Delaware County, Indiana - Sidelights on Local History, 1924 (part 16 of 21)

WILLIAM WRIGHT SHIRK, merchant and banker, who died at hig home in Muncie in 1912, had for nearly forty years been one of the active figures in the commercial life of this community and at his passing left a good memory. Mr. Shirk was a native Hoosier, a member of one of the pioneer families of Franklin county, and had resided in this state all his life. He was born at Brookville, Ind., in 1850, and was a son of Andrew and Sarah (Wright) Shirk, the former of whom was a son of Samuel and Elizabeth (Stout) Shirk, who were among the pioneers of that community. Andrew Shirk and wife were the parents of seven children, the subject of this memorial sketch having had two sisters, Mary, who married Dr. W. S. Williams, and Martha, who married Charles F. Goodwin, and four brothers - Elbert Shirk, who became a banker at Tipton; James A. Shirk, a banker at Delphi; John C. Shirk, a banker at Brookville, and George M. Shirk, a manufacturer at Chicago. The Shirk name thus came to be. widely known in banking circles in Indiana. Andrew Shirk was a farmer. William Wright Shirk completed his schooling in the old Granville College and at Lebanon, Ohio, and then for a time was connected with the operations of his uncle, Elbert Shirk, in the banking and hardware business. In 1874, when twenty-three years of age, his father established him in the hardware business at Muncie, where he ever after resided, establishing his home here after his marriage a few years later, and where his widow is still living. The old hardware store was carried on under the firm name of Shirk & Son, and after the death of his father, William W. Shirk continued the business as sole proprietor. When the gas "boom" came on in the late 80's he was on the ground here and his business expanded to meet the new demands then made on all lines of commercial and industrial endeavor. His commercial activities extended into other lines and he became president of the old Home Savings Association and a member of the board of directors of the Union National Bank, while he also did his part in the general rebuilding of the city, the Shirk building on Jackson street being one of the continuing evidences of his civic enterprise, his interest in the city's general affairs continuing to the time of his death on June 14, 1912. He was a Knight Templar Mason and a member of the Methodist Episcopal church. It was in 1880 that William Wright Shirk was united in marriage to Laura E. Franklin, of Muncie, who survives him and who continues to make her home at Muncie, residing at 722 East Main street. Mrs. Shirk has three children, a daughter, Emily Wright, and two sons, Franklin E. Shirk, a veteran of the World war, and Carl Andrew Shirk, who is engaged in the real estate business, with offices in the Anthony building. In 1916, Emily Wright Shirk was united in marriage to Francis A. Hanley, of Muncie, also a veteran of the World war, now connected with the Delaware Car and Tractor Company at 333 East Main street. Mr. and Mrs. Hanley reside at 105 Pershing Drive. They have two sons, Marshall E. and Francis A., Jr. Franklin E. Shirk, now living at Richmond, Ind., connected with the North Star Refrigerator Company, married Helen M. Matthews in 1912, and has two children, Mary Louise and William Wright. Mrs. Laura E. Shirk is a member of one of the real pioneer families of Delaware county, the Franklins having been represented here since 1831. She was born on a farm not far southeast of Muncie, but was reared in the city, her father having moved to town when she was a child in order to secure better school advantages for his children. Her father, Pearson W. Franklin, was born in Clark county, Ohio, in 1826, and was thus but five years of age when in 1831 his parents, James and Catherine (Stover) Franklin, came to Delaware county with their family and settled on an uncleared tract of timber farm land a little more than a mile southeast of the public square in Muncietown, where they established their home and proceeded to make a farm in the wilderness. James Franklin, the pioneer, was a Virginian, born in Botetourt county, in the Old Dominion, and resided there until after his marriage in the early '20s, when he moved over into Ohio and located at Springfield, in Clark county, whence in 1831 he moved to Delaware county and took up the task of creating a farm in the wilderness, a part of that farm now and for years past being within the present corporate limits of Muncie. On that place he and his wife spent the remainder of their lives, he being seventy-one years _ of age at the time of his death and she, sixty. They reared a family of eight children, three daughters and five sons, and the Franklin connection of this family in the present generation is thus a considerable one. Pearson W. Franklin grew up on that farm, doing his part in the task of clearing and developing, and in time became a farmer on his own account in that same neighborhood, where he established his home following his marriage in 1855 to Emily Dragoo, who also had come into this county in the days of her childhood, her parents, William and Elizabeth (Prunty) Dragoo, also Virginians, having been among the pioneers here, as is set out elsewhere. P. W. Franklin developed a good farm and in his generation was one of the representative farmers of the county, making his home in town, as noted above, and in time taking part in city development. He died in 1918. Had he lived thirteen days more he would have been ninetytwo years of age. To him and his wife were born four children, the daughter, Mrs. Shirk, and three sons, Carl P., Lone A., and Cary Franklin. .

OMER C. MORRIS, a well established grocer at Eaton and long recognized as one of the leading merchants of that town, was born at Eaton, a member of one of the old families of Delaware county, and has lived there all his life. Mr. Morris was born in 1881 and is a son of John D. and Martha J. (Long) Morris, the latter of whom also was born at Eaton, in the days when that now thriving town was but a hamlet there along the river, a daughter of William A. and Anna (McLaughlin) Long, who were pioneers of that community. Both William A. Long and his wife were natives of Ohio, the former born in Clinton county in 1815 and the latter, in Logan county, in 1823. .They had come over here into Delaware county with their respective parents in the '80s and were married here in the fall of 1841, then establishing their home on a farm which in time came to be included within the present confines of the city of Eaton. William A. Long was also engaged, during the "70s, in the mercantile business at Eaton. His wife died in 1864 and he died in 18838. Of the seven children born to this pioneer couple five grew to maturity and married and thus the Long connection of this family in the present generation is a considerable one.

John D. Morris, a veteran of the Civil war, also was born in Ohio, in Fayette county, a son of Clement Morris, who came over here into Delaware county in settlement days and became widely known hereabout in his generation as the proprietor of the old wayside inn at Granville. John D. Morris grew up in this county and when the Civil war came on he went into the service of the Union army, going out as a member of Company B of the 84th regiment, Indiana Volunteer Infantry. After his marriage he established his home at Eaton. To him and his wife were born three sons, the subject of this sketch having two brothers, William W. Morris, now living at Kokomo, and Arthur Morris, of Eaton. Reared at Eaton, Omer C. Morris received his schooling in the local schools and early became engaged in the mercantile business at Eaton, a vocation he thus long has followed, proprietor of a well stocked and admirably equipped grocery store there. He married Irene Motsenbocker, daughter of William F. and Lillian (Harper) Motsenbocker, and has four children, Austin, Wayne, Crystal and John.

OLIVER McCULLOUGH, a substantial farmer and landowner of Union township, residing on rural mail route No. 2 out of Eaton, is a native of the old Buckeye state but has been a resident of Indiana for the past forty years and more. Mr. McCullough was born on a farm in the immediate vicinity of the village of North Lewisburg in Champaign county, Ohio, in 1859, and is a son of David and Hester (Crowder) McCullough, both also natives of Ohio, the latter born in Union county, daughter of John Crowder and a sister of William Crowder, who was a soldier of the Union during the Civil war. This is the family of Crowders with which General Crowder of Civil war fame was affiliated. David McCullough was born in Champaign county, Ohio, a member of one of the pioneer families in that part of the state. To him and his wife were born eight children, of whom two are now living, the subject of this sketch having a brother, Lawrence McCullough, now residing at Ft. Smith, Ark. In 1881 Oliver McCullough married Emeline Broderick, of Union county, Ohio, and established his home in Blackford county, Indiana, where he continued engaged in farming until in 1920, when he moved down into Delaware county and bought the farm on which he is now living in Union township, where he since has been carrying on his farming operations. Mr. and Mrs. McCullough have two daughters, Mrs. Angeline Armstrong and Mrs. Stella Crow. Mrs. McCullough was born in Union county, Ohio, and is a daughter of Isaac and Sarah (Huff) Broderick, the latter a daughter of Anthony Wayne and Elizabeth (Poling) Huff, the latter of whom was a daugh- ter of Samuel and Sarah Poling, of Barbour county, West Virginia. Anthony Wayne Huff was born in Union county, Ohio, a son of William and Rebecca Huff, Virginians, who were among the pioneers ~ of that county, and who are buried there. Isaac Broderick was born in the vicinity of the city of Marysville, in Union county, Ohio, and . was a son of Isaac and Hannah (Woods) Broderick, the latter of whom was a member of a pioneer Indiana family, her parents having been among the early settlers at Kokomo. The senior Isaac Broderick was a son of Thomas and Bethany Broderick and was born at Burlington, N. J., where his parents had located in 1778. Thomas Broderick was the master of a sailing vessel which was engaged in the merchant trade between American and European ports and died at sea. His widow died in New Jersey. To Isaac and Sarah (Huff) Broderick were born eleven children, those besides Mrs. McCullough being Charles W., John Morrell, Samuel James, Isaac Walter, Emma, Evelyn, Benjamin Franklin, Ann Rebecca, William Sumner and Oliver E. One of the sons of this family, Samuel James Broderick, was a soldier of the Union during the Civil war.

