Delaware County, Indiana - Sidelights on Local History, 1924 (part 17 of 21)

HARVEY C. HYER, postmaster at Eaton and a veteran of the World war with an overseas record, a former school teacher and also formerly and for years an actor, is a native son of Delaware county and has always regarded this county as his home, although for many years his stage work took him far afield. Mr. Hyer was born on a farm in Washington township, this county, in 1883, and is a son of Henry and Mary E. (Moore) Hyer, the latter of whom was born in Muskingum county, Ohio, in 1850, daughter of Jesse and Mary (Herron) Moore, both of whom also were born in that county, members of pioneer families there. Henry Hyer, a veteran of the Civil war, formerly and for years a farmer in Washington township, this county, and later living retired at Eaton, was born in Ross county, Ohio, in 1837, a son of John Hyer, who also was born in Ohio, a son of Jacob Hyer, who was a son of Jacob Hyer, who with two brothers, Rufus and Abraham, had come to this country from Germany in 1786, Jacob Hyer settling in Virginia, his son Jacob in time becoming a pioneer in Ohio. John Hyer became a farmer in Ross county, Ohio, and there remained until he was sixtyfour years of age, when he came to Indiana and settled in Henry county, where his last days were spent, he being seventy-two years of age at the time of his death. His wife, Elizabeth Straley, had long predeceased him, she having died at the age of forty-six. They were the parents of eight children, four sons and four daughters. Of these sons, two, Henry and Jacob, served as soldiers of the Union during the Civil war, attached to the 22d regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Upon the completion of his military service Henry Hyer became engaged in the lumber business in Highland county, Ohio, but not long afterward disposed of his interests there and went to Missouri and became engaged in farming in the Warrensburg neighborhood in Johnson county, that state. In 1870 he closed out his interests in Missouri and came to Indiana, one of his sisters meanwhile having become a resident of Madison county. He bought a tract of 106 acres of practically uncleared and swamp ridden land in Washington township, this county, and proceeded to clear and develop the same, in time making out of it a farm which he eventually sold for $103 an acre. He had besides other farm lands in the Gaston neighborhood and continued active in farm development until his retirement and removal to Eaton in 1908. Henry Hyer was twice married. In 1862, in Highland county, Ohio, he married Elizabeth E. Winegar, who died in 1872. To that union were born five children. In 1881 Henry Hyer married Mrs. Mary E. (Moore) Hardy and to this union were born two children, one son, the subject of this sketch, and a daughter, Pearl, wife of Ray Morris, of Eaton. Reared on the home farm in the Gaston neighborhood, Harvey C. Hyer supplemented the schooling received in the Gaston schools by a course in the Muncie Normal School and then began teaching school. He later became an actor and was engaged in dramatic work for thirteen years, at the end of which time he became a salesman and was thus employed when this country took a hand in the World war in the spring of 1917. Mr. Hyer enlisted his services in behalf of the army and was assigned to overseas service, this service being rendered in France with the artillery section of the army. He was mustered out of service on February 3, 1919, the war then being over, and presently returned to Eaton, where on January 30, 1922, he was commissioned postmaster of that city and has since been serving in that responsible public capacity. On June 15, 1923, Harvey C. Hyer was united in marriage to Claudia Wright, a daughter of S. R. Wright. Mr. Hyer is a Freemason, as was also his father. THOMAS WIRT, a widely known cafe proprietor and possessor of considerable real estate holdings, who died at his home in Muncie in the summer of 1915 and whose widow is still living at Muncie, residing at 402 West Main street, was born in Muncie and had lived there all his life. Mr. Wirt was born on June 8, 1866, and was a son of Daniel and Elizabeth Wirt, who were the parents of two sons, the subject of this memorial sketch having had a brother, William Wirt. Reared at Muncie, Thomas Wirt received his schooling in the schools of that city and early became interested in the restaurant business, in time becoming proprietor of a cafe at 111 East Jackson street, where he continued in business until his death on June 15, 1915. Mr. Wirt was successful in his business affairs and was a prudent investor in real estate. He was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, as is his widow, and was affiliated with the local lodge of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. In 1896 Thomas Wirt was united in marriage to Jennie Gunkle, who also was born in Muncie, daughter of James and Susan (Stonebraker) Gunkle, the former of whom was a native of Darke county, Ohio, and who were the parents of four children, Mrs. Wirt having two sisters, Mrs. John Smith and Mrs. Linnie Milligan, and a brother, James Gunkle. To Thomas and Jennie (Gunkle) Wirt were born two daughters, Edna and Lois, the former of whom was graduated from Northwestern University in 1922 and is now teaching. Lois Wirt is now attending a school for kindergarten teachers at Chicago.

FORREST E. ANDREWS, proprietor of the Columbia and Lyric theaters at Muncie, is a great-grandson of Goldsmith Coffeen Gilbert, the founder of the city of Muncie. Mr. Andrews was born in Muncie on August 7, 1888, and is a son of John E. and Hannah F. (Yingling) Andrews, the latter of whom was born at Connersville, Ind., and was but a child when she came to Delaware county with her parents, the family settling at Yorktown. John E. Andrews, now living at Muncie, also was born at Muncie and is a son of Dr. Daniel H. and Mary Jane (Gilbert) Andrews, the latter of whom, as is set out elsewhere in the work, was the first white person born on the Muncie town site, a daughter of Goldsmith C. Gilbert, the trader who was here when the county was organized and the town site created in 1827. Dr. Daniel H. Andrews, as also is set out elsewhere, was one of the pioneer physicians of old Muncietown. He located here in 1842 and spent the rest of his life here, his death occurring in 1856. John E. Andrews grew up as a miller and was for years engaged in flour milling at Yorktown and at Rome City, Ind. In 1887 he returned to Muncie and became engaged in milling on the site of his present mill on High street, and has ever since been engaged in business here. To him and his wife were born four sons, the subject of this sketch having three brothers, Dr. George R. Andrews, Daniel Andrews and C. Ray Andrews, the latter of whom also is engaged in the motion picture business at Muncie. Forrest E. Andrews supplemented the schooling received in the Muncie public schools by a course in the normal school, where he completed the business course, and has ever since been connected with the motion picture industry, having literally "grown up" in this new and amazing line of entertainment. When but nine years of age and at a time regarded as the infancy of the motion picture business he had his first experience with a projecting machine and while still in school became a skilled operator. When eighteen years of age, in 1906, Mr. Andrews went to the Pacific coast and at Seattle became the projection operator in the second motion picture house opened in that city. Presently he left there and went to Ellensburg, Wash., where he opened a motion picture theater and was thus engaged in business there for about five years or until in 1914, when he returned to Muncie and became associated with his brother, C. Ray Andrews, in the motion picture line here, operating the Star and the Columbia theaters. They later purchased the Lyric theater and have since been operating that house as well as the Columbia and the Star. Mr. Andrews is a Democrat, is a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and has affiliation with several associations of theatrical interest. On October 17, 1907, at San Bernardino, Cal., Forrest E. Andrews was united in marriage to Nettie Ingersoll, daughter of Charles and Minnie (Moore) Ingersoll, and to this union one child has been born, a son, Charles Andrews.

HAMER JOSEPH GREENE, proprietor of a well equipped plumbing and heating establishment at Muncie, is a native of the old Buckeye state but has been a resident of Indiana for more than thirty years and has been engaged in his present business at Muncie for more than ten years. Mr. Greene was born on a farm in the vicinity of the village of Carroll, in Fairfield county, Ohio, March 19, 1871, and is a son of Joseph E. and Martha J. (Fellers) Greene, both of whom were born in that same county, members of pioneer families there, and the latter of whom is still living. The Greenes came into Ohio from the New England states and the Fellers family came out of Pennsylvania. Joseph E. Greene in addition to owning a farm in' the neighborhood of Carroll also conducted a hardware store in that village. He died in 1888. To him and his wife were born eleven children, six sons and five daughters. The mother of these children afterward married Samuel Percy, who spent his latter days in Columbus, Ohio. She is one of a family of nine children, one son and eight daughters, all of whom are still living. Reared on the home farm in the vicinity of Carroll, Hamer J. Greene received his schooling in the schools of that village and remained at home until he was seventeen years of age, when he started out "on his own', working in the oil and gas fields, and presently became the owner of a drilling rig of his own and became engaged in drilling wells throughout the Ohio and Indiana oil fields, coming over into Indiana in 1891, when twenty years of age, and for many years was thus engaged, making his home at Geneva, where he was married when twenty-eight years of age. In 1912 Mr. Greene came to Muncie and established himself here in the heating and plumbing business and has since been thus engaged, with a well equipped plant at 114 West Washington street, where he is prepared to meet all demands

