Mr. Buchholtz was born in Germany, December 6, 1874. He was seven years old when his parents, Casimer and Mary (Bartkowiak) Buchholtz, brought their family to the United States. The family were among the early representatives of the Polish nationality to locate in South Bend. Casimer Buchholtz in 1888 established a retail meat market. He was a thorough business man, and soon developed a large trade both among the people of his own nationality and other classes who found it to their advantage to patronize his establishment. His business grew, and the White House Market was conducted on both wholesale and retail lines. Casimer Buchholtz was a prosperous citizen of South Bend. After 1895 he retired, and he lived to the remarkable age of ninety-five, passing away in 1918. His wife died in 1910. Of their twelve children four are living, and Anthony Buchholtz was the sixth in age.

Mr. Buchholtz attended the schools of South Bend and at an early age entered his father's business, learning it in all its details, and in 1895, when his father retired, he bought the White House Market. It was under his able ownership and management until 1923. After selling out Mr. Buchholtz spent a year in the western states, and on returning to South Bend established the Division Real Estate Exchange. This he has perfected into an organization that has been the medium, for a large volume of important transactions in local real estate. Besides real estate he handles a general line of insurance. Mr. Buchholtz is also president of the West Side Business Men's Association, and at all times has been a leader in civic work and in promoting improvements. He is a member of the Polish National Alliance and the Knights of Columbus.

Mr. Buchholtz married Miss Carrie Kowalski. She was born in South Bend, where her father, Frank Kowalski, was for many years an active and popular merchant.

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INDIANA ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OF AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT Vol. 3
By Charles Roll, A.M.
The Lewis Publishing Company, 1931

STEPHEN MOLNAR is a South Bend business man who has shown the capacity to make each stage of his experience a preparation for something bigger and better. He has been in South Bend for nearly thirty years, and his name today is associated with the Eagle Furniture Company, 239-241 South Chapin Street. He is the principal owner, secretary, treasurer and manager of that prosperous business.

Mr. Molnar was born in Hungary, June 18, 1879. His parents spent all their lives in their native country. The son was given the opportunities of the Hungarian schools and served his time in the army with a regiment of cavalry. In 1902, when he was twenty-three years or age, he came to this country, direct to South Bend. His early working experiences at South Bend were with two of the city's largest manufacturing institutions. After a short time with the Oliver Plow Company he went with the Studebaker Corporation, remaining five years, and rose to the position of inspector in the skein department.

He gave up industrial work and for a time was clerk in the Vernon Clothing Company, leaving there to become manager of the branch furniture store of the Household Outfitters Company. His success in managing the branch store justified his appointment to the responsibility of manager, and he made good there to such a degree that in 1913 he bought the business and has since conducted it practically under his personal direction. In 1920, in order to provide for an increase of the business to meet the community demands, he incorporated the company as the Eagle Furniture Company, with himself as secretary, treasurer and manager and his wife as vice president. The increased capital brought in by the incorporation enabled the company to introduce the largest stock of household furnishings in this business section of the city. Mr. Molnar owns the store building, which was rebuilt in 1929; and has other local real estate.

He is very popular in business and social circles and is a past president of the local Hungarian Society, member of the Young Men's Hungarian Club, and is affiliated with the Woodmen of the World and the Fraternal Order of Eagles. He and his family are communicants of St. Stephen's Catholic Church.

He married, in 1903, Miss Theresa Kovach, who was horn in Hungary but was reared and educated in South Bend. Their five children are Stephen, Jr., Emery, Theresa, William and Victor.

INDIANA ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OF AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT Vol. 3
By Charles Roll, A.M.
The Lewis Publishing Company, 1931

RALPH HAROLD CLYMER. Less than a score of years ago the term oil heating engineer would have been incomprehensible to most people. Such has been the progress of new phases of application of energy to the service of mankind that everyone is now familiar with the wonderful results of heating buildings by oil, and all heating engineers perform an indispensable service in every community.

Mr. Ralph H. Clymer, of South Bend, is a man of many years experience in the application of oil heating to problems of domestic and business buildings. At 309 Lincoln Way East he has sales rooms and shop as headquarters for the Hardinge and Oil-O-Matic burners.

