Mr. Foresman was born on the farm where he now resides, October 3, 1866, son of Bennett and Mary (Groce) Foresman, and a descendant of William Foresman, who was a Virginia soldier in the War of the Revolution. Mr. Foresman is descended from another William Foresman, son of the Revolutionary veteran. This William was born in Hardy County, in what is now West Virginia, and moved west with his family to Circleville, Ohio. The grandparents of John P. Foresman were Phillip and Eliza (Bennett) Foresman, Phillip Foresman was born in Circleville, Ohio, prominent in politics, at one time representing his county in the Ohio Legislature. Bennett Foresman was born in Tippecanoe County, Indiana, but when he was about four years, of age his parents moved back to Ohio, to Circleville, Pickaway County. He attended school at Circleville and from the age of sixteen was on his own responsibility. He soon returned to Indiana, and became a well-to-do farmer of Tippecanoe County. At one time he was county treasurer and was an active member of the Presbyterian Church. He and his wife had two children, John P. and William B. William B. Foresman married Ann Kennedy and has three children, Mary, Gloria and William.
John P. Foresman was educated in country schools and the city schools at Lafayette, and during 1889 was a student in Purdue University. He has made a business of farming, which he has followed actively for over forty years.
Mr. Foresman married in December, 1894, Miss Clara Kurtz, daughter of Charles and Mary (Ruger) Kurtz. Her father came from Bavaria, Germany, and was a packer, stock buyer and merchant. Of the four children of Mr. and Mrs. Foresman the oldest was Edward, who died in training camp while enrolled as a soldier at Purdue University. The second child, Mary E., is also deceased, Helen L. is the wife of W. Johnson. The only surviving son is William K. Foresman, who attended grade and high school at Lafayette, and graduated from Purdue University in 1930.
Mr. Foresman has for many years been one of the most influential Democrats in Tippecanoe County. He served on the advisory township board and occupied the office of county auditor four years, during 1907-10. His hobby is the raising of harness horses. One animal raised on his farm and which had a record of participation in 152 races in different parts of the country was Checkers, who made a mark of 2:06 l/4 and in every race shared in the money.
INDIANA ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OF AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT Vol. 5
By Charles Roll, A.M.
The Lewis Publishing Company, 1931
WILLIAM T. BAILEY, Indianapolis lawyer and philanthropist was born at Decatur, Illinois, September 16, 1876, next to the youngest in a large family of eleven children, whose parents were Alfred S. and Mary M. (Taylor) Bailey. His father was a native of Virginia and for many years in the bakery and confectionary business at Decatur. He was a giant in strength and physique, an advocate of fair and honest dealings among men and was frequently called upon to adjust disputes and difficulties in his neighborhood. He died in 1895. His wife, Mary M. Taylor, was born at Salem, near Decatur, Illinois, and her parents were close neighbors of the Lincoln family. As a girl she knew Abraham Lincoln and her parents, expert coat makers, made the coat worn by Lincoln on one of his first public appearances at Springfield. Mrs. Mary Bailey is remembered as a woman of exceptional cheerful and happy disposition, helpful to all who needed her help. She was a lover of nature, and, being blessed with wonderful health spent much of her time raising garden products and flowers. She died in 1918, in her eighty-first year.
William T. Bailey attended school at Decatur but since the age of fourteen has been self supporting. He came to Indianapolis when he was nineteen, with a view to studying law. Not having the money to carry out those plans immediately, he was, on recommendation of Mayor Thomas Taggart, appointed a member of the police department at of twenty-one. His work as a police officer was of an efficiency that reflected credit upon the entire organization. In the meantime he was studying law at every period of leisure, in the office of Charles W. Moores, and later in the Indiana Law School, where he graduated with honorable mention in 1905. In May of that year he resigned from the police department to join William E. Clapham in practice. For many years Mr. Bailey has carried on a successful general law practice, with offices in the Indiana Trust Building.
