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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 V
THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY
CHICAGO AND NEW YORK
1919
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Copyright, 1919
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THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY
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Col. Nicholas Handle Ruckle, who
died May 4, 1900, was widely known and
beloved in his home city of Indianapolis
and throughout the state. He had an un-
usual career, was a distinguished soldier
and officer of the Union Army during the
Civil war, filled many positions with credit
and efficiency in public affairs, and his
name is intimately identified with the
newspaper history of Indianapolis.
He was born at Baltimore, Maryland,
May 8, 1838. His grandfather came to
the United States from Ireland, and spent
the rest of his life in Maryland. Nicholas
Ruckle, father of Colonel Ruckle, was born
in Maryland, was a tailor by trade, and
an early settler in Indianapolis, where for
many years he conducted a tailoring es-
tablishment. He finally retired and sev-
eral years before his death removed to
Brookfield, Indiana, where he died at the
age of sixty-five, his wife surviving him
for several years. Both were active mem-
bers of the Methodist Chiu-ch. Their four
children were : Col. Nicholas R. ; John F.,
who was killed at the battle of Shiloh,
Avhile a member of the Eleventh Indiana
Regiment; Eliza, wife of Josiah Gwin, of
New Albany, Indiana; and Kate C.
Nicholas R. Ruckle was nine years old
when his parents came to Indianapolis in
1847. In July, 1852, he removed to In-
dianapolis, and he finished his education in
a private school conducted by Rev. Charles
S. Greene. In May, 1853, "^at the age of
fifteen, he entered the composing room of
the old Indianapolis Journal as an appren-
tice. He worked diligently at the case,
and acciuii-ed a good knowledge of the
printing trade and also some skill in gen-
eral newspaper work. He also became in-
terested in local affairs, and was a member
of the old volunteer fire department and
of an independent militia company at the
time of the Civil war.
His militia company was the first per-
manent organization to enter Camp Mor-
ton. Colonel Ruckle became a member of
the famous Indiana Zouaves, known as the
Eleventh Regiment of Infantiy, com-
manded by Col. Lew Wallace. With his
command he saw his first real service in
the West Virginia campaign, and he fin-
ally re-enlisted for three years. Colonel
Ruckle's military record covered the en-
tire period of the Civil war, from April,
1861, to October, 1865. His performance of
duty and his fidelity brought him one pro-
motion after another, and he rose from the
ranks to sergeant, orderly sergeant, lieu-
tenant and captain, and finally for brav-
ery was made colonel of the One Hundred
and Forty-eighth Indiana Infantry. He
was present at the siege of Forts Henry
and Donelson, Shiloh and Corinth, was
with General Curtis and the Trans-Missis-
sippi Army in the Arkansas campaign of
1862, was present in the Vicksburg cam-
paign, was with General Sherman when
the latter made his attack on Gen. Joseph
Johnston at Jackson, participated in the
ill-fated Banks campaign up the Red river
in 1863, and in many other operations
through Louisiana. He and his comrades
were then transferred to the eastern the-
ater of the war, and he was in Sheridan's
campaign through the Shenandoah Valley
of 1864, fighting at Winchester and Cedar
Creek, at Halltown, at Fisher's Hill, and
in other battles and engagements. For a
time he was in the Department of the Cum-
berland as commander of the second sub-
district of ^liddle Tennessee.
The war over. Captain Ruckle returned
to Indianapolis and gained many distinc-
tions in civil life. He served as sheriff of
Marion County for two terms from 1870
to 1874. In 1887-88 he was president of
the Metropolitan Police Commissioners
Board of Indianapolis, was ad.iutant gen-
eral of Indiana for two tenns from Janu-
ary, 1889, and in 1894-95 served on the
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Board of Public Safety under Mayor
Denny.. In 1877 he organized a Light In-
fantry Company at Indianapolis, and was
elected its captain.
After the war his interests soon led him
back into the field of journalism, and in
the spring of 1874 he secured a controlling
interest in the Indianapolis Journal Com-
pany. At that time besides publishing
the Journal the plant conducted a general
printing and publishing house. Many mis-
fortunes befell the business after Colonel
Ruckle took control. There were fires and
other losses, and then as a result of the
hard times of the '70s he lost practically
his entire fortune. "With a man of his iron
nerve and determination that did not deter
him from a career of vigorous activity
throughout his remaining years.
Every honor of Masonry was given him
as a recognition of his love to the frater-
nity and the affection of the craft for him.
He was made a Master ^Mason in Center
Lodge No. 23 in 1866, and in 1871 was
worshipful master of that lodge. He was
later master of Pentalpha Lodge, No. 564.
In 1867 he was exalted in the Keystone
Chapter and in 1886 served as High Priest.
He was knighted by Raper Commandery
No. 1, Knights Templar in 1867, and
served as eminent commander from 1872 to
1876 and again in 1880. He was also cap-
tain general of Raper Commandery for sev-
eral years. In the Scottish Rite he received
the thirty-second degree in 1867 and the
honorary thirty-third in 1870. He passed
the active grade in 1883 and the following
year was appointed deputy of the supreme
lodge for the District of Indiana, a posi-
tion he held until death. He was grand
commander of the Indiana Knights Tem-
plar in 1875 and grand master of the ]Ma-
sons in 1891. His body was laid to rest in
Crown Hill Cemetery after imposing cere-
monies by the York and Scottish Rite
Masons, and the Episcopal Church.
February 24, 1876, Colonel Ruckle mar-
ried Mrs. Jennie C. (Moore) Reid. Mrs.
Ruckle is a daughter of Addison and Susan
(Dulhagen) Moore, who came of New York
State families of Revolutionary stock.
Colonel Ruckle had one child, Corliss Ran-
dle Ruckle, who died at the age of twelve
years. Mrs. Ruckle is a member of St.
Paul's Episcopal Church. Colonel Ruckle
was not identified with any church denomi-
nation, })ut usually attended wor.ship with
his wife.
Ward H. De.\n was one of the men who
contributed to the position of Indianapolis
as an industrial and manufacturing center
of Indiana. Though his life was compara-
tively brief and he was only fifty years
of age at the time of his death, he had
become widely known in business circles,
and was a citizen who commanded uni-
versal esteem, in Indianapolis.
He was born November 22, 1850, at
Deansville, New York, a village that was
named in honor of his grandfather, the
Dean family being very prominent in that
section of the Empire state. Mr. Dean's
parents were John and Harriet (Peck)
Dean, he being one of their eight children,
five sons and three daughters.
Ward H. Dean had a good practical edu-
cation, and his early bent was toward me-
chanical pursuits. Coming to Indianapolis
in 1870, he became one of the founders
and partners in the Dean Brothers Steam
Pump Works, and to this business, its up-
building, maintenance and expansion he
gave the best years of his life. He died
at Indianapolis January 3, 1900.
Outside of business his chief interests
were concentrated in his home. He was a
man of quiet and reserved character, and
of simple but cultivated tastes. He was
a member of the Contemporary Club and
of the Indianapolis Art Association, and
in politics a republican.
April 15, 1885, he married Nellie M.
Reid. Mrs. Dean, who survives him, has
three children: Randle C, Harriet and
Philip, the last being deceased.
P.' E. Hoss has lived in Indiana over
eighty years, as a business man has been
identified with a number of different locali-
ties, and his name is especially well known
and his services appreciated in Kokomo,
where he has lived for many years.
He was born in Brown County, Ohio,
January 13, 1836, but the same year his
parents, Jacob and Jane (Kenney) Hoss,
moved to Marion County, Indiana, and as
pioneers settled on a tract of raw land
twelve miles northeast of Indianapolis.
Jacob Hoss did his part in developing a
new section of the state, hewed a home
out of the heavy timbers, and year after
year added to ins clearing and building
until he had a very valuable farm. lie
lived in ]\Iarion County until 1864, then
• moved to Howard County, and thence back
to Indianapolis in 1874, ^vhere he lived un-
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til his death in September, 1882. He was
a democrat in politics until the latter '50s,
when he felt that duty obliged him to vote
with and support the republican party, and
as such he continued to the day of his death.
He was also a devout Methodist, a class
leader, and faithful in church work from
early life. He and his wife had ten chil-
dren, P. E. being the sixth.
Mr. Hoss lived at home with' his parents
to the age of twenty -two, growing up in a
rural community northeast of Indianapolis.
He was a young man when the North and
South engaged in Civil war and he tried
to enlist in 1861 but was rejected on ac-
count of physical disability. He was en-
gaged from March 4, 1861, at Fairfield,
Howard Count}', Indiana, as a shingle
manufacturer, continuing that industry
ten years, and also selling goods as a mer-
chant and dealing in real estate. Mr. Hoss
has been peculiarly successful in handling
real estate, and has bought and sold many
properties on his own account. From
Fairfield he removed to Indianapolis, con-
tinuing in the real estate business in that
city three .years, also building many houses
there, and was there engaged in farming
in Howard County for two years, later con-
ducted a large stock and sheep ranch in
Hendricks County, and finally settled per-
manently in Kokomo. Here for many
years he directed large and important
deals in real estate, and has owned some
very valuable farms around Kokomo. His
property includes his beautiful residence in
that city. His capital and enterprise have
also helped out a number of business in-
dustries at Kokomo. ilr. Hoss is presi-
dent of the Opalescent Glass Company, a
stockholder and for over twenty-five years
one of the directors in the Citizens National
Bank, and has done much to boost Kokomo
as a manufacturing center. He served as
trustee of the Soldiers Orphans Home at
Knightstown for a time in the early '80s.
Only recently on account of ill health he
gave up most of his active business inter-
ests. He is a member of the Congrega-
tional Church and in politics a republican.
April 4, 1858, ]Mr. Hoss man-ied Miss
Sarah J. Ringer. They had one son, Lora
C, who is now secretary and treasurer of
the Opalescent Glass Company. In 1896,
on April 28th, Mr. Hoss married Flora A.
Smith, of Piqua, Ohio. Lora C. Hoss
married Estella E. Bernard on October 3,
1883, and they have one daughter, Pauline,
who married Don T. Elliott. Mr. and Mrs.
Elliott have one child, Sally, bom in Feb-
ruary, 1918.
B. A. WoRTHiNGTON is One of the names
most significant of personal achievement
among American railway men. He was
thirteen years old when he began working
in the telegraph department of a California
road, and by ability and service has pro-
moted himself successively during an ac-
tive career of over forty years until he has
held some of the highest executive posts
in the country. Mr. Worthington is
claimed to Indiana citizenship by reason
of the fact that he is president of the
Cincinnati, Indianapolis and Western Rail-
road Company with general offices at In-
dianapolis.
The career of Mr. Worthington, briefly
recited, is as follows : He was born Novem-
ber 20, 1861, at Sacramento, California,
and his education was acquired in the pub-
lic schools of that city. July 1, 1874,
he became telegraph messenger for the
Central Pacific at Sacramento and was soon
made telegraph operator. From 1877 to
1882 he was a commercial operator for the
Western Union Telegraph Company ; from
1882 to 1888 was chief clerk and secre-
tary to the general master mechanic of
the Southern Pacific Company at Sacra-
mento ; from 1888 to July, 1895, was chief
clerk and secretary to vice president and
general manager of the Southern Pacific
at San Francisco; and from July, 1895,
to 1898 was chief clerk and secretary to
the assistant to the president. Mr. Worth-
ington spent altogether over thirty years
with the Southern Pacific Railway Com-
pany. From 1898 to July, 1901, he was
in charge of tonnage rating of locomotives
of that road; from July to October, 1901,
was superintendent of the Tucson divi-
sion at Tucson, Arizona, from October,
1901, to August 20, 1903, was superin-
tendent of the Coast Division at San Fran-
cisco, and from August 20, 1903, to April
1. 1904, was assistant to the general man-
ager of the company at San Francisco.
From April 1, 1904, to February 9, 1905,
Mr. Worthington was assistant director of
maintenance and operation for the Harri-
man lines, comprising the Southern Pacific
and Union Pacific systems. Then for the
first time his office headquarters were
transferred east of the Rocky Mountains
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to Chicago. From February 9 to June 1,
1905, he was vice president and general
manager of the Oregon Kailroad & Navi-
gation Company.
Since that date his chief connections
have been with railroad systems in the
]\Iiddle West. From June 1, 1905, to June
8, 1908, he was first vice president of the
Wheeling & Lake Erie Railway, of the Wa-
bash, Pittsburg Terminal Railway, and the
West Side Belt Railroad, comprising the
Wabash lines east of Toledo. From Sep-
tember 25, 1905, to June 8, 1908, he was
general manager of the same properties,
and from June 8, 1908, to June 20, 1912,
was receiver for the Wheeling & Lake
Erie. On July 1, 1912, Mr. Worthington
became president and general manager of
the Chicago & Alton road, but resigned
that office early in 1914.
Following his resignation he and his
family went abroad and toured Europe for
four months. They were in Germany
when the great war broke out. On reach-
ing London ilr. Worthington was ap-
pointed as a member of the American Ex-
ecutive Committee, with Oscar Strauss as
chairman, formed for the purpose of help-
ing stranded Americans to get out of Eu-
rope and back to their homes. The splen-
did work accomplished by that organiza-
tion is still fresh in the minds of all Amer-
icans. On his return to New York Mr.
Worthington lived on Riverside Drive for
a year, and then came to Indianapolis as
president of the reorganized Cincinnati.
Indianapolis & Western Railroad. He
took active charge of this road December
1, 1915.
In Indianapolis as elsewhere Mr. Worth-
ington has established vital relationships
with the conamunit.y. Much of his work
has been done through the Chamber of
Commerce. During 1917 he was chairman
of the industries committee of that cham-
ber and early in 1918 was elected a mem-
ber of the board of directors and is still
retained as chairman of the industries
committee.
. Mr. Worthington has a younger brother,
William Alfred Worthington, whose ca-
reer may properly be reviewed briefly as
that of one of the prominent railway men
of the country. He was born June 18,
1872, at Vallejo, California, was educated
in the common schools and entered rail-
way service March 1, 1887, at the age of
fifteen. He was stenographer and clerk
in the superintendent's office of the South-
ern Pacific Company at Sacramento to
June 16, 1888, from that date to October
1, 1893, was chief clerk to the engineer of
maintenance of way at San Francisco;
from October 1, 1893, to October 1, 1895,
was statistician in the general manager's
office; from October 1, 1895, to October 1,
1901, was chief clerk in the general man-
ager's office; from October 1, 1901, to
April 1, 1904, was executive secretary to
the assistant of the president of the same
road; from April 1, 1904, to November 1,
1907, was chief clerk in the office of di-
rector of maintenance and operation of the
Union Pacific System and Southern Pa-
cific Company at Chicago; from November
1, 1907, to January 1, 1912, was assistant
to director of maintenance and operation
of the same roads at Chicago; from Jan-
uary 1, 1912, to February 1, 1913, was as-
sistant director of maintenance and oper-
ation for the Union Pacific System and
Southern Pacific Company at New York;
and since February 1, 1913, has been as-
sistant director of maintenance and opera-
tion for the Southern Pacific Company
with offices in New York.
The Americanism of the Worthington
family is the product of many generations
of residence in this country, from colonial
times. In public afi'airs the most distin-
guished member of the family was the
great-grandfather of B. A. Worthington.
This ancestor was Thomas Worthington,
who twice represented the young State of
Ohio in the United States Senate and was
also governor of that commonwealth, and
is one of the men most frequently and hon-
orably mentioned in connection with the
founding of that state.
Thomas Worthington was born in Jef-
ferson County, Virginia, July 16, 1773.
He was reared in the midst of the aristo-
cratic and slave holding environment of
that old colony, and it was his exceeding
distaste for the institution of slavery that
led him to seek a home in a district from
which slavery was permanently barred,
and thus about 1797 he moved to the
Northwest Territory and located in Ross
County, Ohio, near Chillicothe. He was
a brother-in-law of Edward Tiffin, who was
the first governor of the State of Ohio.
The Tiffins and Worthington families were
among the most prominent in the early
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colony of the old territorial and state cap-
ital at Chillicothe. Governor Worthing-
ton built one of the rare old homes near
Chillicothe, a place beautified much after
the manner of Virginia estates, and in
which were entertained some of the great-
est men of the times. Thomas Worthing-
ton brought with him from Virginia a large
number of slaves whom he emancipated,
and some of their descendants are still
found in Chillicothe. Thomas Worthing-
ton has been described as a man of ardent
temperament, of energy of mind, and cor-
rect habits of life, and for this reason be-
came distinguished both in business and
political stations. In a recently published
history of Ross County his name is men-
tioned" repeatedly in connection with the
founding of several government institu-
tions in that part of the Northwest Terri-
tory. He was one of the first justices of
the peace of the Chillicothe settlement.
In November, 1802, he took his seat as an
elected delegate to the convention which
formed the first constitution, and after
that constitution was approved and Ohio
entered the Union he was one of the first
two men sent by the state to the United
States Senate. He was a member of the
Senate from April 1, 1803, to March 3,
1807, and was again elected to fill the
vacancy caused by the resignation of Re-
turn J. ileigs, Jr., and served from Decem-
ber 15, 1810, to December 1, 181'4, when
he resigned. While in the Senate he was
a participant in the most important meas-
ures of the administrations of Jefferson
and Madison. At the close of his career in
Congress he was elected governor of Ohio,
serving from 1814 to 1818. That was an
important epoch in the history of the state,
following close upon the War of 1812, and
his wisdom and ability as an administrator
were productive of many liberal and wise
measures of policy which were at the
foundation of the subsequent prosperity
of the state. In 1818 Governor Worthing-
ton was appointed a member of the first
Board of Canal Commissioners, a body
that undertook the development of a sys-
tem of internal transportation for the
state. He was a member of that commis-
sion until his death, which occurred in New
York City June 20, 1827. Governor Worth-
ington was a large land holder, had many
extended business concerns, but is best re-
membered for the six years he spent in
public life, during which time no other
Ohioan did more to form the character of
the state and promote its prosperity.
John Harrison Skinner. Only a few
of the most remote and unprogressive
farming sections of Indiana are unac-
quainted with the name John Harrison
Skinner and what it stands for in the mat-
ter of scientific agriculture and improved
live stock in the state. Every year an in-
creasing number of men have gone back
to the farms of Indiana after long and
short courses at Purdue University, taking
with them some of the vital ideas, knowl-
edge, experience, and inspiration gained by
contact with Professor Skinner, who for
years has ranked as one of the foremost
educators and animal husbandrymen in
the middle west.
He was born on a farm at Romney in
Tippecanoe County, Indiana, ilarch 10,
1874. He is a product of Indiana farm
life and has the sympathy and understand-
ing of the man who was reared under the
agricultural conditions prevailing thirty
or fort.y years ago. He is a son of Wil-
liam Harrison and Mary (Alexander)
Skinner. His father, a native of Franklin
County, Indiana, located in Tippecanoe
County during the '60s. In 1861 he en-
listed in a company of the Thirty-Seventh
Indiana Infantry, and served three years
as a Union soldier. For more than forty
years he has owned and operated one of
the good farms and countrj' homes near
Romney. His wife was born in Greene
County, Tennessee. They had five chil-
dren: Mary A. Simison, of Romney; Ger-
trude B. Ray, of New Richmond, Indiana;
Jessie, who died when young; George A.,
an architect of ability, who met an acci-
dental death in August, 1909, by coming
in contact with an electric wire; and John
Harrison Skinner.
John Harrison Skinner was educated in
the local district schools and in 1893 en-
tered Purdue University, where he first
took the Winter Short Course. He com-
pleted the four year course in agriculture,
receiving the degree of Bachelor of Science
in 1897. It ma.v be said that he had
served his full apprenticeship in the fields
and among the live stock on his father's
farm while growing to manhood, and the
two and a half years after graduating
from college which he spent managing his
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father's grain and stock farm were really
in the nature of a journeyman's work at
his trade or profession. With this prac-
tical knowledge and experience he returned
to Purdue University and in 1899 was as-
signed to duties as assistant agriculturist
in the experiment station. He remained
there until the fall of 1901, when he was
called to the Uuivei-sity of Illinois as in-
structor in animal husbandry for the year
1901-02. From 1902 to 1906 he was chief
of the department and associate professor
of animal husbandry and director of the
farm at Purdue University, and in 1906
he was made professor of animal hus-
bandry. In 1907 he was appointed Dean
of the School of Agriculture, serving in
that capacity until the present date. Pro-
fessor Skinner is a member of the Ameri-
can Breeders Association, the Society for
the Promotion of Agricultural Science,
and has served as secretary of the Indiana
Live Stock Breeders' Association, which
he organized in 1905. He was also instru-
mental in organizing the Indiana Cattle
Feeders' Association, the Indiana Draft
Horse Breeders' Association, which organ-
izations he has served as secretary. He
was judge of sheep at the Louisiana Pur-
chase Exposition in 1904, was judge of
Rambouillet sheep at the International Live
Stock Show in 1906 and 1907, and was
judge of Aberdeen-Angus cattle at the In-
ternational in 1907, and is rated as one of
the foremost all rouncj livestock judges in
America.
He is a member of the Methodist Church,
is a Master ]\Iason, being affiliated with
Romney Lodge No. 441, Ancient Free and
Accepted Masons, Urbana Chapter No. 80,
Royal Arch ]\Iasons, and held the rank of
captain in the Purdue Cadet Corps in
1896-97. September 3, 1903, he married
Mary E. Throckmorton, daughter of Ed-
M-in W. and Anna (Webster) Throckmor-
ton of Romney. Four children have been
born to their marriage : John Harrison,
Jr., born Januarv 20, 1906; :\larv Eliza-
beth, born July 17, 1908; William Edwin,
born October 24, 1912 ; and Robert Ewing,
born June 26. 1917.
It is impossible to give an adequate idea
of the tremendous amount of energy and
concentrated study and effort which Pro-
fessor Skinner has devoted to the various
branches of his profession, and as to re-
sults they can Wst be measured by refer-
ence to the growth and development of the
School of Agriculture, the Department of
Animal Husbandry, the University Farm,
and the Purdue Experiment Station dur-
ing the last fifteen or twenty years, and to
the hundreds of practical and able men
all over the middle west who are accom-
plishing more as farmers and stock raisers
because of assistance given them directly
by Professor Skinner at the University or
through the bulletins and other publica-
tions which contain the results of his in-
vestigations and his advice.
The School of Agriculture enrolled 207
students in 1907. This enrollment had in-
creased to 814 in 1916. During the period
in which he served as Dean of the School
of Agriculture Smith Hall, one of the very
best buildings devoted to the dairy indus-
try was erected, and a veterinary building,
which is the best to be found in any agri-
cultural college in the United States not
making graduate veterinarians, a judging
pavilion, a horse building, a beef cattle
building and horticultural greenhouses
were erected. In addition to this there
was established a poultry department with
a farm and excellent equipment for the
instructional and investigational work in
poultry husbandry. The work of the
Animal Husbandry Department of Pur-
due University under the direction of
Professor Skinner has attracted attention
not only in the United States but in
foreign countries. From a very small
beginning and with little money to do it
the department has grown to the point
where it has as good equipment in
animal husbandry as any institution in the
middle west. The pure-bred herds and
flocks on the University Farm are made
up of the very best animals, as is indicated
by the success of the fat stock shown by
this institution in the International Shows.
Purdue has won the grand championship
on fat steers three times witliin the last
ten years, in 1908 on a pure-bred Angus
steer, Fyvie Knight; in 1917 on a pure-
bred Shorthorn steer, ]\Ierry Monarcli ;
bred and fed on the University Farm, and
in 1918 on pure-bred Angus steer, Fyvie
Knight 2d, bred, and fed on the University
Farm. No individual or institution has
ever equaled this record. In addition to
winning on these steers Purdue won all
first prizes on Shorthorn steers with steers
bred on the University Farm in the Inter-
national Show in 1918. Each year Pur-
due has carried away major prizes from
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this great show. Not only have grand
prizes been awarded on Purdue cattle but
on hogs and sheep as well.
The University Farm has grown from
about 150 acres to one of more than 800
acres diiring his administration. It is
coming to be one of the show places of the
University, and in a few years should be
one of the best features in the equipment
of the University.
A brief survey of the investigational
work carried on and directed by Professor
Skinner includes the following subjects.
Pork production, including bacon and lard
types; relative value of protein in rough-
age and concentrates for fattening cattle;
influence of age, length of feeding period
and the use of silage on the efficiency of
the ration and the profits in feeding beef
cattle; a study of maintenance rations for
brood sows, growing pigs and breeding
ewes ; comparative values of nitrogenous
concentrates as supplements in steer feed-
ing. He has with his co-workers published
numerous bulletins on cattle, swine and
sheep feeding. One of the first investiga-
tors to take up the use of silage for fatten-
ing cattle and lambs, Purdue Station has
more data on the subject of silage for fat-
tening cattle and lambs than any other and
has done more to induce farmers to use
silage in the middle west than all stations
put together. Professor Skinner has a
wide acquaintance with the stockmen of
the United States, and Indiana farmers
know him wherever he goes.
The publications to which he has con-
tributed are noted as follows :
Bulletin No. 88 — Purdue Experiment
Station, ^larch, 1901, Systems of Cropping
with and without fertilization.
Bulletin No. 108 — Purdue Experiment
Station, July, 1905. Soybeans, middlings
and tankage, as supplemental feeds in
pork production.
Bulletin No. 115 — Purdue Experiment
Station, December, 1906, steer feeding.
Bulletin No. 126 — Purdue Experiment
Station, June, 1908, Supplements to corn
for fattening hogs in dry lot.
Bulletin No. 129 — Purdue Experiment
Station, October, 1908. Steer feeding.
Winter steer feeding, 1906-7, 1907-8.
Bulletin No. 1.30 — Purdue Experiment
Station, November, 1908. Steer feeding.
Results of short vs. long feeding periods.
Bulletin No. 136 — Purdue Experiment
Station, October, 1909, Steer feeding.
Winter steer feeding, 1908-9.
Bulletin No. 137 — Purdue Experiment
Station, November, 1909. Dairy by-prod-
ucts as supplements to corn for fattening
hogs.
Bulletin No. 142 — Purdue Experiment
Station, Mav, 1910. Steer feeding. Fin-
ishing steers, 1907, 1908, and 1909.
Bulletin No. 146 — Purdue Experiment
Station, June, 1910. Steer feeding. In-
fluence of age on the economy and profit
from feeding calves, vearlings and two-
year-olds, 1906-7, 1907-8, 1908-9.
Bulletin No. 147 — Purdue Experiment
Station, June, 1910. Corn silage for win-
ter feeding of ewes and young lambs.
Bulletin No. 153 — Piirdue Experiment
Station, September, 1911. Steer feeding.
Winter steer feeding, 1909-10 and 1910-11.
Bulletin No. 158 — Purdue Experiment
Station, May, 1912. Hominy feed for fat-
tening hogs.
Bulletin No. 162 — Purdue Experiment
Station, November, 1912. Fattening west-
ern lambs, 1910-11 and 1911-12.
Bulletin No. 163 — Purdue Experiment
Station, November, 1912. Steer feeding.
Winter steer feeding.
Bulletin No. 167 — Purdue Experiment
Station, October, 1913. Steer feeding.
Winter steer feeding, 1912-13.
Bulletin No. 168 — Purdue Experiment
Station, November, 1913. Fattening west-
ern lambs, 1912-13.
Bulletin No. 178 — Purdue Experiment
Station, November, 1914. Cattle feeding.
Winter steer feeding, 1913-14.
Bulletin No. 179 — Purdue Experiment
Station, November, 1914. Sheep feeding.
Fattening western lambs.
Bulletin No. 183 — Purdue Experiment
Station, November, 1915. Cattle feeding.
Winter steer feeding, 1914-15.
Bulletin No. 184 — Purdue Experiment
Station, November, 1915. Sheep feeding.
Fattening western lambs, 1914-15.
Bulletin No. 191 — Purdue Experiment
Station, September, 1916. Cattle feeding.
Winter steer feeding, 1915-16.
Bulletin No. 192 — Purdue Experiment
Station, September, 1916. Sheep feeding.
Fattening western lambs, 1915-1916.
Bulletin No. 202 — Purdue Experiment
Station, Sheep feeding, Fattening western
lambs, 1916-1917.
Bulletin No. 206 — Purdue Experiment
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Station, Cattle feeding, Winter steer feed-
ing, 1916-17.
Bulletin No. 219 — Purdue Experiment
Station, Swine feeding. Studies of the
feeding value of corn by-products. Palmo
Midds and commercial mixed hog feeds,
1917-18.
Bulletin No. 220 — Purdue Experiment
Station, Winter steer feeding, 1917-1'Jl,'^.
Bulletin No. 221 — Purdue Experiment
Station, Sheep feeding. Fattening west-
ern lambs, 1917-1918.
Circular No. 8 — Purdue Experiment
Station, October, 1907. Beef production.
I, Purchasing feeders.
Circular No. 12' — Purdue Experiment
Station, Beef production. II, Methods of
beef production in Indiana.
Circular No. 14— July, 1908. Purdue
Experiment Station. Beef production.
Ill, Factors influencing the value and cost
of feeders.
A summary of investigational work eon-
ducted will be found in the annual reports
of the Purdue Experiment Station from
1900 to 1920.
Frank J. Wright, D. C, a leading
chiropractor of the City of Indianapolis,
was bom March 19, 1866, and is a gradu-
ate of the Palmer School of Chiropractic
of Davenport, Iowa. Doctor Wright has
offices in the Law Building, where he has
successfully followed his profession during
the past five years.
The following article written by him is
an interesting exposition of the science
he represents:
"The public in general may not know
that art has a place in the education and
the work of the chiropractor. Neverthe-
less it has, but it is not the art that enables
one to blend colors and to paint scenes that
enthrall, that fills the soul with emotion.
Art also has another meaning, and it is
this which enters into the education and
the work of the chiropractor.
"Webster defines this art as (a) the em-
ployment of a means to the accomplish-
ment of some end: (b) the skillful adap-
tation and application to some purpose or
use of knowledge or power acquired from
nature; (c) a system of rules and estab-
lished methods to facilitate the perfor-
mance of certain actions; familiarity with
such principles and skill in applying them
to an end or purpose.
"In chiropractic the end to be accom-
plished is to place in harmonious action
every organ of the body; to re-establish
co-ordination between the brain that oper-
ates the body and the various organs of
the body which are dependent upon this
brain power. The means emploj'ed to do
this primarily is chiropractic education.
Included in this education is the peculiar
training necessary in order to locate the
cause of this failure of co-ordination be-
tween the brain and the organs of th-j
body, and the way or manner of removing
it. The purpose in applying this power
aeciuired from nature is to remove the
cause of disease, permitting nature to op-
erate the organs of the body naturally and
normally.
"We have a system of rules and estab-
lished methods to facilitate the perform-
ance of certain actions, and we have the
familiarity with such principles and the
skill in applying them to an end or pur-
pose. These rules or methods are now be-
ing taught by recognized schools of chiro-
practic. Dr. D. D. Palmer discovered the
basic principles of chiropractic twenty-
three years ago and practiced them for ten
years before his son, B. J. Palmer, who had
grown up in the environment of his fath-
er's work, gained his father's consent to
give the discovery to the world. His son
caught the spirit and the inspiration of
the discoverer and proceeded to develop it
into a science, a philosophy, and an art.
"The instructions of the chiropractic
schools differs from that of medical schools
somewhat in physiolog.y, considerably in
the philosophy of life as applied to the hu-
man body, and very materially so in its
system of locating and removing the cause
of disease. In anatomy and symtomat-
ology it follows closely the teaching of
medical schools. The education of a chir-
opractor includes the training of the touch
to a degree of perfection which enables
him to determine by palpation any devia-
tion of, or in, the spinal column. It also
teaches the art of adjustment into normal
l)osition of the spine or any portion of the
spine which may be out of alignment.
' ' Much stress is placed upon the develop-
ment of the sense of touch, and for tlie
accomplishment of this one thing hours of
work in training are devoted each day cov-
ering a period of several months. So sen-
sitive do the touch corpuscles of the finger
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'tips become under this system of training
that one hesitates to place them against
any object whose surface is rough. The
person who attempts to practice chiroprac-
tic without this training is unprepared.
"The art of adjustment, the mastery of
the adjustic move is equally as important
as is the art of palpation. While attend-
ing school I saw a review demonstration
of half a hundred moves, which had been
tried, and from which the present moves
have been developed and adopted. We
now have standardized rules for the adjust-
ment of the various portions of the spine,
and they are so well defined and so well
established that, having mastered them,
their application becomes an art. The
chiropractor who has become thoroughly
proficient in the palpation of the spine and
master of the principles of adjustment is
just as much an artist as are those of any
other profession whose performance is one
demanding high skill of execution.
"There are those who pretend to believe
that as they are versed in anatomy and
pathology of the human body they are
qualified to practice chiropractic, but this
is a mistake. They still need the philos-
ophy of chiropractic, the chiropractic
teachings of physiology : while the drill in
palpation of spines, the development of the
touch and the mastering of the adjustic
move are absolutely necessary and cannot
be had outside of a school of chiropractic
covering a course of not less than two
school years. The actual clinical work
that one does in his senior year of school
work is the experience that enables the
graduate to enter upon his work with a
degree of certainty of success, and of as-
surance to the public that he is prepared
for his work. Chiropractic is a science ;
it has a philosophy, and the application of
these is an art.
"Chiropractic does not attempt to turn
the world of healing upside down and de-
nounce all other methods as of no value.
It recognizes much good in other methods,
but firmly insists that chiropractic is the
best.
"I mention but one of the basic facts
upon which chiropractic stands, as it will
illustrate the point I wish to make. It is
this, that every organ in the body and
every part of the body must be supplied
with power to operate, and that it is the
nervous system that carries this operating
power to the various organs and parts of
the body.
"Pressure or obstruction on the nerves
will interfere and prevent delivery of
nerve force, resulting in impaired or ab-
normal function. Thus it is that resistive
power is lessened, permitting the contrac-
tion of that which we have learned to des-
ignate as disease.
"Chiropractic further insists that in
case of disease or as a preventive of disease
it is necessary to have the nerves free from
any pressure or obstruction, thus permit-
ting the full transmission of nerve impulse
or force. This enables nature to resist the
contraction of disease or to restore the
tissues to normal if already diseased.
"It is necessary , that wires conducting
electricitj' shall be free from interference
in order that the full power to operate
may reach the object to be supplied. So
with the nerves of our bodies. They, too,
must be free from interference, free from
pressure in order that they may carry the
full amount of vital force or nerve energ\',
which are one and the same, to the organs
they supply. Interference to the nervous
system to the extent of preventing this
will result in their failure to function nor-
mally, and sooner or later in a condition
known as disease.
"To insure proper distribution of the
nerve force it is necessary to remove any
pressure there may be on the nerves where
they emit from or leave the back bone,
which pressure often does occur. This
permits the nerves to deliver their full
amount of vital energj- as nature may de-
mand it, the delivery of which insures
normal function-health. The chiropractor
is educated both to locate and to remove
this pre-ssur? or interference.
"The principles of chiropractic are ad-
vanced principles, and they are right prin-
ciples. It has been proved so beyond suc-
cessful contradiction. Chiropractic is not
a theory, it is a fact, a science, the princi-
ples of which have never changed ; where
the elements of experimentation do not
enter, and where the thing which the sci-
ence has demonstrated and established as
necessary to do becomes a positive thing
to be done.
"Vital force is life, or it is the force
that produces internal and external man-
ifestations of life, therefore chiropractic
is concerned with vital force and its normal
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distribution as being the most essential
thing in the restoration of health. There
are more than 200 chiropractors in the
State of Indiana and more than 5,000 in
the United States, with hundreds being
added to the profession each year. Chir-
opractic is looked upon as little less than
marvelous, which can only be accounted
for by reason of the almost universal re-
sults it is giving in the way of health res-
toration."
Herman A. Mayer is treasurer of the
United States Trust Company of Terre
Haute. This is one of the largest financial
institutions of the state, and his position
as treasurer, which he has held for some
six or seven years, is a high and important
honor to Mr. Mayer, who was hardly thirty
years of age when he was elevated to these
responsibilities. The United States Trust
Company was organized in 1903, has a capi-
tal stock of half a million dollars, and its
total resources are over five millions.
Mr. ]\Iayer was born at Terre Haute
August 20, 1880, has spent practically all
his life in his native city, and is bound to
it by ties of many personal associations
and by the dignity of his individual success.
His father is the venerable Anton Mayer,
who was a pioneer in the brewing business
of Terre Haute and has been a resident of
this city fifty years. Anton Mayer was
born in Wurtemberg, Germany, January
12, 1842, grew up on the home farm of
his father, Bartholomew Mayer, had a
common school education, and early in life
was employed for a year or so in a brewery.
In 1858, at the age of sixteen, he came to
the United States alone and went direct to
Terre Haute. He remained in that city
only a short time, and going to Cincinnati
spent eight years in one of the leading
breweries of that city and for three years
was brew master. He accpiired a thorough
technical knowledge of all details of the
brewing art, and this knowledge, together
with a modest amount of capital which
he had been able to save, he brought to
Terre Haute in 1868 to engage in business
for liiinsolf. He and a partner bought an
old established brewing plant, but about a
year later, through the death of his part-
ner, he l)eeame sole owner. He developed
a mere brevyery from a small yearly capac-
ity until it was manufacturing 25,000 bar-
rels-a year. In 1889 Mr. Mayer sold the
plant to the Terre Haute Brewing Com-
panj- and retired from business. However,
he has since kept in close touch with the
financial aft'airs of Terre Haute and has
many investments in real estate and coun-
try property. On April 29, 1879, at Terre
Haute, he married Miss Sophie Miller, a
native of Germany who came to America
with her parents at the age of three years.
Mr. and Mrs. Anton Mayer had four chil-
dren, Herman, Bertha, Ida and Gertrude,
the last two now deceased.
Herman A. ^Mayer grew up in his native
city, attended the public schools and St.
Joseph College, and in 1904 entered the
recently organized United States Trust
Company as teller. In 1908 he was made
treasurer, and has handled many of the
important executive responsibilities of the
institution for the past ten years. He is
also treasurer of the Indiana Savings &
Building Association and is a member of
the executive committee of the Morris Plan
Bank of Terre Haute. His affiliations are
those of a public spirited and energetic
citizen and include membership in the
Chamber of Commerce and with other or-
ganizations and movements which best ex-
press the civic and business ideals of his
community. He is a republican and a
member of Terre Haute Lodge No. 86 of
the Benevolent & Protective Order of Elks.
In 1905 he married Jliss Antoinette Brink-
man, of Terre Haute, and they had two
children, John Anton and Mary Hermine.
Hon. Joel P. Heatwole was born in
Waterford, Indiana, August 22, 1856, a
son of Henry and Barbara Heatwole. As
early as 1876 he engaged in the printing
business, and in 1882 he became a resident
of Minnesota. Mr. Heatwole was a mem-
ber of the Fifty-Fourth to the Fifty-Sev-
enth Congresses, declining renomination.
He is a republican in politics.
The home of Mr. Heatwole is at North-
field, Minnesota.
Alfred Fremont Potts, of Indianap-
olis, a lawyer by profession, has become
most widely known to the people of In-
diana througli his skill and success in pro-
moting large business organizations, and
particularly for his plan for the control in
the public "interest of public utilities. In
this field he has done notable pioneer work
and has undoubtedly contributed to the
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solution of many vexatious problems con-
nected with the relations of large public
corporations with the people in general
He was born at Richmond, Indiana,
October 29, 1856. His father. Dr. Alfred
Potts, died while serving as a surgeon in
the Union army during the Civil war.
Until twelve years of age Alfred F. Potts
had only the advantages of the common
schools. He educated himself by a course
of persistent reading and early developed
his inclination for organizati(jn work by
the promotion of a literary club and a moot
court. Later he read law, and was ad-
mitted to the bar of Marion County by
courtesy in 1876, while still under age.
In 1877 he formed a law partnership
with John L. Griffiths, later reporter of
the Supreme Court of Indiana and fur-
ther distinguished by his long service as
United States consul general to London.
Mr. Griffiths was an orator of exceptional
merit, while Mr. Potts was noted for his
skill in the preparation of a case for trial.
Early in its career the firm undertook
some of the most utterly hopeless criminal
cases that could be imagined, but they
fought them with such vim that they re-
ceived columns of free advertising through
the newspaper reports, and very soon were
in the paths of an active practice. This
partnership la.sted for twenty-five years
and was abandoned rather than dissolved
through the absorption of Mr. Griffiths in
politics and of Mr. Potts in various enter-
prises, one of which consisted in the re-
demption of a certain portion of a resi-
dence street from shanties which were re-
placed by artistic high class residences
and became known as "The Street of
Political Good Fortune."
Mr. Potts first came into public promi-
nence as an organizer in the year 1887.
With the discovery of natural gas in In-
diana there was naturally an effort on the
part of capitalists to control the supply
and reap the profits from it. On the other
hand there was strong sentiment for giving
the public the benefit. At this time, when
the people of Indianapolis seemed hope-
lessly barred from attaining the public
benefit, through lack of funds, ^Ir. Potts
brought forward the then novel proposi-
tion of the Consumers Gas Trust. It was
a proposal for a company in which the
voting power of the stockholders was irre-
vocably lodged in a board of self-perpet-
uating trustees, while the earnings of the
stockholders were restricted to 8 per
cent interest and the repayment of the
face value of the stock. When this repay-
ment was made the trust remained for the
public benefit to furnish gas at sost. It
was more than a solution of the existing
problem. Many competent authorities and
critics have regarded it as a practical plan
for controlling all public utilities for pub-
lic benefit, with all the advantages of mu-
nicipal ownership and none of its disad-
vantages. In fact, at this day when the
nation is struggling with the problem of
an equitable adjustment by means of "ex-
cess profits taxation" of enormous profit-
eering enterprises, it would seem that some
of the fundamental principles involved in
Mr. Potts' plan of thirty years ago has
been rediscovered and revitalized.
The plan was at once met by claims that
it was unsound and impracticable ; but the
ablest lawyers of the city pronounced it
perfectly sound. The plan was at once
adopted by the Board of Trade with the
support of leading citizens in all lines.
The company was organized and in two
weeks the subscription for .$500,000 of
stock, which had been fixed as necessary
for the start, was more than covered.
The company did what was expected of it
in securing cheap gas and made a saving
to the public of $1,000,000 a year
for fifteen years until the supply was ex-
hausted. During that time it made a to-
tal investment of over $2,500,000, all of
which was paid out of the earnings of the
company, together with 8 per cent in-
terest on the stock, and the repayment of
all the principal originally invested. Those
interested in the principal involved will
find a full presentation of the subject by
Mr. Potts in the American Review of Re-
views for November, 1899.
After the supply of natural gas was ex-
hausted the trustees and directors desired
to manufacture artificial gas. Rival in-
terests caused the matter to be taken into
court and on April 11, 1905, it was held
that the company was limited to supplying
natural gas and had no power to manufac-
ture gas. The cause of the public seemed
to be blocked until it was pointed out that
the city had an option of purchase of the
plant under the company's franchise, and
this could be sold to another company.
Then the following plan was adopted:
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The city gave the necessary notice of in-
tention to purchase, and then assigned its
option to A. P. Potts, Frank D. Stalnaker
and Lorenz Schmidt, to be transferred to
a company to be organized by Mr. Potts.
This company was to furnish artificial gas
at 60 cents per thousand feet, with the
same features of voting trustees to prevent
manipulation and limited dividends of 10
per cent and on the further condition that
the property was to go to the city when the
stockholders had received their money
back. This proposal was accepted and
after surmounting every legal obstacle
that could be placed in its way the new
company finally gained possession of the
mains of the Consumers Trust on October
31, 1907. In the fight for this new public
enterprise Mr. Potts visited England at
his own expense and gathered the proof to
show that gas could be manufactured and
sold at 60 cents per 1,000 cubic feet.
The company proceeded with vigor and be-
gan supplying gas on March 31, 1909. Its
action forced the other company to come
to the same terms, and eventually to lease
their plants for ninety-nine years to the
new company, which is now supplying gas
at 60 cents per 1,000, the lowest rate of
any city in the United States. It is ob-
vious that the same principles of organiza-
tion employed in these gas enterprises can
be applied to other public utilities, and
that it furnishes a means by which the pub-
lic can avoid being exploited in these mat-
ters.
In the 1916-17 session of the Indiana
Legislature, at the request of Governor
Goodrich, a bill prepared by Mr. Potts was
introduced which crystallizes this plan of
organization and makes it applicable to
utilities througliout the state as well as
companies for the supply of coal, ice and
food products. Owing to the pi-essure of
affairs due to the fight on prohibition and
woman's suffrage this measure with many
other worthy proposals was .sidetracked,
but the organization of public men behind
it is still intact and the people have the
promise that the bill will be presented
again at some later session.
As the preceding indicates Mr. Potts
has taken an active interest in public af-
fairs, and many of his enterprises were of
a quasi-public character. He was one of
the chief promoters, of the Commercial
Club of Indianapolis, of which he was for
several years a director and for one term
president. Among buildings that he has
promoted are the Law Building, the Clay-
pool Hotel, the new Board of Trade Build-
ing, and the American and Union National
banks. In 1918 Mr. Potts was nominated
by Governor Goodrich as one of the three
public directors in the local street car com-
pany, an experiment proposed in the pub-
lic interest by the Public Service Com-
mission.
In 1879 jVIr. Potts married ]\Iiss May
Barney, of Indianapolis. Both have taken
an active role in literary and social cir-
cles. Mr. Potts was one of the founders
of the Century Club, and served a term
as its president, and also a term as presi-
dent of the Contemporary Club. They
have two daughters. The older, Jlrs. Wal-
ter Vonnegut, has achieved notable suc-
cess on the stage. The second daughter is
the wife of Mr. Norman W. Cook, formerly
of the Bureau of Municipal Research of
New York and later a lieutenant with the
active forces in France.
Orlando B. Iles. Though he was ad-
mitted to the bar in 1895 and for over
twenty years has been a member in good
standing of the Indianapolis bar, Oi'lando
B. lies is more widely known and appre-
ciated for his constructive services as a
citizen and for the important position he
enjoys in the industrial aft'airs of his home
city. Mr. Iles is treasurer and general
manager of the International Machine
Tool Company, one of the really big indus-
tries of Indiana, and is also president of
the Marion Club, a position that places him
for the time as a leader among the repub-
lican party of Indiana.
]\lr. lies was born in Brown County,
Ohio, in 1869, son of Thomas and Eliza-
beth (Ewing) lies. His parents were
both natives of Kentucky. Orlando B.
lies was liberally educated, being a grad-
uate of DePauw University of Greencastle
with the class of 1894. He has been a res-
ident of Indianapolis since 1893, studied
law in that city and was admitted to the
bar in 1895. His first active work as a
lawyer was in charge of the claim' depart-
meiit and as assistant attorney for the Cit-
izens Street Railway Company of Indian-
apolis. In 1898-99 he served as prosecut-
ing attorney for Marion County, and in
1899 was appointed deputy attorney gen-
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eral of the state. He filled that office one
year. During 1897 and again in- 1899 he
was reading clerk of the House.
Had his energies not been diverted Mr.
lies could easily have attained a leadership
among the general legal practitioners of
Indiana. However, in 1899 he became
associated with Mr. Arthur Jordan of In-
dianapolis as legal adviser in a number of
industrial enterpl-ises controlled by Mr.
Jordan. One of these was the Capital
Gas Engine Company. In 1906, when
Mr. Jordan, Mr. lies, 'Sir. Milholland and
Mr. Libby organized the International Ma-
chine Tool Company, Sir. Jordan became
president and ilr. lies treasurer and mana-
ger. These two gentlemen built the plant
for that company, with ^Ir. Charles L.
Libby, the vice president and superintend-
ent, in charge of the technical details.
This company manufactures a large and
important line of machine tools, including
the famous "Libby" Turret Lathe, large
numbers of which have been sent abroad
and are used extensively in the manufac-
ture of war munitions, and they have an
equally varied and important place in rail-
road shops and other industries. The In-
ternational Machine Tool Company gives
to Indianapolis some elements of real dis-
tinction as an industrial center, since the
machine tools have an unique place in the
equipment of modern industry and serve
to make the name of Indianapolis further
known around the world. It has also at-
tracted to Indianapolis a number of highly
skilled and highly paid workmen, and the
entire community benefits to a degree that
can hardly be computed.
Mr. lies has long been a popular mem-
ber of the republican party, and his popu-
larity and his fitness for leadership was
signally recognized in March, 1918, when
he was elected president of the Marion
Club of Indianapolis. This is one of the
largest social organizations of republicans
in the country and contains a large mem-
bership of representative citizens not only
in Indianapolis, but throughout the state.
It plays and has played an important part
in civic afi^airs, in the progress of the city,
and is one of the factors in maintaining
and increasing the strength of the party
throughout the nation. Mr. lies is affil-
iated with the Phi Kappa Tsi fraternity, is
a past chancellor commander of Indianap-
olis Lodge No. 56, Knights of Pythias, is
a member of Mystic Lodge of jMasons, a
thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason
and a noble of Murat Temple of the Mys-
tic Shrine.
In 1899 Mr. lies married Miss Esther
D. Jordan. She is a daughter of Mr. Ar-
thur Jordan, above referred to and more
specifically mentioned on other pages.
Their two children are Elizabeth and
Arthur.
George A. Moorhead. A resident of
Terre Haute for twenty years, formerly
active in business afi'airs, George A. Moor-
head has played a prominent part in local
democratic politics, was chairman of the
democratic county committee of Vigo and
is now in his second term as city clerk.
He was born in Henderson County, Ken-
tucky, December 25, 1879, but has spent
most of his life in Indiana. His parents
were James and Wilhelmina (Maurer)
Moorhead, both now living in Terre Haute.
The father was born in Kentucky and the
mother in Posey County, Indiana. There
is one other child, ]\Irs. "William Simmons,
living at Mattoon, Illinois. Mr. Simmons
is general manager of the Hulman Whole-
sale Grocery Company.
George A. ]Moorhead received most of his
early education at Mount Vernon in Black
Township of Posey County Indiana. Com-
ing to Terre Haute in 1897, he worked
several years as clerk in a shoe store, and
graduall.y accumulated business experience
and the confidence of men in his capacity
and judgment.
In 1909 he was elected city clerk of
Terre Haute, and was re-elected on the
democratic ticket in 1915. Mr. Moorhead
is popular in fraternal affairs, a member
of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows,
the Knights of Pythias, the Fraternal Or-
der of Eagles and the Benevolent and Pro-
tective Order of Elks. In 1905 he married
]\Iiss Amelia Dietz, who was born at Cic-
ero, Indiana, a daughter of Emil and Anna
(Wagner) Dietz.
Harry Smithson Needham. The city
of Richmond, as a division point of the
Pennsylvania lines west of Pittsburgh, is
the home and headquarters of a number of
prominent Pennsylvania railway officials,
including Harry Smithson Needham, mas-
ter mechanic for the Pittsburgh, Cincin-
nati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway, with
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supervision over 500 employes in the me-
chanical department and whose forces
serve several divisions of the Pittsburgh,
Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway
as well as the southern division of the
Grand Rapids and Indiana.
Mr. Needham was born at ^Marietta, Ohio,
December 26, 1878, son of Charles F. and
Emily Elizabeth (St. John) Needham.
The Needham family is of English ances-
try and settled in ilassaehusetts many gen-
erations ago. Harry S. Needham attended
public .school at Columbus, Ohio, graduat-
ing from high school in 1896, and in the
same j'ear entering the Ohio State Univer-
sity, where he was graduated with the de-
gree Mechanical Engineer in 1900. On
account of his fine scholarship record he
was otfered a Fellowship in the Univer-
sity, but declined in order to get into ac-
tive railroad work. He entered the me-
chanical department offices of the Pitts-
burgh, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis
road at Columbus, serving as draftsman
for two years at wages of fifteen dollars
per month. The third year he also spent
at Columbus as helper in the engine house.
For three years he was at Indianapolis as
special apprentice in the shops of the same
railroad. For a short time he was a fire-
man on the Louisville Division between In-
dianapolis and Logansport six months,
and was then called to the home office at
Columbus as draftsman on general engi-
neering work in the motive power depart-
ment. Six months later he went into the
Columbus locomotive repair shop as a spe-
cial man under Master Mechanic S. W.
Miller, remaining six months, and on Feb-
ruary 15, 1904, was sent to the locomotive
shops at Dennison, Ohio, as assistant to the
general foreman. In April, 1904, he was
given some special duties at the St. Louis
Exposition for three months, and another
four months was employed in establishing
tonnage rating for locomotive and freight
service over the different lines. During
these .several years therefore Mr. Needham
had opportunity and wisely made use of
it to acquire practical experience in all
branches of railroad mechanical engineer-
ing. In June, 1910, he was appointed as-
sistant motive power inspector at Colum-
bus, and on January 1, 1912, came to Rich-
mond as master mechanic.
In 1911 Mr. Needham married IMargaret
Dunn Carvey, daughter of Capt. Theodore
Dunn of Middleport, Ohio. Mr. Needham
is a republican and a member of the Meth-
odist Church.
Mary Hannah Krout, one of Indiana's
most interesting women, was born in Craw-
fordsville November 3, 1851. She is the
daughter of the late Robert Kennedy Krout
and Caroline Van Cleve Krout, and grand-
daughter of Professor Ryland Thoinas
Brown, who served several tei'ms as state
geologist, was professor of natural sciences
in Butler College, lecturer on toxoeology
in the State Medical College and chemist-
in-chief in the LTnited States Agricultural
Department under President Hayes.
Miss Krout received her education
chiefly at home under the instruction of
her parents, and was for six years a pupil
of the late Mrs. Caroline Coulter, mother
of Professor John M. and Stanley Coul-
ter. She grew up from childhood sur-
rounded by distinctly literarj' influences,
both witliin her own home and amongst
friends whose tastes and pursuits gave the
town a reputation throughout the state for
a high degree of culture.
Doctor Bland, editor of the Indiana
Farmer, accepted and paid for her first
poem. She was then twelve years of age.
Three years later she wrote "Little Brown
Hands," a poem which has been familiar
to school children ever since. It was pub-
lished in Our Young Folks, a magazine
edited by John G. Whittier and Lucy Lar-
com, and w-hich numbered Longfellow,
Whittier, Higginson, Harriet B. Stowe,
Jean Ingelow, and other famous authors
among its contributors. After that Miss
Krout wrote regularly for The Little Cor-
poral, a magazine for children edited by
the late Emily Huntington ^Miller, who
gave her the warmest encouragement and
became her lifelong friend. During this
time she also wrote occasionally for Lip-
pincott's ilagazine. The Overland Monthly,
under the editorship of Bret Harte, and
for the New York Tribune and Boston
Transcript.
Having inherited from her parents and
grandparents strong convictions on the
inequality of women before the law, at a
very early age she spoke and wrote con-
stantly for the enfranchisement of women
and for the broadening of their educa-
tional and economic opportunities. Of
this phase of her work the late Mary A.
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Livermore said, many years afterward, "I
attended a suffrage convention held in
Crawfordsville, and when Mary Krout was
announced to speak I was astounded to see
a fragile little girl with short hair and
short skirts come forward and make a very
logical and carefully prepared address."
Miss Krout also inherited from a long
line of ancestors an inextinguishable zeal
in the cause of liberty and universal en-
lightenment. She owes her German name
to Michael Krout, a political refugee from
Saxony, who settled on a plantation near
Columbia, South Carolina, and who, when
his house was burned and his cattle and
horses driven away by the British, entered
the Federal army with his tive sons and
sacrificed his life to the American cause in
the massacre of General Ashe's command
at Brier Creek. Other Revolutionary fore-
fathers were John Van Cleve, who with
his sons left their harvest field and .joined
the American forces in the battle of ^Ion-
mouth, remaining in the service until the
close of the war, John John, who enlisted
at the beginning of the struggle and served
under Washington, being given charge of
the mill at Valley Forge, and George
Brown, of Virginia, who raised and
equipped a company of soldiers at his own
expense and went to the relief of the Amer-
ican forces at the battle of Yorktown.
Her family since then served in later
wars, earning distinction in the United
States army and navy, and was also rep-
resented in various legislative bodies.
Miss Krout 's editorial work began in
Crawfordsville on the Journal under the
able management of the late T. H. B. ]Mc-
Cain. She was subsequently connected
with the Peoria Call, the Terre Haute Ex-
press, and the ^Chicago Interior. In 1888
she began her work on the Chicago Inter
Ocean, with which she remained ten years.
In the presidential campaign of 1888, dur-
ing the candidacy of President Harrison,
she was sent to Indianapolis as staff cor-
respondent. For this work she received
the official thanks of both President Harri-
son and the Indiana state officials. In 1893
she was sent to Hawaii on the breaking
out of the revolution, and she remained
three months covering the events which
led to the establishment of the Provisional
Government. Upon her return she was
summoned to Washington by Walter Q.
Gresham, secretary of state, for a private
conference on the situation. She was ap-
pointed an alternate on the Women's
Board of the Columbian Exposition, and
was chosen chairman of the Auxilliary
Press Congress held in SeiJtember during
the Fair. She had founded "The Chi-
cago Woman's Press League," composed
only of members holding salaried positions.
This was extended into a national organ-
ization, of which she remained president,
the local body acting as hostess to the many
distinguished men and women writers who
were in Chicago during the Exposition.
In 190-t Miss Krout was sent again to
Hawaii when an unsuccessful effort was
made to overthrow the Provisional Gov-
ernment and restore the queen. Pending
the organization of the Hawaiian Repub-
lic she made a short journey through New
Zealand and Australia, returning in time
to be present at the opening session of the
Hawaiian Constitutional Convention.
In 1895 she was sent to London as staff
correspondent, where she remained for
three j^ears, seeing much of the social, ar-
tistic, and literary life of the great capi-
tal. She found a warm friend in John
Hay, then United States ambassador, who
on one occasion when she asked permis-
sion to refer to him wrote to her: "Use
my name at any time and in any way
that I can be of service to you," a proof
of confidence and regard that was never
forgotten.
In 1898 she returned to the United
States, and after leaving the Inter Ocean
under a change in its management Miss
Krout went out to China for a syndicate
of representative newspapers to study and
write on the commercial relations of
China with the United States. She re-
mained a year, after which she took up
her residence in New York and devoted
her time to miscellaneous work and lec-
turing before clubs and in the "People's
Course," connected with the public schools
of New York and Brooklyn. She then
returned to Crawfordsville and completed
the unfinished Memoirs of Gen. Lew Wal-
lace, after which she made a second visit
to New Zealand and Australia, writing
for the Australia Press and lecturing in
Australia and New Zealand on American
topics. Before her return the following
year she revisited Hawaii, and while there
wrote "ilemoirs of the Hon. Bernice
Pauahi Bishop," who was the last of the
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Kamehamehas — the ancient ruling race;
and of Mrs. Mary S. Kice, one of the pio-
neer missionaries. Both books embodied
much of the history of the countrj^ with
an account of native manners and customs.
She also prepared a large illustrated bro-
chure, "Picturesque Honolulu," which
was also largely historical. She was ab-
sent ou these commissions in Australia,
New Zealand, and Hawaii, nearly four
years. ,
Latterly IMiss Krout has been at her
home in Crawfordsville, writing and lec-
turing on literary and political topics,
having also been engaged with her pen and
in various activities connected with war
work since the participation of the United
States in the great conflict with Germany.
Miss Krout has been a member of the
Chicago Woman's Club for many years
and is a charter member of the Daughters
of the American Eevolution. While in
London she was made an honorary mem-
ber of the Sandringham Club and in Sid-
ney of the Woman's Club in that city.
She is also a corresponding member of the
Hawaiian Historical Society.
Her published works are: "Hawaii and
a Revolution," "A Looker-on in London,"
"Alice in the Hawaiian Islands," "Two
Girls in China," "The Memoirs of the
Hon. Bernice Pauahi Bishop," "Memoirs
of Mrs. Mary S. Rice," "Platters and Pip-
kins," and "The Coign of Vantage," a
serial which appeared in the Chicago Ad-
vance in 1910.
Caroline V. Krout was born in Craw-
fordsville, Indiana, and has lived there all
her life. In an important and litei'al sense
it can be said that fame has sought and
come to her in that quiet but cultured col-
lege eoramunitv. Her education was ob-
tained in private and public schools. She
had the inestimable privilege of being a
pupil of the late Mrs. Caroline Coulter for
four years at a period when a child's mind
is most rolastic. John M. and Stanley
Coulter, two great scholars and noted men,
are iramenselv indebted to their mother
for their remarkable talents.
Caroline Krout did not begin writing
as a child, as did her sister Mary. What
aptitude she has for writing fiction was
developed in young womanhood, and it
was by a happy accident she found the
theme of her first novel, "Knights in Fus-
tain. " When on a visit to a sister she
met there an elderly woman who had ex-
perienced the insults and depredations of
that treasonable band in the State of In-
diana, and her reminiscences were so in-
teresting and dramatic they were the source
of inspiration for that work.
A love of pioneer history was awakened
then, and .she, from every source and by
all means, got every scrap relating to the
earliest pioneei-s of Indiana that she could
find. Out of this course of reading came,
later "On the We-a Trail." An Indian
trail running from the Ouia towns ou the
Wabash River, ten miles from Lafayette,
crossing Sugar Creek, four miles or so,
west of Crawfordsville, by what is yet
known as Indian Ford, and on down to the
hunting grounds of Kentucky, used com-
monlv bv all the tribes of this section,
srave it the title.
Another novel dealing with the state's
history was written later — "Dionis of the
White Veil." The plot for this story was
taken from a pamphlet issued by the His-
torical Society of Indiana, and was ob-
tained from the Archives of France for
'Mr. Jacob Dunn b.y a young man connected
with the American Embassy at that time,
1902 or 1903. It relates to the attempt of
founding the first Jesuit mission in what
became later Indiana, at about the period
Sieur Vincennes established the first fur
trading post on the Wabash in 1712. With
the exception of the love story it follows
the text faithfully.
In 1905 iliss Krout published her first
and only volume of juvenile stories.
"Bold Robin and his Forest Rangers."
This was written at the reqiiest of ilrs.
Lew Wallace, a faithful friend and coun-
sellor, who, when the author objected to
the threadbare theme, said': "It makes no
difference how old the story is if the treat-
ment is original." In that connection only
one story was taken from history, the rest
were purely imaginary. Its dedication
was made to ]\Irs. Wallace's two grand-
sons and the author's two nephews, then
small boys, all soldiers in France in the
World war, one of whom, William Noble
Wallace, made the great sacrifice.
At present Miss Krout is putting the
final touches to another Indiana story of
the Civil war.
The gift for writing in both her and her
sister is hereditary. Dr. Ryland T. Brown,
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1925
a writer on scientific subjects in his day,
was their maternal grandfather, and the
late Joseph F. Brown, a great-uncle, was
a poet of no mean caliber and also wrote
excellent prose. The family from which
they sprang was a pioneer family of the
state, and bore their part in the develop-
ment of Indiana.
The Brown Family of Indianapolis
contains a number of names associated
with high distinctions in state and national
affairs, and in later generations with the
industrial and business history of Indian-
apolis.
This branch of the family belong to the
colonial settlers of old Virginia. George
Brown had come from Virginia to Indiana
in territorial times. His son, Hon. Wil-
liam J. Brown, was born in Virginia and
became a lawyer, practicing for a number
of years. He was prosecuting attorney
at a time when his circuit extended from
the Ohio Kiver to the Michigan boundary.
His is one of the names most frequently
encountered in the annals of early state
politics. William J. Brown was the first
to hold the oifice of secretary of state after
the capital was removed to Indianapolis.
He was afterwards elected and served a
number of terms in Congress from the In-
dianapolis district, and was also assistant
postmaster general. Hon. William J.
Brown died March 18, 18.57. In 1827 he
married Susan Tompkins, daughter of
Nathan Tompkins.
Austin H. Brown, who was born at Mil-
roy in Eush County, Indiana, ilarch 19,
1828, was the oldest child of his parents.
While his own career was a notable one,
he had brothers almost equally distin-
guished. Two of these brothers were sol-
diers in the Civil war, one being killed at
Harper's Ferry while the other died from
the efi'ects of his army service soon after
the close of the war. Still another brother
was Admiral George Brown, who rose to
eminence in the United States Navy and
retired with the rank of admiral .just be-
fore the Spanish-American war.
Austin H. Brown had very meager op-
portunities to obtain an education. He
moved with his parents to Indianapolis in
1837, and there found work as a printer's
devil and as a carrier for the old Indiana
Democrat. W\n\e doing that work he
studied privately and acquired a practical
education. He continued with the Demo-
crat and its successor, the State Sentinel,
until 1844, and then at the age of sixteen,
entered old Asburj' University. His col-
lege career closed at the age of seventeen,
when he went to Washington as clerk in
the office of the sixth auditor. He rose in
that office to assistant chief clerk and dis-
bursing officer. He was also for a time a
tlnited States postoffice inspector. Return-
ing to Indianapolis, he became proprietor
of the State Sentinel, and was one of the
publishers of that old journal for five
years.
In 1855, as a democrat, he was elected
auditor of ]\Iarion County. During the
Civil war period he waS assistant adjutant
general, and much of the detailed work
of the office under Generals Noble and Ter-
rell was handled by him. Austin H. Brown
was what was then called a "war demo-
crat." In 1866 he was appointed by.
President Johnson collector of internal rev-
enue for the Indianapolis district. For
a number of years he was also ca.shier of
the banking house of Woolen, Webb &
Company. In 1874 he was elected clerk of
Marion County, and served a number of
years as city councilman and nine years
on the school commission. He was a mem-
ber of the National Democratic Commit-
tee, ranked high in Masonry and was one
of the able men of the state during his
time.
On December 17, 1851, Austin H. Brown
married Margaret E. Russell. Her father.
Col. Alexander W. Russell, was an Indiana
pioneer, served as sheriff of Marion Coun-
ty, and by appointment from President
Taylor served as postmaster of Indianap-
olis, ilrs. Austin Brown was a grand-
daughter through her mother of General
James Noble, one of th^ first United States
senators from Indiana. Austin H. Brown
died January 1, 1903. He and his wife
reared only two children, Austin H., Jr.,
who died in California in 1913, and Wil-
liam J.
William J. Brown, who represented the
fourth generation of the family in Indiana,
was essentially a business man and his
career as such brought him success and
was characterized always by the strictest
integrity. He possessed sound judgment,
and while he enjoyed but ordinary educa-
tional advantages he was considered above
the ordinary in point of information. He
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became treasurer and general manager of
the Indianapolis Stove Company, and held
that position until the time of his death
in 1914, at the age of fifty-eight. William
J. Brown married Cordelia Garvin. Their
three children were Garvin il., Austin H.
and Cordelia S. William J. Brown is re-
membered as a man of exceptionally kindly
nature, had the faculty of making and re-
taining friends, and was thoroughly
worthy of the name which he bore. He was
a member of the First Presbyterian Church
of Indianapolis, and was an independent
democrat in politics. His widow is still
living in Indianapolis.
Garvin M. Brown, of the fifth genera-
tion of the Brown family in this state,
succeeded his father as secretary and gen-
eral manager of the Indianapolis Stove
Company. He was born November 21,
1885, and has always made his home in
Indianapolis. He graduated from the
Shortridge High School in 1904 and from
Princeton University in 19G8. In 1914
he married Nina Gilbert, daughter of
Harry C. Gilbert. They have one daugh-
ter, Nina.
John Henry Buning. On October 3,
1875, there was born to the union of George
Henry and Charlotte Hektor Buning, of 14
Freeman Avenue, Cincinnati, Ohio, their
third child, John Henry Buning, whose
virile influence was destined to be felt soon
throughout all the states of the Middle
West. From the time he left home at the
tender age of twelve years and four months
to find the place of prominence which he
felt the world owed him, his life has been
one of continuous activity and aggressive
fighting to gain the ends he desired. His
cea.seless energy and undaunted determi-
nation to drive his *ay to success and make
his life one of more than ordinary useful-
ness has placed him, at the age "of forty-
three, among the leaders of industry in the
Middle West.
John H. Buning inherited from his
father those sturdy qualities of persever-
ance and faith in the events of the future
which nerved him to fight on and never
quit for one moment no matter what be
the bitterness of a momentary defeat or the
blackness of a temporary disappointment.
After each blow the world dealt him he
came back on the morrow with a punch
more telling than that he delivered the dav
before because he had profited by his mis-
take of yesterday. Each mistake left it's
imprint on the young man's mind and he
never committed a blunder twice. When
he was defeated at the age of twenty-one
as the republican candidate for the"Ohio
State Legislature from the City of Cincin-
nati he immediately decided that he was
not moulded for a politician and turned his
attention elsewhere.
The senior Buning was born August 23,
1840, in Achonsan, Germany, the son of
John Herman Buning, who removed with
his family to the United States in the early
'40s and settled in the western section of
Cincinnati. He became interested in busi-
ness while quite young and had built a
firm foundation for a business career when
the Civil war broke out. During the war
he served with the Union Army, having
enlisted in 1861 and been honorably dis-
charged in 1865. He was proprietor of a
retail grocery store in Cincinnati from
1865 until January 23, 1908, the date of
his death. His wife, Charlotte Hektor,
was born July 31, 1850, in Ramstein,
Alsace,' and came with her father and
mother to live in the United States while
she was quite young. She is now living in
the old home place at Cincinnati and en-
joys rugged health at the age of sixty-nine.
John H. Buning 's parents were Catholics
and he was educated in the parochial
schools of Cincinnati. His father and
mother intended to give him a college edu-
cation, but the desire to win a place of
distinction in the world was active within
him from his early youth and he met his
parents ofi'ers of a higher education with a
declaration that he preferred to lose no
time in beginning his campaign for suc-
cess. Accordingly, the young John Henry
set forth from the paternal hearth at the
tender age of twelve years and four months
and started out upon life's journey. He
began armed with his father's sound ad-
monition that industry, ambition, honesty,
good health and dauntless courage were a
combination the world could not beat, and
fortified by his mother's impassioned en-
treaties to always shun evil associations.
Nature had endowed him with a keen men-
tal i)eri'cption and that brand of vigorous
good health which enabled the hearty pio-
neers of the Middle West to wrest their
homes from the savage Indians who roamed
the woods and streams and maintain them
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against the rancorous attacks of both
painted savage and unfavorable weather.
He gave a listening ear to his mother's
tearful request that he not leave home and
started out to seek employment in Cincin-
nati. His first position was that of errand
boy for the then most popular and reliable
clothing store in the Queen City, Feck-
heimer Brothers, at $4 a week. During the
part of a year he worked on this job he
thought seriously over the counsel his
father had given him and the prayers his
mother had offered for him ancl developed
for himself the philosophy of life he has
advocated religiously from that day to this.
The theory he developed then was that if
everything his parents had told him was
true, and he po.ssessed the child's blind
faith in its parents' wisdom, if he gave
his employer hard work and faithful service
he would receive in return the maximum
wages and the world would contribute the
added recompense of steady advancement
toward success. His one and only purpose
was to make good and wrest success from
the world, who decorates so few of her sons
with the laurels of lasting success.
His early determination to always re-
ceive the highest possible remuneration for
his services caused him to leave the cloth-
ing store after a period of employment
considerably less than a year and seek a
more lucrative occupation.
After passing through a period of four
years spent in various occupations his par-
ents finally prevailed upon him to learn
the clothing cutting and drafting trade.
The good offices of his mother induced
Alexander Ofi'ner, of the clothing manu-
facturing firm, Mayer, Scheurer and
Offner, to take the sixteen year old John
Henry Buning into his establishment as
an apprentice clothing cutter. At that
time Mayer, Scheurer and Offner was one
of the leading clothing manufacturing
houses in the Middle West, and it was by
no means an easy task to gain entrance
to its working organization.
Then followed a period of two years
spent in absorbing toil, during which the
young man labored seriously to become the
best in his trade. His unceasing persever-
ance was rewarded, and when he was eight-
een years old he won the coveted ap-
pointment as assistant foreman in the cut-
ting room of the clothing factory, at a
much larger salary than many of his seniors
were earning. His employers had perfect
confidence in his ability as a producer
when they made him assistant foreman of
the cutting room, and soon found that their
confidence was wisely placed. After at-
taining this first victory he became pos-
sessed of some leisure and interested him-
self in politics and civic improvements.
He busied himself during his leisure
hours from business in organizing the West
End Improvement Association, whose ob-
ject was to force the Cincinnati Street
Car Company, owned and operated by
John Kilgour under a fifty years franchise
on all the streets of Cincinnati, to abandon
.some unfair schemes concerning the junk-
ing of lines serving certain pioneer sec-
tions of the Queen City. This association
is still in existence and a powerful civic
influence in the main section of Cincinnati.
Had the Street Car Company succeeded in
its designs the section of the city so dear
to young Buning would have become iso-
lated and business would have died a nat-
ural death. The West End Improvement
Association, thanks to Buning 's tireless
energy and courage to fight for what he
thought was just, employed legal talent
and fought the Street Car Company to a
standstill, forcing them to continue service
on the lines they intended to abandon.
Another abuse which aroused Buning 's
fighting spirit in the days of his minority
was the practice resorted to by a few in-
dustries operating plants along the Ohio
river of filling in along the banks, thus
acquiring free land. This practice of at-
tempting to harness nature soon reacted in
the river backing up into the sewer sys-
tem of the city every time a little rain came,
causing untold damage and misery in the
lower sections of the city. He got into the
fight late, but his efforts were largely. re-
sponsible for the discontinuance of the
practice.
By this time he was known to many more
than his intimate circle of friends as a
young man of decided convictions, and to
be possessed of the cool determination and
courage to fight his battles through to a
successful issue. His fight on the Street
Car Company franchise brought him before
the public eye and the republicans of Cin-
cinnati decided that a young man endowed
with Buning 's energy, sagacity and pug-
nacity would represent them to advantage
in the State Legislature. Accordingly he
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became the republican candidate for the
State House of Representatives in a
strong democratic district and met defeat.
This decided him that he was not created
for a politician, and he turned his whole
energy to business, giving politics only
that amount of attention the subject de-
mands from every patriotic citizen.
"When he had reached the age of twenty-
two he had decided definitely to leave Cin-
cinnati to seek broader opportunities else-
where. The Hoosier capital was his choice
after careful consideration of sane advice
from his many business associates and
friends. Accordingly in 1897 the twenty-
two years old Buning presented himself to
Robert E. Springsteen, a leading tailor in
Indianapolis at that time and now the post-
master, asking for employment as a cutter
and designer. He was employed for a trial
period at a nominal wage. When the ex-
pected raise in salary did not come, and in
addition he found himself facing a reduc-
tion of $5 a week, he decided to make
another change in his occupation and get
into one which promised higher remunera-
tion.
He determined to learn the merchandise
brokerage business and secured his oppor-
tunity for doing this as an employee of C.
L. Dietz and Company of Indianapolis. His
energy and resourcefulness won rapid ad-
vancement for him in this new business,
and during his one year and eleven months
with the Dietz Company he became familiar
with every phase of the business. He was
next employed by the J. M. Paver Com-
pany, to whom he gave the best of his abili-
ties "until 1906.
From his errand boy days in the Cincin-
nati clothing store to those in which he
won distinction as a brokerage salesman for
the Paver Company in 1906, John H. Bun-
ing had steadily built his house upon the
rock of regular habits and business-like
precision. He had extended his business
acquaintance to a host of business men in
Indiana, Illinois, Michigan and Ohio.
Each new business acquaintance developed
into a business friend, and added one more
brick to the structure he was building on
the firm foundation of his early youth. He
has heard that Thomas A. Edison answered
a youth who asked him on one occasion
what one quality a young man must pos-
sess to be successful, ' ' Young man are you
able to save regularly a fixed part of your
wages, no matter how small they may be?
If you are you will be successful. If not
you will be a failure." These wise words
of the great inventor were the germ which
gave life to Buning 's inherited thrift and
spurred him on to save a part of his salary
every time he was paid, no matter how
small was the amount.
In 1906, therefore, he made up his mind
that the time for him to strike out for
himself in business had arrived. He had
mastered the merchandise brokerage busi-
ness thoroughly from every angle. His
savings were sufficient to start the enter-
prise and his tireless energy and iron de-
termination were the qualities which kept
it moving toward success during the dark
hours of the beginning fight. He started
out with supreme self-confidence to guide
his frail bark through the angry waves of
competition to the harbor of success.
Success rewarded his efforts and before
John H. Buning and Company had been
in business a year, with headquarters in
Indianapolis, it was known to merchants
throughout the Middle West as a leader
among merchandise brokers. Today his
company occupies offices on the fifth floor
of the Majestic Building in Indianapolis,
and does an enormous business in Indiana,
Ohio, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, and
indeed touches all the states of the Middle
West. The expansion of his project was
rapid, and he soon took his two brothers
into the business to act as salesmen. They
are dealers in food products, specializing
in canned goods, dried fruits, beans and
pickles. Mr. Buning maintains a branch
office in Dayton, Ohio, to care for the east-
t rn part of the business.
The following incident of his business
life is told in the Indianapolis Star of
January 28, 1915 :
"The second man to use the Trans-Con-
tinental Telephone Line of the American
Telephone and Telegraph Company, and
the first man to make use of the coast wire
for commercial purposes is John Buning,
of the John H. Buning & Company, Mer-
cantile Brokers, with offices at 517-18 Ma-
jestic Building. The first to use the wire
was President Wilson, who spoke over it
from his offices in Washington last Monday.
"Probably the sale of a large order of
dried fruit was never accorded such an
atmosphere of romance. Mr. Buning
wished to give a large order to a firm in
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San Francisco, and the idea of using the
Trans-Continental Wire for the purpose
came to him suddenly at noon yesterday.
He called Long Distance and asked to be
put in connection with San Francisco, fifty
two minutes later he was in conversation
with Simon Lipman, sales manager of the
concern. But when you are conversing at
the rate of .$7.00 per minute, you must get
down to business quickly, and so — 'This is
John Buning — Indianapolis, get your pen-
cil I 've got some business for you, ' said Mr.
Buning to the astonished Californian sit-
ting there in his ofifice by the Golden Gate,
more than 3,000 miles away. The conver-
sation cost Mr. Buning $27.75.
" 'Right at first,' said i\Ir. Buning,
' Lipman 's voice sounded as if it came out
of a deep well, but in a few seconds every-
thing was working fine, and both our voices
was distinct, I only had to repeat one
word — and I think that is a pretty good
record for one man to talk to San Fran-
cisco once and New York twice in the same
day. It is certainly spanning the conti-
nent.' "
During the thirteen years that have
elapsed since John H. Buning began busi-
ness for himself as a merchandise liroker
he has had the opportunity of giving at-
tention to various interests other than busi-
ness. He organized the first merchandise
brokerage association in Indianapolis and
served as its first president. He has long
been recognized as a public spirited citizen
and did duty as a deputy sheriff during
the great flood of 1913. On several other
occasions he has been deputized for service
helping to stamp out industrial strife.
Out of the proceeds of his energetic
career Mr. Buning has become the owner
of much valuable real estate in Indian-
apolis, including several apartment houses
and residence properties. He is a member
of the Elks Club of Indianapolis, and has
heen a member of the United Commercial
Travelei-s for twenty years. He is also a
member of the Columbia Club of Indian-
apolis.
Joseph R. Burton, distinguished as a
political leader and as a United States sen-
ator, was born near ]\Iitchell, Indiana, No-
vember 16, 1851. His boyhood was spent
on a farm, and after a thorough prepara-
tion he was admitted to the bar in 1875.
For three terms he was a member of the
Kansas Legislature, was a member of the
World's Columbian Exposition from that
state, and he has been prominent in polit-
ical campaigns since 1876. During 1901-7
Mr. Burton was a United States senator
from Kansas. He is a republican in
politics.
The home of Senator Joseph R. Burton
is at Abilene, Kansas.
Frederick M. Bachm.vn. In the long
run it seems that the good things of life
come to the deserving. Those good things
are not only money and substantial busi-
ness station, but the honors and esteem
that go with good citizenship and a name
that accompanies honorable endeavor. An
Indianapolis citizen who won a large share
of this kind of prosperity was the late
Frederick M. Bachman. ]Mr. Bachman
came to this country when a boy, liegan
life almost entirely on his own responsi-
bilities, worked against obstacles and han-
dicaps and made liberal use of his oppor-
tunities. He was deeply sensible of the
honor of being an American citizen and
repaid to the land of his adoption a com-
plete loyalty.
;\lr. Bachman was born at Dirmstein in
the Rhine Valley of Bavaria January 20,
1850. He was one of the eight children
who grew to maturity, and was a small
child when his mother died. He spent
the first fifteen years of his life in the old
country and an older sister acted as house-
keeper for tlie family. At the age of thir-
teen he finished his schooling, and after
that worked on a farm and helped his
brother who operated a bakery at the little
villaa-e of Dirmstein. In the early '50s an
older brother had come to the United
States, and the glowing reports he sent
back of the possibilities of the new world
aroused the father, Michael Bachman, to
follow the son.
Michael Bachman, accompanied by his
daughter and his son Frederick, came to
tlie United States in 1865. They traveled
on a steamship, and their first location was
at Louisville, Kentucky, where the father
engaged in gardening and where he died.
Frederick JI. Bachman attended school a
short time in Louisville, and made his own
way by employment in a bakery at wages
of $6 a month and board. That was his
start in the American business world. His
character was developed during those years
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of hard toil, necessary thrift and economy,
and he learned how to deny himself and
went without luxuries in order to solve
the more serious problems of existence.
Even as a young man he had an ardent
ambition to get ahead in the world and
establish a home for himself.
Coming to Indiana in 1867, he found
employment at Noblesville in a restaurant.
After'ten months he took a place as clerk
in a dry goods store, and wa.s there a
little more than two years. During all this
time he was very saving of his earnings.
Adjoining the store where he worked was
a general supply store. It had gone into
bankruptcy, and Mr. Bachman converted
it into an opportunity to get into business
for himself. The receiver of the store per-
mitted him to buy it for $1,000 and to
settle the obligation on time. He went
into the new work with a will and applied
the knowledge gained by his previous ex-
perience and after a time was able to
sell out at a profit. He then bought a
stock of groceries and engaged in the re-
tail grocery business, which he continued
alone for about ten years. He then sold
a half interest in the business, and re-
moving to Indianapolis bought a grocery
store at Ohio and Illinois streets known as
the old Ripley Corner. This was about
1880. Two years later, through unfor-
tunate investments, ]Mr. Bachman lost his
entire property. It was a heavy blow,
since his property represented long years
of painstaking effort and economy and self
denial. However, his credit was good and
borrowing money he bought a half interest
in a .saw mill and lumber yard at Lincoln
and Madison Avenue. That was the scene
of his business activities ever afterward,
and for a number of years he was sole
owner of a very prosperously managed
lumber business and was one of the rec-
ognized veterans of that industry in In-
dianapolis. Of late years his son was as-
sociated with him. Through this work he
prospered and accumulated a fair amount
of property, but better than all he sus-
tained an honorable name as an example
to his descendants.
Various other interests from time to time
claimed his attention. He was probably
given the first garbage contract ever let
in the City of Indianapolis. Besides be-
ing senior partner and founder of the F.
]M. Bachman Lumber Company he was a
director of the Fletcher- American National
Bank, the Fletcher Savings & Trust Com-
pany and the Citizens Gas Company. He
was president of the Indianapolis Drop
Forge Company and of the Booth Furni-
ture Company of Peru, Indiana. For a
number of years he was a member of the
board of directors of the German House,
and had much to do with the club's wel-
fare. He was a Protestant in religion and
was independent in politics, voting for men
and measures rather than party.
It was a life of most solid and sub-
stantial achievements that came to an end
with the death of Mr. Bachman at his home
in the Winter Apartments, 1310 North
Meridian Street, on December 30, 1917.
He was twice married. In 1879 he mar-
ried Louisa Rentsch, who died in 1892.
She was survived by two children, Fred-
erick M., Jr., and Alma, the latter the wife
of Herman P. Lieber. In 1897 Mr. Bach-
man married Katherine Reger, of Indian-
apolis, who survives him.
John J. Garrett is senior partner in the
firm of Garrett & Williams, who operate
the largest garage and general automobile
salesrooms in the City of Anderson. Their
handsome and well equipped establish-
ment is located on ileridian and Four-
teenth streets.
Mr. Garrett, who has lived at Anderson
for the past five years and gained the full
respect and esteem of his fellow citizens
in business affairs, was bom on a farm in
Allen County, Indiana, a son of John and
ilarie (Disler) Garrett. His people were
what is called Pennsylvania German stock,
and were pioneers in Pennsylvania. The
family came to Indiana in 1861, settling
on a fafm in Allen County. John J. Gar-
rett's early experiences were those of a
farmer boy who attended country schools
about five months every winter and worked
in the fields the rest of the season. After
reaching young manhood he filled various
other positions, but most of his time was
spent on a farm of thirty acres in Allen
County until November 1, 1913.
At that date he came to Anderson, and
with his brother Henry bought the old
Charles Garage at Fourteenth and Meri-
dian streets. The name was changed to
the Palace Garage Company. In Novem-
ber, 1915, Mr. Garrett sold his interest in
the business, but after a brief retirement
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formed a partnership with Earl Williams
and established the City Garage at 1119
Main Street. They conducted this prop-
erty for about a year, and on selling out
repurchased the old Palace Garage, where
they are still located. This garage had
a capacity for seventy-five cars, and they
maintain a complete repair shop and fur-
nish a service unexcelled anywhere in Madi-
son County.
In 1898 Mr. Garrett married Miss Aldora
IMaxfield, daughter of Orange and INlartha
(Dever) Maxfield of Fort Wayne, Indiana.
Three children have been born to their
marriage, Dewey, born in 1899 ; Dallas,
born in 1907 ; and John, Jr., born in 1917.
Mr. Garrett is a republican, member of
the Christian Church, and is active in Ma-
sonry, having served as master of his
lodge at Anderson during the years 1910-
11-12.
Edw.\rd a. Duckworth has .had a busy
career for many years, and is well known
in commercial circles at Indianapolis as
well as in Anderson, where he is general
manager of the Starr Piano Company, on
Meridian Street between Twelfth and
Thirteenth streets.
]\Ir. Duckworth was born at Indianap-
olis October 16, 1877, a son of William and
Emma Duckworth. His education was
finished when he graduated from the In-
dianapolis High School in 1896. His de-
sire to become self supporting found an
outlet in employment as a wrapper in the
New York Dry Goods Store at Indianap-
olis. He was in that store four years, but
his ability had in the meantime brought
him several promotions and he was finally
foreman of the men's furnishings depart-
ment. After that he went on the road as
a traveling representative for a large
Queensware wholesale house at Indianap-
olis, and for six years traveled and sold
the goods of his company over an extensive
territoi-y embracing Indiana, Illinois and
Western Ohio.
His first connection with the piano trade
was as a traveling salesman for the King
Piano Company of Chicago. After a time
he was made manager of the King store
in Indianapolis, where he remained foTir
years. In 1909 he came to Anderson to
"take the local management of the Starr
Piano Company, and has been here ever
since, developing a large clientele all over
^ladisou Count}', so that the Starr pianos
are probably as widelj' represented in the
homes of the county as any other one make.
Mr. Duckwoi'th married in 1898 Miss
Dessie Jones, of Indiananolis. She died in
1905, leaving four children. In 1911 he
married Miss Leone Cobburn, of Bluffton,
Indiana, ilr. Duckworth is a republican,
and is affiliated with the ilasonic order,
the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and
the Benevolent and Protective Order of
Elks.
Frederick A. Joss has been engaged in
the practice of law in Indiana more than
a quarter of a century, and his home dur-
ing nearly all this time has been at Indian-
apolis. His prestige as a sound and able
lawyer has long been secure. He has also
been a prominent leader in the republican
party, and through his profession and his
public influence has exerted a commendable
activity in various fields of business and
civic affairs.
In the paternal line Mr. Joss is of Swiss
ancestry. His grandfather was John Joss,
who spent the greater part of his life in
Germany, and served with distinction in
the German army. His last years were
lived in Constantine, Michigan. He had
a liberal pension from the German govern-
ment because of his army services.
Capt. John C. Joss, father of the In-
dianapolis lawyer, was born and reared in
Germany, was educated in the universities
of Heidelberg and Halle, and soon after-
wards, in 1856, came to America. He be-
came editor of the Constantine Commercial
Advertiser, a pioneer newspaper of Jlichi-
gan. He was one of the few men in that
section of the state at the time who pos-
sessed a university training, and that to-
gether with his own individual talents and
ability brought him to a position of suc-
cess and prominence. At the beginning of
the Civil war he enlisted in Company A
of the Second ilichigan Infantry, rose to
the rank of captain, and was in the serv-
ice three years, until incapacitated by an
injury. He was in seventeen important
battles of the war, including both battles
of Bull Run, Chantilly, Fair Oaks and the
siege of Vicksburg. At Knoxville, Ten-
nessee, he received a severe wound, and on
the third day of the battle of the Wilder-
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ness suffered an injury which necessitated
the amputation of his left leg above the
knee.
Coming out of the army Captain Joss
returned to St. Joseph County, Michigan,
and was elected county clerk, an office he
filled continuously for fourteen years.
While a county officer his home was at
Centerville. After leaving office he lived
in retirement, and was killed in a railroad
accident Februarj^ 2, 1881. Captain Joss
married Mary Moore Merrell. She was
born in Chautauqua County, New York,
of New England Puritan stock.
Frederick A. Joss was born May 5, 1867,
while the home of his parents was at Cen-
terville, St. Joseph Count}-, Michigan. He
lived there thirteen years, acquired his
first training in the public schools, after-
ward was a student in the Ann Arbor
High School, and entered the University
of Jlichigan with the class of 1889.
From university he went to Canada and
spent about eighteen months looking after
some important mining interests in the
Province of Quebec. Returning to the
United States, he located at Frankfort,
Indiana, where he studied law iinder
Samuel 0. Bayless, who in his time was
one of the prominent railroad attorneys
of Indiana. Admitted to the bar in 1891,
Mr. Joss did his first professional work in
Frankfort, but in June of the following
year came to Indianapolis and after a brief
interval was accepted into partnership by
Ovid B. Jameson. The finn of Jameson
& Joss and later that of Jameson, Joss &
Hay for many years had a standing second
to none among the strong and resourceful
legal combinations at Indianapolis. Mr.
Joss is still practicing law and is also serv-
ing as secretary of the Marion County
Realty Company, and spends much time
looking after extensive investments in vari-
ous parts of the United States."
His public record has three distinctive
points, his service as corporation counsel
of Indianapolis, his membership in the
State Senate, and his leadership in the re-
publican party of Indiana. He was ap-
pointed corporation counsel in 1901. A
notable feature of his official term was his
suece.ss in bringing together the conflicting
interests and claims of the local street rail-
way people and the interurban lines to a
settlement which contributed to the per-
manent position Indianapolis occupies as
one of the chief centers of interurban and
electric railways in the United States. Out
of that settlement one of the immediate
results was the construction of the great
interurban station at Indianapolis.
Mr. Joss was elected a member of the
State Senate in 1898, serving through the
sessions of 1899-1901. Of his work as a
senator and as a republican leader the
best statement is found in the following
words : ' ' While in the Senate he introduced
the famous Joss Railroad Consolidation
Bill, a measure affecting noncompeting
lines of railroads similar to the measures
now recommended to congress by the In-
terstate Commerce Commission, ex-Presi-
dent Roosevelt and President Taft, amen-
datory of the Sherman Law. He was also
author of the Joss Primary Law, which
was the initial step in this state toward
primary reform and which Mr. Joss be-
lieves to contain the correct theory of
primary legislation, and to which all prim-
ary laws will ultimatelj' come, viz : a de-
finite legal primary for the organization
of parties, an optional legal primary for
the selection of candidates, for the reason
that an extensive double election system
is a remedy and not an every day diet.
In the season of 1899 he was one of the
original Beveridge men, the manager of
Mr. Beveridge 's interests on the floor of
the eaucas when the latter became nominee
of the republican party for the office of
United State senator, and was chosen to
make the nominating speech on the floor
of the senate. Mr. Joss has been prominent
in the councils of the republican party
leaders during the last decade, being a
delegate to the Republican National Con-
vention in 1916, and has been distin-
guished by a singular clearness of percep-
tion and resourcefulness coupled with an
unswerving loyalty to causes and men
whom he espoused. He is an intense con-
servative, a believer in existing conditions,
but an advocate of change whenever the
necessity and the method is jilain. "
Many times in the course of his active
career Mr. Joss has left his business and
other interests for travel, and has a knowl-
edge of the world and its peoples such as
come only as a result of wide travel and
extensive observation. Shortly before the
outbreak of the European war he spent two
years abroad, traveling and studying, visit-
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tinental Europe aud also Northern Africa
and Western Asia. Mr. Joss is a member
of the Columbia Club, the Marion Club,
University Club, Dramatic Club, Country
Club, the German House, and the Indian-
apolis Maennerchor. In Masonry he has
attained the thirty-second degree of Scot-
tish Rite and membership in the Mystic
Shrine. He belongs to the Dutch Reformed
Church of America. September 2, 1891,
he married Miss Mary Quarrier Hubbard.
She was born and reared in West Vir-
ginia,' member of one of the oldest and
most prominent families of Wheeling. Her
parents were John R. and Lucy (Clark)
Hubbard. The three children of Mr. and
Mrs. Joss are Mary Hubbard, Lucyauna
Hubbard and John Hubbard. Besides the
advantages of local schools these children
were educated abroad, spending much time
in finishing schools in Switzerland, the
home of 'Sir. Joss' ancestors.
During the recent World war and after
putting his business interests in a position
to stand the unusual conditions Mr. Joss
in 1918 moved his whole family to Wash-
ington, where they were engaged in war
work. Mr. Joss becoming legal advisor of
the Engineering Division of the War De-
partment.
Herbert Marion Elliott has been a
member of the Grant County bar for a
quarter of a century, but his work has been
too broad to be included in any one pro-
fession. He has been called "the chil-
dren's friend" of Marion, and it is his
achievements as a disinterested aud public
spirited citizen that make him best known
in his home locality.
For several years he was secretary of
the Marion Federation of Charities; for
four years was probation officer for Grant
County ; for six years was president of the
Board of Children's Guardians; and since
its organization has been secretary of the
Grant County Hospital Association. This
last institution is now one of his deepest
interests. He was not satisfied until the
association had carried out its plan and in
1917 had completed a well equipped hos-
pital buildin* valued today at $70,000 and
representing one of the institutions that
mean most to the welfare of the City of
Marion and the county. All his work in
behalf of child welfare has not been done
merejy through official channels. In fact
much of it has been as a result of his
private enterprise. He has found homes
for a large number of children, aud the
community has frequently expressed its
gratification over the fact that it possesses
a man who requires no official prompting
to zealously preserve and safeguard the
interests of delinquent and homeless juv-
eniles. Several years ago J\lr. Elliott wrate
an article for a history of Grant County
on the work of the Juvenile Court and its
kindred agencies, aud if the truth were
known his own eiforts would furnish most
of the real material for the story of that
philanthropy and official service. Mr. "El-
liott has written much on the subject of
child saving and charity in general, and
some of his ideas regarding the working
of jail prisoners for the benefit of their
families was made the subject of special
endorsement at a session of the National
Prison Reform Board. Mr. Elliott was the
first man in Indiana to advocate the plan
of using vacant lots in a city for rais-
ing crops by and for the poor, a plan
which of course has received much wider
extension as a result of the war garden
movement.
Mr. Elliott was born at Holly, IMichi-
gan, September 15, 1853, son of Marcus
DeLos and Emily A. (Seely) Elliott, both
natives of New York State. His father
during the Civil war was captain of Com-
pany H of the Eighth Michigan Light Ar-
tillery, was a farmer bj' occupation, and
among other offices served as a member of
the JMichigan Legislature from Oakland
County in 1877-78. He died September
5, 1905, while his wife passed away in
March, 1895. They had four children:
Herbert M. ; Addie E. ; George M., now
of Tacoma, formerly of Marion, Indiana ;
and John D. By the second marriage of
his father, Mr. Elliott has a half sister,
Marion H., who is a public school teacher
in iMichigan. A foster sister, Cora Belle,
was adopted into his father's family and
who later as a public entertainer became
broadly known as the "Child Elocutionist
of Michigan."
The early life of Herbert IMarion Elliott
was spent on a fann and he early learned
the lessons of self reliance. He attended
common schools at Holh', high school and
college at Ann Arbor, and increased his
educational opportunities during a service
of nine years spent as a school t.eacher.
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He also did some practical farming in Oak-
land County. For abont four years, un-
til 1882, he was in the drug business at
Hollj', Davisburg and at Detroit. He also
studied law, and on January 4, 1884, was
admitted to the bar at St. Johns, Michi-
gan. He practiced several years at Au-
sable and Oscoda, Michigan, and in 1890
opened an office at Detroit. In April, 1893,
he moved to his home at Marion, Indiana.
While in Michigan he served as prosecuting
attorney of Iosco County two terms and
was Circuit Court commissioner for two
terms, and for two t^rms was secretary of
the board of education of Oscoda, ilr.
Elliott and his brother George were in
partnership as lawyers at Marion for fif-
teen years. In that time they organized
and established the Marion Planing Mill
Company and the Marion Insurance Ex-
change, and were identified with a number
of other local enterprises. Mr. Elliott is a
Mason, active in the Presbyterian Church
and its Sunday School, and is a repub-
lican in politics.
September 4, 1878, he married Miss Ella
A. McLean, of Clio, Michigan. She was
born in Genesee County, that state. Mrs.
Elliott has been in close sympathy with
her husband in matters of charitable work.
They have two children, Harry McLean
of Los Angeles, California, and Merle Dee
Clark, of Indianapolis, Indiana.
William Langsenkamp came to Indian-
apolis about 1853, and was a coppersmith
when the present metropolis of the state
was but little more than an overgrown vil-
lage. He continued to reside here sixty-
four years, and his own activities and those
of his descendants have brought many
prominent associations of the name jvith
the industrial welfare of Indianapolis.
When he came to Indianapolis William
Langsenkamp was about eighteen years of
age. He possessed the inherited thrift and
industry characteristic of the German-
American people, and it was not many
years before he bought out the old copper-
smithing firm of Cottrell & Knight, and
thereafter until his retirement conducted
it under his own name.
He was born in the Kingdom of Hano-
ver, Germany, in 1835, and there had his
early rearing. At the age of eighteen he
left home and native land, following an
older brother to America, and his entire
later life was spent in Indianapolis. He
early became known as a skillful worker,
and always retained the reputation of an
honorable, upright man of business. He
married Helen Hunt in 1862. Their chil-
dren were: Henry; Helen, Mrs. Henry
Gramling; Lilly; William; Clara, Mrs.
William Clume; Bertha, Mrs. John Hab-
ing; Prank; and Edith, Mrs. Leo Sulli-
van.
William Langsenkamp died February
14, 1917, at the age of eighty-one, honored
and respected for his manj' estimable quali-
ties and achievements.
J. Ralph Fenstermaker, . secretary-
treasurer of the Hugh J. Baker Company
of Indianapolis, is one of the younger but
among the most progressive business men
of the capital city.
He was born at Dayton, Montgomery
County, Ohio, July 18, 1891, son of John
R. and May C. Fenstermaker, both of whom
are still living at the respective ages of
sixty-three and fifty-eight. This is an old
colonial family in America. The first an-
cestor arrived in 1732, and successive
moves of the present branch is indicated
by the fact that Mr. Fenstermaker 's great-
grandfather was born in New York State,
his grandfather in Pennsylvania, his own
father near Warren in Eastern Ohio, while
he was born at Dayton in Western Ohio,
and his son in Indianapolis.
Graduating from the Steele High School
at Dayton at the age of sixteen, Mr. Fen-
stermaker then pursued post-graduate work
in languages and history at the high school
and attended the old Miami Commercial
College, one of the pioneer schools offering
a general business course, which was sup-
plemented by thorough commercial experi-
ence in the Winters National and the Third
National banks at Dayton, and also as spe-
cial agent for a Casualty Insurance Com-
pany.
Mr. Fenstermaker came to Indianapolis
in June, 1911. He was at that time asso-
ciated with Hugh J. Baker, formerly of
Dayton, who had married Mr. Fensterm.ak-
er's sister in June. 1906. The business as
established at Indianapolis was a copart-
nership known as the Fireproofing Spe-
cialties Company. Later it was incorpor-
ated in 1914 as the Fireproofing Company,
and still later was consolidated with the
reinforcing steel and engineering business
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of Hugh J. Baker on January 1, 1918, as
the Hugh J. Baker Company. This is oue
of the hu'ge and important establishments
of Indianapolis, and more information con-
cerning it will be found elsewhere in con-
nection with the sketch of Mr. Hugh J.
Baker.
Mr. Fenstermaker has entered actively
into all social and community affairs at
Indianapolis. He is affiliated with Orien-
tal Lodge No. 500, Free and Accepted Ma-
sons, Oriental Chapter No. 147, Royal
Arch Masons, the various Scottish Rite
bodies and the Mystic Shrine. He is a
member of the Chamber of Commerce, the
Kiwanis Club, the Optimist Club and is a
director in the Indianapolis Ci-edit Men's
Association. October 17, 1912, he married
Wanda Louise DeBra, of Dayton, Ohio.
Their two children John Ralph, born
April 29, 1914, and William Bancroft
Fenstermaker, born January 29, 1919.
Thomas Reed Cobb was born in Law-
rence County, Indiana, July 2, 1828. He
attended Indiana University, and after
completing his law training practiced at
Bedford from 1853 until 1867. He then
removed to Vincennes, where he was en-
gaged in the practice of law until his death,
June 23, 1892. He served as a member of
Congress for ten years, from 1877 until
1887.
Charles H. Rinne. For upwards of
thirty years a large section of the popu-
lation of Indianapolis has known and ap-
preciated the business service rendered by
Charles H. Rinne. Until he retired a few
years ago he was in the grocery business,
and has accumulated a number of interests
that give him a substantial position among
the leading commercial men of the city.
Mr. Rinne is now secretarj^ of the Grocers
Baking Company.
~He was born near Hanover, Germany,
July 9, 1865, son of Charles H. and Emilie
(Wirgman) Rinne. His father, after serv-
ing his time in the German army received
the appointment as a deputy court officer,
corresponding to the position of deputy
sheriff in this country. He died in 1882,
at the age of fifty-six. His wife died when
her son Charles was a small child. Both
parents were members of the Evangelical
Lutheran Church. In their family were
seven children.
Charles H. Rinne was reared and edu-
cated in his native land, and while there
served a brief apprenticeship at the ti-ade
of confectioner. His brother Herman E.
had come to this country and located at In-
dianapolis in 1872, and it was the example
thus set that afforded Charles H. Rinne
his inspiration to become an American.
He gratified that desire when seventeen
years of age. Reaching Indianapolis, he
worked for a time with Warmeling
Brothers, and then entered the employ of
the Vonnegut Hardware Company, with
whom he acquired a thorough business ex-
perience. When twenty-one j-ears of age
Mr. Rinne made application for citizen-
ship papers, and at the age of twenty-five
he became a full fledged American citizen
and has always taken his citizenship seri-
ously.
After leaving the Vonnegut Hardware
Company Mr. Rinne worked for his
brother 'Herman in the latter 's grocery
store, and three years later acquired a
partnership in the business. In 1901 "Mr.
Rinne sold out his store on Kansas and
Meridian streets and at once opened a new
store on Washington Street. In 1912 he
retired from active merchandising. Be-
sides his official position in the Grocers
Baking Company, of which he is one of
the seven originatore, Mv. Rinne helped
reorganize the Indianapolis Casket Com-
pany. This was a small business formerly
conducted at Shelbyville, Indiana. The
present organization was formed and took
it over and established the plant at Indian-
apolis, and has made it one of the larger
enterprises of its kind.
In February. 1889, Mr. Rinne married
Emma Kuerst, daughter of Henry Kuerst.
]\Irs. Rinne was born in Indianapolis, at
Madison Avenue and McCarty Street.
They are the parents of two children, Her-
man and Mrs. Edward Ott, of Dayton,
Ohio. The son Herman is a successful
young business man of Indianapolis and
is also prominent in musical circles. Mr.
Rinne is identified with various benevolent
societies, and in ilasonry is affiliated with
the Lodge, Royal Arch Chapter, Scottish
Rite and the Mystic Shrine.
Richard Henry Misener is a retired
engineer of the Michigan Central Railway
Company and has long been a resident of
Michigan City. He was born on a farm
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six miles from Niagara Falls, Ontario,
March 26, 1849. His grandfather, Nicholas
ilisener, was a native of Germany, a
pioneer farmer in Welland County, Can-
ada, and lived there until his death at
the age of ninety. He married a Scotch-
woman named McLain, and they had a
family of eight sons and four daughters,
most of whom lived to be over ninety years
of age, and one son to the age of 104.
John Misener, father of Richard H., suc-
ceeded to the ownership of the old Canada
farm and spent his life there. The farm
is now owned by one of his sons. He died
at the age of ninety and his wife at eighty.
Her maiden name was Jane Davis. Her
father, David Davis, was a native of Ver-
mont. John Misener and wife had a fam-
ily of eleven children.
Richard Henry Misener grew up on the
Canada farm and at the age of seventeen
went to Joliet, Illinois, and for two years
worked at farm labor. He then became a
fireman with the i\Iichigan Central Rail-
road Company, and in 1872 established his
home at Michigan City. He was promoted
to engineer in 1875, and continued faith-
ful in the service until 1902, when he re-
tired and was pensioned. He is a member
of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engi-
neers and is also a Mason.
In 1876 he married Sarah A. Eastwood,
who was bom in Cook County, Illinois,
daughter of Cyrus and Sarah (Hunter)
Eastwood. Her grandfather, Cornelius
Eastwood, was a native of Holland and for
a number of years was a farmer in Lake
County, Indiana. Mrs. Misener 's father
was a carpenter and later a farmer near the
present site of Erie, Indiana, and finally
engaged in the mercantile business.
Mr. and Mrs. Misener have one son, Her-
bert R., who is member of the firm Robb
& Misener, publishers of the ^Michigan City
Evening News. Herbert R. ^Misener mar-
ried Zeola Hershey, and their two children
are Dorothy and Richard.
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St.\nley Coulter. In May, 1917, hun-
dreds of alumni and students of Purdue
University and many distinguished scien-
tists from all parts of the world gathered
to participate in and lend the honor of
their presence to the dedication of the
Stanley Coulter Hall of Biology at Pur-
due. Seldom does a man still in the full
tide of life and energy receive such an
impressive tribute. Stanley Coulter, whose
name the Hall of Biology bears in recog-
nition of his twenty years of valued serv-
ice to the university, has been an Indiana
teacher and educator for over forty years,
and while personally best known to the
student and alumni body of Purdue Uni-
versity, his achievements and attainments
as a scientist are known among scholarly
men in every state of the Union. The
Stanley Coulter Hall of Biology was erect-
ed upon the site of the old Science Hall
on the Purdue Campus, where it is at
once one of the latest and most distinctive
of the universitv buildings, constructed at
a cost of $100,000.
Stanley Coulter was born at Ningpo,
China, June 2, 1853, son of Moses Stanley
and Caroline F. (Crowe) Coulter. His
older brother, John Merle Coulter, was
also born in this far off missionary sta-
tion, and has achieved distinction and
scholarship along similar lines to his
brother at Lafayette. John M. Coulter was
formerly president of Lake Forest Univer-
sity, but for over twenty years has been
professor and head of the Department of
Botany of the University of Chicago.
Stanley Coulter acquired his early edu-
cation in the schools of ]\Iadison, Indiana,
and when quite yoiing entered Hanover
College, from which he received the fol-
lowing degrees: A. B. in 1871, A. M. in
1874, Ph. D. in 1879, and LL. D. in 1908.
He began teaching soon after leaving Hano-
ver, one year at Franklin, Indiana, and
then in the Logansport High School, where
he remained eight years as principal. Dur-
ing a temporary absence from the teach-
ing profession he practiced law, beginning
in 1882, but after three years in that pro-
fession he resumed the work for which un-
doubtedly his talents and experience have
best fitted him. He then became a pro-
fessor in Coates College for Women at
Terre Haute, but in 1887 came to Purdue
University as Professor Biology and di-
rector of the Biological Laboratory. In
1907 he became Dean of the School of
Science, so that his full title is now Dean
of the School of Science, Professor of
Biology and Director of the Biological La-
l)oratory.
Professor Coulter is a member of many
scholarly organizations and educational as-
sociations. He is a member of the Sigma
Xi, Beta Theta Pi and Sigma Delta Chi,
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is a Fellow of the Indiana Academy of
Science, which he served as president in
1897, a member of the American Associa-
tion for the Advancement of Science, of
the State Board of Forestry, was the tirst
president of the Science Teachers Associa-
tion, is a member of the Western Society
of Naturalists and a member of the Botani-
cal Society of America. Professor Coulter
was Lecturer of Botany in the Summer
Schools of Wisconsin in 1893 and at Cor-
nell University from 1903 to 1907, and
has been Lecturer on Science Teaching at
the Indianapolis Teachers Training School
since 1900 and Lecturer to Seniors in
Physiology at St. Elizabeth's Hospital,
Lafayette, since 1895.
Professor Coulter's services are in much
demand as a lecturer, and he is one of the
most popular platform speakers among
modern scientists. He is author of Forest
Trees of Indiana, published in 1892 ; Flora
of Indiana, published in 1899 ; eleven pam-
phlets upon Nature Study, forty-five pam-
phlets of Scientific Studies and Reports,
and seventy other titles, including many
book reviews, biographical sketches, etc.
Professor Coulter is a director of the Na-
tional Society for the Protection of Wild
Plants. He is a member of the Associa-
tion of Colleges and Secondary Schools
of the Northwest, and in 1901-02 was pres-
ident of the State Audubon Society. In
1904 he was chairman of the Central
Botanist Association. Another member-
ship that attests his broad interests is in
the Association for the Promotion of En-
gineering Education. All his former stu-
dents at Purdue will appreciate the truth
of the following words that have been writ-
ten of Professor Coulter: "He is a man
of deep convictions, indomitable persever-
ance and thorough in his investigations.
He is not easily discouraged, brushes away
trifles and goes directly for the heart of
his subject. With all his learning and dis-
tinction he is modest in his claims, kind
and patient in dealing either with people or
problems, open and candid in manner, and
of the well poised equable temperament
which renders him proof against discour-
agements. ' '
January 21, 1879, Professor Coulter
married Lucy Post, daughter of Martin M.
Post, D. D., of Logansport. Their only
daughter, Mabel, born in October, 1880,
married Albert Smith, a member of the
Purdue University faculty.
Cl.\sson Victor Peterson has taken
high rank as an educator in Indiana, is
both a teacher and school administrator,
and is a man whose ideals and breadth of
view make him peculiarly well qualified to
direct the schools of such an important
county as Tippecanoe in the capacity of
superintendent.
]\Ir. Peterson is a native of Tippecanoe
County, having been born on a farm ten
miles southwest of Lafayette on July 14,
1873. His father, Augustus Peterson, was
born in Sweden January 3, 1832, brought
his family to America in 1872, and ar-
rived in Indiana with practically no capi-
tal and no experience with American ways.
For a time he rented land in Tippecanoe
Comity, and as success came to him he
bought property and had a small farm
near West Point, on which he spent his
last years. He died there December 4,
1903. He was a member of the Society of
Friends and after attaining American citi-
zenship voted as a republican. He married
in 1854 Caroline Freeburg, who was born
in Sweden December 11, 1831. Of their
nine children the four oldest died in
Sweden in infancy. The other five are:
William A., deceased; Classon V.; Clin-
ton E. ; Alice E. and Amanda J., also de-
ceased.
Classon Victor Peterson was reared on
his father's farm, attended public schools
in Wayne Township, and in preparation
for his chosen work attended the State
Normal School at Terre Haute two terms
and one year in Valparaiso University.
His higher education was acquired as a
result of his own earnings as a teacher.
Mr. Peterson graduated from Purdue Uni-
versity with class of 1910.
In the same year he became superin-
tendent of schools at West Point, and his
successful record there as well as his in-
dividual work as a teacher laid the founda-
tion for his promotion in 1917 to his
present responsibilities as county superin-
tendent.
Mr. Peterson is a republican in politics
and a member of the Methodist Episcopal
Church. April 27, 1904, he married Miss
Elna B. Fonts. Mrs. Peterson was born
in Tippecanoe County and for four years
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prior to her marriage was a teacher. They
have five children, Mabel, Paul, Dorothy,
Lillian and William Arthur.
Leo Pottlitzer was a resident and busi-
ness man of Lafayette almost thirty-five
years. The importance of his life could
not be stated more concisely than in a brief
editorial which appeared in a Lafayette
paper at the time of his death. This edi-
torial reads as follows: "The death of
such a public spirited citizen as Leo Pott-
litzer, whose sudden demise is chronicled
today, is a distinct loss to the community.
For many years he had been one of our
enterprising business men, a hard worker
and an enthusiastic supporter of every
movement calculated to benefit his home
city. He was intensely loyal to Lafayette
and ever deeply concerned for its welfare.
In the ranks of the Travelers' Protective
Association he was long prominent, being
one of the organizers of this great national
society of commercial travelers. The story
of his business career shows how success
inevitably ' comes to reward honest effort
rightly applied."
Leo Pottlitzer was born in Germany May
24, 1856, and died in Lafayette September
15, 1917, at the age of sixty-one. For a
lifetime limited by three score years, it
was signally usefui and remarkable for its
fruits and achievements. At the age of
nine years he was brought to America, the
family locating at Jersey City, and thence
going to New York, where he spent his
years to manhood. Early experience
brought him in touch with the fruit and
general commission business, and under his
hands that became really a profession and
he was never in any other line than the
fruit and commission business, for which
reason he was sought on every side in his
mature years for advice and directions as
to methods and practices in the business^
On coming to Indiana Mr. Pottlitzer first
located at Indianapolis, where he had a
commission business on a small scale, but
in 188.3 he removed to Lafayette. Leo was
the oldest of five sons, the other brothers
being Jacob, Max, Julius and Herman. He
also had one sister, Mrs. Henrietta Dia-
mond, who is still living in Meadvillet,
Penn.sylvania. He and his brothers are
all Jiow deceased.
Leo Pottlitzer came to Lafayette with
his brother Julius, who died May 17, 1910.
The brothers opened a small commission
store at Second and Main streets. Two
years later they were joined by their
brother Herman, who died in January,
1908. A little later Max Pottlitzer came
to the city and joined forces with them.
Max died in May, 1907. In 1887 the Pott-
litzer brothers bought the old Baptist
Church property on Sixth Street between
Main and Ferry. There they put up a
large building which they occupied many
years under the name Pottlitzer Brothers
Fruit Company, another portion of it being
occupied by the Lafayette Baking Com-
pany. All the brothers were master minds
at directing such a business, and its growth
and prosperity were steadily increased.
The firm finally bought adjoining real es-
tate in the same block and erected the build-
ing which was the home of the Pottlitzer
Brothers for many years, and besides this
main establishment they maintained branch
stores in Fort Wayne and Huntington. In
1908 Pottlitzer Brothers Fruit Company
was dissolved, and a little later Leo Pott-
litzer organized the Leo Pottlitzer & Son
Company, commission house, first occupy-
ing a room on North Fourth Street, aiid
then as business demanded larger quarters
moving to 10 North Third Street, where
the establishment still stands as a monu-
ment to the career of its founder. Leo
Pottlitzer was president of the company,
and his son and successor, Edward L., was
secretary and treasurer.
The late Mr. Pottlitzer was a man of
irreproachable character, unquestioned in-
tegrity, and a citizen of liberal views and
generous impulses. Any worthy charity
could alwaj^s depend upon him for assist-
ance and the City of Lafayette was richer
for his presence as a citizen and coworker.
He cherished and supported every plan
and movement for making Lafayette a bet-
ter and greater city, and no matter what
the cares of private business he alwaj-s kept
well informed as to public questions and of
matters of broad public interest.
He was one of the charter members of
the National Association of the Travelers'
Protective Association, and was one of the
four delegates from Indiana at the first
convention in Denver in 1890. He had
been a member of the old Travelers' Pro-
tective Association for years before it dis-
banded. He was state president in Indiana
at one time. The delegates to the Denver
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eonveiitiou were furnished passes to that
city by the different railroads, the pass con-
sisting of a solid silver piece, good for 2,500
miles of travel. Leo Pottlitzer preserved
his pass as a treasured relic. He was fond
of talking of the days of the Denver con-
vention, and believed that no convention
had ever been celebrated with so much hos-
pitality and entertainment. He was promi-
nent both locally and in the state and
national organizations, and in 1891-92
served as president of the State Associa-
tion of Indiana and was a national di-
rector of the organization in 1893-94.
He had many warm friends among the
Travelers' Protective Association through-
out the country. In June, 1916, when the
national convention of the association was
held at Lafayette, ilr. Pottlitzer was
treasurer of the local executive committee,
and really overtaxed himself with work of
arrangements and other responsibilities.
During the entire week of the convention
he was confined to his apartments at the
Fowler Hotel, but from his sick bed was
able to greet many of the visiting delegates
who came to express recognition of his
services.
Mr. Pottlitzer was also affiliated with
the local lodge of Benevolent and Protective
Order of Elks, the United Commercial
Travelers, the Masonic Order, the Knights
of PjTthias, the Royal League and was a
memljer of the Reformed Jewish Congi-ega-
tion. His funeral was conducted by Rabbi
Maxwell Silver. On January 12, 1879, Mr.
Pottlitzer married Minnie Truman, of Cin-
cinnati. She and two children survive him,
the son being Edward L. Pottlitzer and the
daughter, Mrs. Charles Ducas, of New
York City. There were also two grand-
children by Mrs. Ducas, Dorothy aud
Elaine, and three .by his son, Leo, Babette
and Joseph Pottlitzer.
Edward L. Pottlitzer, only son of the
late Leo Pottlitzer, was bom in Indianap-
olis, Indiana, May 25, 1881, but has lived
in Lafayette since early infancy. He was
educated in the Lafayette High School, and
attended the Northwestern Military Acad-
emy at Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. On com-
pleting his education he became associated
with his father in business, and was secre-
tary and treasurer of the Leo Pottlitzer &
Son Company, and after the death of hjs
father became president of this large and
prosperous commission house.
He is also affiliated with the Travelers'
Pi-oteetive Association, the United Com-
mercial Travelers, the Benevolent and Pro-
tective Order of Elks, and the Rotary Club
of Lafayette. On January 12, 1904, at St.
Louis, Missouri, he married Miss Helene J.
Klein. She was born at Cincinnati No-
vember 12, 1881, daughter of Solomon and
Babette (Hyman) Klein, natives of Ger-
many and both now deceased. Mr. and
Mrs. Edward L. Pottlitzer have three chil-
dren : Leo, born March 24, 1905 ; Babette,
born January 12, 1906 ; and Joseph Klein,
born February 10, 1910.
Henry Heath Vinton. No name rep-
resents more of the dignity and high abil-
ities of the legal profession in Northwestern
Indiana than that of Vinton. The present
judge of the Superior Court of Tippecanoe
County is Henry H. Vinton, aud as a ju-
rist his work has brought further honoi's to
a name that has been associated with ju-
dicial and other high places in the affairs
of Tippecanoe County for over half a cen-
tury.
His father, the late David Perrine Vin-
ton, was a successful law.yer and judge at
Lafayette for almost half a century. Born
at Miamisburg, Ohio, November is, 1828,
David P. Vinton was a son of Boswell Mer-
rick and Hannah (Davis) Vinton. His
father died in 1833. His mother married
again and in 1841 brought her family to
Lafayette. David P. Vinton was thirteen
years old when the family moved to La-
fayette, and for a number of years he and
an older brother conducted a foundry and
machinist's business. He worked in the
shops until 1848, when he supplemented
his somewhat intermittent schooling by en-
tering South Hanover College at Hanover,
Indiana, and was a student there until De-
cember, 1851. In the spring of 1852 he
began the study of law with Behm & Wood
of Lafayette, and was admitted to the bar
in 1854. Public honors came to him in
rapid succession. He was city attorney in
1855 and again in 1861, and in the latter
year was appointed by Governor ilorton
judge of the Common Pleas Court. After
filling out the vacant term he was electe,d
to the office. That district of the Common
Pleas Court had jurisdiction over the coun-
ties of Tippecanoe, Benton, White, and
Carroll. He was in office six years, and
in March, 1865, had declined a commission
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from President Lincoln as an associate jus-
tice of the Supreme Court of the Territory
of New Mexico. In 1867 Governor Baker
appointed him judge of the Criminal Court,
and he was elected in the fall of that year
and held office to 1870. In 1870 he was
elected circuit judge, and performed the
responsible duties of that office for twenty
years.
Henry H. Vinton, a son of David Per-
rine and Elizabeth Catherine Vinton, was
born at Lafayette November 30, 1864. He
grew up in a home where there was every
incentive to make the best of his oppor-
tunities. He was given a liberal educa-
tion. He attended the public schools of
Lafayette and in 1885 graduated from
Purdue University. During 1885-86 he
was a student of law in the offices of Cof-
forth & Stuart at Lafayette, and in 1886-87
attended the Columbia Law School. Judge
Vinton was admitted to practice in Tippe-
canoe County in 1887, and has been one
of the prominent members of the bar for
thirty years. He was in partnership with
his father from 1889 until the latter 's
death, and from that date until February,
1901, was in practice with Edgar D. Ran-
dolph.
Judge Vinton was appointed in 1898
referee in bankruptcy by Hon. John H.
Baker, then United States district judge.
On February 8, 1901, Governor Winfield
T. Durbin appointed him judge of the
Superior Court of Tippecanoe County, and
b.y regular election and re-election he has
since continued in that office until his serv-
ice now covers a period of seventeen years.
Judge Vinton married June 13, 1888,
Miss Mabel Levering. Their only child is
Katherine Levering, now the wife of Wil-
liam F. Taylor of the Rainbow Division
and who is referred to on other pages.
Charles J. Elliott, president of the
Ridge Lumber Company, is one of the
younger and very enterprising bufiincss
men of Newcastle, and came to that city
and took his place in business affairs after
a successful experience as farmer and farm
owner.
Mr. Elliott was born in Columbus Town-
ship of Bartholomew County, Indiana, in
1884, son of Oscar and Sadie (Carr)
Elliott. He is of Scotch-Irish ancestry.
His people have been in America for many
generations. Mr. Elliott obtained his early
education in the country schools of his na-
tive county, and developed his strength by
work on the home farm. At the age of
sixteen he went to farming, and he had a
farm of 346 acres under his personal man-
agement and supervision until 1916. In
that j-ear he came to Newcastle, buying a
retail lumber yard from J. D. Case. He
soon incorporated the business, of which he
has since been president. Besides selling
general lumber material Mr. Elliott also es-
tablished a planing mill, and now has one
of the principal concerns of Henry County
for mill and general builders supplies. He
also owns some local real estate.
In 1907 Mr. Elliott married Mary M.
Schwenk, daughter of John and Margaret
(Moores) Schwenk, of Columbus, Indiana.
They have two children: Helen M. and
Charles Dale, the son born in 1909. Mr.
Elliott is a democrat and a Knight Templar
Mason, a Knight of Pythias, and is a mem-
ber of the Presbyterian Church.
George W. Cooper, for many years a
member of the Columbus, Indiana, bar,
was born in Bartholomew County of this
state May 21, 1851. In 1872 he graduated
from the law department of Indiana Uni-
versity, and from that time until his death,
he was one of the leading members of the
legal profession of Columbus. Some j'^ears
before his death Mr. Cooper was elected
to represent his district in Congress, and
in that office he carried forward the same
high ideals which he had maintained in his
daily practice.
William S. Potter has been a member
of the Indiana bar fort.y years, has prac-
ticed his profession in his native city of
Lafayette, and has become widely known
as a corporation and business lawyer,
financier, and as a citizen who has contrib-
uted much to the material improvement
and general betterment of his home city.
He represents one of the older families
of Lafayette, being the oldest son of Wil-
liam A." and Eliza (Stiles) Potter. Wil-
liam A. Potter was born in New York State,
and located at Lafayette, Indiana, in 1843.
He was a merchant for many years, after-
wards a manufacturer, and used his means
and influence in such a way as to promote
the substantial welfare of Lafayette. His
wife was a native of Suffield, Connecticut,
and came to Lafayette, Indiana, in 1850.
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William S. Potter was born at the home
of his parents on Columbia and Tenth
Streets in Lafa.yette in 1855. He was well
educated both in public and private schools,
and in 1876 graduated from the Massa-
chusetts Agricultural College at Amherst,
ilassachusetts. His mind was definitely
made up to follow the law, and returning
to Lafayette he became a law student in
the olBces of Wallace & Rice, and was ad-
mitted to the bar in 1878. Soon after-
ward the firm of Wallace & Rice was dis-
solved. For a time he was associated in
practice with Mr. Wallace, but later ac-
cepted the offer of a full partnership with
Captain Rice. The firm of Rice & Potter
continued for twenty years, and during
that time gained a reputation and a busi-
ness hardly second to any law firm in north-
ern Indiana. This partnership was dis-
solved through the death of Captain Rice
in 1901, and since then Mr. Potter has
practiced alone. For a number of years
he has given special attention to business
law and real estate law, and in these spe-
cial fields his clients have never hesitated
to recognize skill and ability with the best
in the state. No small part of his special
training in real estate matters is due to his
own operations, which have been extensive
and important in the handling and devel-
opment of real estate both iji Lafayette
and in different parts of the state and
country.
Mr. Potter is vice president and a direc-
tor of the Northern Indiana Land Com-
pany. This organization formerly owned
about 25,000 acres in Lafayette and Chi-
cago, propertj- bought for development and
improvement. He also owns important
holdings in the South and West and in
Chicago. Mr. Potter for many years has
been interested in banking, has been vice
president and director of the National
Fowler Bank at Lafayette, and is a stock-
holder in institutions in various cities and
towns. Throughout his career he has kept
in close touch with the material progress
and improvement of his native city.
In 1885 Mr. Potter married Miss Fanny
W. Peck, of Troy, Pennsylvania. Mrs.
Potter is a member of the Daughters of the
American Revolution. They have one son,
George L. Potter, who is a graduate of
Hamilton College, New York, and later was
taking post graduate work at Harvard Uni-
versity when the war broke out and he en-
listed in the signal corps. The Potter fam-
ily are members of the Presbyterian
Church. Mr. Potter served on the board
of trustees of the church for many .years.
He and the late Oliver Goldsmith had
charge of the erection of the church build-
ing, and when destroyed by fire soon after
its completion they were selected to rebuild,
and the congregation now has one of the
most beautiful and attractive edifices in
the city. He is also the only living char-
ter member of the "Lincoln Club" who
has been a continuous member since its
organization.
Having been in the enjoyment of the
rewards of mature success for many years,
Mr. Potter has used his means liberally for
the good of his city, for various worthy ob-
jects of charity and for the comforts of
wise provision of those near and dear to
him. He has one of the most attractive
homes in Lafayette. It is situated on
State Street near Ninth, and known as
' ' Whitehall. " The description of this place
and how it came to be acquired and built
by Mr. Potter has been written at length
for another publication, and may be used
without apology here. "This mansion was
originally built by the state of Connecti-
cut to represent that state at the World's
Fair at St. Louis, but when the Fair closed
it was purchased by j\Ir. Potter, who had
it dismantled, packed in cars and shipped
to Lafayette. In preparing a site for the
structure he secured a tract of four acres
on State street, from which he removed
the buildings and erected the present
structure thereon, making one of the most
beautiful and attractive residences in the
state. The edifice is a perfect type of the
colonial mansion of olden times, being mod-
eled after several historic homes of Con-
necticut, the main part three stories high,
with wings two stories. The porch is also
two stories, and extending out across the
front is semi-elliptical in shape and sup-
ported by four huge fluted columns of
stone. An elaborate colonial stairway af-
fords entrance to the main part of the
building, and some of the interior wood-
work, taken from the historic Hubbard
Slater home in the city of Norwich, Con-
necticut, adds interest as well as beauty to
the apartments. The great central hall is
open through both stories, the upper rooms
forming a gallery which is wainscotted to
the ceiling in the fashion greatly admired
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by former generations. The edifice, which
is complete in all its parts, is finished in
the highest style of the builder's art and
with its elaborate furnishings and broad
attractive lawns, walks bordered with beds
of beautiful flowers and containing a num-
ber of gigantic forest trees and many other
beautiful and pleasing features, combine to
make a complete and luxurious home."
Henry C. Schroeder. During the many
years of his life spent in Indianapolis
Henry C. Schroeder attained to those
things which constitute a well rounded and
unequivocal success. By sheer force of
personal character and will power he made
his name honored and substantial with dig-
nity and esteem in a community where,
the center of a large population, only a
comparatively few men attain the wider
distinctions of being thoroughly well
known.
His life throughout was a record of self
achievement. He was born in Hanover,
Germany, August 3, 1862, a son of Kasper
and Anne (Bruenger) Schroeder. His par-
ents spent all their lives in Germany and
were farmers in modest circumstances.
Henry C. Schroeder was nine years old
when his mother died, and from that time
forward he was practically unaided in his
efforts at making a place and position in
tlie world. He benefited from the system
of eompulsoi-y education and attended the
German schools until about fourteen. He
was then apprenticed to a shoemaker, and
spent four years in learning that trade.
After that he worked as a journeyman,
and at the age of nineteen set out alone for
America, reaching New York City with
only one dollar. It was not long after that
he came to Indianapolis, and here his ex-
I^eriences were varied but always in a ris-
ing degree of usefulness and reward. For
a time he worked as a shoemaker, after-
ward in a furniture factory, was employed
in the old Eagle i\Iachine Works and from
there went into the shops of the Pittsburgh,
Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway
as a car repairer. For a time he was also
a brakeman on the Panhandle Railroad, but
after his marriage was for ten years car
inspector of passenger ears at the Indian-
apolis Union Station. "While active in the
railway service he was associated with John
Groff in the organization of the order of
Railway Car Men.
After leaving the railway service Mr.
Schroeder engaged in the retail shoe busi-
ness for about two years, following which
he was a member of the city police force
several years, the last three years being
sergeant. He then engaged in the retail
coal business, but sold his interests there
four and a half years later in order to de-
vote his entire time and attention to his
duties as trustee of Center Township, Ma-
rion County, an ofHce to which he was
elected in November, 1908. He was a hard
working and painstaking public official and
practicall.v died in the harness of his of-
fice, being its incumbent at the time of his
death on May 25, 1913.
There was not a time in his life from the
age of nine when he was not engaged in
some useful service which earned him all
the rewards he received. He acquired an
honored name and a comfortable fortune
in America, and richly merited both. He
was true to , himself in the finer sense of
the term, was honorable in his dealings
with his fellow men, gave freely in an
unostentatious way to worthy charitable
objects, and stood always for those things
which are best in community and private
life. He was a greatly beloved citizen, and
he left an unsullied name as a heritage to
his children.
In politics he was for many years one
of the local leaders of the democratic party.
In Masonry he was affiliated with Logan
Lodge No. 575, Ancient Free and Accepted
ilasons, and Indianapolis Chapter No. 5,
Royal Arch Masons, and was also a mem-
ber of the Ancient Order of Druids and
the Improved Order of Red Men.
In 1883 Mr. Schroeder married Mary
Tebbe, daughter of Henry Tebbe of Indian-
apolis. He left two children : Harry C.
and Mvrtle, the latter the wife of John
E. Steeg.
Henry C. Schroeder, Jr., was bom at In-
dianapolis August 13, 1891. He grew up
in this city, attended the public schools, and
early in life mastered the profession of ac-
countancy. As an expert accountant he
was employed in the Fountain Square
State Bank and the Fidelity Trast Com-
pany, and then largel.v for the purpose of
recovering his impaired health he spent
two years on his father's farm. Upon the
death of his father he succeeded him as
trustee of Center Township. He is one of
the leading younger business men of In-
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dianapolis. For two years he was asso-
ciated with Dick Miller in the investment
business, and then with Mr. Miller as an
associate bought the Hogan Transfer &
Storage Company. Mr. Schroeder is pres-
ident and manager of this business, which
is a reallj' imposing organization, one of
the most substantial concerns of its kind in
the state.
Mr. Schroeder is, like his father, a dem-
ocrat and is a thirty-second degree Scot-
tish Rite ^lason, and a member of Murat
Temple, Ancient Arabic Oreder Nobles of
the Mystic Shrine, of Indianapolis. He is
also a member of the Rotary Club, Indiana
Democratic Club, and the Chamber of
Commerce. September 17, 1913, he mar-
ried Miss Hazel McGee, a native of Win-
chester, Indiana, and the one child of this
union is Elizabeth Ann.
Jacob F. Hoke, Jr. It is not an exag-
geration to say that Jacob F. Hoke, Jr., is
one of Indianapolis' best known business
men and his associations are with a wide
variety of affairs not immediately con-
nected with business. As a manufacturer
he is secretary and treasurer of the Hol-
comb and Hoke Manufacturing Company,
the largest concern in the world manufac-
turing corn popping and peanut roasting
machinery and other high grade specialties.
Mr. Hoke is an Indiana man by adop-
tion, his native state being Kentucky. He
was born in Jeffersontown in Jefferson
County, the ninth son of Andrew J. and
Mary Snj-der Hoke. There is hardly any
other family of Kentucky that can claim a
longer period of residence in the Blue
Grass State than the Hokes. Long before
the Revolutionary war Andrew Hoke, Sr.,
great-great-grandfather of the Indianapolis
business man, together with five sons, mi-
grated from Lancaster County, Pennsyl-
vania, to the far western frontier, locating
in Kentucky at a time when the flintlock
rifle and the axe were the primary and all
important implements of civilization and
of personal safety and welfare. This fam-
ily was one of the very first to invade that
virgin forest and begin its reclamation.
j\Iany times they had to protect their home
and household from the savage Indians.
Here generation after generation of the
Hokes lived, and many allied with the fam-
ily by marriage are still found in that
state.
Jacob F. Hoke, Jr., better known among
his friends and business associates as Fred,
grew up in his native Kentucky county, at-
tended public school, worked on a farm, at
railroad construction work, and also as
clerk in a grocery store. Those were his
important experiences until he left home
about the time he reached his majority.
Going to Sullivan, Indiana, at the age of
twenty-one, he found employment as clerk
in the hardware and implement store of
Jacob F. Hoke, Sr. The senior Hoke was
also president of the Sullivan State Bank.
Of Mr. Hoke's experiences in Sullivan it
is not necessary to speak except for one
important event which occurred in 1896,
when he married Miss Katharine Cushman.
Her father. Dr. Arbaces Cushman, was a
prominent man and of a prominent fam-
ily. In 1897 Mr. Hoke became a partner
with J. Irving Holeomb in the manufac-
ture of brushes and janitors svipplies at
Sullivan. This business at the beginning
was not one of the leading industries of
the state, but under the judicious care and
energy of the partners it prospered, other
specialties were added, and they took over
an establishment at Indianapolis for man-
ufacturing equipment for bowling alleys.
The growth of the business was nothing
less than prodigious, and prior to the great
European war the products were sold to
everj' civilized country on the face of the
globe.
Finally Mr. Hoke sold his interests in
the brush factory and a new corporation
was created by J. I. Holeomb, J. F. Hoke,
Sr., and J. F. Hoke, Jr., being the present
Holeomb and Hoke ^Manufacturing Com-
pany. The purpose and motto of the men
behind the business is to manufacture spe-
cialties designed to earn the purchaser's
money. "Without a doubt it is the largest
concern in the world manufacturing corn
popping and peanut roasting machines.
While Mr. Hoke is essentially a business
man and has had his hands full to look
after his varied responsibilities, he has also
found time to cultivate the social side of
life. He is a Knight Templar and Scot-
tish Rite Mason, a member of the IMystic
Shrine and is a member of the Board of
Governors of the Board of Trade, the
Chamber of Commerce, the Woodstock
Club, Highland Club, and the Rotary Club.
In politics he is a democrat, as a matter
of principle, and has affiliated with the
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party not for the purpose of pecuniary gain
or ofScial position but for the good of the
cause and as a medium for the expression
of that influence which every live citizen
should wield. He is an active member of
the Indiana Democratic Club, and is the
only man honored by election for three
terms as its president. While he was presi-
dent the home of the club at Vermont
Street and University Park was established.
He is a trustee of DePauw University, a
director of the Indianapolis Young Men's
Christian Association, chairman of the In-
dianapolis Committee War Personnel Board
for Young Men's Christian Association
Overseas Work, member of the executive
committee for Marion County in the Third
and Fourth Liberty Loans, and succeeded
J. K. Lilly as chairman of the committee
for the Fifth or Victory Loan.
Mr. Hoke is also a prominent Methodist
and in 1916 was sent as a lay delegate to
the Quadrennial General Conference at
Saratoga Springs, New York. He is also
president of the Indiana Laymen's Asso-
ciation. Mr. and Mrs. Hoke have three
children, Cushman, Frank and Mary.
Ella B. McShirley, D. 0., is one of the
highly proficient women in professional life
in Indiana, and is a thoroughly trained and
qualified graduate nurse, physician and os-
teopath. Doctor McShirley recently lo-
cated at Newcastle, where she has offices in
the Jennings Building.
She was bom at Williamsburg, Indiana,
a daughter of Jonathan and Emily Neal.
She is of Scotch-Irish and English ances-
try. She attended public schools at Win-
chester and in 1897 married Dr. J. L. Mc-
Shirley, of Sulphur Springs, Indiana.
They had one daughter, Mary Janice.
Dr. J. L. McShirley died November 12,
1906. They had lived part of their mar-
ried life at Newcastle. Mrs. McShirley be-
came interested in her husband's profes-
sion, and after his death entered the State
College Hospital to train for the nurse's-
course and took all the work. She prac-
ticed five years at Winchester, and in Sep-
tember, 1913, entered the American School
of Osteopathy at Kirksville, Missouri,
graduating in June, 1916. She received
honors in chemistry in her course. Later
she took post-graduate work in genito-uri-
nary diseases, gynecology and orificial sur-
gery. Doctor McShirley "located and bought
a practice at Poplar Bluff, Missouri, re-
maining there for two years, and on June
30, 1918, came to Newcastle.
She is a member of the Presbyterian
Church, but is of Quaker ancestry. She is
a member of the Delta Omega Alpha Sor-
ority at Kirksville, is affiliated with the
Eastern Star at Winchester, the Pythian
Sisters, and the American Osteopathic As-
sociation;
Herman Lauter. A life that eventuated
in much service, rendered in a quiet and
wholesome way, to the community was that
of the late Herman Lauter, one of the best
known citizens of Indianapolis. In a bus-
iness way he was best known as a furniture
manufacturer, and founder of the business
still conducted as the H. Lauter Company.
He had many associations with the leading
men of the citj' after the close of the Civil
war, and among other things deserves to
be remembered for his influence in the
cause of education.
He was born near Berlin, Germany, of
Jewish parentage. His father being a
rabbi, a teacher, and scholar, afforded the
youth most of his early education. While
in Germany he also learned the trade of
glass maker. Just before the Civil war,
for the purpose of bettering his condition,
he emigrated to the United States and for
a number of years his home was in New
York City. In 1868 he started the manu-
facture of furniture on a small scale, and
in a few years saw his output increasing
and commanding an excellent market.
Later, in order to get closer to the sources
of raw material, he moved to Indianapolis,
and thenceforward gave his chief attention
to this business and it is one of the sub-
stantial minor, industries of the city.
He also became noted among the pro-
gressive men of his day in Indianapolis.
He was one of the influential business men
who helped to make manual training a de-
partment of the high school and showed a
high degree of interest in this technical
feature of public school education. Mr.
Lauter was a member of no religious de-
nomination, he was broad-minded and be-
nevolent and did much in an unostenta-
tious way for charity. While of foreign
birth he was intensely an American, a be-
liever in the institutions of his adopted
coimtry an'd admired especially the free-
dom of worship and of personal action ae-
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cording to the dictates of the individual
conscience. His unselfish love for his fel-
low men without regard to religion, race
or politics he carried almost to the degree
of a fault. He was generous, and this
characteristic remains as a monument to
his memory rather than the accumulation
of great riches. He had all the ideal vir-
tues of the head of a home, and it was in
his domestic circle that he found his great-
est delight.
Mr. Herman Lauter died June 8, 1907.
"While living in New York City he married
Helene Lauterbach. Mrs. Lauter is still
living in Indianapolis. There were seven
children : Hattie, who died in early child-
hood, Alfred, Flora, Eldena, Sara, and
Mrs. Fred P. Robinson, all of Indianapolis,
and Mrs. 0. G. Singer, of Los Angeles,
California.
Elias J. J.vcOBY, lawyer and business,
man of Indianapolis, is also one of the best
known Masons in Indiana and is widely
known in that order throughout the United
States. Something concerning his career
and associations is an essential part of the
modern history of Indiana.
He was born on a farm near Marion,
Ohio. He became a school teacher at the
age of seventeen and a half, teaching three
terms. Entering the Ohio Wesleyan Uni-
versity at Delaware, he graduated with the
B. A. degree. While in university he was
a member of the Phi Gamma Delta fra-
ternity, becoming Master of the Chapter
in his senior year. He was one of the
editors of the college paper and editor in
chief of his fraternity journal. Five years
later he received from the same university
the degree M. A. Immediately following
his university course he entered the law
school of Cincinnati College, from which
he was graduated with the degree LL. B.
and received the prize for forensic dis-
cussion.
On the day of his graduation from Ohio
Wesleyan University he first met Hon.
Charles W. Fairbanks, former vice presi-
dent of the United States, who was then
general attorney for a railway company
with headquarters at Indianapolis. Mr.
Fairbanks later invited him to a position
in his office, which he accepted immediately
following his graduation from the law
school. He soon became assistant general
attorney for the railway company. He
also became general attorney of the T. H.
& P. Railway Company, operating ITS
miles of road. For a number of years he
served as one of the directors on several
lines of railway, and was and is local trus-
tee in some railway mortgages. During
the same period he served as president of
two manufacturing companies, covering a
period of seven years. Mr. Jacoby was
actively associated with Mr. Fairbanks for
seventeen years or until after the latter
became United States Senator, and has
been more or less associated with him ever
since.
Soon after taking service with the rail-
M-ay companj- Mr. Jacoby assisted in or-
ganizing the Railroadmen's Building and
Savings Association. In a business way
this is perhaps his most notable achieve-
ment. It is now generally recognized that
the encouragement to thrift is fundamental
to the prosperity and wholesome life not
only of the individual but the nation.
Railroad men as a class have been noted
as "free spenders." The object of this
association was to instill in the minds of
railroad men the idea of saving and thereby
better fitting themselves for a higher place
in the ranks of citizenship. The Railroad-
men's Building and Savings Association
was organized in August, 1887. It has
been in existence thirty years. In that
time the seed contained in the original idea
and purpose has borne repeated fruit, and
by renewed sowing and harvesting has
made the association one of the great econ-
omical and industrial institutions of In-
diana. While there is no means of esti-
mating by words or figures the vast benefits
that have accrued to the individual rail-
road workingmen and others, there is sug-
gestion in noting the growth of the associa-
tion's financial power and resources. Five
years after the association started its assets
were less than $200,000. It was nearly
twenty years before the assets passed the
$1,000,000 mark. The greatest period of
growth has been within the last ten years.
In 1907 the assets agoTCgated approxi-
mately $1,500,000. In January, 1917, the
assets were little short of $9,000,000, and
at the end of 1918 they were nearly $12,-
000,000, In the thirty years of its exist-
ence the association has loaned over $18,-
000,000, and has declared dividends of
more than $2,500,000. The principal offi-
cers of the association are : W. T. Cannon,
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president ; E. J. Jacoby, vice president and
attorney ; J. E. Pierce, secretary and audi-
tor; and H. Cannon, treasurer. Mr. Jac-
oby has served as attorney and director of
the association since its organization, and
has been vice president for a number of
years.
In 1908 ]\Ir. Jacoby assisted in organ-
izing the Prudential Casualty Company of
Indiana. Of this company he served as
president until it was consolidated on De-
cember 30, 1916, with the Chicago Bonding
and Insurance Company of Chicago, under
the name the Chicago Bonding and Insur-
ance Company, wit*h headquarters in that
city. Mr. Jacoby is a director of this new
corporation.
It now remains to note his honors and
associations with Masonry. He is a thirty-
second degree Scottish Eite Mason and a
Knight Templar. He was High Priest of
Keystone Chapter No. 6, Royal Arch Ma-
sons, in 1905, was Thrice Illustrious Mas-
ter of Indianapolis Council No. 2, Royal
and Select Masters in 1907, and in the
same year was Eminent Commander of
Raper Commandery No. 1, Knights Tem-
plar of Indianapolis, and also Illustrious
Potentate of Murat Temple, Ancient Ara-
bic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine.
He was one of the charter members (being
charter viceroy or second officer) of St.
James Conclave No. 16, Knights of the Red
Cross of Constantine, and served in that
office four and one half years, following
which period he served as sovereign or chief
officer of that Conclave for four years or
until December, 1917. He now holds one
of the offices, being Grand Almoner, in the
Grand Imperial Council of the Order of
the Red Cross of Constantine, which is the
national or governing body of the Order.
He was Grand High Priest of the Grand
Chapter Royal Arch Masons of Indiana in
1910 and 1911. In Murat Temple, Ancient
Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine,
he served in office ten years, having been
Assistant Rabban three years. Chief Rab-
ban one year and Illustrious Potentate six
years. He was elected as Imperial Outer
Guard of the Imperial Council of the Order
of the Mystic Shrine for North America in
June, 1909. This organization is the gov-
erning body of the Mystic Shrine for the
entire .iurisdiction of North America, hav-
ing Temples in the principal cities of Pan-
ama, Mexico, United States, and Canada.
He has served the various offices of promo-
tion in that body covering a period of ten
years, and is now (1918 and 1919) the
Imperial Potentate of the Order. He was
instrumental in organizing and incorpor-
ating the Indianapolis Masonic Temple As-
sociation, composed of eleven Masonic bod-
ies. He drafted the law which was passed
by the legislature authorizing the incor-
poration of such an association. He served
as chairman of the Building Committee of
said association which, with the Grand
Lodge of Indiana, erected the new York
Rite Masonic Temple in Indianapolis at
a cost of over $600,000. He represented
the association at the laying of the corner
stone and officially as tlie president of the
association at the dedication of the Temple
on May 24, 1909. At the business session
of Murat Temple held in February, 1908,
without previously consulting anyone, he
proposed the erection of a Temple of the
Mystic Shrine as the home of Murat Tem-
ple. The proposal met with enthusiastic
approval. He then organized the Murat
Temple Association, the corporation own-
ing the building which was erected at a
cost of considerably more than $500,000
and which was dedicated in May, 1910.
He has served as director and president of
that association consecutively for nearly
eleven years. He retired as Imperial Po-
tentate of the Order of the Mystic Shrine
at the Forty-Fifth Session of the Impe-
rial Council held in the City of Indianap-
olis, Indiana, on June 10, 11, and 12, 1919.
Flay Samuel Lacy is proprietor of a
large wholesale and retail bakery establish-
ment at Newcastle. Mr. Lacy, who is now
in prosperous circumstances, one of the in-
fluential citizens of Newcastle, has had an
unusually interesting experience and career
of achievement, involving many changes
and new beginnings, and all compressed
within a period of twenty years.
Mr. Lacy was born at Carthage, Indiana,
August 27, 1881, a son of Henry and La-
vinia (Galloway) Lacy. He is of Scotch-
Irish and German ancestry. His people
have been in America for generations and
most of them were farmers or mechanics.
Mr. Lacy attended the public schools at
Carthage, and at the age of ten years he
began buying his own clothing. He made
the money for that purpose by selling
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Every night he had to go to Knightstown,
five miles away, in order to get his papers.
Another means he found of making money
was raising hogs. He got feed for them
from the waste material thrown out by the
restaurants of the town. In this way he
was making his own living for several
years.
At the age of seventeen he became asso-
ciated with his brother Fred Joseph under
the name of Lacy Brothers. They estab-
lished a bakery at Carthage, and he re-
mained there a couple of years learning
the business. On selling out his interest
Mr. Lacy went to Greentown in Howard
County, Indiana, and opened a bakery be-
hind a residence, which he continued on
a wholesale scale for a year. He next spent
a year working for a bakery establishment
at Marion, Indiana. The one year follow-
ing was spent in the same business at Con-
verse, Indiana. He first came to Newcastle
in 1898, and for a year was in the employ
of Will Peed, a well known Newcastle
baker. Mr. Lacy then took an entirely
different kind of employment, doing buck
and wing dancing on the stage with a trav-
eling troupe known as the Knight & Decker
Minstrels. Then, returning to Newcastle,
he soon went to Rushville, Indiana, and
worked in a bakery. He had his left hand
caught in a machine and so disabled that
it was necessary for him to remain out of
work for a year and a half. For one year
he was a news dealer at Newcastle, worked
a year in a bakery at Connersville, Indiana,
also at Selma for a time and for two and a
half years he conducted a very successful
business as a wholesale and retail baker at
Laurel, Indiana. Then for a year and a
half he was again located at Rushville, and
on selling his property there moved to
Newcastle in 1909 and in February of that
year bought a lot and built his own bake
shop at his first location on South Eight-
eenth Street. He started with a very small
shop, retailing all his goods. His first im-
provement was introducing a push cart de-
liverj', later employing an old pony and
wagon, and Mr. Lacy's business has since
grown and prospered until he now employs
four automobile delivery trucks for the
town and surrounding countrs-, and also
two city routes. He has made about a
dozen additions to his plant, all reflecting
the growth and prosperity of his business.
He has three large ovens, a complete ma-
chine shop, and fourteen employes in the
plant, ilr. Lacy is also interested in the
oil and automobile business.
June 14, 1917, he married Aria Begeman,
daughter of Noble and Lottie (Robbins)
Begeman. Mr. Lacy by his previous mar-
riage has two children, Irene Louise, born
in 1906, and Marion Stevens, born in 1908.
Mr. Lacy is a republican, a member of the
Quaker Church and affiliated with the
Knights of Pythias and the Benevolent and
Protective Order of Elks of Newcastle,
Indiana.
Will Cumback placed his name high on
the roll of Indiana's lawyers, and he was
honored with the lieutenant governorship
of the state. For many years he was a
member of the Decatur County bar.
Mr. Cumback was born in Franklin
County, Indiana, March 24, 1829, and was
educated at Miami University and the Cin-
cinnati Law School. He steadily rose to
prominence in the practice of his pro-
fession, and was chosen from the law-
yers of Indiana to serve in the high official
office of lieutenant governor. He was a
scholar of wide reputation and a leader in
republican ranks.
Daniel H. McAbee. One of Indiana's
most patriotic and interesting citizens is
Daniel H. McAbee, who has an office on
the fifth floor of the Traction Terminal
Building at Indianapolis, being a member
of the Ragan-McAbee Coal Company. Mr.
McAbee is entitled to that peculiar respect
and honor due the survivors of the great
Union army of the Civil war, in which he
served as a boy in years, though with man-
hood's patriotic devotion and fidelity. He
has been a resident of Indiana upwards
of half a century and has been well known
in business and civic affairs.
He was bom in Bolivar, Westmoreland
County, Pennsylvania, October 14, 1845,
a son of Joseph and Mary Ann (Courson)
McAbee. The McAbees are of Irish de-
scent. The paternal grandfather, John
McAbee, was an early day settler in West-
moreland County, Pennsylvania. He was
a scholar and thinker, and gave practically
his entire lifetime to teaching. He also
excelled as a penman. Those who have
examined examples of his penmanship are
impressed by its copperplate evenness and
beautv of line woi-k such as few writers of
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the present time would attempt to rival.
He reared a family of three sons and one
daughter, and one of the sons was a Meth-
odist minister.
Joseph McAbee, father of Daniel H.,
died when the latter was only eighteen
months old. He left a family of three sons
and two daughters, who were reared dur-
ing their tender years by the widowed
mother.
Daniel H. MeAbee was only fifteen years
old when the Civil war broke out. He did
not long delay enrollment with the Union
forces, and when he was given his honor-
able discharge in July, 1865, he had com-
pleted a service of forty -six months' dura-
tion. He was a member of Company G of
the Seventy-Sixth Penns.ylvania Infantry.
During 1861, 1862, and 1863 he was with
the Department of the South. He was
present at the reduction of Fort Pulaski
in the spring of 1862, the first fort retaken
from the Confederate forces ; was present
at James Island in 1862 during the fighting
there; was present at the capture of the
upper end of Morris Island July 10th, and
was in both charges on Fort Wagner, Julv
11th and 18th, 1863. He assisted in the
construction of the foundation for the
"Swamp Angel" and was with Butler at
the Dutch Gap Canal and later was with
Grant at Cold Harbor and Petersburg.
He was wounded August 16, 1864, by a
miuie ball in the right arm. The bandage
used to wrap the arm was a piece of shel-
ter tent, that being the only available ma-
terial that could be found. He was with
Butler and Terry at Fort Fisher, joined
Sherman's army in North Carolina and
helped corral Johnson's army, which ended
the war.
Following the war jMr. McAbee returned
to Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, and was em-
ployed by the Pennsylvania Railroad be-
tween Pittsburg and Altoona for three
years. He then came to Indianapolis and
was a roller in the rolling mill, was em-
ployed in a similar capacity at Greencastle
for ten years, and later at Muncie, Indiana,
for eight years. Mr. McAbee finally left
the ranks of industrial workers to become
state factory inspector of Indiana, an of-
fice he held and in which he rendered most
capable service under the administration
of Governors Mount, Durbin, and Hanly.
He was appointed by Governor Marshall
adjutant at the Indiana State Soldiers
Home, serving there two years. In 1909
Mr. McAbee came to Indianapolis and
formed a copartnership with Mr. Ragan in
the coal business. In 1914 they formed
the Ragan-McAbee Coal Company. They
do an extensive business all over Indiana
and in Michigan as wholesale jobbers, and
represent some of the largest mines in the
great bituminous coal area of Indiana,
Kentucky, and Ohio and under normal con-
ditions also supply coal from the anthra-
cite and Pocahontas mines of West Vir-
ginia. They have a very flourishing busi-
ness, which is constantly increasing.
Mr. McAbee is a republican. He has
been a loyal worker in the Methodist Epis-
copal Church since early manhood and has
been active both in church and Sunday
School in Indianapolis and Greencastle.
He was raised a Mason in Marion Lodge
No. 35, Free and Accepted Masons, at In-
dianapolis, served as master of the Ma-
sonic Lodge at Greencastle, and demitted
to Delaware Lodge No. 46, Free and Ac-
cepted IMasons, at Muncie, Indiana, where
he now holds membership. He is a mem-
ber of Greencastle Chapter, Royal Arch
Masons. He is also one of the prominent
Grand Army of the Republic men of In-
diana, having served as post commander
of Greencastle Post No. 4, and also as
junior vice commander of the state en-
campment.
December 24, 1869, Mr. McAbee married
Miss Mary L. Richards, now deceased.
They had three sons and three daughters.
Two of the sons and one daughter are liv-
ing, Daniel H. and W. D. McAbee, and
Mazie U. Pittinger. Daniel graduated from
the Indianapolis High School and the
Homeopathic Medical College in Chicago,
and is now in the Medical Reserve Corps
of the United States Army. W. D. Me-
Abee is connected with the State Board of
Hygiene as chemist. On November 6,
1912, Mr. MeAbee married for his second
wife Mary Elizabeth Stilz of Indianapolis.
Both Mr. and Mrs. McAbee are members
of the Central Avenue Methodist Episcopal
Church.
John Kline Burgess has figured in
Newcastle business afi'airs for a number of
years. He has been a teacher, clerk of the
Henry Circuit Court, member of the Henry
County Bar, banker, and at present a real
estate and loan dealer.
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Mr. Burgess vifis born at Noblesville, In-
diana, in 1874, son of Daniel W. and
Phoebe A. (Miesse) Burgess. He is of
Scotch and English ancestry. His first
American ancestor, Daniel Burgess, came
from England and settled in the New Eng-
land colonies. He was the great-great-great-
grandfather of John K. Burgess. Later
one branch of the family came west to
Highland County, Ohio, and another went
to Virginia. Mr. Burgess' grandfather,
Oliver Burgess, moved to Hamilton
County, Indiana, in 1835, making the trip
with an ox team and encountering all the
pioneer conditions and difficulties. He set-
tled north of Noblesville and accjuired two
sections of land there. Daniel W. Bur-
gess was a farmer and merchant.
John K. Burgess attended school at No-
blesville, and graduated from the Newcastle
High School in 1895, being second in schol-
arship in his class, though he had com-
pleted the four years course in three years.
He also took a year of correspondence work
with the Chicago Extension University, and
for two years studied under the direction
of the Columbian University of Washing-
ton, District of Columbia. He graduated
in 1900.
For six years Mr. Burgess taught school
in Henry County. For six years he served
as deputy county clerk, and in November,
1906, was elected on the republican ticket
to the office of clerk of the Henry Circuit
Court, and filled that position four years.
In 1910 Mr. Burgess assisted in organiz-
ing the Farmers National Bank at New-
castle, Indiana, and served as its assistant
cashier five years. He resigned to estab-
lish his present business, real estate and
loans, and has conducted that very suc-
cessfully for the past three yeai-s. He buys
and sells much property on his own ac-
count and also has acted as broker in a
number of important transactions. He as-
sisted in organizing the Farmers National
Bank at Sulphur Springs, Indiana, and
also the Farmers Bank at Mooreland. He
owns a half interest in the Burgess Broth-
ers Furniture Company, and has some val-
uable property interests at Newcastle and
vicinity.
In 1895 Mr. Burgess married Miss Ber-
tha Bunbar, daughter of John W. and
Sarah (Houchins) Bunbar of Mount Sum-
mit, Indiana. Mrs. Burgess died in Au-
gust, 1917, the mother of three children:
Bernice B., Edna and John D. Mr. Bur-
gess is a member of several secret and be-
nevolent orders and is a member of the
Christian Church, which he has served as
treasurer and as a member of the official
board for several years.
Charles Remster has been an active
member of the Indiana bar nearly thirty
years, a resident of Indianapolis since
1895, and among other distinctions asso-
ciated with his professional career was for
a term of six years judge of the Marion
Circuit Court.
Judge Remster was born on a farm in
Van Buren Township, Fountain County,
Indiana, July 28, 1862, a son of Andrew
and Tamson (Smith) Remster, both na-
tives of New Jersey. Andrew Remster
was of Holland Dutch stock, his father
having come from the city of Amsterdam
to America. Tamson Smith was of Eng-
lish lineage. Andrew Remster and wife
were married in New Jersey January 6,
1848, and soon afterward moved to Ohio
and a year later to a tract of wild land in
Fountain County, Indiana. The father
died there in 1865, when Judge Remster
was only three years of age. His widow
subsequently married Ben.jamin Strader,
who died six months later, leaving her
twice a widow. She nobly discharsred her
duties and responsibilities to her children,
five by the first marriage and one by the
second, and spent her last years at Coving-
ton, Indiana, where she died in 1901. She
was a devout member of the Baptist
Church.
Charles Remster grew up on a farm, at-
tended district schools and in 1882 grad-
uated from the Veedersburg High School.
He attended Purdue University at Lafay-
ette, and left college to read law with a
member of the bar at Veedersburg. He
was admitted in Fountain County in 1889,
and for six years practiced at Veedersburg.
He gave up his position as a rising attor-
ney of the bar of his native county and
moved to Indianapolis in 1895. Judge
Remster has found a growing biisiness as
a lawyer sufficient to satisfy his ambitions
and his energy, and he has never sought
official preferment except in the strict lines
of the profession. He was an assistant
prosecuting attorney of Marion County at
the time he was elected to the Marion
Circuit Court in 1908. Judge Remster
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filled out the full term of six years for
which he was elected, begiuuiug his duties
November 11, 1908, and leaving the bench
in November, 1914. He performed his du-
ties as a judge with dignity and signal abil-
ity, and his former services in that posi-
tion are widely appreciated by the Indian-
apolis bar. Since retiring from the bench
he has been member of the well known
law firm of Smith, Remster, Hornbrook &
Smith.
Judge Remster is a democrat in politics
and in 1907 was president of the Demo-
cratic Club. He is a member of the Ma-
sons, Knights of Pythias, the Indiana Bar
Association, and belongs to various civic
and social organizations. October 30, 1894,
he married Miss Isabelle McDaniel. She
was born and reared in Hendricks County,
where her father, Samuel McDaniel, was
a farmer.
William H. Coleman has been a resi-
dent of Indianapolis for thirty-eight years,
and his name here and elsewhere is very
prominently identified with the lumber in-
dustry as a manufacturer and dealer.
He was born at the village of Hawley in
Lucerne Count.y, Pennsylvania, where his
father, Richard Coleman, was a merchant.
The Coleman ancestors came originally
from Manchester, England. In the early
childhood of William H. Coleman his
father died, and when he was a boy of five
he was taken by his widowed mother, Mrs.
Mary (Clark) Coleman, to Canisteo, New
York, where his years to manhood were
spent, chiefly on a farm and in the prac-
tice of its duties and attending district
schools. His education was finished at the
South Danville Academy. He could enter-
tain no prospect of a fortune except such as
he would gain by his own labors and exer-
tions. One of his early experiences after
leaving school was teaching for three
months in a country district. He then
rented a tract of land and started farm-
ing on the shares. Farming was his occu-
pation during the summer and in the win-
ter he bought, milled and marketed lum-
ber. That was his introduction to what has
become his chief industry in life.
In 1880 Mr. Coleman came to Indian-
apolis as an employe of Henry Alfrey, an
old time lumber merchant of the city.
Later he acquired a partnership with Mr.
Alfrey and finally owned the entire busi-
ness. As a lumber majiufacturer and
dealer his operations have covered a wide
field. In 1892 the headquarters of the busi-
ness M'ere removed to Terre Haute, in 1896
to ^Memphis, Tennessee, and two years
later to Jackson, Tennessee, where the
mills are still operated.
But during all these changes Mr. Cole-
man has maintained his home in Indian-
apolis and in many ways aside from bus-
iness has been identified with its growth
and prosperity. He is a member of the
Presbj'terian Church and a republican
voter.
In 1889 Mr. Coleman married Mrs. Sal-
lie E. Vajen, daughter of Colonel M. A.
Downing, one of the foremost men of his
day in Indianapolis. Mr. and Mrs. Cole-
man have one daughter, Suemma V., the
wife of W. A. Atkins.
Roy H. Puterbaugh. By nature Roy
H. Puterbaugh has been a teacher and edu-
cator. He has put himself through several
higher institutes of education by his own
efl'orts and has continued to qualify him-
self for still higher places of responsibility.
He is now manager of the Lafayette Bus-
iness College of Lafayette, and has made
a splendid record in the reorganization and
expansion of that institution.
Mr. Puterbaugh, a native of Indiana,
was born on a farm near Oswego ]\Iarch 1 ,
1883, and is the son of Amsey H. and Rilla
(Clem) Puterbaugh. His father was born
at Elkhart, Indiana, December 30, 1851,
and was engaged in educational work,
which alternated with his other calling as
a minister of the gospel. He died at Elk-
hart February 28, 1903. As a teacher he
established the graded system of the pub-
lic schools at Leesburg, Indiana, and was
at one time principal of the high school
of Oswego, which school he organized.
For thirty-three years he was a regularly
ordained minister of the Church of the
Brethren. In 1876 he married Miss Rilla
Clem, also a teacher, who was born at Mil-
ford, Indiana, August 28, 1856.
Roy H. Puterbaugh was educated in the
public schools of Elkhart County, and in
the intervals of other work, chiefly as a
teacher, he completed courses in the Man-
chester Business College, Elkhart Normal
School and Business Institute, Manchester
Academy, Mount Morris College in Illi-
nois, and in 1911 graduated from the Uni-
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vei-sity of Michigan, receiving the Bache-
lor of Arts degree.
After leaving the university he taught
English in the Elkhart High School three
years, and for one year was principal of
the Marion Business College. In 1914 Mr.
Puterbaugh came to Lafayette as manager
of the local business college, and has made
this, one of the fourteen branches of the
Indiana Business College, not only one of
the very best of that chain of schools but
also one of the best business trainirig
schools in the middle west.
April 17, 1915, Mr. Puterbaugh married
Miss Alma Ludwig. Mrs. Puterbaugh, a
daughter of Robert C. and Carrie (Wag-
ner) Ludwig, was bom in Chicago, May
20, 1886. Her parents were also natives
of Chicago. Her father, who had a great
deal of technical and artistic ability, was
an engraver and designer by trade, and for
a number of years was superintendent of
the engraving department of P. F. Petti-
bone & Company.
Mrs. Puterbaugh inherits much of her
father's artistic temperament, and is widely
known for her work in china decoration.
She was a member of the Atlan Ceramic
Club of Chicago, one of the largest organ-
izations of its kind in the world. She is
also an artist in oil and water colors. Her
work has received marked recognition at
the exhibits at the Chicago Art Institute.
John F. Williams, formerly in the shoe
business at Anderson, is now sole proprie-
tor of the J. F. Williams establishment,
automobile tires and accessories and auto-
mobile agents. Mr. Williams has had a
very successful experience as an automo-
bile salesman, and has gained a splendid
business clientele as a result of his thor-
ough and painstaking work and service.
He was born at Muncie, Indiana, in
1878, son of Rufus Hickman and ]\Iary S.
(Bose) Williams. He is of Scotch and
German ancestry. In 1880, when he was
a year and a half old, his parents removed
to Anderson, where his father established
a shoe business, of which he continued pro-
prietor for many years. He is still living
but retired from business. A republican
in politics, he was formerly quite active
in the ranks and at one time was candidate
for county clerk of Madison County.
John F. Williams had a public school
education at Anderson and was a student
of the commercial course at Notre Dame
University in 1897-99, graduating in the
latter year. On returning to Anderson he
entered the shoe business with his father
at 15 Meridian Street, and made himself
thoroughly familiar with the work and
proved himself valuable to the firm in
building up and extending its trade. In
1906 he and his brother Percy P. Williams
bought the store from their father and
conducted it as Williams Brothers until
1914, when John F. Williams withdrew,
selling out to his brother. In the mean-
time he had bought the Auto Inn Garage
at Anderson, and conducted it as the J. F.
Williams Auto Inn until February 1, 1913.
This business he then sold to John H. Ryan.
His next position in the automobile busi-
ness was as salesman for the Apperson
Cars. He represented that company over
five counties. Grant, Delaware, Madison,
Henry, and Hamilton, and did much to
popularize and extend the use and sale
of the Apperson cars over this section of
Indiana. In 1915 he took the local agency
in Madison County for the Hudson and
Chalmers cars, with salesroom in the Auto
Inn. September 2, 1916, he established
his present salesroom at 28 West Ninth
Street, where he handles the agency for
the Hudson and Chalmers cars, operates a
Goodyear service station, and has the sole
agency in Anderson for the Goodyear tires
and accessories.
In 1899 Mr. Williams married Kate F.
Danforth, daughter of William and Emma
(Welsh) Danforth of Edinburgh, Indiana.
They have two children : Robert Lee, born
in 1902, and Mary Emma, born in 1912.
Mr. Williams is a republican and has
helped his party and its leaders, though
never an aspirant for office himself. He
is affiliated with the Benevolent and Pro-
tective Order of Elks at Anderson, is a
member of the Presbyterian Church, and
is a citizen who rightly deserves the respect
and esteem which he enjoys among all
classes of the good people of Madison
County.
Luke W. Duffey is known in a business
way as founder and head of the Luke W.
Duffey Farm Sales Company of Indian-
apolis. This is a big business, scien-
tifically and successfully conducted and
which has brought Jlr. Duffey into consid-
erable prominence in real estate circles.
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However, he is probably most widely and
generally known as an ardent enthusiast
and able leader in the good roads movement
in the state and in the nation. He is the
author of the law creating the Indiana,
State Highway Commission.
Mr. Duffey's operations in real estate
and particularly in the sale of farm lands
were deemed of sufficient importance by
the National Real Estate Journal to pub-
lish a special article on Mr. Duffey under
the head of "Men Who Succeed in Real
Estate." This article especially described
Mr. Duffey 's promotion of farm sales in
Indiana during the period of the Great
War. He was one of the men who antici-
pated the increased demand for farms and
farm products as a result of the war.
j\Ir. Duffey is certainly a gifted specialist
in the handling of farm sales. He has
studied exhaustively every condition affect-
ing a sale. To quote the words of the Na-
tional Real Estate Journal: "He knows
the ownership, acreage, selling history, and
property lines of all farms for virtually
forty m'iles out of his selling center. Mr.
Duffey constantly carries an average of
1,000 farms listed in his selling ledger.
They are listed according to their acreage,
with accurate data of the location, condi-
tions, nature of soil, market situations, so-
cial accommodations, available utilities, andt
all information necessary to make immedi-
ate sales. He keeps a daily posted list of
prospective buyers, their wants and their
financial ability to purchase. Since Mr.
Duffey is himself a man of legal training,
he has incorporated within his office service
a complete legal department, so that he is
able to foresee and eliminate every possible
delay and inconvenience affecting a land
transfer."
Some other facts brought out in the
same article should also be quoted. "Mr.
Duffey is chairman of the Good Roads Com-
mittee of the National Real Estate Associa-
tion, and for the last few years has at-
tended every national convention of the or-
ganization. He was a pioneer in the estab-
lishing of the Farm Loan Bank by the
National Government and, as chairman of
the Agricultural Committee of the National
Real Estate Association, gathered data in
Canada and the United States to be used
in the location and formation of the banks.
In his various official road capacities he has
appeared before congressional committees
any many American road congresses in
Washington, urging good road laws. He
played a conspicuous part in securing the
enactment of the $85,000,000 federal aid
bill for establishing a system of national
highways. ' '
In 1914 Governor Ralston appointed Mr.
Duffey secretary of the Non-Political High-
way Commission. He has been chairman
for several years of the Good Roads Com-
mittee of the Indianapolis Chamber of
Commerce. His success in political life is
almost wholly due to his efforts in behalf
of good roads, a definite issue in which
every Indiana citizen is interested. This
work has earned him a national reputation
as well as several official positions in na-
tional road associations.
ilr. Duffey was a member of the Indiana
House of Representatives in 1917. At the
expiration of that term he became a candi-
date for state senator to which office he was
elected on a "Good Roads and Good Gov-
ernment" platform, leading his ticket by a
large majority. In the Legislature, he was
a vigilant student of all measures affecting
farmers and stockmen. He was not known
in the Legislature as a particularly fre-
quent speaker, but rather as a very effective
organizer and a man who accomplished
things. He did much to bring about the
defeat of the "Hog Cholera Trust." He
opposed the bill which would have worked
a hardship on farmers' mutual insurance
companies, and numerous other measures
which would have meant a serious drain
upon the tax payers without a propor-
tional benefit.
Mr. Duffey 's complete and unrivalled
knowledge of the roads of Indiana, as well
as personal characteristics, doubtless
brought him the appointment in 1918 of
state representative of the War Depart-
ment to handle matters of the Motor Trans-
port Corps in routing and caring for over-
land war trucks after the highway laws
had been set aside in Indiana.
He was appointed to membership on the
Road Committee of the United States
Chamber of Commerce to act on the com-
mittee in the administration of $285,000,-
000 Federal Aid Highway money. He was
the second time a co-author of the State
Highway Commission Law, the 1919 session
having "rewritten his mission, which was
enacted in 1917, classifying the road build-
ing rights of the state.
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1953
His. formal biography and a few of the
most interesting items of his family history
are as follows:
Luke W. Diiffey was born in Hendricks
County, Indiana, October 24, 1879, son of
Eli and Nancy J. (Benbow) Dufifey. His
grandfather, Michael Duffey, settled in
Bellville, Hendricks County, in 1842. His
great-grandfather was a pioneer who
fought in the Revolutionary war under
General "Washington. The maternal grand-
father of Luke W. Duffey was Elam Ben-
bow, who came from North Carolina in
1828 and settled on an unclaimed tract
of land in Clay Township of Hendricks
County. A part of that old Benbow estate
is now occupied b3' the Town of Amo. Mr.
Duffey 's father was a Union soldier in one
of the Indiana regiments in the Civil war.
Mr. Duffey received his early education
in the public schools of Hendricks County.
Later he entered the Central Normal Col-
lege at Danville, where he studied law.
He was admitted to the Hendricks County
bar August 4, 1900.
Mr. Duffey never engaged actively in the
practice of law, but upon leaving college
devoted his time almost exclusively to real
estate and title law. For some j-ears he
lived in Plainfield, which place now bears
material evidence of his energy and enter-
prise. He was the founder of Amitydale
Park and Hillside Park, Duffey 's First and
Second Additions to Plainfield, and he
built considerably more than two miles of
sidewalks.
In order that he might better handle
his real estate business, which had assumed
quite extensive proportions, Mr. Duffey
moved to Indianapolis in !March, 1910.
Here he laid out the western wing of the
city, including Lookout Gardens, tirst and
second sections. Lookout Plaza, and
Sterling Heights Addition.
Due largely to his early experiences, he
has maintained an intense interest in farm
and rural development. Indeed, he is a
practical farmer himself. Through his
company he specializes in high class farms,
and his transactions are, for the most part,
limited to large farms and property own-
ers. Many of the most notable sales of
farms, valued at from $100 to $300 an acre,
have been transacted through his organiza-
tion. His efforts have done much to
encourage and advance agriculture, a work
of real patriotism in these days.
Mr. Duffey is well known in the commer-
cial life of Indianapolis. He is a member
of the Chamber of Commerce, belongs to
the Marion and Columbia clubs, and is a
Mason and Knight of Pythias.
;\Ir. Duffey is quite justly proud of his
three interesting, attractive daughters.
Irene, Dessie D. and Wilma Lee. Irene is
doing preparatory work in the Ward-Bel-
mont School for girls at Nashville, Tennes-
see, while the two younger daughters are
receiving instructions in the public schools
at Plainfield.
John H.\nna was born in Marion County,
Indiana, September 3, 1827. After grad-
uating from Asbury College he read law,
and with the exception of a few years spent
in Kansas before the Civil war he prac-
ticed at Greencastle from 1850 until his
death, which occurred on the 24th of Octo-
ber, 1882. From 1861 until 1866 Mr.
Hanna served as a United States district
attorney, and he was elected from the Sev-
enth District as a member of Congress,
serving one term, 1877-1879.
George M. Young, M. D. In a busy
professional career of over thirty-five
years Dr. George M. Young has been "iden-
tified with the City of Evansville almost
continuously. For a number of years he
was the chief surgeon for the railroad lines
entering Evansville, but for the past fifteen
years has given his time to a general prac-
tice.
Doctor Young came to Evansville from
the State of Pennsylvania, where he was
born and reared and educated. His birth
occurred on a farm in Indiana County,
that state. His father, Levi Young, was
a native of Berks County, Pennsylvania.
He was an infant when his father died and
when he was four years old his mother
married again and moved to Indiana
County. He grew up there on a farm and
at the age of sixteen entered a general
store in the town of Indiana, and by work
as a clerk for five years acquired a thor-
ough business training. He married then
and returned to country life. He was
strong and active, and though without cap-
ital he had the energy and the ambition
that enabled him to climb steadily the
rounds of the ladder to success. For sev-
eral years after his marriage he did the
hardest kind of work in farming, chopping
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wood and rail splitting, and finally
reached the position of a renter and later
acquired the means to buy his first farm.
Afterward he bought aud sold a number
of farms. He improved each one and sold
at an advantage. One farm he owned
comprised 300 acres. He was successful
in raising crops and live stock, and fre-
quently fed bunches of cattle for the mar-
ket. His favorite breed of cattle was the
Durham. Though he lacked many early
advantages in the way of schooling he kept
up with the times by constant reading, and
was progressive in everj^ sense of the term.
He alwaj's had the latest improved fanu
implements. He was the first in his vicin-
ity to buy a mowing machine and grain
drill, and the first to unload hay with
power apparatus. He began harvesting
with a grain sickle and finished with a self-
binder. He was a thoroughly business
farmer and always watched the markets
and sold his crops and livestock in the
right time. The last farm he owned ad-
.joined the town of Indiana, and when he
sold that he moved into the town and
bought property where he lived i-etired
until his death, at the age of eighty-six.
He married Jane Dixon. She was born in
Blairsville, Indiana County, daughter of
Thomas and Jane (Barclay) Dixon, also
natives of Pennsylvania and of Scotch-
Irish ancestry. Levi Young and wife had
nine children : Albert, who served in a
Pennsylvania regiment in the Civil war
and died while in the armj' in Virginia,
Margaret Ellen, John Franklin, Nancy
Jane, Clara, George M., Anna Mary, Elma
Lizzie and Foster B.
Dr. George M. Young grew up in a good
country home in Pennsylvania, attended
the district schools and also the State Nor-
mal at the Town of Indiana, and for two
terms was a teacher. He studied medicine
with Dr. A. F. Parrington at Indiana, and
in 1880 entered the medical department of
the University of Pennsylvania. He re-
ceived his diploma from that institution in
1883 and in June of tlie same year moved
to Evansville and began liis work as a phy-
sician. Soon afterward he was appointed
surgeon for the Evansville & Terre Haute
Railroad Company and later became chief
surgeon for the Mackey System, including
all the railroads entering Evansville ex-
cepting the Louisville & Nasliville. He
made a great reputation as a railway sur-
geon and for years gave practically all his
time to that work. In 1902 he disposed
of his property interests, resigned his po-
sition, and removed to Toledo, Ohio. He
was engaged in practice there until July,
1901, when, finding the climate not agree-
able, he returned to Evansville and has
since been known as one of the successful
general physicians and surgeons of the city.
He is a member of the County and State
iledical Societies aud the American Med-
ical Association.
In 1887 Doctor Young married Emma
Belle Blake. She was bom in Greencastle,
Indiana, daughter of William aud ilary
Blake. They have one daughter, Mar-
garet, who is the wife of Robert T. Bon-
ham. I\Ir. Bonham was formerly secretary
of the Evansville Chamber of Commerce
and dui'ing the war was a member of the
United States Signal Service. Mr. and
Mrs. Bonham have one daughter named
Betty. Doctor Young was formerly active
in Masonr.y, having affiliated with Reed
Lodge No. 361, Free and Accepted IMa-
sons, Simpson Council No. 29, Royal and
Select Masters, Evansville Chapter No. 12,
Royal Arch Masons, and LaVallette Com-
mandeiy No. 15, Knights Templar.
Ja.mes W. Harris is .junior partner in
the firm Greathouse & Harris, one of the
largest and one of the oldest mercantile
firms of Elwood. Mr. Harris is a man of
wide and diversified mercantile experience
and has been trained under all sorts of
circumstances and in different positions,
so that he is eminently capable of carrying
his share of responsibilities of this old
established clothing house.
He has spent most of his life in Indiana,
but was born at London, Ontario, Canada,
April 28, 1881, son of Charles and Helen
(Jones) Harris. The Harrises are of Eng-
lish ancestry, but came to America in early
colonial times, along with the Puritans of
New England. The family settled later
in New York State, aud one of them, Gen-
eral Harris, was the founder of Harris-
l)ur^, Pennsylvania. One .branch of the
family remained loyal to the king of Great
Britain and during tlic Revolution moved
to London. Canada. The grandmother of
James W. Harris was Margaret (Davis)
Harris, and they were the first couple mar-
ried by a minister in Ontario. She died
in December, 1914, when ninety-four years
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of age. She survived by twenty-five years
her husband, Gilbert Harris.
The mother of James W. Harris, Helen
Jones, came from New York State and set-
tled at Morris, Illinois. She met and mar-
ried Charles Harris while on a visit to Lon-
don, Ontario. When James W. Harris
was five years old his parents moved to
Remington, Indiana, and for a number of
years lived on a farm of 160 acres nearby.
While there he received his schooling by
attending winter terms of district school.
When he was fourteen years of age the
family came to Elwood, and here Charles
Harris became interested in the buying of
stock. In the meantime James W. Harris
continued his education and in 1901 grad-
uated from the Elwood High School.
At the age of nineteen he began work as
a clerk for A. J. Hileman, a shoe dealer,
and put in all his spare time of nights and
mornings and Saturdaj'S during the rest of
his high school course. After leaving high
school he continued in that store a year, "
then for two years was in the auditing de-
partment of the American Sheet and Tin
Plate Company at Elwood, and for six
months was in the shoe department of the
George J. Marott's great department store
on Washington Street in Indianapolis.
His father's death called him home from
Indianapolis. His father for eight or nine
years had been manager of the Anderson
branch of the Sinclair Packing Company.
James W. Harris took up this position as
successor to his father, and filled it com-
petently until July, 1907. He then re-
signed, and bought a partnership in the
Greathouse & Company store with Frank
M. Greathouse, thus establishing the pres-
ent firm of Greathouse & Harris at 120
South Anderson Street. These are the
merchants so widely known over this sec-
tion of Indiana by their slogan "right
goods at right prices." For twenty-five
years the house has been selling clothing,
hats and men's furnishings, and its repu-
tation is built up on the basis of quality
of goods and exceptional mercantile service.
Mr. Harris, who is unmarried and lives
■with his mother, has various other business
interests at Elwood. He is an active re-
publican. Recently he was one of ten men
selected from Madison County, represent-
ing both the progressive and regular wings
of the republican party, as leaders in the
"Get Together" movement, as a result of
which here and elsewhere the republican
party was once more solidified and was
made efllective, as the results of the 1916
election proved, ilr. Harris served as a
member of the Board of Directors of the
Elwood Chamber of Commerce in 1916 and
1917. He is a York and Scottish Rite Ma-
son, being afiiliated with Lodge No. 320,
Free and Accepted Masons, Chapter and
Council, Knight Templar Commandery,
the various Scottish Rite bodies, including
the thirty-second degi-ee, and the Temple
of the Mystic Shrine. He is a member of
the First Methodist Church.
Ben.j.vmin F. Long, of the law firm of
Long, Yarlott & Souder of Logansport, is
a hard working and successful lawyer, and
has richly earned the reputation he now
enjoys at the bar of Northern Indiana.
He was born in Cass County, on a farm
in Washington Township, January 31,
1872. He is an American by four or five
generations of residence. His grandfather,
Ma.i'or William Long, a title he acquired
from his prominence in the Pennsylvania
State Militia, was a native of Somerset
County, Pennsylvania. He brought his
family to Indiana in 1843, and established
his home on a farm in Washington Town-
ship of Cass County. Thus the Longs have
been a family in that county for three
quarters of a century. Ben.iamin F. Long
is a son of William and Joanna (Penny)
Long. His father also spent his life as a
farmer, and died October 5, 1893. His
mother passed away December 12, 1902.
William Long and his wife w^ere members
cf the English Lutheran Church.
Benjamin F. Long grew up on a farm,
had the advantages of the district schools,
but beyond that he had to get his educa-
tion by his own efforts. After graduating
from the Logansport High School in 1891
hr' put in two winters teaching in the same
scliool in the country which he had at-
tended as a boy. In 1893 he used the
small amount of savings he had accumu-
lated to start him in Indiana University
at Bloomington. After two years he had
to give up his course and seek means of re-
plenishing his purse. From 1895 to 1899
^Ir. Long taught history in the Logansport
High School. He then re-entered the
State University and took both the literary
and law courses, graduating A. B. and
LL. B. in 1901. He began private prac-
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tice at Logansport, but such had been his
record as a student in Bloomington that
he was soon called to the chair of asso-
ciate professor in the Law Department.
He resigned that position after a year, and
has since devoted his time and ei?orts
steadily to his law practice. From 1903
to 1906 he was deputy county prosecutor,
his law partner at the time being George
"W. Walters, the county prosecuting at-
torney. The firm of Walters and Long
continued from January, 1903, to January,
1909, when Mr. Long formed the still exist-
ing partnership.
Mr. Long is a republican, but has not
allowed politics to interfere with the essen-
tial work of his profession. He attends
the English Lutheran Church. In 1915 he
was appointed a trustee of Indiana tfni-
versity, and was reappointed in 1918.
September 10, 1902, he married Miss Lucy
Nichols, of Marshalltown, Iowa. They
have one son, Benjamin Long.
Aquilla Jones was prominent among
the men who made political history and
gave substance and character to the busi-
ness life of Indiana during the middle
years of the last century. He was treasurer
of the State of Indiana before the war, and
subsequently during his residence at In-
dianapolis did much to build up the indus-
tries of that city and was the recipient of
several important public honors.
He was . born in Stokes, now Forsyth
Countj', North Carolina, in the foothills of
the famous Blue Ridge Mountains, July 8,
1811, a son of Benjamin and Mary Jones.
His father was a farmer of limited means.
Educational opportunities were supplied
therefore in a meager degree to Aquilla
Jones, and while in his native state he had
not more than three months schooling all
told, even that being secured under adverse
conditions. His training, intellect and
business capacity were largely an out-
growth of his own tenacious memory and
struggling ambition. In after life he re-
alized that his sphere of usefulness would
have been far greater had he received an
education. He grew up in an environment
that led him to respect the working man
and to sympathize with him in his strug-
gles. Thus while in after years he at-
tained a position among the eminent men
of Indiana, he was one of the few of his
class whose minds were not closed to an
appreciation of the poor and the humble.
One product of this early experience was
a thorough belief in cooperation as a means
of solving many of the social and economic
problems of the world. He was in fact a
pioneer in bringing those principles to bear
in his later life in Indianapolis. Many
working men were aided by him through
material means and with advice, and his
memory perhaps deserves to live longest
among that class.
The Jones family moved to Indiana in
1831, locating at Columbus, where Elish-
P. Jones, a brother of Aquilla, had already
built up a business as a merchant.
In his brother's store Aquilla worked as a
clerk until 1836. Then after a year spent
in Missouri he returned to Columbus and
became proprietor of a hotel and subse-
quently after the brother's death, bought
the business which the latter had de-
veloped. He also succeeded his brother as
postmaster of the town. Aquilla Jones con-
tinued active in business and local affairs
at Columbus until 1856. Among other
interests he became identified with the Co-
lumbus Bridge Company.
In 1840 and again in 1850, under the
respective administrations of Presidents
Van Buren and Fillmore, he was appointed
and served as census enumerator of Bar-
tholomew County. He refused to accept
the office of clerk of the county. He was
elected and served in the State Legislature
during the session of 1842-43. President
Pierce offered him the appointment as
Indian agent for Washington Territory,
but his interests compelled hira to decline
and he refused a similar position for the
Territory of New jMexico.
Aquilla Jones removed his residence to
Indianapolis during his first term as state
treasurer. He was elected to that office in
1856. His party affiliations then and al-
wavs were democratic, but partisanship
with him was never sufficiently strong to
overcome his devotion to a principle. It
was said and is probably true that he de-
clined the nomination for governor because
he thought he lacked sufficient education to
properly fill the position. It was a mat-
ter of principle that caused him to decline
to become a candidate for reelection as
state treasurer in 1858. The principle in-
volved there was his divergent views on the
Kansas-Nebraska Bill from those held by
the majority of his party. This was the
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rare ease of a man declining a high state
office because of principle.
With all his lack of early education he
became one of the foremost men of his
daj- because of a superior natural mental-
ity. He knew intimately and was asso-
ciated on terms of equality with all the
great political figures of Indiana in his
time. A particulai-ly warm friendship ex-
isted between him and Thomas A. Hen-
dricks, and he was also associated in busi-
ness and politics with such Indiana giants
as Daniel W. Voorhees, J. E. ilcDonald,
David Turpie and others. When Mr. Hen-
dricks was elected vice president of the
United States in 1884, with Grover Cleve-
land as president, that noted Indianan se-
lected Mr. Jones for the appointment as
postmaster of Indianapolis. This appoint-
ment was not confirmed without strong op-
position. For the first time since the Civil
war the democratic party had come into
power, and there was a general scramble
for the political offices and patronage so
long withheld from the party. But in the
end Mr. Jones was appointed and was post-
master of Indianapolis throughout the first
administration of President Cleveland.
One of his strongest characteristics was
a taetfulness which enabled him to har-
monize many misunderstandings among his
party associates and also in business affairs.
He was a thorough business man and accu-
mulated considerable wealth because of his
keen judgment and untiring energy.
A story has been told illustrating his
business integrity. One time during an
absence from Indianapolis he was elected
president of one of the local banks. Upon
his return, with characteristic energ;\- he
began a careful investigation of the bank's
condition. He advised immediate liquida-
tion before the bank was closed by court
mandate, and this promptness enabled him
to pay ninety-five cents on the dollar to
the creditors.
In business affairs the name of Aquilla
Jones was for many years officially iden-
tified with the Indianapolis Rolling Mills.
He became treasurer of the corporation in
1861 and in 1873 was made president.
In the latter year he was also chosen
president of the city waterworks of In-
dianapolis, but resigned soon afterward be-
cause of the urgency of his private busi-
ness, affairs. For years he was an active
member of St. Paul's Episcopal Church.
