Delaware County, Indiana - Sidelights on Local History, 1924 (part 14 of 21)

CHARLES L. ADDINGTON, a substantial farmer and landowner of Hamilton township, residing on the Wheeling pike, rural mail route No. 2 out of Muncie, was born on a farm in the vicinity of | Fairfield, lowa, September 25, 1861, and is a son of Bishop and Delilah (Wile) Addington, natives of Indiana, who two years later returned to this state. Bishop Addington was born in Wayne county, Indiana, and was there married. For some years he and his wife made their home in Iowa and in 1863 returned to Indiana and settled in Wayne county. Bishop Addington was a farmer and after some years of farming in Wayne county moved to Ridgeville. Seven years later he bought a farm of eighty acres in Jay county and there spent the remainder of his life. He and his wife were the parents of eight children, seven of whom are still living, the subject of this sketch having four sisters, Elizabeth, Sarah, Mary and Rilla and two brothers, Edward and Theodore Addington. Charles L. Addington was two years of age when his parents returned to Indiana from Iowa and he was but a lad when they located at Ridgeville. He finished his schooling at Ridgeville and was employed as a farm hand until after his marriage, when he bought a farm of seventy-five acres in Knox township, Jay county. He cleared and improved that place and then traded it for a farm of eighty-six acres in Greene township in that same county. About six years later he rented that farm and bought a place of fifty-five acres just north of Redkey, which he presently sold and then bought a farm of 100 acres north of Portland, still retaining his Greene township place. Six years later he sold his Jay county holdings (186 acres) and bought 160 acres on the Wheel- ing pike in Hamilton township, this county, where he since has made his home, in the meantime extending his holdings until now he is the owner of 212 acres there, which he has improved in good shape and ~ on which he has erected two sets of buildings. Mr. and Mrs. Addington are Republicans and the latter is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church. Charles L. Addington married Ida Baker, daughter of Zachariah and Priscilla (McFerren) Baker, of Blackford county, and he and his wife have two sons, Orris and Harold, the latter of whom married Helen Florey. Orris Addington married Fern Jester and has four children, Florence, Howard, Kenneth and Robert. CHARLES B. KIRK, proprietor of one of the leading sporting goods and novelties establishments in Muncie and one of the oldest merchants in point of continuous service in the city, is a native son of Muncie and has lived here all his life. Mr. Kirk was born on November 24, 1865, and is a son of William and Hettie (Merriweather) Kirk, the latter of whom was born in Piqua, Ohio. Her father, Benjamin Merriweather, came to this country from Yorkshire, England, and established his home at Piqua. He was a shoemaker and was for years in business in that city. William Kirk also was born in Yorkshire, England, and was but a lad when he came to this country with his father, Charles B. Kirk, a saddler, who first located at West Milton in Miami county, Ohio, and then moved to Muncie, where he followed his trade. William Kirk was taught saddlery and harness making and for a time followed that trade at Muncie but later became engaged in mercantile business, in 1865 opening a grocery store which he carried on until in 1887, when he made a general store out of it, and he was thus engaged in business until his death two years later, in 1889. William Kirk and wife had three children, the subject of this sketch having a sister, Bessie M., wife of F. V. Knapp, and had a brother, the late E. Will Kirk, formerly and for years his partner in business, who died on July 24, 1899. Reared at Muncie, Charles B. Kirk received his schooling in the schools of that city and under the direction of J. N. Perkins learned the printer's trade in the office of the old Muncie Times. For some time he followed this vocation and then, in 1887, became associated with his father in the latter's commercial enterprise at the corner of Walnut and Washington streets. After their father's death in 1889 he and his brother Will carried on the business under the name of Kirk Bros. until the death of E. Will Kirk in 1899, after which Charles B. Kirk carried on the business alone until in the course of time his sons, Ernest W. and Robert W. Kirk, became associated with him in the business, these sons now representing in the third generation a business that has been carried on in the Kirk name for nearly seventy years. In 1889 the Kirk store was moved from its location at 121 East Main street, where the business was carried on until on February 1, 1924, when the present site at 117 East Main street was occupied. Here the Kirks own and occupy a three-story building with full basement, this site having a frontage of twentyone and one-half feet and 122 feet in depth. Charles B. Kirk has been continuously engaged in business in Muncie for thirty-nine years. Thirty-seven years ago he began to make a specialty of the sporting goods department of the store and since has developed this line until now he has one of the best stocked stores of the kind in eastern Indiana and has for many years been recognized as a sort of local headquarters for goods in that line, sporting goods and novelties being his specialties. Kirk's slogan - ''We Sell Everything but Elephants". In 1900 Charles B. Kirk was united in marriage to Julia E. Wilson, daughter of Edward Wilson and a member of one of the old families of this county, and to this union three sons have been born, Ernest W., Robert W. and Charles Edward, the two first named of whom, as noted above, are now associated with their father in the old established business. Ernest W. Kirk married Margaret Ethell, July 12, 1920, and has two children, Norman Jack © and David Eugene. Charles B. Kirk resides at 224 North Jefferson street. Mr. and Mrs. Kirk are members of the Presbyterian church. Charles B. Kirk is a York Rite (Knights Templar) and Scottish Rite (32°) Mason and a noble of the Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. He also is affiliated with the local lodge of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and is a member of the Muncie Chamber of Commerce.

BURL A. MADILL, a substantial farmer and landowner of Center township, residing on the Wilson road, rural mail route No. 3 out of Muncie, was born on a farm in Delaware township, this county, January 27, 1881, and is a son of John and Ida (Polhemus) Madill, the latter of whom was born in Greene county, Ohio, and came to Delaware county with her parents when she was a child. The late John Madill was born at Miamisburg in Montgomery county, Ohio, and wag a son of Adam and Charlotte Madill, who came to this country from Germany in 1831 and located in Ohio, where Adam Madill died in 1862. His widow survived him for many years, her death occurring in 1889. They were the parents of seven children, of whom John was the last born. John Madill was but a boy when his father died and he presently came to Delaware county to make his home with his elder brother, Adam Madill, a veteran of the Civil war, who had established his home on a farm in Delaware township. He thus grew up familiar with farming methods and after his marriage (January 3, 1878). established his home on a farm of forty-five acres which he had bought in Delaware township and there spent the remainder of his life, his death occurring on February 16, 1919, he then being the owner of more than 300 acres. To him and his wife were born three children, the subject of this sketch having a sister, Lela, and a brother, Charles O. Madill, of Muncie. Reared on the home farm in Delaware township, Burl A. Madill completed his schooling in the Selma high' school. At the age of twenty he began farming on his own account, renting from his father, and after his marriage in the following year continued farming as a renter for a 'few years, at the end of which time he bought eighty acres of his present farm on the Wilson road in Center township and has since made his home there, meanwhile adding to his holdings until now he is the owner of a well improved farm of 240 acres. Mr. Madill is a Republican and is an active member of the Delaware County Farm Bureau. It was on February 27, 1902, that Burl A. Madill was united in marriage to Flora A. Anderson and to this union two sons have been born, Cecil A. and Ralph Madill, the former of whom now is a student at Purdue University and the latter at DePauw University. Mrs. Madill also was born in Delaware township and is a daughter of Alexander H. and Rhoda C. (Hatfield) Anderson, the latter of whom was born in Henry county, Indiana, in 1847, a daughter of Jacob and Hannah (Thompson) Hatfield, the former of whom was the pioneer merchant at New Corner, having moved there in late '40s. Jacob Hatfield died in the early 50s, leaving his widow with four children, one son and three daughters. The son, John Hatfield, became a soldier of the Union during the time of the Civil war and was killed at the battle of Kennesaw Mountain. The widow Hatfield presently married Abraham Cline and became a resident of Delaware township, Rhoda C. Hatfield thus living in this latter township at the time of her marriage. Alexander H. Anderson, a veteran of the Civil war, who died at his farm home in Delaware township in 1907, was born in the vicinity of Staunton, Va., in 1842, a son of William and Janet (Murray) Anderson, who in 1848 became residents of Indiana. Following the death of her husband William Anderson's widow came to Delaware county. She had four children, the son and three daughters, and Alexander H. Anderson was taken into the home of the

Godlove family in the Sharon (Desota) neighborhood, where he grew up as a farmer and carpenter. During the time of the Civil war he rendered service as a soldier, a member of Company G of the 13th regiment, Indiana Volunteer Infantry and after his marriage in 1866 continued working as a carpenter until presently he bought a farm in Delaware township and was thereafter engaged in farming. Of the nine children born to him and his wife all grew to maturity save two and six are still living, Mrs. Madill having two sisters, Mrs. Mary J. Ketterman and Mrs. Myrtle Jones, and three brothers, Charles S., John G. and Frank W. Anderson.