Mr. Bailey early became associated with “the Great Indiana Commoner" Lew Shank and was a steadfast friend and admirer, and no one regretted the premature death of Mayor Shank more than Mr. Bailey. In January, 1922, when Mayor Shank entered upon his second term as mayor, he selected Mr. Bailey as a member of the city's law department. The services he rendered in this capacity and in other ways as a member of the Mayor's personal staff constitute perhaps the culmination of Mr. Bailey's career as a philanthropist and public worker. Mayor Shank's administration is remembered not only for its high standards in municipal administration but in its emphasis upon the humanitarian side, and in that respect Mr. Bailey was his invaluable coadjutor. He originated, perfected and successfully carried out a number of plans and projects for the relief of persons and families overtaken by misfortune. No resident of Indianapolis could have been ignorant of the great good accomplished by Mr. Bailey in his distribution of the Mayor Shank's Ready Relief Fund, which was in operation all through the four years of his second term. The fund was raised by what was designated as Mayor Shank's Valentine Ball, the first of these charity balls, netting the sum of over $6,500, with similar amounts raised in successive years. The distribution of this fund was a godsend to thousands of families, victims of misfortune and disaster. The fund was distributed without red-tape or delay and without the overhead expense of many charitable funds, a hundred cents on the dollar being obtained in value in direct relief. Out of this fund homes burned out by fire were replenished, a month's rent paid in a new home, the stigma of a pauper burial of a child was many times obviated, shoes and glasses to enable children to attend school out of a poor home where the earnings were insufficient to supply these necessities, fuel and proper food provided in cases of sickness and distress, afflicted World war veterans relieved and helped into employment, and many other worthy causes administered to.
Mr. Bailey also organized and equipped the Police and Firemen's Band of Indianapolis, comprising fifty musicians, which Mayor Shank declared was "the biggest booster agency Indianapolis has." The band was maintained without expense to the tax payers and largely volunteer cooperation on the part of firemen or policemen, and also fifteen members of the band were representative of the city's industrial and commercial organizations whose services were contributed.
Mr. Bailey originated the idea and plan of "Greater Indianapolis Week," carried out in a public demonstration in August, 1925, in cooperation with the mercantile and industrial organizations of Indianapolis. Mr. Bailey in this connection produced an industrial and mercantile film known as "The Greater Indianapolis Film," depicting Indianapolis as the greatest inland industrial and mercantile center of the United States, with incidental views portraying the five hundred mile automobile race at the Speedway in 1924. In return for his efforts in producing the film business organizations financed tours of the band, and delegations that attended the World's Police Chiefs Convention at Montreal in 1924, resulting in the designation of Indianapolis as the site of the convention for 1925. During the tour the Indianapolis film was exhibited and the band gave concerts in twelve cities in Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York and Canada. Probably no other city in the country ever received so much desirable publicity as was given to Indianapolis during this trip.
Another well remembered project carried out by Mr. Bailey was the inauguration of a Christmas Cheer celebration in each of the thirty-two fire stations of Indianapolis. Each fire station was especially decorated, with an imitation chimney and fireplace at the foot of the brass pole down which the firemen slide in answer to a fire alarm and on appropriate occasions, and for the delight and edification of the children who had gathered, the firemen, dressed in Santa Claus costume, would slide down the chimney into the fireplace. These Christmas celebrations have since their origin in 1923 become an annual event.
Mr. Bailey married, November 16, 1896, Miss Eva Fesler, daughter of Thomas and Mary Fesler and member of one of the oldest and most respected families of Indianapolis. Mr. and Mrs. Bailey for many years have occupied a beautiful home at 5127 Central Avenue. It is one of the older homes in Indianapolis, with a reputation for open-handed hospitality that has been continued into the modern day. Mr. and Mrs. Bailey had no children of their own, but they have given home advantages and parental affection to a number of children. While looking after the children of their household they established an elaborate playground, and Mr. Bailey still takes pride and delight in maintaining the apparatus and the facilities of this playground for the children of the neighborhood.
