Mr. Grinstead was born in Columbia Township, Jennings County, Indiana, July 16, 1892. He is of old American stock. While some of the facts are traditional, a fairly accurate account has been given of the Grinstead family in America. Two brothers of the name came from England about 1730, locating in Virginia. One of them remained in that state and his descendants are still found there. The other joined in the western movement which started in the late Colonial period down the valley of Virginia and over the mountains, going to what is now eastern Tennessee. About the time the ambitious Transylvania Company opened up the project for the settlement of Kentucky he moved into that state. A grandson of this Kentucky pioneer was Jonathan Grinstead, the grandfather of Everet Grinstead. Jonathan Grinstead when eighteen years of age enlisted for service in the Union army and died when he was twenty-one years of age, just three days after the birth of his son, James H. Jonathan Grinstead was born in Indiana and had lived on a farm until he went to war. One of his ancestors was a Revolutionary officer. Jonathan Grinstead's son, James H. Grinstead, was born in Jennings County, was a farmer, spent fifteen years in service as a police officer at Greensburg, and was also road supervisor of Columbia Township. He married Mary Chaille, and they had two children, Everett and Albert S., the latter a Shelbyville business man.
Everett Grinstead spent a few years in the grade schools at Greensburg, but his real education has been a product of the university of hard knocks and a working experience that started when he was twelve years of age as a newsboy. He was a hotel clerk, grocery clerk, for two years conducted a restaurant business, and was circulation manager and reporter for the Greensburg Daily News until he answered the call to the colors during the World war.
Mr. Grinstead enlisted in May, 1918, in the Three Hundred Thirteenth Cavalry Regiment. He was with the regiment at Del Rio, Texas, on the Mexican border and served until December 24, 1918. He was ranked as a farrier, or assistant veterinarian. Mr. Grinstead is an active member of the American Legion Post.
After the war he returned to his work with the Greensburg Daily News, but in the fall of 1921 resigned and became connected with the Shelbyville Republican, with which he continued for four years. He has also done work for the Indianapolis News and for one year was field representative over twelve counties of Indiana for the American Agricultural Chemical of Cincinnati. Mr. Grinstead on January 1, 1925, was appointed deputy sheriff of Shelby County. He has always been interested in politics, and did a great deal of work for his party while in the newspaper business.
Mr. Grinstead married Miss Florence T. Whitehead, of Shelby County, and they have four children, Mary, Robert, John and Rosanna.
INDIANA ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OF AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT Vol. 5
By Charles Roll, A.M.
The Lewis Publishing Company, 1931
THEODORE FRANKLIN VONNEGUT. A member of one of the oldest and most highly-respected families of Indianapolis, Theodore Franklin Vonnegut has had an active and diversified career, in which he has invaded several fields of endeavor with marked success. He commenced his career as a lawyer, giving this up temporarily to engage in the book business, in which he became widely known, but eventually returned to the law and is now in possession of a large and representative clientele. He likewise has been prominent in public affairs, particularly those affecting education, and from 1926 to 1928, inclusive, was president of the school board of Indianapolis, and one year (1929) served as chairman of the buildings and grounds committee.
Mr. Vonnegut was born at Indianapolis, June 21, 1880, and is a son of Franklin and Pauline (Von Hake) Vonnegut. His paternal grandfather was Clemens Vonnegut, who was born in Westphalia, Germany, and came to the United States in 1851, settling at Indianapolis, where he became a leading citizen and served as a member of the school board for a period of thirty-seven years. Franklin Vonnegut also labored in the cause of education, having been a member of the school board of Indianapolis for six years.
Theodore Franklin Vonnegut attended the Indianapolis grade schools and the Emmerich Manual Training High School, following which he attended Indiana University, from which he received the degrees of Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Laws. Subsequently he pursued a course at the University of Heidelberg, Germany, and in 1903 graduated from the Indiana Law School. For several years after completing his university work Mr. Vonnegut practiced his profession at Indianapolis, and then engaged in the book business, specializing in old and rare books. He built up a business as an old-book dealer and was known as an authority on such. He wrote and in 1926 published a work entitled “Indianapolis Booksellers and their Literary Background -1822-1860, A Glimpse of the Old Book Trade of Indianapolis,” and this was a thesis submitted to and accepted by Indiana University as a partial requirement for the degree of Master of Arts, January 4, 1926.
n 1926 Mr. Vonnegut retired from the book business and resumed the practice of law. In that year he was elected president of the Indianapolis School Board, a position to which he gave a great deal of his time and thought, contributing to the extensive public school system of his city a wise and efficient administration
He is a Knight Templar Mason.
