Delaware County, Indiana - Sidelights on Local History, 1924 (part 3 of 21)

DR. EARLE S. GREEN, chief of staff of the Muncie Home Hospital, former president of the Delaware-Blackford Medical Society, a veteran of the World war with a major commission and a record of overseas service and a practicing physician of more than fifteen years standing in Indiana, is a native son of Delaware county, a member of a family which has been represented in the medical annals of this county for three generations, for his grandfather was a physician in the days of the pioneers and his father was for many years one of the leading physicians of the county, long established in prac- tice at Muncie. Doctor Green was born in the village of Royerton, four miles north of Muncie, in Hamilton township, May 3, 1888, and is a son of Dr. George R. and Mary E. (Monroe) Green, the latter of whom was born in Xenia, Ohio, daughter of Hugh and Jemima (Steel) Monroe, the former a native of Scotland and the latter a member of the influential Steel family which has been represented in the Xenia neighborhood for more than a hundred years. The late Dr. George R. Green, who for years was one of the recognized leaders of the medical profession in Muncie, was born in Hamilton township, this county, November 15, 1851, and was a son of Dr. Andrew J. and Amasia (Johnson) Green, the latter of whom was born in North Carolina, a daughter of James Johnson, who became one of the pioneers of Wayne county, Indiana. Dr. Andrew J. Green was born in Athens county, Ohio, and was but a lad when his parents, William Green and wife, came into Indiana with their family and became pioneers of Niles township in this county, settling in the Granville neighborhood. William Green was a New Yorker by birth and had followed the immigration stream west into Ohio and thence into Indiana. He and his wife were among the organizers of the Granville Christian (Disciples) church in 1835 and were influential! pioneers of that section of the county. Their son Andrew grew up there and became one of the best schooled men in that community. For years he taught school, meanwhile studying both medicine and theology, and became not only a minister of the Christian church but a physician. After his marriage he settled in what later came to be the Royerton neighborhood in Hamilton township, where he developed a farm and preached and practiced medicine until his death in 1885. His widow long survived him and her last days were spent in Muncie. Dr. George R. Green, son of this pioneer couple, was reared in Hamilton township. His common schooling was completed in the schools of Muncie and he was for three years thereafter engaged in teaching school, meantime reading law and studying medicine under his father's preceptorship, and was thus prepared for college. In 1877 he was graduated from the old College of Physicians and Surgeons, at Indianapolis, followed this by a post-graduate course in the New York Polyclinic and later received an honorary degree from the Indiana Medical College. The Doctor began his practice among his old home friends at Royerton and remained there until in 1885, when he moved to Muncie, where he established himself in practice and where he spent the remainder of his life, his death occurring in 1920. In 1878, the year following his graduation from medical college, Dr.

George R. Green was united in marriage to Mary E. Monroe and to this union three children were born, the subject of this sketch, the second in order of birth, having a sister, Bessie K., wife of William L. Wininger, pharmacist, of Muncie, and a brother, Dr. Dwight M. Green, who was graduated from Rush Medical College and is now practicing medicine at Los Angeles, Cal. Dr. Earle S. Green was but two years old when his father located at Muncie in 1885 and he thus was reared in this city. He was graduated from the Muncie high school in 1902 and in that same year entered Purdue University, following a year of study there by a year in DePauw University and then, in 1903, entered the Medical College of Indiana, from which institution he was graduated in 1907, with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. During the following year (1907-8) Doctor Green served as acting assistant surgeon of the United States public health and marine hospital service at the tuberculosis sanatorium at Ft. Stanton, New Mexico. In the spring of 1908 he married and established himself in practice in Muncie. Years ago Doctor Green became interested in the service of the Indiana National Guard and upon his return from Ft. Stanton he was appointed a first lieutenant in the Medical Corps of the Guard; later was promoted to the rank of captain and then to a major commission, being attached at different periods of service to the 3d infantry, Indiana National Guard, Field Hospital, Field Artillery Battalion, Field Signal Battalion and 2nd regiment, infantry. In 1914 he was graduated from the Field Service School for medical officers at the Army Service Schools at Ft. Leavenworth, and was attached to the service of the 2nd regiment, infantry, of the Indiana National Guard when in June, 1916, that command was ordered out for duty and federalized for action on the Mexican border, and he served as major surgeon of that organization while at Llano Grande, Texas, in the lower Rio Grande valley. During this tour of nine months duty, on orders from headquarters of the Department of the South, Major Green conducted field schools for all medical officers in the Brownsville district, at Llano Grande, San Benito, Brownsville and Point Isabelle. In March, 1917, after thirty days release from federal service, he again was ordered to active duty with the Indiana National Guard, guarding against threatened labor trouble in the Calumet district of northern Indiana and for eight months thereafter was on duty in that connection, serving in the dual capacity of surgeon and field officer. In the meanwhile this country had taken a hand in the World war and in the latter part of 1917 Major Green was ordered, with the command to which he was attached, to proceed to Camp Shelby (Miss.) to join the 38th Division (infantry) of the national army. The Major was assigned to duty at the headquarters of the 38th Division as division sanitary inspector and with this command, in September, 1918, sailed for overseas service. During this period of foreign service Major Green functioned as acting division surgeon and division sanitary inspector until after the armistice in November, when the division was utilized as a replacement organization. Upon his return to the United States in February, 1919, he was ordered to proceed to the Letterman General Hospital at Presidio, San Francisco, where he presently received his honorable discharge from federal service and in June of that year returned to Muncie and resumed his medical practice after an interruption of practically three years spent in the service of the United States army, and has since been engaged in practice here, with offices in the Western Reserve Life building, 124 West Jackson street. The Doctor still is retained as a major in the Medical Reserve Corps of the army. In 1923 he was appointed chief of staff of the Muncie Home Hospital. In 1920 he served as president of the Delaware- Blackford (county) Medical Society. Since 1919 he has served in the capacity of associate medical director of the Western Reserve Life Insurance Company of Muncie. He is a charter member of the Muncie Academy of Medicine, is a member of the district and state medical associations and is also affiliated with the Association of Military Surgeons of the United States. Doctor Green is a Scottish Rite (32°) Mason and a noble of the Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, his local affiliation with Freemasonry carrying through the capitular (chapter, Royal Arch Masons) and the cryptic (council, Royal and Select Masters) degrees and the commandery, Knights Templar, and he is the vice president of the Delaware County Scottish Rite Club. His blue lodge connection is with Muncie lodge, No. 433, F. & A. M. He is a member of the college fraternity of Delta Kappa Epsilon, is a charter member of the Muncie Kiwanis Club, of which he is now vice president, and is also affiliated with the local lodge of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. On May 27, 1908, at Muncie, Dr. Earle S. Green was united in marriage to Mary Kinert, who was born in the vicinity of Bluffton, Ind., daughter of William and Louisa T. Kinert, who years ago became residents of Muncie, and to this union one child has been born, a daughter, Mary Louise. Doctor Green and his family reside at 223 North Elm street.