CHARLES W. SWAIN, who died at his home in Muncie in 1921, for many years served the public in the Muncie postoffice and there were few men hereabout who had a wider acquaintance than he. Mr. Swain was born in Muncie, a member of one of the real pioneer families here, and had lived here all his life. He was born in the old Swain home at the northwest corner of High and Washington streets, on January 15, 1862, and was the son of Job and Emily (Shimer) Swain, the former of whom always will be kept in remembrance here as one of the real upbuilders of this community. Job Swain was a Tennesseean by birth, born on Lost creek in the ment in Wayne county. There he grew to manhood and then, in 1828, the year' after he had attained his majority, came up here and located at Muncietown which just the year before had been platted and declared the county seat of the new county of Delaware, which was erected in 1827. Job Swain was a stalwart man, above six feet in hight, had had good rearing and quickly became a force for good in the new settlement, evidences of which forceful influence will be noted in numerous instances in a perusal of the historical section of this work. Not long after coming here he married Nancy Hodge, a sister of James Hodge, the settlement's first justice of the peace, and then became associated with his brother-in-law in the business of manufacturing furniture, thus helping to establish the pioneer cabinet-making shop here, a vocation he followed for many years. When the Methodists effected a class here in 1839 he put in his lot with that society and was elected first class leader, a position in which he was retained until his death. In 1867 he was elected mayor of the then new city of Muncie, in succession to John Brady, first mayor of the city, and thus served a term in that important executive capacity. For more than twenty years he also occupied the office of justice of the peace and was holding that magisterial position at the time of his death on April 29, 1877. Job Swain was twice married. His first wife (Nancy Hodge) died in 1858, leaving six children - three sons, Orlando H., Elihu H. and James, and three daughters, Eliza, who died unmarried, Mrs. George W. Spilker and Mrs. William R. Maddy. On September 1, 1859, Mr. Swain married Mrs. Emily (Shimer) Shafer, who was born in the Chesterfield settlement in the neighboring county of Madison in 1826 and who was the widow of Andrew Shafer (Thomas 8. Neely's partner in blacksmithing at Muncie) and a daughter of Jacob Shimer. To this latter union one child was born, a son, Charles W. Swain, the subject of this memorial sketch. Charles W. Swain was reared in Muncie and was graduated from the high school in 1881. Upon leaving school he became a clerk in the local postoffice and a few months later was appointed by John C. Filer, then postmaster, to the position of chief clerk or assistant postmaster, a position he retained through successive appointments by the succeeding incumbents in the office of postmaster, for years. In the meantime he also served for years as chairman of the local board of civil service examiners, and also was for years the secretary of the local board of police commissioners. Some years after entering the postoffice Mr. Swain secured a leave of absence to enter Valparaiso University and in 1887 he was graduated from that institution. He died at his home in Muncie on January 30, 1921. In 1917 Charles W. Swain was united in marriage to L. Margaret Jewett, who survives him and who continues to make her home at Muncie, residing at 208 West Washington street. Mrs. Swain was born at Hagerstown, Ind., and is a daughter of Benjamin and Nancy J. (Williams) Jewett, the former of whom was born in the neighboring county of Randolph, a son of Parker Jewett, and the latter in Darke county, Ohio. (32)

DR. WILLIAM T. EASTES, a veteran medical practitioner of Delaware county, for many years a resident of Gaston, where he is now living, is a native Hoosier of the real pioneer stock and has lived in this state all his life, a resident of this county for nearly fifty years. Doctor Eastes was born on a farm in the immediate vicinity of Mt. Comfort, in Hancock county, August 11, 1844, and is a son of Holman and Ruth (Webb) Eastes, the latter of whom was born in. what is now Rush county, November 14, 1819, that having been a year prior to the opening of the lands now comprised within Rush for settlement and more than two years prior to the formal erection of that county, the Webbs having been among the earliest settlers in that region. Holman Eastes was born in what is now Union county, February 21, 1817, which was four years before that county was erected as a separate civic entity, his parents having been among the early pioneers on what then was the western frontier of settlement, for it was not until in the year following that the lands west in central Indiana were ceded to the government by the Indians. Before the lands in what is now Hancock county were all taken up Obediah Eastes, father of Holman Eastes, moved over into that part of the state, entered a tract of land for a home and there became a permanent resident. It was thus that Holman Eastes became a resident of Hancock county. In Rush county on December 22, 1836, he married Ruth Webb. He established his home in the Mt. Comfort neighborhood in Hancock county and there remained until in 1856, when he moved to the neighboring county of Madison and established his home on a farm in the Summitville neighborhood. In 1878 he disposed of his interests there and moved to the neighboring county of Grant, where his last days were spent, his death occurring on February 27, 1880. His widow survived him for more than twenty years, her death occurring on April 8, 1901. Holman Eastes was a Republican, a Methodist and a Freemason. For years he served his local public as justice of the peace and was widely known as "Squire Eastes. To him and his wife were born eleven children, of whom three are still living, Doctor Eastes having two sisters, Mrs. Sarah Jane Kelsey and Mrs. Jessie E. Ward. The other members of this family were Lemuel F., Addison S., Lucinda A., Jasper Newton, Marshall T., Albert O., Meredith P., and Jerome S. William T. Eastes was about twelve years of age when his parents moved - from Hancock county to Madison county and he grew up on the home farm in the Summitville neighborhood. He had good schooling and early became a school teacher, a profession he followed during the winters for six years. He married in his nineteenth year, his wife being a seventeen-year-old girl, and carried on farming in addition to his school teaching. He also for two or three years kept store at Summitville, meanwhile giving his attention to the reading of medicine, had a couple of years of directed reading under the preceptorship of Dr. Peter Drager, of Hartford City, and then in 1878 established his home on a farm in the Ice and Broyles neighborhood in the northwestern part of Washington township, this county, where he also started as a medical practitioner, and there made his home for four years, meantime completing his medical studies in the Medical College of Indiana at Indianapolis and in 1881 was graduated from that institution. Upon receiving his diploma, Doctor Eastes disposed of his farming interests and opened an office for the practice of medicine at Albany, this county. A year later he moved to Gaston (then known as New Corner) and after a sometime practice there moved to Muncie, where he was engaged in practice for eight years, at the end of which time he returned to Gaston, where he since has maintained his office, ranking after the late Doctor Bowles and the elder Doctor Kemper as among the oldest physicians in the county. Dr. William T. Eastes has been twice married. His first wife, Sarah C. Zedekar, died on August 30, 1919, and on January 19, 1922, he married Martha Rench, who died on January 1, 1928. Sarah C. (Zedekar) Eastes was born in Summitville, Ind., March 16, 1846, and on August 23, 1863, married William T. Eastes. She was a daughter of John M. and Catherine (Noland) Zedekar, Ohioans, the former of whom was born in 1808 and the latter, in 1812. John M. Zedekar was county commissioner many terms, and was enrolling officer preparing for the draft during the Civil war. He died at the age of sixty-seven. His widow survived him for many years and was eighty-four years of age at the time of her death. They were the parents of ten children, five sons and five daughters, and the Zedekar connection of this family in the present generation is a considerable one, even as is that of the Eastes family. To Dr. William T. and Sarah C. (Zedekar) Eastes were born nine children, Ida V., Arthur T., Dora A., Drusilla J. (deceased), Carrie E., Bessie A., Hattie E., Apphia M. and Lydia E., all of whom (except Drusilla) are living and married. Ida V. Eastes married William L. Corey and has two children, Harold and Edith. Arthur T. Eastes has been twice married, and by his first wife, Nellie Upton, has a daughter, Theadora. His second marriage was to Lillian Jansen. Dora R. A. Eastes married Albon C. Davis and has four children, Helen, Branson, Katharine and Albon Jr. Drusilla J. Eastes married Isaac Newton Miller and died leaving one child, a son, Claud.

Carrie E. C. Eastes married Norman Edward Lesley. Bessie A. Eastes has been twice married. Her first husband, George T. Thorpe, died leaving a son, Byron, and she then married Osker E. Wilbur. Hattie E. Eastes married Andrew Grogard, now deceased, and has five children, Ruth, Margaretta, Mildred, Andrew Jr. and Janie. Apphia M. Eastes married O. O. Shaw and has three children, Donald, Dean and Gene Merril. Ldia Ethel Eastes has been twice married. Her first husband was Samuel A. Taylor. Her second husband was Lawrence Langdon, now deceased. Arthur T. Eastes and six of his sisters formerly were engaged as teachers in the schools of Delaware county. Five of the Doctor's grandchildren are now school teachers. The combined number of school terms taught by the members of the family is about seventy-five at this date.