Mr. Vonnegut married Miss Lucy Lewis, of Princeton, Indiana, a member of a pioneer Indiana family, and they have one daughter: Pauline.
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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
CULLEN C. COCHRAN, a merchant at Center Point, Clay County, has lived all his life in this section of Indiana. He served two terms as county treasurer of Clay County, having been elected to that office in 1924 and reelected in 1926, and served until January 1, 1930.
Mr. Cochran was born in Bowling Green, Clay County, January 28, 1889, son of Charles and Cora (Cullen) Cochran, grandson of George Cochran and great-grandson of Landon Cochran. Landon Cochran was a Pennsylvanian who volunteered for service at the time of the war of 1812, and saw active service in the great battle of Lake Erie under Commodore Perry. The State of Pennsylvania subsequently awarded him a silver medal for his part in this notable naval victory, and this medal is a prized possession of Mr. Cullen C. Cochran. A copy of the formal award of the honor and the medal, signed by Mr. Joseph Heister, one of the state officials at Harrisburg, under date of March 8, 1821, reads as follows:
"In compliance with the directions of the legislation of this commonwealth and, I have the pleasure of conveying to you the thanks of the government of the noble and gallant manner in which you volunteered on board the American squadron on Lake Erie, under the illustrious Perry. And also presenting to you a silver medal, of fine workmanship in compliment of your patriotism and bravery in the celebrated victory over a superior British force on the 19th of September, 1813.
"And I take this occasion to add to the testimony of my sincere accordance with the patriotic and grateful sentiments of the legislature towards you as one of the citizens of Pennsylvania who distinguished themselves in that memorable conflict."
At this time Landon Cochran was living in Fayette County, Pennsylvania.
Charles Cochran, the father of Cullen C., was a well known business man of Clay County, being merchant and postmaster at Bowling Green. He and his wife had three children: Madge, who married Ernst Powell; Cullen C.; and Hazel, now deceased.
Cullen C. Cochran was educated in the schools of Bowling Green and after graduating engaged in farming. When he was twenty- eight years of age he joined his father-in-law, S. B. McCann, in the merchandise business at Bowling Green and continued as a merchant until the votes of the people elected him to office. In February, 1930, Cullen C. Cochran moved to Center Point, Clay County, where he entered into the general mercantile business, associated with Ernst Powell, his brother- in- law, in the firm of Cochran & Powell.
On January 10, 1917, he married Miss Fern McCann, daughter of S. B. and Jane (Frump) McCann. Her father for many years has carried on a successful business at Bowling Green. Her mother died in 1907 and is buried in the Swalley Cemetery. Mr. and Mrs. Cochran have four children, Dorothy F., Charles M., Richard L., and Samuel B.
Mr. Cochran has for years been a leader in the Democratic party, and has contributed to numerous successes of his party in campaigns. He was county chairman of the Democratic committee. He is a member of the Masonic Lodge No. 85, A. F. and A. M., of Bowling Green and the Eastern Star, and his family have been active in the Methodist Episcopal Church and Sunday School.
INDIANA ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OF AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT Vol. 5
By Charles Roll, A.M.
The Lewis Publishing Company, 1931
REV. JESSE LEROY HENDERSON. In the career of Rev. Jesse LeRoy Henderson, minister of the First Baptist Church of Washington, there are to be found all of the qualities that make for success, both personal and material. The strength and fragrance of his faith, the conscientious manner in which he has performed the duties of his holy office, his sincerity, kindliness and humanitarianism, all have led him to a straightforward path and have made him, while still in the flush of young manhood, one of the most beloved men of his calling in Southern Indiana.
