Mr. Woodworth was born at New Haven in Huron County, Ohio, July 17, 1868, a son of James and Lucinda (Shepard) Woodworth, his father a native of the same Ohio county, while his mother was born at Republic, Ohio. In 1887 the family moved to a farm at Hillsdale, Michigan, and some years later James Woodward retired and lived at Hillsdale until his death at the age of eighty-one. The mother reached the advanced age of eighty-six. James P. Woodworth had two younger brothers, Charles, living at Hillsdale, and Frank, who died 1929.

Mr. Woodworth's early life was spent on a farm. After the district schools he attended the Hillsdale College and taught school there for a year. After one year working in lumber mills in Montana he returned to Hillsdale and became a buyer among the farmers for J. H. Lane & Company, wholesale dealers in butter and eggs. After two years he estabIished a butter and egg business of his own at Hillsdale, selling that in 1898, in which year he became a resident of South Bend. For the first three months here he was with the Mills Fruit Company and then estab;ished a wholesale butter and egg business, which he conducted for several years. For a short time he was in the real estate business with Mr. George Eberhart at Mishawaka.

Mr. Woodworth in June, 1906, started his present business, since known as the Woodworth Storage & Transfer Company. One small building gave him quarters for his office and storage space and he had only one team. It was almost entirely a one-man business at the start, and its prompt and efficient service won it a steadily growing patronage. In 1913 he bought the ground at 409 South St. Joseph Street and put up a three-story warehouse, moving his business from its former location at 222 South Michigan Street. A few years later he added two more stories, his warehouse today being one of the most perfectly equipped and commodious establishments of the kind in Northern Indiana. He also has a large fleet of moving vans, trucks and other equipment. He operates his plant as a general furniture storage and transfer business, and also makes a specialty of transferring heavy machinery.

Mr. Woodworth married, in 1900, Miss Winnella Merphy. She was born in Ohio and spent her early years at Sturgis, Michigan, and at South Bend. They have two children, James Zalman and Olga Irene. James, who is assistant manager of his father's business is married and has a son, Earl.

Mr. Woodworth is a past president of the Indiana State Warehouse Men's Association of the National Warehouse Men's Association. Fraternally he has been for seven years a trustee and member of the advisory board of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, is a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason and Shriner, member of the Knights of Pythias, the Kiwanis Club, Knife and Fork Club, Chamber of Commerce, and is a Baptist. He has been much interested in Boy Scout work, and has had charge of the construction of the new buildings of the Boy Scout camp. His hobby is horseback riding and he owns several fine riding horses.

INDIANA ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OF AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT Vol. 3
By Charles Roll, A.M.
The Lewis Publishing Company, 1931

JOHN W. SHAFER, physician and surgeon, graduated from medical college in 1900. Since 1906 he has been a resident of the City of LaFayette where he is very well known for professional skill, as a leader in public health work and for his active relationship with community and undertakings.

Dr. John W. Shafer was born in Newton County, Indiana, January 2, 1873, son of John Finley and Catherine (Goddard) Shafer. His father was born in Preble County, Ohio, and was a farmer. He served as a Union soldier in the Civil War.

Dr. John W. Shafer was one of five children. He grew up on a farm, had the advantages of schools at Morocco, but beyond that had to supply the means and opportunity for his higher education through his own efforts. For several years he turned his abilities to teaching and in preparation for that attended the State Normal School at Terre Haute and was also a student in Valparaiso University. For three years he taught in rural schools and for one year was a teacher in the grade school at Morocco. Doctor Shafer completed his medical education in Rush Medical College of Chicago, an institution now affiliated with the University of Chicago. He graduated M. D. in 1900, and then returned to Morocco, Indiana, where for two years he was associated with Dr. L. Recher and then practiced along. In 1906 he moved to La Fayette, and that city has been the scene of a very extensive general practice. Doctor Shafer during the World war enlisted in the Medical Reserve Corps and was sent to Camp Greenleaf, Fort Oglethorpe , Georgia, in 1918, was transferred to Base Hospital, Camp Jackson, South Carolina, and after six weeks' service was transferred to Camp Shelby, Mississippi, where he was discharged with the rank of captain in the Medical Corps, December 21, 1918.

