Judge Doyle was born at Buffalo, New York, March 15, 1904. His parents are William and Cora (Pattison) Doyle, his father a native of New York State and his mother of Missouri. In 1912, when Judge Doyle was eight years of age, his parents moved west to Minneapolis, Minnesota, and since 1914 they have resided at Fargo, North Dakota. William Doyle was in the hotel business there until he retired. There were three sons, the first two, twins, being John W. and Welcome P.

Albert L. Doyle graduated from the Fargo High School in 1922. He subsequently came to Indiana and entered Notre Dame University at South Bend, where he completed the course of the law school and took his law degree in 1927, being admitted to the Indiana bar in July of the same year. In his practice he has been an associate of C. W. Bingham at Mishawaka. Judge Doyle was deputy prosecuting attorney of St. Joseph County from 1927 to 1929. On November 4, 1929, he was elected city judge and has shown a rare capacity in handling the work of his court.

Judge Doyle is interested in welfare work, particularly among younger boys. For the past six years in addition to his legal work he has been public speaking instructor at Notre Dame University. He is a past president of the Mishawaka Exchange Club and former district governor of the Exchange, a member of the Knights of Columbus, Fellowship Club, Eagles, St. Joseph County, Indiana State and American Bar Associations and is a Democrat. He is a member of the Catholic Church.

Judge Doyle married, June 10, 1931, Miss Loretta Irene Leddy, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John J. Leddy, of 91 Whitney Avenue, Elmhurst, Long Island, New York.

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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

WILLIAM H. BALL, secretary of the Ball Brothers Company of Muncie, is a son of the late William C. Ball, one of the five brothers whose partnership relations began in early manhood and whose collective genius made the name and business of Ball Brothers of national scope and importance. William C. Ball for many years remained as representative of the family interests at Buffalo, New York, but spent his last years in Muncie, where he died April 30, 1921, and is buried in the Beech Grove Cemetery. The fame of the Ball Brothers as manufacturers has reached into every corner of the civilized world. During the past ten years their contributions and practical work in the field of education and philanthropy promise no less rich returns for the world at large. The Ball Brothers have given millions of dollars to education, benevolence and general welfare work, distributed among institutions in different parts of the country, and Muncie has been particularly fortunate through the support of the Ball Brothers of such institutions as the Ball Memorial Hospital, the Ball Teachers College, the Y. M. C. A. and other objects.

When it was formally opened, on August 4, 1929, the Ball Brothers Memorial Hospital was pronounced by hospital authorities from different parts of the country as an unsurpassed physical plant for its use and purpose as a general hospital. It represented an outlay of more than a million dollars and its location adjoins the grounds of the Ball Teachers College. The building realizes not only all of the requirements for a standard hospital construction, but in many features represents the last word in architectural details, the mechanical and technical facilities, and also the achievement of harmony in material arrangement and atmosphere which put this institution a long step in advance of the conventional type of hospital.

One of the auxiliary features of the hospital is a plant built for the sole purpose of producing milk and other dairy products for its use. The hospital is, in fact, an almost self-contained institution, having among its many departments a butcher shop, laundry, drug store, bakery. The dairy plant, which is the particular hobby of Mr. William H. Ball, is located ten miles north of Muncie, on a farm of 320 acres. A herd of sixty Guernsey and Holstein cattle, practically all pure bred, were brought from the heart of the Wisconsin dairy belt. The dairy barn, 80 feet wide, 100 feet long and 50 feet high, was designed and constructed with the single purpose of securing utmost cleanliness in the production of milk products for the hospital use. The mechanical equipment includes not only elaborate ventilating devices and methods that prevent the contamination of the milk, but also milking machinery, cooling apparatus and prompt delivery service to the hospital, where there is equipment for pasteurizing, grading and testing for all the requirements of the dietary.

Mr. William H. Ball is the only child of William C. Ball and his wife, Emma (Wood) Ball. Mrs. Emma Wood Ball resides at the beautiful family home in Muncie. She has been very active in the work of the Universalist Church, in the Federation of Women’s Clubs, and is a past regent and for over twenty years has been chaplain of the local chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution.