GEORGE WILLIAM WAGNER, a veteran of the malleable iron industry and a resident of Muncie for more than thirty years, was born at Springfield, Ohio, May 28, 1859, and is a son of Joseph and Elizabeth (Bangert) Wagner, both natives of Germany and the latter of whom was but a child when she came to this country with her parents, the family settling in southern Ohio. Joseph Wagner came to America in the days of his young manhood and after his marriage established his home at Springfield, Ohio, where he became active in the mechanical trades. George William Wagner grew up at Springfield and was graduated from the high school there. Upon leaving school he began working as a molder in the foundry of the Champion Malleable Iron Works at Springfield and in time was advanced to the - position of foreman of the foundry. He married when twenty-four years of age and continued to make his home at Springfield until in 1893 when the Whiteley interests were transferred from Springfield to Muncie. Mr. Wagner accompanied the Whiteleys to Muncie and it was he and Bert Whiteley who developed the system of utilizing natural gas as a fuel in the malleable iron industry, Mr. Wagner having charge of the erection and development of the furnaces at the plant of the Whiteley Malleable Casting Company and head of the foundry department. He presently was made superintendent of the plant, became a stockholder in the company and a member of the directorate of the same and then became secretary and treasurer of the company. For twenty-five years Mr. Wagner continued as superintendent of the malleable casting plant, or until in 1919 when the Whiteley interest in the same was disposed of. He then took over the direction of the equipment of a malleable iron mill at Kokomo and when that plant was placed in good running order returned to Muncie where his time has since been spent largely in connection with his duties as president of the Muncie Masonic Temple Arsociation in connection with the erection at Muncie of one of the most not- able Masonic temples in the middle west, the corner stone of which was laid with impressive ceremonies on October 30, 1923. Mr. Wagner has for years been an active figure in local Masonic circles, a York Rite and Scottish Rite Mason, and has been elevated to the honorary 33d degree or supreme council of the Masonic bodies in America. He also is affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Knights of Pythias, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, the Young Men's Christian Association and the Muncie Chamber of Commerce. For the past eight years Mr. Wagner has been a member of the directorate of the Merchants National Bank of Muncie. He is a Republican and his church affiliations are with the Presbyterians. It was in February, 1884, at Springfield, that George _ William Wagner was united in marriage to Lora V. Worthington, who was born in that city, daughter of John N. and Anna Worthington, and who died at Muncie in March, 1904. Mr. Wagner resides at 326 North Monroe street.

. R. MILT RETHERFORD, president of the Retherford Manufacturing Company of Muncie, manufacturers of lighting fixtures and specialties, is a native Hoosier and has been a resident of this state all his life. Mr. Retherford was born in the neighboring county of Madison in 1878 and is a son of Robert and Nancy (Cook) Retherford, the latter of whom was born in Union county, this state, a daughter of John and Anna (Willis) Cook. The late Robert Retherford was born in Pike county, Kentucky, and was a son of John and Ann Retherford, who many years ago established their home in Indiana. After his marriage, Robert Retherford established himself on a farm in Madison county and there spent his last days. He and his wife were the parents of ten children, those besides the subject of this sketch being William A., Sarah Jane, Joseph M., Sarilda, John R., Marinda, Austin, Huldah and Robert Jr. Reared on the home farm in Madison county, R. Milt Retherford completed his schooling in the Indiana State Normal School and was for some years engaged during the winters in teaching school in his home county. He also took a course of special instruction in the old Eastman Business College at Poughkeepsie, N. Y. In 1898, in association with his brother, the late John R. Retherford, he established his present manufacturing business at Muncie, and has ever since been thus engaged, his industrial activities in the city thus covering a period of a round quarter of a century. The Retherford Manufacturing Company, originally known as the Retherford Bros. Company, has a wellequipped plant at 109-11 North High street, and its products, lighting fixtures and specialties of that sort, find a market in every state in the Union, the Retherford products thus doing their part in spreading the fame of Muncie throughout the country. Mr. Retherford is president of this company; his son, Garland F. Retherford, is the vice-president, and D. M. McWilliams is the secretary and treasurer. In 1898 R. Milt Retherford was united in marriage to Grace Riggs, daughter of Easom and Martha (Ball) Riggs, and to this union three children have been born - the son, Garland, mentioned above, who married Margaret McGuff, and two daughters, Romanelle and Helen. The Retherfords reside at 623 East Washington street. Mr. Retherford is a Scottish Rite and Knights Templar Mason and a noble of the Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. For eleven years he served as a member of the Muncie city school board, six years of this time being president of the board, and was thus rendering school service during the time of the erection of the Central high school.

GEORGE W. MARING, one of the leaders in the industrial development of Muncie following the opening of the natural gas field here in the late '80s, had at the time of his death in 1916 been a resident of Muncie for nearly thirty years and during that time had deeply impressed himself upon the business life of the community. Mr. Maring was a veteran of the Civil war. He was born at Belmont, Ohio, August 15, 1848, and was a son of Peter and Edith (Davis) Maring, both also natives of Ohio and the former of whom was a carpenter, who during the later '40s moved to the village of Somerton in Belmont county, that state. It was thus that George W. Maring was reared at Somerton, where he received his schooling and where, when the Civil war broke out, he was working as a harness maker's apprentice. On August 16, 1862, he enlisted his services in behalf of the cause of the Union and went to the front as a member of Company B of the 122d regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, with which gallant command he served until honorably discharged on March 23, 1865, by reason of physical disability due to a serious wound he received in the Battle of the Wilderness, a corporal and color guard of the regiment. Upon the completion of his military service Mr. Maring resumed his work as a harness maker and presently became engaged in business in that line on his own account at Flushing, Ohio. He later became employed in the drug line at Chillicothe and about two years later became engaged as a traveling representative for the wholesale window glass firm of J. M. Maring & Company, of which his elder brother was the head, at

Bellaire, Ohio, and was thus engaged when this concern decided to transfer its operations to Muncie following the discovery of natural gas here. In the meantime the company had been reorganized and when it came to Muncie in 1888 was known as Maring, Hart & Company, the two Maring brothers and T. F. Hart composing the company. It was in the summer of 1888 that this glass plant was secured for Muncie and the factory in the Boyceton suburb was erected and put in operation without delay, the manufacture of window glass being its specialty, and until the time came when it was found the supply of gas no longer was adequate for such purposes it was one of the important industries of the town. This company also established a glass factory at Dunkirk, over the line in the neighboring county of Jay. George W. Maring established his home at Muncie when the company with which he was connected located here and in this city he spent the remainder of his life, his death occurring on December 15, 1916. He was one of the organizers of the Merchants National Bank of Muncie and in other ways took an active - part in the city's general commercial and industrial development. Since the death of Mr. Maring his widow has continued to make her home at Muncie, residing at 803 East Washington street. She was born (Mary Elizabeth Van Scoyoc) at Pleasant Grove, Pa., and is a daughter of J. M. and Mary (Rogers) Van Scoyoc, the latter of whom was a daughter of James Rogers and wife, the latter of whom was a Dilley. To J. M. Van Scoyoc and wife were born six children, those besides Mrs. Maring being Addison, Vance, James (deceased), ' Lavina and Elam. Mrs. Maring was married in 1877. She is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, as was her husband. CHARLES M. SMITH, superintendent of the plant of the T. F. Hart Paper Company of Albany and for years active in the civic affairs of his home town, a former member of the town board, former town clerk and treasurer and a former member of the local school board, is a native of the Old Dominion but has been a resident of Indiana and of Albany since the days of his boyhood. Mr. Smith was born at Middlebrook, Va., June 23, 1876, and is a son of Mordecai and Sarah Smith, the former of whom was a cabinet maker, who came to Indiana with their family more than thirty years ago and established their home at Albany. Charles M. Smith was sixteen years of age when he came to Indiana with his parents in 1892 and he completed his schooling in the Albany schools. In 1894 he began working in the plant of the Albany Paper Company, working on the paper machine, and three years later, in 1897, was taken into the company's offices as a bookkeeper and general office assistant to the manager, thus being in a way to acquire a general knowledge of all the details of the business. In February, 1916, the paper mill and strawboard works at Albany were taken over by the T. F. Hart Paper Company, which since then has operated the plant, and in the following June Mr. Smith was advanced to the position of general superintendent of the plant, which position he since has occupied, one of the best known paper-mill men in this section. This company makes a specialty of strawboard manufactory, both plain and corrugated, and has created a wide market for its products. Mr. Smith is a Democrat and has long given his attention to local civic affairs. He served as a member of the Albany town board for three years, served a term as town clerk and treasurer, and for four years was a member of the local school board. He is a member of Anthony lodge, No. 171, Free and Accepted Masons, at Albany. Charles M. Smith married Josephine Depoy, a member of one of the real pioneer families of Delaware county, the Depoys having been represented in this county since the ' middle '30s of the past century, and to this union four children have been born, a son, Fitzhugh Lee Smith, and three daughters, Alice Lucile, Virginia Lee and Mary Evelyn Smith. The Smiths are members of the Methodist Episcopal church of Albany. Mrs. Smith's parents, Martin L. and Nancy J. (Bartlett) Depoy, both were born in this county, the latter a daughter of Elijah and Mary (Mann) Bartlett and the former a son of Samuel and Melinda Depoy, pioneers of the county. Samuel Depoy was a Virginian, son of Martin Depoy, a soldier of the War of 1812, who settled in 1836 in what is now the Albany neighborhood in this county.