DR. ROLLIN H. BUNCH, former mayor of the city of Muncie and for twenty years a medical practitioner here, is a native son of Delaware county and has lived here all his life. Doctor Bunch was born in the old settlement of Sharon (Desoto) on the Mississinewa in Delaware township, December 12, 1881, and is a son of Dr. Robert A. and Mary A. (Bair) Bunch, the latter of whom died in the summer of 1906. The late Dr. Robert A. Bunch, who for many years was a practicing physician at Muncie, was born at Portland, in the neighboring county of Jay, October 28, 1852, and was a son of Ishmael and Margaret (Bishop) Bunch, the latter of whom was born in Greene county, Ohio. Ishmael Bunch was born in South Carolina, a son of William Bunch, who had come to this country from France and who rendered service as a soldier during the time of the War of 1812. William Bunch's last days were spent in Indiana and he was eightynine years of age at the time of his death. Ishmael Bunch died in Jay county in 1865. He was the father of five children, of whom Robert A. was the second in order of birth. Robert A. Bunch supplemented the schooling received in the public schools at Portland by a course in old Libre College at that place and by a course in the Northern Indiana Normal School at Valparaiso, and was for eight years engaged in teaching school in his home county. Meantime he was pursuing his medical studies under local preceptorship at Portland and in time entered the Eclectic Medical Institute at Cincinnati, from which he was graduated in 1881. Doctor Bunch was for a time engaged in practice at Geneva and at Portland and then located at Desoto (old Sharon), in this county, where he remained until his removal in 1889 to Muncie, where he spent the remainder of his life in practice, his death occurring in 1912, his three sons, Rollin H., Frederick L. and Morrell McKenzie Bunch, meantime all having become physicians. The elder Doctor Bunch also had a daughter, Bessie G., who married Walter J. Lotz, a Muncie attorney. Rollin H. Bunch was eight years of age when his parents moved to Muncie. After three years of high school he entered Culver Military Academy and after a year there entered the Bennett Medical College at Chicago (American College of Physicians and Surgeons) and in 1904 was graduated from that institution, valedictorian of his class. Upon receiving his diploma Doctor Bunch returned to Muncie and became associated with his father in the practice of medicine, continuing thus associated until his father's death in 1912. He then became associated in practice with his brother, Dr. Frederick L. Bunch, and since the death of the latter in 1921 has been practicing alone, with present offices at 201 the Johnson block. Doctor Bunch is a member of the college fraternity Tau Alpha Epsilon and is affiliated with the local lodge of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. He is a Republican and served as mayor of the city of Muncie from 1914 until his resignation on December 1, 1919. Doctor Bunch married Ruth Racer, daughter of Thomas Racer, and he and his wife reside at 122 South Elm street. They are members of the Episcopal church. HARRIS E. HOWELL, better known among his friends as "Harrie" Howell, formerly and for many years a mercantile clerk at Muncie and now engaged in the coal business there, is a Pennsylvanian by birth but has been a resident of Muncie for more than thirty years and thus very properly feels that he "belongs" here. Mr. Howell was born on a farm in Greene county, Pennsylvania, February 12, 1870, and is a son of Abraham Ashbrook and Helen (Mar) Howell, both of whom were born in that same state. Abraham Ashbrook Howell left the farm in the early '70s and moved to Fairmount, W. Va., where he became engaged in the mercantile business, a line which he followed until his retirement when past seventy years of age, moving from Fairmount to Colfax and thence to Flemington, W. Va. He lived to be past ninety-two years of age. Harrie Howell was but a child when his parents moved to Fairmount and he received his schooling in the schools of that city. When thirteen years of age he began his mercantile career as a store clerk at Astor, W. Va., and was there for four years, or until in 1887, when he went to Clarksburg, W. Va., and was there engaged as a clerk until in 1892, when he came to Muncie, being attracted by the "boom" that then was on here in consequence of the development following the opening of the natural gas field hereabout, and he ever since has been a resident of Muncie. Upon his arrival here Mr. Howell secured employment as a clerk in the Klein cloak house. For twenty-four years he continued as a clerk in that establishment, thus becoming one of the best known figures in the retail trade of Delaware county, this connection continuing until in 1917, when he left the store with which he had for nearly a quarter of a century been connected and branched out "on his own hook," setting up in the coal business as a jobber. In 1922 Mr. Howell found that his business was assuming such proportions that better facilities for handling his trade were required and he then established his present coal yard at Hoyt avenue and Council street, where he is well equipped for all demands made in his line, both as a wholesaler and a retailer of coal. Mr. Howell is a Republican of "independent" leanings and is a member of the local lodges of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and of the Loyal Order of Moose. Harrie Howell married Cecile Gillette and he and his wife reside at 602 West Adams street.

EDWARD HUMBERT, purchasing agent for the Warner Gear Company of Muncie and for nearly fifteen years a resident of Muncie, was borne at Delphi, in Carroll county, Indiana, November 29, 1868, and is a son of Josiah and Mary Ellen (Sonnanstine) Humbert, both of whom were born in the vicinity of Massillon, in Stark county, Ohio, and who came to Indiana after their marriage. Josiah Humbert, who served for three years as a soldier of the Union during the Civil war, was a farmer. After a some time residence in Carroll county he moved to Huntington county and became a landowner and farmer in the vicinity of Huntington. He and his wife were the parents of six children. Edward Humbert received his schooling in the Huntington schools and for some time as a young man continued on the farm with his father. He then took service as timekeeper and distributor of railroad material in the railroad office at Huntington and after awhile was advanced to the master mechanic's office, in charge of the distribution of material for two divisions of the road. With the experience thus acquired he was given charge of stores and of the shipping and receiving department of the American Locomotive Works at Pittsburgh and after a while was transferred to the plant of the same company at Schenectady, N. Y., being there given charge of local stores and the shipping and receiving department. From that plant he was transferred to the automobile department of the American Locomotive Company at Providence, R. I., in charge there of stores and in and out products, and continued with that concern until in 1909 when he took his present position as purchasing agent for the Warner Gear Company at Muncie and has since been in charge of the purchasing department of that concern, making his home at Muncie. Mr. Humbert is a member of the National Association of Purchasing Agents, with headquarters at Indianapolis. He is affiliated with the Muncie Chamber of Commerce and with the Muncie Exchange Club and is a Freemason and a noble of the Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. Edward Humbert has been twice married. In 1898, at Huntington, Ind., he was united in marriage to Pearl Lowmaster, who was born in Ohio and who was but a child when she came to Indiana with her parents, the family locating at Huntington, and to that union two daughters were born, Laura Ellen and Esther Pearl, the former of whom married Rodney D. Craig and is now living at Los Angeles, Cal. Mrs. Pearl Humbert died in

1905 and on November 11, 1911, Mr. Humbert married Judith May Lister, who was born in the vicinity of the village of Lynn in the neighboring county of Randolph on May 11, 1885, a daughter of William L. and Ella (Heaston) Lister. Mr. and Mrs. Humbert are members of the Friends Memorial church. They reside at 525 West North street.

ABBOTT L. JOHNSON was one of the potent individual factors in the development of Muncie at the time this city entered upon its new or "modern" era of progress following the opening of the natural gas fields hereabout in the late '80s and from that time until the day of his recent death had ever kept the interests of Muncie uppermost in his heart and in his endeavors. It therefore is but fitting that in this definite history of the community in which his labors were so long and so effectively directed there should be carried some tribute to the good memory he left at his passing. Mr. Johnson was a native of New York state and was reared in Ohio, but had been a resident of Indiana from the time of attaining his majority, a period of fifty years. The endeavors of his maturity thus were carried on here and in the fruition of those endeavors this community has greatly profited. Mr. Johnson was born in Herkimer county, New York, August 26, 1852, and was twelve years of age when in 1864 his parents, Henry I. and Eliza (Ferguson) Johnson, moved from there to Ashtabula, Ohio, where he grew to manhood and where he early became familiar with the details of the lumber industry and with woodworking machinery, particularly that branch of the latter industry having to do with bentwood operations. In 1873, when twenty-one years of age, Mr. Johnson came to Indiana and installed a bentwood plant at Bluffton. Four years later he became head of a similar concern at Montpelier, doing business under the name of A. L. Johnson & Company, and in the following year (1878) established a branch of this concern at Muncie, where he made his headquarters and which ever afterward was his home, so that at the time of his death in 1923 he had been a resident of this city for fortyfive years. In 1883, in association with W. E. Hitchcock, Mr. Johnson enlarged his operations here by installing a skewer plant, at the same time continuing his lumber operations. Two years later, in 1885, he consolidated his lumber interests and formed a partnership with his elder brother, the late John C. Johnson, the brothers thereafter for years carrying on here an extensive business in the lumber trade. Abbott L. Johnson thus was definitely and substantially established in business here when in 1886 the presence of natural gas was revealed here. His business acumen and foresight gave him an immediate grasp upon the situation and he was one of the very first to set in motion the various operations which straightway brought on the memorable "boom" here, giving freely the benefit of his experience in the organization and direction of the principal promotion movements which were started at that time; and, as was but proper, found a portion of his reward in the considerable financial profit which attended some of these operations, particularly in his real estate and city extension enterprises. As these interests expanded they gradually came to ramify or interlace pretty nearly all the important operations of the community, his activities including not only building and real estate, but banking and manufacturing, so that the name of A. L. Johnson was found on the directorates of many of the leading business and industrial concerns that grew up in Muncie during the days of the city's vital expansion. He had been one of the original organizers of the waterworks company in 1885 and in other civic enterprises he was equally foresighted and active. He also had numerous outside interests of a profitable character; in short, was a clear-sighted financier who realized the benefits of commercial and industrial expansion. As principal owner of the Johnson block in Walnut street, the first modern office building erected in Muncie, he demonstrated his prescience of one of the city's coming needs. One of the original "boosters" of the old Commercial Club, Mr. Johnson maintained his interest in that connection to the end as a member of the Chamber of Commerce. He also was a member of the directorate of the Delaware County National Bank and was president of the Warner Gear Company, the Glascock Bros. Manufacturing Company and the Morgan-Hitchcock Company. As a member of the board of governors of the Muncie Home Hospital he had been able to do much to promote the interests of that institution. He was a deacon of the First Baptist church, for years a member of the board of trustees of that congregation and also for years was superintendent of the Sunday school. A Freemason of many years standing, Mr. Johnson had attained a position of influence in that ancient body and was an honorary member of the Supreme Council (33°) of the Valley of Indianapolis, Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite, Northern Masonic Jurisdiction. He died at his winter home at Daytona, Florida, January 11, 1923, and his widow continues to make her home at Muncie, residing at 330 East Washington street, which has been the Johnson home for many years. In 1872, at Ashtabula, Ohio, Abbott L. Johnson was united in marriage to Florence Merri- man, daughter of Charles Merriman, of that city, and to this union were born three children, two sons, John Edgar Johnson (deceased) and Ray Prescott Johnson, of Muncie, and a daughter, Florence Grace, wife of Charles S. Davis, also of Muncie.

