Delaware County, Indiana - Sidelights on Local History, 1924 (part 6 of 21)

EDWARD C. DOEDING, head of the Doeding Coffee Company of Muncie, was born at Toledo, Ohio, in 1886, a son of Fred and Helen (Haafker) Doeding, and has been a resident of Muncie since he was seven years of age. He finished his schooling in Muncie, early became interested in commercial pursuits, for some time clerked in stores and then was made manager of one of the local "chain" stores, a position he occupied for nine years, at the end of which time he became engaged in business on his own account, roasting and blending coffee, and has since developed an extensive busi- ness in that line, with his establishment at 119 West Jackson street. Mr. Doeding married Lina Shafer, daughter of John and Mary (Howell) Shafer, and has two children, a son, George F., and a daughter, Mary E. Mr. and Mrs. Doeding are members of the Methodist Episcopal church. They reside on the West Jackson street road. Mr. Doeding's parents both were born in Germany and came to this country in their youth. They were married at Pittsburg, - Pa., where Fred Doeding was employed as a nickel plater. He later moved to Toledo and thence after some years to Terre Haute, Ind., going thence presently to Vincennes, Ind., where he remained until in 1898, when he moved with his family to Muncie and here worked at his trade until his death. To him and his wife were born five children, the subject of this sketch and four daughters, Johannah, Mary, Margaret and Helen.

EDWARD FRANCIS TINDAL, M. D., a practicing physician of Muncie for the past twenty years and more, with special reference to surgery of the eye, ear, nose and throat, has been a resident of Indiana for more than twenty-five years, or ever since he entered upon the practice of his profession in 1897. Doctor Tindal was born on a farm in the immediate vicinity of Summerton, S. C., May 27, 1869, and after completing the course in the common schools there entered the University of South Carolina and took three years of instruction in that institution, completing the junior year. He then entered the pharmacy school of the university at Valparaiso, Ind., and was graduated from that institution in August, 1895. Two years later, in 1897, he was graduated from the Medical College of Indiana at Indianapolis and since then has followed several postgraduate courses along special lines at the Chicago Clinical School and at the Chicago Polyclinic. Upon receiving his medical degree in 1897 Doctor Tindal located at Stone Bluff, in Fountain county, this state, where he continued engaged in practice for four years, or until in 1901, when he came to Muncie and has since been engaged in practice here, making a specialty of eye, ear, nose and throat surgery, with offices in the Wysor building, Walnut and Main streets. Doctor Tindal is a member of the American Medical Association, the Indiana State Medical Society, the Delaware County Medical Society and the Muncie Academy of Medicine. He is affiliated with Muncie lodge, Free and Accepted Masons; Muncie lodge, No. 37, Knights of Pythias, and with Muncie camp, Modern Woodmen of America. He is the owner of a farm in Perry township, this county, and takes an active interest in farming and in the welfare of the farming interests of the county. In 1895 Dr. Edward Francis Tindal was united in marriage to Hattie Malcolm, of Milford, Ind., and to this union one child has been born, a son, John M. Tindal, who is now a student in the Eastern Division of the Indiana State Normal School at Muncie. Doctor and Mrs. Tindal are members of the High Street Methodist Episcopal church and the Doctor has served for several years as a member of the official board of that congregation. Doctor Tindal's parents, Levi R. and Eliza M. (Brock) Tindal, both were born in Clarendon county, South Carolina, the latter a daughter of Colonel Brock, an officer of the Confederate army and a former member of the Legislature of that state. Levi R. Tindal, who became a successful farmer, also served as a soldier in the Confederate army during the time of the Civil war, four years with Gary's brigade, and on April 7, 1865, near Petersburg, Va., was captured by Grant's army. Both he and his wife were of Revolutionary descent.

ASHER L. MURRAY, of the Murray Rug and Drapery Company, Muncie, has been a resident of this city for nearly a quarter of a century, continually connected with mercantile activities, and thus has a wide acquaintance throughout the county. Mr. Murray was born in the pleasant village of Laurel, in Franklin county, Indiana, in 1870, and is a son of Isaac and Mollie E. (Sollenberger) Murray, both members of Pennsylvania families who had settled in that county in pioneer days. Isaac Murray was a merchant at Laurel. He and his wife were the parents of six children, the subject of this sketch having two sisters, Mrs. Bertie Humphries and Mrs. Hattie Cruse, and three brothers, Charles Murray, a noted actor, member of the celebrated comedy team of Murray and Mack; Edward Murray, editor of the Labor Review, Dayton, Ohio, and Carver J. Murray, of Muncie. Reared at Laurel, Asher L. Murray received his schooling in the schools of that village and from boyhood in his father's store was trained in the ways of merchandising. As a young man he went to Cincinnati and was for some time employed there in the John Shillito department store, later becoming engaged in the insurance business, and was thus engaged until in 1899, when he came to Muncie and became employed as a department manager and buyer for the McNaughton store. For twenty years Mr. Murray remained with the McNaughtons, naturally in this time becoming thoroughly familiar with the trade needs of the wide area served in the Muncie market. In 1920 he established his present store at 125 West Charles street, doing business under the firm name of the

Murray Rug and Drapery Company, and has created there a distinctive establishment, given over entirely to rugs and draperies and such like furnishings of the home, with a. stock quite equal to the growing local demand in that line. Mr. Murray is a member of the local aerie of the Fraternal Order of Eagles and he and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal church. In 1894 Asher L. Murray was united in marriage to Lela Twibell, daughter of George and Martha Twibell, of Blackford county, and to this union four children have been born, Louise, Esther, Mary Ellen and Marie. The Murrays reside at 509 West Adams street.

DR. TOM R. OWENS, one of the younger of the physicians of Muncie and a brother of the late Dr. O. W. Owens, who for more than twenty years was numbered among the best known of Delaware county's medical practitioners, was born on a farm in the immediate vicinity of the pleasant village of Venedocia, in VanWert county, Ohio, March 5, 1891, and is a son of David J. and Margaret (Parry) Owens, who are still living there. David J. Owens was born at Anglesey, Wales, and was but six years of age when he came to this country with his parents, the family settling in Ohio, where he grew to manhood and became established as a farmer in the Venedocia neighborhood. He has been twice married and is the father of ten children, of whom the subject of this sketch is the last born. The late Dr. O. W. Owens, above referred to, who died at his home in Muncie in 1921, was born at Venedocia in 1869. He attended the old Middle Point Normal School and then for five years taught school, during which time he was carrying on preliminary studies in medicine, and in 1897 was graduated from the Hahnemann Medical College at Chicago. For three years thereafter he was engaged in practice at Venedocia and then, in 1900, came to Muncie, where the remainder of his life was spent. In 1902 Dr. O. W. Owens married Elizabeth Davies, daughter of Evan Davies, also of VanWert county, and to that union were born three sons, David Wendell, born in 1903; Walter Evan, 1907, and Richard Rapp, 1911. Dr. Tom R. Owens was graduated from the VanWert high school in 1910 and then for two years was engaged in teaching school, preparatory to entering college. He then for two years was a. student in Miami University at Oxford, Ohio, pursuing a course there with special reference to further medical studies, and then entered. the Medical School of the University of Cincinnati, from which he was graduated in 1918. For a year or more after receiving his diploma Doctor Owens rendered service as an interne in the Cincinnati General Hospital and then, in 1920, came to Muncie to join his elder brother, who then had been in practice here for twenty years. Upon starting in practice here Dr. Tom Owens had offices in the Johnson block in South Walnut street, but in May, 1922, his brother meanwhile having died, he moved into his present offices in the Western Reserve Life building. Doctor Owens is a member of the Muncie Academy of Medicine, of the Delaware-Blackford Medical Society and of the Indiana State Medical Society. He is a Freemason and he and his wife are members of the Presbyterian church and are Republicans. In 1922 Dr. Tom R. Owens married Marie Williams, daughter of Leonard Williams, of Muncie, and he and his wife reside in the Ringgold apartments. They have a little daughter, Margaret Annah, born on November 14, 1923.

FRANK BECHTELL, proprietor of Bechtell's Cafe in South Mulberry street, Muncie, has been a resident of that city for more than half a century and has been engaged in business there for the past twenty-five years, so that he has come to be one of the best known restaurant men in eastern Indiana. Mr. Bechtell was born at Nenah, Wis., and was but a small child when his parents, George and Ellen (Birmingham) Bechtell came to Indiana in 1868 and established their home at Muncie. He thus grew up at Muncie and received his schooling in the schools of that city. As a young man he became interested in the restaurant business and in 1898 became engaged in this business on his account and has ever since been thus engaged, occupying the building he now occupies at 322 South Mulberry street, in the near vicinity of the interurban traction terminal station, since the year 1903. Mr. Bechtell is a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. Frank Bechtell married Jennie Laboyteaux and he and his wife have three children, Margaret, Ollie and Helen. The Bechtells reside at 3224 South Mulberry street.

