Delaware County, Indiana - Sidelights on Local History, 1924 (part 13 of 21)

WILLIAM STEPHENSON, president of the Farmers Co-operative Company of Yorktown, manager of the grain elevator at Cammack and a substantial farmer and landowner of this county, residing on rural mail route No. 8 out of Muncie (the McKinley road), is a native son of Delaware county and has lived here all his life. Mr. Stephenson was born on a farm in the lower part of Harrison township, north of Reed, March 23, 1868, and is a son of James L. and Elizabeth Ann (Snow) Stephenson, the latter of whom was born near Zanesville, Ohio, and came to this county with her parents about 1850, the family settling in the Selma neighborhood. James L. Stephenson was a Virginian, born in that section of the Old Dominion now comprised within West Virginia, and in 1844 became a resident of Delaware county, buying an "eighty" in the Bethel neighborhood in Harrison township. He made the initial improvements on. that place and then sold it and bought a tract of 195 acres in section 33 of that same township, where he established his home and spent the remainder of his life, his death occurring on March 23, 1877. It was on that farm north of Reed that William Stephenson was born and reared. He was nine years old the day his father died. In the distribution of the estate he came in for forty acres, which he later sold and bought a "forty" of his present place in Mt. Pleasant township, his wife having inherited a farm of 142 acres there, a part of the Robert McKinley estate, and he continued farming there until in 1907 when he became engaged in the hardware business at Yorktown. Three years later, in 1910, he sold his business there and returned to the farm, where he since has made his home. On the first of April, 1921, Mr. Stephenson became the manager of the grain elevator at Cammack and has since occupied that position. He also is president of the Farmers Co-operative Company at Yorktown and is thus widely known hereabout as a grain man. The elevator at Cammack was erected in 1919 and has a capacity of 16,000 bushels of grain. Mr. Stephenson is a Republican and a member of the Knights of Pythias and he and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal church at Yorktown. It was on March 26, 1886, that William Stephenson was united in marriage to Sarah L. Mc- Kinley, also a member of one of the old families of this county, and to this union three sons have been born, Richard, Roscoe and Ernest, the first named of whom now alone survives. Richard Stephenson married Edith Cunningham, of Mt. Pleasant township. Mrs. Sarah L. Stephenson was born on the farm on which she is now living and is a daughter of Robert and Laura (Landrey) McKinley, the latter of whom was a daughter of Joseph Landrey, who came to Delaware county from Troy, Ohio, in the days of his young manhood and became a well-to-do farmer in Mt. Pleasant township. Robert Mc- 'Kinley was born in Pickaway county, Ohio, in 1843, and was but a lad when he came to Delaware county with his parents, Samuel and Sarah (Williamson) McKinley, the family settling on a 320-acre farm 'in Mt. Pleasant township. When Robert McKinley started out "on his own" as a farmer he inherited eighty acres of the old home place and gradually added to his holdings until he became the owner of about 400 acres. He and his wife had five children, four of whom grew to maturity.

JOHN HENRY SMITH, a veteran of the Civil war and formerly and for years engaged in the bentwood manufacturing line at Muncie, vice president of the Pioneer Pole and Shaft Company, now living retired in that city, was born in the village of Freedom, in Beaver county, Pennsylvania, April 23, 1848, and is a son of Andrew and Margaret Barbara (Foster) Smith, both of whom were born in Germany and the latter of whom was but a babe when brought to this country by her parents. Andrew Smith was born in the German territory of Hesse and when seventeen years of age, 'in 1835, to escape enforced military service came to the United States and settled at Pittsburg, Pa., where some years later he married Margaret Barbara Foster, afterward locating at Freedom, Pa., where he became engaged in the cooperage business and where he died some years later, leaving his widow with three children, of whom subject of this sketch alone survives, he having had a brother, Jacob, and a sister, Elizabeth, the latter of whom married Samuel Hamilton and spent her last days in Muncie. The Widow Smith married Charles Hartley and by this second union had three sons, William A., George F. and John J. Hartley, who became residents of Muncie and the last named of whom died recently. William A. Hartley is also deceased. Mrs. Hartley spent her last days in Pennsylvania and was seventy-seven years of age at the time of her death. Reared at Freedom, Pa., John Henry Smith received a high school education and was early trained to the cooper's trade. Though but eighteen years of age when the Civil war broke out he attempted twice, immediately following the call to arms, to enlist in the service of the Union, but was rejected. Finally, however, in July, 1863, he was accepted and was sent to the front with Company A of the 17th Pennsylvania Cavalry, with which command he served throughout the remainder of the war and was mustered out on August 7,

John Henry Smith

1865. By a curious error in the official history of his command he is listed in that work as having been killed at the battle of Shepardstown, Va. Upon the completion of his military service Mr. Smith returned to Freedom and resumed his work as a cooper, with particular reference to the manufacture of oil barrels. He married in the spring of 1867 and continued to make his home at Freedom until in 1871, when he came to Indiana and established a barrel stave factory at Bluffton, making staves for oils barrels, and was thus engaged until that plant was bought up by the Standard Oil Company. He then turned his attention to another branch of the bentwood business, bending wood for carriage stock, and in 1885 moved to Muncie, where in July of that year he established a factory, and he ever since has resided in that city. Upon engaging in business at Muncie he carried on under the firm name of J. H. Smith & Co., which in time was succeeded by the Pioneer Pole and Shaft Company, with a branch at Piqua, Ohio, which is still maintained and of which he still is vice president. The Muncie factory recently was sold. For several years Mr. Smith has been practically retired from the active affairs of life, he and his wife spending much time in travel. He has made three trips to Europe, on one of which he spent a year abroad, and has also been in South America, Mexico, the West Indies and in every state of the Union. Since 1871 Mr. Smith has been a member of the Grand Army of the Republic and has been "through the chairs" of the local (Williams) post of that patriotic organization. He is a Scottish Rite (32 degree) and Knight Templar Mason and a noble of the Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. It was on May 30, 1867, that John Henry Smith was united in marriage to Katherine Shaufelberger, who also was born at Freedom, Pa., May 2, 1849, daughter of William and Louise (Endres) Shaufelberger, the former of whom was born in Germany and the latter at Pittsburg, Pa. To this union were born five children, Lillian, Bertha, Winifred, Xenia and Huda. Mr. and Mrs. Smith have seven grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. Lillian Smith, who married Loan A. Franklin and who died in 1915, had three children, Roberta, John P. and Houston, the first named of whom married Herbert B. Brown and has three children, Betty, Nancy and Richard. Bertha Smith married John H. Love, now living in New York city, and has two children, Margaret and Robert. Winifred Smith, now deceased, who was the wife of J. Edgar Johnson, had two children, Abbott L. and Catherine, the latter of whom married George Stetter and has one child, a daughter, Winifred. Huda Smith married John Lloyd Kimbrough.

JOHN M. WILLIAMSON, a substantial farmer and landowner of Hamilton township, residing on the Granville pike, rural mail route No. 3 out of Muncie, was born in that township, a member of one of the pioneer families there, and has lived there all his life. Mr. Williamson was born on April 19, 1853, and is a son of James and Hannah (Shafer) Williamson, the latter of whom was born in Ohio in 1830. James Williamson also was a native of Ohio, born at Portsmouth, in Scioto county, in 1828, and was a son of Peter and Rosanna (Shafer) Williamson, the latter of whom was born in the kingdom of Wurtemburg and was but a child when in 1819 she came to this country with her parents, Adam and Sabina Shafer, the family presently becoming residents of Portsmouth. Adam Shafer later became a resident of Hamilton county, Indiana, locating near Noblesville, and his son Adam located in Delaware county, settling in Hamilton township, where he died in 1870 at the great age of ninety-five years. Peter Williamson was born in New Jersey in 1802 and was a son of Joseph Williamson, a native of New Jersey, who became one of the pioneers in the Scioto valley. In 1827 Peter Williamson married Rosanna Shafer and in 1834 he came with his family over into Indiana and settled on a tract of land he had entered from the government in section 25 of Hamilton township, this county, where he spent the remainder of his life, his death occurring in 1870. His widow survived him for twelve years, she being seventy-seven years of age at the time of her death in 1882. They were the parents of eleven children and the Williamson connection of this family in the present generation is thus a considerable one. James Williamson was but six years of age when his parents came to this county in 1834 and he grew to manhood on the home farm in Hamilton township. After his marriage in 1850 his father gave him an uncleared tract of fifty acres and he established his home on that place and started in to make a farm out of it. As his affairs prospered he added to his holdings until he became the owner of 320 acres, which in time he divided among his children. He died in 1914 and his widow died in 1918. Of the children born to them four grew to maturity, the subject of this sketch having a sister, Mary Christina, who married William Young, a Muncie merchant, and two brothers, Stephen W. and Lewis M. Williamson, farmers of Hamilton township. Reared on the home farm in Hamilton township, John M. Williamson received his schooling in the Williamson school (district No. 4) and remained at home, helpful in the labors of developing the farm, until his marriage, when his father gave him a "forty," the place on which he is still living on the Granville pike, and there he established his home and is now the owner of a well improved place of 110 acres. Mr. Williamson is a Democrat and is a past noble grand of Muncie Lodge No. 74, Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He and his wife are members of the Pleasant Grove Methodist Episcopal church, of which he is the class leader and a member of the board of trustees and a former superintendent of the Sunday school. Mrs. Williamson has served as president of the Ladies' Aid Society. She was born in Jay county (Elizabeth Thomas) and is a daughter of Samuel and Susanna Thomas. Mr. and Mrs. Williamson have five children, Ada Mae, Samuel Edmond, Leo Earl, Ray Martin and James, all of whom are married save the last named, James Williamson, who is now teaching school in Wyoming. Ada Mae Williamson married E. R. Boldrey. Samuel E. Williamson married Clyda Bassett and has two children, George Edmond and John Martin. Leo E. Williamson married Irene Powell and has one child, a son, Gordon Earl, and Ray M. Williamson married Marie Cox.

