Doctor Gobbel was born in Crawford County, September 25, 1857, a son of Dr. Fred Gobbel, physician, merchant and postmaster, serving in the latter capacity under President Lincoln. He continued an active figure in the county until his death, which occurred in 1896. His wife bore the maiden name of Hannah Hammond, a native of Indiana, whose death took place in 1879. They had seven children, two of whom died in infancy, the others being: Doctor Gobbel, Aaron, Dora, Francis O. and Alice.

His early education secured in the common and high schools of Crawford County, Dr. Fred R. Gobbel early decided to follow in his father's footsteps, and therefore became a student of the Kentucky School of Medicine, from which he was graduated in 1901, with the degree of Doctor of Medicine, but years prior to that he had received a license to practice, which bears the date of 1890. For a long period he has been an honored member of the Crawford County Medical Society, the Indiana State Medical Society and the American Medical Association.

On July 6, 1878, Doctor Gobbel was married to Miss Jane Bennett, and three children were born to them: Dr. Joseph F. Gobbel, who was a physician and surgeon at English, and whose death occurred January 15, 1928, married Miss Grace Adkin, and they had two children, Felta and Como; Effy M., who is at home; and Nora E., who was graduated from Purdue University, had two years of work at Valparaiso University, took his medical training in the Louisville, Kentucky, Medical College, from which he was graduated in 1925, with the degree of Doctor of Medicine, and since then he has been in practice with his father at English. He married Miss Lula Cummins, no children. Dr. Fred R. Gobbel is independent in his political views, preferring to support the man rather than the party. The Presbyterian Church holds his membership. A strong fraternity man, he belongs to the Masons, in which he has been advanced to the thirty-second degree, Scottish Rite, and the Shrine; Odd Fellows; Knights of Pythias; Modern Woodmen of America; Eastern Star and Rebekahs. Doctor Gobbel is a modest and retiring man whose faithful devotion to duty and service is recognized by those who come into contact with him, and he numbers as warm personal friends the majority of his patients.

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

HON. ARTHUR R. ROBINSON, who succeeded Senator Ralston as United States Senator from Indiana in 1925, was born at Pickerington, Ohio, March 12, 1881, son of John F. and Catherine (Beard) Robinson. His boyhood was one of self directed effort and industrious application toward the goal of a better education and the opportunities of a professional career. In 1901 he graduated from Ohio Northern University and subsequently took up sales management and publicity work.. He removed to Indianapolis in 1905, and completed a course there in the Indiana Law School. He was admitted to the bar in 1910, and practiced as a member of the firm of Robinson, Symmes and Maish, and later Robinson, Symmes and Melson.

In 1914 he was elected a member of the State Senate, where he became Republican floor leader and for a time was president pro tem. He became a pronounced advocate of prohibition, and is one of the staunch drys in the United States Senate. During the World war he was a first lieutenant in the Three Hundred and Thirty-fourth Infantry, and was promoted to captain of infantry. He sailed for France September 1, 1918, and while overseas was transferred to the Thirty-ninth Infantry and promoted to major, spending eleven months with the Army of Occupation on the Rhine.

He was appointed by Governor McCray judge of the Marion County Superior Court to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Judge Clifford. On the death of Senator Ralston he was appointed senator October 2, 1925, to serve until the next election, when after an intensive campaign won the honor to represent Indiana for the remainder of the term and in 1928 was reelected for the full term ending in 1935. Senator Robinson married December 27, 1901, Frieda A. Elfers, and has three children, Arthur Raymond Jr., Willard Elfers and Catherine Caroline Robinson.

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

CHARLES H. LEONARD is a native son of Indiana, one of the active young business men who were born in the present century, and is one of the merchants of West Baden.

He was born in Orange County, October 19, 1903, son of Jasper and Louisa (Winigar) Leonard. His father was born in Orange County and his mother in Crawford County, Indiana. There were seven children in the family, Andrew, Thurman, May, Charles H., Harvey, William and Pauline.

Charles H. Leonard secured a public school education, and after leaving high school learned the trade of automobile mechanic. After his apprenticeship he continued the work for eight years, giving it up in January, 1929, to start in business for himself at West Baden, where he has a confectionery and lunch business. He also owns an interest in an ice cream plant at Paoli.