The characteristics that showed them-
selves most forcibly in his career were those
of strong mentality, a sympathetic nature
and understanding, utter fearlessness and
absolute honesty.
In 1836 he married Miss Sarah Ann
Arnold, who died soon afterward. In 1840
he married iliss Harriet Cox. Their chil-
dren were Elisha P., John W., Emma, Ben-
jamin F., Charles, Aquilla Q., Edwin S.,
William M., Frederick, Harriet and Mary.
Rev. James Henry Durham, chaplain
of the ^Marion Branch of the National Sol-
diers Home, Grant County, and pastor of
Holy Family Church, Gas City, has been
a man of increasing service to his church
and the people of Indiana for more than
ten years.
Father Durham was born at Middletown,
New York, November 26, 1874. Having
finished his primary education in the pub-
lic school he was employed by the National
Saw Company, seven years, the last four
of which were spent as assistant superin-
tendent. His service with this company
gave him that knowledge of men which has
proven so useful in his life calling. Feel-
ing the call to a higher vocation he left
secular employment to take up the classic
course in St. Benedict's College at Atchi-
son, Kansas. Here he was appointed busi-
ness manager, and during his finishing
year, editor of the "Abbey Student." He
graduated as ' ' Gold-Medal Man ' ' in Chris-
tian Doctrine, History and English in 1902.
During the following five years he pursued
the philosophical and theological course in
Mt. St. Mary's Seminary at Cincinnati,
Ohio. There he received all the minor
orders of the church, and was finally or-
dained deacon by Archbishop Mueller on
:\Iarc-h 16, 1907.
Father Durham was ordained priest in
the Cathedral at Fort Wayne May 22, 1907,
by the Rt. Rev. Bishop Alerding. His first
assignment was as assistant pastor of St.
Patrick's Church in Fort Wayne, June 8,
1907. Fron% there he went to Dunkirk,
Indiana, as pastor, where he remained eigh-
teen months.
His appointment as chaplain of the
National Military Home took effect July 16,
1913. In addition to the responsibilities
of his government position Father Durham
has the spiritual care of some fifty-six fam-
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ilies, members of Holj' Family Church,
Gas City.
Charles W. Galliher. A merchant of
long and prosperous standing at Muncie,
Charles W. Galliher is one of the promi-
nent democrats of the state, a member of
the Democratic Committee of Indiana at
the present time, is also president of the
Muncie Commercial Club, and has a num-
ber of other avenues of active influence in
that city and county.
He was born at Muncie October 26,
1864, and his people have been in Dela-
ware County from very early pioneer times.
His parents were Martin J. and Rhoda
(Ogden) Galliher, the former a native of
Virginia and the latter of New Jersey.
They married in the east and in 1837 set-
tled at Cincinnati, Ohio, but soon after-
ward moved to the pioneer community of
Muncie, which was then known as iluneie-
town, and was an isolated country village.
For several years Martin Galliher fol-
lowed the packing business, but later moved
to a farm near Muncie and acquired and
developed 320 acres of rich farming land
in that vicinity. He lived as a farmer
until his death in 1887. He was one of the
noted stock raisers of the county, a man of
honor and integrity in all his business and
civic relations, voted as a democrat and
was an earnest and hard working member
of the Baptist Church.
Charles W. Galliher, the youngest of
four children, was educated in the public
schools of Muncie and at the age of seven-
teen began an apprenticeship at the car-
riage painting trade. Though he served
the full apprenticeship he never took up
the trade as a business, being diverted into
other lines. In 1888 he entered the employ
of the S. C. Cowan Company and for five
years was manager of that well known
Muncie enterprise. He then entered busi-
ness for himself as a draper and upholsterer
at 118 South Mulberry Street. This is the
business he has followed ever since, and in
that and his other affairs has been highly
prospered. In 1904 he formed "a copartner-
ship with C. E. Whitehill under the firm
name of Whitehill & Galliher, which was
dissolved in 1909, and since then Mr. Gal-
liher has been sole proprietor of the busi-
ness.
He has interests in various other l)usi-
ness afl'airs at Muncie, and is a director of
the Delaware County Agricultural Society,
a director of the State Chamber of Com-
merce, is former president of the Country
Club of Muncie, and has attained the thir-
ty-second degree of Scottish Rite Masonry.
In 1913 he was appointed a member of the
Muncie Board of Safety. His work has
always identified him with the democratic
party. He has an extensive acquaintance
with the influential men of his party
throughout the entire state.
Charles J. Robb is editor and associate
owner of the Michigan City Evening News,
the oldest paper in LaPorte County and
one of the oldest in the state, having been
established in 1835.
Mr. Robb has had a long and active
career in practically evei*y phase of jour-
nalism and newspaper ownership and man-
agement. He was born at Montezuma,
Iowa, January 21, 1856, sou of Joseph and
Elizabeth Jane (McAllister) Robb. His
father was an Iowa merchant. Charles J.
Robb was about eight years old when his
mother died, and after that he lived and
acquired his education in the public
schools of Indianapolis, Oskaloosa, and
Albia, Iowa.
He went with his father to Albia, Iowa,
where his father again became engaged in
the mercantile business, and where the
sub.iect of this sketch made his home for
many years. He finished his apprentice-
ship at the printer's trade at Mishawaka,
Indiana, but developed his talent as a re-
porter chiefly with The Gate City at Keo-
kuk, Iowa. Then for a time he was re-
porter and otfiee man on the Michigan City
Enterprise, of which the Evening News is
a successor. He resigned the position of
city editor of the Every-Day Enterprise
to accept a similar one on the Sanduskj^
Local at Sandusky, Ohio. After several
years there he became reporter and adver-
tising manager of the Flint Journal at
Flint, Michigan, and in the fall of 1887
became manager of the Grocers' Regulator,
a trade .iournal, and Price Current for the
wholesale grocery house of Reid, Murdoch
& Fischer at Chicago.
It was at the earnest request of a num-
ber of citizens of Michigan City that he re-
turned in 1888 and assumed the ownership
and editorial direction of The Evening
News, then owned by the Republican
Printing Company. It ha.s been under his
jurisdiction and energies, coupled with
those of his partners, that The News has
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1959
risen to be one of the prominent and is
one among the best daily papers in Indiana.
The publishing firm at present is Robb &
Misener.
Mr. Robb holds membership in and is a
charter member of the Inland Daily Press
Association, composed of daily papers in
seven surrounding states, with headquar-
ters in Chicago. For several years he rep-
resented Indiana on the vice presidency
and on the board of directors of the asso-
ciation ; he is a non-resident member of the
Chicago Press Club and a member of the
Indiana State Republican Editorial Asso-
ciation and of the Northern Indiana Edi-
torial Association.
Mr. Robb is a republican and served as
chairman of the Republican City Organi-
zation for several years. He was appointed
collector of customs of Michigan City un-
der the Harrison administration, and
served a period of twenty-five years in that
office. Mr. Robb is a member of the Ma-
sonic Order, the Benevolent and Protective
Order of Elks, the Independent Order of
Odd Fellows, Knights of Pythias, and the
National Union. In 1890 he married Miss
Josephine R. Webber of Williamston, Mich-
igan. They have one daughter, Ruth M.
TiLGHMAN A. Howard was born in South
Carolina November 14, 1797. After his
admission to the bar in Tennessee he prac-
ticed in that state for some time, and was
also a member of the State Legislature.
About the year 1830 he came to Indiana,
and was subsequently appointed a United
States district attorney. Tilghman A.
Howard became known as a lawyer of splen-
did ability, and as a jurist or political
speaker he ranked with the best of his
day.
The death of Mr. Howard occurred Au-
gust 16, 1844, in Texas, whither he had
been sent as charge d'affaires.
David C. Speaker. During the last
forty years David C. Spraker has probably
appeared as an active participant in as
many business and civic interests at Ko-
komo as any other man. He has been a
merchant, public official, manufacturer,
banker, and altogether has lived his three
score and ten years with complete fidelity
to the best ideals of manhood.
'Mr. Spraker was born February 15,
1847, in Decatur County, Indiana, son of
Daniel and Martha (Miller) Spraker. He
is of old American ancestry. His grand-
father, George Spraker, was born in Vir-
ginia, was a farmer by occupation, and
died at the advanced age of ninety years
in his native state. Daniel Spraker was
born in Virginia, and was one of the early
settlers of Decatur County, Indiana, com-
ing west in 1835 and buying land near
Greensburg. He was a farmer in that
locality until his death in 1855, at the age
forty-four. He was a devout and sincere
i\Iethodist, and in politics voted as a whig
and later as a republican. At the time
of his death he had a farm of 230 acres.
His widow died in 1859. They had nine
children, three of whom are still living.
David C. Spraker, sixth in age among
the children, was a boy when he lost his
parents, and in 1860 he came to Howard
County and lived with his uncle, John
Miller, a few miles west of Kokomo. He
attended public school and also had the
advantages of the Academy at Thorntown.
He remained with his uncle eight years,
and in 1868 began clerking in a store at
New London. After a year he bought out
the proprietor of a drug and grocery busi-
ness, and continued merchandising there
until 1878, when he was elected to the office
of county treasurer of Howard County.
He served two terms of two years each,
and on leaving office he engaged in the
manufacture of drain tile, and since then
has been busied with many other inter-
ests. He was a tile manufacturer two
years, and in the meantime had become in-
terested in the natural gas industry.
Mr. Spraker was identified with the or-
ganization of the Kokomo Natural Gas
Company, which put down the first pro-
ductive well in this part of the state on
October 6, 1886. Mr. Spraker was vice
president of the Gas Company until 1895.
In that year he organized the Kokomo
Rubber Company for the manufacture of
rubber specialties and mechanical appli-
ances, including bicycle tires, and Mr.
Spraker was its first president and man-
ager, and held these offices until 1917. He
then sold out the most of his interests in
the company and is now practically retired,
thougli he continued as a director in two
of the leading banks of Kokomo.
He is a member of the Masonic Order,
the Elks and the Knights of Pythias, is a
Methodist and a republican. From 1869
to 1877 Mr. Spraker served as postmaster
at New London, having first been com-
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missioned to that office during the adminis-
tration of President Johnson. Mr. Spraker
owns a large amount of real estate in How-
ard County, and its management now re-
quires the most of his time.
Fred G. Webb. A business of great im-
portance in every community in the United
States is that carried on by the manufac-
turers and dealers in shoes, footwear of
some kind being indispensable to health,
appearance and comfort. The leading shoe
merchant at Anderson, Indiana, is Fred G.
Webb, who is sole proprietor of a business
that was the pioneer in this line here when
started by its first owners many years ago.
Mr. Webb is a shoe man of long practical
experience, and is considered one of An-
derson's representative business men.
Fred G. Webb was born on his father's
farm in IMadison County, Indiana, 2i/o
miles west of Anderson. His parents were
James L. and Sarah E. (Cather) Webb,
the ancestral lines, many generations back,
reaching to England, Scotland and Ireland.
The early Webbs settled in Virginia, and
branches of the family may be found in
many other states of the Union at the pres-
ent time. The father of Mr. Webb served
as a soldier through the Civil war and
afterward passed his life in or near Ander-
son, Indiana, as a farmer and dealer in real
In the country schools of Madison
County Fred G. Webb passed through the
different grades and then entered the high
school at Anderson, and for two years he
pursued his studies there and kept well to
the front in his classes while all the time
he was working in the mornings and on
Saturdays for the shoe merchant, E. R.
Prather, whose father was the pioneer in
the biisiness at Anderson.
With the exception of about a year and
a half, when he was employed as window
trimmer for the firm of H. S. Hysiuger &
Son, Mr. Webb has been identified through-
out his business career with the shoe in-
dustry and probably is as well acquainted
with the business from every point of view
as any man in the country. For two yeara
lie was connected with the firm of Prather
& liei'lsalile as a shoe salesman, and after
the junior partner sold out was engaged
as manager and continued as such until
January 12, 1914, when he purchased the
Prather store and has continued the busi-
ness very successfully ever since. He is
well acquainted with the demands of his
trade, his selling territory taking in tlie
city and even extending beyond and into
iladison County's limits, his reputation for
business integrity being as well recognized
as his enterprise.
Jlr. Webb was married in 1913 to Miss
Hazel Marsh, who is a daughter of W. R.
and Araminta (Seybert) Mai-sh. The
father of Mrs. Webb was a merchant and
contractor at Anderson for many years.
Mr. and Mrs. Webb have no children.
Since early manhood Mr. Webb hastaken
a deep interest in public questions just as
an earnest citizen should to ensure good
government and equal opportunities for
all. He has always been identified with
the republican party and in 1912 was his
party 's candidate for county surveyor. Al-
though not elected he was defeated by so
small a majority that his popularity was
confirmed. He belongs to the order of Elks
at Anderson.
Benjamin F. Shaets has long enjoyed
an enviable position in Logansport banking
and business circles, and for the past five
years has been president of the Fenton In-
vestment Company. This is an extensive
moi-tgage, loan and investment business
which was founded and built up by the late
C. 0. Fenton, and after his death Mr.
Sharts accepted the responsibility of car-
rying it forward and has done much to in-
crease its prestige.
The Sharts family has been in Cass
C'Ounty for scvent.y years. Benjamin F.
Sharts was born on a farm in Tipton Town-
ship December 12, 1871, son of Aliiah J.
Sharts and grandson of George P. and
Frances (Bear) Sharts. George P. Sharts
moved from Hagerstown, Maryland, to
Preble County, Ohio, as a pioneer, and
conducted a grist mill near Germantown
for several years. In 1848 he settled on
the Richeson farm in Cass County, and
with his family lived in a log cabin until
he could replace it with a more comfortable
structure. George P. Sharts died in 1853,
at the age of fifty-two, and his wife passed
nwav in 1875, at the age of seventy-two.
Their children were named Mary M., Rose
Ann, Elizabeth, Catherine, Abraham, John,
Eliza J., George P.. William 0., Abiah J.
and Caroline.
Abiah J. Sharts. who was born in Preble
County October 24, 1844, was four years
old when brought to Cass County and grew
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up there, receiving his first educational
advantages in a log cabin school. He be-
came self-supporting by his work at the
age of fifteen. In June, 1863, at the age
of nineteen, he entered Company F of the
One Hundred and Sixteenth Indiana In-
fantry, was mustered in at Indianapolis,
and saw some of the hardest fighting in the
Kentucky and Tennessee campaigns dur-
ing the next j'ear. He was at Knoxville,
did guard duty at Cumberland Gap, Green-
ville and Tazewell, Tennessee, and was
granted his honorable discharge at Lafay-
ette, Indiana, in March, 1864. On return-
ing home he resumed the responsibilities of
managins the home farm, and conducted it
until 1879, when he moved to a farm ad-
joining the old homestead on the south.
In the course of time he developed one of
the best farms in Tipton Township, having
over 150 acres, and an attractive and
comfortable home. He has always been a
republican, is a member of the Grand
Army of the Republic, the Independent
Order of Odd Fellows, and worships in ■
the Seven-Mile United Brethren Church.
In 1867 he married Ellen Alice Wilson.
Her father, Andrew Wilson, was a pioneer
settler in Cass County. To their marriage
were born six children : Harry, deceased ;
Benjamin F. ; Elmer ; Walter, deceased ;
Blanche : and Charles.
As this record shows, Benjamin F.
Sharts had behind him a sturdy agricul-
tural ancestry, and he has always been
grateful that his own, boyhood was spent
in the environment of the countrv. He did
farm work at the same time that he at-
tended district school. In the fall of 1888,
at the age of seventeen, he went to live
with a relative at Topeka, Kansas, and at-
tended the high school of that city three
years. Each year he carried off the honors
of his class. Returning to Indiana, he
taught his old home school in Tipton Town-
ship a year, also the Boyer School a mile
east of Walton, and was in the Woodling
School in Washington Township two years.
On coming to Logansport in the summer of
1895 ilr. Sharts was employed in the
county treasurer's office for a year, and in
^lay, 1896, entered the Logansport State
Bank. He was messenger and bookkeeper,
later teller, and in May, 1906, after ten
years with the bank he was promoted to
cashier. Mr. Sharts was with this old and
well known financial institution of the Wa-
bash Valley for a total of seventeen years.
He resigned to take the management of the
Fenton Investment Company in the spring
of 1913. Mr. Sharts is a republican, has
been an active member of the Cass County
Historical Society, is identified with many
civic and patriotic movements, and is affil-
iated with Tipton Lodge No. 33, Ancient
Free and Accepted Masons, Logan Chapter,
Royal Arch Masons, Logan Council No. 11^
Royal and Select Masons, and St. John
Commandery No. 2i, Knight Templars,
at Logansport. He was eminent comman-
der of St. John Commandery in 1907.
October 3, 1900, he married Miss Pearl
McManus. This loving wife and devoted
mother passed away November 25, 1918,
leaving the husband and three children,
Victor Benjamin, aged sixteen; Robert
Wilson, aged twelve; and Eleanor Jane,
aged three.
RuFUs Magee for many yeai-s was re-
garded as one of Indiana 's foremost demo-
crats both at home and abroad. He served
as United States Minister to Sweden and
Norway during President Cleveland's ad-
ministration.
He is a native of Logansport, where he
was born October 17, 1845, and is now
spending the quiet years of his age in the
^ame city which saw his birth. He is of
Scotch-Irish ancestry, but of an old Ameri-
can family. His grandfather, Daniel Ma-
sree, served as a soldier in the Revolution.
His father. Empire A. Magee, was a mill-
wright by trade and was one of the pio-
neers in the Wabash Valley to follow that
occupation. He located at Logansport as
early as 1836. He built the forge at what
was known as the "Four Mile Locks" in
Miami Township. The forge was con-
structed for the smelting of "Kidney
Iron." Later he built the Aubeenaubee
forge in Fulton County on the Tippecanoe
River, also operated a grist mill at Lock-
port in Carroll County, and at Monticello
built the mills of the Monticello Hydraulic
Company. He died at Monticello in 1873.
He was a Covenanter in religion.
Rufus Magee had few opportunities dur-
ing his youth which he did not create him-
self. He lived with his parents to the ase
of nine. Thereafter self sustaining occu-
iiation went hand in hand with his educa-
tion. He gained most of his education
working as a devil and practical printer.
His first experience was with the White
County JeflPersonian, and for many years
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afterward he was eonneeted with various
publications both as a printer and writer.
He was in Indianapolis and Logansport,
and in December, 1868, bought the Logans-
port Pharos. In August, 1874, he began
issuing a daily paper. He finally sold his
newspaper interests and for many years
has been largely occupied with his private
business affairs.
From 1872 to 1878 Mr. Magee was a
member of the Democratic State Central
Committee and its secretary two years. In
1882 he was elected to the State Senate,
and in 1900 was again elected to that office.
In 1896 he was again a member of the State
Central Committee, but resigned when the
silver plank was introduced into the demo-
cratic platform. Mr. Magee was appointed
^Minister to Sweden and Norway by Presi-
dent Cleveland in March, 1885, and was
abroad representing this government in the
Scandinavian Peninsula four years and
three months. On his return he took up
the practice of law, for which he had
qualified himself during his newspaper ex-
perience, but since 1902 has lived retired.
Mr. Magee married in 1868 Miss Jennie
Musselman. They became the parents of
two daughters.
John C. F. Br.\ttain, former postmaster
of Alexandria, has for many years been a
successful business man of that city and is
sole proprietor of the Brattain Plumbing
and Heating Company.
He was born at Jliddletown in Henry
County, Indiana, July 15, 1862, and when
he was eleven years of age in 1873 his par-
ents moved to Alexandria. His great-
grandfather came to this country from Ire-
land and lived in South Carolina. Mr.
Brattain 's father was born in Indiana and
was a merchant and died in 1910. John
Brattain acquired most of his education in
the Alexandria public schools, attending
high school for three years. He learned his
trade under A. E. Brattain, and was his
employe for ten years. In 1891 he bought
the business at the corner of Canal and
Church streets, but subsequently located
and erected the building at 115 North
Canal Street where his business now has
its headquarters. He does general plumb-
ing, heating and general repairs, and has
handled some of the most important con-
tracts over a territory around Alexandria
for ten miles.
In 1916 Mr. Brattain married ^liss Wini-
fred G. Carr, daughter of John Carr of
^lenasha, Wisconsin. Mr. Brattain has al-
ways been an active republican, and his
service as postmaster of Alexandria was
under appointment from President Taft.
He served from 1910 to 1914. He is afSl-
iated with the Masonic Lodge and Council
at Alexandria and also with the local
lodges of Elks, Independent Order of Odd
Fellows, Knights of Pythias, Improved
Order of Red Men, Pythian Sisters and
Eastern Star. He is a member of the
Methodist Episcopal Church. Wliat Mr.
Brattain has acquired in a business way is
due to his efforts and long continued work,
and he stands high among local citizens.
He is chairman of the Factory Committee
of the Alexandria Business Men's Associa-
tion.
Edwin Walker, M. D., Ph. D. The
Walker Hospital in Evansville is an institu-
tion of the finest modern equipment and
service, and for a long period of years
under the management and proprietorship
of Dr. Edwin Walker has served the needs
of a large section in Southern Indiana.
Its founder and proprietor is a man of
more than ordinary eminence in his profes-
sion, and has been doing the work of a
well qualified physician and surgeon for
over forty-five years.
He was a pioneer in giving Evansville
modern hospital service. He comes of a
family of pioneers. His people settled
in Evansville more than eighty years ago.
His ancestry goes back to George Walker,
who with his two brothers, named Robert
and Michael, sailed from the port of
Dublin, Ireland, early in the eighteenth
century and settled at Newton Creek in
New Jersey. This settlement became allied
with the Salem, New Jersey, settlement,
and marriages between them were frequent.
George Walker married Miss Brinton.
Their son, George Brinton Walker, great-
grandfather of Doctor Walker, married
about 1760 Mary Hall. She was the
daughter of William Hall, Jr., and Eliza-
beth (Smith) Hall. Her grandfather, Wil-
liam Hall, Sr., emigrated from Dublin, Ire-
l='nd, in 1677 with John and Andrew
Thompson and settled in Pyles Grove
Township, Salem County, New Jersey. He
became prominent in business affairs, his
prosperity being measured by the owner-
ship of extensive lands. In 1709 he was
appointed judge of the County Court. His
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second wife was named Sarah Clement, of
Gloucester County. Her oldest son, Wil-
liam Hall, Jr., was born August 22, 1701,
and inherited a part of his father's estate
in Upper Maunington and the greater part
of the Salem property.
Captain William Walker, grandfather
of Doctor Walker, was born at Pennsneck,
New Jersey, in September, 1782. He saw
active service in the War of 1812. Prom
New Jersey he removed to Cincinnati and
remained there until about 1835, when he
came to Evansville, then a small and flour-
ishing town. Joseph P. Elliott, who knew
him well, wrote of him in his history of
Vanderburg County: "He was never idle
but was an active, useful man. At times he
contracted for earth work and improve-
ment of streets, and sometimes undertook
to build houses. At the breaking out of
the jMexican war he was an efficient court
official." For this war he set about to
raise a company, and hoisted his flag in
front of the Market House at the junction
of Main and Third streets. In two weeks
the roll was filled and he was commis-
sioned captain of Company K, which was
attached to the Second Regiment of In-
diana Volunteers. AVith this command he
went to Mexico. He was killed February
23, 1847, at the battle of Bucna Vista,
while leading twenty-three of his men in
the thickest of the fight. The survivors
afterward said that he told his men "we
must go through or die," and with drawn
sword in hand he led his men through the
fray and fell after being lanced through
the body in seventeen places. His remains
were brought to Evansville in the summer
of 1847 and buried in Oak Hill Cemetery,
with becoming military honors. He was
then sixty-six years of age.
Captain Walker married Catherine
Tyler. She was born September 28, 1785,
daughter of James and Hannah (Acton)
Tyler, and granddaughter of James and
IMartha (Simpson) Tyler. Her great-
grandparents were William and Mary
( Abbott 1 Tyler, William Tyler being a
son of William and Johanna (Parsons)
Tyler, who were natives of Walton in Som-
ersetshire, England, and came to America
about 1688, settling in Western New Jersey,
where William Tyler bought large tracts of
land on the north side of Monmouth River.
Captain Walker was survived by his widow
several years. They had seven children :
James Tyler, George B., Hannah, William
H., Mary, John T. and Oscar. George B.
was a ph.ysician and one of the founders
of Evansville Medical College. He was for
three years surgeon in the Union Army
in war between the states and was promi-
nent in business affaii-s. John T. was also
a physician, and was assistant surgeon in
the Mexican war and surgeon of the Twen-
ty-fifth Regular Indiana Volunteer Infan-
try, in the war between the states. William
H. was prominent in public afi'airs and
served as mayor of Evansville and as
county auditor. Oscar was also a physi-
cian. He removed to Missouri, and spent
his last years there.
James Tyler Walker, father of Doctor
Walker, was born at Salem, New Jersey,
April 15, 1806, but spent most of his life
in the Ohio Valley. He acquired a liberal
education for his time, and after his admis-
sion to the bar began practice at Evansville.
He raised a company for the Union army
in the Civil war, but being past military
age his individual service were re.ieeted.
He was a democrat in politics, and was
elected a member of the State Legislature
in 1844. He was a member of Grace Mem-
orial Presbyterian Church. The death of
this honored member of the Evansville bar
occurred in 1877. He married Charlotte
Burtis, who was born in Center Town.ship
of Vanderburg County March 2, 1822, a
daughter of Jesse and Elizabeth (Miller)
Burtis and granddaughter of Jesse Burtis,
Sr., and Elizabeth (Brewer) Burtis. Jesse
Burtis, Sr., during his early life lived on
Broome Street, New York City. In 1817
Jesse Burtis, Jr., removed to Cincinnati,
and from there to Vanderburg County in
1820, and was one of the first permanent
settlers in Center Township. He and his
wife were Quakers, ilrs. James T. Walker
died in 1901, the mother of two sons, James
Tyler and Edwin. James Tyler Walker
has long been identified with the Evans-
ville bar. He married Lucy Alice Babcock,
a daughter of Henry 0. and Mary (How-
ser) Babcock, and their two children are
Henrv Babcock and Mary.
Edwin Walker, who was born at Evans-
ville May 6, 1853, graduated from the
Evansville High School in 1869. attended
Hanover College at Hanover, Indiana, and
graduated in 1874 from the Evansville
Medical College. Hanover College con-
ferred upon him the degree of P. H. D.
Beginning practice the same year, he was
appointed professor of anatomy in the
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Evansville Medical College. Then, in 1877,
he attended lectures at the University of
New York in New York City and received
his diploma from that institution in 1879.
He has also taken post graduate work in
New York, Baltimore, Boston and Chicago,
and has twice visited Europe, studying in
London, Edinburgh, Berlin and Vienna. In
1882 he and others established a city hos-
pital, and operated it successfully for sev-
eral years. In 1887 he established at
Evansville a training school for nurses.
This was the second school of the kind in
Indiana and about the thirtieth in the
United States.
Doctor Walker established the Walker
Hospital on South Fourth Street in 1894.
Up to that time he had carried on a gen-
eral practice and his work has been chiefly
surgery. He still gives his supervision to
the affairs of the hospital, and that institu-
tion with all its facilities is a splendid
memorial to the painstaking work and the
high ideals of Doctor Walker. He is a
member of the County Medical Society, the
Indiana State :Medical Society, has served
as president of the Mississippi Valley Medi-
cal Society and as first vice president of the
American Medical Association, is a member
of the American Gynecological Society, and
is a Fellow of the American College of
Surgeons. Since 1899 his active associate
has been Dr. James York Welborn.
In 1880 Doctor Walker married Capitola
Hudspeth. She was born at Booneville, In-
diana, a daughter of George P. and ilar-
garet (Smith) Hudspeth. Her father was
a native of Bowling Green, Kentucky, and
a relative to the Daniel Boone family. Her
mother was born at Booneville, Indiana,
where her parents were pioneers.
Louis Phillip Seeburgee. A lifelong
resident of Terre Haute, where he was
a succesr,ful business man and farmer,
Louis Phillip Seeburger was most widely
known both in his native county and state
for his prominence in democratic politics.
The field of politics seemed to appeal to
his tastes and inclinations early in life and
for thirty-five years he almost continuously
held some office or other. It is said that
he was a candidate for twelve different
offices and only two defeats were registered
against his candidacy. His last office was
that of county assessor of Vigo County.
His death occurred on the 17th of January,
1919.
Mr. Seeburger was born on First Street
in Terre Haute June 2, 1855, fourth
among the seven children of Louis and
Caroline (Frey) Seeburger. His father
was a native of Baden and his mother of
Wuertemberg, Germany. Louis Seeburger
came to America in 1844, lived a time in
New York, and from there removed to
Philadelphia. His wife came to New York
in 1845 with her two brothers, and in
1846 Louis Seeburger and Caroline Frey
were married in Philadelphia. The fol-
lowing .year they came west and settled
at Terre Haute, their first home being at
the corner of Second and Poplar streets,
but about 1848 was moved to lot seventy-
two in the city. Louis Seeburger was for
a number of .years engaged in the retail
meat and butcher business, and was a man
of considerable prominence in local affairs.
He died in 1876, and at that time was a
candidate for the Legislature. He had
been a member of the City Council four
.years and in 1872 was nominated for
county commissioner and in 1874 for city
treasurer. More than seventy 3'ears have
passed since the parents were married in
Philadelphia and the widowed mother is
still living, at the venerable age of ninety-
two. All her seven children grew to ma-
turity, and the first to die was forty-seven
years old. Three are still living and all
residents of Terre Haute.
Practical experience in business came to
Louis Seeburger early in life. As a boy
in Terre Haute he received his first in-
struction in some private schools, and
afterwards attended the public schools.
Still later he was a student in a commer-
cial school. When only six years of age
he began helping in his father's butcher
shop, and at the age of ten he bought his
first cattle, pa.ying seven cents a pound on
the hoof. He continued in the butcher
business until 1882.
He was married that year and then re-
moved to a farm of 160 acres in Honey
Creek Township of Vigo County. Mar-
riage and change of occupation were not
the only two events of that year. In No-
vember he was appointed deputy sheriff,
and in January, 1883, returned to Terre
Haute to take up his public duties. For
eighteen years his home was at the corner
of Fifteenth and Chestnut streets. After
four years as deputy sheriff he became
deputy under County Treasurer Cox. and
in 1887 was appointed to the United States
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revenue service. In 1889 he resigned his
public office and enaaged in the meat busi-
ness with John JIcFall. In 1894 Mr. See-
burger was nominated on the democratic
ticket for the office of sheriff, and although
running seven hundred votes ahead of the
ticket was defeated. After that campaign
he engaged in the wholesale packing busi-
ness under the name Seeburger & Patton.
In 1896 the democrats of Vigo County
gave him an unanimous nomination for
sheriff, and he was one of the two demo-
crats elected on the county ticket that year.
He received a plurality of 448, and the
significance of this is heightened by the
fact that jMcKinley had only thirteen
more votes from the county as republican
candidate for president. Mr. Seeburger
was re-elected sheriff in 1898, by a greatly
increased majority, and was in that office
until November 1900. In the meantime
in 1899 he bought a farm three miles north
of the Coui't House, and when public du-
ties did not interfere he gave his time and
energy to its management.
In 1906 Mr. Seeburger was elected a
eountv commissioner and in 1908 was
chosen cresident of the board. In 1910 he
was nominated for state senator, but on a
technical ground, that he already held a
.iudicial office, he was declared ineligible.
In 1913 he was elected a memher at large
of the City Council, and became its presi-
dent. While in that office he was elected
county assessor.
Mr. Seeburger was a thirty-second de-
gree Scottish Rite Mason and in the York
Rite was a member of the Lodge, Chapter,
Council, and Knight Templar Command-
erj'. He was identified with the Knights
of Pythias and the Terre Haute Commer-
cial Club, and there was not a better
known nor more highly esteemed man in
the citizenship of Vigo County. At one
time he was president of the State Asso-
ciation of County Commissioners. At an-
other time he published the "Public Offi-
cial" magazine.
On January 26, 1882, Mr. Seeburger
married Miss ]\Iary W. Noble, daughter of
Charles T. and Elizabeth L. (Herring)
Noble.
Charles T. Noble was a conspicuous fig-
ure in the early educational affairs of Vigo
County, is remembered as the first teacher,
and many who afterwards became promi-
nent in business and affairs recognized
gratefully the early influences and in-
struction received from him. ]\Ir. Noble
was also the second county clerk in Vigo
County, an office he held for fourteen
years, and was the first auditor and first
city clerk of Terre Haute. Five children
were born to ilr. and Mrs. Seeburger, two
of whom died in infancy. The three sons
living are Edward P., John N. and Louis
W., all natives of Terre Haute.
George S. Kinnard, who achieved prom-
inent recognition as a member of the In-
dianapolis bar, was a representative from
the old Sixth District. During the short
time he was engaged in the work of his
profession he rose to prominence and at his
death left the impress of his ability as a
distinguished lawyer. He was accidentally
killed in a steamboat explosion.
George W. Rauch. It was the fortune
of an able Marion lawyer to represent the
Eleventh Indiana District in Congress in
one of the most vital and important epochs
in history, from the Sixtieth to the Sixty-
fifth Congress.
Mr. Rauch was first elected to Con^re^-;
in 1906, and served continuously until
March, 1917, when he retired and resumed
the practice of his profession. During his
last term he was fourth member of the
powerful committee on appropriations in
the House of Representatives. This com-
mittee directs the huge money bills which
make possible the operation of the vast ma-
chinery of government. Mr. Rauch also
had an active part in the study, delibera-
tion and passage of naany of the measures
involving the great and complicated prob-
lems solved by the National Legislature
during the first administration of Presi-
dent Wilson.
George W. Rauch was born on a farm
near Warren in Huntington County, In-
diana, February 22, 1876, and is the son
of Philip and ilartha Ranch. He was edu-
cated in the public schools of Huntington
County, later attended the Valparaiso Nor-
mal, and graduated in law from the North-
ern Indiana Law School at Valparaiso. He
was admitted to the bar in 1906, and began
practice at Marion, and is a member of the
Grant County Bar Association.
Mr. Rauch married July 10, 1918, Emma
Nolen, a member of a prominent Southern
family.
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Although a democrat, Mr. Rauch served
for ten years in Congress as representative
from what is considered one of the gi'eat
republican districts of the state and na-
tion. It was highlj- significant that when
he was first elected he was only thirty years
old and had just begun the practice of law,
and his election must be regarded as a
triumph of personality and unusual qualifi-
cations. His first opponent was Frederick
Landis of Logansport, brother of Judge
Landis of Chicago. In that election he won
by a plurality of 3,000, the plurality of Mr.
Landis over his democratic opponent two
years before having been over 8,000. Mr.
Rauch continued victorious, and succes-
sively defeated four of the republican lead-
ers of the district.
Besides his service upon the appropria-
tions committee Mr. Rauch was identified
with many other important measures before
Congress. As member of the sub-commit-
tee on fortifications, he helped promote a
substantial plan for the fortification of the
coasts, the fruit of which came co a proper
appreciation when the nation entered war.
He also made a successful fight to i-etain
the National Military Home at Marion. It
was planned to remove the home on account
of the rapid decrease in the number of
soldiers. Jlr. Rauch contended that the
Home should be preserved not only to take
proper care of soldiers today but for the
future, and the wisdom of his contention
is now of course obvious and has been
forcefully demonstrated.
Mr. Rauch was also an active supporter
of the Federal Reserve Act, which now
after several years of operation is recog-
nized as the measure which prevented a
serious panic in America before the war,
and on the whole is one of the greatest
constructive pieces of financial legislation
ever carried out in the United States. His
support was also given every movement
for the betterment of agriculture and all
legislation for the welfare of the farmer.
He has proved a good friend of labor and
is the author of one of the first provisions
in an appropriation bill providing for an
eight hour day on government contracts.
All of these things deserve to be remem-
bered in the record of an Indiana con-
gressman.
Colonel K. Leeson is one of the widely
known" business men of Madison County,
and is general manager of the R. L. Lee-
son & Sons Company, owning and control-
ling the largest department store at Elwood.
A steadfast ambition, hard work, fair deal-
ing and genial good fellowship have given
him a success which he has well deserved.
He is a son of General Wayne and Rosie
(Armfield) Leeson, of Elwood. It has
been customary in the Leeson family to
give the sons disting\iished militarj^ names
as their christian titles, and ]Mr. Leeson is
careful to disclaim any military service
that might have given him actual or hon-
orary possession of his first name.
The Leesons are originally an English
family, but have been in America for many
generations. They were prominent as
pioneers in Metamora, Indiana, where
Grandfather R, L. Leeson conducted a gen-
eral store in pioneer times. He continued
it there until 1873, when he came to El-
wood. Here he opened a modest stock of
goods in one room on Main Street, but after
a short time his store was burned out. He
was then located for a year in a single
room on Anderson Street, and the fiend of
fire seemed to follow him. After being
burned out a second time he reestablished
himself in a room at the corner of Ander-
son and A streets, where the Leeson store
has now been located for forty years. It
was a prosperous business, grew in favor,
and various departments were added from
time to time. Grandfather R. L. Leeson
died in 1906, and his is one of the honored
names in commercial circles in Elwood.
His active successor in business was his
son General W. Leeson, who is secretary
and treasurer of the R. L. Leeson & Sons
Company, and was in charge of the business
alone until 1914. In that year he shared
his responsibilities with his sons Colonel K.
and Lawrence, the former as general man-
ager and the latter as president of the
company.
Colonel K. Leeson had a public school
education in Elwood, attended the Indiana
Business College one year, and he learned
merchandising by a thorough apprentice-
ship in every department and phase of the
business. He has a mind that comprehends
and grasps all the details of the now large
store, which has about 125 employes, and
sells goods throughout a wide section of
country surrounding Elwood. He also has
several other business interests.
"Sir. Leeson married Iva Poole, daughter
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of William and Belle (Clarkston) Poole.
Her family came from Jennings County,
Indiana. Mr. and Mrs. Leeson were mar-
ried in 1915. He is a republican voter and
is affiliated with the Masonic Lodge,
Quincy Chapter, Ro.^-al Arch Masons, with
Elwood Lodge No. 368, Benevolent and
Protective Order of Elks, and is a member
of the Zeta Chapter of the Beta Phi Sigma
at Elwood. He and his wife are members
of the First Methodist Episcopal Church.
Dudley H. Chase. The City of Logans-
port had no nobler representative of
American citizenship and ideals during the
last century than the late Dudley H. Chase.
A native of Logansport, he was from an
early age identified with some of the most
sterling scenes in American history, and
for upwards of forty years held a foremost
position as a lawyer and judge.
He was horn at Logansport August 29,
1837, and died in that city July 2, 1902,
at the age of sixty-five. His parents were
Henry and Elizabeth (Donaldson) Chase.
This branch of the Chase family came from
Bristol, England, to Massachusetts in colo-
nial times. Henry Chase was born in Sara-
toga County, New York, in 1800, and was
a western pioneer. He located at Delphi,
Indiana, in 1827, was admitted to the bar,
practiced four years in Mississippi, return-
ing to Delphi in 1832, and the following
year locating at Logansport. He enjoyed
a large practice and associations with all
the pioneer lawyers of Northern Indiana,
the "Wabash River at that time marking
almost the frontier line of settlement. In
1839 he was appointed judge of the Eighth
Judicial District to fill an unexpired term.
In 1844 he removed to New York City and
practiced law there five years, and then
established another home in the new west-
ern country at Shebo.ygan, Wisconsin,
where in 1854 he fell a victim to the cholera
plague.
Dudley H. Chase spent most of his boy-
hood at the home of his uncle, William
Chase, in Logansport. He was educated
in the local schools, and from an early
age manifested a great interest in military
affairs. In 1854 he became captain of a
local company known as the Logan Grays.
In 1856 Hon. Schuyler Colfax appointed
him a cadet at the West Point Military
Academy. Had he entered that school he
might have become one of the distinguished
figures in American military affairs. In-
stead the moi-e strenuous and exciting
drama of Kansas enlisted his service and
participation, and as member of a rifle com-
pany he battled for freedom on that soil.
After the Kansas troubles he returned to
Logansport, studied law with D. D. Pratt,
and in 1858 graduated from the Cincinnati
Law School. He had about three years
of quiet practice at Logansport before the
outbreak of the Civil war.
In April, 1861, his local military com-
pany was offered to the Union army, and
Judge Chase equipped it at his own ex-
pense. It became Company K of the Ninth
Regiment, Indiana Infantry. Before get-
ting into the field Captain Chase was as-
signed with fifty-two Indiana volunteei's
to duties of recruiting in the State of
Maine. He and his followers were after-
ward organized as Company A, Second
Battalion, Seventeenth United States In-
fantry. This company joined the Fifth
Army Corps in front of Fredericksburg im-
mediately after the battle there. Judge
Chase was in the battles of Chaneellors-
ville and Gettysburg, and on July 2, 1863,
was seriously wounded in the hip by a shell.
Later he was assigned to duty in New York
City in helping quell the draft riots. On
recovering from his injury he rejoined his
command, was at Rappahannock and Bris-
tow Station, and the Mine Run campaign.
On account of wounds he resigned his com-
mission and left the service February 4,
1864.
Twenty-seven years of age, with the best
part of his life still before him, and with
an enviable record as a soldier and officer,
he was soon recognized as one of the lead-
ing lawyers of Northern Indiana. In 1864
he was elected prosecuting attorney of Cass
County and re-elected in 1866 and in 1868.
In 1872 he was elected to the Circuit Bench,
re-elected in 1878, and after twelve years
of service declined to be a candidate for
further honors. But in 1896 he was again
called from the quiet pui-suits of his profes-
sion and elected judge of the Twenty-ninth
Judicial Circuit. He M'as still engaged in
the duties of that office, surrounded with
all the dignities of his profession, when
death came to him and removed one of the
best citizens Logansport ever knew.
Judge Chase was a member of Logans-
port Post No. 14, Grand Army of the Re-
public, a member of the Indiana Com-
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mandery of the Loyal Legion, was
and eminent commander of St. John's Com-
mandery of the Knights Templar, and also
a member of the Odd Fellows.
October 28, 1859, he married Maria Du-
rett. Her father was one of the founders
of Logansport. She died April 12, 1877,
the mother of five children : William, Rob-
ert, John, George and Mary. December
7, 1880, Judge Chase married Grace M.
Corey, of Saratoga Springs, New York.
She was a member of the Schuyler family.
To the second marriage were born four
children: Charles D., Ruth, James and
Louise.
Charles D. Chase, only son of Judge
Chase still living in Logansport, was born
in that city September 27, 1882, and for
many years has been successfully engaged
in the undertaking business. He was edu-
cated in the public schools and in 1903
graduated from the Mj^ers School of Em-
balming at Columbus. Mr. Chase is affil-
iated with Oriental Lodge No. 272, Ancient
Free and Accepted Masons, Bridge City
Lodge No. 305, Knights of Pythias, Logan
Lodge No. 40, Independent Order of Odd
Fellows, Logansport Lodge No. 66, Benevo-
lent and Protective Order of Elks, is a re-
publican in politics and a member of the
Methodist Episcopal Church.
Theo Stein, Jr. The name Stein has
long been prominent in Indianapolis, and
some of the services and experiences of
Theo Stein, Sr., have been recounted on
other pages.
Some of the important public honors of
the county have come to his son, Theo Stein,
Jr., who is now serving his second term
as county clerk of Marion Count}', and
also has a recognized position in business
affairs, all of which he has gained at an
age when most young men are merely lay-
ing the foundation of the future.
He was born at Indianapolis April 11,
1889, the only son of his parents. He at-
tended the grammar and high schools, also
Wabash College, and finished his ediica-
tion in the University of Pennsylvania.
On returning home he entered the insur-
ance business as an employe of the Ger-
man Fire Insurance Company of Indiana
and in August, 1911, was appointed city
manager at Indianapolis for this company.
He helped build up the local business, and
in December, 1912, organized a general in-
surance business. He is still actively inter-
ested in this growing and successful con-
cern, the headquarters of which are in the
Lemeke Annex at Indianapolis.
Mr. Stein since attaining manhood has
been a hard worker in behalf of the local
republican organization, and in 1914 his
name was placed on the county ticket as
candidate for county clerk and he was
elected. He is a thirty-second degree Scot-
tish Rite Mason and a member of the
Shrine, and also a member of the Marion
Club, University Club, the Athenjeum, the
Country Club, and the Board of Trade.
In 1916 he married Miss Dorothy Kinnear
Bennett, of New York City.
George W. Dickey is a machinist, and
automobile man of wide and varied experi-
.ence, and is proprietor of the Dickey Motor
Car Companv of Kokomo, distributors of
the King Eight, Elgin Six and Willys-
Overland cars. He has a large business
over Howard County, and conducts a thor-
ough service station for the cars distributed
through his company.
Mr. Dickey is the type of man who early
gets into the battle of life and is satisfied
to win his promotion only on merits and
actual ability. He was born in Howard
County, Indiana, August 30, 1884, son of
George W. and Matilda (Bon Durant)
Dickey. His grandfather, Emanuel
Dickey, a native of Pennsylvania, was an
early settler in Ohio, and in 1870 brought
his family to Indiana and became a farmer
in Owen County, where he spent the rest
of his life and died at the age of seventy
years. One of his several children was
George W. Dickey, Sr., who was born in
Ohio, April 23, 1847, grew up in Owen
County, and went to Marshall County,
where he met and married his wife. In
1883 he located on a farm four miles
northeast of Howard County, and about
eight years later moved to Cass County,
where "he died at the age of forty-four.
He was a very progressive farmer and also
spent much time buying and selling timber.
Politically he was a democrat. His family
consisted of four sons and four daughters,
and seven are still living.
The fifth child was George W. Dickey,
who was educated in the public schools of
this state. He was twelve years of age
when he began earning his living in a
basket factory at Plymouth, Indiana.
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When about fourteen he worked as bell boy
and boot black in the Clinton Hotel, and
at sixteen he took up the machinist's trade
with the Clisbe Manufacturing Company
of Plymouth. This iirm manufactured
gasoline engines. After about a year there
he was employed as a machinist for a year
with the Oliver Typewriter Company at
Woodstock, Illinois, then returned to Ko-
komo, and was in the machine shops of the
Haynes Automobile Company and worked
two years longer as a machinist at his trade
in Chicago. About that time he went into
business for himself, doing experimental
work in the machinerj' line.
All this training, experience and practi-
cal work came before he was nineteen years
of age. Mr. Dickey was in business for
himself about two years, and since then has
devoted his time to the automobile business.
For five years he had a repair and machine
shop in Chicago. June 12, 1909, he re-
moved to San Antonio, Texas, and sold and
repaired automobiles in that state for four
years. February 7, 1914, he returned to
Kokomo as his permanent residence, and
has since become one of the prominent men
of the county as salesman of automobiles,
trucks and tractors and furnishing a re-
liable service department. The Dickey
ilotor Car Company was incorporated
under the laws of Indiana April 12, 1916.
with George W. Dickey as president,
Charles W. Hale, vice president, and Lelah
'SI. Burrows, secretary and treasurer. This
company was dissolved September 1, 1918,
at which time Mr. Dickey took over all the
stock and continues the business now as sole
proprietor.
As a resident of Kokomo he has given
much of his time to public affairs for the
betterment of the city. He is a member of
the Congregational Church, an independent
voter, and is affiliated with Howard Lodge
Xo. 93, Free and Accepted Masons. Sep-
tember 27, 1905, he married Miss Charlotte
Mast, of Kokomo, daughter of Mr. and
Jlrs. S. P. Mast. To their marriage were
born two sons and two daughters: Char-
lotte Geneva, born in 1907 ; George W.,
Jr., born in 1910; Bon Durant, born in
1914 ; and ]Mary Beatrice, born in 1916.
Charles R. Cox is one of the younger
business men of Muncie, and is manager
and £tctive head of the Cox-Williamson
Candy Company, wholesale manufacturing
confectioners. This is a business which is
regarded as a valuable asset to Muncie as a
growing commercial center, and its suc-
cess and standing is largely due to the ex-
ceptional enterprise shown by Mr. Cox.
Mr. Cox was born on a farm south of
Eaton in Delaware County October 23,
1892. He represents one of the old families
in that section of the state. His grand-
father was a native of Virginia, and on
coming to Indiana settled on a farm four
miles west of Eaton, where he was one of
the pioneers. Charles R. Cox is a son of
Charles V. and Lillie C. (Smith) Cox. His
father was born in Indiana and spent his
life as a farmer. He died in 1895.
Charles R. Cox, only son of his parents,
was three years old when his father died,
and his mother moved to Eaton, where she
lived until the family removed to Muncie.
Here Mr. Cox finished his education in the
grammar and high schools, and when little
more than a boy he began the line of busi-
ness which he at present follows, manu-
facturing candy. Later for three years he
was clerk and bookkeeper with the Muncie
Electric Light Company. In August, 1915,
he was appointed manager of the Cox-Wil-
liamson Candy Company. Later Mr. Wil-
liamson withdrew, and George W. Bauman
was admitted to the firm, though the name
still remains as formerly. They do an ex-
tensive jobbing business in making five-cent
packages of candy, under the familiar name
of "Triangle Confections." Much of their
output is distributed by their own firm of
traveling salesmen, and their special terri-
tory is sixty miles in every direction
around Muncie.
Mr. Cox is a member of the Christian
Church and a republican voter.
John Arthur Kautz is publisher of the
Kokomo Tribune, having bought that
paper more than thirty years ago. The
Kokomo Tribune is one of the oldest papers
in Indiana of continuous publication. It
was established in 1848, seventy years ago,
and was first published at New London,
then the leading town of Howard County.
Later it was moved to Kokomo. Under the
ownership and management of Mr. Kautz
since 1887 the Tribune has grown from a
small daily of 400 circulation to a paper of
8,560, growing steadily. It has a complete
modern plant, and is housed in one of the
best buildings at Kokomo, recently com-
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pleted, a fireproof structure that is a model
newspaper home.
Mr. Kautz, whose name has been iden-
tified with many other affairs at Kokomo,
was born in Wabash County, Indiana, Sep-
tember 26, 1860, son of Henry and Eliza
(Baker) Kautz. His grandfather, Fred-
erick Kautz, was born at York, Pennsyl-
vania, and was an early settler in North-
ern Indiana, first locating in Huntington
County and then in Wabash County. He
was a farmer. In 1869 he left Wabash
County and moved out to Kansas, but at
the age of eighty returned to Wabash
County and died there. He was a whig
and later a republican and a member of
the Dunkard Church.
Of his eight children Henry Kautz was
the oldest. With an education in the pio-
neer country schools Henry Kautz has had
an active career as a farmer, builder and
merchant, and is still living at Andrews in
Huntington County.
John A. Kautz, second in a family of
three children, was graduated from Butler
College at Indianapolis with the class of
1885. He had two years of experience as
a teacher before he bought the Kokomo
Tribune in May, 1887. He is one of the
veteran Indiana journalists. Among other
business interests he is a director of the
Citizens National Bank.
Through his paper and as a private citi-
zen he had constantly exercised his influ-
ence for the broadening and upbuilding of
Kokomo as a business and civic center. He
was one of the organizers and a member of
the committee that built the Young Men's
Christian Association and has continuously
served on the board of directors of that
institution. For the past ten years he has
been a member of the school board, and as
such has done his part in building the pres-
ent Kokomo High School and the Piiblic
Library. From 1902 to 1906, under ap-
pointment from President Roosevelt, Mr.
Kautz served as postmaster of Kokomo. He
is a member of the Christian Church, a re-
publican, a thirty-second degree Scottish
Rite Mason and an Elk.
August 18, 1886, at Wabash, he married
Miss Inez Gillen, daughter of Dr. and Mrs.
H. H. Gillen. Mrs. Kautz was educated at
Butler College. They have four daughters,
all living, Bcrnice, born March 3, 1888, wife
of Kent H. Blacklidge; Cordelia, born
April 30, 1890, wife of J. D. Forrest ; Doro-
thy, born March 4, 1892, wife of Robert
J. Hamp ; and Kathr.yn, born July 3, 1897,
unmarried, and still living with her
parents.
John Rau of Indianapolis, is one of the
pioneers of glass manufacturing in In-
diana, and is president of the Fairmount
Glass Works. It has been a lifetime pur-
suit with him. He began as a boy helper,
has worked himself up from the lowest
rounds to the top of the ladder and knows
glass makinar as few other men in the coun-
try know it today. The history of the glass
industry in Indiana is told on other pages
of this publication. From that chapter it
will be seen that Mr. Rau entered the in-
dustry' soon after natural gas made In-
diana one of the most attractive fields in
the country for glass making, and tjiough
glass manufacture has passed through its
period of rise and decline Mr. Ran is one
of the few who have continued, while oth-
ers have come and gone, and is head of a
large establishment at Indianapolis.
Mr. Rau was born at Louisville, Ken-
tucky, August 15, 1856, son of Frederick
G. and Rebecca (Schneider) Rau. His
father, a native of Germany, learned both
the butcher and baker's trades, and when
about fifteen came to the United States.
His home after that was at Louisville, Ken-
tucky, and he was eighty-four years of age
when he passed away. His wife was a na-
tive of this country of German parentage.
They had twelve children, ten reaching
maturity.
Second in the family, John Rau had but
little opportuunity to secure an education.
He was only nine yeai-s of age when he
began working in a glass factory at Louis-
ville. At eighteen he could scarcely read
or write. He and his oldest brqther, Fred,
had in the meantime assumed the respon-
sibilities of assisting their father in rear-
ing the younger children. Reaching the
age of eighteen, Mr. Rau realized the ne-
cessity of an education as a preliminary to
a successful career. That education he ac-
ouired largelv 'by study alone, in the silent
watches of the night and in the intervals
of hard labor. During 1884-85 he was em-
ployed in a glass factory at Milwaukee.
His Milwaukee employer then started a
factory at Denver, Colorado, and Mr. Rau
was one of the men selected to open the
new plant. He was at Denver and Golden,
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Colorado, for two ^-ears, and spent another
3'ear blowing glass at ilassillon, Ohio.
This was the experience which preceded
his pioneer efforts in Indiana. In 1889,
with three other men, forming an equal
copartnership, he established a glass fac-
tory at Fairmount. For eighteen years
Mr. Ran was one of the men who held up
the hands of industr.y in that typical
Quaker settlement, and from there in 1904
he removed to Indianapolis and built, with
several associates, a large plant for the
manufacture of bottle ware. The present
output is exclusively bottles, and of all
sizes and colors. At the present time the
entire plant is owned by John and Fred
Rau. It represents an investment of over
$500,000, and on the average more than
400 hands are employed.
While Mr. Rau's activities have been
associated so largely with the executive end
of the glass industry, his contributions to
the business are also represented by be-
tween fifteen and twenty, patents in his
own name, involving various phases of
glass manufacturing. Mr. Rau has the
distinction of building the first continuous
tank in Indiana. It was an experiment,
and he took big chances in erecting it, but
demonstrated its utility and six years later
others began following his example. Some
of the machines now used by his company
are also his individual invention, and it
is said that John Rau has made more im-
provements in the glass business than any
other one man.
Having come up from the lowest walks
of industry himself, Mr. Rau has always
shown a sympathetic understanding and
appreciation of the laboring man's posi-
tion. As a workman he stood high in the
councils of union labor, and his establish-
ment has always been conducted as a union
sboD. Politically he is a republican. In
1883 he married Miss Alice Marsh, a na-
tive of Louisville, Kentucky. They have
three children: John Hite; Charles' Dil-
lard; and Marie, Mrs. Kenneth C. Wool-
ling.
Mrs. Mary McCrae Clt:.tee. One of the
well known names in literary circles is that
of Mrs. jMary McCrae Culter, an educator
and author. She was born in New Al-
bany. Indiana, April 12, 1858, a daughter
of the Rev. John and Catherine H.
(Shields) McCrae. On her maternal
grandfather's side she is a direct descend-
ant from the French Huguenots, and on
the side of his wife is in the ninth gener-
ation from John and Priscilla Alden. Her
grandfather, Henry B. Shields, was a mem-
ber of one of the pioneer families to settle
in New Albany, Indiana, and a large num-
ber of relatives still live in that part of In-
diana. On the paternal side Mrs. Culter
is descended from the McCrae clan of west-
ern Scotland, people who were staunch
Covenanters in the troublous days of early
Scotland.
The Rev. John McCrae, a native of Scot-
land, was educated in Nashville, Tennes-
see, and in the New Albany Theological
Seminarj^, and he afterwards served as a
home missionary for the Presbyterian
Church in Texas, Kentucky, Indiana, Ohio,
and Kansas. In 1863 he joined the Fed-
eral army, going into the service as chap-
lain for the Third Kentucky Cavalry, and
was sent home with over $30,000 to be dis-
tributed among families of the soldiers,
this being just at the time Sherman started
on his march to the sea. Every dollar of
that money reached those from whom it
was intended in spite of the efforts of guer-
rillas to capture it. From that time until
the close of the war Reverend McCrae
served as chaplain in the military prisons
pt Louisville, Kentucky. He died at Ness
City, Kansas, in 1890.
Mnry McCrae Culter was educated in
the Western College for Women at Oxford,
Ohio, where she graduated in 1877, and she
afterward taught school in Indiana, teach-
ing in Clark County and at Salem in Wash-
ington Count.v, and after removing to Kan-
sas she taught in Wichita. Her literary
work, begun in 1895, has been continued to
the present time, and she is the author of
manv well known works, including: "What
t'le Railroad Brought to Timken," "Ships
That Pass in the Day," "Four Roads to
Happiness," "Girl Who Kept Up,"
"Prodieal Daughter," "Jollv Half
Dozen," "Gates of Brass," "A Real
Aristocrat," also many serial stories and
songs and poems.
On October 19, 1882, Mary McCrae was
married at Peotone, Kansas, to Bradford
M. Culter, a native of Illinois, and their
children are Edith M., Mabel M., Arthur
E., and Leila E.
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Charles F. Roesener. A city like In-
dianapolis could never have been built up
to its present importance without the
earnest efforts of stable and substantial
business men to which class belongs Charles
P. Roesener, who is proprietor of the
Central Transfer and Storage Company
and a well known and trustworthy citizen
of Indianapolis, his native place. ]\Ir.
Roesener was born December 27, 1864, in
the homestead at No. 905 Union Street
which had been erected by his father. His
parents were William F. and Christina
Roesener.
William F. Roesener was born in Ger-
many and was a young man when he ac-
companied his three brothers to the United
States. Although his lack of knowledge
of the English language prevented his em-
ployment in any higher place than as a
section hand when he first went into rail-
road work with the old Bee line, that im-
pediment was soon removed because he
applied himself diligently and shortly
afterward proved his ability to read, write
and converse in the English language, and
he was then made railroad yard clerk, a
position he filled with fidelity and efficiency
for many years. In the meanwhile he was
married at Indianapolis and built the resi-
dence in which his widow still resides. She
also was born in Germany and came to the
United States in youth. Their four chil-
dren were all bom in the home on Union
Street.
When the old Bee line was merged with
the Big Four Railroad William F. Roesener
went into the transfer business with his
brother Anthony, who was already so en-
gaged, and they continued together until
1885, when William F. retired on account
of failing health, and his death occurred
in 1897, at the age of sixty-four years. He
was a man of sterling character and of
high standing both in business and church
affairs. He was a faithful and generous
member of St. Paul's Lutheran Church, and
at one time was a member of its board of
trustees. His children all survive, namely :
William F., who is general cashier of the
Chicago, Indiana & Western Railroad at
Indianapolis; Louisa, the wife of Charles
Shoke, who is in a nursery business in this
city ; Charles F. ; and Marie, the wife of
George Fahrbach, who is connected with
the New York Store.
Charles F. Roesener attended the
Lutheran School on East and Georgia
streets, Indianapolis, until he was twelve
years of age and then decided to look
for some business opening. As he was
robust and large for his age, he turned
to railroad work, and served two years
faithfully in the capacity of messenger.
Since then, however, he has been continu-
ously identified with the transfer business.
He began as a driver for the Indiana
Transfer Company, and remained three
years, and then went with the Central
Transfer Company and later was a driver
for the Vonnegut Hardware Company. In
1887 he started into the transfer business
on his own account, beginning with one
horse and a wagon, a courageous proceed-
ing as he had to contend in a business way
with the better equipped and older com-
panies. He had made many friends, how-
ever, in this biisiness field and worked hard
and long and found himself, in January,
1902, able to buy the Central Transfer
Company's entire interests. His son is as-
sociated with him and they handle the bulk
of the transfer business here, being well
equipped with a number of men and teams
and with twenty-two motor trucks. Mr.
Roesener was the pioneer in the use of mo-
tor trucks in the transfer business here.
The Central Transfer Company was started
here by Henry Frazier, of the Big Four,
and Oran Perry, of the Pennsylvania Rail-
road. In 1901 Mr. Frazier retired and
later Mr. Perry sold out to Mr. Roesener.
In addition to transfer the company makes
an important feature of the storage busi-
ness, and they have warehouses from Nos.
118 to 144 South Alabama Street.
Mr. Roesner was married in 1886 to Miss
Christina Steinmetz, who is a daughter of
John F. Steinmetz of Indianapolis, and
they have one son, Elmer, who is associated
with his father and has charge of the mo-
tor trucks. The family belongs to the
Lutheran Church. Mr. Roesener is a
staunch democrat politically and heartily
supports the present administration at
Washington and faithfull.y does his duty
as a citizen at home. He was a member
of the rather notable grand .jury at In-
dianapolis in 1914 that indicted so many
individuals here for alleged election frauds,
and on many other occasions has proved
his fearlessness in maintaining his convic-
tions when he believes he is in the right.
He is identified with the Order of Elks.
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Edgar Augustus Simmons is president
of the Farmers Trust and Savings Bank of
Kokomo. This bank, established in 1902
as the Kokomo National Bank, has enjoyed
a career of great and marked prosperity,
and has been steadily increasing its re-
sources until it is now considered one of the
strongest banks in Northern Indiana. It
has a capital of $150,000, surplus and un-
divided profits of approximately $80,000,
and total resources of $1,187,609. One
especially interesting feature of its condi-
tion is that its volume of deposits has al-
most doubled in three vears. The deposits
in 1918 are over $1,000,000. They conduct
a general banking business, including sav-
ings, trust, real estate, rental, insurance,
investment, and loan departments, and thus
have all those branches of service found in
the largest metropolitan banks. Its offi-
cers and directors include some of the best
known business men and citizens of How-
ard County. Besides Mr. Simmons as
president the vice president is George W.
Duke, E. B. Seaward is cashier, W. W.
Drinkwater is treasurer and secretary, and
other directors are Lex J. Kirkpatrick, J.
W. Learner, Thomas C. McEeynolds, E. L.
Danner, A. G. Seiberling, and C. "W. Me-
Reynolds.
Edgar Augustus Simmons was born at
Shelby County, Indiana, November 6, 1859,
son of Augustus and Catherine (Giles)
Simmons. Catherine Giles was born in
Bourbon County, Kentucky, July 16, 1819.
As a girl she accompanied her parents to
Shelby County, Indiana, when fifteen years
of age, and a few years later married James
Thompson. The Thompson family removed
to Howard County in 1844, locating about
five miles west of Kokomo. A year later
James Thompson took a claim a mile nearer
the county seat, but died the following
year without having had much opportunity
to improve his land. After the death of
her husband Mrs. Thompson returned to
Shelby County and there married Ancustn
Simmons. They lived in Shelliy County
until she became a second time a widow, in
the year 1865, when their son Edgar A. was
only five years old. In 1872 she brought
her family to Howard County, and contin-
ued to reside here until her death at Ko-
komo April 7, 1908, at the ripe old age of
eighty-nine. Of her family three children
survive : Leonidas ; America, wife of Frank
Todhunter ; and Edgar A.
Edgar A. Simmons was thirteen years
old when his mother came to Howard
County and located on the farm known as
the old Indian Spring Farm about five
miles west of Kokomo. In the meantime
he had attended district school in Shelby
County, and afterwards had the advantages
of the public schools of Kokomo. He lived
at home with his mother and handled many
of the responsibilities of the farm until
his twenty-fourth year.
In 1883 Mr. Simmons married Miss Belle
George, daughter of W. "W. George, who
came from Fayette County, Indiana, in
1873 and settled three miles west of Ko-
komo, on the Pike. For three years after
his marriage ilr. Simmons farmed in Er-
win Township, and was then appointed
deputy sherifl:' under Isaac "Wright. He
was deputy sheriff four years, and in 1890
was nominated by his party for the office
of sheriff and was elected by a handsome
majority, being one of the leaders on the
republican ticket that year. At the end of
one term the people of Howard County
were so well satisfied with his conduct of
office that they elected him by an even
larger majority.
On retiring from the sheriff's office Mr.
Simmons became associated with W. S.
Armsti'ong, former mayor of Kokomo, and
ex-County Clerk V. D. Ellis in the hard-
ware business. Two years later he sold
out his interest and entered real estate.
Mr. Sinnnons was in the real estate business
at Kokomo from 1898 to 1906. In the
latter year he was appointed postmaster of
Kokomo and held that office one term.
From 1900 to 1904, for two terms, he was
chairman of the Howard County Repub-
lican Committee. Mr. Simmons was elected
president of the Kokomo National Bank,
now the Farmers Trust & Savings Bank,
in 1910, and has since devoted practically
all his time and energies to this institution,
which in its growth and prosperity reflects
to a large extent the wisdom of its manage-
ment.
Fredolin Russell Borton is one of the
younger business men and merchants of
Richmond, member of the firm Thompson
& Borton, dealers in men's and boy's
clothing and furnishings.
!Mr. Borton was bom at Webster in
"Wayne County, Indiana, November 9, 1889,
son of Alfred E. and Lydia (Russell) Bor-
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ton. He attended the public schools at
Webster, graduating from high school in
1907, and took two j-ears in the normal
course at Barlham College. Having qual-
ified as a teacher he followed that occupa-
tion in New Garden Township of Wayne
County for two years. He left the school
room to identify himself with merchandis-
ing as a salesman with the clothing house
of Krone & Kennedy. He remained with
that firm nine years and accepted every
opportunity to improve his ability and
benefit by his increasing experience. For
a short time he was in a similar business
at South Bend, and in 1917 returned to
Richmond and bought a partnership with
Mr. Thompson. They now have one of the
leading stores of the kind in Eastern In-
diana.
In 1913 Mr. Borton married Lucile Pitts,
daughter of George and Minnie (Steddon)
Pitts of Webster. Their one son, George
Russell, was born in 19i6. Mr. Borton has
taken an active interest in local affairs and
during the progress of the war he served as
a private in Company K of the Indiana
State Militia. He is independent in poli-
tics and a member of the Friends Church.
His only fraternal affiliation is the Im-
proved Order of Red Men.
Edvstard a. Stuckmeyee. While his
work and service as a business man have
made Mr. Stuckmeyer well known in In-
dianapolis for many years, his wider recog-
nition over the state is due to the fact that
he is now president of the State Board of
Pharmacy, through which all candidates
for licenses as registered pharmacists are
examined and approved. Mr. Stuckmeyer
was formerly secretary of this board, and
much of the efficiency associated with the
administration of the state law on phar-
macy is the result of his painstaking efforts
and professional standards and ideals.
Mr. Stuckmeyer was born in Indianap-
olis, a son of John Henry Stuckmeyer.
The Stuckmeyer family has been a well
known one in Indianapolis for over half a;
century. His father was a well known
carpenter and contractor in Indianapolis.
Edward A. Stuckmeyer obtained his early
education in the Indianapolis public
schools, but was only fifteen years old when
he went to work in the drug store of Dr.
D. G. Reid, with whom he acquired much
of his early training. The Reid store was
at Fletcher Avenue and Shelby Street.
Later for some time Mr. Stuckmeyer was
in the store of Charles G. Traub and C. W.
Ichrod. About the time he turned his ma-
jority he entered business for himself in
pai'tnership with his brother, J. H. Stuck-
meyer, and for the past quarter of a cen-
tury the firm has been J. H. and E. A.
Stuckmeyer. They own and operate two
of the high class drug stores of the city,
one at 1853 Madison Avenue and the other
at 1415 Prospect Street. Mr. E. A. Stuck-
meyer has active charge and management
of the latter store.
In politics he is a democrat, and for
years has lent his interest and co-operation
to all civic and welfare projects. Mr.
Stuckmeyer is married, and his son, Edwin
J. Stuckmeyer, is a graduate of the Indiana
College of Pharmacy and is a registered
pharmacist.
Oscar Raymond Luhring, present repre-
sentative of the First Congressional Dis-
trict of Indiana, is a lawyer by profession
and has had a busy practice and many
public responsibilities at Evansville since
1900.
He was born .in Gibson County, Indiana,
February 11, 1879. His early advantages
in the public schools were supplemented
by a literary and law course in the Uni-
versity of Virginia, where he graduated
LL. B. on June 13, 1900. He was admit-
ted to the bar of Indiana in August of the
same year at Evansville, and forthwith
entered upon an active practice. His first
important public honor came in 1902, with
his election to the Sixty-Third General As-
sembly of Indiana. He served one term in
the House and in 1904 was appointed dep-
uty prosecuting attorney for the First Ju-
dicial Circuit, and held that office until
1908. He was then regularly elected pros-
ecuting attorney, and served two terms,
1908 to 1912, and was renominated for a
third term but declined the honor. He has
for many years been one of the leading
republicans of the First District, and at
the election in November, 1918, was chosen
a member of the Sixty-Sixth Congress by
20,440 votes against 18,837 votes given to
George K. Denton, his democratic rival.
]Mr. Luhring married June 16, 1902, Mar-
garet Graham Evans of Minneapolis,
daughter of the late Robert 6. Evans.
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Frank M. Greathouse came to Elwood
about twenty-five years ago and made him-
self popular with the community as sales-
man for some of the clothing and dry goods
concerns of that city. Popularity followed
him when he entered business on his own
account, and today as head of the firm
Greathouse & Harris he is head of the larg-
est store of its kind in Elwood and is one
of the leading merchants of that section
of Indiana. What he has he has worked
for and earned, and every step of his career
may be closelj' scrutinized and has meas-
ured up to the most exacting standards of
commercial honor.
Jlr. Greathouse was born on a farm at
Hillsboro in Highland County, Ohio, in
1859, son of John and Caroline (Van-
Winkle) Greathouse. The first generation
of the Greathouse family lived in Virginia.
One of ^Ir. Greathouse 's great-grandfath-
ers served in the Revolutionary war. Most
of the family during the different genera-
tions have been farmers and traders, and
have always been especially successful in
raising and handling horses.
John Greathouse, father of Frank M.,
came to Indiana in 1865 and settled on a
farm near Noblesville. In 1870 he moved
out to Lincoln, Nebraska,- and died there.
He was buried under the auspices of the
Masonic Order, of which he had long been
a member. His wife died in 1888.
Frank M. Greathouse received his first
schooling at Noblesville, Indiana, b\it after
the age of twelve he lived on his uncle's
farm at New Vienna, Ohio, and attended
school there until he was about seventeen.
Leaving the farm he found his first oppor-
tunity to enter commercial life at Alexan-
dria, Indiana, where for a year and a half
he was employed as a clerk in the Baum
Brothers general merchandise store. He
went with the firm on its removal to El-
wood, and continued with them there for
a year and a half. For another two years
he was clerk and salesman with Jacob
Kraus, clothier, and from 1889 to 1891 a
salesman for B. L. Bing of Anderson.
In 1891 Mr. Greathouse married Roxie
Brown, daughter of Rudolph and Martha
(Dwiggins) Brown of Madison County.
After his marriage he was clerk for
Emanuel Levy, clothing merchant of El-
wood, until 1894 was with D. G. Evans &
Company of Elwood, and later with F. W.
Simmons until 1902.
He and I. B. Bietman then formed the
partnership of Bietman & Greathouse, and
bought out the Simmons store at Elwood.
The partnership continued until 1906, when
Mr. Bietman retired, leaving the entire
business to Mr. Greathouse. In 1907 the
latter took in as partner James W. Harris,
and for the past ten years the firm of
Greathouse & Harris has conducted the
largest stock of clothing and dry goods in
the city. They have a trade in the sur-
rounding country for a distance of fifteen
miles.
Mr. Greathouse is a republican in poli-
tics, and has always been exceedingly pub-
lic spirited and helpful in every movement
where the community welfare is concerned.
Gottfried Monninger, a resident of
Indianapolis since December 21, 1876, and
one of its best known business men, is a
member of a family that has furnished
more than one honored name to Indiana.
The Monningers came to Indiana about
the time of the great German migration
of the early '50s, and their homes for the
most part have been in Terre Haute and
Indianapolis. One of the best remem-
bered of the family in an earlier genera-
tion was Capt. P. H. Monninger, who
commanded a company in the famous
German regiment in the Civil war. Sev-
eral of the Monninger name are now
commissioned as officers in the National
Army.
Mr. Gottfried Monninger was born at
Albersweiler, Rheinpfalz, Germany, Feb-
ruary 5, 1858. He is a son of Peter and
Margaret (Schwab) Monninger. Peter
]\Ionninger came with a party of about
twenty young people to the United States
in the early "SOs. He joined his brother,
Daniel Monninger, at Indianapolis, where
Daniel liad located about 1854. Daniel
]\Ionninger for a great many years con-
ducted an establishment at No. 20 Ken-
tucky Avenue, where the new Lincoln
Hotel is now erected, for the sale of the
family product of wines, the Monningers
being a family of wine growers and vin-
tagers in the hills of southern Germany.
Another brother of Peter Monninger was
the Capt. P. H. Monninger already men-
tioned, who besides his service as a cap-
tain in the Thirty-Second Indiana Infan-
try was for many years engaged in the
hotel business at Terre Haute. It is a
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matter of interest to record here that
Gerhard Monninger, a son of Capt. Philip
H., is now a major in the National Army,
and his station at this writing is in
France. To return now to Peter Mon-
ninger. In the same party with which
he came to this country was Margaret
Schwab. Peter and Margaret were mar-
ried at Terre Haute, and while they re-
mained in that city they assisted his
brother Philip in running a hotel. Peter
Monninger suffered a great deal of trou-
ble on account of his eyes, and on the ad-
vice of his physician he and his j'oung
wife returned to their native land and
thereafter made their permanent resi-
dence and home there, though they were
great lovers of America and her institu-
tions and several times returned to visit
their family and other relatives in In-
diana. In Bavaria Peter Monninger be-
came an extensive wine grower, and also
operated a stone quarry, and continued
making Rhine wines the rest of his active
life. In 1860 he came to the United
States for a brief visit of a few months.
In 1893 he and his wife, then in advanced
years, made a trip to the United States
and were' visitors at the World's Pair in
Chicago. Peter Monninger died in Ger-
many in 1896, and the following year his
widow again visited this country, and she
died at the age of seventj'-three. Peter
Monninger was sixty-three when he passed
away. Peter Monninger was a successful
business man and stood high in the es-
teem of bis communitj- in Germany. He
was urged again and again to accept the
post of mayor. He was a member of the
council and was president of the church
choir. ]\Iany of the older citizens of In-
dianapolis will recall the enthusiastic re-
ception given these old time people when
they visited the city in 1893. The recep-
tion was held at Independent Turner
Hall. Peter Monninger and wife had a
large family of children, six of whom
became citizens of the United States and
five are still living. ^Margaret is de-
ceased. Charles, who was born in Terre
Haute before his parents went back to
Gennany, is now living in Indianapolis,
and is one of the leading business men of
this city, being a member and officer of a
corporation that supplies ice to Terre
Haute, Peoria, Illinois and Logansport,
Indiana. Charles Monninger has a son
who is a first lieutenant in Prance, hav-
ing received his training in the officers
training camp at Fort Benjamin Harri-
son. Philip, the next in age of this fam-
ily, is now manager of the Filbeck House
at Terre Haute. Louis represents Mag-
nus & Sons of Chicago. Christina is the
wife of Mr. Marmon, who was formerly
a teacher in the schools of Evansville, In-
diana, and is now manager of the Mer-
chants' Ice Company of Terre Haute.
Julia is the wife of Christian Anacker,
a contractor and builder at Indianapolis.
Bertha, wife of Otto Jung, a Government
forester, died in Germany. Daniel alsp
died in Germany.
Mr. Gottfried Monninger acquired the
equivalent of a liberal education in Ger-
many, but at the age of eighteen left home
and set out for the land which had already
been so kind to other members of the fam-
ily. When he arrived at Indianapolis in
1876 he was a large, pink-cheeked, Ger-
man boy, a complexion that is generally
associated with the inhabitants of the
Rhine Valley. He had studied architec-
ture and intended to perfect himself in
that art in America, but the opportunity
was not presented and he had to seek a
livelihood elsewhere. He went to work in
a butcher shop at ten dollars a month.
This shop belonged to Jacob Peters and
was located on Market Street. A few
months later he went with his uncle, Dan
^Monninger, at 17-19 West Washington
Street. There he learned the restaurant
and liquor business, and Daniel Monnin-
ger as well as Mr. Gottfried Monninger
for many years sold the vintages from
his father's vineyards in southern Ger-
many.
In 1879, at the age of twenty-one, Mr.
Monninger established a business for him-
self at 23 Virginia Avenue, and empha-
sized in his business the products of his
father's farms, imported especially for
distribution in Indianapolis. Four years
later Mr. Monninger moved to Harrison
and Pine streets and Fletcher Avenue,
and soon afterward to the northeast corner
of Ohio and Illinois streets, where he con-
ducted his high class cafe and restaurant
for twenty-nine years.
In 1880 Mr. Monninger married Cath-
arine Stumpf, daughter of George
Stumpf. Mrs. Monninger was born on
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Her father was a blacksmith and farmer
and widely known in both public and re-
ligious affairs at Indianapolis. He was a
very able speaker and was an influential
member of the Ziou Evangelical Church.
He was a native of Germanj'. Mr. and
Mrs. Monninger became the parents of
six sons and two daughters, a stalwart
race, and they too have made use of their
opportunities and gained honorable posi-
tion in aifairs. The oldest, Karl, has
practically succeeded to his father's busi-
ness and is owner and manager of a res-
taurant on Washington Street adjoining
the Park Theater. The son Arthur G.
Monninger is a talented musician, com-
pleted his musical education in Berlin, and
both he and his wife are prominent in
Indianapolis musical circles and are in-
structors in the College of ]\Iusical Art on
Pennsylvania Street. The daughter Ly-
dia married Albert Roath, who is con-
nected with a Boston shoe house and is a
resident of Indianapolis. Olga, the sec-
ond daughter is at home and Freddie re-
sides in Chicago. Oscar is a graduate of
Purdue University, and is an engineer in
the employ of the W. H. Insley Manufac-
turing Company at Indianapolis. "Werner
H. was a student of the University of Illi-
nois where he enlisted as a wireless opera-
tor in the United States Navy. Otto at-
tends the Technical High School of Indian-
apolis. All the children received high
school educations in Indianapolis.
ilr. Gottfried Monninger in the matter
of politics has maintained a rather inde-
pendent attitude, though usually giving his
support to the democratic party. His fam-
ily are members of the Zion Evangelical
Church. One of the principal interests of
the family circle is music, and they are
not only lovers of that divine art but most
of them have musical accomplishments.
Mr. Jlonninger has long been prominent in
the Independent Turnverein and the Maen-
nerchor, was for years secretary and treas-
urer of the Turners, was for twenty-five
years treasurer of the Turners' Building &
Loan Association, served as grand treas-
urer of the Independent Knights of Pyth-
ias, now the Knights of Cosmos, is a mem-
ber of the Knights of the Maccabees, and
a life member of the German Orphan
Home, and Home for the Aged.
Mary Roberts Coolidge, educator and
author, was born in Kingsbury, Indiana,
October 28, 1860, a daughter of Isaac
Phillips and Margaret (Marr) Roberts.
The father was an educator of distinction
on agricultural subjects, serving as dean
nnd professor of agriculture at Cornell
University 1873-1903, and in his honor
Roberts Hall at Ithaca was named. The
mother was a daughter of William Marr
of LaPorte. Indiana.
Mary Roberts Coolidge attended Cornell
University and Stanford University, re-
ceiving the degrees of Ph. B. and M. S.
from the former and that of Ph. D. from
the latter. After completing her literary
training she rose to prominence as an edu-
cator, teaching in many of the noted educa-
tional institutions of the country, and aside
from her educational work she is further
distinguished as an author and as a pub-
lic worker. She is a member of the Kappa
Alpha Theta college society, of the Asso-
ciation of Collegiate Alumnae, of the
American Political Science Association,
of the Authors League of America, and
her church association is the Liberal Con-
gregational.
On the 30th of July, 1906, at Berkeley,
California. jMary Roberts was married to
Dane Coolidge. a novelist and a member of
a distinguished New England family.
Fred L. Trees, president of the Kokomo
Trust Company, has been r business man
nf that city since early manhood, and there
is hardly a movement connected in any way
with the general welfare of the community
during the last twenty years with which his
name has not been associated and to which
his influence and means have not contrib-
uted some substantial help.
Mr. Trees was born on a farm in Howard
Countv. Indiana, August 25, 1874. He is
a son of John S. and Alice (Curlee) Trees.
His grandfather, John S. Trees, was born
in Shelbv County, Indiana, and was a
pioneer in Howard County. He was a
farmer and had a large place six miles east
of Kokomo. He died there in 1874 and
had in the meantime accumulated consider-
able estate. He was a republican and a
member of the Methodist Church. Of his
eight children only two are now living.
John S. Trees, Jr.," was born in Rushville,
1, in 1838, and is now living in Ko-
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komo at the advanced age of eighty. He
had only such education as was supplied
by the local schools of his day, and he took
up farming near the old homestead in Lib-
•erty Township. He finally left the farm
in 1884 and for eighteen years was a mer-
chant at Center in Taylor Township of
Howard County. On selling his business
interests he retired to Kokomo. He also
has a record as a soldier in the Civil war,
having enlisted in 1861 in Company E of
the Eleventh Indiana Cavalry, serving as
commissary sergeant, and being on duty
with the army for three years. He was
given his honorable discharge in December,
1864, his last important battle being at
Nashville under General Thomas. He
there sustained a severe wound in the leg,
and by the time he had recuperated the
war was practically over. On returning
home he took up farming. He has always
been a stanch republican. Of his ten chil-
dren all are still living, Fred being the
fifth in age.
Fred L. Trees attended the public schools
of Howard County and also had a course
in the business college of Kokomo. He en-
tered the real estate business as clerk and
stenographer with his uncle, Mr. E. E.
Springer, at Kokomo, and was with him,
serving him faithfully, for nine years. In
1901 he engaged in the same liiie of busi-
ness for himself, handling real estate, loans
and insurance. In 1903 he and James D.
Johnson organized the Kokomo Trust Com-
pany, Mr. Johnson becoming president, "Sh:
W. E. Blaeklidge, vice president, and Mr.
Trees, secretary and treasurer. Mr. John-
son died in 1909, and in the following year
was succeeded as president by Mr. Trees.
ISfv. Trees is also a member of the Board
of Directors of the South Kokomo Bank,
and is interested in a number of business
concerns in addition to the many public or
semi-public institutions to which he has
given his time.
Mr. Trees is a republican, is a member
of the Methodist Church and active in
church and Sunday School work. He is a
thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason,
an Odd Fellow, Elk, and Knight of Pythias.
He is a director of the Kokomo Chamber
of Commerce, is a member of the republi-
can social clubs of Indianapolis, is a mem-
ber of tli.e Board of Directors of the Ko-
komo Country Club, is a director of
the Methodist Episcopal Hospital at In-
dianapolis, and was one of the organizers
and is now director of the Kokomo Young
Men's Christian Association.
Mr. Trees has two sturdy young sons who
are now in the uniform of the National
Army. March 9, 1898, he married Miss
Dora Elliott, daughter of the late Judge
James F. Elliott of Kokomo. Three sons
were born to them : Elliott J., born January
21, 1899; Robert C, born Augiist 30, 1900;
and Harry A., born August 11, 1902. The
two older sons were students in DePauw
Univei-sity but resigned their studies to en-
roll for military duty, while the third son
is a student in the Kokomo public schools.
Hon. Edgar A. Brown, forty years a
member of the Indianapolis bar and a
former judge of the Circuit Bench, has
long been regarded as a wise and safe
counselor rather than a brilliant advocate,
and is distinguished by the quality and
ideals of his work rather than by conspic-
uous and temporary achievements. His
professional associates have always looked
upon him as a man of utmost reliability
and of unimpeachable character, and he has
long enjoyed the auiet dignity of an ideal
follower of his calling.
Mr. Brown was born at Lenox, Ashta-
bula County, Ohio, August 10, 1848. He
is now the only survivor of eight children
born to William Pliny Brown and Rachel
Hower (Piper) Brown. His father was
reared on a farm, but throughout the
greater part of his life was engaged in
varying occupations. In 1851 he removed
to Austinburg, Ohio, and died there in
1866. The grandfather was an English-
man and came to America as an officer in
the British Army imder Burgo.yne in the
Revolution. Following the war he mar-
ried a lady at Albany, New York, and was
stationed at ilontreal, holding the position
of conductor of stores for the British army.
Edgar A. Brown grew up in his native
state, attended the Grand River Institute
at Austinburg, Ohio, and was also a stu-
dent of the old Quaker institution, Earlham
College, at Richmond, Indiana. That he
has accomplished so much in his career is
probably due to the spur of necessity which
made it necessary for him to earn his liv-
ing while getting an education. For a
number of years he was a teacher, and
while doing that work read law and when
qualified to practice came to Indianapolis.
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The successive years brought him the
honors and emoluments of a good practice,
and in 1890 he was called from his duties
as a law\ver to the bench of the Marion
Circuit Court. He served as a judge six
years, and during that time he maintained
the best ideals of the court. Since retiring
from the bench he has continued in active
practice as a lawyer.
In 1874 Judge Brown married ^Martha
Julian. Her father, Jacob B. Julian, was
a lawyer, and Judge Brown and he were
for some time partners. Jlrs. Brown died
in 1882, leaving two children : Juliet R.,
Mrs. Christopher B. Coleman, and George
R., who was second lieutenant of the Sup-
ply Company of the Second Indiana Regi-
ment and saw active service on the Mexi-
can border. In 1884 Judge Brown married
Lulie J. Eichordt. Their four children
are: Helen M., Mrs. James H. Peterson;
Ruth, who died at the age of ten years;
Martha Louise, Mrs. Stanley H. Smith;
and Catherine Porter, Mrs. Don Herold.
Judge Brown was a republican until
1880, when he became a democrat on the
tariff reform issue. He was president for
a time and one of the organizers of the In-
diana Tariff Reform League. He is a mem-
ber of the Masonic fraternity and of the
First Congregational Church.
Thurman C. S.VNDERS. Since pioneer
days the Sanders family has been one of
prominence in Howard County, best known
at the present time through Mr. Thurman
C. Sanders because of his long association
with the Court House and official affairs.
^Ir. Sanders was born March 2, 1867, in
Highland County, Ohio, son of Charles P.
and Rachel E. (Mellett) Sanders. His
father was born in the same eountj' in
1844. The grandfather, Christopher Sand-
ers, of Scotch ancestry, was a native of Vir-
ginia, and came west on foot and settled
as a pioneer in Highland Coixnty, Ohio, in
1817. Charles P. Sanders came to How-
ard County and spent his last years here
as a farmer. He also served two terms
as county commissioner, his first term end-
ing in 1884 and his second in 1887. Charles
P. Sanders had his home in South Kokomo,
and began his career as a druggist. He
conducted a drug store in South Kokomo
from 1893 to 1915. He was always inter-
ested in local affairs, was a member of the
Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and a
citizen above reproach in every particular.
Thurman C. Sanders is one of four
brothers, all still living. He was educated
in the common schools and took the nor-
mal coui-se in the Normal School at Leb-
anon, Ohio. He gave eighteen years to
educational work in Howard and other
counties. From his duties as teacher he
was appointed deputy treasurer of How-
ard County, and faithfully discharged the
duties of that office until he was regularly
elected on the republican ticket as county
treasurer in November, 1918. Fraternally
he is affiliated with the Knights of P}i;hias,
the Improved Order of Red I\Ien, and the
Loyal Order of Moose. December 26, 1901,
Mr. Sanders married Miss Emma K. Lu-
cas. Thev have one daughter, Myrpha,
born October 7, 1903.
William Joseph Golightly, of Kokomo,
is in many ■{\'ays one of the most interest-
ing of the pioneers of the Indiana glass in-
dustry. For the past twenty years he has
been superintendent of the Kokomo plant
of the Pittsburg Plate Glass Company, but
at an earlier date he was identified with
glass making in this district when the chief
attraction for glass manufacturers was nat-
ural gas.
Mr. Golightly is an Englishman by birth,
having been born at South Shields, Eng-
land, April 4, 1860. He learned glass mak-
ing in England and in August, 1890, ar-
rived in America and was first employed
at Butler, Pennsylvania, with the Standard
Plate Glass Company. In February, 1891,
he came to Kokomo, and for a time was
one of the minor employes of the Diamond
Plate Glass Company. In July of the same
year he returned to Pennsylvania, and for
several months was in a minor position with
the Charleroi Plate Glass Company, and
was then promoted to charge of its cast-
ing department. In July, 1892, Mr. Go-
lightly again returned to Kokomo. and re-
entered the Diamond Plate Glass Company
as night superintendent under M. P. El-
liott. The interests that owned the Ko-
komo plant transferred him in 1895 to a
similar plant at Elwood, and in 1896 he
went to Alexandria, Indiana, and was with
the American Plate Glass Company until
:\Ia.v, 1898. At that date he returned to
Kokomo, and that city has since been his
home and center of business activities. In
October, 1898, he became superintendent
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of the Kokomo Plate Glass Plant, and has
held that office continuously since.
The original plant was constructed at
Kokomo in 1889. It was torn down in
1908, and the modern plant put in opera-
tion in 1910 was constructed under the di-
rect supervision of Mr. Golightly. The old
plant, as already said, was established
largely because of the accessibility of the
natural gas supply. The product of the
old Diamond Plate Glass Company was
neither in quality nor volume up "to the
present high standard of the Pittsburg
company. With the failure of the natural
gas supply and with changing methods and
improvements the Pittsburg Plate Glass
Company, successors to the old Diamond
Company, finally destroyed the old plant
and rebuilt it, and at the rebuilding every
known improvement and facility was in-
stalled, so that today the Kokomo plant,
while not as large as some other plants of
the Pittsburg Plate Glass Company, is be-
hind none of them in equipment and mod-'
ern methods. Today three times as much
plate glass is turned out by this plant as
was made by the old Diamond Company,
and yet requiring about the same number
of men.
As the plant is at present it covers over
seven acres of ground, four acres under
roof. The buildings are all of steel and
concrete construction. The foiuidation for
the heavy machinerj^ is massive and in some
instances has been built down to a depth
of thirty-five feet. All the machinery is
driven by electric power, generated chiefly
by large gas engines. These engines are
the most powerful of their type in Indiana
with the sole exception of those in the
power houses of the United States Steel
Company at Gary.
About 650 men are constantly employed
in normal times at the Kokomo plant. This
plant is known as No. 8 of the Pittsburg
Plate Glass Company.
Mr. Golightly during his long residence
at Kokomo has been interested and has
identified himself wherever possible with
tlie welfare and progress of the city. He
has been content with his business respon-
sibilities as a source of good to the com-
munity, and has never been a candidate
for office, though in many ways he has
helped forward movements promising ben-
efit to the community. He is a director in
the Howard National Bank and since 1898
has been affiliated with the Elks and since
1911 with the Masonic Order. He has
taken all the local degrees, became a Knight
Templar in 1912, and in 1913 was made a
thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason
in the Indianapolis Valley. He has also
been a member of the Kokomo Chamber of
Commerce since it was organized, became a
member of the Kokomo Country Club in
1917, and in politics votes as a republican.
Mr. Golightl}^ has been twice married.
His first wife came from England in 1893
and died in 1916. He has three married
sons, all with families of their own, and
has a married daughter and grandchildren.
Two of his daughters still live at home.
Franklin K. McElheny was auditor of
Miami County from January 1, 1911, to
January 1, 1919, and has been a resident
and citizen of Peru forty-five years, since
early boyhood. Mr. McElheny has had a
varied experience with the work of the
■world and with men and affairs, and before
entering the auditor's office was one of the
editors and publishers of the Miami County
Sentinel. He is a veteran printer, having
learned the trade forty years ago.
He was born at Mount Pleasant in Henry
County, Iowa, November 2, 1861, during a
temporary residence of his parents in that
state. He is a son of Thomas K. and Mel-
vina (Woods) McElheny, his father a na-
tive of Montgomery County, Ohio, and his
mother of Starke County, Ohio. Thomas
K. McElheny was taken by his parents to
Carroll County, Indiana, when one year
old, but grew to manhood in Cass County.
He was educated in the common schools,
and by the time he reached his majority
was doing skillful work as a carpenter.
He worked at his trade at Delphi in Car-
roll County, married there, helped build
the county court house, and then for a year
or so was employed in the erection of
buildings of the State Insane Asylum of
Iowa at Mount Pleasant. In 1862 he re-
turned with his family to Delphi, Indiana,
continued his business as contractor and
builder there, was at Rochester, Indiana,
from 1869 until 1873, and then established
his home at Peru. Much of the important
building work in and around Peru during
the next twenty or thii-t.y years was
handled through the organization as a eon-
tractor. He died January 25, 1909, sur-
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children. He was always a loyal democrat,
served six 3'ears as township trustee of Peru
Township, and for a number of years was
treasurer of his lodge of the Odd Fellows.
He was not a formal member of any
church, though a Presbyterian by train-
ing.
Franklin K. McElheny acquired his early
training in the public schools of Delphi
and Rochester and was twelve yeai-s old
when brought to Peru. He continued his
schooling in that city several years, and at
the age of fifteen began working in the
factory of the old Howe Sewing Machine
Company. He also worked in other fac-
tories and shops, but in 1878, at the age of
seventeen, began an apprenticeship to
learn the trade of printer in the office of
the Peru Republican. He continued steadily
at the printer's trade, both in newspaper
and job work, until 1899, when he acquired
an interest in the Miami County Sentinel.
After that he divided his time between the
editorial office and the printing rooms, and
introduced a vigorous policy of politics
which was reflected in increased circulation
and increased influence of the paper as
the leading democratic organ of Miami
County.
In 1910 Mr. McElheny accepted the
democratic nomination for the office of
county auditor, was elected in November
of that year, and was re-elected for a sec-
ond term in 1914. He was one of the most
popular men in the Court House and made
his office administration as efficient as it
was cordial in its atmosphere to all who
transacted business there. Mr. McElheny
is affiliated with the JIasonic fraternity and
the Knights of Pythias.
January 31, 1894, he married ]Miss Mar-
garet A. McLaughlin. Mrs. McElheny was
born in Decatur Countv, Indiana, Julv 19,
1867, daughter of Thomas and Ann (Cuff)
McLaughlin, natives of Ireland. Mrs. Mc-
Elheny was educated in the common schools
and has been a splendid home maker and
a source of inspiration to her husband in
his career. They have four children : Lou-
ise, Robert, Anna, and Richard, all of
whom have received the advantages of the
grammar and high schools of Peru.
W.\LTER G. Records is senior member of
the finn Records & Faust, clothing, hats,
and men's furnishing goods, one of the
largest establishments of its kind in Madi-
son County. The spirit and standard of
their business is well expressed in their slo-
gan that it is a store for "The Boys."
Mr. Records was born at Lawrence, In-
diana, in 1872, son of Isaac C. and Mary
J. (Alexander) Records. He is of Scotch-
Irish ancestry. His father was thoroughly
trained for the profession of medicine and
surgery in a New York college but prac-
ticed only a few years. For twenty-six
terms he taught school in Miami County,
Indiana, and about thirty years ago moved
to Elwood, where he died in 1907.
Walter 6. Records received most of his
education at Miami, and when sixteen or
seventeen years old came to Elwood with
his parents. He assisted his father in bus-
iness for a time, and gained an all around
knowledge of salesmanship in the clothing
business as an employe for twelve years
with Narvin E. Phillips at Elwood. Dur-
ing that time there was not a detail of ex-
perience in the clothing line which did not
fall to his lot as an employe. For four
years he was associated with Henry Jor-
dan and later with the firm of Beitman &
Greathouse and in 1904 joined Mr. Faust
in the present business, which has grown
and brought a high degree of prosperity
to both of the partners.
Mr. Records is a republican, is affiliated
with Elwood Lodges of Benevolent and
Protective Order of Elks No. 368, Inde-
pendent Order of Odd Fellows, Knights of
the Maccabees, Improved Order of Red
Men, and the family are members of the
Presbyterian Church. He is married and
has three children: Paul P., born in 1898,
Walter Frederick, born in 1904, and
Thomas W., who was born February 10, ^
1910, and was killed by an auto April 5,
1917. The son Paul at the age of twenty
was a corporal and crew chief in the One
Hundred and Eightieth Squadron of Avia-
tors at Kelly Field No. 2, San Antonio,
Texas. He spent five months in England"
with the Three Hundred and Twentieth
Aero Squadron, arriving home on the sixth
of December on the "Laplander," and was
discharged at Camp Sherman December
22, 1918.
Rt. Rev. Joseph Marshall Francis,
Protestant Episcopal Bishop of Indiana-
polis, was consecrated to his present office
on September 21, 1899. Since then he has
become more than the leading figure of his
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church in Indiana. Bishop Francis exer-
cises a power whose source is the spirit of
fellowship with his fellow men, a bigness
of heart and ready sympathy, and a broad
understanding: of the life and interests
around him. With his great personal pop-
ularity he has been able to enter many
movements and carry an influence suffi-
cient to insure success, apart from the
prestige associated with him as head of
the church. It will be recalled he presided
at a monster patriotic meeting held in
Indianapolis for the purpose of endors-
ing President Wilson and Congress
in their declaration of war against Ger-
many. Bishop Francis' patriotism pro-
ceeds from a fundamental conviction of
the righteousness of war in the present in-
stance, and he put it to proof when, though
past military age, he tendered the offer of
his services in whatever capacity the au-
thorities deemed they could be used most
effectively. He was appointed as chaplain
of Base Hospital Thirty-Two, and served
with that organization in France until the
autumn of 1918.
Bishop Francis was born at Eaglesmere,
Pennsylvania, April 6, 1862, son of James
B. and Charlotte A. (Marshall) Francis.
He received his early education at Phila-
delphia and later at Racine College and
Oxford University. The degree Doctor of
Divinity was bestowed upon him in 1899
by Nashotah College in Wisconsin and by
Hobart College in 1901.
He was ordained a deacon in the Prot-
estant Episcopal Church in 1884, at the age
of twenty-two. In 1886 he was made a
priest, and in the meantime had held pas-
torates at Milwaukee and Greenfield, Wis-
consin. During 1886-87 he was canon of
the Cathedral at Milwaukee and in 1887-88
was rector at Whitewater, Wisconsin. On
June 14, 1887, he married Miss Stevens, of
Milwaukee.
Bishop Francis spent nearly ten years
in the Far East, in charge of the Episcopal
Cathedral at Tokyo and also as professor
in Trinity Divinity School there. Return-
ing from Japan in 1897 he was appointed
rector of St. Paul's Church at Evansville,
Indiana, in January, 1898, and from that
was called to the post of Bishop of Indian-
apolis less than two years later. Since
1904 Bishop Francis has been a member of
the Domestic and Foreign Missionary So-
ciety.
Robert Ji'dson Aley, educator, was bom
in Jefferson Township of Owen County,
Indiana, ]\Iay 11, 1863, a son of Jesse Jack-
son and Paulina Mover Aley, the former
born in Greene County, Kentucky, and the
latter in Coshocton County, Ohio. Mr.
Aley was well prepared in his earlier years
for his life's work. He received the degree
of B. S. from Valparaiso University, that
of A. B. and A. M. from Indiana Univer-
sity, Ph. D. and LL. D., University of Penn-
sylvania, and LL.D., Franklin College,
and was a student and professor at Stan-
ford University 1894-5. In 1877 Profes-
sor Aley entered upon his work as an edu-
cator, and during the intervening years has
steadily advanced until in 1910 he was
made the president of the University of
Maine. He has served as president of the
Southern Indiana Teachers Association, the
Indiana State Teachers Association, and
the Maine State Teachers Association, as
secretary for five years and as president for
three years of the National Council of Edu-
cation and as president of the National
Educational Association. He is a member
of the Phi Beta Kappa, the Phi Kappa Phi
and the Sigma Xi and is a Knight Templar
Mason and a member of the Bangor Rotary
Club.
At Spencer, Indiana, August 28, 1884,
Professor Aley was married to Nellie El-
mira, a daughter of J. W. Archer, of that
city. They have two children. Maxwell
Aley, and Ruth Emily Parkhurst.
Benoni Stinson Rose, M. D. Aside from
his long service for a quarter of a century
as a capable physician and surgeon at
Evansville, Doctor Rose's career and fam-
ily are interesting from the fact that one
of his great-grandfathers bore arms in the
war for independence, a grandfather was
a pioneer preacher of Southern Indiana,
his father was a soldier in the Civil war,
and he himself held the rank of captain in
the United States Medical Corps during
the recent world war.
His father, Conrad Rose, a native of Eu-
rope and brought to this country at the
age of five, grew up in the country around
Evansville, and in 1862 enlisted in Com-
pany H of the Sixty-Fifth Indiana Infan-
try, being with the regiment as a brave
and faithful soldier through all its cam-
paigns. He did not receive his discharge
until after the close of the war, and then
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returned to Vanderburg County and was
quietly engaged in the vocation of farming
until his death in 1917, at the age of sev-
enty-four.
Doctor Rose's mother was Octavia Stin-
son, who was born in Perry Township of
Vanderburg County in 1841 and died in
1908. Her grandfather, Elijah Stinson,
was the Revolutionary ancestor of Doctor
Rose. At one time he was assigned to du-
ties as a spy by General "Washington. In
1781, in Surry County, North Carolina,
he married Rachel Cobb, and they finally
came to Vanderburg County, Indiana,
where Elijah died in March, 1835, and his
widow afterward drew a pension for his
military services.
Rev. Benoni Stinson, father of Octavia,
was bom in North Carolina in 1798, and
in early life was ordained a Baptist min-
ister. He removed to Wayne County, Ken-
tuckv. and thence to Vanderburg County
in 1822, securing a tract of government
land which included the present site of
Howell, then heavily timbered. In 1823
he organized Liberty Baptist Church, and
preached in many other places in Indiana,
Illinois and Kentucky. He is said to have
been a gifted orator, and at the time of
the Civil war he used his eloquence to re-
cruit soldiers for the Union Army. He
was also a successful farmer. His death
occurred on his farm in October, 1869.
February 19, 1819, he married Ruth A.
Martin, daughter of John and Drusilla
Martin.
Doctor Rose, who was born at Evans-
ville, was one of four children, the others
being A. Lincoln, Parthcnia, and Harry B.
He is a graduate of the Evansville High
School, spent two years in the Ohio Medical
College at Cincinnati, and graduated in
1894 from the Louisville Medical College.
Prom that time he practiced steadily in
his native city until 1917, when, in July,
he was commissioned captain in the Medi-
cal Corps. For some time he was with the
Third Pioneer Infantry, and was then
transferred to General Hospital No. 8 at
Otisville, New York. He received an hon-
orable discharge in January, 1919. In
1898 he married Helen M. Hewson, daugh-
ter of Geoi'ge B. and Mary Hewson of
Evansville.
GoDLip C. KrHNER. To the enterprise
of Godlip C. Kuhner Muncie owes one of
its valuable industries, the Kuhner Pack-
ing Companj'. Mr. Kuhner is primarily a
farmer and producer, but for many 5'ears
his experience has also been in the varied
lines of meat handling and packing. He
first engaged in meat killing on his farm
on a very small scale, and gradually has
developed his facilities until it now repre-
sents a large investment and an important
local industry.
Mr. Kuhner was born July 29, 1858, in
Scioto County, Ohio, a son of Godlip C.
Kuhner, Sr. His father came to America
in 1847, being then a single man. From
Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, he enlisted as a
soldier in the Mexican war. Thus he early
showed those qualities of Americanism
which have been characteristic of his de-
scendants. After the war and the termi-
nation of his military service he married
and engaged in farming at Portsmouth,
Ohio, and subsequently bought 120 acres
in Harrison Township of Scioto County.
Much of this land he cleared up by his
own industry, and put it in a high state
of cultivation. He lived there until his
death in 1865. He and his wife, Sophie,
had nine children, four of whom died in
infancy, while the others are still living.
Godlip C. Kuhner, Jr., who was the
sixth among his parents' children, was
only seven years old when his father died.
His father was a Lutheran and a republi-
can in polities. The boy grew up on the
old homestead and assi-sted his mother in
looking after the farm until he was seven-
teen years old. He had worked at farm
labor for wages for several years, and next
bought a place of his own in Bloom Town-
ship in Scioto County. It was while oper-
ating this farm that he engaged in a small
way in the butcher business, and he re-
mained there until 1895. That year going
to Portsmouth he established a packing
plant in which he handled ten or twelve
cattle and 100 hogs a week.
Selling this business in Ohio he came to
Indiana and located at Greentown in How-
ard County, and for three years was in
the retail meat business. Mr. Kuhner
came to Muncie in 1900, and established
here a meat market which is still onerated.
In 1904 he enlarged the scope of his oper-
ations by constructing a small packing
house on the farm he had bought in North
Muncie. The first considerable additions
to his facilities were made in 1912, and
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other additions have followed until at the
present time the plant has a capacity of
from 80 to 100 cattle and 600 hogs per
week. Among the facilities is a modern
cold storage plant and ice factory, manu-
facturing forty tons of ice per day and
with complete refrigeration processes and
other equipment used in the modern indus-
try of meat packing and storage.
Mr. Kuhner now relies largely upon his
son for the active management of this in-
dustry. He married January 15, 1880,
Mary Prior, who died in 1898. Four chil-
dren were born to them, and the three now
living are: Henry C, born October 16,
1880; Ella S., born August 2, 1882; and
Frank, born January 5, 1884. The Kuh-
ner Packing Company is now an incorpo-
ration, with Henry C. Kuhner as president,
Godlip C, vice president, and Frank G.,
secretary and treasurer. Their retail meat
market is at 115 East' Charles Street.
Mr. Kuhner has always manifested that
public spirit which makes him a factor of
benefit in any community. He is a mem-
ber of the Knights of Pythias and a re-
publican in politics. As he grew up on a
farm he has always maintained an interest
in agriculture, and has been a successful
fai-mer both in Ohio and in Indiana. In
1915 he constructed one of the beautiful
residences of Miincie, a bungalow at 1027
North Elm Street. In 1913 he married
Marv Obright, who has a son living in New
York.
Rev. Jacob U. Schneider, who has been
continuously identified with the Zion Evan-
gelical Church at Evansville as pastor for
twenty-six years, is one of the most distin-
guished and influential leaders of that de-
nomination in Indiana.
He was born at Shanesville, Tuscarawas
County, Ohio, a son of George and Mar-
garet (Troxell) Schneider. "When he was
a small boy his parents moved out to the
frontier of Nebraska, locating on a farm
in Richardson County. The father spent
the rest of his life as a Nebraska farmer.
Rev. Mr. Schneider therefore had his early
school advantages confined to the old
schools of Richardson County. Later he
took a commercial course at Bryant &
Stratton College in St. Joseph, Missouri,
and pursued his classical studies in Elm-
hurst College near Chicago. In 1886 he
graduated from the Eden Theological Sem-
inary in St. Louis and was ordained a min-
ister of the Evangelical Church. His first
pastorate was at Castle Shannon near Pitts-
burg, Pennsylvania. Two years later he
went to Jefferson City, Missouri, as pastor
of the Evangelical Church in that city,
serving it capably and effectively for five
years. After that he was principal of the
high school at "Washington, Missouri, and
in 1895 came to Evansville to accept the
pastorate of Zion Evangelical Church. He
has not only maintained a large and pros-
perous church organization but has inter-
ested himself in everything that makes for
a better city. He was a member of the
Board of Education from 1910 to 1918, and
served as its secretary and treasurer, and
was also a member of the Playground Com-
mission. He has been president of the
Board of Directors of the Protestant Dea-
coness Hospital since 1896. In the larger
affairs of his church he is known as chair-
man of the Synodical Literary Board,
chairman of the Board of Examiners of
Candidates for the Ministry, and chairman
of the Committee on Relations of the Synod
to other Christian bodies.
In 1886 Rev. Mr. Schneider married
Rosa L. Langtim. She was born in St.
Joseph, Missouri, a daughter of Ernest and
Minnie (Ehlers) Langtim. Mr. and Mrs.
Schneider have every reason to be proud
of their family of children, three in num-
ber, named Carl, Selma, and Herbert.
Carl Schneider graduated from the
Evansville High School, also attended Elm-
hurst College, and followed the example of
his father entered the Eden Theological
Seminary in St. Louis, of which he is a
graduate. Beyond that he continued his
preparations abroad, a student in a semi-
nary at Tubingen, in the University of
Leipzig and in the University of Berlin.
He is now Professor of Religious Educa-
tion in Eden Seminary. Carl Schneider
married Louise Fisher, and they have one
son, named Carl, Jr.
The daughter, Selma, a graduate of the
Evansville High School and of DePauw
University at Greencastle, after leaving
college engaged in social service work at
Sleighton Farm, the seat of the Pennsyl-
vania State Reform School for Girls, but
is now a teacher in the Evansville public
schools.
Herbert Schneider is a graduate of the
Evansville High School. He entered the
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United States service June 24, 1918, and
went to Europe, and up to the spring of
1919 was still in France as a member of
Company C of the Three Hundred and
Ninth Engineers.
Elbert Hamilton Shirk was the founder
of the First National Bank of Peru, the
oldest financial institution of Miami
County and with an impressive record of
strength, resources and service during the
more than half century of its existence.
He not only founded the bank but also
a family name which has endured in high
honor in Northern Indiana and other local-
ities through several generations. Elbert
Hamilton Shirk was born in Franklin
County, Indiana, February 14, 1818, son
of Samuel and Elizabeth (Stout) Shirk.
His father came to Indiana from Georgia
and his mother from Kentucky. For all
the fact that Indiana had nothing in the
way of public education to offer such youth
as Elbert H. Shirk, it was a day and age
which produced strong men, thoroughly
capable of handling big affairs. He spent
his boyhood on a farm, attended subscrip-
tion schools, and after reaching manhood
was for two years a student at Miami Uni-
versity at Oxford, Ohio. For two years
he taught in the Rush County Seminary.
However, he early recognized that his
talents were best adapted for business. In
1844 he moved to Peru, and forming a
partnership with John Harlan was for some
years one of the early merchants of the
town. From that time until his death in
1886 his career was one of unbroken pros-
perity. After a year he engaged in mer-
chandising on his own account. He pos-
sessed the judgment, the foresight and the
executive ability which are characteristic
of great merchants. He was a student of
methods and men and of every circum-
stance which would affect his enterprise.
He built up a trade which extended
throughout Indiana and embarked in nu-
merous enterprises which always rewarded
his judgment with good profit. He dealt
in depreciated land warrants which had
been issued to the veterans of the Mexican
war and invested them in lands in the then
western states of Kansas, Iowa, and Ne-
braska. :\Iany of the settlers who went
from this section of Indiana to those trans-
Mississippi states were equipped with war-
rants for land sold them by Mr. Shirk.
This was his first extensive venture in real
estate, and he thereafter followed up that
line of business very extensively and syste-
matically. It was in considerable part
through his real estate operations that his
large fortune was accumulated. Some of
the best of his investments were made in
Chicago when that city was in its most
rapid development period.
He had opened a private bank for de-
posits in 1857, and through his own re-
sources and his high standing in the com-
munity he kept that institution unim-
paired through the troublous financial
times that followed. In 1864, the year fol-
lowing the passage of the National Bank
Act, he organized the First National Bank,
and held the office of president until his
death. The community long refused to
call it the First National and instead it
was known by the more familiar title of
"Shirk's Bank," and it was largely the
pinvate resources and good judgment of
the founder that gave it its solid character.
In banking, merchandising and real es-
tate Elbert H. Shirk was undoubtedly one
of the strongest men of his time in In-
diana. Had he chosen for the field of his
enterprise one of the great cities of the
eounti-y his name would undoubtedly have
been associated with that of the greatest
merchant princes in America. While he
was pre-eminent as a creator of business re-
sources he was also a constant influence
for the conservation and development of
everything affecting the welfare of society.
For many years he was one of the most
active memliers of the Baptist Church of
Peru, contributing half the cost of the
church edifice erected during his lifetime.
He was a cpiiet worker in benevolence and
philanthropy in his city. He had little to
do with partisan politics bvit was a whig
and later a republican voter. He is re-
membered as a man of apparently slight
and frail physique, but possessing a nerv-
ous energy and will power which constantly
co-operated with his remarkable business
judgment, and from such a combination
resulted his great success and influence in
affairs.
He was devoted to family and friends
and his home was a center of the cultured
social life of his community. The old
Shirk home in the midst of an entire square
at the edge of the Peru business district is
and has long been one of the landmarks of
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that city. In June, 1845, Elbert H. Shirk
married Mary Wright, who was of English
descent and a native of Franklin County,
Indiana. She was a woman of rare strength
of character, and during her long and
happy associations with her husband she
exerted many of the influences which gave
him power and success. Elbert H. Shirk
died April 8, 1886. His widow passed
away in August, 1894. They had a family
of two sons and one daughter. One of the
sons was Milton Shirk, who succeeded his
father as president of the First National
Bank. The only daughter of Elbert H.
Shirk was Alice, now the wife of R. A.
Edwards, president of the First National
Bank of Peru.
Dale D. Golden is manager of the
By-Lo Hardware Company of Anderson.
This is one of a chain of stores conducted
by one of the largest retail hardware or-
ganizations in the middle west. It is a po-
sition of responsibility, and is adequate
testimony to the qualifications of Mr.
Golden as an executive and as a thoroughly
experienced hardware man. While he is
only thirt.y years of age, his record of bus-
iness experience has been a rather long
one and indicates that he has concentrated
a great deal of experience and energy into
a few brief years.
Mr. Golden was born in 1888 at Acton
in Marion County, Indiana, but when two
years of age his parents, Charles E. and
Luella (Dalby) Golden, moved to Indian-
apolis. Thcifamily is of Irish and English
ancestrj'. In Indianapolis Mr. Golden at-
tended the public schools, but his education
was practically completed by the time he
was fourteen years of age. He soon after-
ward went to work as an office boy with
the contracting firm of King & Company.
He spent five rather profitable years with
this firm, and acquired some very valuable
experience as a draftsman in the archi-
tect's rooms. He then sought a new ave-
nue for his energies, and for two years was
an apprentice learning the tinsmith trade
with Frank H. Brunk at Indianapolis. He
then went to work as a clerk in the Brunk
hardware store, and remained with that
merchant altogether for nine or ten years,
part of the time practically as manager of
the hardware department.
In 1915 Mr. Golden came to Anderson
and opened a new branch of the By-Lo
Stores Company. This corporation has a
large number of stores both in Indiana and
Illinois. In the three years since its es-
tablishment the store at Anderson has
grown rapidly and has attracted a large
proportion of the local trade by reason of
the fact that its equipment and stock is of
the very best character and quality. The
business as it stands today at Anderson is
practically the product of Mr. Golden 's
energies and ideas, and it is impossible not
to look forward into the future and pre-
dict for him a splendidly successful career
as a merchant and business man. He is a
member of the Indiana Retail Hardware
Association.
In 1911 Mr. Golden married Mary Baum,
daughter of Thomas and Delia (Wj'ckoff)
Baum. They have two children, Kenneth
Dale, born in 1913, and Mary Ellen, born
in 1915. Mr. Golden takes an independent
stand in regard to politics. He is affiliated
with Meridian Lodge No. 480 of the Inde-
pendent Order of Odd Fellows at Indian-
apolis.
John Eugene Igleh.\rt. The name
Iglehart has been prominent in the annals
of the Evansville bar for a great many
years. John Eugene Iglehart has prac-
ticed there nearly half a century and his
father before him was an eminent member
of the Southern Indiana bar.
The Iglehart family came originally from
Saxony and were colonial settlers in Amer-
ica. Mr. Iglehart is a great-great-grand-
son of John and Mary (Denune) Iglehart.
The Denune branch of the family repre-
sents French Huguenots. John and ;\Iary
had a son named John, and he in turn was
father of Levi Iglehart, who was born in
Prince George County, JMaryland, August
13, 1786. He was reared and educated in
his native state and married there Anne
Tavlor. About 1815 he came west to the
Ohio Valley and in 1823 settled in War-
rick County, Indiana, became a pioneer
land owner and farmer and lived there the
rest of his life. He was a magistrate in
1825 and later was lay judge of the Cir-
cuit Court.
Asa Iglehart, father of the Evansville
lawyer, was born in Kentucky December
8, 1817, and was reared among the hills
of Warrick County. With limited oppor-
tunities he acquired a good education, and
after his marriage, he continued farming
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until 1849. He had devoted much of his
spare time to the study of law and was ad-
mitted to the bar during that year and at
once located at Evausville. Here he be-
came a member of the firm Ingle, Wheeler
& Iglehart. In 1854 he was appointed
judge of the Court of Common Pleas and
was afterward elected to that office. In
1858 he resumed private practice, and for
a number of years he appeared in cases of
great importance not only in the Circuit
and Superior Courts but in the Supreme
Court of the state and the United States,
and moved on terms of easy fellowship
with many of the notable men of the state
and nation. Ill health finally compelled
him to retire from practice, and he died
February 5, 1887.
Judge Iglehart married Ann Cowle, who
was born in Huntingtonshire, England,
a daughter of William and Sarah (Ingle)
Cowle. Sarah Cowle was one of the pio-
neer settlers of Vanderburg County, In-
diana, coming in 1823, when a widow. Asa
Iglehart and wife had three children : Fred
C, John E., and Annie.
John Eugene Iglehart was born on a
farm in Campbell Township, Warrick
County, August 10, 1848. He was liber-
ally educated in the schools of Evansville
and at Asbury, now DePauw, University,
where he graduated at the age of twenty.
He was soon afterward admitted to the
bar and at once began practice at Evans-
ville. November 4, 1874, he married
Lockie W. Holt, daughter of Robert and
Ann Holt. They have four children : En-
gene H., Ann, and Lockie H. and Joseph
H. Mr. Iglehart is a member of the
Methodist Episcopal Church.
Joseph D. Adams. Some thirtj' or
thirty-five j'ears ago Joseph D. Adams, then
a resident of Parke County, Indiana; was
enacting the rather humble role of a coun-
try school teacher and farmer. An un-
solicited honor came to him, though per-
haps it was regarded as an honor neither
by him nor those who conferred it upon
him. His fellow citizens in the district
elected him road supervisor. It is the only
public office Mr. Adams ever held, and it
was one he neither sought nor wanted.
American people have become so accus-
tomed to a perfunctory performance of offi-
cial duty that they are only surprised when
sometliing out of the ordinary in the way
of efficiency develops. It was in this way
that ilr. Adams turned the joke on the
people who elected him road supervisor.
He used his official authority in compelling
his neighbors to work the roads with as
much vigor and sj'stem as they did their
farms. But the main point of the story
is not the efficiency of his administration
as road supervisor, but the fact that during
this experience Mr. Adams gained his first
insight into the inadequacy of road work-
ing machinery. A few years later he took
the agency and went on the road and be-
gan traveling over that section of Indiana
and other states selling road making ma-
chinery. During all the years he was in-
terviewing county commissioners and other
road officials in the interests of his com-
pany he was at the same time using his
mind and mechanical ingenuity in specu-
lating as to how he could improve road
making implements. Out of this period of
study and experimentation he evolved one
after the other of what are today widely
known as the "Little Wonder Grader," the
"Road King" line, and "Square Deal"
line of road graders, and other implements
and devices now known generally through-
out the length and breadth of the land.
His invention of the adjustable leaning
wheel as applied to road graders was so far
in advance of competition as to practically
give him a monopoly.
Along with the genius to invent Mr.
Adams possessed the business ability of the
salesman and the manufacturer. Thus it
was that in 1895 he founded the J. D.
Adams & Company of Indianapolis, of
which he is now president. With limited
capital and in limited quarters he began
the manufacture of his inventions. He
kept his machines before the attention of
the public, made them worthy of confi-
dence and patronage, was exceedingly care-
ful in bringing out only the best products
of the kind, and there naturally followed
a rapid increase of the business. The sur-
plus was reinvested in extensions and im-
provements, and after about twenty years
J. D. Adams & Company now conduct one
of the larger industrial plants of Indiana,
furnishing employment to 250 individuals,
and manufacturing about fifteen different
tynes of road grading machines.
Having thus indicated his industrial po-
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sition in Indiana, it remains to say a word
concerning his personal career .and his
family.
Mr. Adams was born on a farm in ParV-^
County, Indiana, December 12, 1853. He
is a son of Harvey and Eliza (Canithers)
Adams. His father was born in Ross
County, Ohio, July 25, 1825. When a
young man he removed to Vigo County,
Indiana, and from there to what is now
Sand Creek Station in Parke County.
There he took a tract of land on which few
improvements had been made, and re-
deemed it from the virginal wilderness.
On a part of this farm is today located
the Indiana State Tuberculosis Hospital.
Harvey Adaius was the type of man whose
life is worthy of record, though it contained
no spectacular elements of episodes. He
lived an ideal Americanism, was honest,
upright, a progressive and hardworking
farmer, and he died at his home in Parke
County April 8, 1904. His wife, Mrs. Eliza
Adams, was born in Parke County Novem-
ber 4. 1826. That date in itself indicates
that her people were among the first settlers
there in the Wabash Valley, and lived in
that region when the Indians and wild
game were far more plentiful than white
people and domestic animals. She died
June 15, 1912. It is from such unassuming
parentage that the best of American citi-
zens have sprung.
Joseph D. Adams was the third of the
eight children born to his parents, five of
whom are still living. His early life was
devoid of exciting incidents. During the
summer months he worked on the home
farm and during the winter attended dis-
trict schools. His early schooling was sup-
plemented by attendance at the old Friends
Bloomingdale Academy when Prof. Barna-
bas C. Hobbs, later state superintendent of
public instruction, was at the head of the
institution. Like many other young men
of the day Mr. Adams resorted to school
teaching, and altogether taught some eight
or nine terms, until ho engaged in selling
road machinery. In politics he has always
been a republican. On April 13, 1876. he
married Miss Anna Elder. Three children
were born to them. The daughter, Anna
Laura, now deceased, married Rev. Edward
Henry, and she left two children, Anna
Lou and Laura Margaret. The active busi-
ness associates of Mr. Adams in the J. D.
Adams & Company are his two sons, Roy
E. and William Ray.
!
Charlton Andrews, author, lecturer,
.iournalist, and educator, is a native son of
Connersville, Indiana, born February 1,
1878. His parents are Albert Munson An-
drews, pharmacist, and Marie Louise An-
drews, a writer and a pioneer in ithe
woman's suffrage movement. She was one
of the leading spirits in the founding of the
Western Association of Writers, and for
several years served as its secretary. Her
death occurred in 1891.
Charlton Andrews is a graduate of De-
Pauw University, 1898, University of Paris,
1898-9. Chicago University, 1904, and Har-
vard University, 1911. His first work af-
ter leaving college was as a newspaper man,
was afterward prominently engaged in edu-
cational work, and in 1914 entered upon
his work as lecturer in the Brooklyn Poly-
technic Institute. He was a member of
the Civilians' Military Training Course,
Fort Totten, Long Island, 1917, is a mem-
ber of the Andiron Club, New York City,
and with the Delta Tau Delta fraternity.
Among his works as an author may be
mentioned: "The Drama Today" (1913),
"The Technique of Play Writing" (1915),
"His Majesty the Fool" (a plav produced
at The Little Theatre, Philadelphia, 1913),
and other works, and has contributed to
numerous magazines. In 1916 he was made
play receiver for The Theatre JIagazine.
In Brookville, Indiana, May 15, 1901,
Mr. Andrews married Maude Cory Smolley.
Bert H. Harris. There are few men
who have not at some time in their lives
had an ardent ambition to be railroaders.
In that great industry, as in many other
lines, "mpny are called but few are
chosen." It is a long and arduous climb
to the heights of promotion and responsi-
bility, and many drop out on the way.
One of the prominent railroad officials
living at Indianapolis, and trainmaster for
the Pennsylvania lines, is Bert H. Harris,
■who was first granted his desire to connect
with the railroad when eighteen years of
aee. He was born at ^lartinsville. In-
diana, in 1869, son of John F. and Mary
(Sehlayman) Harris. His father was of
French ancestry and a native of Alsace-
Lorraine, while his mother was born in
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Germany. They were early settlers in
Martinsville. After attending the public
schools of his native village Bert H. Har-
ris counted it a most happy day when he
was taken to work at the railroad station
of the Pennsylvania lines in the capacity
of messenger. There was a good deal of
leisure time, and he rapidly picked up and
acquired an expert knowledge of telegra-
phy. He was assigned as operator at Mar-
tinsville Station for about a year, later
for two years was station agent, and in
1894 the Pennsylvania Company trans-
ferred him to Indianapolis as chief clerk to
the trainmaster. In 1896 he was made
yardmaster at Bushrod, Indiana, and held
"those responsibilities about eight years. He
then returned to Indianapolis to become
trainmaster of the Vincennes Division, and
has lived in this city continuously since
then. August 1, 1918, Mr. Harris was hon-
ored by another substantial promotion, be-
ing made trainmaster of both the Indian-
apolis Terminal Division and the Vincennes
Division, including the terminals at Vin-
cennes. This was an office carrying with it
considerably enlarged duties and responsi-
bilities. One of the outstanding facts i'^
his record as a railroad man is that his
service has been continuous with the Penn-
sylvania lines, and thirty years in their
employ constitute him a vete)-an, though he
is just fifty years old.
Mr. Harris takes the greatest pride
and interest in his work as a railroad man,
but feels an even deeper personal interest
in his happy family, and particularly of
late in the experiences and achievements
of his soldier son. 'Sir. Harris married at
Spencer, Indiana, ]\Iiss Florence A. Mor-
gan, of that city. Their three children are
Lieut. Paul A. Harris, Agnes Harris, and
Harry Harris. The older son, Paul, vol-
iinteered in the first officers' reserve corps
for training in May, 1917. Later he was
selected for coast artillery service, and
completed his training at Fort Monroe,
Virginia, where he was commissioned a
second lieutenant. Since then he has been
promoted to fii-st lieutenant, and has made
a splendid record both in the technical
branch of the service and as a commanding
officer. He was in his third year at Pur-
due University when he volunteered for
the officers training camp. Mr. Harris and
wife are members of the Fourth Presby-
terian Church of Indianapolis, and in pol-
itics he is a democrat.
Oscar C. Smith. For thirty years or
more Oscar C. Smith has been a factor in
the business affairs of Kokomo, where he is
head of the firm Smith & Hoff, an
old established and well known busi-
ness in furniture, household supplies, and
undertaking, located at 118-120 East Wal-
nut Street.
Mr. Smith is a man of broad and pro-
gressive views, and his place among In-
diana merchants is an indication of the
fact that he is now serving as president of
the State Chamber of Commerce of In-
diana. He was formerly prominent in the
Kokomo Chamber of Commerce, and gave
up the presidency of that body in order
to handle the responsibilities of his present
office.
Mr. Smith was born ilay 15, 1862, at
^looresville, Indiana. His home has been
in Kokomo since January, 1874. In 1880
he graduated from the Kokomo High
School, and during the next five years had
some valuable experience and rendered
some good service as a teacher in Howard
County and the City of Kokomo. Follow-
ing that he entered the book business under
the name 0. C. Smith. With ^Ir. Louis
Jlehlig he subsequently formed the part-
nership of Smith & Mehlig, drugs, books,
and wall paper. This business was con-
tinued until 1900, when :\Ir. Smith sold
his interests to Mr. Mehlig. He then
bought a half interest in the furniture bus-
iness of Kellar & Company, thus estab-
lishing the business of Smith & Kellar.
Four years later Mr. E. W. Hoff bought
the Kellar interests, and for the past four-
teen yeai"s the firm of Smith & Hoff has
enjoyed an unequivocal standing and pros-
perity in Kokomo.
Mr. Smith was one of the founders of
the Kokomo Chamber of Commerce in
1913. He served as its president from
1915 to 1917, when he resigned to devote
his time to the State Chamber of Commerce
as president. He is now in his second term
of that office. Fraternally he is affiliated
with Lodge No. 29, Knights of Pythias,
having passed all the chairs, also with the
Lodge of Elks, with the Improved Order
of Red Men. and is a member of the Grace
Methodist Episcopal Church. He is a re-
publican, without aspirations for office
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In 1890 Mr. Smith married Miss Myrtle
A. Maris, of Russiaville, Indiana. She
graduated from the Kokomo High School
in 1887. Mr. and Mrs. Smith have three
children: Paul M., born August 28, 1891,
is a graduate of the Kokomo High School ;
Arline, born in 1894, died in 1897; and
Preston E., born June 28, 1905.
Benjamin Franklin Moore. Since the
beginning of the present century it is
doubtful if any one man has done more to
influence educational progress and policy
in Indiana than Benjamin Franklin Jloore.
He is in the prime of his activities and his
vitalizing influence on educational affairs
is more conspicuous now than ever before.
Mr. Moore was born on a farm near Buf-
falo in White County, Indiana, April 4,
1858. The Moore family were very promi-
nent in the early life and history of that
county. His father was a farmer, for
many years justice of the peace and was
postmaster of his community. Mr. Moore
is a great-grandson of a Presbyterian
preacher in Pennsylvania and a soldier in
the Revolutionary war.
His early life was spent on his father's
farm. He attended his first school near
home, later the high school at Monticello,
and in June, 1884, graduated from the In-
diana State Normal School in the full Latin
course. Aside from what he has gained by
an experience of more than thirty years iii
educational work he has pursued post-
graduate courses in the University of Chi-
cago and in Columbia University of New
York City. His Master's degree was
awarded him by Columbia University in
1912.
Mr. Moore began teaching when only
sixteen years old. For eight years his
work was done in country districts. For
one year he was superintendent of schools
at Nineveh in Johnson County, superin-
tendent of schools at Monticello five years,
was for nine years at Frankfort, Indiana,
nine years at Marion, and ten years at
Muncie. On April 4, 1918, Mr. Moore was
elected dean of the Indiana State Normal
School, Eastern Division, and he was in
charge at the opening of the school on
June 17, 1918.
Besides what he has accomplished as an
individual teacher and school administra-
tor some of his broader work in the state at
large should be made familiar to the read-
ers. In 1907 he was appointed by the gov-
ernor as chairman of the first Indiana
State Education Commission to investigate
and make recommendation regarding tax-
ation and teachers salaries and other edu-
cational matters. As chairman of the
State Education Commission he prepared
seven educational bills, all of which were
enacted into laws. As chairman of the com-
mittee appointed by the Indiana State
Teachers' Association Mr. Moore wrote the
present Indiana State Teachers' Retire-
ment Law. He was appointed bj' the gov-
ernor as a member of the fii-st Indiana
State Teachers' Retirement Fund Board,
was first president of the board at its or-
ganization August 1, 1915, and still holds
that office. He has served as president of
the Indiana State Teachers' Association,
of the Indiana Town and City Superin-
tendents' Association and of other educa-
tional bodies. He has always interested
himself in community affairs and during
the war was a member of the Educational
Committees of the State afld County Coun-
cils of Defense.
C. H. Havens is the present postmaster
of Kokomo. He has been a resident and
newspaper man of Kokomo for many years,
and it seems almost a foretelling of destiny
that he should have been born in a house
just across the street from where the new
Federal Building and Postoffice stands.
Mr. Havens was born May 4, 1858, son
of Henry B. Havens and grandson of Rev.
James Havens. He is of old Virginia an-
cestry, and the famil.y emigrated over the
mountains to Kentucky and from that state
went as pioneers to Rush County, Indiana.
His grandfather was known as "the "fight-
ing minister," and was a type of the pio-
neer itinerant preacher and evangelist of
which Peter Cartwright was perhaps the
most famous example. These ministers
carried the Gospel to the backwoods com-
munities, and preached in log schoolhouses
and even in private homes, and no weather
or other conditions could deter them from
the performance of their duty. Rev. James
Havens was widely known among the early
settlers of Rush County and was a most
extmplary man. Manj^ years ago a Mr.
Hibben wrote a book on his life and serv-
ices and this book was widely read. Rev.
James Havens had a family of fourteen
children, the youngest being Henry B.,
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who was born in Rush County, was edu-
cated in the district schools there, and
le.irned the trade of saddler and harness
Diaker. He followed it in Rush County
until 1846, when he moved to Howard
County, and became one of the first to fol-
low his trade in Kokomo. Later he became
a grain buj-er, and continued that business
until 1884, when he branched out in real
estate and continued that until his death.
He was widely known over Howard County
and was very loyal in his allegiance to the
democratic party and influential in its be-
half.
C. H. Havens, third among the six chil-
dren of his parents, was reared in Kokomo,
attended the high school, and entered upon
his business career as a printer's devil in
the office of the Kokomo Democrat. He has
been a printer and newspaper man many
years, and for twenty years was managing
editor of the Kokomo Dispatch. Jlr. Hav-
ens was appointed postmaster of Kokomo
by President Wilson in 1914. He is a
thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason,
a member of the Elks and ilodern Wood-
men of America, and very stanch as a
democrat.
February 6, 1886, he married at Kokomo
Miss McKinsey. Their two daughters are
both married, and one son-in-law is serv-
ing with the rank of lieutenant in the
American Arm.y.
Byron Fletcher Prunk, A. B., M. D.
In the practice of medicine and surgery
Doctor Prunk has become widely and fav-
orably known at Indianapolis. The oppor-
tunities and obligations of the medical pro-
fession were impressed upon his attention
from an early age, since his father was one
of the able men in that field in Indianap-
olis, and after duly qualifying himself by
technical education IDoctor Prunk found
himself almost at the start in possession
of a gratifying practice.
He was born December 20, 1866, son of
Daniel H. and Hattie A. (Smith) Prunk,
the father still living at Indianapolis with
his son Byron F. The mother died Octo-
ber 15, 1911. Dr. Daniel H. Prunk was
born in Virginia, and as a child accom-
panied the family in 1832 to Heiniepin. Ill-
inois, and spent his earliest years on a farm
there. He took up the study of medicine,
attending courses of the Eclectic School at
Cincinnati, from which he graduated in
1856. In 1876 he graduated from the In-
diana Medical University. He resumed
practice at Indianapolis about the close of
the Civil war. He served as contract sur-
geon and assistant surgeon in the Federal
service as a volunteer during that conflict.
For sixty-three yearsi he has ably per-
formed his duties as a physician. His
three sons, Frank H., Harry C., and Byron
F., all live at Indianapolis.
Byron F. Prunk was educated in the
common schools of his native city, grad-
uated from Wabash College, Indiana, with
the degree A. B. in 1892, studied medicine
at the Indiana Medical College in 1894,
and in 1896 received his degree Doctor of
Medicine from Jefferson Medical College
at Philadelphia.
With these qualifications and training
Dr. Prunk returned to Indianapolis and
at once engaged in practice in the office of
his father at 30 South Senate Avenue,
where his father had continuously been in
practice for forty years. He is a general
practitioner. He is a member of the va-
rious medical organization,s, and is inter-
ested in republican party success and be-
longs to the First Presbyterian Church.
In 1894 he married Pauline D. Shaffer,
a native of Arcadia, Indiana, daughter of
William H. and Nancy (Caylor) Shaffer.
Her father died in 1908 and her mother is
now living in Indianapolis. Doctor and
Mrs. Prunk have five children. Bvron
Parvin, the oldest, born May 29, 1895," was
a student in Wabash College when Amer-
ica entered the world struggle against Ger-
many, became sergeant in Headquarters
Company and attended training camp for
officers at Camp Taylor, Louisville, Ken-
tucky, and became second lieutenant.
Harriet Augusta, who was born November
9, 1896, was formerly a student of Emer-
son College of Oratory at Boston, and spent
one year in the Chevy Chase School at
Washington. Helen Louise, born Septem-
ber 19, 1899, is in the Indianapolis High
School. Horace, born June 16, 1901, in
spite of his age found an opportunity to
get into the war, receiving his first mili-
tary experience in Battery A, Indiana Na-
tional Guard, and is now a private in the
famous Rainbow Division in General
Pershing's army in France. The young-
est of the children, Elizabeth, was born
November 28, 1908.
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Henry Knaupf, the present county
treasurer of Miami County, was elected to
that otifice not only on the score of good
business qualifications for its management,
but also because of his long residence and
a public spirited citizenship he has always
exhibited in everything connected with the
life and welfare of his home county.
Mr. Knauff has lived in Miami County
since he was five years of age. He was born
in Germany May 10, 1863, son of George
and Anna C. (Kuhn) Knauff, and grand-
son of Nicholas Knaufif. It was in 1868
that the Knauf¥ family set out from their
old home in Hesse Darmstadt, and they
landed at Castle Garden on Independence
Day, July 4, 1868. George Knauff located
in Union Township of Miami County, and
having come here with small means rented
land until he could buy a farm of his own.
This farm was the home of his son Henry
until the latter came to Peru to take up
his duties at the courthouse. George
Knauff was born about 1830. His first wife
died in 1871, and he then married Emily J.
McDonald, who died in 1908.
Henry Knauff received all his education
in the Miami County schools, and except
for his official career has always been a
farmer. He improved the old homestead
until it ranks as one of the best farms of
Miami County.
The first important office he held was as
trustee of Union Township, to which he
was elected in 1900. He served four years
and two months, and later was township as-
sessor. He and his family are Baptists,
and he is affiliated with the Independent
Order of Odd Fellows and the Knights of
the Maccabees.
In 1882. in Union Township, Mr. Knauff
married Bosanna Deeds. Her father,
George Deeds, and her uncle, William
Deeds, at one time owned the land upon
which the Village of Deedsville is located,
that name commemorating the family. Mr.
and Mi-s. Knauff have five children -. Harry
E., Charles R., Elsie, Henry Ray and Flo-
rence M.
J. George Mueller is one of Indian-
apolis' most successful merchants. He has
been successively pharmacist, druggist, and
wholesale drug merchant for over thirty
years, and the success, the wide scope and
standing of the Mooney-Mueller-Ward
Company is eloquent testimony to his abil-
ity and judgment.
Mr. Mueller was born in Indianapolis
June 21, 1860, son of Charles G. and Mar-
gareta Mueller. His father, who was born
in Coburg, Saxony, spent his youth in his
native land, but became restive under the
cramped conditions and the military sys-
tem prevailing there, and emigrating to
America landed at Baltimore in 1854. For
a time he lived in Connersville, Indiana,
and from there came to Indianapolis. By
trade he was a cloth maker. At Conners-
ville he was employed in the woolen mills,
and on coming to Indianapolis engaged in
the retail grocery business. One of his first
stores was on what was then known as the
National Road, now East Washington
Street. He was an active business man
until the latter years of his life, when he
was practically an invalid. He died in
1883. He and his wife were married in
Germany, and the.y had fourteen children,
six of whom died before the birth of J.
George. Those still living are : Mrs. Anna
Hotze, of Indianapolis ; Mrs. Otto Wagner ;
Emil A., of Indianapolis; J. George; Fer-
dinand A. ; and Rudolph M. The mother,
who died in 1909, lived for many years
with her daughter Mrs. Hotze.
From the common schools J. George
Mueller at the age of thirteen went to work
in the drug store of L. H. Mueller as an
errand boy and helper. Thus as a boy he
gained the experience and laid the founda-
tion of the business which has brought him
so much success. In 1881 he entered the
Cincinnati College of Pharmacy, graduat-
ing with honors in 1883 and with the de-
gree Ph. G. He received the gold medal
for highest efficiency in his work, and also
had honors for his work in materia medica
and in botany. During his senior year he
was given the responsibilities of quiz
master.
From college he went back to the Mueller
drug store, and in 1887 bought out the busi-
ness, located at Washington and East
Street. He continued there as a retail
druggist until January 1, 1891.
At that date Mr. Mueller assisted in or-
ganizing the Indianapolis Drug Company,
and thus laid the foundation for the whole-
sale business. His associates in that enter-
prise were John R. Miller, deceased, and
Dr. Herman Pink, who retired from active
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life in 1908. Mr. Miller was secretary and
treasurer of the companj-. In 1902 it was
succeeded b.y the Mooney-Mueller Drug
Company, Incorporated, of which Mr.
Mueller has since been secretary and treas-
urer. On November 2, 1915, this company
was consolidated with the "Ward Brothers
Drug Company of Indianapolis under the
corporate name of Mooney-Mueller-Ward
Company. To this flourishing and growing
business, with trade connections over all
the railroad lines extending out through
Indiana and to ad.iaeent states, Mr. ^Mueller
has for years concentrated his abilities and
energies.
As a business man he has also been in-
terested in the Indianapolis Chamber of
Commerce and has served as a director.
He has been on a number of important
committees and is now a member of the
Wholesale Trade and Good Roads commit-
tees. Fraternally he is aiSIiated with Pen-
talpha Lodge of Masons, the Royal Arch
Masons, the Knights Templar and the
Mystic Shrine.
October 17, 1888, he married Miss Julia
W. SchnuU, daughter of Henry and Ma-
thilda (Schramm) Schnull, the latter now
deceased. The father is founder of
Schnull & Company, the well known whole-
sale grocers of Indianapolis. Mrs. Mueller
is active socially and in church afl'airs, and
has given much of her time in the past
year to various departments of wav work.
They have a son and daughter, Clemens 0.
and Norma J. The son, born in 1889, is
buyer for his father's wholesale drug house.
He married Zuleme Kinney. The daughter
is talented in music and is identified with
several vocal organizations in Indianapolis.
John William Bailey was born near
Scottsburg, Indiana, a son of the Rev.
James P. and Virginia Caroline Bailey.
The father was a minister in various places
in Southern Indiana and the mother was
a daughter of a Baptist minister. After
a thoronsrh training in Franklin College
and the University of Chicago John Wil-
liam Bailey entered the Baptist ministrv.
and has filled pastorates at Fairbury, Illi-
nois, O.shkosh, Wisconsin, and Bella, Iowa,
was professor of Biblical Literature in Cen-
tral College, later president of Central Col-
lege, and was extension instructor in the
University of Chicago. He has served on
various important committees of the Iowa
Baptist Convention for several years, and
was chairman of the committee on reorgan-
izations.
Reverend Bailey married Celestine Wood,
and they have four children, Harold Wood,
Ernest Richard, Margaret Ruth, and John
William.
Michael W. Stacb is junior partner in
the firm of Staub Brothers, one of the lead-
ing establishments around the Public
Square of Anderson, and they were first in
business as tobacconists. The partnership
comprises Joseph P. and Michael W. Staub.
Both were born at Metamora, Indiana,
Joseph on December 23, 1877, and Michael
on April 18, 1879. They are sons of
Joseph P. and Frances (Kuntz) Staub.
The father came from Alsace-Lorraine,
Germany, when about nineteen years of
age, spent one year in New York, and com-
ins to Indiana spent one year in Brookville,
and was later at Metamore. He was a shoe-
maker by trade, and by constant industry
and careful thrift managed to provide for
his familv and rear them to lives of useful-
ness. He died April 27, 1916.
The StHub brothers received their edu-
cation at Metamora and at Brookville, and
Michael attended the Oak Forest Academy
at Brookville for about two years. In Feb-
ruary, 1900, at the age of twenty-one, he
came to Anderson, and his first employment
here was in the file works as a file tester.
At the beginning he was paid $1 a day, and
he remained with the establishment two
years. He then went to the Ames Shovel
and Tool Factory at North Anderson, and
was one of the welders in that plant for
three years, commanding good wages and
thriftily saving it with a view to an inde-
pendent bn:^iness of his own.
In 1905 ]\lr. Staub married Josephine
^IcNamara, daughter of James and Eliza-
beth (Armstrong) McNamarjf. They have
two children : Joseph M., born in 1909, and
Mildred :Mary, born in 1912.
After his marriage Mr. Staub entered
the grocery business at Twenty-first and
Main Street in Anderson, and conducted
one of the good stores in that section of
the city for six years. He then sold out,
and on April 2, 1911, took his place as a
clerk in the store of which he is now one
of the proprietors. He was employed by
Harry Faulkner until February, 1912,
when he bought out the business and con-
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tinned it under the name M. "W. Staub un-
til the following April, when his brother
came into tlie partnership.
Michael Stanb is also a stockholder in
the France Film Company of New York.
He is a democrat in politics, and he and
his family worship in St. Mary's Catholic
Church.
Thomas Hiatt is the present sheriff of
Delaware County and member of a family
that has been identified with that section
of Indiana since pioneer days.
The Hiatt family was established in
Henry County, Indiana, more than eighty
years ago. Solomon Hiatt, father of Sheriff
Hiatt, was born in Henry County Decem-
ber 20, 1833, son of John and Charity
Hiatt. When a boy Solomon worked with
his father in clearing and improving a
homestead, and later engaged in farming
on his own account. Soon after his mar-
riage he bought land in Delaware County
and resided here for half a century. His
homestead was eleven miles northwest of
Muncie, and he was in the county before a
single railroad had been built and when
all transportation was over the country
highways. His first purchase of land was
forty acres, but later he acquired another
tract of 110 acres, and developed a fine
homestead, on which he lived until his
death June 17, 1906. He served eight years
as justice of the peace, and was a man
noted for his integrity of character and
strict honesty, so that he entertained the
good will of his neighbors and their respect
as well. He began voting as a whig but
cast his ballot for John C. Fremont in 1856,
and from that time was a steadfast repub-
lican. For thirty-nine years he was affili-
ated with the Masonic Lodge at Alexandria.
On November 10, 1856, Solomon Hiatt mar-
ried Elizabeth McCollester, who was born
in Delawar? County October 13, 1839, and
died on the home farm June 31, 1906, only
two weeks after her husband. She had
united with the Christian Church at the
age of seventeen and was always one of its
faithful and sustaining members. To their
marriage were born eleven children, and
when the parents passed away five sons and
two daughters survived them, and twenty-
eieht grandchildren and four great-grand-
children.
Fourth among the children was Thomas
Hiatt, who was born in Delaware County
Januarj^ 28, 1863. He was educated in the
common schools, and during the greater
part of his active life for thirty years has
upheld a worthy role in the farming com-
munity where he was reared. Mr. Hiatt
has always been a forceful exponent of the
principles of the republican party, and
he was elected to his present office as sheriff
on that ticket. In 1918 he was re-elected
to his present office as sheriff of Delaware
County.
On February 2, 1886, at Muncie, he mar-
ried Miss Effie J. Collins. They have five
children, Frances, Cleo, Kenton, Mabel and
Nellie. Kenton is now in France in service
with the United States Army. All the
children have been given the advantages of
the public schools.
W. A. McIlvaine. The service by which
he is esteemed as a resident of Muncie I\Ir.
McIlvaine has rendered as a very capable
police officer, and for over a Quarter of a
century has been identified with the police
department of that city, and is now its chief
or superintendent.
He was born February 14, 1852, at
Zanesville, Ohio. Both his father and
mother's people were of Irish stock and
ancestry. Grandfather McIlvaine was
born in Ireland, where he died. John Mc-
Ilvaine, father of Chief McIlvaine, was a
farmer. His wife Demaries Wilson, was a
native of Indiana. Of their six chilrlren
only two are now living. W. A. McIl-
vaine's sister resides in Columbus, Ohio.
Superintendent McIlvaine was educated in
the common schools of Zanesville. He has
always been a worker and began earning
his own living as a coal miner in the mines
of Muskingum County. He spent four nr
five years in this occupation, and from 1878
to 1892 was a puddler in a rolling mill at
Zanesville.
From Zanesville Mr. McIlvaine came to
Muncie and on March 28, 1892, was ap-
pointed a member of its police force. In
1893 he became a patrolman, and in 1894
was promoted to captain of police. After
four years in that office he became city
superintendent of police. He has always
been a stanch democrat and is affiliated,
with the Fraternal Order of Eagles. Feb-
ruary 3, 1869, he married Miss Rosa Berry.
Three children were born to their marriage
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but all of them are now deceased. August
3, 1919, Mr. and ]\Irs. Mellvaine celebrated
their fiftieth wedding anniversary.
Claude Fifee, of the Hogue-Fifer Sales
Company, handling the distribution of the
]\Iaxwell Motor Companj- cars at Anderson
and vicinity, is regarded among his asso-
ciates as a genius in the automobile busi-
ness both in the technical side and as a
salesman. From the time the first car was
run through the streets of Anderson Mr.
Fifer has had a fascination for automobiles.
His skill was so great that it finally caused
him to buy a second-hand car, and from
that the transition into the automoTjile busi-
ness was easy and rapid.
He was born at Anderson in 1884, a son
of William and Mary (Vineyard) Fifer, of
that city. He attended the grammar school
as a boy, spent two years in the Lincoln
High School, and when only sixteen years
old he put in four weeks of work in a local
blacksmith shop. The five years after he
left school were spent as clerk in the book-
store of A. L. Stone. From there he en-
tered the employ of the Sefton Manufactur-
ing Company in their Anderson plant, and
was with the factory for three years, most
of the time operating a crosscut saw. From
that factory he entered the service of Rail-
ings & Company in the Banner store as a
general utility man. He put in eleven
years with this company and was finally
put in complete charge of the carpet de-
partment as a buyer.
Mr. Fifer has always been naturally
inclined toward things mechanical, and
while he was working for the furniture
store he managed to bm- an old Buiek
Model No. 10 ear. About the first thing
he did was to dismantle the machinen' and
then reassemble and rebuild it throughout,
adding a touch here and there which made
the car when he got through with it better
than ever. Knowing the inner mechanism
of a car was a start which finally propelled
him out of the carpet business and into
active salesmanship in the automobile in-
dustry. His first position was as a sales-
man for used and new cars for the Lam-
bert-Weir Sales Company, at that time dis-
tributors of the Oakland cars in JIadison
and Delaware counties. He was with them
four months, and was then offered a better
place with the Hill-Stage Company, dis-
, tributors of the Willys-Overland, Knight
and Cadillac cars. With this firm he re-
mained a year, and his successful record
there justified him in taking up a business
of his own. On March 1, 1917, he became
a partner with Mr. J. L. Hogue, and they
established the Hogue-Fifer Company, and
now handle the exclusive selling agency for
the Maxwell cars in Anderson and the sur-
rounding townships of Stony Creek, Jack-
son, Union, Labette, Adams, Fall Creek
and Green. The company has a model dis-
play room at 1225 Meridian Street, the
room extending back an entire block.
In 1905 Mr. Fifer married Jliss Bertha
Ickes, daughter of William F. and Arvilla
(Noel) Ickes, of Anderson. Three children
have been born to their marriage : William
Max, Dorothy, and Daniel LeRoy.
Mr. Fifer has accomplished an enviable
business success through the avenue of
hard work and keen and alert intelligence,
always on the lookout for opportunity. He
is one of the highly respected citizens of
Anderson, a member of the First Methodist
Episcopal Church, belongs to the Travelers
Protective Association and in politics is a
republican.
William Scott first visited Indianapolis
in 1870, and during the next twenty years
built up a large produce and commission
business, but for over a quarter of a cen-
tury has been an important factor in the
wholesale drug house of Daniel Stewart
Company, of which he was president until
October 1, 1915, when that concern and the
A. Kiefer Company consolidated. He has
been president of Kiefer Stewart Company
since that time.
The career of Mr. Scott is one that re-
fleets credit upon his individual talents and
industry and upon the worthy heritage he
received from his parents. He was born
in County Donegal, Ireland, April 6, 1850,
son of Rev. William and Charlotte (Craw-
ford) Scott. He is of Irish Presbyterian
stock. His father was a clergyman of the
Presbyterian Church and a man of fine
intellectual attainments and a classical
scholar. Mr. Scott himself acquired a lib-
eral education, being classically trained at
Londonderry, Ireland. In April, 1868, at
the age of eighteen, he came to America,
pnd locating at Philadelphia found his
finst opportunity with Stuart & Brothers,
importers and wholesale dealers in drv
goods. Later for two j'ears he was with
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Samuel Macky & Company, general pro-
duce and commission merchants of Phila-
delphia. In the interests of this firm he
traveled in different parts of the central
west, and several times visited Indianapolis.
In this city, through an acquaintance
formed with Col. Samuel F. Gray, agent of
the Union Line, he set in motion negotia-
tions which in June, 1871, resulted in Sam-
uel Maeky & Company establishing a
branch house at Indianapolis with Mr.
Scott in charge. After a few months he
acquired individual control of the business,
and William Scott & Company, which con-
tinued until 1890, was one of the chief
houses of its kind in the city.
In 1890 Mr. Scott abandoned the com-
mission business to become associated with
the late Daniel Stewart, one of whose
daughters he had married. Daniel Stewart
was founder of the wholesale drug business
above mentioned. After the death of Mr.
Stewart in February, 1892, Mr. Scott and
John N. Carey, another son-in-law of Mr.
Stewart, with their wives united in the
organization of the Daniel Stewart Com-
pany. October 1, 1908, Mr. Carey with-
drew from the drug business to the control
of the glass department of the company,
and in the reorganization which followed
Mr. Scott became president of the Daniel
Stewart Company, Incorporated. It was
one of the oldest and largest wholesale drug
houses of Indiana and the business has
been greatly prospered, reflecting the sound
commercial sense of its founder and the
energetic administration of those who have
had its fortunes in charge during the past
twenty-five years.
Mr. Scott 's business career has been con-
temporaneous with the larger growth and
development of Indianapolis as a citv. The
broader and bigger interests of the city
have always exercised a strong hold upon
his imagination and his sympathies, and in
many ways his own efforts are reflected in
the larger growth. He has been a member
of the Board of Governors of the Board of
Trade since its reorganization in 1882,
being the only member whose service has
been continuous. He was elected vice presi-
dent in 1887 and in 1888 president of the
Board of Trade. In 1891 he was elected
a member of the Board of School Commis-
sioners, and served continuously with that
body until 1900, being president in 1896-97.
Mr.' Scott is a republican, has been affiliated
with the Masonic Order since he was twen-
ty-one and is a thirty-second degree Scot-
tish Rite ilason. He and his wife are mem-
bers of the Second Presbyterian Church.
March 29, 1880, Mr. Scott married Miss
Martha Stewart. They are the parents of
one daughter, Charlotte, who is married to
George Barret Moxley, vice president and
general manager of Kiefer Stewart Com-
pany.
Daniel Stewart, father of Mrs. Scott, was
born at Greensburg, Indiana, February 3,
1824, and died at Indianapolis February
25, 1892. He was of Scotch ancestry and
a colonial American in "descent. His
mother was a Hendricks, of the family
which has given Indiana two of its most
honored names. Daniel Stewart was edu-
cated in pioneer schools, and as a youth
took up the drug business, which he fol-
lowed uninterruptedly except for a brief
time when he was a daguerreotype artist.
He came to Indianapolis in 1863, and with
two other associates established a whole-
sale and retail drug house at 40 East Wash-
ington Street.- The business grew and ex-
panded, and after 1883 was conducted
under Mr. Stewart's individual name. In
1890 Daniel Stewart was chosen president
of the National Wholesale Druggists As-
sociation. One of the local newspapers said
editorially of him: "Mr. Stewart was
recognized as a generous, considerate em-
ployer— one who recognized the value of
service done for him and who returned its
equivalent. He was charitable, and his
long buNsiness career, extending over half
a century, was marked by honorable deal-
ings. His devotion to his business no doubt
impaired his health and superinduced the
attack that resulted in his death." He
never sought public office, was a member of
the Methodist Episcopal Church, a promi-
nent Mason and was identified with various
civic organizations in Indianapolis. He
married, May 18, 1858, Miss Martha Tark-
ington, daughter of Rev. Joseph Tarking-
ton of Greensburg. Their children were
two daughters, Mary, wifei of John N.
Carey, and Martha, wife of William Scott.
Samuel Gillette Phillips. A business
man and banker, Samuel Gillette Phillips
has been identified with Alexandria for
more than a quarter of a century. He
grew up in the atmosphere of a country
merchandise store, traveled on the road
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over Indiana for a number of years, and
is well acquainted with the state and its
people. Mr. Phillips for twenty years has
been president of the Alexandria Bank.
He was born on a farm a mile from
Bloomingsport in Randolph County, In-
diana, September 9, 1857, son of Ancil B.
and Elizabeth Ann (Adamson) Phillips.
His birthplace was a log house which had
been built by his grandfather, Thomas
Phillips, while clearing a tract of wild land
in Randolph County. ^Ir. Phillips is of
English and Welsh ancestry. Four genera-
tions of the Phillips have lived in America.
Their first point of settlement was New
Jersey. From there they moved to Ohio,
where Grandfather Thomas Phillips was
bound out to a family named HayneB.
After growing up he married in Ohio Re-
becca Hammon and they went to Indiana
and were pioneers of Randolph Count
They reared a family of seven children
the youngest being Ancil B. The latter
for many years was a country merchant at
Bloomingsport, but in 1887 removed to
Muncie and continued in the grocery busi-
ness there until 1912, since which time he
has been retired. His wife died in 1914.
Samuel G. Phillips secured his early edu-
cation in the public schools at Bloomings-
port. He remained there to the age of
twenty and gained a general knowledge
of business by work in his father's store.
On leaving the store he went to Indian-
apolis, and for six years was connected with
Syfers, McBride & Company, a wholesale
grocery house covering eastern and central
Indiana. For three years Mr. Phillips was
a member of the firm Phillips, Davis &
Company, merchandise brokers of Indian-
apolis. Selling his interests there, he went
on the road for three years traveling over
Central Indiana and representing the
wholesale clothing house of Heidelbach,
Friedlander & Company of Cincinnati.
Mr. Phillips has been identified with
Alexandria since 1892. His first work here
was assistant cashier of the Alexandria
Bank, the president of which was A. E.
Harlan. This bank was reorganized in
1895 as the Alexandria National Bank, and
for two years Mr. Phillips was assistant
cashier. In 1897 he was promoted to cash-
ier, and in 1898 the national charter was
surrendered, the business liquidated, and
was succeeded by a private banking organi-
zation which took the old name of the Alex-
andria Bank. Since that date, a period
of twenty years, Mr. Phillips has been
president and active head of the business
and has made it one of the substantial
banking houses of Madison County. Mr.
Phillips is also interested in other lines,
owns a farm, and is a director and stock-
holder of the Alexandria Preserving Com-
pany, a local industry making a specialty of
tomatoes for canning.
In 1888, at Alexandria, Mr. Phillips mar-
ried Etta Hanikh, daughter of Robert H.
and Caroline (Scott) Hannah. Her father
was a merchant. Mr. and Mrs. Phillips
have two sons. Robert Beach is now man-
aging editor of the Gary Evening Post at
Gary, Indiana. He married Naomi Harris,
daughter of Judge Harris of Sullivan, In-
diana, and they have one child, Robert
Harris Phillips. The second son of Mr.
Phillips is William Thomas Phillips, who
was horn in 1901 and is still in school.
Mr. Phillips is affiliated with Alexandria
Lodge of Masons, Free and Accepted
Masons, Alexandria Chapter No. 99, Royal
Arch Masons, Alexandria Council No 85,
fioyal and Select Masters, with Necessity
Lodge No. 222 of the Independent Order
of Odd Fellows, Alexandria Lodge No. 335,
Knights of Pythias, which he served as
treasurer many years, and Alexandria
Lodge No. 478, Benevolent and Protective
Order of Elks. He has served as treasurer
of the Alexandria Business Men's Associa-
tion. Well known at Indianapolis, Mr.
Phillips is a member of the Indianapolis
Board of Trade and was one of the charter
members of the Columbia Club of that city
and of the Commercial Travelers Associa-
tion of that city. In politics he votes as a
republican, and served one term as town
councilman. He is a member of the Meth-
odist Church.
Charles Leon Libby. One of the im-
portant institutions contributing to this
special new character of Indianapolis as a
city is the International Machine Tool
Company, of which Charles Leon Libby is
vice president and general superintendent.
Mr. Libbv is a man of note among Ameri-
can mechanical engineers, has invented and
designed many types of machinery, and is
known nationally and internationally as de-
signer of the Libby Turret Lathe.
Mr. Libby was born in Aroostook County,
Maine, in 1861, a son of Simon and Frances
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(Caswell) Libby. The Libby family has
been in America for a number of genera-
tions, has produced other distinguished
men, and many of the family associations
linger around the old home center at Gray,
Maine, twelve miles from Portland.
For all his respectable and even promi-
nent family associations, Charles L. Libby
represents a type of keen and aggressive
American who achieves his own destiny.
When he was four years old his father died.
His father had been a locomotive engineer
with the Grand Trunk Railway. The head
of the family being removed, Charles L.
Libby had to get most of his education
largely in the intervals of productive em-
ployment. As a bojr he worked on a farm,
but was most congenially employed while
learning the machinist's trade in a shop.
From the time he was ten and a half years
old he supported himself, and later paid
his own way through college. His appren-
ticeship as a machinist was served in the
works of the New Haven Manufacturing
Company at New Haven, Connecticut.
Later he was employed as a machinist and
tool maker bj^ the Forbes & Curtis Manu-
facturing Company at Bridgeport, Con-
necticut. He was also a machinist and tool
maker in the plant of the Bridgeport Ma-
chine Tool Company.
The practical training he had received in
mechanical industries he supplemented
when he entered in 1881 the Maine State
College as a student of mechanical engi-
neering. He received his degree Mechani-
cal Engineer from that institution in 1884.
He then resumed employment with the
Bridgeport ]\Iachine Tool Company, at first
as a machinist and later as draftsman, de-
signer and superintendent, his position in-
volving not only technical duties but the
executive responsibility of supervising a
large force of men. He was with the
Bridgeport Machine Tool Company eleven
years. In 1895 he became general super-
intendent of the Pacific Iron Works at
Bridgeport.
In 1898 Mr. Libby accepted an oppor-
tunity to go to Berlin, Germany, to take
charge as general superintendent of the
machine tool department of the Ludwig-
Loewe Company. This company had a
plant famed in engineering circles for its
splendid buildings and equipment, its
modern conveniences from an industrial
standpoint, and its complete and modern
equipment of machinery. The department
supervised by Mr. Libby in this concern
covered eleven acres of floor space, and he
had under him a force of thirty draftsmen
and thirty-eight pattern makers. His ex-
perience at the German capital and at
almost the heart of the German industrial
system gave Mr. Libby a close view of that
enemy country such as few Americans pos-
sess. He was abroad four years, and on
returning to America in 1902 entered the
service of the Gisholt Machine Company
at Madison, Wisconsin, as a specialist and
designer. While there he put on the mar-
ket a number of new machine tools for the
company.
Mr. Libby has been a resident of Indian-
apolis since October, 1906. Here in com-
pany with Mr. Arthur Jordan, Mr. 0. B.
lies and Mr. W. K. Jlilholland he founded
the International Machine Tool Company,
of which he is vice president and general
manager, head of the production and en-
gineering departments. Mr. Jordan is
president of the company, Mr. lies, treas-
urer and manager, and T. P. Dickinson, sec-
retary. The company has a large and
modern plant occupying a ten-acre tract on
Twenty-first Street and the Belt Railway.
The main building is a two-story structure
of steel, concrete and brick, 350 feet long
by 100 feet wide, and in its construction
Mr. Libby undoubtedly utilized many of
the ideas of his long experience both in this
country and abroad. There is probably no
factory building anywhere that has so ideal
a lighting system. The lighting is almost
entirely sunlight, and the arrangement of
windows is such that it is practically im-
possible for a workman to get in his own
light. The elimination of shadows obvi-
ously means increased efficiency and safety.
Many other ideas have been carefully
worked out to conserve time, labor and ex-
pense. The company employs from 200 to
250 highly skilled mechanics, and many of
them have been with the plant ever since
it was established twelve years ago.
The output of the company is an im-
portant line of machine tools. Machine
tool is itself a comparatively new term.
It refers not to ordinary tools such as
mechanics use, but a complete and often
intricate machine, working in iron or steel,
and with all its processes mechanically
gauged to the accuracy of a ten thousandth
part of an inch. JIachine tools comprise
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such machinery as planers, engine lathes,
drill presses and milling machines. Some-
thing of the meaning of machine tool and
the special lines of manufacture of the In-
ternational Machine Tool Company of In-
dianapolis were interestingly described in
a newspaper interview some time recently
by Mr. lies, treasurer of the company. Mr.
lies said in part:
"Comparatively few people know the
really important part the machine tool
plays in the great industrial war machine
that is producing munitions and war sup-
plies on such a ma.ior scale. Few people
know for instance that th^ Libby heavy tur-
ret lathe, manufactured at our plant, is
doing great service in the production of
munitions in the cause of our countrj^ and
other allied nations. About .$500,000 worth
of these machines were exported to Eng-
land in 1915 for the manufacture of high
explosive shells. It is used in automobile
and truck shops for machining fly-wheels,
gears, differentials, housings, brake-drums
and wheel hubs ; it is used in aeroplane
plants for machining cylinders, gears, hous-
ings and propeller hubs; in ammunition
plants for making shells, the machine being
used ' for boring, facing and forming the
nose of the shell. Electric motor and gen-
erator companies find use for the Libby
heavy turret lathe in machining their vari-
ous parts where heavy and exacting work
is required. The lathe can be found in
many modern railroad shops in the United
States and Europe.
"The Libby lathe gets its name from its
designer, Charles L. Libby, head of the pro-
duction and engineering department of the
International Machine Tool Company. The
company does considerable enginering
work, being eauinDcd to take blue prints or
samples of work, make an estimate of the
time reauired to produce the work on
Libby lathes and design the necessary cut-
ting and forming tools and holding fix-
tures." Further Mr. lies gave out the in-
formation that the International ]Machine
Tool Company had filled orders for these
Libbv lathes in South Africa, Australia,
.Japan, Russia, Italy, France, England,
Spain. China and Belgium.
Mr. Libby married Miss Catherine Kurtz,
who was born in the famous Shenandoah
Valley but over the line in Pennsylvania.
They are the parents of eight children:
;\Iiss Gale, William, Fred, Millard, Ruth,
George, Catherine and Margerita.
Henry L. Bolley, educator and author,
was born in Dearborn County, Indiana,
Februarj' 1, 1865. He completed his earlj'
educational training in Purdue Univei-sity,
and since the fall of 1890 has been con-
nected with the North Dakota Agricultural
College and Experiment Station. He has
served the United States Department of
Agriculture as agricultural explorer and
field agent in Russia, Holland, and Bel-
gium in the interests of flax investigations,
and since July. 1909, has been state seed
commissioner of North Dakota.
Professor Bollev married Miss Frances
Sheldon on the 26th of September, 1896.
William Schuyler Mercer. There has
been a member of the Mercer family in
Peru more than three quarters of a century,
and during this long term the name has
become associated with all those qualities
of sturdy enterprise and useful citizenship
which are the best badges of honor in any
community.
The family was founded here by Moses
Mercer, a native of Licking County, Ohio.
He grew up in Ohio, learned the cooper's
trade and came when a young man in 1842
to Miami County. He had previously fol-
lowed his trade in the City of Wabash,
and continued it at Peru, and also had em-
ployment as a carpenter. For a number of
years he was in the woodworking depart-
ment of the old Indianapolis. Peru and Chi-
cago Railway, now the Lake Erie and Wp«'
ern Division of the New York Central lines.
Still later Moses Mercer was identified with
the Indiana Manufacturing Company. He
died honored and respected in 1899. His
wife, who died in 1886, was Ann J. Long,
daughter of Peter Long, who was a pioneer
settler of Logansport. Moses fiercer and
wife were two of the original thirteen who
rrganizod the first Baptist Church of Peru.
Their names are perpetuated on the first
roll of member.ship, and that church is now
one of the largest and most influential re-
ligious organizations in the Wabash Val-
ley. Moses ]\lercer was also one of the or-
ganizers and a charter member of ]\Iiami
Lodge No. 42, Ancient Free and Accepted
Masons at Peru. In politics he voted as a
whig and was one of the first voters in the
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ranks of the republican party. He and
his wife had five children ; Ado J., May,
William S., Georgia and Emmett.
William Schuyler Mercer was born at
Peru February 3, 1861, and that city has
alwajs been his home with the exception of
one year spent in Chicago. He attended
the public schools, but at the age of four-
teen, in 1875, began work as clerk in the
store of Killgore, Shirk & Company. He
was with that old and substantial firm
twelve years. In 1887 he used his modest
capital and experience to enter the grain
business with J. A. Neal, under the name
fiercer & Neal. This was continued until
the spring of 1898, after which for a year
Mr. Mercer was in the grain business at
Chicago. On i-eturning to Peru he bought
a bakery and restaurant, and since that
time for nearly twenty years he has given
most of his study and his energy to the
task of furnishing pure and wholesome
food supplies. In 1907 he divided his busi-
ness, erecting a modern bakery plant and
organizing the firm of Mei'cer & Company,
with his son-in-law, Hazen P. Sidlivan, as
his partner. The restaurant business was
sold in 1911, but the company soon after-
ward took on a new line of enterprise when
they bought the Sanitary Milk Company.
In February, 1912, they bought an ice
cream factory, rebuilt it and thoroughly
modernized it, and this branch of manu-
facture and distribution of milk products is
now conducted as the Sanitary Milk and
Ice Cream Company.
Mr. Mercer is not only a very popular
business man but a citizen who commands
the esteem and confidence of the people
beyond all partisan lines. This was well
exemplified in the political campaign of
1914. He has always been a steadfast and
sterling republican. In 1914 Miami County
went democratic by 1,500 votes, the republi-
can party being split up into factions so
that the ticket went to defeat. But in spite
of that ^Ir. Mercer was elected to the State
Senate by 208 votes. He was one of the
capable men in the State Senate during the
following session. Aside from this his only
other important public service was as a
member of the Pern School Board about
twenty years ago. While he was on the
board one of the fine ward schools of Peru
was erected. ^Ir. Mercer is a ]\Iason and
he and his wife are members of the Baptist
Church. December 29, 1881, he married
Miss Sarah E. Fisher, of Mexico, Indiana,
daughter of Joseph and Elizabeth
(Brower) Fisher. They have one daugh-
ter, Vernice E., wife of Hazen P. Sullivan.
Albert Janert is one of the oldest mer-
chants in Indianapolis engaged in the
wholesale meat business. For many years
his location has been 1445 Union Street,
where he has built up a large enterprise
chiefly in handling wholesale sausage,
smoked meats and boiled hams.
Mr. Janert was born in the Province of
Posen, Germanj% April 7, 1865, son of
Julius and Matilda (Fitte) Janert. The
parents spent all their lives in Germany.
Julius Janert was a game warden. Albert
attended school in his native province up
to the age of fourteen, after which he
served a three years apprenticeship at the
butcher's trade. As was the custom, he
had to pay for the privilege of learning the
trade. At the end of three years he passed
his examination and secured a license which
would now be equivalent to a union card.
The next two years he spent as a master
workman in some of the larger towns of
Germany, and then came to the United
States, landing at New York and being em-
ployed in that city for a time. After that
he came to Indianapolis to join his two
brothers, William and Herman, who had
preceded him. These brothers are now in
Alaska. Mr. Albert Janert worked in In-
dianapolis for various employers, including
Peter Sindlinger and Fred Boertcher. Fol-
lowing that he spent some time in the south-
west, Oklahoma and Texas, and worked at
his trade a few months in Dallas. Eeturn-
ing to Indianapolis, Mr. Janert thirty
years ago engaged in the butcher business
for himself. His first location was on Meri-
dian Street, and from there he moved to
1445 Union, where he has developed a large
wholesale business, and has taken his .sons
in with him.
Mr. Janert married Marv Wurster,
daughter of Fred Wurster. She is also a
native of Germ^nv. Her four children are :
Emma, wife of William Brink, of Indian-
apolis, Albert, Otto and Herman, all in
business with their father, Otto being book-
keeper for the firm.
Jlr. Albert Janert is well known in fra-
ternal and social afi'airs being affiliated
with the Modern Woodmen of America,
the Knights of Cosmos, the German Butch-
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ers Society, the South Side Turners, of
which he was one of the first members and
a stockholder, and belongs to the Hoosier
Motor Club.
Harry B. Seaward is general manager
and superintendent of C. F. Seaward &
Sons, Incorporated, one of the most pro-
gressive firms in Indiana handling all
makes of automobiles, accessories and sup-
plies, and operating a garage which in
point of accommodataion and service is un-
surpassed in the state. The Seawards are
an old and substantial famil.v of Kokomo
in Howard County, and have been in busi-
ness there for many years.
Harry B. Seaward was bom in that
county March 6, 1882, son of C. F. and
Dora (Hassell) Seaward. His father was
also born in Howard County, and is now
president and head of the firm C. F. Sea-
ward & Sons. For a number of years C. F.
Seaward was engaged in the grain business
at Galveston, Indiana, and selling his in-
terests there, accumulated during a period
of fourteen years, established the present
automobile business at Kokomo. The loca-
tion of C. F. Seaward & Sons is on Buck-
eve Street, on the west side of the Frances
Hotel. :\Ir. C. F. Seaward built in 1912
a building perfect in appointment for the
present business. It occupies a space 66 by
132 feet, is absolutely fireproof, of concrete
and steel construction on a solid stone foun-
dation. The garage furnishes accommoda-
tions for 150 automobiles, and the company
handles all accessories and supplies. They
are Howard County agents for the Chalm-
ers, Hudson and Chevrolet ears. The busi-
ness was incorporated in 1915 with C. F.
Seaward as president.
Harr.v B. Seaward is the oldest of sisi
children, five of whom are still living. He
has been handling many of the responsibili-
ties of the firm for the past six or seven
years. In 1901, at Galveston, Indiana, he
married Miss Minnie Rojetta ^Morris. Mr.
Seaward is a republican, and is affiliated
with Galveston Lodge No. 244, Ancient
Free and Accepted ]Masons.
Judge Frank Ellis. Honors and dis-
tinctions in abundance sufficient to satisfy
the ambitions of any man have come to
Judge Frank Ellis during his long and
active career in Delaware County.
Judge Ellis was born in that county Feb-
ruary 12, 1842, son of John H. and Phoebe
(Kirkpatrick) Ellis. Few families possess
more emphatic evidence of true American-
ism and patriotic loyalty. The Ellises were
in America prior to the Revolution. Judge
Ellis' great-grandfather, Abraham Ellis,
served in the Revolutionary war under
Washington. The grandfather, Henry
Ellis, was a soldier in the War of 1812.
John H. Ellis, father of Judge Ellis, dis-
tinguished himself as an officer in the Civil
war, as will be told in following para-
graphs, while Judge Frank Ellis was also
in the war, so that members of four suc-
cessive generations participated in all the
great wars of this country with the excep-
tion of the present European struggle.
John Harbison Ellis, father of Judge
Ellis, was born in August, 1817, fourth
child of Henry and Charity (Harper)
Ellis. He grew to manhood on his father's
farm in Greene County, Ohio. As a youth
he acquired the trade of carpenter and
joiner. In 1838 he became a resident of
Delaware Count.y, Indiana, in which local-
rty his sister, Nancy Ellis Reed, had pre-
viously located. Here he engaged in busi-
ness as architect and joiner. He was very
expert in the construction of the heavy
wooden work of that time, such as barns
and bridges. In 1841 he married Phoebe
Kirkpatrick, daughter of John and Su-
sanna (Lane) Kirkpatrick. His bride had
lived in Delaware County since 1834. She
was six years his junior, having been born
in 1823. Her grandfather, Robert Lane,
had a record as a Revolutionary soldier,
and afterward settled in Clark County,
Ohio.
In 1856 the health of John H. Ellis
became impaired and he removed to Mun-
cie, county seat of Delaware County.
There he was engaged in the practice of
law until the breaking out of the Civil war
in 1861, when he vigorously took up the
work of enlisting men for the Union army.
His own health not being good, he was re-
jected at .the muster, much to the disap-
pointment of the men whom he had en-
listed and who desired that he should be
one of their officers.
In 1862, however, he enlisted another full
company "for three years or during the
war," and was accepted and mustered in
as its captain. This was known as Com-
pany B of the Eighty-Fourth Regiment, In-
diana Volunteer Infantry, which was mus-
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terecl into service September 3, 1862. The
services of this regiment present an inspir-
ing page in Civil war annals. Capt. John
H. Ellis was with his company in faithtiu
service through all the hardships, priva-
tions and dangers until his death. On the
20th of September, 1863, at the battle of
Chiekamauga, on that memorable Sunday
afternoon, in an impetuous charge against
a superior force the division of which his
company formed a part was repulsed, and
he was left wounded unto death at the
most advanced position reached. But the
sacrifice of his life and that of many of his
comrades was not in vain, since the histo-
rian of the battle has declared that but
for the opportune aid furnished by the
two brigades of which the Eighty-Fourth
Indiana was a part the Federal army could
not have been saved from defeat and rout.
One of the sergeants of Company B in
the Eighty-Fourth Regiment in that bloody
battle of Chiekamauga was Frank Ellis,
who enlisted as a private in the company
under his father in 1862. From the post of
sergeant he was promoted on the death of
his father to captain of Company B, and
served in his stead and place during the
remainder of the war. After Chiekamauga
he was with his company in its campaign in
Eastern Tennessee and early in 1864 joined
Sherman 's army and participated in many
of the best known battles of the great
Atlanta campaign. After the fall of At-
lanta it was with the troops sent in pur-
suit of Hood, and was in that command
through the concluding battles of the cam-
paign, at Franklin and Nashville. Frank
Ellis with the rest of his regiment was
mustered out at Nashville June 14, 1865,
and soon afterward returned home.
While growing to manhood in Delaware
County Judge Ellis acquired his education
in the public schools and under private in-
struction. He was apprenticed to the
printer's trade, and worked for two or
three of the early county newspapers, be-
coming an expert printer. While he was
still in the army as captain of Company
B of the Eighty-fourth Regiment the
people of Delaware County in 1864 elected
him to the office of county treasurer. The
news of his election did not reach him for
some time and his duties as a soldier were
such that he could be excused for paying
no attention to this civic honor. But when
he returned home in the summer of 1865
he found the office still waiting for him,
having been carried on by his predecessor.
He at once transformed himself from a sol-
dier into a county official, and served out
the time until 1866. In that year he was
renominated on the republican ticket and
elected for a succeeding term.
For several years after that Judge Ellis
was a grain and lumber merchant at
Muncie. As a youth he had picked up con-
siderable knowledge of the law, and finally
settled down to a serious study of the pro-
fession and was admitted to the bar. He
has beeji a member of the Muncie bar for
forty years. For twenty years from 1883
he was in partnei"ship with John T. Walter-
house.
Many political honors have come to
Judge Ellis. He was a member of the
Muncie City Council, served four succes-
sive terms as mayor, was for two terms
city attorney, served as United States com-
missioner, and in 1910 was elected judge of
the Forty-Sixth Judicial Circuit. He was
on the bench for one term, and since re-
tiring has resumed the active practice of
law.
Judge Frank Ellis has been loyal to the
principles of the republican party all his
life. He is affiliated with the Masonic
Lodge, Royal Arch Chapter, Knight Tem-
plar Commandery, has been a member of
the Odd Fellows fraternity at Muncie since
1865 and is affiliated with the Grand Army-
Post and the Sons of Veterans. Outside of
his profession he is known as a public spir-
ited citizen of Delaware County, and one
who supports all worthy enterprises for the
good of the community.
D. C. Jenkins, of Kokomo, president of
the D. C. Jenkins Glass Company, is a past
master of the art and industry of glass
making. He has been in the business more
than half a century, since early boyhood,
and there is not a position he has not filled
some time, and not a single detail of ex-
perience which he has overlooked. He has
given to Kokomo one of its chief industries.
Mr. Jenkins was born at Pittsburg. Penn-
sylvania, May 24, 1854, son of David and
Elizabeth (Evans) Jenkins. His parents
were both natives of Wales. In 1894 David
Jenkins and wife removed to Kokomo, and
for nine years he was employed in a factory
here. He was a man of excellent education,
and though never given the privilege of at-
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tending school he mastered two languages,
and was a formidable debater on Bible and
theological subjects. He spent his last
years in California and died in Los
Angeles. Of the eight children five are still
living, D. C. being the oldest.
D. C. Jenkins attended public schools in
Pittsburg a few years, and then went to
work as a boy helper in the glass factory
of the McKee Brothers in that city. It was
fifty-four years ago that he did his first
work in a glass factory, and there has been
no important period in his life when he
has not been a factor in increasing degrees
of responsibility in this business. He rose
from the ranks of industrial workers, was
promoted to a foremanship in the McKee
Brothers plant, and was with that concern
until he removed to Findlay, Ohio, in the
natural gas belt, built a factory, and con-
tinued it until 1893, when the plant was
sold to the United States Glass Company,
the first of the large trusts in this business.
From Findlay Mr. Jenkins went to Gas
City, Indiana, superintended the erection
of a glass plant for the United States Glass
Company, and was connected with it one
year. He built a large plant in Greentown,
and this business was sold to the National
Glass Company, Pittsburg. Mr. Jenkins
was chairman of the executive committee
and general manager for two years of the
National Glass Company.
In 1900 he and his two sons came to
Kokomo and organized the D. C. Jenkins
Glass Company. This company now has
an immense plant covering several acres of
ground, and manufactures a large and va-
ried line of standard special glass ware,
including tableware, lantern globes, con-
tainers of many kinds, fish globes, display
jars, lamp founts, packers goods, etc. The
first year the company's business sales
amounted to $170,000, and at the present
time more than $800,000 worth of their
goods are sold and distributed all over the
TTnited States and Canada. Mr. D. C. Jen-
kins is president of the company, his son
Addison is secretary and treasurer, and his
son Howard is sales manager. The D. C.
Jenkins Glass Company have established a
glass plant at Arcadia, Indiana, which has
been in continuous operation since its or-
ganization.
Mr. .Jenkins was one of the organizers of
River Raisin paper mills in 1910, and was
the first president and continued in that
office for six years. The mills are now the
largest manufacturers of fibre shipping
boxes in the world.
Mr. Jenkins is a loyal republican and has
always been interested in the success of
his party. He served as a member of the
Indiana State Senate from 1910 to 1914.
He is now a member of the State Highway
Commission of Indiana. Mr. Jenkins is a
thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason, a
Shriner, an Elk and Eagle, and for a num-
ber of years was a trustee of Elks Lodge No.
90. He is also a member of the Columbia
Club of Indianapolis and the Howard
County Country Club, of which he is a
director. January 4, 1876, at Pittsburg,
Pennsylvania, he married Miss Anna Jones.
Their two sons are Addison and Howard.
William T. Wilson. Among the men
of first rate ability who have been attracted
to the law and have been faithful to its
best ideals and traditions, one whose name
is easily associated with the leaders in
Northern Indiana is William T. Wilson of
Logansport. ilr. Wilson has been a prac-
ticing lawyer forty years, and in that time
has earned and richly deserved practically
all those honors and successes that are as-
sociated with the profession, though he has
not, as so many lawyers do, invaded the
field of polities.
Mr. Wilson was bom at Logansport in
1854, and is the son of one of its pioneer
merchants and most esteemed citizens,
Thomas H. Wilson. His father was born
Jlay 31, 1818, in the Village of Denton,
Caroline County, Maryland, sixth among
the ten children of John and Sarah (Hop-
kins) Wilson. He was of English descent
on both sides. Thomas H. Wilson at the
age of eleven years, and upon the death
of his father, went to live with his uncle
and guardian, Thomas Hopkins. He
worked in the Hopkins store and mill and
gained his business training there. In 1834,
at the age of sixteen, he became clerk in a
store at Camden, Delaware. One of his
employers was Daniel At well, who came
west and located at Logansport in 1837.
Along with him came Thomas H. Wilson,
who was already a young man of much rec-
ognized force and ability in business af-
fairs. In 1840 he became identified with
the mercantile house of Pollard and Wilson.
In 1843 this firm built a grain warehouse
on the Wabash and Erie Canal, and were
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soon known up and down the Wabash Val-
ley as leading grain merchants. They also
handled large quantities of general mer-
chandise and did a forwarding and commis-
sion business. In 1853 the firm became
Wilson, Merriam & Company. Mr. Wilson
finally retired from the firm, but continued
privately in the produce trade until 1875.
In May, 1865, Thomas H. Wilson was
elected president of the Log.uisport Na-
tional Bank, one of the oldest national
banks in the Wabash Valley. He filled that
office and carefully safeguarded the best in-
terests of the institution until his death De-
cember 27, 1877. Politically he began vot-
ing as a whig, and was identified with the
republican party from its organization. He
was reared in the faith of the Friends, but
was broadly liberal in his support of all
the religious causes. He is as well remem-
bered for his generosity, kindliness and
helpfulness as for the success he gained in
business affairs. In 1842 Thomas H. Wil-
son married America Weirick, who died
three years later. In 1849 Mary A. I. Dex-
ter became his wife. She died in 1854. In
1856 he married Elizabeth E. Hopkins,
who passed away in 1898. Thomas H.
Wilson had four sons, William T., Elwood
G., Thomas H. and John Charles.
William T. Wilson .was a son of his
father's second marriage. As a boy in
Logansport he attended the public schools,
and is a graduate of Princeton University
with the class of 1874. The following year
he read law in the office of Hon. D. D.
Pratt of Logansport, and was admitted to
the bar. Since 1875 his name has been
enrolled on the membership of the Cass
County bar. Mr. Wilson accepted a place
on the Board of Directors of the First Na-
tional Bank of Logansport when his father
died, and has been a director in that insti-
tution forty years. Many other institutions
and organizations in Logansport have had
the benefit of his direct service and influ-
ence. He is a republican when it comes
to easting his vote, and he attends the Pres-
byterian Church.
In 1880 he married Miss Martha L. Mc-
Carty, daughter of Joseph P. McCarty of
Logansport. They had four children,
Thomas H., who was a lawyer, Elizabeth,
■wife of Frank H. Worthington, superin-
tendent of the Vandalia Railroad at Terre
Haute: Joseph, and Dorothy Dexter Wil-
son. Of these children only Mrs. Worth-
ingto'n and Dorothy D. Wilson survive.
Thomas H. Wilson, Jr., died in 1916, and
Joseph W. Wilson lies in one of the graves
in France made by the American Expedi-
tionary Forces led by General Pershing in
1918.
Eugene Blackburn is one of the inter-
esting citizens of Indianapolis, a resident of
thirty years standing, and with a record
of successful achievement in originating,
establishing, building up and developing
an industry which is probably the largest
in its special field in the United States.
The business today has corporate form
and title as the International Metal Polish
Company, owning and operating a large
plant at Quill Street and the Belt Railway.
Mr. Blackburn is president of the company.
He was born at Bloomingdale, Ohio, in
1866, a son of JMoses L. and Flora (Arm-
strong) Blackburn, also natives of the
Buckeye State. For about twenty-five years
Eugene Blackburn was connected with the
railway mail service, and while with that
service established his home and head-
quarters at Indianapolis in 1888. He was
a veteran in this branch of the postal de-
partment, was a faithful and diligent em-
ploye, but the main interest of his career
attaches to what was at first a side line to
his principal work.
In 1903 he began the manufacture of a
metal polish of his own composition. He
liad complete faith in the quality of his
product but had to begin partly from wise
choice and partlv from limited capital on a
modest and experimental scale. In fact he
manufactured his first polishes at his own
home on North Capitol Avenue. For a
time he was manufacturer, salesman, dis-
tributor, and in fact, "whole works." He
Iniilt up the reputation of his products on
quality and merit, made a careful study of
market conditions, and by energy in push-
ing his sales eventually made his business
self sustaining and sufficient to give him
an independent living. All this he accom-
plished by his own effort and witliout the
aid of outside capital. Finally he incor-
porated as the International Metal Polish
Company.
The Blue Ribbon products of this com-
pany are manufactured and sold through-
out the world, and cover a wide range of
uses. The Blue Ribbon products are pol-
ishes and oils put out under a number of
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different brands, each with a special pur-
pose and use, and the output also includes
the Blue Ribbon Auto Specialties. The
descriptive names of a number of the lead-
ing pro'ducts are Blue Ribbon Stainless
Oil, Cleaners and Polishers for bars and
for all the plumbing and sanitary fixtures
of public and private buildings, Stove
Polish. Silver Polish, IMetal Polish, and in-
cluded in the auto specialties are the Cream
Metal Polish, Nickel Polish, Auto Body
Gloss and Furniture Polish, Leak Proof
Cement, Auto Top and Seat Dressing,
Black Gloss Enamel, Oil Soap, Cold Cream
Hand Soap, and a special lubricating oil
for magnetos and other delicate machinery.