ISAAC RAPPAPORT, who died at his home in Muncie on June 1, 1922, and whose widow is still living there, residing at 700 West Howard street, was of European birth, but had been a resident of this country and of Indiana since the days of his childhood. Mr. Rappaport was born in Poland, a son of Lewis and Fannie Rappaport, who many years ago came to America with their family and located at Indianapolis. Isaac Rappaport was fifteen years of age when his parents came to this country and at Indianapolis he grew up familiar with business forms. As a young man he went to Texas and was there employed for some time in his cousin's dry goods store. Upon his return to Indianapolis he became engaged in business there en his own account. In 1898 he disposed of his interests in that city and moved to Muncie, where he became engaged in the wholesale liquor business and where he thus continued engaged until his retire- ment several years before his death.. In 1894, at Indianapolis, Isaac Rappaport was united in marriage to Rachel Ringold, who survives him and who has three children all graduates of the Muncie high school - a son, Louis H. Rappaport, and two daughters, Dorothy and Rosalind, the latter of whom has been a teacher in the local kindergarten schools. Louis H. Rappaport, a veteran of the World war, is a member of the local society of the Order of B'nai B'rith, of which his father was long a leading member, and he also has served as secretary of the Jewish synagogue at Muncie. He is a member of the local post of the American Legion. Mrs. Rappaport was born at Indianapolis and is a daughter of Hyman and Anna (Dobrowitz) Ringold, formerly and for many years residents of that city and both now deceased. The Rappaports are Republicans.

MARK SWEARINGEN, a retired farmer and landowner of Delaware county and a director of the Mutual Home Savings Association of Muncie, is a native Hoosier and has lived in this state all his life, with the exception of four years spent in Iowa, a resident of Delaware county for more than forty years and of Muncie for the past twelve years and more. Mr. Swearingen was born on a farm in the immediate vicinity of the historic old hamlet of Rogersville, down over the line in Henry county, January 15, 1850, and is a son of Henry and Josina (Powers) Swearingen, both natives of Virginia, who had become residents of Indiana and of Henry county in the days of their youth. John Swearingen, a farmer, died in 1852. Two years later his widow remarried, and in 1856 she moved to the then developing state of Iowa, where she spent the remainder of her life. Mark Swearingen was but two years of age when his father died. Upon his mother's departure for a life of pioneering in Iowa, he then being six years old, he accompanied her and remained there for four years, at the end of which time he returned and was kept by kinsfolk in Indiana, and it was thus that he got his schooling here. He grew up familiar with farm life, and after his marriage, at the age of twenty-six, began farming for himself on a tract of eighteen acres he had bought in Henry county. He remained there for four or five years, or until on February 26, 1881, when he became a resident of Delaware county, which ever since has been his home. Upon coming here Mr. Swearingen settled on a farm in Perry township, but three years later, in 1884, bought a farm of 120 acres east of Shideler, in Union township, where he established his home and where he remained until his retirement from the farm in 1912 and removal to Muncie, where he since has made his home, residing at

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918 North Elm street. Though retired from the general activities of the farm, Mr. Swearingen continues his interest in the general affairs of the community and is a member of the directorate of the Mutual Home Savings Association, a well-established institution at the corner of Charles and Mulberry streets. It was on October 7, 1876, in Henry county, that Mark Swearingen was united in marriage to Emma Z. Jackson, who was born in Perry township, this county, daughter of Harvey H. and Elizabeth Jackson, mention of whom is made elsewhere in this work. To Mr. and Mrs. Swearingen have been born three children, James Watt (deceased), Ruth D. and Ralph. The late James Watt Swearingen married Luticia Pitts of Lafayette, Ind., and died leaving two children, Paul and Allen. Ruth D, Swearingen married Charles E. Weaver of Granville, and has one child, a son, Walter Verr. Ralph Swearingen has been twice married. His first wife, Lucy Castle, of the Muncie neighborhood, died, and he later married Lois Boxell of Muncie.

MARVIN L. PITTENGER, a substantial farmer and landowner of Hamilton township, residing on the Center pike, rural mail route No. 2 out of Muncie, was born in Liberty township, this county, August 23, 1867, and is a son of Francis and Eliza Jane (Marks) Pittenger, the latter of whom was born in Ohio. Francis Pittenger was born in Delaware township, this county, a member of one of the real pioneer families of that part of the county, and after his marriage established his home on a farm of eighty acres of woodland in Liberty township. This tract he cleared and improved and gradually added to his holdings until he became the owner of a farm of 200 acres. He also had a tile mill and a saw mill on his place and was one of the active factors in the development of that section. To him and his wife were born thirteen children, ten of whom are still living, the subject of this sketch (the fourth in order of birth) having six sisters, Rhoda, Elizabeth, Emma, Nellie, Agnes and Theresa and three brothers, Washington, John and George Pittenger. Reared on the home farm in Liberty township, Marvin L. Pittenger received his schooling in the local schools and until his marriage remained at home, helpful in the labors of the farm and in the operation of the mills. After his marriage he began farming as a renter in Hamilton township and was thus engaged for fourteen years, at the end of which time he bought a part of the place on which he is now living on the Center pike and has since resided there, meanwhile having increased his holdings to eighty acres, which he has improved in up-to-date fashion. Mr. and Mrs. Pittenger are members of the Pleasant Grove

Methodist Episcopal church, of the congregation of which Mr. Pittenger formerly was a steward. He now is a member of the board of parsonage trustees. Mrs. Pittenger formerly was president of the Ladies Aid Society. She was born in Hamilton township (Emma Williamson) and is a daughter of Adam and Sarah (Moore) Williamson, the latter of whom also was born in this county, daughter of Lewis and Patience (Truitt) Moore, pioneers of Center township. Adam Williamson was born in Scioto county, Ohio, and was five years of age when in 1834 he came to this county with his parents, Peter and Rosanna (Shafer) Williamson the family settling in Hamilton township. He became in time the owner of a farm of 160 acres in that township and there spent his last days. Of his six children, four are still living, Mrs. Pittenger having two sisters, Mary and Effie, and a brother, William Williamson. Mr. and Mrs. Pittenger have three children, two sons, Ernest and Delbert, and a daughter, Sarah, the latter of whom was graduated from the Royerton high school and from Hanover College. Ernest Pittenger, a veteran of the World war, also was graduated from the Royerton high school and then attended the agricultural college of Purdue University. Delbert Pittenger was graduated from the Royerton high school and is now a student at Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill. .

WILLIAM H. WARFEL, who for years had been engaged in the tinning business at Muncie and who died at his home in that city in the fall of 1921, was a native son of Delaware county, a member of one of the pioneer families here, and had resided here all his life. Mr. Warfel was born at Yorktown in 1862 and was a:son of Emanuel and Catherine (Parkison) Warfel, both of whom were members of pioneer families in that section of the county, the latter a daughter of Samuel and Ellen (Mohler) Parkison, who had settled in Mt. Pleasant township upon their arrival here from Pennsylvania in 1839, Samuel Parkison having entered from the government a tract of land in that township two years prior to his settlement here. Emanuel Warfel also had come to this county with his parents, Daniel and Fannie Warfel, from Pennsylvania, this family settling in Mt. Pleasant township in 1840. Daniel Warfel died there in 1860 and his wife died in 1870. They reared a family of nine children and the Warfel connection of this family in the present generation is a considerable one. To Emanuel and Catherine (Parkison) Warfel were born six children, the subject of this memorial sketch having had two sisters, Nancy, wife of John Hervey, and Mary, wife of Henry Coppersmith, and three brothers, Charles, Emanuel and George War- fel. Reared at Yorktown, where he received his schooling, William H. Warfel early learned the trade of tinsmith and followed that vocation all his life. He married when twenty-one years of age and not long afterward became established in business on his own account, setting up a tinshop on the north side of the public square in Muncie, and there developed an extensive business in general tinsmithing, roofing and cornice work, a business which since his death has been carried on by his sons, Clarence A. and Harry Warfel, who are maintaining the old establishment at 119 North High street. William H. Warfel died on November 11, 1921, and his widow continues to make her home at Muncie, residing at 1001 West First street. He was a member of the local lodges of the Elks, the Red Men and the Eagles. Mrs. Warfel also was born at Yorktown (Sarah A. Allen) and is a daughter of John and Louise (Bryant) Allen, the latter of whom was a daughter of Charles and Eliza (Powell) Bryant. John Allen was a son of Fielden and Betsey (Dragoo) Allen, the latter of whom was a member of the pioneer Dragoo family of this county. John Allen and wife had four children, Mrs. Warfel having a sister, Eliza, and two brothers, Richard F. and Scott Allen. To William H. and Sarah A. (Allen) Warfel were born seven children, all of whom are living save Charles, the second in order of birth, and Oreta Luella, wife of Carlton Wood, who died on April 19, 1924. Besides the two sons, Clarence A. and Harry Warfel, mentioned above as carrying on the business at Muncie established by their late father. Mrs. Warfel now has three daughters living, namely: Ortha, wife of Ora Edwards, who has two children, Edna and Charles; Effie, wife of Charles Fudge, and Katie Louise, wife of Lawrence Lancaster, who has three children, Walter, Rosemund Luella and Margaret Jane. Clarence A. Warfel married Clara Surgeon and has two children, Charles William and Ella May, and Harry Warfel married Chelse Thornburg.

