Mr. Weaver was born near Noblesville, Hamilton County, Indiana, December 5, 1871. He is a son of Peter and Caroline Josephine (Rondebush) Weaver, his father a native of Williamsport, Pennsylvania, and his mother of Cincinnati, Ohio. They were married at Noblesville. He died February 27, 1893, when sixty years of age, and was survived more than thirty years by his widow, who passed away January 1, 1924.

W. S. Weaver was educated in grade and high schools in Indiana and when twenty-one years of age began learning the paper making trade in a mill at Noblesville. On July 27, 1911, he became assistant superintendent for the Alton Box & Paper Company at Alton, Illinois, on January 1, 1914, went to the Hutchinson Box & Paper Company at Hutchinson, Kansas, likewise as assistant superintendent, and on August 14, 1917, accepted the superintendency of the plant of the American Strawboard Company at Quincy, Illinois.

Mr. Weaver was made superintendent of the paper mill at Brookville on October 1, 1922. This was then owned by the Thompson- Norris Company, who were succeeded on January 1, 1928, by the Hinde & Dauch Paper Company.

Mr. Weaver is a trustee of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He is a Democrat, and a member of the Lodge and Encampment of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Improved. Order of Red Men and the Kiwanis Club.

He married, May 24, 1893, Miss Emma E. Scholler, who was born in Wabash, Indiana, daughter of John Scholler, who came from Germany. She died June 24, 1909, leaving one son, Elbert F. On December 24, 1913, Mr. Weaver married Anna Maude Wallace, a native of Frankfort, Indiana, and her parents, John and Ellen (McVey) Senour, were born in Clinton County, Indiana.

Elbert F. Weaver, only son of Mr. Weaver, enlisted September 17, 1917, and went overseas to France in March, 1918. He was in the battle of the Marne and in other battles during the final summer of the war. He received his honorable discharge March 3, 1919. He is now a chemical engineer with the National Lead & Refining Company at East Chicago, Indiana. He married June Maunder.

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

HON. CECIL C. TAGUE, former judge of the Circuit Court, has had a long and prominent connection with the Franklin County bar and his name as a lawyer and public official is well known over the state at large.

Judge Tague was born in Switzerland County, Indiana, July 11, 1891, son of Marion and Mary (Smith) Tague, the former a native of Jefferson County and the latter of Shelby County. His grandparents were Jonathan and Clarissa (Moody) Tague and John and Louisa (Conant) Smith. The Smith family came from Kentucky. His great-grandfather, Peter Tague, was a son of John Tague, a Kentuckian, who moved across the river to Switzerland County, Indiana Territory, in 1811 and took up a tract of wild land, which he developed as a farm. His maternal grandfather, John Smith, was born in Cynthiana, Kentucky, son of William Smith, who moved his family to Shelby County, Indiana, just before the Civil war. Judge Tague's parents now live on a farm in Rush County.

He attended public school at Milroy, Indiana, had a business college course at Anderson and after learning stenography worked as a court reporter at Versailles. In 1908 he went to Indianapolis to study law, was admitted to the bar at Versailles in 1912, and, for four years practiced in Indianapolis. Since 1916 his home has been at Brookville, and he has carried on a successful general practice except for the period of his service on the bench. In August, 1918, he entered the officers training school at Camp Grant, Illinois, remaining until honorably discharged in December.

In 1918 he was elected a member of the Indiana State Senate, serving one term. In 1919 Governor Goodrich appointed him a trustee of the Indiana World War Memorial. He is a member of the Thirty-seventh District, Indiana and American Bar Associations. He was on the circuit bench for eight years. He was first appointed judge of the Thirty- seventh Judicial District on March 12, 1921, and in November, 1922, was elected for a full term of six years, and served until January 1, 1929. In the opinion of the bar he was one of the ablest men who has served on the bench in this section of Indiana.

Immediately upon his retirement from the bench he became attorney for the National Chain Store Association, with headquarters in New York city. He still maintains his home and an office in Brookville, but most of his time is required in looking after Chain Store interests throughout the United States. He is a Republican, is a York Rite Mason, member of the Royal Arch and Council degrees, is a Lodge and Encampment member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and a member of the Knights of Pythias. He belongs to the Christian Church. Judge Tague married, August 30, 1917, Miss Hallie B. Smith, who was born in Ripley County; Indiana, daughter of John and Lucinda (Sebring) Smith. They have two children, Kathleen, born November 28, 1919, and Cecil C., born August 24, 1927.

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

RAY H. STEPHENS, sheriff of Monroe County, was born and reared in this county and represents the third generation of the Stephens family here.