JOHN R. RETHERFORD, who died at his home in Muncie in February, 1921, had for many years been one of the most active and influential figures in the general social, civic, commercial and industrial life of Delaware county and at his passing left a good memory. It therefore is but fitting that in this definite history of the county in which he so long and so effectively labored, there should be carried some brief memorial in that behalf. Mr. Retherford was born on December 4, 1864, in the neighboring county of Madison, but had been a resident of Muncie for nearly thirty years, having moved over here from Anderson about the time the gas "boom" got going strong here in Muncie, and from the beginning of his residence here was a forceful figure in the general development of the community. He was a. son of Robert and Nancy (Cook) Retherford, the latter of whom also was born in Indiana, in Union county, daughter of John and Anna (Willis) Cook, members of pioneer families in that county. Robert Retherford was a Kentuckian, born in Pike county in the old Blue Grass state, and was but a lad when his parents, John and Ann Retherford, moved with their family up into Indiana. After his marriage he became established on a farm in Madison county, became a substantial farmer and there spent his last days. He and his wife were the parents of nine children, those besides the subject of this memorial sketch being William A., Sarah Jane, Joseph M., Serilda, Marinda, Austin, Huldah and R. Milt Retherford, the latter of whom, present president of the Retherford Manufacturing Company of Muncie, formerly was associated in business with his brother, John, the founder of that business. John R. Retherford was reared on the home farm in Madison county, completed his schooling in the schools of Anderson and continued farming until the gas "boom" came on in the late '80s, when he became actively identified with the development of the local gas field in Indiana, securing many land leases in the promotion of that development. He also established a gas appliance plant at Anderson and in 1892 moved to Muncie, where, in association with his brother, R. Milt Retherford, he established the business now carried on by the Retherford Manufacturing Company, originally engaged in the manufacture of gas mantles and other appliances in the way of gas fixtures, but now giving its attention to the manufacture of electric lighting fixtures, stand lamps and the like. As his business prospered John R. Retherford became interested in farm development projects and in the movement to elevate the standard of live stock hereabout, and it was in this line of endeavor that he perhaps became best known, for he attained a national reputation as a breeder of fine cattle and swine, the products of his 500- acre Buck Creek farm having been shipped to every state in the Union and largely throughout Canada for breeding purposes. Jersey cattle and English Berkshire swine were Mr. Retherford's specialties and he is widely recognized as having been one of the foremost factors in the improvement of these strains in the United States and Canada. As a judge at cattle and swine shows, he became not only nationally known, but his services were called for in England as a judge. His interest in the improvement of farming methods is deeply reflected today in better conditions in this county, for as president of the Farmers Institute and for years one of the leaders of the county fair association, he did much to advance agricultural interests here. He had served as president of the Indiana State Jersey Cattle Club, was a director of the American Jersey Association and was ever diligent in promoting the interests of breeders throughout the country. He was a director of the Indiana State Division of the Travelers' Protective Association, an Elk and a member of the Muncie Rotary Club. As a director of the Muncie Chamber of Commerce, he also took an active part in promoting local commercial and industrial development, and was a director of the Mutual Home Savings Association. He also was for years interested in local civic affairs, one of the leaders of the Republican party in Delaware county. In 1916 Mr. Retherford was elected a member of the board of county commissioners and was serving his second term in that office at the time of his death on February 9, 1921, he then being fifty-seven years of age. On October 14, 1888, John R. Retherford was united in marriage to Cora Lee, who was born at Anderson, Ind., daughter of Thomas and Isabel (Jones) Lee, of that city. Thomas Lee was born in Virginia and was a cousin of Gen. Robert E. Lee. Despite this kinship to the leader of the Confederate army, he was a soldier of the Union during the Civil war and his first meeting with Isabel Jones, who became his wife, was at General Grant's headquarters. To John R. and Cora (Lee) Retherford were born three sons, Clarence L., Earl F., and Vernon, the former of whom is living at Muncie, engaged in the breeding and importing of Jersey cattle, and in the real estate, oil, and banking business. Earl Franklin Retherford, whose name adorns the "gold star" roster of Delaware county men who died in service during the World war, was born at Muncie on December 10, 1898, and was a student at Purdue University, when this country took a hand in the World war in 1917. On November 30 of that year, at Chicago, he enlisted for service in the navy and was assigned to the radio service as electrician and company clerk. On March 21, 1918, while serving in the officers training school, he died of pneumonia at the Great Lakes Training Station. His body was brought to Muncie for burial and he was given a military funeral. He was a member of the college fraternity, Phi Gamma Delta. Clarence L. Retherford completed his schooling at the Agricultural College of Purdue University, member of the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity, and then became associated with his father in the manufacturing business and in the management of the great Buck Creek farm, to the latter of which he now is giving his chief attention, though having other interests, both civic and commercial, and is also largely interested in oil development projects, with offices at 9 the Anthony building. When his father died he was appointed to succeed him on the board of county commissioners, to fill out the unexpired term, and upon the completion of that term of service was elected a member of the county council. He is associated with the Agricultural Extension Department at Washington, is president of the Delaware County Farmers Institute, vice president of the county fair association, a director of the Indiana Jersey Cattle Club, a director of the Muncie Chamber of Commerce, a member of the directorate of the Merchants National Bank of Muncie, a former director of the Delaware Country Club, a director of the local Young Men's Christian Association, and a past president of the Muncie Ad Club. He also is affiliated with the local Rotary Club, is a Freemason and a member of the local lodge of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and he and his wife are members of the Presbyterian church. Clarence L. Retherford married Jane Stewart, daughter of William B. and Jessie (Henderson) Stewart, and has two children, Marjory and William Stewart Rether- ford. He and his family reside at 905 East Adams street. Mrs. John R. Retherford, who survives her husband, resides at 323 East Adams street.

JAMES L. MORGAN, formerly and for years engaged in the livery business at Muncie and now a farmer and landowner of Hamilton township, residing on the Studebaker pike, rural mail route No. 2 out of Muncie, is a native Hoosier and has lived in this state all his life, a resident of Delaware county for thirty years. Mr. Morgan was born on a farm in the Danville neighborhood in Hendricks county, Indiana, September 10, 1868, and is a son of James W. and Matilda (Sanders) Morgan, the latter of whom was born in Kentucky and both of whom spent their last days in Muncie. The late James W. Morgan, a former representative in the Legislature from Hendricks county, was born in a little log stable in that county, a son of Wesley Morgan, one of the pioneers of Hendricks county, who had, entered his lands in that county but had not yet got his cabin up when the son was born. James W. Morgan grew up in that county, became a considerable landowner and also was for years engaged as a live stock buyer, buying not only for the local market at Danville but for the packers at the stock yards at Indianapolis. For two terms he represented his county in the lower house of the Indiana General Assembly. In 1894 he disposed of his interests in Hendricks county and moved to Muncie, where he became engaged in the livery business and where also for years he held the street sprinkling contract with the city. He also was widely known as a judge of live stock. James W. Morgan died on January 17, 1909, and his widow survived him for nearly thirteen years, her death occurring on December 31, 1921. They were the parents of seven children. Reared on the home farm in Hendricks county, James L. Morgan received his schooling in the local schools and was from the days of his boyhood a participant in his father's operations as a farmer and stockman. When in 1894 the family moved to Muncie he continued this association with his father, carrying on the livery business and the street-sprinkling contract, and continued to make his home at Muncie until in the summer of 1920, when he bought his present place of forty-three acres on the Studebaker pike in Hamilton township and has since lived here. He and his wife have one child, a son, James Morgan, who is a member of the class of 1924, Royerton high school. Mrs. Morgan also was born in Hendricks county (Azalia Norton) and is a daughter of William and Martha (Pearcy) Norton, the latter of whom was born in that same county, a member of one of the pioneer families there. Wil- liam Norton, a veteran of the Civil war, was born in Morgan county and during the time of the Civil war rendered service as a soldier of the Union, a member of Company A, 117th regiment, Indiana Volunteer Infantry. Upon the completion of his military service he became engaged in the furniture and undertaking business at Danville, Ind., and was thus engaged for many years or until his retirement. Mrs. Morgan has three brothers, Charles, Ernest and Wilbur Norton. Mr. and Mrs. Morgan are members of the First Presbyterian church at Muncie.

MOSES HENE, veteran dry goods merchant of Muncie, has been engaged in business in that city for forty-one years and has thus been a witness of and a participant in the amazing development that has taken place in the commercial life of the city since he arrived there. Mr. Hene is of European birth. In the days of his young manhood he came to the United States and proceeding on out into Indiana, located at Lafayette, where he presently became engaged in the mercantile business and where he remained until in 1883, when he disposed of his interests there and moved to Muncie, where he ever since has been engaged in the dry goods business, one of the best known merchants in that line in eastern Indiana. Upon coming to Muncie Mr. Hene opened a store in Main street, but five years later (in 1888) found his quarters there inadequate to the demands of his expanding business and he then became established in his present quarters at 120 South Walnut street, where he ever since has been engaged in business, a period of more than thirty-five years, and where he has in stock everything to meet the demands of his trade in the dry goods and cloak and suits line, his son, John K. Hene, now being associated with him in business. Mr. Hene is one of the active supporters of the local Jewish temple at Muncie and is a past president of the local lodge of the society of the B'nai B'rith. In 1885 Moses Hene was united in marriage to Rosa Maas, daughter of John and Henrietta Maas, of Hamilton, Ohio, and to this union were born three children, two daughters, Cleone and Loretta, and one son, John K., the latter of whom, as noted above, is associated with his father in the dry goods business at Muncie. Cleone Hene married Dr. Edgar F.. Kiser, of Indianapolis, and has two children, Caroline and Fannie. During the time of this country's participation in the World war, Doctor Kiser served as a captain in the Medical Corps of the army. Loretta Hene married E. Feibelman, of Terre Haute, Ind., and has two children, Corrine and Ruth. John K. Hene completed his schooling in the Howe Military Academy at Howe, Ind., and upon leaving school became associated with his father in the latter's old established business at Muncie. He is the present "tail twister" of the Lions Club at Muncie. He married Etta Amster, of Chattanooga, Tenn., and resides in the Canopic apartments.