Doctor Shafer is a former president of the Medical Society. For twenty years he has been a member of the surgical staff and executive chairman of the Home Hospital, and is on the attending staff of St. Elizabeth's Hospital. He served on the legislative committees of the city and county medical society and is a member of the Indiana State and American Medical Associations.

He was formerly a member of the Kiwanis Club, is a charter member of the American Legion Post and belongs to the Masonic Lodge.

Doctor Shafer married Miss Olive May Rippetoe, whose father, O. B. Rippetoe, was a minister of the Methodist Church. Doctor and Mrs. Shafer have one son, Walter Lee. He graduated Bachelor of Science from the Northwestern University School of Commerce, later took the Master of Science degree at Columbia University in New York and spent two years in Harvard Law School. He is well equipped for special work in commercial and legal fields and is now associated with the Central Trust Company of Chicago.

Doctor Shafer has been interested in politics and while living in Newton County was county chairman of the Republican central committee. For eight years he was councilman at large of LaFayette. For fifteen years he has served as a trustee of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

INDIANA ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OF AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT Vol. 3
By Charles Roll, A.M.
The Lewis Publishing Company, 1931

BERNARD JOHN VOLL is one of the executives in the industrial circles of South Bend. He is a man of liberal education, was ove seas during the World war, was educated for the law, but practically all his time since leaving law school has been devoted to one of South Bend's old industrial organizations, the Sibley Machine Company, of which he is president and manager.

Mr. Voll was born at Zanesville, Ohio, July 30, 1895. His parents, John A. and Mary (Shanley) Voll, were also natives of that Ohio city. His father was president of the Glass Bottle Blowers Association of the United States and Canada, and died at Atlantic City, New Jersey, in 1924. Mrs. Mary (Shanley) Voll now resides in Philadelphia, which city is the home of her only daughter, Imelda, wife of Mr. M. C. Randall. Mr. and Mrs. Randall have two children.

Bernard J. Voll attended a parochial school in Zanesville, a preparatory school in Columbus, Ohio, and in 1917 was graduated from Notre Dame University at South Bend. He left school just in time to begin training for service in the World war. He entered an officers training camp August 27, 1917, and on November 27 was commissioned a first lieutenant of infantry. He was overseas six months, with Company B, One Hundred Fifty- sixth Infantry, Seventh Division. On Oct ber 12, 1918, just a month before the armistice, he was wounded by a high explosive shell and gassed. After being sent home he spent several months in Base Hospital No.9 at Lakewood, New Jersey, and received his honorable discharge there May 7,1919. He left the army with the rank of first lieutenant and now holds a commission of similar grade in the Officers Reserve Corps.

Mr. Voll in 1919 enrolled in the Harvard Law School, and was graduated with the LL. B. degree in 1922.

The Sibley Machine Company was established in South Bend in 1874, the founders of the business, Sibley, Mills & Ware, having come from Worcester, Massachusetts. At South Bend they established a factory for the manufacturing of upright drilling machines and grey iron castings. With the retirement of Mr. Mills in 1878 the firm was continued as Sibley & Ware. The shops and foundry were destroyed by fire in 1883 and subsequently the present plant was erected on Tutt Street. Several additions and new equipment have been added from time to time. In 1904 Mr. Sibley became sole owner of the business, which was incorporated as the Sibley Machine Company. Mr. Sibley retired in 1907 and Mr. William H. Holland became the active head and continued in that capacity until his death in 1922. In 1922, on returning from the eastern law school, Mr. Voll became the active head of the business as president and manager, with Mrs. Voll as vice president. The company now manufactures a special line of power drills, and it is one of the largest plants in South Bend manufacturing a line of staple articles from iron, steel, brass, nickel and other metals. The Sibley drilling machines have long enjoyed a national reputation. Mr. Voll is also president and manager of the Motor Castings Company of South Bend.

