and  details  of  electrical 
construction  as  then  practiced.  For  a  time 
he  was  manager  of  a  plant  at  Renovo, 
Pennsylvania,  for  one  year  managed  the 
Danville  Gas  &  Electric  Company  at  Dan- 
ville, Pennsylvania,  and  was  also  foreman 
of  the  Edison  Illuminating  Company  at 
Wilmington,   Delaware. 

One  of  his  very  interesting  early  ex- 
periences came  when  he  went  out  to  San 
Francisco  and  as  an  employe  of  the  Edi- 
son Company  helped  construct  the  first 
Sprague  System  street  electric  railway  in 
California  at  Sacramento.  While  in  the 
far  west  Mr.  Creager  had  an  offer  to  super- 
vise electric  works  for  the  Chinese  govern- 
ment, but  declined  because  he  did  not  care 
to  leave  his  family. 

On  returning  east  he  engaged  in  business 
for  himself  in  the  making  of  models  and 
general  consulting  engineering  for  two 
years.  Selling  out,  he  became  foreman  pat- 
tern maker  for  the  Hubley  Manufacturing 
Company  of  Lancaster.  This  was  the  larg- 
est novelty  manufacturing  company  in 
the  United  States.  He  was  promoted  to 
manager  of  the  plant,  and  later  for  three 
years  did  electric  contracting  and  automo- 
bile work  at  Lancaster.  For  another  three 
years  he  was  general  manager  of  the  Ameri- 
can Telegraphone  Company  at  Springfield, 
Massachusetts. 

In  1913  Mr.  Creager  came  to  Anderson 
to  take  his  place  in  the  engineering  de- 
partment of  the  Remy  Electric  Company, 
and  two  months  later  was  made  assistant 
factory  manager",  and  during  1918  was 
made  works  manager.  He  is  also  a  stock- 
holder in  the  United  Motor  Corporation 
and  has  much  real  estate  and  other  busi- 
ness interests. 

In  1891  Mr.  Ci'eager  married  Miss  Clara 
A.  Wetting,  daughter  of  Frederick  Wet- 
ting   of    Lancaster,   Pennsylvania.      They 


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have  one  son,  Leon  Frederick,  who  is  now 
electrical  inspector  of  motor  trucks  in  the 
Ordnance  Department  at  Camp  Holabird, 
Baltimore,  Maryland.  Mr.  Creager  is  a 
Scottish  Rite  Mason,  has  affiliations  with 
the  blue  lodge  at  Lancaster,  Pennsylvania, 
with  Murat  Temple  of  the  Mystic  Shrine 
at  Indianapolis,  and  also  belongs  to  the 
Odd  Fellows  Lodge  at  Lancaster,  to  the 
Elks  at  Anderson  and  is  a  member  of  the 
Royal  Arcanum  and  the  Travelers  Pro- 
tective Association,  the  Anderson  Chamber 
of  Commerce,  Young  Men's  Christian  As- 
sociation, Hoosiers  Automobile  Association, 
the  Society  of  Automotive  Engineers,  the 
American  Society  of  Mechanical  Engineers 
and  is  chief  for  Madison  County,  Indiana, 
of  the  American  Protective  League. 

Gustavus  Bohn.  The  older  citizens  of 
Indianapolis  have  many  fine  memories  of 
the  polished,  scholarly  and  dignified  Gus- 
tavus Bohn,  who  in  many  ways  completely 
represented  the  many  admirable  qualities 
and  characteristics  of  that  class  of  Germans 
who  came  to  America  as  a  result  of  the 
revolution  of  1848. 

He  was  born  in  Baden,  Germany,  and 
his  enthusiasm  for  liberty  made  him  a  will- 
ing participant  in  the  revolutionary  move- 
ment that  culminated  in  1848.  He  had 
enjoyed  excellent  educational  advantages 
and  was  member  of  a  high  class  German 
family.  In  the  fighting  between  the  Im- 
perial forces  and  the  Revolutionists  he  was 
severely  wounded,  was  captured  and  was 
sentenced  to  ten  years  penal  servitude  at 
hard  labor.  He  escaped  from  the  hospital, 
and  making  his  way  with  other  refugees 
through  France  took  passage  on  board  a 
sailing  vessel  at  Havre  for  America.  Be- 
hind him  were  all  his  family  and  loved 
ones,  and  ahead  was  hope  and  possible 
realization  of  cherished  dreams.  Gustavus 
Bohn  was  a  draftsman  by  profession.  His 
first  employment  in  America  was  as  a 
sheep  herder  on  the  hills  of  Vermont,  his 
employer  being  a  Presbyterian  minister. 
From  there  he  went  to  Cleveland,  Ohio,  and 
found  professional  work  in  the  offices  of 
the  city  waterworks.  While  there  he  man- 
aged to  get  word  to  his  fiancee,  Miss  Julia 
Winterweber,  in  Germany,  and  upon  her 
arrival  they  were  at  once  married.  From 
Cleveland  they  removed  to  Louisville,  Ken- 
tucky, where  Gustavus  Bohn  helped  build 
the   waterworks    of   that    city.      Then   for 


several  years  he  lived  at  Elizabethtown  in 
Hardin  County,  Kentucky,  where  he  was 
a  merchant. 

In  the  meantime  he  had  become  an 
American  citizen  by  naturalization  and  he 
sealed  his  devotion  and  loyalty  to  the  land 
of  his  adoption  by  enlisting  in  the  Union 
army.  At  the  expiration  of  his  first  term 
of  service  he  re-enlisted,  this  time  in  an 
Indiana  regiment,  and  was  a  soldier  until 
peace  was  declared.  He  was  given  his  hon- 
orable discharge  with  the  rank  of  second 
lieutenant.  At  the  election  of  1864  Gus- 
tavus Bohn  was  one  of  the  twelve  men  in 
Hardin  County,  Kentucky,  who,  defending 
their  right  of  suffrage  with  drawn  revol- 
vers, east  their  vote  for  Abraham  Lincoln. 

At  the  close  of  the  war  Gustavus  Bohn 
came  to  Indianapolis,  and  spent  the  rest  of 
his  days  in  this  city,  where  he  died  honored 
and  respected  in  1893.  For  a  time  he  was 
a  mechanic  with  the  Eagle  Machine  Works, 
subsequently  being  employed  as  draftsman 
and  designer  for  that  industry.  While 
modestly  successful  in  business  affairs,  he 
was  best  known  and  appreciated  for  his 
varied  talents  and  his  good  citizenship. 
He  was  a  wide  reader,  especially  of  Eng- 
lish literature,  and  was  a  profound  critic 
of  current  events  and  problems.  As  was 
true  of  all  the  participants  in  the  German 
Revolution  of  1848,  he  had  an  intense  ha- 
tred for  imperialism.  He  was  proud  of 
his  American  citizenship  and  lived  up  to 
its  ideals. 

His  wife  was  well  worthy  of  his  char- 
acter and  she  too  left  an  impress  for  good 
in  the  world.  She  was  highly  educated 
and  intellectually  gifted.  While  in  Ken- 
tucky she  did  much  for  the  comfort  of  the 
soldiers,  and  for  this  received  grateful  let- 
ters of  acknowledgment  from  General  Buell 
and  General  Rosecrans.  At  Indianapolis 
she  founded  an  industrial  school  for  girls, 
a  school  which  eventually  became  the  In- 
dustrial School  at  Tomlinson  Hall.  To 
this  she  gave  some  of  the  best  years  of  her 
life.  She  was  one  of  the  pioneer  Indiana 
women  to  advocate  equal  suffrage,  and  was 
often  called,  upon  to  make  public  addresses 
in  behalf  of  this  cause.  She  died  in  1898. 
She  and  her  husband  had  two  sons :  Ar- 
min  and  Arthur,  both  of  Indianapolis. 

Armin  Bohn  was  born  at  Cleveland, 
Ohio,  August  30,  1855,  but  has  been  a 
resident  of  Indianapolis  since  early  boy- 
hood.     He    was    educated    in    the    public 


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schools  and  also  through  a  correspondence 
course  under  the  direct  supervision  of  his 
talented  mother.  He  began  his  business 
career  as  clerk  in  a  dry  goods  store,  and 
from  that  took  up  the  insurance  business. 
He  was  one  of  the  organizers  of  the  Ger- 
man-American Trust  Company,  of  which 
he  was  treasurer  until  it  was  merged  with 
the  Fletcher  Trust  and  Savings  Company. 
Since  then  he  has  been  treasurer  of  the 
Fletcher  Trust  &  Savings  Company,  one  of 
the  most  notable  financial  organizations  in 
Indiana.  Like  his  father,  he  is  a  repub- 
lican in  politics,  is  a  member  of  the  Masonic 
fraternity,  was  a  charter  member  of  the 
old  German  House,  now  the  Athenaeum, 
and  is  a  member  of  the  Art  Institute  and 
Chamber  of  Commerce.  He  is  one  of  the 
directors  of  the  North  American  Gymnas- 
tic Union,  an  organization  which  in  its  de- 
votion to  Americanism  earned  the  active 
hostility  of  the  present  ruling  house  of 
Germany.  In  1885  Armin  Bohn  married 
Miss  Lizzie  Uhl,  daughter  of  Peter  Uhl. 
They  have  one  son,  Armin  A.,  Jr.,  who  is 
president  of  the  Indiana  Trust  and  Securi- 
ties Company  of  Indianapolis. 

Arthur  Bohn,  second  son  of  Gustavus 
Bohn,  is  a  prominent  Indiana  architect. 
He  was  born  at  Louisville,  Kentucky,  Aug- 
ust 9,  1861,  was  educated  in  the  Indian- 
apolis public  schools,  and  studied  archi- 
tecture in  the  Royal  Polytechnique  Insti- 
tute at  Carlsruhe,  Germany,  and  in  the 
Ateliers  in  Paris.  He  also  traveled  exten- 
sively through  Great.  Britain  and  over  the 
continent.  His  acquaintance  with  tech- 
nical schools  in  Europe  led  him  to  recog- 
nize the  need  of  such  special  instruction  in 
Indianapolis,  and  he  took  an  active  part 
in  organizing  the  old  Industrial  School  of 
that  city.  He  was  one  of  its  instructors 
for  years.  That  school  was  a  direct  pro- 
totype of  the  present  Manual  Training 
High  School  at  Indianapolis.  In  the  mean- 
time Mr.  Bohn  had  begun  the  practice  of 
architecture,  and  for  many  years  was  as- 
sociated with  the  late  Bernard  Vonnegut. 
He  is  now  a  member  of  the  firm  Vonnegut, 
Bohn  &  Mueller.  Mr.  Bohn  designed  the 
John  Herron  Art  Institute,  the  Fletcher 
Savings  and  Trust  Company  building,  the 
Kahn  building,  Block  building,  Severin 
Hotel,  and  his  firm  has  had  many  import- 
ant contracts,  especially  in  public  school 
and  institutional  architecture.  Mr.  Bohn 
is  a  member  of  the  Art  Institute,  Univer- 


sity Club,  Chamber  of  Commerce,  Athen- 
aeum and  the  Masonic  Order.  In  1887  he 
married  Miss  Louisa  Weiss,  daughter  of 
William  Weiss.  They  have  one  son,  Her- 
bert. 

Joseph  H.  Pattison,  a  member  of  the 
Central  Bond  Company  of  Indianapolis, 
has  had  a  long  and  active  experience  in 
merchandising,  manufacturing,  banking 
and  real  estate  management,  and  is  one  of 
the  recognized  authorities  in  the  city  on 
bonds  and  other  high  class  securities. 

Mr.  Pattison  was  born  at  Indianapolis 
June  19,  1869,  son  of  Coleman  B.  and 
Sarah  J.  (Hamilton)  Pattison.  The  Pat- 
tison family  were  colonial  settlers  in 
America,  some  of  them  fought  as  soldiers 
in  the  Revolution,  and  the  different 
branches  of  the  family  contain  men  who 
were  governors  of  both  Pennsylvania  and 
Ohio.  In  pioneer  times  this  branch  of  the 
Pattisons  moved  to  Kentucky,  and  from 
that  state  came  to  Indiana  in  1817,  locating 
in  Rush  County.  Mr.  Pattison 's  maternal 
grandfather  was  a  Scotch-Irishman,  who 
came  to  this  country  from  the  north  of 
Ireland  and  was  a  pioneer  merchant  in 
Rush  County,  Indiana.  Coleman  B.  Patti- 
son, who  died  September  27,  1880,  was 
from  the  close  of  the  Civil  war  until  his 
death  a  wholesale  dry  goods  merchant  at 
Indianapolis,  member  of  the  well  known 
firm  of  Hibben,  Pattison  &  Company. 

Educated  in  the  Indianapolis  grammar 
schools,  high  school  and  Indianapolis 
Business  University,  Joseph  H.  Pattison 
also  had  the  cultural  advantages  derived 
from  extensive  travel  throughout  his  own 
country  and  Europe.  Though  member  of 
a  family  of  means  and  of  good  social  posi- 
tion, he  was  taught  the  value  of  honest 
toil.  Every  summer  vacation  while  he  was 
in  school  he  spent  in  farm  work.  It  was 
this  training  in  physical  as  well  as  men- 
tal industry  that  has  had  much  to  do  with 
his  business  success.  At  one  time  Mr.  Pat- 
tison worked  in  an  Indianapolis  wholesale 
house  at  wages  of  $1.50  a  week.  During 
that  employment  he  made  the  acquaintance 
of  Mr.  Samuel  Phillips,  who  a  few  years 
later  suggested  that  the  young  man  buy  an 
interest  in  a  manufacturing  and  jobbing 
business.  Mr.  Pattison  accepted  this  offer 
and  with  his  youthful  energy  and  capital 
he  had  in  a  few  years  expanded  the  plant 
to  one  of  substantial  proportions  engaged 


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iu  the  manufacturing  and  jobbing  of  shirts, 
coats,  overalls  and  other  garments.  His 
business  ability  also  extended  to  the  loan- 
ing of  money  on  approved  real  estate  se- 
curity and  the  management  of  several  es- 
tates. He  concentrated  the  management 
of  his  business  through  a  partnership  with 
an  Indianapolis  banker,  and  eventually  or- 
ganized the  Central  Bond  Company  for 
handling  trust  funds  and  estates  and  the 
general  investment  and  securities  business. 
This  is  one  of  the  largest  firms  of  its  kind 
in  Indiana  and  represents  many  clients 
and  interests  outside  the  state. 

Mr.  Pattison  also  assisted  in  the  organi- 
zation and  incorporation  of  one  of  the 
principal  trust  companies  of  Indiana,  and 
is  a  stockholder  in  various  financial  in- 
stitutions of  the  city.  Politically  he  has 
usually  supported  the  republican  national 
ticket  but  is  independent  in  local  affairs. 
He  is  one  of  the  charter  members  of  the 
Indianapolis  Commercial  Club,  and  for 
many  years  has  been  a  prominent  member 
of  the  First  Presbyterian  Church.  He  was 
a  member  of  its  board  of  trustees  when 
the  old  church  edifice  at  the  corner  of 
Pennsylvania  and  New  York  streets  was 
sold  to  the  government  as  the  site  for  the 
present  Federal   building. 

Mr.  Pattison  married  Elizabeth  Frances 
Young,  of  Troy,  New  York,  daughter  of 
Dr.  Edgar  J.  Young,  who  was  a  dentist 
by  profession.  The  Young  family  is  of 
Holland  Dutch  ancestry.  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Pattison  have  two  children :  Edgar  Y., 
born  May  30,  1897,  enlisted  in  the  United 
States  Navy  and  was  in  training  at  the 
Great  Lakes  Training  Station  but  is  now 
attending  Williams  College,  class  of  1919 ; 
and  Coleman  B.,  born  January  17,  1900. 

Hon.  Caleb  S.  Denny,  member  of  the 
Indianapolis  bar  for  forty-five  years,  has 
been  called  one  of  the  oldest  and  best  law- 
yers of  Indiana,  and  also  one  who  has 
stood  for  old  fashioned  honesty  in  practice 
as  well  as  in  public  and  private  life. 

He  was  born  in  Monroe  County,  Indiana, 
May  13,  1850,  a  son  of  James  H.  and 
Harriet  R.  (Littrell)  Denny.  He  was  the 
youngest  of  eleven  children.  His  Denny 
forebears  were  Virginians,  some  of  them 
participated  in  the  Revolutionary  war, 
and,  strange  to  say,  nearly  all  of  them  were 
opposition  to  slavery  James  H.  Denny  was 
a  native  of  Harrodsburg,  Kentucky,  where 


his  father  before  him,  a  surveyor,  had  lo- 
cated in  pioneer  times.  On  account  of  his 
opposition  to  slavery  James  H.  Denny  had 
moved  across  the  Ohio  River  into  Indiana, 
first  locating  in  Monroe  County  in  1850, 
and  three  years  later  moving  to  a  farm 
near  Boonville  in  Warwick  County.  He 
died  there  in  1861,  just  after  the  outbreak 
of  the  Civil  war.  One  of  his  sons  had  al- 
ready enlisted  with  the  Union  army,  and 
most  of  the  others  followed  him  in  the 
ranks  in  1863.  Caleb  S.  was  left  alone 
among  the  sons  at  home  to  care  for  his 
widowed  mother  on  the  farm.  He  was  then 
about  thirteen  years  of  age.  In  1864  the 
farm  was  rented  and  the  mother  and  her 
son  located  at  Boonville. 

In  the  meantime  Mr.  Denny  had  been 
able  to  attend  school  only  a  few  weeks 
each  year,  and  his  education  consisted  of 
a  rudimentary  knowledge  of  arithmetic, 
reading  and  writing.  During  the  war  no 
school  was  in  session  at  Boonville.  He  was 
therefore  apprenticed  to  learn  the  tinner's 
trade,  but  after  a  year,  a  school  having 
been  organized,  he  resumed  his  studies. 
Even  as  a  boy  he  had  a  broad  outlook  on 
life  and  was  stimulated  by  an  earnest  de- 
termination to  make  the  best  of  his  talents 
and  opportunities. 

In  the  fall  of  1866  he  entered  Asbury, 
now  DePauw,  University  at  Greencastle, 
but  at  the  end  of  two  years  had  to  leave 
school  on  account  of  lack  of  funds.  He 
taught  school  two  years  in  Warrick  Coun- 
ty, and  in  1870  he  accepted  the  oppor- 
tunity offered  him  of  becoming  assistant 
state  librarian,  a  position  which  necessi- 
tated his  residence  at  Indianapolis,  where 
he  has  ever  since  had  his  home. 

Mr.  Denny  began  the  study  of  law  at 
Boonville  under  Judge  John  B.  Handy, 
and,  as  his  work  permitted,  these  studies 
were  resumed  at  Indianapolis.  In  1871  he 
studied  in  the  law  office  of  Judge  Solomon 
Blair,  and  later  in  the  offices  of  Test,  Co- 
burn  &  Burns.  Mr.  Denny  was  admitted 
to  practice  in  the  County  Courts  in  1872, 
and  the  following  year  in  the  Supreme  and 
Federal  Courts.  He  was  appointed  assist- 
ant attorney  general  of  Indiana  in  1873, 
doing  the  work  assigned  to  him  for  two . 
years.  He  then  took  up  general  practice  as 
a  partner  with  Judge  James  C.  Denny, 
then  attorney  general.  After  two  years 
he  formed  a  partnership  with  Judge  David 
V.  Burns,  which  lasted  three  years. 


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The  record  of  his  public  service  goes  hand 
in  hand  with  his  rising  prominence  as  a 
lawyer.  In  the  fall  of  1881  he  was  elected 
city  attorney  of  Indianapolis  and  reelected 
in  1884.  After  one  year  of  his  second 
term  he  resigned  to  become  candidate  for 
mayor  of  Indianapolis.  He  was  elected 
and  took  the  office  of  mayor  January  1, 
1886.  His  election  to  this  office  was  one 
of  the  early  notable  triumphs  of  the  law 
and  order  party  in  local  politics.  As  leader 
of  that  party  Mr.  Denny  had  a  vigorous 
tight  upon  the  so-called  liberal  policies 
under  which  the  city  administration  had 
been  conducted  for  some  years.  Mr.  Denny 
was  reelected  at  the  end  of  two  years  for 
a  second  term,  and  those  two  terms  as 
mayor  set  a  high  mark  in  the  matter  of 
efficiency  and  honesty  in  municipal  gov- 
ernment. He  was  not  a  candidate  again 
for  four  years,  but  in  1893  was  prevailed 
upon  to  become  the  republican  candidate 
for  mayor,  and  was  elected  over  Thomas 
L.  Sullivan,  an  able  democrat,  who  had 
been  twice  elected  by  increased  majorities. 
To  the  surprise  of  both  parties  Mr.  Denny 
was  chosen  to  the  office  by  a  majority  of 
over  3,200. 

Mr.  Denny  has  since  served  three  terms 
as  county  attorney  of  Marion  County,  and 
has  for  years  been  a  center  around  which 
the  forces  of  honest  citizenship  have  ral- 
lied in  any  crisis  affecting  the  city  gov- 
ernment. Mr.  Denny  has  always  been  a 
loyal  republican  and  in  1908  was  presiden- 
tial elector  from  the  Seventh  Congressional 
District. 

Fraternally  he  has  been  prominent  in  the 
Knights  of  Pythias,  and  had  an  active  part 
in  the  erection  of  the  Knights  of  Pythias 
building  at  Indianapolis.  He  is  a  member 
of  the  Presbyterian   Church. 

July  15,  1874,  Mr.  Denny  married  Carrie 
Wright  Lowe,  daughter  of  George  and 
Mary  (Wright)  Lowe.  Her  father  was  a 
pioneer  carriage  manufacturer  of  Indian- 
apolis. The  three  children  of  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Denny  are :  Mary,  wife  of  Joseph  T.  El- 
liott, Jr.,  of  Indianapolis,  but  both  now 
deceased ;  Caroline,  wife  of  Horace  F. 
Nixon,  a  New  Jersey  lawyer;  and  George 
L.,  who  is  associated  with  his  father  in 
the  practice  of  law.  George  L.  married  in 
1904  Elizabeth  Coleman  Hollingsworth,  of 
Baltimore,  Maryland. 


Foster  Family.  The  Foster  family  have 
been  identified  with  Indiana  from  that  time 
when  the  principal  industry  of  its  inhabi- 
tants was  cutting  down  trees,  clearing  the 
wilderness  and  fighting  hostile  Indians, 
and  three  successive  generations  of  the 
name  have  had  an  honored  part  in  the  life 
and  affairs  of  the  state. 

The  family  record  abounds  with  evidence 
of  their  patriotism  and  loyalty.  The  Fos- 
ters had  their  original  seat  in  old  Virginia. 
There  John  Foster  enlisted  in  the  war  for 
independence  with  the  First  Virginia  Regi- 
ment and  participated  in  the  great  cam- 
paign through  the  Carolinas  under  the 
leadership  of  Gen.  Francis  Marion, 
"swamp  fox  of  the  Revolution." 

A  son  of  this  patriot  soldier  was  Samuel 
Foster,  who  was  born,  in  Virginia  and 
came  from  Berryville,  that  state,  to  In- 
diana Territory  in  1810.  His  place  of  set- 
tlement was  in  Lawrence  County,  where 
he  entered  a  tract  of  land  from  the  govern- 
ment, the  patent  to  which  was  signed  by 
President  James  Monroe.  He  had  been  in 
Indiana  only  a  short  time  when  the  second 
war  with  Great  Britain  came  on,  and  he 
was  a  volunteer  soldier  from  the  southern 
part  of  the  state  in  that  conflict.  Other- 
wise his  active  life  was  spent  as  a  farme? 
in  Lawrence  and  later  in  Jackson  counties, 
and  he  battled  bravely  with  the  forces  of 
the  wilderness,  developed  one  or  two  good 
farms,  lived  a  life  of  exemplary  industry 
and  honor,  and  in  every  sense  was  well 
worthy  to  found  a  family  that  has  con- 
tinued to  uphold  his  good  name  for  fully  a 
century.  He  died  in  1872.  He  married 
Mary  Craig,  also  a  native  of  old  Virginia. 

The  youngest  of  the  six  sons  of  these 
pioneer  parents  was  Craven  T.  Foster, 
whose  name  is  especially  identified  with 
the  history  of  Putnam  County,  Indiana. 
He  was  born  in  Lawrence  County  Feb- 
ruary 29,  1828.  Several  of  his  brothers 
became  successful  farmers,  merchants  and 
citizens.  Craven  T.  Foster  in  1855  engaged 
in  the  mercantile  business  at  Cloverdale  in 
Putnam  County.  Cloverdale  was  at  that 
time  the  terminus  of  what  is  now  the 
Monon  Railroad.  His  business  interests 
grew  apace  and  included  the  ownership  of 
extensive  farms,  which  he  operated  through 
tenant  and  hired  labor.  In  1885  he  was 
appointed    postmaster    of    Cloverdale    and 


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1799 


filled  that  office  for  a  number  of  years.  He 
was  an  active  democrat  and  was  a  man  of 
influence  and  leadership-  and  especially1 
well  known  for  his  charities  and  other  ex- 
cellent qualities.  He  was  a  member  of 
the  Christian  Church. 

September  26,  1852,  Craven  T.  Foster 
married  Julia  A.  East,  whose  parents  were 
natives  of  Kentucky  and  settled  in  Monroe 
County,  Indiana,  about  1830.  The  East 
family  has  produced  a  number  of  worthy 
men  and  women.  Mrs.  Julia  Foster  died 
in  1862,  leaving  four  children :  Rosa,  wife 
of  Michael  T.  Flannery,  living  at  Trinidad, 
Colorado;  Alva  C,  deceased;  Homer  T., 
who  lives  in  North  Dakota ;  and  Dovie,  de- 
ceased. In  1862  Craven  Foster  married 
for  his  second  wife  Amanda  K.  East,  sister 
of  his  first  wife.  They  had  three  children : 
Effie  M.,  Mrs.  David  E.  Watson;  Eugenie 
Boone,  deceased,  named  in  honor  of  the 
Boone  family  and  a  direct  relative  of  Dan- 
iel Boone ;  and  Ronald  A. 

Craven  T.  Foster,  who  died  February 
19,  1916,  grew  up  when  Indiana  was  still 
a  frontier  state,  and  by  his  contact  with 
the  environment  of  the  period  gained  much 
of  the  forcefulness  and  self  reliance  which 
dominated  his  character. 

Ronald  A.  Foster,  who  represents  the 
third  successive  generation  of  the  family 
in  Indiana,  is  one  of  the  virile,  progressive 
men  of  Indianapolis.  With  Mr.  John  E. 
Messick  he  has  built  up  an  extensive  ^busi- 
ness which  is  a  credit  to  them  and  to  the 
principal  city  of  the  state. 

He  was  born  at  Cloverdale  January  24, 
1877,  and  was  educated  in  the  public 
schools  and  has  acquired  much  of  the 
knowledge  that  has  served  him  in  affairs 
by  experience.  He  read  law  and  was  ad- 
mitted to  the  bar  at  Martinsville,  Indiana'. 
For  two  years  he  engaged  in  practice,  and 
then  for  a  time  was  a  traveling  adjuster 
for  insurance  companies.  In  1906  he  and 
Mr.  John.  E.  Messick  engaged  in  the  surety 
bond  and  casualty  insurance  business  at 
Indianapolis.  That  partnership  has  con- 
tinued for  over  twenty  years,  and  they  are 
one  of  the  most  substantial  firms,  with 
offices  in  the  Fletcher  Trust  Building  at 
Indianapolis. 

Mr.  Foster  is  a  Mason,  member  of  the 
Columbia  and  Marion  clubs,  and  on  Decem- 
ber 27,  1902,  married  Miss  Karan  C.  Gray, 
of  Martinsville,  Indiana.  Mr.  Foster  is  a 
Spanish  war  veteran,  having  served  as  ser- 


geant of  Company  K,  One  Hundred  and 
Fifty-eight  Regiment,  Indian  Infantry, 
during  the  Spanish-American  war. 

George  A.  Reisner.  Among  the  emi- 
nent native  sons  of  Indianapolis  is  num- 
bered George  A.  Reisner,  Egyptologist. 
His  birth  occurred  November  5,  1867,  son 
of  George  Andrew  and  Mary  Elizabeth 
(Mason)  Reisner.  After  graduating  from 
Harvard  and  from  courses  in  Semitic  lan- 
guages he  entered  upon  the  work  which 
has  brought  him  renown  and  placed  his 
name  among  the  first  of  his  calling.  His 
research  has  taken  him  to  the  remote  parts 
of  the  world,  and  he  is  the  author  of  many 
standard  works  relating  to  his  profession. 
He  is  a  Fellow  of  the  American  Academy 
of  Arts  and  Sciences. 

Mr.  Reisner  married  Mary  Putnam 
Bronson  November  23,  1892.  His  address 
is  Harvard  University,  Cambridge,  Massa- 
chusetts. 

Augustus  Lynch  Mason.  During  the 
last  thirty-five  or  forty  years  it  is  doubtful 
if  any  citizen  of  Indianapolis  has  been 
more  distinguished  for  influence  and  suc- 
cess in  business  and  the  law  and  for  all 
around  disinterested  service  in  behalf  of 
the  welfare  of  his  city  and  state  than  Au- 
gustus Lynch  Mason.  His  attainments 
have  honored  the  profession  of  his  choice, 
but  he  is  more  than  a  successful  lawyer. 
He  has  found  time  and  inclination  to  help 
work  out  many  of  the  complex  problems 
involved  in  a  modern  business  organiza- 
tion and  local  government,  and  while  he  is 
best  known  as  a  lawyer  he  has  contributed 
several  substantial  volumes  to  the  serious 
literature  produced  by  Indiana  authors. 
He  is  a  man  of  thorough  classical  learning. 

The  early  associations  of  his  youth  were 
exceeding  favorable  toward  the  broad  de- 
velopment of  his  mind  and  character.  His 
father,  for  many  years  a  minister,  was  a 
gentleman  of  the  old  school,  universally 
loved  and  respected,  and  an  excellent 
scholar,  so  that  between  home  and  college 
Augustus  L.  Mason  had  every  opportunity 
and  encouragement  to  secure  a  liberal  edu- 
cation. He  was  born  at  Bloomington,  Mon- 
roe County,  Indiana,  February  10,  1859, 
son  of  Rev.  William  F.  and  Amanda 
(Lynch)  Mason.  His  grandfather,  An- 
thony Mason,  was  a  native  of  Kentucky 
and   of   English   lineage.      Coming  to   In- 


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diana  at  an  early  day,  he  was  a  pioneer 
settler  in  Sullivan  County,  and  besides 
clearing  up  a  farm  there  was  also  honor- 
ably identified  with  some  of  the  early  af- 
fairs of  the  county.  He  died  in  Sullivan 
County  in  1890,  at  the  age  of  eighty-four. 

Rev.  William  F.  Mason  was  born  in  In- 
diana, acquired  a  good  education,  and  pre- 
pared himself  for  the  ministry  of  the 
Methodist  Episcopal  Church.  For  a  num- 
ber of  years  he  followed  his  chosen  calling 
as  a  pastor  in  Indiana,  and  later  engaged 
in  business,  for  several  years  being  a  resi- 
dent of  Indiana  and  in  1883  removing  to 
Denver,  Colorado,  where  he  became  con- 
nected with  a  building  and  loan  associa- 
tion. Rev.  William  F.  Mason  married 
Amanda  Lynch,  a  native  of  Ohio  and 
daughter  of  Thomas  H.  Lynch.  Thomas 
Lynch  was  also  a  native  of  Ohio,  of  Eng- 
lish and  French  descent,  and  in  1854 
brought  his  family  to  Kentucky  and  from 
there  to  Indiana.  He  became  a  resident 
of  Indianapolis  and  for  a  number  of  years 
was  president  of  the  Indiana  Female  Col- 
lege. Later  he  entered  the  ministry  of  the 
Methodist  Church,  and  gave  practically  his 
entire  life  to  the  service  of  his  fellow  men. 
He  died  in  1884,  at  the  venerable  age  of 
ninety-five. 

When  Augustus  L.  Mason  was  a  child 
his  parents  removed  to  Cincinnati,  where 
his  father  engaged  in  business.  In  that 
city  Augustus  spent  his  early  years,  at- 
tended public  schools,  and  in  1872,  at  the 
age  of  thirteen,  returned  to  Indiana  with 
his  parents.  He  was  a  student  in  North- 
western University,  now  Butler  College, 
but  completed  his  education  in  DePauw 
University  at  Greencastle,  where  he  gradu- 
ated A.  B.  in  1879.  Mr.  Mason  read  law 
with  former  United  States  Senator  Joseph 
E.  McDonald  and  John  M.  Butler,  the  lat- 
ter one  of  the  ablest  corporation  lawyers 
Indiana  ever  had.  Thus  his  early  associa- 
tions were  calculated  to  develop  every  tal- 
ent and  resource  and  impress  upon  him 
the  finest  dignity  and  ideals  of  the  legal 
profession.  He  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in 
1880,  and  during  the  next  two  years  con- 
tinued in  the  office  of  McDonald  &  But- 
ler and  in  1883  was  admitted  to  a  partner- 
ship, the  firm  becoming  McDonald,  But- 
ler &  Mason.  He  was  with  this  firm  until 
1887.  From  1883  Mr.  Mason's  chief  work 
has  been  corporation  law,  especially  in  the 
organization  and  development  of  railroads 


and  transportation  facilities.  From  1893 
to  1897  he  served  as  president  of  the  Citi- 
zens Street  Railway  Company  of  Indianap- 
olis. 

Mr.  Mason  has  a  very  prominent  part 
in  those  movements  beginning  about  1890, 
which  were  practically  at  the  foundation 
of  the  modern  Indianapolis.  He  took  a 
leading  part  as  a  member  of  the  Commer- 
cial Club  in  bringing  about  a  reorganiza- 
tion of  the  municipal  government,  and  was 
author  of  the  reform  charter  of  the  city 
in  1891.  He  is  also  credited  with  the 
authorship  of  the  plan  for  the  county  and 
township  reform  laws  adopted  by  the  State 
Legislature  of  1899.  He  was  also  legal  ad- 
viser to  the  committee  of  the  Indiana  State 
Board  of  Commerce  in  the  preparation  of 
various  other  important  laws  affecting  local 
and  state  government.  While  for  many 
years  in  constant  touch  with  the  practical 
side  of  modern  American  business  and  in- 
dustry, Mr.  Mason  has  found  time  to  de- 
velop a  thorough  scholarship  and  a  wide 
knowledge  of  many  affairs  outside  his  pro- 
fession. He  served  as  dean  of  the  DePauw 
University  Law  School  from  1890  to  1893, 
and  from  1899  to  1905  was  lecturer  on  rail- 
road law  in  the  Indiana  Law  School  of 
the  University  of  Indianapolis.  As  an  au- 
thor he  is  known  by  his  "Pioneer  History 
of  America,"  published  in  1884;  "Trusts 
and  Public  Welfare,"  published  in  1901; 
"Corporations  and  Social  Changes,"  pub- 
lished in  1908;  "Government  of  Indian- 
apolis," published  in  1910:  and  numerous 
monographs  and  articles  published  in  legal 
and  other  journals. 

Mr.  Mason  is  an  independent  republican, 
and  while  his  name  has  no  associations  with 
practical  politics  he  has  been  able  to  render 
services  that  few  men  in  public  station 
could  perform.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Sig- 
ma Chi  and  Phi  Beta  Kappa  fraternities, 
the  Indianapolis  Literary  and  the  Uni- 
versity clubs,  and  of  the  Methodist  Epis- 
copal Church. 

January  25,  1893,  Mr.  Mason  married 
Miss  Annie  Porter,  only  daughter  of  Al- 
bert G.  and  Minerva  (Brown)  Porter.  Her 
father,  who  was  governor  of  Indiana  from 
1881  to  1885,  is  referred  to  on  other  pages 
of  this  publication. 

Ellis  Searles.  As  a  veteran  graduate 
of  a  printer's  case  probably  no  Indiana 
newspaper  man  has  had  a  more  varied  ex- 


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perience  in  the  profession  than  Ellis 
Searles  of  Indianapolis.  At  one  time  Mr. 
Searles  devoted  himself  assiduously  to  the 
study  of  law,  was  admitted  to  the  bar,  and 
carried  on  a  good  practice  until  the  claims 
of  his  old  work  asserted  themselves  domi- 
nantly.  Mr.  Searles  is  now  editor  of  the 
United  Mine  Workers  Journal,  the  official 
organ  of  the  United  Mine  Workers  of 
America. 

He  was  born  at  Majenica,  Huntington 
County,  Indiana,  August  1,  1866,  son  of 
Joseph  Deal  and  Lucinda  (Ruggles) 
Searles.  His  father,  who  was  born  in  Phil- 
adelphia, Pennsylvania,  and  was  educated 
in  the  common  schools  of  Ohio  and  In- 
diana, went  to  Huntington  County  from 
Warren  County,  Ohio,  in  1853.  He  studied 
medicine,  and  was  a  practicing  physician 
in  Huntington  County  from  1860  until  his 
death  in  1905.  He  married  in  1856  and 
was  the  father  of  six  children,  four  of 
whom  are  still  living. 

Ellis,  the  third  child,  was  educated  in 
the  common  schools  of  Huntington  County 
and  at  the  age  of  twelve  began  work  in 
the  printing  office  of  the  Lime  City  News, 
a  weekly  paper  at  Huntington.  He  fol- 
lowed the  printing  trade  several  years  and 
at  the  age  of  sixteen  established  the  Hunt- 
ington Sentinel,  a  weekly  paper,  which  he 
sold  the  following  year.  He  next  estab- 
lished the  Fremont  News  at  Fremont,  In- 
diana, and  sold  that  in  1885.  During  the 
following  year  he  was  employed  as  a  prin- 
ter with  the  Fort  Wayne  Sentinel  and  Fort 
Wayne  Gazette,  and  in  1886  established  a 
job  printing  office  and  paper  box  factory. 
This  enterprise  he  sold  in  1888,  return- 
ing to  Huntington.  He  was  then  city  edi- 
tor of  the  Huntington  Daily  Democrat  un- 
til 1891. 

January  24,  1891,  Mr.  Searles  married 
Miss  Nellie  Goring,  daughter  of  John  and 
Elizabeth  Goring  of  Huntington.  A  few 
days  later,  in  February,  1891,  they  re- 
moved to  Indianapolis,  where  Mr.  Searles 
assumed  the  position  of  city  editor  of  the 
Indianapolis  Sun.  In  April,  1892,  resign- 
ing, he  returned  to  Huntington  as  city 
editor  of  the  Democrat.  It  was  while  in  that 
position  at  Huntington  that  he  studied 
law  under  Judge  Charles  W.  Watkins, 
doing  his  reading  and  study  between  the 
hours  of  four  and  six  o'clock  every  morn- 
ing. He  kept  that  up  about  three  years, 
and  in  1897   was   admitted   to    the    Hunt- 


ington County  Bar  and  practiced  law  as 
his  regular  profession  in  that  city  until 
1901. 

On  resuming  newspaper  work  Mr. 
Searles  was  managing  editor  of  the  Crisis 
at  East  Liverpool,  Ohio,  and  for  a  short 
time  was  on  the  staff  of  the  Cleveland 
Press.  In  the  fall  of  1901  he  again  came 
to  Indianapolis  as  managing  editor  of  the 
Sun,  a  position  he  held  until  1904.  He 
was  then  a  member  of  the  staff  of  the  De- 
troit News,  and  in  1905  became  managing 
editor  of  the  Marion  News-Tribune  at 
Marion,  Indiana.  For  the  third  time  he 
came  to  Indianapolis,  in  April,  1906,  and 
then  followed  perhaps  his  biggest  and  most 
valuable  experience  as  a  newspaper  man. 
For  twelve  years  he  was  a  political  writer 
on  the  staff  of  the  Indianapolis  News,  aud 
resigned  on  June  1,  1918,  to  become  editor 
of  the  United  Mine  Workers  Journal. 

While  on  the  News  staff  Mr.  Searles  cov- 
ered conventions  of  coal  miners  and  joint 
wage  conferences  with  coal  operators  in 
niany  parts  of  the  United  States.  This 
gave  him  a  knowledge  of  the  coal  industry 
and  of  the  affairs  of  the  local  miners'  Union 
such  as  few  men  could  expect  to  acquire, 
and  the  knowledge  has  proved  his  most 
eminent  qualification  for  his  duty  as  editor 
of  the  official  publication  of  the  Coal 
Miners'  Union.  Already  some  marked  re- 
sults have  followed  his  connection  with  the 
publication.  Its  circulation  when  he  be- 
came editor  was  35,000,  but  since  then  the 
plan  of  publication  was  changed  and  the 
circulation  increased  to  nearly  400,000, 
practically  all  the  papers  going  direct  to 
the  coal  miners  of  the  United  States. 

Mr.  Searles  feels  an  added  responsibility 
and  interest  in  his  position  owing  to  the 
fact  that  the  membership  of  the  Union,  ag- 
gregating approximately  500,000,  contains 
thousands  of  men  of  foreign  birth.  Since 
taking  charge  of  the  Journal  it  has  been 
the  aim  of  Mr.  Searles  to  assist  as  much 
as  possible  in  the  widespread  campaign  for 
Americanization  of  all  the  varied  foreign 
element  in  our  society.  He  regards  nothing 
as  more  important  to  the  welfare  of  the 
United  States  as  a  nation.  It  has  been 
his  experience  that  foreign  born  men  are 
eager  to  become  American  citizens  and  as- 
sume the  duties  of  citizenship,  and  all  they 
need  is  the  proper  encouragement,  guidance 
and  advice.  It  is  most  gratifying  to  know 
that  a  man  of  such  stalwart  Americanism 


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and  one  who  is  so  deeply  sensible  of  his 
responsibilities  is  in  a  position  to  direct  the 
editorial  policy  of  one  of  the  most  widely 
read  journals  in  the  country. 

Mr.  Searles  is  a  democrat  in  politics,  but 
has  never  held  or  sought  a  political  office 
and  has  consistently  refused  any  appoint- 
ments to  political  positions  that  were  of- 
fered. Like  most  newspaper  men,  he  has 
seen  enough  of  the  inside  of  practical  poli- 
tics to  cause  him  to  wish  none  of  it.  He 
is  a  Catholic  and  a  member  of  the  Knights 
of  Columbus. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Searles  have  two  children, 
Paul  John  and  Elizabeth.  Paul  was  born 
in  Huntington  December  5,  1891.  He  was 
educated  in  the  parochial  schools  of  Hunt- 
ington and  Indianapolis,  graduated  from 
the  grammar  schools  of  Detroit  in  1905 
and  from  the  Manual  Training  High  School 
at  Indianapolis  in  1909.  In  the  latter 
year  he  was  appointed  a  midshipman  in 
the  United  States  navy  and  attended  the 
United  States  Naval  Academy  at  Annap- 
olis, from  which  he  graduated  with  the 
class  of  1913  with  the  rank  of  Ensign.  He 
served  in  the  navy  through  the  Mexican 
campaign  of  1915  and  in  the  occupation 
of  Haiti  in  the  same  year,  being  collector 
of  customs  and  captain  of  the  Port  of  Jere- 
mie,  Haiti,  for  several  months.  In  1916 
he  was  transferred  from  sea  duty  to  the 
Civil  Engineers  Corps  of  the  navy.  The 
Navy  Department  then  sent  him  to  the 
Rensselaer  Polytechnic  Institute  at  Troy, 
New  York,  for  two  years'  post-graduate 
course  in  civil  engineering.  He  received 
his  diploma  from  that  institution  together 
with  the  degree  C.  E.  in  May,  1918.  Soon 
afterward  he  was  promoted  to  full  lieu- 
tenant in  the  navy,  where  he  continued  to 
serve  in  the  Civil  Engineering  Corps.  De- 
cember 2,  1916,  he  married  Miss  Ruth 
Clancy,  of  New  York  City. 

The  daughter,  Elizabeth,  attended  the 
parochial  schools,  and  graduated  from  St. 
Agnes  Academy,  a  high  school  of  Indian- 
apolis, in  1915.  Later  she  pursued  her 
studies  at  Mount  Ida  School  at  Boston, 
Massachusetts,  where  her  education  was 
finished.  On  December  1,  1917,  she  was 
married  to  Dennis  S.  Moran,  of  Indianap- 
olis. 

Hugh  J.  Baker  is  an  Indianapolis  en- 
gineer who  has  made  a  specialty  in  steel 
and    steel    reinforcing    construction,    and 


largely  through  his  technical  ability  and 
enterprise  has  built  up  one  of  the  largest 
concerns  of  its  kind  in  the  Middle  West. 

Mr.  Baker  was  born  December  20,  1882, 
at  Alexandersville,  Montgomery  County, 
Ohio.  His  father,  Jacob  Baker,  also  a  na- 
tive of  Ohio,  is  living  at  Dayton  at  the  age 
of  sixty-three,  and  the  mother  was  also 
born  in  Ohio  and  is  now  fifty-nine  years 
of  age.  Jacob  Baker  followed  the  life  in- 
surance business.  There  were  in  the  fam- 
ily two  sons  and  one  daughter,  Hugh  J. 
being  the  second. 

He  was  educated  in  the  public  schools 
of  Dayton,  graduating  from  the  Steele 
High  School  in  1900.  After  leaving  high 
school  he  became  self  supporting,  and 
after  working  a  year  in  Dayton  entered 
the  Ohio  State  University  and  graduated 
with  the  degree  Civil  Engineer  in  Archi- 
tecture in  1905.  He  was  then  twenty-two 
years  of  age,  and  after  leaving  university 
returned  to  Dayton  and  was  employed  by 
the  National  Cash  Register  Company  un- 
til January  31,  1906.  For  over  a  year  he 
was  located  at  Ambridge,  Pennsylvania, 
near  Pittsburg,  in  the  employ  of  the  Ameri- 
can Bridge  Company.  In  November,  1907, 
he  left  that  firm  and  located  at  Indianap- 
olis. 

He  was  with  the  Brown-Ketcham  Iron 
Works  as  structural  engineer,  designer  and 
detailer  of  structural  steel  until  January, 
1910.  At  that  date  Mr.  Baker  opened  a 
business  of  his  own  as  consulting  engineer, 
and  he  still  continues  his  profession  under 
the  name  Hugh  J.  Baker,  Consulting  En- 
gineer. 

In  1911  he  brought  his  brother-in-law, 
Mr.  J.  R.  Fenstermaker,  of  Dayton,  Ohio, 
and  together  they  established  the  Fire- 
proofing  Specialties  Company.  It  was  a 
partnership,  but  about  1914  the  Fire- 
proofing  Company  was  incorporated.  This 
company  handled  metal  building  special- 
ties such  as  steel  sash,  fire  doors,  metal 
lath.  In  his  own  business  Mr.  Baker  was 
handling  reinforcing  steel  and  was  broad- 
ening his  enterprise  as  a  consulting  and 
sales  engineer.  In  conjunction  with  his 
engineering  work  he  worked  up  a  large 
business  as  a  sales  engineer  of  reinforcing 
steel.  He  also  handled  reinforcing  steel 
bars  and  furnished  designs  for  the  build- 
ings erected  in  connection  with  the  steel 
sold.  That  has  been  an  important  feature 
of  his  business  ever  since.    Mr.  Baker  fur- 


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nished  designs  for  both  the  reinforced  con- 
crete and  structural  steel  frames  for  the 
Hume-Mansur  Building,  the  Studebaker 
Building,  the  Danville  Court  House,  the 
National  Motor  Car  Company  fireproof 
buildings,  the  Link-Belt  Company  factory 
building,  the  Diamond  Chain  Company 
factory  building,  the  Occidental  Realty 
Company  building,  the  Fidelity  Trust  Com- 
pany building,  the  Colonial  Hotel  and 
Theater  buildings,  the  Circle  Theater  build- 
ing, the  Lincoln  Hotel  and  various  other 
fireproof  buildings  constructed  in  Indian- 
apolis and  elsewhere  throughout  the  state. 

The  Fireproofing  Company,  incorpor- 
ated in  1914,  continued  in  business  until 
January  1,  1918,  when  it  was  dissolved. 
At  that  time  the  reinforcing  steel  business 
of  Hugh  J.  Baker  and  the  specialty  busi- 
ness of  the  Fireproofing  Company  were 
combined  and  incorporated  as  the  Hugh 
J.  Baker  and  Company.  This  corporation 
is  now  able  to  review  one  year  of  business, 
and  the  record  of  that  year  justifies  im- 
portant plans  for  building  up  a  general 
engineering  and  material  business,  furnish- 
ing reinforcing  steel  and  structural  steel 
building  specialties  in  conjunction  with  an 
expert  engineering  service.  The  business 
was  started  in  a  small  room  on  the  fourth 
floor  of  the  Majestic  Building.  At  the 
present  time  the  company  leases  the  entire 
wing  on  the  ninth  floor  for  offices,  and  also 
has  a  shop  covering  an  acre  of  ground, 
leased  from  the  Pennsylvania  Railroad  and 
equipped  with  modern  machinery  for 
handling  and  fabricating  reinforcing  steel 
and  forms  for  reinforced  concrete  build- 
ings. The  company  is  now  incorporated 
at  $100,000,  and  the  capital  is  worth  par 
value. 

Mr.  Baker  is  a  thirty-second  degree 
Scottish  Rite  Mason  and  a  Shriner,  also  a 
member  of  Oriental  Chapter  of  the  York 
Rite,  and  a  member  of  the  Columbia  Club, 
Chamber  of  Commerce,  Independent  Ath- 
letic Club,  Rotarv  Club  and  Hoosier  Motor 
Club. 

June  20,  1906,  at  Dayton,  he  married 
Miss  Velma  Fenstermaker,  daughter  of  J. 
R.  Fenstermaker.  They  have  two  chil- 
dren :  Hugh  J.,  Jr.,  born  in  August,  1910, 
and  John  David,  born  June  1,  1916. 

The  Brooks  School  for  Boys,  founded 
at  Indianapolis  in  1914  by  "Wendell  Stan- 


ton Brooks  as  head  master,  fills  a  distinct 
place  of  usefulness  in  Indianapolis  and 
Indiana,  there  being  no  other  school  of  its 
class  or  character  either  in  the  city  or 
state.  It  is  distinctively  a  college-prepara- 
tory school  for  boys  with  a  special  depart- 
ment or  lower  school  for  grades  three  to 
six.  Thus  the  boys  range  from  eighteen 
or  nineteen  down  to  nine  or  ten  in  age. 
The  school  is  non-sectarian,  has  masters 
and  boys  of  many  denominations,  and  aims 
to  exert  a  wholesome  Christian  influence 
upon  the  character  of  its  boys.  No  boy  is 
retained  whose  character  is  found  to  be  un- 
desirable. With  the  rapid  growth  of  the 
school  the  numbers  have  been  sufficient 
to  make  the  various  classes  large  enough 
to  promote  wholesome  rivalry  and  com- 
petition, and  at  the  same  time  the  teach- 
ing faculty  is  large  enough  so  that  each 
pupil  receives  appropriate  and  method- 
ical attention  from  the  staff  of  instruc- 
tors. The  work  of  supervision  and  inspec- 
tion is  practically  continuous,  and  there 
is  a  harmonious  combination  of  playtime 
and  study  time  for  each  boy's  growing 
life. 

The  aim  as  officially  expressed  by  the 
school  has  been  to  "maintain  a  scholarship 
standard  second  to  none.  The  factors  in 
the  accomplishment  of  this  are :  Teachers, 
well  trained  and  siiccessfully  experienced; 
classes,  limited  to  twelve  boys  to  insure 
much  individual  attention ;  study  periods,- 
supervised  to  teach  the  boys  'how  to  study' ; 
recreation  periods,  supervised  to  teach  the 
boys  how  to  get  the  heartiest  present  en- 
joyment and  the  most  enduring  good  out 
of  their  play." 

As  an  exclusively  college  preparatory 
school  the  work  is  laid  out  with  a  view  to 
meeting  the  entrance  requirements  of  the 
larger  colleges  and  universities,  and  the 
curriculum  has  been  especially  approved 
by  Purdue  University,  University  of  In- 
diana, University  of  Illinois,  University  of 
Michigan,  Washington  and  Lee  University, 
Notre  Dame  University,  Butler,  Wabash, 
Franklin,  DePauw,  Hanover  and  Earlham 
colleges.  Brooks  graduates  are  admitted 
to  these  and  other  colleges  on  certificate 
with  recommendation  of  the  head  master. 

The  progressiveness  of  the  school  and 
its  adaptability  to  the  various  needs  and 
requirements  of  higher  education  are  in- 
sured by  two  advisory  boards,  whose  eo- 


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operation  imparts  a  desirable  flexibility 
and  a  broad  and  enlightened  spirit  to  the 
entire  institution. 

The  membership  of  the  Collegiate  Ad- 
visory Board  is  as  follows:  Samuel  T. 
Dutton,  A.  M.,  LL.  D.,  formerly  Superin- 
tendent Teachers'  College  Columbia  Uni- 
versity; Frederick  C.  Ferry,  Ph.  D.,  Sc. 
D.,  president  Hamilton  College,  New  York ; 
Alfred  K.  Merritt,  M.  A.,  Registrar,  Yale 
College;  William  K.  Hatt,  Ph.  D.,  C.  E., 
Head  of  Civil  Engineering  Department, 
Purdue  University,  Charles  Hubbard 
Judd,  Ph.  D.,  LL.*D.,  director,  School  of 
Education,  University  of  Chicago ;  Marion 
LeRoy  Burton,  Ph.  D.,  LL.  D.,  president, 
University  of  Minnesota ;  and  H.  A.  Hol- 
lister,  High  School  Visitor,  University  of 
Illinois. 

An  equally  notable  group  of  prominent 
Indianapolis  citizens  is  to  be  found  in  the 
Indianapolis  Advisory  Board  of  this  school : 
"William  Pirtle  Herod,  Hugh  McK.  Lan- 
don,  Ralph  A.  Lemeke,  Charles  W.  Merrill, 
Meredith  Nicholson,  Booth  Tarkington, 
Evans  Woollen,  Arthur  V.  Brown,  Lieut. 
Col.  John  J.  Toffey,  Jr.,  Louis  C.  Hues- 
mann  and  Hugh  H.  Hanna. 

Wendell  Stanton  Brooks  represents  a 
scholarly,  broadminded,  educational  leader- 
ship so  much  needed  in  the  present  tran- 
sitional era  of  American  life.  He  was 
born  at  Bav  Shore,  Long  Island,  New  York, 
July  24,  1886,  son  of  Rev.  Jesse  Wendell 
and  Louise  Bissell  (Upham)  Brooks.  His 
father  has  been  one  of  the  distinguished 
figures  in  the  religous  life  of  America  for 
many  years.  He  was  born  in  Cheshire, 
Connecticut,  September  26,  1858,  son  of 
Jesse  R.  and  Louisa  A.  (Smith)  Brooks, 
and  is  sixth  in  line  from  Henry  Brooks 
of  the  New  Haven  colony.  He  was  gradu- 
ated from  Rutgers  College,  from  the  Union 
Theological  Seminary,  and  received  his 
Doctor  of  Philosophy  degree  from  New 
York  University.  He  was  ordained  a  Con- 
gregational minister  in  1884  and  was  pas- 
tor of  churches  on  Long  Isand,  in  Brook- 
lyn and  in  Chicago  for  a  number  of  years. 
For  nearly  twenty  years  he  has  been  sec- 
retary and  superintendent  of  the  Chicago 
Tract  Society,  with  home  in  Wheaton,  Illi- 
nois. He  has  also  been  officially  identified 
with  many  religious  organizations  and 
since  1912  has  been  on  the  executive  com- 
mittee of  the  Federal  Council  of  Churches 


of    Christ   in   America.     His   wife   was   a 
daughter  of  Professor  Nathan  Upham. 

The  early  boyhood  of  Wendell  Stanton 
Brooks  was  spent  in  Brooklyn,  New  York. 
Later  he  attended  Wheaton  Academy  at 
Wheaton,  Illinois,  and  was  graduated  from 
Yale  University  in  1908.  He  has  taken 
post-graduate  work  at  his  alma  mater  and 
at  the  University  of  Chicago.  His  early 
teaching  experience  was  in  two  of  the 
strongest  schools  for  boys  in  America — the 
Choate  School  of  Wallingford,  Connecti- 
cut, and  the  Harvard  School,  Chicago.  He 
was  instructor  of  history  and  later  principal 
of  the  Kewanee,  Illinois,  High  School  from 
1911  to  1914.  While  in  Illinois  he  was  sec- 
retary of  the  "Big  8"  High  School  Asso- 
ciation in  1914.  He  has  been  secretary  of 
the  Yale  Alumni  Association  of  Indiana 
since  1915,  and  is  a  charter  member  of 
the  National  Association  of  Principals  of 
Secondary  Schools.  He  devoted  one  sum- 
mer to  travel  and  study  in  Europe.  He  is 
a  republican,  a  member  of  the  Yale  Club 
of  Chicago  and  the  University  Club  of  In- 
diana, and  has  served  as  superintendent  of 
the  First  Presbyterian  Sunday  School  of 
Indianapolis.  August  20,  1913,  he  mar- 
ried Miss  Margaret  Amy  Mackenzie,  daugh- 
ter of  James  Alexander  and  Kate  (Lamb) 
Mackenzie.  Their  two  children  are  Mar- 
garet Mackenzie  and  Wendell  Stanton,  Jr. 

Augustus  Taylor  Dye  has  been  a  resi- 
dent and  business  man  and  public  official 
in  Anderson  for  a  number  of  years,  and 
among  other  active  connections  at  present 
is  secretary  and  treasurer  of  the  Farmers- 
Trust  Company. 

He  was  born  July  27,  1864,  on  a  farm  in 
Brown  County,  Ohio,  son  of  Francis 
Marion  and  Amanda  (Manchester)  Dye. 
His  ancestry  in  the  paternal  line  goes  back 
to  a  family  of  Scotch  Highlanders.  In 
America  the  first  record  of  them  is  found 
near  Pittsburg,  Pennsylvania.  The  great- 
great-grandfather  of  the  Anderson  banker 
was  Andrew  J.  Dye,  who  died  at  Troy, 
Ohio,  in  1812.  The  great-grandfather, 
Stephen  Dye,  spent  probably  most  of  his 
life  near  Troy.  Next  in  line  was  grand- 
father James  Dye,  who  was  an  itinerant 
minister  of  the  Campbellite  or  Christian 
Church,  lived  and  pursued  his  calling  for 
a  number  of  years  in  Clermont  County, 
Ohio,  and  finally  moved  to  Bracken  County, 
Kentucky. 


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1805 


Francis  Marion  Dye,  a  native  of  Ohio, 
was  a  lawyer  by  profession.  Prior  to  the 
Civil  war  he  entered  the  conflict  with  the 
One  Hundred  and  Fifty-Ninth  Ohio  In- 
fantry. He  gave  four  years  of  active  serv- 
ice in  the  array,  and  his  death  occurred 
soon  afterward,  in  1866.  His  wife, 
Amanda  Manchester,  was  a  native  of  Ken- 
tucky, and  daughter  of  Hiram  Manchester 
and  granddaughter  of  Charles  C.  Man- 
chester. Charles  C.  Manchester  began  a 
career  as  minister  of  the  Gospel  at  the  age 
of  eighteen  and  did  a  pioneer  work  in 
the  ministry  in  many  counties  of  Ohio. 
Amanda  Manchester  was  related  collater- 
ally to  the  famous  Roger  Williams,  founder 
of  Rhode  Island  and  Providence  Planta- 
tions. 

Augustus  T.  Dye  was  a  very  small  child 
when  his  father  died.  While  his  early  en- 
vironment was  not  one  of  extreme  poverty, 
the  family  means  were  such  that  he  early 
learned  to  face  serious  responsibilities  and 
depended  largely  upon  his  own  efforts  to 
advance  him  in  life.  He  attained  a  country 
school  education  during  the  winter  seasons 
and  worked  on  a  farm  in  the  summer.  At 
the  age  of  eighteen,  after  completing  his 
education,  he  went  to  work  on  his  uncle's 
farm  and  was  there  until  he  was  about 
twenty-two.  For  two  years  he  was  also 
on  the  road  as  a  traveling  salesman  in 
Ohio. 

On  coming  to  Anderson  Mr.  Dye  en- 
gaged in  the  haberdashery  business  on  the 
south  side  of  the  Public  Square,  under  the 
firm  name  of  Scott  &  Dye,  for  two  years. 
He  soon  had  a  large  following  of  devoted 
friends  in  Madison  County,  and  having 
from  the  first  interested  himself  in  the  wel- 
fare of  the  republican  party  he  was  nomi- 
nated as  candidate  on  that  ticket  for  the 
office  of  county  recorder  in  1898.  He  was 
elected  by  107  votes,  and  while  the  margin 
was  small  it  was  a  real  distinction  and  per- 
sonal triumph  since  he  was  the  only  mem- 
ber of  his  party  elected  to  a  county  office 
that  year.  Mr.  Dye  had  charge  of  the  re- 
corder 's  office  for  four  years.  In  the  mean- 
time, in  1899,  he  had  begun  the  study  of 
law  and  carried  it  on  partly  by  correspond- 
ence and  partly  by  weekly  attendance  at 
the  classes  of  the  Indianapolis  Law  School. 
He  finished  a  course  of  three  years.  While 
the  knowledge  has  been  valuable  to  him  in 
his  business  career,  Mr.  Dye  has  never  de- 
veloped a  practice. 


After  leaving  the  recorder's  office  he 
bought  a  share  in  the  old  established  in- 
surance agency  of  J.  J.  Netterville.  This 
was  the  oldest  insurance  agency  at  Ander- 
son. For  three  years  the  business  was  con- 
tinued as  Netterville  &  Dye.  They  then 
bought  the  Heritage-Boland  Fire  Insurance 
Agency,  taking  in  Mr.  D.  L.  Boland  as  a 
partner,  and  also  acquired  the  G.  A.  Lamb- 
ert Agency.  The  business  after  that  was 
continued  as  the  Netterville,  Boland,  Dye 
Company. 

Mr.  Dye  was  one  of  the  active  men  among 
several  associates  in  organizing  and  estab- 
lishing the  Farmers  Trust  Company.  The 
Company  began  business  January  6,"  1912, 
with  J.  J.  Netterville  as  president  and  Mr. 
Dye  as  assistant  secretary  and  treasurer. 
In  1915  Mr.  Dye  was  elected  secretary  and 
treasurer  and  has  always  carried  some 
of  the  heaviest  responsibilities  in  connection 
with  the  growth  and  development  of  this 
very  substantial  financial  institution.  The 
capital  stock  is  $100,000,  and  the  com- 
pany does  a  general  banking  business.  The 
insurance  interests  formerly  conducted  by 
Netterville,  Dye  and  associates  have  been 
consolidated  with  the  Trust  Company,  and 
this  department  is  now  the  leading  agency 
in  Madison  County,  representing  all  the 
largest  insurance  companies,  both  fire  and 
general. 

In  1885  Mr.  Dye  married  Miss  Anna 
Ayres,  daughter  of  William  and  Nancy 
Ayres.  She  died  April  22,  1899,  the 
mother  of  three  children :  Harvey,  a  resi- 
dent of  Anderson,  and  by  his  marriage  to 
Pearl  Willette  the  father  of  one  daughter, 
Mary,  born  in  1916;  Lulu  Dye,  who  is  a 
teacher  of  piano  at  Anderson ;  and  Stella 
Dye,  a  teacher  in  the  Anderson  public 
schools.  In  1902  Mr.  Dye  married  Miss 
Lida  Brooks,  daughter  of  E.  A.  and  Cath- 
erine Brooks.  Mrs.  Dye  was  for  seven 
years  one  of  the  popular  teachers  in  the 
schools  of  Anderson. 

Mr.  Dye  has  always  retained  a  sustain- 
ing and  helpful  interest  in  the  republican 
organization  of  his  county  and  state,  but 
since  he  left  the  office  of  recorder  has 
sought  no  opportunities  of  political  office. 
In  1913,  against  his  will  he  was  made  re- 
publican nominee  for  mayor  of  Anderson. 
He  is  prominent  in  Masonry,  a  member 
of  Fellowship  Lodge,  Ancient  Free  and 
Accepted  Masons,  of  the  thirty-second  de- 
gree Scottish  Rite,  a  member  of  the  Ma- 


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sonic  Club  of  Anderson,  and  has  served 
as  master  of  his  local  lodge  and  was  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Grand  Lodge  in  1910.  He  is  a 
member  of  the  Columbia  Club  of  Indian- 
apolis of  Anderson  Lodge  of  Elks,  is  affil- 
iated with  the  Improved  Order  of  Red 
Men  and  attends  worship  in  the  First  Pres- 
byterian Church. 

J.  Clifton  Brandon,  of  Anderson,  is  a 
young  Indiana  business  man  of  whom 
much  may  be  expected  in  the  future  from 
his  performances  in  the  past.  He  has  been 
steadily  growing  in  experience  and  the 
power  to  do  things  and  conduct  business 
since  leaving  high  school  and  is  now  pro- 
prietor and  manager  of  the  Brandon  Boot 
Shop   at   Anderson. 

He  was  born  in  that  city  July  30,  1890. 
a  son  of  Walter  W.  and  Elizabeth  (Loehr) 
Brandon.  He  is  of  English  and  Scotch- 
Irish  ancestry,  and  the  family  has  been 
in  America  for  many  generations,  origin- 
ally Virginians,  from  which  colony  some  of 
them  went  as  patriot  soldiers  to  win  in- 
dependence from  Great  Britain. 

J.  Clifton  Brandon  was  graduated  from 
the  Anderson  High  School  in  1908.  Fol- 
lowing that  he  took  the  teacher's  prepara- 
tory course  in  Marion  Normal  College  and 
for  one  year  taught  a  country  school  in 
Green  Township  of  Madison  County.  After 
that  until  February,  1913,  he  was  shoe 
clerk  with  Louis  E.  A.  Hirsch.  He  learned 
the  business  in  every  detail  and  from  the 
ground  up.  While  a  boy  in  high  school  he 
had  worked  on  Saturdays  in  the  shoe  shop 
of  Mr.  Hirsch  and  Fred  Macomber,  and  in 
that  way  gained  his  first  knowledge  of  the 
boot  and  shoe  business.  In  1913  Mr.  Bran- 
don transferred  his  services  to  Earl  Berke- 
bile,  and  had  charge  of  his  books  and  was 
practically  manager  of  the  store  until  Jan- 
uary 20,  1917.  All  the  time  he  had  been 
working  and  conserving  his  income  thriftily 
with  a  view  to  the  future  and  an  independ- 
ent business  of  his  own,  and  in  1917  he 
bought  the  Walk-over  Boot  Shop,  of  which 
he  is  now  sole  proprietor  and  has  the  ex- 
clusive Walk-over  agency  in  Anderson. 

In  1914  Mr.  Brandon  married  Miss  Fern 
Baird,  daughter  of  John  A.  and  Cassandra 
(Tillman)  Baird,  of  Jonesboro,  Grant 
County,  Indiana.  Mr.  Brandon  is  a  demo- 
crat, is  affiliated  with  Mount  Moriah  Lodge, 
Free  and  Accepted  Masons,  at  Anderson, 
with  the  Kappa  Alphi  Phi  fraternity,  and 


is  a  member  of  the  First  Methodist  Epis- 
copal Church. 

August  Wacker  has  been  a  resident  of 
Indianapolis  over  forty-five  years.  He  was 
formerhr  a  florist  and  gardener,  and  owned 
several  greenhouses  in  the  city,  but  the 
greater  part  of  his  years  have  been  taken 
up  with  handling  and  developing  real  es- 
tate, and  his  operations  have  been  of  such 
character  and  with  such  resulting  benefits 
to  large  numbers  of  people  besides  himself 
that  he  well  deserves  and  may  properly 
be  called  "a  community  builder." 

Mr.  Wacker  was  born  in  Wurtemberg. 
Germany,  September  14,  1848,  a  son  of 
Philip  and  Christina  Wacker.  His  father 
was  a  vineyardist  and  wine  maker  and  a 
capable  business  man  who  provided  for  his 
family  modestly  and  not  without  success. 
He  served  as  a  soldier  in  the  regular  Ger- 
man arm.v,  and  both  parents  lived  to  a 
good  old  age. 

August  Wacker  was  educated  in  the 
German  schools  of  his  home  town  until  he 
was  sixteen.  He  then  began  learning  by 
apprenticeship  the  florist's  trade.  With 
the  equipment  supplied  by  school,  home 
training  and  his  apprenticeship  he  came 
to  the  United  States  in  1870,  on  the  steamer 
Union,  and  from  the  Atlantic  seaboard 
came  direct  to  Indianapolis.  In  this  city 
he  went  to  work  for  A.  Wiegand,  the  well 
known  florist  of  that  time.  The  Wiegand 
greenhouses  were  then  on  Kentucky  Ave- 
nue and  South  Street.  After  two  years 
Mr.  Wacker  had  advanced  so  far  in  knowl- 
edge of  American  ways  and  had  made  such 
good  use  of  his  earnings  that  he  was  able 
to  rent  seven  acres  of  land  on  Central 
Avenue  and  Twelfth  Street.  This  land 
was  then  well  out  on  the  edge  of  town  but 
is  now  in  the  heart  of  the  city.  Here  he 
engaged  in  business  as  a  truck  and  vege- 
table grower  for  the  local  market.  His 
operations  for  the  first  year  netted  him 
a  considerable  revenue,  and  he  then  bought 
five  acres  of  ground  at  Emerichville.  This 
ground  too  has  been  since  swept  within 
the  rapidly  growing  City  of  Indianapolis. 
He  owned  that  property  only  a  few  months, 
when  he  sold  out  at  a  profit  of  $2,300.  Mr. 
Wacker  has  made  many  larger  deals  since 
then  but  none  of  greater  importance  to  his 
personal  fortune,  since  the  sale  gave  him 
the  capital  sufficient  to  begin  his  opera- 
tions as  a  real  estate  man  and  he  has  con- 


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1807 


stantly  kept  his  money  moving  and  in 
steady  use  and  service  ever  since. 

His  next  move  was  to  invest  in  a  tract 
of  land  of  fourteen  acres  at  what  is  now 
Thirtieth  Street  and  the  Meyers  gravel 
road.  When  he  bought  it  the  land  was 
completely  isolated  and  truly  rural  in  its 
environment.  He  kept  adding  by  subse- 
quent purchase  until  he  had  a  fine  farm 
of  ninety  acres  there,  and  he  used  it  not 
only  .for  strictly  farming  purposes  but  also 
improved  it  as  a  site  for  picnics  and  other 
public  gatherings.  His  improvements  and 
equipment  together  with  the  land  was 
finally  bought  by  the  city,  and  on  the  basis 
of  what  he  had  accomplished  the  city  has 
since  created  Riverside  Park,  one  of  the 
most  attractive  outdoor  recreation  parks 
of  Indianapolis. 

In  1898  Mr.  Wacker  bought  thirty  acres 
of  land  where  he  now  lives,  including  2663 
Parkway  Boulevard,  his  home.  That  was 
also  country  but  has  since  become  part  of 
the  city  and  largely  as  a  result  of  his  in- 
vestments and  enterprise.  Mr.  Wacker 
probably  deserves  the  greatest  individual 
credit  for  the  development  and  improve- 
ment of  the  northwest  quarter  of  Indian- 
apolis. He  has  laid  out  streets,  constructed 
pavements,  secured  lighting  and  street  car 
service,  and  has  never  failed  to  put  himself 
behind  any  movement  that  would  add  to 
the  wholesomeness  and  attractiveness  and 
increase  the  value  of  property  and  better 
general  living  conditions  in  that  part  of 
the  city.  In  recent  years  he  has  built  about 
forty  modern  homes  on  his  own  ground, 
and  many  of  these  homes  have  been  sold  to 
their  present  owners  and  occupants. 

When  Mr.  Wacker  came  over  on  the 
steamship  Union  in  1870  he  made  acquaint- 
ance with  another  passenger,  Louisa  Erd- 
berger,  who  was  coming  to  the  United 
States  in  company  with  her  sister.  This 
acquaintance  was  not  dropped  after  they 
landed,  and  in  1871  Mr.  Wacker  and  Miss 
Erdberger  were  united  in  marriage,  and 
they  lived  happily  together  for  over  thirty 
years,  until  her  death  in  1904.  Seven  chil- 
dren were  born  to  them,  six  still  living  and 
all  residents  of  Indianapolis.  The  record 
of  the  children  is:  August,  Jr.,  a  black- 
smith at  Haughville  on  East  Tenth  Street ; 
Dr.  Albert  H.,  a  veterinary  surgeon  with 
home  on  Union  Street;  Louisa,  wife  of 
John  Wolsiffer;  Charles  J.,  a  successful 
building  contractor  in  Indianapolis ;  Bei'tha 


and  Emma,  at  home  with  their  father ;  and 
Louis,  who  died  in  childhood. 

Mr.  August  Wacker  was  one  of  the  first 
members  of  St.  Paul's  German  Reformed 
Church,  and  for  years  was  one  its  trustees. 
He  is  also  affiliated  with  the  Knights  of 
Cosmos. 

Moses  Edwin  Clapp,  United  States  sen- 
ator, was  born  at  Delphi,  Indiana,  May  21, 
1851,  a  son  of  Harvey  S.  and  Abbie  J. 
(Vandercook)  Clapp.  In  1873,  the  same 
year  he  received  his  LL.  B.  degree  from 
the  University  of  Wisconsin,  Senator  Clapp 
was  admitted  to  the  bar  and  began  prac- 
tice at  Hudson,  Wisconsin.  Since  1891  he 
has  been  a  resident  of  St,  Paul.  He  was  a 
candidate  for  the  republican  nomination 
for  governor  in  1896,  and  on  the  19th  of 
January,  1901,  was  elected  a  United  States 
senator  and  re-elected  for  the  terms  1905- 
11  and  1911-17. 

Senator  Clapp  on  December  30,  1874, 
was  married  to  Hattie  Allen,  of  New  Rich- 
mond, Wisconsin. 

Ralph  Ritter.  One  of  the  representa- 
tive business  men  of  Anderson  is  Ralph 
Ritter,  sole  proprietor  of  the  Anderson 
Plumbing  Company,  one  of  the  largest  con- 
cerns of  its  kind  in  this  city.  While  in- 
dustry has  marked  every  year  of  his  life 
since  he  left  school  when  aged  thirteen,  it 
was  some  time  before  Mr.  Ritter  found  the 
opportunity  that  led  to  his  adopting  his 
present  line  of  work,  for  which  he  undoubt- 
edly has  always  had  great  capacity  because 
of  natural  constructive  tendency  and  un- 
derstanding of  mathematics.  He  comes  of 
an  agricultural  rather  than  a  mechanical 
family  but  never  had  any  taste  for  farm- 
ing. 

Ralph  Ritter  was  born  on  a  farm  in  Del- 
aware County,  Indiana,  in  1878.  His  par- 
ents were  Jacob  and  Cynthia  (Buckles) 
Ritter,  whose  family  consisted  of  three 
sons.  Many  generations  back  the  Ritters 
were  found  in  Ohio,  and  from  there  John 
Ritter,  the  grandfather  of  Ralph  Ritter 
came  to  Delaware  County,  Indiana,  as  a 
pioneer  and  cleared  up  his  own  farm. 
Three  of  his  sons  served  as  soldiers  in  the 
Civil  war.  Jacob  Ritter  was  born  in  Del- 
aware County,  followed  an  agricultural 
life  exclusively,  and  was  accidentally  killed 
when  his  son  Ralph  was  four  years  old. 

When  Ralph  Ritter  was  nine  years  old 


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the  family  moved  to  Hartford  City,  In- 
diana, and  there  he  resumed  his  interrup- 
ted school  attendance  and  continued  until 
he  was  thirteen.  His  first  working  job  was 
driving  a  delivery  wagon  for  a  grocery- 
man  at  Hartford  City,  for  which  he  was 
paid  fifty  cents  a  day  and  remained  with 
the  grocery  house  for  three  years.  In  his 
efforts  to  find  more  congenial  and  more 
remunerative  work,  he  had  many  experi- 
ences and  hence  has  a  working  knowledge 
of  more  than  one  business  line. 

For  six  months  Mr.  Ritter  worked  in  a 
glass  factory  and  found  out  how  lantern 
globes  are  made  by  holding  the  molds  for 
the  same.  Then  he  went  into  a  strawboard 
mill  and  spent  a  month  straightening  bal- 
ing wire.  That  did  not  seem  promising, 
and  he  then  became  an  elevator  boy  and 
three  months  later  found  work  in  a  paper 
room,  where  he  remained  one  month.  Then 
came  his  opportunity  to  work  in  a  plumb- 
ing ship,  George  W.  Hutchinson  taking  him 
as  a  helper  at  wages  of  three  dollars  a  week. 
Mr.  Ritter  then  determined  to  learn  the 
business  and  worked  for  four  years,  while 
learning,  for  one  dollar  a  day,  when  he 
became  a  journeyman  and  worked  as  such, 
according  to  the  laws  of  the  trade,  until 
he  was  a  qualified  plumber. 

Mr.  Ritter  then  entered  the  Enamel  Iron 
Works  at  Muncie,  Indiana,  where  he  was 
employed  in  different  capacities  and  finally 
became  inspector  of  enamel  ware,  four 
months  after  which  he  returned  to  Hart- 
ford City  and  for  two  years  was  with  his 
old  firm  working  at  his  trade.  At  the  end 
of  that  time,  in  partnership  with  his 
brother  Sylvester,  under  the  name  of  Rit- 
ter Brothers,  he  engaged  in  business  at 
Kendalville,  where  they  started  a  cigar 
store,  but  later  sold  his  interest  to  his 
brother  and  went  to  Mishawaka  and  was 
connected  there  with  the  cigar  business  for 
about  two  years. 

In  1903  Mr.  Ritter  went  into  the  plumb- 
ing business  for  himself  at  South  Bend  and 
continued  for  a  year  and  a  half  and  then 
sold  and  was  profitably  employed  at  his 
trade  for  the  next  two  and  a  half  years 
and  then  spent  the  same  time  at  his  trade 
in  Marion,  Indiana.  In  1908  he  came  to 
Anderson  and  went  to  work  for  John  H. 
Emmert,  remained  there  four  and  a  half 
years,  when  he  became  foreman  for  Charles 
Lott's  plumbing  shop,  two  and  a  half  years 
afterward  went  into  business  at  Anderson 


for  himself,  and  in  1914  opened  his  present 
place,  right  in  the  business  district,  at  No. 
740  Main  Street.  Mr.  Ritter 's  long  ex- 
perience has  given  him  a  thorough  knowl- 
edge of  plumbing  and  gas  fitting,  and  he 
pays  particular  attention  to  all  heating 
problems,  handling  the  standard  Kohler 
goods.  In  business  circles  his  reputation 
stands  as  substantial  and  honorable. 

Mr.  Ritter  was  married  in  1901  to  Miss 
Effie  J.  Bennett,  who  was  born  in  Cler- 
mont County,  Ohio,  and  is  a  daughter  of 
Benjamin  Bennett.  They  have  three  chil- 
dren :  Ralph  Rupert,  born  in  1903 ;  Ken- 
neth David,  born  in  1905 ;  and  Marietta 
Katherine,  born  in  1907,  all  of  whom  are 
making  creditable  records  in  school.  Mr. 
Ritter  and  his  family  are  members  of  the 
First  Baptist  Church  at  Anderson  and  he 
is  chairman  of  its  board  of  trustees.  In 
politics  he  is  not  active  except  as  good 
citizenship  demands,  and  he  casts  his  vote 
according  to  the  dictates  of  his  own  ex- 
cellent judgment.  He  is  identified  fra- 
ternally with  the  Order  of  Knights  of  Py- 
thias at  Anderson. 

Frank  Hilburt  is  junior  partner  of  Mc- 
Intire  &  Hilburt,  proprietors  of  the  noted 
Indiana  baking  establishment  known  as 
"The  Sunlight  Bakery"  at  Anderson.  The 
products  of  The  Sunlight  Bakery  have  a 
statewide  distinction  and  appreciation,  and 
some  of  their  products  are  known  even 
farther.  A  few  years  ago  it  was  a  small 
local  industry,  and  into  its  growth  and  de- 
velopment have  gone  the  business  brains 
and  the  utmost  efficiency  and  skill  of  two 
men  who  are  past  masters  of  every  branch 
of  their  art. 