SHEPHARD G. FAULKNER, manufacturer of and dealer in monumental stone at Eaton, is a native of Ohio, born at East Liberty, in Logan county, that state, in 1852, and is a son of Abijah and Jane (Weatherby) Faulkner, the latter of whom was a daughter of Benjamin and Elizabeth (Mathus) Weatherby. Benjamin Weatherby was born in New Jersey and was but a child when his parents moved from that state to Ohio, settling in Franklin county and later moving into Logan county. Abijah Faulkner was born in the near vicinity of the city of Xenia, in Greene county, Ohio, and was a son of Jesse and Mary Faulkner, who were among the numerous Virginians who helped to settle that county. The Faulkners have been represented in Greene county (Ohio) since 1806. During the time of the Civil war Abijah Faulkner served as a soldier of the Union, a member of the 132d regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Of the children born to him and his wife three are still living, the subject of this sketch having a sister, Emma A., wife of Samuel Wright, and a brother, Morris Bartley Faulkner. Reared at East Liberty, Shephard G. Faulkner received his schooling in the schools of that historic and interesting old village and early became interested in stone cutting and monumental architecture. Working as a journeyman at Chicago and St. Louis he became thoroughly grounded in all the details of this useful craft and then became engaged in business as a maker of monumental stone in the village of Degraff in his home county. Two years later he moved over into Indiana and opened a marble yard at Heltonville in Lawrence county. Mr. Faulkner remained at Heltonville a couple of years and then worked in western and southern United States until in 1916, when he moved to Eaton, established himself in business at this place and has since been engaged here in the monumental stone line, proprietor of a well equipped plant. Mr. Faulkner is a member of the Christian church and of the Loyal Order of Moose. His wife is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church at Eaton. Shephard G. Faulkner has been twice married and by his union with his first wife, Hester A. McClure, of Covington, Ind., had ten children. He has eleven grandchildren. All his children are living save three, Morris B. and Harry A. and one who died in infancy, the others being Henry A. and Levi E. Faulkner and five daughters, Estella J., wife of Charles Underhill; Florence E., wife of Howard Dillon; Maybelle, wife of Jacob Kauffman; Mrs.

Iona Frances Blough and Cecile Leota Faulkner. In 1919 Mr. Faulkner married Mrs. Elizabeth (Eastes) Sharts, a daughter of Washington and Mary (Evans) Eastes, of Indianapolis, and widow of Uriah D. Sharts, of Indianapolis, who died in 1917. To Uriah D. and Elizabeth (Eastes) Sharts were born six children, Laura (wife of Charles Swanker), Albert H., Rosie (deceased), William C. (deceased), James Leroy and Cary Melvin Sharts.

ARTHUR E. BENNETT, one of the veterans in the motion picture industry in Indiana and proprietor of the Liberty Theater at Muncie, was born at Muncie on September 16, 1881, and is a son of Joseph S. and Julia P. (Meeker) Bennett, the latter of whom also was born at Muncie, daughter of Henry Meeker, a pioneer manufacturer of brick and lime here and in his generation a prominent figure in the industrial life of the community. The late Joseph S. Bennett was born in Iowa and was but a child when his parents came with their family to Indiana and located at Muncie. He early became connected with the local hardware trade and was for years thus engaged in the old Putnam & Kirby hardware store. Reared at Muncie, Arthur E. Bennett received his schooling in the local schools and upon leaving the high school began working in the William N. Jackson - grocery store. Three years later he transferred his connection to the Kirk department store and from there after awhile went to the Wachtell department store, in charge of the bicycle and sundries department, and was thus engaged until in 1905, when, attracted by the possibilities then becoming apparent in the development of the motion picture industry, he started in the show business as manager of the Petty Auditorium and assistant manager of the Star Theater. After six years of practical experience in this line here Mr. Bennett went to Anderson, where for some time he was the manager of the Crystal Theater, and then he went to Marion as manager of the Indiana and Strand theaters in that city. In 1915 he returned to Muncie and opened the Strand and Liberty theaters and has since been actively engaged in business here. On April 29, 1923, the outfit and furnishings of the Liberty theater, 415 South Walnut street, were destroyed by fire. Two days later Mr. Bennett sold his Strand theater and gave his whole attention to the restoration and refitting of his Liberty theater, which he remodeled along up-to-date lines and in which he now is making a specialty of feature pictures and musical entertainment. Mr. Bennett is a member of the Muncie Chamber of Commerce and is also affiliated with the local lodge of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and with the local aerie of the Fraternal

Order of Eagles. On June 26, 1920, Arthur E. Bennett was united in marriage to Evelyn J. Krug, who also was born in Muncie, October 14, 1894, daughter of John and Emma Krug, and to this union two children have been born, daughters both, Barbara Jean and Dorothy. The Bennetts reside at 424 East Main street.

FREDERICK E. JEWETT, general superintendent of the great plant of the Ball Bros. Glass Manufacturing Company at Muncie, was born in the city of Muncie, a member of one of the real pioneer families of this city, and has resided here all his life. Mr. Jewett was born on July 15, 1874, and is a son of Sidney A. and Sarah Jane (Conn) Jewett, the latter of whom also was born in this county, October 30, 1840, a daughter of Simon Conn, one of the pioneers of the county, who in the old days of the wagon trains, before the railroads came in, was widely known as a freighter between Muncie and Cincinnati. It was he who hauled the first court house bell up here from Cincinnati. He died in 1904, aged eighty-six years. The late Sidney Alonzo Jewett, a veteran of the Civil war and who for years was superintendent of Beech Grove cemetery, was born in the state of New York, June 16, 1833, and was five years of age when in 1838 his father, Jeremiah Jewett, a native of Highgate, Vt., came out into Indiana with his family and settled at old Muncietown, where, among his other pioneer activities, he presently opened a lime quarry across the river off the present extension of Walnut street, and established a lime kiln, the first in the settlement, as is set out elsewhere in this work. Jeremiah Jewett spent the remainder of his days here and lived to be eighty-four years of age. Sidney A. Jewett grew to manhood in Muncie, helpful in the operations of his father's lime kiln. In 1857 he married Jane Conn, and was living here when the Civil war broke out. He early enlisted his services in behalf of the Union and went to the front as a member of Company B of the 69th regiment, Indiana Volunteer Infantry, with which gallant command he served until the close of the war and was mustered out on July 5, 1865. Upon the completion of his military service he returned to Muncie, where the remainder of his life was spent, his death occurring on February 3, 1904. He was an active member of the local post of the Grand Army of the Republic. For fifteen years prior to his death he had served the public as superintendent of Beech Grove cemetery. He was a member of the Universalist church and his wife of the Methodist Episcopal church. They were the parents of five children, of whom the subject of this sketch was the fourth in order of birth, the others being Ida, wife of Fred Watson; Charles E., de-

Frederick Eh. Jewett

'ceased; William M., who died in California, and Nellie. Reared at Muncie, Frederick E. Jewett was graduated from the high school in 1892 and two weeks after his graduation entered the employ of the Ball Bros. Glass Manufacturing Company, starting in in the shipping department, presently was made shipping clerk and in 1902 was promoted to the position of general superintendent of the great plant (the largest manufactory of fruit jars in the world), and has ever since occupied that position. Mr. Jewett is a Republican and has rendered public service as a member of the board of police commissioners for the city of Muncie. He is a Freemason and is also affiliated with the local lodges of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Modern Woodmen; a member of the Kiwanis Club, an active member of Post R of the Travelers Protective Association, which he served as president in 1923, in which year he also served the local post of the Sons of Veterans as commander. He and his wife are members of the High Street Methodist Episcopal church and for the past twenty-five years he has been a member of the board of trustees of that congregation. In 1901 Frederick E. Jewett was united in marriage to LaRhue M. Dungan, daughter of George E. Dungan, for- * mer recorder of Delaware county, and granddaughter of John Dungan, one of the pioneers of the county, and to this union have been born three children, Martha, George 8. and Sarah.

GEORGE W. HOOVER, cashier of the Farmers State Bank of Eaton and a resident of that city for nearly thirty years, is a native Hoosier and has lived in this state all his life, a resident of Delaware county since the days of his young manhood. Mr. Hoover was born on a farm in the adjoining county of Henry, in 1863, and is a son of W. W. and Catherine (Hoover) Hoover, who were the parents of six children, the subject of this sketch (the third in order of birth) having two sisters, Mary E. and Alta M., and three brothers, M. L. A. B. and Benton G. Hoover. Reared on the home farm in Delaware county, George W. Hoover received his schooling in the neighborhood schools and as a young man became engaged in the mercantile business at Wheeling, in this county. In 1894 when the Farmers State Bank of Eaton was organized Mr. Hoover was made assistant cashier of that institution and has ever since been connected with the bank. In 1900 he was advanced to the position of cashier of this bank and has since been serving in that responsible capacity. The Farmers State Bank of Eaton now has resources aggregating right around $500,000. James M. Motsenbocker is president of the bank and Ralph S. Gregory is the vice president. In 1886 George W. Hoover was united in marriage to Maude E. Hyer, daughter of Henry Hyer, of this county, and to this union four children have been born, Arliss E., Dane H., Ira Forest and Catherine. Dane H. Hoover was a member of the Indiana National Guard when in 1916 that body was federalized and sent on military duty to the Mexican border and he thus participated in army service during that historic flurry. Three -years ago he was elected cashier of the Anderson Banking Company of Anderson, Ind.

