Delaware County, Indiana - Sidelights on Local History, 1924 (part 4 of 21)

WILLIAM H. MOON, secretary-treasurer and general manager of the Moon Machine Company of Muncie, is a native Hoosier and has lived in this state all his life, a resident of Muncie since the days of his boyhood. Mr. Moon was born on a farm in the neighboring county of Grant, February 22, 1876, and is a son of Elkanah and Lucinda (Osenbaugh) Moon, the latter of whom was born in Virginia. Elkanah Moon, who had been a resident of Muncie for more than thirty-five years, was born in Clinton county, Ohio, and early became a machinist, a vocation which he had followed with the exception of a few years following his marriage, when he lived on a farm in Grant county. From there he moved to Hartford City and thence, in 1888, to Muncie, where he spent his last days, his death occurring in February, 1923. To him and his wife were born four sons, the subject of this sketch, the third in order of birth, having three brothers, Ellsworth, Jabez T. and Charles R. Moon, the two latter of whom are associated with him in the operations of the Moon Machine Company. William H. Moon was twelve years of age when he came to Muncie with his parents in 1888 and his schooling was completed in the schools of this city. Upon leaving school he became employed in the Boyce bagging mill and was thus engaged for about seven years, at the end of which time he began working in the plant of the Common Sense Engine Works. A year later, when the "dummy" locomotives were installed for service on the Muncie street railway he became an engineer on one of these engines and held that job until finally the lines were electrified. He then began working in the plant of the Ball Bros. Glass Manufacturing Company, operating a stamping press there for about two years and then went to the plant of the Republic Steel and Iron Company as a machinist and was thus employed there for about five years, at the end of which time he decided to go into business "on his own." Rigging up a little machine shop in his father's barn, Mr. Moon started in as a special machinist, taking such jobs as he could handle with his initial equipment, a lathe, a drill press and a shaper. Work began to come in and the shop soon was on its way. Three years later Mr. Moon's brother Charles joined him in the enterprise and a year later, in 1912, they moved out of their barn shop and erected the present plant in North Hackley street at the Pennsylvania railway. Not long afterward Jabez T. Moon joined his brothers in their enterprise and the present Moon Machine Company was organized, with Charles R. Moon as president, Jabez T. Moon as vice president, and William H. Moon, founder of the business, as secretary-treasurer and general manager. This com- pany specializes in the manufacture of special machinery and tools and in contract work on automobile parts, such as fly wheels, clutch drums, wheel hubs, special parts and the like. The Moons have one of the best appointed machine shops of its kind in the Midwest and they have created a market for their products that extends all over the country. William H. Moon is a member of the local lodge of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and in his political views is an "independent" Republican. Mr. Moon married Wealthy Wilson and resides at 1133 East Washington street. He and his wife are members of the High Street Methodist Episcopal church.

JOHN W. HARKER, cashier of the Farmers Savings Bank of Muncie, was born at Madison, Wis., February 8, 1897, and is a son of John W. and Ellen E. Harker, both of whom also were born in Wisconsin. The senior John W. Harker has for years been engaged in the banking business at Madison and also is the proprietor of a grain elevator there. The junior John W. Harker was reared at Madison and was graduated from the high school there in 1914. He then entered the Lawrence (Mass.) preparatory school and in the following year entered the University of Wisconsin at Madison and continued in attendance there until 1918, when he entered the United States naval reserves for service during the time of this country's participation in the World war, and was assigned to the officers training camp at Chicago, whence he presently was sent to Cleveland and from there after awhile to New York, where he was in service when mustered out in January, 1919. Upon the completion of his naval service, Mr. Harker became employed in the bond department of the National City Company of New York and was thus connected until he came to Muncie and became associated with the operations of the Delaware County National Bank, with which institution he remained until in February, 1922, when he was elected cashier of the Farmers Savings Bank, which position he now occupies, one of the youngest bank officers in eastern Indiana. Mr. Harker is a Freemason, an Elk and a member of the college fraternity, Alpha Tau Omega. He also is affiliated with the Muncie Club, which he has served as treasurer, the Kiwanis Club, the Ad Club and the Dynamo Club of Muncie. Mr. Harker married Ruth Lucile Ball, daughter of Walter L. Ball, of Muncie, and he and his wife reside at 319 South Mound street. They are members of the Methodist Episcopal church. Mrs. Harker's father, concerning whom further and fitting mention is made elsewhere in this work, is a veteran member of the bar of the Delaware circuit court and a former senator from this district in the upper house of the Indiana General Assembly.

John W. Harker

ORA C. NORTON, president of The Hartley Agency of Muncie, home building and financing and general realtors, began his connection with this concern years ago and has ever since been associated with it, rising to be president of the organization. Mr. Norton is a native son of Delaware county and has lived here all his life. He was born on a farm in Liberty township in 1879 and is a son of Albert and Eva (Harbaugh) Norton, the former of whom was born in Logan county, Ohio, and the latter in Delaware county, a member of one of the pioneer families here, the Harbaughs having been represented in this county since settlement days. Reared on the home farm, Ora C. Norton received his schooling in the local schools and early became attracted to the real estate business, becoming associated with the late John J. Hartley in the latter's general realty agency and homefinancing office. Following the death of Mr. Hartley in 1912 this agency was reorganized as The Hartley Agency and Mr. Norton was elected president of the concern, a position which he since has occupied, with offices at 116 1-2 East Main street. The Hartley Agency is widely recognized as having been an important factor in the upbuilding and expansion of the city of Muncie, its particular province being the financing of home building. In this important behalf this agency has financed the building of more than 350 homes in Muncie, fifty-seven of these having been financed and built during the past year. Mr. Norton is affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and he and his wife are members of the Baptist church. Ora C. Norton married Sylvia Thomas, who also was born in this county, daughter of Richard Thomas, and has three children, Kenneth, Margaret and Dean. The Nortons reside at 120 the Granville road.

LANCE M. COONS, judge of the Muncie city police court, a former justice of the peace in and for Center township, and who also is engaged in the automobile business in Muncie, has been a resident of that city for nearly thirty years. Judge Coons was born on a farm in the immediate vicinity of Ogden, in Champaign county, IIlinois, in December, 1863, and is a son of Jacob and Martha J. (Freeman) Coons, the latter of whom was born in that same county, a member of one of the real pioneer families there. Jacob Coons was born in Ohio. He and his wife had three sons, the subject of this sketch having two brothers, John L. and Jacob I. Coons. Reared on the home farm in Illinois, Lance M. Coons received his schooling in the schools of his neighboring village and remained on the farm until he was twenty years of age, when he became engaged in railroading and became an expert telegraph operator, a vocation he followed for some time or until he became engaged in the mercantile business at Columbia, Mo. In 1897 Mr. Coons disposed of his interests in Missouri and came to Indiana, locating at Muncie, where he ever since has resided. Upon his arrival here he became engaged in the mercantile business, but not long afterward retired from that line and took up the real estate business, becoming a dealer in lands in the Southwest. While thus engaged he was elected justice of the peace and for six years served in that magisterial capacity. Retiring from the real estate field, Mr. Coons then became engaged in the automobile business, a member of the Walnut Automobile Company, and is still connected with the automobile business in Muncie. In the last city election he was elected judge of the Muncie city police court and has been serving in that capacity since entering upon the duties of that office on January 1, 1922. The city court is carried on in the old city hall building at the corner of Jackson and Jefferson streets. Judge Coons is a Freemason and is also affiliated with the local lodges of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and of the Woodmen. Lance M. Coons married Mary E. Lopp, daughter of Samuel and Margaret B. (Endler) Lopp, and to this union one child was born, a daughter, Maenette, who married Lewis Clayton and died at the age of twenty-seven years. Judge and Mrs. Coons reside at 225 West Washington street.

RAY A. SCHUSTER, secretary of The Moore Company, manufacturers of bed springs and steel cots at Muncie, has been a resident of that city for nearly fifteen years and has thus become a well known figure in the industrial activities of the city. Mr. Schuster was born at Bellevue, in Huron county, Ohio, July 10, 1888, and is a son of John and Mary C. (Ocker) Schuster, the former a native of Ohio and the latter of Pennsylvania. John Schuster, who is now living retired at Bellevue, grew to manhood in that city and was for years engaged in railroad service there as a locomotive engineer. Ray A. Schuster was graduated from the Bellevue high school in 1906 and then took a course in a business college at Sandusky. When in January, 1907, the J. L. Moore Manufacturing Company was organized at Bellevue he became a stockholder in the concern and was elected secretarytreasurer of the company. In 1909 the plant of this company was moved from Bellevue to Muncie and Mr. Schuster ever since has been a resident of the latter city. Upon moving to Indiana this company was reorganized under the laws of this state and incorporated as the Moore Manufacturing Company, a trade name which was maintained until its reorganization in 1919 as The Moore Company, the Moore brothers (J. L. and C. G.) being respectively president and vice president and Mr. Schuster secretary. This company's specialty is -the manufacture of bed springs, with particular reference to coiled wire and linked wire bed springs and steel cots. When the plant was established at Muncie (Westside) in 1910 it employed around thirty persons and had a daily capacity of 150 bed springs. As the market for its product grew it expanded until now the plant occupies about 60,000 square feet of floor space, gives employment to more than 100 persons and has a daily capacity of 600 bed springs and steel cots, its widely known products doing much to extend the fame of Muncie as a manufacturing city. Mr. Schuster also is secretary-treasurer of Electric Appliances, Inc. (Westside). He is a member of the Muncie Chamber of Commerce, is a member of the board of control of the influential Exchange Club and is also a member of the Muncie Club and a former member of the board of directors of the same; also secretary of the Delaware Country Club. He is a Knight Templar Mason and is also a member of the local lodge of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. He and his wife are members of the First Baptist church and he formerly was a teacher in the Sunday school of that congregation. In 1915 Ray A. Schuster was united in marriage to Mary E. Leffler, of Muncie, daughter of Judge Joseph G. Leffler, concerning whom further and fitting mention is made elsewhere in this volume, and to this union two daughters have been born, Rebecca Ann and Nancy Jean. The Schusters reside at 310 South Proud street.

