Delaware County, Indiana - Sidelights on Local History, 1924 (part 9 of 21)

Niles township, this county. Warner Mann was a son of Joseph and Elizabeth (Blades) Mann, natives of Delaware, who had settled in the Leesburg neighborhood in Ohio and who in 1833 came over into Indiana and settled on an "eighty" in the Albany neighborhood in this county, and it was thus that two years later Warner Mann also came over here and became a settler in Delaware county. Warner Mann was reared a Quaker. His wife (Nancy Pavey) was a daughter of Isaac and Elizabeth Pavey, the former of whom was a Methodist minister. Religious differences seemed to offer an insuperable barrier to the marriage of the young couple, but they found a way out when one night Nancy was helped out of an upstairs window of her home by Warner and the twain soon became one. Upon coming over here Warner Mann bought a quarter section of land that had been entered by John Boots and settled down. He later took over a tract in what in time was included within the limits of the town of Albany and became one of the forceful figures in the development of that section of the county. He died at the early age of forty-four in the year 1849, and his widow survived him for many years, she having been eighty-four years of age at the time of her death. They were the parents of three daughters and four sons and the Mann connection of this family in the present generation is a considerable one. Isaac Mann, one of these sons, grew up on the home farm and in time became a farmer and landowner in his own right. He mar- ° ried at the age of twenty-five (in 1859) and established his home at Albany, where he spent the remainder of his life, looking after his farming interests and also for years engaged in the sale of lightning rods, thus gaining a wide acquaintance hereabout. He died in 1911 and his widow survived him for five years, her death occurring in 1916. Of the children born to Isaac Mann and wife, seven grew to maturity, those besides the subject of this sketch being Mary, Anna, Amelda, William, Gustina and Thomas P. Reared on the home farm at Albany, Carson M. Mann supplemented the schooling received in the local schools by a course in the old normal school (now the university) at Valparaiso and for five years was engaged during the winters in teaching school, four years in this county and one year in Adams county. Following his marriage in the spring of 1884, Mr. Mann settled on a farm of eighty acres he had bought in Adams county, and there made his home for eight years, at the end of which time he traded his farm there for a farm of 100 acres in Niles township, this county, the place on which he is now living, and has since resided in this county. Since taking possession of this place, Mr.

Mann has made numerous improvements on the place and has added to his holdings until now he has a well improved farm of 160 acres. Mr. Mann is a Republican and for six years (1909-15) served the public as trustee of Niles township. He is a member of the Bethel Methodist Episcopal church of Niles township and is an Odd Fellow. It was on March 27, 1884, that Carson M. Mann was united in marriage to Anna E. Read, who died in 1921. Mrs. Mann was born in the neighboring county of Randolph, a daughter of Cyrus and Sarah (Lawrance) Read, who had come over into Indiana from Greene county, Ohio. To Carson M. and Anna HE. (Read) Mann were born four children, Mary, Read, Celia Opal (deceased) and Emma, the latter of whom was graduated from Indiana University and was for some time a teacher in the public schools of this county. She also served for a year as the secretary of the Young Women's Christian Association at Steubenville, Ohio, and for a like period as secretary of the association at Johnstown, Pa. Mary Mann was graduated from DePauw University and is now a teacher in a college for women in southern China. Read Mann also was graduated from DePauw University and is now giving his attention to the operations of the home farm. He is a veteran of the World war, having served for about six months in Company B of the Plymouth Division of the 12th Brigade.

DR. RUSSEL E. COLE, physician, and pathologist of the Home Hospital, Muncie, and a veteran of the World war, was born at Fredericktown, in Knox county, Ohio, in 1879, and is a son of W. W. and Alice (Auten) Cole, both of whom also were born in that same county, the latter a daughter of Jacob Auten, who had come to Ohio from Pennsylvania. W. W. Cole was a son of Henry Cole, who was born in Connecticut, and to him and his wife were born seven children, those besides Doctor Cole being Edna, Evan, Arden, Myra, Beulah and Harold. Arden Cole is superintendent of schools at Darby, Mont. Russel E. Cole early turned his attention to the study of medicine and in due course matriculated at the old Starling Medical College at Columbus, Ohio, and following his graduation from that institution, became engaged in practice in the village of Democracy in his home county, presently moving from there to Newcastle, Ind. Doctor Cole continued in practice at Newcastle until in 1914, when he moved to Muncie, where he since has resided. Upon locating here Doctor Cole opened a private laboratory for pathological research and after awhile was selected as pathologist for the Home Hospital, a publicly supported institution at Muncie, and has since been thus engaged. During the time of this country's participation in the World war, Doctor Cole rendered service in the Medical Corps of the army with rank of first lieutenant, stationed first at the Yale Army Laboratory School at New Haven, Conn., and later in the soldier's hospital (No. 35) at West Baden, Ind. In 1908, at Democracy, Ohio, Dr. Russel E. Cole was united in marriage to Lulu M. Popham, of that place, daughter of Rosa Popham, and to this union three children have been born, Lowell, Auten and Rosemary. Doctor Cole is a member of the local lodge of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and he and Mrs. Cole are members of the Methodist Episcopal church. They reside at 431 West Howard street. He is affiliated with the American Medical Association, the Society of American Bacteriologists, the American Society of Clinical Pathologists, the Indiana State Medical Association, the Delaware-Blackford (counties) Medical Society and the Muncie Academy of Medicine.

H. WALTER JONES, president of the T. J. Ault Company, commission merchants at Muncie, has been a resident of Muncie for nearly thirty years and has had a wide experience in the grocery and general produce business. Mr. Jones was born in Hartford County, Maryland, in 1874, and is a son of Charles and Laura Jones. He completed his schooling at the West Nottingham (Md.) Academy and at the age of eighteen years went to Farina, II]., where he became engaged in the grain business and also became a dealer in general produce, with particular reference to fruit and poultry. He presently became connected with the maintenance of way department of the Illinois Central Railway Company and when twenty-one years of age, in 1895, located at Muncie, where he ever since has made his home. Not long after his arrival here Mr. Jones became engaged in the grocery business, opening a store at the corner of Walnut and Adams streets, and was thus engaged until in 1920, when he and his present associates purchased the old-established produce and commission house of the T. J. Ault Company at High and Seymour streets and he since has been giving his whole attention to the affairs of that concern, of which he is the president and general manager. Henry Kuehner is the vice president of this company, Fred Jones is the treasurer and F. Bernard is the secretary. On September 21, 1895, at Farina, Ill., H. Walter Jones was united in marriage to Katherine Richardson, of that place, and to this union two children have been born, Charles R. and Laura C., the latter of whom has made a specialty of the study of music and art at Northwestern University, Chicago. Charles R. Jones is a grad- uate of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor and is now associated with his father in business. Mr. Jones is a member of the local lodge of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and he and his wife are members of the High Street Methodist Episcopal church. They reside at 615 West Charles street.

LYCURGUS J. PARVIS, president of the Muncie Pattern Works and a veteran pattern maker of many years' experience, was born in the pleasant old village of Metamora in Franklin county, Indiana, January 17, 1863, and is a son of Jonathan and Marietta (Sullenberger) Parvis, the latter of whom was born in Virginia and was but a child when she came to Indiana with her parents, the family settling in Franklin county. Jonathan Parvis also was born in Virginia. Asa young man he came to Indiana and located at Metamora, where he presently married and became engaged in the butcher business. He later moved with his family to Brookville and the later years of his life were given over to salesmanship. To him and his wife were born six children, all of whom are living save one, Luetta, the subject of this sketch, having four sisters, Inez, Elizabeth, Azella and Harriet. Lycurgus J. Parvis was but a boy when his parents moved to Brookville, county seat of Franklin county, and in the schools of that city he completed his schooling. He early learned the cabinet maker's trade and for some time followed that vocation, or until his marriage when he became engaged as a pattern maker; a vocation he ever since has followed. Mr. Parvis was employed as a pattern maker in various towns throughout the country until in 1911, when he came to Muncie to take employment in a local pattern shop. Ever since then he has made his home here. He continued working at his trade until in 1921, when he organized the Muncie Pattern Works, was elected president of the controlling company and has ever since been the head of that concern, which has a well equipped factory and establishment at 1714 South High street. The Muncie Pattern Works carries.on a general business in its line, its products including both wood and metal patterns, and the character of these products has created for it a wide market... Lycurgus J. Parvis has been twice married. On April 19, 1885, he was united in marriage to Cora Stewart, who was born in Richmond, Ind., daughter of Joseph and Joanna (Dill) Stewart, and to that union were born four children, Chester (deceased), one who died in infancy, and Ray Stewart Parvis and Paul J. Parvis. The mother of these children died in 1905 and on January 19, 1907, Mr. Parvis married Mrs. Gertrude (Swift) Wilson. Mr. and Mrs. Parvis are

Republicans. He is a member of the order of Knights of Pythias and she is a member of the Pythian Sisters. Mrs. Parvis was born at Metamora, Ind., and is a daughter of Taylor and Lydia (Gross) Swift. Ray Stewart Parvis, general manager of the Muncie Pattern Works, married Josephine Wray, of Muncie, and has one child, a son, Ray Lewis. Paul J. Parvis, who also is connected with the operations of the Muncie Pattern Works, is a veteran of the World war with an overseas record. He served from June 28, 1917, to August 14, 1919, and participated in some of the major campaigns in France, including the battles at Chateau Thierry, Soissons, the Argonne, Champaign and St. Mihiel.

ROY M. FRIEDLEY, a member of the common council of the city of Muncie, and a well established realtor, for twenty years a resident of Muncie, is a native son of Indiana and has lived in this state all his life. Mr. Friedley was born on a farm in the vicinity of the picturesque old village of Laconia in Harrison county, June 13, 1877, and is a son of Jacob F. and Anna M. (Williar) Friedley, who are now living in the Royerton neighborhood in this county. Jacob F. Friedley also was born in the Laconia neighborhood, a son of George Friedley, who was born in southern Indiana and whose father had come down the river out of Pennsylvania in settlement days and had established his home in the hills of Harrison county, in the vicinity of where the Laconia settlement came to be established. As a young man Jacob F. Friedley was for some years engaged in teaching school. After his marriage he established his home on a farm in the Laconia neighborhood and there resided until some years ago, when he moved up into Delaware county and has since resided near Royerton. Roy M. Friedley was reared on the home farm in Harrison county and completed his schooling in the old Ohio Valley Normal School at Corydon. For four or five years thereafter he was engaged in teaching school during the winters, meantime carrying on the labors of the farm during the summers, and then in 1904 came to Muncie, which ever since has been his home. Upon coming to Muncie Mr. Friedley became connected with the operations of the Indiana Loan Company and was thus connected for some years, or until in 1912, when he became engaged in the real estate business on his own account and has ever since been thus engaged. Mr. Friedley is a Republican and is now representing his ward (the First) in the city council. He is a member of the Muncie Chamber of Commerce and of the Kiwanis Club and is also affiliated with the local lodge (No. 245) of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, with Silver Shield lodge of the Knights of Pythias and with Post R of the Travelers Protective Association. He and his wife are members of the Presbyterian church. On June 15, 1910, Roy M. Friedley was united in marriage to Emily C. Maggs, who was born at Canandaigua, N. Y., and who in 1891 came to Muncie with her parents, William F. and Harriet E. (Newman) Maggs. William F. Maggs is a tailor, established at 108 West Adams street and residing at 607 Ashland. Mr. and Mrs. Friedley reside at 219 Kilgore avenue. | CLAUDE C. BALL, a member of the bar of the Delaware circuit court and a practicing attorney at Muncie for nearly thirty years, is a native son of Delaware county, a member of one of the real pioneer families here, and has resided here all his life. Mr. Ball was born on a farm in Monroe township, in what is known as the old Ball neighborhood there, September 26, 1873, and is a son of George M. and Susan R. (Hale) Ball, the latter of whom is still living. She was born in the neighboring county of Henry, a daughter of Lafory Hale, a Virginian, who was one of the pioneers of that county. George M. Ball was born in Monroe township, a son of Samuel Ball, one of the early settlers in that part of Delaware county. He became a farmer in that township and there his last days were spent, his death occurring in March, 1879, when he was thirty-six years of age, and he left his widow with six children, as is set out elsewhere in this work, together with further details regarding the Ball family in this county. Claude C. Ball was but five years of age when his father died. He finished his common schooling in the grade school at Springport, down over the line in Henry county, and then began teaching school, teaching during the winters and continuing to carry on his work on the home farm during the summers. In 1892 he entered Indiana University and in 1896 was graduated from that institution, his studies having been carried on with particular reference to the law. Upon leaving the university Mr. Ball completed his law studies in the office of James N. Templer & Son, attorneys, at Muncie, and upon his admission to the bar a year later became a member of the Templer law firm, practicing under the name of Templer, Ball & Templer, an arrangement which was maintained for about ten years, or until the death of the elder Templer, since which time he has been carrying on in practice alone, with present offices at 303 Western Reserve Life building. Mr. Ball is a Democrat. He is a York Rite (Knights Templar) Mason and is also affiliated with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. Claude C. Ball was united in marriage to Edna KE. Sutton, a member of one of the pioneer families of the adjacent county of Jay, daughter of James A. and Emma Sutton, and to this union one child has been born, a daughter, Virginia A. Mr. and Mrs. Ball are members of the Methodist Episcopal church. They reside at 600 West North street.

WALTER M. WILSON, proprietor of two grocery stores at Muncie, has been a resident of this city since the days of his childhood and literally grew up in the grocery business, a line in which his father for many years has been engaged in Muncie. Mr. Wilson 'was born in the city of Pueblo, Colo., June 7, 1889, and is a son of A. J. and Minnie M. (Lewis) Wilson, the latter of whom was born in the vicinity of Muncie, a daughter of the Rev. William Lewis, a clergyman and Western missionary, with whom she was traveling in the West when she met and married A. J. Wilson, who was born at Cherokee, Ark., where he was reared, his father having been a merchant of that place. After his marriage A. J. Wilson continued to make his home in the West until in 1896, when he came to Indiana with his family and located at Muncie, where he ever since has made his home, now residing at 1601 West Ninth street. Upon taking up his residence in Muncie, A. J. Wilson established himself in the grocery business at the corner of Port and Ninth streets and is still thus engaged in business at that point, one of the real veteran grocerymen of the town. To him and his wife three children were born, those besides the subject of this sketch being Mrs. Frances W. Grayson, of New York City, and Roscoe Jesse Wilson, deceased. Walter M. Wilson was but seven years of age when he came to Muncie with his parents and his local schooling was completed in the high school here. This he later supplemented by a course in commercial forms in the International Correspondence School, and he is now completing a broader course in the Alexander Hamilton Institute. From the days of his boyhood Mr. Wilson has been familiar with the details of the retail grocery business, having grown up as a helper in his father's store, and he remained with his father until he branched out for himself, opening a grocery store and meat market at 1839 East Eighth street. This business prospered and he presently extended his operations by opening another store, at the corner of Eighth and Monroe streets, and has since been operating both of these stores. Mr. Wilson is a Democrat. He is affiliated with the local lodge of the Loyal Order of Moose and he and his wife are members of the First Baptist church. On August 29, 1920, Walter M. Wilson was united in marriage to Ida L. Arnold, who was born in Muncie, daughter of Joseph R. Arnold, and to this union one child

FRANK W. BUDD, a member of the common council of the city of Muncie, member of the local city planning commission and auditor of the Central Indiana Gas Company, was born at Muncie on March 30, 1890, and is a son of Dr. Chester Allen and Fanny L. (Corbley) Budd, the latter of whom was born at Mt. Washington, in Hamilton county, Ohio, December 20, 1854, daughter of William and Louise (Denham) Corbley, who became residents of Muncie in 1874. The late Dr. Chester Allen Budd was born at Muncie on March 13, 1857, and was a son of Dr. Samuel O. and India (Allen) Budd, the latter of whom was born in Franklin county, Indiana, November 1, 1834, a daughter of John Allen, one of the pioneers of that county. Dr. Samuel O. Budd, who in his generation was one of the most influential men in Muncie, was born in Westchester county, New York, November 23, 1829, and was a son of John P. and Hebe (Sands) Budd, both of whom also were born in that state. In 1886 John P. Budd came with his family to Indiana and settled on a farm in the vicinity of Fairfield in Union county, where he remained until in the spring of 1853, when he moved to Muncie. It was in that same year that Samuel O. Budd married India Allen. In the meantime he had become an expert gunsmith and upon establishing his home at Muncie he opened a gunsmith's shop, as is set out elsewhere in this work. Some years later he took up the study of dentistry as practiced in those days, and in 1861 added to the equipment of his shop a set of dental instruments and began a career as a dental surgeon which continued for many years, or until his retirement, and in which in 1879 he was joined by his son, Dr. Chester Allen Budd, who in that year was graduated from the Ohio College of Dental Surgery at Cincinnati, and who continued in practice at Muncie the remainder of his life, his death occurring on November 22,1902. It was on September 18, 1879, that Dr. Chester Allen Budd was united in marriage to Fanny L. Corbley. To that union were born nine children, five of whom are still living. Frank W. Budd, seventh in order of birth of these children, was twelve years of age when his father died. He was reared at Muncie and was graduated from the local high school in 1909. Upon leaving school he became -employed in the plant of the Whiteley Malleable Iron Works, and was thus engaged for two years, at the end of which time he transferred his connection to the plant of the Inland Steel and Castings Company at Terre Haute. Two years later he returned to Muncie and began working for the Central Indiana Gas Company, but not long afterward decided to go West and for four years thereafter was engaged working in the iron industry in the West at Wallace, Idaho. In the summer of 1917 he was married and in the fall of the following year he returned to Muncie and resumed his employment with the Central Indiana Gas Company, entering that concern's offices as assistant engineer, and presently was advanced to the position of auditor of the company, which position he now occupies, with headquarters at Muncie. Mr. Budd is a Republican and is a present member of the common council of the city of Muncie. He also is a member of the city planning commission and is vice president of that body. He is a Freemason and is affiliated with the local Kiwanis Club. It was on June 6, 1917, at Minneapolis, Minn., that Frank W. Budd was united in marriage to Marie Hill, who was born in that city, daughter of John P. and Anna D. (Dallam) Hill. Mr. and Mrs. Budd reside at 21 Orchard Place.

MINOT K. HOLMES, mechanical engineer of the great plant of the Hemingray Glass Company at Muncie, has been connected with that concern for twenty years and has thus come to occupy a definite and established position in the industrial life of the com- ,munity. Mr. Holmes was born at Plymouth, Mass., September 10, 1886, and is the last born of the eight children born to Chandler and Elizabeth A. (Finney) Holmes, both members of Colonial families in Massachusetts. Chandler Holmes, a son of Ichabod Holmes, was engaged in the rope and cordage business, this business being chiefiy carried on in Boston. Minot K. Holmes completed his schooling in the schools of Newton, Mass., and when eighteen years of age, in 1904, came to Muncie and took employment in-the machine shop of the Hemingray Glass Company in Macedonia avenue, a concern with which he ever since has been connected and in the operations of which he has risen "from the ranks" to his present position of mechanical engineer of the busy plant whose specialty is the manufacture of glass insulators which find distribution in all parts of the civilized globe, wherever electric wires are strung. Mr. Holmes is a Republican and is a member of the Muncie Kiwanis Club. He also is affiliated with the local lodge of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. In July, 1912, Minot K. Holmes was united in marriage to Sarah Elliott, daughter of John and Winifred Elliott, of Springfield, Ohio, and to this union two children have been born, a son, Eliot, and a daughter, Janet. Mr. and Mrs. Holmes are members of Grace Episcopal church. They reside at 112 South Proud street.

J. E. HAYS, veteran grocer at Muncie, where he has resided since the days of his boyhood, was born on a farm in Wayne county, Indiana, November 7, 1878, and is a son of Isaac G. and Louise Ellen Hays, both of whom were born in that same county, members of pioneer families in that section of Indiana. The late Isaac G. Hays moved with his family to Muncie in the '80s and here he spent the remainder of his life, his death occurring in 1916. During the later years of his life he had been associated with his son, the subject of this sketch, in the grocery business. J. E. Hays was but a lad when he came to Muncie with his parents and his schooling was completed in the schools here. Upon leaving school he began working as a clerk in the grocery store of C. A. Cropper and was thus engaged for seven years, or until in 1901, when he became engaged in business on his own account, opening a grocery store on North Elm street. He continued in business at that point until in 1913, when he erected his present two-story building at 411 North Elm street and has since carried on his business in this building, 24 by 70 feet in ground dimension, two floors, where he is well equipped and well stocked for all the needs of his trade. In 1915 Mr. Hays added to his grocery line a department for handling meat at retail. Mr. Hays is a member of the Knights of Pythias. He married Cora Duke and has three children, Emogene, Garner Duke and Mary Ellen.

CLINTON B. MASTERS, one of Muncie's progressive grocers, proprietor of a well appointed establishment at the corner of Wilson and Powers streets, is a native Hoosier and has lived in this state all his life, a resident of Muncie for thirty years. Mr. Masters was born in Franklin county, Indiana, June 11, 1888, and is a son of Lewis C. and Amy A. (Brown) Masters, both of whom also were born in that same county, the latter a daughter of William Brown, a member of one of the pioneer families of that county. Lewis C. Masters also was a member of one of the old families of Franklin county. In 1894 he moved with his family to Muncie and was for years engaged here in the real estate business. Clinton B. Masters was six years of age when he came to Muncie with his parents and upon completing the course in the local city schools he took a course in the old normal school here, then known as the Palmer University and now the Eastern Division of the Indiana State Normal School. Upon leaving school Mr. Masters took up the sale of life insurance and was thus engaged for about three years, at the end of which time he became a drug salesman for the G. F. Harvey Company and was thus employed for about four years or until in 1915 when he be- came employed in the Sollan grocery store at the corner of Wilson and Powers street. In the next year (1916) he bought this store and has ever since been engaged in business there, doing business in up-to-date fashion, and is doing well. Mr. Masters is a Republican and is a Freemason. In June, 1919, Clinton B. Masters was united in marriage to Nora E. Harding, who was born and reared in Ohio, daughter of Clem Harding, and to this union one child has been born, a son, Lewis H. Masters. Mr. and Mrs. Masters are members of the High Street Methodist Episcopal church. They reside at 512 South Proud street. .

HENRY WYSOR MARSH, manager of the Wysor building at Muncie and a substantial farmer and landowner, living on the old Dow farm on the Wheeling pike north of town, was born at Muncie on July 18, 1884, and is a son of William M. and Martha (Wysor) Marsh, the latter a daughter of Jacob Henry Wysor, in his generation one of the leading men of affairs of Muncie, as is set out elsewhere in this work. William M. Marsh, concerning whom further mention also is made in this work, banker, manufacturer and promoter, was a son of John Marsh, who in 1856 came to Muncie from Cambridge City and in association with John W. Burson established the Muncie branch of the State Bank of Indiana, an interesting story of the real beginning of Muncie's commercial development that is told elsewhere. Reared at Muncie, Henry Wysor Marsh supplemented the schooling received in the local schools by a course in the University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia and after his marriage in his twenty-third year became engaged in farming on the old Wysor homestead farm in Pulaski county, Virginia, and was thus engaged for eleven years or until in 1916, when he returned to Muncie and has since made his home on the old John J. Dow farm on the Wheeling pike north of town, which is owned by his mother. Mr. Marsh is a practical farmer and gives his personal attention to the operations of the farm and is an active member of the Delaware County Farm Bureau. He also is the manager of the Wysor office and commercial building at the southwest. corner of Walnut and Main streets, one of the best office buildings in eastern Indiana, which he manages in behalf of his mother and his uncle, Harry Wysor, joint owners of the building, which occupies the site long occupied by the old Wysor theater, the corner on which it is said the first school conducted in old Muncietown was carried on. On March 6, 1907, Henry Wysor Marsh was united in marriage to Cora Wysor, daughter of Henry C. and Mary (Shipp) Wysor, of Pulaski county, Virginia, and to this union four children have been born, three daughters, Martha Shipp, Mary. Wysor (deceased) and Margaret Johnston, and a son, Henry Wysor Marsh, Jr. Mr. Marsh's office headquarters are at 401 the Wysor building.

DR. HOWARD DRUM\M, one of Muncie's well established physicians, is a native son of Delaware county, a member of one of the old families here, and has lived here the greater part of his life, the exception being a few years spent in practice at Parker, over in the neighboring county of Randolph. Doctor Drumm was born on a farm in Harrison township, this county, March 15, 1875, and is a son of Enoch and Margaret (Gibson) Drumm, the latter of whom also was born in this county, a member of one of the real pioneer families here, the Gibsons having been represented in Delaware county since the days of early settlement. Enoch Drumm is a substantial farmer in Harrison township. The Drumms are a Virginia family which came into Delaware county out of Ohio in pioneer days and are quite numerously represented hereabout. Reared on the home farm in Harrison township, Howard Drumm received his early schooling in the schools of that township and early began teaching school, a vocation he followed during the winters for as many as eight years, meanwhile, during the years 1891-95, attending the normal school at Valparaiso, Ind. He then took up studies preparatory to the study of medicine and in 1903 entered the Indiana Medical College at Indianapolis, from which institution he was graduated in 1907. Upon receiving his diploma Doctor Drumm opened an office for the practice of his profession at Muncie and was here located for something more than two years, at the end of which time he moved to the village of Parker, over in Randolph county, and there was engaged in practice until in 1918. In that year the Doctor took a course in the Post-Graduate Medical School at New York and upon his return again established himself at Muncie, where he ever since has been engaged in practice, with present offices in the Western Reserve Life building. Doctor Drumm is a member of the Muncie Academy of Medicine and of the Delaware-Blackford Medical Society and is likewise affiliated with the American and state medical associations. He is a Freemason. In 1902, Dr. Howard Drumm was united in marriage to Estella McClelland, also a member of one of Delaware county's old families, a daughter of Edward and Mary (Miller) McClelland, and to this union five children have been born, Eleanora, Howard, Francis, Estella Bernice, Miriam and Andrew Madison. The Drumms reside at 2500 Riverside avenue.

WALTER O. HAYMOND, general superintendent of the Indiana General Service Company, is a native son of Delaware county and has lived here all his life, a resident of Muncie since the days of his childhood. Mr. Haymond was born at the pleasant village of | Cowan, five miles south of Muncie, in Monroe township, September 3, 1878, and is a son of Henry Clay and Margaret A. (Louthain) Haymond, the latter of whom is still living, making her home at Muncie, where she has resided for the past forty years. She was born at the long since deserted old trading center of Luray, eight miles south of Muncie, a daughter of George Louthain, a native of Wayne county, Indiana, who was one of the pioneer farmers of that section and who lived to be past ninety years of age. The late Henry Clay Haymond, who for years was one of the active figures in local banking and industrial circles, was born in the vicinity of Fairmount, Virginia, in that section of the Old Dominion which during the time of the Civil war became West Virginia, May 4, 1852, and was a son of Octavious and Elizabeth (Fleming) Haymond, both of whom also were born in, that section of Virginia, and the former of whom died when his son Henry was but nine months of age. In 1869 Henry Clay Haymond, then seventeen years of age, came to Indiana to join his elder brother, William A. Haymond, who meanwhile had become a Delaware county farmer, and after taking a finishing course in the Muncie schools he began teaching school, a vocation he followed during the winters for nine years, and then he became engaged in the mercantile business at Cowan where he had established his home after his marriage in 1877 to Margaret Louthain. In 1884 he disposed of his interests at Cowan and moved to Muncie, where he spent the remainder of his life, his death occurring there in 1912. Upon coming to Muncie Mr. Haymond became connected with the operations of the Indiana Bridge Company, an association which was continued for eighteen years. In 1905 he was made vice-president of the Delaware County National Bank of Muncie. He also was a member of the directorates of the Muncie Trust and Savings Company and of the Mutual Home and Savings Association. For eight or ten years he served as a member of the common council of the city of Muncie and also was for some time city controller, also for some years a member of the city school board, as is set out elsewhere in this work. To him and his wife were born four sons, the subject of this sketch having three brothers, William T., Edgar L. and Fleming C. Haymond. As will be noted by a comparison of above dates, Walter O. Haymond was but six years of age when his parents moved with their family from Cowan to Muncie. Upon completing the high school course here he entered Purdue University and was graduated from that institution in 1901. Upon his return from college Mr. Haymond entered upon his long period of employment with the electric light and power plant, an interest that ever since has engaged his attention. He started in as collector, meter man and general trouble man, his course in electrical engineering at Purdue qualifying him for "all round" service with the electric light plant. When the plant was taken over by the Indiana General Service Company he was retained and thus took a part in the gradual extension of that company's interests centered in the great plant which has grown up at Muncie, one of the most extensive central power plants in the middle West, and is now general superintendent of the Indiana General Service Company. Mr. Haymond is a Republican, is a member of the Muncie Chamber of Commerce and is affiliated with the local lodge of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. In 1903, at Huntington, Ind., Walter O. Haymond was united in marriage to Mabel Kenner, daughter of Major J. B. Kenner, a veteran of the Civil and Spanish-American wars and a lawyer of that city, and to this union three daughters have been born, Virginia, Margaret Catherine and Priscilla. Mr. Haymond and his family reside at 411 Wheeling avenue.

WILBERT A. SMITH, manager of the plant and operations of the Muncie Lumber Company, former deputy county auditor and for years a resident of Muncie, is a native of the neighboring county of Grant, born on a farm southwest of the city of Marion, February 3, 1878, and is a son of Joel B. and Margaret Angeline (Williams) Smith, both of whom were born in Adams county, Ohio, and the latter of whom passed away when her son, Wilbert was fourteen years of age. The late Joel B. Smith was born in 1853 and was about eight years of age when he came over into Indiana with his parents, Joseph A. Smith and wife, the family settling in Grant county. Joseph A. Smith was a member of one of the pioneer families of Ohio and was born in that state in 1824. Joel B. Smith followed farming for some years and then became engaged in the drug business, in which his last days were spent. To him and his wife were born two children, the subject of this sketch having a sister, Orpha B. Reared on the home farm in the vicinity of Marion, Wilbert A. Smith supplemented the schooling received in the public schools by a commercial course in the normal school in that city and was for awhile thereafter employed as a bookkeeper in Chicago. He then became engaged as manager of a grain elevator at Cole Station, a station on the Pennsylvania railway south of Swayzee in his home county, and was thus engaged until he came to Muncie and became employed in the office of the Grouleff & Mauck Lumber Company. In 1911 Mr. Smith left this employment to accept a position as deputy in the office of the auditor of Delaware county, and he continued thus employed in public service until on October 1, 1916, when he was made manager of the Muncie Lumber Company and he since has been thus engaged, in charge of the offices and plant of this concern at Ohio street and the L. E. & W. railway, one of the leading lumber dealers in eastern Indiana. On May 26, 1914, Wilbert A. Smith was united in marriage to Ica Olive Covault, who was born in the vicinity of Hartford City, Ind., April 11, 1885. Mr. and Mrs. Smith reside at 803 University avenue. Mr. Smith is a Freemason.

JESSE L. STUCKY, secretary of the Campbell Ice Cream and Milk Company of Muncie, and general manager of that concern's extensive plant in South Walnut street, was born at Gosport, in Owen county, Indiana, April 29, 1890, and is a son of Dr. F. V. and Magnolia (Campbell) Stucky, both of whom also were born at Gosport, members of old families in Owen county. Dr. F. V. Stucky, who now is the proprietor of the "College Pharmacy" drug store at 701 West Jackson street, Muncie, is a physician and formerly practiced medicine at Gosport, but about twenty years ago became engaged in the drug business and during recent years has been thus engaged in Muncie. He and his wife have four children, the subject of this sketch having two sisters, Mary and Myrle, and a brother, Campbell Stucky. Reared at Gosport, Jesse L. Stucky was graduated from the high school there in 1909, and then became engaged as a timber buyer. In 1911 he came to Muncie, and became employed in the Campbell Bros.' drug store. When this firm began to develop the ice cream business which under that direction has grown to such large proportions at Muncie, as is set out elsewhere in this work, Mr. Stucky took an active interest in this development and in 1915 was made assistant manager of the big plant, which has been created for the sale of milk and the manufacture of ice cream at 1500 South Walnut street. He presently was advanced to the position of general manager of the concern and has since been acting in that capacity, also secretary of the company. Mr. Stucky is a Scottish Rite (thirty-second degree) Mason and a noble of the Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine and is likewise affiliated with the Muncie Chamber of Commerce and with the local lodge of the

Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. On March 2, 1915, at Gosport, Jesse L. Stucky was united in marriage to Jane Cherry, who was born at that place, daughter of Frank and Elizabeth (Van Buskirk) Cherry. Mr. and Mrs. Stucky reside at 211 South Council street. They are members of the High Street Methodist Episcopal church.

JOHN S. COFFMAN, M. D., former coroner of Delaware county and a practicing physician at Muncie for more than a quarter of a century, is a native Hoosier and has lived in this state all his life. Doctor Coffman was born on a farm in Carroll county, Indiana, November 1, 1862, and is a son of John and Lydia (Cook) Coffman, the former of whom also was born in Indiana and the latter in Ohio. Reared on the home farm in Carroll county, John S. Coffman re- - ceived his early schooling in the neighborhood schools and supplemented this by attendance at the old normal school at Ada, Ohio, now Ohio Northern University, from which institution he was graduated. For four or five years he was engaged in teaching school in his home county, meanwhile carrying on preparatory studies in medicine, and then entered the Ohio Eclectic Medical Institute at Cincinnati, from which, after a four-years' course, he was graduated in June, 1892. Upon receiving his diploma Doctor Coffman opened an office for practice at Cutler, a pleasant village in his home county of Carroll, and two years later moved to Darlington, in Montgomery county, where he was engaged in practice for three years, or until in 1897, when he located at Muncie, where he ever since has been engaged in practice, with present offices at 108 Western Reserve Life building and residence at 20114 North High street. Doctor Coffman is a member of the state and national societies of tthe Eclectic school of medicine. He is a Republican and for two years (1905-1907) rendered public service as coroner of Delaware county. He also served for four years as a member of the United States pension board for this district. For forty years Doctor Coffman has been an active and influential figure in the councils of the Improved Order of Red Men in Indiana and in 1906 was the head -of that order in this state, great sachem of the grand lodge of Indiana. Since then he has been a member of the Great Council of the -order in the United States and during the greater part of this period has served as a member of the finance committee of that council. 'He also has for years been active in the affairs of the Loyal Order of Moose, is treasurer of the Indiana Moose executive committee, and "was connected with the national board of control of that order when the great "Mooseheart" institution was established out of Chicago. He wrote the ritual which was adopted and is now being used by the Supreme Lodge of the Mooseheart Legion, the second degree of the Loyal Order of Moose. The Doctor also is affiliated with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and with the Fraternal Order of Eagles. In 1883 Dr. John S. Coffman was united in marriage to Florence A. Aiken, of Carroll county, Indiana, and he and his wife have one child, a daughter, Ora, who married Morris Guyer and has one child, a son, John. Doctor and Mrs. Coffman are members of the Presbyterian church and are Republicans.

NORMAN LOUIS WERNET, head of the Muncie Boiler and Sheet Iron Company and proprietor of the extensive manufacturing plant maintained by that concern at Second and Franklin streets, was born at Canton, Ohio, October 27, 1883, and is a son of L. J. and Laura Wernet, both of whom also were born in that city and the former of whom was for years engaged as a contractor in that city. Reared at Canton, Norman L. Wernet completed his local schooling by attendance for two years and a half in the high school there and then entered the Dummer Academy, a preparatory school, from which he was graduated in 1905. He then entered the law school of Ohio State University and took two years of further schooling in that institution. Deciding against further pursuit of his law studies Mr. Wernet became interested in industrial and, mechanical pursuits and after awhile became connected with the operations of the plant of the Timken-Detroit Axle Company and was with that concern at Detroit until in 1911, when he transferred his services to the plant of the Warner Gear Company at Muncie, as manager of the parts order department of that concern, and was thus connected until in May, 1914, when he took over the plant of the Muncie Boiler and Sheet Iron Works and has since been managing the same as proprietor. The products of this extensive plant, besides the output of its boiler department, include metal stacks, tanks, glass-house. equipment and miscellaneous factory equipment, and under Mr. Wernet's direction a wide market has been created for the same. Mr. Wernet is a member of the local council of the Knights of Columbus and of the local lodge of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and of the Delaware Country Club. He and his family are members of St. Lawrence's Catholic church. Norman L. Wernet married Mildred E. O'Meara, daughter of H. F. and Mary O'Meara, and has three sons, John Henry, Norman Louis, Jr., and Robert Francis. The Wernets reside at 1004 East Main street.

WALDO H. BALLARD, a veteran hardware merchant of Muncie and head of the firm of W. H. Ballard & Son, has been engaged in business in Muncie for nearly thirty years, having come here from the South, where for nearly twenty years he had been engaged in the same line of business. Mr. Ballard was born at Frammingham, Mass., in 1859, and is a son of Albert and Caroline (Fisk) Ballard, the former of whom was born in that same city, a son of Josiah Ballard. Albert Ballard and wife were the parents of seven children, two daughters, Mary and Eva, both now deceased, and five sons, the subject of this sketch having four brothers, Frederick J., Wallace, William C. and Albert M. Ballard. Reared at Frammingham, Waldo H. Ballard received his schooling in the schools of that city and for some time after leaving school was employed in one of the local banks. He then, in 1877, became engaged in the hardware business at Asheville, N. C., where he established his home and where he was thus engaged in business for seventeen years, or until in 1895, when he disposed of his interests there and came to Muncie. Upon his arrival here Mr. Ballard bought the hardware store of F. C. Spradling & Co., and has since been engaged in the hardware business here, now having associated with him in the business his son, Wallace M. Ballard, the two doing business under the firm name of W. H. Ballard & Son, at the old established stand at 207 South Walnut street. Waldo H. Ballard has been twice married. His first wife, Ella Lorick, died leaving one child, the son, Wallace M., and he later married Elizabeth Church. They have one child, a daughter, Caroline. The family resides at 816 East Main street. Wallace M. Ballard married May E. Gabriel and resides at 22514 North Vine street.

DR. CASPER L. BACON, one of Muncie's veteran physicians and a practitioner here for more than a quarter of a century, is a native of the old Empire state but has for many years been a resident of the Hoosier state, having come over here from Ohio. Doctor Bacon was born at Watertown, N. Y., October 1, 1853, and is a son of Silas and Eliza Bacon, the latter of whom was a native of Germany and was but a child when she came to this country with her parents, her family settling at Mohawk, N. Y. Silas Bacon was born in Massachusetts. As a young man he became employed in _New York state and at Mohawk was married, later establishing his home at Watertown, where he became engaged in the butcher business. Later he became engaged in the business of dairy farming and in that line was interested until his retirement. Casper L.

Bacon's early schooling was received at Watertown. This he supplemented by a course in the normal school at Potsdam and then for two years was engaged in teaching school. He then became engaged. as a manufacturer of cheese and in the marketing of this commodity and built up quite a business along that line. For sixteen years he continued in this business and then, having for some time been attracted to the study of medicine, he closed out his business and entered the Ohio State Medical College, which then was located at Cleveland, and was graduated from that institution. Upon receiving his diploma Doctor Bacon opened an office for practice at Cleveland and was thus engaged there for five years, or until in 1897, when he came to Indiana and located at Muncie, where he ever since has been engaged in practice, his office for many years having been in the Jones block, where he is now located. Doctor Bacon is a Freemason. In 1873 Dr. Casper L. Bacon was united in marriage to Ella Shipman, daughter of George and Mary Shipman, of St. Lawrence county, New York, and he has a son, Harold G. Bacon, who married Mildred Little, and has two daughters, Mary L. and Betty Jane. Doctor Bacon resides at 1008 East Charles street.

G. W. MILLIKAN, president of the Muncie Bow and Rim Bending Company, manufacturers of bows for automobile tops, at Muncie, has been engaged in the bentwood business at Muncie for more than thirty years and thus is recognized as one of the veterans of that line of industry in Indiana. Mr. Millikan literally "grew up" in the lumber and woodworking business and has for years been recognized as an authority in the bentwood industry. He was born in the nearby county of Wells in 1861, a son of Alfred and Sarah (Brotherton) Millikan and when his school days were over became engaged in the lumber business at Montpelier. In 1890 he located at Muncie and established a bentwood factory here, the forerunner of his present establishment, and has ever since been engaged in business in this city, his sons now being associated with him in business, the concern occupying the plant of the old washing machine factory on West Adams street and carrying on as the Muncie Bow and Rim Bending Company. With the development of the automobile industry Mr. Millikan re-equipped his plant with special reference to the manufacture of bows for the tops of automobiles and this product has since been this factory's specialty, a wide market having been created for the products of the plant. Mr. Millikan is the president of this company. One of his sons, James A. Millikan, is the vice president of the company and the other son, William M. Millikan, is the secre- tary and general manager. The plant has a capacity of five car loads of bows a week and the product is used in the manufacture of tops for some of the leading makes of automobiles in this country. The Millikan company also has a lumber mill at Laurel, Ind., and thus has first-hand control of the greater part of its raw material. G. W. Millikan married Martha Jarrett, who also was born in Wells county, daughter of John and Mary (Sills) Jarrett, and he and his wife reside at 524 West Jackson street. They have four children, the two sons, James A. and William M., mentioned above, and two daughters, Rose and Stella, all of whom are married. James A. Millikan married Essie McFann and has three children, Martha Jane, Bonnie Jean and James Alton. William M. Millikan married Bessie Creek and has two children, William and Guy. Rose Millikan married Harry Snider and Stella Millikan married Clell Maple and has two children, George Watson and James Woodford. |

T. B. CALVERT, principal of the Wilson high school at Muncie, has been engaged in school work in Indiana for many years and since coming to Muncie has added to the reputation as. a school man gained during years of prior high school work at Columbus, this state. Mr. Calvert is a native son of Indiana and has lived in this state all his life. He was born on a farm in Greene county, on February 11, 1879, and is a son of John W. and Elizabeth Calvert, both of whom also were born in this state. John W. Calvert, who is still living, has all his active life been engaged in farming in Greene and Owen counties. Reared on the home farm in Greene county, T. B. Calvert received his early schooling in the schools of that county and after a course in the county normal school began teaching, a vocation he ever since has followed. In 1898, when nineteen years of age, he entered the Indiana State Normal School at Terre Haute and carried on his studies there, intermittently, meanwhile continuing his work as a district school teacher, until his graduation in 1905. During the year prior to his graduation Mr. Calvert had served as principal of the village school at Freedom, in Owen county, and upon receiving his diploma was made principal of the grade schools at Columbus, Ind. Two years later he entered the high school there as head of the mathematics department. For twelve years Mr. Calvert retained this connection with the Columbus high school, the last five years of this time being spent as assistant principal as well as head of mathematics. Meanwhile he had been taking special work at Indiana University and during the term 1917- 18 secured leave of absence to complete this work and was graduated from the university. It was then that his services were secured for the Muncie schools, this service beginning with the 1919 term, for which he was installed as assistant principal of Central high school. In 1921 he was advanced to the position of principal of Wilson high school and has since been serving in that capacity, with twenty-eight teachers under his direction and an enrollment in the school of about 625 pupils. During the summers of 1922 and 1923 Mr. Calvert took a special course in educational work in the University of Wisconsin. In 1903 T. B. Calvert was united in marriage to Luna Owen, daughter of Benjamin Owen, of Bloomfield, Ind., and to this union two children have been born, a son, Owen, and a daughter, Lucile. Mr. and Mrs. Calvert are members of the Christian Church and Mr. Calvert is a Freemason.

BENJAMIN P. LARGENT, manager of the plant of Glascock Brothers Coal Company at Muncie, and formerly and for years a druggist in that city, was born on a farm in the immediate vicinity of the pleasant village of St. Paris, in Champaign county, Ohio, in 1870, and is a son of Emanuel and Lydia (Prince) Largent, both members of pioneer families in that county. Mrs. Largent was a daughter of William and Sarah (Norman) Prince, the former of whom was a Kentuckian by birth, the son of a Virginian who had become a settler in the old Blue Grass state in pioneer days. The Normans also were a Virginia family. One of Mrs. Largent's brothers, Capt. David Prince, was an officer in the Union army during the time of the Civil war, captain of Company I of the 42d regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Emanuel Largent, who was a well to do farmer in Champaign county, was born in that county, son of William H. and Elizabeth (Kite) Largent, pioneers of that section of Ohio. To Emanuel Largent and wife were born six children, four of whom, grew to maturity. The subject of this sketch (the last in order of birth) has a sister, Nettie, wife of Jesse Lewis, of Troy, Ohio, and a brother, Otto Largent, general secretary of the Young Men's Christian Association at Flint, Mich. Another brother, William E. Largent, recently died at St. Paris, Ohio. Reared on the home farm in the vicinity of St. Paris, Benjamin P. Largent received his schooling in the excellent schools of that village and early became interested in the mercantile business, leaving the farm to become clerk in a store, and presently became engaged in the drug business at St. Paris. In 1898 Mr. Largent came over into Indiana and with an associate opened a drug store at Muncie, carrying on in connection with that business a general paint and wall paper department. In 1917 he disposed of that interest and in November of that year entered upon his present duties as general manager of the extensive plant of the Glascock Brothers (J. W. and B. D. Glascock) Coal Company at Liberty and Second street, and has since been thus engaged. Mr. Largent is a Freemason and is also affiliated with the Knights of Pythias. In 1901 Benjamin P. Largent was united in marriage to Edith L. Case, daughter of F. B. Case, of Muncie, and to this union two children have been born, Elizabeth C. and Howard M., the former of whom is a.student in the Eastern Division of the Indiana State Normal School at Muncie. Mr. and Mrs. Largent are members of the First Presbyterian church and Mr. Largent is the president of the men's Bible class of the Sunday school of that church. The Largents reside at 1217 West Powers street.

REV. DAVID DAVIES, a clergyman of the Methodist Episcopal church, now living retired at Muncie, where he has made his home for the past twenty years, is a European by birth but has been a resident of this country since he was a small child and thus regards himself as much an American as though "native and to the manner born." The Reverend Mr. Davies was born in the village of Glynarthen, in the southern part of Wales, England, May 7, 1850, and is a son of the Rev. David and Rachel (Williams) Davies, both of whom also were born in Wales and who came to America with their son, then their only child, in 1852, and located at Parisville, Ohio. . The Rev. David Davies (Sr.) had been a teacher in his home village but upon coming to this country became a minister of the Congregational church and served thereafter in this ministerial capacity. He died at Parisville, Ohio, at the age of seventy-one years, and his widow survived him for eight years, she being eighty years of age at the time of her death. The Rev. David Davies (Jr.) was but two years of age when he came to this country with his parents in 1852 and he was reared at Parisville, Ohio, a pleasant village in Portage county, not far east of Canton. Upon completing the course in the village schools there he entered Western Reserve College (now the university) at Cleveland and after a course of study there was for some time engaged in teaching school, meanwhile pursuing his studies preparatory to entering the gospel ministry. In 1878 he was ordained a minister of the Methodist Episcopal church in Ohio and has ever since been engaged in that calling, though now long retired, on the superannuate list of the Northeast Ohio Conference. Mr. Davies' first charge in the itineracy of his church was at New Martinsburg, W. Va., from which place he was transferred to Ceredo in that same state. For five years he labored in West Virginia and then returned to Ohio and successive charges in that state were held by him at Summertown, Freeport, Adamsville, Gustavus, Dexter City, Lowelville and Welshfield. In 1904 Mr. Davies retired from the active ministry of his church and moved to Muncie, where he has since resided, content with doing occasional supply work as occasions demand. He has been an extensive traveler and has been in every state of the Union save Arkansas and Oklahoma, three trips to the Pacific coast, once to Alaska, and a journey to Panama. In Summertown, Ohio, October 4, 1888, the Rev. David Davies was united in marriage to Mary L. Maring, who was born at that place and who is a sister of the late J. M. Maring, whose activities in the glass industry at Muncie made him for years one of the active factors in the industrial and commercial development of that city. Mr. and Mrs. Davies have a pleasant home at 419 East Washington street.

SAMUEL R. GRAVES, a veteran groceryman at Muncie and proprietor of a well stocked and up-to-date establishment in West Main street, was born in Bradford county, Pennsylvania, in 1858, and is a son of Nathaniel and Selectha Ann (Hall) Graves, the latter of whom was a daughter of William J. and Mary A. Hall, residents of that county. William J. Hall was a native of England. Nathaniel Graves also was born in Bradford county, Pennsylvania, and was a son of Nathaniel Graves, who had come to this country from Ireland. The junior Nathaniel Graves and his wife were the parents of five children, three sons and two daughters. Two of these sons, William and George Graves, brothers of Samuel R. Graves, lost their lives while serving as soldiers of the Union during the time of the Civil war. When Samuel R. Graves was but a child his parents moved from Pennsylvania to VanWert, Ohio, and he received his schooling in the schools of this latter city. He early became interested in the cooper's trade and presently became engaged in the cooperage business on his own account at Mill Shoals, Illinois. In 1879, when he was twenty-one years of age, Mr. Graves established a cooperage at Jonesboro, Arkansas, and was there engaged in business until in 1909, when he came to Muncie, where he since has resided. In 1909 Mr. Graves became engaged in the grocery business here, opening a store in Riverside, and in 1918 moved from there to his present location at 225 West Main street, where he since has been quite successfully engaged in business. In 1874 Samuel R. Graves married Clara Sheriff, of Mansfield, Ohio, and he and his wife have a daughter Gertrude May, who married J. K.

Slack and has three children, Stanley R., Clara Louise and Gertrude M. Mr. and Mrs. Graves are members of the Methodist Episcopal church. Mr. Graves is a Freemason and has attained to the chapter or Royal Arch degree in that ancient order.

WILLIAM TAYLOR JANNEY, president of the First Rural Loan and Savings Company of Muncie, a former member of the board of county commissioners and a former merchant of Muncie, now living practically retired in that city, is a native son of Delaware county, a member of one of the real pioneer families here, and has lived here all his life. Mr. Janney was born on a farm in Washington township on April 17, 1849, and is a son of Joseph and Sarah (Hayden) Janney, who had come over here from Stark county, Ohio, and the latter of whom was born in Pennsylvania, March 1, 1812. Joseph Janney was born in Stark county, Ohio, November 21, 1811, and was a son of Amos and Sarah Janney, who came over into Indiana with their family from Ohio in 1837 and settled in Delaware county. Upon his arrival here in October, 1837, Joseph Janney took up a tract of land in Washington township, bought from the Government by his father, Amos Janney, and there established his home and proceeded to clear and improve the place, in time coming to be the owner of more than four hundred acres and creating there a valuable farm property. On that place he spent the remainder of his life, his death occurring on November 19, 1876. His widow survived him for more than thirteen years, her death occurring on January 19, 1890, she then being past seventy-seven years of age. Joseph Janney was a Republican and he and his wife were members of the Disciples or Christian church. They were the parents of six children, | of whom the subject of this sketch was the last born, the others being Mary, who married Joseph Thorn; Jefferson, who married Christina Myers; Amos F., who married Barbara Roberts and after her death married Mrs. Cynthia (Weir) Love; John H., who gave his life as a soldier of the Union during the Civil war; Anna, who married James T. Broyles and is still living, and Harriet, who married Isaac H. Gray and also is still living. John H. Janney, the soldier member of this family, went to the front as a member of Company B of the 36th regiment, Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and his service covered a period of four years. At the battle of Atlanta he was wounded and taken prisoner by the enemy and for seven months thereafter, or until the close of the war, suffered incarceration in the abominable prison pen at Andersonville, Ga. With hundreds of other released prisoners he found passage at Vicksburg on the ill-fated steamer "Sultana" to return north and was among the victims when that vessel blew up in midstream, among these victims being several other Delaware county men. William Taylor Janney was reared on the home farm in Washington township. He completed his schooling in the Muncie high school and after his marriage at the age of twenty-four continued engaged in farming until in 1893, when he disposed of his farming interests, though continuing to hold his land and moved to Muncie, where he became engaged in the mercantile business, opening an establishment for the sale of farm implements, buggies, wire fencing and the like, and was thus engaged for twelve years, in the meantime acquiring other interests. Mr. Janney was one of the organizers of the First Rural Loan and Savings Company of Muncie, and has served as its president since its organization. He is a Republican and for six years (1909-1915) served as a member of the board of county commissioners for Delaware county. He and his wife are members of the Methodist church. The house in which they live in Muncie was erected by him in 1911- 12. Mr. Janney still retains his land holdings in Washington and Harrison townships. During the more than seventy years of his acquaintance with conditions in that part of the county he has seen some amazing developments in land values, some of the formerly apparently hopeless swamp tracts there now being regarded as among the most valuable lands in the county. It was on June 19, 1873, that William Taylor Janney was united in marriage to Hannah Elizabeth McCreery, who was born in Harrison township, this county, a daughter of Thomas and Catherine (Brown) McCreery, the former of whom, was born in Clark county, Ohio, son of Samuel and Elizabeth (Maynard) McCreery, the former born in. Virginia and the latter in Maryland, who had come over into Indiana from Ohio in 1838 and had settled in Harrison township, this county, where the McCreerys became well established among the pioneer families of that section of the county. Mr. and Mrs. Janney have six children, Carlton R., Stanton, Florence E., Harry Lester Janney, the county surveyor; Beulah M. and Ada R., all of whom are married save Beulah. Ada R. Janney married Earl Tate. Florence E. Janney married Roy Goetcheus and has six children, Donald Dean, Robert A., Marjorie, Frederick, Mary Elizabeth and Richard. Stanton Janney married Gertrude Younce and Carlton R. Janney married Pearl Snider. Harry Lester Janney, county surveyor, was born on the home farm in Washington township, October 6, 1883, and was nine years of age when his parents moved to Muncie. He was graduated from the

Muncie high school and then entered Purdue University, where he took up the civil engineering course and was graduated in 1907. For some time thereafter he was assistant city engineer in Muncie and in 1916 was elected county surveyor. By re-election he is now serving his fourth term in that office. Mr. Janney is a Republican, a Mason, an Elk and he and his wife are members of the First Pres- - byterian church. In 1920 Harry Lester Janney was united in marriage to Helen Bowman, daughter of Benjamin C. and Cassie (Heath) Bowman, and to this union two children have been born, Helen Elizabeth and Catherine B. Mrs. Janney formerly was secretary of the Muncie Social Service Bureau and during the time of this country's participation in the World war rendered valuable service in that connection. She is a member of the college sorority Psi Iota Xi.

FRED PAYTON, clerk of the Delaware Hotel, Muncie, and a veteran of the World war, is a member of one of the old families of Delaware county, the Paytons having been represented here since pioneer days. Mr. Payton was born on a farm in Center township in 1893, and is the son and only child of Philip and Mattie (Jacobs) Payton, the latter of whom is a daughter of Benjamin Jacobs and wife, who came here from Virginia, and is the last born of the seven children born to that parentage, the others having been Hattie, Lettie, Mary, Anderson, Elmis and Winton. Philip Payton was born on the old Payton farm in the vicinity of Muncie and is a son of Gabriel and Mary E. (Hedrick) Payton, who had settled there early in the 40s. Gabriel Payton, the pioneer, was a native of Wayne county, Indiana, and had come to Delaware county about the year 1833, settling in Liberty township, but about ten years later had moved to the Center township farm, which he developed and where he established his home and spent the remainder of his life. To him and his wife were born four children, Philip Payton having two sisters, Samantha and Martha, and a brother, Dr. Lewis Payton, of Muncie. Fred Payton was reared on the home farm in the vicinity of Muncie and his schooling was received in the local schools. As a young man he went West and was for some time engaged in the retail tobacco business in Colorado, but presently returned home and in 1914 became engaged in farming on a farm of forty acres which he now owns in Delaware township. He thus was living here when this country took a hand in the World war in 1917. He rendered service during that war in the Marine Corps, having been stationed for a time at Norfolk, Va., and then at Charleston, S. C., and upon the com- pletion of his military service returned home. In 1922 he became a clerk in the Delaware Hotel at Muncie and is now serving in that capacity. Mr. Payton is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church and is affiliated with the local lodge of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. | |

M. REED SHAFER, manager of the Muncie branch of the Beatrice Creamery Company of Chicago and a veteran of the World war, is a native son of Delaware county, a member of one of the pioneer families here and has lived here all his life. Mr. Shafer was born on a farm in the Royerton neighborhood, five or six miles north of Muncie, September 25, 1888, and is a son of the Rev. W. Max and Katie (Pixley) Shafer, both of whom also were born in this county, the latter in 1862. The Pixleys have been represented in this county since 1853. The Rev. W. Max Shafer, a substantial farmer of Hamilton township and a clergyman of the Christian church, president of the Eastern Indiana Conference of that communion, was born in Hamilton township, on a farm in the neighborhood in which he is now living, in 1860. Reared on the home farm in Hamilton township, M. Reed Shafer received his early schooling in the Royerton schools and in 1907 was graduated from the Muncie high school. In 1911 he entered Purdue University, taking a special agricultural course, and was graduated from that institution in June, 1915, after which he resumed his place on the farm and was thus engaged until in February, 1918, he entered the army for World war service and was assigned to Veterinary Corps, No. 1, of the 7th Brigade, stationed at Ft. Oglethrope, Ga. Upon the completion of this service in the fall of 1918 Mr. Shafer returned home and became employed with the Inter-State Motor Company at Muncie, a connection he retained until in the following June when he entered the banking house of the Muncie Trust Company. When that institution presently was consolidated with the Merchants Trust and Savings Company of Muncie, Mr. Shafer transferred his connection to the office of the Beatrice Creamery Company. Eighteen months later he was made manager of the Muncie branch of that concern and has since been acting in that capacity, with offices and plant in West Seymour street. This local creamery plant formerly and for years was operated as the White River Creamery and in 1919 was consolidated with the Beatrice Creamery Company, which had its inception years ago at Beatrice, Neb., under the operations of Haskell and Bosworth, and which has been developed into one of the most extensive concerns of its kind in the world, with no fewer than sixteen branches covering all sections of the country, and with an annual output of butter alone aggregating not less than 40,000,000 pounds, marketed under its well known "Meadow Gold" brand. This concern, in addition to its general creamery business, also operates largely in eggs, has cold- _ storage plants at convenient centers and also operates as many as nine extensive ice cream factories. During the year just past the Muncie branch of this creamery concern made no less than 1,250,000 pounds of butter and as much as 50,000 gallons of ice cream, its product finding a ready market throughout this trade area. Mr. Shafer is a Scottish Rite (32°) Mason and a member of the Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. He also is affiliated with the local post of the American Legion, the Dyamo Club, the Muncie Club, the Travelers Protective Association, the United Commercial Travelers and the national fraternity Delta Tau Delta, and the scholastic fraternities, Alpha Zeta, Sigma Delta Chi and Iron Key, while he and his wife are members of the Christian church. On February 2, 1920, M. Reed Shafer was united in marriage to Helen Parsons, who was born at Anderson, Ind., daughter of James H. and Nancy (Anshutz) Parsons, and was but a child when she came to Muncie with her parents. Mr. and Mrs. Shafer have twin children, a daughter, Sarah Catherine, and a son, Jean Stockton. They reside at "Pine Crest Farm," north of Muncie.

A. B. WETHERILL, who for ten years and more has been established in the plumbing business at Muncie, has been a resident of that city for more than thirty years, or ever since he started out "on his own." Mr. Wetherill was born on a farm in the immediate vicinity of the city of Lima, in Allen county, Ohio, in 1872, and is a son of A. and Lydia (Heath) Wetherill, the former of whom was_ engaged in farming. Reared on the farm, A. B. Wetherill received his schooling in the schools of the city of Lima. As a youth he was not attracted to the life of the farm and as a young man learned the plumber's trade. When twenty-one years of age, in 1893, he came to Muncie and has ever since been a resident of this city. In 1913 he established himself in business in a plant of his own and has since been successfully engaged in the general plumbing line, with a well equipped establishment at 200 North Walnut street, right in the heart of the city's business district. A. B. Wetherill married Minnie M. Owen and has two children, Bonnie and Georgia, the latter of whom married Karl Blakely and has one child, a daughter, Betty Francine. Bonnie Wetherill married Paul White. Mr. Wetherill is a Freemason and is also affiliated with the local lodges of the Knights of Pythias, the Loyal Order of Moose and the Fraternal Order of Eagies. Mr. and Mrs. Wetherill are members of the Christian church. The Wetherills reside at 216 North Mulberry street.

DR. ELDO HORACE CLAUSER, a veteran of the World war with an officer's commission and a captain in the reserve corps of the medical department of the United States army, a practicing physician at Muncie, was born on a farm in Carroll county, Indiana, March 27, 1890, and is a son of Charles E. and Sarah A. (Turner) Clauser, both of whom also were born in Indiana, the latter in the vicinity of Vevay, in Switzerland county. Charles E. Clauser, a farmer in Carroll county, was born in that county and is a son of William Clauser, who was born in Pennsylvania, of German descent, the name originally having been Klauser. Reared on the home farm in Carroll county, Eldo H. Clauser was graduated from the Rossville high school and for a year was engaged in teaching school. He then entered the Indiana State Normal School at Terre Haute and after a course there entered Indiana University, from which he received his A. B. degree in 1913. Meanwhile he had been pursuing studies preparatory to entrance on the medical college of the university and after two years of further study in this latter institution was graduated with the degree of M. D. in 1915. Upon receiving his diploma, Doctor Clauser was assigned to an interneship in the Indianapolis city hospital and after a year of practical experience there came to Muncie, in the fall of 1916, and opened an office for the practice of his profession and was here when this country took a hand in the . World war in the spring of 1917. In July following he enlisted his services in behalf of the medical corps of the army and after a course of preparatory training was commissioned a first lieutenant and in September was stationed at the base hospital at Camp Sheridan, Montgomery, Ala., where he remained for near a year, at the end of which time he was transferred to Camp Eustis (Va.). Four months later he was transferred to Camp Grant (Ill.), where on April 1, 1919, he received his discharge, the war then being over, and was later commissioned a captain in the officers Reserve Corps. Upon the completion of his military service Doctor Clauser returned to Muncie and resumed his practice, and has since been thus engaged, with present offices at 101 Western Reserve Life building. The Doctor is a member of the Delaware-Blackford Medical Society, of the Muncie Academy of Medicine, of the Indiana State Medical Association and of the American Medical Association, and is affiliated with the college

(Medical) fraternity Phi Beta Pi. He is a member of the local post of the American Legion and is a 32° (Scottish Rite) Mason and a Knight Templar, as well as a noble of the Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. In 1915 Dr. E. H. Clauser was united in marriage to Marjorie Lewis, who died in 1920, leaving two children, Jean and Leah. In 1922 the Doctor married Cora Benson. FRANK EDGAR BARBER, former clerk of the court for Delaware county and proprietor of the plant of the Muncie Casket Company, manufacturer of coffins and undertakers' supplies, is a native of the old Buckeye state, but has been a resident of Indiana and of Delaware county for more than twenty-five years. Mr. Barber was born on a farm in the immediate vicinity of Hillsboro, in Highland county, Ohio, February 21, 1873, and is a son of William F. and Mary Louise (Kloene) Barber, the latter of whom also was born in Ohio and whose last days were spent at Indianapolis, her death occurring there when she was sixty-four years of age. William F. Barber, who was born in Pennsylvania, was a lawyer, a graduate of Yale college, and was engaged in the practice of his profession at Hillsboro, Ohio, where he died at the age of forty-two. He and his wife were the parents of five children, one daughter and four sons. Frank E. Barber was about eight years of age when his father died. His mother presently moved with her children to Cincinnati and it was there that he received his schooling. He was graduated from the high school and from the Cincinnati Law School, receiving his diploma from the latter institution in 1898, in which year he was admitted to the bar. For two or three years he was engaged in the practice of law at Cincinnati, meanwhile becoming interested in manufacturing enterprises, and in 1897 came to Delaware county as the secretary-treasurer of the Ideal Stove Foundry Company, which had established a plant at Daleville, and of which he presently became general manager, and was so employed at the time this plant was destroyed by fire in 1902. Meanwhile Mr. Barber had married and established his home at Daleville and had acquired mercantile and other business interests there. For six years he served as postmaster at Daleville and continued to make that place his home until in 1913, when he moved to Muncie to take charge of the affairs of the Muncie Casket Company, a concern which had become established there in 1889 for the manufacture of coffins and undertakers' supplies and was incorporated with a capital stock of $50,000. Mr. Barber, who now is sole owner of this plant, has been the active factor in the affairs of the Muncie Casket Company for more than ten years and has done much to extend the operations of the concern, which now is capitalized at $150,000 and employs about fifty persons. Its specialty is high-quality cloth-covered and hardwood caskets and mortuary suits and dresses for the undertaking trade. Mr. Barber is a Republican and from the time of his coming to Delaware county back in the '90s has taken an active interest in local political affairs. In 1918 he was elected county clerk and in due time entered upon the duties of that office, his term of service terminating on December 31, 1928. Since the year 1900 Mr. Barber has been a Freemason. He also is a member of the order of Knights of Pythias, is a past exalted ruler of the local lodge of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, a charter member of the Kiwanis Club, a member of the Loyal Order of Moose and of other orders and a member of the Muncie Chamber of Commerce. For years Mr. Barber has been deeply interested in amateur sports of an athletic character, this interest dating from his school days when he held some records as a sprinter, and he has for some time been the director of athletics of the Muncie Young Men's Christian Association. On May 27, 1900, at Daleville, Frank E. Barber was united in marriage to Ella M. Shoemaker, daughter of Sanford H. Shoemaker, a veteran of the Civil war and a member of one of the pioneer families of Delaware county, and to this union one child has been born, a daughter, Monzelle L. Barber. Mr. and Mrs. Barber and their daughter are members of the Jackson Street Christian church. JOHN COOPER PROPS, president and general manager of the Props-Dunn Motor Company. of Muncie, a member of the bar of the Delaware circuit court and long recognized as one of the leaders in the field of automobile distribution in eastern Indiana, was born on a farm in the Eaton neighborhood in Union township, this county, March 20, 1877, and is a son of William H. and Sarah (Lewis) Props, the latter of whom also was born in this county, May 26, 1845, daughter of John and Mary (Babbs) Lewis, the former of whom was one of the original land entrants in Niles township. The late William Henry Props, who was a veteran of the Civil war, was born at Marion, in the neighboring county of Grant, June 18, 1841, and was a son of John and Elizabeth (Janes) Props, the latter of whom was born in Logan county, Ohio, October 26, 1820, daughter of Zachariah and Nancy (George) Janes, the latter of whom was born in that same community, in 1796, back in territorial days, seven years before Ohio was admitted to statehood. Zachariah Janes was a soldier of the War of 1812 and when lands over here in this part of Indiana began to attract the attention of settlers came here with his family and settled in the Pendleton neighborhood, over in the neighboring county of Madison. He later moved to the vicinity of Lexington, Mo., where he died in 1867. His wife had long predeceased him, her death having occurred in Madison county in 1834. John Props was born in Rockbridge county, Virginia, May 18, 1808, and in his youth was trained to the blacksmith trade. He worked for some time in the arsenal at Harpers Ferry and then came to Indiana to take employment on the construction of the Wabash canal, and at Pendleton married Elizabeth Janes, afterward making his home at Marion, where his wife died on her birthday in 1846. William Henry Props was but five years of age when his mother died and for two years thereafter he was cared for in the home of Burtney Ruley. Then he went to live with the family of Joel W. Long and this was his home when the Civil war broke out, and he and his three brothers, John A., James M. and Lemuel T. Props, entered the service in behalf of the Union cause. John A. Props died in service. It was on October 5, 1862, when a little past his majority, that William Henry Props, at Muncie, enlisted his services in behalf of the Union, his enlistment being for three years or the duration of the war. He went to the front as a member of Company B of the 69th regiment, Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and less than two months later, November 25, 1862, was discharged by reason of disability incurred by a minnie ball through the right lung at the battle of Richmond, Ky. He was prostrated by the wound and was cared for in a negro cabin in the vicinity of the battle field until he was able to return home. On September 7, 1865, William Henry Props married Sarah Lewis and not long afterward established his home on a farm in the Eaton neighborhood in this county, where he became successfully engaged in farming and stock raising. From the time of the organization of the Republican party, in the days of his boyhood, he had espoused the principals of that party until along in the '70s the Greenbackers entered the political field, and he then voted for Peter Cooper, the candidate of that party, for President. Later when the Peoples Party movement got a good start he took up with that party, and then, in 1896, when the free-silver movement began to attract so much attention he took up with that and thereafter was an ardent supporter of William Jennings Bryan. His wife died on July 3, 1902, and he survived her for about five years, his death occurring on June 8, 1907. They were members of the Christian church and their children were reared in that faith. There were six of these children, of whom the subject of this sketch was the fifth in order of birth, the others being Mrs. Mary McFee, deceased; Rachel Louella; Joel W., who died on June 21, 1905, at the age of thirty-six years, leaving a son, Emil W.; Robert, who died at the age of nineteen years, and Mrs. Nettie B. Blazer. Reared on the home farm in Union township, John Cooper Props completed the course in the public schools at Eaton, supplemented this by a course in the National Normal University at Lebanon, Ohio, and for five years was engaged during the winters as a teacher in the schools of Delaware county. In May, 1899, when George F. McCulloch was organizing his staff for the establishment of the Muncie Star, Mr. Props was one of the men employed in that behalf, and thus helped in the establishment of the paper. He was married in the spring of 1902 and later transferred his services to the News-Tribune at Marion. In 1903 he became engaged in farming at Wellington, III, managing a farm of 320 acres owned by his wife's uncle, the late Oliver P. Dunn, later the president of the present Props-Dunn Motor Company at Muncie. After some time Mr. Props gave up the notion of becoming an Illinois farmer and he returned to Eaton, where he took up the real estate business as a calling. While thus engaged he pursued the study of law and in due time was admitted to the bar and entered practice at Eaton, but before establishing himself very firmly in that profession took up his present line, automobile sales, in 1909, and has since then been quite successfully engaged along that line, present president and general manager of the Props- Dunn Motor Company of Muncie, with sales rooms and service station at 110 East Gilbert street. Mr. Props was the first president of the first motor club organized in Muncie and was also first president of the first association of automobile dealers in the county. He is prominent in national and state automobile dealers' associations and has served as president of the Indiana State Automobile Dealers Association. In his political views he maintains independence of party ties. He is a Scottish Rite (32°) Mason, and a noble of the Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine and is also a member of the local commandery of the Knights Templar, a member of the local lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and of the Indianapolis Athletic Club. On April 9, 1902, in Union township, this county, Mr. Props was united in marriage to Beatrice McKeever, who was born in Grant county, Indiana, February 14, 1876, a daugh- - ter of Albert and Elmira (Dunn) McKeever, the last born of three children born to that parentage, Mrs. Props having a sister, Zelma R., and a brother, Charles L. McKeever. Mrs. Props was but a child when her mother died and from the age of four years she was reared in the household of her maternal uncle, the late Oliver P. Dunn, and wife. To Mr. and Mrs. Props three children have been born, Isabella Dunn, William Oliver (deceased) and Sarah.