Reverend Henderson was born March 14, 1894, in Forsyth County, Georgia, and is a son of William Irving and Elizabeth (Taylor) Henderson. His father, who was also born in Georgia, entered the Baptist ministry at an early age and developed into a celebrated evangelist who traveled all over the southern and middle-western states and whose utterances were heard by thousands. His death occurred in November, 1924, after a career that had been rich in usefulness and well- doing. Reverend Henderson married Elizabeth Taylor, a daughter of John Taylor, who for many years was a prominent agriculturist and merchant of Georgia, and to this union there were born thirteen children, of whom six sons and one daughter survive, as follows: George, who has a Government commission at Fort McPherson, with residence at Atlanta, Georgia, married Leila Westbrook, and has three children; Marion, foreman in the plant of the Pacolet Milling Company at Gainesville, Georgia, who married Pansy Little and has one child; William, who is engaged in the fruit business as a merchant at Gainesville, and is unmarried; Jay, also a resident of Gainesville, who married Polly Williams and has three children; Ray, a decorator of Gainesville, who married Polly Banett and has one child; Rev. Jesse LeRoy, of this review; and Fannie.
Jesse LeRoy Henderson received his early education in the public schools of Georgia and the high school at Gainesville, and after graduation from the latter attended the University of Louisville, Kentucky, and the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary of the same city, being graduated from both institutions in 1922, with the degrees of Bachelor of Arts and Doctor of Laws. For four years following he was minister of the Third Avenue Baptist Church of Louisville, and April 1, 1926, was placed in charge of the First Baptist Church of Washington, where he has since presided with great success. Like his father before him, Reverend Henderson is widely known in evangelistic work, having conducted meetings at Indianapolis and various other prominent points in the state, and is justly accounted one of the foremost workers of his denomination in Indiana. Since locating at Washington he has taken an interest in civic affairs, and has cooperated with other vigorous, broadminded and farsighted men in the promulgation of movements which have made for public progress and development. Being an able executive and possessing business ability, the affairs of his parish are in a flourishing financial condition, and he not only acts as a spiritual guide to his congregation, but as a business adviser and a sincere friend.
Doctor Henderson married Miss Bessie E. Lloyd, a daughter of William Thomas Lloyd, of Nelson County, Kentucky, and a member of an old and prominent Kentucky family. Her grandfather was a soldier during the war between the states and a number of the Lloyds have been prominent in business and public life. To Doctor and Mrs. Henderson there has been born one daughter: Vashti, born in 1926.
INDIANA ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OF AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT Vol. 5
By Charles Roll, A.M.
The Lewis Publishing Company, 1931
GEORGE ALFRED BELL, Marion banker and manufacturer, has traveled a long way since he graduated from technical schools in 1900. On the way he has had many activities, involving hard work and small pay, but his experiences as a whole have contributed to the making of one of Indiana's outstanding men of affairs.
Mr. Bell was born in Brooklyn, New York, September 22, 1878, and is the inheritor sound family stock. His great-grandfather was a professor of philosophy Edinburgh University in Scotland. His grandfather, also named George Alfred Bell, came to America from Morpeth, Northumbelandshire, England, and reached a distinguished position in American manufacture as president of the New Jersey Zinc Company, one of the oldest arid richest corporations in the country. He died at Brooklyn in 1896 and is buried there. He was a member of the Congregational Church and very strict in his religious practices. He followed the rule of giving all he made above $100,000 to the Lord, distributing his surplus generously by building and endowing a number of missions in the poorer parts of Brooklyn. His wife was Isabella E. Blakey.
George Alfred Bell, the second of the name, was born at Brooklyn, New York, September 6,1851, and was also a manufacturer, spending his last years at Marion, Indiana, where he died. He was laid to rest in the Greenwood Cemetery at Brooklyn. He married Eliza Corinne Chandler, who was born near Ashley, Illinois, December 6, 1853, and now resides at Saint Petersburg, Florida.
George Alfred Bell III was educated in grade schools at Troy, New York, in a private school there conducted by Miss Reese, and at the age of twelve entered the Troy Military Academy, and from there went to the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, where he was graduated June 13, 1900, with the degree of Bachelor of Science in civil engineering.
The first job held by the graduate civil engineer paid him ten dollars a week as assistant estimator for the building contracting firm of Foster & Greene in New York City. At the end of the year he obtained a better position with Tower & Wallace, paper mill engineers of New York, being employed as draftsman and surveyor for fifteen dollars a week, It was in 1901 that Mr. Bell came to Marion, Indiana, and during the next four years was bookkeeper with the Marion Malleable Iron Works, at first at seventy-five dollars a month, and later was promoted to treasurer, at a salary of two thousand dollars a year. In 1905 he formed a partnership with Mr. Haswell, under the firm name of Bell & Haswell Coal Company. When this partnership was dissolved Mr. Bell organized and incorporated the Bell Coal Company, with a capital of ten thousand dollars. Mr. Bell became president, and the business is still one of the prosperous organizations of Marion. About that time Mr. Bell became financially interested in a small sawmill near Mobile, Alabama, operating in the long leaf pine district. Its success prompted him to organize the Crichton Lumber Company at Mobile, of which he became president. He sold his interest in 1911 and on July 22 of the same year organized the Hoosier Box & Pie Plate Company of Marion. December 10, 1913, he incorporated the Indiana Fibre Products Company of Marion, with a capital of $50,000 and with himself as president. On January 3, 1921, the Fibre Company turned its facilities over to the Government for the manufacture of munitions, erecting a special building for the purpose.