WILLIAM HENRY HICKMAN, formerly and for years a member of the bar of the Delaware Circuit Court and a real estate dealer in Muncie, who died in 1919 and whose widow continues to make her home at Muncie, residing at 819 East Adams street, was a native Hoosier and had been a resident of this state all his life, a resident of Muncie since the days of his boyhood. Mr. Hickman was born on a farm in the vicinity of the pleasant village of Springport in the neighboring county of Henry, May 3, 1859, and was a son of William and Clarissa (Williams) Hickman, the former of whom was born at Fairmount, W. Va., a son of the Rev. Joshua Hickman, a minister of the Baptist church, who later became a resident of Indiana and in his generation was widely known as a "circuit rider" throughout this section of the state. William H. Hickman was reared on the farm and his local schooling was completed in the Muncie high school, after which he was for some years engaged in teaching school. Meantime he took up the study of law, completing this study in the law office of Judge George H. Koons at Muncie, and in due time was ad- _ mitted to the bar and entered upon the practice of law at Muncie, at the same time engaging in the real estate business and was thus engaged here the remainder of his life, his death occurring on December 13, 1919. On June 6, 1898, William H. 'Hickman was united in marriage to Lydia A. Davis, of Indianapolis, and to that union were born four children, three daughters, Mary Elizabeth, born on ganuary 26, 1896; Charlotte Davis, October 5, 1899, and Clarissa

Lydia, October 16, 1906, and one son, William Hickman, April 7, 1912. Mary Elizabeth Hickman married Lawrence P. Smith and has two sons, Lawrence Park, Jr., and William Hickman Smith. Mrs. Hickman was born at Mt. Victory, Ohio, October 25, 1871, and is a daughter of Waldo and Elizabeth T. (Geer) Davis, the latter a daughter of George and Mary (Glassford) Geer, of Sidney, Ohio. George Geer was a Virginian, born in the neighborhood of Natural Bridge. The Glassfords are an old Ohio pioneer family, of English stock. Waldo Davis was born at Mansfield, Ohio, a son of Elihu and Lydia Ann (Tucker) Davis, and later became a resident of Muncie. Waldo Davis, who was a captain in the 88th regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, during the time of the Civil war, became engaged in manufacturing at Muncie and was thus engaged, operating a hub and spoke factory, from 1876 to 1887. He died in 1913. His mother, Lydia Ann (Tucker) Davis, was one of the early school teachers at Mansfield, Ohio.

GUY W. ALEXANDER, agent at Muncie of the National Life Insurance Company of Montpelier, Vt., and a veteran of the World war, was born on a farm in the neighboring county of Randolph on February 24, 1896, and is a son of James C. and Minnie (Waybright) Alexander, both natives of Ohio and the latter of whom is still living. The late James C. Alexander, though born in Ohio, had been a resident of Randolph county, this state, since the days of his boyhood. After his marriage he established himself on a farm in Randolph county and there spent the remainder of his life, his death occurring in December, 1918, he then being fifty-three years of age. To him and his wife were born three children, the subject of this sketch having a sister, Mrs. Esther McClintock, and a brother, Joseph R. Alexander. Reared on the home farm in Randolph county, Guy W. Alexander remained there until he was nineteen years of age. He was graduated from the Spartansburg high school and supplemented this schooling by two years of attendance at the Indiana State Normal School and a course in the Muncie Business College, in the meantime taking up life insurance as an agent for the Conservative Life Insurance Company of South Bend and was thus engaged for something more than four years, being thus engaged when this country took a hand in the World war. In May, 1918, Mr. Alexander entered the naval service and continued in service until his discharge in February, 1919, the war then being over. During this period of service he had some interesting experiences on the high seas, his service taking him to France, into Mediterranean waters and to various ports of the United States. Upon the completion of his naval service Mr.

Guy W. Alexander

Alexander resumed his connection with the Conservative Life and was thus engaged until in March, 1921, when he established temporary connection with the Western Reserve Life Insurance Company of Muncie, as a general agent of that company, and was thus connected until he entered upon his present connection with the National Life Insurance Company. In 1923 he took a course in agency supervision in the school of life insurance in the Carnegie Institute of Technology. Mr. Alexander is a member of the local post of the American Legion and is a Freemason. In November, 1919, Guy W. Alexander married Lua A. Smith, daughter of J. E. Smith, of Muncie, and to this union two sons have been born, Warren Richard and Donald. Mr. and Mrs. Alexander are members of the Friends Memorial church. They reside at 320 North Calvert street. . DR. C. W. THROOP, head of the firm of C. W. & C. L. Throop, father and son, dental surgeons at Muncie, has been engaged in practice in Muncie for thirty years and is the oldest dentist in point of continuous service in that city. For twenty-seven years he has occupied offices in the Johnson building on Walnut street and is the only one of the original tenants of that building remaining there. He is a life member of the Indiana State Dental Association, with which he has been affiliated for more than a quarter of a century and of the board of control of which he was for years a member, and which for eight years he also served as treasurer. He is one of the charter members of the Muncie Dental Association, which he has served as president, and is also a past president of the Eastern Indiana Dental Association, one of the real veteran dentists of eastern Indiana. Doctor Throop is a native of Michigan, born on a farm in Clinton county, that state, May 25, 1865, and his public schooling was completed in the high school of his neighboring town of Laingsburg. For a short time after leaving school he was engaged as a clerk in a furniture store at Laingsburg and then he became employed in a dental office there. Under the preceptorship of his employer and spurred on by the real interest he took in the profession he acquired a practical knowledge of the rudiments of dental surgery, as then practiced, and presently began practicing on his own account. It was not long, however, until he began to realize the need of more thorough training and he closed his office and entered the Indiana Dental College at Indianapolis, from which he was graduated in 1891. Upon receiving his diploma Doctor Throop returned to Laingsburg and resumed his practice, remaining there until in 1894, when he closed out his affairs in Michigan and came to Indiana and located at Muncie, where he ever since has been engaged in practice, a period of thirty years, (26) twenty-seven of which, as stated above, have been spent in his office in the Johnson building, where of late years he has had associated with him in practice his son, Dr. C. L. Throop, a graduate of the Chicago Dental College and who for eight years before entering into partnership with his father at Muncie was engaged in practice at Gary, Ind. Dr. C. W. Throop's post-graduate work in dental sur- ' gery has kept him fully abreast of modern advances in that science, this work being taken at Northwestern University and in clinics at the Mayo hospital at Rochester, Minn. The Doctor is a Knight Templar Mason, a member of the local lodge of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and of the Muncie Exchange Club, and attends the Methodist Episcopal church. He resides in Suite A of the Throop apartments and his son, Dr. C. L. Throop, resides at 623 Howard street. Both are members of the National Dental Association and of the more local dental associations above referred to.