EDWARD M. SLINGER, of the T. J. Slinger Sign Company, of Muncie, a concern that has been in operation here for nearly sixty years, was born in this city and has lived here all his life, actively interested from the days of his boyhood in the business which is now being operated in the third generation of this family, it having been established by his grandfather and continued by his father and is now being carried on in their generation by himself and his brother Harry, the latter of whom is a veteran of the World war. These brothers have three sisters, Alice, wife of Van Ogle; Mabel, wife of E. E. Cramer, and Lorene. They are children of Thomas J. and Emma (Templer) Slinger, the latter of whom was a daughter of James N. and Ann (Adair) Templer, the latter of whom was a daughter of the pioneer John J. Adair. James N. Templer, who in his generation was for years one of the foremost lawyers of Delaware county, was born in the vicinity of Xenia, Ohio, a son of George W. and Hannah S. (Medsker) Templer. In 1857 he was admitted to the bar in this circuit and practiced law at Portland until his removal in 1871 to Muncie, where he spent the remainder of his life. Thomas J. Slinger was born at Newcastle, in the neighboring county of Henry, August 1, 1855, and is a son of Andrew J. and Lindamire (Needham) Slinger, the latter of whom also was born in Henry county, a member of one of the pioneer families there. Andrew J. Slinger, former sheriff of Delaware county and the founder of the Slinger sign works at Muncie, was born at Lafayette, Ind., January 20, 1834, and was a son of Thomas J. and Nancy (Fink) Slinger, the latter of whom was born in Berks county, Pennsylvania. Thomas J. Slinger was a native of England. In 1832 he came to Indiana and started a distillery at Lafayette, where he died in 1838. His widow later married Benjamin Runyon and became a resident of Henry county, where she died in 1877. When sixteen years of age Andrew J. Slinger went to Indianapolis, where he served an apprenticeship to a sign painter. He then set himself up as a painter at Newcastle and was thus engaged when the Civil war broke out. In 1861 he enlisted as a member of the band of the 36th Indiana and served with that organization until the regimental band was mustered out in March, 1862, when he returned and assisted in the recruiting of Company I of the 69th Indiana and was elected first lieutenant of that command. With this command he served until at the battle of Port Gibson he received a wound in the head which rendered him blind for a period of six months. He resigned his commission in July, 1863, and returned home but in September, 1864, he veteranized and returned to the front with the 25th Indiana, with which command he participated in the siege of Mobile and other movements in the Alabama campaign, receiving his final discharge in November, 1865, being mustered out with the rank of captain. Upon the completion of his military service Captain Slinger established himself in business as a contracting painter at Muncie, making a specialty of house and sign painting, and here spent the remainder of his life. In 1874 he was elected sheriff of Delaware county and served a term in that office. It was while serving as deputy to his father in the sheriff's office that Thomas J. Slinger, on January 25, 1876, was united in marriage to Emma Templer. He was about seven years of age when the family moved from Newcastle to Muncie and his schooling was completed in the schools of the latter city. From the time he was sixteen years of age he was an active assistant to his father in the latter's painting business and after his father's retirement in 1891 continued the business, which has been continued with his sons as active partners in the business, which now is carried on under the firm style of the T. J. Slinger Sign Company, with a well equipped establishment at 2044 South Walnut street, making a specialty of out-door advertising. Edward M. Slinger, active manager of this establishment, resides at 118 South Plum street.

HORTANCE L. OLIVER, formerly and for years the superintendent of the Muncie belt railroad and now the president and general manager of the Delaware Trucking Company at Muncie, has been a resident of Muncie for more than a quarter of a century and during that period has been an active factor in the development of the commercial and industrial life of the city. Mr. Oliver was born on a farm in Athens county, Ohio, April 15, 1856, and is a son of Leven and Elizabeth (Adair) Oliver, both of whom also were natives of the Buckeye state and members of pioneer families in that commonwealth. Leven Oliver was born in Morgan county, Ohio, and was reared there. After his marriage he established his home on a farm in Athens county and also became a rural merchant and live stock buyer, vocations he followed the remainder of his life. Of the seven children born to him and his wife the subject of this sketch alone became a resident of Delaware county. Reared on the home farm in Athens county, Hortance L. Oliver received his schooling in that county and when sixteen years of age followed an inclination to acquire a bit of Western experience and went to Texas, where for four years he was engaged working on cattle ranches. Upon attaining his majority he returned to Ohio and in 1878 became employed as a railroad brakeman on the Hocking Valley road out of Columbus. Eighteen months later he was made a freight conductor and was thus employed for eight years, at the end of which time he transferred his © connection to the Columbus & Eastern road and in due time was promoted to the position of trainmaster of that road, operating out of the division headquarters at Columbus. In 1895 Mr. Oliver transferred his connection to the Lake Erie & Western road and in March, 1896, was made general yardmaster of that road at Tipton, Ind. In October of that same year he was transferred to the Muncie offices of the L. E. & W. as general yardmaster at this point and not long afterward was made superintendent of the Muncie Belt railroad. Mr. Oliver continued actively engaged as superintendent of the Belt railroad until in 1918, when he resigned that position in order to take up the line in which he has since been engaged, motor truck transportation, it having become apparent to him at that time that a great new field of endeavor was lying dormant awaiting development. It was in September, 1913, that Mr. Oliver promoted the organization of the Delaware Trucking Company, of which he was made the manager, combining this with the operations of the Merchants Delivery Company, with particular reference to overland trucking, and out of this has grown the present Delaware Trucking Company of Muncie, operating no fewer than twenty motor trucks out of Muncie, with offices at 611 South High street and barns at 406 South Hackley street.. This company makes a specialty of heavy haulage and the field of its operations not only extends throughout Indiana generally but throughout western Ohio. The Delaware Trucking Company is capitalized at $50,000, with the following officiary: President, H. L. Oliver; vice president, Emmet Wolf, and secretarytreasurer, Charles Henderson. Mr. Oliver is a Republican and is an active member of the Muncie Chamber of Commerce, a director of that organization in 1922 and now the head of the transportation and traffic committee of the same. In 1886 H. L. Oliver was united in marriage 'to Fannie Howell, daughter of Royal Howell, of Fostoria, Ohio, and he and his wife reside at 321 West Charles street. They have one child, a daughter, Florence, who married Ray V. Sowers, a Muncie manufacturer, and has a daughter, Evelyn. Mr. and Mrs. Oliver are members of the Presbyterian church.

ROY C. SOCIN, manager of the By-Lo Hardware Company of Muncie and a veteran of the World war, is a native of the old Buckeye state but a resident of Indiana by choice, and is becoming a definite factor in the commercial life of Muncie, where he has chosen ~ to make his home. Mr. Socin was born at Shelby, in Richland county, Ohio, in 1890, and is a son of Traugott and Eunice (Becker) Socin, who not long afterward moved from Shelby to Galion, in the neighboring county of Crawford. It was thus that Roy C. Socin received his schooling at Galion. Upon leaving the high school he became interested in merchandising, with particular reference to the hardware trade, and as a young man became familiar with the details of hardware merchandising, starting as a clerk in a hardware store at Galion, _and some time later was made manager of a hardware store at Frankfort, Ind. He later became engaged in business on his own account at Galion and was there until in 1918, when he came to Muncie as the manager of the store of the By-Lo Hardware Company, and has since then been thus engaged, this store being a well equipped hardware establishment at 114 South Walnut street. During the time of this country's participation in the World war Mr. Socin rendered military service, with the army at Camp Pike. Mr. Socin is a Freemason and is also affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. In 1920 Roy C. Socin was united in marriage to Ada Harshman, of Albany, Ind., and to this union one child has been born, a son, John A. The Socins reside at 409 East Howard street. EDWARD E. RIDGWAY, veteran tailor at Muncie, is a native of the old Buckeye state, but has been a resident of Indiana and of Muncie for twenty-seven years. Mr. Ridgway was born in the village of Rio Grande, in Gallia county, Ohio, in 1867, and is a son of E. N. and Sarah E. (White) Ridgway, both of whom were born in that same county, the latter a daughter of Jacob White, who had moved into Ohio from Ulster county, Virginia. E. N. Ridgway, who at the age of ninety years is still living on the farm on which he was born in Gallia county, is a son of William Ridgway and wife, the latter of whom was a Daugherty, who were among the pioneers of that county. William Ridgway, a son of a soldier of the American Revolution, was of Welsh stock. As a young man he took a prospecting trip into South America and on his return settled in South Carolina, whence presently when the lands over in the Ohio country were being opened for settlement, he went over into what then was the Territory Northwest of the Ohio and located in the Chillicothe settlement, up the Scioto river in what came to be organized as Ross county. Later he moved down into Gallia county, where he purchased land in 1798, and there he established his home. One of his sons, Gus Ridgway, was a captain in the Union army during the time of the Civil war. E. N. Ridgway and wife had five children, the subject of this sketch having three sisters, Ollie P., wife of Doctor Rawson, of Des Moines, Ia.; Mrs. Jessie L. Rawson, of Indianapolis, and Harriet E., and a brother, Elmer E. Ridgway. Reared on the home farm in the immediate vicinity of Rio Grande, in Gallia county, Ohio, Edward E. Ridgway received his schooling in the Rio Grande schools and early became interested in mercantile lines, leaving the farm to take a clerkship in a dry goods store at Washington C. H. From there he presently went to Columbus, Ohio, where he was made a department manager in one of the larger stores, and from there after awhile to Knoxville, Tenn., where he became connected with the McNulty store. Some time later he returned to Ohio and after a bit of further mercantile experience at Dayton went to Indianapolis and took a position in a clothing store. In 1897 Mr. Ridgway came to Muncie for service in the Cohen dry goods store and presently formed an association with W. L. Holmes in the tailoring line, later going into the clothing store of Charles Bender, where he remained ten years. He then opened a shop in the Delaware Hotel building and after five years there moved to the Kirby Hotel building, where he remained six years, at the end of which time he opened his present tailoring establishment in the old city hall building, corner of Jefferson and Jackson streets, and has since been established there, operating a pressing plant in connection with his general tailoring, and is doing well. Edward E. Ridgway married Jennie Ritchey, of Muncie, and he and his wife have two children, a daughter, Susan, and a son, Robert E., the former of whom married A. A. Henninger, of Syracuse, N. Y., general manager and vicepresident of the New Process Gear Corporation. Mr. and Mrs. Ridgway reside at 511 East Jackson street. He is a member of the Baptist church and of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and of the Travelers Protective Association.