Mr. Stephens was born on a farm eight miles east of Bloomington, on the Columbus and Bloomington road, July 30, 1890. His grandparents were John and Rachael Stephens, who came from Kentucky to Indiana at a very early date. John Stephens entered the land which has ever since been known as the Stephens homestead, and on it he built a large two-story log house, which was the birthplace of Sheriff Stephens. John Stephens helped organize the county government of Monroe county. He was known as a very successful farmer and stock raiser. He lost his life in an accident near New Albany. Samuel H. Stephens, father of Sheriff Stephens, was born at the old homestead and spent his life there as a farmer and stockman. He was twice married, and the four children of his first wife were: Mary, wife of Frank Lampkins; Martha, who became the wife of Andrew Polle; Laura, who married Charles Peterson; and John, who married Addie Myers. Samuel H. Stephens by his second marriage, to Sallie J. Stephens, had only one son, Ray H.

Ray H. Stephens was reared on the farm, attended grade schools, and had the routine of an industrious Indiana farm boy. After his education was completed he remained at the old homestead, engaged in its operation, until 1918, when he moved to Bloomington. For five years he was a member of the police force and for five years assistant chief of the fire department. In 1928 he was elected sheriff, on the Democratic ticket. It was the first time a Democratic candidate for this office had been elected in twenty years, and his administration fully justified the confidence of the people expressed in this way. He was reelected in 1930 by a majority of 5,500. Mr. Stephens is a member of the Woodmen of the World, Modern Woodmen of America, Loyal Order of Moose, Fraternal Order of Eagles and B. P. O. Elks.

He married, February 24, 1908, Miss Hattie Hash, daughter of Mack and Chrissie (Stephens) Hash. They have four children, Hazel, Walter S., Marie A. and Betty J.

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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

MILFORD PALMER HUBBARD is one of the veteran attorneys of the Franklin County bar. He has practiced law at Brookville for thirty years. Mr. Hubbard satisfied his ambitions through the law rather than by broad excursions into the field of politics or business. He is regarded as one of the ablest representatives of his profession in this section of Indiana.

He was born in Daviess County, Indiana, March 27, 1869, son of John and Permillia Jane (Phitts) Hubbard, his father a native of Daviess County and his mother of Lawrence County, Indiana. His grandfather, Wesley Hubbard, was a native of Virginia and was of Scotch-English ancestry. Mr. Hubbard's maternal grandparents were Benjamin Potter and Desty (Herron) Phitts, the former a native of Kentucky and the latter born in Daviess County, Indiana, where her people were among the first settlers. John Hubbard was a Union soldier in the Civil war. Both he and his father, Wesley Hubbard, became members of the Twenty-seventh Indiana Infantry. Wesley Hubbard was wounded and died while home on a furlough. John Hubbard afterwards was with the Eighth Connecticut Infantry. He was four times wounded by gun shot during the war. His life after the war was spent as a farmer and he lived to a good old age, passing away in June, 1927, at the age of eighty-five. His wife died in October, 1894.

Milford Palmer Hubbard attended public school at Valparaiso, the Terre Haute State Normal School and is a graduate of the Indiana Law School. At the outbreak of the Spanish-American war, in April, 1898, he joined the Twenty-seventh Indiana Light Battery, and was in training at Chickamaugua Park and afterwards was sent to Porto Rico. He was honorably discharged in October, 1898, but subsequently served as a member of the Indiana National Guard.

Very shortly after his military experience in the Spanish-American war Mr. Hubbard opened his law office at Brookville, in January, 1899. He has been steadily practicing law there through all the years. His offices are in the Franklin County National Bank Building. Mr. Hubbard is a member of the Thirty- seventh Judicial District, the Indiana State and American Bar Associations. He is a Republican, is a member of the Methodist Church, while his wife is a Lutheran, and has always taken much interest in fraternal organizations. He is a Royal Arch and Scottish Rite Mason and Shriner, a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows Lodge and Encampment, Knights of Pythias, Fraternal Order of Eagles and the B. P. O. Elks at Connersville. He and his wife are members of the Eastern Star Chapter at Metamora.

Mr. Hubbard married, December 22, 1898, Miss Mamie L. Leeson, who was born at Metamora, daughter of Largant Leeson. By this marriage there were two children: Graydon Dale, connected with the wholesale department of R. L. Leeson & Sons Company at Elwood, Indiana; and Harold Roscoe, of Brookville. Mr. Hubbard in January, 1920, married Elizabeth Irrgang, who was born in Ripley County, Indiana, daughter of Casper and Elizabeth Irrgang. Her father came from Germany. By his second marriage Mr. Hubbard has one son, Robert Palmer.