JAMES HARVEY BAXTER, professor of mathematics in the Eastern Division of the Indiana State Normal School at Muncie, has been connected with that institution since its opening in the summer of 1917, having been transferred to this school from the normal school at Terre Haute, where for some years prior he had been a teacher of mathematics. Professor Baxter was born on a farm in the immediate vicinity of Camden, in Hillsdale county, Michigan, March 15, 1875, and is a son of Andrew Austin and Katherine A. (Todd) Baxter, the latter of whom was born in Ohio. Andrew Austin Baxter, who was an honored veteran of the Civil war, was born in New York state but was living in Michigan, a young farmer and school teacher, when the Civil war broke out. Upon the President's first call for volunteers in 1861 he enlisted his services in behalf of the Union and went out with the 2d regiment, Michigan Volunteer Infantry. Upon the completion of that term of service he returned home, was married and then re-enlisted for service during the duration of the war, was attached to the 22d Michigan and served for four years, presently being promoted to captain and then to provost major. Upon his retirement from the army Major Baxter settled at Alvordton, in Williams county, Ohio, across the line from his home county in Michigan, but not long afterward returned to Hillsdale county and there established his home, becoming a substantial farmer and stock man, his place being widely known as the "Baxter Stock Farm." He was a Freemason and a member of the Grand Army of the Republic. He and his wife spent their last days in Michigan, her death occurring at the age of fifty-nine and his, at the age of sixty-seven. They were the parents of four children, three daughters and the one son. Reared on the home farm, James Harvey Baxter received his early schooling in the common schools and at the age of fifteen years began to teach school. He presently entered the Tri- State College at Angola, Ind., for a course in preparation for high school work and later attended the Michigan State Normal School, from which in 1903 he was graduated with the degree of B. S. Three years later, in 1906, he received his B. A. from the University of Michigan and then became engaged as a teacher of mathematics in the Indiana State Normal School at Terre Haute. During the term, 1911-12 he was given leave of absence to pursue post-graduate work at the University of Michigan and upon his return to the state normal school was made an assistant professor of mathematics. When the Eastern Division of the Indiana State Normal School at Muncie was opened in June, 1917, Professor Baxter was transferred to this institution as head of the department of mathematics and has continued to serve in that capacity. Professor Baxter is affiliated with the National Education Association and with the Association of American Mathematicians. He is a member of the executive committee of the board of directors of the Muncie Chamber of Commerce, vice president of the Exchange Club, and is a Freemason and a member of the Methodist Episcopal church.

FRANK E. PELHAM, proprietor of the Pelham Pharmacy at Muncie, has been a resident of this city something more than ten years and for the past four or five years has been in business for himself, having taken over his present store after years of practical experience in the drug line. Mr. Pelham was born at Portland, in the neighboring county of Jay, March 1, 1884, and is a son of Robert Newton and Omega (White) Pelham, the latter of whom was born and reared at Bluffton, Ind. Robert Newton Pelham, who was born at Portland, a member of one of the old families there, formerly and for years was one of the active figures in the local oil field, a driller, who in the early 90s moved from Portland to Geneva, where he established his home. Frank E. Pelham was graudated from the Geneva high school and then entered the School of Pharmacy of Valparaiso University. In 1907 he was graduated from that institution and began his practical work as a pharmacist in the drug store of M. T. Atwood at Geneva. In 1910 he went from there to Shelbyville, Ind., as pharmacist in the drug store of Robert Buxton and was there thus engaged until in 1913, when he came to Muncie as pharmacist in the drug store of Charles Benadum at 500 East Willard street, and has ever since been engaged at that number. On November 4, 1919, Mr. Pelham bought this drug store and has since been carrying on the business there as proprietor, his place being known as the Pelham Pharmacy, a well appointed drug store, equipped in up-to-date fashion. Mr. Pelham is a Republican, a Freemason, a Knight of Pythias and an Elk. He has been twice married. In 1908, at Geneva, he was united in marriage to Effie Reichelderfer, daughter of Charles and Eliza Reichelderfer, of that place, who died on January 11, 1910, leaving one child, a son, Roger Hayward Pelham. On December 11, 1912, at Shelbyville, Mr. Pelham married Merle May Williams, daughter of Charles W. and Margaret Williams, members of old families in Shelby county, who in 1914 made their home in Muncie. To this latter union one child has been born a daughter, Mary Jane. Mr. and Mrs. Pelham are members of the Madison Street Methodist Episcopal church.

JOSEPH A. GODDARD, a veteran of the Civil war with an officer's commission, head of the firm of Joseph A. Goddard & Company, wholesale grocers at Muncie, and founder of the establishment which bears his name; formerly and for years president of the city school board and for fifty years an active factor in the development of the commercial and civic interests of Muncie and of Delaware county, is a native of the old Buckeye state but has been a resident of Indiana so long that he very properly feels himself as much a Hoosier as any here. Mr. Goddard was born in the city of Cleveland, Ohio, December 17, 1840, and is a son of John Henry and Ann (Wilson) Goddard, both natives of England. John Henry Goddard was born in the vicinity of the city of London and was but a lad when he came to America. He located at Buffalo, N. Y., and was there trained in the chandlery line. He became engaged as a chandler in Cleveland and for some years after his marriage had his home there, moving thence to Stark county, Ohio, and thence after awhile to Freedom, in Portage county, where for some time he operated a chandler's shop. From there he presently moved to Ravenna, Portage county, and then to Elyria in Lorain county, Ohio, where he carried on his chandlery line until his retirement about 1878, when he rejoined his son, Joseph A. Goddard, who meanwhile had become a resident of Muncie, and here his last days were spent, his death occurring in 1882, he then being seventy-nine years of age. His wife had long predeceased him, - her death having occurred in Cleveland in 1847, she then being thirtyseven years of age. They were the parents of five children, of whom the subject of this sketch was the third in order of birth, the others being John, who served as a soldier of the Union during the Civil war; Martha, Mary and Julia. Joseph A. Goddard was but a lad when his father left Cleveland and at Ravenna, county seat of Portage county (Ohio), when thirteen years of age, he became apprenticed to the printer's trade. Not finding that form of service to his liking, however, two years later he gave up thought of becoming a printer and began working on a farm and was thus engaged until he was seventeen years of age when, in 1858, he went to Cincinnati and became employed in the wholesale grocery store of an uncle, B. P. Baker, and was thus engaged when the Civil war broke out. In 1862 Mr. Goddard entered the service of the Union army as a private in