Mr.  Hilburt  was  born  at  Cincinnati, 
Ohio,  in  1873,  a  son  of  John  and  Louisa 
F.  (Enbury)  Hilburt,  He  is  of  English 
ancestry  and  the  family  has  been  in  Amer- 
ica several  generations.  His  grandfather 
came  from  London  when  a  young  man 
and  settled  in  Pennsylvania,  near  Lan- 
caster. He  brought  with  him  a  family  of 
thirteen  sons.  He  was  a  coal  miner.  John 
Hilburt  married  in  England,  and  had  a 
family  of  four  sons  and  two  daughters, 
Frank  being  the  second  in  age.  From  Cin- 
cinnati the  Hilburts  moved  to  Markles- 
ville,  and  Frank  Hilburt  received  his  edu- 
cation there  and  at  the  age  of  sixteen  went 
to  work  on  a  farm  in  a  Quaker  Community 
known  as  Spring  Valley  for  wages  of  fif- 


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teen  dollars  a  month.  Three  years  later,  in 
1894,  he  came  to  Anderson  and  began  driv- 
ing a  wagon.  He  was  for  eight  years 
wagon  driver  for  the  West  End  Dairy. 

The  employment  which  may  be  con- 
sidered to  have  opened  for  him  his  life 
career  was  as  driver  of  a  bread  wagon  for 
J.  W.  Linder  at  Anderson.  A  year  later 
he  transferred  his  services  to  the  Adding- 
ton  Bakery  of  Anderson.  From  a  friend 
he  borrowed  money  without  security  and 
bought  a  half  interest  in  this  bakery,  whose 
trade  as  wagon  driver  he  had  built  up  from 
practically  nothing.  About  that  time  he 
formed  a  partnership  with  John  S.  Mcln- 
tire,  and  that  was  the  beginning  of  the 
present  firm  and  of  the  present  great  plant 
of  which  they  are  proprietors.  Their  first 
bakery  was  at  2308  Twenty-third  Street, 
still  known  as  the  Addington  Bakery.  Five 
or  six  years  later  they  bought  some  proper- 
ty at  2308  Columbus  Avenue  and  erected 
a  complete  new  plant.  Business  grew  and 
prospered,  and  at  the  end  of  seven  years 
they  bought  their  present  property  at  1520- 
24  Meridian  Street,  adjoining  the  tracks 
of  the  Big  Four  Railroad.  Here  they 
erected  The  Sunlight  Bakery,  a  two-story 
brick  building  60  by  100  feet,  with  every 
mechanical  equipment  and  sanitary  device 
known  to  the  business. 

The  firm  employ  about  ten  people,  and 
their  goods  are  shipped  daily  to  the  town 
and  country  trade  extending  over  a  radius 
of  fifty  miles  around  Anderson.  They 
make  bread  and  pastries,  and  their  special 
brands  so  familiar  as  household  words  are 
the  "Buster  Brown"  and  "Butter  Krust" 
and  domestic  breads.  This  firm  is  respon- 
sible for  the  "Butter  Krust"  trade  mark, 
which  is  now  rapidly  winning  a  country 
wide  appreciation. 

Besides  his  business  as  a  baker  Mr.  Hil- 
burt  is  a  stockholder  in  Mentha-Pep  Com- 
pany of  Anderson,  and  owns  considerable 
land  and  real  estate  here  and  elsewhere. 
August  6,  1899,  at  Anderson,  he  married 
Miss  Maude  Baughman,  daughter  of  Wil- 
liam and  Anna  Baughman.  They  have  one 
child,  Embury  Greenwood,  now  eighteen 
years  old  and  a  student  in  the  Anderson 
High  School.  Mr.  Hilbnrt  is  a  republican, 
is  affiliated  with  the  Independent  Order  of 
Odd  Fellows  and  the  Improved  Order  of 
Red  Men,  and  is  a  member  of  the  Christian 
Science  Church. 


Herbert  B.  McMahan  is  treasurer  and 
manager  of  the  McMahan  &  Lieb  Company, 
the  largest  wholesale  grocery  house  of 
Anderson,  and  a  business  which  ranks 
among  the  leading  institutions  of  its  kind 
in  the  state.  Mr.  McMahan  is  a  native  of 
Anderson  and  has  been  a  signal  factor  in 
its  business  affairs  for  over  ten  years. 

He  was  born  in  Anderson  December  17, 
1879,  a  son  of  T.  J.  and  Sarah  (Johnson) 
McMahan.  He  is  of  Scotch-Irish  ancestry 
and  most  of  the  generations  produced  farm- 
ers until  T.  J.  McMahan 's  time.  T.  J. 
McMahan  was  a  well  known  banker  of 
Anderson  for  many  years,  and  was  at  one 
time  president  of  the  National  Exchange 
Bank.  He  died  November  4,  1916,  and  his 
wife  March  18,  1902. 

Herbert  B.  McMahan  grew  up  at  Ander- 
son, attended  the  public  schools,  graduat- 
ing from  the  Howe  School  at  Howe,  In- 
diana, in  1898,  and  then  entered  Cornell 
University,  from  which  he  received  his  A. 
B.  degree  in  1902.  While  at  Cornell  he 
was  affiliated  with  the  Alpha  Tau  Omega 
fraternity. 

Following  his  college  career  Mr.  McMa- 
han learned  the  wholesale  grocery  business 
as  billing  clerk  for  two  years,  and  then  was 
promoted  to  treasurer  of  the  McMahan  & 
Lieb  Company.  Since  1906  he  has  been 
manager  of  this  business.  The  company 
does  an  extensive  business  with  retail  mer- 
chants in  a  radius  of  eighty  miles  around 
Anderson,  and  has  a  large  plant  and  ware- 
house, employing  altogether  about  thirty 
people. 

Mr.  McMahan  is  also  a  director  of  the 
National  Exchange  Bank  of  Anderson,  of 
the  Union  Real  Estate  Company  and  of 
the  Muncie  Hardware  Company  at  Muncie. 

In  1904  he  married  Miss  Mary  Grimes, 
daughter  of  Robert  P.  Grimes  of  Anderson, 
a  well  known  old  family  of  that  city.  They 
have  two  children:  Herbert,  aged  twelve, 
and  Martha,  aged  seven.  Mr.  McMahan 
is  a  member  of  the  Masonic  Order  and  of 
the  fraternal  Order  of  Eagles,  belongs  to 
the  Anderson  Club  and  Rotary  Club  and 
is  now  president  of  the  Indiana  Wholesale 
Grocers  Association. 

B.  E.  Shirley.  While  the  purely  busi- 
ness interests  of  Anderson  have  been  well 
looked  after  here  for  many  years,  as  com- 
mercial  records  prove,   the   aesthetic   and 


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artistic  side  of  life  has  also  been  recognized 
as  an  essential  feature  in  a  cultured  com- 
munity, and  within  the  past  few  years  more 
pretentious  musical  houses  than  heretofore 
have  entered  the  field  to  satisfy  the  de- 
mands of  an  increasing  number  of  people 
of  cultivated  tastes.  A  leading  concern  of 
this  kind  at  Anderson  is  the  Pearson  Piano 
Company,  of  which  B.  E.  Shirley,  an  enter- 
prising business  man,  is  manager  at  this 
point. 

B.  E.  Shirley  was  born  at  Pittsborough 
in  Hendricks  County,  Indiana,  May  22, 
1875.  His  father,  Francis  W.  Shirley,  died 
at  Indianapolis  in  1915,  and  his  mother, 
Emily  W.  (Leake)  Shirley,  resides  in  that 
city.  Many  generations  back  Mr.  Shir- 
ley's forefathers  came  from  England  and 
settled  in  Kentucky,  and  from  that  state 
have  radiated  into  many  others.  The  fam- 
ily vocation  has  been  very  largely  agricul- 
tural in  the  past. 

Until  he  was  twenty-one  years  of  age 
Mr.  Shirley  remained  at  home,  attending 
school  in  Lincoln  Township  until  he  was 
sixteen,  after  which  he  was  his  father's 
main  helper  on  the  home  farm.  In  the 
meanwhile  his  brother,  A.  E.  Shirley,  had 
started  in  the  hardware  business  at  Lizton 
in  Hendricks  County,  and  he  became  his 
brother's  clerk  and  continued  with  him 
four  years,  during  which  time  he  gained 
a  pretty  thorough  knowledge  of  the  hard- 
ware business.  In  1899  the  family  moved 
to  Indianapolis,  A.  E.  Shirley  transferring 
his  mercantile  interests  to  that  city,  and  B. 
E.  Shirley  continued  in  his  employ  for 
eight  more  years.  He  then  became  con- 
tract man  for  the  Citizens  Gas  Company, 
and  continued  until  that  company  was 
amalgamated  in  the  Indianapolis  Gas  Com- 
pany. 

In  1912  Mr.  Shirley  became  connected 
with  the  Pearson  Piano  Company  of  In- 
dianapolis in  the  capacity  of  salesman,  and 
through  his  fidelity  to  the  company  and  his 
ability  in  salesmanship  came  into  closer 
relations  and  in  1915  was  sent  to  open  a 
branch  store  at  Anderson.  This  he  suc- 
cessfully accomplished  and  has  made  it  a 
center  for  musical  circles  in  the  city  and 
adjacent  towns,  his  territory  taking  in  five 
counties.  Mr.  Shirley  handles  only  first 
class  musical  instruments  and  these  in- 
clude pianos,  piano  players,  phonographs 
and  small  instruments,  designing  to  satisfy 
even   critical   and   fastidious  patrons  who 


may  have  had  musical  training  in  other 
countries  as  well  as  his  own.  He  is  uni- 
versally considered  an  able,  honorable  and 
upright  business  man. 

Mr.  Shirley  was  married  in  1900  to  Miss 
Laura  M.  Hayes,  who  is  a  daughter  of 
Aaron  and  Maria  (Spies)  Hayes,  of  Mari- 
etta, Ohio.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Shirley  have 
three  children,  one  daughter  and  two  sons, 
namely ;  Lillian  Ruth,  who  was  born  in 
1902 ;  Elbert  Aaron,  who  was  born  in  1904 ; 
and  Edwin  Hayes,  who  was  born  in  1912. 
Mr.  Shirley  and  family  belong  to  the  First 
Presbyterian  Church  at  Anderson. 

While  Mr.  Shirley  has  always  taken  an 
intelligent  interest  in  public  matters  and 
wherever  he  has  lived  has  lent  his  influence 
in  the  favor  of  good  Government  and  civic 
progress,  he  has  never  felt  the  necessity 
of  formally  uniting  with  any  particular 
political  party,  believing  that  his  own  judg- 
ment and  knowledge  of  men  gained 
through  his  many  years  of  business  expe- 
rience will  usually  lead  him  aright  when 
he  comes  to  casting  a  vote.  In  fraternal 
matters,  however,  he  has  been  very  prom- 
inent for  years  in  the  Knights  of  Pythias. 
While  residing  in  Indianapolis  he  united 
with  Arrow  Lodge  of  that  city  and  has 
been  a  delegate  to  the  Grand  Lodge  and 
since  coming  to  Anderson  has  identified 
himself  with  Banner  Lodge,  in  which  he 
has  passed  all  the  chairs.  He  belongs  also 
to  the  Travelers  Protective  Association. 

Jacob  Walter  Rose,  manager  of  the 
Mid-West  Box  Company  at  Anderson,  is 
an  Indiana  man  by  birth  but  for  many 
years  lived  in  the  west  and  became  prom- 
inently identified  with  the  beet  sugar 
industry,  the  development  of  which  as  an 
American  industry  he  is  familiar  from 
practically  the  very  beginning  in  the  states 
of  the  west.  The  Mid-West  Box  Company, 
whose  central  plant  and  offices  are  at 
Anderson  but  which  has  many  branches, 
is  a  very  large  and  important  industry, 
manufacturing  corrugated  fibre  and  solid 
fibre  boxes  of  all  kinds  and  suited  for  all 
purposes.  This  product  is  shipped  all  over 
the  country,  and  the  company  operates  on 
a  capital  of  $500,000. 

Mr.  Rose  was  born  at  Martinsville,  Mor- 
gan County,  Indiana,  on  a  farm  close  to 
the  town,  April  23,  1865,  son  of  Aaron  and 
Elvira  (Welty)  Rose.  He  is  of  Scotch 
and  Pennsylvania  Dutch  ancestry,  and  the 


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1811 


family  on  first  coming  to  America  in  colo- 
nial times  settled  in  New  Jersey.  Aaron 
Rose  was  brought  to  Indiana  when  a  small 
boy.  Elvira  Welty  came  from  Harrisburg, 
Pennsylvania.  The  father  died  in  1908 
and  the  mother  in  1903. 

Mr.  J.  W.  Rose  was  educated  in  the  pub- 
lic schools  of  Martinsville,  graduated  from 
high  school  in  1882,  and  in  September  of 
that  year  entered  DePauw  University  at 
Greencastle,  where  he  remained  a  student 
for  two  years  in  the  classical  course. 

In  August,  1884,  more  than  thirty  years 
ago  when  the  country  west  of  the  Missouri 
was  just  in  the  early  stages  of  settling 
up  and  development,  Mr.  Rose  went  out 
to  Norfolk,  Nebraska,  where  he  found  em- 
ployment as  bookkeeper  in  the  Norfolk 
Bank.  He  remained  there  eight  years,  and 
after  the  bank  was  chartered  by  the  state 
became  assistant  cashier.  In  1892  he  went 
with  the  American  Sugar  Company  in  its 
local  plant  at  Norfolk,  Nebraska.  The 
American  Beet  Sugar  Company  is  now  an 
organization  representing  many  millions  of 
investment  and  produces  a  large  share  of 
the  sugar  consumed  in  the  United  States. 
Its  plants  are  all  over  the  west,  perhaps 
the  largest  being  at  Oxnard,  California. 
With  this  company  Mr.  Rose  continued  his 
active  services  for  eighteen  years.  He  be- 
gan as  bookkeeper  at  Norfolk,  was  cashier, 
weighmaster,  store  keeper,  yard  boss,  as- 
sistant, manager,  traffic  manager,  auditor, 
and 'finally  was  manager  of  the  business  at 
Grand  Island,  Nebraska,  for  three  years. 
After  leaving  the  sugar  company  he  spent 
a  few  months  in  the  automobile  business 
at  Omaha,  but  not  with  results  satisfactory, 
and  he  then  returned  to  Grand  Island  and 
bought  an  interest  in  the  wholesale  grocery 
house  of  The  Donald  Company.  He  was 
secretary  and  treasurer  of  that  company 
for  three  years. 

Selling  his  interest  there  he  returned  to 
Indiana,  locating  at  Martinsville  in  1914, 
and  in  the  following  December  bought  an 
interest  in  the  Anderson  Foundry  &  Ma- 
chine Works.  He  became  secretary  and 
treasurer  of  this  corporation,  but  in  April, 
1917,  severed  that  relation  and  soon  after- 
ward accepted  the  post  of  manager  of  the 
Mid- West  Box  Company.  He  is  a  stock- 
holder in  this  industry,  also  in  the  Ander- 
son Trust  Company,  in  the  Pacific  Light 
&  Power  Company  of  Los  Angeles  and  has 
various  other  interests. 


During  1912-13  Mr.  Rose  was  president 
of  the  Young  Men's  Christian  Association 
at  Grand  Island,  Nebraska,  and  during  that 
time  a  $75,000  building  was  erected.  He 
is  an  active  church  man,  is  president  of  the 
board  of  stewards  of  the  First  Methodist 
Episcopal  Church  at  Anderson,  is  affiliated 
with  the  Masonic  Order,  including  mem- 
bership in  the  Royal  Arch  Chapter  at  Ox- 
nard, California,  and  is  also  a  Knight  of 
Pythias  and  a  member  of  the  Benevolent 
and  Protective  Order  of  Elks.  In  1899 
Mr.  Rose  married  Miss  Mabel  Shirley, 
daughter  of  W.  S.  and  Sarah  (Conduit) 
Shirley,  of  Martinsville,  Indiana.  Her 
father  was  a  lawyer.  They  have  one  daugh- 
ter, Marian. 

Christopher  E.  Legg  has  been  identi- 
fied with  the  mercantile  affairs  of  Ander- 
son for  a  number  of  years,  and  the  success 
he  enjoys  and  his  standing  as  a  citizen 
are  due  altogether  to  those  advantages  con- 
ferred by  hard  work  rather  than  privi- 
lege. 

Mr.  Legg  was  born  in  Benton  Township, 
Pike  County,  Ohio,  in  1877,  son  of  Edward 
Allen  and  Elizabeth  (Day)  Legg.  As  a  boy 
in  a  country  community  he  attended  dis- 
trict schools  and  at  the  age  of  eighteen 
went  to  work  for  a  living.  For  two  years 
he  worked  for  a  neighboring  farmer  at 
thirteen  dollars  a  month.  At  the  age  of 
twenty-one  he  was  employed  in  a  saw  mill 
in  Pike  County,  and  remained  there  for 
four  or  five  years.  His  next  employment 
was  in  a  factory  at  Columbus,  Ohio,  for  a 
year. 

He  came  to  Anderson  in  1902.  He  was 
still  far  from  being  a  capitalist  when  he. 
arrived  in  that  city.  For  two  years  he 
worked  in  the  Sefton  Box  Company  and 
for  three  years  had  the  management  of  the 
Union  Grain  and  Coal  Company.  His  first 
experience  in  the  grocery  trade  was  ac- 
quired as  a  clerk  for  Whetstone  and  Bayse 
at  22  West  Eighth  Street.  This  firm  sub- 
sequently sold  out  to  Erwin  &  Company, 
and  Mr.  Legg  remained  with  both  firms 
until  August  25,  1916,  when  he  bought  the 
business  for  himself.  He  was  able  to  pay 
but  $200  in  cash  and  went  in  debt  for  the 
rest  of  the  stock  and  store.  In  the  same 
year  he  sold  a  half  interest  to  his  brother 
Charles  D.,  making  the  firm  of  Legg  Broth- 
ers, which  enjoyed  prosperity  and  a  large 
trade  until  it  was  dissolved  in  November, 


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INDIANA  AND  IND1ANANS 


1918.  Since  selling  out  to  his  brother 
Christopher  E.  Legg  has  continued  a  factor 
in  the  local  grocery  trade,  and  is  now  con- 
nected with  the  Jackson  Grocery.  Mr. 
Legg  is  a  democrat.  In  1911  he  married 
Miss  Bertha  Doty,  daughter  of  George  and 
Rose  Doty  of  Anderson. 

Harry  Bentley  Burnet  is  president  of 
the  Burnet-Binford  Lumber  Company,  one 
of  the  larger  manufacturing  and  distribut- 
ing lumber  and  building  material  organi- 
zations of  Indianapolis.  The  plant  and 
yards  are  located  on  Thirtieth  Street  and 
Canal.  Mr.  Burnet  was  liberally  educated, 
was  qualified  for  the  law,  but  was  finally 
diverted  into  the  business  which  he  has 
made  practically  his  life  work. 

Mr.  Burnet  was  born  in  historic  old  Vin- 
cennes in  Knox  County,  Indiana,  Septem- 
ber 10,  1861.  His  father,  Stephen  Burnet, 
was  born  near  Cleveland,  Ohio,  in  1813, 
and  died  in  Knox  County,  Indiana,  Febru- 
ary 14,  1885.  He  became  widely  known 
over  different  sections  of  Indiana  and  was 
a  man  whose  career  was  successful  from 
every  standpoint.  He  came  to  Indiana  in 
early  manhood  and  traveled  about  over  the 
state  selling  medicine  for  a  time.  He  be- 
became  fascinated  with  the  country  around 
Vincennes,  and  his  loyalty  to  that  old  city 
was  unabated  throughout  his  life.  One  of 
the  reasons  why  he  liked  Vincennes  was  the 
splendid  educational  advantages  it  offered. 
He  acquired  300  acres  of  land  adjoining 
and  within  half  a  mile  of  the  present  site 
of  the  Union  Depot.  He  did  farming  on  a 
modern  and  progressive  scale  and  spe- 
cialized as  a  fruit  grower,  and  gradually 
•developed  a  nursery  which  supplied  the 
original  stock  of  fruit  trees  to  hundreds  of 
orchards  throughout  southern  Indiana  and 
Illinois.  For  a  time  he  had  a  number  of 
salesmen  on  the  road.  The  Knox  County 
fair  grounds  are  a  part  of  the  old  Stephen 
Burnet  300  acre  purchase.  Stephen  Bur- 
net was  for  many  years  an  elder  in  the 
Christian  Church,  and  many  times  filled 
the  pulpit.  He  was  a  member  of  the  board 
of  trustees  of  Vincennes  University,  and 
in  politics  was  an  active  and  influential 
republican.  He  was  three  times  married. 
His  first  wife  was  Lomira  Gardner,  who 
became  the  mother  of  five  sous  and  one 
daughter.  The  daughter  is  still  living,  Mrs. 
S  B  Judah  of  Vincennes.  His  second 
wife  was  Laura  Bentley,  who  was  born  at 


Chagrin  Falls,  Ohio,  and  died  in  1871,  at 
the  age  of  forty-three.  She  was  the  mother 
of  four  children,  one  of  whom  died  in 
childhood.  Harry  Bentley  and  Percy  Bent- 
ley were  twin  sons.  The  only  living  daugh- 
ter is  Grace  Belle,  wife  of  Thornton  Willis, 
of  Vincennes. 

Harry  Bentley  Burnet  and  his  twin 
brother  Percy  Bentley  both  attended  Vin- 
cennes University,  graduating  in  1880,  and 
then  acquired  their  higher  literary  educa- 
tion in  the  Indiana  State  University  at 
Bloomington,  from  which  institution  they 
graduated  in  1884.  Up  to  this  time  their 
careers  had  run  closely  parallel  in  pur- 
suits, experiences  and  tastes.  After  that 
Percy  Burnet  continued  to  explore  the  field 
of  scholarship  and  has  became  a  widely 
known  educator.  From  the  State  Univer- 
sity of  Indiana  he  spent  some  time  at 
Leipsic,  Germany,  and  Paris,  France,  mak- 
ing a  study  of  languages.  On  returning 
to  the  United  States  he  was  assistant 
teacher  of  German  in  the  State  University 
of  Indiana,  was  teacher  of  German  at 
Oberlin  College,  Oberlin,  Ohio,  later  oc- 
cupied a  chair  in  Cottner  University  in 
Nebraska  and  still  later  was  director  of  the 
foreign  languages  department  in  the  Kan- 
sas City  High  School.  He  is  now  editing 
a  text  work  and  records  of  the  Spanish 
language. 

Harry  Bentley  Burnet  after  graduating 
from  the  State  University  in  1884  was 
teacher  for  a  brief  time  in  Posey  County, 
Indiana,  and  then  for  eighteen  months  was 
in  the  law  offices  of  Judah  &  Jamison  at 
Indianapolis.  His  readings  and  study 
qualified  him  for  the  bar,  to  which  he  was 
admitted  and  soon  afterward  he  went  to 
Minneapolis,  Minnesota,  and  for  a  few 
months  was  engaged  in  the  real  estate  busi- 
ness. After  these  several  brief  experiences 
in  other  lines  he  entered  the  lumber  indus- 
try, to  which  he  has  devoted  the  best  of 
his  energies  for  the  past  thirty  years.  He 
was  first  connected  with  the  Sturtevant 
Lumber  Company  of  Cleveland.  Later  he 
became  a  partner  in  the  lumber  firm  of 
Burnet  &  Slusser  at  Steubenville,  Ohio, 
and  in  1895  came  to  Indianapolis,  where 
he  formed  a  partnership  with  Thomas  R. 
Lewis,  another  veteran  lumberman  of  this 
city.  That  firm  was  known  as  Burnet  & 
Lewis,  and  they  bought  the  remnants  of  a 
stock  of  lumber  which  had  formerly  be- 
longed to  William  McGinnis.     They  also 


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rented  the  old  McGinnis  mill  at  Fountain 
Square  and  bought  some  adjoining  prop- 
erty on  the  installment  plan.  Gradually 
they  had  their  business  in  a  fair  way  to 
prosperity  and  growing,  and  in  1902  they 
incorporated  with  Mr.  Lewis  as  president 
and  Mr.  Burnet  as  secretary  and  treasurer. 
In  1901  they  had  erected  a  mill  on  the  Belt 
Railroad  at  the  crossing  of  Shelby  Street, 
and  in  1906  they  put  up  another  plant  on 
Canal  at  Thirtieth  Street.  Both  these 
plants  were  operated  until  1916,  when  the 
business  was  divided  and  the  firm  dissolved, 
Mr.  Burnet  then  organizing  the  Burnet- 
Binford  Lumber  Company  and  taking  over 
the  plant  and  yards  at  Thirtieth  Street 
and  Canal.  Mr.  Burnet  is  president  of  the 
company.  They  handle  all  classes  of  lum- 
ber products,  and  their  planing  mills  pro- 
duce great  quantities  of  framing  material 
and  exterior  and  interior  finishings.  Mr. 
Burnet  is  widely  known  among  Indiana 
lumbermen,  is  a  director  of  the  Indiana 
Lumbermen's  Mutual  Insurance  Company 
and  is  vice  president  of  the  Northwestern 
State  Bank  of  Indianapolis. 

He  is  a  member  of  the  board  of  trus- 
tees and  an  elder  of  the  Christian  Church 
of  Indianapolis,  where  his  family  attend 
divine  worship.  He  is  also  affiliated  with 
Ancient  Landmarks  Lodge,  Free  and 
Accepted  Masons,  Murat  Temple  of  the 
Mystic  Shrine,  Lodge  No.  56  of  the  Knights 
of  Pythias,  and  in  politics  is  a  republican. 
On  December  25,  Christmas  day,  1889,  Mr. 
Burnet  married  Miss  Minnie  Quick,  of 
Bartholomew  County,  Indiana.  Her 
father,  Spencer  R.  Quick,  was  born  in 
Bartholomew  County  July  26,  1828.  He 
was  of  English  ancestry  and  his  family 
were  early  representatives  of  Indiana.  His 
father,  Judge  Tunis  Quick,  came  to  this 
state  from  North  Carolina  in  1819.  Spen- 
cer R.  Quick  is  still  living  and  very  active. 
His  wife  was  born  in  Bartholomew  County 
April  26,  1831,  and  is  of  German  ancestry. 
The  old  Quick  farm  in  Bartholomew 
County   is    widely    known    as    the    Forest 

Shade  Farm. 

! 

George  Ade,  author,  was  born  at  Kent- 
land,  Indiana,  and  still  maintains  his  home 
in  this  state,  being  a  resident  of  Brook. 
He  was  born  February  9,  1866,  a  son  of 
John  and  Adaline  (Bush)  Ade.  He  at- 
tended Purdue  University,  and  began 
newspaper  work  in  Lafayette,  later  becom- 


ing connected  with  the  Chicago  Record. 
He  is  the  author  of  many  interesting 
works,  and  is  celebrated  as  a  humorous 
writer.  His  home  is  Hazelden  Farm, 
Brook,  Indiana. 

William  Morris  Swain.  No  one  in- 
dustry has  done  so  much  to  make  the  name 
of  the  city  of  Anderson  so  well  known 
throughout  the  length  and  breadth  of  the 
country  and  particularly  in  agricultural 
sections  as  the  Indiana  Silo  Company,  of 
which  William  Morris  Swain  is  president 
and  founder.  Today,  with  five  complete 
plants  located  in  different  sections  of  the 
country,  the  Indiana  Silo  Company  is  prob- 
ably the  largest  concern  of  its  kind  in  the 
world,  and  its  products  stand  literally  by 
the  thousands  in  practically  every  progres- 
sive farming  district  in  the  United  States 
and  even  in  Canada. 

Into  the  building  up  of  this  business 
from  a  one  or  two  man  concern,  with  cap- 
ital limited  by  a  few  hundred  dollars,  and 
in  a  small  back  room  shop,  the  brains,  re- 
sourcefulness and  the  enterprise  of  two 
Anderson  citizens  have  been  the  chief  fac- 
tors. William  M.  Swain  deserves  credit  as 
the  business  genius  of  the  concern,  while 
Mr.  E.  M.  Wilson,  secretary  and  treasurer 
of  the  company,  supplied  much  of  the  con- 
structive and  technical  ability. 

Mr.  Swain  is  a  native  of  Madison  County, 
born  at  the  old  town  of  Pendleton  or  on 
a  farm  near  there  February  8,  1878.  Not 
yet  forty  years  of  age,  he  has  gained  prom- 
inence in  industrial  affairs  when  most 
men  are  still  laying  the  foundations.  He 
is  a  son  of  Charles  E.  and  Margaret  S. 
(Brown)  Swain,  and  comes  of  English 
Quaker  stock.  The  Swain  family  has  long 
been  prominent  in  that  section  of  Indiana. 
This  pioneer  Quaker  family  came  originally 
from  Bucks  County,  Pennsylvania.  A 
cousin  of  William  M.  Swain  is  Joseph 
Swain,  who  was  born  on  an  adjacent  farm 
in  Madison  County.  Joseph  Swain  is  one 
of  the  prominent  educators  of  America, 
was  for  a  number  of  years  a  professor  in 
Indiana  Universitv,  was  president  of  the 
State  University  from  1893  to  1902,  and 
since  the  latter  date  has  been  president 
of  Swarthmore  College  in  Pennsylvania. 

William  M.  Swain  was  one  of  a  family 
of  four  boys  and  one  girl.  His  success  in 
business  affairs  must  be  credited  more  to 
his   personal    energy   and    initiative   than 


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to  the  early  training  he  received,  since  that 
was  limited  by  the  country  schools  of  his 
native  district.  His  only  teachers  were 
Maud  M.  and  Jay  Lewis,  sister  and  brother, 
to  whom  he  owes  much  of  the  inspirations 
of  his  life.  He  left  school  at  the  age  of 
sixteen,  and  during  the  next  seven  years 
worked  on  the  home  farm.  His  restless 
energy  and  ambition  did  not  allow  him  to 
remain  on  the  farm  when  there  were  so 
many  opportunities  elsewhere,  and  at  the 
age  of  twenty-three  he  obtained  a  position 
as  advertising  solicitor  with  the  Farmers 
Guide,  published  at  Huntington,  Indiana. 
This  work  paid  him  fifty  dollars  a  month. 
As  he  went  about  the  country,  talking  with 
farmers  and  merchants,  he  heard  much 
about  the  silo,  then  practically  in  an  ex- 
perimental stage.  There  was  no  question 
as  to  the  soundness  of  the  principal  in- 
volved in  the  preservation  of  stock  food  by 
the  silo  system,  and  the  principal  problem 
was  presented  in  silo  construction.  Soon 
afterward  Mr.  Swain  joined  forces  with 
E.  M.  Wilson  at  Anderson,  and  they  made 
their  first  silo,  practically  a  home  made 
affair,  in  the  rear  of  the  Wilson  shop.  They 
borrowed  $200  to  start,  the  business,  and. 
they  not  only  had  to  solve  the  problem  of 
making  silos  rapidly  enough  to  take  care  of 
the  demand  and  getting  adequate  capital 
for  their  plant,  but  at  the  same  time  they 
carried  on  a  general  campaign  of  education 
to  enlighten  farmers  on  the  advantages  of 
the  silo.  Incidentally  it  should  be  said  that 
the  Indiana  Silo  Company  still  appropri- 
ates many  pages  of  advertising  space  in 
the  leading  farm  journals  and  has  paid 
out  many  thousands  of  dollars  to  secure 
proper  publicity.  After  the  first  few  silos 
were  made  a  small  building  was  rented,  and 
then  still  larger  quarters  were  secured,  and 
from  time  to  time  new  capital  has  been 
invested  until  now  the  company  is  incorpo- 
rated witli  $750,000  capital.  There  are  two 
plants,  at  Anderson,  one  at  DesMoines 
Towa,  one  at  Fort  Worth,  Texas,  and  one 
at  Kansas  City,  Missouri,  all  of  which  rep- 
resent the  development  of  a  business  that 
started  obscurely  and  without  attracting 
any  special  attention  at  Anderson.  For 
several  years  Mr.  Swain  was  vice  president 
of  the  company,  but  from  that  office  was 
promoted  to  the  active  executive  head. 

His  influences  and  services  have  natur- 
ally been  drawn  into  other  channels.  He 
is  vice  president  of  the  Western  Implement 


Company  at  Indianapolis,  a  director  of  the 
Farmers  Trust  Company  of  Anderson,  of 
the  Pendleton  Trust  Company,  is  president 
of  the  Fall  Creek  Canneries  at  Pendleton 
and  has  many  other  manufacturing  inter- 
ests. His  home  is  still  at  his  native  town 
of  Pendleton,  and  he  is  active  in  the 
Friends  Church.  Politically  he  is  a  repub- 
lican and  in  1916  was  elected  state  repre- 
sentative from  Madison  County.  Madison 
County  is  democratic  but  he  succeeded  in 
overturning  the  normal  majority  that  year. 
In  the  Legislature  of  1917  he  was  chair- 
man of  the  agricultural  committee  and 
was  member  of  the  banking  and  labor 
committees.  Mr.  Swain  is  a  Scottish  Rite 
Mason  and  Shriner,  a  member  of  the  Ander- 
son Club,  of  the  Columbia  Club  of  Indian- 
apolis, the  Grant  Club  of  DesMoines,  Iowa, 
and  he  is  widely  known  in  business  circles 
throughout  the  state. 

In  1903  he  married  Miss  Etta  L.  Smith, 
who  had  been  a  successful  teacher  before 
her  marriage.  They  have  a  family  of  four 
children:  Frederick  William,  born  in  1905; 
Morris  Schofield,  born  in  1909 ;  Ruth  Jean, 
born  in  1914;  and  Joseph  U.,  born  in  1916. 

Ernest  R.  Watkins.  One  of  the  most 
urgent  needs  that  every  charity  worker  dis- 
covers is  the  lack  of  decent  and  healthful 
habitations  for  the  poor,  largely  in  old 
times  because  of  public  indifference  and 
lack  of  skilled  architectural  designers.  Un- 
der present  laws,  however,  the  architect  is 
expected  to  provide  for  light  and  sanita- 
tion, and  while  his  often  restrained  from 
designing  as  he  would  like  because  of  the 
added  cost,  he  has  been  the  means  whereby 
conditions  have  been  much  improved  not 
only  in  the  tenement  districts  but  in  every 
building  field.  Undoubtedly  it  is  often  a 
much  more  difficult  problem  for  the  archi- 
tect to  design  tenement  structures,  in  which 
he  is  forced  to  make  plans  that  will  pass 
just  "within  the  law,"  than  it  is  to  have 
free  hand  and  follow  his  own  ideas,  where 
he  can  materialize  noble  buildings,  where- 
in he  can  combine  utility  with  convenience, 
comfort,  dignity  and  taste.  The  true  archi- 
tect can  vision  beauty  in  wood,  stone  and 
steel  as  surely  as  the  sculptor  can  see  the 
angel  in  the  marble  block.  The  general 
architect,  however,  no  matter  how  great 
his  talent  and  designing  skill  performs  a 
worthy  work  when  he  lets  in  the  cleansing 
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building  that  is  constructed  after  his  plans, 
whether  for  the  poor  and  obscure,  for 
business  purposes  or  for  the  rich  and  great. 
It  is  a  great  gift  that  is  conferred  when  an 
individual  can  become  an  architect.  This 
profession  is  ably  represented  at  Ander- 
son by  Ernest  R.  Watkins,  whose  marked 
talent  is  worthily  exemplified  in  many  of 
the  most  beautiful  structures  of  Ander- 
son. 

Ernest  R.  Watkins  was  born  at  Frank- 
ton  in  Madison  County,  Indiana,  May  6, 
1882.  His  parents  were  Joseph  M.  and 
Mary  M.  (Tappan)  Watkins,  the  former 
of  Revolutionary  stock  and  the  latter  of 
old  Holland  ancestry.  The  mother  was 
born  in  1854  and  died  in  1909.  The  father 
is  a  highly  esteemed  retired  resident  of 
Anderson.  During  his  earlier  years  he 
was  a  school  teacher  and  afterward  for 
many  years  was  a  hardware  merchant  at 
Frankton,  Indiana. 

Ernest  R.  Watkins  was  seven  years  old 
when  his  parents  moved  to  Anderson,  and 
he  attended  the  public  schools  of  this  city 
until  he  was  graduated  in  1901  from  the 
high  school,  at  the  head  of  his  class.  In 
the  same  year  he  entered  Purdue  Univer- 
sity, where  he  completed  a  two-year  course 
in  electrical  engineering.  After  he  re- 
turned to  Anderson  he  entered  the  An- 
derson Malleable  Iron  Works,  where  he  re- 
mained two  years  as  a  shipping  clerk,  then, 
as  a  designer,  was  with  the  Anderson 
Bridge  Company  until  he  entered  the  office 
of  the  late  Henry  L.  Duncan,  architect, 
and  perfected  his  architectural  education 
under  his  direction.  Upon  the  death  of  his 
preceptor  and  employer  in  1911  Mr.  Wat- 
kins purchased  the  business  and  has  been 
at  the  service  of  the  public  ever  since  as  a 
general  architect.  He  has  designed  many 
of  the  stately  residences,  spacious  banks, 
schoolhouses  and  other  buildings  here  and 
in  this  neighborhood,  and  was  the  archi- 
tect for  the  much  admired  Mclntire  &  Hil- 
burt  building.  He  is  a  hard  worker  in  his 
profession  and  his  designs  have  individual- 
ity. In  addition  to  his  professional  in- 
terests he  is  interested  in  real  estate. 

Mr.  Watkins  was  married  in  1905  to 
Miss  Bessie  Hardy,  who  is  a  daughter  of 
Francis  Hardy,  a  farmer  in  Madison  Coun- 
ty. Mr.  and  Mrs.  Watkins  have  two  sons, 
Raymond  Hardy,  who  was  born  in  Janu- 
ary, 1907,  and  Francis  Joseph,  who  was 
born  in  1910.     Mr.  Watkins  and  wife  are 


members  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal 
Church.  He  votes  with  the  republican 
party  and  is  an  interested  and  public 
spirited  citizen,  ever  ready  to  do  his  part 
in  assuming  civic  burdens.  He  is  a  Knight 
Templar,  and  in  1911  was  master  of  Mt. 
Moriah  Lodge  No.  77,  Free  and  Accepted 
Masons,  and  in  1917  was  high  priest  of 
the  Chapter,  and  he  belongs  also  to  the 
Eastern  Star. 

John  C.  Shafer  is  an  Indiana  man  by 
birth  and  early  training,  and  for  several 
years  was  successfully  engaged  in  the  west 
in  general  real  estate  and  publicity  work. 
He  is  now  a  successful  real  estate  operator 
at  Anderson,  member  of  the  firm  Cornelius 
&  Shafer,  with  offices  in  the  Union  Build- 
ing. 

Mr.  Shafer  was  born  on  a  farm  in  Jack- 
son Township  of  Decatur  County,  Indiana, 
March  16,  1881,  son  of  Wilson  and  Emma 
(Clendenning)  Shafer.  His  people  have 
always  been  farmers  so  far  as  the  record 
goes.  John  C.  Shafer  was  educated  in 
country  schools  in  Decatur  County  and  in 
1900  entered  DePauw  University,  where 
he  pursued  the  scientific  course  for  three 
years.  After  leaving  college  he  took  up 
newspaper  work,  also  did  some  magazine 
work,  both  in  this  state  and  in  Oklahoma, 
largely  among  country  papers.  He  has 
shown  decided  talent  for  general  pub- 
licity work  and  the  promotion  and  organ- 
ization of  business  interests.  He  spent  two 
years  in  Kansas  as  one  of  the  state  or- 
ganizers for  the  National  Retail  Grocers 
Association.  He  then  engaged  in  town 
development  work,  being  employed  in  that 
capacity  at  Pittsburg,  Kansas,  and  also  at 
Bartlesville,  Oklahoma,  two  years.  In  1914 
Mr.  Shafer,  returning  to  his  native  state, 
located  at  Anderson,  where  he  began  oper- 
ating independently  on  a  general  plan  of 
home  building.  After  a  year  he  formed  a 
partnership  with  T.  F.  Cornelius  &  Sons, 
buying  a  half  interest  in  this  old  estab- 
lished business,  and  making  the  firm  of 
Cornelius  &  Shafer.  They  handle  home 
building  and  improvement  on  a  large  scale, 
and  the  firm  have  built  a  large  number 
of  homes  in  Anderson,  which  have  been 
sold  and  have  contributed  to  the  general 
prosperity  of  the  community. 

Mr.  Shafer  married  in  1913  Miss  Ethel 
Ping,  daughter  of  P.  T.  and  Viola  Ping, 
of   Kansas.     Mrs.    Shafer   died   December 


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30,  1916,  the  mother  of  two  children,  John 
C,  Jr.,  born  in  May,  1915,  and  Mary  V., 
born  December  20,  1916.  Mr.  Shafer  is 
affiliated  with  Lodge  No.  52,  Ancient  Free 
and  Accepted  Masons,  at  Westport,  In- 
diana, and  also  with  the  Knights  of  Py- 
thias in  the  same  town.  He  is  a  member 
of  the  First  Presbyterian  Church  of  An- 
derson, and  in  politics  is  a  republican. 

W.  T.  Stewart.  In  the  large  and  im- 
portant field  of  life  insurance  one  of  the 
ablest  men  in  the  State  of  Indiana  is  W. 
T.  Stewart,  superintendent  of  the  Ander- 
son district  for  the  Western  and  Southern 
Life  Insurance  Company.  Mr.  Stewart  is 
one  of  the  leaders  in  the  force  of  men  who 
are  recognized  as  among  the  most  aggres- 
sive in  any  line  of  business,  and  has  dis- 
tinguished himself  by  hard  and  intelli- 
gent work  and  the  ability  to  get  business 
both  in  quantity  and  quality. 

Mr.  Stewart  was  born  on  a  farm  in 
Grant  County,  Indiana,  May  8,  1869,  a  son 
of  David  and  Mary  Ann  (Wilson)  Stew- 
art. The  Stewart  family  is  of  Scotch-Irish 
stock,  and  members  of  it  have  lived  in 
America  for  many  generations,  first  locat- 
ing in  Virginia.  David  Stewart  saw  three 
years  of  active  service  in  the  Civil  war 
as  a  member  of  the  One  Hundred  and  First 
Indiana  Infantry.  He  followed  the  vari- 
ous pursuits  of  school  teacher,  merchant 
and  farmer  and  died  at  Lafayette,  Indiana, 
in  April,  1915. 

W.  T.  Stewart  spent  most  of  his  early 
life  on  a  farm  in  Grant  and  Wabash  coun- 
ties, and  attended  the  country  schools  dur- 
ing the  winter  terms,  with  work  to  develop 
his  muscles  on  the  farm  in  the  summer. 
He  also  had  a  business  course  in  Chicago, 
and  returning  to  the  old  home  place  in 
Wabash  County  he  remained  there  until 
a  short  time  before  his  eighteenth' birth- 
day, when  he  began  working  at  different 
jobs  around  the  country.  In  1890,  on  his 
twenty-first  birthday,  he  went  to  New  Lon- 
don, Wisconsin,  an  important  center  then 
and  to  a  less  degree  now  of  the  lumber 
industry  of  that  state.  There  he  was  em- 
ployed as  foreman  for  the  Andrew  Manu- 
facturing Company  nearly  three  years. 

After  this  experience  he  returned  to  In- 
diana and  located  at  Peru,  where  he  did 
his  first  work  in  the  insurance  line  as  agent 
for  the  Metropolitan  Company.  He  was 
with    the   Metropolitan   for   twelve    years, 


and  five  months  after  writing  his  first 
policy  was  promoted  to  assistant  manager. 
He  remained  in  Peru  a  year  and  half, 
eight  months  at  Mansfield,  Ohio,  and  for 
some  years  had  his  headquarters  at  Marion, 
Indiana.  In  1908  Mr.  Stewart  transferred 
his  services  to  the  Western  and  Southern 
Life  Insurance  Company,  beginning  at 
Muncie,  Indiana,  as  assistant  manager. 
Two  years  later  he  was  made  superintend- 
ent of  the  Anderson  district,  and  for  some 
years  has  steadily  kept  the  leadership  for 
new  business  in  Indiana  for  this  organiza- 
tion. His  position  in  insurance  and  gen- 
eral business  has  been  well  won.  It  is  the 
case  of  a  farm  boy  making  the  best  of  his 
native  opportunities  and  talents  and  climb- 
ing to  the  top,  outstripping  many  with 
what  are  supposed  to  be  better  advantages 
and  training.  Mr.  Stewart  is  a  democrat 
and  a  member  of  the  First  Methodist  Epis- 
copal Church  of  Anderson.  In  1900  he 
married  Miss  Juliet  Darby,  daughter  of 
David  and  Rebecca  (Braden)  Darby  of 
Converse,  Indiana.  Their  only  child  is 
Paul  Thomas,  born  in  1915. 

Doris  Meister,  M.  D.  Among  the  women 
who  have  proved  their  ability  and  faithful- 
ness in  a  profession  formerly  open  only 
to  men,  one  whose  work  has  long  commend- 
ed her  to  the  confidence  of  the  people  of 
Anderson  is  Dr.  Doris  Meister,  wTho  began 
practice  ten  years  ago  after  graduation 
from  medical  college  and  is  now  in  the 
full  enjoyment  of  a  splendid  practice 
earned  and  merited  by  her  work  and  at- 
tainments. 

Doctor  Meister  was  born  at  Bay  City, 
Michigan,  a  daughter  of  William  and  Rosa 
(Schindler)  Meister.  Her  parents  were 
both  natives  of  Germany  and  her  father 
came  to  America  from  Berlin  in  1862.  Her 
mother  came  over  in  young  womanhood. 
They  were  married  at  Saginaw,  Michigan, 
November  11,  1864,  and  for  many  years 
her  father  was  engaged  in  merchandising 
at  Bay  City. 

Dr.  Doris  Meister  was  the  youngest  of 
four  children.  She  was  educated  in  the 
common  and  high  schools  of  Bay  City, 
graduating  in  1889.  From  childhood  she 
had  shown  special  ability  in  being  useful  in 
times  of  illness  and  is  a  natural  born  nurse. 
In  1892  she  entered  St.  Mary's  College  at 
Notre  Dame,  Indiana,  remaining  three 
years  in  literary  studies,  her  parents  hav- 


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ing  moved  from  Bay  City  to  South  Bend. 
In  1895  the  family  took  up  their  home 
at  Elwood,  Indiana,  and  in  1896  Doctor 
Meister  entered  Fairmount  Academy  at 
Fairmount,  Indiana,  specializing  in  chem- 
istry and  laboratory  science.  At  the  end 
of  2!/2  years  she  graduated  in  1899.  In 
1898  the  family  had  moved  to  Summit- 
ville,  Indiana,  and  Doris  Meister  followed 
her  work  at  Fairmount  with  a  term  of  gen- 
eral science  and  chemistry  in  the  Marion 
Normal  School.  At  Summitville  she  stud- 
ied a  year  and  nine  months  under  Dr. 
Etta  Charles,  and  from  there  entered  in 
1903  the  Indiana  Medical  College  at  In- 
dianapolis, from  which  she  was  graduated 
Doctor  of  Medicine  in  1907.  All  the  ex- 
penses of  her  schooling  she  paid  from  her 
own  earnings,  and  she  had  to  overcome 
many  handicaps  and  face  not  a  few  dis- 
couragements in  her  determined  advance 
to  win  a  position  in  the  medical  frater- 
nity. After  her  graduation  Doctor  Meis- 
ter came  to  Anderson  in  1907,  and  opened 
an  office  at  1127  Meridian  Street.  That 
was  her  location  until  September,  1917, 
when  she  removed  to  her  present  spacious 
quarters  in  the  Union  Building.  Doctor 
Meister  specializes  in  diseases  of  women 
and  children,  and  is  a  member  of  the  staff 
of  St.  John's  Hospital.  She  served  as 
president  and  as  secretary  of  the  Madison 
County  Medical  Society,  and  is  a  member 
of  the  State  Medical  Society  and  the 
American  Medical  Association. 

John  D.  Roseberry.  The  name  John 
D.  Roseberry  has  been  a  respected  one  in 
Anderson  business  circles  for  twenty  years. 
During  most  of  this  time  Mr.  Roseberry 
has  been  in  the  grocery  business  but  was 
formerly  active  in  establishing  and  main- 
taining some  of  the  leading  houses  of  en- 
tertainment and  amusement  in  the  city. 
He  is  now  head  of  the  firm  Roseberry  and 
Austin,  grocers. 

Mr.  Roseberry  was  born  in  Scott  Coun- 
ty, Indiana,  November  16,  1878,  son  of 
T.  S.  and  Laura  (Riley)  Roseberry.  His 
father  for  a  number  of  years  was  a  miller 
and  merchant  at  Deputy,  Indiana,  in  Jef- 
ferson County.  He  finally  came  to  An- 
derson and  is  still  active  in  the  grocery 
business  in  this  city. 

John  D.  Roseberry  was  educated  in  the 
graded  schools  of  Deputy,  Indiana,  and 
for  three  vears  took  courses  in  chemistry, 

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German,      Latin      and     mathematics     at 
Moore's  Hill  Methodist   College. 

In  May,  1896,  Mr.  Roseberry  married 
Miss  Harriet  E.  Friedley,  daughter  of  W. 
T.  and  Mary  (Rice)  Friedley,  of  Madison, 
Indiana.  Her  father  was  former  circuit 
judge  of  that  district.  In  1897  Mr.  Rose- 
berry came  to  Anderson,  and  learned  busi- 
ness by  three  years  of  employment  in  the 
retail  grocery  house  of  R.  F.  Malott.  Dur- 
ing that  time  he  saved  his  money  and  then 
bought  the  grocery  stock  of  S.  S.  Mills  at 
Eighteenth  Street  and  Arrow  Avenue. 
That  was  his  location  for  ten  years,  and 
he  developed  a  large  trade  and  practically 
laid  the  foundation  of  his  present  success. 
After  he  had  been  in  business  alone  for 
8y2  years  he  was  joined  by  Mr.  W.  G.  Aus- 
tin, who  bought  a  half  interest  in  the  busi- 
ness and  established  the  firm  Roseberry  & 
Austin.  They  finally  sold  out  and  dis- 
solved partnership,  and  Mr.  Roseberry  then 
entered  the  moving  picture  business,  es- 
tablishing a  house  at  1010  Meridian  Street, 
and  afterwards  opening  the  Starland 
Theater  at  1121  Meridian  Street,  and  also 
the  Nickelodeon,  on  the  Square,  operating 
it  four  years.  He  sold  his  theatrical  in- 
terests in  1915,  and  then  resumed  busi- 
ness partnership  with  Mr.  Austin.  They 
now  have  one  of  the  high  class  grocery 
stores  of  Anderson,  at  926  Main  Street. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Roseberry  have  four  chil- 
dren. Wilnier  William,  born  in  1897; 
Thomas  W.,  born  in  1900;  John  Friedley, 
born  in  1904;  and  Elene,  born  in  1907. 
Mr.  Roseberry  is  a  republican  and  a  mem- 
ber of  the  First  Methodist  Church. 

Charles  J.  Orbison,  former  judge  of  the 
Superior  Court  of  Marion  County,  a  law- 
yer of  more  than  twenty- years  successful 
experience,  is  the  present  grand  master  of 
the  Grand  Lodge  of  Indiana,  a  position 
which  in  itself  makes  him  one  of  the  widely 
known  men  in  the  state. 

Mr.  Orbison  was  born  at  Indianapolis 
September  28,  1874,  son  of  William  H. 
and  Mary  J.  (Meirs)  Orbison.  His  father 
is  a  native  of  Ohio,  and  is  still  living 
at  the  age  of  seventy-five.  For  many 
years  he  was  in  the  boot  and  shoe  business 
at  Indianapolis,  but  is  now  retired. 

Charles  J.  Orbison  was  the  second  in  a 
family  of  five  children,  three  of  whom  are. 
still  living.  He  attended  the  grammar  and 
high   schools   of   Indianapolis,   graduating 


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from  high  school  in  1893,  and  took  his  legal 
preparatory  course  at  the  University  of 
Indianapolis.  He  graduated  LL.  B.  in 
1896  and  in  the  same  year  began  the  prac- 
tice which  has  continued  practically  with- 
out interruption  and  has  brought  him  an 
enviable  position  in  the  profession.  Much 
of  the  time  he  has  practiced  alone,  but 
has  also  had  partnerships  with  some  of  the 
other  leading  members  of  the  Marion  bar. 
He  is  now  senior  member  of  the  firm  Orbi-  ■ 
son  &  Olive,  his  partner  being  Frank  C. 
Olive. 

Mr.   Orbison  was   elected  judge  of  the 
Superior  Court  in  1910,  and  after  serving 
four   years    very   acceptably    returned   to 
private  practice.     For  four  years  he  has 
been  general  counsel  for  the  Associated  Ad- 
vertising   Clubs   of   the   World,    was   also 
general  counsel  for  the  Indiana  Anti-Sa- 
loon League,  arid  general  counsel  for  the 
Indiana  State  Tax  Board  for  a  term  of  two 
years  and  represents  the  London  Guarantee 
&  Accident  Company  of  Indiana  and  other 
corporations  in  the  capacity  of  counsel.    In 
1918  he  was  elected  deputy  grand  master 
of  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Masons  and  became 
grand  master  May  2,  1919.    He  is  a  mem- 
ber of  Irvington  Lodge  No.  666,  Free  and 
Accepted  Masons,  and  of  all  the  York  and 
Scottish   Rite   bodies   of   Masonry    at    In- 
dianapolis, and  is  also  affiliated  with  the 
Independent     Order     of     Odd     Fellows, 
Knights   of   Pythias,    Improved    Order   of 
Red  Men   and  the  Benevolent  Protective 
Order  of  Elks.     He  is  also  a  member  of 
the  Faculty  of  the  Indiana  Dental  School. 

Judge  Orbison  is  a  democrat  in  poli- 
tics, and  has  done  his  share  in  campaign 
work  both  in  Indiana  and  other  states.  He 
is  a  member  and  for  twenty  years  has  been 
an  elder  in  the  Presbyterian  Church.  He 
also  belongs  to  the  Chamber  of  Commerce 
and  the  Indianapolis  Board  of  Trade,  Cen- 
tury Club,  Independent  Athletic  Club  and 
the  City  and  State  Bar  Association.  April 
26,  1900,  he  married  Miss  Ella  Tolkenberg. 
They  have  two  children :  Telford  B.,  born 
June  12,  1901,  now  a  student  in  Butler 
University;  and  Robert  II.,  born  August 
6,  1908.  ' 

George  Barr  McCutciieon.  Indiana 
numbers  among  her  celebrated  native  sons 
the  well  known  author,  George  Barr  Mc- 
Cutcheon, who  was  born  in  Tippecanoe 
County   July   26,   1866.     He  is   a   son   of 


John  Barr  and  Clara  (Glick)  McCutcheon. 
He  received  his  education  at  Purdue  Uni- 
versity. In  1889  he  became  a  reporter  on 
the  Lafayette  Journal,  and  in  1893  was 
made  city  editor  of  the  Lafayette  Courier. 
He  is  the  author  of  many  well  known 
works  of  fiction  and  of  numerous  short 
stories. 

On  September  26,  1904,  Mr.  McCutcheon 
was  married  to  Marie  Van  Antwerp  Fay. 

Louis  T.  Dorste  is  manager  and  secre- 
tary and  treasurer  of  Powell  &  Dorste  Com- 
pany, one  of  the  largest  firms  in  Eastern 
Indiana  for  plumbing,  heating  and  general 
electrical  contracting.  Their  main  plant 
and  headquarters  are  at  Anderson. 

Mr.  Louis  T.  Dorste  is  a  son  of  Robert 
G.  and  Sarah  (Thomas)  Dorste.  Robert 
G.  Dorste  was  born  in  Ronneberg,  Saxony, 
in  1846.  When  he  was  seven  years  old 
his  parents  came  to  the  United  States  and 
located  at  St.  Louis.  Robert  G.  is  a  son 
of  August  and  Bertha  (Banquet)  Dorste, 
both  of  whom  were  from  Saxony.  August 
Dorste  was  a  carpenter  and  cabinet  maker 
by  trade.  He  died  in  1878  and  his  wife  in 
1859.  Of  their  seven  children  Robert  G. 
was  the  third.  The  latter  acquired  a  pub- 
lic school  education,  and  though  only  a 
boy  at  the  time  he  showed  his  patriotic  de- 
votion to  his  adopted  land  by  enlisting  on 
November  10,  1861,  in  Company  K  of  the 
Forty-Third  Illinois  Infantry.  He  served 
as  a  private  until  the  battle  of  Shiloh,  when 
he  was  seriously  injured,  and  was  mustered 
out  immediately  following  that  battle  and 
after  recuperation  in  the  Washington  Park 
Hospital  returned  home. 

The  senior  member  of  the  firm  Powell  & 
Dorste  Company  is  Walter  H.  Powell,  who 
was  born  in  Rush  County,  Indiana,  in  1S66, 
son  of  James  A.  and  Martha  E.  (Hinton) 
Powell.  He  wras  born  on  a  farm,  had  a 
country  school  education,  and  from  the  age 
of  seventeen  assisted  his  father  in  handling 
the  105-acre  farm.  In  1887  he  married 
Nettie  Boys,  daughter  of  J.  G.  and  Eliza- 
beth (Ennis)  Boys.  After  his  marriage  he 
continued  as  a  farmer  for  five  or  six  years, 
then  in  1892  came  to  Anderson  and  was 
employed  here  by  several  different  firms. 
For  a  time  he  was  with  E.  L.  Maynard, 
and  there  learned  the  plumbing  and  heat- 
ing business.  Finally  he  joined  Mr.  Rob- 
ert Dorste  as  equal  partners  in  a  plumb- 
ing and  heating  concern,  and   on  Febru- 


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ary  27,  1915,  the  business  was  incorpor- 
ated as  the  Powell  &  Dorste  Company,  with 
Mr.  Powell  as  president,  and  Louis  T. 
Dorste  as  secretary  and  treasurer.  Their 
business  was  exclusively  plumbing  and 
heating  and  gas  service  and  fitting  until 
1904,  when  they  bought  the  electrical  busi- 
ness of  John  R.  Chowning,  and  since  then 
have  done  a  great  deal  of  electrical  con- 
tracting. Mr.  Dorste  is  not  at  present 
active  in  the  business,  his  interest  being 
represented  by  his  son  Louis  as  manager. 

The  business  of  this  firm  is  by  no  means 
confined  to  Anderson.  Their  contracts 
have  been  filled  in  many  adjoining  cities. 
The  electrical  department  is  under  the 
management  of  Blythe  Johnson. 

Louis  T.  Dorste  was  born  at  Milroy  in 
Rush  County,  Indiana,  in  1884.  He  ac- 
quired his  education  in  Anderson,  gradu- 
ating from  the  Anderson  High  School  in 
1902,  and  in  the  fall  of  1903  entering  De 
Pauw  University,  where  he  was  graduated 
in  1907.  He  at  once  returned  to  Ander- 
son and  entered  the  plumbing  and  heat- 
ing business  of  his  father,  and  learned  the 
trade  and  work  in  every  detail.  Upon  the 
incorporation  of  the  company  he  was  made 
secretary  and  treasurer.  This  company  in- 
stalled all  the  heating  and  plumbing  and 
electrical  work  in  the  new  high  school  of 
Anderson,  the  Young  Men's  Christian  As- 
sociation Building,  some  of  the  large  fac- 
tories of  the  city,  and  have  also  done  work 
for  various  state  institutions.  They  did 
all  the  equipment  in  the  first  two  villages 
of  the  State  Epileptic  Farm,  and  also  in- 
stalled some  large  contracts  at  Fort  Ben- 
jamin Harrison. 

Louis  T.  Dorste  married  in  1909  Miss 
Mary  Haughton,  daughter  of  Charles  L. 
and  Emma  Haughton.  They  have  one 
child,  Robert  H.,  born  in  1912. 

Karl  C.  Aichhorn,  who  for  many  years 
was  in  the  cigar  manufacturing  business 
at  Indianapolis,  for  the  past  twelve  or 
thirteen  years  has  been  prominent  in  the 
insurance  field,  and  is  now  manager  of  the 
monthly  pay  department  of  the  Chicago 
Bonded  Insurance  Company,  with  offices 
in  the  Odd  Fellows  Building  at  Indianap- 
olis. 

Mr.  Aichhorn  was  born  in  Marion  Coun- 
ty, Indiana,  December  1,  1871,  son  of  Wil- 
liam A.  and  Elizabeth   Sophie   (Mitchell) 


Aichhorn.  His  father,  a  native  of  Ger- 
many, came  to  the  United  States  in  1866, 
and  locating  in  Indianapolis  soon  found 
employment  with  the  firm  of  Nordyke  & 
Marmon.  He  was  a  burr  stone  sharp- 
ener for  that  firm,  and  remained  in  its 
service  until  a  short  time  before  his  death 
in  1892.  He  always  enjoyed  the  confi- 
dence of  his  employers,  and  his  judgment 
and  experience  made  him  one  of  the  most 
reliable  men  of  the  concern.  He  was  a 
devout  Christian,  a  member  of  the  German 
Evangelical  Church  at  Indianapolis,  and 
contributed  liberally  to  its  building  and 
support.  He  was  a  democrat  in  politics. 
He  was  always  greatly  attached  to  his  home 
and  family  and  found  therein  the  greatest 
satisfaction  of  life.  He  was  the  father  of 
eight  sons  and  one  daughter,  all  still  living 
but  two. 

Karl  C.  Aichhorn,  who  was  the  fourth 
in  age,  attended  the  Washington  public 
schools,  and  at  the  early  age  of  ten  years 
became  self  supporting  as  a  worker  in  a 
cigar  making  shop.  He  began  with  such 
responsibilities  as  a  boy  of  his  age  could 
assume,  and  rapidly  progressed  until  he 
was  an  expert  cigar  maker.  Later  he  had 
a  factory  of  his  own,  and  altogether  was  in 
the  cigar  business  for  twenty-five  years, 
both  in  Illinois  and  Indiana.  In  1906  he 
left  that  work  and  took  up  insurance.  He 
was  located  at  Washington,  Indiana,  for 
a  time,  and  from  1909  to  1914  was  super- 
intendent, adjuster  and  had  other  official 
duties  in  connection  with  the  Farmers  and 
Merchants  Life  Insurance  Company  at 
Princeton,  Indiana.  Since  then  he  has  held 
his  present  office  as  manager  of  the  monthly 
pay  department  of  the  Chicago  Bonded 
Insurance  Company.  He  has  also  been 
active  in  connection  with  various  public 
and  business  affairs  at  Indianapolis,  and 
is  affiliated  with  the  Knights  of  Pythias 
and  the  Loyal  Order  of  Moose. 

June  27,  1894,  at  Alton,  Illinois,  Mr. 
Aichhorn  married  Miss  Susan  Leidy, 
daughter  of  Philip  Leidy  of  Alton.  They 
have  two  children:  Charles  W.  enlisted 
early  in  the  war  and  went  to  France  with 
the  American  Expeditionary  Forces  as  a 
member  of  Company  F  of  the  Three  Hun- 
dred and  Eighteenth  Engineers.  As  is 
well  known,  the  Engineers  were  almost  the 
first  of  the  Americans  to  take  the  first  line 
of   duty,    and   he   was  in   that   hazardous 


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service  the  greater  part  of  the  war.     The 
daughter  is  Sophia  A.,  wife  of  Mr.  Jarboe. 

Maj.  Robert  C.  Baltzell.  Of  Indiana 
men  who  rendered  really  important  service 
and  even  distinguished  service  through  the 
war  at  home  one  was  the  state  draft  exe- 
cutive for  Indiana,  Maj.  Robert  C.  Balt- 
zell, a  lawyer  of  Princeton,  who  for  many 
months  made  his  headquarters  at  Indian- 
apolis and  devoted  himself  unceasingly  to 
the  work  and  duties  assigned  him. 

Major  Baltzell  was  born  in  Lawrence 
County,  Illinois,  in  1879,  son  of  Henry  H. 
Baltzell.  His  father  was  a  native  of  Ohio, 
moved  to  Illinois  when  a  young  man,  set- 
tling in  Lawrence  County,  and  was  a  pros- 
perous and  successful  farmer  there.  He 
was  one  of  the  first  to  volunteer  his  serv- 
ices as  a  soldier  in  the  Civil  war,  enlisting 
in  April,  1861,  in  the  Seventh  Illinois  In- 
fantry. He  was  a  hard  fighting  soldier 
for  four  years. 

Major  Baltzell  grew  up  on  his  father's 
farm,  attended  country  schools,  high  school 
at  Sumner,  Illinois,  and  while  studying 
law  was  also  teaching  in  his  native  county. 
He  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  Grant  Coun- 
ty, Indiana,  in  1904,  and  in  the  same  year 
began  practice  at  Princeton,  in  association 
with  his  brother,  Mr.  Charles  0.  Baltzell. 
Their  firm  is  now  recognized  as  one  of  the 
most  successful  law  firms  in  the  southern 
part  of  the  state.  Major  Baltzell  is  a 
member  of  the  Christian  Church,  is  a 
Knight  Templar  Mason  and  Shriner,  being 
past  master  of  his  Lodge  and  past  Eminent 
Commander.  He  is  also  an  Odd  Fellow 
and  an  Elk  and  in  politics  is  a  republican. 
In  the  latter  part  of  1917  he  was  com- 
missioned major,  United  States  army,  and 
assigned  to  duty  as  state  draft  executive 
for  Indiana.  He  was  commissioned  a 
major  by  the  war  department,  and  on  De- 
cember 2,  1917,  began  his  active  duties  at 
Indianapolis.  He  carried  on  the  work  of 
his  department  with  unceasing  energy  and 
application,  and  with  such  efficiency  and 
attention  to  detail  as  to  give  Indiana  a 
showing  in  personnel  and  military  spirit 
such  as  no  other  state  in  the  Union  could 
successfully  challenge.  For  all  this  every 
[ndianan  is  proud,  and  there  have  been 
abundant  occasions  on  which  testimony 
from  official  and  private  sources  has  been 
given  Major  Baltzell  for  what  lie  has  done. 
Upon  accepting  his  appointment  he  at  once 


left  his  law  practice  and  has  devoted  prac- 
tically every  moment  of  his  time  to  his 
duties.  He  has  made  numerous  trips  to 
the  army  camps  where  Indiana  soldiers 
were  located  for  the  purposes  of  rendering 
both  official  and  private  service  in  their 
behalf  and  for  their  welfare.  It  is  note- 
worthy that  current  discussion  in  Con- 
gress and  in  military  circles  agrees  upon 
the  high  value  of  the  service  rendered 
by  state  local  draft  boards,  and  when 
Major  Baltzell  returns  to  his  home  and  law 
practice  at  Princeton  he  will  have  achieved 
a  record  that  can  not  but  be  most  satisfac- 
tory to  him  all  the  rest  of  his  life. 

George  W.  Payne  has  been  a  member 
of  the  Indianapolis  bar  for  fifteen  years, 
is  a  hard-working  and  able  lawyer,  and 
has  a  large  and  important  clientage  in  In- 
dianapolis and  in  other  parts  of  the  state  as 
well. 

Mr.  Payne  was  born  in  Shelby  County, 
Indiana,  April  16,  1876.  His  father, 
Daniel  R.  Payne,  was  born  in  Ohio  and 
is  now  living  at  Connersville,  Indiana. 
George  W.  Payne,  the  oldest  of  six  chil- 
dren, was  educated  in  the  public  schools 
of  Shelby  County,  graduated  from  the 
Boogstown  High  School  in  1896  and  took 
a  scientific  course  .  in  the  Normal  School 
at  Danville,  Indiana,  graduating  with  the 
degree  Bachelor  of  Science.  Later  he  en- 
tered the  Indiana  Law  School  at  Indian- 
apolis, and  received  his  LL.  B.  degree  in 
1903  and  at  once  began  practice,  which  he 
has  since  carried  on  continuously.  His 
offices  are  in  the  Union  Trust  Building. 
Mr.  Payne  is  a  member  of  Ancient  Land- 
mark Lodge  No.  319,  Free  and  Accepted 
Masons,  and  for  a  number  of  years  has 
been  interested  in  politics  as  a  democrat, 
though  never  a  seeker  for  office.  He  is  a 
member  of  the  Presbyterian  Church.  June 
3,  1908,  in  Noblesville,  Indiana,  he  married 
Miss  Josephine  E.  Armstrong,  daughter  of 
Oliver  and  Nancy  (Roudebush)  Arm- 
strong. Mr.  and  Mrs.  Payne  have  two 
children :  Helen,  born  January  30,  1910 ; 
and  Kenneth,   born   August  27,   1911. 

Capt.  Newton  Hardin,  a  retired  cap- 
tain in  the  United  States  army,  now  com- 
mandant of  the  Indianapolis  High  School 
Cadets,  is  an  interesting  figure  because  of 
his  varied  experience  in  military  and  civic 
life  and  also  for  the  noble  work  he  has 


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done  as  an  organizer  and  master  of  drill 
exercises  and  pageants  of  many  kinds  and 
in  connection  with  many  organizations. 

Captain  Hardin  was  born  at  Smith 's  Val- 
ley in  Johnson  County,  Indiana,  June  28, 
1864.  The  Hardin  family  is  of  French 
Huguenot  origin.  The  direct  ancestors  of 
Captain  Hardin  left  France  upon  the 
revocation  of  the  edict  of  Nantes,  two 
brothers  going  to  Scotland,  where  one  of 
them,  the  ancestor  of  the  American  family, 
married  and  whence  he  later  emigrated  to 
America,  first  settling  in  New  York.  The 
record  shows  that  the  descendants  moved 
to  Pennsylvania,  Virginia  and  Kentucky. 
Hardin  County,  Kentucky,  was  named  for 
this  family.  In  Scotland  one  of  the  family 
was  Watt  Hardin,  of  whom  Robert  Burns 
speaks.  Burns'  mother  was  a  member  of 
the  Hardin  family. 

The  ancestral  home  of  the  Hardin  family 
in  Indiana  is  Smith's  Valley  in  Johnson 
County,  Captain  Hardin's  grandfather, 
Judge  Franklin  Hardin,  lived  there  prac- 
tically all  his  life.  He  was  a  native  of 
Kentucky  and  was  a  lawyer  and  jurist  of 
distinction.  For  many  years  he  was  judge 
of  the  Circuit  Court  in  the  district  in- 
cluding Johnson  County.  He  also  served 
as  a  member  of  the  Constitutional  Conven- 
tion of  1851.  Captain  Hardin  is  a  son  of 
Melton  and  Anne  (Cogill)  Hardin,  both 
now  deceased.  His  father  was  born  and 
spent  his  life  at  Smith's  Valley,  and  his 
mother  was  born  in  Marion  County,  In- 
diana, near  Southport. 

Captain  Hardin  grew  up  at  the  Smith's 
Valley  home.  At  the  age  of  seventeen  he 
entered  Asbury,  now  DePauw,  University 
at  Greencastle,  and  there  acquired  his 
literary  education  and  also  his  first  mili- 
tary training.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
famous  Asbury  Cadets  at  college.  In  sub- 
sequent years  he  has  gained  a  nationwide 
renown  as  a  drill  master  and  conductor  of 
military  pageants.  About  1890  he  organ- 
ized and  took  an  active  part  in  carrying  on 
the  work  of  the  Uniform  Rank  Knights  of 
Pythias  at  Indianapolis.  He  had  charge 
of  the  Uniform  Rank  up  to  1904.  In  1902 
he  organized  and  became  commander  of  an 
independent  rifle  company  known  as  the 
Hoosier  Rifles.  He  also  organized  and  was 
captain  of  the  Capitol  City  Guards  at  In- 
dianapolis, an  independent  rifle  company. 
At  the  outbreak  of  the  Spanish-American 
war  in  1898  Captain  Hardin  applied  for 


admission  for  this  company  to  the  National 
Guard  of  Indiana  for  service  in  that  war. 
The  application  was  accepted  by  the  gov- 
ernor two  days  before  the  mobilization  of 
the  National  Guard,  but  owing  to  the  fact 
that  Indiana's  quota  was  filled  his  com- 
pany was  not  accepted. 

Also  for  some  years  Ca'ptain  Hardin  had 
charge  of  the  drill  work  of  the  Modern 
"Woodmen  of  America,  continuing  in  that 
capacity  until  1907.  At  different  times  he 
was  drill  master  of  other  secret  fraternities. 
Of  this  work  he  doubtless  feels  most  par- 
ticular pride  in  what  he  did  as  drill  mas- 
ter for  the  Fraternal  Order  of  Eagles,  an 
organization  he  commanded  from  1907  to 
1917.  During  that  time  the  ritualistic 
team  which  he  drilled  won  the  national 
championship  at  St.  Louis  and  Kansas 
City,  besides  receiving  numerous  second 
and  third  prizes  in  other  cities. 

In  1907  Captain  Hardin  organized  his 
first  company  of  Zouaves  at  Indianapolis. 
Afterwards,  under  his  command,  this  be- 
came a  professional  organization  known  as 
Hardin's  Zouaves,  and  as  such  became 
famous  all  over  the  country.  The  organi- 
zation first  filled  vaudeville  engagements 
in  Indianapolis  and  other  points,  and  in 
1910  he  took  the  contract  to  play  a  sea- 
son's series  of  exhibition  with  the  Young 
Buffalo  Wild  Wlest  Show  of  Chicago  and 
Peoria.  In  this  engagement  he  gave  ex- 
hibitions in  all  states  east  of  the  Missis- 
sippi and  all  provinces  of  Canada  east  of 
Detroit.  The  last  season  of  Hardin's 
Zouaves  was  1915.  During  that  year  they 
were  at  the  San  Francisco  Exposition, 
where  the  organization  came  to  the  climax 
of  its  success.  Incidentally  Captain  Har- 
din was  director  of  the  entire  performance 
of  the  Wild  West  Show. 

In  April,  1917,  he  organized  in  Indian- 
apolis Troop  C,  First  Indiana  Cavalry, 
which  was  mustered  into  the  National 
Guard  of  Indiana  on  the  12th  of  that 
month.  This  troop  was  drafted  into  the 
Federal  service  August  5,  1917,  and  on 
September  13,  1917,  was  transferred  for 
training  in  the  National  Army  to  Camp 
Shelby  at  Hattiesburg,  Mississippi.  Upon 
arrival  there  the  organization  was  trans- 
ferred from  the  cavalry  to  the  infantry 
service,  Captain  Hardin  himself,  with  most 
of  his  men,  being  assigned  to  the  One 
Hundred  and  Fifty-Second  Infantry.  His 
company     under     his     command     became 


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known  as  Company  G.  Captain  Hardin 
notwithstanding  his  years  of  experience 
was  only  too  glad  to  go  through  the  grill- 
ing and  strenuous  training  of  the  modern 
army  for  European  service.  Owing  to  the 
fact  that  most  of  his  junior  officers  of  the 
original  company  were  detailed  to  special 
schools  and  special  duties  the  great  bulk 
of  the  work  of  the  organization  devolved 
upon  him.  It  was  because  of  this  over- 
work that  he  suffered  a  nervous  break- 
down and  was  placed  in  the  base  hospital 
December  23,  1917.  January  25,  1918,  he 
received  his  honorable  discharge  from  the 
National  Army  for  physical  disability. 

In  September,  1918,  Captain  Hardin 
was  appointed  by  the  board  of  education 
of  Indianapolis  to  take  charge  of  the  mili- 
tary training  in  the  Indianapolis  schools. 
On  the  16th  of  the  same  month  he  organ- 
ized the  Indianapolis  High  School  Cadets, 
of  which  he  is  commandant.  This  organiza- 
tion consists  of  three  battalions :  Short- 
ridge  High  having  four  companies  com- 
prising the  First  Battalion ;  Manual  Train- 
ing School  having  the  Second  Battalion 
with  five  companies ;  and  Technical  High 
School  having  the  Third  Battalion  with 
four  companies.  Each  company  has  over 
a  hundred  men.  A  band  of  eighty-five 
pieces  has  also  been  organized.  These  bat- 
talions will  be  handled  as  a  regimental 
organization.  Those  who  recognize  now 
as  never  before  the  need  of  fundamental 
military  discipline  and  training  as  a  fea- 
ture of  American  life  find  special  encour- 
agement in  the  splendid  work  that  Cap- 
tain Hardin  has  been  able  to  do  at  In- 
dianapolis in  connection  with  the  high 
schools.  It  should  be  mentioned  that  Cap- 
tain Hardin  for  many  years  has  been 
known  as  an  authority  on  pageantry,  and 
as  such  he  conducted  numerous  civic  and 
historical  pageants  at  great  outdoor  ex- 
hibitions in  various  cities  of  the  country. 

Captain  Hardin  married  Miss  Mary  A. 
Picard.  Her  father,  Mr.  Victor  Picard, 
of  Indianapolis,  is  a  native  of  Prance.  Two 
children  have  been  born  to  their  marriage: 
Hazel  Hardin  and  Albion  Hardin. 

JULIUS  Matzkb  is  an  Indianapolis  citi- 
zen whose  present  day  prosperity  and  po- 
sition in  the  community  is  1  lie  more  credit- 
able because  bis  success  is  the  direct  reflec- 
tion and  result  of  his  industry,  character 
and    perseverance,    and    because    he    has 


achieved  much  from  a  beginning  with  only 
the  rudiments  of  an  education  and  with 
the  handicaps  imposed  by  foreign  birth 
and  training.  But  this  is  not  the  case 
with  the  foreign  people  who  come  to  this 
country  today,  for  there  is  now  every  fa- 
cility for  receiving  an  education. 

Mr.  Matzke  was  born  near  the  capital 
city  of  Schlesien  Breslau,  February  14, 
1850,  son  of  David  and  Caroline  Matzke. 
David  Matzke  is  still  living  at  the  age  of 
ninety-five,  residing  with  his  daughter, 
Mrs.  Herman  Arnold,  in  Indianapolis. 
Julius  Matzke  was  reared  and  lived  in  his 
native  land  until  about  nineteen  years  of 
age,  and  in  1869  because  even  at  that  age 
he  could  not  see  any  possible  way  that  he 
could  make  any  advancement  under  the 
tyranny  of  the  German  Government,  he 
came  to  this  country  and  at  once  located 
in  Indianapolis.  Here,  a  poor  boy,  a 
stranger  in  a  strange  land,  he  went  to  work 
for  William  Werther,  a  meat  and  provi- 
sion dealer.  That  employment  gave  him  a 
living  and  it  also  afforded  an  opportunity 
to  learn  a  good  business  and  master  the 
English  language.  In  1873  he  had 
progressed  so  far  as  to  establish  a  similar 
business  in  partnership  with  his  father, 
who  came  to  America  two  years  later 
than  his  son.  For  nearly  thirty  years  he 
continued  in  the  retail  meat  business  at 
Indianapolis. 

Selling  his  market  in  1900,  Mr.  Matzke 
began  handling  his  means  to  develop  real 
estate  property,  and  from  the  point  of 
view  of  public  interest  the  important  part 
of  his  record  is  as  a  builder.  He  has 
erected  many  business  blocks  and  resi- 
dences, among  which  are  the  Indianapolis 
Conservatory  of  Music,  now  known  as  the 
Matzke  apartments,  the  Marion,  Arlington 
and  Marina  apartments,  besides  several 
homes.  Mr.  Matzke  bought  and  still  owns 
some  of  the  original  town  lots  of  Indian- 
apolis. He  bought  and  laid  out  on  East 
Ohio  Street  Matzke 's  Addition  opposite 
Highland  Park.  He  now  gives  all  his  time 
to  the  management  of  the  apartment 
houses  he  owns  and  built. 

Mr.  Matzke  is  a  naturalized  American 
citizen  and  none  could  surpass  him  in  loy- 
alty to  the  land  of  his  adoption  and  where 
his  real  success  in  life  has  been  made. 
Though  he  had  very  little  opportunity  to 
attend  school  as  a  boy,  he  has  always  kept 
in  touch  with  the  bigger  things  of  life,  is 


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a  constant  reader  and  is  a  student  of 
mathematics  and  history.  He  is  a  member 
of  the  First  English  Lutheran  Church. 