William H. Ball was born at Buffalo, New York, October 28, 1893, but was reared and educated in Muncie, attending grade and high schools there, and. was graduated in 1911 from the Howe Military Academy. He took his A. B. degree at Hillsdale College at Hillsdale, Michigan, one of the institutions to whcih the Ball Brothers have made large gifts. After leaving Hillsdale he specialized in chemical engineering at Cornell University. In 1917 he enlisted, was in training at Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia, and at Camp Logan in Eastern Texas where he was put in the Fifth Division. With that division he went overseas in April, 1918, and took part in the St. Mihiel campaign from September 14 to September 26, and was in the Argonne from November 2 to November 11. After the armistice his division became part of the Army of Occupation. He received his honorable discharge on July 7, 1919.

Mr. Ball on his return to Muncie became identified with Ball Brothers Company, being a director, and after the death of his father was chosen secretary of the corporation, the office he now fills. He is also a director of the Merchants Trust & Savings Bank, the Merchants National Bank, the Peoples Home and Savings Association, and the First Rural Loan & Savings Association. He is a past master of Muncie Lodge No. 433, A. F. and A. M., belongs to the Royal Arch Chapter and Knights Templar Commander; and is a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason. He has filled chairs in all the Masonic bodies at Muncie. He is a director of the Kiwanis Club, a member of Muncie Post No. 19, American Legion, belongs to the Delta Tau Delta fraternity, is a Republican, and, like other members of the family belongs to the Universalist Church. He was in the church choir for nine years.

He married at Muncie, November 11, 1917, Miss Agnes Medsker, who attended school in Muncie and has likewise been identified with the Universalist Church since early girlhood, and for a number of years was in its choir. She is an accomplished musician, having carried on her studies in Chicago. She is a member of the Psi Iota Xi sorority. Her father C. L. Medsker, has for many years been a leading member of the Muncie bar. Mr. and Mrs. Ball have two children, Lucina and William Hudson.

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

HARRY L. STONECIFER is an Indiana railway man, has been in railroad service for over thirty years and has had many promotions to larger responsibilities with the Nickel Plate system. He is now division superintendent, with headquarters at Muncie.

Mr. Stonecifer was born at Cambridge City, Indiana, February 7, 1876, son of B. F. and Elizabeth (Ensminger) Stonecifer. His grandfather, Jonathan Stonecifer, came to Indiana from Virginia and was a pioneer farmer and stock raiser near Cambridge City, where he and his wife are buried. B. F. Stonecifer was born and reared at Cambridge City, was educated in private schools and when a young man took up railroading and for forty-nine years was a railway passenger conductor. He began his service for the Fort Wayne, Cincinnati & Louisville, which afterwards became a part of the Lake Erie & Western. He continued active at his duties until his death in June, 1928, at the age of seventy-seven. He is buried at Fort Wayne. B. F. Stonecifer was a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason. His first wife, Elizabeth Ensminger, was born and reared at Laurel, Indiana, and died there in 1882. She was educated in public schools and she and her family were active Methodists. She was the mother of twin sons, Doctor Herbert and Harry L. Dr. Herbert Stonecifer practiced his profession as a dentist at Los Angeles, California, until his death in 1913. He is buried at Fort Wayne, Indiana. He left a widow and one child, Francis, who continue to make their home at Los Angeles. B. F. Stonecifer's second wife was Melissa Philpot, of Anderson, Indiana, who died leaving one son, B. Paul, who is now manager of the Inter-Department Stores Company at Springfield, Massachusetts.

Harry L. Stonecifer attended the grade and high schools of Fort Wayne and was a student in the Indiana Dental College until 1896, when he gave up the idea of a professional career to go to work for the Nickel Plate Railway Company as a brakeman. He has earned many successive promotions. From brakeman he was made freight conductor, then passenger conductor, later was yardmaster and trainmaster on various divisions. He has been a division superintendent since 1921, having successively had his headquarters at Peru, Indiana, Tipton, Indiana, Lima, Ohio, and since August, 1927, at Muncie, where he is superintendent of the Fort Wayne and Sandusky division.

Mr. Stonecifer has taken an active part in the community affairs of the various cities where he has had his home. He is a Knight Templar and thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason, member of Mizpah Temple of the Mystic Shrine, and for a number of years was active in Rotary clubs. He was a member of the Rotary Club and Chamber of Commerce at Lima, Ohio. He is a Republican and a member of the High Street Methodist Episcopal Church at Muncie.

