CHARLES WEBB YARRINGTON, M. D. Among the medical and surgical practitioners of Lake County none are held in higher esteem both for professional ability and stalwart and constructive citizenship than Dr. Charles Webb Yarrington, of Gary. Coming to this city February 1, 1912, he had the distinction of becoming the first public school physician, a position which he held for one and one-half years, since which time he has been engaged continuously in a constantly-growing private practice. Likewise he has been active and prominent in civic, fraternal and religious affairs, and for a long period served as coroner's physician.

Doctor Yarrington is of Welsh extraction and a member of an old and honored Vermont family which traces its ancestry back in this country for many generations. He was born at Norvell, Jackson County, Michigan, January 30, 1877, and is a son of Hon. Charles and Elavene Harriet (Bancroft) Yarrington, and a grandson of Edgar Strong Yarrington, who was born in 1792, at Norwich, Vermont. Edgar S. Yarrington was reared and educated in his native locality, but in young manhood braved the new country of Michigan, becoming one of the early pioneers of the Grass Lake community, where his death occurred in 1840, after some years of agricultural work. He and his wife are buried at Grass Lake.

Charles Yarrington was born in 1839, at Grass Lake, Michigan, where he received a public school education, and in young manhood secured a position as clerk in a drug store. After learning the drug business he secured a pharmacy of his own and during the remainder of his life conducted a substantial business at Norvell, where he reached the ripe age of eighty years, dying in 1919 and being laid to rest in the cemetery at Norvell. He was a man of sound and straightforward character, who had the respect and confidence of his fellow-citizens, and for several years served ably as representative from Jackson County in the Michigan Legislature. He married Elavene Harriet Bancroft, who was born at Brooklyn, Michigan, and educated in the public schools. Reared a Baptist, she was active in that church for some years, but eventually became a Presbyterian and died in that faith in 1914, aged sixty-five years. She was laid to rest in the same cemetery as her husband. There were three children in the family: Miss Ida May, born May 2, 1871, who has always been an educator and is now principal of the McKinley School, Toledo, Ohio; Nellie M., now the wife of R. W. Stevens, district principal of schools of Detroit, Michigan; and Dr. Charles Webb, of this review.

Charles Webb Yarrington attended the public schools of Norvell and the high school at Millford, Michigan, from which latter he was graduated as a member of the class of 1895. He received the degree of Doctor of Medicine from the University of Michigan as a member of the class of 1902, and during the following year did interne work at Dollar Bay, Michigan. While at the university he became a member of the Nu Sigma Nu medical fraternity. He then became physician and surgeon for the North Kearsarge Mining Company, of Calumet, Michigan, with which concern he was identified for two years, and for seven years thereafter was engaged in a like capacity by the Calumet & Hecla Mining Company, at the same place. These were years of hard work and poor remuneration, but they gave Doctor Yarrington experience of a varied character that he could have hardly acquired in any other way, and also bred in him an experience of self-confidence in any emergency which has been of the greatest value to him in later years. On February 1, 1912, Doctor Yarrington came to Gary as its first public school physician and held that post for one and one-half years. He then entered private practice and has since continued therein, having a splendidly equipped suite of offices at 607 Broadway. He has built up a well-merited reputation as a general practitioner who is familiar with every branch of his calling, and has won general confidence and esteem. Doctor Yarrington is a member of the Lake County Medical Society, the Indiana State Medical Society and the American Medical Association and is a fellow of the American College of Surgeons. For sixteen years he served as coroner's physician, and otherwise he has been active in civic affairs. He belongs to Roosevelt Lodge, A. F. and A. M.; Gary Chapter, Gary Council and Gary Commandery; Fort Wayne Consistory and Orak Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S., of Hammond; and Gary Lodge, B. P. O. Elks. He likewise holds membership in the Rotary Club, Gary Country Club, Gary Commercial Club and Chamber of Commerce. Politically he is a Republican. He is an Episcopalian in religion, and for a number of years was a member of the vestry of that church.