ANSON A. BIBLER, veteran oil man and coal dealer at Muncie, has been a resident of that city for nearly twenty years, an experienced oil man who came over here from Ohio to take part in the development of the oil fields hereabout at a time when oil develop- ~ ment was a much more promising field of endeavor than it now seems to be. Mr. Bibler is a native of the old Buckeye state, born at Findlay, Ohio, April 20, 1878, and is a son of Eli Henry and Mary KE. Bibler, both of whom also were born in Ohio, members of pioneer families in that state. Eli Henry Bibler was a life long farmer, owner of a farm on the outskirts of Findlay. Reared on that farm, Anson A. Bibler received his schooling in the Findlay schools and at the age of sixteen years began working in the Ohio oil fields, becoming an experienced field man and driller. For more than ten vears he worked along these lines in Ohio and then in 1905 came over here into Indiana and located at Muncie, which ever since has been his home. For some time after locating at Muncie, Mr. Bibler was engaged in drilling in the local oil fields and then he took up the retail oil business, which he followed until in 1911 when he extended his operations to include a general wholesale business in oil, gasoline and grease, to which in 1916 he added coal and has since been thus engaged, with a well equipped yard and supply station at 1619 South Liberty street, where he is prepared to meet all demands in his line. Mr. Bibler is a Republican and he and his wife are members of the Jackson street Christian church, of which he formerly was a deacon. In 1898 Anson A. Bibler was united in marriage to Rosa Friend, daughter of John Friend, and to this union have been born five children, Lester David, Alice) Marie, Clovis A., Robert H. and Pauline E., two of whom are married. Lester D. Bibler married Vera Moomaw and Alice Marie Bibler married Harvey Riley. Mrs. Bibler's father, John Friend, was a native of Germany who came to the United States with his parents as a boy, the family locating at Norwalk, Ohio. He later became a resident of Findlay.

JAMES S. McLEARIE, of the Superior Pattern Works, Muncie, is a native of the Keystone state and was reared in Ohio but has been a resident of Indiana for more than twenty years and of Muncie for thirteen years and more. Mr. McLearie was born in the city of Pittsburg, Pa., May 12, 1873, and is a son of James and Annabelle (Smith) McLearie, both natives of Scotland and the latter of whom came to this country with her parents in the days of her girlhood, the family locating at Pittsburg. James McLearie was trained in the iron industry in his native land and in 1871 came to the United States and not long afterward started a foundry in Pittsburg. He married there about the same time and established his home there, but presently disposed of his interests in that city and moved with his family to Cleveland, Ohio, where he was placed in charge of a foundry and where he was for years thereafter thus connected. He and his wife are the parents of seven children. James S. McLearie was but a child when his parents moved to Cleveland. He received his schooling in the schools of that city and upon leaving school entered upon an apprenticeship to a pattern maker and thus became thoroughly qualified as an artisan in that line, a vocation he ever since has followed. Mr. McLearie married when he was twenty-five years of age and three years later, in 1904, came to Indiana and located at Kokomo as pattern maker in the Apperson plant at that place, his service there thus including the making of some of the patterns for the first Apperson automobiles. In 1911 Mr. McLearie came to Muncie as superintendent of the pattern shop of the Warner Gear Company and continued this connection for ten years or until in 1921, when he formed his present connection with the plant and operations of the Superior Pattern Works, 303 South Liberty street, and has ever since been thus engaged, this service covering a wide range of activity in pattern production, for the Superior Pattern Works has created a wide market for the products of its handicraftsmanship. It was on October 23, 1901, at Cleveland, that James S. McLearie was united in marriage to Minnie G. Gymer, who was born in England and who had come to the United States with her parents, George and Mahalia Gymer, in 1885, and to this union three children have been born, Elizabeth, James and Katherine. The McLearie family are members of the Presbyterian church. They reside at 320 Ashland avenue. HARRY L. McCULLOUGH, proprietor of the Ideal Electric Shop at Muncie and a general electrical contractor of wide experience, is a veteran in the electrical field in Indiana and has been engaged in that field at Muncie for nearly twenty-five years. Mr. McCullough was born at Richmond, Ind., May 18, 1873, and is a son of Lewis H. and Mary (O'Hara) McCullough, the former of whom attained wide fame as an inventor in the early days of electrical development in this country. The late Lewis H. McCullough was born at Wadington, Del., and as a young man located at Richmond, Ind. He was an ingenious inventor and when electricity began to be applied to practical uses turned his whole attention to that amazing field, with a record of achievement including the invention of a system of firealarm signals which served as the forerunner of the present widely: used Gamewell system and the invention of the wire cable system now so commonly in use. His grandfather, Jethro McCullough, first applied the process which made possible the manufacture of galvanized iron and was also the first vice president of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. Lewis H. McCullough was an important factor in the development of the Western Electric Company back in 1880. His last days were spent at Richmond. Reared at Richmond, Harry L. McCullough received his schooling in the schools of that city and early turned his attention to mechanical and electrical pursuits. His first work at Richmond was with the old Hoosier drill works and when that concern presently put in their electrical equipment he helped to instal the same and was given charge of the electrical plant. That was in the "pioneer" days of electrical installation, in the days when the old type "hair pin' lamp was used. When the Eastern Indiana Hospital for the Insane was erected at Richmond in the '90s, Mr.

McCullough left the drill works and took employment at the hospital where he installed the telephone system. In 1899 he was called to Muncie to install the electric plant at the works of the Republic Iron and Steel Company here and then was given charge of their gas engine, as well as the engines in the gas fields east of town, and was thus employed until given charge of the municipal electric light plant at Muncie, this plant then being located at Madison and Wysor streets. A year later Mr. McCullough decided to go into business "on his own" and with this end in view set up a small electrical shop and has ever since been thus engaged, doing general electrical contract work and dealing in general electrical supplies. In 1914 he established his present Ideal Electric Shop at 113 West Howard street and has since been located there with a full equipment for taking care of all demands in his line. Mr. McCullough is a member of the Indiana Electrical Contractors Association and is affiliated with the local lodges of the Knights of Pythias and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. He is a Republican and he and his wife are members of the Universalist church. In 1892 Harry L. McCullough was united in marriage to Madge Fender, daughter of John M. Fender, of Liberty, Ind., and to this union two children have been born, a daughter, Beatrice, and a son, Robert McCullough, the latter of whom is now connected with the operations of the Muncie Products Company. Beatrice McCullough married Daniel Hoover and has two children, sons both, John and Richard. The McCulloughs reside at 1110 South Jefferson street.

GEORGE A. TAYLOR, general manager of the plant and the concerns of the Durham Manufacturing Company of Muncie, "the world's largest makers of fireless stoves," was born at Lucas, Mich., July 23, 1887, and is a son of Weller H. and Alice P. (Keepers) Taylor. In 1912 he was graduated from the University of Michigan, having there specialized in electrical engineering, and upon leaving the university took employment with the General Electric Company, in whose behalf he traveled for about two years, in equipment, sales and construction service. At the end of this time he married and then transferred his connection to the Detroit Edison Company and later to the Hoskins Manufacturing Company, as superintendent of the shop and special traveling representative, and was thus connected until in 1919, when he became general manager of the plant of the Durham Manufacturing Company of Muncie, which position he now occupies. It was in 1914 that Mr. Taylor was united in marriage to Jessie L. Dailey, of Manistee, Mich., and to this union one child has been born, a daughter, Jessie R. As noted above, the Durham Manufacturing Company is referred to as "the world's largest makers of fireless stoves," its celebrated "Duplex" fireless stoves and equipment, aluminum cooking vessels, disk heaters and the like, being the special product of the plant, which employs about fifty persons. These fireless stoves are made in a half dozen or more sizes and styles, thus providing ''a model that will fit any household," and their popularity has created for them a wide market throughout the country, so that the Durham products have done much to extend the name and fame of "Magic Muncie." The Durham Manufacturing Company was incorporated in 1907 by the late J. E. Durham and the late J. M. Maring and their associates and has an admirable manufacturing plant at Mound and Cleveland streets. The present officers of the company are E. B. Ball, president; H. R. Bard, superintendent; Frank B. Bernard, vice president; Fred Durham, secretary, H. C. Johnson, treasurer, and George A. Taylor, general manager.