He married, June 25, 1921, Miss Helen G. Holland. She was born in South Bend, daughter of Mr: and Mrs. William H. Holland. Mrs. Voll is a graduate of St. Mary's College of South Bend and also attended the University of California. They have three children: Mary Theresa, born June 25, 1924, William Holland, born November 11, 1925, and Helen Georgina, born April 19, 1927. Mr. Voll has a wide acquaintance in South Bend's business and social circles, and though a busy executive betrays in his manner and speech his college training and his broad knowledge as a well trained lawyer. He is a member of the Rotary Club, Knife and Fork Club, Knights of Columbus, the Notre Dame Club of St. Joseph Valley, and the Associated Harvard Clubs, headquarters at Indianapolis. He and his family are members of the Catholic Church. Their city home is at 628 Park Avenue and they also have a delightful summer place, with nine acres of ground, located in Clay Township, on Rural Route No. 5 out of South Bend.

INDIANA ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OF AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT Vol. 3
By Charles Roll, A.M.
The Lewis Publishing Company, 1931

MRS. LIDA LEASURE, M. D., who is now living virtually retired in the attractive little City of Auburn, judicial center of DeKalb County, has made a record of splendid service in the field of education as well as in the practice of medicine, has shown marked versatility of talent, has written numerous poems and prose articles of exceptional literary merit and expressive of well ordered thought and sentiment, and hers was the distinction of being the first woman to be elected to public office in Indiana.

Doctor Leasure was born at Spring Hill, near Greensburg, the judicial center of Decatur County, Indiana, and is a daughter of Jonathan and Mary (Hood) Powers. She received the advantages of the public schools of her native county and at the age of twenty years she entered the Indiana State Normal School at Terre Haute. After being graduated in this institution she initiated her agogic career by becoming a teacher in the high school at Marshall, Illinois. Thereafter she taught in the Model School in Terre Haute and in the Indianapolis High School.. In 1878 she became a teacher in the high school at Auburn, and subsequently was chosen superintendent of the public schools of this city, In 1880 she assumed a position as teacher in the high school at Princeton, county seat of Gibson County, and December 30th of that year marked her marriage to John H. Leasure, of Auburn. After two more years of service as a teacher in the Auburn schools she entered the medical department of the great University of Michigan, and in that institution she was graduated as a member of the class of engaged in the practice of her profession at Auburn, whence, in 1892, she removed to Angola, which place continued the central stage of her professional activities until.1903, save for a year passed in the City of Logansport. In the year mentioned she returned to Auburn, where she has since maintained her home. Here the Doctor again entered educational work. In June, 1911, she was elected to the office of county superintendent of the public schools of DeKalb County. She was elected for a term of four years but by legislative enactment her term was extended to 1917. Her administration justified in the fullest sense her selection for this important office, as the first woman be elected to public office in Indiana, where she likewise gained the incidental distinction of becoming the first woman county superintendent, and, at the time, the only one in the state. Since her retirement from this office she has been content to live a quiet home life in Auburn, though she continues active association with cultural and social affairs and keeps in touch with the best thought and and sentiment of the day.

Doctor Leasure is an honorary member of the Ladies Literary Club of Auburn, has long been a loyal member of the W. C. T. U., and she has membership in the Presbyterian Church. She was prominently identified with the establishing of the Eckhart Public Library in Auburn and has been from the beginning a member of its board of trustees. The Doctor has written fugitive poems, stories and timely press articles, and in past years frequently was called upon to appear on the lecture platform. She has proved in the most significant sense one of the world's constructive workers, and has loved work for the joy of contemplating the finished product, the while an intrinsic and pronounced attribute of her character has been her spirit of justice and fair dealing. She had implacable antagonism to the liquor traffic as formerly conducted, and thus has been the staunch advocate of temperance and prohibition in this connection. For those things that have been worthwhile in her life the Doctor accords special credit to the influence of two remarkable instructors - Robert Miller, a talented attorney of Franklin, Indiana, who did much to direct her intellectual development in her youth, and Prof. W. A. Jones, former president of the State Normal School at Terre Haute, for his influence in character-building.

Mrs. Flossie Richwine, elder of the two children of Doctor Leasure, died in 1928, and the surviving child is Dr. J. Kent Leasure, who is a representative physician and surgeon, and a successful specialist in throat, nose and ear, in the City of Indianapolis.