SAMUEL H. BEMENDERFER, superintendent of the Indianapolis division of the International Correspondence Schools and a resident of Muncie for the past fourteen years, is a native Hoosier and has lived in this state practically all his life, the exception being a sometime residence in Chicago just prior to the time of his location at Muncie in 1910. Mr. Bemenderfer was born in the city of Goshen and is a son of the Rev. Allen R. and Alice (Beasecker) Bemenderfer, the latter of whom was born on a farm in the vicinity of that city, in Elkhart county, where she was reared and where she was married. The Rev. Allen R. Bemenderfer, a minister of the Progressive Brethren church and former auditor of Elkhart county, now living retired at Goshen, was born at Canton, Ohio, and was but a boy when he came to Indiana with his parents, Henry Bemenderfer and wife, the family settling at Goshen. Henry Bemenderfer was a brick manufacturer and became established in business in that line at Goshen, becoming also a building contractor, and it was in this line that Allen R. Bemenderfer was trained in his young manhood, a vocation he followed for years, meanwhile pursuing his studies for the ministry and in due time was ordained a minister of the Progressive Brethren church, and was for eighteen years engaged in the gospel ministry. He also took an active part in political affairs, for eight years served as trustee of Elkhart township and served for one term (1918-22) as auditor of Elkhart county. To him and his wife were born two children, the subject of this sketch and a daughter, Florence. Reared on the home farm in the immediate vicinity of Goshen, Samuel H. Bemenderfer received his common schooling in the Goshen city schools and was for five years in attendance at the college at Ashland, Ohio. He also was graduated from the Mennonite Business College at Goshen. Upon leaving college, Mr. Bemenderfer made a comprehensive tour of Europe and upon his return in 1909 became employed as a bookkeeper in Chicago, being thus engaged there in the offices of the Vail & Hunt Company and with the Marshall Field Company. Meanwhile he had become interested in the details of the work of the International Correspondence Schools and in 1910 was sent to Muncie as the local representative here of that institution and has since been a resident of Muncie. In 1914 he was made division superintendent of the operations of this institution in this section, this division covering about ten counties in Indiana, and two years later he was made superintendent of the whole Indianapolis division, including the territory in Indiana, Kentucky and part of Ohio, and he since has been thus engaged. Mr. Bemenderfer is a Scottish Rite (82°) Mason and a noble of the Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, affiliated with the consistory and the temple at Indianapolis, and is also a member of the local lodge of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. He is a member of the civic fraternity Phi Delta Kappa, served as national president of that fraternity in 1917 and was for eight years a member of the finance committee of the same. He is a member of the Church of the Brethren and his wife is a Presbyterian. It was on June 18, 1911, the year following his arrival in Muncie, that Samuel H. Bemenderfer was united in marriage to Merle F. Garris, of the neighboring city of Anderson, and to this union two children have been born, Jean and Samuel H. Bemenderfer, Jr. The Bemenderfers reside at 320 University avenue. Mrs. Bemenderfer was born at Marion, Ind., daughter of Newton Garris and wife, the latter of whom was a Stahl, but was reared at Anderson, her parents having moved to this latter city with their family when she was nine years of age, and she was graduated from the Anderson high school.

BENAIAH HAYNES, for many years a hardware merchant at Eaton, now engaged in business in that city in association with his son, Frank Haynes, is a native son of Delaware county and has lived here all his life. Mr. Haynes was born on a farm in Union township and early became a skilled carpenter, a vocation he followed for some years and then he became a building contractor and was thus engaged until in 1898, when he became engaged in the hardware business at Eaton, a member of the firm of Aspy & Haynes. In 1907 Mr. Haynes became the sole proprietor of this business and has since continued the business, of late years having as an associate in the business his son, Frank Haynes, this firm having a well equipped store and a stock ample for all local trade needs. Benaiah Haynes married Margaret Holmes, a daughter of Hirman P. and June (Young) Holmes, and to that union were born six children, Edith, Frank, Ruth (deceased), Dorothy, wife of John Hankinson; Wilda, wife of Arthur Furnish, and Crystal. Frank Haynes, who is engaged in the hardware business in association with his father, married Mabel McCarty and has two children, Elizabeth and Dorothy Maxine. He and his wife are members of the Christian church and he is a. Freemason of high degree and a noble of the Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine.

EARLE H. SWAIN, secretary and treasurer of the Hartley Agency at Muncie and former treasurer of Delaware county, was born at Anthony, Fla., in 1878, and is a son of Elihu H. and Florence (Anthony) Swain, the latter of whom was a daughter of Capt. Edwin C. Anthony, a son of Dr. Samuel P. Anthony, concerning whom further mention is made elsewhere in this work. Elihu H. Swain was born at Muncie and was a son of Job and Nancy (Hodge) Swain, the latter of whom was a sister of James Hodge, a cabinet maker who was on the ground here: when Delaware county was organized in 1827, and who was elected first justice of the peace of Center township. Job Swain was born in Tennessee and was nine years of age when in 1815 his father, Elihu Swain, moved with his family up into Indiana Territory and settled in the vicinity of Economy in Wayne county. Job Swain reached his majority the year in which Delaware county was erected and the county séat established. In the next year, 1828, he came to Muncietown and began working in the cabinet shop of James Hodge. A few months later he married Hodge's sister and became associated with Hodge in the latter's shop. Later he became associated with one of the Nottinghams in the manufacture of furniture, the plant of Swain & Nottingham occupying the site now occupied by the old Boyce block on Main street. For many years he served as justice of the peace and in 1867 was elected mayor of Muncie. Though reared a Quaker, Job Swain put in his lot with the Methodists upon settling at Muncie and was for years class leader in that society. He died in the spring of 1877. His first wife (Nancy Hodge) died in 1858, leaving six children - three daughters, Eliza, who died unmarried; Melvina R., who married George W. Spilker, and Sarah E., who married William R. Maddy, and three sons, Elihu H., Orlando H. and James Swain. In the fall of 1859 Job Swain married Mrs. Emily (Shimer) Shafer and to this union one child was born, a son, Charles W. Swain. Reared at Muncie, Elihu H. Swain was living there when the Civil war broke out. He went to the front with the 9th Cavalry (121st Indiana) and was with that command returning from New Orleans when on April 27, 1865, the vessel on which they were coming up the Mississippi, the ill-fated "Sultana," was destroyed by an explosion of its boilers, with a loss of life exceeding 1,500. Mr. Swain happily escaped and on the following May 15, at Indianapolis, received his discharge, being mustered out as first lieutenant of Company G. Upon his return to Muncie he became engaged in the lumber business and presently was married to Florence Anthony, who also was born in Muncie, daughter of Capt. Edwin C. and Rebecca G. (Vannaman) Anthony. Elihu H. Swain became associated with the development plans of Captain Anthony in Florida in 1876 and was for some years engaged in lumbering and in cotton ginning in that state. He returned to Muncie in the '80s and here spent his last days engaged in business. Earle H. Swain was but a lad when his parents returned to Muncie from Florida, the state of his birth, and he completed his schooling in the Muncie high school. He became employed as a clerk in the Union National Bank of Muncie, was advanced to the position of assistant cashier of that institution and was thus engaged when in 1916, as the nominee of the Republican party, he was elected treasurer of Delaware county. For four years (1918-22) Mr. Swain served as county treasurer and since then has been giving his attention to the general real estate business, secretary and treasurer of the J. J. Hartley Agency, with offices at 1164 East Main street. For five years he has been treasurer of the Delaware County Agricultural and Mechanical Society with which he has been affiliated for the past fifteen years. He also is a member of the board of directors of the Muncie Rural Loan and Savings Company. In 1906 Earle H. Swain was united in marriage to Mary J. Wierman and to this union three children have been born, Thaddeus, Earle and Harriet. Mr. and Mrs. Swain are members of the Episcopal church. Mr. Swain is a Freemason and is also affiliated with the Knights of the Maccabees.

' FRANK A. SMITH, a veteran of the World war and a well established druggist at Eaton, is a native of the old Buckeye state, - born on a farm in Carryall township, Paulding county, Ohio, in 1893, and is a son of B. A. and Lulu (Hook) Smith, the latter of whom was born in that same county, daughter of John and Mary (Donat) Hook. B. A. Smith, who is now engaged in the lumber business at Antwerp, in Paulding county, Ohio, is a native of Indiana, born in Dekalb county, this state, a son of John and Mary Smith. He and his wife have five children, those besides the subject of this sketch, the third in order of birth, being Arlie, Inez, Nora and Irene. Frank A. Smith was but a child when his parents left the farm and moved into Antwerp and his early schooling was received in the Antwerp schools. This he supplemented by a course in Ohio