ARTHUR PHILIP EMMERT, general superintendent of the plant of the Warner Gear Company, one of the leading industries of Muncie, is a "Buckeye" by birth but a "Hoosier" by adoption and has had no occasion to regret the choice which made him a citizen of Indiana and of Muncie some twelve years ago. Mr. Emmert was born at Hamilton, Ohio, August 30, 1884, and is the second in order of birth of the six children born to John and Caroline (Geisler) Emmert, both of whom were born in that same county - Butler county - and who are still living, making their home at Hamilton, where for years John Emmert has been a department head in the plant of the Niles Tool Works. He is a son of Leonard Emmert, a native of Germany, who located in Butler county, upon coming to this country many years ago. His wife's father, Philip Geisler, also came to this country from Germany and settled in Butler county. Reared at Hamilton, Arthur Philip Emmert received a limited schooling in the schools of that city and early devoted himself, under the thoughtful direction of his father, a skilled machinist, to the machinist's trade. After an apprenticeship of four years in the plant of the Niles Tool Works at Hamilton he went to Detroit in 1905, he then being twenty-one years of age, and became a foreman in a plant engaged in the manufacture of steam engines. In the next year he married. In 1909 he became - interested in the growing industry attendant on the manufacture of automobile parts and accessories and transferred his connection to a branch of the General Motors Corporation at Detroit, where he remained for two years, at the end of which time he accepted a posi- tion as superintendent of the plant of a company engaged in the manufacture of motor parts at Cleveland and moved to the latter city. In the following year (1912) he came to Muncie, entering the plant of the Warner Gear Company as "trouble man" and foreman of the gear department of that thriving industry. Not long afterward he was made assistant to the general superintendent of the plant, later was advanced to the position of production manager and presently by further promotion in service was made general superintendent of the plant, the position he now occupies. It was in 1906, the year following his departure from Hamilton, that Arthur Philip Emmert was united in marriage to Maude Post, of that city, and to this union two children have been born, a son, Forrest M., and a daughter, Marjorie B. Mr. and Mrs. Emmert are members of the Jackson Street Christian church and Mr. Emmert is one of the elders of the congregation. He is a member of the Muncie Chamber of Commerce and of the Exchange Club, is a Freemason and is also affiliated with the Knights of Pythias.

DR. JOHN C. QUICK, mayor of Muncie, former county health officer, for nearly forty years a practicing physician at Muncie, has been a resident of this county since the days of his childhood. Doctor Quick was born on a farm in the immediate vicinity of Frankton, in the neighboring county of Madison, December 4, 1862, and is a son of Joseph A. and Mary E. (Love) Quick, the latter of whom was a native of Ireland, born on January 2, 1837, and was twelve years of age when she came to this country with her parents, James and Jane (Johnson) Love, in 1849, the family coming on out into Indiana and settling in Franklin county, whence they presently moved up to Mad--. ison county, where they established their home. James Love and his wife both were natives of Ireland, the former born in 1812 and the latter in 1814. Following the death of his wife in Madison county,. James Love went to Minnesota, where his last days were spent. Joseph A. Quick was born in the Middletown neighborhood in the ad-. jacent county of Henry, February 8, 1839, and was a son of John and Nancy (Clary) Quick, the latter of whom, a native of Hamilton county, Ohio, died in 1848. John Quick also was born in Ohio, in Territorial days. In 1827, the year in which Delaware county was. | erected as a separate civic unit in the then growing group of Indiana counties, he came into this state and entered a tract of a quarter of a section of land in the Middletown settlement in Henry county, which county had been erected in 1822. On that place he made his home until in 1858, when he moved over into Madison county, where his.

Dr. John C. Quick

last days were spent, his death occurring there in 1881. When Joseph A. Quick was sixteen years of age he began clerking in a store and was thus engaged until his marriage at the age of twenty-one, after which he rented his father's farm in Madison county and began farming. A year later he bought a place of his own there and continued farming in that county until in 1866, when he disposed of his interests in Madison county and moved over into Delaware county, buying a farm of 240 acres in Harrison township, to which place he presently added another "forty" and thus became the owner of a farm of 280 acres. It was in 1866 that Joseph A. Quick settled in Harrison township. Four years later, in 1870, he was elected township trustee, and served for four years. Twice afterward he was elected to this office and thus in all rendered twelve years of service as trustee of Harrison township, for years having been regarded as one of the leaders of the Republican party in that section of the county. Joseph A. Quick died at his home in this county on June 30, 1913, he then being in his seventy-fourth year. It was on January 2, 1860, that he married Mary Love. To that union were born four children, two daughters, Lizzie J. (deceased) and Nettie J., and two sons, Dr. James M. Quick and Dr. John C. Quick, of Muncie. Dr. John C. Quick was but four years of age when his parents moved from Madison county to Delaware county, and he grew to manhood on the home farm in Harrison township. He early devoted himself to the study of medicine and after completing preparatory studies here entered the old Physio-Medical College at Indianapolis, and in 1886 was graduated from that institution. Upon receiving his diploma, Doctor Quick opened an office for the practice of his profession at Muncie and has ever since been located here, with present downtown office at 114 East Howard street and office and residence at 421 South Mulberry street, where he has been located for the past twenty-five years and more. The Doctor is a member of the American Medical Association, of the Indiana Medical Association and of the Delaware-Blackford Medical Society. Doctor Quick is a Republican. In 1919 he was appointed health officer for Delaware county and was thus serving when in 1921 he was elected mayor of Muncie, in which executive office he now is serving. On April 10, 1888, Dr. John C. Quick was united in marriage to Effie L. Langsdon, who was born and reared in Harrison township, this county, daughter of Martin and Hannah (Green) Langsdon, and to this union three daughters have been born, namely: Elma, wife of Austin B. Claypool, now living in Alberta, Canada; Leola, who died at the age of twelve years, and Mary, wife of Harry Dean, now living at Boston, Mass. Doctor and Mrs. Quick are members of the Jackson Street Christian (Disciples) church. -