Mr. Bell in 1922 became treasurer of the Rutenber Electric Company, a $250,000 corporation, and since 1923 has been president of the company, which manufactures a line of electrical heating appliances. Mr. Bell in 1922 was one of the promoters of the Central Wholesale Grocery Company, incorporated for $50,000. At the death of Colonel McCulloch in 1923, Mr. Bell became chairman of the board of directors of the Marion National Bank, and with the death of E. E. Blackburn in 1928 he was asked to fill the office of president, both of which positions he now holds.
Mr. Bell is a former president of the Marion Association of Commerce and is treasurer of the Marion Industrial Fund, established to bring new industries to the city. He is a Knight Templar and thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason and Shriner, member of the B. P. O. Elks, Loyal Order of Moose, the Theta Xi, and a member of the Sigma Xi, honorary scientific society. He is a member of the Columbia Club of Indianapolis, the Kiwanis and Mecca Clubs, and is a Presbyterian.
Mr. Bell married Miss Alice Rebecca McCulloch, daughter of the late Col. John L. McCulloch. They were married in the Ponce de Leon Hotel of Saint Augustine, Florida. Mr. And Mrs. Bell have a son, John Lewis McCulloch Bell, who was born at Marion, June 21, 1913, and was graduated from the Marion High School in May, 1929, and now a student in the Indiana University.
Mr. Bell in a career covering a period of thirty years has exemplified an unusual type of business ability, energy and forcefulness. He is a man of high character, widely known among the business men and citizens of Indiana, and his associates have been given repeated demonstrations of his sound judgment and efficient leadership.
INDIANA ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OF AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT Vol. 5
By Charles Roll, A.M.
The Lewis Publishing Company, 1931
COL. JOHN LEWIS McCULLOCH was a native son of Indiana, and played his part well as a constructive figure in the industrial and financial affairs of his home state. He was a pioneer glass manufacturer, and for many years prior to his death was head of the Marion National Bank.
Colonel McCulloch was born on a farm near Vevay, Switzerland County, Indiana, March 14, 1858, and died nearly sixty-five years later at Marion, January 28, 1923. His body rests in the mausoleum he had constructed in the I. O. O. F. Cemetery at Marion. His father, George McCulloch, was born in Scotland, in 1808, and came to America at the age of sixteen. At Vevay, Indiana, he engaged extensively in the flat boating business on the Ohio River, making boats and loading them with freight which he sent down the Ohio and Mississippi to New Orleans. George McCulloch died in 1891 and is buried at Vevay.
Joh Lewis McCulloch grew up in a stimulating environment, though his opportunities for education were limited. He attended the common schools of Switzerland County, graduated from the high school at Vevay, and subsequently attended Wabash College at Crawfordsville. After his college career he taught for two years in Switzerland County. His first commercial position was clerking in a hardware store at Frankfort, Indiana, at $3.50 a week. For four years he was employed at a salary of $100 a month as bookkeeper for the Southern Glass Works at Louisville, Kentucky, and was then promoted to general manager. After four years he went with the North Wheeling Glass Company at Wheeling, West Virginia, as sales manager and part-time salesman.
Colonel McCulloch became identified with the City of Marion, Indiana, in April, 1888. He was at that time well qualified by a practical knowledge of the glass industry. Many glass manufacturers were seeking locations in the Eastern Indiana field where only a short time before a great belt of natural gas had been developed, providing cheap fuel for glass plants. At Marion Colonel McCulloch organized the Marion Fruit Jar & Bottle Company, of which he was treasurer and president. Later the company established branch plants at Converse and Fairmount, Indiana, and at Coffeyville, Kansas. By 1904 this industry ranked as the second largest of its kind in the United States. Subsequently the Marion Company was sold to the Ball Brothers Corporation of Muncie.