ARTHUR W. LOCKHART, who is engaged in the real estate and insurance business at Albany, this county, was born at Albany and has lived there practically all his life, the exception being a period some years ago when he was connected with the operations of a steel company in Pennsylvania. Mr. Lockhart was born on September 23, 1875, and is a son of Benjamin and Martha (Jones) Lockhart, the former of whom was born in Highland county, Ohio, and came to Indiana in the days of his young manhood, establishing his home at Albany after his marriage. Arthur W. Lockhart was reared at Al- awhile after leaving school he was employed as a clerk in a retail store at Albany and then became connected with the operations of the Albany Manufacturing Company, afterward known as the Shelly Steel Tube Company, and was with this company for seven years, a part of this time being spent in the company's offices in Pennsylvania. He then became engaged in his present line, real estate and fire insurance, and has since maintained his office at Albany, one of Delaware county's well established realtors. Mr. Lockhart is a Republican and a Freemason. In 1898 Arthur W. Lockhart was united in marriage to Iva Davis, daughter, of the Rev. Eli and Rebecca (Halfin) Davis, of Albany, and to this union two children have been born, a daughter, Pauline, wife of D. C. Engle, of Albany, and a son, Halbert Lockhart, of Albany. Mr. and Mrs. Lockhart are members of the Methodist Episcopal church of Albany and Mr. Lockhart is a member of the board of trustees of this congregation and treasurer of the church. |

EDWARD T. MILLIGAN, secretary-treasurer of the Muncie Stone and Lime Company and a resident of Muncie for nearly twenty years, was born on a farm in the neighboring county of Jay on July 4, 1875, and is a son of Homer and Hattie Milligan, both of whom were born in that same county, members of pioneer families in this section of the state. Homer Milligan followed farming all his active life. He died in 1889. Reared on the home farm in Jay county, Edward T. Milligan completed his schooling in the old normal school at Portland, which he attended for three terms, and supplemented this by a course in a business college at Muncie in 1898. For some time thereafter he was engaged working at Columbus, Ohio, and then became connected with the Portland Stone Company, making his home at Portland, Ind., until in 1908, when he and his brothers came to Muncie and bought the old Hamilton stone quarries and the Mauck quarries and began to operate the same. In the following year (1909), for purposes of further development, the Milligan brothers organized the Muncie Stone and Lime Company and the pousiness since has been carried on under that name. Edward T. Milligan has been secretary-treasurer of this company since its organization. The other officers of the company are Charles F. Headington, president; J. B. Milligan, vice-president, and Orla B. Milligan, superintendent. In 1922 The Muncie Stone and Lime Company abandoned its old quarries and leased a tract of eleven acres along the Cornbread road, where it established a thoroughly modern and upto-date quarry plant, with a stone crusher having a capacity of 600 tons a day, six times the capacity of its former crusher. The land taken over by this company is underlaid with an apparently inexhaustible deposit of limestone of a fine quality for concrete and for street and highway construction, and the products of the company are in high demand hereabout. Edward T. Milligan married Martha C. Colvin, daughter of Ephraim and Hannah B. Colvin, and he and his wife reside at 205 West Twelfth street. Mr. Milligan is a Republican and a member of the Optimist Club of Muncie. He also is affiliated with the local lodges of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and the Loyal Order of Moose, and has been "through the chairs" of the latter lodge.

ULYSSES GRANT POLAND, M. D., former coroner of Delaware county, present health officer for the city of Muncie, former president of the Eighth District (Indiana) Medical Association, of the Delaware County Medical Society and of the Muncie Academy of Medicine and present secretary of the latter, and a former vicepresident of the Indiana State Medical Society, a practicing physician at Muncie for more than a quarter of a century, is a native son of Delaware county, a member of one of the county's pioneer families, and has resided here all his life. Doctor Poland was born in the historic old settlement of Sharon, along the Mississinewa, in Delaware township, June 2, 1865, and is a son of Nicholas and Martha Jane (Dickover) Poland, the latter of whom also was born in this county, December 28, 1839, daughter of Jacob Dickover, a soldier of the War of 1812 and one of the best known of the pioneers of the eastern part of Delaware county. Jacob Dickover was born in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, and was a son of Henry Dickover, who had been sent to America as a member of one of the detachments of Hessian soldiers employed by the British against the American colonists during the time of the Revolutionary war. Not long after his arrival here he became impressed with the justice of the colonists' cause and left the mercenary army to which he was attached and threw in his lot with that of the Continental army, with which, under General Washington, he fought until the end of the war. He had been trained as a stonemason and in his trade capacity was detailed to help erect the fort at Trenton. After the war he settled in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, where he married and reared a considerable family. One of his sons, Jacob Dickover, served as a soldier of the War of 1812, afterward became a resident of Ohio and then, about 1832, four or five years after the erection of Delaware county, came over here into Indiana' and after a brief residence in Wayne county came up here into Delaware county and settled in the creek bottom lands in Liberty township, about a mile north of where the town of Selma later was. established, and there spent the remainder of his life, his death occurring on March 23, 1876, he then being past ninety years of age. His wife (Hannah Baney) died on April 14, 1877, she then being past sixty-seven years of age. They had eight children, one son and seven daughters. The son, Samuel Dickover, served as a soldier of the Union during the Civil war, a mem- _ ber of Company K of the 19th Indiana infantry. The pioneer Jacob Dickover was a brickmason and some of the old buildings in the eastern part of the county still stand as monuments to the excellence of his handicraftsmanship. It is said of him that not long after his arrival here he was employed to erect a building for distillery purposes, and that after the building was up and in active use his conscience troubled him on the score of the product of the still house, so that thereafter he declined all employment on still houses. Nicholas Poland was born in Harrison county, Ohio, October 14, 1833, a son of William Poland, of French descent, and was but a lad when his parents moved from there to Washington county, Pennsylvania, where he was reared, near the city of Wheeling, W. Va. He was trained in youth as a carpenter and when he attained his majority came over here into Indiana, about 1854, and located in the Sharon settlement in this county, where he became employed at his trade and after his marriage there to Martha Jane Dickover established his home. His wife died on February 24, 1875, and he presently married again and moved onto a farm in Hamilton township, where he spent the remainder of his life, his death occurring on January 22, 1902. He was a Democrat, a Freemason and a member of the Christian church. By his union with Martha Jane Dickover, Nicholas Poland was the father of nine children, seven of whom grew to maturity, namely: John Samuel, a farmer, now deceased; William Willard, a former teacher in the schools of Delaware county, now living in Oregon, where he is engaged in ranching; Ulysses Grant, the immediate subject of this biographical review; Mary H., who married Smith Karn, of this county, and whose last days were spent at Hoopston, Ill.; Albert M., formerly engaged in the practice of law at Albany, this county, who in 1910 moved to Houston, Tex., where he recently died; Carrie A., wife of Marion M. Brackin, now living at Robinson, Il., and Martha J., who married Elwood A. Jacobs and died more than ten years ago. Following the death of the mother of these children Nicholas Poland married Mrs. Rachel (McCormick)

Mansfield, a sister of Matthew McCormick, a county commissioner back in the '80s and '90s, which union was without issue. Ulysses Grant Poland was about ten years of age when his mother died. He grew to manhood on the home farm in Hamilton township, supplemented his local schooling by a two-years course in the Northern Indiana Normal School at Valparaiso and then began teaching school, a vocation he followed during the winters for seven years. He also, - in 1888, took a term of schooling in the Business College at Delaware, Ohio. Meanwhile he had been giving his serious thought to the study of medicine and during his school vacations these studies were carried on, first under the preceptorship of Dr. A. P. Murray at Albany and then under the preceptorship of Dr. G. R. Green at Muncie, and in the office of the latter he was prepared for college. In 1892 he entered Indiana Medical College at Indianapolis and in March, 1895, was graduated from this institution. Upon receiving his diploma, Doctor Poland returned to Muncie, established himself in practice and has ever since been thus engaged, with present offices and residence at 303 East Washington street. Doctor Poland is a Republican. In 1898, three years after entering upon the practice of his profession at Muncie, he was elected coroner of Delaware county and by successive re-elections served for eight years in that office. He is a member of the staff of the Muncie Home Hospital and is the present health officer for the city of Muncie. For many years he has been active in the councils of the medical fraternity and was one of the organizers of the Muncie Academy of Medicine, of which he for some time was president and is the present secretary. He also has served as president and as secretary of the Delaware County Medical Society, for two years was president of the Highth District Med-. ical Society and is also affiliated with the joint medical society of the counties of Delaware and: Blackford, with the Indiana State Medical Society of which he was vice president in 1913, and with the American Medical Association. He is a past chancellor commander of the local lodge of the Knights of Pythias. During the time of this country's participation in the World war the Doctor rendered service as a member of the Medical Corps of the National Council of Defense. In 1896 Dr. U. G. Poland was united in marriage to Grace E. McClellan, also a member of one of the old families of this county, daughter of Frederick H. and Mary F. (Jewett) McClellan, the latter of whom was the daughter of Jeremiah Jewett, one of the foremost of the early residents of old Muncietown and concerning whom further reference is made elsewhere in this work. Mrs. Poland formerly was a teacher in the Muncie schools and her sister, Harriet J. Mc- Clellan, has for years been one of the teachers in the city schools. Her brother, Frederick F. McClellan, is Muncie's city attorney. Their father, who had come to this county when five years of age with his parents from Greene county, Ohio, in 1849, died in 1875. Doctor and Mrs. Poland are members of the First Presbyterian church, of which congregation the Doctor for years has been an elder. They have three adopted children, Mary L., William Maxwell and Rachel Wilhelmina, children of the Doctor's deceased sister, Mrs. Martha J. Jacobs.

