Father Gallagher was born in Chicago, December 25, 1887, son of Martin and Catherine (Reagan) Gallagher. His father was a native of New York City, while his mother was born in North Vernon, Indiana, and reared and educated in Cambridge City, Indiana. Martin Gallagher was in the grocery business. He died in 1907, and the widowed mother is now housekeeper for her son at Newcastle.

John J. Gallagher attended St. Gregory's preparatory seminary at Cincinnati, was a student in St. Joseph's College at Rensselaer, Indiana, and devoted six years to his philosophic and theological preparation at St. Meinrad Seminary. He was ordained May 13, 1913. The first call upon his services was as assistant to St. Philips Catholic Church in Indianapolis. He remained there six years, for one year was assistant at Jeffersonville, Indiana, and then became pastor of a church in Martin County.

Father Gallagher since 1921 has been pastor of St. Anne's church in Newcastle. Here he has done much to upbuild his congregation, has extended the service of different departments of the church, and has shown a constant interest in all movements to promote the broader welfare of the city. He is captain of the Knights of Columbus Council and politically casts an independent vote.

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

LEWIS HENRY CREAGER, of Bicknell, has had an exceedingly busy and useful life as a lumber manufacturer and furniture merchant. He was engaged in the timber and lumber business for many years, and from the operation of saw mills he turned to a special line of handling finished lumber products, furniture, and is now proprietor of a business operating two stores in Knox County.

He was born in Ohio, in 1858. His father was a farmer and merchant in Ohio and afterwards at Brooklyn, Indiana. Lewis Henry Creager attended school at Versailles, Ohio, and as a youth worked in his father's store at Versailles. When the family moved to Indiana they located on a farm near Portland, and Lewis Henry took a part in the work of the farm until he was twenty-three.

After that he was in the lumber business for forty years. He operated a mill in Jay County, Indiana, manufacturing lumber of special requirements and had a plant employing twenty-five men. After selling his interests there in 1894 he moved to Daviess County in Southwestern Indiana, put up a new mill and continued as a lumber manufacturer until 1914. Mr. Creager has been a resident of Bicknell since 1914, and since that time has been in the furniture business. He has two stores, one located at Bicknell and the other at Washington. Each store has about 7,200 square feet of floor space and carries a a complete line of house furnishing goods, a standard line of furniture to meet the needs and tastes of the communities around the stores. Mr. Creager is a member of the Merchants Association of Bicknell and has filled all the chairs in the Knights of Pythias Lodge.

He married Melissa Coffin, of Winchester, Indiana. They have five children: Harry and Clay, both of whom are employees of the Baltimore & Ohio Railway; Donald; Lefa, wife of J. H. Barrow; and Lillie. The son Donald is now manager of the branch furniture store at Washington.

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

WILLIAM F. FEHRMAN. It has been most justly claimed that if no historian of the future arises to write of the present period, the record will be adequately preserved in the columns, not alone of the metropolitan centers, but of smaller cities and towns, of the newspapers. From these day by day, or week by week, records of the everyday life of the people may be gleaned the conditions, both material and political, which prevailed during the first quarter of the twentieth century by the people of say the thirtieth century. On the other hand historians declare that not until the subsequent generation can an event be described in an unprejudiced manner. Perhaps this latter is also true, but everyone has experienced to a more or less extent the difficulty of securing an accurate account about something a few months later on, especially from several persons. The newspapers chronicle events in the moment of their occurrence, while interest is keen and facts common property. Unfortunately the necessity for speed in the issuance of these journals, and the quality of the paper, operate against their permanent preservation. Enough, perhaps, is their mission to send forth their message to the sections in which they circulate, and to educate and influence their readers according to their several policies. One of these modern newspapers, widely circulated in Dearborn County, the Aurora Journal, is now under the efficient charge of William F. Fehrman, secretary-treasurer of the Dearborn Publishing Company, which owns and publishes the Journal, formerly the Dearborn Independent.

William F. Fehrman is a native son of Indiana, born in Ohio County, in 1901, and his father, Charles Fehrman, was also born in the state. He married Margaret Ritter, and they have had nine children born to them. The paternal grandfather was William Fehrman.