While ilr. Blackburn has necessarily ap-
plied all his energies and time to building
up his business, he has also proved an active
and progressive citizen of Indianapolis and
has gladly associated himself with the vari-
ous civic enterprises. He married at
Indianapolis Miss Maud Streight, a relative
of the late General Streight, one of In-
diana's distinguished commanding officers
in the Civil war.
George F. Bovard was born at Alpha,
Indiana, August 8, 1856, a son of James
and Sarah Bovard, both of whom were
born in Ohio. After a thorough literary
and professional training George F. Bo-
vard became a teacher in the public schools,
finally entering the ministry of the Metho-
dist Episcopal Church, and since 1903 has
been president of the University of South-
ern California.
On October 1, 1884, at Los Angeles, Cal-
ifornia, he married Emma Bradley, and
they have three children, "Warren B., Edna
G., and Gladys P.
James E. Ayres. A good business man,
known to the community of Summitville as
secretarj' and treasurer and manager of
the Summitville Lumber Company, James
E. Ayres is also one of those live and pub-
lic spirited citizens who do much to influ-
ence the ways of their home town and
county and is one of the accepted leaders
of the moral forces of his home county.
Mr. Ayres represents several generations
of his family in Indiana. He is of Scotch-
Irish descent, the famil.v first locating in
Pennsylvania and moving from there to
Central Ohio. His grandfather, James
Ayres, was a cobbler. In early manhood
he came to Hartford City, Indiana, where
he spent the rest of his life. C. C. Ayres,
father of James E., was born at Hartford
City, and was a resident of that town
thirty years. He finally moved to Redkey,
and was a lumber merchant there. He
married Anna B. Pollock.
James E. Ayres was born at Hartford
City December 19, 1883. He acquired his
early education in the public schools of
Redkey and for one term was a student
in the Indianapolis Business College. At
the age of nineteen he went to work for
his father, C. C. Ayres, keeping books for
the lumber company both at Redkey and
Dunkirk. He looked after the accounts
of the two plants for three years.
In 1905 Mr. Ayres married Miss Minnie
C. Bradley, daughter of John and :Martha
(Asling) Bradley. In 1908 ilr. Ayres
bought a small lumber yard at Portland,
Indiana, and for three months continued
under the name James E. Ayres & Com-
pany. After closing up its affairs he moved '
the stock to Redkey, and on November 20,
1908, came to Summitville as manager and
treasurer of the Summitville Lumber Com-
pany. In 1910 he and his father bought
the entire stock, and the business has since
grown and flourished under the old name
of Summitville Lumber Companj'. They
handle an immense stock of building mate-
rial, lumber, paints, oils, cement, pipe,
sewer and also coal. The radius of their
trade connections extends for seven or eight
miles around Summitville. Their plants
and yards have a space 132 by 180 feet
under roof.
Mr. and :\Irs. Ayres lost both their own
children, and have adopted two others into
their home. ilr. Ayres is an ardent prohi-
bitionist. In 1916 he was a candidate on
that ticket for the State Senate to repre-
sent Tipton and Madison counties, and
went far ahead of his party associates,
though he was defeated for election. He is
a trustee of the First ilethodist Episcopal
Church at Summitville, and has been
chosen local exhorter of the congregation.
Jared Gardner, a prosperous farm
owner and resident of Westville, represents
a family that has been identified with La-
Porte County for eighty years. His wife is
a member of the noted Clyburn family,
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one of the oldest and best known names in
the history of the region around Lake
Michigan.
Jared Gardner was born on a farm in
Clinton Township, LaPorte County. His
grandfather, Charles Gardner, was a na-
tive of Massachusetts and moved from there
to Watertown, New York, and late in life
to LaPorte County, Indiana, settling in
Clinton Township, where he spent the rest
of his daj's. Edmund S. Gardner, father
of Jared, was born in Hampden County,
Massachusetts, and from Watertown, New
York, came west in 1838 and settled in
LaPorte County as one of the pioneer
builders and homemakers of Clinton Town-
ship. He bought land, improved a good
farm, and erected a substantial house
which is still standing. In the scenes of
his early labors he spent his last days and
died at the age of sixty-three. He married
Polly Haskell, member of another pioneer
family of Clinton Township. She was of
Scotch-Irish ancestry and daughter of
James Haskell, originally from Bradford,
Pennsylvania. James Haskell spent hi*-
last years in LaPorte County. Mrs. Ed-
mund S. Gardner died in 1863, leaving
three children, named Alice, Jared and
Frank.
Jared Gardner attended the rural
schools of Clinton Township, also the West-
ville High School, and finished with a
course in Bryant and Stratton's Commer-
cial College in Chicago. For five years he
was a merchant, but then gave his entire
attention to farming. Since his marriage
he has lived in the Village of Westville
and occupies the old Clyburn homestead.
His farms are now handled by renters.
At the age of twenty-one Mr. Gardner
married Martha Ann Clyburn, daughter
of Henley Clyburn, a famous pioneer of
LaPorte County whose history is written
on other pages. Mr. and Mrs. Gardner
have two living children Winifred, Pearl
and Rolla Clyburn. Pearl is the widow of
Dr. Robert Ansley and has two children,
named Kenneth and Genevieve. Rolla mar-
ried Winifred Herrold, and his five chil-
dren are Virginia, Ruth, Robert, Maurice
J. and Martha Alice. Mr. and Mrs. Gard-
ner have two children deceased, Marjorie,
who died in infane.y, and Mrs. Virginia
Gardner Morehouse, who left one son,
Lawrence Gardner Morehouse, a soldier in
the British Service.
Mr. Gardner is a charter member of
Westville Lodge No. 192, Ancient Free and
Accepted Masons, and is also a charter
member of Westville Lodge, No. 309
Knights of Pythias. He is a member of
the Knights of the Maccabees at West-
ville and he and his wife are members of
the Eastern Star. In politics he is an
ardent republican.
Henley Clyburn. All authorities agree
in giving Henley Clyburn distinction as
the first permanent settler of LaPorte
County. But that was only one of many
distinctions. He was a cool-headed, en-
terprising and courageous pioneer, fit for
leadership in a new country, and was a rec-
ognized power of strength in an age which
begot strong men.
He was born in Richmond, Virginia,
August 5, 1804. In different generations
the name was variously spelled Claiborne,
Clybourne and Clyburn. Henley Clyburn
was a son of Jonas and Elizabeth (McKen-
zie) Clyburn. His father served as a pa-
triot soldier in the war for independence,
and was a Virginia planter. A brother of
Henley Clyburn was Archibald Clyburn,
whose name is intimately associated with
early history in Chicago.
The mother of Henley Clyburn has an
especially romantic history. Her maiden
name was Elizabeth McKenzie. She and
her sister Margaret when small girls were
made captive during an Indian raid, and
were carried off to the wilds of Ohio and
lived with Indian tribes for twelve years.
Margaret McKenzie married John Kinzie,
a famous character in the early historj- of
Chicago and reputed to be the founder of
that city. It was probably due to the in-
fluence of John Kinzie of Chicago that the
Clyburn boys also came west, accompanied
by their parents in 1823-24. Henley was
then about nineteen years of age.
In Illinois John Kinzie became an Indian
trader. Henley Clyburn during his early
business career made the acquaintance of
Sarah Benedict. Her father, Stephen
Benedict, brought his family west in 1827,
and after a time bought a claim at Ottawa,
Illinois, where he was one of the founders
of that community. At Ottawa on May 4,
1828, Henley Clyburn and Sarah Benedict
were married. Stephen Benedict died in
the same year and his widow and his chil-
dren then looked to Henley Clyburn as
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their protector. Though not a large man
phj-sically, Henley Clyburn possessed in
an eminent degree courage, strength, perse-
verance and all those qualities which are
necessary to success in pioneer life. The
family decided to leave Ottawa, and accom-
plished with great difficulty their removal
to LaPorte County, Indiana, during the
winter season. On March 13, 1829, the lit-
tle party went into camp near the present
town of Westville in. New Durham Town-
.ship. Henley Clyburn and the Benedict
boys soon erected a cabin at the edge of a
grove about half a mile northeast of the
present town of Westville.
On July"l6, 1829, was born the oldest
child to Mr. and ilrs. Henley Clyburn,
Elizabeth Miriam, the first white child born
in LaPorte Count.y. She married Joseph
Wamock and died in Westville. The other
children of Henley Clyburn and his first
wife were: Araminta M., who married
Theodore Armitage, and is now the oldest
living native citizen of LaPorte County;
William R. ; Joseph H. ; Mary J., who died
in childhood; and Sarah E. The mother
of this family died December 31, 1844.
Henley Clyburn married for his second
wife Mrs. Eliza (Concannon) Sherry. To
that union were born five children, and
the two now surviving are Martha Ann,
wife of Jared Gardner, and they occupy
the old Henley Clyburn home at Westville,
and Mrs. Virginia Wight.
As a resident of LaPorte County Henley
Clyburn confined his business affairs to
farming and was never inclined to partic-
ipate in politics, though he served two or
three times as a county commissioner. He
acquired a large amount of land and was
prosperous in all his business undertakings
and was extremely liberal in helping oth-
ers less fortunate in bestowing the gifts of
his aiHuence and generosity throughout a
large community. It has been said that
his influence was ever on the side of jus-
tice, truth and right, and his kindly and
benevolent spirit made his example one
well worthy to be long remembered, hon-
ored and revered. He died at his home in
LaPorte County December 9, 1867, in his
sixty-third year.
. Henry Adam Holmes. As a business
man and citizen the career of the late
Henry Adam Holmes is identified both with
Madison and Indianapolis, Indiana. He
was a splendid type of the foreign born
American, and many of the older residents
still recall his good name and good deeds.
He was born of an English father in
County Cork, Ireland, May 22, 1825. When
twenty-five years old he left his native
country on board a sailing vessel for the
United States. The boat became disabled
and an incipient mutiny of the sailors was
only quelled by the prompt and efficient
action of the officers. The boat finally
landed all hands safely at New Orleans.
It was nearly a tragic and exceedingly dis-
tressing experience to Mr. Holmes. While
still on the ocean he resolved that should
he ever safely reach land he would never
again jeopardize his life on shipboard. He
kept that vow. Coming up the Mississippi
and Ohio rivers to Madison, Indiana, he
went to work there as a common laborer.
He was not particiilar about the work so
it would earn him an honest dollar, but
gradually he laid the foundation of an in-
dependent career. He served an appren-
ticeship at the plaster's trade. This work
did not give him enough means to satisfy
his desires, and he worked at night helping
unload boats at the river docks. He also
attended night school as a means of acquir-
ing a better education.
Following the completion of his appren-
ticeship he moved to Indianapolis before
the outbreak of the Civil war and estab-
lished himself at his trade and as a con-
tractor. One of the principles to which he
adhered and which had much to do with
his success in life should be recalled as a
source of inspiration. He made it a rule
always to do a little bit better work than
was called for by the strict terms of any
contract which he accepted, and while
many men have declared they found it un-
profitable to observe such a rule, it proved
otherwise with Mr. Holmes. He handled
a large volume of business every year, and
some of his work is still in evidence in In-
dianapolis as a monument to his ability.
Thus in every way he was a credit to the
land of his adoption. He was a man of
great energy, and his Irish blood furnished
him the keen interest he always took in
politics, which continued even to the day
of his death. His oldest son, William, was
accidentally drowned in the White River,
and as his ambition was largely centered
in this first bom his zest of life thereafter
was materially lessened. He was a convert
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to the Catholic religion, and to that church
and faith gave his most active adherence.
While at Madison ilr. Holmes married
Johanna Frances Fitzgibbon. He died in
1884, and his wife in 1911. Of their nine
children two sons and three daughters are
still living, the sons being David and Wil-
liam H., both residents of Indianapolis.
The daughters are : Mary, wife of Adolph
St. Lorenz and the mother of one child,
Hortenz; Louise, wife of Dr. Thomas Cot-
ter, of Indiana Harbor, Indiana, and the
mother of three children; and Nellie, wife
of Samuel R. Hoffman.
William H. Holmes, president of the En-
terprise Iron Works, was born at Indian-
apolis April 11, 1872. He had a public
school education and learned the trade of
iron moulder with the Chandler-Taylor
Company. In 1913, associated with others,
he organized the Enterprise Iron Works, of
which he has since been president. This is
one of the leading concerns in the Indian-
apolis industrial district.
December 31, 1901, Mr. Holmes married
Miss Johanna Frey, who died March 16,
1918, leaving three children : Johanna
Frey, Elizabeth Ellen and ilary. Mr.
Holmes is a member of the Independent
Athletic Club, the Transportation Club, the
Foundrymen 's Association, of which he was
one of the incorporators, and fraternally
is a Mason.
Frederick Fahnley. Friends and busi-
ness associates have long spoken of Fred-
erick Fahnley as a man of high sterling in-
tegrity and upright business and social
life. In his record of more than fifty
years ' participation in local affairs it is not
difficult to find ample proof and repeated
corroboration for this character and all the
kindly estimates that have been spoken by
his business and social acquaintances.
His is the kind of stoiy that Americans
never tire of reading, and is a constant,
source of inspiration and strength. Born
in Wuertemberg, Germany, November 1,
1839, educated in the common schools of
his native town, he was only fifteen when
in 1854 he crossed the ocean to the land of
opportunity. He grew into American cit-
izenship, not merely adapted it, and his loy-
alty to this country and its ideals has been
one of the prominent facts in his life and
has been tested by every reasonable proof
that might be required of a thorough
American patriot.
With the vigor of his blood and race
young Fahnley found his first employment
in a general merchandise store at Medway
in Clark County, Ohio. Two j^ears later
he went to Dayton, and for three years
worked in a wholesale millinery and drj^
goods house. It was there he laid the
foundation of his permanent business ca-
reer. In 1860, returning to Medway, he
opened a general country store and stocked
it with all the commodities usually found
in an emporium of that class. It was a
Inisiness that satisfied his early ideas as to
profit, but was not sufficient to keep him
always in the role of a countrv merchant.
While at Medway, and at the &ge of
twenty-two, he served as postmaster, re-
ceiving his appointment from President
Lincoln.
In 1865 Mr. Fahnley came to Indianap-
olis,- and associated with Daniel Stiles and
RolHn McCrea established the wholesale
millinery firm of Stiles, Fahnley & MeCrea.
Since that date Mr. Fahnley has been one
of the leading wholesale merchants of the
city, and as he looks back over the inter-
vening half century he takes pride and
pleasure not only in the acliievements of
his own house but in the development of
Indianapolis as a general wholesale center
supplying the necessities of the retail trade
throughout the Middle West. At the end
of four years, Mr. Stiles retired from the
firm, and the business after that was con-
tinued by his two associates under the name
Fahnlev & McCrea. In 1875. to meet the
demands of a steadily arrowing business,
the firm bought ground just opposite from
their first store on South ^Meridian Street
and erected what at that time was the fin-
est structure in the wholesale district. In
1898 the business was incorporated, when
several old and valued employes were ad-
mitted to share in the stock, under the title
Fahnlev & McCrea Millinery Company.
In February, 1905, as a result of the most
destructive fire that ever visited the whole-
sale district of Indianapolis, the company
lost its buildins: and stock, but in the course
of the s-'me vear erected a substantial aiid
thoroueblv modern five-story brick build-
ing, which has since served as the home of
this old and honored Indianapolis hoiise.
Mr. Fahnley is still looked upon as one
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of Indianapolis' active business men. Be-
sides the heavy responsibilities he has borne
in building up the millinery business he
has served as a director of the Merchants
National Bank and the Indiana Trust Com-
pany, and has been vice president of both
of them. He is also actively identified
with the Board of Trade and the Commer-
cial Club, was one of the organizers of the
Columbia Club, and has been identified
with the German House and Indianapolis
I\Iaennerehor Society. In polities he has
been a straightforward republican, never
desiring or seeking any honor of any kind.
]\Ir. Fahnley married ]\Iiss Lena Soehner,
who was born in Baden, Germany, and
came to America with her parents at the
age of seven years. She grew up and re-
ceived her education at Dayton, Ohio. Mrs.
Fahnley died October 7, 1899, at the age
of fifty-eight. Her two daughters are:
Bertha, who married Gavin Payne, of In-
dianapolis, and Ada, wife of William
Shafer.
Hon. Albert J. Veneman, a former
speaker of the House of Representatives in
Indiana, has been a prominent lawyer and
public official at Evansville for twenty
years. His grandfather was also an early
member of the Evansville bar.
Theodore Veneman, his grandfather,
was a native of Germany, and he and his
brother Joseph founded the family in
America. He came to this countr.v after
his marriage, and was admitted to the bar
soon after locating at Evansville. He never
had a general practice, but gave most of
his time to banking, acting as agent for
steamship lines, and as legal adviser to his
fellow countrymen. He knew German as
well as English law, and was often called
upon to assist in settling estates in Ger-
many. He was elected county treasurer of
Vanderburg County in 1856 and 18.58, and
died at Evansville in 1872. His wife was
Catherine Rathers. Their children were
Theodore W., Louise, Josephine, Caroline,
and August.
August Veneman was born while his par-
ents were visiting in Germany, but spent
most of his life in Evansville, where he be-
came a merchant. He died in 1880. He
married Julia Reitz, who died in 1879.
She was born in Evansville, daughter of
Clement and Gertrude Reitz. Albert J.
Veneman has two brothers, Edward and
Oscar W.
Albert J. Veneman was born in Evans-
ville, where he was educated in the paro-
chial schools, took his law coui-se at the
State University, and was admitted to the
bar in 1898. He served as city attorney
from 1906 to 1910, when he was elected a
member of the legislature, and during the
following session was chosen to direct the
deliberations of the House as speaker.
From 1912 to 1919 Mr. Veneman held the
office of county attorney.
In 1901 he married Anna H. Kelly, and
they have a daughter, Mary Gertrude.
Mr. Veneman is a district deputy of the
Knights of Columbus, and is a member of
the board of trustees of Willard Library,
and president of Vanderburgh Anti-Tuber-
culosis Society. During the sale of gov-
ernment bonds he was one of the four min-
ute speakers and was chairman of the local
board. Division Three, City of P^vansville.
Mr. Veneman is a member of Vanderburgh
County Bar Association.
Col. Guy A. Boyle is commercial en-
gineer of the Bell Telephone Company at
Indianapolis, but is most widely known to
Indianans through his service as an offi-
cer in the Spanish-American and Philip-
pine wars and his long and active associa-
tion with the State National Guard and
other military organizations. He is one of
the distinguished veterans of Indiana mili-
tar.y affairs.
Colonel Boyle was born in Hamilton
County, Indiana, in 1874, and his parents,
W. H. and Nancy J. (Richards) Boyle,
were also natives of this state. When he
was a small boy his parents removed to
Indianapolis, where he was reared, attend-
ing the grammar and high schools, and
spending one year in Butler College. For
four years Colonel Boyle was a clerk in
tlie car service department of the Big Four
Railwa.v and later was in the insurance
brokerage business at Indianapolis.
He was only fifteen years of age when
he ioined the National Guard of Indian-
apolis. He was active in that organization
over twenty years. When the Spanish-
American war broke out in 1898 he volun-
teered and was made battalion adjutant of
the Second Indiana Infantry. He was
mustered out in November, 1898, and in the
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spring: of 1899 made application for a
commission in the United States volunteer
army for service in the Philippines. He
was commissioned a lieutenant and in July,
1899, went to the Philippines with the
Thirtieth United States Volunteer In-
fantry. There were few men in any branch
of the service who saw longer and more
active work in the Philippines than Colonel
Boyle. He was on duty two yeai-s and six
months, covering the period of the insur-
rection, and earned a distinguished record
for gallant and meritorious service. By a
gunshot wound through the knee he was
badly wounded while leading a reeonnoit-
ering expedition, and was invalided home
for several months.
After this long and eventful experience
abroad Colonel Boyle returned to Indian-
apolis and became personal aide to General
McKee, adjutant general of Indiana. Later
he was promoted to inspector general of the
National Guard with the rank of lieutenant
colonel, a staff position assigned to general
headquarters. He finally retired from the
National Guard in 1910, but has always
kept up an active interest in the army and
military affairs, and his experience and en-
thusiasm have enabled him to perform
many important services for his country
during the present war.
Colonel Boyle was one of the first to
join and take an active interest in the or-
ganization of the veterans of the Spanish-
American war. In a meeting at Chicago
he was one of the founders of the present
national organization of the United Span-
ish War Veterans, formed from a consoli-
dation of two older separate bodies. At
that meeting he was made adjutant general
of the national organization. His Indiana
comrades also honored him with the post of
commander of the Department of Indiana,
and he filled that office from November,
1902, to November, 1903.
Since 1907 Colonel Boyle has been .iden-
tified with the Central Union Telephone
Company, the Bell System, of Indianapolis,
and has many responsibilities as its com-
mercial engineer. Colonel Boyle is a re-
publican. He married Miss Anna Dern-
dinger, of Indianapolis, now deceased. He
has one daughter, Miss Marie Alice Boyle.
Joseph Valentine Breitwieser was
born at Jasper in Dubois County, Indiana,
March 31, 1884, and since leaving college
has been engaged in educational work.
During the past nine years, since 1910, he
has been professor of psychology and edu-
cation in Colorado College, Colorado
Springs, Colorado. He is also the author
of many standard works, and is promi-
nently affiliated with many of the noted
educational societies of the country. He
is a lecturer on educational topics and re-
searcher in experimental psychology.
Mr. Breitwieser married Ruth Fowler,
and their children are Charles John, Kath-
erine Rebecca, and Janice Breitwieser.
John Nelson Gordon. One of Sum-
mitville's most enterprising business men
for a long period of years has been John
Nelson Gordon. Mr. Gordon is best known
all over that section of Eastern Indiana
as a grain merchant. His business, con-
ducted under his individual name, is han-
dling and shipping grain, feed, seed, and
flour. He has been one of the best posted
authorities on the range of prices of these
various products during the past quarter
of a century, and in that time he has paid
some remarkably low prices and again has
afforded his customers the benefit of the
top notch of the market. His policy of
square dealing has won him many stanch
friends among the producers, and the idea
of service he has carried into all his opera-
tions, a fact that accounts for his success
and high standing.
Mr. Gordon was born at Metamora in
Franklin County, Indiana, April 10, 1851,
son of Orville and Drusilla (Blacklidge)
Gordon. The Gordons are of Scotch stock,
originallj' members of one of the famous
clans of Scotland. His grandfather, Wil-
liam Gordon, came from Big Bone Springs
in Kentucky and was a pioneer settler in
Franklin County, Indiana. Orville Gf)r-
don was born in 1805, and died in 1870,
and followed a career as a farmer. J. N.
Gordon had two brothers and three sisters
and also two half-sisters.
He gained his early education in the
common schools of Metamora. A little
after he was ten years old he began helping
on the farm. His father was an extensive
land owner, having about 900 acres, and
the son had ample experience in every
phase of agriculture. In the meantime he
continued his education in the schools dur-
ing the winter terms. From the age of
seventeen he gave all his time to work as a
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farmer, but in 1872 went to town and se-
cured employment at New Salem, Indiana.
Later he conducted a store, but that was
not a profitable venture. For two years
he farmed eighty acres of land in Frank-
lin County, and in 1879 removed to El-
wood, where for a brief period he was in
the furniture and undertaking business.
Later in the same year he established him-
self in a similar line at Summitville, but
after several years traded his store for
eighty acres of land in Van Buren Town-
ship of Madison County, which he sold.
He was in the grocery, dry goods and hard-
ware business, and in 1888 joined George
Green and Frank Fulton in the firm of
Green & Company, operating a grain ele-
vator and doing a general grain business.
That was thirty years ago. ^Ir. Gordon
has been the chief dealer in grain at Sum-
mitville ever since, and after some years
he bought out the interests of his partner
and now continues business under his in-
dividual name.
In 1874 he married Miss Mary E. Free-
man. Three children were born to their
marriage: Orville Earl, deceased; Anna
Pearl ; and William Chase, deceased. Mr.
Gordon is a republican in politics. He has
been a member of the school board and in
1882 was appointed postmaster, serving
four j'ears, and in 1889 was again ap-
pointed to the same office and filled out an-
other four year term. He is identified
with the Summitville Lodge of Independ-
ent Order of Odd Fellows and Knights of
Pythias, and is active in the Christian
Church.
C. V. Haworth, superintendent of the
Kokomo public schools, has been a teacher
and school administrator for over twenty
years, and through his work in Howard
County and also as an author he is one of
the most widely known and most influen-
tial educators of the state.
Mr. Haworth was born in Howard
County :March 23, 187.5, son of Clarkson
and Sophrona (Rees) Haworth. The Ha-
worth family settled in Howard County
seventy years ago. His grandfather, James
Haworth, a native of Tennessee and of Eng-
lish ancestry, moved from Tennessee to
Highland County, Ohio, in 1811. He was
both a farmer and lawyer. In 1847 he
brought his family from Ohio to Howard
County, but soon went further west to
Iowa. After a brief residence in that
state he returned to Howard County and
located at New London, where he lived un-
til his death in 1853. He acquired a large
amount of land, 700 or 800 acres, in that
county. Though his education was self ac-
quired he was very well read and informed
in the law and other subjects, and did a
great deal of service to his neighbors and
friends in drawing up legal papers and in
furnishing advice. He began voting as a
whig and was faithful to the principles of
that party until his death.
Of his thirteen children Clarkson Ha-
worth was the youngest and was only nine
years old when his father died. He ac-
quired his education in the graded and
high schools of New London, and after his
marriage took up farming. He died in
1890. He and his wife had eight children,
fourth among them being C. V. Haworth.
C. V. Haworth spent his youth on his
father's farm, and attended the graded
and high schools of New London, graduat-
ing from high school with the class of 1895.
He has supplemented his common school
advantages by much per.sonal study and
by the full course of higher institutions.
He attended the Indiana State Normal and
also the Indiana State Universit.y, and
graduated from the latter with the degree
A. B. He also took post-graduate work in
the literary and law departments.
ilr. Haworth began teaching in the
grade schools of New London. Later he
wa.s principal of the Fourth Ward School
at Kokomo, and in 1902 was instructor of
histoi-y in the Danville Normal School six
months, and was teacher of history in the
Anderson High School during 1909-10.
From 1910 to 1914 he was principal of the
Kokomo High School, and since 1914 has
been superintendent of the public schools
of that city.
]\Ir. Haworth has a cultured and highly
educated wife. He married Miss Belle
Cooper, of Jasper, Indiana. She was edu-
cated in the public schools of Jasper, at
Oakland City, Indiana, and the Indiana
State University. She taught four years
before her marriage. Mrs. Haworth has
interested herself in many charitable, so-
cial and war activities at Kokomo.
Mr. Haworth has participated in many
of the educational organizations. He has
devoted much of his time to literary sub-
jects, and besides many articles that have
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appeared in educational and other journals
from his pen he is author of a text book
recently published by the Century Com-
pany of New York under the title "Gov-
ernment in Indiana," which is a supple-
mentary treatise designed for Indiana
schools to general and advanced works on
civics and civil government. It is a greatly
needed book not only in the schools but for
general circulation and reading, since it is
filled with information on the machinery
of local and state government.
Mr. Haworth has also undertaken a fore-
handed and valuable public service in using
his influence to secure a complete record of
Howard County soldiers in the present war.
This is a task which to be done well must
be done promptly, while the information
is obtainable, and in undertaking this Mr.
Haworth is performing a service which in
too many communities was neglected in the
ease of our soldiers of the Civil war.
Mr. Haworth has also made a close study
of school architecture, and in 1914 he
assisted in drawing plans for the magnifi-
cent high school building at Kokomo, which
is regarded in many particulars as the fin-
est structure of its kind in the state. Its
auditorium, with a seating capacity for
1,200, is undoubtedly the largest found in
any school building in Indiana.
Michael Hess. The largest paper box
manufacturing plant in Indiana, and one
of the largest in the country, is that of the
International Printing Company at Indian-
apolis. Its plant at 230-238 West Mc-
Carthy Street represents the last word in
mechanical equipment and personal organ-
ization and efficiency, and in the growth
and development of the business to its
present stage a number of men have con-
tributed their capital, experience and tech-
nical ability.
Chief of these on the technical side at
least is Michael Hess, vice president of the
company. Mr. Hess has been making
paper boxes since he was a boy. His ex-
perience has not been altogether on the
commercial side of the industry. He has
handled all the machinery used in paper
box making from the first crude devices of
that kind, and possessing mechanical abil-
ity and being somewhat original liimself
he has figured as an inventor of a number
of devices applied to paper making ma-
chinery.
Mr. Hess was born at Dayton, Ohio, in
1862, and grew up in a city which has at-
tained no little fame because of its men of
special industrial genius. His parents,
Daniel and Elizabeth (Roth) Hess, were
both natives of Germany. Michael Hess
received his education in the Dayton pub-
lic schools, and was little more than a
school boy when he learned the trade of
paper box making. There has been no im-
portant deviation from this early expe-
rience throughout his mature life. He
lived at Dayton until the age of forty, and
then identified himself with the Indiana
City of Newcastle, where in 1902 he estab-
lished a paper box factory, founding and
organizing the Nev\'castle Paper Box Com-
pany. Its growth was such that it was
deemed advisable to remove the plant to
Indianapolis in 1906, and from this city
its scope has constantly expanded until it
is an industry that supplies special needs
all over the central west. In 1912 the In-
ternational Printing Compan.y was formed,
with Mr. Hess as vice president. The large
plant on West McCarthy Street is now
equipped with modern machinery for the
making and printing of paper boxes of all
kinds, and their output is distributed
among the large consumers all over the
central west.
At a time when there is a special prem-
ium upon economy of all resources Mr.
Hess came forward with the announcement
of a new invention, which he perfected in
February, 1918, and already is in use by
large customers of paper boxes from the
Mississippi to the Atlantic coast. What
this invention is may be best described in
the words of an Indianapolis paper which
contained a half column of description
some weeks ago :
' ' The machine, which can be operated by
a girl, is of simple design and construction.
Ad.iustable forms designed to fit any size
of paper box give the operator a broad
scope. The flat folding blanks, which are
scored and prin^ted, are adjusted on the
form and with a few deft motions of the
operator are conformed into paper boxes
of even greater strength than the paper
box of rigid construction. The new ma-
chine serves a purpose that long has per-
plexed both the makei's and consumers of
boxes. By its use the consumer can lay
in ample stocks of the flat paper blanks
and make the boxes himself just as it suits
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his needs, thus eliminating the use of large
amount of valuable space formerly occu-
pied by formed paper boxes kept in stock.
"The International Printing Company is
not placing the new box folding machine
on the market. It is not for sale. Instead
the company is distributing these machines
to patrons for their own convenience, free
of charge, for use by them so long as the
machine meets their demands. The ma-
chine has a daily capacit.y of 1,000 paper
boxes. It is operated by hand and the
speed of production depends to a certain
extent upon the efficiency of the operator.
As many as 1,200 boxes have been com-
pleted on these machines, but the dail.y
average is about 700."
One of the many problems involved in
that pertaining to the economical and effi-
cient distribution of manufactured goods
is the making and use of suitable contain-
ers. The paper box has hundreds of uses
and yet its possibilities have been by no
means exhausted, and it is obvious that the
paper box folding machine invented by
iMr. Hess and distributed through the In-
ternational Printing Company of Indian-
apolis will go far toward increasing the
utility of many kinds and types of paper
containers.
Mr. Hess is well knOwn to the citizenship
of Indianapolis. He married Miss Mar-
garet Geneva Schutte, of Dayton. Their
two children are Joseph J. and Christina
A. Hess.
J.\ME.s WiLLi.\M Hunter. Doing an ex-
tensive business in china and electrical sup-
plies, James W. Hunter, proprietor of the
Hunter Department Store located on the
Public Square, Anderson, is one of the
city's representative and respected citizens
and experienced merchants. The story of
Mr. Hunter's business life is mainly con-
cerned with merchandising, with which he
has been continuously identified since early
manhood. He has been the pioneer in some
lines at Anderson, and has definitely proved
that from small beginnings important busi-
ness enterprises may lie developed through
prudence and good management.
James W. Hunter was born in 1847, at
Bradford in Mercer County, Ohio, and his
parents were Alexander and Sophia Hun-
ter. His father, like generations of Hunt-
ers before him, was a farmer all his life,
first in Mercer Countv and later in Shelby
Count.y, Illinois, to which section he moved
with his family in 1851. His family, as
was very general in those da.ys, was large
and as James W. Hunter's services were
not needed at home, from his twelfth to his
nineteenth year he worked on a neighbor-
ing farm, attending school at Shelbyville
during the winter months. He found him-
self not satisfied, however, with the pros-
pect of being a farmer all his life, and
therefore determined to prepare himself
for school-teaching, and with this end in
view he spent three years in the Illinois
State Normal School at Normal and re-
ceived his certificate to teach. By that
time Mr. Hunter had discovered that a bus-
iness career appealed more strongly to him
than an educational one, and he piit aside
his teacher's credentials and went to
Bloomington to find a business opening.
During the succeeding six years Mr.
Hunter remained in the employ of Stephen
Smith of Bloomington, the leading dry
goods merchant there at the time and took
advantage of -his excellent opportunities
and learned the business. Thus naturally
he became more valuable to employers and
soon had ofl:'ei's from different firms, subse-
quently going out on the road as salesman
for Joseph Weil & Company, wholesale dry
goods merchants. After some experience
he went to Indianapolis and accepted a po-
sition as traveling salesman with D. P.
Ewing & Company of that city, and re-
mained fourteen years, his territory during
that time being the states of Indiana and
Illinois. Still later ;\Ir. Hunter was with
John Wanamaker & Company of Philadel-
phia for four years.
In the meanwhile, having accumulated
some capital, Mr. Hiuiter decided to in-
vest it in a mercantile enterprise and
bought what was called "The Ninety-Nine
Cent Store" at Bloomington, and hired a
merchant to operate it for him while he was
still in the traveling field. Two years
later he sold and came to Anderson, and
on April 1, 1900, he opened the first
"Penny Store" that was ever tried here,
his location being on Meridian Street
where Decker Brothers are in business to-
day, and continued there for a year and a
half. That was the real beginning of Mr.
Hunter's mercantile success in this city,
and the venture was creditable to him in
every way. In 1902 he came to his present
location on the Public Square, where he
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does a very large business and gives em-
ployment to seventeen people. His is the
main electrical supply house in Madison
County.
Mr. Hunter was married in 1872 to Miss
Mary Gross, who was born in Pennsyl-
vania. Her parents, Joseph and Sarah
Gross, still reside in that state. Mr. and
Mrs. Hunter have no children. They are
members of the First Presbyterian Church
at Anderson, and formerly Mr. Hunter
was a trustee of the same and is a liberal
supporter of the church's many benevolent
movements. In politics he is affiliated with
the republican party.
M. W. CoATE has been active in business
and public affairs in Northern Indiana for
half a century, and is still carrying a big
burden of business responsibilities as a
member and official of the Kokomo Hard-
ware Company.
Mr. Coate was born in Greene County,
Ohio, June 26, 1845, son of Lindley M. and
Martha (Painter) Coate. His father was
a native of Miami County, Ohio, and in
1854 came from Greene County to Wa-
bash, Indiana. He settled in that county
when much of the land was still uncleared,
buying a farm seven miles southwest of the
county seat. It was covered with heavy
timber and his labor converted it into pro-
ductive and well tilled fields. He was one
of the highly respected citizens of that
community. He was a lifelong member
and supporter of the Wesleyan Methodist
Church, a thorough Christian, a great Bible
student, and was well educated in both
secular and theological subjects. As a vo-
ter he was first a whig and later a repub-
lican. He died on his homestead in "Wa-
bash County July 24, 1878, at the age of
fifty-six. Of his nine children six are still
living, and M. W. Coate is the oldest.
His early education was acquired in the
common schools of Wabash County. He
also attended high school, and taught one
term. December 31, 1867, he married Miss
Viola C. Ellis, a daughter of Dr. C. S. Ellis
of Somerset, Indiana. Mr. and Mrs. Coate
had four children, the two now living be-
ing Madge and Agnes, both of whom are
married and have families. Mrs. Coate
was educated in the high school at Som-
erset.
After his marriage Mr. Coate served as
deputy treasurer of Wabash County, was
subsequently elected as chief of that office ,.
and served capably two terms. He came
to Kokomo in 1887, more than thirty years
ago. Here he was engaged in the hard-
ware business with ]Mr. Bruner under the
name Bruner & Coate for six years. On
selling out his interests he moved to Ma-
rion, Indiana, in 1893, and for five years
was treasurer of the Indiana Pulp and
Paper Company. After his return to Ko-
komo Mr. Coate was traveling representa-
tive for the Globe Stove and Range Com-
pany for four years. He then became
associated with J. I. Shade in the Kokomo
Hardware Company. This company was
incorporated in 1904, Mr. Coate being sec-
retary and treasurer. The other active
members are J. I. Shade and U. J. Shoe-
maker. This is one of the leading hard-
ware firms in Howard County, and hand-
les all the varied stock of goods found in
well equipped stores of that character.
Mr. Coate is a thirty-second degree Scot-
tish Rite Mason, a Noble of the Mystic
Shrine, and is also affiliated with the Elks.
Politically he votes as a republican and has
many times been effective in rendering
practical aid to his party.
William A. Holloway, M. D. A quar-
ter of a century of Service, thorough, skill-
ful and actuated by the highest ethics and
ideals of his profession, is the record of
Doctor Holloway at Logansport, one of
that city's most successful phj'sicians and
surgeons.
Doctor Holloway was born on a farm in
Jefferson township of Boone County, In-
diana, September 28, 1870, son of Jefferson
P. and Mary (Dukes) Holloway. His
parents were also born in Indiana. His
father is still living, a farmer in Clinton
County of this state. Doctor Holloway
was the oldest of three children. He was
three years of age when his parents moved
to Clinton County, and he grew up on his
father's farm. From the public schools
he entered Indiana University, remained
a student two years and then taught for a
year. He began the study of medicine
with Dr. Joseph D. Parker at Colfax, and
in 1899 entered Miami Medical College at
Cincinnati. The first two years of his
work was done in that institution and he
then entered Bellevue Hospital Medical
College of New York, where he was grad-
uated M. D. with the class of 1893. Doc-
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tor Holloway immediately located at Lo-
gansport and since then has allowed few
outside interests to interfere with the seri-
ous and studious devotion to his profes-
sion. He has done much post-graduate
work as well as constant study and observa-
tion at home. He has taken two post-
graduate courses in New York Cit}*, and in
1917 attended the Harvard School of Med-
icine. He is a member of the Cass County
and Indiana lledical Societies and the
American Medical Association, and fra-
ternally is affiliated with the Masonic Or-
der in both the Scottish and York Rites,
with the Knights of Pythias and Benevo-
lent and Protective Order of Elks. On
December 27, 1893, he mai-ried iliss ^lyr-
tle Ticen, of Clinton County. Mrs. Hollo-
way is a member of the Methodist Episco-
pal Church. They have one daughter,
Mary.
Robert H. Dietz since the death of his
father, Charles L. Dietz in the summer of
1918, has been the active head of C. L.
Dietz & Company, the oldest brokerage and
commission merchant establishment in In-
dianapolis.
This is a business whose history can be
recited with pride. The late Charles L.
Dietz, who moved from Ohio to Indiana
in 1870, was one of the first brokers at
Indianapolis to handle fruit and general
merchandise brokerage, specializing in
foodstuffs. He began in a small waj^ in
the earl.y '80s, and his enterprise kept grow-
ing in proportion to the expansion of In-
dianapolis itself until at the time of his
death C. L. Dietz & Company was doing a
business of more than a million dollars a
year. More important even than the vol-
ume of business has been the absolute con-
fidence reposed in this firm by the trade
during the last thirty years. They have
handled a complete line of foodstuffs, in-
cluding perishable and non-perishable
goods. In that particular business they
have made history in many ways. It was
this firm which brought to Indianapolis
the first carload of bananas ever received
there. For a number of years they have
handled principally canned goods, dried
fruits, potatoes, oranges, lemons, grape
fruit, nuts and beans. The firm confines
its selling efforts to Indiana, and its busi-
ness relations reach even the most remote
sections of the state. The firm derives its
supplies from every state in the Union, and
in normal times imported large quantities
of goods from Spain, France, Italy, Cuba,
Sweden, China, Japan and Turkey.
It was not onl.y a highly successful busi-
ness man but a thoroughly public spirited
citizen who was lost to Indianapolis in the
death of Charles L. Dietz on June 1, 1918.
He was interested in the growth and wel-
fare of his city in many ways. For several
years he was very active in humane work,
and devoted almost his entire time to it.
His chief interest in this work was derived
from his desire to see children and dumb
animals, all helpless things in fact, given
a fair chance. He was an enthusiastic Ro-
tarian, and had been a member of the In-
dianapolis Rotary Club for several years
before his death. He was also one of the
first members of the Columbia Club. In
politics he was a republican, but wis not
an aspirant for political honors. He was
a lifelong friend of the late James Whit-
comb Riley, and was an intimate asso-
ciate of the poet for more than forty years.
Charles L. Dietz married Helen Webster.
They were the parents of three children,
all of whom are still living.
Robert H. Dietz was born at Indian-
apolis March 1, 1885, and after an educa-
tion in the public schools went to work
for his father at the age of sixteen. After
three years he and his brother engaged in
the wholesale flour business under the name
W. E. Dietz & Company. In 1908 he again
became associated with his father in the
firm of C. L. Dietz & Company, and is now
a successor to that business and is continu-
ing along the same his:h standards estab-
lished by his honored father.
Mr. Dietz is a member of the Indian-
apolis Rotary Club, the Independent Ath-
letic Club, is a republican, and has been
quite interested in the welfare of hi.s party.
He is a member of the First Baptist Church
of Indianapolis, being treasurer of the
Brotherhood of that church. He is fond of
outdoor life and keeps himself fit for busi-
ness by regular gymnasium work.
March 31, 1908, at Indianapolis, Mr.
Dietz married Miss Gladys Finney, daugh-
ter of Edwin Finney. Thev have two chil-
dren: Dorothy F.,'born April 13, 1909,
and Diana Dietz, born June 12, 1915.
Anna Sneed Cairns, for many years
president of Forest Park College, St. Louis,
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Missouri, was boru at New Albauj', In-
diana, March 19, 1841, a daughter of Rev.
Samuel K. Sneed. She is a graduate of
Monticello Seminary with the class of 1858,
and at the early age of seventeen years be-
gan teaching. In 1861 she founded Forest
Park College at Kirkwood, and during the
past fifty-six years she has served as the
president of Forest Park College. She has
been prominently identified with Women's
Christian Temperance Union work, serving
seven years as legal superintendent of the
Missouri Women's Christian Temperance
Union, a similar period as national organ-
izer of the National Women's Christian
Temperance Union, and for two years was
labor superintendent of the National Wom-
en's Christian Temperance Union.
In 1884, at Kirkwood, Missouri, Anna
Sneed was married to John G. Cairns, arch-
itect.
Thomas Ferguson is the present county
auditor of Vigo County. He has spent all
his life in that county and is a man who
has had almost constant communion with
honest toil as a means of providing for
himself and his family. He is very popu-
lar among all classes of citizens and has
enjoyed many honoi's at the hands of his
fellow men.
He was born in the southeastern part of
Vigo County February 1, 1874, a son of
John F. and Louisa R. (Bonham) Fer£cu-
son. Both parents were natives of Ohio,
the father born in 1840 and the mother in
1845. They came to Vigo Count.y when
young, were married here, and then lo-
cated on a farm in Pierson Township,
where the father continued his industrious
station as an agriculturist until his death
in 1889. The widowed mother is still liv-
ing in Terre Haute. There were two sons :
B. Hanley and Thomas.
Thomas Ferguson grew up on the home
farm, attended the local public schools, and
at the age of sixteen, when his father died,
he went to work in the coal mines. It was
as a coal miner that he earned his living
for twenty years and during that time he
nuide himself a man of power and influence
among tlie coal workers in the western
part of the state.
While living in Lost Creek Township he
was elected trustee, and filled that office six
years. He was still in office wlien elected
county auditor in 1914. His term as audi-
tor began in 1916. He has proved a most
capable and faithful public official and has
ordered and administered the affairs of
the auditor's office in a manner to satisfy
the most exacting critics, and it may be
added his host of friends are behind him
in his candidacy for the office of sheriff of
Vigo County in the coming election of 1920.
When the little village in which he for-
merly made his home was incorporated he
was elected one of its first council.
Mr. Ferguson is an active democrat, is
a member of the Masonic Order, the
Knights of Pythias, the Independent Or-
der of Odd Fellows, the Loyal Order of
Moose, the Improved Order of Red Men,
and the Eagles, and his wife is a member
of the auxiliary bodies of these various fra-
ternities. Mr. Ferguson is also secretary
and treasurer of the Laish Road Machine
Company, a well known firm manufactur-
ing road grading and other road making
machinery.
In 1893 Mr. Ferguson married Stella M.
Baker, who died May 14, 1908, the mother
of two sons. Earl Mitchell, aged fourteen,
and Paul a boy of nine. On November 24,
1908, Mr. Ferguson married Blanch E.
Moore, of Vigo County.
William Gage Hoag. A member of the
Indianapolis bar ten years, William Gage
Hoag has emphasized the business side of
his profession and has been identified with
the organization and management of sev-
eral well known Indianapolis corporations.
A resident of Indianapolis since early
bo.vhood, he was born in Virginia June 27,
1884, a son of Dr. W. I. and Mary Louise
(Watson) Hoag. His father, who was
born in Cayuga Count.y, New York, August
11, 1858, was educated for the medical pro-
fession in the New York jMedical School of
Cornell University. After fifteen years of
general practice at Sherwood, New York,
he came west and located at Indianapolis,
where he has lieen a prominent and well
known ph.ysician for twenty-one years.
His home is at 2627 West Washington
Street. Doctor Hoag and wife have two
children, William G. and Minerva, the lat-
ter the wife of Irvin W. Collins, a build-
ing contractor of Indianapolis.
William Gage Hoag first attended the
Slierwood Select School in New York,
Friends Academy, Oakwood Seminary at
Union Springs, New York, and in 1902
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graduated from Shortridge High School at
Indianapolis. He then entered the Uni-
versity of ^Michigan, graduated A. B. witji
the class of 1906, and received his LL. B.
degrees from the University of Michigan
Law School in 1908. He is a member of
the law fraternity Phi Alpha Delta.
From 1908 to 1910 he was one of the law
clerks in the ofifice of Means & Buenting in
the State Life Building, and from 1910 to
1915 was connected with the firm of Holtz-
man & Coleman in the Lemcke Annex.
Since 1915 he has been alone in general
practice, with ofSces in the Fidelity Trust
Building.
Mr. Hoag was one of the organizers
and is secretary of the North Side Im-
provement Association. He is secretary of
the Granite Construction Company, a
building company ; vice president of the
Progress Investment Company, a holding
company for farm lands; and organized
and is now secretary and treasurer and
gives most of his time to the Aetna Mort-
gage and Investment Company.
There is one section of the general pub-
lic that knows Mr. Hoag neither as a law-
yer or business man, but as a champion
tennis player. While in the University of
^Michigan he was captain of the tennis team
nf 1908. He has kept up the sport in spite
of the heavy demands of a professional
career, and in 1914 won the state cham-
pionship of Indiana and in 1915 the City
of Indianapolis championship. He is a
member of the Indianapolis Tennis Asso-
ciation, a member of the Athaneum, the
;\Iarion Club and the Odd Fellows Associa-
tion. He is a republican, and has no ac-
tive affiliation with a religious denomina-
tion.
June 28, 1913, Mr. Hoag married Miss
Elizabeth O'Brien, daughter of Bernard
M. and Elizabeth (Daltonl O'Brien of
Grand Eapids, ^Michigan. Mrs. Hoag was
educated in the Sacred Heart Academy at
Grand Rapids and the Ypsilanti Normal
and in the University of Michigan. They
have two children, Robert William, born
December 29, 1914,, and William Isaac,
horn March 21, 1916.
Fred IMiller. Any man who builds up
and maintains successfully year after year
and in the face of all sorts of conditions a
sue\>essful and growing business possesses
qualities that are unusual and admirable.
Over thirty years ago Fred Miller, a
young baker, started a bake shop in Evans-
ville. In the first place he knew his trade,
and in all the years of his success has never
lost sight of quality as the thing to be
chiefly emphasized. He has also been
steady-going, foresighted, alert to oppor-
tunity, and has gradually expanded his
enterprise until it is one of the largest,
most modern and best appointed wholesale
and retail bakeries and stores in Southern
Indiana.
Mr. Miller was born in the Village nf
Eckelsheim, Hesse Darmstadt, Germany.
His father, Nicholas Miller, a native of the
same locality, learned the butcher's trade
and followed it in his native land until
1867, when, accompanied by his family,
he came to the United States. He landed
at New York, where he joined a brother
who had come over some years before, but
soon left to come to Evansville. From
Evansville he went to Posey County, In-
diana, and was in business there about six
years. Returning to Evansville, he re-
mained a resident of that city until his
death at the age of fifty-six. He married
Margaret Espenscheit, who died at the age
of sixty-two. Fred Miller, one of six chil-
dren, was nine years old when his parents
came to America. The education began in
German schools was continued in English
schools in the rural districts of Posey
County, Indiana. Besides what he could
learn from books he acquired much train-
ing and experience of value to him in
later years by assisting his father. At the
age of sixteen he entered upon an appren-
ticeship to the baker's trade, and served
four years, learning all the constituted
technical processes involved in this, one of
the oldest and one of the most important
occupations of man. At the end of four
years he had managed by the exercise of
a great deal of thrift and economy to ac-
cumulate a modest capital of $500. It was
used to give him an independent business
start. His first shop was at No. 1 Carpen-
ter Street. Eight j-ears later, his business
having grown, he removed to 603 Main
Street, and in 1907 came to his present
quarters on South Sixth Street. The bus-
iness is now housed in a commodious brick
building two stories high, 144 feet in front
and 155 feet in depth, and the bakery is
equipped with every modern appliance for
the production of wholesome sanitary food
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products. He also runs a large retail store
in connection, and as a wholesaler supplies
bread and other bakery products over a
country many miles in a radius around
Evansville.
Out of his prosperity as a business man
Mr. Miller has also erected two fine apart-
ment houses on adjoining lots facing Lo-
cust Street. He is a director of the Amer-
ican Trust Company Bank at Evansville,
is active in the Chamber of Commerce, and
he and his' wife and family belong to' St.
John's Evangelical Church. In March,
1889, Mr. Miller married Verona Deti-oy.
She was born at Evansville, daughter of
Peter and Katherine (Hofman) Detroj.
To Mr. and Mi-s. Miller were born four
children : Alma, Fred, Jr., Margaret, and
Oscar.
Luther 'SI. Gross is well known in Mad-
ison County, Indiana, was formerly a
county official in Grant County, and is
now cashier of the Citizens State Bank of
Elwood. Mr. Gross found it incumbent
'upon him at an early age to make his own
way in the world, and right thriftily and
energetically has he fulfilled this destiny.
He was born in Owen County, Kentucky,
on a farm, December 31, 1874, son of Wil-
liam B. and Elizabeth (O'Banion) Gross.
His people were early settlers in Southern
Tennessee, and the family as far back as
the record goes have been farmers. "Wil-
liam B. Gross died on his homestead in
Kentucky in 1895, and the widowed mother
is still living, making her home at Elwood,
Indiana.
Luther M. Gross had only the advantages
of a few winter terms of school in Owen
County, Kentucky. Otherwise his services
were in demand in the fields assisting his
father raise tobacco, which is one of the
chief crops. Subsequently he took a busi-
ness course at the Agricultural and Me-
chanical Business College at Lexington,
Kentucky, and about the time he reached
his majority moved to Indiana and settled
in Grant County. For five years he was
deputy county clerk there, and his evident
qualifications and his growing influence in
the democratic party finallj' put him on
the ticket as candidate for county clerk, an
office to which he was elected and in which
he served four years. He was defeated for
re-election by only sixty votes.
In 1905 Mr. Gross came to Elwood, In-
diana, and for two years was in the time-
keeping department of the American Sheet
and Tin Plate Company. He left that in-
dustry to take a position as bookkeeper
with the Citizens State Bank, and in Jan-
uary, 1913, was elected cashier to succeed
Charles Osborne. He is also one of the
directors and stockholders of this solid
financial institution in Madison County and
has various other business interests.
In October, 1894, Mr. Gross married
Laura Lee Lemon, daughter of John A.
and Georgia (Lowe) Lemon of "Williams
County, Kentucky. Her father for manj'
years was county superintendent of schools
in that county. Mr. Gross has recently
attained the proud distinction of being a
grandfather, though he is himself hardly
in middle life. His only son, "William J.,
born in 1896, married in November, 1916,
Angelina Rogers, daughter of Samuel Rog-
ers, and their young son, Frederick Mark,
was born in January, 1918.
Mr. Gross was elected a member of the
City Council at large for Elwood in 1913
and served one term. He is now a mem-
ber of the City Park Board. He has held
various offices in Elwood Lodge of the
Knights of Pythias, is a member of the
Improved Order of Red Men, and he and
his family are active in the First Baptist
Church.
Omee F. Brown has long been well and
favorably known in Howard County, his
native county. He recently completed a
term of service as sheriff, and is now assist-
ant superintendent of the Indiana State
Farm, Greencastle, Indiana.
Mr. Brown represents a pioneer Indiana
family and was born in Howard County,
July " 31, 1881, son of J. F. and Anna
(Carr) Brown. His great-grandfather,
Hampton Brown, was born in the Territory
of Indiana, son of Robert Brown, a native
of England and a minister of the Quaker
Church. Robert Brown was the Quaker
minister among the Indians around Vin-
cennes, and his son Hampton was born in
the locality known as "Indian Camp."
Robert Brown subsequently went to Ohio,
and he spent his last years there. Hamp-
ton Brown grew up and married in Ohio,
settled in "Wayne County, Indiana, and
about 1847 Came to Howard County and
laid out tlie town which he named in honor
of his son Jerome. He and his sons built
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the first mill iu that part of the county.
Hampton Brown died at a good old age
in 1871.
One of his children was Harvey Brown,
who came from Rush County, Indiana, to
Howard County in 1851, and at Jerome en-
gaged in stock dealing. He lived there un-
til his death in 1902. He was a prominent
man of his day, and had the confidence of
the people of the entire county. He was a
verj' successful farmer and a stanch re-
publican. He filled out an unexpired term
as county treasurer of Howard County.
He was for many years a member of the
.Methodist Church.
J. F. Brown, father of Omer Brown, was
born in Howard County, and in early life
entered merchandising at Jerome and sub-
sequently moved to Greentown. He was -i
merchant for thirty years, and is now liv-
ing retired at the age of sixty-two. He is
a Methodist and a republican. Of his
children only two are now living.
Omer Brown was educated in the public
schools of Greentown and in the Marion
Normal Business College, graduating in
1904. He was associated with his father
in merchandising for eight years under the
name Brown & Son. He was called from
the management of the store in 1914 by
the vote of the people of Howard County
and entered upon the duties of sheriff at
the age of thirty-two. His official term ex-
pired January 1, 1919, and in the mean-
time he had been appointed assistant sup-
erintendent of the Indiana State Farm at
Greeneastle.
Mr. Brown is a member of Greentown
Lodge No. 347, Ancient Fee and Accepted
]\lasons, the Knights of Pythias, is a Meth-
odist and a republican. He married Miss
Daisy Campbell. They have two daugh-
ters, Helen and Lillian.
Charles Wolff, a real estate man of
Michigan City and for many years an ac-
tive farmer in that vicinity, is one of the
few surviving men who can talk intimately
of personal experience in the far "West
when progress of civilization was beset on
evei-y hand by the obstacles of nature and
the perils of Indian warfare.
Mr. "Wolff was born in Prussia, Germany,
in February 1846, but has lived in the
Ignited States more than sixty years. His
father, Carl "Wolff, was also a native of
Pru.ssia. where his parents spent all their
days. Carl "Wolff attended school to the
age of fourteen, then served an apprentice-
ship at the carpenter's trade, and followed
it as his occupation in Germany until 1856,
when he brought his wife and eight chil-
dren to America. They made the passage
on a sailing vessel named Donau, under
Captain Myers, and were five weeks and
three days on the ocean. Landing at New
York they pushed on westward to Wayne
County, Michigan, buying a tract of land
fourteen miles west of Detroit. A log
cabin and a small cleared space con.stituted
the improvements. The log cabin was the
fir.st home of the Wolff family in
America. Carl Wolff gave his time
to clearing the land and tilling the soil.
There was but little demand for either
wood or lumber, and great maple logs were
rolled together and burned. Some years
later the Wolff family moved to the south-
western corner of Michigan in Berrien
County, where Carl Wolff bought an eighty
acre farm in Buffalo Township. That was
his home for twenty-eight years, and he
spent his last days in Michigan City, where
he died in 1908, at the venerable age of
ninety-three. He married Elizabeth Hile-
min, who died in 1906, aged also ninety-
three years. Their children were named
Caroline, Ricca, Gustav, Charles, Edmond,
Amelia, and William. The mother by a
former marriage also had a son, named
John Conrad.
Charles Wolff was ten years old when his
parents came to this country. He had at-
tended school in Germany and was also a
pupil in a log cabin school in Wayne
County, Michigan. At the age of eighteen
he left home and began to make his own
way in the world. Following the course
of the Union Pacific and the Northern Pa-
cific Railroad he eventually arrived in San
Francisco, but remained on the Pacific
coast only a short time before he returned
home, passing through Kansas City, which
was then a very small town. He' reached
ilichigan in the spring of 1868, and in
April, 1869, was again on his way to the
West in the employ of the Northern -Pa-
cific Railroad. He went to the Red River
of the North at a time when Northern
Minnesota and the Dakotas were an almost
unexplored territory, having only a few
scattered settlements along the stream. In
1870 he preempted a tract of Government
land in North Dakota. There was no rail-
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road within miles, and while looking after
his land he also used his team and wagon
for freighting. In 1873 he had charge of
the freight train that went West with
General Custer for exploration of the Big
Horn Mountain country in Montana. In
1874 he was in the Black Hills expedition.
All these expeditions were fraught with
many adventures and hardships. At one
time Mr. Wolff's wagon train was con-
fronted by a stream about twelve feet wide
and eight feet deep, with a rapid current
of water. His wagons were loaded with
boxes of bacon. He had to solve a prac-
tical engineering problem without undue
delay, and he ordered his men to unload
the bacon and place it in the stream, ef-
fecting a temporary dam and bridge over
which the teams crossed successfully. The
boxes of bacon were then taken up and
reloailed without injury to the meat. Mr.
Wolff was also with General Custer's
freight tram in 1876 when Custer was on
his last expedition. The general and his
troops left the train at midnight, and the
following day were beset by the Indians
and massacred practically to a man. The
freight train had a guard of fortv soldiers
and started at daylight, but after going
about a mile were surrounded bv Indians
and a halt was called and the soldiers and
drivers dug themselves In and stood a sieg,'
for two weeks before being relieved by
General Cook and taken to the Black Hills.
Mr. Wolff did not receive his pay from
the Government for this service until two
years later.
In the meantime he had enough of the
perils and adventures of the far West and
returning East he bought a farm in Mich-
igan Township, three miles from Michigan
City. He was steadily engaged in its man-
agement and tilling until 1900, when he
inovcfl to :\i;ch;gan City and entered the
real estate business.
In ]877 ilr. Wolff married Miss Caro-
I'ne Cook. She was born in Wayne
County, Michigan, where her parents, Fe-
lix and Elizabeth Cook, natives of Saxony
were early settlers. Mrs. Wolff died in
1884, mother of two children, Ora, now de-
ceased, and Clarissa, wife of George Davis
In 1886 Mr. Wolff married Ida Cook, who
was born in Michigan City, a daughter of
Charles and Charlotte Cook. They have
four children : William C. ; Laura, a kin-
dergarten teacher ; Arthur ; and Alta. The
son Arthur was with the American Expe-
ditionary Forces in France.
Omer U. Newman, who during twenty-
five years of active membership in the
Clarion County Bar has achieved state wide
prominence as an Indiana lawyer, is not the
only member of this old and prominent
family to achieve some degree of special
distinction. The Newmans were among the
pioneers of Miami County, and some of the
finest farming land in that section of the
state was developed through their enter-
prise, and much of it is still owned by the
descendants, the Indianapolis lawyer him-
self having some extensive interests as a
farmer and stockman in addition to his
regular calling and profession.
Omer U.' Newman was born in Cass
County, Indiana, February 22, 1868, son
of Thomas I. and Kate E. L. (Junkin)
Newman.
His great-grandfather was Jonathan
Newman, one of six brothers who lived in
Tennessee. They belonged to the planting
and slaveholding class of that state, but
finally became convinced of the iniquity of
slavery, freed their negroes and moved to
the free lands of Ohio, where they became
ranged in sympathies and influence with
the most ardent of the abolitionists.
The grandfather of the Indianapolis
lawyer was Samuel K. Newman, who was
born in Ohio March 19, 1819. In 1836
when he was seventeen years old, he walked
all the way from Dayton, Ohio, to Logans-
port, Indiana, and on arriving had barel.v
enough money to pay his tavern bill. He
went to Logansport because his uncle,
Eli.iah Cox, was at that time living on one
of the backwoods farms of Miami County.
Here Samuel K. Newman later started to
make a home of his own, hewing it out of
the dense forest on the south side of Eel
river, fourteen miles east of Logansport.
While he had nothing to begin with except
his industry and some unusual qualities
of character, he accumulated a large for-
tune for that time, represented chiefly in
the ownership of farm land. While he
made his first purchases of land from the
difficult savings of maniial labor, he also
relied upon his unerring judgment and
skill as a trader. It is said that he was a
man of marked but never offensive pecu-
liarities. When he advanced an opinion
hearers would listen intently. In the course
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of time he became known as the largest
landed proprietor in Miami County, and
owned much property in cities as well. His
farm lands he used for stock raising, and
he was one of the noted raisers of live-
stock in that section of the state.
He was twice married, but had only one
child. The mother of his only son was
Lydia Ann Harman, who was born in Jan-
uary, 1824. and died December 20, 1877.
Her people were also early settlers in
Miami County from Ohio. Samuel K. New-
man died December 5, 1902.
His son, Thomas I. Newman, was born
October 2, 1845, in Miami County, and ac-
quired a liberal education, partly in the
public schools of Miami County and later
in the Union Christian College at Merom,
Indiana. For many years his chief activ-
ity was improving the many properties of
his father, and he was known as a. man
of advanced ideas, and especially proficient
in livestock husbandry. He died in August,
1911. Kate Junkin, his wife, was born
May 9, 1848. and died December 12, 1899.
They were the parents of five children :
Omer U. : Olive, who married J. H. Fidler ;
Samuel I.; William Turner; and Medford
Kyle.
Omer U. Newman, the oldest of the
children, was educated in the common
schools of Miami County, and also attended
the Union Christian College at Merom.
He was a student in DePauw University,
and graduated from the Indiana Law
School at Indianapolis with the class of
1895. Up to the age of twenty he lived
in close contact with the rural conditions
of Miami County. He then began the
studv of law, and entered upon practice
in 1894 at Indianapolis. Jlr. Newman has
never had a partnership in the law, but has
had without doubt more than his share of
leeal business in the Indiana courts. Many
years ago he and ]\Ir. Harding appeared as
counsel for defense in behalf of the dyna-
mite conspirator. Mr. Newman has repre-
sented several large corporations.
Like his father and grandfather before
him he has been a stanch republican, but
never held a public office until he was
elected in November, 1918. as state repre-
sentative from Marion County. His elec-
tion brought to the General Assembly the
services of one of the best qualified law-
yers and a man of the highest character of
citizenship. Mr. Newman is affiliated with
the Lodge, Chapter and Council of ila-
sonry and with the Improved Order of Red
Men. He married ^liss Mary Etta Larr
daughter of David Larr of Merom, Indiana.
They have three children: Lura Vadda,
Roscoe Larr and Paul Irvin.
Andy Adams, author, was born on the
3d of May, 1859, on a farm, and his early
educational training was received in a
cross-roads country school in Whitley
County, Indiana. He early followed the
cattle trails in Texas, Indian Territory, and
Montana, mined in Cripple Creek, Color-
ado, and at Goldfield, Nevada, and expe-
rienced in full the life of the frontier. But
it is as an author that his name has be-
come known to the public, and among his
works may be mentioned "The Log of a
Cowboy," "A Texas Matchmaker," "The
Outlet,"" "Cattle Brands," "Reed An-
thony, Cowman," and "Wells Brothers."
William E. Harting is manager of
Harting & Company, grain and feed mer-
chants at Elwood. He entered the business
working for his father twenty years ago,
and his success is probably due to the fact
that he has concentrated all his time and
energies in one particular line.
Mr. Harting was born at Elwood June
26, 1878, son of Herman G. and Martha
(:\Iock) Harting. He is of German ances-
try. His grandfathei*, Hiram Harting,
came from Germany about 1838 and was
followed soon afterward by his wife who
was on the ocean in an old fashioned sail-
ing vessel six weeks between Europe and
America. They settled in Wayne County,
Indiana, near Liberty, and took up Gov-
ernment land there. In 1851 they moved
to a farm of 160 acres northeast of Elwood,
and Grandfather Harting in the course of
years of labor and good management be-
came one of the large land owners in this
section. Herman G. Harting had eight
brothers and sisters. He was born in
Wavne County, Indiana, and in early life
worked for his father, but finally moved to
a farm of his own of eighty acres in Madi-
son County. He remained there with the
farm and its cultivation until 1878, when
he came to Elwood and bought the interest
of ^Ir. Green in the firm of DeHority &
Green, proprietors of the grain elevator.
The firm was then reorganized as Harting
& DeHority, and they were in business at
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the present location of Harting & Company.
After a year Mr. Harting bought out Mr.
DeHority and then conducted the business
alone until 1886. At that date his cousin,
S. B. Harding, entered the partnership,
known as Harting & Company. In Jan-
uary, 1S12, William E. Harting acquired
an equal partnership, though the name of
the firm remains the same.
In March, 1912, the company bought the
old Kidwell & Goode flour mill. They have
done much to re-equip and modernize this
mill and now employ it in connection with
the elevator for grinding feed. This firm
has done much to establish Elwood in the
favor of grain raisers over a territory
eight or nine miles in a radius as a grain
market and milling center. The firm buys
corn, grain, seed, and other supplies from
the producers, and besides selling locally
ship many carloads every year to such mar-
kets as Baltimore, Philadelphia, and Cin-
cinnati.
Herman G. Harting is still active in bus-
iness and is the oldest grain merchant at
Elwood. His wife died in May, 1893.
William E. Harting was reared at El-
wood, attended public schools there and
finished with a business course in the Ma-
rion Business College. He was twenty
years old when in 1898 he went to work
for his father, and has never had any em-
ployment outside of the family business.
He is now manager of the elevator and
mill. He is also a director and stockholder
of the Elwood Trust Company, and has
some other business interests.
In 1901 he married Miss Margaret Rey-
nolds, daughter of Charles L. and Arminda
•J. (Cranor) Reynolds of Elwood. They
have two children : Jane, born in 1908, and
Martha Josephine, born in 1914. Mr.
Harting is a democrat, but holding office
has never bothered him and has never been
an ob.iect of his ambition. He is affiliated
with Elwood Lodge No. 368, Benevolent
and Protective Order of Elks, and is a
Royal Arch Mason. He and his family are
members of the First Christian Church.
Ray C. Brock is a manufacturer of wide
experience, and is now president of the Ko-
komo Supply Company, jobbers in high
grade plumbing supplies and mill supplies.
This is one of tlie concerns that is rapidly
bringing Kokonio to prominence as a great
industrial center.
Mr. Brock was bom at Ionia, Michigan,
December 13, 1876, son of John 0. and
Laura Brock. His father was a native of
New York, moved west to Grand Rapids,
Michigan, and for a number of years was
an active railroad man, and is still active
though in advanced years. Ray C. Brock,
the younger of two children, was educated
in the public schools of Ionia, graduating
from high school in 1894. He had his
early experience as a manufacturer in the
great furniture center of Grand Rapids.
For fourteen years he was connected with
the furniture factories there, and left that
city in 1905 to become superintendent of
the Stoltz-Schmitt Furniture Company at
Evansville, Indiana. He was in Southeru
Indiana five years, and in 1910 came to
Kokomo as superintendent of the Central
Closet Manufacturing Company. In 1914
^Ir. Brock assisted in organizing the Ko-
komo Supply Comjjany, and has since been
its president. A. A. Dunlap is vice presi-
dent and Louis F. Fee, secretary and treas-
urer. They handle a large volume of bus-
iness and distribute much of the material
in their line over Nortliern Indiana.
Mr. Brock is affiliated with the Masonic
Order, is a member of the Eagles and
served as trustee of the local lodge one
year, and is a member of the Travelers
Protective Association. Politically he is a
republican. September 11, 1896, he mar-
ried Miss Lottie Hopkins, daughter of
Frank Hopkins of Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Mary Otilda Goslee is an Indiana
woman who has rendered long and notable
service in her home City of Evansville as
public librarian. She has been the admin-
istrative head of the Willard Library since
it was established, through the generosity
of Willard Carpenter, who left upwards of
$150,000 for that purpose. The library
now contains approximately 50,000 vol-
umes.
Miss Goslee, who was born in Evansville,
is of French Hugi:enot ancestry, four
brothers of the name having come to
America in the seventeenth century. Her
grandfather. Dr. Samuel Goslee, was born
on the eastern shore of Maryland, was a
well educated physician, and moving to
Kentucky for many years served a large
clientage first in Jeff'erson County and
later in Oldham County. He also acquired
a plantation and owned slaves until he be-
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came eouverted to abolition principles, and
then set his negroes free. He spent his
last years in Jefferson County.
Ferdinand Goslee, father of Miss Goslee,
was born in Jefferson County, Kentucky,
and became a merchant at Louisville and
later in Evansville, where he died when
about forty-one years old. He married
Ann Amelia Wheeler, who was born in
England, daughter of Joseph and Eliza-
beth (Early) Wheeler. The Wheeler fam-
ily came to America in 1819 and were pio-
neers in Vanderburg County, Indiana,
where they acquired and improved exten-
sive tracts of Government land. Joseph
Wheeler was a preacher in the Wesleyan
faith in England and did similar service
for the ^lethodist cause in the early days
of Southern Indiana. He lived to be
eighty-seven and his wife to eighty-nine.
Miss Goslee 's mother died at the age of
eighty-one, the mother of four children :
Margaret Louise, wife of Cyrus K. Drew;
ilary Otilda, James S., and Ferdinand.
ilary Otilda Goslee acquired a thorough
education in private schools. She became
librarian for the Evansville Library Asso-
ciation in 1873, and when that was con-
(•olidated with the \Villard Library in 1885
she assumed the duties to which she has
devoted her time and talents for over
thirty years. She is a member of St.
Paul's Episcopal Church.
Charles Haven Neff is a man of many
and prominent connections with the life
and affairs of Madison County. As a boy
he taught school there, and thirty years
ago qualified himself by hard study for the
practice of law. The law has not been his
regular calling, however, and the profes-
sion lost a well trained and highly qualified
member when he went into newspaper
work. Mr. Neff knows practicall.v every
angle of the newspaper game, from com-
positor and reporter to publisher and
owner. He is vice president, secretary,
and business manager of the Herald Pub-
lishing Company, publishers of The An-
derson Herald, the oldest and most influ-
ential republican paper in Madison County.
Mr. Neff is a native of Madison County,
born in Fall Creek Township on a farm
March 19, 1861, a son of Jesse T. and
Sarah (Ulen) Neff. The Neff family is a
combination of Swiss and German ances-
try. During colonial times in America six
brothers of the name came to this country
and established families that soon became
widely scattered through the Carolinas,
Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Ohio. Some
of the descendants of these brothers fought
as Revolutionary soldiers. Jesse T. Neff
was both a farmer and a competent me-
chanic. When Charles H. Neff was two
years of age the family moved to Pendle-
ton and several years later to Anderson.
Mr. Neff was educated in the public
schools of Anderson, graduating from high
school with the class of 1878. That was
the third class of the high school. In the
meantime during summers he had worked
at different occupations, principally as a
lather for his father. At the age of seven-
teen, after taking an examination and be-
ing duly qualified, he began teaching
school. He had a country school in Stony
Creek Township two years, for two terms
was connected with the city schools of An-
derson, and another year was principal of
the Fisherburg school. His wages as a
teacher were carefully saved with a view
to the future, and during all his vacations
he helped his father. In 1883 Mr. Neff
entered Asbury, now DePauw, University
at Greencastle, Indiana, and in June, 1887,
was graduated Ph. B. and subsequently
was given the degree Master of Arts by
the same school. While at University he
continued his work in the plasterer's trade,
assisting his father, but in his junior year
at college he entered the office of Howell
D. Thompson at Anderson, and spent the
entire summer studying law. On return-
ing to DePauw he carried both the law and
his regular literary courses, and in 1887
was admitted to the bar before the Supreme
Court upon motion by Senator Turpie.
After that he continued his studies at An-
derson with Howell Thompson, but in the
fall of 1887 was called upon to organize
the school system of Alexandria in Madi-
son County. After these schools were or-
ganized he had charge as principal for two
years.
About that time, as a means of employ-
ment during one summer, he undertook
to handle the sporting page or the sport-
ing column rather ef the Anderson Bulle-
tin, and later took employment with the
Herald, then under the editorial direction
of John H. Lewis. Once in the newspaper
profession he has never seen fit nor has
he had any special inclination to get out.
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He became city editor of the Anderson
Herald, was also active local correspondent
for the Associated Press, and has been with
the Herald through all its various owner-
ships for the past thirty years. In 1898 he
and E. C. Toner bought the Herald from
Wallace B. Campbell. At that time he
took the business management, and has
handled the buisness affairs of the paper
ever since.
]\Ir. Neff is a stockholder in the Ander-
son Banking Company, in the Merchants
Fire Insurance Company of Indiana, and
has various other business holdings. Politi-
call.y he has been a republican all his life,
though in 1912 he became active in the pro-
gressive movement. He has served as a
member of the Library Board of Ander-
son as chairman of its purchasing com-
mittee, is a trustee of the First ^Methodist
Church, and has been a teacher of the
Men's Bible Class for a number of years.
He belongs to the Phi Kappa Psi frater-
nity of DePauw University, to the Ander-
son Country Club, the Tourist Club and
the Columbia Club of Indianapolis.
In 1894 Mr. Neff married Rosalie Alice
Briekley, daughter of Dr. "William P. and
Julia Briekley. They have two children,
Paul Wilbur, born in 1898, and now a stu-
dent in DePauw University and Dorothy
Elizabeth, born in 1900.
Ollie H. Buck, of Kokomo, is a western
man in spirit, enterprise and temperament,
and his presence in Indiana is a tribute to
this great state's industrial opportunities.
Mr. Buck is active head of the Worth Wire
Works, and is also identified with a num-
ber of other local industries and business
organizations of Kokomo and elsewhere.
His birth occurred at Waco, McLennan
County, Texas, March 12, 1879. His father,
Giddings J. Buck, was a native of Louis-
ville, Kentucky, and is now deceased. Ollie
H. Buck was sixth in a family of eight chil-
dren, six of whom are still living.
The first eighteen yeai-s of his life were
spent quietly at home attending local
schools. In 1898 he enlisted for service in
the Spanish-American war, as a sergeant in
Company H, Second Texas Volunteers. He
served from April until November. The
regiment was mustered in at Austin, then
transferred to Mobile, Alabama, thence to
Miami, Florida, Jacksonville, Florida, and
then back to Dallas, Texas, where it was
mustered out.
For about two years after this brief
army service ;\Ir. Buck had an interesting
though not altogether agreeable experience
for a man of his temper. He was guard
and assistant superintendent of a force of
state convicts stationed in the rice and
sugar growing districts around Eagle Lake,
Texas. In 1901 he engaged in cattle ranch-
ing, and for two and a half years was lo-
cated on the A. H. Pierce ranches in Mata-
gorda and Wharton counties in Southern
Texas. The next two years he spent as
deputy in the sheriff's office at Fort Worth,
Texas.
He left his public duties to become man-
ager of the Worth Wire Works, then lo-
cated at St. Louis. The main product
manufactured by the Worth Wire Works
involves an interesting little story which
has been published and sent out by "the com-
pany and which maj' properly be quoted
at this point.
A few years ago a cow puncher woi-king
on one of the large cattle ranches in South-
west Texas was confronted with the diffi-
cult problem of trying to keep in repair a
division line fence consisting of three
strands of barbed wire, and with posts
spaced about fifty feet apart, the scarcity
of timber in that section making the price
of posts almost prohibitive. He hit upon
the idea of taking short pieces of wire and
"staying" the line wires at intervals of
four or five feet, thus preventing the cat-
tle from crawling through the fence.
From that he developed his idea more
ingeniously and finally perfected the
"Cinch Fence Stay." About that time a
friend who had a little money to invest pro-
posed that they set up a shop in a small
town nearby and manufacture and market
the fence stays. It did not take long to
('enionstrate the merits and economical
features of these stays, and it was not a
question of selling them but of manufac-
turing them in sufficient quantities to fill
the orders. The engineers of the United
States Government were also attracted to
the Cinch Stays, with the result that they
were at once specified on various reclama-
tion pro.ieets. Railroad engineers also
recognized their advantages, and today the.v
are used on thousands and thousands of
miles of right-of-way fence.
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The first factoiy for the manufacture of
these fence stays was in a wood shed in a
small west Texas ranch town. From there
it was moved to Fort Worth, and when Sir.
Buck went to St. Louis as manager of the
Worth Wire Works the business was in its
third stage of growth and progress. He
conducted it at St. Louis for about seven
months. In order to get the factory nearer
the source of supplies for the raw wire ma-
terial Mr. Buck moved the plant and
equipment to Kokomo, locating in a small
frame building in the rear of the Kokomo
Steel and Wire Company's fence mill.
Two years later the Worth Wire Works
erected a new factory at 1501 North Wash-
ington Street, where its operations have
since been conducted under a healthy and
steadily increasing growth. Its essential
and special product is the wire fence stay
above described, which has, as already
noted, been extensively adopted by rail-
roads throughout the country for right-of-
way fencing by the United States Govern-
ment in reclamation projects, though the
bulk of the great volume of patronage
comes from stock raisers, farmers and
ranchers in both continents.
Mr. Buck since becoming a resident of
Kokomo has identified himself with many
other enterprises. He is vice president of
the Hoosier Oil Company, now operating
branches in Kokomo, Lafayette, Green-
town, and Tipton, Indiana. He is a mem-
ber of the board of directors of the United
Oil & Gas Company of Kokomo, a director
and secretary of the Liberty Gas & Oil
Company of Kokomo, is general manager
and one-third owner in the Kokomo
Wrench Company, and is owner and man-
ager of the National Products Company of
Kokomo.
Patriotic movements of many kinds have
made strong appeals to his interest and en-
thusiasm. He is Howard County chairman
of the American Protective League, is
county chairman of the Military Training
Camp Association, and county chairman
of the War Savings Stamp Committee.
He is also on the board of the Howard
County Fuel Commission. Other organiza-
tions with which he is actively connected
are the Kokomo Chamber of Commerce,
chairman of its executive committee, the
Young Men's Christian Association, on its
board of directors, the Travelers' Protec-
tive Association, the United Commercial
Travelers, the Order of Elks, in which he is
esteemed leading knight, and he is a Ma-
son and a Shriner. Mr. Buck is a member
of the Christian Congregational Church,
and in polities is independent.
George W. Eichholtz is one of the vet-
eran manufacturers and lumbermen of In-
diana, a business with which he has been
identified for half a century or more, and
is senior member of G. W. Eichholtz &
Son, wholesale lumber dealers in Indian-
apolis.
Mr. Eichholtz was born January 24, 1846,
in Wabash County, Indiana, a sou of Doc-
tor Henry and Sarah (Murray) Eichholtz.
His father, who was born in Lancaster,
Pennsylvania, went west to Ohio in early
days, and for about six years lived at
Kingston in that state, and then acquired
160 acres of raw land in the wilder-
ness of Wabash County, Indiana, and
cleared up and by perseverance developed
an excellent farm. He was a man of rare
talents and of tireless energy, so that his
achievements and experiences were by no
means of a usual character. He was a well
grounded physician and practiced the pro-
fession for a number of years. He handled
his farm with much success and also en-
gaged in manufacturing, and here found
vent for a genius which would have made
him a very successful architect. He had
great capacity in handling all kinds of
machinery and was an excellent artist,
though he had little training in that profes-
sion. He could take a pen or pencil, and
with a few strokes depict the face of an
acquaintance, and he was also equally
gifted in mechanical drawing. In 1849 he
started west for California, but on the way
he was taken ill and returned home by
New Orleans. His home was in Wabash
County, on the farm, from 1842 until 1882,
when he removed to North Manchester, and
died in that city in 1886. He was a mem-
ber of the English Lutheran Church, and
at one time served as trustee of Wittenberg
College at Springfield, Ohio. In 1856 he.
left his party, the democratic, refusing to
vote for James Buchanan, and afterward
was a steadfast republican. He celebrated
the fiftieth anniversary of his membership
as a Mason in Deming Lodge No. 88 at
North Manchester. Considering the times
in which he lived it is very significant and
a testimony to his strength of will and
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character that he was absolutely temperate
and was never known to take a drink of
intoxicating liquor. He was twice married.
His first wife was Margaret Barr of Penn-
sylvania, who died in 1839, and all her
children are deceased. For his second wife
he married Sarah A. Murray, who died in
1906. Her four children were: Maria E.,
George W., Caroline C. and Adaline A.
George W. Eichholtz as a boy attended
school in a little log building, which, how-
ever, was one of the best in which the
schools of Wabash County was then housed.
He received most of his education by per-
sonal experience. He was at home with his
father until twenty-three, and became as-
sociated with the elder Eichholtz in manu-
facturing. His father had established a
cabinet factory in Pleasant Township of
Wabash County, and manufactured all
kinds of furniture in addition to sash,
doors, and blinds. The factory was sup-
plied with power from a water mill. The
son had many of the responsibilities of its
management until 1869. In that year he
took up the manufacture of a patent churn,
which he sold extensively among the
farmers of Indiana and Illinois. In 1874
he began the manufacture of a churn of
his individual invention, and this he ex-
ploited with even greater success than the
previous churn. In 1876 he formed a
partnership with Lewis Petry and J. J.
Valdenaire under the name Eichholtz, Pe-
try & Valdenaire. In 1877 this company
besides manufacturing churns began a gen-
eral lumber business, installing a complete
saw mill. Later they built two other saw
mills, one at Goshen, Indiana, and one at
Des Moines, Iowa.
In 1884 Mr. Eichholtz sold his interests
and soon afterward accepted a position as
traveling representative for a Muskegon
lumber firm. He sold lumber on a commis-
sion basis and built up and developed a
very large sales territory for the firm. In
order to have a more central location from
which he could attend to his' trade, I\lr.
Eichholtz moved to Indianapolis in Au-
gust, 1892. In 1906 he formed a partner-
ship with his son Charles under the name
Eichholtz & Son, and they now confine
themselves to the wholesale lumber busi-
ness, specializing in yellow pine lumber and
red cedar shingles, and distribute the prod-
ucts of some of the largest manufacturing
firms in the country to the retail yards of
their territory around Indianapolis. The
offices of G. W. Eichholtz & Son are in the
Lemcke Building.
Mr. Eichholtz is a thirty-second degree
Scottish Rite Mason, 'is a republican and
belongs to the English Lutheran Church.
November 7, 1869, at Silver Lake, Indiana,
he married Miss Martha Linn. Mrs. Eich-
holtz died March 17, 1893, the mother of
four children. The three now living are
Ida A., Eva A., and Charles V. April 8,
1898, Mr. Eichholtz married Mary E. Waid-
laich, of Columbia City, Indiana.
The son Charles V. since early manhood
has been active in the lumber business, and
now carries the heavier responsibilities ol
G. W. Eichholtz & Son. On October 14,
1907, he married Miss Clara Peckman.
Albert A. Barnes. Of this venerable
citizen, a resident of Indianapolis more
than half a century, and still president of
the Udell Works, it is possible to write
a record with that finality afforded by the
near approach of fourscore yeare of age
and with the certainty that none of the
facts here set down or judgments pro-
nounced will ever be controverted.
A human life is interesting for its ex-
periences, its solved problems, its duties
and responsibilities discharged, and the
expression of those living and vital ele-
ments of character as well as its practical
action. On all these points Albert A.
Barnes is a notable figure in Indiana citi-
zenship.
He was born at Stoekbridge, Vermont,
February 14, 1839. His parents, Joseph
and Eliza (Simpson) Barnes, were people
in humble circumstances and had ten chil-
dren. When Albert was five years of age
his parents removed to Springfield. ^lassa-
chusetts. which was his home until he was
ten. With manv mouths to feed, the abil-
ity and enterprise of the father soon fell
short of satisfying even the simpler neces-
sities, and necessity brought the children
on to the stage of serious action without
regard for their tender years. As one
source of revenue to defray the expenses
of tlie family Albert was selling candy and
peanuts at the age of six. At nine he began
working on a horse ferry over the river at
Holyoke, that employment being termi-
nated when the ferry was destroyed by
floods. He also worked in a sawmill and
stave factory at Winchester, New Hamp-
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INDIANA AND INDIANA NS
2027
shire, until he was eleven. It would be a
difficult matter for even ]\Ir. Barnes to re-
count all the varied activities and emplo.y-
ments of his youthful years. Until he was
twenty-one he had exceedingly limited op-
portunities to attend school, and reached
manhood with only the ability to read and
write and figure. At twelve he became an
employe in a woolen factory.. There was in
him even at that age the quality of fidelity
and industry which makes advancement
and promotion certain. At the age of six-
teen he was second overseer in the factory.
But the factory was on the decline, and in
the meantime 3Ir. Barnes' father had be-
come incapacitated for hard work. The
son therefore led the family as its chief
executive head to a farm in New Hamp-
shire, and resorted to the hard and toil-
some process of wringing a living from
the stony soil of New England. Mr.
Barnes' memory can hardly recall a time
when he did not have responsibilities in
advance of his years, and practically from
the age of nine he was carrying a large
share of the family support upon his
young shoulders. His mother was the di-
recting head of the family, and to her he
turned over all his earnings. After one
year on the farm he left it with his mother
and the other children, and then wgrt to
Springfield, Massachusetts, to learn the art
of photography. That art was then in its
crude infancy and the photographer was
chiefly a daguerreotype artist. Having
mastered the fundamental principles of the
art Mr. Barnes took one of the old fash-
ioned traveling photograph cars, drawn by
horses, traveled about various sections of
New England, and for a time he also had
a studio on Broadway in New York City
and at Providence, Ehode Island.
In 1860, at the age of twenty-one, Mr.
Barnes came West, opening a photograph
studio at Rockford, Illinois. While at
Rockford on April 2, 1861, he married
Abby C. Clayton. He removed his photo-
graph business to Beloit, Wisconsin, and
while living there was drafted for the
army, but on account of his own heavy
family responsibilities, still contributing to
the support of his parents as well as his
own household, he hired a substitute.
Leaving his wife to run the gallery at
Beloit, he went south for the purpose of
photographing war scenes at Murfreesboro
and Nashville, Tennessee.
Returning in the spring of 1864, ]Mr.
Barnes soon afterward came to Indian-
apolis. Here he established a gallery on
Washington Street, at the present site of
the New York store. Doubtless there are
some old fashioned photographs much
cherished by families living in Indian-
apolis the product of Barnes, the Photog-
rapher, who was in that business here until
1867.
He left photography to engage in the
commission business, his location being
where the W. H. Blocks store now stands.'
He prospered as a commission man, and in
1882 bought the Udell Works. Since then
he has given his chief attention to this fac-
tory for the manufacture of furniture and
specialties. The Udell Works had had a
varied experience and had made many fail-
ures, but ]Mr. Barnes was more than equal
to the task of establishing it as one of the
most substantial plants in the industries of
the capital city.
His business energy and resources have
been helpful in many of the institutions of
the city. When the Union Trust Company
was organized about a quarter of a century
ago he became one of its directoi-s and has
been on the board ever since. In 1901 he
was one of the purchasers of the old State
Bank and assisted in organizing the Colum-
bia Bank, of which he became vice presi-
dent. He also took the lead in the reestab-
lishment of Franklin College, now one of
the leading educational institutions of In-
diana. He was also vice president of the
Claypool Hotel and assisted in building it.
^Ir. Barnes was converted in 1866 and
.ioined the First Baptist Church. He has
filled all the official positions in the church
and is now both deacon and trustee. In
1916 he and his wife rounded out fifty
years of continuous membership in the or-
ganization. At the age of twenty-one Mr.
Barnes cast his first vote for a republican
president, and his record is one of unwav-
ering fidelity to that party in all the sub-
sequent years. He was deprived of the
consolation and companionship of his good
wife February 28, 1917. They had two '
children : Lena V.. who died at the age
of four and a half years; and Nellie E.,
who died when fifteen.
As this brief outline of facts shows Mr.
Barnes has had a varied business experi-
ence. The variety of the occupations in
which he engaged in early life no doubt
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disciplined his mind and judgment and
fortified his courage in assuming responsi-
bilities and new ventures which were en-
tirely unrelated to his previous lines of
activity. He acquired the faculty of judg-
ing things not from the estimate of others
but through his own mind. His business
associates long since learned that before
undertaking an enterprise he gave it care-
ful investigation and then decided firmly
and unequivocally. When he bought the
Udell Works at auction it had several times
brought disaster to the previous owners
and he was warned by men of sound judg-
ment that it would prove unprofitable to
him. He had the courage to do and dare,
and results have justified his decision. His
influence has always been on the side of
morality and brotherly helpfulness. His
purse has been opened to the needy in-
dividual and also to the worthy public in-
stitutions. At the organization of the Y.
M. C. A. he was president of the Board of
Trustees and chairman of the building com-
mittee, and raised $140,000 in six days. His
membership of fifty years with the First
Baptist Church of Indianapolis and the
lona: sustained and sweet companionship
with the wife of his youth are among his
fondest recollections. When the shadows
of his life are gathering his consolation is
the thought of having lived a well spent
career, attached to which is no suggestion
of taint or dishonor. The world is the bet-
ter for the life of such a man as Albert
A. Barnes.
Rev. Charles R. Adams was born in
Switzerland County, Indiana, January 5,
1874, a son of Thomas Leonard and Eliza-
beth Harris Adams. After completing a
thorough educational training the son
taught in high school for two years, but
his real life work has been the ministry,
and since 1911 he has been the pastor of
the First Presbyterian Church of Cham-
paign, Illinois. He has also identified him-
self with ministerial affairs and has served
as moderator of the Synod of North Da-
kota, 1910-1911, college visitor imder com-
mittee of General Assembly, 1910-12, and
member of the Social Service Commission
of the General Assembly, 1917.
The Reverend Adams married Annie
Oldfather, a daughter of the Rev. Jeremiah
M. Oldfather, for eighteen years mission-
ary in Urumiah, Pei'sia, where the' daugh-
ter was born. Reverend and Mrs. Adams
have four children, John Maxwell, Helen
Miriam, Philip Rice, and Dorothj'.
Fred Bthell Mustard is cashier of the
Citizens Bank of Anderson. Since he at-
tained his majority this bank has been the
center around which his activities and in-
terests have revolved, and to the bank have
gone in increasing numbers with passing
years people who have learned to respect
his judgment, admire his integrity, and re-
pose important business trusts with him.
Naturallj^ he has acquired other interests
than banking, and is officially identified
with several of the large industrial and
business concerns which made the name An-
derson familiar throughout the country.
Fred Ethell Mustard was born at Ander-
son November 15, 1873, son of Daniel F.
and Adda (Ethell) Mustard. At the time
of his birth his father enjoyed a fine posi-
tion of esteem in the communit3% and he
spent his boyhood days in a home marked
by reasonable comfort and advantage. He
was given the opportunities of the local
public schools, and spent a year in two of
the best known and most exclusive prepar-
atory schools of New England, the Exeter
and the Phillips Andover Academies.
On completing his education Mr. Mus-
tard returned home in 1894, and at that
time took his place as a clerk in the Citi-
zens Bank. He was promoted to assistant
cashier, and on January 1, 1917, became
cashier. The Citizens Bank of Anderson
is an institution that has been practically
under one management now for over thirty
years. It has a capital stock of $100,000,
surplus of $40,000, and its deposits in the
fall of 1917 were $1,460,000.
The other active business interests of
Fred E. Mustard are as secretary and
treasurer of the Pierce Governor Company,
an Anderson industry manufacturing gov-
ernors for gasoline engines, the output of
the factory being shipped to all parts of
the world. Mr. Mustard was one of the
organizers of this business. He is secre-
tary and treasurer of the F. C. Cline Lum-
ber Company, and was also one of the or-
ganizers and first directors of this large
business.
Mr. Mustard has given allegiance to the
same political party as his father. In 1914
he was appointed president of the Ander-
son Metropolitan Police Force. He is ac-
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tive in the Anderson Lodge of Elks, the
Anderson Country Club, and he and his
family have an enviable social position in
that city. In 1899 he married Nelda Dick-
son, of Indianapolis, daughter of J. B. and
Emma (Butsch) Dickson. Mr. and i\Irs.
Mustard have one daughter, Janet Dick-
son, who was born in 1900 and is now a
student in Dana Hall, Wellesley, Massa-
cuusetts.
Frederick W. Heath. Every commun-
ity and county has its outstanding names,
representing families of early residence, of
substantial activities and character, and of
that element in Delawai-e County undoubt-
edly one of those best known is the Heath
family.
"When Delaware County was still with
few exceptions a vast tract of government
land, Ralph Heath entered a homestead in
1829 in Salem Township west of Muncie.
Ralph Heath was a native of Guilford
County, North Carolina. His grandfather
with two brothers had come from London
and settled in Maryland. In that colony
Jacob Heath, father of Ralph, was born
and reared and then moved to North Car-
olina. Ralpli Heath married in North Car-
olina Mary Tomlinson. With the adven-
turous spirit of the true pioneers this cou-
ple brought their children to Indiana,
making the overland journey with wagons
and arriving in Wayne County in October,
1828. The family lived in Wayne County
only about a year, and on December 25,
1829, Ralph Heath brought his family to
occupy their little log cabin home in Salem
Township of Delaware County.
It was during the brief residence of the
family in Wayne County that Rev. Jacob
W. Heath was born, and he was only about
a year old when brought to Delaware
County. He grew up in a good Christian
home, and learned the lessons of purity,
gentleness of manner and integrity of char-
acter which distinguished him in after
years. He grew up in typical pioneer sur-
roundings, getting an education in the sub-
scription schools. He also attended the
Delaware County Academy and for a time
was a teacher. He was a farmer until
1868, when he removed to Muncie and took
up grocery, real estate, and life insurance
business. He is perhaps best remembered
for his zealous work as a local minister of
the ■ Methodist Church. He .joined that
church at the age of sixteen and was suc-
cessively class leader, trustee, steward,
Sunday school superintendent, exhorter,
and after 1877 a local minister. He was
one of the early temperance advocates of
the county and in national affairs voted
as a republican.
Rev. Jacob W. Heath died in October,
1902, at the age of sevent.y-three. He mar-
ried in 1850 Rlioda A. Perdieu, daughter
of Rev. Abner Perdieu. To their marriage
were born eight children, six .sons and two
daughters, six of whom are still living, five
sons and one daughter. The living sons
»re John B., Frederick W., Perry S.,
Fletcher S., and Cyrus R.
Frederick W. Heath, whose family con-
nections and ancestry have been thus briefly
traced, was born in Delaware County May
5, 1854. He attended common schools un-
til sixteen .years of age, worked in a print-
ing office, in a grocery store, and for a time
kept a cigar store in the old Kirby House.
The business distinction which is most
familiarly associated with tire name of Mr.
Heath is that he is the oldest real estate
man in point of continuous service at Mun-
cie. There were of course many real es-
tate transactions made in the city and
county before he entered the field, but he
was one of the early men to make the bus-
iness a profession and study, and he has
outlived all his contemporaries and com-
petitors. He engaged in the business when
only nineteen years old. Mr. Heath orig-
inated the plan a number of years later of
building up a $200,000 fund for encourag-
ing factories to locate at Muncie, and his
friends subscribed $10,000 for that pur-
pose. The first big deal Mr. Heath made
was handling the large tract of 380 acres
on the west side of Muncie on the site of
which the Normal School has since been
built. This tract was acquired for $62,000
and ilr. Heath sold it out for a total of
$97,000. For many years he has been ex-
tensively interested in the sale of South
Dakota lands. This business connection
came largely through the influence of Gov-
ernor Millette of South Dakota. Governor
^Millette at one time lived in Delaware
County and was a friend of Mr. F. W.
Heath. That was the beginning of an in-
timacy that continued even after he moved
West and was elevated to the governorship
of his state. When Governor Millette died
he manifested his great confidence in his
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friend by making Mr. Heath an executor
of his estate.
Mr. Heath has been active in Muncie's
business affairs for half a century and has
perhaps done as much as any other local
citizen in building up the town and ex-
panding its institutions and business op-
portunities to keep pace with a population
that has grown under his personal observa-
tion from less than 5,000 to over 30,000.
He has always been on hand ready to lend
his assistance and encouragement to worthy
causes. Mr. Heath is called by his friends
a fund of tremendous human energy. In
his earlier days he frequently began work
at five o'clock in the morning and contin-
ued on until midnight. That energy is
perhaps a characteristic of the family, since
his brothers have likewise in their respec-
tive localities gained business success and
are men of influence and means.
Mr. Heath did not marry until he was
past thirty years, of age, and as a result of
his earnest business energy he had saved
up what was then a fair fortune of $30,000,
so that he and his wife began their home
life with practically all the comforts and
luxuries they desired. January 1, 1885,
Mr. Heath married Miss Laura Bennett,
daughter of William Bennett. Her father
was the largest land owner in Delaware
County. Their son, Bennett Heath, was
educated in the public schools and college
and his name is familiar in athletic circles
because of his splendid performances as a
golf player. He is now doing his part in
the great war, with the rank of captain.
John W. Lorenz, a veteran druggist at
Evansville, has also for the past fifteen
years carried on a large and growing busi-
ness as a physician and surgeon. Doctor
Lorenz has always stood high in commer-
cial circles of Evansville, and has earned
equal honors in the profession of medicine,
for which he had an ambition when a boy,
but did not succeed in realizing it for a
number of years. Doctor Lorenz was born
on a farm a mile from Highland, Madison
County, Illinois. His father, Frank Lo-
renz. was born in Hesse Cassel, Germany,
in 1835. His grandfather, John Jacob
Lorenz, also a native of Germany, brought
his family in 1845 to America. They trav-
eled on a sailing vessel, and after many
weeks landed at New Orleans. They went
up the Mississippi to St. Louis, where John
Jacob followed the business of market
gardener until 1856. In that year he re-
moved to the eastern part of Madison
County, Illinois, and bought a farm near
the old Swiss colony of Highlaiad. Much
of that country was still in a pioneer wild-
erness, and he did much to improve from
its virgin condition the land which he
bought a mile north of Highland. He
spent the rest of his life as a market gar-
dener, and died when nearly ninety years
of age. His wife passed away in 1857.
Their four children were Frank, John H.,
Amelia Goetz, and Elizabeth Schmetter.
Frank Lorenz was ten years old when the
family came to America, and he learned the
habits of industry and thrift while living
with his father and workine- as a truck
gardener. Later he succeeded to the own-
ership of the old homestead at Highland,
and continued general farming and stock
raising there on a very successful scale
until 1882 when he moved into the city of
Highland where he lived retired, enjoying
the fruits of a well spent life until his
death in 1919 at the age of eighty-
four. He married in 1857 Louisa
Haeusli. She was born in Switzerland in
1839, daughter of Jacob and Elizabeth
Haeusli, who came to America in 1850 and
located among their fellow countrymen at
Highland, Illinois. Her father was a
baker and followed that occupation in
Highland until 1870, when he sold out and
lived retired until his death. Mrs. Frank
Lorenz died in 1899. She was the mother
of three children: John W., Edward and
Lillie. The latter is the wife of Louis
Metz, formerl.v a farmer, but now living
retired at Highland. Edward took charge
of the home farm when his father retired,
and conducted it successfully until 1919
when he removed to Highland and after-
ward lived retired.
John W. Lorenz received his preparatory
education in the public schools of High-
land. As a schoolboy he was very pi-ofi-
cient in figures and the county superin-
tendent considered him the brightest pupil
in that branch in the county. In 1881 he
graduated from the Southern Illinois State
Normal University at Carbondale, standing
second in scholarship achievements in a
class of ten. While he was at Carbondale
the students received instruction in mili-
tary art and tactics under Captain Spencer
of the United States Army and later under
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Lieut. Hugh R. Reed, of the United States
Ami}'. Mr. Lorenz became a member of a
branch of the National Guard, Company
C, and rose to the rank of captain and sub-
sequently commanded the compan.y. Prior
to entering the University he had taught
two terms in the district schools. While
thus engaged the parents were so pleased
with the i-esult of his work after the
scholars had been publicly examined for
promotion, that they held a meeting and
passed resolutions giving a vote of
thanks to Mr. Lorenz for efficie'nt
work done. After his graduation he
was connected with the schools of High-
land until 1885. That year brought him
to Evansville, Indiana, where he entered
the drug business, and continuously for
over thirty years has been conducting one
of the best appointed drug stores in the
city. It was not until 1900 that he had
his business affairs in such shape that he
was able to realize his ambition to study
medicine. In that year he entered the
Louisville Medical College and graduated
^I. D. in 1903. Since then he has been in
active practice. He is a member of the
Yanderburg County and State Medical So-
cieties, and the American Medical Asso-
ciation.
Outside of his profession Doctor Lorenz
has always taken a deep interest in every-
thing pertaining to the welfare of his
home city and the public schools. He is
an active member of the Chamber of Com-
merce, the West Side Civic Improvement
Association and is a member of the execu-
tive board of one of the prosperous build-
ing and loan associations through the ac-
tivities of which quite a number of thrifty
families have been enabled to live in their
own homes.
In 1882 he married Sophia A. Wehrly, of
Edgewood. Efifingham County, Illinois.
They have two daughters, Julia and Irene.
Julia, a graduate of the Evansville High
School, is the wife of Charles T. Pelz, who
is the manager of the Lorenz Drug Store.
They have two daughters, named Irene
Amelia and Charlotte Lucille. Miss Irene
Frances Lorenz graduated from the Evans-
ville High and the Evansville Normal
Schools, and later from the State Normal
at Terre Haute. She is now doing very
efficient work in the Delaware School at
Evansville. Doctor Lorenz is affiliated
with Reed Lodge No. 316, Free and Ac-
cepted Masons, and Evansville Chapter No.
12, Royal Arch Masons, and his family
attend the Simpson Methodist Episcopal
Church.
Alfred Lewis Reed is a veteran of the
glass making industry, at which he gained
his earl}- experiences in Western Pennsyl-
vania, and was one of the founders of the
glass industry in Indiana. He was con-
nected with various glass companies in this
state until about ten or twelve years ago,
since which time his chief financial and
executive responsibilities have been with
the Ideal Manufacturing Company of An-
derson, of which he is now proprietor.
ilr. Reed was borai at Zelienople, Butler
County, Pennsylvania, in 1859, a son of
Lewis and Mary (Wolfe) Reed. He is of
Scotch-Irish stock. His great-grandfather
Reed came from the north of Ireland and
was an early day settler of Pennsylvania
and later moved to Steubenville, Ohio. Mr.
Reed's grandfather and father were both
tanners at Zelienople, Pennsylvania.
Alfred Lewis Reed was well educated,
attending public school and the Consquenes-
sing Academy at Zelienople and also the
Harmony Collegiate Institute at Harmony,
Pennsylvania. During vacations from the
age of fifteen he helped his father in the
tannery, grinding bark and doing other du-
ties. He had the talent of business enter-
prise, and even when a boy bought and
sold furs. At the age of eighteen he be-
came a messenger in the Harmony State
Bank for one year. Among other early
experiences was work as individual book-
keeper at the German National Bank of
Millerstown, Pennsylvania, where he re-
mained three years, was also a paying tel-
ler, and for one year was bookkeeper with
Tinker & Duncan at Bradford, Pennsyl-
vania. Later for six months he had charge
of the oil well supply stock for J. W.
Humphreys & Company at Ricksburg, New
York. He then returned to Tinker & Dun-
can for six months more, and for three
years was bookkeeper for the Craton Gla.ss
Works at Newcastle, Pennsylvania. For
two years he was manager of the ileadville
Window Glass Works at Meadville, Penn-
sylvania.
This rather extensive experience in the
glass industry he brought with him to In-
diana in 1891 and as a partner built the
Spiceland Window Glass Works in Henry
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County. He was identified with its man-
agement until July, 1892, when the plant
was removed to Fairmont in Grant County
and the name changed to the Big Four
Window Glass Works. He sold his inter-
ests in that company in 1899, but continued
its management for the purchasers for sev-
eral years.
Mr. Reed came to Anderson in 1903 as
office manager of the Anderson Glass
Works, a branch of the American Window
Glass Company. He resigned in 1905, and
for a short time was custodian of receivers
of the Alexandria Electric Light and
Power Company. About that time he be-
came financially interested in the Ideal
Manufacturing Company, and about eight
or nine years ago acquired from his asso-
ciates all the stock. He has brought this
industry to highly successful proportions,
and manufactures an output that is now
shipped all over the United States and to
the Canadian provinces. The chief output
of the Ideal Manufacturing Company in
recent years has been computing cheese
cutters and cabinets, and postage stamp
vending machines. Mr. Reed has other
financial interests at Anderson and else-
where.
In 1884, at Newcastle, Pennsylvania, he
married Miss Armada Howe. She died in
1901, and in 1903 he married Marie Major,
daughter of Stephen Major of Indianap-
olis. Mr. and Mrs. Reed have two children,
Alfred M., born in 1905, and Jane Marie,
born in 1907.
^Ir. Reed has at different times played
an influential part in republican politics.
During the Blaine campaign of 1884 he was
secretary of the Lawrence County Penn-
sylvania Republican Committee, and also
organized the Young Men's Blaine and Lo-
gan Club at Newcastle. He is a York and
Scottish Rite IMason, a member of the
Lodge and Chapter at Anderson, and of
Murat Temple of the Mystic Shrine at In-
dianapolis. He is also affiliated with the
Modern Woodmen of America, the United
Commercial Travelers, and the Presbv-
terian Church.
Charles Friendly Wiley by his achieve-
ments at Elwood has demonstrated the real
dualities and genius in merchandising. A
few years ago he opened a stock of goods
in this line which was by no means the
largest and most pretentious, and in the
face of vigorous competition has built up
a business that is now second to none in
Madison County. He is sole proprietor of
the Charles F. Wiley Company, and the
notable features of this establishment are
not merely the extensive stocks of goods
and their display in several well organized
departments, but the personnel of the or-
ganization, of which Mr. Wiley is the head.
He has developed a remarkable esprite de
corps, and every working member is de-
voted heart and soul to the support of the
liusiness.
Mr. Wiley is a native of Indiana, born
at Bluffton in Wells County June 26, 1872,
a son of Benjamin Franklin and Susan
(Evans) Wiley. He is of Scotch-Irish an-
cestry. His father was a merchant and
farmer and died in 1906. The mother is
still living at Bluffton.
When Charles F. Wiley was fifteen years
of age he decided that his schooling was
sufficient for his needs, and he went to In-
dianapolis and secured a position in the
dry goods store owned by his brother under
the name W. T. Wiley & Company. He re-
mained a salesman there two years, and
after other varied experiences he came to
Elwood in 1906 and bought a small stock
of goods, though without a dollar of capi-
tal, assuming a big debt. He soon had the
store in working operations, making money
and establishing a credit with the whole-
sale houses and earning the confidence of
a widening circle of patronage. He has
developed and organized a complete de-
partment store, with four branches. His
trade now comes from over all that section
of Indiana. Mr. Wiley has a number of
people emploved and has seen his annual
sales develop from $40,000 to $300,000, the
mark reached in 1917. He has never in-
creased his capital but has kept the busi-
ness growing and has sought the complete
allegiance and loyalty of his employes by
a splendid system of promotion and by en-
couraging and bestowing proper and ap-
propriate awards on diligent and honest
work. He organized the Wiley Booster
Club, which is a social organization among
the employes for their mutual benefit as
well as for the welfare of the business at
large. Annually a big banquet is served,
and there are many occasions during the
year when the employes meet in a social
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way. Efficiency is encouraged by efficiency
medals and also by substantial bonuses in
the way of cash.
The Wiley store is at 102-106 North An-
derson Street. Mr. Wilej^ is a republican,
a member of the First Methodist Episcopal
Church, and is affiliated with the Benevo-
lent and Protective Order of Elks, and the
Knights of Pythias at Elwood. He has ac-
quired much local real estate, and all the
ground and building occupied by his busi-
ness is owned by him personally.
Richard Lawrence Leeson is an Elwood
business man whose career well illustrates
the power and influence of the younger
generation in American life and affairs.
^Ir. Leeson is only twenty-four, but is
president and head of the R. L. Leeson &
Sons Company, one of the largest depart-
ment stores in Eastern Indiana and a busi-
ness that requires more than ordinary ex-
ecutive ability and judgment in its direc-
tion. It is a business that has been devel-
oped as a result of many years of straight-
forward and honest merchandising by the
Leeson family. The original store, erected
more than forty years ago, was established
by grandfather R. L. Leeson, and it has
gone through the successive management of
the Leeson family to the present time.
Richard L. Leeson was born in Elwood
April 19, 1894, son of General Wayne and
Rosie (Armfield) Leeson. His father suc-
ceeded to the bu.siness on the death of the
grandfather, and is still an official in the
company, though its heaviest responsibili-
ties are borne by his sons.
Richard L. Leeson had a public school
education, but at the age of fifteen gave up
his books and studies to begin work in his
father's store. His fii-st place was as clerk
in the grocery department, and later he
was transferred to the clothing depart-
ment, and learned both branches thor-
oughly. In 1916 he was made president of
the company. Mr. Leeson has various
other active business interests, including a
farm of 280 acres which he superintends
to a point of productiveness that indicates
he would not be a failure if he put all his
time in agricultural work.
February 25, 1915, Mr. Leeson married
Miss Anna Ring, daughter of Theodore
Ring. They have one daughter. Vivian
Delores Leeson, born February 24, 1917.
Mr. Leeson is a republican voter, member
of the First Methodist Episcopal Church,
is affiliated with the Elwood Lodge of Ma-
sons and Quincy Chapter, Royal Arch Ma-
sons, and the Elwood Lodge of Elks. He
is public spirited, a genial young man,
companionable, and has a host of friends,
but at the same time he has an eye single
to the success and management of his store.
John R. Elder was one of the conspicu-
ous Indianans of the previous generation
whose life and services deserve more than
passing mention in this publication. He
died at Indianapolis April 27, 1908, after
the cheerful bearing of worldly responsi-
bilities for some eighty-seven years. In the
progress of the journalism, education, pub-
lic works and charities in Indianapolis his
wholesome enthusiasm and practical activ-
ity were inspiring and reliable forces.
Whatever position he occupied in private
life or in public aifairs he was the personifi-
cation of "the right man in the right
place." B"'or, although he had commend-
able ambition, he also possessed the com-
mon sense which can nicely measure one's
own capabilities and curb unreasonable as-
pirations.
Born in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania,
December 7, 1820, he came to Indianapolis
with his parents in 1833, attended the city
schools and was apprenticed to the print-
er's trade in the office of the old Indian-
apolis Journal. Before making a perman-
ent start in the practical affairs of life he
decided to obtain a more complete educa-
tion, and in the prosecution of this plan
bought a horse and took the old National
road from Indianapolis to Carlisle, Penn-
sylvania, where he attended Dickinson Col-
lege. After leaving college he secured em-
ployment with the publishing house of Rob-
ert Craighead, New York City, where he re-
mained until his return to Indianapolis in
1848. In the following year he began his
career as a newspaper publisher by estab-
lishing the Locomotive, a little weekly of
which he was everything. The paper, which
became the medium of literary Hoosierdom,
is yet remembered by elderly writers and
thinkers for its bright and broad views of
life. ]\Ir. Elder continued the publication
of the Locomotive until 1860, when the firm
of Elder, Harkness & Bingham bought the
Indianapolis Sentinel and conducted it un-
til 1864. Throughout his journalistic ca-
reer and thei-eafter ]Mr. Elder was unwav-
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ering in his devotion to democratic prin-
ciples, but was so humane and warm that
his friendship embraced men, women and
children of all belief and no belief.
To the cause of public education he con-
tributed to the utmost limit of his means,
time and influence. First he was an untir-
ing member of the Indianapolis Board
of School Tru.stees, which preceded the
Board of School Commissioners, serving
continuously in the latter body from
April, 1869, to July, 1876. During that
period he was made president, and it was
in his administration that the city library
was established. It is characteristic of his
enthusiasm in all matters which promised
improvement to the people he loved that
he himself held the first card issued by the
library management and drew the first
book from the circulation department.
The Indiana & Illinois Central Railroad
Company had thousands of acres of land
come into their possession through subscrip-
tions to their stock. This land was located
principally in Indiana and Illinois, and
was all deeded to John R. Elder, trustee,
and disposed of by him over a period of
from eight to ten years. This was at that
time a very responsible trusteeship.
Naturally interested in the important
question of a pure and adequate supply of
water for the city, he was largely instru-
mental in bringing about this necessity to
the public health, both as an insistent priv-
ate citizen and as president of the Indian-
apolis Water Company. He was at one
time treasurer of the Indianapolis, Decatur
& Springfield Railroad — in fact there was
nothing which concerned the good of In-
dianapolis which did not appeal to him
and which he did not attempt to further.
The charities of the city and state never
appeal to him without practical results, and
for nearly two decades he was officially
connected with their management and de-
velopment. Mr. Elder was one of the
original appointees of the Board of State
Charities, serving from 1860 to 1864, was
again a member of that body from 1889 to
1902, and retiring in the latter year only
because the natural burden of years made
such responsibilities too heavy for Ms
shoulders to bear. He died as an old and
revered attendant of the First Presbyterian
Church of Indianapolis, all the acts and
tendencies of his life being founded on
Christian principles.
He was twice married. In 1848 he mar-
ried Miss Julia Ann Orr, who died in 1853.
In 1854 he married Miss Amelia A. Line,
who died in 1899. The surviving children,
all by the second marriage, are William
L. Elder, Mrs. Frank H. Blackledge and
Dr. Edward C. Elder.
As a fitting conclusion to this sketch
should be quoted from the words of an
editorial that appeared in the Indianapolis
News at the time of his death: "In the
death of John R. Elder Indianapolis loses
a citizen who was one of the sturdy body
that constitutes the strength of a commun-
ity. In his long and honorable life — three
quarters of a century of it, from his boy-
hood, lived here — he was active in business
and political affairs. With the advantage
of an education obtained at Dickinson Col-
lege, which was a rare advantage in those
days, he was better equipped than most
young men. It was natural that he should
he found editing a newspaper which then
was a literary medium beyond present
parallel. From this little weekly paper he
came into the publication of the Sentinel,
the state newspaper organ of the demo-
cratic party. He was long prominent in
educational affairs and public charities.
He was successful in business. He wrought
well in all ways and illustrated in his long
life the steady attainments that make the
useful and respectable citizen, which he
was in the full sense of the term. He was
of a genial nature; liked people old and
young, apart from the accident of station
or association. And so he was a kindly in-
fluence in his personality, as well as in ^'^e
successful discharge of his duties. He
passes among the very last of the genera-
tion that knew Indianapolis when it was
young, and the steadiness of whose purpose
and constancy of endeavor have gone to
the making of the community."
William L. Elder, chairman of the Spe-
cial Commission on Taxation of the State
of Indiana, appointed by Governor Ralston
in 1915, is as a result of that service and
as a business man widely known over the
state. He is a son of the late John R.
Elder, whose life is told in a separate
biography.
Born and reared in Indianapolis, Wil-
liam L. Elder, entered upon his career with
a consciousness of a mission to perform and
an honored family place in Indiana to up-
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hold. He attended the public schools of
Indianapolis, including the high school, and
his first business experience, continued five
years, was as clerk with the old Bank of
Commerce. The next four years he. was
paymaster of the Indianapolis, Decatur
and Springfield Railroad. After that for
about ten years he was a furniture mer-
chant at Indianapolis and also a director
and vice president of the Indianapolis
Street Railway Company. After disposing
of these interests and taking an extended
vacation ]Mr. Elder entered the real estate
field, in which his success has been con-
spicuous. As a specialist in the plotting
and subdividing of lands in and around
Indianapolis he has done about as much as
any other individual citizen to extend and
broaden the growth and development of
a greater Indianapolis. Among subdivi-
sions developed by him are those of Arm-
strong Park, Northwestern Park, Clifton
Place, Edgewood, Marion Heights, Clover-
dale, Eastern Heights, Northeastern Park,
University Heights and Washington
Place.
It was his wide and diversified knowledge
of business affairs that enabled Mr. Elder
to render such valued service to the state
as chairman of the Commission of Taxa-
tion. He is well known in civic affairs at
Indianapolis, a member of the Commercial,
University, Contemporary and Country
clubs, is on the Board of Incorporators of
Crown Hill Cemetery and one of the Board
of Managers of the Sons of the Revolution
in Indiana, of which he was the second
president. He is president of the Indian-
apolis Real Estate Board. Mr. Elder is
and has been for many years a leader in
the democratic party of Indiana. He is a
member of the First Presbyterian Church
and has served as trustee and deacon. In
1885 he married ]\Iiss Laura Bowman, of
Springfield, Ohio.
They have one son, Bowman Elder, born
in Indianapolis March 4, 1888. He is a
graduate of Chestnut Hill Academy and
University of Pennsylvania. On the Dec-
laration of War he entered the Second Offi-
cers' Training Camp at Fort Ben.jamin
Harrison, finishing at Fortress Monroe,
Yirsrinia, where he obtained a commission
as first lieutenant. He was ordered to Fort
Revere, IMassachusetts, where he served as
adjutant. He was later transferred to
Fort Warren, there being promoted to cap-
tain and made coast defense adjutant of
Boston Harbor. At this time he was also
appointed coast defense intelligence officer.
Later he was assigned to the Seventy-first
Coast Artillery Corps, and became adju-
tant of that regiment, and with his regi-
ment sailed for France July 30, 1918,
where he remained till February 22, 1919.
Upon being mustered out of the service
he reentered the real estate
ilRS. Eleanor Atkinson, educator, jour-
nalist and author, was born in Rensselaer,
Indiana, a daughter of Isaac M. Stack-
house. After a course in the Indianapolis
Training School Mrs. Atkinson taught in
Indianapolis and Chicago, and after a
year's experience in newspaper offices in
Lafayette and in Peoria, Illinois, she be-
came a special writer on the Chicago Trib-
une, writing under the pen name of Nora
IMarks. Since 1903 she has been princi-
pally engaged in book writing, and her
works include: "Johnny Appleseed,"
"Mamzelle Fifine." "The Story of Chi-
cago," "The Boyhood of Lincoln," "Lin-
coln's Love Story," "Hearts Undaunted,"
and many others.
In 1891, at Indianapolis, she was mar-
ried to Francis Blake Atkinson, of Chi-
cago, and they have two children, Dorothy
Blake and Eleanor Blake.
LsAAC Wrioht, mayor of Kokomo, for-
mer sheriff of Howard County, is a busi-
ness man of long and successful experience
in Kokomo, where he has had his home
nearly fortv years.
He was born February 14, 1850, close
to Russiaville, on a farm in Howard
County near the Clinton County line. His
parents were William and Arminda (Tay-
lor) Wright. His grandfather, John P.
Wright was one of the very early settlers
of Howard County. He entered a tract of
land in what is now Honey Creek Town-
ship, and he lived and died near the Vil-
lage of New London. He was a very prom-
inent Quaker, a birthright member of the
church, and a leader in promoting its ac-
tivities at New London and helped build
the church edifice in that village. For a
number of years he was considered the
head of the church in New London. His
life was in all respects a model of good citi-
zenship. For nearly sixty-five years he
lived on the farm which he had entered
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from the Government. He was a strict
republican in politics. Of his nine chil-
dren only two are now living.
William Wright when a young man
came • from Vermilion County, Illinois,
and in the same community met Arminda
Taylor, whose father was also an early set-
tler in that vicinity. Two j-ears after his
marriage William Wright located on forty
acres of land given him by his father, and
he spent his life as a farmer. He was also
a Quaker and a member of the church at
New London. Though he had only the
limited advantages of the local schools, he
was always looked upon as a man of strong
common sense, of utmost integrity of char-
acter, and bore an unblemished reputation
until his death. He and his wife had six
children, four of whom are still living.
Isaac Wright, third in order of age,
spent his early life on a farm, and attended
the common schools until twelve years old.
About that time the Quakers built a school-
house, and he finished his education in the
Friends School.
Thirty-nine years ago on coming to Ko-
komo Mr. Wright was employed for four
years as stationary engineer in a local
mill. In 1882 he was appointed deputy
sheriff of Howard County, filled that office
four years, and was twice elected sheriff,
in 1886 and 1888. Since retiring from the
office of sheriff Mr. Wright has been a very
successful and widely known salesman.
He has contributed much to the success and
prosperity of the Kokomo factory for the
manufacture of stained and colored glass
plate, used extensively in churches and
other buildings all over the country.
Mr. Wright has always been a loyal re-
publican, and he was nominated and No-
vember 6, 1917, elected mayor of Kokomo
on that ticket. As head of" the municipal
administration he has naturally taken the
lead in many of the movements by which
Kokomo has contributed a splendid quota
to the resources of the state and nation in
the prosecution of the war.
J. Wall.vce Johnson, a mechanical en-
gineer by profession is now the active and
responsible head of the Johnson Excelsior
Company, an Indianapolis institution that
reflects the experience and the technical
and executive ability of three generations
of the Johnson family.
It was founded by his grandfather, Jesse
B. Johnson, one of the early manufacturers
of Indianapolis. He was bom in Mon-
rovia, Morgan County, Indiana, and in
1879 founded the excelsior plant which
has ever since been carried on by the John-
son family under the name of the Johnson
Manufacturing Company. It was the first
excelsior manufacturing industry in In-
diana, and now ranks third among such
industries in the United States in the
amount of annual production and in the
value of the plant, machinery and equip-
ment.
The original plant as established by
Jesse B. Johnson was located on the canal
where now stands the plant of the Mer-
chants Heat and Light Company. Jesse
Johnson was a man of genius and enter-
prise. He operated his plant by water
power, with machinery which he devised
and built himself. He also invented and
perfected all of the baling and ether ma-
chines required in his plant. The more
modern machinery in use today represents
simplj^ the growth and development of the
elder Johnson's original mechanical equip-
ment. He was a man of splendid ability
and business acumen, and credit is given
him as one of the founders of the present
great industrial resources of Indianapolis,
The second generation in the business
was represented by the late Joseph R.
Johnson, who was born in Indianapolis and
died in that city in 1916. He early be-
came identified with his father's business,
and for several years lived in Dubuque,
Iowa, where he established a similar plant.
After that he returned to Indianapolis and
was the responsible executive of the John-
son Excelsior Company the rest of his life.
He married Caroline Reichert, who is still
living.
J. Wallace Johnson, son of Joseph R. and
Caroline Johnson, was born in Indianap-
olis, was educated in the public schools, in-
cluding the Shortridge High School, at-
tended technical colleges in Penns.ylvania,
and was given all the training of a profi-
cient mechanical engineer. He now has
charge of the plant and operations of the
Johnson Excelsior Company. It was un-
der his direction that the present new plant
was built in 1917 on the Belt Railway at
Keystone Avenue. It is one of the finest
plants of its kind in the country, equipped
with the most modern machinery designed
for efficient, high-speed production. Mr.
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Johnson married ^liss Rozella Barbara
Adams, a native of Indiana.
His uncle, Mr. Oliver J. Johnson of New
York, a brother of Joseph R. Johnson, has
made a notable success as a can manufac-
turer. Most of his operations have been
carried on in West Virginia, and he has
achieved a high place among the industrial
executives of the country.
WiiiTEFORD Myers Berry is secretary
and treasurer of the Tipton-Berry Cigar
Company of Ehvood. Mr. Berry has been
in the cigar business here for a number of
years, and his career has presented many
opportunities and many diverse occupa-
tions, and indicates that he is a man of re-
sources, always able to give a creditable
account of himself in any station or rela-
tionship in life.
Mr. Berry was born in Wayne Township
of Belmont County, Ohio, in 1864, son of
Isaac W. and Elizabeth (Myers) Berry.
The education of his youth was supplied
by the country schools during the winter
terms. At the age of sixteen he went to
work helping on the home farm, and was
there until he was twenty-one. The next
four years he spent as foreman with a
portable sawmill outfit, operating in Bel-
mont County. He also learned the car-
penter's trade and finally bought a half in-
terest in the portable sawmill and for two
years operated under the name Pryor
& Berry. For one year ilr. Berry trav-
eled over the route from Sandusky, Ohio,
to Grafton, West Virginia, as an express
messenger with the United States Express
Company under W. H. Snyder. For an-
other year he worked as bridge carpenter
with the Baltimore & Ohio, with headquar-
ters at Newark, Ohio. He then was given
a position as locomotive fireman with the
Baltimore & Ohio and had different runs
out of Newark on freight trains until 1890.
On :\Iay 10, 1890, he left Newark over the
Chicago & Ohio Division for Bellaire,
Ohio, on Schedule No. 26 firing engine No.
975, with Frank Howard as his engineer.
West of Barnesville his engine collided on
curve No. 47 with engine No. 996, run by
John Krebs. The investigation afterward
Droved that Krebs was at fault because he
had run by the meeting point at Media.
jMr. Berry was caught under the wreckage,
and it was a close call for his life, though
he was not permanently injured. After
that he was clerk in the railroad office at
Newark, Ohio, a year and then fired a yard
locomotive until the fall of 1893. A spell
of illness compelled him to give up rail-
roading, and for a time he managed the
home farm of 130 acres.
In 1895 Mr. Berry married Laura 0.
Tipton, daughter of James E. and Clara
(Carpenter) Tipton and sister of his pres-
ent partner in the cigar business. Their
two children are Grace L., born in 1897,
and Clifton W., born in 1900.
After his marriage Mr. Berry took up
the painting trade and was a house painter
and hard wood finisher for eight years at
Bethseda, Ohio. In 1902 he with his
brother-in-law, E. L. Tipton, moved to El-
wood, Indiana, and at once began the man-
ufacture of cigars under the firm name of
Tipton & Berry. In 1908 the business was
incorporated as the Tipton-Berry Cigar
Company.
Mr. Berry is independent in polities and
has for years supported the prohibition
cause. In Wayne Township of Belmont
County, Ohio, he was elected to office on
the democratic ticket when only twenty-
two years old. He is a member of the
First Methodist Episcopal Church and is
affiliated with the Knights of Pythias at
Elwood.
Rev. William Penn McKinsey. A long
and interesting life has been vouchsafed to
Rev. Mr. McKinsey, now retired at Le-
banon. As a youth he saw active service
for nearly four years as a soldier and offi-
cer in the Union Army during the Civil
war. After the war he was in business for
several years, and then joined the IMetho-
dist Conference, and has given his church
and his people a measure of service and
devotion unsurpassed.
William Penn McKinsey was born Au-
gust 17, 1837, in a log house on a farm in
Rockbridge County, Virginia. His father,
John McKinsey, was born in the same state
in 1806. of Scotch parentage. In 1826 he
married Catherine Crick, who was born in
Virginia in 1809. In 1849 the family
came west and were pioneer settlers in
Clinton County, Indiana, where John Mc-
Kinsey followed farming until his death in
1867. His wife died in 1872. They were
the parents of twelve children, eight daugh-
ters and four sons: Sarah Jane, James
Franklin, Mary Elizabeth, Diana K., Wil-
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liam Penn, Samuel, Letitia, Hannah B.,
Nancy, Margaret Esteline, Rosana Virginia,
and John H. The three still living are
William P., Margaret, and John H. Mar-
garet is the wife of William W. McMillen,
a retired mechanical engineer living at
Peoria, Illinois. John H. is a farmer at
Middletown, Illinois.
Rev. Mr. McKinsey was twelve years old
when his parents came to Indiana. He
lived at home on the farm, attending pub-
lic schools to the age of twenty-one, and
afterward for one year was a student in
the Thorntown Academy. One of the vig-
orous and high spirited young men of his
community, he responded to the call to put
down the rebellion, and enlisted in Com-
pany A of the Fortieth Indiana Infantry.
He was at once appointed a sergeant of his
company, and eight months later on the
field of the battle of Shiloh while in com-
mand of his company was commissioned
first lieutenant. He was in the battles of
Shiloh, Stone River, and Nashville, and in
September, 1863, was made quartermaster
of his regiment and served in that capacity
until the end of the war. He was on the
stafif of Gen. Milo S. Haskell of Indiana,
Gen. Thomas J. Wood, and Gen. George D.
Wagner. For all his arduous and danger-
ous service he escaped wounds. For two
months in 1865 he served as judge advocate
of a general court martial sitting at Hunts-
ville, Alabama. He was mustered out at
Nashville June 12, 1865, after completing
three years and ten months of service.
The war over he returned to Indiana and
for three years was in the merchandise
business at Stockwell. In 1868, just a half
a century ago, he joined the Northwest In-
diana Conference of the Methodist Epis-
copal Church, and after two years was reg-
ularly ordained a deacon by Bishop Ames
and two years later ordained an elder by
Bishop Simpson. For six years he did the
arduous work of a circuit rider, visiting
many remote localities. His first regular
station was for three years at Westville, In-
diana. Since then he has had pastorates
at Plymouth, Delphi, Monticello, Lebanon,
Attica, Brazil, Thorntown, Fowler, and
Plainfield. For five j-ears he was chaplain
of the Indiana Bovs' School, a state insti-
tution at Plainfield. From 1910 to 1913
he was field agent for the Methodist Hos-
pital at Indianapolis. Mr. McKinsey re-
tired in 1913 and has since lived at Le-
banon. However, he has found it impossi-
ble to remain entirely idle, and has an-
swered frequent demands for his services
at weddings and funerals among old
friends.
For over twenty-five years he has been
a director of the Battleground Camp Meet-
ing Association at Lafayette, and was for
several years its president. He is a mem-
ber and vice president of the Preachers'
Aid Society of the Conference. He is past
post commander of the Grand Army of the
Republic at Plainfield, and for many years
has been department chaplain of the State
Grand Army of the Republic. He is also
a member of the Lo.yal Legion and since
1888 has been president of the Regimental
Association of the Fortieth Regiment of
Indiana Volunteers. He is a Royal Arch
ilason.
October 3, 1865, Rev. Mr. McKinsey
married Miss Anna Cones. She was born
in Clay Count.y, Missouri, January 15,
1839., daughter of Joseph and Nancy
(Gregg) Cones, natives of Kentucky. The
only child born to their union, Columbia,
was born July 15, 1866, and died Septem-
ber 7, 1866.
Mr. and Mrs. McKinsey reside in com-
fort at 315 East Pearl Street in Lebanon.
On October 3, 1915, at Lebanon, occurred
an impressive event when more than 500
close friends gathered to celebrate their
golden wedding anniversary. These friends
came from all parts of the state, and as it
happened that the date also coincided with
the annual meeting of the Regimental Asso-
ciation that body honored him with its
presence and the local Grand Army of the
Republic post and Women's Relief Corps
were also among the guests. The tribute
from these friends and those who could
not be present took many forms, and many
valuable gifts were left, including $100 in
gold from the ministers of the Northwest
Conference.
Forrest Jesse Gartside is president,
treasurer and general manager of the Dia-
mond Clamp & Flask Company, one of
Richmond's oldest specialized industries.
It was established bv the late W. W. Gart-
side, who came to Richmond in 1876. He
was a pattern maker by trade and was con-
nected with the Richmond City ]\Iill Works
in charge of the pattern room until he be-
gan manufacturing his own patent, a
INDIANA AND INDIANANS
2039
molder for snap flasks. That was the start
of the present siiccessful industry. Later
other foundry supply products were added,
and today the business is one of national
proportions, its product being shipped all
over the United States and many orders
coming from Canada. W. W. Gartside
was a Knight Templar Mason, a member
of the Presbyterian Church, a republican
in polities. He married Ella J. Bell.
Forrest Jesse Gartside was born in
Knightstown, Indiana, October 1, 1894, and
received his education in the grammar and
high schools of Richmond. In 1913 he
went to work for his father, serving an ap-
prenticeship that gave him a practical and
technical knowledge of all the features of
manufacturing, first working at the drill
press and later learning the wood working
trade. In 1913 he became general manager
of the business and after his father's death
in March, 1917, the company was incor-
porated with Mr. Gartside as president,
treasurer, and general manager and Mrs.
Ella Gartside, his mother, as vice president.
Mr. Gartside is affiliated with Lodge No.
196, Free and Accepted Masons, at Rich-
mond, is a member of Company K of the
Third Indiana Infantry and is a member
of the Rotary Club. In 1917 he married
Miss Bernice Puckett, daughter of Nelson
and Martha Puckett of Richmond.
Eldon L. Dynes, president of the Dynes-
Pohlman Lumber Company, is one of the
leading lumbermen of the state of Indiana.
Some men acquire their permanent tastes
and vocations early in life. This was true
of Mr. Dynes. His favorite playground as
a boy was the old E. H. Eldridge lumber
yard in Indianapolis. If there is any de-
tail of the lumber business with which he
is not thoroughly familiar, none of his as-
sociates and friends have ever found out
what it is.
Mr. D.ynes is a native of Indianapolis,
where he was born September 8, 1872, a
son of Leonidas G. and Nannie (Leake)
Dynes. He is a thorough American, both
his paternal and maternal ancestors hav-
ing come to this country during colonial
days. His maternal ancestor, Edward
Digges, son of Sir Dudley Digges, was gov-
ernor of the Virginia Colony from 1655 to
1658. Other members of the family were
prominent during the Revolution. Mr.
Dynes father was born in Ohio in 1842, and
was well known to the newspaper profes-
sion of a former generation. As a young
man during the Civil war he published the
Union City Eagle. Later he was interested
in the publication of various papers in
Indianapolis. He died in this city in 1904,
and his widow is still living here. Leoni-
das Dynes was an infliiential republican.
Eldon L. Dynes after attending the In-
dianapolis public schools had a brief pe-
riod of employment as a bookkeeper, and
he also gained some considerable knowledge
of law while a student in the offices of Dun-
can & Smith. But he found himself in his
real vocation when in 1898 he was made a
member of the lumber firm of Hamilton &
Dynes at 1100 East Maryland Street. In
1902 the business became the Dynes Liim-
ber Company, and five years later the com-
pany sold their yard in Maryland Street
and built a new plant at Thirtieth Street
and the Jlonon Railroad. In 1908 Mr.
Dynes sold his interest in this company to
H. M. Moore, and the plant is now operated
under the title Indianapolis Lumber Com-
pany. Mr. Dynes' next connection was as
secretary and treasurer of the Anson-Hixon
Sash and Door Company. In 1910 this was
sold to the Adams-Carr Company, and is
now known as the Adams-Rogers Company.
It was in 1911 that Mr. Dynes organized
the Dynes-Pohlman Lumber Company, of
which he is president. Mr. G. E. Pohlman
is secretary and treasurer. The company 's
yards and planing mill are located between
Twenty-Eighth and Twenty-Ninth streets,
adjoining the Monon tracks, and it is one
of the largest plants in the manufacturing
and wholesale lumber district of the city.
In point of efficiency and modern equip-
ment there is no mill in the state that could
.iustly be classed as superior to this one.
Shortly after the plant was completed the
American Lumberman, of Chicago, took a
number of photographs of various parts of
the plant and placed them on exhibition at
the annual convention of the Indiana Re-
tail Lumber Dealers. Every piece of ma-
chinery is of the best type and each ma-
chine is operated by individual electric
motor. Its product is in keeping with the
high degree of mechanical equipment of
the mills. Mr. Dynes has built the business
of the company by striving for high ideals.
In 1900 Mr. D.-^oies married Miss Mae
Stockton Wood, daughter of Mr. Henry
Wood. ^Irs. Dynes was born at Mays-
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ville, Kentucky. They have one daughter,
Lillian "Wood. Mr. and Mrs. Dynes are
members of the Second Presbyterian
Church and in polities he is a republican.
Frederick W. Ballw'eg. This is the
brief story of a successful business man
and of a "family of vei-y earnest, substan-
tial and patriotic citizens of Indianapolis.
Indianapolis has a number of successful
business men, and it should be said at the
beginning that part of this story relates
to the president and active head of the
Fred Dietz Company at 1102 Madison Ave-
nue, and of Ballweg & Company, wooden
box manufacturers at 314 West Wilkins
Street, both of them large and important
concerns in the industries of the city.
The Fred Dietz Company manufactures
packing cases and also a complete line of
factory and warehouse trucks. The Ball-
weg & Company makes wooden boxes and
packing cases, and while the products are
sold principally to the home market, they
are distributed bj' means of the local whole-
sale trade to practically every civilized
part of the world.
What is now a very extensive business
was begun on a small scale on old Mis-
sissippi Street, now Senate Avenue, at the
corner of Louisiana Street. One of the
principal promoters was Ferdinand Zogg,
who came from Switzerland. He sold his
interest and Fred Dietz became a partner
in 1878. After Mr. Dietz retired Frederick
W. Ballweg assumed most of the executive
responsibilities and has since been the head
and manager of the two businesses and
was the founder of Ballweg & Company.
One of the individual car&ers that In-
dianapolis cannot afford to forget was that
of the late Frederick Ballweg, whose work
as a practical business man of Indianapolis
brought him a comfortable fortune and
whose honor and integrity and usefulness
made him one of the most respected men of
that community. He was born March 20,
1825, in Huntheim, a little village of about
120 inhabitants in Baden, Germany. His
parents were Sebastiana and Marianna
(Schusler) Ballweg, both natives of Ger-
many. The father was a cabinet maker
and owned a little farm of twenty acres.
He died in Germany in 1866, at the age
of seventy-five. There were five children :
Generosa ; Cornelia ; Frederick ; Joseph ;
and Ambrose, who died at Indianapolis
September 9, 1881. Ambrose, it should be
mentioned in this connection, was in com-
mand of the arsenal at Indianapolis during
the Civil war with the rank of captain. He
married Amelia Engelman, and they had
four children: Cornelia; Alfred, Charles
and Emma.
The late Frederick Ballweg as a boy in
Germany attended the public schools from
the age of sis to fourteen. The next five
years was given to the thorough learning
of the cabinet making trade, and when
qualified as a master workman he left home
and spent some years in France, traveling
about as a journeyman through variou';
cities and provinces, including Paris and
Toulon.
He was about twenty-four years of age
when on April 1, 1850, he embarked on a
sailing vessel at Havre de Grace bound for
the free land of America. It was a long
.iourney over the ocean and he landed at
New York City on June 7th. A few hours
later he was at Rahway, New Jersey, and
on the next day began working at his trade.
At first lie received $7 a month and board,
and during the second j'ear there from $10
to $12 a week. In the spring of 1852 he
went to New York City, followed his trade
for a year and on September 17, 1853, ar-
rived at Indianapolis.
In Indianapolis he secured employment
with John Ott, one of the first cabinet
makers of the city. After five years of
working for others Mr. Ballweg began an
independent business career in the lumber
trade at Indianapolis. He was one of the
leading lumber merchants for about fifteen
years. In 1878 he bought eighty acres of
land in Perry Township of Marion County,
paying $75 an acre for it, that being a very
high price for that day. Upon this farm
he erected a handsome two-story frame
house and continued to live there in the
enjoyment of its comforts and in the quiet
routine of supervising his farm until his
death on September 13, 1898. His widow
is still living. Frederick Ballweg is remem-
bered by the old time citizens of Indian-
apolis as a wide-awake and progressive
factor in city affairs and equally influential
when he moved to the country and took
part in the affairs of a rural locality. He
was a republican and cast his first vote for
General Fremont for president. He was
born and liaptized a Catholic, but tlirough
his mature life was liberal in religious mat-
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INDIANA AND INDIANANS
2041
ters and was chiefly concerned with those
principles and institutions calculated to
raise and advance the moral standards of
the community. For many years he was
active in the Independent Oi-der of Odd
Fellows.
At Indianapolis January 1, 1854, less
than a year after he arrived in the city, he
married jMiss Eliese Stanger, daughter of
Gustav Stanger. They were married by
Squire Sullivan. To their union were born
twelve children : William, deceased ; Fred-
erick W. : Annie M., deceased; Louis G.,
who died May 29, 1869 ; Franklin A., who
died June 4, 1864; Lena E., who died Sep-
tember 22, 1892 ; Clara M. ; Lilly, who died
in infancy ; Louis E. ; Bertha A., who died
in 1873; Robert M., deceased; and Otto,
who died January 3, 1879.
jMr. Frederick W. Ballweg was born at
Indianapolis February 4, 1857. Most of
his early education was acquired in that
famous institution the German English
Independent School, and he also took a
business coui-se in the C. C. Koerner Busi-
ness College. For nearly forty years he
has devoted himself energetically and suc-
cessfully to the promotion of the business
enterprises above noted.
In 1901 he married Wilhelmina C.
Straub. They are the parents of three chil-
dren : Pauline Elizabeth, Frederick Straub
and Virginia Katherine. The family are
members of the Second Presbyterian
Church of Indianapolis.
William M. Bryant, educator and au-
thor, was born in Lake County, Illinois,
March 31, 1843. His first work after com-
pleting his educational training was as a
teacher, and his work as an educator
brought him success and prominence. His
last work was as instructor in psychology,
ethics and history in the Central High
School, St. Louis, and he retired in 1912.
As an author he has also placed his name
prominently before the public, and he is
the creator of many standard works.
Samuel James Taylor, who is of a
prominent Scotch family and spent his
early life in Scotland, has for thirty years
or more been identified with the Middle
West, principally at IMiehigan City. Mr.
Taylor has been a leading factor in the
larger business life of ilichigan City and
has been equally prominent in many of its
civic activities.
He was born at Ivy Place in the town of
Stranraer in Wigtonshire, Scotland. The
family at one time bore the name McTald-
roch, and generation after generation of
them was devoted to the tending of their
fields and flocks. They were Covenanters,
Lowlanders and Presbyterians. Samuel
Taylor, grandfather of the Michigan City
business man, was a timber and slate mer-
chant at Stranraer. He imported large
quantities of timber from the United States
and Canada and also from Norway and
Sweden. His business frequently took him
to London. He happened to be in that
city June 18, 1832, when a mob attacked
the Duke of Wellington, and Samuel Tay-
lor had the honor of opening a gate through
which that great general passed to safety.
Samuel Taylor died March 21, 1888, at the
age of eighty-two.
Major Samuel H. Taylor, father of Sam-
uel J., was apprenticed to the firm of
Bouchier and Cousland, leading architects
at Glasgow. After completing his appren-
ticeship he was associated with his father
under the firm name of Samuel Taylor and
Son, and besides the lumber and slate busi-
ness they also used their resources in im-
proving real estate in and around Stran-
raer. Samuel H. joined the militia, was
made ensign of the Second Company of
Wigtonshire Volunteers June 16, 1863, and
was commissioned captain of the company
August 6, ■ 1870. This company became
Company C of the Galloway Rifle Volun-
teers, and was attached to the Territorial
Regiment of the Royal Scotch Fusiliers.
He was made honorary major, and bore
that title in private life. He was
selected bv the government to rep-
resent the British volunteers at a confer-
ence held in Belgium in 1869, and a medal
presented him by King Leopold at the time
is now carefully preserved by his descend-
ants. Major Taylor died March 17, 1890,
and was buried with military honors. He
was prominent in public affairs and for
twenty years was in the town council and
was also a magistrate. His wife was Jane
Ramsay, daushter of James and Jane
("Campbell) Ramsay. Her parents moved
from Scotland to Australia, where they
spent their last years. She went to Aus-
tralia with her parents about 1860, taught
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school at Geelong, but returned to England
to be married, returning on a vessel that
reached port six weeks behind schedule
time. Jane Ramsay was born at Dunoon
in Argyleshire, Scotland, and was educated
at the Normal School in Glasgow. "While
there she met the young architect appren-
tice whom she afterward married. They
were married at St. Margaret's Church in
Faulkner Square, Liverpool. She died
February 27, 1887, the mother of six chil-
dren : Henry Ramsay, Charles Warden,
Samuel James, Ernest Campbell, Arthur
Robertson, and Jane Barton.
Samuel James Taylor was educated at
Stranraer Academy. From early youth he
was very fond of athletics, being a member
of the Association Football team and of
the Rowing and Cricket Clubs. For six
years he was in a local military company
as sergeant. This company was known as
Company C, Galloway Rifle Volunteers.
He was secretary of the shooting committee
of the company and arranged the first
match between the Ulster and Belfast Rifle
Associations. As the scores of those asso-
ciations show he was one of the best marks-
men in the South of Scotland. Mr. Taylor
was a member of the Guard of Honor se-
lected to receive the Prince of Wales, later
King Edward, when the prince visited
Stranraer April 27, 1885.
Having completed his academic course
Mr. Taylor became associated with his
father in business, and was thus engaged
for six years, until 1888, when 'he came to
the United States. He brought with him
lyimerous letters of introduction and rec-
ommendation from bankers and magistrates
in Scotland. During the voyage the ves-
sel encountered a terrific blizzard and he
landed three days late, on March 15th, find-
ing New York almost buried in snow. He
came directly west to Chicago, and on
March 27th was employed as a clerk by the
A. G. Spalding & Company, the great
SDorting goods hoiise. Soon afterward the
Western Arms Company bought the gun
department of that store, and Mr. Taylor
went with the new firm and remained im-
til the fall of 1889. He then entered the
wholesale house of IMarshall Field & Com-
pany, the following year became book-
keeper for the Amazon Hosiery Company,
and on August 17, 1890, was sent to ^lich-
igan City by the firm, and was connected
with it until the plant was moved to Mus-
kegon in 1896. During that year Mr. Tay-
lor was appointed deputy chief of the In-
diana Bureau of Statistics in the State
House by John B. Conner, and was busy
with his ofSeial duties until November 1,
1897.
At that date, at the personal solicitation
of the late John H. Barker, Mr. Taylor re-
signed his public office to become actuary
at the Haskell and Barker Car Works in
Michigan City. Upon the death of Mr.
Barker he was elected auditor of the Has-
kell and Barker Car Company. In that
position he was held responsible for the
delivery of all material except lumber and
small supplies. It is a well known fact
that during all the time he held the office
the plant was never retarded for lack of
material. Mr. Taylor finally resigned be-
cause of impaired health, and has since de-
voted his time to his private interests. He
is a stockholder in a number of industrial
plants and is president of the Pinkston
Sand Company, shippers of foundry, core,
grinding, and glass sand from the Hoosier
pits. He is also a stockholder in the First
National Bank of Michigan City.
December 21, 1893, Mr. Taylor married
Miss Julia Adaline Leeds. She was born
in Michigan City, a daughter of Alfred W.
and Minnie (Lell) Leeds, of a well known
old family of the county. Mr. and Mrs.
Taylor have three daughters: Margery
Leeds, a student in the LTniversity of Illi-
nois ; Julia, a student in Rockford College
at Rockford, Illinois ; and Charlotte Ridg-
way. Mr. and Mrs. Taylor are active
members of the Presbyterian Church, he
being a member of the Board of Trustees
and she assistant superintendent of the
Sunday School. He was a member of the
Board of Trustees that had charge of the
erection of the Young Men's Christian
Association building in Michigan City, and
has served as president of the associatithi
and now as a director. He is active in the
Chamber of Commerce, and for twenty
years or more has been identified with every
movement for the advancement of Michi-
gan City. He is a member of the Michi-
gan City Rotary Club, a member of St.
Andrews Society, the oldest charitable so-
ciety in Illinois, is a member of the Chi-
cago Traffic Club, of the Potawattomie
Country Club, and in 1888 was secretary
of the Caledonian Society of Chicago. He
was made a Master Mason in the place of
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his birth in February, 1888, and is now
affiliated with Acme Lodge No. 83, Ancient
Free and Accepted IMasons, with Michigan
City Chapter No. 25, Royal Arch Masons,
Michigan City Council No. 56, Royal and
Select Masons, Michigan City Commandery
No. 30, Knights Templar, and Fort Wa.yne
Consistory of the Scottish Rite. He is a
charter member of Lake City Court No.
520 of the Independent Order of Foresters,
and a member of the Benevolent and Pro-
tective Order of Elks No. 432, and of the
Ahksahewah Canoe Club.
As a republican in politics Mr. Taylor
has at different times been identified with
party affairs, and was especiallj' active dur-
ing ilcKinley 's campaign. He was a mem-
ber of the first county council established
after the passage of the Legislature for
that purpose about 1901. This council ef-
fected a reduction of $105,000 in the county
taxes. In the primary elections in 1917
Mr. Taylor was the choice of his party for
mayor. He has also been instrumental in
bringing about legal procedure to cause
the authorities to cease to -levy illegal taxes
against the citizens of the county. During
the recent war Mr. Taylor served as vice
chairman of the committee for the sale of
"War Savings Stamps and secretary of the
Liberty Loan Committees.
Robert John Logan. Business, like
war, is constantly recruiting younger men
to positions in the ranks or as lieutenants
and captains, and among the younger busi-
ness men of Anderson one who might prop-
erly be considered at least a lieutenant in
rank is Robert John Logan, head of the
firm Logan & Morrison, plumbing and
heating.
Mr. Logan was born at Akron, Ohio,
March 15, 1889, son of J. R. and Mary
fWaldschmidt) Logan. He is of Scotch-
Irish and German ancestry. His grand-
father, Robert J. Logan, was born in Scot-
land and on coming to America settled at
Fredericksburg, Ohio. For a number of
years he was engineer on an old line
railway, now the C. A. & C. Railway. J.
R. Logan also developed his talents as an
engineer. As an employe of the great
match king, Ohio C. Barber, of Akron and
Barberton, he came to Wabash, Indiana,
and constructed the Ignited Boxboard and
Paper Company of that city, and has been
witli that firm continuouslv now for over
thirty-one years. He and his wife are both
living in Wabash.
Robert John Logan was only a baby
when his parents moved to Wabash, and
he grew up there, gaining his education in
the public schools. In 1907 he graduated
from high school, and in the same year en-
tered DePauw t^niversity at Greencastle,
where he spent two years. Leaving col-
lege in 1909, he found a position with an
industrial plant at Wabash, at first as
roustabout and trouble shooter, gradually
worked up to the duties of bookkeeper and
commercial manager. Two years later he
was made manager of the local office. lu
1913 he resigned, and removing to Ander-
son began the sale of gas appliances under
the name The Anderson Gas Appliance
Company at 1033 Main Street. When the
supply of natural gas was exhausted he
gave up that business and in March, 1917,
established a corporation with a former em-
ploye, E. D. Morrison, under the firm name
of Logan & Morrison, Incorporated. Mr.
Logan is president. They bought the
plumbing establishment of John H. Em-
mert, 46 West Ninth Street, and have con-
tinued at the same location but have gi-eatly
improved the service and facilities for
handling all forms of heating and plumb-
ing contracts, including electric heating.
They have done a large amount of work
for private individuals and also some con-
tracts for the city and county.
In 1912 ]\Ir. Logan married Helen H.
Johnson, daughter of George B. and Alice
(Greeson) Johnson, of Wabash, Indiana.
Politically his vote is east independently.
Mr. Logan is affiliated with Wabash Lodge
No. 61, Ancient Free and Accepted Ma-
sons, and also with the Royal Arch Chap-
ter. He is a member of the Presbyterian
Church.
Leon B. Schutz is president and gen-
eral manager of the Credit Apparel Com-
pany, a business that has had a rapid
growth and prosperous career during the
last four or five years, and has expanded
until it now includes three large stores, at
Andei-son, Richmond, and Muncie.
A simple statement of the facts and ex-
periences in the career of Leon B. Schutz
needs no special comment, and the story
stands by itself as a most inspiring and
encouraging one, proving what a young
man of much resourcefulness can accom-
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plish in spite of difficult circumstances and
even of repeated failures.
Mr. Schutz was boru in Lithuania, Rus-
sia, July 15, 1887, a son of Benzion and
Agee (Chones) Schutz. His parents are
still living in the old country. His brother
Moses was a soldier in the Russian army
and is now a prisoner of war in Germany.
Mr. Schutz came to America alone in
November, 1903, at the age of sixteen. For
eight years he lived in New York City.
His first opportunity to gain a foothold
in that busy metropolis was as errand boy
ii; a store. At the end of three weeks his
employer committed suicide and he was out
of a job. At that time three dollars a
week paid his board and lodging. As
stockboy in a cloak and suit factory he en-
dured conditions only a short time, since
be was subjected to menial tasks by his
superiors that he felt it beneath him to con-
tinue longer. In the meantime he was ac-
quiring some training in American ways,
and his next work with better pay was in
the woolen business. He kept working to-
ward larger responsibilities, and finally
was made a city salesman. He remained
with that firm several years, until in the
panic of 1907 he was displaced. He then
went west to Chicago, and worked as a
clothing salesman, a line of which he was
totally ignorant, but where his ready
adaptability and quick observation enabled
him to become a fixture, and he was there
abiut four years.
On returning to New York Cit.y IMr.
Schutz married in 1910 Mary Gross, of
Heightstown, New Jersey, daughter of Wil-
liam and Angle (Muckler) Gross. They
have two children, Herbert born in 1913
and Emeline Dorothy, born in 1917.
Having gradually accumulated a small
capital amounting to about $1,000 Mr.
Schutz after his marriage set up in the
woolen business for himself on Worth
Street in New York City. He was there
a year and a half and then sought a better
location for a business in Los Angeles,
California. In the meantime he had spent
his capital, and on returning to New York
City went to work for the Regal Shoe Com-
pany as salesman at fifteen dollars a week.
In two months time his record of sales was
the best of any similar employe of the
company. But he was not content to re-
main an employe, and in 1913 he came to
Anderson and accepted the position of
manager of the People's Clothing Com-
pany. After 31-2 years he took a partner
and in 1917 established the Credit Apparel
Company. The rapid growth of the busi-
ness has enabled the firm to establish two
branches, one at Muncie and one at Rich-
mond, and they now have three large sales-
rooms with fine fixtures and employ about
twenty-five clerks and others, and handle
a splendid line of cloaks, suits, and men's
clothing. The company does an immense
business both in the country and city trade.
Mr. Schutz is president of the corporation
and is manager of the Anderson branch.
He is buyer for all the stores.
ilr. Schutz is a republican. He is an
orthodox Jew and Zionist, and is treasurer
of Ahavath Achim Temple at Anderson.
Fraternally he is affiliated with Veritas
Lodge No. 735, Ancient Free and Accepted
Masons, at New York City and with the
Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks
at Anderson.
Clement V. Carr. It is not merely his
official position as sheriff of Wayne County
which makes Mr. Carr one of the most
widely known and appreciated citizens of
that section of Indiana. He had a strong
hold on the confidence and esteem of the
community before he was chosen to the of-
fice of sherifi', and has shown business judg-
ment and integrity through all the varied
relationships of his life.
He was born in Butler County, Ohio,
February 2, 1863, a son of Jacob G. and
Katherine (Zeller) Carr. He is of Scotch-
Irish ancestry. He was born on a farm,
lived in one of the rural districts of Ohio
until he was ten years old, when his par-
ents moved to Wells County, Indiana, and
there as a boy he assisted his father in
working the 160 acre farm. At the age of
eighteen, in 1882, he came to Richmond and
learned the trade of molder in the plant of
the Hoosier Drill Company. He remained
with that one firm as one of its most relia-
ble workers for thirteen years. He then
took employment with the Jones Hardware
Company. He gave up this business con-
nection to go to Solomon, Kansas, and take
charge of a large ranch of 4,220 acres
owned by J. M. Westcott. This was one
of the famous ranches of the Solomon Val-
ley in Dickinson County, Kansas, near
Abilene. Mr. Carr remained as its man-
ager for five years, and for the next two
INDIANA AND INDIANANS
2045
years was engaged in cattle raising at
IJonlder, Wyoming. Returning to Rich-
mond in 1911, he began farming for him-
self on a place of 172' o acres near Rich-
naond. He left the active management
after five yeai-s to enter politics as primary
candidate for the office of sheriff in 1916.
There were ten aspirants for the republi-
can nomination, and he won out over them
all and in the succeeding election he de-
feated his democratic opponent, Ben Dris-
chel, by 1,700 votes. In 1918 he was again
successful at the primaries and defeated
Isaac Burns for a second term by a similar
plurality. The sheriff's office on all ac-
counts has never been in better hands than
since Mr. Carr took its management. He
is a man of vigor, courageous and prompt
in decisions, and thoroughly well qualified
for his duties. On May 10, 1917, he was
appointed chairman of the Wayne County
Conscription Board No. 1, and had those
duties throughout the war period. Mr.
Carr is a popular member of the Benevo-
lent and Protective Order of Elks, Knights
of Pythias, and the Wayne Lodge of
Moose No. 167. He is a member of the
Grace Methodist Episcopal Church at
Richmond.
He is properly proud of his fine family.
Februaiy 27, 1883, he married Lillie A.
Fasold, daughter of John Fasold of Rich-
mond, Indiana. There were four children
born to their marriage: Herbert A., born
January 24, 1884, died at the age of
twenty-one ; Clifford H., born September
21, 1888, accounts for the star in the serv-
ice flag in the family home. He graduated
with the degree electrical engineer from
the Kansas State Agricultural College at
Manhattan in 1907, and for several years
was engineer of the sales department of
the Allis-Chalmers Company at Kansas
City. Early in the war he enlisted and is
at present in the warrant office of the
United States Navy. He married at ^lan-
hattan, Kansas. The two younger children
of ilr. and Mrs. Carr are Katharine Zeller,
now a jimior in the Richmond High School,
and Earle W., also a high school student,
born in 1906, on the Westcott Ranch, Solo-
man, Kansas.
James A. Van Osdol, an Indiana lawyer
of over thirty years experience, has largely
specialized his services in behalf of the
Union Traction Company of Indiana since
that transportation system was put in oper-
ation. Mr. Van Osdol is general attorney
for the company, with offices and head-
quarters at Anderson, and at one time was
associated as a law partner with Charles L.
Henry, who perhaps more than any other
man was responsible for inaugurating the
building of interurban electric lines which
are now comprised in this splendid Union
Traction System.
Mr. Van' Osdol is of old Holland Dutch
lineage, first established in the colony of
New .Jersey. The early records show' that
a member of the Van Osdol family was
sent by the Dutch government to America
for the purpose of testing clays with a
view to the establishment of potteries.
This pioneer Van Osdol was so well satis-
fied with the new country that he re-
mained, and started the American branch
of the family which sul)sequently moved
to Pennsylvania, and later came down the
Ohio Valley to Southern Indiana. Through
most of the generations the famil.y have
been farmers.
James A. Von Osdol was born in Cass
Township, Ohio County, Indiana, August
4, 1860, son of Boston Weaver and Rachel
(Jenkins) Van Osdol. His early life was
spent in the rugged and backwoocls districts
of Ohio County, and his early education
was limited to the public schools there in
winter terms, while his services found am-
ple employment on the farm during the
summer. In this way his life went on un-
til he was seventeen years of age, when he
obtained a certificate and began teaching
school. This was a vocation he followed
for six years in his native county. The
last three years of that time he studied law
at home privately, and in 1883 he was ad-
mitted to the bar by Judge Allyson. He
had in tlie meantime moved to Vevay,
Switzerland County, Indiana, and shortly
he .joined William D. Ward under the firm
name of Ward & Van Osdol, which was
continued until 1893. In the latter year
Mr. Van Osdol moved to Elwood, Indiana,
where he practiced for two years, and in
1895 moved to Anderson, and there
became associated with Charles L. Henry
and E. B. ^IcMahan in the law firm
of Henry, Mcilahan & Van Osdol. This
firm was continued for two years. Mr.
Van Osdol was associated from the first
with Mr. Henry and other men in the or-
ganization of the Union Traction Company,
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and early in the history of the organiza-
tion was chosen its general attorne.y and
has since been at the head of the legal de-
partment and in more or less intimate
touch with all legal matters affecting the
organization and operation of the present
concern known as the Union Traction Com-
pany of Indiana.
Mr. Van Osdol is one of the directors of
the Anderson Trust Company. In the
spring of 1917 he was appointed chairman
of the Red Cross organization in Madison
County, and was also early appointed a
member of the Indiana Advisory Commit-
tee of the American Red Cross. Under
his leadership Madison County responded
generously to every call of the Red Cross.
He has been quite active in republican
party affairs, and perhaps chiefly so while
living in Southern Indiana. In 1888 he
was elected superintendent of public
schools of Switzerland County. :Mr. Van
Osdol is a member of the Columbia Club of
Indianapolis, the Tourist Club of Ander-
son, the Rotary Club of Anderson, is presi-
dent of the Anderson Chamber of Com-
merce, is affiliated with the Knights of Py-
thias at Vevay, and has membership in the
First Methodist Church at Anderson. Mr.
Van Osdol has been twice married. By his
first marriage he has a son, Robert. In
1894 he married Mrs. Mary P. (Gould)
Goodin, of Peru, Indiana. By her first hus-
band she had a son, Donald Goodin. Mr.
and Mrs. Van Osdol have one child, Gould
J. Van Osdol, bom in 1902.
Rex D. Kaufman is sole proprietor of
the Kaufman Hardware Company, a busi-
ness which was established in Anderson
many years ago by his father and in which
he developed his own skill and capacity as
a merchant. This is one of the large con-
cerns of Eastern Indiana, and does both a
retail and jobbing business in light and
heavy hardware and mill supplies all over
this portion of the state.
Mr. Kaufman was born November 14,
1884, at Kokomo, Indiana, a son of Dan
T. and Eva (Turner) Kaufman. His
father was a merchant for many years,
and associated with George W. Davis as
a partner in the Lion Store at Anderson
from 1886 until on the dissolution of the
partnership, Mr. Davis took the dry goods
department and Dan Kaufman the hard-
ware and mill supply end, which he con-
tinued successfully until his death in June,
1915.
Rex D. Kaufman has three living sis-
ters. He was educated in the public
schools of Anderson, spending three years
in high school. From early boyhood he
had worked in his father's store, and at the
age of eighteen took his place as a regular
clerk therein and acquired a thorough
knowledge of every branch of the business.
After his father's death he bought the busi-
ness and has continued it under the same
high plane it was run in his father's day.
It requires the services of fifteen people to
conduct the store. Mr. Kaufman is also
a stockholder and vice president of the
"Wynne Cooperage Company at Wynne,
Arkansas. He was president of the Ander-
son Club in 1916-17, is a member of the
Chamber of Commerce, the Columbia Club
of Indianapolis, is a Knight Templar Ma-
son, has attained the thirty-second degree
in the. Scottish Rite, is a member of the
Mystic Shrine, of Anderson Lodge No. 209,
Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks,
and is quite active in republican party
affairs.
In 1912 he married Nondas E. Craft,
daughter of William and Mary Craft, of
Anderson.
Philip Zoercher is an Indianapolis law-
yer who is one of the important contribu-
tions of Perry County to the capital city,
ilr. Zoercher has long been prominent in
public affairs in Indiana, has served in the
State Legislature, as Supreme Court re-
porter, and is now a member of the board
of state tax commissioners.
Mr. Zoercher was born at Tell City, In-
diana, October 1, 1866, son of Christian
and Mary Anna (Christ) Zoercher. They
were the parents of eight children, six of
whom are still living.
Christian Zoercher was born in Bavaria,
Germany, and grew up there until sixteen
years of age. In order to escape eom-
jiulsory military service he left the Father-
land and came to the United States in
1848. His first location was at Poughkeep-
sie, New York, where he worked at the cab-
inet maker's trade. After that he lived
successively for .short intervals at Cleve-
land and Cincinnati, and in April, 1866,
moved to Tell City, Indiana, where he
found employment in the shops of that
town. While at Cincinnati he married.
INDIANA AND INDIANANS
2047
and after moving to Tell City he settled
down in a permanent home. Prominence in
polities and the other abnormal events of
life had no place in the career of Christian
Zoercher. His one predominant quality
was industry, and he became widelj* known
throughout Perry County for his good, sub-
stantial qualities. His greatest enjoyment
was in the quiet and happy relationship
of his home, and he had no convivial habits.
He was honest and law abiding, and his
career expressed all that was best in man-
hood. In religious belief he was a Men-
nonite, but there being no church of that
organization in his locality he attended the
Evangelical Church. In politics he was a
republican until 1872, and from that time
forward a democrat. But he did not care
to make a name in politics, his only public
service being as councilman. He died hon-
ored and respected February 6, 1917. His
wife passed away in September, 1906.
Christian Zoercher was especially fortunate
in the choice of a wife. She bore her part
in the making of a home, and few mothers
were loved more devotedly than this
mother, who uncomplainingly filled the
niche allotted to her.
Mr. Philip Zoercher grew up at Tell
City, attended the public schools there and
the Central Normal College at Danville.
During four years of his early youth he
worked in the factory of Tell City.. He
also taught school one year, and in 1888,
at the age of twenty-two, was elected to rep-
resent Perry County in the State Legisla-
ture. He was re-elected in 1890, serving
four years altogether. At least one im-
portant law now upon the statute books
of Indiana testifies to his legislative experi-
ence. This was the bill which be intro-
duced compelling county auditors to apply
the surplus funds in the county treasury to
the redemption of its outstanding indebted-
ness.
While a member of the State Legislature
Mr. Zoercher took up the study of law, and
in November, 1890, was admitted to the
bar. He began practice at Tell City. Dur-
ing the county seat fight between Cannel-
ton and Tell City, and against his better
.iudgment, he was induced to establish an
English speaking paper in his native city.
This was the Tell City News. He sold this
paper in 1900 and then gave his complete
attention to his private law practice. In
November, 1900, Mr. Zoercher was elected
and served one term of two years as prose-
cuting attorney of the Second Indiana
Judicial District. It is reported that he
was probably the most efficient prosecuting
attorney that district ever had.
In 1912 Mr. Zoercher was elected re-
porter for the Supreme Court of Indiana,
and continued to discharge the responsibili-
ties of that office until January 14, 1917.
Since that time he has been a member of
the law firm of Zoercher & Patrick, with
offices in the Fidelity Loan Building of In-
dianapolis. In March, 1917, Mr. Zoercher
was appointed a member of the board of
state tax commissioners.
June 26, 1892, he married Miss aiartha
McAdams. They have three children:
Mary Anna, Martha McAdams and James
McAdams. Mr. Zoercher is affiliated with
the :\Iasonic Order, the Independent Order
of Odd Fellows, the Knights of Pythias
and in religious practice is a Presbyterian.
William Samuel Curtis was born at
Newport in Wayne County, Indiana, June
19, 1850, a son of William C. and Elizabeth
R. Curtis. He attended ilcKendree Col-
lege, Lebanon, Illinois, and Washington
University, St. Louis, and became first a
teacher and then a lawyer. He was made
Dean of the St. Louis Law School in 1894
and Dean Emeritus in 1915. He was a
member of the Church of the Unity, St.
Louis, and was independent in his politi-
cal affiliations. The death of William Sam-
uel Curtis occurred at Pier Cove. Michi-
gan, May 23, 1916.
Robert Elliott has been a resident of
Indianapolis twenty-five years. He is re-
sponsible for giving this city one of its im-
portant industries, the Standard Dry Kiln
Company, of which he is president, and
has handled many other commercial inter-
ests at the same time.
A native of Detroit, Michigan, born Feb-
ruary 11, 1859, Mr. Elliott is of English
and Scotch ancestry. His father, Robert
Elliott, Sr., was a native of Canada but
for sixty years lived in Detroit, where he
died in 1915. In Detroit Robert Elliott,
Jr., grew up, attended the local schools,
and as a young man became connected with
the Huyatt & Smith Manufacturing Com-
pany and still later was with the Detroit
Blower Company. Here it was that he
gained a technical familiarity with the dry
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kiln business, especially the manufacture
of machines for drying clay products and
lumber. He has witnessed most of the im-
portant improvements aaad technical
process, which, beginning with a crude
blower system, has advanced from stage to
stage, involving many adaptations in detail
and a gradual change of basic principle to'
the "Moist Air" system.
As a result of the failure of the house at
Detroit Mr. Elliott and :Mr. A. T. Bemis
in 1887 removed to Louisville, Kentucky,
and started a similar business on an inde-
pendent scale. It was freely predicted that
they would fail. However, they knew what
they were about as a result of long and
thorough experience, and all predictions as
to the outcome of their enterprise failed to
materialize. Mr. Elliott finally bought the
interest of his partner, and in 1890 incor-
porated the company with a capital stock
of $50,000. In order to get a more cen-
tral location he moved his plant to Indian-
apolis in 1894. Here the industry has
grown and flourished, with Mr. Elliott as
directing head from the beginning until
within the past year or so, when his son
Robert C. took the active management.
Mr. Elliott is also vice president of
Brown-Hufifstetter Sand Company and
president of the Western Machine Works.
He has kept in close touch with the ma-
terial growth and social affaii-s of Indian-
apolis and has membership iu many of the
more notable organizations of Indianapolis,
including the Chamber of Commerce, the
Athaeneum, the Academy of Music, the
Eotery and Woodstock clubs and the Ma-
sonic Order, in which he is a Knight Tem-
plar, a Shriner, and a thirty-second degree
Scottish Rite ilason. Politically he is an
inileiiendcnt republican and in religion is
a Unitarian.
In 1S89 :\Ir. Elliott married Miss Anna
Schaefer. of Louisville, Kentucky. Their
three children are named Robert C, Amy
Louise and Edward J.
George L. Bonham is an Anderson mer-
chant and business man, proprietor of
what is known as the ' ' Popular Price Shoe
Store," and has justly earned every suc-
cessive promotion and added success that
have followed his efforts since early boy-
hood.
Mr. Bonham was born December 21,
1863, at Hartford City, Indiana, son of
William A. and Mary A. (Robey) Bon-
ham. He is of English ancestrj', and the
first American of the name, George Bon-
ham, came to this country in colonial times
and settled on a tract of virgin land in
Pennsylvania. Later members of the fam-
ily were soldiers in the Revolution, and in
nearly all the generations the Bonhams
•have been agriculturists. Peter Bonham,
grandfather of George L. settled in Perry
County, Ohio, in 1832, was a pioneer there,
and in 1836 came still further west to a
comparatively pioneer community, locating
in Blackford County, Indiana, where he
bought government land near the present
City of Roll. He was a high type of citi-
zen, and lived an industrious and honored
career. He died in 1858. He married
Susanna H. Yost, and they had eight chil-
dren. Fifth among these childi-en was
William A. Bonham, who was born in
Perry County, Ohio, in 1834. He grew
up on a farm, had a country school educa-
tion, and attended an academy in Ohio.
For a time he taught school in Perry
County, Ohio, and on returning to Indiana
taught in Washington Township of Black-
ford County. Later he took up the study
of law with A. B. Jetmore of Hartford
City, and about the close of the Civil war
was admitted to the bar in Blackford
County. He practiced with success for
twenty years. He died in 1888. Politically
he first affiliated with the democratic and
afterward with the republican party. In
1868 he was elected on the democratic
ticket to the State Senate, and subsequently
he was republican candidate for Congress
from the Hartford City District. As a law-
yer he handled a general practice and was
perhaps best known for his ability in crimi-
nal law.
George L. Bonham was the second in a
family of three children. He was educated
in Hartford City, but at the age of thirteen
began contributing to his own support.
During vacation seasons he worked for a
local grocery firm, and it was his distinction
to inaugurate the fii-st free delivery system
of groceries in that town. Up to that
time it had been the general practice and
custom of long standing that purchasers
should in some way get their purchases
home without the merchant having any re-
sponsibility after the goods left the coun-
ter. ^Ir. Bonham did the delivery work
with an old hand cart. He kept this up for
INDIANA AND INDIANANS
2049
several vacation seasons. At the age of
sixteen he left public school altogether and
went to work as clerk in the grocery de-
partment of a local department store.
Later he transferred his services to the shoe
department, and acquired much knowledge
that he has been able to utilize ever since.
For fifteen years he was with the Weiler
Department Store at Hartford City, and
much of that time was buj-er and manager
for the shoe department.
Having an ambition to get into business
for himself, and having thriftily saved his
money for that purpose, he opened his first
stock of shoes only a block away from
where he had been employed, and remained
in business there for ten years under the
name George L. Bonham, Popular Price
Shoe Store, "On the Square." Mr. Bon-
ham finally sold his business in Hartford
City wi»h the intention of going to Cali-
fornia. He changed his mind, and con-
tracted to buy an established business at
Marion, Indiana. The agreement fell
through and in 1914 he came to Anderson
and established a new store at 815 Meri-
dian Street. He was there two years, and
the lease having expired he moved to his
present location at the corner of Meridian
and Ninth streets, the former location of
the Anderson Banking Company. This
store is headquarters for the W. L. Douglas
shoes, and he has built ud a trade that now
seeks his goods from all the country sur-
rounding Anderson, ineluding large por-
tions of Delaware, Henry and ilarion
counties.
In 1886 Mr. Bonham married Cora Belle
Atkinson, daughter of James L. and Martha
J. (Stevens) Atkinson. Her parents lived
near Upland in Grant County. Mr. and
Mrs. Bonham have four children: Ruth,
who married Raymond A. Klefeker, of
Oklahoma City ; is the mother of two sons
and three daughters; Martha, at home;
James William, who was born in 1895,
graduated from the high school in 1913 and
is now associated with his father in busi-
ness; and George L., born in 1908. Mr.
Bonham is a republican, a member of the
board of stewards of the First Methodist
Episcopal Church, and is affiliated with the
Knights of Pythias, having filled all the
chairs and sat in the Grand Lodge of that
order.
W. A. Cl.\rk is an Anderson business
man, proprietor of the W. A. Clark Trans-
fer Company, a business which he has built
up to a large service, though he began it
with himself as sole operative and with his
only equipment a horse and dray.
IMr. Clark was born at Anderson October
30, 1869, son of Henry and Margaret (Lee)
Clark. He is of Scotch and English ances-
try. The family before coming to Indiana
lived in Darke County, Ohio. W. A. Clark
received most of his education in country
school No. 6 in Lafayette Township of
iladison County. While getting his educa-
tioH he also worked on the home farm, and
that was his experience and routine in life
until he was about nineteen. His father
also did a teaming business, and the sou
worked as a driver, but at the age of twen-
ty-one came into Anderson and spent eleven
months as an emploj^e of the Big Four Rail-
way Company. He was paid $1.35 per day.
Though the wages were small he managed
to set aside a certain sum as saving and
capital, and from that modest accumula-
tion he bought his first horse and dray and
began trucking. From that he has de-
veloped a service that would now require
a number of horse draj's and motor trucks,
and is busy every working day in the
year. His equipment and service are
largely made use of by the various factories
of Anderson.
March 25, 1895, ]Mr. Clark married Addie
^lay McNatt, daughter of Samuel and
Mary Ann (Moore) ilcNatt. They have
four children : Beulah ilargaret. who is em-
ployed by her fatlier ; Ralph, born in 1903 ;
Katherine Pauline, born in 1909 ; and Fred,
born in 1913. Mr. Clark is an independent
republican in politics and is affiliated with
the Knights of the Golden Eagle. 'Sim.
Clark and daughter are members of the
First Christian Church.
]\IiCHAEL George O'Brien. In naming
the prominent men of Anderson now in
commercial life, account must be taken of
those who are representative in professional
as well as strictly business activity, and
no better example can be presented than
Michael George O'Brien, who is not only at
the head of his own bond and brokerage
business, but is identified officially or other-
wise with a number of other stable con-
cerns. Mr. O'Brien bears a name that in-
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dicates Irish ancestry, and no one could
take more genuine pride in having come
from an old County Clare family, de-
scended from Brian Boru. He is a vigor-
ous broad-minded, generous-hearted man,
college bred and widely read, and for many
years devoted his brilliant talents to the
work of the Christian ministry, in which
he became favorably known all over and
beyond the state.
Michael George O'Brien was born at
LaFayette in Tippecanoe County, Indiana,
July 15, 1862. His parents were Michael
and Hannah (McMahon) O'Brien. In boy-
hood he attended the parochial school and
afterward took a course in Professor Ken-
nedy 's business college at LaFayette. Sub-
sequently circumstances so guided his life
that he spent three years in a theological
course, where he received his degree in
1887. Three years later he was ordained
by the Wesleyan Methodist Conference at
Fairmount, Indiana, a minister of that
body and his first charge was at Peru, In-
diana. Mr. O'Brien remained there for
three years and then was transferred to
the Wesleyan Church at South Wabash,
where he spent three more years of earnest
effort, and the next six years were spent
ministering to the Wesleyan Methodist
churches at Wabash, Lewis Creek and at
Hope, Indiana.
In the meanwhile, through closer study
of theological history and wider personal
experiences, Mr. 0 'Brien came to the part-
ing of the ways with the Wesleyan Church
but was not ready to lay aside the burdens
he had assumed when he had become a min-
ister. Hence he turned to the Christian
Church, with which religious denomination
he united at Columbus. Indinia. and sub-
sequently was pastor of the Central Chris-
tian Church at Kankakee, Illinois, for three
years. During this latter period he became
chaplain of the Eastern Illinois State Hos-
pital, being an appointee of former Gov-
ernor Dencen. This was his closing year
of ministerial work.
During his entire period of service in the
church Mr. O'Brien had been faithful and
zealous, had increased membership and
added to church property. He was beloved,
trusted and admired wherever his pastor-
ates had been located. But, even honest
affection and real esteem will not, in
modern days, provide sufficiently for the
normal needs of a growing familj' when
supplemented merelj' by the very meager
salary usually voted a minister in the above
religious organizations, and this situation
finally became so acute that Mr. u 'Brien
in self defense, determined to leave profes-
sional life entirel.y and embark in business,
where a decided natural talent would give
him opportunity to properly provide for
those dependent upon him. Many protests
assailed him, and among the influences that
sought to break his resolve were flattering
calls to several Chicago churches.
For two years Mr. O'Brien then served
as district manager of the Illinois Life In-
surance Company, and then went into busi-
ness for himself, in the line of stocks and
bonds, and for three years was junior part-
ner in the firm of Hetherington & O'Brien,
general brokers, at Kankakee, Illinois.
From that city he removed to Mansfield,
Ohio, and in association with F. A. Wilcox
of Akron and C. H. Waltes of Rochester,
New York, organized what is now known
as the Mansfield Rubber Company, of
which he was one of the officials. He also
was one of the organizers of the National
Rolling Mill Company, of Mansfield, and
served as its vice president for three years.
In 1912 Mr. O'Brien came to Anderson,
and has been practically interested here
ever since. He assisted in the i-eorganiza-
tion of the Shimer Wire and Steel Com-
pany, and served as vice president until the
plant was moved from Anderson to Evans-
ville, Indiana, and he continued with the
company for four years, since when he has
been a permanent resident of Anderson,
and in 1917 opened his present bond and
brokerage office. Among other Anderson
enterprises in which Mr. O'Brien is inter-
ested is the Lincoln Motor Truck Company,
of which he was one of the founders and
is a director. The success which has at-
tended Mr. O'Brien in his business under-
takings has been gained throus-h tlie honor-
able methods that might have been expected
of a many of such high personal character.
Mr. O'Brien was married in 1885 to Miss
Fidelia Smith, who was born in Hamilton
County, Indiana, and is a daughter of
Thomas and Lorena (Castor) Smith, the
family being old settlers in that section.
Seven children were born to Mr. and Mrs.
O'Brien and three daughters are married.
In political life Mr. O'Brien is identified
INDIANA AND INDTAXANS
2051
with the republican party. He belongs to
the Benevolent and Protective Order ot
Elks and is a Mason of high degree.
Charles Henry Sell has had a long
record of service as a merchant at Rich-
mond, and has had an unusually varied
and interesting experience during his
career.
He was born at Anington in Wayne
Countv, Indiana, in 1867, son of Francis
M. and Charlotte (Bedell) Sell. He is of
German and English-Scotch ancestry. He
attended public schools to the age of twelve
and then went to work in a grocery store.
He made such progress thait when he was
fifteen or sixteen years old he managed a
small store on his own responsibility. Then
for ten years he was employed by M. C.
Henley, serving as shipping clerk and in
other capacities. He also learned the ma-
chinist trade, spending three years with
Gaar. Scott & Company, and for one year
was with the Robinson Machine Company.
On leaving Richmond he was in Kansas
City with the Economy Gas Burner Lamp
Company a year, and with Swift & Com-
pany there one year, having charge of three
small departments of that corporation.
In the meantime Mr. Sell had amused
himself and acquired much skill as an ama-
teur camera artist. He made this a source
of much value to him while traveling
through California on a vacation, and
practically paid his expenses for a time
with his camera in a general tour from the
Pacific to the Atlantic Coast. He finally
returned to Richmond from Boston and es-
tablished a grocery business of his own,
borrowing the money. His first business
was on the west side on Richmond Avenue,
and he enjoyed unusual prosperity there
for five years. He then opened the White
Meat Market on Main Street, and a year
later traded for a grocery and meat market
on Swain Avenue. He has since continued
this business, but since 1917 has been grad-
ually relieving himself of his responsibili-
ties with the expectation of retiring and en-
joying his ten acre farm, where he raises
pigs and chickens. He also owned a sub-
division of forty-two lots, and has sold half
of these lots for building purposes.
In 190.5 ]\Ir. Sell married Bertha Gaines,
of Richmond. Thev have one child, Charles
Drury, bom June '3, 1917. Mr. Sell is an
independent republican in politics, a mem-
ber of the First Christian Church, and is
affiliated with the ilasonic Lodge and
Knights of Pythias at Richmond.
George F. Edenh.\rter, M. D.. The
service of one of Indiana's gi-eatest institu-
tions, the Central Indiana Hospital for the
Insane at Indianapolis, has been to a large
degree the direct expression and the fruits
of the abilitv, experience and administra-
tive work of Dr. George F. Edenharter.
Doctor Edenharter is now closing his twen-
ty-fifth consecutive year as its superintend-
ent. For sixteen years he held the office in
recurring four-year terms, but in 1909 was
re-elected for an indefinite term and since
then for good and sufficient reasons there
has been no re-election.
At this point it is not possible to do full
justice to the Central Indiana Hospital for
the Insane or Doctor Edenharter 's service
as its administrative head. However it is
possible to gather from the remarks and
comments of men eminent in the profession
and institutional administration some of
the outstanding features of the work which
may properly be mentioned here. Indiana
was one of the first states to introduce an
improvement upon the old methods of han-
dling the insane bv the establishment of
a pathological laboratory and hospital for
the' sick insane. When this department
WPS dedicated by the Marion County Medi-
cal Society in December, 1896, a noted Chi-
cago specialist. Dr. L. Hektoen, in the
course of his address said: "The present
occasion marks the most significant step in
the advancement and improvement of the
humanitarian work in which institutions
like the Central Indiana Hospital for In-
sane are engaged. The inauguration, under
the present auspicious circumstances, of a
fully eouipped, substantial department of
this hospital, built in accordance with the
best modern views, reflects gi-eat credit
upon the development of American alien-
ism, upon the intelligence of the Board
of Control of this institution and of its
superintendent."
Some years later, in 1904, after the
laboratory of pathology had been in opera-
tion and had shown its value, the speaker,
Prof. Frank W. Langdon, M. D., before the
Indianapolis ^ledieal Society congratulated
its members upon pioneer work being ac-
complished by the institution in the west.
"How well it has been organized," said
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this speaker, "and how well it is fulfilling
its mission it is not necessary for me to
tell you. The superintendent of this hos-
pital is building his monument from day to
day and year to year, not alone in the mate-
rial structures devoted to pathological
anatomy and the sick insane, but also by
his devotion to the higher researches of
neurologic and psychiatric medicine. These
annual meetings of the leading medical so-
ciety of Indiana under the roof of the most
complete laboratory for psychiatric re-
search of any hospital for the insane in our
country are in themselves unique ; they are
also equally helpful and stimulating to the
practitioner and the special student of
nervous and mental diseases. ' '
More significant still was the language
used by the board of trustees in March,
1909, when they re-elected Doctor Eden-
harter for a fifth term as superintendent.
After expressing their unqualified approval
and commendation of his administration
the board made record as follows: "The
wards of the state entrusted to this institu-
tion receive the most modern and progres-
sive treatment known to hospital practice ;
in fact, the work being done here is so fa-
vorably received by the profession that
many leading alienists of not only this
country but of other countries visit this
hospital and in written communications
and otherwise evidence their most hearty
and enthusiastic approval of methods em-
ployed and results accomplished. These
results are the outgrowth of the theories
and plans of Dr. George F. Edenharter,
put into practice, and in thus expressing
ourselves we are endeavoring to give but
the simple justice due him without over
laudation. ' '
In its editorial comment upon this action
of the Board the Indianapolis News said :
"The people of all parties have recognized
that in Doctor Edenharter the state has
found a man of unusual executive ability
and devotion to the public service. Many
suggestions have been made that his serv-
ices be drawn on for larger duties. Pos-
sibly in the opinion of those who have the
affairs of this hospital most at heart, there
can be no greater service to the state than
to see that the inmates have proper care
and attention. At any rate Doctor Eden-
harter has practically given his professional
career to this work. The state owes much
to such men as he. It knows that with such
a man in charge an institution will be
administered with the highest degree of
efficiency and success. To supervise such
a hospital involves self sacrificing labor and
a lofty humanitarian spirit. Having
found in Doctor Edenharter these qualities
in eminent degree it is fortunate that the
state can command his services."
Upon the twentieth anniversary of the
dedication of the Pathological Department,
held under the auspices of the Indianapolis
IMedical Society December 19, 1916, the
following resolution was read by Dr.
Charles P. Emerson and adopted by a ris-
ing vote: "On this, the twentieth anni-
versary of the establishment of the Patho-
logical Institute of the Central Hospital for
the Insane of Indiana, we, the members of
the Indianapolis Medical Society, do ex-
tend to Dr. George F. Edenharter our
heartiest congratulations on the splendid
work which he is accomplishing.
"It was his prophetic vision which led
him to honor the state of Indiana by the
erection of the first pathological institute
in direct connection with a hospital for
the insane, the first in the United States.
This institute and its yearly reports have
and are exerting a wide influence in
America.
"Through his plans the physicians of In-
diana here have the opportunity to attend
courses for the study and care of the insane.
"Through his co-operation the students
of the Indiana University School of Medi-
cine have opportunities to study psychiatry
unsurpassed in any other medical school.
"This institution, with its pathological
institute, its hospital for the sick insane, its
exercise and amiisement hall and its other
pioneer features, owes much of its excel-
lence and its educational value to the wise
management of Doctor Edenharter, to
whom we now extend our a'reetings."
Doctor Edenharter had been engaged in
the private practice of medicine in Indian-
apolis for about seven years before his ele-
vation to his present responsibilities. He
was born at Piqua, Miami County, Ohio,
June 13, 1857. son of John and Elizabeth
(Roseberg) Edenharter. Doctor Eden-
harter attended the public schools of Ohio,
finishing in Dayton. In 1878 he followed
his parents to Indianapolis, and studied
medicine in the Medical College of Indiana,
where he was graduated M. D. in 1886. In
1904, in recognition of his ability and dis-
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tinguished services in the cause of human-
ity and his effort in behalf of higher medi-
cal education and research work, Wabash
College conferred upon him the degree Mas-
ter of Arts. After graduation Doctor
Edenharter opened his office in Indian-
apolis, and for several years did a general
practice as a phj'sician and surgeon. He
was first appointed superintendent of the
Central Indiana Hospital for the Insane on
April 7, 1893. In the meantime he had
for two years been attending physician and
surgeon to the Marion County Asylum, for
one year performed similar duties at the
County Workhouse, and in 1889 was elected
for two j'cars as superintendent of the In-
dianapolis City Hospital, a position to
which he was chosen with the unanimous
vote of both the republicans and democrats
of the City Council. Doctor Edenharter
has been a democrat since casting his first
vote, and from 1883 to 1887 was representa-
tive of the eighth ward in the City Coun-
cil. In 1887 he was democratic nominee
for maj'or.
His eminence as a hospital administra-
tor and in the care and treatment of the
insane has enabled him to wield a great
power and influence not only through the
Indianapolis hospital but among similar in-
stitutions elsewhere in the state and in
other states. It was at his suggestion and
largely as a result of his advocacy that the
Legislature in 1905 created a new district
for the insane population, establishing the
Southeastern Hospital. He was also influ-
ential in securing the amending of the bill
providing for an epileptic village in such
a way as to provide for the hopeful or
curable cases rather than for the incurably
insane epileptics assigned to the regular
hospitals for the insane. It was largely
due to his advice and effort that Indiana
located her hospital for the criminal insane
at ^lichigan City in preference to locating
such an institution at the Hospital for In-
sane at Logansport.
