Delaware County, Indiana - Sidelights on Local History, 1924 (part 10 of 21)

HENRY ALFRED BARLOW, vice-president and factory superintendent of the Campbell Ice Cream and Milk Company of Muncie, is a "Buckeye" by birth but has been a resident of Indiana and of Delaware county since the days of his young manhood. Mr. Barlow was born on a farm in Lawrence county, Ohio, October 10, 1876, and is a son of William Ewing and Elizabeth Jane (Saunders) Barlow, the latter of whom was born in that same county, daughter of Joseph Saunders, and is still living, a resident of Albany, this county. The late William Ewing Barlow, a veteran of the Civil war, was born in Missouri, a son of John Barlow, who was a veteran of the Mexican war. As a young man he moved to Ohio and was married in Lawrence county, where for some years thereafter he was engaged in farming. In the late '90s he located at Albany and there spent the remainder of his life, his death occurring when he was sixty-three years of age. He was a Republican and a member of the Grand Army of the Republic. His army service during the time of the Civil war was rendered as a member of an Ohio regiment and he took part in no fewer than thirteen battles and engagements of that war. To him and his wife were born twelve children, six sons and six daughters. Reared on the farm, Henry Alfred Barlow received his schooling in the common schools of his home neighborhood in Ohio and remained on the farm until he was twenty years of age. At the age of twentytwo, in 1898, he came to Indiana and at Albany, in this county, became engaged in the dairy business, a vocation he since has followed. He presently became a partner in the enterprise with which he was working at Albany and there remained for five or six years, at the end of which time he sought a wider field for his operations and moved to Muncie, where he became one of the organizers of the Campbell Ice Cream and Milk Company, with which he ever since has been connected, present vice-president of the company and superintendent of the extensive plant maintained by the concern at 1500 South Walnut street. At Albany, June 10, 1906, Henry Alfred Barlow was united in marriage to Wilmetta Young, daughter of Hardesty and Helen A. (Miller) Young, of that place, and to this union four children have been born, Helen E., who died in infancy;

Alfred Earl, Mary Jane and Thomas Ewing Barlow. Mr. and Mrs. Barlow are members of the Baptist church and are Republicans. Mr. Barlow is affiliated with the fraternal orders of the Knights of Pythias and the Knights of the Maccabees, and is an active member of the local camp of the Sons of Veterans at Muncie. Mrs. Barlow was born in Wells county, this state, of which county her mother also was a native. Her father, Hardesty Young, was born in Marshall county, West Virginia, and was fourteen years of age when he came to Indiana with his parents, the family settling in Wells county. After his marriage he became located at Albany and remained there until in 1909, when he moved to Muncie, where he since has made his home, connected with the operations of the Campbell Ice Cream and Milk Company. Of the four children born to him and his wife three are now living.

J.C. KINNEER, president of the Muncie Wheel Company, a concern in which he literally worked his way up from the humble position of a yard laborer to his present executive position, is a Kentuckian by birth but has been a resident of Indiana and of Muncie for more than a quarter of a century. Mr. Kinneer was born at Owensboro, Ky., May 10, 1873, and is a son of John A. and Mary E. Kinneer, both of whom also were born in Kentucky. Reared at Owensboro, J. C. Kinneer received his schooling in the schools of that city and upon leaving the grade school began working in a tobacco factory. He later went into the plant of the Owensboro Wagon Company and was there employed until he was twenty-two years of age, when he took up farming and was thus engaged for two years or until his marriage in July, 1897, when he came up into Indiana and located at Muncie, where he found employment as a laborer in the yards of the Muncie Wheel Company, his first work being the piling of spokes. Four or five months later he became employed in the blacksmith shop of the wheel works, welding tires, and was thus engaged for about five years, at the end of which time he was made foreman of the gear department of the works. Ten years later he was advanced to the position of superintendent of the plant and in 1920, following the death of O. B. Bannister, president of the company, and the consequent reorganization of the company, he was elected vice president. On January 1, 1923, following the resignation of H. B. Bannister, the new president, Mr. Kinneer was elected president of the Muncie Wheel Company and is now serving in that executive capacity, head of a concern the products of which have for years found a wide market in this country. This wheel works has been in operation for thirty-three years and has long been recognized as one of the well established concerns of this kind in the country, its plant in Ohio avenue having been improved and extended to meet the modern requirements of the trade. Mr. Kinneer is a Scottish Rite Mason, having attained the 32d degree in Freemasonry through the York Rite or Knights Templar. He also is affiliated with the Travelers Protective Association, the Knights of Pythias and the Modern Woodmen of America. On July 18, 1897, at Muncie, J. C. Kinneer was united in marriage to Elizabeth Frederick, daughter of H. J. and Henrietta Frederick of Owensboro, Ky., and to this union have been born four children, Katherine, Mary (who died at the age of nine years), Willa and Pauline. Mr. and Mrs. Kinneer are members of the First Methodist Protestant church and Mr. Kinneer is a member of the board of trustees of that congregation and superintendent of the Sunday school. The Kinneers reside at 1400 Kirby avenue.

DR. H. MEADE HAMILTON, veterinary surgeon at Muncie, and a veteran of the World war, was born on a farm in Fayette county, Indiana, June 6, 1888, and is a son of Frank S. and Ada M. (Boggs) Hamilton, both of whom also were born in Indiana, the former in Fayette county and the latter in Union county. With the exception of four years they have resided in Muncie since 1901. They are the parents of three children. H. Meade Hamilton was twelve years of age when his parents moved from Fayette county to Muncie and his schooling was completed in the schools of that city. He early was attracted to the profession of veterinary surgery and upon leaving the high school entered the Indiana Veterinary College at Indianapolis and at the age of twenty-one, in 1909, was graduated from that institution. Upon receiving his diploma Doctor Hamilton returned to Muncie and became engaged in veterinary practice there in association with the old established veterinary, Dr. O. L. Boor, and was thus engaged until in 1912, when he accepted a call to take the chair of veterinary surgery and obstetrics in the Alabama in this institution the Doctor decided that general practice was more congenial to his inclinations than school work and he left the Polytechnic and located at Paris, Ky., where he took up practice and was thus engaged there when this country took a hand in the World war. In January, 1918, he volunteered his services.in the Veterinary Corps of the United States army and was stationed at Camp Greenleaf until his discharge on September 6 following. In the following April (1919) Doctor Hamilton returned to his former home at Muncie, took over the old established practice of Doctor Boor and has ever since been engaged in practice at Muncie, of late making a specialty of the treatment of the ailments and injuries of the smaller animals, with offices at 215 West Gilbert street. Doctor Hamilton is a member of the Indiana Veterinary Medical Association and of the American Veterinary Association, has attained to the cryptic degree in Freemasonry (Royal and Select Masters) and is also a member of the local post of the American Legion and of the local lodges of the Knights of Pythias and of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. He also is affiliated with the Muncie Chamber of Commerce and with the Kiwanis Club. In 1911 Dr. H. Meade Hamilton was united in marriage to Mildred L. Overmire, of Yorktown, this county.

GEORGE H. KOONS, former judge of the Delaware circuit court and for many years one of the leaders of the bar of that court, who died at his home in Muncie in the fall of 1919, left a good memory at his passing and it is but fitting that in the definite history of the county he so long served there should be carried some brief memorial of that life and service. The late Judge Koons was a native Hoosier, a fact of which he never ceased to be proud, and all his life was spent in this state, a resident of Muncie for forty-five years. He was born on a farm in Blue Ridge township in the neighboring county of Henry on April 2,. 1848, and was the eldest of the seven children born to Peter and Catherine (Rinard) Koons, both of whom also were born in that same county, members of pioneer families there, the latter a daughter of George and Nancy Rinard, good memories of whom still persist in this section of Indiana, the Rev. George Rinard having been a local preacher of more than local note in his generation and a man of large personal influence in the formative period of the community in which he so long wrought well. Peter Koons was a son of George and Mary Koons, who had come in from South Carolina in pioneer days and had settled in Henry county, where Peter Koons became a substantial farmer, later moving to Richmond. Reared on the home farm in Henry county, George H. Koons was well schooled and at the age of fourteen years began to teach school, teaching and attending school alternately until he had completed the course in the Newcastle Academy and in Indiana University, meanwhile taking preparatory studies in law in a law office at Newcastle, and in 1871 was graduated from the law school of Indiana University. In the following fall he was married and in the next winter, as superintendent of the Middletown schools, he completed four years of service in that school and then began the prac- tice of law at Newcastle, where he remained until in June, 1874, when he moved to Muncie, where the remainder of his life was spent, and where he attained an enviable position at the bar. In 1892, as the nominee of the Republican party, he was elected judge of the Delaware circuit court (Forty-sixth judicial circuit of Indiana) and for six years occupied that bench. Judge Koons was one of the organizers of the present Muncie Bar Association, of which his son, George Hickman Koons, now is president, and was the second president of that organization (1906-7). Upon his retirement from the bench he resumed his practice at Muncie and so continued until his death, October 17, 1919. His wife had preceded him to the grave about six years, her death having occurred in November, 1918. She also was born in Henry county, Josinah V. Hickman, and married George H. Koons on September 6, 1871. Mrs. Koons was for years a helpful influence in the social and cultural life of Muncie and was a writer of excellent verse. She was a daughter of William H. and Clarissa (Williams) Hickman, both members of pioneer families in Henry county and of colonial and Revolutionary stock, Mrs. Koons thus taking Revolutionary descent along two lines, from William Williams, a soldier of the Revolution and a descendant of Roger Williams, the Puritan reformer and founder of Rhode Island, and from Ezekiel Hickman, a captain in the Colonial army. Judge Koons and his wife were members of St. John's Universalist church and their children were reared in that faith. There were four of these children, namely: Mary Maude, who died in infancy; Clarissa K., wife of Gay R. Estabrook; Rebecca E., wife of Charles L. Langdon, and George Hickman Koons, who followed his father's footsteps in taking up the practice of law, was associated with his father in practice at the time of the latter's death and is now the president of the Muncie Bar Association. George Hickman Koons was born in Muncie on February: 23, 1886, and in 1905 was graduated from the high school there. He then spent two years in Indiana University, taking the literary course and some law, preparatory to entrance into the law school of George Washington University at Washington, D. C., and in 1909 was graduated from this latter institution and at once became engaged in practice at Muncie in association with his father, the late Judge Koons, and since the death of the latter has been practicing alone, with offices at 312 the Wysor block. In 1922 Mr. Koons was elected president of the Muncie Bar Association. He is a Republican, is an active member of the Kiwanis Club and is