December  22,  1877,  Mr.  Matzke  married 
Miss  Mary  Schoennemann,  whose  parents 
were  John  and  Mary  (Sachse)  Schoenne- 
mann, the  former  of  whom  died  in  1898 
and  the  latter  in  1883.  The  Schoenne- 
manns  were  for  many  years  engaged  in 
truck  farming  near  Indianapolis,  and  Mrs. 
Matzke  was  born  and  reared  within  the 
environs  of  that  city. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Matzke  had  four  children : 
Clara,  who  died  in  1916 ;  Harry,  who  mar- 
ried Miss  Clara  Power  and  has  five  chil- 
dren, Marion,  Richard,  Gilbert  (deceased), 
Robert  and  Ralph  ;  Albert,  an  illustrator  in 
New  York  City  for  the  past  twenty  years, 
was  an  instructor  for  several  years  in  the 
Art  Students  League  of  that  city;  and 
Hattie,  deceased.  Harry  Matzke  for  a 
number  of  years  operated  a  meat  and  pro- 
vision market  in  the  Indianapolis  Public 
Market. 

Warren  J.  Yount,  county  superintend- 
ent of  public  instruction  for  Johnson 
County,  has  expended  his  best  efforts  and 
the  enthusiasm  of  his  youthful  years  in 
educational  affairs,  and  both  as  a  teacher 
and  as  an  administrator  of  schools  his 
work  has  been  peculiarly  successful.  Mr. 
Yount  has  all  the  qualifications  for  real 
public  leadership,  and  his  influence  is  not 
confined  strictly  within  the  routine  of 
school  work  and  affairs. 

He  was  born  in  Johnson  County,  In- 
diana, November  20,  1886,  son  of  Walter 
L.  and  Lucy  Jane  (Coleman)  Yount.  His 
parents  are  still  living  on  the  farm  where 
Warren  was  born.  The  paternal  ancestors 
came  to  Indiana  from  Kentucky.  Grand- 
father Coleman  entered  land  from  the  Gov- 
ernment in  Johnston  County,  was  one  of 
the  pioneers  there,  and  gave  the  lumber 
for  building  the  first  schoolhouse  and  also 
erected  the  first  church  in  Hensley  Town- 
ship. 

Warren  J.  Yount  attended  the  district 
schools  of  his  home  locality  and  in  1904 
graduated  from  the  Trafalgar  High  School. 
After  a  year  of  reviewing  eighth  grade 
studies  he  taught  two  years,  then  spent  two 
years  in  the  law  department  of  Indiana 
University,  and  then  returned  to  Trafalgar 
as  principal  of  the  high  school  for  a  year. 
Continuing  his  higher  education  in  Frank- 


lin College,  he  did  his  major  work  in  his- 
tory and  graduated  A.  B.  in  1912.  During 
his  senior  year  he  also  taught  in  the  high 
school  of  Franklin  and  after  graduation  be- 
came principal  of  schools  at  Wanamaker, 
Indiana,  a  town  known  now  as  New  Bethel. 
Later  for  three  years  he  was  superintendent 
of  schools  for  New  Bethel  and  left  that 
position  to  fill  the  unexpired  term  of  J.  C. 
Webb  as  county  superintendent  of  schools. 
In  July,  1916,  he  was  regularly  elected  to 
office.  Mr.  Yount  in  addition  is  also  a 
member  of  the  faculty  of  Franklin  College 
in  the  Department  of  Education,  being  in- 
structor in  the  principles  of  education. 

Under  his  leadership  the  schools  of  John- 
son County  have  responded  nobly  to  the 
enthusiasm  of  patriotism  and  have  been  the 
instrument  of  some  effective  work  in  pro- 
moting the  cause  of  the  war.  Mr.  Yount 
is  a  member  of  the  Central  Committee  of 
the  War  Savings  Stamps  for  the  county, 
handling  the  work  in  the  public  schools. 
Johnson  County  leads  all  the  counties  of 
the  state  in  the  matter  of  sale  of  war  sav-  ■ 
ings  stamps,  and  to  this  the  school  children 
contributed  a  large  share  by  the  purchase 
of  $20,000  worth  of  stamp's.  Mr.  Yount 
also  conducted  the  food  conservation  move- 
ment in  the  county  schools,  and  is  a  co-di- 
rector of  the  United  States  Boys  Working 
Reserve.  He  has  spoken  in  nearly  every 
part  of  the  county  on  behalf  of  thrift 
stamps.  Mr.  Yount  is  a  member  of  the 
State  License  Committee,  representing  the 
County  Superintendents'  Association,  for 
licensing  teachers.  He  is  also  a  member 
of  the  Questions  Committee  for  making  out 
the  semi-annual  examinations. 

In  1914  Mr.  Yount  married  Mary  J. 
Payne,  daughter  of  J.  B.  and  Elizabeth 
(Foley)  Payne.  Her  mother  is  a  daughter 
of  former  Congressman  Foley.  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Yount  have  one  child,  Elizabeth  Jane, 
born  March  6,  1918. 

Charles  Denby,  born  at  Evansville,  In- 
diana, November  14,  1861,  has  won  recog- 
nition in  the  industrial  world  as  a  manu- 
facturer and  is  now  vice  president  of  the 
Hupp  Motor  Car  Corporation.  He  is  a 
member  of  the  class  of  1882  at  Princeton, 
and  afterward  became  connected  with 
foreign  affairs  at  Peking,  China,  and  he 
later  engaged  in  business  in  China.  Mr. 
Denby  resigned  the  office  of  consul  gen- 
eral at  Vienna,  Austria,  to  return  to  Amer- 


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iea  and  enter  upon  his  duties  with  the 
Hupp  Motor  Car  Corporation  of  Detroit, 
Michigan. 

Mr.  Denby  married  Martha  Dalzell  Orr, 
of  Evansville,  Indiana,  March  19,  1895. 

Frank  Linden  Crone.  Of  Indiana's 
sons  whose  mature  achievements  have  been 
gained  outside  the  state  one  is  Frank  Lin- 
den Crone,  former  director  of  education 
for  the  Philippine  Islands. 

Mr.  Crone  was  born  in  Kendallville, 
Noble  County,  Indiana,  July  19,  1875,  and 
graduated  from  the  Kendallville  High 
School  in  1892.  His  first  experience  in 
educational  work  was  as  a  teacher  of  the 
common  schools  of  Noble  County,  Indiana, 
during  1892-4.  In  1894  he  entered  the  Uni- 
versity of  Indiana,  specializing  in  history 
and  graduating  with  the  degree  of  Bachelor 
of  Arts  in  1897. 

In  1898  he  was  appointed  teacher  of 
science  and  mathematics  in  the  high  school 
of  Escanaba,  Michigan,  was  assistant  prin- 
•  cipal  of  the  Kendallville  High  School  from 
1898-1901,  and  then  entered  upon  the  for- 
eign service  which  brought  him  such  im- 
portant distinctions  and  responsibilities.  In 
1901  and  1902  he  was  teacher  of  English 
at  San  Mateo,  Province  of  Rizal,  Philip- 
pine Islands,  for  1902  to  1904  was  principal 
of  the  Provincial  High  School,  Naga  Ca- 
marines ;  from  1905  to  1909  was  division 
superintendent  of  schools,  Province  of 
Ambos  Camarines ;  and  in  1909  became 
chief  clerk  of  the  Philippine  Bureau  of 
Education  at  Manila.  From  1909  to 
August,  1913,  he  was  assistant  director  of 
education  for  the  Philippine  Islands,  and 
from  that  position  was  promoted  to  the  di- 
rectorship of  the  Philippine  Bureau  of 
Education. 

From  August,  1913,  to  June,  1916,  he 
was  in  charge  of  a  system  consisting  of 
4,400  schools,  taught  by  more  than  10,000 
teachers,  and  enrolling  625,000  pupils.  In 
addition  to  this  Mr.  Crone  served  as  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Board  of  Regents  of  the  Univer- 
sity of  the  Philippines,  and  chairman  of 
the  committee  on  the  College  of  Liberal 
Arts,  was  a  member  of  the  Public  Welfare 
Board  of  the  Islands,  and  chairman  of  its 
committee  on  social  centers.  As  director 
of  education  he  not  only  supervised  the  in- 
struction in  the  public  schools  of  the  coun- 
try, but  was  in  full  charge  of  the  program 
of  schoolhouse  construction,  the  system  of 


almost  universal  vocational  and  physical 
education,  and  the  financial  direction  of 
the  public  school  system.  In  this  school 
system,  which  it  may  be  said  is  the  second 
largest  under  the  American  flag  respond- 
ing to  the  direction  of  a  single  executive, 
were  included  one  city  with  a  population 
of  250,000,  and  forty  provinces. 

After  leaving  the  islands  and  returning 
to  this  country  Mr.  Crone  was  located  at 
Grand  Forks,  North  Dakota,  where  he  was 
engaged  for  some  time  in  educational  work 
for  the  General  Brokerage  Company.  He 
severed  his  connection  with  the  General 
Brokerage  Company  early  in  1918  and  en- 
tered the  service  of  the  War  Trade  Board 
during  the  period  of  the  war. 

He  is  a  member  of  the  Odd  Fellows,  Elks 
and  Masonic  orders ;  a  Fellow  of  the  Royal 
Geographical  Society,  a  member  of  the 
Circumnavigators'  Club,  of  the  Indiana 
Historical  Society,  the  Philippine  Club,  of 
the  Phi  Delta  Kappa,  and  of  the  Illinois 
Society  of  the  Sons  of  the  Revolution. 

Mr.  Crone  is  the  son  of  John  S.  and 
Ella  (Weaver)  Crone.  His  father,  an  In- 
diana farmer,  was  born  August  30,  1849, 
while  his  mother  was  born  May  19,  1854. 
Through  his  mother  he  is  descended  from 
the  Weavers  of  Rockingham  County,  Vir- 
ginia, who,  however,  went  to  the  Old  Domi- 
nion from  Lancaster  County,  Pennsylvania, 
and  who  in  1813  moved  to  Fairfield  and 
later  to  Richland  County,  Ohio. 

Mr.  Crone  stands  in  the  seventh  genera- 
tion of  the  family  of  John,  Crone,  who  ar- 
rived in  this  country  in  1738.  The  second 
generation  was  also  represented  by  John 
Crone,  and  the  third  by  Jacob  Crone,  both 
of  whom  were  soldiers  in  the  Revolution. 
Jacob  Crone  married  Margaret  Dritt, 
whose  father,  Hans  Peter  Treit,  or  Dritt, 
came  to  America  in  1739.  Mr.  Crone's 
great-grandparents  were  John  and  Eliza- 
beth (Pence)  Crone,  while  his  grandpar- 
ents were  John  and  Catherine  (Switzer) 
Crone.  Mr.  Crone  is  also  the  seventh  in 
descent  from  David  Sirk  or  Shirk,  who  ar- 
rived in  this  country  in  1747,  of  John 
Bentz,  or  Pence,  who  arrived  in  this  coun- 
try in  1731,  and  of  Peter  Switzer,  who 
arrived  in  this  country  in  1740.  He  is  a 
great-great-grandson  of  John  Stukey,  who 
arrived  in  1760,  and  has  other  lines  of  de- 
scent from  the  Steel,  Ziegler,  Stout  and 
Kissel  families. 
Mr.   Crone  married  Luetta  V.   Stahl  in 


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Chicago  February  21,  1911.  She  is  a 
daughter  of  Thomas  and  Sophia  (Ram- 
sten)   Stahl. 

Frederick  G.  Eberhart.  Among  the 
thriving  and  prosperous  cities  of  the  north- 
ern part  of  Indiana,  one  which  has  attained 
much  of  its  present  prestige  because  of  the 
size  and  importance  of  its  manufacturing 
industries  is  Mishawaka.  Located  practi- 
cally on  the  banks  of  the  Saint  Joseph 
River  and  otherwise  conveniently  situated, 
it  early  attracted  to  it  men  of  foresight 
and  judgment,  who  realized  that  in  coming 
years  excellent  means  of  transportation 
would  be  found  here,  and  accordingly  es- 
tablished business  concerns  in  this  com- 
munity that  have  since  grown  to  appre- 
ciable proportions.  One  of  these  business 
enterprises  is  the  Mishawaka  Woolen 
Manufacturing  Company,  which  was 
founded  here  many  years  ago  by  Adolphus 
Eberhart,  a  settler  of  1836,  and  Martin  V. 
Beiger,  and  the  product  of  which  is  now 
well  known  all  over  the  country.  Fred- 
erick G.  Eberhart,  son  of  one  of  the  foun- 
ders, has  been  identified  with  this  business 
since  he  entered  upon  his  career,  and  now 
acts  in  the  capacities  of  vice  president, 
secretary  and  superintendent.  He  is  also 
president  of  the  First  National  Bank  of 
Mishawaka  and  a  business  man  of  solidity 
and  standing. 

Frederick  G.  Eberhart  was  born  at 
Mishawaka,  Indiana,  April  1,  1864,  being 
a  son  of  Adolphus  and  Sarah  Ann  (Boyd) 
Eberhart.  His  father  was  born  in  1824, 
in  New  York  State,  where  the  family  had 
settled  during  Colonial  days,  having  origi- 
nally emigrated  from  Stuttgart,  Germany. 
He  was  reared  in  his  native  state  until  he 
was  twelve  years  of  age  and  then  accom- 
panied his  parents  to  Mishawaka,  where 
his  education  was  completed  in  the  early 
public  school.  As  a  young  man  he  found 
employment  in  a  sawmill,  subsequently  be- 
came the  proprietor  of  a  hardware  estab- 
lishment, and  then  embarked  in  the  wagon- 
making  business  in  partnership  with  the 
late  George  Milburn,  being  next  in  the 
flour  milling  business  for  a  number  of 
years.  Mr.  Eberhart  was  of  an  inventive 
turn  of  mind,  fashioning  numerous  useful 
small  articles,  and  eventually,  after  a  num- 
ber of  years  of  experimenting  hej  together 
with  Mr.  Beiger  succeeded  in  perfecting 
the  first  all  knit  wool  boot.     In  addition 


this  company  makes  rubber  boots  and  shoes 
of  all  descriptions,  and  its  goods  find  a 
ready  reception  in  markets  throughout  the 
country.  The  mills  are  situated  at  Water 
and  First  streets,  where  the  floor  space  is 
about  sixty  acres,  and  in  the  neighborhood 
of  3,000  persons  are  employed.  The  offi- 
cers of  the  company  at  this  time  are :  E. 
A.  Saunders,  of  South  Bend,  Indiana, 
president ;  F.  G.  Eberhart,  vice  president, 
secretary  and  superintendent ;  A.  D.  War- 
ner, general  manager ;  E.  J.  W.  Fink,  as- 
sistant general  manager  and  manager  of 
sales;  and  George  B.  Williams,  treasurer. 
From  small  beginnings  this  company  built 
up  an  important  and  substantial  enterprise. 
Adolphus  Eberhart  was  a  man  of  energy 
and  enterprise,  thorough  in  his  business  ac- 
tivities, capable  in  his  judgment,  and  abso- 
lutely reliable  and  honest.  His  reputation 
among  his  associates  and  those  with  whom 
he  has  come  into  contact  was  an  excellent 
one,  and  when  he  died,  in  1893,  there  were 
many  left  to  mourn  the  loss  of  a  man  who 
had  attracted  others  to  him  by  a  kindly  and 
friendly  personality.  In  politics  he  was  a 
republican,  but  never  professed  to  be  any- 
thing but  a  business  man,  and  public  life 
held  out  no  inducements  for  him.  A  mem- 
ber of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church,  he 
was  a  strongly  religious  man  and  lived  his 
faith.  Mr.  Eberhart  married  Miss  Sarah 
Ann  Boyd,  who  was  born  in  Virginia  in 
1828,  and  died  at  Mishawaka  in  1903.  She 
too  was  a  life-long  and  faithful  Methodist. 
To  this  union  there  were  born  four  chil- 
dren, namely :  Flora  E.,  who  is  the  widow 
of  Dr.  R.  S.  Grimes  and  resides  at  Lin- 
coln, Nebraska,  where  her  late  husband  was 
a  practicing  physician  and  surgeon  for 
many  years ;  J.  C,  who  was  connected  with 
the  manufacturing  company  for  many 
years  but  had  been  living  retired  for  some 
time  prior  to  his  death  at  Mishawaka ;  Fred- 
erick G.,  of  this  notice ;  and  E.  G.,  who  at 
the  time  of  his  death  at  Mishawaka  was 
acting  as  general  manager  and  vice  presi- 
dent of  the  company.  In  1912  these  four 
brothers  built,  equipped  and  presented  to 
the  Methodist  Episcopal  congregation  of 
Mishawaka  one  of  the  finest  church 
structures  in  the  State  of  Indiana;  same 
being  a  memorial  to  their  parents. 

Frederick  G.  Eberhart  was  educated  in 
the  public  schools  of  Mishawaka  and  at  a 
business  college  at  Lexington,  Kentucky, 
and   at  once  entered  the  mills,  where  he 


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learned  the  business  thoroughly  by  com- 
mencing at  the  bottom  and  gradually  work- 
ing his  way  through  the  various  positions 
and  departments  to  the  positions  which  he 
now  holds.  He  is  one  of  the  most  thor- 
oughly-informed men  in  the  trade  today 
and  is  widely  acquainted  in  his  own 
line  as  well  as  in  other  avenues  of 
business  endeavor.  Through  his  exten- 
sive knowledge  of  trade  conditions,  com- 
bined with  executive  capacity  of  a  high 
order,  he  has  been  one  of  the  principal 
factors  in  extending  the  business  during 
recent  years,  both  in  its  scope  and  useful- 
ness. As  president  of  the  First  National 
Bank  of  Mishawaka  he  has  been  instrumen- 
tal in  making  this  one  of  the  soundest  in- 
stitutions of  Northern  Indiana,  and  he  is 
also  connected  prominently  with  financial 
affairs  as  a  director  of  the  First  Trust  and 
Savings  Company  and  the  North  Side  Trust 
and  Savings  Company,  both  of  this  city. 
Like  his  father,  Mr.  Eberhart  is  a  republi- 
can, and  also  like  him  he  has  had  no  desire 
for  public  office.  He  belongs  to  the  Chris- 
tian Science  Church,  and  is  socially  con- 
nected with  the  Miami  Country  Club, 
where  he  has  numerous  friends,  as  he  has 
also  in  business  circles.  In  1900  Mr.  Eber- 
hart erected  his  handsome  modern  resi- 
dence on  Lincoln  Highway,  East. 

Mr.  Eberhart  was  married  in  1888,  at 
Mishawaka,  to  Miss  Bertha  Judkins,  a 
daughter  of  William  H.  and  Isabelle 
(Martling)  Judkins.  Mr.  Judkins,  who 
was  engaged  in  the  retail  grocery  business, 
is  now  deceased,  but  his  widqw  survives 
and  is  a  resident  of  Mishawaka.  Two 
children  have  been  born  to  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Eberhart,  namely:  Donna  E.,  who  is  the 
wife  of  George  W.  Blair,  a  mechanical  en- 
gineer connected  with  the  Mishawaka 
Woolen  Manufacturing  Company;  and 
Carol  E.,  who  is  unmarried  and  lesides 
with  her  parents. 

The  Eberhart  family  is  one  of  the  oldest 
and  best  known  at  Mishawaka.  As  before 
noted,  it  was  founded  here  in  1836,  the 
original  settler  being  the  grandfather  of 
Frederick  G.  Eberhart,  who  bore  the  same 
name.  He  was  born  in  New  York  State 
and  brought  his  family  to  this  community 
in  1 836,  the  rest  of  his  life  being  passed  in 
agricultural  pursuits,  and  his  death  occur- 
ring at  Mishawaka  when  he  was  between 
fifty  and  sixty  years  of  age,  or  when  his 
grandson  was  a  small  hoy.     He  married 


Betsey  Weltner,  who  was  also  a  native  of 
the  State  of  New  York,  born  in  1796,  and 
who  attained  advanced  years,  passing  away 
at  Mishawaka  in  1887. 

E.  J.  W.  Fink.  In  the  large  manufac- 
turing communities  there  are  always  found 
men  who  have  attained  positions  of  im- 
portance with  huge  enterprises  solely 
through  the  medium  of  their  own  persist- 
ence, ability  and  fidelity,  and  in  numerous 
cases  it  will  be  discovered  that  these  men 
have  known  no  other  connection.  In  this 
class  at  Mishawaka  may  be  numbered  E. 
J.  W.  Fink.  Mr.  Fink 's  career  began  when 
he  was  sixteen  years  of  age,  at  which  time 
he  entered  the  employ  of  the  Mishawaka 
Woolen  Manufacturing  Company.  He  has 
remained  with  this  concern  to  the  present 
time,  and  has  risen  by  consecutive  stages 
to  the  posts  of  assistant  general  manager 
and  manager  of  sales. 

E.  J,  W.  Fink  is  not  a  native  of  Misha- 
waka, but  has  resided  here  since  infancy 
and  has  secured  his  training,  both  business 
and  educational,  in  its  institutions.  He 
was  born  at  Bremen,  Indiana,  December 
27,  1880,  a  son  of  Eli  W.  and  Malinda 
(Wiess)  Fink,  and  belongs  to  a  family 
which  originated  in  Germany  and  which 
was  founded  in  America  many  years  ago, 
the  original  settlement  being  made  in  Penn- 
sylvania. Eli  W.  Fink  was  born  in  1848, 
in  Ohio,  and  as  a  young  man  came  to  In- 
diana, first  settling  at  Bremen.  That  city 
continued  to  be  his  home  until  1882,  when 
he  came  to  Mishawaka,  and  here  his  death 
occurred  eleven  years  later.  He  is  still  re- 
membered by  a  number  of  the  older  citizens 
as  a  man  of  integrity.  He  was  a  democrat, 
but  never  sought  any  political  office.  Mrs. 
Fink,  who  was  born  in  1848,  at  Canton, 
Ohio,  died  at  Mishawaka  in  1891.  There 
were  the  following  children  in  the  family : 
Minnie,  who  is  the  wife  of  William  V. 
Tuscher.  of  Denver,  Colorado,  western  rep- 
resentative of  the  Mishawaka  Woolen 
Manufacturing  Company ;  Louis  S.,  who 
died  in  1905,  at  Los  Angeles,  California, 
a  railroad  dining  car  conductor ;  Effie  M., 
the  wife  of  E.  M.  Barney,  of  Indianapolis, 
traveling  representative  for  the  Mishawaka 
Woolen  Manufacturing  Company;  and  E. 
J.  W. 

E.  J.  W.  Fink  was  only  ten  years  old 
when  he  lost  his  mother  by  death,  and  two 
years   later   his    father   passed   away,    so 


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that  the  lad  was  thrown  to  a  large  degree 
upon  his  own  resources  when  still  at  a  ten- 
der age.  However,  he  managed  to  complete 
his  high  school  education,  being  a  graduate 
of  the  class  of  1897,  and  in  that  same  year 
secured  a  position  as  office  boy  with  the 
Mishawaka  Woolen  Manufacturing  Com- 
pany. He  soon  proved  his  reliability  and 
worth,  as  well  as  his  ability  to  handle  more 
important  matters  than  those  connected 
with  his  first  position,  and  since  then  he 
has  steadily  advanced  in  his  employers' 
confidence  and  in  the  responsibilities  de- 
pendent upon  him,  until  now  he  is  ac- 
counted one  of  the  concern's  most  valuable 
men.  In  addition  to  being  assistant  general 
manager  he  is  manager  of  sales,  and  under 
his  progressive  direction  of  campaigns 
much  important  and  successful  work  has 
been  carried  on  in  making  the  company's 
product  popular.  The  Mishawaka  "Woolen 
Manufacturing  Company  was  founded 
many  years  ago  by  Adolphus  Eberhart  and 
Martin  V.  Beiger,  who  invented  the  first  all 
wool  knit  boot.  In  addition  this  company 
manufactures  rubber  boots  and  shoes  of  all 
descriptions  and  the  goods  have  a  large 
sale  throughout  the  country.  The  mills 
are  situated  at  Water  and  First  streets, 
where  the  floor  space  is  about  sixty  acres, 
and  approximated  3.000  people  are  given 
constant  and  profitable  employment.  The 
officers  of  the  concern  at  this  time  are :  E. 
A.  Saunders,  of  South  Bend,  president; 
Frederick  G.  Eberhart.  vice  president,  sec- 
retary and  superintendent ;  A.  D.  Warner, 
general  manager ;  E.  J.  W.  Fink,  assistant 
general  manager  and  manager  of  sales ;  and 
George  B.  Williams,  treasurer.  Mr.  Fink 
has  absolutely  made  his  own  way  in  the 
working  out  of  a  well-deserved  success. 
No  outside  influences  have  plaved  any  part 
in  his  advancement,  and  he  has  the  right 
to  be  numbered  among  those  who  bear  the 
title,  often  abused  but  not  in  this  case,  of 
self-made  man.  He  is  a  republican,  but  his 
chief  interest  in  politics  is  confined  to  exer- 
cising his  franchise  as  a  voter.  As  a 
churchman  he  is  chairman  of  the  board  of 
trustees  of  the  Presbyterian  Church ;  and 
at  the  present  period  he  is  devoting  much 
of  his  time  and  energies  to  forwarding  the 
work  of  the  Mishawaka  Chapter  of  the  Red 
Cross  Society.  Fraternally  he  is  affiliated 
with  Mishawaka  Lodge  No.  453,  Knights  of 
Pythias,  and  his  social  connections  include 
membership   in  the  Miami   Country  Club 


and  the  South  Bend  Country  Club.  He 
has  various  business  connections,  and  is  a 
director  in  the  Peoples  Building  and  Loan 
Association,  the  First  National  Bank,  the 
First  Trust  and  Savings  Company  and  the 
North  Side  Trust  and  Savings  Company. 

Earl  E.  Brock,  M.  D.,  an  accomplished 
member  of  the  medical  profession  at  An- 
derson, located  in  that  city  seven  years  ago 
practically  unknown,  and  by  definite  merit 
and  achievement  has  won  his  secure  profes- 
sional position. 

Doctor  Brock  was  born  on  a  farm  in 
Paint  Township,  Fayette  County,  Ohio,  De- 
cember 2,  1885,  a  son  of  Joseph  H.  and 
Rachel  (Hutslar)  Brock.  His  ancestors 
were  Welsh  people  and  were  pioneers  in 
the  Carolinas.  With  few  exceptions  the 
family  have  always  furnished  farmers 
rather  than  professional  men.  Doctor 
Brock  is  one  of  a  family  of  three  sons  and 
four  daughters,  being  the  youngest.  He 
had  a  country  school  education,  and  at  the 
age  of  fourteen  entered  Jeffersonville  High 
School  at  Jeffersonville,  Ohio,  where  he 
remained  four  years  and  graduated  in 
1905.  The  next  year  he  spent  at  home,  and 
while  there  took  a  teacher's  examination, 
but  never  utilized  the  certificate  to  teach. 
In  the  fall  of  1906  he  entered  Starling 
Medical  College  at  Columbus,  and  while 
getting  his  medical  training  paid  his  own 
way  by  work  at  anything  that  would  give 
him  an  honest  living  and  keep  him  in 
school.  He  was  at  Columbus  two  years. 
In  that  time  the  Starling  Medical  College 
one  of  the  oldest  and  best  known  institu- 
tions of  medical  learning  in  the  Middle 
West,  was  merged  with  the  Ohio  Medical 
College,  making  the  Starling-Ohio  Medical 
College.  During  his  second  year  there  Doc- 
tor Brock  stood  second  in  a  class  of  forty- 
two.  He  then  entered  the  Medical  College 
of  Ohio  at  Cincinnati  in  1908.  This  in- 
stitution was  consolidated  with  the  Miami 
Medical  College  under  the  name  Ohio- 
Miami  Medical  College.  From  there 
Doctor  Brock  graduated  in  1910,  M.  D., 
and  also  had  the  benefit  of  eighteen  months 
service  as  an  interne  in  the  Cincinnati 
General  Hospital. 

Thus  well  qualified  and  with  a  thorough 
training  Doctor  Brock  came  to  Anderson 
in  1911  and  opened  an  office,  and  has  since 
been  in  general  practice.  He  has  done 
much  in  the  public  health  movement  and 


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has  sought  to  interest  and  educate  the 
people  as  a  community  and  as  individuals 
in  the  improvement  of  sanitary  conditions 
and  guarding  against  the  inroads  of  disease 
and  epidemic.  For  a  time  he  served  as 
health  officer  and  was  one  of  the  organizers 
of  the  Health  Parade,  an  exhibition  which 
proved  a  valuable  educational  feature  in 
stimulating  general  health  work.  Doctor 
Brock  is  a  member  of  St.  John's  Hospital 
staff,  is  a  democrat,  a  member  of  Anderson 
Club,  is  affiliated  with  Mount  Moriah  Lodge 
Ancient  Free  and  Accepted  Masons,  with 
the  Benevolent  and  Protective  Order  of 
Elks,  and  is  a  member  of  the  First  Pres- 
byterian Church  at  Anderson.  Doctor 
Brock  entered  the  service  of  the  United 
States  September  1,  1918,  and  was  com- 
missioned first  lieutenant.  He  was  in  serv- 
ice at  Camp  Greenleaf  and  Camp  Knox, 
and  was  discharged  January  6,  1919.  In 
1912  he  married  Miss  Anna  Louise  Kindel- 
berger,  daughter  of  Philip  and  Mary  Kin- 
delberger  of  Cincinnati.  They  have  one 
child,  Florence,  born  in  1917. 

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Adah  McMahan,  A.  M.T  M.  D.  The  sci- 
ence of  medicine  and  surgery  has  made  a 
remarkable  progress  in  the  last  half  cen- 
tury, but  aside  from  the  technical  advance 
probably  the  greatest  single  feature  in  the 
progress  has  been  the  increasing  number  of 
women  whose  services  have  been  enlisted  in 
the  ranks  of  the  profession  and  who  in  abil- 
ity and  in  capacity  for  the  special  work 
have  demonstrated  equal  fitness  with  their 
brothers  who  have  so  long  occupied  this 
field. 

One  of  the  women  physicians  whose  work 
is  accorded  unstinted  praise  by  her  profes- 
sional associates  is  Doctor  Adah  McMahan 
of  Lafayette,  whose  individual  attainments 
are  only  what  might  be  expected  of  a  fam- 
ily that  has  produced  more  than  one  able 
member  of  the  different  professions.  Her 
aunt,  C.  Agnes  McMahan,  M.  D.,  was  prior 
to  her  marriage  one  of  the  most  prominent 
physicians  at  Evansville,  Indiana,  and  did 
really  pioneer  work  in  that  profession  at  a 
time  when  her  contemporaries  in  this  state 
if  not  in  the  entire  middle  west  might  have 
been  counted  on  the  fingers  of  one  hand. 
It  was  her  distinction  to  have  been  the  first 
woman  interne  in  miv  of  Chicago's  hospi- 
tals. 

Dr.  Adah  McMahan  was  born  at  Hunt- 
ingburg in  Duboise  County,   Indiana.    She 


is  the  oldest  daughter  of  William  Reed  and 
Louesa  Elizabeth  (Helferich)  McMahan. 
Her  great-grandparents  on  both  sides  were 
among  the  pioneers  of  Dubois  County.  A 
relative,  Richard  McMahan,  was  among  the 
honored  dead  of  the  battle  of  Tippecanoe 
in  1811.  William  Reed  McMahan  was  the 
only  son  of  Asher  and  Nancy  (Armstrong) 
McMahan,  whose  daughters  were :  Levica 
McMahan,  Ellen  McMahan  Poison,  Jane 
McMahan  Lemon,  and  C.  Agnes  McMahan 
Jones,  the  pioneer  woman  physician  above 
mentioned. 

Doctor  Adah  McMahan 's  maternal  great- 
grandfather, Capt.  Frederick  Geiger,  of 
the  Kentucky  Mountain  Riflemen,  offered 
his  services  to  Governor  Harrison  in 
August,  1811,  at  Louisville,  and  early  in 
that  fall  led  his  men  to  Vincennes  by  way 
of  Jeffersonville,  and  at  the  battle  of  Tip- 
pecanoe was  wounded  and  was  commended 
for  personal  bravery  by  Congress.  The  son 
of  this  soldier,  Jacob  Geiger,  founded  the 
Town  of  Huntingburg,  Indiana,  in  1837. 
In  matters  of  religion  the  McMahans  and 
Armstrongs  were  stanch  Presbyterians, 
while  the  Geigers  and  Helferichs  were  Lu- 
therans. 

William  Reed  McMahan,  father  of  Dr. 
Adah  McMahan,  also  achieved  success  in 
the  medical  profession  but  prior  to  that 
time  had  rendered  valiant  service  as  a  sol- 
dier of  the  Civil  war.  On  his  eighteenth 
birthday  he  enlisted  in  the  Union  army  and 
was  present  at  the  battles  of  Shiloh  and 
Stone  River,  and  after  the  Atlanta  cam- 
paign marched  with  Sherman  to  the  sea. 
He  was  a  first  lieutenant  of  Company  E, 
Fifty-eight  Indiana,  and  re-enlisted  after 
three  years  of  service.  After  the  war  he 
was  a  member  of  the  Indiana  Loyal  Legion. 
In  1868  Dr.  William  Reed  McMahan 
graduated  from  Rush  Medical  College,  and 
from  that  time  forward  was  a  competent 
and  highly  esteemed  physician  and  surgeon 
at  Huntingburg,  Indiana.  He  also  served 
as  chief  surgeon  of  the  Southwestern  Divi- 
sion of  the  Southern  Railway.  For  several 
years  he  was  a  member  of  the  Board  of 
Control  of  the  Southern  Hospital  for  the 
Insane.  At  the  time  of  his  death  in  1903 
he  was  survived  by  his  second  wife,  Eliza- 
beth (Lukemeyer)  McMahan,  and  his  six 
children.  These  children  are:  Adah  Mc- 
Mahan ;  Nancy,  Mrs.  J.  W.  Jones,  of  Yonk- 
ers,  New  York ;  Wilhelmina,  Mrs  H.  C. 
Rothert,  of  Huntingburg,  Indiana;  Nelle, 


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Mrs.  M.  E.  Niekey,  of  Memphis,  Tennessee ; 
Asher  Keed  McMahan,  M.  D.,  of  Memphis, 
Tennessee ;  and  Catherine,  Mrs.  Lloyd  0. 
Shorty,  of  "Wabash,  Indiana.  All  these 
children  are  graduates  of  Indiana  Univer- 
sity, a  fact  which  of  itself  indicates  the 
high  educational  ideals  of  the  family.  The 
five  daughters  were  high  school  teachers 
after  leaving  the  State  University. 

Adah  McMahan  attended  the  grammar 
and  high  schools  of  her  native  town,  and 
holds  both  the  A.  B.  and  A.  M.  degrees 
from  the  Indiana  State  University.  As  a 
teacher  her  work  was  done  in  the  Girls 
Classical  School  at  Evansville,  Indiana, 
and  in  the  high  school  of  Duluth,  Minne- 
sota. Doctor  McMahan  received  her  degree 
of  medicine  in  1897  from  the  Woman's 
Medical  School  of  Northwestern  University 
at  Chicago.  Almost  at  once  she  located  at 
Lafayette  and  has  enjoyed  twenty  years  of 
congenial  and  useful  work  with  growing 
appreciation  of  her  ability  and  skill  in  the 
profession.  Doctor  McMahan  is  on  the  con- 
sulting staff  of  the  Lafayette  Home  Hos- 
pital, is  on  the  lecture  staff  of  St.  Eliza- 
beth's Hospital,  is  a  member  of  the  Ameri- 
can Medical  Association,  the  Woman's 
Medical  National  Association,  the  Tippe- 
canoe County  Medical  Society  and  the  In- 
diana State  Medical  Association. 

Doctor  McMahan  was  one  of  the  three 
Indiana  women  who  participated  in  the 
Pan-American  Conference  of  Women 
Auxiliary  to  the  Pan-American  Scientific 
Congress  of  1915-16  at  Washington.  She 
is  ex-eh airman  of  Public  Health  of  the  In- 
diana Federation  of  Clubs,  is  a  member  of 
the  Board  of  Directors  of  the  Indiana 
Franchise  League,  and  is  a  life  member 
of  the  Daughters  of  the  American  Revolu- 
tion and  a  member  of  the  Parlor  Club  and 
the  Country  Club  of  Lafayette.  She  was  a 
member  of  Unit  No.  3  given  to  the  Service 
de  Sante  of  France,  and  sent  over  in 
August,  1918,  by  the  Women's  Overseas 
Hospital  Association  under  the  auspices  of 
the  American  Women's  National  Suffrage 
Association.  This  unit,  known  as  the  Gas 
Unit,  was  to  operate  near  the  Front,  giving 
first  and  early  aid  to  the  men  gassed. 
While  awaiting  its  full  equipment,  it  was 
attached  to  the  French  Ambulance  1/86  Z 
at  Cempuis.  After  serving  for  two  months 
there  and  after  the  demand  for  gas  hospi- 
tals had  ceased,  the  civilian  relief  work  in 
the  Lorraine  sector  was  undertaken  in  co- 


operation with  the  American  Fund  for 
French  Wounded.  Doctor  McMahan  was 
in  charge  of  this  work  at  Epinal-Vosges, 
where  free  medical  dispensary  service  were 
given  until  April  1,  1919.  The  civilian 
relief  work  of  this  section  of  France  being 
then  closed  Doctor  McMahan  returned  to 
Indiana  in  May,  1919. 

Vinson  Carter.  Fifty  years  of  con- 
tinuous membership  in  the  Indianapolis 
bar  is  of  itself  a  noteworthy  distinction. 
In  the  case  of  Vinson  Carter  length  of 
service  has  been  accompanied  with  the 
highest  quality  of  professional  attainment, 
leadership  as  a  lawyer  and  citizen,  and 
many  years  of  useful  work  as  a  judge  of 
the  Superior  Court.  His  record  is  one  that 
would  be  conspicuous  for  its  absence  from 
pages  devoted  to  representative  Indianans. 

This  branch  of  the  Carter  family  came 
to  Indiana  when  it  was  a  wilderness  terri- 
tory. The  family  has  been  in  America  for 
two  centuries.  Judge  Carter's  first  Ameri- 
can ancestor  bore  the  name  Nathaniel,  as 
did  several  other  ancestors  in  the  succes- 
sive lineage.  This  original  Nathaniel  was 
born  in  Ireland,  probably  of  Scotch-Irish 
stock,  and  while  living  there  joined  the 
Society  of  Friends.  Between  1720  and 
1730  he  came  from  Dublin  and  settled  in 
Pennsylvania.  Most  of  his  later  descend- 
ants followed  him  tenaciously  in  the  simple 
faith  and  doctrine  of  the  Quaker  religion. 
In  the  next  generation,  Nathaniel  Carter, 
second,  went  from  Pennsylvania  and 
founded  the  family  in  North  Carolina. 
Nathaniel  Carter,  third,  grandfather  of 
Judge  Carter,  was  a  native  of  North  Caro- 
lina, and  in  1804  married  Ann  Ramsey,  a 
native  of  the  same  state.  In  1813  these 
grandparents  migrated  westward  until 
they  came  into  the  wilderness  of  Indiana 
Territory,  which  was  still  a  battle  ground 
between  the  defending  forces  of  civiliza- 
tion and  barbarism  and  also  was  within  the 
scenes  of  the  War  of  1812.  The  Carters 
settled  in  Morgan  County,  where  Nathaniel 
Carter  brought  a  portion  of  the  forest  un- 
der cultivation,  and  where  he  spent  the 
rest  of  his  days. 

John  D.  Carter,  father  of  Judge  Carter, 
was  born  in  North  Carolina  March  1,  1811, 
and  was  two  years  of  age  when  brought 
to  Indiana.  He  spent  a  long  and  useful 
life  as  a  farmer  iu  Morgan  County,  and 
was  a  man  of  high  principles,  an  influen- 


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tial  citizen,  and  very  active  in  the  Society 
of  Friends.  As  a  voter  he  began  as  a 
whig,  but  supported  the  republican  party 
from  the  time  of  its  organization  until  the 
close  of  his  life  on  June  10,  1900.  In 
Morgan  County  he  married  Miss  Ruth 
Pickett.  Her  mother  was  a  granddaughter 
of  Simon  Hadley,  founder  of  the  Hadley 
family  in  Pennsylvania.  Many  of  the 
Hadleys  became  prominent  in  Morgan  and 
Hendricks  counties,  Indiana.  Mrs.  Ruth 
Carter,  who  died  in  1888,  was,  like  her 
husband,  a  devout  member  of  the  Society 
of  Friends. 

Third  in  the  ten  children  of  his  parents, 
Vinson  Carter  inherited  from  both  sides 
many  valuable  characteristics  that  had 
been  exemplified  in  his  own  long  and  use- 
ful career.  He  was  born  on  his  father's 
farm  in  Morgan  County  July  16,  1840,  and 
spent  his  early  life  in  simple  rural  en- 
vironment. He  attended  the  common 
schools,  and  afterwards  for  two  years  con- 
tinued his  higher  education  in  that  noted 
Quaker  institution,  Earlham  College,  at 
Richmond.  The  Civil  war  came  on  when 
he  was  at  the  age  of  twenty-one.  August 
7,  1862,  he  enlisted  as  a  private  in  Com- 
pany E  of  the  Twelfth  Indiana  Volunteer 
Infantry.  His  active  service  was  brief. 
He  was  brought  to  the  fighting  front  at 
Richmond,  Kentucky,  and  there  on  August 
30th,  about  three  weeks  after  his  enlist- 
ment, he  was  seriously  wounded  and  in- 
capacitated for  further  field  duty.  From 
May,  1863,  until  the  close  of  the  war  he 
was  assigned  to  special  duties  as  Indiana 
military  agent  in  Tennessee  and  Georgia. 
His  honorable  discharge  from  the  army 
was  dated  about  April,  1863. 

After  the  war,  in  1865,  Judge  Carter  en- 
tered the  University  of  Indiana  at  Bloom- 
ington  and  graduated  Bachelor  of  Science 
with  the  class  of  1867.  In  the  same  year 
he  was  admitted  to  the  bar  at  Blooming- 
ton,  Inning  studied  law  in  the  office  of 
General  Morton  C.  Hunter.  October  23, 
1867,  he  came  to  Indianapolis,  which  has 
been  his  home  continuously  for  half  a  cen- 
tury. For  almost  thirty  years  he  devoted 
himself  strenuously  to  the  private  prac- 
tice of  law,  allowing  few  other  diversions 
or  interruptions  to  take  his  lime  or  in- 
terests from  his  profession.  He  early 
gained  a  profitable  clientage,  handled  im- 
portant litigation  in  all  the  State  and  Fed- 
eral courts  of  Indiana,  and  was  also  given 


a  generous  share  of  corporation  work.  It 
was  with  the  secure  prestige  of  a  success- 
ful lawyer  that  he  went  upon  the  bench 
of  the  Superior  Court  of  Marion  County 
in  1896,  and  he  continued  to  fill  the  im- 
portant duties  of  that  judicial  place  for 
over  fifteen  years. 

Politically  Judge  Carter  has  always  been 
a  republican.  Aside  from  his  duties  as  a 
judge  the  only  office  he  ever  held  was  as 
a  member  of  the  State  Legislature  of  In- 
diana in  1881-83,  representing  Marion 
Count}'.  During  the  first  session  he  was 
chairman  of  the  judiciary  committee.  He 
and  his  wife  were  members  of  the  Taber- 
nacle Presbyterian  Church  of  Indianap- 
olis, and  he  has  been  a  member  of  the 
session.  He  belongs  to  the  Sigma  Chi  col- 
lege fraternity  and  G.  H.  Thomas  Post 
No.  17,  Grand  Army  of  the  Republic. 

October  1,  1867,  Judge  Carter  married 
Miss  Emma  Maxwell.  She  was  born  and 
received  her  early  education  in  Blooming- 
ton,  and  graduated  in  1864  from  Glen- 
dale  Female  College  at  Glendale,  Ohio. 
She  is  a  daughter  of  Dr.  James  D.  and 
Louisa  (Howe)  Maxwell,  of  Bloomington, 
Indiana.  Her  grandfather,  Dr.  David  H. 
Maxwell,  was  a  prominent  physician,  and 
served  as  a  surgeon  in  the  United  States 
army  in  the  War  of  1812.  He  was  one  of 
the  pioneer  members  of  the  profession  in 
Indiana,  and  late  in  life  was  honored  by 
election  as  a  delegate  to  the  Constitutional 
Convention  of  1850.  Mrs.  Carter's  father 
was  also  a  successful  physician  and  sur- 
geon. Judge  and  Mrs.  Carter  have  one 
child,  Anna.  She  was  born  at  Blooming- 
ton,  Indiana,  August  5,  1870,  and  married 
Herbert  S.  Wood  of  Indianapolis. 

George  W.  Snider,  who  died  at  Indian- 
apolis July  6,  1898,  deserves  more  than 
passing  mention  among  the  self  made  men 
of  Indiana.  While  his  personal  activities 
ceased  more  than  twenty  years  ago,  the 
business  institution  which  he  developed  is 
still  a  substantial  factor  in  Indianapolis 
commercial  affairs,  and  the  influence  of  his 
name  and  character  still  lives  vital  to  the 
city's  welfare. 

Left  an  orphan  at  an  early  age,  George 
W.  Snider  was  not  only  deprived  of  paren- 
tal love  and  care,  but  was  oppressed  by 
many  unusual  hardships.  It  was  a  case  of 
youth  being  exploited  for  the  benefit  of 
others,  and  so  closely  was  his  life  beset  by 


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1831 


oppressive  environment  that  it  was  an 
achievement  in  itself  that  he  overcame 
obstacles  without  number  and  found  an 
outlet  for  his'  ambition.  Finally  breaking 
away  from  his  early  environment  he 
eventually  attained  wealth  and  left  to  his 
descendants  an  unsullied  name. 

George  W.  Snider  was  born  at  Milroy, 
Rush  County,  Indiana,  in  1842.  His  early 
career  lacked  the  pleasant  surroundings 
usually  accorded  a  youth  of  tender  years. 
At  the  age  of  thirteen  he  came  to  Indian- 
apolis. One  chief  qualification  which  he 
brought  with  him  to  the  capital  city  was 
willingness  to  work.  It  was  industry  and 
natural  integrity  that  enabled  him  to  make 
friends  and  start  in  life.  Among  his  early 
experiences  at  Indianapolis  he  helped 
shovel  dirt  from  the  excavation  of  the  site 
of  the  old  Public  Library. 

It  was  in  recognition  of  his  honesty  and 
industry  that  George  W.  Elstun  made  him 
clerk  in  a  country  store  at  the  age  of  sev- 
enteen. In  1862,  while  the  prospects  of 
the  Union  were  at  the  darkest,  Mr.  Snider 
enlisted  in  the  Sixty-Eighth  Indiana  Vol- 
unteer Infantry.  He  was  soon  afterward 
assigned  to  duty  as  hospital  steward  and 
continued  until  honorably  discharged  at 
the  close  of  the  war.  With  the  return  of 
peace  he  attended  a  commercial  college 
and  rapidly  absorbed  the  groundwork  of  a 
commercial  education. 

He  then  became  bookkeeper  for  the  firm 
of  Anderson,  Bulloch  &  Schofield,  and  at 
the  same  time  kept  books  for  the  Hide, 
Leather  and  Belting  Company.  Careful 
economy  gradually  brought  him  a  small 
capital,  and  with  his  experience  he  joined 
three  other  men  in  purchasing  the  Hide, 
Leather  and  Belting  Company.  By  1876, 
at  the  age  of  thirty-four,  Mr.  Snider  was 
sole  proprietor  of  this  business.  His  energy 
and  character  were  given  without  stint  to 
its  development  until  it  became  one  of  the 
most  important  mercantile  establishments 
of  Indianapolis.  Several  years  before  his 
death  he  had  to  give  up  business,  and  his 
last  years  were  spent  as  an  invalid. 

Mr.  Snider  did  much  in  a  philanthropic 
way.  The  Rescue  and  Flower  Missions 
and  the  Young  Men's  and  Young  "Women's 
Christian  Associations  received  substantial 
benefactions  from  his  hands.  He  founded 
the  Lillian  Snider  Home  for  Self-Support- 
ing Girls,  named  in  honor  of  a  daughter 
who  died  in  girlhood.     Mr.  Snider  was  a 


republican  in  politics,  but  never  aspired 
to  public  office.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
Christian  Church.  Through  much  read- 
ing he  became  well  posted  on  the  current 
topics  of  the  day,  and  was  especially  well 
versed  on  tariff  matters,  and  was  considered 
an  authority  on  that  subject.  He  came  to 
know  many  of  the  public  men  of  promi- 
nence, and  among  his  personal  friends  he 
numbered  Benjamin  Harrison  and  General 
Streight  and  others. 

George  W.  Snider  married  Alice  Secrest, 
of  Indianapolis.  Two  children  were  born 
to  them.  The  only  survivor  is  Albert  G. 
Snider,  now  president  of  the  Hide,  Leather 
and  Belting  Company.  He  married  Miss 
Elizabeth  Richard,  of  Indianapolis,  In- 
diana, and  they  have  one  child,  Charles  R. 
Mr.  Albert  G.  Snider  is  a  member  of  the 
Indianapolis  Chamber  of  Commerce  and 
the  Columbia  Club,  and  is  a  republican  in 
politics,  although  not  an  aspirant  to  office. 

Joseph  Holton  Deprees  was  born  at 
Goshen,  Elkhart  County,  Indiana,  April 
10,  1858,  and  has  gained  distinction  as  a 
lawyer.  His  early  educational  training 
was  received  at  old  Earlham  College,  Rich- 
mond, Indiana,  and  in  Northwestern  Uni- 
versity, Illinois.  In  1880  he  was  admitted 
to  the  Indiana  bar,  but  eight  years  later 
removed  to  Chicago,  where  he  has  since 
won  prominent  recognition. 

Mr.  Defrees  married  Harriet  McNaugh- 
ton,  of  Buffalo,  New  York.  They  reside  at 
Hotel  Windermere,  Chicago. 

Chalmers  Martin  Hamill.  While  one 
of  the  younger  members  of  the  Terre 
Haute  bar,  where  he  began  practice  in 
1911,  Mr.  Hamill  achieved  state  wide  if 
not  a  national  reputation  when  in  Feb- 
ruary, 1914,  he  was  appointed  by  the  Vigo 
Circuit  Court  as  special  prosecuting  at- 
torney to  investigate  the  famous  election 
fraud  cases  involved  in  the  choice  of  Don 
M.  Roberts  as  mayor  of  Terre  Haute.  Ac- 
cepting the  duty  as  a  professional  one, 
he  entered  upon  the  discharge  of  it  without 
fear  or  favor.  Later  as  special  assistant  to 
Mr.  Frank  C.  Dailey,  United  States  dis- 
trict attorney,  he  properly  received  a  large 
amount  of  credit  for  the  vigorous  prose- 
cution of  the  case  and  the  subsequent  clear- 
ing up  of  rotten  conditions  in  Terre  Haute 
politics. 

Mr.  Hamill  is  a  native  of  Illinois,  born 


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at  Marshall  August  2,  1884,  a  son  of  Rob- 
ert E.  and  Mary  Payne  (Martin)  Hamill. 
The  paternal  grandfather,  Edward  Joseph 
Hamill,  was  born  in  Edinburgh,  Scotland. 
He  was  educated  for  the  priesthood,  but 
just  before  being  ordained  gave  up  the 
faith  and  in  consequence  was  disowned  by 
his  family  and  never  saw  one  of  them 
again.  He  came  to  the  United  States 
about  1835,  locating  in  Georgia,  where  he 
married  a  Miss  Burns,  a  relative  of  Robert 
Burns  and  first  cousin  of  the  famous  Geor- 
gia statesman,  Alexander  Stephens.  She 
was  born  in  Virginia.  Edward  J.  Hamill 
afterward  became  a  Methodist  minister 
and  was  active  in  that  work  until  his  death. 

Robert  E.  Hamill,  father  of  the  Terre 
Haute  attorney,  was  born  in  Alabama  and 
early  in  life  qualified  himself  for  the  prac- 
tice of  law,  in  which  he  gained  a  very  able 
station.  About  1871  he  moved  to  Illinois, 
first  locating  at  Marshall  and  afterward  at 
Springfield,  where  for  a  time  he  was  a 
partner  in  practice  with  Senator  John  M. 
Palmer.  He  finally  became  general  coun- 
sel for  the  Baltimore  &  Ohio  Railway.  He 
died  after  he  had  held  this  office  one  year, 
at  the  age  of  forty-one.  His  wife,  Mary 
Payne  Martin,  was  a  native  of  Marshall, 
Illinois,  a  daughter  of  William  T.  and 
Elizabeth  (Payne)  Martin.  She  was 
reared  and  educated  in  her  native  place 
and  is  still  living,  a  resident  of  Indianap- 
olis. 

Chalmers  Martin  Hamill,  only  child  of 
his  parents,  grew  up  in  his  native  town 
and  at  Springfield,  Illinois,  and  graduated 
from  the  Terre  Haute  High  School.  In 
1902  he  entered  Philips  Exeter  Academy 
in  New  Hampshire,  and  from  that  splen- 
did preparatory  school  entered  Princeton 
University,  where  he  was  graduated,  in 
1908.  In  the  fall  of  1908  he  entered  the 
Harvard  Law  School  from  which  he  gradu- 
ated in  1911.  Mr.  Hamill  located  in  Terre 
Haute  in  1911  and  rapidly  accumulated  a 
large  general  practice.  In  1913,  after  his 
splendid  work  as  special  prosecutor,  he 
was  appointed  United  States  commissioner 
by  Judge  Anderson,  of  the  Federal  Court. 
He  went  to  Akron,  Ohio,  January  1,  1918, 
as  resident  counsel  of  the  Firestone  Tire 
&  Rubber  Company,  in  charge  of  its  legal 
department.  Mr.  Hamill  is  a  member  of 
the  Indiana  Bar  Association,  the  American 
Bar  Association,  and  is  said  to  possess  one 
of  the  most  complete  law  libraries  in  the 


State  of  Indiana.  One  feature  of  this 
library  is  the  original  edition  of  the  first 
United  States  Supreme  Court  reports, 
probably  the  only  copy  in  the  entire  state. 
Mr.  Hamill  has  been  quite  active  in  the  in- 
terests of  the  democratic  party,  is  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Terre  Haute  Chamber  of  Com- 
merce and  of  the  Masonic  Order. 

Charles  Peddle  Mancourt,  present  city 
comptroller  of  Terre  Haute,  has  been 
busied  with  the  affairs  of  public  office  only 
since  he  retired  from  business,  and  from 
a  long  and  active  career  in  railroading.  It 
is  with  Indiana  railroads  that  the  name 
Mancourt  has  its  chief  historical  associa- 
tions. 

The  Terre  Haute  city  comptroller  is  a 
son  of  the  late  Constant  W.  Mancourt,  who 
died  May  19,  1908,  at  the  age  of  seventy- 
nine.  He  was  born  in  Germantown,  Penn- 
sylvania, and  became  a  pioneer  railroad 
man.  He  came  to  Terre  Haute  about  1851 
from  Madison,  Indiana,  as  a  locomotive  en- 
gineer to  run  an  engine  on  the  old  Terre 
Haute  Railroad,  now  a  part  of  the  Van- 
dalia  system.  An  old  history  of  Terre 
Haute  states  that  he  found  the  rails  under 
fourteen  feet  of  water  at  the  foot  of 
Wabash  Avenue  and  a  few  wheels  and 
axles  on  the  bank  of  the  canal,  where  they 
had  been  unloaded  from  the  canal  boats, 
but  no  railroad.  He  was  busy  during  the 
following  year  in  the  work  of  construc- 
tion. Constant  W.  Mancourt  sold  the  first 
through  ticket  when  railroad  travel  was 
opened  from  Terre  Haute  to  Boston  in 
1854.  He  also  delivered  the  construction 
engines  to  the  Evansville  &  Terre  Haute 
line,  which  began  building  in  1851.  Con- 
stant W.  Mancourt  married  Sarah  Jane 
Scofield,  a  native  of  Cuyahoga  County, 
Ohio.  She  died  in  1888.  In  their  family 
were  seven  children,  all  of  whom  grew  to 
maturity. 

The  fourth  in  age,  Charles  Peddle  Man- 
court,  was  born  in  Terre  Haute  February 
27,  1860.  Practically  throughout  his  en- 
tire life  his  home  has  been  at  Terre  Haute. 
He  received  his  early  education  in  the 
common  schools  and  later  attended  Chris- 
tian Brothers  College  at  St.  Louis,  Missouri. 
He  followed  his  father  into  railroading 
and  was  an  active  employe  of  the  Vandalia 
road  for  twenty-two  years.  For  several 
years  he  was  passenger  conductor  from  St. 
Joseph,    Michigan,    to    Terre    Haute.     In 


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1900  Mr.  Mancourt  engaged  in  the  hotel 
business  as  proprietor  and  owner  of  the 
Albert  Hotel  at  Terre  Haute,  but  sold  out 
that  business  in  1909.  During  the  next 
three  years  he  conducted  the  Variety  Jew- 
elry Store,  and  then  retired  from  active 
business  altogether. 

He  has  always  been  more  or  less  influ- 
ential and  active  in  local  republican  poli- 
tics. He  formerly  served  as  a  member  of 
the  Board  of  Public  Works  of  Terre  Haute, 
and  in  May,  1915,  Mayor  Gossom  ap- 
pointed him  city  comptroller.  He  is  a 
man  who  has  the  welfare  of  his  home  city 
at  heart  and  has  a  most  creditable  public 
as  well  as  private  record.  In  1887  he  mar- 
ried Miss  Mary  C.  Perkins,  of  Terre 
Haute.  They  have  two  children,  Fred  and 
Helen.  Mr.  Mancourt  is  affiliated  with 
the  Masonic  Order  and  with  the  Knights 
of  Pythias. 

Hon.  William  M.  Jones.  Indiana  peo- 
ple have  come  to  know  a  great  deal  about 
Hon.  William  M.  Jones  during  the  last  five 
or  six  years.  He  first  came  into  general 
public  attention  after  his  election  in  1912 
as  Grant  County's  representative  in  the 
Lower  House  of  the  State  Legislature. 
He  was  one  of  the  most  vigorous  and  ag- 
gressive members  of  the  Legislature  in  ad- 
vocating and  promoting  the  broad  basis 
of  public  policies  that  distinguished  the 
Governor  Ralston  administration.  In  1919 
Mr.  Jones'  name  was  presented  to  the 
broader  consideration  of  all  the  people  of 
the  state  when  he  was  nominated  on  the 
democratic  ticket  for  the  office  of  state 
auditor. 

At  home  he  is  known  not  only  as  a 
sterling  democrat,  but  as  a  very  successful 
business  man '  and  stock  farmer  at  Fair- 
mount.  He  began  farming  on  his  own  ac- 
count as  a  renter  when  he  was  twenty-one, 
soon  bought  a  farm,  and  has  been  running 
it  for  over  fifteen  years,  its  location  being 
four  miles  from  Fairmount.  There  is  no 
farming  or  rural  community  in  the  state 
where  his  name  is  not  familiar.  He  is  a 
farmer  of  the  most  practical  and  success- 
ful kind,  and  has  appeared  as  a  speaker 
on  all  subjects  related  to  the  business  of 
crop  and  stock  raising. 

Mr.   Jones  was  born  in   Grant   County 

March  17,  1882,  a  son  of  David  and  Sarah 

(Thomas)    Jones.     He  was  the   oldest   of 

eleven    children.     The    Jones    family    has 
vol.  rv— is 


always  stood  for  the  higher  ideals  of  edu- 
cation and  all  around  efficiency.  During 
his  boyhood  on  the  farm  William  M. 
Jones  mastered  the  fundamentals  of  agri- 
culture and  stock  husbandry  science.  He 
was  also  educated  in  the  common  schools 
and  the  Fairmount  Academy,  and  for  three 
years  was  a  teacher.  Farming  and  stock 
raising  has  been  his  chief  business,  and 
he  has  brought  to  it  a  degree  of  efficiency 
which  has  made  the  Poplarium  farm  in 
Grant  County  widely  known.  He  has 
been  able  to  improve  the  standards  of  live- 
stock husbandry  in  his  native  state,  in  ad- 
dition to  the  power  he  wields  in  politics. 
For  four  years  he  was  with  the  extension 
department  of  Purdue  in  farmers  institute 
work,  served  as  president  of  the  Grant 
County  Farmers  Institute  Association  in 
1912-13,  as  vice  president  of  the  Indiana 
Livestock  Breeders  Association  in  1913-14, 
is  a  director  of  the  Indiana  Cattle  Feed- 
ers Association,  president  of  the  Indiana 
Federation  of  Agricultural  Associations, 
and  financial  secretary  of  the  Indiana 
State  Board  of  Agriculture.  He  also  has 
a  number  of  business  interests  at  Indian- 
apolis. 

Since  early  manhood  Mr.  Jones  has  been 
interested  in  politics  as  a  matter  of  good 
government,  and  was  only  thirty  years  of 
age  when  he  was  elected  by  a  majority  of 
nearly  600  from  a  republican  community 
to  the  State  Legislature.  He  also  found 
time  to  engage  in  war  activities,  especially 
in  Liberty  Loan  drives,  Red  Cross,  Young 
Men's  Christian  Association,  and  other 
auxiliary  movements.  He  is  affiliated 
with  the  Masons  at  Fairmount,  with  the 
Knights  of  Pythias  of  Marion  and  the  In- 
dependent Order  of  Odd  Fellows  at  Hack- 
leman.  He  and  his  family  are  all  mem- 
bers of  the  Friends  Church. 

October  12,  1904,  he  married  Lucy  L. 
Winslow,  daughter  of  Webster  J.  Winslow 
of  Fairmount.  Mrs.  Jones  is  a  graduate 
of  Fairmount  Academy.  They  have  four 
children :  Marv  L.,  Bob  W.,  S.  Pauline  and 
W.   Ruth. 

Edgar  M.  Cawley  is  founder,  president 
and  director  of  the  Indianapolis  Conserva- 
tory of  Music.  Established  over  twenty 
years  ago,  this  conservatory  has  become 
deeply  rooted  as  one  of  the  fundamental 
institutions  in  the  artistic  life  and  devel- 
opment of  its  home  city  and  the  state.     Its 


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success  and  influence  have  been  largely  due 
to  the  development  of  the  high  ideals  of 
its  founder.  It  is  not  the  type  of  music 
school  so  frequently  found  and  called  con- 
servatory, a  loosely  organized  and  co-oper- 
ating group  of  teachers,  but  is  a  complete 
exemplification  of  the  university  idea, 
where  every  department  and  individual 
fit  into  the  broad  plan,  the  leading  motive 
of  which  is  to  furnish  a  complete  musical 
equipment  and  education,  embracing  the 
three  principal  branches  of  music,  piano- 
forte, voice,  and  violin,  together  with  aux- 
iliary courses  of  study  in  public  school 
music,  expression,  social  art,  languages, 
etc.  From  time  to  time  new  courses  and 
facilities  have  been  added,  and  in  1918  the 
school  further  broadened  its  curriculum 
by  the  addition  of  a  course  in  domestic 
science. 

It  is  in  fact  a  school  of  genuine  distinc- 
tion and  is  the  only  conservatory  of  music 
in  Indiana  that  has  been  thoroughly  built 
up  and  maintained  with  the  rank  of  uni- 
versity. 

While  the  school  has  an  impressive  rec- 
ord as  to  patronage,  talented  faculty  and 
real  leadership  in  musical  affairs,  its  most 
significant  feature  is  doubtless  the  idea 
and  the  ideal  that  underlies  and  guides 
its  work,  and  which  has  been  expressed  as 
follows :  To  prepare  the  boy  or  girl  for  life 
in  its  larger  significance  and  in  art  as  it 
is  related  to  the  daily  life  to  be  lived;  to 
inculcate  the  truth  that  all  music  is  sub- 
jective from  within ;  that  the  more  funda- 
mental the  general  education,  the  deeper 
the  knowledge  of  self,  the  more  individ- 
ualized and  artistic  the  musical  concept ; 
that  to  perform  well  would  signify  to  cre- 
ate rather  than  to  imitate — to  reveal 
rather  than  to  merely  read  notes;  that  to 
sing  is  more  to  bear  a  message;  to  inter- 
pret the  poet — to  relate  heart  to  heart, 
rather  than  to  render  simply  beautiful 
tones  and  technical  effects." 

The  founder  of  the  conservatory,  Edgar 
M.  Cawley,  was  born  at  Pyrmont  in  Mont- 
gomery County,  Ohio,  son  of  John  W.  and 
Mary  Emma  (Moore)  Cawley,  the  former 
a  native  of  Pennsylvania  and  the  latter  of 
Ohio.  When  he  was  six  years  old  the  fam- 
ily moved  to  Eldorado,  Ohio,  in  which  lo- 
cality he  grew  toward  manhood  and  had 
many  of  his  early  advantages  in  the  public 
schools.  When  he  was  sixteen  years  old 
the   family  moved  to   Hartford   City,   In- 


diana. Mr.  Cawley  began  his  musical  edu- 
cation in  Richmond,  Indiana,  and  later 
went  to  Cincinnati  and  for  seven  years 
was  a  student  in  the  Cincinnati  Conserva- 
tory of  Music.  His  finishing  work  was 
done  at  Leipsic,  Germany,  where  for  three 
years  he  was  a  student  under  the  famous 
Dr.  Karl  Reinecke.  Doctor  Reinecke  is  a 
master  of  the  pianoforte  and  a  composer 
who  among  contemporary  musicians  ranks 
as  high  in  his  art  as  did  Bach,  Schumann, 
and  others  in  their  generation. 

Returning  from  Europe  in  May,  1897, 
Mr.  Cawley  located  at  Indianapolis  in  the 
fall  of  that  year,  and  then  established  the 
Indianapolis  Conservatory  of  Music.  It 
had  an  unostentatious  beginning  in  a  mod- 
est suite  of  apartments  on  North  Illinois 
Street  but  practically  every  year  has  wit- 
nessed a  raising  of  standards  as  well  as  an 
increase  in  its  facilities.  It  has  had  four 
successive  homes,  and  in  August,  1917,  the 
Conservatory  was  established  in  its  pres- 
ent beautiful  location,  built  for  the  special 
purpose  on  Middle  Drive.  The  Conserva- 
tory is  incorporated  under  the  laws  of  In- 
diana and  is  an  Indiana  institution  of 
which  the  citizens  of  the  state  may  well  be 
proud. 

While  a  student  at  Leipsic  Mr.  Cawley 
married  Miss  Sarah  Scorgie,  of  Aberdeen, 
Scotland.  She  was  also  there  as  a  student, 
and  she  returned  to  America  with  her  hus- 
band. She  is  a  teacher  of  violin  in  the 
Conservatory. 

Edwin  M.  Porter.  The  leading  indus- 
trial interests  of  the  city  of  Shelbyville 
are  furniture  manufacture,  and  probably 
no  one  firm  in  Indiana  has  been  longer  in 
the  business  and  has  found  a  more  wide- 
spread and  steady  distribution  of  its  prod- 
ucts than  the  C.  H.  Campbell  Furniture 
Company,  manufacturers  of  hall  furniture, 
bed  room  furniture  and  desks. 

The  president  and  active  head  of  the 
business  is  Edwin  M.  Porter,  who  has  been 
identified  with  the  commercial  life  of  Shel- 
byville for  nearly  thirty  years.  He  was 
born  at  Greensburg  in  Decatur  County,  In- 
diana, July  7,  1869,  son  of  Edwin  S.  and 
Mary  Hester  (Jackson)  Porter.  His 
father,  a  native  of  Connecticut,  came  alone 
to  the  west  in  1854  and  was  one  of  the 
pioneer  settlers  at  Greensburg.  For  a 
time  he  worked  at  his  trade  as  a  carpenter, 
later  established  and  operated  a  sawmill, 


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1835 


and  also  introduced  planing  machinery. 
He  also  developed  a  large  contracting  busi- 
ness, and  used  a  large  share  of  the  prod- 
uct of  his  mills  in  building  construction. 
About  thirty-five  years  ago  he  retired  with 
a  well  earned  competency  from  business 
and  died  at  Greensburg  in  1916.  He  had 
been  an  elder  in  the  Presbyterian  Church 
for  sixty  years,  had  filled  all  the  chairs  in 
the  Independent  Order  of  Odd  Fellows, 
and  was  a  republican  in  politics.  He  had 
a  family  of  seven  children,  five  sons  and 
two  daughters,  four  sons  and  one  daughter 
still  surviving. 

The  fifth  in  age  among  these  children, 
Edwin  M.  Porter  received  his  education 
in  the  Greensburg  public  schools  and  came 
to  Shelbyville  at  the  age  of  twenty-one. 
His  first  enterprise  here  was  the  retail 
grocery  business,  which  he  continued  for 
eighteen  years.  After  retiring  from  the 
grocery  business  he  was  a  member  of  the 
firm  of  Meloy  &  Porter  for  four  years.  He 
and  his  partner  also  entered  the  contract- 
ing business,  taking  contracts  for  street 
and  sidewalk  construction  in  Shelbyville 
and  elsewhere.  In  1911  Mr.  Porter  ac- 
quired the  chief  interest  in  the  C.  H. 
Campbell  Furniture  Company,  which  was 
established  in  1880  and  has  always  main- 
tained a  high  reputation  for  its  products. 
Under  the  present  ownership  and  manage- 
ment the  plant  has  80,000  square  feet  of 
floor  space,  equipped  with  all  the  modern 
machinery  and  facilities  for  the  manufac- 
ture of  furniture  products.  The  plant 
makes  its  own  electricity  for  lighting  and 
power,  and  more  than  100  persons  find 
employment  through  this  business.  Ed- 
win M.  Porter  is  president  and  Earle  M. 
Porter  is  secretary  and  treasurer. 

Mr.  Porter  is  a  republican  in  politics, 
member  of  the  Presbyterian  Church  and 
is  affiliated  with  the  Independent  Order 
of  Odd  Fellows,  the  Modern  "Woodmen  of 
America  and  the  Benevolent  and  Protec- 
tive Order  of  Elks. 

On  September  28,  1893,  at  Shelbyville, 
he  married  Miss  Bertha  Thompson,  who 
was  reared  and  educated  in  that  city,  a 
daughter  of  Samuel  Thompson.  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Porter  have  two  sons,  Earle  M.  and 
Edwin  P.  The  latter  is  now  attending 
the  Tennessee  Military  School  at  Sweet- 
water, Tennessee.  The  older  son  has  been 
a   soldier   with   perhaps   the   most    distin- 


guished division  of  the  American  army  in 
France,  the  Rainbow  Division.  He  is  a 
graduate  of  high  school  and  was  a  stu- 
dent in  the  University  of  Michigan.  The 
Rainbow  Division  was  made  up  of  the 
choicest  National  Guard  troops  from  the 
North  Central  states.  He  went  in  as  a 
private,  became  corporal  and  sergeant,  and 
his  active  service  has  been  with  Battery  E 
of  the  One  Hundred  and  Fiftieth  Artil- 
lery. He  has  been  with  the  division 
through  war  service,  and  while  at  this  writ- 
ing with  the  Army  of  Occupation  in  Ger- 
many, the  Rainbow  Division  has  already 
been  detailed  for  an  early  return. 

Charles  Edson  Martin  is  one  of  the 
veteran  newspaper  publishers  of  Indiana, 
having  for  nearly  thirty-five  years  been 
proprietor  and  editor  of  the  Westville  In- 
dicator. This  record  constitutes  a  distinc- 
tion appreciated  by  all  who  understand 
the  difficulties  and  complexities  of  manag- 
ing a  newspaper  devoted  to  the  people  and 
interests  of  a  small  home  community. 

Mr.  Martin  is  a  native  of  Westville, 
having  been  born  there  October  8,  1862. 
He  is  a  member  of  an  old  and  prominent 
family.  Mr.  C.  W.  Francis  of  LaPorte  re- 
cently compiled  a  genealogy  of  the  Martin 
family.  From  this  it  is  learned  that 
Charles  E.  Martin  is  a  lineal  descendant 
of  Isaac  Martin,  who  lived  in  Rehobeth, 
Massachusetts,  as  early  as  1664.  The  line 
of  descent  is  as  follows:  1,  Isaac,  of  Reho- 
beth ;  2,  John,  who  married  Hester  Rob- 
erts ;  3,  Thomas,  who  married  Rebecca  Hig- 
gins ;  4,  Isaac,  who  married  Hannah  — ;  5, 
Isaac ;  6,  Isaac,  who  married  Phoebe  Webb 
Harland ;  and  7,  Abraham,  great-grand- 
father of  the  Westville  editor. 

Abraham  Martin  was  born  in  New  Jer- 
sey and  married  Naomi  Davis.  They 
moved  to  Pennsylvania,  later  to  Ohio,  set- 
tling in  Athens,  and  lived  there  many 
years. 

Isaac  D.  Martin,  grandfather  of  Charles 
E.,  was  born  in  Pennsylvania  and  was 
young  when  his  parents  moved  to  Ohio. 
He  lived  there  until  1837,  when  he  came 
to  LaPorte  County,  making  the  journey 
by  wagon  and  team.  He  lived  for  a  time 
in  Kankakee  Township,  later  in  New  Dur- 
ham Township,  and  bought  land  adjoining 
the  Town  of  Westville  and  extending  a 
mile  and  a  half  north.     He  had  learned 


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the  trade  of  millwright,  and  established 
sawmills  in  different  places,  and  was  one 
of  the  early  day  lumber  manufacturers. 

Sloan  D.  Martin,  father  of  Charles  E., 
was  born  near  Athens,  Ohio,  in  1837,  and 
was  a  small  infant  when  his  parents  came 
to  northern  Indiana.  He  assisted  his 
father  in  the  mill,  and  being  a  natural  me- 
chanic developed  a  high  degree  of  skill 
and  considerable  inventive  genius.  He 
built  the  first  velocipede  ever  seen  in  this 
part  of  Indiana.  After  reaching  man- 
hood he  was  associated  with  his  father  as  a 
partner  in  the  lumber  business  until  1862. 
He  enlisted  at  South  Bend  in  1862  in  Com- 
pany H  of  the  Eighty-Seventh  Indiana 
Infantry,  and  was  made  first  lieutenant. 
He  was  in  the  battle  of  Stone  River,  and 
at  Chickamauga  he  was  put  in  acting  com- 
mand of  his  company  and  while  at  the 
front  was  instantly  killed  on  September 
19,  1863. 

Captain  Martin  married  Mary  Jane  Mc- 
Ginley,  who  was  born  in  Ohio  in  1835  and 
died  in  1887.  She  was  a  daughter  of  Rev. 
William  and  Eunice  McGinley.  William 
McGinley,  a  native  of  Scotland,  was  an 
early  day  minister  of  the  Methodist 
Church. 

Charles  E.  Martin  was  one  of  two  chil- 
dren, his  sister,  Clara,  dying  at  the  age  of 
six  years.  He  was  born  October  8,  1862. 
He  attended  school  at  Westville,  graduat- 
ing from  high  school  in  1881.  He  began 
learning  the  trade  of  printer  at  the  age  of 
eighteen,  and  in  1882  he  and  M.  T.  Stokes 
established  the  Monon  Times  at  Monon,  In- 
diana. On  account  of  ill  health  he  had  to 
give  up  work  with  that  paper  and  soon 
returned  to  Westville.  From  there  he 
went  to  Towanda,  Butler  County,  Kansas, 
and  for  a  year  and  a  half  had  charge  of  a 
paper  in  that  town.  In  the  spring  of 
1885  Mr.  Martin  bought  a  half  interest  in 
the  Westville  Indicator,  and  a  year  later 
became  sole  owner.  He  has  always  made 
it  a  point  to  publish  a  good  home  paper, 
has  kept  the  Indicator  stanchly  aligned 
with  the  principles  and  policies  of  the  re- 
publican party,  and  with  the  aid  of  Mrs. 
Martin  has  conducted  such  a  newspaper  as 
is  a  credit  to  the  county. 

July  16,  1880,  Mr.  Marl  in  married  Miss 
Rosanna  M.  Culbortson.  She  was  born  in 
Montgomery  County  October  27,  1869, 
daughter  of  Rev.  Abram  and  Rachel  J. 
(Sanders)      Cnlbertson,     of     Scotch     and 


Welsh  ancestry.  Her  father  was  born  at 
Athens,  Ohio,  son  of  Rev.  Abram  Cavault 
Culbertson,  whose  birth  occurred  in  1798 
and  who  was  an  early  settler  in  Ohio.  He 
was  a  preacher  of  the  United  Brethren 
Church,  and  was  one  of  the  pioneers  of 
that  denomination  in  Indiana.  He  died  in 
1864.  He  married  Naomi  Colvin,  who 
reached  the  advanced  age  of  ninety-four. 
Mrs.  Martin's  father  grew  up  in  Ohio, 
joined  the  Christian  Church  during  his 
youth  and  at  the  age  of  twenty  entered 
the  ministry.  He  preached  in  Delaware 
and  Clinton  counties,  Indiana,  and  in  1875 
removed  his  family  to  Iowa,  traveling  by 
wagon  and  team.  He  was  an  eloquent 
preacher  and  also  had  the  gift  of  song,  this 
combination  making  him  a  power  in  evan- 
gelistic work.  He  carried  on  this  work  in 
different  parts  of  the  country  for  many 
years,  living  in  Iowa  twelve  years.  He 
finally  returned  to  Indiana  and  spent  his 
last  years  in  Westville,  where  he  died  Jan- 
uary 4,  1903.  The  maiden  name  of  Mrs. 
Martin's  mother  was  Rachel  Jane  Sanders, 
who  was  born  February  25,  1847,  and  was 
also  a  gifted  and  cultured  woman  who  had 
taught  school  in  Indiana  before  her  mar- 
riage. Her  father,  James  Steele  Sanders, 
was  born  near  Richmond,  Virginia,  in 
1809,  while  her  grandfather  was  a  native 
of  London,  England.  James  S.  Sanders 
came  to  Indiana  and  was  an  early  settler 
in  Lake  County,  and  while  there  served  as 
postmaster  at  Deer  Creek  and  also  at  Deep 
Creek.  He  moved  to  Porter  County  and 
was  postmaster  at  Wheeler  and  at  Jackson 
Center.  He  then  established  a  home  in 
Westville,  for  many  years  was  justice  of 
the  peace  and  was  called  upon  to  act  as  ad- 
ministrator for  numerous  estates.  He  was 
a  Methodist,  a  leader  in  his  church,  and  his 
home  was  headquarters  for  visiting  minis- 
ters and  presiding  elders.  He  died  at  the 
advanced  age  of  eighty-two.  The  maiden 
name  of  his  wife  was  Mary  Ann  Haines, 
who  was  born  at  Greensburg,  Westmore- 
land County,  Pennsylvania,  September  4, 
1808. 

Mrs.  Martin  was  educated  in  the  La- 
Porte  city  schools,  graduated  from  the 
Rolling  Prairie  High  School,  and  has  al- 
ways been  a  woman  of  strong  intellectual 
interests  and  deserves  much  of  the  credit 
for  the  success  of  the  Indicator.  In  1907 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Martin  served  as  clerk  of  the 
Indiana  State  Senate,  and  Mrs.  Martin  was 


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the  first  woman  who  was  ever  officially  rec- 
ognized in  that  office.  She  is  a  notary 
public  and  is  now  studying  law  and  ex- 
pects soon  to  be  admitted  to  the  bar.  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Martin  have  no  children  of  their 
own,  but  have  reared  two  adopted  chil- 
dren. They  are  the  children  of  Mrs.  Mar- 
tin's sister,  who  died  when  they  were  very 
young.  Their  names  are  Myrtle  and  Vic- 
tor. Myrtle  is  now  the  wife  of  Lewis  Ha- 
gens.  Victor  tried  to  get  into  the  United 
States  Army  in  1914  but  was  rejected  by 
the  examining  surgeon.  Soon  afterward 
he  went  to  Canada  and  enlisted,  was  ac- 
cepted and  after  training  for  several 
months  was  ordered  overseas.  He  was 
again  examined  and  rejected  and  was  sent 
home  with  an  honorable  discharge.  After 
a  few  months  he  returned  to  Canada,  re- 
enlisted,  and  this  time  was  successful  in 
his  ambition  to  serve  overseas  and  was 
with  the  Canadian  troops  in  France  when 
the  fighting  ceased. 