Northern University at Ada and had not completed his schooling when this country took a hand in the World war in the spring of 1917. He entered the service of the army and was stationed at Camp Travis. Upon the completion of his military service Mr. Smith went to Toledo and became engaged in the drug business, remaining there until in 1923, when he came to Indiana and became engaged in the drug business at Eaton, where he ever since has been thus engaged, proprietor of a well equipped and up-to-date drug store at that place. Frank A. Smith married Valera Bevington and has two children, Norma J. and Robert L. Mr. and Mrs, Smith are members of the Methodist Episcopal church and Mr. Smith is a Freemason. CHARLES W. NEISWANGER, veteran photographer at Muncie and a past president of the exclusive Daguerre Club of Indiana, one of the best known art photographers in eastern Indiana, was born on a farm two miles north of Cambridge City, Ind., September 3, 1865, and is a son of George and Mary Neiswanger, the latter of whom was a native of the state of Maryland. The late George Neiswanger was born at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, and there grew to manhood. After his marriage he came to Indiana, and after a some time residence in Wayne county came to Delaware county and became engaged in farming north of Muncie. In the late '80s he moved with his family to Daviess county, Indiana, and there he and his wife spent the remainder of their lives. Charles W. Neiswanger completed his schooling in the Southern Indiana Normal College at Mitchell, Ind., and was graduated from that institution in 1888. He taught three terms of school and then took up the study of photography, entering his services as an apprentice in that behalf to a local photographer to whom he paid $25 for the privilege. For the first three months of this apprenticeship he worked without pay and during the succeeding six months was paid at the rate of $3 a week. Upon acquiring a knowledge of "the art and mystery" of the craft Mr. Neiswanger kept on at Muncie for awhile and then went to Senaca Falls, N. Y., where he became engaged in business on his own behalf. Not long afterward he moved to Cincinnati and in that city was engaged in business. as a photographer until in 1896, when he returned to Muncie and opened a studio on West Adams street. He presently recognized the need of better quarters and moved his studio to a location on East Main street, where he remained until in 1902, when he moved to his present location at 210 East Washington street, where he ever since has been located, a period of twenty-two years. In 1914 Mr. Neiswanger erected his present capacious studio building, the only building in Muncie constructed especially for studio purposes, and has there an admirable establishment, equipped in thoroughly up-to-date fashion to meet all demands of his exacting custom. Mr. Neiswanger is a member of the exclusive Daguerre Club of Indiana and has rendered service to his profession as a president of that club. He also is a member of the Tri-State (Ohio, Michigan and Indiana) Association of Photographers and has done his part in advancing the cause of art photography, with particular reference to portraiture, throughout the middle West. He is a Freemason and a member of the order of Knights of Pythias and he and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal church. Mr. Neiswanger married Jennie McCormick, daughter of James McCormick, and has a son, Robert M. Neiswanger, who in 1921 married Hope Stine, of Bluffton, Ind., and who is actively associated with his father in business, operating the Neiswanger studio. For nearly thirty years Mr. Neiswanger has been engaged in business in Muncie and is thus recognized as the oldest photographer in point of continuous service in the city.

ROBERT L. REAM, a veteran of the Spanish-American war and a member of the old established agency of Ream & Ream, realtors, at Muncie, has been a resident of that city since the days of his childhood. Mr. Ream is a son of J. W. and Elizabeth (Walters) Ream, both of whom were born in Ohio, the latter a daughter of Captain Walters, of Shanesville, Ohio. J. W. Ream was born in Canton, Ohio, a son of Henry W. Ream, and some time after his marriage established his home at Muncie. To him and his wife were born three children, the subject of this sketch having a sister, Mary F., and a brother, Harry W. Ream, who is associated with him in the real estate business at Muncie, a business which has been established here for more than thirty years. Robert L. Ream received his schooling in Muncie and early became.-a clerk in a shoe store, learning there a business in which he afterward was for twenty years engaged in Muncie, or until he entered the real estate firm with which he is now connected, and has since been engaged as a realtor, a member of the firm of Ream & Ream, with offices at 21514 South Walnut street. During the time of the Spanish-American war and the subsequent trouble in the Philippine Islands, Mr. Ream rendered service as a soldier, a member of the 4th Cavalry, and was with General Lawton in the Philippines. During a part of this service in the islands he was detached as a special bodyguard to General Otis. Robert L. Ream married Martha M. Drummond and has a daughter, Florence E. Mr. Ream is an Elk and he and Mrs. Ream are members of the Presbyterian church. They reside at 411 West Howard street.

DR. W. A. RICKARD, one of Muncie's veteran physicians, is a native son of Delaware county, a member of one of the pioneer fam, ilies here, and has resided here the greater part of his life, engaged in the practice of his profession at Muncie for nearly thirty years. Doctor Rickard was born on a farm in Niles township, this county, September 28, 1847, a son of Loxley and Nancy Rickard, and was reared on that farm. He completed his common schooling by attendance on the Muncie high school, which then was being carried on in the basement of the Universalist church, and in 1871 entered the old college that then was being conducted at Ridgeville, over in the neighboring county of Randolph. In 1875 he was graduated from that institution, meanwhile carrying on studies preparatory to taking up the study of medicine, and upon leaving college entered the office of Doctor Farquhar at Ridgeville, under whose preceptorship he was prepared for medical college, and two years later matriculated at the old Cincinnati Eclectic Medical Institute, from which he was graduated in 1879. Upon receiving his diploma Doctor Rickard opened an office for practice at Fairview, in Randolph county, and two years later moved to New Pittsburg, in that same county, where he was engaged in practice for fifteen years, or until in 1895, when he moved to Muncie, where he ever since has been located, he and his wife, who also is a graduate physician, practicing together with present offices and residence at 1315 South Madison street. Mrs. Claudia A. Rickard, M. D., was born and reared in Muskingum county, Ohio, and was for two years engaged in teaching school there. Her parents then moved to Indiana and for several years thereafter she was engaged in teaching in the schools of Delaware and Randolph counties. Meanwhile she was preparing herself for medical college and in time entered the Cincinnati Eclectic Medical Institute, pursuing her studies alongside her husband and was graduated with the same class from which he was graduated in 1879, and the two ever since have been engaged in practice together. It was in 1874 that Dr. W. A. Rickard was united in marriage to Claudia A. Allen, daughter of Ephraim and Sarah Allen, who then were residents of the neighboring county of Jay, and to this union two children have been born, a daughter, Josephine, and a son, Herbert Rickard. Josephine Rickard married Carl Cecil, a member of one of the pioneer families of this county, and has three children,

Dr. W. A. Rickard Dr. Claudia A. Rickard

Doris, William A. and Herbert D. Cecil. Herbert Rickard, a veteran of the World war, received his initial schooling at Muncie and then entered the Military Institute at Sweet Water, Tenn., from which he was graduated. For two years during the time of his attendance there he was secretary to the president of that institution. Upon leaving Sweet Water he entered Georgetown University at Washington, D. C., and was graduated in law from that institution. While attending Georgetown he for two years served as secretary to the committee of Congress that has in charge the compilation of the Congressional Record and for one year served as secretary to Judge Knapp of the Federal court. In 1916 during the time of the flurry on the Mexican border he rendered army service there, a sergeant in Pershing's army, and when this country took a hand in the World war in the spring of 1917 he continued his army service and was assigned to the 315th Heavy Artillery, with the rank of captain, and was overseas for fourteen months, during which time his command took part in the Argonne campaign. Captain Rickard is now engaged in the oil business at Houston, Tex.

DR. JAMES M. ATKINSON, for more than thirty years a practicing physician at Eaton and thus one of the veteran medical practitioners of Delaware county, was born in the city of Warren in Trumbull county, Ohio, June 18, 1863, and is a son of James and Lucy (Fox) Atkinson, the latter of whom also was born in that same county, in 1836, a daughter of George and Mary (Defenbaugh) Fox, who had moved to that county from Washington county, Pennsylvania, following their marriage, and had established their home among the pioneers of Trumbull county. James Atkinson was born in Virginia in the spring of 1825, in the neighborhood of Fairmount (now in West Virginia), and was a son of John Atkinson.and wife, the latter of whom was a Jaynes, who in 1832 moved to Ohio and settled in Trumbull county. John Atkinson, who was a soldier of the War of 1812, was born in Virginia in 1785 and was a son of a soldier of the Revolution. One of his brothers also was a soldier of the War of 1812 and lost his life at the battle of Ft. Meigs. James Atkinson was seven years of age when he accompanied his parents from Virginia to Ohio and he grew up amid pioneer conditions in Trumbull county, in which county he spent the remainder of his life, a farmer and a local minister of the Methodist Episcopal church. He also served for some time as superintendent of the Trumbull county infirmary. It was in the spring of 1861 he married Lucy Fox. He died in the spring of 1877 and his widow long survived him, her death occurring in 1908, her last days having been spent in the home of her daughter, Mrs. Mildred Baldwin, at Youngstown, Ohio. Besides this daughter there are two other survivors of the six children born to James and Lucy (Fox) Atkinson, Doctor Atkinson having also a brother, Terry Smith Atkinson, born in 1874, who has for many years been engaged in railroad service, now located at Saginaw, Mich. Reared at Warren, James M. Atkinson supplemented the schooling received in the schools of that city by a course in the Grand River Institute at Austinburg, from which he was graduated in 1885, and then devoted himself to medical studies, presently entering the medical school of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, and in 1893 was graduated from that institution. Upon receiving his diploma, Doctor Atkinson returned to Warren and in the fall of that same year came to Indiana and located at Eaton, establishing himself in practice there on September 14 of that year. A few months later he married and established his home at Eaton, where he ever since has resided, now continuously engaged in practice in this county for more than thirty years. Doctor Atkinson is a member of the Delaware- Blackford (county) Medical Society and of the state and national medical associations. He is a charter member of Eaton lodge, No. 606, Free and Accepted Masons, organized in 1896, and is also one of the organizers of the local lodge of the Modern Woodmen of America. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church and his wife is a member of the Episcopal church at Muncie. It was on February 1, 1894, less than six months after he became established in practice at Eaton, that Dr. James M. Atkinson was united in marriage to Indianola Cross and to this union two children have been born, a daughter, Indianola, born on April 24, 1895, who married E. K. Wood, and a son, James M., Jr., August 18, 1897, who is now a student in the medical college of the University of Michigan. Mrs. Atkinson was born at Winslow, N. J., in 1864, and is a daughter of Samuel Rudolph and Anna (Kirchenbauer) Cross, the latter of whom, on the maternal side, was connected with the Virginia Lees. Samuel Rudolph Cross was born in Hammonton, N. J., in 1839, and was married in 1868. He was a glass cutter and followed that trade in the East until in the early '90s when the glass factories became established in this part of Indiana following the opening of the gas field, when he came here and became engaged in the local glass industry and here he spent the remainder of his life, his death occurring at Muncie on May 12, 1901. He was a Freemason and was given a Masonic burial.