He was born at Yeoman in White County, Indiana, September 10, 1898, son of John W. and Lara A. (Raider) Clymer. The Clymer family have been in Indiana for three generations. His father was born near Monticello in White County. The grandfather, George Clymer, came to Indiana about 1850. He died in 1870. Mr. Clymer's parents have lived at Mishawaka since 1919. His mother was born at Shelbyville, Illinois.

Ralph H. Clymer was the youngest of three children, all of whom are living. He attended the grade and high schools of Yeoman and since he left school has been associated with the oil heating business. He has been in South Bend since 1919 and has installed over five hundred oil heating plants in dwellings, commercial and public buildings at South Bend, Mishawaka, and at Niles, Michigan.

Mr. Clymer married Miss Stella McHugh, who was born at Bowling Green, Kentucky.

INDIANA ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OF AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT Vol. 3
By Charles Roll, A.M.
The Lewis Publishing Company, 1931

CHARLES FRANKLIN KINYON has been a resident of South Bend since 1904. His name throughout Northern Indiana is prominently associated with the greenhouse and floral business. The propagation of plant life for useful and decorative purposes has been Mr. Kinyon's life work.

He was born on a farm near Lowell, in Kent County, Michigan, May 17, 1871. His parents, Job and Maria (Jay) Kinyon, were natives of New York State and have spent most of their lives on a farm in Kent County, Michigan, where they still reside.

Charles F. Kinyon was educated in district schools in Michigan, and from boyhood his working routine made him familiar with the task of farming and the nursery business. On coming to South Bend in 1904 he took up nursery and greenhouse work, Mr. Kinyon is proprietor and manager of the Miami Greenhouse, at 2206 Miami Street. This is one of the best equipped and efficient greenhouses in the state. It has about 6000 square feet under glass. In addition to this plant Mr. Kinyon is half owner of the Kinyon brothers Greenhouse & Nursery of South Bend. This firm operates a greenhouse with 32,000 square feet of glass. He is also a half owner of the Kinyon & Armstrong Greenhouse at Mishawaka, a plant having 10,000 square feet under glass.

Mr. Kinyon is a member of the National Florist Association. He is a Mason and a Baptist. He married Miss Ida Lawrence, who was born near Hillsdale, Michigan. They have six children: Frank, Helen, Lucille, John, Ralph and Edith.

INDIANA ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OF AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT Vol. 3
By Charles Roll, A.M.
The Lewis Publishing Company, 1931

EDSON DELBERT BISHOP, physio-therapist, is conducting a very successful practice in his profession at Fort Wayne, with offices in the Central Building.

Doctor Bishop was born August 2, 1892, and completed his high school education at Findlay, Ohio. He also attended the Oberlin Business College, following which for five years he was engaged in clerical work in Cleveland, Ohio.

In November, 1923, he was graduated from the National College of Therapy of Chicago and the following month began practice at Muncie, Indiana, from which city he moved to Fort Wayne in April, 1924. Doctor Bishop is a very competent and well informed man in his work.

He is a member of the Masonic fraternity, Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Plymouth Congregational Church. He and his family reside at 718 Florence Avenue. He married, August 12, 1916, Miss Bessie M. Cole, of Findlay, Ohio. She died February 3, 1924, leaving two children, Edson Delbert, Jr., born February 6, 1918, and Virginia Nell, born December 26, 1920. Doctor Bishop on April 19, 1926, married Miss Muzetta L. Frink, of Wilmington; North Carolina.

INDIANA ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OF AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT Vol. 3
By Charles Roll, A.M.
The Lewis Publishing Company, 1931

CECIL FLINN JORDAN, physician and surgeon, for over a quarter of a century engaged in practice at Peru, is a member of a family notable not only as early settlers of Indiana, but also for their affiliations with the medical profession. Doctor Jordan has four sisters, three of whom are Doctors of Medicine, and a fourth sister married a Doctor of Medicine.

Doctor Jordan was born at Bucyrus, Ohio, February 28, 1879. His ancestry as represented by his grandparents were the Jordan, Mason, Flinn and Pensinger families. The Masons settled in Wabash County about 1840 and the Pensingers in the same county before the Civil war.