JAMES R. CLEVENGER, a substantial farmer and landowner of Hamilton township, residing on the Drumm road, rural mail route No. 2 out of Muncie, is a native son of Delaware county, a member of one of the pioneer families here, and has lived in this county all his life, a period of nearly seventy years. He thus has been a witness to the development of this county since the days of the pioneers and has some interesting stories to tell of the changes that have taken place in farming methods since the days of his boyhood. Mr. Clevenger was born on a farm in Monroe township on March 22, 1855, and is a son of Solomon S. and Delilah A. (Tuttle) Clevenger, both of whom were born in Clinton county, Ohio, and who were but youngsters when they came to this county with their respective parents in settlement days. Delilah A. Tuttle was a daughter of the Rev. John and Hannah (Hale) Tuttle, the former of whom was widely known hereabout in pioneer days as a circuit riding preacher of the Methodist Episcopal church. Solomon 8. Clevenger was a son of Samuel Clevenger, who opened up a farm in Monroe township. He helped his father develop that farm and not long after his marriage bought a farm of 120 acres in Hamilton township. He eventually became the owner of 160 acres in this latter township and there continued to make his home until his retirement from the farm, when he disposed of his landholdings and moved to Muncie, where he became engaged in the grocery business and where he spent his last days, his death occurring in 1888. Of the fourteen children born to Solomon S. Clevenger and wife nine grew to maturity, and of these three are still living, the subject of this sketch having two sisters, Susan e and Sarah. James R. Clevenger was but a small child when his parents moved from Monroe township to Hamilton township and in the schools of this latter township he received his schooling. When he was about twenty-three years of age he bought a "forty" of his father's farm and began farming on his own account and has since been thus engaged, now the owner of a well improved farm of 82 acres. Mr. Clevenger and his wife are Republicans. He has been twice married. His first wife, Emeline Ward, daughter of the Rev. Jacob and Mary (Veal) Ward, of Ohio, whom he married on August 28, 1881, died on May 22, 1885, and on March 21, 1886, he married Emma Isadora Alvey, who also was born in this county, in Delaware township, and is a daughter of Joseph M. and Anna M. (Essam) Alvey, natives of England who had come to this country in their youth and were married here. Joseph M. Alvey was born in Lincolnshire, a son of Vincent and Charlotte (Cullen) Alvey, the latter of whom was a daughter of William and Martha Cullen. Upon coming to this country with his family, Vincent Alvey settled in Richland county, Ohio, where he and his wife spent the remainder of their lives. Anna M. Essam was a daughter of John Essam and wife, the latter of whom was a Syndal, of England. She was twice married. Her first husband, William Fox, died in New York and in 1851 she became:a resident of Muncie, where she married Mr. Alvey, who had located there in 1850, coming over here from Ohio. 'Joseph M. Alvey's first operations in this county were carried on as a merchant in Muncie. He later became engaged in farming in Delaware township and it was here that Mrs. Clevenger was born. When she was nine years of age her father died, and she went to Monroe township to live with kinsfolk and when she was thirteen she returned to Muncie where her mother and remainder of the family had moved and here she completed her schooling and later was married. Mr. and Mrs. Clevenger have two children, a son, Arthur W., and a daughter, Alma E., the latter of whom married Marion Russell, son of William H. and Millie (Heffner) Russell, of Shideler, and has four children, Mary E., Wilma J., Ruth Anna and Edna L. Arthur W. Clevenger, a veteran of the World war with an officer's commission and an overseas record, married Yolande Elwood, daughter of Dr. Edwin and Sarah (Mosier) Elwood, of Hancock, Mich., and has a son, Robert Vincent. His first born son, Elwood Austen, died. Arthur W. Clevenger enlisted for army service on April 30, 1917, and at the first officers' training camp at Ft. Benjamin Harrison was commissioned a first lieutenant and was transferred to Camp Taylor and thence to Camp Sherman, where he was promoted to a captaincy in the 335th infantry regiment of the 84th or Lincoln Division, and presently was sent with his command overseas, where he was in active service for about ten months. He received his final discharge on May 29, 1919. Arthur W. Clevenger was graduated from Earlham College in 1911, received his master degree from Columbia University in 1916 and is now superintendent of the schools of Wakefield, Mich. His sister, Mrs. Russell, completed her schooling at Earlham and was engaged in teaching before her marriage.

ELLSWORTH B. STECK, head of the firm of E. B. Steck & Sons, dealers in coal at Muncie, and a former member of the city council, was born on a farm in the neighboring county of Henry on August 15, 1864, and is a son of Lewis and Anna (Crowe) Steck, the last born of the four children born to that parentage, three sons and one daughter. His mother died when he was fourteen months old. Lewis Steck was a European, born in the Kingdom of Wurtemburg, and about the time he attained his majority came to America, landing at the port of New York, going thence to Cincinnati and then up into Indiana and settling in Wayne county, where he presently married Anna Crowe and became engaged in farming in that county. Later he moved to Henry county and after some years of residence there moved to Grant county, where his last days were spent, his death occurring at the age of seventy-two years. He was twice married. His mother having died when he was but an infant, Ellsworth B. Steck was reared in the household of Caleb and Susan Brown, the latter a sister of his mother, residents of Madison county, and it was thus that he was reared in Madison county, remaining with his uncle and aunt until their death. In 1894 Mr. Steck married Minnie G. Payne, of Madison county, daughter of James and Elizabeth (Johnson). Payne, and continued farming the Brown place in that county until in 1896, when he disposed of his farming interests and moved to Muncie, where he and Henry Brown became engaged in the feed business, to which they presently added coal, and were thus engaged for twelve years, at the end of which time they sold their plant. Mr. Steck, in association with Frank B. Miller, then started in a new place, on South Elm street, in the coal and feed business, under the firm name of Miller & Steck. In 1915 Mr. Miller sold his interest in this concern and the business thereafter was carried on under the firm style of E. B. Steck & Son, Mr. Steck having taken into partnership his elder son, James L. Steck. This business was continued. at the old South Elm street stand until in March, 1921, when that plant

Mr. And Mrs. Ellsworth B. Steck

-was bought by the City Coal Company and Mr. Steck and his son became located at their present place of business, 1101 West Second street, where they have a well equipped coal yard. On January 1, 1924, Mr. Steck's second son, Herschel Steck, was admitted to the firm which now carries on as E. B. Steck & Sons. Mr. Steck is a Republican and has rendered public service as a member of the city council from his ward. He is a member of the local lodge of the Knights of Pythias and he and his wife are members of the First Baptist church. Mr. and Mrs. Steck have two sons, James Lewis and Herschel, both now partners in the business with their father. James Lewis Steck is a veteran of the World war with an overseas record. During the time of this country's participation in the war he served for twenty-eight months in the army, fifteen months of which service was rendered overseas. He was in two major battles and was in the Army of Occupation on the Rhine. Herschel Steck married Lavaughn Mauzy. Mrs. Minnie Gertrude Steck was born in the neighboring | county of Madison and is a daughter of James and Elizabeth (Johnson) Payne, the latter of whom was born in that same county, a member of one of the pioneer families there. James Payne, a veteran of the Civil war, was born at London, county seat of Madison county, Ohio, and was living there when the Civil war broke out. He enlisted August 6, 1862, in a cavalry regiment and saw much active service in the army, his command being a part of Sherman's army on its - march to the sea. His service covered a period of three years, ten months and fifteen days. During this period of service he was captured by the enemy in the Stoneman raid near Mt. Hope church, July 3, 1864, and was for 271 days kept in the horrible rebel prison pen at Andersonville, Ga. Upon the completion of his military service he came to Indiana and located in Madison county, where he married and settled down to farming. To him and his wife were born three daughters, Mrs. Steck having two sisters, Jennie Mae and Lulu Leota.

DR. BYRL R. KIRKLIN, a practicing physician at Muncie, Roentgenologist for the Muncie Home Hospital and a veteran of the World war with an officer's commission, is a native son of Delaware county, born in the old town of New Corner (Gaston), September 22, 1888, and is a son of John W. and Sarah L. (McCreery) Kirklin, both of whom are still living at Gaston and the latter of whom also was born in this county, in Harrison township, May 23, 1866, daughter of Thomas and Catherine (Brown) McCreery, the latter of whom, born on April 7, 1828, was a daughter of Samuel and Phebe Brown, natives of Clinton county, Ohio, who were among the pioneer settlers of Delaware county. Thomas McCreery was born in Carroll county, Ohio, October 7, 1826, son of Samuel and Elizabeth (Maynard) Mc- Creery, Virginians, who in 1838 left Ohio with their family and came over here into Indiana and settled in Harrison township, this county. Samuel McCreery, who was born in Virginia on July 9, 1801, died in this county on November 23, 1893, he then being in his ninety-third year. His wife had predeceased him some years, her death having occurred on February 2, 1889. Thomas McCreery was about twelve years of age when he came to this county with his parents back in the '80s of the past century and he grew up here amid pioneer conditions. On October 25, 1849, he married Catherine Brown and established his home on a part of the old homestead place, where he came to be the owner of more than 400 acres of land besides business property at New Corner, and there he and his wife spent the rest of their lives, her death occurring on April 15, 1886, and his, March 16, 1906. They were the parents of eight children, of whom Mrs. Kirklin was the seventh in order of birth. John W. Kirklin was born in the neighboring county of Henry on June 25, 1859, a son of John R. and Louisa (Bruer) Kirklin, the latter of whom, born in 1829, died in 1861. She was the mother of six children. John R. Kirklin married secondly, Mrs. Elizabeth (Holler) Richardson and by this second union also had six children. John R. Kirklin was a North Carolinian by birth. He early became a resident of Henry county, where he was a farmer and cooper, and in 1887 came up into Delaware county, making his home in Perry township, where he lived to be well past eighty years of age. John W. Kirklin grew up to farming and after his marriage on September 29, 1887, established his home at New Corner (Gaston), where he became engaged in the mercantile business. He presently bought a tract of land in that neighborhood, in Washington township, and in time developed a good farm of about 250 acres. In 1892 he formed a partnership in an undertaking firm at Gaston and for some years continued that connection. He still keeps up his farming interests, making his home at Gaston. To him and his wife were born five children, of whom Doctor Kirklin is the first born, the others being Floyd R., born on June 2, 1891; Twily T., December 23, 18938; Wayne L., August 9, 1896, and Oren L., April 29, 1903. Doctor Kirklin grew up at Gaston and upon completing the high school course there entered the Muncie high school, from which he was graduated in 1906. He then for two years was engaged in teaching school in the district schools of Washington township and then entered Indiana