Colonel McCulloch not only utilized the output of the gas fields of Eastern Indiana but engaged in promoting and drilling new wells in the gas and oil fields of the state. He brought in about 100 producing wells, selling them to one of the large eastern oil companies.
After selling his holdings as a glass manufacturer and his interests in the gas and oil fields, Colonel McCulloch took a much needed vacation and for two years he and his wife and daughter toured Europe. After returning to Marion he became interested in the private bank of Jason Wilson. Jason Wilson and his father-in-law, Adam Wolf, had established a private bank in 1862. It was known as the Jason Wilson Exchange Bank, located at the corner of Fourth and Adams streets, where it remained until about 1885. At that time the lot on the corner of Fourth and Washington was purchased, and at this site in 1917 Colonel McCulloch erected the modern seven-story bank and office building which is today the property and home of the Marion National Bank, the largest financial institution in the Eleventh Congressional District. After acquiring the old Wilson Bank, Colonel McCulloch reorganized it in 1905 as the Marion National Bank, with capital of $200,000, which was increased to $250,000, with a surplus of $100,000. The present resources of the institution are $7,000,000. Colonel McCulloch was president of the bank until his death. The first cashier of the national bank was E. E. Blackborn, who five years later became vice president, and following the death of Colonel McCulloch was chosen president. Mr. Blackborn died in 1928 and was succeeded by George Alfred Bell. In June, 1928, the Marion National Bank acquired the Home Savings & Trust Company and in August of the same year took over the Marion State Bank.
It would be difficult to recount all the vital ways in which Colonel McCulloch was identified with the City of Marion. He was elected in 1913 president of the Indiana Bankers Association, later became one of the vice presidents of the American Bankers Association. In 1894 he was made vice president and secretary of the Marion Paper Company, was a director of the Rutenber Electric Company of Marion. He was a leader in all the patriotic activities of the World war, particularly in selling the quota of bonds assigned to Marion. Colonel McCulloch was a man of action and never sought publicity, yet his activities were of such a character and his practical philanthropies so well known that he could not altogether avoid having his name mentioned frequently in the public press. He was very tolerant and broad-minded and though himself a Presbyterian he gave liberally to Catholic, Jewish as well as Protestant charities. He organized the Kiwanis Club in the State of Indiana and was its first governor, also governor for three successive years, and later was one of the international trustees and was chairman for the Kiwanis wing of the Riley Memorial Hospital for Crippled Children at Indianapolis. He was a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason, a Knight Templar and Shriner, a member of the B. P. O. Elks and Moose, member of the Columbia Club of Indianapolis, was president of the Marion Golf Club and Marion Country Club. He held an honorary membership in the Saint James Conclave of the Red Cross of the Knights of Constantine. A Republican, he was appointed a colonel on the staff of Governor Hanley in 1905. He was former president of the Marion Association of Commerce.
Colonel McCulloch married, July 5, 1833, Miss Alice Rebecca Wilson, of Louisville, Kentucky, daughter of Jonathan Wood and Elizabeth Muir Wilson, of Bardstown, Kentucky. Their daughter, Alice Rebecca, is Mrs. George Alfred Bell, of Marion.
INDIANA ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OF AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT Vol. 5
By Charles Roll, A.M.
The Lewis Publishing Company, 1931
BERT F. YAGER is a native son of Marion County, was here reared and educated, here he has from his boyhood been actively associated with productive farm industry, and he now has control of a fine farm estate that is owned by his mother, in Decatur Township. Of the secure place that is his in the confidence and good will of the people of this community no further evidence is required than the statement that in 1930 he is serving his eighth consecutive year as trustee of his township. He is one of the progressive and wide-awake agriculturists and stock-growers of Marion County and is well entitled to individual recognition in this publication.
Mr. Yager was born in Marion County, and is the eldest of the six children of his parents, who still resides on their fine homestead farm in this county, the father, Charles F. Yager, having long been one of the outstanding exponents of farm enterprise here and being a substantial and highly respected citizen of the county. Of the other children it may be recorded that Minnie is the wife of H. Jessup; Emma is the wife of Frank Bishop; Eliza is the wife of Frederick Beck; and Frank and Jessie likewise continue residents of their native state.