An ambitious lad, William F. Fehrman did not go beyond the Aurora grade schools, for he began earning his living when only fourteen years of age, and has continued in the printing business ever since, working in all of the departments of a newspaper, so that when, in December, 1927, he took over the of the plant of the Dearborn Independent he knew every phase of his undertaking, and has made remarkable progress. In addition to issuing the Aurora Journal his company does a general line of job printing, and has an excellent modern bindery.

Mr. Fehrman married Miss Loretta Haug, born in Dearborn County. Fraternally Mr. Fehrman affiliates with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. During the World war he served in the Home Guard. He is a member of the Indiana Republican Editorial Association. Politically he is a Republican.

The Aurora Journal was for years the Dearborn Independent, but with the first issue of Volume 62 the name was changed to the present one, and in that number the following appeared as a portion of an article appearing under the caption "Aurora Journal is New Name".

”For some time the owners have had under consideration the changing of the name of the paper, and, after have finally concluded to take a new name, the Aurora Journal, and commence the new year under the above title.

”The Dearborn Independent, which is now by the Aurora Journal, is sixty-one years old this week. A record that any newspaper can well be proud of. For to have carried on for that length of time, weathering the many vicissitudes of those years, keeping its place in the life and interests of the community, is an achievement that takes determination, purpose, and speaks well for those guiding its destinies, and the fact that it is still recognized as the 'home paper' tells the story of its achievements.

”In the 1850s there was started in Aurora a newspaper called the Aurora Commercial. It was edited by E. F. Sibley.

”In 1868 the Aurora Commercial was sold to a stock company of twenty-four, of which John Cobb was president. The name was then changed to the Dearborn Independent.

”In its first issue it was announced that the editor was J. W. McDonald, and that the local department was in the charge of T. J. Cobb.

”L. W. Cobb bought the Dearborn Independent in April, 1873, and was for forty years its sole owner, editor and publisher, during which time the Independent was recognized as a very strong Republican newspaper.

Mr. L. W. Cobb died December 29, 1912, just four months prior to completing forty years as owner and editor of the Independent. At that time the paper was taken in charge by his widow and daughter, Mrs. L. W. Cobb and Inez S. Cobb, who also ran it as a Republican publication.

"They sold the Independent in August, 1926, to a stock company, the Dearborn Publishing Company, of which A. G. Pedersen, who came here from Chicago, owned a big majority of the stock, was made manager of the business and editor of the paper.

"In October, 1927, after being connected with the Independent for fourteen months, Pedersen severed his connection with the company.

"At that time William F. Fehrman and members of his family bought the Pedersen interests.

"With Mr. Fehrman as editor and Inez S. Cobb as associate editor the paper returned to its proper place in the Republican fold, and again a newsy home paper was published."

In this first issue under the new name the Aurora Journal states "that the paper will be carried on the same as it has been in the past year, under the management of William F. Fehrman. It will be a real home paper, endeavoring to serve the people of this community, and will make no change in any of its policies."

Mr. Fehrman is the type of man in whom the intellectual development has found precedent over the more strenuous activities of public life, but he is not without motive power of energy and aspiration that has never failed to bring success to a man when properly focused. His career has been developed along lines of thought, as well as those of action, and his theories have been potent in the process of rounding out his newspaper life.

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

LEWIS G. ELLINGHAM, president and manager of the Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette, is a veteran of the profession of journalism in Indiana, widely known all over the northern part of the state, and his name has a statewide significance due to two terms of service in the office of Secretary of State.

His parents, Charles and Hannah (Scotton) Ellingham, were born in England, came to America and became Indiana farmers, and were living on a farm in Wells County when their son Lewis G. was born February 23, 1868. Six years later they moved to Bluffton, where the son attended public schools and gained his first knowledge of the printing trade in the office of the Bluff ton Banner. At the age of nineteen he made an independent venture into journalism by purchasing the Herald at Geneva, Indiana. After three years he acquired the Winchester Democrat, which he published three years, and then established the Decatur Democratic Press. In 1896 a stock company bought the Decatur Democrat, combining the two papers under the name The Democrat. The community of Decatur still claims Mr. Ellingham, where he spent some of the most active years in his career as a journalist and public man.

Mr. Ellingham in 1916 came to Fort Wayne and in partnership with Edward G. Hoffman acquired the Journal-Gazette. Mr. Hoffman withdrew from the partnership and since then Mr. Ellingham has guided the destiny of the Journal-Gazette and has made it one of the really great newspapers of the State of Indiana.