BORTER A. REES, a substantial farmer and landowner of Monroe township, residing on the Macedonia pike, rural mail route No. 7 out of Muncie, was born in that township, a member of one of the real pioneer families of this county, and has lived there practically all his life. Mr. Rees was born on January 28, 1856, and is a son of David and Melvina (Lewis) Rees, the latter of whom was born in that section of Virginia now comprised within West Virginia and the former, in Lancaster, Ohio, a son of Lewis Rees, who came with his family to what is now Delaware county in 1822 and settled in Perry township, later becoming one of the first associate judges of the circuit court here when this county was organized in 1827, and was a forceful figure hereabout in pioneer days, as is set out elsewhere in this work. David Rees was twelve years of age when he came here with his parents in 1822. As a young man he became possessed of a "forty" of timber land in Monroe township, which he cleared and developed, and after his marriage he established his home in that township. As his affairs prospered he added to his holdings until he came to be the owner of 240 acres of land. His wife died in 1897 and he died in 1905, being then ninety-three years of age. Of the thirteen children born to this pioneer couple eleven grew to maturity and of these five are still living, the subject of this sketch having a sister, Isabel, and three brothers, David, Daniel and James Rees. Reared on the home farm in Monroe township, Borter A. Rees received his schooling in the local schools and continued farming in association with his father until he married and then he rented a part of his father's place and began farming on his own account. A few years later he bought an "eighty" of his own in that township, but some years later sold that place and bought a farm of seventy-five acres in Center township on which he lived for awhile and then disposed of that place and returned to Monroe township, buying a farm in the Cowan neighborhood. After his father's death he bought 120 acres of the old home place and has since been living here, now proprietor of a well improved farm of 173 acres. Mr. and Mrs. Rees have seven children, Stella, Fronia, Lloyd, Clay, Gilbert, Otto and Mary, all of whom are married save the last named, Mary, who was recently graduated from the Cowan high school. Stella Rees married Curtis Bogus and has four children, Dorothy, Delbert, Roberta and Guy. Fronia Rees married Hays Harris and has six children, Wilbur, Eldred, Orville, Evelyn, Eva and Martha. Lloyd Rees married Emma Viretta Ross and has three children, Raymond, Isabel and Alice Fay. Clay Rees married Georgia Conner and has two children, Gayle and Carl. Gilbert Rees married Artie Snodgrass and has one child, Helen, and Otto Rees married Esther West and has four children, Gladys, Roland, Harry and Tyrenia. It thus will be noted that Mr. and Mrs. Rees have twenty grandchildren. Mrs. Borter A. Rees (Elvira J. Ross) also was born in Monroe township and is a daughter of James A. and Mary (Gibson) Ross, both of whom also were born in this county, members of pioneer families here, and who were the parents of ten children, eight of whom grew to maturity, those besides Mrs. Rees being Elmer, Charles, Sherman, Loretta, Allen, George and James. James A. Ross was a son of Aaron Ross, a North Carolinian, who was widely known hereabout in his generation as a pioneer miller at Yorktown. Starting out for himself as a farm hand at a wage of $10 a month, James A. Ross became a landowning farmer in Monroe township, his first purchase there having been a tract of forty acres for which he paid $20 the acre. His affairs prospered and he added to this until he became the owner of a good farm of 120 acres, on which he continued farming until his retirement and removal to Muncie, where he died in 1910: His widow survived him for nine years, her death occurring in 1919.

DAVID MEAREDTH SNIDER, a veteran building contractor of Muncie, now living practically retired in that city, is a native of the old Buckeye state, but has been a resident of Indiana and of Delaware county for more than forty years. Mr. Snider was born on a farm in Fairfield county, Ohio, March 10, 1849, and is a son of John D. and Caroline (Kline) Snider, Virginians, who moved into Ohio after their marriage and after a some time residence in Fairfield county established their home in Seneca county, that same state. John D. Snider was a farmer and died in 1862. To him and his wife were born thirteen children, of whom the subject of this sketch now alone survives. It was in 1852 that the Sniders moved to the Fostoria neighborhood in Seneca county, David M. Snider then being but three years of age. He thus got his schooling there and was graduated from the Fostoria high school. Upon leaving school he continued at farm labor for a while and then took up the brickmason's trade and after serving an apprenticeship of three years in that trade became engaged as a contractor in that line. That was in 1873. Mr. Snider continued engaged as a building contractor in Ohio until in 1883, when he came over into Indiana and established his home on a farm on the Wheeling pike five miles north of Muncie, where he lived, meanwhile carrying on building operations, for three years, or until he became engaged as a brick mason on the work then being carried on in connection with the erection of the new Delaware county court house, when he:moved to Muncie and has ever since resided here. For almost fifteen years Mr. Snider was engaged in the building trades as a contractor in masonry work in partnership with John M. Hamilton and following Mr. Hamilton's death carried on the business alone until his retirement from the active end of the business in 1920, after more than forty years of active and continuous service in this line and during which time he had a hand in many of the most important masonry contracts carried out in Muncie during the time of the city's practical reconstruction following the beginning of the "boom" here in the late '80s. Mr. Snider resides at 226 North Monroe street. He is an Odd Fellow and a Red Man, is also affiliated with the auxiliary council of the Degree of Pocahontas and he and his wife are members of the High Street Methodist Episcopal church. It was on October 8, 1874, while living in Ohio, that David M. Snider was united in marriage to Mary E. Kiser, who was born in Seneca county, that state, and to this union four children were born, Pearl, Mearedth, Frosa and Leo, all of whom are married. Pearl Snider married Carl Janney, of Muncie; Mearedth Snider married Mary Davis, also of Muncie, and has three children, Phyllis, Arthur and Robert; Frosa Snider married Lloyd White of Muncie, and has one child, a son, David, and Leo Snider married Laveta White and has a son, Don. Mrs. Mary E. Snider is a sister of Jacob F. Kiser, the veteran jeweler of Muncie, concerning whom further mention is made in this work, and a daughter of Jacob and Mary (Foughty) Kiser, the latter of whom spent her last days in Muncie, her death occurring here on March 13, 1908.

DR. FRANK M. PRAY, a practicing physician at Muncie, with special reference to the treatment of diseases of the eye, ear, nose and throat, is a native of Michigan but has been a resident of Indiana for nearly thirty years. Doctor Pray was born on a farm in Clinton county, Michigan, and was graduated from the high school at Eureka, that state. He then took up the study of medicine and presently entered the Philadelphia College of Medicine from which he was graduated after a course of three years. Upon receiving his diploma Doctor Pray became engaged in practice in Philadelphia but in 1896 came to Indiana and became engaged in practice at Indianapolis. In 1900 he entered the old Central College of Physicians and Surgeons at Indianapolis, now a part of the University of Indiana, and after a further course there, supplemented by eighteen months of travel and study in Europe, where he was enabled to make special clinical observations in the matter of the treatment of diseases of the eye, ear, nose and throat in the hospitals of Vienna, Berlin, Paris and London, he came to Muncie, in 1914, and has since been engaged in practice here, with present offices at 121 West Adams street.. Doctor Pray is a Scottish Rite (32°) Mason and a member of the local lodge of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. Dr. Frank M. Pray married Catherine Boor and he and his wife are attendants at the Friends Memorial church. They reside at 315 West Adams street.

JAMES ORR MURRAY, former postmaster at Parker, over the line in Randolph county, and now engaged in the mercantile business at Selma, a member of the firm of Orr & Murray, dealers in hardware and coal, was born on a farm in Delaware township, this county, December 8, 1867, and is a son of Capt. William H. and Margaret J. (Orr) Murray, the latter of whom was born in that same township, a daughter of James and Julia Ann (Hopping) Orr, pioneers of that township and concerning whom further and fitting mention is made elsewhere in this work. The late Capt. William H. Murray, a veteran of the Civil war and former auditor of Delaware county, was born on a pioneer farm in the vicinity of the village of Blountsville in the neighboring county of Henry, January 11, 1840, and was a son of Cornelius B. and Lucinda (Burroughs) Murray, the latter of whom was born in the vicinity of the Falls of Fall Creek (now Pendleton), over in the adjacent county of Madison, daughter of John and Martha Burroughs and a member of one of the pioneer families of that section of Indiana. Cornelius B. Murray was born in Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, a son of William Murray, whose father, a native of Ireland, was a soldier of the American Revolution. In 1836 Cornelius B. Murray and Lucinda Burroughs were married in Randolph county and two years later they settled on a farm in the Blountsville neighborhood, where Mrs. Murray died in 1873. Cornelius B. Murray afterward made his home at Hagerstown and lived to be near ninety years of age. He and his wife were the parents of ten children, seven sons and three daughters, so that the Murray connection of this family in the present generation is a considerable one. William H. Murray was reared on the home farm in the Blountsville neighborhood and his schooling was completed in the old Blountsville Academy, where he was a student when the Civil war broke out. On July 14, 1861, he enlisted his services in behalf of the cause of the Union and went to the front as a member of Company K of the 19th regiment, Indiana Volunteer Infantry. On