JACOB F. KISER, head of the old-established J. F. Kiser Company, jewelers, and founder of the Kiser Plating Company, corner of ' East Howard and_Elm streets, Muncie, has been a resident of Muncie for nearly thirty years, and during that time has built up a business in the jewelry line that has given him high standing in commercial and trade circles. Mr. Kiser was born at Fostoria, Ohio, May 12, 1861, and is a son of Jacob and Mary (Foughty) Kiser, the latter of whom spent her last days in Muncie, her death occurring in that city on March 13, 1903. The senior Jacob Kiser was born in Pennsylvania and was but a child when his parents moved with their family to the Fostoria neighborhood in Ohio. He died in 1863, leaving his widow with six children, of whom the subject of this sketch, then two years of age, was the last born. The widow kept the family together and Jacob F. Kiser received his schooling at Fostoria, graduating from the high school there. As a young man he for some time worked as a bricklayer and then became engaged in electroplating at Fostoria. As he began to see his way to success in this line he added jewelry to his stock and was thus engaged in business at Fostoria until in 1897, when he disposed of his interests there and moved to Muncie, where he set up an electroplating establishment at Hoyt avenue and Liberty streets. Four years later, in 1901, he found it necessary to engage larger quarters and he bought the building at the corner of Howard and Elm streets, where he ever since has been engaged in business. There he presently branched out into a general jewelry business and carried on under the firm style of the Muncie Jewelry and Plating Company, which in 1915 was changed to the J. F. Kiser Company. In 1920 Mr. Kiser disposed of his interest in the plating works, which still carries on as the Kiser Plating Company, and has since devoted his attention wholly to his admirably stocked jewelry store. Mr. Kiser is a Republican and he and his wife are members of the High Street Methodist Episcopal church. He is a

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Scottish Rite Mason and is also affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Knights of Pythias and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, as well as being an active member of the Muncie Chamber of Commerce and of the locally influential Exchange Club. In 1881 Jacob F. Kiser was united in marriage to Amanda Baymen, who was born near Fostoria, Ohio, daughter of Henry and Caroline (Rocky) Baymen, and to this union one child was born, a son, Frank Kiser, secretary-treasurer of the J. F. Kiser Company and of the Kiser Plating Company, and concerning whom further mention is made elsewhere in this work. .

THOMAS J. FREEMAN, one of the veteran farmers of Delaware county and a substantial landowner of Hamilton township, residing on the Moore road, rural mail route No. 4 out of Muncie, was born in a log cabin on the farm on which he is now living and has lived on that place all his life, a period of more than sixty-five years. Mr. Freeman was born on November 14, 1858, and is a son of John and Mary (Wier): Freeman, the latter of whom was born in Dearborn county, Indiana, and was but six years of age when she came to this county with her parents, Thomas and Mary Wier, natives of Pennsylvania, in 1836, the Wiers settling in Center township. John Freeman was born in Adams county, Ohio, January 26, 1825, and was but ten years of age when he came to Delaware county with his parents, Isaac and Jemima (Moore) Freeman, in 1835, the family settling on a quarter of a section of land which Isaac Freeman entered from the government in section 30 of Hamilton township and a part of which land is now in the farm of Thomas J. Freeman, title thus ever having been kept in the family. Isaac Freeman opened up a farm there and died in 1864, at the age of sixty-one years. His widow survived him until in 1871 and was seventy years of age at the time of her death. Of their eight children John Freeman was the second in order of birth. He helped his father open the farm and following his marriage in 1849 his father gave him an uncleared tract of fifty-five acres, a part of his original holding, and on that place he put up a log house for a dwelling and started in to make a farm of his own. There he spent the remainder of his life, his death occurring in 1910, he then being eighty-five years of age. His wife had preceded him to the grave, her death having occurred in 1905, she then being seventy-five years of age. They were the parents of three children, the first born of which, a son, James B., died when eleven months old and the other two of whom are still living, the subject of this sketch having a sister, Mrs. Pauline Storer, of Muncie. Reared on the home farm, which he helped his father to improve and develop and which long has been in a high state of improvement and cultivation, Thomas J. Freeman received his schooling in the local schools and after his marriage at the age of twenty-four continued to make his home on the home place and carried on his farming operations there. Upon the death of his father he inherited about thirty acres of the home place, including the dwelling site, and has since lived there. Mr. Freeman has a well improved farm of near 100 acres. He and his wife are Democrats and are members of the Friends church at Muncie, their home being about three miles northwest of the city. It was in 1882 that Thomas J. Freeman was united in marriage to Birdella McColm, of Harrison township, and to this union two children were born, Oran and Ernest, the former of whom died in 1912. Ernest Freeman married Grace Thornburg and has a son, Vernon Oran Freeman. Mrs. Birdella Freeman was born in Scioto county, Ohio, and was but a small child when she came to this county with her parents, Henry A. and Harriet (Burress) McColm, in 1868, the family settling on a farm of 240 acres two miles south of New Corner (Gaston) in Harrison township, where she grew to womanhood and was married. Both Henry A. McColm and his wife were born in Scioto county, Ohio, members of pioneer families in that county. The land upon which they made their home upon coming to Delaware county had been entered by Mrs. McColm's father, Matthew Burress, in 1836, in section 10 of Harrison township. CHARLES O. GRAFTON, secretary-treasurer of the Gill Clay Pot Company, of Muncie, manufacturers of glass melting pots and tank blocks of high grade refractory, and president of the Muncie Clay Products Company, manufacturers of crucibles and art pottery, is identified with the commercial and industrial activities of the town. He is a native of the old Buckeye state, but has been a resident of Muncie for nearly thirty years, during which time he has been continuously connected with the Gill interests. Mr. Grafton was born at Bellaire, Ohio, July 12, 1877, and had his schooling in the grade schools there. In 1920, on the organization of the Muncie Clay Products Company, a subsidiary concern for the manufacture of crucibles and art pottery, Mr. Grafton was elected president of this company. Mr. Grafton is past president of the Muncie Chamber of Commerce, also past president of the Muncie Rotary Club, past commander of the local commandery of the Knights Templar and president of the Scottish Rite Club. He is also past exalted ruler of the local lodge of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. Charles

O. Grafton married Edna Boyce, daughter of James Boyce, who in his generation was for years one of the leading citizens of Muncie, as is set out at length elsewhere in this work, and to this union two daughters were born, Margaret and Nancy, the former of whom was graduated from the Muncie high school with the class of 1923. Mr. and Mrs. Grafton are members of the First Universalist church and reside at 829 East Main street.

JOSEPH W. LESLIE, a substantial farmer and landowner of Hamilton township, residing on the Moore road, rural mail route No. 4 out of Muncie, was born at Winchester, in the neighboring county of Randolph, July 26, 1879, and is a son of Amos and Martha (Wood) Leslie, both members of pioneer families in that county. Amos Leslie was born in Randolph county, a son of David Leslie and wife, who were the parents of thirteen children, eleven of whom grew to maturity. He worked with his father on the latter's farm in the Winchester neighborhood until his father's death in 1889, when he inherited the home place and continued farming there, coming to be the owner at one time of 320 acres of land. Of the four children born tc Amos Leslie and wife two are still living, the subject of this sketch having a brother, David Leslie. Reared on the home farm, Joseph W. Leslie finished his schooling in the Winchester schools and was graduated from the high school there. For awhile thereafter he was employed in the electric light plant at Winchester and then in 1898 transferred his connection to the electric light plant at Muncie and four years later was married here. He continued working in the Muncie electric light plant until in 1904, when he moved to Spokane, Wash., where he remained for two years, at the end of which time he returned to Muncie and resumed his connection with the operations of the electric light company. Three years later, in 1909, Mr. Leslie bought the farm of seventy-two acres on which he is now living in Hamilton township and has since made his home there, engaged in general farming. It was on September 4, 1902, that Joseph W. Leslie was united in marriage to Ernestine Brooks and to that union four children have been born, George David, Fred Wilson, Mary Louise and Stanley Lewis. Mr. and Mrs. Leslie are Republicans and are members of the Universalist church at Muncie. Mr. Leslie is a Freemason and has attained to both the cryptic and capitular degrees in that ancient order. He is an active member of the Delaware County Farm Bureau. Mrs. Leslie was born on the place on which she is now living and in 1900 was graduated from the Muncie normal school. She is the daughter and only child of George W. and