Mr. Leonard married, January 3, 1922, Miss Cecil Winiger, of Crawford County, Indiana. They have two children, Maxine B., born in 1924, and Maryland G., born in 1926. Mr. Leonard is a Democrat in politics, is a member of the United Brethren Church, the Loyal Order of Moose and Modern Woodmen of America.

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

HENRY B. BROWN, founder of Valparaiso University, was born at Mt. Vernon, Knox County, Ohio, October 6, 1847, a son of Thomas and Rachel (Mills) Brown. He received his education in his native state, and prepared for a career as teacher at the National Normal University, Lebanon, Ohio, where he was graduated. At the age of twenty-six, after several years of teaching and with a few hundred dollars which he had saved from his salary, he came to Valparaiso and negotiated for the purchase of the building formerly used as a denominational academy. In this building, was begun on the 16th of September, 1873, the first session of Valparaiso University. It then had three departments, four instructors and thirty-five students. From that day to his death on September 16, 1917, Mr. Brown was president of the school, and gave his undivided attention to the building up of a world university.

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

OLIVER P. KINSEY, for more than thirty years vice president of Valparaiso University and acting president from 1914 to 1919, was born near Freeport, Harrison County, December 7, 1849. He was reared and educated in Ohio, and was graduated from the university at Lebanon. For nine years of his young professional career he was professor of English literature at his alma mater, and in 1881 came from that institution to Valparaiso. Probably Mr. Kinsey's greatest contribution to the success of the school consisted in the creation of an ideal system or domestic economy for the benefit of the large student body. The Valparaiso method of keeping down living expenses and at the same time furnishing a high grade of food and house comforts was intimately connected with the entire success of the university. To Mr. Kinsey belongs the credit for this part of the university's management.

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

BERTRAM L. SIEB, insurance and investments, was born at Michigan City, Indiana, November 30, 1896, and represents one of the old and honored families of LaPorte County.

His grandfather, Jacob Sieb, came from Germany and was one of the early citizens of Michigan City, where he became a foreman in the moulding department of the Haskell & Barker Car Company. He and his wife and other members of the family are buried in the Greenwood Cemetery. The late Louis H. Sieb, father of Bertram L., was for many years a leader in the commercial and civic life of Michigan City. He was born there in 1860, had a public school education and for many years was in business as a grocery merchant, proprietor of the Star Grocery. He was a member of the Presbyterian Church. He died June 30, 1917. His wife was Patricia Wilson, who was born in England and came to America with her parents, who located in Chicago. She died February 14, 1917. There were four children: Ranetta, who died at the age of thirty, wife of David R. Miller; Bertram L.; Gertrude Alice, wife of Nelson Barnes, of Michigan City; Dr. Louis H., a graduate of Northwestern University and now an interne in the Wesley Memorial Hospital in Chicago.

Bertram L. Sieb after graduating from the Michigan City High School in 1915 spent a year or more in the University of Chicago and Northwestern University. In 1918 he was called to the colors and was in training in the motor transport division at Warsaw and Indianapolis until honorably discharged in December, 1918. After the war he spent two years as secretary with the Mont Airy Stone Company and since then has been in the insurance and investment business. His offices are at 115 West Seventh Street. Mr. Sieb in 1923 founded the Walbert Bakery, of which he is secretary.

He is a former secretary of the Michigan City School Board, active in the Chamber of Commerce, a member of Acme Lodge No. 83, A. F. and A. M., B. P. O. Elks, John Franklin Miller Post of the American Legion, the Lions Club, of which he is a past president and director, Junior Order United American Mechanics and the Michigan City Country Club. He is a member of the Republican Club and in 1930 was candidate for township trustee. His hobby is music. He possesses a fine tenor voice and is a member of the Apollo Male Chorus, which has frequently appeared in radio programs. He is also a member of the choir of the Trinity Episcopal Church.

Mr. Sieb married at Chicago, June 11, 1921, Miss Dorothy Winifred Horlock, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Horlock. Her father was an Englishman and was instructor in manual training schools in that country. Since coming to America with his family in 1914 he has been a resident of Chicago. Mrs. Sieb was born in England, attended school there and is a graduate of the Hyde Park High School of Chicago. She is a member of the Trinity Episcopal Church, is a vice president of the Woman's Study Club, member of the Eastern Star and secretary of the Jefferson School Parent Teachers Association.