INDIANA ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OF AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT Vol. 3
By Charles Roll, A.M.
The Lewis Publishing Company, 1931

MILO W. STARK, proprietor of the Stark Realty Company of Mishawaka, is a veteran realtor of Northern Indiana. His experience covers a period of thirty-five years and has brought him an unsurpassed fund of authoritative as to every factor and detail regulating and affecting real estate values and conditions.

Mr. Stark was born on a farm a mile north of Elkhart, in Osolo Township, Elkhart County, April 12, 1866. His parents were Henry and Abbie N. (Thorp) Stark. His father was born at Cleveland; Ohio, his birthplace being now included in the Wade Park, which at that time was his father's farm. Henry Stark as a boy and youth worked for his father, who was a market gardener and in 1865 came to Northern Indiana and acquired a little tract of land north of Elkhart, using the land for the production of vegetable crops, which were sold in the immediate locality. His hard work and thrifty management enabled him to increase his original forty acres until he had a farm of 160 acres, and after he retired he removed to Elkhart and lived there in comfortable circumstances until his death in September, 1911. His wife, Abbie Thorp, was born at Collinwood, near Cleveland, Ohio, and died in 1912, when seventy-nine years of age. Her father, Carmine Thorp, lived to be ninety-two.

Milo W. Stark was the youngest of six children. Two others are now living, his brother Henry and his sister, Mrs. Hattie M. Hosack, both of Elkhart. Milo Stark attended district school in Elkhart County, the high school and business college in the City of Elkhart and for four years was an employee of the New York Central lines. He left the railroad service to get a practical working knowledge of insurance and real estate and for one year he was employed by D. M. Best, of Elkhart, at a salary of forty-five dollars a month. Then, in 1895, he started for himself, and was in business at Elkhart until 1915, when he moved to Mishawaka and established the Stark Realty Company. Under his management this has grown to be one of realty organizations in Saint Joseph County. His company occupies a fine suite of offices in the First National Bank Building. A great volume of business has been transacted through this company during the past fourteen years. Recently they have developed the Stark Realty Company's addition, one of the most ambitious undertakings in the expansion of the city along Lincoln Way East. The company also has complete facilities for general insurance and the handling of bonds and loans.

Mr. Stark has been a public spirited worker in his community. He is president of the City Plan Board, former president of the Chamber of Commerce, is vice president of the Lions Club and of the South Bend-Mishawaka Real Estate Board. He is a member of the Fellowship Club, the Northern Indiana Historical Society, and for two terms was city chairman of the Republican party. He is a member of the Knights of Pythias.

Mr. Stark married in 1888 Miss Flora C. Page, who was born at Mishawaka. They have four children: Roy M., of Elkhart, who is married and his two children are named James and Paul; Miss Mamie and Miss Marie are at home; and Ruth E. is the wife of Ralph J. Vance, of Mishawaka, and they are the parents of George C. and Dorothy Mae Vance.

INDIANA ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OF AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT Vol. 3
By Charles Roll, A.M.
The Lewis Publishing Company, 1931

WILLIAM CLARENCE BRIGHT, a resident of Akron, is senior partner of W. C. Bright & Son, wholesale lumber dealers, specializing in hardwood timber products.

Mr. Bright was born in Kosciusko County, Indiana, August 5, 1872. His great-grandfather was a soldier in the War of 1812. The Bright family is of English ancestry. After the Revolutionary war they settled in Kentucky. Mr. Bright's grandfather, William Bright, was a native of Wayne County, Indiana, a farmer, and married Mary Lane. John Bright was born in Henry County, spent his active life as a farmer and married Minerva J. Burns, of Fulton County, Indiana.