This is a very brief and impartial sketch of a beloved Indianapolis citizen, known among his friends and admirers as "Bill" Bailey, a man tireless in good deeds, with a constant friendliness and kindliness and willing to cooperate at all times in doing good to others. One of his friends has said of him "He is always thinking for the good of the other fellow; he seems to get more real enjoyment out of life doing good for others than in accumulating wealth." One of his hobbies is raising flowers and garden produce to distribute among his friends and acquaintances. Also for twenty-five years he has been making scrap books of articles of news on every important subject, and this is a collection almost unique and of priceless value. But nothing has given him more satisfaction than the efforts he has put forth to alleviate and mitigate misery and destitution which seem to be inseparable from human existence. His activities as a philanthropist date back to those years when he was a patrolman on the force. He has often recalled the first work of this character he did. On a cold night in November, 1905, patroling his beat he found the mother of two children ill in their home, without fire and other necessities. Lew Shank was then engaged in the second hand furniture, storage and transfer business, and Mr.Bailey perhaps then first learned the real depth of Shank's human sympathy. Mr. Shank furnished stove and fuel and with his own hands helped install it and light the fire. From that time until the death of Mr. Shank, on September 24, 1927, Mr. Bailey was in almost constant touch with him in his service to the masses. They worked together in their voluntary program of relief, and Mr. Bailey in almost countless cases used his professional skill to save the loss of property to the unfortunate or unprotected, and iron out legal entanglements where innocent and helpless people were involved. Mr. Bailey has always been a Republican. He is a member of Ripple Lodge No. 643 A. F. & A. M., Lodge No. 56, Knights of Pythias, and many other organizations. He has always been blessed with wonderfully good health and great physical strength, and while he has been constant in intermediating in the troubles of others, he would find it difficult to recall any real worries of his own.
INDIANA ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OF AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT Vol. 5
By Charles Roll, A.M.
The Lewis Publishing Company, 1931
HON. JOHN B. COCKRUM, of Indianapolis, now acting as advisory counsel for the New York, Chicago & Saint Louis or Nickel Plate Railway, has rounded out over half a century of service as an Indiana lawyer and is one of the oldest railway attorneys in the state.
He was born at Oakland City, Indiana, September 12, 1857, son of Col. William M. and Lucretia (Harper) Cockrum. His grandparents were James W. and Juda (Barrett) Cockrum, who came from North Carolina. His grandfather was largely responsible for the establishment of the Oakland City Normal School. He was a man of wealth and extensive business interests, owning several boats on the Ohio River operating south to New Orleans, and was long prominent in steamboating circles. Col. William M. Cockrum was born at Oakland City, was reared and educated there and became a farmer. During the Civil war he organized Company F of the Forty-second Indiana Infantry, and was wounded at the battle of Chickamauga. He was captured and spent sometime in Libby Prison, being finally exchanged at Camp Chase, Ohio. On rejoining the command he was in the Army of the Cumberland, under General Thomas. After the war he returned to Oakland City.
John B. Cockrum grew up with the invigorating discipline of a Southern Indiana farm, attending local schools, and at the age of nineteen entered the Cincinnati Law School. He was a classmate of former President Taft. He taught school three years and on April 15, 1879, was graduated from the law course and began his practice at Boonville,, Indiana, with Charles W. Armstrong. Later they took in Judge Handy. On March 10, 1889, Mr. Cockrum was appointed by President Harrison assistant United States district attorney for Indiana and served during the four years of the Harrison administration.
Mr. Cockrum in 1893 became assistant general attorney for the Lake Erie & Western Railway, later was made general attorney and general solicitor, and has been with the legal department of that division of what is now the Nickel Plate Railway system for over thirty-five years. He was general solicitor until he took over the nominal duties of advisory counsel, and is now living practically a retired life.
Mr. Cockrum married, January 2, 1880, Miss Fannie Bittrolff, and they have two children, Freda and Oatley B. Mr. Cockrum for many years was prominent in Masonry and Odd Fellowship, having attained the thirty-third supreme honorary degree in Scottish Rite Masonry and filled all of the offices of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, including the position of Grand Sire, the highest office of the order. He is a member of the Indiana Loyal Legion.
INDIANA ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OF AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT Vol. 5
By Charles Roll, A.M.
The Lewis Publishing Company, 1931
ORA L. McCAY, physician and surgeon, has spent his entire professional career in the Romney community of Tippecanoe County. Doctor McCay is an able man in his profession, a hard and conscientious worker, and his sincere interest in others has brought him hosts of loyal friends who admire his personal character as well as his professional ability.