At Calumet, Michigan, June 30, 1906, Doctor Yarrington was united in marriage with Miss Bessie M. Kratz, a daughter of Prof. H. E. and Elizabeth (Deal) Kratz, of Calumet. Professor Kratz was one of the well-known educators of his day and locality and for some years occupied the chair of pedagogy at Mitchell, South Dakota. Subsequently he became superintendent of schools at Sioux City, Iowa, and later superintendent of schools at Calumet, Michigan, then going to Chicago, where for a time he was in charge of a teachers' agency. Finally he retired from active pursuits and moved to Gary, where he died in 1929, his wife having passed away two years previously, and both are buried in Woodlawn Cemetery, Gary. Mrs. Yarrington attended the public schools of Sioux City, Iowa, and then entered the University of Wisconsin, from which institution she was graduated as a member of the class of 1902 and was a member of the Alpha Phi. For a few years prior to her marriage she taught school at Calumet. She has been active in the work of the Episcopal Church, the Woman's Club and the A. A. U. W. To Doctor and Mrs. Yarrington there have been born two sons: Charles Webb, Jr., born June 6, 1908, a graduate of Emerson High School, Gary, and of the University of Michigan, Bachelor of Science, class of 1930, who is now preparing himself for his father's profession at the same institution; and Edouard Bancroft, born September 28, 1910, a graduate of Emerson High School, Gary, who is attending the University of Michigan.

During the World war Doctor Yarrington served as medical advisor on the draft board for some time and then entered the United States Medical Corps, receiving his captain's commission November 5, 1918. He went to Fort Riley, Kansas, but at the end of thirty days, the armistice having been signed in the meantime, received his honorable discharge and returned to Gary, again to take up his general practice. As will be noted in the foregoing, he has led an active and useful career. All civic movements have had his whole-hearted support, and for two years he worked constructively as a member of the board of directors of the Gary Chamber of Commerce. It has been his fortune to attract to himself numerous friends and to form connections that have been fruitful of much pleasure to himself and the members of his family.

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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


VALERIUS PETER HOPE is one of the oldest residents of Morocco, Newton County, Indiana. He is now retired from business and is enjoying the fruits of earlier years of strenuous application to his duties.

Mr. Hope was born in Ohio, December 16, 1851, son of William K. and Eve Elizabeth Hope. His people were farmers in Van Wert County, Ohio. His father died about 1910. Valerius P. Hope is the only surviving child. His sister was Lydia Jane.

Mr. Hope attended school in Van Wert County, Ohio, grew up on a farm and in 1875 came to Indiana and located in Newton County. His home has been at Morocco for half a century. He was engaged in farming and also was active in the business life of Morocco until he retired. Mr. Hope is a Republican and a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

He married Maria A. Smart, daughter of John Smart. Their living children are Orval, Otho, Lucinda E, and Mary. Mary is the wife of Marion Robinson, of Compton, California, and they have two children. Orval, connected with the Government fish hatchery in Colorado, married Ada Tillot and has two children. Otho is a farmer near Pearson, Indiana, married Cora Tracy and has five children. Lucinda E. is the wife of Max Levi, and they have an adopted child. Mr. Otho's son, Myron E., was in the World war and in France with a supply train and is now deceased. He married Mary Robinson, and they had one son.

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


RALPH ALBERT CONFER, whose home is at Greencastle, has devoted a number of years to study and research as a genealogist. His investigations have been centered on the families in his own line. One of these lines is that of the Burkes, traced back in America to the year 1725. Allied families are the Vaughans, McIninch, Burtons and others.

Mr. Confer has obtained his data from persons in California, Texas, Alabama, Kansas, Washington and the eastern states, including Pennsylvania and New York. In compiling his records he has examined data from twenty-five hundred people and has also gone to the monuments and cemeteries and the parish and court records of many localities.

Mr. Confer has an enthusiastic companion in research in the person of his wife, Mrs. Daisy Ethel (Dean) Confer. Her father was James Dean, and the Deans are a prominent old family of Indiana.

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


EARL L. ELDRIDGE, postmaster of Boswell, is a World war veteran, and throughout his business career has been identified with this little community of Warren County.