Doctor Edenharter is widely known in
professional circles, is a member of the
American Medico-Psychological Associa-
tion, the New York Medico-Legal Society,
of which he has served as vice president
for Indiana, and is a member of the Indian-
apolis iledical Society, the ^Marion County
Medical Society, the Indiana State Medical
Society and the American ^Medical Associa-
tion. He is a thirty-third degree Scottish
Rite ^lason and member of Capital City
Lodge No. 312, Free and Accepted Masons.
June 6, 1888, Doctor Edenharter married
Miss Marion E. Swadener, of Dayton, Ohio.
She was born and reared in Ohio, daughter
of Michael and Mai-ie (Michel) Swadener.
Mrs. Edenharter died September 27, 1909.
She was the mother of one son, Ralph,
born in Indianapolis July 19, 1889.
Ben.jamin a. Richardson, who for half
a century was a resident of Indianapolis,
served the Eighty-Fourth Indiana Volun-
teers in the Civil war, was prominent in
the Indiana National Guard and quarter-
master general of Indiana under Governor
James A. Mount during the Spanish-
American war. As these facts indicate he
had a career out of the ordinary in both
experience and achievement. While the
routine of his life ran smoothly and quietly
for many years, death came suddenly as to
a good soldier and in the form of a tragedy
that brought sorrow to an entire commu-
nity. General Richardson and his wife were
driving their automobile from their home
in Southport to Indianapolis when they
were struck by a fast mail train on the
Pennsylvania road and were instantly
killed. This tragedy occurred October 29,
1918.
The Indianapolis News commenting edi-
torially on this tragedy said: "A fine,
genial gentleman, a man who kept his youth
and never lost his temper — such was Ben-
.jamin A. Richardson, long time a citizen
of Indianapolis. And through all his j-ears
as a soldier, occupant of a state office, and
citizen he had lived a happy, unblemished
life. The pathos of his taking off will not
fail to impress the community. Here was
a man that had been a participant in many
battles of our great Civil war; who had
lived beyond the three score and ten years
period ; who rarely knew illness though
often in personal danger, and yet who met
a violent death at a railroad crossing.
With him also died his wife — a woman
greatly respected for her many qualities.
The state and especially the city owe Mr.
Richardson a debt of affectionate remem-
brance. He was always ready to serve oth-
ers. He lived the life of a patriotic, pub-
lic-spirited citizen."
His paternal ancestors were of New
England stock. The first American was
Samuel Richardson, born in England in
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1610, who came to New England about
1635. A surveyor by profession, he sur-
veyed and laid out the Town of Woburn,
Massachusetts, and was one of the founders
of its first church. Samuel, Jr., was born
in Woburn May 22, 1646. A son of his
fourth marriage was David Richardson,
who was born in Woburn April 14, 1700.
Their son, Capt. Aaron Richardson, was
born at Newton, Massachusetts, October 2,
1740, and was the father of Nathan Henry
Richardson.
Lewis Richardson a son of Nathan
Henry, was born in Oneida County, New
York, in November, 1813. He married
Mary Jane McElroy, who was born in
Oneida County April 20, 1813, daughter of
William and Esther (Austin) McElroy.
After their marriage the.y lived on a farm
in Wayne County, New York, in a locality
still known as Richardson's Corners. In
1859 they moved to Delaware, Ohio, and
during the Civil war their home was in
Wayne County, Indiana. Mrs. Lewis
Richardson died in Wayne County in 1862,
her death being hastened by the loss of a
son in the army and the departure of the
younger son, Benjamin, to the front. Lewis
Richardson afterward returned to Dela-
ware, Ohio, took up the insurance business,
and died at the home of his son in Indian-
apolis in 1890.
Benjamin Austin Richardson was born
at Wolcott, Wayne County, New York,
April 30, 1840. He attended district
school there, had the routine discipline of
the home farm, and after the family moved
to Delaware, Ohio, he attended the town
schools for two winters. He also attended
school for a brief time at Dublin, Indiana.
His mother sought to dissuade him from
going into the army, but after his older
bi'other, Nathan, had died he overcame her
objections, and in August, 1862, enlisted
in Company C of the Eighty-fourth In-
diana Infantry. From that time he was
in the army, later as a non-commissioned
officer until mustered out at Indianapolis
May 10, 1865. After the war he was ap-
pointed clerk in the office of Major Dunn,
chief mustering officer, in the old Washing-
ton Hall, and remained to make the final
report for Major Dunn to the government.
Later he worked as bookkeeper, also at-
tended night school and the Bryant and
Stratton and the Purdy Business colleges
at Indianapolis. For a number of years
he was collector and cashier for the Indian-
apolis Gas Light and Coke Company, but
in 1876, seeking less confining employment,
entered the real estate and insurance busi-
ness. He was prominent in insurance
circles forty years, and he also handled a
large volume of real estate. The insurance
firm was Richardson & McCrea and later
Richardson, Kothe & McCrea.
Known as a successful business man, he
was frequently honored with responsibili-
ties outside of his private affairs. He was
especially interested in military organiza-
tions, and was a member of the first mili-
tary company organized at Indianapolis
after the Civil war, of which company Ben-
jamin Harrison was the captain. On July
29, 1882, he was made captain of Richard-
son's Zouaves of Indianapolis, and filled
that position until he resigned November
10, 1883. This company gained a reputa-
tion under his instruction and won many
laurels in competitive drills. It was the
first northern company to make a trip to
the south after the Civil war to compete
in a military tournament, and was enthu-
siastically received and carried off many
honors in the drill contest at Houston,
Texas. Later he was commissioned major
and made inspector of rifle practice on the
staff of Governor Chase, and in 1897 Gov-
ernor Mount appointed him quartermas-
ter-general of Indiana during the Spanish-
American war. He began his term Feb-
ruary 1, 1897, and served until March' 31,
1901, during which period his duties were
ablv and faithfully discharged.
General Richardson was one of the or-
ganizers of the Memorial Presbyterian
Church in Indianapolis and was an elder at
the time of his death. He was a member
of the Indiana Society, of the Sons of the
American Revolution, and was active . in
Masonry and the Knights of Pythias,_ hold-
ing a number of official distinctions in the
Uniform rank of the latter. He was a
member of George H. Thomas Post No. 17,
Grand Army of the Republic, and of Camp
No. 80, Union Veteran Legion. He grew up
in a democratic family but cast his first vote
for Abraham Lincoln while in the army.
At one time he was trustee of the Indian-
apolis Home for Aged and Friendless
Women. He also was a member of the
Board of Governors of the Indianapolis
Board of Trade, of which he had been a
member for many years.
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2055
September 13, 1867, in Jackson County,
Missouri, General Richardson married Miss
Estelle Carpenter. She was born and
reared in Delaware County, Ohio, her
parents having moved to Missouri in 1866.
She was descended from William Carpen-
ter, who came from England in 1638 and
settled at Rehoboth, ^Massachusetts. Later
members of the family were participants
in the Indian wars and the War of the
Revolution. Mrs. Richardson died April
11, 1900, at the age of fifty-one. Novem-
ber 12, 1902, General Richardson married
Miss Susan Ballard. Their life companion-
ship M^as a most happy one and for a num-
ber of years Mrs. Richardson was dis-
tinguished by her interests and active work
in college and church affairs. She was a
trustee of the Western College for Women
at Oxford, Ohio. She was a graduate of
that college. She was born at Athens,
Ohio, November 23, 1856, and was de-
scended from William Ballard, who came
to America as a member of Governor Win-
throp's Colony.
General Richardson by his first marriage
had six children. Three daughtei-s died in
infancy or early girlhood. The three sons
are Nathan Henry, Ben.jamin A., Jr., and
Sherrill E. Benjamin A. is a dental sur-
geon in Indianapolis, having received his
education in the University of Pennsyl-
vania, and Sherrill E. lives at Hartford
City.
Nathan H. Richardson, the oldest son,
was educated in Wabash College and since
earl_v youth has been engaged in the insur-
ance business at Indianapolis. He is now
secretary of the insurance department of
the Bankers Savings & Trust Company. It
was doubtless his father's noble example
and encouragement that led him to take a
deep interest in military affairs and he as-
sisted in reorganizing the State Militia
after the old National Guard was federal-
ized for service in the European war, and
is now a lieutenant in Company H in the
Indiana State Militia. Nathan H. Rich-
ardson married ]Miss Callie Lee, a native of
Peoria, Illinois. Her father, Fielding T.
Lee, was a member of the old mercantile
house of Eastman, Slacker & Lee of Indian-
apolis. Mr. Richardson is a republican and
a member of the Presbyterian Church.
Philip T. Colgeove. Among the In-
dianans who have entered the ranks of the
legal profession and gained success is num-
bered Philip T. Colgrove, who was born at
Winchester April 17, 1858. He is a grad-
uate of Olivet College, and was admitted
to the Supreme Court of Michigan in 1879,
on his twenty-first birthdaj'. He after-
ward served two terms as prosecuting at-
torney of Barry County, was elected to the
state senate in 1888, serving two terms,
was a presidential elector in 1889, and
has gained prominence as a political
speaker.
^Ir. Colgrove was elected grand chan-
cellor of Michigan, Knights of Pythias, in
1889, and in 1898 was made supreme chan-
cellor. He married Carrie M. Goodyear,
and they have son and daughter, Lawrence
and Mabel.
William H. Augur. No one takes a
greater interest in the present war activi-
ties of every American community than
William H. Augur of Peru. As Mr. Augur
from his local government position as post-
master views the pa.ssing soldiers and par-
ticipates in the loyal and patriotic demon-
strations of his home city he recalls many
scenes of his boyhood when as a fifer he
helped put enthusiasm into the boys who
were marching away from his Indiana home
to battle against slavery and for the Union.
In July, 1908, Mr. Augur was elected
a member of the National Association of
Civil War Musicians, Grand Army of the
Republic.
ilr. Augur was born at Laurel in Frank-
lin County, Indiana, December 22, 1850,
one of the eleven children of William s!
and Jane (McKown) Augur, the former a
native of New York and the latter of Penn-
sylvania. His father was a butcher by
trade and died in 1855. The mother passed
away forty years later, in 1895. Both were
born in 1810.
William H. Augur lived in his native
county until fifteen years of age. He at-
tended the public schools and was eleven
years old when the Civil war broke out.
His native village of Laurel organized a
martial band, which became famous
throughout the entire country. As a lad
ilr. Augur learned to perform on a fife,
and he became a member of this band,'
which escorted the troops raised from
Franklin County to their place of starting
for the front. Mr. Augur continued to
keep up his practice on the fife, and for
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years in Miami County whenever martial
music was presented he participated as the
regular flfer and has attended old settlers
meetings, Grand Army of the Republic re-
unions and similar ceremonies without
number. He has served as national fife
major of the National Association of Civil
War Musicians.
To complete his education Mr. Augur
attended the Kuhn and Curran's Academy
at Cincinnati for about five terms. In 1865
he and a brother came to Peru and engaged
in the butchering business, this emplo.y-
ment being interrupted somewhat by his
school attendance and also by some work
as a railroad man. However, he continued
in the active ranks of local butchers until
1891, and for many years has been a mem-
ber at large of the Amalgamated Meat
Cutters and Butchers Workmen of North
America. Through his musicianship he is
also a member of Peru Local No. 225,
American Federation of Musicians. Other
fraternal associations are with the Masons,
Knights of Pythias, Royal Arcanum and
the Royal Fellowship.
Mr. Augur is best known in Miami
County through his long and effective pub-
lic service. From March, 1891, to 1895 he
served as city editor of the Miami County
Sentinel, an office which by its nature was
practically a public position. In 1895 he
became deputy county clerk to Charles R.
Hughes, and held that office until June 6,
1903. In 1902 he was elected county clerk,
the term to begin January 1, 1904, because
of the new law making all official terms
of county officers begin at the first of the
year. The term of I\lr. Hughes had ex-
pired June 6, 1903, and in the vacancy thus
created Mr. Augur was appointed by the
Board of County Commissioners to serve
until his own regular term of four years
began. He was re-elected for a second
term, and for eight years and seven months
was clerk of courts of Miami County. By
special election he was chosen city clerk
of Peru in 1882, and was reelected in the
spring of 1883, serving two years. On
March 28, 1914, Mr. Augur was appointed
postmaster at Peru, and took over the du-
ties and responsibilities of that office on
April 21, 1914. Thus the office has been
under his administration for over four
years. Mr. Augur has been very active as
a democrat, having been elected chairman
of the Democratic Central Committee in
1910 and again in 1912.
December 22, 1873, he married Miss Eva
Josephine Mason, of Mattoon, Illinois.
They have four children: Ruby Louise,
Charles J., Frederick 0. and Josephine T.
Ruby Louise married William A. Alex-
ander, of Peru, Indiana, June 11, 1913.
Josephine married J. Omer Cole, and they
have two children, James Omer and Mary
Josephine.
Alfred M. Glossbrenner. When the
Glossbrenner family moved to Indianapolis
in January, 1882, from Jeffersonville, Al-
fred M. Glossbrenner who was born in the
latter town August 15, 1869, was a few
months past twelve years of age. At Jef-
fersonville he had been in school for six
years. His association with formal institu-
tions of learning practically ended with his
removal to Indianapolis.
The first occupation which he dignified
and made a source of living income in In-
dianapolis was selling newspapei-s. He
also worked as a cash boy in a large store.
A year later he became an office employe
of humble status and with a vague routine
of duties. In these days much is heard of
vocational education, by which boys are
furnished a training fitted into the "practi-
cal affairs of business and life. Led by
ambition and energy Alfred Glossbrenner
figured out a system of vocational training
for himself while he was working for a liv-
ing in stores and offices. As opportunity
offered he applied himself to the study of
bookkeeping, arithmetic and various other
branches, the mastery of which he realized
as a necessity to his continued advance-
ment. While in the office he spent five
nights a week in the study of commercial
law.
The door of opportunity opened to him
at the age of eighteen when he was taken
in as bookkeeper and general office man
with the printing house of Levey Brothers
& Company. This business had recently
moved from Madison to Indianapolis. It
was not one of the biggest concerns of In-
dianapolis when Mr. Glossbrenner became
identified with it. But he proved himself
superior to his normal functions and was
soon supplying some of the energy and
ideas which promoted the upbuilding and
broadening out of the concern. With the
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growing success of the company his own
position became one of larger responsibili-
ties, and in the course of promotion he
was made secretary and treasurer, and sub-
sequently vice president and manager.
Levey Brothers & Company is now one of
the largest firms in the general printing
and stationery business in Indiana, and
much of the success of the house is credited
to Mr. Glossbrenner.
In other ways he has proved himself a
man of usefulness in his home city. He
has always taken an active part in republi-
can politics, and in 1898 accepted the nomi-
nation for state representative at a consid-
erable sacrifice to his personal business af-
fairs. During the Sixty-first General As-
sembly he made his influence felt in the
promotion of many good measures. Mr.
Glossbrenner is credited with having first
formally brought the name of Albert J.
Beveridge to the attention of the people of
Indiana in connection with the honor of
United States senator. He helped organize
.«ind largely directed the campaign which
finally elected Mr. Beveridge to a seat in
the Upper House of Congress April 28,
1906. In October, 1908, ilayor Charles A.
Bookwalter appointed Mr. Glossbrenner
member of the City Sinking Fund Com-
mission.
He is well known in social and fraternal
affairs, was treasurer of the Marion Club
four years, is a member of the Columbia
and other republican clubs, has been on the
governing committee of the Board of Trade,
is a member of the Commercial Club, is a
Knight Templar Scottish Rite Mason and
Shriner, an Odd Fellow and a Knight of
Pythias.
November 14, 1894, he married Miss ;\Iin-
nie M. Stroup, of Waldron. Indiana. Three
sons were born to them, Daniel Independ-
ence Glossbrenner, born July 4, 1896 ; Al-
fred Stroup, born June 6. 1901 ; and George
Levey, born September 15, 1904.
Charles H. Wintersteen is a business
man of Newcastle who has come graduallv
and through, hard working energy and
sound ability to his present position of pros-
perity. Mr. "Wintersteen has a well estab-
lished business as harness maker and dealer
in automobile specialties and hardware, and
his service in these lines is taken advantage
of by patrons all over Henry and ad.joining
counties.
Mr. Wintersteen was born on a farm near
Seven Mile in Butler Countv, Ohio, No-
vember 21, 1869, son of Daniel" Y. and Han-
nah (Conover) Wintersteen. His paternal
ancestors have been in this country four
generations. His great-grandfather, Dan-
iel Wintersteen, came from Germany and
was a colonial settler in America. Most of
the Wintersteens have been farmers, and
that was the occupation of Daniel Y. Win-
tersteen. Charles H. Wintersteen attended
public schools at Strawn in Henry County,
where his parents located when he was a
year and a half old. As was customary,
he attended school in the winter and
worked on the farm in the summer. At the
age of seventeen an accidental in.iury kept
him on crutches for nineteen months. Dur-
ing that time he began planning for some
other career than farming, and in the
spring of 1889 went to work to learn the
harness making trade at Louisville in
Henry County. In the fall of 1891 he
went to Jay County, and for several years
was associated with his father in farming
a small place. I''p to the fall of 1895 he
continvied farming, and between crops
worked at his trade, walking seven miles
from his home to Red Key to the .shop. In
April, 1896, Mr. Wintersteen opened a har-
ness making shop at Louisville, Indiana,
having a cash capital of only !|;16 when he
embarked on that enterprise. His business
prospered from the start, and he had built
it up to considerable proportions, when on
August 14, 1890, he sold out to his former
employe, R. ilcllvaine. After that he was
again in business at Louisville, but on De-
cember 13. 1905, came to Newcastle and a
few days later opened a new shop across
the street from his present location. In
1908 he moved to an adjoining building
and in 1914 came to his present headquar-
ters at 1411 East Rice Street. He handles
a large line of general harness goods, also
makes and repairs harness, and has also
developed an important department in sup-
plying automobile specialties and hardware.
^Ir. Wintersteen married April 27, 1897,
Hattie Cherr}^ of Dublin, Indiana. They
have one son, Paul Homer, who is now a
^nninr in the Civil and Electric Engineer-
ing Department of Purdue University. He
p-raduated with honors from the Newcastle
Hi^h School. While at Purdue he is also
taking the regularly prescribed course of
military training, and is thus getting ready
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to serve his country in the way that his
abilities and training best fit him. Mr.
"Wintersteen has been affiliated with the In-
dependent Order of Odd Fellows and the
Eagles. He is a member of the First Chris-
tian Church of Newcastle and in politics is
a republican.
Joseph N. Tillett. The soldier receives
his "honorable discharge" to signify that
his term of service has been faithfully ful-
filled. The civilian goes on working to the
end, or merely retires, without any special
mark or recognition of the fact. Many men
fairly win "honorable retirement" even if
they do not have a certificate to that effect.
One of these who can now enjoy dignity
and ease is Hon. Joseph N. Tillett of Peru,
who has practiced law in Miami County
nearly thirty years and has to his credit
two terms of faithful service as a circuit
judge. Since leaving the bench in 1914
Judge Tillett has given some attention to
his private practice as member of the firm
Tillett & Lawrence, but as a matter of
personal enjoyment he takes moi-e pleasure
and pride in looking after his farm of 350
acres adjoining Peru and raising corn and
wheat than in the law.
That farm means the more to Judge Til-
lett because it was the scene of his birth.
He was born November 27, 1865, youngest
of the seven children of William and Eliza-
beth (Grimes) Tillett. His grandparents
were James and Susannah (Buck) Tillett,
natives of Virginia and representatives of
old Virginia families. William Tillett was
also a native of Virginia. James Tillett
brought his family to Indiana in the early
years of the last century, first locating in
WajTie County, and in 1834 coming to the
fringe of settlements along the Wabash
Valley in Miami County. He acquired a
tract of wild land in Peru Township and
put up with the inconveniences of log
cabin existence for several years. James
Tillett and wife both died in Miami County.
He was a Jaeksonian democrat, and both
his son and grandson have followed him
in those political principles. James Tillett
was one of the early county commissioners
of Miami County.
William Tillett, father of Judge Tillett,
was still a boy when brought to Miami
County. The schools of his day by no
means measured up to those of his mature
years, but what he failed to gain in the
way of thorough book learning he made up
in practical knowledge of all the secrets
and mysteries of the forest which sur-
rounded him. He was distinguished as a
skillful hunter, and gained his share of the
honors of the chase in times when the woods
of Miami County were filled with deer,
wild turkey and other game. As a farmer
and good citizen he was equally successful
and lived a life of usefulness and honor,
though without specially dramatic events.
He died February 6, 1903. His wife, a
native of Ohio, died March 30, 1901. She
was for many years a member of the Meth-
odist Episcopal Church.
It was on the old homestead near Peru
that Joseph Newton Tillett spent his boy-
hood, attending the district schools, the
public schools of Peru two years, and iu
1883 entering old Wabash College at Craw-
fordsville. He received his Bachelor of
Science degree from that institution in
1888 and during the next two years studied
law at the University of Michigan. His law
degree was granted with the class of 1890.
Admitted to the Indiana bar. Judge Til-
let at once began practice at Peru, being
associated with Nott N. Antrim under the
name Antrim & Tillett until 1894. In that
year Judge Tillett was elected prosecuting
attorney, and was' re-elected and served
two consecutive terms. In that office he
made a record as a thoroughly capable, dili-
gent, efficient and impartial official, a
record which followed him when he left
office to resume private practice and
brought him in 1902 the well merited hon-
ors of election as judge of the Fifty-First
Judicial Circuit. Judge Tillett presided
over the bench for six years, and was re-
elected for a second term in 1908.
Judge Tillett has given his political alle-
giance to the same party which commanded
the support of his father and grandfather.
He and his wife are membei-s of the Metho-
dist Episcopal Church at Peru. On August
10, 1893, he married Miss Elizabeth Bald-
win, of Washington, Indiana. They have
two children, Lois Elizabeth and Robert
Baldwin.
Edward R. Thompson for many years
has enacted the role of a merchant in Rich-'
mond, and is now senior partner of Thomp-
son & Borton, dealers in men's and boy's
clothing and furnishings.
Mr. Thompson, who has spent practically
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all his life in "Wayne County, Indiana, was
born at Webster in that county in October,
1862. He is a son of John il. and Mary
Charlotta (Davis) Thompson. He is of
Scotch-Irish ancestry. His ancestors first
settled in North Carolina. His grandfather
was Robert Thompson. John M. Thomp-
son, his father, settled at Washington, now
Greens Fork, Wayne County. He served
as a Union soldier in the One Hundred and
Twenty-Fourth Infantry during 1863-65.
Edward R. Thompson was the next to
the youngest in a family of eight children,
and received his early education in the
public schools of Webster and the old
Friends Academy. At the age of twenty he
was a country school teacher, and followed
that work for three years in Wayne and
Grant counties, Indiana. He acquired hisi
first mercantile training as a salesman for
the Richmond clothing merchant Sam Fox
at wages of $4.50 a week. He was with ~Slv.
Fox for five years and then continued at
the same location with the firm of Beal &
Gregg for five years. He had worked hard,
had made the best use of his opportunities
and experience, and with a modest capital
he formed a partnership with William
Widnp under the name Widup & Thomp-
son at 803 Main Street. This firm con-
tinued and prospered for ten years, after
which the partnership was dissolved. Then
on account of his wife's health "Sir. Thomp-
son went South and was retired from busi-
ness for about seven years. In 1916, after
the death of his wife, he returned to Rich-
mond and opened a store at 625 Main
Street. After a year and a half Mr. Fred
R. Borton bought the interest of his part-
ner and since July, 1917, the business has
been conducted as Thompson and Borton.
In 1895 Mr. Thompson married Adah
Heard, daughter of Dr. George and Emma
C Borton) Heard of Richmond. She died
February 19, 1915, the mother of one
daughter, Ardath S. Mr, Thompson is an
independent republican and is atifiliated
with the Masons and Odd Fellows, and is
a member of the Methodist Church.
Horace G. Hardy. Several Indiana
communities have known Horace G. Hardy
as a s\iccessful and enterprising business
man and citizen. He is now proprietor of
the H. G. Hardy Hardware, Plumbing,
Tinware and Farming Implement business,
the largest of its kind at Pendleton.
Mr. Hardy was born at Markleville in
Madison County, Indiana, in ISTi, son of
S. F. and Rebecca (James) Hardy. He is
of Scotch ancestry. The Hardys settled in
Pennsylvania in colonial times. His grand-
father, Neal Hardy, in early days walked
the entire distance from Pennsylvania to
Indiana, and for a time did farm labor in
this state. He then went back to Pennsyl-
vania to claim his bride. Miss Roberts, and
brought her to his chosen home in Indiana
in a two horse vehicle. They located two
miles east of Pendleton, where Neal Hardy
cleared up a farm from the wilderness. He
had eighty acres, and he lived there, a pros-
perous and highly respected citizen, until
his death on December 4, 1860.
S. F. Hardy, one of six children, grew
up on the home farm in :Madison County.
He was a man of somewhat adventurous
disposition and made two trips to the min-
ing regions around Denver, Colorado. On
these trips, made before the days of trans-
continental railroads, he traveled by ox
team from St. Louis. He was quite suc-
cessful as a miner and invested his proceeds
in lots in the new Town of Denver. This
property had he retained it would have
made him very well to do. After his min-
ing experience he worked on a farm in
Indiana until 1861, when he enlisted in the
Sixteenth Indiana Infantry as a sergeant.
He was all through the war, was twice
wounded, and made a most creditable
record as a soldier that is a matter of spe-
cial pride to his descendants. He was
not mustered out until 1865. After the war
he engaged in general merchandising at
Markleville, and in 1904 retired and moved
to Pendleton, where he died in 1908. He
retained his interest in the business at
JIarkleville until his death. His widow is
still living at Pendleton.
Horace G. Hardy was third in a family
of eight children, six of whom are still liv-
ing. He got his early education in the
public schools at Jlarkleville, also attended
the noted Spiceland Academv in Henry
County, and from 1895 to 1897 was a stu-
dent in Indiana State Universitv. On leav-
ing college he returned to Markleville, and
was associated with his father in the store
antil 1905. He then engaged in business
for himself, handling buggies, hardware
and implements. After five years he re-
moved to Tipton, Indiana, and as a stock-
holder and director in the Binkley Buggy
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Company was its traveling representative
over Indiana and Illinois for a year and a
half. Selling out these interests, Mr.
Hardy returned to Pendleton in 1910 and
bought the old established hardware .busi-
ness at J. B. Rickey on Pendleton Avenue.
Two years later he moved to his present
location and has kept expanding and in-
creasing his business until he now handles
all classes of general hardware, has facili-
ties for tin, plumbing, heating and other
services, and also has a department devoted
to harness goods. Mr. Hardy is a stock-
holder in the Pendleton Trust Company
and has various other interests, including
a good eighty-acre farm a mile and a half
east of town.
This company also respects his record of
public service. He has been township
trustee since 1914, and was president of
the Town Board in 1910. From 1907 to
1910 he was president of the Pendleton
Gas Company. He is a member of the
Pendleton School Board and president of
the Library Board, and everything that
concerns the welfare of the community is
certain to enlist his hearty and active co-
operation. Mr. Hardy has filled all the
chairs of his Masonic Lodge and is also a
thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason.
He is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias
at Markleville, with the Sons of Veterans,
and is a member of the Sigma Nu College
fraternity of Indiana University. Mr.
Hardy comes of a long line of Hicksite
Quakers and is himself a member of the
same faith.
Myron G. Reynolds. In Indiana's
great industrial history few names of more
importance will be found than that of the
late Myron G. Reynolds of Anderson. Mr.
Reynolds possessed the genius of the inven-
tor, the persistence of the true and tried
business man, had faith in his dreams and
his ability, and in the course of his lifetime
was able to translate his visions into
effective realities and was regarded as one
of the most fortunate as well as one of the
most useful men of the state.
He represented an old and prominent
family of Wayne County, Indiana, where
he was born June 16, 1853. Mr. Reynolds
closed his useful life at the age of onlv
sixty-four years. His parents were Brazila
pnd Lydia (Layton) Reynolds. They were
both born in New Jersev and were earlv
settlers in Wayne County, Indiana. Bra-
zila Reynolds was a millwright by trade
and followed that occupation for many
years at Williamsburg.
With only a common school education
Myron G. Reynolds perfected himself in
the blacksmith's trade in his father's car-
riage works at Williamsburg. He remained
with his father, working steadily year after
year until he was twenty-five years old.
He and a brother then conducted a plan-
ing mill, and his experience continued in
the routine of mechanical trade and indus-
try for a number of years. Mj'ron G. Rey-
nolds rendered his greatest service to the
world when he invented a gas governor.
That was in 1890. There was no question
of its effectiveness and its perfection
judged by every requirement of service.
However, as is usually the ease capital
was shy of a practically unknown inventor
and untested invention. Mr. Reynolds lo-
cated in Anderson in 1890, and after much
persistent work and effort secured a
backer for his invention. The market came
practically as soon as the product was ready
for it and for a quarter of a century the
Reynolds Gas Governor has stood every test
of utility and service and has been dis-
tributed in practical use all around the
world. The corporation to manufacture it
was known as the Reynolds Gas Regulator
Company, and it was one of the primary
industries of Anderson. Mr. Reynolds was
its president and general manager for a
number of years, and afterward became sole
owner.
The Reynolds Gas Regulator Company,
of which Mrs. C. B. Reynolds is now sec-
retarv and treasurer, are manufacturers of
artificial gas governors and natural gas
regulators for all kinds of pressure reduc-
tion, the present output being based on the
original inventions of Mr. Reynolds. Those
inventions made possible the control of
artificial as well as natural gas, and the sys-
tem and processes are now used in all the
large cities, such as Chicago and St. Louis.
In working out the invention and in build-
ins up the industry liased upon it Mr. Rey-
nolds expressed the best of his genius and
character. He had that pride which is an
essential quality of the true manufacturer,
and felt that his regulator industry was to
be his real monument in the world and his
contribution to the welfare of humanity.
It was characteristic of him that he showed
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an intense loyalty to his business as well as
to his fellow men. He possessed faith,
enthusiasm and tremendous energj^ to back
up all his plans and ideals. Happy is the
man who has a work to do, and not merely
a job. The primary consideration with
Mr. Reynolds was his work, and he never
thought of measuring his success by the ac-
cumulation of wealth. He felt that his
work was worthy and the world has judged
it according to his own ideals, and in get-
ting the work done he considered no cost,
labor nor pains sufficient to deter him from
the end in view. Needless to say, he always
enjoyed the confidence of his associates,
and while the first and final test of his suc-
cess was proved by his own conscience, he
was not lacking in a sincere appreciation
of the esteem paid him b.y his fellow men.
He was broad and liberal in his sympathies,
and had an unusual ability to value the
finer things of life.
He also lent his capital and judgment to
the promotion and management of several
other important industries at Anderson.
He was one of the stockholders of the Cen-
tral Heating Compan.y and president of
that corporation. He was vice president
and a large stockholder in the Indiana Silo
Company, the largest enterprise of its kind
in the United States. With all his success
he remained essentially democratic, and
never lost that good humor, that poise and
fellowship which enabled him to move as
easily in the higher circles of society as
among his own workmen. He was one of
the most honored residents of Anderson.
He lived in that city twenty-five years, and
in 1910 built one of the finest homes there.
In 1892 he married Miss Carrie B. Bous-
man. Her only child is Myron B. Reynolds.
^Iar.jorie Benton Cooke was born in
Richmond, Indiana, and is now a resident
of the City of New York. After attend-
ing preparatory schools in Detroit and Chi-
cago she graduated from the University of
Chicago, class of 1899, and began her pro-
fessional life in recital work of original
sketches and monologues, spending her
leisure time in writing stories, plays and
poetry. In 1910 she gave to the world her
first novel, "The Girl Who Lived in the
Woods," and this has been followed by
many well known works, including one vol-
ume of short plays and a collection of orig-
inal plays for children.
Ch.\rles Albert Cole began the practice
of law at Peru forty years ago. His reputa-
tion as a lawyer has been as clean as his
success has been abundant, and when a
number of years ago his fellow citizens and
professional brethren began to call him
"Judge" Cole they were prompted to do
so from a serious appreciation of the fact
that he was well worthy of judicial honor.
Those honors came to him when in 1914
he was elected to the bench of the Fifty-
First Judicial Circuit, succeeding Judge
Joseph Newton Tillett. Judge Cole for the
past four years has held court in this cir-
cuit, and is looked upon as one of the ablest
jurists in Northern Indiana.
, He was born on a farm in Peru Town-
ship of Miami County March 21, 1855, son
of Alfonso A. and Sarah (Henton) Cole.
His father died in 1862. The family home
was soon moved to Peru, where Judge Cole
attended the public schools. He left In-
diana University in his junior year to enter
the law office of Lyman Walker, and was
admitted to the Miami Countv Bar Jan-
uary 8, 1878.
Along with his large private practice
Judge Cole lias always manifested com-
mendable interest in public affairs. He has
served as county attorney, member of the
city school board, and in 1880 was elected
on the democi'atic ticket to represent Miami
County in the Legislature. He is a Knight
of Pythias and a member of the Presby-
terian Church.
December 3, 1884, Judge Cole married
iliss Elizabeth Shirk, daughter of Harvey
J. ami Eliza M. Shirk of Peru. They have
two children, Albert Harvey and Sarah
Helen. The son is a graduate of the liter-
ary and law departments of Indiana Uni-
versity and became associated with his
father in practice. The daughter was also
educated in Indiana University and in a
musical school in the east.
John S. Alldredge. In the epoch mak-
ing Legislature of 1917 one of the best in-
formed and most influential members was
John S. Alldredge of Anderson, represent-
ing Madison County. Mr. Alldredge was
elected in 1916, overcoming the heavy
democratic majority which for a number
of years had seated all candidates of that
party in Madison County. His onponent
was William Mullen of Summitville.
In the organization of the House of Rep-
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resentatives at Indianapolis in 1917 Mr.
Alldredge was assigned on committees on
cities and towns, chairman of the loan and
trust committee, committee on mileage and
per diem. The most distinctive work he
did in that session was to draw up the bill
which was at fii-st known as the Alldredge
"Woman's Suffrage Bill. When this became
law it was known as the McKinley Bill,
but Mr. Alldredge was the real author of
the essential features of the law, the provi-
sions of which place Indiana among the
list of progressive states which share the
electoral privileges and responsibilities with
both sexes. Mr. Alldredge also introduced
and succeeded in having passed the bill
raising the amount allowed Civil war vet-
erans and their wives for burial and ceme-
tery expenses. The old allowance was $50,
and it was raised to $75. Mr. Alldredge
was regarded as one of the hardest working
and most studious members of the Legis-
lature, and impressed his ability upon
much of the work done in the 1917 session.
Mr. Alldredge has long been interested
in politics, and good government, and is a
successful business man of Anderson. He
was born on a farm in Mount Pleasant
Township, Delaware County, Indiana, Feb-
ruary 15, 1875. His parents were John
and Susanna (Baxla) Alldredge, of Dela-
ware County. The Alldredge ancestry is a
distinguished one, coming originally from
England. The first American of the name
was Edmund Alldredge, who came from
Northern England, settled in North Caro-
lina, and served as a private in the Revolu-
tionarv war. He fought at the battle of
Bunker Hill. It is said that he took with
him as a souvenir from that battlefield a
British powderhorn embellished by a
brazen deer on one side.
A local historian whose researches delved
into the records of some of the veterans of
the "War of 1812 in Delaware County, a
few years ago published the following re-
garding Edmund Alldredge, grandfather
of John S. Alldredge and a son of the Revo-
lutionary soldier just mentioned. Accord-
ing to this account Edmund, Jr., was born
April 2, 1784. in North Carolina. His fun-
damental education was limited, but all his
life he was a wide reader. Hearing of
the fertile country in Indiana he set out
on horseback and rode the entire distance.
When he arrived in what is now Delaware
County the community known as Muneie-
town, now Muncie, did not contain more
than half a dozen houses. He entered a
fine tract of land and secured a patent from
the government. He had made the ac-
quaintance of a young lady near Cincin-
nati, Miss Jane Mulford. They were mar-
ried October 4, 1810, and the wedding
trip was a journey on horseback from her
father's house to the new home in the
woods. They became the parents of ten
children : Francis B., Elijah, Hiram, Wil-
liam, Isaac, Kezia, Mary, John, Elizabeth
and Edmund, Jr. When the second war
for independence was declared Edmund,
Sr., joined the standard of General Har-
rison. He suffered much during the cam-
paign in Michigan, and refusing promotion
he served in the ranks until peace was de-
clared. When he returned home his oldest
son did not recognize him with his buckskin
clothes, soldier equipment and his Indian
tomahawk. He again took up farming and
stock raising and prospered until 1833,
when a scourge of milk sickness visited the
community and in a little more than a year
five of his family, including his wife, died.
He married three times after that. This
veteran of the War of 1812 died March 30,
1858, at the age of seventy-four, his death
being the result of an accident when he
fell from a load of hay. His last words to
his son John were : " I am going to rest,
having no fear of death. ' ' He was a worthy,
honest man, absolutely truthful, trusted
and respected by his neighbors, and a
faithful Christian. In politics he was an
ardent whig, despising slavery and doing
all in his power against it. Of his kindred
only two now remain, Edmund F. Alldredge
of Muncie and J. S. Alldredge of Anderson.
John S. Alldredge in the maternal line is
descended from James Turner, who was an
English sailor and who later came to the
colonies and fought on the American side
in the Revolution. ]\Ir. Alldredge 's grand-
mother, Catherine (Turner) Baxla, had six
brothers and three brothers-in-law who
were soldiers in the War of 1812, and one
of them was Col. James Turner after whom
Jamestown, Ohio, was named.
John S. Alldredge grew up in the coun-
try district of Mount Pleasant Township,
attended the district schools there, also the
Muncie High School and the Muncie Nor-
mal School, and finished with a business
course in the Indiana Business College. In
1892, at the age of seventeen, he began
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teaching in country districts, and subse-
quently studied law with Judge Terapler
at iluncie. Mr. AUdredge was admitted to
the bar in 1898, and soon afterward was
appointed deput}^ prosecuting attorney of
Delaware County, and gained valuable ex-
perience during the four years he spent
in that office.
In 1906 he removed to Anderson, and
since then has been actively engaged in the
real estate business. Among other experi-
ences he was for five years a mail carrier,
and at one time was state delegate at large
to the National Letter Carriers Associa-
tion. His real estate business has grown
and increased from year to year, and he
has handled a large volume of important
transactions in that field. His oiSces are in
the Union Building at Anderson. Mr.
AUdredge owns several fine farms compris-
ing several hundred acres of land near
Anderson, and has considerable other prop-
erty interests.
In politics he has always been a republi-
can, with rather decided independent ]iro-
clivitics. At the age of twenty-one he was
elected a member of the County Committee
in Delaware County. In 1907 he was can-
didate for the nomination of mayor at An-
derson, and practically had the nomination
within his control, but in the end turned
the strength of his following to a rival
candidate. In 1912 he was nominated for
the ofifice of county treasurer, but was de-
feated in that year of democratic land-
slides. However, he ran far ahead of his
ticket.
In 1895 Mr. AUdredge married Leathy
Lucinda Wellington, daughter of Rev.
John R. and Malinda (Holt) Wellington.
Her father was for many years an active
minister of the Church of the Brethren of
Dunkard denomination, and at the time of
his death in 1906 was pastor of the Church
of the Brethren at Anderson. Mrs. All-
dredge 's mother died in 1908. ^Mr. and ]Mrs.
AUdredge have two children : Linna lola
and Sherman Cromer, the latter born in
1902. The daughter is now the wife of
Russell Lee Showalter, of Anderson, and
Mr. AUdredge has one grandson, John
Wellington Showalter, born March 15,
1917.
Charles Hexry Church is a veteran
Indiana banker. In 1917 he rounded oiit
a service of thirty consecutive years as
cashier of the Delaware County National
Bank at Muucie. This is an institution
with a capital of $150,000 and is the old,
est bank of continuous business in Dela-
ware County. It was organized April 14,
1887, as a state bank, and has been under
a national charter since 1892. Some of
the foremost citizens and business men of
Delaware County have always been con-
nected with its board of directors. Charles
H. Church was the first cashier, and well
informed men have given him much of the
credit for the fact that the bank has
weathered all financial storms and has ac-
quired and retained the complete confi-
clence of the business piiblie.
^Ir. Church has been a resident of In-
diana as long as he has been cashier of this
bank. He came to Muncie when it was
just beginning its unprecedented growth
and development as a center of the nat-
ural gas district. In 1887 it had a popu-
lation of 8,000 while today its population
is over 30,000. Mr. Church, like his bank,
has kept his interests enlarging and grow-
ing with the development of his cit.y and
has a recognized place among the effective
workers for the city's welfare.
Mr. Church was born in Chenango<
County, New York, at a place called
Church Hollow, in honor of his family.
His father, William Church, was a promi-
nent man in that section of New York
State. He was a merchant and for many
vears was postmaster of Church Hollow.
He also served as county sheriff. He was
actively leagued with the forces battling
slavery before the war, was a whig in poli-
ties and afterwards a republican, and was
a supporter and close personal friend of
Horace Greeley.
Charles H. Church was educated in the
common and academic schools of his na-
tive county. From early manhood to the
present time his business interests have
always been as a merchant and financier.
From New York State he moved to Ohio
and in 1872 orsranized the First National
Bank at New London in that state. He
was vice president and manager of this
bank until he came to Muncie. Mr. Church
also organized the Muncie Savings and
Loan Company in 1888 and became its
treasurer, and is still treasurer and a di-
rector. He was one of the charter mem-
bers of the Indiana Bankers Association,
and in 1906 was honored with the ofiSce of
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president of the association. His opinions
have frequently been quoted on financial
matters, and in any gathering of men of
business or bankers he is a conspicuous
figure.
Mr. Church is a Knight Templar Mason,
has been very active in the different
branches of that order, and in polities has
been a republican since casting his first
vote for Abraham Lincoln. In December,
1918, Mr. and Mrs. Church celebrated the
golden anniversary of their wedding. Mrs.
Church before her marriage was Miss Lou
Tyler, daughter of Henry P. and Ann Ty-
ler of Norwalk, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs.
Church have two sons, William and Ernest.
William is engaged in the wholesale gro-
cery business at Peru, Indiana and Ernest
is living in Denver, Colorado.
David M. Isgrigg, long prominent in the
lumber industry at Indianapolis, represents
a pioneer family of the city.
His father, the late James A. Isgrigg,
was one of the early lumber merchants of
Indianapolis. The Isgrigg family came
to America from England in 1725, and for
a number of generations they lived in
Maryland. There were soldiers of the
name who fought for independence during
the Revolution, and one of the familj^ Dan-
iel Isgrigg, came to the Ohio River coun-
trv with Gen. William Henry Harrison in
1789. James A. Isgrigg was born on a
farm near Cincinnati, Ohio, February 2,
1830. In 1849 he .ioined the army of gold
seekers and crossed the western plains to
California. After his experiences in the
gold mines he returned by way of Panama
and New York City, and he had to show
for his hardships and adventures in Cali-
fornia about $1,000.
In 1853 James A. Isgrigg came to In-
diana and entered the lumber business at
Indianapolis. For a time he was in busi-
ness at Market Street and the Big Four
track, and later his yards were on Four-
teenth Street and Senate Avenue. He was
a successful business man and equally es-
teemed for his public spirit and his honor-
able and upright character. He retired
from business in 1899 and died July 24,
1908. James A. Isgrigg married Julia
Noble, now deceased. For nearly half a
century he was identified with the Inde-
pendent Order of Odd Fellows as a
member.
David M. Isgrigg was born at Indian-
apolis November 6, 1859, grew up in his
native city and attended public schools,
and in the course of his business career
spent a number of years in New York City
and Chicago. He followed in the footsteps
of his father as a lumber merchant, and
for a number of years conducted one of
the most extensive retail lumber yards in
the city, on Northwest Avenue and Twen-
ty-First Street. Politically he is a repub-
lican.
1
William E. Haney. It is thought that
many produce either comfort or dismay
that forces put in motion long ago are,
by one of the primary laws of physics, still
producing results. That fact is a supreme
justification of history. Otherwise a busy
and preoccupied people might well forget
the past as having no relation or conse-
quence in the present. But the truth is
that the civilization of today was produced
in large part by the men of yesterday. The
living present is only a narrow fringe be-
tween the great dead past and the looming
future. The older the community or state
the more it owes to the forces and person-
alities which were at work before this gen-
eration came on the stage.
In the City of Logansport there were
two notable names that thus belong in the
era before the present generation. One
was William W. Haney and the other his
son, the late William E. Haney. The for-
mer was born in Bucks County, Pennsyl-
vania, December 25, 1809, and died at Lo-
g<insport April 20, 1889. His only son,
William E. Haney, was born at Lewisburg,
Indiana, December 28, 1837, and died at
Logansport March 16, 1916. The surviv-
ing representative of the family in Logans-
port is Mrs. Jessie M. Uhl.
William W. Haney was a son of Joseph
and Mary (Weaver) 'Haney. Being people
of small means they were unable to provide
their son with any education except that of
the primitive local schools. But William
W. Haney grew up and lived in a time
when brains and energy were more import-
ant than conventional" culture. He pos-
sessed keen perception ajid a fine memory,
excelled in his judgment of men, and was
a master in handling large and complicated
affairs. During his youth he lived on a
farm and developed a fine physique. After
his farm experience he worked in a hotel.
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clerked in a store, and at the age of seven-
teen joined the engineering corps engaged
in the construction of a portion of the
Pennsylvania Canal between Easton and
Bristol. For a time he also boated coal
along the river. He was made superin-
tendent of a division of the Pennsylvania
Canal, then resumed coal transportation,
again had supervision of a branch of the
canal, and carried out a contract for the
construction of the Delaware and Raritan
canal feeder. .
Such was his training and experience
before coming West. He arrived at the
Village of Peru, Indiana, July 4, 1835. He
had made the journey by steamboat, flat-
boat and pirogue. The great improvement
then talked of on every hand was the pro-
posed building of the Wabash Canal. Mr.
Haney soon had a force of men engaged in
construction work, supplying stone for the
Peru dam and later taking a contract for
a section of the canal at Lewisburg. When
that was completed he engaged in mer-
chandising at Lewisburg, selling goods both
to the white and Indian population.
July 15, 1851, William W. Haney estab-
lished his home at Logansport. For a time
he was a merchant, but his chief interests
were as a dealer in real estate and as a
private banker. For several years he w'as
president of the Logansport branch of the
old bank of the State of Indiana. The
energy and native resources of his mind
were indicated by the fact that he picked
up in this busy career a substantial knowl-
edge of the law and was admitted to the
bar soon after locating at Logansport. He
never had more than a limited office prac-
tice, but used his knowledge of the law
advantageously in his own affairs. He was
for many years a member and leading sup-
porter of the Broadway IMethodist Church
at Logansport.
Through all his material activities ran
the golden thread of a splendid character.
What he was as a man and citizen was well
described by his old friend Judge D. P.
Baldwin in remarks delivered after the
death of ilr. Haney. ' ' The late Mr. Haney
was a remarkable man in many respects.
This is proved by the grand fortune he
accumulated in this little city where money
is scarce and riches the exception. I do not
hesitate to say that ^Ir. Haney had the
best financial brain of any man that, at
least in my time, ever lived in Logansport.
At seventy-nine years, and until his last
sickness, his mind was as clear and as
quick as that of any man in middle life.
Mr. Haney 's honesty was very remarkable.
No scandal was ever connected with his
great fortune. His word was sacred. He
took no undue advantages. He was a re-
markabl.y friendly man, he was as kind
and sociable with a tramp as with a mil-
lionaire. He did not know what pride was
any more than he knew what deceit and
double dealing were. He was always clean-
mouthed. No one ever heard him retail-
ing scandal or speaking unkindly. Mr.
Haney 's great wealth brought upon him,
as wealth or exceptional success always
does, a great weight of envy or raillery,
but he took it good humoredly. No one
ever knew him to get angrj- or excited, and
much less vindictive or sullen. No one
knew better of good and ill of life and hu-
manity. Mr. Haney did not pretend to'
be anything else than a business man and
never sought office or promotion of any
kind. He did 'not set up to be a charitable
man any more than a talented man, and
yet his kindly voice, friendly ways, and
unquestionable honesty gave him a happy
and honored old age, and made him a gen-
eral favorite with all classes."
December 13, 1836, he married Miss
Louisiana Fidler, who survived him a num-
ber of .vears. They had only two children,
Maria Emma, who died a number of years
ago, and William E.
The late William E. Haney had all the
qualities of native ability and character
which distinguished his father. He was
educated in the common schools, attending
school at Logansport after 1851. His first
business venture with his father was in
the produce business in 1859, but soon
afterward he engaged in farming in Cass
County, and continued that occupation
about twelve years. On his return to Lo-
gansport he was for a brief time in the
boot and shoe business, later a broker, and
more and more became associated with his
father in handling their extensive enter-
prises. When his father died the manage-
ment of the entire estate devolved upon
him, and he handled it as the just and
righteous steward, and justified his ac-
counting by the highest moral as well as
business standards. For all the means and
influence he possessed he exercised them
with the most unassuming manner and stu-
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diously avoided all honors associated with
politics or public life. He voted as a re-
publican, and his only fraternal connection
was with the Benevolent and Protective
Order of Elks.
April 5, 1859, he married Miss Christina
Conrad. Her father, William Conrad was
one of the pioneer settlers of Cass County.
Mrs. Haney died in the spring of 1871, the
mother of eight children. Six of these
children died in infancy and early child-
hood. The two to reach adult age were
Carrie E. and Jessie M. Jessie M. is a
resident of Logansport, at 730 Broadway,
and is the widow of Miller Uhl, of the well
known Uhl family of Cass County.
John H. Peters, a former postmaster of
Michigan City, has been identified with
the working business affairs of that com-
munity since early days, and is one of the
oldest and one of the most highly respected
residents.
He was born in the Village of Schwink-
endorf in the Province of Mecklenburg-
Schwerin, Germany. His father was a
stone cutter by trade and spent all his life
in Germany. The mother survived her
husband and afterward came to America
v-ith her two daughters and spent her last
days in Michigan City.
John H. Peters attended school steadily
to the age of fourteen, after which he
learned the stone cutter's trade under his
father. He worked at the trade in his
native land until he was eighteen years
old, and then left home to come to America.
He was nine weeks on a sailing vessel be-
fore reaching Quebec, and from there he
went to Rochester, New York. He was a
stranger, had practically no resources after
paying his expenses over, and was unable
to speak the English language. He was an
an apt scholar and by experience and prac-
tice quickly acquired a knowledge of the
new language and also adapted himself
Quickly to American cu.stoms and ways.
For two months he worked on a railroad
and then came to Michigan City. Michigan
City at that time had only a few hundred
inhabitants, and a large part of the present
site was covered with woods, while game of
all kinds was abundant in the surrounding'
country district. Even deer was still found
in this locality.
Mr. Peters entered railroad work and
had charge of the local yards making up
trains, and finally was promoted to ticket
seller. He officiated at the ticket win-
dow for twenty-one years. He then re-
signed the railroad service to engage in
business as a grocery merchant on Franklin
street. In company with M. C. Follet he
erected a business building on the west
side of that street between Fourth and
Fifth streets. After being a grocery mer-
chant for about a year he sold out and then
bought an interest in a shoe business with
his son-in-law, W. J. Fealock. The firm
of Fealock and Peters continued for nine
years, after which Mr. Peters sold out and
has since devoted his time to his private
interests. He was appointed postmaster of
Michigan City by President Arthur in
January, 1884, and held that office two
years.
At the age of twenty-one he married
Henrietta Oppermann. She was born in
Mecklenburg-Schwerin, daughter of Henry
Oppermann, who on coming to the United
States located at Michigan City and spent
his last days there. Mrs. Peters died in
1885. For his second wife he married
Mary O'Connell. She was born at Boston,
Massachusetts, daughter of William and
Alice (Carroll) O'Connell, natives of Ire-
land, her father of LimcTiek and her
mother of Louth. Her parents on coming
to America settled in Massachusetts, where
her father died. Later her mother married
Michael ]McHenry, and in 1869 moved to
Michigan City, where both of them died.
Mr. Peters' three children are by his first
marriage. They are Herman, Emma and
Minnie, six others were born to this union
but died when small. Minnie became the
wife of W. J. Fealock and died leaving four
children, named Arthur, Walter, Florence
and Henrietta.
Mr. Peters has been a stanch republican
ever since receiving the gift of American
citizenship. He represented his ward in
the City Council four years.
William H. Insley is founder and head
of one of Indiana's distinctive industries.
The Insley ilanufacturing Company at In-
dianapolis. It would be instructive to deal
with this company somewhat at length for
more reasons than one, not only because of
its present size and the scope and serviee-
ableness of its output, but also as reflect-
ing and illustrating the remarkable possi-
bilities of growth that proceed from the
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limited material resources but unlimited
mind and will of the chief personality be-
hind it.
Started as a small plant for the manu-
facture of structural steel products, the
Insley Manufacturing Company today has
appropriated a large and important field
of its own, making a varied line of appli-
ances and equipment for the economical
and effective handling of material used in
construction work, especially in construc-
tion where concrete is employed on a large
scale and in vast quantities. The Insley
products maj' be found today in general
use wherever the government, big steel
corporations and other industries are con-
structing such great work as dry docks,
dams and breakwaters, retaining walls, etc.
In fact the equipment manufactured at
Indianapolis by this company has gone to
all the ends of the earth, and has been
used by contractors in Europe and Austra-
lia, as well as in all parts of America.
The Insley ilanufacturing Company was
organized in 1907. The first place of busi-
ness was on South Meridian Street at the
railroad tracks, but in 1912 the company
commenced the building of a large plant at
North Olney and East St. Clair streets. In
the last six or eight years the company has
devised and has manufactured machinery
that has served to revolutionize the use of
concrete materials on a large scale in con-
struction pro.iects. Most of the machines
and appliances are covered by basic patents
owned or controlled by the company. One
of the most important contributions by this
company to the field of modern industrial
appliances is the gravity tower for con-
veying and pouring concrete. These tow-
el's are now a familiar sight wherever large
buildings, bridges, piers and other works
are in process of construction involving the
use of concrete.
When the business was first organized
William H. Insley, its president, was not
only the executive but was the bookkeeper,
draftsman and engineer, and did prac-
tically all the business in the office as well
as much outside. At the present time the
company maintains a staff of thirty to fortj-
engineers, office assistants and clerks, be-
sides a small army of workmen in the shops.
The Insley family are pioneers of In-
diana and are of Scotch ancestry. The
great-grandfather of William H. Insley,
Job Insley, is buried at Newtown, near At-
tica, in Fountain County, Indiana. The
grandfather, Ellis Insley, came with his
brothers to Indiana and entered land in
Fountain County as early as 1827. He
spent all his active life as a farmer. Ellis
Insley during the '60s moved to a farm on
North Illinois Street, or road, in what is
now the City of Indianapolis. This farm
was opposite the Blue farm near what is
now Meridian Heights. He also served as
a member of the commission which laid out
the Crown Hill Cemetery at Indianapolis,
and in that city of the dead his own re-
mains now rest. He was a very active
churchman and did much to keep up the
Methodist Church in the various communi-
ties where he lived.
Tlie father of William H. Insley was Dr.
William Quinn Insley, who was i)orn near
Newtown, Fountain County, Indiana, in
1838. He received a good education, tak-
ing liis medical course in the University of
Micliigan and in the Cincinnati Medical
College. He practiced his profession at
Terre Haute, Indiana. He died in 1880
and is buried at Crown Hill Cemetery at
Indianapolis. He was a Scottish Rite
^lason and Knight Templar. Doctor Ins-
ley married Celia Whitmore, who was born
at Rocky Hill, Connecticut, daughter of
Edward Whitmore. The Whitmores on
coming to Indiana' settled near Fort
Wayne. Mrs. William Insley died in 1906,
at the age of sixty-six. They were the
parents of seven children, five of whom are
still living: Edward, an editor of the Los
Angeles Examiner; Avis, wife of Ben
Blanehard, of Independence, Kansas ; Wil-
liam H. ; Rebecca, widow of Lewis Casper,
of New York City; and Robert B., who is
assistant to the president of Nordyke. &
Marmon Company, Indianapolis.
William H. Insley was born at his par-
ents' home at Terre Haute January 16,
1870. As a boy he attended school_ at a
schoolhouse two miles north of Newtown in
Fountain Count.y. When seventeen years
of age he began teaching which he con-
tinued for two .vears, and then spent two
years as a student at DePauw University,
at ri-recncastle, Indiana. All his thought
and effort were directed toward an educa-
tion that would fit him for some of the
larger responsibilities of life, and from the
first his mind was directed into technical
and indu.strial channels. With this pur-
pose in mind, though without means and
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with no assurance that he could remain con-
secutively, he entered the Rose Polytechnic
Institute at Terre Haute. To siipport him-
self and pay his tuition he was willing to
accept any honorable employment, and
while there he conducted a boarding house,
acted as tutor, and succeeded in finishing
his course only $400 in debt, that in itself
being an achievement which was an earnest
of his future success. Thus equipped with
a technical education, he went to work as
draftsman with the Brown, Ketcham Iron
Works, and later served as chief draftsman
in charge of the Engineering Department
of the Noelke-Richards Iron Works. It
was from this work that he withdrew and
set up in business for himself. At that time
he had practically no capital, and for sev-
eral years his structural iron business went
along with vei\y modest returns. Gradually
he began specializing in concrete work
equipment, and from that time forward the
success of his business has been assured.
Mr. Insley is a member of the American
Society of Civil Engineers and the Ameri-
can Society of Mechanical Engineers, and
is widely known among engineering and
technical circles throughout the countrJ^
He is a Mason and a trustee of the Irving-
ton Methodist Church, where he and his
wife are members. In 1903 he married
Jane Williams, daughter of Francis A. Wil-
liams, an attorney of Corning, New York.
Mrs. Insley is a niece of Charles R. Wil-
liams, formerly editor of the Indianapolis
News. Mr. and iMrs. Insley have one son,
Francis H., now a student in the Indian-
apolis public schools.
James Morton Callahan, an educator
of recognized ability, claims Bedford, In-
diana, as the place of his birth. His life
has been devoted to educational work, and
he has become well known on the lecture
platform, was lecturer on American diplo-
matic history and archives at Johns Hop-
kins University, 1898-1902, director of
Bureau of Historical Research, 1900-02,
head of the department of history and poli-
tics. West Virginia University, 1902 — and
dean of the College of Arts and Sciences,
1916 — . He has conducted extensive re-
searches in the manuscript diplomatic
archives at Washington, London, and
Paris, and has won distinction by his
studies in international politics and diplo-
macy. He was a delegate to the Interna-
tional Deep Waterways Association, to the
National Conservation Congress in 1911,
and has represented West Virginia at vari-
ous conferences as delegate by appointment
of the governor of the state.
Mr. Callahan married Maud Louise Ful-
cher, and they have one daughter, Kath-
leen Callahan.
Hal a. Aldridge is a veteran traveling
salesman who on retiring from the road
a few years ago set up in business for him-
self at Anderson as proprietor of a dry
cleaning establishment. There were possi-
bilities which he realized in this work, and
he has exemplified his ambition and plans
by making the Guarantee Shop, of which
he is proprietor, the largest business of its
kind in that city.
Mr. Aldridge was born at Tipton, In-
diana. September 26, 1886, son of James F.
and Ollie (Bozell) Aldridge. He is of
English ancestry, and the family have lived
in America for many generations. When
he was ten years old his parents came to
Anderson, and here he continued his educa-
tion in the city schools. When he was
twelve years old his mother died, and from
that time forward Hal A. Aldridge has
made his own way in the world. For ten
years he was a boy workman in different
factories, spending seven years in a local
glass factory. He finally went on the road
selling jewelry for a Chicago house and
traveled over Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky and
Illinois for seven years, building up a large
acquaintance with retail merchants over
these states. He gradually accumulated
a little capital, and seeking an opportunity
for a business of his own established his
present dry cleaning shop at 1015 Main
Street, opening it on July 15, 1916. He
has made a wonderful success of this busi-
ness, and now handles work not only for
the City of Anderson but drawn from the
neighboring towns of Alexandria, Middle-
town, Pendleton and other places.
In 1906 Mr. Aldridge married Metta L.
Brown, daughter of Samuel and Sadie
(Hutchinson) Brown of Anderson. They
have one son, Edmund Arthur, born in
1907. Mr. Aldridge in politics votes the
republican ticket in national affairs but
is independent locally. He is a member of
the United Commercial Travelers, and
with his wife belongs to the Central Chris-
tian Church.
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Charles I. Smith first became identified
with business affairs at Anderson as book-
keeper for a produce house. Later he ac-
quired an interest in the business, which
he had learned from the ground up, and
is now a member of the firm Moulton &
Smith Company, wholesale fruits and vege-
tables. At the same time he has acquired
numerous other business connections, and
is one of the men of Anderson whose
interests are most widespread and who
exert a large influence over business affairs
both in that city and elsewhere.
Mr. Smith was born at Muskegon, Michi-
gan, in October, 1879, son of Andrew C.
and Gertrude R. (Kratz) Smith. He is of
German ancestry. His father came from
Germany at the age of five years and lived
in Detroit, Michigan, until he was thirty,
developing a business there as a wholesale
meat and provision dealer. He died at
Muskegon, Michigan, November 15, 1917.
Charles I. Smith, who is one of four
brothers, was educated in the public schools
of Muskegon, including high school. His
business experience began very earlj'. He
was only fourteen when he went to work
for the "firm of Moulton & Riedel of Mus-
kegon. They were produce merchants, and
his first work was driving a truck. He
rapidly acquired a knowledge of the busi-
ness in all details, and after three years
the company had so much confidence in
him as to send him to Anderson as book-
keeper of the branch store. He began work
here October 6, 1897, when he was only
eighteen years old. In 1904 Mr. Smith
bought the Riedel interest in the local busi-
ness, acquiring that interest on credit. The
firm was organized as Moulton & Com-
pany. Their location is at 116-18 Main
Street, and with subsequent expansions the
firm does business with thirty-nine towns
over this section of Indiana. The company
was incorporated in 1912, with Mr. Smith
as secretary and treasurer and owner of
half the stock.
In the meantime his services have been
sought bj' a number of other business or-
ganizations. He is a stockholder and di-
rector of the Madison County Trust Com-
pany, the American Playground Device
Company, the Rolland Title Company of
Anderson, the Security Investment Com-
pany of Anderson, the Anderson Invest-
ment Company, the People's Milling Com-
pany of Muskegon, Michigan, the Colum-
bia Tire and Rubber Company of Buffalo,
New York, the Beebe Title Company of
Anderson, the Frankfort Carburetor Com-
pany of Frankfort, Indiana. Mr. Smith
also has real estate investments both at
Anderson and at Muskegon, Michigan. For
this successful representation of his busi-
ness career his own industrj' and capabili-
ties have been largcl.y responsible, since he
started life without reliance upon other
assets than his own character afforded.
In 1910 he married Miss Ida C. Beck-
man, daughter of John and Margaret
(Ringen) Beckman. Mr. Smith is a repub-
lican, and in January, 1918, refused an ap-
pointment as member of the Board of Po-
lice Commissioners at Anderson. He is
affiliated with Anderson Lodge of the Be-
nevolent and Protective Order of Elks.
Jesse Belmont Rogers, il. D. For
nearly a quarter of a century Doctor Ro-
gers has borne the reputation of a careful
and conscientious physician at Michigan
City, where practically all of his profes-
sional career has been spent. Before com-
ing to IMichigan City he had considerable
experience in the civil engineering field,
but gave that up to enter the medical pro-
fession.
He was born in the parish of Byfield,
Town of Newbury, Essex County, Massa-
chusetts, December 30, 1865. He was the
youngest of the five children of Abiel and
Susan (Rogers) Rogers. His grandfathers
were Nathaniel Rogers and James Rogers,
both of English ancestry. Nathaniel Ro-
gers was an American soldier in the War of
1812, and otherwise was a farmer and spent
his long and useful life in Essex County.
James Rogers, the maternal grandfather,
was a native of New Hampshire and was
a millwright and miller by trade.
Abiel Rogers was born at Bj'field June
10, 1828, grew up on a farm, and lived
at Byfield until a few months before his
death, when he came to Michigan City and
died at the age of seventy-eight.
Doctor Rogers attended the public
schools of Newbury, also the Putnam Free
School at Newburyport, and after graduat-
ing in 1883 entered Dartmouth College,
where he took the engineering course and
was graduated in 1887. For several years
following Doctor Rogers was connected
with the engineering staff of the Great
Northern and Northern Pacific Railroads,
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and saw much adventure and experience in
the great northwestern country. But the
work was not altogether congenial and he
sought something more to his liking and
began the study of medicine with Dr. C. G.
Higbee of St. Paul, Minnesota. In 1892 he
entered the Hahnemann Medical College at
Chicago and graduated M. D. in 1895.
After a brief practice at Lincoln, Illinois,
he moved to Michigan City, and succeeded
to the practice of Dr. E. Z. Cole. He has
enjoyed many professional successes and
honors and is a member of the American
Institute of Homeopathy.
November 14, 1893, Doctor Rogers mar-
ried Miss Marian S. Woods, who was born
at LaCrosse, Wisconsin, daughter of Oliver
S. and Vernie (Mclntire) Woods. The two
children born to Doctor and ^Irs. Eogers
both died in early life. Mrs. Rogers is a
member of the Baptist Church while Doctor
Rogers is a Congregationalist. He is
afifiliated with Acme Lodge No. 83, Ancient
Free and Accepted Masons, Michigan City
Chapter No. 25, Royal Arch Masons, :Michi-
gan City Commandery No. 30, Knights
Templar, Michigan City Council No. 56,
Royal and Select blasters, and also belongs
to the local lodge, No. 265, of Odd Fel-
lows, Washington Lodge No. 94, Knights
of Pythias, and Michigan City Lodge No.
432 of the Benevolent and Protective Order
of Elks. He is a member of the City Board
of Health and is active in the Chamber of
Commerce and a member of the Pottawat-
tomie Country Club.
Robert W. Bailey is general manager'
and vice president of the J. W. Bailey
Company, one of the largest firms in Madi-
son County handling building supplies, coal
and other "materials. They have their prin-
cipal offices and yards at Anderson, and
also a branch of the business at Pendleton,
conducted under the name of the Fall City
Supply Company.
The Bailey family has been well known
. in Anderson for many years. Robert W.
Bailey was born at Portsmouth, Ohio, Aug-
ust 22, 1887, and was a child when his
parents, James W. and Anna L. (Brown)
Bailey, moved to Anderson. The family
were farmers in Southern Ohio. The
Baileys are of English stock, first locating
in Pennsylvania and coming to Southern
Ohio in pioneer times. The maternal
grandfather, Henry Brown, was the
founder of that family in Ohio. Mr. Bailey 'si
ancestors have been in the main farmers,
but some of them have been lawyers, physi-
cians and ministers. James W. Bailey on
coming to Anderson in 1890 was employed
as a Iwokkeeper in the Cathedral Glass
Company. Later he established himself
in the builders' supply business at Jackson
Street and the Big Four Railroad, and that
was the beginning of the present J. W.
Bailey Company.
Robert W. Bailey graduated from the
Anderson High School in 1905, and then
entered Purdue University, where he ob-
tained his Bachelor of Science degree in
1909. For a time he was employed in the
engineering department of the Buckeye
Manufacturing Company at Anderson, and
then entered the service of the Philadelphia
Quartz Company, and made the plans and
helped construct the large plant of that
company at 6.ardenville, New York, a
suburb of Buffalo. Returning to Anderson
in 1911, Mr. Bailey entered the copartnei'-
ship with his father, and since 1914, when
his father retired, has been manager and
vice president of the company. The com-
pany is incorporated for $10,000, and does
business all over Madison County.
In 1911 Mr. Bailey married Ruth B.
Buck, daughter of Alfred and Martha
(Bliven) Buck. The Bliven family is the
oldest in the City of Anderson. Mr. and
Jlrs. Bailey have three children: Martha
W., born in 1912 ; Robert W., Jr., born in
1914 ; and John W., born in 1917.
While always a keen student of politics
and interested in the success of the republi-
can party, Mr. Bailey has had no time for
official participation in public atfairs. He
is a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite
Mason and Knight Templar, and is a mem-
ber of Indiana Delta Chapter of the Phi
Kappa Psi college fraternity of Purdue.
He is also a member of the Purdue Alumni
Association, of the Anderson Rotary Club,
and of the First Methodist Episcopal
Church.
John L. Hogue is one of the leading au-
tomobile salesmen of Anderson, and is one
of the partners in the Hogue-Fifer Sales
Company, operating one of the chief sales
agencies in that city.
Mr. Hogue was born on a farm near
Sabina, Ohio, in 1877, son of William R.
and Emma (Titus) Hogue. His ancestry
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2071
is Scotch-Irish. He grew up as a farmer
boy, had a eounti-y school education in the
winter time, and also spent eight months
in the Normal School at Lebanon, Ohio.
At the age of seventeen he went to work
on his grandfather's farm, remained there
two years, and gradually acquired experi-
ence in other lines. For two years he was
engaged in building rigs and oil pumps
with a large oil well supply house at Lima,
Ohio. He then took up a trade as a bar-
ber, worked in diflfcrent towns in Ohio, and
in 1903 moved to Anderson, and for several
years conducted one of the well patronized
shops of the city. Being attracted into the
automobile field, he proved himself a siic-
cessful salesman during three years of con-
nection with the Hill Stage Company, sell-
ing Ford and Overland cars. He then went
with the Robinson Sales Company, selling
the Dodge and Ford cars, but on March 1,
1917, established the present business of
the Hogue-Fifer Sales Compan.y.
^Ir. Hogue is a democrat in politics, a
member of the Christian Church, is afBl-
iated with the Loyal Order of Moose and is
a citizen who is always alert to opportunity
and public spirited in his attitude with re-
gard to everything connected with the wel-
fare of Anderson. He married Miss Leeta
Roller, daughter of Albert Roller, and they
have two children, Delbert, born in 1901,
and Dorothy, .born in 1904.
Hon. Joseph M. Rabb took his first cases
as a lawyer soon after the war, in which
he had played his part and rendered full
duty as a youthful but brave and energetic
soldier for three years. He has practiced
law half a century, and more than half of
that time has been either a Circuit or Ap-
pellate Court judge.
Judge Rabb was born at Covington in
Fountain County, Indiana. February 14,
1846, son of Smith and Mary (Carwile)
Rabb. His father was born in Warren
County, Ohio, and died at the age of eighty-
one, while his mother was a native of In-
diana and died at the age of sixty-eight.
Judge Rabb was the third among their nine
children. His father was a shoemaker by
trade, and for fiftj'-six years was in the
boot and shoe business at Perrysville, In-
diana. For over twenty years of that time
he served as postmaster. He received his
first appointment and commission as post-
master from President Lincoln. He was a
loyal and enthusiastic republican from the
time this party was formed until his death.
As a boy at Perrysville Judge Rabb at-
tended the public schools, but his educa-
tion was not completed until after the war.
On July 22, 1862, a short time after his six-
teenth birthday, he enlisted in Company
K of the Seventy-First Indiana Infantry.
He was mustered in at Indianapolis August
18, and just two days later, August 20,
1862, received his baptism of fire at the bat-
tle of Richmond, Kentucky. The fighting
began at daylight and continued practically
uninterrupted until ten o'clock at night.
It was one of the critical battles in beating
back the advancing forces of Bragg. The
Seventy-First Indiana lost fifty-four men
killed, including a lieutenant colonel and
major, 215 wounded and 500 captured.
The remnants of the regiment were reor-
ganized as the Sixth Indiana Cavalry.
With the Sixth Cavalry Judge Rabb eon-
Hnued through the various campaigns made
by General Burnside in East Tennessee,
and in 1864, at Paris, Kentucky, he and his
comrades were remounted and were then
assigned to General Sherman 's army. They
were in the advance upon and siege of
Atlanta, following which they returned tc
Tennessee to follow Hood up to Franklin
and Nashville, when his forces were dis-
sipated. He then broke down the resistance
of the Confederates represented chiefly by
Wheeler's Cavalry and General Forrest 'a
Raiders. Judge Rabb was mustered out at
Pulaski, Tennessee, as corporal of his
company.
After his return home he attended
school one term at Asbury LTniversity at
Greencastle, and then entered the law ofYices
of Judge Brown and Gen. George Wagner.
He applied himself diligently to his law
books and was admitted to the bar in 1868.
In 1870, upon the death of General Wag-
ner, he became a partner of Mr. Brown in
the firm of Brown & Rabb. After two years
he practiced for himself, and was then as-
sociated with Allen High in the firm of
Rabb & High until the death of his part-
ner three years later. Judge Rabb in 1882
was elected circuit judge of the Twenty-
first Circuit, including the three counties
of Fountain, Warren and Vermilion. He
remained on the bench of this circuit twen-
ty-four years, constituting one of the long-
est services as a circuit judge in Indiana.
In 1906 Judge Rabb was elevated to the
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Appellate Court Bench, and after serving-
one term retired to private life. He then
located at Logansport and is now associated
with M. F. Mahoney and U. L. Fansler
under the firm name of Rabb, Mahoney &
Fansler.
Judge Rabb is a republican and has
been so in all his political activities. He
is a member of the Grand Army of the
Republic. On June 11, 1872, he married
Miss Lottie Morris. She died May 7, 1888,
the mother of five children, two of whom
died in infancy, while the daughter Clara
died in 1900, the wife of Guy Winks. On
November 11, 1884, Judge Rabb married
Ida Elwell. They have one daughter,
Louise, now a teacher in the Logansport
High School.
Dr. Horace Ellis, state superintend-
ent of public instruction of Indiana, is an
educator of the widest experience, of great
attainments and splendid ideals, and
brought to his present oiifice a previous
excellent record as an administrator and
a thorough familiarity with the needs and
the working relations of all the many in-
stitutions under his svipervision.
Practically his entire life has been de-
voted to the schools of Indiana, and he
has given active service in every school
capacity, as rural teacher, village principal,
city supei'intendent, normal school presi-
dent, university president.
Doctor Ellis was born in Decatur, Illi-
nois, July 9, 1861, a son of Ira and Maiy
Frances (Ferguson) Ellis. His early life
was spent in a rural environment, he was
reared on a farm and attended country
schools. He began his career as a country
.school teacher and continued that woi'k
until 1882. In the meantime he was ac-
cepting every opportunity to advance his
own knowledge and improve his resources,
and for part of his higher education he
attended Butler College at Indianapolis.
From 1885 to 1892 he was superintendent
of Indianapolis suburban schools. He then
reentered Indiana University, from which
he received the A. B. degree in 1896. The
University of Indianapolis conferred upon
him the degree Master of Arts in 1897, and
he has the degree Bachelor of Philosophy
conferred in 1903.
During 1896-98 Doctor Ellis taught at
Lafayette and North Vernon, Indiana, was
superintendent of public schools at Frank-
lin, Indiana, from 1898 to 1902, and at that
date accepted the only call away from the
schools of Indiana, when he went to Idaho
and served two years, 1902-04, as president
of the Idaho State Normal School. In
1904 he returned to Indiana to become
president of Vincennes University. He has
always been allied in politics with the re-
publican party and in 1914 accepted a
place on the state ticket as candidate for
state superintendent of public instruction.
As is well known, the republican ticket of
that year suffered defeat all along the line,
but in 1916 Doctor Ellis' name was again
placed as a candidate, and the appreciation
of liis fitness for the office is well indicated
by the fact that he lead the entire ticket
in many counties of the state. He assumed
the duties of his present office in Indian-
apolis on March 15, 1917. His conduct of
the affaii-s of his great office during the war
won the hearty approval of the Federal
government for the brilliant and patriotic
cooperation with the nation.
Doctor Ellis has also been widely known
as a public institute lecturer and chau-
tauqua superintendent and his services
have been constantly in demand on the lec-
ture platform. He is active in the Metho-
dist Episcopal Church, one of its prominent
laymen, and has long been identified with
a large Bible class as teacher. He is a
member of the Phi Delta Theta College
fraternity, is a Knight Templar Mason and
member of numerous educational and
learned societies. In 1886 he married Miss
Grace V. Mapes, of Indianapolis. His son,
Lieut. Max M. Ellis, served with dis-
tinction throughout the war with Germany,
and his other son, Howell, served as head
of the manuscript department in his
father's office in the capitol.
Elnathan Cory. Among those whom
Indiana claims among her pioneers and
representative citizens should be men-
tioned Elnathan Cory, one of the early
residents of Tippecanoe County. He was
born at New Carlisle, Ohio, ilarch 11,
1811, and died near Montmorenci, Indiana,
January 18, 1864. He came to Indiana
shortly after his marriage and secured a
large body of land near Lafayette, and be-
came one of the leaders of his day in that
section of the state. He served as captain
in the Indiana Militia for many years, was
one of the local founders and most zealous
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2073
leaders of tlie old "Underground Rail-
road" for helping runaway slaves on to
freedom, and was an abolitionist, whig and
republican.
Elnathan Cory married Susannah Harr,
and they became the parents of six children.
Charles G. Carpenter. Forty-six years
of continuous association with the Rich-
mond Roller Mills makes Charles G. Car-
penter a veteran in the business affairs of
that city and one of the oldest practical
millers in the state. The long continued
fidelity he has shown as a factor in this
business is characteristic of his citizenship
and character in general. He has seldom
joined as a leader in public affairs, but is
always known as a quiet, hard-working
citizen, willing to do his part and doing
it without fuss or clamor.
Mr. Carpenter was born at Wilmington
in Clinton County, Ohio, in 1836, son of
'^Va'ter T. and Susan (ilabie) Carpenter.
He is of an old English family. Three
brothers of the name cfame to America,
two settling in New England and one in
New York. Charles G. Carpenter is de-
scended from the New York colonist. Wal-
ter T. Carpenter moved from New York
State to Clinton County, Ohio, had a gen-
eral store there, and later engaged in the
commission business at Cincinnati with his
brother Calvin. They had the first com-
mission house in that city and were located
on the Basin of the old Wliitewater Canal.
He and his brother Ezra were dairymen at
Cincinnati. They had some cows which
they pastured on the present site of the
Grand Central Station. Leaving Cincin-
iiRti he went to Clarksville, Clinton County,
Ohio, and purchased a farm, but sold this
farm and moved to Richmond and bought
100 acres of land near that city.
Charles G. Carpenter acquired a good
education in Cincinnati, attending the
Friends Private School, one year in the
West Town Boarding School near Phila-
delphia, and for three years was a student
i)i Earlhsm College at Richmond. At that
time his father was superintendent of Earl-
ham College. He acquired a business ex-
perience by clerking in a grocery store two
years, and then for fifteen years devoted
all his time to farming near Richmond.
Oil returning to the city he engaged inde-
pendently in the grocery business for two
years under the name Carpenter & Newlan.
It was in 1873 that Mr Carpenter be-
came manager for the Greet Street Mills of
Richmond. In 1885 these mills were re-
organized as the Richmond Roller Mills,
and Mr. Carpenter is still manager, and has
seen the business grow to great jsroportions
and many changes have been introduced in
the mechanical processes during his time.
The Richmond Roller Mills are known for
their product "Fancy Patent" and "Hax-
all" flours. They are also dealers in field
seeds.
Mr. Carpenter married in 1863 Elizabeth
W. Newlan, a daughter of James and Ma-
tilda Newlan, of Jefferson County, Ohio.
To their marriage were bdrn two daugh-
ters, Mary Edna and Caroline M., the lat-
ter still at home. The former is the wife
of W. S. Iliser of Indianapolis and has
one son, Walter C.
Mr. Carpenter has long been prominent
in the Friends Church, of which he is a
birthright member. Since 1883 he has been
treasurer of the Indiana Yearly Meeting.
Politicallv he is a republican.
1
Alonzo J. HiLEMAN is a veteran in the
boot and shoe trade, traveled all over In-
diana and other states for a number of
years representing some of the leading shoe
manufacturers of the Middle West, and
finally established a permanent business
of his own at Elwood, where he now has a
well appointed and thoroughly stocked
store of merchandise at 116 South Ander-
son Street.
Mr. Hileman was born in Madison *
County, Indiana, on a farm, in 1864, son
of Robert M. and Eliza (Tilson) Hileman.
His experience during boyhood was not
unlike that of other Indianans of the time.
He attended country school in winter,
worked in the fields in summer, and all
the time had a growing ambition to do
something different from farm work. At
the age of twenty he went to Huntsville,
had a .vear of experience working in a gen-
eral store, until the establishment was
burned out, and then engaged in his first
independent effort as a merchant, asso-
ciated with W. R. Tigue, under the name
Tigue & Hileman, proprietors of a general
store at Pendleton. They were there two
years, and after selling out Mr. Hileman
went on the road as traveling representa-
tive of some of the leading shoe houses of
Cincinnati. For three vears he traveled
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over the Territory of Indiana, West Vir-
ginia and Southern Ohio, representing
Hickman, Taylor & Company of Cincin-
nati, then for a similar period was with
W. F. Thorn & Company of Cincin-
nati ; then for four years represented P.
Sullivan & Company of Cincinnati in In-
diana and Western Ohio ; for two years
sold the goods of Vail, Dittenhofer & Son
of Cincinntti, and until 1893 was with the
firm Plant & Marks, a shoe manufacturing
company of Indiana. He then invested
some of his capital and formed a partner-
ship with Thomas Conner under the name
Conner & Hileman and opened a stock of
high class footwear at 107 South Anderson
Street in Elwood. This partnership con-
tinued for seven years, with Mr. Hileman
still traveling. He then bought out his
partner, left the road, and has given his
best energies since that date to his own busi-
ness. In 1908 he moved to his present
quarters, and has owned both the store and
the building since 1913. He has developed
a large trade both in the city and surround-
ing country districts, and the name Hile-
man throughout this territory is associated
with the most reliable and satisfactory
goods. Mr. Hileman has also acquired some
other business interests and is owner of
some local real estate.
In 1892 he married Flora M. Greenley,
daughter of John Greenley of Elwood.
They have three children, Louise G., wife
of Ralph Carpenter, who is connected with
the First National Bank of Elwood, Fred
G., who enlisted in the army in May, 1917,
and is now supply sergeant at the Head-
quarters Troop of the Thirty-Eighth Divi-
sion in Camp Shelby; and George A., who
was born in 1899 and is now a sophomore
in the Chemical Engineering Corps at Pur-
due University.
Mr. Hileman is a republican in polities.
He is prominent in the Benevolent and
Protective Order of Elks No. 368, and is
lecturing knight for tlie order. He is treas-
urer of the Indiana Retailers Boot & Shoe
Association, and enjoys an enviable reputa-
tion among all the business men of Indiana
in this line. Mr. Hileman attends the
Methodist Church.
Walter H. Mellor, of Michigan City, is
one of the most prominent jewelers of
Indiana, and has developed business of
large proportions from a beginning with
exceedingly modest capital and only his
individual skill and resources to depend
upon. Mr. Meller has twice served as
president of the Indiana State Retail Jewel-
ers' Association, and was a member of the
executive committee of the American Na-
tional Association of Retail Jewelers. He
is now secretary of the Steel F. Roberts
Memorial Fund, which is maintained by the
National Jewelers Association.
Mr. Mellor was born at Michigan City
in 1875. His father, William Mellor, was
born at Oldham, England, where the grand-
parents spent all their lives. William Mel-
lor was reared and educated in his native
town, and as a young man came to America,
married at Lowell, Massachusetts, and soon
afterward moved to Indiana with his wife's
people. They located in Porter County,
and from there he enlisted in the Ninth
Indiana Infantry, and saw much active
and arduous service during the war of the
rebellion. After his honorable discharge
he returned home and soon located in
^Michigan City, where he became a dry
goods merchant. He was in business until
his death, at the age of iifty-seven. He
married Sarah Grace Battye. She was
born at Staleys Bridge, Lancashire, Eng-
land, daughter of William and Sarah Bat-
tye, who afterwards came to America and
after several years of residence at Lowell,
Massachusetts, moved to Porter County, In-
diana, where they were on a farm two or
three years and spent their last days in
Jlichigan City. Mrs. William Mellor is still
living at Michigan City. Her five children
are Eliza, William, Charles, George and
Walter H.
Walter H. Mellor attended the city
schools and then began an apprenticeship
^Michigan City. Later he attended Parsons
at the jeweler's trade in the Beck store at
Horological School, now the Bradley Poly-
technic Institute at Peoria. When his
course there was completed Mr. Mellor was
employed in several cities, and in 1902 en-
gaged in the jewelry business for himself.
His capital was extremely small, but he
was an expert jeweler and managed his
resources with consummate skill until today
his store has one of the most complete
stocks and one of the finest appointed es-
tablishments of the kind in the state.
September 7, 1904, ^Ir. Mellor married
Inez Herrick. She was born in Cherokee,
Iowa, daughter of E. C. and Marion (Hall)
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Herrick. On the paternal side she is of
English and on the maternal side of Scotch-
Irish ancestry. ]\Ii-s. Mellor is a member
of Cherokee Chapter, Daughters of the
American Revolution, and her four bars in-
dicate direct descent from four Revolu-
tionary ancestors. Mr. and ilrs. Mellor
have one daughter, Marion Inez.
Mr. Mellor is a member of the board of
trustees of the Presbyterian Church and is
affiliated with the Knights of Pythias, the
Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks,
is a member of the Potawattomie Country
Club, and was one of the promoters and or-
ganizers of the Michigan City Rotary Club.
He is chairman of the Michigan City Chap-
ter of the Red Cross and served as a mem-
ber of the Executive Committee of the
local War Chest.
Ross DowDEN is one of the capable men
of affairs of Delaware County, and has
gained the seciire confidence of the people
of that section by the very capable admin-
istration of his duties as county recorder.
Mr. Dowden was born in Delaware
County March 9, 1886, son of Marion V.
and Alice (Bryant) Dowden. Both par-
ents were natives of Indiana. Marion Dow-
den was a blacksmith by trade, and in 1862
enlisted in the Eighty-Fourth Indiana In-
fantry, and was with the regiment during
its splendid record of service through the
Tennessee, Atlanta and subsequent cam-
paigns until the close of the war. He was
a very loyal member of the Grand Army
of the Republic.
Mr. Ross Dowden was the youngest of
eight children, five of whom are still living.
He was educated in public schools and as
a boy began his business career working in
some of Muncie's factories. He was in em-
ployment in industrial positions for about
ten years, and resigned his last work in
1914 when he was nominated on the demo-
cratic ticket for recorder of Delaware
County. He was elected in this normally
republican county by a good ma.iorit.v, and
took up his duties in office in 1915. Mr.
Dowden has not only made an efficient
county officer, but is known as a public
spirited young man who takes a pride in
his city and county and is always willing
to perform a helpful part. He is affiliated
with the Benevolent and Protective Order
of Elks, Independent Order of Odd Fel-
lows, and has served as secretary of the
local Lodge of Eagles for ten years. He
is a member of the Methodist Protestant
Church.
September 20, 1917, Mr. Dowden married
Miss Lucile Veach, daughter of J. M.
Veach, a farmer living near ilount Summit.
\
Mary Stembridge, of Evansville, has a
place among the useful women of Indiana
on account of her long service in the cause
of education. For over forty years she
has presided over the Carpenter School of
Evansville as principal. She comes of a
family of educational traditions, and her
father was author of the spelling book;
known as the "Western Speller," at one
time widely used throughout the southern
states.
Miss Stembridge is a native of Muhlen-
berg County, Kentucky, where her fore-
fathers were pioneers in Indian times. Her
great-grandfather, John Stembridge, was a
native of England and coming to America
in colonial times settled at or near James-
town, Virginia. William Stembridge, her
grandfather, was a native of Virginia, was
well educated for his time, and after going
to Kentucky was one of the first teachers
in Muhlenberg County. He acquired land
there, was a slave owner, and to planting
he gave the energies of his mature j'ears.
He married Polly Ward, of a very interest-
ing pioneer family. Robert Ward, the
great-grandfather of Miss Stembridge, was
a native of Ireland, came to this counti-y
when a youth, locating in Pennsylvania,
and was with the Continental army in the
war of the Revolution. In 1791 he em-
barked his family and household goods on
a flatboat, drifting down the Ohio and set-
tled in Muhlenberg County, Kentucky. At
that time everj^ family home was in a pe-
culiar sense a "castle," extraordinary pre-
cautions being necessary to safeguard the
inmates from hostile attacks of Indians.
The Ward family pewter set had to be
melted and molded into bullets as a meas-
ure of safety. Through the influence of
Robert Ward the first Methodist mission-
aries visited ^luhlenburg County. The
neighbors improvised some rough benches
to be used at the meetings, and some of
these frontier religious gatherings were
held on the lawn of the Ward home. Miss
Stembridge among other cherished heir-
looms has carefully preserved a dress that
must be over a century old. It was made
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for her Aunt Betsey Ward. The cotton
was grown on the Ward plantation, and
probably some of the Ward slaves spun
and wove it into cloth.
Miss Stembridge 's father acquired a good
education both in the common schools and
under home tuition, and for j'ears was in-
terested in educational matters. He was a
merchant at Elkton in Todd County, after-
ward at Greenville, and on leaving Ken-
tucky moved to Evansville, where he be-
came a wholesale grocer, and was in the
same line at Louisville. He died in Evans-
ville at the age of fifty-eight. He married
Margaret Ann Akers, who attained the aore
of seventy. She was born at Hopkinsville,
Kentucky, daughter of Larkin Nichols and
Sarah (Harrison) Akers, both families of
Virginia ancestry. One prominent repre-
sentative of the Akers name was Peter
Akers. author of the Akers Commentary.
Miss Stembridge is one of three children :
William Robert, Mary, and Sally.
Mary Stembridge completed her educa-
tion in the Greenville Female Seminary at
Greenville, Kentucky, and began her career
as a teacher in the schools of Evansville in
1872. The first year she was in the Car-
penter School, and then for three years was
a teacher in what is now the Wheeler
School. She then returned to the Carpen-
ter School as principal, and has held that
responsible post and supervised the edvica-
tion of thousands of boys and girls, includ-
ing many who have since made their mark
in the world. She was the center of in-
terest and honor when in 1916 there oc-
curred a "Home Coming" of the old pu-
pils of the Carpenter School, when mature
men and women gathered from far and
near to renew associations of the past. Miss
Stembridge is a member of the Trinity
Methodist Episcopal Church of Evansville.
Madison J. Bray M. D. One of the
earliest and most distinguished physicians
and surgeons of Southern Indiana was the
lafp Dr. Madison J. Bray of Evansville.
He was born at Turner. Androscoggin
County, j\Iaine, January 1, 1811, son of
Captain William and Ruth (Cushman)
Bray. His father was a lumbennan and
merchant. Doctor Bray at the age of six-
teen left school as a student to become a
teacher, and followed that occupation for
eight years. He then attended a course of
medical lectures in Dartmouth College, biit
finished his training in Bowdoin College,
where he graduated in 1835.
In the fall of the same year he started
west, traveling by railroad, stage and river
boat. At Evansville he found the only
doctor of the village, William Trafton,
burdened with the taxing exertions of a
town and countrj^ practice that required
almost constant and exhausting riding and
driving. Doctor Trafton gladly accepted
a partner to share in his labors, and for
years Doctor Bray had all the experiences
of a pioneer physician.
In 1847 he and others established the
Evansville Medical College, in which he
filled the chair of surgery until 1862. In
that year he resigned to aid in organizing
the Sixtieth Indiana Volunteer Infantry^
Regiment, and was commissioned regi-
mental surgeon. He was with the com-
mand until ill health compelled him to re-
sign two years later. He then resumed his
duties at "the Medical College. He was sur-
geon at the Marine Hospital at Evansville
four years, and later at St. Mary's Hospi-
tal. In 1855 he was elected president of
the Indiana State Medical Society, and he
contributed frequently to medical journals.
After a residence of sixty-five years,
filled with useful labors and services, he
died at Evansville August 22, 1900, at the
age of eighty-nine. In 1838 he married
Elizabeth Johnson, daughter of Charles
and Ann (Tate) Johnson. His only son,
Madison J., Jr., is still living in Evansville,
engaged in the real estate business.
Richard A. Edwards. The First Na-
tional Bank of Peru is one of the oldest
banks under national charter in Indiana,
having been organized in 1864, soon after
the passage of the National Bank Act.
Through all its existence it has been con-
servatively managed, and its ofificei-s and
stockholders represent a large share of the
moneyed interests and business enterprise
of Miami County.
In 1881 Richard Arthur Edwards gave
up his share in the faculty of Knox College
at Galesburg, Illinois, to identify himself
with this institution, and for nearly forty
years he has been devoting to it the best of
his abilities and the skill gained from
accumulating experience. Mr. Edwards is
one of the oldest bankers in the state. The
First National Bank of Peru has a capital
of $100,000, surplus of $100,000, and is one
INDIANA AND INDTANANS
2077
of the strongest banks in the Wabash Val-
ley.
Mr. Edwards represents a family of edu-
cators and cultured New England people.
He was born at Bridgewater, Massachu-
setts, November 9, 1851, son of Rev.
Richard and Betsey (Josslyn) Edwards.
Not long after his birth his father moved
to Salem, Massachusetts, and was president
of the ilassachusetts State Normal School
until 1859. In that year the family went
to St. Louis, Missouri, where Rev. Richard
Edwards served two years as president of
the St. Louis Normal School, and from
1861 to 1873 was president of the Illinois
State Normal University at Normal. Dur-
ing that time he did much to establish the
Normal Universit.y as the useful and splen-
did institution it is today. He was a
great teacher, and also had many of the
qualities of the modern business adminis-
trator and systematizer. His name has a
permanent and well deserved place in the
history of Illinois education. For several
year.s he also served as state superintendent
of schools in Illinois, and then entered the
Congregational ministry. His chief service
as minister was rendered as pastor of the
Congregational Church at Princeton, Illi-
nois, an historic church in which before the
war the great abolition leader Lovejoy dis-
tinguished the pastorate. Rev. Richard
Edwards spent his last years at Blooming-
ton. Illinois, where he died March 7, 1908.
Richard A. Edwards was educated in the
public schools of St. Louis and at Normal,
Illinois, being a student of the latter in-
stitution while his father was president.
When eighteen years old he taught his first
school at Paxton, Illinois, and was princi-
pal of schools there two years. In 1872 he
entered Dartmouth College, but removed at
the beginning of his junior year to Prince-
ton University, and graduated A. B. from
that institution in 1876. He had previously
for one year been connected with Rock
River Seminary at Mount Morris, Illinois,
and after graduation returned there as in-
structor of Greek and Latin. In 1878 he
was called to the chair of English literature
and rhetoric in Knox College.
On giving up the quiet dignities and
pleasant associations of the scholastic life
in 1881 Mr. Edwards accepted the position
of assistant cashier of the First National
Bank at Peru. In 1884 he was made
cashier, and in that capacity had increasing
responsibilities and the management of the
bank. In January, 1911, he became presi-
dent, and his son, M. A. Edwards, is now
cashier. Mr. Edwards has been an import-
ant factor in Peru's advancement as a
leading commercial city. He has served as,
an officer and stockholder in a number of
industrial concerns, and his personality is
a rallying point for any broad cooperative
movement in which the welfare and repu-
tation of the community are at stake. Mr.
Edwards is a republican, as was his father,
and is a member of the Columbia Club of
Indianapolis, the University Club of Chi-
cago, and he and his wife are affiliated with
the Baptist Church. In 1880 Mr. Edwards
married Miss Alice Shirk, a member of the
prominent Shirk family^ of Peru. Her
father, Elbert H. Shirk, was for a number
of years president of the First National
Bank of Peru. Mr. and Mrs. Edwards
have a family of two sons and three daugh-
ters.
Thomas Cory. Among the men respon-
sible for the development of Indiana and
her institutions mention is made of Thomas
Cory, an educator of distinction in his day,
the author of a text book, "Manual of
Land Surveying," very generally used
throughout Indiana for many years, and
an engineer of recognized ability and the
inventor of several important devices cov-
ering a wide field.
Thomas Cory was horn on a farm near
Montmorenci in Tippecanoe County, In-
diana, February 10, 1838. and his death
occurred at Berkeley, California, May 30,
1915. He was a student of Wabash Col-
lege, class of 1859, where he studied engi-
neering, and after leaving college followed
that profession, educational work, agricixl-
ture. and work at his inventions. He was
at one time connected with Purdue Uni-
iversity, and his name and that of his
father. Elnathan Cory, deserve lasting
recognition for the part they played as real
pioneers of Indiana.
Thomas Cory married at Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania. December 29, 1863, Carrie
Storey, and thej^ reared a large family of
children who do them honor.
Peter J. Reehling. An Indiana citi-
zen of exceptionally wide experience is
Peter J. Reehling, who for thirty vears has
been identified in different capacities with
the American Express Company, and is
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now agent and manager of the company's
business at Anderson.
Mr. Reehling is a native of Indiana and
is of that substantial German stock that
sought free homes in America after the
revohitions in Germany against Prussiau-
ism during the '30s and '40s. His parents
were Phillip J. and Elizabeth (Kaiser)
Reehling. Phillip J. Reehling was born in
Baden, Germany, in 1813. He saw active
service in the Baden army, and as a soldier
bore arms against the king of Prussia when
the present house of Hohenzollern was seek-
ing to dominate the various provinces and
states of Germany. Phillip Reehling re-
fused to remain under the rule of the con-
queror, and as soon as he could accumulate
sufficient money to defray his expenses he
came to America.
In 1840 he took passage on a sailing
vessel and was three months in reaching
America. Twice the boat was in sight of
land when it was blown out to sea. He
traveled by way of Bufifalo and Toledo and
from that point drove overland to Fort
Wayne. He paid fifty dollare to the driver.
The driver became sick of his undertaking
and tried to return to Toledo, but Phillip
Reehling with the aid of a shotgun com-
pelled him to continue the journey. Phil-
lip Reehling at that time was accompanied
by his wife and a baby six months old.
Two other members of the party were his
mother and father, then people past sev-
enty. His first home was seven miles south
of Fort Wayne, where he bought forty acres
of land. This land was located on the old
Pickaway Road. He worked that forty
acres until 1856, when Chief Godfrey of
the Miami Indians, learning that Mr. Reeh-
ling had in his possession 100 silver dol-
lars, persuaded him to buy 105 acres across
the St. Mary's River on the Winchester
Road. This was only the initial payment,
and the balance was paid out in coon
skins. Phillip Reehling looked after both
farms until 1861, when he turned the
larger place over to his older son, Jacob,
and after that managed the home farm
until he retired. He died at Fort Wayne
in 1891, at the age of seventy-eight, and
his wife passed away in 1893, also aged
seventy-eight. They had five sons and
three daughters.
Peter J. Reehling, youngest of the fam-
ily, was born on the old home farm in In-
diana in 1853. He received his education
at Fort Wayne in J. Weber's private school
from 1861 to 1872. On leaving school he
went to work as clerk in the store of his
brother-in-law, John Otto, at Auburn, In-
diana. Mr. Otto was a veteran of the
Civil war. Mr. Reehling remained in
Otto's boot and shoe store until 1875, when
he opened a similar business of his own at
Bluffton, Ohio, and remained there until
1882. He then sold out and returning to
Indiana was clerk in a store at Rushville
for two years, and then went on the road
for a year selling shoes for the Carnahan-
Hanna Company of Fort Waj'ne. His ter-
ritory was Central and Southern Indiana.
Mr. Reehling 's first connection with the
American Express Company dates from
October 10, 1887. Though he knew noth-
ing of the business, he accepted the place
of agent at Rushville and remained there
two years. Superintendent Fargo then
sent him to Alton, Illinois, as agent for
the company. He remained at Alton
eleven months, and returning to Rushville
became express messenger with a run from
North Vernon, Indiana, to Benton Harbor,
Michigan. He was on the road a year and
a half, and in 1892 was appointed agent
at Alexandria, Indiana, which was his
home for fifteen years. He then served as
local agent at Richmond two and a half
years, as traveling agent eleven months
from Terre Haute, Indiana, to St. Louis,
and from Danville to Cairo eleven months,
was local agent at Lima, Ohio, at Wabash,
Indiana, at Alexandria, and at Kokomo for
two years, and again at Wabash for 2i/^
years. In March, 1916, he accepted his
present post as agent and manager of the
company 's business at Anderson. His fam-
ily continued to reside at Alexandria,
where he owns considerable real estate
and also his property at Indianapolis.
In 1$75 Mr. Reehling married ilelissa
Martin, daughter of I. W. and Mary
(0 'Conner) Martin of Columbus Grove.
Her father was a Union soldier in the Civil
war, and for a number of years was a
grain merchant at Columbus Grove. Mr.
and Mrs. Reehling have four children :
Adelbert Ira, born in 1876, and now a res-
ident of Alexandria, where he is agent for
the American Express Company and is un-
married; Esreula, who died at the age of
two years ; Lula, born in 1882, and died a
day "after her birth ; and Ellen Clara, born
in 1895, and still at home with the family.
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She is a graduate of the high school and
took two years of musical instruction in
the Indiana Musical Conservatory.
Mr. Reehling in political matters is
strictly independent. In 1876 he was
elected on the citizens ticket as councilman
for the Second Ward at Bluffton, Ohio.
For a number of years he was quite active
in political affairs but finallj^ became dis-
gusted with polities and has exercised his
strictly independent .iudgment in support-
ing any candidate. He is a member of the
Presbyterian Church at Alexandria, and
belongs to the subordinate lodge and uni-
form rank of the Knights of Pythias.
I
Hox. Harry L. Crumpacker, now serv-
ing a second term as .iudge of the Superior
Court of Porter and LaPorte counties, was
admitted to the bar in 1905, and has ac-
cumulated many distinctions in the brief
period of his professional work. Judge
Crumpacker 's home since beginning prac-
tice has been at Michigan City.
It is doubtful if any family has contrib-
uted more names to the substantial citizen-
ship, the farming and business and profes-
sional activities of Xorthwestern Indiana.
The thirteen American colonies wei-e hardly
organized when John Crumpacker emi-
grated from Holland in 1762 and settled in
Bedford County, Virginia. The family
lived in Virginia many years. Owen Crum-
packer, a son of John, was born in Bote-
tourt County, Virginia, in 1783, and was
an American soldier in the War of 1812,
serving with the Seventh Virginia Regi-
ment. He married Hannah Woodford.
The third son of this couple was Theo-
philus Crumpacker, grandfather of Judge
Crumpacker. Theophilus was bom in
Botetourt Countv, Virginia, January 17,
1823.
About 1828 Owen Crumpacker brought
his family west to Indiana, fii-st locating
in Union County, in 1832 coming to Porter
County, and Owen was a farmer there un-
til his death, when about sixty-five years of
age. His wife, Hannah, reached the ad-
vanced age of eighty-six.
Theophilus Crumpacker was a small boy
when brought to Indiana. He lived in
Porter and LaPorte Counties, and for a
year or so during the Civil war had his
home on a farm near Kankakee, Illinois.
He then returned to Porter County and es-
tablished his home on a farm three milesj
east of Valparaiso. In 1890 he retired from
his farm and made his home in Valparaiso
until his death November 27, 1908. The-
ophilus Crumpacker married Harriet Em-
mons, who was born in ^Montgomery
County, Virginia, December 23, 1822,
daughter of William and Elsie (Kirk)
Emmons. The Emmons family was of
Scotch-Irish descent and they moved
West from Virginia at an early date, Wil-
liam Emmons establishing a home in Cass
County, Michigan, in 1832. He died at the
age of sixty-eight, and his widow, Elsie,
survived to the age of eighty-one.
Theophilus Crumpacker and wife had
eight children, namely: John W., father of
Judge Crumpacker; Edgar D., who was
boni May 27, 1852, was admitted to the
bar in 1876, and for many years has been
a prominent figure in the public life of the
state and the nation, representing the
Tenth Indiana District in Congress from
1897 to 1913 ; Daniel W., long in the rail-
way mail service ; Eliza A., who married
Melvin W. Lewis ; Peter, for many years a
lawj-er at Hammond; Dora A., who mar-
ried Iredell Luther ; Charles, of Valpa-
raiso; and Grant, a prominent Valparaiso
lawyer. Nearly all the Crumpackers have
had a tendency to go into politics. Theo-
philus was one of the early day republi-
cans, and for three terms represented his
district in the State Legislature and was
a factor in local politics in Porter County.
John W. Crumpacker, father of Judge
Crumpacker, was bom in New Durham
Township of LaPorte County, March 9,
1849. He spent most of his youth in Por-
ter Countv on his father's farm, was edu-
cated in the rural schools and the North-
ern Indiana Normal School, now the Val-
paraiso University, and at one time was a
teacher. In 1872 he was appointed deputy
county treasurer of Porter Countv, serving
until 1879. In the fall of 1878 he was
elected county treasurer and by re-election
in 1880 filled that office with the confidence
and efficiency familiarly associated with
the Crumpacker family until August, 1883.
In 1884 he became cashier and manager of
the Hobart Bank of Valparaiso. Then, in
February, 1885, he assumed his duties as
cashier of the LaPorte Savings Bank, and
was a well known LaPorte banker from
that time until his death, which occurred
in 1913.
January 3, 1877, John W. Crumpacker
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married Anna J. Smith. She was born in
Norwalk, Ohio, a daughter of Hiram and
Harriet (Ashley) Smith, both natives of
Massachusetts. Mrs. John W. Crumpacker
now makes her home with her only son and
child. Judge Crumpacker. John W. Crum-
packer was a member of the Independent
Order of Odd Fellows and Benevolent
and Protective Order of Elks.
Harry L. Cumpacker was born at Val-
paraiso, Indiana, May 6, 1881. He ac-
quired a liberal education, graduating from
the LaPorte High School in 1899, and then
entering the Universit.y of Michigan. He
received his A. B. degree in 1903, and con-
tinued his studies in the law department
until attaining the LL. B. degree in 1905.
In the fall of the same year he began ac-
tive practice at Michigan City and enjoyed
a large business as a lawyer until entering
upon his duties on the bench. He served
as city attorney, and in 1914 was elected
judge of the Superior Court for the district
of LaPorte and Porter counties. He was
re-elected in 1918.
In 1907 Judge Crumpacker married Miss
Blanche E. Bosserman, a native of LaPorte
and daughter of Charles and Emma (Web-
ber) Bosserman. Her father was of early
Pennsylvanian ancestry and was long
prominent in the business affairs of La-
Porte, where he lived many years, until his
death. Mrs. Crumpacker 's maternal gi-and-
father, Leroy D. Webber, was a native of
Chautauqua County, New York, and a son
of Stebbins F. and Emeline (Pope) Web-
ber, the former a native of Massachusetts
and the latter of New York. Leroy D.
Webber located at LaPorte as early as 1851,
and in the same year engaged in the hard-
ware business. That business is still con-
tinued under the name the Webber Hard-
ware Company. He served as mayor of
the city and as a member of the school
board.
Judge and Mi-s. Crumpacker had three
children: John W., Helen, and Louise.
Mrs. Crumpacker died in 1914. Judge
Crumpacker is a member of the Methodist
Episcopal Church and he is affiliated with
Theta Delta Chi fraternity, Acme Lodge
No. 83, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons,
Washington Lodge No. 94, Knights of
Pythias, is a member of the Potawattomie
Country Club, of the ]\Iiehigan City Cham-
be^ of Commerce, and the Young Men's
Christian Association. Like his father and
practically all the family, he is a steadfast
republican.
Barzillai Owen Barnes, deceased, was
manager and treasurer of the Union Grain
& Feed Company of Anderson. This is an
industry that has grown and prospered un-
til its products are now recognized an
standard in quality and excellence over
many states. With the growth of the in-
dustry Mr. Barnes was a practical influ-
ence and did much to give the business its
splendid reputation and success.
Mr. Barnes was a native of Ohio, bom at
Somerset in Perry County in 1870, *son of
John and Phoebe (Bowman) Barnes.
Some of his ancestors were English and
some of Pennsylvania Dutch stock, but the
family for the most part have been in
America for a number of generations. Go-
ing back over the different generations
most of the men have been farmers. Mr.
Barnes grew up on his father's farm in
Perry County, Ohio, being educated in the
country schools, the Somerset High School
and in 1900 graduated Ph. B. from Otter-
bein University at Westerville, Ohio. He
continued a member of the Alumni Asso-
ciation of that splendid Ohio institution.
For two years after leaving college Mr.
Barnes remained at Westerville as assist-
ant cashier of the local bank. In 1903 he
removed to Anderson, Indiana, and for
four yeai-s was manager of the fire insur-
ance and renting departments of the Union
Savings & Investment Company. Then, in
1907, he went with the Union Grain & Coal
Company, being bookkeeper for one year,
and from 1908 was its manager, and was|
also treasurer, stockholder and director.
This company ships and manufactures a
large variety of stock feeds. Under their
individual brand and trade mark they mar-
ket three brands of chicken feed, two
brands of dairy feed, two brands of
horse feed and also special feeds for
hogs and other domestic animals. They
also manufacture considerable quantities of
corn meal and corn flour. Their shipments
go east as far as Boston, and are distrib-
uted over a number of states in the Middle
West. The capacity of the plant is eighty
tons per day. It is a business which has
grown up gradually, altogether on the merit
of the products, and without excessive ad-
vertising or stimulation.
Mr. Barnes was also a man of other in-
INDIANA AND INDTAXANS
2081
terests in Anderson. He was a republican
voter and a member of the United Breth-
ren Church. In 1903 he married Miss
Maggie Lambert, daughter of G. A. and
Glendora Lambert, of Union Citj', Indiana.
They had a hou.sehold of three children,
Albert Owen, aged twelve, Glendora, aged
ten, and Dwight Lambert, aged tive. Mrs.
Barnes died September 10, 1916. On March
28, 1918, Mr. Barnes married Esther May-
Downey. She was born in Anderson, In-
diana, where she was reared and educated.
Mr. Barnes died October 10, 1918. His
widow is still a resident of Anderson, In-
diana.
Arthur Roeske occupies an important
position in business circles at Michigan
City, and is in a line of industry which has
been in the family in that locality for up-
wards of fifty years. He is secretary and
manager of the Riselay Brick Company.
For several generations the Roeske fam-
ily were farmers and shepherds in Eastern
Germany in the Province of Posen, now
included within the limits of the new na-
tion of Poland. His great-grandfather
died in Posen in middle life. Christian
Roeske was bom, i-eared and married in
Posen, and during his early life tended
many large flocks in that country. H^
married Augusta Pahl, whose father died
in Germany at the advanced age of ninety-
eight and his mother at eighty-three. In
1864 Christian Roeske, accompanied by his
sons Michael and Christopher, came tq
America, traveling by sailing vessel and
being fourteen weeks on the ocean. They
landed at Quebec and on the 25th of June
reached Michigan City after a journey
down the St. Lawrence River and around
the lakes to Detroit, and thence by railroad
to Michigan City. Another member of the
family was his daughter, Augusta. Later
they were .joined by his wife and sons
August and Theodore. Christian Roeske
after some varied employment bought
eighty acres of timbered land in Michigan.
Township, and took his family to that place
in the country. He died there at the age
of fifty-four in 1870, his widow surviving
many years and passing away at the age
of eighty-five. Both were members of the
Lutheran Church. They had nine chil-
dren, six sons and three daughters.
'The late Christopher Roeske, father of
Arthur Roeske, was born near Gromden in
Posen, Germany, April 27, 1847. He was
educated in his native land and worked
there as a shepherd. He was seventeen
years old when the family came to Michi-
gan City, and he at once took upon him-
self the responsibilities of providing for
his own living and assisting the family in
getting settled. For a time he was em-
ploj'ed as a construction hand by the Mich-
igan Central Railroad. Later he worked
in a factory and on his father's farm, and
learned the brick making business in the
plant of Charles Kellogg at Michigan City.
Having learned the business, in 1869 he
and his brothers leased a tract of land from
Re3-nolds Couden and established a brick
plant of their own. After seven years
they bought the brick yard and sawmill of
Denton ^liller, and continued both enter-
prises until 1880. In that year the saw-
mill Avas abandoned and they erected a
flour mill on Waterford Road. This mill
was made thoroughly modern in all its
equipment and machinery, and had a ca-
pacity of 100 barrels per day. The four
brothers continued the business until the
death of Michael, and soon aftenvard Theo-
dore retired on account of ill health.
Christopher and August then continued
the business together, operating a large
brick yard where about 6,000,000 bricks
were made every year, and also the flour
mill. Christopher Roeske was active in
business until his death August 22, 1912.
He was a director of the Citizens Bank of
Michigan City, and was affiliated with the
Masonic Lodge, Royal Arch Chapter, and
Knights Templar. In politics he was a
democrat, and served several terms as
county commissioner.
Christopher Roeske married Mrs, Au-
gusta (Meese) ilatthias, widow of Peter
Matthias. She was bom in Mecklinburg
Schwerin, Germany, and when a girl came
to America with her foster mother, Mrs.
Elizabeth Heitman. By her first marriage
she had five children : Anna, who married
Hermann Wamke ; Dora, who married
Henry Warnke ; Alexander, Peter, and
William Matthias. Mr. and Mrs. Christo-
pher Roeske had four children: Arthur,
Oscar, Martha, and Lydia. jMartha is the
wife of 0. I. Lowe and Lydia man-ied
William Staiger.
Arthur Roeske was born at Michigan
City January 1, 1877, and during his youth
attended the parochial and public schools.
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After completing his education in the pub-
lic schools he took a course in the Michi-
gan City Business College, and then be-
came associated with his father in business.
In February, 1917, he became cashier of
the First Calumet Trust and Savings Bank.
He was already financially interested in
the Riselay Brick Company, and in 1918
he resigned his position with the bank to
devote all his time to the affairs of this
company of which he is secretary and
manager.
December 4, 1901, Mr. Roeske married
Miss Emma Darman, a native of Michigan
City. Her father, Fred Darman, was born
in Schleswig, Germany, son of Fred Dar-
man, Sr., who brought his family to Amer-
ica and settled in Porter County, Indiana,
buying a farm near the east line of that
county and not far from Westville. Late
in life he moved to Michigan City, where
he died. Fred Darman, Jr., was reared
and educated in his native land, and after
coming to America lived for a time in Buf-
falo, New York, and then came to Indiana
and was a farmer in Porter County, but
for many years lived in Michigan Citj* and
was engineer at the city waterworks. He
died at the age of sixty-nine. Fred Dar-
man, Jr., married Augusta Klank, who
was born in Pomerania, Germany, and
came to America when a young woman,
probably being the only member of her
family to come to this countrs\ She died
at the age of thirty-four. Mr. and IMrs.
Roeske have tw^o sons, Arthur Gerald and
Ralph Christopher. Mr. and ^Irs. Roeske
are members of St. John's Evangelical
Church, and fraternally he is affiliated with
Acme Lodge No. 83, Ancient Free and Ac-
cepted Masons, Michigan City Chapter No.
83, Royal Arch Masons, Michigan City
Councii No. 56, Royal and Select Masters,
and Michigan City Commandery No. 30,
Knights Templar.
James T. Royse gave three of the best
years of his young manhood to fighting the
"cause of the" Union in the Civil War, and
since then for more than half a century
has been identified with the business life
of Indiana, chiefly as a merchant. For the
past fifteen years he has lived at Elwood,
and is sole proprietor of the J. T. Royse,
house furnishings, stoves and ready to
wear goods, one of the largest mercantile
houses of the city.
Mr. Royse was born at New Albany, Inc
diana, March 23, 1842, son of H. H. and
Sarah (Poison) Royse. The family has
been in America many generations, and
were pioneers in Kentucky. For the most
part the Royses have been agriculturists.
H. H. Royse in 1832 established a stove
factory at New Albany, Indiana, the oldest
stove manufacturing concern in the state.
H. H. Royse died in 1872 and his wife in
1859. They had three sons and four
daughters.
James T. Royse, j-oungest of the fami'y,
was educated in the common schools of his
native town. His education was continued
only to his fourteenth year, after which he
went to work learning the tinsmith busi-
ness. In 1859 he went out to Iowa and
lived on the farm of his uncle, Irwin Pol-
son, in Marion County until July, 1861.
Mr. Royse 's military service is credited
to an Iowa regiment. He enlisted October
17, 1861, in the Fourth Iowa Infantry, and
was a soldier three years and si.x weeks.
He was mustered out and given an honor-
able discharge in 1864, at the end of three
years, but re-enlisted and stayed until
practically the end of the war. He took
part in the concluding campaign of the
LTnion armies in the Southwest, fighting at
Pea Ridge, Arkansas, and was in the great
Pittsburg campaign, including the battles
of Jackson and Tupelo. For all the dan-
gers to which he was exposed he was never
injured. Mr. Royse for a number of years
has had membership in John A. Logan Post
of the Grand Army of the Republic at La-
fayette, Indiana.
After the war he settled at Rockville in
Parke County, Indiana, and for a year had
a half interest in a general store with J.
A. Moreland under the name Moreland &
Royse. Returning to New Albany, he con-
ducted a hat store in that city for seven
years.
In 1872 Mr. Royse married Virginia
Smith, daughter of George W. and Nancy
(Herrick) Smith, who were originallv a
Virginia family. By this marriage Mr.
■Royse had two children, Mary, born m
1873 and died at the age of sixteen; and
George, who now lives at Indianapolis and
is connected with the Indianapolis Gas
Company.
From New Albany Mr. Royce located at
Indianapolis, where he established a fur-
niture house near the old postoffiee on Mar-
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ket Street. Three years later he moved tO;
Washington Street, fronting the State
House, and was in business there for
twelve years. His next location was at
Terre Haute, where he managed a rug sell-
ing agency employing seventy-five sales-
men, and he sold goods on an extensive
scale and did a very profitable business for
nine years. After that he opened another
furniture business and remained at Terre
Haute nine years, his store being on Main
and Seventh streets.
For a brief time after that he was again
at Indianapolis, and then opened a furni-
ture house at Lafayette, where he remained
ten years. . In the meantime he had estab-
lished branch stores at Blwood and at
Alexandria, and in 1902 he removed to El-
wood and has since concentrated all his
work and attention to the main store in
that city. He has a large trade in the city
and the surrounding country for fifteen or
twenty miles. Mr. Royce has also ac-
Quired other business interests and has con-
siderable local real estate.
In February, 1887, he married for his
second wife Cora Lee Plant, daughter of
James and Sarah Plant. They have two
children, Corinne, Jlrs. Ray Nuding of
Elwood, and Ruth, who married Harry
Banfield of Elwood, and has a son, James,
born in 1911.
Mr. Royse is a republican in politics.
He is affiliated with Masonry in the Lodge
and Royal Arch Chapters, has served as
trustee of Elwood Lodge of the Benevolent
and Protective Order of Elks, and is a
member of the Knights of Pj'thias. His
church home is the Methodist.
"W. 0. Crawford. A business that has
furnished a service to the critical demands
of the Richmond public for over sixty-five
years is the drs' goods and house furnish-
ing firm now under the sole ownership and
direction of W. 0. Crawford, and formerly
established by his grandfather. During
its existence three generations of the fam-
ily have been identified with it.
W. O. Crawford was born at Richmond
in 1863, a son of John Y. and Ella S.
f:\ritchell) Crawford. He is of Scotch-
Irish ancestry, and manv members of the
family were agriculturists. His grand-
father, Daniel B. Crawford, opened the
first general store in Richmond, on Main
Street, between Fourth and Fifth streets.
He opened this in 1850 under the firm
name of Scott & Crawford. In 1857 he
became sole owner, and the business was
continued under the name Daniel B. Craw-
ford until he took his son, John Y., into
partnership. Daniel B. Crawford died in
1888. The firm of D. B. Crawford & Son
was changed to John Y. Crawford, and on
October 6, 1912, W. 0. Crawford succeeded
to the business.
'Sir. Crawford received a grammarand
high school education in Richmond and at
the age of fourteen entered his father's
store. He learned rapidly and was a dili-
gent workman, and hard work has been
part of his program every year of his life
to the present time and accounts largely
for his success.
In 1887 he married Rossie L. Craig,
daughter of Benjamin Franklin Craig of
Richmond. They have two sons: John,
JIalcolm, born January 14, 1900, and Rich-
ard Wallace, born in 1906. Mr. Crawford
is a republican voter, is a member of the
Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks,
and his church affiliations are with the
Presbyterian.
Frank E. Roehm, of the firm of Schlegel
& Roehm, contractors and builders, with
offices in the Lombard Building at Indian-
apolis, has had nearly thirty years of prac-
tical experience in the building line. He
engaged in business for himself after re-
signing the position of superintendent with
the old and well known firm of W. P.
Juno-elaus Company.
Mr. Roehm is a son of John and Mary
(Scherger) Roehm. His father, a native
of Germany, came to the United States
between 1849 and 1850, and after a brief
residence in Cincinnati moved to Dearborn
County, Indiana, where he worked at his
trade as shoemaker. This trade he had
le'^-ned in the old country. He was a skill-
ful workman, diligent, and made a good
living for his family. He was active in
his work until a .short time before his
death. Soon after coming to the United
States he became a naturalized citizen, and
was an American in spirit as well as in
profession. He died when thirty-two years
of age, and his widow is still living. They
were the parents of seven children. The
father was a democrat, but never aspired
to any office.
Frank E. Roehm, nest to the youngest
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child, received a common school education,
attending school in Dearborn and Frank-
lin counties, but after he was fourteen he
left home and became self supporting. His
ample success in subsequent yeai-s is the
more creditable because of this early in-
dependence and self-direction. His first
experience was as a farm laborer. He
did not find farming congenial, and he
soon moved across the state line into Ohio
and for a year and a half was employed
as caretaker of a small estate. Mr. Eoehm
came to Indianapolis in 1891, and became
a carpenter's apprentice with the firm of
Jungclaus & Schoemacher. After his ap-
prenticeship he continued work with the
same firm as a journeyman until they dis-
solved partnership, and he then continued
with the W. P. Jungclaus Company. He
w^as advanced from foreman to superin-
tendent of construction, and resigned in
1914 to form a partnership with Mr.
Schlegel under the name of Schlegel &
Roehm, general contractors and builders.
They have the facilities and experience for
the adequate handling of practically any
contract. Mr. Roehm is the practical man,
in charge of all outside construction, while
his partner is chief estimator and office
manager.
Mr. Roehm married Miss Leota Coble,
a native of Indiana. They have three chil-
dren : Robert, Frances and Dorothy. Mr.
Roehm and family are Catholics in re-
ligion. In politics he is absolutely inde-
pendent, voting according to the dictates
of his conscience and his judgment.
Elijah A. Morse was born in South
Bend, Indiana, in 1841. During his early
youth he removed to the east with his
parents. He served his country during the
Civil war, and later became prominent as
a manufacturer of stove polish in Canton,
Massachusetts. He was a member of the
Massachusetts House of Representatives in
1876, was elected to the State Senate in
1886 and 1887, and as a republican was
elected to the Fifty-first, Fifty-second,
Fifty-third and Fifty-fourth congresses.
His death occurred at Canton, J\Iassachu-
setts, in 1898.
Chella M. Dawley has built up a busi-
ness at Anderson which is a credit to her
enterprise and an instance of what a young
woman of determined purpose and energy
can achieve in the business world. She is
proprietor of the Dawley Millinery Shop,
probably the largest business of its kind in
Madison County.
Miss Dawley was born on a farm in
Blackford County, Indiana, daughter of
Nathan W. and Emma (Sutton) Dawley.
She comes of good old American stock.
Her early education was that of country
schools, supplemented later by three yeai-s
in the Montpelier High School. After her
mother died she went to work, and gained
her preliminary business experience in the
Purman and Johnston department store at
Montpelier. Later for eight years she was
saleswoman for H. Mosler & Son at Port-
land, Indiana, and during that time ac-
quired a great aggregate of experience and
skill which served her in good stead when
in 1909 she came to Anderson and with
Mrs. J. W. Grimes opened a millinery
shop under the name Grimes & Dawley.
The location then was where the store is
now, at 15 West Tenth Street. After two
years Miss Dawley bought out her partner,
and has since done much to improve and
increase her business, remodeling the store
and enlarging its facilities. Miss Dawley
is a member of the Methodist Episcopal
Church.
Henry Koelln. Some of the most sub-
stantial edifices of brick and stone in and
around ^Michigan City attest the ability
and long practical experience of Henry
Koelln as a contractor and builder. Mr.
Koelln acquired his trade and profession
from his father, and has had the business
push and energy to enable him to build up
an organization that counts in the sphere
of building and contracting.
He was born at Waterloo in Waterloo
County, Ontario. His father, Claus Koelln,
was born in April, 1830, in Schleswig-Hol-
stein of Danish parentage and ancestry.
He acquired a good education, and in 1853
brought his family to America, being on
the ocean in a sailing vessel for seven
weeks. His destination was Waterloo,
Iowa. At that time there were no rail-
roads in Iowa, and it was almost impossible
to learn anything of the state. Imme-
diately on landing he proceeded to the
Province of Ontario, and while still con-
templating proceeding westward to Iowa
he was informed that a town of the same
name was thirty miles away, and thus the
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2085
iiiflueuee of name directed him to that lo-
calitj' in Ontario instead of to what is now
one of the most prosperous cities of Iowa.
He traveled to Waterloo, Ontario, with an
ox team and found a small town in the
midst of the wilderness. Being a natural
mechanic he was soon busy with contracting
and building, and has continued to live in
this section of Ontario to the present time.
He married Anna Van Yahn, also a native
of Schleswig-Holstein and of Danish par-
entage. She died in 1913. They had six;
children, named Charles, Henry, Matilda,
John, Julius, and Anna. Julius is a con-
tractor and builder at Detroit.
Henry Koclln acquired his education in
Waterloo and inherited good mechanical
talent. He acquired expert practice in
the trade of brick and plaster mason from
his father, and on leaving home went to
Grand Rapids, Michigan, and was a con-
tractor and builder in that city for twelve
years. Since then his home and business
headquarters have been in Michigan City.
He has perfected an organization that is
widely known in building circles, and he
has carried out many large contracts in
adjoining states. The Judge Montgomery
residence in Lansing, Michigan, was con-
structed by Mr. Koelln. In Michigan City
he constructed some of the larger buildings
of the Haskell and Barker Car Company,
including its office building. He also built
the Citizens Bank Building, the high school
building, the Young Men's Christian Asso-
ciation Building, and St. Mary's Par-
sonage.
In 1902 Mr. Koelln married ]\Iiss Hattie
Warkentine, a native of Michigan City and
member of one of its old and well known
families. Her parents were Henry W. and
Louise Warkentine, the former deceased
and the latter still living at Michigan City.
Mr. and ]Mrs. Koelln have two daughters,
named Ruth and ilargaret. The parents
are members of the First Church of Christ
and IMr. Koelln is affiliated with Acmt^
Lodge No. 83, Ancient Free and Accepted
Masons, and is a life member of Michigan'
City Lodge No. 432, Benevolent and Pro-
tective Order of Elks. In polities he is
independent.
Milton Asbi'ry Woollen. For nearly
half a century the late Milton Asbury
W"oollen was an active factor in Indian-
apolis business affairs, and from January
4, 1905, until 1912 was president of the
American Central Life Insurance Com-
pany.
He was born on a farm in Lawrence
Township, Marion County, January 18,
1850, son of Milton and Sarah (Black)
Woollen and a brother of William W.
Woollen and Dr. Greenly V. Woollen of
Indianapolis. He had only a common
school education. From the age of four-
teen for two years he worked as a special
messenger with the telegraph office. He
then took a commercial course in a business
college, and for two years was bookkeeper
in the local ofSces of the Singer Sewingi
JMachine Company. In 1868 he began his
independent career as a feed and grain
merchant, and in a few years had extended
his connections all over Central Indiana.
In 1893 he became one of the organizers
of a wholesale produce commission busi-
ness, and was vice president of the com-
pany until March, 1902.
At that date he acquired a very consid-
erable interest in the American Central
Life Insui-ance Company of Indianapolis,
and was its secretary until he became its.
president in 1905. His successor as pres-
ident is his son Herbert M. Woollen.
Milton A. Woollen was a republican, and
his interest in civic affairs was largely ex-
pressed through his membership in such
organizations as the Board of Trade, which
he served as president in 1908, the Com-
mercial Club, and various charitable or-
ganizations. He was a member of the Co-
lumbia Club, the Marion Club, was a Scot-
tish Rite Mason, and a member of the
First Baptist Church. He married Miss
Ida Baird, a native of Cincinnati but
reared in Indianapolis. Their children
were: Herbert M.. Elma, deceased, and
Orin Woollen Smith.
Herbert M. Woollen was born at In-
dianapolis December 1, 1875. He grad-
uated from the ]\Ianual Training High
School, attended Purdue University through
the Sophomore year, and in 1901 grad-
uated as Bachelor of Science from the Uni-
versity of Wisconsin. The following three
years he spent in the Central College of
Physicians and Surgeons and the Indiana
^ledical College at Indianapolis from which
latter college he graduated. His post grad-
uate work was done in the New York
Eye and Ear Infirmary and the New York
INDIANA AND INDIANANS
Polyclinic. .Returning to Indianapolis, he
was associated in practice for six years
with his uncle, Dr. G. V. Woollen. At the
same time he became connected with the
Ear, Nose, and Throat Clinic and was a
lecturer in the Department of Bacteriol-
ogy in the Indiana Medical College.
He served as a member of the Board of
Managers of the medical section of the
American Life Convention, composed of
medical directors of insurance companies.
In 1904 he became assistant medical di-
rector of the American Central Life In-
surance Company, subsequently was secre-
tary of the company, and in 1912 became
its president. He is a member of the As-
sociation of Life Insurance Presidents.
He is also president of the Sterling Mo-
tor Car Company, a member of the Co-
lumbia, Country, University, Woodstock,
and Dramatic clubs, is a Scottish Rite Ma-
son, and a member of the Phi Delta The'ta
and Phi Rho Sigma fraternities.
January 7, 1907, he married Miss Irma
Wocher of Indianapolis, a graduate of Mrs.
Hartman 's School for Women at New York
City. Mrs. Woollen takes an active part
in dramatic and musical affairs in Indian-
apolis.
George J. Marott began his independ-
ent business career a little more than thir-
ty-five years ago in Indianapolis with a
capital that would hardly buy a single
share of the stock in the various companies
and organizations with which he is now
actively identified. American people will
never fail to admire success of this sub-
stantial kind, especially when it has been
achieved by the exertion of so much per-
sonal ability and in so clean and public
spirited a manner as is the case with Mr.
Marott. The significance of his success is
more than individual. Some of his asso-
ciates who arc in a position to know say
that Mr. Marott has done more for Indian-
apolis within the last twenty years than
anv other one citizen.
The story of his career begins at Daven-
try, Northamptonshire, England, Decem-
ber 10, 1858. His family were of English
ancestry' for generations back. His par-
ents were George P. and Elizabeth (Webb)
Marott. Their six children wei-e Eliza-
beth, George, Ellen, Frederick Currlia,
Joseph E., and Catherine. All these
reached mature years except Frederick.
George P. Marott was a boot and shoe man-
ufacturer in England. In 1875 he came
to the United States and established a re-
tail shoe business at 16 North Pennsylvania
Street in Indianapolis, and continued ia
that line until his retirement in 1900.
George J. Marott was educated in the
common schools and was baptized in the
Episcopal Church of Daventry, which vil-
lage, also, was his birthplace. Before he
was eleven years of age he was working in
his father's shoe factory, and the only in-
terruption to that employment was a year
and a half which he subsequently spent in
a grammar school at Northampton. For
fully a half a century he has been identified
with one or another branch of the shoe
business. His bojhood was passed in a
period when tecluiical education with its
manual training courses and almost unlim-
ited opportunities were unknown, and his
vocational education consisted of a long
and thorough apprenticeship at his fath-
er's business. He mastered every detail.
In 1875, in his seventeenth year, he came
to America with his father and until 1884
clerked in his father's shoe store at In-
dianapolis.
For several years his wages were ten
dollars a week. He had in the meantime
become impressed with the great truth that
no man deserves success who does not save.
He made a resolution to save five dollars a
week out of his weekly salary, and at a
cost of such self-denial as perhaps few
readers can appreciate he succeeded in do-
ing it, saving $260 the first year and by
wise use of this capital increasing his ac-
cumulation until at the end of the third
year he had $1,000 in cash and two lots in
Emporia, Kansas, which had cost him $100.
Having reached this stage of comparative
affluence he married, and used up all his
capital in furnishing a home and buying a
piano for his wife. His wage was still ten
dollars a week, and his wife before mar-
riage agreed to accept the situation. With
all the added responsibilities of a family
Mr. Marott still kept up his resolution to
save something, but at the end of five years
had only $167 in addition to the two lots
in Kansas. With this capital he deter-
mined to enter the retail shoe business. His
resources consisted largely of confidence in
himself, but he also had the training and
all the qualifications of experience. If
ever the old adage about great oaks grow-
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ing from small acorns was justified it is
applicable to the Marott shoe business. The
story of the founding of the enterprise is
oi so much interest and has so much inspir-
ation in it that the picturesque details may
well be told in a few paragraphs taken
from an article which recently appeared
in "System,'' the magazine of business.
"Marott showed his sovind business
sense at the start in his choice of a loca-
tion for his store. He selected a room in
the verjr heart of the retail district of In-
dianapolis. With the sum of $167 in his
pocket he agreed to pay a rental of $1,800
a year. Out of his capital Marott trans-
ferred $150 to the landlord, one month's
advance rent, but was allowed ten addi-
tional days in which to clean up the rub-
bish left hy his predecessor. His next step
was to call upon ten jobbers and manufac-
turers with whom he had become ac-
quainted while working for his father. He
proposed that each one should extend him
a credit of $200 on the consideration that
it would never exceed this amount. On
the other hand the creditors were not to
press him unduly but were to permit him
to pay off the original indebtedness when
he could. Marott had a. hard struggle
with pessimistic jobbers. One pointed to the
appalling failures which had occurred and
was occurring in the shoe business in In-
dianapolis, cited the case of the man who
had failed in the very room ilarott had
rented and hesitated so long that IMarott's
heart sank. Nevertheless, this jobber and
the other nine finally agreed to extend
the credit Marott asked.
"By good fortune Marott learned that
the fixtures used by his predecessor were
stored in a basement nearby. He imme-
diately entered into negotiations for them.
He found that he could buy the lot for
twenty dollars, because the owner hap-
pened to need the basement at once. New,
they could not have been bought for five
hundred dollars. To avoid confessing that
he had no money, Marott suggested to the
owner that some of the parts might be
missing or damaged and asked if he would
make a reduction for anything that might
be lacking. The owner agreed to make an'
allowance for anything that did not come
up to the specifications. So Marott was
able to have the shelving removed without
confessing that he had no money with
which to pay for it.
"Next he applied for a loan of four hun-
dred dollars on his household furniture.
He needed a line of shoes to complete his
stock which he could not buy in Indianap-
olis and for this cash was required. He
succeeded in securing two hundred dollars,
for which he gave a chattel mortgage, and
this with a few dollars left from his origi-
nal capital, gave him two hundred and
seventeen dollars. He took a train to Cin-
cinnati. There he gave an order amount-
ing to two hundred twenty-eight dollars.
He had two hundred seventeen dollars,
minus his railroad fare, with which to pay"
it. He asked the jobbei-s consent to send
a check for the balance when the goods
arrived, which was granted.
' ' Marott had selected his stock by twelve
o'clock, but he had given the jobber his
last nickel. He had eaten nothing since
the night before. He had used all his)
money in purchases of goods. It was mid-
night when he reached home. He had not'
eaten for thirty hours. But Marott prom-
ised his stomach future rewards for the
present sacrifice. He asked the Cincinnati
jobber to ship his goods immediately. The
carpenters were putting up the shelves in
the store and he could not pay them until
he had moved some stock.
"When the shoes arrived the drayman
paid the freight and presented the check
to Marott. Having no money he asked the
dra.vman to hold the check until some other
goods arrived. The drayman obliged' him
and asked no questions.
"As soon as the shoes were in the store-
room he plunged into them, verified the in-
voice, and prepared to receive customers.
Then he went into the highways and by-
ways, detained his friends wherever he
found them, as well as nearly everyone
to whom he had sold shoes, and announced
that he had opened a store. He solicited
their immediate custom. In this way he
sold enough shoes before the formal open-
ing to pay the carpenters, the dray-man,
and the owner of the shelving and sent a
check to Cincinnati.
"The organization when the store opened
consisted of three persons: IVTarott's wife,
M'arott himself and a boy. George Knodle.
Thev sold eighty-four dollars worth of
stock that dav, and closed a few minutes
before midnight. The profits above all ex
penses were eleven dollars, exactly one dol-
lar more than Marott had ever earned for
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a week's work. That night was almost
the happiest of Marott's life. After clos-
ing the store he bought three stogies for
five cents, smoked until two o'clock and
made plans. Some persons might have
sent for a box of the best cigars on the
mai'ket under the circumstances, but Ma-
rott resolved to do without luxuries until
he had really a firm foundation under
him."
This is sufficient to indicate the quality
of courage and enterprise with which Mr.
Marott entered the business. In every
way he showed himself a progressive mer-
chant. He was constantly introducing
novelties, was seeking attention by unusual
displays and unusual goods, and the re-
sult was that the first year he cleared over
$3,000. At the end of the fifth year it is
said that he had made $25,000 clear of
debt. Another significant thing that con-
cerns his record is that during the first
eight years he was in business downtown
all his competitors in the shoe business
there failed excepting two. But Marott's
establishment continued to prosper and
grow; and in 1890 he moved from his orig-
inal location and in 1911 leased a seven-
story building for twenty-five years at a
rental of $20,000, and this is tlie home of
one of the greatest shoe stores in the
United States. In fact it has so long been
a prosperous concern that most Indianap-
olis citizens have forgotten that it was ever
a small and unpretentious store.
This business, big as it is, is only one of
varied interests which look to Mr. Marott 's
business ability and judgment for guidance
and direction. More than any other local
man he carried responsibilities that in-
sured the successful organization and es-
tablishment of the Citizens Gas Company.
In fact he was the real father of that ei>-
terprise and dictated its franchise. He
spent thousands of dollars of his own
money in bringing about the organization,
in fighting the opposition, in educatingi
public opinion and securing popular sup-
port and finally with his selected associates;
obtained popular subscription to the cap-
ital stock. The people of Indianapolis
felt a great deal of pride and satisfaction
when thev secured gas at 60 cents per 1,000.
whereas before they had paid 90 cents, and
all who were well informed paid their re-
spects and gratitude to Mr. Marott.
For many years he has also been active
in street railway and interurban railway
development. In 1890 he became owner
of the street railway system of Logansport.
becoming president of the company. He
sold that property in 1902. Mr. Marott
built the road of the Kokomo, Rlarion &
Western Traction Company, now known as
the Indiana Railways & Light Company,
and is president and principal owner of the
stock. This company owns and operates
the electric line between Kokomo and Ma-
rion and Kokomo and Frankfort, and also
the street ear system and electric light
plant of Kokomo, including the heating
s.ystem of Kokomo. This company oper-
ates the lighting plants of more than
twenty small towns in that part of the
state.
Mr. Marott has many other important
business interests, including much valuable
real estate and an active connection with
various industrial and business enterprises.
A number of 3'ears ago he acquired the
ownership of the old Enterprise Hotel on
Massachusetts Avenue, an early landmark
of the city erected in 1870. He pulled
down the hotel building, and in 1906
erected a structure with every arrangement
and facility for the use and purpose of a
modern department store. Owing to the
panic of 1907 the building was unoccupied
until 1908, when he organized the Marott
Department Store Company, one of the
largest concerns of the kind in Indiana.
Witli such brevity of statement concern-
ing Mr. Marott's career it is possiljle thati
a .just appreciation of his position and in-
fluence in Indianapolis and Indiana may
be lacking. However, it is possible to
quote from two unimpeachable sources of
testimony to his life of effectiveness and
public spirit that will serve to supplement
what has been told so briefly in the pre-
ceding paragraphs.
The following are the words written a
few years ago by Volney T. Malott, presi-
dent of the Indiana National Bank:
'"George J. Marott is one of the leading
business men of Indianapolis, and throu2h
his active ability and foresight has placcl
himself in the foremost ranks of the mer-
chants of the Middle West. Started with
meager beginnings, he has by the strict ob-
servance of good business principles accu-
mulated a large fortune. His operations
have not been entirely confined to mercan-
tile pursuits, for he has been a heavy in-
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vestor in real estate and in public utilities
within the state."
More of his personal character is revealed
in what was said of him by the veteran In-
dianapolis editor and financier John H.
Holliday. In Mr. HoUidaj-'s words,
"George J. Marott is one of our successful
men and owes that success to his persistent
energy, good judgment and close adher-
ence to business principles and methods.
As a merchant he has taken a comprehen-
sive view of modern conditions and
adapted his business accordingl.y. As an
investor and promoter of enterprises he has
been shrewd and daring, yet at the same,
time conservative, putting money only in,
such things as promised well in the future
and managing those concerns with extreme
care and efficiency. He always calculates
the cost, never goes beyond his depth, and
makes no engagements that he does not
keep."
Mr. ilarott was always a staunch demo-
crat until quite recently, but with no par-
ticipation in party affairs beyond lending
his influence and encouragement to good
government policies. He is a member of
no denominational religion and is in thor-
ough accord with the spirit and practice of
JIasoiiry, in which he holds the thirty-sec-
ond degree of Scottish Rite and is a mem-
ber of the Mystic Shrine. November 27,
1879. he married Miss Ella Meek, daugh-
ter of Jesse and Nancy Meek. Her father
pufl mother were pioneers of Richmond,
Indiana, and her father was for many years
an active business man of Richmond.
Edw.\rd R. Dye. Though his home and
many of his business interests are still rep-
resented in White County, where the Dye
family have been prominent for many
years. Edward R. Dye is an almost daily
attendant at his offices in the Traction and
Terminal Building at Indianapolis, and
from that point directs one of the leading
coal production firms of the state.
Mr. Dye was born in West Virginia Oc-
tober 31. 1861, a son of James W. and
Nancy (Tavlor) Dye. His father was also
a native of West Virginia, and the paternal
ancestry goes back to Scotland. George
Dve. grandfather of Edward R., was in
his day a stock raiser and feeder for the
export trade. He lived in a southern state
and owned his slaves, but after thev were
freed several of them remained faithful to
their master and refused to leave his home.
He died in the early '80s. In his family
were seven sons and four daughters, and
two of the sons are still living. James W.
Dj-e was educated in the common schools of
West Virginia, and in 1866 located in
White County, Indiana, where he became
prominent as a farmer and stock dealer.
He died in 1904. He was a member of the
Baptist Church.
Edward R. Dye is the oldest of three
sons. He was reared and educated in,
White County, and in 1897 engaged in the
lumber business at Wolcott in that county.
About five years before the death of his,
father he and his brothei-s bought the lum-
ber business which was conducted under
the name of J. W. Dye & Sons and rein-
corporated the company. Since then they
have established branches and yards in a
number of Indiana towns, and Mr. Edwapd
R. Dye is still a member of the firm.
In 1901 he entered the coal industry,
taking charge of the Indianapolis office of
the United Fourth Vein Coal Company in
December, 1905. In 191.3 he become pres-
ident, general manager and treasurer of
the company. This company owns valua-
ble mines in Greene County, located in the
Linton district and at -jasonville. The
mines are now producing capacity tonnage.
The coal from these mines is especially
adapted to domestic and manufacturing
purposes because of its low percentage of
sulphur. It is also extensively used in
c'av products manufacture.
On September 28, 1881, Mr. Dye married
Miss ^laud Britton, daughter of James and
Anna fGill) Britton of Newark, Ohio. Mr.
Dve and family reside at Monticello, In-
diana. They have two daughters, Lula E.
and Edna A. Lula is the wife of J. R.
Gardner and Edna is the wife of E. L.
Gardner. E. L. Gardner is a major in the
Anny Reserve Corps at Camp Lee, Vir-
ginia. J. R. Gardner is associated with
IMr. Dye under the firm name of Dye &
Gardner, general hardware, automobiles
anri accessories.
Mr. and Mrs. Dve are members of the
Christian Science Church. He is a demo-
crat in politics and is a Royal Arch JIason
and Shriner.
Charles J. W.vrKFR, who was born in
Indianapolis April 6. 1880, has proved
himself so keenly alive to his opportunities
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and has made such vigorous and effective
use of them and of his own talents and
abilities that today he ranks as one of the
principal general contractors in the city,
with general offices in the Chamber of
Commerce Building and with a splendid
organization representing a large amount
of capital, machinery and tools, and an
organization of expert men capable of han-
dling almost any contract in the building
line.
Mr. Wacker was born at the old home
of his parents in North Indianapolis on
Thirtieth Street. His father is August
Wacker, who has for many years been en-
gaged in developing and building up In-
dianapolis and has specialized in construct-
ing homes on property owned by him, sell-
ing the finished improvement. Charles J.
Wacker spent the first fifteen years of his
life at his father's country residence or
farm in what is now Riverside Park. The
next three years he was learning a trade
in a blacksmith shop in Haughville, and
became a very proficient and expert black-
smith and horseshoer. He abandoned the
trade to go to work for his father in build-
ing homes. He made a close study of
building operations, and had opportunity
to perfect his abilities during such work
as excavating for foundations, laying ce-
ment sidewalks or walls for houses, and
gradually his experience enabled him to
take larger and more important contracts
and develop into the general contracting
business.
His first real contract was for the con-
struction of the Shelter House at Riverside
Park. He then built a Shelter House at
Military Park, and from that his program
of work has been constantly varied and
has assumed almost enormous proportions.
Among more extensive contracts handled
by him should be mentioned the following:
The T. B. Laycock plant; additions to the
Parry manufacturing plant; excavation
for the Meridian Street Church; drop
forge works ; St. Vincent 's Hospital ; ad-
dition to the Methodist Hospital; Castle
Hall on Ohio Street; part of the Indiana
News Building on North Senate Avenue;
J. B. Bright wholesale cofi^ee house; Oaks
Manufacturing Company plant on Roose-
velt Avenue ; Polk Jlilk Company garage ;
City Baking Company plant at Sixteenth
and Bellefontaine ; Indianapolis Baking
Company on Vermont Street; Wabash
Packing Company plant on Dakota and
Ray ; Oliver Chilled Plow Works warehouse
at Donalson and Norwood ; Meridian
Hotel ; Judah Peckham Building on North
Capitol ; Memorial Fountain at University
Park ; Indianapolis Heat & Light Build-
ing on Kentucky Avenue ; Terre Haute
Theater at Eighth and Main. A some-
what unusual contract now in process of
fulfillment is the construction of a huge
Dutch windmill, built almost entirely out
of concrete, located at Miami, Florida, and
owned by Carl Fischer.
As this brief record of business shows
Mr. Wacker is a thoroughly progressive
man of extraordinary energy and of un-
usual business equipment. He is one of
the prominent members of the Builders
& Contratcors Association of Indian-
apolis, and is a member of the Canoe Club
and the Turnverein.
Edwin W. Keightley was born in Van-
Buren County, Indiana, in 1843. He be-
gan the practice of law in St. Joseph
County, Slichigan, and was elected as a
representative to the Forty-fifth Congress.
After retiring from office he resumed the
practice of law in Constantine, Michigan.
Charles B. Mann is one of the live and
enterprising business men of Anderson,
proprietor of the Charles B. Mann Com-
pany, operating a high class musical mer-
chandise store on Meridian Street between
Ninth and Tenth Streets. He has the ex-
clusive agency in Madison County of the
Baldwin Piano Company.
He is a son of Louis C. and Martha
(Brown) Mann of Floyd County, Indiana,
where Charles B. Mann was born on a farm
in 1874. He is of English ancestry, and
some of his forefathers came to this coun-
try about the time of the Mayflower.
As a boy Mr. Mann had the advantages
of the public schools of New Albany, In-
diana, and he also attended DePauw Col-
lege at New Albany. After leaving college
he went to work helping his father in a dry
goods store, and with the advantage of ex-
perience and a modest capital he soon
started a business of his own, which he
conducted quite profitably for a time. He
next engaged in the grocery trade for two
years.
About this period he married Miss Julia
0 'Connell, daughter of William and Ellen
INDIANA AND INDIANANS
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O'Connell of Louisville, Kentucky. After
liis marriage Mr. Mann was employed for
two years as an instructor of boxing and
general athletics at Purdue University. He
has always been an athlete and has kept
up a live interest in this subject even to
the present time. For two years Mr. Mann
was located at Louisville, Kentucky, as
local agent for the Metropolitan Insurance
Company, but in February, 1917, removed
to Anderson and established his own music
house, obtaining the ^Madison County
agency of the Baldwin Company. He de-
veloped the business so rapidly that at the
end of six months he had to move his store
to larger quarters. Mr. Mann is a member
of the First Presbyterian Church of An-
derson and in politics is independent.
John B. Neu, now living in Indianapolis
])ractically retired from active business
pursuits, is deserving of especial mention
among the older citizens of Indiana. His
business career has been honorable, his par-
ticipation as an American of foreign birth
is creditable, particularly his service as a
Union soldier, and in all the relationships
of a long life he has proved himself worthy.
Born in Germany, he came to America
when a boy, and with the firm resolution to
make this country his home. He learned
the language and customs of the people,
and then put his loyalty to test by volun-
teering as a soldier in the Union army.
After the war he learned the chair maker's
trade, and about 1880 engaged in this line
of business for himself as a manufacturer
at Indianapolis. His business affairs pros-
pered and his plant grew with himself in
active charge. About 1906 he turned over
the business to his two sons, and is now re-
tired. The business is now operated under
the name J. B. Neu's Sons.
Mr. Neil has never taken any active part
in politics except to vote for principles and
me'isures rather than according to the dic-
tates of a party creed. He is a member
of the Catholic Church.
He married Catherine Wentz. The nine
children constituting their family are :
William J. ; Catharine ; Lena and Margaret,
both deceased; Clara; Annie, deceased:,
Laura; Ida, Mrs. Edward N. Messick; and
Frank J. The mother of these children
died June 10, 1896.
.Mr. Neu's love for his adopted laud is
unquestioned. His honorable methods of
business have commended him to all, and
it is with a great wealth of esteem th;1t he
is passing his declining years in his home
city of Indianapolis.
Henry Herbert Thomas, president of,
the First National Bank of Frankfort, has
for many years been a conspicuous factor
in the business and public life of Clinton
and Tipton counties. He is a successful
man who started life as a poor orphan boy
with nothing but his two hands to help
him in the struggle, and it is seldom given
to man to make better and wiser use of
his opportunities than Mr. Thomas has
done.
He was born on a farm in Tipton
County, Indiana, August 18, 1848, son of
Minar L. and C.ynthia (Jeffrey) Thomas.
His grandparents, David L. and Phoebe
Thomas, came from New York State, where
their son Minar L. was bom in 1816, and
were among the earliest settlers of Fa.yette
County, Indiana, where for a number of
years they put up with and endured the
hardships and difficult circumstances o^
pioneering. David L. Thomas died in 1862
and his wife in 1858. Minar L. Thomas
at the beginning of the Civil war was run-
ning a saw and grist mill at Windfall, In-
diana. In the spring of 1862 he left this
business to volunteer as orderly sergeant,
afterward being made fii'st lieutenant in
Compan.y F of the Fifty-Fourth Indiana
Infantry. He was almost immediately in-
ducted into the great campaigns of the Mis-
sissippi Valley, was at the siege of Vicks-
burg, and after the fall of that city he
was stricken with the dreaded scourge of
diarrhea, which carried awaj' so many
brave, boys of the Union. He was finally
sent home, having barely sufficient strength
to reach Tipton County, and he died three
days after his arrival. His wife had passed
awav in 1859.
Henry Herbert Thomas was eleven years
old when his mother died and was still a
boy when his soldier father passed away.
Such early educational opportunities as
he had were confined to the district schools.
At the age of seventeen he took up the
serious problem of earning his own living.
He did farm work, also was employed as a
teamster, and really introdxiccd himself to
a business career as a dealer in livestock.
He was remarkably successful in this field
and continued it for about fifteen years.
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From 1876 until 1887 he was associated
with' J. H. Fear. Later for manj' years he
was engaged in the wholesale produce busi-
ness.
His fellow citizens in Tipton County
early recognized his qualifications as a jaub-
lie man as well as a good business man
and in 1886 elected him county clerk. He
was elected on the republican ticket over a
strong democratic majority, being one of
the few members of Jiis party chosen for
office that year. During the next two years
he gave all his time to his office, but in
1888 resumed his place in the produce busi-
ness with J. H. Fear. In 1907 Mr. Thomas
sold his interests in the produce business
and soon afterwards removed to Frank-
fort.
In 1901 another political honor came to
him when he was elected joint representa-
tive of Tipton and Clinton counties. This
time also he ran far ahead of his ticket.
In 1910 he was chosen councilman at large
in Frankfort, but resigned after two yeai-s.
Mr. Thomas has long been identified with
the First National Bank of Frankfort as a
stockholder and director, and in 1914 his
fellow directors elected him president of
the bank. This is one of the largest and
strongest banks in Clinton County. Mr. •
Thomas is a stockholder in the Franklin
Loan and Trust Company and the Frank-
fort Heating Company, and is the owner
of extensive farms in Montgomery and
Howard counties.
Fraternally he is affiliated with the
Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks.
He is still active in the republican ranks,
and attends the IMethodist Episcopal
Church. In 1878 he married Miss Hen-
rietta Free, daughter of Randolph Free of
Alexandria, Indiana.
Osc.^R C. Bradford is one of the business
riflti pud merchants of Marion, and in the
past fourteen years has developed a hard-
ware and implement enterprise which fur-
nishes supplies all over Grant County.
He represents the largest family in
Grant County, and they have reeo'-d of
more than seventy years residence. He is
a great-grandson of John Bradford, a na-
tive of England, who on coming to this
country located in Western Virginia, in
Hardy County, in what is now Grant
County, West Virginia. It was in the pres-
ent State of West Virginia that George
Bradford, a son of John, was born in 1783.
George Bradford lived in the hills of Vir-
ginia until past middle age. In the early
'40s he bought some land in Grant Countj^
and in 1843 established his family there.
He died twelve years later, in 1855. His
first wife was Mary Stingley, and they had
four sons, Leonard, John, George and Dan-
iel. For his second wife he married Eliza-
beth Schell, also a native of Virginia and
of German ancestry. She became the
mother of sixteen children, named Rachel,
Isaac, Henry, Moses, Casper, Joseph, Wil-
liam R., Catherine, Rebecca, Mary J., Eliza-
beth Ann, Jesse T., and Noah and thi;ee
others who died in infancy.
Jesse T. Bradford, father of the Marion
merchant, was born in West Virginia Jan-
uary 20, 1836, and was seven years old
when the family came to Grant County.
Living at a time when he did his educa-
tional advantages were meager. He at-
tended only sixty-five days in the common
schools each year. He also attended the
Indiana Normal School at Marion, Indiana,
for eight weeks. At the age of twenty-five
he moved from the home place to a farm
in section 15 of Washington Township, and
occupied that place and was busy with its
cultivation and management for forty-
seven years. In 1906 he retired to Marion
and became actively identified with the
l^ardware business with his sons. During
his early adult life he was a stanch repub-
lican, but later gave his principal support
to the prohibition party. November 4,
1860, he married Lucy J. Gaines, who died
March 5. 1874, the mother of four sons.
On April 11, 1876, he married Angeline
Silvers, and they became the parents of five
children. Jesse Bradford died January 29,
1919.
Oscar C. Bradford, son of Jesse T. and
Lucy J. (Gaines) Bradford, was born in
Washington Township of Grant County,
December 18, 1869. Reared in a rural en-
vironment, he attended the common schools,
spent one year in DePauw University atl
Grcencastle, and finished a commercial
course in tlie Indianapolis Business Col-
lege in 1896. He also attended the Marion
Normal College during the summer terms,
and was a successful teacher from 1890 to
1900.
He entered business in 1900 as book-
keener with a hardware firm at Warren,
Indiana, and subsequently was secretary-
INDIANA AND INDIANANS
2093
treasurer of the Warren Machine Company
and one of its directors. This eompanj'
manufactured oil well machinery and did
a large general shop and repair business.
In 1904 Mr. Bradford withdrew to give
all his time to the hardware and implement
liusiness in which he became associated with
his father and brother. Their store has
grown and prospered and is the medium
through which a large share of the tools
and other supplies are distributed through
the City of Marion and the adjoining agri-
cultural districts.
For a number of years Mr. Bradford
has been regarded as one of the most in-
fluential democrats of Grant County. He*
was chairman of the Democratic Central
Committee of the county in the campaign
of 1912, and as a result of that campaign
the county returned a large vote to Presi-
dent Wilson and effected a complete change
in the personnel of the county otifices. In
1908 he was elected a trustee of Washing-
ton Township. He resigned the office of
trustee in June, 1914, to accept the post-
mastership of Marion, Indiana.
•Tune 17, 1899, Mr. Bradford married
Ethel O. Stevens, who was born in Pleas-
ant Township of Grant County, daughter
of Harrison and Sarah (Beach) Stevens.
Four children have been born to their
union : Ruth 'SI., Doris A., George R. and
Sarah Elizabeth. Doris died in 1906, at
the ago of five vears. Sarah Elizabeth was
born June 2", 1918.
Orville 0. C.\RPENTER. In that group
of men which has succeeded in bringing
Newcastle to a front rank among Indiana
cities there has been no more loyal and
diligent factor in promoting every line of
enterprise than Orville 0. Carpenter, as-
sistant cashier of the Farmers National
Bank.
^Ir. Carpenter has been identified with
Henry County's life and affairs for about
twentj' years. He was born on a farm four
miles west of Fairmont, Grant County,
Indiana, in 1875, son of Lewis H. and
Margaret L. (Black) Carpenter. Several
generations ago three English brothers
e.ime to this country and established the
Carpenter family. The grandfather. Wal-
ker Carpenter, came West from New Jer-
sey. Lewis H. Carpenter moved from Bel-
mont County. Ohio, to Grant County. In-
diana, in 1868, and developed a good farm
not fir from Fairmont. Selling out there
in 1878, he moved to Henry County, near
Newcastle, where he now lives.
Orville 0. Carpenter attended public
schools in Henry County, is a graduate of
the Newcastle High School, and subse-
quently spent one year in the State Normal
at Tcrre Haute and one year in an In-
dianapolis business college." In July, 1899,
returning to Newcastle, he and Howard S.
Henley established a hardware business on
East Broad Street. The firm of Carpenter
& Henley continued 5i/o years, at the end
of which time Mr. Carpenter bought out
his partner and conducted it as the Car-
nenter Hardware Company for 31/0 years
longer. He sold his business largely for
the purpose of spending two winters in
Florida to benefit his daughter's health. In
the meantime he engaged in the real estate
business, and has been extensively handling
farms and farm loans as a broker and on
his own account. In 1915 he bought a
b^ock of stock in and accepted the addi-
tional responsibilities of his present post
as assistant cashier of the Farmers Na-
tional Bank.
]\Ir. Carpenter owns a half interest in
500 acres of Indiana farm land, and
through his land holdings has done much
to stimulate the production of Chester
White hogs and Polled Ansus cattle. His
name is associated with many other of the
live interests of the city.
He is a member of the Country Club, is
a republican, is a Mason, a member of
Murat Temple of the Mystic Shrine at In-
dianapolis, the Knights of Pythias, the Red
Men and the ^Methodist Church. In 1S99
he married Miss Myrtle Hewitt, daughter
of George and Martha (Koons) Hewitt of
Newcastle. Four children were born to
their marriage : Margaret : Marv. who was
born in 1903 and died in 1912:'Hewitt L.,
born in 1908 ; and Orville 0., Jr., born in
1910.
Stu-\rt Brown is one of that growing
fraternity of automobile salesmen in In-
diana, and is a member of the firm Gault
& Brown, who represent "Dodge Cars and
Dodge Service" over Madison County.
They have the county agency for the Dodge
Brothers cars, and have done much to in-
sure the proper prestige for this type of
automobile in that part of the state.
^Ir. Brown was born at Indianapolis
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September 16, 1888, son of Henry and
Pearl (Brumle.y) Brown. He is of Scotch
ancestry. The Brown family were pio-
neers at Indianapolis, locating there even
before the state capital was moved to that
locality. His g^reat-grandfather, Oliver P.
Brown, was a pioneer, coming from Xenia,
Ohio, to Indianapolis in 1818. He was one
of the pioneer merchants of Indianapolis,
with a store on East Washington Street,
and lived there the rest of his life. Henry
Brown, father of Stuart Brown, is now a
farmer and fruit grower at Walla Walla,
Washington. The mother died in 1912.
Of the two sons the other one, Ira, lives
with his father.
Stuart Brown was reared and educated
in Indianapolis and for 31/2 years attended
the Manual Training School of that city,
getting a thorough practice in shop and
mechanical work. At the age of sixteen he
entered Vorhees Business College and spent
one year in that institution. After this
commercial training Mr. Brown went to
work in the offices of the Cincinnati, Ham-
ilton & Dayton Railway as stenographer
and bookkeeper. A year later he went to
St. Louis and was stenographer in the
offices of the Burlington Railroad for two
years. In 1907, when he located at Ander-
son, he became bookkeeper and stenog-
rapher for the Union Grain & Feed Com-
panj'. He was with that organization for
nine years, and much of the time was its
traveling representative.
Attracted into automobile work, Mr.
Brown showed his quality as a salesman
with the Waddell Buick Company, and for
eight months made an energetic campaign
all over Madison County selling the Buick
cars. He then formed a partnership with
Mr. Zuriel Gault, under the name Gault
& Brown, and established the Madison
County agency for the Dodge cars. Their
location is 921-931 Central Avenue, where
they have a splendid salesroom, and also
shop and other facilities with a perfect
service for the Dodge cars. They also con-
duct three branches in Madison County,
one at Elwood, one at Alexandria and
one at Summitville.
ilr. Brown has aeouired various inter-
ests at Anderson, and is a man of affairs
in the countv. He is affiliated with the
Knights of Pythias, having been through
all the chairs, and is a member of the
United Commercial Travelers. He is a
Presbyterian and a democratic voter. At
St. Louis, Missouri, in 1908, he married
Florence May Bell, daughter of Francis M.
and Sarah (Hann) Bell. They have one
daughter. Donna, born in 1910.
John Henry Vajen. It was a remark-
able life that came to a close with the
death of John Henry Vajen at Indian-
apolis on May 28, 1917. It was remarkable
not only for its length and its association
with so many changing eras of national
progress, but also for its individual
achievements and influences that are woven
into the business and civic structure of In-
dianapolis. He was a young and prosper-
ing business man during those momentous
da.ys when America was girding itself for
the struggle over the Union and slavery.
He lived through the prosperous half cen-
tury that followed, marking an era of ma-
terial development such as the world has
never seen, and his life came to an end
after war's fury had again loosed itself
upon the world and had even drawn the
land of his adoption into an ever widening
conflict.
The life that came to a close at the age
of eighty-nine had its beginning at Bre-
men, Hanover, Germany, March 19, 1828,
under the English Flag. He was a son of
John Henry and Anna Margaretha
(Woernke) Vajen. He came of a long line
of Lutheran clergymen and educators.
His father was a professor in the Univer-
sity of Stade in Hanover. In 1836, when
John H., Jr., was eight years old, the fam-
ily sought a home in America, locating in
Baltimore, where the father spent a year
as a teacher. He was a man of unusual
talents and was a musician as well as a
teacher and preacher. From Baltimore the
family moved to Cincinnati, and then in
1839 John H. Vajen, Sr., with several other
families bought land in Jackson County,
Indiana, near Seymour, and organized a
colony of German Lutherans.
The late John Henry Vajen was eleven
years of age when brought to Indiana. He
spent most of his youth on a farm, and his
studies were largely directed with a view
to his entering the ministry. In 1845 his
father died, and that turned his activities
into an entirely new channel. He was then
seventeen years of age, and he soon left
home to seek employment in Cincinnati.
As clerk in a large wholesale and retail
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2095
hardware store he made such good use of
his opportunities and became so indispens-
able to the tirm that in 1848 he was given
an interest therein.
In 1850 Mr. Vajen married and the fol-
lowing year severed his interest with the
Cincinnati firm and came to Indianapolis.
In this city he opened a wholesale and
retail hardware store on East "Washington
Street, and in 1856, to better accommo-
date his growing trade, he erected what
was then one of the modern buildings of
the downtown district, a four-story struct-
ure at 21 West Washington Street. J. S.
Hildebrand and J. L. Pugate became asso-
ciated with him. In 1871 Mr. Vajen re-
tired from the hardware business, selling
his interest to his partners, and for more
than forty years he was busied only with
his private affairs. He had a summer home
at Lake Maxincuekee, Indiana, and spent
many weeks each year there, enjoying his
favorite sport of fishing. He also invested
heavily in local real estate, and at the time
of his death was a wealthy man.
In 1861, when the Civil war broke out.
Governor ^Morton appointed Mr. Vajen
quartermaster general of the state. It be-
came his duty in this capacity to form all
the plans with regard to the equipment of
the first contingent of Indiana troops. He
carried out this work with such energy and
vigor that the Indiana troops were the first
well equipped forces in the field, and that
fact has alwRys redounded to Indiana's
credit in the history of that great struggle.
Much of the early enuipment for these vol-
unteers was obtained largely through Mr.
Vajen 's personal credit. He became known
as the "right hand man" of Governor Mor-
ton, and at the present time his efforts
as an organizer can perhaps be better ap-
preciated than at any previous date. .
Mr. Vajen 's active life was contem-
poraneous with the life of Indianapolis.
He saw it grow from a struggling village
of a thousand inhabitants to a large com-
mercial city. He was prominently iden-
tified with practically all the early charities
and enterprises of the city. In 186-1 he
assisted in tlie organization of the bank-
insr house of Fletcher, Vajen & Company,
which was merged into the Fourth National
Bank and afterward became the Citizens
National Bank. Mr. Vajen was a director
and stockholder in this institution until it
surrendered its charter.
At the time of his death he was the only
surviving one of the original incorporators
of the Crown Hill Cemetery Association,
and gave substantially to public and pri-
vate charities of all kinds. He was a Mason
and Odd Fellow, a member of the Presby-
terian Church and a very ardent republi-
can, though not in politics save as a voter.
Throughout his long life he was a fine
example of the man devoted to plain living
and high thinking, and one whose chief
delight was in the simple things of the
world.
In 1850 Mr. Vajen married ;\Iiss Alice
Fugate, daughter of Thomas F. and Eliza-
beth (Eckert) Fugate. Mrs. Vajen died
in 1901. Seven children were born to
them: Willis, who died in 1899; Frank
L. ; John, who died in 1885 ; Fannie, wife
of Charles S. Voorhees, a son of Senator
Voorhees; Alice, wife of Henry Lane Wil-
son : Charles T. ; and Mrs. Caroline Vajen
Collins. Mr. Vajen was also survived by
seven grandchildren and three great-grand-
children.
George G. Dunn, an Indiana congress-
man of the early days, began the practice
of law in Bedford. Indiana. He was
elected as a whig to the Thirtieth Congress,
and as a republican was a member of the
Thirty-fourth Congress. Mr. Duini died at
Bedford, Indiana, in 1857.
William Levi Abbott. Success in busi-
ness is largely a matter of connecting good
work and service into a chain in which
every successive link is a little larger and
stronger than the one preceding, all of
them constituting the substantial achieve-
ments of a career. This has been the ex-
perience of William Levi Abbott of Elwood,
who has been steadily lengthening out his
chain since be obtained his first opportun-
ity to prove his ability in mechanical lines
more than a quarter of a century ago.
Mr. Abbott is sole proprietor of the El-
wood house of W. L. Abbott, agency for
Ford cars, garage accessories and fueling
station. He was born at Sulphur Springs
in Hcnrv Countv, Indiana. :\Iarch 22, 1873,
son of George W. and Rebecca Ann (Fes-
ler) Abbott. The Abbotts were of English
stock, and the first of tlie family was
George W. Abbott, who came in colonial
times from England and settled in Mary-
land. The records of the family disclose
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that most of the male members have been
either merchants or farmers.
William L. Abbott attended his first
school in the country of White County,
Illinois. His parents had moved to that
locality from Indiana. In order to get
to school he had to walk four miles through
the woods, and the school was held in a
log building. When he was seven years
old the family returned to Indiana and lo-
cated south of Dundee in Madison County
on the old Fesler farm. The Feslers are
a family of German origin. Here George
W. Abbott managed the farm, while his,
son William L. attended the Branick
schoolhouse for two years. The family next
moved to the vicinity of Alexandria, where
the boy furthered his education by three
years in the King schoolhouse. Then they
went back to Dundee, and he was again a
pupil in the Branick schoolhouse until he
was about the age of fifteen. For another
year he lived with his grandfather. David
Fesler, and attended King school. All this
time his school work -was done during the
winter, while in the summer he worked on
farms. In 1890 Mr. Abbott entered Pur-
due University at Lafayette, Indiana, with
the intention of pursuing a course and per-
fecting himself in electrical and mechanical
engineering. The first year he was able
to attend six months and the second year
only five months before his money run
out. However, the schooling was valuable
to him and on returning to Elwood he
found employment in the machine shops of
the Shively business which occupied the site
now held by Crane's Grand Opera House.
This work gave him much knowledge of
electrical and mechanical engineering.
Three years after that he was foreman in
the machine shops of the Pittsburg Plate
Glass Company at Elwood. His ambition
was to get into business for himself, and
taking the modest capital he had accumu-
lated and in association with his father
and brother he opened the feed mill known
as the Abbott ]\Iill. This institution did
grinding and offered a valuable service to
the public for many years and was both a
flour and feed mill. In the fall of 1916
IMr. Abbott closed out the business. Since
1912 he has been one of the principal deal-
ers in Ford automobiles in this section of
Indiana. He has the agency for Pipe
Creek and Duck Creek townships, half of
Boone Township in IMadison County, and
half of Madison Township in Tipton
County. He has done a big business in
these popular cars, and has built up two
establishments at Elwood for service and
garage purposes, one at 1514 North B
Street, a building 130 by 90 feet, and an-
other 34 by 84 feet at 234 North Sixteenth
Street. Mr. Abbott also has various other
interests in local companies and banks.
In 1893 he married Miss Ida F. Myerly,
daughter of John Henry Myerly of Elwood.
Mr. Abbott has also been active in local
politics and is a republican. For six years
he represented the Second Ward in the
City Council. He has filled all the chairs
except that of noble grand in the Independ-
ent Order of Odd Fellows at Elwood and
is a member of the Knights of Pythias,
the Improved Order of Red Men and the
Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks.
His religious faith is that expressed by the
Christian Church.
William J. Reavis, M. D., has been a
member of the medical fraternity at Evans-
ville for over thirty years. He has served
the community in the capacity of an able
and conscientious physician and surgeon,
and so far as his duties have permitted has
allied himself with every worthy^movement
in civic affairs.
Doctor Reavis was born on a farm in
Center Township of Gibson County, In-
diana, September 7, 1853, a son of James
Reavis, who was born in the same township
in 1829, and a grandson of William and
Catherine (Hensley) Reavis. Gile R. Stor-
ment's history of Gibson County gives the
following account of the grandfather : "In
1817 William Reavis married Catherine
Hensley, and soon after that event they
made a long and tedious trip to this county
on pack horses and settled near the present
site of Francisco, about a mile southwest
and in the timber, where he erected a log
cabin and cleared a tract of land and by
industi'y made them a fine farm." William
Reavis was, it is thought, a native of one
of the Carolinas. He died in 1855 and his
widow two years later. His brothers Isom
and Daniel followed him to Gibson County
in 1818. His two sons served in the Union
army as members of the Forty-Second Regi-
ment of Indiana Volunteers.
James Reavis was reared on a farm, and
at the time of his marriage began house-
keeping in a log cabin. There was no stove.
INDIANA AND INDIANANS
2097
and his wife did the cooking by the open
fire. She was also an adept in those house-
wifely arts of carding, spinning and weav-
ing, and dressed all her family in home-
spun. In 1861 James Reavis and his only
brother, Alexander, enlisted in Company
F of the Forty-second Indiana Infantry
and went south with the command. Alex-
ander lost his life in Andersonville Prison.
James was in all the campaigns and battles
of his regiment until failing health brought
him an honorable discharge in 1864. He
then resumed farming in Southern Indi-
ana, and having inherited a part of the old
homestead he bought other lands and lived
there a prosperous and highly thought of
resident until his death in 1882. He mar-
ried Margaret Chambers, who was born near
Kings Station in Gibson County, daughter
of Norman and Elizabeth (Wallace) Cham-
bers. Her grandfather Chambers was a
pioneer of Gibson County and lived to a
good old age. Norman Chambers was a
railroad man and lost his life in a railroad
accident when a young man. Mrs. James
Eeavis died at the age of sixty-six. Her
six children were : William J. ; Mary, who
died at the age of ten years; Alexander,
who was killed in a railroad wreck; Re-
becca A. ; Ella J. ; and Julia A.
Doctor Reavis attended "Old Hickory,"
a rural school in his native comnnmitv
taught by Farmer McConnel. The furni-
ture of that old building he well recalls.
The seats were made of logs split in halves,
with wooden pins to keep them above the
floor, and he wrote manv times with a
goose quill pen on a plain plank nailed
around one side for a desk. Later he
attended Fort Branch High School and
also Oakland City College. Doctor Resvis
was a successful teacher before he became
a physician. Altogether he tausht for
seven vears in Gibson and Warrick coun-
ties. In the meantime he was studying
medicine w-ith Doctors Scales and Tyner
and in 1877 attended a course of lectures
in the Ohio Medical College of Cincinnati.
Before graduatinar he began practice in
Richland Citv, Spencer County, but in
1885 returned to the Ohio Medical Colleare
and received his diploma in 1886. With
these fiualifications and experiences he be-
gan his work at Evansville and coUtinued
uninterruDtedlv to the present time.
'In 1878 Doctor Reavis married Florence
G. Allen, a native of Warrick County,
daughter of Manville Allen, a farmer of
that county. She died in 1893. Doctor
Reavis married for his present wife Elsie
M. Hammerle. She was born and reared
and educated in Bavaria, Germany. Doctor
Reavis is a member of Park Chappel Pres-
byterian Church, while Mrs. Reavis is a
Catholic, a member of the Church of the
Assumption. He is active in the Vander-
burg County Medical Society, also the In-
diana State Society and the Ohio Valley
Medical Association, is affiliated with
Evansville Lodge of Elks and is physician
for the local branches of the Woodmen of
the World and the Tribe of Ben Hur.
Fr.\nk a. Schoenberger is manager of
the ^Morris Five and Ten Cent Store at
Elwood, is a stockholder in the Morris
Company at Bluifton, and is a man of long
and thorough business experience who has
always given a good account of himself
in relation to the opportunities presented
him since boyhood.
^Ir. Schoenberger was born at Upper
Sandusky, Ohio, June 2, 1883, a son of
Jacob and Tillie (Schwilk) Schoenberger.
He is of Swiss and German stock. His
grandfather and two brothers came to
America and settled at Kirby in Wyandot
County, Ohio, in pioneer times. Frank A.
Schoenberger attended the public schools
at Forest, Ohio, and was little more than
a boy when he went to work in a grocery
store at Forest. He remained there ten
years and during that time was employed
hy five ditferent firms. In the meantime,
havinar an ambition to make the most of
himself, he supplemented his earlier ad-
vantages in school by two courses with the
International Correspondence School of
Scranton. taking both the business course
and a civil service course. Leaving home
surroundings, Mr. Schoenberger was for
seven mouths with the National Cash
Register Company at Dayton, was time-
keeper in the cost department of the In-
ternational Harvester Company at Snring-
field three years, for nine months clerked
in the Bisr Four Railroad offices at Jlid-
dletown, Ohio, and was then apDointed sta-
tion agent at Elwood, Ohio, for the Big
Four. He remained there three years and
then returned to Dayton and took the man-
agement of one of the drug stores owned
bv his brother, H. E. Schoenberger. He
managed this business two j^ears, and from
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there came into his present relations with
the Moi-ris Company as assistant manager
of its store at Newcastle, Indiana. From
June 14, 1913, until December 1st of the
same year he was manager of that business,
and then removed to Elwood to take the
active management of the Morris store in
that city.
December 24, 1903, Mr. Schoenberger
married Kuth D. Wells, daughter of Prank
R. and Mollie (Neal) Wells. They have
one child, Edwin Wells, born in 1907.
Mrs. Schoenberger is prominent socially
and a woman of many varied talents and
capabilities. She is organist of the First
Methodist Episcopal Church at Elwood,
and is also an elocutionist who has given
many readings before different organiza-
tions. Mr. Schoenberger is affiliated with
Carthage Lodge No. 573, Free and Ac-
cepted Masons, in Ohio, and in politics
votes as an independent.
Robert Maurice Roof, chief engineer
and vice president of the Laurel Motor
Corporation at Anderson, has achievement
to his credit as an inventor that seems
destined to give him a foremost place
among Indiana's famous men in the in-
dustrial field.
He represents an old and notable family
of Henry County. He was born in New-
castle September 13, 1882, son of James
W. and Rosa B. (Lewis) Roof. His great-
grandfather, Samuel Roof, was born in
Shenandoah County, Virginia, March 3,
1797, his parents having come from Ger-
many. He married in 1819 Dorothy Stef-
fey. of Virginia, and they had four sons
and five daughters. In 1835 they moved
by wagons over the highways and trajls
to Wayne County, Indiana, and in 1837
Samuei Roof, who was a tanner by trade,
took charge of a tannery at Newcastle,
when that was a village of only a few
houses surrounded by dense forests. Sam-
uel Roof and his wife were among the
charter members of the Disciples of Christ
at Newcastle when that church was estab-
lished, and were faithful in every relation-
ship to their church and their community.
Samuel Roof died at the age of eighty-one,
on March 3, 1878. his wife having died in
1871. John W. Roof, son of Samuel, and
grandfather of Robert M., was born in Vir-
ginia June 6, 1821, and was fourteen years
old when the family came to Indiana. In
1839 he carried mortar for the workmen
erecting the county oifices at Newcastle.
He also drove teams in the pioneer trans-
portation traffic between Newcastle and
Cincinnati. Later he bought a tract of
heavily timbered land near Newcastle, and
on that he settled down after his marriage.
Marietta Stout became his bride in 1848.
John W. Roof was a prosperous and suc-
cessful farmer in Henry County, and he
and his wife became the parents of eight
children, four sons and four daughters,
who reached mature years.
One of these was James W. Roof, father
of Robert !\L, and who was born at New-
castle and was also a construction engineer.
He died at the age of fifty-four. His
widow, Rosa B. (Lewis) Roof, living at
Knightstown, Indiana, was a daughter of
Edward Lewis, also a pioneer of Henry
County. Robert JI. Roof has a brother,
Walter Raymond Roof, now a resident of
Chicago and a man of prominence in en-
gineering circles, being chief engineer of
bridges for the Chicago, Great Western
Railway Company. ,
The early bo.yhood of Robert M. Roof
was spent in Henry County. He obtained
his first schooling at Muncie, Indiana, and
was only seventeen when he began a prac-
tical apprenticeship at the machinist's
trade, and contributed some of his early
earnings to put his brother through college.
Later he entered experimental work, and
has given yeai-s of study and application
to the problems of internal combustion en-
gines. On coming to Anderson he was
chief engineer for six years with the An-
derson Foundry and Machine Works.
While there he brought out a complete line
of the Semi-Deisel engines, and these gave
him an international reputation. They
passed the inspection of the Italian Navy.
In 1908 he brought out an aviation motor
engine. His first motor had a successful
test, and enabled one of the aeroplanes of
that day to make a remarkable record. The
motor was widely advertised in other coun-
tries and was known as the "Gray Eagle."
Tn 1916 he designed and broiight out the
Roof 16-Overhead Valve Cylinder Head for
internal combustion engines.
In 1916 also Mr. Roof organized the Roof
Auto Specialty Company, which later be-
came merged with the Laurel Motors Cor-
poration, of which he is vice president and
chief engineer.
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In 1905 ilr. Roof married Miss Minnie
E. Jones, daughter of Levi and Anna
Jones. They have one son, Robert Maurice,
Jr. Mr. Roof is a Knight Templar Mason.
Henry Ashely Root, founder and pro-
prietor of the Root ilanufacturing Com-
pany at Michigan City, is a veteran in the
lumber business, and in former years also
operated extensively as a building con-
tractor. He is one of the few men still
active in atfairs who saw service through
practically all the war of the rebellion.
Mr. Root was born in Hebron, Connecti-
cut, June 27, 1845. His family is of Eng-
lish origin and was established in America
in colonial times. His great-grandfather,
Joshua Root, Sr., was born in Connecticut
July 8, 1753. In September, 1775, he mar-
ried Sarah Chapman. They spent all their
lives in Connecticut. Joshua Root, Jr.,
who was born near Hartford, Connecticut,
July 22, 1787, owned and occupied a farm
in that part of the town af Hebron known
as Gilead Society. He spent his last years
there. He married Esther Ingraham, who
was bom June 8, 1792, of Scotch ancestry.
Austin Root, father of Henry A., was
born in Glassbury, Conneeticiit, January
3, 1816, and spent his boyhood and early
youth on a farm. In young manhood he
removed to Colchester, and for a time was
in the employ of the Hayward Rubber
Comoany. He resigned this work on ac-
count of ill health and resumed farming
at JIanchester, Connecticut, a short time
later had a farm at Tolland, and finall.y
engaged in the general merchandise busi-
ness on Tolland Street and continued it the
rest of his active life. He died June 11,
1884. at Rodville, Connecticut. The
maiden name of his wife was Mariva Post.
She was born in Connecticut and died
February 15, 1880, at Tolland, Connecticut.
There were four children, Esther Ann.
Ellen Electa, Henry Ashely and Emma
Mariva.
Henry Ashely Root acquired a good edu-
cation while a boy. He attended the pub-
lic schools of Heln-on and also the Bacon
Academy at Colchester. He was not yet
sixteen years old when the Civil war broke
out, and in April, 1861. at the first call for
troops, he volunteered for the three
months' service. During that three months
he particinated in the memorable first bat-
tle of Bidl Run. He received his honorable
discharge, returned home, and in 1862
again enlisted, this time joining Company
K of the Twenty-second Regiment of Con-
necticut Infantry and was commissioned
as captain. After about eight months by
special order from the "War Department he
went on detached duty, and remained with
the Army of the Potomac and participated
in some of the greatest campaigns of the
war. He was in "Washington at the Grand
Review, and did not receive his honorable
discharge from the service until 1865, more
than four years after his first enlistment.
Mr. Root was not yet twenty-one years
of age when he returned a veteran soldier.
He learned the carpentry trade at Rock-
ville, Connecticut, and soon set up in busi-
ness for himself as a contractor and builder
at Bridgeport, Connecticut. In 1872 he
came "West to Chicago, the year following
the great fire of that city, and was a resi-
dent and engaged in business there until
1873. In the fall of that year he moved
to "White Cloud, ^Michigan, as vice president
and manager of the "Wilcox Lumber Com-
pany. He sold his interests in that com-
pany in 1881. He moved to Michigan City
and was engaged in the lumber industry
for several years, and in the meantime es-
tablished the Root Manufacturing Com-
pany, building planing mills and other
factories for the manufacture of interior
finish. The company still supplies a large
volume of demand for interior finish, and
many carloads leave the plant every year
for distant points.
On April 3, 1864. while still in the army,
Mr. Root married Miss Clara Eaton, a na-
tive of Tolland, Connecticut, and a daugh-
ter of Dr. J. C. Eaton. Mrs. Root died
April 7, 1903. For his second wife Mr.
Root married Jennie Blanche McKelvev.
She was born at Johnstown, Pennsvlvania,
Her father, James McKelvev, was born on
a farm in Indiana County, Pennsylvania,
and when a young man went to work in a
rolling mill at Johnstown, and later quit
that to buy a tract of mountain timber land.
He converted the timber into lumber and
also built up a large industry as a char-
coal burner, a material which was in great
demand at the rolling mills. The business
since his death has been continued and is
'•■ow carried on by his sons Eugene and
Frank McKelvey. the former a resident of
Hollidaysburg and the latter of Coal Cove,
Pennsylvania. ^Irs. Root died January 28,
2100
INDIANA AND INDIANANS
1915, leaving- five eliildren, named James
Henrj-, Henry Ashely, Jr., David' Ray,
Annie Jean and Joseph McKelvey.
Mr. Root was one of the first members
of the Grand Army of the Republic. He
joined the Elias Howe Post at Bridgeport,
Connecticut, in 1866. He is now a member
of Rawson Post, Grand Army of the Repub-
lic, at ilichigan City, and with the excep-
tion of two years has been commander of
the Post for twenty years. He was made
a Master Mason in Corinthian Lodge at
Bridgeport, Connecticut, in 1865, and is
now afifiliated with Acme Lodge No. 83, An-
cient Free and Accepted Masons, Michigan
City Chapter No. 25, Royal Arch Masons,
Michigan City Commandery No. 30,
Knights Templar, and Indianapolis Con-
sistory of the Scottish Rite.
Theodore Stein. A multitude of busi-
ness activities have consumed the j'ears of
Theodore Stein since he arrived at matur-
ity, and few of his contemporaries in In-
dianapolis have shown gi'eater ability at
handling large and variegated business re-
sponsibilities.
Mr. Stein was born in Indianapolis No-
vember 7, 1858. He has an interesting an-
cestry. On the one hand he is connected
with a solid old German house, related to
the nobility, and extending back in well
authenticated records for more than a thou-
sand years. On the other hand Mr. Stein
is one of the charter members of the In-
diana State Society Sons of the American
Revolution, some of his ancestors having
been in this country early enough to par-
ticipate in the war for independence. Mr.
Stein some years ago served as treasurer
and also as president of the Indiana State
Society. The possessions of the Stein fam-
ily at one period constituted one of the
petty principalities of the German Empire.
These possessions in 1806 were mediatized
along with those of other princely houses.
The ruins of the Stein ancestral castle,
called "Btirg Stein," erected in 1050 A. D.,
may still be seen along with those of Nas-
sau, the fncestral home of the prasent
f|ueen of Holland, on a mountain near the
river Lahn, not far from the City of Cob-
lenz on the Rhine.
Theodore was the oldest of the five sons
of Ernest Christian Frederick Stein and
Catherine Elizabeth Stein. His father was
a poor but worthy scion of the highest
German nobility, while the mother was the
daughter of a well-to-do German "Gutsbe-
sitzer. " Frederick Stein, the father, after
coming to Indianapolis, took an active in-
terest in the organization of the republican
party and became that party's first elected
candidate for city clerk in 1856. It is said
of him as a matter of distinction that
when later he became a justice of the peace
he invariably tried to arrange the dif-
ferences of the people brought before his
court on an amicable basis. While thereby
he avoided imposing heavy money penal-
ties, he incidentally curtailed his own in-
come, and set a precedent which few of his
contemporary squires dared to follow.
Theodore Stein received his education
during a few limited years in the old Ger-
man English Independent School of In-
dianapolis. Biit during those years he ap-
plied himself with such diligence that he
acquired a knowledge such as many other
students get only from college.
At the beginning of his business career
he distinguished himself by his versatility.
While following his daily vocation of book-
keeper and manager of a large lumbering
institution he was secretary of four savings
and loan associations and treasurer of an-
other. Mr. Stein is given credit for cre-
ating an abstract of title business second
to none anywhere, and which finally became
the nucleus for the establishment of the
Indiana Title Guarantee and Loan Com-
pany, with which Mr. Stein's name is in-
delibly connected. In 1896 he was a most
influential factor in saving from destruc-
tion the old German Mutual Insurance
Company, which had been brought into
being by that sturdy old stock of Germans
which added so materially in the upbuild-
ing of our beautiful capital city. Upon the
reorganization in the same year into a
stock company under the name of the Ger-
man Fire Insurance Company of IndiaT;ia,
Mr. Stein became its president. While
tliese and other matters have occupied a
generous share of his time and opportunity
^Ir. Stein has always given a helping hand
in the advancement of his home citv. He
wrote not only a history of the German
Fire Insurance Company of Indiana, but
also a history of the German-English Inde-
pendent School of Indianapolis, which lat-
ter preserves to posterity not only views
of Indianapolis of the past, but also a hun-
dred or more portraits of earlier citizens
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of German descent, together with bio-
graphical notes pertaining to same. He is
one of the charter members of the Columbia
Club, and as a republican was active in the
early days of the llarion Club. He is a
member of the National Civil Service Re-
form League of New York City, and of the
Navy League of the United States, Wash-
ington, District of Columbia. He has al-
ways aided church enterprises, is a lover
of music and all that tends to better family
social life, is a member of the Athen»um,
and is a Scottish Rite Mason and a Mystic
Shriner. Mr. Stein married an Indian-
apolis girl, ]\Iiss Kuhn, on March 15, 1882.