July 2, 1863, for meritorious conduct on the field at the battle of Gettysburg he was promoted to the rank of second lieutenant, in the following year was commissioned a first lieutenant and served until by reason of physical disability due to wounds received in battle he was honorably discharged on September 14, 1864, and later received the brevet rank of captain. In the battle of South Mountain Captain Murray received a serious wound and in the battle of the Wilderness, in May, 1864, was again seriously wounded. Upon the completion of his military service Captain Murray returned home and in the next year, February 16, 1865, married Margaret J. Orr, of this county, and became engaged in farming in Delaware township, teaching school during the winters. In 1870 he left the farm and became engaged in the mercantile business at Selma. In the fall of 1878 he was elected auditor of Delaware county and while performing the duties of this office made his home in Muncie. Upon leaving the auditor's office he bought a farm in Liberty township and there made his home until his retirement from.the farm and removal to Selma. Mrs. Murray died in 1912 and the Captain died in 1915. Captain Murray was a Republican and had rendered other public service besides that as county auditor. Back in the '70s he served for some time as trustee of Liberty township and when the county council was created in 1899 he was elected a member of that body and served as its first president. He was for years an active member of the local post of the Grand Army of the Republic. Captain and Mrs. Murray were the parents of seven children, the subject of this sketch (the second in order of birth) having three sisters, Mrs. Lulu M. Reed, Mrs. Margaret M. Bailey and Mrs. Edna K. Koerner, and three brothers, Dr. Don P. Murray, Arthur L. Murray and Judge Robert F. Murray, judge of the Delaware-Grant superior court, concerning whom further mention is made elsewhere. Reared on the home farm, James Orr Murray completed his schooling in the Muncie city schools and gave his attention to the farm until he was twenty-three years of age when he became engaged in the mercantile business at Parker, over the line in Randolph county, and in 1897 was appointed postmaster of that village, serving until on May 9, 1909, when he resigned on account of ill health and returned to his father's farm. Five years later, in 1914, he became engaged in his present business, hardware, farm implements and coal, at Selma, and has since been thus engaged, associated in business with his uncle, Charles M. Orr, and doing business under the firm name of Orr & Murray. In 1891 James Orr Murray was united in marriage to Edna M. Dotson, daugh- ter of Charles Dotson, of Parker, and he and his wife have three children, two sons, Charles W. and Don P., and a daughter, Mildred M., the latter of whom married John Jewitt and has one child, a son, John Murray Jewitt. Charles W. Murray, a veteran of the World war, is now manager of the Janesville Traction Company, of Janesville, Wis. He served as a second lieutenant of Company G of the 59th regiment, infantry, of the regular army during the time of this country's participation in the World war and saw much active service in France and also was with the Army of Occupation on the Rhine. Don P. Murray also served in the World war, with the rank of second lieutenant, attached to the 152d regiment, infantry. James Orr Murray is a Republican, as are all the members of his family. They are members of the United Presbyterian church and he is a member of the local post of the Sons of Veterans.

DR. F. E. HILL, a Muncie physician, with offices at 215 West Jackson street, was born in Felicity, Clermont county, Ohio, on March 4, 1862. He is the son of Nathan S. and Hattie Corey Hill, the latter coming from an old Colonial family of Revolutionary stock. Dr. Nathan S. Hill was graduated from the Ohio Medical College at Cincinnati, at the beginning of the Civil war and immediately entered into the service of his country as a surgeon of the 149th Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He marched with Sherman to the sea and served as surgeon until the close of the war, being mustered out of service at Washington, D. C., in 1865. After the close of the war he located at Neville, Ohio, where he continued in the active practice of medicine until the time of his death in 1896. To Dr. Nathan S. and Hattie Corey Hill, five children were born. Two sons died in early infancy.. The three living children are Dr. Frank E. Hill, Mrs. Charles A. Sharp and Miss Lelia L. Hill, all of whom reside in Muncie. Dr. F. E. Hill, after completing the course of instruction in the public schools at Neville, Ohio, entered the preparatory department of the Ohio State University at Columbus, Ohio, in 1880. During the summer vacation months he studied medicine under the preceptorship of his father. He was graduated from the Ohio State University in June, 1886. The degree of Bachelor of Science was conferred upon him. He was president of the graduating class. He then entered the Ohio Medical College at Cincinnati, from which he was graduated in 1890. Upon receiving his diploma he located at Mt. Auburn, Ky., and practiced general medicine there until 1895. He then went to Cincinnati, Ohio, and practiced there until 1898 when he located in Muncie, where he has practiced ever since. While in Cincinnati he was assistant to Professor Kelly and conducted the medical clinic at the Cincinnati College of Medicine and Surgery. This school later combined with the other Cincinnati schools to become the medical department of the University of Cincinnati. Doctor Hill's religious affiliations are with the Presbyterian church. He is a Mason, a Knight Templar and a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. Doctor Hill was united in marriage in June, 1890, in Cincinnati, Ohio, to Jessie G. Daughters, daughter of Oscar and Kate Daughters. To this union five children have been born, a daughter who died in infancy; Walter, who died in early childhood ; Edith L. Thompson, wife of Paul R. Thompson, of Muncie; Dr. Howard E. Hill and Robert E. Hill. Dr. Howard E. Hill, during the World war, was a member of the S. A. T. C. of the Indiana University, from which institution he was graduated in his pre-medic work in 1921, taking the degree of bachelor of science. He completed his studies in medicine and was graduated from the Indiana Medical College, the medical department of Indiana University, in 1924, and is now an assistant surgeon in the United States Navy, with rank of junior lieutenant. Robert E. Hill is a sophomore student at the Indiana Dental College at Indianapolis. Dr. F. E. Hill is affiliated with the American Medical Association, the Indiana State Medical Society, the Eighth District Medical Society, the Delaware-Blackford Medical Society and the Muncie Academy of Medicine.

ALBERT PALMER, an attorney at law living at Eaton and for more than twenty years a justice of the peace in and for Union township, is a native of the old Buckeye state, as are so many of the people of Delaware county, but has long been a resident of this county. Mr. Palmer was born on a farm in the vicinity of Bellefontaine, in Logan county, Ohio, in 1868, and is a son of Robert Palmer and wife, the latter of whom was a Davis. Robert Palmer, who was a soldier of the Union during the time of the Civil war, was born at Coshocton, Ohio, and was a son of John Palmer, a member of one of the pioneer families of Ohio. Reared in Logan county, Albert Palmer early took up the study of law and was admitted to the bar. In 1900 he established his home at Eaton, took up there the practice of law and has ever since been thus engaged, continuing to make his home at that place. In 1904 Mr. Palmer was elected justice of the peace and by successive re-elections ever since has occupied that magisterial position in the community in which he resides. Albert Palmer married Myrtle Mansfield, daughter of Robert Mansfield and a member of the pioneer Mansfield family of this county, and he and his wife have one child, a daughter, Lottie, who married Aaron Richardson and has two sons, Robert and Albert Richardson.

JOHN F. CLEVENGER, trustee of Monroe township, former assessor of that township, formerly and for years widely known throughout this region as a music teacher and for the past twenty years giving his special attention to the tuning of pianos, making his home at Cowan, where he has resided for many years, is a native son of Delaware county, a member of one'of the real pioneer families here, and has lived in this county all his life. Mr. Clevenger was born on a farm in Monroe township on March 1, 1853, and is a son of Joseph and Martha (Heinecker) Clevenger, the latter of whom was born in Rockingham county, Virginia, and both of whom were members of pioneer families in this county, the Clevengers and the Heineckers having been among the families that effected early settlement in the southern part of the county. Joseph Clevenger was born in Clermont county, Ohio, and was but a lad when he came into Delaware county. with his parents, Samuel Clevenger and wife, the family settling on an uncleared timber tract in Salem township, where he grew to manhood wrestling with the problems of developing a woodland farm. After his marriage he established his home on an eighty acre farm in Monroe township and there continued farming the rest of his life. Of the nine children born to him and his wife but two are now living, the subject of this sketch and his brother Joseph. Reared on the home farm in Monroe township, John F. Clevenger received his schooling in the local schools and early became recognized in the community for his musical proficiency. Developing this musical talent, he early began teaching music and for years was thus engaged, not only carrying his pupils along by means of private lessons but conducting singing schools throughout the county, in the days when the local singing schools were regarded not only as useful but highly enjoyable neighborhood diversions. Mr. Clevenger also for years taught instrumental music and served as bandmaster in the training of village bands and thus became widely known in musical circles hereabout. About twenty years ago he began to give his special attention to the tuning of pianos and has since been thus engaged. Mr. Clevenger is a Republican and has long given his attention to local civic affairs. In 1900 he was elected trustee of Monroe township and served four years in that public capacity. In 1918 he was again elected trustee and in 1922 was re-elected thus now serving his second consecutive term in that office. He also served one term as township assessor and has rendered other public service from time to time in appointive positions. He is a past noble grand of Cowan lodge No. 561, Independent Order of Odd Fellows. John F.

