Delaware County, Indiana - Sidelights on Local History, 1924 (part 15 of 21)

DR. ELI B. MANN, physician and surgeon at Muncie, with offices in the Wysor block, is a native of Kentucky, born on a farm in the vicinity of Crittenden, in Grant county, that state, March 27, 1855, and is a son of James and Elizabeth (Mileham) Mann both of whom also were born in Kentucky, members of pioneer families there, and who spent their last days there, James Mann living to be eightyfive years of age and his wife, eighty-four. They had a large family, and nine of their children grew to maturity, the Doctor being next to the youngest. Due to consequences arising out of the Civil war Doctor Mann continued his work on the farm as well as making all possible efforts to obtain an education. He kept at his school work, however, and at the age of twenty-one was graduated from the Crittenden Academy. For three years thereafter he was engaged in teaching school in his home neighborhood, meanwhile taking preliminary studies in medicine. With the money earned while teaching scchool he matriculated at the old Louisville Medical College (later merged into the University of Louisville) from which he was graduated in 1882, receiving one of the class gold medals for general proficiency. Upon receiving his diploma, Doctor Mann came up into Indiana and opened an office for the practice of his profession at Oldenburg, in Franklin county. For about eleven years the Doctor continued his practice at Oldenburg and then in 1893, following a post-graduate course at Chicago, located at Muncie, where he ever since has been engaged in practice. Upon locating at Muncie, Doctor Mann entered into a partnership with Dr. Isaac N. Trent, now representative in the Legislature from this district, and this partnership continued for three years, at the end of which time by mutual consent it was dissolved and since then Doctor Mann has been practicing alone, with present offices at 8304 Wysor block. In 1897 Doctor Mann took a second polyclinic course at Chicago and his service in the community comprehends not only the general practice of medicine but surgery as well. During the time of his practice at Oldenburg he was a member of the Franklin County Medical Society and since taking up his residence in Muncie he has been a member of the Delaware County Medical Society, of which he has served as secretary, and is also a member of the Indiana State Medical Association. The Doctor is likewise affiliated with the historic old Muncie Academy of Medicine, which for many years has carried on weekly meetings on Friday evenings, and is a regular attendant on these meetings. He is a member of the staff of the Muncie Home Hospital. Since 1913 he has been a member of the United States pension board for this district and is present president of the same. The Doctor has done well in his material affairs and is the owner of two good farms north of town, one of 160 acres and the other, 135 acres, and takes a good deal of interest in the operation of the same. As was his father, he is a Democrat. In 1882, in Kentucky, Doctor Mann was united in marriage to Mary H. Fletcher, who also was born in that state, a member of one of the old families there, and to this union one child has been born, a daughter, Caroline, who married L. A. Franklin, of Muncie. Doctor and Mrs. Mann are members of the Presbyterian church and the Doctor is affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.

GARDNER T. WHITE at the time of his death had been for seventeen years the manager of the Woolworth store at Muncie and thus had made his impress upon the commercial life of that city. Mr. White was born on a farm at Pillow Point, N. Y., in 1862, and was a son of Elbridge and Mary E. (McBryer) White, the latter of whom was a native of Ireland. Elbridge White was a native of - England and upon coming to this country located in New York state, where he became a substantial farmer. He and his wife had three children, the subject of this memorial sketch having had two sisters, Letitia and Hazel. Gardner T. White completed his schooling at Ives Seminary, New York, and early became connected with the operations of the 8. H. Knox Company, promoters of 5- and 10-cent stores. Mr. White was a cousin of S. H. Knox and F. W. Woolworth, who developed the great Woolworth stores property, and he early became associated with the former as a manager in the development of his commercial enterprises: In 1897 Mr. White became the manager of the Knox store at Muncie, which in time was consolidated with the Woolworth enterprises. He established his home here and here spent the remainder of his life, his death occurring on April 28, 1914. In 1896 Gardner T. White was united in marriage to Margaret Shea, daughter of Thomas and Johanna (Wallace): Shea, and to this union were born four children, three daughters, Ethel, Gertrude and Thelma, and a son, Henry White. The eldest daughter, Miss Ethel White, is a teacher in the Muncie public schools. Since the death: of her husband Mrs. White has continued to make her home at Muncie and resides at 1344 East Main street.

CHARLES M. RICKERT, trustee of Niles township and a substantial farmer and landowner of that township, was born on a farm. in the Pennville neighborhood in the neighboring county of Jay, December 6, 1878, and is a son of Martin and Mary Ann (Rhodehefer) Rickert, the latter of whom was born in the vicinity of Versailles, in Darke county, Ohio, and was twice married. By her first husband (McDowell) she was the mother of one child, a daughter, Ida May. By her union with Martin Rickert she was the mother of two children, the subject of this sketch and one who died in infancy. Martin Rickert was born in Frankfort, Germany, and was about six years of age when he came to this country with his parents, the family proceeding on out into Indiana and settling in Randolph county, where he grew to manhood, later spending some years in the gold fields of California. After his marriage he settled on a farm of eighty acres three miles south of Pennville, in Jay county. Some years later he sold that place and bought an "eighty" in the Albany neighborhood in this county, where he established his home and where he spent the remainder of his life, his death occurring in 1886. Charles M. Rickert was but eight years of age when his father died. His mother kept up the farm and he remained there, aiding in the operation of the farm until he was about twenty years of age, when he began farming on his own account, as a renter. He married shortly after attaining his majority and then began farming on his father-in-law's place, the old Younts farm in Niles township, where he has since resided, he and his wife now owning a well improved farm of 365 acres there, a considerable portion of which came to Mrs. Rickert by inheritance. Mr. Rickert is a Republican and is now serving the public in the capacity of trustee of Niles township, to which office he was elected in 1918. He is a member of Anthony lodge, No. 171, Free and Accepted Masons, at Albany and he and his wife are members of the Delaware Chapel Methodist Episcopal church. It was in 1900 that Charles M. Rickert was united in marriage to Laura Forest Younts, who was born on the place on which she is now living, and to this union four children have been born, Ervin Y., William M., Dorothy L. and Harry L. Rickert. Ervin Y. Rickert married Martha Maitlen, of Albany, and has one child, a daughter, Marie Elaine. Mrs. Laura Rickert is the daughter and only child of George W. and Martha A. (Black) Younts, the latter of whom also was born in Niles township, daughter of William and Ruth (Stafford) Black, pioneers of that township. The late George W. Younts, former trustee of Niles township and in his generation one of the leading farmers of that township, was born in Miami county, Ohio, in 1850, and was but six years of age when, in 1856, his parents, Eli and Mary (Michael) Younts, natives of North Carolina, left Ohio and came over here into Indiana with their family and settled on a farm in Union township, this county. Eli Younts died at his home in Union township in the spring of 1879. He was one of the California '49ers, having made the trip overland, driving an ox team from St. Joseph, Mo., to Bear Valley, Cal., the trip consuming six months and seventeen days. He returned by way of the Isthmus of Panama and New York city. He and his wife were the parents of nine children. George W. Younts married at the age of twenty-two and for three years thereafter made his home on a farm in Delaware township. He then established his home on a partly cleared "eighty" he had bought in Niles township and settled down in a log cabin that stood on the place. This primitive abode presently gave way to a substantial brick house and as his affairs prospered he added to his land holdings until he became the owner of a fine farm of 286 acres, a part of the present Rickert farm. There he died in 1916. The Rickert home is situated on rural mail route No. 2 out of Albany.

CHARLES W. GILMORE, president of the White River Packing Company of Muncie and a meat packer of long experience, has been a resident of Muncie for more than thirty years, having come here about the time the gas ''boom" was getting a good start in this section of Indiana. Mr. Gilmore was born in the city of Hamilton, Ohio, September 2, 1866, and is a son of John and Jane (Hardin) Gilmore, both of whom also were born at Hamilton, and the former of whom died when his son Charles was but a boy. Charles W. Gilmore had his schooling at Hamilton and early became employed as a clerk in a grocery store there, later going into a dry goods store and was thus employed until in 1884, he then being eighteen years of age, when he came with his mother to Indiana and located at Dublin, in Wayne county. For two or three years thereafter he worked on a farm in the Dublin neighborhood and then he opened a meat market in that village. Two years later, in 1889, he changed the scene of his activities to Newcastle and was there engaged in the retail meat business until in 1892 when he came to Muncie and established himself in the same line here, opening a meat market at 411 South Walnut street. This business prospered and in due time Mr. Gilmore saw his way clear to go into the packing business and engage in the meat business on a wholesale scale. He erected a packing plant on Buck creek at Nineteenth street and there continued in business until in