Mr. Stoncifer married at Fort Wayne, June 20, 1900, Miss Helen Birbick, daughter of William and Isabella (Dickey) Birbick. Her father was also in the railway service, being for many years foreman in the Wabash Railway shops at Fort Wayne, where he died in 1923. Her mother still lives in Fort Wayne. Mrs. Stonecifer was educated in the grade and high schools of Fort Wayne and is an active member of the Presbyterian Church.

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

DONALD H. BINFORD is the active partner in the Muncie Sand & Gravel Company, an organization that has supplied immense quantities of material for road building and other construction purposes in Eastern Indiana. Mr. Binford has been connected with road building during most of the years since he came home from France after his service overseas during the World war.

He is a member of an old and prominent family of Hancock County and on both sides is of sterling Quaker ancestry. The Binford and Hill families came from North Carolina, joining in the migration of Friends that left that portion of the South and came to the Northwest beginning in the early years of the nineteenth century.

Mr. Binford was born at Greenfield, Indiana, September 29, 1895, son of N. C. and Sarah (Hill) Binford. His grandfather, Robert Binford, came to Indiana from North Carolina and was an early settler in Rush County, where he followed the business of farmer and stock raiser. He and his wife are buried in the Walnut Ridge Cemetery in Rush County. N. C. Binford was born in Rush County, attended school there and for many years has been a prominent banker of Greenfield, where he is still active as president of the Capital State Bank. The chief business of his early years was farming and cattle raising, and he still owns 400 acres of land and supervises these interests from his home at Greenfield. His brother, John H. Binford, wrote a history of Hancock County. Mrs. Sarah Hill Binford was born and reared in Rush County, where her people were early settlers. Mr. and Mrs. N. C. Binford are prominent members of the Friends Church of Greenfield.

Donald H. Binford was the only child of his parents. He attended public schools in Hancock County, the Friends Boarding School at Westtown, Pennsylvania, and spent two years in the University of Chicago. He left the university in 1917 to join the colors, enlisting in the United States Marine Corps and was sent to Paris Island, South Carolina. He was given the duties of drill sergeant, and helped train three companies at Paris Island. He went overseas with Company C of the Eleventh United States Marines, an organization that furnished replacement troops for different parts of the front. He remained in France, with this organization, and in August, 1919, after his return to the United States, received his honorable discharge at Norfolk, Virginia.

After his war service Mr. Binford spent several years managing his father's farms in Rush County. He then became associated with Mr. C. M. Kirkpatrick, and they were awarded a contract for the hard surface paving for the twelve miles of the National Road. In November, 1923, he and Mr. Kirkpatrick bought the plant and business of the Delaware Sand & Gravel Company, and since that time Mr. Binford has made his home at Muncie and has been giving his personal attention to the operation of the business. The firm has offices at 205 South Jefferson and its plant is located on the McGolliard Road. The business employs from twenty-five to thirty- five persons, and represents a large investment in machinery and equipment, including a fleet of trucks for prompt supply of material to contractors and builders.

Mr. Binford is a member of the Muncie Chamber of Commerce, the Dynamo Club and for several years was active in the Kiwanis organization. He is a Republican and a member of the Friends Church and belongs to Delaware Post No. 19 of the American Legion.

He married at Greenfield, Indiana, October 27, 1922, Miss Martha Kirkpatrick, daughter of C. M. and Susan (Knight) Kirkpatrick. Her father, who was born in Henry County, Indiana, has for many years been a prominent contractor and is a senior partner in the Delaware Sand & Gravel Company, but has been practically retired from active business for several years. He and his wife reside at Greenfield. At Greenfield Mrs. Binford grew up and attended the grade and high schools and was graduated from Earlham College of Richmond in 1918. For several years she was a teacher, teaching at Fountain City and Manilla. She is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church of Greenfield, and belongs to the Psi Iota Psi sorority and the Women's University Club. Mr. and Mrs. Binford have three children, Joe Kirk, Sarah Susan and Martha Ann. Joe Kirk is attending grammar school and Sarah is a kindergarten pupil.

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

C. HERBERT LAUB, Ph. D., is acting head of the department of history in the Ball State Teachers College at Muncie. Doctor Laub is an Indiana man and part of his early education was acquired in the Indiana Teachers College at Terre Haute.