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

FRANK MOSTER. One of the best equipped funeral parlors in Franklin County and one whose equipment is unsurpassed in this region is the one owned and operated at 722 Main Street, Brookville, by Frank Moster. This modern establishment furnishes a vivid contrast to the one owned by his father, who was also an undertaker, and a wagon maker, at Saint Leon, Indiana. His was the first hearse in Franklin County, but before he, purchased he had been in business for some years. He made coffins for the dead, and a wagon was used to haul the body to the cemetery. When the church or residence was adjacent to the cemetery the pallbearers used to carry their burden through the dust in summer and the snow and ice in winter. The science of embalming was not known to him or his contemporaries, and in order to preserve the body from the time of death to that of burial ice was used. However, the elder man then, as his son is doing now, rendered the best service in his power, and did so in a manner that brought relief to the sorrowing, and a sad satisfaction that everything possible was being done to show honor and respect to a loved one.

Frank Moster was born at Laurel, Indiana, May 25, 1881, a son of Louis and Margaret (Weis) Moster, natives of Dearborn County, Indiana. The paternal grandfather, Adam Moster, was born in Germany, and he established the family in the United States. Louis Moster died in 1926, but the wife and mother survives and resides at Brookville, Indiana.

After receiving a public school education through the high school course Frank Moster began working for his father, and subsequently entered the Cincinnati, Ohio, School of Embalming, and was graduated therefrom October 25, 1904, and upon his return to Laurel, where the business was located, he was taken into partnership. In 1910 he moved to Brookville, and established his funeral parlors, which are modern in every way.

In September, 1906, Mr. Moster was married to Miss Gladys Manley, who was born at Laurel, Indiana, a daughter of Edward J. and Flora (Cox) Manley, also natives of Laurel, Indiana. Mr. and Mrs. Moster have one child, Neil, who was born in 1907. The family reside in the same building with the undertaking parlors, which is a substantial one 40 by 105 feet, two stories in height, with basement, and which Mr. Moster owns.

Frank Moster is one in a family of seven children: Joseph, who is an undertaker, but lives on a farm near Laurel; George, who is a farmer in the Laurel vicinity; Anna, who married Rayburn Jinks, of Brookville, Indiana; Frank; Lena, who married Jacob Reiboldt, of Union County, Indiana; William, who is an undertaker of Laurel; and Edward, who also is an undertaker, is employed by his brother Frank.

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

JOHN H. KIPLINGER, Rushville attorney; had an established position in professional circles when he was called from the quiet routine of the law to the sterner duties brought on by the World war. Captain Kiplinger went overseas and his duties kept him abroad for several years after the armistice. He has a very unusual knowledge of many phases connected with the restoration of Europe under the allied peace program and did not return home to resume his contact with his law office at Rushville until 1923.

Captain Kiplinger was born at Rushville, December 12, 1881, a son of Jesse C. and Marinda A. (Sampson) Kiplinger. His grandparents were John W. and Harriett (Dill) and Aquilla and Harriett (Bebout) Sampson, all either natives of Rush County or early settlers there. His father, who was a well-to-do Rush County farmer, died in 1903. The widowed mother now resides at Rushville.

Captain Kiplinger attended the grade and high schools of his native city, was a student in Oberlin College in Ohio for a time, and then in Indiana University. His law studies were pursued in the office of Cullin & McGee, afterwards under John D. McGee, and in 1903 he was admitted to the bar. In 1904 he took up practice and was in partnership with John, D. McGee until 1912. After two years alone he formed a partnership, in 1914, with Donald L. Smith, the firm becoming Kiplinger & Smith.

Captain Kiplinger enlisted in the Indiana National Guard in March, 1917. When the National Guard was mustered into the Federal service on August 5, 1917, he was captain of Company B in the Fourth Indiana Infantry. He went with other National Guardsmen to Camp Shelby, Mississippi, and on October 1, 1917, was transferred to the One Hundred and Thirty-ninth Field Artillery, Thirty-eighth Division, being captain of Headquarters Company. In December, 1917, he was detailed for the School of Fire at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, and in March, 1918, returned to Camp Shelby. Captain Kiplinger in August, 1918, went overseas, and from that time until the armistice was with the French Artillery School Meucon. He was then ordered to the headquarters of the Third Army at Coblenz, Germany, and given detail duty with the judge advocate's department, in the district of Paris. During that time he had charge of special trial work and special investigations covering Central Europe.

In February, 1920, he was made head of the legal department and finance service with the Inter-Allied Reparations Commission at Paris.