Doctor McCay was born near Colfax, Indiana, November 19, 1879, son of Carter D. and Martha (Crose) McCay. His grandparents were William and Mary (Moore) McCay. William McCay was born in Pulaski County, Indiana, and was a doctor of veterinary surgery. He served as a soldier in the Union army during the Civil war and for many years was one of the outstanding citizens of Pulaski County. Carter D. McCay was born in Pulaski County, acquired his education there and spent his active life as a farmer. He and his wife are buried in the Myntonie Cemetery in Randolph Township, Tippecanoe County. They were active members of the Christian Church. Doctor McCay was the oldest in a large family of nine children. Bessie is the wife of Augustus Martin. Carrie is the wife of Delhert McCormick, a farmer in Jackson Township. Flossie, deceased, was the wife of Walton Withrow and left four children, Everett, Pauline, Ernest and Dorothy. Daisy, also deceased, married Charles Lamb and had three children, Clarence, Charles and Ruby. Otto married Mary Mikels. The seventh child is Arthur McCay. Lawrence married Grace Wills, and Bernard, the youngest, married Ruth Moore.
Ora L. McCay attended the Kennedy School in Wea Township, graduated from the Wea High School and then spent some time working in a drug store at Lafayette. This experience fortified him in his resolution to study to be a doctor. He completed his professional preparation in Indiana University School of Medicine, graduating M. D. in 1904. The means to put him through medical college he derived chiefly from farm work during vacations. He had his interne experience in the Bobbs Dispensary at Indianapolis and then came direct to Romney, where he has steadily practiced his profession for over a quarter of a century. He is a member of all the medical organizations and has interested himself in all matters connected with the general welfare and progress of his community. He is a member of the staff of one of the hospitals of Lafayette, and is president of the Tippecanoe County Medical Society, being the second doctor ever elected president of that society who lived outside the City of Lafayette. He is a member of Masonic Lodge No. 441 and is a Scottish Rite Mason and Shriner, also a past president of Tippecanoe County Past Masters Association in 1927. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
Doctor McCay married in February, 1921, Miss Mildred Jenkins. They have one daughter, Jean.
Doctor McCay enlisted as a volunteer First Lieutenant March 15, 1917, and August 17, 1917, went to Fort Harrison, where he was assigned to a three months' relief expedition to Roumania and was on the Pacific Ocean, but on account of an armistice with Germany this expedition was recalled. Doctor McCay came back to San Francisco and served in the Letterman General Hospital and was there until January, 1918, and was next at Camp Pike, Arkansas, where he served nine and one-half months and was assistant chief of medical service. He was ordered overseas and was ready to sail when the armistice was signed. He was at Camp Mead, Maryland, was sent to Walter Reed Hospital at Washington, D. C., the largest general hospital in the United States, served five months and then entered the Reserves as a major and still holds his major's commission in the Medical Reserves, subject to call at any time. After the war Doctor McCay came to Romney, Indiana.
INDIANA ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OF AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT Vol. 5
By Charles Roll, A.M.
The Lewis Publishing Company, 1931
DONALD HARPHAM, optometrist, whose skill and diagnosis and treatment have brought him a large clientage at his offices in Wabash, is a native of Nebraska, but is a member of an old family of Northern Indiana.
He was born in Nebraska January 20, 1888. His father, Samuel Harpham, was born in Indiana. His grandfather, John Harpham, was a native of England and came to Indiana about 1842, taking up a homestead in Steuben County. He had to clear away the timber in order to get room for his crops, and he lived there and followed farming the rest of his years. Samuel Harpham was a steel worker and a farmer. He married Phoebe Wolf, a native of Ohio.
Dr. Donald Harpham is one of five children. He was brought to Indiana when a child, attended grade school at Hudson and high school at Ashley. After a course in the Tri- State Normal College at Angola and a short course in the State Normal at Terre Haute he was prepared for the profession of educator. However, he went on to develop his particular talents in music at Bucknell University in Pennsylvania.
With the outbreak of the World war he enlisted in the One Hundred Third Engineers, with the Twenty-eighth Division, on June 20, 1917, went to France, saw active service overseas, and was finally mustered out at Camp Taylor, Kentucky, in May, 1919.
It was after the war that Doctor Harpham turned his attention to the science of optometry. He studied at the Northern Illinois College of Optometry and Otology, graduating in 1921 with the degree Opt. D. Doctor Harpham for two years practiced at Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, and in 1923 located at Wabash. His experience has given him much skill in treating and diagnosing all the ailments and weaknesses of the eye. A fundamental part of his treatment is governed by the principles of physiotherapy. Doctor Harpham has assembled an interesting array of special apparatus for his work and has a well equipped suite of offices in the Bradley Block, at the corner of Miami and Market streets in Wabash. He also has a laboratory where he grinds lenses.