They have a daughter, Pauline Kathryn,
and a son, Theodore Stein, Jr.
Frank Wampler. The locality where
Frank "Wampler grew up and spent his
boyhood was Gosport in Owen County,
Indiana. In the year 1895 he conceived
the idea of getting Gosport into communi-
cation with the outside world by means
of a telephone .system. When the idea had
been properly weighed and discussed and
acted upon Mr. Wampler was put in charge
as manager of the local company.
That was the beginning of his career as
a telephone man. Today his home and
headquarters are in Indianapolis, and he is
general manager of the Central Union
Telephone Company for the State of In-
diana and one if not the best known tele-
phone men in Indiana. When the United
States began marshalling and organizing
its power, resources and men for the etfi-
cient conduct of the great war, Mr.
Wampler was asked by Governor Goodrich
to serve on the State Council of Defense
of Indiana, and was appointed chairman
of the Committee on Communication and
chairman of the Committee of Employers'
Cooperation. After that he divided his
time and energies between the C. V. T.
Company's offices and the office of the
State Council of Defense.
Mr. Wampler was born on a farm a mile
east of Gosport, Indiana, Jiine 18, 1875.
His grandfather, Jefferson Wampler, a na-
tive of Virginia, was reared in tlie faith of
the Dunkard Church. He was one of the
pioneer settlers of Monroe County, Indiana,
and at Gosport was one of those instru-
mental in establishing the Methodist Epis-
copal Church.
John Wampler, father of Prank Wam-
pler, was a farmer and stock raiser of
Monroe County and died in Go.sport in
1907, at the age of seventy-five. In 1885
he also established a store at Gosport, but
retired from that service in 1900. For
many years he had served continuously
in the office of justice of the peace. His
chief characteristic was his hospitality, and
he was never happier than when his house
was filled with congenial guests. John
Wampler married Margaret E. Johns, who
was born in Morgan County, Indiana, and
died at Gosport in 1915, in her eightieth
year. Her children were: James W., now
in the government service ; Nora B., wife
of Jlelvin T. IMoorc, of Gosport; Charles
E., roadmaster of tlie ]\Ionon Railway at
Bloomington, Indiana ; Rebecca E., widow
of Albert H. Rott and living at Joliet,
Illinois ; Maggie, deceased ; Thomas C, of
Gpsport ; and Frank.
Frank Wampler spent most of his boy-
hood on the farm and in Gosport. He at-
tended the common schools and as soon as
old enough began helping his father in the
store. Several summer seasons he helped
furnish recreation for the community by
playing baseball with his home town team.
He was married in 1894 to Nellie K. Rog-
ers, who was also born and reared in Gos-
port. In 1895, when he was twenty years
of age, he accepted the position of manager
of the local telephone exchange at Gosport.
In 1896 he was made solicitor at Indian-
apolis for the Central Union Telephone
Company, and was employed in that capac-
ity in different towns and cities of the
state until 1898. Then following a brief
interval the Central Union Telephone Com-
pany was glad to get him back in the ca-
pacity of solicitor, and after a short time
he was made special agent for the com-
pany, with widely varied and oftentimes
very important duties. Finally he became
district superintendent at Terre Haute, and
in 1914 his office headquarters were, re-
moved to Indianapolis.
While I\lr. Wampler has easily been too
busy for public office except so far as he
lias regarded public service as a duty im-
posed upon him by the great war, he has
been interested in good government every-
where and in 1898 he held the office of
city clerk of Gosport. He is a democrat,
and a firm believer in the principles of the
Jefifersonian type of democracy. In Ma-
sonry he is affiliated with Gosport Lodge
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No. 92, Free and Accepted Masons, is a
Scottish Rite Mason and a member of the
Mystic Shrine at Indianapolis. He is also
affiliated with the Independent Order of
Odd Fellows, the Knights of Pythias and
the Indiana Democratic Club, the Indiana
Athletic Club, Indianapolis Chamber of
Commerce, the Jovian Order, the Hoosier
Motor Club and the Canoe Club. He is in-
terested in agricultural stock raising and
enjoys the time that can be spared from
his other duties looking after his farm. He
has always been and still is a consistent
hard worker, and believes that this char-
acteristic has been 99% responsible for his
success. He is a splendid judge of men,
has shown ability to retain the loj^alty of
his subordinates, and is one of the all
around good citizens of Indiana.
George H. Dunn, a representative
to Congress from Indiana, resided in
Lawrenceburg of this state. He was a
member of the State Legislature a number
of j-ears, and was elected as a whig to
the Twenty-fifth Congress. He died at
Lawrenceburg in 1854.
Harry Stout, who died at Indianapolis
June 10, 1914, was a supremely successful
merchant and at the age of forty-nine had
achieved a position that would have done
credit to a much longer life.
His spirited citizenship was on a par
with his business ability. That citizenship,
dominated by ardent patriotism, is a mat-
ter of pride with Indianapolis people who
in recent months have followed closely the
performance of his three soldier sons. No
family in Indiana can be traced further
back. 'to the very foundation of the Ameri-
can Republic. The remote American an-
cestor was Richard Stout, an Englishman,
who established his home in the colony of
New Jersey about the time the Pilgrim
Fathers were preparing to colonize the bar-
ren and hostile coast of Massachusetts.
Soon after he went to New Jersey a Dutch
ship was wrecked otf the coast of Sandy
Hook. Among the passengers was a man
named Van Prince and his wife Penelope.
They escaped to the coast only to fall into
the hands of Indians, who murdered Van
Prince. Through the intercession of one
of the chiefs of the war party Mrs. Van
Prince was ransomed, and after incredible
hardships, subsisting on berries, she eventu-
ally reached New Amsterdam, now New
York City. There in 1622 she united her
fortunes with Richard Stout. As a pioneer
American mother her achievements were
remarkable. She lived to the age of 110
years, reared a large family, and in eighty-
eight years numbered her descendants at
502. One son, David, was born and lived
all his life in New Jersey. His son, Ben-
jamin H., crossed the mountains and ven-
tured into the wilderness of Kentucky and
helped redeem that country from savages.
Dr. Oliver H. Stout, son of Benjamin H.,
was born at Lexington, Kentucky, May 16.
1800. He married Harriet Whaley, who
was born in the same locality August 31,
1807. Dr. Oliver Stout graduated from a
medical college at Lexington which has
since been removed to Louisville, and was
in the active practice of medicine in Ken-
tucky until he removed to Thorntown, In-
diana, about 1858. He finally came to
Indianapolis, in which city he died August
13. 1862.
Benjamin G. Stout, son of Dr. Oliver
Stout, was born at Lexington, Kentucky,
June 11, 1829. September 13, 1853, he
married Elizabeth Howe. Soon after their
marriage they came to Indianapolis. In
that city for a time he worked as a book-
keeper, later was in the wholesale and re-
tail grocery trade, and also conducted ,a
retail shoe business. He is remembered by
some of the older citizens as a typical
Soi;thern gentleman, devoted to his home,
honest and upright in all his dealings, and
widely known and respected. He died Feb-
ruary 22, 1875. His wife was born in
Kentuckv. January 3, 1837, and is still liv-
ing at Indianapolis at the advanced age
of eighty-two. She was the mother of five
children, the only two to reach maturity
beins Edward E. and Harry.
Edward E. Stout was born July 25, 1862,
in Indianapolis, and this city has been
his home all his life. He was educated in
the public schools, and the greater part
of his adult years were spent as an active
associate with his brother in merchandisinsr.
He is a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite
and Kniffht Templar Mason and a member
of the Mystic Shrine. He married Helen
E. Billings.
The late Harry Stout, whose ancestry
and family record has thus been briefly
traced, was born July 16, 1865. His brief
life was impressive in its character and its
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accomplishments. He completed his edu-
cation at Purdue University, where in two
years he did all that was required of the
regular three years course. Mr. Harry
Stout had original ideas and the courage to
put them into effect. In 1888 he entered
the retail business at 318 Massachusetts
avenue. This location was then clearly out
of the regular retail district of the city, and
it was freely predicted that he would fail.
Three years later his brother Edward
joined him. They adopted the plan of
handling reputable gcfods for the popular
trade, sold on a smaller margin of profit,
and by selling- in large quantities attained
the same ends which other merchants
reached by selling at larger profits and in
lesser quantities. The Stout brothers pros-
pered, and in time established four branch
stores, all of which are still in flourishing
operation.
It is evident that Harry Stout had the
true business instinct. He was a careful
buyer, painstaking, and alwaj's the courte-
ous, kindly gentleman. His earthly life
ended when youth and ambitions were still
fresh possessions, and his death was a dis-
tinct loss to the community.
He married Florence AUerdice, who is
also deceased. Their four children were :
Oliver Hart, born March 11, 1896 ; Sidney
A., born :March 10, 1897; Richard Hard-
ing, born October 15, 1899 ; and Florence
Lydia, who was born February 5, 1902,
and died June 28, 1913.
Though the three sons are still young,
they have already won the right and priv-
ilege of lasting memory in any history of
Indianapolis. The son Oliver H. was
graduated from Princeton Universitj' in
1917. He .ioined the first officers training
camp at Fort Ben.iamin Harrison, was
transferred to the aviation corps at Colum-
bus, and on completing his course stood
second in his class, with an average of 935( .
He was sent to Europe for training and
spent three months in France and twenty
months in Italy. He held the rank of first
lieutenant at the time of his discharge.
Sidney A. Stout, the second son, was
graduated from the Foiversity of "Wiscon-
sin in 1918. In August, 1917, he volun-
teered for the aviation corps in the war
against Germany and was commissioned
second lieutenant May 12, 1918. He held
this rank at the date of his discharge.
Richard H. Stout, the youngest, lacked
three months of finishing the second year
at the University of Wisconsin when he en-
listed in the Airierican Ambulance section
of the French Army. He sailed for Europe
^larch 10, 1917, on a vessel carrying muni-
tions to the allies and seventy-five recruits.
For transporting wounded under heavy fire
and gas attacks in the Champagne and at
Verdun on the 20th of August and 5th of
September, 1917, he was decorated with the
French Cross of War with the Palm. The
few who have received these awards among
Americans have had their names and rec-
ords published from coast to coast in this
country. He was discharged from the am-
bulance service and enlisted in the Ameri-
can Air Service in Paris, October 25. 1917.
He received his flying training in France
and was commissioned second lieutenant
May 17, 1918. He is still in service abroad.
While much has necessarily been omitted,
even this outline shows that the Stout
famil,v from earliest times to the present
have exemplified the best of Americanism
in spirit and practice and it is a particu-.
larly honored name at Indianapolis.
John W. Clow is one of the eneregtie
merchants of Anderson, has been in busi-
ness in that city for many years, and is
proprietor of the Clow grocery and meat
market at 1130 Main Street.
He was born on a farm in Madison
Townsliip, Putnam County, Indiana, June
22. 1860. son of William and Louisa
(" Brown) Clow. The Clows are Scotch and
the Browns are an Irish family. Grand-
father John Clow came from Syrshire,
Scotland, when eighteen years of age, and
with his two brothers, Stephen and Alex-
ander, settled in New Hampshire on gov-
ernment land. In the War of 1812 they
served as soldiers, and after that struggle
became separated and there is no record
of the brothers of John. John Clow after-
ward moved to Kentuekj- and reared a fam-
ily of five daughters and three sons. His
home was at Sharpsburg, Kentucky, where
John Clow died at the remarkable age of
ninety-nine years, eleven months and twen-
ty days.
William Clow, the second' son of his
father, was reared and received his school-
ing at Sharpsburg, Kentucky, and lived
there until he was twenty years old. In
1848 he came to Putnam County, Indiana,
and later started for the Southwest and
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traveled over a large part of Texas on foot.
While on that excursion he was captured
by Indians, and was held a prisoner for
six months. He finall.y managed to make
his escape, reached civilization at San An-
tonio, and came back to Indiana chiefly
by the water route. He married at Green-
castle, Indiana, in 1858, and from there
moved to Iroquois County, Illinois, where
he took up a government homestead. On
that he lived eleven years, selling out to
return to Putnam County, Indiana, and
finally moved from his farm in that county
to Boone County, and spent his last, years
at Advance. He died April 21, 1915, aged
eighty-four years, two months and eleven
days.
Thus John W. Clow inherits a strain of
hardy and vigorous ancestry, and his nor-
mal expectation of life is much above the
average. He received his early schooling
chiefly in Martin Township of Iroquois
County, Illinois. He was a school boy in
the country districts of that county up to
the age of fourteen, and at the same time
worked for his father. Later he was a
hired man for laboring farmers, and at
Georgetown, Illinois, acquired a knowledge
of the butcher business. Mr. Clow came
to Andereon in 1890, and on the 21st of
April began work in a local butcher shop.
He' was employed by various grocery and
butcher markets altogether for twenty-eight
years. February 2, 1916, Mr. Clow set up
in business for himself with a meat market
at 1130 Main Stre,et, and in October, 1917,
added a stock of well selected groceries and
now has one of the liberally patronized
establishments of the city.
Mr. Clow married in 1881 Sarah E.
Fuqua, daughter of George L. and Martha
(Myers) Fuqua of Greencastle, Indiana.
Mr. and Mrs. Clow had five children, only
two of whom are now living. Louella is
Mrs. Herbert C. Wright of Anderson. Hol-
land Angus, the son, was born in 1894 and
is associated with his father in business.
He married. May 28, 1917, Hazel Holtz-
claw.
Mr. Clow is a democrat in politics, is
affiliated with Anderson Lodge No. 416,
Knights of Pythias, with the Modern
Woodmen of America, and stands high
both in business and social circles.
Albert James Henry, second vice presi-
dent of the Michigan City Trust and Sav-
ings Bank, has been identified with the
business and civic affairs of the city for
the past thirty years and is one of the old-
est and best known residents of LaPorte
County.
He was born at Pine Station in Clinton
County, Pennsylvania. His grandfather
was an early settler in that county, buying
land bordering on the stream which became
known as Henry Run. He was a farmer
and also a distiller, and was drowned while
fording the Susquehanna River. Thomas
Henry, father of Albert James, spent all
his life in Clinton County, and died there
in 1898. He was then eighty-four years
of age. He was a whig and republican.
He married Elizabeth Shaner, who was
horn in Clinton County and died at the
age of eighty-three. They had six children :
Margaret, Sadie, Tillie, Flora, Cordie and
Albert J.
Albert James Henry grew up on his
father's farm, attended public schools, and
as a boy entered the lumber industr.y.
He acauired a knowledge of all the oper-
ating details of the business, and in 1879
removed to White Cloud, Newa.vgo, County,
Michigan, where he worked in a lumher
mill. In 1882 he came to Michigan City,
and was for one year in the employ of Ross
and Root, and then for nine years was
manager of the Jonathan Boyd Lumber
Company. Mr. Henry- then formed the
Henry Lumber Company, and that is one
of the oldest firms dealing in lumber at the
south end of Lake Michigan.
In 1889 he married J\Iiss Emma Frelise,
who was born at LaPorte, daughter of
Charles and Wilhelmina Frehse. Mr. and
Mrs. Henry have two sons, Charles L. and
Albert J., Jr. Charles was a member of
the Thirteenth Company of the Twentieth
Engineers, and saw active service in Prance
during 1918. Mr. and Mrs. Henry are
members of the Trinity Episcopal Church,
of which he is senior warden and for fif-
teen years has held the office of vestryman.
He is affiliated with Acme Lodge No. 83,
Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, Michi-
gan City Chapter No. 25, Royal Arch Ma-
sons, Michigan City, Commander^ No. 3,
Knights Templar, and belongs to the Scot-
tish Rite Consistory of Indianapolis.
Edw^\rd Harvey Griswold, M. D.
Though Indiana is not his native state.
Doctor Griswold has earned more than a
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local reputation by his work as physician
and surgeon at Peru, where he located more
than twenty-five years ago as physician in
charge of the Wabash Employes Hospital.
Credit is given him, and deservedly, for
making that institution what it is today,
one of the largest and best equipped rail-
road hospitals in the Middle West.
This is a time when many men experi-
ence a sense of peculiar satisfaction that
their own lives are so deeply rooted in the
American past. Doctor Griswold possesses
a most interesting ancestral history. The
Griswold family was founded in America
by Edward Winslow Griswold, who came
from England and located at Windsor,
Connecticut, as early as 1639. Harvey
Griswold, grandfather of Doctor Griswold
of Peru, was a native of New England and
at the age of nineteen moved west to ilis-
souri. He established a home in the his-
toric community known as Marthasville,
and became owner of a tract of land which
included a little country cemetery in which
the body of Daniel Boone was laid to rest
when that great pioneer died at Marthas-
ville. Later the State of Kentucky claimed
the remains of Boone, asserting a prior
and larger claim upon him than Missouri.
The decision in the matter rested with Har-
vey Griswold. He consented on the con-
dition that the Kentucky commissioners en-
ter into a contract binding themselves and
their state to the erection of a suitable
monument to Boone's memory. This con-
tract, now many years old, is in the posses-
sion of Doctor Griswold of Peru. There
were other historic associations around the
old Griswold home and the little Town of
Marthasville. One is connected with the
little log house, put together with wooden
pins, and standing not far from the bury-
ing ground of Daniel Boone. In that house
was held the first conference of the i\Ietho-
dist Episcopal Church west of the Missis-
sippi River.
Svlvanius Griswold, son of Harvey Gris-
wold, took up the profession of medicine,
which his grandfather before him had
adorned. Doctor Sylvanius was bom at
:Marthasville, Missouri. August 10, 1832,
was educated in the Masonic College at
Lexington, Missouri, and graduated from
the Missouri ^ledical College at St. Louis.
He married into a physician's family, his
wife being Lockie Ann Arnold, a native of
Missouri and of Scotch ancestry. Her
father. Doctor Arnold, was a native of Vir-
ginia and for many years practiced medi-
cine at Lexington, Missouri.
Edward Harvey Griswold came by his
profession naturally, with his father, mater-
nal grandfather and paternal great-grand-
father as worthy examples and followers
of the calling. Doctor Griswold spent his
early life in Lafayette and in Franklin
County, Missouri, finished his literary edu-
cation in the Missouri State University,
and liegan the study of medicine under his
father. He graduated from the University
Medical College at Kansas City March 14,
1891. After a brief practice at Marthas-
ville he accepted the position of phj'sician
in charge of the Wabash Employes Hos-
pital at Peru, and became a resident of that
city June 1, 1891. He is a member of
the Order of Railway Surgeons of the
^liami County and Indiana State Medical
Societies and the American Medical Asso-
ciation, and a Fellow of the American Col-
lege of Surgeons. He has always been a
close student of medicine, and has used his
personal influence and prestige to advance
the standards of the profession generally.
Doctor Griswold attended a post-graduate
school in New York in 189.5. He is a
Knight Templar ^Mason and with his wife
is a member of the Episcopal Church.
In May. 1895, Doctor Griswold married
Georgine Rettig. They have two sons, Ret-
tig Arnold and Edward Harvey Griswold.
Rettig Arnold Griswold, who was a student
at Harvard University, at the age of eight-
een enlisted at the declaration of war, en-
tering the naval aviation service, and re-
ceived his commission as ensign in March,
1918, since which time he has been in ac-
tive service in naval aviation on the North
Sea and in Italy, and is still in the service.
Edward Harvey enlisted for the war, but
being too young had to content himself
with the Students Army Training Corps.
Ch.\rle.s GrsTAVE Lawson is a veteran
in experience in the glass making industry,
and has been connected with plants all
over the district of the Middle West from
Western Pennsylvania to Indiana. He is
at present factory manager of Works No.
7 of the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company
at Elwood.
Mr. Lawson was born on a farm in the
district of Sodermanland, Sweden, in 1865.
His parents were Lars Eric and Annie
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Charlotte Anderson. His father was a
skilled cabinet and pattern worker, and was
also employed for many years on a large
estate in Sweden. While getting his edu-
cation Charles G. Lawson helped his father
on this farm and remained in Sweden until
1882, at the age of seventeen, when he came
to America, landing in New York and join-
ing an uncle who lived in Allegheny City,
Pennsylvania. He had no special qualiti-
cations through skill in trade or otherwise,
and depended upon his hands and labor to
earn him a place of usefulness in the world.
For 31/^ weeks he worked on the streets of
Allegheny City. He then began as laborer
in the plant of the Pittsburgh Clay Pot
Company, and was with that firm for nine
years, learning in every detail the trade of
pot maker. Leaving them he removed to
Findlay, Ohio, and was potmaker for the
Findlay Clay Pot Company for seven
months. In 1891 he went to Pittsburgh
and was with the Phoenix Clay Pot Com-
pany until June, 1892, when he went to
Muncie, Indiana, and for one year was
foreman in the clay pot plant of Gill Broth-
ers Company. He returned to Pittsburgh
in the fall of 1893, during the financial
panic, and failing to secure employment
in his regular line he did landscape garden-
ing seven months. He was pot maker un-
til 1895 with the Lancaster Co-operative
Glass Company at Lancaster, New York,
and then went back to Findlay as pot
maker for the Findlay Clay Pot Company.
In 1896 Mr. Lawson joined the Ohio Val-
ley Clay Company at Steubenville, Ohio,
and after a year and a half was made fore-
man of the plant and was there until 1909.
He then accepted the position of foreman
of the clay department at Bellairville,
Pennsylvania, for the Columbia Plate Glass
Company. In February, 1911, he removed
to Ottawa, Illinois, and took contracts for
the making of clay pots for the Federal
Plate Glass Company eleven months. Then
for two years he was foreman of the clay
department of the Ford Plate Glass Com-
pany at Toledo, and on ilarc-h 17, 1914,
eaine to Elwnod as factory manager of
Plant No. 7 of the Pittsburgh Plate Glass
Company. This is one of the large plants
of what is perhaps the largest plate glass
company in the world, and at Elwood they
manufacture shapes and blocks for glass
making.
Mr. Lawson still owns property at Steu-
benville, Ohio, where he lived for many
years. In 1902 he married Miss Stella N.
Carnahan, daughter of Franklin and Mar-
garet (Hale) Carnahan of Steubenville.
They have two children : Charles Edward,
born in 1908, and Dorothy Evelyn, born
in 1911. They also legally adopted when
one year old Vergil Irene Cheeks. This
adopted daughter, who grew up in their
home, is now Mrs. Lowell Rogers of El-
wood and has one child, Robert Lowry,
born on March 7, 1918.
Mr. Lawson has always been a vigorous
republican in politics. At Steubenville he
was elected a member of the City Council
in 1907 from the First Ward, representing
it two years. In 1917 he was elected a re-
publican councilman in Elwood from the
Third Ward for a four year term. His
election was the only break that year in
the solid triumph of the socialist party at
Elwood. All other city offices were filled
by socialist candidates. Mr. Lawson is
chairman of the claims committee and a
member of the advertising and other com-
mittees of the City Council. He is a
member of the First Methodist Episcopal
Church, and is prominent in Masonry, be-
ing affiliated with Steubenville Lodge No.
45, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, of
which he is a past master, is past high
priest of Royal Arch Chapter No. 15, and
has also filled the various offices in the
Council, Royal and Select ^Masters. In the
Knights Templar he has filled all the
offices except Knight Templar commander.
He is a member of the Lodge of Perfection
of the eighteenth degree, Scottish Rite, and
is affiliated with the Benevolent and Pro-
tective Order of Elks at Elwood and in
1918 was vice chancellor of the local lodge
of Knights of Pythias. He is also a mem-
ber of the Fraternal Order of Eagles.
Calvin Sylvester Milleb has for a num-
ber of years been a factor in the business
affairs of Elwood as manager of the Jay
Grain Company. He has developed a large
business and has brought Elwood to the
front as a grain market in Eastern In-
diana.
Mr. Miller was born at Mulberry, Clin-
ton Countv, Indiana, April 11, 1873, son
of John and Marie (Karb) jMiller. The
Millers are originally of German stock but
have been in America for many genera-
tions. Their home before coming to In-
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diana was in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania.
John Miller was born in Lehigh County
November 15, 1834. \Yhen he was four
years old his family moved to Clinton
County, Indiana, where they were among
the pioneers. He grew up there, learned
the trade of carpenter, and followed car-
penter work and general building most of
his active career. He also owned a farm
of 100 acres in Clinton County, and it was
the home where he died February 9, 1895.
His wife died there in May, 1899.
Calvin S. Jliller was the fourth child
of his parents, his early yeai-s were sur-
rounded with a rural environment, and his
early education was obtained in a country
school in Madison Township of Clinton
County. As his strength permitted he
helped his father during the summer
seasons, and in 1893, at the age of twenty,
entered Purdue University for the purpose
of pursuing a course in mechanical engi-
neering. He was in the university until
February, 1895, when after the death of his
father and having inherited the home place
he returned to take active charge and re-
mained a farmer until September 1, 1899.
At that date he arrived in Elwood, and has
since been manager of the Jay Grain Com-
pany. This business has always had one
location, but since Mr. Miller became man-
ager its facilities have been greatly im-
proved, including the construction of a
thoroughh^ modern elevator. The company
buys grain over all the surrounding terri-
tory about Elwood and ships largely to the
eastern markets of Baltimore, New York
and Buffalo. Mr. Miller is a stockholder
and director in the Jay Grain Company
and is also a stockholder and director of
the Citizens State Bank of Elwood. While
these interests tax all his time and atten-
tion he has never failed to respond to pub-
lie spirited calls upon his service for some
object of general and mutual benefit. In
1915 he was appointed a member of the
County Council of ^ladison County, and
has also done committee work with the El-
wood Chamber of Commerce. He is a
democrat, is affiliated with the ^Masonic
Lodge at Elwood and Lodge No. 166 of the
Knights of Pythias in the same city. He
and his family are Methodists.
The only son of Mr. and Mrs. Miller is
now with the American forces in training
for the great war. Mr. Miller married in
1896 Iva Peters, daughter of Robert and
Anna (Elliott) Peters of Clinton County.
Their son, Marlston J., was born July 9,
1897. He was given good school advan-
tages, and was pursuing a mechanical en-
gineering course in Purdue University, as
a sophomore, when he volunteered at In-
dianapolis in November, 1917, and is now
a private in the Six Hundred and Sixty-
Fifth Aero Squadron at Kelly Field, San
Antonio, Texas.
Hon. Charles J. Murpht. The com-
munity that has longest known Mr.
Charles J. Murphy is White County, In-
diana, which sent him to the Legislature a
number of years ago and has come to ap-
preciate his activities as a banker, farmer
and one of the practical and fancy stock
raisers who have given fame to the Brook-
ston locality. Mr. Murphy is also a fa-
miliar figure in the state capital, has a num-
ber of interests at Indianapolis, and main-
tains an office in the Merchants National
Baiik Building in that city.
Mr. ]\Iurphy was born at Brookston in
White County December 29, 1872, a son
of Jerre and Harrietta (Mclntyre)
ilurphy. He comes of a prominent pio-
neer family of White County. His grand-
father, Jerre Murphy, brought his family
from County Kerry, Ireland, first locating
in Dover, Delaware, and in 1832 emigrated
to Indiana. After a brief residence in In-
dianapolis he moved to Brookston in White
County, and for a period of eighty years
the family name has been identified with
the history and development of that section.
Mr. IMurphy's father was twelve years of
age when the family came to Indiana, and
he achieved a remarkable success as a far-
mer and stock raiser, and was also vice
president of the Brookston Bank.
Charles J. Murphy was born and reared
on a farm, was educated in common schools,
the Brookston High School and .Purdue
T'niversity, from which he graduated in
1893 with honors in the Civil Engineering
Dei^artment. He thus had a thorough
technical training to supplement his nat-
ural talents and the practical experience
he had gained at home. Into the quarter of
a century since he closed his college career
he has compressed a life of strenuous and
important activity. He turned primarily
to farming on the old Murphy homestead,
and farming from first to last has repre-
sented one of his real and deep abiding
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interests. in life. His present farm, three
miles west of Brookston, is considered
one of the finest examples of intensive and
extensive agriculture and stock husbandry
in Indiana. It comprises 760 acres, and
besides what the soil produces it is the feed-
ing ground for hundreds of cattle and
other livestock. His "play thing" and
chief pleasure is his famous herd of fancy
bred Shorthorn cattle. Stockmen are be-
coming aware that not even in the home
haunts of this famous breed in England
are found better specimens than have been
bought and acquired by Mr. Murphy for
the foundation of his herd at Brookston.
However, earl,y in his career as a farmer
Mr. Murphy's interests branched out into
other affairs. He took up contracting and
has built miles of roads and ditches and
has also constructed sehoolhouses, churches
and other buildings. As a banker he is a
director of the Farmers Bank at Brookston,
and director and first vice president of the
State Savings & Trust Company of Indian-
apolis.
For a long period of years Northwestern
Indiana has considered him one of its lead-
ers in the democratic party. For a time
he was a member of the State Democratic
Central Committee and has constantly
used his influence to promote the best inter-
ests of his party in the state. He was
elected from "White County to the Legisla-
ture in 1899 and 1901, and rendered a
splendid service to his constituency. By
appointment from Governor Ralston he
served for a time as a member of the Public
Service Commission of Indiana. When he
was selected as a member of this Commis-
sion to take over the functions of the older
railroad commission of the state the In-
dianapolis News said of him in reviewing
the work of the Commission that "its uni-
form success and general efficiency were
due in great measure to the untiring efforts
of ilr. Murphy. The .state has been par-
ticularly fortunate," declared the News,
"in gaining the services of Mr. Murphy
as a member of this important body. His
judgment and foresight are exceptionally
keen and his ability and efficiency have
manifested themselves in practically every
decision that has been rendered by the
Commission."
He accepted this public service at great
sacrifice of his own private interests, but
lost no time in regretting this fact and gave
the full benefit of his wide experience
and ability to the work at hand. Before
the bill creating the Public Service Com-
mission had passed both Houses of the
Legislature in 1915, Mr. Murphy's name
was selected as a possible member of the
body. He had no desire to enter public
life or a.ssume the responsibilities which
such an office would entail. When Gov-
ernor Ralston selected his name among the
first to be considered for the Commission,
Mr. Murphy felt the call of duty and ac-
ceded to the will of the Governor.
The duties that now compel his residence
part of the time in Indianapolis and the
maintenance of an office here are in con-
nection' with the Oeotillo Products Com-
pany of Indianapolis, a .$3,000,000 corpora-
tion of which he was one of the promoters
and organizers. He is secretary-treasurer
of this corporation. An Indiana organiza-
tion, it has its plant at Salome, Arizona,
and is engaged in converting the oeotillo
plant of the desert region into various use-
ful and essential products, chief of which
is a gum resembling rubber and having
many of the uses of rubber.
]\Ir. Murphy married Miss Margaret
Beckman, of Crown Point, Lake County.
They have one son, Charles B. Murphy.
Judge Millard Cox was born near
Noblesville, Indiana, February 2.5, 1856.
He received his literary and professional
training in Indiana, and was admitted to
the bar in 1880. He served as judge of the
Criminal Court of Indianapolis in 1890-94,
and was afterward nominated for the Su-
perior Court judgeship. He is also a)i
author of well known ability.
Frank D. Haimbatjgh, of Muneie, has
had and continues to have a busy life. The
manifold tasks of the boy on the farm en-
gaged his early years. A teacher in the
public schools until near thirty, for twenty
years he was an active and prominent fig-
ure in the newspaper business of the state.
A ready and forceful writer, he held a
prominent place with the fraternity of the
state and gained a wide and notable ac-
quaintance with the leaders and workers
of the democratic party of the common-
wealth. Ever consistent in the advocacy
of the doctrine of his political faith, he
secured and held the friendship of those
who were in opposition to him in politics.
INDIANA AND INDIANANS
2109
At present he is sem'ing as postmaster at
Muncie.
^Ir. Haimbaugh was born in Fairfield
County, Ohio, September 24, 1856, son of
David and Margaret (Leonard) Haim-
baugh. In 1863 his parents removed to
Fulton County, Indiana, locating on a
farm, which continued to be the home of
the father until his death in 1898. It was
the ambition of David Haimbaugh and
his good wife to do well the task of each
daj' and rear their children in habits of
industry and to be citizens of integrity.
These sturd.y pioneers were willing to un-
dergo the hardships incident to day and
environment, so that those who were de-
pendent on them might have a few of the
meager comforts of life and better advan-
tages than was the lot of the parents.
Those who knew these hard.y toilers of the
soil all agreed that they were God fearing
people, industrious, patient and, above all,
honorable citizens, the kind of people to
merit' and command the respect of neigh-
bors and friends. David Haimbaugh was
a democrat of the old school. Such were
the parents and such the heritage that was
left to the subject of this sketch. Mr.
Haimbaugh says the dearest memory of his
mother is the fact that he never heard her
utter an uncomplimentary word of any
one.
Frank D. Haimbaugh, the fourth in a
family of six children, grew to manhood on
the farm in Fulton County and attended
the common schools prevalent in that day,
which at best were but meager avenues of
learning, with terms of three months in
each twelve. After completing the work
in the district school he was dependent on
his own resources for a higher education.
This he secvired in the high school of Roch-
ester, Indiana, being a member of the first
graduating class of the year 1878. In 1880
he completed the scientific course at the
Northern Indiana Normal School, now Val-
paraiso University, receiving his degree.
For ten years pending his seeking an edu-
cation Mr. Haimbaugh taught in the rural
and village schools of his county, and
served as principal of the Brookston, In-
diana, High School for four years. In the
year 1885 he was elected county superin-
tendent of schools of Fulton County, serv-
ing two years. During the encumbeney
of this office he advanced the schools of the
county to a higher standard than pre-
viously attained. His position among the
educators of the state was sufficiently emi-
nent that he was prominently mentioned
for the nomination of state superintendent
at the hands of the Democratic State Con-
vention in 1890, but having just recentlj'
engaged in the newspaper business he
would not permit the use of his name be-
fore the convention. From 1887 to 1889
the business of life insurance engaged his
attention in Iowa and his home state.
In November, 1889, in association with a
cousin, he purchased the Miami County
Sentinel at Peru, and thus began a long
career in the newspaper business, ending
in 1909. In June of 1891, having sold his
interest in the paper at Peru, he purchased
an interest in the Muncie Dail.v and Weekly
Herald. He continued as editor and busi-
ness manager of the Herald until ilarch,
1905, when he founded the iluneie Press
by merging the Dail.y Herald and Daily
Times, one democrat and the other republi-
can, establishing the Press as an independ-
ent publication. From 1909 to 1913 Mr.
Haimbaugh was engaged in the business of
job printing. In the latter year he was
solicited to accept a position as a field ex-
aminer with the State Board of Accounts,
serving with credit to himself and the
• state to the end of 1915. On the last day
of February, 1916, he became postmaster
at ^luncie, and has been giving the best
energies of an active personalit.v to this
work. During this period the Muncie post-
office has become the supply office for five
adjacent counties and the central account-
ing office for Delaware County, and during
his occupancy of the office the business has
materially increased, while the parcel post
material handled has practically doubled.
Mr. Haimbaugh has the distinction of
being the first man ever elected twice in
succession as principal doorkeeper of the
House of Representatives of the State Leg-
islature, serving in the office in 1889 and
1891.
Under appointment of Governor Durbin
he served four years as a member of the
Board of Police Commissioners of Muncie.
He was also a member of the first Board
of Park Commissioners of his home city.
For ten years he was secretary of the Mun-
cie Commercial Club, and was the first of
its members to occupy the chair of presi-
dent two years. He served ten years as
president of Post R, Travelers Protective
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INDIANA AND INDIANANS
Association of America. For more than
thirty years he has been a member of the
Independent Order of Odd Fellows. In
1893 he was elected to the office of secre-
tary of the Indiana Democratic Editorial
Association, revised and re-wrote its consti-
tution and by-laws and rounded out his
services to the association by serving one
term as its president.
Mr. Haimbaugh has always been inter-
ested in all the things that make for com-
munity welfare. In 1896 he was largely
instrumental in founding the Eastern In-
diana Normal University, and served as
secretary of its Board of Trustees, and was
a member of the same until the board
ceased to exist. This institution is now
under the management of the State of In-
diana.
On May 14, 1890, he was united in mar-
riage to Miss Emma P. Elginfritz, of War-
saw, this state.
The world war found earnest workers in
the persons of ]Mr. and Mrs. Haimbaugh,
with a son in the service over seas, Mrs.
Haimbaugh was a constant and valiant
worker in the services of the Red Cross
and was selected as chairman of the
Delaware County contingent of the War
Mothers' Association, with an eligible mem-
bership of more than 2.000.
In November of 1917 Mr. Haimbaugh
was asked to serve as Federal fuel admin-
istrator of Delaware County, and he served
with such fidelity that his work was cited
by the state federal fuel administrator for
the efficient service rendered.
Mr. and Mrs. Haimbaugh have one child,
Paul A., born in November, 1892. This
son was educated in the schools of Muncie,
completing the high school course, and in
the State University. He was commis-
sioned a lieutenant from the first officers
training camp at Fort Harrison and de-
tailed for special service in France, arriv-
ing in that country in October, 1917. He
served in divisions of heavy field artillery
until June, 1918, when, by 'request, he was
transferred, to the tank division of the serv-
ice. He was a lieutenant with the Three
Hundred and First Battalion, Heavy Tank
Corps, until the end of hostilities. The
Three Hundred and First was the only
Heavy Tank Corps that got into action.
This battalion with the Twenty-Seventh
and Thirtieth division of American troops,
was brigaded with the British, and had a
part in the terrific bombardment that re-
sulted in the smashing of the Hindenberg
line.
A worker and a student, public spirited
and cosmopolitan in his view of life, Frank
Haimbaugh counts the things that he may
have done for his friends and the com-
munit.y he calls home as more worth while
than self centered selfishness or the plaud-
its of the thoughtless throng. He hopes he
has learned the lesson of service and under-
stands the creed of sacrifice, and that he
has been in a small measure helpful to his
fellow man. He believes that men should
learn to be heroes of peace in no less de-
gree than heroes of war, and that to each
there is an appointed task and that to each
will be given the guerdon of their sacrifice.
Henky Moore, M. D. A great and good
physician, and one whose work had much
wider range than that of the average prac-
titioner, was the late Dr. Henry Moore of
Indianapolis.
He was born March 15, 1841, sixth in a
family of nine children of John and Lou-
isa Moore. John Moore and wife in 1835
blazed their way through the forests from
North Carolina and settled in Washington
Township of Hamilton County, Indiana.
Their first home was miles away from
neighbors, and they lived in the midst of
the heavy woods and endured all the pri-
vations of the pioneer. They were wit-
nesses and factors in that transitory period
while Indiana was developing from a wil-
derness to a populous and peaceful com-
munity. John ]Moore died in 1879 and his
wife in 1877. Dr. Henry ]\Ioore was the
product of an environment that was little
removed from the utmost simplicity of
frontier. During his boyhood he attended
rude .subscription schools and trained his
hand and eye by the practices and expe-
riences of the fann ancl rural communities
of Indiana of sixty or seventy years ago.
His desire for a better education led him
to attend two successive terms at Westfield.
After getting a teacher's certificate he
taught one term of district school. From
there he entered old Northwestern Chris-
tian University, now Butler College, at In-
dianapolis, and in addition to his literary
studies also carried on the study of medi-
cine.
Doctor Moore was at college when the
news came to Indianapolis of the fall of
INDIANA AND INDIAXANS
2111
Fort Sumter. He enlisted immediately,
first as a private. While dressing wounds
of liis comrades his knowledge and ability
derived from his previous medical studies
came to light and he was appointed hospi-
tal steward of his regiment. Later he was
detailed to act as assistant surgeon, a posi-
tion he filled in General Sigel's department
of the army for about two years. It should
be mentioned that at the time of his first
enlistment he was brought back by his
father, being still under age, and he finally
got into service with the Thirtj'-Fifth Reg-
iment of Illinois Infantry. From the posi-
tion of assistant field surgeon he was trans-
ferred to the hospitals at Louisville, Ken-
tucky, and to Albany, Indiana, with the
rank of captain of cavahy. At the battle
of Pea Ridge he received honorable men-
tion in the official reports for his coolness
and bravery in attending to the wounded
under fire. While serving as attendant at
the hospital at Louisville Doctor Moore con-
tinued his medical studies, graduated from
the Louisville University of Medicine and
passed his examination.
After the war he returned to Hamilton
County and for a number of years was in
practice at Sheridan. About 1885 he
moved to Indianapolis, and continued the
work of his profession and its cognate un-
til his death on December 4, 1913. Doctor
IMoore was for a number of j'ears keenly
interested in the work of the American
Red Cross, was appointed special organizer
for the Red Cross for Indiana, and effected
organizations in every county of the state.
He was one of the pioneers in the public
health movement as devoted to the phase
of tuberculosis. He was largely instru-
mental in getting an appropriation from
the State Legislature to build a tubercu-
losis hospital at Rockville, and continued
to be actively interested in the institution
until it was completed. He was also an
agent in the purchase of the site for the
deaf and dumb asylum at Indianapolis.
During his work in establishing the tuber-
culosis societies in the various counties he
maintained an office in the State Capitol at
Indianapolis. Doctor Moore had finished
dictating his final report when he died in
his chair— an end which was well fitting
a man of such action and service. He
was affiliated with the Masonic Order, was
n republican in politics and a member of
the Methodist Church. Doctor Moore is
remembered by his old associates as a man
who was deliberate in making up his mind,
but when he had decided upon a course of
action could not be swerved from the ob-
jective. Affable, congenial and compan-
ionable, he had a large circle of friends
and everywhere he went he inspired confi-
dence. His life and work and character
well deserve the memorial that can be given
in the written page.
April 15, ls64:. Doctor Moore married
Catherine Rebecca Padgett, daughter of
William and Eliza D. Padgett. Mrs.
Moore, who is still living, is a woman of
high intellectual attainments. She became
engaged to Doctor Moore before he went to
the war. When he had charge of a hospi-
tal at Evansville she became a nurse under
his direction. After their marriage they
continued lovers and companions, devoted
to each other and to their home until the
ties that so long bound them were loosed
by the death of Doctor Moore. Mrs.
Moore is now living in California. She
was the mother of seven children, six still
living, three of them in California and
three in Indiana.
Otto N. iloore, a son of the late Dr.
Henry Moore, and youngest of the six
children, is a young business man of In-
dianapolis and has built up a notable in-
dustry within recent years.
He"was born February 25, 1880. at Spice-
wood, Indiana, was educated in the high
school at Irvington and spent two years
in Purdue University. He served an ap-
prenticeship as a mechanic, and has devel-
oped his own mechanical skill as the basis
of his present business. When the great
war broke out with Germany he was pro-
prietor of a small tool shop at Indianap-
olis. He has made it instrumental in sup-
plying the heavy demands made upon
American industry and has develoinvl it to
the Otto N. Moore Company, of which he is
president. It gives employment to about
120 men. The company makes all kinds of
tools, machine and small tool equipment for
munition work, and has contracts for a
maximum capacity of output for months to
come.
;\Ir. Moore is a member of the Rotary
Club of Indianapolis. September 8, 1907,
he married Maude E. Jones, daughter of
Rev. Levi and Lucy (Cogg.shell) Jones.
They have two children, Catherine and
Robert.
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INDIANA AND INDIANANS
Glen Wayland Gates. A big business,
well managed, still growing, is that of the
G. W. Gates Cloak House, of which Mr.
Gates is sole proprietor. The home office
and headquarters are in Anderson, but he
now maintains branch offices at Muncie and
Fort Wayne, and also at Dayton, Ohio.
Mr. Gates had experience and had demon-
strated exceptional talent as a merchant
but possessed ver}' limited capital when he
made his start as an independent merchant
at Anderson, and the business as it stands
today is very largely a reflection of his
progressive management and tremendous
energy.
Mr. Gates was born at Thorntown, Boone
County, Indiana, in 1873, a son of F. W.
and Amanda (McCoy) Gates. His great-
grandfather and the founder of the family
in America was Richard Gates, who came
from Scotland and was a pioneer at Fre-
mont, Ohio, where he cleared up and de-
veloped a tract of government land. The
grandfather, also named Richard Gates,
moved from Ohio to Mount Carmel, In-
diana, and was a prosperous farmer in that
community. Of his three children F. W.
Gates was the second son. He grew up as
a farmer boy, followed farming for a num-
ber of years, and finally engaged in the
grocery business.
Glen W. Gates, the only son of his par-
ents, the others of the family being three
sisters, spent the first fifteen yeai-s of his
life at Mount Carmel, Indiana, and there
attended the common schools. When he
was fifteen the family moved to Anderson,
where he continued his studies in the An-
derson High School for two years.
His business career began as a general
workman in the shipping room of "The
White House" conducted by Malott, Long
& Company at Anderson. It was that old
established mercantile firm that discovered
and developed his talents in merchandising.
He was in practically every department of
the store at some time, and everywhere he
constantly absorbed knowledge and grew
to meet the responsibilities which were
placed upon him in increasing measure.
At the end of eight years he was manager
of the cloak, suit, and carpet department
of the store.
From here he went to Indianapolis to
accept a more important position as mana-
ger of the carpet department of the W. M.
H. Block Company. He was there six
years, and then for a year was manager
of the cloak department of the May Com-
pany, proprietors of one of the largest de-
partment stores of St. Louis, Missouri.
In 1904 Mr. Gates came to Anderson and
bought the bankrupt stock of Longnecker
& Tate at 813 Meridian Street. He had
only $1,100 of actual capital, but he soon
had the business revived and prospering,
with a growing trade, and from time to
time it was necessary to enlarge his quar-
ters and when further expansion was de-
sirable he started his first branch house in
1913 at Muncie, while in 1915 he opened
another branch at Fort Wayne and in 1916
established a house at Dayton, Ohio. All
these branches are now doing well and the
annual aggregate business is estimated at
a value of fully .$750,000. The business is
incorporated, with Mr. Gates as president
of the company. The firm employs 140
people and does business all over the Mid-
dle West.
Probably the principal factor contribut-
ing to Mr. Gates' success in merchandising
is his faculty of infinite detail work, which
has become habit and second nature with
him and enables him to comprehend and
direct the operations of his business even
now when it is several times as large as
when it was established.
Mr. Gates is also a director and stock-
holder in the Anderson Banking Company,
the Farmers' Trust Company, is a stock-
holder in the Hill Trip Conipany of An-
derson and the Hill Standard Company of
Anderson. He also owns 640 acres of land
in Saskatchewan, Canada, and this farm
produced in one season 38,000 bushels of
oats.
At the age of twenty-three, in 1896, Mr.
Gates married Lenna Feast, daughter of
Thomas S. and Barbara Jane (Bronenberg)
Feast. They have one daughter, Virginia,
born in 1905. Mr. Gates is independent in
polities, is a member of the First Presby-
terian Church, is active in the Rotary
Club, and has earnestly identified himself
with every movement for the general wel-
fare of his city. He is affiliated with
Mount Moriah Lodge, Free and Accepted
Masons, at Anderson, and also with the
Chapter, Council, and Commandery of the
York Rite, with the thirty-second degree
Consistory of the Scottish Rite and with
the Mystic Shrine.
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WiLUAM Taylor Stott, D. D., LL. D.
Indiana perhaps more than other states has
cherished and paid honor to men and
women whose work and ambitions have
been directed unselfishly to the enlighten-
ment and welfare of humanity — work
never measured by wealth or any material
standards. To that already long list which
is so peculiarly the glory of this state there
deserves to be added the name of Dr. Wil-
liam Taylor Stott, who was a brilliant sol-
dier in the Civil war, was a minister and
of a family of ministers of the Gospel, for
over thirty years bore the burdens and re-
sponsibilities of the presidency of Frank-
lin College, and was president emeritus
when he died November 1, 1918.
Doctor Stott was named for his grand-
father, Rev. William Taylor Stott, who was
born in Kentucky of Scotch ancestors. His
religious zeal carried him into the sparsely
settled neighborhood of Madison, Indiana,
and later he made his home at Vernon. A
giant in physical appearance, his mental
equipment matched it well, and through
his preaching more than 1,000 converts
were baptized and added to the church.
His work took him in fact all over the
state. His last charge was at North Ver-
non. More than fifty j'ears he preached
at Vernon. He was a soldier in the War
of 1812 under General Hull. His death took
place at the home of his son near North
Vernon at the age of ninety. Long life,
well balanced mental and ph.ysical powers,
equanimity, earnestness and hard work
seemed to have characterized all members
of this family. Grandfather Stott 's wife
was Mary Ann Stott, and they had a fam-
ily of three sons and four daughters.
Rev. John Stott, father of Doctor Stott,
was born in Kentucky and married Eliza-
beth Vawter. Her ancestry was no less
distinguished. Her father, Richard Wil-
liam Vawter, a native of Kentuckv, also
came to Indiana as an early day preacher.
His first settlement was near ^Madison, but
he later located at Vernon, and died there
in 1868, at the age of ninetj^ years. He
was a son of Rev. Jesse Vawter, a Baptist
minister. The Vawters are of French and
English descent.
Rev. John Stott and wife came from
Kentucky to Indiana about 1820, and after
a brief residence near ^ladison located at
North Vernon. For ten years they lived
on the same farm in Jennings County, and
moved to Franklin a short time before they
died. Rev. J.ohn Stott died in Deccmbe'^
1887, at the age of seventy-seven, and his
widow svirvived until November, 1893,
when she had lived eighty-three years.
Rev. John Stott as a Baptist minister had
a number of charges in Jennings County
as well as in other parts of the state. For
a number of j'ears he ministered to the
parish known as Geneva parish at Greens-
ville, Indiana, Graham, Brush Creek, and
Zenas parishes in Ripley County. His last
pastorate was at North Vernon. He and
his wife had five children: Vawter, who
died in infancy; Martha, wife of Maxa
Monctieth, of Franklin; Dr. William T. ;
;\Iiss ilary F., of Franklin; and Maria J.,
deceased, who was the wife of James N.
Chaille.
Dr. William Taylor Stott was born in
Jennings County, near Vernon, May 22,
1836. He spent his boyhood days on the
farm near Vernon, was given his early edu-
cational advantages in the academy at Sar-
dinia, and with that preparation entered
Franklin College in 1856-57, graduating in
1861. The July following his graduation
he enlisted as a private soldier in Company
I of the Eighteenth Indiana Infantry, with
Thom'is Pattison as colonel commanding.
His ability was marked, was early recog-
nized by his superiors, and he was pro-
moted to captain of his company. With
the Eighteenth Indiana he fought the en-
tire war around the Confederacy, begin-
ning with the campaigns in Missouri and
Arkansas, continuing until the Mississippi
River was freed of its Confederate strong-
holds, and finally going east to the great
battlegroimds in Virginia. In this time
be took part in the battles of Blaekwater,
Sugar Creek, Pea Ridge, Cotton Plant,
Port Gibson, Champion Hills, Big Black
River, Vicksburg, Mustang Island, Fort
Esperanza, Baton Rouge, Berryville, Hall
Town, Winchester, Fisher's Hill, Newmar-
ket, and Cedar Creek. The climax of his
military career came at the famous battle
of Cedar Creek. During the fighting Ma-
jor Williams had fallen, and at this criti-
cal moment Captain Stott assumed com-
mand of the regiment, reformed his men,
and with rare ability and coolness led them
to the close of that never to be forgotten
day. As a soldier, in camp, on the march
or in the field. Doctor Stott maintained
those qualities which now and at all times
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have made the reallj' great soldiers — self
possession, earnestness, perseverance, reso-
lution— in short, character. On May 10,
1865, he was mustered out, having served
continuously more than three years and
six months.
At the close of the war Doctor Stott en-
tered Rochester Theological Seminary,
where after three years he graduated. He
had received the degree A. B. from Frank-
lin College, and in 1872 Kalamazoo Col-
lege in Michigan awarded him the degree
Doctor of Divinity, and he had the honor-
ary degree Doctor of Laws from Shurtleff
College in 1899 and -from Franklin Col-
lege in 1905.
Doctor Stott was ordained to the min-
istry in 1868, and was pastor at Columbus,
Indiana, during 1868-69. In. 1869 he was
called to the chair of natural science in
Franklin College, and during the first year
was acting president of the institution. In
1872 he became a professor in Kalamazoo
College at Kalamazoo, Michigan, with the
chair of chemistrj' and physics. In a few
months after Franklin College had been
reorganized he was asked to assume the
grave responsibility of its presidency. He
remained president of Franklin College
from 1872 to 1905, and in 1905 was elected
president emeritus. As head of one of the
state colleges of Indiana Doctor Stott
showed most commendable executive abil-
ity, and throughout the years exhibited
a breadth of culture, keenness of percep-
tion, fidelity, and perseverance in work
which not only made his name an inspira-
tion all over the state but gave him a rep-
utation among those engaged in higher
education. As a teacher Doctor Stott has
had few equals. When he accepted the
presidency of Franklin College that insti-
tution was burdened with a debt of $13,000,
with no assets. When he retired in June,
1905, after thirty-three years of faithful
and untiring efforts, the college had
assets of $464,000 and only a small floating
indebtedness.
The three years following his retirement
from the active presidency were spent in
writing a history of the Baptist Church in
Indiana, for which he had been collecting
data for years. That interesting work, en-
titled the Baptist History, 1798-1908, was
published in 1908 and comprises 374 pages,
much of it a vivid narrative of the early
days of the church on the frontier. It
carries the reader through the entire his-
tory of the Baptist denomination in this
part of the country.
From September, 1908, until May, 1911,
Doctor Stott was president of the Soldiers
and Sailors Orphans Home, being obliged
to resign because of ill health. He still
wrote occasionally for the magazines and
denominational papers. He was always
interested in the affairs of state and nation,
and in the good government of his home
conimunitj^ He served as a member of
the City Council, having been elected by
his ward by the largest majority on record.
His methods while in the City Council
demonstrated that his aim was not to ad-
vance party but to render faithful service
to the city. He was a republican in poli-
ties. In 1875 Doctor Stott was president
of the Indiana Baptist Convention and
from 1899 for a number of years was a
member of the State Board of Education
of Indiana. He also served as associate
editor of the Baptist Outlook.
Jlay 21, 1868, Doctor Stott married Ara-
bella Ruth Tracy, of Rochester, New York,
daughter of Isaac S. and Mary M. (Pierce)
Tracy. Five children were born to their
marriage, three sons and two daughters.
Cyril H., the youngest, died at the age of
seven years. Wilfred T. Stott is a highly
successful .journalist and is now managing
editor of the Portland (Oregon) Telegram.
He married Frances Dodge, of Chicago,
and has a son, William Taylor, Jr., named
after his grandfather. Grace E. married
Rev. C. R. Parker, of LaPorte, Indiana,
and has two children, Cyril R. and Riith
Eleanor. The daughter Edith married
Rev. F. G. Kenny, of Marion, Indiana, and
has one child, Grace Elizabeth. Roscoe
Gilmore, writer and lecturer, and the
youngest of the living children, resides at
Franklin, Indiana. He married Isabel Por-
ter, of Petoskey, Michigan. They have
two children, Roscoe Gilmore, Junior, and
Isabel Tracy.
Francis H. Doran is one of the oldest
living native sons of Michigan City. His
name is known all over LaPorte County be-
cause of his long continued prominence
in public affairs. His father before him
had an important share in developing
Michigan City as a grain center. A son
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of Francis H. Doran is Philo Q. Doran,
one of LaPorte County's most prominent
lawyers.
Francis H. Doran was born in ]\Iichigan
City in 1847. His grandfather, Edward
Doran, was a native of Ireland, was reared
and married there, and brought his famil.y
to America about 1820. He landed in
Canada and lived there a number of years,
but spent his last years in LaPorte County.
Patrick Doran, father of Francis H., was
born in County Monaghan, Ireland, of
Scotch-Irish ancestry, and was three years
old when brought to America. He lived in
Canada with his father and stepmother to
the age of eleven, but not being well treated
by his stepmother he ran away from home
and ever afterward was self-supporting.
For a time he drove a stage in Canada. As
early as 1836 he came to Indiana with Abi-
,iah Bigelow, the Bigelows being one of the
pi-ominent pioneer families of- LaPorte
County. They came to Northern Indiana
with teams and wagons. Mr. Bigelow lo-
cated at what later became known as Big-
elow Mills, near Wanatah in LaPorte
County. After these mills were built Pat-
rick Doran operated them for a time and
later moved to ilichigan City. The rail-
roads had not yet been built, and farmers
transported their grain in wagons for 100
miles or more to Michigan City to seek
an outlet for it. For several years Patrick
Doran was in the employ of Chauncey
Blair and other capitalists, and stationed
in the warehouses at Michigan City as a
grain buyer. He represented the interests
which built one of the largest elevators on
the lake front. After the railroads came
Patrick Doran was in a railroad office for
a time and later for forty years was local
agent for the American Express Company.
Though the practice was not then a general
one, when Patrick Doran left the service
of the express company he was granted a
pension for long and faithful service. He
died in Michigan City in 1890, at the ripe
age of seventy-seven. Patrick Doran mar-
ried Mary Ann [McCulloch, who was of
Scotch-Irish parentage. She died in mid-
dle life, leaving four children : Maria, who
married A. F. Earle ; Nancy, who married
L. E. Thompson, now deceased ; Francis
H. : and Edward F., also deceased.
Francis H. Doran obtained his early
education in the public schools of Michigan
City. At the age of e^hteen he went on
the road as a traveling salesman for the
wholesale lumber trade. He was the first
traveling salesman in the lumber business
out of Michigan City. His interest in pub-
lie affairs and politics frequently took him
out of regular business circles. In 1891
he was appointed postmaster by President
Harrison and served four years. Then, in
1894, he was elected county auditor on the
republican ticket. He carried the county
by 2.58 votes, whereas Mr. Cleveland in
1892 had swept the county by 1,452 ma-
jority. At the expiration of his first term
he was re-elected and gave the office the
benefit of his personal direction and effi-
cient management for eight years. He was
at one time a candidate at the pi-imaries
for state senator. He cast his first vote as
a republican, and has been a stanch sup-
porter of that party ever since. He has
been a delegate from many districts to
state conventions.
For a time Mr. Doran was connected
with the Pere Marquette Railway Com-
pany, and later became associated with his
brother-in-law, Mr. Earle, in the undertak-
ing business, and has continued that es-
tablishment since the death of Mr. Earle.
Mr. Doran married Mary Ellen Quinn,
who was born at Bainbridge in Putnaih
County, Indiana. Her father, Daniel Quinn,
was a native of Virginia and a pioneer set-
tler of Bainbridge. He became prominent
in business affairs and was an active mem-
ber of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
Daniel Quinn married Judith Ann Hale, a
half-sister of United States Senator Eu-
gene Hale of ilaine. Mr. and Mrs. Doran
have two sons, Philo Q. and Edward Ralph.
Philo Q., who was born in Michigan City
in 1872, was for several years employed
by the Pullman Company, studied law in
his leisure hours, was admitted to the La-
Porte bar in 1895, and also served eight
years as deputy county auditor under his
father. For many years he has been one
of the successful lawyers of the state. He
married Laura Nye, daughter of former
Lieutenant Governor Mortimer Nye. They
have a daughter, Judith C. Edward Ralph
Doran, second son of Francis Doran, was
born in Michigan City, November 19, 1878.
He was with the Studebaker Corporation
as accountant, and is now connected with
the Chicago Mica Company, and located
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at Valparaiso, in the capacity of expert ac-
countant. He was educated in the public
schools of Michigan City and LaPorte.
Francis H. Doran is affiliated with Acme
Lodge No. 83, Ancient Free and Accepted
Masons, Michigan City Chapter No. 25,
Royal Arch Masons, Michigan City Coun-
cil No. 56, Royal and Select Masters, Mich-
igan City Commandery No. 30, Knights
Templar, and the Temple of the Mystic
Shrine at Hammond. He also belongs to
LaPorte Lodge of Elks and is chairman
of the House Committee of the Chamber
of Commerce. He was reared in the Epis-
copal Church, while his wife is a member
of the Methodist Church.
Walter H. Lewis, M. D. For a number
of years Doctor Lewis enjoyed an extended
medical practice in and around Pendleton,
but has since given his chief attention to
business affairs, and is now senior partner
of Lewis Brothers, druggists. Doctor
Lewis' name is not unknown to the state
at large, since he has sustained a number
of responsibilities and honors of a general
public nature.
He was born in Fall Creek Township of
Madison County, Indiana, December 25,
1849. His Welsh ancestors settled in
Pennsylvania many generations ago, and
the family have always been closely identi-
fied with the Hicksite Friends Church.
Doctor Lewis is a birthright member of
that church. Doctor Lewis is a son of Si-
meon and Martha (Fussell) Lewis. His
father came to Indiana in 1832, crossing
the country in the days before railroads,
and was an early day merchant of the
state. In 1847 he moved to Huntsville
and conducted a general store there for
many years.
Doctor Lewis was educated in the public
schools and in the Academy at Pendleton,
spent one year in Asbury College at Green
castle, and is a graduate of medicine of the
University of Pennsylvania. From 1873
until 1886 he was busy with his growing
general practice at Pendleton, but since
that date has been practically retired from
his profession. In 1884 he and his brother
Horace Lewis opened a drug store at Pen-
dleton, and this is now one of the oldest
establishments of the kind in IMadison
County. His brother died in 1911, but the
firm is still carried on as Lewis Brothers.
In 1881 Doctor Lewis married Jeanette
Craven, daughter of Judge Ilervey Craven,
formerly circuit judge of Madison County.
Four children have been born to their mar-
riage. Ward C, born in 1882, is now with
Columbia University Hospital Unit in
France. Ruth S. married Thomas Morris,
of Stockton, California, and they have one
child, Esther Jeanette, born in 1916. The
third child, Jeanette, is now a teacher of
music and drawing in the Pendleton
schools. The youngest daughter, Margaret,
married Dr. E. H. Clauser, of Rossville, In-
diana. Doctor Clauser at the present time
is at the base hospital at Camp Sheridan.
Doctor and Mrs. Clauser have one child,
Jean, born in 1917.
Doctor Lewis was appointed by Governor
Hanly as a member of the commission to
build the Southeastern Hospital of Indiana.
On March 12, 1891, he became president of
the Pendleton Building and Loan Associa-
tion, and has continuously held that ofSco
for over a quarter of a century and has
wisely directed the business affairs of the
association and in such a way as to result
in the permanent upbuilding and welfare
of the city. He is affiliated with Madison
Lodge No. 44, Ancient Free and Accepted
Masons, with the Council, Royal and Select
Masters, and has held all the offices in his
lodge. He is also affiliated with the Knights
of Pythias and the Independent Order of
Odd Fellows, and in politics is a repub-
lican.
Joseph R. Roach is one of the successful
Indianapolis lawyers, with offices in the
Fletcher Savings & Trust Building, and
came to this city a few years ago from
Terre Haute.
He was born in Vigo County, Indiana,
October 16, 1878, son of John J. and Mary
(Golden) Roach. His grandfather, Joseph
Roach, was born in Ireland and came to
America in 1848, locating at Rushville, In-
diana. John J. Roach was born in 1854,
and has been a well known citizen of Terre
Haute for a number of yeai-s. He served
twelve years on the City Council, was an
ardent democrat and a devout Catholic.
In the family were five children, three of
whom are still living.
Joseph R. Roach, the oldest of the chiL
dren, was educated in the parochial and
high schools of Terre Haute, and after
his admission to the bar began practice in
that city in 1911. He came to Indian-
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apolis in 1914. Mr. Roach is a democrat.
He is married and has two children, Joseph
R., Jr., and John H.
A future historian who may write the
story of modern Indiana politics without
bias, and also without fear or favor, will
make Joseph R. Roach both an incidental
and a vital figure in some of his chapters.
If this personal feature is elaborated it
will have much of the elements of a drama
with the unusual variation of a villian in
the plot turning the tables on other per-
sonages "higher up" and eventually be-
coming the instrumentality of good at the
climax. Without encroaching upon the
labors of another, it is proper to say here
that Joseph R. Roach deserves no small
share of the credit for some of the ' ' whole-
some fear of God" which now more than
ever before seems to pervade the atmos-
phere of politics in Indiana. The current
literature on the subject found in the In-
diana newspapers during the first half of
the present decade and one article in par-
ticidar which was widely read was an ap-
preciation of Joseph Roach written by
Horace H. Herr, appearing in the Indiana
Forum of October 17, 1915.
Richard W. Thompson, a former secre-
tary of the navy, was born in Cul-
peper County, Virginia. After coming to
Lawrence County, Indiana, he was ad-
mitted to the bar, was a member of the
Indiana Legislature, 1834-36, a member of
the Senate, 1836-38, was for a short time
president of the Senate, was a member of
Congress, 1841 and 1847, was secretary of
the navy in Hayes cabinet, and he was also
an author of ability. His home was at
Terre Haute, and his death occurred in
1900.
Jonath.\n Ovfen Edgerton, of Rich-
mond, has given practically all his life to
the cause of education, and even with his
present responsibilities as trustee of Wayne
Township his duties lie principally with
the public schools of his jurisdiction.
He was born in Franklin Township of
Wayne County November 8, 1857, a son of
Nathan and Ruth (Rodgers) Edgerton.
He is of English and Scotch-Irish ances-
try, and the family on coming to America
first settled in North Carolina. His father
was a graduate in medicine from the Ohio
Medical College at Cincinnati but for many
.years also followed farming.
Jonathan 0. Edgerton, second in a fam-
ily of five children, grew up in the country,
attended country schools, and did his share
of work on the home farm until he was
nineteen. He then entered the Centerville
Normal School, and after two terms took
up the work of teaching. In 1881 he re-
ceived a diploma from Ladoga Normal
School in Montgomery County. Altogether
he spent twenty-five years in country and
town schools as teacher, principal, and
school administrator. He taught in Frank-
lin, Greene, New Garden, and Wayne
Townships of Wayne County. He also
taught a year in Randolph County, and
was principal of the Fountain City and
Webster schools. Wliile in New Garden
Township he served as township trustee
from 1895 to 1900. He was a teacher in
Waj^ne Township for eight terms and was
principal of the school at East Haven Ave-
nue and the National Road. Mr. Edger-
ton has been a resident of Richmond since
1905.
He was elected to his present important
responsibilities as township trustee in 1914,
and so capably did he handle the affairs
entrusted to his management that he was
accorded a second term by re-election in
1916. He has always been a republican,
though in 1914 he was elected on the pro-
gressive ticket. He is a member of the Im-
proved Order of Red Men, the Loyal Order
of Moose, and belongs to the Friends
Church.
In 1889 Mr. Edgerton married Miss Lois
Weeks, daughter of John Wesley and Car-
rie il. (Clark) Weeks of Richmond. Mr.
and ]\Irs. Edgerton have a family of three
sons and three daughters, and one of their
sons, Sergeant C. W. Edgerton, is in France
with the aviation department.
Charles C. Hollis has for man.y years
been identified with the telephone industry
in Indiana and other states, and at present
is manager for the receivers of the Central
Union Telephone Company of Muncie.
He was born in Hamilton Countv, In-
diana, September 28, 1860, son of G. N.
and Anna (Jones) Hollis. His paternal
ancestiy goes back to Holland, while in the
maternal line he is of English stock. Mr.
Hollis was onlv five vears old when his
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mother died. His father, who was boi-n in
Pennsylvania in 1843, came to Indiana in
the '50s, locating at Westfield, and in 1875
moved to Noblesville, where he was elected
to the office of county recorder. After
his one term as head of that office he re-
mained as assistant to the successor for
eight years. He then established his home
at Indianapolis, but since 1914 has lived in
Chicago.
After the death of his mother Charles
C. Hollis lived in the home of his grand-
mother until he was twenty-three years of
age. May 22, 1884, at Indianapolis, he
married Miss Helena Schaaf, of a promi-
nent German-American family of that
city. Three children were born to their
marriage.
For nineteen years Mr. Charles C. Hol-
lis was connected with the Indianapolis
Transfer Company as agent. In 1900 he
removed to Detroit, Michigan, and became
district manager of the Michigan State
Telephone Company, with headquarters at
Battle Creek. In 1908 he returned to In-
dianapolis and was one of the managing
officials of the Central Union Telephone
Company in that city. In 1913 he was
transferred to Muneie as manager of the
business in that city.
He is a member of the Muneie Business
Association, Commercial Club, Rotary-
Club, and the Illinois Commercial Men's
Association. Mr. Hollis attends the Ger-
man Reformed Church and in politics is a
democrat.
August C. Heitschmidt is one of the
oldest active business men of Michigan City
and for many years has carried on an ex-
tensive trade in flour, feed, agricultural
implements, wood, coal, and building ma-
terials.
He is a native of Chicago. His grand-
father, John Heitschmidt, was born in
Prussia and brought his family to Amer-
ica with the intention of settling in Chi-
cago. He died in LaPorte while en route
to that city. His son, August Heitschmidt,
went to Chicago as early as 1857, when it
was a small city and with little promise of
its present importance. In 1865 he re-
turned to Indiana, and bought a flour mill
in Cool Spring Township of LaPorte
County. He operated it as a custom mill
for two years, and then returned to Chi-
cago and for some years was engaged in
the grocery and feed business. He died
in Chicago at the age of seventy-seven.
The maiden name of his wife was Julia
Ziemann. She was born in Mecklenburg
Schwerin, Germany. Her father, John
Ziemann, came to America and spent his
last years in Michigan City.
August C. Heitschmidt was reared to a
life of industry. When only eleven years
of age he became self-supporting. For
three years he worked on a farm at Wood-
stock, Illinois, then lived another year in
Chicago, worked on a farm near Dundee,
Illinois, a year, and before coming to I\Iich-
igan City he was employed in the iron fin-
ishing and upholstering business at Chi-
cago.
Mr. Heitschmidt located at Michigan
City in 1882. In 1888 he entered his pres-
ent business, and has conducted one of the
largest supply centers for the commodities
above named in the northern part of La-
Porte County. He is also a charter mem-
ber and a director in the Michigan Trust
and Savings Bank of Jlichigan City.
In 1887 Mr. Heitschmidt married Miss
Emma Warkentine, daughter of Henry and
Louise Warkentine. The only child of Mr.
and Mrs. Heitschmidt is Ella, wife of
Joseph I. Fladiger. Mr. and Mrs. Pladiger
have a daughter named Marjorie. Mr. and
Mrs. Heitschmidt are members of St.
John's Church at Michigan City, and he is
a director of the Michigan City Trust and
Savings Bank, is independent in politics
and has served two terms in the City Coun-
cil and also as a police commissioner. He
is affiliated with Lodge No. 230, Benevolent
and Protective Order of Elks, Acme Lodge
No. 83, Ancient Free and Accepted Ma-
sons, Michigan City Chapter No. 25, Royal
Arch Masons, Michigan City Council No.
56, Roj'al and Select ]\Ia.sons, Michigan
City Commandery No. 30, Knights Temp-
lar, and the Temple of the Mystic Shrine
at Hammond. He is also a member of the
National American Union.
George William Krietenstein. This is
a name which for over fifty years has been
identified with the drug and paint trade at
Terre Haute, but that is only one of many
associations which make Krietenstein a
name of prominence in that section of the
state. Members of the family have been
active in the civic and charitable institu-
tions, and George W. Krietenstein is also
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widely known over Indiana in a political
way.
The venerable head of the family is Carl
'Krietenstein, who has been a resident of
Terre Hante for nearly sixty years and has
a career which may well be recalled in some
detail as a matter of instruction and in-
spiration to the present generation. He
was born in Germany, October 10, 1837,
and is now eighty-one years of age. His
parents were G. Henry and Wilhelmina
(Ploeger) Krietenstein. Educated in his
native country, where he learned the brick
layer's trade, Carl Krietenstein came to
America in the spring of 1858. The sum-
mer of that year he spent at Freeport, Illi-
nois, and the following winter at New Or-
leans, and in the spring of 1859 arrived at
Terre Haute, where his first employment
was as a gardener and teamster. The next
year he went to work as a section hand
for the Terre Haute & Richmond Railroad,
putting in eleven hours a day for wages of
a dollar a day. In the spring of 1861 he
took a position as a brakeman on a freight
train between Terre Haute and Indianap-
olis. This train was soon discontinued, and
his next work was at wages of a dollar a
day cari-ying a hod for a local plasterer and
cistern builder.
In August, 1861, Carl Krietenstein vol-
unteered for service in Company E of the
Thirty-Second Regiment of Indiana. This
was the first German regiment raised in
the state. ^Iv. Krietenstein was with it in
all its battles and engagements for over
three years, and was mustered out and re-
ceived his honorable discharge in Septem-
ber, 1864. Returning to Terre Haute, he
M'orked as assistant baggage master and
night watchman with the Vandalia Rail-
road until 1866, after which he was freight
and money clerk with the Adams Express
Company and later with the American,
Express Company. It was in November,
1868, that he formed the connection which
proved a long and straight road to his sub-
sequent biisiness fortunes. He entered the
service of a firm conducting a drug store
in the old Terre Haute Hotel. He was
with that one firm for over twelve years,
and in that time he carefully laid the
foundation for his independent business
career. In June, 1881. he became mem-
ber of the drug firm of Shinkle & Krieten-
•stein, the name of which was soon changed
to Adamson & Krietenstein. In 1885 Mr.
Krietenstein became sole proprietor of the
business and in the following year moved
to the corner of Fourth and Ohio streets,
and in 1896 bought a brick business block
at the southM-est corner of Fourth and
Cherry streets. For many years the
business has been a combination of drugs
and a complete line of paints and glass,
and Carl Krietenstein was an independ-
ent merchant in these lines for over
thirty years. His name is also prom-
inently identified in other ways with
Terre Haute. In 1860 he became a mem-
ber of the German Benevolent Societj' and
was continuously an officer of that organi-
;;ation from 1865. For over forty years he
has been affiliated with the Independent
Order of Odd Fellows, has served as com-
mander of Morton Post, Grand Army of
the Repiiblic, and has been a faithful re-
publican since casting his first vote in
America. In February, 1860, while still a
wage earner and manual toiler in Terre
Haute, Carl Krietenstein married Miss
Mary Glanzer, who was also born in Ger-
many and came to the United States in
1858. The.y lived happily together in an
ideally domestic companionship for over
half a century, iintil the death of Mrs.
Carl Krietenstein in 1912. To their mar-
riage were born five children, three of
whom grew to maturity: Minnie, wife of
Walter A. Haley ; William, of Terre Haute ;
and George William.
George William Krietenstein was born
at Terre Haute July 4, 1871. and he grew
up in one of the good and substantial
homes of the city and has known the life
of its streets and institutions for forty
years. He attended the local public
schools, and at the age of fourteen began
assisting his father in the store. Respon-
sibilities were given him in increasing
measure, and he was one of the factors in
the local management of the business until
1901.
In that year I\Ir. Krietenstein was ap-
nninted custodian of the State House at
Indianapolis by Governor Durbin. He was
awav from Terre Haute looking after his
duties at Indianapolis for two years, when
he resigned and resumed his active connec-
tion with his father's business. Diiring
the same year Governor Durbin appointed
him deputy state oil inspector, and by re-
appointment from Governor Hanly he filled
that office six j'ears. "Sir. Krietenstein has
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always been prominent in the republican
party, and has done much to build up and
keep up the organization in this section,
of the state. In 1900 he was district man-
ager of the Lincoln League of Indiana, and
has been identified with various other po-
litical organizations. He served on the
staff of Governor Mount with the rank of
major. In 1915 Mr. Krietenstein was
elected sheriff of Vigo County, and held
that office until Jauuarj-, 1917. His work
as sheriff was characterized by unflinching
performance of duty and with such hon-
esty and capability that he naturally
aroused much opposition and in January,
1917, he was practically deposed from of-
fice through the influence of the brewers
of the state. Since leaving office he has
bought his father's business and is now
sole proprietor.
Ml. Krietenstein has been prominent in
the Sons of Veterans, was treasurer of the
department of Indiana three years and its
commander in 1901-02. He is a member of
the Masonic Order, of the Knights of
Pythias, the Benevolent and Protective Or-
der of Elks, the Knights of the Maccabees,
the Loyal Order of Moose, and the Trav-
elers' Protective Association.
On May 2, 1893, Mr. Krietenstein mar-
ried Miss Minnie Schirathin, daughter of
Jacob Schirathin, of Milwaukee, Wiscon-
sin. They have two children. Bertha, born
in 1894 and now the wife of Herschel G.
Tuttle, of Terre Haute, and Carl Mount,
who was born in 1898, and though not yet
twenty years of age has made a brilliant
record. He is a graduate of the Culver
Military Academy, and is now serving in,
the United States Navy.
William Haerle, who died at Indian-
apolis November 26, 1905, had been a resi-
dent of that city for over forty years and
had a career of great usefulness and honor
though he never sought any of the conspic-
uous positions in public affairs.
He was born in the Kingdom of Wuer-
temberg, Germany, April 1, 1837, and grew
to manhood in his native country, obtain-
ing a good practical education. He served
a short apprenticeship as a clerk in Ger-
many, and there and at home learned and
practiced the lessons of frugality and in-
dustry. At, the age of nineteen he came
to America, and after a brief residence in
Cincinnati and Chicago came to Indianap-
olis about 1849. Here he was employed in
the store of Charles Mayer. He chose for
himself a rigorous routine of self denial,
saved nearly all he earned, and in 1862 was
enabled to set himself up modestly in busi-
ness, and after that for over forty years
was a merchant and developed a splendid
business. Success came to him through
good management, strict integrity, and un-
failing courtesy. While he aided politi-
cal campaigns occasionally for the good of
the community that was not his natural
sphere. He was intensely devoted to his
home, and spent his leisure hours among
his loved ones surrounded by books and
flowers, for which he had a great fondness.
In 1865, at Louisville, he married Miss
Julia A. Pfingst, who was also born in Ger-
many. She died in 1913. Their three
surviving children are George C, ilinnie,
Mrs. George W. Leighton of Chicago, and
Alma, Mrs. Roland H. Sherman of Win-
chester, Massachusetts.
George C. Haerle, the oldest son, was
born at Indianapolis September 23, 1867.
He attended grammar and high school, and
early in youth became associated with his
father in business. He continued that
business after his father's death until 1911.
Since that date he has been occupied chiefly
with his own private business affairs. In
1905 he married Norma Hollweg. Her
father, Louis Hollweg, was one of the old
and well known citizens of Indianapolis.
Three children have been born to their
marriage : Louis H., Elizabeth, and Rudolf.
Walter L. Lewis has achieved a definite
place in business affairs and is junior part-
ner of Lewis Brothers, druggists, at Pen-
dleton. He represents an old family in
Indiana and one that has been established
for many generations in America, the orig-
inal ancestors having come from Wales.
The Lewises lived for many years in Penn-
sylvania.
His grandfather, Simeon Lewis, came
west to Indiana when a young man, driving
overland. For many years he was a mer-
chant at Huntsville. His business there
was continued by his son H. F. Lewis, who
in 1884 moved to Pendleton and was a busi-
ness man of that town the rest of his life.
II. F. Lewis married Eleanor Kinnard.
Walter L. Lewis, son of H. F. and
Eleanor Lewis, was born at Pendleton in
1884. He attended the common and high
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schools at Pendleton, and had a college
course from 1901 to 1905. After leaving
college he was for three years foreman and
engineer with the National Concrete Com-
pany of Indianapolis. He then entered
the employment of Lewis Brothers, and
after his father's death in 1911 became a
member of this tirm, an old established firm
for handling drugs, paints, and oils at
Pendleton.
In 1912 Mr. Lewis married Helen Fay
Bement, of Buffalo, New York, daughter of
J. L. and Helen (Sutherland) Bement.
Mr. and Mrs. Lewis have two children,
Helen Fay, born in 1913, and Eleanor K.,
born in 1915.
Mr. Lewis is a republican and has been
very active in supporting his party. He
served as secretary of the township com-
mittee in 1914, and has been a delegate to
the Republican State Convention. He is
affiliated with Madison Lodge No. 44, An-
cient Free and Accepted Masons, Pendle-
ton Chapter No. 53, Royal Arch Mason.s,
Council No. 42, Royal and Select Masons,
and is a member of the Ilicksite Friends
Church.
I
John A. Ross, president of the Ameri-
can National Bank of Frankfort, and for
many ,years a successful and widely known
contractor of public works, has many ideal
finalities of the American business man.
He is forceful in action, prompt in deci-
sion, quick to recognize an opportunity
and discriminate between the false and the
true. These practical qualities have in-
sured his business success, and in his fam-
ily, among his friends and as a citizen his
relations have been productive of no less
esteem.
Mr. Ross was born near Lafayette in
Tippecanoe County, Indiana, January 26,
1861, a son of Alexander and Mary (John-
son) Ross. His father was born in Ire-
land of Scotch ancestry and came to this
conntrv at the age of thirteen, soon after-
ward locating at Lafayette, Indiana. He
died at the age of seventy-two. The
mother was born in Sweden and was
brought to America at the age of twelve.
She died at the age of fifty-three. The
parents were married in Tippecanoe
County, and of their eight children two
died in infancy, while five sons and one
daughter are still living.
John A. Ross, the oldest of these chil-
dren, had about the average opportunities
of the Indiana farm boy. He attended
public schools and also took a course in
bookkeeping and civil engineering. From
the age of fifteen until twenty-one he was
helping his father in the general contract-
ing business, and that early experience
pointed the way for his own permanent
career.
In 1882 Mr. Ross first came to Frank-
fort, and immediately engaged in general
contracting. He continued in the same
business at Lafayette, Frankfort, and at
Huntington, and in 1887 returned to
Frankfort, which now has been his home
for thirty-two years. Mr. Ross took up a
large field of general contracting, has built
innumerable gravel and stone roads, county
bridges and streets, has installed sewerage
and other municipal improvements, and
his enterprise was also extended to the
building of many large and important
buildings. For many years the firm was
known as Ross and Hedgecock. They were
awarded contracts for improvements in
many of the principal streets of Frank-
fort. In Clinton County they constructed
miles of gravel roads, many iron bridges,
and their early works have stood the test
of time and serve to illustrate the charac-
ter of the men behind the business. In
1890 this firm established the Frankfort
Brick Works, with a capacity of between
3.500,000 and 4,000,000 bricks per year.
The plant employed from sixty to seventy
men. It was visited by a destructive fire
in 1891, causing a loss "of from .$15,000 to
$18,000. The yards were rebuilt on a
much larger scale. Mr. Ross has never
had any serious difficulty with his labor.
Strikes have not been a part of his business
history, and this is due almost entirely to
tlie uniformly just and courteous treat-
ment of his men and his recognition of
their rights.
There ai-e many large building contracts
that might be mentioned to illustrate the
important scope of the business. He ei-ected
the Rossville High School, the Michisan-
town High School, the Forest High
School, the First "Ward School in Frank-
fort, the Ross Block, the Dorner Block, the
Fatzinger Block, Palmer Hospital, Kelley
Block, the Kevs Block, the American Na-
tional Bank Building, the public heating
plant, erected the Public Library, the Post-
office building in Frankfort, and many
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similar private and public structures in In-
diana, Illinois and Ohio, and even across
the international boundary line in Canada.
He organized the Frankfort Construction
Company. This firm laid many brick, bit-
ulithic and asphalt streets in Anderson,
Evansville and other cities. They were
bridge builders and contractors with the
Chicago and Eastern Illinois and the To-
ledo, St. Louis and "Western railroads, and
built bridges that would aggregate a total
of more than four miles for these com-
panies.
Mr. Eoss retired from the contracting
business in 1915. He has been president
of the American National Bank throughout
its existence, helping organize it in 1902.
He was also one of the organizers of the
Frankfort Heating Company and the
People's Life Insurance Company and was
the largest stockholder in each at the time
they were organized. Among property in-
terests he owned several business blocks
and several hundred acres of farming land
in Indiana.
February 12, 1884, Mr. Ross was mar-
ried to Miss Lola A. Curtis. She was born
in Lafayette, Indiana, and after a beauti-
ful life of religious devotion, love for her
family and twenty-three years of happy
companionship she passed awav February
21, 1907. She was the mother of four chil-
dren, who deeply cherish her memory and
all she did for them as children. The old-
est, Worley A., was well trained for a suc-
cessful business career, but at the outbreak
of the war with Germany he enlisted in the
Sixteenth Engineer Corps and was with one
of the first units of the American Forces
in France in 1917. He earned some of the
credit and fame paid to the American en-
gineers during 1917. His service was per-
manently interrupted when he and some of
his comrades became the victims of
ptomaine poisoning. Several of his com-
rades died, and he was invalided home in
1918, and has not yet recovered his health
and strength. Worley A. Ross married
Grace F. Beebe, and they have one daugh-
ter, Helen Frances. The second child of
Mr. Ross is Venita, wife of Walter R.
Dyer, of Boone, Iowa. ^Ir. and Mrs. Dyer
have one son, John Sidney. Margaret Z.
Ross married Dr. E. M. Myers, of Boone,
Iowa, and is the mother of two sons,
Edward ]\Iorrison, -Jr., and John Ross.
Dorothy T. Ross, tlie youngest daughter, is
a graduate of the Frankfort High School
and of the National Park Seminar}^ at
Forest Glen, ^Maryland. She now resides
at her father's home.
Mr. Ross has always been an active par-
ticipant in politics, voting as a republican,
but never had any desire to be an ofiSce
holder. He is a member of the Presbyterian
Church. Mr. Ross contributed to the win-
ning of the war his individual influence
and means besides sending his only son
overseas. As county chairman for all the
Liberty Loans he had the satisfaction of
seeing every quota over-subscribed.
John B. Allen, a United States senator
and a lawj-er, was born at Crawfordsville,
Indiana, May 18, 1845. He served his
country in the Civil war, was afterward
admitted to the bar, and removed to Wash-
ington Territorj^ in 1870. He served the
territory as a United States attorney, and
was elected to Congress for the term 1889-
91, but resigned on his election as United
States senator at the admission of Wash-
ington as a state.
C. J. McCracken is secretary and treas-
urer of the Denney-McCracken Fruit Com-
pany, Incorporated, at Muncie. Mr. Mc-
Cracken engaged in the produce business at
IMuncie several years ago, and he and his
associates have gradually developed a busi-
ness that is now one of the largest in East-
ern Indiana. It covers a large field, deal-
ing only wholesale and as jobbers. They
have an extensive warehouse and plant, and
handle a large proportion of the fruits and
produce distributed among the retail trada
over a large territorj- surrounding Muncie.
Mr. ]\IeCracken was born in Grant
County, Indiana, July 27, 1882. He is of
Scotch ancestry in the paternal line. His
great-grandfather, David McCracken, was
a native of Scotland, and on coming to
America located at Philadelphia. He
bought land there and engaged in farm-
ing it. That land has since been taken
into the city limits, but he occupied it as a
farm imtil his death. At the present time
a law suit is pending between the heirs to
that property and the City of Philadel-
phia. Tlie heirs claim that their legal title
to the land has never been canceled. David
McCracken on coming to America joined
the Friends Church at Philadelphia, and
was a devout adherent of that religion the
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rest of his life, and the same faith has
since been transmitted to his posterity.
Long before much was thought or said of
temperance he was an ardent advocate of
the principles. He began voting as a whig
and afterwards was a republican.
The McCracken family was founded in
Grant County, Indiana, during the '40s by
David ]\IcCracken, Jr., who came here when
young and unmarried and settled on a
farm near Marion. He lived there until
1872, when he went out to Nebraska with
his family and was a farmer on the plains
of that state for several yeai-s. In 1912
he returned to Indiana and lived witli his
children the rest of his days. C. J. Mc-
Cracken is a son of E. J. and Margaret
(Drucksmiller) MeCracken. His father
was born in this state and has been a highly
successful farmer in Grant County. Since
1914 he has lived in the City of Marion.
He is a stanch republican and at the pres-
ent writing is a candidate for the office
of county commissioner. Grant County
normall.v gives a large majority to the re-
publican ticket. He is the owner of two
good farms in Grant County, and has made
something of a record in that section as a
hog raiser. He and his wife have three
sons, C. J. being the oldest.
C. J. MeCracken grew up on his father's
farm, and acquired his early education in
the common schools, graduated in 1898
from Roseberg Academy, and then took
a two years' commercial course in the
Marion Normal School.
After his education he went to work as
a stenographer at Matthews, Indiana, later
at North ^Manchester, and in 1905 accepted
a position of clerical work with the Lake
Erie and Western Railway. He was in the
railway service for six years, but in 1911
left it to take up the produce business.
Since its incorporation he has been one of
the aggressive men in The Denney-^Ic-
Cracken Fruit Company. The president of
this corporation is Will H. Denney and tho
vice president G. Clifton Denney. Their
offices and warehouse are within half a
block of the Union Station at ^Muncie and
conveniently located on the Lake Erie
tracks. While they began as fruit and pro-
duce .iobbers, they now have a large depart-
ment devoted to flour, and handle a large
share of the flour distributed in this part
•of the state.
Mr. MeCracken is an active member of
the Friends Church at Muncie and is a re-
publican in politics. He married Miss
Ethel Hurst. She is of English family, her
people having come to Indiana from Mary-
land. Her father died in 1912. He was a
member of the Methodist Church. Mr. and
Mrs. MeCracken have two children : Mar-
garet, born June 18, 1913, and David, born
October 12, 1914.
Andrew J. Crawford. The manufac-
ture of iron and steel in Indiana is now
almost completely localized along the shores
of Lake Michigan in the extreme northwest-
ern corner of the state. It is not in a
strict sense a local industry, since the raw
materials, including the iron ores, are not
produced in Indiana at all. There was a
time when the iron ore deposits of the Wa-
bash Valley in particular were utilized as
the basis of some rather flourishing indus-
tries, and it is with the history of this
business that the name of Andrew J. Craw-
ford is most interestingly associated.
Along the west side of the Wabash, in
the vicinity of Terre Haute, was found
iron ore of good quality and close to the
beds of block coal. Forty or fifty years
ago these ores were found in sufficient
quantities to justify their being gathei-ed
up and carted to Terre Haute, where they
were utilized in the Vigo Blast Furnace,
which had been established by Mr. Craw-
ford and his associations and which was the
last one of the old group of Indiana fur-
naces to go out of blast. It ceased opera-
tion about 1895.
The late Andrew J. Crawford belonged
to a family of iron masters in Pennsylvania.
He was born at Westchester, Montgomery
County of that state, November 7, 1837, a
son of Alexander L. and Mary (List)
Crawford. His parents were Pennsylvan-
ians and of Irish and German stock. Alex-
ander L. Crawford was an ironmonger and
did much to upbuikl the early iron industry
in Pennsylvania. He is credited with hav-
ing established the first iron plant at New-
castle and also constructed the first railroad
out of that town, known as the Beaver
Valley Railroad, connecting with the
Pittsbiirg, Port Wayne & Chicago. In the
course of time his enterprises made him
one of the big iron men ef Pennsylvania.
The son of a successful father and
reared in a home of sound and substantial
ideals, Andrew J. Crawford received a
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thorough education and as a boy became
familiar with the various .operations in-
volved in the manufacture of iron. This
experience qualified him for his later in-
dependent achievements. At the age of
thirty-two he came to Indiana, and after a
surve.y of different localities decided upon
Terre Haute as the scene of his operations.
Terre Haute at that time had a foundry
and several other industries employing a
number of iron workers, and these led Mr.
Crawford to locate here. He built the Vigo
Blast Furnace and also erected the North
Rolling Mill, known as the Wabash Iron
Works Company. He became president of
the Wabash Mills, while his brother, J. P.
Crawford, was secretar.y and treasurer.
The rolling mills and kindred interests sub-
sequently organized under the Terre Haute
Iron & Steel Company, of which Mr. Craw-
ford was vice president. The rolling mills
continued operation until 1899, when they
were sold to the steel trust. "Sir. Crawford
was also interested in the coal mining in-
dvistry and was a member of various bank-
ing and financial organizations of Terre
Haute.
In politics he was a staunch republican,
but never appeared as a candidate for a
public office. He was a member of the
Masonic Order. Among those who knew
him and appreciated his character he is re-
membered for his remarkable sagacity in
business affairs, and also for a genial dis-
position and pleasant manner, so that he
was one of the best beloved citizens of
Terre Haute and his entire life was an
example of rectitude and honor which may
well be cherished by his descendants.
December 26, 1865, he married Miss Ann
E. Ibinson, of Newcastle, Pennsylvania.
They became the parents of five children :
Alexander L., deceased ; Mrs. Mary E.
Kidder, of Paris, Illinois ; James A. ; John
L. ; and Mrs. Anna M. Bartlett, of Phila-
delphia.
Abraham Harsh, president and sole
owner of the Tiger Coal and Supply Com-
pany of Richmond, was a railroad tele-
grapher and station agent for a number of
years in Ohio and Indiana, and on leaving
railroading he took up the coal business
and is now a veteran in that line. He has
built up a large and prosperous business at
Richmond, dealing in coal, coke and build-
ers' supplies.
He was born in Wayne County, near
Wooster, Ohio, son of Zaehariah and Han-
nah (Me.yers) Harsh. His father and
mother both came from the City of Wurms
in Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany, and first
located at Massillon, Ohio, and afterwards
moved to Wooster, where they lived and
died. His father was a silk weaver and an
umbrella maker by trade. He died in 1897
and his wife in 1885.
Abraham was the oldest in a family of
nine children, six of whom are still living.
To the age of fifteen he attended public
school at Wooster, then acquired a knowl-
edge of telegraphy, and was assigned his
first duties as an operator at Louisville,
Ohio, with the Pennsylvania Company.
He spent fifteen years in the service of that
railroad, as operator and station agent at
different point, and was also connected
for a time with the Cincinnati, Hamilton
& Dayton Railway.
In December, 1901, Mr. Harsh formed a
copartnership with E. D. Howe, under the
name Howe & Harsh, dealers in coal and
coke. They were associated together for
eighteen months, having a flourishing busi-
ness at Lima, Ohio. Mr. Harsh then bought
the interest of his partner and continued
at Lima from 1903 to 1906. Selling out,
he came to Richmond in the latter year, es-
tablished a yard and entered the coal busi-
ness under the name A. Harsh Coal & Sup-
ply Company. In October, 1916, he sold
the business, but re-entered it in July, 1918,
at which time he organized the present cor-
poration, the Tiger Coal & Supply Com-
pany. He is also a stockholder in the Cliff-
Wood Coal & Supply Company at Lima,
Ohio, and is vice president and a stock-
holder in the First National Bank and
has other banking and real estate inter-
ests. Success has come to him in generous
measure as a result following many years
of persevering labor and well directed
energy.
In 1877 he married Fannie M. Pence,
daughter of Jeremiah and Susan (Myers)
Pence of Louisville, Ohio. Mr. Harsh is
independent in the matter of politics, is
affiliated with Webb Lodge of Masons at
Richmond, with the Independent Order of
Odd Fellows at Findlay in Hancock
Countv, Ohio, with the Encampment at
Mansfield, Ohio, and is a member of the
Richmond Commercial Club and of the
Jewish Order B 'nai B 'rith.
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SIRS. Harriet ]Marsh Johnston, of
Muneie, has engaged in many of those
broader activities and interests which are
often associated with the successful busi-
ness man and citizen, but in her case these
have come and have been subsequent to her
faithful work as wife and mother. Mrs.
Johnston is one of Indiana 's notable women
of the present century.
Her father was long prominent in Mun-
eie as a banker. His name was John Marsh,
a native of Preble County, Ohio. In early
life he followed the business of hatter in
Eaton, Ohio, and for two terms served as
treasurer of the county. He moved to
Delaware County, Indiana, in 1854, and
his career is of special interest because of
his active connection with one of the
branches of the old Indiana State Bank.
The Muneie branch of the State Bank was
organized July 2, 1856, and began business
in January following. Mr. John Marsh
was the first president of the institution.
This local branch went into voluntary
liquidation following the passage of the
National Bank Act of 1863. The Muneie
National Bank was chartered as its succes-
sor and with the same officers. ]Mr. Marsh
resigned as president in 1874, and took an
active part in organizing the Citizens Bank,
which in 1875 was made the Citizens Na-
tional Bank. Mr. :Marsh was the tirst cash-
ier of this institution and held that office
until his death in 1887. Thus for over
thirty years he held a place of prominence
in Muneie 's financial affairs. lie was a
man of model Christian character, kind and
generous to a fault, and his memory is still
held in grateful regard by the older resi-
dents of Delaware County. He was a very
active member of the Methodist Episcopal
Church at Muneie, was a charter member
of tlie Masonic Lodge of that city, and was
an upholder of the principles of the re-
publican party from the age of twenty-one.
He married ^lary Mitchell, who died in
1900. They had a family of seven chil-
dren, all living but one.
The old Marsh home at Muneie has been
the residence of Mrs. Harriet Johnston all
her life. She was born there October 25,
1860, being next to the youngest of her
father's children. She attended the com-
mon and high schools of ^Muneie, graduat-
ing from the latter in 1878. She was also
given a thorough musical education in the
Cincinnati Musical College, and for a num-
ber of years was organist of the Methodist
Church of Muneie.
October 11, 1881, she married John R.
Johnston. Mr. Johnston was born October
11, 1857, had a good education and began
his business career with his father in the
wholesale drug business. After coming to
iluncie he was deputy recorder and was
holding that position at the time of his
death in 1885. He was a republican and a
member of the Episcopal Church.
After four years of happy married life
JIi-s. Johnston was left with the duties of
home maker and home provider. For a
time she worked as assistant teller in her
father's bank, but since 1897 has been
engaged in the fire insurance business, and
has built up one of the best agencies in
the eastern part of the state. She repre-
sents a number of the old reliable compan-
ies and for many years has given her per-
sonal attention to all phases of the busi-
ness, even to the ad.justment of losses.
While a very energetic business woman
i\Irs. Johnston is most widely known
through her sustained activity and interest
in everything affecting the promotion of
culture and of wholesome institutions in
her home city. She is a vice president of
the Muneie Art Association, was one of the
charter members of the Art Students
League, is a member of the Conversation
Club, and has been prominent in literary
and civic movements of various kinds. Re-
cently she was one of the leaders in raising
Delaware County's quota for the Liberty
Loan. Mrs. Johnston possesses the happy
faculty of being able to direct her complete
energy and enthusiasm to the sub.ject im-
mediately at hand. When she is in her
business office ever.ything is business, biit
many of her best friends and warmest ad-
mirers know her only as a good citizen and
as a woman intensely interested in matters
of literature and art. Jlrs. Johnston has a
wide acquaintance with the world of books
and with the world of travel. She has vis-
ited Europe twice and has also toured the
Oriental countries of China and Japan.
The primary stimulus to her business
career was provision for her son, in whose
mature attainments .she properly takes
great pride. Her son, Robert Johnston,
was born Ausnist 22, 1883. From the Mun-
eie pirblic schools he entered Cornell Uni-
versity and was thoroughly trained for the
profession of mechanical and civil engi-
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neer. He is now established at Detroit
in the manufacture of high tension insula-
tors, and has built up a very prosperous
business, one of his largest recent contracts
having been awarded him by the govern-
ment. Mrs. Johnston is chairman of the
Muncie Chapter of the Red Cross, and has
been very active in the work.
John F. Klumpp. Elwood is a city that
became prosperous under the impetus
afforded by the natural gas discoveries of
the '80s, and its present industrial status
is largely a reflection of that early era.
One of the big plants there, whose products
are known all over the world, is the Mac-
beth-Evans Glass Company. The assistant
superintendent of this plant is John P.
Klumpp. His father is active superintend-
ent, but the son virtually manages the en-
tire establishment at Elwood.
His father is John J. Klumpp. a veteran
in the glass industry. John J. Klumpp is
of German ancestry, a son of Charles
Klumpp, who was born in Germany and
came to America and spent the rest of his
life at Pittsburg. He was an expert me-
chanic, and he reared a family of three
sons and two daughters. John J. Klumpp
was the second youngest of these children
and was educated in Pittsburg, but at the
age of twelve went to work in the glass
factory of George A. Macbeth Company
at Pittsburg in 1877. His first work was as
carrying in bo.y, and he has spent practi-
cally all the rest of his life, a period of
forty years, with the Macbeth Company,
though for a time he was with the Thomas
Evans Company, until it merged with the
Macbeth concern in 1898. John J. Klumpp
acquired phenomenal skill as a glass
worker. His talents were exhibited in the
Chicago and Pittsburg Glass Expositions,
where he did all sorts of fancy glass mak-
ing. He worked his way up imtil he- was
traveling salesman through the eastern
states for the Thomas Evans Company.
After the merger of the two concerns he
was factory manager for the Eighteenth
Street plant of the Macbeth Evans Glass
Company at Pittsburg. In 1902 he came
to Elwood as genera) suneriutendent of
the Elwood plant. His duties in recent
years have become of a liiore general na-
ture, and he is general supervisor of prac-
tical gla.ss making at the Elwood and
]\Iarion plants in Indiana and the Toledoi
plant in Ohio. The practical oversight of
the Elwood industry is therefore left to
his son. The Elwood business employs
about 400 people.
John F. Klumpp was born at Pittsburg
September 8, 188-4, son of John J. and Ida
(^IcCurry) Klumpp. The mother is of
Scotch-Irish ancestry. John F. Klumpp
at the age of fifteen left public school to
go to work with the Thomas Evans Com-
pany at Pittsburg as assistant paymaster.
Two j-ears later he was promoted to ship-
ping clerk, and was then transferred to the
general offices at Pittsburg as assistant
manager of the order department for two
years. In 1902 he came to Elwood, and
was assistant cashier of the Elwood works
one year, was then cashier and office man-
ager until 1910, since which date he has
been assistant superintendent under his
father. He also has various other business
interests, and is vice president and a di-
rector of the Madison Manufacturing
Company, a clay products concern employ-
ing about thiti:y-five men. He is chair-
man of the Industrial Committee of the
Elwood Chamber of Commerce.
In 1906 Mr. Klumpp married Gladys V.
Moore, daughter of T. P. and Olive
(Tharpe) Moore of Hamilton County, In-
diana. Her father is a farm owner. They
have five children : Dorothy Vernon, born
in 1907 ; John Alf ord, born in 1908 ; I\Iau-
rice Franklin, born in 1915 ; Eobert Harold,
born in 1916 ; and Betty Jean, born in 1918.
]Mr. Klumpp is a Royal Arch Mason, and is
very active in the First Methodist Episco-
pal Church, being a steward of the church,
and was assistant superintendent of the
Sunday School in 1913. Politically he is
identified with the republican party. In
1910 he was candidate for alderman from
the Third Ward, but lost the election by
nine votes. He was a delegate to the State
Republican Convention which nominated
James Watson for governor.
Frederick Hamilton Critchpield is
general superintendent, production man-
ager and mechanical engineer for the
Pierce Governor Company at Anderson, the
largest manufacturers of gas engine gover^
nors in the world. This is one of Indiana's
important industries and one that gives,
prestige to the City of Anderson as an in-
dustrial center.
Mr. Critchfield has had a most interest-
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ing and varied experience as a mechanical
engineer, and has followed his trade and
profession practically all the way around
the world. He was born at Kendallville,
Indiana, November 9, 1886, son of James
H. and Jeannett (Weaver) Critchtield. He
is of English ancestry. Back in the time
of Lord Baltimore two brothers, Rupert
and Elwin Critehfield, came to America
from Swasey, England, settling in Mary-
land. Elwin subsequently returned to
England and during the troubles which
divided that country into civil war at the
time of the reign of Charles I he lost his
head. Rupert more fortunately chose to
remain in this country, moved to Vir-
ginia, and there established a family. In
a later generation some of the Critchfields
fought as gallant soldiers of the Revolu-
tion.
"Sir. P. H. Critehfield received his early
public school education at Shelby. Ohio,
and in 1902 graduated from St. Vincent
Academy at Columbus. From earliest boy-
hood he has had a tendency and marked
inclination for mechanical pursuits. His
technical education he picked up largely
through practical experience. His first
regular employment was with the Darling
:Motor Car Company at Shelby, Ohio. Then
for three years he was with the William
Powell Company at Cincinnati in a me-
chanical position, and from there went
half way around the world to Japan and
was a mechanical engineer in the service
of the Japan government for eleven months
at Nagasaki and Yokohama. On his way
back to America he spent thirteen months
at Turin, Italy, where he was employed by
the Fiat Motor Car Company in its engi-
neering department. Returning to the
United States, he was for a short time con-
nected with the Rumely plant at LaPorte,
Indiana, as mechanical inspector, then for
eighteen months was mechanical inspector
for T. W. Warner at Toledo, and was gen-
eral foreman for a time with the Zenith
Carburetor Company of Detroit. Prior to
coming to Anderson he was production
manager and efficiency engineer of the Gar-
ford MaiiufactTiring Company at Elyria,
Ohio. He resigned tliat place and came to
Anderson in Julv. 1916. to begin his con-
nection with the Pierce Governor Company.
This company has three factories and em-
ploys a total of 300 men.
August 10, 1912, Mr. Critehfield married
Cecelia Weigel, of Cincinnati. They have
two children , Frederick James, born in
1913 ; and Ranghilde Cecile, born in 1916.
ilr. Critehfield is a democrat nationally
but is non partisan in local affairs.
Henry Andrew Taylor. The Taylor
family has well earned the riches of com-
munity esteem which is paid it by reason
of long residence, successful business enter-
prise, and the constant expression of high
'character and liberality in behalf of all in-
stitutions and movements.
The pioneer of the family at Lafayette
was Ma.i. William Taylor, who was born
at Hamilton, Ohio, November 27, 1828, his
parents being also natives of Ohio. Major
Taylor died at his home on South Ninth
Street in Lafayette January 18, 1899. A
local paper at the time referred to him as
a "gallant soldier in time of war and in
peace a citizen without reproach." Further
it said: "In all the relations of earthly
existence ]\Iaj. William Taylor filled the
full measure of sterling manhood. His
standard was the highest, and he lived up
to that standard in every act of his life.
Ma.jor Taylor has left the legacy of a good
name, which will be a source of pride and
comfort to the loved ones who survive him.
His duties, public and private, were well
performed, his life's work conscientiously
done, and he has lain down to rest at the
age of seventy years. His kindness and
nobleness of character will not soon be for-
gotten.
Major Taylor came to Lafayette in Octo-
ber, 1849. At first he was engaged in
the lumber business with his father, later
took up the coal business, and was iden-
tified with the Natural Gas Company at its
inception. After the death of Alexander
Wilson he bought the private bank which
was the oldest banking institution of La-
fayette. With his son Henry A. as partner
Major Ta.ylor was active as a banker iintil
his death. He was regarded as one of the
most trustworthy advisers on financial
matters in the citj'.
His title w-as well earned by his credit-
able service in the Civil war. At the out-
break of the rebellion he joined a three
months regiment, and w^as captain of Com-
pany E of the Tenth Indiana. He then be-
came major of the Fortieth Indiana Regi-
ment, and served from September 21, 1861,
to March 9, 1862. He was an active mem-
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ber of John A. Logan Post No. 3, Grand
Army of the Republic, and was also affi-
liated with the Masons and with the Im-
proved Order of Red Men.
On May 30, 1854, Major Taylor married
Miss Angeline Hubler. She was born at
Miamisburg, Ohio, October 24, 1833, daugh-
ter of Joseph and Anna (Davis) Hubler.
When she was a small girl her parents came
to Lafayette, and she attended private
schools in that city and at the age of seven-
teen graduated from the Wesleyan Female
Seminary at Fort Wayne. Mrs. William
Taylor died in Chicago, at the home of her
daughter, Mrs. Harriet T. McCoy, on Feb-
ruary 5, 1915. What her life meant to
the community was well expressed at the
time of her death in the following words:
"She was one of the leading women of the
county and was intensely interested in the
welfare of the city and its institutions.
She was a woman of high ideals, cultured
and accomplished, made many friends and
was revered by all who knew her. She was
for years active in the social life of the
community and her home was the scene of
many brilliant functions. She was a mem-
ber of one of the oldest families in the
county, having lived in this county for
nearly three quarters of a century."
Major Taylor and wife had three chil-
dren : Walter W. Taylor ; Henry A. ; and
Mrs. Harriet McCoy.
Henry Andrew Taylor had a brief life,
but one filled to overflowing with business
achievements and with every activity and
influence that betoken the fine character
and high ideals. He was born at Lafayette
February 4, 1869, and died at Lafayette
December 18, 1905, when in his thirty-
seventh year. He was educated in the pub-
lic schools of Lafayette and also attended
Purdue University. In 1886, at the age of
seventeen, he went out to Redfield, South
Dakota, and was associated with his brother
Walter in the banking business for six
years. He then removed to Moline, Illi-
nois, and for two years was a director in
the Moline Plow Company. On his return
to Lafayette he became associated with his
father, and they bought the old banking
house of Wilson & Hanna, reorganizing
and continuing it under the firm name of
William Taylor & Son. After his father's
death he continued the business until Octo-
ber 1, 1904, when this bank and that con-
ducted by William S. Baugh were consoli-
dated and a new organization known as the
American National Bank promoted, of
which Henry A. Taylor was president at
the time of his death.
The fullness and scope of his career are
perhaps best reflected in words that were
written of him at the time of his death:
"Mr. Taylor's career was one that might
well serve as a criterion for any young
man starting out on a business life. He
represented the best type of progressive
citizenship and enjoyed the fullest confi-
dence of every person with whom he was
ever associated in business. He was ever
alive to the interests of Lafayette, and his
heart was set on bringing this city into
prominence as a commercial and industrial
center. He gave money, time and personal
effort to every movement' tending to benefit
the city and many times gave public mat-
ters precedence over private business
affairs. No j'oung man ever sought de-
served aid from Henry Taylor and went
away disappointed.
"His integrity was as unquestioned as
his generosity and his personality was
charming and most attractive. In his
passing Lafayettehas lost one of its most
useful citizens and his place will be hard
to fill. Mr. Taylor was quiet and imas-
suming but he held in reserve an abundance
of vitality and mental vigor and his keen-
ness and remarkable gift of insight and
judgment were often commented upon. In
social and business affairs alike he was the
center of interest and his opinions were
always regarded as sound and unques-
tioned. Equally notable was his perse-
verance and ability to overcome obstacles
and discouragement.
"Henry Taylor was treasurer of the La-
fayette Telephone Company and one of its
originators. He was the moving spirit in
the company's progress and is responsible
in large measure for its success. He held
a large amount of stock in the Sterling
Electric Works and was treasurer of the
Central Union Life Insurance Company,
ilr. Taylor served for some time on the
West Side School Board. He was a thirty-
second degree Mason and was also affiliated
with the Elks, Eagles and Druids.
"In public life and in his home Henry
Taylor's presence was like a ray of sun-
shine and his pleasing personality asserted
itself wherever he went. He was a verit-
able prince among his fellow men and will
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be missed for a long time to come. His
whole make up, rugged and robust as it
seemed on the surface, teemed with good
will, malice toward none and with charity
for all, and often he went out of his way
to aid one in distress. At the bank he
was the living exponent of good cheer and
buoyant spirits, and all of the men asso-
ciated with him in business admired him
for his manly traits of character and
sterling business qualities. He was square
■with himself and the world. At the club
he was always the center of an admiring
group, and his beaming countenance and
hearty handshake endeared him to all who
met him in a business or social way."
At Moline, Illinois, April 15, 1891,
Henry A. Taylor married Miss Cornelia
Louise Friberg. Mrs. Taylor, who is still
living at Lafayette, is a daughter of An-
drew Friberg, who died at the Taylor
home in Lafayette October 11, 1894.
Andrew Friberg had a most interesting
career. He was born in Sweden April 8,
1828, and learned the blacksmith's trade
in his native country. Coming 1x) the
United States in 1850, after nine months
in Chicago he went to Moline, Illinois, and
seven months after entering the employ of
Deere, Tate & Gould was made foreman
of their blacksmith department, a position
he held twelve years. In 1864 he went
west to the mountains, but the following
year returned to Jloline and in company
with Henry W. Candee and R. W. Swan
started the implement manufacturing
works of Camdee, Swan & Company, with
Mr. Friberg as manager. In 1870 this
concern was developed into the iloline
Plow Company, and Mr. Friberg con-
tinued actively connected therewith in dif-
ferent capacities until November, 1893.
He was the vice president for a number of
years 'before his death. He soon after-
wards came to Lafayette and spent his Ijist
days at the home of his daughter.
Andrew Friberg married at Rock Is-
land, Illinois, November 20, 1854, Miss
Louisa Peterson, who was born in Sweden
in 1832 and died March 3, 1881. They
had eight children, five sons and three
daughters: Alfred Bertrand, deceased;
Cassius D. ; Edward Francis, deceased ;
George Hodden ; Ina Jane ; Cornelia
Louisa. Mrs. Taylor; Minnie N., deceased;
and Oliver Philip.
Mrs. Taylor finished her education at
St. Catherine's Academy at Davenport,
Iowa. For many years she has been active
in literary and club circles in Lafayette,
being a member of the Thursday Club, on
the Board of the Home Hospital and on
the Board of the Lafayette Industrial
School.
Mr. and ilrs. Henry A. Taylor had two
children, William Friberg, born May 20,
1892, and Marv Louise, born January 8,
1901.
William Friberg Taylor, who graduated
from Purdue University with the class of
1913, has made a record of which all his
family and friends are proud, and would
do credit to his grandfather Maj. William
Taylor. It might be said of him as of his
grandfather that he has been "a gallant
soldier in time of war and in peace a citi-
zen without reproach." In September,
1918, word was received in Indiana that
Capt. William F. Taylor, of Battery C,
One Hundred and Fiftieth Field Artil-
lery, in the famous Rainbow (Forty-sec-
ond) Division, had been promoted to
major. He first joined Battery C when
that unit was first mustered into state
service December 15, 1914, as part of the
National Guard. He was advanced to the
rank of sergeant, but was honorably dis-
charged in the spring of 1915, when he
left Lafayette to accept employment in
Detroit. He returned to the Battery in
June, 1916, reenlisting for Mexican border
service. He was promoted to the rank
of sergeant the day the Battery arrived
at Llano Grande, 'Texas. When the Bat-
tery was mustered out of federal service
in January, 1917, he again received an
honorable discharge and returned to De-
troit as conisulting engineer for a large
automobile concern. It was in this capac-
ity that Ma.ior Taylor was acting when
the United States declared war on Ger-
many. He was immediately offered the
captaincy of Battery C, which he ac-
cepted, and shortly afterward he came to
Lafayette to take charge of the work of
recruiting the unit to war strength. The
Battery commanded by Captain Taylor
left Lafayette June 30, 1917, and the fol-
lowing October went to a port of embarka-
tion, sailing for France, where as one of
the units of the Rainbow Division it had a
share in the heavy and continuous work
to which that noted National Guard Divi-
sion was exposed. Captain Taylor was
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with his Battery during the critical and
decisive action on the western front in the
summer of 1918, and on July 15th Cap-
tain Taylor was slightly gassed east of
Eheims on the Champagne front. He was
promoted to the rank of major soon after-
ward, and until the armistice was signed
was on duty with his division. As the
Kainbow Division was retained for Persh-
ing's Army of Occupation, Major Tajdor
and his battalion marched into Germany
and did not leave there until April 15,
1919. when they embarked for the United
States. The Rainliow Division paraded in
New York and Washington, and afterward
was demobilized at Fort Benjamin Harri-
son, Indianapolis, Indiana. For a young
man only twenty-six years of age Major
Taylor has made a wonderful record that
will stand out even more brilliantly as the
events of the great war come to be better
understood.
He was married on August 10, 1917, to
Katharine Levering Vinton, daughter of
Judge and Mrs. H. H. Vinton of Lafaj'-
ette, Indiana.
Case Broderick, a lawyer and congress-
man, was born in Grant County, Indiana,
September 23, 1839. In 1858 he removed
to Kansas. He was a Civil war soldier, was
a probate judge of Jackson County, a state
senator, 1880-84, an associate justice of the
Supreme Court of Idaho, 1884-88, and was
a member of Congress in 1891-99, from the
First Kansas District.
Michael T. Hanley went to Muncie
along with one of the industries that were
moved to tliat city thirty j-ear.s ago, after
Muncie had become an important center
in the natural gas territory of Eastern In-
diana. Mr. Hanley is now one of the very
successful and prosperous business men of
Muncie. He began his life eai-eer as a boy,
earning small wages in a factory, and his
success is due to that steady and persistent
labor which is always seeking better things
and creating new opportunities with new
conditions.
Mr. Hanley was born at Bunker Hill,
Illinois, September 7, 1860, a son of Thomas
and Mary M. (Buckley) Hanley. His
father, who was a native of Ireland, came to
America in the '40s and lived at Bunker
Hill, Illinois, for a time. Later he took
his family to New Albany, Indiana, where
he was employed in the shops of a railroad.
He worked in that position until his death.
He was a very able mechanic, and was ad-
vanced to the highest wages paid his class
of service. He died in 1867. He left a
widow and five sons, Michael being only
seven years old. The mother died in 1885.
Three of the sons are still living.
After the death of the father the chil-
dren were kept for a time at home by their
mother, until she found it impossible to pro-
vide for them, and then four of the boys,
including Michael, were placed in the
Orphans Home at Vincennes, a Catholic in-
stitution. Somewhat later provision was
made that two of the sons should remain
at the Home and two should go back to
their mother. Michael Hanley spent three
years in the institution at Vincennes, then
returned to New Albany, where as a boy he
went to work in the rolling mills at 55
cents a day. He proved diligent, reliable
and responsilile and gradually promoted
himself by his efficiency to larger wages and
bigger work. He was finally made a pud-
dler and was paid the then high wages of
$8 per day.
From New Albany Mr. Hanley went to
Greeneastle, Indiana, and became connected
with the nail works of the Darnell ilills.
Through the effoi-ts of the Muncie Board of
Trade this large nail factory was obtained
for Muncie and moved to the city in 1889.
Here it was renamed the' Muncie Nail
Works, with Mr. Frank Darnell as presi-
dent. Mr. Hanley continued in the employ
of the company at Muncie, but later went
with the Muncie Republic Steel and Iron
Companv, and was its manager in 1892.
After the gradual failure of the natural
gas in the Muncie territory the steel and
iron works went out of business. Mr. Han-
ley then became an operator in the oil and
gas fields, and acquired a number of leases
and drilled a number of wells. As the oil
business did not offer large prospects for
the future in Delaware County, he was con-
stantly looking out for some new opportun-
ity, and thus became one of the pioneers
in the automobile field when that vehicle
was just coming into its share of popular-
ity. Mr. Hanley began the automobile
business in a very small way, having a
small shop near his present extensive and
handsome quarters. His work and facili-
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ties found appreciation and his business
has grown apace with the enormous expan-
sion of the automobile.
Today the Hanley automobile building
alone cost over $75,000 and it is one of the
best constructed and designed buildings of
the type in Indiana. It has salesrooms,
accessories department and garage with a
capacity for storing 200 ears. Mr. Hanley
makes a specialty in his sales department
of the Hudson and Interstate cars. It is
estimated that today he has property inter-
ests valued at .$200,000 or more, which is
ample evidence that he has made excellent
use of his time and energies since he left
the Orphans Home at Vincennes. He is
also one of the leading public spirited citi-
zens of Muncie, ever ready to lend a hand
in building up local enterprises and in
doing his share as an individual. He is a
stanch democrat in politics and has been
honored with a number of places of trust
and responsibility. He served as a member
of the Board of Public "Works in Muncie
four years, was appointed and served eight
years as a member of the Park Board and
for two years was on the Board of Safety.
He is affiliated with the Knights of Co-
lumbus.
April 23, 1883, at New Albany, Indiana,
Mr. Hanley married Miss Catherine Con-
nell. ITer people came from Dublin, Ire-
land. They are the parents of five chil-
dren, four sons and one daughter, ]\Iary,
William, Edward, Prank and Leo. The
daughter, Mary, is the wife of Dr. W. J.
Molloy. All the children were liberally
educated in the parochial schools and in
the higher institutions of learning.
Jacob Schuster. Pew business men of
Anderson, Indiana, have traveled so far
and seen so mucli of real adventure as has
Jacob Schuster, an important commercial
force in this city, the senior partner in the
firm of Schuster Brothers, clothiers. Mr.
Schuster has not yet reached middle age,
yet he has traveled to far countries, has
participated in a great war and has proved
himself able not only in military but also
in business life.
Jacob Schuster was born in 1874, at Har-
risburg, Pennsylvania. His parents were
Myer and Lina Schuster, who came to
America some fifty years ago from one of
the border towns of old Poland. They set-
tled in the capital City of Pennsylvania,
and the father conducted a store. Jacob
attended school in his native place until
he was fourteen years old, and then began
to be self-supporting, his first employer be-
ing a Mr. Katz, a clothing merchant, for
whom he was a clerk for eighteen months.
He remained at home until he was twenty
years of age, and then went to Toronto,
Canada, and worked in a clothing house for
a time and then decided to see something
more of the world, his attention having
been directed to South Africa. Family
afifection in the Schuster family was strong,
and the young man returned to Harrisburg
to see his parents before he started.
After the long journey by land and sea
was concluded, this being in 1895, Mr.
Schuster found himself in Johannesburg,
and after he had looked around a bit he
started a general store on the Rand at
Germantown, Transvaal, South Africa. He
was diligent and attentive, qualities
needed for success in any land, and soon
found himself in a prosperous way, but his
plans were all disarranged by the breaking
out of the Boer war. He accepted condi-
tions as he found them, and with the
friends he had made in his new home
joined the South African Territorials at
Cape Town in October, 1899, the command
being known as the South African Light
Horse. He participated in the relief of
Ladysmith, and was in other battles under
the command of General De Wet, and be-
cause of his bravery was promoted to a
first lieutenancy after fifteen months of
service, and was honorably discharged and
mustered out twenty-eight months after en-
listment.
When Mr. Schuster returned to German-
town he found his business aflfairs in a bad
way and his stock almost destroyed but
later the British government re-imbursed
him on account of his services in the war,
his entire period of service having reflected
credit on him. He re-established his busi-
ness at Germantown, and success again at-
tended him, and when he grew homesick
for his native land he was able to sell out
at a profit.
In 1907 Mr. Schuster returned to
America and reached Anderson, Indiana,
February 18. 1908, and after establishing
a clothing store at Louisville, Kentucky,
opened his present store in this city and
has conducted the two stores ever since.
The Anderson city store is the largest in
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Madison County, and his customers come
from every part of it, as Mr. Schuster car-
ries so complete and satisfactory a stock of
clothing, hats and furnishings for men and
boys, and his business methods are honor-
able and upright. In addition to his stores
he has other important business interests.
Mr. Schuster was married in 1908 to
Miss Elizabeth Jacobs, who is a daughter
of Abraham Jacobs, now of Louisville, Ken-
tucky, but formerly of Harrisburg, Penn-
sjdvania, the Jacobs family moving to the
former city in 1903. Mr. and Mrs.
Schuster have three children: Simon,
Harry and Mae, born respectively in 1909,
1910 and 1913. Mr. Schuster is liberal
minded in the religious field and is not
active in politics, being willing to support
good and able men of whom his own ex-
perienced judgment can approve in the
interest of good government and the gen-
eral welfare. He is identified with the
Masons, the Odd Fellows and the Eagles
at Anderson.
Omer D. BuLLERDiCK is head of some
of the important business enterprises of
Richmond, including the 0. D. Bullerdick
Coal Yards, and also an extensive business
as a wholesale flour merchant.
Born at Richmond May 15, 1886, Mr.
Bullerdick started in life with only the
average training and equipment, but with
the energy and determination to make the
best of his circumstances and opportunities,
and what he has accomplished stands as
evidence of his ability and success. His
parents were H. C. and Anna (Knollman)
Bullerdick. His grandfather came from
Germany and was an early settler in
Indiana.
Mv. Bullerdick after attending grammar
and high schools became an apprentice at
the jeweli-y trade with the Jenkins Jewelry
Company. He gave up that and after tak-
ing a course in bookkeeping with the Rich-
mond Business College became associated
with his father in the Richmond Canning
Company. He turned his resources from
that into the coal business, and for three
years his father owned a half interest in
the plant, but since 1917 Mr. Bullerdick
has been sole proprietor and has a large
amount of capital employed, a well
eciiiipped plant and requires the services
of about twenty men. He is also owner
of the Cambridge City Coal Company at
Cambridge City. Mr. Bullerdick has a
large warehouse used in his wholesale flour
business. He keeps two men on the road
selling flour and deals in two widely known
stable brands, "Mother Hubbard" and
' ' Kaws. ' '
Mr. Bullerdick is a member of the Rich-
mond Commercial Club, the Masonic Order,
the Benevolent and Protective Order of
Elks and the Rotary Club. He is also a
member of the First English Lutheran
Church. In 1908 he married Miss Eliza-
beth Cook, daughter of George Cook.
Sidney L. Holman is a veteran insur-
ance man of Michigan City, but the insur-
ance business has not been his restricted
field of activities, since for a number of
years he was identified with the develop-
ment and progress of Nebraska territory
and' state, and was a means of founding
the most prosperous towns in that part of
the west.
Mr. Holman has had a long and active
career. He was born in Genesee County,
New York, November 13, 1838. His father,
Thomas Holman, was born in Sussex
County, England, and learned the trade of
tailor in his father's shop. His first wife
died in England and in 1831 he came to
America, bringing his only daughter. They
were six weeks in making the voyage, and
he soon located at Pittsford in Monroe
County, New York. A few years later he
moved to Genesee County, and that was'
his home until 1839. From that time until
1851 he again resided at Pittsford, and
then started for the west. The railroad
had been completed as far as New Butfalo,
Michigan, and he traveled by rail to that
point, thence coming by wagon and team
to Springfield Township in LaPorte
County. He bought a small farm there and
located on the Plank Road between Michi-
gan City and South Bend. At that home
he not only supervised the cultivation of
his fields but also followed his trade and
kept toll gate. He died at the advanced
age of eighty-five. In New York he mar-
ried for his second wife Miss Margaret
Brown, who was born at Woodhull in
Steuben County, New York. Her father,
John Brown, was a native of Ireland and
came to America at the age of seven years
and lived at Woodhull and afterward in
IMonroe County, New York, where he died.
John Brown married Miss Shear, and they
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had five sons aud five daughters. Mrs.
Margaret Hohuan survived her husband
and for a few years lived in Tioga County,
Pennsylvania, but subsequently returned
to Indiana with her son Sidney and con-
tinued to live among her children in this
state to the age of eighty-five. She was the
mother of eight children, two of whom died
in early childhood and the sis to grow up
were Roxie, Alfred, Sidney L., Arthur J.,
Emeline and Martha.
Sidney L. Holman was educated in the
public schools of New York State, and after
the age of fifteen attended school in Spring-
field Township and at LaPorte. His inde-
pendent business career began at the age of
twenty-one. He had the gift and genius
of a business man, and at the outset of his
career he stocked a wagon with Yankee
notions and drove about the country sell-
ing from house to house. Among his stock
was also some patent medicines. He was
on the road two seasons and then taught
three winter terms in school. In the mean-
time he had taken up the study of law in
the office of J. A. Thornton at Michigan
City, and Judge Ferran at LaPorte. ]\Ir.
Holman in 1864 became an insurance solici-
tor at LaPorte. It soon developed that he
was an unusually resourceful solicitor of
insurance, and his company soon assigned
him to more important tasks than individ-
ual work, especially the opening up of new
territory and the establishment of local
agencies. Mr. Holman first went to the Ter-
ritory of Nebraska in the spring of 1866, at
a time when that now great state was un-
occupied government land, much of it cov-
ered with immense herds of buffalo. He
spent the summer season there and in the
fall of 1866 entered the law department
of the University of Michigan, where he
received his degree as a lawyer in 1868 and
was concurrently admitted to the bar of
Michigan and Nebraska. He was a pioneer
member of the bar of Columbus, Nebraska,
and practiced law and also sold insurance.
In company with George Graves he bought
a tract of land in Stanton County, and
they then formed a partnership with Lud-
wig Lehmann, who owned an adjoining
tract where he platted the Town of Stan-
ton. In 1872 ;\Ir. Holman returned to
Michigan City and resumed the insurance
business a year, and then established head-
. quarters at LaPorte for another year. Go-
ing back to Nebraska to look after his inter-
ests he made his home in Stanton for a
time. In 1879 the Fremont and Elkhorn
Valley Railroad, now a branch of the
Northwestern, was projected and Mr. Hol-
man returned to Nebraska to get the route
laid through Stanton. The three proprie-
tors gave the company the right of way
through the town, also one half of the town
lots, and thus put their town on the line of
railway. Mr. Holman continued to reside
in Stanton until 1882, when he returned to
ilichigan City and since then for a period
of over thirty-five years has been engaged
in the insurance and real estate business.
In 1872 he married Miss Rachel S. Stan-
ton. She was born in LaPorte County,
daughter of Aaron and Martha (Boyer)
Stanton. Aaron Stanton was a native of
Virginia and of Nantucket ancestry and
was one of the very earliest settlers in
what is now La Porte County, arriving in
1830. ]\rr. and Mrs. Holman have one
son, Scott Stanton. He married Gladys
Schutt, and they have two children, Vir-
ginia and Harrison.
^Ir. Holman served twenty-three years
PS secretary of the Insurance Board of
Michigan City. He is affiliated with Acme
Lodge No. 83, Ancient Free and Accepted
Masons.
S. Earl Cl.^rk. Indiana had no glass
making industrj' to speak of until the era
of natural gas, inaugurated about thirty
years ago. One of the oldest men in the
Indiana glass industry is S. Earl Clark,
superintendent and general manager of
Plant No. 7 of the Pittsburg Plate Glass
Company at Elwood. ilr. Clark has been
connected with this industry practically
thirty years in Indiana.
He was born at West Richfield in Sum-
mit County, Ohio, in 1856, son of Samuel
S. and Carcfline (Prickett) Clark. He was
the only son, and the three daughters are
now deceased. The family is of Scotch and
English descent, and has been in America
for many generations. The Clarks have
been chiefly farmers and merchants. Sam-
uel S. Clark was a druggist at West Rich-
field, Ohio, many vears. He died in 1906
and his wife in 1907.
S. E'lrl Clark acquired his early educa-
tion at West Richfield in the public schools,
and for three years attended a general
course at Oberlin College. He left college
to go to work at Akron, where he remained
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some five years, and then about thirty years
ago joined the Pittsburg Plate Glass Com-
pany in its plant at Kokomo, Indiana. For
ten years he was foreman at Kokomo, also
assistant superintendent and was then ap-
pointed superintendent. In 1898 he was.
sent to Elwood as superintendent of No. 7
plant, and has been supervising head of
this industry ever since with the exception
of five years when the company sent him
to Crystal City, Missouri. There under his
direct superintendence the largest glass
plant in the world was constructed. Mr.
Clark was in Missouri from 1904 to 1909.
He lost his health in that state and in 1909
the company bore the expense of a re-
cuperating trip through Europe, during
which he toured England, Belgium and
France.
Mr. Clark married Lucy C. Viall, daugh-
ter of Burrell and Jane Viall. They have
one child, Louise E., now fifteen years old.
Mr. Clark has been a pi'ominent republi-
can in Indiana. In 1904 he represented the
Eighth District in the Chicago National
Convention when Theodore Roosevelt was
nominated. He has been a member of a
number of state conventions. Mr. Clark
is affiliated with Elwood Lodge of Elks.
Mendle Saffer is junior member of the
firm Neremberg & Saffer, a firm of very
enterprising and aggressive merchants who
have already established and built up a
chain- of hat and haberdashery stores
known as Progress Stores. Mr. Saffer is
in charge of the business at Richmond, and
the home city where the business was/
started is Kokomo, but there is also a store
at Terre Haute.
Mr. Saffer was born at Richmond in
1895, son of Solomon and Esther (Libo-
witz) Saffer. He acquired a thorough
education, attending the Manual Training
School at Indianapolis and had a commer-
cial course in the Central Business Col-
lege. For a year and a half he was em-
ployed as assistant chemist in the labora-
tory of the Citizens Gas Company. He
then formed a partnership with Frank
Neremberg at Kokomo in 1916, and they
opened a shoe and men's furnishing goods
store on Main Street, known at that time
as the Progress Store. They soon after-
ward opened another store at Kokomo,
then one at Terre Haute, and on Decem-
ber 1, 1918, Mr. Saffer established the
branch on Main Street in Richmond.
Mr. Saffer, who is unmarried, is an inde-
pendent I'epubliean, a member of Rich-
mond Lodge No. 196, Free and Accepted
Masons.
Charles L. Buschmann is vice president
and general manager of the Lewis Meier
& Company, one of the chief commercial
organizations at Indianapolis.
The earlier generation of the Buschmann
famil_y was represented by the late Wil-
liam Buschmann, who was born at Biele-
feld, Germany, in 1824, and died at In-
dianapolis in 1893. He was reared and
educated in his native land, had some serv-
ice in the war of 1848 there, and in 1852
came to America and almost immediately
located at Indianapolis. Here he began
that association with Henry Severin, Sr.,
which remained unbroken between them
for over forty years and which through
their respective sons is a business alliance
of great power and dignity in Indianapolis
today. Tlie elder Buschmann and Severin
established a retail grocery store on North
Street, and from that location moved to
Fort Wayne Avenue. In 1892 William
Buschmann, Sr., turned over his interest
to his son William F. and enjoj'cd retired
life for a year before his death. He is re-
membered by his contemporaries still liv-
ing as a man of mature judgment, of splen-
did civic loyalty and of personal integrity
that could never be doubted or (juestioned.
He married Caroline Froelking, who was
born in Cincinnati, Ohio, and died in 1880,
at the age of thirty-seven. The.y married
at Indianapolis and were the parents of
six sons and one daughter, five of the
sons and one daughter still living.
Charles L. Buschmann, who was the
third among the children of his parents,
was born at Indianapolis September 5,
1867, was educated in the local public
schools and for one 3'ear attended Capitol
University at Columbus, Ohio. In 1885, at
the age of eighteen, he retiirned to his home
city and after a coui-se in the Indianapolis
Business Collesre he became bookkeeper in
the office of William Buschmann & Com-
pany. In 1887 he entered the employ of
Lewis Meier and Company, iu which his
brother, Louis Buschmann, was an inter-
ested partner. The business was founded
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by Lewis Meier. Charles L. Busehmann
took a keen interest in every department
of the business, familiarized himself with
its details, and on merit was advanced from
one responsibility to another until in 1901
he was made vice president and general
manager. In that year the business was in-
corporated. Louis Busehmann, brother of
Charles L., died in 1898, and Lewis Meier
passed away in 1901. In 1901 Henry
Severin bought the Meier interests, and
Mr. Charles L. Busehmann and his broth-
ers acquired the remaining interests,
though the original title was retained and
its prosperity has continued to advance.
The president of the company is Henry
Severin, Charles L. Busehmann is vice
president and general manager, and Theo
Scuel is secretary and treasurer.
Mr. Busehmann has well earned a solid
success in his native city and has always
been that type of citizen who could be de-
pended upon for co-operation and effective
contribution to eveiy public spirited
movement. He is a republican, is affiliated
with Oriental Lodge No. 500, Free and Ac-
cepted ilasons, is a Scottish Rite Mason,
^lystic Shriner, also a member of the Co-
lumbia Club, Chamber of Commerce, Ro-
tary Club, Marion Club and other social
organizations, and he and his wife are
members of the Tabernacle Church. He
has various other business interests outside
of those represented by the Lewis Meier
& Company.
Mr. Busehmann married Miss Grace
Clay Hooker, who was born at Terre
Harite November 21, 1879, daughter of
James and Mary J. Hooker, later of Meri-
dian Heights, Indianapolis, ilr. and Mrs.
Busehmann have two children, Severin and
Charles E. Severin graduated from the
ITniversity of Indiana in 1917, taking both
the regular literary course and having one
year of law. Just before graduation he en-
tered the first officers training camp at Fort
Benjamin Harrison, and was one of the
youngest men in that camp to receive the
commission of second lieutenant. He was
promoted to first lieutenant in July and
captain in August, 1918, at which time he
sailed for France. The armistice was
signed when he was on his way to the battle
front. Returning to Brest he made appli-
cation and was admitted to a foiir months'
course at the University of Paris.
E. A. Marple is manager of the White
River Creamery Company at Muneie, one
of the numerous plants of the Fox River
Butter and Creamery Company. This is
one of the institutions that indicate a new
trend to agricultural aetivitiesiin Indiana,
and well informed persons agree that In-
diana is destined to occupy a rising scale of
importance in the great dairy industry of
the country.
The manager of the iluncie plant was
born December 18, 1887, at North Bend in
Nebraska, a son of W. W. and Nancy
(Reister) Marple. His father, a native of
Pennsj'lvania, came to the Middle West in
the '60s, and for about five j'ears taught
school in Illinois. He then removed to
Macon, Missouri, where he was a general
merchant, and several years later went to
St. Joseph, Missouri, and engaged in the
creamery business. He was one of the pio-
neers in what is now a big American in-
dustry. While at St. Joseph he visited
Chicago and consulted Mr. Truesdale, then
president of the Rock Island Railroad,
lender Mr. Truesdale 's advice and under
the auspices of the railroad company he
was engaged to promote a s.ystem of cream-
eries along the lines of that road. He es-
tablished and organized ninety-six cream-
eries, and developed the business to a high
potentiality for the Rock Island Road. One
of the principal centers of the industry was
at St. Joseph, and W. W. Marple for a
number of years managed that plant under
his personal supervision.
W. W. ilarple finally came with his fam-
ily to Muneie, Indiana, and established here
the White River Creamery. Later this
was consolidated with the Fox River Com-
pany, and has since been under the per-
sonal management and supervision of Mr.
E. A. Marple. The plant now turns out a
million pounds of butter annuallr and
40,000 gallons of ice cream. It has 6,300
patrons.
E. A. Marple was educated in the public
schools of St. Jo.seph, Missouri, and in 1908
graduated from Drake University at Des
Moines, Iowa. In the meantime he had ac-
quired a thorough knowledge of the cream-
ery biisiness in every detail from his father,
and that business has since been his profes-
sion and his work has brought him a lead-
ing and authoritative position in creamery
circles.
September 3, 1910, at Chicago, Mr.
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Marple married Miss Nellie Dwyer, daugh-
ter of John Dwyer of that city. They have
one son, W. W. Marple, born December 8,
1916.
Frank Kidgway Leeds, M. D. There
has been no name in the annals of this
city from earliest pioneer times that gath-
ered to itself more of the distinctions of
business, professional and civic prominence
than Leeds. Doctor Leeds is member of the
third generation of the family in this sec-
tion of Indiana, and is a son of Alfred W.
Leeds and is a grandson of that splendid
LaPorte County pioneer Offley Leeds.
The American ancestry of the family
runs back to Thomas Leeds, a native of
England who came to America about 1677
and settled at Shrewsbury, New Jersey.
On August 6, 1678, he married for his third
wife Margaret Collier, of Marcus Hook,
Pennsylvania. The line of descent from
this pioneer couple is traced through Dan-
iel, Japheth, Japheth, Jr., Daniel, Offley,
Alfred W. and Frank Ridgway.
Offley Leeds was born in New Jersey in
1798, being one of a family of twelve chil-
dren. He was reared on a farm, was edu-
cated in common schools and as a youth
taught during the winters and assisted on
the farm the rest of the year. From his
earnings and savings he eventually engaged
in the merchandise business at Egg Harbor,
New Jersey. He was successful and added
to his capital slowly but surely. Later a
vessel in which he had a large shipment of
goods bought in Philadelphia was wrecked
and the goods lost. He had bought the mer-
chandise partly on credit. He at once went
to the merchants and frankly told them
that he was unable to meet his bills unless
they could sell him more goods on credit.
They promptly extended his credit and he
.justified their patience and steadily pros-
pered in his affairs. Later he sold his busi-
ness in New Jersey and for a time was a
miller on Staten Island, New York. In
1837 he sold his interests in the east and
came west to Michigan City. He invested
in thousands of acres of land around that
new town, and for years was one of the
largest i-eal estate owners in Northern In-
diana. He also established a store at
Michigan City and conducted a general
merchandise business until 1852. Later he
became interested in flour mills and other
business enterprises. He was one of the
directors of the old State Bank of Indiana.
Again and again his resources and judg-
ment were placed at the disposal of many
community undertakings in that part of
LaPorte County. During the< panic of
1857 many local manufacturers were un-
able to get cash for their goods and were
obliged either to close or to pay their help
in scrip. When merchants refused to ac-
cept this scrip Offlej' Leeds stepped into
the breach and guaranteed its payment,
thus enabling a number of local business
men to continue their factories until the
recurrence of good times. Thus it was with
an honored name as well as with a comfort-
able fortune that Offley Leeds passed to his
reward in 1877. He married Charlotte
Ridgway, a native of New Jersey and
daughter of Jeremiah and Judith Ridg-
way. The Ridgways were another pioneer
family of LaPorte County. Offley Leeds
and wife had three children; Alfred W.,
Caroline C. and Walter 0. Through many
generations the prevailing religion of the
Leeds family was that of the Friends
Church.
Alfred W. Leeds was born at Tuckerton,
New Jersey, January 7, 1824. He grew up
in LaPorte County and for many years
was associated with his father in the man-
agement of their extensive realty deals and
other business affairs. He died November
23, 1883. Alfred W. Leeds married Minnie
Lell, daughter of John and Christina Lell,
natives of Stuttgart, Germany. The Lell
famil.y came to America and settled in La-
Porte County in 1854. Mrs. Minnie Leeds
after the death of her husband became
noted for the successful management of her
business affairs. She was a director in the
Citizens Bank and a stockholder in many
corporations. Among other buildings
which she erected is the First National
Bank Building at Michigan City. She was
also deeply interested in the welfare of the
Public Library and was a member of its
Board of Trustees. She died at Michigan
City June 28, 1911. Alfred W. Leeds and
wife had seven children : Eva, who married
Dr. E. Z. Cole, a physician and surgeon
of Michigan City, later moving to Balti-
more, Maryland ; Alfred W. ; Julia A., wife
of Samuel J. Taylor; Arthur L., a physi-
cian now in the Medical Corps of the
United States Army with the rank of lieu-
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tenant; "William, who died at the age of
fourteen years ; Frank R. ; and Alice ilae,
wife of Gilbert L. Lock.
Dr. Frank Ridgway Leeds was born at
Michigan City and had most liberal op-
portunities and advantages in his home and
in school and university. He attended the
citj' schools, spent two .years in the Armour
Institute at Chicago, and began the study
of medicine with his brother-in-law, Doctor
Cole. He graduated -\I. D. in 1899 from
the Hahnemann Medical College at Chi-
cago. For one year he was an interne in
the Chicago Baptist Hospital and for two
years practiced at Waterville, Oneida
County, New York. From there he re-
turned to his native city and has been stead-
ily engaged in a large practice ever since.
In 1915 he established the Nova Baths,
which have since developed into an impor-
tant sanitarium for the treatment of di-
seases of various kinds, especially those
yielding to modern electro, mechanical and
"hydro therapeutic methods. During the
influenza epidemic in 1918 many patients
were successfully treated in the sanitarium.
August 29, 1900, Doctor Leeds married
Miss Florence Clark. She was born at
Chazj' in Clinton County, New Tork,
daughter of James B. and Mary A. (Wil-
son) Clark and granddaughter of Samuel
and Lorinda (McLain) Clark of early
Scotch ancestry. Her first American an-
cestor was an English soldier who came to
the colonies, and after his discharge set-
tled in New Hampshire. Later his five sons
moved to Clinton County, New York, and
the road upon which they settled took the
name of Clark Street. These five sons
burned brick and each built a substantial
brick house on Clark Street, those old
buildings still standing in good condition.
The father of ilrs. Leeds was a merchant
at Ellenburg, New York, for several years,
then resumed farming, and late in life
came to Michigan City and spent his last
days with Mr. and Mrs. Leeds. ]\Irs.
Leeds' mother is still living in ^lichigan
City.
Doctor and 'Sirs. Leeds have two chil-
dren : James Clark and Eva-Deane. Doctor
and Mrs. Leeds are membei"s of the Pres-
byterian Church. He is a member of the
City, County, State and American ]Medi-
cal Associations and by re-election in 1917
is now serving his second term as county
coroner. He is also a member of the Acme
Lodge of Masons. He was appointed medi-
cal examiner for the Exemption Board for
Local Number One for LaPorte County,
and served until the close of the war. He
is a member of the Rotary Club and of
the Chamber of Commerce.
Herman Kuchenbuch, of Richmond, is
one of the veteran confectionery manu-
facturers of Indiana. He learned his busi-
ness more than fifty years ago at Cincin-
nati, and has been a candy manufacturer
at Richmond for thirty j-ears. He is pro-
prietor of the wholesale business at 169
Fort Wayne Avenue, being maker of
widely known "Home Confections."
Mr. Kuchenbuch was born at Matagorda
on the Texas Gulf Coast May 24, 1848, son
of John and Teresa (Rust) Kuchenbuch.
His parents came from Hanover, Germany,
and were among the early German colonists
of Texas. His father attempted to make
clay brick in Texas, but failed in that
venture, since the clay was not of the
proper (|uality. He died in 1853.
Herman Kuchenbuch spent his boyhood
at Cincinnati, Ohio, where the family set-
tled. He attended school for two yeai"s at
St. John's School in Cincinnati, and at
the age of fourteen went to work to make
his living. For a time he was employed in
packing hardtack for the Union Army.
The Civil war was then in progress. He
worked for Henry Warwick on Court
Street in Cincinnati two years. In July,
1864, he began his apprenticeship at the
candy business with the firm of Austin &
Smith. He was with that Cincinnati firm
of confectioners fourteen years, and be-
came foreman of one of the departments.
Then for nine years he was with ^Mitchell
& Whitelaw, confectioners. During that
time he served two years as president of
the Confectioners Union at Cincinnati, was
county delegate of the Union two years,
and in 1884 was chairman of the Strike
Committee which secured complete re-
dress of all grievances and demands.
Mr. Kuchenbuch first came to Richmond
in 1888, and for two years was with the
firm of Hinehman & Cox as a foreman. He
was then in business for a time as a retailer
pt IMiddletown, Ohio, and then successively
for brief periods was at Marion. Indiana,
Richmond, Cincinnati, Akron, Ohio, again
at Cincinnati, at Dayton, and then re-
turned to form his present long continuous
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relations with Richmond. He opened a
place of business of his own, and now
manufactures candy entirely for the whole-
sale trade. Mr. Kuchenbuch invented the
"Ferre Stick," a stick candy which is
widely known and sold all over this section
of the Middle West.
In 1872, at Cincinnati, Mr. Kuchenbuch
married Miss Elizabeth Roof, daughter of
Frederick and Kate Roof, of Cincinnati.
They have three children: Herman, of
Covington, Kentucky, who is married and
has four children ; Catherine ; and Albert,
of Connersville, Indiana, who is married
and has th"ree children. Mr. Kuchenbuch is
a democrat in politics and a member of St.
Mary's Church.
Indiana Business College is the cor-
porate title of an association or university
of schools, fourteen in number, represented
in as many Indiana cities and towns, each
school with its individual name and its
corps of instructors, but managed under a
general plan and benefiting by the cen-
tralized efficiency of the headquarters at
Indianapolis.
This is perhaps the most conspicuous ex-
ample of the application to education of the
principle and policy long ago evolved
from American experience in industry and
business. The most notable contribution
of America to the economic progress of
the world has been through standardization
and centralized management. Industry
as represented in mining, manufacturing!
and transportation, retail merchandising
and even in later years agriculture, has
been so thoroughl.y energized and vitalized
by this principle and policy that its appli-
cation to commercial education was doubt-
less inevitable, though it remained for a
group of men with characteristic Indiana
enterprise and push to really perfect the
plan as now exemplified by the Indiana
Business College.
The starting point or nucleus of the
system was a school at Logansport which in
1902 was purchased by the interests that
later became organized and incorporated
as the Indiana Business College. In 1903
the same interests acquired the business
college at Kokomo and another college at
Marion. In the fall of 1903 the Muncie
Business College was purchased. During
the same year another extension brought
into the group two business schools at An-
derson, which were then consolidated as
one school, and has since been part of the
Indiana Business College under the name
Anderson Business College. In the sum-
mer of 1905 Mr. Cring and his associates
went to Lafayette and bought the business
college in that city. Also in 1905 they
purchased the Richmond Business College
and a little later incorporated within their
sj^stem the schools at Newcastle and Co-
lumbus and also the Central Business Col-
lege at Indianapolis. A few years later
two other business colleges at Indianapolis
were bought and consolidated with the Cen-
tral Business College. The next schools to
fall in line were those at Vineennes and
Washington, and at Crawfordsville, and
the most recent unit under the general or-
ganization is the Peru Business College,
purchased in 1916. This total of fourteen
individual schools, all managed by the In-
diana Business College, have an annual en-
rollment of over 4,000 students, which rep-
resents one of the largest totals of attend-
ance of any business college system in
America.
American ideals of education have been
undergoing rapid changes. When the
young person has acquired a well-rounded
general education, he starts out to special-
ize. If he wants to be a doctor he at-
tends a medical eollege ; if a lawyer, a law
school ; if a business man, a business college.
It is hardly claiming too much to say that
the business college as a type was a pioneer
in this new order of education, supplying
definite technical instruction for a definite
purpose. The need for such schools and
such training was never greater than at
the present time, and considering this nor-
mal demand and the abnormal demand
created by the stupendous growth in the in-
dustrial and commercial interests of In-
dianapolis and Indiana within the past
few ,years, it is fortunate indeed that such
an organization as the Indiana Business
College was already in existence and with
a splendid record of results already ob-
tained in furnishing adequately trained
business assistants. Now, under the stress
of intense reconstruction activities and the
need for especially trained help, the various
colleges comprised under this corporate
management have found their resources
taxed to the uttermost to perform the es-
sential duties laid upon them. It must be
realized that specific, definite business
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schools, such as these, fill a real and im-
portant place in our commercial life.
The men behind the Indiana Business
College are Charles C. Cring, president;
Fred W. Case, vice president; Ora Butz,
general manager. These are all in the gen-
eral ofBces of the organization at Indian-
apolis, and other stockholders and directors
are J.. T. Pickerill at Muneie, R. H. Puter-
baugh at Lafayette, and W. L. Stump at
Richmond. Tliese are managing and di-
recting heads, while each school has a com-
plete corps of principals and teachers.
A man of very interesting attainments
and experience is Mr. Charles C. Cring,
president of the corporation. He was born
in Delaware County, Ohio, in the typical
log cabin associated with the birth of so
many enterprising and successful Ameri-
cans. The labor and trials he underwent
in educating himself have proved splendid
qualifications for his subsequent career as
a teacher. He was educated in the coun-
try schools, later in the Ohio Wesleyan
University, and when still in his teens
taught his first school. Prior to his connec-
tion with the system of which he is now
the head he was four years engaged in
business college work at South Bencl.
Nearly every successful American recog-
nizes some fundamental principle or ri;le
upon which he has co-ordinated and devel-
oped his experience and his achievements.
A few j-ears ago Mr. Cring recognized the
chief significance of bookkeeping as noth-
ing more or less than simple honesty — the
setting down of debits and credits, repre-
senting exchange of value for equal value,
and involving of necessity a "quid pro
quo" in every transaction. It was a de-
nial of the fallacy that one can get "some-
thing for nothing" and bookkeeping sim-
ply proved with regard to this fallacy that
"it can't be done," and thus added to the
evidence which has been accumulating
since the time of Adam Smith that trade is
a matter of mutual benefit, and not simple
robbery or piracy. "What he recognized
as fundamental to the success of business
in general Mr. Cring applied throughout
his experience as manager and head of the
business colleges, and that policy is largely
responsible for the success and growth of
the Indiana Business College. The policy
also explains the slogan of the college —
Service. The finest enunciation of this
word in a business motto is the motto of
the Rotarian that "he profits most who
serves best," and it is the spirit of that
motto Mr. Cring constantly endeavors to
interpret through the schools.
While those acquainted with the schools,
their work and their organic management,
claim they constitute one of the remark-
able achievements in specialized training,
there is a natural modesty on the part of
Mr. Cring that disposes him to share the
credit with his associates and assistants.
He would say that he has been fortunate,
others would say that he has been wise and
discriminating, in selecting the men and
women to work with him in order to give
the best of training to the thousands of
pupils who attend and have attended this
system of schools. In the fifteen years of
tiie growth and development of the Indiana
Business College there has come about a
thorough, smooth working, result produc-
ing organization, with a policy evolved and
improved by the combined thought and ex-
perience of a number of men who have
made this special field of education their
particular study for years. The Indiana
Business College is so organized that noth-
ing but the highest and most efficient serv-
ice results.
James H. Kroh. It was the generally
felt and expressed sentiment of the people
of Indianapolis at the time of the death
of James H. Kroh on June 1, 1917, that a
man had been removed from scenes of ac-
tivities from which he could be ill spared
and that at the age of fifty-eight, despite
all the achievements to his credit, his life
had not been rounded out with the useful-
ness and service which the people had come
to expect from him and upon which the
community as a whole had depended as one
of the forces in general improvement and
betterment.
His place in the community was well de-
scribed in the columns of the Indianapolis
News, which said: "Perhaps no one in In-
dianapolis took a deeper interest in the de-
velopment of the city than Mr. Kroh. His
retiring disposition kept him out of public
view, but those who have had much to do
with the awakened civic interest in Indian-
apolis knew and estimated Mr. Kroh at hia
true worth. Along with a fine spirit of
altruism he did much charitable work in
a quiet way. During the flood of 1913 he
was deeply moved by the suffering of the
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people on the west side. For days his auto-
mobile was at the disposal of the authori-
ties, and he contributed money and food
and clothing to the relief of the unfortu-
nate. While in West Indianapolis his at-
tention was called to the destruction of the
homes of two widows. Mr. Kroh engaged
a force of men, placed the houses back on
the foundations, removed the debris, then
papered and painted the houses at his own
expense. ' '
All of this was in keeping with the char-
acter and ideals of the man. While his
years were spent in diligent and successful
occupation with business, his business af-
fairs were alwa.ys conducted with a disin-
terestedness which made of them a sort of
public and community service.
James H. Kroh was born in Wabash
County, Illinois, December 7, 1859. His
parents were Harrington Tiee and Chris-
tiana (Harrington) Kroh, the former a na-
tive of Berkeley County, Virginia, and the
latter of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. The
Kroh family was of Holland Dutch descent,
and some of the name were well known in
the early history of Virginia. Harrington
Tiee Kroh was an old school medical prac-
titioner in Pennsylvania and in Illinois.
He was one of those hard working doctors
who rode night and day in answer to calls
of distress, and it was doubtless from him
that James H. Kroh learned the spirit of
disinterested service early in life.
A common school education in his na-
tive county was supplemented by -a course
at Lebanon, Ohio, and after leaving school
James H. Kroh taught in country districts.
He finally entered the employ of the Me-
Cormick, now the International Harvester,
Company, and was general agent for this
company at Evansville, Indiana, Cham-
paign, Illinois, Indianapolis, and Omaha.
In 1904 he returned to Indianapolis, and
entered actively into the real estate busi-
ness. He was associated with the old firm
of J. B. Heywood and H. C. Kellosg.
Upon the death of Mr. Heywood and the
retirement of Mr. Kellogg Mr. Kroh con-
ducted the business alone.
In the real estate field much emphasis
and stress should be placed upon the work
which he did in developing that portion of
Indianapolis, Fall Creek. A tract of land
that was little better than a waste was re-
claimed and set in motion plans of improve-
ment which have radicallj^ changed condi-
tions and made that one of the most prom-
ising sections of Indianapolis. Mr. Kroh
should also be remembered as a factor in
the park development of Indianapolis, and
he gave steadily the strength of his influ-
ence to creating a system of parks and
playgrounds that would be consistent with
the population and the dignity of Indian-
apolis as one of the largest cities of the
Middle West.
While not a member of any church, Mr.
Kroh was liberal of time and means to
charity and other worthy enterprises. He
was a member of the Chamber of Com-
merce, the Real Estate Board, and was a
Knight Templar Mason and cast his polit-
ical vote independently, though usually
with republican tendencies.
December 17, 1895, he married Miss Cora
E. Phelps, daughter of Davis H. and Lydia
(Hodson) Phelps. Her parents were both
natives of Henry County, Indiana, where
her father was prominent as a stock man.
Two children were born to Mr. and Mrs.
Kroh, Evangeline and Ruth, the latter now
deceased. Mrs. Kroh and her daughter re-
side at 2022 North Meridian Street.
Edwin Rukus Montgomery has won a
high place for himself in the agricultural
and commercial communities of Summit-
ville, where he is utilizing his long and
successful experience as a practical farmer
and in an equally enterprising management
of the Summitville Grain Company.
Mr. Montgomery was born July 3, 1880,
son of S. D. and Mary C. (Thomas) Mont-
gomery. The Montgomerys are of Irish
stock, but were early settlers in Butler
County, Ohio, and from there came to In-
diana. S. D. Montgomery moved to La-
faj^ette Township in Portage County, In-
diana, more than sixty years ago and had
one of the good farms near Frankton. Ed-
win R. Montgomery acquired his common
school education in ]\Ionroe Township of
Madison County, and when only a boy he
began assisting his father in handling the
home farm of 100 acres a mile from Ores-
tes. On that farm he lived until his mar-
riage in 1900 to Susan Pearl Matney,
daughter of Elias and Mahala (Dalrymple)
Matney. Mr. and Mrs. Montgomery had
two children, Hazel, born in 1903, and Ber-
nice, born in 1906. The wife and mother
died June 30, 1917, and on July 16, 1918,
Mr. Montgomery married Florence Estella
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' Brake, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Oscar
Brake.
Mr. Montgomerj' continued farming for
himself and still owns a place of 108 acres
which he now rents to a tenant. In Jan-
uary, 1918, he retired from the farm to he-
come manager of the Summitville Grain
Company. This company does an exten-
sive business all around the countrj- about
Summitville, buying and selling grain,
coal, seed and feed.
Mr. Montgomery is a republican and at
the present writing is candidate for town-
ship trustee. He is affiliated with the ]Ma-
sonic and Odd Fellows Lodges of Summit-
ville and is a member of the ^Methodist
Church.
Eljier Ai'person. Any one acquainted
with automobile history as made in
America during the past twenty years
knows that it is a matter of many being
called and few chosen for permanent and
satisfactory rewards and honors. Among
those whose claims to distinction and real
success are most substantial Elmer Apper-
son, of Kokomo, has his position well for-
tified today as president of the Apperson
Brothers Automobile Company, and there
is perhaps no other American whose con-
nection with automobile manufacture is ex-
tended further back into the historic past.
The little Indiana city near where he was
born August 13, 1861, and where he has
spent his life has many reasons to be grate-
ful to the man who was once a hard work-
ing but rather obscure mechanic in the
town. The Appersons are an old American
family, the record going back tn a Dr.
James Apperson, who came from England
prior to 1668 and settled in the County
of New Kent, Virginia. In Indiana before
the Apperson brothers made the name a
synonym of mechanical genius the family
were substantial farmere. The father of
the Apperson brothers was Elbert Severe
Apperson, who was born December 29,
1832, and died August 13, 1895. He was a
Howard County farmer for many years.
His wife's maiden name was Anne Eliza
Landon, a daughter of William Landon.
Elmer Apperson is a second icousin of
Phoebe Apperson Hearst, and he is a great-
great-grandson of Daniel Boone of Ken-
tucky.
Elmer Apperson gained his first instruc-
tion in a country school in Howard County.
He also attended the grade schools at Ko-
komo and the normal school at Valparaiso.
Probably the event and undertaking of his
career of greatest significance came in
September, 1888, when with his brother
Edgar he established a machine shop at
Kokomo known as the Riverside Machine
Works. Elmer Apperson was one of the
ownei-s and manager of this plant. Some
four or five years later the Riverside Ma-
chine Works became actually though not
in name the first automobile factory in
America. In those works were designed,
made and finished the parts which entered
into the pioneer American automobile, the
first Playnes-Apperson car. Thus for a
auarter of a century Mr. Apperson has
'lieen interetsted in automobile manufac-
ture, and the Apperson Brothers Automo-
bile Company, of which he is president, is
in a sense the flowering and fruitage of
these many years of experience.
Mr. Apperson is also a director in the
Kokomo Trvist Company. He is a republi-
can, a member of the Elks, and socially is
a member of the Chicago Athletic Club,
South Shore Country Club of Chicago and
the Kokomo Country Club. He is a Pres-
byterian in religious affiliation.
Mr. Apperson was married in 1912 to
Catherine Elizabeth Clancy, daughter of
^Matthew Cleary Clancy.
Edgar Landon Apperson, a younger
brother of Elmer Apperson, with whom he
is associated in the Apperson Brotheft-s
Automobile Company, has shared honors in
many of the experiences and achievements
of the Apperson family in automobile his-
torv.
He was born near Kokomo October 3,
1869, a son of Elbert Severe and Anne
Eliza (Landon) Apperson. He finished his
education in the Kokomo High School and
before he was twenty years old was asso-
ciated with his brother in the Riverside
Machine Works at Kokomo. He also as-
sisted his brother in building and design-
ing the first practical American automo-
bile, constructed in the Riverside Machine
Works. In later years he has been secre-
tary treasurer of the Apperson Brothers
Automobile Company and is now general
manager of this company at Kokomo. He
is also a director in the Howard National
Bank at Kokomo, is a republican, a Mason
and Elk, Presbyterian, and a member of
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the Kokomo Country Club and the Crane
Lake Game Preserve.
November 9, 1910, at Waukesha, Wiscon-
sin, he married Inez Marshall, daughter of
Henry ]\Iarshall, who served with the rank
of captain in the Union army during the
war.
Gerritt S. Van Deusen, a former mayor
of Michigan City and one of its oldest busi-
ness men, has been a resident of that In-
diana community for over half a century.
He is descended from some of the orig-
inal Knickerbocker stock of New York.
Abraham Van Deusen was a native and life
long resident of Holland. Five of his sons
came to America, and all were early settlers
in Columbia County, New York. These
five sons were named Isaac, Melchert, Teu-
wis, Jacob and Peter.
The first American generation of this
branch was represented by Teuwis. and the
subsequent line comes through Matthew
Abrahamse, Kobert, Sr., Robert, Jr., James,
Robert I., Robert R., and Gerritt S. Rob-
ert Van Deusen, Jr., was baptized Sep-
tember 1, 1700, his sponsors being Martin
and Marretye Van Buren. James Van
Deusen married Elizabeth Smith.
Robert I. Van Deusen. grandfather of
the Michigan City business man, was born
at Claverack, New York, December 15,
1772. For a number of years he was a
Massachusetts farmer living near Ashley'
Falls. He married Barbara Sharpe.
Robert R. Van Deusen was born at
Greenbush, New York, September 12, 1809.
He acquired a good education and early
turned his attention to the study of law.
After his admission to the bar he located
at Morrisville, New York, and practiced
there steadily until he removed to Michi-
gan City in 1866. He continued in active
practice until his death June 25, 1878. He
married Elvira Stewart, who was bom in
Madison County, New York, January 30,
1819, and died at Michigan City when
about seventy-five years of age. She was
a member of the Methodist Church. They
had eleven children, named Mary E., Anna
E., Stewart A., Sarah M., Henry Clay,
Ella, Robert S., Jay R., Gerritt S., Estelle,
and Arthur E.
Gerritt S. Van Deusen was born at Mor-
risville, ]\Iadison County, New York, Jan-
uary 7, 1851. He was about fifteen years
old when his father came to Michigan City.
He attended the public schools of Morris-
ville and completed his education in the
high school at Michigan City. As a suc-
cessful business man Mr. Van Deusen takes
pride in the fact that he began life on a
comparatively humble scale. For two
years he was employed as baggage master
and brakeman with the Michigan Central
Railway. Then for thirteen years he was
a commercial traveler, but resigned his po-
sition on the road to establish a factory at
Michigan City for the manufacture of reed
and rattan goods. He made that a highly
successful enterprise, and after selling it
took up the contracting business, building"
good roads, and developed an organization
and facilities which constructed many
miles of improved highways in many coun-
ties. In 1907 Mr. Van Deusen retired on
account of ill health, and after an exten-
sive tour of Europe returned home and
has since been identified with banking and
other enterprises. With W. B. Hutchin-
son and Philip Zorn he organized the Mer-
chants Mutual Telephone Company, and is
still one of its directors and was formerly
secretary and treasurer. He was also one
of the organizers of the Citizens Bank of
Michigan City. He is a director of the Te-
cumseh Pacing Mill Company and of the
i\Iount Airy Stone Company.
November 9, 1881, Mr. Van Deusen mar-
ried Miss Rachel Sloane Couden. Mrs.
Van Deuseii was born in Michigan City.
Her father, Reynolds Couden, was born in
Poland, Ohio, where his parents were
among the pioneers. He learned the tin-
ner's trade and in 1834 came west and lo-
cated at ^Michigan City, a town that had
,iust been established about a year. He
bought land and opened one of the first
hardware stores and tinshops, his place of
business being on Franklin Street. He
continued active as a merchant for upwards
of half a century, and died at Michigan
City at the age of seventy-seven. He mar-
ried in Michigan City Margaret S. Mar-
shall, who was born in Weathersfield,
Ohio, daughter of William and Rachel
(McElroy) Marshall, of Scotch and Irish
ancestry. Reynolds Couden and wife had
five children: William M. ; Albert R., who
became a prominent officer in the United
States Navy ; Chauncev B. ; Rachel S. ; and
J. C. F. ■
Mr. and Mrs. Van Deusen had three
children, Margaret, Grace Marshall and
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Henr}\ The oldest and youngest died in
infauc}'. The daughter is now the wife of
William B. Hutchinson, Jr., and they are
the parents of two children, William and
Gerritt. ilr. and Mrs. Van Deusen have
long been active members of the Methodist
Episcopal Church. He has served on the
Board of Trustees of the church for up-
wards of forty years and is the oldest
trustee in point of continuous service now
living. Mr. Van Deusen has been a power
in republican politics in the state, and has
attended as delegate many of the state and
other conventions of his party. He was a
member of the National Convention which
nominated William McKinley. For two
years he was an alderman, and from 1894
to 1898 was mayor of ilichigan Citj'. Mr.
Van Deusen is affiliated with Acme Lodge
No. 83, Ancient Free and Accepted Ma-
sons, Michigan City Chapter No. 25, Koyal
Arch Masons, Michigan City Council No.
56, Eoyal and Select Masons, and Michigan
City Commandery No. 30, Knights Tem-
plar.
Amos Wiiiteley, Jr. Since 1892 the
name Whiteley has been one of the most
significant in the industrial upbuilding of
the City of Muncie. In that year the
great corporation which had formerly had
its home at Springfield, Ohio, moved its
malleable iron foundry to Muncie, and
there soon built up a manufacturing town
called Whiteley, a notal)le addition to the
population and industrial resources of the
larger city of Muncie.
One of the present representatives of tlie
family is Amos Whiteley, Jr., who was
named for his honored grandfather, an emi-
nent American manufacturer. He was
born at Springfield, Ohio, January 5, 1885,
a son of Burt H. Whiteley. The latter,
also a native of Springfield, was for years
engaged in the manufacture of malleable
iron castings. On coming to Muncie he
established the Whiteley Malleable Cast-
ings'Company, to which he gave his time
and attention in its management until his
death in 1917. As a citizen no man stood
higher in Muncie than Burt H. Whiteley.
His natural ability as an industrial leader
was carried over into civic affairs and into
his personal relations, so that he well
earned the esteem paid him for his many
admirable qualities. He was one of the
men who found Muncie a small city facing
decline through the passing of the boom
period caused by natural gas, and gave it
new life and prosperity and brought it to
a city of over 30,000 population. His
name was identified with nearly every
worthy enterprise of Muncie in a quarter
of a century. He founded The Home Hos-
pital on the site of the old Anthony home-
stead. For many years he was a director
of the Delaware County Bank, and was
also interested financially in the building
of the Star and Columbia theaters of Mun-
cie. He was a Unitarian in religious be-
lief, was a thirty-second degree Mason and
Shriner, and an Elk.
Amos AVhiteley, Jr., was the only child
of his parents. He was educated in the
public schools of JIuncie, Howe Military
School, and the Millikan University at De-
catur, Illinois. In early life he learned
the pattern making trade in his father's
shop and was active in the foiuidry depart-
ment until 1910, when he was made as-
sistant superintendent of the Whiteley
Malleable Castings Company. In 1916 Mr.
Whiteley withdrew from this business and
established one of the largest garages in'
Muncie. This he still continues. Mr.
Whiteley is a republican, a member of the
Episcopal Church, and is affiliated with the
Muncie Elks. July 25, 1906, at Muncie,
he married Miss Mabel Stewart.
George William Brown, who died Jan-
uary 17, 1919, had figured prominently in
the business life of Indianapolis for many
years, and accomplished much as a mer-
chant and especially as a builder.
Mr. Brown was born at Indianapolis, in
a house standing at 612 North New Jersey
Street, January 12, 1857, a son of Joha
William and Sophia Catherine (Vajen)
Brown. His mother was a sister of John
H. Va.jen, who served as quartermaster
general during the Civil war under Gov-
ernor Mprton. John W. Brown died in
1909 and his wife in 1907. It has long
been the practice of the family to assemble
in reunion every Christmas, and in 1917
the descendants of John W. and Sophia;
Catherine Brown in attendance at this
union were sixty-two in number, including
children and gi-andchildren.
John William Brown was born at
Bicken, Nassau, Gennany, while his wife
was born near Bremen. John W. Brown
came to the United States with his parents
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in 1848, when fourteen years of age, and
the family located at once in Indianapolis,
where they erected a two-story brick house
for a residence and used part of the build-
ing for a bakery shop. It was in this old
house, located on New Jei-sey Street, that
George W. Brown was born. For a num-
ber of years John George Brown, brother
of John William, was a grocery merchant
of Indianapolis. John W. Brown at the
outbreak of the Civil war volunteered for
service in the ranks. However, owing to
the scarcity of bakers in Indianapolis he
was employed by Governor Morton and
John Vajen to take a contract to supply
the quartermaster's department. Thus he
did baking for the soldiers in the camp
near Indianapolis during the war, and from
that contract he secured his start in busi-
ness affairs. Finally he acquired a part-
nership with William Buschmann & Com-
pany, and was one of the managers in that
extensive wholesale business of groceries,
flour and feed. During the last twenty
years of his life John William Brown was
chiefly identified with real estate.
George William Brown spent his boy-
hood and youth in the Indianapolis of Civil
war time and the decade following. Un-
til he was about twelve years old he at-
tended parochial school, and after that had
a year in public schools and for one year
was a student of German and Latin in the
Reformed Church Academy. His educa-
tion was completed with a business course
under Professor Hollenbeck at Butler Uni-
versity. During school days Mr. Brown
acquired valuable experience with differ-
ent firms. He seemed to possess a special
genius for drawing and making plats, and
he worked for some time in Barnard &
Johnson's real estate office doing this work.
These plats were in great demand and were
readily sold to the real estate men of the
city. While in Butler University Mr.
Brown also did work as an errand boy for
the Citizens National Bank.
In 187.5 he entered the wholesale depart-
ment of the Bowen & Stewart book store,
and was there two years, during which
time he acquired a very practical knowl-
edge of bookkeeping. From 1877 to 1880
he managed his father's grocery business,
in which he had a partnership interest.
He then took up a new line altogether, en-
gasring as a shoe merchant, a business
which continued in the family for thirty-
five years, until it was finally wound up in
1917. ilr. Brown, however, had sold his
interest in the store in 1895 to his brother
Frank, who continued it until 1908, at
which time it was sold to Raymond B.
Brown, a son of George W.
In 1890 Mr. Brown organized the Ger-
man-American Building Association, with
authorized capital stock of $1,000,000. He
was vice president of this organization
when it consolidated with the Indiana So-
ciety for Savings. Albert Sahm, who was
a schoolmate of Mr. Brown, has been treas-
urer of the organization since its incep-
tion. Mr. Brown was active in the busi-
ness as secretary for twenty years.
In late years his business interests were
largely in the field of real estate develop-
ment and building. He constructed inde-
pendently several large buildings, includ-
ing the Peinisylvania Flat, Raymond Flat,
Vienna Flat, St. Albans, Belle Terrace,
and Bungalow Park apartments. He also
organized a $100,000 corporation which
built the property known as Delaware
Court and was president of the company.
]Mr. Brown interested himself in public
affairs and was prominent in the progres-
sive party. In 1914 he was on that ticket
as candidate for treasurer of Marion
County, and had the satisfaction of getting
more votes than any other candidate ex-
cept Senator Beveridge.
Probably nothing afforded Mr. Brown
more satisfaction than the service he was
able to render -during his many years of
active membership in the Presbyterian
Church and the honors accorded him by
the church. From 1885 he served as an
elder, in 1911 was vice moderator of the
Indiana Synod, for twenty-four years was
elder and office bearer of Memorial Pres-
bytery of Indianapolis ; was superintend-
ent of the Sunday School at Fifth Christ
Church in 1883-85, superintendent of the
Sixth Presbyterian Church Sunday School
from 1888 to 1890, and three times was
sent to the General Assembly, for the years
1903, 1914 and 1917, an honor which Mr.
Brown especially appreciated. From 1911
to 1914 he was treasurer and chairman of
the finance committee of the Church Fed-
eration of Indianapolis. He was eight
years treasurer of Indiana Synod Home
Missions Committee, and independently he
raised .$350,000 for Winona Assembly and
Winona Technical Institute. Among other
INDIANA AND INDIANANS
2145
activities Mr. Brown wrote much for re-
ligious organs in Indianapolis and for daily
newspapers, and was one of the most prom-
inent laymen of the Presbyterian Church
in the state. He was a director in 1905-06
of the Lulianapolis Commercial Club.
He married Mary J. Coble, of a well
known family of ^Marion County. Before
her marriage Mrs. Brown was a teacher in
the districts around Indianapolis. Her
father, George Coble, was born near River-
side Park in Marion County, and was a
farmer there many years. He died at In-
dianapolis in 1898. Her mother, Mary
Ann (Doty) Coble, was also born in Ma-
rion County and died in 1911.
Mr. and ]Mrs. Brown had six children :
Bess M., who died in 1912, Gertrude Va-
.ien, Raymond Dwight, Mrs. Edith Grace
Brubaker, Paul Owen, and Karl Franklin.
There are seven grandchildren.
Clarence A. H.\rtley, M. D. For the
past ten years one of the best qualified
physicians and .surgeons of Southern In-
diana has been Dr. Clarence A. Hartley of
Evan.sville. Doctor Hartley has spent most
of his life in Southern Indiana, grew up in
the hills of Warrick County, was a teacher,
and while studying medicine was a civil
service employe in the Government offices
at Washington.
Doctor Hartley was born in ]\Iarion
County, Illinois. His father, Henry Hart-
ley, was born on a farm in Warrick
County, Indiana, where his parents were
pioneers. Henry Hartley followed farm-
ing in Southern Indiana until 1873, when
he removed to Marion County, Illinois,
where he farmed three years. He then re-
turned to Warrick County and bought a
farm in Anderson Township, where he con-
tinued general farming and stock raisiim"
the rest of his life. He married Abigail
Horton. She was a native of Anderson
Township of Warrick County, daughter of
James and Amanda (Bates) Horton. Her
parents were both born in Rhode Island
and were early settlers in Anderson Town-
ship, their locality becoming known as
Yankeetowm. James Horton improved a
good farm there nnd was one of the influ-
ential citizens. ]\Irs. Henry Hartlev died
at the age of seventy-two, the mother of
eight children : Salvin, James N., Fannie,
Lou, Union, Clarence A., Viola and Elmer.
■ ■ Dr. Clarence A. Hartley attended pub-
lic schools in Warrick County and making
good use of his advantages qualified as a
teacher in the public schools. Later he
entered the State Normal School at Terre
Haute and was graduated in 1898. From
there he went to Washington, District of
Columbia, and after perfecting himself in
shorthand and typewriting became a cleri-
cal employe in the offices of the secretary
of the treasury. He was one of the gov-
ennnent workers in Washington for nearly
ten years, until 1907. In the meantime
he used his leisure to attend lectures in
the medical department of the George
Washington University, where he grad-
uated M. D. in 1907. He also had a post-
graduate course in the same university,
and in 1909, with this thorough training
and with many natural qualifications, he
entered upon his busy career as a physi-
cian and surgeon at Evansville. He is a
member in good standing of the Vander-
burg County Medical Society, the Indiana
State Medical Association, the Ohio Valley
^ledical Association and the American
]\Iedical A.ssociation. He is also a member
of the staff of physicians and surgeons of
the Deaconess Hospital and is attending
physician to the Children's Clinic of the
same institution.
In 1907 Doctor Hartley married Amer-
ica Catherine Collins. She was born in
Warrick County, a daughter of Salvin and
Amanda Collins. Their two children are
Clarence A., Jr., and Flora Elizabeth.
Their daughter Mary Catherine died at the
age of eleven months. Doctor Hartley is
affiliated with Reed Lodge No. 316, Free
and Accepted Masons, Evansville Chapter
No. 12, Royal Arch ^lasons, and is also
a member of the Loyal Order of IMoose,
the Elks, and the Evansville Chamber of
Commerce.
Charles W. Hartlopp, M. D. The name
Hartlnff has been prominent in the medical
annals of Evansville for many years, hav-
ing been boi-ne by two men of distinction
in the profession, the late Dr. Richard
Hartloff and his son and successor Dr.
Charles W. Hartloff.
The former was born in Wermelskirchen,
Rheinnfalz, Germany, in 1845, son of Fred-
erick Hartloff. who was a weaver by trade.
In 1854 the latter came to America, ac-
companied by his wife and son, and they
were twenty-three days in crossing the
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ocean on a sailing vessel. From the port
of Philadelphia they journeyed westward
to Ironton, Ohio, and two years later set-
tled at German Ridge in Perry County, In-
diana. Securing a tract of timber land,
Frederick Hartloff soon had the rude com-
forts of a log house for his family, and with
the industry characteristic of the German
settler continued his work until he had a
fine farm with all the improvements. Late
in life he retired to Buffaloville in Spencer
County, where he died.
Dr. Richard Hartloff had the rudiments
of his education in his native land, but
from the age of nine attended American
schools both at Ironton, Ohio, and in Spen-
cer County. He finished his literary
course in Wallace College at Berea, Ohio,
and from there entered the medical de-
partment of the University of Louisville,
where he was graduated with the M. D.
degree in March, 1870. It is now nearly
half a century since he began his work as
a well equipped practitioner at Evansville.
He Avas a close student of his profession,
attending clinics and schools in New York
and also going abroad to study in Vienna.
He was in practice thirty years, his useful
career being closed by death June 21, 1900.
He married Caroline Johann, a native of
Perry County, Indiana, and daughter of
Frederick and Barbara Johann, natives of
Germany and early settlers in Southern
Indiana. She died in 1875, leaving besides
her son Charles a daughter, Emma Caro-
line, now the wife of John F. Habbe of In-
dianapolis. Dr. Richard Hartloff married
a second wife, Mrs. Elizabeth Oliver, a na-
tive of Manchester, England, who died in
1903. Her son by a former marriage is
also deceased.
Charles W. Hartloff was born in Coun-
cil Township, Perry County, Indiana, in
1870, and in 1887 graduated from the
Evansville High School. He took the full
academic course at the University of In-
diana, graduating A. B. in 1892. Later he
entered the medical department of the L^ni-
versity of Michigan, from which he re-
ceived his diploma and degree in 1897.
After a year of practice in his home city
he entered Johns Hopkins University, and
then went abroad, spending two years in
travel and study, chiefly at the University
of Vienna, which then claimed some of
the Neatest figures in medicine and surg-
ery in the world.
Doctor Hartloff returned to Evansville
a few months before his father 's death, and
at once took up his large practice, respon-
sibilities for which his talents and excep-
tional training admirably qualified him.
For the past twenty years he has had a
very busy career. lu addition to his pri-
vate practice he has sei'ved as secretary of
the city board of health and of the board
of pension examiners, and is now chief med-
ical inspector of the Evansville schools.
He is a member of the County and State
Medical Societies, also of the Ohio Valley,
the American Medical Association, and the
American Public Health Association.
In 1896 Miss Annie Marie Kaiser, of
Port Huron, Michigan, became his wife.
They have one daughter, Maryland Eliza-
beth, who is a graduate of the Evansville
High School, spent one year in Penn Hall
at Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, and is
now a student in the University of Michi-
gan. Doctor Hartloff and family are mem-
bers of the St. John Evangelical Church.
He is affiliated with Reed Lodge, Free and
Ancient Masons, Evansville Chapter, Royal
Arch Jlasons, Simpson Council, Royal and
Select Masons, LaVallette Commandery,
Knights Templar, Evansville Consistory,
Scottish Rite, and Hadi Temple of the
Mystic Shrine. He is also an Elk, and is
a member of the Evansville Chamber of
Commerce and the Country and Crescent
Clubs.
William Franklin Cleveland, M. D.
The responsibilities of a busy practitioner
have been the lot of Dr. William Franklin
Cleveland of Evansville for more than a
quarter of a century. At the same time
he has managed to take an active interest
in local affairs, and has been connected
with the management of municipal govern-
ment, and made a fine record during his
term as a state senator.
Doctor Cleveland was born in Johnson
Township, Gibson County, Indiana, No-
vember 23, 1855. His grandfather, Charles
Cleveland, was a native of Virginia, born
in 1800, and he moved from that state to
Kentucky and came to Indiana about 1832,
locating in what is now Johnson Township
of Gibson County. He made the journey
with a pair of oxen and six head of horses.
He crossed the Ohio River at Louisville
and completed the journey through the
woods to what is now Johnson Township.
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He was a pioneer there and settled in the
midst of the woods, when wild game of
all kinds abounded. He bought a tract of
timbered land and built a log house, which
was the first home of the Cleveland family
in Indiana. He cleared up a large tract
and spent the rest of his life as a prosper-
ous farmer. He and his wife had eleven
children.
John T. Cleveland, father of Doctor
Cleveland, was born in Kentuckj' and was
brought to Indiana when about six years
old. At that time there were no railroads,
not even canals, and the entire journej-
was made with wagons and teams. For
several years Evansville, twenty-one miles
away, was the nearest market and supply
point. John T. Cleveland therefore had a
pioneer environment until he was well to-
ward his middle age. He grew up on a
farm, later bought eighty acres of timbered
land in Johnson Township of Gibson
County, and also provided for his family
the typical log house. It was in this house
that Doctor Cleveland was born. His
energies sufficed to bring a considerable
area under cultivation, and he was both a
farmer and stock raiser and did much to
improve his property, planting fruit trees,
and he eventually lived in a good frame
house. He died there in his seventieth
year. He married Mary Jane Davis, who
was born in Montgomery Township of Gib-
son County, a daughter of "William Ross
and Sally (Johnson) Davis, pioneers in
that section of Indiana. She died in
1865, and four of her children reached ma-
ture years, being named James Mai-shall,
William Franklin, Joel Davis, and Thomas
Monroe.
William Franklin Cleveland has always
been glad that his early youth was spent
in the wholesome rural environment,
though his early ambitions caused him to
seek advantages and opportunities in a
larger field. He attended rural schools,
also the Fort Branch High School, and at
the age of twenty began teaching in his
native county. Altogether he was con-
nected with school work for about fifteen
years. While teaching he also took up the
study of medicine and in 1890 entered the*
Louisville Medical College, where he was
graduated and received his diplomk in
1892. In the same year he came to Evans-
ville, and has been busied with a large and
growing practice ever since. During the
world war he served as the medical mem-
ber of Draft Board Division No. 3 at
Evansville. Doctor Cleveland represented
the Sixth Ward of Evansville in the City
Council for ten years and nine months,
constituting three terms. He was elected
a member of the State Senate in 1912, and
gave much of his time to the duties of that
office during the two following sessions.
In 1882 he married Mary E. Pritchett.
.She was born in Montgomery Township of
Gibson County, a daughter of William H.
and Martha (Gudgel) Pritchett. She is a
sister of another well known Evansville
physician. Dr. W. S. Pritchett. Doctor
and Mrs. Cleveland have one son, Walter
R. Cleveland, who is a graduate of the
Evansville High School and the medical
department of the University of Indiana,
and is now a rising young physician in
Evansville. He married Anita Richards,
and they have one daughter, named Ilelene
Frances.
Walter Olds, of Fort Wayne, is round-
ing out a career of fifty years as a member
of the legal profession. He was a Union
soldier, studied law after the war, began
practice in Indiana, achieved the dignity
and honors of the Circuit and Supreme
Bench, afterward was for some years a
leading member of the Chicago bar, and
for over eighteen years has been a resident
of Fort Wayne and is one of the chief
railway attorneys and couHsels in the state.
Judge Olds was born on his father's
farm in ]Morrow County, Ohio, August 11,
1846, a son of Benjamin and Abigail
(Washburn) Olds. His father was a na-
tive of Pennsylvania, bom in 1795. His
mother was born in Jefferson County, New
York, in 1805. Of their large family of
eleven children, nine sons and two daugh-
ters, two are now living, Lester and Walter
Olds. Benjamin Olds, though a farmer,
having developed and improved 240 acres
in Morrow County, was also a regularly or-
dained minister of the ^Methodist Church
and successfully combined both vocations.
In politics he was a whig and later a repub-
lican, and had a record as a soldier of the
War of 1812. A more intensely patriotic
family it would be difficult to find. Five of
his sons were soldiers in the Civil war:
James, who served as major of the Sixty-
fifth Ohio Infantry in Gen. John Sher-
man's Brigade; Sanford,*who was a mem-
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ber of the One Hundred and Twent.y-Pirst
Ohio Infantry and died as a result of
wounds received in the tirst battle of Chick-
amauga; Lester, who was in Company D
of the One Hundred and Twenty-First
Regiment. Chauneey, who was in the
Third Ohio Cavalry and at Munfordville,
Kentucky, wa* shot through the left lung
and shoulder and died seven weeks later
because of the wounds.
The first sixteen years of the life of Wal-.
ter Olds were spent on his father's Ohio
farm, and nothing out of the ordinary dis-
tinguished that period. He was educated
in the public schools, and was seventeen
years of age when, in June, 1864, he fol-
lowed the example of his older brothers and
enlisted in Company A of the One Hun-
dred and Seventy-Fourth Ohio Infantry.
He was with that regiment in all of its
campaigns in the Middle West until finally
taken ill in North Carolina when on the
march to join General Sherman's army,
and was sent to the army hospital. He
received his honorable discharge at) the
close of the war while still in the hos-
pital. This useful military service was
a prelude to his long career of useful-
ness in civil life. Returning home he at-
tended the Capital University at Colum-
bus, Ohio, and read law with his brother
James at Mount Gilead, Ohio. In 1869
lie was admitted to the Ohio bar be-
fore the Supreme Court, and on April 2d
of the same year located at Columbia City,
Indiana, where he began practice in part-
nership with A. Y. Hooper, who was at that
time state senator. That partnership con-
tinued six years, until the death of Sena-
tor Hooper. In 1876 Judge Olds was
elected a member of the State Senate on
the Republican ticket, and served with that
body during 1877-79. In the meantime his
practice had steadily grown, but he prac-
tically resigned it to accept a place on his
party's ticket as candidate for circuit judge
for the District of Kosciusko and Whitley
counties. He was elected in 1884, and
served until 1888, when he resigned. From
the Circuit bench he was promoted to the
Supreme Court of Indiana, and began his
duties as an associate justice January 7,
1889. He was a member of the Supreme
Court until June 15, 1893, when he re-
signed. Two of the decisions he wrote
and handed down while in the Supreme
Court were appealed to the United States
Supreme Court and both upheld by the
higher tribunal.
From 1893 until 1901 Judge Olds was
identified with an important corporation
and railway practice in Chicago, but in 1901
returned to Indiana and located at Fort
Wayne. Judge Olds is Indiana attorney
for the New York, Chicago & St. Louis Rail-
way Company and the Lake Shore & ilichi-
gan Southern, is local attorney for the Lake
Erie & Western and the Ohio Electric Com-
pany, and represents a number of other
large interests. He is one of the most
prominent trial lawyers of Indiana.
Judge Olds has always taken an active
part in republican politics and has served
as district committeeman and county chair-
man. He is a member of the Grand Army
of the Republic, the Order of Elks and the
University Club.
July 1, 1873, at Mount Gilead, Ohio, he
married Miss Marie J. Merritt, who was
born in Morrow County, Ohio, December 4,
1850, daughter of Z. L. Merritt, a promi-
nent business man of Mount Gilead. Judge
and ilrs. Olds have one son, Lee Merritt
Olds, who has attained a successful position
in his father's profession and whose
biography follows.