Dr. L. W. Jordan, father of Dr. Cecil Jordan, was of Pennsylvania Dutch ancestry and was born in Indiana in 1853. He was left an orphan at the age of seven years and had to depend upon his own exertions to acquire his education. He studied medicine with a local doctor and later entered Rush Medical College and began the general practice of medicine. He went to New York City for special work and from 1884 to 1904 was a noted eye specialist in Indianapolis.

Dr. L. W. Jordan married Carrie Mason Flinn, who had been a school teacher in Wabash County. The Flinns were among the first white people to come into the Wabash Valley. Two members of the Flinn family were Government surveyors in Southern Ohio, and one of them was shot by Indians while he was bending over his camp fire near Cincinnati, at the place known as Indian Hill. After his capture he and his brother Robert were burned at the stake by the Indians. Benjamin Flinn, a son of one of these pioneers, came to Wabash County and later settled in Miami County, about 1810. A daughter of William Flinn is Mrs. Robert Daniels, now eighty years of age and has five living descendants: Frank Daniels and family, Mrs. Mark Bordan and family, Mrs. Jessie Bohn, and family, Mr. William Daniels and family and Mr. Delbert Daniels and family.

Cecil F. Jordan was educated at Indianapolis, attended Purdue University and North Manchester College, and in 1904 was graduated M. D., from the University of Michigan, and since that year has practiced in Peru. He is a member of the staff of Duke's Memorial Hospital, is a member of the County, District and Indiana State Medical Associations. Doctor Jordan has found his time fully taken up with a general medical practice. His diversion is music and he has done much to promote and support orchestral music in Peru. He is active in the United Brethren Church.

He married Jane Gallahan, a teacher of piano and voice in the public schools. Doctor Jordan during the World war was enrolled in the Medical Reserve Corps. Doctor Jordan's sisters are: Mary, wife of Robert Crow, of Denver; Georgia, wife of Robert Monroe, a professor in Ohio State University; Ruth, wife of Percy Dougherty, of Shreveport, Louisiana. These three sisters are all graduate M. Ds. The other sister, Victoria, is the of wife Dr. Will Miller, of Knoxville Tennessee.

INDIANA ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OF AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT Vol. 3
By Charles Roll, A.M.
The Lewis Publishing Company, 1931

RUSSELL HOBART SIPLES, D. C. According to Doctor Palmer, founder of chiropractic, this calling is a philosophy, science and art of things natural and a system of adjusting the subluxated vertebrae of the spinal column, by hand, for the restoration of health. The first chiropractic adjustment was given in 1895, to a man of impaired hearing. An analysis of the spine disclosed a pronounced subluxation in the upper region of the spinal column. Adjustments restored the misaligned vertebrae to its normal relations, and soon the patient could hear as before, and thus specially laid the foundation of a new science, now grown, on its merit as an efficacious health agent, to a profession of large proportions. A capable and worthy representative of this science is found in Dr. Russell H. Siples, who has been successfully engaged in practice at Fort Wayne since 1916.

Russell H. Siples was born January 13, 1897, at Van Wert, Ohio, and is a son of W. H. and Temperance (Counsler) Siples, the father in Ohio and the mother in Kansas. They met and were married at Van Wert, Ohio, where they made their home until 1905, in that year removing to their home at Fort Wayne, and 1927 saw their removal to California, where they are residing in comfortable retirement. Russell H. Siples is the second in order of birth in a family of four children, all of whom are living.

Russell H. Siples was eight years of age when he accompanied his parents to Fort Wayne and here completed his graded and high school education . He then entered the Ross College of Chiropractic, at Fort Wayne from which he was graduated as a Doctor of Chiropractic in 1916, and immediately secured a license to practice at Fort Wayne as a drugless physician. Subsequently he prepared himself more fully for his career by a post- graduate course at the Palmer School of Chiropractic, at Davenport, Iowa. During the World war he served in the United States navy, and following his honorable discharge returned to his practice, which has since grown to large proportions. He is known as a skilled, reliable and conscientious operator, and has an excellent record for curing obstinate cases of long standing. He has a well- equipped office and X-Ray laboratory at 113 West DeWald Street, where he has every modern appliance known to the up-to-date chiropractor. A constant student of his profession, Doctor Siples is a member of the Universal Chiropractic Association and the Indiana State Chiropractic Association. He is a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason and member of the Mystic Shrine, and also belongs to the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. At all times he has been ready to do his share in supporting worthy civic measures.