Mr. Eldridge was born in Benton County, Indiana, September 4, 1895. His father, William E. Eldridge, was a native of Rhode Island, and during his youth learned the trade of watch-maker. When a young man he came to Indiana and for a number of years carried on a prosperous business as a jeweler and optician at Boswell. He was a man of much influence in the locality, being president of the town board, and at the time of his death, on February 3, 1911, was secretary of the Masonic Lodge and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He married Ida F. Chaney, a daughter of John Chaney. She is still living. They had four children: Beeca L., wife of Dr. L. H. Conway, of Colorado Springs, Colorado, and mother of a daughter, Mary E.; Earl L.; Doris, wife of J. M. Doane, of Decatur, Indiana, and mother of two daughters, named Gladys and Anna Bell; and Miss Helen, a resident of Denver, Colorado.

Earl L. Eldridge was educated in the grade and high schools of Boswell. He took up the trade of painter and decorator, became an expert and developed a good business as a contractor in this line.

His business career was interrupted on December 11, 1917, when he joined the colors in the Aviation Corps, and received his training at a field in Texas, reaching the rank of first class sergeant. He received his honorable discharge at Battle Creek, Michigan, March 28, 1919.

Mr. Eldridge married, February 4, 1923, Miss Anna Hackerson, daughter of John and Lena Hackerson. They have a daughter, Shirley Maxine, born in 1924. Mr. Eldridge was appointed postmaster of Boswell August 25, 1923, and has made his administration of the office very popular among the patrons. He is a Republican, belongs to the Masonic Lodge, is a Methodist and affiliated with his army comrades in the American Legion Post.

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


ROBERT HOLLOWELL, JR., attorney-at-law, is a resident of Danville, where he was born and where his father practiced law. Robert Jr., handles his professional work with an office in the Indiana Trust Building at Indianapolis.

He was born at Danville in Hendricks County July 3, 1899. His great-grandfather Hollowell came from Wales and settled in Indiana more than a century ago, taking up Government land in Parke County. The Hollowells were Quakers and were a very prominent family in the early days in Parke County. Robert Hollowell, Sr., when a boy accompanied his father to Kansas, living in that state for several years and getting some of his schooling there. He graduated in law from the University of Michigan, and spent all his active career in his profession at Danville. He married Mattie Ross, a native of Indiana and of Virginia and Kentucky ancestry.

Robert Hollowell, Jr., was the only child of his parents. He attended grade and high schools at Danville, had three years of work in Indiana University and one year in DePauw University, and in 1922 was graduated L.L. B. from the law department of the University of Michigan. He graduated just forty-one years after his father took his law degree there.

Mr. Hollowell during the World war was with the Officers Training Camp at Indiana University from October 1, 1918, until December of that year. He is a member of the American Legion, is a Methodist, a Republican, affiliates with the Masonic Lodge at Danville and is a member of the Sigma Phi and Gamma Eta Gamma fraternities. He belongs to the Indianapolis Lawyers Club, and the Hendricks County and Indianapolis Bar Associations.

He married Miss Edna K. Hawley, a native of Danville, and they have two daughters, Joyce and Janet.

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


JOSEPH E. LEWIS, postmaster of Williamsport, Indiana, is a member of an Indiana family that has been in the state since pioneer times.

Mr. Lewis was born at Oxford in Benton County, Indiana, August 12, 1896. His grandfather, Isaac Lewis, was also a native of Oxford and was of Scotch and Irish ancestry. The father of the Williamsport postmaster was Homer W. Lewis, born at Oxford and a farmer by occupation. At one time he was chief of police at Mount Carmel, Illinois. He married Mary J. Julian, who was born at Independence, Indiana. They had eight children: William C., of La Juana, Mexico; Della, of Houston, Texas; Mayma, of Woodstock, Illinois; Jennie, of Indianapolis; Guy, deceased; Fred, of Danville, Illinois; Charlotte, of Chicago; and Joseph E.