Delta Phi. On January 15, 1910, George Hickman Koons was united in marriage to Miriam B. Sterner, who was born in Washington, D. C:, and to this union have been born two children, George Sterner and Helene Bauman Koons.

THOMAS PERRY MANN, assistant cashier of the Merchants National Bank of Muncie, is a native son of Delaware county and has resided here all his life with the exception of a few years spent in the West during the days of his young manhood. Mr. Mann was born on a farm in the near vicinity of Albany, this county, April 24, 1879, and is a son of Isaac and Mary Louisa (Krohn) Mann, the latter of whom was born in Albany, daughter of William F. and Maria (Pendroy) Krohn, who were among the early householders of that place. William F. Krohn was a native of Germany who had come to this country with his parents when a child and had grown up in Ohio, whence after his marriage he had come over here into Indiana and had settled at Albany, where he and his wife spent the remainder of their lives. The late Isaac Mann was born in the vicinity of Leesburg, in Highland county, Ohio, June 12, 1834, and was two years of age when, in 1836, his parents, Warner and Elizabeth (Pavey) Mann, came with their family into Indiana and settled in Niles township, this county, thus having been among the pioneers of that township. Warner Mann was born in the state of Delaware and was but a lad when his parents, Joseph and Elizabeth (Blades) Mann, moved with their family to Ohio and became members of the Quaker settlement in Highland county, where they remained until their removal to Indiana and settlement in Niles township, this county, where their last days were spent. For some time after coming to this county in 18836 Warner Mann made his home in Niles township and then he bought a tract of land in Delaware township,

'a part of which tract is now included in the town corporation of Albany, and there he died at the age of forty-four years. His widow survived him many years and was eighty-four years of age at the time of her death. She was a daughter of Isaac and Elizabeth Pavey, Highland county Quakers. As has been observed, Isaac Mann was but two years of age when he came to Delaware county with his parents in 1836 and he grew up amid the conditions which faced the church and their children were reared in that faith. Of these children, seven grew to maturity, the subject of this sketch having four sisters, Mary, who married James Manor; Anna, who married R. St. John; Amelda, wife of George R. Strong, and Mrs. Gustina Stone, and two brothers, Carson M. and William W. Mann. Isaac Mann was a Republican and a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Reared on the home farm on the outskirts of Albany, Thomas Perry Mann received his common schooling in the schools of that village and supplemented this by attendance at the Northern Indiana Normal University at Valparaiso and by a commercial course at the Normal Business College at Marion, Ind. He then went West and was for four years engaged in "prospecting around" in Washington and Oregon, engaged as a bookkeeper in various cities, including Spokane. He then returned home and became connected with the operations of the State Bank of Albany. In 1904 he transferred his connection to the Merchants National Bank of Muncie and has ever since been connected with that institution, a period of twenty years. In 1916 Mr. Mann was made assistant cashier of the bank. In 1912 Thomas Perry Mann was united in marriage to Eva M. Aldstadt and to this union two daughters have been born, Sarah Lou and Elizabeth. Mr. and Mrs. Mann are members of the High Street Methodist Episcopal church. Mr. Mann is a Freemason and a Knight of Pythias. The Manns reside at 409 North Plum street. ROBERT F. MURRAY, judge of the Grant-Delaware superior court, with residence at Muncie, is a native son of Delaware county, a member of two of the pioneer families of this section of Indiana, and has resided in this county all his life. Judge Murray was born on a farm in the vicinity of Selma in Liberty township, this county, August 1, 1884, and is a son of Capt. William H. and Margaret Jane (Orr) Murray, both now deceased, the latter of whom also was born in this county, October 13, 1844, a daughter of James Orr, of the Selma neighborhood and in his generation one of the foremost citizens of the county, which county he served both as a state senator and as a representative in the lower house of the Legislature, as is set out elsewhere in this work. The late Capt. William H. Murray, former auditor of Delaware county, was born in the neighboring county of Henry, January 11, 1840, and was a son of Cornelius B. and Lucinda (Burroughs) Murray, the latter of whom was born in the neighboring county of Madison, a daughter of one of the real pioneers of that county. Cornelius B. Murray was born in Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, a son of William Murray, who was a son of William Murray, who came to this country from Ireland in colonial days and who rendered service to the colonies as a soldier of the Revolution. Cornelius B. Murray and Lucinda Burroughs were married in Randolph county, this state, in 1836 and about two years later settled on a farm in Henry county, where they remained until in 1864, when they returned to Randolph county. There Mrs. Murray died in 1873 and Cornelius B. Murray later moved to Wayne county, where his last days were spent. William H. Murray, son of this pioneer couple, was reared on the farm, became a school teacher and was twenty-one years of age when the Civil war broke out. On July 14, 1861, it becoming apparent by that time that the war was going to be something more than a mere "before breakfast" skirmish, he enlisted his services in behalf of the cause of the Union and went to the front as a private in Company K of the 19th regiment, Indiana Volunteer Infantry, with which gallant command he served for more than three years, receiving his discharge on September 4, 1864, by reason of disability incurred through a gunshot wound, and was honored with the brevet title of captain. A few months later, February 16, 1865, he married Margaret Jane Orr and became engaged in farming in the Selma neighborhood, resuming also his former winter vocation of teaching, and was thus engaged until in 1870, when he disposed of his farming interests and took up the mercantile business at Selma. Two years later he was elected trustee of Liberty township and served a term in that capacity. In 1878 he was elected county. auditor and for four years served in that important public capacity. In the meantime he had disposed of his store at Selma and upon leaving the auditor's office returned to the © farm near Selma, where he and his wife spent their last days, her death occuring on October 26, 1912, and his, March 15, 1915. They were the parents of seven children, these besides Judge Murray being Lulu M., James O., Don P., Margaret M., Arthur L. and Edna K. Reared on the home farm, Judge Murray received his schooling in the Selma schools and was graduated from the high school there in 1902. Later he entered the law school of Indiana University and in 1908 was graduated from that institution and at once became engaged in the practice of law at Muncie. Ten years later, in 1918, he was elected to the bench of the Grant-Delaware superior court, and in 1922 was re-elected to that judicial position, his service on the bench dating from January 1, 1919. Judge Murray is a member of the First Presbyterian church at Muncie, is a Scottish Rite (32°) and Knights Templar Mason and a noble of the Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine and is also affiliated with the local lodges of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and of the Loyal Order of Moose. He is a member of the college fraternities Sigma Nu and Phi Delta Kappa and was the first president of the Muncie Kiwanis Club. On June 10, 1911, Judge Murray married Charline Knapp, who was born in Muncie and who died on June 380, 1922.