AUGUST A. BRAUN, formerly and for years the proprietor of the Braun hotel and at the time of his death in 1921 proprietor of the Kirby hotel, had been a resident of Muncie since the days of his youth and thus had a wide acquaintance throughout the city and county. Mr. Braun was a native of the Empire state, born in the vicinity of the village-of Croshecton in Sullivan county, New York, June 26, 1871, and was a son of Andrew and Anna (Klopfer) Braun, both natives of Germany and the latter of whom is still living, making her home at Muncie, where she has resided for the past forty years. The late Andrew Braun, founder of the Braun hotel at Muncie, and Anna Klopfer were married at Upper Sandusky, Ohio, and later established their home on a farm in the Croshecton neighborhood in Sullivan county, New York, where they resided until in 1885 when they came to Indiana and located at Muncie. Here they bought the old Abbott hotel, an eight-room frame building which had been erected before the days of the Civil war at the northeast corner of Washington and Mulberry streets, present site of the Braun hotel, and became established in the hotel. business. Mrs. Anna Braun was a notable cook, Andrew Braun was a genial host and the combination quickly brought to the hotel a degree of popularity that necessitated improvement and enlargement. In the 790s several additions were made to the hotel and then in 1903 the old ante-bellum structure was torn down to make way for the present four-story brick since operated as the Braun hotel. Andrew Braun died in 1907 and, as stated above, his widow is still living. They were the parents of two children, the subject of this memorial sketch having had a sister, Mary. The late August A. Braun was about fourteen years of age when the Brauns came to Muncie and the later schooling he received in the local schools here was supplemented by a course in the Muncie Business College, after which he devoted himself to the office of the hotel, his father presently turning over to him the management of the same, and after his father's death he took charge of the house, continuing thus to operate the old hotel until he and A. L. Thornburg bought the Kirby hotel. When Thornburg retired from the Kirby to go over to the Roberts hotel Mr. Braun bought his partner's interest in the Kirby and was thus operating the latter hotel as sole proprietor until his death on January 29, 1921. He also was the owner of a farm of 105 acres in this county and to the management of this farm gave close attention. Mr. Braun was a Scottish Rite (32°) Mason-and a noble of the Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine and was also affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Knights of Pythias and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. He | was a member of the Presbyterian church, as is his widow, who survives him. It was on October 30, 1916, that August A. Braun was united in marriage to Edith Kennett and to this union were born two children, a daughter, Martha Sue, and a son, James August Braun. Since the death of her husband Mrs. Braun has continued to make her home at Muncie, now residing at 1129 South Jefferson street. She was born at Muncie and is a daughter of Ernest and Maria (Arnold) Kennett, the latter a daughter of Robert and Mary E. (Eaton) Arnold. Robert Arnold was a Virginian, a son of Joseph Arnold and wife, the latter of whom was a Bances, also of an old Virginian family. Mary E. Eaton was born in Ripley county, Indiana, a daughter of Joseph and Mary (Stuart) Eaton. Ernest Kennett was born at Versailles, in Ripley county, Indiana, a son of Joseph and Arabella (Bocock) Kennett, and to him and his wife were born two children, Mrs. Braun having had a brother, Elbert Kennett, now deceased.

ARMSTEAD M. KLEIN, a former jeweler at Muncie and now engaged in the real estate business in that city, was born in Muncie, a member of one of the real pioneer families of the town, and has lived there all his life. Mr. Klein was born on November 8, 1873; and is a son of Henry C. and Caroline (Spilker) Klein, the latter of whom was a daughter of George W. and Sophronia (Smith) Spilker, who became residents of Muncie in 1842, when the place still was known by its pioneer name of Muncietown, and concerning whom further reference is made elsewhere in this work. The late Henry C. Klein, a veteran of the Civil war and concerning whom further and fitting mention also is made elsewhere in this volume, also was born at Muncie, and was a son of Armstead Mason and Sarah E. (Ethell) Klein, the latter of whom was a daughter of John Ethell, one of the early postmasters of Muncie, as is told elsewhere. Armstead Mason Klein, Muncie's first jewelry merchant, was a Virginian who had learned the jewelry trade in his native state and who in 1838, the year following his marriage in Ohio, came over here and settled in Muncietown, where he became established as a jeweler and where he spent the remainder of his life, his death occurring in 1888. His eldest son, Henry C. Klein, served as a soldier of the Union during the Civil war, a member of the 19th regiment,

Indiana Volunteer Infantry, a unit of the famous "Iron Brigade," and upon the completion of his military service became associated - with his father in the jewelry trade at Muncie and in 1878 became proprietor of the store, which business he maintained until his death in 1908, as is set out elsewhere in this work. Armstead M. Klein, third in order of birth of the four sons of Henry C. Klein, "grew up" to the jewelry business and from the days of his boyhood was associated with the store which had been founded by his grandfather, whose name he bears. Following his father's death he retained his interest in the store until in 1914, when he disposed of that interest and has since been engaged in the real estate business at Muncie. Mr. Klein is a member of the local lodge of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. He married Maude Johnson, daughter of Overton A. Johnson, of Muncie, and resides at 309 South Franklin street.

GEORGE J. MILLER, a retired glass manufacturer at Eaton, where he has made his home since the beginning of the days of the natural gas "boom" here thirty years and more ago, is a European by birth but has been a resident of this country since the days of his childhood and thus regards himself as much an American citizen as though "native and to the manner born." Mr. Miller was born in Germany in 1863 and was five years of age when, in 1868, he came to this country with his parents, John G. and Elizabeth (Fraser) Miller, the family locating at Lacrosse, Wis. Not long afterward John G. Miller moved with his family to Pilot Knob, Mo., and thence, after the death of his wife, to Pittsburg, Pa. He subsequently moved to a farm in Pike county, Ohio., where he lived until his retirement and his last days were spent at Swayzee, Ind. He and his wife had three children, the subject of this sketch having two sisters, Mrs. Theresa Baker and Mrs. Eliza Simon. When the Miller family moved to Pittsburg George J. Miller became employed in one of the glass factories there and thus became introduced to the glass industry, which he afterward followed the rest of his active life. When the glass industry became an important factor in the industrial development of Eaton following the opening of the natural gas field here in the late '80s, Mr. Miller became interested in the operations of the Western Flint Glass Company, whose factory at Eaton was for years an important unit in the industrial life of that city, was a part owner of the big plant erected there by this company and was manager of the concern, the chief product of which was flint glass bottles. For fifteen years Mr. Miller continued as manager of this bottle factory, or until the gradual decline of the pressure of natural gas brought about a new condition in the local manufacturing field, and since then has continued to make 'his home in Eaton, where in 1914 he erected a fine new home of modern type. George J. Miller married Marilla Johnson, daughter of Thomas Johnson, of 'Quaker City, Ohio, and he and his wife have one child, a daughter, Louine, wife of Carl Bimel, one of the leading manufacturers of Portland, Ind. Mr. and Mrs. Miller are members of the Methodist Episcopal church and Mr. Miller is a Scottish Rite (82°) Mason and a noble of the Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. NORMAN E. BLACK, who for years had been engaged in the hardware business at Selma, and whose last days were spent at Muncie where he was engaged in the real estate business, was a native Hoosier and all his life was spent in this state, a resident of Delaware county from the days of his childhood. Mr. Black was born on a farm in Wayne county, Indiana, in 1848, and was a son of John and Mary (Weaver) Black, members of pioneer families in that county, the Blacks having come into Indiana from Pennsylvania in settlement days. John Black was a farmer. In the early '50s he came with his family to Delaware county and established his home in the Selma neighborhood. He and his wife were the parents of five children, the subject of this memorial sketch having had a sister, Emma J., and three brothers, Luther, Silas and James L. Black. Reared on the home farm in the vicinity of Selma, Norman E. Black received his schooling in the Selma schools. He married at the age of twentythree and not long afterward became engaged in the carriage manufacturing business at Selma and also became the proprietor of a hardware store there. In 1889, following the opening of the natural gas field here, Mr. Black disposed of his interests at Selma and moved to Muncie, where he became engaged in the real estate business and was thus engaged here the remainder of his life, his death occurring on September 22, 1910. It was in 1871 that Norman E. Black was united in marriage to Harriet Miller, of this county, who has continued to make her home at Muncie since her husband's death, residing at 218 South Liberty street. Mrs. Black was born in Delaware county and is a daughter of William and Anna (Janney) Miller, both members of pioneer families in this county, for both the Millers and the - Janneys have been here since settlement days. William Miller was. born in Stark county, Ohio, and was but a lad when he came to this county with his parents, Jacob and Susanna (Castor) Miller, the family settling in Harrison township. William Miller and wife had five children, Mrs. Black having two sisters, Emily and Susanna, and two brothers, Jacob and John Miller, both of the latter of whom served as soldiers of the Union during the Civil war. Mrs. Black has four children, one daughter, Susie, and three sons, Earl, Harry and Clair Black. Susie Black married William Williams, present postmaster at Muncie, and has four children, Henry W., Harriette, Johanna and Claude. Earl Black married Hannah Miller and has one child, a daughter, Josephine. Harry Black married Evelyn Voile.