CLAUDE EARL ECKENBERG, manager of the local store of the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company at Muncie as well as sales manager for the agency division in this locality, is a native Hoosier and has lived in this state all his life, a resident of Muncie since the days of his childhood. Mr. Eckenberg was born at Indianapolis on July 26, 1884, and is a son of William and Elizabeth (Gray) Eckenberg, the latter of whom was born in Hendricks county, this state. William Eckenberg, who has for years been engaged in the restaurant business at Muncie, became interested in the catering business at Indianapolis years ago and was for some time the steward of one of the hotels there. In 1889 he moved with his family to Muncie, being attracted by the possibilities then opening out here in connection with the development of the natural gas industries, and has ever since resided here, for the past seventeen or eighteen years having been in business as a restaurateur at 509 South Walnut street. Claude E. Eckenberg was but five years of age when he came to Muncie with his parents in 1889. As a boy he began clerking in a grocery store and in 1901, when seventeen years of age, began his connection with the stores of the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company, clerking in the local branch of this company's great chain of stores, and thus early became familiar with the details of this form of economic distribution of food products. In 1906, he then being just past his majority, Mr. Eckenberg was made manager of the local store of the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company at 212 South Walnut street and has ever since been in charge of this company's interests in Muncie. As time passed his responsibilities in this connection were increased and he was made sales manager of a gradually increasing chain of this company's stores in eastern Indiana, until now this managerial supervision of sales covers not only the Muncie agency but Anderson, Richmond, Kokomo, Marion, Wabash, Peru, Elwood, Tipton, Noblesville, Newcastle and Winchester, besides a number of agencies in. the smaller towns and villages in this great trade area. It is interesting to know that the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company now operates a chain of no fewer than 9,000 stores throughout the United States. Mr. Eckenberg is a York Rite (Knights Templar) and Scottish Rite (32°) Mason and a noble of the Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, a Republican and a member of the United Commercial Travelers Association, and he and his wife are members of the Baptist church. In 1906 Mr. Eckenberg was united in marriage to Margaret May Neely and to this union one child has been born, a son, William Edward Eckenberg. Mrs. Eckenberg was born in Springfield, Ohio, daughter of James J. and Elizabeth (McGuire) Neely, and was about eight years of age when she came to Muncie with her mother, and she thus was reared in this city.

FRANCIS CLAYTON MANSFIELD, a member of the bar of the Delaware circuit court, junior member of the law firm of White & Mansfield, former county attorney and former city judge, is a native son of Delaware county, a member of one of the pioneer families here, and has resided here all his life. Mr. Mansfield was born on a farm in Hamilton township on June 22, 1882, and is a son of George R. and Lucinda A. (Kirkwood) Mansfield, both of whom also were born in this county, the former in Hamilton township and the latter in Washington township, and who are now living at Eaton. George R. Mansfield, former county clerk, was reared on a farm in Hamilton township, son of Robert and Diana (Gibson) Mansfield, and after his marriage became engaged in farming in that same township. He later moved to Union township, where he remained until his election as clerk of Delaware county in 1898, when he moved to Muncie. He served as clerk from August 1, 1898, to January, 1905, later taking up his residence at Eaton, where he is now living retired. Clayton Mansfield was seventeen years of age when his parents moved to Muncie upon his father's election to the clerk's office, and his public schooling was completed in the schools of that city.

He supplemented this by some very practical educational work as a teacher in the schools of this county, teaching in all six terms of district school, meanwhile pursuing preparatory studies in law, and then took a course in Indiana University, specializing in liberal arts and law, and in 1913 was admitted to the bar of the Delaware circuit court and has ever since been practicing law in Muncie. In 1915 Mr. Mansfield entered into a partnership in practice with Robe Carl White and this arrangement continues, though since in March, 1921, Mr. White's attention has been chiefly directed to his present official duties as a legal assistant in the office of the secretary of labor at Washington. Mr. Mansfield is a Republican. In 1917, following the death of Judge Ralph S. Gregory, Mr. Mansfield was appointed by Governor Goodrich to the office of judge of the Muncie city court to fill that unexpired term, and in 1919 he was appointed by the judge of the circuit court to the position of probate commissioner. In 1920-21 he served as county attorney, under appointment of the board of county commissioners. Mr. Mansfield is a member of Welcome lodge No. 37, Knights of Pythias and has served two terms (1916-17 and 1920-21) as exalted ruler of the local lodge ot the - Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and served as chairman of the building committee when the Elks club house was erected, an admirable work of which he was one of the leading promoters. He also is a member of the local lodge of the Loyal Order of Moose. IRA BENBOW, of the firm of Benbow Bros., home decorators, Muncie, is a native son of Delaware county, a member of one of the old families here, and has lived in this county all his life, a resident of Muncie since the days of his boyhood. Mr. Benbow was born in the historic old hamlet of Mt. Pleasant on the old Franklin pike, in Perry township, October 28, 1878, and is a son of Ephraim and Mary E.. (Hutchings) Benbow, both of whom also were born in this county, and who in the early '80s moved from Mt. Pleasant to the New Corner (Gaston) neighborhood, where they established their home on a farm. Ira Benbow was but a lad when his parents moved with their family to the Gaston neighborhood and his schooling was received in the rural schools. As a young man out of school he left the farm and came to Muncie where he became employed in the plant of the Ball Bros. Glass Manufacturing Company. After a few years of that employment he began working for his brother, W. C. Benbow, who meanwhile had become engaged as a home decorator at Muncie, and was thus employed until in 1919, when he and his brother formed a partnership in this line, under the firm name of Benbow Bros., and have since then been thus engaged, with a well equipped place of business at No. 6, Western Reserve Life building, corner of Jackson and High streets, their place of business being known as the Home Decorators, general contractors in all forms of household and interior decoration, with particular reference to wall paper. Mr. Benbow is a member of the local lodges of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and of the Loyal Order of Moose. In 1898, at Muncie, Ira Benbow was united in marriage to Kate E. Tharp, who also was born in this county, daughter of Edward Tharp, and to this union five children have been born, Amo E., Carrie E., Robert, Raymond and Irene. Robert Benbow married Ruth Parr, of Muncie. Mr. and Mrs. Benbow are members of the Baptist church and are Republicans. They reside at 703 East Jackson street.

VINCENT W. JONES, proprietor of the Sterling Cash Grocery at Muncie, president of the school board of that city and chairman of the Public library board, was born on a farm in Wells county, Indiana, September 2%, 1873, and is a son of John T. and Susan (Tomlinson) Jones, the latter of whom was born in Delaware county, a member of the pioneer Tomlinson family of this county. John T. Jones, who is still farming in Wells county, where he has resided for many years, was born in Huntington county, this state. Reared on the home farm in Wells county, Vincent W. Jones received his schooling in the neighborhood schools and remained at home until he had reached his majority, when he went to Montpelier, in the neighboring county of Blackford and there became engaged as a clerk in a grocery and queensware store. Two years later he was made manager of one of the leading stores at Montpelier and was thus engaged for some years, thus becoming thoroughly familiar with the details of retail mercantile business. In 1907 Mr. Jones and his brother, Lewis Jones, bought the Sterling Grocery at Muncie and in 1920 he bought his brother's interest in this establishment and has since been carrying on the business alone, proprietor of what is said to be the largest retail grocery store in the city, occupying the first floor and basement of the Commercial Club building at the corner of Main and Jefferson streets, and where is carried on not only a well equipped grocery but a bakery and meat market. Mr. Jones is a Democrat and for the past four years and more has been serving as president of the city school board, in succession to the late Theodore F. Rose. He also is the head of the public library board. Mr. Jones was one of the organizers of the Citizens Finance Association and has been president of that organization since its place. Mr. and Mrs. Grouleff have a daughter, Edna, wife of L. W. Scattergood. Mr. Grouleff is a Freemason of high degree and is also a noble of the Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. He likewise is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias and the Elks, and the Muncie Chamber of Commerce. The Grouleffs reside at 407 Wheeling avenue.