University. After two years taking the literary course in that institution he entered the university medical school at Indianapolis and after four years of study there was graduated in 1914. Upon receiving his diploma Doctor Kirklin was appointed an intern in the Deaconess Hospital at Indianapolis and after a year of intensive prac- 'tical experience there returned to Muncie and became associated here in practice with Dr. G. R. Andrews in hospital service. Two years later he opened an office of his own in the Western Reserve Life building and was thus engaged in practice when this country took a hand in the World war in the spring of 1917. Doctor Kirklin at once offered his services in behalf of the Medical Corps of the army and in May of that year was accepted and given a commission as a first lieutenant. In the following September he was assigned to the Cook County Hospital at Chicago and shortly afterward was sent to Ft. Riley (Kansas), where he was made Roentgenologist for the surgical section of the base hospital at that place and instructor in the X-ray school of the Medical Officers' Training Camp. A year later he was assigned to Ft. Bayard (New Mexico) as chief Roentgenologist there, and was thus serving when the war came to an end. In December, 1918, he received his discharge and is now attached to the Medical Officers' Reserve Corps with the rank of major. Ever since leaving college Doctor Kirklin has given his special attention to X-ray diagnosis and treatment and in addition to his private practice along that line is serving as Roentgenologist for the Muncie Home Hospital and for. the Jay County Hospital at Portland. Upon his return to Muncie following the completion of his military service he secured a medical portion of radium and has since been using this in his practice, the only physician in the county thus equipped. The Doctor also is consulting Roentgenologist for the Blackford County Hospital at Hartford City. He is a member of the American, the Indiana state and the Delaware-Blackford (county) medical societies and a member of the Muncie Academy of Medicine, of which for two years he was president. The Doctor also is a member of the Association of Military Surgeons, of the Radiological Society of North America and of the American Roentgen Ray Society. He is a Scottish Rite (32°) Mason and an Elk and is affiliated with the influential Exchange Club of Muncie, of which he is a past president. On June 3, 1915, Dr. Byrl R. Kirklin was united in marriage to Glayde Webster, daughter of Benjamin F. and Etta Webster of Elgin, IIll., and to this union two children have been born, a son, John Webster Kirklin, born in 1917, and a daughter, Mary Webster Kirklin, 1921. Doctor and

DR. FRANK 8. MARTIN, a dental surgeon of twenty-five years standing in Muncie, has been a resident of that city since the days of his boyhood. Doctor Martin was born on a farm in Dewitt county, Illinois, January 10, 1873, and is a son of H. C. and Emily F. Martin, both of whom were born in Indiana. The late H. C. Martin, whose last days were spent in Muncie, moved to Illinois after his marriage and established his home on a farm in Dewitt county, that state. About 1875, when Kansas lands were beginning to attract the attention of so many farmers from the older settled communities, he disposed of his holdings in Dewitt county and moved with his family to Kansas to start in farming on new lands. Between the devastations of grasshoppers and drouths he soon lost all he had put into his new farm plant and he returned to Illinois, settling in Douglass county, and presently established his home on a farm near Tuscola. There he remained until in 1886, when he disposed of his Illinois holdings and returned to Indiana, buying the old Jacob Calvert farm west of the river, just out of Muncie, in this county, and was thus in possession there when in the fall of that same year natural gas was revealed in the county. One of the strongest of the early wells drilled in this county was the one that was "brought in" on his farm. When the normal school project was started in the middle '90s his farm was right in the line of that development and he platted a portion of his acreage and sold the same in the form of city lots, his farm land thus comprising a part of the present Normal City, so that his move back into Indiana became a much more profitable one than his early move into Kansas. H.C. Martin and wife were the parents of ten children, five of whom are still living, the subject of this sketch having a sister, Rose, wife of W. H. Tobin, of Indianapolis, and three brothers, Joseph V. Martin, of Oklahoma City; Charles W. Martin, of Dayton, Ohio and Dr. Albert O. Martin, also of Dayton. Frank S. Martin was thirteen years of age when he came with his parents to Muncie in 1886 and he grew to manhood here. Upon leaving the high school he took a course in the local business college and then became employed as a bookkeeper, later taking a clerkship in the Bliss-Keller clothing store. Not long afterward, however, he became attracted to the profession of dentistry and entered the Indiana Dental College at Indianapolis, from which he was graduated in 1898. Upon receiving his diploma Doctor Martin returned to Muncie and opened an office in the Little block, where he remained for four years.

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In the meantime his younger brother Albert also had become a dentist and when the Jones building was erected the brothers effected a partnership arrangement and opened offices in that building, where Dr. Frank S. Martin ever since has been located. The partnership between the brothers was dissolved in 1907 when Dr. Albert O. Martin moved to Richmond, from which place he presently moved to Dayton, where he now is located. It thus is apparent that Dr. Frank 8. Martin is one of the veterans in the practice of dental surgery in Muncie, his service in that field there having covered a period of something more than a quarter of a century. The Doctor is a member of the national, state and district dental associations and of the Muncie Dental Society. He was one of the organizers of this latter society and was its first secretary-treasurer, an office he held for four years. He also has rendered service as a member of the executive committee of the Indiana State Dental Association. He is a Republican, is a member of the Muncie Chamber of Commerce and is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias. In 1904 Dr. Frank S. Martin was united in marriage to Pattie G. Letton, of Paris, Ky., daughter of Brice and Elizabeth Letton, and to this union two children have been born, Sarah Elizabeth and Selby Clay, both of whom are in school. The Martins reside at 407 South Franklin street.

LAFAYETTE L. FULLHART, nurseryman and landscape gardener at Muncie and proprietor of a business in that line that has been carried on in the Fullhart family in this county for four generations, is a native son of Delaware county, a member of one of the pioneer families here and has resided here all his life, engaged in nursery work since the days of his boyhood, as has been his father, who is still living. Mr. Fullhart was born on a farm five miles southeast of Muncie, in Liberty township, August 6, 1888, and is a son of Charles Fullhart, who was born in that same township and whose father also was engaged in the nursery business, which he had taken over from his father, who was one of the real pioneer nurserymen in eastern Indiana. Charles Fullhart was for many years actively engaged in the nursery business here, or until in 1918, when he sold his place to his son Lafayette and retired from active direction of the business, though he still is associated with the work of the old established business, nurseryman, landscape gardener and horticulturist. Lafayette L. Fullhart grew up on the home farm in Liberty township, received his schooling in the schools of that neighborhood and took a part in his father's nursery business until he attained his majority when, in 1909, he became engaged in farming and in the raising of small fruit on his own account on the Willard Fullhart farm on the Burlington pike. Some time later he moved to the Anderson farm on the South Walnut Street pike and was there engaged in the same line, to which he added stock raising, until in 1918, when he bought his father's old established nursery plant out on the extension of Ohio street, rural mail route No. 5 out of Muncie, and has since been carrying on this business, practical nurseryman, landscape gardener and horticulturist, and is doing well at it. Politically, Mr. Fullhart is a Republican. For some years (1907-10) he served as a member of the Indiana National Guard, attached to Company G, the old local company of Guards at Muncie. In 1912 Lafayette L. Fullhart was united in marriage to Helen Lucille Jefferson, daughter of John W. Jefferson, of Cowan, this county, and to this union three children have been born, Evelyn Marcelle, Lowell Jefferson and John Charles Fullhart.