DR. JOSEPH MILLER, a Muncie physician who has been engaged in practice in that city for about fifteen years, was born on a farm in the vicinity of Traders Point, eight or ten miles northwest of Indianapolis, in Marion county, this state, June 28, 1859, and is a son of John Wainwright and Celia (Dalton) Miller, the latter of whom was born in Hamilton county, Ohio, daughter of Wyatt Dalton, one of the pioneers of that county. John Wainwright Miller was born in the state of New Jersey in the year 1800, a son of John Miller, who also was born in that state and whose father was a native of Scotland. He grew to manhood in his native state and was there married. Some years later with his wife and four children he came to Indiana and settled at Centerville, in Wayne county, where his wite died. He later married Celia Dalton and moved to Marion county, where he became engaged in farming in the Traders Point neighborhood and where he spent the remainder of his life, his death occurring in 1868. His widow died not long afterward and thus Doctor Miller was early orphaned and thrown pretty largely upon his own resources in the way of creating a livelihood for himself, having been but nine years of age when his father died. Reared on the farm, he completed his common schooling at the old Traders Point Rural Academy and early. became interested in the study of medicine. For two years he carried on these studies under the preceptorship of Dr. Lewis O. Carson at Traders Point and then, in 1881, the year after attaining his majority, he went to Missouri, with a view to "crowing up with the country," and settled in Dunklin county, where he presently was licensed to practice medicine and where in the next year he married and "settled down." For five years Doctor Miller remained in Missouri and then he returned to Indiana and entered the old Central Medical College at Indianapolis, which later was merged with the Indiana Medical College, and took a course of two years of instruction there. Later he entered the Indiana Eclectic Medical College, from which he was graduated in 1893, and in the next year also received a diploma from the Curtis Physio-Medical College at Marion. Meantime, the Doctor had become engaged as a building contractor at Indianapolis and while thus engaged erected the picturesque old stone building across the street north from the Capitol, designed by Doctor Allen as a Surgical Institute and now the Roosevelt hotel. He also built the Everett seed-store building in West Washington street, which is said to have been the first five-story building erected in Indianapolis. Not contented to abandon his profession, Doctor Miller resumed practice, opening an office at Ben Davis, a village just west of Indianapolis, and was there engaged in practice until in 1905, when he moved to Toledo and for two years was there engaged in the contracting business. In 1907 he returned to Indianapolis and was there engaged in medical practice for two years, at the end of which time, in 1909, he came to Muncie and has since been engaged in practice here, with present offices in No. 9 the Boyce block and residence at 1325 North Walnut street. In 1883, while living in Missouri, Dr. Joseph Miller was united in marriage to Alice Brown, who was born in that state and who died on February 2, 1924. Doctor Miller is a member of the Christian church. He has a son, Robert M. Miller, who was graduated from the Muncie high | school with the class of 1924. ,

CHARLES DAVID TERHUNE, proprietor of a well equipped bakery and confectionery establishment at Muncie, has been a resident of that city since the days of his boyhood and literally "grew up" to the business in which he is now engaged. Mr. Terhune was born at Lawrenceburg, Ind., May 11, 1887, and is a son of Peter and Martha (Withrow) Terhune, the latter of whom also was born in Indiana, of English descent. She died some years ago. Peter Terhune, a retired railroad man now living in Muncie, was born in Ohio. He is of French stock, several generations removed from the Terhune who established the name in this country. To him and his wife were born six children, four sons and two daughters. In 1895 Peter Terhune moved from Lawrenceburg to Hagerstown, this state, and in 1903 came to Muncie with his family. Charles David Terhune thus was sixteen years of age when he became a resident of Muncie. He completed his schooling in the local high school and early became employed in a local bakery and confectionery shop, where he learned the business in all its details. For four years he worked in the Hinkley bakery and then became employed in the circulation department of the Muncie Star and was thus engaged for six years, or until in 1914, when he bought the Hinkley bakery and confectionery establishment and has since been engaged in business on his own account, with a well stocked and admirably equipped place at 219 South Wal- nut street. In addition to manufacturing ice cream for his own trade Mr. Terhune has extended this line to meet as a wholesaler the demand for his product that has been created in the general trade hereabout and is yearly expanding his confectionery department to meet this growing trade, remodeling his place of business and installing new fixtures as the occasion requires in the way of business expansion. Mr. Terhune is an active member of the local Chamber of Commerce, of the Kiwanis Club, of the Ad Club and of the Travelers Protective Association. He is a 32° (Scottish Rite) and York Rite (Knights Templar) Mason and a noble of the Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine and is likewise affiliated with the local lodge of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. In 1908 Charles D. Terhune was united in marriage to Sadie Andrews, daughter of Alonzo Andrews, of Muncie, and to this union two children have been born, a son, Charles, and a daughter, Betty Ruth. The Terhunes reside at 331 East Adams street.

MISS AZLIN O'CONNOR, secretary and treasurer of the Muncie Casket Company and purchasing agent and sales manager of the plant and operations of that company at Cleveland street and the Big Four railway tracks, has been a resident of Muncie for the past ten years and during that time has risen to a position in the industrial life of the city that helps amply to demonstrate the growing fitness and adaptability of women to the modern methods of commercialism and industrialism. Miss O'Connor was born at Indianapolis and is the daughter of Eugene and Lillian (Barbeau) Shirley, the former of whom, a Pennsylvanian, died when his daughter Azlin was a small child. Mrs. Lillian Shirley, who was born in Delaware county, in 1900 married Joseph O'Connor, of Indianapolis, and Azlin Shirley has since been known by the name of O'Connor. Joseph O'Connor, now living retired in Indianapolis, is a son of Michael O'Connor, the founder of the wholesale grocery firm of M. O'Connor & Company of that city and was for years actively associated with the operations of that concern. Miss O'Connor completed her schooling in the high school of St. Agnes Academy at Indianapolis, and later became a proficient commercial stenographer and office technician. In 1914 she came to Muncie as a stenographer in the office of the Muncie Casket Company and due to her progressive ideas and executive ability she was made a member of the board of directors and assistant manager of the company's operations here. In this dual position her capacity for effective office management became recognized and in 1919 she was elected secretary-treasurer of the company and presently advanced to the executive position of general manager and is now serving in that capacity, one of the most active business women in eastern Indiana. Miss O'Connor is a Republican and is a member of Grace Episcopal church and of the Delta Theta Tau sorority. She resides at 10214 West Washington street.