On December 24, 1917, Doctor Siples was united in marriage with Miss Barbara J. Cousar, who was born July 7, 1897, at Fort Wayne, a daughter of the late Charles Cousar, and they have two children: William Charles and Russell Hobart, Jr.

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INDIANA ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OF AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT Vol. 3
By Charles Roll, A.M.
The Lewis Publishing Company, 1931

IRA M. WASHBURN, M. D., F. A. C. S., carries on the professional record of the family at Rensselaer, where his father was an honored doctor before him and where the records of these two combined cover a period of over half a century. Dr. Ira Washburn during the World war was a regimental surgeon with the rank of major, while his father was a regimental surgeon in the Union army during the Civil war.

The Washburn family came to Northern Indiana in pioneer times. The grandfather was Moses L. Washburn, a farmer in Cass County. Dr. Israel B. Washburn, who was born in Cass County and died in 1903, after having practiced medicine at Rensselaer for a quarter of a century, was a graduate of Rush Medical College of Chicago. He completed his training in 1861 and soon afterward entered the army, going in as a private and in time was advanced to the rank of major with the duties of surgeon in the Forty-sixth Indiana Volunteer Infantry. After the war he practiced at Logansport until 1877, when he moved to Rensselaer. Dr. Israel Washburn married Martha Moore, daughter of Green B. Moore. Both the Moore and Washburn families came originally from the blue grass region of Lexington, Kentucky. Dr. Israel Washburn had eight children, four of whom are living. The son W. W. Washburn is operator of the telephone system at Goodland, Indiana, and married Aetna Kennedy. Miss Mary Washburn has earned much distinction as a sculptor, being now located at Berkeley, California, and she designed the monument which stands on the public square at Rensselaer. The other daughter, Helena A., is the wife of Errett M. Graham, assistant chief engineer of the Monon Railroad at Chicago, and has three children.

Dr. Ira M. Washburn was born at Logansport, Indiana, June 23, 1874, and was three years of age when the family moved to Rensselaer, where he completed his education in the local public schools and then entered Purdue University, where he took the Bachelor of Science degree in 1896. In the fall of the same year he went to Chicago to attend his father's alma mater, Rush Medical College, but had already studied in his father's office. While at Rush he enlisted as a private in the hospital service for the Spanish-American war. He became a member of Company K, First Infantry, Illinois National Guard, was promoted to hospital steward, and was one of the few volunteers who got to the actual scene of warfare. He was at the siege of Santiago, Cuba. He was honorably discharged December 1, 1898, and then resumed his medical studies in Chicago, graduating M. D. in 1900. Doctor Washburn has practiced medicine in Rensselaer for thirty years. He is a member of the North American Association in Railway Surgeons, the Monon Railroad Surgeons Association, the Indiana State and American Medical Associations, the Tenth District Medical Society for Jasper and Newton counties and in 1928 his attainment as a surgeon caused him to be created a fellow of the American College of Surgeons at Boston.

During the World war he was regimental surgeon, with the rank of major, in the One Hundred and Fifty-second Indiana National Guard, Colonel Healey's regiment.

Doctor Washburn married, June 10, 1903, Miss Elsie M. Watson. Their daughter Josephine is the wife of Dr. James M. Collum, of Indianapolis, an ex-ray specialist. The second daughter is Miss Mary, who completed her education in the University of Chicago. The son, Richard Nathaniel, is a student of medicine at the University of Chicago. The youngest child, Elsie, born in 1915, is attending the Rensselaer High School.

INDIANA ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OF AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT Vol. 3
By Charles Roll, A.M.
The Lewis Publishing Company, 1931

WALTER JACKSON BIXLER, attorney-at-law, with offices in the Rhodes Ditzler Building at Peru, was born at Elwood, Indiana, April 11, 1903. He has made good use of his time and opportunities and has gained an enviable reputation in his chosen profession.

His great-grandfather Bixler came to Indiana about 1830. The grandfather was Levi Bixler, a native of Indiana. They were pioneers of Cass County and many of the family were soldiers in the Union army during the Civil war. A. J. Bixler, father of the Peru attorney, was born in Cass County and has spent his active life as a railway man and police officer. He married Tessa Bowman, who was born in Union County, Indiana, and is a descendant of General Cox, the Revolutionary war officer. She is a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution.