Doctor Harpham married Mary E. Bish, a native of Montpelier, Indiana. Doctor Harpham is a member of the Indiana Association of Optometrists, and has been service officer in the local post of the American Legion. He is a member of Hiawatha Lodge No. 528 of the Masonic fraternity at Hudson.
INDIANA ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OF AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT Vol. 5
By Charles Roll, A.M.
The Lewis Publishing Company, 1931
JOHN L. CUTRELL, whose home is four miles east of Shawnee Mound in Jackson Township, Tippecanoe County, has earned and in every way deserves the abundant esteem and respect in which he is held in his community. Hard work and perseverance have brought him along the way of substantial prosperity, represented in the ownership of a splendid farm of 400 acres.
Mr. Cutrell was born March 16, 1858, in North Carolina. He was the oldest of the children of Lewis and Edith (Outland) Cutrell, who the following year, in 1859, left North Carolina and came north to Indiana. The Cutrell family were Quakers but belonged to what were known as "Fighting Stock." His great- great-grandfather Cutrell was a Carolina soldier in the war for independence, being among the hardy mountaineers who followed Sumter, Marion Pickens, Lee and others in defeating every effort of the British to overawe the Carolinas. This Revolutionary ancestor also fought in the War of 1812, being with General Andrew Jackson at the battle of New Orleans. Lewis Cutrell on bringing his family to Indiana settled first in Hamilton County and later in Tippecanoe County. He had practically no capital when he came to this state. As a renter he acquired the money to make his first purchase of land in Jackson Township. He was always a staunch Quaker and a man of much influence in his community. He was buried in the Farmers Insurance Cemetery in Union Township, Tippecanoe County. There were six children: John L.; Micajah, who married Miss Hollingsworth; William, who married Lilly Simons; Al, who married Etta Butler; Calvin, who married Eva Stanley; and Mary, wife of E.J. Wiles.
John L. Cutrell had his first educational advantages in Hamilton County, and his last school was the Farmers Insurance School in Union Township, Tippecanoe County. At the age of twenty-one he put his early training to account when he hired out to work at monthly wages. After a year he rented some land, and by his early years of industry and thrift gradually got together the farm which he owns today. Mr. Cutrell has always been a valuable factor in his community. He is a trustee of the Methodist Episcopal Church and a member of the Knights of Pythias.
He married in 1885 Miss Anna Rubottom, who is now deceased. His only daughter was Stella, dead, wife of George Crowder. Mr. and Mrs. Crowder had a son, Harold, attending school.
INDIANA ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OF AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT Vol. 5
By Charles Roll, A.M.
The Lewis Publishing Company, 1931
JAMES EDWIN McDONALD, business manager of the Marion Leader-Tribune, was born with an interest in newspaper work and politics, both his father and grandfather having achieved distinction in the field of Indiana journalism.
His grandfather was Isaac B. McDonald, a native of Virginia, whose parents took him to Darke County, Ohio, and later to Columbia City, Indiana. Isaac B. McDonald was one of the founders of the Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette. He was one of the first men from Columbia City to enlist for service in the Civil war, joining Company E of the Seventeenth Indiana Volunteers as a private. He was mustered out with the rank of colonel. A richly ornamented sword and scabbard presented to him at the close of the war by the surviving members of his command is now owned by his grandson at Marion. Isaac B. McDonald was elected a member of the State Senate, serving during the Governor Durbin administration, and was author of the bill that resulted in the erection of the Soldiers and Sailors Monument at Indianapolis, one of the most conspicuous landmarks of the capital.
Hon. James E. McDonald, son of Isaac B., devoted most of his active life to newspaper work. He was born at Columbia City in 1854, and died in 1913 and is buried at Ligonier. He was editor and publisher of several papers at Ligonier and for eight years was postmaster of that city. He enjoyed a well earned leadership in Democratic politics in Indiana. He served in the State Senate during the ‘90s, was closely affiliated with the late Tom Taggart in state politics and was one of the political sponsors of Thomas Marshall, who later became governor of Indiana and vice president of the United States. James E. McDonald was for twelve years president of the State Board of Agriculture and was holding that office at the time of his death. He married Laura Arminda Brand, of Columbia City. She was born in 1862 and lives at Ligonier.