Mr. and Mrs. Sieb have two daughters, Dorothy Winifred and Marion Virginia, both of whom attend public school.

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

HON. HARRY S. NEW, former United states Senator from Indiana and postmaster general in Harding's cabinet, has in politics and business carried on the honorable tradition of the New family which came to Indiana in the early period of statehood.

His great-grandfather, Jethro New, was a Revolutionary officer and for his services received a grant of land in what is now Clark County, Indiana. Late in life he came to this state. The pioneer member of the family in Indiana was Mr. New's grandfather, John B. New. He served under General Harrison in the War of 1812 and came from North Carolina. He was one of the pioneer ministers of the Christian Church in Indiana. He died January 9, 1872, at the age of seventy-nine, father of a family of three sons and two daughters.

John Chalfont New, father of Harry S., was born July 6, 1831, in Jennings County, Indiana. He graduated from Bethany College of West Virginia, studied law and was admitted to the bar, became deputy county clerk and was county clerk of Marion County from 1856 to 1861. During the Civil war he was quartermaster general of the state and a valuable associate and co-worker of Governor Morton. After the war he became cashier of the First National Bank of Indianapolis, under William H. English. During Grant's second term he was appointed treasurer of the United States and was assistant secretary of the Treasury under President Arthur, and consul general to London under President Harrison. Col. J. C. New and his son bought the Indianapolis Journal Printing Company on May 8, 1880, and he was president of that company for a number of years. He married Melissa B. Beeler, who was born February 8, 1833, and died September 16, 1867, the only child of this marriage being Harry Stewart. Colonel New's second wife was Elizabeth R. McRae, daughter of John H. McRae. By this marriage there were two daughters, Elizabeth R. and Rowena McRae.

Harry S. New was educated in public schools, traveled in Europe from the age of fifteen to eighteen, and on his return entered Butler University. On February 11, 1878, he became identified with the Journal Company and two years later he and his father bought that old established newspaper plant. He became vice president and general manager in 1886 and was active in the newspaper business until May, 1903.

Mr. New for many years has been one of the stalwarts in the Republican organization of Indiana. He was acting chairman of the National Republican Committee, was elected to the State Legislature in 1896 and during the Spanish-American war was captain and assistant adjutant general of the Third Brigade, Second Division, Seventh Army Corps. Mr. New was elected to the United States Senate for the term 1917-23. He served as a member of the Senate Committee on Military Affairs and took a prominent part in the development of military plans and in shaping wartime legislation. After the war he became a member of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations and used his utmost influence to prevent America entering the League of Nations. In 1922 he was defeated for reelection by Senator Beveridge. After leaving the Senate he entered President Harding's cabinet as postmaster general and held that office until March 5, 1929. He is a member of many civic and social organizations at Indianapolis and elsewhere and was one of the organizers of the Marion Club. He married, October 18, 1880, Kathleen V. Milligan, who died May 21, 1883. On August 18, 1891, he married Catherine McLaen.

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

ABRAM SOMMERFIELD, whose numerous business activities have long made him a leader in the affairs of LaPorte County, was born in the City of LaPorte, March 28, 1866, son of John and Barbara (Frankenbacker) Sommerfield.

His father came to America from Germany when about twenty years of age, was married in New York and then located at LaPorte, where he became a merchant. He was one of the early members of the volunteer fire department there. He died October 28, 1886, at the age of sixty-eight. His wife was born in Baden Baden, Germany, and was sixteen years of age when she accompanied her brother Frank to America. She and her husband were members of the Jewish Temple at LaPorte. She died September 12, 1908.

Abram Sommerfield was one of a family of nine children. After getting the advantages of the public schools in LaPorte he began when a mere boy his business experience as a junk dealer. At the age of twenty-four he took up another line, that of training horses for racing, and from 1896 to 1921 he conducted a livery business, specializing in fine saddle horses. During these years he became interested in a number of other enterprises. Mr. Sommerfield in 1921 organized the LaPorte Discount Corporation, of which he is president and manager. He is also president of the LaPorte Theater Company, a $500,000 corporation organized in 1922 and controlling the building which houses the theater and the Lincoln Hotel and numerous stores and apartments. Mr. Sommerfield is a director in the Moore-Richter Lumber Company and is a partner in the Sommerfield- Swanson Farm Implement & Feed Company, a business which was established in 1908.