THE REV. WILLIAM GRAHAM EVERSON, D. D., pastor of the First Baptist church, Muncie, veteran of the Spanish-American and the World wars, was born on July 1, 1879, in Wooster, Ohio, a son of J. M. and Annie (Riddel) Everson. He was graduated from Franklin College in 1903 with the degree of A. B., and from the Newton Theological Institution in 1908 with the degree B. D.; took special work at Harvard University, and has been honored with the degree of Doctor of Divinity. Prior to coming to Muncie on March 1, 1921, Doctor Everson served leading churches in Boston, Indianapolis, Louisville and Cincinnati. While in Cincinnati he led in the erection of the Norwood Baptist church - a building that could not be duplicated for less than $250,000. Doctor Everson's ministry has been successful in reaching great crowds of people. As explanation for going to the hospitals, factories, slums and every other place, he says, "It's ten per cent preaching and ninety per cent trying to practice what I preach." He is a member of the National Speaker's Bureau of the American Legion, besides being a Chautauqua lecturer of national reputation. Doctor Everson has been active in military matters, having served nine months in the Spanish-American war, fifteen years in the Indiana National Guard, and two years in the World war. In May, 1917, he was an instructor at Fort Benjamin Harrison. After training officers at the First Officer's Training Camp and troops at Camp Sherman, Ohio, he was sent with the 83d Division to France, then with the only American regiment that went to Italy. Besides assignments on various sectors on the Italian front, he organized and commanded the only American sector in Italy, went across the Piave river and on for nearly a hundred miles in the last crushing drive against the Austrians, then to the east coast of the Adriatic where he commanded the American contingent and served in Trieste, Fiume, Dalmatia and Montenegro. He has citations and decorations from England, France, Italy, Jugo-Slavia and the United States. He has served in every grade from that of private up to his present grade of brigadier general, commanding the 76th Infantry Brigade. On August 31, 1904, the Rev. William G. Everson was united in marriage at Franklin, Ind., to Mary Coon, only daughter and have since then been thus engaged, with a well equipped place of business at No. 6, Western Reserve Life building, corner of Jackson and High streets, their place of business being known as the Home Decorators, general contractors in all forms of household and interior decoration, with particular reference to wall paper. Mr. Benbow is a member of the local lodges of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and of the Loyal Order of Moose. In 1898, at Muncie, Ira Benbow was united in marriage to Kate E. Tharp, who also was born in this county, daughter of Edward Tharp, and to this union five children have been born, Amo E., Carrie E., Robert, Raymond and Irene. Robert Benbow married Ruth Parr, of Muncie. Mr. and Mrs. Benbow are members of the Baptist church and are Republicans. They reside at 703 East Jackson street.

VINCENT W. JONES, proprietor of the Sterling Cash Grocery at Muncie, president of the school board of that city and chairman of the Public library board, was born on a farm in Wells county, Indiana, September 2%, 1873, and is a son of John T. and Susan (Tomlinson) Jones, the latter of whom was born in Delaware county, a member of the pioneer Tomlinson family of this county. John T. Jones, who is still farming in Wells county, where he has resided for many years, was born in Huntington county, this state. Reared on the home farm in Wells county, Vincent W. Jones received his schooling in the neighborhood schools and remained at home until he had reached his majority, when he went to Montpelier, in the neighboring county of Blackford and there became engaged as a clerk in a grocery and queensware store. Two years later he was made manager of one of the leading stores at Montpelier and was thus engaged for some years, thus becoming thoroughly familiar with the details of retail mercantile business. In 1907 Mr. Jones and his brother, Lewis Jones, bought the Sterling Grocery at Muncie and in 1920 he bought his brother's interest in this establishment and has since been carrying on the business alone, proprietor of what is said to be the largest retail grocery store in the city, occupying the first floor and basement of the Commercial Club building at the corner of Main and Jefferson streets, and where is carried on not only a well equipped grocery but a bakery and meat market. Mr. Jones is a Democrat and for the past four years and more has been serving as president of the city school board, in succession to the late Theodore F. Rose. He also is the head of the public library board. Mr. Jones was one of the organizers of the Citizens Finance Association and has been president of that organization since its inception. He is a member of the directorate of the Peoples Trust Company, is a member of the Chamber of Commerce and is affiliated with the local Rotary Club. In 1903 Vincent W. Jones was united in marriage to Edith M. Jones, daughter of John W. and Amanda Jones, of Wayne county, Indiana, and to this union three sons have been born, Paul W., Frederick Earl and Herman Vincent, the latter of whom died at the age of fifteen months. Mr. and Mrs. Jones are members of the High Street Methodist Episcopal church and Mr. Jones is a member of the official board of that congregation. Paul W. Jones is now a student at Purdue University, specializing in chemistry.

JOHN C. HAMPTON, of the Hampton Furniture and Undertaking Company of Muncie, a veteran of the World war and chairman of the Republican central committee in the city of Muncie, is a native Hoosier, a member of one of the old families in eastern 'Indiana, and has lived in this state all his life. Mr. Hampton was born in Indianapolis on February 5, 1891, and is a son of John B. and Mary (McCormick) Hampton, the latter of whom was born in the village of New Paris, in Preble county, Ohio, where she and John B. Hampton were married. John B. Hampton, now living in Indianapolis, was born in Wayne county, this state, a son of Oliver H. Hampton, an influential Quaker in that county in his generation and one of the "conductors" of the famous "underground railroad" operated during ante-bellum days to aid fleeing slaves to freedom in the North. Following his marriage, John B. Hampton made his home in Indianapolis for some time and then moved to Fountain City, in Wayne county, but after awhile returned to Indianapolis, where he is now living, a salesman for a concern manufacturing concrete mixers and steam shovels. John C. Hampton was but a child when his parents moved from Indianapolis to Fountain City and he was graduated from the high school in the latter place. He then became a clerk in a furniture and hardware store at Centerville and two years later went to Richmond, where for four years he was connected with the Reed Furniture Company, becoming there well grounded in the details of the furniture business, and where, when twenty-three years of age, he was married. Two years later, in 1916, Mr. Hampton came to Muncie and in association with Horace G. Hampton became engaged in the furniture and undertaking business here, this partnership being carried on under the firm style of the Hampton Furniture and Undertaking Company, with store and establishment at 1413-15-17 South Walnut street, and has ever since been thus engaged of I. W. and Mary (Dinwiddie) Coon. They have two children - John David, born May 16, 1910, and Mary Louise, June 138, 1918. Doctor Everson and his associates in the work of the First Baptist church refer to their organization as "the church of progress and activity for every good work, with love and a welcome for all," and point out that 'our ambition is to serve efficiently the largest number of people." Under Doctor Everson's ministry much has been made of the institutional activities of this congregation and such progress has been noted in church work and growing membership that plans even now are being matured for the erection of a more commodious place of worship, the frequent requisition of the "'Standing Room Only" sign at church services stressing the demand for a larger edifice. It is not improper to say that Doctor Everson has attracted much favorable attention on the lecture platform, the earnestness and enthusiasm of his address winning his hearers. As the New York World said of him: "There have been many 'fighting parsons' among the chaplains, but here is a preacher who took his place with combat troops and comes back a colonel of infantry. Call him what you will - he looks every inch a real man." And this is true, as all who have seen him either in the pulpit or on the platform will testify. One of his lectures, ''The Challenge of the Impossible," is based upon his analysis of the result of personal war experiences and an appreciation of present world opportunities. It is his conclusion that the war proved that but few things are really impossible. The "impossible," he says, "fired ambitions and forced men to find some solution." "Impossible positions" were shattered and the hobnail shoes of the United States soldier never retreated an inch. He then asks: Dare we put anything less into the world tasks that confront us now? There are hundreds of "impossible things" everywhere - business, political and religious impossibilities. These come as a mighty challenge and the measure of the man is the spirit in which he meets the challenge. This, concludes Doctor Everson, to a man with red blood and iron nerves is the glory of living.