MOSES EUGENE BLACK, assistant cashier of the Delaware County National Bank of Muncie and one of the directors and the treasurer of the Muncie Chamber of Commerce, is a native son of Delaware county, a member of one of the real pioneer families here, and has been a resident of this county all his life. Mr. Black was born at Blacks Mills, on the left bank of the Mississinewa in section 8 of Delaware township, about eight miles north and east of Muncie, August 4, 1880, and is a son of Andrew and Christina (Peterson) Black, the latter of whom was born in Green county, Ohio, November 22, 1837, daughter of Moses and Malinda Peterson, who were pioneers of that county. Andrew Black, who was for many years widely known throughout this region as the proprietor of Black's Mills in Delaware township, was born in Clark county, Ohio, March 9, 1837, a son of John and Margaret (Stafford) Black, the latter of whom was born in that same county, January 25, 1809, a daughter of George and Catherine (Fair) Stafford. John Black and Margaret Stafford were married in Clark county (Ohio) on February 28, 1828, and made their home at New Carlisle in that county until in 1887, when they moved over here with their family and settled on a tract of land which had been entered there along the river by John Boyles, the pioneer mille~ of that section of the county, and which John Black bought from Boyles. The house which John Black built on that tract in 1840 was for many years regarded as the most substantial dwelling in that part of the county. In 1847 he erected on the left bank of the river, opposite the site of the old Boyles mill, a four story mill which for more than sixty years served the community. The water power plant which he erected there served not only to run the flour mill but operated a saw mill which he also erected and which in its day was a valuable industry, Blacks Mills long having been regarded as a real community center in that part of the county. John Black continued in the milling business until his death on June 30, 1868. His widow survived him for almost eight years, her death occurring on June 18, 1876. They had four children, Andrew, Susanna J., George F. and Catherine, the latter of whom married Robert Brammer. Andrew Black was but an infant when his par- ents settled here in 1837 and he grew to manhood at Blacks Mills, farming and milling in his father's behalf. In 1865 he took charge of the mill and continued to operate it for more than forty years, or until changing conditions of manufacture and distribution began to make the local milling industry an unprofitable one. He was the owner of a farm of about 400 acres. Andrew Black was twice married. In the spring of 1851 he married Mary E. Fishburn, who was born in Greene county, Ohio, and who died on October 6, 1866, leaving six children, David A., Margaret E., John F., Martha, Catherine A. and Clara. On February 25, 1868, Andrew Black married Christina Peterson and to this latter union three children were born, the subject of this sketch (the last born) and Charles E. Black and Mrs. Mary Bryan. Andrew Black died on August 13, 1898, and Mrs. Christina Black died on January 16, 1923. Andrew Black was a Republican. He was for years one of the trustees of his local Methodist Episcopal church and his children were reared in that faith. Reared at Blacks Mills, Moses Eugene Black had his schooling in the district school of that neighborhood and supplemented this by a course in the Magic City Business College at Muncie. Upon leaving the business college he was employed by the late John S. Ellis to write the manuscript for the book on the pioneers of Delaware county which Mr. Ellis then was preparing for publication and upon completing this task returned to the home farm. His business training, however, had turned his thoughts in other directions and he did not remain on the farm long. Mr. Black began his banking career when nineteen years of age. It was on April 16, 1900, that he entered the Farmers State Bank of Eaton. Five years later, in 1905, he was appointed postmaster of Eaton, a service he rendered for four years or until 1909, meantime also continuing his service with the Eaton bank. On January 1, 1918, Mr. Black entered upon his present duties as assistant cashier of the Delaware County National Bank of Muncie, the oldest continuing bank in the county, and has since continued to serve the bank in that capacity. Mr. Black is a Republican and a member of the High Street Methodist Episcopal church. He is the treasurer of the Muncie Chamber of Commerce and a member of the directorate of that body and is also affiliated with and secretary of the local Optomists Club. He is a past worshipful master in the Masonic order, a past commander of Muncie Commandery, No. 18, Knights Templar; past excellent master of Muncie Council, No. 16, Royal and Select Masters, a past worthy patron of Muncie Chapter, No. 104, Order of the Eastern Star, and

JOHN E. CRIST, a member of the firm operating the Crist furniture store at Muncie and a substantial farmer and landowner of Hamilton township, residing at Muncie, was born in Clark county, Ohio, September 27, 1872, and is a son of John W. and Elizabeth (Crippen) Crist, the latter of whom also was born in Ohio and was reared in Clark county. The late John W. Crist was born in Pennsylvania and was sixteen years of age when his father, John Crist, a native of Maryland, moved with his family to Ohio and established his home on a farm in Clark county. After his marriage John W. Crist continued to make his home in Clark county until in 1881, when he came to Indiana with his family and settled on a farm in Randolph county. In 1888 he moved from there over into Delaware county and established his home on a farm east of Anthony in Hamilton township. He later moved to Monroe township, where he spent fourteen years, at the end of which time he went to Delaware township. A few years later he moved back to Hamilton township, where he spent the remainder of his life, his death occurring in 1914. To him and his wife were born eight children, all of whom are living save two daughters, Annabelle and Carrie, the subject of this sketch having two sisters, Grace and Mary, and three brothers, William P., Winfield F. and James A. Crist. John E. Crist was sixteen years of age when he came to Delaware county with his parents in 1888 and he completed his schooling in the schools of Hamilton township. When nineteen years of age he bought a plot of fifteen acres of ground and began farm operations on his own account, holding that place for nine years or until shortly before his marriage, when he disposed of that place and bought a tract of forty acres south of Muncie. On this latter place he made his home for three years, at the end of which time he sold there and bought the farm which he now owns in Hamilton township, a well improved place of 100 acres. In 1923 Mr. Crist became engaged in the furniture business with his brothers at Muncie, the Crist store being located in South Walnut street, and he now lives in town, residing at 512 North Calvert street, Normal City, but he still maintains his farming interests. _Mr. Crist is an active member of the Farmers Federation and he and his wife are members of the Center United Brethren church. It was on April 5, 1900, that John E. Crist was united in marriage to Elsie E. Pittenger, a member of the pioneer Pittenger family of this county, and to this union two children have been born, a son, Clarence R. Crist, and a daughter, Edith E. Mrs. Elsie E. Crist was born in Hamilton township and is a daughter of William and Elizabeth (Cullen) Pittenger, the latter of whom was born in that same township, daughter of John Cullen, one of the pioneers of that part of the county. The late William Pittenger was born in Delaware township and was a son of Daniel Pittenger. After his marriage William Pittenger established his home on a farm west of Royerton in Hamilton township and became the owner of a well improved place of 111 acres there. On that place he made his home until his retirement in 1902 and removal to Muncie, where he died in the following year. He and his wife had four children, Mrs. Crist having - three brothers, John, Daniel and Walter Pittenger.

AUGUSTUS A. BARKER, who recently died at his home in Muncie and whose widow is still living here, residing at 1500 East First street, had been a resident of Muncie for more than thirty years, during the greater part of which time he was connected with the operations of the great manufacturing plant of the Ball Bros. Glass Manufacturing Company in the capacity of foreman. Mr. Barker was a native of the old Buckeye state, born at Ashtabula, Ohio, in 1849, and was a son of George and Caroline (Ball) Barker. Reared in Ohio, Mr. Barker married at the age of twenty-one and for some time thereafter was engaged in farming. He then became a lumberman and was thus engaged until in 1890, shortly after the Ball Bros. Glass Manufacturing Company's plant had been established at Muncie, when he became employed as a foreman in that plant and thus continued engaged until his retirement. He was an Odd Fellow and a Red Man. He died on May 4, 1923, being then seventy-four years of age. It was in 1871, in Ohio, that Augustus A. Barker was united in marriage to Anna Millard who, as noted above, survives him and is still making her home at Muncie. Mrs. Barker also was born in Ohio and is a daughter of Samuel and Mahalia (Comstock) Millard. One of her brothers, Rush Millard, was a soldier of the Union during the Civil war. One of Mr. Barker's brothers, Charles Barker, also was a veteran of the Civil war. Mrs. Barker has three daughters, Edna, who married Kenneth Teague; Esther, who married Festus Brown, and has four children, Violet, Charles, Edmund and Herbert G., and Stella, who married Joseph Blackmer, and has five children, Bernie, Frank, Alta, Harvey and Ada. Mrs. Barker has six greatgrandchildren.

Augustus A. Barker

DR. FORD C. BENBOW, a young dental surgeon at Eaton and a veteran of the World war, is a native son of Delaware county and is a member of one of the old families here. Doctor Benbow was born at Muncie in 1898 and is a son of J. H. and Myrtle (Clifford) Benbow, the latter of whom is a daughter of John and Melissa (Ault) Clifford, the latter a daughter of John Ault. J. H. Benbow, who is now engaged in the shoe business at Xenia, Ohio, was born in Mt. Pleasant township, this county. He and his wife have five children, the subject of this sketch having three sisters, Lois, Olive and Helen, the two former of whom are teachers in the public schools, and a orother, Gene Benbow. Upon completing his schooling in the Eaton high school, Ford C. Benbow entered the Indiana Dental College at Indianapolis and was thus in attendance when this country took a hand in the World war in the spring of 1917. He interrupted his studies to enter the army and for seven months rendered military ' service, after which he resumed his dental studies and in 1919 was graduated from the dental college. Upon receiving his diploma Doctor Benbow opened an office for the practice of his profession at Eaton and has since been thus engaged. The Doctor is a Freemason and is also affiliated with the Improved Order of Red Men, while he and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal church. Mrs. Benbow (Arliss N. Pancost) is a daughter of Harry and Mabel (Niles) Pancost. She and the Doctor were married on May 8, 1921.