JOHN A. SNIDER, a substantial farmer and landowner of Hamilton township, now living retired at Royerton, was born in Union township, this county, January 7, 1850, and is a son of Alexander and Nancy (Sherry) Snider, the latter of whom was born in Rush county, Indiana, in 1828, a daughter of Solomon and Rachel (Breezley) Sherry, who had settled in that county upon coming over into Indiana from Ohio. Alexander Snider was born in Miami county, Ohio, in 1826, and was eight years of age when in 1834 he came with his parents, Joseph and Catherine (Studebaker) Snider, to Delaware county, the family settling along the Mississinewa river in Union township. There were twelve children in the Joseph Snider family. On that pioneer farm Alexander Snider grew to manhood. He was married in 1849 and two or three years later established his home on an "eighty" he had bought in Hamilton township. As he developed that place he gradually added to his holdings until he became the owner of a farm of 380 acres. To him and his wife were born two children, the subject of this sketch having a sister, Rachel, wife of Jacob Rarick, of Union township. John A. Snider was but an infant when his parents moved from Union township to Hamilton township and on the home farm in this latter township he grew to manhood, receiving his schooling in the local schools. After his marriage he rented a part of his father's farm and continued farming as a renter for five years, at the end of which time he bought a tract of forty acres and there continued farming until his retirement and removal to Royerton, where he is now living. During his years of active farming Mr. Snider extended his land holdings until now he is the owner of 300 acres of land in this county and in the adjoining county of Randolph. He is a Republican and is a member of the Christian church. John A. Snider married Elizabeth Johnsonbaugh, a daughter of George Johnsonbaugh, proprietor of the first sawmill established at Royerton. Mrs. Snider died on April 1, 1911. To that union were born six children, George, Harrison, Alexander, Walter, Glenn and Rosa, all of whom are married save the last named. George Snider married Bertha Moore and has two children, Mildred and Margaret. Harrison Snider married Lavina Grundy and has two children, Virgil Glen and Stella Irene. Alexander Snider married Olive Grundy and has two children, Clifford and Elmina Elizabeth. Walter Snider married Luella Apple and has two children, Thelma Belle and Robert Earl, and Glenn Snider married Maude Treece and has two children, Nina Elizabeth and Ruth Naomi. Virgil Glen Snider married Lula Moody and has one child, a son, Victor Virgil. ALONZO B. PUCKETT, a substantial farmer and landowner of Hamilton township, residing on the Studebaker pike, rural mail route No. 3 out of Muncie, was born in the neighboring county of Randolph on June 22, 1878, and is a son of Zachary Taylor and Mary Elizabeth (Starbuck) Puckett, both members of pioneer families in this part of Indiana, both the Pucketts and the Starbucks having been here since settlement days. Zachary Taylor Puckett, a wellto-do farmer still living in Randolph county, is a son of Nathaniel Puckett, who was a son of one of the pioneers of that county. Reared on the home farm in Randolph county, Alonzo B. Puckett received his schooling in the neighborhood schools and remained with his father on the farm until after his marriage at the age of twenty-one, when he began farming on his own account on a rented farm, giving special attention to the feeding of cattle. In 1910 Mr. Puckett came over into Delaware county and rented the Mansfield farm in Hamilton township. For ten years he made his home there, making a specialty of the raising of live stock, and then, in 1920, he bought the Joseph Pittenger farm of 103 acres in that same township and has since resided there, carrying on general farming operations and raising live stock, and has a well improved and well cultivated place. Mr. Puckett is an Odd Fellow and has attained to the encampment degree. He and his wife are members of the Christian church and are Republicans. It was on February 20, 1899, that Alonzo B. Puckett was united in marriage to Suda V. Wall, who also was born in Randolph county, daughter of Edwin L. and Delila Jane (Oren) Wall, and to this union three children have been born, a son, Donald Earl,

"HENRY C. KUHNER, president of the Kuhner Packing Company of Muncie and vice president of the Farmers National Stock Yards Company, also of Muncie, is a native of the old Buckeye state but has been a resident of Indiana since the days of his boyhood and of Muncie for nearly twenty-five years. Mr. Kuhner was born on a farm in Scioto county, Ohio, October 16, 1880, and is a son of Gotlip and Mary Sophia Kuhner, both of whom also were born in that state and who for years have been residents of Muncie, having come here from Greentown, Ind., at which place they were located for some time after coming over into Indiana from Ohio. Gotlip Kuhner, who is the vice president of the Kuhner Packing Company, was a practical butcher long before he came to Indiana and he has been identified with the affairs of the Kuhner Packing Company ever since that establishment was organized. Henry C. Kuhner received his schooling in the neighborhood school near his boyhood home in Scioto county and when sixteen years of age left the home of an uncle with whom he had been living in that county and rejoined his parents, who meanwhile had located at Greentown, Ind., and became associated with his father in the retail meat business at this latter place, his chief job after assisting with the butchering being to drive the meat wagon about over the country in that trade area. When he was twenty years of age he came to Muncie and bought a small butcher shop at the corner of Main and Beacon streets and there became engaged in business on his own account. Not long afterward he sold that stand to advantage and then went to Alexandria, Ind., where he and his father and his brother, Frank G. Kuhner, bought a meat market, which they presently sold and then the family moved to Muncie and became established in the business which has developed into the present Kuhner Packing Company. About two years after starting up at Muncie the Kuhners expanded their retail capacity by establishing five meat market groceries at Muncie and one at Parker, over in Randolph county, operating under the firm style of Kuhner & Company. Some years later they closed out the retail business and turned their whole attention to the development of the rapidly expanding packing business which they meanwhile had been building up, having found a growing demand for their meat products throughout this trade area. That wasin 1904. Their first enlarged slaughter house and cold storage plant limited their operations to the killing of no more than twenty-five hogs and ten or fifteen cattle a week. As their market grew they gradually extended their facilities. until now the plant at North Elm and Thirteenth streets has a capacity of no fewer than 1,000 hogs and 100 cattle a week, with a 45-ton ice manufacturing plant and 75-ton refrigerating capacity, with other up-to-date facilities corresponding; including a sixty-acre land tract for stock yards, and is the only cold-storage plant in Delaware county. As noted above, Henry C. Kuhner is president of the Kuhner Packing Company and Gotlip Kuhner is vice president. Mrs. Ella S. Klefeker, daughter of the latter, is secretary and treasurer and Frank G. Kuhner is the assistant secretary-treasurer. Henry C. Kuhner also organized the Muncie Cold Storage and Ice Company and was one of the organizers of the Farmers National Stock Yards Company, of Muncie, of which he is the vice president. He is a 32° Mason, a Knight of Pythias, an Elk, a Moose and a member of the Travelers Protective Association. Henry C. Kuhner married Grace Goodwine, daughter of Louis F. Goodwine, and has two children, Mary Ellen and Robert Henry. In his political views he is an independent Republican.

EDWARD E. AND CHARLES C. ZUBER, brothers, doing business in the taxi-cab line at Muncie under the firm name of the Yellow Cab Company, are native sons of Muncie, the former born on September 30, 1879, and the latter, October 26, 1881, and have lived "here all their lives. The Zuber brothers are sons of George and Fredericka (Heeb) Zuber, both natives of Germany, who became residents of Muncie more than forty years ago. The late George Zuber came to this country from Berlin when he was sixteen years of age and became a tailor in New York city. In Brooklyn he married Fredericka Heeb and not long afterward located at Louisville, Ky., later coming to Muncie, where he became established in the tailoring business and where he spent the remainder of his life, his death occurring on September 30, 1918, he then being seventy-four _ years of age. His wife had predeceased him about six months, her death having occurred in March of that same year. She was eighteen years of age when she came to this country with her parents, the family locating in Brooklyn, N. Y., where she was married. Edward E. and Charles C. Zuber grew up at Muncie, received their schooling here and both early turned to the mechanical industries, presently becoming members of the firm of Jones & Zuber, in the bicycle business, with an establishment at 324-26 East Main street. In 1915 the two brothers took over the local agency for the sale of the Chandler, Nash and Oldsmobile automobiles, this agency doing business under the firm name of Boyce & Zuber, and were thus engaged for five years or more, or until on December 1, 1921, when they established their present taxi-cab line and have since been engaged in operating the yellow cab service here, with their offices and plant at 505 South Mulberry street. They began business with four yellow cabs, and within eighteen months their business had so expanded that they were operating nine cabs for local service and three touring cars for country service. During this time they have taken care of 98 per cent of the patients leaving the Home Hospital, besides 90 per cent of the accident calls coming from Muncie factories, with no fewer than sixteen doctors using their cabs for night calls, while during the winters in disagreeable weather it is not unusual for the yellow cabs to carry as many as 150 pupils a day. This company carries public liability and accident insurance in established insurance companies covering all passengers, handles the transfer business of the leading hotels and operates baggage trucks from the railway stations. Both of the Zuber brothers are members of the local - lodge of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. Charles C. Zuber on June 17, 1916, was united in marriage to Bernice L. Meranda, daughter of Charles C. and Eva Meranda, of Portland, Ind., and resides at 1104 North Elm street. He and his wife are members of the Jackson Street Christian church.