Clevenger married Kate S. Linville, daughter of Boyd and Mary Linville, pioneers of the southern part of the county, and he and his wife have two daughters, Louise L. and Edith, the latter of whom married Robert Beatty and has a son, George Franklin. Louise L. Clevenger married Vere Hamilton and has two children, Lillian Bernice and Robert A. Hamilton, the former of whom is a graduate of the Muncie high school and the Muncie Normal School.

DR. SAMUEL ALBERT MARTIN, dental surgeon at Muncie with an experience of more than twenty-five years of practice there, has been a resident of Muncie since the days of his childhood. Doctor Martin was born at Franklin, in Johnson county, Indiana, and is the son and only child of Dr. John S. and Laura A. (Clark) Martin, both of whom were born in that same county, the latter a daughter of John R. and Keziah Clark. Dr. John S. Martin, who has been a practicing physician at Muncie for more than forty years, was born on November 21, 1851, and is a son of Samuel C. and Jane (Hawthorne) Martin, who were born in Henry county, Kentucky, and who after their marriage established their home in Johnson county, Indiana. After a course in Franklin College, John S. Martin began teaching school and was for seven years thus engaged during the winters. He presently began the study of medicine under the preceptorship of Dr. J. D. George at Franklin and after preliminary studies entered the Medical College of the Homeopathic Hospital at Cleveland, Ohio, from which he was graduated in 1883. Thus prepared for practice he moved his family from Franklin to Muncie and has been practicing his profession in Muncie ever since, with present offices and residence at 324 East Adams street. Samuel Albert Martin was but a lad when his parents moved to Muncie from Franklin and he grew up in Muncie. Upon completing his work in high school he entered Wabash College and after a course of two years of study there entered the Indiana Dental College at Indianapolis. Upon his graduation from this institution in 1899 he returned to Muncie and opened an office for the practice of dental surgery, and has ever since been thus engaged, with present offices at 21514 South Walnut street, where he has been located for nearly twenty years. The Doctor is a member of the Muncie Dental Association, the Indiana State Dental Association and the Northern Indiana Dental Association. He is a member of the college fraternity Phi Kappa Psi (literary) and of the Xi Psi Phi fraternity (dental), and is a Freemason. On January 8, 1902, Dr. S. A. Martin was united in marriage to Ida E. Jacobs, daughter of John K. Jacobs, of Muncie, and to this union have been born two children, a son, John Albert, and a daughter, Mary Anne, the former of whom was graduated from the Muncie high school with the class of 1923, and the latter of whom is a member of the class of 1927. John Albert Martin is now a student at Wabash College. Doctor Martin and his family reside at 405 East Charles street.

JOHN W. FARLING, a veteran timber cruiser now engaged in business as a timber buyer, has for years been a resident of Muncie and is widely known in the timber trade. Mr. Farling was born on a farm in Richland county, Ohio, July 19, 1851, and is a son of Abraham and Lavina (Zimmerman) Farling, both of whom were born in Pennsylvania. After his marriage Abraham Farling moved from Pennsylvania into Ohio and settled on a farm in Richland county, where he remained until 1864 when he moved over into VanWert county (Ohio) and established his home on an eighty-acre farm he bought in the Delphos neighborhood. John W. Farling was thirteen years of age when he moved with his parents to VanWert county and he grew to manhood on the farm there. He married when twenty years of age and continued farming in Ohio until in 1878 when he came over into Indiana and became engaged in farming in the vicinity of Butler, in Dekalb county. For ten years thereafter, Mr. Farling continued farming in Indiana and then, in 1888, became employed as a timber buyer for the G. V. Griffith handle factory at Huntington. When this plant was moved from Huntington to Albany he retained this connection and when the plant was moved from Albany to Munhcie he became a resident of Muncie, which ever since has been his home, with residence at 1100 East Willard street. For thirty-two years, Mr. Farling continued his connection with this firm and then in 1920 became engaged as a timber buyer on his own account and has since been thus engaged, the field of his operations covering a wide territory hereabout, for the days of the old choice timber in this immediate locality long have passed. Since in October, 1923, he also has been operating a sawmill on South Walnut street. Mr. Farling and his wife are members of the Madison Street Methodist Episcopal church. In August, 1871, while living in VanWert county, John W. Farling was united in marriage to Rhoda Ann Bodey, who was born in the vicinity of Delphos in that county, daughter of Peter and Hannah Bodey, and to this union seven children were born, Lewis, Ola, Pearl, Fronia, Dora, Edith and Arthur, through whose several marriages Mr. and Mrs. Farling have fifteen grandchildren and six greatgrandchildren. Lewis Farling married Minnie Bowers and has one child, Paul, who married Anna V. Clifford and has one child, Lois Jean. Ola Farling, who married William Hyer of Huntington, Ind., now deceased, is now living at 1808 East Willard street, Muncie. She has five children, Jessie, Lester, Donald, Dorothy and Lettia Hyer. Jessie Hyer married Thomas Martin, of Fairfield, Ill., and has one child, a son, Thomas Jr. Lester Hyer married Leada White, of Muncie, and has two daughters, Betty Francine and Catherine June, and Dorothy Hyer married Roy Bogart of Muncie. Pearl Farling married Jacob Eberdine, of Huntington, now living at Detroit, and has two children, Edith and Evelyn, the latter of whom married Ferdinand Nordstrom of Detroit and has a daughter, Betty Jean. Edith Eberdine married William Sanders of Homestead, Fla. She has a son, Raymond Lee Sanders. Fronia Farling married Joseph Schramm, of Ft. Wayne, Ind., now living at Bennington, Vt., and has three children, Kenneth, Agnes and Lucille. Dora Farling married Harry McGarvey, of Huntington, Ind., now living at 924 South Beacon street, Muncie, and has three children, Vernon, Vonia and Virginia June. Edith Farling married Charles Demorest Smith, of Muncie, and has one child, a son, Eugene Rollin Smith. Arthur Farling, who is engaged in the confectionery business on South Walnut street at Muncie, married Gladys Smith and resides at 214 Meeks avenue.

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN SHROYER, cashier of the Merchants National Bank of Muncie, with which institution he has been connected almost from the time of its organization thirty years ago, is a native son of Delaware county, a member of one of the pioneer families here, and has resided here all his life. Mr. Shroyer was born on a farm in the immediate vicinity of the historic old village of New Burlington, in Perry township, April 24, 1873, and is a son of George W. and Mary (Benbow) Shroyer, both now deceased, and the latter of whom also was born in this county, the Benbows having been among the early settlers here. The late George W. Shroyer, a veteran of the Civil war, formerly and for years postmaster at New Burlington and a merchant there, was born in Ohio, August 14, 1832, and was a son of Michael Shroyer, who died when he was but a lad. With his widowed mother he came over here into Delaware county, the family settling in Perry township, where he was living, working as a carpenter, when the Civil war broke out. On August 2, 1862, he enlisted his services in behalf of the Union cause and in camp at Richmond, Ind., was assigned to Company B, 69th regiment, Indiana Volunteer Infantry, which command was rushed to the front and a few days later, August 30, met disaster at the battle of Richmond, Ky. Mr. Shroyer was seriously wounded in this unfortunate engagement and was taken prisoner by the enemy and sent to a Confederate hospital, under command of Gen. Kirby Smith, where he presently was exchanged on parole and sent home. Upon recovering from his wounds he rejoined his command, which had been merged with the 147th Indiana and was made lieutenant of Company B of this latter regiment, with which command he served until the close of the war. Upon the completion of his military service Mr. Shroyer returned home and on June 22, 1866, was united in marriage to Mary Benbow, who was born in this county on July 14, 1846. For some years after his marriage Mr. Shroyer carried on farming operations in the New Burlington neighborhood and then became engaged in the mercantile business in that village and was made postmaster, in succession to Dr. S. V. Jump, and was for years engaged in business there. His wife died on April 2, 1899, and he survived her for more than ten years, his death occurring on February 12, 1910, he then being past seventy-seven years of age. He was a Republican and he and his wife were members of the Methodist Episcopal church, in which faith their children were reared. There were three of these children, sons all, the subject of this biographical review, the second in order of birth, having two brothers, John B. Shroyer, born on March 22, 1869, who is now living at Shideler, this county, and Walter Shroyer, January 21, 1879, now a resident of Anderson. Reared at New Burlington, Benjamin F. Shroyer received his schooling in the schools of that village and was early trained in commercial forms in his father's store, where he was engaged as general assistant and bookkeeper until he was past twenty-one years of age, when he sought a wider outlet for the exercise of his business talents and on September 17, 1895, became employed as a bookkeeper in the Merchants National Bank at Muncie, with which institution he ever since has been connected, a period of more than twenty-eight years. Mr. Shroyer advanced on up through the ranks of the bank's staff until in good time he was made assistant cashier and then in 1916 was elected cashier of the bank, the position he now occupies, and is thus very properly regarded as one of the real "veterans" in the banking business in Muncie. Mr. Shroyer and his wife are Republicans and are members of the Methodist Episcopal church. Mr. Shroyer is a Freemason and has attained to the capitular degree (Royal Arch) in that ancient order. He also is affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and is a member of the influential Muncie Exchange Club. Since in April, 1914, he has been serving as treasurer of the Preachers' Aid Society of the North Indiana Conference of the Methodist Episcopal church. In 1899 Benjamin F. Shroyer was united in marriage to Emma Bedwell, of Muncie, and to this union one child has been born, a son, Raymond Roads Shroyer, whose name carries a nice compliment to his father's long time associate in banking, the late Hardin Roads, for many years president of the Merchants National Bank. Raymond Roads Shroyer was a student in the University of Michigan during the time of this country's participation in the World war and rendered service in the Students Army Training Corps of that institution. He was graduated from the university in 1922 and is now with the National City Company of New York, one of the greatest banking institutions in the country.