JAMES E. STURGEON, head of the Sturgeon Grain and Coal Company of Muncie, has been a resident of Muncie for the past ten years and more. Mr. Sturgeon was born on a farm in the immediate vicinity of Portland, in the neighboring county of Jay, April 11, 1870, and is a son of Samuel N. and Mary (Allen) Sturgeon, the latter of whom was born in that same county, a daughter of Ebenezer Allen, who had come into Indiana from Preble county, Ohio, and had become one of the pioneers of Jay county. Samuel N. Sturgeon, a veteran of the Civil war, was born in Perry county, Ohio, a son of James Sturgeon, a native of Harrisburgh, Pa., and a son of Jeremiah Sturgeon, who had come to this country from Scotland and had settled in Pennsylvania. Samuel N. Sturgeon came into Indiana in the days of his young manhood and was living here when the Civil war broke out. He served as a soldier of the Union, a member of the 147th regiment, Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and with that command was with Grant's army when Lee surrendered. Upon the completion of his military service he returned to Indiana and after his marriage located in the vicinity of Portland and there became engaged in farming. In 1875 he moved with his family to Kansas, where his wife died in 1878. In 1880 he returned to Indiana and here spent the remainder of his life, his death occurring in 1895. He was an active member of the Grand Army of the Republic. He and his wife were the parents of. eight children. James E. Sturgeon was eight years of age when his mother died. He was reared to farm life and his schooling was received in the common schools. He was ten years of age when his father returned to Jay county from Kansas and he grew to manhood: on the farm there. When twenty-two years of age he married and thereafter continued farming for two years, at the end of which time he became engaged in the feed business at Portland, where he made his home. He later became engaged in the business of buying and shipping horses and was thus engaged for six years, at the end of which time he became employed in the immigration department of a North Dakota land company and for two years was engaged in traveling in that connection, locating immigrants on farms in North Dakota. Then he took up the tile industry, operated a tile factory for a vear, and then took over a flour mill in Wayne county, an industry he maintained for two years, or until in 1913, when he disposed vf his interests in that county and moved to Muncie, where he estab- lished his present business and has since been thus engaged, with his sales establishment and coal yards at Jefferson and Seymour streets, handling coal and coke, grain, flour and a general line of feeds, with particular reference to the Quaker Oats line, his two sons and his daughter being closely associated with him in the business. Mr. Sturgeon is a member. of the local camp of the Sons of Veterans, is a member of the Knights of Pythias and he and his sons are Masons and members of the local post of the Travelers Protective Association, while he and his wife and children are members of the Methodist Episcopal church. It was on June 28, 1892, while living in Jay county, that James E. Sturgeon was united in marriage to Cora A. Starr, who also was born in that county, and to this union four children have been born, namely: Leland Merit, who died in infancy; Lawrence L., who is associated with his father in business, and Lea A. and Leah A. (twins), both of whom also are taking part in the operation of the Sturgeon Grain and Coal Company. Lea A. Sturgeon is a veteran of the World war and a member of the local post of the American Legion. He had his military training in the S. A. T. C. of Indiana University and was with the Tank Corps upon the conclusion of the war. He married Helen Moore. Lawrence L. Sturgeon married Wilma Hawkins and has one child, a daughter, Betty Marie. RICHARD OLIVER NABRING, freight agent for the Central Indiana Railway Company at Muncie and a wholesale dealer in coa! in that city, is a native of Missouri but has been a resident of Indiana since he was ten years of age. Mr. Nabring was born at Dewitt, Mo., November 22, 1884, and is a son of Richard Henry and Matilda Frances (Smalley) Nabring, the latter of whom is still living, a resident of Muncie for nearly twenty years. She was born in Kentucky, a daughter of Oliver Smalley, who was a Confederate soldier during - the time of the Civil war, serving under General Lee. The late Richard Henry Nabring was born in Missouri, a son of Henry Nabring, a native of Germany, who for some time after his arrival in this country was engaged in the hotel business at Mobile, Ala., and then made his home in Missouri. Reared in Missouri, Richard Henry Nabring was trained as a farmer and for some time after his marriage followed that vocation, later taking up the real estate business. In 1894 he moved with his family to Indiana and located at Fox Station, in Grant county. Two years later he moved to Upland and there made his home for ten years, at the end of which time, in 1906, . he moved to Muncie and here spent the remainder of his life, his death occurring in 1920, he then being sixty-four years of age. Of the children born to him and his wife, four grew to maturity, three daughters and the son, subject of this sketch. Richard Oliver Nabring was ten years of age when his parents came with their family to Indiana in 1894 and his schooling was completed in the schools of Upland, in the neighboring county of Grant. When sixteen years of age, in 1900, he entered the employ of the Pennsylvania Lines as a student in the railway office at Upland and in 1903 was made clerk in that office. Two years later he left the railway employ for a time and for a year was engaged in the plant of the Advance Glass Company at Upland, but a year later returned to railway service and remained in the employ of the Pennsylvania, serving in various stations and in various capacities, until in 1909, when he became employed in the Kitselman Bros. plant at Muncie, where he remained until in 1911, when he took his present position with the Indiana Central Railway Company, as freight agent for that company at Muncie. In 1915 Mr. Nabring became engaged in the wholesale coal business at Muncie, carrying on this line in addition to his railway work, and has since been thus engaged, carrying on this latter business under his own name. Mr. Nabring is a Scottish Rite and Knight Templar Mason and is a member of the Muncie Chamber of Commerce and of the High Street Methodist Episcopal church. HERBERT G. AUSTIN, formerly of the firm of Austin & Porter, wholesale milk dealers at Muncie, now living retired, is a native son of Delaware county and has lived here all his life. Mr. Austin was born on a farm on the Centennial pike just at the edge of the city of Muncie, November 12, 1890, and is the son and only child of Charles M. and Lillian (Dick) Austin, the latter of whom also was born in this county, and who are still living on their farm on the Centennial pike. Charles M. Austin is a Virginian by birth and was but a child when he came to Indiana with his parents, Eugene Austin and wife, the family settling on a farm in the immediate vicinity of Muncie. It was here that Charles M. Austin grew to manhood. He received his schooling in the Muncie schools and formerly and for years was engaged as a school teacher, serving for a time as principal of the schools at Greensburg and at New Albany and later in the Muncie city schools. Herbert G. Austin supplemented the schooling he received in the Muncie city schoools by a course in the university at Valparaiso and then continued on the home farm until in 1916, when he became engaged in the wholesale milk business at Muncie in association with W. T. Porter, doing business under the firm name of the Austin & Porter Milk Company, and was thus engaged until in 1922 when ill health compelled him to dispose of his business interests and he since then has been living temporarily retired. On April 19, 1917, Herbert G. Austin was united in marriage to Hazel Fuson, who also was born in this county, February 19, 1893, daughter of Thomas and Mary E. (Thomas) Fuson, and to this union one child has been born, a daughter, Virginia. The Austins reside at 1924 Centennial avenue. Mr. Austin is a member of the college fraternity Phi Delta Kappa. Mrs. Austin also is a member of one of the pioneer families of Delaware county, her grandfather, John C. Fuson, having come over here from Ohio with his family in 1848 and settled in Monroe township. He became a well-to-do landowner in that township and spent the rest of his life there, his death occurring in October, 1890. His son, Thomas Fuson, father of Mrs. Austin, was born in January, 1845, and was thus but three years of age when he came to Delaware county with his parents. Though but sixteen years of age when the Civil war broke out he got into the service of the Union army and served as a soldier for two years or until discharged in 1863 because of physical disability. He became the owner of a good farm in Monroe township and for ten years and more served as a member of the advisory board of that township. Mrs. Austin's mother was born in North Carolina, a daughter of Magnum and Sarah (Harrold) Thomas, who came to Indiana with their family in 1864 and settled in Henry county. She married Thomas Fuson in December, 1881.

CHARLES VENEMAN, proprietor of a well established furniture store at 120 South Mulberry street, Muncie, is a native son of Delaware county and has lived here all his life, interested in merchandising from the days of his youth. Mr. Veneman was born in 1878 and is a son of Homer and Mary E. (Langston) Veneman, the latter of whom was a daughter of Martin and Hannah (Greene) Langston, who had come here from Ohio. Homer Veneman, a member of one of the pioneer families of Delaware county, was for years engaged in mercantile business in Harrison township. He and his wife were the parents of three children, the subject of this sketch having a sister, Myrtle, and a brother, Frank Veneman. Reared to the mercantile business, Charles Veneman has followed that line all his life. Upon completing his schooling he became employed in a retail dry goods store at Muncie and was thus employed until in 1912, when he became engaged in business on his own account, opening his present furniture store in South Mulberry street and has eyer since been thus engaged in business, having an admirably equipped store and a stock of goods equal to all the demands of his trade. Charles Vene- man married Carrie Mitchell, daughter of Marcellus and Ella Mitchell, and he and his wife have one child, a son, Charles W. Veneman. Mr. and Mrs. Veneman are members of the Methodist Episcopal church. They reside at 311 West Washington street. Mr. Veneman is a member of the board of directors of the Citizens Finance Association of Muncie and secretary of that association and also has interests in several manufacturing concerns in the city.

CHARLES C. WILLIAMS, one of Muncie's well known plumbers, has been a; resident of Muncie since 1910. Mr. Williams was born at Carlisle, in Nichola' county, Kentucky, in 1882, and is a son of John W. and Deborah (Glasscock) Williams. He early became trained in the plumbing and steam fitting line and thus from the days of his boyhood has been thus engaged. His first work in this line was performed at Columbus, Ohio, and he later was engaged in the same line at Kansas City, Mo., from which place he went to Elgin, IIl., and in this latter city was engaged in the plumbing business until in 1910, when he came to Muncie, which ever since has been his place of residence. In 1915 Mr. Williams became associated with William Lyman in the plumbing business and presently succeeded to: that business, of which he since has been sole proprietor, with present establishment at No. 1225-1227 East Main street, where he is well equipped to answer all calls in his line. Mr. Williams has made some of the most extensive plumbing installations put up in Muncie, including that of the plant of the Warner display room and others of large importance. Charles C. Williams married Gertrude Young- Kin. He is a Freemason. | |

DEAN DEWITT BINKLEY, secretary-treasurer and general manager of the White City Lumber Company of Muncie, was born at Goshen, Ind., April 6, 1892, and is a son of Benjamin C. and Henrietta (Weybright) Binkley, the latter of whom also was born in Indiana and who are still living in that city. Benjamin C. Binkley, a machinist, is a native of New York state, but has for many years been a resident of Goshen. He and his wife are parents of eight children. Reared at Goshen, Dean Dewitt Binkley was graduated from. the high school of that city and early became attracted to the lumber business, not long after leaving school taking a position in the office of a lumber concern at Indiana Harbor, where he became thoroughly familiar with the details of the lumber business. Mr. Binkley remained at Indiana Harbor until in the latter part of 1919 when he became a factor in the organization of the White City Lumber Company, which bought the yards and business of the old H. C. R.

Wall lumber establishment at Muncie and on December 27 of that year took over the old lumber yard and with numerous modern improvements in the plant has since been carrying on the business, with a well equipped lumber yard and mill in Mock avenue. This company not only does a general retail lumber business but has a good plant for mill work. Mr. Binkley is the secretary-treasurer of the company and general manager of the business, the other officers being William H. Campbell, president, and W. H. Campbell, vice president. In 1917 Dean Dewitt Binkley was united in marriage to Glenn Call and to this union two sons have been born, Dean Dewitt, Jr., and Maxwell Call Binkley. Mr. and Mrs. Binkley are members of the Methodist Episcopal church. Mr. Binkley is a Freemason, a member of Muncie chapter, No. 30, Royal Arch Masons, and of Muncie council, No. 16, Royal and Select Masters; also a member of the local lodge of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and is affiliated with the Muncie Kiwanis Club.

F. CARL PITTENGER, secretary-treasurer of the National Clay Products and Silo Company of Muncie, was born on a farm in the eastern part of Delaware county, about midway between Albany and Selma, November 9, 1888, and is a son of Fletcher D. and Alice R. (Shroyer) Pittenger, both of whom were members of pioneer families in that part of the county, the former a son of the Rev. John A. Pittenger, who in his generation was widely known hereabout as a local Methodist preacher. Fletcher D. Pittenger was a farmer, operating the place on which his wife was born, the old Anthony Shroyer farm in Liberty township. Of the three children born to him and his wife the subject of this sketch alone survives. Reared on the home farm, F. Carl Pittenger was graduated from the Selma high school and not long afterward became employed as a traveling salesman for a Kalamazoo (Mich.) tank and silo company. For five years he remained thus employed and then he transferred his services to the Indianapolis branch of the John Deere Plow Company, with which concern he was connected for five years, or until in 1920, when he became connected with the National Clay Products and Silo Company of Muncie, which was organized in that year by W. W. Wingate, president of the company, as is set out elsewhere, and has since been serving as secretary and treasurer of the company. This company was incorporated for the purpose of manufacturing clay products, hollow building tile and silos a specialty, and has plants at Brazil and Monroe, Ind., with offices in the Neely block at Muncie, and has developed a good business in its line. In 1919 F.