LEWIS C. CHILDS, a substantial farmer and landowner of Harrison township, residing on rural mail route No. 1 out of Yorktown, is a Tennessean by birth, but has been a resident of Indiana since the days of his childhood. Mr. Childs was born on a farm in the immediate vicinity of the city of Knoxville, in Knox county, Tennessee, January 16, 1863, and is a son of Henry and Melvina A. (Foust) Childs, both of whom also were born in Tennessee, members of pioneer families in that state. Henry Childs grew up in Tennessee and after his marriage remained there for some years, at the end of which time, in the late '60s, he came up into Indiana and bought a quarter of a section of timber land in Madison county, put up a log cabin on the place, established his home there and proceeded to clear and make a farm out of the place, but a few years later died there. His widow later moved with her family over into Delaware county and located on a small farm north of Muncie, but after awhile moved back into Madison county. Of the nine children born to Henry Childs and wife five grew to maturity and of these latter all are living save two sons, William Z. and Henry M. Childs, the subject of this sketch having a sister, Bertha, and a brother, John

L. Childs. Having been but a boy when his parents moved from Tennessee to Indiana, Lewis C. Childs grew to manhood in Madison county and practically all his life has been spent in farming. He married at the age of twenty-two and a few years later bought a "forty" in Madison county, where he lived for a few years, at the end of which time he sold that place and bought. a farm of seventyfive acres in the vicinity of Anderson. Later he traded that place for a tract of 129 acres. Afterward he bought the Stephen Broadbent woolen mill and thirty-three acres of ground on Kilbuck creek near Anderson. Not finding the operation of the woolen mill to his liking he presently moved back to his farm of 129 acres, having disposed of his mill, and there made his home until in 1906, when he moved over into Delaware county and bought a tract of sixty-four acres in Harrison township, a part of the place on which he is now living, and ever since has resided here. Since taking over this place Mr. Childs has bought two additional tracts there, one of fifty-one acres and the other of sixteen acres, and this with his other farm of 129 acres gives him land holdings of 250 acres, which he has well improved. It was on February 25, 1885, that Lewis C. Childs was united in marriage to Ellen Willmuth Pence, who was born in Madison county, a daughter of George Washington and Vesta J. (Mahoney) Pence, old residents of that county, and to this union were born five children, Cora M. V., Charles H. (deceased), Celia May Frances (deceased), Gopha Marie and Fern Willmuth. Mr. and Mrs. Childs are members of the Church of the Brethren. Two of their daughters are married. Cora M. V. Childs married Jesse A. Duncan, of Madison county, and has four children, Marie, Paul, Marshall and John Lewis. Another child of this union, a daughter, Margaret, is deceased. Gopha Marie Childs married Henry C. Parkison, also of Madison county, and has one child, a daughter, Louise. HENRY FLOREY, a landowner of Hamilton township, residing on the Royerton road, rural mail route No. 3 out of Muncie, was born on a farm in Fountain county, Indiana, August 20, 1880, and is a son of Joseph and Mary (Malott) Florey, the latter of whom was born in Randolph county, this state. Joseph Florey was born in Fountain county, and all his life was devoted to farming. He and his wife had two children, the subject of this sketch having a sister, Dora. Reared on the home farm in Fountain county, Henry Florey received his schooling in the local schools and early became engaged in farming, continuing to make his home in Fountain county until his removal to Blackford county, where he bought a farm of

280 acres and where he made his home until in 1911, when he disposed of his interests there and moved to Delaware county and bought the place on which he is now living in the Royerton neighborhood and has since made his home here. Mr. Florey is the owner of 180 acres in that neighborhood, divided into two farms. The place on which he makes his home and to which he is giving his personal attention has seventy acres in it. He and his wife are Republicans and are members of the Christian church. Mrs.-Florey (Rosa Dickerson) was born in Wells county, Indiana, and is the daughter of John and Minnie (Turner) Dickerson, both natives of Indiana, the latter born in Randolph county. John Dickerson was born in Wells county and became a farmer in that county. Mr. and Mrs. Florey have one child, a daughter, Helen, who married Harold Addington, a son of Charles L. Addington, also of Hamilton township.

ROBERT DENVER BARNES, a city councilman and secretary and treasurer of the Kirby-Wood Lumber Company, the oldest continuing establishment of its kind in Muncie, was born at Denver, Colo., August 29, 1873, and is a son of James P. and Julia E. (Hart) Barnes, the latter of whom was born in Wisconsin, who are now living at Colorado Springs, where they have resided for the past fifty years. James P. Barnes was born in New York and as a young man went to Wisconsin, where he presently married and was for some time engaged in that state in the hardware business. He then moved to Colorado Springs, where he became engaged in the hardware business and where he since has resided. Reared at Colorado Springs, Robert D. Barnes supplemented the schooling received there by a course in Colorado College. From the days of his youth he was actively interested with his father in the hardware business and thus grew up thoroughly familiar with business forms and continued with his father for several years after his marriage, or until in 1906, when he came to Muncie and entered the office of the Kirby Lumber Company, with which his father-in-law, the late Thomas H. Kirby, then was connected, and after the death of Mr. Kirby in 1911 took over the latter's interest in the concern and has ever since been thus connected, secretary and treasurer of the company. The Kirby-Wood Lumber Company had its inception back in the spring of 1899 when the Kirby brothers, Thomas H. and John M., sons of Thomas Kirby, one of Muncie's pioneer business men, started in the lumber business in Muncie, operating under the firm name of the Kirby Lumber Company. In 1902 Julius E. Wood bought into the firm and the name of the same was changed to the Kirby-Wood

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Lumber Company, the Wood interest bringing into the business a going saw mill property which was kept in operation for about ten years thereafter, supplementing the finishing mill with which the plant had been equipped from the beginning and which still is an essential unit of the present equipment of the company's yards, which are located at Hoyt and Liberty streets. Thomas H. Kirby died in 1911, when his interest was taken over by his son-in-law, Mr. Barnes. John M. Kirby died a few years later and Julius E. Wood died in 1918 and the latter's interest was kept in the family, the present personnel of the company being Charles A. Wood, president; Clara S. Wood, vice president, and Mr. Barnes, secretary-treasurer. Mr. Barnes is a Republican and is now rendering public service as a member of the city council. He is a member of the Muncie Chamber of Commerce and of the local Rotary Club, and is a Scottish Rite (32°) and York Rite (Knights Templar) Mason and a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. Mr. Barnes is the present commander of the local commandery of the Knights Templar, a former generalissimo, and for ten years was recorder of the commandery. He and his wife are members of the Episcopal church. It was in 1900 that Robert D. Barnes was united in marriage to Edith Kirby, daughter of Thomas H. Kirby, of Muncie, and to this union one child has been born, a son, Robert D., Jr. Mrs. Barnes's paternal grandfather, Thomas Kirby, was one of the real pioneers of old Muncietown, as is set out elsewhere in this work, a man active in business and development work here from the time of his. arrival as a young merchant in 1830 to the time of his death in the summer of 1879. Successful in his initial mercantile enterprise, he became a large landowner and dealer in cattle. As the town expanded, he laid out additions to the city and thus perhaps was the real leader in town development enterprises up to and during the '70s. His public spirit found expression in the erection of the Kirby House in 1871. This hotel, with modern improvements, has retained its old-time popularity all through the years since then and continues a substantial monument to the memory of its builder. Thomas Kirby was buried in Beech Grove cemetery and his pallbearers were Minus Turner, Warren Stewart, Martin Galliher, John Brady, Thomas S. Neely, Daniel Pittinger, Robert Meeks, Joseph Stradling, Joseph S. Buckles, J. Henry Wysor, Walter March, Marcus C. Smith, Arthur F. Patterson and Lloyd Wilcoxon, a list which reads like a roll call of the leading survivors of the pioneers of the town at that period. (27)

CYRUS RICHARDS, a substantial farmer and landowner of Harrison township, residing on rural mail route No. 3 out of Gaston, was born on a farm in Champaign county, Illinois, November 13, 1871, and is a son of Cyrus and Susan (Hay) Richards, the latter of whom was born in Ohio and was but a child when she moved with her parents to Illinois, the family locating in Champaign county. The senior Cyrus Richards, a veteran of the Civil war, was born in Champaign county, his parents having been among the pioneers of that part of Illinois, and he grew up there. During the time of the Civil war he served as a soldier of the Union and after his marriage became a farmer in that county, the owner of a farm of ninety-six acres. To him and his wife were born eight children, seven sons and a daughter, all of whom are still living save the daughter, Amanda, and one of the sons, George Richards, the subject of this sketch having five brothers, John H., Thomas W., William G., Zephaniah D. and Henry Richards. The junior Cyrus Richards was reared on the home farm in Champaign county, Illinois, and his schooling was received in the local schools of that neighborhood. He married at the age of twenty-three and then began farming on his own account, after awhile moving over into Indiana and making his home on a farm in Carroll county, where he and his family lived for years. In 1916 Mrs. Richards bought the farm of 100 acres on which the family now resides in Harrison township, this county, and the family home has since been here. Mr. Richards is engaged in general farming on this place and has a well improved farm, he having made numerous improvements on the place since coming into possession. It was on April 10, 1895, that Cyrus Richards was united in marriage to Nellie E. Leib, also of Champaign county, Illinois, and to this union have been born ten children, five sons and five daughters, all of whom are living save one daughter, Nellie V., the others being Bonnie L., Jennie G., Cyrus Joseph, Ethan Allen, Cecil Arthur, Winnie E., Robert R., Charley D. and Clarice A., four of whom are married. Bonnie L. Richards married Arthur Gochenour and has one child, a son, Richard. Jennie G. Richards married Joseph Silverthorn and has a son, Leslie. Cyrus Joseph Richards married June Cox and has two children, Maurice and John, and Cecil Arthur Richards married Reba Vannatta and has three children, Gene, Erret.and Dorothy. Ethan Allen Richards is a veteran of the World war, having rendered service in the 142d Aerial Squadron. His initial service was rendered at Kelly Field (Texas) and was extended to other flying fields, he having been at Wright Field (Day- ton, Ohio) when mustered out at the close of the war. Mrs. Nellie E. Richards was born in Champaign county, Illinois, and is a daughter of Joseph and Martha (Barbee) Leib, both natives of Ohio and the former of whom was a veteran of the Civil war, having served as a member of the 1st Ohio Veteran Volunteer Cavalry. Mrs. Richards, is a great-great-granddaughter of Ethan Allen, a distinguished officer of the colonial army during the War of the Revolution, leader of the famous "Green Mountain Boys" and the hero of Ticonderoga and Crown Point.