REV. CHARLES ELLIOTT WATKINS, a minister of the Baptist church, former general secretary of the local Young Men's Christian Association and present assistant treasurer and supervisor of employment and personnel of the Muncie Products Division of the General Motors Corporation, is a native of the old Buckeye state but has been a resident of Indiana and of Muncie for the past twenty years, and has had wide experience in institutional and social welfare work in Muncie. Mr. Watkins was born in the historic old village of Huntsville, in Logan county, Ohio, May 26, 1876, and is a son of William Jasper and Sarah (Kelly) Watkins, both of whom were born in that same county, members of pioneer families there, the Watkinses having come from Pennsylvania and the Kellys from Virginia. William Jasper Watkins was a building contractor and his son Charles early was taught the rudiments of the carpenter's trade. In 1898 the family left Huntsville and moved to Dayton, Ohio, and it was in this latter city that Charles Elliott Watkins completed his schooling. He married when twenty-three years of age and continued to make his home at Dayton until 1904, in which year he came to Muncie and was for eighteen months thereafter connected with the Warner concern. In the meantime he had been pursuing his theological studies and in 1906 was installed as pastor of the South Walnut Street Baptist church. For six years Mr. Watkins continued in this pastoral relation and then he accepted the appointment of superintendent of evangelism for the Baptist church in Indiana, and in this capacity rendered service to the church in all parts of the state, continuing thus employed until in 1917, when he was appointed general secretary of the Young Men's Christian Association at Muncie and in that important capacity rendered service to the community during the stressful period of this country's participation in the World war, as well as service in association with the welfare bureau of the State Council of Defense and in such other | relations as his experience and tried capacities best fitted him for. In June, 1919, Mr. Watkins transferred his services to the personnel department of the great plant of the T. W. Warner Company, manufacturers of automobile parts at Muncie, and when this concern was taken over by the General Motors Corporation and the Muncie Prod- ucts Division of this latter company was created he was retained as supervisor of employment and personnel and was made assistant treasurer of the concern, which dual position he since has occupied, his long experience in social welfare work giving him special qualifications for service in connection with the industrial and personnel relations of this great plant. Mr. Watkins is a Republican, a member of the Muncie Chamber of Commerce and a member of the local Rotary Club. In 1920 he served as district governor of Rotary. In 1899, at Dayton, Ohio, the Rev. Charles Elliott Watkins was united in marriage to Cora L. Baldwin, of that city, and he and his wife have one child, a son, James Elwood Watkins, who was graduated from Purdue University and is now with the Merchants Trust Company of Muncie. During the time of this country's participation in the World war James Elwood Watkins received training in the Students Army Training Corps, received a commission as lieutenant at Ft. Sheridan and was sent to the S. A. T. C. of the University of California, whence he presently was transferred to the Agricultural College at Logan, Utah, and was there discharged when the war was over. He is a member of the local post of the American Legion. WALTER LOSSON. BALL, a member of the law firm, Leffler, Ball & Leffler, at Muncie, and former state senator from this district, is a native of the neighboring county of Blackford but has been a resident of Delaware county since the days of his infancy. He was born on a farm in Blackford county on January 16, 1869, and is a son of George M. and Susannah R.. (Hale) Ball, the latter of whom, still living, was born in the neighboring county of Henry, daughter of Lafory Hale, a Virginian and a pioneer of Henry county. George M. Ball was born in Delaware county in 1844 and was a son of Samuel Ball, a member of one of the first families to settle in the southern part of this county. After his marriage George M. Ball located in Blackford county, where his first born child, the subject of this sketch, was born, but after a year or two of residence there returned to the old Ball neighborhood in the southern part of this county, where he became engaged in farming and where he spent the remainder of his life, his death occurring in March, 1879, he then being thirty-five years and eight months of age. His widow was left with six children, those besides the subject of this sketch, the eldest, being Joseph H., Claude C., John W., Clay A., and Mrs. Maud M. Ayres. Having been but ten years of age when his father died, Walter L. Ball was early thrown pretty largely upon his own resources in the way of making a livelihood, the management of the farm devolving upon him in his youth. His common schooling was completed in the grade school at Springport and he there decided to go on. when the opportunity offered. When twenty-one years of age Mr. Ball entered the old Northern Indiana Normal School at Valparaiso and was for two years a student there, giving his particular attention to studies preparatory to taking up law. Thus equipped by preparatory study he then entered the law office of Gregory & Silverberg at Muncie and under this preceptorship was prepared for admission to the bar. In 1894, when twenty-five years of age, Mr. Ball was admitted to practice and has ever since been engaged in practice at Muncie, a period of thirty years. In 1895 Mr. Ball became associated in practice with Joseph G. Leffler, who three years later was elected judge of the Delaware circuit court. Upon Judge Leffler's retirement from the bench this association was renewed and has ever since been continued, the law firm now being Leffler, Ball & Leffler, with offices in the Nickey building. In 1896 Mr. Ball was elected to represent this joint senatorial district, which then comprised Delaware and Randolph counties, in the Indiana state Senate and in 1900 was re-elected, thus serving for eight years in the Senate. Mr. Ball is a Republican. He is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and the Improved Order of Red Men. In 1894 Walter L. Ball was united in marriage to Retha F. Taylor, who was born in Ohio but who was . reared in Delaware county, daughter of William Taylor, who had a farm north of Muncie. Mr. and Mrs. Ball reside at 800 West Charles street. They have one child, a daughter, Ruth Lucile, wife of John W. Harker, cashier of the Farmers Savings Bank of Muncie. WALTER L. NELSON, president and general manager of the City Ice and Cold Storage Company of Muncie, is a native of the old Blue Grass state but has been a resident of Indiana and of Muncie since the days of his boyhood. Mr. Nelson was born on a farm in Barren county, Kentucky, April 6, 1884, and is a son of Joseph A. and Lillie (Pace) Nelson, the latter of whom died when her son Walter was about six years of age. Joseph A. Nelson, who for many years has been engaged in the ice business at Muncie, was born in Cumberland county, Kentucky, April 4, 1863, and is a son of Nicholas C. and Amanda A. (Ferquin) Nelson, the former of whom also a native Kentuckian, was a millwright who lost his life by reason of an industrial accident when his son Joseph was but fourteen years of age, the eldest of nine children. Five years later the mother of these children also died and Joseph A. Nelson assumed charge of the younger children. At the age of twenty he married Lillie Pace and continued farming in Kentucky until he was twenty-five years of age when he left the farm and moved to Indianapolis, where for four years thereafter he was employed as a street car conductor, and where his wife died about two years after they had taken up their residence there. Later he became engaged in the ice business at Indianapolis, but a year or two later, in 1898, he moved to Muncie, where he married Mrs. Emma (Thornburg) Kerr and where he ever since has resided, now living at 1700 West Jackson street. Upon coming to Muncie thirty years and more ago Mr. Nelson became manager of the Armstrong Ice Company. Later he organized the Crystal Ice Company and has since been in the ice business, now head of the J: A. Nelson Ice Company of Muncie. Following the death of his mother at Indianapolis, Walter L. Nelson was taken back to Kentucky by kinsfolk and was there cared for on a farm until he was twelve years of age, when he rejoined his father at Muncie, and it was here that he completed his schooling, leaving school at the age of sixteen to go to work in the Indiana iron mills. Not long after- -ward he began working on an ice wagon and two years later went to Litchfield, Ill., where he spent a year in a glass factory. Returning then to Muncie he became engaged here, at the age of twenty, in the ice business on his own account, dealing in lake ice, and presently became connected with the old Muncie Ice and Cold Storage Company, in the failure of which concern he lost all his savings and had to begin "at the bottom" again, resuming his former plan of retailing ice. In March, 1921, Mr. Nelson bought an ice plant at Newcastle and in the following June sold the same at a nice profit. He then took a prospecting trip through the West, going to the coast, looking for a place to open up in the ice business, but after consid-. erable looking about came to the conclusion that there was no better town than Muncie. Upon his return here he became associated with his father and William Jordan and bought the old established Whiteley ice plant and organized the present City Ice and Cold Storage Company, of which he is the president and general manager, with a well equipped plant at 423 South Plum street, near the tracks of the Big Four railway. This ice plant has a manufacturing capacity of forty tons a day and a storage capacity of 2,000 tons. Mr. Nelson's confidence in the stability of Muncie's development is attested by his real estate transactions, he having acquired more than forty pieces of real estate in the city during the past few years. He isa 32° (Scottish Rite) Mason and a Knight Templar and a noble of the

Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine and is also affiliated with the local lodge of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and with the Muncie Exchange Club. In 1903 Walter L. Nelson was united in marriage to Maud Crossfield. Mr. and Mrs. Nelson have three children, Evelyn, Roselyn and Betty Jane. The Nelsons reside at 708 West Main street.

CHESTER COLBY WINGATE, assistant cashier of the Merchants National Bank of Muncie, is a member of one of Delaware county's pioneer families. He was born on a farm in Niles township, this county, March 2, 1890, and is a son of David Wallace and Samantha Jane (Wilson) Wingate, the latter of whom is still living. She also was born in Niles township, May 27, 1858, and is a daughter of Alfred and Martha (Wright) Wilson, who were among the pioneers of that township. The late David Wallace Wingate also was born in Niles township, August 8, 1855, and was a son of James Wright and Belinda (Stewart) Wingate, who had come over here from Ohio. James Wright Wingate was born in the city of Dover, Del., July 20, 1815, and was a son of Philip and Sarah (Wright) Wingate, the former of whom also was born in Delaware and the latter in Maryland. Sarah Wright Wingate died in Delaware in 1821 and Philip Wingate married again and moved with his family to Highland county, Ohio, where he continued working at his trade as a wagon maker until in 1847, when he came to Indiana and started up in wagon making at Albany, in this county. He died at the home of his son, James W. Wingate, in Niles township, October 9, 1871, and was buried in Bethel cemetery. He had rendered service in the army during the time of America's second war for independence and on his tombstone are inscribed the words: "Lieutenant in the War of 1812." Mary, his second wife, had predeceased him twenty years, her death having occurred on July 20, 1851. She also is buried in Bethel cemetery. By his two marriages Philip Wingate was the father of ten children, eight sons and two daughters. James Wright Wingate was but a lad when his father moved with his family from Delaware to Ohio and he grew up in Highland county in the latter state. On March 30, 1837, he married Belinda Stewart, daughter of James and Sophia (Chew) Stewart, of Fayette county, Ohio, and after his marriage made his home at Monroe, in that state, where he worked at his trade as a carpenter until in 1852, when he came to Indiana with his family and settled on a farm in Niles township, this county, where he spent the remainder of his life, his death having occurred on May 1, 1901. His wife had long predeceased him, her death having occurred on February 21, 1875. Both are buried in Bethel cemetery. They were the parents of eleven children, ten sons and one daughter, David Wallace Wingate having been the tenth in order of birth of these children. James Wright Wingate was for years the trustee of Niles township. He and his wife were members of the Methodist Episcopal church and he was for years one of the trustees and a steward of his local congregation. He also was a Knight Templar Mason. Starting in there in the woods in Niles township on an eighty-acre tract in 1852 he kept enlarging his land holdings until he came to be the owner of nearly 700 acres of land. It was on that pioneer farm in Niles township that David Wallace Wingate grew to manhood. After his marriage he continued farming in Niles township until in 1897, when he disposed of his interests there and bought a farm in Hamilton township. On this latter place he established his home and spent the remainder of his life, his death occurring on February 23, 1921. David Wallace Wingate was a Republican and for six years served as trustee of Hamilton township. He also was for years a member of the directorate of the Farmers - State Bank of Eaton. He was affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and with the Improved Order of Red Men and was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, as is his widow, and their children were reared in that faith. Of the children born to this parentage three are now living, the subject of this sketch having two sisters, Martha, wife of David F. Burt, and Oletha, wife of Ira Kain. Chester Colby Wingate was but seven years of age when his parents moved from the Niles township farm to their new home in Hamilton township and he grew up in the latter township. He was graduated from the Royerton high school, then spent a year in Wabash College and later entered the normal school at Muncie, from which he was graduated. For two years Mr. Wingate taught school and then he became engaged in the insurance business at Albany, also handling real estate. Two years later he sold this business and became the assistant cashier of the Albany State Bank and was thus connected for two years and a half, at the end of which time, on June 17, 1918, he transferred his services to the Merchants National Bank of Muncie and has since been connected with that institution. In 1920 he was made assistant cashier of this bank and has since been serving in that capacity. On June 10, 1914, Chester Colby Wingate was united in marriage to Genevieve Axtell, who was born at Cochranton, Pa., but was reared at Erie, Pa., where her parents, James W. and Eliza- _ beth Axtell, are now living, and to this union two children have been born, a daughter, Bettie Jane, and a son, James Wallace Wingate. Mr. and Mrs. Wingate are members: of the Methodist Episcopal church and are Republicans, and Mr. Wingate is a Freemason. The Wingates reside at 626 West Main street.