J. L. MOORE, president of the Moore Company, manufacturers of springs, at Muncie (Westside), has been a resident of that city since 1910, in which year the plant of which he is the head and general manager was moved from Bellevue, Ohio, and the present buildings of this company in Westside were erected. The business now carried on by the Moore Company was organized in Bellevue in 1907 and was carried on there until its removal in 1910 to Muncie, where it has developed a well established plant, its specialty being the man- ufacture of metal springs, with particular reference to bed springs. In the same building is housed the plant of the Hager Manufacturing Company, which also is controlled by the Moore Company, the specialty of this latter concern being the manufacture of wire and steel specialties, with particular reference to steel link fabrics. The officers of the Moore Company are as follows: President, J. L. Moore; vice-president, Clinton G. Moore; secretary, Ray H. Shuster. J. L. Moore was born in Bellevue, Ohio, in 1877, and is a son of William L. and Anna (Steele) Moore, the former of whom was engaged in the hardware business. J. L. Moore married Gertrude Barth and has one child, a son, Clinton, who is now a student in the Culver Military Academy. Mr. Moore is a Freemason and is also affiliated with the local lodge of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks at Muncie and with the local Rotary Club. The Moores reside at 214 West Washington street.

JOHN OSBORN LEWELLEN, former superintendent of the schools of Delaware county, now and for years past a member of the bar of the Delaware circuit court and also a real estate dealer in Muncie, is a native son of Delaware county, a member of one of the pioneer families of this county, and has resided here all his life, for more than forty years a resident of Muncie. Mr. Lewellen was born in the historic old village of Smithfield, in Liberty township, July 31, 1852, and is a son of Zerah M. and Sarah Ann (Truitt) Lewellen, the latter of whom also was born in this county, a member of the pioneer Truitt family that has been represented in Delaware county from the days of the settlement period here. Zerah M. Lewellen was a Virginian, born in that section of the Old Dominion now known as West Virginia, and was nine years of age when he came to Indiana with his parents, Philip and Mary Ann Lewellen, the family settling on a pioneer farm in Liberty township, this county, and it was there that Zerah M. Lewellen grew to manhood. He learned the wagon-maker's trade and after his marriage established his home at Smithfield, where he became engaged in business as a wagon-maker. He also owned a farm in the Smithfield neighborhood. In 1870 he disposed of his interests there and moved to Harrison township. He later moved to Eaton, later to Spiceland, thence to Selma and thence to Shideler, at which latter place his last days were spent, his death occurring there on February 2, 1900, he then being seventy-one years of age. His wife had predeceased him about seven years, her death having occurred at Selma on June 4, 1893, she then being in her sixty-third year. Of the seven children born to Zerah M. Lewellen and wife, and of whom the subject of this sketch was the first born, five grew to maturity and had families of their own, so that the Lewellen connection of this line in the present generation is a considerable one. Of these others, there were three daughters, all now deceased, Ida M., Mary E., who married William Bosman, and Elizabeth, who married Tabor Allis, and two sons, Arthur L. and Emery W. Lewellen. Reared in Delaware county John Osborn Lewellen received his common schooling in the schools of the county and at the age of twenty began to teach school. When twenty years of age he entered the old Methodist college at Xenia, Ohio, the successor of the pioneer Methodist Collegiate Institute there, later took a course in old Holbrook school at Lebanon, Ohio (National Normal School), and then entered the Northern Indiana Normal at Valparaiso, Ind., from which latter institution he was graduated in 1877 with the degree of Bachelor of Science, this course presently being supplemented by a four-years course of chautauqua work. Mr. Lewellen continued teaching, in the schools of Eaton and at Albany, and in 1883 was elected superintendent of schools of Delaware county. By successive re-elections he was retained in this responsible position for fourteen years, or until in 1897, and during that time accomplished much in the way of getting the schools of this county established on a basis conforming to the "modern" standards which were being developed during that period. He became recognized as one of the forceful factors in the educational system of Indiana and a copyrighted outline course of study which he evolved during this term of service became widely used. Meanwhile Mr. Lewellen was giving his thoughts to the study of law and upon retiring from the county superintendent's office took a course in the Indiana Law School at Indianapolis and in 1900 was admitted to practice and opened an office at Muncie, where he ever since has been engaged in the practice of law and in the general real estate and insurance business, with offices at 10214 North Walnut street, just across the street from the court house. Mr. Lewellen is a Republican and has for years taken an interested part in local political affairs. He is a Freemason and was also affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of which order he is a past noble grand; with the Knights of Pythias, a past chancellor commander, and with the Improved Order of Red Men, a past sachem. On December 25, 1877, John O. Lewellen was united in married to Huldah Eleanor Crampton, daughter of Mahlon and Ruth Jane (Crane) Crampton, of Harrison township, this county, and to this union were born three sons, Albert

Ross, Harry Crampton and Wendell Gladstone Lewellen. Mrs. Lewellen's schooling was completed at Franklin, Ohio, and in the Chautauqua course and for some years prior to her marriage she had been engaged as a teacher in the schools of this county. Mr. and Mrs. Lewellen are members of the High Street Methodist Episcopal church. They reside at 303 East North street. Albert Ross Lewellen, now living in Detroit, married Essie Leffler and has three children, Elmer Carl, Lenora Eleanor and Albert Ross, Jr. Harry Crampton Lewellen, now living at Lafayette, Ind., married Alpha Boch and has two children, Huldah E. and John O. Wendell Gladstone Lewellen, now living at Detroit, married Hazel Hardsog and has one child, a son, Wendell Gladstone, Jr. WARREN A. JACKSON, a real estate broker at Muncie, former president of the local Real Estate Board, and also a dealer in general moving picture supplies and theater equipment, is a native son of Delaware county, a member of one of the pioneer families, and has lived here all his life, an active figure in Muncie's commercial circles since the days of his youth. Mr. Jackson was born in 1868 and is a son of William N. and Sarah (Collins) Jackson, the latter of whom also was born in this county, a daughter of Henderson Collins, one of the county's pioneers. William N. Jackson, an honored veteran of the Civil war, was born in Greenup county, Kentucky, a son of Thomas Jackson, a native of Loudoun county, Virginia, who in 1844 came up into Indiana with his family and located at Muncie, where the Jacksons of this line ever since have been prominently represented. It was thus that Thomas Jackson was living here when the war with Mexico came on in 1846, and he enlisted for service in the army and took part in that brief struggle. William N. Jackson was but a child when he came here with his parents in 1844 and he grew to manhood in Muncie and was living here when the Civil war broke out. In 1862 he went to the front as a member of Company E of the 19th regiment, Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and with that command, a part of the Army of the Potomac, served until the close of the war. He became one of the organizers of Williams post, Grand Army of the Republic, at Muncie and was long the adjutant of the post. He and his wife were the parents of six children, the subject of this sketch, the fifth in order of birth, having two sisters, Mary M. and Laura E., and three brothers, Dr. Frank G. Jackson, H. M. Jackson and Charles ("Chic") Jackson, the latter of whom is a well known artist at Indianapolis and creator of the comic strip "Roger Bean," which has become widely popular throughout the country and with which the people of Muncie have for years been familiar through its publication in the Star. Reared at Muncie, Warren A. Jackson received his schooling in the schools of that city and upon leaving high school became employed with the Kimbrough Hardware Company. He later took employment as a buyer for the Wachtel department store and was thus engaged until the developing possibilities of the moving picture industry attracted his attention and with Lee Shaw and Hershel Canan, he established the Royal theater at Muncie. In 1917 Mr. Jackson enlarged the sphere of his activities by becoming engaged in the real estate business and has become one of the active local operators along that line. In 1922 he served as president of the Muncie Real Estate Board, and he also served as head of the recent "Home Beautiful" movement which has meant so much for Muncie. He is a member of the local lodge of the Knights of Pythias and of the Muncie Chamber of Commerce and he and his wife are members of the Baptist church. Mr. Jackson married Margaret Irvin, daughter of Lafayette and Ella (Hill) Irvin, and he and his wife have a daughter, Helen. The Jacksons reside at 331 North Vine street.