Mr. Ellingham served as eighth district chairman of the Democratic party in 1906 and 1908, and in 1910 he led the entire state ticket as a candidate for secretary of state, being elected by a plurality of 13,000 votes. In 1912 he was reelected by a still larger vote. His term ended December 1, 1914, and two years later he removed to Fort Wayne.

Mr. Ellingham was an active member of the old Commercial Club, and has done a great deal of important work through the civic and municipal bureau of the present Chamber of Commerce, and was active in the building fund campaign in January, 1926. He is a member of the Fort Wayne Rotary Club, and has given his support to the Izaak Walton League, the Fort Wayne-Allen County Historical Society and other community building groups. He is a member of the Decatur Lodge of Masons, the Scottish Rite bodies of Fort Wayne and Mizpah Temple of the Mystic Shrine, and was captain of the Marlon group of Mizpah Temple’s campaign in 1926. He is a member of the Decatur Lodge of Elks and Knights of Pythias. He and his wife are members of the First Presbyterian Church. Mr. Ellingham is president of the Bond Engraving Company of Fort Wayne.

He married, January 2, 1895, Miss Nellie Miller, daughter of Col. M. B. Miller, of Winchester. They have one daughter, Winefred, now the wife of J. Ewing Bond, of Fort Wayne, and a son, Miller, now assistant general manager of the Journal-Gazette. He married Margery Hyman, of Fort Wayne.

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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

ARCHIE LEE TURNER. One of the important resources of Scott County is the production of vegetable crops for the canning industry. About two miles south of Scottsburg is located the plant of the Vienna Canning Company, a business that during the season employs about 150 people and has an average production of 30,000 cases of tomatoes and 20,000 cases of pumpkin.

The active manager of this plant since 1923 has been Mr. Archie Lee Turner, who has been an experienced worker in the canning business since early manhood. Mr. Turner was born in Tipton County, Indiana, March 24, 1890, son of Thomas Turner and grandson of Thomas Turner. His father was a Tipton County farmer and held the office of road supervisor there. Archie Lee Turner was one of three children and attended the public schools of Tipton County. He has been doing for himself since he was eighteen. He learned the canning business by familiarizing himself with every routine duty in a plant. For a time he was foreman of the Home Packing Company at Elwood, was a partner and foreman of the Ferguson Canning Company of that city, and during the World war was employed by the Underwood Canning Company, which was on a basis of 100 per cent war production. During 1922 he was foreman of the Marysville canning plant and in 1923 came to the Vienna Canning Company in Scott County.

Mr. Turner married in 1913 Miss Carrie Scott, of Tipton County, whose people were early settlers of Indiana. They have six children, Virgil, Frances, Ballard, Pauline, Ruth and Bonnie.

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

JOHN L. BAKER is an Indiana educator, acting as superintendent of public schools in his native City at Vincennes.

Mr. Baker is a son of William Baker, Sr. His grandfather came from Germany and settled in Indiana before the Civil war. William Baker, Sr., was born in Indiana and has been a prominent figure in the industrial and business life of the Vincennes district. He organized and is president of the American National Bank of Vincennes. He was in the distilling business until 1917 and for the past ten years has been a coal operator, owning and operating two coal mines in Knox and Sullivan counties, working 400 men and producing 3,000 tons of coal daily.

John L. Baker and sister, Esther, were both educated in the schools of Vincennes. He was formerly president of the Vincennes School Board, and then took the office of superintendent of schools. He is a member of Vincennes Lodge No.1, A. F. and A. M., is a Scottish Rite Mason and Shriner and a Democrat in his political affiliations.

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

EDWARD KRAUSE. Prominent among the officials of Jackson County who by their service, ability and energies are contributing materially to the welfare and progress of their respective communities, one whose past activities have been of such a character as to gain for him something more than passing mention is Edward Krause, postmaster of Crothersville. Still a young man, Mr. Krause's career has touched life on many sides, he having had experience in business, in railroading, as a soldier and as an official. In each capacity he has discharged his duties with signal ability and established himself firmly in the confidence and esteem of those with whom he has been identified.

Mr. Krause was born at Crothersville, Jackson County, Indiana, February 25, 1898, and is a son of John and Caroline (Kovenor) Krause. John Krause was born in Germany, and was only fourteen years of age when brought to this country by his parents, who took up their residence in Indiana. As a youth, he learned the trade of carpenter and as the years passed developed into a contractor and builder, in which vocations he is still engaged. He is one of the substantial and highly esteemed men of his community and has a host of friends and well-wishers. Mr. Krause married Miss Caroline Kovenor, of Jackson County, Indiana, and they became the parents of four children.