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Company M of the 4th Ohio Cavalry, presently was given a lieutenant's commission and afterward was promoted to a captaincy and assigned to D Company of that same command, and with this command served until the close of the war and was mustered out in June, 1865, with the rank of captain. The 4th Ohio Cavalry was a part of the Army of the Cumberland and Captain Goddard thus had a part in some very interesting campaigns, including participation in the battle of Chickamauga and the memorable drive with Sherman, going as far as Atlanta. During this service he was given a detached assignment and in January, 1864, was made staff quartermaster and aide on the staff of Gen. W. L. Elliott, cavalry commander of the Army of the Cumberland, and when General Elliott was succeeded by Gen. James H. Wilson was continued on the staff of the latter to the end. It was during this latter service that Captain Goddard took part in the celebrated expedition of General Wilson in March, 1865, with an army of about 15,000 men, mostly cavalry, against Forrest's army in Alabama. The expedition routed General Forrest and in April, 1865, captured Selma, Montgomery, Columbus and Macon, a vigorous campaign which was a decisive factor in bringing the war to anend. It was at Macon that Jefferson Davis, the humbled president of the Confederacy, was captured by a detachment of Wilson's men and Captain Goddard was officer of the day at headquarters in Macon when Davis was brought in. Upon the completion of his military service Captain Goddard returned to Cincinnati and resumed the even tenor of his way along the paths of peace. In the next year he married and established his home at Cincinnati, where he continued his former employment in the wholesale grocery house of his uncle, becoming a traveling salesman for that concern. It was in this capacity as a commercial traveler that he made his first acquaintance with Muncie. His periodical trips here gradually convinced him that here was. a good commercial center and in May, 1874, he moved to Muncie with his family and in association with B. R. Adamson became engaged in the retail grocery business, operating under the firm name of Adamson & Goddard, in a store room on the east side of the public square, and presently put in another store, in Walnut street below Jackson. This firm gradually extended its operations to include a general grocery jobbing business for the accommodation of the trade in the nearby towns and villages and in 1881 the Adamson & Goddard partnership was dissolved, Mr. Goddard taking over the jobbing end of the concern, and it was thus that the Goddard wholesale house was established, more than forty years ago. Upon start- ing in business on his own account in this line Mr. Goddard opened a wholesale house at 120 South Walnut street, starting in with two clerks and a wagon man. The business rapidly grew and these quarters presently were outgrown. Mr. Goddard then bought ground and erected a building at the southeast corner of Walnut and Adams streets, and when those quarters were outgrown occupied a building at the corner of Charles and Mulberry streets. In 1901 this business was incorporated as the Joseph A. Goddard Company. It soon became apparent that still greater quarters would have to be provided for the growing business and a few years later plans were perfected for the erection of the present modern and commodious wholesale house and warehouse at 221 West Seymour street, which were occupied in 1907 and where the business. has since been conducted, Mr. Goddard continuing active in business. The officers of the J oseph A. Goddard Company when this change was made in 1907 were as follows: President, Joseph A. Goddard, who still is head of the con- 'cern; vice president, William H. Goddard, son of the president and now deceased; secretary and treasurer, Frederick B. Jones, who still. is serving in that capacity, and these together with A. Fletcher Howell, present vice president of the company, the late Hardin Roads, J. C. Johnson and J. M. Maring formed the directorate of the company. From its "day of small things" back in 1881 this concern has developed until now no fewer than forty persons are employed in the wholesale house and eight traveling salesmen cover the territory within this trade area. As will be noted elsewhere in this work, Mr. Goddard was one of the active factors in promoting commercial and industrial development work here following the opening of the natural gas field in the late '80s and he also was one of the organizers and the first president of the Citizens Enterprise Company which in the early 90s proved its worth as a stimulus to the movement for bringing new manufacturing enterprises to town. He also has ever since becoming a resident of Muncie taken a proper part in the general civic life of the community and for twelve years (1886-1898) rendered service as president of the local school board, the interests of the city schools being advanced greatly during that period. For years Mr. Goddard has been one of the active promoters of the interests of the local Y. M. C. A. and is the present vice president and a member of the board of directors of that association. He also formerly and for several years was vice president and a member of the directorate of the Delaware County National Bank and is at present a director of the Merchants National Bank. He is a member of the local post of the Grand Army of the Republic and of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States. It was in 1866, in Wayne county, Indiana, that Joseph A. Goddard was united in marriage to Mary Hough, daughter of William Hough and wife, influential members of the old Quaker community in that county, and to this union three children were born, the late William H. Goddard, mentioned above, who married Margaret Huston and died in 1920, leaving two sons, Joseph A. and Charles Huston Goddard; Grace, who married C. M. Rich and has four children, Lynore, Mary G., Lydia and Edward; and Anna, wife of Robert M. Chapple, also of. Muncie. Mrs. Mary Hough Goddard, with her birthright in the Society of Friends, was without church association here when she and Mr. Goddard came to Muncie in 1874 and at her invitation, in 1876, the first Quaker minister to hold service in Muncie visited the town and held a meeting, out of which grew a small society of eighteen members, six men, six women and six children. Mrs. John W. Burson donated to this society the use of a room on the north side of the public square for a place of meeting and this room was occupied until in 1880 when, largely through the financial aid of Mr. and Mrs. Goddard, a smail meeting house was built at the corner of Mulberry and Seymour streets, the latter then known as Wall street. In 1906 when the present handsome Friends church at the corner of Adams and Cherry streets was erected Mr. Goddard was chairman of the building committee. In 1882 Mrs. Goddard served as a member of the public library board. It was through her suggestion that the section devoted to Indiana authors, an interesting feature of the Muncie library's service later was created. By popular request this section has been extended and is now known as the Mary H. Goddard Memorial. Mrs. Goddard died on May 26, 1908, and at her passing left a good memory, for she had been for many years active in good works.

DR. E. BE. POLK, a practicing physician at Muncie, is a member of one of the old families of Delaware county. The Doctor was born in Center township, this county, April 20, 1864, and was reared here. He early became attracted to "the art preservative of all arts" and as a boy learned the printer's trade at Muncie, going thence to Logansport, where he worked at that trade for some time and then went to Chicago and became employed in the publishing plant of Rand McNally & Company, afterward going to Indianapolis to work in the W. B. Burford plant. While working at Indianapolis he took up the study of medicine and in 1883 was matriculated at the old Physio- Medical College there, having matured his plans for "working his way" through college. He was graduated from that institution in 1886. Upon receiving his diploma Doctor Polk opened an office for the practice of medicine at Ft. Wayne, but not long afterward returned to Indianapolis and in this latter city was engaged in practice until in 1896 when he came to Muncie. For nearly twenty years Doctor Polk continued practice at Muncie and then, in 1915, he moved to Fruitland Park, Fla., where he became engaged in practice. For five years the Doctor made his home in Florida and then, in 1920, he returned to Muncie and has since been engaged in practice here, with offices and residence at 1507 West Jackson street. Doctor Polk is a member of the Muncie Academy of Medicine. His wife, Luella Wilson, to whom he was married in 1880, was born at Fairmount, W. Va., and is a daughter of William Wilson.

WILLIAM A. McNAUGHTON, founder of the department store which bears his name at Muncie, and which is carried on by the concern which he established, W. A. McNaughton & Company, was an active force in the development of the commercial interests of Muncie following the opening of the gas field here back in the 90s. At his death he left a good memory here and it is but fitting that in this definite history of the county in which he so effectually labored there should be carried some brief memorial of the service he thus rendered. Mr. McNaughton was a native son of Indiana, and all his life was spent in this state. The place of his birth was Leavenworth, a pleasant old village in Crawford county, and he was a son of the Rev. Samuel W. and Sarah (Forbes) McNaughton, both members of pioneer families of that county and the former of whom, a veteran of the Civil war, was a minister of the Methodist Episcopal church. The Rev. Samuel W. McNaughton and wife were the parents of ten children, so that the McNaughton connection of this family in the present generation is a considerable one. Of these children, William A. and Frank McNaughton were the only ones who became residents of Muncie. William A. McNaughton early became attracted to a commercial life and as a lad became employed as a clerk in a store at Edinburg, in Johnson county, where his parents then were living. He later became a clerk in the bank at that place and when twentyone years of age was cashier of that bank, the position he was occupying when in 1870 he married Anna Walsh, daughter of John Walsh, a dry goods merchant of that place. Not long afterward he became associated with his father-in-law in the mercantile business at Edinburg, under the firm name of Walsh & McNaughton, and was thus engaged for about ten years or until in 1880, when he retired from that connection and moved to Franklin, where he opened a dry goods store of his own and in association with his brother, Frank McNaughton, embarked in business for himself. The McNaughtons remained in business at Franklin until they came to Muncie and in February, 1896, bought the old Johnson dry goods store at the corner of Walnut and Jackson streets. In the following September, when the new Johnson building was completed, the McNaughton store was moved into that building, occupying the corner room and basement, and the business was carried on there until in November, 19038, when the present McNaughton building was completed and in that building was installed the department store of W. A. McNaughton & Company, one of the leading department stores in Indiana. William A. McNaughton continued as president of this company and general manager of the store until his death on May 25, 1909, and since then his son, John F. McNaughton, has been president of the company. J. C. O'Hara is vice-president and treasurer of the company, E. A. Mc- Dowell is the secretary and Frank McNaughton, advertising manager, who has been writing McNaughton ads for more than forty years, and Harry M. Lee are the other members of the directorate. The late W. A. McNaughton was a Freemason and was a member of the High Street Methodist Episcopal church. He ever took a proper part in local public affairs and was a member of the city school board at the time of his death. Of the six children born to W. A. and Anna (Walsh) McNaughton but two now survive, John F. McNaughton having a sister, Florence, wife of J. C. O'Hara, vice-president of the McNaughton Company. William W. McNaughton, the eldest son of this family, died at the age of twenty-eight years, as did Walter Mc- Naughton, the other son. Mayme, the eldest daughter, married Warren W. Lee and died at the age of twenty-six, and another daughter, Margaret, died in infancy. The McNaughton building at the corner of Walnut and Charles streets and the firmly established McNaughton store which occupies that building are substantial monuments to the memory of W. A. McNaughton and to the influence he exerted upon the commercial life of this community during the years of his labors here.

ERNEST M. CURTIS, proprietor of the City Coal Yards at Muncie and also engaged in business as a street and highway contractor, is a native son of Delaware county and has lived in this county the greater part of his life, a resident of Muncie since he was fifteen years of age. Mr. Curtis was born on a farm in Mt. Pleasant township on October 15, 1885, and is the son and only child of Grant and Alice (Snodgrass) Curtis, both of whom also were born in this county, members of pioneer families here. The late Grant Curtis grew up as a farmer and after his marriage began farming in Mt. Pleasant township, where he remained until in 1900, when he moved with his family to Muncie and became employed on the city police force. For eleven years he served as a city policeman and then was elected township assessor, a position he occupied for four years, at the end of which time he became employed as a special policeman at the plant of the General Motors Corporation and was thus engaged until his death in 1920. Ernest M. Curtis was fifteen years of age when he came to Muncie with his parents in 1900 and upon completing his schooling he began clerking in a clothing store, a position he occupied for about five years, or until he had attained his majority, when he started out to take a view of conditions in other cities and was gone for five years, clerking in stores at Chicago, St. Louis and Louisville. Upon his return to Muncie Mr. Curtis opened a cigar store and was thus engaged in business for five years, or until in 1914, when he closed out that line and became engaged in street and highway contracting, a business which he since has quite successfully followed, the field of his operations in that line being confined to this state. In 1915 Mr. Curtis also became engaged in the retail coal business and has built up at his City Coal Yards, 606 South Elm street, a continually growing business in that line. Mr. Curtis is a Democrat. He is affiliated with the local lodges of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and of the Fraternal Order of Eagles. He married Jeannette Swink and he and his wife reside at 301 West Howard street.