BURETTE M. ARTHUR, a veteran building contractor at Muncie, has been engaged here as a carpenter and builder for the past twenty-five years and more and thus has long had an established reputation in his line. Mr. Arthur was born at Statesville, N. C., January 26, 1864, and is a son of John Calvin and Jane Theresa (Swan) Arthur, the latter of whom was born and reared in Virginia, a member of one of the Colonial families of the Old Dominion. John Calvin Arthur was born and reared in North Carolina and after his marriage established his home on a farm in the immediate vicinity of Statesville in that state and there spent the remainder of his life, his death occurring in 1883. Burette M. Arthur was nineteen years of age when his father died and the responsibility of carrying on the operation of the home farm thereafter fell pretty largely upon his shoulders. He remained on the farm, conducting operations in his mother's behalf, until he was twenty-five years of age when, in 1889, he took up the trade of carpenter, to which from the days of his boyhood he had been giving some attention, and he ever since has been engaged in the building trades. After acquiring some practical facility as a carpenter Mr. Arthur followed this vocation in various parts of the country until in 1898 when he came to Muncie. In that same year he married and established his home at Muncie and has ever since lived here, now residing at 611 North Jefferson street. In addition to his general contract work Mr. Arthur has done much reconstruction work here as well as a considerable business in building and improving houses for sale and has done well, a considerable percentage of the houses erected here during the past twenty-five years bearing marks of his handicraftsmanship. It was on December 14, 1898, that Burette M. Arthur was united in marriage to Lena M. Dungan, who was born in Trumbull county, Ohio, daughter of Robert and Mary (Ohl) Dungan, and who was seventeen years of age when her parents came to Indiana with their family and located in Blackford county, where her father became engaged in the oil business. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur have four children, Gladys L., Glenn D., Grace and Gordon. They are Democrats and are members of the High Street Methodist Episcopal church. ;

KARL EDWARD NUTTING, president of the Nutting Electric Company of Muncie and an electrical contractor of wide experience throughout this section of Indiana, was born in Muncie and has been a resident of this city all his life. Mr. Nutting was born on April 14, 1885, and is a son of Edward and Susan Zonetta (Galliher) Nutting, the latter of whom also was born in Muncie and is still living here, residing at 315 West Adams street. The late Edward Nutting was a native of England, born at Eversham, within a few miles of the city of London, in 1847. When a young man he came to the United States and became employed as a stair builder and architect. In 1872 he came to Muncie and in the summer of the following year married Susan Zonetta Galliher and established his home here, setting up as an architect and builder, and in this capacity had much to do with the working out of the extensive rebuilding program which was carried out in Muncie during the '70s and '80s. Here he spent the remainder of his life, his death occurring on March 18, 1895, and his widow is still making her home in Muncie. Mrs. Nutting was born in the old Galliher home on Main street, across the street from the court house square, in June, 1850, and is a daughter of Martin and Rhoda A. (Ogden) Galliher, the latter of whom was born at Cedarville, N. J., January 29, 1814, daughter of Samuel and Mary (Parnall) Ogden, who in 1834 located at Carthage, in

Hamilton county, Ohio, where on September 3, 1837, she was married to Martin Galliher, a young road contractor. Martin Galliher was born in the vicinity of Brownsville, Pa., April 2, 1809, and was reared in Monongalia county, Virginia, in that section of the Old Dominion which during the time of the Civil war split off as West Virginia. When he was three years of age his father lost his life by drowning and he thus early was thrown upon his own resources for a livelihood. As a young man he became engaged in turnpike construction in Kentucky and southern Ohio and it was while thus engaged in Hamilton county (Ohio) that he married Rhoda Ogden. In 1840 he came to Indiana and located at Muncietown, this being some years before the name of the town was changed by legislative enactment to its present shorter form. Here he engaged in the mercantile business and in pork packing and soon became one of the leading factors in the commercial life of the town. In 1852 he retired from his mercantile line and thereafter gave his attention to the development of his extensive farming and land interests, becoming the owner of 340 acres of land south of the railroad, which as the town developed became valuable for city extension purposes, and he thus early became recognized as one of the town's foremost promoters. Martin Galliher died at his home in Muncie on June 29, 1887, and his widow survived him a little more than six years, her death occurring on July 31, 1893. She is said to have been the "first actual Baptist" in Muncie and it was largely through her efforts that an organization of that communion was effected here in 1859. To Edward and Susan Z. (Galliher) Nutting were born six children, Ear] Galliher, Esther Louise, Karl Edward, Eugene, Rhoda Alice and Beatrice, the two latter of whom died in infancy. Reared at Muncie, Karl Edward Nutting received his schooling in the schools of that city and early became interested in electrical work and development. After five years of practical work along this line he entered the Bliss Electrical School at Washington, D. C., for a year of special technical training, and then in 1906 became the head of the Nutting-Rowe Electric Company of Muncie. Two years later, in 1908, this concern was reorganized and incorporated as the Nutting Electric Company, Mr. Nutting being elected president and treasurer of the same, and he since has continued to act in that capacity, the company having its present establishment and offices at 118 East Adams street. The Nutting Electric Company specializes in power house electrical construction work and in the installation of electric plants for paper mills, but handles all sorts of elec- trical supplies for factory equipment and carries on its contract engagements throughout a wide trade area hereabout. Mr. Nutting is a member of the local lodge of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. He married Ada Hupp and resides at 503 East Charles street. . HARRY D. ELKINS, D. C., bandmaster of the 150th Field Artillery, United States National Guard of Indiana, and a doctor of Chiropractic of years standing in Muncie, was born in Cass county, Indiana, in 1887. Doctor Elkins completed his public schooling in the Marion (Ind.) high school and early became an expert band musician. For some years he followed this musical bent professionally, engaged with traveling bands, and while thus engaged visited nearly all the important cities in the country. In the meantime he was following studies along other professional lines, and in 1914 he entered the Palmer School of Chiropractic at Davenport, Iowa, and on September 1, 1916, was graduated from that institution. Upon receiving his diploma Doctor Elkins returned to Indiana and on September 19 of that year opened an office for the practice of his profession at Muncie, where he ever since has been thus engaged, with present offices at 301-3-5-7 the Johnson block on South Walnut street, where he is admirably equipped to meet the exacting requirements of his profession. Included in this equipment is an X-ray installment, the only one in a Chiropractic office in Muncie. In fact, Doctor Elkins was the first doctor of Chiropractic in Indiana to put in an X-ray equipment. For nine years prior to entering upon the practice of Chiro-. practic Doctor Elkins had served as bandmaster for the 2d regiment (infantry) of the Indiana National Guard, and in 1921 when the old Indiana National Guard was reorganized as the United States National Guard of Indiana, he was made bandmaster for the 150th regiment, Field Artillery, the band unit of this regiment being quartered at Muncie, and in that capacity he has developed one of the best military bands in the Middle West. Doctor Elkins's parents, Jacob and Louise Frances (Jackson) Elkins, both were born in Indiana, of pioneer stock. Jacob Elkins, a well-to-do farmer of Cass county, is now living retired. Doctor Elkins married Fairy O. Beck, of Marion, and has one child, a daughter, Martha Jane. The Doctor is a Royal Arch Mason. He and his family reside at 49 Orchard Place. In 1912, while living at Marion, Doctor Elkins patented and began the manufacture of what has since come to be widely known in band and orchestral circles as the Elkins improved all-metal aluminum separate tension snare drum, now manufactured by the Elkins Drum Com- pany at Muncie. This instrument which was at once recognized as a revelation in producing new ideas in snare drums finds ready distribution generally throughout the United States, has been indorsed by such skilled performers as the drummers of Sousa's band and the orchestra of the Boston Opera Company and is in use by most of America's foremost drummers, a product that is doing its part in carrying far the name and fame of "Greater Muncie."