He was born in that city September 11, 1898, son of Carl A. and Helene (Scheurman) Laub. His father was born in Wuerttemberg, Germany, in 1870, was fifteen years of age when he came to this country and for many years has had his home at Terre Haute. He has been a traveling dry goods salesman. He is a Methodist. Helene Scheurman was born in Terre Haute and attended school there, preparing for work as a teacher in the Indiana Normal School. She taught for several years before her marriage. There are two children, C. Herbert and Miss Hilda H. Hilda is a graduate of the State Teachers College at Terre Haute and is now supervisor of art in the public schools of Springdale, Pennsylvania.

C. Herbert Laub was graduated from the Garfield High School of Terre Haute in 1917. This was followed by two years of study in the State Teachers College and two years in DePauw University, where he was graduated with the A. B. degree in 1921. Doctor Laub did his graduate work in the University of Wisconsin, where he came under the inspiring influence of some of ablest historical scholars in the country. He received his Master of Arts degree at the university in 1922 and continued his graduate studies there in the intervals of other work, being awarded the Doctor of Philosophy degree in June, 1929. Doctor Laub was assistant in history at Wisconsin and during his last year of graduate work was fellow in American history. For two years he was instructor in American history at New York University.

He came to the Ball State Teachers College in September, 1929, taking the position of acting head of the history and social science departments during the leave of absence of Doctor Lafollette. Doctor Laub is a member of the American Historical Association and is a Methodist. Among Doctor Laub's literary contributions are: William and Mary College Quarterly, January, 1930, British Crown Lands in the West, 1773-1775; William and Mary College Quarterly, Virginia and the Crown Lands, 1775-1784, are to be published.

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

WESLEY P. MARKS is a Muncie business man, one of the partners in the Birch Contracting Company, a firm that specializes in asphalt street paving. Mr. Marks has lived all his life in Delaware County and is a member of one of the old and substantial families of that section of the state.

He was born September 6, 1870, son of F. J. and Agnes (Arbuckle) Marks. His grandfather, Charles Washington Marks, moved to Delaware County from Ohio and was a farmer. He and his wife are buried in the Union Cemetery. F. J. Marks was born in Ohio, was a boy when brought to Indiana, attended public schools in this state and followed farming and stock raising in Delaware County. He died in 1920 and his wife in 1927, and both are buried in the Union Cemetery. His wife, Agnes Arbuckle, was born in Missouri, attended school there, and was visiting relatives in Delaware County when she met F. J. Marks, whom she married. They had seven children: Charles W., one of the Birch Contracting Company at Muncie; Wesley P.; John Carl, deceased; George Edgar, also of the Birch Contracting Company; Adam W.; Henry F. and Mary Bertha, all deceased.

Wesley P. Marks was reared on a farm, had the advantages of the public schools and has been a hard worker since early manhood. In 1914 he joined the Birch Contracting Company and has been one of the very active members of that organization. Mr. Marks is a Democrat in politics and is a member of the High Street Methodist Episcopal Church.

He married at Albany, Indiana, April 5, 1895, Miss Minnie Dowden. She died in 1920, being buried in the Beech Grove Cemetery. She was the mother of two children, Bly and Vivian. Bly is engaged in clerical work at Muncie. Vivian is the wife of Bernard Swerking, of Muncie, and has two sons, Bly Edward and Charles Robert. Mr. Marks on March 4, 1921, married, at Muncie, Mrs. Pearl McGill, daughter of Rufus and Eliza (Falls) Hunter. Her father was a leading farmer of Delaware County and died in 1926. He is buried at Germantown, Indiana. Mrs. Marks' mother lives in Muncie. Mrs. Marks is also an active Methodist, and both she and her husband participate in the social and community life of the city.

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

DAVID F. BROOKS has been for thirty-five years one of the honored and influential members of the bar of Wabash County, is a man of high professional attainments and achievement, as indicated by his having received the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws, and he has been continuously engaged in the practice of law at Wabash, the county seat, since 1895, besides which he is here founder and general manager of the Brooks Loan Company.

Mr. Brooks was born in the picturesque little mountain City of Staunton, Virginia, March 17, 1866, and it may be noted in this connection that Staunton was likewise the birthplace of the late President Woodrow Wilson. Mr. Brooks is a son of Richard G. and Elizabeth (Kennedy) Brooks, both of whom passed their entire lives in Virginia, where the active career of the father was marked by association with farm industry. Richard G. Brooks was a son of Silas Brooks and a member of a family of thirteen children. The original American representatives of the Brooks family made settlement in Virginia in the Colonial period of our national history, and members of the family represented the Old Dominion as loyal soldiers in the War of 1812.