CHARLES A. WOOD, of the Kirby-Wood Lumber Company of Muncie, a concern with which he has been connected for more than thirty years, is a native Hoosier and has lived in this state all his life, a resident of Muncie since he was ten years of age, this period of residence now covering nearly forty-five years, so that he thus has been a witness to and a participant in the development of Muncie since the days before the coming of the "new era" following the opening of the gas field here. Mr. Wood was born in the neighboring county of Randolph, not far south of Winchester, in 1870, and is the son and only child of Julius C. and Clara (Morgan)\ Wood, the latter of whom was born in Cincinnatti, Ohio, a daughter of William and Sarah (Miller) Morgan, the former of whom was a son of William Morgan, a native of New Jersey, who was one of the pioneers of Wayne county, Indiana. The late Julius C. Wood, a veteran of the Civil war and for many years one of the active figures in the local lumber trade, also was a native of Wayne county, born on April 10, 1847, and was a son of Joseph T. and Sophronia (Fender) Wood, the former of whom was a son of Thomas Wood and wife (the latter a Jones), Virginians, who had become residents of Wayne county in 1816, the year in which Indiana was admitted to statehood. Joseph 'T. Wood was a farmer. In 1857 he left the farm and with his family moved to Richmond. It was thus that Julius C. Wood received his schooling at Richmond. He early became attracted to the lumber industry and as a boy began working in a saw mill at Richmond. When seventeen years of age, in 1864, he enlisted his services in behalf of the cause of the Union in the Civil war then being waged and went to the front as a member of Company I of the '124th regiment, Indiana Volunteer Infantry, with which command he served until the close of the war, participating in the battle of Franklin (Tenn.), in the Atlanta campaign, with Sherman's army, and with that army's march to Goldsboro, and was thus present when Johnson's forces capitulated, one of the decisive factors in the final downfall of the Confederacy. Mr. Wood was mustered out with his regiment at New York city and then returned to Richmond, where he became employed as a carpenter and where, two years later, in his twenty-first year, he married. Not long after this he became engaged in partnership with his brother, W. H. H. Wood, in lumber milling four miles south of Winchester, in Randolph county, and was thus engaged until in 1880, when he moved to Muncie to become superintendent of the lumber mill and yards of the A. L. Johnson company which had been established there a few years prior to that date. In 1890 Mr. Wood acquired an interest in this concern and later, in association with his son Charles and Carey Franklin, took over the Johnson interest and thereafter carried on the business under the name of J. C. Wood & Co., and continued active in business until his death in 1917.. Mr. Wood was a Scottish Rite and York Rite Mason and he and his wife were members of the High Street Methodist Episcopal church. It was on October 10, 1867, at Richmond, that Julius C. Wood was united in marriage to Clara Morgan and to this union was born Charles A. Wood, who is now carrying on in the lumber industry at Hoyt avenue and Liberty street, with which his father became connected nearly forty-five years ago. Charles A. Wood was ten years of age when he came with his parents to Muncie. He supplemented his local schooling by a course in Depauw University, where he specialized in civil engineering, and was for some time employed as a civil engineer, or until in 1894, when he became associated with his father in the lumber mill, a concern with which he ever since has been connected and which since 1922 has been doing business under the name of the Kirby-Wood Lumber Company. Mr. Wood has other business interests in the city. He is a Scottish Rite Mason and a noble of the Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine and is also affiliated with the local lodge of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. In 1892 Charles A. Wood was united in marriage to Carrie Strawn, daughter of Jeptha and Emily (Hawk) Strawn, and to this union two daughters have been born, Emily C. and Ruth Wood, the former of whom is a teacher in the Muncie public schools. Mr. Wood and his family reside at 320 West Jackson street.

JOHN F. McNAUGHTON, president of the old established concern of W. A. McNaughton & Company at Muncie, proprietors of one of the leading general department stores in Indiana, was born in the pleasant old town of Edinburg, in Johnson county, Indiana, July 2, 1877, and is a son of William A. and Anna (Walsh) McNaughton, the latter of whom also was born at Edinburg, daughter of John and Mary Walsh. The late William A. McNaughton, founder of the McNaughton store at Muncie, was born in Crawford county, Indiana, a son of the Rev. Samuel W. McNaughton, a minister of the Methodist Episcopal church, as is set out elsewhere in this work, together with details of the mercantile career of William A. McNaughton and of his establishment in 1896 of the concern which bears his name at Muncie, and which since 1903 has been carried on in the present McNaughton building at the southeast corner of Walnut and Charles streets, a five-story building, with full basement, carrying right around 100,000 square feet of floor space, an establishment which thus for more than twenty years has been regarded as one of the "show places" of Muncie. When the McNaughton store was established in Muncie in 1896 five or six clerks were sufficient for the needs of the business. The present department store employs 175 or more persons. William A. McNaughton died on May 25, 1909, and the firm name which he established, W. A. McNaughton & Co., has been continued, John F. McNaughton, only surviving son of the founder of the firm, having been president of the company since its reorganization after his father's death. John F. McNaughton was but three years of age when his parents moved from Edinburg to Franklin, and his schooling was completed in Franklin College. From the days of his boyhood he had taken an interest in the affairs of his father's store and when his father's mercantile activities were transferred from Franklin to Muncie he entered wholeheartedly into the new enterprise and from the beginning has been an active factor in the development of the present extensive department store and since the death of his father has been president of the company operating the same. Mr. McNaughton married Ida.M. Terrill of Anderson, Ind. He is a member of the Muncie Chamber of Commerce and is affiliated with the local lodge of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. Mrs. McNaughton is a daughter of Dr. L. BL and Emily (Moore) Terrill, the latter of whom was born and reared in Kentucky. Dr. L. B. Terrill, who for years was a practicing physician at. Anderson, was a native of Missouri but was reared in Kentucky. CHARLES O. SCHUSTER, vice president and manager of the Muncie Ice and Coal Company, is a native of the old Buckeye state but has been a resident of Indiana since he was a boy and of Muncie for the past fourteen years. Mr. Schuster was born in Montgomery county, Ohio, March 23, 1879, and is a son of Christian Abel and Cornelia Ann (Andrews) Schuster, both of whom were born in that same county and the latter of whom died when she was thirtyfive years of age. She was a daughter of Abraham Andrews, a native of the Isle of Jersey, off the English coast, who had come to this country and had made his home in Montgomery county, Ohio. Christian Abel Schuster was a son of Christian Schuster, a native of Germany, who had made his home in Montgomery county not long after coming to this country. After the death of his first wife, by whom he was the father of three children, Christian A. Schuster married again and by this latter union was the father of two children. He died when he was forty-one years of age. Charles O. Schuster was reared at Miamisburg, Ohio, and was twelve years of age when his father died. He thereafter made his home with his father's brother on a farm in Wabash county, Indiana, had one year of high school and when eighteen years of age, in 1897, went to Marion, Ind., where he became employed in the plant of the Marion Ice and Cold Storage Company, where he became thoroughly familiar with the details of the ice business and where he remained until in the spring of 1910, when he was transferred to the Muncie plant of this same company, operating as the Muncie Ice and Coal Company, though not now dealing in coal, and was made manager of the offices and plant of this company at Muncie, the position he ever since has occupied. This company has a well equipped plant for the manufacture and distribution of ice and Mr. Schuster has a wide acquaintance in the trade throughout this part of the state. This ice plant is the largest in this part of the state, having a capacity of seventytwo tons of ice a day and storage capacity of 1,600 tons. Mr. Schuster is a Democrat and is a member of the Muncie city plan commission, reference to which is made elsewhere in this work. He is a 32° (Scottish Rite) Mason and a Knight Templar and also is a noble of the Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. In 1903, while living at Marion, Charles O Schuster was united in marriage to

Charles O. Schuster

Jessie M. White, who was born at Lafontaine, in Wabash county, this state, and to this union two daughters have been born, Cornelia Ann and Philora Nell. Mr. and Mrs. Schuster and their daughters are members of the First Presbyterian church.

ARCHIE C. McCABE, chief of the Muncie fire department, has been a part of that department for nearly twenty years and thus has been a factor in the development of the department from its former somewhat primitive state to its present highly efficient and strictly modernized state, with motorized equipment and all the essential up-to-date appliances for successful operation in these days of highly specialized performance. Chief McCabe is a native son of Delaware county and has lived here all his life. He was born in the village of Daleville on January 26, 1883, and is a son of George W. and Clara Jane (Parker) McCabe, the latter of whom was born in the neighboring county of Madison and died in Muncie in 1914, at the age of fifty years. George W. McCabe, a stationary engineer, now living at Muncie, where he has made his home for nearly twenty years, was born at Brookville, Ind., May 12, 1859, and is a son of William McCabe, a native of Scotland and a soldier of the Union during the Civil war who was captured in battle by the enemy and was sent to the infamous Libby prison at Richmond, Va., where all further knowledge of him ended, for he never was restored to his friends and family and is thus supposed to have lost his life there and to have been given an unmarked grave on that doleful spot. His widow died a few years later and the doubly orphaned son, George W. McCabe, was reared in the home of John Gold, in Madison county, where he grew to manhood. Following his marriage Mr. McCabe established his home at Daleville and there resided until in 1905, when he moved with his family to Muncie, which ever since has been his home, and where, as stated above, his wife died in 1914. Besides the son Archie, he has a daughter, Sylvia Ann, who is her father's housekeeper. Reared at Daleville, Archie McCabe received his schooling in the schools of that village and as a young man worked for a while in the stove foundry which then was in operation there and later in a glass factory. He was twenty-two years of age when the family moved to Muncie in 1905 and in the next year, beginning on April 16, 1906, he became a member of the Muncie fire department, with which he ever since has been connected and in which he has: risen, by right of earned promotion, to the position of chief. On January 1, 1915, Mr. McCabe was appointed clerk of the department and secretary to the board of safety and on March 18, 1918, was appointed to his present highly responsible position as chief of the department. During the time of his incumbency as head of Muncie's excellent fire-fighting force Chief McCabe has brought about many important improvements in the department, has directed the installation of much new and modern motorized equipment, the erection of the admirable new central fire station and some of the outlying stations; in fact, a general rehabilitation of the department during the past few years, this including the installation in the spring of 1920 of $25,000 worth of additional equipment and since then of such needed equipment as new conditions demand, until now Muncie rightly prides itself upon the possession of a thoroughly up-to-date fire department in full keeping with its progress in other directions. Chief McCabe is a member of the International Association of Fire Engineers and keeps fully abreast of all advances in fire-fighting methods. He is a Scottish Rite (32°) Mason, a Knight Templar and a noble of the Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine and is a member of the Christian church and of the Muncie Chamber of Commerce. In 1910 Archie McCabe was united in marriage to Sarah Hart, of Muncie, who died on January 7, 1918, leaving one child, a son, George Robert McCabe.