1922 when he bought the plant of the White River Packing Company on the Selma pike and has since been operating this plant, president of the operating company. Mr. Gilmore is a Republican, is a member . of the local post of the Travelers' Protective Association and he and his wife are members of the High Street Methodist Episcopal church. They reside at 327 North Vine street. On November 26, 1887, at Dublin, Ind., Charles W. Gilmore was united in marriage to Flora L. Huddleston, who was born in that village, daughter of Jonathan and Lydia Huddleston, the former of whom was a veteran of the Civil war, having entered the army at the age of eighteen years as a drummer boy. Mrs. Gilmore is a member of the local chapter (Paul Revere) of the Daughters of the American Revolution. During the summer of 1923 she rendered service on the jury of the Delaware circuit court, this having been the first jury in this county on which a woman rendered service. Mr. and Mrs. Gilmore have a daughter, Ethel B., a graduate nurse, who married N. D. McKillip. Mr. McKillip died leaving one child, a daughter, Jane. Following her husband's death Mrs. McKillip resumed professional nursing and was thus engaged until her recent marriage to Floyd G. Crandell, of Toledo, Ohio. OLIVER W. STORER, former surveyor of Delaware county and now engaged in the private banking business at Muncie, head of the Muncie Banking Company, is a native of the old Buckeye state but has been a resident of Indiana and of Muncie since the days of his boyhood. Mr. Storer was born in the village of Belfast, in Highland county, Ohio, and is a son of Joseph and Minnie (Roads) Storer, the latter of whom was a daughter of Daniel S. and Leitha (Spargur) Roads and of the same family as that of the late Hardin Roads, Muncie banker, who also was born and reared in Highland county. Both the Roadses and the Spargurs were pioneers of Highland county, the latter coming from North Carolina. The Storers also were pioneers of Highland county, having come there from Pennsylvania. This is the same family of Storers as that of the late Bellamy Storer, statesman and diplomatist. The late Joseph Storer, was a veteran of the Civil war, was reared on a farm and followed the vocation of farming all his active life. During the time of the Civil war he served as a soldier in the 2d Ohio Cavalry and upon the completion of his military service became engaged in farming in the 'immediate vicinity of Belfast, in Highland county, Ohio, where he remained until in 1878, when he moved with his family to Indiana and settled on a farm in Niles township, this county. Upon his retirement from the farm he moved to Muncie and here spent his last days, his death occurring in 1921. To him and his wife were born two sons, the subject of this sketch having a brother, Daniel Storer, who is living at Dunkirk, Ind. Oliver W. Storer completed his schooling in the university at Valparaiso, Ind., where he specialized in civil engineering and became a competent surveyor, graduating with the degree of B. S. in 1891. While attending the university he taught three terms of country school, two in this county and one in Porter county, and during the period 1892-94 was engaged as principal of the high school at Dunkirk. In 1894 he was elected surveyor of Delaware county and in that office served for four years, 1895-99.. Upon the completion of this term of public service Mr. Storer became engaged in the private banking business at Muncie and has since been thus engaged, with offices in the Johnson block in South Walnut street. It was in 1899 that he became engaged in the business which has since engrossed his attention and which has developed until now he has nine chattel loan offices in operation in Indiana. It was in 1905 that he took out a charter for the Muncie Banking Company, of which he is the president. Mr. Storer is an ardent Freemason and is a past eminent commander of Muncie Commandery (No. 18), Knights Templar. He and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal church. Mrs. Storer (Pearl Black, daughter of John W. Black, of Muncie) is an artist of more than local note. She received her art training in Chicago and other art centers and her paintings have attracted much attention in discriminating circles. The Storers reside at 321 East Charles street. JOHN PRESS BAXLA, a substantial farmer and landowner of Delaware county and for many years one of the leading sheep breeders in the county, residing on the Johnson road in Hamilton township, rural mail route No. 1 out of Muncie, is a native son of this county and has lived here all his life. Mr. Baxla was born on a farm in Mt. Pleasant township, west of Muncie, the place now occupied by Marion Williams on the Cornbread road, September 27, 1852, and is a son of Hiram A. and Hannah (McKimmey): Baxla, the latter of whom was born in Wayne county, Indiana, and was but a child when she came with her parents to Delaware county, back in settlement days. Hiram A. Baxla was born in the vicinity of the city of Xenia, in Greene county, Ohio, and was but a lad when he came to Indiana with his parents, Julian Baxla and wife, the family settling on the farm on the Yorktown road in this county, Julian Baxla becoming one of the substantial pioneer farmers of that section of the county. There Hiram A. Baxla grew to manhood. After his marriage he purchased (30) | a tract of 110 acres of his father's farm and continued to live there until in 1881, when he moved to Hamilton township and established his home on a farm of 326 acres which he had bought there, a part of which place is now occupied by his son, John. There he and his wife spent the remainder of their lives, both dying in 1898. They were the parents of eleven children, eight of whom are still living, the subject of this sketch having four sisters, Ruth E., Flora E., Sarah A. and Nancy J., and three brothers, Julian S., James W., and Marion D. | Baxla. Reared on the old home farm in Mt. Pleasant township, John Press Baxla completed his schooling in the Muncie high school and from the days of his boyhood has been devoted to farming. He continued farming in association with his father until after his marriage, when he secured from his father a tract of forty acres, where he is now living on the Johnson road in Hamilton township, and there he ever since has made his home, meanwhile increasing his holdings until now he owns eighty acres and has a well improved farm. From the days of his young manhood Mr. Baxla has given much attention to the breeding of purebred sheep, with special reference to Rambouillets, and has done much to advance the standards of sheep raising in this county. He is a member of the American Rambouillet Sheep Breeders Association and maintains a fine flock on his place, his special interest in sheep covering a period of nearly fifty years. He is a Republican and he and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal church. It was on March 2, 1884, that John Press Baxla was united in marriage to Alice Needler, of the New Corner (Gaston) neighborhood. Mr. and Mrs. Baxla have one child, a daughter, Aurah C., who married H. L. Deen and has two children, Francis and Virginia. They also reared in their home Delorus A. Bunton, who married Melvin Tyler, of Muncie, and is now living in California. Mrs. Alice Baxla is a daughter of James and Catherine (Walker) Needler, the latter of whom was born in Preble county, Ohio, in 1836, and was six years of age when she came with her parents over into Indiana, the family locating about four miles from the present town of Matthews in Grant county. James Needler was born in Grant county, where he made his home until after his marriage when he came over into Delaware county and bought a farm of 120 acres in the New Corner (Gaston) neighborhood, where he spent the remainder of his life, his death occurring in 18838. His widow survived him for twenty-five years, her death occuring in 1908. They were the parents of eight children, six of whom are still living, Mrs. Baxla having three sisters, Sarah, Mary and Ileda, and two brothers, Oscar and Harley Needler.

HENRY E. KIRKWOOD, a substantial farmer and landowner of Niles township, living in the Granville neighborhood, rural mail route No. 1 out of Eaton, is a native son of Delaware county and has lived here all his life. Mr. Kirkwood was born on a pioneer farm on the Granville pike on November 21, 1868, and is a son of David M. and Agnes (Dick) Kirkwood, the latter of whom was born in the vicinity of Troy, Ohio, and was but a child when she came to Indiana with her parents, the family settling first in what is now the neighborhood west of Shideler and later moving to Niles township, establishing their home south of Granville. She was a granddaughter of Thomas Flynn, who, according to the traditions of the period, was captured by some warriors of the Munsee tribe of the Delaware Indians in this section of the Indiana country and was tied to the "torture stake" that the redskins are said to have maintained on what now is known as Old Town Hill in this county, and was thus awaiting execution by fire when a thunderstorm came up and diverted the savages from their vengeful intentions. Mrs. Agnes Kirkwood died in 1905. Her husband survived her for twelve years, his death occurring in 1917. They were the parents of five children, the one son (the subject of this sketch) and four daughters, Millie (deceased), Anna M., Lena A. and Bessie (deceased). Reared on the home farm in the Granville neighborhood, Henry E. Kirkwood received his schooling in the local schools and until his marriage continued on the farm with his father. He then began farming on his own account, as a renter, and continued thus engaged until in 1910, when he bought the farm of eighty-one acres on which he is now living, near Granville, and has since resided there. Mr. Kirkwood is a member of Nodaway lodge, No. 241, Improved Order of Red Men, at Royerton, and he and his wife are Republicans and members of the Granville Christian church. It was on April 29, 1896, that Henry E. Kirkwood was united in marriage to Mary E. Crooks and to this union two children have been born, a son, Walter L., and a daughter, Florence Irene Kirkwood. Walter L. Kirkwood married Ada Ledbetter, of Delaware township, and has two sons, Frederick Harold and Herbert Crooks Kirkwood. Mrs. Mary E. Kirkwood was born in Niles township and is a daughter of Calvin C. and Priscilla (Batreall) Crooks, the latter of whom was a member of the pioneer Batreall family of this county. Calvin C. Crooks was born in Delaware county, Ohio, and as a young man came over into Indiana and began clerking in a store at Warren, in Huntington county. There he came in touch with Adam Wolfe, the pioneer Muncie banker and merchant, who also had mercantile interests elsewhere throughout this section of Indiana, and by the latter was established in business at Granville, in this county, where he continued in business for thirty-two years. He and Adam Wolfe were the joint owners of a tract of more than 250 acres of farm land in the vicinity of Granville. Calvin C. Crooks was twice married and by his first wife, Harriet Becker, a aative of New York state, was the father of four children, Stella, Albert, George and Harriet J., all of whom are now deceased save the last named. The mother of these children died in 1863. To Calvin C. and Priscilla (Batreall) Crooks six children were born, those besides Mrs. Kirkwood (the fifth in order of birth): being Clara M., Oren F., Laura (deceased), Arthur C. and Walter A. Crooks.