Mr. Sommerfield for over twenty years has been a director in the Chamber of Commerce. He is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and has been active in the Committee of Elks in charge of local charitable work. He is a member of the LaPorte Country Club, is a Republican and for four years was chairman of the Board of Public Safety in the city government.

Mr. Sommerfield married at LaPorte, October 18, 1896, Miss Fannie H. Higgins, daughter of William Edward and Harriet Jane (Place) Higgins. Her father was one of the early teachers and later for many years practiced law. Her paternal grandfather, Rev. John Higgins, was a pioneer Presbyterian minister of Northern Indiana. Her maternal grandfather, Colonel Place, was one of the first freight agents of the railroad at LaPorte. Mrs. Higgins attended school at LaPorte and also the finishing school at Granville, Ohio. She is a talented vocalist and sang in the choirs of the Baptist and Presbyterian and other churches. She is a member of the Baptist denomination and has been active in charitable causes. She is the only woman member of the Board of the City Auditorium.

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

THE LAPORTE HERALD-ARGUS in May, 1981, moved into and occupied one of the most complete and attractive plants for newspaper publishing and commercial printing in Northern Indiana. The plant is at once a commercial institution and a civic asset, and it marks the rising fortunes of a newspaper which has been published continuously for over half a century.

In this modern newspaper are combined the histories of a number of LaPorte County's journalistic enterprises. The Herald part of the title runs back three-quarters of a century to the old Westville Herald, which began issue in 1856 and three years later was moved to LaPorte, becoming the LaPorte Herald. It absorbed the LaPorte Union in 1867, but the most important consolidation so far as the modern history of this newspaper is concerned was that which brought together the Herald and the Chronicle in February, 1880, resulting in the Herald-Chronicle.

It was at this point that the LaPorte Printing Company began its existence as a corporation. The Herald-Argus today is published by the LaPorte Printing Company. The first officers of the company were: Silas E. Taylor, president; Archibald Beal, secretary-treasurer, and Frank C. Sonneborn, vice president. A number of former newspaper men and local citizens have been identified with the company during the half century. The longest continuous association has been that of the Beal family, now represented by the third generation. The first of the original stockholders, Archibald Beal, died September 22, 1896. His son, Willis E. Beal, had been interested in the business since 1884, and at the death of his father he became secretary-treasurer and business manager of the company. The last of the original stockholders to retire were Silas E. Taylor and Frank C. Sonneborn, who withdrew in 1916.

The LaPorte Argus had for many years been the Democratic newspaper of LaPorte County. It was established in 1869 and became a daily in 1896. Later it absorbed the Bulletin and became the Argus-Bulletin. In 1924 the Argus, as it was then known, was sold to the LaPorte Printing Company, and since that date the Herald-Argus, independent in politics and with a circulation of over 6,500 daily copies, has been the outstanding newspaper in LaPorte.

The editor and business manager of the Herald-Argus and the secretary-treasurer of the LaPorte Printing Company is Charles A. Beal, son of Willis E. Beal and grandson of Archibald Beal. Mr. Beal worked as a carrier and in other capacities in the Herald office while going to school. He graduated from High school in 1909, studied journalism at Indiana University, in 1912 was made circulation manager and was also the first editor and compiler of the sports page of the Herald. Subsequently he took over the advertising department. In 1918, after the death of E. J. Widdell, he succeeded him as secretary and treasurer of the company and is business manager and editor of the Herald.

Mr. Beal for three years was president of the LaPorte Chamber of Commerce and has had many interesting contacts with the city's life and affairs. He has been especially interested in music and helped organize the Civic Music Association. He married in 1914 Miss Ruby C. Steele and they have one son, Charles, Jr.