HENRY SMITH, a substantial farmer and landowner of Union township, residing on rural mail route No. 2 out of Eaton, is a native of the old Buckeye state but has been a resident of Indiana and of Delaware county for many years. Mr. Smith was born on a farm in the immediate vicinity of Troy, in Miami county, Ohio, and is a son of David and Catherine (Ruderick) Smith, the latter of whom was born in Pennsylvania, a daughter of John and Elizabeth (Knife). Ruderick, who later became residents of western Ohio. David Smith was born in Miami county, Ohio, a son of Henry and Elizabeth Smith, who had come into Ohio from North Carolina, establishing their home in Miami county, near the city of Troy. Henry Smith was a native of Germany, who for some time after coming to this country had been a resident of North Carolina. David Smith and his wife were the parents of seven children, of whom the subject of this sketch was the fourth in order of birth, the others being Jonathan, Elizabeth, John (deceased), Nancy (deceased), Sarah Jane (deceased) and Mary Ann, all of whom save John became residents of Delaware county. At the age of twenty-nine years Henry Smith, who received his name in honor of his paternal grandfather, married Lucinda Hedrick and established his home on a farm in Union township, where he ever since has made his home and where he has prospered, he now being the owner of two well improved farms in that township, one of these farms containing 127 acres and the other, 190. Mr. Smith is a Freemason, a member of the Masonic lodge at Eaton (No. 606). Mrs. Smith was born in the neighboring county of Madison and is a daughter of Daniel and Anna (Thomas) Hedrick, the latter of whom was a daughter of John and Lucinda (Michael) Thomas, pioneers of Miami county, Ohio. Daniel Hedrick was a native of Maryland, who came over into Indiana and after his marriage settled in Madison county. Mr. and Mrs. Smith have four children, Robert, Musadora, Stella F. and Carlton C., all of whom are married. Robert Smith married Mamie Pierce and has five children, Cleveland, Henry Clay, Robert M., Bynum and Hazel. Musadora Smith married Earl Landis and has three children, Leon,

FRANK KISER, secretary-treasurer of the J. F. Kiser Company, jewelers, and of the Kiser Plating Company at Muncie, has been a resident of that city since he was a mere lad and has literally grown up to the business with which he is now connected and which was founded by his father back in the days when it began to be recognized that Muncie was going to develop into a manufacturing center of large importance. Mr. Kiser was born at Fostoria, Ohio, September 25, 1883, and is a son of Jacob F. and Amanda (Bayman) Kiser, both of whom also were born in Ohio and who became residents of Muncie more than thirty years ago. Jacob F. Kiser was reared at Fostoria, where he became engaged in the jewelry business. He followed that line at Fostoria until in 1891, when he disposed of his interests there and moved to Muncie and opened out a silver plating establishment at Hoyt avenue and Liberty streets. Three years later he moved his plant to his present location at the corner of Howard and Elm streets and from the small beginning made there has developed the extensive business now carried on there by the J. F. Kiser Company, general dealers in jewelry, cut glass and diamonds, and the plating establishment of the Kiser Plating Company, an extension of the plating concern started thirty years and more ago and which now is chiefly given over to the plating of automobile trimmings and accessories. The Kiser jewelry store has separate departments for its general jewelry, for its cut glass, for its fine china ware and for its diamonds and precious stones and is widely recognized as one of the most distinctive establishments of its sort in eastern Indiana. Jacob F. Kiser, head of this business, is also president of the Warner Company. Frank Kiser, only son of Jacob F. Kiser and secretary-treasurer of the two concerns under which the Kiser interests are operated, was eight years of age when he came to Muncie with his parents in 1891. He was graduated from the Muncie high school in 1901 and has since been actively identified with the business which his father meanwhile had been developing in Muncie. In 1914 when the J. F. Kiser Company was organized with a view to the extension of the interests of the Kiser jewelry store, he was made secretary-treasurer of the company and has since been acting in that capacity. In 1916 he was made secretary-treasurer also of the Kiser Plating Company, and has continued so to serve, with full managerial authority in the affairs of this latter concern. Mr. Kiser is a Scottish Rite, Royal Arch and Knight Templar Mason and a noble of the Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic shrine, affiliated with Murat temple at Indianapolis. He also is a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, of the Kiwanis Club, of the Country Club and of the scholastic fraternity Phi Delta Kappa. Mr. Kiser married Della Dangler and resides at 41114 East Howard street.

DR. GEORGE F. AMES, for more than forty years a practicing physician at Eaton and thus one of the veterans of the medical profession in Delaware county, was born in Adams county, Ind., in 1859, and is a son of George W. and Mary Ann (Hooper) Ames, the latter of whom was born in that same county, a daughter of George Hooper, one of the pioneers of that section of Indiana. George W. Ames was a native of Ohio, of pioneer stock. Of the sons born to him and his wife, two, Ezekiel and Rufus Ames, served as soldiers of the Union during the Civil war. George F. Ames early turned his attention to the study of medicine and in 1881, at the age of twenty-two years, was graduated from the Ft. Wayne Medical College. Upon receiving his diploma Doctor Ames opened an office for the practice of medicine at Eaton and has ever since been engaged in practice there. The Doctor is a member of the Delaware- Blackford (county) Medical Society, is a Freemason and a member of the Christian church. Doctor Ames' wife, Mrs. Emma (Webb) Ames, daughter of Curtis and Huldah (Shaw) Webb, died on March 14, 1922.

FRANK B. FOORMAN, a substantial farmer and landowner of Union and Niles townships, residing at Eaton, is a native son of Delaware county and has lived here all his life. Mr. Foorman was born at Eaton in 1886 and is a son of A. N. and Catherine (Bosman) Foorman, the latter of whom was born in this county, a member of the pioneer Bosman family which has been represented in this county since the middle '30s of the past century. The late A. N. Foorman, who for years was one of the best known men in Eaton, a dealer in live stock and timber, was born in Clark county, Ohio, and became a resident of Delaware county in the days of his young manhood. He became the owner of 640 acres of land in the Eaton neighborhood and in addition to his live stock and timber dealings also operated a meat market at Eaton. He died in 1920 and his widow is still making her home at Eaton. To them were born two children, the subject of this sketch having a sister, Onie M. Foorman. Reared at Eaton, Frank B. Foorman received his schooling in the schools of that city and has ever made his home there. From the days of his boyhood he has been interested in the development of his father's farming interests and is now the owner of 320 acres of the former paternal holdings and is carrying on his farming operations on this place in up-to-date fashion. Frank B. Foorman married Cuba B. Vineyard, daughter of W. P. Vineyard, and has three children, William A., Sarah Catherine and Francis V. Mr. Foorman is a member of the local tribe of the Improved Order of Red Men (Ouray No. 74) at Eaton, and is also affiliated with the lodge of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and the aerie of the Fraternal Order of Eagles at Muncie. EDWARD M. RINKER, of the Rinker Furniture, Storage ana Transfer Company of Muncie, whose sudden and unexpected death early in 1924 proved a shock to his friends here, was a member of one of the old families of this section of Indiana, the Rinkers (an old Virginian family) having been represented hereabout since pioneer days. Mr. Rinker was born in the neighboring county of Henry in the year 1877, and was the son and only child of Samuel and Catherine (Sweigart) Rinker. Reared on the home farm, Edward M. Rinker received his schooling in the neighborhood schools and as a young man became engaged in the grocery btisiness at Muncie, later taking employment in the furniture store of Hickman Bros., at Muncie, and in this latter service was engaged for many years, thus becoming one of the best known furniture salesmen in the county. In 1916 Mr. Rinker became engaged in business on his own account, opening up a store and storage house at 310 North Walnut street, where he was well equipped for meeting the demands of the trade in his line, carrying on his business under the name of the Rinker Furniture, Storage and Transfer Company. In addition to his furniture business, Mr. Rinker established a capacious storage house, made a specialty of substantial crating and developed an extensive business in the storage line as well as in the general transfer line. In the latter part of February, 1924, Mr. Rinker started on a. business trip to Chicago, driving through by automobile, and at Lafayette was taken suddenly ill and died there in a hotel on the 28th of that month. Mr. Rinker was an Odd Fellow, a Modern Woodman and a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, as is his widow. Since the death of her husband, Mrs. Rinker continues to make her home at Muncie, residing at 323 North Monroe street. She was born (Lora May Pet-. tigrew) in the neighboring county of Madison, daughter of Robert Pettigrew, and has one child, a daughter, Lala, who married John S.

Edward M. Rinker

Bender and has a daughter, Lola Jean. The establishment founded by Mr. Rinker has been maintained since his death and in the transfer department of that business five trucks are operated.

EDWARD A. HOFFER, proprietor of what is said to be the largest retail meat market in Muncie, has been a resident of Muncie since the beginning of the days of the big gas "boom" here thirty years and more ago. Mr. Hoffer was born at Ft. Wayne, Ind., October 16, 1872, and is a son of Andrew and Christina (Price) Hoffer, the latter of whom was born at Columbia City, Ind. Andrew Hoffer was born in Switzerland and there grew to manhood and was married. His wife died, leaving him with two children, Lena and Robert. With these children he later came to America and located at Ft. Wayne, where he became engaged in the butcher business and where he married Christina Price. To this second union there were born seven children, those besides the subject of this sketch being Charles E., Rosa, Anna, Monte, Marie and Albert. Reared at Ft. Wayne, Edward A. Hoffer received his schooling there and at the age of thirteen years became a helper in his father's butcher shop, thus early becoming familiar with the details of the business in which he ever since has been engaged. When eighteen years of age he went to Winchester, Ind., and later took a trip through the West. When the gas "boom" was at its height here in the early '90s he came to Muncie and began working in the meat market of William Palmer, with whom he remained for five years, and then for another five years was with Palmer Bros. At the end of this time, meanwhile having become thoroughly acquainted with the needs of the local market in this line, Mr. Hoffer and his brother, Charles E. Hoffer, opened a meat market at 220 South Walnut street, under the firm name of Hoffer Bros., and became engaged in business for themselves. This partnership continued until in 1914, when, in September of that year, Edward A. Hoffer opened an establishment of his. own at 411 South Walnut street and has since been engaged in business for himself at that number, having developed there a thoroughly modern and up-to-date retail store with an ample refrigerating plant and every proper facility for handling his growing trade. He does no killing, relying upon the packers for his stock, and the demands of his trade require the services of eight or ten employes in the establishment. Mr. Hoffer is affiliated with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, the Improved Order of Red Men and the Loyal Order of Moose. He and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal church and are Republicans. In 1895 Edward A. Hoffer married

Martha Virginia Harrington, of Muncie, and to this union seven children have been born, four of whom died in infancy, the others being Vern Howard, Charles E. and James R. Hoffer. Vern Howard Hoffer, the eldest of these sons, was graduated from the Muncie high school, later took a course at the Indiana State Normal School and then went to South America, in the employ of Armour & Company of Chicago, and for two years was located at LaPlatte, a suburb of Buenos Aires, the chief city of Argentina. Upon his return he became connected with the Delaware Engraving Company of Muncie and is now a half owner of that establishment. He is a 32° Mason. He married Charline Ingersoll and has one child, a son, Robert. Charles E. Hoffer, the second son, a veteran of the World war, also is a Freemason. He was graduated from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor and is now engaged in the lumber business in South Carolina. .