GEORGE H. PIEPHO, of the firm of Moffitt & Bitpho. funeral directors at Muncie, was born in Kankakee, IIl., and is a son of August and Minnie (Bruescher) Piepho, substantial farming people of that community. August Piepho was a "49er," one of that adventurous band of Argonauts who went to California following the discovery of gold there, he making the toilsome journey by way of the Isthmus. Upon his return he for some time made his home in Chicago and then became a farmer in the Kankakee region. One of his sons, John Piepho, is now the manager of a 500-acre scientific and experimental farm in the fertile Kankakee valley in the vicinity of Hebron. Reared on the home farm at Kankakee, George H. Piepho received his schooling in the schools of that city and early became interested in the mercantile business. After his marriage he established himself in business, proprietor of a general store at Brunswick near beautiful Cedar Lake, in Lake county, Indiana, and was thus engaged in business there until he became interested in the undertaking business. He took a course in the College of Embalming at Chicago and in 1914 entered into his present partnership in the old established undertaking concern with which he since has been connected at Muncie, doing business under the firm name of Moffitt & Piepho, with a well equipped establishment at the corner of Charles and Jefferson streets. Mr. Piepho is a Freemason, is also affiliated with the Knights of Pythias and the Loyal Order of Moose, and he and his wife are members of the High Street Methodist Episcopal church. In 1901, at Brunswick, Ind., George H. Piepho was united in marriage to Julia G. Groman, daughter of Dr. Charles Groman, of that place, and to this union three children have been born, Clarence, Gladys and Herbert, the latter of whom is still in public school. Clarence Piepho completed his schooling in Boston and is now asso- ciated with his father in the undertaking business. Gladys Piepho is a student at the Eastern Division of the Indiana State Normal School at Muncie. Mrs. Piepho is one of the active members of the Muncie Woman's Club, one of the oldest continuing woman's clubs in Indiana, and served for two years as secretary of the Federated Clubs of Muncie and Delaware county. Before her marriage she was for some years engaged in teaching in the public schools of Lake county. One of her sisters, Minnie Groman, was for some time engaged in the missionary field and is now a settlement worker in Chicago. Her father, Dr. Charles Groman, a graduate of Rush Medical College, Chicago, became an influential factor in the development of the Cedar Lake region and erected the first school house put up at Brunswick, in Lake county. One of his sons, Dr. Augustus Groman, is now a practicing physician in Iowa, and two of his grandsons, Dr. Herman G. Groman, of Hammond, Ind., and Dr. Alfred Noehren, surgeon at Buffalo, N. Y., also are physicians.

MELVIN A. BUTTERFIELD, founder of the Butterfield Canning Company of Muncie, a concern whose affairs still are carried on in the family, had been a resident of this county for twenty years and more prior to his death and thus had made many friends here. Mr. Butterfield was born on a farm in the vicinity of Lawrenceburg, in Dearborn county, this state, in 1864, and was a son of Ephraim and Cordelia (Annis) Butterfield, the latter of whom also was born in that same county, a member of one of the pioneer families. Ephraim Butterfield was a native of the state of Maine. He and his wife were the parents of four children, the subject of this memorial sketch having had a sister, Emma, now deceased, and two brothers, Elmer and Manley Butterfield. Reared in Dearborn county, Melvin A. Butterfield completed his schooling at Quincy, Ill., and for some time after leaving school was employed as a traveling salesman. He married when twenty-five years of age and about two years later, in 1891, came to Delaware county and bought a farm on the Selma road and became engaged in practical farming here. In 1904 he established a canning factory at Lincoln and Gilbert streets in Muncie and there continued active in business until his death on October 15, 1919. This factory has been maintained by the family and is now doing business as the Butterfield Canning Company, its products long having been in wide demand in the market. Mr. Butterfield was a Freemason and was a member of the Christian church. It was in 1889, in the neighboring county of Madison, that Melvin A. Butterfield was united in marriage to Ella Moore, who was born in that county, a daughter of William and Alcinda (Armfield) Moore, the latter of whom also was born in Madison county, daughter of Tillman Armfield and wife, the latter of whom was a Pickering. William Moore was born in Virginia, a son of Thomas and Jane (Bobbett) Moore, and after his marriage established his home on a farm in the Elwood (Ind.) neighkorhood. Of the seven children born to him and his wife, Mrs. Butterfield was the second in order of birth, the others being Manville, Frank, Nettie, Charles, William and Jesse. To Melvin A. and Ella (Moore) Butterfield were born six children, namely: Emma, wife of John DeShipper; Joseph, deceased; Eura, wife of Noah Thompson, who has one child, a son, Junior; Anita, wife of Eldo Webber; William, who married Helen Knapp, and Robert. Since the death of her husband Mrs. Butterfield has been making her home at Muncie, residing at 1334 East Main street. She is a member of the Christian church. The Butterfield Canning Company's plant is owned and operated by William Butterfield and two of his sisters, Mrs. Thompson and Mrs. Webber.

JOHN W. LAMBERT, of the firm of Lambert Bros., grocers at Eaton, and a merchant of many years of practical experience, was born on a farm north of Eaton on February 11, 1875, and is a son of Joseph D. and Clara (Edgington) Lambert, the latter a member of the pioneer Edgington family of this county. Joseph D. Lambert, a former merchant and hotel keeper of Eaton and a landowner of Union township, now living retired at Eaton in his seventy-seventh year, was born in Fayette county, Indiana, and was a young man when he came to Delaware county with his father, John L. Lambert, a Virginian, who had settled in Fayette county upon coming to Indiana. Upon coming to Delaware county with his family John L. Lambert settled on a farm which he had bought north of Eaton and there spent the remainder of his life. Not long after coming to this county Joseph D. Lambert married and began farming on his own account, as a renter, in Union township, and after his father's death came into possession by inheritance of a farm of ninety acres. About 1888, not long after the beginning of the development of the natural gas field here, he left the farm and bought the Foorman hotel at Eaton, which he operated for a number of years, at the end of which time he returned to the farm and resumed his farming operations and continued thus engaged until his retirement and return to Eaton, where he is now living. To him and his wife were born eight children, of whom the subject of this sketch was the second in order of birth, the others being Alice, Louis (deceased), Anna, Moses, Della, Evan and Edna (deceased). John W. Lambert completed his school- ing in the Eaton schools and as a young man became employed in a factory in that city. Some years later he entered upon his mercantile career as a clerk in the Foorman Bros.' grocery store at Eaton and while thus engaged was married. He continued his connection with the Foorman store until about 1903, when he transferred his services to the Goddard wholesale grocery house at Muncie and was thus connected until in 1919, when he returned to Eaton and entered upon a partnership with his brother, Moses Lambert, in the grocery business in that city and has since been thus engaged, the firm carrying on under the name of Lambert Bros., a continuation of the old established business of Foorman Bros. In May, 1923, the Lambert brothers moved their store from the old Foorman stand to more commodious quarters at the corner of Harris and Hartford streets, where they have a thoroughly up-to-date store, with a stock of goods ample for the needs of the trade area they cover. It was on September 12, 1896, that John W. Lambert was united in marriage to Myrtle M. Baldwin. Mr. and Mrs. Lambert are members of the Friends church at Muncie and are Republicans. Mr. Lambert is a member of Ouray lodge (No. 74) of the Improved Order of Red Men at Eaton. Mrs. Lambert was born in the neighboring county of Randolph, in the Fairview neighborhood, daughter of Jesse and Sarah (Whittacer) Baldwin, and was but a girl when her parents moved with their family to Delaware county, locating at Albany, where her father became engaged in business as a dry goods merchant.

JOHN W. BEIERSDORFER, proprietor of a retail meat market at Eaton, to which place he moved six or seven years ago from Muncie, was born at Dayton, Ohio, in 1875, and is a son of Joseph and Josephine (Shepley) Beiersdorfer, who later became residents of Celina, Ohio, where Joseph Beiersdorfer was for years engaged in the retail meat business. He and his wife were the parents of seven children, the subject of this sketch having three sisters, Anna, Mary and Agnes, and three brothers, Frank, Joseph and Fred Beiersdorfer. Reared at Celina, John W. Beiersdorfer received his schooling in that city and under his father's direction early learned the details of the retail meat business. Upon starting in business for himself he came over into Delaware county and opened a meat shop at AIbany, but presently disposed of that business and moved to Muncie, where he was employed with local retail meat concerns at that place until in 1917, when he moved to Eaton, opened a meat shop at this place and has since been engaged in business here, proprietor of a well equipped and up-to-date establishment. Mr. Beiersdorfer married Myrtle Laughridge, of Celina, and has three children, Helen Josephine, John Edward and Gertrude Catherine.