RALPH B. HALL, a veteran of the United States Marine Corps as well as a veteran of the World war, now engaged in the barber business at Gaston, was born on a farm in the vicinity of Winchester, in the neighboring county of Randolph, October 20, 1885, and is a son of Amos and Ruth Ann (Benson) Hall, the latter of whom was born in that same county, a member of one of the pioneer families of eastern Indiana. The late Amos Hall, a veteran of the Civil war and formerly and for twenty-seven years superintendent of the Randolph county infirmary, was born in Clinton county, Ohio, and was but a child when in 1844 his parents came with their family to Indiana and settled in Randolph county. When the Civil war came on he enlisted for service in the Union army and thus served through the war as a member of Company H of the 84th regiment, Indiana Volunteer Infantry. He became a substantial farmer of Randolph county and was the owner of a farm of 204 acres. Reared on the home farm in the Winchester neighborhood, Ralph B. Hall received his schooling in the Winchester schools and on February 13, 1902, he then being but sixteen years of age, he enlisted in the United States Marine Corps and in that same year was assigned to duty as a member of the United States Legation guards in the city of Pekin, China, where he was on station for two years, at the end of which time with his command he was transferred to the Philippine Islands and thence to Japan and thus continued in service until the end of his period of enlistment, receiving his discharge on March 28, 1906. Upon the completion of his service in the Marine Corps Mr. Hall returned to Indiana and became engaged as a locomotive fireman on the Pennsylvania railroad, running out of Indianapolis, and in the fall of the next year was married. He continued in railway service until in 1910, when he opened a barber shop at Gaston, where he since has made his home. When this country took a hand in the World war in the spring of 1917 Mr. Hall arranged his affairs so that he could get back into army service and on June 28,

1917, he enlisted and was assigned to the headquarters company of the 37th Coast Artillery, with which command he continued in service until his discharge on March 8, 1919, the war then being over. Upon his return home Mr. Hall resumed charge of his barber shop at Gaston and has since been thus engaged. He is a member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars and of the American Legion and is also affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Fraternal Order of Eagles. In his political views he is a Republican. It was on October 19, 1907, at Gaston, that Ralph B. Hall was united in marriage to Fern Barnhart, of that place, and to this union two children have been born, Jean E., who died in August, 1915, and Rose Charline, born on February. 26, 1910. Mrs. Hall was born in the village of Castine, in Darke county, Ohio, and is a daughter of Charles W. and Iva Barnhart, who moved to Gaston in 1900 and have since been engaged in the grocery and bakery | business there. DR. GEORGE W. BUCKLIN, one of the veteran physicians of eastern Indiana and for more than thirty years a practitioner at Muncie, is a native Hoosier and has been a resident of this state - all his life. Doctor Bucklin was born at Princeton, the county seat of Gibson county, May 14, 1850, and is a son of Horace and Elmira (Moxam) Bucklin, both members of pioneer families in that county, the Bucklins, a Rhode Island family, having settled there in 1830 and the Moxams, a New York family, having settled there when Elmira Moxam, daughter of Sylvester Moxam, of Elmira, N. Y., - was but two years of age. Horace Bucklin was born in Pawtucket, R. I., and was but a child when his parents came, out into Indiana and settled in Gibson county. After his marriage he established his home in Princeton and there spent the remainder of his life, his death occurring in 1895, he then being eighty-four years:of age. His widow's last days were spent in Muncie, her death occurring here in 1906, she then being eighty-nine years of age. Four of their children, two sons and two daughters, survived them. Doctor Bucklin's elder brother, Theodore Bucklin, served as a soldier of the Union during the time of the Civil war. Reared at Princeton, Doctor Bucklin received his early schooling in the schools of that city and was for four years engaged during the winters in teaching school in his home county. Meanwhile, under the preceptorship of Doctor Munford, of Princeton, he was taking preparatory studies in medicine and then went East to continue his studies. After a course at Princeton University and at the University of New York he entered Belle- vue Medical College (New York) and in 1879 was graduated from that institution. Upon receiving his diploma Doctor Bucklin returned to Indiana and became engaged in practice at New Harmony. In that picturesque and historic community he continued in practice for thirteen years, or until in 1892, when he moved to Muncie, established himself in practice here and has ever since been thus engaged, with present offices and residence at 525 East Main street. For many years the Doctor has been active in the deliberations of the local and state medical societies. He is a Scottish Rite, Royal Arch and Knights Templar Mason and a noble of the Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine and he and his wife are members of the High Street Methodist Episcopal church. It was in 1879, the year in which he became engaged in practice at New Harmony, that Dr. George W. Bucklin was united in marriage to Emma Wright, who was born in Warrick county, Indiana, daughter of Amos and Eleanor (Iglehart) Wright. Doctor and Mrs. Bucklin ever have been active in church work and for years the Doctor served the congregation of the High Street church as a member of the board of trustees. He is affiliated with the American Medical Association, the Indiana State Medical Association, the Eighth District (Indiana) Medical Association, the Delaware County Medical Society and the Muncie Academy of Medicine.

DAVID M. ST. JOHN, president of the Albany State Bank at Albany and a retired farmer and landowner of that neighborhood who for some years past has been making his home in Albany, is a native of the old Buckeye state but has been a resident of Indiana and of the Albany neighborhood for nearly seventy years. Mr. St. John was born in Greene county, Ohio, November 15, 1848, and iis a son of Cyrus Bone and Dorothy (Hickman) St. John, the latter of whom was born in that same county, a member of one of the pioneer families there. Cyrus Bone St. John was born in the vicinity of Lebanon, in Warren county, Ohio, and was a son of Daniel W. and Eliza (Bone) St. John, both of whom were born in that same vicinity, their respective parents having been among the early settlers of that section of Ohio. The St. John family in America has its origin through John and Noah St. John, brothers of French birth and parentage, who came to the American colonies about the middle of the eighteenth century and located in Dutchess county, New York, where John St. John married Anna Lockwood and was living when the colonists declared their independence. He joined the patriot forces and served as a soldier of the Revolution. In the last decade of the eighteenth century he emigrated with his family to the then Territory Northwest of the Ohio and located in the neighborhood of Ft. Washington (Cincinnati), in Hamilton county, where he remained until in 1803, the year in which Ohio was admitted to statehood, when he settled on a tract of land in the vicinity of old Ft. Ancient, east of the present city of Lebanon, where he spent the remainder of his life. He and his wife were the parents of ten children, the fourth in order of birth being John St. John, who was born on November 28, 1778, and who married Rhoda Wood. John St. John established his home in Warren county and there spent his last days. He and his wife were the parents of nine children, of whom Daniel W. was the first born. Daniel W. St. John remained in Warren county until after his marriage to Eliza Bone, when, in 1828, he moved to Greene county (Ohio) and settled in Caesarscreek township. After improving this place he sold it and moved to a farm on the Wilmington pike south of Xenia, where his last days were spent, he being sixty-five years of age at the time of | his death. His wife died at the age of sixty-three. They were the parents of eleven children. It is needless to say that the St. John family, the descendants in the present generation of the Ohio pioneer, John St. John, and his wife, Anna Lockwood, form a numerous connection. Former Governor John P. St. John, of Kansas, is a member of this family. Cyrus Bone St. John, eldest of the sons of Daniel W. and Eliza (Bone) St. John, was reared in Greene county (Ohio) and remained there after his marriage to Dorothy Hickman until in 1856 when he came over into Indiana with his family and settled on a farm in Jay county, two miles east of the village of Albany. He came to be the owner of 220 acres of land and continued farming until his retirement and removal to Albany, where his last days were spent. Of the ten children born to him and his wife, nine are still living, the subject of this sketch having three sisters, Catherine, Josephine and Lillie, and five brothers, J. W., L. R., C. R., R. M. and J. Frank St. John. David M. St. John was but seven years of age when he came with his parents into Indiana in 1856 and he grew to manhood on the home farm east of Albany. Upon completing his schooling he remained for a year or two with his father on the farm and then took up the carpenter trade and for eight years was thus engaged, principally in the building of barns. He did not marry until nearly thirty years of age and then he returned to farming, presently buying a farm of eighty acres in the home neighborhood, which as time passed he increased to 134 acres. For thirty-eight years Mr. St. John continued farming and then he retired and moved to Albany, where he since has made his home. For years he had been a member of the board of directors of the Albany State Bank and in May, 1916, he was elected president of that institution, a position which he now occupies. He and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal church at Albany and for more than thirty years he served the congregation of that church as steward. On September 21, 1878, David M. St. John was united in marriage to Anna C. Fudge. Mr. and Mrs. St. John have one child, a daughter, Lola A. St. John. Mrs. St. John also is a member of one of the numerous Greene county (Ohio) families that in the '50s and '60s were transplanted to this county. She was born in Greene county, daughter of J. S. and Martha J. (Boots) Fudge, both of whom also were born in that same county, the former a descendant of John Fudge, a Virginian, who was one of the early settlers of Greene county and who long represented that county in the Ohio legislature. Mrs. St. John was but a child when she came with her parents to Delaware county in 1864. Her father, J.S. Fudge, bought a quarter of a section of land in Niles township and settled down there to farming, remaining there until his retirement and removal to Albany, where his last days were spent. Of the twelve children born to J. S. Fudge and wife ten are still living, Mrs. St. _ John having six sisters, Catherine, Mary E., Sarepta, Laura, Alice and Harriet and three brothers, Lewis M., Charles B. and Ulysses Frank Fudge.