Joseph E. Lewis received his grade and high school education at Indianapolis. He followed farm work until 1917. He enlisted and was assigned to Three Hundred and Thirty- fourth Regiment of Infantry at Camp Taylor, Kentucky. In February, 1918, he sailed with his regiment for France and was overseas seventeen months. While in France he was promoted to second lieutenant and at the present time holds a commission of first lieutenant in the Officers' Reserve Corps. Mr. Lewis returned home and received his honorable discharge in June, 1919. Since the war he has been a prominent worker in the American Legion, being a past commander of Warren Post No. 259 and since 1925 has been county chairman for the Citizens Military Training Camp.

Mr. Lewis was commissioned postmaster of Williamsport in 1926 by President Coolidge and has given a highly satisfactory administration of that office. He is a staunch Republican, a member of the Masonic fraternity and an elder in the Presbyterian Church. He married, September 10, 1916, a daughter of Daniel and Nellie Isabella (Carter) Fullienlove, natives of Kentucky. They have one son, Robert C., born April 11, 1925.

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


CHARLES HENRY DOORLEY. The career of Charles H. Doorley, superintendent of the Elgin, Joliet & Eastern Railroad, with headquarters at Gary, has been typical of the lives of railroad men of the older generation who fought their own way, unaided, up through the ranks into positions of authority and power. Mr. Doorley began his independent career as an engine wiper in a railroad machine shop, and each step upward has come as a direct result of hard work, loyalty and added value to his company, with which he has now been identified for a period of thirty- three years.

Mr. Doorley was born at St. Catharine's, Canada, March 24, 1866, and is a son of James A. and Mary (McCarthy) Doorley. His parents, natives of Ireland, were reared and educated in that country, whence they emigrated to Canada as a young married couple some years previous to the war between the states in this country. Mr. Doorley, who was a farmer and stock raiser in Canada, came to Elkhart, Indiana, about 1871, and from that time forward lived in retirement until his death about 1874, burial being made in the cemetery at Mishawaka. His wife died in Canada in 1867 and was buried at St. Catharine's. To Mr. and Mrs. Doorley there were born three children: James, who died in 1895, at Oak Point, Oregon; one child who died in infancy; and Charles H., of this review.

Charles H. Doorley attended the public schools of Indiana and Illinois and was graduated from the Douglas High School, Chicago. He immediately secured a position with the Grand Trunk Railway Company, March 24, 1884, starting to work as an engine wiper in the machine shops at Chicago. In February, 1885, he was advanced to the post of fireman for the same road, and in April, 1886, became engine hostler, a post which he held until May, 1886. He then was made switchman for the same road, remaining until December, 1886, and from January, 1887, until 1889 was switchman for the Chicago & Alton. In 1889 he was advanced to yardmaster for the latter line, remaining in that capacity until 1896, in February of which year he became yardmaster for the Chicago, Hammond & Western Railroad, remaining until March, 1898. Mr. Doorley was next a switchman for the Chicago, Lake Shore & Eastern Railroad, with which he remained from April, 1898, until August, 1899, at that time becoming assistant yardmaster for the same road. From September, 1901, until August, 1903, he was night yardmaster, from August, 1903, until December, 1908, general yardmaster (now a part of the Elgin, Joliet & Eastern Railway), from December, 1908, until April, 1915, was assistant superintendent of the same road; from April, 1915, to September, 1915, superintendent of terminals of the same road at Joliet, and from September, 1915, to date has been superintendent of the Gary Division of the Elgin, Joliet & Eastern Railway, with headquarters at Gary. Mr. Doorley has been with this road for a period of thirty-three years (up to 1931) and is one of its most trusted employes as well as one of its oldest in point of continuous service. Throughout his life he has taken his work seriously, having felt that the business of railroading was a highly important and dignified one and that rules were made to be followed, and as a result has been a strict disciplinarian, although never a martinet. By treating his men with fairness and justice he has been able to secure their loyalty and cooperation and thus has added to his value to his company. Mr. Doorley has invested his earnings carefully and with good judgment, and today is a member of the board of directors of the Fifth Avenue Bank of Gary and of the Gary Building & Loan Association. He is a trustee of the Young Men's Christian Association and the Knights of Columbus, and belongs to the Lions Club, the Gary Country Club, the Commercial Club and Chamber of Commerce. Politically he is a Republican, and his religious connection is with St. Mark's Catholic Church.