HARRY D. SINGER, proprietor of a well equipped bakery, popularly known as "Singer's Bakery," at 5138 South Walnut street, and successor to the old established Cunnington bakery, which was opened there in 1884, was born on a farm in the neighboring county of Randolph on September 26, 1882, and is a son and only child of Albert and Josie (Stick) Singer, the latter of whom, one of the six daughters of Samuel and Mary (Murray) Stick, died in 1915. Harry D. Singer was reared in the home of his paternal grandfather and attended district school, walking a mile and a half to school. At the age of thirteen years he began "for himself," working as a "'printer's devil' in the office of the Redkey Times, and for two years applied himself to learning "the art preservative of all arts." Finding at the end of that time that the close application to indoor work was not agreeing with him, he started out in the insurance field, writing for the Prudential Insurance Company's agency at Hartford City. He kept this up for a year and then came to Muncie and began working in the old Cunnington bakery on South Walnut street. He married when just past his majority and established his home at Muncie, continuing to work for the Cunnington bakery until he had rounded out eleven years in that employment, during which time he missed but two days on the job. He then became a traveling salesman for the Washburn-Crosby flour mills of Minneapolis and was thus employed for two years, at the end of which time, in 1906, he became engaged in the bakery business on his own account, opening a bakery in East Main street, and continued to operate this plant until in 1914, when he bought the old Cunnington bakery in South Walnut street, the place in which he had spent eleven years of his life, merged his own plant with this, moving into the old stand, and has since been established there. The popularity of the products of Mr. Singer's ovens may be estimated when it is known that he now employs nearly forty persons in his establishment and that no fewer than ten trucks of a combined capacity of 10,000 pounds are required to maintain the delivery service. Mr. Singer is a member of the Muncie Chamber of Commerce, is an active member of the Kiwanis Club, is a Freemason and is also affiliated with the local lodges of the Knights of Pythias and the Loyal Order of Moose. It was on October 10, 1903, at Hartford City, Ind., that Harry D. Singer was united in marriage to Dessa M. Slater, daughter of John Slater, of that city, and to this union one child has been born, a daughter, Alice Singer, who at the age of nineteen is now in Paris rounding out her studies in harp expression under the direction of Madam Ranie. She was graduated from the Muncie high school, making the four-year course in three, and then was graduated in piano from the Muncie Conservatory of Music. She then took up the study of the harp and after instructions under Madam Schellschmidt at Indianapolis and Mildred Dilling at New York went abroad for finishing work in Paris. CLAYTON B. WINGATE, a member of the school board of the town of Albany and for many years engaged there as a carpenter, was born at Albany on September 4, 1870, and is a son of John N. and Charlotte R. (Black) Wingate, the latter of whom also was born in this county, her parents having come in here from Ohio in settlement days. The late John M. Wingate was born in Greene county, Ohio, and was but a child when he came to Delaware county with his parents, the family settling on a farm west of Albany. He grew to manhood there and in time became a farmer on his own account, the owner of a good farm of 160 acres, two and a half miles west of Albany, on which he made his home until his retirement and removal to Albany, where his last days were spent, his death occurring on June 16, 1919. To him and his wife were born seven children, two sons and five daughters. Reared on the home farm in the Albany neighborhood, Clayton B. Wingate received his schooling in the local schools and continued his interest in farm work for some years, or until in 1900, when he moved to Albany and became employed there in the McCormick Bros. tin factory. He presently was made foreman of this plant and has ever since been connected with the plant, for some years past acting as architectural superintendent of the works, looking after the realty interests of the McCormick Bros. as a carpenter. Mr. Wingate is a Democrat and is a present member of the school board of the town of Albany. He is a Freemason, an Odd Fellow and a member of the Jackson Street Christian church at Muncie. Mrs. Wingate is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church at Albany. On November 26, 1894, Clayton B. Wingate was united in marriage to Grace Evans and to this union two children have been born, Charlotte, who died in 1908, and Imogene, who married Harold Prow, of Bloomington, Ind., and has one child, a daughter, Mary Alice. Mrs. Grace Wingate also was born in Delaware county and is. « daughter of Charles Asbury and Mary (Strong) Evans, the latter of whom also was born in this county, a daughter of John W. Strong, who was a son of Reuben Strong, one of the original entrymen in Delaware county. Charles Asbury Evans was born over the line in the Redkey neighborhood in Jay county in 1850 and was a son of ~ Evan and Rhoda (Allegre) Evans, the latter of whom was a daughter of James and Rhoda (Phelps) Allegre. The Allegres were Virginians, of Huguenot stock, who came into Indiana out of Ohio in settlement days. James Allegre, who died in the Albany neighborhood in 1852, was a widely known "local" minister of the Methodist Episcopal church. Evan Evans settled in what later came to be the Redkey neighborhood in 1840 and was an influential factor in the development of that community, where he died in the fall of 1898. Charles Asbury Evans grew up in that community and became a substantial farmer and stockman of Delaware township, having his home in the valley of Campbells creek (in section 26) about four miles south of Albany, where Mrs. Wingate was born and reared.

ROBERT BURNS BRADBURY, formerly and for years a coal merchant at Muncie and a prominent figure in the commercial life of that city, died ten years ago and at his passing left a good memory and his family still is prominently represented in the city. Mr. Bradbury was a native Hoosier, a member of one of the pioneer families of eastern Indiana, and all his life was spent in this state. He was born in the old hamlet of Jacksonburg in the western part of Wayne county, February 9, 1836, and was a son of Abner M. and Mary (Boyd) Bradbury, both of Revolutionary stock and the latter of whom was a daughter of Samuel and Isabel (Higgins) Boyd, who had come into Indiana out of Kentucky. Abner M. Bradbury was born in New Jersey, a son of David Bradbury, a soldier of the Revolution, and was one of the first of the Bradburys to come to Indiana. His brothers, John and Daniel Bradbury, also came to this state. Other Bradburys settled in southern Ohio and the family now is widely represented in the Midwest country. Abner M. Bradbury and wife were the parents of fourteen children and the descendants of this pioneer couple in the present generation form a numerous connection. Robert Burns Bradbury was the ninth in order of birth of these children, the others being William H., Isabel, Caroline R., James L., Elizabeth, Martha, Samuel B., Daniel M., Albert W., Mary, Allison B., Walter and Emma. Dr. Allison B. Bradbury, who died at his home in Muncie thirty years and more ago, was an army surgeon during the Civil war, serving in an Ohio regiment. Robert Burns Bradbury was reared at Jacksonburg, where he received his schooling, and early became engaged in his father's tannery at that place. He later became engaged in the mercantile business at Cambridge City. In 1879 he disposed of his interests in Wayne county and moved with his family to Muncie, where he established a coal and wood yard, and was thus actively engaged in business until 1900. His death occurred in 1914, he then being seventy-eight years of age. Mr. Bradbury acquired considerable real estate holdings in and about Muncie and was the owner of part of the ground on which the postoffice building now stands, a plot of ground which he sold to the government in 1905. He was a Presbyterian and took a proper part in church work. Robert Burns Bradbury was twice married. In 1857 he was united in marriage to Sarah Townsend, of Iowa, daughter of Stephen Townsend, one of the leading Quakers of his generation. Following her death he married, January 15, 1872, Sarah C. Connelly, who survives and is still living at Muncie, she and her daughters residing at 314 East Howard street. To this latter union were born three children, the two daughters, Jessie S. Bradbury, a teacher in the Muncie public schools, and Nora Lee Bradbury, an art teacher in the city schools, and a son, Robert Burns Bradbury, 320 North Pershing drive, connected with the Muncie Malleable Foundry Company. Mrs. Sarah C. Bradbury was born in Wayne county and is a daughter of Isaac and Mary (Blair) Connelly, the latter of whom was a daughter of John and Suzanne (Jemison) Blair. Isaac Connelly was born in that section of the Old Dominion now comprised in West Virginia, the son of a Methodist clergyman, and was but a boy when his parents came with their family to Indiana and settled in Wayne county. One of his brothers was a soldier of the Union during the time of the Civil war. To Isaac Connelly and wife three children were born, Mrs. Bradbury having a sister, Mrs. Eliza Ellen Hurst (deceased), and a brother, Benjamin Franklin Connelly. The family are members of the Presbyterian church.