Her son, James Edwin McDonald, was born at Ligonier, January 25, 1896. He attended common schools in his native city, graduated in 1913 from the Hyde Park High School of Chicago and finished his education in the liberal arts department of the University of Chicago. Mr. McDonald had three years of metropolitan experience as a reporter on the Chicago American. He resigned to come to Marion, and his first connection with the Leader-Tribune was as a reporter. After three years he was made circulation manager, and for two years was advertising manager and assistant business manager. He has been general manager since 1926. Mr. McDonald is a stockholder in the Spencer Cardinal Furniture Manufacturing Company of Marion, is a stockholder in the Ligonier Weekly Banner, and is president of the Marion broadcasting station WJAK. Like his father and grandfather he is a staunch Democrat. He is president of the Marion Board of Police Commissioners, is a past president of the Rotary Club, vice president of the Mecca Club; director of the Marion Association of Commerce, and is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity and B. P. O. Elks. His pastime is golf, which he plays on the links of the Marion Country Club. He is a member of the Episcopal Church.
Mr. McDonald married Marian Elizabeth Weaver, June 10, 1915, at Marion. She was born in that city, daughter of Walter Weaver. They have four children: James E. III, born at Marion May 15, 1916; Ruth Virginia, born November 18, 1918; Richard Burk, born April 13, 1926; and Robert Thomas, born August 1, 1928. The two older children are students in the Marion schools.
The Marion Leader-Tribune has a high rating in Indiana journalism and is a very successful publication from a business standpoint. In its history it represents a number of Marion newspaper enterprises which in their turn were edited and published by some of the best known newspaper men in the state. The most remote ancestor of the present paper was the Marion Democrat, a weekly started in the early 60's by Elijah Vaughn and two of his brothers. Two years later Mr. Kitch bought out the Vaughns, was manager of the Democrat until when it was sold to L. A. and J. A. Wallace. L. A. Wallace subsequently became sole editor, press man and general manager. At that time the paper was printed on an old Washington hand press, one side at a time, the office being located on the west side of the square. The Democrat was enjoying an unusual degree of prosperity when, in 1875, the office and plant was destroyed by fire. Citizens came forward with liberal subscriptions and a new outfit was purchased, and the Democrat soon reappeared. On February 6, 1889, the first issue of the Marion Daily Democrat was printed. The publishers were L. A. Wallace and C. P. Kile. The daily issue has been continued without missing a single issue for over forty years. Soon after the starting of the Daily the publication office was moved to the Shon Building and soon afterward to 514 South Adams Street. In September, 1889, the Democrat was sold to W. J. Houck and T. W. Overman, who changed the name to the Marion Leader. Mr. Overman sold his interest to A. T. Wright, who in turn, in July, 1891, sold to W. J. Houck and J. H. Schrack. Later William B. Westlake became a partner and eventually bought out the other members and continued the publication of the Leader until it was purchased by a stock company, with Mr. E.H. Johnson as president.
In the meantime the Leader had taken over the old Morning News, established in 1894, with L. A. Wallace as editor, Walter Ford, city editor, and J. E. Cary, business, manager. The Morning News was later acquired by Charles Bundy and Bob Mansfield, and they took over the Daily Bulletin, which had been established in 1900 by Harley Arnold, William Clifford, Jesse Harvey and Miss Cora Mendenhall. Linotype machines were first used in the Leader office in June, 1899.
In January, 1901, the Marion Tribune was started, with E. L. Goldthaite as business manager, Strickland W. Gillilan, editor, later famous for his humorous short stories and verse, and the reporters on the Tribune were Frank Heaton and Elbert Eward. The office was in the same building now occupied by the Leader- Tribune. When the Leader moved its presses to the office of the Tribune it consolidated with the Tribune and since then Marion has had the Leader-Tribune as its leading Democratic newspaper, and carrying on from the foundations of the old Democrat, the News, Bulletin and Tribune.
INDIANA ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OF AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT Vol. 5
By Charles Roll, A.M.
The Lewis Publishing Company, 1931