Ma J. Lee M. Olds, a "native son" of
Indiana, was born at Columbia City Octo-
ber 21, 1874. He is the son of Walter and
Marie J. (Merritt) Olds. He was educated
in the public schools of Columbia City and
took a two-j^ear course at Wabash College.
He then entered Michigan Military Acad-
emy at Orchard Lake, Michigan, graduat-
ing from that institution in 1893. He then
took a one-year literar^^ course at North-
western University, Evanston, Illinois, and
having completed that, entered the law de-
partment of the same university, graduat-
ing from that department in 1896. At the
time of his graduation he was president of
the Law Students' Association of the three
law schools then in Chicago, comprising
about 2,500 students. He immediately en-
tei^ed into the practice of law with his
father. Judge Walter Olds at Chicago.
He enlisted during the Spanish-Ameri-
can war and was elected' captain of Com-
pany A, One Hundred and Sixty-First
Indiana, of which regiment ex-Governor
Winfield T. Durbin was colonel. He was
afterward promoted to major of that regi-
ment, serving until the close of the war,
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having been in Cuba several months. It
is said of him by the historian of the One
Hundred and Sixty-First Indiana Regi-
ment that ' ' he was a born commander. ' '
At the close of the Spanish-American
war Major Olds did not feel that he wanted
to at once take up indoor work again,
therefore he took employment with a rail-
road construction company for about a
year, after which he went to Korea with a
mining company and was engaged there
for another year. While engaged in rail-
road construction work and mining he had
a large number of men under his supervi-
sion.
After his experience in mining he re-
turned to this country and located in San
Francisco in 1902, re-entering the practice
of law, devoting all his time and energy to
his profession. He immediately established
a practice which by reason of his strict in-
. tegrity, energj' and ability has steadily
grown until he is now en.joying a lucrative
practice and is one of San Francisco's lead-
ing lawyers.
Major Olds was married to Miss Wini-
fred L. Keogh, a native of San Francisco,
in 1902, and to them have been born three
sons, Walter K., Merritt R., and Winfield L.
William E. Hoesley, lawyer, present
prosecuting attorney of the Forty-Third
Indiana Circuit and former sheriff of Vigo
County, has a personal record that is not
less noteworthy than the competent and
able services he has rendered in public of-
fice, all of which have been duly appre-
ciated by the people of Terre Haute and
his native county.
There are a number of people in Terre
Haute who remember William E. Horsley
when as a boy he blacked boots and sold
papers on the streets of that city. It is a
case in which a youth with limited oppor-
tunities and unlimited determination has
gained some of the prizes of life which are
everywhere valued as the signs and sym-
bols of substantial success.
He was born in Honey Creek Township
of Vigo County September 29, 1873, a son
of General and Fannie (Russel) Horsley,
the former a native of Indiana and the
latter of England. The mother came to
Canada with her parents when nine years
of age. General Horsley was a brick ma-
son by trade, and died at the age of thirty-
eight and his wife at thirty-nine.
Thus when a small boy William E.
Horsley was left an orphan and had no
other means of support except what was
created by his own labor. When only nine
years of age he was working in a brick
yard, and at the age of eleven found em-
ployment in the Wabash Rolling Mills. At
thirteen he entered an apprenticeship at
the brick layer's trade, and this was his
consecutive vocation for a period of eight-
een years. Realizing his deficiencies of
education, he made every effort to supply
it by study at home, and he also bought a
scholarship in the International Corres-
pondence School and finished a technical
course. He finally developed his trade into
that of a building contractor, and for two
years did a very successful business in that
line.
Mr. Horsley has for many years been one
of the influential men in the republican
party of Vigo County. In 1904 he was
elected on that ticket to the office of sheriff,
and was re-elected for a second term.
This re-election in itself constituted a nota-
ble incident iii local politics, since he was
the first republican sheriff to secure a re-
election in the annals of the county. In
1909 he was nominated on the republican
ticket for mayor of Terre Haute, but was
defeated.
In 1912 Mr. Horsley entered the Indiana
Law School, where he finished the course
with credit and honor and graduated LL.
B. in 1914. Returning to Terre Haute, he
accepted the nomination for prosecuting
attorney and made a good canvass but was
unable to overcome the democratic ma-
jority of that year. In 1916 another im-
portant distinction in his career came when
he was the only republican elected on the
ticket in Vigo County. Since beginning
his duties as prosecuting attorney he has
justified his election and the confidence re-
posed in him by his supporters.
Mr. Horsley is affiliated with the Inde-
pendent Order of Odd Fellows, the Knights
of Pvthias, the Benevolent and Protective
Order of Elks, the Improved Order of Red
Men, and the Loyal Order of Moose. In
1910 he married iliss Anna M. Dolan, of
Paris, Illinois.
Charles K. Zollman. Though a law-
yer by profession, Charles K. Zollman is
liest known over the southern part of In-
diana by his capable sei-vices in public po-
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sitions, as a former representative,. as pros-
ecuting attorney of Clark County, and at
present as clerk of the Circuit Court.
His family have been identified with
Clark County for over sixty years. They
represent some of the liberty loving ele-
ments of Central Europe who broke away
from the political and social conditions
there during tEe middle of the last cen-
tury and have shown their patriotism and
worth as Americans. His great-grand-
father, Christopher Zollman, was born in
Nassau, Germany, in 1784. He served as
a soldier in the first Napoleonic war in
Europe, and was also a participant in the
German revolutionary movement of 1848.
By trade he was a weaver. When seventy
years old he came with other members of
the family to America and settled near
Charlestown, Indiana, where he died in
1868. He and his family came to America
on a sailing vessel called the Southampton,
and were thirty-eight days in making the
voyage.
The grandfather of Charles K. Zollman
was John Zollman, who was born Novem-
ber 1, 1813, in the province of Nassau, Ger-
many. He was reared and married there,
was a weaver by trade like his father, and
for six years was a member of the German,
army. He joined -the rebellion of the
Southern German states in 1848, and was
a captain in the revolutionary army. In
March, 1854, he came to America with his
family,, and settled near Charlestown in
Oregon Township, Clark County, Indiana.
He became a farmer and cleared up a
large tract of land. He died on his home-
stead near Charlestown, November 8, 1890.
During the American Civil war he was a
strong supporter of the Union, and though
too old for active service himself he with
other Union sympathizers of Oregon Town-
ship hii'ed a substitute. John Zollman mar-
ried Jeannette Schwenk. She was born in
Nassau, Germany, June 16, 1816, and died
near Charlestown, Indiana, March 30, 1890.
She was the mother of three children:
Philip, who was a farmer and died near
Lexington in Scott County, Indiana, in
1898 ; William ; and Charles, a retired
farmer in Jefferson Comity, Indiana.
William Zollman, father of Charles K.,
was born at Mansfield, Nassavi, Germany,
November 1, 1841, and was thirteen years
of age when brought to America. He fol-
lowed farming as his occupation and died
at Charlestown November 14, 1918. He
was a democrat in politics and an active
member of the Presbyterian Church. Wil-
liam Zollman married Elizabeth Boehmer,
who was born in Clark County, Indiana,
December 1, 1852, and died at Charlestown
January 12, 1914. Her father, Charles
Boehmer, was born on the borderland be-
tween Alsace and Bavaria June 7, 1809,
and left his native country at the age of
fifteen, spending six years in France, and
about 1838 emigrated to America and be-
came one of the pioneer settlers in In-
diana. He was a saddler by trade and
died January 5, 1882. His first wife was
Miss Margaret Schleichter, who was born
in Baden, Germany, in 1821, and died in
Clark County, Indiana, August 26, 1849.
Her only child, Freda, who died in Ala-
bama in September, 1890, became the wife
of Daniel Eyer, a real estate broker at
Cullman, Alabama. Charles Boehmer mar-
ried for his second wife Elizabeth Hacker
in 1851. She also was born in South Ba-
den, February 9, 1821, and died near
Charlestown, Indiana, September 22, 1890.
]\Ii's. William Zollman was the only child
of that marriage. William Zollman and
wife had three children: Charles K. ; Ed-
ward, who died at the age of three years ;
and Chris, a farmer near Otisco, Indiana.
Charles K. Zollman was born on his fath-
er's farm near Charlestown, Clark County,
Indiana, March 1, 1876. His early educa-
tion was acquired in the rural schools, and
he afterward attended the normal school
at Lexington, Indiana, and in 1900 grad-
uated LL. B. from the law department, of
the University of Louisville, Kentucky.
The year of his graduation he was elected
to represent Clark County in the State
Legislature, and was re-elected for a sec-
ond term in 1902. In the sessions of 1901
and 1903 he served on state and penal in-
stitutions committee and other important
committees. Mr. Zollman was elected
prosecuting attorney of the Fourth Judi-
cial Circuit in 1904, and was also re-elected
to that office, serving four years. After
that he resumed the private practice of
law, and in 1914 stood second in the pri-
mary race for the office of circuit clerk.
In i918 he was nominated for that office
and elected by a majority of 589.
Mr. Zollman is a democrat, a member of
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the Presbj'terian Church, and is affiliated
with Tell Lodge of the Independent Order
of Odd Fellows at Jeffersonville, and is a
member of the Clark Bar Association. He
is unmarried. He owns a good home at|
Charlesfown a;id also a farm in Clark
County.
Franklin M. Rose has long been looked
upon as one of the able and substantial
business men of Jeifersonville, but his chief
forte and experience has been in the coal
industry. He is one of the oldest coal mer-
chants of Southern Indiana.
The Rose family has been identified with
Indiana since territorial times. The fam-
ily originated in Holland, and were early
Dutch colonial settlers in New York. i\Ir.
Rose's grandfather, Hubbell Rose, was
born in Indiana when it was a territory,
in 1814. He was one of the early day
farmers in the vicinity of Jeffersonville,
and died there about 1884.
William E. Rose, father of the Jefferson-
ville merchant, was born in Clark County,
Indiana, in 1844. He spent all his life in
,that vicinity, and as a bo.y enlisted with an
Indiana regiment of infantry and saw ac-
tive service throughout the War of the Re-
bellion. Later he located at Jeffersonville,
and during the last thirty years of his life
he was shipping clerk for the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company. He died at Jefferson-
ville in 1914. He was one of the most pop-
ular citizens, served as a member of the
City Council, and at the time of his death
was trustee of Jeffersonville Lodge No. 3,
Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and
also trustee of ]\Iyrtle Lodge, Knights of
Pythias. Much of the time oiitside of busi-
ness he gave to the Methodist Church. He
was a local minister and active in all phases
of church work. He was identified with
the Wall Street Chin-ch at Jeffersonville.
In politics he was a republican. Williami
E. Rose married Sarah E. Golden, who was
born at Jeffersonville in 1846 and is still
living there. Of their children the oldest,
William, died in early youth. Charles H.
is with the Car Service Bureau at Jeffer-
sonville. The third is Franklin M. David
H. is a merchant and a city trustee of Jef-
fersonville. Jesse E. is in the men's fur-
nishing goods business at Kokomo, Indiana.
Herbert died in infancy. Nellie is unmar-
ried and living with her mother. Clar-
ence died at the age of twenty-one, and
Ada v., the youngest, is the wife of Clifton
B. Funk, a conductor with the Illinois Cen-
tral Railroad Company living at Hodgen-
ville, Kentucky.
Franklin M. Rose was born in Jefferson-
ville Januai-y 15, 1869, and received his
education in the local schools, including
two years in the high school. He was be-
tween fifteen and sixteen years old when
he left school, and later had a business
course in the Bryant and Stratton Busi-
ness College at Louisville. For four
months he worked in the Frank Brothers
dry goods store at Jeffersonville, and on
November 22, 1886, became an employe of
W. S. Jacobs, one of the oldest coal mer-
chants. He learned every phase of the
business during the nine years he was with
Mr. Jacobs. Mr. Jacobs sold out to the
Jeffersonville Coal and Elevator Company,
ilr. Rose continued with that organization
for another nine years. In 1904 he and
Thomas O'Neil formed a partnership as
coal merchants, and on June 3, 1911, Mr.
Rose bought but his partner and has since
been sole owner. The business, a large
and extensive one, is now conducted as the
Franklin M. Rose Company, with yards at
Eighth and Wall Streets, and the offices at
438 Spring Street. Mr. Rose also owns
a business building on Spring Street and
a modern home at 815 East Seventh
Street.
In politics he has always been a repub-
lican. He is ex-treasurer and now a mem-
ber of the Board of Trustees of the Wall
Street ^Methodist Church, and is affiliated
with Myrtle Lodge, Knights of Pythias,
Jeffersonville Camp, Modern Woodmen of
America, and Jeffersonville Lodge No. 340,
Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, Horeb
Chapter No. 66, Royal Arch Mason§, and
Jeffersonville Command^ry No. 27, Knights
Templar.
In 1907, at Greencastle, Indiana, Mr.
Rose married Miss Nettie Sellers. Her
parents. Western and Margaret Sellers,
live at Greencastle, her father being a
farmer. Jlr. and Mrs. Rose have three
children : Margaret, born April 26, 1909 ;
Laura Wood, born in May, 1912: and Alice
Elizabeth, born in October, 1914.
James E. Taggart, president of the Jef-
ferson Township Public Library Board, is
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one of the oldest members of the Clai'k
County bar from the point of continuous
service, having begun practice at Jeffer-
sonville thirty-four years ago.
Mr. Taggart was born at Charlestown,
Clark County, July 1, 1858. His grand-
father, James Taggart, and his great-grand-
father, Samuel Taggart, were both born at
Colerain, Ireland. The family came to
America and settled in Southern Indiana
in 1817, a year after Indiana became a
state. James Taggart was born in 1799,
and became a pioneer physician at Charles-
town. He also followed farming. He
died at Charlestown, Indiana, in 1879. His
first wife was Alethea Childs. She died
in Kentucky soon after the birth of her
only son, Samuel C. For his second wife
he married Miss Welch, and by that union
had two children : Ann, who married Col-
onel Samuel W. Simondson, an officer in
the Union army during the Civil war, and
Mary Ellen, who is unmarried and lives at
New Albany, Indiana. Doctor Taggart
mnrried for his third wife Miss Bare. The
children of that union were six in number.
Amanda, wife of Samuel Brown, a mer-
chant at Columbus, Kansas ; Albert, a
merchant who died at Wichita, Kansas:
Alice ^I., wife of Dr. D. L. Field, one of
the veteran physicians of Jeffersonville ;
Willie John, a retired physician and sur-
geon at New Albany ; James C, publisher
of a newspaper at Dallas, Texas ; and Mar-
cus, who is in the abstract business in
Kansas.
Samuel C. Taggart, father of James E.,
was born in Clark County, Kentucky, in
1828. His father moved to Clark County,
Indiana, about 18.33, and here he grew up
and married. He graduated A. B. from
Hanover College, Indiana, and took his
degree in medicine from the Louisville
Medical College. He was in regular prac-
tice at Charlestown until 1880, and from
1880 to 1884 served as clerk of the Cir-
cuit Court. He then lived retired four
years, and from 1888 to 1895 was presi-
dent of the First National Bank of Jeffer-
sonville. He died at Charlestown. Indiana,
February 2, 1-901. Dr. Samuel C. Taggart
was a stanch republican and a very ac-
tive member of the Presbyterian Church.
He married Cynthia E. McCampbell. She
was born near Charlestown, Indiana, in
1833, and died there in 1895. There were
three children : Charles, who died in in-
fancy; James Edward; and Alethea Jane,
who died at Charlestown in 1916, wife of
Charles E. Lewis, now in the insurance
business at Charlestown.
James Edward Taggart received his
early education in the public schools of
Charlestown, and in 1879 graduated Bach-
elor of Science from his father's alma ma-
ter, Hanover College. He is a member of
the Phi Delta Theta college fraternity.
Prom 1880 to 1884 Mr. Taggart served as
deputy clerk of the Circuit Court under
his father. In 1885 he graduated LL. B.
from the Union College of Law at Chicago,
and entering upon the practice of law at
Jeffersonville July 1st of the same year.
Since then he has steadily maintained high
prestige as an attorney, with a large gen-
eral practice. Mr. Taggart is a member of
the Presbyterian Church, an elder of the
church, and clerk of its session. He is a
republican, and in many ways has been
actively identified with the community life
of his home eity.
September 24, 1885, at Jeffersonville,
Mr. Taggart married Miss Nettie B. Wines-
burg. Her father, John P. Winesburg, was
born in West Virginia in 1822 and came
to Southern Indiana during the forties.
For manv years he was a merchant at Jef-
fersonville, where he died in December,
1902. John P. Winesburg married Mag-
dalena Kesserman. She was born in Switz-
erland in 1828 and died at Jeffersonville in
August, 1901.
Mr. and Mrs. Taggart have two children :
Jennie W., a graduate of the Jeffersonville
High School, lives at home. Samuel Clar-
ence, also a gradiiate of the high school, is
in the government service, employed at the
government depot at Jeffersonville.
Jeffersonville Township Public Li-
brary. One of the institutions of which
Jeffersonville is most proud is its hand-
some public library. As its name indi-
cates, it is in a sense a continuation of one
of the old township libraries established
and maintained under the provisions of
one of the older laws on the statute books
of the state. However, in that condition
it was of comparatively little benefit to the
community which it was supposed to serve.
The present library is largely due to the
individua,l efforts of Miss Hannah Zuluaf,
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a public spirited woman who was ably as-
sisted by the women's literary clubs of the
city. The movement was begun iu 1887,
and in a few months $1,200 had been
raised. The culmination of the movement
was delayed because of a technicality in
the state law. This had to be surmounted
by special legislation. On December 1,
1900, about 1,400 volumes and other prop-
erty of the old Township Library were
transferred to the new association, known
as the Jeffersonville Township Public Li-
brary, and from that date the institution
of todaj' may be said to have existed.
At the organization of the library in its
present form Bertha F. Poindexter was
chosen librarian, and has worked earnestly
for its upbuilding. Miss Poindexter is a
native of Jeffersonville, was educated in
the public schools, and also attended Bor-
den Academy and the Library School at
Indianapolis. The library was originally
located over the Citizens National Bank,
but in January, 1905, it occupied the new
building in Warder Park. This is one of
the handsomest library buildings of the
state, and is constructed of Bedford stone
in the style of the Italian Renaissance. The
library contains 10,000 volumes, classified
according to the Dewe.v Decimal System,
and from the first the volumes have been
accessible to the public on the "open
shelf" plan, except the volumes of fiction.
Miss Poindexter is a member of the
Methodist Church and a member of the
Daughters of the American Revolution.
She is a member of an American family
long distinguished for patriotism and all
those valuable qualities of citizensliip now
so much emphasized. She is a daughter
of Gabriel and IMary F. (Willcy) Poindex-
ter. In the maternal line she is descended
from Barzillai Willey. who fought as a sol-
dier in the Revolution with a Connecticut
regiment. His son, John F. Willey, was
born in June, 1809, wliere the City of Cin-
cinnati now stands. The following year
the family removed to Clark County, In-
diana, coming down the Ohio in flat boats
anri land ins: at Jeffersonville.
The Poindexters came from Louisa
County, Virginia, a year or two before tlie
Willeys. The Poindexters were for many
generations in the Old Dominion. Clevias
S. Poindexter was with a Virginia regi-
tnent in the Revolutionary war. Gabriel
Poindexter and wife had nine children :
Fountain W., who was cashier of the Citi-
zens Natioual Bank of Jeffersonville and
died in 1902 ; Charles Edgar, whose career
is sketched in more detail in following par-
agraphs; Harry C, a lawyer, former judge
of the City Court of Jeffersonville and now
superintendent of the Government Depot
at Jeffersonville ; Miss Bertha F. ; Mary A.,
who died in 1907, wife of Dr. E. L. Elrod,
a physician and surgeon at Henryville, In-
diana, now deceased; Frank C, a letter
carrier at Indianapolis; and three other
children that died in infancy.
Charles Edgar Poindexter, president of
the Citizens Trust Company of Jefferson-
ville, had his first business training after
leaving school in the Adams Express Com-
pany at Jeffersonville. During eight years
he was for a greater part of the time agent
for the company. For six years he was
connei'ted with the Louisville and Cincin-
nati ilail Boat Line, part of the time as
cashier and agent at Louisville. Then for
eight years he was freight agent for tha
Pennsylvania Railroad at Jeffersonville,
and in 1893 entered the Citizens National
Bank at Jeffersonville as cashier. He has
remained with that institution continu-
ously during its present existence as the
Citizens Trust Company, and in all posi-
tions, including that of president, has
served the institution well, and its pros-
perity is largely a reflection of his per-
sonal oversight and direction.
In 1884 ilr. Poindexter married Ophelia
Read, of Port Fulton. Her father, John
F. Read, was born at Washington in Dav-
iess County, Indiana, October 4, 1822, was
educated at Hanover College, and studied
law with the noted Humphrej' Marshall, of
the same family as Chief Justice Marshall.
He distinguished himself as a lawyer. He
was also a member of the Legislature one
term, and for eight years was in tlio
United States Land Office at Jeffersonville.
At one time he served as president of the
Ford Plate Glass Company at Jefferson-
ville, and as president of the Citizens Na-
tional Bank. In 1840 Mr. Read married
Eliza Keigwin, who died in 1852, the
mother of one child. Mr. Read married in
1855 Eliza Pratt. She became the mother
of nine children, Mrs. Charles E. Poindex-
ter beiuff the oldest.
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Charles E. Poindexter has one son, James
Edgar, now cashier of the Citizens Trusti
Company. Mr. Poindexter is affiliated
with Clark Lodge No. 40, Ancient Free
and Accepted Masons, with the Royal Arch
Chapter No. 66, and Commandery No. 27,
Knights Templar. He is a member of the
Presbyterian Church.
■WiLLi.\M H. English. Politically the
high tide of the power and prestige of
"William Hayden English came during the
tl-emendously vital decade of the '50s, when
the destiny of the nation, as it is again to-
day, was in the hands of the democratic
party. William H. English during those
years was an acknowledged leader of the
Indiana democracy, and undoubtedly one
of the strongest and clearest minds among
the "Northern Democrats" in the Na-
tional Congress of those years. Only those
familiar with the history of that decade
can understand and appreciate this phase
of the career of William H. English. In
the recollections of older men of the pres-
ent generation his fame chiefly rests upon
the fact that late in life he was drawn
from his quiet business activities at In-
dianapolis and made a candidate for vice
president of the United States. In a busi-
ness way William H. English was for many
years a prominent banker of Indianapolis,
and his fortune was so used in the up-
building of the city that various monu-
ments to his business enterprise are mat-
ters of daily familiar association with the
life of the people.
The breadth and variety of his interests
and achievements can be best understood
from a straightforward narrative of his
career. But first something should be said
concerning his honorable ancestry, and,
particularly of his parents.
His great-great-grandfather was James
English, a son of Thomas English. James
came to America about 1700, locating
near Laurel, Delaware. The line of de-
scent is carried through his son James, the
latter 's son Elisha English to Elisha Gale,
who was the father of William H. English.
Elisha English was a native of Delaware
and married Sarah Wharton, a native of
the same state and a daughter of Capt.
Revel Wharton, who commanded an Amer-
ican privateer during the Revolution, was
captured in action, and died on board an
English prison ship. Elisha and Sarah
Wharton English removed to Kentucky in
1792, and in 1830, late in life, went to
Greene County, Illinois, where they lived
among their children. Thej' died in ad-
vanced age, after a married companionship
of more than fifty years. All their fourteen
children grew up and married and had chil-
dren of their own before this venerable
couple died, at which time their descend-
ants numbered about 200.
The founder of the familj^ in Indiana
was Ma,i. Elisha Gale English, who was
born in Kentucky and removed to Scott
County, Indiana, in 1818. He located there
only a few years after the Indian massacre
known as the Pigeon Roost massacre. He
had an important part in the making of
the early history of Indiana, and his name
was known and respected over a wide terri-
tory. He was especially prominent in the
formation of the early laws and institutions
of the state. His residence was always in
Scott County, though the closing years of
his life were spent in Indianapolis with his
son William H., where he died November
14, 1874. He was for several terms sheriff
of Scott County and for nearly a score of
years had an almost continuous service as
a member of either the Indiana House of
Representatives or the Senate. He was also
at one time United States marshal for the
District of Indiana.
Major English married Mahala Eastin.
She was a native of Kentucky, one of the
seventeen children of Lieut. Philip and
Sarah (Smith) Eastin. Her ancestry
is a notable one. She was a direct descend-
ant of Louis DuBois, the Huguenot paten-
tee and colonist of the Kingston ancl New
Palz districts in the State of New York.
Another ancestor was Jost Hite, who estab-
lished the first settlement west of the Blue
Ridge Jlountains in Virginia, where he re-
ceived from King George II a grant of
more than 100,000 acres of land upon
which he located his colony of fellow Ger-
man emigrants from the province of
Alsace. Of this branch of the family Wil-
liam H. English was in the fifth generation
from Col. John Hite, who served as an
officer in the Colonial forces prior to the
Revolution. After the Declaration of In-
dependence he became a member of the
first Board of Justices of Frederick County,
Virginia, and administered the oath of al-
legiance to the other members. Lieut.
Philip Ea.stin, father of Mahala Eastin, was
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an officer in the Fourth and Eighth Vir-
ginia Regiments in the Revolution, serving
until the end of the war. His wife 's father,
Capt. Charles Smith, saw service as an offi-
cer under George Washington, then a colo-
nel, in the French and Indian wars, and
was severely wounded at the battle of Great
Meadows.
To be well born has always been "ac-
counted a blessing, and that was the tirst
distinction of William Hayden English.
At his father's home near Lexington, Scott
County, Indiana, he first saw the light of
day August 27, 1822. The development of
his early character was formulated by
many influences, perhaps least of which
were the primitive district schools he at-
tended. Still more important were the
rugged ideals upheld at home by his hon-
ored father and gentle minded mother, and
the various men of prominence in that sec-
tion of Indiana whom as a boy he heard
discuss the various questions of the day.
Besides the public schools he attended for
three years Hanover College. After leav-
ing college he acquired a few law books,
and showed such powers of concentrated
study and assimilation that at the age of
eighteen he proved himself eligible under
the. strict examination then required and
was admitted to the bar with the privilege
of practicing in the Circuit Court. Soon
afterward he applied to the Supreme
Court for examination, and was admitted
to practice before that tribunal. While ihe
law did not become a permanent profession,
it is said that "he possessed a mind noted
for its logic and clearness of reason, and
his marked success at the bar could not but
have been assured had he chosen to remain
in that profession." For a short time he
was associated in his profession with the
famous Joseph G. ^Marshall. His ambitious
were always in the line of politics. For
four years he filled a position in a depart-
ment at Washington, and that practically
marked his divorce from law practice. Be-
fore he was of age he was chosen a delegate
from Scott County to the Democratic State
('onvention which nominated Gen. T. A.
Howard for governor. He rode to the capi-
tal city on horseback. When Tyler became
president Mr. English was made postmas-
ter of his home town of Lexington, then
the countj' seat of Scott County. In 1843
"he was chosen principal clerk of the Lower
House of the Legislature. At the end of
the session he precipitated himself with all
the vigor and enthusiasm of his youth into
the presidential campaign in which Henry
ClaA' and James K. Polk were the rival
candidates. He took the stump in behalf
of Polk, and after the latter 's election was
appointed to a position in the treasury de-
partment at Washington. In 1848 he
proved a vigorous opponent of General
Taylor, and on the day before the latter 's
inauguration as president sent to President
Polk a vigorous letter of resignation which
was copied by the press all over the coun-
try. Among the delegates to the Demo-
cratic National Convention of 1848 were
the father of Mr. English, his uncle. Revel
W. English, and two other uncles. It was
in that convention he met Samuel J. Tilden,
that being the beginning of a friendship
which existed until the death of Mr. Til-
den. While clerk of the claims committee
in the United States Senate in 1850 Mr.
English listened to the famous speeches
made by Webster, Benton, Calhoun, Cass
and Clay, speeches that have become clas-
sics in American political oratory.
In the Constitutional Convention of
October, 1850, Mr. English was elected sec-
retary, and later was delegated to supervise
the publication of the Constitution, the
Journals and Addresses. All these activi-
ties and experiences came to him before he
was thirty years of age. In 1851 his native
county sent him to the State Legislature,
and he thus served during the first session
after the adoption of the new constitution
and enjoyed many of the heaviest responsi-
bilities and honors in connection with the
program of legislation which was made
necessary by the new constitution. He was
nominated for speaker of the House, being
defeated by nine votes by John W. Davis,
a former speaker of the National House
of Representatives and later a minister to
China. In a short time a disagreement
arose between the speaker and the House,
resulting in the resignation of Mr. Davis,
and Mr. English was chosen his successor.
It is said that during the term of three
months as speaker not a single appeal was
taken from his decisions.
William H. English was elected to Con-
gress from his Indiana district in October,
1852. Thus his service as a national legis-
lator began with the administration of
President Pierce. Of the Thirty-third Con-
gress, which ended in 1854, Mr. English
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was the last survivor of the two senators
and eleven members of the House constitut-
ing the Indiana delegation. It was during
that session that the famous Kansas-Ne-
braska bill was inti'oduced into the House.
Mr. English was a member of the commit-
tee on territories, to which this bill was re-
ferred. He drew up the minority report,
and it is said that the amendments which
he advocated led to important modifications
of the bill as it was finally adopted. At
that time Mr. English was a pronounced
champion of the popular sovereignty idea,
which has been so prominently associated
with the name of Senator Stephen A.
Douglas of Illinois. The issue of slavery
was involved in practically every measure
that came before Congress during that and
following sessions. The position of Mr.
English in this respect was marked by a
studied conservatism, so that he probably
found favor neither with the radical aboli-
tionists nor with the fire eaters from the
South. His attitude can best be expressed
in his own words found in the Congres-
sional Record of that period: "I am a
native of a free state and have no love
for the institution of slavery. Aside from
the moral question involved I regard it as
c;n injury to the state where it exists, and
if it were pi'oposed to introduce it where
I reside I would resist it to the last ex-
tremity." Those familiar with the history
ol the period will recall the storm of abuse
which fell upon the champions of the
Kansas-Nebraska bill. Mr. English was
one of the three representatives from a
free state who secured re-election as cham-
pions of that bill. Furthermore, at that
time he was one of the most determined op-
ponents of the Know Nothing issue and
party in American polities, and is credited
with having done as much as any other in-
dividual in the nation to bring about the
downfall of that element or faction. At
the close of his second term Mr. English
did not become a candidate for renomina-
tion, but in the District Convention, after
a long drawn-out contest, was given a unan-
imous nomination for a third term, and
he was re-elected by a larger ma.iority than
ever befoi-e. At the beginning of his third
term he was made chairman of the com-
mittee on postoffices and post roads. Dur-
ing this term the Kansas question was the
most acute interest before Congress, and
here again Mr. English's attitude was that
of the moderate and conservative democrat.
He consistently opposed the admission of
Kansas under the LeCompton Constitu-
tion unless it were adopted by a fair and
full vote of the people, as it had not been
when first submitted. Jlr. English was
author of the bill known in Kansas and
national history as the "English Bill,"
whfch provided for the resubmission of the
LeCompton Constitution to a fair and full
A'ote of the people of that territory. When
that vote was taken under the law the con-
stitution was decisively defeated.
Political careers were made and unmade
with astonishing rapidity in the decade
before the Civil war, and it is indicative
of the confidence felt in Mr. English's char-
acter and abilities that he was re-elected
for a fourth term, and was in continuous
service from 1853 until practically the
outbreak of the Civil war. He was also
while at Washington a regent of the Smith-
sonian Institute for eight years, had much
to do with controlling the finances of the
institution, and rendered many other valu-
able services. President Buchanan also of-
fered him high honors of appointive posi-
tion, which he declined. Similar favors
v>-ere also tendered him later by President
Johnson and declined.
In 1860 Mr. English was a member of
the National Campaign Committee of the
democratic party. Though not a delegate,
he attended the National Convention at
Charleston, South Carolina, where he used
every possible means at his command to
reconcile the opposing elements of the
North and South. Concerning this period
of his career another biographer has said :
"His efforts, however, as well as all efforts
of all peacemakers in those troublous times
were unavailing and the distinguished In-
dianan returned to Washington sadly de-
pressed at heart. While in this state of
feeling he made a memorable speech in
Congress touching the existing state of af-
fairs. In it he predicted that the rank
and file of the democratic party would
never forgive, and asserted that it ought
never to forgive, those who had heedlessly
precipitated that state of affairs upon the
country. He denounced secession ft-om
the beginning and exerted every possible
measure to induce Southern members to
abandon it. Speaking for his o^^'n constit-
uents in Indiana he asserted that they
would "march under the flag and keep step
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to the music of the Union." Seeing only
a bloody conflict ahead at this time, he de-
termined to retire from active participa-
tion as an oiScial, and in conformity with
his expressed wishes his successor, who was
a close personal friend, was chosen in his
stead. He took no active part in the war,
but was at all times a firm and consistent
supporter of the Union cause. He was
ofifered command of a regiment by Gover-
nor Morton, but declined. He was a dele-
gate to the Democratic State Convention
in 1861. He supported Gen. George B.
McClellan for president in 1864, and was
one of the most powerful friends of Sam-
uel J. Tilden in the presidential campaign
of 1876. Later he served a term as chair-
man of the Democratic State Central Com-
mittee. In June, 1880, from what
amounted to practically political retire-
ment, Mr. English was called by his unani-
mous nomination for vice president of the
United States. The official notification of
his nomination was delivered to him at the
home of Gen. Winfield Scott Hancock, the
presidential nominee, on July 13, and on
the 30th of the month he accepted the )iomi-
nation in a vigorous letter that formed the
keynote of the campaign. It was the com-
bination of the names Hancock and English
during the presidential campaign of that
yeir that brought Mr. English his widest
political fame outside of his native state.
Long before he undertook the respon-
sibilities of this campaign Mr. English had
become one of the foremost business men
and financiers of Indianapolis. A capacity
for the effective handling of business and
financial at¥airs distinguished him from his
early manhood forward. His business life
was characterized by absolute standards of
honesty, and he exacted from himself the
same .systematic and careful efficiency
which he demanded of others. He was one
of the men who brought about the organi-
zation and incorporation of th First Na-
tional Bank of Indianapolis in 1863. Soon
afterward his business interests caused him
to remove from Scott County to Indian-
anolis. He was president of the First Na-
tional Bank fourteen years, and during
that time its capital stock was increased to
a million dollars. He also served as presi-
dent of the Indianapolis Clearing House
Association and the Indianapolis Banking
Association, and acquired a controlling
interest in the local street railroad svstem.
On July 25, 1877, he resigned the presi-
dency of the bank, sold his stock in the
street railway, and at the time of his death
did not own a dollar's worth of stock in
any corporation. His fortune was repre-
sented by many judicious investments in
real estate not only in Indianapolis but
elsewhere. Mr. English rendered conspicu-
ous service to his home city and the state
at large when through his influence an
amendment to the Constitution of Indiana
was adopted restricting the indebtedness of
municipalities to a 2% valuation.
In the evening of his life Mr. English
took up literary work, and he filled his
days with continuous and arduous devo-
tion to the tasks of historical compilation.
He wrote a comprehensive history of the
conquest of the Northwest, and one of the
best of the older histories of Indiana, char-
acterized specially by its faithfulness to de-
tails, bears the name William H. English
on its title page. These works were not
completed according to his plans at the
time of his death, as he contemplated addi-
tional volumes. He was one of the most
enthusiastic members of the Indiana His-
torical Society, and was its president when
he died, and by his will he left a substantial
sum to carry on the society's work.
It WTs a career of such well rounded
activities and interests that came to a close
in the seventy-fourth year of his life, on
February 7, 1896. The biography of such
an eminent Indianan would be worthy of a
volume at least, and obviously this sketch
has had to be content with the briefest
summary. Of the many estimates that ap-
peared of his life and character only one
can here be Quoted, an editorial from the
Indianapolis Sentinel.
"William H. English h-d in hj-n the
elements that make men successful in the
highest degree. Pre-eminent among his
qualities was that sound judgment which is
ordinarily called common sense. He had
the ability to grasp a fact and infer that
practical significance with almost unerring
certainty. He had much confidence in his
own judgment, and so had others. Few
men were more sought for counsel than
he by those admitted to his favor, and the
correctness of his opinions in practical mat-
ters was almost proverbial. His good judg-
ment extended to men as well as measures.
He had a keen insight into human nature,
whether of men singlv or in masses. For
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these reasons he was a thoroughly practical
man, self reliant, firm, resolute. To this
was added the one thing necessary for the
ideal business man — a scrupulous honesty
in his dealings with his fellow men. His
integrity was unquestioned.
"William H. English was a man of much
greater talent and ability than he was sup-
posed to have by those who did not know
him well. This was true in the years pre-
ceding the Civil war, when he took a promi-
nent part in politics and became known
throughout the nation by his participation
in the great political struggle of his time,
but the last thirty-tive years of his life was,
from choice, largely passed in business and
personal pursuits. The chief departure
from this was when his party associates
called him from retirement for the period
of a presidential nomination. This was not
of his seeking. The nomination for the
vice presidenc}- came through the efforts,
of party leaders who knew the man's ster-
ling worth and ability. If circumstances
had encouraged his continuance in public
life he undoubtedly would have gained
very high rank, but the disruption of his
party and the new alignments produced bj^
the Civil war caused him to prefer a busi-
ness life.
"It was a natural result that a man of
large means, who was subject to many ap-
peals from undeserving purposes, should
sometimes have his 'rough side out,' but
Mr. English was neither unkindly nor il-
liberal. He was always ready to aid in
works of charity and relief when they
were administered through channels in
which he had confidence, and his private
benefactions were more extensive than even
his intimate friends knew. He did not
advertise them. He had a keen sympathy
for suffering and misery, and an especially
soft spot in his heart for the aged who were
destitute. The gray hair and the bowed
form were certificates of helplessness and
desert that he never questioned."
It is to the memory of this distinguished
Indian^n that a well known street —
"English Avenue — in Indianapolis was
dedicated, and his name is also borne by the
Town of English, the county seat of Craw-
ford County. There are bronze statues of
him at English and also at Scottsburg, the
county seat of his native county. Many
of the nation's greatest men, including
President Grover Cleveland, paid their ex-
pressions of tribute and respect to his mem-
ory at the time of his death. His body,
at the request of the governor, lay in state
at the Indiana capital before being laid to
rest beside the remains of his wife in Crown
Hill cemetery. A few years before his
death William H. English was made a
Mason in Center Lodge Xo. 23, Ancient
Free and Accepted Masons. A distinctive
feature of this initiation was the fact that
his son William E. was master of the lodge
and presided at the ceremonies of confer-
ring the degrees upon his father. He was
also a member of the Sons of the American
Revolution.
In 1847, while serving as a clerk in the
treasury department at Washington, Mr.
English married ]\Iiss Emma Mardulia
Jackson, of Virginia. She died in 1877.
They had oidy two children, a son, William
E.. and a daughter, Rosalind. Rosalind
became the wife of Dr. Willoughby Wall-
ing, a prominent physician and surgeon of
Chicago, and at one time United States
Consul at Edinburgh, Scotland. The two
grandsons of William H. English, William
English Walling and Willoughby George
Walling, have attained no small measure of
distinction, especially the former, a promi-
nent settlement worker, a leader in the
socialist party, and a student, writer and
lecturer on many phases of sociology and
of Russian affairs, in which country he
spent a long period of residence. The other
grandson, Willoughby G., is a Chicago
banker and well known business man, and
is one of the leading officials in the Red
Cross organization of the United States.
William E. English. Bom to wealth
and high social position, William E. Eng-
lish has proved in every relationship of his
career thoroughly worthy of his opportuni-
ties and honors. He inherits many of the
enviable qualifications of his father, Wil-
liam H. English, especially in his mastery
of business affairs and his distinguishing
power as a leader among men.
Born at the old family home, Englishton
Park, in Scott County, Indiana, William
Eastin English lived there during his early
boyhood years, attending in the meantime
both private and public schools. After the
family came to Indianapolis he completed
his education in Northwestern Christian
University, now Butler College, and later
graduated from the University Law School.
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For five years he engaged in the private
practice of law at Indianapolis under the
firm name of English & Wilson, his partner
being Hon. John R. Wilson, deceased.
After giving up the law Mr. English spent
•about three years abroad, visiting every
country in Europe, from Norway to Greece,
and also extending his travels and observa-
tions around the ^Mediterranean, in the
Holy Land, Egypt, and North Africa. He
is one of the most widely traveled men in
the State of Indiana. Out of his travels he
has contributed to the local press many
interesting letters and other writings.
As the only son of Hon. William H. Eng-
lish he has always had heavy business re-
sponsibilities in managing the large real
estate holdings of the English famil.y. He
owns the English Block, one half built by
his father years ago and the other half by
himself in 1898, and one of the landmarks
of the Indianapolis business district. The
English Block includes both English's
Opera House and the Hotel English.
Politics has afforded an outlet for some
of the most intense activities of his career.
He grew up with a firm allegiance to his
father's party and was one of the promi-
nent democrats of Indiana until the great
division in that party in 1896. Since then
his affiliations have been as a republican.
He began doing political work even before
reaching his majority. He acted in the
early days as a member of the cit.v, county
and state committees, and in 1878 was
chairman of both the Marion County and
the Indianapolis Democratic Committees.
In the same year he was nominated for the
Legislature from Marion and Shelb.y coun-
ties, and succeeded in overcoming a strong
opposition majority by more than 200 votes.
During his service in the Legislature of
1879-80 he was the youngest member of
the Lower House and represented what was
then the largest district in the state. He
was several times called upon to preside
as speaker, and he showed much of the par-
limentary ability which had distinguished
his father. He was chairman of the stand-
ing committee on the afi'airs of the City of
Indianapolis and a member of the reap-
portionment committee. He was author of
the law for the limitation of the indebted-
ness of Marion County, also for the con-
gressional reapportionment of the state,
and a number of other important bills. He
declined nomination to Congress in 1880
because his father was in- that year demo-
ci-atic candidate for vice president on the
ticket with General Hancock. In 1882,
however, he accepted the nomination for
Congress, and after one of the most turbu-
lent campaigns known in the annals of the
state overcame a large opposition majority
and was elected. He was thus a member
of the Forty-Eighth Congress from 1883 to
1885. Among the bills introduced by him
were those providing for an international
copyright law, the issuance of coin certifi-
cates of small denominations and the in-
crease of pensions for crippled soldiers and
sailors. He was also chairman and author
of the report made by the Committee on
the Alcoholic Liquor TrafSc Commission.
He was the youngest member of the House
of Representatives during -that session.
After the close of his term he declined re-
nomination.
Mr. English was a delegate to the Chi-
cago National Democratic Convention of
1892, and the Indiana delegation unani-
mously chose him to make the seconding
speech favoring the nomination of Grover
Cleveland for president. That speech in
the opinion of the press and the other dele-
gates was one of the happiest conceived and
best received speeches of the convention.
He was also chairman of the committee on
rules and order of business in that conven-
tion, and during the following campaign
was vice president of the National Associa-
tion of Democratic clubs. In the National
Democratic Convention at Chicago in 1896
he was again a delegate from the Seventh
Indiana District, and was one of the man-
agers of the campaign of Governor Claude
Matthews, who was Indiana's favorite son
for the presidential nomination that year.
When William J. Bryan was acclaimed the
leader of the democratic party Mr. English
refused to support his platform on the free
coinage issues, etc., and took no active part
in the campaign that followed. In the
McKinley and Roosevelt campaign of 1900
he was one of the most popular figures and
speakers in all republican gatherings and
exercised a great influence in behalf of
those candidates throughout the State of
Indiana. He accompanied Mr. Roosevelt
on his tour of the state. Again in 1904 he
canvassed Indiana from one end to the
other in behalf of Mr. Roosevelt and his
fellow townsmen and neighbor, Charles W.
Fairbanks, again accompanying the vice
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president's special train over the state. His
services as a campaigner were again in
demand during 1908, in which year he ac-
companied President Taft on his speaking
tour of the state, and was also on the spe-
cial train of Senator Beveridge and that of
James E. Watson, the republican candidate
for governor. Mr. English was a delegate
to the Republican National Convention at
Chicago in 1912. Since 1900 he has also
been a delegate to numerous city, county,
district and state conventions of the party.
In the city campaign of 1901 he was a mem-
ber of the Republican Executive Commit-
tee, and after the election was appointed
president of the Board of Safety, or police
and fire commi.ssioners, serving in 1901-02.
He was president of the Board of Park
Commissioners of Indianapolis in 1898-99.
He was a member of the Marion County
Republican Executive Committee in the
campaigns of 1906 and 1908, was vice
president of the Republican State Conven-
tions of 1902 and 1918 and chairman of
the committee on rules and order of busi-
ness in the State Convention of 1904, chair-
man of the committee on credentials in the
convention of 1906, and chairman of the
Marion County Delegation in the State
Conventions of 1910, 1912 and 1914. In
1908 he received 13,000 out of the 16,000
votes cast at the republican county prima-
ries for the office of state senator, and at
the general election ran far ahead of the
defeated party ticket. In 1910, again a
nominee of the unsuccessful party for state
senator, he received the highest vote cast
at the primary election of any candidate
upon the entire republican ticket.
In 1916 he was again nominated unani-
mously as a candidate for state senator by
the republicans of ilarion, Hendricks and
Hamilton counties. This was the largest
district in the state, containing some 100,-
000 voters and near 400,000 inhabitants.
After a strenuous speaking campaign he
was elected by the overwhelming majority
of 9,188 votes, being ahead of his general
ticket in each of the three counties.
He was one of the recognized leaders of
the Senate during the session of 1917, and
was the author of numerous important
measures introduced into that body or
enacted into law at that session. He was
especially recognized as an authority upon
constitutional questions and was made
chairman of the standing committee on con-
stitutional revision, to which all proposed
amendments or changes in the constitution
were referred.
He was the author of the amendment to
the constitution prohibiting the extension
of terms or increase of salaries during
official terms, which passed both Houses of
the Assembly and was signed by the gov-
ernor. He was also the author of eight
other important Constitutional amend-
ments which passed the Senate practically
unanimously. He also served on the im-
portant committees on judiciary, military
aff'airs, rules, agriculture, rivers and waters
and soldiers monuments. One of the most
important laws enacted at this session of
the Legislature was his bill providing for
absent voting by soldiers, traveling men,
railroad emplo.yes, etc.
Among various other important acts of
which he. was the author was the important
law providing for the destruction of infe-
rior court records against juvenile offend-
ers who have reformed, the law providing
an age limit for enforced jury service,
changing the ilame of Monument Place to
^Monument Circle, etc.
Mr. English made a notable record in the
Spanish-American war. Soon after the
outbreak of that war, notwithstanding his
large business interests and other home du-
ties, he was offered appointment by Presi-
dent McKinley as paymaster in the army,
with the rank of major, but he declined this
in order that he might secure service at the
front. :\Iay 17, 1898, President McKinley
appointed him to the rank of captain of
United States Volunteers in the quarter-
master's department. • Again he made an
urgent personal request for service that
would put him on the firing line, and on
June 10, 1898, was assigned to duty as an
aide upon the personal staff of Maj. Gen.
Joseph Wheeler, commanding the cavalry
division. In that capacity he served
throughout the Santiago campaign. He
was one of the first soldiers to embark for
Cuba, and had the distinguished honor of
being the only Indiana volunteer in Gen-
eral Shaffer's entire army. In the bom-
bardment of El Paso Hill during the battle
of July 1st bcfVn-e Santiago he was disabled
by his h(irse rearing and falling backward
with and njion him as the result of a wound
from a Spanish shrapnel shell. The horse's
shoulder was wounded, several men were
killed nearby, and Col. Theodore Roosevelt
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sustained a slight wound from the same
shell. Captain English was crushed be-
neath the falling horse and was found to
be dangeroush- injured internally. Other
complications developed, and the army sur-
geons soon ordered his immediate removal
from Cuba. A short time before he left
the island the home newspapers in Indian-
apolis bulletined his death. After several
weeks of suffering and gradual recovery he
returned to Indianapolis, where he was
given a remarkable demonstration of wel-
come and personal esteem by various or-
ganizations, including the Veterans of the
Grand Army of the Kepublic. One token
which he especially appreciated was a jew-
eled officer's sword presented to him by
his brethren of the Masonic order, with the
words engraved upon it "As a token of his
services to his country." As a result of
his injury and continued illness Captain
English was given an extended sick leave,
and was granted his honorable discharge
on December 31, 1898. He declined to ac-
cept any pay for his services from the
government, and more than $1,000 were
returned to the Federal treasury. After
retiring from the United States army he
was honored by Governor Mount with the
appointment as paymaster general on the
staff of the governor, with the rank of colo-
nel. In 1900 he was appointed inspector
general, with the rank of colonel on the
staff of Governor Durbin and later as aide
de camp, with the rank of colonel, on the
staffs of Governor Hanly and Governor
Goodrich.
Captain English was one of the three
founders of the national association of the
United Spanish War Veterans, and was
elected its first commander in chief. He
gave to it the name which the association
bears. He was the first department com-
mander of Indiana of the association of
Spani.sh-American "War Veterans, and has
been vice commander of Indiana Com-
mandery, Military Order of Foreign Wars,
and senior vice commander in chief and
department commander of Indiana Com-
mandery of the Naval and Military Order
of the Spanish-American War. He is a
member of the Society of Veterans of For-
eign Wars, whose membership is confined to
soldiers who have personally served on for-
eign soil in time of war, and is a charter
member of the Society of the Army of
Santiago de Cuba, made up of soldiers who
served in the Santiago campaign. He also
commanded the division of Spanish War
Veterans in the inaugural parade when
Theodore Roosevelt became president of the
United States and was on the staff of the
chief marshal at the inauguration of Presi-
dent Taft. At the death of his old com-
mander, Gen. Joseph Wheeler, the latter 's
family selected Captain English as one of
the pall bearers at the military funeral in
Washington.
Captain English became interested in
military affairs at an early age. He was
one of the charter members of the Indian-
apolis Light Infantry and as a member of
the State Militia, he did active service
through the Coal Creek riots and on vari-
ous other occasions. The "William E.
English Guards,'" named in his honor, was
organized and mustered into the state serv-
ice ilay 16, 1886, and was the first colored
company in the state to enter the Indiana
National Guard. The William E. English
Zouaves of Indianapolis was likewise named
in his honor and for many years was one
of the crack organizations of its kind in the
Union. "Captain William E. English
Camp" No. 64 of the National Association
of Spanish-American War Veterans was
also named for him.
Captain English is one of the most emi-
nent Masons of Indiana, an authority on
its history and has filled the highest office
in the state, that of grand ma:ster of the
Grand Lodge of Indiana, from May 26,
1903, to May 24, 1904. He is a life mem-
ber of Indiana Consistory of the Scottish
Rite, in which he has attained the thirty-
second degree, is a member of the Shrine,
and has filled all the various chairs of pre-
siding officer in the different ilasonic
bodies of the York Rite. He is also past
grand exalted ruler of the Order of Elks of
the United States, and was the first exalted
ruler or presiding officer of Indianapolis
Lodge. Captain English is author of the
History of Early Masonry in Indiana, piih-
lished in 1902. That work may possibly
receive additions, but it constitutes an au-
thority in the main which will never be
supplanted.
Some of the many other interests thai
fill up the time of this busy Indianapolis
citizen may be gathered from the following
organizations of which he is a member:
Indianapolis Commercial Club (Chainber
of Commerce), of which he has served as
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president ; Indiana Society of the Sons of
the American Revolution of which he is an
ex-president; and an ex-vice president;
ex-president of the Indiana Society of Colo-
nial Wars ; vice president of the Indiana
Historical Society; vice president of the
Indianapolis Benevolent Society; vice
president of the Old Northwestern Genea-
logical Society.; member of the Society of
Cincinnati ; Huguenot Societj- of America ;
Holland Society of America ; Indiana So-
ciety of Chicago; Society of Indiana Pio-
neers; Western Writers Association; In-
dianapolis Bar Association ; Indianapolis
Art Association ; Indianapolis Board of
Trade ; Indianapolis Gun Club ; New York
Lambs Club; Army and Navy Club of
Washington ; Indianapolis University Club,
Columbia Club, Marion Club, Country
Club, Woodstock Club and Canoe Club.
He has also been made an honorary member
of three labor unions, Local No. 3, Indian-
apolis Musicians Protective Association,
Local No. 30, International Alliance of
Theatrical Stage Employees and Local No.
7,. International Alliance of Bill Porters
and Billers.
Captain English makes his permanent
home and legal residence at the Hotel Eng-
lish, Indianapolis, where he resides in a
handsome apartment of eleven rooms with
his only child, his daughter Miss Rosalind
English. They spend a great deal of time,
however, at their beautiful country resi-
dence "Englishton Park," the ancestral
home in Scott County, Indiana, which has
successively sheltered five generations of
the English family, and which comprises
some 800 acres within its boundaries.
Bert McBride is a native son of the Hoo-
sier state, and comes from sturdy Scotch
ancestors, who immigrated from Scotland
to this country in 1776 and settled on Fish-
ing Creek in South Carolina in 1780. The
battle between Colonel Tarleton, in com-
mand of the British, and General Gates, in
command of the American troops, was
fought on the land that they entered, and
losing all their property during this battle
they moved to Kentucky and later moved
to Rush County, Indiana, where Mr. Mc-
Bride was born.
The blood of his Scotch ancestry lias
evinced an unfailing initiative, independ-
ence, ability and determination which have
brought him both practical leadership and
the confidence of his associates. He re-
ceived his rudimentary education in the
district schools and later continued his
studies in the University of De Pauw at
Greencastle, Indiana.
He was born on a farm in Rush County
on the 20th day of February 1870, and is
a son of William P. and Clarissa (Kirk-
patrick) McBride, both being born in Rush
County, Indiana, and both being of ster-
ling pioneer families of Indiana. They
now maintain their home in Knightstown,
Indiana, where they live retired.
On June 9, 1892, Bert McBride was
united in marriage to Mary Amelia Widau,
who was bom in Dearborn County, In-
diana, her parents having moved to Rush
County when she was a child. They have
one child, Richard Eugene, born January
4, 1902.
Mr. McBride was for eighteen months
after his marriage in charge of the opera-
tion of his father's farm in Rush County.
He then moved to Knightstown, where he
was engaged in the carriage and farm im-
plement business as a wholesale and retail
dealer. He continued in this business until
1900, in which year he sold his interest in
Knightstown and moved to Indianapolis,
where he engaged in the real estate busi-
ness until the year 1905, at which time he
took charge of the real estate and insurance
department of the Security Trust ComT
pany. In 1906 he was elected secretary
of the Trust Company and a year later
elected to the presidency of the company,
in which office he continued until 1916,
when he resigned to accept the presidency
#f the Continental National Bank, one of
the leading financial institutions of the
state, and of which he is still president.
He is a member of the Ancient and Ac-
cepted Scottish Rite Masons and a mem-
ber of several social organizations. He
maintains his residence at 2012 North Dela-
ware Street.
WiLLi.\M J. Clune is president of M.
Clune & Company, furniture manufactur-
ers, an old established industry that has
been growing and prospering in Indian-
apolis for half a century and has been re-
sponsible for no small share of the credit
and prestige of this city as a manufactur-
ing center.
The founder of the business was the late
iliehael Clune, who was in fact one of the
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2163
pioneers to enter the field of manufactur-
ing at Indianapolis. He was born in
County Clare, Ireland, and all his people
were of the farming class. When he was
five years of age his parents came to the
United States and located near Browns-
burg, Indiana, where he attended school
and grew to manhood. In 1864: he came
to Indianapolis and began the manufacture
of mattresses. He had a very small shop,
and his industry was not one calculated to
attract much attention. Gradually he took
up the upholstering of furniture, lounges,
and davenports, and gradually developed
a general furniture manufacturing estab-
lishment, the growth of which kept pace
with the development of Indianapolis as a
city. For many years the establishment
has been located at 1402 South Meridian
Street. Michael Clune seemed to have the
faculty of making all his business affairs
prosper. The surplus from his manufac-
turing he invested in real estate, and as a
rule all his investments were made with a
view to permanency, so that he could
hardly be called a speculator. His business
interests and his character made him a nat-
ural leader in public affairs and much con-
cerned with everything that aft'ected the
welfare of his home community. For many
years he was prominent in the democratic
party. The old Twenty-Fourth Ward prac-
ticall.y regarded his word as law and gos-
pel for man}' years. When the democratic
party went astraj% as he believed during
Brvan's time, he turned from his allegiance
and was an equally fervid supporter of
republican success after that. While he
was a man of very positive character, he
was regarded by all his friends as liberal
in views and extremely generous and chari-
table. The death of this worthy old time
citizen of Indianapolis occurred in June,
1914, when he was seventy-one years of age.
He married Cecilia Curran, who was born
in Ireland and is still living. The family
were active members of Sts. Peter and Paul
Cathedral. They were the parents of the
following children : William J. ; Anna, wife
of John R. Walsh, of Detroit ; Cecilia, wife
of JIartin McDermott, treasurer of M.
Clune & Company; Mary, wife of Walter
R. Shiel, of Indianapolis; Tim, who died
in 1912, at the age of twenty-nine ; Dan, liv-
ing in New York ; and Joseph, of Indian-
apolis.
William J. Clune was born at Indian-
apolis April 11, 1870, and finished his edu-
cation at St. Viator's College at Kankakee,
Illinois, graduating in 1887. He returned
home to help his father in business and
was actively associated with him until the
close of his life. He learned furniture
manufacturing in every detail, and was
well qualified to succeed his father as presi-
dent of M. Clune & Company. The output
of this factory is distributed over many
of the eastern states as well as throughout
the Central West.
Mr. Clune is a democrat and he and his
family are members of Sts. Peter and
Paul's Cathedral. He married Miss Clare
Langsencamp, daughter of William Lang-
sencamp. To their marriage have been
born four children: Elizabeth, Dorothy,
Rose Mary and Clarence.
John H. Dellingee represents the
sturdy and progressive agricultural ele-
ment in Southern Indiana, his family were
pioneers in Clark County, and he gave
practically all his active years to farming
until he was called to the duties and re-
sponsibilities of the office of sheriff of
Clark County, a position in which he is
now serving.
The Dellinger family originated in Ger-
many, but were identified with some of the
early emigrations from the German states
to America. A number of generations ago
thf family located in North Carolina.
Sheriff Dellinger 's grandfather was Capt.
John Dellinger, a native of North Carolina.
He served with the rank of captain in the
War of 1812. Later he joined the pioneer
settlers near Utica in Clark County, In-
diana, and followed farming there the rest
of his life. He- married Barbara Bolinger,
who was also a native of North Carolina
and died in Clark County, Indiana.
Henry Dellinger, father of the present
sheriff, was born near Jeffersonville, In-
diana, in 1824. He spent all his life as a
farmer, and died on his farm three miles
east of Jeffersonville January 16, 1903.
He became a republican in polities and was
a member of the Biptist Church. Heni'v
Dellinger married Claudine M. Clark, who
was born at Pulton, Ohio, in 1843, and is
now living with her son John. She was the
mother of two sons, John H. and William.
The latter was a farmer and merchant and
died at Solon, Indiana.
John Henry Dellinger was born near
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Jeffersonville December 29, 1861. He had
a country school education, graduated from
the Jefifersonville High School in 1884, at-
tended Hanover College one year, and in
1886 took a business course at New Albany.
He then took up the vocation to which he
had been trained as a boy, and for thirty
years was a practical farmer. He still
owns the old homestead three miles east of
Jeffersonville, comprising 155 acres, a well
improved grain and stock farm.
Mr. Dellinger was elected sheriff of
Clark County in 1916 and entered upon
the duties of his office for a term of two
years in 1918. He is a republican and was
elected on that ticket, and is a member
of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He is
affiliated with Utica Lodge No. 331, Ancient
Free and Accepted Masons, and for the
past fifteen years has been clerk of Ivanhoe
Camp No. 3951, Modern Woodmen of
America, at Utica. He is also a member
of the college fraternity Phi Delta Theta.
Mr. Dellinger married in Clark County
in 1887 Miss Mary E. Lentz, daughter of
Lewis Lentz. Her father was born at
Utica in 1831, but spent most of his life
in Kentucky as a farmer. He was also
a local magistrate there twenty-five years
and was president of a roads corporation.
He died at St. Matthews, Kentucky, in
1893. Lewis Lentz married Mary E. Parks,
who spent all her life at St. Matthews, Ken-
tucky. Mr. and Mrs. Dellinger are the
parents of four children : Emily May is
the wife of George Schlosser a farmer near
Jeffersonville ; John Sherman now manages
the homestead farm; Clark and Mildred
Leone are both at home, the former a
sophomore and the latter a junior in the
Jeffersonville High School.
James M. Stoddard, M. D. For the past
dozen years the City of Anderson has had
no more capable and thoroughly qualified
physician and surgeon than Dr. James M.
Stoddard, and it was both with regret and
patriotic pride that the community saw
him leave his private practice to accept
service with the United States government.
On August 30, 1917, he was commissioned
a captain in the medical section of the Offi-
cers Reserve Corps, and on January 2,
1918, he began a preliminary course of
training in the treatment of infected
wounds at the Rockefeller Institute at New
York.
He is a native of Indiana, born at Lin-
den, Montgomery County, May 6, 1878,
son of Orren and Arminta (Montgomery)
Stoddard. His father was also a physi-
cian, but prior to that time nearly all the
generations of which there is record were
substantial farming people. The Stoddards
are English and the Montgomerys also, and
it was for this branch of the Montgomery
family that ilontgomery County, Indiana,
was named. Doctor Stoddard's great-
grandfather in one of the lines was George
Pogue, the first settler at Indianapolis, for
whom the noted Pogue 's Run was named,
and a son of General Pogue, a leader and
officer in the Revolutionary war. Doctor
Stoddard has a most interesting memento
of this pioneer Indiana ancestor in a pair
of wrought iron scissors which were ham-
mered out by the sturdy blacksmith Pogue
in his own forge.
Doctor Stoddard grew up and received
his early education at that picturesque town
on the banks of the "Wabash in Sullivan
County, Merom, and in 1896 he graduated
from the Union Christian College of that
town. From there he entered Wabash Col-
lege in the .junior class, graduating Bache-
lor of Science in 1898. He spent a year in
post-graduate work and in the preparatory
medical course, and was Baldwin prize ora-
tor at Wabash. He was also assistant in
the biological laboratory. In 1900 he en-
tered the Indiana iledical College at In-
dianapolis, where he was graduated M. D.
in 1902. He served one year as interne in
the Protestant Deaconess Hospital, and for
a year was also laboratory and surgical
assistant to the noted Dr. W. W. Wishard
of Indianapolis.
With the thorough training and qualifi-
cations implied in the above outlined pre-
liminarj^ work, Doctor Stoddard began
private practice in 1903 at Kennard, Henry
County, Indiana, but in 1905 removed to
Anderson, where he soon built up a very
gratifying general practice as a physician
and surgeon. In 1912 he served as coroner
of Madison County, having been appointed
by the Board of Commissioners to succeed
Dr. Charles Trueblood. Doctor Stoddard
owns a farm of eighty acres in Sullivan
County, Indiana, but has never been able
to give it any of his personal supervision.
He is affiliated with the Modern Woodmen
of America and is a member of the Central
Christian Church.
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2165
In 1904 he married Ruby E. Palmer,
daughter of John M. and Addie M. (Jes-
sup) Pahner. Her father for many years
was an Anderson merchant. Doctor and
Mrs. Stoddard have one child, Palmer, born
in 1911.
Hart F. Faewell, president of the Citi-
zens Independent Telephone Company of
Terre Haute, is one of the most prominent
men in the independent telephone move-
ment of the United States today, and has
been identified with that movement from
its inception. An interesting bit of statis-
tics regarding the telephone industry is
afforded by Mr. Farwell's statement that
when he undertook to organize his first in-
dependent telephone company in Illinois
there wei-e only 400,000 telephones in the
United States, while today the number of
instruments in use over the United States
approximately is 13,000,000. One of the
principal causes of that growth has of
course been the normal development of the
telephone industry, the appreciation of its
indispensable services to business and social
needs, and the increase in population, but
aside from that those who have any first
hand knowledge of the development of the
telephone during the past twenty-five years
appreciate that the biggest single stimulus
was the so-called ' ' independent movement ' '
which shook the old established telephone
interests out of their sloth and conserva-
tism and actually made the telephone pop-
ular and a thing of the people instead of a
rather exclusive adjunct of business and
the densely populated cities.
Mr. Farwell, though a native of Illinois,
and a resident of Terre Haute only since
1906, has an interesting connection with
the city going back to pioneer times. His
maternal grandfather, Hart Fellows, is
said to have arrived in Terre Haute about
the year 1823. Two sisters also came with
him at the same time. Hart Fellows re-
mained only a brief time in Terre Haute
before he moved over the line into Illinois.
Hart F. Farwell was born at Frederick,
Illinois, March 17, 1861, a son of Maro and
Ann (Fellows) Farwell, the former a na-
tive of New Hampshire and the latter of
Illinois. Hart F. Farwell was their only
child. He spent his boyhood in his native
village and attended grammar and high
school at Farmer City, Illinois.
His father was a merchant and the bov
gained a thorough knowledge of merchan-
dising by work in the store until he was
about twenty years old. He then removed
to Astoria. Illinois, where he engaged in
the hardware business for himself and
where he remained imtil 1895. It was in
that year that he sold out his store and
entered the independent telephone field, or-
ganizing a company at Astoria and extend-
ing the lines to Peoria, where he organized
another company to put in a local exchange
in that city. After that Mr. Farwell did a
general telephone brokerage business. He
then bought the_ independent telephone in-
terests at Bloomington, Illinois, and with
the growth and development of this com-
pany, which has since bought out several
other companies, he is still identified and is
vice president of the Bloomington corpora-
tion. In 1912 he became president of the
Citizens Independent Telephone Company
of Terre Haute. He is now one of the
prominent officials in three of the larger
independent telephone companies, the
Wabash Valley Kinloch, the Bloomington
and the Terre Haute. He is also a director
in the United States Independent Tele-
phone Association. As head of the Terre
Haute company he has about 400 people di-
rectly under his management and supervi-
sion.
Mr. Farwell is a thirty-second degree
Scottish Rite Mason and Mystic Shriner,
and is affiliated with Terre Haute Lodge
No. 86 of the Benevolent and Protective
Order of Elks. In 1883 he married Miss
Belle Bonnell, daughter of Henry Bonnell
of Griggsville, Illinois. They have three
children, ilaro, Hubert and Kate.
Hon. Arthur R. Robinson, prominent
lawyer and present state senator at In-
dianapolis, has had that kind of career
which is most significant of American man-
hood and virility, and is not only a credit
to him but is a source of onlightened citi-
zenship to the community and state.
A native of Ohio, Mr. Robinson was born
in the Village of Pickerington, Fairfield
County. His father, John F. Robinson,
and his grandfather, Jacob Robinson, were
blacksmiths by trade. Jacob Robinson
fought as a soldier in the Mexican war.
Losing his father early in life, Arthur
R. Robinson became the chief support of
his widowed mother, who is still living in
the house where Mr. Robinson was born.
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He managed to attend the high school at
Pickerington, but at the same time was
working for a living by selling papers,
clerking in a store and accepting every
other employment that promised an honest
dollar.
His proficiency and progress in his
studies are amply testified to by the fact
that at the age of fourteen he passed the
examination for a teacher's certificate. At
sixteen he was teaching a term of district
school. Unable to see a future in teaching,
he returned to clerking and was in a local
store about four years. At the age of nine-
teen he entered the Ohio Normal, now the
Ohio Northern University, at Ada, and a
year later was granted the degree Bachelor
of Commercial Science.
One of the important events of his life
occurred at Ada, where he met Miss Frieda
Elfers, also a student at the University.
On December 27, 1901, when she was seven-
teen and he twent.v, they were married.
After his marriage Mr. Robin.son went to
Columbus, Ohio, and was a resident of that
city four years. Having considerable origi-
nality and a sense of practical artistry, he
became a window decorator, and for the
last two years of his stay at Columbus had
charge of the advertising, show card writ-
ing and nearly all the management of one
of the large stores of that city.
The direct outgrowth of his experience
at Columbus was an opportunity to em-
bark in general publicity work for an edu-
cational institution. His services were ac-
quired by the International Textbook Com-
pany of Scranton. His work was so much
appreciated that he was made division su-
perintendent at Indianapolis, and was ad-
vanced in both a monetary and official way
until when only twenty-five years of age he
was being paid over $5,000 a year.
It is impossible for a man like Senator
Robinson to remain in the rut of routine
performance. While working for the In-
ternational Textbook Company he was
studying law, and in 1908 entered the In-
diana Law School, where he was graduated
LL. B. and was valedictorian of his class in
1910. About the time of his graduation he
was offered the position of assistant general
manager of the company. To fill this place
would have required his moving away from
Indianapolis, but he had fully made up his
mind to become a permanent resident of
the capital City of Indiana. However, he
did accept conditionally the offer, but re-
tained his home in Indianapolis. Mean-
while he was finishing a liberal education
in the University of Chicago, from which
he has the degree Ph. B. given in 1913.
In 1910 ilr. Robinson organized the law
firm of Robinson, Symmes & Marsh at In-
dianapolis. Since 1915 this has been the
firm of Robinson & Symmes, with a valu-
able share of the law practice of the capi-
tal city. Since 1913 Mr. Robinson has
given his entire attention to the practice
of law with the exception of the time spent
in the World war. Those most familiar
with him know ]\Ir. Robinson as the liver
of the strenuous life and a man who has
never failed in any important undertaking.
He enlisted in the first Officers' Training
Camp at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana,
May 10, 1917, was commissioned First Lieu-
tenant of Infantry August 15, 1917, as-
signed to the Three Hundred and Thirty-
Fourth Infantry, Eighty-Fourth Division
at Camp Zachary Taylor, Kentucky, Au-
gust 27, 1917, was promoted to Captain of
Infantry, December 31, 1917, and sailed
for France via Southampton, England,
September 1, 1918. He was transferred to
the Thirty-Ninth Infantry, Fourth Divi-
sion, November 10, 1918 ; joined the Thirty-
Ninth Infantry at Commercy, France, and
marched into the American Army of Occu-
pation Area near Coblenz, Germany, with
this organization. At present (May 1,
1919) he is a captain, commanding Head-
quarters Company, Thirty-Ninth Infantry,
American Army of Occupation, stationeil
at Rolandseck on the Rhine, Germany.
In 1914 he was elected state senator on
the republican ticket. His abilities brought
him into prominence in the Senate, and he
was floor leader during the sessions of 1914:-
15 and 1916-17. Senator Robinson has
been continuousl_y in demand as a public
speaker. He has high and stimulating
ideals of the responsibility of a capable citi-
zen in political affairs, and feels that the
great need of the times is an unselfish in-
terest and working in politics. Senator
Robinson is a Methodist, a Knight Templar
and thirty-second degree Scottish Rite
Mason, a member of the Mystic Shrine,
and is also affiliated with the Knights of
Pythias, the Benevolent and Protective
Order of Elks and various other fraterni-
ties. ' He belongs to the Columbia and Mar-
ion clubs and the Indianapolis and Indiana
INDIANA AND INDIANANS
2167
Bar associations. Senator and Mrs. Robin-
son have three children, named Arthur
Raymond, Willard Elfers and Catherine
Caroline.
James il. Gossom, present mayor of
Terre Haute, has been active in business
and politics in that city for a number of
years. In politics he has never been a sel-
fish seeker for the honors or rewards of
office, and his work has been done largely
to aid his friends and the cause of good
government. Those who have known him
longest and best speak of him as frank,
fearless and ready to fight for any cause
that he believes to be right and just.
Mayor Gosson was born in Edmonson
County, Kentucky, July 24, 1875, a son of
"W". G. and ilary Emma (Jordan) Gossom.
His father was a native of "Warren County
and his mother of Barren County, Ken-
tucky, and both of them died in that state.
Of their six children five grew to maturity,
three daughters and two sons, James M.
being the fifth in age.
Left an orphan at an early time, he re-
ceived most of his education at the hands
of Sisters of Charity in St. Columbia Acad-
emy. On March 17, 1898, he left Ken-
tuekj' and the following day arrived at
Paris, Illinois, where he secured a job as a
farm hand at $18 a month. In 1899 he re-
turned to Kentucky and then for a year
worked the old homestead, but soon re-
turned to Paris and was again on a farm
for several months. Bi;t farming did not
offer advantages sufficient to keep him per-
manently in that business. For about five
months he was employed by a wholesale no-
tion house of Chicago, later became assist-
ant manager of a business, and then en-
tered the services of the Nelson Morris
Packing Company of Chicago. For this
firm he came to Terre Haute, and for seven
years was their city salesman. Mr. Gossom
next entered the employ of the Indiana
^lining Company, where for about four
years he was foreman. While there he
lost his right hand in the mill machinery
and this compelled him to seek a different
branch of business.
About that time he was elected county
commissioner, but failed to qualify for the
office. He was appointed to the office of
city comptroller, and with the removal of
■Mayor Roberts from office he was appointed
in his stead and has since had the execu-
tive direction of the municipal government
of Terre Haute. In March, 1917, he was
nominated for another term. He has al-
ways been a stanch and active democrat.
Mr. Gossom married in 1900 Jessie Sal-
lee. They have five children, four daugh-
ters and one son: Allie Bell, Lita S., Lulu
Muriel, Mary Emma and Don Roberts.
Charles Elmer Goodell, a prominent
educator, well known in Indiana and in
other states, has his home at Franklin, and
for a number of years was connected with
Franklin College. He came to the city as
a student of the college in 1885 and was
graduated in the classical course with the
degree of A. B., and also did post-graduate
work. In 1889-90 he taught at Franklin
College in the modern language depart-
ment. Practically his entire life has been
devoted to teaching and the broader phases
of education.
Mr. Goodell was born at Washburn, Illi-
nois, in 1862, son of Harrison and Mary
(Taylor) Goodell. His father was a farmer
near Peoria and died there in 1877, being
a man of considerable prominence in his
locality and holding several local positions.
This is a branch of the Goodell family
which has a number of prominent connec-
tions. Some of the notable men who claim
kin with the original Goodell stock are for-
mer President Taft, Dr. Herbert John-
son, a prominent Baptist clergj'man of
Boston ; Dr. C. L. Goodell, a well-known
ilethodist divine of Brooklyn, New York,
and William Goodell Frost, President of
Berea College in Kentucky.
Mary Taylor Goodell, mother of Doctor
Goodell, was born in Kentucky in 1824,
daughter of Thomas Taylor, a prominent
Baptist clergyman in Illinois from 1830 to
1854. The Taylor family lived at Hart-
ford, near Springfield, Illinois. She be-
longed to the Virginia family of Taylors,
including President Zachary Taylor in its
membership. Mary Taylor Goodell is still
living, nearly ninety-five years old, at Bed-
ford, Indiana.
Professor Goodell acquired his high
school education at ^lankato, Jlinnesota.
After leaving Franklin College in 1890 he
entered Cornell University and pursued
post-graduate courses in history and polit-
ical science in 1892, and acquired the de-
gree of Master of Arts from Cornell. In
May, 1918, Colgate University honored him
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with the degree of Doctor of Laws. After
completing his work in Cornell he returned
to Mankato as principal of the high school,
but two j'ears later came again to Franklin
College as professor of history. He held
that chair until 1900. During a well-earned
leave of absence until 1900 he was a Fel-
low in Political Science at the University of
Chicago. Following that he was for three
years . connected with the faculty of the
State Agricultural College at Manhattan,
Kansas, and in 1903 took up his work at
Denison University in Ohio. He was ac-
tively identified with Denison fourteen
years, being registrar and dean of the sum-
mer school. In July, 1917, he was ap-
pointed successor to Doctor Hanley, presi-
dent of Franklin College. Thus he is again
with the institution in which he has al-
ways had a keen interest and from which
he was graduated.
Along with teaching and school adminis-
tration Mr. Goodell has done much public
speaking, and there is a great demand for
his services in this field. He is a member
of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity, and was
instrumental in securing a charter of the
Phi Delta Theta for Denison University.
In August, 1890, he married Miss Laura
B. Ogle, of Indianapolis, daughter of Rev.
Albert and Mary (Cotton) Ogle. Her
parents were both born near near Vevay,
Indiana. Her father lives in Indianapolis.
He held three important pastorates in the
state and is best known for his work as
general superintendent of State Missions
for the Baptist Church of Indiana, a posi-
tion he held for nineteen years. He is still
active at the age of eighty, and for the
last ten years has been superintendent of
finances and treasurer of the Fii-st Baptist
Church at Indianapolis. Mr. Ogle sprang
from that famous English family of Ogle
that gave two admirals to the fleet of the
English navy and two governors to the
State of Maryland. Mrs. Goodell 's mother,
Mary J. (Cotton) Ogle, who died in Janu-
ary, 1919, was granddaughter of Judge
William Cotton of Vevay, Indiana. Judge
Cotton was a member of Indiana's first
Constitutional Convention and was a mem-
ber of fourteen of tlie first sixteen legisla-
tive assemblies of the state, and was also
the first federal judge of Indiana. Mrs.
Ogle's grandfather on her maternal side
was John Gilliland, a civil engineer, who
was one of the state eommissionei's that se-
lected Indianapolis as a site for the new
state capital and made the first plat of the
city.
Mr. and 'Sirs. Goodell have two sons,
Charles Lawrence, born in Franklin, In-
diana, Jlay 12, 1895, and Robert Taylor,
born at Indianapolis March 20, 1898.
Charles Lawrence gave up his studies as
a sophomore in Denison University in the
spring of 1917 to go into business at In-
dianapolis. A short time later he enlisted
in the Naval Radio Reserve, took his train-
ing in the Gi-eat Lakes Naval Station, was
transferred to the Ordnance Department
and is now Merchant Marine Quartermas-
ter Customs Naval Inspector at Geneva,
Ohio. Robert Taylor Goodell took his aca-
demic training in Doane Academy of Deni-
son University and is now in Franklin, In-
diana.
Hilary Edwin B.\con, owner of a large
department store in Evansville, is a suc-
cessful and it may be said a typical Ameri-
can business man, thorough, methodical,
broad-minded, public spirited and with
many interests that make him valuable to
the community, though essentially one of
its quiet and most modest members.
He was born November 6, 1851, at Roar-
ing Springs, Trigg Count.y, Kentucky, of a
fine old Southern family, his father,
Charles Asbury Bacon, having been born
in Virginia and his mother, Margaret (Gib-
son) Bacon was a native of Alabama. He
grew up on a Kentucky farm, attended
country school, and left business college
at Evansville to enter the dry goods busi-
ness. The large department store of which
he is proprietor is in the nature of an evo-
lution of his own abilities and progress
from 3'oung manhood to the present. He is
also a director of the Citizens National
Bank and the Morris Plan Bank. Politi-
cally he is classed as a liberal democrat,
voting for the best man and the best meas-
ures of the time regardless of party. He is
on the official board of the Trinity Metho-
dist Episcopal Church.
October 11, 1888, he married Miss Albion
Fellows, daughter of Rev. Albion and Mary
(Erskine) Fellows. The sketch of Mrs.
Bacon as one of the prominent Indiana,
women of the present generation is pub-
lished on other pages of this publication.
INDIANA AND INDIANANS
2169
Mr. and Mrs. Bacon had four children:
ilargaret, deceased ; Albion, wife of George
D. Smith; and Joy and Hilary, twins.
Public Savings Insurance Company of
America is one of several prominent in-
surance organizations whose home is in In-
diana. It has already developed an exten-
sive business in ordinary and industrial in-
surance, and is the only company of its
kind in Indiana covering these two lines.
It was organized January 1, 1910, start-
ing out with a capital of $100,000. In 1911
this was increased to $289,010, which is its
present paid up capital.
The first president of the company was
H. Thomas Head, the fii'st secretary-treas-
urer was Charles W. Folz, and the first
vice president, Lawrence G. Cummins.
The first medical director was Dr. M. C.
Leeth. In 1917 Mr. Head retired as presi-
dent and was succeeded by Dr. Carl G.
Winter. In 1911 Mr. Cummins was suc-
ceeded by William F. Fox as vice presi-
dent.
Gustavus Schurmann, remembered b.y
man}- of the citizens of Indiana, and par-
ticularly Indianapolis, was christened John
Melchior Gustavus Schurraann. It is with-
in the bonds of moderation to speak of him
as one of the most eminent foreign born
citizens who had their home at Indian-
apolis. He died in that city October 4,
1870. The impress of his life and works
can be traced in Indianapolis commerce
and real estate today.
America received a priceless gift of citi-
zenship in the thousands of high spirited
Germans who were driven out of their na-
tive country and came to this land of free-
dom during the late '40s. Among those
who thoroughly represented the wealth and
social station of the Fatherland Gustavus
Schurmann was one. He was born at
Eilpa, near Hagen in Westphalia, Ger-
many, on Christmas day, 1811. His father
was a well-to-do cloth manufacturer. Gus-
tavus was liberally educated, and when a
young man took up the manufacture of
broadcloth at Aix-la-Chapelle, this being
his father's occupation. Eventually he op-
erated one of the largest establishments of
its kind in Prussia, a factory that pro-
duced broadcloth and woollen blankets. His
intellectual pursuits were varied. He mar-
ried in Germany and became the father of
two children by this wife, who died in the
old country.
It is highly significant that Gustavus
Schurmann, though a man of considerable
property, had an active sympathy with the
movement toward democracy in the Ger-
man provinces and staunchly aligned him-
self with those who brought this movement
to the circle of the revolution in 1848.
Many thousands of aspiring young Ger-
mans had expatriated themselves after the
collapse of the revolution, but Gustavus
Schurmann had to do even more, he had to
sacrifice much of the wealth which he had
accumulated. From Antwerp he took pas-
sage on a sailing vessel bound for America,
landing in New York after seven stormy
weeks. He went fii'st to Washington and
then to Virginia, and in this state he mar-
ried Catharine Bengels, who had come to
America on the same vessel that brought
Mr. Schurmann.
The capital he had brought from
the old country, made him a fortune.
About 1850 he came west, locating in Louis-
ville, Kentucky, where he soon acquired
considerable property. One of his charac-
teristics was his undaunted faith in Amer-
ican investments. At one time when Louis-
ville citizens were offering their properties
for sale at a sacrifice on the Court House
steps, he invested freely and placed a large
share of his surplus in local properties
which subsequently redeemed themselves
and proved the validity of his .judgment.
While at Louisville he also acquired inter-
ests in the Louisville & Nashville, the old
J. M. & I. and the Little Miami and other
railway properties.
He was a keen and eager student of
American life and institutions. Indianap-
olis appeared to him as a cit.v of commer-
cial possibilities and as a home town, and
later he bought the property at the north-
west corner of New York and Meridian
streets, on which stood one of the first brick
dwelling houses in Indianapolis. During
the early '50s he came to Indianapolis to
make this his permanent home, and there-
after steadily devoted himself to his grow-
ing business interests. Gustavus Schur-
mann, as this record indicates, was a man
of wonderful capacity and of varied
knowledge and adaptability. He supplied
much capital and also his individual
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strength of judgment to many of the com-
mercial enterprises at Indianapolis. He
was also one of the founders of Oil City,
Pennsylvania. At the time of his death
he was regarded as one of the largest real
estate owners in this city.
With all his wealth he was extremely
charitable. He contributed liberally of his
means to the support of benevolent and
charitable concerns. Especially during the
Civil war his patriotism displayed itself
in generous contributions to the Union. He
was the largest individual contributor in
Indianapolis of money and means to the
cause. From first to last he had implicit
faith in the North, in the justice of its
stand and in the inevitable issue of the
conflict. He was a Protestant in religion,
and in politics had no active part so far
as ofSce holding was concerned. His wife
died at Indianapolis April 11, 1858. Their
four sons and one daughter were named
Alphonso, Charles, Emma, Edward, and
Henry. Charles died December 22, 1911.
Alphonso, who married Emma Baunach,
lived in New York and died May 11, 1919.
He has two children surviving him, named
Edward and Clifford. Charles married
Maria H. Jones, who had been principal of
the Sixth Ward School in Indianapolis, and
of their two children, Howard and Helen,
the latter is now deceased. Emma married
Edward Schurmann, a cousin, and is now
living near Dresden, Saxony. The son
Henry was born April 7, 1858, was edu-
cated in this country and abroad, married
Eva L. Smock January 12, 1881, and lives
in Indianapolis.
Edward Schurmann was born at Indian-
apolis May 2, 1856. He received his first
advantages in the local schools of this city,
but at the age of fourteen was sent abroad
to Germany, where he attended private
school at Dresden, also Leipsic University,
and coming back to his native land pur-
sued special courses in chemistry and lan-
guages at Harvard University. Mr. Schur-
mann is a widely traveled citizen of In-
dianapolis. He has been abroad many
times for pleasure, and he knows European
life and conditions almost as well as those
of his native country. After his education
he engaged in the art glass business at
Indianapolis. He has interested himself in
many movements for civic improvement
and betterment. He married Lida E.
Heaton.
Joseph H. Weinstein, M. D. Combin-
ing the services of father and son there
has been a Weinstein engaged in the prac-
tice of medicine and surgery in Terre
Haute for forty years. Both representa-
tives of the name have gained distinction
in the field of surgery, and Dr. Joseph H.
Weinstein might be named with the ablest
men in that branch of the profession in In-
diana.
His father was the late Dr. Leo J. Wein-
stein, who died at Terre Haute in 1909.
He was born at Covington, Kentucky, Jan-
uary 19, 1848. His father, Joseph Wein-
stein, was a native of Russia and his mother
of Germany. Doctor Leo was six years old
when his mother died and eleven at the
death of his father, and was thus early
thrown upon his own resources. Possess-
ing rather more than average abil-
ity and ample courage and enterprise to
adapt himself to circumstances, he man-
aged to acquire considerable schooling in
Cincinnati, Covington, Kentucky, and Day-
ton, Ohio, and all the time was working
out the problems of his existence. Though
very young at the time, he was handling
a small clothing business at Pana, Illinois,
while the Civil war was in progress. While
at Pana he began the study of medicine
under Doctor Huber, later studied under
Dr. J. H. Leal at Bement, Illinois, and
during 1867-68 was a student in Rush ]Med-
ical College in Chicago. He began prac-
tice as an under graduate in Piatt County,
Illinois. In 1874 he graduated M. D. from
Miami Medical College at Cincinnati.
Early in 1878 Dr. Leo Weinstein moved to-
Terre Haute, where his abilities and tal-
ents soon gained him recognition and
brought him a large and profitable practice.
In 1894 he went abroad, and was a student
of the advanced methods and of some of
the great physicians and surgeons of Lon-
don and Edinburgh. Dr. Leo Weinstein as
a specialist in gynecology was for a num-
ber of years on the medical staff of the
Union Hospital at Terre Haute, which he
with Doctor Young, and Doctor Swafford
established. He retired several years be-
fore his death. He was a member and at
one time president of the Aesculapian ■
Medical Society of the Wabash Valley, and
also a member of the Vigo County and In-
diana State Medical Societies and the
American Medical Association. He was
also a figure in local politics as a republi-
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2171
can. In 1887-89 he represented his home
ward in the City Council, became secretary
of the Terre Haute Board of Health in
1884, and was secretary of the County
Board of Health from 1887 to 1889. In
1902 he was elected a member of the Vigo
County Council, and during his two terms
of service was president of the council.
The Wabash Bridge and the Glenn Orphan
Home were built while he was president.
He was a Mason and Odd Fellow and a
member of the First Congregational Church
of Terre Haute.
December 25, 1866, Dr. Leo Weinstein
married Miss Thirza B. Hamilton, who was
born in Vigo County, Indiana, and is still
living at Terre Haute. Her father, Joshua
B. Hamilton, was a pioneer physician of
the county. Dr. Leo Weinstein and wife
had three children : Carrie L., wife of John
V. Barker ; Alice E., wife of Alexander G.
Cavins, of Indianapolis ; and Joseph H.
Dr. Joseph H. Weinstein was born near
Monticello, Piatt County, Illinois, July 16,
1876, and was two years of age when his
parents moved to Terre Haute. In that
city he acquired his early education in the
grammar and high schools, afterwards for
a time was a student of medicine and den-
tistry at Chicago, attending Kush ^Medical
College, also studied privately under his
father, and in 1897 graduated from his
father's alma mater, Miami Medical Col-
lege at Cincinnati. He became associated
with his father in practice at Terre Haute,
and gradually assumed practically all the
business of the firm. After the death of
his father he was associated with several
men of his profession. Doctor Weinstein
has accepted every opportunity to associate
himself with the eminent men of his pro-
fession, went abroad in 1905, attending
clinics and medical courses at Berlin,
Vienna, and London, and before returning
to Terre Haute was a resident student of
the New York Polyclinic for a time. For
a number of years he has been gynecologist
of the Union Hospital staff at Terre Haute,
and is a member of the Aescnlapian j\Ied-
ical Society, the State Medical Association,
and the American iledical Association. He
also is affiliated with the Independent Or-
der of Odd Fellows, and with Lodge No.
86 of the Benevolent and Protective Order
of Elks. In a business way he was vice
•president of the Fonts Hunter Manufac-
turing Company of Terre Haute.
In 1898 Doctor Weinstein married Anna
51. Hunter, daughter of Col. W. R. and
Callie Hunter, both now deceased. They
have one daughter, Marion, who attended
Goucher College at Baltimore for two
years, after which she served in the medi-
cal department of the army, as laboratory
technician, at Rockefeller Institute, New
York City.
Dr. Joseph H. Weinstein was given a cap-
taincy in the Medical Corps of the army,
and assigned to duty for special course of
instruction at the Presbyterian Hospital in
Chicago, May 4, 1918. From there he was
sent to Camp Logan, Houston, Texas, where
he was transferred to and made chief of
surgery in Base Hospital Eighty-Six, sail-
ing September 1st, 1918, for France. This
Base, located at Mesnes, is the largest hos-
pital center of its kind in the world.
BuRTis Paul Thom.vs, City Engineer
of LaPorte, has spent all his life in LaPorte
County, is a practical civil engineer and
surveyor, and his name and career serve to
introduce • a number of well known fam-
ilies of that part of the state.
Mr. Thomas was born in Scipio Town-
ship, a few miles south of LaPorte, June
29, 1874. His great-grandfather was a
relative of the Daniel Boone family, and
was born in Buncombe County, North Car-
olina. He moved across the mountains and
became an early settler of Kentucky,
where he married. Later he established a
home in Jennings County, Indiana, and
was there in time to live with and be ac-
quainted with many of the Indians and In-
dian chiefs. He was a real frontiersman,
and was completely at home in the wild
life of that section. An expert hunter, he
practically supplied his table with wild
meat all the year. He also improved a
good farm from the wilderness, and con-
tinued his residence there until his death.
His son, Elias C. Thomas, grandfather of
the LaPorte civil engineer, was born in
Jennings County and though his boyhood
was spent in a time when schools were
meagerly equipped, he made such good use
of his opportunities that he was able to
teach and conducted some of the pioneer
subscription schools in the log cabins of
his locality. He also became very profi-
cient in using the old fashioned implement
known as the frow in making shingles.
After his marriage he moved to Jefferson
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INDIANA AND INDIANANS
County, Indiana, renting land seven miles
from Madison, and lived there until 1844.
That was the year when the Thomas fam-
ily became established in LaPorte County.
From the southern part of the state they
came north by wagon and teams, since
there was practically no other method of
transportation. They also brought along
two cows. They were on the road sixteen
days, and on arriving they found LaPorte
a small village. The head of the family
used his team to haul and transport goods
and various commodities for a time, and
later rented land in Kankakee Township
and continued the life of a farmer until
his death at the age of sixty-two. He mar-
ried Caroline Patton. She was a native of
North Carolina. Her father, Houston Pat-
ton, a native of the same state, came to In-
diana as a pioneer in Jefferson County, im-
proved a farm there, and in 1844 he also
came to LaPorte County and bought land
that is now included in the Fair Grounds.
Houston Patton was an active farmer un-
til after the death of his wife, when he re-
tired to LaPorte and lived with his son, dy-
ing at the advanced age of eighty years.
He married a Miss Cunningham. Caroline
Patton Thomas died when about sixty
years of age. Her nine children were
Frank, Davidson, Joseph A., Thomas J.,
Andrew, Elizabeth, Lizzie, John M., and
Silas A.
Joseph A. Thomas, father of Burtis
Paul, was born in Jefferson County, In-
diana, October 12, 1842, and was in his sec-
ond year when the family came to LaPorte
County. He attended the pioneer schools
here, and after reaching manhood became
associated with his father and brother in
farming. In May, 1864, he enlisted in
Company B of the One Hundred Thirty-
Eighth Indiana Infantiy for the 100 days'
service. He was made corporal in his com-
pany, and was with his regiment in the
South until honorably discharged Septem-
ber 20, 1864. He then resumed his place
on the farm and after his marriage bought
land in Scipio Township. This he occupied
several years and then moved to the farm
of his mother-in-law in Wills Township of
LaPorte County. This farm subsequently
was inherited by his wife, and they made
that their home until 1918 and now live
retired in LaPorte. In 1873 Joseph A.
Thomas married Mary Ingram. She was
born in "Wills Township of LaPorte County
August 21, 1852. Her father, William In-
gram, a native of the vicinity of Hagers-
town, Maryland, and the son of a planter
and slave holder in that state, grew up
there and after a brief residence with an
uncle in Ohio came to LaPorte County and
bought land in Wills Township, becoming
identified with the country in its pioneer
area of development. A log cabin stood on
the land, and in that cabin his daughter
Mary was born. Later the logs were plas-
tered inside and weather-boarded out, and
with a frame addition it served as a com-
fortable residence until the death of Wil-
liam Ingram at the age of sixty-two. He
married Sarah Wagner, a native of Hamil-
ton County, Ohio. Her father, David
Wagner, was one of the first settlers in La-
Porte County, securing land in Wills Town-
ship, which he occupied until his death.
Mrs. Sarah Ingi-am survived her husband
many years and passed away at the age
of seventy-seven. Joseph A. Thomas and
wife had two sons, Burtis P. and Benja-
min J.
Burtis Paul Thomas attended the city
schools of LaPorte. He was very fond of
athletics and outdoor sports and while in
high school was a member of the football
team, and in one of the games was seriously
injured, his hearing being impaired, and in
consequence of this injury he did not re-
main to graduate and soon resumed his
place on the farm. Later he took up the
study of surveying and civil engineering,
and has rendered a great deal of service in
that capacit.y. In 1911 he was elected
county surveyor and re-elected in 1913,
serving two full terms. In January, 1918,
he was appointed cit.y engineer of LaPorte
and is now giving to that position all his
professional time and energies.
In 1909 he married iliss Ella C. Seidler.
She was born at LaPorte, a daughter of
Joseph and Mary Seidler. Mr. and Mrs.
Thomas have two children, Valerie and De-
los. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas are members
of St. Paul Episcopal Church. He is af-
filiated with Excelsior Lodge No. 41, An-
cient Free and Accepted Masons, LaPorte
Chapter No. 15, Royal Arch Masons. La-
Porte Council No. 32, Eoyal and Select
Masters, and he and his wife are members
of LaPorte Chapter No. 280 of the Eastern
Star. He is also affiliated with the Elks.
INDIANA AND INDIANANS
2173
Clkmens Vonnegut. As was pointed
out by Mr. Dunn in his History of Indian-
apolis, no single foreign nationality, as a
nationality, had a greater influence in the
development of the city than the German.
The city owes a special debt to the Ger-
mans who came following the collapse of
the revolutionary movement of 1848. In
that struggle they had lost their father-
land, but they brought with them to t!ie
New World a vision and an impulse to in-
tellectual and political betterment which
meant much to the new nation, as a nation,
and to countless communities throughout
the Middle West. On the broad prairies
and in the forests, in peace and in war, in
every branch of human endeavor and hu-
man achievement, by brave and earnest
service they made compensation to the land
of their adoption. One of these at Indian-
apolis was the late Clemens Vonnegut.
At fifteen years of age Clemens Vonne-
gut, Sr., was apprenticed to a merchant
bankei-' in Muenster, Westphalia. Six
years later he entered the business of a
manufacturer of silk velvet ribbons at Cre-
feld, on the Holland border. He made
rapid progress and after having covered
France, Belgium, Holland, England, Aus-
tria, and the German countries as a com-
misvoyageur he was entrusted with the task
of establishing an agency in America.
Mr. Vonnegut arrived in New York City
in the summer of 1851, when twenty-seven
years of age. He came, he saw, and he
was conquered. The purpose in hand ac-
complished, he resigned his position, re-
nounced allegiance to his erstwhile king,
and became a citizen of the United States,
in all that word implies.
Before we follow him out West let us
speak of the personality of the man, who
has now long been gathered unto his fath-
ers. He had to quit school before grad-
uating because of ill health and weak eyes.
While he did not become robust, he built
up his constitution through outdoor exer-
cise and gymnastics, and was enabled to
endure the hardships, first of a European
apprenticeship and then that of the Amer-
ican small-town storekeeper in the days
when business hours extended from the
crow of the cock until late into the night.
When he left school he decided to im-
prove his interrupted education after busi-
ness hours, and while his colleagues
lounged, he finished his school work, aiid
kept up his music and reading of English,
French, and German classics and history.
He was never interested in cards, hunting,
or fishing, and that may account, in part,
for his aversion to the handling of sporting
goods, which in the early days consisted
mainly of guns and tackle. Golf was not
then in vogue. For sociable recreation he
joined a singing society and a gj'mnastic
association.
He was earnestly interested in public af-
fairs, especially in educational matters.
He was a republican in politics, independ-
ent, however, in local affairs, yet he was a,
member of the School Board for twenty-
eight years and but for enfeebled health
could have enjoyed the honor more years,
though he never spent a minute nor a dol-
lar at electioneering. He was willing to
serve conscientiously, if called, but willing
to retire if another should be found more
desirable. It is very fitting and appro-
priate that one of the public schools of his
city is named in his honor.
Before becoming so closely identified
with the public schools he assisted in the
founding of the German-English Inde-
pendent Schools, which the German citizens
of Indianapolis established in 1859 to sup-
plement the rather meagre facilities af-
forded at that time by the common school
system. For a dozen years following the
Civil war it was one of the famous institu-
tions of Indianapolis, and for over fifteen
real's Mr. Clemens Vonnegut was one of
the most active members of the society sup-
porting the school ; in fact was its president
most of the time.
Mr. Vonnegut was also a member of the
Indianapolis Turngemeinde, from which
was later developed the Social Turnverein
of Indianapolis. This characteristic insti-
tution of German club life was established
in 1851. The members of this organiza-
tion were the pioneers in introducing phy-
sical education and manual training in the
public schools. Clemens Vonnegut held a
fifty-five years membership in the Turn-
verein, and his influence and co-operation
were vital in the establishment and suc-
cessful operation of the Normal College of
the North American Gymnastic Union, lo-
cated in the Athenaeum.
It is worthy of note that in 1917 Gov-
ernor Goodrich and Lieutenant Ord, of the
United States Army, found the membei's
of the college better qualified for drill mas-
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ters than the members of any other local
organization.
When in 1896, at seventy-two years of
age, Mr. Vonnegut retired from business,
he kept himself in good phj'sical condition
through gymnastics and long walks. He
continued the study of music and wrote
essays on education and moral philosophy,
and translations into his native tongue
from a favorite American author.
These pastimes were interspersed with
help to his grandchildren in their studies
of algebra, geometry, Latin, and French.
Accustomed to close application to work
during nearly two generations, he had to
keeo himself always busy.
Clemens Vonnegut was liberal in reli-
gion, but essentially religious in tempera-
ment and venerated all sacred things. He
was humane, prudent, scrupulously honest,
always willing to advise and to help any
who had gained his confidence, and these
qualities secured for him a host of friends
who truly loved him. When he died in,
1918 Indianapolis lost a worthy citizen,
whose life the people should long cherish in
memory.
Mr. Vonnegut came to Indianapolis in,
the year of his landing, 1851, on invitation
of a schoolmate, Charles Volmer, who had
preceded him a few years. He formed a
partnership with his friend, a relationship,
that continued until 1858, when Mr. Von-
negut bought the interests of Mr. Volmer,
who went to California, and from that time
Mr. Vonnegut conducted the business alone
until he associated his sons with him. *
Successively, as they left school, the Ger-
man-English School and the Indianapolis
High School, they entered the store, be-
ginning with broom and duster, and when
they arrived at majoi-ity, respectively, they
were admitted as partners.
The original venture was a general mer-
chandise store. When Mr. Vonnegut took
over the business alone he closed out the
sundries and carried only hardware, tools,
leather, and findings. In those days in or-
der to get leather from the tanner the
dealer had to furnish a reasonable quantity
of hides, and these' hides, bought from
butcher friends (who made one understand
that they were bestowing a favor) were
trimmed, sorted, and bundled by candle
light after the store closed. In 1867 he
closed out the leather business and devoted
himself to hardware and tools, factory,
foundry, mill, and machine shop supplies
and kindred goods.
In 1898 the business was moved to its
present location, 120 to 124 East Washing-
ton Street, and it was incorporated in 1908
as the Vonnegut Hardware Company. The
officers are : Franklin Vonnegut, president ;
Clemens Vonnegut, vice president; George
Vonnegut, secretary and treasurer.
Clemens Vonnegut on January 24, 1853,
married Miss Catharine Blank, who died
April 13, 1904. They were the parents of
four sons, three of whom are still living.
The eldest, Clemens, Jr., born November
19, 1853, entered his father's establishment
in 1869. After an intermission of twenty
years, 1890 to 1910, during which he was
manager of the Indianapolis Coffin Com-
pany and the National Casket Company,
he returned to the hardware business. As
a republican he represented Marion County
in the State Legislature in 1895. He mar-
ried Emma SchnuU of Indianapolis. They
have three children: Ella is the wife of
W. K. SteM'art, and they have one child,
Susan. Anton married Ina HoUweg, and
their three children are Louise, Richard,
and Antonette. Walter married Margaret
Potts. Thej' have one daughter, Irma
Ruth.
The second son was Bernard Vonnegut,
who was born August 8, 1855, and died in.
August, 1908. After a short trial of the
mercantile business he entered an archi-
tects office, but after a year sought to re-
store his failing health by working as a
carver with mallet and chisel in the Itten-
bach Contracting Company's stone yard.
Then after an apprenticeship with a man-
ufacturer of mathematical instruments he
entered the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology at Boston, of which he was a
graduate, and took advanced work in the
School of Technology in Hanover, Ger-,
many, and later in a similar institute in
Berlin. On returning to Indianapolis he
entered upon a long continued and suc-
cessful career as an architect, establishing
the firm of Vonnegut & Bohn. He married^
Nannie Schnull. They had three children :
Kurt married Edith Lieber. They have
two children, Bernard and Alice. Irma is
unmarried. Alex married Ray Dryer.
Franklin Vonnegut, the third son of
Clemens Vonnegut, was bom October 20,
1856. He has been uninterruptably iden-
tified with the hardware business for for-
INDIANA AND INDIANANS
2175
ty-six years. Mr. Fraiikliu Voiiiiegut is a
director and was president of the Citizens
Gas Company during the fii-st eight years
of its existence. He is also president of!
the trustees of the Normal College of the
North American Gj^mnastic Union and
president of the Patriotic Gardeners' Asso-
ciation during the recent campaign to urge
all city people to produce sufficient war
needs, having been chairman of the Vacant
Lots Cultivation Committee. He succeeded
his father as a member of the Board of
School Commissioners, but after five years
of service was obliged to resign in order to
look after hs private business affairs. He
has served as president of the Commercial
Club and as director of the Chamber of
Commerce. In politics he is a republican.
Mr. Franklin Vonnegut married Pauline
Von Hake, who died May 12, 1890. She
was the mother of three children : Theo-
dore F. married Lucy Lewis. They have
one child, Pauline. Felix married Edna
Goth. Arthur married Lillian Fauvre,
they have two children, Franklin Fauvre
and Virginia.
The fourth son, George Vonnegut, born
October 22, 1860, has been connected with
his father's business since 1876 except for
a period of two years when he was a stu-
dent in the Seminary of the North Ameri-
can Gymnastic Union, at that time located
at ^Milwaukee, Wisconsin. For several
years he taught gymnastics in the Athen-
aeum. He married Lillie Goeller, and
their three children are Erwin, Ralph, and
Carl. George Vonnegut is an active mem-
ber and was for several j'ears a director
in the Commercial Club, president and di-
rector in the Merchants' Association, is ac-
tive in other civic organizations and is at
member of the Board of Directors of the
North American Gymnastic Union.
Porter Hodge Linthicum, M. D., is con-
tinuing the professional work which his
honored father, the late Dr. Edward Lin-
thicum, carried on for so many years at
Evansville.
While he did not win the fame that has
been bestowed upon many American physi-
cians and surgeons, the late Dr. Edward
Linthicum was in every sense of the term
a great physician, great in point of abili-
ties, in zeal, in power as a diagnostician
and in that all-around service which the
competent doctor can give-a community.
He was born in the village of Rumsey,
then in iluhlenburg, now McLean, County,
Kentucky, May 3, 1844. His great-grand-
father, Hezekiah Linthicum, was a native
of Wales, where the family lived in a lo-
cality known as Linthicum. With two
brothers, named John and Zachariah, he
came to America in 1740 and located in
Maryland. The place of settlement by
these brothers subsequently became known
as Linthicum Landing. John Linthicum,
grandfather of Dr. Edward Linthicum, was
born in Maryland and had three sons,
named Edward, Otho and Rufus. The two
former became wealthy and were the
founders of the Linthicum Institute at
Georgetown, District of Columbia.
Rufus Linthicum, father of Doctor Ed-
ward, was also a physician, so that for three
consecutive generations the family has fur-
nished able men to this profession. He was
a native of Maryland, acquired a good edu-
cation, and in the early days moved to
Kentucky,. When in Lexington he studied
under Doctor Dudley and then settled in
the village of Rumsey, then in Muhlenburg
County. He practiced there several years,
then bought a farm near Sacramento in
the same county, but after a few years sold
that property and removed to Henderson
County, purchasing a farm near Robards
Station, on the Knoblick road, twelve or
fourteen miles from the Town of Hender-
son. In that community his service as a
phj-sician continued practically until his
death.
Dr. Rufus Linthicum married Sarah
Hicks. They reared ten children, named
Sally, Betsey, Nora, Sue, Rufus, Daniel,
William, Saunders, Otho and Edward.
The sons all became physicians and all were
very successful in their chosen profession.
Daniel served as a surgeon in General
Johnston's army in the Confederate cause.
Otho was valedictorian of his graduating
class. William and Saunders both died
after a short but brilliant career as doctors.
Rufus passed awa.v in middle life.
Dr. Edward Linthicum attended school
at Rumsey and Sacramento, Kentucky, and
was about nineteen years old when his
father died. He then engaged in tobacco
culture on the home farm, and from work
continued several years he made the money
which paid for his medical education. He
had commenced the study of medicine in
the office of his father, and in 1865 went
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to Cincinnati, attending the Cincinnati
Medical College, and from there entered
the Long Island College Hospital, from
which he was graduated in 1868. Return-
ing to Kentucky and practicing three years,
he moved to Roseville, Arkansas, and in
1873 began his long and eventful service
in Evansville. His attainments and abili-
ties were soon recognized and he was bur-
dened with an extensive practice. His work
was almost continuous for forty-five years
at Evansville until his death on December
23, 1918. He married Atta Porter, and
Porter Hodge Linthicum was their only
child.
Dr. Edward Linthicum was a man of
versatile gifts and these talents were im-
proved by a life of study. He was a nat-
ural linguist and read French and German
and spoke both languages fluently. He was
always eager to keep abreast of the times,
and he also acquired a wide range of
knowledge on other subjects. While he was
skillful in surgery and general medicine,
he was especially esteemed in his private
practice and by his fellow members of the
profession for his searching powers of diag-
nosis. He also measured up to the highest
standards imposed by the Hippocratic oath,
and never at any time was known to devi-
ate from the best ethics of the profession.
He was a friend of the younger doctors
struggling for a foothold, and did much
to encourage younger men. His avocation,
if he had one, was music. He encouraged
every musical activity attempted in Evans-
ville during his life, and was organizer and
first president of the Evansville Lyric So-
ciety. He served as a member of the City
Council of Evansville, and when elected
led the entire ticket. He was a conserva-
tive democrat in politics. He was also a
member and served as president of the Ev-
ansville Business Men's Association. With
four other physicians he organized the
City Hospital at Evansville, and was a
third owTier in that institution. In 1875
he was demonstrator of anatomy in the
Evansville Medical College and in 1876
was made professor of urinary diseases and
clinical surgery. In 1885 he made an ex-
tensive tour of the continent of Europe,
studying in the hospitals of London, Ber-
lin and Vienna. While abroad one of the
Balkan wars broke out between Bulgaria
and Serbia, and he offered his services to
the Serbian government as a surgeon, and
as such served during that war. He was
one of the organizers of the Deaconess
Hospital at Evansville, a member of and
at one time president of the surgical staff
of that institution, a member of the medi-
cal staff of St. Mary's Hospital, a member
of the Vanderburg County Medical So-
ciety, Indiana State and Mississippi Valley
medical societies and the American Medi-
cal Association, and a Fellow of the Ameri-
can College of Surgeons.
Dr. Porter Hodge Linthicum, who was
born at Evansville, attended the public
schools of Louisville, Kentucky, graduat-
ing from high school there in 1895. His
preparation for his chosen career was un-
usually long and thorough. After one year
in the Indiana State University he entered
Yale College, graduating A. B. in 1901.
Preparatory to the study of medicine he
took his scientific work in the University
of Chicago, graduating with the degree
Bachelor of Science in 1904 and then en-
tered Rush Medical College, from which
he received his ]\I. D. degree in 1908. After
a competitive examination he was awarded
first honors in a large class competing for
the coveted interneships in St. Luke's Hos-
pital at Chicago. After one year as in-
terne he returned to Evansville and became
actively associated with his father. Dr.
Edward Linthicum is said to have fairly
idolized his only son, and probably nothing
afforded him greater satisfaction than to
see him return thoroughly qualified and
ready to take up the work which the senior
Linthicum had carried on so long in Ev-
ansville. Doctor Linthicum, like his father,
is fond of music and at the age of ten
began the study of the violin and continued
it until he began his professional career.
While in Yale College he played the violin
in the New Haven Symphony Orchestra.
He is a member of the Phi Delta Theta fra-
ternity and of the Nu Sigma Nu medical
fraternity. He is also a member of the
various medical societies, including the
American Medical Association, belongs to
the Evansville Chamber of Commerce, the
Crescent and Country clubs, is a member
of the medical staff of the Deaconess Hos-
pital, the Vanderburg County Tuberculosis
Hospital, the Baby Milk Fund Clinic and
Hospital, and has served as secretary of
the Board of Health since 1914. He is also
affiliated with Reed Lodge No. 316, Free
and Accepted Masons.
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William S. Bliss is one of the group of
men of great enterprise who undertook the
drainage and development of the rich
swamp and overflowecl lands in the valley
of the Kankakee River in Northwestern
Indiana. Mr. Bliss still has large inter-
ests in that section, and for a number of
years has been a well known resident of
LaPorte.
He was born on a farm near Yates City
in Knox County, Illinois. His father was
Cyrus Bliss, who was born in Chautauqua
County, New York, in 1834. The ances-
toi"s of the Bliss familj^ settled around Ply-
mouth, Massachusetts, as early as 1634.
The grandfather, Zenas Bliss, also a native
of New York State, brought his family
west to Illinois in 1836. He started from
Chautauqua County, New York, and on
reaching the headquarters of the Ohio
built a raft, loaded it with lumber, Con-
structed a cabin to accommodate the fam-
ily, and tloated the rude vessel down the
Ohio to the junction of the Mississippi.
There he sold the timber and lumber, and
took a steamboat up the Illinois River to
Peoria. He bought land in Peoria County
and there improved a farm, and was a
highly respected resident of the commun-
ity until his death. Zenas Bliss married
Mabel Gillett, who spent her last years in
Peoria County.
Cyrus Bliss was only two years old when
his parents moved to Illinois. He grew up
in a pioneer communit.y, made use of every
opportunity to acquire an education, and
when a young man removed to Knox
County and bought a tract of land in Salem
Township, part prairie and part timber.
He became one of the prosperous farmers
of that region and was also an extensive
stock raiser. He married Angeline Smith,
a native of Indiana, daughter of Elias and
Susan (Brown) Smith, her father of Penn-
sylvania and her mother of Kentucky.
Angeline Smith is now deceased.
William S. Bliss was one of six children.
He first attended district schools, graduat-
ing from the Yates City High School and
for several years was a teacher in Quincy
schools and in Yates City. When not
teaching he employed his time at farming,
and at the time of his marriage bought 266
acres, a large farm lying in four diffei-cnl
townships and three different counties,
Knox, Pulton and Peoria counties. He
used this land for general farming, and
also branched out extensively into the rais-
ing and fattening of livestock. In 1896
he sold this fann and used his capital to
invest in Kankakee Valley lands in In-
diana, and since that time in company
with others drained many thousands ofl
acres in that section, and made it one oB
the most productive regions of the entire
state. Mr. Bliss lived near Hamlet in,'
Starke County until 1908, and since then
has been a resident of LaPorte, from which
city he looks after his large land and busi-
ness affairs.
In 1889 he married ]\Iiss Mary E. Sliedd.
She was born at Farmington, Peoria
County, Illinois, daughter of Ezra and
Lydia (Reed) Shedd. Both the Shedd
and Reed families come of old New Eng-
land stock. Mr. and Mrs. Bliss have two
children, Rolland R. and Gertrude. Rol-,
land is a graduate of the LaPorte High
School and of Purdue University with the
degree Mechanical Engineer. During the
great war he was a lieutenant in the chem-
ical section of the United States Army.
The daughter, Gertrude, graduated from
the LaPorte High School, from Northwest-
ern University at Evanston, Illinois, and
did post-graduate work at the Chicago Uni-
versity. She is now secretary to Dr. Mor-
ton A. Price at the National Dental Re-
search Institute at Cleveland. Gertrude
Bliss married George G. Geisler, who is a
physician and held the rank of lieutenant
in the medical corps of the United States
Army, and when the armistice was signed
was in charge of a convalescent hospital
in Denver.
The parents of Mr. Bliss were Presby-
terians and he and his wife are of the
same faith. He has been a member of the
official board of the church. He is a re-
publican in politics and for the past five
years has been a member of the City Coun-
cil and during 1917 was president of the
Local Exemption Board.
John Henry Zuver. A lawyer by
profession and a journalist by evolution,
John Henry Zuver, editor of the South
Bend News Times, has gained distinction
as a newspaper man of ability and as a
writer of note. He began his career with
the practice of the law, but he was later
attracted to journalistic work, by associa-
tion and liking, a field in which he has ob-
tained eminence and reputation. Mr. Zu-
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ver was born at Amboy, Hillsdale County,
Michigan, July 29, 1873, and is a son o£
Henry and Julia A. (Kuhns) Zuver. !
The Zuver family originated in Holland,
from which country came Henry Zuver, the
great-great-grandfather of John H., who
located in Pennsylvania and fought as a
soldier during the Revolutionary war.
His grandson, also named Henry, was
born in Pennsylvania, was an agricultur-
ist and country storekeeper, and died at
Burbank, Wayne County, Ohio. Henry
Zuver, the third of the name, and the father
of John H., was born July 24, 1826, in
Mercer County, Pennsylvania, and was
still a lad when taken by his pioneer par-
ents to Wayne County, Ohio. There hei
was reared to manhood and married, and
shortly thereafter moved to Amboy, Mich-
igan, where for forty years he followed
agricultural pursuits. About the year
1894 he retired from active labor and went
to Pioneer, Williams County, Ohio, where
his death occurred July 14, 1896. He was
originally a republican, but some time af-
ter the close of the Civil war transferred
his political allegiance to the democratic
party. He belonged to the United Breth-
ren Church. Mr. Zuver married Julia A.
Kuhns, who was born March 10, 1830, in
Germany, and died March 14, 1891, at Am-
boy, Michigan, and they became the par-
ents of the following children : Liberty P.
who is a retired farmer at Frontier, Mich-
igan ; Sophronia S., who is the wife of
David D. Terrell, a retired farmer of Cam-
den, Michigan ; Elmer E., who is a farmer
of Camden, Michigan; Mary C, the wife
of Carl A. Southwell, a farmer of Mont-
pelier, Ohio; Alta E., the wife of Frank
Haskins, of Jackson, Michigan; Harriet
S., the wife of Hiram H. Burdict, a farmer
of Quincy, Michigan ; Luella J., the wife
of Henry Sprow, a retired farmer of Read-
ing, Michigan; Lylla B. Tuttle, an artist,
residing at Chicago, Illinois; and John(
Henry.
John H. Zuver attended the public
schools of Amboy, Michigan, and passed;
from the high school at Pioneer, Ohio, in
1889 to Hillsdale (Michigan) College, then]
taking up the study of law at Detroit,
ilichigan, an institution from which he|
graduated in October, 1893. Being admit-i
ted to the bar at that time, he commenced
the practice of his profession at Jackson,
Michigan, where he remained until 1901
as a practitioner. In the meantime he had
had his attention drawn to the law publish-
ing business, and from 1897 until 1905.
was identified with a law publishing house
at Jackson and Battle Creek. He was
drawn from that into newspaper work,
which naturally attracted him, and from
1905 until 1908 he was identified with the
Battle Creek (Michigan) Moon. In the,
latter year he became editor of the Battle
Creek Journal, and continued in that ca-
pacity until 1911, when he became special
writer for the Grand Rapids Herald. In
February, 1912, he transferred his services
to the South Bend News-Times, in the same
capacity, and in 1914 became editor of this
publication, a position which he has since
retained. Jlr. Zuver is widely known
among newspaper men. He is particularly
well known as a writer upon political and
legal sub.jects, and is the author of the
John Jay tome of "The Earthly Pilgrim-
ages of the Chief Justices of tlie United
States," (1902), a work in which is re-
viewed the lives of Chief Justices Jay,
Rutledge, Ellsworth, Marshall, Taney,
Chase, Waite, and Fuller. The series was
well received by the press and public gen-
erally, but made a particular appeal to the
legal fraternity. Mr. Zuver is also the
author of several booklets, particularly one
entitled, "Get Ready to Lead," and an-
other, "The Spirit of Helpfulness," both
dealing with the World War, which have
had a large circulation. He has been a
democrat since 1912, when he left the re-
publican party with the progressive move-
ment, and never went back. He is no poli-
tican, however, playing the role of teacher
and educator, after an independent order,
rather than a manipulator, and has no as-
pirations for public office. He belongs,
with his famil}', to the Presbyterian
Church.
On June 19, 1895. at Detroit, Michigan,
Mr. Zuver was united in marriage with
Miss Mary C. Campbell, daughter of James
and Barbara (McNeill) Cam])bell, both of
whom are deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Zuver
have two children : Leah Barbara, born
February 7, 1898, who is attending De
Pauw University as a member of tlie jun-
ior class; and John Henry, Jr., born Mav
22, 1903, a junior in the South Bend High
School.
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2179
Joseph M. Stephenson. Oue of the re-
cent additious to iiortheru Indiana journal-
ism is Joseph M. Stephenson, who in 1917
became publisher and manager of the South
Bend News-Times, the official newspaper
of Saint Joseph Countj' and one of the
leading publications of the northern part
of the state. While Mr. Stephenson is still
a j'oung man, he has had much experience
in other fields, and the manner in which he
has conducted the News-Times since assum-
ing its management presages well for its
future development and success.
Mr. Stephenson was born June 22, 1892,
at Rochester, Indiana, and is a son of R. C.
and Ella J. (Maxwell) Stephenson. On
the paternal side he is of Scotch descent,
his ancestors having come at an early day
to the colony of Virginia, while on his
mother's side he is of English stock, the
Maxwell's having been colonial settlers of
the Old Dominion. R. C. Stephenson was
born Febmary 19, 1864, at Wabash, In-
diana, and was there reared and educated,
moving to Rochester in 1881. He followed
the profession of law for a number of years
and eventually turned his attention to
banking, coming to South Bend in 1907,
and being at this time president of the
Saint Joseph County Loan and Trust Com-
pany. A republican in polities, he has
been a leader of his party here, and in 1905
was state senator representing Wabash and
Fulton counties. He belongs to the Pres-
byterian Church. In fraternal circles he is
prominent, being a member of the Knights
of P.ythias, the Independent Order of Odd
Fellows and the ilasons, and belonging to
South Bend Blue Lodge ; South Bend
Chapter No. 29, Royal Arch Masons ; South
Bend Commandery No. 13, Knights Tem-
plar, and Indianapolis Consistor.y, thirty-
second degree. Mr. Stephenson was mar-
ried at Upper Sandusky, Ohio, to Miss Ella
J. ilaxwell, who was born at that place,
and they are the parents of two sons : Jo-
seph M. ; and Hugh R., who is a freshman
at Purdue University.
After attending the public schools of
Rochester, Indiana, Joseph M. Stephenson
took a course at Staunton ^lilitarj- Acade-
my, Staunton, Virginia, following which he
entered the University of Indiana. While
attending the university he belonged to the
Delta Tau Delta Greek letter fraternity.
He only finished his junior year at college,
leaving in 1912 to accept a position as as-
sistant state bank examiner. After a short
time spent in this work he became assistant
cashier of the International Trust and Sav-
ings Bank of Gary, Indiana, and in 1914
was promoted to the cashiership, which he
retained until 1917. In that year he came
to South Bend to become publisher and
manager of the News-Times. This paper
was founded in 1883 as a democratic organ
by J. B. Stoll, as the Times, and in 1904
was consolidated with the News, an evening
paper. It is published daily and Sunday,
and has a large circulation throughout
northern Indiana and southern Michigan.
It is considered an excellent advertising
medium and a clean, reliable and thor-
oughly up-to-the-minute publication, pre-
senting its readers with authentic and in-
teresting general news matters, with spe-
cal feature departments and timely edi-
torials. Mr. Stephenson is a democrat, and
a member of the Roman Catholic Church.
He is a director and treasurer of the Con-
servative Life Insurance Company of
America. He belongs also to the Country
Club, the University Club, the Rotary Club
and the Chamber of Commerce all of
South Bend.
Mr. Stephenson was married November
28, 1914, at South Bend, to Miss Alice Sum-
mers, daughter of G. R. and Mercy (Long-
ley) Summers. Mr. Summers, a resident of
South Bend, was formerly a member of
the State Senate from Saint Joseph County.
Ev.\N J. Martin, general manager of the
Advance Company, manufacturers of sash
operating devices and green house fittings,
is one of the able, industrious young exec-
utives at Richmond, and only recently re-
turned from a service of a year and a half
with the American military forces.
Mr. ilartin was born at Centerville, In-
diana, in 1895, son of L. B. and Arminda
(Black) Martin. He is of Scotch-Irish an-
cestry. His great-grandfather Martin came
from Ireland and settled near Boston. The
grandfather, James B. ]Martin, came to In-
diana in early days and settled northwest
of Centerville. L. B. IMartin was the sec-
ond son and spent his life at Centerville,
where he died in 1910. Evan J. Martin
has three brothers and one sister. He at-
tended the grammar schools and high
school, and in 1913, at the age of seventeen,
went to work with the Advance Company
at Richmond, running a drill press. Six
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months later he was made shipping clerk,
six months after that, order clerk, and
gradually other responsibilities were con-
ferred upon him until he is now practi-
cally manager of all departments. The
company employs thirty-five men and its
output has a wide distribution over the
United States and Canada and even to
some foreign countries.
Mr. Martin is unmarried. He is a re-
publican in politics, and a member of the
Baptist Church. On April 1.3, 1917, a few
days after America entered the war against
Germany, he enlisted and at Jefferson Bar-
racks joined the infantry. He was soon
sent west to the Benecia Arsenal in Cali-
fornia and assigned to the ordnance de-
partment on September 12, 1917. On
3Iay 8, 1918, he was transferred to Camp
Hancock, Augusta, Georgia, where he re-
mained from May 12th to July 19th. He
was then put in the chemical warfare serv-
ice in the Englewood Arsenal in Maryland,
and on November 1, 1918, was commis-
sioned a second lieutenant. He received
his honorable discharge December 21, 1918,
after having performed a real working
service to the Government throughout prac-
tically the entire period of the war.
William Moreland McGuire. Since his
admission to the bar in 1911 Mr. McGuire
has gained the secure prestige of the able
and competent attorney at Indianapolis,
and all his affiliations and interests mark
him out for continued distinction in the
profession.
To his profession Mr. McGuire brought
experience gained by a number of years of
hard work and a service that made him
familiar with more than one technical
phase of commercial life. All of this has
been exceedingly valuable to him in his
profession.
Mr. McGuire was born at Indianapolis, a
son of Charles E. and Rebecca 0. (Craw-
ford) McGuire. His father is still living
at Indianapolis, while his mother died in
1903. There were three children: Charles
Edward, who died in 1914 ; Shirley, widow
of Burton N. Daniels ; and William M.
Mr. McGuire finished his early education
in the Indianapolis High School. Just
when he determined to study law is not
known, but in any case the necessity of
looking out for himself would have inter-
fered with a regular course of study in
preparation. For about two years he
worked as a railroader, for two years was
cashier of the Standard Oil Company at In-
dianapolis, was on the road for a time as
traveling representative of the Underwood
Typewriter Company, and for two years
was bookkeeper with the Kejdess Lock Com-
pany at Indianapolis. In the meantime
he had completed a course in the Vories
Business College. With the means accu-
mulated by his varied business experiences
he finally entered the American Central
Law School, now known as the Ben Harri-
son Law School at Indianapolis, completed
the course and received his degree in 1911.
Since then he has given his best energies
to the building up of a law practice, and
has offices in the Occidental Building.
J. Henry Amt. An Indianapolis busi-
ness that has grown and prospered with
passing years and has achieved a place of
importance in the commercial affairs of
the city, and which is also a reflection of
the energy and ability largely of one man,
is the food products house of J. Henry Amt
Company at 1928-1934 Shelby Street.
This firm now enjoys a very extensive
local business in food products, chiefly
vinegar, pickles, kraut, mangoes, spices,
extracts, etc., and in the sixteen years since
it was started its growth and prosperitj^
have been largely promoted by Mr. Amt,
president and general manager of the com-
pany.
Mr. Amt has spent most of his active
years in Indianapolis, and is extremely
loyal to his home city and to the land of
his adoption. He was born in the King-
dom of Hanover, Germany, June 18, 1862,
son of George and Catherine Amt. His
father was a contractor and builder. Both
parents were members of the Reformed
Church. The mother died when J. Henry
was only eight years of age, and the father
passed away three years later, but after a
second marriage.
J. Henry Amt had the advantages of the
German schools in his home town, but his
early years were not altogether happy in
the home surroundings. Prom school he
went to work in cotton mills, and was thus,
employed until he was twenty-one years
old.
Seeking better opportunities in the land
of America, he then came to the United
States, landing at Baltimore and proceed-
INDIANA AND INDIANANS
2181
ing almost directly to Indianapolis. His
uncle, Herman Amt, was living in this city,
and with him the young man found em-
ployment. His uncle was a gardener and
truck raiser. During the next six years he
worked steadily, gained rapidly a knowl-
edge of the English language aud Ameri-
can business customs, and after this period
of preparation he entered the service of W.
D. Huffman & Company, well known man-
ufacturers of food products. He went into
this business not only to earn a living but
also with his eyes open to opportunity, and
he constantly studied every detail of the
business in which he was employed.
Equipped by experience and with a mod-
est amount of capital, in January, 1901,
he and his cousin, B. Amt, formed a part-
nership and set themselves up in business.
This partnership continued until 1908,
when it was dissolved. In November of
the same year the firm located where it is
today. The business was incorporated in
January, 1911, under the name J. Henry
Amt Company.
Mr. Amt married in 1893 Miss Johanna
Leupen. The.y have one son, George H.,
who was born March 31, 1894, and is now
associated with his father in business. He
married Miss Annabel Roempke, of Indian-
apolis, and they have one child, Georgi-
anna. The family are members of the Re-
formed Church, and Mr. Amt is affiliated
with the Modern "Woodmen of America.
John Hayes J.\mes, M. D., D. C. The
subject of this sketch was born October 17,
1851, a mile west of Yorktown, Delaware
County, Indiana. His parents were Jehu
W. and Mary B. (Hayes) James. The
former's father was the son of Evan and
Rebecca (Pickering) James, who had come
to Indiana in 1824 and settled on land near
Green.sboro, Henry County, Indiana. Here
they cleared their farm in the dense forest
and raised a family of twelve children, as
was the custom in those days. The young-
est child of this family, Jehu W,. James,
was born June 24, 1829, and lived on his
leather's farm until after the death of his
parents. He then removed to Madison
County, and here became acquainted with
Mary B. Hayes, whom he married January
16, 1851. Soon after their marriage they
settled on a farm west of Yorktown, In-
diana, and it was here on the 17th of Octo-
ber, of that year, that the subject of this
sketch, John Hayes James, was born.
The James ancestors came to America
from Wales soon after "William Penn had
established his colony in Pennsylvania.
There were three brothers who came to
this colony, but of these three only one re-
mained there, the others locating in Vir-
ginia and Eastern Tennessee. The brother
who lived in Philadelphia was Evan James,
aud he purchased a tract of land near the
city, and on a hill, which was known for
many years as James' Hill, built his home.
"With the extension of the city's boundaries
this was finally included within the City
of Philadelphia. A son of this family,
Samuel James, when grown settled in the
western part of Pennsylvania, on a farm
bordering on the Monongahela River. He
had a son, Evan James, who located in what
is now the northern part of "West "\^irginia
and became a miller. Here he met the
Pickering families and married a daugh-
ter, Rebecca Pickering. After a short time
in Ohio they moved to Indiana in 1824.
The Pickering families came from En-
gland. Both the Pickering and James
families were identified with the Society of
Friends or Quakers, some being in the Or-
thodox branch and some in the Hicksite.
Mary B. Hayes, second daughter of Silas
and Hannah (Vernon) Hayes and mother
of John H. James, was born in Chester
County, Pennsylvania, and came to Indiana
with her parents at the age of six years.
"While living on a farm in Spring Valley,
east of Pendleton, which is a Hicksite lo-
cality, she became acquainted with and
married Jehu "W. James.
Thc' Hayes ancestors also came from
England and become prominent in the af-
fairs of the colony established by "William
Penn, as did the Vernons likewise.
John Ha.yes James was brought upon a
farm in the Spring Valley neighborhood
east of Pendleton. He grasped every op-
portunity offered to attend school in this
place, and worked on the farm the rest
of the time. Every book which he could
procure he read. At the age of twenty-
one he applied for a license to teach school,
and spent the winter months in so doing.
During the spring and summer he attended
school, going to the Pendleton High School,
the Joseph Franklin Normal at Anderson
and the Indiana State Normal School at
Terre Haute.
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In the spring- of 1878 he began the stud.y
of medicine in an office in Pendleton, and
continued to teach and study in this way
until the fall of 1879, when he entered the
Physio-Medical College of Indiana at In-
dianapolis. From this school he was g:radu-
ated February 26, 1881, and located in
Carmel, Indiana. A few months later,
October 4, 1881, he married Mary J. Lee-
son, eldest daughter of James and Isabel
(Bradbury) Leeson, and to this union were
born one son and two daughters. Later
they moved to Middletown, Indiana, and
after a period of two years he gave up the
practice of medicine and returned to teach-
ing and clerical work. In 1890 he took his
family to Anderson, where he has resided
ever since, except for a short time that he
lived in Indianapolis.
It was in Anderson that he became par-
tially paralyzed and consulted Dr. F. L.
Care.v, a chiropractor, from whose treat-
ments he gained relief from a number of
ailments in addition to the paralysis. In
a short time he assisted Doctor Carej' in
establishing his school, which was known
as the Indiana School of Chiropractic, and
formed a partnership in his practice as
well. It was at this time that he opened
their Indianapolis office and resided there.
This association lasted for a number of
years, but later Doctor James returned to
Anderson and established his own prac-
tice. He now has Dr. A. J. Spaulding
associated with him and this partnership
is known as Doctors James & Spaulding.
Thomas R. Lewis, president of the
Lewis-Forbes Lumber Company of Indian-
apolis, has more than a local prominence in
the lumber industry. His activities have
made him well known among lumbermen
throughout several of the Central States,
and he has been connected with the man-
ufacturing and distributing end of the
business in both the hard wood and the
pine areas of the Southwest and the Cen-
tral West.
Mr. Lewis was liorn in the hard wood
timber districts of Wayne County, Mich-
igan, March 25, I860, and comes of a rug-
ged pioneer class of people whose honesty
of purpose and integrity of character were
never for a moment to he questioned. His
father, Rev. W. R. Lewis, was a native of
Canada and of French and English ances-
try. Some years before the birth of
Thomas R. Lewis the parents moved to
Wayne, Michigan, and Rev. W. R. Lewis
for a number of years followed farming
and also the ministry of the Methodist
Episcopal Church. He died on his nine-
tieth birthday in 1909. He and an older
son, Albert, were soldiers in a Michigan
regiment during the Civil war. This son
lost his life on Southern battlefields.
At the age of fourteen Thomas R. Lewis
left public school and for several years
supported himself as a farm hand in
Michigan. He also worked on a farm in
Kansas. Since the age of seventeen he has
been connected witii some phase or opera-
tion of the lumber industry, whether oper-
ating in the timber or handling lumber
and building supplies as a commercial com-
modity. His earlier experiences were with
the woods and mills of Indian Territory,
Arkansas, and Texas, and in 1884 he en-
tered the employ of the G. B. Shaw Lum-
ber Company at Kansas City. Later he
was made manager of the lumber j^ard at
Wellington, Kansas, for the Long-Bell
Lumber Company, which is today thei
greatest lumber corporation in the Central
West. The Long-Bell Company subse-
nuently made him purchasing agent at
Texarkana, Arkansas. Coming to Indiana,
Mr. Lewis had a lumber yard at Summit-
ville and then removed to Indianapolis and
in 1895 organized the firm of the Burnet-
Lewis Lumber Company at Fountain
Souare. This corporation was dissolved in
1916, and Mr. Lewis with his present asso-
ciates, inider the name Lewis-Forbes Lum-
ber Company, took over the old established
plant of the Burnet-Lewis Lumber Com-
pany and yards at Shelby Street and the
Belt Line Railway, which was established
in 1901. The firm established a branch
yard and mill at Thirtieth Street and Ca-
nal in 1908. The pi-oduets of those yards
and mills are general construction build-
ing material and high grade finish. The
firm is classed as one of the leading ones
of Indianapolis. They do business both
wholesale and retail.
In 1885 Mr. Lewis married Miss Mary
Bays, who was born in Lake Count.y, In-
diana, daughter of Charles Ba.ys. Mrs.
Lewis died leaving one daughter, Lillian,
now the wife of W. W. Fulton, special
state agent of the Western Adjustment
Company. In 1890 Mr. Lewis married
Harriet Bays. They have four children:
INDIANA AND INDIANANS
2183
Fern, wife of W. W. Timmerman, a resi-
dent of Cincinnati and sales manager for
a large mnsic house of that city; Lueian
W., vice president of the Lewis-Forbes
Lumber Company; Burnet B. and Doro-
thy M., both at home.
Mr. Lewis has always been a republican.
He and his wife are members of the Broad-
way Methodist Episcopal Church, and he
is on the official board of the church. Fra-
ternally he is affiliated with Laud Mark
Lodge/ Free and Accepted Masons, and
Murat Temple, Ancient Arabic Order,
Nobles of the Mystic Shrine.
John Weber. Public attentiou to and
interest in a business increase in propor-
tion as its service is of vital importance toi
the daily and regular needs and necessi-
ties of mankind. In Indianapolis there is
a phrase that means much in both a busi-
ness and domestic way. This phrase is
"Weber Milk," which signifies not only
high standards of quality and purity but
also the economy which in these days of
high costs of living is especially appre-
ciated. [
The founder of this business and the
man who built it up from a beginning
where he supplied hardly more than half
a dozen customers is Mr. John Weber, pres-
ident of the Weber Milk Company. Mr.
Weber was born in Germany sixty-nine
years ago. He came in boyhood to Amer-
ica, having no means and only an ambition
to make the best of his opportunities and
to learn and adapt himself to American
ways and the freedom of American life.
After three years spent at Rochester, Ne-«^
York, he came on to Indianapolis. Here
his first employment was as a cement
•worker. Later he went into the Vandalia
Railroad round house and put in seven
years there.
In the meantime he had married, and
while still earning his living in other em-
ployments he .started in 1884 a dairy busi-
ness with only two cows. He found it a
business of possibilities and profit and one
for which his special talent made him a
master of its complicated technique. Con-
sequently the Weber milk business has
grown and expanded, and in 1912 the
Weber Milk Company was incorporated.
A number of yeai-s ago ]\Ir. Weber bought
ninety acres of land at the edge of Indian-
apolis as the home of his dairy, and that
land is now within the city limits, ilr.
Weber is president of the company, and
the other active officials are his sous, John
J., vice president, George H., secretary and
treasurer, and Peter J., superintendent of
the plant.
The equipment of this plant leaves noth-
ing to be desired in the way of the highest
class and most modern and sanitary appli-
ances for the perfect refrigeration and
distribution of milk from the point of pro-
duction to the consumer. The business
represents a large investment and requires
the daily service of a considerable force
of men. In the way of material appli-
ances in distribution there are large motor
trucks used in conveying the milk from
the dairy barns to the distributing sta-
tions, and from there seventeen wagons
take the bottles to the back doors of a large
list of consumers.
The business with its present standing
and facilities represents the growth of
years and is the result of a remarkable de-
gree of family unity and family co-opera-
tion. As already noted, John Weber when
he started the business had only two cows,
and it was only incidental to his other
work. He kept it growing, but always so
that he could give every detail his closest
supervision, and as his sons came of age
he made a place for each of them and en-
couraged them to seek their opportunities
at home rather than outside.
Mr. Weber married Martinna Schwent-
zer. She was born in Germany and when
a .young lady of eighteen came to this
country with her sister. She was living
at Rochester, New York, when she and
John Weber met and formed the acquaint-
ance which culminated in their marriage
at Indianapolis. Mrs. Weber was a splen-
did hovisewife and mother and was greatly
missed when she passed awaj' in 1902, at
the age of fifty-two. She was the mother
of nine children. Three are now deceased,
one in infancy. Elizabeth died after her
marriage to John Schmitz, leaving two
children. William died at the age of four
years. A brief record of the living chil-
dren is ; Catherine, wife of Charles Braun,
a printer living at Indianapolis ; Amelia,
wife of George Derleth, a grocery merchant
at Indianapolis; John J., thirty-seven
years old and vice president of the Weber
Milk Company; George H., aged thirty-
four, secretarv and treasurer of the com-
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pany; Peter J., aged thirty, superintend-
ent ; and Anna, the youngest, at home with
her father. The family are all members
of St. Catherine's Catholic Church.
Annie Fellows Johnston. The fol-
lowing article, telling more than any for-
mal biography could tell of the distin-
guished author and former Indianan, was
written for the Book News Monthly of No-
vember, 1916, by her sister, Albion Fellows
Bacon of Evansville:
' ' May-Dew charm and the luck of May 's
emerald, fairy gifts of flower and thorn,
were the birth portion of my sister Annie.
The love of many it has brought her, travel
and fame and rich fullness of life. It has
brought her heavy cares and sorrows, too,
but with the power to give consolation to a
great number of hearts.
"She is known to many through her,
books, which are most self-revealing. Yet,
much as they teach and tell, their lessons
would have far more value if their readers
knew that they are full of bits of the au-;
thor's own girl life.
"Only those who grew up with her
know the fountain sources of her inspira-
tion, and of the beauty that fills both her
prose and poetry. We recognize the 'lilac
plumes, nodding welcome at the door' — it
was Grandfather's door. The 'fields of
ripened wheat,' where the 'Bob White'
whistled — those were Uncle James' fields,
down by the 'lower barn.' The ferns of
the homestead woodlands, the flowers of
old neighbors' gardens, have been trans-
planted to her pages, and through them all
blows the country air of our hill-top home.
The country folk we lived among, and their
quaint, wholesome sayings, live, too, in her
books.
"It was a bit of Arcady, a real Golden
Age, that childhood of ours. The glamour
of those idyllic years gives a charm to all
of her story scenes, and it was in them
that she gathered up sunshine and rain-
bows that in after years have not only
transformed her own troubles, but have
taught scores of her readers the same sweet
alchemy.
"Here among the hills of southern In-
diana we lived, three sisters, with a wi-
dowed mother. Lura, the eldest, was with
us only on college vacations. Annie and I
played together, dreamed, sang, wrote
verses, and 'made up' fairy tales together.
We shared the household tasks, making
them lighter, but longer, by chanting
verses, or acting dramatic parts, with tea-
towel or broom suspended. We tripped
lown the road to the country school to-
gether, breaking the tinkling ice in the
ruts, or pulling clovers, as the months va-
ried. The brown lunch basket we carried
between us — I can smell it .yet — sometimes
held turn-overs or cookies of Annie's
making.
"She was a favorite at school, with her
blithesome manner and quick Irish repar-
tee, and known as the 'Prettiest Little
Girl in the County — 0.' While she did
excellent class work, she was most noted
for her reading. In fact, one class poet on
'Exhibition Day,' declared: 'To hear An-
nie read I would walk half a mile, Her
voice is so clear and so natural her style.'
"Naturalness, normalness and simple
unaffeetedness were part of her charm
then, as they have always been. The great-
ness of the humble appealed to her, even
in childhood, and she was the darling of
the old country settlers, whose cabins she
visited, whose lore she learned, and whose
old fables and proverbs she collected.
"A large store of these she drank in
from our grandfather, John Erskine, from
County Antrim, Ireland, as she followed
him about his great garden and orchard.
His quaint saws and sayings are sown
thickly in her books.
"But if we take to tracing back the
sources of her inspiration we must stop at
our mother, 'The MacGregor' of our fam-
ily. She was a rare spirit. Spartan, Puri-
tan, yet full of idealism, romance and fire
— and had the most common sense of any
one I ever knew. How much we owe to
the up-buildings and down-settings of her
firm but loving hand we shall never be able
to tell. She revered an idea, and when
Annie had an inspiration — as she often had
— I can hear mother say 'Drop everything
now, fly upstairs and write. I'll finish
your work.' As callow as Annie's early
genius was, it was precious and sacred in
Mother's sight, and she fanned the flame
of inspiration with tireless zeal. She held
up before us the ideals of our New Eng-
land minister-father, and what ideals she
gave us of her own ! Her aspirations — •
wings that she had not been able to soar
with — she fastened to our little shoulders
and bade us speed skyward and sing. She
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held us to reading until we could not be
driven from books, and were fain to dig
into the dry sands of our father's theolog-
ical library for wells to refresh us. Dry
digging, indeed, and scanty the store of
fiction that ever came our way! But the
stately poets were ours, and fairy tales, re-
cited to us by simple folk who half be-
lieved them, and ghost stories, told by
'help' who candidly shivered at them, so
we got our share of mental salad along
with the dry roots and savory herbs.
Songs we gathered, out of the air — it was
full of them, and we breathed them in —
old ballads, war songs, hymns — they be-
came a part of our souls. But with crea-
tive magic Annie wove romance into all the
everyday life of school and farm, writing;
it out in verses or stories that thrilled lis
to hear.
" 'Aren't you proud of her?' friends
asked us, after she had become famous.
" 'No more than we always were,' we
answered. 'We knew it was in her.'
"Children ask me about her wherever I
go. 'What is she like?' And they touch
with childish awe my hands that have held
hers. If they could only have known her
and played with her as a child, I think,
and I try to paint portraits of her, as she
was then and is now.
"One picture shows her as a child, with
round face, dark bobbed hair, brown eyes
full of laughter, red lips and pearly teeth
— romping, racing, teasing, ready for any
adventure — the best of 'good scouts,' yet
always loving to be neat and dainty. In
fact, dress was her one weakness, and I
can see her big round tears splashing down
when she was not allowed to wear her pale-
green shoes or her party dress to the little
country church. I can see her, daring and
wilful, climbing the cherry trees, sliding
down the hay, swinging on the 'big gate.'
Again, in gentle, helpful mood, she is pick-
ing strawberries for Grandfather, helping
Aunt Sallie to set the table for the thresh-
ers, or taking care of the baby for Aunt
Lou.
"I can see her at the 'Literary' declaim-
ing with the patriotic fervor that flashes
through her books, while her cheeks glow
and her eyes are like stars.
"Again, in a picture of later girlhood,
she is sitting, with unwonted meekness,
while I tire her hair in a sleek and shining
'French twist,' which she could not achieve
herself. These were the times of my tri-
umph, for she was wont to rule me with a
high hand, claiming the superior wisdom
of her two years of seniority — 'for your
own good,' she would say, with a prim set
of the mouth, but a laugh in her eye.
"The last picture of her daj's in Arcady
is that of a j'oung girl, dressed in soft
white, standing in the shady lane, gather-
ing the wild roses that trailed over the low,
lichened rail fence. There is the delicate
flush of the wild rose on her face, and she
fastens one in her dark hair. Her brown
eyes are full of dreams, as she looks away
across the valley to the blue rim of the dis-
tant hills.
" 'The glamour closed about her' then,
— after that reality began. She taught a
country school at seventeen, attended the
University of Iowa the next j'ear, taught
some more in the Evansville schools, took
up clerical work for a while in a cousin's
office, and later married William L. Johns-
ton. We had a double wedding, just after
a wonderful visit to Europe together.
Soon afterwards we published a book of
poems together. ,
"After three years of married life her
husband died, and she was left with three
step-children, a boy of ten and two older
girls. Up to that time she had written
only poems and short stories. The follow-
ing year she published her first book, 'Big
Brother. ' i
' ' Never was there a more loving and de-
voted mother, and her devotion was tested
to the utmost by the death of the younger
daughter and the failing health of the son.
She traveled all about the country with
him, seeking health. In Arizona they
lived on the desert, in tents, where 'The
Desert of Waiting' gave up its story to
her, to comfort hundreds of hopeless
hearts. Then they tried San Antonio,
Texas, moving later to the hill country of
Texas, where they bought a home which
they called 'Penacres. '
"After the sou's death six years ago she
and her daughter went to Pewee Valley,
Kentucky, the Lloydsboro Valley of the
'Little Colonel' stories. There she bought
the Lawton place, known as 'The Beeches'
in her stories, the Mecca of loving pilgrims
from all parts of the country.
"It is a beautiful place, with a tangle-
wood back of it, an old-fashioned garden
at the side of it, with lilies and holljdioeks
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and peonies. All about the lawn stand the
great beeches, with branches sweeping to
their feet, and squirrels whisking among
them.
"Pewee Valley is a typical story-book
place, but only a few of the people of her
tales move about there now in real life.
Aunt Allison is still there, in a lovely home
just across the avenue, and ]Mom Beck, in
her eighties, is still interesting and talka-
tive. But time has wrought many changes,
and the principal characters no longer live
there.
"It is just an hour's trolley ride from
Louisville, and a short distance from An-
chorage, and in these places live other mem-
bers of her Authors Club — the creators of
' Emmy Lou, ' of ' Mrs. Wiggs, ' of the ' Lady
of the Decoration,' and others.
"In that happy valley's festivities and
frolics my sister cannot take the same share
that she did in our country parties. Such
a planner of parts, such a designer of
costumes, such a decorator of gala scenes
as she has been ! The business of being an
author does not allow much of it now, but
she enjoys it as hugely as ever, when she
has time to participate.
"Never was a more delightful aunt or
cousin. No birthday is forgotten,*no spe-
cial occasion left neglected. Her Christ-
mas box is the plum of the whole pie, for
no one selects, wraps, ties, nor packs just
as she does, with such verses and greetings.
"Is that enough of a picture? If not,
let me sa.y, in desperation of making a por-
trait, she is the thoughtfulest, most unsel-
fish, considerate, dependable person one
could know. Since childhood she has been
at the top of my brief list of those who
could be absolutely trusted to keep a secret,
and to say just what she thinks if you ask
her to.
' ' It would not be fair to her not to show
a later portrait, since she has lived, trav-
eled and experienced so much. 'Don't
leave out the lines,' she always insists.
There are lines of care about her eyes, and
there are shadows in them, but there are
also the lines of mirth about her mouth,
and the mouth and eyes are not long with-
out a smile.
"One trait, as yet unmentioned, speaks
through all her stories : Her deep religious
faith, which has permeated her life and
kept optimism alive in the darkest days.
"Her books have been blessed, indeed.
to judge by the letters that come to her
from those who have learned patience and
resignation, purity, service, courage and
sacrifice, from her 'Little Colonel' and
other stories.
"It would be interesting to know how
often the legends and motto lines of her
books have furnished themes for papers,
names and motifs for clubs; how many
boys wear the 'white flower' to remind
them to 'keep the tryst,' how many girls
string rosaries in token that little duties
well done are like pearls, or wear Tusitala
rings to remind them of the 'Road of the
Loving Heart,' 'Orders of Hildegarde' are
formed, 'The Princess Winsom' is played,
favorite characters of her stories are
copied, on the stage or in young lives.
"In twenty-three years my sister has
written twenty-seven books, and fathers
and mothers as well as children steadily
ask for 'more.' When the 'Little Colonel'
married, and 'ilary Ware' followed suit,
she determined to let them live, always
young in the 'Never-Never Land,' and not
pursue them to the time of wrinkles and
chimney corners. To take their place she
has given us an entirely new and delightful
child ' Georgina of the Rainbows. ' The sea
comes into this story and the quaint old
fishing town at the tip of Cape Cod, where
the Pilgrims first landed. But there are
Kentucky people in it too, so the traditions
of the South mingle with the traditions of
New England in ' Georgina 's' upbringing,
and both pla.y a part in all her sajdngs and
doings. The old town-crier in the story
gives 'Georgina' a 'line to live by,' from
one of Milton 's sonnets — ' Still bear vip and
steer right onward.' It is a story of hope,
and its message is 'As long as a man keeps
hope at the prow he keeps afloat.' ' Geor-
gina's Service Stars' has been written since
this article."
I'
Joseph A. Wervfinski. In the career
of Joseph A. Werwinski there is to be
found material for the writing of a story
regarding a young man who may be called
not inaccurately a city builder. Only a
few years have passed since he entered
upon active participation in the affairs of.
South Bend, but already he is generally rec-
ognized as one of his community's most
useful and capable citizens, and has at-
tained a powerful place in the confidence
of the people of the Polish race here. Mr.
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Werwinski was born at South Bend, In-
diana, January 14, 1882. His father,
Michael Werwinski, was born in Poland,
and came from that counti-y to America
because, like most immigrants, he was a
man of vision, thrift and enterprise who
sought larger opportunities that seemed to
lie open to him in his native land, a captive
country o"f an intensely liberty-loving
people. Wedged in between three powerful
neighbors, Poland could only dream of her
past glories. From this unfortunate and
romantic country came Michael Werwinski,
still a young man. He became a pioneer
merchant, and not long after his arrival
met and married Amelia Kaiser, who was
born at Otis, Indiana, and so the first im-
portant fact to be noted about Joseph A.
Werwinski is that he is well horn, in the
great free country where his father had
settled, from a race which had known per-
secution and privation and which had
borne these things with fortitude. The
spirit of adventure and enterprise which
has characterized the young man's career
was inherited from his father. Both found
the freedom here which was denied to the
Polish people at home.
The elder Werwinski cast his fortunes
with the city of South Bend, reared his
children to be loyal Americans, passed his
life in merchandising, and died in 1891.
He and his wife, who still survives and re-
sides at South Bend, had two children :
Joseph A. and Ignatius K., the latter a
resident of South Bend, connected with
the United States quartermaster's depart-
ment. After the death of her first husband
Mrs. Werwinski married Antone Beczkie-
wicz, a South Bend merchant, who retired
from active pursuits some years before his
death in 1912. They had 'three children:
Stanislaus, aged twenty-two years, a stu-
dent of music of great future promise, liv-
ing at South Bend; Peter, born in 1899,
attending the South Bend High School ;
and Sadie, born in 1901, attending Saint
Joseph's Academy.
After thoroughly grounding himself in
the principles of education by attending
the public schools of South Bend Joseph A.
Werwinski allowed himself to follow his in-
clinations toward a business career, and for
two years attended a business college.
After this he went to the normal school at
Valparaiso, and following this had a short
experience as an educator, teaching in the
schools of Olive Township, Saint Joseph
County. Two years of teaching completed
his experience in this line, and in the mean-
time he had been appointed deputy trustee
of Portage Township, the duties of which
he discharged in a capable and trustworthy
manner. In 1907 Mr. Werwinski entered
upon the course which has since made him
one of the most energetic, prominent and
substantially situated citizens of South
Bend. During the first three years he
worked industriously as clerk in a real
estate office. Then, having gained what he
considered sufficient experience, and being
possessed of ample self-confidence, he em-
barked upon a career of his own and soon
became known as a capable and reliable op-
erator in realty.
Mr. Werwinski 's first enterprise of ap-
preciable proportions was the opening up
of a large tract of land on which were
erected modest homes for the factory work-
ers of various nationalities. This difficult
proposition he handled so successfully that
he at once rose to a recognized position in
the real estate fraternity of the city, and
from that time to the present he has been
one of the most active dealers and handlers
of large properties here. In all, he has
built more than 300 ho^ises, which he has
sold to workingmen, thereby bringing con-
tentment and comfort to hundreds of
people and elevating the physical value of
the city in a considerable degree. Mr.
Werwinski is identified with a number of
prominent concerns, business and civic. He
is president of the Smogor Lumber Com-
pany. He was one of the seven organizers
of the Morris Plan Bank, which practically
drove the "loan sharks" out of South
Bend, and thus gave the man with a small
income a chance to borrow necessary sums
at small rates. He is one of the directors
of this bank as well as a member of its
finance committee, ilr. Werwinski has
held several offices of a political character
and at this time is vice censor of the Polish
National Alliance of America, a fraternal
institution with net assets of over $3,000,-
000. Possessed of strong piiblic spirit, he
has rendered practical aid to the play-
ground movement, to civic center enter-
prises, to the movements making for ad-
vancement of the community welfare and
to business enterprises. He is active in the
Cliamber of Commerce, of which he is a
member, and popular with his fellow-mem-
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bers in the South Bend Countiy Club. His
career is indicative of the spirit of enter-
prise so noticeable among a cei'tain class
of j'oung men of the twentieth century,
and illustrates clearly what may be accom-
plished if the spirit is willing and the
mind is capable.
Robert S. MoKee was for nearly half a
century one of the most conspicuous actors
in the commercial life of Indiana. His in-
terests and activities were widespread, but
during the last thirty years of his life they
were largely concentrated at Indianapolis.
It is for the purpose of recalling some of
his services as a business man and citizen
and also as a record of other members of a
family that has long been distinguished in
the state that the following paragraphs are
written.
The Mc'Kees were Scotch Covenanters,
and when driven out of Scotland settled in
Ireland. One of the family was Sir Pat-
rick McKee, who had a fine landed estate
in the Province of Ulster. James McKee,
father of Robert S., was born in Ireland
]\Iay 23, 1793. December 6, 1813, he mar-
ried Agnes McMullan, who was born No-
vember 14, 1793, and died in Ireland Octo-
ber 5, 1837. James McKee died at Wheel-
ing, West Virginia, in August, 1863. The
names of their children were : James M.,
born November 4, 1817; William H., born
August 10, 1819, and died November 24,
1867, after a long and prominent military
career ; Robert S. ; Eliza Ann, born April
29, 1824; Margaret, born September 18,
1825 ; and Sophie, born August 3, 1828.
Robert S. McKee was born in TuUyeavy,
Downpatrick, County Down, Ireland, Jan-
uary 8, 1823. He had meager educational
advantages, but his early environment did
not serve to stifle his ambitious and enter-
prising nature. At the age of thirteen he
left Ireland to join his brother William,
who had settled in Philadelphia. There he
went to work as clerk for a company en-
gaged in transporting goods over the moun-
tains between Baltimore and Wheeling.
That experience he subsequently utilized to
engage in business for himself. In 1847 he
floated down the Ohio River on a flatboat
and located at Madison, Indiana. There
with Josiah S. Weyer he engaged in the
wholesale grocery business under the name
Weyer & McKee, This subsequently be-
came R. S. McKee & Company, and the
house became well known all over the coun-
try. Before the Civil war its business at-
tained to large proportions. From this his
interests spread, and he was a factor in
the management of the National Branch
Bank at Madison with the Madison Fire
and Insurance Company. In 1865, remov-
ing to Louisville, Kentucky, he founded
the wholesale grocery house of McKee,
Cunningham & Company. The trade of
this concern covered the entire south. Mr.
McKee during his residence at Louisville
was also a member of the first board of
directors of the Citizens National Bank,
and there, as at Indianapolis, later became
connected with everj' movement for the
upbuilding of the city.
In 1872 Robert S. McKee removed to
Indianapolis. Here his business success
overshadowed all his earlier achievements.
He organized the wholesale boot and shoe
house of McKee and Branham. Later this
was incorporated as the ilcKee Shoe Com-
pany. Robert S. MeKee filled the office of
president of the corporation until his death.
Under his guidance the company became
foremost among the shoe houses of the
country.
Though he started in life with no mate-
rial advantages, he demonstrated the fact
that ability and strength of will are supe-
rior weapons with which to fight the battle
of life. His mental faculties were clear,
his mind active and receptive, and his in-
telligence keen and broad. He became
noted for his intellectual acquirements and
remarkable fund of information. His
qualities as a leader were unquestioned
and lie became one of the foremost figures
in commercial and financial circles in In-
dianapolis. He was a director of the In-
diana National Bank, was the first secre-
tai-y of the Belt Railroad and Stockj'ards
Company, and during his later years owned
a large amount of local real estate.
The veteran Indianapolis banker, Vol-
ney T. Malott, once said of Robert S. Me-
Kee that he ' ' was one of our best citizens, a
n.an of sterling worth, possessed of the
highest honor, a merchant of the old school,
thoroughly and carefully trained, exact
with himself and others in all business
transactions. He took a large interest in
civic affairs. He was liberal in his contri-
butions to his church and various charit-
able institutions. As a bank director in
Madison, Indiana, Louisville, Kentucky,
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and Indianapolis, covering a period of more
than fifty years, he was always prompt
and regular in attendance and was a val-
uable member of the Board, his business
training and large experience rendering
him conservatively progressive and, to-
gether with his closely analytical mind,
making him a valuable counsellor on any
board."
Of a most positive character, Robert S.
McKee exemplified that force of personal-
ity which is associated with the Scotch-
Irishman. Perhaps his most notable trend
was his abhorrence of debt. His nature
was strong and true, and knowing men at
their real value had no toleration of deceit
or meanness in any of the relations of life.
He did not come so largely into the atten-
tion of the public eye as did many of his
contemporaries who accomplished less and
who did less for the world, but he felt
the responsibilities which success imposes
and ever endeavored to live up to these
responsibilities in the straightforward, un-
demonstrative way characteristic of the
man. He served for many years as an elder
of the First Presbyterian Church of In-
dianapolis and was a stanch republican,
though his name was probably never asso-
ciated with any public office, an honor for
wliich he had no ambition. His death,
\\hich occurred June 9, 1903, removed from
Indianapolis one who had done much to
promote its best interests and to bring
it to a position among the leading business
centers of the United States.
A man of great prominence himself, Rob-
ert S. JIcKee by marriage became allied
with some of the historic names in Indiana.
In 1850 'he married Miss Celine Elizabeth
Lodge, a native of this state. She died in
1861, and in 1866 he married her sister
Mary Louise Lodge. They were daughters *
of William Johnston and Mary Grant
(Lemon) Lodge. The.v were descendants
of Christopher Clark, and in the maternal
line were connected with the Boone, Grant
and Morgan families. William Johnston
Lodge's mother was a Johnston, a direct
descendant of Christopher Clark, who
came to America in 1625 and took a grant
of land from the English king. His daugh-
ter, Agnes Clark, married Lord Robert
Johnston, younger son of the Earl of
Shaftsbiiry. A great-grandfather of Mrs.
ilcKee was Capt. William Grant, who was
born • February 22, 1726. He married
Elizabeth Boone, who was born February
5, 1733, a daughter of Squire and Sarah
(Morgan) Boone and a sister of Daniel
Boone. In their large family of children
the youngest was Rebecca Boone, who was
born June 4, 1774, and married John
Lemon.
Concerning Capt. William Grant there
is a record that he was a man of good
education for the time in which he flour-
ished, had substantial standing as an ex-
tensive land owner, and was a stanch pa-
triot during the Revolution, being a trusted
member of the Committee of Safety in
North Carolina. He also gave active serv-
ice in that struggle. Later, in company
with his brother-in-law, Daniel Boone, he
was among those who defended the frontier,
and was one of the few who escaped with
Boone at the battle of the Blue Lick in
Kentucky. The story of Bryan's Station
in Kentucky sets forth that it was founded
by those North Carolinians William, Mor-
gan, James and Joseph Bryan, of whom the
first named was the leading spirit. With
them was William Grant, whose wife, like
that of William Bryan, was a sister of
Daniel Boone. At the battle of Elkhorn
William Grant was wounded and his broth-
er-in-law, William Bryan, was killed. Two
of William Grant 's sons, Samuel and Moses,
were killed by the Indians. They had come
over to Indiana from Kentucky with" Col-
onel Johnston on an expedition to punish
thieving Indians, and with others were
ambushed, a number being killed, among
them one of the Grants. The other brother
went liack to look for him in company with
a relative who volunteered to assist him,
and they too were slain. Grant County,
Indiana, is named in their honor. William
Grant lived to a good old age, and to the
close of his life was respected as a superior
character — a typical gentleman of the old
school, dignified, honorable and worthy of
the regard in which he was held. He left
property including slaves, and many of his
descendants still reside in Indiana and
Kentucky.
Robert S. McKee was the father of six
children, four by his first marriage and
two by the second. The oldest is William
J. McKee of Indianapolis, who served as
a brigadier general of Indiana volunteers
in the Spanish-American war. The second
is Edward L.. noted on other pages. James
Robert has attained a high executive posi-
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tion in the General Electric Company, and
married Miss Mary S. Harrison, daughter
of the late President Benjamin Harrison.
Frank Latham, the fonrth child, is a New
York business man. Richard Boone died at
Indianapolis in 1907. Celine Lodge mar-
ried Charles W. Merrill, of the Bobbs Mer-
rill Company, publishers of Indianapolis.
Edward L. ^IcKee, a son of the late
Robert S. McKee, has for many years been
one of the fortunate and valued citizens of
Indianapolis. He was fortunate in coming
of a famil}^ of such worthy associations
with the city and state and also fortunate
in his choice of a business environment in
which his talents have brought him signal
success.
He was born while his parents lived at
Madison, Jefferson County, Indiana, March
13, 1856. He began his education in the
public schools of that town and at the age
of nine removed with his parents to Louis-
ville, Kentucky, where he continued to at-
tend public school and later was again in
high school at ^ladison. Sixteen years old
when the family came to Indianapolis, he
began work with a wholesale shoe house,
and that one line of business has been fol-
lowed by him, though not without numer-
ous other interests, to the present time. In
1879, at the age of twenty-three, he became
associated with his brother James McKee
and Aquilla Jones in founding the whole-
sale shoe company of Jones, McKee & Com-
pany. The founders of this business were
all well known and enterprising men, and
built up the prestige of their house beyond
the borders of Indiana. In 1896 it was re-
organized as the McKee Shoe Company,
with Edward L. McKee as vice president.
During the past twenty years Mr. McKee 's
business associations and interests have
been constantly broadening. In 1896 he
was elected vice president of the Indiana
National Bank, but resigned that executive
office in 1904, though remaining a director.
He also served as a director of the Union
Trust Company, vice president of the retail
dry goods house of H. P. Wasson & Com-
pany, and president of the Atlanta Tin
Plate and Sheet Iron Company. Perhaps
the business with which his name is chiefly
identified is the IMerehants Heat and Liglit
Company, of which he was one of the or-
ganizers and incorporators and of which he
became president in 1904. Mr. McKee 's
success in business has been of a most sub-
stantial character. He undoubtedly in-
herited many of his father's splendid quali-
ties, and also had the advantage of care-
ful training under that veteran merchant
and business man.
Mr. McKee during the last forty years
has been a factor in every prominent move-
ment undertaken to broaden the power and
responsibilities of Indianapolis and im-
prove local conditions. However, he has
not been in politics beyond exercising his
personal influence in behalf of a worthy
municipal program. He is a republican, a
member of the First Presbyterian Church,
and his wife belongs to the Second Church
of Christ, Scientist. February 21, 1900,
I\Ir. McKee married Miss Grace Wasson.
Her father was Hiram P. Wasson, another
prominent Indianapolis merchant. Mr.
and Mrs. ^IcKee have two children, Ed-
ward L., Jr., a captain in the United States
Army, and Hiram Wasson.
John Coopek Props. The City of Mun-
cie has no more public-spirited citizen than
John Cooper Props, who has been identi-
fied with that community successively as
newspaper man, farmer and lawyer, but
chiefly as one of the leading distributors
of automobiles. Mr. Props is secretary and
general manager of the Props-Dunn Motor
Company, which is the oldest automobile
concern in Delaware County and through
which and Mr. Props' personal influence
over a thousand Ford cars have been sold
in Delaware County alone. The Props-
Dunn Motor Company is counted as one of
the model Ford agencies in Indiana, and
the success and prosperity of the' business
is largely attributed by Mr. Props to the
fact that he has always endeavored to fol-
low the policies outlined by Henry Ford.
Furthermore, ilr. Props represents a
family of historical interest in this section
of the state. Particularly in the Missis-
sinewa Valley do the annals of the Props
family go back for several generations to
the very pioneer and frontier period.
John Props, founder of the family in
Delaware County, was member of a large
group of Virginia settlers who went there
and founded homes at a time when every
homemaker was a pioneer in the western
advancement of the nation. John Props
was born May 13, 1808. in Rockbridge
County, near the Natural Bridge, was of
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German descent, learned the trade of black-
smith, and as a young man was employed
in the arsenal at Harper's Ferry. Ou com-
ing to Indiana he did work for the con-
tractors building the Wabash Canal. At
Pendleton, in Madison County, marriage
linked him with another pioneer family,
when Eliza Janes became his wife on June
12, 1838. She was born in Logan County,
Ohio. October 26, 1820, and died on her
birthday in 1846. Her father, Zachariah
Janes, was a soldier of the "War of 1812
and a pioneer in iladison County, settling
near Pendleton while the Indians were
there and building a log cabin with a dirt
floor. That was his home until the latter
'50s, when he moved to the vicinity of
Lexington, Missouri, and died there in
1867. By his wife, Nanj' George, who
was born in Logan County, Ohio, in 1796
and died in IMadison County in 1834, his
children were ilrs. John Props, Mrs. Nancy
Davis, Mrs. ilary Ann Hardman, Sarah
Cravens, Mrs. Lucinda Maull and Mrs. Su-
sanna Miller. The children of Mr. and
Mrs. John Props were : John A., William
Henry, James Madison and Lemuel Theo-
dore. All these sons were soldiers in the
Civil war and John A. died in the service.
It is said that John Props built the first
blacksmith shop in Marion, Grant County.
He died in 1859.
William Henry Props, son of John
Props, was born at Marion, Indiana, June
18, 1841. He was five years old when his
mother died and he was eared for in the
home of Burtney Ruley, and when seven
years old went to live with Joel W. Long,
who cared for him as his own child until
he was grown to manhood. In the home
of Mr. Long he was well trained for a life
of usefulness. The first school he attended
was kept in a log cabin on a corner of the
home farm, and later he was pupil in a
school located where the town of Eaton in
Delaware County now stands. October 5,
1862, when a little past his majority, he
enlisted at Muncie in Company B of the
Sixty-Ninth Indiana Volunteer Infantry
for three years' service. His first battle
was at Richmond, Kentucky, on August
30th of the same year. He was shot through
the right lung, was reported as dead by
his captain and comrades, but had, in fact,
been carried off the field by the nephews
of James Yates, a slaveholder of the neigh-
borhood, who disappeared on the approach
of the Union army. Some negroes also as-
sisted in the rescue and the wounded man
was carefully cared for in a negro cabin
nearby until he was able to return home.
He came as a joyful surprise to his friends,
who had mourned him as dead and were
even then arranging a memorial service.
He was honorably discharged from the
army on account of disability November
25, 1862.
For all the suffering he endured because
of his service in the army, he was for many
years successfully engaged in farming and
stock raising, and was one of the intelligent
farmers who were leaders in the agricul-
tural development of Delaware County.
His fine farm of 195 acres near Eaton is
still considered a valuable property there.
A republican, his early interest in politics
recalls the incident that when he was only
fifteen he and two other boy companions,
John and Robert L. Brandt, cut, hauled
and assisted in raising the flagpole for the
first republican campaign when Fremont
was candidate for President. He supported
Lincoln and Grant by his early votes, then
turned a gre^nbacker, voting for Peter
Cooper and Weaver, became identified with
the later organization of the people's party,
and finally became a firm supporter of
William J. Bryan. He was a charter mem-
ber of John Brandt Post, Grand Army of
the Republic, of Eaton, named to commem-
orate the services of his old comrade, John
Brandt, who died as a result of wounds at
Chickamauga. The sum of his life was one
of well-spent activity, honorable actions
and relations in every sphere, and he died
June 8, 1907, respected and esteemed by
family and friends alike. He and his wife
were members of the Christian Church,
lived and practiced Christianity as part of
their daily life, where charitable to a fault
and were constant and instant in acts of
kindness. His good wife died July 3, 1902.
William H. Props married September 7,
1865. Sarah Lewis, who was born May
26, 1845, in Niles Township of Delaware
County, daughter of John and Mary
(Babb) Lewis. Her father was one of the
original land entrants of Niles Township.
The children of William H. Props and wife
were : Mrs. Mary ]\IcFee, deceased ; Rachel
Louella, whose fii-st husband w^as Reuben
Estep. and her second George Pickerill ;
Joel W.. who died June 21, 1905, at the
age of thirtv-six, leaving a small son, Emil
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W. ; George Robert, who died at the age
of nineteen; John Cooper, and Nettie B.
Silers.
This brings the familA' down to John
Cooper Props, who was the sixth child of
his father's family. He was born in Union
Township of Delaware County March 20,
1877, and was well educated in the public
schools of Eaton and for three summers
attended the National Normal University
at Lebanon, Ohio. For five years he was
a teacher in Delaware County. In May,
1899, he began work for the Muncie Star,
and assisted in establishing that great In-
diana newspaper. In 1902 he transferred
his services to the Marion News-Tribune,
but in 1903 left journalism to become a
practical farmer at "Wellington, Illinois,
managing 320 acres owned by his wife's
uncle, Oliver P. Dunn, who is now presi-
dent of the Props-Dunn Motor Company at
Muncie.
In 1904 ]\Ir. Props entered the real estate
and insurance business at Eaton, and while
there studied law and was admitted to the
bar. Before fairly engaging in practice he
took over the distribution of Ford and
Studebaker automobiles for Delaware
County in 1909. That business soon re-
quired so much of his time that he was
forced to give up all his other active in-
terests except his farm, which he still op-
erates.
Mr. Props conducted the automobile
agency alone until the fall of 1912, when
he took in one of his principal competi-
tors, George J. Brooker, incorporating as
the Props-Brooker Motor Company. The
agency was established at Walnut and Sec-
ond streets in Minicie. September 1, 1915,
Mr. Props bought his partner's interest,
and then changed the corporate name to
Props-Dunn Motor Company. In the
spring of 1916 a brick building 621/0 by
125 feet at Walnut and Gilbert streets in
Muncie was bought and remodeled for the
purpose of making it a permanent home
for the business. Before it was ready f.jr
occupancy in the fall the business had out-
grown its prospective location, and the com-
pany was forced to retain its old location
at Walnut and Second streets, which is
used as a Ford service station and motor
truck and tractor service station.
Mr. Props has been a live man in the
motor car industry in many ways. He
organized the first motor club in Muncie,
was its first president, and was also presi-
dent of the first auto dealers ' association in
Delaware County.
His business record indicates that he is
a man of initiative, and at the same time
he has also shown and exhibited a com-
mendable spirit of independence and de-
votion to principle in politics and all civic
affairs. He has adhered to principles which
he believed to be right whether they were
popular or not. As a young man he en-
dured not a little persecution for advocat-
ing the reform measures which have been
adopted by both the leading political par-
ties. Mr. Props is affiliated with all
branches of Masonry, including the Knights
Templar, the Scottish Rite and Mystic
Shrine, and is also a member of the Elks
and Odd Fellows.
April 9, 1902, in Union Township of
Delaware County, he married Miss Beatrice
McKeever, who was born in Grant County
of this state February 14, 1876, a daughter
of Albert and Elmyra (Dunn) McKeever.
Her father was a carpenter at Jonesboro,
Indiana. Mrs. Props was a small child
when her mother died, leaving three chil-
dren, Zelma R., Charles L. and Beatrice.
Beatrice, from the age of four years, was
reared and tenderly cared for by her imcle,
Oliver P. Dunn. 5lr. and Mrs. Props have
three children; Isabella Dunn Props, born
at Wellington, Illinois, September 15, 1903 ;
William Oliver, born at Eaton May 10,
] 910, now deceased, and Sarah, born Octo-
ber 12, 1911.
Rev. Francis Henry Gavisk. The cares
and burdens of managing the largest Cath-
olic church in Indiana has not prevented
Rev. Francis H. Gavisk from assuming a
share in benevolent and social work that
gives his career almost a national reputa-
tion. He is one of the broad minded and
able Catholic clergymen who, while never
subordinating the interests and welfare of
their own church, have worked wholeheart-
edly and constructively in the service of
humanity, and have been frequently hon-
ored and entrusted with responsibilities
wherein they represent their church in the
broad domain of state and nation.
Father Gavisk is a native of Indiana,
born at Evansville April 6, 1856, son of
Michael and Mary (Tierney) Gavisk. His
parents came from Ireland. Father Ga-
visk was educated in parochial schools at
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Evansville, and in 1874, at the age of
eighteen, went to work as a reporter with
the Evansville Courier. He remained with
that journal as reporter and editor until
1880. He prepared for his chosen calling
in St. Meinrad's College and Seminary in
Spencer County, Indiana, where he com-
pleted both the classical and theological
courses. In the Abbey Church at St. Mein-
rad's May 30, 1885, he was ordained to
the priesthood by Rt. Rev. F. S. Chatard,
Bishop of Indianapolis. In 1914 the Uni-
versity of Notre Dame conferred upon
Father Gavisk the honorary degree LL. D.
One of the notable facts connected with
his long service as a priest is that all the
time he has been identified with St. John's
Church at Indianapolis, recognized as the
largest church of that denomination in the
state. He was appointed assistant rector
on June 20, 1885, and since 1890 has been
rector, and in that capacit.y has had the
active administration and has promoted in
numberless ways the growth and prosper-
ity of this splendid congregation. Since
1899 Father Gavisk has been chancellor of
the Diocese of Indianapolis.
Outside of the honors and dignities con-
ferred upon him by his church Father
Gavisk is a member and from 1910 to
1915 was vice president and in 1915-16
president of the National Conference of
Charities and Corrections. Since 1907, by
appointment from the governor, he has
been a member of the Board of State Chari-
ties in Indiana and is a director of the
Charity Organization Society of Indian-
apolis, and in November, 1915, the gover-
nor appointed him chairman of the Com-
mission of Indiana to study questions of
mental defectives. He is also a trustee of
the Indianapolis Foundation, a member of
the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce,
the Indianapolis Art Association and the
Indianapolis Literary Club. He has also
been active in the American Red Cross, as
member of the Executive Committee of
Indiana, and has served on the Citizens
Library Committee of the Indianapolis
Public Library.
John Henry Lexsmaxn is a veteran
merchant in Indianapolis. It would not
be too much to claim for him that he has
been identified with the grocery trade on
the south side of the city for a longer
period than any other of his contempo-
raries. As far back as May, 1865, fifty-
three years ago, he did his first work in a
south side grocery store, and for the
greater part of the subsequent period has
been an independent merchant. He has
been steadily in his present place of busi-
ness at 2022 Shelby Street since May 2,
1874. Mr. Lensmann is proprietor of a
large hardware and grocery establishment,
and has served more than a generation of
customers in that locality. His store is in
fact a landmark on the south side, one of
the most familiar locations to all the people
in that section.
Mr. Lensmann was born in the Kingdom
of Hanover, Germany, October 4, 1846, son
of Herman Henry and Katherine (Kranke)
Lensmann. His parents spent all their
lives in Germany. His father was an edu-
cator and for a period of fifty-eight years
was connected with the German public in-
stitutions of education. In addition he also
had the active supervision of a large gov-
ernment farm. His parents were members
of the Lutheran Church. Of their children
three are still living : Catherine, unmarried,
and living in Germany; Mrs. William
Maschmeyer, of Indianapolis; and John
Henry.
John Henry Lensmann was chiefly edu-
cated in the schools taught by his father.
"When a youth he left his native land to
seek the opportunities of the New World.
He arrived in March, 1865, just about the
close of the Civil war. What induced him
to come to Indianapolis was the presence
in this city of a friend named Herman
Rosebruck, who at that time was a grocery
merchant at East Street and Virginia Ave-
nue. Mr. Lensmann first went to work for
a local merchant named John Helm at Dav-
idson and Michigan streets. Three months
later he was working in the store of Henry
Rodewald, where he remained fifteen
months, and then took a new place with
Fred Rosebruck at Bradshaw and Virginia
Avenue. Four years later he was admitted
to partnership, and they were in business
together for two years. The firm was
closed out during the panic of 1873, and
^Ir. Lensmann had to begin all over again.
He worked for a new start with John
Kochler, but soon was in business again
for himself at Prospect and Spruce streets,
and, as already noted, in 1874 moved to
his present location.
His has been a business career worthy of
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note in Indianapolis. He lias succeeded bj-
constant and straightforward effort, and
has always done his best to avail himself
of the opportunities to do well for himself
and furnish a reliable service to the com-
munit.y. After coming to the United States
Mr. Lensmann in order the better to equip
himself as an American business man at-
tended a business college in Indianapolis
and took a course in bookkeeping. This
old business school was located just in the
rear of the old Indianapolis postoffice.
Soon after coming to Indianapolis Mr.
Lensmann united with Zion's Evangelical
Church and was one of the trustees of that
church for twelve years. He and his fam-
ily are now members of St. John's Evan-
gelical Church, and for the past three years
he has been church treasurer.
In 1865, the same year he came to In-
dianapolis, Mr. Lensmann married Fred-
ericka Eogge, who was born in "Westphalia,
Germany, and came to the United States
at the age of sixteen. They have one son
and one daughter, Henry and Louise.
Henry is a carpenter and builder at In-
dianapolis. Louise is now organist for St.
John's Evangelical Church.
t
William Eathebt is an Indianapolis
business man and citizen whose record is
one of business accomplishment and clear
and straightforward citizenship throughout
the more than fort,y years he has lived
here. He is head of William Rathert &
Sons and is president of the Sanitary Milk
Products Company.
Mr. Rathert was born in Germany May
14, 1852, son of Christian and Eleanor
(Prange) Rathert. His father was a far-
mer and land owner in Germany, and both
parents spent all their lives there. Strange
to say, Mr. Rathert never returned to his
native land.
Reared and educated in Germany, Wil-
liam Rathert was a boy of fifteen when in
company with Frederick J. ]Meyer and
others he started for America. He had
relatives in this country, including his
uncle, Fred Prange, a -well known early
contractor of Indianapolis, and had another
relative living near Cumberland, Indiana.
The journey to America was an eventful
one. Storms beset the vessel and kept it
back from its course, and even when the
boat was going into port danger was not
over, since the signal gun exploded and
killed a number of passengers grouped
nearby.
William Rathert had little knowledge of
American life and ways, had practically no
capital, but had all the energy necessary
to ])ut him ahead in whatever line of work
he chose. His first employment was with
his uncle, Fred Prange, as an apprentice in
the building trades. His wages the first
year were $7 a month and the next year
$12 a month. He thus acquired an expert
knowledge of the carpenter's trade, and
while working during the day he supple-
mented his education by attending night
school. He finally acquired a partnership
with his uncle.
From the building business Mr. Rathert
in 1875 became associated with his wife's
father as a grocery merchant. They began
selling goods at the same place where the
William Rathert & Sons establishment now
is, 749-751 South Meridian Street. It is
probable that only one other merchant on
the south side of Indianapolis has been do-
ing business longer than Mr. Rathert. This
old timer is Mr. Schrader on Virginia Ave-
nue. Mr. Rathert 's early partner in the
grocery business was Charles Schwomej'er.
After his death Mr. Rathert conducted the
business alone until his sons, William F.
and Paul E., reached an age where they
were admitted to partnership.
As a successful merchant Mr. Rathert 's
interests and co-operation have been sought
in other business affairs. He was one of
the organizers of the Grocers Baking Com-
pany, was a member of its Building Com-
mittee, and was also one of the organizers
and on the Building Committee of the San-
itary Milk Products Company, now one of
the flourishing concerns of the city.
On coming to Indianapolis he became
identified with Zion's Evangelical Church,
served it as a member of its Board of Trus-
tees and as treasurer, and six years ago,
when Friedens Church ,was organized, he
became a charter member, and has since
been active in all its affairs. He was a
member of the Building Committee, and
was formerly treasurer and is now secre-
tary of the church. He has been a member
of the Protestant Orphans Society since
1878, and for a number of years has be-
longed to the Deacons Society. He was a
member of the Building Committee of the
INDIANA AND INDIANANS
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Independent Turnvereiu. In earlier years
he usually voted the democratic ticket but
latterly has been independent.
In 1875 ilr. Rathert married Louisa
Schwomeyer, daughter of Charles Schwo-
meyer. Mrs. Rathert was born only a block
from her present home. Of the four chil-
dren born to them, Carl died at the age of
nineteen and Clara in early childhood. The
two surviving sons are William F. and
Paul E., both capable business men and
associated with their father in the ^Yilliam
Rathert & Sons Store.
Charles D. Legg, sole proprietor of one
of the leading grocery establishments of
Anderson, is the type of American citizen
who makes his own opportunities in life
and has a sound foundation in experience
and ability for every promotion and in-
crease in his prosperitj'.
He was born in Benton Township of
Pike County, Ohio, in 1875, son of Edward
Allen and Elizabeth (Day) Legg. His
English ancestors settled in Virginia dur-
ing colonial times, and some members of
the family fought as soldiers in the Revolu-
tion.
The early experiences of life came to
Charles D. Legg on his father's farm in
Pike County, Ohio. He had a public school
education and also acknowledges the valu-
able training received during his work in
the county treasurer's office for a time.
After coming to Indiana he worked on a
farm two years at monthly wages. He
farmed in" White County 'from 1909 to
1915, and arrived in Anderson in October
of that year. He soon formed a partner-
ship with his brother Christopher E., and
the firm of Legg Brothers soon made a sub-
stantial showing among the mercantile
houses of Anderson, both being men of
great energy and extending the facilities
of their firm to a large proportion of the
homes of the city. In November, 1918, Mr.
Legg bought out his brother and has since
been sole proprietor, and has continued the
business under equally prosperous auspices.
In 1905 he married Miss Dora Ajider-
son. They have two bright young children,
Donald A. and Lucile. Mr. Legg is a thor-
oughly public spirited citizen, a member
of the Chamber of Commerce, of the Mer-
chants Association, and has wielded con-
siderable influence in local politics as a
democrat. He and his wife are members
of the Baptist Church, and he is affiliated
with the Knights of Pythias.
I
James S. Cruse has achieved almost the
dignity of being the dean of the real estate
profession in Indianapolis, and he acquired
his early knowledge of real estate values
when Indianapolis was a comparatively
small city and has been in business for him-
self fully thirty j'ears. Mr. Cruse is essen-
tially a business man, though he also finds
time to lend a hand in the various public
movements in which Indianapolis has a
part.
He was born at New Albany, Floyd
County, Indiana, July 16, 1858, son of
John P. and Annie il. (Dudley) Cruse,
the former a native of Philadelpliia and the
latter of Virginia. His parents married at
New Albany, and in 1862 removed to In-
dianapolis, where they spent the rest of
their days. The father was formerly a con-
tractor and builder, but his later years
were spent as a brick manufacturer and
dealer. James S. Cruse was the only son.
and his sister, Mary, became the wife of
Henry J. Wiethe of Indianapolis.
From the age of four years James S.
Cruse has lived in Indianapolis. He was
educated in the public schools, and his first
regular work was done in his father's brick
3'ard. He did some of the heavy manual
toil as well as looking after books and ac-
counts. His life work was opened to him
during his employment as clerk in the ab-
stract office of John H. Batty. After the
death of Mr. Batty he remained with the
successor of the business, and the experi-
ence gave him a thorough knowledge of
real estate values in this part of the state.
Later he was connected with the real estate
rental agency of Giles S. Bradley, later
with Dain & McCullough and subsequently
with ilr. Dain alone. On the death of this
real estate man Mr. Cruse bought the busi-
ness and has conducted it successfully now
for over thirty years. December 19, 1908,
it was incorporated as the J. S. Cruse
Realty Company, with Mr. Cruse as pi-esi-
dent. It is one of the larger real estate
firms of the city and has a number of
departments with facilities and organiza-
tions furnishing a perfect service as a rent-
ing agency in the general handling and
care of large properties and also for the
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execution of real estate transactions in-
volving outside suburban and farm prop-
erty.
Mr. Cruse is also president of the Mar-
ion Tile Guarantee Company of Indian-
apolis. He is a republican voter and a
member of the Columbia, Commercial and
Marion Clubs, the Indianapolis Board of
Trade, and in Masonry has attained the
thirty-second degree of Scottish Rite and
belongs to the Mystic Shrine. In 1896 he
married Miss Fannie Jones, daughter of the
late William H. Jones of Indianapolis.
T. Talmadge Culver is proprietor of the
Culver Dairy Creamery at Richmond, a
business he established a few years ago and
has built up to successful proportions. Mr.
Culver, a man of versatile talents, and who
has appeared on the stage from coast to
coast as reader and singer, has found both
a congenial and satisfying business in sup-
plying the finest grades of pure milk and
cream to this Indiana community.
He was born at Dayton, Ohio, in 1892,
son of A. L. and Minnie Josephine (Beery-
hill ) Culver. The Culvers are an old Eng-
lish family, long established in America.
His father is now an orange grower at
Boynton, Florida.
T. Talmadge Culver attended the com-
mon schools and worked his way to pay
for his expenses while in high school and
college. He graduated from high school
in 1910 and in 1913 entered the Northwest-
ern University at Chicago, graduating in
1915 from the School of Oratory and tak-
ing post-graduate work in both music and
oratory. For three years Mr. Culver was
with the Redpath Lyceum Bureau on the
Chautauqua Circuit as a reader. While in
university he was a member of the Glee
Club as reader and tenor, and traveled
from coast to coast and also visited the
Panama Canal zone.
Mr. Culver married ]\Iiss Laura Brooks,
daughter of Joseph and Pauline Brooks
of Wisconsin. She was a graduate of
Northwestern University. They have one
daughter, Dorothy May, born August 16,
1917.
For four months Mr. Culver helped his
father on the orange grove in Florida and
in September, 1916, eame to Richmond and
opened his present creamery business. He
manufactures butter, buttermilk and cot-
tage cheese, and supplies a large retail
trade*. He is affiliated with the Masonic
Lodge at Richmond, is a member of the
First Christian Church, and in politics is
independent.
James York Welborn, M. D., who has
earned special distinction as a surgeon, has
for twenty years been associated with Dr.
Edwin Walker of Evansville in the Walker
Hospital, and is now the head surgeon of
that noted institution.
Doctor Welborn represents one of the
oldest familes of Southern Indiana, and
also an American ancestry that goes back
to the founding of Virginia. He was bom
at Stewartsville in Posey County. He is a
lineal descendant in the tenth generation
from John Welborn, who settled at James-
town May 24, 1610. The heads of the suc-
cessive generations in the American an-
cestry are as follows : John, Jonathan, Cap-
tain Thomas, Samuel, John, Jesse York,
William Wallace, Dr. George Walker and
James York.
Doctor Welborn 's great-grandfather,
Jesse York Welborn, a native of North
Carolina, moved to Kentucky and thence to
the Territory of Indiana prior to 1810. He
had lived here half a dozen years before
Indiana became a state. Locating at Mount
Vernon, he was a man of prominence in
that locality for many years, serving as
postmaster. He wore the tall silk hat then
the fashion, and the story goes that he car-
ried the few letters constituting the mail
for Mount Vernon in this headgear and
handed them out to the addressees as he
met them. He was also a member of the
first State Legislature.