NELSON P. LUDINGTON, purchasing agent for the Kitselman Bros., manufacturers of wire fence, and for the Indiana Steel and Wire Company, of Muncie, is a native Hoosier and has lived in this state practically all his life, a resident of Muncie for nearly a quarter of acentury. Mr. Ludington was born in Grant county, Indiana, but was reared at Richmond, where his parents had their home for many years. He was born on October 2, 1879, and is a son of Harley P. and Emily (Cripe) Ludington, the latter of whom was born in Wayne county, a member of one of the pioneer families of that part of Indiana. The late Harley P. Ludington was born at Circleville, Ohio, but came to Indiana with his parents in the days of his boyhood and was for years employed at Richmond as a pattern maker. Nelson P. Ludington was reared at Richmond and received his schooling in the schools of that city, supplementing the schooling received in the common schools by a course in a business college there. In 1898, he then being nineteen years of age, he went to Missouri and became employed there in the offices of the Central Lead Company at that concern's mines at Bonne Terre in that state. In the next year (1899) he returned to Indiana and became employed in the Little & Oakley hardware store at Muncie and was thus engaged until in 1904 when he went to St. Louis and became employed there as a salesman for the Simmons Hardware Company. In the next year he returned to Muncie and resumed his former connection with the Little & Oakley store, which then was bought by the Kimbrough Hardware Company, and he continued thus employed until in 1908, when he transferred his connection to the store of George Keiser & Company, mill supplies, and was there employed for a couple of years or more. In 1911 Mr. Ludington entered upon his present connection with the great plant of the Kitselman Bros., manufacturers of farm, lawn and poultry fence, as purchasing agent for that concern, and has since been thus engaged, also purchasing agent for the plant of the Indiana Steel and Wire Company, manufacturers of telephone wire, wire nails, strand wire and poultry netting, one of the established figures in the wire industry in this country. Mr. Ludington is a Republican and a Freemason and he and his wife are members of the Jackscn Street Christian (Disciples) Church. In 1908 Nelson P. Ludington was united in marriage to Blanche Ellen Dungan, who was born and reared in Muncie, daughter of Walter and Rosa Dungan, and to this union two children have been born, Helen Pauline and Betty Ann. The Ludingtons reside at 708 West Jackson street. Mrs. Ludington is a granddaughter of John W. Dungan, a former sheriff of Delaware county and in his generation one of the best known citizens of Muncie and of this county, a son of Benjamin Dungan, a Pennsylvanian, who came into Indiana from Ohio in 1836 and became one of the pioneers of Delaware county.

CHARLES ROLL MOON, president of the Moon Machine Company of Muncie, is a native Hoosier and has lived in this state all his life, a resident of Muncie for nearly forty years. Mr. Moon was born at Hartford City, in the neighboring county of Blackford, February 15, 1881, and is a son of Elkanah and Lucinda (Osenbaugh) Moon, the latter of whom, also a native of Indiana, is still living. The late Elkanah Moon was a native of Ohio and grew up to the machinist's trade, a vocation he followed at Hartford City for some years after his marriage, or until in 1887, when he moved with his family to Muncie, where he spent the remainder of his life, his death occurring in February, 1923, he then being seventy-five years of age.

Since the time of the organization of the Moon Machine Company he had been connected with that concern. To him and his wife were born four children, sons all, the subject of this sketch having three brothers, Ellsworth, Jabez Thomas and William Harley Moon. Charles R. Moon was six years of age when his parents moved to Muncie in 1887 and he received his schooling in the schools of that city. Following in the practical footsteps of his father, he early became a skilled machinist, as did his brothers, J. T. and W. H. Moon, and in due time he and these brothers engaged in business on their own account, establishing the Moon Machine Company, with Charles R. Moon as president of the same. From small beginnings the plant of this company has developed into the now important manufacturing establishment it maintains in North Hackley street at the Big Four railway tracks, the output of the concern having established a high reputation and a rapidly growing market. In 1912 Charles R. Moon was united in marriage to Minnie Miller, daughter of Jacob Miller, of this county, and to this union one child has been born, a son, Robert Eugene Moon.

EDMUND BURKE BALL, vice-president of Ball Brothers Company of Muncie and general manager of that concern, has been a resident of Muncie for thirty-seven years and has been recognized as one of the city's influential citizens. As chairman of the city park board and city planning commission for several years he has rendered important and lasting service in the city's development. Mr. Ball was born in Greensburg, Trumbull county, Ohio, October 21, 1855. He is a son of Lucius Stiles Ball and Maria P. (Bingham) Ball, who were the parents of eight children, six sons - Lucius Lorenzo, William Charles, Edmund Burke, Frank Clayton, George Alexander and Clinton Harvey, and two daughters - Lucina A. and Frances May. Clinton Harvey Ball died at two years of age. Lucina A. Ball, the eldest of the family, was an educator of remarkable ability. She assisted George W. Childs (editor and owner of the Philadelphia Ledger and life-long friend of the Drexels of Philadelphia) in founding the Drexel Institute and was its financial secretary for a number of years. She died on January 14, 1901. Frances May is the wife of Dr. J. W. Mauck, president for many years of Hillsdale College, Hillsdale, Mich. Edmund B. Ball's paternal ancestor was Edward Ball, who probably came from England in 1640 and located first at Brantford, Conn., and later settled in New Jersey. He was one of the founders of Newark, New Jersey. His wife was Abigail Blatchley. From them the line of descent is traced through their son Thomas and his wife, Sarah Davis; their son Moses and his wife, Lucretia Dalgleisch ; their son Jonathan and his wife, Sarah Stiles, and their son William and his wife, Marcy Harvey, who were the grandparents of the subject of this biography. Edward Ball (1) became sheriff of Essex county, New Jersey. Moses Ball (3) established the family homestead at Springfield, New Jersey. Jonathan Ball (4) a soldier of the Revolutionary war, afterwards resided at Bridgeport, Addison county, Vermont, and subsequently at Ascot and Sherbrooke, Canada. William Ball (5) and his wife, Marcy (Harvey) Ball, lived on a farm which they owned at Ascot, Canada, where Lucius Stiles Ball and his three brothers and three sisters were born. William Ball and his family moved to Trumbull county, Ohio, about 1838. He purchased a tract of unimproved timber land and he and the boys set to work clearing the land. They built a log house which was their home for several years. Logs were the only available building material. Following is a statement of Frank C. Ball, brother of Edmund, regarding their father and mother: "Our father was a man of good sound judgment, high moral character; he was modest, refined, of a sensitive nature, a man of few words and fond of his family. He was the oldest boy of the family and his brothers and sisters looked to him for advice and leadership. His father made his home with us up to the time of his death. Our mother was a remarkably strong woman, physically and mentally, with a sweet Christian spirit. Her home and her children were all in all 'to her. Her chief ambition was to bring up her children with good strong minds and bodies, with rigiit idea's and true Christian principles. She urged us always to stick together and help each other; it was through her influence and her advice that we five brothers have been associated in business throughout life. She was a devoted wife and an affectionate mother, interested in all - good movements and admired by her many friends. She attended the public school at Stansted, Canada (where her parents resided on a farm), until she was eighteen years of age when she began teaching school. It was while teaching at Greensburg, Ohio, that she met and was married to my father, Lucius Stiles Ball, September 1, 1846." When Edmund Ball was seven years old his father and mother with their seven children moved to a farm on Grand Island, a large island in Niagara river, seven miles wide and seventeen miles long, extending from a few miles below Lake Erie to within five miles of Niagara. There were no railroads and so the family traveled by wagons, three in number, moving their household effects with them. They drove to Ashtabula and along the shores of Lake Erie to Buffalo and thence to (6)