Walter J. Bixler is one of three children, two of whom are living. He attended public schools, graduated from the Indiana Business College and in 1925 completed his law course at Valparaiso University. He was admitted to the bar in 1924 and has been qualified to practice before the Supreme Court since 1925. After completing his legal education he located at Peru, and a very satisfactory volume of business has rewarded his efforts. He is a member of the Miami County Bar Association, is a Phi Delta Kappa and is a Knight of Pythias.

INDIANA ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OF AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT Vol. 3
By Charles Roll, A.M.
The Lewis Publishing Company, 1931

ERMIN C. UNGEMACH has been a representative of the Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance Company in his native City of Fort Wayne during a period of a quarter of a century and is now manager of the company's general agency in this city, with offices in the People’s Trust Building.

Mr. Ungemach whose name remains on the roster of eligible bachelors in Fort Wayne still resides in the old family homestead, at 315 Madison Street, this city, which was the place of his birth and which is endeared to him by many hallowed memories and associations. Here his birth occurred December 20, 1882, and he is a son of the late John H. and Mary (Rothe) Ungemach, the former of whom was born in Zanesville, Ohio, February 26, 1843, and the latter of whom was born in Boston, Massachusetts, January 28, 1850. John H. Ungemach was a man of exceptionally high intellectual attainments and virtually his entire active career was given to service in the field of education. He was a teacher in Baltimore, Maryland, and later in the City of Boston, Massachusetts, where his marriage was solemnized, and in 1870 he and his wife established their home in Fort Wayne, where both were long representative figures in church, cultural and social circles and where both gained and retained the affectionate regard of all with whom they came in contact. Here Mr. Ungemach served as principal of the parochial school of St. Paul's Lutheran Church, of which church he and his wife were devoted and influential communicants during the entire period of their residence in Fort Wayne. Here Mr. Ungemach also gave many years of service as a teacher of music in Concordia College, with which Lutheran institution he was thus connected about thirty-six years. He gained high repute as a composer of music and also compiled the English grammar textbook used in the Lutheran parochial schools of Fort Wayne. Mr. Ungemach made his splendid intellect and high ideals touch also his civic relations, and was one of the loyal and progressive citizens of Fort Wayne, where he was for many years influential in the local councils and campaign activities of the Democratic party. Gracious memories shall ever attach to this honored citizen, whose death occurred at his old home in Fort Wayne, December 17, 1913, and this is likewise true of his wife, who survived him seven years and who here passed to the life eternal on the 27th of December, 1920. Of the children of the family the eldest is Miss Marie, who remains with her brother Ermin C. at the old home and who presides graciously over its social and domestic affairs; Otto is a resident of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Willo J. remains in Fort Wayne; Benno C., who was cashier in the local office of the Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance Company, died October 10, 1929; and Ermin C., of this review, is the youngest of the number.

After profiting fully by the advantages of the Lutheran parochial schools of Fort Wayne Ermin C. Ungemach was here graduated in the International Business College. He thereafter passed eleven years in clerical service in the offices of a local hardware establishment, and then, in 1905, became associated with the Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance Company, with which he has since continued his alliance, with which he has made a record of notably successful achievement and of the local business of which he is now the manager. He has gained prestige as one of the best fortified and most successful exponents of life insurance business in his native city, and is an influential and valued member of the Fort Wayne Life Underwriters Association, besides which he is a loyal member of the local Chamber of Commerce and is affiliated with the American Luther League. He has been a communicant of St. Paul's Lutheran Church since his early youth, and is a leader in its Men's Club. His course has been guided and governed by integrity and honor in all the relations of life, and in his home city and state his circle of friends is limited only by that of his acquaintances.

INDIANA ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OF AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT Vol. 3
By Charles Roll, A.M.
The Lewis Publishing Company, 1931

CARL ADEN MESSICK, a native of Indiana, an ex-service man of the World war, is a lawyer at Peru, where he has offices in the First National Bank Building.