Edward Krause attended the grade and high schools of Crothersville until reaching the age of seventeen years, at which time he enlisted in the United States Marines and saw twenty-two months of service, rising to first sergeant of the Eighty-fourth Company, Fifteenth Regiment, , Second Brigade. He received his honorable discharge in October, 1919, and, deciding that he had enough of soldiering, obtained a position as clerk in the office of the Pennsylvania Railroad, where he worked from January, 1920, until July, 1921. At that time Mr. Krause was appointed acting postmaster of Crothersville, to fill a vacancy, and October 20, 1921, was appointed postmaster during the administration of President Harding. He was reappointed December 21, 1925, by President Coolidge, and still occupies this position. He has made a number of material changes at Crothersville, which have facilitated and expedited the service and which have found much commendation at the hands of the people. It has been his fortune to make and hold numerous friendships, and to have impressed himself upon the community as a man of ability and energy. His support is given to every worthy movement and he is an enthusiastic member of the local lodge of the Masonic fraternity and the local post of the American Legion, of which he has been a member since its inception.

Mr. Krause was united in marriage with Miss Vivian Craven, who is descended from the noted Craven family, the name so vividly associated with the "Pigeon Roost Massacre." She also bears relationship to a long line of Indiana pioneers who have been prominent in the history of the Hoosier State, and is a daughter of Clyde Craven, a well-known farmer of Jackson County, who is serving in the capacity of county assessor.

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

RICHARD B. WETHERILL., who for over thirty years has practiced medicine and surgery at Lafayette, is a member of a family long distinguished in America as scientists and inventors.

Doctor Wetherill is a descendant of Christopher Wetherill, who came from England to New Jersey in 1682 and gave to the Quakers the land on which their first meeting house in Burlington, New Jersey, was erected. A descendant of Christopher was Samuel Wetherill, a Philadelphia manufacturer who was the first in the United States to make white lead. He and other Quakers joined in the defense of Philadelphia during the Revolution, and for that cause was excommunicated by the church. Consequently he founded what has since been known as the Society of Free Quakers, also sometimes called "Fighting" Quakers. A later descendant of this Samuel Wetherill was Samuel Wetherill whose experiments and inventions led to the production of "zinc white,” and to the use of zinc as a substitute for or in combination with white lead in paint materials.

The father of Doctor Wetherill of Lafayette was an eminent American scientist, Charles Mayer Wetherill, who was born at Philadelphia, November 4, 1825, and died at South Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, March 5, 1871. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1845, specialized in chemistry, went abroad and took his Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1848. After his return he engaged in chemical investigations in his private laboratory in Philadelphia. During the Civil war President Lincoln appointed him chemist to the agricultural department, and he was the first to hold that position. In 1866 he became professor of chemistry in Lehigh University in Pennsylvania, and filled that chair until his death. The honorary degree of M. D. was conferred upon him by the New York Medical College in 1853.

Dr. Charles M. Wetherill came to Lafayette, Indiana, about 1855 and married Mary C. Benbridge, who was born at Lafayette, January 28, 1833. Her father was Thomas Truxton Benbridge, who settled at Lafayette, Indiana, in 1829. He was a grandson of Commodore Thomas Truxton, who made a distinguished record as a naval officer in the War of the Revolution and was selected as one of the first six captains of the United States Navy when it was organized. He commanded the Constellation in its brilliant victory over the French man-of-war in February, 1799. His memory has been handed down in the navy as one of its most distinguished officers. At one time eight of his grandsons were cadets in the United States Naval Academy.

Richard B. Wetherill was one of the two children of his parents. After the death of his father his mother returned to Lafayette, where he completed his high school training. For four years he was a student in Lehigh University of Pennsylvania, and he studied medicine in Jefferson Medical College at Philadelphia, graduating in 1883. Following that he went abroad and pursued his studies under the eminent German scientists, Rudolph Virchow and Robert Koch, spending one year at the University of Berlin, and during 1885-86 continued his post-graduate studies at the University of Pennsylvania. He served as an interne in St. Mary's Hospital at Philadelphia.