ALTON BROMAGEM, superintendent of the Albany public schools, was born in the picturesque old hamlet of Fairview, over the line in the neighboring county of Randolph, and is a son of Benjamin and Matilda (Bozarth) Bromagem, both of whom were born in Greene county, Ohio, the former near the city of Xenia and the latter in the Cedarville neighborhood, both members of pioneer families in that county which has furnished so many of the residents of this section of Indiana. Matilda Bozarth's father, Joshua Bozarth, was a soldier of the War of 1812. Benjamin Bromagem, a soldier of the Union during the time of the Civil war, was a tailor by vocation but an agriculturist by preference. After his marriage he and his wife made the trip over here into Indiana by covered wagon and settled in the vicinity of Marion. A few years later they decided to return to Greene county, but on the way back were so greatly taken with the situation surrounding Fairview that they stopped there and established their home, spending the remainder of their lives there, and it is thus that Superintendent Bromagem is a Hoosier instead of a Buckeye. Reared in Randolph county, Alton Bromagem completed his schooling in the normal school at Lebanon and early devoted himself to teaching. He began teaching in the district schools of his native county and later became associated with the schools at Dunkirk in the neighboring county of Jay. For thirteen years he was connected with the Dunkirk schools, nine years of this period being spent as principal of the junior high school, and then in 1920 he was called to the superintendency of the Albany schools, which position he since has occupied. On August 20, 1912, at Union City, Ind., Alton Bromagem was united in marriage to Annette Anderson, who was born in that city, a daughter of Melvin and Mary (Casten) Anderson, and who at that time was a teacher in the Union City schools and who later and for years was associated with her husband in teaching service at Dunkirk. To this union one child has been born, a son, Bozarth Bromagem. Mr. and Mrs. Bromagem are Republicans and are members of the Methodist Episcopal church at Albany, Mr. Bromagem being a member of the official board of that congregation. He also is affiliated with the Masonic order.

CLIFTON CRANOR, proprietor of the great Cranor Coal Yard at Macedonia avenue and Eighth street, Muncie, was born on a farm in Wayne county, Indiana, March 28, 1884, and is a son of Luther A. and Elmetta (Cranor) Cranor, both of whom also were born in Indiana and the latter of whom is still living, making her home in Mun- © cie, where she has resided for more than thirty years. She is a daughter of John Cranor, a native of Maryland, who settled in Wayne county, this state, in the days before the Civil war. The late Luther A. Cranor, a veteran of the Civil war, was a son of Joseph Cranor, a native of North Carolina and of a different family than that of John Cranor of Maryland, who also became a resident of Wayne county in pioneer days. Luther A. Cranor was reared in Wayne county and was living there when the Civil war broke out, he then being fifteen years of age. Long before the war ended he was able to get into the service of the Union army and for two years served as a soldier in an Indiana regiment. Upon the completion of his military service he returned to Wayne county and after his marriage there became engaged in farming, a vocation he followed until in 1891, when, following the opening of the "boom" attendant on the development of the natural gas field hereabout he moved to Muncie, where he spent the remainder of his life, his death occurring on February 14, 1921, he then being seventy-five years of age. He was a Freemason and a member of the local post of the Grand Army of the Republic. To him and his wife were born three children, the sub- ject of this sketch having two sisters, Mabel, who makes her home with her mother in Muncie, and Madge, wife of Kelly Rousch, of St. Louis. Clifton Cranor was seven years of age when his parents moved to Muncie in 1891 and he received his schooling in the schools of that city. When sixteen years of age he became employed as a. steel worker, in the Muncie plant of the American Sheet and Tin: Plate Company and with that concern and others, in various cities, continued employed as a steel worker until he developed his plans for becoming engaged in the coal business. It was in January, 1914, that Mr. Cranor established a coal yard in West End (Muncie) and later his present extensive yard and plant at Macedonia avenue and Eighth street, where he was what is regarded as the best equipped coal yard in Delaware county, this modern equipment including six mammoth concrete coal pockets (towers), forty feet in height by twenty feet in diameter, each having a capacity of 250 tons, and with coal hoists electrically operated. From small proportions Mr. Cranor has built up his coal business, both wholesale and retail, to its present degree of importance and in doing so has "made his own way." In his fraternal relations he is affiliated with the local lodge of the Loyal Order of Moose and with the local aerie of the Fraternal Order of Eagles. In 1910, when he was twenty-six years of age, Clifton © Cranor was united in marriage to Nelle Quirk, of Muncie, and to this union four children have been born, two of whom are living, Robert Q. and Frederick Cranor.

CLARENCE B. KEISER, formerly and for many years an active figure in the commercial life of this community, has been dead for more than twenty years but he left a good memory at his passing and it is but fitting that there should be carried here some slight tribute to that memory. Mr. Keiser was born at Anderson, Ind., in 1857, and was a son of George and Clara (Blossom) Keiser, who later became residents of Muncie, where George Keiser established himself in business in the wholesale plumber's supply line and where he spent the remainder of his life, his son Clarence succeeding him in the direction of that business. George Keiser and wife were the parents of four children, the subject of this memorial sketch having had two sisters, Roberta, who married J. P. Davis, and Grace, who married J. M. Maring, and a brother, George E. Keiser. During the days of his childhood Clarence B. Keiser moved with his parents from Anderson to Indianapolis and it was thus that in the latter city he received his schooling. When his father became established in business in Muncie he took an active part in the direction of that business and upon his father's death succeeded to the business, which he continued to manage until his death on April 17, 1903. In 1901, at Muncie, Clarence B. Keiser was united in marriage to Sarah Reber McCulloch, who survives him and who continues to make her home in Muncie, residing in the Colonial apartments in East Adams street. Mrs. Keiser was born at Muncie and has lived here all her life, member of a family that has been prominent here since ante-bellum days. She is a daughter of Dr. James and Caroline J. (Foulke) McCulloch, both Pennsylvanians by birth, the latter born in Carlisle, Pa., daughter of Dr. George D. Foulke. Dr. James McCulloch, of excellent memory in this community among those whose recollections of persons and events here go back fifty years and more, was born in Springfield, Cumberland county, Pennsylvania, March 27, 1813. In 1847 he was graduated in medicine from the University of Pennsylvania and thereafter engaged in the practice of medicine at Lancaster, Ohio, until in 1856, when he came with his family to Muncie and established himself in practice here, in this city spending the rest of his life, his death occurring on May 3, 1877, as is set out elsewhere in this work, together with a fitting expression of the high regard in which he was held in the community in which for more than twenty years he had carried on his labor of love as a physician. Doctor McCulloch's widow survived him for many years, her death occuring on May 14, 1904. As a memorial to his mother and to his wife, the late George F. McCulloch gave half the ground on which stands Grace Episcopal church and parish house. His wife was Cora Patterson, daughter of Arthur F. and Samantha (Collier) Patterson, the latter of whom was a daughter of the brilliant Samuel R. Collier, the first surveyor of Delaware county, who did so much to stimulate cultural impulses hereabout in the formative days of this community. The heroic statue of George F. McCulloch in McCulloch park is a citizens' memorial to that community builder, concerning whose works here fitting mention is made elsewhere. Besides this honored son, Dr. James and Caroline (Foulke) McCulloch had four daughters, those besides Mrs. Keiser being Mary, who married Arthur E. Smith; Caroline H., who married Arthur W. Brady, now of Anderson, and Harriet F. McCulloch. Mrs. Caroline J. McCulloch was for many years an acknowledged leader in the cultural activities of this community. She was one of the organizers of the historic Woman's Club of Muncie, for thirteen years served as president of the same and was president emeritus of that organization at the time of her death. She was the first president of the Federated Club of Clubs and at the time of her death her name was carried in the officiary of that central club as honorary president. Among the many tributes paid to the memory of this good woman at the first session of the Woman's Club following her death was the following "In Memoriam" by the late Mrs. Josinah V. H. Koons: