WILLIAM F. GRAHAM is one of the active young business men of the City of Anderson, proprietor of a successful industry as an ice cream manufacturer.

He was born at Anderson, son of Amery Graham, also a native of Madison County. His grandfather Graham was a native of Scotland and came to the United States when a young man, settling in Madison County. Soon after locating there the Civil war broke out and he joined an Indiana regiment that went to the front and with it he saw active duty in several battles and campaigns. After his honorable discharge he returned to Madison County and lived for a number of years at Pendleton. Later he went to Indianapolis, where he spent his last years and where he is buried in the Crown Hill Cemetery.

Amery Graham is now in the real estate business at Jacksonville, Florida. He married Christina Guenthenspberger, who was born in Madison County, daughter of Vincent and Barbara (Scheidecker) Guenthenspberger William F. Graham is one of two sons, having a brother, Fred.

Mr. Graham was educated in the public schools of Anderson, and on leaving school he worked on one of the local industries. When he was eighteen years of age he formed a partnership with William Purnell to manufacture ice cream. They have been going steadily ahead with their industry, improving their facilities, keeping their plant thoroughly up-to-date and producing a quality of product which is sold and distributed throughout the Anderson trade territory.

Mr. Graham married in 1915 Miss Zeota Pfaff, who was born in Anderson, daughter of Louis and Amelia (Hieden) Pfaff. Mr. and Mrs. Graham have a son, William. They are members of the Christ Lutheran Church and he belongs to the United Commercial Travelers.

INDIANA ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OF AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT Vol. 5
By Charles Roll, A.M.
The Lewis Publishing Company, 1931


MRS. MYRTLE G. MEARA, of Hamrnond, has the distinction of being one of the few women in Indiana who have been honored with the office and responsibilities of township trustee, an office which under the Indiana system of local government carries responsibilities and duties of the highest importance.

Mrs. Meara was born in Hamilton County, Indiana, a daughter of Richard Newton and Emily Jane (Manford) Young. Her maternal grandparents were John and Susan Manford, who came from England and were early settlers of Hamilton County, where her grandfather followed the business of farming and stock raising. Mrs. Meara's paternal grandmother was Diana Creekmore, daughter of Thomas and Lydia (Olvey) Creekmore, who were among the very first settlers of Hamilton County, Indiana, coming overland in pioneer times from North Carolina. Richard N. Young was born and reared in Hamilton County, and taught school there for a number of years. Later he was in the ministry of the United Brethren Church. His business during his later years was as a contractor in the construction of oil and gas pipe lines. He was always deeply interested in politics, and from him perhaps Mrs. Meara inherits the flair for politics. Mr. Young died in January, 1916. His father, Jacob Young, was born in Ohio and attended school there, and was an early teacher in the schools of Tipton, Indiana, where he had lived. His death was the result of an accident, a fall from a tree. His widow survived him and passed away in 1926, at the age of ninety-four. They are buried in Hamilton County. Mrs. Emily J. (Manford) Young lives at Hammond. She has always been a devout member of the United Brethren Church. The Manford family settled in Hamilton County about 1824.

Dr. Alva A. Young, only son of Richard N. and Emily J. (Manford) Young, is a prominent physician and surgeon at Hammond. He attended public schools in Hamilton County, graduated from high school there and took his degree Doctor of Medicine at the University of Indiana in 1905. He also received a diploma from the University of New York in 1915. His interne work was at Indianapolis and he practiced there for a year. Since 1908 he has had a commanding place in his profession at Hammond. In 1917 he entered the United States Medical Reserve Corps, received training at Camp Travis, Texas, was commissioned a first lieutenant and was on duty for a year and a half, being discharged at the close of the war with the rank of first lieutenant. He is a member of Hammond Post No. 16 of the American Legion, the Lake County, Indiana State and American Medical Associations, and is city chairman of the Democratic party at Hammond. He is a Royal Arch Mason, member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and B. P. O. Elks, and teaches a class in the Sunday School of the Episcopal Church.

Doctor Young married at Indianapolis, July 8, 1907, Miss Lillian Fellows, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Fellows. Her parents came from England, and her father died in Chicago in 1915. Mrs. Young attended grammar and high school in Chicago. She is a member of the Episcopal Church, is president of the Parent-Teachers Association at Hammond, and member of the Hammond Woman's Club. Doctor and Mrs. Young have one son, Harry Newton, now a sophomore in the Hammond High School. Doctor Young has always been greatly interested in athletics and out-door sports in general and was the organizer of the National Foot Ball League, being chairman of the committee on rules and by-laws.

Myrtle G. Young attended District School No.2 in Fall Creek Township, Hamilton County, continued her education at Noblesville and in 1896 was married to Mr. Thomas G. Meara, of Madison County. His parents were Michael and Elizabeth (Dodd) Meara. His father came from Ireland and his mother from Delaware, and they lived out their lives in Madison County, Indiana. Thomas G. Meara was educated in Madison County, and began his business career with the Trust Gas Company at Indianapolis. For eight years his home was in Hamilton County and in 1908 he moved to Hammond, where he became connected with the Public Service Company of Northern Indiana, at first as plant superintendent and is now inspector. He is a Master Mason, member of the Improved Order of Red Men and a Democrat in politics.

Mrs. Meara since childhood has been a member of the United Brethren Church. She belongs to the Eastern Star, Daughters of Pocahontas, the Hammond Woman's Club. She is Tenth District vice chairman of the Democratic party and was a charter member of the first Women's Franchise League, and served as Lake County chairman. She was elected township trustee of North Township, Lake County, November 4, 1930. This township includes Hammond, East Chicago, Indiana Harbor and Whiting. She was the first woman to hold the office in the township and began her four year term January 1, 1931.

Mr. and Mrs. Meara have one son, Lester Richard Meara, who was graduated from the Hammond High School in 1915, afterwards spending two years in the University of Chicago. He is now safety first engineer for the International Lead Company at East Chicago, a subsidiary of the Anaconda Company. He is married and has two children, Richard and Thomas, both of whom are attending school at Hammond.

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INDIANA ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OF AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT Vol. 5
By Charles Roll, A.M.
The Lewis Publishing Company, 1931


UNION W. YOUNGBLOOD is conferring district honor on his native county and state by his service on the bench of the Circuit Court, and his administrative headquarters are maintained in the City of Boonville, the judicial center of Warrick County, he having here been established in the successful practice of law at the time of his election to his present office.

Judge Youngblood was born on the parental home farm, four miles distant from Boonville, on the 4th of September, 1872, and is a scion of the third generation of the Youngblood family in this county, where his paternal grandfather made settlement upon coming here from his native State of South Carolina, he having been a young man at the time and having become one of the county's representative farmers in his day and generation. Judge Youngblood is a son of William B. And Mary (Patten) Youngblood, the former of whom was born and reared in Warrick County and the latter of whom was born in Ohio. William B. Youngblood gave his active life to productive farm industry in his native county, served as a member of the Home Guard in the Civil war period, and was a substantial and loyal citizen who held inviolable place in popular confidence and esteem. His political allegiance was given to the Republican party and he and his wife were members of the Baptist Church. Of the eight children only three are living: Melissa died at the age of six years. Alonzo L., who died at the age of sixty-eight years, was a successful school teacher in earlier years, later was influential in politics and held local offices of public trust, and thereafter he gave prolonged service as a traveling salesman of agricultural implements. He married Samantha Whitmer, who was born in Kentucky, and of their children two are living, Nathaniel H., who is engaged in the practice of law in the City of Evansville; and Carl W., who is engaged in the insurance business. Dr. Eli L., a successful and honored physician and surgeon, was engaged in the practice of his profession at Boonville at the time of his death, when he was sixty-eight years of age. He married Nera Masters, and the one surviving child is Leland M. Morton, who died at the age of twenty-one years, had been a popular teacher in the public schools and was preparing himself for the medical profession when death terminated his exceptionally promising career. He married Rose Boyer, who survives him, as did also their one child, Orion, who is now about forty-four years of age. Jerusha Lowell, the one surviving daughter, is the wife of James E. Lowell, a farmer in Warrick County, and their four children are Lyman, Earl, Mary and Emma May. Lucian D. is a clergyman of the Methodist Episcopal Church and is assigned to pastoral service in the Vincennes district of the Indiana Conference of his church. He married Ella Schwartz and they have three children - Laverne, Alleene and Crystal. Judge Union W., of this review, was the next in order of birth. Galien, youngest of; the children, died at the age of twenty-three years.

After his studies in the Boonville High School Judge Youngblood attended a business college at Fairfield, Illinois, and in preparing for his chosen profession he completed a course in the law department of the National University, of Washington, D. C., in which he was graduated as a member of the class of 1907, with the degree of Bachelor of Laws. He had previously begun the study of law in the law office of James R. Wilson, of Boonville, and later in the office of former Judge Edward Gough, of Boonville. He was admitted to the bar of Indiana in 1898 and was elected prosecuting attorney of the Second Judicial Circuit in 1902, serving two years. In 1901 he had formed a partnership with Mr. Wilson, in whose office he had first studied law. This partnership dissolved when Mr. Youngblood was elected as prosecuting attorney. He afterward practiced alone until 1908, when he returned from Washington and formed a partnership with M. R.. Tweedy, who was afterward, in 1916, elected judge of this circuit and served until 1922. In the period of 1906-1908 Mr. Youngblood served as secretary to the comptroller of the United States Treasury, and in his professional activities he has continuously maintained his residence at Boonville. Here he held for ten years the office of city attorney, and here he continued in the successful practice of his profession until his election to his present office of judge of the Circuit Court, a position which he assumed on January 1, 1929.

Judge Youngblood is a stalwart in the ranks of the Republican party, has membership in the Warrick County Bar Association and the Indiana State Bar Association, and is affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, in which he is a past grand conductor of the Indiana Grand Lodge, and with the Woodsmen of the World and the Order of Ben Hur. He and his wife are members of the Main Street Methodist Episcopal Church of Boonsville, Indiana. In the World war period Judge Youngblood was active and influential in local patriotic movements, he having been chairman of the legal advisory board of Warrick County, and also chairman of the committee that directed the work of the four-minute speakers in this county.

On the 26th of May, 1901, was solemnized the marriage of Judge Youngblood to Miss Neta Bernice Youngblood, the two being of distant kinship, as both are lineal descendants of Samuel Youngblood of South Carolina. Mrs. Youngblood was born and reared in Warrick County and is a daughter of John W. and Mary (Taylor) Youngblood, both likewise natives of this county, where the respective families were founded in the pioneer days, Mary (Taylor) Youngblood being a descendant of Hubbard Taylor, who here established residence in the year 1814. John W. Youngblood has long stood forth as one of the sterling and prosperous exponents of farm industry in Warrick County and is eighty-two years of age at the time of this writing, in 1929. He is a grandson of Rev. John W. Youngblood, who was a pioneer clergyman of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Indiana. Of the children of Judge and Mrs. Youngblood the first born is Mary Maurine, who has received the degree of Master of Arts from the University of Michigan, at Ann Arbor, and is teacher of Romance languages in the Mississippi State College for Women. William W., next in order of birth, is a skilled civil engineer and as such is retained as the engineer in charge of the Midland Electric Coal Company's mine at Atkinson, Northern Illinois. He married Miss Mildred McCool and they maintain their home at Geneseo, Illinois. Hyatt, next younger son, was graduated in DePauw University as a member of the class of 1929 and is now in the employ of the American Telephone & Telegraph Company. Thomas E. was graduated in the Boonville High School as a member of the class of 1929 and is now engaged as an expert advertising copywriter in Indianapolis. Roy is a graduate of the same high school in 1931 and is now pursuing an engineering course in college, as is also his brother William.

INDIANA ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OF AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT Vol. 5
By Charles Roll, A.M.
The Lewis Publishing Company, 1931


HENRY E. EDEN is an active young business man of Muncie, one of the partners and the active manager of a prosperous business located at 108 West Washington Street, specializing in the handling of automobile parts and accessories.

Mr. Eden was born in Muncie, May 11, 1906. He is a son of William L. and Josephine (Koons) Eden. His grandfather Eden was a Kentuckian, moved to Indiana about 1877, and after a year or so went to Kansas, where he lived on a farm for three years. He then returned to Kentucky and in 1890 established his home in Muncie, Indiana, where he and his wife lived out their lives. Both are buried in the Beech Grove Cemetery. William L. Eden was born April 3, 1878, at Losantville, Indiana, attended public schools and for forty years has been a resident of Muncie. For over thirty-three years he has been with the Ball Brothers Company, as operator of one of their machine shops in the plant at Muncie. He is a member of the Loyal Order of Moose and Modern Woodmen of America, and the Christian Church. His wife, Josephine Koons, was born and reared near Mooreland, Indiana, and attended school there. She was an earnest member of the Jackson Street Christian Church of Muncie. She died October 4, 1921, and is buried in the Beech Grove Cemetery. Her parents were John L. and Ellen Koons, of Henry County, Indiana, where her people were very early settlers. William L. Eden had two children, Madeline and Henry E. Madeline is the wife of E. C. Payne, connected with the Muncie Products Division of the General Motors Company.

Henry E. Eden was educated at Muncie, graduating from high school in 1926, and also attended Saint Xavier College at Cincinnati, Ohio. He is a member of the Beta Phi Sigma fraternity. In 1927 he returned to Muncie, and became associated with Wiley Spurgeon and William E. Hitchcock, Jr., in the automobile parts business. In June, 1929, he was made manager and since the death of William E. Hitchcock, Jr., on December 29, 1929, has been in full charge of the business.

Mr. Eden is unmarried. He is a member of the Delaware Country Club, is a Republican in politics and belongs to the Jackson Street Christian Church.

INDIANA ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OF AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT Vol. 5
By Charles Roll, A.M.
The Lewis Publishing Company, 1931


GOLDSMITH GILBERT WILLIAMSON. One of the oldest families in Delaware County is the Williamsons. They have been in this section of the state for over a century. James Williamson was a New Jersey man, and on coming to Indiana took up land from the Government, brought it under cultivation, and his thrift and industry enabled him to accumulate over a thousand acres before his death. His land was in the Yorktown community of the county and he and his wife are buried in the cemetery at Yorktown.

A son of this pioneer was Jesse H. Williamson, who was born and reared in the county, had a public school education and for many years gave his attention to his business as a miller and merchant, both at Yorktown and Muncie. He died in April, 1916, and is buried in the Beech Grove Cemetery. Jesse H. Williamson married Julia Andrews, member of another conspicuous pioneer family of Delaware County. She was born at Muncie, attended the public schools of that city, and passed away October 3, 1928, being buried beside her husband in Beech Grove. She was a daughter of Dr. D. H. and Mary Jane (Gilbert) Andrews. Mary Jane Gilbert was the first white child born on the site of the modern City of Muncie. Her father, Goldsmith Gilbert, has the historical distinction of being the founder of Muncie. Coming to Indiana almost with the first opening of the lands of this region to settlement, he acquired several hundred acres, and on the south side of his tract he donated half of the land now in the courthouse square at Muncie. He owned nearly all the land north of this line, comprising the north half of the city. Goldsmith Gilbert in pioneer times had a post where his principal customers were Indians. Later he conducted a store, operated flour mills, was an extensive farmer and his name was associated with many of the early enterprises of the village. His daughter, Mary Jane Gilbert, married Dr. D. H. Andrews, who was prominent in the early days of Muncie as a physician and surgeon.

The only child of Jesse H. and Julia (Andrews) Williamson is Goldsmith Gilbert Williamson, who was born at Yorktown, Delaware County, November 28, 1867. He attended public schools in Muncie and finished his education in Indiana University, after which for a quarter of a century his work was with the Delaware County Bank at Muncie. For four years he served as county treasurer of Delaware County. On leaving the bank he took charge of the J. H. Williamson Company, a mercantile enterprise that was established by his father in 1885. This business now occupies his full time and attention. He is a dealer in flour, feed and seeds, both wholesale and retail.

Mr. Williamson has never married. He is a popular citizen of Muncie, being a member of Silver Shield Lodge, Knights of Pythias, and Muncie Lodge No. 245, B. P. O. Elks. He is a Democrat in politics.

INDIANA ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OF AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT Vol. 5
By Charles Roll, A.M.
The Lewis Publishing Company, 1931


LLOYD H. CLARK is a native of Delaware County and has a prominent reputation as an educator in that section of the state. He is superintendent of schools and principal of the high school at Yorktown.

Mr. Clark was born at Selma, Indiana, June 23, 1892, son of P. G. and Delilah Leora (Tharp) Clark. His grandfather, Charles Clark, was a pioneer farmer near Selma where he and his wife are buried. P. G. Clark was born in Maryland, was twelve years of age when his parents came to Delaware County, Indiana, and after completing his schooling took up farming as a career. He is now practically retired, employing his time during most of the year as driver of a school bus. His home is at Selma, where he is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. His wife was born and reared at Mount Pleasant, near Selma, and was a very earnest worker in the Methodist Episcopal Church. She died in April, 1928, and is buried in the Maxville Cemetery near Farmland. Of her six children two died in infancy and the others are Chester, Raymond, Lloyd H. And Wilma.

Lloyd H. Clark attended school at Selma, graduating from high school in 1911 and soon afterward took up the work which has engaged his energies, with brief exceptions, to the present time. In the intervals of school work he went on with his higher education and in 1926 received the A. B. degree from Ball State Teachers College. He graduated from Indiana University in 1930, taking the Master of Arts degree. He has done considerable work on his Ph. D. degree in Indiana University since receiving the M. A. degree. Mr. Clark has been an active school man for seventeen years. During 1912-13 he taught at Hebron, North Dakota, and for one year, 1913-1914 was principal of the high school at Delaware, Oklahoma. With those exceptions his educational activities have been in his home county in Indiana.