C. Pittenger was united in marriage to Mabel E. Rose, of Muncie, and to this union one child has been born, a son, Robert C. Mr. and Mrs. Pittenger are members of the Methodist Episcopal church and Mr. Pittenger is a Freemason.

FRANK B. BERNARD, president of the Merchants National Bank, vice president of the Merchants Trust and Savings Company of Muncie, a director of the Muncie Chamber of Commerce and in other ways interested in the commercial and industrial activities of the city, is a native of the old Buckeye state but is a Hoosier by choice and adoption and has been a resident of Muncie for the past twenty years. Mr. Bernard was born on a farm in the immediate vicinity of Wilmington, in Clinton county, Ohio, and is a son of John William and Clara (Thatcher) Bernard, both of whom also were born in Ohio and the former of whom died when his son Frank was a child. Reared on the home farm in Clinton county, Ohio, Frank B. Bernard was graduated from the Sabina high school and in 1904 came over into Indiana to attend the business college at Muncie. Upon the completion of this course of instruction in business forms he became employed as a clerk in the Merchants National Bank of Muncie and was thus engaged for three years, meantime taking a year's work in the Muncie high school, and in 1908 was graduated from that school. He then entered the University of Michigan for a course in accountancy and banking and presently was elected a member of the faculty of that institution, from which in 1912 he received his A. B. degree. Upon retiring from school work in 1912 Mr. Bernard became engaged as a professional accountant and was thus engaged for about a year, at the end of which time, in 1913, his services were secured by the Merchants National Bank as manager of the savings and investment department of that institution. In 1916 he was elected to a place on the board of directors of that bank and made vice president of the bank. In 1919 when the Merchants Trust and Savings Company was organized he became a member of the directorate of that institution and was made vice president of the company, which position he still occupies. Following the death of Hardin Roads, president of the Merchants National Bank, in May, 1923, Mr. Bernard was elected president of the bank and is thus now serving in that administrative capacity. The vice presidents of this bank are C. F. Koontz, F. D. Rose and Fred Klopfer; B. F. Shroyer is cashier, and F. D. Conyers, T. P. Mann and C. C. Wingate are assistant cashiers. Eugene Vatet is chairman of the board of directors and the other members of the directorate, besides the officers of the bank above mentioned, are E. B. Ball, E. Arthur Ball, George A. Ball, Joseph A. Goddard, Myron H. Gray, A. L. Kitselman, C. A. Penzel, W. M. Sample, W. C. Sampson, D. O. Skillen, C. L. Retherford, J. W. Truitt and George W. Wagner. Associated with Mr. Bernard (vice president) in the officiary of the Merchants Trust and Savings Company are F. D. Rose, president; Fred Klopfer, second vice president; H. M. Koontz, secretary; Dale Shreeve, treasurer, and H. B. Shriner, assistant secretary. The Merchants National Bank, operating under charter No. 2234, is a member of the Federal Reserve System. A recent consolidated statement of the condition of this bank and of its subsidiary, the Merchants Trust and Savings Company, reveals the combined resources of the two institutions to be near $7,000,000, the resources of the bank aggregating right around $5,000,000. Mr. Bernard also has interests in other commercial and industrial enterprises about town and is the secretary of the T. J. Ault company, commission merchants; vice president of the Durham Manufacturing Company and a member of the directorate of the Kuhner Packing Company. He is one of the directors of the Muncie Chamber of Commerce, of which he formerly was secretary and treasurer, and is also affiliated with the influential Exchange Club and the Ad Club. Mr. Bernard is a Knight Templar and Scottish Rite (32°) Mason and a Republican. In 1915 Frank B. Bernard was united in marriage to Gladys Rockwell Jenney, daughter of Rollin H. Jenney, of Pontiac, Mich., and to this union three daughters have been born, Jean Eleanor, Alice Marilyn and Nell Corinne. Mr. and Mrs. Bernard are members of the First Presbyterian church of Muncie and Mr. Bernard is a member of the board of trustees of that congregation. The Bernards reside at 907 East Jackson street. ARTHUR D. McKINLEY, a member of the bar of the Delaware circuit court, former state senator from this district, present city attorney and a cousin in the second generation of William McKinley, twenty-fifth President of the United States, is a native son of Delaware county and has lived here all his life. Mr. McKinley was born on a farm in Washington township on August 3, 1880, and is a son of John W. and Rebecca (Burgess) McKinley, the latter of whom is still living, a resident of Muncie for the past thirty years and more. She also was. born in Washington township, a daughter of David Burgess, a Virginian, and one of the pioneers of that township. The late John W. McKinley, a veteran of the Civil war, was born in Niles, Ohio, and was a son of the Rev. John McKinley, a brother of President McKinley's father. The Rev. John McKinley was a Methodist (8)

Protestant circuit rider and for thirty years, back in the days of the pioneers, "rode circuit" throughout this section of Indiana and over in western Ohio, a strong and vigorous influence for good in the community's formative period. John W. McKinley was but a boy when the Civil war broke out, but before that struggle had ended he had twice enlisted and had seen much active service. In May, 1864, when but sixteen years of age, he enlisted for service in Company G of the 134th regiment, Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and was accepted for the ninety-day call issued in that eventful spring. Upon the expiration of this period of enlistment he re-enlisted, in the fall of 1864, at Indianapolis, and was assigned to Company K of the 13th Indiana, with which command he was mustered out in. September, 1865, the war then being over. During this term of service he was assigned to the signal corps and was with Sherman's army on the memorable march to the sea. Upon the completion of his military service Mr. McKinley returned to Delaware county and after his marriage established his home on a farm in Washington township, where he remained until his retirement from the farm in 1890 and removal to Muncie, where his last days were spent, his death occurring there in 1922, he then being seventy-seven years of age. He was a Republican, a member of the Williams post of the Grand Army of the Republic, was affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and was a charter member of the Avondale Methodist Episcopal church, as also is his widow. To him and his wife were born three sons, two of whom survive, the subject of this sketch having an elder brother, George O. McKinley, a Muncie mail carrier. The second son, the late Joseph Clark McKinley, was elected representative from this county to the lower house of the Indiana General Assembly in 1918, served in the session of 1919 and died in 1920 while a candidate for re-election to the House. Arthur D. McKinley was ten years of age when his parents moved from the farm to Muncie and his public schooling was completed in the schools of that city. He was graduated from the high school and later entered the Eastern Indiana Normal University, from which he was graduated in 1900, majoring in the commercial course. He later entered the Indiana Law School, from which he was graduated in 1908 with the degree of L.LB., and in that same year was admitted to the bar and has since been practicing law at Muncie, something more than twenty years, with present offices in the old Little block. Mr. McKinley is an active Republican and is now rendering public service as city attorney. Early in his career as a lawyer he served one term as deputy prosecuting attorney for this county. In 1916 he was elected to represent the county in the state Senate, and served for four years in the Senate, this service including the memorable sessions of the General Assembly in 1917 and 1919, as well as the special sessions which marked that period of national stress during the time of this country's participation in the World war. An unusual feature of this service in the session of 1919 was the fact that while he was serving in the Senate his brother, Clark McKinley, was serving in the House, both representing the same county, a coincidence that is believed to be unique in the annals of the Indiana Legislature. Mr. McKinley is a Scottish Rite (32°) and York Rite (Knights Templar) Mason and is also affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He and his wife are members of the High Street Methodist Episcopal church and he is a member of the board of trustees of that congregation. In 1911 he was united in marriage to Lola L. Burns, of Muncie, a teacher in the Muncie public schools, and to this union two children have been born, a son, Arthur David, Jr., and a daughter, Rebecca Eliza. Mrs. Mc- Kinley takes an active interest in local club work and is the present president of the Woman's Club, the oldest woman's club in the city as well as one of the oldest in Indiana, and is also an officer (auditor) of the local Federated Club of Clubs.

