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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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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
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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
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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
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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-
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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-
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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
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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
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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-
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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-
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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
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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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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
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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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1927

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
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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
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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
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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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1935

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.

»

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
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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
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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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1939

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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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1957

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
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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
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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
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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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1963

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.

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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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-
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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-
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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
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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
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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
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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,
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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
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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-
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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
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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-
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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
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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.

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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
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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-
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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
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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
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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
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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,
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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
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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
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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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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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-
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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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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
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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

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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.

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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
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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

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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. '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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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-
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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
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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.
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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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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-

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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
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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
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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
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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
'Connell, daughter of William and Ellen

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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-

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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-
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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-
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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
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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,

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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
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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,
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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.
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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-
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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.

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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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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
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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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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
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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-
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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