David F. Brooks was born in the year following the close of the Civil war and in Virginia was reared under the somewhat depressed influences that marked the so-called reconstruction period. He was not denied educational advantages of excellent order, however, as he supplemented the discipline of the Virginia Common schools by completing there a course in Trickling Spring Academy. He was nineteen years of age when he came to Indiana, in 1885, and here continued his studies in the State Normal School at Portland, while later he completed a course in the law department of what is now Valparaiso University, at Valparaiso, this state. In that institution he was graduated as a member of the class of 1895. He received at that time the degree of Bachelor of Laws, and on June 15, 1919, he had the distinction of receiving from his alma mater the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws, the twelfth degree of this order to have been granted by that university during a period of fully sixty years.

In the year of his graduation Mr. Brooks was admitted to the Indiana bar and initiated the practice of his profession at Wabash, where he has continued his professional activities during the long intervening period of fully thirty-five years and where he has appeared prominently in much of the important litigation in the various courts of this section of the state. Mr. Brooks is now one of the veteran members of the Wabash County Bar Association and the Indiana State Bar Association. His political allegiance is given to the Republican party, and while he has been active and influential in political affairs in his county he has manifested no desire for public office, he has considered his profession worthy of his undivided fealty. In the Masonic fraternity he is a member of the local Blue Lodge, Chapter and Council of the York Rite, and he is affiliated also with Wabash Lodge, B. P. O. E. Mr. Brooks has ever been loyal and progressive in his civic attitude and is still an active and valued member of the Wabash Chamber of Commerce. In the World war period he gave earnest cooperation in all patriotic work in Wabash County, was a member of the legal advisory board of the county in connection with the selective drafting of recruits and he did constructive service as a speaker in connection with the local war-bond drives, etc. Mr. Brooks is the owner of valuable farm and dairy interests in Wabash County, and was the founder of the Brooks Loan Company, in 1907, he having since continued to supervise the business of this company, the concern having gained high reputation for its reliable and effective service and the enterprise being one of representative order.

Mr. Brooks married Miss Anna Cale, of Warren, Huntington County, in which county she was born and reared, the Cale family having gained pioneer precedence in Indiana, and prior to that in the vicinity of Dayton, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Brooks have seven children: Laila, Vada, Everett, Harry, Raymond A., represented in a personal sketch following, Virginia and Mary. Miss Virginia received the advantages of the University of Indiana and at the time of this writing, in 1930, is a successful and popular teacher in the public schools of Bryan, Ohio, while her sister Mary is a student in the University of Indiana.

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

RAYMOND A. BROOKS is engaged in the practice of law at North Manchester, Wabash County, and is one of the representative younger members of the bar of his native County. He was born in the city of Wabash, judicial center and metropolis of Wabash County, and the date of his nativity was February 10, 1903. He is a son of David F. Brooks, who is one of the veteran members of the Wabash County Bar and the active executive head of the Brooks Loan Company, at Wabash, of which his son Raymond A. is president. A brief review of the career of David F. Brooks appears in the preceding sketch, so that further reference to him or to the family history is not here demanded.

In the public schools of the City of Wabash Raymond A. Brooks continued his studies until he was graduated in the high school, and thereafter he pursued courses in both the academic and law departments of the University of Indiana, in which institution he was graduated as a member of the class of 1926 and from which he received the degree of Bachelor of Arts. He had profited simultaneously by the curriculum of the law department, besides having previously pursued his law studies under the able preceptorship of his father, his admission to the bar of his native state having occurred in 1925, the year prior to that in which he received his academic degree at the university.

In July, 1926, Mr. Brooks established his residence in the City of North Manchester, and in this community of his native county he has since been established in the active practice of his profession, with a success and prestige that mark him as one of the leading lawyers of the younger generation in Wabash County. As before stated, he is president of the Brooks Loan Company, at Wabash, this company having been founded by his father, who has active supervision of the business.

Mr. Brooks is aligned loyally in the ranks of the Republican party, has membership in the Wabash County Bar Association and the Indiana State Bar Association, his Masonic affiliations are extended also to the order of the Eastern Star, and he is an active member of the Kiwanis Club of North Manchester. His wife, whose maiden name was Beatrice Churchill, likewise was born and reared in Wabash County, and their one child is a fine little son, R. Ned. The North Manchester law office of Mr. Brooks is at 103 1/2 East Main Street, and he has already built up a substantial and important law business.

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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