JAMES T. LYNCH, superintendent of the Muncie district in the operations of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company of New York, with offices at Muncie, was born at Meriden, Conn., January 4, 1875, and is a son of Peter H. and Mary T. (McCabe) Lynch, the latter of whom was born in New York city. The late Peter H. Lynch, whose last days were spent in Muncie, was born in Ireland and was but six years of age when he came with his parents to the United States. He was married in Meriden, Conn., where he became engaged in the grocery business and where he made his home until after the death of his wife in 1912, when he joined his son James in Indiana and his last days were spent in Muncie, his death occurring there in 1922. He and his wife were members of the Catholic church and their children, four sons anz one daughter, were reared in the faith of that church. Reared at Meriden, James T. Lynch received his early schooling in the parochial school of his local parish and supplemented this by a course in the public high school, after which he began working for his father in the latter's grocery store and was thus engaged until he was twenty-one years of age when, in 1896, he began a connection with the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company of New York which has been maintained ever since, or for more than a quarter of a century. His first service with this company was rendered at Waterbury, Conn., where he remained until 1904, when he was transferred to the Evansville (Ind.) office as assistant superintendent in that office. A year later he was sent back to Connecticut, being made assistant superintendent in the Bridgeport office. In 1908 he was promoted to a superintendency and was sent to Hopkinsville, Ky., where he remained a year, at the end of which time he was sent to the Paris (Ky.) office. Two years later he was transferred to the Louisville (Ky.) office and two years later, in 1913, was made superintendent of the Muncie district, with offices at Anderson. In the next year (1914) this office was moved to Muncie and since then Mr. Lynch has been a resident of the latter city, now having well equipped offices in the Johnson building on Walnut street. In 1919 Mr. Lynch led all district managers in the service of this company in gain of personal business secured and has done much to bring his district well up to the front in the way of volume of business in force. He is now president of the association of Metropolitan managers in Indiana. During the period of this country's participation in the World war Mr. Lynch was active in all local campaigns in behalf of funds for the prosecution of the war and rendered service on various local committees. He and his wife are members of the Catholic church and he is affiliated with the Knights of Columbus and with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. He is president of the Ad Club, financial secretary of the social service bureau of Muncie and a member of the Chamber of Commerce. In his political views he is a Democrat. In June, 1895, at Naugatuckta, Conn., James T. Lynch was united in marriage to Margaret L. Burke. Of the children born to this union five are living, Joseph B., Mary T., Helen G., Alice Catherine and Ethel M., the latter of whom is now in high school. Mary T. Lynch is a graduate nurse, trained in St. Vincent's Hospital at Indianapolis and graduated from the Home Hospital at Muncie. She then took a course in laboratory clinics at the Woman's College at Philadelphia and was graduated there in 1921. Helen G. Lynch was graduated from the University of Michigan in 1923 and Alice Catherine Lynch is in college. Joseph B. Lynch, the only son, is a veteran of the World war and in 1923 was admitted to practice at the bar of the Delaware circuit court. He was graduated from the Anderson high school and in May, 1917, enlisted for service in the United States marines. In August of that year he was sent overseas with the 6th regiment of the 2d Division (the "Fighting Sixth") and participated in active service on several battle fronts. In September, 1918, he was gassed at St. Maline and was invalided, but presently rejoined his regiment and on October 4-5 he took part in the battle of Blanc- Mount Ridge. On the second day of this battle he was wounded in the right arm by a rifle bullet, receiving a wound which not only put him out of commission for further active army service but rendered that arm permanently useless. In March, 1919, he received his discharge at the Great Lakes Hospital and then entered the law school of Northwestern University at Chicago to complete the study of law which he meanwhile had been pursuing, and is now prepared for the practice of the profession to which he has devoted himself.

DR. J. H. LINDLEY, one of Muncie's dental surgeons, is a native Hoosier and has been a resident of this state all his life. Doctor Lindley was born at Kingman, in the lower part of Fountain county, Indiana, August 20, 1884, and is a son of Charles W. and Miriam T. (Towell) Lindley, both of whom also were natives of Indiana and the former of whom, a veteran of the Civil war, was a well-to-do farmer. Charles W. Lindley was but sixteen years of age when he enlisted as a soldier of the Union for service during the Civil war and he served two terms of enlistment. He completed his schooling in Indiana University, for some time was engaged in teaching school and also served for several terms as surveyor of Fountain county. His wife was a graduate of Earlham College and also was for some time engaged as a school teacher. Reared on the farm, J. H. Lindley completed his schooling in the academy maintained by the Friends at Bloomingdale, in Parke county, not far from his home, and as a young man became engaged in railroad work. For about five years he continued thus engaged and then after a year of preparatory work in the University of Illinois he entered the Indiana Dental College at Indianapolis and in 1913 was graduated from that institution. Upon receiving his diploma Doctor Lindley opened an office for the practice of his profession at Evansville, whence he some time later moved to Dugger, a coal mining town in Sullivan county. In 1920 he left Dugger and after a course of post-graduate work at Northwestern University he came to Muncie, where he since has been engaged in practice, with offices in the Anthony building at the corner of Jackson and Walnut streets. He makes a specialty of extraction and plate work. Doctor Lindley is a member of the national, state and district dental associations and of the Muncie Dental Society. He is a member of the Friends church, is a Freemason and also is affiliated with the local lodge of the Benevolent and Protective

Order of Elks. The Doctor is a member of the board of medical inspection of the Muncie city schools and has charge of the Dental Clinic of the local schools.

JOSEPH G. LEFFLER, senior member of the law firm of Leffler Ball & Leffler at Muncie and former judge of the Delaware circuit court, is a native son of Delaware county, a member of one of thd real pioneer families here, and has resided in this county all his life, engaged in the practice of law here for more than thirty-five years, save for the time spent on the bench. Judge Leffler was born on a farm in Hamilton township, this county, December 26, 1864, and is a son of Philip and Mary (Gerard) Leffler, the latter of whom died when her son Joseph was but four years of age. Both Philip Leffler and his wife were born in Ohio and were but children when their respective parents came to Indiana, both the Lefflers and the Gerards settling in Delaware county in pioneer days. Philip Leffler, Sr., father of Judge Leffler's father, entered a tract of land from the Government in Hamilton township and there established his home, and it was in that same township that the junior Philip Leffler, a veteran of the Civil war, established his home after his marriage and developed a good farm. Enlisting as a soldier of the Union during the time of the Civil war, he rendered service for more than two years, or until the close of the war, and by right of this service Judge Leffler has for years been one of the leaders of the local post of the Sons of Veterans. Reared on the home farm in Hamilton township, Joseph G. Leffler received his common schooling in the local district school and at the age of eighteen began to teach school. He took a course in the Central Indiana Normal School at Danville and was for four years engaged during the winters as the teacher of the Center school in his home township. Meanwhile he was following a course of preliminary reading in law and in 1884 entered the ~ law office of Mellette & Orr at Muncie and under that preceptorship was prepared for practice, and in 1888 was admitted to the bar of the Delaware circuit court. Two years later, in 1890, he was elected prosecuting attorney for this judicial district (Forty-sixth Indiana) and in 1892 was re-elected to that office. In 1898 he was elected judge of the circuit court, succeeding Judge George H. Koons, aad by re-election served for twelve years on the bench, or until on November 16, 1910, when he was succeeded by Judge Frank Ellis. Upon retiring from the bench Judge Leffler resumed his law practice at Muncie and has since been thus engaged, senior member of the law firm of Leffler, Ball & Leffler, with offices in the Nickey building.

Judge Leffler is a Republican and has for years been recognized as among the leaders of that party in the Eighth congressional district. The Judge is a Freemason and is also affiliated with the Knights of Pythias. In 1890 Joseph G. Leffler was united in marriage to Laura Emerson, daughter of Joseph Emerson, of Muncie, and to that union three children have been born, two daughters, Mary Eugenia and Ruth, anda son, Paul E. Leffler, who was graduated from the law school of Indiana University and is now associated with his father in the practice of law. Paul E. Leffler served in the navy during the time of this country's participation in the World war. He married Carrie Reese and has a son, Joseph James Leffler. Mary Eugenia Leffler married Raymond Schuster and has two daughters, Rebecca Ann and Nancy. Ruth Leffler married Harvey Mitchell Anthony, who rendered service in the army during the World war. Judge and Mrs. Leffler are members of the First Baptist church. They reside at 822 West Charles street.

E. K. RESONER, proprietor at Muncie of one of the best established jewelry stores in eastern Indiana, is a native son of Delaware county, a member of one of the old families here, and has resided here practically all his life, for nearly ten years established in business on the corner now occupied by him as a jewelry store at Jackson and Mulberry streets, right in the heart of the city's retail district. Mr. Resoner was born in the village of Wheeling on August 23, 1886, and is a son of George W. and Julia A. (Keller) Resoner, both of whom also were born in this county, members of pioneer families here, and who were the parents of two children, the subject of this sketch having a sister, Mrs. Bessie Resoner Howell, now living in Chicago. George W. Resoner, former postmaster at Wheeling, was engaged in the mercantile business in that village until his retirement about twenty-five years ago and removal to Muncie. E. K. Resoner was about twelve years of age when his parents moved to Muncie and his schooling was completed in the Riverside school here. When sixteen years of age he entered upon an apprenticeship to the jewelry trade in the establishment of H. W. Ellis at Muncie and upon completing this apprenticeship remained with the Ellis store for about four years, at the end of which time he sought other places of employment and was engaged in this same line at Muncie, at Hartford City and at Newcastle until in 1915, when he opened a store of his own at the corner of Jackson and Mulberry streets, Muncie, and has since been engaged in business at that point. The character and scope of the stock carried by Mr. Resoner reveal the fine discrim- inating taste he displays in catering to the trade needs of the community in his line, and his efforts towards the establishment of "Resoner quality" as a local standard in jewelry and silverware products have been rewarded. Mr. Resoner is a member of the National Jewelers Association, of the Indiana Jewelers Association and is chairman of the district association (No. 8) of jewelers. He is a Freemason and has attained to the cryptic degree (council of Royal and Select Masters) in that ancient order. He also is affiliated with the local lodge of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and is a member of the Muncie Chamber of Commerce and of the Country Club and the Muncie Club. In 1906 E. K. Resoner was united in marriage to Ethel Koontz, daughter of Albert Koontz, also a member of one of Delaware county's pioneer families, and to this union one child has been born, a daughter, Julia Alice, now a student in high school, member of the class of 1925. Mr. and Mrs. Resoner are members of the High Street Methodist Episcopal church. They have a pleasant place of residence on the Burlington pike, just out of town, on Old Town Hill, one of the most historic spots in Delaware county.