The president of the LaPorte Printing Company and publisher of the Herald-Argus, is Mr. H. A. Lindgren, who has been with this newspaper for over forty years. He was born in LaPorte, son of Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Lindgren. After leaving school he went to work to learn the printing trade and in April, 1890, entered the Herald office as a hand compositor. In 1909 he and Mr. Widdell bought the interest of Willis Beal when the latter retired, and in 1916 he was elected vice-president of the company, in charge of the mechanical department. Later he was made president of the LaPorte Printing Company and also of the LaPorte Press, Incorporated, a separate organization which handles the commercial printing of the company. Mr. Lindgren is also a director in the LaPorte Theater Company, the LaPorte Discount Corporation and the LaPorte Rural Loan & Savings Company.

Mr. Lindgren married Miss Maude Ocker, and they have a son, Ralph, who is in high school.

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

HERBERT W. FOX. Among the many distinctions in the history of Indiana, not least has been the willingness of its foremost citizens to give of their abundant prosperity for the advantage and well being of individual communities. This public spirited generosity is as honorable a tradition as that of the statesmanship, the literature and the culture which have been almost native to Indiana soil.

LaPorte is one of Indiana's cities that has to a notable degree been the recipient of the bounty of wealthy and prominent families. Some of the city's outstanding institutions stand as memorials to the members of the Fox family one of whom is Herbert W. Fox, president of the First National Bank & Trust Company of LaPorte.

His parents were Samuel and Fannie L. (Laib) Fox. Samuel Fox was a native of Germany, came to America in 1856, when sixteen years of age, and soon afterward located at LaPorte, then a small town. He became a dry goods merchant, later established and developed the LaPorte Woolen Mills and was the active head of that business until his death on April 14, 1894. His body rests in the Fox mausoleum in the Pine Lake Cemetery. His wife, Fannie L. Laib, was born in Philadelphia, and died in 1909, at the age of fifty-eight. She was identified with much of the charitable work carried on under the auspices of the Jewish Temple.

These parents had a family of six sons. One of them, Arthur B., died at the age of twenty-three, just after completing his college education. The four living sons are Herbert W., Robert C., Walter S. and Norman J., all of LaPorte.

Maurice Fox was one of LaPorte's great benefactors. He was born June 9, 1871, and died February 24, 1930. He never married. After leaving school he joined his father in the LaPorte Woolen Mill and was associated with his father and brothers in other enterprises. His great gift to the city was the Memorial Civic Auditorium and Gymnasium; which cost about $500,000 and has been an indispensable asset in its use to the city's recreational and cultural life. The auditorium has a seating capacity of over 4,000. Maurice Fox was prominent in all civic affairs and one of the influential Republican leaders of Northern Indiana, attending many national conventions as a delegate.

Robert C. and Walter S. Fox have also been active in the city's civic and business affairs. Walter S. Fox is a trustee of the Ruth C. Sabin Home. Robert Fox married Miss Freda Lodge and has two children, Robert C., Jr., and Frances. Walter S. Fox married Eleanor Campbell. Norman J. Fox is president of the LaPorte Woolen Mills, Incorporated. He married Miss Hallie Carr and has a daughter, Joan.

A number of years ago the Fox brothers gave to LaPorte the first city park, known as the Fox Memorial Park, a memorial to their parents. At the time the gift was far in advance of the city's proposed needs for recreational grounds, but it has had a wonderful development and use under the stress of modern urban conditions.

Herbert W. Fox was born at LaPorte, June 13, 1873. He completed his education at the University of Michigan in 1892, at the age of nineteen. Returning home, he joined his father in the woolen mills, and is still a director in that institution. Later he and associates bought the interests of the Weaver family in the historic bank originally established nearly three-quarters of a century ago, as the LaPorte branch of the Bank of the State of Indiana. Having acquired the control of this bank in December, 1912, Mr. Fox and associates, who were already in control of the First National Bank, joined the two institutions in terms of affiliation in February, 1913, at which time Mr. Fox became vice president of both banks. Since 1924 he has been president of the First National Bank & Trust Company, the largest bank in LaPorte County.

Mr. Fox for many years has been active in the Chamber of Commerce and the B. P. O. Elks, and is a Knight Templar Mason.

It was in 1908 that Mr. Fox and his brothers gave to the city the Fox Memorial Park. In July, 1931, LaPorte had occasion to be grateful to Mr. and Mrs. Herbert W. Fox for another notable instance of public giving. This is the Beechwood golf course, public golf links, improved and developed by Mr. and Mrs. Fox and now in use as a beautiful country club and playground for the golf enthusiasts of the community. Golf is per- haps Mr. Fox's chief hobby.