Mr.  Martin  is  affiliated  with  Westville 
Lodge  No.  136,  Independent  Order  of  Odd 
Fellows,  and  he  and  his  wife  are  members 
of  Silver  Star  Rebekah  Lodge,  Mrs.  Martin 
being  a  past  noble  grand  and  past  grand 
treasurer.  He  is  also  a  member  of  West- 
ville Lodge  No.  152,  Ancient  Free  and  Ac- 
cepted Masons,  and  both  are  members  of 
Westville  Chapter  No.  133  of  the  Eastern 
Star,  Mrs.  Martin  being  a  past  matron. 

William  Howard  Laglei  has  been  a 
striving  and  earnestly  working  business 
man  for  a  number  of  years,  and  has  gradu- 
ally concentrated  his  interests  into  the  line 
of  ice  cream  manufacture.  He  is  now  sole 
proprietor  of  the  Lagle  Ice  Cream  Com- 
pany, one  of  the  largest  wholesale  concerns 
of  its  kind  in  Central  Indiana.  His  plant 
and  business  for  a  number  of  years  has 
been  at  Anderson. 

Mr.  Lagle  was  born  on  a  farm  in  Mont- 
gomery County,  Indiana,  in  Adams  Town- 
ship, April  21,  1877,  a  son  of  William  T. 
and  Elizabeth  Ann  (Harvey)  Lagle.  He 
is  of  German  and  English  stock.  His  an- 
cestors first  settled  in  South  Carolina,  and 
afterwards  moved  to  Orange  County  in 
southern  Indiana,  locating  at  Paola.  They 
cleared  a  tract  of  government  land.  It  was 
poor  soil,  but  the  family  continued  their 
labors  until  they  had  400  acres  under  cul- 
tivation and  in  a  highly  productive  con- 
dition. 


William  Howard  Lagle  was  educated  in 
the  public  schools  of  Ladoga.  He  entered 
Wabash  College  in  1894,  but  stayed  only  a 
short  time  and  left  school  to  go  to  work. 
The  next  five  years  he  was  a  farm  laborer 
in  Montgomery  County,  and  part  of  the 
time  received  only  ten  dollars  a  month.  On 
January  1,  1901,  he  made  his  first  acquaint- 
ance with  the  City  of  Anderson,  and  for 
four  months  did  night  work  with  the  Amer- 
ican Tin  Plate  Company.  He  was  a  musi- 
cian, and  secured  this  position  on  account 
of  his  musical  abilities.  He  was  next  with 
Couden  &  Shackelford,  wholesale  fruit  and 
vegetables,  for  one  year,  and  then  took  up 
an  entirely  new  line,  selling  life  insurance 
with  the  Metropolitan  Life  Insurance 
Company.  He  made  a  good  record  with 
this  company  for  three  years.  Having  in 
the  meantime  accumulated  a  modest  capi- 
tal, on  May  23,  1903,  he  became  an  ice 
cream  manufacturer.  He  established  a 
wholesale  business  at  Lincoln  Street  and 
the  Big  Four  Railway  tracks,  and  con- 
ducted it  successfully  in  that  location  for 
five  years,  and  was  then  at  22  West  14th 
Street  until  December  27,  1915.  Selling 
out,  he  went  to  Washington,  D.  C,  and 
was  plant  manager  for  the  Fussell  Ice 
Cream  Company  of  that  city  for  one  year. 
Resigning,  he  returned  to  Anderson,  and 
on  October  20,  1916,  bought  his  old  plant, 
which  in  the  meantime  had  been  moved 
to  1403  Meridian  Street.  That  is  his  pres- 
ent business  headquarters,  and  he  has  a 
business  which  supplies  the  retail  trade 
for  a  radius  of  fifty  miles  around  Ander- 
son. Mr.  Lagle  has  also  acquired  some 
other  valuable  property,  principally  real 
estate. 

October  14,  1903,  he  married  Miss  Hen- 
rietta Biest,  daughter  of  Louis  and  Mar- 
garet (Miller)  Biest.  He  was  appointed 
and  served  during  1911-12  as  inspector  of 
weights  and  measures  for  Madison  County, 
but  resigned  in  order  to  give  his  business 
his  entire  attention.  He  was  also  ap- 
pointed and  served  three  months  as  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Anderson  Health  Board,  but 
resigned  June  3,  1918.  He  is  affiliated 
with  the  Masonic  Order,  the  Benevolent 
and  Protective  Order  of  Elks,  United 
Commercial  Travelers,  the  Travelers  Pro- 
tective Association  and  the  Travelers 
Health  Association,  is  a  member  of  the 
Anderson  Chamber  of  Commerce  and  of 
the    Presbyterian    Church.     His    name    is 


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usually  associated  with  any  promising 
movement  for  the  general  and  local  wel- 
fare. 

Burton  Lee  French,  prominent  in  the 
ranks  of  the  republican  party,  was  a  mem- 
ber of  Congress  from  Idaho  from  1903  to 
1907,  from  1911  to  1915,  and  from  1917 
to  1919,  at-large.  He  was  admitted  to  the 
bar  in  1903,  and  has  since  been  identified 
with  the  law  at  Moscow,  Idaho.  He  was  a 
member  of  the  Idaho  House  of  Represen- 
tatives from  1898  to  1902. 

Mr.  French  was  born  at  Delphi,  Indiana, 
August  1,  1875,  a  son  of  Charles  A.  and 
Mina  P.  (Fischer)  French.  In  1880  he 
became  a  resident  of  Kearney,  Nebraska, 
and  in  1882  located  in  Idaho.  He  attended 
both  the  University  of  Idaho  and  the  Uni- 
versity of  Chicago.  On  the  28th  of  June, 
1904,  Mr.  French  was  married  to  Winifred 

Hartley,  of  Norfolk,  Nebraska. 

i 

Alvah  Edmund  Mogle,  deputy  state  in- 
spector of  weights  and  measures,  with 
home  and  headquarters  at  Terre  Haute,  is 
a  man  of  varied  and  interesting  experience, 
has  been  a  farmer,  has  been  in  various 
lines  of  commercial  endeavor  and  has  given 
many  years  to  public  affairs  in  different 
county  and  municipal  offices. 

He  was  born  on  a  farm  in  Fulton  County, 
Indiana,  July  16,  186-4,  a  son  of  Thomas 
and  Mary  Jane  (Sparks)  Mogle.  His 
grandfather,  Jacob  Mogle,  spelled  the  name 
Mokel  and  was  of  German  ancestry.  The 
maternal  line  is  of  English  ancestry. 
Thomas  Mogle  was  born  in  Mai'ion  County, 
Ohio,  and  was  brought  to  Indiana  when  a 
boy,  while  Mary  Jane  Sparks  was  born  in 
this  state,  and  her  father,  Rev.  Jesse 
Sparks,  was  widely  known  as  a  pioneer 
Methodist  Episcopal  minister.  Thomas  Mo- 
gle and  wife  were  married  in  Fulton 
County,  located  on  a  tract  of  unimproved 
land,  which  he  cleared  up  and  made  into 
a  farm,  and  was  identified  with  its  cultiva- 
tion until  his  death  in  1896.  The  mother 
passed  away  in  1913,  at  seventy-one.  Of 
their  five  children  throe  are  living.  Mary 
Frances  is  the  widow  of  Adam  Grube,  of 
Fulton  County,  Indiana.  Orpha,  the 
youngest  of  the  children,  is  the  wife  of 
Ernest  Rcimanschneider. 

The  boyhood  days  of  Alvah  Edmund 
Mogle  were  spent  on  the  old  farm  in  Ful- 
ton County.     The  training  he   received   in 


the  local  schools  was  supplemented  by  a 
thorough  course  in  the  Indiana  State  Nor- 
mal at  Terre  Haute,  and  he  also  attended 
a  business  college.  In  1883  he  married 
Miss  Mamie  Miller,  daughter  of  Elias  and 
Amanda  Miller,  of  Fulton  County,  In- 
diana. Mrs.  Mogle  is  a  graduate  of  the 
State  Normal  School  of  Terre  Haute  and 
has  been  very  active  in  club  and  social 
life.  She  is  state  secretary  of  the  Ladies' 
of  the  Grand  Army  of  the  Republic. 

After  his  marriage  Mr.  Mogle  took  up 
farming  and  also  taught  school  in  Fulton 
County  during  winter  terms.  About  1890 
he  came  to  Terre  Haute,  taught  school  in 
this  city  one  term,  and  then  for  fourteen 
years  was  in  the  local  postoffice.  He  was 
also  connected  with  various  county  offices, 
including  the  county  treasurer,  the  county 
auditor,  and  the  county  assessor's  offices. 
For  one  summer  he  was  engaged  in  gen- 
eral construction  and  contracting  work. 
Mr.  Mogle  was  appointed  to  his  present 
office  of  deputy  state  inspector  of  weights 
and  measures  in  August,  1914,  and  brought 
to  his  duties  unusual  qualifications  and  has 
given  exceptional  service. 

For  twenty-seven  years  he  has  been  af- 
filiated with  the  Knights  of  Pythias  and  is 
also  a  member  of  the  Modern  Woodmen  of 
America.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Mogle  have  one 
daughter,  Leila  B.,  wife  of  Walter  S.  Mac- 
Nabb.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  MacNabb  are  at  present 
in  India,  where  Mr.  MacNabb  is  connected 
with  the  Tata  Iron  &  Steel  Company. 

Charles  S.  Batt,  a  lawyer  whose  work 
has  brought  him  enviable  prominence  in 
Terre  Haute,  has  also  been  a  figure  in  the 
democratic  party  in  western  Indiana,  and 
has  enjoyed  a  number  of  offices  of  trust 
and  responsibility.  He  is  now  serving  as 
Terre  Haute  city  attorney. 

He  was  born  among  the  hills  of  southern 
Indiana  at  Salem  February  2,  1872,  a  son 
of  William  and  Verlinda  J.  (Kirby)  Batt, 
his  father  a  native  of  England  and  his 
mother  of  Virginia.  William  Batt  came 
to  America  when  a  young  man  and  ac- 
quired a  farm  south  of  Salem,  Indiana. 
From  agriculture  he  finally  transferred 
his  attention  to  manufacturing  and  became 
one  of  the  department  heads  of  the  Depue 
Glass  Works.  He  died  in  his  seventy-first 
year  and  his  wife  at  the  age  of  sixty-seven. 

Charles  S.  Batt  was  the  youngest  of  six 
children,  all  of  whom  grew  to  maturity, 


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but  the  only  other  one  now  living  is  Mrs. 
Lillian  M.  Kurfess,  of  New  Albany. 

The  environment  of  Charles  S.  Batt's 
childhood  and  early  youth  were  Salem  and 
New  Albany.  He  attended  the  common 
and  high  schools  of  New  Albany,  and  his 
first  position  as  a  wage  earner  was  in  the 
offices  of  the  Monon  and  Big  Four  Rail- 
ways at  Louisville,  Kentucky.  While  per- 
forming the  routine  duties  of  his  clerical 
position  he  studied  law  and  afterward  en- 
tered the  law  department  of  the  Univer- 
sity of  Michigan  at  Ann  Arbor,  where  he 
was  graduated  LL.  B.  in  the  spring  of  1904. 
The  same  year  he  came  to  Terre  Haute  to 
practice  and  has  been  a  capable  member  of 
the  Vigo  County  bar  for  fourteen  years. 
In  1909  Mr.  Batt  was  elected  city  judge, 
and  filled  that  office  four  consecutive  years. 
In  1914  he  was  appointed  city  attorney 
for  one  year,  the  next  year  was  county 
attorney,  and  then  resumed  his  duties  in 
the  city  attorney's  office. 

Mr.  Batt  sat  as  a  delegate  in  the  Balti- 
more National  Convention  of  the  demo- 
cratic party  when  Woodrow  Wilson  was 
first  nominated  for  the  presidency.  He  is 
an  active  member  of  the  Terre  Haute 
Chamber  of  Commerce,  is  a  member  of  the 
Fort  Harrison  Country  Club,  is  past  emi- 
nent commander  of  the  Knights  Templar 
and  a  thirty-second  degree  Mason.  In 
1907  he  married  Florence  M.  Wyeth, 
daughter  of  Henry  Wyeth,  of  Terre  Haute. 
Two  children  were  born  to  them.  The 
daughter  is  Virginia  Marie.  The  son, 
Charles  Stacy,  Jr.,  died  at  the  age  of  three 
years. 

Wilbur  Clark  Roush.  One  of  the  sub- 
stantial business  men  and  citizens  of  In- 
diana, Mr.  Roush  has  been  identified  with 
the  city  of  Anderson  for  over  twenty 
years,  and  most  of  that  time  as  an  enter- 
prising figure  in  the  drug  business.  While 
he  now  has  a  number  of  interests,  his  chief 
time  and  attention  are  given  to  the  hand- 
some and  well  equipped  pharmacy  at  Ninth 
and  Main  streets,  at  one  corner  of  the  pub- 
lic square. 

Mr.  Roush  is  a  native  of  Ohio,  born  at 
Hillsboro  in  Highland  County  in  1866,  son 
of  George  and  Elizabeth  (Tederick)  Roush. 
There  is  an  interesting  genealogy  of  the 
Roush  family.  Originally  they  were  of  a 
German  province,  but  came  to  America  in 
early  colonial  days,  and  many  generations 


of  them  have  lived  in  eastern  Pennsyl- 
vania. The  great-great-grandfather  of 
Wilbur  C.  Roush  was  a  Revolutionary  sol- 
dier. W.  C.  Roush 's  father  added  to  the 
military  record  of  the  family  by  service  in 
the  Civil  war.  From  Pennsylvania  the 
Roushs  moved  westward  to  Highland 
County,  Ohio,  where  they  established  them- 
selves early  enough  to  secure  a  tract  of  gov- 
ernment land,  which  they  cleared  up  and 
devoted  to  the  uses  of  agriculture.  George 
Roush  was  born  on  that  old  farm,  and  it 
was  also  the  birthplace  of  Wilbur  C.  Roush. 
The  latter  had  four  brothers  and  one 
sister. 

He  was  educated  in  country  schools  and 
at  the  age  of  sixteen  entered  the  Hillsboro 
High  School,  from  which  he  was  grad- 
uated in  1886.  He  had  other  designs  and 
ambitions  than  to  spend  his  life  as  a 
farmer,  and  as  equipment  for  his  career 
he  needed  a  thorough  education.  He  en- 
tered the  National  Normal  University  at 
Lebanon,  Ohio,  and  spent  three  years  there 
in  the  scientific  and  pharmacy  courses. 
While  studying  pharmacy  from  text  books 
he  was  also  getting  a  practical  knowledge 
of  the  trade  by  work  a  large  part  of  the 
day  and  part  of  the  night  in  the  Graham 
Brothers  drug  store  at  Lebanon.  This 
combination  of  theoretical  and  practical 
experience  he  continued  until  he  graduated 
from  school  in  1889,  with  the  degree  Ph.G., 
and  after  that  for  a  year  he  remained  with 
the  Graham  Brothers  drug  store.  He 
went  from  there  to  Mechanicsburg,  Ohio, 
and  was  manager  of  the  Taylor  Pharmacy 
a  year  and  then  followed  his  profession 
for  a  time  at  Toledo.  He  had  carefully 
saved  his  earnings  and  was  able  to  buy  a 
business  of  his  own  at  Toledo,  but  sold  out 
and  came  to  Anderson  in  1894. 

Here  he  bought  a  drug  store  on  South 
Meridian  Street,  and  a  year  later  bought 
the  McKee  Brothers  drug  store,  known  as 
the  Anderson  Drug  Company  at  the  cor- 
ner of  Eleventh  and  Meridian  streets. 
This  is  the  busiest  corner  in  the  city.  Mr. 
Roush  continued  the  store  under  the  name 
of  the  Anderson  Drug  Company  for  a  long 
period  of  years,  and  all  the  time  without 
partnership.  His  success  is  well  indicated 
by  the  fact  that  he  has  increased  the  vol- 
ume of  trade  more  than  800  per  cent  over 
its  first  year  here.  Strenuous  application 
to  work  brought  about  such  a  decline  of 
health  that   in   1912  he  sold  his  business 


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and  removed  to  Arcadia,  Florida,  where 
for  three  years  he  took  things  leisurely, 
handling  real  estate  at  times  and  also 
superintending  the  productive  operations 
of  a  flock  of  500  blooded  white  leghorn 
chickens,  which  paid  practically  all  his 
expenses  while  in  the  South.  Mr.  Roush 
still  owns  sixty  acres  of  citrus  fruit  lands 
in  Florida.  He  regained  his  health  and 
had  something  in  the  way  of  material 
profit  to  show  for  his  residence  in  Florida. 
Returning  to  Anderson  in  1916,  Mr.  Roush 
followed  farming  for  a  time  on  a  small 
place  just  outside  the  city  limits,  but  in 
January,  1917,  he  bought  the  Central 
Pharmacy  at  Ninth  and  Main  streets,  and 
has  conducted  the  business  with  growing 
favor  and  prosperity  for  over  a  year.  Mr. 
Roush  owns  considerable  real  estate  both 
in  the  town  and  country. 

In  1904  he  married  Miss  Kathryn  Arm- 
ington,  daughter  of  Dr.  C.  L.  and  Emma 
(Taff)  Armington  of  Anderson.  They 
have  two  children:  George  Lee,  born  in 
1906,  and  Sigel  Armington,  born  in  1911. 
Mr.  Roush  is  a  republican  voter,  but  inde- 
pendent in  local  affairs.  He  is  affiliated 
with  the  Anderson  Lodge  of  Elks,  Knights 
of  Pythias,  and  is  active  in  the  First  Chris- 
tian Church,  which  he  served  three  terms, 
six  years,  as  deacon. 

Orange  Lennington  Small.  The  agri- 
cultural and  livestock  interests  of  northern 
Indiana  are  indebted  in  many  ways  to 
Orange  Lennington  Small,  who  was  one  of 
the  first  to  import  French  Percheron  horses 
to  that  section  of  the  state.  Mr.  Small  for 
many  years  conducted  a  large  farm  in  the 
vicinity  of  Westville  in  LaPorte  County, 
and  is  living  there  today,  though  largely 
retired,  at  the  age  of  seventy-four. 

He  was  born  on  a  farm  in  Clinton  Town- 
ship of  LaPorte  County  April  22,  1844. 
Concerning  his  paternal  ancestry  there  is 
a  tradition  that  the  first  American  was  an 
English  sea  captain  who  finally  left  the 
sea  and  settled  in  South  Carolina.  Mr. 
Small's  grandfather,  George  Small,  was  a 
native  of  South  Carolina,  was  a  planter 
and  as  a  Quaker  was  opposed  to  the  insti- 
tution of  slavery  and  finally  sold  his  pos- 
sessions in  the  South  and  brought  his  fam- 
ily to  Indiana.  That  was  in  the  early 
days,  and  he  came  overland  with  wagons 
and  teams.  He  bought  land  in  Wayne 
County  near   Richmond,   and   there   spent 


the  rest  of  his  life.  John  Small,  father  of 
Orange  L.,  was  born  in  South  Carolina  in 
1795.  He  was  a  young  man  when  his 
parents  came  to  Indiana,  and  soon  after- 
ward he  left  their  home  and  for  several 
years  lived  in  Waynetown.  At  Waynetown 
he  made  the  acquaintance  of  Major  Isaac 
Elston,  whose  foresight  and  planning 
made  possible  Michigan  City  as  one  of  the 
most  pretentious  lake  ports  on  Lake  Mich- 
igan. It  was  at  the  solicitation  of  Major 
Elston  that  John  Small  came  to  the  pres- 
ent site  of  Michigan  City  and  assisted  in 
platting  the  town.  He  was  given  a  lot  by 
Major  Elston,  and  built  on  it  one  of  the 
first  houses.  Three  years  later  he  moved 
to  Clinton  Township  and  bought  a  squat- 
ter's claim  of  prairie  land.  A  log  cabin 
and  a  few  acres  plowed  constituted  all  the 
improvements.  He  paid  the  Government 
for  the  land,  and  at  once  began  to  bring  a 
large  area  into  cultivation.  In  a  few 
years  he  was  able  to  replace  the  old  log 
house  with  a  substantial  frame  house,  and 
he  continued  to  live  there  until  his  death 
in  1851.  The  maiden  name  of  his  wife 
was  Mary  Lennington.  She  was  born  in 
Pennsylvania,  daughter  of  Abraham  and 
Mary  (Titus)  Lennington.  Abraham  Len- 
nington was  also  an  Indiana  pioneer.  He 
brought  his  goods  by  boat  down  the  Ohio 
River,  and  landing  in  Clark  County  trav- 
eled by  wagon  and  team  to  Wayne  County, 
where  he  improved  a  farm  and  spent  the 
rest  of  his  life.  Mary  Small  survived  her 
husband  and  after  his  death  removed  to 
Michigan  City,  and  several  years  later 
went  to  Kansas,  where  she  lived  with  a  son 
and  died  at  the  age  of  seventy-six.  She 
was  the  mother  of  seven  sons  and  three 
daughters,  named  Sarah  J.,  Abraham  L., 
Wiley  N.,  Phineas,  John,  Mary,  James, 
Orange  L.,  Hattie  and  William. 

Orange  L.  Small  came  to  know  LaPorte 
County  when  it  was  still  largely  a  pioneer 
community.  The  district  school  from  which 
he  received  most  of  his  early  education  was 
a  log  cabin,  fitted  up  with  slab  benches 
and  with  a  desk  set  on  wooden  pins  around 
one  side  of  the  wall.  He  also  attended 
the  schools  of  Michigan  City.  At  the  age 
of  seventeen  he  returned  to  the  home  farm 
in  Clinton  Township,  and  operated  it  un- 
til his  marriage.  He  then  bought  the 
Gardner  home  place  in  Clinton  Township, 
and  there  began  his  extensive  operations 
as  a  farmer  and  stock  raiser.     He  was  also 


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one  of  the  first  to  introduce  improved  im- 
plements and  appliances  and  methods,  and 
was  especially  forehanded  in  raising  the 
standard  of  livestock.  It  was  in  1883  that 
Mr.  Small  made  his  first  trip  to  Prance, 
and  after  visiting  a  number  of  the  country 
districts  bought  the  very  best  blood  of  the 
Norman  Percheron  horses  then  available 
and  shipped  a  number  of  these  fine  animals 
home.  The  descendants  of  this  original 
importation  are  still  found  on  many  farms 
in  northern  Indiana,  and  some  of  them  are 
now  owned  by  Mr.  Small's  sons.  He  con- 
tinued active  in  the  management  of  the 
farm  for  thirty-two  years,  and  then  moved 
to  the  village  of  'Westville,  where  he  now 
lives  retired. 

At  the  age  of  twenty-three  Mr.  Small 
married  Alice  Gardner.  Her  parents  were 
Edmond  S.  and  Polly  (Haskell)  Gardner 
and  her  paternal  grandparents  were 
Charles  and  Patty  (Granger)  Gardner, 
while  her  maternal  grandparents  were 
James  and  Betsy  (Davis)  Haskell.  These 
are  old  and  well  known  names  in  northern 
Indiana,  and  much  has  been  written  con- 
cerning the  Gardner  and  Haskell  families. 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Small  reared  nine  children : 
Edmond  S.,  Alta  G.,  Louella,  Harriet  (de- 
ceased), Emma,  Bessie  G.,  Daisy  P.,  Dick 
L.  and  Nellie  Bly.  The  daughter  Alta 
married  Frank  Mann  and  died  leaving  two 
children,  named  Marjorie  and  Ruth.  Lou- 
ella is  the  wife  of  Justin  Loomis,  and  has 
a  son  by  a  former  marriage,  Verne  A. 
Loomis.  Verne  is  now  a  soldier  in  the 
United  States  Army  and  has  seen  active 
service  on  the  frontier  in  Texas.  Emma 
Small  was  married  to  J.  F.  Ravencroft. 
Bessie  became  the  wife  of  Merle  Porter 
and  has  two  daughters,  Alice  and  Lucille. 
Daisy  P.  married  W.  E.  Burhans,  and  her 
three  children  are  Billy,  Polly  and  Ann. 
Dick  L.  married  Gertie  Herrold  and  has 
two  sons,  Dean  L.  and  Bruce.  Nellie  Bly 
is  the  wife  of  Rolla  McKillips  and  has  two 
children,  Rolland  and  Mary  Ruth. 

Mr.  Small  is  affiliated  with  Westville 
Lodge  No.  192,  Ancient  Free  and  Accepted 
Masons,  with  LaPorte  Chapter,  Royal  Arch 
Masons,  and  LaPorte  Commandery  of  the 
Knights  Templar.  He  and  his  wife  are 
members  of  the  Chapter  of  the  Eastern 
Star  at  Westville. 

Alfred  N.  Cave,  a  lawyer  of  ripe  expe- 
rience  and  mature  powers,  has  been   en- 


gaged in  practice  at  Indianapolis  for  a 
quarter  of  a  century.  He  was  formerly 
a  minister  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal 
Church,  and  became  well  known  in  sev- 
eral districts  of  Indiana  by  his  church 
work. 

Mr.  Cave  was  born  in  Montgomery 
County,  Indiana,  September  9,  1857,  a  son 
of  James  E.  and  Charlotte  (Kious)  Cave. 
His  father  was  also  born  in  Indiana  and 
spent  all  his  life  in  this  state  except  for 
twelve  years  of  residence  in  Clark  County, 
Missouri.  In  1863  he  enlisted  in  the  Un- 
ion Army  in  Company  M  of  the  Eleventh 
Indiana  Cavalry,  and  saw  two  years  of  ac- 
tive service.  He  went  in  as  a  corporal, 
and  was  finally  mustered  out  as  a  quar- 
termaster sergeant  of  his  regiment.  Soon 
after  his  return  from  the  army  he  removed 
to  Missouri  and  in  Clark  County  of  that 
state  organized  the  State  Guards  and 
served  as  a  captain.  He  was  a  farmer  in 
Missouri,  devoting  most  of  his  time  to  rais- 
ing hogs,  cattle  and  horses.  In  1876  he 
returned  to  Montgomery  County,  Indiana, 
and  resumed  farming  and  continued  that 
vocation  until  the  last  twelve  years  of  his 
life,  when  he  retired.  He  was  a  devout 
Methodist,  that  being  the  religion  of  his 
ancestors,  and  was  an  ardent  republican. 
While  in  Missouri  he  held  minor  offices, 
such  as  township  trustee  and  member  of 
the  school  board,  and  was  a  candidate  for 
county  sheriff.  For  six  years  his  home 
was  at  Darlington  in  Montgomery  County, 
Indiana,  and  he  finally  retired  to  Craw- 
fordsville,  where  he  died.  He  was  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Masonic  Order  and  was  laid  to 
rest  by  his  brethren  of  the  craft.  His  af- 
filiation was  with  Lodge  No.  268,  Free  and 
Accepted  Masons,  at  Clarkshill.  Of  a  fam- 
ily of  eight  children,  four  sons  and  four 
daughters,  Alfred  N.  is  the  second  in  age. 
All  are  living  except  one  son,  James,  who 
died  in  his  twenty-fifth  year.  He  had  been 
well  educated  and  was  a  teacher  in  Mont- 
gomery County. 

Alfred  N.  Cave  attended  the  common 
schools  at  Montgomery  County,  also  the 
high  schools  of  Colfax  and  Stockwell.  He 
was  a  student  in  the  Normal  School  at  La- 
doga and  graduated  with  the  class  of  1887 
and  then  entered  DePauw  University  and 
was  graduated  in  1895.  He  was  ordained 
deacon  in  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church 
by  Bishop  Merrill  and  preached  the  Gos- 
pel about  four  years  as  a  member  of  the 


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Northwest  Indiana  Conference.  He  then 
read  law,  entered  the  Indianapolis  Univer- 
sity Law  School  and  graduated  in  1903 
with  the  degree  of  B.  A.  In  1892  he  re- 
moved to  Indianapolis,  and  in  the  follow- 
ing year  began  the  active  practice  of  the 
law  in  which  he  has  continued  ever  since. 
His  offices  are  in  the  Lemcke  Building. 

Mr.  Cave  has  been  affiliated  with  the 
Masonic  Order  since  he  was  twenty-one 
years  of  age.  He  received  his  degrees  in 
Miller  Lodge  No.  268  at  Clarkshill,  In- 
diana, and  he  has  also  belonged  to  the  In- 
dependent Order  of  Odd  Fellows  since 
1887.  He  is  a  republican  and  is  still  ac- 
tive as  a  local  minister  of  the  Methodist 
Church,  frequently  filling  pulpits  in  the 
absence  of  the  regular  minister. 

In  October,  1892,  in  Fountain  County, 
Indiana,  Mr.  Cave  married  Miss  Lena  La- 
Baw.  To  their  marriage  were  born  six 
children :  James  DePauw,  born  May  9, 
1895,  so  named  because  his  birth  occurred 
in  one  of  the  school  buildings  at  DePauw 
University;  Charlotte  Ruth,  born  August 
19,  1896,  at  Zionsville,  Indiana;  Charles 
L.,  born  April  7,  1898,  at  Darlington ;  Lu- 
cile  M.,  born  November  25,  1900,  at  Dar- 
lington ;  John,  born  at  Indianapolis,  June 
4,  1906 ;  and  Joseph,  born  at  Indianapolis, 
September  27,  1907. 

Milton  N.  Simon  has  been  an  active 
member  of  the  Indianapolis  bar  sixteen 
years.  He  is  member  of  one  of  the  lead- 
ing law  firms  of  the  city  and  his  personal 
abilities  have  taken  him  far  in  his  profes- 
sion and  in  the  esteem  of  local  citizenship. 

Mr.  Simon  was  born  at  Wabash,  Indiana, 
January  16,  1880,  son  of  Aaron  and  Hel- 
ena (Newberger)  Simon.  He  grew  up  at 
Wabash  and  had  a  very  liberal  education 
preparatory  to  his  chosen  career.  He  at- 
tended grammar  and  high  school  at  Wa- 
bash, graduating  from  the  latter  with  hon- 
ors, from  there  entered  the  old  and  exclu- 
sive preparatory  school  of  Phillips  An- 
dover  Academy,  and  did  his  collegiate 
work  at  Amherst  College.-  His  profes- 
sional education  was  acquired  in  the  Uni- 
versity of  Michigan,  from  which  he  grad- 
uated LL.  B.  in  1902. 

Since  his  graduation  Mr.  Simon  has  been 
in  practice  at  Indianapolis,  first  with  the 
firm  of  Morris  &  Newberger.  After  the 
death  of  Mr.  Morris  the  firm  was  reorgan- 
ized as  Newberger,  Simon  &  Davis. 


Mr.  Simon  married  in  1905  Miss  Rose 
Morris  Haas,  daughter  of  the  late  Joseph 
and  Rebecca  Haas  and  a  niece  of  the  late 
Nathan  Morris,  one  of  Indianapolis'  prom- 
inent lawyers.  Mr.  Simon  is  a  member  of 
the  Columbia  Club,  Indianapolis  Club, 
Herron  Art  Institute,  Canoe  Club,  Inde- 
pendent Turnverein,  Indianapolis  Bar  As- 
sociation, Indianapolis  Hebrew  Congrega- 
tion, B'nai  B'rith,  Theta  Delta  Chi  col- 
lege fraternity,  and  a  number  of  other 
organizations  of   social   and   civic  nature. 

William  H.  Adams.  One  of  the  men 
called  to  the  state  capital  as  a  result  of 
the  state  election  of  1916  was  William  H. 
Adams,  a  prominent  member  of  the  Wa- 
bash County  bar  and  formerly  vice  presi- 
dent and  manager  of  the  Wabash  Plain 
Dealer.  Mr.  Adams  has  for  a  number  of 
years  been  influential  in  republican  poli- 
tics in  his  section  of  the  state,  but  only 
once  before  was  a  candidate  for  office.  In 
1916  he  was  elected  reporter  of  the  Su- 
preme and  Appellate  courts,  and  his  offi- 
cial residence  is  now  in  Indianapolis. 

Mr.  Adams  was  born  on  a  farm  in  Wa- 
bash County,  about  twelve  miles  from  the 
City  of  Wabash,  December  5,  1881.  He  is 
a  son  of  Richard  T.  and  Lida  (Hanley) 
Adams.  Richard  T.  Adams  was  born  at 
Mishawaka,  Indiana,  June  12,  1849,  and 
for  many  years  was  successfully  engaged 
in  farming  in  Wabash  County.  He  died 
October  29,  1912.  At  an  early  age  he  was 
left  an  orphan  by  the  death  of  his  parents, 
John  and  Lydia  Adams,  and  he  grew  up 
as  an  orphan  boy  with  a  farmer  in  Chester 
Township  of  Wabash  County.  He  had 
only  a  limited  education,  but  became  a  man 
of  great  usefulness  both  to  his  family  and 
to  his  community.  He  acquired  his  first 
farm  in  1886,  and  passing  years  enabled 
him  to  accumulate  a  sufficiency  for  his 
own  needs  and  for  ample  provision  for  his 
family.  He  always  manifested  a  healthy 
interest  in  public  affairs,  was  a  friend  of 
public  education  and  good  roads,  these  be- 
ing his  hobbies,  and  for  many  years  was  a 
member  of  the  board  of  drainage  commis- 
sioners. He  was  active  in  fraternal  affairs 
and  a  member  of  the  Christian  Church. 
On  June  31,  1871,  Richard  T.  Adams  mar- 
ried Lida  Hanley,  daughter  of  Thomas 
Hanley.  Mrs.  Lida  Adams  is  still  living. 
She  was  the  mother  of  twelve  children, 
nine  alive  todav. 


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The  sixth  in  this  large  family,  William 
H.  Adams  during  his  boyhood  had  those 
interests,  associations  and  occupations  of 
the  average  Indiana  farm  boy.  He  at- 
tended the  district  schools  and  afterwards 
qualified  as  a  teacher,  a  vocation  he  fol- 
lowed to  give  him  means  for  his  higher  edu- 
cation. For  a  time  he  was  principal  of  the 
Liberty  Mills  School  in  his  native  county. 
He  spent  two  years  in  Indiana  University, 
attending  law  school,  and  graduated  LL.  B. 
in  1906. 

Though  an  active  member  of  the  Wa- 
bash bar,  he  gave  most  of  his  time  to  busi- 
ness. For  six  years  he  was  in  the  abstract 
and  loan  business  at  Wabash  and  later  as- 
sisted in  organizing  the  Citizens  Savings 
&  Trust  Company  of  that  city,  and  as  a 
director  of  the  company  had  charge  of  the 
loan  department.  Some  years  ago  he  and 
Fred  I.  King  bought  the  Wabash  Plain 
Dealer,  one  of  the  most  influential  dailies 
in  Northern  Indiana,  and  was  vice  presi- 
dent and  manager  of  the  publishing  com- 
pany until  recently. 

Mr.  Adams  first  entered  politics  as  a 
candidate  in  1914,  when  he  was  nominated 
for  clerk  of  the  Supreme  Court.  In  1916 
his  name  was  put  on  the  state  ticket  and 
he  was  elected  reporter  of  the  Supreme 
and  Appellate  courts  and  assumed  the  du- 
ties of  that  office  February  13,  1917.  For 
six  years  Mr.  Adams  was  secretary  of  the 
Lincoln  League  of  Indiana,  and  has  held 
various  other  offices  in  the  same  organiza- 
tion. He  is  affiliated  with  the  Masonic 
Order  and  the  Knights  of  Pythias. 

In  1910  he  married  Miss  Cornelia  E. 
Strehlow.  They  have  one  daughter,  Mag- 
daline. 

James  L.  Cummins,  M.  D.  More  than 
thirty  years  of  active  practice  have  given 
Doctor  Cummins  a  place  of  prominence  in 
his  profession,  and  for  a  dozen  years  or 
more  he  has  been  one  of  the  leading  pro- 
fessional men  at  Anderson.  His  service 
has  been  commensurate  with  the  length  of 
years  in  practice,  and  among  the  wide  cir- 
cle of  his  patients  he  has  been  both  a  friend 
and  a  physician. 

Doctor  Cummins  was  born  on  a  farm  in 
Henry  County,  Indiana,  in  February,  1857, 
son  of  Fleming-  R.  and  Miranda  W.  (Mann) 
Cummins.  His  Cummins  ancestors  came 
from  Ireland  and  were  early  settlers  in 
Virginia.     His    grandfather    Mann    came 


from  England  and  first  settled  in  West 
Virginia,  going  thence  to  Henry  County, 
Indiana.  Through  the  different  genera- 
tions there  have  always  been  farmers,  and 
that  has  been  the  predominant  occupation 
of  the  family. 

Doctor  Cummins  had  only  the  advan- 
tages of  the  common  schools  during  his 
boyhood.  His  first  knowledge  and  expe- 
rience in  the  medical  profession  was  ten 
years  he  spent  as  a  nurse  and  attendant  in 
the  famous  Battle  Creek  Sanitarium.  He 
made  himself  very  efficient  and  one  of  the 
nurses  most  in  demand  by  the  leading  oper- 
ators and  physicians,  and  he  final^  de- 
termined to  develop  his  individual  talents. 
In  1883  he  entered  the  Curtice  Physio- 
Medical  College,  from  which  he  graduated 
M.  D.  in  1887.  During  the  next  eighteen 
years  Doctor  Cummins  was  located  in  a 
general  practice  at  Mount  Comfort,  In- 
diana, and  from  there  in  1905  moved  to 
Anderson  and  has  built  up  a  large  general 
practice. 

In  1891  he  married  Miss  Mary  E.  Eastes, 
daughter  of  Joseph  B.  and  Larinda  W. 
(Meek)  Eastes,  of  Mount  Comfort,  In- 
diana. They  have  five  children,  all  living : 
Eva  E.,  wife  of  Russell  Bennett,  of  An- 
derson ;  Ithamer  F.,  now  in  France,  with 
Company  C,  Seventieth  Heavy  Artillery ; 
Meral  L.,  in  the  Indiana  State  Militia ; 
Laura  C,  at  home ;  and  Joseph  E.,  also  at 
home.  Doctor  Cummins  is  a  republican, 
is  a  member  of  the  Methodist  Church  and 
is  affiliated  with  the  Court  of  Honor.  He 
is  a  public  spirited  physician  as  well  as  a 
capable  physician. 

Joseph  W.  Fordney,  a  member  of  Con- 
gress from  the  Eighth  Michigan  District, 
is  a  native  Indianan,  born  in  Blackford 
County,  November  5,  1853.  He  became  a 
resident  of  Saginaw,  Michigan,  in  1869,  en- 
gaging in  the  lumber  woods,  and  has  since 
been  extensively  identified  with  the  lum- 
ber business.  He  is  a  republican,  and  was 
a  member  of  the  Fiftv-Sixth  to  the  Sixty- 
Fifth  Congresses,  1899-1919,  Eighth  Mich- 
igan District. 

Mr.  Fordney  married  Cathern  Haren, 
and  their  home  is  in  Saginaw. 

Theodore  Clement  Steele  was  born  in 
Owen  County,  Indiana,  September  22, 
1847.  He  has  spent  his  life  almost  en- 
tirely among  the  rugged  hills  of  Southern 


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Indiana.  To  say  that  he  is  a  distinguished 
Indianan  is  to  pay  an  undiscriminating 
tribute  to  a  man  whose  work  well  deserves 
the  appreciation  found  in  the  following 
lines : 

"Painter  of  Sylvan  Grove,  of  lilac  haze 
That  sleeping  lies  upon  the  frosted  fields ; 
Of  misty  hollow,  edged  with  bush  ablaze 
With  burning  hues  that  old  October  yields ; 
Of  waning  winter  sun,  ere  comes  the  night, 
Spreading  his  mantle  warm,  deep-flushed 

with  red, 
O'er   dreary  snowdrifts  ghostly   cold  and 

white, 
And  o'er  dead  leaves  windblown  to  their 

last  bed 
Beneath   the   barren    trees    and    'mid    the 

bush ; 
Painter   of    Spring,    pink   bud   and   leafy 

green, 
Of  harvest  fields  all  ripe  amid  the  hush 
Of  Summer's  heat  at  midday's  glimmering 

sheen     *     *     * 
Let  honor  crown  thy  rich  autumnal  hour, 
And  wreaths  of  oak  and  trumpet  vine  thy 

head, 
That  grow  along  the  haunts  that  gave  thee 

power 
To  paint  the  earth  in  light  from  heaven 

shed. ' ' 

His  paternal  ancestors  were  originally 
Virginians,  moving  from  that  state  to  Ken- 
tucky. His  paternal  grandfather,  James 
Steele,  moved  from  Kentucky  and  settled 
in  Owen  County  in  the  early  part  of  the 
nineteenth  century.  Mr.  Steele's  parents, 
Samuel  Hamilton  and  Harriet  N.  (Evans) 
Steele,  were  both  born  in  Owen  County. 
In  1852,  when  Theodore  was  five  years  old, 
the  family  removed  to  Waveland,  Mont- 
gomery County,  where  Mr.  Steele  grew  up 
and  where  he  received  his  first  school  ad- 
vantages. There  was  an  excellent  acad- 
emy at  Waveland,  which  furnished  the 
principal  foundation  for  his  literary  edu- 
cation. 

His  early  environment  was  that  of  a 
typical  Goldsmith's  country  village  and  In- 
diana rural  scenes.  Inspiration  could 
come  from  nature  alone  and  not  from  the 
art  schools  that  are  now  well  nigh  ubiqui- 
tous and  from  the  manifold  influences 
which  encourage  the  artistic  impulse.  His 
spirit  and  genius  grew  and  developed  prac- 
tically in  solitude.  This  fact  lends  the 
greater  interest  to  what  he  has  accom- 
plished, and  to  some  extent  no  doubt  it  is 


the  secret  of  his  wonderful  power  of  ex- 
pression and  interpretation  of  the  life  and 
scenes  which  as  a  boy  he  learned  to  com- 
prehend. While  in  the  academy  at  Wave- 
land  he  attracted  the  attention  of  fellow 
students  and  the  teachers  by  his  skill  with 
the  pencil,  and  as  early  as  thirteen  he  was 
teaching  drawing  to  other  pupils.  His  be- 
coming an  artist  may  be  said  to  have  be- 
come a  gradual  but  steady  development 
extending  over  a  considerable  number  of 
years.  For  five  years  he  was  a  student  of 
art  in  Europe  at  the  Royal  Academy  at 
Munich,  Germany,  from  1880  to  1885. 
During  that  time  he  was  a  student  of  Pro- 
fessor's Bentzur  and  Loeffts. 

Mr.  William  Greenwood,  of  Indianapolis, 
writer  of  the  lines  above  quoted  and  which 
have  been  published  in  some  of  the  art 
magazines,  indicates  the  general  character 
of  Mr.  Steele's  work  by  the  following: 
' '  Thy  favorite  haunt  is  on  the  wooded  hills. 
Thy    Indiana    holds    no   stately   mountain 

heaps, 
Lifting    the    awe-filled    eye,    sublime    and 

hoar, 
No  sea,  sky-bottomed,  broods,  or  in  fury 

leaps 
Against  the  bastions  of  a  rock-bound  shore. 
But  to  thy  brush  she  brings  a  humbler 

dower 
Of  lowlier  hills  where  gentle  Beauty  sways, 
Inviting  friendlier   touch  with    man    and 

flower ; 
Clear,  placid  streams  that  wind  their  lei- 
sure ways 
Unvext  with  haste  to  distant  unknown  seas, 
And    changing    pageants    of    the    cycling 

years. 
These   charms   thy   art   hath   caught,   and 

adds  to  these 
The  fruits  of  thy  long  visionary  years. 
While  others  strive  brief  weaith  and  power 

to  hold, 
Thine  eye  hath  found  a  wealth  more  rich 

than  gold." 

Mr.  Steele  has  his  studio  in  the  country 
in  Brown  County,  and  he  also  has  a  studio 
in  Indianapolis  and  occasionally  has  found 
inspiration  for  his  brush  in  city  scenes. 
He  exhibited  at  the  Paris  Exposition  in 
1000  and  has  had  pictures  in  the  museums 
of  St.  Louis,  Cincinnati,  and  Indianapolis, 
and  in  the  galleries  of  the  Boston  Art  Club. 
He  was  awarded  the  Fine  Arts  Building 
prize  of  $500  at  Chicago  in  1909.  In  1913 
he  was  elected  as  Associate  National  Acad- 


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einician.  In  1904  lie  was  a  member  of  the 
National  Jury  of  Awards  at  the  St.  Louis 
Exposition.  In  1905  he  was  given  the  de- 
gree Master  of  Arts  by  Wabash  College, 
and  in  1916  Indiana  University  honored 
him  and  itself  with  the  degree  LL.  D. 

February  14,  1870,  Mr.  Steele  married 
Mary  A.  Lakin,  of  Rushville,  Indiana. 
She  died  in  1900,  the  mother  of  three  chil- 
dren, Brant  and  Shirley  L.  Steele  and  Mrs. 
Margaret  Newbaeher.  Mr.  Steele's  pres- 
ent wife  before  her  marriage  was  Miss 
Selma  Newbaeher,  of  Indianapolis.  Though 
not  a  professional  artist,  she  has  had  a  com- 
prehensive education  in  art  and  her  tal- 
ents in  this  direction  afford  appreciative 
assistance  to  Mr.  Steele  in  his  work. 

Oscar  D.  Bohlen.  One  of  the  oldest 
established  architects  in  the  State  of  In- 
diana located  in  Indianapolis  is  the  firm 
of  D.  A.  Bohlen  &  Son,  of  which  D.  A. 
Bohlen  was  the  founder  and  though  he 
died  many  years  ago  the  profession  has 
always  been  continued  under  the  original 
name,  with  Oscar  D.  Bohlen  as  active  head 
of  the  profession  and  business.  A  number 
of  the  best  examples  of  Indiana  architec- 
ture were  created  and  constructed  by  this 
firm. 

Oscar  D.  Bohlen  was  born  at  Indian- 
apolis July  12,  1863.  He  is  a  son  of  D.  A. 
and  Ursula  F.  (Gonceau)  Bohlen.  His 
father  was  born  in  Germany  and  came  to 
America  alone  in  1851,  at  the  age  of 
twenty-four.  He  had  acquired  a  colleg- 
iate education  at  the  University  of  Holz- 
minden,  and  on  reaching  America  located 
for  a  time  in  Cincinnati,  and  moved  to  In- 
dianapolis in  1852.  He  was  one  of  the 
first  real  architects  to  practice  the  profes- 
sion in  this  city.  His  work  is  to  be  found 
in  many  towns  of  the  state,  and  he  contin- 
ued active  in  his  work  until  his  death  in 
1890.  Some  examples  of  his  work  still  in 
existence  are  the  Tomlinson  Hall  at  In- 
dianapolis and  also  the  Roberts  Park  Meth- 
odist Church.  He  was  a  republican,  but 
had  no  desire  to  be  publicly  known,  and 
gave  the  best  years  of  his  life  to  his  pro- 
fession, his  family  and  friends.  He  and 
his  wife  had  six  children,  three  of  whom 
are  still  living,  Oscar  D.  being  the 
youngest. 

Oscar  D.  Bohlen  attended  private  schools, 
also  the  Shortridge  High  School  of  Indian- 
apolis, and  took  his  technical  work  in  the 


Boston  Institute  of  Technology.  He  en- 
tered the  office  of  his  father  in  1882  and  in 
1884  the  firm  of  D.  A.  Bohlen  and  Son 
was  created,  and  later  he  succeeded  to  the 
business  without  changing  the  name.  With- 
out attempting  anything  like  a  complete 
list  the  following  examples  of  his  work 
will  indicate  its  scope  and  character.  He 
was  the  architect  of  the  Indiana  National 
Bank  Building,  of  St.  John's  Church,  the 
Majestic  Building,  all  at  Indianapolis,  and 
has  furnished  plans  and  supervision  for 
many  business  and  public  buildings 
throughout  the  state.  Mr.  Bohlen  is  a  re- 
publican in  politics. 

January  12,  1886,  at  Indianapolis,  he 
married  Miss  Amelia  Kuhn.  They  have 
two  children:  August  C,  born  August  2, 
1887 ;  and  Cora  P.,  who  was  educated  in 
the  Academy  of  St.  Mary's  and  finished 
her  education  in  Europe.  The  son,  Au- 
gust, attended  the  public  schools  of  Indian- 
apolis, is  a  graduate  of  Cornell  University, 
and  upon  his  graduation  entered  the  firm 
of  D.  A.  Bohlen  &  Son,  of  which  his  father 
was  the  sole  owner.  In  1917  he  was  com- 
missioned a  lieutenant  and  in  1918  pro- 
moted to  the  captaincy  in  the  American 
army,  being  assigned  to  overseas  duty  in 
the  Heavy  Ordnance  Department. 

Frank  H.  Langsenkamp  is  a  son  of  that 
veteran  Indianapolis  coppersmith  and  man- 
ufacturer, William  Langsenkamp,  whose 
career  is  told  briefly  on  other  pages.  It 
has  been  left  to  Frank  H.  Langsenkamp 
to  carry  on  and  continue  the  business 
which  was  founded  by  his  father  at  In- 
dianapolis fifty  years  ago.  Established  in 
1868,  the  name  Langsenkamp  has  been 
identified  with  the  manufacture  of  various 
lines  of  brass  and  copper  work,  but  more 
particularly  with  canning  equipment  until 
Langsenkamp  is  today  regarded  as  a  syn- 
onym for  the  best  in  quality,  type  and  effi- 
ciency in  that  specialty. 

Frank  H.  Langsenkamp  was  born  at  In- 
dianapolis May  21,  1878,  received  his  pri- 
mary education  in  St.  Mary's  Parochial 
School  and  finished  his  training  at  St. 
Joseph's  College  at  Teutopolis,  Illinois. 
From  his  father  he  learned  the  copper- 
smith's trade,  beginning  his  apprentice- 
ship at  the  age  of  fifteen.  He  was  actively 
associated  as  an  employe  of  the  Langsen- 
kamp business  until  1908,  when  he  suc- 
ceeded to  it  by  purchase.     During  the  last 


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ten  years  he  has  made  many  changes,  en- 
larging the  scope  and  extent  of  the  busi- 
ness and  getting  new  markets  until  the 
products  of  F.  H.  Langsenkamp  now  go  to 
practically  every  state  in  the  Union.  Some 
of  his  cooking  kettles  have  been  manufac- 
tured by  express  government  order  for  use 
on  United  States  battleships.  There  is  a 
large  and  varied  line  of  Langsenkamp  prod- 
ucts, including  kettles  of  all  types  and  sizes 
for  use  in  canning  factory  equipment.  Be- 
sides these  kettles  perhaps  the  most  widely 
known  specialty  of  the  Langsenkamp  man- 
ufacture is  the  Langsenkamp  "Kook-More 
Koils"  which  repeated  tests  have  proved 
often  add  200  per  cent  to  the  efficiency  and 
capacity  of  a  canning  establishment. 

While  Mr.  Langsenkamp  has  done  much 
to  improve  and  increase  the  business  he 
took  over  from  his  father,  he  has  in  one 
respect  not  deviated  from  his  father's  ex- 
ample. He  has  had  but  little  time  to  de- 
vote to  politics  and  has  confined  his  atten- 
tion, like  his  father,  exclusively  to  the 
building  up  of  a  constantly  growing  busi- 
ness. Mr.  Langsenkamp  is  a  member  of 
the  Indianapolis  Chamber  of  Commerce, 
the  Board  of  Trade  and  other  civic  organ- 
izations for  the  general  good.  His  family 
are  communicants  of  Sts.  Peter  and  Paul 
Catholic  Church.  In  1904  he  married 
Stella  Stroup,  of  Shelbyville,  Indiana. 
They  have  one  son,  Frank  Stroup  Lang- 
senkamp. 

Morris  M.  Feuerlicht  as  rabbi  of  the 
Indianapolis  Hebrew  congregation  has 
earned  a  position  of  esteem  and  influence 
in  the  capital  city  quite  apart  from  his 
leadership  among  the  Jewish  people.  He 
has  distinguished  himself  by  scholarship, 
by  fearless  and  constructive  work  in  the 
moral  and  civic  life  of  the  community  and 
thoroughly  merits  a  place  among  represen- 
tative Indianans. 

He  was  born  at  Tokay,  Hungary,  Jan- 
uary 15,  1879,  and  is  the  only  one  living  of 
the  four  children  of  Jacob  and  Catherine 
(Deutsch)  Feuerlicht.  In  1880  when  he 
was  a  year  old  his  parents  came  to  Amer- 
ica, lived  in  Chicago  a  few  years,  after- 
wards in  Boston  and  then  returned  to  Chi- 
cago, where  his  father,  also  a  distinguished 
rabbi,  still  lives.  The  father  has  served 
for  a  number  of  years  as  superintendent  of 
the  Jewish  Home  for  the  Friendless  at 
Chicago. 


Morris  M.  Feuerlicht  first  attended 
school  in  the  Brimmer  School  at  Boston, 
and  subsequently  entered  the  University 
of  Cincinnati  and  the  Hebrew  Union  Col- 
lege of  Cincinnati.  From  the  latter  in 
1897  he  received  the  degree  Bachelor  of 
Hebrew  Literature  and  in  1901  was  grad- 
uated from  the  University  of  Cincinnati 
with  the  degree  A.  B.  For  several  years 
he  was  in  charge  of  a  Jewish  Temple  at 
Lafayette,  Indiana.  In  1902  Rabbi  Feuer- 
licht entered  the  University  of  Chicago, 
where  he  continued  post-graduate  studies 
until  1904. 

In  September  of  that  year  he  came  to 
Indianapolis  as  associate  rabbi  to  the  ven- 
erable Rabbi  Messing.  Rabbi  Messing  had 
been  active  head  of  the  Hebrew  congrega- 
tion of  Indianapolis  for  thirty-seven  years, 
and  after  retiring  in  1907  and  giving  the 
active  management  of  the  congregation  to 
Rabbi  Feuerlicht  he  was  made  Rabbi 
Emeritus.  Rabbi  Feuerlicht  married  Oc- 
tober 26,  1909,  Miss  Mildred  J.  Mayerstein, 
of  Lafayette,  Indiana,  daughter  of  the  late 
Maurice  M.  Mayerstein,  publisher  of  the 
Lafayette  Evening  Courier.  Their  chil- 
dren are  Maurice  and  Katherine. 

Stephen  A.  Clinehens.  Admitted  to 
the  bar  in  1906,  Stephen  A.  Clinehens  has 
been  steadily  advanced  in  ability,  expe- 
rience and  reputation  as  a  safe  and  able 
lawyer,  and  already  has  a  secure  position 
in  the  Indianapolis  bar. 

He  was  born  in  Wayne  County,  Indiana, 
March  18,  1881,  a  son  of  John  and  Eliza- 
beth (Atkinson)  Clinehens.  The  father 
was  a  native  of  Ohio,  and  at  the  age  of 
twenty-one  located  at  Webster,  Indiana, 
and  for  twenty-five  years  was  the  honest 
village  blacksmith  there,  a  good  workman, 
an  honorable  gentleman,  and  widely  es- 
teemed for  his  many  virtues.  For  thirty- 
five  years  he  was  active  in  the  Methodist 
Episcopal  Church,  was  an  advocate  of  tem- 
perance, and  a  democratic  voter.  Of  his 
family  of  four  children  Stephen  A.  was 
the  youngest  and  one  of  the  two  still  living. 

As  a  boy  he  attended  grammar  and  high 
schools  in  Wayne  County,  and  later  was  a 
student  in  the  literary  and  law  depart- 
ments of  Valparaiso  University.  He  com- 
pleted his  education  in  the  Indianapolis 
Law  School,  where  he  was  graduated  in 
1906.  After  his  admission  to  the  bar  Mr. 
Clinehens  was  connected  with  the  law  firm 


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of  Kern  &  Bell  until  1912,  and  since  then 
has  been  in  practice  alone,  with  offices  in 
the  Fletcher  Trust  Building.  He  has  suc- 
cessfully represented  a  number  of  clients 
and  has  had  participation  in  many  inter- 
esting cases.  One  of  these  calls  for  spe- 
cial mention.  In  March,  1918,  he  defended 
thirteen  Montenegrins  who  were  tried  for 
seditious  conspiracy  in  the  Federal  Court 
of  this  district.  Mr.  Clinehens  assembled 
such  testimony  and  evidence  as  to  convince 
the  court  and  free  all  of  his  clients.  This 
service  did  not  go  unrecognized,  and  King 
Nicholas  of  Montenegro  recently  conferred 
upon  Mr.  Clinehens  the  Cross  of  Officer 
of  Prince  Danilo  I  as  a  recompense  for  his 
services  to  King  Nicholas'  countrymen  and 
nation. 

Mr.  Clinehens  is  affiliated  with  the 
Knights  of  Pythias  and  is  a  member  of  the 
Methodist  Church.  November  27,  1902, 
he  married  Miss  Kate  E.  Mabey,  who  was 
born  in  England.  Her  father,  Joseph  Ma- 
bey, came  to  the  United  States  when  Mrs. 
Clinehens  was  a  child,  settling  in  Rich- 
mond, Indiana.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Clinehens 
have  three  living  children,  "Webster,  La- 
verne,  and  Martha. 

Pearl.  A.  Havelick,  a  resident  of  In- 
dianapolis since  May,  1881,  formerly  en- 
joyed some  close  and  confidential  relations 
with  the  large  business  interests  of  the 
state,  and  latterly  has  conducted  a  suc- 
cessful real  estate  and  insurance  business. 
His  offices  are  in  the  Fletcher  Trust  Build- 
ing. 

Mr.  Havelick  was  born  on  a  farm  near 
Bloomingville,  Erie  County,  Ohio,  August 
9,  1864,  the  second  oldest  of  the  five  chil- 
dren of  Samuel  W.  and  Sarah  B.  (Prout) 
Havelick.  His  great-grandfather  was  a 
native  of  Germany  and  founded  the  family 
in  this  country.  The  grandfather,  Wil- 
liam H.  Havelick,  was  a  native  of  Penn- 
sylvania and  was  known  as  a  typical  Penn- 
sylvanian  Dutchman.  One  of  his  sons, 
Jerry  served  throughout  the  Civil  war  on 
the  Union  side,  and  afterwards  became  an 
engineer  on  the  Great  Lakes.  Samuel  W. 
Havelick  spent  all  his  life  as  a  farmer. 
Both  he  and  his  wife  are  now  deceased,  and 
of  their  five  children  three  are  living. 

Pearl  A.  Havelick 's  early  life  was  spent 
on  the  home  farm  in  Ohio  and  his  scholas- 
tic advantages  were  obtained  during  the 
short  winter  terms  in  district  schools.     At 


the  age  of  eighteen  he  started  earning  his 
own  living  as  a  clerk  at  Sandusky  with  the 
old  C.  S.  &  C.  Railroad.  Two  years  later 
he  came  to  Indianapolis  as  an  employe  in 
the  passenger  department  of  the  auditor's 
office  of  the  I.  B.  &  W.  Railway.  He  con- 
tinued in  railroad  work  for  a  period  of 
seven  years,  and  was  finally  promoted  to 
the  position  of  auditor  of  railroad  ac- 
counts. 

In  the  spring  of  1888  Mr.  Havelick  be- 
came private  secretary  to  John  C.  Wright, 
then  as  now  one  of  the  foremost  figures 
of  Indianapolis  and  a  son  of  Governor 
Joseph  A.  Wright.  Mr.  Havelick  handled 
much  of  the  business  and  remained  in  the 
relation  of  confidential  employment  with 
Mr.  Wright  for  twenty-two  years.  From 
that  he  entered  business  for  himself  in  real 
estate  and  fire  insurance,  and  has  built  up 
a  large  and  extensive  clientage  in  those 
lines. 

He  is  a  republican  in  politics  and  a 
member  of  several  social  organizations.  He 
is  a  member  of  the  Presbyterian  Church 
but  a  believer  in  Christian  Science.  Oc- 
tober 17,  1883,  he  married  Henrietta  M. 
Williams,  who  died  in  1904.  October  9, 
1906,  he  married  Almeda  W.  Windlebleck, 
of  Hartford  City,  Indiana. 

Joseph  Everett  Hennings  has  been 
identified  with  half  a  dozen  or  more  of 
those  business  institutions  and  other  organ- 
izations which  in  recent  years  have  adver- 
tised the  name  of  Anderson  all  over  the 
country  as  one  of  the  first  and  foremost  in- 
dustrial and  civic  centers  of  Indiana. 

While  a  large  number  of  interests  claim 
his  time  and  attention,  Mr.  Hennings 
would  usually  be  found  at  his  office  in  the 
Madison  County  Trust  Company,  of  which 
he  is  president.  He  was  one  of  the  organ- 
izers of  this  company,  served  as  its  first 
vice  president,  and  since  1915  has  been 
president. 

The  story  of  his  career  is  a  fine  illustra- 
tion of  that  type  of  character  which  is  al- 
ways buoyant,  resourceful,  self  reliant 
and  capable  of  achieving  worthy  ends  and 
getting  things  done  without  regard  to  op- 
portunities, obstacles,  environment  or.  any 
of  the  conditions  which  the  mediocre  man 
regards  as  handicaps. 

Joseph  Everett  Hennings  was  born  in 
New  York  City  May  10,  1865.  There  were 
no  child  labor  nor  compulsory  education 


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laws  at  that  time,  and  the  few  terms  he 
spent  in  public  school  alternated  with  sell- 
ing papers  on  the  street.  At  the  age  of 
ten  his  education  was  completed  and  he 
was  doing  full  time  working  as  an  office 
boy.  He  finally  left  New  York  and  started 
west.  At  Kokomo,  Indiana,  he  became 
bell  boy  in  the  Clinton  House,  and  he  also 
sold  newspapers  in  that  city. 

His  friends  have  often  told  the  story  of 
how  he  came  to  Anderson  in  1890.  He  was 
an  enthusiastic  baseball  fan,  and  was  one 
of  the  most  loyal  followers  of  the  teams  in 
the  Indiana  state  baseball  league.  He 
came  to  Anderson  to  give  the  Kokomo  team 
the  full  strength  of  his  support  in  a  game 
against  the  local  club.  When  the  game 
was  over,  and  the  Kokomo  team  had  gone 
down  in  defeat,  he  had  not  a  penny  left 
and  rather  than  face  the  possibility  of  re- 
turning to  Kokomo  on  foot  and  enduring 
the  humiliation  of  defeat  he  remained  at 
Anderson. 

It  was  only  a  short  time  until  his  re- 
sourcefulness had  put  him  on  his  feet  in 
this  new  field,  and  in  1894  he  became 
proprietor  of  the  old  Anderson  Hotel.  He 
operated  it  for  ten  years,  but  in  1905  be- 
came interested  in  the  Grand  Opera  House 
and  in  the  same  year  leased  the  Grand 
Hotel,  then  a  new  building  and  the  largest 
and  most  modern  hotel  of  the  city.  Under 
his  management  the  Grand  Hotel  became 
one  of  the  most  popular  hostelries  of  the 
entire  state.  At  the  same  time  he  made 
the  Grand  Opera  House  a  paying  and  pop- 
ular institution.  During  five  years  of  this 
period  Mr.  Hennings  was  president  of  the 
Indiana  Hotel  Keepers'  Association. 

He  retired  from  the  hotel  business  in 
February,  1913,  but  continued  the  man- 
agement of  the  Opera  House  for  a  time. 

In  the  way  of  business  achievements 
Mr.  Hennings  established  the  Anderson 
Posting  Advertising  Company,  Incorpo- 
rated, which  has  grown  and  developed  its 
service  of  outdoor  publicity  until  the  busi- 
ness is  now  national  in  scope.  Mr.  Hen-  " 
nings  is  president  of  the  company.  At 
different  times  he  has  been  a  stockholder 
in  various  other  local  business  affairs,  in- 
eluding  the  People's  Bank,  the  Farmers 
Trust  Company,  and  more  than  anything 
else  the  people  know  him  for  his  activity 
and  enterprise  directing  eertain  movements 
that  have  brought  untold  benefit  to  An- 
derson as  an  industrial  and  civic  center. 


He  was  director  general  of  the 
"Made  in  Anderson"  exhibit  which  was 
held  during  the  first  week  of  June,  1915, 
and  brought  to  Anderson  business  men 
and  industrial  representatives  from  all 
parts  of  the  country. 

Mr.  Hennings  took  an  active  part  in  the 
reorganization  of  the  Anderson  Chamber 
of  Commerce,  being  chairman  of  the  re- 
organization committee  and  after  a  cam- 
paign of  one  day  secured  a  full  quota  of 
membership,  1,000.  The  Chamber  now 
has  more  than  1,000  members,  and  it  is  the 
largest  membership  of  any  town  of  its  size 
in  the  country.  Mr.  Hennings  has  served 
as  president  of  the  Chamber  of  Com- 
merce, and  through  that  organization  he 
helped  locate  twelve  large  industries  in 
Anderson.  Nine  of  these  are  industries  of 
national  importance,  their  products  being 
shipped  to  all  sections  of  the  country. 

Mr.  Hennings  was  also  the  man  who 
originated  and  did  much  toward  compiling 
' '  Illustrated  Anderson, ' '  a  handsome  book- 
let with  magnificent  illustrations  that 
proved  a  great  drawing  card  in  advertis- 
ing the  attractiveness  and  the  business  fea- 
tures of  the  city.  He  is  also  president  of 
the  Hoosier-Dixie  Highway  Association, 
organized  for  the  purpose  of  boosting  An- 
derson's claims  and  plans  for  general  high- 
way improvement.  A  booklet  has  been  is- 
sued by  this  organization  describing  its 
purposes. 

Mr.  Hennings  is  treasurer  of  the  Amer- 
ican Playground  Device  Company.  In  1917 
he  became  chairman  of  the  executive  com- 
mittee of  the  Anderson  Chamber  of  Com- 
merce. 

He  has  long  been  prominent  in  the  Be- 
nevolent and  Protective  Order  of  Elks. 
He  was  chairman  of  the  committee  pro- 
viding for  the  entertainment  of  the  State 
Elks  Convention  at  Anderson  in  May,  1912, 
was  president  of  the  Indiana  Grand  Lodge 
of  Elks  in  1916,  and  is  now  chairman  of 
the  building  committee  of  the  local  lodge, 
which  is  planning  the  construction  of  a 
club  house  to  cost  $125,000.  He  served  as 
exalted  ruler  of  the  Anderson  lodge  in 
1900.  He  is  also  a  member  of  the  Trav- 
elers' Protective  Association,  the  Knights 
of  Pythias  and  the  Loyal  Order  of  Moose. 
Politically  he  is  a  republican  and  has  been 
quite  active  in  the  ranks  though  never  as 
a  seeker  for  public  honors.  Governor 
Goodrich  in  casting  about  for  a  business 


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man  to  act  on  the  reformatory  board  ap- 
pointed Mr.  Hennings  a  member  of  that 
board  in  June,  1918.  Mr.  Hennings  has 
been  identified  with  every  activity  in  the 
interest  of  Anderson,  he  was  one  of  the 
promoters  of  the  Free  Fair,  this  proving 
one  of  the  greatest  events  in  Anderson's 
history.  Mr.  Hennings  has  also  been  ac- 
tive in  war  activities  and  was  one  of  the 
managers  of  every  Liberty  Loan,  Red 
Cross,  War  Saving  Stamps,  Young  Men's 
Christian  Association,  and  United  War 
Workers  campaigns.  He  devoted  almost 
his  entire  time  during  the  period  of  all 
the  campaigns,  and  the  results  show  that 
the  City  of  Anderson  always  went  over 
the  top. 

Mr.  Hennings  has  always  recognized 
that  no  small  share  of  his  progress  and 
prosperity  has  been  due  to  his  capable 
wife.  August  7,  1891,  about  a  year  after 
he  came  to  Anderson,  he  married  Miss 
Josephine  Morey,  of  Adrian,  Michigan,  a 
daughter  of  Max  Morey.  They  have  one 
daughter,  Eva. 

Kenesaw  M.  Landis,  United  States  dis- 
trict judge  of  the  northern  district  of  Illi- 
nois since  March  28,  1905,  was  born  at 
Millvill,  Ohio,  November  20,  1866,  but  his 
early  educational  training  was  received  in 
Indiana.  He  attended  the  public  schools 
of  Logansport,  and  received  his  LL.  B. 
degree  at  the  Union  College  of  Law,  Chi- 
cago. In  1891  he  was  admitted  to  the  bar, 
practiced  law  in  Chicago  from  1891  until 
1905  with  the  exception  of  his  two  years 
as  private  secretary  to  Secretary  of  State 
Gresham,  and  since  1905  has  been  United 
States  district  judge  of  the  northern  dis- 
trict of  Illinois.  Judge  Landis  is  a  re- 
publican. 

Edward  Julius  Lonn.  In  the  long  list 
of  notable  Indianans  past  and  present,  in- 
cluding pioneers  of  the  wilderness,  soldiers, 
statesmen  and  state  builders,  lawyers  and 
jurists  and  other  professional  leaders,  au- 
thors and  artists,  manufacturers  and  a 
great  catalogue  of  men  and  women  of 
varied  useful  and  brilliant  attainments  and 
service,  a  conspicuous  page  must  be  re- 
served for  the  well  known  manufacturer 
and  banker  of  LaPorte,  Edward  Julius 
Lonn. 

It  was  hardly  possible  for  the  community 
of  LaPorte  in  1860  to  appreciate  the  many 


sturdy  and  valuable  qualities  added  to  it 
when  the  late  John  Lonn  located  there 
with  his  family.  John  Lonn  was  a  factor 
in  the  history  of  LaPorte  for  over  half  a 
century  and  his  own  enterprise  was  nobly 
seconded  and  supplemented  by  that  of  his 
children. 

John  Lonn  was  born  at  Sanden,  Yell- 
aryd  Vrystad,  near  Jonkopping,  Sweden, 
June  18,  1835.  It  is  well  known  that 
many  of  the  leading  families  of  Sweden, 
especially  those  conspicuous  in  government 
circles,  became  identified  with  that  Scan- 
dinavian country  as  emigrants  from 
France  during  the  Napoleonic  era.  One 
of  the  followers  of  General  Bernadotte 
when  he  assumed  the  government  of 
Sweden  was  a  French  general,  Vallin, 
whose  descendants  are  represented  in  the 
Lonn  family.  An  uncle  of  John  Lonn  was 
a  bishop  of  the  famous  Swedish  University 
of  Upsala. 

John  Lonn  had  a  liberal  education  and 
spoke  fluently  the  French,  German  and 
English  as  well  as  the  Swedish  languages. 
When  he  was  twenty-five  years  of  age  he 
came  to  America,  locating  at  LaPorte,  In- 
diana, which  continued  to  be  his  home  un- 
til his  death  in  1915.  In  Sweden  he  had 
learned  the  trade  of  tanner,  and  at  La- 
Porte found  his  first  work  as  superintend- 
ent of  the  Eliel  tannery.  Later  he  oper- 
ated a  tannery  of  his  own,  and  left  that 
to  engage  in  the  wholesale  hide,  fur  and 
wool  business.  In  1871  he  established  the 
Lonn  store  at  921  Main  Street,  now  Lin- 
coln Way.  During  all  the  subsequent 
years  he  continued  the  purchase  and  sale 
of  hides,  wool  and  fur,  and  was  known  all 
over  Northern  and  Southern  Michigan, 
spending  much  of  his  time  in  travel  in 
those  sections. 

In  1883,  as  a  direct  outgrowth  of  the 
Lonn  store,  the  wholesale  manufacture  of 
harness  was  commenced,  and  in  1889,  to 
furnish  more  ample  quarters  for  this  pros- 
pering enterprise,  the  Lonn  Block,  a  sub- 
stantial brick  structure  covering  half  a 
block,  was  erected.  For  many  years  this 
was  one  of  LaPorte 's  chief  manufacturing 
industries.  Later,  as  members  of  the  fam- 
ily became  absorbed  in  the  larger  and  more 
rapidly  growing  bicycle  business,  which 
was  started  in  1897,  the  manufacture  of 
harness  was  discontinued.  In  1899  the  firm 
of  John  Lonn  &  Sons  Company  was  suc- 
ceeded by  the  Great  Western  Manufactur- 


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ing  Company,  which  has  become  the  larg- 
est independent  bicycle  factory  in  the 
world,  and  stands  particularly  as  a  monu- 
ment to  the  commercial  energy  and  sa- 
gacity of  Julius  Lonn  and  also  to  the 
ability  and  wisdom  of  the  late  John  Lonn 
and  other  members  of  his  family. 

The  business  achievements  of  John  Lonn 
are  only  a  part  of  what  he  was  and  what 
he  did.  For  half  a  century  he  was  a  lead- 
ing figure  in  his  community,  well  known 
for  his  indefatigable  energy,  rugged  hon- 
esty and  good  deeds,  and  life  brought  him 
success  in  the  highest  measure  and  the 
f idlest  value  of  that  terra.  He  never  al- 
lowed business  to  interfere  with  his  de- 
votion to  his  home,  his  family  and  his 
church.  For  many  years  he  was  the  fore- 
most member  of  the  Swedish  Lutheran 
Church  of  LaPorte.  When  he  came  to  the 
city  with  his  sister  in  1860  the  Swedish 
Lutheran  Church  was  little  more  than  a 
mission,  with  occasional  services  by 
preachers  sent  by  the  conference.  Mr. 
Lonn  with  a  few  other  faithful  followers 
guaranteed  the  expenses  of  a  regular  min- 
ister. In  the  early  days  he  played  the  little 
organ  which  was  used  at  the  services,  and 
early  in  the  existence  of  the  congregation 
he  became  a  trustee  and  later  was  made 
treasurer,  a  post  he  filled  most  faithfully 
for  thirty-five  years.  He  gave  the  church 
generously  both  of  his  time  and  his  money, 
but  his  generosities  were  by  no  means 
limited  to  his  church  circle.  It  is  said 
that  no  person  ever  needing  help  came  to 
him  in  vain.  Naturally  his  sympathy  was 
especially  keen  in  behalf  of  his  fellow 
countrymen.  His  charities  were  unosten- 
tatious and  usually  there  was  no  record  of 
them  except  between  the  giver  and  the  re- 
cipient. 

Though  he  had  not  been  in  America  long 
enough  to  be  a  naturalized  citizen,  in  1865 
lie  became  a  citizen  of  the  United  States, 
taking  out  his  full  papers  as  soon  as  pos- 
sible after  returning  from  the  war.  He  and 
his  brother  Niles  Lonn  both  enlisted  and 
served  the  Union  cause  during  the  Civil 
war.    Niles  lost  his  life  during  the  struggle. 

John  Lonn  was  a  zealous  republican,  and 
while  a  strong  partisan  was  above  all  par- 
ticularly zealous  in  behalf  of  good  gov- 
ernment, whether  for  his  city  or  state  or 
nation.  He  took  the  greatest  pride  in  the 
broad  and  liberal  development  of  LaPorte 
as  a  city,  and  at  one  time  was  one  of  the 


faithful  and  hard  working  members  of  the 
city  council. 

In  1865  John  Lonn  married  Nellie  Palm- 
bla.  Mrs.  Lonn  died  in  1895,  the  mother 
of  eight  children,  all  of  whom  are  still 
living,  besides  four  grandchildren.  The 
names  of  the  children  are  Edward  Julius, 
J.  0.  William,  Miss  Emma,  Charles,  Miss 
Ella,  Arthur,  Miss  Alice  and  Victor.  Miss 
Ella  Lonn  has  had  a  distinguished  career 
in  scholarship  and  as  an  educator,  receiv- 
ing her  A.  B.  degree  from  the  University 
of  Chicago  in  1900,  Master  of  Arts  from 
the  University  of  Pennsylvania  in  1910, 
and  Doctor  of  Philosophy  in  1911.  She 
was  formerly  Dean  of  Women  at  Fargo 
College,  spent  a  year  or  more  in  studies 
abroad,  was  assistant  professor  at  Grin- 
nell  College  in  Iowa,  and  in  1918  became 
a  member  of  the  faculty  of  Goucher  Col- 
lege at  Baltimore. 

Edward  Julius  Lonn  was  born  at  La- 
Porte June  13,  1869.  While  he  found  his 
early  opportunities  for  a  business  career 
in  the  enterprises  founded  by  his  father, 
his  own  exceptional  talents  have  taken  him 
into  the  ranks  of  the  foremost  American 
industrial  leaders.  He  was  educated  in  the 
public  schools  of  LaPorte  and  at  Profes- 
sor Holmes  Business  College,  and  his  first 
responsibilities  in  business  came  in  1890, 
when  he  was  appointed  traveling  salesman 
in  the  wholesale  saddlery  and  leather  line. 
Two  years  later  he  became  an  active  asso- 
ciate with  his  father  as  secretary  and  gen- 
eral manager  of  John  Lonn  &  Sons  Com- 
pany. 

Mr.  Lonn's  distinguishing  success  was 
the  result  of  his  early  recognition  of  the 
opportunities  afforded  in  the  bicycle  in- 
dustry. In  1895  he  was  elected  secretary 
of  the  Crown  Cycle  Company.  Then,  in 
1899,  he  reorganized  this  company  and  by 
taking  over  the  Adlake  and  America  bi- 
cycle plants  formed  a  new  company  which 
became  the  nucleus  of  the  Great  Western 
Manufacturing  Company,  with  Mr.  Lonn 
as  its  secretary  and  general  manager. 
Later  the  Fauber  Manufacturing  Company 
and  its  patents  were  purchased,  and  twelve 
United  States  patents  for  bicycles  and  au- 
tomobiles were  taken  out.  In  1905  Mr. 
Lonn  bought  a  controlling  interest  in  the 
Great  Western  Manufacturing  Company 
and  soon  afterwards  was  elected  its  presi- 
dent and  general  manager.  Other  officials 
in  this  corporation  are  Charles  A.  Lonn, 
vice  president  and  treasurer,  and  Arthur 


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E.  Lonn,  brother  of  Julius.  Charles  A. 
Lonn  is  sales  director,  and  by  his  rare 
ability  and  untiring  efforts  has  contributed 
his  share  to  the  development  of  the  suc- 
cess enjoyed  by  the  company.  Arthur  E. 
is  now  Major  Lonn,  adjutant  of  the  One 
Hundred  and  Sixty-Seventh  Brigade, 
Eighty-Fourth  Division,  United  States 
army,  American  Expeditionary  Forces  in 
France. 

In  business  circles  the  Great  "Western 
Manufacturing  Company  of  LaPorte  has 
for  a  number  of  years  been  regarded  as  the 
largest  exclusive  bicycle  plant  in  America. 
The  business  is  international  in  scope,  and 
with  LaPorte  as  the  manufacturing  center 
there  are  distributing  agencies  and  branch 
offices  in  the  leading  commercial  centers 
of  America,  New  York,  Chicago,  San  Fran- 
cisco and  Boston.  The  company  owns  and 
controls  more  patents  on  bicycles,  bicycle 
construction  and  designs  than  any  other 
similar  enterprise.  Its  factory  at  LaPorte, 
.the  largest  and  most  completely  equipped 
of  its  kind  in  the  world,  has  a  daily  pro- 
duction of  500  complete  machines,  which 
are  sold  under  the  registered  trade  mark 
Crown-America-Adlake.  Obviously  it  is  a 
business  which  is  regarded  as  one  of  the 
most  vital,  in  fact  one  of  the  corner  stones 
of  LaPorte 's  permanent  prosperity.  The 
pay  roll  amounts  to  over  half  a  million 
dollars  annually,  and  the  volume  of  busi- 
ness runs  into  the  millions. 

During  the  past  twenty  years,  with  the 
predominance  of  the  automobile,  there 
have  been  many  forces  operating  to  dis- 
courage development  of  a  plant  specializ- 
ing in  bicycle  manufacture,  and  it  is  evi- 
dent of  Mr.  Lonn 's  special  genius  and  per- 
sistent energy  that  he  has  steadily  main- 
tained his  business  along  its  essential  and 
original  lines,  though  at  all  points  adapt- 
ing himself  to  the  progress  and  changing 
conditions  of  successive  years.  That  fact 
alone  would  be  sufficient  to  give  him  high 
distinction  among  the  business  men  of 
America. 