JAMES H. MOORE, proprietor of the Rochester Clothing Store at Muncie, is a native Hoosier, a member of one of the pioneer families of Indiana, and has lived in this state all his life, a resident of Muncie for the past thirteen or fourteen years. Mr. Moore was born on a farm in the vicinity of Clermont, in Marion county, Indiana, March 27, 1859, and is a son of John and Sarah (Speer) Moore, who in their generation were well known residents of that part of this state. John Moore was a Virginian by birth and was but a child when his parents moved with their family to Zanesville, Ohio. In 1832 they came to Indiana and settled in Marion county. There the balance of his life was spent, for years a substantial farmer in the Clermont neighborhood. During the time of the Civil war he served as a member of the Indiana Home Guards. James H. Moore finished his schooling in the Indianapolis high school, which he attended for three years, and then became a clerk in the Hogshire & Reisener shoe store at Indianapolis, later known as the G. A. Reisener shoe store, and in time became the manager of this store. From the days of his boyhood Mr. Moore has taken an interested part in political affairs. During the terms of J. W. Hess and A. A. Womack as sheriff of Marion county, he served for five years as bailiff in the sheriff's office. In 1897 he served as assistant to the superintendent of the old Marion county work house, now discontinued and torn down, and then be- came engaged in the real estate and insurance business at Indianapolis. For.eight or ten years Mr. Moore continued engaged in this business and then, in 1910, came to Muncie as manager of the Rosenblume ready-to-wear clothing store. Three years later he bought that store and has since been engaged in business for himself, with a well stocked and admirably equipped establishment known as the Rochester Clothing Store at 210 East Main street, where he has done well. Mr. Moore's wife, Mrs. Ida L. (Lewis) Moore, was born at Oskaloosa, Iowa, and is a daughter of the Rev. C. E. Lewis. Mr. Moore is a veteran member of the order of Knights of Pythias in Indiana, years ago having become affiliated with Marion lodge, No. 1, at Indianapolis. For sixteen years he held the station of keeper of records and seal of that lodge of the Knights of Pythias, and was one of the directors of the Castle Hall Association when the Indianapolis Pythians erected Castle Hall in that city in 1899. Mr. Moore is a Republican.

DR. CLAY A. BALL, a practicing physician at Muncie, is a native son of Delaware county, a member of one of the old families here, and has resided here practically all his life, the exception being a brief period during his school-teaching days, twenty years and more ago, when he was teaching down state. Doctor Ball was born on a farm in Monroe township on November 19, 1877, and is a son of George M. and Susanna (Hale) Ball, the latter of whom, still living, was born in the neighboring county of Henry, daughter of Lafary Hale, a Virginian and a pioneer of Henry county. George M. Ball was born in Delaware county in 1844 and was a son of Samuel Ball, a member of one of the first families to settle in the southern part of this county. After his marriage George M. Ball for a time resided in the adjacent county of Blackford and then returned to the old Ball neighborhood in the southern part of this county, where he established his home on a farm and where he spent the remainder of his life, his death occurring in March, 1879, he then being thirty-five years and eight months of age; and his widow was left with six children, those besides the subject of this sketch, the fifth in order of birth, being Walter L., Joseph H., Claud C., John W. and Mrs. Maude M. Ayres. As will be noted by a comparison of above dates, Doctor Ball was but little more than a year old when his father died. He grew up on the home farm and finished his common schooling in the Cowan high school, after which for two years he taught school in his home township. He then entered Indiana University and after a four years course there was graduated in 1902. During the following winter he served as superintendent of the schools at Patriot, in Switzerland county, meantime continuing his studies with a view to taking up the study of medicine, and in the next year entered the Indiana Medical College at Indianapolis, from which institution he was graduated in 1906. Upon receiving his diploma Doctor Ball opened an office for the practice of medicine at Muncie and has since been thus engaged, with office and residence at 303 West Adams street. Doctor Ball is a member of the American, Indiana state and Delaware-Blackford (county) medical associations, is a past president of the latter society, and is the present president of the Muncie Academy of Medicine, to which office he was elected in October, 1923. He also is a member of the Kighth District Medical Society, of which he was for some years the secretary, and is now the president of that society. He is a Republican and a Freemason and is affiliated with the Muncie Chamber of Commerce, the Rotary Club and the Country Club. In 1906 Dr. Clay A. Ball was united in marriage to Helen Mauck, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Mauck, of Berea, Ohio, and to this union three children have been born, Edward, Philip and James. Doctor and Mrs. Ball are members of the Presbyterian church.

PERRY W. MANSFIELD, clerk of courts for Delaware county and formerly and for years chief deputy in the office of the county clerk, is a member of one of the old families of Delaware county, the Mansfields having come over here from Greene county, Ohio, in the days, nearly a hundred years ago, when establishments of permanent settlement were being set up here in the then new county of Delaware. Mr. Mansfield was born on a farm in Hamilton township in 1890 and is a son of C. L. and Lila (Baker) Mansfield, who are still living and the latter of whom was born in Wisconsin. Mrs. Mansfield is a daughter of Henry and Laura (Cassidy) Baker, the latter of whom was born in this county. Henry Baker, a native of Massachusetts, was a soldier of the Union during the Civil war and was wounded in action. C. L. Mansfield, a farmer and stock buyer of Union township, was born in this county and is a son of Robert and Diana (Gibson) Mansfield, both of whom also were born here, members of pioneer families in the county. To C. L. and Lila (Baker) Mansfield five children have been born, the subject of this sketch - the second in order of birth - having two brothers, Fred and Robert, and two sisters, Esther and Doris. Fred Mansfield is a veteran of the World war with an overseas record. Reared on the uated from the township high school and in the following winter taught a term of school in this county. He then went to Texas with a view to possible location in that state, but after a period of prospecting around there came to the conclusion that Indiana was quite as good a place of residence as the Southwest ever possibly could be, and he returned home. Not long thereafter, during the incumbency of John W. Mansfield as county clerk, he was made a deputy in the office of the county clerk and applied himself so definitely to the tasks that there confronted him that he was retained as deputy during the succeeding incumbencies of Charles F. Bowden and Frank E. Barber, and was serving as chief deputy in the office when in the fall election of 1922, as the nominee of the Republican party in this county, he was elected county clerk, his term of service to run for four years from January 1, 1924, and he is thus now serving in that important office. Mr. Mansfield is a Freemason and is also affiliated with the Knights of Pythias, the Improved Order of Red Men, the Loyal Order of Moose and the Fraternal Order of Eagles. In 1915 Perry W. Mansfield was united in marriage to Esther Smith, daughter of James Smith, also of this county, and to this union two children have been born, Perry and Marthadel. Mr. and Mrs. Mansfield are members of the Christian church.

HERSCHAEL F. SHAW, general agent for the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Company at Muncie, has been connected with railway service operations since the days of his boyhood and is thus recognized as one of the best informed railroad men in Muncie. Mr. Shaw was born at Middletown, Ohio, in 1887, and is a son of Armstead and Anna (Foltz) Shaw, the former of whom is a son of Hiram Shaw, a veteran of the Civil war. Mrs. Shaw's father, Henry Foltz, also was a veteran of the Civil war. Reared at Middletown, Herschael F. Shaw received his schooling in the schools of that city and at Forest, Ohio. He started his railway career as a clerk in the Big Four and Pennsylvania railway offices at Forest, Ohio, and in time was advanced to various positions in offices at Forest and Middletown, Ohio, and was thus connected until in 1911, when he was appointed to the office of division freight agent of the Cincinnati, Chicago & Louisville Railway Company, now a part of the C. & O. railway system, and was made the company's commercial agent at Muncie. Mr. Shaw continued thus connected with the C. & O service until in 1920, when he was appointed general agent of the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Company and has since been serving as that company's general agent at Muncie. In 1912 Herschael F. Shaw was united in marriage to Eva Shoenberger, of Forest, Ohio, and to this union two children have been born, a son, Armstead, and a daughter, Mary. Mr. and Mrs. Shaw are members of the Presbyterian church. Mr. Shaw is a Knight Templar Mason and is also affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He is a member of the Muncie Chamber of Commerce and of the local Dynamo Club. i