William C. Bright was one of three children. He attended school in Kosciusko and Fulton counties, and the first chapter in his business career was as a telegrapher for the Baltimore & Ohio and Big Four Railways. He has been identified with the lumber trade and industry since about 1902. He started as a timber buyer, later was a jobber in lumber and after about four years took up the manufacturing end. He was with a mill at Wabash for eight years, and successively operated with headquarters at Bluffton, Akron and South Bend, Indiana. At South Bend he was associated with the John I. Shafer Hardwood Company. Mr. Bright in 1922 established his headquarters at Peru, where he organized the firm of W. C. Bright & Son, specializing in northern hardwood, ash, oak, elm, hard and soft maple. Their business is entirely wholesale and they have access to many of the most important sources of supply of hardwood timber and ship the products of various mills throughout Indiana. They have supplied large quantities of selected hardwood for the automobile building industry. Mr. Bright is a member of the Indiana Hardwood Timber Association and during the World war he represented the Government as a lumber inspector.

He married Emma Milessa, a native of Indiana. They have two children: Keith Elijah, who is the junior member of W. C. Bright & Son; and Eugene Paul, in business at Lapel, Indiana. Keith E. Bright married Maxine Yarian. Eugene P. Bright married Modena Cox.

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INDIANA ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OF AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT Vol. 3
By Charles Roll, A.M.
The Lewis Publishing Company, 1931

EDWIN F. MCCABE, of Williamsport, is rounding out fifty years of active membership and work as an Indiana lawyer, and his own career has brought new honors and distinctions to the McCabe family as Indiana lawyers.

Mr. McCabe was born seven miles northwest of Crawfordsville, September 17, 1857. His father was James McCabe, long distinguished as a lawyer and jurist. He was a native of Darke County, Ohio, and came to Indiana when a young man. He attended public schools, taught school, studied law, and in his practice had a clientage of extensive proportions, involving many of the important interests of the state during that time. He was a leader in the Democratic party, and was nominated on the Democratic ticket for Congress, and was also a Judge of the Supreme Court of Indiana six years. He married Serena Van Cleve, of Crawfordsville, Indiana. They had two sons and one daughter, Edwin F., Ella, wife of J. B. Gwin, Civil war soldier, and Charles, an attorney at Crawfordsville.

Edwin F. McCabe was educated in public schools and was graduated from Wabash College in 1880. After graduating he joined his father and brother, Charles, in the practice of law, and for many years was associated with this firm of McCabe & Sons. Later he established an individual practice at Williamsport. Mr. McCabe is a Democrat and accepted the nomination of the party for judge of the Appellate Court.

He married, August 9, 1883, Miss Martha Ross, daughter of Ellis Ross, who was a pioneer merchant of Williamsport. Six children were born to their union: James Ellis, Mary Serena, Charles Edwin, Robert Ross, Edward LeRoy and Harold Ross. James E., a merchant at Greeley, Colorado, married Jestie Dick, of Williamsport, and has five children. Mary Serena, who died in 1909, married Fred Frame, a merchant at Danville, Illinois, and has a daughter, Ruth. Charles Edwin, an attorney practicing at Lafayette, married Mary Louise Wilstach, who is deceased. Robert Ross, also practicing law at Lafayette and representing the third successive generation of the family at the Indiana bar, married Frances Shields of Birmingham, Alabama, and has had three children, Ross, deceased, Carolyn and Frances Elizabeth. Edward LeRoy is an attorney, associated with his father in practice at Williamsport, and is married and has two children, named Teddy and Marjorie Ann. Harold Ross, who lives at Hammond, Indiana, and is superintendent there for the Northern District for a Stoker Company, married Beulah Hancock, who is court reporter for the United States District Court at Hammond.

Edwin F. McCabe is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity, Knights of Pythias, Independent Order of Odd Fellows. During the World war he was a member of the County Council of Defense and legal adviser for the draft board. Two of his sons were with the colors. Charles Edwin was an officer in the supply department of the army at Camp Jackson, South Carolina. Robert became an aviation instructor, was in service at Dallas and at Houston, Texas, and it was this son as pilot that took Edwin F. McCabe for his first ride in the air.

Mr. McCabe's life has been lived upon the theory that success is not measured so much by the honors bestowed upon a man, as by his success in raising a happy family in a happy home. Mr. McCabe's proudest boast is that he has the happiest family in the happiest home in the land.

INDIANA ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OF AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT Vol. 3
By Charles Roll, A.M.
The Lewis Publishing Company, 1931