CHARLES J. GILL, president of the Gill Clay Pot Company of Muncie, has been a resident of Muncie for more than seventeen years and thus has long been definitely identified with the industrial interests of this city. Mr. Gill was born in the city of Wheeling, W. Va., May 11, 1853, and is a son of James S. Gill, an Englishman, who came to this country in the '40s of the past century and became the founder of the business in clay products now and for many years carried on at Muncie under the Gill name. Charles J. Gill was reared at Wheeling and early became familiar with the clay products industry under the direction of his father and with the glass manufacturing industry, with which he long was connected. In 1882, at Bellaire, Ohio, the clay products industry now being carried on by the Gill company at Muncie was established under the firm name of James S. Gill's Sons. When this firm changed its base and headquarters to Muncie in 1892 in order to secure advantage of the nat- ural gas field here, the firm name was changed to Gill Brothers and in 1908, under a reorganization, it was incorporated as the Gill Clay Pot Company, its present firm style - a name that is firmly established in the trade throughout this country, particularly in that great trade area east of the Mississippi. For years this firm has specialized in fire-clay pots for furnaces, tank blocks, fire brick and fire-clay products generally and has a well equipped plant for the manufacture of such products, giving. employment to about one hundred persons. The four sons of James S. Gill and the latter's grandson, C. O. Grafton, have developed the business, the sons being Charles J., Harry R., Will H. and Frank O. Gill. Charles J. Gill and C. O. Grafton are still actively identified with the concern, the officers of which are Charles J. Gill, president; Harry R. Gill, vice president; Charles O. Grafton, treasurer and general manager, and John H. Gill, secretary. Charles J. Gill, at Bellaire, Ohio, married Margaret Hamilton. He resides at 910 East Jackson street. John H. Gill, son of Charles J. and Margaret (Hamilton) Gill, and secretary of the Gill Clay Pot Company, was born at Bellaire, Ohio, May 25, 1892, and was but an infant when his parents moved to Muncie in 1907. He completed his schooling in the high school here in 1910 and ever since has devoted his attention to the development of the Gill products plant, secretary of the company since the year 1917. He is a Knight Templar and Scottish Rite Mason and a member of the local lodge of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and is affiliated with the congregation of the Universalist church.

OLIVER P. JONES, a substantial farmer and dairyman of Mt. Pleasant and Harrison townships and long and widely known as a breeder of pure blood Jersey cattle, is a native son of Delaware county, a member of one of the real pioneer families of this county, and has lived here all his life. Mr. Jones was born on a farm in Harrison township on May 138, 1866, and is a son of Oliver Perry and Catherine (McNeer) Jones, both now deceased. Oliver Perry Jones was born in Clinton county, Ohio, and was a son of Isaac Jones, who in the spring of 1832 came over here into the new lands in this section of Indiana seeking a place of permanent location and after viewing lands in this county that still were open to entry picked out a location in the southeastern corner of what is now Harrison township and went back to Ohio to report on conditions as he had found them. Decision was made to move and in the fall of that same year Isaac Jones and his family moved over here with a view to settling on the spot that had been selected by the head of the family, but found on arrival here that Isaac Adamson, the first man to enter lands as of what now is Harrison township, had entered the tract selected in section 36, the date of his entry having been October 18, 1832, just prior to the arrival of the Joneses, and was living there with his family in a cabin that had hastily been put up. Isaac Jones then looked about a bit, his family meanwhile adjusting themselves to the life of the unbroken forest, and on October 12, 1833, entered from the government a tract of seventy-two acres in section 31 of Harrison township, and with the aid of his son, Oliver Perry Jones, put up a cabin on the place. He then returned to Ohio to close out his affairs there, leaving his son and two daughters on the place, and in the spring returned to enter upon his new home, but he was destined not long to remain, for in the fall of that year he died. Oliver Perry Jones took up the burden of clearing and improving the place, carried on his farming operations with success and eventually became the owner of right around 600 acres of land. He spent his last days in this county, his death occurring in 1887. In 1843 he married Sarah Dillon, who died in the following year, and in 1847 he married Catherine McNeer, whose death occurred in 1909. He was the father of seven children, three of whom are still living, the subject of this sketch having two brothers, Isaac N. and Sell Jones. Reared on the home farm in Harrison township, Oliver P. Jones received his schooling in the neighborhood schools and from the days of his boyhood was an aid to his father in the operations of the home farm. He was twenty-one years of age when his father died and he then took over the operation of the home place, a farm of 260 acres, and started in farming on his own account. Some years later, in 1891, he began the breeding of Jersey cattle, bringing in the first imported Jersey bull ever brought to this county as his herd leader, this making him one of the oldest breeders of Jersey stock in Indiana. He found this a profitable venture and has continued along that line, at times having as many as 150 head of purebred Jerseys in his herd, bringing into this county some of the best Jersey blood that could be bought and thus doing much to raise the standard of this breed of dairy cattle throughout this section of the state. Mr. Jones has a well stocked dairy barn on his place, equipped in modern fashion. He is at present milking about twenty-five head and the products of his dairy are in wide demand. Mr. Jones is a Democrat with "independent" leanings, is a Freemason and is a past noble grand of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. His home is pleasantly situated on rural route No. 1 out of Yorktown. Oliver P. Jones has been twice married. His first wife, Hannah D. McKinley, died leaving two daughters, Maude and Glenna, and he later married Alice M. Wilson. Maude Jones married Virgil Lee and has two daughters, Martha and Virginia. Glenna Jones married Fred Ped- _ rick and has two children, Frederick and Hannah Mae.

CHARLES L. WOOD, former postmaster at Albany and now - proprietor of a barber shop there, was born on a farm in the vicinity of what now is the village of Powers, over the line in the neighboring county of Jay, January 19, 1863, and is a son of Isaac and Delilah (Davidson) Wood, the latter of whom was born in Ohio. Isaac Wood, a veteran of the Civil war, was born in Pennsylvania and was but a lad when he came to Indiana with his parents, John Wood and wife, the family settling on a quarter-section farm in Jay county. There he grew to manhood. When the Civil war came on he enlisted his services in behalf of the cause of the Union and went to the front, this service continuing for about a year or until he was discharged on account of disability due to illness. Two of his brothers were in the same command and both were killed in battle. When the old Union City & Logansport railroad (now a part of the Pennsylvania lines) was put through Jay county in 1867 Isaac Wood was made foreman of the section running in the vicinity of his home (Powers) and for eight years occupied that position. He died at Powers on January 9, 1878. Of the nine children born to him and his wife, seven are still living. Reared at Powers, Charles L. Wood supplemented the schooling received in the local school by attendance on old Ridgeville College and in 1884 was graduated from that institution. For two years thereafter he was engaged in teaching school in Jay county and then opened a grocery store at Powers. Two years later he disposed of his interests there and moved to Albany, where he became engaged in the restaurant business, this being at the time of the local "boom" consequent on the opening of the natural gas field here. For three years Mr. Wood carried on as a restaurateur and then he became engaged in the barber business, a line that occupied his attention until in 1918, when he received the appointment as postmaster at Albany. For something more than eight years Mr. Wood occupied the responsible position of postmaster at Albany, or until succeeded by the present incumbent on March 1, 1922. He then resumed his old calling and has since been thus engaged in business, proprietor of a well equipped and up-to-date barber shop at Albany. Mr. Wood is a Democrat. He is a veteran member of Valentine lodge, No. 378, Knights of Pythias, which was organized in Albany in 1893, and has been keeper of records and seal of that lodge since 1895. He also is affiliated with the local lodge of the Improved Order of Red Men. On September 8, 1883, Charles L. Wood was united in marriage to Clara B. Smith, who also was born on a farm in Jay county, daughter of Job and Rebecca (Shaffer) Smith, and to this union have been born seven children, Otto, Dollie, Faye, Lawrence, James, Josephine and Dorothy, four of whom are married. Otto Wood married Pearl Smith, of Albany, and has two children, Harold and Winifred. Dolly Wood married Thomas Keppler, of Albany, and has two children, Merrill and Carl. Faye Wood married William Anderson, of Dunkirk, and has three children, Carl, James and Charles, and James Wood married Edna Martin, of Dunkirk.

. MILTON GRAY, proprietor of the Milton Gray Agency, real estate and insurance, at Muncie, and a former member of the city common council, is a native son of Delaware county and has lived here all his life, save for a period years ago when he was a resident of Middletown, in the neighboring county of Henry. Mr. Gray was born on a farm in the vicinity of the village of Daleville, in Salem township, November 22, 1854, and is a son of James M. and Elizabeth (Shoemaker) Gray, the latter of whom was a daughter of John Shoemaker, a Pennsylvanian and one of the real pioneers of this county. James M. Gray was born in Tennessee and was but a child when his father, Joseph. Gray, a native of Scotland, died there. In 1835, he then being seven years of age, his widowed mother left her home in the Knoxville (Tenn.) community and with her children accompanied a party of kinsfolk up here into Indiana, the family settling in Salem township, this county, where James M. Gray grew to manhood, a practical farmer. After his marriage to Elizabeth Shoemaker he continued farming for some years and then became engaged in the mercantile business at Daleville, a line which he continued until his retirement in the '80s and removal to Anderson, where his last days were spent. He was twice married and by his first wife was the father of six children, those besides the subject of this sketch being Jonathan, Isabelle, Lydia J., Ella and Josephine. The mother of these children died in 1866 and James M. Gray later married Mary A. McClanahan. To this latter union one child was born, a son, William R. Gray, who died in California at the age of thirty-one years. Reared on the home farm in Salem township, Milton Gray received his schooling in the Daleville schools and then became engaged with his father in the mercantile business in that village, later going to Middletown, where he opened a store and where he was engaged in business until his removal to Muncie, in

1890, following the promising development here consequent on the opening of the natural gas field. He took an active part in the organization of the Muncie Casket Company and was elected secretary and general manager of that concern, a position he held until in 1913, when he became engaged in his present line, real estate and insurance, and has so continued, with present offices in the Wysor block. Mr. Gray is a Republican and for eight years rendered public service as a member of the city council. For many years he has been an active member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and he also is affiliated with the local lodge of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. He and his wife are members of the Jackson Street Christian church. In 1877 Milton Gray was united in marriage to Jennette Griffis, daughter of Dr. Robert Griffis, of Henry county, and to this union two sons were born, Myron H. Gray, now engaged in the practice of law at Muncie and further mention of whom is made elsewhere in this volume, and Owen L., who died in infancy.