On May 24, 1888, at Chicago, Illinois, Mr. Doorley was united in marriage with Miss Della Zaremba, daughter of Major Zaremba, for years master mechanic of the Illinois Central Railroad, located at the Chicago shops. He died in 1908 and his wife in 1915, and both are buried in Calvary Cemetery, Chicago. Mrs. Doorley was educated in the public schools of Chicago, including high school, and has been active in the work of the Knights of Columbus Auxiliary, the Daughters of Isabella, and of St. Mark's Catholic Church. Six children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Doorley: Charles M., educated at Chicago, where he holds a position with Franklin, McVeigh & Company, wholesale grocers, married Miss Annie Shannen; James A., educated at Chicago, and is now holding a position in the tube plant of the Illinois Steel Company, married Louise Rabb and has one son, Billy; Hazel, a graduate of the Emerson High School, of Gary, who married R. J. Castle, connected with the home building department of Sears, Roebuck & Company of Chicago, resides at Gary and has three children, Dorothy May, Harriet and Ralph; Ralph M., educated in the public schools of Chicago, including high school, now in the real estate and insurance business, unmarried and active in politics and the Knights or Columbus; Sarah, who died in infancy; and Florence, who died at the age of fifteen years.

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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


BLISH TODD has had an experience dating from early manhood with the limestone industry of Southern Indiana. He knows the business from the standpoint of a practical expert in all the operations involving the quarrying and preparing of the stone for building construction, and he has been identified with a number of different organizations, at the present time being general manager and superintendent of the McGrath Mill, a subsidiary of the Indiana Limestone Company.

Mr. Todd was born October 14, 1889, son of William G. and Elizabeth (Miller) Todd and grandson of William and Sarah Todd. His grandfather came from Tennessee, locating on a farm seven miles east of Mitchell, Indiana, being one of the early settlers in that section of the state. He was a man of much prominence in local politics there. At the time of the Civil war he and his son, William G., enlisted and served in the same company and regiment. William G. after his first term of enlistment expired reenlisted for the remainder of the war. At the close of the war they moved to Lawrence County and William Todd spent the rest of his life on his farm. He and his wife, Sarah, are buried in the county. They were the parents of fourteen children. William G. Todd was a farmer for several years and then took up the profession of photographer, which he followed at Mitchell, Indiana. After selling his studio he returned to the farm, and he is buried at Liberty, Indiana. The widowed mother is still living. Their children consisted of one that died in infancy, and the names of the others are Archie, Effie, Malcolm, Ott, Roscoe, Blish and Cleo.

Mr. Blish Todd began his education at Mitchell. He was seven years old when his parents returned to the farm and during the next eight years he had the routine of an Indiana farm boy, attending country schools. When he was fifteen years old he started working in a quarry, later was with the Consolidated Stone Company at Bedford. When Morris McGrath organized the Interstate Cut Stone Company, Mr. Todd was one of the skilled workers who joined that organization, and he has been through the various departments, finally coming to his present position as general manager and superintendent of the McGrath Mill, which was one of the many mills embraced in the general consolidation under the Indiana Limestone Company.

Mr. Todd married, June 13, 1907, Miss Ona J. Harris. Her parents, Dan and Emma (Sellers) Harris, are members of well known Lawrence County families. Mr. and Mrs. Todd have four children: Clovis, a graduate of the Bedford High School, Geneva and Antoinette, in grade school, and Patricia Anna, who was born in 1929. The family are all interested members of the Christian Church, and Mr. Todd is a member of the Bedford Industrial Club.

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


MARTIN SMITH has in many respects justified his reputation as being one of the most valuable citizens of Lawrence County. He was left an orphan when an infant, had to work out his own destiny, has enjoyed increasing prosperity as a farmer, is also a banker and ,has had much to do with the public affairs of the county in recent years. Mr. Smith, who resides in the town of Williams, was born September 3, 1883, son of Orrel and Elizabeth (Bowman) Smith. His grandparents were Hetch and Martha (White) Smith. His grandfather served in the Union army during the Civil war, owned a large amount of land in Lawrence County and afterwards moved with his family to Knox County. Orrel Smith was born in Lawrence County, and was a farmer and land owner in Knox County. Both he and his wife are buried in the Bruceville Cemetery of that county .