On May 15, 1920, he received his honorable discharge, but then became American representative at Wiesbaden, Germany, in the office of the Inter-Allied Committee; made up of five members, one from England, one from France, one from Italy and one from Belgium, with Captain Kiplinger the American representative. This committee was charged with the application of the terms of the treaty of peace, and he continued in this work until the office was closed in October, 1922, and was then assigned other work under the commission, being in charge of the judge advocate's office at Paris when it was closed.

Captain Kiplinger on returning home in 1923 resumed his law practice. He has a general practice, with offices in the American National Bank Building. Captain Kiplinger is a director of the American National Bank, of the First National Bank of Milroy, Indiana, the Greenville Bank and the New Salem State Bank, is vice president and a director of the American National Company, and director of the American National Realty Company.

He married in 1903 Miss Bessie Morrison, who was born at Bloomington, Illinois, daughter of Joseph and Grace (Patterson) Morrison, her father a native of Massachusetts and her mother of Illinois. Captain and Mrs. Kiplinger have two children, Jules G., of Rushville, and Jean R., a student in the University of Chicago.

Captain Kiplinger is affiliated with the Christian Church. He was for two years deputy prosecuting attorney of Rush County, has served as city attorney and is now county attorney. In fraternal matters he has filled chairs in the Knights of Pythias Lodge, was one of the organizers and is a past exalted ruler of the B. P. O. Elks at Rushville, is a member of the Lodge and Encampment of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Modern Woodmen of America. He belongs to the Rush County and Indiana Bar Association, is a member of the Columbia Club of Indianapolis, and is a Beta Theta Pi.

Captain Kiplinger is a past commander of the Rushville Post of the American Legion and has served as Indiana judge advocate. He is a member of the military order of Foreign Wars and for his services in Europe received a number of decorations, being a knight of the French Legion of Honor, an officer of the Crown of Italy, a commander of the Crown of Roumania, and commander of Polonia Restituta, a Polish decoration.

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

CLARENCE A. GRIEGER is one of the progressive and popular exponents of the motor-car business in the City of Fort Wayne, where he is president and treasurer of Grieger's, Inc., which here has the agency for the Chevrolet automobiles, the well equipped headquarters of the corporation being at 313 East Washington Street.

Mr. Grieger takes due satisfaction in claiming the fine old Hoosier State as the place of his nativity and is a scion of one of the sterling pioneer families of LaPorte County ~ He was born in LaPorte County, April 30, 1895, and is a son of Ewalt and Augusta (Dreblow) Grieger, the former of whom was born in that county, on the 9th of March, 1858, and the latter of whom was born in Starke County, this state. Theodore Grieger, grandfather of the subject of this review, was born and reared in Germany, where his marriage was solemnized, and he and his wife became pioneer settlers in LaPorte County, Indiana, where he became a prosperous farmer and where he continued to reside until his death, in 1910, at the patriarchal age of ninety-three years, his wife having died at the age of ninety-one years and both having been earnest members of the Lutheran Church. The maternal grandparents of Clarence A. Grieger likewise were born in Germany and became pioneer settlers in Indiana, where they passed the closing period of their lives at San Pierre, Starke County.

Ewalt Grieger was reared and educated in LaPorte County and there he has been associated with farm industry from the time of his boyhood to the present. He has been influential in political affairs in his native county, as a staunch advocate and supporter of the cause of the Republican party, and he and his wife are zealous communicants of the Lutheran Church. Of their fine family of thirteen children five sons and four daughters are living.

In the public schools of his native county Clarence A. Grieger continued his studies until he had duly profited by the advantages of the high school, and in 1912 he went to South Bend and took a position with his uncle, August H, Grieger, head of the Grieger Motor Company, this uncle having previously been a leader in the councils of the Republican party in LaPorte County and having been joint representative of LaPorte and Starke counties in the State Legislature during a period of three terms, besides which he had served as post master and also as a trustee of his township. Clarence A. Grieger continued to be associated with his uncle's automobile business at South Bend during a period of four years, and in the meanwhile gained thorough knowledge of all details and phases of that line of enterprise. He was next assigned charge of the branch established by his uncle's concern in the City of Terre Haute, and was admitted to partnership in the business. He remained at Terre Haute until 1919, when he established himself in the automobile business in the City of La Fayette, where he continued his activities until March, 1923, when he came to Fort Wayne and organized the corporation of which he is now the president and treasurer, the company having been incorporated in April of that year and its substantial business having increased in scope and importance during each successive year. Mr. Grieger is, in 1929, serving his third consecutive year as president of the Fort Wayne Auto Trades Association, and he is a loyal and valued member also of the Fort Wayne Chamber of Commerce. He is a director of the local Y. M. C. A., is a member of the Fort Wayne Country Club, and his is the distinction of having been the first president of the first Lions Club organized in the State of Indiana. At Terre Haute he became affiliated with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and in the same class of initiates was Hon. Will Hayes, who later served as postmaster general of the United States and who is now official arbiter of the motion-picture industry of the nation. In the Masonic fraternity Mr. Grieger has received the thirty- second degree of the Scottish Rite and is also a Noble of the Mystic Shrine. His political alignment is with the Republican party and he and his wife are members of the Evangelical Church in their home city.