Naomi (Moore) Brooks, the latter of whom, a daughter of Aaron and Mary (Truitt) Moore, who had settled in Hamilton township in 1848, died in 1884 when her daughter was little more than a babe in arms. The late George W. Brooks was a native of New Jersey, born in Cumberland county, that state, in 1850: a son of Lewis W. and Rachel (Wilson) Brooks, the former of whom was born in England and was but a child when in 1828 he came to this country with his parents. Bereft of his mother when he was six years of age, George W. Brooks was reared in the household of a maternal uncle in Chester county, Fennsylvania, and grew up as a farmer and miller. In 1873 he became a resident of Delaware county and after his marriage to Naomi Moore established his home on the farm where Mr. and Mrs. Leslie now live. In the year following the death of his wife in 1884 he disposed of his interests there and moved to Muncie, where he established himself in the creamery business in Kilgore avenue and where he spent the remainder of his life, his death occurring on April ' 6, 1919. J . CHARLES C. LEITSHUH, proprietor of the French Steam Dye Works at Muncie, is a European by birth, but has been a resident of this country since the days of his boyhood and of Muncie for nearly a quarter of a century. Mr. Leitshuh was born in the then Kingdom of Bavaria on October 1, 1867, and is a son of Anthony and Tillie (Geisendorfer) Leitshuh, both also native Bavarians, who came to this country with their family in 1881 and presently became located at Springfield, Ohio, where they established their home. Anthony Leitshuh was a miller in his native Bavaria, a vocation which had been followed in his family for generations, but during the '70s he was elevated to the civil service and was made an inspector in the Bavarian postoffice department. Upon coming to America he for a time was variously employed and then he became engaged in the retail meat business at Springfield, a vocation he followed the rest of his life. He died in a hospital at Dayton on August 6, 1891. Charles C. Leitshuh was thirteen years of age when he came to this country with his parents in 1881 and he retains vivid recollections of the impressions created in his youthful mind when the family landed at Baltimore. He had received good elementary schooling in his native Bavaria and when the family located at Springfield he entered night school with a view to bettering his English, and later took a course in a business college there. It was necessary for him to go to work without much delay in order to help in the family support, and his first employment in this country was in the plant of the St. John Sewing Machine Company at Springfield. In the spring of 1885, he then being seventeen years of age, he became employed in a dye establishment at Springfield, and ever since he has been connected with the dyeing industry, a period of nearly forty years, so that he very properly may be regarded as one of the veterans in this line. Ten years later he married at Springfield, Ohio. In the meantime he had been extending his knowledge of the dyeing industry by working in various cities throughout the middle West, and after his marriage he kept on working at Springfield until in 1900, when he moved to Muncie and became employed in what then was known as the Union Steam Dye Works, in East Main street, where his French Steam Dye Works now is located. In April, 1905, Mr. Leitshuh bought the W. N. Woodward dye house at 208-210 North Walnut street, then known as the Woodward Steam Dye Works, and presently changed the name of this plant to the French Steam Dye Works and carried on business there until fourteen months later the plant was destroyed by fire. He then bought new equipment and started up another dye house at 417 East Main street, resuming there his business of dyeing and cleaning. In the winter of 1908 Mr. Leitshuh bought the plant of the Butler Steam Dye Works at 415 East Main street and united it with his plant, thus giving him double capacity. The business continued to increase and in the spring of 1910 he was compelled to take over the -adjoining room at 419 and put in new machinery, thus modernizing his plant. In 1913, again responding to the demands of his growing business, Mr. Leitshuh bought the entire block including Nos. 415-425 East Main street, and added the room at 421 to his plant. In 1919 he added the room at 423 and erected a new dry cleaning establishment on the premises at the rear of the plant, and is now considering plans for the further extension of the facilities of this plant to meet the growing demands made upon it. Mr. Leitshuh is a member of the National Association of Dyers and Cleaners, is affiliated with the Muncie Chamber of Commerce and the local Kiwanis Club, and is also a member of the Knights of Columbus, the Elks, the Moose, the Eagles, the Red Men and the Maccabees. He is a Republican and he and his family are members of St. Lawrence's Catholic church. It was on June 4, 1895, at Springfield, Ohio, that Charles C. Leitshuh was united in marriage to Theresa Myers, who was born at Baden, in Germany, and who had come to this country with her parents in 1881. Of the nine children born to this union, seven are still living, these being Frank A., Rose D., Helen K., George J., Raymond William, Adaline Louise and Charles Edward. The Leitshuhs reside at 821 East Charles street. (29)

DR. WILL C. MOORE, a veteran of the World war with an officer's commission and an overseas record and an established surgeon at Muncie, a member of the executive and surgical staff of the Muncie Home Hospital, is a native son of Indiana and has lived in this state practically all his life, a resident of Muncie since his return from army service in the summer of 1919. Doctor Moore was born on a farm in the immediate vicinity of Summitville in the neighboring county of Madison, January 23, 1889, and is a son of T. M. and Claudia Moore, both of whom also were born in Indiana, who now are living at Summitville. Reared at Summitville, Will C. Moore received his grade schooling there and then entered the high school at Anderson, from which he was graduated in 1904. He then entered Indiana University and in 1908 was graduated from that institution, his studies there having been carried on with particular reference to later entrance on the medical school of the university and in due time he was matriculated at the Indiana University School of Medicine at Indianapolis, from which he was graduated in 1914. After a couple of years of practical experience in interne work in the City Hospital and in the Eastman Hospital at Indianapolis, Doctor Moore went West with a view to locating for practice and for a year was thus located at Ely, Nev. He then, in 1917, took a trip to Europe. for post-graduate work and clinical observation in surgery in the great war hospitals that after two years and more of appalling warfare had created a new standard in surgery, and was at Vienna when this country took a hand in the World war. As a student civilian of an enemy country Doctor Moore was evacuated from the Austrian capital and then hurried home to offer his services to the Medical Corps of the newly created national army. He reported to Ft. Oglethorp, where he was given a commission as a lieutenant in the Medical Corps and in May, 1918, was sent overseas and detailed for service in Evacuation Hospital 14, with which unit he continued in service until the close of the war, thus participating in service in the decisive cam- - paign about St. Mihiel and in the Argonne, and then went on to the Rhine with the Army of Occupation, with station at Coblenz (where he was promoted to a captaincy), where he remained until ordered home in the latter part of May, and on June 4, 1919, he received his honorable discharge, the war then being over. Upon the completion of his military service Doctor Moore returned to Indiana and located at Muncie, where he since has been engaged in practice, making a specialty of surgery. In 1922 the Doctor received his F. A. C. S. from the American College of Surgeons. He is a member of the American

Medical Association, of the Indiana State Medical Society and of the Muncie Academy of Medicine and is affiliated with the college fraternities Phi Rho Sigma (medical) and Sigma Chi (literary). He is a member of the executive and surgical staff of the Muncie Home Hospital and it is believed that it will not be regarded as improper to say that he has taken high rank among the surgeons of eastern Indiana during the brief period of his practice at Muncie. The Doctor is a Scottish Rite (82°) Mason and a noble of the Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. In 1917 Dr. Will C. Moore was united in marriage to Edith Pfaffenberger, daughter of T. F. and Amelia Pfaffenberger, of Indianapolis, and to this union two children have been born, a son, Thomas, and a daughter, Nancy. Doctor Moore and his family reside at 1007 University avenue. The Doctor has his office at 105 Western Reserve Life building.

BERT A. RUSSELL, president of the Albany school board and cashier of the Albany State Bank of Albany, formerly and for years a teacher in the schools of Delaware county and for twenty years connected with the banking interests of this county, is a native Hoosier and has lived in this state all his life, a resident of Delaware county since the days of his young manhood. Mr. Russell was born on a farm in the neighboring county of Grant on October 31, 1874, and was reared in that county. He supplemented his common schooling by attendance at the normal school at Marion and the Central Indiana Normal School at Danville and early began teaching school in Delaware county, a profession he followed during the winters for fourteen years. During this period, in 1905, Mr. Russell assisted in organizing the Eaton State Bank of Eaton and continued his connection with that institution until in 1911, when he was elected cashier of the Albany State Bank of Albany and has since occupied that position, making his home at Albany. Mr. Russell is a Republican. His long term of service as a teacher in the schools of this county gave him an interest in the schools which has been a continuing one and he has long rendered further service in this behalf as a member of the Albany school board and is the present president of that board. He is an active Freemason, past worshipful master of Anthony lodge, No. 171, F. and A. M., at Albany, and is also a member of Muncie lodge, No. 74, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, at Muncie. In

1907 Bert A. Russell was united in marriage to Lola E. Felts, of Eaton, and to this union three children have been born, sons all, Norman, James and Fred Russell. Mr. and Mrs. Russell are members of the Methodist Episcopal church of Albany and Mr. Russell is the present president of the board of trustees of that congregation. |