MACGINDLEY A. McCANN, vice president of he A. E. Boyce Company, general printers and dealers in office supplies at Muncie, has been connected with the operations of that thriving concern ever since the days of his boyhood and by successive promotions has risen in service from the humble position of delivery boy to his present administrative position. Though not a native son of Muncie, Mr. McCann has been a resident of the city ever since he was five years of age and thus feels himself as much a Muncietonian as though "native and to the manner born." Mr. McCann was born at Zanesville, 'Ohio, May 2, 1898, and was thus five years of age when in 1898 his parents, Frank G. and Mary A. (Hollingsworth) McCann, came with their family into Indiana and located at Muncie. MacGindley McCann thus received his schooling in the schools of Muncie. When fourteen years of age, while still attending school, he began working for the Boyce establishment, putting in his evenings and school holidays in that service, and upon the completion of his schooling was taken into the concern as a full time hand, his special attention being given to the concern's office detail. In 1907 when he began his connection with this establishment it was known as the Hoosier Printing Company. In the development of that company's growing business he became an active factor, familiarizing himself with all details of the business, and when the present A. E. Boyce Company was organized in 1912 he became a member of the company, and in time was made vice president of the same, A. E. Boyce, founder of the concern being the president, as is set out elsewhere, together with further details concerning the establishment, which now has no fewer than one hundred branch sales offices in the United States, its service thus covering the country. Mr. McCann is a member of the Muncie Chamber of Commerce and of the local Kiwanis Club. He also is affiliated with, the local lodges of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, the Loyal Order of Moose and the Fraternal Order of Eagles. FRANCIS EDWIN MAUCK, of the Grouleff & Mauck Lumber Company of Muncie and one of the best known lumbermen in eastern Indiana, is a native son of Indiana and has lived in this state all his life, a resident of Muncie for nearly twenty. years. Mr. Mauck was born on a farm in the vicinity of Rensselaer, in Jasper county, this state, October 15, 1866, and is a son of Francis Wellington and Elizabeth (Varner) Mauck, Virginians, who had settled on that farm fifteen years or more prior to that date. Both Francis Wellington Mauck and his wife were born in Page county, Virginia, where they were reared and where they were married. In 1850 they came to Indiana and became pioneers of Jasper county. They established themselves on a farm in that county and there spent the remainder of their lives. They were the parents of eight children, four sons and four daughters, of whom the subject of this sketch was the last 'born. Reared on the home farm, Francis Edwin Mauck received his schooling in the neighborhood schools and as a lad became familiar with the building trades. At the age of nineteen he started out '"'on his own" and presently became a building contractor and for six years was thus engaged, operating throughout Jasper and Newton counties. He then became engaged in the lumber business at Arcadia, in Hamilton county, from which place he presently moved to Anderson and in the latter city was engaged in business until in 1907, when he moved to Muncie and became a member of the Grouleff & Mauck Lumber Company and has since been thus engaged in the lumber business here, with a well established and fully equipped lumber yard in North Walnut street. He also has lumber interests at Greensburg and at Knightstown and an interest in the Muncie Lumber Company. On October 13, 1897, at Rensselaer, Ind., Francis Edwin Mauck was united in marriage to Elpha L. Yeoman, a member of one of the old families of that city, and to this union two children have been born, a son, Francis Irvin, and a daughter, Pansie, wife of Ray-

'mond Reed, of Greensburg, Ind. Francis Irvin Mauck, a veteran of 'the World war, married Jane Allen of Columbus, Ohio, and resides at Knightstown, where he is engaged in the lumber business. He and his wife have three children, two daughters, Betty and Frances, and ason, Thomas. Mr. and Mrs. F. E. Mauck are members of the High Street Methodist Episcopal church and Mr. Mauck has served as a member of the official board of that congregation. He also is an active worker in the ranks of the Knights of Pythias and is a member of the Muncie Chamber of Commerce. The Maucks reside at 106 McCulloch boulevard.

CLINTON G. MOORE, vice president of the Moore Company, manufacturer of springs at Muncie, a former director of the Muncie Chamber of Commerce and in other ways a participant in the general industrial and commercial activities of that city, has been a resident of Muncie for about fifteen years. Mr. Moore was born at Bellevue, Ohio, October 8, 1880, and was reared in that state, his schooling being obtained in the schools of Bellevue, Sandusky and Marietta, this schooling being completed in the high school in the latter city. Upon leaving school he became engaged as a clerk in a shoe store at Marietta and was thus engaged for five years, at the end of which time he became the manager of a shoe store at Zanesville. Three years later he moved to Barre, Vt., and there became engaged as the purchasing agent of one of the great granite quarry and monument concerns of that place, and was thus employed for seven years. In the meantime his brother, J. L. Moore, had become engaged in the manufacturing business at Bellevue, Ohio, and upon leaving Barre he returned to Bellevue, the place of his birth, and became associated with his brother in the manufacturing business there, under the firm name of the J. L. Moore Manufacturing Company, the parent organization of the present Moore Company at Muncie, and was made vice president and treasurer of that concern. In the fall of 1909 this company decided to move its plant to Muncie and Mr. Moore superintended this removal and the erection of the present plant on the Westside. In the spring of the following year (1910) the J. L. Moore Manufacturing Company was reorganized under the laws of the state of Indiana and was incorporated as the Moore Company, with J. L. Moore as president and C. G. Moore as vice president. This company's specialty is the manufacture of metal springs, with particular reference to bed springs, and during the years of its operations at Muncie has created a wide market for its products. Clinton G. Moore is an active member of the Muncie

Chamber of Commerce, a former director of that body, and has also served on the directorate of the Rotary Club and of the Country Club, with which organizations he likewise is affiliated, and he also is a member of the Illinois Athletic Club at Chicago. Mr. Moore is a Freemason of high degree and is a noble of the Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, affiliated with Mt. Sinai Temple No. 3, at Montpelier, Vt. In 1906 Clinton G. Moore was united in marriage to Grace Sutton, of Hillsdale, Mich., daughter of W. J. Sutton, and to this union two children have been born, Mary Alice and Barbara. Mr. and Mrs. Moore are members of the Presbyterian church and are Republicans. They reside at 405 East Washington street.