GEORGE WASHINGTON CROMER, former representative in Congress from this district, former mayor of the city of Muncie, former prosecuting attorney for the Forty-sixth Indiana judicial ~ circuit and for nearly forty years engaged in the practice of law at Muncie, was born in the neighboring county of Madison, but has been a resident of Delaware county and of Muncie since the days of his infancy.. Mr. Cromer was born on May 13, 1856, and was thus but an infant when in the summer of that same year his parents, Josiah and Mary (Shultz) Cromer, came over into Delaware county and settled on a quarter-section farm in Salem township, where they spent the remainder of their lives, the former living to be seventyfive years of age and the latter to about the same age. Josiah Cromer was born in Pennsylvania, a son of George Cromer, and in the days of his young manhood came out into Indiana and presently, in Wayne county, married Mary Shultz, who was born in the Hagerstown. neighborhood in that county, a daughter of Martin Shultz and wife, who were of the Dunkard faith. Josiah Cromer was reared in the English Lutheran faith. After their marriage Josiah Cromer and his wife located in Madison county, where they remained until they took up their location in Delaware county in 1856, as noted above. They were the parents of eight children, of whom the subject of this sketch was the fourth in order of birth, the others being Sarah Jane, Rush Henry, Martin Luther, Jeremiah C., Ida (who died in infancy), Emma F. and Dora. Reared on the home farm in Salem township, George W. Cromer received his schooling in the local schools and when little more than a boy began to teach school, a vocation he followed during the winters for two years, after which he entered Indiana University and in 1882 was graduated from that institution with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. In the meantime he had been taking preparatory studies with the view to entering the law as a profession and upon leaving the university entered the law office of Josiah Mellette at Muncie for a season of practical study along that line, and in 1886 was admitted to the bar. In that same year he was elected, as the nominee of the Republican party, to the office of prosecuting attorney for this judicial district and in 1888 was re-elected, thus serving in this important public capacity for four years. In 1894 he was elected mayor of the city of Muncie and in that administrative capacity served for four years. By this time Mr. Cromer was beginning to be recognized as a force in the political activities of this part of the state and in 1898 he was made the nominee of his party for representative in Congress from this (the Eighth) congressional district. He was elected and so satisfactory did his services prove in that high legislative body that he was successively re-elected in 1900, in 1902 and in 1904 and thus served for eight years in Congress. Upon the expiration of his term of service in Congress Mr. Cromer resumed his law practice in Muncie and has ever since been thus engaged. In 1912 he formed a partnership for practice with Harry Long, under the firm name of Cromer & Long, and this arrangement continued until in 1921, since which time Mr. Cromer has been practicing alone, with offices in the Western Reserve Life Insurance building. He still retains all of his old time interest in politics and is still recognized as a force in the party's councils in this state. Mr. Cromer is a member of the English Lutheran church and is affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Knights of Pythias and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, of which latter order he is a past exalted ruler, and also has some other lodge affiliations, In 1894 he was married to Frances Soules, a native of Canada, and a legal separation of this union ensued in 1910. The union was without issue. GEORGE W. PFEIFFER, assessor in and for Center township, in which important office he now is serving his second term, has been a life-long resident of Muncie. Mr. Pfeiffer was born in Muncie in the year 1866 and is a son of John and Sarah (Nutts) Pfeiffer, the latter of whom was born in the city of London, county seat of Madison county, Ohio. John Pfeiffer was a European by birth, born in the city of Darmstadt, capital of the then grandduchy of Hesse- Darmstadt, where he grew up and learned the trade of shoemaker. As a young man he came to America and was thus living here when the Civil war broke out. He enlisted his services in behalf of the cause of the Union and served as a private in the 84th regiment, Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and while thus serving was wounded in action. Upon the completion of his military service he established his home in Muncie and was here for many years engaged in business as a Shoemaker. To him and his wife were born three children, the subject of this sketch having two sisters, Alta and Mamie. Reared at Muncie, George W. Pfeiffer received his schooling in the schools of that city and early became a druggist, a vocation he followed for years or until his election in 1918 to the office of assessor of Center township, the township in which Muncie is situated. So satisfactory did Mr. Pfeiffer's service in the administration of this important office prove that he was re-elected in 1922 and is now serving his second term as assessor. Beginning in 1919 he also rendered further public service as president of the local board of health. Mr. Pfeiffer _is a member of the order of Knights of Pythias. His wife, Dollie V. Lewis, is a daughter of John and Emma Lewis, of Anderson, Ind., formerly of Niles, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Pfeiffer have three daughters, Mary, Dorothy Jane and Betty Lucille.

ROY M. THOMAS, president of the Thomas Auto Top Company of Muncie and general manager of the extensive plant built up by that concern within the past few years, is a Delaware county boy. who has succeeded because he had confidence in his ability to swing the job which he undertook when a mere lad. He knew the quality of the product he was putting out and his confidence in that quality soon created a market which has gradually expanded until now the Thomas products have a definitely fixed place in the lines they cover. Mr. Thomas was born at Albany, this county, in 1896, and is a son of H. K. and Lorena (Wingate) Thomas, both members of old families in this county. In 1908 the Thomases moved to Muncie and Roy M. Thomas, then twelve years of age, completed his schooling in the schools of this city . As a mere boy he became attracted to the possibilities opening out in the then rapidly developing automobile industry and got a job in a local garage which also made a specialty of trimming. To this latter line he gave his special attention and in 1911, when but fifteen years of age, he started out on his own, opening a shop in a small room in North Walnut street and with a couple of helpers set himself up in business as a repairer of automobile tops. This was the beginning of the present extensive plant of the Thomas Auto Top Company. Roy Thomas's early customers became aware that quality was behind his work and the little shop soon outgrew its original quarters and was moved to a larger room in West Main street. Mr. Thomas added to his trimming department the manufacture of radiator and hood covers and found a ready market for these in the retail trade, gradually extending this trade to supply calls made upon him by dealers. In 1916 he found it necessary ~ again to seek larger quarters and he moved his shop to a building in East Main street, where he increased the number of his products by adding the manufacture of tire and seat covers. And still his business grew. The next move was into a building in East Jackson street, where with more ample facilities for production, he increased his line of goods and entered upon a system of distribution through dealers only. In 1919 he bought the two-story building at 316 North Mulberry street with a view to remodeling the same and adding another story for factory purposes, but before this reconstruction work was finished it became necessary again to seek larger quarters and he moved his shop to a building at 108 North Mulberry street, where the business was carried on until in May, 1920, when he was able to occupy his present quarters, the reconstructed building of three stories, at 316 same street. From the force of two helpers with which Mr. Thomas started in business his production force has grown until now 135 persons are employed in the plant, and from the original plan of trimming auto tops the variety of products of the plant has expanded until it now includes no fewer than twentyfive items, the chief of which are top recovering equipment, curtains, one-man tops, radiator covers, seat covers and other accessories of a like character, distribution of which now is made through jobbers only. And thus another product which has entered the market in a large way is helping to keep Muncie on the map as an important manufacturing center. Mr. Thomas is a Freemason and is president of the City Golf Club. In 1918 he married Maybel E. Littleton, daughter of 8. E. Littleton, of Winchester, Ind., and to this union one child has been born, a son, Robert. Mr. Thomas and his family ' yeside on McCulloch boulevard at Elm street.

DR. G. S. MacKAY, one of the younger of Muncie's dental surgeons, is a Canadian by birth but an American by choice and adoption and has been a resident of Muncie since 1920. Doctor MacKay was born at Kincardine, in the province of Ontario, Dominion of Canada, December 26, 1894, and is a son of the Rev. George and Isabella (Ginn) MacKay, both of whom also were born in Canada, of Scottish descent. The Rev. George MacKay, a Presbyterian clergyman, is now living retired at Kincardine. Three of his sons are dentists, Dr. G. S. MacKay having two brothers, Dr. Alexander R. Mac- Kay, of Detroit, Mich., and Dr. Edward R. MacKay, of Biggar, Saskatchewan, also practicing this profession. The Doctor also has three sisters, Christina, Florence and Mae, and two other brothers, John and Grant MacKay. Reared at Kincardine, G. S. MacKay was graduated from the high school there in 1914 and in the following year entered the Ohio College of Dental Surgery at Cincinnati, from which institution he was graduated in 1918. Upon receiving his diploma, Doctor MacKay located at Indianapolis and in the office of Doctor McGrail in that city was engaged in practice for two years, at the end of which time he came to Muncie and has since been engaged in practice here, with offices at 206-7 the Wysor block, corner Main and Walnut streets. In 1921 Doctor MacKay took a post-graduate course at the Dunlap Research Institute at Chicago, in 1922 attended a further post-graduate course in gas. anesthesia under Doctor Guedel in the City Hospital at Indianapolis and has recently completed a course in scientific construction of artificial dentures under Dr. Ewell Neil, of Memphis, Tenn., who is head of the research department of the University of Tennessee. The Doctor is a member of the Muncie Dental Association and is affiliated with the dental college fraternity, Xi Psi Phi. He and his wife, who before her marriage was Theodocia Dake, of Indianapolis, are members of the Presbyterian church.