SAMUEL C. HERMANN, former trustee of Monroe township and for years engaged in the grain and coal business at Cowan, proprietor of the grain elevator there, has been a resident of Delaware | county for more than thirty years. Mr. Hermann was born on a farm in Darke county, Ohio, May 22, 1868, and is a son of Samuel A. and Lavina (Bergman) Hermann, both of whom also were born in Ohio and whose lives were spent there, the former dying in 1879. Samuel C. Hermann was eleven years of age when his father died. He remained in Darke county near his birthplace until he was twentyfive years of age, when in 1893, he came over into Indiana and began working in the factories at Muncie. In the next year he married and "settled down" in Muncie and two years later, in 1896, he began working in the old Wilson grain elevator, at that time being operated by Frank B. Miller. Six years later he bought Miller out and for ten years thereafter operated the elevator as proprietor. During this time, in 1909, he bought the elevator at Cowan and in 1910 he disposed of his Muncie plant and moved to Cowan, where he since has made his home, continuing to carry on his grain business and also operating a coal yard, two threshing rigs and a cider mill. His elevator is equipped for grinding but the operations of this mill are confined to local demands for custom work in the way of feeds. Mr. Hermann formerly operated three elevators, having had besides the elevators at Muncie and Cowan an elevator at Mt. Summit, and at one time also owned the elevator at Oakville, but of late years he has confined his operations to his plant at Cowan, where he is well equipped. Mr. Hermann is a Republican and for four years (1915-19) served as trustee of Monroe township. He married Lucy B. Rohr, daughter of William and Elizabeth Rohr, and he and his wife are members of the Methodist Protestant church. For some time Mr. Hermann served as the superintendent of the Sunday school of this congregation.

DR. BENJAMIN B. MORROW, for years a practicing physician at Muncie, is a native of the old Buckeye state, born at Mt. Victory, in Hardin county, Ohio, in 1872, and is a son of Dr. Charles W. and Elizabeth Ann (Beamer) Morrow, the latter of whom, daughter of Benjamin and Sarah (Kelly) Beamer, was for years a teacher in the schools of Mt. Victory. Dr. Charles W. Morrow, for years a practicing physician at Mt. Victory, and a veteran of the Civil war, was born in Belmont county, Ohio. His father was a Pennsylvanian, having moved to Ohio from the vicinity of Pittsburg. His mother, who was a McElroy, was born in Ireland and was but a child when she came to this country with her parents, the family settling in Union county, Ohio. Two of Dr. Charles W. Morrow's brothers, John A. and William M. Morrow, also served as soldiers of the Union during the time of the Civil war. To Dr. Charles W. and Elizabeth A. (Beamer) Morrow were born two children, Dr. Benjamin B. Morrow having had a sister, Harriet, a teacher in the schools of Bellefontaine, Ohio, who was graduated from Ohio Wesleyan. University in 1894, and who died in 1896. Reared at Mt. Victory, Dr. Benjamin B. Morrow was from the days of his boyhood attracted to the medical profession and under his father's able preceptorship was early given preparatory instruction along that line. Upon completing the course in the Delaware (Ohio) high school class of 1890, he entered Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware and in 1894 was graduated from that institution. He then entered the Ohio Eclectic Med-: ical College at Cincinnati and following his graduation from that institution in 1897 became engaged in practice at Mt. Victory, his home town, where he remained until his removal in 1907 to Muncie, where he since has been engaged in practice, with present offices at 3024 South Walnut street. When this country called for volunteers for civilian service during the "flu"? epidemic in 1918 Doctor Morrow volunteered his services in behalf of the Medical Corps of the army and was commissioned for service, this service being rendered at East Palestine, at St. Marys, Pa., and in the emergency hospital at Washington, D. C. Doctor Morrow for more than twenty years has been an active and an influential factor in the fraternal organization of the Loyal Order of Moose. In the national convention of this - order in 1910 Doctor Morrow, a representative from the local lodge in that convention, proposed to the convention that it adopt his plan of taking over the old normal school buildings at Muncie (now utilized by the state as a branch of the state normal school) and converting the same into a great national institution for the manual training of the orphan children of the Loyal Order of Moose. He continues to be recognized in his order as the original proponent of the idea which culminated in Mooseheart.. The Doctor is a member of the state and national medical associations and of the Delaware- Blackford Medical Society and the Muncie Academy of Medicine; he also is affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and he is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church. He is a member of the Phi Kappa Psi college fraternity and of the Amphictonian Literary Society. Dr. Benjamin B. Morrow married Mrs. Isabel Halstead, who died in 1914. By her former marriage she had two sons, Leigh and Charles Harcourt, the latter of whom is a member of the class of 1926, Muncie high school. Leigh Halstead was graduated from the high school in 1922. He married Mildred Bruton.

JOHN B. JACKSON, a former member of the board of county commissioners, a former trustee of Perry township, former assessor of that township and a substantial landowner of the township, now living retired at Selma, is a native son of Delaware county and is a member of one of the real pioneer families of the county, his grandfather having been one of the original land entrants in Perry township. Mr. Jackson was born on a farm in the Mt. Pleasant neighborhood in Perry township, September 3, 1846, and is a son of James H. and Elizabeth (West) Jackson, the latter of whom was a daughter of Thomas and Mary (Benbow). West, who had come here from South Carolina and were among the pioneers of the neighboring county of Henry. James H. Jackson was born in Shelby county, Ohio, February 6, 1822, and was thirteen years of age when in 1836 he came to Delaware county with his parents, Jesse and Mary (Williams) Jackson, both natives of Virginia, the family settling on a tract of land which Jesse Jackson had entered from the government in sections 17 and 18 in Perry township, there in the valley of Prairie creek north of Mt. Pleasant, where he took part in the development of a pioneer farm and grew to manhood. In his twenty-third year, December 1, 1845, he married Elizabeth West and established a home of his own, continuing farming all his life, the owner of a good farm of 184 acres. James H. Jackson died on October 28, 1888, and was buried in the Mt. Pleasant cemetery. He was the fourth in order of birth of the thirteen children born to his parents and the Jackson connec- tion of this family in the present generation is thus a considerable one. Of the four children born to James H. Jackson and wife the subject of this sketch is the first born, the others being Edward D. Jackson, born on March 28, 1849; Elizabeth J., February 11, 1853, who married Jacob H. Kilmore, and Emma Z., March 22, 1859, who married Mark Swearingen. John B. Jackson grew up on the home farm in Perry township and the schooling he received in the Mt. Pleasant school (district No. 5) was supplemented by a course in the old academy or high school at Blountsville, down over the line in Henry county. He then began to teach school and was thus employed for several winters, teaching one term in Perry township and the remainder in Wayne county, after which he settled down to the labors of the farm. He married in his twenty-fourth year and then bought a farm of 100 acres in Perry township, paying for the same $45 an acre, and on this place established his home, later adding to his holdings until he became the owner of 140 acres, which he still owns; and there he continued farming until his retirement in 1918 and removal to Selma, where he since has made his home. Mr. Jackson is a Republican and has rendered public service in several capacities. For five years (1885-1890) he served as assessor of Perry township and for a similar term (1890-1895) served as trustee of that township. In 1910 he was elected member of the board of county commissioners from his district and thus served a term in that important public office. He is a York Rite (Knights Templar) Mason, affiliated with the blue lodge (Whitney No. 229) at New Burlington and with the commandery (No. 18) at Muncie. It was on July 2, 1870,. that John B. Jackson was united in marriage to Elizabeth Jane Marshall, who also was born in Perry township, March 9, 1850, sixth in order of birth of the ten children born to Miles and Elizabeth (Bell) Marshall, the latter of whom was a daughter of James and Margaret (Blair) Bell. Miles Marshall was born in Wayne county, Ohio, in 1811, and was married in that state, not long afterward, in 1836, coming over into Indiana and establishing himself on a pioneer farm in Perry township, this county, where he spent the remainder of his life, coming to be the owner of a farm of 320 acres. To John B. and Elizabeth Jane (Marshall) Jackson were born five children, namely: Miles H., born on December 12, 1871; Clyde E., April 27, 1878, who died in the following September; Fatima L., December 20, 1875; Gola M., April 9, 1877, and Eva E., November 16, 1881. The mother of these children died on April 22, 1914, and on March 21, 1918, Mr. Jackson married Nancy E. Tunks. Miles H. Jackson married Lu- cinda Rees and has one child, a son, Leroy, who married Naomi Knight and has a son, Miles Robert Jackson. Fatima L. Jackson married Dr. Gilbert Jump and has one child, Marion. Gola M. Jackson married Bessie Smithson and has one child, Leah, and Eva E. Jackson married Lloyd Walradth.