THE REV. HEBER DWIGHT KETCHAM, D. D., pastor of the High Street Methodist Episcopal church, Muncie, and one of the leading figures in Indiana Methodism, was born at Kenton, the county seat of Hardin county, Ohio, and is a son of the Rev. C. W. and Mary Dyer (Parkison) Ketcham, the latter of whom was a daughter of Joshua and Jane (Reed) Parkison and a granddaughter of John and Mary Dyer. John Dyer, of Pendleton county, Virginia, was a soldier of the Revolution. Joshua Parkison's father laid out the town of Maysville, Ky. The late Rev. C. W. Ketcham, a veteran of the Civil war, was born in Washington county, New York, and was a son of Joshua and Mary. (Livingston) Ketcham, the latter of whom, a member of the widely represented family of Hudson River Livingstons, was a daughter of John Livingston, a Revolutionary soldier, whose father, also John by name, also was a soldier of the Revolution. Joshua Ketcham also was born in Washington county, New York, a son of Joshua and Eleanor (Soule) Ketcham, the latter of whom was of the Soule family descended from George Soule, one of the Pilgrims in the "Mayflower." The first of the Ketchams in this country landed in 1637 and became a member of the Massachusetts colony. He was from Northumberland, England. The senior Joshua Ketcham, mentioned above, was a native New Yorker and served as a soldier in the patriot army during the time of the Revolution. The Rev. C. W. Ketcham rendered service in the army during the time of the Civil war as chaplain of the 96th regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He became a strong force in Ohio Methodism, organized the Cincinnati Missionary Society and was twice a presiding elder in the Cincinnati conference. During the time of his pastorate at Toledo he built St. Paul church there and it was during his pastorate at Cincinnati that St. Paul was erected in the latter city. He had served earlier pastorates at Kenton, Sidney, Bellefontaine and Springfield. His death occurred at Cincinnati in 1889. Of the children born to the Rev. C. W. Ketcham and wife the. Rev. Heber Dwight Ketcham was the second in order of birth, the others being as follows: The Rev. Merrick Ketcham, who is now superin- tendent of the Hillsboro district of the West Ohio conference; Mrs. Lulah K. Anderson, wife of Bishop Anderson, of Cincinnati; Dr. Charles Ketcham, a physician now practicing at Leesburg, Ga., and Miss Rosemary Ketcham, professor of original design in the University of Kansas. With the exception of Dr. Charles Ketcham who had but three years there, all these children were graduated from Ohio Wesleyan University, as were their parents. By reason of his father's early itinerary Heber Dwight Ketcham had periods of youthful schooling at Toledo, Springfield and Cincinnati, this public schooling being completed in the schools of the latter city. He then entered Ohio Wesleyan University and upon completing the course there entered Drew Theological Seminary at Madison, N. J., and in due time was ordained to the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal church. Doctor Ketcham's first pastorate was at Blanchester, in Clinton county, Ohio, and his next was at Mt. Washington and Red Bank, suburbs of Cincinnati. From there he went to Wilmington, then to Clifton (Cincinnati), thence to Hillsboro and thence to Greene Street (Piqua). It was while serving in this latter pastorate that he was appointed presiding elder of the Dayton district. He later became pastor of Trinity church at Cincinnati. Taking a transfer to Tennessee, Doctor Ketcham's next pastorate was that of the First Methodist Episcopal church at Knoxville, in that state, from which place he went to the First church, Kankakee, IIl., thence to State Street, Trenton, N. J., and then, in 1920, to Muncie, where he since has made his home, pastor of the High Street Methodist Episcopal church, with residence at 429 West Charles street. Doctor Ketcham was at one time president of the Epworth League of Chio and Kentucky, was a delegate from the Cincinnati conference to the General Conference of the Methodist church, held at Los Angeles in 1904, and was for ten years a member of the Freedman's Aid board of the church. He was invited to contribute one of the volumes of the Pulpit Series published by the Methodist church in 1905. The volume was entitled "The Certainty of the Kingdom." As a pulpit orator, it is not too much to say that Doctor Ketcham has an established reputation, his pulpit addresses on more than one occasion having attracted wide attention. In 1890, at Columbus, Ohio, Doctor Ketcham was united in marriage to Bertha McVay, of that city, a graduate of the Ohio Wesleyan University, and daughter of Jason and Mary (Garvey) McVay, the former of whom was one of the general managers of the Union Central Life Insurance Company of Cincinnati; was at one time a leading member of the

. Ohio Legislature, and belonged to one of the leading pioneer families of Ohio. Mrs. Ketcham is a member of the national board of trustees and one of the general managers of the Woman's Home Missionary Society of the Methodist church, and since 1910 has had the oversight of Bennett Academy, a school for whites in northern Mississippi. She was president of the Friday Club at Hillsboro, of the Fortnightly Club at Piqua and of the Contemporary Club at Trenton, N. J. Doctor and Mrs. Ketcham have three daughters, Maria, a graduate of the University of Chicago and wife of H. L. Heinzmann, secretary of the Young Men's Christian Association at Tulsa, Okla.; Bertha Louise, who attended Ohio Wesleyan University, and who married Otis Bowman II, of the Bowman Coal Company of Trenton, N. J., and has two children, Otis III and Louise Ketcham; and Emily Livingston Ketcham, who was graduated in 1923 from Syracuse University and is now at the head of the home economics department of the New York State Institute of Applied Agriculture at Farmingdale, Long Island, near New York city. The Ketcham sisters are all members of the Daughters of the American Revolution. Dr. Ketcham is a Knight Templar and Scottish Rite Mason and a member of the Muncie Exchange Club.

DR. CLARENCE L. BOCK, secretary of the Delaware-Blackford Medical Society, a veteran of the World war with the rank of captain and for nearly ten years a practicing physician at Muncie, is a native Hoosier and has been a resident of this state all his life. Doctor Bock was born at Kokomo, Ind., in 1886, and is a son of S. A. and Elizabeth (Eikenberry) Bock, the latter of whom was born at Russiaville, Ind., a daughter of J. Eikenberry and wife, the latter of whom was a Scott. S. A. Bock is a native of Ohio, born in the vicinity of Dayton, son of Daniel Bock and wife, the latter of whom was an Erbaugh, and has been a resident of Kokomo for many years. Doctor Bock was reared at Kokomo and upon completing the course in the schools of that city entered Indiana University, from which institution in due time he was graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. He then entered the medical college of the university at Indianapolis, from which, in course, he was graduated and in 1915 began the practice of his profession at Muncie and was thus engaged here when in the spring of 1917 this country took a hand in the World war. Doctor Bock enlisted his services in behalf of the Medical Corps of the army and at Ft. Oglethorpe, in the vicinity of Chattanooga, was commissioned a lieutenant in that corps and presently was assigned to Base Hospital 204 for overseas duty. After a period - of intensive training at Hudsley, England, Doctor Bock was assigned to duty as ward surgeon in Base Hospital 53 in France and thus continued in active service until the close of the war, and upon his return to the United States was mustered out with the rank of captain. Upon the completion of his military service Doctor Bock resumed his practice at Muncie and has since been thus engaged, with offices at 209 the Western Reserve Life building. The Doctor has long been actively identified with the Delaware-Blackford Medical Society and for some years past has been serving as secretary of that well established body. He is a Freemason and also is affiliated with the local post of the American Legion. In 1921 Dr. Clarence L. Bock was united in marriage to Leonora Barr, daughter of Gordon Waite, of Indianapolis, and to this union three children have been born, Joseph, Francis and Martha. The Bocks reside at 187 Kilgore avenue.

LEOPOLD M. KLEIN, veteran merchant and proprietor of Klein's Cloak and Suit House at Muncie, is of French birth but has been a resident of this country ever since he was a boy and of Muncie for nearly forty years. He became a part of the commercial life of Muncie in the days of the gas "boom,"' which started things going here along new lines, and has thus been a continuous factor in the city's commercial development during all the years of its "modern" progress. Mr. Klein was born in the then French province of Alsace-Lorraine in 1856, son of Martin and Elise Klein, and was but fifteen years of age when he came to America, landing in this country on January 1, 1872. He located at Cincinnati and in due time became engaged there in the cigar business, afterward extending his operations to a general line of dry goods and notions. After awhile he was made manager of a dry goods store at Hickman, Ky., and from there went to Batesville, Ark., where he was placed in charge of a store, and later was made manager of the Wolf & Goldman store at Newport, Ark., from which place he returned to Kentucky and in 1885 located at Fulton, in the latter state. In the next year, 1886, Mr. Klein came up into Indiana and established himself in business at Muncie, where he ever since has been thus engaged, being now the oldest merchant in continuous service, operating under the original firm name, in eastern Indiana. Upon setting up in business at Muncie, Mr. Klein opened a dry goods and furnishing store in a room on the site now occupied by the Templer building in East Main street, and was there engaged in business until in 1899, when he moved into his present commodious quarters at the corner of Main and Mul- berry streets, where he ever since has been carrying on his business and where he makes a specialty of women's cloaks and suits, with _a stock ample for all the demands in the local trade. As noted above, Mr. Klein was here when the gas "boom" came on in the late '80s and did his part in the development work which followed the exploitation of that great natural resource. He was one of the members of the formerly active Citizens Enterprise Association, a worker _ in the old Commercial Club and is a charter member of the present energetic Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Klein also is one of the charter members of Silver Shield lodge, No. 408, Knights of Pythias, organized in June, 1894, and is likewise a charter member of the local lodge of the order of B'Nai B'rith. He is a member of the congregation of Beth El Temple. On April 18, 1894, Leopold M. Klein was united in marriage to Nora Silverburg, who was born in Natchez, Miss., daughter of Hyman Silverburg and sister of Adolph C. Silverburg, veteran Muncie lawyer, and to this union one child was born, a daughter Elise. Mrs. Klein died on June 14, 1914. Mr. Klein makes his home at the New Kirby Hotel.