CHESTER A. FRICK, secretary and eauaeal manager of the Glascock Bros. Manufacturing Company of Muncie and a veteran of the World war, was born in Defiance, Ohio, in 1888, and is a son of O. A. and Millie (Otis) Frick, the former of whom is engaged in the manufacture of wagons at Defiance. Reared at Defiance, Chester A. Frick supplemented the schooling he received in the public schools of that city by a course in Defiance College and then became interested in the automotive industries, with particular reference to the technical details of the manufacturing end of this important and growing in- - dustry. He acquired a technical education and then became employed as superintendent of the works of the Trumbull Wagon Company af Defiance, Ohio. From there he went to the plant of the Hudson Motor Company at Detroit, where he for some time served as assistant superintendent of that plant, later being made production manager in the great plant of the Continental Motors Corporation at Detroit. When this country took a hand in the World war Mr. Frick enlisted his services in behalf of the automotive production section of the Ordnance Department of the army and in that highly technical post rendered service until the close of the war, after which he became connected with the automotive industries of Muncie, taking part in the operations of the Glascock Bros. Manufacturing Company, manufacturers of automobile bodies, both open and closed, a product which has developed a wide market, with a well established and admirably equipped plant at Fifth and Perkins streets. Following are the officers of this company: President, C.S. Davis; vice-president, R. P. Johnson; treasurer, W. E. Hitchcock; secretary and general manager, Chester A. Frick. In 1906 Chester A. Frick married May Conrad, of Defiance, Ohio, and to this union have been born three children,

Marjorie, Richard and Jack. Mr. and Mrs. Frick are members of the Presbyterian church. They reside at 300 North Vine street. CHARLES E. McKIBBIN, veteran dealer in paints and oils at Muncie and one of the best known men in that line of trade in eastern Indiana, is a native Hoosier and has lived in this state all his life, a resident of Muncie for more than forty years. Mr. McKibbin was born at North Madison, in Jefferson county, Indiana, July 11, 1862, and is a son of Charles and Sarah (Tull) McKibbin, the former of whom, a veteran of the Civil war, was a pioneer Indiana railroad man, a locomotive engineer on the old Jeffersonville, Madison and Indianapolis railroad, the first railroad built in Indiana. In 1871 Charles McKibbin moved from North Madison to Columbus, Ind., and was making his home there when two years later, in 1873, he was killed in a railway accident. Charles E. McKibbin was nine years of age when his parents moved to Columbus and was eleven when his father met his death. Later he made his home with kinsfolk at Roann, in Wabash county, and in the schools of that village completed his schooling. He early was thrown pretty largely upon his own resources in the matter of making a living, and ''worked around" until he was twenty years of age, when, in 1882, he came to Muncie looking for a permanent "job." It was in December that Mr. McKibbin reached Muncie and he found jobs mighty scarce. The Muncie of forty years ago, before natural gas introduced the town to. the world, was a place vastly different from the city of today. The first money Mr. McKibbin earned in the town was $1 for painting a fence. It was not until in July following his arrival in town that he was able to "land" a steady job. This was at the transfer station of the American Express Company, a job necessitating his presence at the arrival of every express train coming into town, night and day. For six years he held down that job and then was promoted to the position of a railway express messenger. Three years later he was made baggage master in the local station of the Big Four Railway Company at Muncie and continued thus employed for two years, at the end of which time, in 1893, he became employed in the glass manufacturing plant of the Maring-Hart company. For ten years Mr. McKibbin continued his connection with this concern and then, in 1903, he became engaged in business on his own account, opening a paint store at 215 East Jackson street. This business prospered and ten years later, in 1918, recognizing the necessity of larger quarters, Mr. McKibbin moved his store to his present location in the Boyce block in East Main street, where he since has been located and where he has the largest exclusive paint store in town, his store room being 32 by 125 feet in dimension, and his stock covering all essentials in that line of trade, including paints, oils, varnishes, builder's glass and the like. Mr. McKibbin is a member of the Muncie Chamber of Commerce and is also affiliated with the Knights of Pythias. Charles E. McKibbin married Martha K. Meeker, daughter of John and Catherine Meeker, of Muncie, and he and his wife have two children, a daughter, Florence M., and a son, Kenneth M. Mc- Kibbin, the latter of whom married Lois VanArsdal and has two children, Van Edwin and Joanne. Florence M. McKibbin married L. M. Long and has two children, Martha Sue and Lewis Clark Long. Mr. and Mrs. McKibbin reside at 405 North Plum street.

GEORGE C. STETTER, secretary and treasurer and general manager of the Muncie Cap and Set Screw Company and also actively identified with the automobile sales industry at Muncie, was born at Muncie on September 25, 1897, and is a son of John and Ivy B. (Morris) Stetter, further mention of whom is made elsewhere in this volume. George C. Stetter received his common schooling in Cleveland, Cincinnati and Muncie and was graduated from the Muncie high school, after which he entered Purdue University and in 1920 was graduated from that institution. Upon returning from the university Mr. Stetter became connected with the operations of the Muncie Cap and Set Screw Company, was elected secretary and treasurer of the same and has since been actively connected with the operations of that thriving industry at the plant of the same at the corner of Willard street and Hoyt avenue. Mr. Stetter also is the president of the Factory Tire Store (Inc.), whose sales room is at 123 West Adams street, and is a member of the board of directors of the Oakland-Nash-Cadillac Company, whose automobile sales room is located at 308 West Main street, and is thus an active factor in the local automobile sales activities of this community, as well as in the general industrial activities of the city. He is a-member of the Muncie Chamber of Commerce, the Country Club and the national college fraternity Kappa Sigma, and is likewise affiliated with the Freemasons and with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. On November 2, 1921, George C. Stetter was united in marriage to Katharine F. Johnson, who also was born at Muncie, daughter of J. E. and Winifred (Smith) Johnson, and to this union one child has been born, a daughter, Winifred. Mr. and Mrs. Stetter are members of the Presbyterian church. They reside at 925 East Washington street.

FRANK T. PARK, superintendent of the Yorktown schools and a veteran of the World war, has been engaged in educational and personnel work all his active life. Mr. Park was born on a farm in Wells county, Indiana, July 12, 1890, and is a son of W. H. and Martha Park, who later became residents of Bluffton, county seat of that county. Frank T. Park received his first four years of schooling in a one-room district school in the neighborhood of the home farm and then entered the grade school in the village of Murray, near Bluffton, and was graduated from the eighth grade there. His parents then moved to Bluffton and he was graduated from the high school in that city in 1911. Thus qualified for entrance upon the educational career to which he had devoted himself, he began teach- -ing in the rural schools of his home county and was thus engaged for five years,during the summers of these years attending four terms at normal school and one at Indiana University. He then became teacher of history and manual training in the high school at Petroleum and in the following year was made principal of the high school at Dana, in Vermillion county, and was thus serving when this country took a hand in the World war. Resigning his position as principal in the second year of such service, Mr. Park enlisted his services in behalf of the army in March, 1917, and was assigned to service in the personnel department of the headquarters company of the great Depot Brigade at Camp Taylor, where he served, with the exception of six weeks spent at Camp Shelby, Hattiesburg, Miss., until his honorable discharge in March, 1919, the war then being over. In the meantime, in 1917, in pursuance of his studies, Mr. Park had been graduated from the old Muncie National Institute and upon the completion of his military service resumed his educational work, in the summer of 1919, being appointed superintendent of the Yorktown schools, the position he since has occupied, entering upon his duties in that responsible connection in the fall of that year. In the following summer Mr. Park received his degree of Bachelor of Philosophy from the Eastern Division of the Indiana State Normal School at Muncie and during the summers of 1921-23 attended Columbia University working for his Master degree. When Mr. Park took charge of the Yorktown schools in 1919 there was an enrollment of 42 in the high school. The past school year showed an enrollment of 104 in the senior high school. The enrollment in the lower grades of the Yorktown schools in 1919 was 244; current year, 272. In the fall of 1920 Mr. Park inaugurated the six-year high school at Yorktown, which in 1923 was duly accredited by the state department of education. With characteristic energy Mr. Park set about a general reconstruction of school facilities at Yorktown upon taking charge there and in 1922 secured the remodeling and extension of the school building, erected in 1898, by the building of an addition to take care of a combined auditorium and gymnasium, a high school assembly room, library, rest room, office and four additional class rooms. Mr. Park now has twelve teachers under his charge. Since he became superintendent the course of study in the 'high school has been extended to include bookkeeping, Bible study, sociology, economics, commercial architecture, commercial geography and high school credit for music, a director of the orchestra and a supervisor of music having been added to the teaching staff. The course in the junior high school now includes general science and civics. The Yorktown schools have been put on a thoroughly up-to- : date basis. Frank T. Park married Blanche Janney, daughter of 'Lon Janney and a member of the pioneer Janney family of this county. -