Martin Smith was about a year old when his parents died. For a few terms he attended the Kings Ridge School, but his most valuable lessons have been learned in the school of experience and practical work. During his boyhood and early manhood he worked out for other farmers, carefully saving his money until he invested in thirty acres of land. That constituted his real start in life. After selling his first land he bought what now constitutes his present farm, known as the River View Farm, comprising 213 acres. He also has another place, of 107 acres across the river. His farm is a mile and a half west and south of Williams, and Mr. Smith gives it his close personal supervision.

Mr. Smith has been president of the Williams Bank since it was established in 1923. He is a member of the Church of Christ. He married, August 10, 1904, Miss Eva Doane, daughter of Henry and Mary (Bex) Doane. They have one daughter, Helen, born in 1921, now attending the public schools at Williams.

Mr. Smith has given Lawrence County the value of his service as a county commissioner for the past six years. His term expires January 6, 1930. While on the board he has used his influence to reduce taxation and give an economical administration of county affairs and at the same time produce a constructive administration, including the building of the County Hospital, construction of concrete highways through the county, and he has energetically favored the proposition for a new courthouse. Mr. Smith is a Republican in politics.

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


JOHN A. RITTER, physician and surgeon, is the dean of the medical profession at West Baden, where he began practice fifty-seven years ago. His name is held in highest esteem throughout Orange County, where his father was a doctor before him.

Doctor Ritter was born in Orange County, August 7, 1849, of German ancestry. His grandfather came from Germany as a young man, and married in this county a Miss Butler, daughter of an Arabian-Turkish political refugee. He died one year after his son John was born, leaving no record of previous family history in Germany. Dr. John Ritter, father of Dr. John A. Ritter, was a pioneer physician of Orange County and practiced there until his death. During the Civil war he became captain of Company G of the Forty-ninth Indiana Infantry and later was transferred to the Medical Corps and became chief surgeon for General Asterhous' Division. He was once slightly wounded by a spent ball. Dr. John Ritter married Margaret Carter, who was born in Orange County and lived to a good old age, passing away in 1910. They were the parents of nine children: Dr. Theophilus, deceased; Harriet, who married L. P. Brown, and is now living at Orangeville, Indiana; John A.; William, a merchant at French Lick, who owns one of the best stores in Southern Indiana; Thomas, deceased; Mary, deceased; James, deceased; Doctor Henry, deceased; and Maggie, who married George Taylor and lives at South Bend, Indiana.

Dr. John A. Ritter was educated in public schools in Orange County, continued his education at Greencastle and took his medical course in the Louisville Medical College. He was graduated in 1874, and shortly afterward located at West Baden. He did the work of a pioneer doctor, riding horseback, traveling in buggies years before the advent of good roads, the telephone or the automobile. He has been prosperous in a business way and owns considerable real estate and is one of the owners of the Ritter Hotel. Doctor Ritter has always voted as a Republican, as have all the Ritters of whom the Doctor has knowledge. He has filled the chairs of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and Knights of Pythias lodges.

He married, May 3, 1882, Miss Sally Jackman, daughter of George and Cynthia (Wolfington) Jackman. Her father died while in the Union army during the Civil war. Doctor and Mrs. Ritter have two children, Harry O., born September 21, 1885, and Pearl M., born August 21, 1890. Harry, a hardware merchant at West Baden, married Mattie Laws, and they have two children, Mary E. and Pearl M. Pearl Ritter became the wife of Grover Bedster, of West Baden, and they have a daughter, Betty Pearl.

As evidence of the physical vigor of the Ritter family, Doctor Ritter's grandfather was the champion wrestler of the State of Kentucky, as determined by a series of contests, and Doctor Ritter himself was acknowledged as the best wrestler among the 600 men in DePauw University at the time he was there. He graduated therefrom in 1871.

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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