In the fall of 1886 Doctor Wetherill returned to Lafayette and was engaged in practice as a physician and surgeon for over thirty years, retiring in 1917 in order to give his services to the United States Government.

He was commissioned a lieutenant in the Volunteer Medical Corps, and served until January, 1919, at Purdue University. He is a member of the Tippecanoe County, Indiana State and American Medical Associations, is a member of the Pathological Society of Philadelphia, and was made a fellow of the American College of Surgeons in the first year of that organization. Doctor Wetherill held the chair of Principles of Surgery of the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Indianapolis in 1905-06, and the chair of Materia Medica in the College of Pharmacy of Purdue University in 1886-87. He is a former city and county health officer. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity, the B. P. O. Elks. Doctor Wetherill is president of the Tippecanoe County Historical Society and for the past ten years has devoted much of his time to the study of ancient civilization. In his investigations he has gone abroad, has traveled and pursued his investigations through Indo-China, Mesopotamia, Egypt, also on the American continent in Yucatan, Mexico, Peru, and in 1923 made a journey across the continent of Africa from Cairo to Cape Town. Some of the results of his researches have been published.

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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

FRANK D. BUTLER, of Peru, is a veteran in the practice of law and in varied service as a citizen, in the course of which he has come in contact with many prominent men of the state and is one of the recognized leaders of the Democratic party of Indiana.

Mr. Butler was born in Miami County, December 30, 1858. His father, Jesse B. Butler, was also a native of Indiana and a son of William Butler, who joined the migration of Quakers to Eastern Indiana in 1816 and settled in Wayne County. The Butlers came to America with William Penn and first settled in Pennsylvania. William Butler was born in Pennsylvania, in 1775, and had lived in South Carolina and Georgia before coming to Indiana. Jesse B. Butler came to Miami County and settled in Perry Township about 1835 and spent his active life as a farmer.

Frank D. Butler was the youngest of eight children. When he was fifteen years of age the death of his parents left him an orphan and he had a considerable struggle in getting a living, procuring the education his ambition demanded and in setting himself on the road to a professional career. After the public schools he attended Purdue University, and while a student there supported himself by newspaper work, acting as university correspondent to the Lafayette Courier, and was on the staff of reporters of that paper until he returned to Peru in 1880. For eight years he was deputy sheriff, utilizing his spare time to study law. From 1888 to 1890 he acted as private secretary to the distinguished Indiana Senator David Turpie. In 1889 he was admitted to the Indiana bar, and his name has been an honored one in the profession at Peru since that date. In 1890 he was elected prosecuting attorney and reelected in 1892, and has also served as county attorney and city attorney. During the 1913 flood he was chairman of the Flood Relief Committee.

Mr. Butler was grand regent of the Royal Arcanum, 1908-10. He is a member of the Miami County and Indiana State Bar Associations. He was a delegate from Indiana to the National Democratic Convention at Baltimore in 1912, when Woodrow Wilson was nominated for his first term. In 1916 he was a member of the Street Committee of the party and chairman of the Speakers Bureau. At the time of the war he rendered special service with the National Protective League, an auxiliary of the Department of Justice.

Mr. Butler married Minnie Merrill, a native of Illinois. They have two children, the daughter, Dorothy, being the wife of Oran W. Morrissey. The son, Robert, was educated in the grade and high schools of Peru, studied law with his father and prior to his admission to the bar was in the employ of the Citizens National Bank at Peru.

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

JOSEPH A. CRUM has served as postmaster of Dayton, Indiana, since his original appointment in July, 1922. He has made himself a very popular citizen of this section of Tippecanoe County. Mr. Crum is a nephew of the late Lawrence Nicely, for many years one of the outstanding business men and citizens of Dayton.

Joseph A. Crum was born in Pennsylvania, son of William H, and Elfa F. (Wright) Crum. William Crum spent many years in service as a railroad conductor with the Pennsylvania lines. He was born in Cambria County, Pennsylvania, and was educated in the common schools. At the time of the Johnstown flood of 1889 he began his career as a railroad man; starting as a brakeman, and continued in the service until retired as a result of injuries. He became a leading figure and influence in Western Pennsylvania politics. For five terms he held the office of mayor of Conemaugh, and his leadership and influence brought him in intimate association with prominent political leaders and groups in Pittsburgh and elsewhere. He was a member of the United Evangelical Church and taught a class in its Sunday School for thirty years. He was a member of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen. His children were five in number: Joseph A.; Abraham, of Pittsburgh; Homer, deceased; Harriett, wife of Herbert Luther; and Daniel, who lives with his mother in Pennsylvania.