ROY C. SHANNON, head of the Shannon Furniture Company of Muncie, was born on a timber farm in Darke county, Ohio, October 22, 1878, and is a son of Hugh A. and Ida Z. (Evans) Shannon, the latter of whom was born in Blackford county, Indiana. Hugh A. Shannon was a poor timberman and small farmer. He was born in Darke county, a member of one of the pioneer families of that county, and made his home there after his marriage. He and his wife had eleven children and circumstances sometimes were pretty bad for them, so much so that the schooling of the children was not made much of. It was thus that Roy C. Shannon never attended school, not even one day, and he was permitted to grow up without even an elemental education, so far as the work of a school teacher was concerned. But by the application of his own efforts and personal study he learned to read and write and thus had mastered the "rudiments" before the time came when he was to go into business for himself. With that big household of children and the need of each one helping out in the way of a livelihood for the family, he began working for himself when thirteen years of age, taking employment on an Ohio farm at a wage of $5 a month. At the age of fifteen he came over into Indiana and at Union City began to work in a carriage factory, where it was not long until he became a skilled carriage painter and where he remained until his marriage at the age of twenty-one. He then set up housekeeping in Union City and went to work contracting painting for the Bowen Carriage Company, presently moving from there to Anderson, where for two years he was employed in various factories. In 1895 Mr. Shannon became engaged in the second-hand furniture business at Anderson, in association with A. N. King, the two doing business under the name of the Shannon Furniture Company, and so continued until this partnership was dissolved and Mr. Shannon began working for the Chicago Salvage Company. A year later he resumed business on his own account, resuming his interest in the furniture business, and remained at Anderson until in 1909, when he moved to Muncie and established himself here in the secondhand furniture line, doing business as the Shannon Furniture Company, and has since been engaged in business in Muncie, now having a well stocked place at 118-124 West Washington street. Mr. Shannon also has other interests in Muncie and has done well in business, these interests including a restaurant, a barber shop and a meat market, besides real estate of considerable value. It was in 1895, at Union City, Ind., that Roy C. Shannon was united in marriage to Melvina Lawrence. Of the eleven children born to this union, eight are living, Leverna, Ethel, Susann, Blanche, Franklin, Hugh, Raymond and Andrew. Leverna Shannon married Charles Brown and has one child, Galenda. Ethel Shannon married Benjamin Jones and has two children, Norvin and Benjamin, Jr., and Susann Shannon married Horace Hinshaw and has one child, a daughter, Imogene. PROF. CARL SCHULTZ, proprietor of the Schultz Sanitarium at Muncie and a resident of that city for the past fifteen years and more, was born at Moline, Ill., August 27, 1882, and is a son of William and Anna Schultz, both of whom were born in Germany. William Schultz came to this country as a young man and after his marriage established his home at Moline, IIl., where he for some time was engaged in horticultural pursuits. He later became engaged in the hotel business there and was thus engaged until his removal to Dallas, Tex., where he now is proprietor of the Schultz hotel. Reared at Moline, Carl Schultz received his early schooling there and then entered the Rock Island School of Natural Therapeutics, from which institution he was graduated in 1904. Upon receiving his diploma, Professor Schultz opened an office for the practice of his profession at St. Paul, Minn., where he remained for three years, or until in 1908, when he came to Indiana and took over the old Muncie Sani- - tarium and has since been engaged in business here, his establishment being located at 114 North Elm street. The Professor specializes in the treatment of neuritis, sciatica, lumbago, stiff and swelling joints, kidney, liver and stomach trouble, rheumatism and disorders of the (21) nerves by natural methods. He is a member of the Illinois Naturopathic Association. In 1903, at Davenport, Iowa, Prof. Carl Schultz was united in marriage to Catherine Carsten, daughter of Henry Carsten, and to this union two sons have been born, Harold Carsten, born in 1905, and Carl Marbin, 1911. The Schultzes reside at 1024 East Main street. Professor and Mrs. Schultz are Republicans and the Professor is a Freemason of high degree and a noble of the Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. He is a member of the Muncie Ad Club and he and his family are affiliated with the Lutheran church. .

OTIS EDGINGTON, secretary and treasurer of the Props-Dunn Motor Company, dealers in automobiles, Muncie, is a native son of Delaware county, a member of one of the old families of this county, and has lived here all his life, a resident of Muncie since 1915. Mr. Edgington was born in the historic old river village of Granville on April 2, 1869, and is a son of William and Cornelia (Sloniker) Edgington, the latter of whom also was born in this county, a member of the pioneer Sloniker family that found settlement in this county in the '30s of the past century. The first of the Slonikers in this country came from Holland and the family was established in Pennsylvania, whence the local branch of the family came into Indiana out of Ohio. The Edgingtons are of English-Welsh stock and became established in Ohio out of North Carolina. William Edgington was born in Adams county, Ohio, and came into Indiana in 1865, locating at Granville, where after his marriage he established his home and became engaged in mercantile business. Otis Edgington supplemented the schooling received in the public schools of this county by a course in the Central Indiana Normal School at Danville and then became engaged as a teacher in the schools at Eaton. He presently became engaged as a bookkeeper in the Eaton State Bank and from there went into the offices of the Western Flint Glass Company at Eaton and was thus engaged for about ten years, or until in 1915, when he became connected with the organization of the Props-Dunn Motor Company at Muncie, was elected secretary-treasurer of that company, and has since been engaged in business here in that capacity, office manager of this concern at 110-114 East Gilbert street. Mr. Edgington is a Democrat. He is a Scottish Rite (82°) Mason and is also affiliated with the Improved Order of Red Men. On October 15, 1892, Otis Edgington was united in marriage to Lucy V. Dragoo, who also was born in this county, daughter of John and Rhoda (Long) Dragoo, and a member of the pioneer Dragoo family in this county, and to this union have been born two sons, twins, Eugene and Glen Edgington. Mr. and Mrs. Edgington are members of the Methodist Episcopal church at Eaton.

MARION S. FINK, a substantial farmer and landowner of Harrison township, residing on Pleasant Run road, rural mail route No. 1 out of Yorktown, has been a resident of this county for nearly twenty-five years. Mr. Fink was born on a farm in the immediate vicinity of the city of Zanesvile, in Muskingum county, Ohio, June 17, 1869, and is a son of Jacob and Julia (Drumm) Fink, the latter of whom was born in that same county, a member of one of the pioneer families there. The late Jacob Fink also was born in Ohio, a son of Jacob Fink, Sr., and was reared in Muskingum county, where after his marriage he established his home and came to be a wellto-do farmer, the owner of a farm of 390 acres, and there he spent his last days, his death occurring in 1915. Of the nine children born to him and his wife all but one grew to maturity and of these latter all are living save one son, Emanuel, the subject of this sketch having three sisters, Ella, Anna and Mattie, and four brothers, Enoch, Dellard, Harvey and Edward Fink. Reared on the home farm in Muskingumi county, Marion 8. Fink received his schooling in the schools of that neighborhood and until his marriage remained on the farm with his father. After his marriage at the age of twenty-five he began farming on his own account as a renter and made his home in Ohio until in 1900 when he moved with his family to Indiana and rented a farm in Harrison township, this county. In 1914 Mr. Fink bought the farm of ninety-two acres on which he is now living, on Pleasant Run road in that township and has since made his home there, engaged in general farming. Since taking possession of this place Mr. Fink has made numerous improvements on the farm, including the erection of an up-to-date dwelling house in 1916. On December 13, 1894, Marion 8. Fink was united in marriage to Mary I. Conn, who also was born in Muskingum county, Ohio, a daughter of Isaac and Louisa (Fletcher) Conn, and to this union seven children have been born, Ola, Leona, Ivan, Roy, Pearl, Leslie and Esther, four of whom are married. Leona Fink married Homer Isley, of Harrison township, and has one child, a son, Ralph. Ivan Fink married Edna Hofherr and has three children, Robert and Rodney (twins) and Harold. Roy Fink married Laura Dragoo and has one child, a son, Thomas. Another child born of this union, a daughter, Esther, is deceased. Pearl Fink married John Ferguson, of the Gaston neighborhood, and has one child, a son, John Russell. Mr.

Fink is a Republican and a member of the Indiana Farm Federation. He also is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, having been inducted into that order years ago in Horicon lodge, No. 192, I. O. O. F., at Gratiot in Licking county, Ohio.