Mr.  Lonn  is  also  known  in  the  LaPorte 
community  as  a  banker.  In  1912  he  was 
one  of  the  organizers  of  the  People 's  Trust 
and  Savings  Bank  of  LaPorte,  and  was 
elected  its  vice  president.  Like  his  honored 
father  before  him,  he  has  made  business 
not  the  supreme  interest  of  his  life,  but 
largely  a  means  and  instrumentality  of 
broad  and  effective  service  to  his  commun- 
ity and  to  humanity.     These  interests  and 


his  public  spirit  have  found  expression 
through  the  medium  of  a  long  list  of  or- 
ganizations. For  six  years  he  served  as 
president  of  the  board  of  education  of  La- 
Porte. He  is  a  member  of  the  National 
Chamber  of  Commerce  of  Washington,  D. 
C,  the  National  Association  of  Manufac- 
turers and  the  National  Association  of 
Credit  Men  of  New  York  City,  of  the  La- 
Porte Chamber  of  Commerce,  the  Indiana 
Manufacturers  Association,  the  Society  of 
Mechanical  Engineers,  the  Society  of  Au- 
tomotive Engineers  of  New  York  City,  the 
Alexander  Hamilton  Institute  of  New  York 
City,  and  is  vice  president  of  the  Bicycle 
Manufacturers'  Association  and  chairman 
of  its  war  service  committee  in  Washing- 
ton, D.  C.  For  over  a  year  his  time  and 
his  business  were  at  the  disposal  of  the 
government  in  behalf  of  any  patriotic  un- 
dertaking. He  is  a  life  member  of  the 
American  Red  Cross  Society  of  Washing- 
ton, served  as  chairman  of  the  LaPorte 
County  Chapter  of  the  American  Red 
'Cross,  and  is  a  member  of  the  Indiana  State 
Executive  Committee  at  Indianapolis  of 
the  Red  Cross.  He  was  also  a  member  of 
the  Executive  Committee  of  LaPorte  in  the 
Liberty  Loans  and  other  war  campaigns. 
He  also  served  as  a  member  of  the  County 
Council  of  Defense. 

Mr.  Lonn  was  one  of  the  organizers  and 
vice  president  of  the  LaPorte  Country 
Club,  is  a  member  of  the  Columbia  Club 
of  Indianapolis,  South  Shore  Country 
Club  of  Chicago,  American  Academy  of 
Political  and  Social  Science,  the  LaPorte 
Historical  Society,  and  the  Amateur  Musi- 
cal Club  of  LaPorte.  He  is  a  member  of 
the  First  Presbyterian  Church  and  a  char- 
ter member  of  the  LaPorte  Lodge  of  Elks, 
B.  P.  0.  E.  No.  396. 

While  Mr.  Lonn  has  given  unceasing  de- 
votion during  the  past  two  years  to  his 
business  and  many  civic  interests,  it  is 
probably  true  that  his  heart  interest  was 
in  his  two  gallant  young  sons.  These  sons 
constitute  the  two  children  of  his  mar- 
riage with  Jennie  Miller,  daughter  of 
George  F.  Miller  of  New  Carlisle,  Indiana. 
They  were  married  at  Chicago  March  30, 
1889.  The  oldest  of  the  sons,  Julius  Miller 
Lonn,  served  with  the  rank  of  captain  in 
the  Ordnance  Department  of  the  United 
States  army.  The  younger  son.  Earl  Wen- 
dell, was  a  captain  of  the  LaPorte  High 
School  Cadets,  and  is  now  a  student  officer 
at  Culver  Military  Academy.     Both  Cap- 


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tain  and  Major  Lonn  are  thirty-second  de- 
gree masons. 

Bert  L.  Wright  when  a  boy  in  Michigan 
learned  the  practical  fundamentals  of  the 
electrical  business,  and  it  has  been  as  an 
electrical  worker  that  he  has  found  his 
real  calling  and  profession  in  life,  and  his 
experience  has  become  the  basis  of  a  very 
successful  business  which  he  now  owns  at 
Newcastle,  known  as  the  Willard  Electric 
Service   and   Storage  Battery   Station. 

Mr.  Wright  was  born  on  a  farm  in  Ga- 
lena Township,  LaPorte  County,  Indiana, 
in  1881,  a  son  of  O.  M.  and  Mary  (Inger- 
soll)  Wright.  He  is  of  English  ancestry 
and  the  family  has  been  in  America  many 
generations.  From  New  York  State  they 
went  west  in  pioneer  times  and  settled  in 
Southern  Michigan.  Bert  L.  Wright  at- 
tended district  school  in  LaPorte  County, 
and  until  1901  was  a  student  in  the  high 
school  at  Hart,  Michigan.  After  employ- 
ment in  different  lines  he  went  to  work  in 
1904  for  the  Independent  Telephone  Com- 
pany of  Hart,  Michigan,  and  after  a  year 
removed  to  Chicago  and  was  in  the  employ 
of  the  Chicago  Bell  Telephone  Company 
for  six  years,  part  of  the  time  as  trouble 
man  and  in  other  branches  of  its  electric 
service.  For  two  years  he  was  a  repair- 
man and  line  foreman  with  the  Central 
Union  Company  at  South  Bend,  Indiana, 
and  in  October,  1912,  came  to  Newcastle, 
where  for  a  year  and  a  half  he  was  plant 
chief  for  the  Central  Union  Company. 
Later  for  a  year  he  conducted  a  shop  han- 
dling motorcycle  repairs.  In  1915  he  ac- 
cepted the  agency  of  the  Willard  Storage 
Battery  Company,  and  was  located  at  1540 
Broad  Street  fifteen  months.  On  Novem- 
ber 1,  1916,  he  moved  to  1108  Race  Street, 
and  on  May  1,  1918,  came  to  his  present  lo- 
cation, 1107  Broad  Street,  opening  up  in 
a  building  erected  especially  for  his  use.. 
He  now  has  the  exclusive  agency  in  Henry 
County  for  the  famous  Willard  Storage 
Batteries,  and  also  all  the  service  connected 
with  the  recharging  and  repairing  of  bat- 
teries. 

In  1905  Mr.  Wright  married  Miss  Grace 
Barnard,  daughter  of  W.  J.  and  Ada 
(Carpenter)  Barnard  of  South  Bend,  In- 
diana. They  have  three  children:  Mer- 
win  Ellis,  born  in  1910;  Lorene  May,  born 
in  1912:  and  Leslie  Alton,  born  in  1914. 
Mr.  Wright  is  an  independent  republican, 
and  is  affiliated  with  the  Knights  of  Py- 


thias and  Independent  Order  of  Odd  Fel- 
lows. 

Lawrence  Clipt.  One  of  the  oldest  and 
most  honored  names  in  Henry  County  is 
that  of  Clift,  and  the  enterprise  and  good 
citizenship  for  which  the  family  have  been 
noted  are  now  exemplified  at  Newcastle  by 
Lawrence  Clift,  who  chose  to  find  his  op- 
portunities in  the  business  world  unaided 
by  family  influence  and  friends,  and  dur- 
ing the  last  ten  years  has  become  well  es- 
tablished as  a  shoe  merchant.  He  is  secre- 
tary and  treasurer  of  Clift  &  Davis,  In- 
corporated, a  firm  that  does  a  large  part 
of  the  business  in  footwear  in  Henry 
County. 

Mr.  Clift  was  born  at  Newcastle  April 
22,  1885,  a  son  of  Waterman  and  Eliza- 
beth (Bear)  Clift.  Waterman  Clift  and 
his  brother  Elisha  Clift  had  many  promi- 
nent associations  with  the  early  affairs  of 
Henry  County.  Both  were  natives  of 
Cayuga  County,  New  York,  where  Water- 
man Clift  was  born  August  21,  1815,  being 
about  a  year  younger  than  his  brother 
Elisha.  He  was  given  a  good  education  in 
his  native  county  and  began  teaching  school 
in  1834.  In  the  fall  of  1836  he  located  in 
Huron  County,  Ohio,  and  taught  school 
there  the  following  winter.  The  spring  of 
1837  found  him  at  Dublin  in  Wayne  Coun- 
ty, Indiana,  and  that  summer  he  worked 
for  $10  a  month.  He  then  taught  school 
about  two  years  in  Fayette  County,  and 
with  his  brother  Elisha  settled  on  a  farm 
in  Wayne  County.  In  the  fall  of  1839 
they  traded  their  farm  for  a  stock  of  goods, 
and  in  June  of  the  following  year  re- 
exchanged  the  goods  for  a  tract  of  land 
in  Prairie  Township  of  Henry  County. 
The  brothers  were  associated  in  the  owner- 
ship of  this  land  until  1843,  and  some  of 
their  property  was  still  held  in  joint  owner- 
ship for  many  years.  Waterman  Clift  was 
busied  with  farming  in  Prairie  Township 
for  many  years,  but  about  the  time  of  the 
Civil  war  moved  to  Newcastle  and  was  a 
director  of  the  First  National  Bank  from 
the  time  of  its  organization.  At  one  time 
he  was  also  a  contractor  for  the  building  of 
toll  roads.  He  died  September  1,  1888. 
Waterman  Clift  was  three  times  married. 
In  November,  1882,  he  married  for  his 
third  wife  Elizabeth  L.  Bear,  who  came 
from  Rockingham  County,  Virginia.  She 
is  still  living,  and  is  the  mother  of  two 
sons,  Elisha  W.  and  Lawrence. 


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1853 


Lawrence  Clift  graduated  from  the  New- 
castle High  School  in  1904.  During  the 
previous  year  after  school  hours  he  had 
worked  in  a  shoe  store,  and  upon  his  grad- 
uation he  took  a  regular  position  as  clerk 
at  $5  a  week  with  R.  H.s  Mclntyre  &  Com- 
pany. There  he  learned  the  shoe  business 
and  in  1908  resigned  to  invest  his  modest 
capital  and  experience  in  a  store  of  his 
own.  In  that  he  was  associated  with  J.  C. 
Hayes  as  partner  under  the  firm  name  of 
Clift  &  Hayes.  They  opened  their  stock 
of  goods  at  1310  Broad  Street,  and  the  firm 
continued  to  grow  and  prosper  until  the 
spring  of  1916,  when  Mr.  Arch  Davis  of 
Newcastle  bought  the  interests  of  Mr. 
Hayes,  thus  constituting  the  present  firm 
of  Clift  &  Davis,  which  is  incorporated. 
In  the  meantime  their  trade  has  extended 
all  over  the  surrounding  country  of  New- 
castle, and  there  are  few  families  in  this 
territory  to  which  Mr.  Clift  has  not  fur- 
nished some  business  service  during  the 
past  ten  years. 

Largely  out  of  his  earnings  as  a  business 
man  Mr.  Clift  was  able  to  buy  the  old  Clift 
homestead  nine  miles  west  of  Newcastle, 
comprising  294  acres,  and  he  is  therefore 
also  a  landed  proprietor  and  is  responsible 
for  some  of  the  agricultural  production  of 
this  county.  Mr.  Clift  is  member  of  New- 
castle Lodge  No.  91,  Ancient  Free  and  Ac- 
cepted Masons,  of  the  Knights  of  Pythias, 
and  of  Lodge  No.  4  of  the  Benevolent  and 
Protective  Order  of  Elks,  and  is  a  repub- 
lican in  politics.  In  October,  1907,  he 
married  Miss  Nellie  Dolan,  daughter  of 
Martin  and  Catherine  Dolan  of  Newcastle, 
both  of  whom  were  born  in  Ireland.  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Clift  have  three  children :  Martin 
W.,  born  in  1910 ;  Lawrence  Edward,  born 
in  1912 ;  and  William  M.,  born  in  1916. 

Walter  Jones  is  a  Newcastle  man  who 
has  a  broad  and  lengthy  experience  in  pub- 
lic service  utilities  in  the  eastern  part  of 
the  state.  He  is  now  manager  and  general 
superintendent  of  the  Inter-State  Public 
Service  Company  of  Newcastle,  a  corpora- 
tion that  furnishes:  the  city  its  electric 
light,  power,  heating  and  gas  facilities. 

Mr.  Jones  was  born  at  Hagerstown, 
Wayne  County,  Indiana,  March  11,  1882, 
son  of  Aldora  and  Anna  (Green)  Jones. 
He  is  of  Scotch-Irish  ancestry.  Most  of  his 
forefathers  were  farmers  in  America,  and 
this  branch  of  the  Jones  family  first  located 


in  old  Virginia.  Later  generations  lived 
around  Springfield,  Illinois. 

Walter  Jones  attended  the  public  schools 
of  Hagerstown,  and  at  the  age  of  sixteen 
left  high  school  to  go  to  work  with  the 
Hagerstown  Telephone  Company,  an  inde- 
pendent company.  He  served  it  as  trouble 
man  for  two  years  and  then  from  1900  to 
1902  was  lineman  with  the  Richmond  Tele- 
phone Company.  Coming  to  Newcastle  in 
1902  he  was  superintendent  of  the  Inde- 
pendent plant  of  the  local  telephone  com- 
pany until  1912,  when  the  independent 
interests  were  amalgamated  with  those  of 
the  Bell  corporation  and  Mr.  Jones  con- 
tinued with  the  latter  six  months  in  the 
engineering  department.  He  resigned  to 
enter  the  employ  of  the  Inter-State  Pub- 
lic Service  Company  in  1912  as  foreman  of 
its  electrical  department.  From  that  he 
was  promoted  to  manager  or  general  super- 
intendent of  the  entire  plant  in  April, 
1918. 

In  1903  Mr.  Jones  married  Miss  Addie 
Livezey,  daughter  of  J.  F.  and  Olivia  Liv- 
ezey  of  Newcastle.  Mr.  Jones  votes  as  a 
republican,  and  fraternally  is  affiliated 
with  the  Knights  of  Pythias  and  the  Im- 
proved Order  of  Red  Men.  He  and  his 
wife  are  members  of  the  Methodist  Epis- 
copal Church. 

Joseph  O.  Paul,  M.  D.  As  a  physician 
and  surgeon  Doctor  Paul  has  been  in  the 
work  of  his  profession  thirteen  years,  is 
a  man  of  high  attainments,  and  his  repu- 
tation for  skill  and  ability  extends  through- 
out Henry  County.  His  home  is  at  New- 
castle, where  he  has  offices  in  the  Jennings 
Building. 

Doctor  Paul  was  born  in  Harrison  Town- 
ship of  Morgan  County,  Indiana,  August 
28,  1881.  He  is  of  German  and  English 
ancestry.  His  great-grandfather  Paul 
came  from  Germany  in  the  early  days  and 
settled  in  the  eastern  states.  The  family 
was  established  in  Indiana  by  grandfather 
George  Paul,  who  came  to  Morgan  County 
and  followed  farming  there  for  many  years. 
Doctor  Paul  is  somewhat  an  exception  to 
the  family  rule,  since  most  of  the  Pauls 
have  been  farmers. 

Doctor  Paul  grew  up  in  the  country,  at- 
tended country  school  in  Morgan  County, 
for  three  years  was  a  student  in  the 
Mooresville  High*  School,  and  in  1901  en- 
tered the   Indiana  Medical   College,   from 


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which  he  graduated  M.  D.  in  1905.  The 
same  year  he  came  to  Newcastle  and  opened 
an  office,  and  a  year  later  became  associ- 
ated with  Dr.  B.  T.  Mendenhall  in  part- 
nership. After  a  year  he  disposed  of  his 
local  practice  and  established  his  home  at 
New  Lisbon,  where  he  carried  on  a  suc- 
cessful professional  business  for  seven 
years.  Doctor  Paul  returned  to  Newcastle 
in  1915,  and  since  then  in  addition  to 
general  practice  has  specialized  in  chil- 
dren's diseases  and  obstetrics.  He  is  a 
member  of  all  the  medical  societies  and  a 
man  of  high  standing  both  as  a  doctor 
and  a  citizen. 

In  1907  he  married  Miss  Jessie  Paul, 
daughter  of  Joseph  and  Elizabeth  Paul  of 
New  Lisbon.  They  have  one  child,  Mary 
Elizabeth,  born  in  1913.  Doctor  Paul  is 
independent  in  politics  and  a  member  of 
the  Christian  Church. 

Howard  M.  Van  Matre.  Not  on  the 
score  of  age  but  on  that  of  experience  and 
service  Howard  M.  Van  Matre  is  consid- 
ered the  oldest  automobile  dealer  in  Henry 
County.  Mr.  Van  Matre 's  personal  ex- 
perience makes  him  familiar  with  prac- 
tically all  the  types  of  motor  cars  from  the 
crude  and  primitive  patterns  of  fifteen  or 
twenty  years  ago  up  to  the  high  powered 
and  efficient  cars  of  the  present.  He  is  now 
manager  of  the  Stanley  Auto  Company  of 
Newcastle. 

Mr.  Van  Matre  represents  an  old  and 
honored  family  name  in  Eastern  Indiana. 
The  Van  Matres  were  of  Dutch  descent  and 
his  first  ancestor,  Joseph  Van  Matre,  set- 
tled in  Pennsylvania.  The  family  has  been 
identified  with  Henry  County  for  a  cen- 
tury or  more.  Howard  M.  Van  Matre  was 
born  in  this  county  May  27,  1877,  a  son 
of  Joseph  and  Louisa  (Presnal)  Van 
Matre.  His  father  was  long  known  at 
Newcastle  as  one  of  the  village  black- 
smiths. Howard  Van  Matre  grew  up  in 
this  city,  attended  the  Forest  Hill  School 
until  sixteen,  and  then  began  earning  his 
own  way  in  the  world.  He  was  employed 
in  factories  and  in  other  lines  at  New- 
castle, and  then  early  in  the  automobile 
era  went  to  work  for  the  Maxwell  Automo- 
bile Company.  He  rose  to  the  post  of  chief 
factory  inspector  and  later  for  two  years 
had  charge  of  the  company's  service  de- 
partment. As  a  salesman'for  the  Rose  City 
Automobile  Company  he  sold  Buiek  and 
Haynes  cars  for  two  years,  and  then  for 


one  year  the  Buick  Motor  Company  had 
his  services  as  a  traveling  representative 
all  over  Indiana. 

In  1916  Mr.  Van  Matre  joined  Claud 
Stanley  in  the  Stanley  Automobile  Com- 
pany as  a  salesman.  When  Mr.  Stanley 
left  to  join  the  army  Mr.  Van  Matre  re- 
mained as  manager  of  the  entire  business. 
Besides  a  general  garage  and  automobile 
service  this  company  has  the  Henry  Coun- 
ty agency  for  the  Dodge  and  Buick  cars. 

Mr.  Van  Matre  has  been  active  in  local 
affairs.  He  is  chairman  of  the  Henry 
County  Explosives  Committee,  is  president 
of  the  Henry  County  Automobile  Trade 
Association,  is  a  republican,  has  been  a 
delegate  to  several  local  conventions,  is  a 
Methodist,  and  is  affiliated  with  the  Elks, 
Knights  of  Pythias  and  Masonic  lodges  at 
Newcastle. 

March  26,  1910,  he  married  Miss  Jessie 
E.  Newcome,  daughter  of  Frances  E.  and 
Alice  E.  (Daugherty)  Newcome  of  Hagers- 
town,  Wayne  County,  Indiana.  To  their 
marriage  have  been  born  two  daughters, 
Ruth,  in  1911,  and  Marian,  in  1913. 

Elias  C.  Atkins.  One  of  the  greatest 
industries  in  America  for  the  manufacture 
of  saws  is  located  at  Indianapolis  and  is 
the  E.  C.  Atkins  &  Company.  The  expe- 
rience of  three  generations  of  the  Atkins 
family  has  entered  into  the  business.  At- 
kins saws  are  used  all  over  the  world  and 
are  known  for  their  high  standard  of  ex- 
cellence and  quality.  As  a  result  of  the 
enterprise  of  the  late  Elias  C.  Atkins, 
founder  of  the  business,  the  industry  was 
established  at  Indianapolis  when  it  was  a 
small  town,  and  for  a  period  of  fifty  years 
it  has  been  one  of  the  chief  sources  of  in- 
dustrial prosperity  to  the  growing  city. 

It  seems  appropriate  that  the  business 
itself  is  a  development  of  Yankee  industry 
and  ingenuity.  The  founder  of  this  branch 
of  the  Atkins  family  in  America  was 
Thomas  Atkins,  a  native  of  England  who 
went  to  Connecticut  about  the  middle  of 
the  seventeenth  century.  In  a  later  gen- 
eration was  Samuel  Atkins,  a  sturdy  and 
representative  citizen  of  his  native  state 
of  Connecticut,  where  he  spent  all  his  life. 
One  of  his  twelve  children  was  Rollin  At- 
kins, who  early  in  life  learned  the  trade 
of  clock  maker.  He  possessed  special  me- 
chanical ability  and  finally  took  up  the 
manufacture  of  saws,  and  the  output  of  his 
little  shop  had  a  more  than  local  reputation 


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1855 


and  was  extensively  sold.  However,  he  did 
not  live  to  develop  the  business  to  large 
proportions  and  died  in  the  prime  of  his 
manhood.  He  served  as  a  captain  of  the 
Fourth  Company,  Fourth  Regiment  of 
Connecticut  Militia.  Rollin  Atkins  mar- 
ried Harriet  Bishop,  daughter  of  Austin 
and  Anna  (Stalker)  Bishop,  the  former 
born  in  1764  and  the  latter  in  1766.  Aus- 
tin Bishop  was  a  perfect  representative  of 
the  old  fashioned,  pious  New  England 
deacon.  He  died  September  23,  1833,  and 
his  wife  on  October  22,  1840. 

In  the  home  of  Rollin  Atkins  and  wife 
at  Bristol,  Connecticut,  Elias  Cornelius  At- 
kins was  born  June  28,  1833.  The  close 
of  his  honored  and  useful  life  came  at  In- 
dianapolis April  18,  1901,  in  his  sixty- 
eighth  year.  When  he  was  a  mere  boy  the 
death  of  his  father  threw  upon  him  prac- 
tical responsibilities  in  providing  not  only 
for  his  own  support  but  for  other  mem- 
bers of  the  family.  At  the  age  of  eleven 
he  was  working  on  a  farm,  but  the  follow- 
ing year  began  an  apprenticeship  at  the 
saw  making  trade  under  a  paternal  uncle. 
At  the  age  of  seventeen  he  had  mastered 
the  business  and  was  foreman  of  the  shop. 
Besides  a  high  degree  of  mechanical  skill 
the  dominating  characteristic  of  the  late 
Elias  C.  Atkins  was  industry.  He  was  a 
dynamo  of  energy  and  there  was  no  cessa- 
tion of  his  activities  until  practically  the 
close  of  his  life.  As  a  young  apprentice 
he  put  in  much  overtime  in  order  to  pro- 
vide his  mother  with  certain  luxuries  and 
also  pay  his  pew  rent  in  church. 

In  1855,  at  the  age  of  twenty-two,  Elias 
C.  Atkins  went  to  Cleveland,  Ohio,  and 
established  the  first  saw  factory  in  that 
city.  The  next  year  he  came  to  Indian- 
apolis. Five  hundred  dollars  summed 
up  his  cash  capital  and  when  he 
arrived  in  this  city,  and  compared 
with  the  vast  enterprise  which  sub- 
sequently expanded  under  his  management 
it  was  a  truly  humble  beginning  which  he 
made  in  a  little  corner  of  the  old  Hill  Plan- 
ing Mill.  A  year  or  so  later  he  took  more 
ample  quarters  in  the  old  City  Foundry. 
At  first  he  did  all  his  own  work,  not  only 
because  of  limited  capital,  but  because  com- 
petent men  in  that  line  were  not  easily  se- 
cured. Finally  he  brought  to  Indianapolis 
a  young  German  mechanic  whom  he  had 
known  back  in  Bristol,  Connecticut,  Louis 
Suher,  who,  it  is  said,  came  all  the  way 


from  the  East  to  Indianapolis  on  foot  in 
order  to  take  the  position.  Mr.  Suher  re- 
mained a  faithful  worker  in  the  Atkins 
plant  until  his  death. 

It  is  not  difficult  to  account  for  the  suc- 
cess which  flowed  out  of  the  enterprise  of 
Elias  C.  Atkins.  Though  starting  with 
limited  capital,  he  had  unlimited  courage, 
ability,  and  determination.  He  not  only 
manufactured  good  saws  but  was  a  capable 
salesman  of  his  goods.  He  took  great 
pride  in  his  work.  It  was  a  point  of  honor 
with  him  never  to  let  a  saw  go  out  of  his 
shop  unless  it  was  perfect.  As  he  pros- 
pered his  business  required  more  space 
and  it  continued  to  grow  in  spite  of  two 
disastrous  fires.  From  the  old  city  foun- 
dry his  shop  was  moved  to  Illinois  Street, 
and  there  by  addition  after  addition  and 
changes  and  modifications  it  grew  into  a 
great  institution  employing  over  1,000 
men.  Eventually  its  capital  stock  reached 
$600,000,  and  today  the  Atkins  saws  are 
handled  through  branch  houses  in  half  a 
dozen  of  the  larger  cities  of  America  and 
numberless  retail  stores  all  over  the  world. 
While  primarily  a  manufacturer,  Elias 
C.  Atkins  was  a  many  sided  business  man, 
and  it  was  only  natural  that  his  interests 
assumed  widespread  proportions.  His  name 
is  permanently  identified  with  the  develop- 
ment of  the  extensive  silver,  copper  and 
lead  mines  of  the  Hecla  Consolidated  Min- 
ing Company.  In  order  to  develop  these 
natural  resources  he  spent  four  years  in 
the  mountains  of  the  West.  The  primary 
consideration  that  led  him  into  this  work 
was  to  build  up  his  shattered  health,  and 
in  doing  so  he  lived  the  strenuous  and 
rough  life  of  mining  camps.  But  it  was 
also  an  exceedingly  profitable  vacation. 
Under  his  direction  the  original  investment 
of  the  mining  company  was  increased 
from  $60,000  to  $1,500,000,  and  he  was 
thus  identified  as  a  founder  of  one  of  the 
greatest  industrial "  organizations  of  the 
world.  He  had  many  other  business  in- 
terests, and  at  the  time  of  his  death  was 
president  of  the  Manufacturers  Natural 
Gas  Company  of  Indianapolis. 

His  insistence  upon  honest  and  perfect 
workmanship  and'  material  in  his  saws  was 
only  a  direct  proof  of  the  perfect  integrity 
of  his  character.  He  could  never  be 
brought  to  lend  his  influence  or  support 
to  anything  he  considered  unworthy  or  not 
justified  by  legitimate  business.     Once  he 


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withdrew  from  and  caused  the  dissolution 
of  an  English  syndicate  in  which  he  had 
invested  quite  heavily  because  after  con- 
siderable experience  he  deemed  the  pro- 
duct of  proposed  manufacture  unessential 
to  the  needs  of  the  business  world.  He  was 
an  old  fashioned  employer,  and  having 
risen  from  the  ranks  himself  he  understood 
the  point  of  view  of  the  laboring  man,  and 
gave  them  his  sympathy  and  perfect  un- 
derstanding even  after  his  organization 
comprised  a  small  army.  Among  other 
qualities  he  had  the  faculty  of  making  and 
retaining  friends,  and  no  one  ever  reposed 
a  confidence  in  him  which  was  misplaced. 

In  the  realm  of  practical  philanthropy 
he  was  liberal,  and  was  a  true  and  up- 
right Christian  gentleman.  In  1856  he 
united  with  the  Baptist  Church  of  Indian- 
apolis, soon  after  he  came  to  the  city,  and 
for  many  years  was  one  of  the  most  prom- 
inent Baptist  laymen  in  the  country.  He 
was  especially  a  friend  of  education.  He 
contributed  a  large  sum  to  the  Baptist  Fe- 
male Seminary,  which  occupied  the  site  of 
the  present  Shortridge  High  School  in  In- 
dianapolis. An  earnest  effort  was  made 
by  him  to  secure  the  establishment  of  the 
Baptist  University  in  Indianapolis,  and  for 
that  purpose  he  gave  forty  acres  of  land 
lying  between  Meridian  Street  and  Cen- 
tral avenue  north  of  Thirty-Second  Street. 
This  property  is  now  known  as  University 
Place.  The  plan  so  far  as  Indianapolis 
was  concerned  as  to  the  site  did  not  mate- 
rialize, since  Mr.  Atkins  subsequently  do- 
nated the  tract  at  a  represented  value  of 
$20,000  to  comprise  one  of  the  original  gifts 
together  with  those  of  John  D.  Rockefeller 
in  establishing  the  Theological  Seminary 
of  the  University  of  Chicago.  Mr.  Atkins 
was  one  of  the  trustees  of  Morgan  Park 
Seminary  at  Chicago  until  it  merged  with 
the  University  of  Chicago,  and  from  that 
time  was  a  member  of  the  official  board 
of  the  university. 

Elias  C.  Atkins  was  three  times  mar- 
ried. His  first  wife,  Sarah  J.  Wells,  left 
one  daughter,  Harriet,  who  married  John 
L.  McMahon.  His  second  wife  was  Mary 
Dolbeare,  and  her  only  child  is  deceased. 
August  17,  1865,  Elias  0.  Atkins  married 
.Miss  Sarah  P.  Parker.  She  was  born  at 
Methuen,  Massachusetts,  July  26,  1837, 
daughter  of  Rev.  Addison  and  Eunice 
(Brigham)  Parker.  .  She  was  of  old  Puri- 
tan    stock.      Her     paternal     grandfather, 


Aaron  Parker,  was  a  farmer  and  teacher 
in  Vermont.  Rev.  Addison  Parker  was 
for  many  years  a  minister  of  the  Baptist 
Church  and  died  at  Agawam,  Massachu- 
setts, in  1864,  at  the  age  of  sixty-seven. 
His  wife,  who  died  in  1855,  aged  fifty- 
seven,  was  a  descendant  of  the  Brigham 
and  Haines  families,  prominent  names  in 
New  England.  Mrs.  Parker  was  born 
at  Sudbury,  Massachusetts,  and  survived 
her  honored  husband  many  years  and 
was  long  prominent  in  the  social,  religious, 
and  charitable  activities  of  Indian- 
apolis. Her  grandfather  was  a  commis- 
sioned officer  of  the  Revolutionary  war  and 
was  at  the  battle  of  Lexington.  She  had 
membership  in  the  Daughters  of  the  Amer- 
ican Revolution.  The  five  children  of 
Elias  C.  Atkins  and  his  third  wife  were : 
Mary  D.,  who  married  Nelson  A.  Glad- 
ding ;  Henry  C. ;  Sarah  Frances,  widow  of 
Thomas  Reed  Kackley;  Emma  L.,  who 
married  Edward  B.  Davis ;  and  Carra,  who 
married  Major  Sandford  H.  Wadhams, 
U.  S.  A. 

Henry  C.  Atkins,  a  son  of  the  late  Elias 
C.  Atkins,  is  now  president  of  the  E.  C. 
Atkins  &  Company.  He  has  spent  nearly 
all  his  life  in  Indianapolis  but  was  born 
in  the  far  Northwest  while  his  father  was 
engaged  in  the  mining  business. 

His  birth  occurred  at  Atlanta,  Johnson 
County,  Idaho,  November  27,  1868.  He 
grew  up  in  Indianapolis,  attended  local 
schools  and  worked  in  his  father's  factory 
during  vacations.  He  graduated  from 
the  Indianapolis  Classical  School  at  the 
age  of  sixteen,  and  in  1885  entered  Yale 
University,  where  he  received  his  Bachelor 
of  Arts  degree  with  the  class  of  1889  at 
the  age  of  twenty.  He  had  already  ac- 
quired more  than  a  routine  knowledge  of 
his  father's  business  and  after  his  univer- 
sity career  he  entered  with  enthusiasm  and 
many  of  the  business  qualities  inherited 
from  his  father  into  the  practical  work, 
of  which  there  is  not  a  detail,  whether  con- 
nected with  the  technical  manufacture  or 
the  office  and  sales  end,  with  which  he  is 
not  familiar.  He  was  first  made  superin- 
tendent of  the  factory  and  in  1892  was 
chosen  vice  president  of  the  company  and 
superintendent,  and  in  1901  succeeded  his 
father  as  president  and  directing  head. 

While  the  management  of  this  business 
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and  in  themselves  constitute  a  big  public 
service,  Mr.  Atkins  has  on  many  occasions 
demonstrated  his  public  spirit  by  a  whole- 
some co-operation  with  movements  affecting 
the  general  welfare  of  his  home  city.  He 
is  a  republican,  has  been  a  member  of  the 
First  Baptist  Church  of  Indianapolis  since 
1877,  is  a  member  of  the  Columbia  Club, 
the  Commercial  Club,  the  Country  Club, 
the  Indianapolis  Board  of  Trade,  and  is 
affiliated  with  Mystic  Tie  Lodge  No.  398, 
Ancient  Free  and  Accepted  Masons. 

January  7,  1896,  Mr.  Atkins  married 
Miss  Sue  Winter.  She  was  born  at  Co- 
lumbus, Indiana,  February  10,  1872, 
daughter  of  Ferdinand  and  Mary  (Keyes) 
Winter.  Her  father  was  for  many  years 
a  prominent  member  of  the  Indianapolis 
bar.  The  three  children  of  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Atkins  are  Elias  C,  Keyes  W.  and  Henry 
C.  Junior. 

Byron  K.  Elliott,  jurist,  was  born  near 
Hamilton,  Ohio,  September  4,  1835.  His 
grandfather,  James  Elliott,  who  was  of 
English  descent,  moved  from  Pennsylvania 
to  Ohio  in  1799.  His  father,  Gen.  William 
J.  Elliott,  removed  in  December,  1850,  to 
Indianapolis,  where  he  was  proprietor  of 
the  principal  hotel  of  the  city  for  a  num- 
ber of  years.  Byron,  who  was  rather  frail 
physically,  was  a  studious  boy,  and  first  at- 
tended a  private  school  taught  by  Ben- 
jamin S.  Raleigh ;  then  the  Hamilton  Acad- 
emy ;  then  Furman  's  Academy ;  and  then 
a  school  taught  by  Prof.  F.  M.  Slack,  where 
he  was  a  classmate  of  William  Dean 
Howells.  After  coming  to  Indianapolis 
with  his  father,  he  attended  the  Marion 
County  Seminary,  and  after  completing  its 
course,  studied  law.  He  was  admitted  to 
the  bar  on  February  8,  1858,  and  in  May 
1859  he  was  elected  city  attorney.  Until 
the  beginning  of  the  Civil  war  he  was  a 
Douglas  democrat,  but  then  joined  the 
republican  party.  He  served  as  captain 
in  the  One  Hundred  and  Thirty-Second 
Indiana  Volunteers,  and  later  as  adjutant 
general  on  the  staff  of  Gen.  Robert  Milroy. 
After  the  war  he  was  elected  city  attorney 
in  1865,  1867,  and  1869,  each  time  by  the 
unanimous  vote  of  the  council,  excepting 
one  vote  at  one  election.  In  October.  1870, 
he  was  elected  judge  of  the  Marion  County 
Criminal  Court,  without  opposition.  In 
November,  1872,  he  resigned  this  position 
to   accept   the   position   of   city   solicitor, 


which  had  been  created  by  the  city  council, 
and  which  the  council  unanimously  ten- 
dered to  him.  This  office  was  discontinued 
in  1873 ;  and  he  was  then  again  unani- 
mously elected  city  attorney,  and  served 
until  1875.  In  1876,  while  absent  from 
home,  and  without  solicitation,  he  was 
elected  judge  of  the  Superior  Court  of 
Marion  County,  and  in  1880  was  renomi- 
nated by  acclamation  for  this  office;  but 
he  declined  to  accept  the  nomination  for 
judge  of  the  Supreme  Court.  He  was 
elected,  and  took  his  seat  on  that  bench  on 
January  3,  1881.  He  was  re-elected  to  the 
office  in  1886,  and  was  renominated  in 
1892,  but  was  defeated  with  his  party. 

During  these  twelve  years  on  the  Su- 
preme bench,  Judge  Elliott  was  most  in- 
dustrious, and  prepared  more  decisions  dis- 
posing of  cases  than  any  other  judge  of 
that  court  excepting  Judge  Blackford,  who 
was  on  the  Supreme  bench  for  thirty-six 
years.  They  run  through  sixty  volumes  of 
the  reports  of  the  court.  More  important, 
they  are  carefully  prepared,  and  are  rec- 
ognized as  authoritative  throughout  the 
country.  In  several  important  cases  he  dis- 
sented from  the  majority  opinion,  and  in 
all  such  cases  where  the  principle  involved 
has  come  under  the  consideration  of  courts 
of  other  states,  the  dissenting  opinions  of 
Judge  Elliott  have  been  approved.  His 
opinions  are  free  from  long  extracts  from 
the  record,  abound  in  pertinent  citations  of 
authorities,  and  are  couched  in  clear  and 
precise  language.  The  Albany  Law  Jour- 
nal, in  a  review  of  some  of  his  decisions, 
pronounced  him  ' '  one  of  the  ablest  judicial 
writers  in  the  country." 

Judge  Elliott  also  took  high  rank  as  an 
instructor.  In  1856  a  law  school  was 
opened  at  Indianapolis  by  the  Northwest- 
ern Christian  University  (now  Butler 
University)  but  it  was  discontinued  at  the 
beginning  of  the  war.  At  the  beginning  of 
the  '70s  it  was  revived  and  reorganized, 
opening  on  January  16,  1871,  with  Judge 
Elliott  at  the  head'  of  the  faculty.  After 
several  years  the  University  authorities  de- 
cided to  drop  their  university  features,  and 
confine  their  attention  to  a  literary  course, 
and  the  law  school  was  discontinued.  Judge 
Elliott  then  organized  an  independent 
school  known  as  the  Central  Indiana  Law 
School,  which  opened  in  1879,  and  was 
very  successful  until  Judge  Elliott  went 
on  the  Supreme  bench  in  1881,  and  Judge 


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James  B.  Black,  his  chief  coadjutor,  was 
appointed  on  the  Supreme  Court  Commis- 
sion in  1882,  when  it  went  to  pieces.  After 
retiring  from  the  Supreme  bench,  Judge 
Elliott's  attention  again  turned  to  educa- 
tion. He  found  a  kindred  soul  in  John 
R.  Wilson,  and  they  together  with  William 
P.  Fishback,  Addison  C.  Harris  (q.  v.)  and 
Charles  W.  Fairbanks  (q.  v.)  organized  the 
Indiana  Law  School,  of  which  they  consti- 
tuted the  faculty,  though  a  number  of 
others  delivered  lectures.  This  school  was 
successful  from  the  start,  and  in  1896  it 
made  an  alliance  with  The  Indiana  Dental 
College,  Butler  College,  and  The  Medical 
College  of  Indiana,  to  form  The  University 
of  Indianapolis,  the  management  of  each 
of  the  institutions,  however,  remaining  en- 
tirely independent.  Judge  Elliott  con- 
tinued at  the  head  of  the  faculty  of  this 
law  school  until  1899,  and  then  served  as  a 
special  lecturer  until  1903,  his  subjects  be- 
ing Equitv  Jurisprudence,  Equity  Plead- 
ing and  Practice  and  Corporations.  He 
also  found  time  to  deliver  special  lectures 
to  the  law  schools  of  DePauw  University, 
and  Northwestern  University,  of  Chicago. 

In  addition  to  these  labors,  Judge  Elliott 
found  time  to  do  a  large  amount  of  legal 
writing.  In  1888.  in  conjunction  with  his 
son,  William  F.  Elliott,  he  published  The 
Work  of  the  Advocate,  a  practical  treatise 
on  the  preparation  of  cases,  which  received 
favorable  notice  from  professional  journals, 
and  had  a  wide  sale.  In  1890  they  followed 
this  with  a  work  on  Roads  and  Streets, 
which  was  also  well  received.  In  1892  they 
published  Appellate  Procedure,  a  standard 
work  on  that  subject.  Later,  the  work  of 
the  Advocate  having  been  out  of  print  for 
about,  five  vears,  they  issued  an  enlarge- 
ment of  it,  in  two  volumes,  entitled  General 
Practice.  This  was  followed  by  a  work  on 
Evidence,  and  one  on  Railroads.  He  was 
deeply  interested  in  Masonry,  and  specially 
versed  in  its  rituals,  being  a  thirty-third 
degree  Scottish  Rite  Mason,  and  having 
been  at  the  head  of  the  local  Rose  Croix 
for  some  twenty  years.  With  all  his  devo- 
tion to  law  and  Masonry,  he  was  a  great 
reader  of  general  literature,  especially  of 
DOetry  and  standard  fiction.  He  knew 
Scott,  Bulwer.  Thackeray  and  Dickens  as 
lie  knew  the  law.  On  September  5,  1855, 
Judjxe  Elliott  was  married  to  Miss  Harriet 
A.  Talbott,  of  Indianapolis.  There  were 
two  children  of  the  marriage,  his  son  and 


law  partner,  William  F.  Elliott,  of  Indian- 
apolis, and  Mrs.  Robert  C.  Wright  of  Co- 
lumbia, South  Carolina.  Judge  Elliott 
died  at  Indianapolis  on  April  19,  1913. 

Thomas  A.  Hendricks  is  a  well  known 
business  man  of  Newcastle,  member  of  the 
wall  paper  and  paint  firm  of  Miller  & 
Hendricks. 

Mr.  Hendricks  represents  very  old 
American  stock,  a  family  that  has  been  in 
this  country  since  colonial  times  and  has 
furnished  worthy  and  substantial  citizens 
in  every  generation.  Mr.  Hendricks  was 
born  south  of  Freeman  in  Owen  County, 
Indiana,  in  1883,  son  of  R.  F.  and  Mary  E. 
(Freeman)  Hendricks.  He  attended  the 
public  schools  at  Worthington,  Indiana, 
until  the  age  of  sixteen,  then  did  farm 
work  two  years,  and  spent  two  years  on 
the  road  for  the  London  Art  Company.  He 
learned  the  painting  and  wall  paper  busi- 
ness with  the  firm  of  Hayden  &  Neil  at 
Jasonville,  Indiana,  for  one  year,  follow- 
ing that  he  was  in  the  same  line  of  business 
for  himself  at  Worthington  with  Fred 
Schumacher  under  the  name  Schumacher 
&  Hendricks.  In  August,  1909,  Mr.  Hen- 
dricks came  to  Newcastle,  was  in  business 
for  himself  several  years,  and  then  formed 
his  present  partnership  with  Mr.  Miller. 
They  have  one  of  the  chief  businesses  of 
the  kind  in  Henry  County.  Mr.  Hend- 
ricks also  has  considerable  real  estate. 

In  1905  he  married  Miss  Daisy  C. 
Haton,  daughter  of  John  W.  and  Anna 
M.  (Griffith)  Haton  of  Worthington.  To 
their  marriage  have  been  born  three  chil- 
dren :  Thomas  Lloyd,  born  in  1906 ; 
Vaughn  Albert,  born  in  1911 ;  and  Gerald 
Ivan,  born  in  1917.  Mr.  Hendricks  votes 
as  a  republican  and  is  quite  active  in  local 
affairs,  always  giving  his  time  liberally  to 
any  movement  that  marks  the  better  citi- 
zenship of  Newcastle.  He  is  a  member  of 
the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church  and  fra- 
ternally is  a  Royal  Arch  Mason,  a  Knight 
of  Pythias,  and  a  member  of  the  Improved 
Order  of  Red  Men. 

Leonidas  Perry  Newby,  president  of 
the  Citizens  National  Bank  of  Knights- 
town,  is  undoubtedly  one  of  the  most 
widely  known  citizens  of  Indiana.  He  has 
been  a  lawyer  over  thirty-five  years,  is  an 
officer  and  stockholder  in  many  banks,  and 
while   his    official    record   is   brief   he   has 


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enjoyed  a  commanding  influence  in  the  re- 
publican party  in  the  state  for  many  years. 
In  the  various  bodies  and  orders  of  Ma- 
sonry his  name  has  a  national  significance. 

The  parents  of  Mr.  Newby  early  in  life 
recognized  the  fact  that  success  comes  to 
those  who  are  best  prepared  to  deserve  it. 
Better  than  most  men  he  knows  how  to 
appreciate  the  struggles  of  a  youth  while 
getting  an  education  and  preparing  him- 
self for  a  useful  career.  As  a  man  of 
means  and  influence  he  has  done  his  part 
toward  equalizing  opportunities  and  mak- 
ing the  road  of  the  unfortunate  a  little 
bit  easier. 

Mr.  Newby  was  born  on  a  farm  near 
Lewisville,  Indiana,  April  9,  1855,  son  of 
Jacob  and  Lavina  (Leonard)  Newby.  His 
ancestors  belong  to  the  early  Quakers  who 
settled  along  the  Albemarle  Sound  in  North 
Carolina.  The  Newbys  were  part  of  a 
rather  large  emigration  to  North  Carolina, 
the  impelling  power  of  which  was  the  an- 
tagonism between  the  Quaker  people  and 
the  institution  of  slavery.  This  branch  of 
the  Newby  family  came  from  Randolph 
County,  North  Carolina,  to  Henry  County, 
Indiana,  in  1837.  Jacob  Newby  was  a  mer- 
chant tailor  at  Greensboro,  Indiana,  un- 
til the  long  credit  system  then  prevailing 
among  country  merchants  took  away  most 
of  his  property.  He  then  began  farming 
near  Lewisville.  After  coming  to  Henry 
County  Mr.  Jacob  Newby  and  wife  wor- 
shiped as  Methodists. 

L.  P.  Newby,  the  youngest  of  the  sons 
in  his  father's  family,  was  early  thrown 
upon  his  own  resources.  He  had  an  inten- 
sive ambition  to  get  a  real  education.  At 
Greensboro  he  worked  as  a  janitor  in  or- 
der to  supply  himself  with  clothing  and 
books  and  also  contribute  something  to  the 
family  expenses.  Nevertheless  he  led  his 
classes.  He  also  worked  for  neighboring 
farmers,  and  at  the  age  of  sixteen  went 
with  a  family  to  Knightstown,  where  he 
entered  the  high  school  then  under  Pro- 
fessor Hewitt.  Before  the  age  of  seven- 
teen he  was  a  country  school  teacher,  and 
he  alternated  between  teaching,  study  in 
the  high  school,  and  the  reading  of  law. 
He  graduated  a  member  of  the  first  class 
of  the  Knightstown  High  School  in  1875, 
and  then  for  several  years  gave  all  the  time 
he  could  to  the  study  of  law.  He  was 
admitted  t6  practice  in  1878,  and  in  the 
same  year  formed  a  partnership  with  "Wal- 


ter B.  Swaim.  After  a  year  Mr.  Newby 
entered  into  individual  practice.  In  1880 
he  was  elected  prosecuting  attorney  of  the 
Eighteenth  Circuit,  comprising  the  coun- 
ties of  Henry  and  Hancock.  His  term  of 
office  did  not  begin  for  two  years  after  his 
election,  but  owing  to  the  resignation  of 
the  incumbent  the  governor  appointed  Mr. 
Newby  to  the  vacancy.  He  served  nearly 
four  years.  During  that  time  he  appeared 
as  prosecutor  in  several  famous  cases,  com- 
ing into  competition  with  some  of  the  ablest 
members  of  the  Indiana  bar  and  lawyers 
from  other  states.  A  number  of  years  ago 
Mr.  Newby  succeeded  Judge  Joshua  H. 
Mellett  as  Henry  County  attorney  for  the 
Pennsylvania  Railroad  Company.  Though 
he  never  sought  judicial  honors  his  qualifi- 
cations for  office  were  recognized  by  his 
appointment  as  special  judge. 

Mr.  Newby  was  elected  a  member  of  the 
Indiana  State  Senate  in  1892  and  re-elected 
in  1896.  He  served  as  president  pro  tern 
of  the  Senate  for  six  years  and  was  chair- 
man of  the  judiciary  committee  for  a  simi- 
lar time.  For  twenty-five  years  he  was 
chairman  of  the  finance  committee  of  the 
Republican  State  Committee.  In  politics 
he  enjoyed  the  friendship  of  all  of  In- 
diana's most  eminent  statesmen.  He  was 
tendered  the  appointment  of  United  States 
consul  to  Bavaria  by  President  McKinley, 
but  declined  that  office. 

In  busness  affairs  he  is  too  well  known 
to  require  special  mention.  Besides  the 
presidency  of  the  Citizens  National  Bank 
he  is  vice  president  of  the  National  City 
Bank  of  Indianapolis,  also  a  director  in 
the  Security  Trust  Company  of  Indianap- 
olis, the  Newcastle  Central  Trust  and  Sav- 
ings Company,  and  has  been  connected 
with  a  number  of  public  utility  companies. 
He  was  at  one  time  president  of  the  board 
of  trustees  for  the  Southern  Indiana  Re- 
formatory. 

He  was  made  a  Mason  at  Knightstown 
in  1882,  and  has  gone  through  all  the  or- 
ders of  the  York  Rite  and  has  attained  the 
thirty-second  degree  "in  the  Scottish  Rite. 
He  is  now  grand  captain  general  of  the 
Grand  Encampment  of  Knights  Templar 
in  the  United  States,  and  has  held  nearly 
all  the  other  important  offices  in  this  or- 
der. He  is  author  of  "Side  Lights  on 
Templar  Law."  This  is  both  a  text  book 
and  a  digest  and  is  considered  the  leading 
authority    on    all    questions    of    Templar 


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jurisprudence.  He  was  grand  commander  of 
the  Grand  Commandery,  Knights  Templar; 
of  Indiana,  and  served  as  inspector  general 
of  the  order  in  Indiana.  He  served  as  a 
member  of  the  committee  of  jurisprudence 
of  the  Knights  Templar  of  the  United 
States  for  many  years,  and  was  a  member 
and  secretary  of  the  committee  that  wrote 
the  constitution,  laws,  rules  and  regulations 
that  now  govern  all  the  Templar  organiza- 
tions in  the  United  States  and  in  countries 
over  which  it  exercises  supervision.  The 
officers  of  the  Grand  Encampment  of  the 
Knights  Templar  have  recently  selected 
Mr.  Newby  for  a  most  responsible  and  at 
the  same  time  a  patriotic  and  inspiring 
mission.  In  conformity  with  the  plans  and 
instructions  he  goes  to  France  in  the  spring 
of  1919.  His  first  work  will  be  to  select, 
adopt  and  educate  600  French  orphans  in 
the  name  of  American  Templary.  Later  he 
is  to  join  a  representative  of  the  English 
Knights  Templar  in  a  mission  to  Jeru- 
salem for  the  purpose  of  rebuilding  or  re- 
pairing the  Hospital  of  St.  John  of  Jeru- 
salem built  by  the  Knights  in  the  eleventh 
century,  the  first  hospital  ever  erected. 
The  building  was  in  good  condition  until 
1918,  when  it  was  blown  up  by  the  Turks. 
September  20,  1877,  Mr.  Newby  married 
Mary  Elizabeth 'Breckenridge,  daughter  of 
Robert  B.  and  Julia  A.  Breekenridge  of 
Knightstown.  Her  father  was  long  a 
prominent  business  man  of  that  city.  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Newby  have  had  a  most  delight- 
ful married  companionship  of  over  forty 
years.  They  have  been  prominent  in  local 
society  and  have  used  their  means  not  only 
for  the  advancement  of  their  community 
but  for  extensive  travel  and  the  cultiva- 
tion of  all  those  things  that  go  to  enrich  the 
mind.  They  have  been  abroad  several 
times.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Newby  have  two  chil- 
dren, Floss,  born  May  3,  1879,  and  Floyd 
J.,  born  January  9,  1881.  The  daughter 
was  educated  in  DePauw  University  and 
a  finishing  school  in  Columbus  and  also  by 
extensive  foreign  travel.  The  son  spent 
four  years  at  DePauw  University  and  one 
year  in  the  law  school  of  the  Indiana  State 
University  and  for  a  number  of  years  has 
been  a  succesful  lawyer,  associated  with 
his  father.  Floyd  J.  Newby  married, 
November  23,  1904,  Mary  H.  Lewis,  only 
child  of  Judge  Henry  Clay  Lewis  of  Green- 
castle,  Indiana. 


John  L.  Thompson.  When  he  retired 
from  the  Indiana  State  Board  of  Agricul- 
ture in  1917  John  L.  Thompson  had  the 
distinction  of  having  completed  the  longest 
continuous  individual  service  on  that 
board,  a  service  which  began  in  1895  and 
lasted  twenty-two  years.  Now  that  agri- 
culture is  on  such  an  exalted  plane  among 
the  world's  industries  it  is  pertinent  to  in- 
quire just  what  qualities  and  achievements 
distinguished  Mr.  Thompson  as  a  farmer 
and  a  farm  leader. 

There  is  abundance  of  testimony  on  that 
point.  While  for  a  number  of  years  Mr. 
Thompson  has  had  his  home  at  Gas  City, 
and  through  his  sons  has  maintained  an 
active  connection  with  its  industrial  af- 
fairs, his  heart  has  always  been  in  the 
country.  The  Thompson  farm  in  Monroe 
Township  of  Grant  County,  long  known 
as  Cedar  Place,  has  not  only  been  pro- 
ductive in  the  practical  business  sense  but 
has  served  as  an  experiment  and  demon- 
stration farm  that  would  do  credit  to  simi- 
lar establishments  maintained  by  public 
funds.  It  has  always  been  a  mecca  for 
stock  buyers,  and  livestock  is  Mr.  Thomp- 
son's specialty.  He  probably  knows  more 
about  sheep  husbandry  and  wool  produc- 
tion than  any  other  man  in  Indiana.  He 
bought  the  first  pure  bred  Shropshire  sheep 
at  the  State  Fair  in  1875,  and  in  1887  be- 
gan making  an  annual  trip  to  England  as 
an  importer.  That  the  sheep  and  wool 
business  were  firmly  entrenched  in  this 
part  of  Indiana  even  before  the  present  era 
of  high  prices  is  due  in  great  measure  to 
Mr.  Thompson's  efforts.  For  years  he  had 
charge  of  the  sheep  exhibit  at  the  Indiana 
State  Fair,  and  has  served  many  times  as 
president  of  the  Marion  Fair  Association. 

Mr.  Thompson  is  a  reader  and  thinker, 
and  has  done  a  great  deal  to  solve  farm 
problems.  He  was  one  of  the  group  of 
progressive  farmers  who  organized  the 
Grant  County  Farmers  Institute.  While 
he  is  not  a  visionary  innovator,  Mr.  Thomp- 
son has  had  the  courage  to  take  the  lead  in 
a  number  of  practices  which  at  one  time 
were  deemed  revolutionary.  When  he  laid 
his  first  drain  tile  he  was  advised  that  it 
was  a  waste  of  energy  and  money  and  that 
the  tiles  could  in  no  way  prove  as  effective 
as  he  imagined.  He  also  introduced  the 
wire  tooth  sulky  rake  in  haymaking,  and 
how  long  ago  that  was  may  be  understood 
from  the  fact  that  he  bought  it  at  Hun- 


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tington  because  Huntington  was  on  the 
canal  and  Grant  County  had  no  immediate 
shipping  facilities.  Mr.  Thompson  also 
had  the  first  disc  harrow,  the  first  Key- 
stone hay  loader  and  harpoon  hay  fork 
ever  used   in  Monroe  Township. 

When  his  parents,  Samuel  R.  and  Martha 
M.  (Thornburg)  Thompson,  located  in 
Monroe  Township  July  20,  1842,  the  coun- 
try was  so  new  and  primitive  that  the  brush 
had  to  be  cut  away  before  a  wagon  could 
get  through  to  their  land.  Samuel  R. 
Thompson  was  born  in  Center  County, 
Pennsylvania,  in  1813.  He  was  a  tanner 
by  trade,  had  the  first  tannery  in  Monroe 
Township  of  Grant  County,  and  continued 
the  industry  until  he  was  fifty  years  of 
age,  after  which  he  farmed.  He  began  with 
eighty  acres,  but  in  later  years  owned  over 
500.  Martha  M.  Thornburg,  his  wife,  was 
born  about  1809,  in  Clinton  County,  Ohio, 
of  an  old  line  of  Quaker  stock.  She  was  a 
daughter  of  Richard  and  Judith  Thorn- 
burg. Samuel  R.  Thompson  and  wife  were 
married  in  Clinton  County  in  1838,  and 
in  1841  moved  to  Randolph  County,  In- 
diana, but  not  being  satisfied  with  that  lo- 
cality went  on  to  Monroe  Township  of 
Grant  County  the  next  year.  They  had 
very  little  capital  when  they  arrived  in 
Grant  County,  but  economy  and  industry 
prospered  them  so  that  a  few  years  later 
they  erected  the  commodious  brick  house 
which  has  been  a  feature  of  the  Thompson 
family  homestead.  Their  children  were 
Judith  A.,  Sarah  J.,  John  L.,  Alma,  Euriah 
and  Mary  A.  Judith  married  Dr.  Mahlon 
Pugh  and  is  now  deceased.  Sarah  became 
the  wife  of  William  H.  Taylor  and  is  now 
living  at  Gas  City  with  her  maiden  sister 
Alma.  The  son  Euriah  is  deceased.  Mary 
A.  became  the  wife  of  James  M.  Buchanan, 
of  Marion,  and  is  now  a  widow  living  at 
Marion. 

John  L.  Thompson  was  born  at  the  old 
homestead  in  Monroe  Township  October  2, 
1844,  and  has  always  lived  either  on  the 
farm  or  in  Gas  City.  While  he  attended 
public  schools  as  a  youth  he  received  most 
of  his  education  after  his  marriage.  There 
were  a  number  of  circumstances  which  pre- 
vented him  from  attending  school  regularly 
when  a  boy,  but  he  possessed  an  unlimited 
energy  and  determination  so  that  limited 
opportunities  apparently  had  nothing  to 
do  with  his  real  success  in  life. 

On  November  15,  1865,  Mr.  Thompson 


married  Elizabeth  S.  Hayes,  daughter  of 
William  and  Sarah  (Niccum)  Hayes.  Her 
father,  William  Hayes,  was  a  relative  of 
President  Hayes.  Her  father  came  to 
Grant  County  in  1849.  When  he  left  Mary- 
land he  made  a  cradle  for  his  one  child 
that  would  fit  into  the  front  of  the  car- 
riage, and  that  is  the  way  Mrs.  Thompson 
reached  Indiana.  This  home-made  cradle 
subsequently  served  the  other  members  of 
the  family  and  has  long  been  preserved 
as  an  interesting  relic. 

Mr.  John  L.  Thompson  and  his  wife,  who 
is  now  deceased,  had  the  following  chil- 
dren :  Oscar  S.,  Eva,  William  0.,  Gertrude 
and  Howell  D.  Mr.  Thompson  is  many 
times  a  grandfather  and  also  a  great- 
grandfather. His  son  Oscar  S.  married 
Olivia  Davis,  and  their  son  Arthur  E.  mar- 
ried Frances  Peters  and  had  a  son  named 
"Billy"  Richard  Thompson.  Eva  Thomp- 
son became  the  wife  of  Alva  A.  Nesbitt, 
and  the  Nesbitt  children  were:  Mabel, 
who  married  Kemp  Deering,  Genevieve, 
Lucile,  Francis  T.  and  Howell  D.  Nesbitt. 
William  O.  Thompson  married  Lela  May 
Yates,  and  their  two  children  were  John 
L.,  Jr.,  and  Virginia.  Howell  D.  Thomp- 
son married  Marie  Neal  and  had  two  chil- 
dren. Janet  Elizabeth  and  Hayden. 

When  the  Gas  City  Land  Company  first 
offered  inducements  to  manufacturers  Mr. 
Thompson  recognized  therein  an  oppor- 
tunity for  his  sons,  who  did  not  incline  to 
agriculture  as  a  business.  His  son  Oscar 
S.  was  the  first  man  on  the  ground,  and 
the  Thompson  bottle  factory  was  Gas  City's 
first  industry,  established  in  1892-93.  Mr. 
John  L.  Thompson  became  president  of 
the  company  when  it  was  organized  in 
March,  1892,  but  did  not  give  his  personal 
attention  to  it  for  over  a  year.  The  family 
carried  this  factory  through  the  period  of 
depression  immediately  following  and 
made  it  one  of  the  most  stable  and  profit- 
able of  Grant  County's  gas  industries. 
The  son  W.  O.  Thompson  is  a  graduate  of 
Purdue  Universitv,  became  factory  super- 
intendent in  1893,  with  0.  S.  Thompson 
as  general  business  manager  and  Howell 
D.  Thompson,  secretary  and  sales  man- 
ager. The  Thompson  bottle  factory  was 
operated  with  the  manual  system  for  some 
years,  but  was  one  of  the  first  in  Indiana 
to  introduce  automatic  bottle  blowing  ma- 
chines. 

The  Thompson  family  has  become  as  pro- 


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gressive  factors  in  the  development  of  Gas 
City  as  they  formerly  were  in  improving 
the  agricultural  district  of  Monroe  Town- 
ship. Some  of  the  most  beautiful  homes  of 
the  city  have  been  built  and  owned  by  Mr. 
Thompson  and  his  sons.  He  has  made  his 
residence  count  for  other  things  than  the 
establishment  of  stable  industries.  He  was 
a  diligent  working  member  of  the  Gas  City 
School  Board,  and  used  his  influence  effec- 
tively to  secure  the  establishment  of  the 
township  library  and  has  been  president  of 
that  institution.  He  was  also  chairman  of 
the  board  of  trustees  of  Gas  City,  and  was 
for  eight  years  a  justice  of  the  peace  in 
Monroe  Township.  He  is  a  member  of 
the  board  of  trustees  of  Taylor  University 
at  Upland.  Mr.  Thompson  is  a  stockholder 
and  director  in  the  First  State  Bank  of 
Gas  City  and  the  Citizens  Bank  of  Jones- 
boro. 

Mr.  Thompson  was  reared  in  a  family 
that  had  long  been  democratic  in  politics, 
but  his  experience  as  a  wool  grower  and 
glass  manufacturer  convinced  him  of  the 
need  of  a  protective  tariff,  and  he  came  to 
support  the  party  which  was  identified 
with  that  policy,  his  change  in  politics 
being  made  about  1884.  He  is  also  a 
Mason,  being  affiliated  with  Gas  City 
Lodge.  Naturally  the  community  looked 
to  him  for  leadership  in  the  various  war 
activities.  He  served  as  chairman  of  the 
Gas  City  branch  of  the  Grant  County 
chapter  of  the  Red  Cross,  was  a  member 
of  the  County  Council  of  Defense,  chair- 
man of  the  Advisory  Committee  of  Selec- 
tive Draft  Board  of  District  No.  2  of  Grant 
County,  and  as  a  member  of  the  War  In- 
dustries Board  in  the  Second  District.  Re- 
ligiously Mr.  Thompson  has  much  in  com- 
mon and  sympathy  with  the  Quaker  an- 
cestors on  his  mother's  side  who  settled  in 
North  Carolina  four  or  five  generations 
ago. 

Albert  J.  Beveridge  since  leaving  the 
United  States  Senate  in  1911  and  after 
the  stirring  role  he  played  in  the  political 
campaign  of  1912  has  devoted  himself  to 
the  field  of  authorship,  in  which  his  fame 
has  been  steadily  growing.  Among  great 
Americans  of  the  present  generation  it  is 
doubtful  if  any  attained  real  distinction 
from  a  beginning  on  a  humbler  plane  and 
in  the  face  of  more  persistent  difficulties. 

Albert  Jeremiah  Beveridge  was  born  on 


a  farm  on  the  border  of  Adams  and  High- 
land counties,  Ohio,  October  6,  1862.  His 
father  was  Thomas  H.  Beveridge,  who  came 
to  Ohio  from  Virginia.  His  mother  was 
Frances  Parkinson  Beveridge,  whose  fam- 
ily were  pioneer  settlers  of  Highland 
County.  "When  he  was  born  his  father  was 
in  the  Union  army.  Soon  after  the  war  the 
family  moved  to  a  farm  near  Sullivan, 
Moultrie  County,  Illinois. 

Albert  J.  Beveridge  grew  up  in  a  home 
where  only  the  barest  simple  comforts  were 
supplied.  His  first  advantages  were  the 
district  schools  of  Moultrie  County.  At 
the  age  of  twelve  he  was  working  as  a 
ploughboy  on  his  father's  farm.  At  the 
age  of  fourteen  he  was  a  logger  and  a 
teamster,  helping  his  father  in  contracts 
for  railroad  grading  and  log  hauling  that 
the  elder  Beveridge  had  undertaken.  At 
fifteen  he  was  given  charge — made  boss — 
of  a  number  of  loggers.  While  such  toil 
makes  the  heaviest  physical  drain  upon  the 
resources  of  youth,  young  Beveridge  was 
taking  time  from  sleep  to  educate  himself. 
About  that  time  came  the  opportunity  to 
attend  a  high  school.  One  of  his  biograph- 
ers has  said :  ' '  The  deadlock  in  his  hard 
affairs  was  temporarily  broken  when  he 
became  a  high  school  student,  but  then, 
and  for  a  number  of  years  afterwards, 
whatever  he  achieved  mentally  was  a  dou- 
ble triumph,  for  he  was  not  only  compelled 
to  master  the  task  in  hand  but  also,  by 
sheer  force  of  will,  to  raise  himself  above 
all  physical  consideration  most  natural  to 
the  young  man  who  is  also  valiantly  strug- 
gling to  provide  himself  with  the  absolute 
necessities  of  life." 

Mr.  Beveridge  finally  entered  old  As- 
bury,  now  De  Pauw,  University  of  Green- 
castle,  Indiana,  and  was  graduated  A.  B. 
in  1885,  with  the  honors  of  his  class.  He 
was  a  penniless  graduate,  and  the  follow- 
ing year  he  spent  in  the  West.  In  the  win- 
ter of  1886  Mr.  Beveridge  took  up  his  resi- 
dence in  Indianapolis  and  began  the  study 
of  law  in  the  office  of  Senator  Joseph  E. 
McDonald.  As  there  was  no  remuneration 
connected  with  his  law  studies,  he  pro- 
vided for  his  living  by  a  position  as  read- 
ing clerk  in  the  Lower  House  of  the  Indi- 
ana Legislature.  Somewhat  later  he  was 
made  managing  clerk  in  the  law  office  of 
McDonald  &  Butler,  and  continued  with 
the  firm  until  1889,  having  been  admitted 
to  the  bar  in  1887.  Until  his  election  to  the 


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United  States  Senate  Mr.  Beveridge  was  a 
lawyer  of  the  Indianapolis  bar,  and  was 
identified  as  counsel  with  some  of  the  most 
important  cases  tried  in  the  State  and  Fed- 
eral courts. 

While  in  University  he  was  noted  for 
his  powers  as  an  orator  and  debater.  "With 
all  the  physical  qualifications  of  the  orator 
he  has  united  a  sincerity  and  depth  of  con- 
viction and  a  depth  of  understanding  and 
knowledge,  growing  yearly  by  experience, 
sufficient  to  account  largely  for  the  great 
power  he  has  exercised  over  American  pub- 
lic opinion  either  as  a  political  campaigner 
or  as  a  writer  and  speaker  in  the  broader 
fields  of  literature  and  social  and  economic 
affairs.  Twenty  years  or  so  ago  there  was 
hardly  a  district  in  Indiana  which  had 
not  responded  to  his  eloquence.  His  na- 
tional reputation  as  a  speaker  came  in  the 
campaign  of  1896,  and  some  students  of  his 
career  have  found  the  source  of  the  move- 
ment which  made  him  a  United  States  sena- 
tor in  the  speech  he  delivered  at  Chicago 
in  answer  to  that  of  Governor  Altgeld  of 
Illinois,  presenting  a  masterly  arraignment 
of  the  socialistic  tendencies  of  the  demo- 
cratic party.  Three  years  later  Mr.  Bever- 
idge was  brought  forward  as  a  candidate 
for  the  United  States  Senate.  He  had  four 
competitors  for  the  honor,  including  some 
of  the  best  known  men  of  the  state,  and 
though  he  himself  was  the  youngest  of  the 
aspirants  the  Legislature  did  not  hesitate 
long  to  concentrate  its  support  upon  the 
brilliant  young  orator.  He  was  elected  a 
member  of  the  United  States  Senate  in 
1899,  and  at  that  time  was  one  of  the 
youngest  men  ever  called  to  that  branch 
of  the  National  Legislature.  In  1905  he 
was  re-elected  his  own  successor.  He  was 
in  the  United  States  Senate  during  a  pe- 
culiarly vital  period  of  American  life, 
when  the  old  order  was  changing,  and  those 
who  have  even  a  casual  knowledge  of  that 
period  will  recall  how  the  name  Beveridge 
was  again  and  again  associated  with  the 
nucleus  of  every  movement  working  toward 
the  saner  and  better  issues  of  national 
welfare. 

The  climax  of  his  political  career,  and 
with  it  his  greatest  contribution  to  Ameri- 
can life,  came  in  the  presidential  year  of 
1912.  In  the  republican  national  conven- 
tion of  that  year  Mr.  Beveridge,  partly  on 
account  of  his  great  prestige  as  a  former 
leader  in  the  United  States  Senate,  was  first 


and  foremost  in  that  unsuccessful  attempt 
to  commit  the  republican  party  to  those 
broad  and  vital  issues  which  represented 
the  progressive  ideals  of  the  nation.  When 
that  movement  failed  he  joined  with  Roose- 
velt and  others  in  establishing  the  national 
progressive  party,  and  was  chairman  of  the 
progressive  convention  in  Chicago.  In  the 
course  of  one  of  his  great  speeches  during 
that  campaign  Mr.  Beveridge  in  arraigning 
the  subtle  and  corrupt  influences  that  so 
often  perverted  and  stultified  the  old  polit- 
ical parties,  uttered  that  phrase  concern- 
ing the  power  of.  "the  invisible  govern- 
ment," one  of  those  rare  descriptive 
phrases  that  have  more  than  temporary 
currency  in  the  coinage  of  political  lan- 
guage. 

Mr.  Beveridge  has  addressed  his  talk  to 
the  world  through  various  mediums,  from 
the  political  rostrum,  from  the  halls  of  the 
United  States  Senate  and  also  through  the 
newspaper  and  periodical  press  and  more 
and  more  in  later  years  through  books.  The 
range  of  his  experience  and  versatile  men- 
tal powers  is  well  illustrated  in  a  list  of  his 
more  important  literary  productions.  Some 
of  them  are:  "The  Russian  Advance," 
1903;  "The  Young  Man  and  the  World," 
1905  ;  "  The  Bible  as  Good  Reading, ' '  1908 ; 
"The  Meaning  of  the  Times,"  1908; 
"Work  and  Habits,"  1908;  "Americans  of 
Today  and  Tomorrow, ' '  1909 ;  ' '  Pass  Pros- 
perity Around,"  title  of  a  great  speech  he 
delivered  in  1912,  "What  is  Back  of  the 
War,"  1915.  Perhaps  his  most  monumen- 
tal work  and  the  one  upon  which  his  fame 
as  a  historian  and  author  will  chiefly  rest 
is  his  recent  "Life  of  John  Marshall," 
chief  justice  of  the  United  States,  a  large 
four  volume  work  that  promises  to  remain 
the  one  authoritative  and  critical  analysis 
of  the  career  of  this  remarkable  American 
statesman. 

On  November  24,  1887,  the  same  year  he 
was  admitted  to  the  bar,  Mr.  Beveridge 
married  Miss  Catharine  Langsdale  of 
Greencastle,  Indiana.  She  died  June  18, 
1900.  On  August  7,  1907,  Mr.  Beveridge 
married  Miss  Catherine  Spencer  Eddy  of 
Chicago. 

Ma j.  William  W.  Daugherty,  a  retired 
army  officer,  is  one  of  the  most  interesting 
residents  of  Indianapolis,  and  his  career 
serves  as  a  connecting  link  between  the 
military  glories  of  the  Civil  war  and  the 


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period  of  conquest  of  the  western  plains 
and  that  new  stage  of  military  achievement 
on  which  our  country  has  recently  entered. 
While  Major  Daugherty  left  the  army 
after  he  was  fifty  years  of  age  and  has  been 
retired  for  a  quarter  of  a  century,  he  has 
a  fighting  son  who  is  an  officer  in  the 
American  Expeditionary  Forces  on  the 
western  front. 

The  Daughertys  are  in  fact  a  family  of 
fighters,  and  several  generations  of  them 
have  been  of  the  hardy  race  of  American 
pioneers  and  developers.  Major  Daugherty 
was  born  in  Boone  County,  Indiana,  in 
1840,  son  of  Joseph  Foster  and  Maria 
(Campbell)  Daugherty.  He  is  of  Scotch 
Presbyterian  and  North  of  Ireland  an- 
cestry. His  father,  a  native  of  Mont- 
gomery County,  Ohio,  arrived  in  Indian- 
apolis in  October,  1834,  and  was  one  of  the 
early  settlers  of  the  city,  locating  there  less 
than  ten  years  after  the  founding  of  the 
capital.  He  was  a  merchant  and  for  his 
day  a  man  of  affairs.  He  was  especially 
distinguished  for  his  fine  intelligence.  He 
was  exceptionally  well  read,  and  kept  him- 
self thoroughly  informed  on  the  history 
and  affairs  of  Indiana.  At  a  time  when 
the  preservation  of  historical  records  was 
left  to  the  haphazard  of  fate  and  chance 
Joseph  F.  Daugherty  carefully  preserved 
a  file  of  local  newspapers  of  the  '30s  and 
'40s,  and  those  papers  are  still  preserved 
by  a  sister  of  Major  Daugherty,  and  com- 
prise an  index  of  many  historical  events  of 
the  time. 

William  W.  Daugherty  at  the  age  of  sev- 
enteen entered  old  Northwestern,  now  But- 
ler, College  at  Indianapolis.  He  was  grad- 
uated in  the  class  of  1861,  and  in  the  sum- 
mer of  the  same  year  enlisted  as  a  private 
in  Company  G  of  the  Twenty-Seventh  In- 
diana Infantry.  With  that  organization  he 
served  two  years  in  the  Army  of  the  Poto- 
mac. He  was  at  Winchester,  Cedar  Moun- 
tain, Antietam,Chancellorsville,  and  Gettys- 
burg. At  Gettysburg  his  regiment  was  in 
the  First  Division  of  the  Twelfth  Corps, 
Williams'  "Red  Star"  Division.  In  the 
fall  of  1863  the  Twenty-Seventh  Indiana 
was  transferred  to  the  Army  of  the  Ten- 
nessee, and  after  the  winter  spent  at  Nash- 
ville entered  upon  the  historic  Atlanta 
campaign.  Major  Daugherty  was  in  all 
the  fighting  leading  up  to  the  siege  and 
fall    of   that   city.     About    that    time   his 


term  of  enlistment  expired  and  he  was 
mustered  out. 

But  his  taste  for  army  life  was  not  yet 
satisfied.  In  1867  he  joined  the  Regular 
United  States  Army,  and  was  appointed 
second  lieutenant  in  the  Eighteenth  United 
States  Infantry.  With  this  regiment  he 
was  sent  into  the  West.  The  first  transcon- 
tinental railway,  the  Union  Pacific,  had  not 
yet  been  completed,  and  the  regular  forces 
by  no  means  lived  a  life  of  indolence  and 
ease.  There  were  constant  patrol  duty, 
protection  of  railroads  and  isolated  border 
posts,  and  Indian  outbreaks  were  almost 
a  weekly  occurrence  in  the  West.  In  Jan- 
uary, 1870,  Major  Daugherty  was  trans- 
ferred to  the  famous  Twenty-Second  In- 
fantry. He  was  with  that  noted  unit  of 
the  Regular  Army  until  1893.  For  a  num- 
ber of  years  he  held  the  rank  of  captain, 
and  retired  with  the  rank  of  major.  Major 
Daugherty  is  one  of  the  few  men  living 
who  have  woven  into  their  experience  the 
life  and  romance  of  the  western  plains. 
His  service  called  him  over  practically  all 
the  western  territories  and  states,  from  the 
Canadian  line  to  the  southwest  and  even 
into  Alaska.  At  one  time  he  was  stationed 
at  Mackinac,  Michigan.  After  retiring 
from  the  army  in  1893  he  returned  to  his 
old  home  at  Indianapolis,  and  here  he  has 
reclaimed  many  of  his  old  friends  and 
made  many  new  ones.  A  large  circle  take 
great  pleasure  in  his  character,  his  genial 
fellowship,  and  the  varied  experience  of 
his  early  years.  Major  Daugherty  appre- 
ciates to  the  full  the  usefulness  and  merits 
of  the  military  organization  in  our  national 
life,  and  he  exemplifies  a  genuine  Ameri- 
canism of  the  highest  type.  H^e  is  a  prom- 
inent member  of  the  military  order  of  the 
Loyal  Legion,  and  in  the  spring  of  1918 
was  elected  commander  of  the  order  for  the 
State  of  Indiana. 

Major  Daugherty  married  Miss  Mathilda 
Anderson,  a  native  of  Minnesota.  They 
are  the  parents  of  four  children  :  Maria  M., 
Joseph  Blair,  Rebecca  E.,  and  William  F. 
It  is  the  son  William  who  now  represents 
the  family  in  military  achievement.  He 
graduated  from  West  Point  Military  Acad- 
emy with  the  class  of  1917,  and  already 
has  the  rank  of  captain  of  cavalry.  He  is 
now  on  the  battle  front  in  France.  He 
made  an  unusual  record  as  a  student  in 
the  Shortridge  High  School  in  Indianap- 


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olis,  and  the  fact  that  he  was  so  soon  pro- 
moted to  captain  after  leaving  the  mili- 
tary academy  is  evidence  that  he  possesses 
in  full  the  spirit  of  his  fighting  ancestors. 

Dixon  W.  Place.  The  pioneer  annals 
of  several  counties  of  Northern  Indiana 
credit  important  achievements  to  several 
members  of  the  Place  family,  which  is  of 
French  origin,  the  original  spelling  of  the 
name  having  been  LaPlace. 

Dixon  W.  Place,  who  among  other  dis- 
tinctions was  one  of  the  first  to  advocate 
and  give  impetus  to  the  movements  for 
the  reclamation  and  drainage  of  the  Kan- 
kakee Valley  lands,  has  been  a  resident  of 
South  Bend  many  years  and  is  president 
of  the  Conservative  Life  Insurance  Com- 
pany of  America. 

He  was  born  in  Camden,  Preble  County, 
Ohio,  and  was  brought  in  infancy  to  this 
state.  His  great-grandfather,  Area  Place, 
was  born  in  Rhode  Island  Februarj-  14, 
1776,  and  married  Elizabeth  Knight. 
Their  oldest  son  was  born  at  Springfield, 
Vermont.  Their  next  son  was  born  in  New 
York  State,  and  soon  afterward  the  family 
located  at  Oxford  in  the  same  state,  where 
four  other  children  were  born.  The 
youngest  was  born  in  1817  at  Bloomfield, 
New  York.  Area  Place  spent  his  last  days 
at  Camden,  Ohio,  where  he  died  at  the  age 
of  sixty-one. 

Ira  K.  Place,  grandfather  of  the  South 
Bend  business  man,  was  born  at  Spring- 
field, Vermont,  July  30,  1797,  and  early 
learned  the  trade  of  potter.  When  about 
twenty  years  old  he  went  to  Ohio,  and 
since  there  were  no  railroads  or  canals  he 
accomplished  the  journey  on  foot.  In  But- 
ler County  he  found  his  wife,  Sarah  Urm- 
ston,  a  native  of  that  part  of  Ohio,  and 
daughter  of  a  prosperous  farmer  and  very 
influential  citizen.  From  Butler  County 
Ira  K.  Place  moved  to  Preble  County, 
where  for  many  years  he  conducted  a  pot- 
tery and  for  forty  years  represented  the 
federal  government  as  postmaster  of  Cam- 
den. He  died  June  15,  1869.  When  Nor- 
thern Indiana  was  being  opened  to  settle- 
ment he  visited  the  section  and  invested 
some  of  his  surplus  means  in  canal  lands, 
getting  400  acres  at  $2.50  an  acre. 

He  and  his  wife  had  seven  children,  sev- 
eral of  whom  became  well  known  in  In- 
diana. His  brothers,  Willard  and  Nelson, 
were  among  the  first  settlers  of  LaPorte, 

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helping  to  build  the  first  house  there.  Nel- 
son was  agent  for  the  Lake  Shore  Railway 
many  years,  and  was  killed  in  a  railroad 
accident  in  1868.  Willard  Place  made  a 
name  as  a  banker,  and  also  served  as 
colonel  of  the  state  militia.  He  died  at 
LaPorte  in  1876. 