Tonawanda, where they ferried across the river to the island. The farm was located on the foot of the island where the two forks of the river come together, four miles above the rapids. It was a charming place in the summer but most desolate in the winter. Here Edmund and his brothers learned to swim and handle a boat with great skill in the swift current. After two years of delightful summers and cold, bleak winters, the family moved to Tonawanda, N. Y., on the banks of the Niagara river, where two more happy boyhood years were spent boating, swimming and fishing, with some schooling. The family then moved to Canandaigua, N. Y., where the father engaged in the mercantile business and the children attended the public schools and the Canandaigua Academy. One summer Edmund worked as a farm hand and learned to do all the farm work from plowing and preparing the soil to harvesting and threshing the grain. In the winter of 1878 he and his cousin, Charles Barker, went into the pine woods of Michigan and cut timber. While there he received word of his father's death. He immediately started home, riding to the nearest railroad station, about twenty miles away, in a sled, over the deep snow through the forest, and arrived home just in time for the funeral. After this he joined his brother Frank in Buffalo in the business of manufacturing fish kits (small tubs for packing salt fish). The plant in which the business was located burned and they lost all they had invested. Edmund and Frank then started the manufacture of oil cans in a small way, to which was later added the manufacture of glass. About 1883 Lucius, William and George joined them. When natural gas was discovered in Indiana in 1887 a glass factory was located at Muncie by Ball Brothers and in 1900 the sheet metal works was moved from Buffalo to Muncie. The Ball Brothers Glass. Manufacturing Company (later changed to Ball Bros. Company) was then organized. F.C. Ball was elected president, E. B. Ball vice president and general manager; W. C. Ball secretary, G. A. Ball treasurer, and L. L. Ball, who had become a practicing physician, a director. The business has grown from a yearly production of twenty-five thousand gross of fruit jars in 1888 to over one million gross and from an annual business of two hundred thousand dollars to ten million dollars. Ball Brothers Company has become the largest manufacturer of fruit jars in the world. They have invented and installed in their plants many improved labor saving machines which have greatly reduced cost, improved quality and increased production. They have added at Muncie a paper mill, a corrugating plant and a zinc rolling mill; at Noblesville, Ind., a paper mill, and at Wichita Falls, Texas, a glass factory. Edmund B. Ball has always taken an active interest in all municipal affairs and all movements for the betterment of the community in which he lives. On October 7, 1908, he was united in marriage to Bertha Crosley, the daughter of Rev. Marion Crosley, at Indianapolis, and to them have been born two sons, Edmund Ferdinand and Clinton Crosley and two daughters, Adelia and Janice. Clinton Crosley died in 1912. Mr. Ball is a member of the Universalist church, a 33d degree Scottish Rite Mason, president of the Muncie & Portland Traction Company, chairman of the Muncie park board and of the city planning commission, and is a director of the following: Indiana Union Traction Company, Indianapolis, New Castle & Eastern Traction Company, Warner Gear Company, Durham Manufacturing Company, Merchants National Bank, Merchants Trust Company, Indiana Boys School at Plainfield, Hillsdale College and the Muncie City Hospital. He and Mrs. Ball gave a tract of land and buildings on the banks of Tippecanoe Lake for a Young Men's Christian Association boys' camp.

GEORGE W. ANSPAUGH, chief draftsman for the Indiana Bridge Company of Muncie, was born at St. Louis, Mo., July 8, 1895, and is a son of George M. and Cora B. (Weiand) Anspaugh, the latter of whom was born and reared in the vicinity of that same city. George M. Anspaugh was a native Hoosier, born at St. Paul in Decatur county, Indiana. He early became engaged in railroad work and was for some years thus engaged at St. Louis, later returning to Indiana. His last days were spent at St. Paul, Ind., where he died in 1900. George W. Anspaugh was but a child when his parents located at Bringhurst, Ind., and his early schooling was received in the schools of that village. Following his graduation from the high school at Bloomington he entered the electrical engineering department of Purdue University and after two years of work there returned to Bloomington, where for a short time he was engaged as the manager of a grocery store. In the meantime he had been giving his close attention to the study of mechanical drawing and in 1916, when twenty-one years of age, came to Muncie and became engaged as a draftsman in the office of the Indiana Bridge Company and was thus engaged when in the following spring this country took a hand in the World war. He proffered his technical services to the Government, was accepted and was assigned to duty as a draftsman in the war construction section of the Federal Bridge Company at Savannah, Ga., serving thus until the close of the war. Upon the completion of his military service Mr. Anspaugh returned to Muncie and was made assistant superintendent of the shop of the Indiana Bridge Company. He later became superintendent and in 1923 was made chief of the drafting room of that concern and has since then been thus engaged. On February 14, 1918, at Savannah, Ga., George W. Anspaugh was united in marriage to Merle L. Dust, who was born in Bloomington, Ind., daughter of W. J. Dust, and he and his wife reside at 217 East Seventh street. They are members of the Christian church and are Republicans. Mr. Anspaugh is a member of the local lodge of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. He was elected vice-chairman of the Republican central committee of Delaware County and served as chairman the last four months of his term.

JAMES HARVEY LEFFLER, president of the Western Reserve Life Insurance Company of Muncie, a member of the board of directors of the Peoples Trust Company and former clerk of Delaware county, was born on a farm in Hamilton township, this county, June 23, 1862, and is a son of Philip and Mary (Garrard) Leffler and a brother of Joseph G. Leffler, former judge of the Delaware circuit court. The late Philip Leffler, a veteran of the Civil war - a private in the 36th regiment, Indiana Volunteer Infantry, was born in Ohio and was but a child when his father, Philip Leffler, a Pennsylvanian, came here from Darke county, Ohio, and settled in Hamilton township. The Garrards also were among the pioneers of that township. Mary Garrard was a daughter of Harvey and Hannah (Gustin) Garrard, who had come here from Ohio. Three of her brothers, George, Jeremiah and Joseph Garrard, were soldiers of the Union during the Civil war. James H. Leffler was reared on the home farm in Hamilton township, about five miles north of Muncie, and continued to make his home there until he was twenty-one years of age, meantime, at the age of eighteen, having begun to teach school. His schooling was completed at the Central Indiana Normal School at Danville. Upon leaving the farm he became engaged in the mercantile business at Albany, selling hardware and agricultural implements, and after his marriage two years later became associated with his father-inlaw, David W. Sloniker, in that same line, under the firm name of Sloniker & Leffler, an arrangement that was continued for six years, at the end of which time he became engaged in the manufacture of furniture at Albany, associated with the Albany Furniture Company. In 1898, this concern, out of which later grew the present Hoosier Kitchen Cabinet Company of Newcastle, was destroyed by fire, Mr. Leffler losing in that fire all his accumulated savings as well as his © investment. Thus thrown back on his individual efforts, Mr. Leffler came to Muncie and was presently employed as deputy in the office of the county clerk and for seven years served in this capacity, under the Reed and Mansfield incumbencies. He then became associated with the Union Trust Company of Indianapolis as assistant claim adjuster and real estate and tax agent; later took up the local real estate business and while thus engaged received the nomination by the Republicans for the office of county clerk, was elected and served for four years (1908-12) in that important public capacity. In the meantime, when the Peoples Trust Company of Muncie was organized in 1908 Mr. Leffler was elected to the directorate of that fiduciary concern, a position he ever since has occupied, and is as well a member of the executive committee of the board. When the Western Reserve Life Insurance Company of Muncie was organized in 1906 Mr. Leffler was elected vice president of that institution and in 1919 was elected president of the company, which position he now occupies. For twenty-five years Mr. Leffler was a member of the First Christian church of Muncie, or until four or five years ago, when he and his wife and daughter became affiliated with the Friends Memorial church. Mr. Leffler is a member of the finance committee of this latter congregation and is also assistant superintendent of the Sunday school. He is a past commander of the local camp of the Sons of Veterans at Muncie and was for some time junior vice commander of the Indiana division of that patriotic order. He is a York Rite (Knights Templar) and Scottish Rite (32°) Mason, a past chancellor commander of the local lodge of the Knights of Pythias, a past sachem of the Improved Order of Red Men, a member of the local lodge of the Loyal Order of Moose and a member of Post R of the Travelers Protective Association. It was in 1888, at Albany, that James H. Leffler was united in marriage to Nettie A. Sloniker, daughter of David W. and Elizabeth E. (Green) Sloniker, of that place, and to this union one child was born, a daughter, Josephine Lucile, who married Ora Dale Smith, of Muncie. Mr. Smith is a veteran of the World war, with an officer's commission. The Lefflers reside at 319 East North street. 7