The medical profession is a tradition in
the Welborn family. Doctor Welborn 's
grandfather. Dr. William W. Welborn, who
was born at Mount Vernon, Indiana, grad-
uated from the Evansville Medical College
and after a brief practice in that city re-
moved to Stewartsville in Posey County
and continued his professional work until
his death at the age of fifty-six. He mar-
ried Hannah Walker, a sister of Dr. George
B. Walker, of Evansville, dean of the
Evansville Medical College. She survived
her husband several years and died at
Evansville at the age of seventy-eight.
Dr. George W. Welborn, father of James
York Welborn, was born at Mount Vernon
in 1843, attended old Asbury College, at
Greeneastle, Indiana, and soon after the
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2197
breaking out of the Civil war entered the
Union army, and on account of his medical
knowledge was assigned to hospital duty.
He was in the army until the close of hos-
tilities, and returning home soon engaged
in the mercantile business at Evansville.
Later he took the full course of the Evans-
ville Medical College, graduating in 1877,
and began practice in his father's home
town, Stewartsville, and continued his la-
bors until his death at the age of sixty-one.
He married ilartha Stinnette, who was
born in Elkton, Kentucky, daughter of
Whiting and Nettie (Britton) Stinnette.
They had four children, named William,
Annie, James York and Helen.
James York Welborn acquired his early
education in the public schools of Stewarts-
ville, also attended his father's alma mater,
DePauw I'niversity, and from there en-
tered the ilarion Simms Medical School in
St. Louis, from which he graduated in
1899. In the same year he came to Evans-
ville and became associated with his cousin.
Dr. Edwin Walker in the Walker Hos-
pital. Doctor Welborn has always been a
close student of his profession, has taken
numerous post-graduate courses and is a
member of the American College of Sur-
geons as well as of the County and State
^ledical societies and the Ohio Valley Med-
ical Association.
In 1902 he married Mamie Begley,
daughter of Dr. Baxter Begley of Ingle-
field, Indiana. They have three children,
Susanna Jane, James York, Jr., and 'Slary
Aline. Doctor and Mrs. Welborn are mem-
bers of the Trinity Methodist Episcopal
Chiirch, and he is a member of the official
board. He has served as city health officer
of Evansville, and during the war ac-
cepted an appointment as consulting sur-
geon of the Marine Hospital at Evansville,
serving without pay. Fraternally he is af-
filiated with Evansville Lodge No. 64, Free
and Accepted Masons; Evansville Consis-
tory of the Temple of the My.stic Shrine,
Evansville Lodge No. 143, Knights of
Pythias ; Lodge No. 214, Independent Or-
der of Odd Fellows, and Evansville Lodge
of Elks. He is also a member of the Coun-
try Club.
Doctor Welborn is an enthusiastic hunter
and has visited the canebrakes of Louis-
iana, the tangled jungles of Missouri and
the forest fastnesses of the State of Maine
in search of big game. He humorously
states that most of the big game was alive
at last accounts, and while this is no dis-
credit to his marksmanship, it is evident
tliat Doctor Welborn is more a hunter for
the sake of outdoor life than for the
trophies of the chase. At home he has
evinced a fondness for the pursuit of hor-
ticulture, particularly the gi-owing of
peaches. He developed an orchard of 100
acres in Georgia, and now has seventy-five
acres of fine fruit in Vanderburg Coimty.
The patriotic services rendered during
the war by Dr. J. Y. Welborn of the Walker
Hospital as consulting surgeon at the Ma-
rine Hospital, serving without pay, have
brought him recognition and honor. He
has been issued a commission as surgeon in
the United States Public Health Service,
carrying the rank of major. His term will
be for five years.
Doctor Welborn offered the Walker Hos-
pital and the services of its staff of physi-
cians and nurses to the government when
the amended physical qualification ruling
was adopted, placing registrants with
minor defects in a remedial group to be ,
accepted when cured. The Walker staff
assisted in examining registrants of the
First Division and tendered their services
in caring for the families of soldiers.
William Calveet Welborn, one of the
able members of the Evansville bar, was
born on a farm near Cynthiana in Posey
county, son of Joseph R. and Rebecca (Cal-
vert) Welborn, a grandson of Samuel Wel-
born and lineally descended in the ninth
generation from John Welborn, who ar-
rived in Jamestown, Virginia, in May, 1610.
Of the family James Welborn, represent-
ing the fifth generation in America, served
as a Revolutionary soldier. His son,
Moses Welborn, emigrated from North
Carolina and settled in Posey County, In-
diana, improving a farm there. Samuel
Welborn, grandfather of William C. Wel-
born, was born near Guilford Court House,
in North Carolina, and as young man went
to Gibson County, Indiana, and while
working on a farm met his future wife,
Mary Waters. He remained in Gibson
County and became a successful farmer
and quite active in public affairs, serving
four years as county treasurer.
Joseph R. Welborn was reared and edu-
cated in Gibson County, later moved t^
Posev Countv, and for many vears has been
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devoted to farming and stock raising, spe-
cializing in pure-bred Sliortliorn cattle and
Poland-China hogs. He still occupies his
old farm. His wife, Rebecca Calvert, who
died in 1897, the mother of three children,
was born on a farm in Posey County, a
daughter of William and Martha (Endi-
cott) Calvert and a gi-anddaughter of Pat-
rick Calvert, a pioneer of Vanderburg
County.
William C. Welborn received his early
education in the Cynthiana schools, gradu-
ated Bachelor of Arts from the University
of Indiana in 1899, and from the law de-
partment of the University in 1903. He
was admitted to the bar in 1902 and for
eleven years practiced at Greenfield, In-
diana. Since July 15, 1913, his home has
been at Evansville, where he has practiced
in partnership with Hon. A. J. Veneman.
He is a member of the Vanderburg County
Bar Association, and of the Greenfield Bap-
tist Church, while his wife is a member of
the Trinitv Methodist Episcopal Church.
He married November 26, 1903, Edith
Gauntt. She was born at Marion, Indiana,
■a daughter of Jasper and Addie (Evans)
Gauntt. Mr. and Mrs. Welborn have four
daughters named Marion, Ruth, Dorothy
and Frances.
John Roberts was a pioneer Indiana
business man, one of the comparatively
few who in the middle years of the last
century had interests that extended beyond
the immediate locality of his residence.
His home for many years was at Brook-
ville, where he located as a boy from his
native State of Kentucky. He was born
near Georgetown, Kentucky, April 10,
1813, son of Billingsley and Nancey (Jew-
ell) Roberts. His father was a modest
planter in Kentucky, had a few slaves, but
freed them many years before the war and
in fact before abolition had become a
prominent force or influence in the coun-
try. He died in Kentucky and soon after-
ward his widow in 1828 brought her little
family to Brookville. Indiana, settling a
short distance above that town. John Rob-
erts, who was fifteen years of age when he
came to Indiana, was second in a family
of ten children. He had a very limited
education, though his own intellect and his
constant habit of observation and industrj^
well made up for this early deficiency.
The schooling he did receive was obtained
in a log schoolhouse of pioneer times, com-
forts and facilities.
At Brookville his first regular business
was pork packing, and he built one of the
leading establishments of its kind in that
town. Later he engaged in milling and
operated a warehouse. He also acquired
and opei'ated a line of canal boats between
Cambridge City and Cincinnati. His busi-
ness entei-prises seemed to prosper almost
without exception, and as his wealth ac-
cumulated he invested in real estate, and
owned large tracts of land in different
parts of Indiana. In character he was
quiet and unobtrusive, though these quali-
ties did not interfere with the exhibition
of executive ability of the highest type.
In whatever he undertook he was forceful
and persistent and seldom undertook any-
thing which he did not see through to suc-
cess. During the Civil war he became en-
deared to the families of soldiers by large
contributions to their support and com-
fort. After the organization of that party
he acted with the republicans, though
probably his name was never connected
with a public office as an aspirant or can-
didate.
In November, 1834, at the home of the
bride three miles north of Brookville, Mr.
Roberts married Mary M. Templeton,
daughter of Robert Templeton, a promi-
nent citizen and pioneer of the Brookville
region who had come to Indiana from
South Carolina. Mr. and Mrs. John Rob-
erts had a large family of children, but
only four reached maturity, and three are
now living: Mrs. Caroline Peck; Mrs.
Helen M. Heron; Mrs. Nannie R. Shirk,
wife of Elbert H. Shirk of Tipton, In-
diana : and James E. Roberts.
Mr. John Roberts died January 14, 1891,
and his widow survived him until Decem-
ber 18, 1900.
James E. Roberts, their only living son,
has for many years been a resident of In-
dianapolis. He was born at Brookville,
October 27, 1849, attended college at
Brookville, and his first business experience
was as clerk in a store in his native town.
Later he removed to Lafayette and from
there to Connersville, where for three years
he was in the hardware business. Later he
became a furniture manufacturer as mem-
ber of the firm Munk & Roberts Furniture
Company. In 1893 Mr. Roberts moved to
Indianapolis and has since lived retired.
INDIANA AND INDIANANS
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November 23, 1881, he married ilary
Clavpool, daughter of Benjamin F. Clay-
pool. She died October 16, 1894. On Jan-
uary 4, 1905, Mr. Roberts married Hen-
rietta West Stevens, daughter of John
West of Reading, Pennsylvania, and widow
of George E. Stevens.
Alex.\nder Heron. The services by
which Alexander Heron became a figure in
Indiana affairs were rendered during his
many years of incumbency as secretary
of the Board of Agriculture. He was a
sterling figure among Indiana farmers, a
leader and educator in the best sense of the
term, and he did much that may properly
be remembered and given a place in these
records.
He was born in Baltimore, Maryland,
May 2, 1827, and died in Indianapolis May
29, 1900. His parents were James and
Barbara Heron. James Heron with his
family came in early days from Baltimore
to Connersville. Indiana. Both he and his
wife died in Fayette County, and of their
six children two are living.
Alexander Heron received most of his
education in Connersville, and after his
father's death he remained at home tend-
ing the farm for his mother. In 1873 he
came to Indianapolis as secretary of the
Board of Agriculti;re, and he held that
office continuously until a few months be-
for his death.
In politics he was a democrat, but had
strong independent leanings. January 14,
1864, he married at Brookville, Indiana,
Miss Helen Roberts, daughter of John and
Mary M. (Templeton) Roberts. Mrs.
Heron survives her honored husband, re-
siding at 1827 North Meridian Street in
Indianapolis. She is the mother of two
children: Mary R., Mrs. J. J. Garver;
and Charles A., who is a farmer in Tipton
County.
Mrs. Heron's parents spent practically
all their lives in Indiana. Her father was
born in Lexington. Kentucln-, and came to
Brookville, Indiana, at the age of nineteen.
He acquired several farms and various
business interests, and both he and his wife
died at Indianapolis. In politics he was a
republican. Mrs. Heron was one of eight
children, and three are still living, her sis-
ter being Mrs. Nannie R. Shirk of Tipton,
and her brother, James E. Roberts of In-
dianapolis.
William C. Osborne is president of the
First National Bank of Danville and sec-
retary of the Danville Trust Company.
Hendricks County's financial history
largely revolves around the First National
Bank of Danville. It was founded in
1863, the same year that the National Bank
Act was passed, and one of the men inter-
ested in its establishment was the grand-
father of the present president. It is an
institution reflecting credit upon the per-
sonnel of its officers and directors and of
unequestionable resources and strength.
The bank has resources of over $900,000,
while its affiliated organization, the Dan-
ville Trust Company, has resources of
$120,000.
Mr. Osborne was born in Howard
County, Indiana, June 16, 1865, about two
years after the First National Bank of
Danville was founded. His parents were
Edmund and Martha (Cook) Osborne, and
he is of an English Quaker family. His
great-great-grandfather, ilatthew Osborne,
settled in North Carolina at an eai-ly day.
Mr. Osborne's grandfather, Henry Os-
borne, came from North Carolina to In-
diana in 1820 and located on a farm in
the southern part of the state, near Paoli,
where for a time he engaged in wagon
making. In 1885 he again pioneered, this
time locating on a farm in Howard County.
He was a devout Quaker and a man of ex-
emplary life and principles. In 1875 he
moved to Hendricks County, having pre-
viously been interested in the establishment
of the bank at Danville. His family con-
sisted of three sons and one daughter.
Edmund Osborne was the oldest child.
He spent most of his life in Howard
County, where he became an extensive land
owner, and much of that property is still
held by his descendants. He died in 1907.
William C. Osborne is the oldest of the
three living children of his parents. He
had a common school education, also at-
tended West Town Academy in Pennsji-
vania, and for several years taught school,
his teaching experience being in the states
of Pennsylvania, Florida and Iowa. Until
about thirty years of age he spent most of
his time on his father's farm and had an
active share in the farm management. In
1895 he located at Danville, becoming book-
keeper in a local bank and serving as cash-
ier four years. Since 1906 he has been
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president of the First National Bank. Mr.
Osborne is also one of the wealthy farmers
of Hendricks County, having three well im-
proved farms in that county and 220 acres
in Howard County. He is a republican
voter and is affiliated with the Independent
Order of Odd Fellows. He retains the
faith of his forefathers, that of the Quaker
Church, and for a number of years has
been a trustee of Earlhara College at Rich-
mond. His wife has served several years
on the Educational Committee of that
college.
Jlr. Osborne married, October 24, 1899,
Miss Christina Rogers, of Georgia. They
have five children : Annie Martha, Florence,
Elizabeth, Miriam and Edmund R.
Sterling R. Holt came to Indianapolis
in 1869. He was then nineteen years of
age, and several years passed before his
work and abilities attracted attention be-
yond his immediate employers. Through
sheer force of will and the exercise of good
common sense and industry Mr. Holt has
come to attain a prominent position in
business affairs, and twenty years ago was
a recognized leader in the democratic party
of the State of Indiana.
Mr. Holt was born in Graham, Alamance
County, North Carolina, March 26, 1850,
son of Seymour P. and Nancy A. Holt.
His parents were both natives of North
Carolina and spent their lives there. Like
other Southern families they suffered from
the ravages of the Civil war, and as Ster-
ling R. Holt was at that time of school age
he was deprived of many of the advantages
which in a peaceful condition of the coun-
try he might have secured.
He had been on his own resources and
making his own way for several years be-
fore he came to Indianapolis. Here he
worked at whatever employment was of-
fered, and at the same time he prepared
himself for a business career by completing
a course in the Bryant & Stratton Business
College.
In 1872 he began work as a clerk in the
retail dry goods firm of Muir & Foley,
with whom he remained three years. He
practiced the strictest economy while
there, and on leaving the house used his
limited capital to establish a drug store at
164 West Washington Street, having as a
partner a practical pharmacist. This busi-
ness grew and prospered for seven years,
until Mr. Holt sold his interests.
In the meantime for four years he had
been in the ice business and in 1880, after
selling his drug store, he became associated
with other parties in the organization of
the Indianapolis lee Company. In 1888
a division was made of this business, Mr.
Holt retaining the wholesale department.
For many years his fundamental interests
in a business way at Indianapolis have been
as an ice manufacturer and dealer. He
acquired interests in ice companies and
firms in various cities and towns of the
state, and the Indianapolis enterprise con-
ducted under his own name is the largest'
of the kind in the city.
Mr. Holt in politics has been a steadfast
but broadminded and when occasion re-
quires an independent worker in the demo-
cratic party. Under Mayor Sullivan he
was president of the Board of Public
Safety for Indianapolis, in 1890 was elected
chairman of the Marion County Demo-
cratic Central Committee, and in 1892 was
elected to the office of county treasurer.
He filled that office one term, not being a
candidate for re-election. In 1895 Mr. Holt
became chairman of the Democratic State
Central Committee of Indiana. After the
National Convention of 1896 he re.signed,
since he was unable to support the free
silver candidacy of William J. Bryan.
Mr. Holt is an active member of the In-
dianapolis Board of Trade and the Com-
mercial Club, is a Knight of Pythias and
prominent in both the York and Scottish
Rites of Masonry. He is affiliated with the
Lodge, Royal Arch Chapter and Knight
Templar Commandery, with the Indiana
Consistory of the Scottish Rite, and with
Murat Temple of the IMystie Shrine. Sep-
tember 18, 1874, five years after he came
to Indianapolis. Mr. Holt married Miss
Mary Gregg. She is a native of Indiana,
and her father, Martin Gregg, was at one
time a successful business man of Danville.
Alvah C. Steele represents one of the
old and substantial families of St. Joseph
County, was himself a successful teacher
for a number of years, but since 1910 has
concentrated his duties as cashier of the
North Liberty State Bank. Mr. Steele was
one of the organizers of that bank and de-
serves some of the credit for its growth and
INDIANA AND INDIANANS
2201
flourishing condition today. The bank has a
capital of $25,000, surplus and undivided
profits of $15,000, and its deposits are more
tlian $200,000, reflecting the prosperitj' of
that rich and atti-active country surround-
ing the Town of North Liberty. The presi-
dent of the bank, Isaac Reamer, died re-
cently, and at this writing the vice presi-
dent, J. L. Weaver, is acting president,
while most of the executive administration
of the bank and its affairs devolves upon
the cashier, Jlr. Steele.
Jlr. Steele was born at North Liberty,
Indiana, April 16, 1877. His grandfather,
Elias Steele, was born in Somerset County,'
Pennsylvania, in 1810, and at an early age
was thrown upon his own responsibilities
by the death of his father. He came to
manliood in Ohio, and in 1865 moved with
his family to Plymouth, Indiana, and from
there in "l867 to Liberty Township of St.
Joseph County, where he bought 120 acres
of land only partly cleared. He finally be-
came proprietor of what has long been
known as the old Steele homestead, about
200 acres in Liberty Township. In his
time he was undoubtedly one of the largest
land owners in St. Joseph County, having
about 1,800 acres. He was not only suc-
cessful in a business way but gave much of
his time to the unremunerated duties as
minister of the German Baptist Church.
He was a notable figure in the life of St.
Joseph County, and died on his farm at
North Liberty in 1877. He voted as a whig
and later as a republican. He married
Elizabeth Bickel, who was born in Holmes
County, Ohio, and died at North Liberty,
Indiana, in her eighty-second year. They
were the parents of a large family of eight
children, six sons and two daughters.
John Steele, father of Alvah C., was born
in Coshocton County, Ohio, in 1847, was
reared and educated there, and was twenty
years of age when the family moved to
Liberty Township of St. Joseph County.
There he became extensively engaged in
the buying and shipping of stock, accumu-
lated a fine farm of 260 acres, and was long
regarded as one of the county's most sub-
stantial citizens. He died at his old home
in Liberty Township in 1890. He was a
member of the Church of the Brethren and
a republican in politics. John Steele mar-
ried Emeline Houser, who is still living at
North Liberty. She was born in Coshocton
County, Ohio, December 12, 1844, daughter
of George and Lucy (Long) Houser, being
one of eleven children. George Houser was
born in Pennsylvania in 1813, and lived to
be seventy-one years of age. He grew up
in Ohio from the age of eleven and about
1856 brought his family to St. Joseph
County, Indiana, where he followed farm-
ing for many years. His wife was born in
Pennsylvania in 1817 and died at the age
of seventy-eight.
John Steele and Emeline Houser were
married March 9, 1876, and they were the
parents of four children. The oldest is
Alvah C. The second is ilaude E., who
graduated from the Walkerton High School
in 1899, taught school for a number of
years, part of the time at Mishawaka, and
is now the wife of J. F. Price, a hardware
merchant at North Liberty. The younger
daughter, Beatrice M., finished the com-
mon school work in 1896, at the age of
twelve years, graduated from the Walker-
ton High School in 1902, and later received
her degree A. B. from Indiana State Uni-
versity, where she made her ma.ior study
history. She has done much useful work
as a teacher and is now principal of the
high school of Tyuer, Indiana. The fourth
and youngest child is John R., who grRdu-
ated from the North Liberty High School
and also from the Walkerton High School,
and is now cashier of the Union Bank at
Lakeville, Indiana.
Alvah C. Steele grew up on his father's
farm in St. Joseph County, finished the
course of the rural schools in 1894, and
later was a student in Valparaiso Univer-
sity. He began teaching in young man-
hood, taught in St. Joseph and Elkhart
counties, and for one year was connected
with the schools of Henryetta, Oklahoma.
^Ir. Steele put in an aggregate of fifteen
years in school work, and during that time
was superintendent of the city schools at
Wakarusa, Indiana, and also of the public
schools of Tyner and Larwill. Indiana.
Mr. Steele is treasurer of the Heim Ce-
ment Products Company and is a director
of the Union Bank of Lakeville, Indiana.
He is a republican voter and has always
taken a keen interest in everything that
affects the welfare of his home community.
He owns his residence on Maple Street in
North Liberty.
November 26, 1903, at Walkerton, In-
diana, he married Miss Maude Rensberger,
daughter of Elias and Anna (Inman)
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Rensberger. Her parents reside at Walker-
ton, her father being a retired merchant.
Mr. and Mrs. Steele have two children:
Max E., born May 15, 1909, and Robert
A., born July 20, 1912.
William Otis Rockwood. Of the Rock-
wood family which for so many years has
been prominently identified with the busi-
ness and industrial fortunes of Indiana,
William Otis Rockwood was head of the
first generation in this state. The name to-
day is most familiarly associated with a
large manufacturing concern at Indian-
apolis, but through the three generations
of the family it has numerous connections
with railroad building, manufacturing,
banking and other interests not only in
Indiana but in other states.
The Rockwoods are of stanch old New
England ancestry. The father of William
0. Rockwood was Rev. Dr. Elislia Rock-
wood, who graduated from Dartmouth Col-
lege in 1802, and for twenty -seven years
was a minister of Westboro parish in
Massachusetts. He married Susanna Brig-
ham Parkman, daughter of Breck Parkman
and a granddaughter of Rev. Ebenezer
Parkman, who was the first minister at
Westboro.
Of this parentage William Otis Rock-
wood was born at Westboro, Massachusetts,
February 12, 1814. He was liberally edu-
cated, being a student in the academies of
Leicester and Amherst and completing his
classical course in Yale College. His boy-
ish passion for adventure led him to try
the sea, where in a short time he experi-
enced the wide gulf that separates reality
from romance. Subsequently he clerked in
a store and taught school.
In 1836, at the age of twenty-two, he
went west to Illinois, and married in that
state Helen :\Iar Moore. In 1837 they set-
tled on a small farm near Madison, Indiana.
From there William 0. Rockwood moved to
Shelbyville, where he engaged in the mill-
ing business. He also became superintend-
ent of the Shelbyville Lateral Branch Rail-
road. It was through railroading that he
first came into prominence among the
builders of the new state. On moving to
Indianapolis ho became treasurer of the
Indianapolis and Cincinnati Railw^^y, and
filled that office thirteen years, until he re-
signed in 1868. He was one of the promi-
nent railroad men of his day in Indiana.
Other interests rapidly accumulated. The
Town of Rockwood, Tennessee was named
in his honor. There, with his son William
E., he founded the Roane Iron Company,
an industry in which his grandsons still
have an interest. He also established a
rolling mill at Chattanooga. William 0.
Rockwood held many official positions in
the commercial development of- Indiana,
and but few of the large undertakings
launched at Indianapolis in his day did
not have him as a director or participant.
His activities covered such varied fields as
banking, railroads, insurance; mining and
iron manufacture. He was a man of ut-
most probity of character and his death,
which occurred at Indianapolis November
13, 1879, was regarded not only as a loss
to the citizenship of his home community
but to the state at large. He and his wife
were the parents of three children, Helen
Mar, who became the wife of Rev. Hanford
A. Edson ; William E. ; and Charles B.
The late William E. Rockwood, son of
William 0., was founder of the Rockwood
Manufacturing Company of Indianapolis.
He was born at Madison, Indiana, October
23, 1847, and lived there until about 1859,
when the family came to Indianapolis. He
was not yet fourteen years of age when the
Civil war broke out. Some of the same
enthusiasm that had caused his father to
go to sea no doubt urged the boy to an
active share in the patriotic activities which
then claimed the attention of the larger
part of the citizens both north and south.
In July, 1861, he was first granted the
privilege of association with men' older
than himself in the army. At the very
beginning of the war he was at Franklin;
Louisiana, where, though very young, he
felt and appreciated the animosity held by
the southern people toward the Federal
Government. Then and there he made Tip
his mind to do all in his power for the
Union. In July, 1862, he was refused per-
mission to join the Seventy-First Indiana
Volunteer Infantry, then in camp at In-
dianapolis, on account of his youth. How-
evei;, he insisted so strongly that he was
permitted to go to the front as servant to
Capt. A. Dyer of Company F, with the un-
derstanding that he could enlist when he
was old enougli. His first engagement was
at Richmond, Kentucky, where the Union
troops were captured by the Confederates
under General Kirby Smith. In this en-
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gagement he received a wound in the foot.
As this wound was given no medical or
surgical care, it brought upon him untold
suffering at the time, and was a source of
trouble to him all the rest of his life. With
other prisoners he was granted a parole,
but endured almost incredible hardships in
getting back to the Federal lines. A part
of the way he was carried on the backs of
his comrades. At Cynthiaua he was left in
order that the others might more rapidly
reach the Ohio River. He suffered so much
from his wound that at one time it seemed
that the foot would have to be amputated.
In the meantime his father, having learned
of his predicament and location, went after
him and brought him back to Indianapolis.
He remained there recuperating until May,
1863, when he went to Camp Nelson, Ken-
tucky, and was employed as an assistant
by the train forage master. As such he
made one trip to Knoxville to the relief of
General Burnside, and another to Cumber-
land Gap. The latter journey was one of
great hardship on account of the weather.
For this work, covering a period of seven
months, he was given $15. On March 15,
1864, with his father's consent, he enlisted
in the Seventeenth Indiana Volunteer In-
fantry and was detailed as an orderly to
Gen. John T. Wilder. An unusual fea-
ture of Mr. Roekwood 's military service did
not come to light until after the war was
over. His father had given consent to his
enlistment, taking it for granted that the
boy would soon tire of the service and be
ready to quit. For this reason his name
was erased from the muster rolls and not-
withstanding his arduous service the rec-
ords of the United States Government are
silent as to his patriotic loyalty. But all
the facts given herein are fully substan-
tiated, and the record of no soldier of the
Civil war might more fittingly find a place
in the rolls of the war department. He
continued to serve as orderly to General
Wilder until November, 1864, when he was
brought back to Indianapolis and placed
in school.
After the war William E. Roekwood be-
came associated with his father and with
General Wilder at Chattanooga, Tennes-
see. They built a pig iron furnace at Rock-
wood, and subsequently a flour mill at
Chattanooga. William E. Roekwood spent
considerable time at Roekwood and at
Chattanooga, and had charge of all the
work of improvements on the Cumberland
River under the Rivers and Harbors Com-
mission of the United States Government
from 1879 to 1881. Under his supervision
this river was made navigable from Carth-
age down to the mouth.
Returning to Indianapolis in 1881, pri-
marily to give his children better educa-
tional advantages, he became local repre-
sentative for the Roane Iron Company in
handling the product of the furnace at
Roekwood. At Indianapolis he spent the
rest of his years. Along with ability as
executive and administrator he also showed
originalitj- in the field of invention. He
invented and patented the paper pulley,
now in general use. In 1884 William E.
Roekwood built a factory on South Penn-
sylvania Street, but in 1900 erected a new
plant at 1801-2001 English Avenue. This
industry was begun on a small scale, but
through the different years has grown and
prospered until it is one of Indianapolis'
most substantial industries. After 1893
his sons George 0. and William M. were
actively associated with him.
William E. Roekwood was a member of
the Presbyterian Church and' a republican
in politics. His later life was spent
largely in retirement, owing to the suffer-
ings entailed by his injury while a soldier.
While lie directed large and important in-
terests he was naturally modest and many
lesser men were more widely known in his
home city and state. His intimate friends
were confined to a comparatively small cir-
cle, but the friends he did have were bound
to him by tics of affection and respect that
more than compensated for a larger list.
William E. Roekwood died December 28,
1908. October 23, 1871, he married Miss
Margaret A. Anderson, daughter of Wil-
liam Anderson, whose home was near
Greensburg, Indiana. Six children were
born to their marriage : George 0. ; Wil-
liam :M. ; Charles P. ; Helen M. ; Mary A.,
who died at the age of four years; and
Margaret A., now Mrs. John Goodwin.
The Roekwood Manufacturing Company
founded by William E. Roekwood is now
conducted by his sons George 0. and Wil-
liam M. The plant covers two city blocks
and its importance as a local industry is
indicated by the fact that about 325 peo-
ple find emploj-ment within its walls.
The president of the company, George
0. Roekwood, was born at Chattanooga,
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Tennessee, August 7, 1872. He received
his early education in the public schools of
Indianapolis, and for three years attended
Purdue University at Lafayette. Since
coming of age he has been steadily inter-
ested in the business founded by his father.
He is a republican, a member of the In-
dianapolis Chamber of Commerce, the Uni-
versity and Country clubs, and has varied
associations with the social and civic affairs
of his home city. On May 1, 1907, he mar-
ried Mi's. Marie Rich Sayles, daughter of
W. S. Rich of Brooklyn, Ma.ssachusetts.
By her marriage to Herman Sayles she is
the mother of one son, Sheldon B. Sayles,
now a second lieutenant of field artillery
in the National Army. Mr. and Mrs. Rock-
wood have one daughter, Diana.
Victor H. Rothley is a prominent In-
dianapolis business man, and for many
years has been a manufacturer of office
and bank fixtures. He is pi-esident of the
Aetna Cabinet Company, one of the larg-
est firms of its kind in the state.
This business was originally established
about 1893, being a small plant, the mov-
ing spirit of which was Ed Seikler. At
that time the output was chiefly the prod-
uct of hand labor. In 1895 another group
of men took over the business and estab-
lished the Aetna Cabinet Company. Those
who have furnished their personal energy,
their capital and enthusiasm to the growth
of this business have been Mr. Rothley, now
president of the corporation, Ed. S. Ditt-
rich, vice president and secretary, George
F. Seibert, who is treasurer, and Charles
N. Shockley and Harry Miller. Twenty-
three years ago when this business was or-
ganized its capital stock was $3,000, and at
the present time the company is operating
on $25,000 of capital. Until 1898 the
plant was at 312 West Georgia Street, and
then moved to the present location, 321-329
West Maryland Street. This ground was
for a time leased from Albert Metzger, but
was afterward purchased and many im-
provements have been made on the land
and the buildings. The company now
specializes in office and bank fixtures and
has filled many important contracts all
over the state of Indiana and even in other
states.
Victor H. Rothley was born in Tell City,
Perry County, Indiana, June 12, 1864, son
of Philip C.and Mary (Kasser) Rothley.
His father was one of those aspiring and
liberty-loving Germans who left their couu-
tr_y at the climax of the revolutionary
troubles of 1848 and sought homes and op-
portunities in the New World. He was a
compatriot of Carl Schurz. Coming to
America Philip Rothley landed at New
York, and worked at the cabinet maker's
trade and after a time moved to New Phil-
adelphia, Ohio, where he married INIary
Kasser. She was a native of Switzerland
and had come to this country with her
people when a young woman.
After his marriage Philip C. Rothley
with a relative named Braun opened a gro-
cery store, but soon left the counter and
his business at the behest of a strong pa-
triotism and enlisted at the first call for
troops to put down the rebellion. He
served with Company A, commanded by
Captain Robinson, in the Fifty-First Ohio
Volunteers throughout the three months'
period and then re-enlisted in the same
command. He was at the battle of Mur-
freesboro, Chattanooga, and Missionary
Ridge, the Atlanta campaign, and followed
Sherman on the march to the sea. While
he was in the army his family moved to
Tell City, Indiana, and there he rejoined
them after his honorable discharge from
the ranks. At Tell City he resumed his
business as a cabinet-maker. He lived a
long and useful career, and passed away
in 1910, at the age of eighty-three. His
wife died at seventy-three, and they had
the satisfaction of celebrating the fiftieth
anniversary of their wedding. They were
active members of the Lutheran Church
and Philip Rothley was a republican voter.
Of their nine children Victor was one of
the oldest.
Mr. Victor Rothley was educated in the
public schools of his native town and in
his early youth had some experience work-
ing on a machine in a cabinet making shop.
Then in 1887 he came to Indianapolis and
for a brief time was employed in the Moore
desk factory. From here he went back
to Tell City and afterward was employed
at his trade in Chicago. In 1895 he en-
gaged in business for himself, and since
then has been largely responsible for the
success and upbuilding of the Aetna Cab-
inet Company.
In 1895, the same year he entered busi-
ness for himself, Mr. Rothley married Cyn-
thia Dunlap, who was born in Tippecanoe
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County, Indiana, fifty-three years ago,
daughter of James i\Ioore. Mrs. Rothley
died November 20, 1917, leaving no chil-
dren. ]\Ir. Rothley had alwa3'S been true
to the religion in which he was reared, that
of the Lntheran Church. He is affiliated
with Lodge No. 13, Benevolent and Pro-
tective Order of Elks, is a member of the
Columbia Club, is a republican voter, and
is active in the Manufacturers' Association
and the Contractors' Association of Indian-
apolis.
Thomas C. Day. Those familiar with
the career of Thomas C. Day during his
forty years residence in Indianapolis say
that no man has done more for the estab-
lishment and extension of practical Chris-
tianity and morality in the city. By the
hardest kind of work he achieved success
in a business way a number of years ago,
and has made his means an influence to
promote several good and wholesome in-
stitutions in which he has been especially
interested.
Mr. Day is a native of England, born
Februai-y 28, 1844, but has lived in the
United States since early childhood. He is
of Devonshire ancestry, and many of the
name were identified with manufacturing
in that portion of Southern England, be-
ing owners of the stoke mills. His parents
were Thomas and Mary A. (Gould) Day.
Thomas Day was for twelve years con-
nected with the grocery house of H. H.
and S. Budgett & Company of Bristol
and London, rising from an inferior posi-
tion to the head of the spice department.
In 1848 he brought his family to the
United States, settling near Milwaukee,
Wisconsin. Subsequently he abandoned
all business and entered the ministry of the
Methodist Episcopal Church in the Wis-
consin Conference. He was a very suc-
cessful church builder and organizer and
did not retire from the active ministry
until overtaken by old age. He died at
Indianapolis at the age of ninety-three.
Thomas C. Day spent much of his early
youth and manhood in the far Northwest
when it was a pioneer country, especially
in Minnesota. He finished his education
in Hamline I^niversity, then located at
Redwing, Minnesota. As a result of the
financial panic which began in 1857 and
which swept away his father's modest for-
tune, the youth was compelled to become
self supporting. Thereafter he taught
school and attended college, as opportunity
offered until completing his freshman year.
At that time the Civil war was in progress
and his only brother had enlisted, Thomas
desiring to follow him into the service, but
on account of delicate health was dis-
suaded from that coui-se by his parents.
But in 1863, when the Sioux rebellion be-
gan in Minnesota, he joined the United
States Cavalry and was on duty until the
Indian troubles were over.
At the age of eighteen Thomas C. Day
went to England, representing a publish-
ing house of Hartford, Connecticut. After
a year he returned to the United States
and took up life insurance, a business to
which he devoted many years of his active
career. He became state agent for Min-
nesota and Northern Iowa of the Aetna
Life Insurance Company, and subsequently
he and his brothers formed a partnership
as general agents for Minnesota, Wiscon-
sin and Northern Iowa. In 1872 Thomas
C. Day was given charge of the Chicago
office of the Aetna Company, his territory
including the northern half of Indiana.
While living in Minnesota he had in-
duced the Aetna Life Insurance Company
to make certain loans upon farm lands.
These investments had such fortunate re-
sults that Mr. Day was gradually trans-
ferred from the department of securing
policies for the insurance company to han-
dling and loaning its assets for investment
purposes. He placed large sums of insur-
ance money in the State of Indiana and
in 1877 removed to Indianapolis in order
tlie better to look after his business. Since
then his work has largely been the loaning
of money upon agricultural lands and city
properties in various states. In 1882 he
formed a partnership with William C.
Griffith, and the firm of Thomas C. Day &
Companv was continued until the death of
Mr. Griffith in January, 1892. The com-
pany title was continued with George W.
Wishard and William E. Day, a son of
Thomas C, as associates of the senior mem-
ber. One of Mr. Day's chief services in
broader community affairs has been his
effective leadership in the Y. M. C. A. at
Indianapolis. For three years he was
president of the local association, was for
two years at the head of the Boy's Club,
and has given unreservedly of his time and
means to the upbuilding of this splendid
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institution. For years he has been a rul-
ing elder in the First Presbyterian Church
of Indianapolis. He was a vigorous advo-
cate of a compulsorj' educational law, and
was a member of a committee having
charge of a bill for that purpose which
was advocated before the General Assem-
bly of 1896-97. Mr. Day was equally
ardent in his advocacy of a juvenile court
for Marion County, and deserves a large
share of the credit for the passage of the
bill establishing such a court in 1902-03.
He was chairman of the general commit-
tee which prepared the modern school law
of Indianapolis. Mr. Day is a charter
member of the Indianapolis Commercial
Club, being one of its organizers, also a
member of the Columbia Club since its
organization in 1888, and has long been
a director and member of the executive
committee of the Union Trust Company.
February 10, 1873, he married Miss
Katharine Huntington. Her father was
the late Rev. William P. Huntington. Mr.
and Mrs. Day's five children are Florence,
Dwight Huntington, William Edward,
Frederick Huntington and Helen Hunting-
ton. These children reside in Indianapolis,
New York and Hartford, Connecticut.
George Washington Svfitzer, D. D.
Few men have it in them to sustain so many
important interests and responsibilities in
so broad a field as Dr. George W. Switzer
of Lafayette has carried throughout a pe-
riod of over thirty years. Doctor Switzer
is one of the prominent members of the
Northwest Indiana Conference of the Meth-
odist Episcopal Church and while the
church and the welfare of humanity have
had the first claim upon his falents he has
also become a highly successful business
man, and his abilities as an executive and
administrator have of course distinguished
him especially in the field of religious or-
ganization.
Doctor Switzer has been a permanent
resident of Lafayette for a long period of
years and in that city he is close to the
home where he was born in Tippecanoe
County, November 2, 1854. He is a son of
Peter and Catherine (Shambaugh) Swit-
zer. His paternal great-grandfather and
grandfather were both natives of Virginia,
while the father was a native of Ohio. The
Shambaughs came originally from Ger-
many, and the date of their landing in
Philadelphia was September 9, 1749. Thus
on both sides Doctor Switzer is of old colo-
nial ancestry. The Switzer and Sham-
baugh families came to Tippecanoe County,
Indiana, in 1828, when much of the wild-
erness still remained in its primeval con-
dition. These families lived on adjoining
farms.
George W. Switzer, seventh child of his
parents, grew up on his father's farm, and
aside from home his early associations
were chiefly with the country school and
church. In 1875 he entered Asbury, now
DePauw University at Greencastle, and
from that fine old Methodist institution he
received the degree A. B. in 1881, that of
A. M. in 1884, while in 1900 his alma ma-
ter honored him with the degree Doctor of
Divinity.
The summer after his graduation he and
Professor John BaDe Motte visited Europe,
Mr. Switzer going as a delegate to the
World's International Conference of the
Young Jlen's Christian Association, which
met in the month of July at Exeter Hall,
London. On his return to the United
States Mr. Switzer married on September
20, 1881, Lida Westfall, daughter of Hon.
Harvey Westfall.
In 1880 he entered the Methodist Episco-
pal ministry in the Northwest Indiana Con-
ference, and his active duties as a pastor
began in 1881 at Plainfield, Indiana, where
he remained three years. During his col-
lege work at DePauw he had served two
years in ministerial duties. From 1884 to
1887 he was stationed at Shawnee Mound,
where he had charge of the churches of
that circuit for three j^ears. He was then
appointed to the First Methodist Episco-
pal Church at Crawfordsville, where he
served a pastorate of five years, from 1887
to 1892. Among the members of his con-
gregation was General Lew Wallace, who
was a regular attendant. An intimate
friendship sprang up between this great
military and literary figure of Indiana and
the then youthful pastor. From Craw-
fordsville Mr. Switzer went to Brazil, In-
diana, where he remained from 1892 to
1895, and was not only in charge of the
city church but of four mission churches
and a Sunday School held in a school house.
This was one of his most strenuous posi-
tions, and it brought him in touch with a
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variety of people in all walks of life, min-
ers, workers in shops and mills, as well as
proprietors and business men.
In 1895 Mr. Switzer was appointed to
the West Lafayette Church. The appoint-
ment was made in view of the ability he
had shown as an organizer and the special
purpose was to j^romote a new church
lauilding suitable for the accommodation
of the membership and students who de-
sired to worship with them. During his
six years there, from 1895 to 1901, he more
than justitied all expectations entertained,
not only in the building of the church but
in the increase of its membership. The
West Lafayette Church today, equipped
with a pipe organ, mechanical ventilation,
large provisions for the Sunday School and
all social work, stands as a tribute to this
pastorate.
In 1901 Doctor Switzer was appointed
to the First ilethodist Episcopal Church
at LaPorte. His stay there was for two
years only, but in that time the church M-as
rebuilt, decorated, beautiful cathedral glass
windows plaoecj in the auditorium and a
plan formulated for the rebuilding of the
parsonage.
At the Conference held in South Bend in
September, 1903, presided over by Bishop
I. W. Joyce, Doctor Switzer was selected
for a district superintendent, or, as it was
then known, presiding elder. Bishop
Joyce gave him choice of three districts,
and he chose the Lafayette district, return-
ing to Tippecanoe County. For the six
years ending in 1909 Doctor Switzer gave
untiring service to his duties as superin-
tendent. In 1908 he was a member of the
General Conference of the church which
met at Baltimore.
While at Lafayette Doctor Switzer had
assumed business responsibilities in addi-
tion to his many other ties and associations
with that city, and at the close of his dis-
trict superintendency he requested the pre-
siding bishop to let him have lighter work
and allow him to remain in Lafayette. For
a time he served as the general secretary of
the ilethodist Hospital at Indianapolis. He
also assisted on other special occasions
without any fi.xed salary. Subsequently
Bishop IMcDowell appointed him to take
charge of the Jasper H. Stidham gift and
endowment for a Methodist Church at Tay-
lor's Station. For several years services
were held in the Consolidated School House
of Union Township. When the church
building was completed he had charge of
the little congregation that worshipped in
this unique chajDel, and was appointed trus-
tee of the Endowment Fund of the same.
No happier people, or pastor, meet for wor-
ship than does those of the community
where the Jasper H. Stidham people con-
gregate. All are invited, for the good of
the community, as well as personal good_,
and every worthy cause has free consider-
ation. This pastorate has continued for
nearly six j-ears.
From the time of his attendance at the
World's Conference of the Young Men's
Christian Association, Doctor Switzer has
believed in the utility and power of this
world wide organization of men for reli-
gious life and work. Twice he has been
the president of the state organization and
several times the vice president. For a
number of years he has been an advisory
member of the Board of Directors and more
recently he took an active part in the war
work of the Young Men's Christian Asso-
ciation and helped in the drive to raise
Indiana's share. For almost ten years he
was president of the Young Men's Chris-
tian Association in Lafayette and served
as such during the time of the building of
the new home. He was a leader in the
campaign for the lifting of the debt and
contributed more than any other individual
to see that obligation wiped out.
P'or twenty-seven years Doctor Switzer
has been a member of the Battle Ground
Camp Meeting Association, serving as its
secretary fourteen years and for ten years
as president. He has always kept in close
touch with his alma mater, DePauw Uni-
versity and for a number of years served
as a member of the Joint Board of Trus-
tees and Visitors and was a substantial
helper in increasing the endowment of the
university.
Doctor Switzer has been a member of
the Board of Directors of the Home Hospi-
tal at Lafayette, giving fine and faithful
service in that capacity, and is a member
of the Board of Organized Charities of
Lafayette. He is a member of the Board
of the Woman's Christian Home, a mem-
ber of the Preachers Aid Society, and is
the ministerial member of the Investing
Committee of its large endowment. Doc-
tor Switzer is interested in the welfare of
the entire County of Tippecanoe, and often
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serves as supply for other churches than
those of his own denomination.
His business responsibilities have for
many years kept him in close touch with
the financial community of Lafayette. For
over twenty-five years he has been a direc-
tor of the Baker-Vawter Company, the
widely known firm of stationery manufac-
turers, whose head offices are now at Ben-
ton Harbor, Michigan. In 1917 he became
chairman of the Board of Directors of this
company.
Doctor Switzer is a member of the Beta
Theta Pi college fraternity, is a Knights
Templar Mason, and an independent re-
publican in politics.
Two children have blessed his home. The
daughter, a graduate of DePauw Univer-
sity and with post-graduate work to her
credit in Purdue University and Oberlin
College, is the wife of Professor Glenn A.
Shook, Ph. D., now a member of the fac-
ulty of Wheaton College of Norton, Massa-
chusetts. Doctor and Mrs. Shook have one
daughter, Elizabeth Louise Shook, who is
the special pride of her grandfather. The
son, Vincent Westfall Switzer, a graduate
of Illinois State University, is connected
with the Baker-Vawter Company of Ben-
ton Harbor, Michigan, and is also a mem-
ber of its Board of Directors, and treasurer.
In October, 1918, Doctor Switzer and his
wife moved to St. Joseph, Michigan, for
temporary residence. Doctor Switzer is
still a member of the Northwest Indiana
Conference of the Methodist Episcopal
Church and has a pastorate in South Bend,
being the pastor of the Epworth Memorial
Methodist Episcopal Church in South
Bend, Indiana. He is a director in the
First ^Merchants National Bank of Lafay-
ette, Indiana, the largest bank of that city.
He was a director of the American National
Bank and its vice president. The Ameri-
can National Bank with two others liqui-
dated and the First Merchants National
Bank was organized. He attends the
meetings of the bank, looks after the inter-
est of the farm in Tippecanoe County, and
other business interests the first week of
each month, and is thus still related to
Indiana.
As this brief outline has shown, Doctor
Switzer 's life interests have been by no
means narrow. He is a very human man,
with sympathies for all, with an optimism
generated from actual experience and close
touch with all classes of people. He is a
friend to those needing friends, is a helper
of the helpless, and uncomplainingly has
made sacrifices for the' sake of persons and
interests especially dear to him.
Ada L. (Stubbs) Bernh.vrdt since Feb-
ruary, 1903, has been librarian of the Mor-
risson-Reeves Library, of Richmond, and
during that time has made this institution
of constantly broadening value and service
to the entire community.
Mrs. Bernhardt was born in Richmond,
a daughter of Lewis D. and Emily (Men-
denhall) Stubbs. Her ancestors were Eng-
lish people who came in colonial times to
New England and Pennsylvania, and a
later branch of the family were pioneers in
Preble County, Ohio.
Mrs. Bernhardt graduated from the pub-
lic schools of Richmond and took her A. B.
degree from Earlham College in 1879. In
1884 she married William C. Bernhardt, of
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, who died in 1889.
Mr. Bernhardt was a lawyer. They had
one son, Carl Bernhardt, who was a former
editorial writer with the Richmond Pallad-
ium and the Indianapolis Sun, and is now
a resident of New York. He was educated
in Earlham College and later at Johns
Hopkins University.
After the death of her husband Mrs.
Bernhardt in 1889 became private secre-
tary to William Dudley Foulke, and con-
tinued in that service imtil she turned to
her present duties as librarian.
John W. ilooRE has long been promi-
nent as a railroad and latterly as a con-
sulting and constructional engineer. His
present headquarters are in Indianapolis.
Mr. Moore is a native of Indiana, son of the
late Dr. Henry Moore, one of the promi-
nent physicians and business men of the
state.
Dr. Henry Moore was born in Hamilton
County, Indiana, son of John Moore, a na-
tive of North Carolina. John Moore with
his young wife crossed the Blue Ridge
Mountains on horseback, and after a brief
so.iourn in Ohio moved to Hamilton
County. Indiana, in pioneer times. He
was a farmer there and became a man of
influence in his community. He reared a
large family. He was a strong republican,
a supporter and admirer of Governor Mor-
ton, Indiana's war governor, and he took
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an active part in bringing to justice the
anti-war conspiratoi-s of that time.
Dr. Henry ]\loore lived at home to the
age of seventeen and then enlisted in the
Twenty-Fifth Illinois Infantry. Soon af-
ter his enlistment he was transferred to
the iledical Corps and during the last two
years of his service had charge of the Gov-
ernment Hospital at New Albany. He
was in the service four years and was pro-
moted to the rank of surgeon. He was in
the heat of the battle of Missionary Ridge
and other important engagements. His
early education was acquired in the public
schools and later he graduated from the
Indianapolis Medical College. He began
practice at ililwood in Hamilton County
and had a busy career as a country physi-
cian for twenty-five years. He built the
first house at Milwood and later was instru-
mental in having the name of the village
changed to Sheridan in honor of the great
Civil war general. He was a man of keen
business vision and of great enterprise and
worked for the welfare of the state. He
was instrumental in securing the construc-
tion of a railroad from Frankfort, Indiana,
to Indianapolis, by securing the right of
way for that line. He was active in build-
ing the First Methodist Church at Sheri-
dan, and was aiifiliated with the Masonic
Lodge at Deming, Indiana. He was an ar-
dent republican. Besides his medical prac-
tice at Sheridan he conducted a fine farm
two and a half miles east of the town, and
became an extensive land owner. He was a
father of a family of six children, John W.
being the oldest.
John W. Moore was born in New Al-
bany, Indiana, Jafiuary 18, 1865. His
mother's maiden name was Catherine R.
Paget. In 1880 the family removed to In-
dianapolis, locating at Irvington, where Dr.
Henry Moore spent the rest of his life. At
Indianapolis he became extensively identi-
fied with railroad promotion and operation
and was general manager of the Central
Indiana Railroad. CTOvernor Durbin ap-
pointed him to investigate and recommend
a location for the Deaf and Dumb Institute
of Indiana, and it was upon his recom-
mendation largely that the institution was
established. Later he was similarly em-
ployed to investigate and recommend the
location for the present Tuberculosis Hos-
pital near Roekville in Parke County and
had charge of the construction of the hos-
pital building. His death came suddenly.
He dropped dead in the State House at In-
dianapolis December 2, 1912. At that time
he was chairman of the Board of Trustees
of the Tuberculosis Hospital.
John W. Moore acquired his early edu-
cation in the common schools of Sheridan
and the Union High School at Westfield,
Indiana. After the family moved to In-
dianapolis he attended Butler College and
took a special engineering course for four
years. He was employed as the civil and
locating engineer for several railroad com-
panies and for ten years was chief engineer
in charge of construction of the Central
Indiana Railroad. In 1903 he resigned
that position to become chief engineer of
the Indianapolis and Cincinnati Traction
Company, and held that post eight years.
Since then he has been engaged in private
practice as a consulting and construction
engineer. He has made something of a
specialt.y of furnishing plans and specifica-
tions for increasing water supply for cities
and large enterprises, planning sanitary
systems and air lift pumping systems. He
is a member of the American Society of
Civil Engineers, of the Indiana Engineer-
ing Society, and of the Indiana Sanitary
and W. S. A. He is a Knight Templar
Mason, a member of the Rotary Club and
is a republican in politics.
]\IoSES RosENTH.\L was One of the re-
markable characters of Central Indiana
during his life time, and was one of the
few men whose influence was wholly for
good. The pages of this publication can
hardly contain the record of any man
whose life work was more completely an
expression of unselfish devotion and labor
in behalf of those he loved, whether family
or intimate friends.
He was born February 2, 1844, at Nag-
lesburg in the Kingdom of Wurtemberg,
Germany, of Hebrew parentage. He was
the oldest of ten children, including three
half brothers. As a boy he had good ad-
vantages, but was left an orphan at thir-
teen and from that time forward was com-
pelled to do for himself. Realizing the
limited opportunities in the old country,
he determined to seek his home and for-
tune in America. Soon after the death of
his father and while still at an age when
the average boy is within the sheltering
protection of parents he crossed the At-
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INDIANA AND INDIANANS
lantic Ocean to America. His first employ-
ment in this couutrj' was in an abbatoir at
Buffalo. One of his chief characteristics
was an intelligence and energy that enabled
him to master any undertaking in an in-
ereditably short time. As a result of the
exercise of this intelligence he came when
a beardless boy to Indiana as a buyer of
cattle. He was thrifty, and shortly before
the beginning of the Civil war located at
Indianapolis as a member of the wholesale
and retail clothing establishment of Hays
& Rosenthal.
By the time he was nineteen years of
age Hoses Rosenthal had brought his nine
brothers and sisters to this eountrj', and
later most of them were married from his
home. At the age of twenty-one he him-
self married Frances Hays, daughter of his
former partner. It will indicate the tre-
mendous energy of his nature and his ex-
ceptional business ability to state that at
the time of his marriage, aside from his
numerous family charities, he had accumu-
lated $11,000 in cash, a store in Kokomo
and had no debts.
His generosity and public spirit were
signally manifested during the period of
the Civil war. When ]\Iorgan threatened
to devastate the central portion of the state
he closed his store, volunteered his serv-
ices to Governor Morton, and served ninety
days as a member of the state troops. This
was not his only sacrifice in behalf of the
Union. He was owner of a stave and
heading factory at Kokomo. Thousands
of dollars worth of valuable material in
this plant were consumed by the Union
troops for fuel, and he never received a
cent of payment for this property. He
also owned a flax mill at Logansport, but
after the death of one of his employes and
the injury of a number of others through
a boiler explosion he could no longer live
there and he accordingly razed the prop-
erty and moved to Peru. From the latter
place he again returned to Indianapolis,
and for a time operated a shoe store in the
Bates House and a furnishing store at 37
East Washington Street.
Unlike many of his race Mr. Rosenthal
had no particular desire for riches beyond
what would suffice for the comforts his ac-
cumulations would procure to those near
and dear to him. Undoubtedly had he ex-
ercised his business talents to their full
bent he might have become one of the
wealthiest men of Indiana. First and last,
however, he was swayed by a broad sense
of duty to humanity, and like the philoso-
pher of old could exclaim that humanity's
every interest was his own. Scores of
needy individuals were made happier and
better for his benefactions, and many o'l
these still living recall his memory with
loving words of praise.
His life was made the more notable for
the strong friendships he formed and kept
to the end of his days. The making of
friends was not a studied effort with him,
but was merely a natural consequence upon
the attributes of his character already de-
scribed. He was on terms of intimacy
with most of the noted men of his day.
There is no question that the death of his
warm and personal friend Thomas A.
Hendricks hastened his own end. Mr.
Rosenthal was exceedingly democratic, ap-
proachable, agreeable, charitable in his
views and acts, and as nearly as is humanly
possible his life was a complete expression
of the best ideals of charity.
The names of his children were: Max
M., of Davenport, Iowa; Delia R., Mrs.
Norbert Gunzberger, of New York ; Walter
M., of New York; Eugene M., of Detroit;
Albert M. ; Edwin M., of Toledo, Ohio;
and Irma H., Mrs. Emile Despres.
Albert M. Rosenthal, the only one of the
children of the late Moses Rosenthal still
living in Indiana, was born at Kokomo, Oc-
tober 17, 1876. He acquired his education
chiefly in what is now the Shortridge High
Seliool in Indianapolis. He was nine years
of age when his father died, and he soon
afterward began earning his own living.
He early took up real estate and insurance
and subsequently traveled as a salesman
for a wholesale paper establishment. In-
heriting much of the quick intelligence of
his father, he rapidly mastered all the de-
tails of the paper Isusiness and in 1903
founded the Standard Paper Company of
Indianapolis, of which he has since been
president. This is one of the larger com-
mei'cial enterprises of the capital city.
Mr. Rosenthal is an able business man and
widely known over his native state.
He married Miss Gertrude Kirshbaum;
daughter of Raphael Kirshbaum, who died
in 1916. Their two daughters are named
Flora Margaret and Janet Susanne.
Paul Oscar T.\uer, one of the leading
bixsiness men of Lebanon, has been identi-
INDIANA AND INDIANANS
2211
fied with that city since 1900, and is the
present maj'or of that hustling little city.
Mr. Tauer, who has a military record as
a soldier of the Spanish-American war,
was born at Amsterdam, New York, Sep-
tember 21, 1871. His parents, Oscar and
Josephine (Nichols) Tauer, were both na-
tives of Germany. His father was born
October 17, 1836, and came to America af-
ter his marriage, at the age of twenty-one.
He was a college graduate and an expert
piano maker bj- trade. He finally located
at Kiehmond, Indiana, and began the man-
ufacture, of the Star pianos, and has built
up one of the largest industries of its kind
in Indiana, his products going all over the
world. He was a member of the Lutheran
Church, is a Knight of Pythias and ilason
and one of the best known citizens of Leb-
anon. His wife was born in Germany in
1840 and died at Richmond in 1889. 'She
was very devout in her attendance and
work in the German Lutheran Church. Of
their six children five are still living : Ada-
line, unmarried and living at Detroit,
ilichigan ; Oscar, witli his father in busi-
ness; Paul 0. ; Erail, a florist at Richmond;
Amia, wife of John Sickman, an overall
manuf actui-er at Richmond ; and Henrietta,
deceased.
Mr. Paul 0. Tauer was educated in the
Richmond public schools. In 1898 he en-
listed in Company F of the One Hundred
Sixty-First Indiana Infantry. He went
with his regiment to Cuba, served as a pri-
vate and later as a sergeant, and his regi-
ment was commanded by Colonel Winfield
T. Durbin, afterward governor of Indiana.
Mr. Tauer is a member of the Spanish-
American War Veterans Association, be-
ing affiliated with Eli Clampitt Camp No.
49 at Lebanon, and is a past commander.
Mr. Tauer came to Lebanon in 1900 and
engaged in the floral business, in which he
had considerable previous training. He
bought an old and run down plant, and
has developed a large and prosperous en-
terprise, the only business of its kind in
Boone County. His plant is situated on
the south side of the city, and he has three
acres of ground at the disposal of his busi-
ness. He also has one of the modern
homes of Lebanon.
Mr. Tauer was elected a member of the
Lebanon City Council in 1910, serving a
term of four years, and in 1918 was elected
mayor for a term of four j-ears. He is a
progressive in everything that concerns the
welfare of the community as well as in his
own business. Mr. Tauer is a republican,
is affiliated with tiie Masons, the Knights
of Pythias, the Independent Order of Odd
Fellows, and the Improved Order of Red
Men. He , is a member of the Methodist
Episcopal Church. January 11, 1899, he
married iliss Minnie Brooks, a native of
Peru, Indiana. She died October 13, 1901,
the mother of one child, Myron B., now a
student in the public schools. October 23,
1902, Mr. Tauer married Miss lone McCas-
!in, a native of Lebanon and a daughter of
Aiidrew and Mary (Campbell) McCaslin.
Jlr. and ilrs. Tauer have three children:
Mary Ann, Lo>v^ll Robei-t, and Paul, Jr.
Earl A. Thomas. While his early ex-
periences were with industrial and manu-
facturing plants. Earl A. Thomas has
shown signal ability in handling mercan-
tile enterprises, and as manager and stock-
holder in the Rapp Cut Price Company at
Richmond he has made the record of prac-
ticality doubling the volume of business
transacted by that store every year since
he took charge in 1915. The Rapp Cut
Price Companj' is incorporated for $160,-
000, and is one of the largest mercantile
corporations of Indiana, operating seven
liranches, handling men and women's ready
to wear clothing, shoes and other goods.
The Richmond store commands a trade
over a radius of twenty-five miles around
the city.
Mr. Tliomas was born on a farm near
Jonesboro in Grant County, Indiana, in
1885, son of A. B. and Sarah A. (White)
Thomas. He is of Welsh ancestry and his
people have been in this country for many
generations. His father was born in In-
diana and his mother was sixteen years old
when she came from Virginia with her
parents.
Earl A. Thomas grew up on a farm, at-
tended district schools and helped with the
work of the farm until he was- eighteen.
At Kokomo he worked for a year and a
half as a polisher in the Roekford Bit
Works, then two years with the Haynes
Automobile Works as helper in the case
hardening department. An opportunity
more in accord with his abilities and ambi-
tions came as salesman in the general store
of the C. M. Levitt Cut Price Company at
Kokomo. He spent two years there and
was then with the T. C. Rapp Company at
Kokomo as clerk in the general store in
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INDIANA AND INDIANANS
1912. He was advanced rapidly, and in
1915 was made manager of the Richmond
store and given an opportunity to acquire
stock in the corporation.
Mr. Thomas married, May 1, 1912, Mar-
tha Oram, a daughter of James P. and
Nancy Oram of Kokomo. They have one
son, Richard Oram Thomas, born in 1915.
Mr. Thomas has interested himself in a
public spirited manner with the affairs of
Richmond, is independent in politics, and
is a member of the Friends Church.
Hugh Thomas Montgomery, M. D. One
of the best known names in scientific and
medical circles in Northern Indiana is that
of Dr. Hugh Thomas Montgomer.y, who
began the practice of medicine over forty
years ago and for more than thirty-tive
years has been a resident of South Bend.
Doctor Montgomery was born at Browns-
ville in Southwestern Pennsylvania Decem-
ber 10, 1849, but has lived since childhood
in Indiana. The Montgomery family in
England dates back by well authenticated
records to the time of William the Con-
queror. The British Encyclopedia states
that Roger de Montgomery (1030-1094)
was a counsellor of William, Duke of Nor-
mandy, before the latter made his inva-
sion of England. He was probably en-
trusted by William with the government of
Normandy during the expedition of 1066.
Roger came to England the following year
and received extensive grants of land in
different parts of the Kingdom. He be-
came the Earl of Arundel. In 1071 the
greater part of the County of Shropshire
was granted to him, carrying with it the
Earl of Shropshire, though from his prin-
cipal residence at the Castle of Shrewsbury
he like his successoi-s was generally styled
Earl of Shrewsbury.
It is a well established fact that three
brothers named William, Robert, and Hugh
Montgomery came to America in earlj^ col-
onial times and settled at Jamestown, Vir-
ginia, in 1666. It is said that Hugh re-
turned to England and died unmarried.
However, the name Hugh has appeared in
almost every generation, and many, of the
Montgomery name and bearing the Chris-
tian name Hush, have lived in nearly every
state of the Union.
Doctor Montgomery's grandfather was
named Hugh. He was a boat builder with
yards on the Monongehela River at
Brownsville, Pennsylvania. He built many
boats for the river traffic before the era
of railroads. He lived there until his
death.
Riland ilontgomery, father of Doctor
Montgomery, was apprenticed to a tailor.
Not liking his employer he ran away at
the age of sixteen and went to Georgia,
where he followed his trade a few years.
He then returned to Brownsville, making
it his home until 1850, when he removed
to Mount Vernon, Indiana, and engaged in
business as a merchant tailor for two years.
He then turned his attention to the grain
and produce business. In 1854 he and
seven men started down the river with two
boats loaded with grain and produce.
None of the eight men were ever heard
from and it is supposed they were victims
of river pirates.
Riland Montgomery married Caroline
Jane Poland. She was born in or near
Hagerstown, :\Iaryland, ]May 31, 1826,
daughter of Thomas and Elfenora (Dun-
can) Poland. When she was fourteen
years old she lost her mother, and being
the oldest child she cared for and tenderly
reared and disciplined her younger broth-
ers and sisters. She did not accompany
her husband to Mount Vernon but joined
him a few weeks later, making the journey
by boat down the Monongehela and Ohio
rivers. After she had become convinced
of the death of her husband she went to
Ohio and lived with some of her relatives
near Columbus, but in the fall of 1855
canne to South Ber;d. Soon afterwards she
married Abner Tibbets, a farmer. They
lived successively at Lakeville, then at
Warsaw, afterward at Bourbon and finally
at Plymouth, where Mr . Tibbets died.
Doctor Montgomery's mother survived her
second husband many years and for fif-
teen years lived with her son Hugh. She
died in her ninety-second year and was
both physically and mentally strong to the
last.
Dr. Hugh Thomas Montgomery was
about six years old when his mother came
to South Bend. He received most of his
early education in the schools of Warsaw
and' began the study of medicine with Dr.
A. C. ilatchett at Bourbon. After eight-
een months in the Chicago Medical Col-
lege, now the Medical Department of
Northwestern University, he was graduated
March 16, 1875, and in June of the same
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INDIANA AND INDIANANS
2213
year began practice at Wakarusa in Elk-
hart County. From there in 1883 he re-
moved to South Bend, and has been con-
tinuously active in his profession as a phy-
sician and surgeon ever since. He has
kept himself abreast in the advance of
medical science, and has also indulged his
interest for a deep study and research of
other lines of science and also in ancient
history. Doctor Montgomery has been re-
garded for many years as probably the
best authority on the geology of Northern
Indiana, particularly the region around
South Bend, and has written a number of
articles on the glacial period. Doctor
ilontgomery had his home on West Wash-
ington Street in South Bend until 1913,
when he bought a two-acre tract three miles
east of the Court House, and there built
a home with grounds ample to furnish him
occupation for all his leisure hours. He
has improved these grounds with shade and
ornamental trees and fruits, and is an en-
thusiastic gardener and amateur horticul-
turist. Doctor Montgomery is now presi-
dent of the Northern Indiana Historical
Society.
He married Miss Hattie Linwood Cook.
Mrs. ^Montgomery was born at Sparta, Wis-
consin, a daughter of Elisha B. and Mary
Ann (Marchant) Cook. Her mother was
born in the Thomas Mayhew house at Ed-
gerton in Martha's Vineyard, Massachu-
setts, July 8, 1833. Doctor and Mrs. Mont-
gomery have four children: Ethel Lin-
wood ; Chester Riland, now .iudge of the
Superior Court ; Grace ; and Zolah. Grace
is the wife of Harvey (Gintz) and has two
children, John and Elizabeth.
Doctor Montgomery is a member of the
St. Joseph County and Indiana State Med-
ical societies, the Tri-State Medical So-
ciety, and the American Medical Associa-
tion. He is now serving as health eora-
missioner of St. Joseph County.
Chester Riland Montgomery, judge of
the St. Joseph Superior Court, is one of
the distinguished younger lawyers of
Northern Indiana, and entered upon the
duties of his present office well qualified
both by experience and thorough knowl-
edge of the law.
Judge Montgomerv was born November
13, 1881, at Wakarusa, Elkhart County,
Indiana. When he was a year old his par-
ents moved to South Bend. He is the son
of Dr. Hugh T. Montgomery, whose long
life and services are made a matter of rec-
ord on other pages of this publication. As
IS told in that record Judge Montgomery
is descended from a long line of Norman
English ancestors, and his Americanism
extends back over 21/2 centuries. Judge
Montgomery represents some of the sturd-
iest qualities of the old time pioneers of
the wilderness who had the courage and
the enterprise to blaze new trails into the
west and stand guard on the frontiers of
civilization.
Following his course in the South Bend
High School Mr. Montgomery attended
Wabash College at Crawfordsville and
Knox College at Galesburg, Illinois. He
studied law in Washington University at
St. Louis, and immediately after his grad-
uation began practice in South Bend. He
soon answered the call to public responsi-
bilities in the line of his profession and
in 1910 was elected prosecuting attorney
for the Sixtieth Judicial Circuit. By re-
election he held that office for eight years,
and proved one of the most capable and
courageous prosecutors St. Joseph County
ever had. It was largely his splendid rec-
ord in that office which brought him elec-
tion as judge of the St. Joseph Superior
Court in 1918. His term as judge began
January 1, 1919.
Judge' jMontgomery married Miss Jessa-
mond Wasson of Galesburg, Illinois. They
are the parents of two children, John Was-
son and Jane Brownlee. Judge Mont-
gomery is a democrat, is affiliated with
South Bend Lodge No. 294, Free and Ac-
cepted Masons, South Bend Chapter No.
29, Royal Arch Masons, and is an Elk,
Knight of Pythias, and an Eagle. He be-
longs to the St. Joseph County Bar Asso-
ciation and also to the Indiana Bar Associa-
tion.
George W. Hartm.vn. It was from the
soil and as an industrious tiller thereof
that George W. Hartman of Westville won
his prosperity, and by equally efficient re-
lationship with the community has long
enjoyed their regard as a citizen.
^Ir. Hartman was born near the village
of Kouts in Porter County, Indiana, March
6, 1857. His father, Christopher Hart-
man, was born in Hesse-Darmstadt, Ger-
many. December 31, 1824. He grew up
on a German farm, had a common school
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education, and was a farmer in his native
land until about 1850, when he came to
America. He was on the ocean six weeks,
and after a brief stay in New York went
west to Milwaukee, from there to Chicago
which was still a small city, and finding
no prospects in the West returned to New
York. Later he went to Michigan City,
and for a time was employed by the Mich-
igan Central Kailway Company hauling
wood for fuel, wood being burned by the
locomotives instead of coal. Afterward for
a time he was in the employ of the Pan-
handle Railway. He worked at small
wages, and by the greatest economy he ac-
quired capital and equipment which enab-
led him to start out as a farmer. From
1854 to 1866 he made his home in Porter
County and afterward moved to Westville,
where he died at the age of seventy-seven.
He was reared a Lutheran and was always
an adherent of that faith and in polities
was a republican.
Christopher Hartman married Mary E.
Barnes, who was born at Dexter, Maine,
and died April 5, 1902, at the age of sixty-
five. Her husband died October 29, 1900.
She was member of one of the notable pio-
neer families of LaPorte County. Her
parents were Ivory and Elmira Barnes,
who came from Maine to LaPorte County
in early days. Ivory Barnes was an ex-
pert axman, and when sawmills were not
numerous he employed his skill in hewing
timber, and no doubt worked out the tim-
ber that entered into the frame of many
buildings still standing in LaPorte and
Porter counties. He spent his last days
in Westville and died at the age of seventy-
six. Mrs. Christopher Hartman, who died
at the age of sixty-five, was a sister of
George W. Barnes, who according to local
histories was the first settler in Galena
Township of LaPorte County, establishing
his home there about 1833. The first town-
ship election was held in his house. He
was a man of uncommon nerve and force
of character, and was one of the worthiest
of the pioneers of that section of the state.
Christopher Hartman and wife had three
children : George W., Olive Jane, and Wil-
liam T.
George W. Hartman attended a rural
school taught in a one room building with
home made furniture, and also had some
of the advantages of the schools at West-
ville. When only thirteen he chose to be-
come self-supporting, and he hi
relied upon hard woi'k and industry as the
sure road to prosperity. The first farm
he was able to acquire was a mile and a
half northwest of Westville. He sold that
and bought the Barr farm, which he occu-
pied seventeen years, and then bought the
place where he now lives on the Lincoln
Highway a mile west of Westville. He has
made many improvements on his land and
has always borne the reputation of being
one of the high class farmers of that com-
munity.
April 10, 1894, Mr. Hartman married
Elsie A. Chase. She was born in Polk
County, Iowa, March 16, 1869, daughter
of Charles and Mary A. (Herrold) Chase.
Her father was born in New York State
October 7, 1828, went to Michigan with his
parents in 1840, moved to Iowa in 1859,
and while there enlisted and served three
years in the Union Army as a member of
the Seventh Iowa Infantry. He was sev-
eral times captured and was confined in
both Libby and Andersonville prisons.
He came of a military family, five of his
brothers and two of his brothers-in-law
being soldiers in the same war.
Mrs. Hartman died in 1910. In 1913
Mr. Hartman married Ida Ullom, of Cass
Township, LaPorte County, daughter of
William and Hannah (Dowd) Ullom. Her
father was born in Athens County, Ohio,
of early German ancestry, while her mother
was of Scotch-Irish ancestry. Mrs. Hart-
man is a member of the Methodist Episco-
pal Church. Mr. Hartman is afBliated
with Westville Lodge No. 309, Knights of
Pythias, with Westville Lodge No. 136, In-
dependent Order of Odd Fellows, and has
filled all the chairs in the Odd Fellows
Lodge and been a delegate to the Grand
Lodge six times. He is a republican and
has filled the ofSce of road supervisor and
served as a member of the Westville Town
Council.
A Hoosier's War Record
By Hector F viler
The cities have been decorated ; triumphal
arches have been erected ; banners have
flown and militant bands have plaj^ed.
North, South, East, and West the paved
streets have echoed the steady rythm of
the marching feet of the soldiers returned
from a victorious war ! Their dutj^ is
done ; their honors are recorded, and still
we mourn for those who shall return no
more !
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But, as "the tumult and the shouting
dies" we have time to look about and give
thought to those soldiers of peace who
"carried on" while the more obvious he-
roes fought in Flanders Fields. Each city
of them all claims— and with right- — that it
helped to win the war, but though the final
verdict is not yet — it will take the mellow-
ing hand of time to judge — Chicago's part
is undisputed.
And, always, the spirit of any city is
the spirit of a man! Some one shall al-
ways dominate; the place of leadership
shall always be filled. It was Ole Hanson
who by his brave stand against the Bol-
shevick tendencies of the Industrial AVork-
ers of the World made Seattle famous; it
was Mitehel, mayor of New York, M'ho, fly-
ing to his heroic death, placed that metropo-
lis on the map of the Great "War. It was
William H. Rankin and his "Chicago
Plan" that placed Chicago in the forefront
of American cities that did their noble part
in making the world safe for democracy.
By now everybody knows him — -William
H. Rankin, the auburn-haired boy of New
Albany, Indiana. His intimates call him
"The Lamplighter" after the famoiis
novel of our boyhood days, for he began
his career by lighting the street lamps of
his home, Hoosier, towm ; and like so many
Hoosiers he has been spreading the gospel
of light ever since.
You can 't beat them, these Hoosiers ;
they are all of the same fighting and writ-
ing stock. There was James Whitcomb
Riley, who began life as a sign-painter and
who cavorted like a clown with an Indian-
medicine show, to end the great poet of his
times and honored of all men. There is
Meredith Nicholson, who began as a police
reporter to arrive at the status of the pop-
ular novelist of his day. There was Lew
Wallace, whom they shipped to Constant-
inople only to have him come back with
"Ben Hur," the greatest religious story
of the ages. There are hundreds of oth-
ers, but these stand out, and prominent in
the galaxy of efficient Hoosiers stands the
name of William H. Rankin.
When the war broke out Rankin had al-
ready risen to a foremost place among the
advertising experts of America. He had
won it by hard-won knowledge and effi-
ciency. He had handled millions of dol-
lars, spent under his direction for advertis-
ing space, and he was a firm believer in the
all- American doctrine of "It pays to ad-
vertise. "
So it was that when in the confusion of
the early days of the war there had to be
co-ordination of etfort to help the govern-
ment, it was William H. Rankin who
evolved the ideas that saved the day. It
was he who taught the government and the
nation to advertise. It was the steady and
persistent and well-placed advertising that
made the people see and realize just what
the nation required if the war was to be
speedily and efficiently won.
It was in connection with securing mem-
bers for the Red Cross and the sale of
Ijiberty Bonds that Mr. Rankin came for-
ward first with what he modestly called
"The Chicago Plan" of advertising, but
which was— as all are willing to concede
now — really the Rankin Plan. He was
one of the body of advertising men who
called on Secretary of the Treasury Mc-
Adoo and assured him that the advertising
men of America were behind him to a man.
Congress when it provided for the issue of
Liberty Bonds made no provision for ad-
vertising the sale of these bonds, and Wil-
liam H. Rankin was keen enough to see
that no such tremendous proposition in-
volving billions of dollars could hope to
be successful without advertising. As the
government had no money with which to
pay for the advertising some way had to
be found. That was Rankin's way.
The business men of the country were
asked to contribute millions of dollars in
cash and part of their advertising space al-
ready contracted for; to donate it to the
service of the nation. The first page of
copy was written by Mr. Rankin's partner,
our own Wilbur D. Nesbit, and was in-
serted in the Chicago Tribune May 2. 1917 ;
it was paid for by Thomas E. Wilson,
president of Wilson and Company. This
was an advertisement calling for help for
the Red Cross and it was answered by
nearly 20,000 people, each of whom con-
tributed from $1 to $100. Forty-five
other Chicago business men followed Mr.
Wilson 's example, with the result that sub-
scriptions came in for $650,000 in cash
and 416,000 new members were enrolled.
Tliis wonderful success in Chicago stim-
ulated the rest of the country. The Asso-
ciated Advertising Clubs of the World in
convention in St. Louis adopted "The Chi-
cago Plan," with the result that the Gov-
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erument organized a Division of Advertis-
ing: patterned after the Rankin idea of
getting the patriotic business men of the
country to volunteer advertising space, or
else pay for additional space to aid the
Government in winning the war.
The plan created nearly $10,000,000
worth of newspaper, magazine, bill board,
painted sign and trade paper advertising
for the Government. As ' ' The Foiirth Es-
tate" so aptly summed up this work: "The
publishers and advertisers of the country
owe a debt of gratitude to Mr. Rankin fo.r
this. It is a national object lesson, the ef-
fect of this will be felt in all lines of busi-
ness." And it has been!
In scores of governmental campaigns
the influence of Mr. Rankin was felt. The
pioneer work he did in the Red Cross and
early Liberty Loan campaigns was felt
throusrh all that followed. It was the Ran-
kin idea that put over the "Smileage
Books" that brought delight and happiness
to our fighting men even within reach of
the shot and shell of the enemy. It was
the Rankin idea that aided Provost Mar-
shal General Crowder to get together the
needed number of fighting men under the
Selective Service Law, so that Carl Byoir,
of the Committee on Public Information
in Washington wrote:
"Only one man with an irresistible and
confident optimism maintained against all
ob Action that the thing could be done. It
will be part of the everlasting glory of the
advertising profession in America that the
thing was done— that the greatest advertis-
ing campaign of the war was the campaign
for registration under the second Selective
Service Law, and that instead of a deficit
of names at the close of the campaign there
were over 400,000 more men who had sig-
nified their willingness to serve their coun-
try under arms than the most optimistic
estimate of the Provost Marshal General
had called for.
"If I were asked to name the men who
without title of honor or distinction de-
voted himself most completely to the ser-
vice of war time advertising I could not
honestly mention any other name than that
of William H. Rankin."
So, there can be no doubt but that an-
other Hoosier has climbed the pinnacle to
distinction.
Of course this does not tell the whole
story, for Rankin's activities in patriotic
advertising touched practically every im-
portnnt development of war times. Mr.
Rankin prepared advertising under his
"idea" for the War Savings Stamps; he
designed and prepared advertising to aid
in Hoover's campaign for conserving
wheat; he made the great financiers, the
largest advertising merchants, the leaders
of the great industries see what wonders
could be wrought by advertising courage.
His own unalterable belief and bravery
in the face of grim discouragements heart-
ened up the entire business world and
forced it to take a finer outlook and more
courageous view.
And high as William H. Rankin stands
in the business world of Chicago, it is still
a young man who has won such success
for himself and for his city. He has only
,iust celebrated his forty-first birthday —
the celebration was held in his native town
of New Albany, and telegrams from all
the world arrived there to do him honor
on the occasion. As has been said, he be-
gan to earn money bj^ lighting the street
lamps of New Abanj-, then he sold news-
papers ; then he drove a grocery wagon for
$2 a week. Then he became a stenogra-
pher, but not a very good one ; that is per-
haps why he is, with the firm of R'lnkin
and Company, of which he is president,
employing about 100 good stenographers.
Next he tried to be a railroad man, and
here he came into contact wiht the Young
Men's Christian Association, for whiqh,
since, he has done so much. It was in
handling the Young Men's Christian Asso-
ciation exhibitions that he first realized
that the only way to get people to support
a cause was through advertising and he
published a paper, "The Young Men," in
which he always insisted on giving the ad-
vertiser full value for his money.
This minor newspaper experience led
him to Indianapolis and the Star League
of newspapers, which he left to become ad-
vertising manager for the Bobbs-Merrill
Company, the publishers of all of James
Whitcomb Riley's works. His debut in
Chicago was made two years later when he
became western manager of the Street Rail-
wavs Advertising Company. It was in
1908 that he was made vice president of
the Mahin Advertising Company, and
when John Lee Mahin wanted to move to
New York Mr. Rankin with his associates,
INDIx^NA AND INDIANAXS
2217
Wilbur D. Nesbit, H. A. Groth, and Rob-
ert E. Rinehart, bought the Mahin busi-
ness and it turned into the William H.
Rankin Company, now one of the stauneh-
est advertising companies in America.
But it is not alone in the measure of his
own success that William H. Rankin
counts; the work he has done counts as a
success for Chicago; it is his individuality
backing up his creative "ideas" that en-
titles Chicago to so large a credit in its
work of winning the war.
And the gain that has been made to Chi-
cago through the work of Mr. Rankin is all
the finer because it has always been a gain
of high and lofty ideals. He might take
for his motto that line of Robei't Louis
Stevenson : ' ' The salary in any business un-
der heaven is not the only nor, indeed, the-
first question. But that j-our business
should be first honest and, second, useful,
are points in which honor and morality are
concerned. ' '
Mr. Rankin is a member of Chicago Ath-
letic, Midday, Chicago Yacht Club, Chi-
cago Advertising Association, Skokie,
Evanston and Olympia Fields Country
Club ; also the Manhattan Club of New
York and Columbia Club of Indianapolis.
He is happily married, the proud father
of three boys and two girls. His residence
is 1100 Judson Avenue, Evanston; busi-
ness addresses, 104 South Michigan Ave-
nue, Chicago, 50 Madison Avenue, New
York, and 610 Riggs Building, Washing-
ton.
F. H. Badet. There was a time, un-
doubtedly now past, when the bulk of all
the toys that make a happy make-believe
world for American children of all ranks
were manufactured in European countries.
The industry was neglected in the United
Stntes because the cheapness of foreign la-
bor halted competition, rather than a lack
of native inventive and executive talent.
New England, however, finalh' led the way
into toy manufacturing, and an extensive
business along this line is now being done,
being greatly accelerated in the past few
years. South Bend can claim one of the
largest factories in this industry in the
United States, operating under the name
of the South Bend Toy ilanufacturing
Company, of which F. H. Badet is presi-
dent.
F. H. Badet is of New England birth
and of French ancestry. His great-grand-
father, Capt. Pierre Badet, was the com-
mander of a French merchantman when
his vessel was captured off the New Eng-
land coast by an English man-of-war near
the close of the Revolutionary war. Cap-
tain Badet was released at New London,
Connecticut, and finding his surroundings
agreeable, decided to establish his perma-
nent home there, where he subsequently
married and became a man of consequence.
He was the founder of a family that has
been honorably represented here ever since.
F. H. Badet was born at New London,
Connecticut, August 30, 1848. His par-
ents were Henry S. and Elizabeth H. (Par-
melee) Badet. Henry S. Badet was born
at New London in 1819, and died there in
j\Iarch, 1905. He was a son of Thomas S.
and Harriet (Butler) Badet, both natives
of Connecticut, dying at New London
about 1855. Henry S. Badet spent his en-
tire life in his native place and there en-
gaged in the grocery business. In his po-
litical life he was a republican and frater-
nally he was a Mason. He was a man of
sterling character, honest and upright, and
was a member of the First Congregational
Church. He married Elizabeth H. Parme-
lee, who was born at Durham, Connecticut,
in July, 1822, and died at South Bend, In-
diana, in 1909. They had the following
children : F. H. ; Evelyn, the wife of W.
A. Bugbee, who conducts an abstract and
title business at South Bend ; Caroline, who
died at New London ; Jennie, the widow
of J. Vanden Bosch, who was a manufac-
turer of furniture at South Bend ; and
Alice W., who resides at South Bend.
F. H. Badet was about sixteen years old
when he left the New London High School
to go into his father's grocery store, and
he remained in that connection for nine
years. In 1874 he came to South Bend
and with J. W. Teel embarked in the busi-
ness of manufacturing croquet sets and
baseball bats. The venture proved very
successful and soon their helping force of
one employe grew to eight and then to
ten, and in 1883 the business was incorpor-
ated as the South Bend Toy Manufactur-
ing Company to cover the widened field of
their products. In addition to their first
manufactured articles the factory now
turns out boys' wagons, shoe-fly horses,
children's tables and chairs and doll car-
riages and numerous other toys for which
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there is an increasing demand. The facil-
ities of the factory have been greatly in-
creased and both offices and plant are on
High Street, the latter occupying seven
acres of land along the New York Central
tracks. About 400 workmen are employed
and toys are shipped all over the United
States and provision is being made for
heavy business abroad. The officers of the
company are: F. H. Badet, president; H.
S. Badet, treasurer; and F. S. Chrisraan,
secretary.
F. H. Badet was married at New Lon-
don, Connecticut, September 5, 1876, to
Miss Harriet Spencer, a daughter of the
late John 0. and Mary J. (Winchester)
Spencer. The father of Mrs. Badet was
mail agent for many years on the New
York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad.
Mr. and Mrs. Badet have one son, Harry
S., who is treasurer of the Soutli Bend Toy
Manufacturing Company. After being
graduated from the high school of South
Bend he spent two years in Purdue Uni-
versity and then entered into his present
business. He married Miss Edna Prass,
and they have two children, Barbara, who
was born November 7, 1915, and Harry,
Jr., born March 7, 1918. '
F. H. Badet is one of South Bend's
leading business men. In addition to his
manufacturing interests he is vice presi-
dent and a director of the South Bend Na-
tional Bank and a director of the First
National Bank. Among his valuable pieces
of property at South Bend is his handsome
modern residence on South Main Street,
which was built in 1890. In politics he is
a republican but has never been unduly
active outside of good citizenship, and the
only public capacities in which he has con-
sented to serve have been as vice president
and a director of the Riverview Cemetery
Association. He is a valued member of the
Chamber of Commerce and the Commer-
cial Athletic Club. Since youth Mr. Badet
has been a member of the Presbyterian
Church, and belongs to the First Presby-
terian at South Bend, in which he is a
member of the board of elders. His busi-
ness career at South Bend has covered
forty-four years and is one that not only
reflects credit upon his ability and enter-
prise, but has brought capital and desir-
able notoriety to his city.
CuETis W. Ballard has been a resident
of Jeffersonville over thirty years, and in
that time has come to represent as many
important interests in the city and in
Clark County as probably any other one
individual.
Mr. Ballard was born in Shelby County,
Kentucky, October 13, 1868. His paternal
ancestors came originally from France and
settled in Virginia in colonial times. His
grandfather, Camdon Ballard, was a native
of Oldham County, Kentucky, and died
at LaGrange in that state at the age of
sixty years. He was a man of more than
local prominence, served as a member of
the State Senate, and helped write one of
the constitutions of Kentucky. He mar-
ried Lavinia Raley, who also spent her life
in Kentucky and died at LaGrange at the
age of eightv-eight.
W. J. Ballard, father of Curtis W., was
born in Oldham County, Kentucky, in
1S47 and is now a resident of Chicago. He
grew up in Oldham County and when a
boy enlisted in the Union army, in the
Fifteenth Kentucky Infantry. He was all
through the war, and among other engage-
ments was at Shiloh, Lookout ]\Iountain,
and ilissionary Ridge and at Gettysburg.
After the war he returned to Shelby
Countj', was married there, and for four
years served as deputy under his brother,
John T. Ballard, county clerk. Later he
was in the mail service at Washington, D.
C, and has been connected with the postal
service ever since. He is now mail agent
for the United States Government and has
liad his home and headquarters at Chicago
for the past six years. In politics he is a
sterling republican. W. J. Ballard mar-
ried Mary ]\Ioody, who was born in Shelby
County, Kentucky, in 1847. Curtis W. is
the older of their two children. John A.
is a farmer in Jeffersonville Township, In-
diana.
Curtis W. Ballard was reared in Shelby
County, Kentucky, and at the age of eight-
een graduated from a collegiate institute
r.t Shelbyville. Up to the age of twenty
he farmed ^rith his grandfather in Shelby
County, and in 1887 moved to Jefferson-
ville, Indiana, where his interests have
since been centered. Mr. Ballard for up-
wards of twenty years was connected with
the American Car and Foundry Company
at Jeffersoiiville. In 1904 he was elected a
representative to the Legislature on the
democratic ticket, being chosen in a j-ear
which was predominantly republican. He
was one of the nineteen democrats in the
INDIANA AND INDIANANS
2219
House of Representatives in the session of
1905. He continued to be active in poli-
ties and in 1906 was elected count}' clerk
of Clark County. His term of office began
February 24, 1908. He was re-elected in
1910, and held the office eight years, until
February, 1916.
On Aiigust 21, 1916, Mr. Ballard bought
the Evening News and National Democrat
of Jeffersonville, and has been publisher
and proprietor of these well known and
staunch old democratic organs ever since.
The Evening News was established JIarch
1, 1872, and the National Democrat in
1871. Both are democratic papers, the
former being a daily paper and the latter
a weekl.v. They serve as official papers in
Clark Count.v and have a large influence
in molding public opinion all over South-
ern Indiana. i\Ir. Ballard owns the build-
ing, plant and offices at 25 Spring Street.
He is also a large property owner, own-
.ing a farm in Scott County, built one of
the best private residences in Jeffersonville
in 1913, and is owner of five other dwelling
houses which he rents. Mr. Ballard is a
member of the Methodist Church, is affil-
iated with Jeffersonville Lodge ISIo. 362,
Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks,
Clark Lodge No. 140, Ancient Free and Ac-
cepted Masons, and Jeffersonville Lodge
No. 268, Improved Order of Red Men. He
is a past sachem of the Red Men and was
a delegate to the National Conventions of
the Order in 1913, 1914, and 1915.
July 15, 1911, at Indianapolis :\Ir. Bal-
lard married Miss Fannie L. Williamson,
daughter of John and Virginia (Quinkard)
Williamson. Her father was a merchant
and died at Louisville, Kentucky, where
her mother is still living. Mrs. Ballard
died at Jeffersonville November 12, 1918.
Richard Lieber. At no time in half a
century have such rigorous tasks been ap-
plied to the quality and efficiency of Amer-
ican citizenship. Citizenship formerly was
largely a privilege, today it is a duty and
responsibility. To be diligent in business,
faithful in family and personal relation-
ships, straightforward in action and pur-
pose is not quite enough to expect of a
loyal American. The admirable virtues of
normal times must be supplemented by a
positiveness in spirit, and a sacrifice of
Many other interests in behalf of the one
great and supreme "need of the Govern-
ment.
While Indiana has thousands of sueh
self-sacrificing citizens there is much in-
spiration and encouragement afforded by
the case of Mr. Richard Lieber of Indian-
apolis. Mr. Lieber is a native of Germany
and represented one of the old families of
Rhineland, and his father stood high in
the confidence of both military and civil
authorities in the Fatherland. No coun-
try in the world afforded more special ad-
vantages and training to its selected class
of youths, of which Richard Lieber was a
privileged member. But he had a passion
for individual development and expression
of character, and from an early age could
not be in sympathj^ with a system, how-
ever wonderful in its results, which super-
imposed regulation of private life and con-
duet from above.
As a boy Richard Lieber rebelled at the
restrictions laid down for his guidance. He
could not be restful under a sj-stem which
planned the actions of his life in advance
for him. Even at school he got into trou-
ble with the authorities because he had
ideas of his own which he dared divulge,
and only the influence of his father saved
him from punishment. As he grew up his
views became more pronounced. He found
it difficult to breathe freely under the en-
vironment. He therefore went to England
to pursue the English language and acquire
a knowledge of the Government and social
theories of that country. For a similar
reason he came on to America. After due
deliberation he decided that he had more
talent as a "citizen than as a sub-
ject." He therefore took out naturaliza-
tion papers and foreswore his allegiance to
the Kaiser. In America he found inde-
pendence of thought and action that had
been denied him as a boy. Possessed of a
keen mind and indomitable energy, it was
not long until he had become actively iden-
tified with bettering the conditions of his
adopted country. It has not been charac-
teristic of Mr. Lieber as an Indianapolis
citizen to adopt or be patient with half-way
measures. He has given the full force of
his energy to everything he has undertaken,
and his career has been a most beneficial
one to city and state.
His father. Otto Lieber, was born in
Duesseldorf, Germany, March 24, 1825. He
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INDIANA AND INDIANANS
was reared and educated there, but com-
pleted his higher training in Berlin. He
was trained for the profession of surveyor
and architect, and in that capacity, having
entered government service, had the direc-
tion of the building of roads, waterways,
restoration of historic buildings and the
general development of the country. In,
younger days he built the Saar Railway
from Treves into Lorraine. While sta-
tioned at St. Jean-Saarbruecken he was as-
sociated with French officials in building
the Rhine-Marne canal. He was a man of
distinction in the matter of education, at-
tainments, and culture. In civil capacity
he was privy counsellor to the interior
government. He made only one visit to
the United States, when he attended the
World's Columbian Exposition at Chicago
in 1893. His notes taken at the time are
a classic on his observations of the United
States. While stationed on the Moselle he
met at Muelheim Maria Richter, whom he
married in 1868. They had three children :
Richard, Maria, and Hedwig. The two
daughters and their mother still reside in
Germany. Privy Counsellor Otto Lieber
died in Germany August 8, 1897.
Richard Lieber was born at St. Jean-
Saarbruecken, Germany, September 5,
1869. ]\Iuch of his early education was
under the direction of private tutors. As
already indicated, this period of his life
was a rather stormy one and he was more
or less constantl.v in conflict with those in
authority around him. In 1890, having
reached the age of twenty-one, he went to
England to live, but in 1891 came to the
United States. During his stay in Eng-
land his studies were directed toward ac-
(luiring a thorough knowledge of the Eng-
lish language and theory of government.
Mr. Lieber came direct to Indianapolis in
February, 1891, and here for a time he was
employed by the hardware firm of Francke
& Schindler. Later he became interested
in the development of coal tar products,
and helped organize the Western Chemical
Company. Possessed of a fine critical and
literary ability he also engaged in news-
paper work and was city editor of the In-
dianapolis Tribiine four yeai'^. His father-
in-law, Philip Rappaport, was sole owner
of that paper. Mr. Lieber was connected
with the Tribune from 1893 to 1896. In
the latter year he founded the firm of
Richard Li^er & Company, importer of
wines and artificial mineral waters. 'In
the fall of 1905 this firm was merged with
that of James R. Ross «& Company, with
which Mr. Lieber continued his active busi-
ness connection until 1918.
As city editor of the Tribune Mr. Lieber
made much of the May Music Festival,
which gave a new and distinct impetus to
the social life of Indianapolis. He was
musical and at one time dramatic critic of
the Indianapolis Journal in the days when
what that paper said meant much in music
circles. He also made many trips abroad
and acted as foreign correspondent. As
such he was the first to tell of the relief of
Ladysmith during the Boer war. When
Mayor Shank created an advisory commis-
sion for the purpose of keeping the public
and the mayor informed on the needs of
the cit}-, Mr. Lieber was a member of the
commission, part of the time as secretary
and chairman of the committee on public
service. The result of his intelligent work
brought about a saving of hundreds of
thousands of dollars in the fire insurance
bill of Indianapolis. This was attained
largely through his efforts to create the
I\Ierehants and Manufacturers Bureau of
Indianapolis, founded for the purpose of
assuring equitable rates for policy holders
and see that fire protection was thorough
and adequate in the city. During his serv-
ice ]\Ir. Lieber succeeded in having motor
vehicles introduced for the drawing of fire
apparatus, and also led the movement for
the establishment of the Salvage Corps.
Many of his constructive plans have been
the permanent model for subsequent muni-
cipal activity. For three years he served
as president of the old Indianapolis Trade
Association, which later was merged with
the Chamber of Commerce. He also
served as executive member for the state
on the currency commission. The value
of his fight against national waste and his
great interest in the commission of natural
resources was acknowledged by his elec-
tion as chairman of the local board of gov-
ernors of the Fourth National Conservation
Congress held in this city in 1912.
Mr. Lieber is a member of the National
Executive Board of the North American
Gymnastic Union, an organization that has
accomplished a splendid work in educating
American citizenship.
Governor Goodrich, the present Indiana
executive, appointed Mr. Lieber secretary
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2221
and executive officer of the State Board
of Forestry of Indiana. Mr. Lieber not
only has a broad knowledge of human cul-
ture and the arts of music and literature,
but for years has been an intimate com-
panion of nature and the great out of doors.
It was this interest and qualifications
which made him peculiarly adapted for
service on the State Board of Forestry.
He resigned his own salary with that board
in favor of a former expert member to
perform the actual work. He is also mili-
tary secretary to the governor and chief
of ills staff with rank of colonel. He and
some of his associates have started a move-
ment that has for its object the care of the
soldiers who will come back from the war
disabled. These men, to whom every Amer-
ican connnunity will owe so much, require
exactly some such provision and foresighted
care so that they may be reintegrated into
society as self-sustaining and useful mem-
bers.
Governor Ralston appointed Mr. Lieber
member of the Turkey Run Commission
for the purpose of saving that wonderland
from the woodman's axe. He reorganized
this commission, which eventually came
under the control of the State Historical
Commission. Its purpose was to establish
parks, and in the centennial year 1916 it
erected a visible monument commemorat-
ing that event, when two properties were
bought, McCormick's Creek Canyon in
Owen County and Turkey Run on Sugar
Creek in Parke County. These properties
were turned over to the state and have been
accepted by Governor Goodrich, who ap-
pointed Mr. Lieber chairman of the State
Park Commission.
August 28, 1893, Mr. Lieber married
Emma Rappaport. They have three chil-
dren: Otto Walther, Ralph Willard and
Marie Jeanette, the latter a student at
Wellesley College, Massachusetts. Mr.
Lieber enjoys the distinction of being the
first dollar a year man in the state, while
Mrs. Lieber has divided her time be-
tween Red Cross home service and auxil-
iarj' work to the soldiers of Indiana. Their-
son Walther, in service since June, 1917, is
first lieutenant and attached to the Judge
Advocate's office of the American Expedi-
tionary forces at General Headquarters,
Chaumont, France.
Frank ]\Iarion Jones has been a busi-
ness man of Richmond many years, a dealer
in agricultural implements, and is now
head of the Jones & Farmers Company,
dealers in agricultural implements and fer-
tilizers.
He was born at Hillsboro, Ohio, May 9,
1864, son of A. D. and Susan (Schooler)
Jones. He is of Scotch-Irish ancestry. For
several generations the family lived in Vir-
ginia. His grandfather was John Jones,
who settled at Hillsboro, Ohio, in early
daj'S. A. D. Jones was the youngest of
three sons and six daughters, and after his
marriage moved to Owen County, Ken-
tucky, where he spent the rest of his life.
Prank Marion Jones had three brothers and
one sister. He was only fourteen when his
father died, and for several years he
worked during the summer and continued
schooling in the winter. Later he began
teaching in country schools, and followed
that occupation a number of years. He
also opened a dry goods and grocery at
ilonterej', Kentucky, and sold goods for
nineteen years. From Kentucky he came
to Richmond, Indiana, and became secre-
tary and treasurer and general man.iger of
the McConiha Company, holding that posi-
tion for thirteen years. He then organized
the Jones & Williams Implement Company,
but after three years bought out his part-
ner, H. E. Williams, and continued the
business as Jones & Farmers Company.
This firm are the local representatives at
Richmond and over most of Wayne County
for the International Harvester Company,
the John Deere Plow Company, the Ameri-
can Steel and Wire Fence Company, and
the Globe Fertilizer Company. Mr. Jones
retailed more of the Globe Fertilizer prod-
ucts in one year than any other represen-
tative, his total sales for one season aggre-
gating eighty-two carloads.
In 1884 he married Mi.ss Roxie Bourne,
daughter of John M. Bourne of Kentucky.
To their marriage were born three daugh-
ters and one son. Mr. Jones is a republi-
can, is affiliated with Webb Lodge of
Masons, the Benevolent and Protective
Order of Elks, and the First Baptist
Church.
Luther Dana W.vterman, M. D., who
at the time of his death was professor
emeritixs of medicine in the Indiana Uni-
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versity School of Medicine, was an In-
dianan whom members of his profession
and cultured citizens of all classes will most
frequently recall in coming generations as
a matter of gratitude for kindly and pur-
poseful influences that emanated from his
life and also for the foundation which
he so liberally provided under the name of
"The Luther Dana Waterman Institute
for Scientific Research."
Doctor Waterman in May, 1915, placed
in the hands of the trustees of Indiana
University, Bloomington, Indiana, deeds
for property amounting in Value to $100,-
000 on the condition that after his death
the proceeds from the property should be
devoted to the establishment and perma-
nent maintenance of an institute for scien-
tific research and that the trustees would
annually appropriate an amount equal to
the income from his property to a similar
purpose. Tliis generous gift was accepted
by the trustees, who pledged the faith of
the institution to carry out the conditions.
This act of Doctor Waterman was hailed
as being the largest gift for scientific re-
search ever made in Indiana. The gift was
made as the result of a long cherished plan
on the part of Doctor Waterman, and with
a minimum of restrictions which might
interfere with its most effective use. He
gave it with the understanding that the
money was to be used for general scientific
research covering as wide a field as possible,
and that it should be spent in Indiana Uni-
versity, but aside from this the trustees
were to be left a free hand in the manage-
ment of the fund.
It is only rarely that a man comes to the
close of a long life with character and serv-
ices that justify such a tribute as was paid
to DoctT)r Waterman by President Bryan,
who took Doctor Waterman's life as the
theme of his address to the senior class in
June, 1915. Everj-thing spoken by Doctor
Bryan at that time was echoed responsively
and sincerely by all who knew the simplic-
ity and nobility of Doctor Waterman's life.
The address of trilmte by Doctor Bryan
was as follows:
"I wish to say a few words to the oldest
member of our faculty — Dr. Luther Dana
Waterman, professor of medicine emeritus.
' ' ' Surgeon in the Federal Army, prisoner
of war at Macon and Charleston, in civil
life physician and professor of medicine,
you have in eighty-four years won position
and honors and fortune such that many
would for them sacrifice everj^thing else in
the world. But I wish these, my children,
to see that you have made your way up to
a great practical success Mathout sacrific-
ing everything else in the world. You have
not sacrificed your interest in the worlds
tliat lie outside your vocation as physician.
Most men of every calling are caught with-
in the trap of their own business. Not you.
You have escaped that trap. You have
traveled far among men and books and
ideas. You are not of those who bear a
title from the college of liberal arts and
are yet aliens from its spirit. In the world
of the liberal arts you are a citizen. You
arc friend with Plato and Virgil and Dar-
win and their kind. You know. that these
are not dead names in the academic cata-
logue, but living: forces and makers of
society. In that world you have spoken
your own word in verses which are reso-
lutely truthful, discriminating and brave.
The joy of living as you have done in the
wide, free and glorious world of the liberal
arts is sixch that many for it have sacrificed
everything else, including that practical
success which you have not sacrificed.
"But besides your successes inside and
beyond your calling you have had another
fortune. Long ago there came to you an
idea. You had lived from the days of the
tallow candle and a thousand things which
went with that to the days of the electric
light and a thoiisand things which go with
that. Within your lifetime you had seen
an incredible access of power, enlighten-
ment and freedom, from the discovery of
truth of which all preceding generations
had been ignorant. You had then the in-
sight, the conviction that the Great Charity
is the discovery of truth, which is thence-
forth light and power and freedom for all
men. This conviction became your deepest
purpose. Thirty-two years ago you wrote :
He who would make his life a precious
tiling
MiTst nurse a kindly purpose in his soul.
These lines were your confession. There
WHS a secret purpose- which you were cher-
ishing. You worked for that. You saved
for that. For that you had the secret joy
of living sparely, austerely as a soldier.
"Sir, you have no son. But the scholars
who work upon the foundation which you
have established here shall be your sons.
Far down the years when all of us are in
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2223'
the dust j-our virile sons shall be here keep-
ing alive your name and j'our hope. And
so shall be fulfilled your saying that — They
live longest in the future who have truest
kept the purposes of life."
With these things to serve as an interpre-
tation of his life and spirit the ordinary
facts of biography can be simply and
briefly told. Doctor Waterman was born
November 21, 1830, at Wheeling, Virginia,
now West Virginia. From 1832 to 1855 he
lived in Ohio, and during that time was a
student at Miami University four years.
He also taught school, studied medicine,
and graduated from the Medical College
of Ohio at Cincinnati in 1853. Coming to
Indiana in 1855, his home was at Kokomo
ten years. However, during that time he
went to what was then the northwest fron-
tier, and at Mankato, ^linnesota, estab-
lished the first newspaper, The Independ-
ent. In August, 1861, he was commissioned
surgeon of the Thirtj'-Ninth Regiment, In-
diana Volunteers, hy Governor Morton,
and was with the army as surgeon over
three years. During that time he was
medical director of the Second Division of
the Twentieth Corps, Army of the Cumber-
land, then medical director of the First
Division of the same corps, and for one
month, owing to the absence of superior
officers, was medical director of corps under
Gen. Phil Sheridan. His two months as a
prisoner of war was spent at Macon, Geor-
gia, and Charleston, South Carolina.
Doctor Waterman removed to Indian-
apolis in May, 1865, and that city was ever
afterward his home. He was in his eighty-
eighth year when he died June 30, 1918.
Doctor Waterman was a charter organizer
of the old Indiana Medical College, served
four years as professor of anatomy and
was then professor of the principles and
practice of medicine. For two or three
years he was one of the surgeons of the
Indianapolis City Hospital. He was for a
time secretary of the State Medical Society,
and in 1878 was its president. His addresfs
on "Economy and Necessity of a State
Board of Health" started the state wide
movement which led to the establishment
of that board. Tlie Medical Society printed
5.000 copies of the address for public dis-
tribution. Doctor Waterman retired in'
1893, after forty years of practice of medi-
cine and surgery, and for the twenty-five
years following his life was remarkable for
its activities both physical and mental. His
many varied interests in the field of litera-
ture and scholarship have been previously
referred to. His work as a poet is best
known to the public through his book of
verse entitled "Phantoms of Life," pub-
lished in 1883.
Joe Beatty Burtt was born in Indiana
and lived in this state until he went to
Cliicago to practice law thirty years ago.
Mr. Burtt is not an ordinary lawyer. The
interest attaching to his career is due not
merely to his successful handling of a large
volume of practice nor to the conventional
aiUliations most good and able lawyers
form. Mr. Burtt is one of that increasing
number of lawyers who recognize their
profession not as a privilege but as a re-
sponsibility. One of the greatest Ameri-
can law teachers has recently called atten-
tion to the fact that too many young men
preparing for the profession adopt the at-
titude that the law is no more than a trade,
an occupation, a business, like any other
means of livelihood. He brands, this a
fundamental error. "The law," he says,
"as a pui-suit is not a trade. It is a pro-
fession. It ought to signify for its follow-
ers a mental and moral setting apart from
the multitude — a priesthood of justice."
The recognition of this principle has been
the long and consistent attitude of Mr.
Burtt, and in the fact that he is what might
be called a "practical idealist" in his pro-
fession and has devoted and is devoting
the best efforts of his life to humanitarian
movements, particularly in fraternal edu-
cation, crime prevention, conciliation, and
arbitration, and in prevention of injustice
and oppression, his career has a genuine
distinction.
Mr. Burtt was born in Clark County,
Indiana, in 1862, son of Eli and Paulina
(Hardin) Burtt. His character seems re-
flected from the personalities of his ances-
tors. The Burtts came originally from
Lincolnshire, England, and first located in
Maryland. Since pioneer days the family
has lived in Clark County, Indiana. Mr.
Burtt 's grandfather, Amasa Burtt, before
his death requested that no tombstone be
erected over his grave, and that the money
for that purpose be used to educate some
child. Mr. Burtt 's father, though never
having had school advantages, was in real-
ity a man of genuine education and a firm
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believer in schools and useful training, and
made every sacrifice to give his children
all the advantages in his power. In dif-
ferent generations the Burtts have lived
long and useful lives, and left an impress
for good on their respective communities.
Joe Beatty Burtt grew up on a farm a^
mile and a half from Utica. He attended"
the Franklin schoolhouse at Utica and at
the age of nineteen entered Oberlin Col-
lege, Ohio, where he spent four years as a
student. In 1886 he entered the Univer-
sity of Michigan, taking the junior and
senior years of the literary department,
g;raduating in the class of 1888 and finish-
ing his law course in the same institution
in 1889. He left the farm with barely
the equipment of a common school educa-
tion, and completed his college work of
nine years in seven j^ears.
Unlike many young college graduates he
knew where he was going and what he was
going to do before his diploma from the
University of Michigan was in his hands.
On June 28, 1889, he arrived in Chicago,
and his home has been there ever since.
His first employment was in a law office
at a salary of six dollars a week. About
the middle of September, 1889, he was
given a place at forty dollars a month in
the law office of Mr. Sidney C. Eastman,
since then referee in bankruptcy. In
March, 1890, Mr. Burtt married Anna H.
Gurney, of Hart, Michigan.
March 1, 1891, he formed a partnership
with Mark R. Sherman, and their interest-
ing and profitable association continued for
over eleven years, until ilay 1, 1902. On
May 19, 1903, after a period of practice
alone, Mr. Burtt formed a law partnership
with Frank L. Kriete. In October, 1907,
George H. Kriete, a brother, was taken into
the firm, under the name Burtt, Kriete &
Kriete. In September, 1908, Charles L.
Mahony came into the partnership, the
title being changed to Mahony, Burtt,
Kriete & Kriete. Since October, 1912, Mr.
Burtt has practiced alone.
As already noted, Mr. Burtt has put
most value upon those things he has been
able to accomplish through his profession
for the general good of humanity. Like
the good physician -who willingly prevents
disease and thereby lessens the financial
returns from his work, Mr. Burtt 's long
continued activities in crime prevention
and the prevention of needless or unjust
litigation have a similar effect on the law-
yer's income.
The outstanding feature of his work is
fraternal education and the promotion of
the spirit of fraternity. Mr. Burtt is a
widely known orator, and among his nu-
merous addresses in public the one which
he believes has accomplished the most good
is entitled "Side Lights on American Sen-
timent," in which he emphasizes "that the
greatest need of the world today is the ap-
plication of the principles of fraternity to
all the issues of life and for men who are
true fraternalists in their heart, who have
learned the lesson of self-control, men who
have become self-reliant, men who are in-
spired by the spirit of service in their re-
lations with other men." Sir. Burtt foun4
the chief source of his inspiration on this
subject in the great character of Lincoln,
whose life and works are today vital in the
world's affairs because they are so thor-
oughly impregnated with the spirit of fra-
ternity.
At the National Convention of the Re-
ligious Education Association at Washing-
ton in 1908 Mr. Burtt delivered an address
on Fraternal Education, which later was
published by the Association in the book
entitled "Education and National Char-
acter." At the second national peace con-
gress held at Chicago in 1909, under the
auspices of the Chicago Association of
Commerce, Mr. Burtt 's address on "Fra-
ternal Orders and Peace" was published
as part of the proceedings of the congress.
Mr. Burtt was one of the incorporators
of the Fraternal Education Association in
1910, and was its president for eight years.
He has freely given his time and influ-
ence to all fraternal education movements,
community building, community welfare
work, and in all movements organized to
bring about the application of moral laws
to the affairs of everyday life he has con-
tributed his active co-operation.
His general and particular interest in
crime prevention has been only a corollary
of his other interests. In 1915 Mr. Burtt
was chainnan of the Crime Prevention
Committee of the Grand Lodge, Knights of
Pythias, of Illinois. Associated with him
were John L. Whitman, of the House of
Correction, and other practical sociologists.
This committee made a crime prevention
survey of lodge room environments in the
City of Chicago. In 1912 he was chair-
INDIANA AND INDIANANS
2225
man of the Crime Prevention Committee
of the Chicago Bar Association. This
committee undertook a crime prevention
survey of the illegal practices of lawyers,
especially among those who encouraged lit-
igation. Much more startling were the
findings of the Committee of College Men,
of which Mr. Burtt was chairman in 1910,
undertaking a crime prevention survey of
the colleges and universities of the United
States. This survey, it should be noted,
was undertaken long before the present
great war. It showed among other things
that a large number of our colleges and
universities were producing criminals and
sending them out in the world to exploit
society; that many of these institutions
were turning out mental prostitutes as
professors who had "finished ofif in Ger-
many;" and that these men who had come
under the German influence had lost all
sight of moral values in life and were em-
phasizing the necessity for merely physi-
cal and mental efficiency, ignoring entirely
man's spiritual nature.
It will serve a good purpose to note
some of his other activities in this direc-
tion. Mr. Burtt inaugurated and directed
the Crime Prevention Movement among the
lodges which helped to close 7.146 saloons
in Chicago on October 10, 1915, without
the necessity of punishing anyone. This
movement was started in the Thomas J.
Turner Masonic Lodge of Chicago, Janu-
ary 10, 1907. In 1912 he directed the
Crime Prevention Survey for the Chicago
Law and Order League. He inaugurated
and directed the Crime Prevention Move-
ment against landlords who tolerate law-
less saloons in lodge buildings, a movement
which started in Chicago January 11, 1915,
and resulted in the Masonic Temple going
dry on April 30, 1916. Mr. Burtt is now
directing the movement to make every
school, lodge, and church a preventorium,
and for a long time has advocated co-oper-
ation among the churches, schools and
lodges in the Crime Prevention Movement.
In recent years Mr. Burtt has been
drawn into many crime prevention move-
ments, including the Sunday closing of sa-
loons and law observance generally. He
lends freely of his time and means in all
matters of conciliation, arbitration and
such measures as will prevent discord and
hatred among men. He is intensely inter-
ested in the prevention of injustice and
oppression, and again and again has of-
fered his services in cases that came to his
observation where poor or ignorant people
are subjected to persecution. A case of
this kind occurred recently involving the
Damer family at Glen Ellyn, Illinois. The
Darners were Russian Poles, who were
made the victims of persecution and as-
sault on the part of ill-advised patriots
who alleged that they were pro-German.
The Damers being unable to secure counsel
in DuPage County Mr. Burtt 's services
were engaged and he not only defended the
accused in court but went to the Glen
Ellyn community and by bringing mem-
bers of the two factions into a calm and
dispassionate discussion secured a closer
approximation to justice than could have
been obtained from the most lengthy pro-
cess of formal litigation.
In these feverish times when men are
falling over themselves in the accomplish-
ment of definite and practical tasks, and
too often lacking a spirit of fratei-nity and
the breadth of vision that comes therefrom,
Mr. Burtt is undoubtedly a man with a
message. That message in brief is that
everyone should strive to make the world
safe for everything and every person that
makes for the betterment of mankind, and
on the converse should strive to make" the
world unsafe for every element that is op-
posing .such progress. To that ultimate
end of fraternal co-operation and good will
Mr. Burtt is freely devoting his time and
talents.
In politics he has been more or less iden-
tified with the democratic party, and
served as a precinct committeeman of that
party from 1910 to 1912. He is a thirty-
second degree Scottish Rite Mason, a
Knight of Pythias, an Odd Fellow, and a
member of the University Congregational
Church. He was one of the organizei-s of
the Sane Fourth Association, and was one
of its original twenty-one trustees.
^Ir. and ilrs. Burtt have two children :
John Gurney Burtt and Helen Katheryn
Burtt. John Gurney Burtt married Miss
Louise S. Avery, and they have a son,
John Gurney Burtt, Jr.
J. DoRSEY Forrest, corporation execu-
tive and farmer, was formerly a professor
in Butler College, at Indianapolis, but for
the past ten j-ears has been activeh' iden-
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tified with the organization and general
man9.gement o^ the Citizens Gas Company
of that city. Mr. Forrest has become
widely known both in the field of .scholar-
ship and in business and technical affairs,
and is one of the few practical business
men of Indianapolis who may write the de-
gree Doctor of Philoisophy after his name.
. Mr. Forrest was born at Baltimore,
Maryland, July 21, 1866, son of Andrew J.
and Emdy Louise (Dorsey) Forrest. He
has an interesting ancestry. He is a direct
descendant of that Thomas Forrest who,
as a member of the London Company,
which colonized Virginia, migrated to that
colony in 1608 with his entire family and
was the first settler at Jamestown to bring
his family with him. After Bacon's Re-
bellion, in which the Forrests sided, with
Bacon, one branch of tiie family migrated
to, Maryland and the other to Gloucester
Couiity, Virginia, in order to avoid perse-
cution from Governor Berkeley. It is from
the Gloucester County branch of the family
that the Baltimore Forrests are descended.
Mr. Forrest's grandfather, Jacob Forrest,
was a native of Baltimore, but of Virginia
parentage.
Andrew J. Fori'est who was born in Bal-
timore in 1839, was a mechanical engineer.
He died at Baltimore late in 1918. At the
outbreak of the war between the states he
went to Virginia to enter the Confederate
Army, but on account of shortage of muni-
tion plants and workers in the South, was
early withdrawn from army duty and as-
signed to the manufactTire of cannon at the
Tredegar Iron Works and later to the
manufacture of rifles at an arsenal in Wil-
mington, North Carolina. For a short
time he was in the Confederate Navy, and
he did a great deal of that hazardous work
known as blockade running. He operated
from Wilmington, Charleston and Galves-
ton to Nassau, Bermuda and England.
Three times he was captured by Federal
cruisers but exchanged or released through
efforts of the British ambassador after short
periods in prison. After the war he re-
turned to Baltimore and was in the sugar
refining business until 1877, after which
he was connected with numerous enter-
prises as an engineer, including the city
water department. He died late in 1918.
His wife, Emily Louise Dorsey, was born
at Baltimore in" 1838. Her father, Wil-
liam Dorsey, was born in England, being
brought to Baltimore by his parents when
a small boy. He was a builder in Balti-
more until the war of 1861-65, when he
entered the Confederate Ariny and rose to
the rank of colonel. Following the war he
settled in Western Virginia, where he lived
until his death. Emily Louise Dorsey 's
mother died when she was a child, and her
girlhood was spent with an aunt at Provi-
dence, Rhode Island. She returned to Bal-
timore about 1858, was married there in
1864, and left immediately for Nassau,
Bahama Islands, which had become her hus-
band's headquarters while in the blockade
running service. At the close of the war
she returned to Baltimore and is still living
in that .city.
J. Dorsey Forrest secured his early edu-
cation in the common schools of Baltimore
and the Baltimore City College. From
1881, when he was fifteen years of age, until
1888, he was connected , with the brick
manufacturing business at Baltimore, but
left that to enter Hiram College, near
Cleveland, Ohio, and remained to complete
the course and receive his A. B. degree in
1892. During 1893 he was a graduate stu-
dent in the Ohio State University, and
from 1894 to 1897 was a graduate student
and fellow in sociology at the University
of Chicago. His degree of Doctor of
Philosophy was awarded him by the Uni-
versity of Chicago in 1899. One of the
products of his scholarship is his work en-
titled "The Development of Western Civi-
lization," published in 1905 by the Uni-
versity of Chicago Press and Cambridge
(England) University Press.
On leaving the University of Chicago
Mr. Forrest became Professor of Sociology
and Economics in Butler College, Indian-
apolis, holding that chair from 1897 to
1907. In the latter year he obtained a
leave of absence in order to take charge of
the organization of the Citizens Gas Com-
pany. He soon found it necessary to de-
vote his entire attention to the Gas Com-
pany and resigned from the college faculty
in 1909. He has since been secretary and
general manager of the Gas Company, and
its responsible executive from the time of
its organization. The Citizens Gas Com-
pany operates by-product coke ovens as the
chief source of gas supply, and its business
in coke and by-products is much greater
than its gas business. Early in 1916 Mr.
Forrest undertook to expand the business
INDIANA AND INDIANANS
2227
Hj' recovering and refining benzol products
in order to supply the Allies with explo-
sives. The company supplied materials for
high explosives to Great Britain, France,
Eussia and Italy, and later to the United
States. Its activities thus extended to all
the battle fronts long before the United
States entered the war. Through the man-
agement of that important public utility
he has rendered perhaps his chief public
service to the eitj-. In 1918 the Milburn
By-Products Coal Company was incorpo-
rated in West Virginia, to provide a por-
tion of the coal required by the Citizens
Gas Company of Indianapolis, and Mr.
Forrest became president of that compan.y.
Mr. Forrest also owns and operates a large
farm near Warrenton, Virginia.
Mr. Forrest has never been in politics
and has never held an elective office. He
was active in many movements for the pur-
pose of bringing the United States to sup-
port the Allies in the European war and
was a member of the coke committee of
the Council of National Defense until the
council was superceded by various gov-
ernmental agencies. Mr. Forrest has been
an independent in politics.
He is a member of the American
Economic Association, American Socio-
logical Societ.v, American Gas Institute,
By-Produet Coke Producers' Association,
American Saddle-Horse Breeders' Associa-
tion, American Aberdeen-Angus Breeders'
Association, Indianapolis Literary Club,
University Club, Woodstock Club, Con-
temporary Club and of the Disciples of
Christ Church. These various organiza-
tions indicate some rather unusual inter-
ests and activities.
Mr. Forrest married Cordelia Kautz,
daughter of J. A. and Inez (Gillen) Kautz
of Kokomo, Indiana. Her father vis pub-
lisher of the Kokomo Tribune. They have
one child, a daughter.
J. A. CoNREY. For over half a century
the name Conrey has been prominently
identified with the business of furniture
manufacture in Indiana. The pioneer h
this industry at Shelbyville was the late
David L. Conrey, whose son J. A. Conrey
is now head of the Conrey-Davis Manu-
facturing Company, who have a plant that
is one of the largest industrial assets of
Shelbyville, and whose products are dis-
tributed throughout the United States and
in foreign countries. The firm is largely
a specialty concern in the furniture line,
manufacturing various types of tables and
also such specialty articles as smokers'
stands and cabinets, umbrella stands,
lamps, etc.
J. A. Conrey was born July 1, 1854, in
Franklin County, Indiana, son of David
L. and Hannah S. (Jemison) Conrey. His
father was born in Franklin County in
1830, spent the early part of his career
there in the furniture manufacturing busi-
ness, and finally in 1866 moved his plant
to Shelb.yville, where he had the first in-
dustry of that kind in the city. His busi-
ness grew, and from sales aggregating only
a few thousand dollars a year the volume
of business transacted finally reached more
than a half million dollars annually. The
business was operated under his own name
and is still continued. He was a man of
fine business and civic character and his
death in July, 1916, was widely mourned.
He was an active member of the Methodist
Church, of Shelbyville Lodge No. 28 of
IMasons, and was a stanch republican. He
and his wife had two sons and two daugh-
ters, all of whom are still living.
J. A. Conrey, the oldest of the family,
was educated in the public schools of Shel-
byville, in ^loorehill College, and after
leaving school was for several years a gen-
eral merchant in Shelbyville and Fayette
counties. He then became connected with
the furniture business as a traveling sales-
man, and represented the output of several
large firms. He was on the road altogether
for twenty-five years, and in that time
made his goods known to retailers and job-
bers in every important city between the
Atlantic and the Pacific. In the meantime,
in 1885, he had also entered the manu-
facturing end of the business, with Charles
Beiley and Company, and was president of
this business until 1902. In that year he
organized the present Conrey-Davis Manu-
facturing Company.
^Ir. Conrey is a republican in politics, a
member of the Methodist Church and is a
thirtv-second degree Scottish Rite Mason.
In 1878 he married Miss Delia Hecker of
Shelbyville. Mr. Conrey owns a beautiful
summer home in Northern ilichigan, and
spends some portion of every year in that
delightful district, where his chief recrea-
tions are fishing and golf.
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Frank M. Dilling. It cannot be too
frequently emphasized that character and
enterprise mean more as vital factors in the
success and development of a business than
mere capital. A better illustration of the
truth would be difficult to find than in the
career of Frank M. Dilling, the great In-
dianapolis manufacturing confectioner,
head of an establishment that is easily
reckoned as one of the big industries of
the capital city.
From this industrial plant, employing
in normal times a large force of people in
the various departments, and from the
handsome executive offices of Mr. Dilling it
seems a far cry to that time about thirty-
five years ago when Mr. Dilling with only
$2.50 in cash assets made his first batch of
candy designed for the commercial trade.
Mr. Dilling was born at Hagerstown,
Indiana, March 31, 1867, and thus he is
another of Indiana native sons who at-
tained prominence in the business affairs of
this state. His parents were Daniel and
Sarah (Bowers) Dilling of Hagerstown.
His father, who died in 1888, was for many
years a druggist at Hagerstown. Frank M.
billing spent his early years in his native
town, attending common schools, and as he
was possessed of the spirit of independence
and his people were by no means wealthy,
he accepted every opportunity even while a
school boy to earn his own spending money.
He sawed wood many days at a meager
wage, aud he also worked in his father's
store and practically served an apprentice-
ship at the drug business. When he was
sixteen years of age he entered into an
agreement to become an apprentice of ]Mr.
Charles Legg at Hagerstown. Mr. Legg
had a baking shop, and young Dilling spent
three months learning that trade. From
there he went to Richmond, then to Con-
nersville and Hartford City. From Hart-
ford City he went back to Hagerstown and
about that time he determined to engage in
that business which has since proved his
life's work, manufacturing confectionery.
Having only $2.50, as above stated, and
with no trade in prospect and nothing to
encourage him or keep up his courage ex-
cept his own determination and ambition,
he encountered further opposition from his
father, who did all he could to keep his
son out 6f this venture. It is significant
that two weeks after the beginning of the
Dilling candy factory the father was so
interested and so thoroughly convinced as
to form a partnership with his son. Frank
M. Dilling after manufacturing his candy
presented it to the retail trade, hiring out
his horse and rig to take traveling men to
the various villages in that section of the
.state. Thus by manufacturing a high class
product and by using good business meth-
ods to exploit its sale, Mr. Dilling soon
found himself at the head of a prosperous
business, conducted under the firm name
of Dilling & Son. This continued until
after the death of his father, and Mr.
Dilling found himself handicapped for lack
of a partner and from Hagerstown, moved
to Marion, Indiana, in 1889, and organized
a new business with ]\Ir. Claude Fowler
under the name of Dilling & Fowler. These
men had a capital of only $60 to embark
in the business and they secured the base-
ment of a house in that town and cooked,
slept, ate and made candy in those re-
stricted quarters. Nevertheless the firm
showed signs of prosperity and it did pros-
per. After a year Fowler sold his interest
to John Huber and Huber in turn sold the
next year to J. M. Fowler of Camden,
Ohio. Under this new organization the
business continued and prospered for ten
years.
In 1897 Mr. Dilling sold his interest in
the business to J. M. Fowler, who there-
after continued it under the name J. M.
Fowler Company. From Marion, Mr. Dill-
ing removed to Indianapolis and here en-
tered business as a manufacturing confec-
tioner on a large scale, organizing and in-
corporating the firm of Dilling & Company
with a capital stock of $40,000. Mr. Dilling
is president, ^Ir. J. il. Cox is vice presi-
dent, Guy Conkrite, treasurer, and Charles
Cox, secretary. The business has grown
by leaps and bounds and now occupies an
imposing three story structure on North
Senate Avenue. While its possibilities of
expansion and increase have been seriously
interfered with by present war conditions,
it is an industry with resources and sta-
bility more than sufficient to tide it over
the critical times. Before the war the
company had about 275 people on the pay
roll and among other facilities has a fleet
of fourteen automobile trucks. The confec-
tionery of Dilling & Company has almost
a nation wide distribution, and the
standard and quality have always been
maintained. As a special line of confec-
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2229
tionery they specialize in chocolates and
the manufaL'ture of chocolate direct from
the cocoa bean. Dilling & Company besides
being' a successful business corporation is
to those intimate with its workings a large
family of loyal and co-operating units, the
firm having alwa.ys shown a keen interest
in the welfare of the employes, and the lat-
ter responding with complete loyalty to the
good of the business as a whole. It is cus-
tomary for Dilling & Company to celebrate
the anniversary of the establishment of the
business every year on the 8th of February,
and for a number of years this occasion
has been made significant by a banquet at-
tended by all the officers, directors and em-
ployes of the company.
In 1893 Mr. Dilling married Rachael
Frell. Two daughters were born to their
marriage, Mildred and Charline. Mildred
is a graduate of Knickerbocker Hall, and
is a talented musician and harpist, con-
ducting her own studios in New York City.
She was a student of music in France until
the outbreak of the war. The daughter
Charline is the wife of N. C. Brewer of the
Star Gum Company of Chicago, and they
have two children, Charles and Mildred.
In 1914 Mr. Dilling married Mary D.
Whipple of Portland, Indiana, daughter of
John and Mary (Foltz) Whipple.
George W. Varneb, M. D. In the thirty
odd years of his residence at Evansville,
Doctor Varner has earned above the best
distinctions of the physician and surgeon
the esteem paid a man of well rounded
and balanced character and faculties en-
gaged in many praiseworthy movements
that insure and improve the welfare of an
entire community.
He was born July 7, 1862, five miles
south of Lincoln City in Clay Township of
Spencer County, not far from where Abra-
ham Lincoln spent part of his boyhood.
His great-grandfather was a Kentucky
pioneer. His grandfather, Jacob Varner,
a native of Pennsylvania, came from that
state to Indiana and was one of the earliest
settlers of Spencer County, where he ac-
quired and improved a tract of Govern-
ment land and lived out his years as a
farmer.
Doctor Varner is a son of Isaac and Ida
M. (Alley) Varner. His father was born
in. Spencer County in 1825, and after he
was grown took up a Government claim a
mile from the old homestead. The log
cabin he built was the home to which he
took his bride, and in following years his
industry put much of the laud under cul-
tivation, he set out fruit trees, erected good
frame buildings and for many years was
one of the most substantial citizens of the
community. He died in 1900. His wife,
who died at the age of eighty-one, was also
a native of Clay Township, where her
father, Samuel Alley, had established a pio-
neer home. These worthy parents had five
children : Jacob N., deceased ; George W. ;
Charlotte Ann, now occup.ying the old
homestead ; William T., who also followed a
medical career and is deceased; and Alice,
Mrs. Lewis Hutchinson.
George W. Varner has always been in-
clined to studious ways and scientific tastes.
From the common schools of his home
neighborhood he entered the National Nor-
mal University at Lebanon, Ohio, when
Alfred Holbrook was at the head of the
school, and was there well fitted for the
task of teaching, which he followed while
studying medicine. In 1886 he graduated
from the Kentucky School of Medicine at
Louisville, with the highest honors of his
class and was recipient of two gold medals,
one for general proficiency, the other for
best examinations in anatomy. For a year
he served as interne or house physician at
the Louisville City Hospital, and then ac-
cepted a further opportunity for experi-
ence under the direction of men high in the
profession as interne in the New York Hos-
pital for the Relief of Ruptured and Crip-
pled Children. In 1895 he left his growing
practice at Evansville to take post-gradu-
ate courses in New York and at Vienna,
Austria, where he came in touch with some
of the master surgeons of the world, giving
special attention to that branch and to
gynecology.
Doctor Varner located at Evansville in
1888, establishing his office on the west
side. His work as a skilful surgeon early
attracted attention, and for years his prac-
tice came from practically every county in
Southern Indiana. He has been surgeon to
St. Mary's Hospital and the Vanderburg
County Orphans Home, has been examin-
ing physician for many fraternal orders
and insurance companies, and the heaviest
demands were made upon him as a consult-
ant. He is a member of the Indiana and
American ^ledical Associations, and has a
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large libraiy of medical works and an ex-
tensive collection of books covering his fa-
vorite branches of general science and lit-
erature.
Outside of his profession there is abun-
dant evidence of his energies and versatile
gifts and interests. He is vice president
and one of the organizers of the West Side
Bank; is vice president of the West Side
Building, Loan and Savings Association ;
and president of the West Side Real Estate
and Insurance Company. He was one of
the organizers and first medical director
of the American Bankers Life Insurance
Company. He is a director of the Evans-
ville Pure IMilk Company, and for two
years president of the West Side Business
ilen's Association. He was the first to ad-
vocate a public city library, and was chair-
man of the committee to raise funds for
that purpose and secure the liberal dona-
tion made by Mr. Carnegie. Now no city
in the country is better served by library
facilities, there being several branches of
the main library, and the circulation of
books has reached 50,000 a month.
While so much of his life has been de-
voted to work that in the best sense of the
term is public service. Doctor Varner has
not been in politics beyond casting a vote
for republican candidates and serving dur-
ing 1893-95 as member at large on the
city council. He is a member of the Metho-
dist Episcopal Church and of the lodge,
chapter and commanderj- in Masonrj' and
the M.ystic Shrine.
June 24, 18'91, Doctor Varner married
Miss Olive L. Edmond, daughter of John
F. Edmond, a well known farmer citizen
of Vanderburg County. Their five chil-
dren are Olin E., Victor I., Marguerite 0.,
Earl V. and Norman L. Marguerite is the
wife of Samuel Howard and they have a
son named George Preston. The son Olin
is the soldier representative of the family,
serving as supply sergeant with the Na-
tional Army in France. Victor is preparing
for his father's profession as a student in
the University of Indiana.
William P. Collixgs earned his first
success as a livestock dealer in Parke
County, where he was born and reared, and
from there about twenty years ago moved
into the field where he had to meet the
keenest competition in the Chicago stock-
yards disti'ict. There he is today one of
the leading livestock commission men.
Mr. CoUings was born on a farm in
Parke County- in 1863, son of John D. and
Amanda J. (Moore) Collings. His parents
were also natives of the same county, and
their respective families were identified
with that section from pioneer days. Wil-
liam P. Collings grew up on a farm and
he gained experience in livestock husban-
dry and in dealing when only a boy. He
was a well known stock trader in Western
Indiana long before he moved to Chicago
in 1896. In that year he established his
headquarters at the Union stockyards, asso-
ciated with the Standard Livestock Com-
mission Company. Later he was connected
with and vice president of the Bowles Live-
stock Commission Company. In 1917 he
established his present business under the
name W. P. Collings & Son, livestock com-
mission merchants. His son Frank J. Col-
lings is a member of the firm. For a num-
ber of years Mr. Collings has specialized in
the handling of sheep. The Chicago mar-
ket recognizes him as an authority in this
branch of livestock, and as a salesman he
probably has as large a volume of business
to his individual credit as any other of his
competitors. Mr. Collings is a democrat
in politics.
He married Miss Mary S. Siler, who
was born and reared in Parke County, In-
diana. They have three sons, Frank J.,
a member of the firm with his father, and
George Cole and Walter Lee Collings, both
of whom are now in the United States
Army in France. George Cole Collings
is a private in an auto truck organization.
Walter Lee is a lieutenant in the regular
infantry. He enlisted as a private in Chi-
cago, and has been promoted to his pres-
ent rank through sheer force of merit and
ability.
Demarchus C. Brown. Nine years after
the Indiana State Library was placed
under the control of the State Board of
Education, with consequent increase of
appropriation, Demarchus C. Brown was
chosen to the post of librarian, succeeding
W. E. Henry. While the State Library is
practically as old as Indianapolis itself, it
is not too much to claim that the real use-
fulness of the collection of books as an
adjunct to the state's educational system
INDIANA AND INDIANANS
2231
and as a general reference library for all
the officials of the state at Indianapolis and
for the people in general has been greater
within the last ten years than in all the
years that preceded.
Mr. Brown, the librarian, is not only
versed in library technique and administra-
tion, but is himself a classical scholar and
a man of broad literary tastes and has
some modest achievements of his own in
the field of literature.
He was born at Indianapolis June 24,
1857, son of Philip and Julia (Troester)
Brown. His grandfather was Andrew
Brown of Butler County, Ohio. Philip
Brown, while he never enjoyed superior
educational advantages, was a real scholar
and his library was his chiefest treasure.
Mr. Brown undoubtedly inherits his lit-
erary tastes from his father. Philip Brown
was born in Butler County, Ohio, in 1800,
and in 1852 moved to Indianapolis, where
he lived until his death in 1864. He was
engaged in the lumber business in the
northeastern part of the city. His wife,
Julia Troester, was a native of Reutlingen,
Wuerteniberg, Germany, where she was
born in 1832. She died in 1874. Of their
four children, Amptor, Hilton U., De-
marchus C. and Femina, the oldest and
youngest died in childhood. Hilton U. is
general manager of the Indianapolis News.
Demarchus C. Brown attended the pub-
lic schools of Indianapolis and later the
Northwestern Christian University, now
Butler College, from which he was gradu-
ated A. B. in 1879. He especially excelled
in the classical languages, and upon the
death of the Greek professor was made
tutor in that language. In 1880 he re-
ceived his Master's degree, and the years
1882-83 he spent abroad in the University
of Tuebingen, Germany, and the British
Museum at London. He returned to be-
come instructor in Greek and secretary of
the board of directors of Butler College.
In 1884 he was elected to fill the chair of
Greek Language, and it was from that
position that he was called to his present
post as state librarian in September, 1906.
In the meantime he had accepted every
opportunity to study abroad. The fall
of 1892 he spent in Paris and the winter
of 1892-93 in the American School of
Classical Studies at Athens, Greece. The
summer of 1896 he was abroad as a visitor
and student at the Berlin Museum, and
during the fall of 1897 he and his wife were
engaged in research work at ^Munich,
Athens and Rome. In 1899 they worked
together in the museums of Paris and Lou-
don. Mr. Brown was translator of "Selec-
tions from Lucian," published in 1896, and
of "American Criminology," from the
work of Preudenthal. This was brought
out in 1907 by the State Board of Chari-
ties. He is also author of Indiana Legis-
lature and State Manual, published in 1907
and 1909.
Since his first appointment in 1893 by
Governor Matthews Mr. Brown has been an
active member of the State Board of Chari-
ties. He served as president of the Indiana
Conference of Charities in 1904. He was
elected president of the National Associa-
tion of State Librarians in 1910-11, served
as secretar.y of the Indiana Centennial
Commission, and has membership in vari-
ous scholarly bodies, including the Archaeo-
logical Institute of America, the American
Philological Association, the Classical As-
sociation of the Middle West, the American
Library Association, the Indianapolis Lit-
erary Club, which he served as president,
the Contemporary Club and the Athe-
naeum, both of which he has also served as
president. He is an active member of the
Indiana Historical Society and is a mem-
ber of the Disciples Church.
In JIarch, 1881, Mr. Brown married
Miss S. Anna Rudy of Paris, Illinois. She
died in April, 1891. On September 1,
1897, Mr. Brown married Jessie Lanier
Christian. Mrs. Brown's great-great-
gi'andfather on the maternal side was Col.
Benjamin Harrison of Virginia, father of
William Henry Harrison, ninth president
of the United States. Mr. and Mrs. Brown
liave one son, Philip C, born in 1901.
Clinton C. Colliek, M. D. Of the
colony of prominent Indiana men in Chi-
cago, Dr. Clinton C. Collier has taken high
rank as a specialist in eye, ear, nose and
thx'oat, and also as a teacher of medicine
M-ho has long held important positions with
various medical faculties in that city.
Doctor Collier is a native of Sullivan
County, Indiana, where he was born in
1876, son of James A. and Glovina (Kes-
ter) Collier. The Collier family is men-
tioned in all the local histories of Sulli-
van County as among the pioneers. When
Doctor Collier was a small boy his parents
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moved out to Kansas, and he lived in that
state until the age of seventeen. His real
career began when he left home at that
time, and is the more interesting because
he has depended upon himself and his in-
dividual exertions, whether as a student or
as a professional man. Prom Kansas he
went to Texas, thence to Missouri, and
from there to Tennessee. In 1898 he was
living in Tennessee, and at Union City vol-
unteered his services for the Spanish-Amer-
ican war, being assigned to the Second Ten-
nessee Infantry and later transferred to the
Regular Army in the Second Division Hos-
pital, Second Army Corps. For a time he
was on detached service and served in sev-
eral hospitals.
Doctor Collier came to Chicago in 1899,
soon after this army experience. His abili-
ties brought him quick promotion, but he
was not above earning his living in the early
stages of his student life by any honorable
vocation. Thus his early career was not
without privation and self-sacrifice. While
engaged in his preliminary studies for med-
icine in 1899 he was employed as a conduc-
tor on the Chicago Elevated Railway. He
studied in two medical colleges, the Chicago
Homeopathic and the Hahnemann. He also
gained some of his literary education in
Austin College, of which he is a graduate,
and attended the Lewis Institute of Chi-
cago. Doctor Collier has the type of mind
which not only assimilates knowledge read-
ily, but is able to impart it equally well.
This faculty was recognized while still a
student. He was also assigned as an in-
structor in the Chicago Homeopathic Col-
lege and later became a professor in Hahne-
mann College. He combined teaching with
studying, and also took his full course of
the American College of Osteopathy. Doc-
tor Collier graduated from the Chicago
Homeopathic College in 1904, from the
Hahnemann College in 1906, and subse-
quently he received the M. D. degi'ee from
the College of Physicians and Surgeons at
Chicago of the regular school of medicine.
In addition to his large private practice
Doctor Collier is now associate professor of
rhinology and laryngology in Hahnemann
College. He was formerly demonstrator of
anatomv, rhinology and laryngology' in
the Chicago Homeopathic College, and has
also been a teacher in the American College
of Osteopathy.
He took up general practice in 1904, but
of late years has specialized almost entirely
in diseases of the eye, ear, nose and throat.
In preparation for this work he did post-
graduate study in the Chicago University,
the Manhattan Eye and Ear Hospital of
New York, and the Metropolitan Hospital
of New York. Doctor Collier is a member
of practically all the medical societies, in-
cluding the American Medical Association.
His success in his profession has brought
him many honors and a substantial pros-
perity. He owns a beautiful country home
in Michigan, and spends part of his time
there. The satisfaction which he might
otherwise enjoy without stint in his pro-
fessional advancement has been marred by
the tragedy which befell him when he lost
his wife. She was a patient convalescing
from the birth of a child, which she had
always wanted, and whether this joy was
too much for her mind will never be known,
but one night upon the nurse leaving the
room, she fell from the sixth story and was
crushed to death. She left that which she
wanted most. James Clinton Collier, three
weeks old. »She had named him after his
grandfather. Dr. James A. Collier. Doctor
Collier was married to her in 1909. Her
death occurred December 30, 1917. Before
her marriage she was Nellie Nequest of
Whitehall, Michigan.
John Robert Lenpestey. Two of the
oldest and best known names in Grant
County are those of Lenfestey and Brown-
lee. A successful Chicago business man,
president of the Advertising Electrotyping
Company, John Robert Lenfestey was born
at Marion in Grant County in 1874, and
is a son of Capt. Edward S. and Laura
(Brownlee) Lenfestey. His parents were
both born in Marion. She was a daughter
of Judge John Brownlee, the first resident
judge in Grant County, and a sister of
Judge Hiram Brownlee. Both were at one
time judges of the LTnited States Court in
Indiana. The old Judge Brownlee home
at Marion was a scene of old-time hospital-
ity and entertainment. Most of the notable
characters in the public life of Indiana
during the middle period of the last cen-
tury were at various times guests under
the Brownlee roof.
The late Capt. Edward S. Lenfestey
served his country gallantly and with dis-
tinction through the Civil war, attaining
to the rank of captain and commanding
INDIANA AND INDIANANS
2233
his company in many battles. In civil life
he became likewise prominent, beginning
his career as a lawyer, and serving at one
time as a member of the State Legislature.
On account of a throat affection he engaged
in the real estate business at ilarion. His
ability was chiefly pronounced in promot-
ing and carrying out large business
projects. Several years were spent in the
West in the late '70s and early '80s, and
he was a factor in the upbuilding of a num-
ber of new western cities. He built the
first street car line at Trinidad, Colorado,
also the first gas works and the first large
hotel in that town, and his enterprise ex-
tended in similar manner to other impor-
tant undertakings in Colorado.
John Kobert Lenfestey was with his
father in the West for several years. He
attended school both at Topeka, Kansas,
and Trinidad, Colorado. He acquired his
early business experience in the West, but
since 1901 has been a resident of Chicago.
He was for a time with the Santa Fe Rail-
way and later was traveling freight and
passenger agent for the Frisco System,
with headquarters both in Chicago and San
Antonio, Texas. From that he became in-
terested in the electrotyping business and
established the Advertising Electrotyping
Company, of which he is president and
owner. This is one of the important ad-
juncts of the great advertising business of
America and Mr. Lenfestey has built up an
indiistry that is one of the most complete
in facilities and service in the iliddle West.
Through many years he has been iden-
tified with the big commercial and social
life of Chicago. . He is a member of the
Forty Club, the Indiana Society of Chi-
cago, the Chicago Athletic Club, the South
Shore Country Club, the Exmoor Country
Club, the Association of Commerce, the
Illinois Manufacturers' Association and the
Chicago Advertising Association. Mr.
Lenfestey is vice president of the Interna-
tional Electrotypers' Association. He mar-
ried Miss Carrie Jungblut of Chicago, who
was born and reared in that city. They
have a son, John Robert, Jr.
Alfred Rt^fus Boxe. If it is proper to
speak of a man gl-owing old in an industry
so young as the telephone business, the
distinction might well be applied to Alfred
Rijfus Bone, a native of Indiana, and who
spent many years in this state, but for the
past twenty years has been an official of
the Chicago Telephone Company and is
now general commercial superintendent of
that, one of the largest individual groups
of the Bell Telephone System.
Mr. Bone acquired something like a prac-
tical knowledge of the intricacies of tele-
phony at a time when probably not one out
of ten persons in the United States had
ever seen a telephone instrument, and when
a telephone exchange was regarded as al-
most a useless innovation by the stand-
patters of that day.
Mr. Bone was born in Shelby County,
Indiana, June 25, 1871, son of Alfred
Plummer and Louisa M. (Deacon) Bone,
both now deceased. His father, who was
born in 1836 in Shelby County, lived there
for many years, and from that county en-
listed for service with the One Hundred
and Thirty-Third Indiana Infantry during
the Civil war. He saw much of the hard
and dangerous service of his regiment, was
in the great Atlanta campaign and many
battles, and was captured and held a pris-
oner in Andersonville prison.
The important fact of his career of spe-
cial interest in the sketch of his son is that
he established at Greensburg, Indiana, in
1884 a telephone exchange that was one of
the pioneer plants of the kind in the United
States and in Indiana. At that time Alfred
Rufus Bone was thirteen years old, and
during the next year he acquired knowledge
sufficient to qualify him as a telephone op-
erator in his father's exchange. Since then
for nearly thirty-five years he has been al-
most continuously in the telephone business
and has witnessed all its remarkable expan-
sion and development. After serving as
operator he became repair man, collector
and general assistant to his father's plant
at Greensburg. From 1890 to 1892 he was
a student at Bethany College in West Vir-
ginia.
After his college career he took up a dif-
ferent line of work, and from 1893 to 1895
was business manager of the Anderson
Democrat of Indiana. From 1895 to 1898
he was located in the Northwest as a spe-
cial agent for the Interior Department of
the United States Government. Returning
to Greensburg he became business manager
of the Greensburg Telephone Company and.
from there went to Chicasro in 1899. Since
that year he has been identified with the
Chicago Telephone Company, and one pro-
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motion has followed another until he is now
general commercial superintendent.
His pioneer work is recognized by his
membership in the society known as the
Telephone Pioneers of America. He is one
of the prominent men in the Chicago Asso-
ciation of Commerce. He is also a member
of the Chamber of Commerce of the United
States. Mr. Bone is a republican, a Pres-
byterian, a Mason and Elk, and a Beta
Theta Pi. He is a member of the Chicago
Athletic Club, Traffic Club, Electric Club,
of which he was president in 1915, Busi-
ness Men's Prosperity Club, of which he
was president in 1916, and the Ridge Coun-
try Club. His chief recreation is golf.
September 7, 1892, Mr. Bone married Miss
Estelle Kennedy Aldrich of Greensburg.
Their three children are Hester Louisa,
Julia Walker and Alfred Rufus, Jr.
Capt. Otho H. ^Morgan. A native of
Indiana, and one of the gallant young men
who served as officers in the Union Army
from this state, Capt. Otho H. Morgan for
over fifty years has been a resident of Chi-
cago and one of the leaders in business and
industrial affairs of that city. Captain
Morgan is president of the Chicago Var-
nish Company, one of the oldest corpora-
tions of its kind in the Middle "West.
He was born at Lawrenceburg, Indiana,
August 11, 1838, son of Doctor Elisha and
Catherine (Coit) Morgan. The parents
were both born in Connecticut and repre-
sent old New England families. Doctor
Morgan and wife located at Lawrenceburg,
Indiana, about 1836, and for a number of
years he practiced medicine in that section
of the state. Later he removed to Cincin-
nati, where he enjoyed the highest standing
in his profession for many years. He was
in fact one of the men of large influence
and usefulness in the city. In the maternal
line Captain Morgan is a nephew of the
late P. L. Spooner, of Indiana, and cousin
of Senator John C. Spooner of "Wisconsin,
whose uncle. Col. Ben Spooner, was a dis-
tinguished citizen of Indiana during the
first half of the nineteenth centiiry.
From childhood Captain Morgan was
reared in Cincinnati, where he attended
public schools. He finished his education
in "Williston Seminary at East Hampton,
Massachusetts. In the fall of 1861 on his
own initiative he went to Indianapolis and
called upon the adjutant general of the
state who authorized him to recruit for the
Seventh Indiana Battery. Governor Mor-
ton commissioned young Morgan second
lieutenant in the Seventh Indiana Light
Battery which was recruited at Columbus,
Vincennes and Terre Haute for the Army
of the Cumberland. With this command
he was soon engaged in active service, leav-
ing for the battlefield from Louisville, his
first stop being at Mumfordsville, Ken-
tucky. The march continued then to the
battle of Shiloh, and later Lieutenant
Morgan was in the siege of Corinth, and
after a return march to Louisville went
with his command to the war center in
Southeastern Tennessee and participated
in the battles of Chattanooga, Missionary
Ridge, Lookout Mountain, Chickamauga
and the Atlanta Campaign. In April,
1864, he was promoted to the rank of cap-
tain and commanded his battery until De-
cember of that year, after the close of the
Atlanta campaign. His three years' serv-
ice having expired be returned to Cincin-
nati, with a splendid record for bravery
and efficiency as a Union officer.
Captain Morgan came to Chicago in
1866. In association with his father-in-
law, the late Anson C. Potwin, he founded
the Chicago Varnish Company. This was
at first a partnership, later became a cor-
poration, and now has a capital of a mil-
lion and a half dollars and is one of the big
industrial establishments of the Great
Lakes metropolis. It is in fact as well as
in inspiration "a business built on honor."
Captain Morgan has been president of the
Chicago Varnish Company since 1888, and
with a record as officer in the company
for over half a century he is one of the
veteran business men of Chicago.
Captain Morgan is a member of the
Presbyterian Church, the Union League
Club, the York and Scottish Rite Masons,
a member of the John A. Logan Post,
G. A. R., and a companion in the Illinois
Commandery of the Loyal Legion.
On January 19, 1864, he married at
Terre Haute, Indiana, Miss Julia Potwin.
Her father, Anson C. Potwin, was a hard-
ware merchant in Terre Haute before
coming to Chicago. Captain and Mrs.
^lorgan reside at Highland Park. Their
five living children are Anson C. ; Elisha ;
Catharine C, M'ife of Robert C. Day: Helen
v.. wife of Tom W. Bellhouse ; and Julia,
wife of Frank S. North. Captain Morgan's
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2235
oldest son was "William P. ^lorgan, now
deceased. Through this deceased son Cap-
tain Morgan has a grandson, Lieut. Wil-
liam 0. Morgan, now with the American
Army in France.
Willis S. Pritchett, M. D. In the many
j^ears he has practiced medicine at Evans-
Ville Dr. Pritchett has been satisfied to
serve his increased clientage in the capac-
ity of a skillful and conscientious general
practitioner, and he is one of the most suc-
cessful of the good family doctors who
have been so justly admired and have
proved themselves the tried and faithful in
time of need.
Dr. Pritchett was born in a log house on
a farm in Montgomery Township of Gib-
son County, Indiana, and his father, Wil-
liam Henderson Pritchett, was born on the
same farm, in 1828. His grandfather,
Elisha Pritchett, a native of Pennsylvania,
moved from there to Virginia, later to Ken-
tucky, and finally became a pioneer in the
wilderness of Gibson County, Indiana,
where he had to clear away great trees be-
fore he could build his log cabin, the first
home of the family in this state. In course
of time he converted his tract of govern-
ment land into a good farm, and lived there
with the esteem of his neighbors until his
death about 1861. He married Elizabeth
Rutledge, a native of Tennessee.
William H. Pritchett, after getting his
education in the common schools and com-
ing to man's estate, bought the interests of
the other heirs in the home farm, and in-
dustriously cultivated it for many years.
He Wcis a resident of that one locality for
over eightv years, and died there Septem-
ber 6, 1913." His wife, who died in 1907,
was also a native of Montgomery Township,
where her parents, William and Lucy
Gudgel, were early settlers. The seven
children of William H. and Martha (Gud-
gel) Pritchett were: George, Elvira, Wil-
lis, Mary Ellen, Florence, Perry and Es-
telle. These children have never divided
their interests in the old home farm.
Willis S. Pritchett grew up in the whole-
some environment where he was born, at-
tended rural schools and at Oakland City,
and by his earnings as a teacher largely
paid for his higher education until he was
fitted for his profession. After teaching
a year, he spent two years in the Danville
Normal, again taught a couple of years.
followed by a year in Professor Holbrook's
Normal University of Lebanon, Ohio.
There was still another year of teaching to
his credit, and in the meantime he was
studying medicine with his cousin Dr.
Gudgel, and then entered the Louisville
IMedical College after having attended lec-
tures for a year in Evansville Medical Col-
lege.
Dr. Pritchett received his medical dip-
loma at Louisville in 1889, and at once re-
turned to Evansville, where he spent a
year as interne in the Marine Hospital. He
then began general practice with ofSces on
Second Avenue, and has continued steadily
in his professional labors ever since. He
is a highly esteemed member of the County
Medical Society, also of the Indiana and
American Medical Associations. He is
affiliated with St. George Lodge, Knights
of Pythias, and is a member of Bayard
Park Methodist Episcopal Church. In
1889 he married Matilda E. Keuhn, a na-
tive of Evansville and daughter of August
Keuhn.
Carl D. Kinsey. Indiana people who
keep themselves informed on current mu-
sical activities and organizations are aware
that it is a native Hoosier who is vice pres-
ident and manager of the Chicago Musical
College, the largest institution of its kind
in the United States, and he has perhaps
even wider fame through his long service
with the Chicago Apollo Club and more
recently as manager of the North Shore
]\Iusic Festival Association.
]Mr. Kinsey was born at Fort Wayne in
1879, son of John F. and Emily (Zimmer-
man) Kinsey. He took up the study of
music when only six years of age. He
was also liberally educated in science and
literature, attending Purdue University at
Lafavette. Mr. Kinsey is a graduate of
the Chicago Musical College, where he spe-
cialized in piano, with the class of 1898.
After that he took up organ study with
Harrison M. Wild, and subsequently be-
came manager of the Chicago Apollo Club.
a famoiis organization which had deserved
national fame. Then some years ago Mr.
Kinsey organized the North Shore Music
Festival Association at Evanston, and as
manager has supervised what for a num-
ber of years has been perhaps the crown iner
musical event in the Middle West. This
association, which has its annual program
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in May of each year, embraces a chorus of
six hundred voices, with a children's chorus
of fifteen hundred.
Though one of the younger men in mu-
sical affairs Mr. Kinsey is undoubtedly one
of those who have contributed most to the
development of musical art and education
in the country tributary to Chicago. It
is a special tribute to his energies and
abilities that he is vice president and man-
ager and one of the directors of the Chi-
cago ilusical College. This institution,
founded in 1867, by Dr. Ziegfeld, has had
a continuous growth and development,
scarcely impeded by the great fire of 1871,
and for many years had its home in the
famous Central Music Hall of Chicago, and
is now housed in a special building of its
own, one of the most conspiciious struc-
tures fronting Michigan Avenue. In the
half century of its existence the Chicago
Musical College has trained and has in-
fluenced through both its pupils and its
staff of teachers probably a larger section
of musical taste in the Middle "West than
all other institutions combined. •
Mr. Kinsey married Miss Edwina Du-
plaine, of Chicago. They have two chil-
dren, Myron and Letitia Kinsey.
Samuel A. Harper is a native of In-
diana and won his first eases as a lawyer
at Auburn. For the past seventeen years
he has practiced in Chicago, with a steadily
growing fame as a lawj-er and author, and
particularly for his constructive work in
the field of social legislation. He is one
of the notable Indianans of Chicago.
Mr. Harper was born at Orland Septem-
ber 7, 1875, a son of Chester S. and Emma
(Taylor) Harper. He received his earl.y
education in the "Waterloo High School of
this state, attended the Kent College of
Law at Chicago in 1895, and from 1896 to
1899 was a student in the literary and law
departments of the University of Michi-
gan. He received his LL. B. degree in
1899. From the latter year until 1901 he
practiced at Auburn with Frank S. Roby
under the firm name of Roby and Harper.
Judge Roby, his associate, was later* a
.iustiee of the Appellate Court of Indiana.
Mr. Harper served as chief deputy prose-
cuting attorney for the Thirty-fifth Ju-
dicial District, Steuben and DeKalb coun-
ties, in 1899 and 1900. He removed to
Chicago in 1901.
He has specialized in the law of insur-
ance and represents several insurance com-
panies as general counsel. He served as
assistant attorney, under Governor Yates,
of the Illinois State Insurance Department
from 1901 to 1903, and was attorney for
the Illinois Department of Factory Inspec-
tion, 1904-08. In 1910 he was appointed
attorney for the Illinois Commission on
"Workmen 's Compensation.
Mr. Harper is a recognized authority on
workmen's compensation insurance and
systems. He studied these systems abroad
in 1910. He originated the present form
of elective sj'stem of workmen's compensa-
tion, with the coercive provision abolishing
common law defenses, a plan that has since
been adopted in most of the states of the
I'nion, and which, despite the earlier opin-
ion of some noted authorities, has been
sustained by all the courts. As attorney for
the Illinois Commission on Occupational
Diseases, Mr. Harper drafted one of the
first occupational disease laws ever adopted
in America. He has been identified with
the preparation of most of the laws of Il-
linois for social and industrial betterment.
He was associated with Louis D. Brandeis,
now of the United States Siipreme Court,
in representing the State of Illinois in
the Supreme Court in the test ease of the
Illinois "Woman's Ten-Hour Law. This
was one of the early cases which sustained
legislation enacted for the protection of
women workers.
In 1909 Governor Deneen appointed him
secretary and attorney for the Illinois In-
dustrial Commission. Mr. Harper is a
man of very wide interests and activities.
He is a director of the Illinois Society for
Mental Hygiene; member of the Board of
Managers of the Chicago Law Institute,
1909 to 1912: is a member of the Ameri-
can, Illinois State and Chicago Bar Asso-
ciations, the Illinois Audubon Society, the
Indiana Society of Chicago, is a Knight of
Pythias, and belongs to the Hamilton Club,
being one of the directors from 1917 to!
1920, the Prairie Club, and the Maywood
Club, which he served as president in 1910-
11, the Maywood Bird Club, of which he
is president. These latter memberships in-
dicate IMr. Harper's chief recreation aside
from his profession. He has studied bird
life for many years, and bv the same token
is a lover of all outdoors and when out to
enjoy nature he prefers walking to mo-
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INDIANA AND INDIANANS
2237
toring. Mr. Harper is author of "Harper
on Workmen's Compensation," (Callag-
han) of "Twelve Mouths with the Birds
and Poets," (Seymour), and of numerous
contributions to legal and literary journals.
His home is in the attractive wooded
suburb of Chicago, River Forest, and his
offices are at 220 South State Street.
March 30, 1904, he married Miss Mary C.
McKibbin, of McKeesport, Pennsylvania.
They have one son, Samuel, Jr.
Gilbert H. Hendren. While his legal
residence is in Greene Count}', where he
has lived since boyhood and where he still
owns a good farm, Gilbert H. Hendren for
the past eight years has been an official
resident of Indianapolis. He was for six
years state examiner of the State Board of
Accounts and also state examiner for the
Department of Inspection and Supervision
of Public Offices.
Mr. Hendren is the type of official whose
personality and ability are broader than his
office. He has in fact achieved national
distinction in devising and standardizing
accounting systems for state, municipal and
county offices, and his writings and reports
on these subjects are found in almost every
library in this country and abroad devoted
to municipal and public accounting. Since
taking his position as state examiner in
1913 it has been estimated that his work
in devising and standardizing accounting
systems and bringing about reforms in the
method of expenditure of public moneys
has saved millions of dollars to the State
of Indiana.
Mr. Hendren has been indefatigable in
his labor in this work. Much of the time
he has worked both day and night, and only
the strong physical and mental organiza-
tion with which he is endowed could with-
stand such a strain. He has made ex-
tensive compilations of reports on various
phases of state and county expenditures in
every department of government, to which
he has added valuable and instructive
monographs, and his writings on these sub-
jects have brought world wide attention.
He has perfected the present uniform sys-
tem of bookkeeping and the examination of
county officials' accounts, carried out under
his direction by a staflf of competent and
experienced examiners. His efforts have
also brought about uniformity in the fees
of the public officials and uniform construc-
tion of the laws by the various officials of
the state.
Mr. Hendren was born at Canal Win-
chester in Franklin County, Ohio, March
29, 1857, a son of Lewis C. and Joanna
(Dorsey) Hendren. When he was fourteen
years of age his parents moved from their
Ohio farm to a farm near Marco in Greene
County, Indiana. Mr. Hendren grew up as
a farm boy, had a local school education,
and at the age of eighteen qualified and
taught his first term of school. Later he
worked as a telegraph operator and railroad
agent. He was a student of the Central
Law School of Indianapolis in 1879-1880.
For seven j-ears he was a merchant at
Marco. His first public office was that of
township trustee, and for eight years he
was deput.y clerk of the Circuit Court of
Greene County. When he gave up mer-
chandising he went into the real estate
and mortgage loan business at Bloomfield
and continued that as his leading interest
for a number of j-ears. For two years he
was also editor and publisher of the Bloom-
field Democrat. Mr. Hendren first came to
Indianapolis as chief clerk of the State
Building and Loan Department, an office
he filled for 21/0 years. In that time he was
the principal author of and helped secure
the passage of the present state law govern-
ing building and loan associations. This
law is regarded as a model of its kind and
has done away with many of the evils of
building and loan practice.
Mr. Hendren married IMiss Anna M.
Hadley of Mooresville, Indiana. Her
father, Rev. Jeremiah Hadley, was a promi-
nent minister of the Friends Church and
for several years represented his denomina-
tion in religious work among the Indians
of Southeastern Kansas.
On June 1, 1919, Mr. Hendren was ap-
pointed a member of the Indiana Industrial
Board at the same salary he received as
state examiner. The ultimate object of this
board is, first : To prevent accidents, or to
reduce those that do occur to the inevitable
class. Second : To furnish to the injured
employes and their dependents an abso-
lutely certain indemnity in case of injury.
The Workmen's Compensation Laws are
distinctively a product of modern and eco-
nomic conditions. The first Workmen's
Compensation Law adopted by any of the
states was in 1910, and now thirty-eight
states have the law in some form. The
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Federal Government has enacted a law pro-
viding for compensation for disability and
death of Government employes by acci-
dent arising ont of their employment.
The human part of the equipment of a
railroad train should bear even a closer re-
lationship to the cost of the operation of
the railroad than the mechanical part of
the equipment, and for this reason should
become a part of the cost of the construc-
tion and maintenance of the road.
After Mr. Hendren's years of service as
state examiner, in which he dealt with men
of all political departments and with all
units of Government — county, township,
town, city and state, he will begin his work
as a member of the State Industrial Board
with a most valuable experience that will
greatly aid him in his new work.
With the great social and industrial un-
rest prevailing in Russia, Germany. Austria
and other European countries and with a
general propaganda movement being spread
by the Bolshevist element of these coun-
tries, the other countries of Europe and to
a considerable degree the United States, the
Industrial boards of Indiana and other
states will be the logical instruments,
clothed with power by law to do vastly more
in the interest of good government and for
the employers and employes than all other
departments combined.
Frank H. Knapp spent his boyhood on a
farm in Elkhart County, but since 1884
has been a resident of Chicago. He has
long been prominent in fraternal affairs
and is now national representative at Chi-
cago of the American Insiirance Union.
He was born in Ontario County. New
York, on his grandfather's farm, Septem-
ber 15, 1849. His father, William Henry
Knapp, was born on the same farm in
1818. That land has been in the possession
of the Knapp family for more than a cen-
tury, and only three transfers have been
recorded since tlie govennnent patent was
issued. A cousin of Frank H. Knapp is
Hon. Walter H. Knapp, who is now excise
commissioner of the State of New York by
appointment from Governor Whitman and
with headquarters at Albany.
William H. Knaiip came to Elkhart
County in April, 1849, and secured a farm
a mile and a half south of the village of
Middlebury. He spent the rest of his life
there, was a very practical farmer, a horse-
man and breeder of many fine animals on
his farm. He was a member of the Bap-
tist church and was first a whig and later
a republican. It is said that while he
never cared for public office he worked
energetically in behalf of the candidates of
his party, and frequently visited the homes
of his neighbors on election days, where he
would fill in with a helping hand in the
work of the farm in order that they might
go to the poles and vote. He was well
known all over Elkhart County for his in-
tegrity and honorable dealing, and with
that reputation he died in 1870. In New
York State he married Miss Catherine
Eliza Mattison. She was born in Ontario
County, New York, on an adjoining farm,
in 1820 and died also in 1870. Her mother
was a Parkhurst of the well-known New-
York family of that name. William H.
Knapp and wife had two sons, Leonard A.
and Frank H. Leonard, w"ho was born
October 15, 1842, enlisted in May, 1861, in
Company E of the Twenty-Eighth New
York Infantry, and served until fatally
wounded at Antietam September 17, 1862.
He died two weeks later and was buried
at iliddlebury, Indiana.
When Frank H. Knapp was two months
old his mother took him to the farm in
Elkhart County. As a- boy he attended
the district schools, worked in the fields
and around the home, attended high school
at Middlebury and Goshen, and from the
age of twenty-one was engaged in the prac-
tical work of a farmer for five or six years.
But most of his active career has been
spent in some form of public service or
business. He served as assistant deputy
under Colonel Alba M. Tucker, county
auditor of Elkhart Cquntj^ and was later
deputy county treasurer and assistant in
the county clerk's, county recorder's and
sheriff^ 's offices.
In 1884 Mr. Knapp went to Chicago as
private secretary to W. G. Wilson, presi-
dent of the Wilson Sewing Machine Com-
pany. Ten years later, at Mr. Wilson's
death, he was employed by the Illinois
Trust & Savings Bank as assistant in set-
tling the Wilson and other estates. This
work occupied his time for about four
years.
For over twenty years Mr. Knapp has
been prominent in fraternal circles. " For
thirteen years, until 1911, he was advisory
scribe of the Royal League for the State
INDIANA AND INDIANANS
2239
of Illinois, and in 1911 became supreme
scribe of the Vesta Circle, one of the high-
est offices in the Society. This fraternal
insurance organization was later merged
with the American Insurance Union, the
lieadquarters of which are at Columbus,
Ohio. Mr. Knapp is now national repre-
sentative, with headquarters in the Masonic
Temple at Chicago. He is a member of
many other fraternities and has been a
lifelong republican.
September 14, 1872, he married Miss
Jenny Lind Chamberlain. Mrs. Knapp
was born at Goshen, Indiana, February
21, 1851, and died at Chicago December
27, 1893. Their only daughter, Christine
Nilsson, is the wife of Joseph H. Hender-
son. She is the mother of two sons, Frank
L. and Lucian F. Mr. Knapp 's grandson
Frank L. is now in the army.
Mrs. Knapp was a daughter of Judge
E. ]\I. Chamberlain and a cousin of Ex-
Governor General Joshua L. Chamberlain
of ilaine. Judge Ebeuezer M. Chamber-
lain was one of the distinguished lawyei's
and .jurists of early Indiana. He was
born in the State of Maine August 20,
1805, son of a shipbuilder and an officer
of the War of 1812. Judge Chamberlain
as a boy had an experience on the farm
and in his father's shipyards. He studied
law in Maine and acquired something more
than a local reputation there as an orator.
With only a few dollars he had earned
teaching school he came to Indiana in
1832, secured a position as teacher in Fay-
ette County and also studied law at Con-
nersville until admitted to the bar in 1833.
He at once moved to Elkhart County and
was one of the early resident members of
the bar. He was elected to the Legislature
in 1835, his district covering nearly a fifth
of the entire area of the state. In 1842
he was elected prosecuting attorney of the
oUl Ninth Judicial District and "in 1843
became presiding .judge of the same dis-
trict, and was re-elected without opposi-
tion in 1851. His service of nine years as
.judge was testified to by the entire bar as
"creditable, dignified, courteous and sat-
isfactory'." In 1844 he was a delegate to
the Democratic National Convention, and
in 1848 was a candidate for presidential
elector. He resigned from the bench in
1851 to become democratic candidate for
Congress, and was elected by nearly a
thousand majority. He served in Congress
two terms and won many honors both as a
statesman and orator. Judge Chamberlain
married in 1838 Phebe Ann Hascall,
daughter of Amasa Hascall and member
of a family long prominent in Elkhart
Count}' and Ontario County, New York.
Wilbur D. Nesbit, who served his lit-
erary apprenticeship in Indiana and chose
a daughter of the Hoosier state for his
wife, is one of the Indiana school of liter-
ature. Although much of his mature
career has been largely centered in Clii-
cago, he has maintained his close touch
with Indiana, and consistently acknowl-
edges Indiana's influence upon his work.
He was born at Xenia, Ohio, September
16, 1871, son of John Harvey and Isabel
(Fichthorne) Nesbit. After a public
school education he became a printer and
in 1889 located in Anderson, where he soon
became city editor of the Andei-son Times.
From there he went to iluneie, then to
Indianapolis, where he worked on the
Journal until he went to Baltimore to con-
duct a feature column on the American.
In 1902 he went to Chicago, where he wrote
features for the Tribune until he left that
paper to manage a syndicate which han-
dled his work. In Indianapolis he did a
great deal of advertising work, and after
a few years in Chicago he was induced to
give par^ of his time to what was then the
Mahin Advertising Company. Three years
ago he joined with William H. Rankin, an-
other Indiana man, and other associates, in
buying out the agency which is now known
as the William H. Rankin Company, ilr.
Nesbit is vice president of the company
and director of the copy staff.
Mr. Nesbit 's writings have appeared in
most of the magazines of the country.
Among his books mav be mentioned "The
Trail to Bovland," 1904; "The Gentleman
Ragman," 1906; "The Land of Make-Be-
lieve," 1907; "A Friend or Two," "Your
Flag and My Flag," and various gift pub-
lications. Mr. Nesbit wrote • the book of
' ' The Girl of My Dreams, ' ' a musical com-
edy which ran for five seasons, and has
written several other theatrical features.
Mr. Nesbit lives in Evanston, Illinois.
He is a member of the Little Room, Chi-
cago Athletic Association, Midday, Forty
and Cliff Dwellers Clubs of Chicago, as
well as of the Indiana Societ.y of Chicago.
He is president of the Forty Chib and a
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past president of the Indiana Society. In
Evanston he is a member of the University
Club and Gleu View and Evanston Coun-
try Clubs. He is a non-resident member of
the Columbia Club of Indianapolis.
Mr. Nesbit married Mary Lee Jenkins,
an exceptionally talented musician of In-
dianapolis. The}' have three sons, Rich-
ard, Robert and Wilbur, Jr.
Sar.\h Negley McIntosh was one of the
splendid mothers of a former generation of
Indiana citizens, and in giving space in this
publication to the prominent women of In-
diana none could be more worthily consid-
ered than this well known character of
Greene County. Her most familiar title
was "Aunt Sally" Mcintosh.
She was born in Ohio September 22,
1810, a daughter of Peter Negley, whose
name is conspicuously identified with the
very earliest history of Marion County, In-
diana. Peter Negley was a grandson of
Caspar Negley, who in 1739, then a young
boy, had come with other members of the
Negley family from Germany to America.
The Negleys have long been prominent in
Pennsylvania and in other central western
Peter Negley arrived in Marion County,
Indiana, and established his home at the
town of Millersville in 1819, when Aunt
Sally Mcintosh was only nine years of age.
His settlement here antedated by six years
the establishment of Indianapolis. He was
an important figure in the early affairs of
Clarion County, and was a farmer, miller
and distiller.
Thus while Sarah Negley 's early life was
spent amid primitive surroundings she
grew up with the mental and physical
strength of her sturdy ancestors and al-
ways manifested much of that independ-
ence of will and judgment which had
caused her forefathers generations back to
espouse the cause of the protestant religion
when it was by no means popular.
On May 10, 1829, Sarah Negley married
William J. Mcintosh, and she became the
mother of eleven children. In 1837 the Mc-
Intoshs moved to Greene County, Indiana,
and it was in that county that this woman
became so widely known. Like the woman
of the Bible she was diligent and faithful
in ordering her household affairs and in
bringing up her children, and at the same
time she found abundant energy and exer-
cised her ready sympathy in acts of kind-
liness and love throughout a large com-
munity. Her death occurred November
12, 1890.
Preston C. Rubush. On the basis of
work accomplished it maj' be properly
claimed by the firm of Rubush & Hunter,
architects, that it represents the best ideals
of the profession and has contributed some
of the most satisfactory and distinctive ex-
amples of modern architecture found in
Indianapolis and other cities.
The head of this firm is a native In-
dianian, born at the village of Fairfield,
Howard County, March 30, 1867. William
G. Rubush, his father, came from the vicin-
ity of Staunton, Virginia, to Indiana about
the close of the Civil war. For a time he
operated a shingle factory at Fairfield,
later moved his factory some six miles
northwest of Martinsville, and finally aban-
doned that industry to engage in farming.
He afterward removed to Indianapolis,
where' he died Februarj' 18, 1914. He was
a very industrious man, had ability to
make money, but his generous disposition
distributed it so rapidly that there was
never a time when his accumulations repre-
sented more than a bare margin above the
necessities of life. He was for years a
stanch member and supporter of the United
Brethren Church. He married Maria E.
Wyrick, who was born near Zanesville,
Ohio. Five of their six children are still
living.
Preston C. Rubush lived with his parents
until he reached years of manhood and dis-
cretion. After leaving the common schools
he worked at the trade of carpenter and
also as a cabinet maker, and has an expert
skill in these mechanical arts and industries
which are almost fundamentals to the sci-
ence of architecture. Later he took a spe-
cial course in architecture at the Univer-
sity of Illinois, and on returning from that
school was employed in the offices of archi-
tects at Peoria, Illinois, and Indianapolis.
Mr. Rubush has practiced architecture
as a profession for twenty-five years. In
December, 1893, he became a member of the
firm Scharn & Rubush. In 1895 this be-
came P. C. Rubush & Company, and ten
years later was succeeded by the present
firm of Rubush & Hunter.
Mr. Rubush stands deservedly high in
his profession. One of the reasons why his
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business has prospered is that in all eon-
tracts he or his partners give a personal
supervision to the work in hand, and this
personal service has been appreciated by
the owners.
Some of the more important buildings
designed and constructed by the tirm of Ku-
bush & Hunter, and which are landmarks in
the city of Indianapolis, are the Indiana
State School for Deaf, the Odd Fellows
Temple, the Masonic Temple, the City Hall,
the Hume-Mainsur office building, the
Coliseum at the State Fair Grounds, Buck-
ingham Apartments, Public School No. 66,
First Church of Christ, Scientist, Fidelity
Trust Building, ilarott Department Store,
Circle Theater and the Hotel Lincoln.
Mr. Rubush has been a factor in the busi-
ness, civic and social life of Indianapolis
for many years, is a member of the Colum-
bus and Marion Clubs, the Chamber of
Commerce, is a thirty-second degree Scot-
tish Rite ilason and a Knights Templar
York Rite Mason and also belongs to the
Mystic Shrine. October 12, 1908, he mar-
ried Miss Renah J. Wilcox.
WooDPiN D. Robinson is distinguished
among the lawyers of Indiana b.y his long
and capable service as judge of the Appel-
late Court of Indiana. Thirty-five years
ago he began practicing at Princeton, and
won the professional honors and successes
which preceded his elevation to the bench
in Gibson County. Judge Robinson is now
practicing at Evansville.
He comes of an old Indiana family, but
was born on a farm in DeWitt County, Illi-
nois, February 27, 1857. Both his father
and grandfather were natives of Virginia,
and early settlers in Kentucky and In-
diana. His father, James A. Robinson,
after settling in Indiana met and married
Louisa Benson in Gibson County. She was
born in Gibson County and is still living
there at the age of eighty-five. Her father,
William Benson, was a native Kentuckian,
served as a soldier in the War of 1812, and
came to Indiana and located in Gibson
Countj' before Indiana was admitted to the
LTnion. Soon after his marriage James A.
Robinson moved to DeWitt County, Illi-
nois, but in the fall of 1865 returned to
Gibson County and was a substantial
farmer of that community until his death,
after he had passed the seventy-sixth year
of his life. He and his wife had nine chil-
dren, one of whom died in infancy, and
eight reached materity: ilartha, now de-
ceased, Sylvester B., Woodfin D., William
C, Belle, Dove, Ada and Anna.
Judge Robinson was eight years of age
when his parents returned to Gibson
County. Until he was twent3'-two his home
was on his father's farm, and when not in
school he toiled in the fields and looked
after many details of the farm manage-
ment. He attended country schools, went
to high school at Owensville, and at the
age of eighteen entered Indiana State Uni-
versity. He took the full four years' liter-
ary course, graduating A. B. in 1879.
The following year he was principal of
schools at Cynthiana, Indiana, and for two
years had charge of the schools at Owens-
ville. With a professional career as his
goal he studied law privately while teach-
ing, then attended the law school of the
University of Virginia, and completed his
preparation in the LTnivei-sity of Michigan,
where he graduated LL. B. in 1883.
Judge Robinson was admitted to the In-
diana bar in August, 1883, and at once en-
tered practice at Princeton.
The tir.st important political honor to
which he aspired was representation in the
State Legislature. He was elected as the
candidate on the republican ticket in 1894,
and his one term of service satisfied the
most sanguine expectations of his friends.
In the fall of 1896, at the urgent request
of the leaders of his party, but not without
considerable sacrifice on his own part, he
became the republican candidate for judge
of the Appellate Court of Indiana. He was
elected and filled that high judicial office
for ten years, from January, 1897, to
January, 1907. Upon leaving the bench
Judge Robinson located at Evansville,
where he has enjoj^ed a large practice for
the past eleven years, and is a member of
the well known law firm of Robinson and
Stilwell.
With a profound knowledge of the law
and with an analytical mind. Judge Robin-
son has won equal distinction as an able
judge and also as an advocate in his pro-
fession. In all the relations of his life
he has manifested a spirit of justice, sweet-
ness of temper, gentle courtesy, and an es-
sential kindliness.
For six years he was -a member of the
School Board at Princeton, and for three
years was a member of the Board of Trus-
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'tees of the University) of Indiana. lu
1884 Judge Robinson married Miss Jessie
M. Montgomery, daughter of F. J. Mont-
gomery of Owensville. They have one
daughter, Virginia.
George Monro Darr.\ch, M. D. For
fully half a century one of the ablest and
most widely known physicians and surgeons
of Indiana was the late Dr. George Monro
Darrach, whose long life was one of con-
tinuously devoted service to his profession
and to humanity. His name is also hon-
ored because of prominent familj^ associa-
tions, his ancestors having been men of
worth and substantial character, while
several of his sons have gained high posi-
tions in the business and professional
world. One of the sons is especially well
known in Indiana, Eugene H. Darrach,
who has been a leader in transportation
circles for many years and is head of one
of the leading transportation businesses
at Indianapolis.
The founder of this family in America
was Thomas Darrach, a Scotch Presbyte-
rian and a native of Antrim, Ireland. He
came to America about 1750, locating at
Georgetown, Kent County, Maryland,
where he was a merchant. Liter he moved
to Philadelphia, and the famil.y lived there
for generations and some of the name are
still well known in the Quaker City. A son
of Thomas Darrach was James, who mar-
ried Elizabeth Bradford.
Dr. William Darrach, a son of James and
Elizabeth Darrach, was born June 16, 1796,
at Philadelphia, and married Margaretta
Monro. He became an honored physician
and was a professor in old Jefferson iledi-
cal College and the University of Pennsyl-
vania, being a graduate of both institutions.
He was also author of several books and
brochures on medical subjects. He spent
all his life at Philadelphia.
A son of Dr. "William Darrach, George
Monro Darrach was born February 20,
1827, at Philadelphia, grew up in that city,
and in 1848 graduated from the Univer-
sity of Pennsylvania and in 1850 from the
Pennsylvania Medical College. He came
to Indianapolis in 185.3, but in 1860 re-
moved to Napoleon in Ripley County,
where he continued practice for several
years. On returning to Marion County he
located at Cumberland. The last three
vears of his life he lived with a son in East
St. Louis, where he died February 25, 1910.
He was one of the organizers of the Marion
County Jledical Society, and during the
Civil war served as a surgeon in Camp Car-
rington. He was a man of irreproachable
character, unselfishly devoted to his profes-
sion, and like many other physicians of
those days remained a poor man because
unwilling to press his claims against debt-
ors. Prior to the Civil war he had charge
of the smallpox epidemic at Indianapolis.
He was present at the session of the State
Medical Society in 1860, his name appear-
ing on the list of original members. On
September 25, 1855, at Indianapolis, Doctor
Darrach married Miss Maria Louisa Ham-
ilton, a daughter of John W. and Jane
Elizabeth (Sadler) Hamilton. The Hamil-
ton family came to Marion County in 1835.
Her father was the first auditor of Marion
County and filled that office fourteen con-
secutive years. Mrs. Darrach died Decem-
ber 17, 19Q5. Doctor Darrach was faithful
to the religion of his ancestors, and was a
devout Presbyterian. He and his wife had
five children : "William Hamilton, who died
in infancy; Frank Monro, a resident of
East St. Louis, Illinois; James Hamilton,
who lives in "Washington, D. C. ; Charles
Sadler, of East St. Louis; and Eugene
Haslet.
Eugene Haslet Darrach, of Indianapolis,
was born at Napoleon, Ripley County, In-
diana, March 15, 1866. Most of his early
.^ outh was spent at Indianapolis, where he
attended the public schools and spent one
term in Butler University. In 1881, at the
age of fifteen, he began his railway career
as messenger boy with the P. C. & St. Louis
Railway Company. His has been a record
of continued service and rapid promotion
until he has become a prominent factor in
the development of transportation business.
In 1882-84 he was rate clerk of the Division
Freight Office of the P. C. & St. L. Railway
at Indianapolis; in 1884-88 was in the chief
clerk car's office of the Burlington & Mis-
souri River Railway at Lincoln, Nebraska ;
in 1888-91 was in the chief clerk car ac-
countant's office of the Kansns City, Ft.
Scott & Jlemphis Railway at Kansas City,
]Missouri: in 1891-92 was car accountant of
the Cold Bla.st Transportation Company at
Kansas City; in 1892-93 was superintend-
ent of ear service of the Eureka Transpor-
tation Company at Kansas City ; in 1893-94
was superintendent of car service of the
INDIANA AND INDIANANS
2243
North West Dispatch at Detroit, Michigan,
and Minneapolis; in 1895-99 was manager
of the Commerce Dispatch Line. ilr. Dar-
rach was then owner and manager of the
special freight dispatch car lines until 1902.
In 1901 he organized the Interstate Car
Company at Indianapolis, and from 1902 to
1910 was seeretarj- and treasurer and since
1910 has been president and owner of the
business.
June 28, 1893, Mr. Darrach married
Mary Maude Huntington, whose father,
Spencer Huntington, lives at Cumberland,
Indiana. Mr. Darrach is the owner of the
celebrated Connor Farm near Noblesville,
which has a special place in Indiana his-
tory as having been the meeting place of
the commission which decided upon the per-
manent capital of Indiana.
Alex.\.nder Staples. Undoubtedly the
years have dealt kindly with this venerable
citizen of South Bend, who has lived there
since his birth nearly cight.v years ago. He
came into the dignity of old age with the
esteem accumulated by long years of use-
ful business effort, by that patriotism and
public spirit manifested by his individual
service as a Union soldier, and by partici-
pation in many phases of communit.y im-
provement.
He was born at South Bend June 10,
1840. His grandfather, Alexander Staples,
was a native of England and on coming
to America located in Portland, Maine,
where he spent the rest of his life. Ralph
Staples, father of Alexander, was born in
Portland, Maine, and had the genius of a
Yankee mechanic, a faculty Avhich his son
Alexander largely inherited. He learjied
the trade of millwright and carpenter. In
1835 he moved with his family to Ohio, and
a year later settled in South Bend, arriv-
ing in that little village of Northern In-
diana with a wagon and ox team. From
that time forward he was identitied with
much of the enterprise contributing to the
growth of the little city. The first winter
he and his family lived in a log cabin. At
that time the "Washington Block" the first
three-story building in South Bend, was
in process of construction, and he lent his
mechanical skill in its building. He con-
tinued work as a contractor and builder
for a number of years, and was also promi-
nent in local afi:'airs, serving as postmaster
of South Bend and was sheriff of St. Joseph
County from 1850 to 1852. In 1861 he
went West to Pike's Peak, Colorado, and
engaged in constructing quartz mills. He
met his death there by accident in 1864.
Ralph Staples married Miss Hannah Crom-
well, a daughter of Olen Cromwell and a
lineal descendant of Oliver Cromwell. She
survived her husband many years and
passed away at the age of eighty-seven.
Her eight children were named Emanuel,
Alexander, Abraham, Henry, Charles, I. J.,
Jennie and Ralph. Of these sons Alexan-
der, Abraham, Henry and Charles were all
Union soldiers, and all of them survived
the war by many years.
Alexander Staples had a good education
in the South Bend public schools of the
'40s and '50s. Being mechanically inclined
he learned the carpenter's trade from his
father. On December 15, 1863, at the age
of twenty-three, he enlisted for service in
the Twenty-First Indiana Battery, joining
his command in the South and serving as
corporal. He was with the Battery during
all his subsequent service, including the
battles of Nashville and Franklin, and re-
ceived his honorable discharge in 1865.
Mr. Staples after the war engaged in the
business of building moving, and directed
an expert organization for forty years, the
business giving him the competency which
he has enjoyed since 1905.
Mr. Staples had to solve many difficult
problems in the course of his business
career, and while never technically trained
for that profession he became in realty a
practical engineer. One of the interesting
stories of local history in South Bend told
bv Judge Howard in his history of St.
Joseph County is a record of Mr. Staples'
engineering genius. After a long contro-
versy the city authorities had determined
upon a solution of the waterworks ques-
tion, the central feature of which was to
be a large standpipe, which, however fa-
miliar in modern times, was then regarded
b}^ many as an experimental and uncertain
feature of waterworks engineering. The
standpipe was to be five feet in diameter
and 200 feet high, the different sections
being riveted together in a solid column
and afterward raised into position upon the
concrete foundation. Jlr. Staples was one
of the committee representing the city gov-
ernment and he was chosen for the most
difficult part of the entire performance,
lifting the pipe into position. On the 14th
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of November, 1873, says Judge Howard,
the raising began and on that day was ele-
vated about 22 feet. On Saturday the
work was continued in the presence of 5,00.0
people, and at 4 p. m. it had readied an
elevation of 70 degrees. Work was re-
sumed on Sunday and on ilonday at 2 :30
p. m. it stood in position. An impromptu
celebration followed and Mr. Staples was
the hero of the hour.
In polities Mr. Staples has been a life-
long democrat. He served as a member of
the city council, as a commissioner of
waterworks, as a member of the board of
public works, and for over forty years was
a member of the fire department. He is
one of the charter members of Auten Post
No. 8, Grand Army of the Republic. He
and his wife are Presbyterians.
In 1866 ]Mr. Staples married Celestia
Alexander, who was born in Marshall
County, Indiana, daughter of Thomas
Alexander, a native of Ohio. Mrs. Staples
died in 1883, leaving two sons, Crawford
E. and Guy D. Crawford married Emma
Renas, and through this son Mr. Staples
has five grandchildren, named Dale, For-
rest, Raymond, Ruth and Crawford, Jr.
Three of these grandsons were soldiers in
the "World war. Dale, Forrest and Ray-
mond, Dale and Raymond serving with a
lieutenant's commission.
In 1887 Mr. Staples married Almira
Lytle. She was born in Indiana County,
Pennsylvania, daughter of William and
Sarah Lytle. She received her education
in Salisburg Academy and Blairsville Semi-
nary, and for many years was a successful
teacher in Pennsylvania and taught a year
in South Bend before her marriage.
William Frederick How^^t, M. D. The
Indiana medical profession honored Doctor
Howat, of Hammond, with the office of
president of the Indiana State Medical
Association in 1911-12, and during his ac-
tive career of over a quarter of a century
in the state he has attained many other
distinctions both in his profession and as a
citizen of Hammond.
He was born June 2, 1869, in Prince
Edward Island, Canada, son of John Alex-
ander and Mary (Rogers) Howat. He was
educated in Prince of Wales College from
1886 to 1888, and graduated in medicine
from the University of Pennsylvania in
1892. In the same year he located at
Packerton, Indiana, but in 1895 removed to
Hammond, where he has practiced continu-
oush". He specializes in pulmonary and
cardiovascular diseases. In 1892 Doctor.