James  U.  Place,  the  oldest  son  of  Ira  K. 
Place,  was  born  at  Camden,  Ohio,  Feb- 
ruary 18,  1820,  and  lived  there  until  1851, 
when  he  and  his  wife  and  infant  son  Dixon 
journeyed  in  a  covered  wagon  drawn  by 
horses  to  take  possession  of  a  tract  of  land 
in  Cass  County  given  him  by  his  father. 
Except  for  a  few  acres  cleared  and  a  small 
log  house  this  was  part  of  the  primeval 
wilderness.  The  energy  of  James  Place 
brought  about  many  changes  in  the  course 
of  years,  and  he  was  one  of  the  very  able 
farmers  of  his  county  and  acquired  a  large 
amount  of  adjoining  land.  Late  in  life  he 
retired  to  the  village  of  New  Waverly,  Cass 
County,  where  he  died  July  25,  1894.  On 
August  1,  1848,  he  had  married  Susan 
Frances  Patton,  who  survived  him  and 
passed  away  November  23,  1897.  She  was 
born  near  Winchester,  Preble  County, 
Ohio,  daughter  of  Dixon  and  Rhoda  (Lit- 
tel)  Patton.  James  Place  and  wife  had 
four  children :  Dixon  W.,  Mary  J.,  Rhoda 
Adelle  and  Sarah  F. 

Dixon  W.  Place  gained  a  permanent  in- 
terest in  land  and  agriculture  during  his 
early  life  on  his  father's  farm.  The  in- 
struction afforded  by  the  district  schools 
was  supplemented  in  the  Peru  High 
School,  and  he  taught  for  one  term.  Until 
his  marriage  he  engaged  in  the  propaga- 
tion and  sale  of  nursery  stock,  and  then  re- 
sumed farming  at  the  old  homestead  un- 
til 1881.  In  that  year  he  established  his 
home  at  Walkerton,  where  he  developed 
an  extensive  wholesale  business  in  hay, 
shipping  many  carloads  every  year  to 
eastern  markets.  He  also  platted  an  ad- 
dition to  Walkerton,  and  while  there  was 
elected  a  member  of  the  board  of  county 
commissioners.  Still  retaining  his  busi- 
ness interests  at  Walkerton,  Mr.  Place  re- 
moved to  South  Bend  in  1891,  and  that 
city  has  since  been  his  home. 

His  practical  interest  in  the  swamp 
lands  of  the  Kankakee  Valley  began  in 
1881,  when  he  bought  the  first  tract.  Al- 
most its  only  value  then  was  for  hay.  At 
the  present  time  Mr.  Place  owns  upwards 
of  2,000  acres.    He  organized  and  was  the 


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first  president  of  the  Kankakee  Valley 
Drainage  Association,  and  from  first  to 
last  he  had  an  influential  part  in  that  his- 
toric undertaking  whereby  in  spite  of  legal 
and  many  other  difficulties  a  system  of 
drainage  was  carried  out  that  makes  these 
lands  unsurpassed  in  virgin  richness  of 
soil  and  crops. 

Elected  in  1885,  Mr.  Place  was  for  six 
years  a  county  commissioner  of  St.  Joseph 
County.  Being  a  systematic  business  man, 
he  was  early  impressed  with  the  lack  of 
system  prevailing  in  the  different  counties 
in  keeping  accounts  of  the  fiscal  adminis- 
tration. Finally  he  took  upon  himself  the 
responsibility  of  calling  a  convention  of 
all  the  county  commissioners  and  town- 
ship trustees  of  the  state  at  Indianapolis 
in  October,  1891.  The  convention  was  held 
and  a  permanent  organization  effected, 
with  Mr.  Place  as  chairman  of  the  con- 
vention. The  organization  has  continued, 
but  several  years  ago  it  became  so  large 
that  a  division  was  made,  so  that  now  the 
township  trustees  and  the  county  commis- 
sioners each  have  an  association.  The  main 
purpose  Mr.  Place  had  in  view  has  also 
been  accomplished — a  standardization  of 
accounting  methods  to  which  practically 
all  sections  of  the  state  conform. 

Mr.  Place  in  later  years  has  given  In- 
diana one  of  its  leading  insurance  organ- 
izations. He  was  one  of  five  men  who 
founded  the  Conservative  Life  Insurance 
Company  of  America  in  1910,  and  from 
the  beginning  has  been  president. 

March  2,  1873,  he  married  Miss  Emma 
M.  LaTourrette,  a  native  of  Miami  Town- 
ship, Cass  County,  Indiana,  and  daughter 
of  Henry  and  Maria  (Quick)  LaTour- 
rette. To  their  marriage  have  been  born 
three  daughters,  Edna  M.,  Mabel  L.  and 
Frances  Marie.  Mabel  is  the  wife  of  Gran- 
ville W.  Zeigler  and  has  two  children, 
named  Marion  and  Granville  Place  Zeigler. 
Frances  Marie  is  the  wife  of  Russell  H. 
Downey,  and  has  a  son  named  Dixon. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Place  are  members  of  the 
First  Methodist  Episcopal  Church,  and  he 
has  been  on  its  board  of  trustees  for  many 
years  and  is  active  in  Sunday  School  work, 
not  having  been  absent  or  tardy  for  the 
past  three  years.  Fraternally  he  is  affil- 
iated with  South  Bend  Lodge  No.  294,  Free 
and  Accepted  Masons,  Crusade  Lodge  No. 
14,  Knights  of  Pythias,  the  Knights  of  the 
Maccabees,  St.  Joseph  Valley  Grange,  the 


Knife  and  Fork  Club  and  the  South  Bend 
Country  Club.  He  resides  at  322  South 
Lafayette  Boulevard. 

William  Wise  Winslow.  The  manu- 
facturing and  business  circles  of  Indiana, 
especially  at  Indianapolis,  came  to  know 
and  appreciate  in  the  fullest  degree  the 
abilities  and  forcefulness  of  character  ex- 
emplified by  the  late  William  Wise  Wins- 
low,  during  a  long  and  active  career.  Mr. 
Winslow  was  especially  prominent  in  the 
clay  products  industry,  and  gave  Indian- 
apolis one  of  its  chief  enterprises  in  that 
line. 

His  career  was  an  unusual  one  in  many 
respects.  He  was  born  in  New  York  City 
March  26,  1853,  a  son  of  William  and  Eu- 
genie Wise.  When  only  three  years  of 
age  he  and  his  brother  Jacob  were  left  as 
orphans  through  the  death  of  their  parents 
by  ptomaine  poisoning.  William  Wise  was 
then  placed  in  the  Five  Points  Mission 
Home  in  New  York.  Not  long  afterward 
Mr.  William  Winslow  of  Hartford,  Ohio, 
who  had  recently  lost  a  little  son,  made  a 
business  journey  to  New  York  City,  and 
while  there  at  the  earnest  request  of  his 
wife  brought  the  boy  back  to  Ohio  and 
raised  him.  Thus  it  was  that  William 
Wise  took  the  name  William  Wise  Wins- 
low. How  carefully  the  principles  of  man- 
hood were  instilled  into  the  young  man's 
education  may  be  judged  from  his  future 
home  and  public  career. 

He  attended  the  common  schools  at 
Hartford,  Ohio,  and  at  the  age  of  fourteen 
went  with  his  foster  parents  to  Milan, 
Ohio,  the  birthplace  and  early  home  of 
Thomas  A.  Edison.  Here  he  entered  the 
Huron  Institute  and  also  took  a  course  at 
Oberlin  College.  For  his  higher  educa- 
tion he  supplied  his  own  finances. 

Through  his  early  associations  with  the 
Winslow  family 'he  enjoyed  a  good  busi- 
ness training,  and  after  leaving  college 
he  entered  the  employ  of  the  King  Bridge 
Company.  Upon  its  reorganization  he 
went  to  work  with  the  Canton  Bridge 
Company,  and  was  in  its  service  many 
years. 

At  the  age  of  twenty-three  Mr.  Winslow 
removed  to  Lafayette,  Indiana,  and  in 
1880  came  to  Indianapolis,  which  was  his 
home  until  his  death  on  June  25,  1914. 
Later,  he  purchased  the  Indianapolis  Pav- 
ing Brick  and  Block  Company  of  Brazil, 


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1867 


Indiana,  and  was  the  main  spirit  in  build- 
ing up  this  industry,  and  as  a  brick  man- 
ufacturer he  laid  the  foundation  of  his 
prosperity.  He  had  two  great  and  ab- 
sorbing interests  in  life,  one  of  them  be- 
ing his  home  and  the  other  his  business. 
Home  was  to  him  a  matter  of  sacred  obli- 
gations and  associations,  and  business 
stood  second  only  to  these.  He  possessed 
the  fine  fibre  and  intincts  of  the  thoroughly 
honorable  business  man,  and  he  lived  a 
life  creditable  to  his  adopted  state.  He 
was  always  generous  of  his  time  and  means, 
and  one  of  the  things  that  earned  him  a 
grateful  memory  in  Indianapolis  was  his 
magnificent  bequest  of  $50,000  to  the  Boys' 
Club  of  that  city.  He  was  a  member  of 
the  Masonic  Order  and  of  the  Second  Pres- 
byterian Church. 

December  27,  1882,  Mr.  Winslow  mar- 
ried Miss  Jennie  I.  "Walker,  daughter  of 
Isaac  Cushman  and  Harriet  Lockwood 
(Saunders)  Walker  of  Milan,  Ohio.  Mrs. 
Winslow,  who  resides  at  1942  North  Meri- 
dian Street  in  Indianapolis,  is  the  mother 
of  two  sons,  "Walker  "Wise  and  Robert. 

General  Lew  "Wallace  attained  notable 
distinction  as  a  lawyer,  soldier,  diplomat, 
and  author.  He  was  born  in  Brookville, 
Indiana,  April  10,  1827.  He  began  the 
study  of  law  in  his  youth,  and  in  1852  he 
located  at  Crawfordsville,  Indiana.  He 
was  distinguished  as  a  Civil  war  soldier, 
but  he  is  perhaps  best  known  to  the  world 
through  his  literary  productions. 

In  1852  General  Wallace  was  married  to 
Miss  Susan  Elston,  who  was  born  in  Craw- 
fordsville. She  was  also  a  writer  of  marked 
ability,  and  her  death  occurred  in  1907. 
The  death  of  General  Lew  Wallace  occurred 
at  his  home  in  Crawfordsville  on  the  15th 
of  February,  1905. 

Frank  M.  Millikan,  a  resident  of  In- 
dianapolis nearly  thirty  years,  prominent 
as  a  banker  and  manufacturer,  and  no  less 
so  as  a  farmer,  is  one  of  the  men  whom  the 
City  of  Indianapolis  has  recruited  from 
the  country  district  of  Indiana.  The  Mil- 
likan family  is  one  of  the  oldest  and  most 
prominent  in  Henry  County,  and  it  was 
there  that  Frank  M.  Millikan  grew  up  and 
obtained  his  reputation  in  Indiana  politics. 

His  ancestry  goes  back  to  William  and 
Eleanor  Millikan,  who  were  identified  with 
the  colonial  period   of  American  history. 


The  oldest  son  of  William  and  Eleanor, 
Alexander  Millikan,  was  born  in  North 
Carolina  in  1788.  When  he  was  eleven 
years  old,  in  1799,  his  parents  moved  to 
eastern  Tennessee,  where  Alexander  mar- 
ried Elizabeth  Russell.  They  became  the 
parents  of  thirteen  children.  In  1837 
Alexander  Millikan,  because  of  his  antip- 
athy to  slavery,  moved  north  and  estab- 
lished a  home  in  Henry  County,  Indiana, 
where  his  son  John  R.  and  two  married 
daughters  had  already  located.  Alexander 
Millikan  in  1880  died  at  the  age  of  ninety- 
two. 

John  R.  Millikan,  oldest  son  of  Alex- 
ander and  Elizabeth,  was  born  in  Jeffer- 
son County,  Tennessee,  April  27,  1814. 
His  mature  life  meant  much  to  Indiana, 
and  it  was  from  such  sturdy  characters 
that  the  state  derived  its  best  elements  of 
citizenship.  His  useful  days  were  spent 
among  pioneer  surroundings.  In  1835,  at 
the  age  of  twenty-one,  he  located  in  Henry 
County,  Indiana,  and  his  total  worldly 
possessions  at  the  time  consisted  of  a  horse, 
a  saddle  and  bridle,  ten  dollars  in  cash 
and  a  few  clothes.  Part  of  the  way  to  In- 
diana he  drove  an  ox  belonging  to  a  fellow 
traveler.  Fortunately  he  had  been  taught 
the  value  of  industry  at  an  early  age  and 
was  not  ashamed  to  work.  In  former 
times  in  Henry  County  he  chopped  wood 
at  37%  cents  per  cord.  Hard  work  and  a 
cheerful  disposition  in  spite  of  the  then 
almost  universal  discomforts  of  life 
brought  him  steady  progress  and  worldly 
means.  For  some  years  he  farmed,  later 
engaged  in  blacksmithing,  was  a  pork 
packer,  and  had  various  business  interests. 
His  many  sterling  qualities  earned  him  the 
respect  of  all  with  whom  he  came  in  con- 
tact. For  eight  years  he  served  as  a  jus- 
tice of  the  peace  in  Henry  County.  Po- 
litically he  was  identified  with  the  demo- 
cratic party  until  the  repeal  of  the  Mis- 
souri Compromise  in  1854,  after  which, 
contrary  to  the  example  of  other  members 
of  the  family,  he  was  a  sturdy  republican. 
He  was  honored  with  important  offices  in 
the  gift  of  his  fellow  citizens.  In  1868 
and  again  in  1870  he  was  elected  to  repre- 
sent his  district  in  the  State  Legislature, 
from  Henry  County  one  time  and  Henry 
and  Madison  counties  the  second  time. 
While  in  the  Legislature  he  was  chairman 
of  the  committee  to  build  gravel  roads  and 
was  father  of  the  legislation  of  that  day 


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providing  for  good  roads.  He  was  also  one 
of  the  organizers  of  the  Citizens  Sta'te 
Bank  of  Newcastle,  and  his  sound  judg- 
ment led  to  his  election  as  president  of  that 
institution.  This  position  he  held  until 
his  death.  His  associates  always  regarded 
him  as  a  broad  gauged  man,  liberal,  pub- 
lic spirited  and  a  splendid  supporter  of  all 
that  tended  toward  the  public  good.  Such 
confidence  was  shown  in  his  personal  in- 
tegrity that  he  was  frequently  entrusted 
with  the  administration  of  estates.  As  a 
youth  it  had  not  been  his  privilege  to  have 
liberal  educational  advantages,  and  even 
after  he  came  to  manhood  in  Indiana  he 
attended  school.  For  this  reason  he  was 
all  the  more  enthusiastic  in  his  advocacy 
of  improved  educational  standards.  John 
R.  Millikan  died  September  12,  1895,  sur- 
vived by  his  wife  until  June  25,  1900. 
Both  were  active  members  of  the  Christian 
Church.  August  5,  1838,  John  R.  Milli- 
kan married  Martha,  youngest  daughter  of 
George  and  Mary  (Eller)  Koons.  They 
had  come  from  Ashe  County,  North  Caro- 
lina, to  Henry  County,  Indiana,  as  early 
as  1820.  John  R.  Millikan  and  wife  had 
eight  children. 

Frank  M.  Millikan,  son  of  John  R.  and 
Martha  Millikan,  was  born  near  the  old 
Millikan  home  farm  in  Henry  County  on 
December  2,  1851.  Besides  the  advantages 
of  the  common  schools  of  his  home  county 
he  attended  academies  at  Newcastle  and 
Spiceland.  At  the  age  of  seventeen  he 
was  chosen  a  teacher  and  the  next  few 
years  he  was  busy  with  advancing  his  own 
education,  teaching,  and  farming.  His 
ambition  was  to  fit  himself  for  the  legal 
profession.  Circumstances  and  events  al- 
tered this  plan  and  he  has  been  rather  a 
business  man  than  a  member  of  any  pro- 
fession. He  served  as  deputy  county 
treasurer  of  Henry  County  under  Thomas 
S.  Lines  and  acted  in  a  similar  capacity 
under  'two  successive  county  treasurers. 
This  gave  him  unusual  qualifications  for 
the  duties  of  that  office  and  having  become 
widely  known  and  popular  throughout  the 
county  he  was  elected  county  treasurer  in 
1878,  when  twenty-six  years  of  age.  His 
nomination  plurality  exceeded  the  aggre- 
gate vote  of  his  closest  competitor.  From 
early  manhood  he  had  been  intensely  in- 
terested in  politics,  and  was  stanchly 
aligned  with  the  republican  party.     He  is 


a  charter  member  of  the  Columbia  Club 
of  Indianapolis. 

From  1884  to  1898  Mr.  Millikan  was  a 
member  of  the  Republican  State  Execu- 
tive Committee,  and  he  served  as  secretary 
of  the  committee  from  July,  1889,  to  Jan- 
uary, 1894,  and  in  the  1896  campaign  was 
chairman  of  the  executive  committee.  Mr. 
Millikan  had  a  prominent  part  in  events 
that  led  to  both  nominations  of  General 
Harrison  for  the  presidency  and  also  when 
William  McKinley  was  first  nominated. 
In  1896  he  was  delegate  at  large  from  In- 
diana to  the  republican  convention  at  St. 
Louis. 

Mr.  Millikan  became  a  resident  of  In- 
dianapolis in  1889.  In  1893,  having  sac- 
rificed much  valuable  time  to  politics,  he 
decided  to  give  more  attention  to  private 
business  affairs,  and  accepted  the  respon- 
sibilities as  Special  Loan  Agent  for  In- 
diana of  the  Northwestern  Mutual  Life 
Insurance  Company.  He  remained  with 
this  company  until  1909,  when  he  resigned 
to  become  president  of  the  Columbia  Na- 
tional Bank  of  Indianapolis.  In  this  ca- 
pacity he  increased  the  volume  of  the  com- 
pany's mortgage  loans  from  less  than 
$500,000  to  $7,500,000.  During  this  pe- 
riod he  was  president  of  the  Advance  Ve- 
neer &  Lumber  Company.  Mr.  Millikan 
has  been  a  director  and  a  vice  president  of 
the  National  City  Bank  of  Indianapolis 
since  its  origin  in  1912  and  is  also  pres- 
ident of  the  Peerless  Garment  Company. 
He  has  extensive  farming  interests  and 
large  holdings  in  gas  and  oil  properties  in 
Indiana,  Kentucky,  and  Montana,  and  in 
many  ways  is  a  thoroughly  practical 
farmer  as  well  as  banker  and  manufac- 
turer. 

Mr.  Millikan  has  never  been  a  "slacker" 
in  any  duty  of  life.  Keen,  alert,  pos- 
sessed of  a  sound  and  discriminating  mind, 
he  has  successfully  mastered  in  a  modest 
way  the  responsibilities  that  have  fallen 
upon  his  shoulders. 

September  16,  1874,  he  married  Emma 
F.  Boyd,  of  Henry  County,  who  died  Au- 
gust 22,  1888,  leaving  one  son.  This  son, 
Harry  Boyd  Millikan,  served  throughout 
the  Porto  Rican  campaign  in  1898  as  a 
member  of  the  Twenty-Seventh  Indiana 
Battery,  which  was  old  Battery  A  of  In- 
dianapolis. Harry  B.  Millikan  was  sec- 
retary-treasurer and  manager  of  the  Ad- 


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1869 


vanee  Veneer  &  Lumber  Company.  He 
married  Miss  Ruth  Johnson  of  Blooming- 
ton,  Indiana.  He  has  two  sons,  Frank  M., 
Jr.,  and  William  J.,  also  one  daughter, 
Sarah  Jane  Millikan.  On  February  25, 
1897,  Mr.  Millikan  married  for  his  present 
wife  Mrs.  Elma  Elliott  Barbour.  Her 
father,  the  late  Evans  Elliott,  was  a  vet- 
eran of  the  Mexican  war  and  for  many 
years  was  a  prominent  merchant  and  mil- 
ler at  Shelbyville,  Indiana.  Mrs.  Millikan 
is  active  in  church,  social,  and  progressive 
community  affairs,  and  shares  with  her 
husband  an  extensive  acquaintance,  who 
find  a  cheerful  welcome  at  their  com- 
fortable home,  No.  2122  North  Delaware 
Street. 

Harry  C.  Moore,  of  Indianapolis,  is 
largely  responsible  for  the  success  of  one 
of  the  largest  institutions  of  its  kind  in  the 
state,  the  Pitman-Moore  Company,  manu- 
facturers of  pharmaceutical  and  biologi- 
cal preparations. 

In  July,  1899,  the  Pitman-Myers  Com- 
pany, pharmaceutical  chemists,  was  organ- 
ized at  Indianapolis  by  H.  C.  Pitman,  John 
C.  Myers  and  A.  B.  Hall.  It  began  in  a 
small  way  and  with  limited  capital.  In 
1905  Harry  C.  Moore  came  into  the  con- 
cern as  treasurer  and  active  manager. 
Mr.  Moore  had  the  qualifications  for  re- 
storing or  imparting  to  any  business  or- 
ganization robust  business  health  and  vi- 
gor. He  is  a  man  of  ideas,  sound  business 
qualification  and  training,  and  unlimited 
enterprise.  These  qualities  were  almost 
immediately  reflected  in  improvement  and 
prosperity  in  the  company.  In  1906  the 
present  pharmaceutical  laboratories  were 
erected,  and  in  1913  a  reorganization  was 
effected  under  the  name  Pitman-Moore 
Company,  capitalized  at  $400,000.  The 
active  officers  of  this  company  are :  Harry 
C.  Moore,  president;  Albert  E.  Uhl,  vice 
president ;  A.  D.  Thorburn,  secretary ;  and 
C.  N.  Angst,  treasurer. 

While  the  company  fills  the  general  field 
of  pharmaceutical  manufacturers,  it  has  a 
national  and  international  reputation  for 
one  particular  feature,  the  manufacture  of 
anti-hog-cholera  serum.  Without  question 
the  Pitman-Moore  Company  has  developed 
this  branch  of  manufacture  to  a  greater 
degree  than  any  other  organization,  and 
through  a  notable  advertising  campaign 
and   by   their  extensive   use   its   products 


have  become  familiar,  especially  to  stock- 
men, in  every  part  of  America.  Even  the 
Federal  Government  has  recognized  the 
Pitman-Moore  Company's  biological  labor- 
atories as  being  the  foremost  example  of 
plants  of  this  kind  in  America.  In  1912, 
at  Zionsville,  Indiana,  the  erection  of  a 
complete  laboratory  and  suitable  buildings 
were  begun,  and  at  that  plant  a  large  part 
of  the  anti-hog-cholera  serum  used  in  the 
United  States  as  well  as  in  Canada  and 
England  is  manufactured.  At  the  present 
time  the  corporation  furnishes  employ- 
ment to  an  average  of  200  people. 

Harry  C.  Moore  is  a  native  of  Indiana, 
and  his  family  history  covers  the  greater 
part  of  the  time  since  this  state  began  its 
development.  He  was  born  in  Delaware 
County,  Indiana,  in  1874,  and  grew  to 
manhood  there.  His  parents,  John  L.  and 
Lorinda  (Lewis)  Moore,  were  natives  of 
the  same  county,  and  their  respective  par- 
ents were  among  the  pioneers  who  re- 
claimed Indiana  from  the  wilderness  and 
its  original  savage  owners. 

The  early  years  of  Mr.  Moore's  life  were 
spent  in  attending  school  and  in  assisting 
his  father  in  a  wholesale  grocery  house. 
Thus  he  was  well  trained  to  business  from 
the  outset.  Mr.  Moore  for  three  years  was 
purchasing  agent  for  the  White  Knob  Cop- 
per Company  at  Mackay,  Idaho. 

He  became  treasurer  of  the  Pitman- 
Moore  Company  at  Indianapolis  in  1905, 
and  since  1908  has  been  its  president.  He 
is  a  thirty-second  degree  Scottish  Rite  Ma- 
son, a  member  of  the  Mystic  Shrine  and  in 
politics  is  a  republican.  In  1908  he  mar- 
ried Miss  Mary  A.  Stubbs.  Mrs.  Moore  at 
the  time  of  her  marriage  was  state  statis- 
tician of  Indiana,  and  has  the  distinction 
of  being  the  only  woman  ever  holding  an 
elective  office  in  the  State  of  Indiana. 

Frank  Arthur  Kattman  is  one  of  the 
civil  engineers  of  Indiana,  has  had  a  wide 
experience  in  general  engineering,  and  es- 
pecially in  the  municipal  branch  of  his 
profession.  He  is  now  city  civil  engineer 
of  Terre  Haute. 

Mr.  Kattman  has  spent  most  of  his  life 
in  western  Indiana  and  was  born  at  Poland 
in  Clay  County  December  19,  1878.  Sev- 
eral generations  of  the  Kattman  family 
have  lived  in  Clay  County  as  farmers,  busi- 
ness men,  and  public  officials,  and  the 
name  is  one  of  the  best  known  in  that  sec- 


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tion  of  the  state.  Mr.  Kattinan's  parents 
were  Christopher  H.  and  Amelia  (Jorris) 
Kattman,  both  natives  of  Clay  County  and 
both  now  living  at  Brazil,  county  seat  of 
that  county.  They  have  six  sons  and  three 
daughters,  all  of  whom  are  still  living, 
Frank  A.  being  the  third  son  and  the 
fourth  child. 

His  boyhood  days  were  spent  at  the  vil- 
lage of  Poland,  but  at  the  age  of  fifteen 
he  accompanied  the  family  to  Brazil,  where 
he  finished  his  education  in  the  city  schools. 
In  1898  he  graduated  in  a  course  from  the 
Northern  Indiana  Normal  College  at  Val- 
paraiso, and  from  there  entered  the  Rose 
Polytechnic  Institute  at  Terre  Haute, 
where  he  was  graduated  as  a  civil  engineer 
in  1902. 

Since  leaving  college  he  has  had  fifteen 
continuous  years  of  active  practical  expe- 
rience in  general  engineering  work.  He 
was  employed  both  as  a  civil  and  mining 
engineer  at  Brazil  until  1910,  and  during 
that  time  was  elected  and  served  as  county 
surveyor  of  Clay  County  from  1904,  be- 
ing elected  three  times  to  that  office,  in 
1904,  1906,  and  1908.  On  January  1, 
1910,  he  resigned  his  post  as  county  sur- 
veyor to  become  city  engineer  and  superin- 
tendent of  waterworks  at  Brazil,  and  filled 
that  office  until  January  1,  1914,  when  he 
was  appointed  civil  engineer  at  Terre 
Haute.  In  1912  he  was  elected  state  sen- 
ator from  Clay  and  Vigo  counties. 

In  professional  circles  Mr.  Kattman 
stands  high  and  is  a  member  of  the  In- 
diana Engineering  Society,  the  American 
Society  of  Civil  Engineers,  and  the  Amer- 
ican Waterworks  Association.  He  has  al- 
ways been  interested  in  the  success  of  the 
democratic  party  and  when  a  candidate 
for  office  was  on  the  ticket  of  that  party. 
He  is  affiliated  with  the  Masonic  Order,  in- 
cluding the  Royal  Arch  Chapter,  and  is  a 
member  of  Brazil  Lodge  No.  762,  Benev- 
olent and  Protective  Oi-der  of  Elks.  On 
October  15,  1902,  he  married  Miss  Nellie 
P.  Pullem,  of  Brazil,  Indiana,  daughter  of 
I.  M.  Pullem  of  Brazil.  Their  only  child, 
a  daughter,  died  in  1910,  the  same  year 
she  was  born. 

Wtlliam  H.  Romey  has  kept  steadily  in 
one  line  of  work  and  commercial  pursuits 
since  early  manhood,  and  experience  has 
not  only  made  him  a  past  master  of  every- 
thing  pertaining  to  the  furniture  but  lias 


also  promoted  him  to  independence  as 
owner  and  president  of  the  Romey  Furni- 
ture Company,  Incorporated,  of  Richmond. 

He  was  born  at  Bluffton,  Ohio,  March 
7,  1878,  son  of  H.  L.  and  Rosa  (Kuhne) 
Romey.  He  is  of  French-Swiss  ancestry, 
and  his  grandparents  emigrated  from 
Switzerland  when  their  children  were 
young  to  find  homes  and  better  opportun- 
ities in  America.  They  came  over  by  sail- 
ing vessel  in  1846,  and  settled  in  Allen 
County,  near  Beaver  Dam,  Ohio,  on  farms. 
H.  L.  Romey  grew  up  there,  and  later  be- 
came prominent  at  Bluffton,  where  he  and 
his  wife  are  still  living.  He  has  been  a 
furniture  merchant  and  a  manufacturer  of 
furniture,,  possessing  the  individual  skill 
of  the  old-time  cabinet  maker  and  working 
at  his  trade  until  1895.  He  has  also  been 
postmaster,  mayor,  justice  of  the  peace  and 
member  of  the  school  board.  He  also 
writes  insurance  and  general  notarial 
work,  showing  that  he  is  a  man  of  versa- 
tile gifts  and  of  a  very  commanding  posi- 
tion in  his  community. 

William  H.  Romey  was  the  oldest  of  four 
brothers  and  two  sisters.  He  attended 
grammar  and  high  school  until  1908,  and 
then  entered  Heidelberg  College  at  Tiffin, 
Ohio,  pursuing  the  classical  course  for  two 
years.  He  paid  his  expenses  while  in  col- 
lege by  selling  books.  While  he  had  ac- 
quired some  knowledge  of  the  furniture 
business  from  his  father,  his  first  regular 
experience  was  gained  at  East  Liverpool, 
Ohio,  where  for  five  years  he  was  salesman 
and  buyer  for  the  Hard  Furniture  &  Car- 
pet Company.  Then,  in  1905,  he  came  to 
Richmond  and  opened  a  store  at  929  Main 
Street,  one  clerk  being  sufficient  to  help 
him  in  looking  after  his  stock.  Several 
years  later  he  moved  to  his  present  quar- 
ters, 831-833  Main  Street,  where  he  has 
since  acquired  the  ownership  of  the  build- 
ing as  well  as  the  splendid  stock  of  house 
furnishings  by  which  his  store  is  known 
throughout  a  wide  territory  surrounding 
Richmond.  He  now  has  sixteen  employes 
on  his  payroll,  and  is  also  interested  in 
other  business  affairs,  being  vice  president 
of  the  American  Trust  Company  and 
chairman  of  its  executive  committee,  a  di- 
rector of  the  Commercial  Club  and  of  the 
Rotary  Club,  and  is  on  the  executive  com- 
mittee of  the  Richmond  Young  Men's 
Christian  Association.  He  is  affiliated 
with  the  Lodge,  Chapter,  and  Council  of 


INDIANA  AND  INDIANANS 


1871 


Masons  at  Richmond,  is  a  member  of  the 
First  English  Lutheran  Church,  and  in 
politics  is  independent.  His  public  spirit 
is  known  and  appreciated  by  the  entire 
group  of  Richmond  business  men. 

In  1902  he  married  Miss  Catherine  F. 
Minter,  daughter  of  Rev.  E.  and  Mary 
(Miller)  Minter  of  Richmond.  To  their 
union  have  been  born  two  children,  Wil- 
liam Minter  in  1907,  and  James  Theodore 
in  1917. 

Adolph  Herz.  Probably  no  business  es- 
tablishment of  the  city  of  Terre  Haute  is 
more  widely  known  than  the  department 
store  of  A.  Herz.  During  the  past  year, 
thousands  of  patrons  have  stopped  to  ex- 
amine a  handsome  Tiffany  bronze  tablet 
which  occupies  a  well  chosen  position  in 
the  store.  Underneath  the  portrait  is  the 
following  inscription : 

To  Adolph  Herz 
Merchant — Citizen — Philanthropist — 
Friend  who  established  this  business 
and  guided  it  for  almost  forty-nine 
years  this  tablet  is  inscribed  by  those 
who  worked  for  him  and  with  him  as 
a  lasting  memorial  of  love  and  affec- 
tion. 

1843  — 1917 
As  well  as  a  few  brief  and  well  chosen 
words  could  do  so,  that  tablet  tells  the 
story  of  a  long  life  and  throws  some  light 
upon  the  character  and  achievements  of  a 
great  merchant.  Adolph  Herz  was  born 
in  Schw.  Halle,  Wurtemberg,  Germany, 
August  7,  1843,  and  his  boyhood  days  and 
school  years  were  spent  in  his  native  town. 
The  family  home  was  erected  more  than 
two  centuries  ago,  and  is  still  occupied  by 
some  members  of  the  Herz  family.  His 
keen  commercial  instincts  led  him  into  bus- 
iness while  still  a  boy,  and  before  he  left 
his  native  land  he  was  spending  a  large 
part  of  his  time  traveling  as  a  wholesale 
salesman  in  southern  Germany.  It  seems 
natural  that  his  boundless  ambition  early 
felt  the  restrictions  of  the  old  world  and 
sought  the  better  opportunities  of  the  new. 
He  reached  New  York  in  1866,  having  a 
little  over  six  dollars  in  his  pocket,  and  for 
a  year  he  peddled  notions  and  small  wares 
to  the  little  dealers  of  the  east  side  of  New 
York.  For  the  sake  of  economy  he  shared 
a  bleak  room  and  scant  board  with  another 
hard    working    and    poorly    recompensed 


young  man.  On  leaving  New  York  he 
came  west  to  Huntington,  Indiana,  was 
employed  as  clerk  in  a  general  store 
there,  and  thence  came  to  Terre  Haute, 
where  he  found  work  as  salesman  in  the 
clothing  store  of  Joseph  Erlanger. 

In  1869,  just  fifty  years  ago,  through 
money  furnished  by  Mr.  A.  Arnold,  Adolph 
Herz  became  a  merchant  of  Terre  Haute. 
The  firm  of  Herz  &  Arnold  began  business 
February  17th  in  a  small  store  at  No. 
Twelve  South  Fourth  Street.  The  busi- 
ness consisted  mainly  of  corsets  and  small 
wares  and  centered  about  a  hoop-skirt  fac- 
tory employing  two  workers.  Four  weeks 
later  the  store  was  moved  to  No.  323  Wa- 
bash Avenue,  where  it  remained  three 
years.  In  the  meantime  Mr.  Herz  bought 
out  Mr.  Arnold,  and  from  that  time  for- 
ward the  business  with  all  its  growth  and 
development  has  been  known  simply  as  A. 
Herz.  For  fourteen  years  the  store  was 
at  412  Main  Street,  and  in  1887  was  moved 
to  512-514  of  the  same  street,  now  known 
as  Wabash  Avenue.  In  September,  1897, 
the  business  was  moved  to  a  newly  remod- 
eled building  at  606-608  Wabash  Avenue, 
and  ten  years  later  again  changed  to  the 
new  building  and  handsome  quarters  now 
occupied  by  the  business. 

This  great  store  with  its  organization 
and  great  volume  of  merchandise  is  in  ef- 
fect a  memorial  to  Adolph  Herz.  But 
such  was  the  vitality  and  the  breadth  of 
his  sympathy  and  nobility  of  nature  that 
a  dozen  or  more  other  institutions  and  or- 
ganizations of  Terre  Haute  must  be  men- 
tioned to  show  even  briefly  the  extent  and 
influence  of  his  life.  To  understand  the 
variety  of  his  interests  it  would  only  be 
necessary  to  open  the  records  and  read  the 
resolutions  passed  at  the  time  of  his  death 
by  such  well  known  organizations  as  the 
Indiana  Retail  Dry  Goods  Association,  the 
Terre  Haute  Chamber  of  Commerce,  the 
Junior  Chamber  of  Commerce,  the  Fort 
Harrison  Savings  Association,  the  Citizens 
Mutual  Heating  Company,  Morris  Plan 
Company,  McKeen  National  Bank,  Retail 
Merchants  Association,  the  Rose  Orphan 
Home,  Public  Health  Nursing  Association, 
the  Terre  Haute  Social  Settlement,  Vigo- 
American  Clay  Company,  Jewish  Orphan 
Home,  the  Phoenix  Club,  Independent  Or- 
der of  B'nai  B'rith  and  Temple  Israel, 
all  of  which  organizations  through  com- 
mittees had   something  significant  to  add 


1872 


INDIANA  AND  INDIANANS 


concerning  the  service,  the  devotion,  and 
the  wisdom  and  philanthropy  of  the  late 
Mr.  Herz.  In  1883,  in  conjunction  with 
W.  H.  Brown,  Mr.  Herz  brought  about  the 
organization  of  business  men  under  the 
name  of  the  Terre  Haute  Board  of  Trade. 
He  was  one  of  the  organizers  of  the  Com- 
mercial Club,  for  years  was  one  of  its  di- 
rectors and  a  number  of  terms  president, 
and  has  been  called  the  father  of  the  Terre 
Haute  Chamber  of  Commerce.  For  years 
he  was  a  director  of  the  Society  for  Organ- 
izing Charities,  was  president  of  the  So- 
cial Settlement,  and  at  the  time  of  his 
death  was  president  of  the  Rose  Orphan 
Home.  He  was  a  director  in  the  several 
banks  and  business  organizations  just 
noted,  and  it  was  a  fitting  tribute  to  the 
universality  of  his  interests  that  at  the 
time  of  his  funeral  practically  every  busi- 
ness house  in  the  city  and  the  city  schools 
and  courts  suspended  and  paid  silent  trib- 
ute to  him  for  fifteen  minutes. 

Adolph  Herz  died  December  16,  1917. 
In  New  York  City,  May  26,  1872,  he  mar- 
ried Pauline  Einstein.  They  had  been  be- 
trothed before  he  left  Europe.  They  were 
the  parents  of  four  children,  three  daugh- 
ters and  one  son,  the  son  being  Mr.  Milton 
Herz. 

Clyde  Willet  Gardner  is  a  Richmond 
business  man  whose '  experience  has  been 
one  of  successive  advancement  and  im- 
provement in  his  individual  abilities  and  in 
his  responsibilities.  He  is  now  secretary 
and  treasurer  and  manager  of  the  Reed 
Furniture  Company,  one  of  the  largest  re- 
tail establishments  for  home  furnishings 
in  eastern  Indiana.  The  company  has 
three  stores  in  three  large  cities. 

Mr.  Gardner  was  born  at  Fountain  City 
in  Wayne  County,  Indiana,  in  1881,  son  of 
James  Smith  and  Mary  (Walker)  Gard- 
ner. He  is  of  Scotch-Irish  ancestry  and 
his  people  have  been  in  America  for  a  num- 
ber of  generations.  When  Mr.  Gardner 
was  six  years  old  his  parents  moved  to 
Richmond,  and  he  attended  the  public 
schools  of  that  city  to  the  age  of  fourteen. 
He  then  began  earning  his  own  living  as 
driver  of  a  grocery  wagon,  and  later  for 
four  years  worked  as  clerk  and  driver  for 
the  John  McCarthy  grocery  house.  For 
nine  years  he  was  stock  man  with  the  Mil- 
ler Brothers  Hardware  Company,  and  then 
entered  the  grocery  business  for  himself 


with  Will  Hawekotte  under  the  firm  name 
of  Hawekotte  &  Gardner  at  North  Eight- 
eenth and  A  streets.  At  the  end  of  four 
years  Mr.  Gardner  sold  his  interests  and 
became  floor  salesman  with  the  W.  H.  Ro- 
mey  Furniture  Company.  Four  years 
later,  in  1910,  he  joined  the  Allen  Furni- 
ture Company  as  floor  salesman,  and  at  the 
end  of  six  years  became  manager  of  the 
Reed  Furniture  Company,  which  had  ac- 
quired the  Allen  company.  Mr.  Gardner 
has  since  been  manager  of  the  Richmond 
business  of  this  company,  and  is  also  a 
stockholder,  secretary  and  treasurer  of  the 
company.  The  other  two  stores  are  main- 
tained at  Dayton,  Ohio,  and  Middletown, 
Ohio.  The  local  business  has  been  stead- 
ily developed  until  it  commands  a  large 
trade  over  a  radius  of  fifty  miles  around 
Richmond. 

Mr.  Gardner  married  in  1905  Miss  Clara 
Knollenberg,  daughter  of  Charles  and  El- 
len (Koering)  Knollenberg  of  Richmond. 
They  have  three  children,  Mary  Louise, 
Helen  Elizabeth  and  Eveline  Marie.  Mr. 
Gardner  is  a  republican  in  politics,  is  affil- 
iated with  the  Benevolent  and  Protective 
Order  of  Elks  and  is  a  member  of  the  First 
English  Lutheran  Church. 

Mary  A.  Spink,  M.  D.  Thirty  years  ago, 
when  Mary  A.  Spink  was  graduated  and  re- 
ceived her  diploma  of  graduation  as  a  Doc- 
tor of  Medicine,  the  entrance  of  a  woman 
into  this  profession  was  sufficient  to  attract 
a  great  deal  of  notice  and  comment  in  the 
State  of  Indiana.  Doctor  Spink  is  not 
only  one  of  the  pioneer  women  physicians 
and  surgeons  of  Indianapolis,  but  in  her 
special  field  as  a  neurologist  has  few  peers 
in  the  profession.  She  was  practically  one 
of  the  founders  and  for  many  years  has 
been  president  and  active  head  of  the  Dr. 
W.  B.  Fletcher  Sanitarium,  an  institution 
for  the  treatment  of  nervous  and  mental 
diseases,  and  as  such  ranking  among  the 
first  in  the  middle  west. 

A  native  of  Indiana,  Mary  Angela  Spink 
was  born  at  Washington,  Daviess  County, 
November  18,  1863,  a  daughter  of  Michael 
Urban  and  Rose  (Morgan)  Spink.  Her 
father  was  a  druggist  by  profession.  Both 
parents  were  natives  of  Indiana.  In  1903 
they  removed  to  Indianapolis,  where  her 
father  died  in  1907. 

During  her  girlhood  Doctor  Spink  at- 
tended  the  public   schools   of  her   native 


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town  and  St.  Simon's  Academy  of  that 
village.  Doubtless  her  family  and  friends 
wished  nothing  better  for  her  than  that  she 
should  grow  up  in  the  traditional  and  con- 
ventional lines  of  womanhood,  but  even 
as  early  as  the  age  of  fourteen  she  showed 
a  rather  positive  determination  to  disap- 
point such  desires.  A  few  months  later 
she  independently  and  perhaps  with  some 
defiance  announced  that  she  would  become 
a  physician.  In  carrying  out  that  de- 
termination she  had  to  depend  largely  upon 
her  own  efforts,  and  the  strength  of  her 
resolution  was  tested  through  many  years 
of  training  and  preparation  before  she  ac- 
quired her  degree.  She  worked  as  nurse 
in  a  hospital,  and  in  1882  began  her  medi- 
cal studies  in  the  Pulte  Medical  College 
of  Cincinnati,  and  while  there  had  practi- 
cal experience  in  the  City  Hospital.  Doc- 
tor Spink  came  to  Indianapolis  in  1884, 
becoming  special  night  nurse  in  the  Cen- 
tral Hospital  for  the  Insane.  This  posi- 
tion furnished  unusual  opportunities  for 
studying  along  the  line  where  she  has  since 
specialized.  In  1885  she  began  the  regular 
work  of  the  Medical  College  of  Indiana, 
from  which  she  was  graduated  M.  D.  and 
with  the  high  honors  of  her  class  on  March 
2,  1887.  That  she  was  under  no  handicap 
in  pursuing  her  studies  is  evident  from  the 
fact  that  she  won  a  prize  for  dissecting. 
She  immediately  began  private  practice 
in  Indianapolis,  and  was  soon  called  to 
many  families  with  which  she  had  been 
previously  acquainted  through  her  work 
as  a  nurse.  In  1888  she  took  post-grad- 
uate work  in  mental  and  nervous  diseases 
at  the  New  York  Post-Graduate  School. 
During  1886-87  Doctor  Spink  had  served 
as  pathologist  in  the  Central  Indiana 
Hospital  for  the  Insane,  and  in  July,  1888, 
she  assisted  Dr.  W.  B.  Fletcher  in  open- 
ing the  Fletcher  Sanitarium  at  Indian- 
apolis. She  went  into  that  work  as  as- 
sistant to  Doctor  Fletcher,  three  years  later 
became  a  partner  in  the  institution,  and 
then  for  many  years  was  superintendent  of 
its  Woman's  Department.  Since  the  death 
of  Doctor  Fletcher  in  1907  she  has  been 
manager  and  general  superintendent  and 
is  now  president  of  the  sanitarium.  The 
success  of  the  institution  has  been  largely 
in  her  hands,  and  that  in  itself  is  the 
highest  word  of  commendation  that,  could 
be  spoken  of  Doctor  Spink's  attainments. 
While  her  abilities  as  an  administrator  are 


exceptional,  she  has  not  less  distinguished 
herself  in  the  technical  side  of  her  profes- 
sion, and  has  done  much  to  advance  knowl- 
edge of  many  phases  of  nervous  and  men- 
tal disorders.  One  of  her  original  con- 
tributions to  this  branch  of  medical  science 
was  her  system  of  preserving  the  inter- 
cranial  circulation.  From  the  years  of  her 
girlhood  to  the  present  time  her  enthu-. 
siasm  and  devotion  have  been  unflagging, 
and  while  she  has  gained  high  honors  in 
her  chosen  vocation,  the  calling  itself  has 
represented  to  her  chiefly  an  opportunity 
to  do  good  in  the  world,  and  her  career  is 
the  more  notable  because  it  has  been  an 
unselfish  devotion  to  people  and  interests 
outside  of  herself. 

Doctor  Spink  since  1893  has  been  a 
member  of  the  State  Board  of  Charities, 
and  much  of  the  time  has  been  spent  as  a 
member  of  the  Committee  on  Prisons  and 
Insane  Hospitals.  She  has  also  served  on 
the  medical  staff  of  the  Indianapolis  City 
Hospital  and  the  City  Dispensary.  In 
the  intervals  of  her  busy  days  spent  at 
the  Sanitarium  she  has  written  much  for 
medical  journals,  including  the  Medical 
Journal  of  Microscopy,  a  woman's  medical 
journal,  of  which  for  several  years  she  was 
associate  editor,  and  other  periodicals. 
Many  of  her  papers  have  been  read  before 
organizations  in  which  she  holds  member- 
ship, including  the  Indianapolis  Medical 
Society,  the  Indiana  State  Medical  Society, 
the  American  Medical  Association  and  the 
American  Microscopical  Society. 

Omar  Bundy  was  born  in  Newcastle,  In- 
diana, June  17,  1861,  and  his  name  has  be- 
come known  to  the  world  in  connection 
with  military  affairs.  In  1917  he  was  made 
a  major  general,  National  Army.  General 
Bundy  took  part  in  the  battle  of  El  Caney, 
Cuba,  and  in  the  siege  of  Santiago,  and  in 
June,  1917,  he  became  commander  of  the 
Second  Division,  American  Expeditionary 
Forces,  in  France. 

John  Fosler,  who  represents  one  of  the 
old  and  well  known  families  of  Wayne 
County,  is  a  graduate  of  the  Purdue  Uni- 
versity School  of  Pharmacy,  and  for  nearly 
twenty  years  has  been  in  the  drug  busi- 
ness and  is  now  proprietor  of  one  of  the 
progressive  and  high  class  stores  in  his  na- 
tive city  of  Richmond. 

Mr.  Fosler  was  born  at  Richmond  Jan- 


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uary  30,  1880,  son  of  Israel  T.  and  Martha 
(Dougan)  Fosler.  He  is  of  German,  Dutch 
and  Scotch-Irish  ancestry.  His  great- 
grandfather came  from  Germany  in  early 
days  and  settled  near  Carlisle,  Pennsyl- 
vania, on  a  farm,  and  reared  his  family 
there.  His  son  George  Fosler  came  to 
Richmond  as  a  pioneer,  married  in  Wayne 
County,  and  also  followed  farming.  His 
son,  the  late  Israel  T.  Fosler,  spent  all  his 
life  in  Wayne  County  and  died  here  in 
1909.  He  and  his  wife  had  seven  children, 
John  being  third  in  age. 

The  latter  received  a  public  school  edu- 
cation, also  attended  high  school,  and 
graduated  in  1901  with  the  degree  Ph.G. 
from  Purdue  University.  On  returning  to 
Richmond  he  spent  two  years  with  A.  A. 
Curme  in  the  drug  store  on  North  Eighth 
Street.  He  was  then  located  at  LaPorte, 
Indiana,  one  year,  was  two  years  with 
George  T.  Bedford,  a  druggist  at  Indian- 
apolis, and  one  year  at  Oklahoma  City. 
Returning  to  Richmond  in  1906,  he  was 
associated  with  his  father  for  two  years  in 
the  bottling  business,  and  in  1908  opened 
a  stock  of  drugs  on  his  own  account  in 
West  Richmond.  He  still  has  his  store 
there,  and  after  four  years  bought  the  old- 
est drug  store  in  Richmond,  the  old  Adams 
store  on  Sixth  and  Main  streets.  This  is 
also  the  oldest  drug  house  in  Wayne 
County.  Mr.  Fosler  has  worked  steadily 
along  during  these  years,  is  thoroughly 
qualified  as  a  druggist,  and  by  careful 
management  has  become  head  of  a  very 
prosperous  business. 

In  1908  he  married  Mary  P.  Hough, 
daughter  of  Addison  and  Sarah  Ann 
(Jessup)  Hough  of  Richmond.  They  have 
two  children,  named  Mary  Ellen  and  Mar- 
tha Ann.  Mr.  Fosler  is  a  republican  and 
a  member  of  the  United  Presbyterian 
Church. 

Arthur  V.  Brown,  president  of  the  Un- 
ion Trust  Company  of  [ndianapolis,  is  a 
lawyer  by  profession,  was  one  of  the  lead- 
ing members  of  the  Marion  County  Bar 
for  upwards  of  twenty  years,  but  more 
and  more  became  detached  from  the  strict 
lines  of  the  profession  on  account  of  his 
increasing  responsibilities  in  financial  and 
general  business  affairs. 

This  branch  of  the  Brown  family  have 
lived  in  Marion  County  fully  seventy 
years.     His  father,  Dr.  Samuel  M.  Brown, 


was  born  at  Abbeville,  South  Carolina, 
May  23,  1823,  a  son  of  John  Brown,  who 
spent  all  his  life  in  that  state.  Doctor 
Brown  was  a  graduate  of  the  Cincinnati 
Medical  College,  and  soon  after  entering 
upon  the  practice  of  his  profession  located 
at  New  Bethel  in  Marion  County  on  May 
23,  1848.  He  earned  a  high  reputation  in 
his  profession,  and  gave  his  long  life  to 
the  unremitting  service  of  his  fellow  men. 
He  practiced  at  New  Bethel  continuously 
for  fifty-seven  years.  His  first  wife,  Ma- 
hala  S.  Brady,  who  died  in  1866,  leaving 
five  children,  of  whom  Arthur  V.  was  the 
youngest,  was  a  native  of  Marion  County, 
a  daughter  of  Henry  Brady,  who  came  to 
Indiana  from  Ohio  in  1819.  Henry  Brady 
was  well  educated,  a  school  teacher,  a 
civil  engineer,  a  soldier  of  the  War  of 
1812,  a  justice  of  the  peace  and  served  in 
both  houses  of  the  Indiana  Legislature. 
His  last  years  were  spent  as  a  farmer,  and 
he  died  at  the  age  of  eighty-nine.  Doctor 
Brown  married  for  his  second  wife  Marilda 
McCaughy,  who  became  the  mother  of  four 
children. 

Arthur  V.  Brown  who  was  three  years 
old  when  his  mother  died,  was  born  at  New 
Bethel,  March  17,  1863.  He  attended 
country  schools  and  for  sis  years  was  a 
student  of  Butler  University,  where  he 
graduated  in  1885.  He  pursued  the  study 
of  law  under  most  advantageous  circum- 
stances, in  the  offices  of  Harrison,  Miller 
and  Elam  at  Indianapolis.  He  was  ad- 
mitted to  the  bar  in  1888,  and  in  a  few 
years  had  attained  the  dignity  and  emol- 
uments of  the  successful  lawyer.  He  had 
some  valuable  experience  and  rendered 
some  good  service  as  attorney  for  the  poor 
in  the  Criminal  Court,  was  for  two  years 
chief  deputy  prosecuting  attorney,  and 
from  1891  to  1895  was  county  attorney. 
His  work  as  a  lawyer  eventually  brought 
him  connections  in  financial  and  real  es- 
tate interests,  and  before  giving  up  prac- 
tice altogether  he  served  as  a  director  in 
the  Indiana  National  Bank  and  as  a  stock- 
holder in  the  Union  Trust  Company  and 
other  banks.  He  also  did  much  work  in 
the  subdivision  of  local  real  estate,  and  was 
formerly  president  of  the  Law  Building 
Company.  He  still  keeps  his  membership 
in  the  Indianapolis  and  Indiana  State  Bar 
Association.  Mr.  Brown  is  a  thirty-sec- 
ond degree  Scottish  Rite  Mason,  a  member 
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belongs  to  the  Sigma  Chi  College  Fratern- 
ity, the  Commercial,  Country,  and  Univer- 
sity Clubs,  and  is  a  member  of  the  Meri- 
dian Street  Methodist  Episcopal  Church. 
January  8,  1896,  he  married  Miss  Kath- 
arine Fletcher  Malott,  daughter  of  Volney 
T.  and  Caroline  (Macy)  Malott.  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Brown  have  three  children :  Volney 
Malott,  Arthur  V.,  Jr.,  and  Katharine  Ma- 
lott  Brown. 

Henry  W.  Knollenberg  went  to  work 
as  clerk  in  the  store  of  his  brother,  the  late 
George  Knollenberg,  at  Richmond  in  1878, 
and  for  more  than  forty  years  has  kept  his 
interests  and  work  in  one  channel,  is  one 
of  the  oldest  and  best  known  merchants  in 
that  part  of  the  state,  and  is  president  of 
the  Knollenberg  Company,  directing  the 
affairs  of  a  great  department  store,  dry- 
goods,  notions,  and  carpets. 

He  was  born  at  Richmond  January  30, 
1850,  son  of  Benjamin  H.  and  Mary  Ellen 
(Peterson)  Knollenberg.  His  parents  came 
from  Osnabrueck,  Hanover,  when  young, 
and  the  families  were  early  settlers  at 
Richmond.  Benjamin  Knollenberg  was  a 
blacksmith  by  trade,  and  a  man  of  great 
industry  but  quiet  citizenship.  For  many 
years  he  was  employed  in  the  shops  of 
'Gaar,  Scott  &  Company  and  later  with  the 
Pennsylvania  Railroad  Company.  He  died 
in  1879.  He  and  his  wife  had  eight  chil- 
dren, six  sons  and  two  daughters.  Henry 
being  third  in  age. 

The  latter  attended  parochial  schools  and 
public  school  for  one  term,  and  even  as  a 
boy  had  few  idle  hours.  He  worked  in  a 
blacksmith  shop  and  drove  a  wagon  for  the 
Adams  Express  Company  two  years.  He 
then  applied  himself  steadily  to  learning 
the  blacksmith  trade,  and  followed  it  until 
he  became  associated  as  clerk  with  his 
brother  in  1878.  He  rapidly  mastered 
merchandising  in  all  angles,  and  for  ten 
years  was  buyer  of  linens  and  domestics 
for  the  store.  In  1892  he  was  made  vice 
president  of  the  company,  and  after  the 
death  of  his  brother  on  December  20,  1918, 
succeeded  him  as  president.  The  company 
employs  about  eighty  persons,  and  has  an 
immense  city  and  country  trade. 

Mr.  Knollenberg  was  for  twenty  years 
treasurer  and  is  now  an  elder  in  the  First 
English  Lutheran  Church.  In  September, 
1877,  he  married  Miss  Anna  F.  W.  Egge- 
meyer,    daughter    of    Henry    and    Marie 


(Nolte)  Eggemeyer.  They  have  every 
reason  to  be  proud  of  their  children,  a  son 
and  daughter.  The  former,  Everard  Bern- 
hardt, born  in  1878,  is  now  local  manager 
at  Richmond  for  the  Provident  Life  & 
Trust  Company  of  Philadelphia.  He  is 
married  and  has  one  child,  Ruth  Ann,  born 
in  1917.  Alice  M.  Knollenberg  is  a  tal- 
ented musician,  having  finished  her  studies 
in  the  Boston  Conservatory  and  at  Berlin, 
and  is  organist  of  the  First  English  Luth- 
eran' Church  in  Richmond,  and  also  a 
teacher  of  music. 

George  E.  Klute.  Probably  no  one 
firm  or  organization  in  Richmond  contains 
a  larger  group  of  thorough  business  men, 
masters  of  their  respective  lines,  than  the 
George  Knollenberg  Company  Department 
Store.  One  of  the  men  in  the  organization 
is  George  E.  Klute,  who  started  as  errand 
boy  and  is  now  treasurer  of  the  company 
and  for  many  years  a  buyer. 

He  was  born  at  Richmond  May  25,  1878, 
son  of  John  and  Mary  (Tieman)  Klute, 
both  natives  of  Hanover  and  brought  to 
America  when  young.  His  father  for 
many  years  was.  lumberman  for  Gaar, 
Scott  &  Company  of  Richmond.  He  died 
in  1900,  and  his  wife  is  still  living  in  Rich- 
mond. 

George  E.  Klute  at  the  age  of  thirteen 
left  his  studies  in  the  public  schools  to  en- 
ter the  service  of  the  late  George  H.  Knoll- 
enberg as  errand  boy.  He  was  dutiful  and 
diligent,  and  also  ambitious,  and  in  order 
to  be  prepared  to  accept  opportunities 
when  they  arose  he  studied  at  home  and 
for  four  winter  terms  in  the  night  classes 
of  the  Richmond  Business  College.  He 
was  made  stock  boy  and  then  salesman  in 
the  Knollenberg  establishment,  and  in  1900 
became  buyer  of  dress  goods,  silks  and 
woolens.  In  1913  he  was  admitted  as  a 
stockholder  and  director  of  the  company, 
and  in  January,  1919,  became  its  treasurer. 
He  has  been  with  the  company  twenty- 
seven  years. 

Mr.  Klute  and  wife,  Mrs.  Matilda  Klute, 
and  two  sons,  Eldred  Charles  and  Benja- 
min George,  are  the  happy  family. 

Frank  H.  Haner.  At  this  time  of 
world  unrest  it  is  not  possible  to  emphasize 
too  frequently  the  careers  of  Americans 
who  have  become  successful  in  business  by 
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and  service  rather  than  by  any  theoretical 
distribution  of  goods  and  profits.  For  in- 
stance, Frank  H.  Haner,  of  Richmond,  out 
of  a  meager  salary  of  a  dollar  and  a  quar- 
ter per  week,  paid  one  dollar  tuition  to  a 
business  college,  and  after  getting  the 
fundamentals  of  bookkeeping  found  an  op- 
portunity to  apply  his  knowledge  in  the 
store  of  what  is  now  the  George  H.  Knoll- 
enberg Company.  He  has  never  left  that 
firm,  early  made  good  in  the  esteem  of  his 
superiors,  and  is  now  its  vice  president  and 
executive  manager. 

He  was  born  at  Richmond  in  1873,  son 
of  Henry  and  Minnie  (Wiechman)  Haner. 
His  father  came  to  this  country  when  a 
boy  from  Koenigsberg,  Germany,  and  his 
mother  was  a  girl  when  she  left  her  native 
town  of  Belafeld  in  the  same  country. 
They  were  married  in  Richmond,  where 
Henry  Haner  for  many  years  was  a  quiet 
and  industrious  citizen,  first  a  bricklayer 
and  later  for  many  years  in  the  employ  of 
the  Pennsylvania  Railroad.  He  died  in 
1907  and  his  wife  in  October,  1918.  Of 
their  seven  children  Frank  H.  was  the 
third. 

He  attended  public  school  only  to  the 
age  of  fourteen.  He  earned  his  first  wages 
of  a  dollar  and  a  quarter  a  week  from  Mor- 
ris &  Hunt,  book  merchants.  The  Rich- 
mond Business  College  took  his  tuition 
while  he  was  taking  a  commercial  course. 
He  had  been  in  the  book  house  only  a 
short  time  when  he  realized  he  must  have 
a  better  education  if  he  meant  to  succeed 
in  the  world.  His  first  position  with  the 
Knollenberg  store  was  as  desk  man,  clerk 
and  cashier.  When  he  could  spare  a  few 
minutes  he  familiarized  himself  with  the 
stock  and  prices  in  the  department  of 
women's  furnishing  goods,  and  eventually 
was  given  the  responsibilities  of  buyer  for 
this  section.  For  years  he  was  one  of  the 
regular  buyers  in  addition  to  other  execu- 
tive duties,  and  in  1918  was  made  general 
manager  and  vice  president  of  the  com- 
pany, and  is  also  a  stockholder  and  direc- 
tor in  what  is  one  of  the  most  complete  de- 
partment drygoods  firms  in  eastern  In- 
diana. 

In  1896  Mr.  Haner  married  Miss  Emma 
L.  Besselman,  daughter  of  Charles  and 
Dora  Besselman.  They  are  the  parents  of 
two  daughters:  Lucile  Emma,  a  graduate 
of  the  Cincinnati  Conservatory  of  Music, 
and   Camilla,   a   student   in   Earlham   Col- 


lege. Mr.  Haner  is  a  republican  in  poli- 
tics, and  is  active  in  the  First  English 
Lutheran  Church,  which  he  served  as  treas- 
urer ten  years.  He  was  secretary  and 
treasurer  of  the  Ladies  Matinee  Musical 
for  two  seasons,  and  also  of  the  popular 
lecture  course  in  1906-09. 

Everard  B.  Knollenberg,  one  of  the 
younger  members  of  the  well  known  and 
prominent  family  of  that  name  in  Rich- 
mond, has  had  a  varied  business  training 
and  experience,  and  for  several  years  has 
been  handling  insurance  as  a  specialist  in 
different  branches.  He  is  the  Richmond 
representative  of  one  of  the  best  old-line 
life  companies,  the  Provident  Life  &  Trust 
of  Philadelphia,  and  is  also  able  to  furnish 
his  services  for  general  insurance,  includ- 
ing fire,  accident,  health,  compensation, 
automobile,  etc. 

He  was  born  at  Richmond  October  30, 
1878,  son  of  Henry  W.  and  Anna  (Egge- 
meyer)  Knollenberg.  His  father  is  presi- 
dent of  The  Geo.  H.  Knollenberg  Company. 
He  was  educated  in  the  grammar  and  high 
schools  and  in  Earlham  College  several 
terms,  and  his  first  business  connection 
was  as  bookkeeper  for  the  Richmond 
Safety  Gate  Company  two  years.  Until  1902 
he  was  salesman  in  the  fur  department  of 
the  Knollenberg  Company,  then  spent  a 
year  in  San  Francisco  with  the  sales  de- 
partment of  the  American  Can  Company, 
after  which  he  was  again  in  the  store  at 
Richmond  two  years,  and  for  a  similar 
time  in  the  offices  of  the  Knollenberg  Com- 
pany. For  two  years  he  was  on  a  Texas 
ranch,  and  returning  to  Richmond  in  1907 
he  took  up  fire  insurance  and  in  1908  also 
life  insurance,  and  has  gradually  broad- 
ened his  work  to  that  of  a  life  insurance 
specialist. 

In  1913  he  married  Ada  Ebenback, 
daughter  of  George  H.  and  Lydia  Eben- 
back of  Richmond.  They  have  one  daugh- 
ter, Ruth  Ann,  born  in  1917.  Mr.  Knoll- 
enberg is  independent  in  politics  and  a 
member  and  superintendent  of  the  First 
English  Lutheran  Sunday  School. 

George  V.  Coffin.  When  George  V. 
Coffin  was  elected  sheriff  of  Marion  County 
in  1914  it  was  a  case  of  the  office  seeking 
the  man  rather  than  the  man  the  office. 
Mr.  Coffin's  qualifications  and  experience 
made  him  one  of  the  most  desirable  candi- 


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dates  who  have  ever  sought  the  honors  and 
responsibilities  of  this  position,  and  all  of 
this  was  well  attested  by  the  fact  that  he 
led  the  republican  ticket  in  Marion  County 
that  year,  and  the  same  thing  was  repeated 
when  in  1916  he  was  reelected  for  a  second 
term.  He  made  a  distinction  for  himself 
in  the  history  of  politics  locally,  since  he 
is  the  first  republican  sheriff  to  be  renom- 
inated in  Marion  County  in  a  period  of 
forty  years.  He  resigned  the  office  Jan- 
uary 1,  1918,  to  accept  the  position  of 
chief  of  police  of  the  Indianapolis  Police 
Department. 

Prior  to  entering  the  office  of  sheriff  Mr. 
Coffin  was  for  a  number  of  years  connected 
with  the  police  force  at  Indianapolis,  and 
one  of  his  early  experiences  in  life  was  as  a 
regular  soldier  in  the  United  States  Army, 
with  a  splendid  record  of  duties  faithfully 
and  courageously  performed  during  the 
Philippine  war  and  also  in  the  Boxer  re- 
bellion in  China. 

Mr.  Coffin  was  born  in  Portland,  Jay 
Countv,  Indiana,  May  18,  1876,  a  son  of 
William  and  Malinda  (Millett)  Coffin. 
His  father  was  a  native  of  Randolph 
County,  Indiana,  was  a  merchant,  but  died 
at  Portland  at  the  early  age  of  thirty-two. 
The  mother  died  at  the  age  of  thirty-one. 
They  were  the  parents  of  four  children, 
all  still  living:  Rosa  E.,  wife  of  J.  M.  Wil- 
liamson of  Indianapolis ;  George  V. ; 
Odessa,  wife  of  Oscar  Moffett  of  Hamilton 
County,  Indiana;  and  Joseph  H.,  of  In- 
dianapolis. 

George  V.  Coffin  received  his  early  edu- 
cation in  Hamilton  County,  Indiana,  at- 
tending the  high  school  for  a  brief  time. 
His  early  experiences  were  largely  those 
of  a  farm  and  a  rural  community,  but  at 
the  outbreak  of  the  Spanish-American  war 
he  enlisted  as  a  private  in  Company  K  of 
the  Fourteenth  United  States  Infantry. 
He  rose  to  ranking  sergeant  of  his,  com- 
pany. He  went  with  this  regiment  to  the 
Philippines,  was  in  those  islands  two  yeai*s, 
much  of  the  time  in  constant  duty  in 
breaking  down  the  rebellion  headed  by 
Aguinaldo.  Later  he  was  with  the  United 
States  troops  transferred  to  China,  where 
he  served  with  other  forces  of  the  Great 
Powers  quieting  the  rebellion  which  threat- 
ened the  peace  and  security  of  the  world. 
In  China  Mr.  Coffin  was  under  the  com- 
mand of  General  Chaffee. 

On  his  return  to  this  country  in  1901 


he  located  at  Indianapolis,  and  for  about 
two  years  had  a  position  in  the  Central 
Insane  Hospital.  He  then  went  on  the  In- 
dianapolis police  force  as  patrolman,  and 
his  ability  brought  him  promotion  through 
the  successive  grades  until  he  ranked  as  a 
captain.  From  that  position  he  was  called 
by  his  election  to  the  office  of  sheriff  of 
Marion   County  in  1914. 

Mr.  Coffin  is  a  prominent  Mason,  a 
member  of  Mystic  Tie  Blue  Lodge  No.  398, 
Free  and  Accepted  Masons,  is  affiliated 
with  Keystone  Chapter,  Royal  Arch  Ma- 
sons, Raper  Commandery  No.  1,  Knights 
Templar,  with  the  Mystic  Shrine,  and  is 
also  a  member  of  the  Columbia  Club,  the 
Marion  Club  and  other  social  and  civic  or- 
ganizations. Mr.  Coffin  is  a  .birthright 
Quaker,  and  has  always  been  loyal  to  the 
faith  in  which  he  was  reared. 

John  T.  McCutcheon  has  achieved  rec- 
ognition as  a  cartoonist  and  correspondent. 
He  was  born  near  South  Raub,  Tippecanoe 
County,  Indiana,  May  6,  1870,  and  the  first 
six  years  of  his  life  were  spent  on  a  farm. 
His  home  then  became  Lafayette,  and  he 
is  a  graduate  of  Purdue  University. 

Mr.  McCutcheon 's  first  conspicuous  car- 
toon work  began  in  1896,  and  he  has  since 
won  fame  both  as  a  cartoonist  and  corre- 
spondent.    His  home  is  in  Chicago,  Illinois. 

A.  P.  Powell  has  had  a  busy  career  for 
forty  years,  and  in  that  time  has  been  a 
farmer,  lumberman,  a  dealer  in  lumber  and 
building  supplies,  has  also  sold  imple- 
ments, and  is  now  head  of  the  firm  A.  P. 
Powell  &  Son,  who  operate  the  largest 
automobile  and  accessory  business  in  De- 
catur County. 

Mr.  Powell  was  born  in  Dearborn 
County,  Indiana,  March  10,  1859,  son  of 
Stephen  Van  Rensselaer  and  Mary  M. 
(Cross)  Powell.  His  ancestry  is  mingled 
English  and  Scotch.  His  grandfather, 
Nathan  Powell,  was  a  native  of  Maryland 
and  in  early  days  moved  to  Dearborn 
County,  Indiana,  and  from  there  to  south- 
ern Illinois,  where  he  did  an  extensive  busi- 
ness in  the  baling  and  shipping  of  hay  by 
flatboat  to  New  Orleans.  He  also  con- 
ducted a  general  store. 

Stephen  V.  Powell  was  born  in  Dear- 
born County,  Indiana,  and  in  1860  moved 
to  Ripley  County,  where  he  became  a 
cooper  and  farmer.     In  1888  he  followed 


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his  father  to  southern  Illinois,  and  contin- 
ued the  cooperage  business  and  farming 
until  his  death.  He  was  a  republican,  a 
member  of  the  Baptist  Church,  and  a  well 
known  man  in  several  communities  of  Illi- 
nois and  Indiana. 

A.  P.  Powell  was  the  second  of  six  chil- 
dren, only  two  of  whom  are  still  living. 
He  received  his  early  education  in  the  dis- 
trict schools  of  Ripley  County,  and  lived 
at  home  with  his  parents  until  he  was 
twenty-one.  He  then  became  interested  in 
the  timber  business  at  a  cross-roads  village 
known  as  Powell's  Corner  in  Ripley 
County,  and  also  owned  and  conducted  a 
large  farm  there  for  nine  years.  He  then 
removed  to  Holton  in  Ripley  County,  and 
operated  on  a  larger  scale  in  the  lumber 
business  and  as  a  vehicle  dealer.  He  also 
conducted  a  farm  of  160  acres.  In  1913 
he  came  to  Greensburg,  where  his  business 
activities  have  taken  on  an  increasing 
scope.  A.  P.  Powell  &  Son  are  the  author- 
ized dealers  in  Greensburg  and  vicinity 
for  the  Ford  cars,  and  Mr.  Powell  has  con- 
structed a  large  garage,  a  warehouse 
forty  by  sixty  feet,  and  a  large  storeroom 
for  all  kinds  of  accessories.  He  has  other 
business  interests,  and  keeps  in  close  touch 
with  all  of  them.  He  also  operates  a  260 
acre  farm  and  has  125  acres  in  wheat. 
Mr.  Powell  is  a  very  public  spirited  citi- 
zen, is  a  republican,  and  is  affiliated  with 
the  Masonic  Order,  the  Independent  Order 
of  Odd  Fellows,  and  the  Improved  Order 
of  Red  Men.  He  organized  two  lodges  of 
the  Red  Men  in  Ripley  County. 

September  5,  1882,  he  married  Miss  Han- 
nah Speers,  of  Ripley  County.  They  have 
three  children,  Charles  C. ;  Inda  P.,  now 
Mrs.  L.  B.  Hyatt;  and  D.  Powell. 

Creth  J.  Loyd  is  head  of  one  of  the 
largest  poultry,  butter  and  egg  houses  in 
Indiana.  For  a  number  of  years  it  has 
been  the  medium  through  which  a  large 
amount  of  these  staple  farm  products  in 
Decatur  and  surrounding  counties  have 
found  their  way  to  market.  The  annual 
sales  of  the  firm  in  1918  aggregated 
$800,000. 

It  is  a  business  which  has  been  in  the 
Loyd  family  for  several  generations.  Creth 
J.  Loyd  was  born  in  Greensburg,  Decem- 
ber 4,*  1872.  His  great-grand  father,  Wil- 
liam Loyd,  came  from  Kentucky  to  Deca- 
tur County  in  1820,  and  was  one  of  the 


first  pioneers  to  take  up  government  land. 
He  became  prominent  in  that  community. 
Creth  J.  Loyd,  Sr.,  grandfather  of  his 
namesake  now  in  business  at  Greensburg, 
was  born  in  Kentucky  May  29,  1817,  be- 
came a  plasterer  by  trade,  but  spent  most 
of  his  time  on  his  farm,  and  was  founder 
of  the  poultry  business  now  carried  on  by 
his  grandson.  He  shipped  large  amounts 
of  poultry  from  southern  Indiana  to  New 
York  and  other  eastern  points.  He  died 
in  January,  1885.  His  first  wife  was 
Phoebe  Ann  English. 

Joseph  H.  Loyd,  their  son,  was  born  near 
Greensburg  December  25,  1841,  and  made 
his  home  in  Greensburg  from  the  age  of 
ten.  He  also  learned  the  trade  of  plas- 
terer, but  in  1885  succeeded  his  father  in 
the  poultry  business,  and  continued  it  suc- 
cessfully until  1893,  when  he  turned  it  over 
to  his  son.  He  was  active  in  republican 
politics,  and  held  several  local  offices.  He 
was  a  member  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal 
Church,  and  as  a  veteran  Union  soldier 
belonged  to  the  Grand  Army  of  the  Repub- 
lic. Joseph  H.  Loyd  married  in  1861 
Margaret  E.  Mowrer,  daughter  of  Philip 
and  Sarah  Mowrer.  The  Mowrer  family 
came  to  Indiana  in  1833  and  settled  in  Salt 
Creek  Township  of  Decatur  County.  Philip 
Mowrer,  who  died  March  14,  1896,  was 
very  prominent  in  political  affairs  in  De- 
catur County,  serving  as  sheriff  during  the 
war  and  held  a  number  of  local  offices.  He 
was  a  class  leader  in  the  First  Methodist 
Church  at  Greensburg,  and  stood  high  in 
Masonry  and  the  Odd  Fellows  fraternities. 

Creth  J.  Loyd  attended  public  schools  to 
the  age  of  thirteen  and  then  went  to  work 
for  his  father,  learning  all  the  details  of 
the  poultry  and  egg  business.  In  1893  he 
became  a  half  owner  in  the  firm  of  Loyd 
&  Zoller,  but  later  bought  out  his  partner, 
and  in  1898  organized  the  firm  of  C.  J. 
Loyd  &  Company.  During  the  past  quar- 
ter of  a  century  the  business  has  frequently 
adapted  itself  to  changing  conditions,  and 
has  gradually  improved  its  facilities  for 
the  prompt  and  efficient  handling  of  poul- 
try and  other  products.  Mr.  Loyd  is  one 
of  the  leading  authorities  in  southern  In- 
diana on  every  condition  affecting  the  poul- 
try market.  He  has  made  a  success  by  de- 
pendence upon  the  long  established  prin- 
ciples of  honor  and  integrity  in  dealing 
with  his  customers. 

Mr.   Loyd  is  a   republican,   is  affiliated 


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with  the  Elks,  the  Red  Men,  the  Independ- 
ent Order  of  Odd  Fellows,  the  Knights  of 
Pythias,  the  Fraternal  Order  of  Eagles, 
and  the  Modern  Woodmen  of  America.  He 
is  a  member  of  the  Greensburg  Commer- 
cial Club.  On  November  14,  1894,  he  mar- 
ried Miss  Wilhelmina  Brune,  of  Greens- 
burg. Of  their  five  children  four  are  still 
living:  F.  L.,  John  C,  Arthur  C,  and 
Mary  Loyd.  The  two  former  are  in  busi- 
ness with  their  father,  Frank  L.  being 
assistant  manager  of  the  poultry  and  egg 
plant,  and  John  C.  being  manager  of  the 
poultry  supply  department. 

John  H.  Klute  has  had  a  busy  career 
as  a  merchant  in  Richmond  fo'r  nearly 
thirty  years,  and  is  now  junior  partner  in 
the  firm  Loehr  &  Klute,  haberdashers  and 
men's  and  youth's  clothing.  This  is  a 
large  and  well  conducted  establishment, 
familiar  to  the  best  patronage  in  and 
around  the  city  of  Richmond. 

Mr.  Klute  was  born  at  Richmond  in  1867, 
son  of  Edward  H.  and  Elizabeth  (Hawe- 
kotte)  Klute.  His  parents  came  when 
young  from  Osnabrueck,  Germany,  were 
married  in  Richmond,  and  reared  a  fam- 
ily of  ten  children,  John  H.  being  the  sev- 
enth in  age.  Edward  Klute  was  for  many 
years  ah  experienced  worker  for  Gaar, 
Scott  &  Company  at  Richmond.  He  died 
in  1907  and  his  wife  in  1910. 

John  H.  Klute  received  a  public  school 
education,  and  at  the  age  of  fourteen  went 
to  work  as  clerk  in  the  Morris  &  Hunt  book 
store.  He  was  with  that  firm  for  ten 
years,  and  laid  the  foundation  of  his  thor- 
ough knowledge  of  merchandising  while 
with  them.  Later  for  five  years  he  was 
with  Nickolson  Brothers  book  store,  and  in 
1897  he  changed  his  line  entirely  by  buying 
a  half  interest  with  W.  D.  Loehr,  under 
the  name  Loehr  &  Klute,  in  a  clothing  and 
haberdashery  establishment.  This  firm  has 
been  in  business  now  for  over  twenty  years 
and  is  looked  upon  as  one  of  the  solid  com- 
mercial institutions  of  Richmond. 

In  1901  Mr.  Klute  married  Mary  E. 
Schmitz,  daughter  of  Fred  and  Mary  (Kre- 
ger)  Schmitz  of  Richmond.  They  have 
two  children,  Mildred  E.  and  Robert.  Mr. 
Klute  is  a  republican  and  is  a  member  of 
St.  Paul's  Lutheran  Church. 

John  M.  Barringer  is  senior  partner  of 
Barringer  &  Tumilty,  general  contractors 


and  architects  at  Greensburg.  Mr.  Bar- 
ringer has  been  a  carpenter,  electrician 
and  general  contractor  for  many  years, 
and  his  present  firm  have  handled  some  of 
the  largest  and  most  important  building 
contracts  in  their  section  of  the  state. 

Mr.  Barringer  was  born  in  Jefferson 
County,  Indiana,  October  10,  1881,  son  of 
Dudley  and  Lucinda  (Dollenberger)  Bar- 
ringer. His  father  was  a  native  of  Trim- 
ble County,  Kentucky,  and  moved  from 
that  state  to  Mattoon,  Illinois,  where  for 
five  years  he  was  engaged  in  the  teaming 
business,  that  being  in  a  period  when  there 
were  no  railroads  in  Coles  County,  Illi- 
nois. Later  he  moved  to  Jefferson  County, 
Indiana,  living  on  a  farm  near  Madison 
for  thirty-five  years,  and  for  another 
thirty  years  was  a  farmer  in  Jennings 
County.  He  then  retired  and  died  in 
1918. 

John  M.  Barringer  was  the  youngest  of 
nine  children,  three  of  whom  are  still  liv- 
ing. He  was  educated  in  the  common 
schoojs  of  Jennings,  Bartholomew,  and  De- 
catur counties.  He  learned  electrical  work 
with  the  Central  Union  Bell  Telephone 
Company,  and  finally  was  made  manager- 
of  the  company,  superintending  its  work 
in  Greensburg  and  Decatur  county.  He 
held  that  office  five  years,  and  then  re- 
sumed work  at  his  former  trade  as  carpen- 
ter and  electrician.  He  was  thus  em- 
ployed for  six  years  in  Greensburg  and  in 
1916  broadened  the  scope  of  his  enterprise 
to  general  contracting.  In  1912  he  formed 
a  partnership  with  Thomas  Tumilty  under 
the  firm  name  of  Barringer  &  Tumilty, 
and  they  now  have  a  business  coextensive 
with  the  State  of  Indiana.  Among  the 
larger  public  buildings  for  which  they  have 
been  contractors  are  the  Ripley  County 
Court  House,  the  St.  Omer  Schoolhouse  in 
Decatur  County,  the  entire  plant  of  the 
Hilderbrand  Manufacturing  Company,  and 
a  number  of  other  public  and  private 
structures. 