SAMUEL FRANKLIN BRADY, one of the sons of John Brady, first mayor of the city of Muncie, and a brother of Gen. Thomas J. Brady and Edward W. Brady, all well known in their generation in this county, as is set out elsewhere in this work, was the treasurer of Delaware county during the period of the Civil war and was a large factor in the civic and social life of this community during that time of stress. He was the father of six children, all of whom now are deceased save the one daughter, Miss Mary M. Brady, who continues to maintain the old family home at 216 East Washington street. Samuel Franklin Brady was born at Richmond, Ind., December 12, 1827, and was thus but nine years of age when in 1836 his parents, John and Mary (Wright) Brady, left there and took up their home in Muncietown, where they spent the remainder of their lives, as is set out elsewhere, the former dying in January, 1884, and the latter in August of that same year. John Brady was born in Warren county, Ohio, in 1803, and was a son of William and Julia Ann (Lerch) Brady, the former of whom served as a soldier of the War of 1812 and died in 1813 as a result of exposure and privation incident to his participation in Colonel Campbell's campaign against the Indians over here into this section of what then was Indiana Territory. John Brady located at Richmond, Ind., in 1824, and in the following year was married there to Mary Wright, who had come to Indiana with her mother from Maryland the year before. Upon locating at Muncietown in 1836 John Brady took an active part in the general affairs of the pioneer community and became a forceful 'factor in the labors of bringing about stable social and economic conditions here. As is narrated elsewhere he served as associate judge of the circuit court for ten years, was for fifteen years postmaster of the town and when a city form of government was set up in 1865 he was elected first mayor of the city of Muncie. He later rendered public service as a councilman from his ward and as township trustee, so that his impress upon this community was about as distinct as that of any man who ever labored here. In the chapter in this history relating to city government further and fitting reference is made to the public services of this pioneer. Samuel F. Brady grew to manhood at Muncie and in his father's harness shop became an expert saddler and harness maker, a vocation he followed until his election to the office of county treasurer in 1860. He had rendered earlier service as treasurer of the town corporation. His four-year term of service as county treasurer covered that period marked by the trying times of the Civil war, and not long after his retirement from the court house he became engaged as a railway postal clerk and in this form of public service continued engaged the rest of his active life, still making his home at Muncie, where he died on March 31, 1906. On March 25, 1851, Samuel F. Brady was united in marriage to Julia Ann Berry and to that union were born six children, all of whom now are deceased save the daughter, Mary Maude, born on October 12, 1857, Miss Brady having had five brothers, namely: Charles E., born on January 12, 1853; Frank W., June 12, 1854; George W., August 18, 1855; Samuel Franklin, August 28, 1859, and John W., July 2, 1873. The mother of these children died on July 16, 1913. John W. Brady married Martha Shidler and had one child, a son, Samuel Walter Brady.

DR. FRANK G. JACKSON, one of Delaware county's veteran physicians and a practitioner at Muncie for more than thirty years, is a native son of Delaware county and has lived here all his life with the exception of a few years during the early period of his professional career, when he was engaged in practice at Mt. Summit, in the neighboring county of Henry. Doctor Jackson was born at Muncie on November 25, 1858, and is a son of William N. and Sarah (Collins) Jackson, both members of pioneer families in this county and who then were residing at the corner of Madison and Adams street, the site now occupied by the Grace Episcopal church. Mrs. Sarah Collins Jackson also was born in this county, a daughter of Henderson Collins, the pioneer barn builder, who was widely known hereabout in his generation as the builder of large barns, many of which are still standing in this county and adjoining counties, after sixty to eighty years of service. The late William N. Jackson, a veteran of the Civil war, was born in Greenup county, Kentucky, and was a son of Thomas Jackson, a soldier of the War of 1812, who was born at Waterford, in Loudoun county, Virginia, a son of Robert Jackson, who had rendered service in behalf of the patriot cause during the War of the Revolution as a member of the company of John Hay. Some time after his marriage in Virginia, Thomas Jackson started West with his family on horseback and it was while thus en route that William N. Jackson was born in Greenup county, in Kentucky. The Jacksons presently made their home in Ohio and there remained until their removal in 1848 to Muncie, where Thomas Jackson established his home and spent the remainder of his life. The Jacksons of this line thus have been represented in Delaware county for more than eighty years. William N. Jackson thus was living here when the Civil war broke out. In the summer of 1861 when the 19th regiment, Indiana Volunteer Infantry, was being organized at Indianapolis he enlisted in that command for the period of three years and went to the front as a member of that regiment, which in the following October was consolidated with what came to be known as the famous old "Iron Brigade" of the Army of the Potomac, and with this gallant command he served until mustered out on October 19, 1864. Upon the completion of his military service he rejoined his family at Muncie and here spent the remainder of his life, his death occurring in 1902. His wife had long predeceased him, her death having occurred in 1879. William N. Jackson was one of the organizers of Williams post, Grand Army of the Republic, at Muncie and for years served as adjutant of that post. To him and his wife were born eight children, of whom Doctor Jackson was the third in order of birth. Reared at Muncie, Frank G. Jackson was graduated from the high school there in 1878. Meanwhile he had been giving his thought to the study of medicine and under the preceptorship of Dr. H. C. Winans, of Muncie, was prepared for entrance to college. During the years 1881-82 he attended the Ohio Medical College at Cincinnati and in the next year married and established his home at Mt. Summit, down the line south of Muncie, in Henry county. For about six years Doctor Jackson continued in practice at Mt. Summit and then he returned to Muncie, where he ever since has made his home, with present office and residence at 214 East Adams street. The Doctor's medical studies were continued at the

Louisville Medical College, from which institution he was graduated m 1894. When the office of local health officer was created in 1892, Doctor Jackson received the appointment to that position and was thus serving in that capacity when in the next year (1893) Muncie was subjected to an unhappy period of quarantine due to an outbreak of smallpox, as is narrated elsewhere in this work. Doctor Jackson established the local health office on a sound and practical basis and was the forerunner of the present efficient and scientific organization known as the Department of Public Health. On August 19, 1893, he was called to the southeastern part of the city to examine an unusual case of illness. He at once pronounced it confluent smallpox and quarantined the family. Following up rumors of other illnesses, he found quite a large number of cases which had occurred during the spring and summer of 1893 and which had been called chickenpox by the attending physicians. Chickenpox at that time was not required to be reported to the health officer and as a consequence there had been many cases before the health officer knew of their presence in _ the city. From this time on the health office assumed great prominence. The immediate welfare and happiness of the whole city was dependent upon the early suppression of this terrible disease. Doctor Jackson was equal to this demand, meeting all the various problems that daily arose with a wise, earnest and conscientious consideration. He had the loyal support of Mayor Arthur Brady and the special committee of the city council, composed of A. E. Lyman, George L. Lenon, J. C. Johnson and H. H. Highlands, and supported. by County Health Officer Hugh A. Cowing and a large number of physicians of the city. In less than three months after the disease was discovered the quarantine was lifted and the city returned once more to its normal state and valiantly set to work to repair the damage done to business and to liquidate the heavy indebtedness assumed by the city in suppressing the epidemic. The prompt suppression of this widespread epidemic is the more remarkable because of the many difficult and harassing local conditions attending its course. On November 5 quarantine was lifted. During the period of the epidemic Doctor Jackson had entirely abandoned his extensive practice and had devoted all of his time to the duties of health officer. His financial remuneration for this service was small and he could not in justice to himself neglect his work longer. On November 27 he requested the mayor to accept his resignation as there was no longer a necessity for his services in smallpox work. His resignation was reluctantly accepted and a substantial sum was voted to him by the city council for his faithful services. Of late years the doctor has been giving his special attention to the practice of industrial surgery. Doctor Jackson is a member of the local, state and national medical societies and of the Muncie Academy of Medicine and is a past president of the Delaware County Medical Society. He is a charter member of Walterhouse camp, Sons of Veterans, at Muncie, and a former surgeon of the Indiana Division of that organization. He also is a past worshipful master (1891-95) of Delaware lodge, No. 46, Free and Accepted Masons, and has attained to the 32d degree (Scottish Rite) in Freemasonry and is a noble of the Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. It was in 1883, while living at Mt. Summit, that Dr. Frank G. Jackson was united in marriage to Jessie Ice, who was born at that place, daughter of Ezekiel T. and Rebecca (Bohn) Ice, and to this union two children have been born, daughters both, Lola and Sarah, the latter of whom married Ray Clark, of Muncie, and has one child, a son, Frank Jackson Clark. Doctor and Mrs. Jackson are members of the First Baptist church.