Mr. Fox married at San Francisco, California, April 24, 1903, Miss Julia Eppinger. Mrs. Fox finished her education at Leland Stanford University in California. She has been president of the LaPorte Woman's Association and a leader in civic and charitable undertakings.

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

WILLIAM JAMES DICKINSON, general superintendent of the Pullman Car Company's shops at Michigan City, was born in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, May 11, 1879.

His father, Richard Dickinson, was a native of New York State, a farmer, and since 1921 has been a resident of Michigan City. He is eighty-seven years of age. The Dickinson family came from England to America at the time of the Mayflower. Riehard Dickinson married Nellie Robinson, who was born and reared in Scotland. She died in 1921. There were three children: Mary, deceased wife of Walter Patterson, of Stockbridge; William James; and Lindsay, a resident of Chicago.

William J. Dickinson attended school in Massachusetts and as a young man went west to Chicago. It was his good fortune at that time to get on the payroll of the Pullman Car Company, starting as an apprenticed car builder in 1894. His experience with the different branches of that company has covered a period of nearly forty years. In 1910 he was made a foreman, then promoted to assistant superintendent of the Chicago plant, and in 1920 came to Michigan City to become superintendent of the Haskell & Barker Car Company. In 1922 this old industrial institution of Michigan City was purchased by the Pullman Car Company, and Mr. Dickinson was retained as superintendent, and since 1925 has been general superintendent of the plant.

Mr. Dickinson is a member of the Chamber of Commerce, Rotary Club, Pottawattamie Country Club, Long Beach Country Club. His recreations are hunting and fishing, golf and motoring. Besides his responsibilities for the Pullman Company at Michigan City he also has the general direction of the Pullman Company's shops at Bessemer, Alabama.

He married at Chicago, August 7, 1899, Miss Sarah Taylor, daughter of John and Rachael (Jones) Taylor. Her father was for many years connected with the Pullman Car Company. Mrs. Dickinson attended public schools in Chicago. She was active in the social life of Michigan City after they came here. She died February 3, 1928, and is buried in the Greenwood Cemetery. Mr. Dickinson has one son, Stewart Dickinson, who graduated from the Hyde Park High School in Chicago, then spent two years at the University of Illinois, and is with the Sherwin-Williams Paint Company of Chicago. He married Louise Osborn and has a son, named William Dickinson.

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

BARNEY D. ROYSTON, Doctor of Dental Surgery, has been an outstanding representative of his profession in Southern Indiana for over thirty-five years. Mr. Royston is a member of one of the old and substantial families of Evansville, where he was born June 12, 1867.

His grandfather, Barney Royston, was treasurer of Vanderburg County, Indiana, in 1843. He was a merchant at Evansville, and during the gold rush to California he equipped a pack train and started west, dying on the way to the Pacific Coast. Mr. Royston's father, H. J. Royston, was born in Indiana and was engaged in the florist business until about ten years before his death, which occurred in 1924. He married Rachel O. Van Dusen, a native of New York, who was brought to Indiana as a child. Her father was a saw mill and lumber man and real estate dealer. Her mother, Abby M. Olmstead, was a daughter of Judge Olmstead. Mrs. Rachel Royston died October 23, 1916, at the age of seventy-two. There were three children: Lula E., wife of Edgar L. Fenton, a florist at Evansville, and she has two children; Martha, who died in infancy; and Barney D.

Barney D. Royston attended public school at Evansville and after leaving high school he put in eight years in the office of Mr. C. Pitman, who was then the leading dentist of Southern Indiana. This practical apprenticeship he supplemented by study in the Ohio College of Dental Surgery at Cincinnati, where he was graduated Doctor of Dental Surgery in 1892. From that time he has steadily practiced his profession in Evansville. Doctor Royston has given his time to his profession, has played the part of a good citizen and has voted as a Republican but has sought no official honors or responsibilities. He married, April 20,. 1893, Miss Emma F. Davis.

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

WILLIAM D. HEADDY, president of the Acme Builders Incorporation in the City of South Bend, is a young man who has proved well his powers of initiative and administrative resourcefulness and has become the head of a well ordered concern that is playing a large part in modern constructive industry m the fine Indiana city that is the metropolis and judicial center of Saint Joseph County. The corporation of which Mr. Headdy is the president maintains its well appointed offices in suite 311-312 of the Citizens National Bank Building.