Mr.  Barringer  is  affiliated  with  Greens- 
burg Lodge  No.  36,  Free  and  Accepted 
Masons,  the  Knights  of  Pythias,  the  Fra- 
ternal Order  of  Eagles,  and  is  a  democrat 
in  politics.  April  11,  1913,  he  married 
Miss  Ella  McKim.  They  have  one  son, 
named  Paul. 

William  C.  Pulse  is  a  veteran  con- 
tractor, has  been  in  the  business  for  thirty 


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years  or  more,  and  the  firm  of  Pulse  & 
Porter,  of  which  he  is  senior  partner,  has 
one  of  the  largest  and  most  efficient  organ- 
izations in  the  state  for  general  building 
and  construction  work.  They  have  their 
business  headquarters  at  Greensburg,  and 
have  several  splendidly  equipped  plants 
and  warehouses  for  their  business. 

Mr.  Pulse  was  born  on  a  farm  in  the 
woods  of  Salt  Creek  Township,  Decatur 
County,  Indiana,  September  30,  1859,  son 
of  David  G.  and  Rebecca  (Van  Cleve) 
Pulse.  His  parents  were  born  in  Hamil- 
ton County,  Ohio,  when  the  neighboring 
city  of  Cincinnati  was  in  a  very  early  pe- 
riod of  its  growth  and  development.  Both 
the  Pulse  and  Van  Cleve  families  were 
pioneers  of  the  Cincinnati  district,  and 
were  personal  associates  of  the  Tylers, 
Davidsons  and  Longworths  and  other  lead- 
ing families  of  that  day. 

David  G.  Pulse,  who  was  born  in  1819 
and  died  in  Decatur  County  in  March, 
1889,  was  the  son  of  a  Virginian  of  Penn- 
sylvania Dutch  extraction.  He  and-  his 
wife  were  married  in  Hamilton  County, 
Ohio,  and  three  of  their  children  were  born 
there.  In  1847  they  moved  to  Decatur 
County,  buying  120  acres  of  hill  and  for- 
est land  in  Salt  Creek  Township.  David 
G.  Pulse  put  much  of  this  under  cultiva- 
tion, and  made  a  good  home  and  provided 
liberally  for  his  family.  He  was  a  demo- 
crat, having  cast  his  first  vote  for  James 
K.  Polk.  For  many  years  he  was  honored 
with  the  office  of  justice  of  the  peace  in 
his  township,  and  he  and  his  family  were 
members  of  the  Methodist  Church.  In 
January,  1889,  the  family  left  the  farm 
and  moved  to  the  city  of  Greensburg, 
where  David  G.  Pulse  died  soon  afterward. 
His  widow  died  at  Greensburg  in  June, 
1913. 

William  C.  Pulse  was  the  youngest  of 
five  children.  He  acquired  his  early  edu- 
cation in  the  district  schools,  also  attended 
Hartsville  College,  and  took  a  course  at 
the  Valparaiso  Normal  College.  He  ac- 
quired his  higher  education  largely  through 
his  earnings  as  a  teacher.  Altogether  he 
taught  for  nine  years  in  Decatur  County, 
but  in  the  intervals  of  teaching  he  also  op- 
erated a  sawmill  until  1888.  In  that  year 
he  entered  the  contracting  and  general 
lumber  business,  organizing  the  firm  of 
Pulse  &  Porter,  his  associates  being  Wil- 
liam   R.    Porter    and    Alexander    Porter. 


This  business  has  steadily  grown  until 
without  doubt  it  is  one  of  the  largest  con- 
tracting firms  in  the  state.  They  having 
built  the  United  Presbyterian  Church  at 
Spring  Hill,  Decatur  County ;  the  Maxwell- 
Briscoe  motor  plant  and  tractor  power  sta- 
tion at  New  Castle,  Indiana;  the  Indiana 
Union  traction  power  plant  at  Anderson, 
Indiana ;  the  Science  Building  at  Bloom- 
ington  University ;  the  State  Independent 
Order  of  Odd  Fellows'  Home  at  Greens- 
burg, Indiana ;  the  Science  Hall  at  Han- 
over College;  the  Southeastern  Hospital 
for  the  Insane  at  North  Madison,  Indiana ; 
the  High  School  Building  at  Greensburg, 
and  many  others,  also  the  sanitary  sewer- 
age system  and  disposal  plant  at  Greens- 
burg, about  eighteen  miles  in  length.  At 
Greensburg  they  have  a  large  planing  mill 
and  sash  and  door  factory,  and  carry  an 
immense  stock  of  general  supplies  for  the 
building  trade. 

Mr.  Pulse  is  a  leading  republican  in  his 
county.  He  is  a  York  and  Scottish  Rite 
Mason,  having  attained  the  thirty-second 
degree  in  the  latter  branch  and  three 
times  has  served  as  master  of  Greensburg 
Lodge  No.  36,  Free  and  Accepted  Masons, 
and  has  been  a  member  of  the  Grand  Lodge 
of  Indiana  and  grand  marshal  of  the 
Grand  Lodge.  He  is  a  member  of  Murat 
Temple  of  the  Mystic  Shrine  at  Indian- 
apolis. He  is  a  charter  member  and  past 
exalted  ruler  of  Greensburg  Lodge  No.  475, 
Benevolent  and  Protective  Order  of  Elks, 
and  is  past  chancellor  commander  of 
Greensburg  Lodge  No.  148,  Knights  of 
Pythias. 

On  January  10,  1894,  Mr.  Pulse  married 
Miss  Ida  A.  Black,  of  Anderson,  Indiana. 
Both  children  born  of  their  marriage  are 
now  deceased. 

Benjamin  F.  Timmons  is  a  name  long 
and  prominently  identified  with  Anderson 
business  affairs,  the  present  title  of  his 
firm  being  B.  F.  Timmons  &  Son,  both 
father  and  son  having  the  same  christian 
names. 

The  family  is  of  Scotch-Irish  stock  and 
originally  settled  in  Pennsylvania.  Ben- 
jamin F.  Timmons,  Sr.,  was  born  in  Darke 
County,  Ohio,  on  a  farm,  married  there 
and  moved  to  Preble  County,  Ohio,  where 
his  son  Benjamin  F.,  Jr.,  was  born  in  1880. 
AVhen  the  latter  was  nine  yeai's  of  age.  in 
1889,  the  family  came  to  Anderson,  and 


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1881 


here  the  senior  Mr.  Timmons  bought  a  half 
interest  in  a  grocery  business  with  E.  H. 
Seward.  The  firm  of  Seward  &  Timmons 
continued  successfully  about  five  years  un- 
til the  death  of  Mr.  Seward,  when  Mr.  Tim- 
mons acquired  and  consolidated  all  the  in- 
terests under  his  own  name.  Thus  he  was 
sole  proprietor  until  in  1904  he  took  his 
son  into  partnership  under  the  present 
name  B.  F.  Timmons  &  Son. 

B.  F.  Timmons,  Jr.,  had  a  substantial 
education  at  Anderson  in  the  grammar  and 
high  schools,  but  was  still  very  young  when 
in  1896  he  began  regular  employment  with 
his  father,  and  since  that  time  he  has  been 
exceedingly  busy  carving  out  his  career  as 
a  merchant. 

In  1909  he  married  Miss  Ida  M.  Goehler, 
daughter  of  Daniel  Goehler,  who  came 
from  Marseilles,  France.  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Timmons  have  two  children :  Rheta  Leo- 
nora, born  in  1910,  and  Daniel  Benjamin, 
born  in  1913.  Mr.  Timmons  is  a  member 
of  the  First  Presbyterian  Church,  is  affil- 
iated with  Mount  Moriah  Lodge,  Free  and 
Accepted  Masons,  is  past  high  priest  and 
thrice  illustrious  counsel  of  the  Royal  Arch 
Chapter  and  the  Council,  and  is  a  thirty- 
second  degree  Scottish  Rite.  He  also  be- 
longs to  the  Travelers  Protective  Associa- 
tion and  the  Anderson  Chamber  of  Com- 


Amelia  R.  Keller,  M.  D.  Important 
though  her  services  have  been  in  the  field 
of  medicine  and  surgery,  in  which  she 
ranks  among  the  ablest  representatives  at 
Indianapolis  regardless  of  sex,  Doctor  Kel- 
ler is  doubtless  best  known  through  her  vi- 
tal and  forceful  leadership  in  civic  affairs 
and  among  woman's  organizations.  For 
her  leadership  in  the  movement  which 
made  equal  suffrage  an  accomplished  fact 
in  Indiana  her  name  will  undoubtedly  go 
down  in  history  along  with  that  group  of 
distinguished  Indiana  women  headed  by 
Frances  Wright,  the  pioneer  advocate  of 
woman's  rights  in  America. 

While  she  became  an  active  suffragist 
early  in  life,  it  is  noteworthy  that  Doctor 
Keller  always  put  special  emphasis  upon 
the  value  and  possibilities  of  woman 's  serv- 
ice to  public,  welfare  that  would  result  from 
her  direct  participation  in  political  respon- 
sibilities. Thus  her  main  objective  was 
the  broad  welfare  of  humanity,  rather  than 

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the  special  privileges  or  interests  of  women 
as  a  class. 

Doctor  Keller  was  chairman  of  a  volun- 
teer committee  which  managed  the  cam- 
paign for  representation  of  women  on  the 
Indianapolis  Board  of  Education.  As  a 
result  of  this  campaign  Miss  Mary  Nich- 
olson was  put  on  the  board.  Following 
that  campaign  the  Woman's  Franchise 
League  of  Indiana  was  organized,  and 
Doctor  Keller  was  chosen  its  president  six 
times  in  succession.  It  was  under  her  ac- 
tive executive  control  that  the  League's 
work  was  broadened  out  until  it  covered 
the  entire  State  of  Indiana  with  a  com- 
plete and  effective  organization  compris- 
ing a  hundred  branches  under  district  and 
county  chairmanships.  This  league  be- 
came affiliated  with  the  National  Woman's 
Equal   Suffrage  Association. 

Doctor  Keller  in  1914-16  was  first  vice 
president  of  the  Indiana  Federated  Clubs, 
and  is  now  chairman  of  its  legislative  com- 
mittee. She  has  served  as  editor  of  the 
suffrage  department  of  the  Citizen,  the 
monthly  magazine  published  by  the  Citi- 
zens League  of  Indiana. 

Amelia  R.  Keller  was  born  at  Cleveland, 
Ohio,  January  12,.  1871,  a  daughter  of 
Frederick  and  Elizabeth  (Ruemmele)  Kel- 
ler. While  she  was  a  small  child  her  par- 
ents removed  to  Indianapolis,  and  in  1888 
she  graduated  from  the  Shortridge  High 
School.  Evidently  as  a  girl  she  had  a 
positiveness  and  decision  of  character 
which  left  her  in  no  doubt  or  hesitation  as 
to  the  career  and  the  service  which  she 
would  perform  in  the  world.  She  was  one 
of  the  early  students  of  the  Woman's  Med- 
ical College  of  Chicago  and  in  1893,  at  the 
age  of  twenty-one,  was  given  her  Doctor 
of  Medicine  degree  by  the  Central  College 
of  Physicians  and  Surgeons  at  Indian- 
apolis. She  at  once  began  the  general 
practice  of  medicine,  and  has  been  a  busy 
and  successful  practitioner  for  the  past 
quarter  of  a  century.  With  all  the  de- 
mands made  upon  her  by  her  private 
clientage,  she  has  found  time  to  enter  the 
public  health  movement  as  a  lecturer  on 
eugenics  and  public  health,  and  for  a  num- 
ber of  years  has  served  as  associate  pro- 
fessor of  diseases  of  children  in  the  In- 
diana University  School  of  Medicine.  She 
is  a  member  of  the  various  medical  organ- 
izations, aud  a  member  of  the  Indianapolis 
Historical  Societv. 


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Doctor  Keller  married  December  12, 
1899,  Dr.  Eugene  Behler  of  Indianapolis. 
She  has  one  son,  Eugene,  born  September 
30,  1903,  and  a  high  school  student. 

John  W.  Foster  was  born  in  Pike 
County,  Indiana,  March  2,  1836.  After  a 
thorough  literary  and  professional  training 
he  was  admitted  to  the  Indiana  bar,  and 
he  practiced  law  first  at  Evansville.  He 
later  served  as  a  minister  to  Spain,  and 
from  that  time  forward  he  continued  prom- 
inent in  diplomatic  foreign  relations,  with 
home  and  headquarters  at  Washington, 
District  of  Columbia.  'The  name  of  John 
W.  Foster  is  also  known  to  the  world  as 
an  author. 

t 

Cassius  C.  McCoy  has  been  an  active 
figure  in  the  political  and  business  affairs 
of  Decatur  County  for  many  years.  He 
is  the  present  mayor  of  the  City  of  Greens- 
burg. 

He  was  born  in  Decatur  County  July 
25,  1852,  son  of  Alexander  and  Prudence 
(Armstrong)  McCoy,  being  the  youngest 
of  their  nine  children.  His  father,  who 
represented  the  third  generation  of  the 
McCoy  family  in  America,  was  born  at 
Washington,  Pennsylvania,  and  when  a 
child  was  taken  by  his  parents  to  Bour- 
bon- County,  Kentucky,  and  later  moved 
to  Indiana.  In  Washington  County,  In- 
diana, January  4,  1831,  he  married  Pru- 
dence Armstrong,  and  on  December  25, 
1832,  they  located  in  Decatur  County, 
where  they  were  among  the  early  settlers. 
Alexander  McCoy  followed  the  trade  of 
carpenter  and  was  a  farmer,  owning  160 
acres  near  Kingston,  where  he  died  June 
1,  1877.  He  was  a  charter  member  of  the 
Kingston  Presbyterian  Church,  and  when 
that  church  celebrated  its  fiftieth  anniver- 
sary he  was  the  only  survivor  of  those  who 
had   constituted   the  society. 

Cassius  C.  McCoy  grew  up  on  the  home 
farm  and  was  with  his  father  until  his 
death.  In  1896  he  entered  the  Ohio  Med- 
ical College  at  Cincinnati,  and  pursued  a 
two  years'  course.  Since  then  he  has  lived 
at  Greensburg.  Mr.  McCoy  is  a  republi- 
can in  politics,  and  for  two  terms  served 
as  chairman  of  the  Republican  Central 
Committee  of  Decatur  County.  He  was 
elected  mayor  of  Greensburg  in  1917,  be- 
ginning his  official  term  in  1918.  He  has 
also  served  as  secretary  of  the  Greensburg 


Chamber  of  Commerce,  and  is  affiliated 
with  the  Knights  of  Pythias  and  the  Elks. 

i 

John  F.  Russell,  president  and  mana- 
ger of  the  Garland  Milling  Company  of 
Greensburg,  has  been  in  the  milling  busi- 
ness for  twenty-one  years,  and  from  one 
of  the  progressive  citizens  of  Greensburg 
has  become  widely  known  over  Indiana 
as  a  leader  in  state  politics  and  affairs. 

Mr.  Russell  was  born  at  Lawrenceburg, 
Indiana,  February  14,  1870,  son  of  Rich- 
ard C.  and  Catherine  (McCullough)  Rus- 
sell. His  mother  was  of  Scotch  ancestry. 
His  father,  who  died  in  1894,  was  born  in 
Ireland  and  came  to  America  in  1847,  the 
family  first  locating  in  Cincinnati.  Early 
in  life  he  entered  the  railroad  service  and 
for  a  number  of  years  was  superintendent 
of  telegraph  of  the  Indianapolis  &  Cincin- 
nati Railroad.  He  never  took  any  active 
part  in  politics.  Of  his  nine  children  six 
are  still  living. 

John  F.  Russell,  the  oldest  of  the  chil- 
dren, has  spent  most  of  his  life  in  Greens- 
burg, being  a  graduate  of  the  local  high 
school.  The  first  occupation  to  employ  his 
time  in  a  money  earning  way  was  in  driv- 
ing a  delivery  wagon  and  working  in  a 
grocery  store.  He  was  also  in  the  news- 
paper business  for  several  years.  In  1898 
he  became  local  salesman  for  the  Garland 
Milling  Company,  the  mill  having  been 
recently  purchased  by  R.  P.  Moore.  The 
original  mill  was  built  in  1869  by  John 
Emmert,  who  continued  it  successfully  un- 
til his  death  in  1882.  It  was  later  operated 
by  his  heirs  until  1892,  when  sold  to  Joseph 
Habig.  Mr.  Habig  failed  to  make  it  profit- 
able, and  the  business  was  bankrupt  in 
1896.  Mr.  R.  P.  Moore,  who  organized  the 
Garland  Milling  Company,  owned  the 
largest  part  of  the  property,  but  since  his 
death  ten  years  ago  other  stockholders  have 
gradually  acquired  his  interests.  Mr.  Rus- 
sell succeeded  Mr.  Moore  as  president  of 
the  company  in  1908,  and  has  since  greatly 
improved  the  facilities,  changing  it  from 
a  daily  capacity  of  150  barrels  to  500  bar- 
rels. The  brands  of  flour  manufactured 
by  this  company  are  "Pinnacle,"  "Old 
Times,"  and  "Defender."  The  greater 
part  of  the  output  is  sold  outside  of  In- 
diana in  the  south  and  southeastern  states, 
with  a  considerable  export  trade  to  Great 
Britain.  Mr.  Riissell  has  served  as  presi- 
dent of  the  Indiana  Millers  Association. 


INDIANA  AND  INDIANANS 


1883 


He  has  been  actively  connected  with  the 
local  county  democratic  organization  since 
1892.  In  1916  and  1918  he  was  a  member 
of  the  Democratic  State  Executive  Com- 
mittee, and  in  1914  was  a  member  of  the 
committee  on  resolutions  at  the  Democratic 
State  Convention,  representing  the  Fourth 
Congressional  District.  In  1916  he  was  a 
delegate  in  the  convention  at  St.  Louis, 
also  representing  the  Fourth  District  of 
Indiana,  and  helped  nominate  Woodrow 
Wilson  for  his  second  term  and  Thomas  R. 
Marshall   for   vice  president. 

From  1911  to  1914  Mr.  Russell  was  a 
member  of  the  Greensburg  City  School 
Board,  and  during  that  administration  the 
new  Greensburg  High  School  Building,  one 
of  the  finest  in  the  state,  was  erected.  Mr. 
Russell  resigned  his  position  with  the  local 
school  board  to  accept  the  appointment 
from  Governor  Samuel  M.  Ralston  as  a 
member  of  the  board  of  trustees  of  the 
Southeastern  Hospital  for  the  Insane  at 
Madison.  August  1,  1918,  the  present  re- 
publican governor,  James  P.  Goodrich,  re- 
appointed him  for  a  second  term  of  four 
years.  Mr.  Russell  has  served  as  presi- 
dent of  the  Greensburg  Commercial  Club 
and  the  Greensburg  Associated  Charities, 
was  on  the  local  committee  for  the  Indiana 
Centennial  celebration,  and  in  many  other 
ways  has  rendered  disinterested  service  in 
behalf  of  local  and  state  enterprises.  He 
is  a  member  of  the  Elks  Lodge. 

Mr.  Russell  married  Miss  Ella  E.  Doles. 
They  became  the  parents  of  two  children, 
J.  Frank  and  Clara  M.,  the  latter  dying 
at  the  age  of  eleven  years.  Frank  Russell 
volunteered  in  June,  1917,  and  became  a 
member  of  Base  Hospital  No.  32.  He  em- 
barked for  overseas  duty  December  4, 
1917,  and  was  in  active  service  in  France 
more  than  a  year,  until  the  spring  of  1919. 

Thomas  Monroe  Jones,  M.  D.  It  is  not 
merely  assertion  to  say  that  Thomas  Mon- 
roe Jones  ranks  as  the  leading  surgeon  of 
Madison  County  and  one  of  the  most  prom- 
inent in  the  State  of  Indiana.  Doctor 
Jones  while  in  training  for  his  profession 
showed  unusual  aptitude  and  skill  in  sur- 
gery, shown  by  his  appointment  to  vari- 
ous surgical  staffs  of  several  leading  hos- 
pitals in  the  country.  For  the  past  ten 
years  his  work  has  been  entirely  confined 
to  general  surgery,  but  Doctor  Jones  has 
no  small  reputation  as  a  goitre  specialist, 


involving  some  of  the  most  delicate  and 
complicated  operations  in  the  entire  field 
of  surgical  work. 

His  honors  seems  specially  fitting  in  the 
light  of  the  fact  that  he  is  a  member  of 
a  third  successive  generation  of  doctors 
in  Indiana. 

His  grandfather,  Thomas  N.  Jones,  in 
the  words  of  the  medical  historian  Doctor 
Kemper,  "was  one  of  the  most  prominent 
physicians  of  Anderson,  a  successful  prac- 
titioner, and  quite  popular  with  the  peo- 
ple, but  less  so  with  the  profession  as  he 
was  aggressive  in  his  manner  and  rather 
opposed  to  medical  societies."  He  was 
born  in  Wayne  County,  Indiana,  in  1823, 
and  died  at  Anderson  in  October,  1875. 
He  entered  the  Ohio  Medical  College,  and 
after  his  graduation  located  in  Henry 
County.  In  1846  he  moved  to  Madison 
County,  establishing  his  home  at  Pendle- 
ton. About  1854  he  moved  to  Anderson, 
and  was  in  practice  there  for  twenty  years. 
Besides  his  prominence  in  medicine  he  was 
active  in  politics,  and  was  elected  a  mem- 
ber of  the  State  Legislature  in  1872.  Dur- 
ing the  Civil  war  he  was  assistant  surgeon 
of  the  Second  Regiment,  Indiana  Cavalry, 
and  later  surgeon  of  the  One  Hundred  and 
Thirtieth  Indiana  Infantry.  He  married 
Mary  C.  Conwell,  whose  father,  Isaac  Con- 
well,  was  one  of  the  pioneer  settlers  of 
Union  County,  Indiana.  She  died  in  No- 
vember, 1911,  at  the  age  of  eighty-eight. 
The  name  Jones  has  been  identified  with 
the  medical  profession  in  Madison  County 
for  over  seventy  j-ears.  During  over  forty 
years  of  this  period  many  of  the  burdens 
of  professional  life  have  been  borne  by 
Dr.  Horace  E.  Jones,  son  of  the  pioneer 
Dr.  Thomas  Jones  and  father  of  Thomas 
M.  Jones.  Horace  E.  Jones  was  born  in 
Henry  County,  Indiana,  July  2,  1845,  and 
when  only  sixteen  years  of  age  enlisted  as 
chief  bugler  in  the  Second  Indiana  Cav- 
alry. He  was  with  that  command  in  many 
battles,  including  Shiloh  and  the  siege  of 
Corinth.  In  1863  he  was  appointed  a  mid- 
shipman in  the  United  States  Naval  Acad- 
emy, where  he  graduated  in  1867.  He 
was  with  the  navy  for  four  years,  and  al- 
together was  in  the  army  and  navy  for  nine 
years.  In  1871,  having  resigned  his  com- 
mission in  the  navy,  he  returned  home  and 
began  the  study  of  medicine  in  his  father 's 
office  at  Anderson.  He  then  entered  the 
Ohio   Medical    College   at    Cincinnati,    his 


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INDIANA  AND  INDTANANS 


father's  alma  mater,  graduating  M.  D.  in 
1873.  He  soon  acquired  a  large  and  profit- 
able business  at  Anderson,  and  his  ability, 
ready  sympathy  and  natural  expertness 
brought  him  the  best  honors  of  the  pro- 
fession. He  is  a  democrat,  has  served  on 
the  Anderson  School  Board,  is  affiliated 
with  Major  May  Post  No.  244,  Grand 
Army  of  the  Republic,  is  past  grand  of 
the  Independent  Order  of  Odd  Fellows, 
member  of  the  Benevolent  and  Protective 
Order  of  Elks,  and  one  of  the  most  widely 
known  men  in  Madison  County.  In  1873 
he  married  Miss  Mary  C.  Cockefair  of 
Cambridge  City,  Indiana.  Their  only 
daughter,  Nellie,  married  Ralph  Clark. 

The  son,  Thomas  Monroe  Jones,  was  born 
at  Anderson  August  9,  1877.  He  attended 
the  grammar  and  high  schools  and  then 
went  abroad  and  for  five  years  was  a  stu- 
dent in  Heidelberg  University,  from  which 
he  graduated  in  1898.  Returning  to  In- 
diana, he  entered  the  Indiana  State  Uni- 
versity, from  which  he  graduated  A.  B. 
the  next  year,  and  this  was  followed  by 
his  formal  medical  course  in  the  Johns 
Hopkins  Medical  School  at  Baltimore, 
from  which  he  graduated  Doctor  of  Medi- 
cine in  1902.  In  the  meantime  he  had 
spent  six  months  as  an  interne  in  the  Johns 
Hopkins  Hospital,  and  went  from  there  to 
become  a  member  of  the  staff  of  St.  Marks' 
Hospital  in  New  York  City.  A  year  later, 
on  the  basis  of  competitive  examination, 
he  was  appointed  to  the  surgical  staff  of 
Kings  County  Hospital  at  Brooklyn,  New 
York,  a  position  which  he  honored  during 
his  two  years  of  service  and  which  brought 
him  abundant  opportunity  and  experience 
in  his  chosen  field  of  work.  In  1905  Doctor 
Jones  returned  to  Anderson  and  began  the 
practice  of  general  medicine,  but  since  1908 
has  confined  his  work  entirely  to  surgery. 
In  1910  he  went  abroad,  taking  post-gradu- 
ate work  in  the  hospitals  and  clinics  of 
Vienna,  Austria.  The  contributions  of 
Doctor  Jones  have  appeared  frequently  in 
medical  and  surgical  literature.  He  has 
furnished  numerous  case  reports,  and  has 
written  much  on  the  subject  of  goitre  from 
a  surgical  standpoint.  He  is  a  member 
of  the  County  and  State  Medical  societies, 
the  American  Medical  Association,  the  Mis- 
sissippi Valley  Medical  Society,  the  Clini- 
cal Congress  of*  Surgeons  of  North  Amer- 
ica, and  is  a  Fellow  of  the  American  Con- 
gress of  Surgeons.     Fraternally  he  is  affil- 


iated with  Fellowship  Lodge  No.  681,  An- 
cient Free  and  Accepted  Masons,  Ander- 
son Chapter,  Royal  Arch  Masons,  and  with 
the  Benevolent  and  Protective  Order  of 
Elks.  In  1905  Doctor  Jones  married  Miss 
Elizabeth  Shields  Baker,  who  was  reared 
and  educated  at  Winchester,  Virginia. 
They  have  one  child,  Horace  Edgar,  born 
in  1910.  Doctor  Jones  takes  considerable 
interest  in  politics  as  a  democrat  and  is  a 
member  of  the  Presbyterian  Church. 

At  the  outbreak  of  the  war  with  Ger- 
many Doctor  Jones  offered  his  services  to 
his  country.  In  August,  1917,  he  re- 
ceived his  commission  as  captain  in  the 
Medical  Reserve  Corps  as  a  member  of 
Hospital  Unit  I,  which  was  organized  in 
Anderson  by  Dr.  J.  B.  Fattic,  who  became 
major  of  the  unit.  Doctor  Jones  was  or- 
dered to  report  in  New  York  on  December 

I,  1917,  for  a  three  months'  course  in  brain 
surgery.  After  being  in  New  York  one 
week  he  was  ordered  to  Atlanta,  Georgia, 
to  join  the  remainder  of  the  unit.  In  the 
latter  part  of  February,  1917,  this  unit 
was  ordered  to  Hoboken,  New  Jersey.  On 
March  22nd  the  unit  sailed  for  England, 
landing  at  Liverpool  on  April  1,  1917.  It 
was  later  sent  to  Winchester,  England. 
Doctor  Jones  was  made  head  of  the  sur- 
gical staff  there  and  remained  there  until 
after  the  armistice  was  signed.  The  hos- 
pital there  was  one  of  500  beds  capacity 
when  the  unit  took  it  over.  It  was  later 
increased  to  3,000  beds.  On  January  10, 
1919,  the  unit  was  order  to  France.  After 
being  at  Langres  for  a  few  days  Captain 
Jones  was  detached  from  the  Unit  and 
ordered  to  Tours.  Here  he  was  made  the 
head  of  the  surgical  staff  of  Camp  Hos- 
pital 27.  After  being  at  Tours  about  a 
week  he  was  ordered  on  a  tour  of  inspec- 
tion of  the  front  in  the  Argonne  region, 
going  to  the  Argonne  forests,  St.  Mihiel, 
Metz  and  other  places  along  the  front.  In 
the  latter  part  of  February  he  was  ordered 
back  to  Tours  to  resume  his  position  as 
head  of  the  surgical  staff  of  Camp  Hos- 
pital 27,  at  which  place  he  still  is  and  prob- 
ably will  be  until  he  is  honorably  dis- 
charged. 

Aoam  Henry  Bartel.  One  of  the 
largest  and  oldest  firms  in  the  wholesale 
district   of  Eastern  Indiana  is  the  Adam 

II.  Bartel  Company,  jobbers  of  dry  goods 
and   notions   and   manufacturers  of  work- 


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men's  clothing.  The  president  of  this 
company  is  a  veteran  merchant  and  busi- 
ness man,  and  has  been  steadily  associated 
with  commercial  affairs  in  Richmond  since 
as  a  boy  of  fifteen  he  was  in  the  employ 
of  a  local  wholesale  house  of  fifty-five 
years  ago. 

Adam  H.  Bartel  was  born  near  Osna- 
bruch,  Hanover,  Germany,  in  1850.  When 
he  was  four  years  old  his  parents  came  to 
America,  settling  in  Richmond,  where  his 
father  for  a  time  was  an  employe  of  Gaar 
Scott  &  Company,  but  later  bought  a  farm 
north  of  Richmond  and  for  a  number  of 
years  steadily  pursued  his  interests  as  an 
agriculturist.  He  died  in  Richmond  at  the 
advanced  age  of  almost  ninety  years.  Mr. 
Bartel's  mother  died  in  1891,  at  the  age 
of  sixty-seven  years. 

He  had  to  be  content  with  a_  common 
school  education  and  at  the  age  of  fifteen 
was  employed  as  an  errand  boy  and  stock 
boy  with  the  wholesale  and  retail  notions 
and  fancy  goods  firm  of  Emsweiler  & 
Crocker.  He  was  with  that  firm  seven 
years,  three  years  of  the  time  as  traveling 
salesman.  He  next  accepted  a  position  with 
George  H.  Knollenberg,  retail  dry  goods 
dealer,  and  served  there  as  salesman  four 
years.  In  1877  he  associated  himself  with 
Christopher  F.  Schaefer  to  buy  out  the  in- 
terests of  his  old  employer,  Mr.  Crocker, 
who  had  succeeded  to  the  firm  of  Emsweiler 
&  Crocker,  and  established  the  firm  of 
Bartel  &  Schaefer.  For  three  years  they 
conducted  the  business  at  old  49  Main 
Street,  and  when  the  partnership  was  dis- 
solved Mr.  Bartel  moved  to  210  Fort 
Wayne  Avenue  and  for  five  years  the  busi- 
ness was  conducted  under  his  individual 
name  at  this  location.  He  then  took  in 
John  M.  Coate  as  partner,  using  the  firm 
name  of  Adam  H.  Bartel  &  Company,  and 
in  1885,  to  accommodate  the  growing  busi- 
ness, the  firm  put  up  a  three-story  brick 
building,  at  the  corner  of  Washington  and 
Fort  Wayne  avenues.  In  1892  the  firm  of 
Adam  H.  Bartel  &  Company  was  incor- 
porated, and  at  that  time  the  business  was 
removed  to  911-921  North  E  Street,  where 
it  is  established  today  in  a  building  118 
by  115  feet,  four  floors  and  basement. 
Adam  H.  Bartel  is  president,  John  M. 
Coate,  vice  president,  Fred  J.  Bartel, 
treasurer,  Ida  E.  Bartel,  secretary,  and 
Ben   C.   Bartel,   assistant  secretary.     One 


hundred  and  seventy-five  people  are  em- 
ployed in  the  office,  warehouse  and  factory, 
and  they  do  a  jobbing  business  in  Indiana, 
Ohio,  Michigan  and  Illinois.  While  the 
jobbing  business  has  always  been  the  chief 
feature  of  the  company,  they  have  also 
made  overalls,  shirts  and  other  workmen's 
clothing  since  1885. 

Mr.  Bartel  is  a  director  and  stockholder 
in  the  Dickinson  Trust  Company  and  has 
other  local  interests,  including  some  real 
estate.  He  is  president  of  the  board  of 
trustees  of  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.,  a  member  of 
the  First  English  Lutheran  Church,  the 
Commercial  Club,  Country  Club,  and  in 
politics  is  a  republican.  While  a  busy  man, 
he  has  neglected  no  legitimate  claim 
upon  his  time  and  energies  in  behalf  of 
local  affairs.  His  company  is  a  member 
of  the  National  Association  of  Garment 
Manufacturers  and  the  National  Wholesale 
Dry  Goods  Association. 

In  1875  Mr.  Bartel  married  Miss  Ma- 
tilda E.  Knollenberg,  daughter  of  Bern- 
hard  Knollenberg.  To  their  marriage  were 
born  seven  children,  four  of  whom  are 
living.  Bernhard  C.  and  Frederick  J.  are 
both  married;  Gertrude  is  a  graduate  of 
Earlham  College  and  Florence  is  now 
finishing  her  education  at  Ward-Belmont 
School  for  Girls  at  Nashville,  Tennessee. 
Mr.  Bartel  has  two  grandchildren. 

George  William  Davis,  president  of  the 
George  W.  Davis  Motor  Car  Company  of 
Richmond,  Indiana,  was  a  veteran  carriage 
manufacturer  who  in  1909  turned  his  re- 
sources and  experience  into  the  field  of 
manufacturing  motor  ears,  and  in  subse- 
quent years  has  turned  out  a  great  volume 
of  handsome  pleasure  cars  that  have  served 
and  have  been  appreciated  by  thousands 
of  patrons  all  over  the  United  States  and 
twenty-seven  foreign  countries. 

Mr.  Davis  was  born  October  20,  1867, 
near  Winchester  in  Randolph  County,  In- 
diana, the  son  of  Daniel  and  Nancy  (Han- 
cock) Davis.  He  is  of  Scotch-Irish  ances- 
try. 

The  Davis  family  settled  in  Hagerstown, 
Maryland,  in  the  early  days,  and  most  of 
them  have  been  agriculturists,  while  the 
Hancocks  were  a  Kentucky  family  and 
have  been  merchants  as  a  rule. 

George  William  Davis  spent  his  boyhood 
on  his  father's  farm  of  240  acres  in  Ran- 


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dolph  County,  and  it  was  here  that  he  re- 
ceived his  early  education  at  a  country 
school. 

When  about  seventeen  he  left  home  and 
went  to  St.  Louis,  Missouri,  where  he  re- 
ceived his  first  employment  as  a  driver  of 
a  team  of  mules  on  a  street  car  line.  Re- 
turning to  Indiana,  he  located  at  Redkey 
and  began  selling  carriages  and  buggies. 
After  about  a  j-ear  he  sold  his  interest  there 
and  returned  to  Winchester,  starting  up  a 
larger  business  in  the  same  line  with  his 
brother-in-law,  J.  W.  Jackson,  under  the 
firm  name  of  Jackson  &  Davis.  It  was 
here  that  he  met  Miss  Cora  Anna  Chees- 
man,  daughter  of  Davidson  and  Anna  Tay- 
lor Cheesman  of  Winchester,  who  on  De- 
cember 27,  1891,  became  his  wife.  Cora 
Anna  Chee'sman  was  a  graduate  of  Win- 
chester High  School  and  of  Valparaiso 
College,  Valparaiso,   Indiana. 

Mr.  Davis  enjoyed  a  successful  business 
at  Winchester  for  sixteen  years,  and  in 
that  time  built  up  an  extensive  business 
handling  carriages  and  buggies  and  agri- 
cultural machinery.  During  the  last  nine 
years  of  this  time  he  traveled  as  a  special 
representative  in  Indiana  and  Ohio  for  the 
Bimel  Carriage  Company  of  Sidney,  Ohio, 
also  being  a  large  stockholder  in  the  Bimel 
Carriage  Company  from  1893  to  1902. 

Realizing  the  large  field  for  the  highest 
grade  of  carriages,  Mr.  Davis  in  1902  dis- 
posed of  his  interests  and  located  at  Rich- 
mond, organizing  the  George  W.  Davis 
Carriage  Company,  Incorporated,  with 
$30,000,  assuming  the  capacity  of  president 
and  active  head  of  the  business. 

For  some  six  years  the  George  W.  Davis 
Carriage  Company  was  devoted  exclusively 
to  the  manufacture  of  fine  carriages  and 
buggies,  but  since  1909  no  horse-drawn 
vehicles  have  been  manufactured ;  instead, 
all  facilities  of  the  plant  have  been  de- 
voted to  making  Davis  motor  cars.  Manu- 
facturing and  assembling  plants  requires 
the  services  of  200  employes,  and  the  busi- 
ness is  now  running  on  a  capital  of  several 
hundred  thousand  dollars. 

Mr.  Davis  is  a  republican  in  politics, 
is  affiliated  with  the  Webb  Lodge  of  Masons 
and  is  a  member  of  the  First  Presbyterian 
Church  of  Richmond,  Indiana. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Davis  have  one  son,  Wal- 
ter Clay,  who  was  born  March  31,  1893, 
in  Winchester,  Indiana.  lie  received  his 
education   in  the  Richmond  public  schools, 


also  in  Earlham  College,  and  in  1914  en- 
tered the  University  of  Pennsylvania  at 
Philadelphia,  where  he  graduated  in  1916. 
At  the  very  outbreak  of  the  war  with 
Germany,  on  April  16,  1917,  he  enlisted 
at  New  York  City  in  the  United  States 
air  service  as  pilot,  receiving  his  prelimi- 
nary training  at  Wilbur  Wright  Field, 
Dayton,  Ohio,  where  he  was  commissioned 
as  a  first  lieutenant  in  the  air  service,  and 
in  February,  1918,  was  ordered  to  France, 
completing  a  more  intensive  training  at 
the  Third  Aviation  Instruction  Center, 
Issoudoun,  Indre,  France.  Soon  afterward 
he  was  promoted  to  officer  in  charge  of 
flying  on  one  of  the  adjoining  fields,  being 
assigned  to  the  Thirty-first  Aero  Squadron. 
In  October,  just  prior  to  the  armistice,  he 
was  ordered  to  active  service  at  the  front, 
and  was  promoted  to  the  rank  of  captain 
in  the  air  service.  After  the  armistice  he 
was  ordered  back  to  the  United  States  and 
honorably  discharged  from  the  service  with 
rank  of  captain  in  the  air  service.  Imme- 
diately upon  his  discharge  he  was  given 
an  executive  position  with  the  George  W. 
Davis  Motor  Car  Company  as  assistant  to 
the  president. 

George  Hagelskamp  has  been  identified 
with  the  commercial  life  of  Indianapolis 
for  more  than  a  quarter  of  a  century.  He 
is  proprietor  of  a  high  class  grocery  estab- 
lishment at  1150  Prospect  Street  and  is 
also  a  member  of  the  firm  Hagelskamp 
Brothers  &  Haverkamp,  a  well  known  in- 
dustry for  the  manufacture  of  food  prod- 
ucts, canners  and  distributors.  The  plant 
of  this  establishment  is  at  Minnesota  Street 
and  Churchman  Avenue.  It  is  an  indus- 
try that  means  a  great  deal  at  the  present 
time  in  scarcity  of  food  products  and  has 
served  to  utilize  and  conserve  much  of 
the  surplus  food  production  of  the  sum- 
mer season. 

Mr.  Hagelskamp  has  spent  nearly  all  his 
life  in  Indianapolis,  but  was  born  at  Amt- 
bentheim,  Germany,  October  16,  1865. 
He  is  a  son  of  Richard  and  Gesina 
(Dirks)  Hagelskamp.  Richard  Hagel- 
skamp brought  his  wife  and  four  children 
to  the  United  States  a  short  time  after  the 
close  of  the  Franco-Prussian  war.  He  left 
Germany,  where  he  had  been  a  farmer,  in 
order  to  escape  the  military  system  of  that 
country.  He  came  to  Indianapolis  largely 
influenced  by  the  fact  that  his  wife  had 


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relatives  here.  He  arrived  here  poor  and 
for  several  years  worked  at  any  honorable 
occupation  in  order  to  get  a  start.  He  re- 
mained one  of  the  industrious  citizens  of 
Indianapolis  for  over  forty  years.  He  died 
in  1907  at  the  age  of  sixty-four,  and  his 
wife  passed  away  in  1912,  aged  seventy. 
Altogether  they  had  six  children.  They 
were  members  of  the  Third  Emanuel  Re- 
formed Church.  Richard  Hagelskamp  was 
an  elder  in  that  church  for  many  years  and 
also  took  an  active  part  in  the  Sunday 
School.  Three  of  their  sons  are  still  liv- 
ing: Ben,  a  partner  with  his  brother 
George ;  George ;  and  Rev.  Richard  Hagel- 
skamp, who  now  has  charge  of  the  Emanuel 
Reformed  Church  at  Akron,  Ohio,  one  of 
the  largest  in  the  city,  comprising  a  con- 
gregation of  more  than  a  thousand. 

George  Hagelskamp  received  his  early 
education  in  School  No.  4  on  Churchman 
Pike,  Indianapolis.  At  the  age  of  thir- 
teen he  began  work  and  contributed  his 
wages  to  the  support  of  the  family  and 
toward  paying  for  the  little  home.  His  em- 
ployment was  at  farm  labor  until  he  was 
twenty-two  years  of  age.  Then  for  two 
years  he  worked  with  the  Vandalia  Rail- 
road Company  at  the  Union  Station.  His 
chief  responsibility  was  warming  the  pas- 
senger cars.  During  that  time  he  carefully 
saved  his  money  and  then  on  February 
6,  1890,  embarked  his  modest  capital  and 
all  his  energy  and  ability  in  his  present 
business  and  at  his  present  location.  His 
record  since  then  has  been  that  of  a  sub- 
stantial business  man,  with  growing  in- 
terests and  prosperity. 

The  beginning  of  the  business  of  Hagel- 
skamp Brothers  &  Haverkamp,  food  prod- 
ucts and  canning,  was  laid  in  1903  when 
Mr.  George  Hagelskamp  began  preserving 
tomatoes,  borne  style,  in  the  basement  under 
his  store.  The  next  year  the  canning  outfit 
was  moved  to  a  barn,  and  the  year  after 
that  the  firm  bought  a  feed  mill  at  Church- 
man Avenue  and  Minnesota  Street,  con- 
verting it  and  equipping  it  for  a  packing 
plant.  With  subsequent  changes  and  ad- 
ditions the  business  now  handles  a  large 
share  of  the  annual  surplus  of  vegetables 
raised  in  the  district  around  Indianapolis. 
Their  chief  products  are  tomatoes,  string 
beans,  pork  and  beans,  kidney  beans,  peas, 
etc.  They  put  up  high  grade  goods,  and 
the  market  for  it  is  found  in  all  parts  of 
the  United  States. 


In  1891  Mr.  Hagelskamp  married  Emma 
Rover,  a  native  of  Cincinnati.  They  have 
two  sons,  George  and  Harvey.  The  family 
are  members  of  the  Emanuel  Reformed 
Church.  Mr.  Hagelskamp  has  been  active 
in  his  church  and  has  served  as  a  member 
of  its  board  of  trustees  and  in  other  re- 
sponsible positions.  Politically  he  is  a 
steadfast  republican,  and  has  exerted  his 
influence  especially  in  the  matter  of  en- 
forcing honest  elections  in  the  city. 

Frederick  C.  Grossart,  for  many  years 
an  active  business  man  of  Indianapolis  and 
well  and  favorably  known  in  political  and 
civic  affairs,  died  in  that  city  December 
18,  1916. 

He  was  a  native  of  Germany,  born  July 
6,  1855,  son  of  Frederick  and  Catherine 
Grossart.  The  parents  came  to  the  United 
States  about  the  close  of  the  Civil  war  and 
lived  out  their  remaining  years  at  Belle- 
ville, Illinois.  Of  their  seven  children  six 
are  still  living. 

Frederick  C.  Grossart  was  about  ten 
years  of  age  when  he  came  to  the  United 
States,  and  his  early  education  was  ac- 
quired in  German  schools  and  later  in  thet 
schools  of  southern  Illinois.  At  the  time 
of  his  father's  death  he  came  face  to  face 
with  the  serious  responsibilities  of  life, 
and  he  thenceforward  had  to  earn  his  own 
living.  For  ten  or  twelve  years  he  worked 
at  the  printing  trade,  and  it  was  in  that 
vocation  that  he  was  first  known  at  In- 
dianapolis. Later  he  was  proprietor  of 
the  Germania  House  of  Indianapolis,  and 
subsequently  was  manager  of  the  Massa- 
chusetts Brewery  and  of  Smith's  Brewery. 
From  that  he  engaged  in  the  wholesale 
liquor  business  with  the  firm  of  J.  R.  Ross 
&  Company,  was  with  them  eight  or  ten 
years,  and  finally  established  the  firm  of 
Grossart  &  Gale,  a  business  with  which 
he  was  still  identified  at  the  time  of  his 
death. 

Mr.  Grossart  was  an  active  democrat, 
and  was  elected  on  that  ticket  a  member 
of  the  State  Legislature.  He  was  a  mem- 
ber of  the  German  Lutheran  Church. 

November  3,  1880,  he  married  Miss  Ida 
Felt,  daughter  of  John  and  Pauline  (Em- 
menecker)  Felt.  Mrs.  Felt  was  one  of  six 
children,  three  surviving.  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Grossart  became  the  parents  of  three  chil- 
dren, the  two  younger,  Frederick  and 
Pauline,    dying    in    infancy.     The    oldest 


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child,  Charles  A.,  married  Florence  Wag- 
ner, and  their  family  consists  of  two  chil- 
dren, Fred  and  Joseph.  Mr.  Grossart  was 
a  member  of  the  Elks  Lodge  of  Indian- 
apolis. 

Col.  Eli  Lilly  was  born  in  Baltimore, 
Maryland,  July  8,  1839,  and  died  in  Indian- 
apolis, Indiana,  June  6,  1898.  At  the  age 
of  thirteen  he  became  a  resident  of  Green- 
castle,  and  he  was  engaged  in  the  drug 
business  there  at  the  beginning  of  the  Civil 
war..  He  early  enlisted  in  the  Union  cause, 
rose  to  the  rank  of  colonel,  and  continued 
a  faithful  soldier  until  the  close  of  the  con- 
flict. In  1873  Colonel  Lilly  became  a  res- 
ident of  Indianapolis,  and  as  the  founder 
of  the  great  manufacturing  drug  house  of 
Eli  Lilly  &  Company  he  gave  to  the  city 
one  of  its  largest  institutions. 

William  J.  Hogan,  who  has  been  a 
resident  of  Indianapolis  for  a  quarter  of 
a  century  and  is  president  of  the  Indiana 
Refrigerating  Company,:  is  most  widely 
known  both  in  this  state  and  elsewhere  for 
the  value  of  his  services  as  an  "efficiency 
expert."  Mr.  Hogan  is  a  professional  ac- 
countant and  auditor,  but  as  in  the  popular 
mind  that  work  is  usually  associated  with 
the  routine  performance  of  bookkeeping  it 
is  hardly  adequate  to  describe  the  duties 
and  responsibilities  involved  in  the  new 
and  now  indispensable  profession  of  effi- 
ciency accounting.  It  is  a  well  known 
fact  that  the  majority  of  business  men  be- 
come bound  fast  in  the  routine  technique 
of  their  work,  and  never  possess  the  power 
to  detach  themselves  even  momentarily 
so  as  to  regard  and  estimate  their  business 
according  to  any  standard  of  real  efficiency 
or  success.  A  large  percentage  of  the' 
failures  can  be  traced  to  this  fact.  It 
is  to  supply  the  need  of  this  critical  and 
detached  view  of  business  methods  that 
the  profession  of  the  efficiency  expert  has 
come  into  being.  In  this  field  William 
J.  Hogan  has  performed  his  biggest  and 
most  vital  work. 

He  was  born  at  Chillicothe,  Ohio,  August 
18,  1872.  His  paternal  grandfather,  Dan- 
iel Hogan,  was  a  native  of  Wales  and  in 
Great  Britain  in  earlier  generations  the 
Hogans  were  important  people.  In  one 
branch  of  the  family  were  sonic  very  large 
estates  which  finally  reverted  to  the  Crown 


because  of  the  impossibility  of  discovering 
direct  and  competent  heirs.  Daniel  Ho- 
gan's  wife  was  at  one  time  lady-in-waiting 
to  Queen  Victoria,  and  she  possessed 
autograph  letters  and  other  keepsakes  of 
her  association  with  the  illustrious  head 
of  the  British  Empire.  Daniel  Hogan 
brought  his  family  to  America  in  the  early 
'40s. 

The  parents  of  William  J.  Hogan  were 
John  D.  and  Mary  (Merkle)  Hogan,  both 
natives  of  Ohio.  John  D.  Hogan  was  a  pio- 
neer railroad  man.  He  served  as  conductor 
on  the  first  passenger  train  to  run  over 
the  Hocking  Valley  Railroad  from  Colum- 
bus to  Toledo.  He  moved  his  family  home 
from  Chillicothe  to  Columbus,  but  in  1892 
came  to  Indianapolis,  where  he  died  in 
1900.  His  widow  still  survives.  They 
had  six  children,  all  still  living. 

William  J.  Hogan  acquired  his  early 
education  in  the  graded  schools  of  Colum- 
bus, Ohio.  At  night,  after  a  busy  day 
of  earning  his  own  bread,  he  attended  a 
commercial  school,  and  here  his  genius 
quickly  displayed  itself,  and  after  com- 
pleting his  course  he  was  employed  as  a 
commercial  instructor  for  a  time.  Later  he 
was  a  general  bookkeeper  in  a  wholesale 
house  at  Columbus  and  gradually  his  field 
of  work  broadened.  For  a  short  time  he 
was  car  accountant  for  the  Cleveland, 
Akron  and  Columbus  Railroad,  and  then 
became  private  secretary  at  Cleveland  to 
J.  C.  Moorehead,  general  superintendent 
of  the  N.  Y.  P.  &  Ohio  and  the  Chicago 
&  Erie  roads.  He  resigned  this  position 
to  become  teller  in  the  Fourth  National 
Bank  of  Columbus. 

On  coming  to  Indianapolis  Mr.  Hogan 
engaged  in  the  transfer  and  storage  busi- 
ness, and  in  the  course  of  years  he  de- 
veloped the  Hogan  Transfer  &  Storage 
Company  to  the  largest  concern  of  its  kind 
in  the  state.  Thus  Mr.  Hogan  had  a  par- 
ticular advantage  and  prestige  when  he 
entered  the  profession  of  efficiency  expert 
in  1909.  There  is  a  natural  prejudice 
among  many  business  men  against  so-called 
efficiency  workers  because  such  men  have 
no  record  of  constructive  business  accom- 
plishment to  their  credit  and  are  simply 
critics,  versed  in  technical  detail.  But  Mr. 
Hogan  was  a  practical  business  man  and  a 
successful  one  before  he  began  giving  his 
services  to  discover  and  remedy  troubles 
in   other  business   concerns.     Many  large 


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corporations  and  other  firms  throughout 
the  country  have  employed  his  skill  in 
recent  years,  and  among  his  patrons  are 
the  Cleveland  Trust  and  Citizens  Savings 
&  Trust  Companies  of  Cleveland,  Ohio. 

Mr.  Hogan  has  been  president  of  the 
Indiana  Refrigerating  Company  since  1910. 
He  is  also  a  director  in  the  National  City 
Bank  of  Indianapolis.  He  was  for  two 
years  president  of  the  State  Chamber  of 
Commerce,  is  a  member  of  the  Indianapolis 
Board  of  Trade,  the  Chamber  of  Commerce 
and  Rotary  Club  and  is  always  found 
ready  to  do  his  part  in  any  civic  move- 
ment. He  is  a  republican  and  belongs  to 
the  Baptist  Church.  January  1,  1900,  he 
married  Miss  Mayme  Lingenfelter,  daugh- 
ter of  John  and  Mary  Lingenfelter  of 
Indianapolis.  They  have  two  daughters, 
Mary  and  Frances. 

William  P.  Bbeen.  A  former  president 
of  the  Indiana  Bar  Association,  William 
P.  Breen  is  one  of  Fort  Wayne's  oldest 
native  lawyers,  has  carried  many  of  the 
responsibilities  of  the  profession  for  forty 
years,  and  is  properly  regarded  as  one  of 
the  strong  individual  forces  in  the  molding 
and  leading  of  public  opinion  in  his  home 
city  and  state. 

He  was  born  at  Terre  Haute,  Indiana, 
February  13,  1859,  only  son  and  child  of 
James  and  Margaret  (Dunne)  Breen.  His 
parents  were  natives  of  Ireland,  his  father 
born  in  1820'  and  his  mother  in  1821. 
James  Breen  came  to  America  in  1840,  and 
soon  afterward  located  at  Terre  Haute, 
Indiana.  In  1863  the  family  came  to  Fort 
Wayne,  where  James  Breen  attained 
prominence  in  business  affairs.  He  was 
for  a  number  of  years  a  member  of  the 
City  Council  and  at  the  time  of  his  death 
in  1883  was  member  of  the  Board  of 
Waterworks  Trustees. 

William  P.  Breen  was  liberally  educated, 
attending  at  Fort  Wayne  the  parochial 
school  conducted  by  the  Brothers  of  the 
Holy  Cross,  and  in  1877  graduating  A.  B. 
from  Notre  Dame  University.  He  studied 
law  with  Coombs,  Morris  &  Bell  at  Fort 
Wayne,  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in 
1879,  at  the  age  of  twenty.  He  had  a 
fortunate  introduction  to  professional  life, 
since  he  was  associated  with  Judge  War- 
ren H.  Withers  until  November  15,  1882. 
Following  this  came  a  period  of  eleven 
years  of  individual  practice,  and  in  1893 


he  formed  a  copartnership  with  John  Mor- 
ris, Jr.,  son  of  Judge  John  Morris.  Judge 
John  Morris  was  one  of  the  most  eminent 
attorneys  of  Indiana  and  died  in  1905. 
The  firm  of  Breen  &  Morris  has  been  in 
existence  for  a  quarter  of  a  century  and 
is  one  of  the  ablest  aggregations  of  legal 
talent  in  Northeastern  Indiana. 

The  profession  has  frequently  desig- 
nated some  of  its  best  honors  to  Mr.  Breen. 
He  served  as  president  of  the  Indiana  Bar 
Association  for  1903-04,  and  from  1903  to 
1906  was  a  member  of  the  Executive  Com- 
mittee of  the  American  Bar  Association. 
In  1904  President  Roosevelt  appointed 
him  a  delegate  to  the  Universal  Congress 
of  Lawyers  and  Jurists  at  St.  Louis.  Mr. 
Breen  is  also  president  of  the  People's 
Trust  &  Savings  Company  of  Fort  Wayne. 

Politics  has  always  been  an  incident  in 
the  professional  career  of  Mr.  Breen  and 
never  a  factor  in  his  advancement  and 
success.  However,  he  has  long  been  promi- 
nent in  the  democratic  party  and  in  1916 
was  a  delegate  to  the  National  Democratic 
Convention  at  St.  Louis.  He  was  also  a 
member  of  the  committee  which  officially 
notified  President  Wilson  of  his  nomina- 
tion. Mr.  Breen  has  a  well  earned  repu- 
tation as  an  orator  and  speaker,  and  has 
the  gift  of  translating  large  and  complex 
problems  into  the  language  which  is  read- 
ily understood  by  popular  audiences.  The 
same  faculty  has  won  him  many  cases  be- 
fore juries,  and  he  has  been  equally  at 
home  in  the  higher  courts  in  presenting 
the  technicalities  of  the  law. 

Mr.  Breen  is  a  member  of  the  Fort 
Wayne  Chamber  of  Commerce  and  the 
Fort  Wayne  Country  Club.  May  28,  1884, 
he  married  Miss  Odelia  Phillips,  daughter 
of     Bernard    P.     and     Caroline     (Vogel) 

Phillips  of  Fort  Wayne. 

i 

Isaac  R.  Strauss  has  been  one  of  the 
dominating  figures  in  the  democratic  party 
in  Western  Indiana  for  a  long  period  of 
years.  His  home  is  at  Rockville,  from  which 
town  his  influence  has  radiated  over  all  that 
section  of  the  state  principally  through  his 
editorship  of  the  Rockville  Tribune,  a 
staunch  advocate  of  democracy  established 
in  1870.  At  the  present  time  Mr.  Strauss' 
official  headquarters  are  at  Terre  Haute, 
where  he  is  revenue  collector  for  that  dis- 
trict. 

He  was  born  at  Rockville  in  Parke  Coun- 


1890 


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ty  December  12,  1859.  His  father,  Samuel 
Strauss,  who  was  born  in  Bavaria,  Ger- 
many, came  to  America  in  1838.  He  lo- 
cated at  Rockville  in  1843,  and  thence- 
forward for  upwards  of  half  a  century  was 
one  of  the  most  prominent  and  widely 
known  business  men  over  all  that  part  of 
the  state.  His  chief,  activities  were  as  a 
live  stock  contractor,  and  while  his  home 
and  headquarters  were  at  Rockville  he 
bought  and  sold  stock  all  over  Indiana  and 
Illinois.  During  the  Civil  war  he  fur- 
nished thousands  of  horses  to  the  Fed- 
eral government.  His  death  occurred  in 
1898,  at  the  age  of  seventy-eight.  Samuel 
Strauss  married  Mary  Frances  Baker,  who 
was  born  at  Shelbyville,  Kentucky,  daugh- 
ter of  Samuel  N.  and  Catherine  (Moore) 
Baker.  Abraham  Moore,  father  of  Cath- 
erine, enlisted  in  Capt.  William  Washing- 
ton's Company  of  Minute  Men  at  Meck- 
lenburg, Virginia,  April  29,  1775,  and 
marched  at  once  to  Boston  and  a  year  later 
to  Long  Island.  He  was  with  the  troops 
that  crossed  the  Delaware  with  Washing- 
ton December  25,  1776.  The  Baker  fam- 
ily moved  from  Kentucky  to  Parke  Coun- 
ty, Indiana,  in  1829,  and  their  names  are 
intimately  linked  with  the  early  history 
of  that  section.  Mrs.  Samuel  Strauss  died 
in  1878,  at  the  age  of  fifty. 

Isaac  R.  Strauss,  the  youngest  of  seven 
children,  grew  up  at  Rockville,  attended 
the  common  schools  there,  and  at  the  age  of 
sixteen  entered  the  printing  office  and  be- 
came an  efficient  compositor  before  he 
turned  to  the  editorial  side  of  newspaper 
work.  He  was  made  local  editor  of  the 
Rockville  Tribune,  and  subsequently  for 
eight  years  was  business  partner  and  as- 
sociate of  John  H.  Beadle  in  the  manage- 
ment of  that  journal.  He  then  bought  Mr. 
Beadle's  interest  and  has  since  been  pro- 
prietor. 

In  a  public  way  about  the  first  position 
Mr.  Strauss  ever  held  was  captain  of  the 
McCune  Cadets  at  Rockville.  In  1893  Gov- 
ernor Matthews  appointed  him  a  trustee 
for  the  Indiana  Institute  for  the  Blind. 
Probably  through  Mr.  Strauss  more  than 
to  any  other  individual  is  due  the  credit 
for  the  location  of  the  Indiana  Tuberculosis 
Hospital  at  Rockville.  The  welfare  and 
efficient  management  of  that  institution 
have  been  close  to  his  heart  ever  since  it 
was  established.  Governor  Hanley  ap- 
pointed him  a  member  of  the  hospital  board 


in  1907  and  he  was  reappointed  to  the  same 
office  by  Governor  Marshall.  On  Decem- 
ber 23,  1913,  President  Wilson  appointed 
Mr.  Strauss  collector  of  internal  revenue 
for  the  district  of  which  Terre  Haute  is 
the  headquarters,  and  to  this  office  he  has 
since  given  his  best  energies  and  his  time, 
leaving  the  active  management  of  the  Rock- 
ville Tribune  in  other  hands.  Mr.  Strauss 
is  a  member  of  Parke  Lodge  No.  8,  Ancient 
Free  and  Accepted  Masons,  at  Rockville, 
and  has  been  identified  with  that  order 
since  1881. 

Mr.  Strauss  during  the  world  war  was 
commissioned  captain  of  Company  E  of 
the  First  Indiana  Infantry  by  Governor 
Goodrich.  In  1881  he  married  Juliet  Vir- 
ginia Humphreys,  a  distinguished  Indiana 
literary  figure  whose  life  is  reviewed  on 
the  following  pages. 

Juliet  Virginia  Strauss,  who  died  May 
22,  1918,  was  an  Indiana  woman  in  whom 
the  public  has  a  special  interest  because  of 
her  literary  character.  For  fifteen  years 
readers  of  the  Indianapolis  News  were 
familiar  with  her  writings  under  the  nom 
de  plume  of  "Country  Contributor," 
while  a  much  larger  circle  of  people,  a 
national  audience  in  fact,  knew  what  she 
stood  for,  her  thought  and  keen  observa- 
tions, through  the  Ladies  Home  Journal, 
to  which  for  twelve  years  she  contributed 
regularly  one  of  the  most  popular  features 
of  that  journal,  the  page  entitled  "Ideas 
of  a  Plain  Country  Woman."  Mrs. 
Strauss  was  also  on  the  lecture  platform 
and  did  Chautauqua  and  Lyceum  work. 

Juliet  Virginia  Humphreys,  her  name 
nntil  December  22,  1881,  when  she  married 
Mr.  Isaac  R.  Strauss,  of  Rockville,  was 
born  in  Rockville  January  7,  1863.  Her 
father,  William  Woods  Humphreys,  was 
born  in  Augusta  County,  Virginia,  and 
was  a  child  when  the  family  moved  to  Rock- 
ville, Indiana,  as  pioneers  in  1837.  He 
died  at  Rockville  December  27,  1867.  Mrs. 
Strauss'  mother  was  Susan  Marcia  King, 
who  was  born  at  Grand  View,  Illinois,  Sep- 
tember 12,  1838,  and  died  at  Rockville,  Iu- 
dana,  January  7,  1903.  The  Humphreys 
were  Scotch  Irish,  coming  to  America  some 
time  after  the  Revolution.  Mrs.  Strauss' 
mother  was  of  Welsh  ancestry  on  her 
father's  side.  The  family  name  Marcia, 
which  is  found  in  nearly  every  genera- 
tion,   suggests    the    Roman   occupation    of 


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England.  Another  branch  of  the  paternal 
line  was  the  Spragues  of  Scotland,  who 
had  a  grant  of  land  in  New  York  around 
Chittenango.  In  matters  of  religion  all 
the  family  except  Mrs.  Strauss'  maternal 
grandmother,  who  was  a  Baptist,  were  of 
the  strict  Presbyterian  faith,  and  Mrs. 
Strauss  was  born  into  that  church  and  was 
identified  with  it  by  formal  allegiance  since 
she  was  about  fifteen  years  old. 

Mrs.  Strauss  was  only  four  years  old 
when  her  father  died.  She  always  recog- 
nized a  profound  obligation  to  the  wonder- 
ful strength  and  fortitude  of  her  mother, 
who  provided  for  her  family  of  three 
daughters  under  great  difficulties.  There 
were  four  small  children  when  the  father 
died  very  suddenly,  Mrs.'  Strauss  being  the 
second.  The  only  son  died  when  he  was 
four  years  old.  Mrs.  Strauss'  two  sisters 
are  Mrs.  Lind  of  Greenwood,  West  Vir- 
ginia, and  Mrs.  W.  N.  Carlisle  of  Rock- 
ville. 

Mrs.  Strauss  owed  nearly  all  her  edu- 
cation to  the  direction  of  her  mother,  in- 
struction carried  on  at  home,  though  for 
a  few  years  she  attended  the  public  schools 
at  Rockville.  Mrs.  Strauss'  mother  had 
finished  her  education  in  a  preparatory 
school  conducted  at  Grand  View,  Illinois, 
by  Rev.  John  Steele. 

One  of  the  experiences  of  Mrs.  Strauss' 
early  life  was  one  term  as  a  country  school 
teacher.  While  she  was  not  inclined  to  dis- 
parage the  importance  and  responsibilities 
of  a  literary  career,  she  emphasized  her 
primary  experience  as  a  home  maker, 
housekeeper,  mother  of  children,  and  from 
these  deep  and  fundamental  experiences 
she  derived  much  of  the  resources  that 
gave  her  power  with  the  pen.  For  a  num- 
ber of  years  she  was  active  with  her  hus- 
band in  managing  and  contributing  to  the 
Rockville  Tribune,  and  since  her  family 
grew  up  she  found  increasing  leisure  to 
write  and  engage  in  public  life. 

Mrs.  Strauss  had  two  daughters :  Marcia 
Frances,  born  June  20,  1883,  and  Sarah 
Katherine,  born  January  3,  1887.  Marcia 
Frances  married  Claude  Ott  of  Rockville, 
and  her  two  children  are  William  Ten 
Broeck  Ott,  born  in  1907,  and  Juliet  Cath- 
erine Ott,  born  in  1913.  The  other  daugh- 
ter, Sarah  Katherine,  who  died  April  28, 
1912,  married  Harold  Henderson  of  Rock- 
ville and  left  one  son,  John  Jacob  Hen- 
derson, born  in  1909. 


The  funeral  of  Mrs.  Strauss  was  held  in 
the  Presbyterian  Church  at  Rockville  and 
special  escort  was  furnished  by  Military 
Company  E  of  the  First  Indiana  Infantry. 
Taps  were  sounded  at  the  close  of  the  burial 
service.  Rev.  Lieut.  William  R.  Graham 
of  the  United  States  army  came  from  New- 
port News  to  officiate  at  the  funeral  serv- 
ice. A  fund  is  now  being  raised  by  the 
Women's  Press  for  a  memorial  to  be  erect- 
ed adjacent  the  Juliet  V.  Strauss  Cabin 
at  Turkey  Run,  the  State  Park,  in  Parke 
County. 

Theodore  F.  Thieme.  In  addition  to 
being  classified  as  a  manufacturer,  Theo- 
dore F.  Thieme  has  a  range  of  activities 
and  interests  not  only  in  his  home  city  of 
Fort  Wayne  but  throughout  the  State  of 
Indiana  and  the  Middle  West  which  serve 
to  indicate  a  man  of  remarkable  ability. 
Mr.  Thieme  is  organizer  and  president  of 
the  Wayne  Knitting  Mills,  president  of 
Thieme  Brothers  Company,  silk  hosiery 
manufacturers,  president  of  the  Morris 
Plan  Company,  and  director  in  nearly  all 
the  larger  banking  and  manufacturing  in- 
stitutions of  the  city  of  Fort  Wayne.  He 
is  also  state  chairman  of  the  Business  Sys- 
tem of  City  Government  Commission  of 
Indiana ;  was  president  of  the  executive 
committee  of  the  Citizen's  League  of  In- 
diana from  1911  to  1917;  is  a  director  of 
several  national  organizations,  such  as  the 
National  Municipal  League,  Public  Owner- 
ship League  of  America,  and  the  National 
Popular  Government  League,  as  well  as  a 
member  of  the  American  Academy  of  Pol- 
itical and  Social  Science,  the  National  As- 
sociation of  Manufacturers,  the  Chamber 
of  Commerce  of  the  United  States,  the  In- 
diana Society  of  Chicago,  and  numerous 
other  political  and  social  organizations  of 
a  progressive  nature. 

Mr.  Thieme  is  proud  of  Fort  Wayne  as 
his  birthplace,  and  that  city  is  more  than 
proud  of  his  successful  career.  He  was 
born  February  7,  1857,  son  of  Frederick 
J.  and  Clara  (Weitzman)  Thieme.  His 
father  for  a  period  of  over  twenty-five  years 
conducted  the  leading  clothing  store  in 
Fort  Wayne.  Theodore  F.  Thieme  came 
naturally  by  his  studious  activities,  having 
been  reared  in  an  atmosphere  of  culture 
and  educational  ideals.  His  early  educa- 
tion was  acquired  in  the  public  schools. 
After    graduation    he    entered    Concordia 


1892 


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College  of  Fort  Wayne,  where  he  was  a 
student  from  1871  to  1873.  During  1874- 
76  he  attended  Columbia  University,  grad- 
uating from  the  School  of  Pharmacy  in 
1876.  With  this  training  and  preparation 
he  established  himself  in  the  retail  drug 
business  at  Fort  Wayne,  which  he  con- 
tinued actively  for  twelve  years.  In  Janu- 
ary, 1894,  he  married  Miss  Bessie  Loring, 
of  Boston,  Massachusetts. 

About  1888  it  began  to  dawn  upon  the 
American  people,  as  perhaps  in  a  lesser 
degree  it  did  again  twenty-five  years  later, 
that  they  were  dependent  upon  Europe 
for  certain  manufactured  products,  as 
many  leading  industries  were  not  then  rep- 
resented at  all  in  this  country.  It  will 
be  remembered  that  in  1888  the  United 
States  elected  a  republican  president  and 
Congress,  pledged  to  a  complete  applica- 
tion of  the  principle  and  policy  of  protec- 
tion for  infant  industries.  Though  Wil- 
liam McKinley  did  not  introduce  his  pro- 
tective tariff  bill  until  the  spring  of  1890, 
well  informed  men  generally  accepted  it  as 
foregranted  that  the  laws  would  be  gen- 
erally revised  for  the  purpose  of  offering 
capital  and  labor  the  advantages  of  tariff 
protection. 

It  is  in  many  ways  significant  that  Mr. 
Thieme  of  Fort  Wayne  was  one  of  the  first 
to  grasp  the  significance  of  the  tariff  legis- 
lation then  pending  and  proposed.  It  was 
on  the  basis  of  this  knowledge  that  he  sold 
out  his  well  established  drug  business  and 
started  for  Europe  in  the  summer  of  1889. 
Europe  was  full  of  attractions,  but  a  selec- 
tion was  made  in  favor  of  the  full  fashioned 
hosiery  business,  the  home  of  which  was 
in  Chemnitz,  Germany. 

Accordingly  upon  his  return  to  Fort 
Wayne  Mr.  Thieme  organized  the  Wayne 
Knitting  Mills  for  the  purpose  of  manu- 
facturing full  fashioned  hosiery.  The  en- 
terprise was  the  first  of  its  kind  in  this 
country,  as  heretofore  all  full  fashioned 
hosiery  had  been  imported  from  Germany, 
France  and  England.  Since  the  manu- 
facture of  these  goods  was  an  entirely  new 
business  in  the  United  States,  the  estab- 
lishment was  more  or  less  of  an  experiment, 
and  was  consequently  started  in  a  small 
way.  The  machinery  had  to  be  bought 
abroad,  and  the  skilled  knitters  and  man- 
agers had  also  to  be  imported  until  a 
nucleus  of  trained  and  efficient  labor  could 
be  established.     The  Wayne  Knitting  Mills 


was  organized  in  1891,  and  succeeding 
years  proved  the  success  of  the  undertak- 
ing. This  institution  today  is  recognized 
as  the  leading  hosiery  factory  in  the  United 
States  and  one  of  the  largest  in  the  world. 
The  company  now  has  a  capital  stock  of 
$1,200,000.  It  employs  2,500  people  in  the 
manufacture  of  hosiery  exclusively,  from 
the  finest  silk  down  to  the  lower  priced  cot- 
ton for  men,  women  and  children. 

Mr.  Thieme  has  done  much  more  than 
make  Fort  Wayne  a  center  of  a  distinctive 
and  important  industry.  Many  students 
and  social  workers  would  regard  the  great 
volume  of  output  of  the  Wayne  Knitting 
Mills  as  secondary  in  importance  to  the 
spirit  and  policy  which  governs  the  rela- 
tions between  the  management  and  the  em- 
ployes. Mr.  Thieme  is  in  fact  a  pioneer 
among  manufacturers  in  the  adoption  of 
welfare  work  and  co-operative  methods 
with  his  employes.  The  Wayne  Knitting 
Mills  has  been  a  proving  ground  and  ex- 
periment station  for  the  working  out  of 
such  familiar  co-operative  methods  of 
profit-sharing,  old  age  pensions,  invalidity 
pensions,  employes'  educational  systems, 
group  life  insurance,  and  sick  and  acci- 
dent insurance.  In  1910  a  club  house  for 
employes  was  erected,  and  became  the 
social  center  of  the  Wayne  Knitting  Mills. 
In  addition  to  dormitory,  dining  room  and 
recreation  facilities  the  club  house  has  in- 
troduced many  unique  features  in  factory 
welfare  work.  In  striking  contrast  with 
the  managers  of  some  of  America 's  greatest 
and  most  profitable  manufacturing  cor- 
porations, Mr.  Thieme  not  only  recognizes 
organized  labor  but  co-operates  with  it  in 
his  business. 

Some  ten  years  ago  Mr.  Thieme  took  up 
in  a  thorough  businesslike  way  the  question 
of  better  city  government,  and  as  a  result 
prepared  the  so-called  "Business  System 
of  City  Government"  charter,  modeled 
after  the  well  known  system  adapted  in  all 
progressive  European  countries.  He  was 
the  organizer  and  at  present  is  the  state 
chairman  of  the  Citizens'  League  of  In- 
diana, which  has  taken  up  the  fight  for  a 
new  state  constitution,  home  rules  for 
cities,  taxation  reform  and  other  funda- 
mental measures  in  the  interest  of  modern 
economical  government. 

Students  of  economics  and  municipal 
legislation  all  over  the  country  know  and 
appreciate  Mr.  Thieme  because  of  the  vari- 


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ous  brochures  and  pamphlets  with  which 
his  name  is  associated  as  author.  The  more 
important  of  these  titles  are :  Municipal 
Side  Lights,  published  in  1910 ;  A  Modern 
System  of  City  Government,  1911;  Busi- 
ness System  of  City  Government  Charter, 
1912;  What  Ails  Us?  1913;  A  New  State 
Constitution  for  Indiana,  1914;  Liquor  and 
Public  Utilities  in  Indiana  Politics,  1915; 
Home  Kule  for  Cities,  1916;  Municipal 
Ownership,  the  Salvation  of  our  Cities, 
1916;  Initiative  and  Referendum,  1916. 

As  indicated,  Mr.  Thieme  is  a  director 
in  a  number  of  other  leading  industries, 
while  he  never  held  public  office  and  is  not 
a  partisan  in  politics,  he  takes  an  active  in- 
terest in  public  affairs  and  exerts  every 
possible  influence  in  behalf  of  constructive 
political  reforms.  He  is  a  republican,  a 
Mason  and  a  Shriner,  as  well  as  a  mem- 
ber of  many  business  and  social  clubs. 

Paul  Bernard  Cornelius  is  one  of  the 
progressive  younger  business  men  of  An- 
derson, and  his  experience  and  capabilities 
have  made  him  a  useful  factor  in  local  real 
estate  circles.  He  is  junior  member  of 
the  firm  Cornelius  &  Son,  real  estate 
builders  and  insurance,  with  offices  in  the 
Union  Building. 

He  was  born  in  Anderson  in  July,  1891, 
son  of  T.  F.  and  Margaret  (Reddington) 
Cornelius.  Paul  B.  was  educated  in  the 
public  schools  and  St.  Mary's  School  and 
as  a  boy  entered  his  father's  office  and 
applied  himself  earnestly  to  learning  the 
details  of  real  estate  work.  After  a  year  or 
so  he  was  taken  into  the  business  under 
the  name  T.  F.  Cornelius  &  Son.  They 
operate  principally  as  brokers  of  real  es- 
tate and  have  also  carried  out  a  large 
building  programme  in  the  improvement 
of  vacant  real  estate  throughout  the  city. 
Mr.  Cornelius,  who  is  unmarried,  is  a 
democratic  voter,  a  member  of  St.  Mary's 
Catholic  Church,  and  is  affiliated  with  the 
Benevolent  and  Protective  Order  of  Elks. 

Henry  Rudolph  Martin.  One  of  the 
fine  and  outstanding  figures  in  Indian- 
apolis commercial  and  civic  life  was  the 
late  Henry  Rudolph  Martin,  who  up  to 
the  time  of  his  death  on  April  10,  1917, 
was  secretary-treasurer  of  the  Indian- 
apolis Union  Railroad  Company.  Through 
his  own  achievements  and  those  of  the  fam- 
ily the  name  Martin  is  one  highly  honored 


and  respected  in  this  city,  and  has  been 
so  for  more  than  sixty  years. 

The  late  Henry  Rudolph  Martin  was  a 
native  of  Indianapolis,  born  July  1,  1859. 
He  was  one  of  three  children  and  the  only 
one  to  reach  maturity  in  the  family  of 
Rudolph  and  Fredericka  (Leineke)  Mar- 
tin. Both  parents  were  natives  of  the 
same  town  and  province  in  Germany. 
When  young,  single  people  they  came  to 
America  by  sailing  vessel  and  were  three 
months  in  crossing  the  ocean  to  New  Or- 
leans. From  there  they  came  up  the  river 
to  Cincinnati  and  in  that  city  were  mar- 
ried. They  came  to  this  country  about 
1853.  Rudolph  Martin  was  born  in  1816, 
his  wife  in  1821.  He  died  in  Indianapolis 
in  1884,  and  his  widow  survived  him  until 
1907.  While  living  in  Germany  Rudolph 
Martin  served  an  apprenticeship  at  the 
blacksmith's  trade  and  also  did  his  regu- 
lar time  in  the  German  Army.  As  a 
journeyman  workman  he  had  traveled 
pretty  much  all  over  Europe,  Italy,  France, 
Russia  and  his  own  native  land,  and  was 
thus  a  man  of  more  than  ordinary  expe- 
rience and  his  mind  had  benefited  by  ex- 
tended observation  of  various  peoples  and 
countries.  In  Cincinnati  he  followed  his 
trade  for  some  years,  and  then  moved  his 
family  to  Edinburg,  Indiana,  and  from 
there  moved  to  Indianapolis.  In  this  city 
he  was  connected  with  the  Indianapolis 
Central  Railway,  now  the  Pennsylvania 
system.  He  finally  left  its  service  to  be- 
come an  employe  of  the  Big  Four.  In 
1881  he  retired  from  active  railroad  work. 
However,  his  death  was  directly  due  to  a 
railroad  accident.  He  was  walking  on  the 
tracks  of  the  Big  Four  Railway  when  he 
was  struck  by  a  train  and  killed.  He  and 
his  family  were  members  of  Zion's  Evan- 
gelical Church.  Railway  men  and  people 
in  many  walks  of  life  have  a  kindly  re- 
membrance of  the  late  Rudolph  Martin, 
who  was  possessed  of  many  sterling  char- 
acteristics and  was  one  who  gave  service 
to  others  as  well  as  those  immediately  de- 
pendent upon  him.  He  was  a  democrat 
in  politics.  The  old  Martin  home,  where 
these  parents  lived  for  so  many  years,  is 
on  what  is  now  Noble  Street,  near  Mc- 
Carty. 

Henry  Rudolph  Martin  grew  up  in  In- 
dianapolis, attended  the  public  schools,  a 
German  private  school,  and  took  a  thor- 
ough course  at  the  old  C.  C.  Koerner  Busi- 


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ness  College.  He  became  proficient  and  ex- 
pert in  accountancy,  and  from  school  he 
went  to  work  as  a  clerk  in  the  office  of  the 
general  agent  of  the  Big  Four  Railway. 
He  was  there  two  years,  and  was  then  ad- 
vanced to  chief  clerk  in  the  ticket  account- 
ing department  of  the  same  line.  In  1882, 
when  the  general  headquarters  of  the  Big 
Four  system  were  removed  to  Cleveland, 
he  went  with  the  offices  to  that  city,  but 
a  year  later  entered  the  service  of  the  Erie 
Railway,  in  the  office  of  Russell  Elliott, 
who  was  then  auditor  of  the  Erie  with 
headquarters  at  Chicago. 