HERMAN HUTZEL, head of the firm of Hutzel & Company, general heating and plumbing contractors at Muncie, has been a resident of that city for nearly twenty-five years and in that time has built up a business which has much more than a merely local reputation. Mr. Hutzel was born at Ann Arbor, Mich., and is a son of August and Sophia (Mann) Hutzel, the latter of whom was a daughter of Jonathan Henry Mann, a Wurtemberger of Huguenot stock, who in 1823, to escape enforced military service, left Europe and came across the water, landing at Philadelphia. A tannery interest there sent him to Vera Cruz, Mexico, where he remained about a year, at the end of which time he returned and established a tannery at Reading, Pa. He then sent for his family and established his home at Reading. August Hutzel also was a Wurtemberger. He learned the trade of coppersmith in his native country and when twenty-two years of age, in 1829, came to America and settled at what then was known as Steam Furnace, down along the river, near Ironton, in Lawrence county, Ohio, and there started a store and not long afterward was appointed postmaster of the village. In 1839 he closed out his interests there and went to Ann Arbor, Mich., where he established a general store and in that same year was married. In connection with this store he carried a line of stoves and heating appliances and in the course of years, as the demand arose, began to devote his whole attention to the growing call for steam heating and plumbing appliances and became a general contractor in that. line, and was thus engaged at that place until his retirement from business in 1887, when he turned the concern over to his sons and the business still is being carried on there by his son. Titus F. Huizel, who has associated with him in business his son, Fred G. Hutzel, and a nephew, Robert Gwinner. To August Hutzel and wife were born eight children, those besides the subject of this sketch, the fourth in order of birth, being Sophia, wife of the Rev. Christian Spring; Pauline, wife of Fred Wuster; Martha, wife of Carl Steinbach; Mrs. Eugene Freeauff, Titus F., Mrs. Henry Heim and Charlotte. Reared at Ann Arbor, Herman Hutzel "grew up" to the plumbing and steam fitting business in his father's establishment and has all his life been thus engaged in that line. Upon their father's retirement in 1887 he and his brother Titus continued the business in partnership until in 1892, when Herman Hutzel sold his interest to his brother and in 1900 came to Muncie, where, in partnership with John Kirby, he became established in the heating and plumbing line, operating under the firm name of Kirby & Hutzel. In 1904 Mr. Kirby retired from the | firm and since then Mr. Hutzel has been carrying on alone, two of his sons, Max H. and Victor C. Hutzel, now being associated with him in the business, operating under the firm name of Hutzel & Company Ine., with a well equipped establishment at 401 East Main street. Not only does this firm carry on a general contracting business in the heating and plumbing line in Muncie and throughout the surround- ing trade area, but is in the market for general contracts throughout the country, one of its recent contracts having been a $100,000 job successfully completed at Milwaukee. At Ann Arbor Herman Hutze! was united in marriage to Pauline Graf, a daughter of Christian Graf. Mr. and Mrs. Hutzel have six children, Robert, Meleta, Sophia, Max, Hugo and Victor, the latter of whom, with his brother Max, is associated with their father in business at Muncie. Max Hutzel married Helen Gronendyke and has one child, a son, Robert. For more than twenty years Mr. Hutzel's eldest son, Robert Hutzel, has been a resident of Europe, now living at Paris, where he is the manufacturing manager for the American Radiator Company's plants throughout Europe. He married Lulu Spear and has two children, Rita and Hilda. Hugo Hutzel is now living at Buffalo, N. Y., manager of the malleable iron works of the Radiator Company of Buffalo. He is the president of the American Association of Heating and Ventilating Engineers of Western New York. He married Catherine Moritz. Victor Hutzel married Belle Willard. Sophia Hutzel is a teacher in the Muncie public schools, with which she has been connected for more than twenty years. Meleta Hutzel is a member of the educational division of the Michigan State Department of Health and her time is occupied as a lecturer in that behalf before women's clubs and high schools.

CHARLES B. ATHERTON, president of the Peerless Machine Works corporation at Muncie and a resident of that city for more than thirty years, was born at Albion, N. Y., July 3, 1872, and is a son of Alonzo and Phoebe (Briggs) Atherton, the former a native of New Hampshire and the latter of New York, whose last days were spent in Muncie, in which city they established their home in 1891, about the time the modern development of the city began as a consequence of the opening of the natural gas field hereabout. The late Alonzo Atherton was a carpenter. In 1876 he moved with his family from New York to Ovid, Mich., and in 1891 moved to Muncie, where he became engaged as a carpenter and where he and his wife spent the remainder of their lives, her death occurring in 1912, she then being seventy-eight years of age, and his, in 1913, he then being eighty years of age. They were the parents of two children, the subject of this sketch having a sister, Grace. Reared at Ovid, Mich., for he was but four years of age when his parents moved to that place from New York, Charles B. Atherton completed the high school course and early became interested in the machinist's trade, a vocation to which his adult years have been devoted. After a varied and valuable experi- ence in the line of practical mechanics, gained in machine shops at Muncie, Toledo and elsewhere, Mr. Atherton in 1917 organized the business of which he now is the head and which was incorporated as the Peerless Machine Works, with himself as president of the concern, Troy Livingston as treasurer and M. M. Atherton as secretary. This concern has a well equipped plant at 316 North High street, takes pride in the high class of the products turned out by its skilled labor and makes a specialty of the manufacture of special tools and jigs and of a gear-tooth rounding machine which was designed by Mr. Atherton and which long ago proved its effectiveness. Charles B. Atherton has been twice married. His first wife, Elizabeth Elliott, died four years after their marriage, leaving one child, a son, Lewin Bailey Atherton, and he then married Minnie Irving. Mr. and Mrs. Atherton are members of the First Baptist church of Muncie. Mr. Atherton is a Freemason and in that order has attained to both the York Rite (Knights Templar) and the Scottish Rite (32°). FREDERICK KLOPFER, a retired manufacturer of Muncie, now living in that city in the enjoyment of the fruits of a life of industry and close application, is of European birth, but has been a resident and citizen of the United States since he was nineteen years of age and of Muncie for more than fifty years. Mr. Klopfer was born in the Kingdom of Wurtemberg on July 21, 1846, and is a son of Johannes and Catherine (Young) Klopfer, both of whom also were native Wurtembergers and who spent all their lives there. They were the parents of ten children, but three of whom are now living. Of these children five came to America, four of the sons and one of the daughters, Anna B., wife of Andrew Braun, founder of the Braun | hotel at Muncie, who came to this country in 1865. An elder brother, George Klopfer, now deceased, located at Upper Sandusky, Ohio. Jacob Klopfer, who came in 1866, spent his last days in New York city. Mathias Klopfer became a resident of Muncie. Frederick Klopfer received his schooling in his native land and was early apprenticed to the trade of carriage making. Under the terms of the apprentice system there he rendered three years of service at the trade, without compensation, and his father paid the equivalent of $100 to secure for him the opportunity to learn the trade. The hours of labor to which he was indented were no fewer than fourteen a day, and work was the order of every one of these days. Upon completing his apprenticeship Mr. Klopfer worked for a time as a journeyman in his home country and then, at the age of nineteen years, came to America, landing at the port of New York on July 11, 1866. On the day following his arrival he declared his intention of becoming a citizen of the United States and there never since has been any deviation in his sound Americanism. For sixteen months Mr. Klopfer worked at his trade in New York city and then he came West and took employment at Tiffin, Ohio. Two years later he went to Milwaukee and was there employed for about four years, or until in 1873, when he came to Muncie, which ever since has been his home. For three months after coming here Mr. Klopfer worked as a journeyman, getting the lay of the land, and then he bought James Gaston's interest in the Gaston & Bower carriage and wagon shop and became engaged in business with George Bower, under the firm name of Bower & Klopfer, and began to extend the business, manufacturing for the general trade and carrying a large stock in anticipation of the growing demand along this line. This partnership continued until in December, 1880, when Mr. Klopfer sold his interest in the business to his partner and built an establishment of his own at the corner of Main and Jefferson streets, carrying on there with a large force of workmen the manufacture of carriages, buggies and light wagons until in 1916, by which time the rapid development of the automobile industry was beginning to have its effect on the carriage shops and he deemed it the part of good business judgment to close the factory and retire. In the meantime Mr. Klopfer had not been neglecting other forms of investment and upon his retirement found himself in possession of a fair competence. He was one of the organizers of the Muncie Trust Company (now the Merchants Trust and Savings Company) and of the Merchants National Bank and is still included among the stockholders of these institutions and a vice president of both. Since the time of its organization back in the '80s Mr. Klopfer has been an active member of the Muncie Chamber of Commerce and has served as an officer of that body. Since 1884 he has been affiliated with the Masonic order and has attained to the 32d (Scottish Rite) degree in that ancient order. He also is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He is the only survivor of the original-board of directors of the Merchants National Bank and of the original board of the Muncie Trust and Savings Company. In 1884 Frederick Klopfer was united in marriage to Clara S. Hummel, daughter of Joseph Hummel, of Muncie, and to this union two children were born, a daughter, Caroline, and a son, Frederick, who died in infancy. In his generation Joseph Hummel was regarded as one of the best bakers in eastern Indiana and he was the founder of an industry which may be regarded as having been the beginning of "modern" bakery methods in Muncie. The Klopfers have a pleasant home at 110 South Jefferson street.

JOSEPH F. STEPHEN, proprietor of a well equipped garage at Muncie and manager of the Buick automobile sales agency in this field, one of the leaders in the local automobile sales business, was born on a farm in the adjacent county of Henry, May 10, 1873, and is a son of Peter R. and Margaret (West) Stephen, the latter of whom was born in that same county, in the Mt. Summit neighborhood, a member of one of the pioneer families in Henry county, the Wests having come into this section of Indiana from Virginia in settlement days. Peter R. Stephen was an Ohioan, born at Harrison, in Hamilton county, and was but a boy when he came to Indiana with his parents, the family settling in Henry county. He grew up to farming and after his marriage followed that vocation and became a landowner in Grant county. He died in 1875. To him and his wife were born three sons, the subject of this sketch, the last born, having two brothers, Jesse A. and William Richard Stephen. Joseph F. Stephen was but two years of age when his father died. Not long afterward his mother moved to Muncie and he thus was reared in this city. He early began working "on his own" and upon leaving school was variously employed until after awhile he became engaged in the real estate business. In the meantime he had become interested in the rapidly developing automobile industry and on November 7, 1917, acquired the local agency for the sale of the Buick automobile, established a sales room in Muncie and has ever since been thus engaged, agent for the sales of the Buick car and also handling used cars, and in this time has sold almost 800 cars in and around Muncie. In 1921 Mr. Stephen erected his present garage and sales room at 209-211 North Walnut street, one of the best established and most thoroughly equipped places of the kind hereabout, and is even now considering plans for the enlargement of his plant, the building of fire proof construction having been designed so that with some alterations its foundations could carry additional weight. Mr. Stephen is a Republi-. can, is a member of the Muncie Chamber of Commerce and is also affiliated with the local lodges of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. On July 25, 1906, Joseph F. Stephen was united in marriage to Eunice Ames, who was born in the neighboring county of Jay, ane he and his wife reside at 102 1-2 West Washington street.