On April 5, 1917, the day that America declared war against the Central Powers, he enlisted and received his training at Fort Hamilton and Fort Wadsworth, New York. He went overseas with the Seventieth Coast Artillery Corps and was stationed at Brest Angers, St. Nazaire and La Meignanne, France, until after the armistice. He received an honorable discharge at Camp Sherman, Chillicothe, Ohio, March 12, 1919, with the grade of corporal. He was with the colors nearly one year. As soon as released from military duty he returned to his school work in the Whittier School in Muncie, Indiana. Mr. Clark is a member of Delaware Post No. 19, the American Legion.

For several years he taught in the public schools at Muncie, and has been principal and superintendent of the Yorktown schools since 1927. He is a member of the Indiana State Teachers Association, is a Republican, and he and his wife are active members of the Friends Memorial Church at Muncie, at which place Mr. Clark is assistant teacher of the Golden Band Class.

At Farmland, Indiana, October 29, 1919, he married Miss Mildred Branson, daughter of W. M. and Ella (Diggs) Branson. Her father is a substantial farmer at Farmland and both he and his wife are members of the Friends Church. Mrs. Clark graduated from the Farmland High School in 1911, following which she spent a year in the Marion Normal School and one year in the Eastern Indiana Normal School, now Ball State Teachers' College. She teaches a class in the Sunday School of the Friends Memorial Church, is a member of the Woman's Club, a member of the Fourth Division Ladies Aid, and of the Friends Missionary Society. Mr. and Mrs. Clark have one daughter, Mary Alice, aged nine, a pupil in the McKinley School at Muncie.

INDIANA ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OF AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT Vol. 5
By Charles Roll, A.M.
The Lewis Publishing Company, 1931


KARL EUGENE PUTERBAUGH is a physician and surgeon, a young man of thorough education and fine professional qualifications who is practicing in Delaware, County, with home at Albany.

Doctor Puterbaugh was born at Greenville in Darke County, Ohio, February 4, 1898. He is a son of Harrison and Lucinda (Potter) Puterbaugh. His grandfather, David Puterbaugh, was a native of Pennsylvania and spent his active life as a farmer near Greenville, Ohio, where he and his wife are buried. Harrison Puterbaugh was born and reared in Darke County, followed farming and stock raising, and died in 1916 and is buried at Greenville. His wife, Lucinda Potter, was born and reared at Greenville, attended public schools there, and is an active member of the Christian Church.

Karl Eugene Puterbaugh was the only child of his parents. He was educated in the public schools of Greenville, graduating from high school in 1916. This was followed by normal instruction in Earlham College at Richmond, Indiana, and in Defiance College at Defiance, Ohio, after which for two years he taught as principal of the high school of Hollansburg, Ohio. His pre-medical course was taken in the University of Chicago and the Armour Institute of Technology of Chicago. He was graduated in 1922 and then entered Indiana University in the School of Medicine, taking his M. D. degree in 1926. Doctor Puterbaugh had additional training as an interne in the Grant Hospital at Columbus, Ohio, and in 1927 established his home at Albany, Indiana. His offices are in the Albany State Bank Building. He has made himself a valuable factor in the community through his abilities as a general practitioner. He is a member of the Delaware-Blackford Counties, the Indiana State and American Medical Associations and the Muncie Academy of Medicine. Doctor Puterbaugh is very much interested in the work being done by the Kiwanis Club. He is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity, is an independent voter and a member of the Christian Church.

He married at East Liverpool, Ohio, November 26, 1921, Miss Sylvia Claire Davis. Doctor Puterbaugh and Miss Davis first met while both were teachers at Hollansburg, Ohio. She is a daughter of Thomas A. and Maude (Whitehill) Davis. Her father for many years was in the wholesale produce business, at first at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and later at Liverpool, Ohio. He is now a retired business man at East Liverpool. Mrs. Puterbaugh was educated in public schools at Pittsburgh and East Liverpool, graduating from the high school of the latter place and was graduated in 1922, from the Kent State Normal School of Ohio. She taught at Hollansburg for two years. Mrs. Puterbaugh is a member of the Twentieth Century Club and Pollyanna Club and the Eastern Star Chapter at Albany. To the marriage of Doctor and Mrs. Puterbaugh was born one daughter, Betty Jean.

INDIANA ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OF AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT Vol. 5
By Charles Roll, A.M.
The Lewis Publishing Company, 1931


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