It  was  then  in  1884  that  Henry  R.  Mar- 
tin became  identified  with  the  Indianapolis 
Union  Railroad.  For  all  his  experience 
he  was  still  a  young  man,  only  twenty-five, 
and  with  a  service  of  over  thirty  years  be- 
fore him  he  rendered  himself  valuable  in 
many  conspicuous  ways  to  the  corporation. 
He  was  at  first  chief  clerk  to  D.  R.  Don- 
on gh,  was  finally  appointed  ticket  agent, 
and  in  November,  1916,  was  promoted  to 
secretary-treasurer  of  the  railway  com- 
pany. He  also  became  widely  known  in 
other  business  and  civic  interests.  He  was 
one  of  the  organizers  of  the  People's  Mu- 
tual Savings  and  Loan  Association,  and 
served  as  director,  secretary  and  treasurer. 
He  was  also  one  of  the  organizers  and  a 
director  of  the  Fountain  Square  Bank. 
Mr.  Martin  was  a  member  of  the  Indian- 
apolis Board  of  Trade,  and  Was  affiliated 
with  Mystic  Tie  Lodge  No.  398,  Free  and 
Accepted  Masons,  Keystone  Chapter  No. 
6,  Royal  Arch  Masons,  Council  No.  2, 
Royal  and  Select  Masters.  Nominally  a 
democrat,  he  cast  his  vote  according  to  the 
dictates  of  his  independent  judgment. 

January  4,  1893,  he  married  Grace  Don- 
ough,  daughter  of  Daniel  R.  and  Mary 
(Miller)  Donough.  Her  mother's  father, 
Mr.  Miller,  had  been  identified  with  the 
management  of  the  Indianapolis  Union 
Railroad  before  Daniel  R.  Donough  came 
to  assume  any  importance  in  its  affairs, 
and  taking  the  Martin  family  in  its  com- 
plete relationship,  including  a  son  of  the 
fate  H.  R.  Martin,  four  generations  have 
been  connected  with  the  Indianapolis 
Union. 

Mr.  Martin  is  survived  by  his  widow, 
Mrs.  Martin,  and  four  children.  The  old- 
est, Bernice,  is  the  wife  of  Henry  D.  Wiese 
of  Peoria,  Illinois.  Dorothy  is  the  wife  of 
Lewis  Q.  Clark  of  Indianapolis.     Freder- 


ick Donough  was  in  the  auditor's  office  of 
the  Indianapolis  Union  Railway  Company 
until  his  enlistment  in  the  Naval  Reserves 
and  is  now  stationed  at  the  Great  Lakes 
Training  Station.  The  youngest  of  the 
family  is  Lillian  Josephine.  The  late  Mr. 
Martin  was  an  earnest  supporter  and  mem- 
ber of  the  Second  English  Lutheran 
Church,  and  that  is  also  the  church  of  his 
family.  Mr.  Martin  was  a  very  charitable 
man,  ever  ready  to  sacrifice  time  and 
money  to  help  those  in  need,  and  many  a 
young  man  was  given  opportunity  to  ad- 
vancement through  his  financial  help  and 
moral  encouragement. 

James  D.  Williams  was  born  in  Pickens 
County,  Ohio,  but  in  childhood  he  moved 
with  his  parents  to  Knox  County,  Indiana, 
and  in  this  state  he  became  distinguished 
through  his  public  service.  He  was  fre- 
quently elected  as  a  democrat  to  represent 
his  district  in  the  Legislature,  and  in  1859 
was  elected  to  the  State  Senate,  and  was 
re-elected  in  1871  and  again  in  1874.  Two 
years  later,  in  1876,  he  was  the  choice  of 
his  party  for  governor  of  Indiana,  and  was 
elected  to  that  high  office.  He  was  well 
qualified  both  by  experience  and  thorough 
knowledge  to  discharge  the  duties  devolv- 
ing upon  him. 

The  death  of  Governor  Williams  oc- 
curred in  1880. 

Walter  W.  Bonner  has  continuously 
for  over  thirty  years  been  cashier  of  the 
Third  National  Bank  of  Greensburg,  one 
of  the  largest  banks  in  point  of  resources 
in  any  town  of  the  size  of  Greensburg  in 
Indiana.  Mr.  Bonner  joined  the  Third 
National  Bank  when  it  was  organized  in 
1883,  and  has  been  continuously  identified 
with  its  growth  and  welfare  ever  since. 

The  Third  National  Bank  had  among  its 
original  officials  John  E.  Robbins,  Thomas 
M.  Hamilton,  S.  A.  Bonner,  James  Hart, 
Morgan  L.  Miers,  Charles  Zoller  and  A. 
Reiter.  Some  of  these  names  still  appear 
on  the  directorate.  The  present  directors 
are  Morgan  L.  Miers,  Frank  R.  Robbins, 
Charles  Zoller,  Louis  Zoller,  Elbert  E. 
Meek,  George  P.  Shoemaker  and  Walter 
W.  Bonner.  Morgan  L.  Miers  is  president, 
Louis  Zoller,  vice  president,  and  Walter 
W.  Bonner  is  cashier.  At  the  close  of  the 
business  year  of  1918  the  Third  National 
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of  approximately  $1,183,000.  The  bank 
has  a  capital  of  $150,000,  surplus  and 
profits  of  upwards  of  $100,000,  and  its  de- 
posits are  over  $850,000. 

Mr.  Bonner  represents  some  of  the  oldest 
names  in  the  history  of  Decatur  County. 
His  great-grandfather  was  a  Scotch  Pres- 
byterian who  left  his  home  in  the  north  of 
Ireland  toward  the  end  of  the  eighteenth 
century  and  on  coming  to  America  settled 
on  a  plantation  near  Anderson,  South 
Carolina,  not  far  from  the  historic  plan- 
tation which  in  after  years  was  the  home 
of  the  great  southern  statesman  and  nulli- 
fier  John  C.  Calhoun.  On  that  plantation 
James  Bonner  was  born,  was  reared  near 
Abbeville,  South  Carolina,  and  there  mar- 
ried Mary  P.  Foster.  Her  father,  James 
Foster,  was  also  a  native  of  the  north  of 
Ireland,  and  was  a  South  Carolina  farmer, 
but  in  1837  came  to  Indiana  and  settled 
on  a  farm  in  the  Springhill  neighborhood 
of  Decatur  County,  where  he  spent  the 
rest  of  his  days.  James  Bonner  came  to 
Decatur  County  in  1836. 

Walter  W.  Bonner  was  born  near  Spring- 
hill  in  Decatur  County,  July  30,  1860, 
and  is  a  son  of  William  H.  and  Narcissa 
E.  (Elliott)  Bonner.  William  H.  Bonner, 
who  was  born  in  Wilcox  County,  Alabama, 
grew  up  on  the  home  farm  near  Springhill 
and  spent  all  his  active  career  as  an  agri- 
culturist. None  the  less  his  influence  was 
not  confined  to  his  immediate  country  dis- 
trict and  the  farm,  and  he  played  an  in- 
fluential role  in  republic  politics  and  in 
civic  affairs  generally.  In  1868  he  was 
elected  and  served  one  term  as  representa- 
tive of  his  county  in  the  State  Legislature, 
declining  renomination.  He  was  a  mem- 
ber and  for  many  years  a  ruling  elder  of 
the  United  Presbyterian  Church.  The 
death  of  this  good  citizen  of  Decatur  Coun- 
ty occurred  August  12,  1874.  His  first  wife 
was  Almira  L.  Hamilton,  a  sister  of 
Thomas  M.  Hamilton.  Narcissa  E.  Elliott, 
who  became  his  second  wife,  was  the 
mother  of  two  sons  and  one  daughter : 
Henry  E.,  a  Decatur  County  farmer;  Wal- 
ter W. ;  and  Mary  F. 

Walter  W.  Bonner  spent  his  early  life 
on  his  father's  farm,  attended  the  dis- 
trict schools  of  Fugit  Township  and  later 
Indiana  University  at  Bloomington.  In 
1881  he  began  the  study  of  law  in  the  office 
of  Miller  &  Gavin  at  Greensbure:,  and 
was  admitted  to  the  bar  of  the  Decatur 


Circuit  Court  in  1882,  but  considered  that 
his  best  interests  would  be  served  by  tak- 
ing the  position  of  bookkeeper  offered  him 
at  the  time  the  Third  National  Bank  was 
opened.  In  1884  he  was  made  assistant 
cashier,  and  became  cashier  on  February  3, 
1887. 

September  15,  1884,  Mr.  Bonner  married 
Libbie  Donnell,  of  Springhill.  Their  only 
child,  Ruth,  is  the  wife  of  Homer  G.  Meek, 
and  is  the  mother  of  two  daughters,  Mary 
Lois  and  Jean  Bonner  Meek. 

Roll  W.  Moore.  A  great  loss  to  the 
business  and  social  community  of  Kokomo 
and  its  citizenship  resulted  from  the  death 
of  Roll  W.  Moore  on  November  30,  1918. 
He  was  a  man  of  fine  intelligence  and  char- 
acter, had  resided  in  Kokomo  his  entire  life 
and  had  become  a  leader  of  the  younger 
element  and  an  energetic  factor  in  the  busi- 
ness affairs  of  the  city. 

A  number  of  years  ago  Mr.  Moore  pur- 
chased a  controlling  interest  in  the  well 
known  house  of  the  Vrooman-Smith  Print- 
ing Company  of  Kokomo.  He  devoted 
such  fine  energies  and  careful  management 
to  the  business  that  it  has  become  one  of 
the  most  prominent  printing  establish- 
ments in  the  state.  It  does  a  large  volume 
of  the  business  stationery,  official  printing 
and  other  typographical  work  of  Indiana. 

Mr.  Moore  was  the  general  manager  and 
principal  owner  of  this  business,  and  a  few 
years  before  his  death  he  associated  with 
him  as  assistant  managers  Herman  Weibers 
and  H.  M.  Hale,-  who  in  connection  with 
the  estate  of  Mr.  Moore  are  now  success- 
fully managing  the  enterprise.  The  orig- 
inal owners  of  the  business  and  from  whom 
is  derived  the  name  of  the  company  are 
no  longer  connected  with  it. 

Roll  W.  Moore  was  born  in  the  City 
of  Kokomo  May  15,  1880,  and  was  the  son 
of  Daniel  W."  and  Mary  E.  (Terrell) 
Moore.  His  parents  were  of  sturdy  pioneer 
stock,  and  his  father  until  his  death  a  few 
years  ago  was  a  leading  business  man  of 
the  city. 

Roll  W.  Moore  was  the  youneest  of  five 
children,  all  of  whom  are  still  living.  He 
attended  the  Kokomo  public  schools,  grad- 
uating from  the  high  school  with  the  class 
of  1898  and  afterward  studied  at  Butler 
College  at  Indianapolis,  where  he  was  a 
member  of  the  Delta  Tan  Delta  fraternity. 
After  leaving  college  his  first  business  con- 


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nection  was  with  the  Howard  National 
Bank  of  Kokomo,  Indiana,  where  he  en- 
joyed numerous  promotions  until  he  ac- 
cepted a  position  as  cashier  with  the  Koko- 
mo Trust  Company,  from  which  employ- 
ment he  resigned  in  1910  to  take  charge  of 
the  Vrooman-Smith  Printing  Company,  of 
which  he  afterward  became  sole  proprietor, 

Mr.  Moore  united  in  marriage  on  June 
12,  1907,  with  Miss  Maude  Ray,  daughter 
of  Webster  B.  Ray,  formerly  city  engineer 
of  Kokomo.  Mrs.  Moore  is  a  woman  of 
high  attainments  and  fine  education,  being 
a  graduate  of  Hanover  College  of  Madi- 
son, Indiana.  Mr.  Moore  leaves  surviving 
him  also  three  children,  Mary  Louise,  born 
April  27,  1908;  Martha  Frances,  born 
March  24,  1911;  and  Earl  Terrell,  born 
August  15,  1916. 

Mr.  Moore  was  a  very  public  spirited 
citizen  and  gave  his  time  freely  to  all  en- 
terprises for  the  welfare  of  Kokomo  and 
its  participation  in  patriotic  movements. 
He  was  a  member  of  the  Main  Street  Chris- 
tian Church,  and  was  affiliated  with  the 
Knights  of  Pythias  and  the  Benevolent  and 
Protective  Order  of  Elks.  He  was  a  re- 
publican, a  member  of  the  Kokomo  Cham- 
ber of  Commerce,  the  Country  Club  and  a 
charter  member  of  the  Kokomo  Rotary 
Club. 


1863,  in  Jennings  County,  Indiana,  son 
of  William  and  Jane  (Dickerson)  Boyd. 
His  father  was  a  substantial  farmer  of 
Jennings  County,  and  spent  his  life  there 
where  he  died  in  1906.  He  was  an  active 
democrat.  He  was  twice  married,  and  by 
his  first  wife  had  seven  children  and  by 
the  second  one  child,  but  Harrington  is 
the  only  one  now  living. 

The  latter  received  his  early  education 
in  the  public  schools  of  Jennings  County, 
attended  college,  and  for  four  years  taught 
school  in  Jennings  and  Decatur  counties. 
He  went  into  business  for  himself  as  a  gen- 
eral merchant  at  Letts  in  Decatur  County, 
but  later  confined  his  stock  to  hardware 
and  implements,  and  continued  one  of  the 
successful  business  men  of  that  locality  for 
fifteen  years.  He  came  from  Letts  to 
Greensburg  to  enter  the  Union  Trust  Com- 
pany as  secretary  and  treasurer.  Much  of 
the  success  of  the  company  is  due  to  his 
wide  acquaintance  and  his  thorough  busi- 
ness efficiency. 

Mr.  Boyd  is  a  Royal  Arch  and  Council 
Mason,  a  member  of  the  Knights  of  Pythias, 
a  democrat  in  politics  and  a  Baptist.  He 
is  married  and  has  one  daughter,  Mrs. 
Jackson  Butterfielcl  of  Cincinnati.  Her 
husband  is  Captain  Butterfield  of  the  Na- 
tional Army. 


Harrington  Boyd  has  had  a  long  and 
active  career  as  a  business  man  and  mer- 
chant in  Decatur  and  Jennings  County, 
and  since  the  organization  of  the  Union 
Trust  Company  of  Greensburg  has  given 
all  his  time  to  that  prospering  institution 
in  the  capacity  of  secretary  and  treasurer. 
The  Union  Trust  Company  was  organized 
in  1916,  and  in  March  of  that  year  its  total 
resources  were  about  $440,000.  The  origi- 
nal officers  and  directors  were :  John  H. 
Christian,  president;  Louis  Zoller,  vice 
president ;  Harrington  Boyd,  secretary  and 
treasurer ;  and  other  directors  were  W.  W. 
Bonner,  James  B.  Lathrop,  Frank  Rob- 
bins,  James  M.  Woodfill,  Isaac  Sefton  and 
William  H.  Robbins. 

At  the  close  of  1918  the  Union  Trust 
Company  made  a  showing,  of  total  re- 
sources of  $562,000,  with  capital  and  sur- 
plus of  $100,000  and  with  over  $400,000 
in  savings  deposits.  The  executive  officers 
are  the  same  today  as  in  1916. 

Harrington  Boyd  was  born  November  18, 


S.  P.  Minear.  Hardly  any  name  is 
better  known  in  business  circles  of  Greens- 
burg than  Minear,  which  through  father 
and  son  has  been  associated  with  some  of 
the  largest  and  most  fundamental  mercan- 
tile activities  in  that  city  for  half  a  cen- 
tury. 

The  founder  of  these  business  interests 
was  the  late  E.  R.  Minear,  who  was  born 
at  Phillipi,  West  Virginia,  and  died  at 
Greensburg  in  1913.  He  was  a  California 
forty-niner,  having  gone  overland  during 
the  exciting  days  of  adventure  in  the  far 
west.  Later  he  returned  to  Ohio,  and  in 
1863  established  his  home  at  Greensburg 
in  Decatur  County.  Here  he  engaged  in 
the  dry  goods  business,  and  he  always  took 
pride  in  the  progress  of  his  home  locality, 
serving  as  a  member  of  the  City  Council 
for  several  years  and  was  an  ardent  re- 
publican. 

He  went  into  business  with  a  partner, 
and  from  the  small  volume  of  annual  sales 
during  the  first  few  years  developed  his 


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store  and  his  trade  until  at  the  close  of 
the  partnership  the  annual  sales  aggre- 
gated  over  $100,000. 

S.  P.  Minear  was  born  in  Athens  County, 
Ohio,  November  5,  1861,  being  a  son  of 
E.  R.  and  Rosa  S.  (Self)  Minear,  and  was 
about  three  years  old  when  brought  to 
Greensburg.  He  was  reared  and  educated 
there  and  had  a  business  training  under 
his  father.  Later  he  bought  the  interest  of 
his  father's  partner,  and  the  firm  name 
was  changed  to  E.  R.  Minear  &  Son.  After 
his  father  retired  he  formed  a  partner- 
ship with  Louis  Zoller,  and  for  fifteen 
years  Minear  &  Zoller 's  establishment 
stood  as  one  of  the  business  landmarks  of 
the  city.  Mr.  Minear  acquired  his  part- 
ner's interests,  and  then  incorporated  the 
S.  P.  Minear  Company,  of  which  he  is 
president. 

Mr.  Minear  is  a  republican  and  has  been 
keenly  interested  in  the  welfare  of  his 
party,  but  even  more  in  the  welfare  of 
his  home  city.  He  is  a  member  of  the 
county  council.  Mr.  Minear  is  president  of 
the  Citizens  National  Bank  of  Greensburg, 
was  one  of  the  organizers  of  the  Union 
Trust  Company  and  is  a  director  of  the 
City  Trust  Company  of  Indianapolis.  For 
several  years  he  was  a  trustee  of  the  Metho- 
dist Episcopal  Church,  and  is  a  thirty-sec- 
ond degree  Scottish  Rite  Mason  and  was 
the  first  exalted  ruler  of  the  Greensburg 
Lodge  of  Elks.  He  is  also  affiliated  with  the 
Knights  of  Pythias.  During  the  war  he 
served  as  county  chairman  for  the  Red 
Cross  and  Mrs.  Minear  was  one  of  the 
leading  workers  in  that  organization,  as 
she  has  always  been  in  social  affairs  gen- 
erally. In  1904,  at  Indianapolis,  Mr. 
Minear  married  Miss  Kate  Smith,  daughter 
of  Charles  "W.  Smith  of  that  city.  Mrs. 
Minear  is  a  graduate  of  the  Indianapolis 
High  School. 

Perry  Edwards  Powell,  A.  M.,  Ph.  D. 
The  work  by  which  his  name  has  become 
widely  known  all  over  Indiana  for  a  num- 
ber of  years  Doctor  Powell  has  done  as  a 
minister  and  lecturer,  and  through  an 
active  connection  with  a  number  of  boys 
movements,  particularly  the  Boy  Scouts 
and  the  "Woodcraft  League.  Doctor  Powell 
now  resides  at  Indianapolis  and  has  re- 
cently given  that  city  one  of  its  highest 
class  and  exclusive  apartment  hotels. 

He  is  a  grandson  of  John  Powell,  rep- 


resenting one  of  the  oldest  families  of 
Henry  Count}".  John  Powell  was  born  in 
Pennsylvania  July  22,  1806,  son  of  Thomas 
and  Nancy  Powell,  both  natives  of  "Wales, 
who  came  to  the  United  States  in  1801. 
About  1815,  at  the  close  of  the  "War  of 
1812,  the  family  moved  to  Hamilton 
County,  Ohio,  near  Cincinnati,  where 
Thomas  Powell  died.  In  1824  John  Powell 
came  to  Connersville,  Indiana,  and  was 
in  the  teaming  and  freighting  business 
for  several  years.  In  1827  he  located  at 
Newcastle,  and  as  a  tanner  bought  two 
establishments  of  that  nature  and  de- 
veloped a  large  and  successful  business, 
which  he  carried  on  for  nearly  a  quarter 
of  a  century.  He  imported  his  hides  from 
as  far  south  as  New  Orleans,  and  his  busi- 
ness was  thus  of  tmpre  than  local  im- 
portance. He  was  identified  with  the 
building  of  the  old  Whitewater  Canal,  and 
in  1847  was  elected  to  represent  Henry 
County  in  the  Legislature.  He  was  also 
one  of  the  most  liberal  contributors  to  the 
Methodist  Church  of  Newcastle.  During 
the  cholera  epidemic  in  1833  and  1849 
both  he  and  his  wife  refused  to  desert 
their  posts  and  remained  in  town  nursing 
the  sick.  John  Powell  died  May  17,  1859. 
He  was  twice  married,  his  second  wife  and 
the  mother  of  his  children  being  Betsey 
Creek,  who  was  born  in  Union  County, 
Indiana,  November  30,  1813. 

Dr.  Perry  Edwards  Powell  was  born  at 
Newcastle  and  is  a  son  of  Martin  L.  and 
Susannah  Rebecca  (Byer)  Powell.  His 
parents  were  married  in  1862,  fifty-six 
years  ago,  and  are  still  living  at  Newcastle, 
esteemed  not  only  for  the  remarkable  vigor 
and  vitality  of  their  lives  but  also  for  the 
worthy  part  they  have  played  in  the  com- 
munity. Nine  children  were  born  to  them, 
six  sons  and  three  daughters,  and  all  these 
children  are  still  living  and  not  one  has 
ever  required  any  care  on  account  of  sick- 
ness. Martin  L.  Powell  was  born  at  New- 
castle in  1839,  and  is  still  living  on  the  site 
of  his  birthplace.  For  a  long  number  of 
years  he  was  a  merchant.  His  store  build- 
ing acquired  more  than  local  fame  as  the 
"Powell  mud  house"  on  account  of  its 
concrete  construction.  It  was  probably  the 
first  building  of  that  type  of  construction 
in  Indiana,  and  one  of  the  first  in  the 
United  States.  It  was  built  in  1872,  and 
the  ideas  that  were  carried  out  in  the  con- 
struction  came   to  Martin   Powell  during 


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his  visit  to  Paris  in  1872.  He  put  up  the 
building  the  same  year  after  his  return 
from  Europe.  Martin  Powell,  as  everyone 
at  Newcastle  knows,  presents  a  figure  of 
remarkable  physical  and  intellectual  vital- 
ity. Even  now,  in  the  shadow  of  his  eight- 
ieth year,  he  is  as  athletic  as  many  men 
half  his  age.  He  is  also  regarded  as  the 
chief  depository  of  historical  information 
in  Henry  County.  Both  the  newspapers  at 
Newcastle  refer  to  him  constantly  for  sta- 
tistics and  facts  regarding  people  and 
events,  and  his  memory  is  seldom  at  fault 
concerning  anything  that  happened  there 
since  his  earliest  boyhood. 

Perry  Edwards  Powell  is  a  graduate  of 
the  Newcastle  High  School  and  of  DePauw 
University  at  Greencastle.  He  holds  the 
degrees  of  A.  M.  and  Ph.  D.,  and  was 
formerly  a  member  of  the  Northern  In- 
diana Conference  as  a  minister  of  the 
Methodist  Episcopal  Church.  Doctor 
Powell  was  one  of  the  founders  of  the  Boy 
Scout  movement  in  America  and  has  the 
distinction  of  being  the  first  Scout  Master 
for  Indiana.  He  was  invited  and  attended 
a  meeting  with  Colonel  Wakefield,  the  rep- 
resentative of  Baden-Powell  of  England, 
upon  the  arrival  of  Colonel  Wakefield  in 
New  York  some  years  ago  to  inaugurate 
the  Boy  Scout  movement  in  this  country. 
Out  of  that  grew  his  appointment  as  the 
first  Scout  Master  of  the  state.  For  sev- 
eral years  he  was  identified  with  this  and 
other  movements  affecting  the  welfare  and 
training  of  boys,  and  the  Woodcraft 
League  of  which  he  is  now  an  active  mem- 
ber has  as  its  head  Sir  Ernest  Thompson- 
Seton,  the  eminent  naturalist  and  author. 
Doctor  Powell  is  the  founder  and  was  the 
Supreme  Merlin  of  the  Knights  of  the 
Holy  Grail.  For  some  time  past  he  has 
been  a  lecturer  for  the  Anti-Saloon 
League  of  Indiana.  Doctor  Powell  came 
to  Indianapolis  to  make  his  permanent 
home  in  1912.  His  home  is  a  beautiful 
place  at  Broad  Ripple.  In  business  affairs 
he  has  been  prospered  and  has  done  much 
of  a  constructive  nature,  and  in  the  im- 
provement of  real  estate  there  are  a  num- 
ber of  conspicuous  examples  of  his  activity, 
and  perhaps  the  most  prominent  was  the 
building  on  North  Meridian  Street  in  In- 
dianapolis of  the  Haddon  Hall  Apartment 
Hotel,  completed  in  1918.  It  is  a  beauti- 
ful and  costly  structure,  modeled  after 
but   in   many   ways   surpassing   the    finest 


apartment  hotels  of  the  country.  There 
are  twenty-seven  individual  apartments  in 
the  building,  each  with  every  comfort  and 
convenience,  while  the  group  facilities 
comprise  parlors,  reception  rooms,  billiard 
room,  and  all  other  facilities  that  enhance 
the  social  privileges  of  the  tenants.  It  is 
a  unique  building  for  Indianapolis,  and 
represents  the  last  word  not  only  in  con- 
struction but  in  the  quality  and  character 
of  its  service. 

Doctor  Powell  married  Louise  S.  Smith. 
She  is  a  direct  descendant  of  Pastor  Rob- 
inson of  the  Pilgrim  Fathers,  and  through 
her  mother  is  related  to  the  Lewis  family 
of  New  England.  Doctor  and  Mrs.  Powell 
have  one  daughter,  Harriet  Emily  Powell. 

Miss  Mary  Dingle  has  been  a  factor  in 
the  mercantile  life  of  Newcastle  for  many 
years,  and  starting  with  only  the  skill  of 
her  hands  and  with  neither  capital  nor 
influence  has  built  up  a  business  which  is 
now  known  over  a  radius  of  fifty  miles 
around  Newcastle  and  is  one  of  the  most 
complete  millinery  and  woman's  furnish- 
ing goods  establishment  in  Eastern 
Indiana. 

Miss  Dingle  was  born  in  the  District 
of  Columbia,  near  the  City  of  Washington, 
a  daughter  of  George  and  Catherine 
(Dake)  Dingle.  Her  father  was  born  at 
Epfelbach  and  her  mother  in  Wuertem- 
berg,  Germany,  and  both  came  to  America 
when  young.  The  mother  came  with  a 
sister  to  this  country.  They  were  married 
in  Washington,  and  were  the  parents  of 
ten  children,  two  daughters  and  eight  sons. 

Miss  Dingle  was  a  small  child  when  her 
parents  came  to  Newcastle,  and  she  re- 
ceived her  education  here  in  the  public 
schools.  At  the  age  of  thirteen  she  began 
learning  the  dressmaking  trade  and  several 
years  later  she  opened  her  first  millinery 
store  on  Broad  Street.  In  the  meantime 
her  mother  had  died  and  a  large  part  of 
the  financial  responsibility  as  well  as  the 
personal  care  of  the  younger  children  de- 
volved upon  her.  She  helped  educate  sev- 
eral of  her  brothers.  Miss  Dingle  remained 
in  her  first  location  fifteen  years,  and  in 
1905  moved  to  larger  quarters  on  the  same 
street  and  was  located  there  twelve  years. 
A  fire  discontinued  her  business  activities 
at  that  point  and  following  that  for  a 
year  she  was  located  in  the  Union  Block 
and  for  three  years  in  the  Albright  Build' 


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ing.  In  March,  1917,  she  came  to  her  pres- 
ent location  at  1321  Broad  Street,  and  this 
is  the  store  where  she  serves  her  large 
and  exclusive  trade.  Miss  Dingle  is  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Lutheran  Church. 

Clem  Miller  is  senior  partner  in  the 
firm  of  Miller  &  Hendricks,  paints  and  wall 
paper,  at  Newcastle.  Mr.  Miller  has  been 
in  this  business  since  early  manhood, 
learned  the  painting  trade  when  a  youth, 
and  has  pursued  it  successfully  through 
the  different  stages  of  journeyman,  con- 
tractor and  merchant. 

Mr.  Miller  was  born  at  Hillsboro  in 
Henry  County,  Indiana,  in  1878,  son  of 
Frederick  and  Amanda  (Evans)  Miller. 
He  is  of  German  and  Welsh  ancestry.  His 
grandfather,  Ambrose  Miller,  when  eight 
years  of  age  came  on  a  sailing  vessel  from 
the  old  country  and  settled  with  relatives 
in  Pennsylvania.  At  the  age  of  twenty- 
eight,  having  married,  he  moved  to  Indiana 
and  located  near  Hagerstown  in  Wayne 
County.  He  was  a  farm  laborer  there 
and  spent  the  rest  of  his  days  in  that  neigh- 
borhood, bringing  up  a  family.  Frederick 
Miller  was  a  farmer  for  many  years, 
but  he  and  his  wife  now  reside  at  Messick, 
Indiana,  where  he  is  engaged  in  the  poul- 
try business. 

Clem  Miller  secured  his  early  education 
in  county  schools  at  Messick,  attended. high 
school  at  Moreland  three  years,  and  in 
1898  graduated  from  Spiceland  Academy. 
He  then  went  to  work  in  the  paint  and  wall 
paper  business  with  A.  H.  Downing  at 
Moreland,  and  for  three  years  was  busily 
employed  learning  his  trade  and  doing 
practical  work  in  this  line.  Coming  to 
Newcastle  Mr.  Miller  was  in  the  drug  store 
of  Edward  Smith  two  years  and  in  1901 
entered  business  for  himself  as  a  con- 
tractor in  paint  and  wall  paper.  Some 
years  later  he  opened  a  retail  wall  paper 
and  paint  store  at  the  corner  of  Fifteenth 
and  Race  streets,  and  that  was  his  location 
three  years.  Selling  out  in  1914,  he  and 
Thomas  A.  Hendricks  formed  the  present 
partnership  and  bought  out  the  old  es- 
tablished business  of  Grant  Lowe  on  West 
Broad  Street.  Miller  &  Hendricks  soon 
moved  their  establishment  to  210  South 
Fourteenth  Street,  where  they  remained 
two  years  and  then  came  to  their  present 
headquarters  at  110  North  Fourteenth 
Street.    They  have  a  general  line  of  paints 


and  wall  paper,  and  supply  a  town  and 
country  trade  for  twenty-five  miles  around 
Newcastle. 

Mr.  Miller  married  in  1900  Miss  Maude 
Tinkle,  daughter  of  Harvey  and  Rebecca 
(Smith)  Tinkle  of  Moreland,  Indiana. 
They  have  three  children  :  Marguerite,  born 
in  1904 ;  Martha  Louise,  born  in  1912 ;  and 
Freda  June,  born  in  1914.  Mr.  Miller  is 
an  independent  in  politics  and  is  a  mem- 
ber of  the  United  Brethren  Church. 

Hon.  Robert  W.  McBride.  As  a  Union 
soldier,  fifty  years  a  lawyer,  former  Jus- 
tice of  the  Supreme  Court  of  Indiana  and 
a  man  of  many  attractive  tastes  and  pur- 
suits, Judge  McBride  has  filled  his  life 
full  of  useful  activities  and  honorable  dis- 
tinctions. 

He  was  born  in  Richland  County,  Ohio, 
January  25,  1842,  son  of  Augustus  and 
Martha  A.  (Barnes)  McBride.  His  pa- 
ternal grandfather  was  a  native  of  Scot- 
land, and  soon  after  the  close  of  the  Revo- 
lutionary war  came  to  America  and  set- 
tled in  a  community  of  Scotch-Irish  in 
Washington  County,  Pennsylvania.  Au- 
gustus McBride  was  a  native  of  Washing- 
ton County  and  when  he  was  an  infant 
his  parents  removed  to  Ohio,  where  he  grew 
up  with  a  limited  education.  He  learned 
the  trade  of  carpenter  and  was  a  skillful 
workman  and  by  that  pursuit  provided  for 
the  needs  of  his  family.  At  the  beginning 
of  the  war  with  Mexico  he  enlisted  in  an 
Ohio  Volunteer  Regiment,  and  while  his 
command  was  stationed  in  the  captured 
City  of  Mexico  he  died  in  February,  1848, 
at  the  age  of  twenty-nine.  He  was  a  faith- 
ful member  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal 
Church.  Augustus  McBride  married  Mar- 
tha A.  Barnes,  a  native  of  Richland 
County,  Ohio,  and  daughter  of  Wesley 
and  Mary  (Smith)  Barnes.  Her  father, 
born  in  Virginia  in  1794,  of  English  lin- 
eage, took  up  his  residence  in  the  frontier 
district  of  Richmond  County,  Ohio,  in 
1816,  and  reclaimed  a  farm  from  the  wild- 
erness. He  finally  settled  near  Kirkville, 
Iowa,  where  he  died  in  1862,  at  the  age  of 
sixty-eight,  His  wife  was  the  daughter  of 
an  American  soldier  of  the  Revolution. 
Judge  McBride 's  mother  married  for  her 
second  husband  James  Sirpless.  She  died 
in  1894,  on  a  farm  five  miles  from  Mans- 
field, Richmond  County,  Ohio,  only  a  half 
mile  from  the  spot  of  her  birth.     She  was 


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seventy-two  years  of  age  when  she  died. 
By  her  first  marriage  she  had  three  sons 
and  one  daughter :  Judge  McBride,  Mary 
J.,  who  married  Robert  S.  McFarland, 
James  N.  and  Thomas  N.  By  the  second 
marriage  there  were  four  children,  and  the 
three  still  living  are  Albert  B.,  William 
A.  and  Nellie,  widow  of  John  W.  Beeler. 

Judge  McBride  was  six  years  old  when 
his  father  died  in  Mexico.  At  the  age  of 
thirteen  he  went  with  an  uncle  to  Mahaska 
County,  Iowa,  and  acquired  his  early  edu- 
cation partly  in  Ohio  and  partly  in  Iowa, 
finishing  in  the  Academy  at  Kirksville, 
Iowa.  For  three  years  he  also  taught  in 
Mahaska  County.  When  about  twenty 
years  of  age  he  returned  to  Ohio,  and  in 
November,  1863,  enlisted  in  the  Seventh 
Ohio  Independent  Squadron  of  Cavalry, 
otherwise  known  as  the  Union  Light  Guard 
of  Ohio.  He  was  a  non-commissioned  offi- 
cer in  this  company,  which  later  was  as- 
signed to  duty  as  a  body  guard  to  Presi- 
dent Lincoln.  Judge  McBride  is  one  of 
the  few  surviving  men  who  knew  Abraham 
Lincoln.  Among  other  pursuits  and  dis- 
tinctions of  his  mature  years  Judge  Mc- 
Bride has  turned  to  the  field  of  authorship 
and  has  contributed  to  the  literature  of 
the  Civil  war,  "The  History  of  the  Union 
Light  Guard  Cavalry  of  Ohio,"  also 
"Abraham  Lincoln's  Body  Guard,"  and 
"Personal  Recollections  of  Abraham  Lin- 
coln." A  soldier  himself  and  descended 
of  military  ancestors,  he  has  always  taken 
a  keen  interest  in  military  affairs  and  for 
a  number  of  years  was  prominent  in  the 
Indiana  National  Guard,  serving  from 
1879  to  1893.  He  was  captain  of  his 
company  at  the  time  of  its  organization. 
This  company  subsequently  was  Company 
A  of  the  Third  Regiment,  and  he  was  the 
first  to  hold  the  rank  of  lieutenant  colonel 
and  afterwards  was  colonel.  He  resigned 
this  command  in  January,  1891.  For 
many  years  he  has  been  an  honored  mem- 
ber and  is  past  post  commander  of  George 
H.  Thomas  Post  No.  17,  Grand  Army  of 
the  Republic,  at  Indianapolis,  and  Adju- 
tant General  of  the  Grand  Army  of  the 
Republic  in  1917-1918.  Judge  McBride 
was  given  his  honorable  discharge  from 
the  Union  Army  in  September,   1865. 

Then  followed  an  intensive  preparation 
for  the  duties  of  civil  life,  and  he  studied 
law  while  teaching  school  in  Ohio  and  In- 
diana.    He   was   admitted    to   the   bar   at 


Auburn,  DeKalb  County,  Indiana,  in 
April,  1867.  He  began  practice  at  Water- 
loo in  the  same  year  under  the  firm  name 
of  Best  &  McBride.  His  partner  was  a 
young  lawyer,  James  I.  Best,  who  was  a 
member  of  the  Supreme  Court  Commission 
of  Indiana  throughout  its  existence  and 
later  became  prominent  in  the  bar  of 
Minnesota.  The  partnership  lasted  one 
year,  but  Judge  McBride  continued  prac- 
tice at  Waterloo  for  over  twenty  years. 
He  was  also  associated  for  a  time  with 
Joseph  L.  Morlan,  until  the  latter 's  death 
in  1879.  In  1882  he  was  elected  judge  of 
/thel  Thirty-Fifth  Judicial  Circuit,  com- 
prising the  counties  of  DeKalb,  Noble  and 
Steuben.  The  able  and  successful  lawyer 
always  makes  a  sacrifice  when  he  assumes 
the  duties  of  the  bench,  but  Judge  Mc- 
Bride's  services,  which  continued  for  six 
years,  until  1888,  brought  him,  aside  from 
the  material  sacrifices  involved,  some  of  the 
best  satisfactions  of  his  career  and  forti- 
fied the  dignity  and  high  standing  that  has 
since  been  his  beyond  the  power  of  en- 
vious fortune  to  take  away.  After  leav- 
ing the  bench  he  resumed  private  practice 
at  Waterloo,  but  in  1890  removed  to  Elk- 
hart. In  that  year  he  was  appointed  an 
associate  justice  of  the  Supreme  Court  of 
Indiana  to  fill  the  vacancy  caused  by  the 
death  of  Judge  Joseph  S.  Mitchell.  He 
served  in  the  Supreme  Court  from  Decem- 
ber 17,  1890,  to  January  2,  1893.  While 
the  service  was  brief,  he  gained  added  dis- 
tinctions as  a  jurist,  and  his  name  is  con- 
nected with  a  number  of  notable  decisions 
found  in  the  Supreme  Court  Reports  of 
that  date. 

Since  retiring  from  the  bench  Judge 
McBride  has  been  in  active  practice  at  In- 
dianapolis. In  April,  1893,  he  formed  a 
partnership  with  Caleb  S.  Denny.  Wil- 
liam M.  Aydelotte  was  admitted  to  the 
firm  in  1900,  and  was  subsequently  suc- 
ceeded by  George  L.  Denny,  son  of  Caleb 
Denny.  The  firm  continued  as  McBride, 
Denny  &  Denny  until  February,  1904, 
since  which  date  Judge  McBride  has  prac- 
ticed alone.  His  duties  for  a  number  of 
years  have  been  chiefly  as  counsel  and 
director  in  the  loan  department  of  the 
State  Life  Insurance   Company. 

Judge  McBride  is  a  member  of  the  In- 
dianapolis Bar  Association,  and  one  of  the 
honors  that  indicate  his  high  standing  in 
professional    circles    was    his    election    as 


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president  of  the  Indiana  State  Bar  Asso- 
ciation for  the  term  1913-16.  Judge  Mc- 
Bride  is  a  man  of  cultivated  tastes  and 
possesses  an  unusual  range  of  interests  and 
studies.  These  are  indicated  by  his  mem- 
bership in  the  Indiana  Academy  of  Sci- 
ence, the  Indiana  Audubon  Society  and 
the  Indiana  Nature  Study  Club.  He  is  a 
member  of  the  Columbia,  Marion  County, 
Country  and  Century  clubs,  the  Sons  of 
the  Revolution,  and  the  Indianapolis  Cham- 
ber of  Commerce,  and  has  long  been  prom- 
inent in  Masonry,  the  Knights  of  Pythias 
and  the  Independent  Order  of  Odd  Pel- 
lows.  His  Masonic  affiliations  are  with 
Pentalpha  Lodge,  Free  and  Accepted  Ma- 
sons, Keystone  Chapter,  Royal  Arch  Ma- 
sons, Raper  Commandery,  Knights  Temp- 
lar, thirty-second  degree  of  the  Scottish 
Rite,  and  Murat  Temple  of  the  Mystic 
Shrine.  He  is  past  eminent  commander 
of  Apollo  Commandery  No.  19,  Knights 
Templar,  at  Kendallville,  Indiana.  He  is 
a  member  of  Indianapolis  Lodge,  No.  465, 
Independent  Order  of  Odd  Fellows,  and 
has  sat  in  the  Grand  Lodge  of  the  state 
and  has  also  been  a  member  of  the  In- 
diana Grand  Lodge  of  the  Knights  of 
Pythias. 

September  27,  1868,  Judge  McBride 
married  Miss  Ida  S.  Chamberlain.  She 
was  born  in  Ohio,  daughter  of  Dr.  James 
N.  and  Catherine  (Brink)  Chamberlain. 
Her  father  was  a  graduate  of  the  Western 
Reserve  College  of  Physicians  and  Sur- 
geons at  Cleveland,  and  for  many  years 
carried  on  a  large  practice  as  a  physician 
and  surgeon  in  DeKalb  County,  Indiana. 
Judge  and  Mrs.  McBride  have  four  chil- 
dren :  Daisy  I.,  who  first  married  Freder- 
ick C.  Starr  and  afterwards  Kent  A. 
Cooper;  Charles  H.  McBride,  who  mar- 
ried Miss  Minnie  Cohu,  who  died  a  few 
months  later;  Herbert  W.  McBride;  and 
Martha  Catherine,  wife  of  James  P.  Hoster. 

John  P.  St.  John  was  born  in  Brook- 
ville,  Indiana,  February  25,  1833,  a  son  of 
Samuel  and  Sophia  St.  John.  During  the 
Civil  war  he  served  as  a  captain  and  lieu- 
tenant colonel,  and  subsequently  he  became 
a  resident  of  Kansas.  He  was  elected  to 
the  Kansas  State  Senate  in  1872,  was  gov- 
ernor of  Kansas  1879-1883,  and  in  1884 
was  nominated  for  president  of  the  United 
States  on  the  prohibition  ticket.  The  home 
of  Mr.  St.  John  was  at  Olathe,  Kansas. 


Ray  Davis.  The  business  community  of 
Newcastle  appreciates  to  the  full  the  work 
and  service  rendered  by  Ray  Davis,  who 
has  been  identified  with  local  banking  since 
early  manhood  and  is  now  cashier  of  the 
First  National  Bank  of  Newcastle. 

Mr.  Davis  was  born  in  Newcastle  Feb- 
ruary 8,  1886,  son  of  Mark  and  Jennie 
(Allender)  Davis.  He  is  of  "Welsh  and 
Scotch  ancestry.  The  first  ancestor  set- 
tled in  Pennsylvania  about  150  years  ago. 
His  great-grandfather  and  grandfather 
were  named  Aquilla  Davis,  and  were  Ohio 
farmers.  Grandfather  Aquilla  drove  over- 
land to  Indiana  in  1840.  Mark  Davis  was 
likewise  a  farmer  until  about  forty  years 
ago,  when  he  located  at  Newcastle  and  en- 
gaged in  business  as  a  grocery  merchant. 
He  finally  sold  out  and  from  1899  to  1902 
was  county  auditor  of  Henry  County,  and 
since  leaving  that  office  has  been  retired. 
He  is  a  republican. 

Mr.  Ray  Davis  was  educated  in  the  pub- 
lic schools  of  Newcastle,  graduating  from 
high  school  in  1904.  He  acquired  a  good 
business  training  in  the  office  of  the  deputy 
county  auditor,  and  left  that  to  take  a 
position  as  bookkeeper  with  the  Central 
Trust  Company  in  1907.  He  was  with  that 
company  four  years,  and  was  then  its  sec- 
retary six  years.  Upon  the  reorganization 
and  the  chartering  of  the  First  National 
Bank  he  became  cashier  January  9,  1918. 
He  is  also  a  stockholder  in  the  bank  and 
has  acquired  a  number  of  other  interests 
in  his  native  city. 

In  April,  1908,  at  Newcastle,  Mr.  Davis 
married  Miss  Nellie  Peed,  daughter  of 
Evan  H.  and  Samantha  (Powell)  Peed. 
They  have  a  son,  Evan  R.,  born  in  1909. 
and  a  daughter  born  in  1919.  Mr.  Davis 
is  a  republican,  is  affiliated  with  Newcastle 
Lodge  No.  91,  Ancient  Free  and  Accepted 
Masons,  with  the  Knights  of  Pythias  and 
the  Independent  Order  of  Odd  Fellows  at 
Newcastle,  and  is  a  member  of  the  First 
Methodist  Church.  He  is  public  spirited 
in  every  sense,  alive  to  the  needs  of  his 
community,  and  is  ready  to  respond  with 
helpfulness  when  worthy  enterprises  re- 
quire his  assistance. 

The  N.  P.  Bowsher  Company,  Incorpo- 
rated. One  of  the  manufacturing  concerns 
which  have  contributed  to  the  prestige  and 
importance  of  South  Bend  as  a  center  of 
industrial   activitv  is  the  N.   P.   Bowsher 


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Company,  Inc.,  which  has  been  in  exist- 
ence here  since  1883.  Started  in  that  year 
in  a  modest  manner  by  Nelson  P.  Bowsher, 
it  has  since  grown  and  developed,  so  that 
today  it  occupies  an  important  place  among 
the  business  industries  of  the  flourishing 
community  and  its  products  are  known 
all  over  the  country. 

Nelson  P.  Bowsher  was  born  on  the 
homestead  farm  near  Ligonier,  Indiana, 
March  4,  1845,  and  grew  up  amid  agricul- 
tural scenes.  However,  he  did  not  adopt 
farming  as  his  vocation,  choosing  rather 
the  trade  of  cabinetmaker,  which  he  mas- 
tered at  Ligonier  and  which  he  followed 
at  that  point  until  1871.  In  that  year  he 
came  to  South  Bend  and  entered  the  em- 
ploy of  the  Keedy  &  Loomis  Flour  Mills, 
doing  millwright  work  for  a  year,  and  leav- 
ing that  concern  to  become  connected  with 
Bissell  &  De  Camp,  millwrights  and  ma- 
chinists, with  whom  he  remained  two  years. 
Next  he  became  a  pattern-maker  for  the 
Oliver  Chilled  Plow  Works,  but  after  seven 
years  his  health  failed,  and  he  was  com- 
pelled to  seek  a  change  of  employment. 
While  employed  with  the  last  named  con- 
cern he  had  perfected  a  clever  invention, 
a  speed  indicator,  and  he  now  secured  a 
horse  and  wagon  and  began  traveling 
through  the  country,  selling  the  article. 
During  the  winter  months  he  would  remain 
at  South  Bend  and  manufacture  his 
product,  and  in  the  early  summer  would 
start  out  with  the  completed  articles.  In 
this  way  he  covered  the  country  east  as  far 
as  Albany,  New  York,  and  west  as  far  as 
the  Mississippi  River,  in  addition  to  which 
he  invaded  central  Kentucky  and  West 
Virginia.  At  the  end  of  three  years  of 
this  kind  of  work  Mr.  Bowsher  had  practi- 
cally recovered  his  health,  in  addition  to 
which  he  had  accumulated  sufficient  capital 
with  which  to  buy  out  the  job  machine 
shop  formerly  owned  by  J.  M.  Asire  &  Sons. 
In  that  little  structure  he  started  the  feed 
mill  business  which  has  since  grown  to 
such  large  proportions.  Mr.  Bowsher  soon 
had  the  assistance  of  his  sons  and  the  busi- 
ness developed  gradually,  and  after  twelve 
years  in  his  original  establishment  he  found 
it  necessary  that  he  secure  larger  quarters 
and  accordingly  purchased  the  present  site 
and  some  of  the  buildings  at  the  corner  of 
Sample  and  Webster  streets.  The  land  was 
owned  and  the  first  building  erected  on  it 
by  Schuyler  Colfax,  son  of  our  vice  presi- 


dent with  Grant.  Three  years  after  pur- 
chasing this  property  Mr.  Bowsher  died 
May  21,  1898.  While  he  had  not  lived  out 
man's  full  span  of  years,  he  had  at  least 
survived  to  see  his  business  in  a  prosperous 
and  healthy  condition,  and  to  know  that 
the  labor  to  which  he  had  given  the  best 
years  of  his  life  was  bearing  fruit.  Mr. 
Bowsher  was  a  man  of  the  utmost  integrity 
in  business,  esteemed  alike  by  associates 
and  competitors.  A  republican  in  polities, 
he  did  not  care  for  public  office,  but  was 
willing  to  discharge  the  duties  of  citizen- 
ship. At  one  time  he  gave  three  years  of 
active  service  at  much  sacrifice  to  himself, 
as  a  member  of  the  board  of  trustees  of  the 
water  works.  It  was  under  this  board  that 
South  Bend's  fine  system  of  artesian  water 
supply  was  inaugurated  and  developed. 
At  his  death  his  was  the  first  bequest  tha+ 
founded  the  Building  Fund  of  Epworth 
Hospital,  which  was  then  a  small  institu- 
tion working  in  rented  quarters.  As  a  con- 
sistent Christian  gentleman,  he  belonged 
to  the  First  Methodist  Episcopal  Church 
and  to  the  official  board  thereof.  Frater- 
nally he  was  affiliated  with  South  Bend 
Lodge  No.  29,  Independent  Order  of  Odd 
Fellows.  His  death  occurred  at  his  own 
home,  805  West  Washington  Avenue, 
which  is  now  owned  and  occupied  by  his 
son  D.  D.  Mr.  Bowsher  married  Clarissa 
Hostetter,  who  was  born  March  20,  1841, 
near  Ligonier,  and  died  at  South  Bend  Sep- 
tember 19,  1892,  and  they  had  two  sons: 
D.  D.  and  Jay  C.  Five  years  after  the 
death  of  his  first  wife  Mr.  Bowsher  married 
Miss  Laura  B.  Caskey.  Ten  years  later  she 
was  married  to  Mr.  K.  C.  DeRhodes. 

D.  D.  Bowsher,  president  and  treasurer 
of  the  N.  P.  Bowsher  Company,  Inc.,  was 
born  at  Ligonier  March  26,  1868,  a  son  of 
Nelson  P.  and  Clarissa  (Hostetter)  Bow- 
sher. The  paternal  grandfather,  Boston 
Bowsher,  was  born  in  Virginia,  in  1807, 
and  was  reared  in  the  Old  Dominion  state 
until  a  young  man,  at  which  time  he  re- 
moved with  his  parents  to  Ohio.  After 
spending  some  years  in  the  latter  state  he 
came  as  a  pioneer  to  Indiana,  settling  in 
the  vicinity  of  Ligonier,  where  he  passed 
the  remainder  of  his  life  in  successfully 
pursuing  agricultural  operations.  He  died 
on  the  old  homestead  north  of  Ligonier  in 
1903.  Boston  Bowsher  was  typical  of  the 
class  of  men  who  came  out  from  the  east 
at  an  early  day  to  subdue  the  wilderness, 


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a  man  of  sturdy  and  sterling  traits  of 
character  and  esteemed  by.  all  for  his  in- 
tegrity. He  married  Sophia  Koonce,  also 
a  native  of  Virginia,  who  passed  her  de- 
clining years  on  the  Indiana  farm,  and 
they  had  a  large  family  of  children,  of 
whom  the  following  are  still  living :  Amos, 
who  is  a  retired  farmer  and  resides  at 
Topeka,  Indiana ;  Cephas,  who  is  engaged 
in  farming  in  the  vicinity  of  Monte  Vista, 
Colorado ;  Kate,  who  is  the  wife  of  Chris 
Slabaugh,  who  is  engaged  in  farming  north 
of  Ligonier ;  and  Mary,  who  is  the  wife  of 
Samuel  Giant,  and  lives  south  of  Goshen, 
Indiana,  where  Mr.  Giant  is  engaged  in 
farming. 

John  Hostetter,  the  maternal  grand- 
father, was  born  in  1810,  near  Chillicothe, 
Ohio,  and  was  reared  and  married  in  his 
native  state.  He  was  one  of  the  first  set- 
tlers of  the  northern  part  of  Indiana,  and 
his  eldest  son,  Simon,  was- the  first  white 
child  to  be  born  in  Noble  County,  this  state. 
Mr.  Hostetter  fought  as  a  soldier  during 
the  Black  Hawk  war,  at  the  close  of  which 
he  returned  to  his  farm  near  Ligonier,  and 
there  passed  the  remainder  of  his  life  in 
the  cultivation  of  the  soil,  dying  in  1886, 
full  of  years  and  with  the  respect  and 
esteem  of  his  community.  He  married  Ma- 
hala  Maughemar,  also  a  native  of  Ohio, 
who  died  on  the  Hostetter  homestead  near 
Ligonier,  and  of  their  children  two  are 
still  living:  Clarinda,  a  resident  of  San 
Diego,  California,  the  widow  of  Jacob  L. 
Manning,  who  was  employed  as  a  cabinet 
maker  by  the  Singer  Company  of  South 
Bend  for  a  number  of  years ;  and  A.  G.. 
who  resides  at  Topeka,  Indiana,  and  is  en- 
gaged in  farming. 

D.  D.  Bowsher  was  given  his  educational 
training  in  the  public  schools  of  South 
Bend,  graduating  from  the  high  school 
with  the  class  of  1884.  In  the  year  pre- 
vious his  father  had  embarked  in  business, 
and  the  youth  immediately  joined  his 
energies  with  those  of  the  elder  man  and 
did  much  to  carry  the  concern  along  dur- 
ing the  first  few  difficult  years.  His  ener- 
gies and  attention  have  since  been  wrapped 
up  in  this  enterprise,  of  which  he  and  his 
brother  took  charge  at  the  time  of  their 
father's  death.  The  business  associates  of 
the  Bowsher  brothers  know  them  as  faith- 
ful to  their  engagements  and  of  absolute 
integrity.  They  have  succeeded  in  making 
the  enterprise  of  which  they  are  the  heads 


a  concern  of  excellent  reputation,  strong, 
substantial  and  reliable. 

Politically  Mr.  Bowsher  is  a  republican, 
but  in  important  local  civic  measures  he 
is  not  partisan.  He  belongs  to  the  official 
board  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church, 
and  is  fond  of  association  with  and  the  com- 
panionship of  his  fellows,  being  for  eighteen 
years  a  director  of  the  Young  Men 's  Chris- 
tian Association,  and  a  member  of  the 
Commercial-Athletic  Club,  the  Rotary 
Club,  the  Round  Table,  the  Knife  and  Fork 
Club  and  the  Chamber  of  Commerce.  Mr. 
Bowsher  is  unmarried. 

Jay  C.  Bowsher,  vice  president  of  the  N. 
P.  Bowsher  Company,  and  the  younger  son 
of  Nelson  P.  Bowsher,  was  born  at  South 
Bend  April  17,  1872,  and  received  a  high 
school  education.  Upon  the  completion  of 
his  studies  he  joined  his  father  and  brother 
in  the  feed  mill  business,  and  this  has  occu- 
pied his  attention  to  the  present  time.  He 
is  a  republican  in  politics ;  belongs  to  the 
First  Methodist  Episcopal  Church  and  to 
the  official  board  thereof,  and  holds  mem- 
bership in  the  Young  Men's  Christian  As- 
sociation, the  Knife  and  Fork  Club,  the 
Country  Club  and  the  Chamber  of  Com- 
merce. Mr.  Bowsher  is  one  of  the  live  and 
progressive  business  men  of  the  city,  a  di- 
rector of  South  Bend  National  Bank  and 
takes  an  active  part  in  movements  for  the 
city's  welfare.  Serving  five  years  as  su- 
perintendent of  the  Sunday  school  of  the 
First  Church  he  built  it  up  to  the  second 
largest  in  the  state  in  point  of  attendance 
and  second  to  none  in  the  efficiency  and 
usefulness  of  its  various  departments.  He 
was  married  at  South  Bend  in  1897  to 
Miss  Eva  Spencer,  daughter  of  Edson  and 
Sarah  (Rensberger)  Spencer,  both  of  whom 
are  deceased.  Mr.  Spencer,  who  was  first 
a  farmer,  conducted  a  wood  and  hay  busi- 
ness at  South  Bend  for  a  number  of  years 
prior  to  his  demise.  To  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Bowsher  there  have  been  born  two  chil- 
dren: Nelson  S.,  born  Julv  9,  1903,  and 
Sarah  C,  born  December  27,  1906. 

J.  C.  Bowsher  was  one  of  three  members 
to  whom  the  congregation  of  the  First 
Methodist  Episcopal  Church  entrusted  the 
building  of  their  new  edifice  on  North  Main 
street.  As  secretary  of  this  committee  for 
over  a  year  he  gave  unstintedly  of  his  time 
and  special  abilities  in  looking  after  the 
many  details  connected  with  such  a  sub- 
stantial enterprise. 


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Samuel.  Fred  is  a  successful  Richmond 
merchant  who  began  his  mercantile  career 
in  America  as  a  pack  peddler,  and  has 
promoted  himself  steadily  toward  better 
prosperity  by  hard  work  and  by  making 
his  enlarging  patronage  completely  confi- 
dent of  his  integrity.  He  is  proprietor  of 
the  " Specialty"  store  in  Richmond,  han- 
dling men's  clothing  and  hats. 

He  was  born  at  Lozdzee  in  the  Province 
of  Suwalki,  Russian  Poland,  on  the  Ger- 
man line,  in  1869.     His  parents  were  Solo- 
mon and  Rebecca  A.    (Brams)    Fred,  and 
he  comes  of  a  family  of  merchants.     His 
father    died    January    22,    1905,    and   his 
mother  is  still  living.     His  education  was 
afforded  by  the  private  schools  of  his  na- 
tive land,  and  at  the  age  of  sixteen  he  took 
a   commercial   course   at    Grodno,   Poland, 
and  then  for   four  years  was  bookkeeper 
and   salesman   in   a   textile  mill   at  Lodz. 
He   soon   saw   that   his    opportunities   for 
advancement  were  limited  in  Russia,  and 
determined  to  come  to  America.     On  the 
4th  of  July,  1891,  he  crossed  the  Russian 
boundary  line  with  the  aid  of  a  false  pass- 
port and  on  reaching  America  he  located 
at  Lebanon,  Ohio.    He  invested  his  meager 
capital  in  a  pack  of  notions,  and  for  ten 
years  he  traveled  through  Warren,   Clin- 
ton and  Green  counties,  making  Lebanon 
his  headquarters.    It  was  a  life  that  meant 
constant  hard  work  and  often  meager  re- 
turns, but  he  was  saving  and  thrifty  in  his 
habits,  and  applied  the  capital  that  enabled 
him  to  open  a  permanent  store  at  Dayton, 
Ohio,  where  he  sold  clothing  until   1905. 
After   four  years  as  a  Dayton   merchant 
Mr.  Fred  came  to  Richmond  and  opened 
a  store  of  clothing  and  hats,  and  the  pat- 
ronage   of    that    store    has    been    steadily 
growing  until  the  trade  now  comes  from  a 
distance  of  twenty-five  miles  in  a  radius 
around  Richmond. 

July  19,  1910,  Mr.  Fred  married  Hannah 
Simon,  daughter  of  Mark  Simon  of  Chi- 
cago. They  have  one  son,  Mark  Simon 
Fred,  born  in  1911.  Mr.  Fred  is  well 
known  in  Richmond  and  elsewhere,  is  a 
republican  in  politics,  has  been  affiliated 
since  1895  with  Lebanon  Lodge  No.  26, 
Free  and  Accepted  Masons,  in  Ohio,  is  a 
member  of  the  Scottish  Rite  Consistory  at 
Cincinnati,  and  of  Murat  Temple  of  the 
Mystic  Shrine  at  Indianapolis.  He  is  also 
a  member  of  tbe  Benevolent  and  Protec- 
tive Order  of  Elks,  the  Commercial  Club, 


the  Retail  Merchants  Association  of  Rich- 
mond and  is  a  member  of  the  Jewish  faith. 

Benjamin  Vigran  started  to  make  a 
business  man  of  himself  when  he  was  only 
a  boy  and  learned  the  trade  of  printer, 
but  soon  found  his  proper  field  in  the 
clothing  business,  and  has  steadily  pro- 
gressed from  one  thing  to  another  until  he 
is  now  at  the  head  of  a  prosperous  estab- 
lishment at  Richmond  known  as  Vigran 's 
Lady  Shop,  handling  suits,  ready  to  wear 
and  other  smart  raiment  for  women. 

He  was  born  at  Cincinnati  December  27, 
1890,  a  son  of  Alexander  and  Agnes  Vig- 
ran. He  had  only  the  advantages  of  the 
public  schools,  and  at  the  age  of  fourteen 
had  to  go  to  work  and  make  his  own  living, 
selling  newspapers,  blacking  boots  and  in 
other  employment.  He  also  worked  for  a 
time  at  wages  of  $3  a  week  in  an  electro- 
type and  printing  shop.  For  a  year  and  a 
half  he  was  employed  as  a  stock  boy  in  a 
men's  clothing  establishment,  and  from 
Cincinnati  he  went  to  Connersville,  In- 
diana, and  put  in  six  months  with  a  large 
clothing  and  suit  house.  Out  of  these 
various  experiences  he  had  accumulated 
much  knowledge  of  the  business  and  also 
a  very  modest  capital,  and  with  it  he 
started  the  Vigran  Variety  Store  at  Rush- 
ville,  Indiana,  conducting  it  successfully 
from  1908  to  1913.  He  then  sold  out  and 
bought  a  similar  store  at  Oxford,  Ohio, 
and  continued  it  under  the  same  name  from 
June,  1915,  to  June,  1918.  Mr.  Vigran  has 
been  a  resident  of  Richmond  since  June  18, 
1918,  and  in  a  very  brief  period  of  time 
has  built  up  an  establishment  with  sales 
aggregating  about  $85,000  a  year  and  em- 
ploying twelve  people. 

In  1917  he  married  Nettie  Gershumy, 
daughter  of  Louis  and  Sarah  Gershumy  of 
Covington,  Kentucky.  They  have  one  son, 
Julian  Harold,  born  December  28,  1918. 
Mr.  Vigran  is  independent  in  politics,  vot- 
ing for  the  best  man,  is  a  member  of  the 
Benevolent  and  Protective  Order  of  Elks, 
the  Improved  Order  of  Red  Men,  Phoenix 
Lodge  No.  62,  Free  and  Accepted  Masons, 
and  Modern  AVoodmen  of  America,  and  is 
one  of  the  popular  younger  members  of  the 
business  and  social  community  of  Rich- 
mond. 

C.  Edgar  Elliott.  Among  the  younger 
business  men  who  have  gone  out  from  In- 


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diana  none  has  achieved  more  notable  suc- 
cess than  C.  Edgar  Elliott,  He  was  born 
at  Indianapolis  November  3,  1879,  and  is 
of  Scotch-Irish,  Revolutionary  stock.  His 
grandfather,  William  T.  Elliott,  was  for 
years  a  leading  hotel-keeper  at  Indianap- 
olis, and  was  a  close  friend  of  Governor 
Morton  during  the  Civil  war.  His  father, 
Joseph  Taylor  Elliott,  enlisted  at  the  be- 
ginning of  that  great  struggle  in  Lew  Wal- 
lace's  Eleventh  Indiana  Zouaves,  and,  after 
serving  his  term  re-enlisted  in  the  One 
Hundred  and  Twenty-Fourth  Indiana.  He 
had  the  unfortunate  experience  of  prison 
life  at  Andersonville,  and  was  a  survivor 
of  the  Sultana  disaster,  of  which  he  wrote 
the  vivid  account  published  in  Volume  5 
of  the  Indiana  Historical  Society  Publica- 
tions. After  the  war  he  established  the 
abstract  firm  of  Elliott  &  Butler,  later 
taken  over  by  the  Indiana  Title  and  Guar- 
anty Company,  in  whose  directory  he 
served  until  his  death.  From  1899  to  1904 
he  was  president  of  the  Marion  Trust  Com- 
pany; and  then  founded  the  investment 
banking  firm  of  J.  T.  Elliott  &  Sons,  which 
was  consolidated  in  1912  in  the  firm  of 
Breed,  Elliott  &  Harrison.  On  May  15, 
1867,  he  was  married  to  Annetta  Langs- 
dale,  daughter  of  Joshua  M.  W.  Langsdale, 
an  early  settler  of  Indiana  from  Kentucky, 
and  an  extensive  dealer  in  real  estate. 

Of  this  marriage  C.  Edgar  Elliott  was 
the  third  son.  He  was  educated  in  the 
public  schools  of  Indianapolis,  Wabash 
College  and  Michigan  University.  He  early 
showed  an  aptitude  for  financial  affairs, 
and  on  the  establishment  of  the  firm  of 
Breed,  Elliott  &  Harrison  removed  to  Chi- 
cago, where  he  took  an  active  part  in  the 
enterprises  of  the  firm,  and  was  one  of  the 
organizers  and  on  the  first  board  of  gov- 
ernors of  the  Investment  Bankers  Associa- 
tion. His  firm  negotiated  the  Panama 
Government  Bonds,  and  later,  with  the  firm 
of  P.  W.  Chapman  &  Company  of  New 
York  and  Chicago,  took  on  the  Haytian 
Government  Bonds.  In  the  investigation 
connected  with  the  latter  their  attention 
was  drawn  to  the  public  utilities  of  Hayti, 
and  its  agricultural  possibilities.  The  Cen- 
tral Railroad  Company  of  Hayti  applied 
to  them  for  a  loan  of  $300,000,"  which  was 
made  on  a  year's  option  to  take  over  their 
property  and  merge  it  with  a  sugar  com- 
pany. The  year  was  passed  in  examination 
of  every  phase  of  the  matter,  with  the  re- 


sult that  the  Haytian  American  Company 
was  formed,  taking  all  of  the  property  and 
assets  of  the  Central  Railroad  Company, 
and  adding  20,000  acres  of  the  best  sugar 
lands  in  the  island.  To  the  financing  and 
development  of  this  enterprise  Mr.  Elliott 
has  since  given  his  attention,  and  in  1917 
was  made  chairman  of  the  board  of  direc- 
tors and  of  the  executive  committee  of  the 
Haytian  American  Sugar  Company.  To 
understand  this  position  it  is  necessary  to 
consider  the  surroundings. 

The  Island  of  Hayti  is  the  second  largest 
of  the  Antilles,  110  by  190  miles  in  extent 
or  one-fourth  the  size  of  Cuba  and  nearly 
three  times  as  large  as  Porto  Rico.  The 
Republic  of  Hayti  occupies  the  western 
one-third  of  the  island,  with  an  area  of 
10,204  square  miles,  and  a  population  of 
2,500,000,  being  the  most  densely  popu- 
lated of  the  Antilles  with  the  exception  of 
Porto  Rico.  In  the  eighteenth  century  it 
was  a  French  colony,  and  until  the  French 
Revolution  was  very  prosperous  and 
wealthy.  It  had  some  7,000  plantations,  on 
which  sugar,  indigo,  cotton,  coffee  and  co- 
coa were  produced  in  large  quantities,  the 
exports  in  1791  amounting  to  $80,000,000. 
Insurrection  came  with  the  revolution, 
and  independence  in  1804,  but  since  that 
time,  until  the  American  intervention  in 
1915,  the  island  was  convulsed  with  rev- 
olutions, which  paralyzed  agriculture,  de- 
stroyed trade,  and  prevented  the  investment 
of  capital.  By  the  treaty  of  September 
16,  1915,  the  United  States  established  a 
financial  and  police  protectorate  over  the 
Republic  of  Hayti,  under  which  the  United 
States  collects  and  applies  the  customs, 
provides  officers  for  the  native  constabu- 
lary, and  supervises  sanitation  and  public 
improvements.  Under  this  arrangement 
prosperity  is  rapidly  returning,  the  im- 
ports of  the  Republic  having  doubled  in 
the  first  year. 

In  1899  the  Central  Railroad  Company 
obtained  a  concession  to  build  a  railroad 
from  Port  au  Prince  through  the  Valley 
of  Cul  de  Sac,  and  later  through  that  of 
Leogane,  giving  it  a  monopoly  of  trans- 
portation through  the  richest  and  most 
populous  portions  of  the  republic.  It  next 
acquired  the  tramways,  or  street  railroads, 
and  electric  light  plants  of  Port  au  Prince 
and  Cap  Haytien,  the  two  largest  cities  of 
the  republic.  Port  au  Prince,  the  capital, 
has  100,000  population,  and  Cap  Haytien 


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30,000.  It  also  constructed  an  up-to-date 
concrete  wharf  at  Port  au  Prince,  half  a 
mile  long,  and  fitted  with  modern  ware- 
house and  freight-handling  facilities.  The 
investment  in  these  utilities  amounted  to 
$4,500,000,  and  the  debts  based  on  them, 
amounting  to  $2,300,000,  have  been  ac- 
quired by  the  Haytian  American  Corpora- 
tion, the  interest  on  these  obligations  being 
covered  by  government  pledges,  out  of  rev- 
enues administered  by  the  United  States. 
To  this  has  been  added  an  investment  of 
$3,200,000  in  sugar  lands  and  improve- 
ments. On  this  investment  of  $7,700,000 
there  is  a  capitalization  of  $6,000,000  of 
7  per  cent  preferred  stock,  of  which  $500,- 
000  is  held  for  treasury  purposes. 

Owing  to  the  existing  political  and  social 
conditions  the  sugar  lands,  which  are 
ranked  by  experts  among  the  best  in  the 
"Western  Hemisphere,  were  obtained  at  less 
than  one-third  the  cost  of  similar  lands  in 
Cuba.  They  will  average  a  product  of  over 
twenty-five  tons  of  cane  to  the  acre.  For 
the  same  reasons  wages  are  only  one-eighth 
of  those  in  Cuba — and  labor  is  three- 
fourths  of  the  cost  of  sugar  production. 
The  minimum  earnings  of  the  public  utili- 
ties above  named  are  $385,000,  and  the 
estimated  minimum  earnings  on  sugar  for 
the  first  year  are  $420,000  (sugar  taken  at 
2  cents  a  pound,  or  less  than  one  half  the 
present  price),  so  that  a  handsome  profit 
will  remain  to  the  owners  of  the  common 
stock.  The  company  cannot  create  any  ad- 
ditional debt  without  the  consent  of  sev- 
enty-five per  cent  of  the  preferred  shares. 
As  the  company  is  backed  by  large  capital, 
and  its  work  in  every  department  is  in  the 
hands  of  known  experts,  its  prosperous 
future  is  apparently  certain,  for  there  is 
no  reason  why  Hayti  should  not  wax  pros- 
perous under  the  protection  of  the  United 
States,  just  as  Porto  Rico  and  Cuba  have 
done. 

Mr.  Elliott  was  united  in  marriage  on 
June  8,  1905,  with  Miss  Gladys  Wynn, 
daughter  of  Wilbur  S.  and  Kate  S.  Wynn. 
Her  father  was  widely  known  as  the 
founder  of  the  State  Life  Insurance  Com- 
pany of  Indianapolis,  of  which  he  was 
vice  president  and  actuary  until  his  death. 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Elliott  attend  the  Episco- 
palian Church.  He.  is  a  member  of  the 
University  Club  of  Indianapolis,  and  of 
the  University  and  Mid  Day  clubs  of  Chi- 
cago.    He   is  a   director   of  the  Advance 


Rumley  Company,  and  the  Indianapolis, 
Crawfordsville  &  Danville  Railway  Com- 
pany. In  the  organization  of  the  extensive 
Haytian  enterprises,  in  which  the  banking 
firm  of  Breed,  Elliott  &  Harrison  is  heavily 
interested,  he  is  a  director  of  the  Haytian 
American  Corporation,  the  Haytian  Amer- 
ican Sugar  Company,  the  Compagnie  Hai- 
tienne  du  Wharf  de  Port  au  Prince,  the 
Compagnie  d'Eclairage  Electrique  des 
Villes  de  Port  au  Prince,  and  the  Com- 
pagnie des  Chemins  de  Fer  da  la  Plaine  de 
Cul  de  Sac.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Beta 
Theta  Psi  college  fraternity.  He  has  al- 
ways been  an  active  republican,  and  in 
19^2  was  a  member  of  the  Republican 
State  Finance  Committee  of  Indiana. 

Louis  M.  Hammerschmidt.  As  a  rule 
it  is  a  somewhat  perilous  undertaking  to 
make  a  definite  estimate  of  the  qualities 
of  a  man  while  his  career  is  in  the  making 
and  before  he  has  lived  fully  and  com- 
pletely his  life. 

But  one  who  has  known  him  intimately 
can  speak  with  assurance  of  Louis  M. 
Hammerschmidt,  because  he  has  those 
foundations  of  character  we  recognize  as 
enduring,  and  we  can  be  sure  that  as  he 
is  today  so  will  he  be  to  the  end.  It  is 
these  qualities  that  account  for  his  rapid 
rise  in  the  profession  of  his  choice,  the 
law,  and  which  have  made  him  so  promi- 
nent a  factor  in  the  civic  life  of  his  com- 
munity. 

Mr.  Hammerschmidt  was  born  in  New 
Albany,  Indiana,  October  10,  1880.  His 
mother  was  born  in  the  same  city.  His 
father,  Louis  Hammerschmidt,  and  his 
grandfather,  Karl  Hammerschmidt,  were 
both  born  in  Marheim,  Rhenish  Bavaria, 
Germany.  His  grandfather,  like  many  of 
the  southern  Germans,  belonged  to  that 
group  of  progressive,  far-seeing  men  which 
identified  itself  with  the  revolutionary 
cause  that  culminated  in  1848,  and  which 
represented  the  flower  and  democratic 
spirit  of  the  country.  Kai'l  Hammer- 
schmidt was  one  of  the  thousands  who  when 
the  revolution  failed  and  the  reactionary 
spirit  prevailed  left  his  native  land  and 
came  to  America.  He  spent  the  remainder 
of  his  life  at  New  Albany. 

Louis  Hammerschmidt,  Sr.,  was  but  two 
years  old  when  he  came  to  this  country, 
and  the  only  knowledge  he  had  of  the 
land  of  his  birth  was  what  was  told  him, 


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and  so  thoroughly  did  he  become  imbued 
with  American  life  and  spirit  that  he  de- 
clined to  use  the  German  language  in  his 
home  or  to  permit  his  children  to  learn  to 
speak  or  read  the  language.  He  himself 
received  his  schooling  in  New  Albany  and 
later  established  the  "Hammersmith 
Transfer"  business  between  New  Albany 
and  Louisville,  Kentucky.  He  built  up 
this  enterprise  until  it  became  the  largest 
business  of  its  kind  in  the  state.  Before 
his  death  the  business  was  incorporated 
and  his  son  Charles  is  now  president  of  the 
company,  while  Louis  M.  Hammerschmidt 
is  a  director. 

Mr.  Hammerschmidt  received  his  pri- 
mary education  in  the  New  Albany  schools 
and  was  expected  to  enter  his  father 's  busi- 
ness. But  he  had  determined  to  become  a 
lawyer,  and  with  native  independence  de- 
cided to  earn  his  way  through  college.  He 
worked  in  his  father's  business  and  also 
attended  the  Law  School  of  the  University 
of  Louisville,  from  which  institution  he 
was  graduated  iu  1905.  In  the  same  year 
he  was  admitted  to  the  bar  of  Floyd  Coun- 
ty, Indiana.  But  he  was  not  satisfied  with 
this  educational  equipment  and  determined 
to  secure  a  degree  from  the  University  of 
Michigan.  At  great  sacrifice  he  realized 
his  ambition  and  was  graduated  from  the 
University  with  the  LL.  B.  degree  in  1907, 
and  then  spent  another  year  in  school  in 
post  graduate  study  and  research  work  in 
history,  economics  and  English. 

With  this  liberal  education  and  the  char- 
acter developed  by  the  effort  required  to 
get  it,  Mr.  Hammerschmidt  began  practice 
in  South  Bend  in  the  fall  of  1908,  and  is 
now  one  of  the  thoroughly  successful  law- 
yers, with  also  a  record  as  one  of  the  most 
active  and  useful  citizens. 

With  the  law  as  his  vocation  Mr.  Ham- 
merschmidt has  made  the  promotion  of  the 
general  welfare  of  his  community  his  avo- 
cation. He  has  had  the  vision  to  see,  and 
the  character  to  decide,  that  if  his  life  was 
to  be  full  and  complete  a  liberal  share  of 
his  time  and  talents  must  be  devoted  to 
the  public  good.  He  has  therefore  been 
an  efficient  leader  in  every  movement  af- 
fecting his  city's  welfare,  as  well  as  in 
patriotic  endeavors  to  promote  the  prog- 
ress of  his  state  and  country. 

One  of  his  notable  local  achievements 
was  the  building  up  of  the  Community 
Center  and  Playground  System  of  South 


Bend.  With  the  writer  he  founded  this 
project  and  after  its  early  beginning  was, 
owing  to  circumstances  which  arose,  re- 
quired to  carry  on  and  develop  the  work 
largely  alone.  As  a  result  of  his  efforts 
and  that  of  helpers  he  was  later  enabled 
to  inspire,  he  was  able  to  create  a  co-ordi- 
nated community  center  and  recreational 
system  now  acknowledged  as  one  of  the 
most  successful  developments  of  its  kind 
in  the  United  States.  He  became  the  first 
chairman  of  the  Municipal  Eecreation  Com- 
mittee, and  has  continued  in  this  position 
for  the  past  six  years. 

Progressive  in  his  ideals,  actuated  al- 
ways by  democratic  methods,  unselfish  in 
his  service,  he  can,  and  we  are  sure  always 
will,  be  depended  upon  for  that  standard 
of  leadership  that  marks  the  highest  type 
of  American  citizenship. 

Mr.  Hammerschmidt  served  as  judge  of 
the  City  Court  of  South  Bend  from  Oc- 
tober, 1916,  to  January,  1918,  establish- 
ing the  present  successful  probation  sys- 
tem of  the  court.  During  the  war  he  was 
officially  connected  with  the  local  Liberty 
Bond  sales ;  was  district  chairman  of  the 
Thirteenth  Congressional  District  for  the 
sale  of  War  Savings  Stamps  and  a  mem- 
ber of  the  finance  committee  and  attorney 
of  the  County  Chapter  of  the  Red  Cross. 
He  is  a  director  in  several  local  corpora- 
tions, is  now  entering  upon  his  fourth  year 
as  international  trustee  of  the  Kiwanis 
Club  and  international  director  of  the 
South  .  Bend  Club,  is  vice  president  of 
the  University  Club,  a  member  and  for- 
mer director  of  the  Chamber  of  Commerce, 
a  member  of  the  Knife  and  Fork  Club 
and  the  Round  Table,  and  fraternally 
is  affiliated  with  St.  Joseph  Lodge, 
No.  45,  Free  and  Accepted  Masons,  South 
Bend  Chapter  No.  29,  Royal  Arch  Masons, 
South  Bend  Council  No.  82,  Royal  and 
Select  Masters,  and  South  Bend  Com- 
mandery  No.  13,  Knights  Templar. 

Mr.  Hammerschmidt  and  wife  are  ac- 
tive members  of  the  Evangelical  Church. 
He  is  vice  president  of  the  South  Bend 
Sunday  School  Association. 

Politically  he  is  a  democrat  and  has 
served  as  a  member  of  both  city  and  coun- 
ty democratic  executive  committees.  He 
is  a  forceful  and  effective  speaker,  and 
one  likely  to  be  heard  in  any  cause  which 
affects  the  public  welfare. 

In   1909   he   married   Miss   Emma  Bor- 


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gerding.  Mrs.  Hammerschmidt  is  a  na-  city  and  is  president  of  the  Mutual  Trust 
tive  of  New  Albany,  Indiana,  a  daughter  and  Deposit  Company.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Ham- 
of  George  and  Mary  Borgerding.  Her  merschmidt  have  three  children,  George, 
father  has  been  a  conspicuous  factor  in  the  Martha  and  Bruce,  and  reside  in  a  pleasant 
banking  and  other  business  affairs  of  his      home  on  Riverside  Drive. 

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