Mr. Crum's mother is a daughter of Joseph A. Wright and granddaughter of David Wright. David Wright acquired land from the Government near Portage, Pennsylvania, and was a farmer there. Joseph Wright served as a soldier in the Civil war and had a brother who was a captain. Joseph Wright is still living at Portage, Pennsylvania. The Wright family is of Scotch ancestry.

Joseph A. Crum began attending school at the age of six years. While in high school he worked after hours and during vacations, for a time was with a steel company, his particular job being the making of rake teeth for farm implements, and during his last two years in high school he worked evenings and Saturdays at the barber's trade. He was a barber in his home town in Pennsylvania until 1906, when he came to Indiana to live with his uncle, Lawrence Nicely, at Dayton. In 1909 he returned to Pennsylvania and owned a barber shop there until 1915. In that year he again established himself at Dayton, where he was associated with his uncle in business.

Mr. Crum in May, 1918, enlisted for service in the World war. He was in training at Camp Lee, Petersburg, Virginia, being with the Eleventh Battalion Headquarters as a private. After the war he returned to Dayton, and was made manager of the Nicely business. After the death of his uncle he continued the management for his widow until the business was sold in 1923. Since then he has given his undivided attention to his duties as postmaster. When Mr. Crum became postmaster the Dayton postoffice was using equipment which had been installed more than half a century before. Under Mr. Crum's administration this equipment has been completely brought up to date. He has been an influential civic leader in various ways, helping promote good roads and other community enterprises.

Mr. Crum's wife, Mrs. Anastasia Crum, lived during her girlhood in Texas and California, and completed her literary education at Washington, D. C. She is a graduate nurse of the Cook County Hospital of Chicago. Mr. and Mrs. Crum are members of the Eastern Star, of which he is a past worthy patron. He is a past master of Dayton Lodge No. 103, A. F. and A. M., and is a member of Dayton Lodge No. 492, Knights of Pythias, and affiliates with Lafayette Post No. l1 of the American Legion.

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

DONALD M. WARREN is vice president and general manager of the Warren Paper Products Company, Inc., at 125 South Fifth Street in Lafayette. Mr. Warren has been in the paper box business since he left college. He entered it at an opportune time. Paper box making is an old established industry, but for many years it was confined to a rather limited field in competition with wooden boxes. Almost within the personal experience of Mr. Warren paper box containers have become practically dominant and have all but ousted the wood and lumber materials until these materials are now used in a way fully as limited as was formerly true of strawboard and paper containers. Mr. Warren was born at Watseka, Illinois, July 26, 1900. His father, Harry A. Warren, has been a prominent citizen of Watseka for many years, a farmer, banker and former sheriff of his county. He married Miss Minnie McGill.

Donald M. Warren attended school at Watseka, was sent to the Wentworth Military Academy in Missouri and completed his education in the University of Illinois. His brother and associate, R. A. Warren, was also educated in the University of Illinois. Donald M. Warren during the war was a member of the Reserve Officers Training Corps and a short time before the armistice was sent for special training to Fort Sheridan.

His early experience in the paper box business was gained at Danville, Illinois, where he became vice president of the Mirle Sears Paper Box Company, which made all extensive line of set up paper boxes. In the fall of 1921 he came to Lafayette, where he organized the Warren Paper Products Company, Inc. M. M. Warren is president of the corporation, R. A. Warren is secretary and Donald M. holds the offices of vice president, treasurer and general manager.

The Warren Paper Products Company has a large and splendidly equipped plant. They started business in a small building on North Fourth Street. In 1924 they erected a new plant, with 19,000 square feet of floor space and equipped with the latest modern machinery, capable of an enormous output with comparatively few machine operators or tenders. About fifty people are employed in the business. They manufacture set up boxes of all kinds, chiefly catering to the needs of the shoe, candy, underwear and hosiery industries. The products of the plant are shipped all over Indiana and to adjacent states.

Mr. Warren is a member of the National Paper Box Manufacturers Association, the Lafayette Chamber of Commerce, is a Republican, a Methodist and a member of the Tri Epsilon college fraternity.

He married Miss Katharine Kemp, of Illinois, and they have two children, Janice and Ann.

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