GOTLIP C. KUHNER, president of the Muncie Cold Storage and Ice Company and of the Farmers National Stock Yards Company of Muncie, and vice-president of the Kuhner Packing Company of Muncie, a man to whose enterprise Muncie owes one of its valuable industries, has been a resident of that city for nearly twenty-five years. He is primarily a farmer and producer, but for many years has also been in the varied lines of meat packing and handling. He first engaged in meat killing on his farm on a small scale, and gradually has developed his facilities until now it represents a large investment and an important local industry. Mr. Kuhner was born on a farm in Scioto county, Ohio, July 29, 1858, and is a son of Gottlieb C. and Sophia Kuhner, the former of whom was of European birth. Gottlieb C. Kuhner came to this country as a young man in 1847, and at Pittsburgh, Pa., not long after his arrival here, enlisted as a soldier for service in the war with Mexico which then was in progress. After the war he located at Portsmouth, Ohio, and after his marriage there bought a farm of 120 acres not far from Portsmouth, in Scioto county, and there spent the rest of his life, his death occurring in 1865, his widow being left the care of five children. The junior Gotlip C. Kuhner was but seven years of age when his father died, and he thus early was thrown pretty largely on his own resources for a livelihood. He remained at home working on the farm in behalf of his widowed mother and going to school until he was seventeen years of age, when he began working for others as a farm hand "on his own." He also worked for a while as a railway section hand. He married at the age of twenty-one, and not long afterward bought a small tract of land in Blume township, in Scioto county, and set up there a small slaughter house, butchering for the local market and peddling his meat throughout the neighborhood in a small wagon drawn by a yoke of oxen. For ten years he maintained this business, operating from his farm, and then he moved to Portsmouth and opened a small packing house. For three years he operated this plant and then sold out to advantage and came to Indiana, locating at : Greentown, in Howard county, where he opened a local meat market. In the meantime his sons, who had learned the details of the meat trade with him, had become interested in the possibilities of this trade at Muncie, and a year or two after coming to Indiana he moved to Muncie and, in association with his sons, started in the retail meat line in a shop at.the corner of Main and Elm streets, which was the beginning of the Kuhner interests in Muncie. In 1904 Mr. Kuhner and his sons started in the packing business, and with the facilities thus afforded established a chain of retail shops, gradually increasing the same until they eventually had nine such shops, handling groceries and meat. In 1913 they sold all but one of 'these local shops, and in 1921 retired entirely from the local retail field and since then © have devoted their energies to the packing business, which meanwhile had grown to meet the demands brought about by changing methods of distribution in the meat trade. Up to 1911 Mr. Kuhner had been operating his industry under the name of Kuhner & Company, and in that year reorganized as the Kuhner Packing Company. In 1919, when the packing house refrigerating plant was modernized and enlarged, he organized the Muncie Cold Storage and Ice Company, of which he is the president. In order further to add to the facilities of the industry in February, 1923, Mr. Kuhner promoted the organization of the Farmers National Stock Yards Company of Muncie and was elected president of the same. When the Kuhner packing house was established in Muncie the plant had a capacity equal to the handling of about twenty-five hogs and ten or fifteen cattle a week. As the demand on its products increased this capacity gradually has been enlarged until now the plant handles no fewer than 1,000 hogs and. 100 cattle a.week. The cold storage capacity of the plant is equal to more than eighty car loads of fruit, and the ice plant turns out no less than forty tons of ice a day. The stock yards company operates on a tract of sixty acres in the vicinity of the packing house just north of town. Henry C. Kuhner, one of Mr. Kuhner's sons and president of the Kuhner Packing Company, is the vicepresident of this latter company, of which his father is the president. Gotlip C. Kuhner has been twice married. On January 15, 1880, in Scioto county, Ohio, he married: Mary Prior, who died in 1898, leaving three children, namely: Henry C., born on October 16, 1880; Ella S., August 2, 1882, and Frank, January 5, 1885. In 1913 Mr. Kuhner married Mrs. Mary (Meyers) Obrieght. Henry C. Kuhner, mentioned above, and of whom further mention is made elsewhere in this work, married Grace Goodwine and has two children, Mary Ellen - and Robert Henry. Ella S. Kuhner, who is secretary of the Kuhner Packing Company, secretary-treasurer of the Muncie Cold Storage Company and secretary of the Farmers National Stock Yards Company, married Paul Klefeker. Frank Kuhner, who is treasurer of the Kuhner Packing Company, married Ethel Jones. He also 'is assistant secretary-treasurer of the Muncie Cold Storage Company and of the Farmers National Stock Yards Company. The Kuhners are Republicans. Gotlip C. Kuhner is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias fraternity. . .

LEONARD V. QUIRK, a veteran of the World war and a merchant at Shideler, member of the firm of Quirk & Ratliff, proprietors of a general store there, is a native son of Delaware county and has 'lived here all his life. Mr. Quirk was born in the village of Cowan on April 1, 1891, and is a son of Patrick and Rachel (Peckinpaugh) Quirk, the latter of whom was born in the neighboring county of Henry, a daughter of Felix and Sarah Peckinpaugh. Patrick Quirk, foreman of the Shideler section of the Lake Erie & Western railroad and resident of Shideler for the past thirty years, is a native of Ireland and was but seven years of age when he came to this country with his parents, Edward Quirk and wife, the family presently becoming residents of Delaware county. Edward Quirk came here with the building of the railroad and upon its completion was made foreman of the Cowan section, making his home in Cowan. He later bought a farm of fifty acres in that neighborhood, but not long afterward gave up farming and became engaged in the grocery business at Cowan, a business which he continued until his retirement about 1914 and removal to Muncie, where he is now living at the corner of Walnut and Ninth streets. Patrick Quirk grew up at Cowan, where he received his schooling, and as a young man became engaged in railroad work. He was made foreman of a section and in 1894 was given charge of the Shideler section of the road and has ever since resided there, now the oldest man in point of continuous service with the Lake Erie & Western road in this county. To him and his wife were born fourteen children. Their third son, William Oleara Quirk, gave his life in the World war while fighting with the American troops in the Argonne Forest in France, as is set out elsewhere in this work, his name being included in the "Gold Star" roster of Delaware county men who laid down their lives in service during the time of that war. The other members of this family, besides the subject of this sketch (the second in order of birth), are Lacie, Denzil, Pearl, Creal, Elsie (deceased) , Welba, Forest (deceased), Edward, Thurl, Woodrow, Madona (deceased), and Donald (deceased). Leonard V. Quirk was but a child when his parents moved from Cowan to Shideler and his schooling was completed in the schools of the latter place and at Eaton. He was graduated from the Eaton high school in 1910 and then began working out of Muncie as a telegraph lineman for the Western Union Telegraph Company. Not long afterward he became a brakeman on the Lake Erie & Western railroad and was thus engaged when in the spring of 1917 this country took a hand in the World war. On April 26 of that year he entered the service of the American army and was stationed at Ft. Oglethorp, Georgia, continuing in service until his final discharge on January 14, 1919, the war then being over. Upon the completion of his military service Mr. Quirk returned home and became employed in the plant of the General Motors Corporation at Muncie. He continued thus employed until in June, 1921, when he returned to Shideler and became engaged in the mercantile business there in partnership with Otto Ratliff, opening a general store, and has since been thus engaged, doing business under the firm name of Quirk & Ratliff, and is doing well. Mr. Quirk is a member of the Red Men's lodge (No. 241) at Royerton and he and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal church at Shideler. On September 23, 1918, Leonard V. Quirk was united in marriage to Della Gehring. _ Mrs. Quirk was born in the village of Vera Cruz in Wells county, this state, and is a daughter of Isaac and Elizabeth (Hiselman) Gehring, both members of old families in that county and who were the parents of three daughters, Mrs. Quirk having two sisters, Emma and Cora.

DUDLEY ENGLE, postmaster at Albany and a veteran of the World war with an overseas record, was born at Watova, Okla., January 11, 1894, and is a son of Price and Esther (Patten) Engle, the latter of whom was born in Wisconsin but was reared in Iowa, to which state her parents moved when she was a child. Price Engle was born in Randolph county, Indiana, but much of his life was spent in Western states. During the time of his residence in Oklahoma he was overseer of a ranch. In 1901 he returned to his old home in Randolph county and five years later, in 1906, came into possession of a grain elevator at Albany and established his home there, spending the rest of his life there, his death occurring on November 2, 1920. He and his wife were the parents of ten children. Dudley Engle was twelve years of age when his parents established their home at Albany and his schooling was completed in the Albany schools, graduating from the high school there in 1912. He then became an assistant to his father in the grain elevator and was thus engaged for a couple of years, or until in 1914, when he entered the railway mail service and was thus engaged when this country took a hand in the World war in 1917. On September 4, 1917, Mr. Engle enlisted for army service and was attached to Company A of the 334th regiment, 84th Division, at Camp Taylor (Kentucky). On the following December 10 he was transferred to the 1st Motor Mechanics Air Service at Camp Hancock (Georgia), from which he presently was transferred to Camp Merritt (New Jersey) for embarkation and on February 8, 1918, sailed with his command for France. Upon arrival on the other side Mr. Engle was attached to the French Air Service and was thus attached until some time after the close of the war, or until January 1, 1919, when he was transferred back to the American army for demobilization and on June 18 following arrived at the home port, whence he was sent to Camp Sherman (Chillicothe, Ohio), where he received his honorable discharge on July 1, 1919. Upon the completion of his military service Mr. Engle returned home and became employed in the plant of the Warner Gear Works at Muncie. Not long afterward he went to Kentucky and was there employed in the oil fields for a year, at the end of which time he returned. to Muncie, resumed his connection with the Warner Gear Works and was thus employed when on January 30, 1922, he received his commission as postmaster at Albany and since that time has been serving in this responsible public capacity. On May 20, 1922, Dudley Engle was united in marriage to Pauline Lockhart, who was born at Albany, daughter of Arthur and Ivy Lockhart. Mr. and Mrs. Engle are Republicans and Mr. Engle is a member of Anthony lodge, No. 171, Free and Accepted Masons, at Albany.