RALPH 8. GREGORY, a substantial farmer and landowner of Delaware county, now living at Eaton, is a native son of Delaware county, a member of one of the pioneer families here and has lived in this county all his life. Mr. Gregory was born on a farm in the immediate vicinity of Wheeling, this county, in 1878, and is a son of Samuel and Sarah (Stafford) Gregory, the latter of whom was 'born in New Carlisle, in Clark county, Ohio, a daughter of John and Catherine Stafford, the former of whom had come to this country from Shropshire, England. Samuel Gregory was born in Miami county, Ohio, and was a son of Samuel and Catherine (Brackrick) Gregory, who were among the pioneers of Delaware county. The senior Samuel Gregory was born in the vicinity of Huntington, Pa., and upon coming to Delaware county with his family in the '30s of the past century settled on what is still known as the old Gregory place in the Albany neighborhood. His son, Samuel Gregory, settled in the Wheeling neighborhood after his marriage and there became a substantial farmer. To him and his wife were born two sons, the subject of this sketch and Samuel Gregory III. Ralph S. Gregory completed his schooling at Eaton and Muncie and from the days of his boyhood has been interested in farm development. After his marriage he became a farmer on his own account and has ever since been thus engaged, gradually extending his land holdings until now he is the owner of a fine farm of 600 acres in the Eaton neighborhood. Ralph S. Gregory married Grace Mansfield, daughter of Perry and Catherine (Younts) Mansfield and also a member of one of Dela- - ware county's pioneer families, and has five children, Samuel, Eugene,

Elizabeth, Catherine and Margaret. Mrs. Gregory is a member of the Christian church at Eaton. Mr. Gregory is a Scottish Rite Mason and a noble of the Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine.

M. L. YOAKEM, former superintendent of highways in and for Delaware county and regarded as one of the able authorities on road construction in Indiana, is a native of the old Buckeye state, but has been a resident of this county for nearly thirty years, formerly and for years prior to entering upon his public duties in the court house having been engaged in the real estate business in Muncie. Mr. Yoakem was born on a farm in Pike county, Ohio, in 1868, and is a son of George W. and Mary (Croix) Yoakem, the latter of whom was born in Virginia. George W. Yoakem was born in Ross county, Ohio, a son of George W. Yoakem, a native of Virginia, who, during the War of 1812, served as a captain in the army and who, on his own responsibility, paid his command in script which he issued for that purpose and for which service, according to the records of the family, he never was reimbursed by the Government. Captain Yoakem became one of the pioneers of Ross county, Ohio, and there he and his wife, the latter of whom was a Harness, reared their family and spent their last days. The junior George W. Yoakem after his marriage established his home in Pike county, just south of Ross county, and there he and his wife reared their family. They had seven children, the subject of this sketch (the fifth in order of birth) having four sisters, Sabrina, Melvina, Catherine and Anna, and two brothers, Allen and Adam C. Yoakem. Reared on the home farm in Pike county (Ohio), M. L. Yoakem received his schooling in the schools of that county, and was for some time there engaged in farming. He later became interested in the real estate business and in 1897 located at Muncie, where he became actively engaged in that business and established his home. For years Mr. Yoakem has given his close attention to the subject of road construction and has long been looked upon as a local authority along that line. In 1922 he was appointed superintendent of roads for Delaware county and served a term as road superintendent, with offices in the court house. Among the innovations introduced by Mr. Yokem in the administration of this important office was the use of nothing but first class gravel on the highways, the dumping of road material on the sides of the roads instead of in the middle and his insistence upon a standard 24-foot roadway on the bridges of the county. Mr. Yoakem has attended road schools, is a life member of the United States Good

Roads Association, the only such membership held in this county, and has written much along the lines thus involved, one of his notable papers having been one on "The Elimination of Danger on Rural Roads," read before the road school and which attracted much favorable attention. M. L. Yoakem married Martha M. Allison and has two daughters, Leta and Lola. Mr. Yoakem is a member of the local aerie of the Fraternal Order of Eagles.

DR. KARL TRUEBLOOD BROWN, a veteran of the World war with a major's commission and an overseas record of distinguished service and a practicing physician at Muncie, with special reference to the treatment of diseases of the eye, ear, nose and throat, in practice for nearly twenty-five years, was born in the historic village of Westfield, in Hamilton county, Indiana, July 26, 1874, and is a son of Robert R. and Mary (Trueblood) Brown, both of whom were born in the old town of Salem, county seat of Washington county, this state, the latter a member of the pioneer Quaker family of Truebloods in that part of the state, and a daughter of Dr. Joshua Trueblood. Robert R. Brown was a son of Samuel Brown, born in Kentucky, a son of a Revolutionary soldier who had settled in Kentucky in the days of the pioneers of that "dark and bloody ground." During the Civil war Robert R. Brown served as a soldier of the Union, a member of the 5th Indiana Cavalry, and after his marriage settled at Westfield, where for years he was engaged in business as a hardware merchant. Upon his retirement from the store he moved to a farm in Grant county, where his last days were spent, his death occurring there in 1899, he then being sixty-three years of age. His widow survived him for eight years, her death occurring in 1907, she then being seventy-two years of age. Of the children born to them, five grew to maturity. Reared at Westfield, Doctor Brown received his early schooling in the schools of that interesting village and then entered the university at Mt. Vernon, IIl., from which he was graduated in 1894, his studies there being pursued with a view to taking up the study of medicine. Thus equipped for further study, he entered the old Indiana Medical College at Indianapolis, now a department of the University of Indiana, and after two years of study there went to the Barnes Medical College at St. Louis, from which latter institution he was graduated in 1899. Upon receiving his diploma Doctor Brown opened an office for practice at Crawfordsville, Ind., where after his marriage in the next year, he established his home and remained until in 1913, when he moved to San Antonio, Tex., where he was engaged in practice when this country took a hand in the World war in the spring of 1917. Preparatory to the pending conflict, Doctor Brown had, on March 17, 1917, three weeks before war formally was declared, volunteered his services in the medical section of the Officers Reserve Corps of the United States army and was accepted, being given a commission as a first lieutenant. On May 25 he was assigned to Ft. Riley (Kan.) and on August 24 was transferred to Camp Travis (Tex.), where on November 5 he received a captain's commission. On March 6, 1918, he was commissioned a major in the Medical Corps and on June 20 sailed with his command for France, with orders to report to the Army Medical College at Longres, where on August 17 he was given his diploma of graduation, and on August 24 was ordered to the St. Mihiel front as unit surgeon. On September 12 he was cited in orders for distinguished service in action. During October and November, until the signing of the Armistice (November 11) he rendered service in the Meuse-Argonne campaign and on November 24 was assigned to the Army of Occupation and thus rendered service on the Rhine until he received orders to return to the United States on May 19, 1919. On May 27 he sailed for home and arrived at Boston harbor on June 7, with orders to report to Camp Pike (Ark.), whence he presently was transferred to Camp Taylor (Ky.), where on July 8, 1919, he was mustered out and assigned to the Medical Reserve Corps, with rank of major, and later was commissioned a lieutenant colonel in the Medical Officers Reserve Corps. Upon the completion of his military service, Doctor Brown returned to Indiana and located at Muncie, where he since has been engaged in practice, with offices at 501-503 the Johnson building, and residence at 729 North Elm street. The Doctor specializes in the treatment of affections of the eye, ear, nose and throat, having taken post-graduate work along this line at the Manhattan Eye Hospital, New York, and in the London Eye and Ear Hospital in London, England, as well as at similar institutions at Chicago, New Orleans and Louisville. He is a member of the Muncie Academy of Medicine, of the Delaware-Blackford County Medical Society, of the Indiana State Medical Association and the American Medical Association, as well as of the American Academy of Optholmology and the Indiana Academy of Optholmology. The Doctor also is affiliated with the local post of the American Legion and with the Military Order of Foreign Wars, is a 32° (Scottish Rite) Mason and a noble of the Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, and is likewise affiliated with the local lodges of the Knights of Pythias and of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and he and his wife are members of the High Street Methodist Episcopal church. In 1900, the year following his graduation from Medical college, Dr. Karl T. Brown was united in marriage to Mae Duncan, of Greenfield, Ind.