DONALD D. HENSEL, a member of the bar of the Delaware circuit court, associated in practice with Frederick F. McClellan and Leonidas A. Guthrie, under the firm name of McClellan, Hensel & Guthrie, at Muncie, and a former secretary of the Muncie Commercial Club, is a native of the old Buckeye state, but has been a resident of Indiana and of Muncie for more than twenty years. Mr. Hensel was born on a farm in the vicinity of Eaton, in Preble county, Ohio, December 17, 1874, and is a son of Michael K. and Elizabeth A. (Lyons) Hensel, both natives of Pennsylvania, who were married in that state. Michael K. Hensel served as a soldier of the Union during the whole period of the Civil war, having re-enlisted at the expiration of his first term of service, and after his marriage moved to Ohio and settled on a farm in the Eaton neighborhood. He was an active Republican, was called to fill several local offices in his home county, served two terms as a representative in the Ohio General Assembly and in 1892 was elected on the Republican electoral ticket in Ohio. He was an active member of his local post of the Grand Army of the Republic and he and his wife were Methodists, in which faith their children were reared. Four of these children, of whom the subject of this sketch was next to the eldest, grew to maturity. Reared on the home farm in the vicinity of Eaton, Donald D. Hensel began to teach school at the age of sixteen years and during the winters was for five years thus engaged, meantime taking two years of schooling in Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware, Ohio. He then entered Ohio State University and secured his Ph. B. degree there, following this by a year im the university law school, after which, in October, 1902, he came to Muncie and entered the law office of Silverburg & Lotz for a course of practical study of the law, and in 1903 was admitted to the bar. In the next year he formed an association with Frederick F. McClelfan for practice at Muncie, under the firm name of McClellan & Hensel, and later Leonidas A. Guthrie became a partner in this firm, which is now McClellan, Hensel & Guthrie, with offices at 1234 West Main street. Mr. Hensel is a Republican and has ever taken a good citizen's interest in public affairs. He is treasurer of the Muncie Bar Association and also takes a proper interest in the general social and commercial activities of the community and for three years (1910-11-12) served as secretary of the Muncie Commercial Club. He and his wife are members of the Presbyterian church. In 1909 Donald D. Hensel was united in marriage to Mabel Meeker, of Muncie, and to this union one child has been born, a daughter, Rachel Louise.

MYRON H. GRAY, a member of the bar of the Delaware circuit court, a member of the law firm of Silverburg, Bracken & Gray, was born at Daleville, in this county, September 17, 1881, a son of Milton and Jeannettia (Griffis) Gray, of whom further mention is made in this work, and was eight years of age when his parents moved with their family to Muncie, where he received his early schooling, and in 1900 was graduated from the Muncie high school. Upon leaving high school, Mr. Gray entered the University of Michigan and in 1904 received from that institution his A. B. degree. He then entered the law school of Harvard University, where he pursued his law studies for two years, and in 1905 was admitted to the bar and took up the practice of law in association with the law firm of Bingham & Long at Muncie. This association continued for a year, and then he began practice alone, but two years later, in 1908, formed his present association with Adolph C. Silverburg and Thomas E. Bracken, and has since been practicing as a member of the firm of Silverburg, Bracken & Gray, with offices in the Willard building, 1044 East Main street. This firm is retained to look after the local law business of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company and of the Lake Erie & Western Railroad Company and Mr. Gray's time is largely given to the practice of railroad, banking and corporation law, though he also is found active in attention to civil cases in the courts of this and adjoining counties and in the United States court at Indianapolis. He is an active member of the Muncie Bar Association. Mr. Gray was a member of the executive committee of the board of directors of the old Union National Bank of Muncie and in 1920 assisted in the consolidation of that bank with the Merchants National Bank, and is now a member of the executive committee of the board of that bank and of the Merchants Trust and Savings Company. He also is a member of the board of governors of the Muncie Home Hospital and is secretary of the board. In his fraternal relations he is a York Rite (Knights Templar) and Scottish Rite (82°) Mason and a noble of the Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, and he and his wife are members of St. John's Universalist church. On July 31, 1907, Myron H. Gray was united in marriage to Marie Frances Smith, who was born in Ohio, a daughter of S. N. Smith, now of Muncie, and to this union one child has been born, a daughter, Drexa.

JOHN JACOB ERTHER, who died at his home in Yorktown in the summer of 1923, had been a resident of that place for nearly sixty-five years and thus had been a witness to and a participant in the development of the town almost from the beginning, for it was only a few years after the railroad had been completed through there that he arrived in the town, which ever after was his place of residence and in the development of which he ever took an honest pride. Mr. Erther (originally Oerther) was in his ninetieth year when he died. He was born at Oberotterbach, in the Rhinephaltz province of Germany, April 17, 1834, and was a son of John and Margaret (Dahl) Oerther, natives of that same province, the former of whom, a farmer and weaver, died in that country, in 1852. His widow survived him for nearly twenty-five years, her death occurring at the home of her son, John Jacob, at Yorktown, in 1876, she having joined her son here in 1865. John Oerther and his wife reared a family of four children. John Jacob Oerther (Erther) received his schooling in his home country and remained there until he was seventeen years of age, when, in November, 1852, he came to the United States, landing at the port of New Orleans. A married sister had preceded him to this country and had become settled in Ohio, where he rejoined her. At New Boston in Scioto county, that state, he became employed as a blacksmith's helper and there learned the trade which he afterward followed pretty much all of his active life. In August, 1859, he came over into Indiana and located at Yorktown, in this county, where he found employment in the pioneer McCarty blacksmith shop. In the fall of the next year he married a Delaware county girl and established his home at Yorktown, where he spent the rest of his life. For awhile after settling at Yorktown he continued working as a blacksmith and then became engaged in the tanning business in association with Henry Overmire, later and for some time being engaged in the mercantile business there, but presently gave up his commercial ambitions and established himself as a blacksmith and wagon maker and so continued the remainder of his active life. He did well in his business and made some good land investments and at one time was the owner of no less than 500 acres of land in the Yorktown neighborhood. During the period of enterprising development which followed the opening of the gas field in the early '90's Mr. Erther was one of the promoters of the Yorktown Gas Company and also was one of the promoters of the ambitious addition laid out east of the creek to which the name of West Muncie was given, his lands lying in the path of that development. He was a Democrat, an

Odd Fellow and a member of the German Lutheran church. John Jacob Erther died on July 4, 1923. His wife had preceded him to the grave less than a year, her death having occurred on October 22, 1922, she then having been in her eighty-first year. It was on November 27, 1860, that John Jacob Erther was married to Isabella Daugherty, who was born in Mt. Pleasant township on June 6, 1842, daughter of William Daugherty, one of the real pioneers of that township, a soldier of the War of 1812 and a son of William Daugherty, Sr., a soldier of the Revolution, who had entered his lands there in section 21, in the river bottoms west of the present town of Yorktown, in 1829, which was seven years before Oliver H. Smith laid out his town of Yorktown. To John Jacob and Isabella (Daugherty) Erther were born nine children, all of whom are still living save one, Rosa May, the fourth in order of birth, the others being John William, Charles F., Emma F., Marietta, Myrtle, Doan, Glynn and Frederick. The William Daugherty mentioned above, maternal grandfather of these children, died on August 29, 1876, and his body lies in the Yorktown cemetery. He was born in what is now Clinton county, Ohio, in 1790, that having been thirteen years before Ohio became a state. He was enrolled as a soldier in the War of 1812 at 'Lebanon, Ohio, and was in the Detroit and Sandwich (Canada) campaigns, and received a land warrant from the government for his services. He was thrice married, was the father of eleven children, four sons and seven daughters, and was in his eighty-seventh year at the time of his death. It has been written of him that "he was somewhat pugnacious and knew well how to defend his own interests in a conflict," and that "he was made of good fibre and bore well his part in the heavy duties of a frontier life."

ALVA L. SNODGRASS, grocer at Cammack, was born on a farm in Harrison township, this county, August 11, 1869, and is a son of James P. and Sarah R. (Smith) Snodgrass, both of whom were born in Ohio, and were but children when they came to Delaware county with their respective parents, the Smith family settling in Harrison township and the Snodgrass family settling in Mt. Pleasant township. Following his marriage James P. Snodgrass established his home on a farm in Harrison township and became the owner of 320 acres of land. There he died in 1879. He and his wife were the parents of eleven children. Alva L. Snodgrass was but ten years of age when his father died. He grew up on the home farm and before he was twenty years of age was married. After his marriage Mr. Snodgrass continued farming for years, or until in

1914, when he retired from the farm and became engaged in the grocery business at Cammack, a business which since has engaged his attention. Mr. Snodgrass is a Republican. He is an Odd Fellow and also a member of the Improved Order of Red Men. It was on May 9, 1889, that Alva L. Snodgrass was united in marriage to Mary L. Dragoo, also a member of one of the old families of this county, and to this union four sons were born, Vernon O., Alva G., Raymond G. and Claude E., the two latter of whom are deceased. Vernon O. Snodgrass married Ona Stephenson and has one child, a daughter, Evelyn. Alva G. Snodgrass married Fernie Yingling and also has a daughter, Pauline. Mrs. Mary L. Snodgrass was born in Center township and is a daughter of Ephraim W. and Sarah E. (Howell) Dragoo, both members ef pioneer families in this county, both the Dragoos and the Howells having been represented here since settlement days.