WILLIAM H. LITTLETON, art photographer at Muncie, has been a resident of that city for nearly fifteen years and during that time has done much to elevate the standards of portrait photography throughout this section of the state. Mr. Littleton was born at Bellaire, Ohio, August 10, 1886, and is a son of Scott E. and Anna Belle Littleton. William H. Littleton received his early schooling at Moundsville, W. Va., down the river from Bellaire, and was fourteen years of age when his parents moved from there to Wellsburg, W. Va., in 1900, and two years later to Cambridge, Ohio. During this period he had been giving close attention to the study of photography from the amateur standpoint and in the fall of 1903 he entered the Illinois College of Photography and in 1904 was graduated from that institution. Seeking a place for location he went South in that same year and set up a photographic establishment at West Point (Columbus), Miss., where he was engaged in business for eighteen months, at the end of which time he returned to West Virginia and was for a time located at Wheeling, from which place he went to Braddock, Pa. in this latter place Mr. Littleton was located for six years, or until in 1910 when he came to Muncie and bought out the old established studio of Charles F. Bowden and has since been engaged in business here, with a well appointed, studio at No. 2 the Boyce block in Main street. Mr. Littleton's specialty is art photography with special reference to portraiture, and his work has an established place among American photographers. During the time he has been taking photographs in Muncie no fewer than twenty-five groups of his photographs have been awarded honors at photographic exhibits and at the Atlanta exhibition he was one of the two Indiana photographers whose exhibit was accepted in entirety. Mr. Littleton is a member of the exclusive Daguerre Club whose membership is limited to twenty-five honor photographers in Indiana and is also affiliated with the American Association of Photographers and the Tri-State Association of Photographers, the latter comprising membership from Ohio, Michigan and Indiana, and in all of these his exhibits have been awarded high honors. Mr. Littleton married Lora Curtis and he and his wife reside at 12114 North High street. He is a Freemason and is also a member of the local lodge of the Loyal Order of Moose. FRANK McNAUGHTON, of the W. A. McNaughton Company, proprietors of one of the leading department stores in Indiana, and advertising manager of that concern, has been engaged in business in Muncie for nearly thirty years, an associate in the affairs of the McNaughton store all this time, and thus has been an active and. influential factor in the development of that concern's affairs. Mr. McNaughton is a brother of the late William A. McNaughton, founder of the company which still bears his name and of which he was president at the time of his death in 1909, as is set out elsewhere in this work. When the McNaughton commercial interests were established at Muncie in 1896 Frank McNaughton came here as an associate of his brother in the creation of that business and has ever since been connected with the store, even as he was associated with his brother in business before coming to Muncie, his special detail all this time having been the advertising end of the business, so that for more than forty-one years he has been engaged in writing advertisements, one of the oldest and best recognized commercial advertising men in Indiana. When the W. A. McNaughton Company was organized twenty years and more ago for the purpose of expanding the business and erecting the present department store building at the corner of Walnut and Charles streets, Frank McNaughton became a member of the company and has so continued, a member of the board of directors, as is set out elsewhere, his nephew, John F. McNaughton, only surviving son of the late W. A. McNaughton, being the president of the company. Frank McNaughton was born in Johnson county, Indiana, and is a son of the Rev. Samuel W. and Sarah (Forbes) McNaughton, the former of whom was a minister of the Methodist Episcopal church and a Union veteran of the Civil war. Due to his father's itineracy, Frank McNaughton's schooling was gained in. the schools of several towns in southern Indiana and he was graduated from the high school at Mitchell. Upon leaving school he became associated with his brother, William A. McNaughton, in business, first at Edinburg and then at Franklin and then in 1896 at Muncie, an agreeable association that was maintained until the death of the elder brother, and since then has been maintained with the latter's son and the others associated with him in the business of the McNaughton store. In 1890 Frank McNaughton was united in marriage to Della Abel, of Franklin, Ind., and to this union have been born five children, Halford R., Lee, Hugh, Luenette and Helen. Mr. and Mrs. McNaughton are members of the High Street Methodist Episcopal church.

JOHN CULLEN BANTA, who for years has been engaged in business as a merchant tailor at Muncie, was born at Muncie on March 3, 1884, and isa son of John E. and Lydia E. (Gustin) Banta, the latter of whom was born in the neighboring county of Madison a member of one of the pioneer families of that section of the state, and both of whom are still living at Muncie, residing at 1245 North Elm street, Mr. Banta now being past eighty-three years of age and Mrs. Banta past eighty. The venerable John E. Banta, a veteran of the Civil war and former postmaster of Muncie as well as former treasurer of the city of Muncie, was born in Preble county, Ohio, but has been a resident of Delaware county and of Muncie most of his life. He served for three years and nine months as a soldier of the Union during the time of the Civil war. For years he was regarded as one of the leaders of the Democratic party in this county and in 1885-86 served as treasurer of the city of Muncie, the first Democrat elected to that office. For four years from February, 1887, he served as postmaster of Muncie, under appointment of President Cleveland. Reared at Muncie, John Cullen Banta received his public schooling in the local schools and upon leaving high school entered the Indiana State Normal School, where he spent a year, and then took a course at the Central Business College at Indianapolis. In the meantime he had become engaged in the tailoring establishment of S. D. Maddox at Muncie and upon completing his schooling was for some time thereafter employed in that establishment. He then went to Indiana Harbor and was there engaged working in the plant of the Inland Steel Company. Upon his return to Muncie, in 1902, Mr. Banta resumed his former place in the Maddox tailoring establishment and was thus engaged until in 1911, when he became engaged in business on his own account, opening a tailoring establishment at 115 South Mulberry street, where he ever since has been engaged in business and where he has done well. In January, 1924, Mr. Banta enlarged his establishment by taking over an adjoining room, doubling his capacity, and now in addition to his tailoring, carries a complete line of men's furnishings, his store covering the two num- bers, 113-115 South Mulberry street. Mr. Banta is a member of the Muncie Chamber of Commerce, is a past president of the Muncie Club and is also affiliated with the Rotary Club, the Delaware Country Club and the Dynamo Club. He is a Scottish Rite (82°) Mason, a member of the local lodge of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and is a member of the Presbyterian church. Mr. Banta married Irma Purman, of Montpelier, Ind., and he and his wife reside at 332 North Monroe street.

WARREN M. SAMPLE, vice president and general manager of the Warner Corporation, manufacturers of transmissions and steering gears for automobiles at Muncie, is an Easterner by birth but he has been a resident of Indiana and of Muncie since the days of his childhood. Mr. Sample was born at Fairmount, W. Va., September 17, 1882, and is a son of Johnson E. and Mary M. (Swearingen) Sample, both of whom also were born in West. Virginia and whose last days were spent in Muncie. The late Johnson E. Sample, a veteran of the Civil war, was engaged in the drug business at Fairmount, where his health failed and he disposed of his interests there and with his family came to Indiana in 1890 and located in Henry county. Two years later he moved to Muncie with his family and here in that same year, 1892, died. His widow survived him for twentyfive years, her death occurring in 1917. They were the parents of eight children, of whom the subject of this sketch was the sixth in order of birth, the others being Fred S., Jessie L. (deceased), Frank E., Bernard P., Clara, Mary and Bertha. By a comparison of the above dates it will be noted that Warren M. Sample was eight years of age when his parents came to Indiana with their family in 1890 and was ten when they made their home at Muncie. He was graduated from the Muncie high school with the class of 1900 and then took a year of post-graduate work. In 1901, when nineteen years of age, he entered upon his industrial career as an employe in the plant of the old Warner Electric Company, organized in that year, out of which, in 1903, grew the T. W. Warner Company, manufacturers of automobile parts, with its plant at Kilgore and Perkins street, the present site of the plant of the Muncie Products Division of the General Motors Corporation. Mr. Sample continued with the T. W. Warner Company and was made vice president and general manager of the same and thus continued until in 1919, when that plant was sold to the General Motors Corporation which there established its Muncie products division. Following this sale the Warner Corpora- ° tion was organized and in the next year (1920) erected its present manufacturing plant at Batavia street and the Big Four tracks, where modern equipment was installed for the manufacture of automobile transmissions and steering gears. The officers of this corporation are as follows: President, T. W. Warner; vice president and general manager, Warren M. Sample; secretary, E. O. Thomas; treasurer, E. H. Witker, and factory manager, B. E. Johnson. In addition to his connection with this corporation Mr. Sample is a member of the real estate firm of the Skillen, Moore & Sample Company. He is a 382° (Scottish Rite) and Knights Templar (York Rite) Mason and a noble of the Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine; is a member of the Muncie Rotary Club, and is likewise affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Knights of Pythias, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and the Loyal Order of Moose. In 1906 Warren M. Sample was united in marriage to Alice H. Kiser, and to this union three children have been born: Edith Alice, who died at the age of three years, and Mary Jane and Warren S. Mr. and Mrs. Sample are members of the First Presbyterian church.

CHARLES M. ADAMS, who died at his home in Muncie in the year 1919, had been a resident of that city for more than twenty years and during that period had made many friends throughout the county. Mr. Adams was born in the historic old town of Fort Recovery, over the line in Ohio, and was a member of one of the pioneer families of that region there at the headwaters of the Wabash. There he grew to manhood and married Clementina Maurer. After his marriage he established his home at Fort Recovery and resided there, working as a stationary engineer, until in 1898, when he moved with his family to Muncie. Upon his arrival here Mr. Adams became employed as a stationary engineer and continued thus employed until in 1910, when he became engaged in the coal business. Two years later he became engaged in the delicatessen and grocery business at 614 South Walnut street and was thus engaged the remainder of his life, his death occurring on July 31, 1919. Since the death of Mr. Adams this business has been carried on by his widow and his son, Jay H. Adams, who have a well equipped and well stocked establishment there. Jay H. Adams, who is a veteran of the World war with an overseas record, was born at Fort Recovery in 1893 and was thus five years of age when he came to Muncie with his parents in 1898. He received his schooling in the local schools and early became attracted to telegraphy. He became a telegraph operator but did not follow that line long, for when his father be- came engaged in the coal business in 1910 he took up with that line and when his father established his grocery in 1912 he became engaged in the store and was thus engaged when this country took a hand in the World war in 1917. He enlisted for army service, was attached to the 416th Field Battalion Signal Corps of the 32d Division and with that command saw much active service in France, including the bloody engagement about Chateau Thierry. Upon the completion of his military service Mr. Adams returned home and resumed his place in the store. It was shortly after this that his father died and he then became associated with his mother in carrying on the business and the two have since been thus associated, conducting the business under the firm name of C. M. Adams & Son, general dealers in groceries, fish and oysters. Jay H. Adams is a member of the local post of the American Legion, is a Freemason and a noble of the Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine and is also affiliated with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. He married Laura Glaser and has one child, a daughter, Mary Deloris.