Charles F. Yager is a son of William C. and Sophia (Wiley) Yager, both natives of Germany and both early settlers in Indianapolis. Charles F. was reared and educated in Marion County and here he has through his own ability and efforts achieved worthy prosperity, he having long been numbered among the influential representatives of farm enterprise in the county, where he and his wife own a large and valuable area of well improved farm land, including the place occupied and operated by their son Bert F., the immediate subject of this review.
The sturdy discipline of the home farm marked the boyhood and early youth of Bert F. Yager, and in the meanwhile he duly profited by the advantages of the public schools, including high school, in which latter he was a student three years. He has never faltered in his allegiance to the basic and important industries of agriculture and stock-raising, of which he is now one of the enterprising and successful exponents in his native county, the farm on which he stages his activities comprising 100 acres and having good improvements of permanent order. Mr. Yager is a Republican, he and his wife are zealous members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and he is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, both he and his wife having membership in the Order of the Eastern Star.
On the 22d of April, 1916, Mr. Yager was united in marriage with a daughter of Austin and Nettie (Heizer) Mendenhall, the latter whom still resides in Marion County. Austin Mendenhall, a son of Wesley and Rhoda (Johnson) Mendenhall, was long one of the prosperous representatives of farm enterprise in Marion County, where his death occurred in 1922, his mortal remains being laid to rest in the cemetery at West Newton. Mr. and Mrs. Yager have three children: Martha, Dale and Joseph H.
Mr. Yager has always shown a lively interest in everything touching the welfare and advancement of his home community and native county, and his has been a notably loyal and constructive service in the office of township trustee, successive reelection having testified to the high popular estimate placed upon his administration.
INDIANA ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OF AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT Vol. 5
By Charles Roll, A.M.
The Lewis Publishing Company, 1931
GEORGE H. CARTER. Banks are well known to be among the most conservative of institutions, and when a man is placed at the executive head of one of them, he is accepted by his community as one of the sound and reliable business men and financiers, or he would not have been so honored. Many of these executives have worked their way up in banking so that they understand its every phase, and such is the case with George H. Carter, president of the Orleans National Bank of Orleans, Indiana. Mr. Carter has learned bank procedure step by step, and the whole routine and the world of bank ideals have opened before him as he was promoted from one position to another as he showed capacity to grasp the opportunities afforded him.
George H. Carter was born in Orange County, Indiana July 21, 1870, a son of Dr. Theopolis Carter, also a native of Orange County and a medical practitioner of note throughout Orange County for a long period. From the time of his graduation in medicine until his death, in October, 1899, when he was seventy-two years old, he was active in practice. He married Mary R. Hardesty, who was born in Kentucky, and died March 31, 1915. They had two children, but the daughter, Margaret, died in infancy. The paternal grandfather of George H. Carter was Shadrick Carter, one of the early settlers of Orleans Township, Orange County, who was born July 2, 1792. A man of great energy and determination, he took an outstanding part in the development of his township, assisting in building the first schoolhouse, and making other improvements, including the erection of the First Methodist Church in Orleans Township. A Jacksonian Democrat, he was one of the leaders of the local party, and in the early days of the county's history represented it in the Indiana State Legislature, where he took a characteristic part. On December 3, 1822, Shadrick Carter was married to Miss Margaret Carpenter.
The earliest record Mr. Carter has of his ancestors is a record of Samuel Carter, who served in the Revolutionary war and was the great-grandfather of George H. Carter. George H. Carter had better educational opportunities than many farmers’ sons of his period, for after he had completed his work in the local schools he entered the University of Indiana, and was graduated therefrom in 1897, with the degree of Bachelor of Chemistry. His first position was one he secured in a bank, and he has continued his connection with banking ever since, although in addition to it he has, in later years, had an interest in a firm of road building contractors. He is also the owner of several very valuable farms, one of which is the farm owned by his paternal grandfather and father before him.
On July 1, 1903, Mr. Carter was married to Miss Nellie Glover, a daughter of Stephen and Elizabeth (Kearby) Glover. There are no children. Mrs. Carter and her parents were all born in Orange County, where the family is an old and honored one. Mr. Carter is a Republican, but is not a politician in any sense of the word, his many interests preventing his going into public life, although, of course, he gives his support to the candidates of his party. For many years he has been a consistent member of the Christian Church.
INDIANA ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OF AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT Vol. 5
By Charles Roll, A.M.
The Lewis Publishing Company, 1931