JOHN D. ALLAN, secretary and treasurer of the Silverfild Company of Muncie, manufacturers and jobbers of table silverware, is a native of Scotland but has been a resident of this country for thirty years and more and of Muncie for the past twelve years. Mr. Allan grew up in Scotland. In 1893 he came to the United States and after a sometime residence in New York City, moved to Chicago, where he became engaged in the silverware business, establishing there a manufacturing concern which was developed into the present Silverfild Company. Mr. Allan is a Knight Templar Mason and he and his wife are members of the Presbyterian church. In 1898, at Chicago, Il., John D. Allan was united in marriage to Jeannette Watt, daughter of Hugh Watt, and to this union three children have been born, Jeannette, John and Margaret, the former of whom is now a teacher in Wilson high school at Muncie. The son is a student at Depauw University and the younger daughter is a senior in Muncie high school.

J. HENRY ORR, works engineer for the Warner Gear Company of Muncie, was born at Hartford, Conn., February 4, 1873, and is a son of John Henry and Caroline (Naedele) Orr, the latter also a native of Hartford and the former, of Jersey City, N. J. Reared at Hartford, J. Henry Orr finished his common schooling in New York city and then entered the College of the City of New York, from which in due course he was graduated. Upon leaving college he became employed on the work then in progress on Ellis Island and thus aided in the construction of the great immigration station there, which took the place of the old Castle Garden station. For two years he was engaged in this fashion and then he went to Cleveland, Ohio, where he was employed on construction work for some time or until : his return to Hartford, where he became employed in the bicycle industry. In 1897 when the Pope Manufacturing Company began experimenting in the manufacture of automobiles or "horseless car- - riages'"' he was installed in the experimental department of that company's plant and took up the mechanical end of automobile construction from a technical point of view and did much to develop this construction along practical lines. For nine years Mr. Orr continued his connection with the Pope people and then, in 1906, he transferred his connection to the great plant of the American Locomotive Company at Providence, R. I., which then had taken over the manufacture of the Alco car, and was installed as foreman of the maintenance department of the plant. Presently he was promoted to the position of general superintendent of the plant and so continued until this company discontinued the manufacture of the car in 1913, when he was made superintendent and manager of the service department and he was thus engaged until in 1915, when he was called into the service of the Warner Gear Company at Muncie as production manager, a position he occupied until he was made general "works en- 'gineer" in 1919, since which time he has had general oversight of the great plant's mechanical operations and production system, one of Indiana's widely recognized mechanical technicians. In 1898 at Hartford, J. Henry Orr was united in marriage to Nellie E. Towne, daughter of D. C. and Alice (Chapman) Towne, and to this union three children have been born, Dorothy, John Henry and Caroline. Mr. and Mrs. Orr are members of Grace Episcopal church. They reside at 601 West Main street. Mr. Orr is a member of Post R of the Travelers Protective Association.

WILLIAM EDWARD HITCHCOCK, president of the Delaware County National Bank of Muncie, president of the Muncie Savings and Loan Company, vice president of the Warner Gear Company, treasurer of the Glascock Manufacturing Company, director of the American Gas and Electric Company of New York City, also of the Warner Electric Company of Muncie and numerous other enterprises, is a New Englander by birth but has been a resident of Muncie for the past forty years. He was thus here engaged in a manufacturing way when Muncie was entering upon her new era of industrial and commercial development back in the '80s and he has ever maintained his position as one of the chief individual factors contributing to that development. Mr. Hitchcock was born in Meriden, Conn., January 30, 1859, the older of two children, a son and a daughter, born to Edward A. and Mary A. (Green) Hitchcock, both of whom also were natives of Connecticut and members of New England Colonial families. He was a child when his parents moved to Ashtabula, Ohio, where his father engaged in the woodworking industries of that city, particularly in the manufacture of bentwood products. It was thus that William Hitchcock came to be reared in Ashtabula. Upon the completion of his school work he became employed as a teller in a bank there, remaining in that line of work until 1876, in which year he returned to the city of his birth and was for three years employed as a bookkeeper in the office of the Meriden Britania Company, manufacturers of silverware. Upon his return to Ashtabula in 1879 he became engaged with his father in the latter's skewer and bentwood works. In 1884, then being twenty-five years of age, Mr. Hitchcock came to Muncie and established a wood-working plant, associating with him in that enterprise J. C. and A. L. Johnson, under the name of the Muncie Skewer Company, for the manufacture of skewers, flag sticks, trunk slats, dowels and kindred products. This concern proved successful from the outset and was later incorporated as the American Skewer Company. In 1894, in order to be nearer its source of supply, the plant was removed to Jackson, Tenn., with the general offices remaining in Muncie. Later this enterprise was consolidated with the Weis & Lesh Manufacturing Company, manufacturers of oak and hickory spokes, with factories in Memphis and Jackson, Tenn. In 1919 this concern was sold to the Prudden Wheel Company of Lansing, Mich., Messrs. Hitchcock, Johnson and Morgan taking over the skewer and related products of the business and have since operated it under the name of the Morgan- Hitchcock Company, with factories at Jackson and Serles, Tenn., and general offices at Muncie, in the Johnson Block, with Mr. Hitchcock as secretary and treasurer. The Delaware County Bank, which had its beginning at the time of the opening of the gas boom, was in 1896 reorganized and chartered as a national bank with J. C. Johnson as president and W. E. Hitchcock as vice president. Following Mr. Johnson's death in 1904 Mr. Hitchcock was elected president and has since retained that position. Mr. Hitchcock has always been at the forefront in all activities that have brought Muncie to its present standing as one of the most substantial cities of its size in the country. He was one of the organizers and served as president of the Delaware and Madison Counties Telephone Company until this company was taken over by the Indiana Bell Telephone Company. He was active in building the Muncie, Hartford & Ft. Wayne interurban railway line, and acted as disbursing agent for the government when the postoffice building at Muncie was erected. He was appointed by Governor Matthews as the Republican member and served on the first board of commissioners of the metropolitan police of Muncie. He was elected vice president of the National Manufacturers Association of Indiana in 1901. Also the same year he was appointed a member of Governor Durbin's staff with the rank of lieutenant colonel. Mr. Hitchcock is active in the support of local _betterment work, is a member of the board of trustees of the Young Men's Christian Association, the board of governors of the Home Hospital, and for more than twenty years has served on the Beech Grove Cemetery board. From the days of its inception he has taken an interested part in the work of the Commercial Club and the Chamber of Commerce and is a member of the Rotary Club. He is a York Rite (Knights Templar) Mason and was reared in the faith of the

Episcopal Church. On September 30, 1885, the year following his arrival in Muncie, Mr. Hitchcock was united in marriage to M. Estella Morehouse, a daughter of Henry and Mary M. Morehouse, of Muncie. To this union three children were born, Edward H., who died at the age of six years; Fred W., who died at the age of four years; and William E., Jr., the surviving son.

CLARK BROTHERS, plumbers and dealers in plumbers supplies at Muncie, is a progressive firm composed of the two brothers, Donald Oliver Clark and Walter Cecil Clark, who in January, 1919, bought the old established plumbing business of James P. Dragoo at 317 East Main street and have since been carrying on there. These brothers were born on a farm in Kosciusko county, Indiana, the former on, January 4, 1887, and the latter on September 21, 1889, and are sons of John David and Mary Catherine (Hughes) Clark, the latter of whom, a native of Ohio, is now living in Muncie. John David Clark, who was a native of Indiana, became engaged in farming in Kosciusko county after his marriage and was thus engaged until about 1894, when he left.the farm and with his family moved to Warsaw, the county seat, where he died in 1896. To him and his wife were born three sons, the youngest of whom, Everett Odell Clark, is now living in California. Donald O. Clark was seven years of age when his parents moved to Warsaw and his brother Cecil was about five. It was thus that the brothers were reared at Warsaw and in the schools of that city received their schooling. They both learned the plumber's trade there and have thus been practical craftsmen since the days of their youth. In December, 1915, Walter C. Clark located at Muncie and in September, 1917, was joined by Donald QO. Clark, the brothers then starting in business under the firm name of Clark Bros., general plumbers. In January, 1919, as noted above, they bought the Dragoo plumbing establishment in Main street and have since been established there, where they are well equipped to take care of all demands in their line. Donald O. Clark is a member of the local lodge of the Loyal Order of Moose and Walter C. Clark is a member of the Modern Woodmen of America. In 1909 Donald O. Clark was united in marriage to Evylina Baker and to this union two children have been born, Orville William and Ralph Baker. He and his family reside at 305 Queen street, Riverside, and he and his wife are members of the Normal City Methodist Episcopal church. In 1911 Walter C. Clark married Gladys A. Cole, who died in 1921. He and his mother and children reside at 306 East Wysor street.