Mr. Headdy was born at Bloomington, Indiana, February 22, 1899, and is a son of Charles A. and Rose Belle (Litten) Headdy, both of whom were born and reared in Monroe County, of which the City of Bloomington is the county seat. Charles A. Headdy was born at Bloomington in the year 1867, and the major part of his active career was marked by his association with the retail drug business, in which he continued unti1 his death, in 1925, his widow, who was born in 1863, being still a resident of Bloomington. Of the six children all but one survive the honored father. Charles A. Headdy was a Republican in politics, was affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and was an earnest member of the Baptist Church, as is also his widow. He was a son of Thomas and Mildred (Figg) Headdy, the former of whom was born in Kentucky and the latter in Indiana. Thomas Headdy was long numbered among the substantial and representative farmers of Monroe County, where he died in 1926, at the venerable age of eighty-two years, his wife having passed away in 1910, when she was about sixty years of age.

The early education of William D. Headdy was obtained mainly in the public schools in the town where his father was at the time engaged in the drug business, and his discipline included that of the high school. He was eighteen years of age when the nation entered the World war, in April, 1917, and his youthful patriotism found prompt expression by his volunteering for service in the United States Army. In December, 1917, he enlisted and entered the Officers Training Camp at Camp Greene, North Carolina. He accompanied his command to France and was in service with the American Expeditionary Forces a full year, his entire period of military service having covered a period of nineteen months, and he having received his honorable discharge in July, 1919.

After the close of his World war service Mr. Headdy turned his attention to the carpenter's trade, in which he became a skilled artisan, and in 1922 he established his residence in South Bend, where he was employed at his trade the first year. He then engaged in contracting and building in an independent way, and such success attended his activities along this line that in 1925 he found it expedient to organize the Acme Builders Incorporation, of which he has since continued the president and which under his progressive and careful administrations has become one of the leading concerns of its kind in Saint Joseph County. The record of success that Mr. Headdy has made in this connection is the more significant when it is considered that in the year 1929 he celebrated his thirtieth birthday anniversary. He is a young man of vigor and loyal purpose and has proved a valued accession to the business and civic circles of South Bend. His political allegiance is given to the Republican party and he is affiliated with the American Legion and the Modern Woodsmen of America.

June 18, 1926, marked the marriage of Mr. Headdy to Miss Mildred L. Ford, of Berrien Springs, Michigan, and they are popular figures in the social life of their present home city.

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

LON S. TAYLOR, a physician practicing at Elberfeld, was graduated from medical college twenty-four years ago, and has grown in capability with the years of experience and has gained a most enviable reputation for his work in Southern Indiana.

Doctor Taylor was born at Selvin, Indiana, December 27, 1878 and was reared in Lane Township, Warrick County. He received his education in the rural and high schools of that county. He began teaching in 1900 and taught for a period of nine years, beginning the study of medicine in 1905 at the University of Louisville and was graduated in 1908, locating at Elberfeld. His father, Hugh Taylor, came from North Carolina. He was a blacksmith by trade, and died in 1891. The mother was Mary Jane (Sullivan) Taylor, who was born in Tennessee and died in 1910. Doctor Taylor has one brother, Lewis A., whose home is at Coal Camp, Missouri, where he is practicing dentistry. He married Ida Wininger and has two children, L. A. Taylor and Emily Ann Taylor.

Doctor Lon S. Taylor practiced eight years at Stanley, Indiana, and since 1916 has been the leading physician and surgeon at Elberfeld in Warrick County. He is a member of the Warrick County, Indiana State and American Medical Associations. Fraternally he is a Scottish Rite Mason and Shriner, member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and Woodmen of the World. He is a Democrat and a member of the Evangelical Church.

Doctor Taylor married, March 4, 1906, Brilla Mae St. Clair, a daughter of John St. Clair, to which union two daughters were born: Opal Helen Taylor and Bettye Jean Taylor, twenty-four and seven years respectively. Opal is the wife of Ivan Hillard, of Evansville, a salesman for the International Harvester Company, and they have one child, Billy Taylor, born February 21, 1927.

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