LEWIS D. OVERMIRE, former postmaster of Yorktown and formerly and for many years engaged in the mercantile business there, now living practically retired at Yorktown, has been a resident of Delaware county since the days of his infancy and has thus been a witness to and a participant in the development of Yorktown for more than sixty years. Mr. Overmire was born at Perkinsville, in the neighboring county of Madison, November 21, 1861, and is a son of Henry and Elizabeth (Sharp) Overmire, the latter of whom was born in Delaware county, in 1840, daughter of H. B. and Tabitha Sharp. The late Henry Overmire, who for many years was one of Yorktown's leading citizens, was born in Hamilton county, Ohio, July 16, 1837, and was a son of Henry and Elizabeth (Espells) Overmire, natives of Germany, who in 1836, shortly after their marriage, came to the United States and settled at Cincinnati, a few years later moving up into Franklin county, Indiana, where they established their home and where the elder Henry Overmire died in 1877. His widow long survived him and her last days were spent in the home of a daughter in Cincinnati. It was thus that the youth of the junior Henry Overmire was spent in Franklin county, this state. At the age of fourteen he was apprenticed to a tanner at Brookville and he spent three years learning this trade. He then was for two or three years engaged as a journeyman tanner, working at various places, and then he came up into this part of Indiana and started .a tannery at Middletown. Later he bought a tannery at

Jerome, in Howard county, but hard times overtook him there and he was compelled to relinquish his investment. He then took charge of a tannery at Perkinsville, in Madison county, and in 1863 left there and moved over into Delaware county and took employment in the Allen tannery at Yorktown. Three years later he and Jacob Erther bought this tannery and continued operating it in partnership for three years, at the end of which time Mr. Overmire bought his partner's interest in the plant and carried on the business alone for ten years, or until with the gradually changing conditions in the leather market he found it profitable to abandon the business. During this time he also was operating at Yorktown a harness shop and a boot and shoe store, which he continued after giving up the tannery, and in 1884 took his son Lewis into partnership in his mercantile affairs and enlarged the store by adding groceries, etc., and thus continued in business until in 1892, when he disposed of his interest in the store to his son and thereafter gave his attention to his growing interests in the natural gas industry which meanwhile had been developing at Yorktown. Henry Overmire was president of the first natural gas company organized at Yorktown and for years was actively engaged in that business, also carrying on in connection with his harness shop a business in the sale of gas fixtures, and was thus engaged until his retirement. In 1858, while living in Howard county, Henry Overmire was united in marriage to Elizabeth Sharp. Of the children born to this union three grew to maturity, the subject of this sketch, his sister Mary and his brother, William M. Overmire. As will be noted by a comparison of dates above, Lewis D. Overmire was but two years of age when his parents moved to Yorktown in 1863. He received 'his schooling in the schools of that village and then for a year was employed as a clerk in a dry goods store at Muncie. He then took a course in a business college at Indianapolis and for a time thereafter was employed in a wholesale dry goods establishment in that city. Then in 1884 he became engaged in business at Yorktown in partnership with his father and this partnership was maintained until in 1892 when he bought his father's interest in the store and carried on alone, enlarging the store until he came to have the largest general store in Yorktown, and he was thus engaged in the mercantile business there until he sold out in 1917 and retired from business. Mr. Overmire is a Democrat and during the first Cleveland administration served as postmaster of Yorktown. He is a past noble grand of the local lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows at Yorktown and also is a past chan- cellor commander of the local lodge of the Knights of Pythias. He and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal church and he is the present chairman of the board of trustees of that congregation, of which board he has been a member for about ten years. On August 26, 1885, at Yorktown, Lewis D. Overmire was united in marriage to Emma E. Erther, who was born in that village, March 10, 1866, a daughter of Jacob and Isabel (Daugherty) Erther, the latter of whom was born in Mt. Pleasant township, in 1842, a daughter of William Daugherty. Jacob Erther, mentioned above as a one-time partner of Henry Overmire, was a native of Germany, born in the Rhinepfaltz in 1834, a son of John and Margaret (Dahl) Erther. When he was seventeen years of age he came to this country and after awhile located at New Boston, in Scioto county, Ohio, where he remained until in 1859 when he came over into Indiana and located at Yorktown, in this county. He was married here in the next year and established his home at Yorktown, where he and his wife reared a family of nine children. During the natural gas boom days Jacob Erther was an active figure in the Yorktown Gas Company and was one of the promoters of the ill-fated West Muncie addition project, concerning which more is related elsewhere in this work. Mr. and Mrs. Overmire have four children, namely: Gladys M., who married Howard Warfel and has one child, Miriam Elaine; Mildred Lucile, wife of Dr. H. M. Hamilton. a veterinary surgeon; Donald E. Overmire, who married Lillie Garner, and Vernon E. Overmire. CARLTON C. SMITH, a substantial farmer and landowner of Union township, residing on rural mail route No. 2 out of Eaton, is a native son of Delaware county, a member of one of the old families here and has lived in this county all his life. Mr. Smith was born on a farm in Union township in 1888 and is a son of Henry and Lucinda (Headrick) Smith, both members of pioneer families in this section of Indiana, the latter born in the neighboring county of Madison, in 1850, daughter and only child of Daniel and Anna (Thomas) Headrick, the latter of whom was born in Miami county, Ohio, and the former, in the state of Maryland, who in the '40s of the past century became residents of Madison county, this state. In 1850 the Headricks moved over into Delaware county and settled in Union township, where Daniel Headrick spent the remainder of his life, being sixty-five years of age at the time of his death. Henry Smith was born in Miami county, Ohio, in 1839, a son of David and Catherine (Roderick) Smith, the latter of whom was born in 1814, a daughter of John Roderick, who was born in Maryland, reared in

Virginia and who became a resident of Ohio, whence in 1846 he moved over here into Indiana and became a pioneer in Union township, this county. David Smith also was born in Miami county, Ohio, in 1811, a son of Henry Smith, who had moved from North Carolina to Ohio. David Smith grew up in Miami county, Ohio, where he married and where he remained until in 1842, when he came to Delaware county and established his home on a woodland "eighty" he had bought in section 8 of Union township. There he and his wife spent the remainder of their lives. He died in 1874 and she survived him for thirty years, her death occurring in 1904. This pioneer couple were the parents of eight children, of whom Henry Smith was the fifth in order of birth. Henry Smith was but three years of age when he came to Delaware county with his parents in 1842. He grew up on the home farm in Union township and some time after attaining his majority took a mine prospecting trip through the west but presently returned home and bought a quarter of a section of land in Union township, where after his marriage in the spring of 1869 to Lucinda Headrick he established his home. As time passed he increased his holdings until he became the owner of more than 400 acres of land thereabout. He was one of the organizers of the Farmers State Bank of Eaton and in other ways was influential in community development, serving for some time as trustee of Union township. He and his wife were the parents of four children, the subject of this sketch having two sisters, Dora, who married Roland Landis, and Stella, wife of William A. Strong, and one brother, Robert E. Smith, who married Minnie Pierce. Reared on the home farm in Union township, Carlton C. Smith received his schooling in the neighborhood schools and from the days of his boyhood has been devoted to farming. In 1907 he married Maude Clements and he and his wife have one child, a son, Melvin Smith. Mrs. Smith also was born in this county and is a member of one of the pioneer families here, a daughter of Joseph and Elizabeth (Shaffer) Clements, the latter of whom was born in Ohio, a daughter of Michael and Mary (Shoemaker) Shaffer, Pennsylvanians, who many years ago came to Indiana and established their home in Delaware county. Joseph Clements was born in this county, a son of David and Hannah Clements, the former of whom was a son of Basil Clements, one of the real pioneers of Delaware county. David Clements was a soldier of the Union during the time of the Civil war, a member of Company E of the 8th regiment, Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and died in service in an army hospital at St. Louis on August 12, 1863. To Joseph and Elizabeth (Shaffer) Clements were born five children,

Mrs. Smith having two sisters, Minnie and Lottie, and two brothers, Elmer and Chester Clements, the latter of whom is a veteran of the World war with an overseas record, his military service having been rendered with the American Expeditionary Forces in France. WILBUR H. POLHEMUS, funeral director at Daleville and dealer in furniture and house furnishings at that place, also a local minister of the Methodist Episcopal church, is a native son of Delaware county and has lived here all his life, a resident of Daleville since the days of his young manhood. Mr. Polhemus was born on a farm in Delaware township on April 29, 1879, and is a son of William and Sarah Ann (Sipe) Polhemus, both of whom were born in Ohio, where they were married. William Polhemus came into Delaware county in the late '60s and aided in the construction of the Lake Erie & Western railroad and after that labor was performed established his home on a farm in Delaware township and here spent the remainder of his life. He developed a good farm and became the owner of about 160 acres, a part of which he cleared. He was progressive in his methods and it is said that he was the owner of the first spring wagon used in his neighborhood. William Polhemus and wife were the parents of nine children, all of whom are living save one daughter, Effie, who died at the age of nineteen years, the subject of this sketch, the eighth in order of birth, having three sisters, Ida, Nettie and Cora, and four brothers, Oscar, Aaron, Preston and Roscoe. The Rev. Oscar Polhemus is pastor of the Methodist Episcopal church at Brooklyn, Ind., and the Rev. Preston Polhemus is pastor of St. Paul's Methodist Episcopal church at Ft. Wayne, Ind. Aaron Polhemus is a groceryman at Muncie and Roscoe Polhemus is a railway mail clerk on the Pennsylvania lines from Cincinnati to Chicago. Reared on the home farm in Delaware township, Wilbur H. Polhemus received his early schooling in district No. 4 of that township and finished his schooling in the Daleville high school. He then began teaching school and was for three winters thus engaged, teaching in Washington, Harrison and Salem townships. He then entered the Myers College of Embalming at Springfield, Ohio, graduating in 1900. Later he took a post-graduate course in Barnes College at Chicago. Following his graduation Mr. Polhemus bought the established undertaking business of Christopher Hollinger at Daleville and has ever since been funeral director for that community and the neighborhood thereabout, his services being called for not only throughout that section of Delaware county but throughout the adjacent sections of the neighboring counties of Henry and Madison..