October 14, 1918, marked the marriage of Mr. Grieger to Miss Esther Molone, of Chicago, Illinois, and the one child of this union is a son, Richard Wayne, who was born October 20, 1921. Mr. and Mrs. Grieger are popular factors in the social life of their home community.

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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

EDWARD C. THEOBALD, JR., is one of the representative young business men of the City of Vincennes, where he is treasurer of the Anderson-Theobald Company, which controls a substantial and widely extended business in the preparing and distribution of washed sand and gravel for road construction and other construction work. The large and well equipped gravel pits of the company are established in Lawrence County, Illinois, and the concern controls a large business through Southern Illinois and Southern Indiana, shipments of its products being made in carload lots only.

Mr. Theobald was born at North Vernon, Indiana, in 1904, and is a son of Edward C. and Mary (Carlson) Theobald, the former of whom was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, and the latter in Montgomery County, Iowa.

Edward C. Theobald, Sr., was reared and educated in Ohio and was one of the prominent business men and honored and influential citizens of Vincennes, Indiana, at the time of his death, in 1927, his widow being now president of the Anderson-Theobald Company, of which he was the founder and of which he continued the executive head until his death. He was a son of Charles Theobald, who was born in Ohio, where he was reared to manhood and where eventually he became a prominent figure in industrial and commercial affairs in the City of Cincinnati, where he was a manufacturer of picture frames. Charles Theobald's father was born and reared in Germany and was one of many of his countrymen who came to the United States in the early '40s, to escape the consequences of political and revolutionary disturbance in their native land. This first representative of the Theobald family became a pioneer settler in Washington County, Ohio, and had the distinction of being the first post- master of Washington Court House, the county seat.

In the earlier period of his active business career Edward C. Theobald, Sr., engaged in contracting in connection with varied lines of construction work, and he continued his activities as a contractor in Ohio until the year 1900, when he settled at North Vernon, Jennings County, Indiana, and turned his attention to the sand and gravel business, of which he became a leading exponent in Vincennes, to which city he removed with his family in 1907. He first became associated in business with a Mr. Hicks, whose interest he purchased in 1906, and upon transferring his headquarters to Vincennes, in the following year, he formed the Anderson-Theobald Company, of which he became the president and the affairs of which he directed with consummate ability that brought to it the high status it now occupies as a representative of the sand and gravel industry. After his death his widow was made president of the company, and his only child Edward C., Jr., became the treasurer; the office of secretary is retained by A. A. Ruble. The gravel and sand pits operated by the company in Lawrence County, Illinois, cover an area of 127 acres, the operating plant is of the best modern equipment, provisions are made for the washing of all products and screening the same to all desired sizes, and shipments being made in carload lots only. Twelve men are regularly employed at the pits and the general executive offices in Vincennes are established on the second floor of the Citizens Bank Building.

Edward C. Theobald, Sr., was a man of sterling character and marked business ability, gained and retained the confidence and esteem of those with whom he came in contact in the varied relations of life, and was liberal and loyal as a citizen. He was influential in business and civic affairs in Vincennes and here gave three years of service as receiver for the Vincennes Traction Company.

After completing his studies in the Vincennes High School, Edward C. Theobald, Jr., entered Purdue University, and in this staunch Indiana institution he was graduated as a member of the class of 1926. Thereafter he was for a short period associated with the Indiana Refining Company, and since the death of his honored father he has been treasurer of the Anderson-Theobald Company and maintains general supervision of its business. He is, as was his father, loyally arrayed in the ranks of the Republican party, he is affiliated with historic old Vincennes Lodge No.1, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, and he and his widowed mother, with whom he and his wife reside in the attractive home at Vincennes, have membership in the Methodist Episcopal Church. His wife, whose maiden name was Mary Adams, was born and reared in Vincennes and was here graduated in the high school, she being a daughter of Chester Adams and a granddaughter of Thomas Adams, both prominent in the business and civic life of Vincennes in their respective generations. Mrs. Theobald is a popular figure in the social circles of her native city and, like her husband, is an active member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

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