EDMOND J. FEENY, founder of the Feeny Manufacturing Company of Muncie, who died at his home in that city in the spring of 1922, was born at Ottawa, IIl., and was a son of E. J. and Sophia Feeny, the former of whom was a manufacturer of boots and shoes at that place. Reared at Ottawa, Mr. Feeny received a college education and early became interested in manufacturing. He was possessed of an inventive turn of mind and it was not long until he began to turn his attention to the improvement of certain forms of mechanical appliances with reference to practical manufacturing. Working along this line he perfected a number of devices which he applied to the improvement of various articles of manufacture, including oil pumps, cotton dusters, vacuum cleaners, handy reels, cooling systems and the like, and in 1910 established at Muncie a manufacturing plant for the manufacture of these articles of common commerce, doing business under the name of the Feeny Manufacturing Company, of which he was the head and general manager, and it was not long until the Feeny products had created a market which insured the permanency of the establishment which he erected at Washington and Ohio streets, and which has grown into one of the considerable manufacturing plants of the city of Muncie. In 1919 this company discontinued the manufacture of the special products above mentioned and since then has devoted the facilities of its plant to the manufacture of the widely popular Feeny dusters, which have come to be regarded as the approved dusters for boll weevil and other insect control. The Feeny dusters, designed for the use of insecticides in the protection of plant life, either in the cotton field or the garden, have a large distribution throughout the South and are known wherever cotton dusting is known. For garden and orchard use and for inside use in a fight against flies, bugs and vermin, these dusters also have attained a wide popularity and have thus done much to extend the name and fame of Muncie as a manufacturing city. Mr. Feeny died on April 4, 1922, and was succeeded in the general management of the plant by his nephew, Emmet J. Feeny, Jr., and his associate, Fred M. Johnson, who are among the stockholders of the Feeny Manufacturing Company and who are successfully carrying on the business. Emmet J. Feeny, Jr., also was born at Ottawa, IIl., and is a son of Emmet J. and Mabel (Kaush) Feeny, the former of whom was a brother of the late Edmond J. Feeny. He has for years been identified with the affairs and operations of the Feeny Manufacturing Company, of which he now is the general manager, and has created for himself a definite place in the industrial life of Muncie. Mr. Feeny married Mary Zeke, of Muncie.

CHRISTIAN F. HECKENHAUER, veteran carriage manufacturer at Muncie, now engaged in the construction of body work for automobiles and doing business under the firm name of C. Heckenhauer & Son, has been a resident of Muncie for many years and has thus had his share in the development of the city from the days back before the gas "boom" started a new era here. Mr. Heckenhauer is a native of the old Buckeye state but has been a resident of Muncie since the days of his young manhood. He was born at Bucyrus, Ohio, jin 1858, and is a son of Christopher and Barbara Heckenhauer, Wurtembergers, who upon coming to this country located at Gallion, Ohio, but later moved to Bucyrus, where they established their home. Christopher Heckenhauer was a weaver. 'He and his wife had three children two of whom are still living, the subject of this sketch having a sister, Mrs. Caroline Fredericka McKinley. Another son, Jacob Heckenhauer, died at the age of twenty-one years. Reared at Bucyrus, Christian F. Heckenhauer received his schooling in the schools of that city and early began "doing for himself." At the age of eleven years he began working in the Bucyrus woolen mills and was there employed until he was able to start out in the world "on his own," when he came over into Indiana and began working in the mills at Ft. Wayne. He remained at Ft. Wayne until 1884, when he came to Muncie and began to work as a blacksmith, with particular reference to carriage blacksmithing. For three years he was thus employed and then he bought the old G. W. Bower carriage shop at the site on Main street now occupied by the club house of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and became engaged in business there on his own account, manufacturing carriages and buggies. Mr. Heckenhauer did well at that old stand, the products of his factory attaining a high reputation throughout this trade area, so that the Heckenhauer carriages and buggies came to be widely known on account of their substantial character. In 1897 Mr. Heckenhauer acquired the property where he is now engaged in business, at 301 North High street, and enlarged the capacity of his factory. He continued there the manufacture of carriages and buggies until the coming of the automobile put the old line out of business and he since has turned the facilities of his factory to the new line, manufacturing automobile bodies, renewing tops and the like, and has a large business. His son, Ralph Heckenhauer, 'is associated with him in the business, which is carried on under the firm name of C. Heckenhauver & Son. Ralph Heckenhauer married Mae Castor and has one child, a son, Fred. Christian F. Heckenhauer has been twice married. His first wife, Mary Foster, died leaving him two children, Ralph and Florence. By his second wife, Louise K. Roeser, he has three children, two daughters, Elna L. and Gertrude, and a son, Carl Heckenhauer, the latter of whom married Susan Dickey and has two children, Jane and Ann. Elna L. Heckenhauer married George Nelson and has one child, Shirley. Gertrude Heckenhauer married C. A. Rowlette and has one child, Kay. The Heckenhauers reside at 214 West Gilbert street. Mr. Heckenhauer is a Freemason and is also affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. MERRILL H. PICKELL, vice president of the Delaware County Farm Bureau and a substantial farmer and landowner of Hamilton township, residing on the Wheeling pike, rural mail route No. 1, out of Muncie, was born at Logansport, Ind., July 14, 1874, and is a son of S. L. and Josephine A. (Forgy) Pickell, the latter of whom was born at New Carlisle, in Clark county, Ohio. S. L. Pickell, a veteran of the Civil war, was born at Ottumwa, Iowa, and was a son of Rufus Pickell, a Tennessean, who was one of the pioneers of Iowa. When the Civil war came on S. L. Pickell enlisted his services in behalf of the cause of the Union and started out with the 4th Iowa Cavalry, but not long afterward was given a hospital discharge on account of ill health. He later returned to the service of the army, was commissioned a first lieutenant, attached to the 45th regiment, Iowa

Volunteer Infantry, and with that command served until the close of the war. Upon the completion of his military service Mr. Pickell returned to Ottumwa and was there engaged in clerical work, carrying on an insurance business and also having connection with county office work. It was there he met and married Josephine A. Forgy, who was visiting friends at Ottumwa. In the early '70s he moved to Indiana and presently located at Logansport, where he followed clerical work and where his last days were spent. To him and his wife were born eight children, three of whom are still living, the subject of this sketch having a sister, Grace, and a brother, Rolla Pickell. Reared at Logansport, Merrill H. Pickell received his schooling in the schools of that city and then entered upon an apprenticeship in the Pennsylvania railway shops in that city, becoming a practical railway mechanic. He was thus engaged until in 1892, when he became engaged in work in the Ohio and Indiana oil fields, as a driller. When the Klondike gold "fever" was at its height about 1897 Mr. Pickell left the oil fields and went to Alaska with a party of adventurous friends. He had some interesting adventures there and got some gold, though not enough to make him a millionaire, and presently returned to civilization and resumed his labors in the oil field. In 1901 while working in the oil field hereabout he became attracted to the agricultural possibilities of this county and bought a "forty" two miles north of Muncie. In the next year he married and established his home on that place, remaining there until in 1919, when he disposed of that farm and bought his present place of eighty acres on the Wheeling pike, where he since has resided and where he has a well improved place, his attention being devoted to general farming and dairying. Mr. Pickell has long been interested in farm bureau work, is the vice-president of the local county farm federation and is widely known throughout the county as a lecturer in that behalf. He is a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, affiliated with the local lodge of that order at Logansport (No. 66), and his wife is a member of the Friends church at Muncie. It was on December 13, 1902, that Merrill H. Pickell was united in marriage to Orpha E. Turner, of this county, and he and his wife have two children, sons both, John C. and Claude E. Pickell. Mrs. Pickell was born on a farm in Monroe township, this county, and is a daughter of George and Rosa (Ogle) Turner, both of whom were born in that same township, members of pioneer families there. In 1886 George Turner established his home on a farm of sixty acres in Hamilton township and has since resided there, in the meantime having in- creased his land holdings until now he is the owner of a fine farm of 200 acres. To him and his wife were born four children, Mrs. Pickell having a sister, Emma, and two brothers, Arthur and Robert Turner.