Wilbur H. Polhemus

Mr. Polhemus has taken post-graduate work in a number of other schools from time to time as new phases of his profession were developed, keeping him in touch with the latest methods in the mortuary art. Upon entering business at Daleville, Mr. Polhemus formed a partnership with the Rev. E. L. Jones, an association which continued for eighteen years, or until in 1918, when Mr. Polhemus bought his partner's interest in the business and has since been carrying on alone. In 1908 the partners opened a store at Yorktown and continued the same for three years, with Mr. Jones in charge. When they took over the old Hollinger undertaking establishment in 1900 they put in a stock of furniture and this has ever since been maintained at Daleville, Mr. Polhemus now having in addition to his welk equipped undertaking establishment a full line of furniture, stoves, rugs and general house furnishing goods and also sells pianos. Mr. Polhemus has for years taken an active interest in the service of the Methodist Episcopal church and is a licensed "local" preacher of that church. He also served one year on the board of trustees of Taylor University, and at present is one of the "Legal Hundred" of this college. He has been twice married. His first wife, Lenna J. Moneyhun, died in 1920, leaving one child, a daughter, Pharaba, and he later married Martha E. Shirey. Miss Pharaba Polhemus is now a student in Taylor University at Upland, Ind.

SULLIVAN NORTON SMITH, who died at his home in Muncie in 1914 and whose widow is still living here, maintaining her home at 702 Wheeling avenue, had been a resident of Muncie since 1896 and during this period of residence had impressed himself distinctly upon the business community. Mr. Smith was a native of the great Empire state, born at Onondaga, New York, in 1836, and was a son of Sullivan Norton and Eleanor (Wright) Smith, who had two children, the subject of this memorial sketch having had a sister, Eleanor, wife of Wing T. Parker. Sullivan Norton Smith (1) was a son of - Reuben and Jemima (House) Smith. The name Sullivan was given to him in honor of the distinguished Indian fighter, General Sullivan, who was a friend of the family, and he carried the name on in the family when he named his son. Sullivan Norton Smith (II) was reared at Auburn, N. Y. He completed his schooling at Alfred Academy (N. Y.) and as a young man became a traveling salesman, with headquarters at Cincinnati; later locating at St. Louis in the wholesale and retail drug trade. In 1873 he became engaged in the manufacture of proprietary medicines at Dayton, Ohio, where he re- ' mained until in 1896, when he moved to Muncie and established his business here. In this line he continued engaged the rest of his life, his death occurring on April 4, 1914. Mr. Smith was active in business and was regarded as a civic "booster" in the interests of Muncie, a member of the old Citizens Enterprise Association and in other ways helpful in promoting the common interest here. In 1871, at Terre Haute, Ind., Sullivan Norton Smith was united in marriage to Emma C. Barbour, who was born at that place, a daughter of Crom- was born near Eaton, Ohio, daughter of Benjamin Raymond and Anna (Sutton) Whitcomb, who later became residents of Clinton, Ind. Benjamin Raymond Whitcomb was long engaged in the porkpacking business at Clinton, sending his products on flat boats to New Orleans. He was a cousin of James Whitcomb, of Terre Haute, Governor of Indiana (1843-48) and at the time of his death United States senator from this state. The Whitcombs are of Vermont colonial stock and some of them were active in the Revolution. Cromwell Wolsey Barbour was born in New York state, a son of Daniel Barbour, also of colonial stock. The Barbours were Tories, having grants of land "from sea to sea." To Cromwell Wolsey Barbour and wife were born ten children, Mrs. Smith having five sisters, Mary, Louise, Susan, Jennie and Florence, and two brothers, Wolsey Raymond and Albert Barbour, who lived to maturity. To Sullivan Norton and Emma C. (Barbour) Smith were born three daughters, Eleanor Louise, who is a graduate of Vassar College; Sue Derexa, now deceased, who was an accomplished violinist, and Marie Frances, a graduate of Oxford College at Oxford, Ohio, who married Myron H. Gray, a Muncie attorney. Eleanor Louise Smith is organist of the Universalist church at Muncie and is active in the work of the local Matinee Musicale.

RENZO SHOOK, a substantial farmer and landowner of Union township, proprietor of a well improved farm on rural mail route No. 2 out of Eaton, is a native Hoosier and has lived in this state all his life. Mr. Shook was born on a farm in Ripley county, Indiana, in 1876, and is a son of David and Sarah (Jackson) Shook, both of whom were born in that same county, members of pioneer families there, the latter a daughter of Samuel Jackson, who was a soldier of the Union during the Civil war. David Shook, a son of Lorenzo Shook, moved from Ripley county to Tipton county with his family in 1881 and established his home on a farm in the latter county. To him and his wife were born eight children, all of whom are living save the first born, a son, Martin. Besides the subject of this sketch there are three other sons, Elmer, Willard and Elbert Shook, and three daughters, Nora, wife of William Smith; Bernice, wife of Ira Nelson, and Flora Shook. Renzo Shook was but five years of age when his parents moved to Tipton county and he was reared there, receiving his schooling in the schools of that county. He then became engaged in farming in Howard county and seven years later moved to West Tipton, where he remained until in the spring of 1913, when he came to Delaware county and bought what is known as the old Evans place, a farm of 240 acres in the Eaton neighborhood, and has since resided on that farm. In addition to his general farming Mr. Shook gives considerable attention to the raising of live stock. He has made numerous improvements on this farm since coming into possession of the same and now has a well equipped farm plant there. In 1903 Renzo Shook was united in marriage to Bessie McDole, daughter of Pierce and Sarah (Campbell) McDole, of Stockwell, Tippecanoe county, Indiana, and to this union three children have been born, a daughter, Gladys, and two sons, Donald and David Shook. The late Pierce McDole, father of Mrs. Shook, was born in Tippecanoe county, Indiana, and was a son of Sampson McDole, an Ohioan, who when a young man had come to Indiana and settled in the Stockwell neighborhood. Pierce Mc- Dole grew up in Tippecanoe county and after his marriage in 1872 to Sarah Campbell became established as a farmer there and became the owner of 135 acres of land. He died in 1918 and his widow is still living in Tippecanoe county. They were the parents of seven children, those besides Mrs. Shook being Harry, Dora, Myrtle, Everett, Goldie (deceased), and Arthur.

JOHN ANDERSON, who died at his home in Muncie more than ten years ago, had for years been engaged in the dairy business here and thus had a wide acquaintance in the city and throughout the county, and at his passing left a good memory. Mr. Anderson was born in the vicinity of the city of Baltimore, Md., and was a son of William and Mary (Kimball) Anderson. He was reared there and not long after attaining his majority married Margaret S. Harrington. When twenty-three years of age he came to Indiana and located at Cambridge City, whence he presently came to Muncie, where he and his wife spent the remainder of their lives. Upon coming to Muncie Mr. Anderson became engaged in the dairy business and was thus engaged the rest of his life, his death occurring in 1913. His widow survived him for seven years, her death occurring in 1920. They had four children, two sons, Charles H. and George H. Anderson, and two daughters, Mary E. and Martha, the latter of whom married Charles Cushing and has three children, J. Howard, Mary A. and John. Miss Mary E. Anderson, formerly deputy city clerk and present clerk of the board of works of the city of Muncie, was reared at Muncie and the schooling she received in the public schools was supplemented by a course in the normal school and a commercial course and she became an expert stenographer, 'with special reference to law work. For some years she was employed as stenographer in law offices about town, this service including employment in the leading law offices of the town, and then she was appointed deputy to the city clerk, a form of public service which she continued to render until her appointment to her present position as clerk of the board of works, with offices in the Wysor building. Miss Anderson resides at 715 East Jackson street. She is a Republican and is an active member of the Muncie Business Women's Professional Club, one of the most alert organizations of its kind in Indiana. Miss Anderson's schooling included competent instruction in music and she formerly and for some years was engaged here as a music teacher, with particular reference to the piano.