Howat married Miss Alice A. Webb, of
Prince Edward Island.
He was one of the organizers of the
Lake County Medical Society and its presi-
dent from 1900 to 1908. He was president
of the Hammond Public Library Board
from its organization in 1903 to October,
1918, and was a member of the Board of
School Trustees from 1903 to 1910 and
was again elected to the board in June,
1918. He was active in politics as a demo-
crat, and has made his profession a medium
of service to promote the interests of the
country in the war. He has done much
Red Cross work, was a member of Medical
Advisory Board No. 47, and is an enthu-
siastic amateur gardener.
Doctor Howat entered the service of the
United States in October, 1918, as captain,
of the Medical Corps, United States Army,
and was assigned to Base Hospital, Camp
Dodge, Iowa, where he served until dis-
charged in April, 1919.
Doctor Howat is active in all Masonic
bodies, is a member of the Hammond Cham-
ber of Commerce and the Hammond Coun-
try Club, and belongs 'to the following so-
cieties: Lake County Medical Society, the
Indiana State ^ledical Association, Missis-
sippi Valley Medical Association, Northern
Tri-State Medical Society, National Tuber-
culosis Association, Fellow American Medi-
cal Association, American Association for
Advancement of Science, American An-
thropological Society, American Sociologi-
cal Society, Association for Labor Legis-
lation, American Academy of Political and
Social Science, American Asiatic Society,
Travel Club of America, Chicago Medical
Society, Founder, National Historical So-
ciety, Fellow, Royal Society for Encourage-
ment of Arts, Sciences and Manufactures,
member of the National Geographic So-
ciety.
William Thomas, a man of wide and
varied business experience, has for a num-
ber of years been a resident of Hammond,
and is one of the leading business men and
citizens of the community. He is secretary
of the Hammond Manufacturing Associa-
tion.
Mr. Thomas was born at Albrighton,
INDIANA AND INDIANANS
2245
Shropshire, England, December 18, 1863,
a son of John and Ann Marie (Hooper)
Thomas. His parents were both natives of
England and his father died at the age of
t.eventy and his mother at eighty-two. Wil-
liam was the third among their six children,
four of whom are still living.
Mr. William Thomas had a public
school education at Birmingham, England,
and also attended Richardson's Commer-
cial College. He was trained for a com-
mercial career, and his first work and ap-
prenticeship was six years employment
with J. B. Gausby & Company, wholesale
hardware. For about two years he was
with Southall Brothers & Barclay, manu-
facturing chemists, as an accountant.
On coming to America Mr. Thomas lo-
cated at Prince Arthur's Landing in
Canada, on the northern shore of Lake
Superior, and spent nine years with the
Thomas Marks Company in the contractors
supply business. In 1892 he went to Chi-
cago, and was with the Republic National
Bank as chief clerk of the bond department
three years. His next service was with the
Cudahy Packing Company as accountant
in their offices at Omaha, and three years
later he came to Hammond, Indiana, and
was secretary of the Simplex Railway Ap-
pliance Company. When this local indus-
try was sold to the American Steel Foun-
dry Company Mr. Thomas continued with
the old business as works auditor, his pres-
ent position.
Mr. Thomas has served as secretary of
the Hammond Country Club and is chair-
man of the Board of Directors of the
Christian Science Church. In politics he
is a republican. In 1887 he married ^liss
Alice Sheldon, who was born at Birming-
ham, England, and died at Hammond. In-
diana, in 1916. They had one daughter,
Beatrice Mignon.
Gael Edward Bauer, a mechanical en-
gineer by profession, has been an Ameri-
can'for over thirty-five years, and has an
important record of work and experience
in American industry. He is now works
manager of the American Steel Foundries
at Hammond.
He was born in Germany November 5,
1857, son of Ferdinand and Wilhelmina
(Bock) Bauer. His parents spent their
Kves in their native coimti-y, his father dy-
ing at the age of ninety-two and the mother
at eighty-seven. Of their six children, four
sons and two daughters, two are living,
Emil and Carl Edward.
Carl Edward Bauer, the youngest of the
family, was educated in the German com-
mon schools and also in an institution of
collegiate rank, where he was given a
technical training as a mechanical engineer.
Coming to America in 1882, his first loca-
tion was at Terre Haute, Indiana, where he
was employed by the Terre Haute Car
Works. Later he was with the Muskegon
Car Works at Muskegon, Michigan, was
in the Indianapolis Car and Machine Com-
pany plant at Indianapolis, and in 1897
went to Chicago as secretary of the Simplex
Railway Appliance Company. This com-
pany put on the market and manufactured
a line of specialties used by railways, and
in 1899 the plant was removed to Ham-
mond. Mr. Bauer continued in the busi-
ness under its original title until 1903,
when they sold out to the American Steel
Company. Since then the Hammond plant
has been known as the Simplex Works of
the American Steel Foundries. Mr. Bauer
is works manager, and as such occupies an
important position in this prosperous in-
dustrial city.
He is a Knight Templar Mason and
Shriner, a memlier of the Independent
Order of Odd Fellows and Knights of
Pythias and his name is on the rolls of
membership and he participates in most of
the annual gatherings of the Indiana So-
ciety of Chicago. Mr. Bauer maintains an
independent attitude in politics.
In 1887 he married Miss Olga Witten-
berg. Six children were born to their mar-
riage, two of whom died in infancy. Wal-
ter, the oldest son, is now serving with the
American arm.y in the infantrj-. The sec-
ond child is Margaret. Carl is an engineer,
and Emil, the youngest, is in the United
States Auxiliary Navy.
Daniel Brovs^n. When on January 7,
1918, Daniel Brown assumed the duties
and responsibilities of mayor of Hammond
his entry into office was hailed as that of
a common sense practical business man,
one who could bring an experience with a
varied routine of affaire into the handling
of the complex duties of municipal admin-
istration. His work and record during the
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first year in office have amply satisfied his
constituents and critics as to his efficiency
and ability.
Mr. Brown is a native of Indiana, hav-
ing been born at Rochester November 1,
1875, son of Charles Fredrick and Mary
Anna (Reiber) Brown. His parents were
both natives of Germany, but the family
has been in America for more than half a
century. His father was born in 1838 and
his mother in 1834. Charles F. Brown
came to America with his brother and sis-
ter when ten years of age, traveling by
sailing vessel to Quebec, Canada, and from
there going to Ohio. He took up and
learned the trade of butcher and followed
it for several years at Newark, Ohio,
where he married Miss Reiber. She was
a small girl when she accompanied an
older brother by sailing vessel, forty-eight
days on the ocean, to America. Charles F.
Brown was in business until fifty-five years
of age, after which he lived with his chil-
dren. He was a member of the Evangelical
church and a republican in politics. He
died in 1913 and his wife in 1902. They
had eight children, and five are still living,
three sons and two daughters.
Daniel Brown, the youngest of his fa-
ther's family, was educated in the public
schools of Rochester. At the tender age
of ten he assumed the responsibility of
making his own living and was employed
in a hub and spoke factory at forty cents
a day. Later he clerked in a grocery store
for a year and finally formed a connection
which was destined to last for a number of
years and bring him many responsibilities.
While at Rochester he went to work for the
"Wells, Fargo & Company Express, and re-
mained in the company's employ for about
fourteen and one-half years. During ten
years of that time he was local agent at
Rochester. The company then transferred
him to Chicago and put him in the money
department, known as the Paid COD De-
partment, where he remained three j^ears.
His next work was as agent at Des Moines,
Iowa, but on July 26, 1909, he resigned
from the company's service and came to
Hammond, Indiana. For seven years he
was in the restaurant and hotel business
at Hammond and then became a brick man-
ufacturer. He was secretary and treasurer
of the Gary Concrete Brick & Stone Com-
pany until October, 1917, when he resigned
his office to enter actively upon his cam-
paign for the office of mayor. He was
elected November 6th and, as already
noted, entered upon the duties of his of-
fice for the four-year term in January fol-
lowing. Mr. Brown is a member of Gar-
field Lodge No. 569, Ancient Free and Ac-
cepted Masons, Calumet Lodge No. 601,
Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and
in politics is a republican.
July 30, 1906, he married Miss Grace
Curtis. Mrs. Brown was liorn in Athens,
Indiana. They have one son, Robert Cur-
tis Brown.
Charles M.\y McDaniel has for over
thirty years been a factor of increasing
usefulness and experience in Indiana's
educational affairs. He has been especially
distinguished as a school administrator,
one to whom could be safely entrusted the
responsibilities of raising and broadening
the standards of public school work and
keeping the public school in touch with the
vital demands and functions of life itself.
He has long lieen a recognized leader in
Indiana educational circles and organiza-
tions, and his presence has come to be re-
garded as indispensable to the success of
any convention of school workers in the
state.
Mr. McDaniel, whose work since 1905
has been as superintendent of the Ham-
mond public schools, was born at Craw-
fordsville, Indiana, August 28, 1863. son
of Owen W. and Catherine (Krug)
McDaniel. His parents were both natives
of Indiana, and his mother is .still living.
His father, who died at the age of sixty-
nine, was a saddler by trade. He was a
republican and a menAer of the Christian
Church. His parents had only two chil-
dren, one of whom died in infancy.
Charles M. McDaniel was educated in
the public schools of Crawfordsville, and
in 1885 graduated from Wabash College.
He also did post-graduate work in the In-
diana State Normal, in the LTniversity of
Cbicasro and in other schools.
In the fall of 1885, after leaving Wabash
College, he taught his first term of school
near Crawfordsville, and his early success
in the profession encouraged him to remain
and make it his life career. He was Erin-
cipal four years at Portland, was principal
of the high school at Newtown one year,
was principal of the high school at Edin-
burg one year, was four years principal of
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the high school at Madison, and for nine
years was school superintendent of Madi-
son. In 1905 he was appointed superin-
tendent of the public school system o^
Hammond.
D^iring his administration as head of the
public school system of one of Indiana's
largest industrial centei'S four new school
buildings have been completed, one of them
being the industrial high school. He has
constantly studied the local situation and
endeavored to adapt the schools to the spe-
cific needs of the community. He has done
much to encourage continuation school
work and vocational education, and in Sep-
tember, 1912, established the first night
school. During his superintendency the
Hammond schools have increased their fa-
cilities for manual training, domestic
science, shop work, and commercial
courses, and during the last two years the
schools have also been an important me-
dium for the inculcation of Americanism
and patriotism.
For eight years ]Mr. McDaniel was the
choice of the alumni as their representa-
tive on the Board of Trustees of Wabash
College. He has served as president of the
Southern Indiana Teachers' Association,
president of the Northern Indiana Teach-
ers' Association, as president of the Town
and City Superintendents' Association, as
chairman of the State Teachers' Associa-
tion Executive Committee, and has worked
actively on many educational committees
of different societies. He is vice president
of the Boy Scouts of America and has
served as chairman of the committee in
outline of nature work of the National
Educational Association. For several yeai-s
he was principal of the Winona Lake Sum-
mer School. He is vice president of the
Hammond Chamber of Commerce, has been
active as an official and Sunday School
worker in the Christian Church, is a Knight
Templar ^lason and Shriner and is also
affiliated with the Independent Order of
Odd Fellows and the Knights of Pythias.
At Crawfordsville, Indiana, January 1,
1889. :Mr. ilcDaniel married ^Miss ^Margaret
M. Blair, a native of Indiana. They have
three children, two daughters and one son :
Wellie May, Paul Wallace and Ruth
Louise.
Frederick Richard IMott. More than
forty years ago when the principal institu-
tion of the city of Hammond was the
slaughter and packing house of the Ham-
mond Brothers, a young man named Fred-
erick R. Mott entered the service of the
company and thus became permanently
identified with the city for which he has
done much in passing years and which has
substantially honored him as a resident.
Mr, Mott is a former mayor of Hammond,
and in that. city he has been allied by mar-
riage with one of its first and most prom-
inent families, the Hohmans.
ilr. Mott was born in Chicago July 29,
1857, a son of Jacob Henry and Marie
(Bauch) Mott. His father "was bom in
Germany in 1832 and in 1850, at the age
of eighteen, set sail for the New World. He
was seventy days on the ocean, and land-
ing in New York City found employment
there at his trade as carpenter. In 1852,
after a varied experience at different
points, he arrived in Chicago and soon took
up the building trade. He became one of
the prominent building contractors of the
city, and among others he erected the first
brew house for Conrad Seipp, an institu-
tion still continued as the Seipp Brewing
Company. He also erected many other
houses along old Canal Street aiid else-
where in the city. He continued in busi-
ness until his death in 1879. In 1854, two
years after his arrival in Chicago, he mar-
ried Marie Bai;ch, who was born in Ger-
many in 1836 and died in 1913. She had
also come to America on a sailing vessel
and was nine-one days in making the pas-
sage. The same boat brought to this coun-
try Conrad Seipp, and he and ilarie Bauch
had been schoolmates in Germany. To the
marriage of Jacob H. Mott and wife were
born two daughters and three sons.
Of this family Frederick R. Mott is the
only survivor. He was the second child.
He acquired his early education in the
schools of Chicago and also attended school
after coming to Hammond. At the age
of seventeen he went to work as an em-
ploye of the G. H. Hammond Company,
and was with that industry during its most
important period of development. He re-
mained in the service of the Hammonds
until thirty years of age, but in the mean-
time had been promoted to head book-
keeper and foreman of the beef depart-
ment. In 1887 he entered the real estate
business, and has been the medium of
some of the largest transactions in real es-
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tate in Hammond and vicinity. He is pres-
ident of the Lake County Title and Guar-
antee Company and vice president of tlie
Hammond Savings & Trust Company, and
lias long been one of the city's most sub-
stantial citizens. He was elected mayor of
Hammond in 1894 and served four years.
In politics he is a republican, is a Knight
Templar Mason and Shriner, and is alHl-
iated with Hammond Lodge No. 601 of the
Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks.
Mr. Mott is a member of the Episcopal
Church and has served as warden.
On June 24, 1884, Mr. Mott married
Miss Emma Hohman. Mrs. Mott is a
daughter of Ernest and Caroline (Sibley)
Hohman. Both her father and mother
were remarkable pioneer characters and
their memorj- is held in great reverence at
Hammond. Her father was born in Prus-
sia in 1817, came of a good family, was
well educated, and was trained to the trade
of tailor. He participated in the German
revolution of the '40s and became an exile
to England. At Paris he married Caroline
Sibley, a native of Wales, and a few days
after their marriage in 1849 they set sail
for America. Ernest Hohman conducted
a t"ilor shop in what is now the loop dis-
trict of Chicago for about two years, but
in 1851 brought his family to the Calumet
River, and his was the first family to locate
where the city of Hammond now stands.
Eventually he acquired a large amount of
land in that locality. The Hohman home
on account of its situation almost perforce
had to furnish entertainment for the trav-
elinsr public that came around the bend
of Lake Michigan toward Chicago, and
their hotel was really the first institution
of the town. They sold the land to the
business men who established the first
packing plant, and it would be a long story
to record all the benefactions which have
been made by the Hohmans to Hammond.
Ernest Hohman died December 18. 1873,
and was survived by his widow until June
15, 1900. Caroline Hohman was a greatly
beloved woman of the city, and showed
great ability in handling her husband's
fstate. One of the chief thoroughfares of
Hammond is Hohman Street. She and her
husband had six children, four daughters
and two sons: Mrs. Otilia Johnson:
Charles G. ; Louis E. ; Agnes, Mrs. Ben-
jnmin Bell; Emma. Mrs. ]\Iott : and Lena,
wife of Dr. T. E. Bell— all still living.
Mr. and Mrs. Mott are the parents of
five children : Irene Rose, who died in De-
cember, 1917, was the wife of Charles W.
Wilson. Fred H. Mott married, Aijgust
15, 1913, Lucy Brochenbraugh, of Lafay-
ette, Indiana, and they have two children,
Pamela and Sarah Ann. Mr. and Mrs.
Mott have a service flag of three stars, rep-
resenting their three younger sons in the
service of their country. These sons are
Robert Edward, Louis and Walter Sibley.
Robert E. is now with the Thirty-Fifth
Engineers Corps in France. Corporal
Louis William is with the Thirty-Ninth In-
fantry. Ensign Walter S. is in the navy.
J. Ross Tracy, M. D., D. 0. One of the
best equipped men in Madison County to
serve the wants and needs of the people in
the medical profession is Dr. Tracy, who
not only has the training and the thorough
experience of the general medical practi-
tioner of the regular school, but is also
a well equipped Doctor of Osteopathy.
Doctor Tracy has done some .splendid work,
and his reputation is rapidly growing all
over the country around Anderson. His
otifiees are in the Union Building.
He was born at La Clede in northeastern
Missouri in April, 1887, but has spent most
of his life in Anderson, whither his
parents, Dr. F. L. and Laura (Ross) Tracy,
moved when he was a small boy. His fa-
ther has spent his career as a physician and
is ^•till in practice at Anderson. Dr. J.
Ross Tracy is a graduate of the Anderson
High School, spent two years in Butler
College at Indianapolis, from which he
has his A. B. degree, and is also a member
of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity of that
institution. Doctor Tracy began the study
of luedicine in the Indiana Medical College
cf Indianapolis and was graduated M. D.
in 1909. The next two j'cars he spent in
the famous osteopathic school at Kirks-
ville, Missouri, from which he received his
degree D. 0. in 1911. Returning to An-
derson, he was engaged in general prac-
tice for two years, after which he pursued
turther p'lst-graduate work in Northwest-
ern Univcr.sity at Chicago. Since then he
h'^s been largely engaged in an office prac-
tice at Anderson, specializing in X-Ray
work and in other lines in which his expe-
rience and nielinations have proved him
most succcsshil. In 1917 Doctor Tracy
volunteered to join the Jledical Officers
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2249
Reserve Corps to render service with the
American armies in France.
In 1911 he married Miss Vera Harring-
ton, danghter of F. M. and Martha
(Duteher) Harrington. They have two
children: Martha Elizabeth, born in 1913,
and ilary Catherine, born in 1917. Doctor
Tracy is an independent democrat and is
afiSliated with the Benevolent and Pro-
tective Order of Elks.
Daniel Fasig. A resident of Terre
Haute for fifty-five years and now retired,
Daniel Fasig has been one of the most
familiar figures in the life of that city both
in a business way and in polities and pub-
lic affairs. For a number of years he was
connected with the police department,
much of the time was superintendent of
police, and he was also at one time county
sheriff.
He was born at ^Marshall in Parke
County, Illinois, January 29, 1850, a son;
of Henry and Eliza (Taggart) Fasig. His
father, a native of Ohio, came to Illinois
about 1846, locating in Parke County,
where he died at the early age of twenty-,
four. His wife, also a native of Ohio,
lived to be seventy-one years of age. The
father died in 1852 and the mother in
1879. Of their two sons Daniel was the
only one to grow up.
Daniel Fasig came to Terre Haute with
his mother at the age of ten yeers. After
a limited schooling he began earning his
own living at the age of eighteen. He
learned the trade of harness maker, and
followed that business for about ten years.
He finally formed a partnership with Os-
car Froeb, and the firm of Froeb & Fasig
built up a large trade in the harness and
saddlery business at Terre Haute. Later
he entered other lines of business and
finally became a wholesale commission
merchant until selling his interests in
1900 to the Vigo Count}' Commission Com-
panv.
His prominence as a business man has
nearlv always been accompanied bv some
activitv in politics. The first office for
which he was ever a candidate was that of
town marshal, in 1877. He failed to be
elected, but soon afterward went on the
city police force as a lieutenant, serving
four years, until he resigned. In 1883 he
was appointed chief of police, and held
that office two vears. In 1896 he was the
unsuccessful candidate for state senator,
was also candidate for countv auditor in
1898, and in 1900 was elected sheriff of
Vigo County. He filled that office two
terms, a period of four yeai-s and forty-one
da.vs. After retiring from the sheriff's of-
fice Mr. Fasijj engaged in the general real
estate business, and through that and hi.'s
private investments has become one of the
large property owners of Terre Haute, be-
ing landlord of fourteen houses in the city.
On April 10, 1908, Mr. Fasig was ap-
pointed chief detective, and on November
10, 1910, was appointed chief or superin-
tendent of police. He gave an active and
vigilant administration of this office until
January 15, 1915, since which date he has
been permanently retired.
Mr. Fasig is one of the prominent Ma-
sons of Terre Haute, is a charter member
of Paul Revere Lodge, Ancient Free and
Accepted Masons, belongs to the Mystic
Shrine, and is also a member of the Uni-
formed Rank of the Knights of Pythias,
has been identified with the Independent
Order of Odd Fellows for forty years, a
member of the Improved Order of Red
Men, and of Elks Lodsre No. 86.
Mr. Fasig 's first wife was S. A. Sea-
schultz, daughter of Samuel and Mary
(Love) Seaschulfz. In 1885 Mr. Fasig
married Emma Kissner, whose father, Al-
pheus Kissner, was at one time proprietor
of a pioneer Terre Haute hotel, the old
Boston House. Mr. Fasig has two sons:
Armand A., who now lives at Anna, Illi-
nois, and Curtis 0., T-ho is in the laundry
business at Nevada, Missouri.
Gavin L. Payne, of India nanol is. has
been a .iournalist, banker and soldier in his
time, but clings more fondly to recollec-
tions of his days as a "newspaper man,"
his chief experiences in that profession
coming about the time Indianapolis was
changing from a fledgling city to a metrop-
olis.
Mr. Payne is from as pure bred Indiana
stock as can be registered, since Hoos'er
breeding dates from statehood. All of his
grandmothers and qrandfathers were liv-
ing- at or near Madison during the cradle
period of the state. One grandfather,
Horatio Byfield. who came down the Ohio
River on a flatboat. climbed over the hill
at Madison and settled near Dupont. He
made the first wooden plow used in creating
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an Indiana road. This implement, liung
for many years on the wall of the S.tate
Museum, having been presented by the
late William Wesley Woolen. The other
grandfather was a pioneer maker of fan-
mills, an important agricultural aeccssoiy
at that period, and maintained a sizeable
factory at iladison.
Gavin L. Payne was born September 3,
1869, and was brought to Indianapolis a
child in arms by his parents. His father,
John Godman Payne, had gone from
Madison in April, 1861, at the age of four-
teen, as a drummer boy of the Thirteenth
Indiana, and ended his volunteer service
in 1865 as a seasoned veteran of eighteen
years of age, having participated in Sher-
man's march to the sea.
With the exception of several years as
a reporter and editor in the South, Gavin
Pa.yne has spent his entire life in Indianap-
olis. He attended the public and high
schools and carried newspaper routes in
various parts of the city. At nineteen he
secured his first berth as a reporter, taking
employment with the old Sentinel. There
being no telephones, a good pair of legs
was a fundamental equipment of a new^
gatherer. An offer coming from Memphis,
Tennessee, Mr. Payne went there to find
himself in the midst of a journalistic storm
center. He became the right hand man of
the late United States Senator E. W. Car-
mack, a noted figure in the history of Ten-
nessee who was killed in a sensational man-
ner on the streets of Nashville several
years ago by the Coopers. Carmack was a
brilliant, virile fire eater, afraid of nothing
human, and with a high chivalrous sense
of honor. He gathered about him a staff
of young journalists who adored him.
Memphis was more or less of a wild, un-
ruly town, and the youth with a love of
adventure found it in abundance. Mr.
Payne was in the mountains of East Ten-
nessee for quite a period during the well
remembred mountaineers' war. He cov-
ered many fascinating assignments, as
newspaper men rate them. Among others
was a trip up the Mississippi River on the
"Concord," the first modern man-of-war
to come up that stream. Later he was em-
ployed at New Orleans on the New Delta,
a paper organized to wipe oiit the Louisiana
lottery, and did what it set out to accom.-
plish. For this newspaper Mr. Payne also
"covered" the famous Mafia, which, after
several years, ended with the lynching of
a prison full of Sicilians. During this
wanderlust season of his youth he occupied
the post of city editor of the Louisville
Commercial, and was a roommate and chum
of James Keeley, recently editor of the
Chicago Herald and in Mr. Payne's es-
timation America's leading journalist.
In 1893 Mr. Payne was invited to come
back to Indianapolis as eit.y editor of the
Journal. He held that post six years, a
record breaking term for city editors in;
those days, as the exasperating require-
ments of. the post had a tendency to put
city editors in asylums, hospitals or ceme-
teries. The Journal was a truthful, con-
servative daily conducted on a high plane,
and while without the huge circulation of
present day newspapers it is doubtful
if any paper in the state has ever had a
greater hold on the confidence of its
readers.
During his service on the Journal Mr.
Payne was elected to the City Council from
the third ward, and also was an active
memlier of the Citizens Advisory Com-
mittee of the Public Library when branch
libraries were established over the city.
During the palmy days of the old Indiana
May Musical Festival, when all the great
arti.sts of the earth were brought to In-
dianapolis, ]\Ir. Payne was a director and
vice president of the institution. The
Spanish-American war came on during the
last great festival given and ^Ir. Payne
went out as a war correspondent for the
Journal, spending the summer at the
camps at Chickamauga and at Tampa,
Florida. When the Indianapolis Press
was established in 1899, he was invited to
act as city editor of the publication, and
remained under John H. Holliday until
the presses stopped for the last time.
The collapse of the Press led Mr. Payne
to conclude that a change of occupation
into more permanent and more profitable
lines was due. The opportunity came when
he was offered the post of secretary of the
newly organized Security Trust Company.
Thus he entered banking, and in a few
years became president of the company.
About that time there was a development
of investment banking, offering excep-
tional opportunities, and ilr. Payne estab-
lished the house of Gavin L. Payne & Com-
pany on the first day of the panic of 1907.
For the last ten years Mr. Payne had
INDIANA AND INDIANANS
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been identified with the financing of many
prominent enterprises in Indianapolis. He
has been particularly active in the gas sit-
uation and is now a director of the In-
dianapolis Gas Company. He was asso-
ciated with Messrs. V. T. Malott, L., C.
Boyd and others in organizing the syn-
dicate which bought the Indianapolis Gas
Company of Commodore E. C. Benedict
of New York,, and thereby consolidated the
gas interests of Indianapolis. Mr. Payne
had been a leader in the financing of the
Citizens Gas Company. He was a syndi-
cate manager in the building of the In-
dianapolis and Martinsville traction line.
His house was the first to exploit the Porto
Rican government bonds, a bit of pioneer-
ing in the financial field which resulted in
Indianapolis becoming the best market in
the country for United States territorial
bonds. The financing of the Severin Hotel,
the magnificent Circle Theater and other
enterprises has been entrusted to Mr.
Payne.
During the street car strike of several
years ago, when this city was in the hands
of a mob, Mr. Payne was called upon to
serve with other citizens as deputy sherifi'.
He was put in charge of one of the two
platoons by Major Robert H. T.yndall,
who had general oversight of the situa-
tion. This service led Major Tyndall, who
commanded the Indiana Field Artillery, to
urge Mr. Payne as a patriotic duty to take
command of the old Battery A' a famous
organization which had been the city's
pride for a third of a century, but which
had been run down through the general
apathy of the citizens and from other
causes. ]\Ir. Payne then took up field ar-
tillery as a hobby, and when the call came
for troops for the Mexican border in 1916
Captain Payne took the battery to the Rio
Grande for a seven months' stay. The old
battery gained new laurels in the border
service and stood high in the firing prac-
tice and conduct during maneuvers. On
his retirement from the battery at date of
muster out, January 19, 1917, the enlisted
men presented him with a silver service,
which Captain Payne regards as his most
precious possession.
In 1904 he married Miss Bertha Fahn-
•ley, daughter of Frederick Fahnley. ]Mrs.
PajTie died in 1918, leaving two children,
Ada and Frederick, aged respectively
twelve and eleven. ]\Ir. Payne is a Scot-
tish Rite ]\Iason, and a member of the Co-
lumbia Club and of other organizations.
He is an enthusiastic horseman. In his
early days he also devoted time to writing
for magazines and did his "bit" in verse
writing.
At the outbreak of the war with Ger-
many the governor of Indiana offered Cap-
tain Payne command of a new regiment of
field artillery of the National Guard, and
he bent all his efforts to the perfection of
this Second Indiana Field Artillery Regi-
ment for service. This regiment was twice
inspected by regular army officers and fa-
vorably reported for service, but the secre-
tary of war obstinately held to a policy of
taking in no more National Guard regi-
ments. With no prospect of service abroad
Captain Payne became a major in the
American Red Cross and was sent to Porto
Rico and assigned to Brigadier General
Chrisman, who had command of 1.5,000
Porto Rican troops ready to go abroad.
The armistice blocked this prospect of serv-
ice abroad, ilr. Payne served four months
in Porto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Dur-
ing that time Porto Rico had several visi-
tations of earthquakes, one of which de-
stroyed Mayaguez. Mr. Payne was no
stranger to earthquakes, having been in the
midst of the quake which destroyed Kings-
ton, Jamaica, in January, 1907, with a
frightful loss of life.
On his return from Red Cross service
Mr. Payne became vice president of the
new Fletcher American Company at In-
dianapolis.
Dr. Milton B. Pine. Of the prominent
Indiana men in Chicago, Dr. Milton B.
Pine is a native of South Bend and for a
number of years was in business in that
city.
Doctor Pine is founder and president of
the Pine Sanitarium, devoted exclusively
to the institutional treatment of alcoholism
and drug addiction. It is one of the few
institutions of its kind conducted on purely
ethical principles, and without resort to the
temporary expedients which so frequently
have been practiced in such sanitaria, re-
sulting onl.y in substantial profits to the
proprietoi's and no permanent good to the
patient. It is easy to credit the assertion
that the Pine Sanitarium is the most luxuri-
ous institution of its kind in the world.
The building and its equipment represent
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au outlay of $250,000. No expense was
spared in the construction of the establish-
ment, which was built for and formerly oc-
cupied as a home by the late Marshall
Field, Jr. It is located in the old aristo-
cratic section of Chicago, at 1919 Prairie
Avenue. All the facilities and arrange-
ments that made it a perfectly appointed
private home of a millionaire are now con-
verted to the use and comfort of its patient
guests. The Sanitarium has a resident
physician and a staff of consulting sur-
geons and specialists that insure every re-
source of medical science.
Milton B. Pine was born at South Bend
in 1873, son of Leighton and Maria C.
(Barmore) Pine. He was reared and re-
ceived his early education at South Bend.
He studied dentistry in the Chicago Col-
lege of Dental Surgery, graduating in
April, 1894, and practiced his profession
until 1900.
Judge Howard in his History of South
Bend published some years ago makes many
references to his father, Leighton Pine, es-
pecially in connection with the building of
the city waterworks. Judge Howard says :
' ' Mr. Pine was not only the untiring genius
of the Singer Sewing Machine Company of
South Bend ; he was in addition one of the
most valued citizens of the city, always
foremost in what pertained to the welfare
of the communit.y of which he was so highly
honored a member. Leighton Pine was
born in New York City in 1844, at an early
age learned photography, and during the
Civil war was an oificial photographer. He
entered the service of the Singer Sewing
Machine Company in the early '60s, and in
1868 brought a branch of that great in-
dustry to South Bend. He also helped or-
ganize and establish the Oliver Chilled
Plow Works in South Bend, and was con-
nected with many other institutions of that
great industrial center. He died Novem-
ber 15, 1905."
Milton B. Pine, only son of Leighton
Pine, returned to South Bend and took
charge of the Singer ^Manufacturing Com-
pany as successor to his father in 1903, and
continued as works manager about eight
years. Then after a trip to Europe he re-
located in Chicago in 1908 and organized
the Pine Sanitarium.
Doctor Pine is an old time active member
of the Chicago Atliletic Club, and during
the '90s won many notable records as a
boxer. He had a boxing contest with James
J. Corbett. He won the championship of
the Athletic Club in 1896 in boxing and
has the distinction of never having been
knocked down. He has also been a member
of the Chicago Yacht Club, the Chicago
Motor Club and the Chicago Automobile
Club, lieing one of the organizers of the
latter. Doctor Pine owned the first steam
automobile in Chicago.
John Fletcher L.vwrence, a lawyer of
commanding position at Peru, has been
identified with the serious work of his pro-
fession more than a quarter of a century.
He was a teacher before he was a lawyer,
and is a man of wide experience in men and
affairs.
He was born at South Bend, Indiana,
January 21, 1858, son of John Quincy and
Nancy Ann, (White) Lawrence. His
father, of Scotch ancestry, was born at
Beaver, Pennsylvania, in 1798, and died in
1861. His mother, of English ancestry, was
born at Hagerstown, Mai'yland, in 1818,
and died in 1898, at the age of eighty. The
parents were married at Wooster, Ohio, and
of their nine children John F. was the
youngest and the only one now living. His
father was a millright by trade and also
a Methodist minister. On locating at Sniith
Bend, Indiana, he owned and operated a
planing mill, but after a year built a grist
mill and saw mill on Eel Kiver, where he
I'vel one year, until his death. He began
voting as a whig, and actively supported
the formation of the republican party and
Abraham Lincoln's candidacy for presi-
dent.
John Fletcher Lawrence received his
early education in the schools of Miami
County, where he has spent most of the
years of his life. He also attended the Cen-
tral Normal College at Danville, and for
nine years was a teacher and then became
superintendent of schools of Miami County.
While teaching he was diligently reading
law, and in 1891 was admitted to the bar.
Since then he has been in practice at Peru.
He has held the offices of city and county
attorney. He was associated with Walter
C. Bailey under the firm name of Bailey
& Lawrence for six years. He then became
associated with David E. Rhodes under the
name of Lawrence & Rhodes, and this part-
nei-ship continued until the year 1915.
ilr. Lawrence then formed a partn^^rship
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for the pratice of the law with Judge
Joseph N. Tillett upon the latter 's retire-
ment from the Circuit Bench. Mr. Law-
rence has always been interested in repub-
lican politics and has served as delegate to
national conventions and is a member of
the State Advisory Committee. He is a
member of the Episcopal Church and of the
Masonic fraternity.
On June 11, 1883, he married Miss Alice
Virginia Boggs, a native of Cass County,
and daughter of Dr. Milton M. and Mary
Ann (Penrose) Boggs. Doctor Boggs, who
died in 1918, at the age of eighty-nine, was
a pioneer, a soldier of the Mexican war and
the Civil war, and greatly beloved physi-
cian of Miami County.
Mrs. Lawrence was a small child when
her mother died and second among three
children. Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence have
three children. Lucile, the oldest, is the
wife of Ralph A. Fink, living at Oak Park,
Illinois, Mr. Fink being the manager of
the Latham Manufacturing Company of
Chicago. Jean I\Iarie, the second daughter,
married Charles E. Steenman, now serving
in the United States Ambulance Corps in
France. Hugh Lawrence, the only son,
married Marguerite Elliott Jett, of Clay
City. He is now associated in law practice
with the tirm of Tillett & Lawrence. He
was educated in "Western Reserve Univer-
sity at Cleveland and in the University of
Chicago.
Note: Prior to the French and Indian war
with the English colonies in 1755 the paternal
ancestors of Mr. Lawrence had the misfortune
to lose their family records in the disastrous
Indian massacre in the Wyoming Valley, New
York, thereby causing a break in the family
genealogy leading back to England via Holland,
the latter country being the refuge for dis-
senters from the Established Church of Eng-
land.
G. Edwin Jones. As a member of the
Indiana Society of Chicago G. Edwin Jones
has the distinction of being the "oldest ex-
ile Hoosier" in that city. He has been a
Chicagoan since the first years of his life,
but takes considerable pride in the fact that
he was born in the famous Wabash Valley
on the banks of the Wabash, and that his
father. Col. Daniel A. Jones, was a big
fieure in the commercial and industrial life
of that section of Indiana before he bocarae
even more prominent in the upbuilding of
Lake ^Iiehigan"s metropolis.
Col. Daniel A. Jones was a rare and in-
teresting personality, and widely known all
over the middle west. Descended from one
of the early New England families of North
Adams, JIassachusetts, he was born at
Hartford, Connecticut, and came West
about 1820. His tirst business venture was
candle making at Louisville, Kentucky.
Soon afterward he established his home at
Newport in Vermilion County, Indiana.
During the Blackhawk Indian War of 1832
he served as a colonel of Indiana troops.
He was a business man, and his interests
constantly took on enlarged scope. Before
1850 the main transportation trunk lines of
the middle west were the rivers, including
the Wabash, and at Newport Colonel Jones
established a pork packing industry which
made that town a rival of the later "fame of
Chicago. It is said that hogs were driven to
the Jones packing house at Newport from
as far west as Iowa. These hogs were con-
verted into salt pork and were carried by
flatboat and other conveyance down the riv-
ers to New Orleans and other southern
markets. This business grew and brought
Colonel Jones a large fortune. He was
also identified with, pork packing at Dan-
ville, Illinois.
When Col. Dan Jones came to Chicago
in 1857 he brought a capital of $250,000,
then considered a large fortune. He was
in fact one of the chief capitalists to come
to Chicago with so much money. Both his
money and his personal enterprise resulted
in a great development. He was one of the
founders of the old Merchants National
Bank. In 1857 he built a packing house at
State and Twenty-second streets, one of
the first if not the first packing houses in
Chicago which is still standing, and the
nucleus of and forerunner of the industry
which has since made Chicago the largest
cattle market and packing house center in
the world. Mr. G. Edwin Jones has some
personal memories of that early industry.
He recalls that the first stock3'ards were at
the corner of West Madison Street and
Ashland Boulevard, a short time later be-
ing moved to State and Twenty-second
streets, still later to Thirty-first Street and
Cottage Grove Avenue, and finally to the
present location. Colonel Jones was one of
the group of packers and cattle men who
built the present stockyards. He organized
and was president of the Union Renderincr
Company, which for a number of years was
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a prominent industry in the stockyards dis-
trict.
Col. Daniel A. Jones was one of the gen-
uinely big men of his day in Chicago and
the Middle West. The scope of his activi-
ties and the result of his influence and en-
terprise could not be told in a brief sketch.
His was a long and well spent life, closing
with his death in 1886. He built and was
president of the City Railway of Chicago,
was long prominent in the Chicago Board
(if Trade, and was one of that group of
men who rebuilded and reconstructed the
greater Chicago after the fire of 1871.
Col. Daniel Jones married Mary Harris,
who died not lolig after the birth of her
son G. Edwin.
G. Edwin Jones was born at Newport,
Indiana, in 1854. He is still living at the
old Jones home on East Twenty-Second
Street, just off Prairie Avenue, and directly
opposite the place where his father built
his first home on coming to Chicago in 1857,
and within a short distance of where his
lather erected, the first packing house ati
State and Twenty-Second streets. Mr.
Edwin Jones was for some years one of the
directors of the Union Rendering Company.
During the past few years he has not been,
actively engaged in business. In his leisure
time he has gained considerable fame in
the field of invention, and among other
things has perfected a hand grenade pos-
sessing great value as an instrument in
modern warfare.
Mr. Jones married a daughter of the late
Abner Price, whose name is also promi-
nently identified with the early history of
Chicago. Abner Price was a member of
the firm C. & A. Price, who were the oldest
contractors and builders in Chicago, having
erected a great many of the structures now
in the loop district. This firm was origi-
nally established by Cornelius and William
Price in 1848. Abner, a young brother,
was admitted to partnership in 1857. lu
the old days of Chicago, before the fire they
built such business houses as the Sherman
House and Tremont House, and after the
fire they erected many large blocks to take
the place of those destroyed. During 1872
it is said their contracts amounted to up-
wards of a million dollars, and they em-
ployed a force of over 400 men. They built
besides the hotels mentioned the Reaper
Block, Field 'and Leiter's wholesale house,
the old Northwestern Depot, the Kimball
Block, the Royal Insurance Block, and they
also raised the old Sherman House, the first
brick house ever raised in Chicago. Abner
Price was born in New York State January
11, 1832. Besides being a business man he
was noted as the champion amateur shot of
the United States, and twice defeated Bo-
gardus. Mr. and Mrs. Jones have one
daughter, Ruth, widow of the late Raphael
Fas.sett, of Chicago.
Lewis L. Barth. Of ludianans who
have become residents and business men of
Chicago, Lewis L. Barth has attained a na-i
tional prominence as a lumberman. He is
vice president and one of the founders of
the Edward Hines Lumber Companj-, and
is identified with lumber milling concerns
in both the northern and southern centers
of manufacture.
;\Ir. Barth was born in South Bend, In-
diana, in 1850, son of Henry and Lisetta
(Korn) Barth. His parents located at
South Bend in the early '40s. Mr. Barth
finished his education in Notre Dame Uni-
versity. Some years ago he endowed a
room at Notre Dame in memory of his de-
ceased sister. Miss Alice Barth.
His early experience and training was
as bookkeeper for his father in the lumber
and grain business at South Bend, begin-
ning in 1869. Ten years later, in 1879,
he came to Chicago, and was first associated
with T. M. Avery & Son, lumbermen.
Later he was with the S. K. Martin Lum-
ber Company, and while there became as-
sociated with Mr. Edward Hines. He and
^Ir. Hines founded the present Edward
Hines Lumber Company in 1892. For
over a quarter of a century ilr. Barth
has been a factor in the upbuilding of this
great corporation, making it one of the
largest manufacturing and distributing or-
ganizations for lumber in the middle west.
He is still the active vice president of the
company, and is also an officer in the fol-
lowing organizations : The Park Falls Lum-
ber Company, vice president and director ;
the St. Croix Lumber Manufacturing Com-
pany of Winton, Minnesota, vice president
and' director; Winton State Bank, stock-
holder: Jordan River Lumber Company at
Kiln, Mississippi, vice pre.sident; The Ed-
M'ard Hines Yellow Pine Lumber Company
at Lumberton, Mississippi, vice president;
John E. Burns Lumber Company of Chi-
cago, stockholder and director; Edward
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Hines Farm Land Company at Winter,
Wisconsin, vice president ; Winter State
Bank, vice president. All the lumber com;
panies mentioned are extensive manufac-
turers of lumber. The Edward Hines
Company has fifteen retail lumber yards in
Chicago.
Mr. Barth is a former president of the
Lumbermen's Association of Chicago. He
is a republican, a member of the Union
League Club, Mid-Day Club, Builders'
Club, Traffic Club, South Side Country
Club, and the Plossmoor Club.
His first wife was Carrie Hahn. She
was the mother of two children, Helena
and Hattie. Mr. Earth's present wife was
Margaret O'Reilly.
Charles Francis Thompson, though a
resident of Chicago over thirty-five years
has always regarded himself as an Indiana
man, and has spent most of his boyhood in
Logansport, where members of the family
have been residents since pioneer times.
Mr. Thompson himself was born in Lake
County, Illinois, in 1864, son of Charles F.
and Elizabeth H. (Twells) Thompson. The
Thompsons are of original Connecticut
stock. From that state some of the family
went to Central New York more than a cen-
tury ago. From New York State Mr.
Thompson's paternal grandfather came
West to Willoughby, near Cleveland, Ohio.
Charles F. Thompson, Sr., moved from
Northern Ohio to Illinois. James S.
Twells, maternal grandfather of Charles
F. Thompson, was of Pennsylvania ances-
try and was one of the earliest pioneer
settlers of Logansport, Indiana, establish-
ing his home there when Northern Indiana
was still the home of Indians. He owned
a large amount of land around that city.
His daughter, Elizabeth H. Twells, was
born at Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and was
brought as a child to Logansport, where
she grew up.
His paternal grandmother was a Gil-
lette, and through her Charles F. Thomp-
son is a cousin of William Gillette, the
famous actor.
During the early childhood of Charles
P'rancis Thompson his parents moved
from Illinois to Logansport, Indiana,
where he grew up and attended school. In
1881, at the age of seventeen, he removed
to Chicago, and that city has since been
his home. Continuously since that time
he has been identified with the lumber in-
dustry. He was first a clerk in the office
of his father, who had lumber interests in
Chicago with Mr. Perley Lowe. In 1900
Mr. Thompson became associated with Mr.
Lowe naming earlier business associations
begun by his father, which still continues.
During the past he has been an extensive
lumber manufacturer and distributor, has
organized several successful lumber com-
panies, but at the present time has retired
from some of his larger holdings, and is
now vice president of the C. L. Gray
Lumber Company of Meridian, Missis-
sippi, and president of the Meridian
Wholesale Company.
IMr. Thompson, whose business offices
are at 332 South Michigan Avenue, is a
member of the Chicago Athletic Club,
South Shore Country Club, Glen View
Club, Flossmoor Club, Olympia Fields
Golf Club, the Duck Island Preserve, a
hunting club, and in polities is a republi-
can. He has served three successive years
as president of the Western Golf Associa-
tion, being first elected to that office in-
1909 and again in 1917, 1918 and 1919.
He married Miss Emma M. Adams, who
was born and reared in Chicago, and they
have one daughter, Elizabeth.
William Watson Woollen. For that
increasing number of people who believe
that the "durable satisfactions" of life
are to be found in living as well as in
action and in service as well as achieve-
ment, there is a constantly recurring in-
spiration in the career of such a man as
William Watson Woollen of Indianapolis.
He is one of the few lawyers still living who
prepared their first briefs before the open-
ing guns of the Civil war and he has
always enjoyed the highest standing in
the Indiana bar and his work as a lawyer
brought him a large share of the means
that enabled him to pursue his intellectual
diversion. He has contributed much to
the literature of the profession. Perhaps
the largest number of people in Indian-
apolis and Indiana associate his name with
the splendid gift of Woollen's Garden of
Birds and Botany to the city. As a nat-
uralist he ranks high among the authori-
ties in America in several distinctive
fields.
The Woollen family has been conspicu-
ous in the history of Indianapolis for more
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than eight decades. William "Watson
Woollen was born at Indianapolis May 28,
1838, a son of Milton and Sarah (Black)
Woollen. One reliable authority on the
family genealogy says that the ancestry
is traced to Sir John Woollen who was
buried in the new choir of White Friars
Church, London, in 1440. The founder
of the American branch of the family was
Richard Woollen, who came from England
probably in 1644 and settled near Balti-
more, Maryland. He was one of the
household of Leonard Calvert, proprietory
governor of the colony. This pioneer was
the father of a son named Philip and the
grandfather of Richard Woollen. This
Richard Woollen was a soldier of the
American Revolutionary War.
Leonard Woollen, son of the Revolu-
tionary soldier, was born near EUicott's
Mills, Maryland, in June, 1774. When
he was eight years old his father died, and
he was then bound out to a Quaker in
Maryland, who treated him so cruelly that
he ran away. After making his escape he
worked on a farm two or three years, and
then went into the Far West and was em-
ployed in one of the pioneer iron works at
Nashville, Tennessee. Six years later he
went to Kentucky and for a number of
years lived at Bowman's Station near the
ilammoth Cave. While there he became
acquainted with Sarah Henry and tbev
were married June 19, 1802. Of this
union there were twelve children.
In 1835 Leonard Woollen became a pio-
neer resident of Indianapolis, then hardly
more than a village, with its chief dis-
tinction the seat of government for the
state. Leonard Woollen bought a lot at
the corner of Capitol Avenue and Ohio
Street, where he built his residence and
occupied it until his death February 21,
1858. His occupation was that of farmer,
and as such he purchased a farm which is
now part of Riverside Park. He was a
charter member of the First Christian
Church of Indianapolis. In politics he was
a democrat. His wife died November 3,
1856.
Milton Woollen, father of William Wat-
son Woollen, was born in Kentucky and
after moving to Indianapolis was for a
number of years engaged in his trade as a
blacksmith. An injury received during
his work caused him to abandon that voca-
tion and move to a farm in Lawrence Town-
ship about eight miles northeast from the
center of Indianapolis. In 1861 he re-
turned to Indianapolis and lived there until
his death in 1868. He had an inventive
mind and was an excellent mechanic. His
wife Sarah Black was a daughter of Joshua
Black, who was born near EUicott's Mills,
Maryland, October 3, 1788, and died at In-
dianapolis December 4, 1879. His father
Christopher Black came from Germany and
was a soldier of the Revolutionary war.
Joshua Black served as a lieutenant in the
War of 1812 and in spite of his advanced
years was a member of the Home Guard
during the Civil War. He became an In-
dianapolis pioneer in 1826, moving from
Maryland over the old National Road
and locating at the southwest corner of
Illinois and Ohio streets. He was a car-
penter and cabinet maker, and did some of
the work on the first State Capitol as well
as other prominent public buildings, in-
cluding some of the pioneer churches. Dur-
ing the '40s he also represented the First
Ward in the city council.
William Watson Woollen grew up on
his father's farm northeast of Indianapolis,
and first attended the district schools.
After this for four years he was a student
in Northwestern Christian University now
Butler College at Indianapolis, taking a
special course. He graduated from the law
department of that institution with the de-
gree LL. B. in 1860 and then began the
practice of law independently. He was
admitted to the Marion County Bar April
1 of that year and long ago rounded out
more than a half century of continuous
work in the profession and is now (1919)
the senior member of the Indianapolis Bar.
He has been a partner in various law firms,
and in 1888 became senior member of the
firm Woollen & Woollen, with his son
Evans as junior partner. His brief official
record is merely a part of his legal career.
He was district prosecutor of the Common
Pleas Court for the District of Marion,
Boone and Hendricks counties during 1862-
65 and w^as county attorney for Marion
County during 1882-85.
Every Indiana lawyer is familiar with
some of the standard works to which Mr.
Woollen has contributed as an author. He
is author of "Indiana Topical Annota-
tions," 1892; "Indiana Digest" two vol"
umes, 1896; "Special Procedure," 1897;
"Trial Procedure" 1899; and was joint
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author with W. W. Whornton of ' ' The Law
of Intoxicating Liquors," published in
1910.
As a nature lover Mr. Woollen has trav-
eled and explored some of the most inter-
esting and little known sections of his own
state and of the American Continent.
Much of his distant traveling was done in
the Northwest and in Alaska. These travels
gave him the material for a volume not yet
published but for which he designed the
title "Vancouver's Explorations Re-ex-
plored." He finds his chief recreation in
tramping, and is much interested in the
study of outdoor life and natural history,
about which he has written much for the
local press. Throughout Indiana ]\Ir.
Woollen is regarded as an authority on
everything pertaining to the phenomena of
the state. Bird lovers everywhere know
Mr. Woollen's work entitled "Birds of
Buzzard's Roost," which is an account of
the life history of fifty-two of our common
birds.
A few miles northeast of Indianapolis is
a tract of forty-four acres known as Wool-
len's Garden of Birds and Botany, set
aside in 1897 as a sanctuary for wild bird
and animal life, and one of the first, if not
the first, of the kind established by private
enterprise in the United States. In 1909
this was deeded to the City of Indianapolis
by ]Mr. Woollen to be maintained x^erpetu-
all.y as a public park where wild bird and
animal life shall be carefully protected and
as a place for nature studj' for the schools
of Indianapolis. It consists of twelve
acres of cleared and cultivated land and
the remainder of heavily wooded hills and
ravines.
His varied interests and enthusiasm have
brought Mr. Woollen a wealth of associa-
tions with people and organizations well
out of the usual acquaintance of the aver-
age lawyer. He assisted in the organiza-
tion and has thrice been president of the
Indiana Audubon Society. In 1908 he was
tlie organizer and has since been president
of the Nature Study Club of Indiana. He
was an organizer and is past president of
the Indianapolis Humane Society ; organ-
ized the Original Indianapolis Civic As-
sociation and has served as its president ;
is an honorary member of the Chamber
of Commerce of Indianapolis in recognition
of the gift of Woollen's Garden of Birds
and Botany to the eitj'; is honorary mem-
ber of the Marion County Bar Associa-
tion, by reason of having donated to it a
full set of the "Acts and Laws of Indiana"
since the organization of the state; is a
Fellow of the Indiana Academy of Science
and a member of the American Academy of
Science; a member of the American Bar
Association, Indiana Bar Association, Na-
tional Humane Society, John Herron Art
Institute, Contemporary Literary Club, of
the National Parks Committee of the
American Civic Pedei'ation. ]Mr. Woollen's
dominating personal characteristics have
been described as perseverance, persistence
and patience for results. He is a Baptist
but for many years a communicant with
his wife of the First Presbyterian Church.
February 5, 1863, he married Mary
Allen, daughter of Henry B. Evans, de-
ceased. Her father was a physician and
surgeon of Marion County. Four children
were born to their marriage : Evans, a law-
yer for many years associated with his
father and president of the Fletcher Sav-
ings & Trust Company of Indianapolis;
Harry, a real estate man at Seattle, Wash-
ington ; Maria, wife of Harlow Hyde of In-
dianapolis, and Paul who died in infancy.
John E. Bossingham is president of the
Indiana Tank & Boiler Company at 1123-
1129 East Maryland Street, Indianapolis.
Mr. Bossingham not merely supplies the
financial and executive management to this
firm, but is a thorouglily expert and widely
experienced boiler maker, had all sorts and
conditions of experience from journeyman
workman to siTperintendent of some of the
leading plants in the Middle West, and
it is his personal ability and experience
that have given the Indiana Tank & Boiler
Company its present prosperity and insure
a continuingly prosperous future.
Mr. Bossingham was bom January 20,
1863, in the famous English manufactur-
ing City of Leeds. He is a son of Edward
and Elizabeth (Snushall) Bossingham,
the former a native of Leeds and the latter
of Peterborough. In 1868 the family came
to the United States, locating at East Troy,
Wisconsin, and in 1876 moving to Eagle,
Wisconsin. Edward Bossingham was a
tailor in biisiness. For twelve years prior
to his death, which occurred at Eagle
October 31, 1910, at the age of sixty-eight,
he had served his town as president of the
On the day of his burial all the
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business houses closed for two hours. He
was a useful citizen and richly deserved
all honors paid his name and memory. He
was a republican during his earlier years
of American citizenship but finally became
a democrat. His widow is still living at
Eagle and is a member of the Episcopal
Church. Edward Bossingham for many
years served as tyler of his Masonic lodge
and was also treasurer of the Order of
Woodmen.
John Edward Bossingham, the only
child of his parents, was six years old
when brought to America, and he acquired
his early education in the schools of a "Wis-
consin Village. At the age of sixteen he
went to work for himself as clerk in a
hardware store at Eagle. Afterward he
spent some time at Algoua, Iowa, and later
for ten years was at Wauwatosa, a suburb
of Milwaukee. There he was associated
with J. C. Bump, under the firm name of
Bump & Bossingham. In 1900 Mr. Bos-
singham moved to Milwaukee, was with the
Milwaukee Boiler Works, and the follow-
ing year went to Oswego, New York, where
he became connected with the Oil Well
Supply Company. He left there to accept
a position at New Haven, Connecticut,
in connection with the Bigelow Company,
and had the responsibility of laying out
and planning the work of their boiler fac-
tory. Again coming westward, Mr. Bos-
singham located at Mansfield, Ohio, and
for a time was connected with the boiler
works of the Altman-Taylor Company. He
spent two years in Toledo with the Toledo
Boiler Works, and in 1907 became superin-
tendent of the Canton Boiler & Engineer-
ing Company at Canton, Ohio.
Mr. Bossingham has been a resident of
Indianapolis since 1913. He came here to
take the general management of the Na-
tional Boiler & Sheet Iron Works, and in
1916 he bought a portion of the equipment
of this company and organized the Indiana
Tank & Boiler Works, of which he is the
active head.
Mr. Bossingham is a member of Oriental
Lodge No. 500, Free and Accepted IMasons,
and is a Woodman of the World. He has
been a Mason thirty years and a Woodman
twenty years. In 1889 he married Cather-
ine M. LeBarre, daughter of Dwight Le-
Barre. They have two sons. Ralph, the
older, is secretary of the Indiana Tank &
Boiler Company. Harold is now with the
National Army, having enlisted in Com-
pany C of the First Indiana Cavalry, but
is now a member of the One Hundred and
Thirteenth Supply Train. He is at pre-
sent in France.
John Starr is one of the oldest business
men of Richmond, and has been identified
with the coal trade there for over forty
years. He is now senior partner in the
firm of Starr & Woodhurst, wholesale and
retail coal merchants and shippers.
Mr. Starr was born on a farm near Rich-
mond September 27, 1856, and represents
one of the early Quaker families of Wayne
County. His grandparents were John and
Mary (Willitts) Starr, both natives of
Berks County, Pennsylvania. In 1819 the
family moved to Preble County, Ohio, and
in 1832 moved to Wayne Township of
Wayne County. John Starr was well
known as an early farmer and business
man of that section, and he and his wife
were devout members of the Society of
Friends.
Jesse Starr, father of the Richmond coal
merchant, was born in Berks County,
Pennsylvania, March 24, 1816, and he fin-
ished his education in the Richmond High
School. He acquired his father's farm and
for man.y years was a well known citizen
of the county. He married Sarah M.
Mathews, of a family that came to Wayne
County in 1834.
John Starr was fifth in a family of nine
children. He attended the district schools,
the Richmond Business College, and for
two years was bookkeeper for the firm of
Matthews, Winder & Company, manufac-
turers of linseed oil. Then for nine years
Mr. Starr cultivated a farm three miles
north of Richmond, and in 1878 entered
the co^l business with E. K. Shera under
the firm name of Shera & Starr. Their
yards and plant were located on Fort
Wayne Avenue not far from the present
quarters of Starr & Woodhurst. After
nine years Mr. Starr bought his partner's
interest and continued the business suc-
cessfully alone until 1916, when John
Woodhurst bought a half interest. Mr.
Starr is also owner of some valuable real
estate in Richmond. In 1902 he married
Ida M. Ford and they have one daughter,
Alice Starr, born in 1903. Mr. Starr is
a republican, is affiliated with the Inde-
pendent Order of Odd Fellows, and is a
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member of the First Methodist Episcopal
Church.
George K. Denton, who appreciates the
honor and distinction conferred upon him
by the First Indiana District in represent-
ing it in the Sixty-Fifth Congress, hasi
rounded out a quarter of a century of suc-
cessful law practice at Evansville.
He was born in Webster County, Ken-
tucky, on a farm, November 17, 1864, son
of George ^I. and Emma (Kirkpatrick)
Denton. His grandfather. Rev. John Den-
ton, a native of Tennessee, was a Met.ho-
dist minister, but after moving to Bran-
denburg, Kentucky, engaged in merchan-
dising. He married Sally Partridge, who
was born in the Shenandoah Valley of Vir-
ginia, where her father was a planter and
slave owner. George il. Denton was born
in ]\Ieade County, Kentucky, in 1832, and
for many years was a farmer in "Webster
County, where he died in March, 1918.
His wife, mother of the ex-congressman,
was born at Washington, Ohio, daughter of
James and Eliza (Marsh) Kirkpatrick.
The former, a native of Ireland but of
Scotch ancestry, settled in Ohio. Mrs.
George M. Denton died in 1893, the mother
of four children.
George K. Denton was prepared for col-
lege by private tutors, and graduated A- B.
from the Ohio Wesleyan University in
1891. He then entered Boston University
law school, graduating valedictorian of his
class in 1893. The following year he began
practice at Evansville, and soon achieved
standing among the first of his profession.
He was elected to Congress on the demo-
cratic ticket in 1916, taking his seat at the
beginning of the war with Germany and
serving until March, 1919. He is general
counsel and director of the Intermediate
Life Insurance Company, and represents
many other important interests. He is a.
Methodist, a member of the Sigma Alpha
Epsilon and of the Rotary Club. Decem-
ber 16, 1895, he married Sara L. CTiick,
daughter of Winfield Scott and Mary
Chick. She graduated from Boston Uni-
versity with the A. B. degree in 1895.
They have two children. Winfield K. and
Helen M. The son left his studies in De-
Pruw University in 1917 to enter the ayia-
tion service and was in overseas duty for
ei*ht months. He received his honorable
discharge in February, 1919, and then re-
sumed his work at DePauw. The daughter
Helen is a student at Gouchcr Seminary,
Baltimore, Maryland.
Albert N. Crecr.vft is one of the promi-
nent editors and newspaper men of In-
diana, and for over a quarter of a century
has published the Franklin Democrat at
Franklin. Besides conducting a paper of
recognized leadership in the democratic
party and one of the best organs of public
opinion in this section of the state, Mr.
Crecraft has to his credit some years of
active teaching, and is a member of a fam-
ily long and prominently known both in
this state and in Ohio.
Mr. Crecraft was born at Reily, Butler
County, Ohio, December 3, 1859, son of
Albert John and Evelina (Ross) Crecraft.
His great-grandfather Crecraft was a na-
tive of England, and on coming to America
settled in Maryland, where he died at an
advanced age. Grandfather Benoni Cre-
craft was born in Maryland and became an
early settler in Ohio. In 1808, when all
Ohio and the country to the west was vir-
tually an unbroken wilderness, he took up
government land in Butler County and for
many years was a practical farmer and
also an educator in that county. He died
at the advanced age of eighty-five.
Benoni Crecraft married Asenath John.
Her brothers, Enoch D. John and Robert
John, became early pioneer settlers at
Brookville, Indiana. The John family were
originally from Wales and on coming to
America settled at Philadelphia. Enoch D.
John married Lavina Noble, a sister of
James and Noah Noble, mentioned later on
in this article as relatives of Mrs. Albert
N. Crecraft. Robert John was the father
of John Price Durbin John, an eminent In-
diana educator, and a cousin of Albert
Crecraft. Professor John is a resident of
Greeneastle, Indiana, began teaching in the
public schools of Franklin County before
the war, and for a number of years was
connected with the faculty and from 1889
to 1899 was president of DePauw Univer-
sity. For the last twenty years he has been
active on the lecture platform and is also
author of several public works.
AUiert John Crecraft was born in Ohio,
was a teacher a number of years and later
was engaged in farming in Butler County,
where he died at the age of sixty-one. He
married Evelina Ross, a native of Ohio and
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daughter of James Ross, of the same state.
The Ross family came from New Jersey.
James Ross was a contractor and built the
old dormitory of Miami University at Ox-
ford, Ohio. He died at Oxford, and was
the father of two children, Evelina and
William Ross. Mrs. Albert J. Crecraft
died in 1877, as the result of an accident
caused by a run away horse, and at the age
of fifty-one. She and her husband were
active membeis of the ilethodist Episcopal
Church. They had ten children, six sons
and four daughters, seven still living: ]\Iiss
Laura C, of Hamilton, Ohio ; Asenath,
wife of Clarence B. Morris, of Middleton,
Ohio; John H., of Hamilton, Ohio; Albert
N. ; Luella, wife of Irenus Velson, of Ham-
ilton ; William H., of Hamilton; and
Arthur L., of Oxford, Ohio.
Albert N. Crecraft lived in Butler
County, Ohio, until he was nineteen years
of age. His early education was derived
from the district schools of his native lo-
cality. He took a scientific course in the
National Normal University at Lebanon,
Ohio, where he was graduated in 1878.
When only sixteen years old Mr. Crecraft
had his first experience in a profession that
seems to belong to the family, teaching for
one term before entering the university at
Lebanon. He then taught another year,
and for one year was a student in Prince-
ton College in New Jersey. After that he
taught at Mount Carmel, Indiana, at Fair-
field and at Brookville and was principal
of schools four years. For six years ;\Ir.
Crecraft was county superintendent of
schools for Franklin County, and during
three years of that time was a member of
the State Teachers Reading Circle Board
and the Young People's Reading Circle
Board.
While county superintendent he bought
the Brookville Democrat, of which he was
owner two years. On January 1, 1892, he
became editor and publisher of the Frank-
lin Democrat. Mr. Crecraft personally has
been a democratic voter since he came to
his majority, and has always conducted his
paper on party lines. On account of his
wise judgment and intelligent grasp of af-
fairs the Franklin Democrat has a wide
circulation and influence. Its editorials
are accepted as being the opinions of the
local leaders of the democratic party, and
outside of politics the progressive policy of
this journal had gained popularity with all
classes.
Mr. Crecraft and wife are active mem-
bers of the Presbyterian Church. Mrs.
Crecraft is the only woman serving on
the Johnson County Council of Defense.
May 31, 1883, Mr. Crecraft married Miss
.Mary Luella Tyncr. They have three chil-
dren : Earle Willis, Albert T.yner and Rich-
ard Tyner. Albert T. died in infancy.
Earle Willis graduated from Franklin Col-
lege with the class of 1907.
Mrs. Crecraft represents in her ancestry
a number of noted names in the life and
affairs of Indiana and the Middle West.
She is a daughter of Richard Henry and
Anna (Miller) Tyner. Both were natives
(if Franklin County, Indiana. They had
just two children, and Mrs. Crecraft 's sis-
ter, Rose Willis, is the wife of Arthur A.
Alexander, of Franklin.
Richard Henry Tyner, her father, was
born at Brookville, Indiana, September 2,
1831, one of the twelve children of Richard
and :\Iartha Sedgwick Willis Swift (Noble)
Tyner. Richard Tyner was from South
Carolina, was a pioneer Baptist minister in
Indiana, and built one of the first churches
erected in the state, south of Brookville, in
the year 1812. This old house of worship is
still standing. Rev. Richard Tyner mar-
ried Elizabeth Hackleman, an aunt of Gen-
eral Pleasant A. Hackleman.
Richard Tyner, Jr., son of Rev. Richard,
was an early settler of Brookville, bore an
important part in the business life of that
community and had a large general mer-
chandise store. He afterward moved to
Davenport, Iowa. His wife was a member
of the Noble family which came out of Vir-
ginia to Kentucky and thence to Indiana.
Martha Noble was the daughter of Dr.
Thomas Noble, a surgeon in the Revolu-
tionary war who was related to Richard
Henry Lee of Virginia, hence the name
Richard Henry Tyner. She was also sis-
ter of James and Noah Noble. Noah Noble
was one of the first governors of Indiana,
"■hile James Noble was one of the first
United States senators, serving from 1816
to 1831, and dying in Washington. The
ivnvv headed cane which James Noble car-
ried while a senator is now in the possession
of Mr. and Mrs. Crecraft. Both James and
Noah Noble were men of the highest char-
acter and ability and of national repu-
tation.
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Richard Henry Tyner, father of Mrs.
Crecraft, never held any public office but
was always active in business and in poli-
tics. He was a delegate to the first republi-
can state convention in Indiana, and as-
sisted materially in organizing that party
in the state. In early life he was employed
by a Cincinnati banking association to
travel over Indiana when wild cat banking
was at its climax. His work was that of in-
spector or examiner, and as there were few
railroads in the state he traveled for the
most part on horseback over roads through
swamps and heavy timber. His duties re-
quired him to visit almost every part of the
state.
James Noble Tyner, an uncle of Mrs.
Crecraft, was a congressman from the Peru
District in Indiana several terms, was as-
sistant postmaster general under President
Grant, and in the latter part of that ad-
ministration became postmaster general.
Still later he served as an assistant post-
master general and for a time was attor-
ney general until shortly before his death.
Another brother of Richard Henry Tyner,
and an uncle of ilrs. Crecraft, was Gen.
Noah Noble Tyner, a brave soldier in the
Civil war . Still another brother was
George N. T.yner, of Holyoke, Massachu-
setts, who was connected with the Holyoke
Paper Mills, an envelope manufacturing
business, and in 1900-01 was a member of
the State Senate of IMassaehusetts. Thus
many members of the Tyner family have
gained high places of influence in the life
of the country.
The maternal grandfather of Mrs. Cre-
craft was Albert Miller, who was born in
Indiana and when a child was brought by
his parents, Mr. and Mrs. George ]\Iiller,
to Franklin County. Later he became
active as a stock dealer and also conducted
a general store at Fairfield, Indiana, in
partnership with R. H. Tyner. He died at
Fairfield at the age of eighty-three. He
also served as a member of the State Leg-
islature of Indiana. Albert ^Miller was
twice married and had a large family who
grew to maturity.
Thom.\s Earle Jarr.\rd. who is vice
president of the Apperson Bros. Automo-
bile Company of Kokomo, is too young a
man to have completed the seven ages of
mortal life, though his active career natur-
ally falls into seven stages.
He is a native of Michigan, was educated
at Lansing and for a time earned his living
as reporter with the Lansing State Repub-
lican. His next change of occupation was
foreman of a yard gang in the Lansing
Wheelbarrow Works. The third stage was
as chemist of the Beet Sugar Division of
the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company, and
following that he was Meteorologist wdth
the Michigan State Board of Health.
The fifth place brought him into the
automobile industry, where he is today one
of the prominent figures. He was assistant
to the secretary treasurer of the Reo ilotor
Car Company at Lansing, and was next
promoted to salesman for that company.
The seventh, and last place, was his present
and congenial and useful work as vice presi-
dent and director of the Apperson Bros.
Automobile Company at Kokomo.
Mr. Jarrard was born at Pontiac, Mich-
igan, October 23, 1883, son of William Ells-
worth and Marguerite (McGinnis) -Jarrard.
His father was a graduate of Rutgers
College. Thomas E. Jarrard attended high
school at Lansing, and also the Michigan
Agricultural College. While in his native
state he also had some military experience.
For one year he was first sergeant and for
two years second lieutenant of Battery
A of the Michigan Field Artillery. He
was also treasurer of the Michigan State
League of Republican Clubs. He is a
Knights Templar ]Mason and Shriner and
an Elk, a member of the Alpha Omega
Preparatory School Fraternity, the Koko-
mo Country Club and the First Congrega-
tional Church.
June 6, 1911, at Chicago Mr. Jarrard
married Therese Marie Keck, daughter of
W. S. Keck, a member of one of the oldest
families of Chicago.
Arthur B. Irvin. president of the
Farmers Trust Company of Rushville, was
for many years a successful lawyer of that
city, and has acquired numerous interests
that identify him prominently with the
community. He is the present mayor of
Rushville.
Mr. Irvin was born in Rush Countv,
Indiana, July 14, 1850, son of Newton and
Phoebe (McCrory) Irvin. His grandfather,
Elam Irvin, came from Ohio to Rush
County in 1835, and spent the rest of his
life as a farmer. He lived on the same
farm until his death. He was an exem-
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plary pioneer, honorable and upright in all
his dealings, and won the confidence of the
entire community in which he lived. He
was a devout Presliyterian. Newton Irvin,
who was bom in Ohio in 1827, was
eight years old when brought to Indiana,
was the third of five children. He had the
privilege of attending common schools only
fourteen weeks, and after that applied him-
self to the business of farming. In 1880 he
retired from the active responsibilities of
his farm, and moved to Florida, where he
died in 1898. He was a whig and later
a republican, and was loyal to the prin-
ciples of that party for many years. His
wife was a member of the McCrory
family which came from Ireland, first lo-
cating at Philadelphia, and afterwards
moving to Fayette County, Indiana, where
the JlcCrorys were prominent early set-
tlers, and also fiatboatmen on the Ohio
Eiver. Mr. Irvin 's maternal grandfather
helped construct the main road between
Rushville and Connersville.
Arthur B. Irvin was the oldest of three
children. He received his early education
in the district schools, afterwards read law
and was admitted to the bar in 1871, at the
age of twenty-one. He at once opened his
office in the city of Rushville and was a
successful member of the bar there nineteen
vears. He served as city attorney from
1883 to 1891. In 1891 he organized the
Farmers Banking Company, of which he
was cashier. When this bank was reor-
ganized in 1910 as the Fai-mers Tru.st Com-
pany, Mr. Irvin became its president and
has associated with him some of the best
known business and professional men in
Rush County. The bank enjoys a high
degree of prosperity, and has total re-
sources of over $200,000.
Mr. Irvin was elected and has served as
mayor of Rushville since 1917, and has
given a very progressive and efficient ad-
ministration of municipal affairs. He is
financially interested in a number of busi-
ness enterprises, being the president of the
Rushville Glove Company and secretary of
the Building Association No. 10.
On September 6, 1877, in Rush County,
he married Miss Johanna Scanlan, a daugh-
ter of Thomas Scanlan. They have one
daughter, Effie M., now ]\Irs. D. L. Reiser
of St. Louis, Missouri.
John C. Spooner was born in Lawrence-
burg, Indiana, January 6, 1843. During
the Civil war he served as a member of a
Wisconsin regiment, to which state the fam-
ily had previously removed, and during the
war he was breveted a major. In 1867 Mr.
Spooner was admitted to the bar, and was
in general practice at Madison from 1870
to 1884. From 1885 until 1891 he was a
United States senator, was a candidate for
governor of Wisconsin in 1892, and he was
tendered many high official positions.
David C. ARTHrR. Twenty years a law-
yer and in successful practice at Logans-
port, David C. Arthur is just now at the
peak of performance and power as one of
the most useful citizens of his communit}\
Life has brought him experience, and he
has done well in utilizing the accumulated
wisdom of a purposeful and energetic
career.
He was born in Darke County, Ohio,
February 25, 1862, one of the ten children
of Abner and Mary (Bowman) Arthur.
When he was five years of age, in 1867,
his parents removed to Randolph County,
Indiana, and on their farm David C.
Arthur grew toward manhood. He had
about the average opportunities of an In-
diana farm boy, with neither wealth nor
dire poverty. He was not content with the
advantages of the "poor man's uni-
versity," the district schools, and when
it came to a question of attending a school
away from home he was confronted with
the question of earning a living at the
same time. Living and tuition came from
farm work, and other hand labor, and
later, as he became qualified, from teach-
ing. He attended the National Normal
University at Lebanon, Ohio, and for two
terms was a student in the Indiana State
Universitj'. Teaching experience brought
him to Logansport in 1894 as principal of
the high school. During the five years he
was in that office he studied law with
Kistler & Kistler, was admitted to the bar
in 1899, and has since been in an independ-
ent and a growing practice and patronage.
For two years he was an associate in prac-
tice with John il. Ashby, and in 1909
formed the partnership of Fickle & Arthur,
the senior member being D. D. Fickle.
This partnership was dissolved in 1915,
and the firm was then Arthur & Custer,
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but is now changed to Arthur & Arthur on
the admission of Mr. Arthur 's son.
Mr. Arthur was elected a member of t.he
Logansport City School Board in 1910,
and became secretary of the board. He is
a democrat in politics, a member of vari-
ous organizations, and for many years was
an elder in the Presbyterian Church.
December 25, 1894, Mr. Arthur married
Miss Ellen Jameson, of Lebanon, Ohio.
They have two children, ^lary and Robert.
The daughter is at present a student in
Defiance College. Robert J., born Feb-
ruarj' 17, 1899, graduated from the Logans-
port High School in the 1915 class, at the
age of sixteen. He worked in his father's
office one year as stenographer and clerk,
served six months as department clerk in
the Cass Circuit Court, his duties being
those of reading and record clerk, and he
graduated in law in 1918, with the B. L.
degree from Valparaiso University. He
wa.s admitted to the bar immediately there-
after on examination, the order of admis-
sion to take effect February 17, 1920, at
which time he will be twenty-one years of
age. Beginning January 1, 1919, he en-
tered the fii-m now known as Arthur &
Arthur, father and son composing the firm.
Their offices will remain in the old location,
the Winfield Building, at 400 Broadway.
His experience and work already accom-
plished permit a fine and creditable review.
Harry W. Watt. One of the oldest
mercantile enterprises in Eastern Indiana
is the George II. KnoUenberg Company of
Richmond, and one of the officials longest
identified with its service is Harry W.
Watt, secretary of the company, who went
to work for the store more than forty
yeirs ago as sales clerk.
He was born at Richmond, June 24, 1855,
son of Mr. and Mrs. N. L. C. Watt, and is
of Scotch-Irish ancestry. His great-
grandfather, who came from the north of
Ireland and settled near Greensburg, Penn-
sylvania, was a hatter by trade, and that
wa.s also the occupation of the grandfather,
William Watt, who made his own hats and
sold them at Brownsville in Union County,
Indiana.
Harry W. Watt after attending the pub-
lic schools of Richmond to the age of six-
teen was put on the payroll and given an
opportunity to learn merchandising with
A. E. Crocker in the wholesale and retail
notion business. He gained some very val-
uable knowledge during the four years
spent with the Crocker establishment, and
from it he entered the service of what was
then, in 1877, called the George KnoUen-
berg store. When that business was or-
ganized as a stock company in 1892 Mr.
Watt was one of those financially inter-
ested, and in 1904 he was made secretary
of the corporation. Forty-two years with
one house is nearly a record among the
business men of Richmond. He is still
active on the floor as well as in the offices
of the company, and is manager of the
hosiery, underwear and glove department.
Mr. Watt has never married. He is a
democrat in politics, a member of the Ma-
sonic fraternity. Blue Lodge, Chapter,
Council and Richmond Commandery,
Knights Templar No. 8, and is a member
of the Commercial Club.
John Hanson Beadle, journalist, au-
thor, was born in Liberty Township, Parke
County, Indiana, March 14, 1840. He was
a precocious child, frail physically, but
strong mentally. His parents removed to
Roekville when he was eight years old, and
he was then far ahead of schoolmates of
his age. At that time the Sunday schools
of Indiana were conducted on an educa-
tional basis, with memorizing the Scrip-
tures as a prominent feature ; and when ten
years old .voiing Beadle' could recite the
entire New Testament. There was excel-
lent opportunity for instruction in the
seminary at Roekville, which he attended
until 1857, when he went with his older
brother, William H. H. Beadle, to Michi-
gan University, at Ann Arbor, where he
continued his studies until 1861. In the
summer of 1861 Company A of the Thirty-
first Indiana Regiment was recruited at
Roekville, and both of the boys joined it,
William as first lieutenant and John as pri-
vate. William became captain of the com-
pany and later was commissioned colonel
of the First Michigan Sharpshooters, re-
turning from the war as brevet brigadier-
general. John was discharged after the
battle of Fort Donelson, in which he dis-
played great courage, as an incurable con-
sumptive. His health improved, and he
as:ain volunteered as a private in the One
Hundred and Thirty-Third Regiment. This
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regiment was not organized until 1864, and
was mustered out of service at the close
of the war.
In 1868 he located at Evansville with the
intention of becoming a lawyer, but began
writing editorials for the Evansville Jour-
nal ; and as his health again failed, he ob-
tained a position as correspondent of the
Cincinnati) Commercial, and started for
California. He had found his calling. It
was the day of the newspaper correspond-
ent, and Beadle ranked among the best.
Most of this stay in the West was passed
in Utah, where he became the editor of the
Salt Lake Reporter. It was a time when
animosity between Mormons and Gentiles
was at its height, and the evils of Mormon-
ism struck BeacUe with great force. He
not only called a spade a spade, but if the
emergency seemed to demand it, called it
a spade and a rake. In consequence he
was attacked by Mormons and severely
wounded. The tactical mistake of his as-
sailants was that they did not kill him, for
he did more to form the popular American
estimate of Mormonism than any other one
man. He returned home late in 1869, and
in 1870 his first book, ''Life in Utah, or
the Mysteries and Crimes of Mormonism,"
was published in Philadelphia. It had a
large circulation, and was followed in 1872
by "Brigham's Destroying Angel," which
was the story of the life and confession of
Bill Hickman. His reputation was now
established as a valuable man for publishing
syndicates, and three more books followed,
"The Undeveloped West," in 1873;
' ' Women 's War on Whisln% ' ' in 1874, and
"Western Wilds," in 1879. In April,
1879. he became proprietor and editor of
the Rockville Tribune, of which he did not
make a financial success, as pai-ty polities
was rampant, and Beadle had a habit of
printing the truth as he saw it, without
regard to party considerations. He was a
reformer by nature, and although his out-
spoken condemnation for wrong was not
profitable in a business way, he sowed seeds
that bnre good fruit in due season. Dur-
insr this period he also did special work.
In the winter of 1879-80 he traveled in the
South, and wrote an elaborate deseriptio)i
of the Eads .ietties. In 1884 he was em-
ployed to write part of a history of Texas.
He also wrote part of a local history of
Parke and Vigo counties. In 1884 he was
sent on a tour through the "Black Belt,"
from Washington, District of Columbia,
through the tidewater country to Southern
Louisiana. In 1886 a syndicate sent him
on one of the most notable of his trips,
in which he went on a dog sledge, in the
dead of winter, to Northern Manitoba and
Saskatchewan. The same syndicate later
sent him to England and France with in-
structions to write his letters "just as he
would if he were doing it for the Rockville
Tribune and the people of Parke County."
His last work as a newspaper correspondent
was done for the Cincinnati Gazette, over
the name of Hanson. In 1882 ilr. Beadle
sokl an interest in the Rockville Tribune
to Isaac R. Strouse, a practical printer who
had been connected with the paper for sev-
eral years, and the partnership so formed
continued with mutual satisfaction until
1888, when Beadle went to New York to
enter the employment of the American
Press Association. Mr. Strouse then took
over the entire plant, and is still operating
it. Mr. Beadle took the position of his-
torical and political editor for the Amer-
ican Press Association, and for several
years applied himself so assiduously to his
duties that his health once more gave way.
In 1893 he was sent to Chicago as the rep-
resentative of the association at the World's
Columbian Exposition, and after his return
from there was sent to Washington as con-
gressional correspondent, in which position
he continued until 1896. After going to
New York, Mr. Beadle used to spend his
annual vacations in Parke County, where
he was always a welcome visitor, and dur-
ing these visits he frequently delivered
speeches and lectures on political and eco-
nomic topics. His greatest pleasure, how-
ever, when his health permitted, was tramp-
ing through the woods and along the
streams in the neiehborhood of his birth-
place in Liberty Township. He died at
Rockville on January 15, 1897.
John FtNLEY, noet, official, was born at
Brownsburg, Rockridge County, Virginia,
.Tanuarv 11, 1797. His ancestors were
Scotch-Irish Presbyterians, the American
lines beiner descendants of seven brothers
who emiarated from Ireland to America
early in the eighteenth, centurs'. The best
kmown of the brothers was Samuel, an
itWierant revival nreacher, who was ex-
1-ielled from New Haven as a vagrant for
preaching within the jurisdiction of a "set-
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2265
tied minister," and latei- conducted a fa-
mous academy at Nottingham, Maryland,
from which he was called to the presidency
of The College of New Jersey, now Prince-
ton University. Another brother, John,
was an associate of Daniel Boone in the
wilds of Kentucky. The youngest brother,
William, settled ou a farm in Western
Pennsylvania. His son, Andrew, removed
to Brownsburg, Virginia, where he engaged
in merchandising, and also had a farm
near the village. The family was in com-
fortable circumstances, and the son Johu
had the educational advantages of the
vicinity until his father's business pros-
perity was destro3"ed by the capture of a
cargo of flour by the British, in the War of
1812. John then went to work for a rela-
tive who was a tanner and currier in Green-
brier. In 1816 he decided to move to the
West, and .joined an emigrant company,
his visible wealth consisting of a hoi-se, a
rifle, a pair of saddle-bags and fifty dollars
in money. He was better educated than
the majority of those who sought the fron-
tier, and was an eager reader. He had no
difficulty in finding employment at Cin-
cinnati, where he remained for four years.
In 1820 he located at Richmond, Indiana,
which wa.s his permanent home. He was
an active member of the ilasonic frater-
nity, and his engaging personality and in-
telligence made him friends on all sides,
so that he naturally turned to public life.
His official career began as a justice of the
peace, in 1822. In 1828-31 he represented
Wayne County in the Legislature, and
following this he was enrolling clerk of the
Senate for three years. In these positions
he met all the leading men of the state,
and reached a political status that he al-
wavs retained. In 1833 he secured a con-
trolling interest in the Richmond Palla-
dium, then the principal paper of Wayne
County, which he edited until 1837. ' In
that year he was elected county clerk, and
this necessitated a removal to Centerville,
which was then the county seat. In 184.5.
on the expiration of his tenn, he returned
to Richmond, and in 1852 was elected
mayor of the city, a position in which he
was continued bv re-election until his
de«th, on December 23, 1866.
Mr. Finlev was always fond of poetry,
and especially of the poftrv nf Robert
Burns, and he wrote a number nf poems at
various times. He had an ambition to pro-
duce something of high grade, especially a
national hymn that would meet a popular
demand, but, like many others, his best
work was in comparatively unstudied lines,
where he was entirely natural. His last-
ing fame rests on a poem called "The
Hoosier's Nest," which was written as a
New Year's address for the Indianapolis
Journal of January 1, 1833, and which
made the word Hoosier the popular pseu-
donym for a native or resident of Indiana.
He did not originate the word. It was a
slang term in use in the South to designate
an uncouth rustic, similar to "jay" or
■■hayseed." About the year 1830 there
was " a fad for giving nicknames to the
people of the several western states,
••Buckeye" for Ohio; "Sucker" for Illi-
nois; "Red Horse" for Kentucky, and
"Hoosier" fell to the lot of Indiana. Little
attention was paid to it until Finley's poem
was printed, and then it was adopted by
common consent. He did originate the
word " Hoosieroon, " which is used in the
poem to signify a Hoosier child, and has
led some philologists to suppose that the
word was of Spanish origin. Finley knew
no Spanish, but was familiar with the end-
ing through such words as quadroon and
octoroon. Like many other "American-
isms" the word came from English dialect,
and no doubt had its original form in
"hooser," a Cumberland dialect word in-
dicating anything big or overgrown. There
was another expression in the original poem
that was in use at the time, which is not
included in the later reproductions. It
ended with these lines:
One more subject I'll barely mention
To which I ask your kind attention.
My pockets are so shrunk of late
T cannot nibble "Hoosher bait."
The word was most commonly so spelled
at the time; and Hoosier bait was a name
given to ginger-bread that was baked in
bread pans and lined off in squares indi-
cating the amount purchasable for a
"fi 'penny bit." Another poem of Finley's
that attained wide circulation was in Irish
dialect, entitled "Bachelor's Hall." This
was reproduced in England and Ireland
and attributed to Tom Moore. It was also
set to music, and was used in some of the
school reading: books. For a number of
vears Mr. Finley was known as "the
Hoosier poet," but that title has now gone
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to James Whitcomb Riley. Eiley, like all
of the other Indiana writers, recognized
Finley 's merit, and wrote of him :
The voice that sang the Hoosier's Nest^ —
Of Western singers first and best —
Strickland W. Gillilan adds the lines :
He nursed the Infant Hoosier Muse
When she could scarcely lisp her name ;
Let not the stream forget the springs, —
Set Finley 's name before them all.
Rupus A. LocKwooD, lawyer, was born
in 1811, at Stamford, Connecticut, but he
was not so christened, although his name
appears thus on the rolls of the Supreme
Court of the United States. His real name
was Jonathan Jessup, and the occasion for
his dropping it was the beginning of a
checkered career that is seldom equaled in
fiction. At the age of eighteen while at-
tending Yale, he left college withovit ex-
planation or notice to anyone and enlisted
on an United States man-of-war. On his
first cruise he saw a shipmate punished, un-
justly and cruelly as he thought, and on
arriving at New York he deserted. He
changed his name to hide his identity,
adopting his mother's family name ; worked
his way to Buffalo on an P]rie canal boat ;
and then skipped by schooner to the rising
Village of Chicago. From here a farmer
with whom he formed a chance acquaint-
ance, took him by wagon to Romney, in
Tippecanoe County, Indiana. A school
teacher was needed at the neighboring vil-
lage of Rob Roy, and Lockwood was em-
ployed. Here he took up the study of law
by himself, committing Blackstxjne's Com-
mentaries to memory. The next year he
removed to Crawfordsville, where he
opened another school. He studied law at
night, married without a dollar in the
world, was admitted to practice in the Cir-
cuit Court, and went to Thorntown to be-
gin his professional career. His first client
was himself, in an action for debt, in which
judgment was taken against him for a
board bill, and his scanty household goods
were sold by the constable. He lost his
second case, and appealed to the Supreme
Court. It was a small matter, but he pre-
pared himself as carefully as if it involved
thousands. At the session of the Supreme
Court his diffidence and his uncouth ap-
pearance attracted notice, but his scholarly
argument attracted more. He won his case
and also won an offer of partnership from
Albert S. White, then a leading lawyer of
Lafayette and later United States Senator
and United States District Judge for In-
diana. He accepted, and financial pres-
sure was relieved.
The new relation also brought his oppor-
tunity for public distinction. In a quarrel
over a bet on the election of 1836, J. H. W.
Frank, the popular young editor of the
local Democratic paper, stabbed with a
pocketknife and killed John Woods, an
equally popular merchant. The case stirred
the community to its foundation. In addi-
tion to the political bia.s, Woods had many
personal friends, who wanted Frank pun-
ished. A fund for prosecution was made
up, and Henry S. Lane, Isaac Naylor and
William P. Bryant, all strong men, were
employed to aid the prosecution. On the
other side were White & Lockwood, and
John Pettit, later a judge of the Indianai
Supreme Court. The case looked bad for
Frank, and White and Pettit advised get-
ting a continuance and letting the defend-
ant "jump his bail." Lockwood insisted
that it was better to stand trial, and the
case was practically left in his hands,
though Edward A. Hannegan was em-
ployed to a.ssist him. Aside from one lucky
chance — the failure of a man who had
heard Frank make threats against Woods
to appear at the trial — it was conceded that
the case was decided on Lockwood 's argu-
ment for the defense. He spoke for nine
hours, devoting his efforts largely to de-
nunciation of a state of society that per-
mitted the employment of men who were
believed to have personal influence with
jurors to aid in a government prosecution
and inveighing against "the clique that had
contributed money to secure a conviction."
The jury returned a verdict of acquittal,
and Lockwood "s fame was established. A
history of the case was published in pamph-
let form, with Lockwood 's speech in full,
and widely circulated. Business now be-
came prosperous, but he was a natural
gambler. He made one sane investment in
the purchase of 320 acres of prairie land
northwest of Lafayette, in White County;
but other speculations were disastrous, and
left him overwhelmed with debt. In 1842
he deposited what funds he could collect
for the benefit of his creditors, and disap-
peared. From time to time reports were
heard from him, of his studying civil law
INDIANA AND INDIANANS
2267
in the City of Mexico, of reaching Vera
Cruz with $2, which he staked at monte
and won $50, with which he paid his pas-
sage to New Orleans, of his being reduced
to manual labor at that place, and his en-
listing in the army to secure a bounty of
$20 with which to redeem his trunk, that
was held for a board bill. The enlistment
at least was a fact, and he was ordered to
join the troops in Arkansas. On learning
of this, his old friend Hannegan, who was
influential politically, posted off to Wash-
ington, secured an order from President
Tyler for his discharge, and forwarded it
to Lockwood with $100 and an earnest en-
treaty to come back to his friends. He
returned to Lafayette to tind that his White
County land had increased largely in value.
He sold it, paid his debts, and was getting
along well until the California excitement
struck the country. In 1849, with seven-
teen others, he started to California by way
of Cape Horn, and came near dying of
scurvy on the passage. At San Francisco
he found employment for a time as clerk
in a law office, serving also as janitor, and
losing most of his small wages in gambling.
An old friend offered him a case, and he
embarked in practice, and won. Acciden-
tally he met the senior partner of the big
firm of Palmer, Cook & Co., who employed
him in an important case. He won it, and
established his reputation on the Coast. He
made money: and the more he made the
more he gambled.
In 1853 he announced his intention to
go to Australia. Friends tried to dissuade
him, but in vain. Just before his ship
sailed one of them asked him if he had
any money, and he coolly tos.sed his last
coin into the bay, with the remark that he
would start free. Arrived at Sydney, he
started on foot on the overland journey to
^Melbourne, some 700 miles away. On get-
ting there he found that the laws of the
Colony prevented anyone from practicing
law until he had been a resident for seven
years. He remained for more than a year,
"finding employment first as bookkeeper in
a mercantile house, then as clerk in a law
office, and finally as a sheep herder. In
1854 he made his way hack to California,
apparently a changed man. To a friend
he said : "I know you thought I was crazy,
but I was not. It was the sanest act of
mv life, for I felt that I must do some
great penance for my sins and my follies.
I wanted to put a gulf between me and
the past." He at once resumed practice,
and with great success. Among other em-
ployments he was called into the celebrated
j.\Iariposa laud case by John C. Fremont.
Inis was based on a Spanish land grant of
"ten square leagues" in the Sierra Nevada
^lountains, which had been purchased by
Fremont. The local courts had rejected
the claim, but the Supreme Court of the
United States had reversed the decision,
and affirmed Fremont's title. The govern-
ment's representatives were now taking an
appeal from the further proceedings of the
lower court, and Lockwood was sent to
Washington to oppose it. Conti'ary to the
usual method, the decision in this case
( U. S. vs. Fremont, 18 Howard, p. 30) does
not mention the names of the attorneys,
but in the list of admissions to the bar, pre-
fixed to the report is the name of Rufus A.
Lockwood, of California. His opposition
to the appeal was based on two grounds, a
failure to comply with the court's rules of
procedure, and the claim that as the pro-
ceedings involved nothing new, it was in
reality an appeal from the former decision
of the Supreme Court. Tradition says that
Lockwood spoke for two hours on the law
involved, and nothing but the law, receiv-
ing the close attention of the court, and that
one of the justices said: "That man is
the equal of the best lavyyers in the United
States." The court dismissed the appeal,
and Fremont's title was established. It is
said that Lockwood received a fee of $100,-
000 "in this case. In 1857, before it was
fully disposed of, he started East on busi-
ness, accompanied by his wife and child.
They went by the Isthmus, and left Aspin-
wall on the ill-fated ship "Central Amer-
ica." Off the Carolina coast they encoun-
tered a terrific storm, and the vessel sprung
a leak. Lockwood joined the crew, and
worked at the pumps until satisfied that
the ease was hopeless. Then he helped
get his wife and child into a boat, which
was saved, refusing to join them for fear
of overloading it. Then he went into bis
cabin, locked the door, and went down with
the ship.
CoRTL.vND V.\N Camp. President of the
Van Camp Hardware & Iron Company, also
chairman of the board of directors of the
Van Camp Packing Company and the Van
(Camp Products Company, Cortland Van
Camp stands forth unmistakably as one of
the representative business men and influ-
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eutial citizens of Indianapolis, which has
been his home from his boyhood days, and
to whose commercial and civic advancement
he has contributed in liberal measure
through his well directed business enter-
prises and his loyalty and liberality as a
citizen.
He is a scion of one of the old and hon-
ored families of America, and, as the name
implies, he is a representative of that
sturdy Holland Dutch stock so admirably
described by Washington Irving in his
"Knickerbocker's New York." The orig-
inal orthography of the name was Van
Capen, and the family was one of ancient
lineage in the Netherlands, whence came
the original progenitors in America, set-
tling in New York and New Jersey in the
seventeenth century. The prefix "Van"
indicates the patrician status of the family
in Holland. To those familiar with the
liistory of New Amsterdam, the quaint
Dutch village which was the nucleus of our
national metropolis, there comes at the
mention of these sterling old names a men-
tal picture in which sturdy figures seem
to leap forth from the midst of centuries,
instinct with hearty, vigorous life, and rep-
resentative of stalwart Christianity and
sovereign integrity of character. The Van
Camps were aggressive and liberty-loving,
and their names are found enrolled as pa-
triot soldiers in the Continental line during
the War of the Revolution. The name has
ever stood symbolical of courage, fortitude
and indomitable energy, and these sterling
attributes have been significantly mani-
fested in the career of Cortland Van Camp,
who lias wTought well under conditions al-
most incomparably different from those
that compassed his early ancestors in
America.
Records extant show that Charles Van
Camp, whose father had been a captain of
volunteers in the War of the Revolution,
came from Trenton, New Jersey, to the
Territory of Indiana as early as 1804. He
was among the first permanent settlers of
the present County of Dearborn, and there
he married Mary Halstead, daughter of
James Halstead, who had brought his fam-
ilv overland from New York and settled at
North Bend, Ohio. On Christmas day of
the year 1817 there was born to Charles
and Mary (Halstead) Van Camp a son,
to whom was ffiven the name of Gilbert C.
Van Camp. He was reared under the con-
ditions obtaining in the early pioneer epoch.
and concerning him the following pertinent
statements have been written: "He pos-
sessed the very best traits for meeting suc-
cessfully the difficult conditions of a new
and undeveloped country. Economical, in-
dustrious and resourceful, he shaped to his
own will the possibilities about him." He
married Miss Hester Jane Raymond, whose
birth occurred July 19, 1828", in the State
of New York, Westchester County, and
whose parents were early settlers of Frank-
lin County, Indiana, which was her home
at the time of her marriage. In that county
Gilbert C. Van Camp continued to r&side,
devoting his attention principally to milling
and merchandising, until 1853, when he
removed with his family to Greensburg, In-
diana, continuing there until 1860, when
he moved to Indianapolis, with whose busi-
ness and civic life he became prominently
identified. His life was one of signal use-
fulness and honor and he stood exponent
of the highest type of loyal citizenship.
Hp continued to reside in Indianapolis un-
til his death, which occurred April 4, 1900.
The mother died at Indianapolis in 1912,
aged over eighty-four years. Of their chil-
dren three sons and two daughters are now
living.
Cortland Van Camp, the subject of this
article, was born in Franklin County, In-
diana, May 25, 1852, and was about eight
years of age at the time of the family re-
moval to Indianapolis, where he was reared
to manhood and where he has continued to
reside during the long intervening years,
marked by worthy accomplishment and con-
secutive progress as one of the world 's ster-
ling workers. In boyhood he attended the
public and private schools of Indianapolis,
and also pursued a course in a business col-
lege and had private instructions. His
first position was bookkeeper for a commis-
sion merchant, but he soon relinquished his
position to take un an independent business
career that has been marked by hard work,
discrimination and inflexible integrity of
purpose. In 1869, when but seventeen
years of age, Mr. Van Camp formed a part-
nership with his father and engaged in the
fruit and general commission Inisiness. In
1876, after having been identified with this
line of enterprise for a period of about
seven vears, Cortland Van Camp retired
from the same, having determined to seek
a field of business operations offering wider
opportunities and less hazard than the com-
mission trade, which involves the handling
INDIANA AND INDIANANS
2269
of perishable products. Upon mature re-
flection he decided upon the hardware busi-
ness as opening encouraging avenues for
the accomplishment of desired results, al-
though he had no intimate knowledge of the
details of the same as a branch of trade.
In June, 1876, he purchased the business
of a wholesale hardware house in Indian-
apolis. Upon entering this new field of
enterprise Mr. Van Camp found that new
methods were demanded to insure the ef-
fective and profitable opei-ation of the busi-
ness. His plans were quickly and wisely
formulated, and within a comparatively
short time he had placed the business upon
a substantial basis. Satiety of accomplish-
ment has never been in evidence at any
point in his business career, and thus we
find that he soon found means for expand-
ing the scope of his enterprise. This was
done by the consolidation of his business
with another iron establishment. This con-
solidation was accomplistied in 1876 and in
1881 the business was incorporated under
the title of the Hanson-Van Camp Com-
pany. In 1886 Mr. Hanson withdrew and
tliereupon a new corporation was formed,
under the present title of the Van Camp
Hardware & Iron Company, of which cor-
poration Mr. Van Camp lias been president
from the beginning. The volume of trade
was doubled within the three following
years and the busiue-ss of the company has
continued to show a steady and substantial
increase, so that the concern now ranks
as one of the first of the kind in the West.
The house does a wholesale business and is
one of the largest jobbing houses in the
country. Since January, 1899, Mr. Van
Camp has given the major portion of his
attention to the supervision of this large
and important business, of which he is the
chief executive officer.
Meanwhile he achieved an equally
notable business success. In 1882 Mr. Van
Camp, with his father, organized the Van
Camp Packing Company, which b.y good
management has developed into one of the
icadina- packing companies of the country.
He remained with this enterprise until
1900. Twelve vears later he again became
interested in this business, reorganized it,
holding the office of president, and is now
chairman of the board of directors.
.Mr. Van Camp is not the type of man
to vaunt his own success or accomplish-
ment, and in view of this fact it is the
more gratifying to offer the following esti-
mate paid him by a prominent banker and
influential citizen of Indianapolis, who
said : "I have known Mr. Van Camp inti-
mately throughout his business career and
consider him a born merchant and finan-
cier. His is the leading hardware and iron
house in the state, and there are but few
larger in the West. The concern is very
aggressive and is constantly extending its
trade into new territory. Mr. Van Camp
is the man who deserves the credit for
building up the business and putting it on
its present sound financial footing. In my
opinion this has required greater ability
and more energy and persistence, in an in-
land city like Indianapolis, than would be
needed in a city such as St. Louis or Chi-
cago. Though of a very retiring disposi-
tion, Mr. Van Camp is strong and self-
reliant in meeting the manifold problems
of business life."
A man of broad mental horizon and of
most practical ideas, ^Ir. Van Camp has
been significantl.y liberal and public-
spirited as a citizen, and his infiuence and
capitalistic support have been given to nu-
merous enterprises and measures aside
from the splendid institution which he has
built up in his chosen field. Perhaps one
of the most important and far-reaching of
his ventures was when he became one of
the organizers of the Indianapolis Southern
Railroad Company, a road giving Indian-
apolis a through-route to the South. In-
dianapolis had long been waiting a direct
road to the coal fields of the state. Sev-
eral efforts had been made to enlist the
aid of the city in the project but without
success. It thus became necessary for pri-
vate individuals to risk capital and devote
time for the success of such an enterprise.
Mr. Van Camp with three others undertook
the building of the road, shouldering the
entire responsibility and without soliciting
the sale of stock to their friends or to indi-
viduals living along the right of way. Prior
to its completion the road was purchased
In- the Illinois Central Railroad Company
and was then completed to Effingham, Illi-
nois, there connecting with the main line.
Thus through the eft'orts of ^Ir. Van Camp
"and his associates Indianapolis secured a
railroad connecting the citv direct with the
coal fields and with the Illinois Central the
Citv of New Orleans, the South and the
gulf ports. The road was opened for pas-
senger traffic December 17, 1906, and is
practically the only steam railroad com-
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pletecl running into or from Indianapolis
since 18»b. 'inis lias added materially to
tne precedence of the city as a railroad
and aistributing center wliose commercial
facilities are oi tlie highest grade. Mr.
Van Camp was not merely a figurehead, as
is often the ease in sucn enterprise, but
was an important factor in financing and
making the enterprise successful. Historyi
records final success, and much good there-
by has come to Indianapolis and contiguous
territory. He has contributed in many
ways to the industrial, commercial and
civic progress of the capital city, and no
citizen is more loyal to its interest.
One who has had the power to achieve so
noteworthy success cannot fail to have defi-
nite conviction in regard to matters of
public polity, and thus Mr. Van Camp is
found arrayed as a stanch advocate of
the principles and stands sponsor for the
best in civic development. His revereui^e
for the spiritual verities represented by the
Christian religion is of the most insistent
and definite type, and both he and his wife
are zealous members of the Second Pres-
byterian Church, in which he has served
as deacon and trustee and is an elder at
the present time. He is a member of the
University, Columbia and Country clubs,
the Chamber of Commerce, and the Board
of Trade. He is a Thirty-second degree
Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite Mason and
a member of the Mystic Shrine.
Concerning the personality of the man
no better estimate could be asked than that
given by one who has known him thor-
oughly as a citizen and as a man among
men : ' ' He is nobly generous, giving
cheerfully and abundantly to every worthy
philanthropy, but always in a quiet way,
shrinking from all ostentation and display.
He may be termed a silent worker, letting
not his left hand know what his right hand
doeth, and true as steel to whatever cause
he may espouse. I have never known a
man in whom there is so little of the ego
as in Cortland Van Camp."
On May 28, 1876, was solemnized the
marriage of Mr. Van Camp to Miss Fan-
nie A. Patterson, daughter of Samuel J.
Patterson, who was a representative citizen
of Indianapolis until the time of his death.
Of the five children of this union three are
living. Raymond Patterson Van Camp,
the eldest son, was educated in the Michi-
gan Military Academy, at Orchard Lake,
and at the first call for troops upon the in-
ception of the Spanish-American War he
promptly tendered his services, enlisting in
liattery A, Twenty-seventh Indiana Volun-
teers, and remaining -in service with his
command until the same was mustered out.
He is now a vice president of the Van
Camp Hardware & Iron Company at In-
dianapolis. Ella D., the next in order of
birth, is now the wife of John T. Martin-
dale. Samuel Gilbert, the second son, is a,
vice president and general manager of- the
Van Camp Hardware & Iron Company.
Cortland Malott died in 1909. The home
of Mr. Van Camp is the handsome resi-
dence known as 1354 North Delaware
Street.
John T. Wildee wa.s born in Hunters
Village, Greene County, New York, Jan-
uary 31, 1830. During seven years of his
early life he served an apprenticeship at
the iron business, and later he built and
operated general machine and millwright's
works until he entered the Civil war as a
soldier. During that struggle he made a
gallant and conspicuous record and wa.s
brevetted a brigadier-general, and a still
further honor was conferred upon him
when a brigade, Wilder 's Lightning Bri-
gade, was named in his honor.
In 1867 General Wilder organized the
Roane Iron Works, also built and operated
two blast furnaces at Rockwood, Tennes-
see, the first in the South, and was after-
ward active in mineral development of
Tennessee. The death of General Wilder
occurred at Jacksonville, Florida, October
20, 1917.
Henry Wright Marsh.vll. The career
of Henry Wright Marshall of Lafayette is
marked by efficiency and sincerity. He has
not only known how to bring about effi-
ciency and inaugurate improvements in
business methods, but has had the courage
of his convictions and could not be swerved
from his purpose once he made up his mind
upon a certain course. The years have
brought him honors and wealth, but had
material prosperity and proper recognition
been denied, there is no doubt but that he
would have acted exactly as he has, for
]\rr. Marshall is conscientious as well as
able. He was born near Springfield, Ohio,
January 29. 1865, a son of S. H. and Sarah
(Wright) Marshall, the former of whom is
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2271
now living at Montmoreuci, Indiana, aged
eigiity-niue years, but the latter is de-
ceased.
Alter completing the Montniorenci High
School, and the Union Business College of
Lafayette, Henry Wright Marshall entered
the printing and wholesale stationery house
of John Rosser & Company of Lafayette,
where he acquired a knowleage of the print-
ing business. Six years ago Mr. Marshall
purchased The Lafayette Journal and has
made this newspaper one of the most force-
ful in the state. While attending to the
duties pertaining to the ownership of a
newspaper of this importance, Mr. Marshall
has become a well known figure in business
circles, and is vice president of the Public
Utilities Company of Evausville, Indiana,
which furnishes the street railway, interur-
ban, gas and electric service for this sec-
tion. Believing in the importance and
value of agriculture, Mr. .Marshall is largely
and intelligently interested in farming.
Politically he is a republican, and has
represented his district as the successful
candidate of his party to the Indiana State
Assembly during the sessions of 1899, 1901
and 1903, and was speaker of the House
in 1903. His fraternal connections are with
the" Masons, he rising in that order to the
Thirty-second degree, and he is also a
Shriner; and belongs to the Elks and
Knights of Pj-thias. Socially Mr. Marshall
belongs to the Cohmibia Club of Indianap-
olis and the Country, Lincoln and Fayette
clubs of Lafayette, and Country Club of
Evausville.
On February IS, 1891, Mr. Marshall was
united in marriage with Laura Van Natta,
a daughter of Aaron Van Natta. Mrs.
Marshall was educated at De Pauw and
Purdue ITniversities and is a lady of unusu-
al mentality. Mr. and Mrs. Marshall have
one son, Henry W. Marshall, Jr., a grad-
uate of Purdue University, who married
Helen Bromm of Evausville, Indiana. Mr.
Marshall and his family are connected with
Trinitj' Methodist Episcopal Church of La-
fayette, Indiana, and have been for many
years.
While in the a.ssembly of his state Mr.
Mar.shall distinguished himself in a number
of ways, and through his instrumentality
some exceedingly important legislation was
secured. He has been firm and loyal in his
support of his party both as an individual
and through the columns of his newspaper,
and his value to his community and state
cannot be easily overestimated.
• Stephen Strattan is an Indiana man
whose home and business headquarters for
several years have been in Chicago. Mr.
Strattan belongs to Richmond, where for a
number of years he was connected with the
machinery manufacturing industries of
that city, and his chief interest has been
and is in the manufacture of agricultural
machinery and in finance.
He was born at Richmond, December 8,
1868, a son of Stephen S. and Matilda (El-
derkin) Sti-attan. He was educated in the
public schools of his native city, and is a
graduate of DePauw University, taking the
A. B. degree in 1891, and his degree Master
of Arts in 1891. After leaving college he
entered Gaar, Scott & Company of Rich-
mond, was paymaster of the company and
later secretary and sales manager until
1911. lu 1911 this company was merged
with the M. Rumely Company, and Mr.
Strattan was secretary of the latter until
he resigned, in September, 1912.
Since October, 1912, Mr. Strattan has
been president of the Agricultural Credit
Company, which in 1918 was reorganized
as the Commercial Acceptance Trust, of
which he is the executive head. He has
been a director of the Advance-Rumely
Company, manufacturers of threshing ma-
chinery, tractors and gas engines, since
1916, and is a director in a number of other
corporations. For ten years he was a di-
rector of the Second National Bank of
Richmond.
While living in Richmond Mr. Stratton
served as president of the school board for
ten years. He is a stand-pat republican, is
a member of the University Club, the Mid-
lothian Country Club aiid the Mid-Day
Club, all of Chicago, and in religious afSlia-
lion is an Episcopalian.
May 4, 1892, at Richmond, he married
Ruby Gaar, her father being Abram Gaar,
founder of Gaar, Scott & Company. Mr.
Strattan has a son, Abram Gaar Strattan,
who is a first lieutenant in the National
army. During the war he was an aerial
observer, and in 1919 was assigned to duty
with the United States Pood Administra-
tion.
Ji'DGE Samuel C. Stimson, former judge
of the Superior Court of Vigo County,
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has diguitied his forty years of service in
the legal profession by maoiy distinguished
services both as a practicing lawyer and as
a judge and leading citizen.
Judge Stimson was born at Noblesville,
Indiana, May 9, 1846, son of Kev. William
N. and Mary Wilson (Johnson) Stimson.
He was only two years of age when his
mother, a native of Cincinnati, died in IB-IS.
'Ihe father, Rev. Mr. Stimson, who was
born in Worcester, New York, gave his life
to Christian work as a home missionary and
minister of the Presbyterian Church. He
was one of the pioneer Presbyterian mis-
sionaries in Indiana, beginning his work
with the establishment of a mission at
Noblesville in 1835. He later had charges
at Franklin, Thorntowii, Lebanon and
other Indiana towns, and in 1888 removed
to Portland, Oregon, where he died in 1903,
at the age of ninety-six.
A minister's son usually spends his
youth in more than one locality and Judge
Stimson 's early career was no exception to
the rule. He finished his education at
Wabash College, and later was granted an
honorary degree by that institution and
was elected one of its trustees. He studied
law at the University of Michigan, where
he was graduated LL. B. in 1872. He had
begun the study of law while teaching in a
seminary at Crawfordsville, and was also a
student in the offices of Richard Dunnegan
and Samuel Royse at Terre Haute. After
his admission to the bar in 1872 he was
associated for ten years with his former
perceptor, ]\Ir. Dunnegan, and had various
other partners during his active member-
ship in the bar. On November 1, 1897,-
Judge Stimson was appointed to fill a va-
cancy on the bench of the Superior Court
and was regularly elected to the office in
1898 and again in 1902. For ten years he
upheld the best traditions of the Indiana
judiciary, and his long sem'ice on the bench
is one of the most honorable parts of his
personal carper.
Judge Stimson has long been a member
of the Indiana Bar Association and the
American Bar Association. He was a dele-
gate to the latter association's convention
at Indianapolis.
Judge Stimson first married in 1873 Miss
Maggie C. Allen, daughter of Rev. A. C.
Allen of Indianapolis, who was chaplain
in General Beniamin Harrison's regiment
during the Civil War. Rev. Mr. Allen also
had the honor of being the first graduate
of Wabash College. Mrs. Stimson died iu
1893, after twenty years of married com-
panionship, leaving one son, James Cam-
eron Stimson. Later Judge Stimson mar-
ried Stella C. Courtright, daughter of Rev.
Calvin Courtright, a Presbyterian minis-
ter. Judge and Mrs. Stimson have two
children, Margaret Elizabeth and Stuart
Courtright.
Stella Courtright Stimson. Among
those Indiana women who not only possess
but have' made use of their individual tal-
ents and accouiplishments for doing good
beyond the immediate circles of their home
and intimate friendship, Mrs. Stella
Courtright Stimson of Terre Haute has
well earned a high place. Mrs. Stimson
is the wife of Judge S. C. Stimson, one
of the oldest and most prominent members
of the Terre Haute bar.
One quite fairly familiar with her ex-
pei'ience and her work wrote of Mrs. Stim-
son a few years ago the following brief
sketch :
"She was the oldest of a large family
of children born to a Presbyterian clergy-
man holding a charge in a small town. Mrs.
Stimson, if she were a man, might be spoken
of as a live wire. In her little body, which
looks frail, there is reserve force of energy
simply amazing to her friends. She was
reared in a deeply religious as well as in-
tellectual atmosphere. Her father was a
scholar, determined that his children
should have advantages of education. Mrs.
Stimson was sent to Wellesley College. The
self-denials she practiced there might ap-
pall an ordinary girl. Mrs. Stdmson's
diversion is in study. Some of her friends
say this is her only dissipation.
"She began teaching when very young.
After a brief married life she found herself
a widow with a little son dependent upon
her own exertions for a livelihood. She
again took up teaching, in which profession
she took delight, finding it an intellectual
stimulus. She taught Latin and mathemat-
ics. She is conversant with French, Ger-
man and Spanish. While teaching in this
city at Coates College she married Judge
Stimson and took up domestic duties. She
is an excellent housekeeper, doing much of
tlio aofual work."
With a deep and vital interest aroused
in educational affairs by her experience as
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2273
a teacher, ilrs. Stimsoii has found time
amid the cares and respousibilities of do-
mestic life to arouse public opinion to new
needs and conditions and to lend herself
as a practical force in the woi-king out of
many admii-able programs of social and
civic service. Mrs. Stimson has the distinc-
tion of being the lirst woman of Terra
Haute to be elected a member of the school
board, an office she took hold of in January,
1912. She has for years made a close study
of the fundamental problems underlying
modern education, and worked with untir-
ing zeal for vocational education as a part
of Indiana's school system. JShe was a
leader in her home city in advocating the
teaching of sex hygiene in the public
schools, and watched successfully in the
State House every detail of the enactmeut
of the Rule Abatement Bill in thee General
Assembly of 1915.
For a number of years she has conducted
a weekly Bible class at the Young
Women's Christian Association. She has
appeared in many towns and cities before
various organizatons to make public ad-
tlresses, including the Women's Union La-
liel League, the Retail Clerks' Union, the
Women's Christian Temperance Union and
the Federation of Clubs.
Mrs. Stimsoii is a scholar and critic, is
deeply versed in modern as well as clas-
sical literature, and has done much to in-
terpret and extend the knowledge of stand-
ard literature among the circles in which
she moves.
^lany articles on purely literary matters
as well as on topics of general social and
economic concern have appeared under her
pen in local papers and magazines of na-
tional character. Mrs. StinLSon brings to
her literary work the advantages of deep
culture supplemented by extensive travel.
She had been abroad, twice in Rome as well
as in other centers of art and culture in
modern Europe.
Of a woman who had spent so many
years in intimate relationship with the pub-
lic life and affairs of her home community
and state it is obviously impossible to de-
scribe her activities in detail. Of her varied
public services doubtless she takes the
greatest .satisfaction in the assistance she
lent in cleaning up her home city of Terre
Haute and eliminating the corrupt political
conditions which gave that city its undesir-
able fame. It was on the evidence presented
by Mrs. Stiinson and her co-workers that the
ivoberts gang was convicted by the i^'ederal
courts. iN ot long ago tliere appeared a para-
graph in the Liuerary Digcsi with reterence
10 Jirs. Stimson's work. It is as follows:
"Mrs. Stimson stood all day as watcher in
one of the toughest disti-icts in Terre
Haute. She saw repeaters who had changed
their clothing come back and vote, and
said that men were brought up to vote who
did not know the names under which they
were to vote. She had kept records of re-
peating on her poU book and a long list of
tliose who voted twice. The evidence shown
by this poll book was the principal evidence
that sent the gang to prison. ' '
As a member of the Legislative Commit-
tee of the Federation of Clubs Mrs. Stim-
son spent much time at the State House
during the Assembly of 1913, working for
the measures in which the club women were
interested, notably the housing or tenement
bill. In 1915 she was acting president as
well as chairman of the Steering Commit-
tee of the Legislative Council of Indiana
Women, representing the federated organ-
ization of the Women's Christian Temper-
ance Union, Federation of Clubs, Mothers
Congress, Franchise League, Indiana Con-
sumers' League, Women's Press Club,
Association of Collegiate Alumnae and
Women's Relief Corps. She was chairman
of the Steering Committee of the Council
in 1917 when it secured the passage of
the suffrage bill and helped in the enact-
ment of the Constitutional Convention and
Prohibition measures. The council main-
tained an office in the State House, and
from there conducted a publicity and edu-
cational campaign among the women of the
state. When all the credits have been prop-
erly apportioned it will doubtless be found
that Mrs. Stimsoii is deserving of much
praise for the fact that Indiana was aligned
in the prohibition column of states. The
Chicago Tribune referred to her at one time
as the state's "brainiest woman."
In the capacity of a Florence Crittentou
hoard member, she has always been much
interested in the problem of the unfortu-
nate and erring girl, and hence in the
elimination of the dens of vice of her home
town.
For all this varied work and service Mrs.
Stimson has doubtless found the greatest
satisfaction in her own conscience, but it is
only natural that she should be gi-atified by
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the appreciation that has been paid her for
her eitorts in behalf of clean government,
woman suffrage and prohibition by the
press of the United States fpom coast to
coast.
Joseph Gregory Elder, who died Decem-
ber 2, 1918, was one of the oldest active
business men of Terre Haute, where he
lived forty-seven years, with a record of
continuous advancement and increasing
achievement. During some of the first
years of his residence in this city he worked
as a humble mechanic. Mr. Elder was
president of the Citizens Savings & Loan
Association of Terre Haute, one of the
largest organizations of its kind in point
of assets in the State of Indiana.
He had an interesting family history.
He was born on a farm in Bedford County,
Pennsylvania, February 22, 1852. Aside
from his home city of Terre Haute no place
in the world had more associations for Mr.
Elder than that old farm on which he was
born and on which his father and grand-
father also first saw the light of day, and
a part of the soil of which is restricted as
the burial place of his great-grandfather,
grandfather and father. The farm has
been in the possession of the Elder family
for 127 years and is now owned by a mem-
ber of the fourth generation. Its original
purchaser was the great-gi-andfather, Wil-
liam Elder, a native of Scotland who went
to Pennsylvania in colonial times. He was
one of three brothers to emigrate, and one
of them settled in Michigan and another
in Ohio. William Elder acquired the 190
acres of land when it was an uncleared
wilderness, and it is due to the successive
labors of the Elder family that it now con-
stitutes a model farm with all the modern
improvements and one of the most valuable
individual estates in Bedford County. On
this land was boi'n the grandfather, James
Elder, and he spent his entire life there.
John Elder, father of Joseph G., was born
on the old homestead, and died there when
' his son Joseph was eighteen months of age.
The mother of Joseph G. Elder, Louisa
Vickroy Elder, was a native of the same
section of Pennsylvania, where her people
were pioneers. .Joseph G. Elder was the
sixth in a family of seven children. In
1865, when he was thirteen years of age,
he went with his mother to Cumberland,
Maryland, where he lived during his early
life in Pennsylvania.
In June, 1871, he came alone to Terre
Haute, and his mother soon afterward fol-
lowed him to this city and died at his home
in 1904, at the age of seventy-eight.
When Mr. Elder arrived in Terre Haute
his total possessions amounted to only 20
cents. With only this between him and
starvation he was not slow in connecting
himself with some work, and he found his
first employment in the James Hook plan-
ing mill at wages of $1.75 a day. He proved
an expert man in handling planing mill
machinery, and was given substantial in-
creases in salary, and continued with the
plant until it was burned in 1880. In the
meantime, in 1879, he had begun general
contracting on his own account, and he con-
tinued that business more or less actively
for a period of fifteen years. He had also
spent two years as manager of a farm in
Kansas for W. R. McKeen, of Terre Haute,
and for three years was superintendent of
the Terre Haute Street Railway Company,
until its motive power was changed to elec-
tricity.
In 1894 Mr. Elder entered the real estate
business with I. H. Ro.vse, and after six
years he took up the business on his own
account as a partner with John Foulkes.
In 1909 he organized the Elder & Trout
Company, a complete organization for han-
dling real estate, loans and insurance, and
the firm has handled some of the largest
real estate transactions in Western Indiana.
Mr. Elder became secretary of the Wa-
bash Savings, Loan & Building Association
in 1894, and that business was largely de-
veloped under his personal direction and
ability until it became the largest associa-
tion in Western Indiana and fourth in size
in the entire state. Its name has since
been changed to the Citizens Savings &
Loan Association, with Mr. Elder as presi-
dent. Through this association and through
his private business affairs Mr. Elder prob-
ably did as much as any other citizen to-
ward the upbuilding and development of
Terre Haute and vicinity.
He was a staunch republican and one of
the prominent members of the Knights of
Pythias in Indiana, serving on the board of
managers of the Knights of Pythias Build-
ing at Indianapolis. He was active in the
Terre Haute Chamber of Commerce and for
INDIANA AND INDIANANS
2275
forty-seven years was a member of the Cen-
tennial Metliodist Episcopal Church. On
.lauuary 20, 1888, he married Miss Mar-
garet M. Miller, whose father, Daniel Mil-
ler, was one of the early and highly re-
spected business men of Terre Haute.
Their one daughter, Mallie B. Miller, is
now the wife of John Lewis, and they reside
in Los Angeles, California.
Col. Charles Arthur Carlisle. In-
diana has a few rare men whom it is super-
fluous to mention in any publication of
contemporary biography. Their names and
personalities and most of their achieve-
ments need no index or cataloging in Who 's
Who. One of them is Colonel Carlisle of
South Bend. The following paragraphs
are not designed to honor him in his own
generation and state, but to perform the
duties of reference when these volumes are
prized as a record of the past.
His lineage is that of one of the oldest
and most ancient families of Great Britain.
All the way back to the time of the Norman
conquest genealogy deals only with sure
and authentic facts when the Carlisles are
concerned. Despite the variety of spell-
ings, all members of the familj' are of the
same extraction. The surname of Carliell
or Carlisle was unquestionably assumed
from the City of Carlisle, the capital of
Cumberland, England. This ancient city
was an important Roman town, destroyed
by the Danes in 875 A. D., rebuilt by Wil-
liam IL Mary Queen of Scots was im-
prisoned there in 1568. The word Carlisle,
or Carlile or Carlyle or Carliell, is defined
as from "Caer," city, and "Liel," "a
strong people."
The founder of the family was Sir Hil-
dred de Carliell, 1060 A. D., who lived and
died at Carlisle, England. He was a man
of great importance, receiving possessions
from successive monarchs and leaving his
honors and estates to posterity. How well
the family supported their dignity will be
seen from their holding so frequentlj^ the
high office of "Guarantees of Truces," be-
tween the two kingdoms, and of being so
honorably associated with the splendid ret-
inue of Margaret of Scotland on her mar-
riage with the Dauphin of France. Li the
different generations loyalty and patriotisiu
have been predominant virtues, and they
have contributed brave and valiant leaders
in war, upholders of civic righteousness,
strong and zealous churchmen, and many
distinguished names to the domain of art
and literature.
When England was invaded by Scotland,
Sir Hildred's oldest son. Sir William de
Carlisle, then head of the family, sold all
his lands and removed into Scotland, seat-
ing himself at Kinmount. Other members
of the family followed Bruce, the "Lion"
King of Scotland, settling themselves in
Annandale between 1170 and 1180, and
later we find the names of Bruce and Doug-
las, two of Scotland's noble leaders, inter-
woven in marriage with that of Carlisle.
Sir William Carlisle, the valiant supporter
of King Robert Bruce, was rewarded for
his loyalty and bravery by receiving in mar-
riage the hand of King Bruce 's favorite
niece, Lady Margaret, in 1329.
The names of John and Andrew followed
through the several branches of the orig-
inal Scotch branch of the families, and the
coat of arms is found to be the same in all.
John Carlisle, second surviving son of Wil-
liam, the son of Edward, third son of Lord
Carlisle of Torthorwald, who was raised
to the dignity of a peer by James III in
1470, — settled" in Virginia and married Miss
Fairfax, a niece of Thomas, Lord Fairfax,
iliss Fairfax's sister married Gen. George
Washington.
Robert Carlisle, also a lineal descendant
of Lord Carlisle, was the first to settle in
the north of Ireland during the planting of
Ulster and in 1611 was established in the
neighborhood of Newry in the County of
Down. Of this branch of the family came
Andrew Carlisle, the father of John Car-
lisle, the father of Meade Woodson Carlisle,
who was the father of Col. Charles Arthur
Carlisle.
Colonel Carlisle feels, as an American, a
special pride in those of his ancestors who
marched with the "Loyal Legion" down
through the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia
and over the mountains to the northwest
frontier, locating at Chillicothe, Ohio, then
an advanced military post and fort and
afterwards the first capital of the State
of Ohio.
Charles Arthur Carlisle was born at Chil-
licothe, Ross County, Ohio, May 4, 1864,
son of ^leade Woodson Clay and Emma
V. (Barr) Carlisle. He attended the pub-
lic schools of his native city, but to his
mother he gives all credit for her persever-
ing tutoring at home. In 1884, at the age
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INDIANA AND INDIANANS
of twenty, he was employed with the Ohio
State Journal at Columbus, and in 1886
entered the railroad service with the Nickel
Plate (N. Y. C. & St. L. R. R.) at Cleve-
land, beginning at the bottom but quickly
getting the recognition his talents and in-
dustry deserved, and by 1890 he was a
high oijficial in the manaagement of the
Ohio Central lines at Toledo.
September 17, 1891, at South Bend, Mr.
Carlisle married Miss Anne, only daughter
of Hon. and Mrs. Clem Studebaker. The
children bom to their happy union have
been : Anne, Mrs. Lafayette L. Porter ;
Charles Arthur, Jr. ; Kathryn : Woodson
S. ; Alice, who died June 9, 1901 ; Richard
M. ; and Eleanor.
Mr. Carlisle became a director of the
Studebaker Brothers Manufacturing Com-
pany and served as an officer of that cor-
poration for more than a quarter of a cen-
tury, and in like manner with the South
Bend Fuel & Gas Company and the South
Bend ^Malleable Iron Company he served
as a director.
He was president and helped organize
the Harrison Republican Club of St. Joseph
County. He was vice president and a mem-
ber of the executive committee and one of
the founders of the National Association of
Manufacturers, and if the will of that or-
ganization had been heeded he would doubt-
less have been a member of President Mc-
Kinley's cabinet as head of the new De-
partment of Commerce. For many years
he served as member of the executive com-
mittee of the Carriage Builders National
Association. He was at one time vice presi-
dent of the Scotch-Irish Society of Amer-
ica. He is a Knight Templar and thirty-
second degree Scottish Rite Mason and
Shriner.
He served four years on Governor
Mount's military staff and in like manner
under Governor Durbin. In speaking of
him Governor Durbin said: "Colonel
Charles Arthur Carlisle has won recogni-
tion throughout the state as one of the
most active, enterprising and successful
business men of Indiana, widely known not
onlv because of his connection with large
business enterprises but because of his
public spirit."
He was a personal friend of President
McKinley, and there was much correspond-
ence between the two. One cherished au-
tograph letter from that martyred states-
man contains the following : ' ' For your un-
seltishness I have nothing but the highest
praise. Mrs. McKinley says you must not
forget to send the children's pictures, and
with love for Mrs. Carlisle, we remain sin-
cerely your friends."
Colonel Carlisle might well be envied for
the friends he has made, who have admired
him for what he is, for what he has done,
and especially for the sincere spirit, evident
in every phase of his experience and char-
acter, in striving to serve constructively
and helpfully. Some of the notable men
who have directly expressed their apprecia-
tion of Colonel Carlisle 's services have been
the late Bishop John H. Vincent, Hon.
Charles W. Fairbanks, Hon. Albert J.
Beveridge and Judge Stevenson Burke of
Cleveland, and Hon. D. M. Parry, then
president of the National Association of
Maufacturers. Thomas A. Edison once
said : ' ' Carlisle is a typical American,
sanguine, pushing and bright; a man of
the 'Wooly West' where everybody hustles
and business is limited only by nervous
prostration."
Colonel Carlisle's grandparents, as Pres-
byterians, helped largely to build the First
Presbyterian Church at Chillicothe and
among the first in the new world, and em-
ployed as its pastor the grandfather of
Woodrow Wilson, now President of the
United States. Mr. Carlisle is a member
of St. Paul's Methodist Episcopal Church,
Memorial Church, of South Bend, and
places the church first among his interests.
He is also a member of the Young Men's
Christian Association, the Indiana Club,
the Chamber of Commerce, the Knife and
Fork Club, the Rotary Club, all of South
Bend ; the Columbia Club and Marion Club
of Indianapolis; the Chicago Club; the
American Academy of Political and Social
Science, the American Institute of Civics,
and various other organizations which in-
dicate his deep and thoroughgoing interest
in all problems affecting the local, state
and national welfare and progress.
In 1912 Mr. Carlisle was a republican
candidate for governor, and withdrew be-
fore the state convention in favor of his
friend Colonel Durbin. While absent from
home the Thirteenth Indiana District Con-
vention nominated him for Congress, and
he was drafted into service and made a
hard unsuccessful fight with the normal
strength of his following divided among
INDIANA AND INDIANANS
2277
the old-line republicans and the new pro-
gressives.
A peculiarly interesting and grateful
part of this record is that concerned with
the period of the World war, in whose vari-
ous causes Colonel Carlisle, ^Irs. Carlisle
and all the Carlisle children took an active
part, Colonel Carlisle serving as food ad-
ministrator of his community.
Mrs. Carlisle was selected by Governor
Goodrich to serve as the woman member
of the State Coiuicil of Defense for Indiana
and as chainnan of the Woman's Council
of all war activities in the state. Under
the leadership of Mrs. Carlisle each of the
ninety-two counties in the state was organ-
ized, and no greater efficiency of patriotic
co-operation is found in all the annals of
history than that developed by the loyal
women of Indiana. It was Mrs. Carlisle's
first effort in a state-wide organization, but
she never counted cost in time or funds to
co-operate in each county for the purpose
of giving all possible aid to the boys "with
the colors." The detailed work of this or-
ganization is now part of the essential his-
tory of Indiana in the World war.
Mrs. Anne Porter and Miss Kathryn Car-
lisle took up the Red Cross work, and the
lot fell to ^liss Kathryn to go to the front,
where she spent over a year on the fighting
lines in France. The Indiana Society of
Chicago in honoring Miss Kathryn spoke
with pride of the wonderful services ren-
dered by this brave "Hoosier Soldier Girl"
in charge of the American Red Cross Can-
teen Service, who was back ©f the firing
line and encouraged the troops just before
going into battle and was among the first
to greet them when they came out. She
was in Paris when the Germans made their
unsuccessful attacks.
Lieut. Woodson S. Carlisle, a student at
Yale College, and under draft age, offered
his services and entered the United States
Naval Reserves, beginning at the bottom
and coming out with the commission of
lieutenant (j. g.) won through loyal, de-
voted and consistent service. He was an
officer on the Agamemnon — formerly the
Kaiser Wilhelm II — one of the great trans-
ports interned by the American government
and used in carrying our troops overseas.
Charles A. Carlisle. Jr.. an efficiency en-
gineer, devoted his exceptional talents with
the Savage Arms Company at Utiea, New
York, where the government took over the
production of the Lewis Machine guns.
Charles W. Smith, lawyer, was born on
his father's farm in Washington Township,
Hendricks County, Indiana, on February
3, 1846. His father, Morgan Lewis Smith,
was a native of the State of New York, of
English descent, who in 1832 came to Indi-
ana and located on the land which was to
be his farm when the forest was removed.
In 1834, having made the beginnings of a
home, he went East and married Miss Mar-
garet Iliff, a native of Pennsylvania, of
Welsh descent, then living in New Jersey.
Charles was the sixth of their eight chil-
dren, the first four dj'ing in their infancy,
and he grew up on the farm, attending the
common schools of the vicinity and Dan-
ville Academy, at Danville, Indiana. He
then entered Asbury, now DePauw LTniver-
sity, for a collegiate education. The Civil
war was on, and young Smith had very
pronounced Union views, so in April, 1864,
he enlisted, for a term of 100 days in Com-
pany F of the 133rd Indiana Volunteer
Infantry. At the expiration of his term
he re-enlisted, and later was transferred to
a command in a regiment of colored troops.
At the close of the war he was mustered
out as first lieutenant and adjutant of the
109th United States Colored Infantry. He
returned to Asbury and finished his college
course, graduating in 1867. He had al-
ready decided to study law, and at once
went to Indianapolis and began reading
in the office of Barbour & Jacobs, Lucian
Barbour, the senior member of this firm,
Ijeing one of the foremost lawyers of In-
diana. He had been United States district
attorney under President Polk but had gone
over to the new-born republican party m
1854, and had been elected to Congress in
that year from the Indianapolis district.
Smith pursued his studies so vigorously
that he was enabled to graduate from the
Lidiana Law School in Indianapolis in
1868. He was admitted to the bar in the
i^ame year, and after managing an office
of his own for more than two years became
a member of his preceptor's firm, which
now took the name of Barbour, Jacobs &
Smith. He retained this relation for one
vear, and then withdrew to take the posi-
tion of special counsel for the Singer Manu-
facturing Company. After two years in
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this position he formed a partnership with
Roseoe Hawkins, which continued until
1877, when Mr. Smith became a member
of the firm of Duncan, Smith & Duncan.
Robert Duncan, the senior member of
this firm, w^s one of the pioneers of central
Indiana as a youth. He played with the
Indian boys before they were removed from
the state, and entered the office of the coun-
ty clerk of Marion County as deputy when
that office was first opened, in 1822. He
continued in that position until 1834, when
he was elected county clerk, and held that
office until 1850. He then entered the prac-
tice of law devoting himself chiefly to pro-
bate work. His son, John S. Duncan, the
junior member of the firm, had been ap-
pointed prosecuting attorney for Marion
County in 1867, when he was only twenty-
one years old, and held that office for three
years, winning his spurs in the trial of
Nancy Glem and others for "the Cold
Springs murders," one of the most notable
criminal eases ever known in Indiana. He
was twenty-three days older than Mr.
Smith, and they two were practically the
firm, the elder Duncan retiring from active
practice. This partnership continued until
the death of John Duncan, more than
thirty-eight years later. The firm was em-
ployed in nearly every notable criminal
case in Indiana during that period. What
is rather unusual, the civil practice was
even larger than its criminal practice, and
of as importanat a character. The member-
ship of the firm varied occasionally, John
R. Wilson, a brother-in-law of Mr. Duncan,
and one of the most accomplished of Indi-
ana lawyers, being a member for several
years, and later Henry H. Hornbrook, Mi\
Smith 's son-in-law, a lawyer of the highest
standing, and Albert P. Smith, ^Mr. Smith's
son, were members. After John Duncan's
death his place was taken by Judge Charles
Remster, and the firm is now Smith, Rem-
ster. Hornbrook & Smith.
Mr. Smith was married October 12, 18fi9,
to Miss Mary E. Preseton of Greencastle,
Indiana, and in addition to their son, Al-
bert D., they have three daughters: Mar-
garet, wife of Prof. Wilbur C. Abbott, of
the faculty of Yale ; Mary Grace, wife of
Mr. Hornbrook, and Kate' P., wife of S. P.
^linear, a prominent merchant of Greens-
burg. Indiana. While devoting his atten-
tion very closely to his profession, Mr.
Smith has had three other passions. He
has never lost his interest in Civil war af-
fairs, and is prominent in Grand Army and
Loyal Legion circles. In 1915 he prepared
a paper entitled "Life and Services of
Brevet Major General Robert S. Foster,"
which was published as No. 6 of Vol. 5, of
the Indiana Historical Society's Publica-
tions. He has been a regular attendant at
the weekly meetings of the Indianapolis
Literary Club, an institution of which near-
ly every really prominent man in Indian-
apolis in the last forty years has been a
member. He has for more than forty years
taught the Bible class in the Sunday school
of the Meridian Street Miethodist Episcopal
Church, of which he is one of the leading
members. Mr. Smith was a member of the
faculty of Indiana Law School 1895-8, and
lectured on "Evidence."
Luther Vinton Rice is a native of In-
diana, who in his professional career during
thirty years has become a recognized expert
and authority as a civil and mining engi-
neer.
Mr. Rice was bom on a farm four miles
southwest of Ladoga, Montgomery County,
Indiana, in 1861, son of Jasper and Sarah
Margaret (Gill) Rice. Most of his youth
was spent in the rural community where
he was born, with the exception of twelve
years when he resided with his parents in
Dallas County, Iowa. In 1883 he gradu-
ated from the Central Indiana Normal
School, and later entered Cornell Univer-
sity, where he prepared for his profession,
and from which he received his degree as
civil and mining engineer in 1889.
His first work in the engineering pro-
fession was with the late George S. Mori-
son, on a bridge over the Missouri river
at Nebraska City, Nebraska, and one over
the Mississippi river at St. Louis, and with
George W. G. Ferris as resident engineer
on a bridge over the Ohio river at Cincin-
nati. Later he became bridge engineer and
chief draftsman for the Pittsburg & Lake
Erie Railroad, after which he returned to
St. Louis to take up the construction of the
Union Station at St. Louis, where he was
made resident engineer. At the time this
was built it was the largest and costliest
railroad .station in the United States, and
it still remains one of the notable structures
of its kind. He left this work for a position
as construction engineer on the great Ferris
Wheel at the World's Columbian Exposi-
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2279
tion in Chicago in 1893. Mr. Rice not only
had charge ot the construction of this new
wonder of the world, but also had charge of
the operation of same, and during the four
montlis and ten days of its operation at the
World's Columbian Exposition over a mil-
lion and a half passengers were carried
safely without a single accident. Mr. Rice
afterward had charge of moving the Wheel
to the North Side of Chicago, and again to
St. Louis for the St. Louis Fair in 1904.
The president of the Ferris Wheel Com-
pany was Robert W. Hunt, of the tirm of
Robert W. Hunt & Company, with which
firm Mr. Rice has been associated for about
tweuty-tive years. This company is one of
the largest engineering organizations in the
United States, with headquarters iu Chi-
cago and branch offices in all of the prin-
cipal cities of the country. Mr. Rice has
charge of the civil engineering and mining
department of this firm, and in this position
has had charge of some large and respon-
sible development and construction opera-
tions, among other things the Leiter coal
mining property at Zeigler, Illinois, the
lowering of the tunnels iu the Chicago river,
the designing and construction of cement
plants at Fenton, IMichigan, Superior, Neb-
raska and St. liouis, Missouri, superintend-
ing the erection of many large buildings
in Chicago and several of the largest build-
ings in Indianapolis. He has also had
charge of the development and operation
of zinc and lead mines in Wisconsin for
the Field Mining & Milling Company and
the Galena Refining Company, and for the
Whitebird ^Mining Company, the Producers
Company, the Zinc-Lead Corporation, the
("hicago-Miami Lead & Zinc Company, and
the Pittsburg-Miami Lead & Zinc Company
in Oklahoma, and for the Embree Iron
Company and the Tennessee Zinc Com-
pany, Embreeville Tennesee. He has also
been engaged on the exploration of coal
properties in Canada for the British Col-
lieries Brazeau, Ltd., and coal mines in
northern British Columbia for the Grand
Trunk Railway, and the exploration of coal
properties in southwestern Indiana for the
Steel Corporation. He has also reported
upon a number of copper properties
throughout the west, and iron properties iu
jMinnesota. Michigan, Ontario, Tennessee,
Georgia, North Carolina and Missouri. He
has examined andi reported upon manga-
nese ores in several states" and upon clay
and phosphate deposits and stone and mar-
ble quarries in various parts of the United
States and Canada.
During 191b-19 Mr. Rice has been en-
gaged in the development of the largest
coal mining property in the State of Illi-
nois, near Carlinviile, Macoupin County.
This is a great project being carried out
by the Standard Oil Company of Indiana
as a fuel conservation measure. Mr. Rice's
experience has also included the appraisal
of various mines, railroads and other prop-
erties.
He is a member of the Western. Society
of Engineers and the American Institute of
Mining & Metallurgical Engineers.
Mr. Rice married an Indiana girl, Miss
Huldah Jane Neal, of Lebanon, Indiana,
daughter of Judge Stephen A. Neal, long
a prominent Indiana judge and lawyer.
F. T. Reed, secretary and treasurer of
the Guthrie-Thompson Company of Indi-
anapolis, was a teacher during his young
manhood in Jefferson County, afterward
entered public office and business, and has
been a well known resident of the capital
city for a qiiarter of a century. The Guth-
rie-Thompson Company, whose offices are
in the Lemcke Buildiug, is a corporation
capitalized at $375,000, whose special serv-
ice is the building of homes, or, as the com-
pany expresses it, ''builders of houses to
live in." Jlr. C. N. Thompson is president
of the company and W. A. Guthrie is vice
president.
Mr. Reed was born iu Switzerland Coun-
ty, Indiana, December 29, 1857, a son of
James K. and Hester M. (Rodgers) Reed.
His grandfather, Henry Reed, was a Penu-
sylvanian, moved to Virginia and Ken-
tucky, and was an early settler in southern
Indiana. James K. Reed was bom in Jef-
ferson County, and is still living there at
the advanced age of eighty-one. He had an
interesting service as a Union soldier. He
was in the Third Indiana Cavalry, in Com-
pany A, and was with his command three
and a half years. For a time the Third
Indiana Cavalry was with the Army of
the Potomac, and participated in twenty-
five battles and thirty skirmishes. The
regiment was at Antietam, the Wilderness,
Gettysburg and many other great battles.
One time James K. Reed was called upon
by his captain to inspect a suspicious dwell-
ing house across the river. He rode over ,
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only to find the house filled with Confed-
erates, who compelled him to surrender.
While he was being marched to a prison
camp he managed to make his escape, and
subsequently returned home to nurse a
wound received in a shell explosion. It
happened that his captain was also home
on a furlough. His captain supposed that
he had been killed, and their meeting
ibrought about an expression of great sur-
prise and then congratulation. James K.
Reed was dicharged in 1864 and since then
has been a farmer. He is a republican, a
Methodist, and has long been prominent
in Jefferson County, where he served two
terms as county commissioner. He is affili-
ated with Moores Hill Lodge of Masons.
Mr. F. T. Reed was one of a family of
four daughters and two sons. He was edu-
cated in the public schools of Jefferson
County and attended Moores Hill Acade-
my. As a teacher his work in Jefferson
County occupied him most of the time for
thirteen years. He also served four years
as assistant in the county treasurer's office.
On coming to Indianapolis in 1893 Mr.
Reed became connected with the Southern
Surety Company as auditor, and he held
that position seven years. Since 1910 he
has been secretary-treasurer of the Guth-
rie-Thompson Company. V^arious other
business enterprises have had his co-opera-
tion and association in Indianapolis.
Mr. Reed is affiliated with North Port
Lodge of Masons, and with Lodge No. 56
of the Knights of Pythias. Outside of
home and business his chief interest has
been church and Sunday school. Since
early youth he has been a close student of
the Bible and for many years has conducted
a large adult class in the Sunday school.
He is an active member of both the church
and Sunday school of the West Side Meth-
odist Church. Mr. Reed married for his
first wife Miss Mars- Paris, who died in
1902, the mother of two sons: James R.,
born September 30, 1893, and Robert T.,
born May 1, 1900. In October, 1905, Mr.
Reed married Nerina Whitehall.
Francis Barbour Wynn, M. D. From
the elevated plane of public and profes-
sional service, down through the fields of
its usefulness to the community and into
the privacy of his family circle, the track
of the life of Dr. Francis Barbour Wynn
has been characterized by a constant and
consistent uprightness born of high prin-
ciples. His professional career has been
marked by continuous action, the honors
which he has been tendered have been
numerous and eminent, his achievements
and accomplishments have given him dis-'
tinction among the most prominent of
Indiana's sons, and as a citizen he has
ever publicly displayed his patriotism.
Doctor Wynn was" born May 28, 1860, at
Springfield, Indiana, a son of James Mar-
cellus and ilargaret (Barbour) Wynn, and
traces his ancestry in America back to the
arrival in this country of John Wynn, in
1818. John Wynn, eldest Son of James
and Isabella Wynn, was born at Stokesley,
England, December 5, 1797, and was edu-
cated for a navigator, having received a
very thorough training in astronomy and
higher mathematics. In the year 1818, at
the age of twenty-one, he came to America,
and after long journeyings by stage, afoot
and by flat-boat, reached the new settle-
ment at Brookville, Indiana. His precious
navigating and surveying instruments and
library (which was a wonder to the pioneer
region) were pawned at Cincinnati to meet
his final expenses in getting settled and it
was one of the happiest moments of his life
when he had made enough money to re-
deem them. In the new country his serv-
ices were at once in demand as surveyor
and teacher, and many who afterwards
reached national distinction were his pri-
vate pupils, amongs them ex-Postmaster
General Tyner. John Wynn married
Rachel Goudie, and to them were born a
large family of children, among them
James Marcellus Wynn, father of Doctor
Wynn.
James M. Wj-nn was born at Brookville,
Indiana, February II, 1833, and died De-
cember 23, 1898. He enjoyed the educa-
tional privileges secured through having a
father who was a highly gifted teacher
and the idol of his son, and also received
some collegiate training at Brookville Col-
lege. He was a fanner of advanced ideas,
and exceptional intelligence, often making
addresses upon stockraising, scientific farm-
ing and road building and thus became
widely and favorably known throughout
Southern Indiana as a man of great force,
character and influence. An intensely par-
tisan republican, he dared unearth and se-
cure the conviction of "repeaters" at
election, sending them to the penitentiary.
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2281
iu the face of bold threats upon his life.
Yet he was loved and admired by his po-
litical enemies, and his strong hold upon
the general public caused him to be sent
several times as representative from his
county to the Indiana Legislature. He
was an enthusiatstic member of the Ma-
sonic fraternity and was equally active in
church affairs and prominent in religious
counsels. Mr. Wynn married Margaret
Barbour, who was one of the earlj- grad-
uates of Oxford College, and a classmate
of Caroline Scott, wko later became the
first lady of the land as Mrs. Benjamin
Harrison. Mrs. Wj-nn was a woman of
exceptional intelligence, great moral force
and spiritual convictions and for her day
was gifted as a musician. Her ancestr.y
led back to very sturdy Scotch-Irish stock.
They contended for religious libert.y in
Cromwell's time, as did their descendants
in the New World for political and re-
ligious freedom. The paternal grand-
mother of ilrs. Wynn, Ann (Warren)
Barbour, was an aunt of Gen. Joseph War-
ren, the hero of Bunker Hill. On the ma-
ternal side, her grandfather, Richard ^Ic-
Clure, married Rebecca Calhoun, aunt of
John C. Calhoun, the American statesman.
To John and Ann (Warren) Barbour were
born seven sons and three daughters. The
youngest son, Samuel, was born March 4,
1782. He married Mary McClure and they
came to America in 1819, settling at Brook-
ville, Indiana. In a family of five sons and
five daughters, Margaret, who became the
mother of Dr. Frank B. Wynn, was the
youngest.
Francis Barbour Wynn had ideal train-
ing in a beautiful country home. Good
fortune gave him country school teachers
of unusual ability, one of them afterwards
attaining national distinction as a member
of Congress. He graduated from De
Pauw University in 1883 and after taking
the medical courses at the University of
Cincinnati (Ohio Medical College) served
successively as house physician in the Good
Samaritan Hospital of that city and as as-
sistant superintendent of the Northern
Hospital for Insane at Logansport, Indiana.
Two years were then devoted to post-
graduate work in New York, Berlin, Vienna
and London, after which he commenced
practice in the City of Indianapolis, which
has since been his home.
Doctor Wynn's professional career maj'
be briefly summarized as follows: He be-
came the first city sanitarian of Indianap-
olis in 1895. He soon became identified
with the faculty of the Indiana Medical
College, now the Indiana University School
of Medicine, in which his present title is
professor of medicine. He has contributed
man.y papers and addresses to medical jour-
nals, and medical societies — local, state and
national. His most conspicuous service in
this connection has been the founding of
the scientific exhibit of the American iledi-
cal Association, of which he was director
for seventeen .years. In recognition of this
service the association presented him with
a loving cup at the meeting held in the
Harvard University buildings in 1906.
The activities of Doctor W.ynn other than
professional have been varied in character.
He was for a number of years chairman of
the Civic Improvement Committee of the
Chamber of Commerce of Indianapolis, in
which were inaugurated numerous move-
ments for civic betterment. Some of these
have become statewide in their influence.
One of importance was the initiation of a
plan for an adequate and appropriate cen-
tennial celebration of Indiana's admission
to the Union. He was chairman of the
first Centennial Committee which published
a very elaborate report, making strong
argument for a plan which should be edu-
cational and historical rather than commer-
cial in scope. Following the general lines
of these suggestions the Indiana Legisla-
ture passed a law creating the Historical
Commission one of the chief functions of
which was to have supervision of Indiana 's
Centennial celebrations in 1916. The gov-
ernor was elected president of the commis-
sion, and Doctor Wynn, vice president and
acting chairman of the work. The suc-
cess of the plan was so satisfactory that
Illinois adopted the same scheme two j'ears
later.
It was through the initiative of Doctor
Wynn that the State Historical Commis-
sion fathered the movement for state parks,
as a Centennial memorial, iloney was ap-
propriated to carry on a campaign for
public subscriptions for the purchase of
Turkey Run — one of the most beautiful
scenic spots of the Central West, which was
threatened with destruction. Through the
activity of a special committee, not only
were the wonderful trees and gorges of
Turkey Run saved from the vandalism of
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commercialism, but state parks have be-
come a popular reality. In recognition
of past service in connection with this
work, the present governor has made Doe-
tor Wynn chairman of tlie State Park
Boai'd. His intimate relationship with dif-
ferent civic activities has led naturally to
frequent demands upon him for addresses
before clubs, public bodies and graduating
classes at colleges. No Hoosier is a more
ardent lover of the outdoors than is Doctor
Wynn. He is president of the Indiana Na-
ture Study Club. His greatest passion is
for mountain climbing which he charac-
terized in a recent magazine article as
'"The Sport Royal." He is the author of
a poem entitled "The jMountain King,"
dedicated to the Mazama Club of Portland,
Oregon, at the time the members of that
club made the ascent of Mount Rainier
over the -difficult Winthrop Glacier. To
him the out-doors is like the elixir of per-
petual youth ; renewing strength for the
daily tasks of busy professional life, and
giving larger vision of service to the com-
munity and to his fellowman.
Doctor W.ynn is very popular with the
student body at the Indiana University
School of Medicine, where he has been a
member of the faculty since 1895, having
been successively professor of physiology,
professor of pathology and professor of
medicine. In 1915 he was honored by elec-
tion to the presidency of the Indiana State
Medical Society. In addition to his other
activities he is a member of the advisory
board of the Indianapolis Public Library,
and also holds membership in the Masonic
fraternity, the Indianapolis Chamber of
Commerce, the Columbia Club, the Indiana
Academy of Science, the Indiana State
Medical Society and the American Medical
Association, and the Rocky Mountain and
Mazama Mountain clubs, and others. His
religious convictions are those of the
Methodist Episcopal Church. While he is
generally rated as a republican he is not
radical in his views and is inclined to vote
for the man instead of being bound by
party ties. Doctor Wynn was not eligible
for service in the great war, but was a
member of the Selective Service Board,
state chairman of the Volunteer iledical
Service Corps, and upon invitation of the
chairman of the medical section of the
Council of National Defense, spent part
of the summer of 1918 in the Council of
National Defense at Washington, D. C,
assisting in the organization particularly
of the Volunteer Medical Service Corps.
The latter service was gladly rendered the
Government on a "dollar-a-year" salary.
At Dayton, Ohio, June 25, 1895, Doctor
Wynn was united in marriage with Carrie
Louise Arnold, of Dayton, a member of a
New England family who traces their ante-
cedents back to the Revolutionary patriots.
To this union there was born one son:
Dr. James Arnold Wynn, a practitioner of
medicine at Indianapolis.
Samuel M. Poster has for many years
been prominently identified with the indus-
trial life of Fort Wayne, a leader in its
financial, manufacturing and social life.
He was born in Coldenham, Orange
County, New York, December 12, 1851, the
youngest of seven children of John L. and
Harriet (Scott) F'o.ster. He became iden-
tified with the dry goods business at the
age of fourteen in New York, in an estab-
lishment of his brothers, but three years
afterward located at Troy, New York,
where at the age of twenty-one he formed
a partnership with his brother, the late A.
Z. Foster, in the retail dry goods business.
The Troy venture provecl profitable, and
two years later Samuel M. Fo.ster found
himself financially able to carry out a plan
to secure a collegiate education. He sold
his interest in the Troy establishment and
entered Yale at New Haven, Connecticut,
and while carrying on his studies also
found time to serve as one of the editors
of the Yale Courant. He won an appoint-
ment on the junior exhibition, earned the
high honor of a selection as one of the
Townsend men from a competitive class of
132, and was named by the faculty as one
of the ten to represent the class on the
platform on commencement day. He grad-
uated on the 26th of June, 1879, and was
given his Bachelor of Arts degree.
Mr. Foster came to Fort Wa.yne in the
fall of 1879, and entered the law office of
Robert S. Taylor, but a short time after-
ward, on account of impaired health, he
left the more or less confining work of the
law office to enter journalism. The Satur-
day Evening Record was established at
Dayton, Ohio, with Mr. Foster as its editor
and proprietor, but his experience there
was brief, and in 1880 he returned to Fort
Wayne and resumed his connection with
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2283
Foster Brothers. But in 1882 the firm
was dissolved, and Samuel M. Foster suc-
ceeded to the charge of the firm's dry
goods department. It was while encoun-
tering reverses in the business world that
he became the "father of the shirt waist,"
which laid the foundation of his fortune
and provided the women of the v/orld with
the most useful and the most universally
worn garment ever devised. The shirt
waist factory of the F. I\I. Foster Company
is now one of Fort Waj-ne'.s leading man-
ufacturing institutions. The foundation
of the Lincoln National Bank in 1904, v'ith
Mr. Foster as its president, has left the
conduct of the manufacturing business
largely to his associates, while his personal
attention is centered more closely upon the
interests of the bank.
During an extended period also Mr.
Foster was president of one of the city's
most important manufacturing interests,
the Wayne Knitting Mills, and he is now
chairman of the board of directors of the
institution. He is one of the owners of the
plant of the Western Gas Construction
Company, makers of gas holders and gas
making apparatus, also holds a valuable
interest in the Fort Wayne Box Company,
makers of paper boxes and cartons, and is
also president of the Lincoln Trust Com-
pany, a state institution with a South Side
branch.
Since the organization of the Lincoln
National Life Insurance Company in 1905,
now recognized as one of the leading in-
stitutions of its kind in America, Mr. Fos-
ter has served as its president. But what
he perhaps considers as the most important
of his activities as it bears upon the public
good refers to an incident more than
twenty years ago when he precipitated a
fight for the principle that interest on pub-
lic funds should not pass into the hands of
the official in. charge of the public's busi-
ness, but should belong to the people and
be used for their benefit. On this issue he
was elected a member of the Fort Waj-ne
Board of School Trustees. His fight re-
sulted in the present Depository Law,
which requires that interest on all public
funds is to be turned back to the public.
;Mr. Foster served one term as school trus-
tee, and with the interest received during
that time, together with his salary as trus-
tee, the site of the present public library
was purchased in 1895. In 1913 Mr. Foster
was offered by President Woodrow Wilson
the position of ambassador to the Argen-
tine Republic, but he declined the honor.
In June, 1881, Mr. Foster was married
to Margaret Harrison, of Fort Wayne:
They have one daughter, Alice Harrison,
the wife of Fred H. ^McCulloch, grandson
of Hugh McCulloch, the first controller of
the currency of the United States and the
secretary' of the treasury under three pres-
idents. Mr. Foster is a thirty-second de-
gree Scottish Rite Mason, an Elk, a Moose,
a member of the Fortnightly Club, and is
affiliated with other important movements.
In 1911 Governor Marshall appointed him
a trustee of Purdue University, and in
1916, by Governor Ralston, he was ap-
pointed a member of the Indiana Centen-
nial Commission, having in charge the
state-wide celebration of the one hun-
dredth anniversary of the admission of
Indiana to the Union. He has also been
appointed a member of the Roosevelt
ilemorial Committee of Indiana. During
recent years Mr. Foster has devoted much
time to the subject of taxation, and it is
through his efforts that the attention of the
people of Indiana is called to many unjust
features of the present statutes.
In 1909, in connection with his brother,
David N. Foster, he gave to the city of
Fort Wayne the largest and in some re-
spects the finest of the public parks, Foster
Park. This public benefaction will pre-
serve forever the name of the brothers, who
also in many other ways have given the
best of their abilities and efforts to the
upbuilding and maintenance of their home
city of Fort Wayne.
Lew M. O'Bannon. Harrison County
has enrolled among her native sons Lew
McClellan O'Bannon, who was born at
Corydon on the 18th of August, 1864. He
is descended from sterling old pioneer an-
cestry, and the family have distinguished
themselves both in military and civil life.
His paternal grandfather was William
O'Bannon, of Breckinridge County, Ken-
tucky. One of his brothers surveyed the
first lots of the City of Louisville, Ken-
tucky, while another brother, Presley Ne-
ville O'Bannon, then of Virginia, distin-
guished himself as a lieutenant of marines
in the war with Tripoli in 1805, and a rec-
ord of his services is recorded in a printed
volume in the United States Navy depart-
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ment in General Eaton's report of the
campaign in Africa against Tripoli. The
maternal grandfather, Jacob Ferree, was
killed in the raid of General John Morgan
and his Confederate armj' on Corydon,
Indiana, on July 9, 1863. His father, Joel
Ferree, died near Zanesville while serving
as a soldier in the War of 1812. He was
a resident of Pennsylvania. Jacob Ferree
and his brother rode on horseback from
Pennsylvania to Harrison County, Indiana,
early in the nineteenth century, between
1800 and 1825. The maternal grand-
mother, Madame Ferree came from France
to Pennsylvania with her six children and
many distinguished Americans trace their
ancestry to this family, one of whom was
Admiral Schle.y of Spanish-American war
fame.
Presley Neville O'Bannon, the father of
Lew M., was born in Kentucky, July 29,
1824, and died in Harrison County, In-
diana, January 25, 1881. He married
Christiana Ferree, who was born in Harri-
son County, Indiana, February 1, 1830.
She died in the County of her birth on
the 16th of February, 1911, when she had
reached the age of eighty-one years and
fifteen days.
The educational training of Lew M.
O'Bannon was received in the public
schools of Harrison County, and as a boy
he assisted his father on the farm and also
in the manufacture of shingles. When he
reached the age of seventeen he began
teaching school, following that vocation
nine terms in the country schools of Taylor
Township, Harrison County. He has been
engaged in the practice of law at Corydon
since 1895. Since reaching mature years
he has identified himself prominently with
the public life of Harrison County. Dur-
ing three years, 1887 to 1890, he served the
county as its surveyor, and was county re-
corder one term, 1890 to 1894. It might be
further stated that he was first appointed
county surveyor by the county commis-
sioners in 1887, and was elected in 1888
to serve two years. Mr. O'Bannon was a
director for many years of the Savings
and Loan Association of Corydon, and
since 1909 has served that institution as
its secretary and attorney. He is also a
stockholder in the First National Bank of
Corydon. A democrat in his political sen-
timent, he has served the partj' actively
for more than twenty-five years. He was
private secretary to the late Congressman
William Taylor Zenor from the Third In-
diana Congressional District, during his
ten years' service in Congress, 1897 to 1907.
He held all the offices of the Indiana Dem-
ocratic Editorial Association, being pres-
ident in 1915, which year the association
and its democratic friends took a summer
trip from Indianapolis to South Bend,
Hammond, Chicago and Benton Harbor.
Since the 1st of January, 1907, Mr. O'Ban-
non has been the owner and editor of the
Corydon Democrat. He belongs to' the
Democratic Club of Indianapolis, also to the
Commercial Club of Coi^don, and is a
member of Corydon Lodge No. 79 of the
Knights of Pythias. He has been a mem-
ber of the fraternity since 1891, and has
represented Corydon Lodge in the Grand
Lodge, Knights of P.ythias, at Indianapolis.
Mr. O'Bannon was a member of the In-
diana Centennial Commission which had
charge of Indiana's centennial celebra-
tions in 1916. He was also active for seven
years in the campaign to have Indiana pur-
chase the Old State Capitol and grounds,
which was successful in 1917 when the
Indiana Legislature passed a law author-
izing the state to pay Harrison County
$50,000 for the state's birthplace.
On the 27th of October, 1897, at Cory-
don, Mr. O'Bannon was married to Miss
Lillian Keller, a daughter of Leonard and
Christina Keller, both of whom came to
this country from Germany when young.
Mr. and Mrs. O'Bannon have three chil-
dren: Robert Presley, born September 10,
1898 ; Lewis Keller, born December 18,
1901; and Lillian E., born May 2, 1905.
Mr. O'Bannon is a member of the Cory-
don Christian church, and he has served
as president of the church board and for
many years has been a teacher in a bo}''s
class in the Sunday school.
William F. Bockhopp, for a long period
of years connected with the National Cash
Register Company at Dayton, on resigning
from that company took over and reorgan-
ized the National Automatic Tool Com-
pany of that city. A year later the com-
pany and factory removed to Richmond,
Indiana, where it is now one of the most
successful of the many industries of the
city.
Mr. Bockhoflf was born at Cincinnati
May 18, 1861, son of Henry and Mary
(Hawekotte) Bockhoff. His father, a na-
INDIANA AND INDIANANS
2285
tive of Germany, came to America and
settled at Cincinnati when seventeen years
of age. William Bockhoff was the second
in a family of four sons and two daugh-
ters. He only had an opportunity to at-
tend school until he was about twelve
years of age. Later at the age of nineteen
years he attended business college for six
months. Lewis, a younger brother, is as-
sociated with William F. in the National
Automatic Tool Companj-. Minnie A., a
sister, is conducting a ladies' wearing ap-
parel business in Richmond, and while'
past sixty years of age is able and active.
In 1872 William F. BoT-khoff came to
Richmond and thereafter for several years
was an apt pupil in the school of expe-
rience. He worked at odd jobs in grocery
and drj' goods stores and went out with dif-
ferent lines of specialties. This selling
experience pavedl the way for his success
later in cash registers and other fixtures.
Finally out of his savings he capitalized a
small grocery business of his own in 1883.
In this store which was located at 11th and
South D Street, Mr. Bockhoff 's interest
represented .$350, .$300 of which was bor-
rowed money. Five months later he bor-
rowed mone.v and purchased his partner's
interest. He kept and operated this store
for six years. During his last .year in the
grocer}' business he purchased two Hop-
kins and Robinsons cash registers made at
Louisville, Kentucky, for which he was
given the state agency. He sold these ma-
chines when his grocery business would
permit, and, owing to the fact that he was
a hustler and possessed keen selling ability
he was offered a position with the National
Cash Register Company of Dayton, Ohio.
The position was accepted and he served
the above company for twenty years, first,
as salesman, and later as sales agent. In
August, 1899, he left the company and
later invented what is known as the ]Mul-
tiple Drawer Cash Register. The follow-
ing year the National Cash Register Com-
pany contracted to handle same on a roy-
alty basis and again he entered their em-
ploy as district manager. Mr. Bockhoff
took charge of the invention department
from a commercial standpoint. He also
conducted the school of salesmanship for
the company.
On resigning from the National Cash
Register Company in 1909 Mr. Bockhoff
bought all the stock in the, then, defunct
National Automatic Tool Company of Day-
ton, Ohio, and in May, 1910, moved the
plant to Richmond, Indiana. He is presi-
dent and general manager of the company
and keeps in close touch with all details
in all departments of the business. The
principal products of the business are the
Natco Multi-Drillers and Tappers, which
are machines of world-wide use. They are
employed for drilling a large number of
holes at the same time. For instance, with
possibly a few exceptions, all multi-drillers
used in Liberty motors were Nateos. The
business is now a most flourishing en-
terprise with 250 employes and with a
splendid personnel of executive officers.
Mr. Bockhoff is president of the com-
pany. His sou, Harry W., is vice presi-
dent and manager, and Howard C. Hunt
is secretary and treasurer.
In 1883" Jlr. Bockhoff married Julia C.
Kloecker, daughter of William and Anna
J. (Jloellering) Kloecker of Richmond.
Mr. Bockhoff gives much of the credit for
his success to the co-operation of his wife.
They have made it a practice to talk over
business matters and Mrs. Bockhoff" is now
first vice president of the National Auto-
matic Tool Company and keeps informed
as to the progress of the business. Of their
children, IMary is the wife of J. H. ilcCrea
of Colorado Springs, Colorado, and has
one child, Allen Bockhoff' McCrea ; Camilla
lives at Colorado Springs, and Erma is the
wife of Howard C. Hunt of Richmond.
Harry W. Bockhoff ha.s, been identified
with his father's business since he left
college in 1917 and now handles most of
the technical end of the company's affairs.
He is a graduate of the Richmond High
School and attended the universities of Il-
linois and Cornell as a student of mechani-
cal engineering. He married Miss Harriet
Ellen Luscomb. daughter of W. D. Lus-
comb, of Grand Rapids, ^Michigan.
Mr. W. F. Bockhoff is well known in
mechanical and business circles, being a
member of the National and State Manu-
facturers' Association, the National and
State Chambers of Commerce, the National
Machine Tool Builders' Association, and
many civic organizations. He is a member
of the Commercial Club, the Rotary Club,
is an Elk, a Shriner, and a thirty-second
degree Scottish Rite Mason.
Dr. Ryell T. Miller. South Bend and
St. Joseph County have received many im-
pressions upon their development and his-
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tory from members of the Miller family,
prominent here since earliest pioneer times.
One prominent representative of the fam-
ily today is Dr. Ryell T. Miller. He is al-
ways known as Doctor Miller though he
retired from the practice of dentistry sev-
eral years ago. While he has never been
at any pains to build up a law practice, he
is an acknowledged lawyer of ability and
of thorough training, and is a former presi-
dent of the St. Joseph County Bar Asso-
ciation.
He was born on a farm near South Bend,
March 1, 1853, a son of Daniel H. and Mary
0. (Price) Miller. His great-grandfather
in the paternal line was Elder Jacob Mil-
ler, Sr., a pioneer minister of the Brethren
Church. He was born of German parents
in Franklin County, Pennsylvania, in
1735. He joined the church and became
a preacher when little more than a boy,
and in 1765 he moved to Southern Vir-
ginia, where his son, David, grandfather
of Doctor Miller, was born. In 1800 El-
der Jacob Miller moved to Ohio on the
great Miami River south of Dayton. From
there he came to Indiana, locating on the
Four Mile Creek, and in 1809 organized
the First Brethren Church there. Elder
Jacob Miller was the father of nine sous
and three daughters, all of whom were
members of the church and staunch defend-
ers of the faith ad several of the sons
were ordained as ministers. When Elder
Jacob Miller died in 1819 there were over
100 grandchildren, who carried on into
the next generation the sturdy faith, the
sound character and the industry which
have been generally characteristic of this
interesting family. An appropriate stone
marks the last resting place of Elder Jacob
Miller near Lower i\Iiami Church where
his last labors were finished.
In the spring of 1830 Elder David Mil-
ler, Sr., grandfather of Doctor Miller, with
three other brothers and their families,
and a great number of other relatives, came
to St. Joseph County and took up Gov-
ernment land in the present German Town-
ship. Elder David Miller and his brother
Aaron were appointed county commission-
ers and helped organize St. Joseph County
as well as Elkhart County. Their names
appear in this connection in all the his-
tories of those counties. Elder David Mil-
ler's thirteen children included Daniel H.
Miller, who for many years was a pros-
perous and enterprising farmer in St.
Joseph County. The wife of Daniel H.
Miller, Mary 0. Price, was a daughter of
Joshua Madison Price, a descendant of
Christopher Price who leased to Lord Bal-
timore for ninety-nine years large tracts
of land where the City of Baltimore, Mary-
land, is now located. More recent des-
cendants settled in Kentucky with Daniel
Boone and later in Virginia, where Joshua
Madison Price was born. He came to St.
Joseph County in 1830, his worldly pos-
sessions at that time consisting of a home-
spun suit and an axe. He went through
all the hardships of a pioneer and in time
was rated as one of the successful and pros-
perous farmers of St. Joseph County. He
]narried Frances Houston.
Dr. Ryell T. Miller spent his early life
in the country near South Bend and at-
tended the district scholls, also the South
Bend High School, and in 1872 before
dental graduates and colleges of dentistry
were in vogue he took up the study of
dentistry with Dr. D. E. Cummins. When
well qualified for the work of his profes-
sion he moved out to Stuart, Iowa, in 1874.
At that time there was no other dentist
within forty miles. In 1877 that section of
Iowa was devastated by the grasshopper
plague. People had little money to buy
the actual necessities and in that situation
Doctor Miller returned to South Bend and
opened an office on South Michigan Street.
He continued his practice until 1888 when
his eyesight and general health failed and
he was obliged to discontinue his chosen
profession. He then gathered together an
historical exposition representing all phases
of prehistoric and Indian life and traveled
exhibiting it for several years.
In the meantime he was studying law,
and in 1895 received his LL. B. degree
from the University of Notre Dame. The
following year he took a post-graduate
course, receiving his LL. M. degree. Thus
for a quarter of a century he has been a
member of the St. Joseph County Bar. By
1894 his real estate interests had acquired
an importance that demanded most of his
energy and time. He platted a large tract
of land in the north part of South Bend,
known as the Shetterley place, which has
become one of the most beautiful and im-
portant additions to the city. In connec-
tion with other business enterprises he has
operated the Miller Sash and Screen fae-
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2287
tory of South Bend. This is the largest
factory specializing in that line of work
in Northern Indiana.
Doctor Miller has never held a public
office, though in 1889 he was democratic
candidate for mayor of South Bend. Party
success has meant less to him than the se-
lection of candidates with proper capabili-
ties for the offices they aspired to. In mat-
ters of religion Doctor JMiller holds no
church membership, is a liberal independ-
ent thinker, giving credit to all churches
in their work of elevating the moral condi-
tions of mankind. For many years he has
been a close bible student. His study and
thought have led him to emphasize the work
of Christ as of greater benefit and impor-
tance than his death.
March 18, 1882, Doctor Miller joined
the Odd Fellows and has been in close com-
munion with the order for over thirty-five
years and is one of the most prominent
members of the order in Northern Indi-
ana. He belongs to all branches, and holds
the rank of lieutenant-colonel, retired, in
the Patriarch Militant Branch. He is a
member of and director in the St. Joseph
County Historical Societ.y.
June 30, 188-5, Doctor Miller married
Annie P. Shetterley, the sweetheart and
associate of his school days. She was the
daughter of John and Christina (Adams)
Shetterley. Her mother was a descendant
of the historic New England Adams fami-
lies. Mrs. Miller is widely known in South
Bend. She was a member of the first class
graduated from the high school of that
city and has always been a hard working
student. She is a member of the Progress
Club of South Bend, the Daughters of Re-
bekah, the Woman's Relief Corps and other
organizations. Much of her time is spent
in the enjoyment of a private library com-
prising several thousand well-selected vol-
umes located in her own home. Doctor
and Mrs. Miller's children were: Rex T.
Miller, a contracting plumber; Frank Le-
land ]\Iiller, who died at the age of seven-
teen ; and an adopted daughter, Besse A.
Miller, now the wife of Victor E. Paxon,
assistant cashier of the Farmers Trust
Company. Doctor Miller has a grandson,
Leland Miller, who is a bright and prom-
ising lad of fourteen and a student in the
South Bend High School.
Will J. Davis, former president of the
Indiana Society of Chicago, who in recent
years spent much of his time in his country
"home at Willowdale Farm near Crown
Point, spent his boyhood days at Elkhart,
and his service as a Union soldier is also
credited to the State of Indiana.
He was born on a farm near the Village
of Chelsea in Washtenaw County, Michi-
gan, February 8, 1844, son of Thomas
Gleason and Ann Isabella (McWhorter)
Davis. His father was born in Massachu-
setts in 1808 and died in 1883. The mother
was born at Belfast, Ireland, in 1811 and
died in 1896. Thomas G. Davis early be-
came connected with woolen mill opera-
tion in New York State, established a wool-
en mill at Ann Arbor in Washtenaw
Count}', Michigan, and from that entered
the railroad contracting business with the
^Michigan Central Company. He construc-
ted many miles of the old Michigan South-
ern and Northern Indiana Railway, now the
Lake Shore and Michigan Southern, and
had the contract for construction of much
of this line across Northern Indiana and
around the southern bend of Lake Mich-
igan through the swamps into Chicago.
Thomas G. Davis took the first engine and
train of cars that ran into Chicago from
the east over this newly completed road
in' 1852. He also built "the Three Rivers
Branch, the Jackson Branch, and the Air
Line Division from Goshen to Toledo.
After the failure of the Railroad Company
in 1857 he was for several years a hard-
ware merchant at Elkhart. During the
Civil war he built railways in the State
of Tennessee, and after the »war con-
structed a coal road in southei'ii Illinois.
Thomas G. Davis organized at Elkhart the
first Masonic Lodge of the town and was
its first Worshipful Master.
The Davis family moved to Elkhart in
1852 when Will J. Davis was eight years
old. He went to school there and had as
school mates .some of the men of that town
who afterwards attained prominence both
there and elsewhere. In 1862 at the age
of eighteen he tried to get his services
enlisted in a local company, but was not
accepted. Later in the same year he went
to Baltimore and volunteered in the United
States Navy, being assigned to duty on the
Mortar Schooner Racer of the North Atlan-
tic Squadron. For three months he served
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as steward for Paymaster C. H. Kirken-
dall and eventually was transferred with
Paymaster Kirkendall to the Blaekhawk,
the flagship of Admiral Porter in the Mis-
sissippi Squadron. During the remainder
of the war he had the honor of serving
under that great naval commander, whose
achievements form one of the most interest-
ing and thrilling chapters of the Civil con-
flict. He was in the Red River campaign
and at times came up into the Ohio River.
When the Blaekhawk was in action he
was assigned duty in superintending the
passing of ammunition from the hold of
the gunboat to the guns on the main and
upper decks. After the Blaekhawk was
burned in April, 1865, Mr. Davis was de-
tailed to go to Washington and make a final
report of the vessel's accounts. He re-
ceived his honorable discharge in October
1865.
Soon after returning to Elkhart he .joined
another young man in establishing a groc-
ery store at Warsaw, Indiana. In that way
he formed business acquaintances in Chi-
cago, and was connected with a broker-
age firm in that city until 1869. He was
then appointed as first assistant to C. H.
Kirkendall in the Internal Revenue Service
and took up his residence at Natchez, Mis-
sissippi. He remained in that city until
May, 1873. While there he assisted in
producing the first republican newspaper
in Mississippi, named the New South. He
was also one of the few passengers taken
aboard the famous steamboat Robert E.
Lee when in an exciting race she defeated
the steamboat Natchez in a run from New
Orleans tp St. Louis. Mr. Davis wrote
an account of this boat race for one of
the southern newspapers.
On returning to Chicago in 1873 Mr.
Davis became connected with the passenger
department of the Lake Shore & Michigan
Southern Railway. These duties brought
him into association with theatrical and
circus manasrers, among them being W. W.
Cole of the Cole Circus. Mr. Cole induced
him in 1875 to take charge of the ticket
office of the Adelphi Theater, which had
been rebuilt on the ruins of the old post-
office and occupied the present site of the
First National Bank of Chicago. Mr. Davis
soon took charge of the Adelphi as manager
and that was the beginning of a long and
notable career as a theatrical manager and
owner. He remained there until Mr. Cole
sold the theater in 1876 and then took
the original Georgia Minstrels to California
for Colonel Jack Haverly. While in San
Francisco Mr. Davis became acquainted
with Mr. T. H. Goodwin, general passenger
agent of the Southern Pacific. This ac-
quaintance led to him returning to the
railroad business. At Chicago he was ap-
pointed assistant general passenger agent
for the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern
Railroad. In 1878 several American rail-
roads and the Pacific Mail Steamship Com-
pany effected an agreement to provide a
through route transportation schedule
around practically half the Globe. As a
representative of this transportation syndi-
cate Mr. Davis went to Australia and New
Zealand to give publicity to the American
routes from those countries to Europe. In
all his varied career Mr. Davis found more
interest in this experience than in any
other.
He returned to Chicago in 1878. In the
meantime Jack Haverly had taken over
the Colonel Maplesou Grand Opera Com-
pany. Mr. Davis handled the transporta-
tion of this organization for Mr. Haverly
and subsequently took over the old Haverly
Theater and became its manager. Later
he went across the street and managed
the Columbia Theater and for a time was
on the road. Along about this time the
Haymarket Theater on the west side was
projected, and Mr. Davis took hold of this
enterprise with the financial backing of
Mr. Cole. He completed this beautiflul
theater, managed it, and from 1890 to 1900
leased and managed the Columbia theater.
In the Columbia deal the firm of Ha.ymau
and Davis was originated, and in 1900 after
the burning of the Columbia, built and
owned the present Illinois Theater. Mr.
Davis was also one of the owners and build-
ers of the ill-fated Iroquois Theater, and
was one of its managers at the time it was
burned. This was one of the heart-break-
ing experiences of his life. He also became
interested in Powers Theater, and though
in recent years he retired from active
theatrical management he still retained ex-
tensive financial interests in Chicago play-
houses.
Mr. Davis conducted the only tours of
America made by the famous actor Lester
Wallack. It was on one of these tours
that he learned of the formation of the
Chicago Church Choir Pinafore Company,
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which he induced Mr. Haverly to finance
and book all over the country. His judg-
ment was correct, as no company ever
achieved greater musical success. His con-
iicclion with that company had a special
personal interest for Mr. Davis. It was
then that he met Jessie Bartlett, who was
the "Buttercup" of the company. He and
iliss Bartlett were married March 31, 1880.
Jessie Bartlett Davis, who died May 14,
1905, was well known to a whole generation
of theater goers as both a Grand and light
opera singer. Her debut in Grand Opera
Avas with the Mapleson Compan.y in the
role of Siebel in Faust to the Marguerite
of Mme. Adelina Patti. Her greatest suc-
cess in English Opera was with the well
known " Bo.stonians. " She was principal
contralto of this company for more than
ten years. Her singing of the popular song
"Oh, Promise Me," in the opera Robin
Hood gave her a vote never equalled by
any American singer. She was born in
Morris, Illinois, and started on her musical
career as a soloist in a Chicago Church.
In 1889 Mr. Davis acquired an eighty
acre farm adjoining the city of Crown
Point in Lake County. This farm has since
been considerably enlarged and is widely
known as Willowdale. One of its features
is the noted Crown Point race track. Some
very fine trotting horses have been bred at
Willowdale, and altogether the Davis fam-
ily own about eleven hundred acres at
Crown Point, divided into four different
farms. Mr. Davis was a member of the
Union League, Chicago Athletic, Fellow-
ship, the Green Room, South Shore Coun-
try. Indiana Society, and the Strollers
clubs; He was also a member of George
H. Thomas Post Grand Army of the Re-
public, and of the Parragut Navy Veterans.
By his first wife !Mr. Davis had two
sons, one dying in infancy. June 12, 1907,
he married Mary Ellen O'Hagan. The
Davis residence is one of the rare and in-
teresting homes of Chicago at 4740 Grand
Boulevard. In his city residence he had
surrounded himself with many things that
wealth and taste can afford, and spent
much of his time and perhaps found his
chief pleasure in his collection of books,
having many rare and old editions. In the
Davis collection of rare and exquisite Per-
sian and Turkish rugs, are some among
the most famous known to rug connoisseurs.
Walter Carleton Woodward who was
director of the Indiana State Centennial
celebration in 1915-16, through appointment
of the State Historical Commission, is one
of the most prominent leaders in the
Friends Church of Indiana, and is a former
Professor of History in Earlham College
at Richmond.
He was born near Mooresville, Indiana,
November 28, 1878 a son of Ezra H. and
Amanda (Morris) Woodward. The family
moved to Oregon in 1880, where Mr. Wood-
ward's father for thirt.y years has edited
and publi-shed the Newberg Graphic at
Newberg, Oregon. He has also served as
a member of the Oregon Legislature and is
president of the Board of Trustees of Paci-
fic College.
Walter C. Woodward though a native of
Indiana grew up in the northwest, and was
graduated from Pacific College at New-
berg with the A. B. degree in 1898. He
then returned to Richmond and received
his degree Bachelor of Literature from
Earlham College in 1899, and did post-
graduate work later in the University of
California at Berkeley, from which he has
the Doctor of Philosophy degree awarded
in 1910.
Mr. Woodward was at one time associate
editor of his father's paper the Newberg
Graphic. During 1906-07 he was Professor
of History and Political Science in Pacific
College, and held the chair of History and
Political Science in Earlham College from
1910 to 1915. Mr. Woodward is at present
General Secretary of "The Five Years
Meeting of the Friends in America ' ' and is
editor of The American Friend at Rich-
mond. He is author of the book "The
Rise and Development of Political Parties
in Oregon." He has an active part in
Earlham College, being president of the
Board of Trustees.
September 10, 1912, at Remington, In-
diana, ]Mr. Woodward married Catherine
Hartman, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H.
R, Hartman. Mrs. Woodward graduated
from Earlham College in 1911. She is of
Ma.vflower stock, a descendant of John and
Priseilla Alden. Mr. and Mrs. Woodward
have two small daughters, Bernice Louise
and ilary Ellen.
Jacob Putt Dunn, the author of "In-
diana and Indianans," is a native of In-
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diana, born at Lawreuceburg, April 12,
1855. Both of his parents were also natives
of Indiana, and of Lawreneeburg. His
father, Jacob Piatt Dunn, Sr., born June
24, 1811, was a son of Judge Isaac Dunn,
who was born in Middlesex County, New
Jersey, September 27, 1783, and was one
of the earliest emigrants to the Whitewater
Valley. His father, Hugh Dunn, came
west in 1788, arriving with his family at
Fort ]\Iiami in December, and moving over
into the Whitewater Valley as soon as Gen-
eral Wayne's defeat of the Indians at the
Fallen Timbers made it at all safe. The
Dunns of Middlesex were descendants of
Hugh Dunn, an Irish Baptist exhorter,
who was one of the founders of the Baptist
Church of Piscataway Township in 1689,
and who left to his family a legacy of Bible
names. There were twenty-three Dunns in
the New Jersey Revolutionary troops from
Middlesex, eight commissioned officers and
fifteen privates, and every one of them had
a Bible name except Capt. Hugh Dunn.
The family tradition is that Hugh Dunn,
the father of Judge Isaac Dunn, emigrated
from Ireland, and married his cousin,
Mercy Dunn, of the Midlesex family.
On November 22, 1804, Judge Dunn mar-
ried Frances Piatt, also of a New Jersey
Revolutionary family, her father, Jacob
Piatt, and her uncles, Daniel and William
Piatt, being officers in the Continental Line,
and members of the Society of the Cincin-
nati. The New Jersey Piatts were descend-
ants of John Piatt (or Pyatt), son of a
French Huguenot who took refuge in Hol-
land after the revocation of the Edict of
Nantes. John Piatt emigrated to New
Jersey prior to 1760, and settled in Middle-
sex County. He left five sons, of whom
Jacob was the youngest.
On November 28, 1837, Jacob Piatt
Dunn, Sr., married Harriet Louisa Tate,
a daughter of William Tate, who came from
Boston, Massachusetts, to Lawreneeburg,
and there, on March 27, 1816, married Anna
Kincaid, daughter of Warren Kincaid, a
Revolutionary soldier from New York.
Jacob Piatt Dunn, Sr., was a "Forty-
Niner" in California, and in 1861 located
in Indianapolis, where he was a well known
business man till his death on November 21,
1890. His four surviving children, ]Mrs.
Louisa M. Tutewiler, Catherine Dunn, Dr.
Isaac Dunn, and Jacob Piatt Dunn, are all
residents of Indianapolis.
After several years in private schools
Jacob Piatt Dunn entered the public schools
01 Indianapolis in 1867, and after four
years entered Earlham College, where he
was graduated in the scientific department
in lb (4. He was graduated in law at the
University of Michigan in 1876, and pur-
sued his studies in the office of McDonald
& Butler, after which he entered into prac-
tice. He went to Colorado in the Leadvilie
excitement of 1879 as a prospector, and
drifted into the newspaper business, serv-
ing on the Maysville Democrat, Rocky
Mountain News, Denver Tribune, Leadvilie
Chronicle and Denver Republican. Return-
ing to Indianapolis in 1884 he resumed the
practice of law, but took up newspaper
work again on the Journal in 1888. In the
fall of that year he was put in charge of
the literary bureau of the Democratic State
Central Committee, and in 1889 was elected
state librarian by the Legislature and re-
elected in 1891. During his term he wrote
regularly for the Sentinel, and at its close,
in 1893, he took a position as editorial
writer on that paper. This he retained
until 1904, with the exception of three
months in 1901, when he filled the unex-
pired term of Eudorus M. Johnson as city
controller, under Mayor Taggart. In 1903
he was appointed city controller by Mayor
Holtzman, and served through his term to
January 1, 1906. He then acted as auditor
for Winona Assembly for six months, and
as an editorial writer for the Indianapolis
Star for a year and a half. For the next
two years he was engaged in the prepara-
tion of "Greater Indianapolis," and in
special work on the ]\lianii language for
the United States Bureau of Ethnology.
On January 1, 1910, he was appointed chief
deputy by County Treasurer Fishback, and
served until 1912 ; and was again city con-
troller in 1914-1916.
On November 23, 1892, Mr. Dunn w^as
united in marriage with Charlotte Elliott
Jones, daughter of Aquilla Jones and Flora
C. (Elliott) Jones. Her father was the
son of Elisha P. Jones, the oldest of six)
brothers, of Welsh descent, sons of Benja-
min and Mary Jones, who emigrated in
1831 from Stokes (now Forsvth) rv.nnfv.
North Carolina, to Columbus, Indiana,
whither Eli.sha P. had preceded them.
Elisha P. Jones married Harriet Hinkson,
Hauffhter of a Revolutionarv soldier from
Penn.sylvania. Aquilla lost his father when
INDIANA AND INDIANANS
2291
two years old, and, gi-owiiig up, entered
the store of his uncle, Aijuilla, Sr., at Co-
lumbus. In 1857, at the age of tvventj--one,
he came to Indianapolis as a partner of
Aquilla, Sr., in the shoe business. Later
he formed a partnership with Joseph Vin-
nedge, and still later with E. L. and R. 8.
Jicivee, for)ning the wholesale firm of Jones,
ilcKee & Company, which continued till
his death on January 10, 1888. On October
1-i, 1868, Mr. Jones married Flora C. El-
liott, daughter of Gen. W. J. Elliott,
who came to Indianapolis from Hamilton
County, Ohio, in 1848, and was for a num-
l)er of years the leading hotel keeper of
the city. The other surviving children of
Aquilla Jones and wife are Robert S. Jones,
one of the proprietors and publishers of
the Asheville (North Carolina) Citizen, and
Florence L. Jones in charge of the Refer-
ence Department of the Indianapolis Pub-
lic Library. Mr. and Mi's. Dunn have two
children, Caroline and Eleanor.
^Ir. Dunn has written a number of books,
including: "Massacres of the Mountains;
a History of the Indian Wars of the Far
West" (Harpers 1886) : "Indiana, a Re-
demption from Slavery" (Am. Common-
wealth Series, 1888, revised edition, 1904) ;
"True Indian Stories" (Indianapolis,
1908) ; the "History of Indianapolis" and
"The Unknown God" (1914). He is also
author of several pamphlets and magazine
articles on historical and economical topics,
among which are "^lanual of the Election
Law of Indiana" (1888), prepared by
order of the State Legislature, and used
until the state was familiar with the Aus-
tralian ballot law; "The Mortgage Evil"
(Journal of Political Economy, 1888) ;
"The Tax Law of Indiana, and the Science
of Taxation ' ' (1891 ) ; " The Libraries of In-
'iiana" (1892), prepared for The World's
Fair Commission; "The World's Silver
<,)uestion" (1894), a plea for international
bimctalism; and "The Negro Question"
(1904), a protest against the proposal to
partially disfranchise the states that had
adopted an educational qualification for
suffrage, which was widely circulated and
was instrumental in killing that proposal.
He has been secretary of the Indiana His-
torical Society since reorganization in
1886, and has contributed several numbei's
1o its publications. He was a member of
the Public Library Commission of Indiana
from its organization in 1899 until 1919.
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