Mr. Messick was born at Bloomfield, Greene County, Indiana, March 5, 1894, son of Meredith G. Messick, also a lawyer by profession. Meredith Messick was born in Lawrence County, Indiana, where the family first settled on coming to this state. He was a graduate of the Normal School at Bloomfield, taught school for several years, and while practicing law he served four years as county clerk and eight years as deputy clerk of courts. Meredith G. Messick married Lou Inman, whose father, James Inman, is still living, at the age of ninety-two, and is a veteran of the Civil war.

Carl A. Messick was one of three children. He attended public schools at Bloomfield, graduating from high school there, this being followed by work in the Indiana State Teachers College at Terre Haute. He taught four winter terms of school in Greene County and during four summer sessions attended Indiana University.

In June, 1918, he enlisted and served until his discharge in January, 1919. He was with the Motor School and later was sent to Camp Jackson at Columbia, South Carolina, where he was in the field artillery replacement. He was discharged at Camp Taylor.

After the war he served four years as deputy clerk under his father at Bloomfield. Mr. Messick studied law at the University of Michigan and in September, 1925, located at Peru, where he was associated with O. F. Rhodes for three years. In 1926 he was admitted to the bar and has since been admitted to practice before the Indiana Supreme Court and the Federal courts. He has a splendid reputation as a resourceful lawyer and has been very successful in his work. In 1928 he purchased the fine law library of Nott N. Antrim, of Peru. His brother, Paul M. Messick, is now associated with him. Paul Messick graduated from the Indiana Law School in 1930.

Mr. Messick was first vice commander of Peru Post No. 14, of the American Legion and is a member of the Forty and Eight Society. He is affiliated with Bloomfield Lodge No. 84, A. F. and A. M., Royal Arch Chapter No. 128, is a Phi Delta Kappa, member of the Miami County Bar Association, a Republican and a Baptist.

INDIANA ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OF AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT Vol. 3
By Charles Roll, A.M.
The Lewis Publishing Company, 1931

FRED WALTER FANNING, M. D. A name that shall long continue to be revered in DeKalb County is that of the honored subject of this brief memoir. Doctor Fanning, a physician and surgeon of noble character and exceptional ability, was engaged in the practice of his profession at Butler, this county, during the long course of fully thirty-seven years, here his death occurred October 26, 1906, and here his memory is held in affectionate regard by the many families to whom he ministered with all of sympathy and with unqualified professional loyalty and skill during the course of these years. His civic and professional honors axe being well upheld by his one surviving son, Dr. Frank D. Fanning, of whom individual mention is made in the following sketch.

Dr. Fred W. Fanning was born at Belleville, Province of Ontario, Canada, in the year 1841, and thus he was sixty-five years of age at the time of his death. In his native province he received the advantages of Coburg College, and in preparation for his chosen profession he completed a course in the medical department of the University of Michigan. Within a short time after his graduation in this institution he engaged in practice at Beaver Dam, Ohio, but shortly afterward he came to Indiana and established his residence at Butler, which continued the central stage of his professional services until his death. He was sixteen years of age when he was graduated in the college at Coburg, Ontario, where he completed a commercial course. On July 31, 1862, he was united in marriage to Miss Caroline Myers. He died February 14, 1926. After his marriage he initiated his studies in the medical school of the University of Michigan, and in that institution he was graduated, with highest honors, as a member of the class of 1867.

The Doctor ever kept in touch with the advances made in medical and surgical science, was a close student and reader, and his was high appreciation of the dignity and the responsibilities of the profession in which he gave so many years of loyal service. Doctor Fanning was raised to the sublime degree of Master Mason in 1863 and was for twelve years worshipful master of the Blue Lodge at Butler, where he became a member of William Hacker Chapter, R. A. M. He became a Knight Templar in 1878, and his Masonic affiliations were extended also to the Order of the Eastern Star, in which he served five years as worthy patron of the chapter at Butler, while the year 1889 marked his election to the office of grand patron of the Grand Chapter of Indiana. With the Indiana Uniformed Rank, Doctor Fanning long served as a regimental surgeon, with the rank of major. He was for thirty years local surgeon for the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railroad, and was retained in similar capacity by the Wabash Railroad during a period of twenty-five years. He served as a member of the pension examining board of DeKalb County through successive appointments under the administrations of Presidents Harrison, McKinley and Roosevelt. He was one of the honored and influential members of the DeKalb County Medical Society and held membership also in the Indiana State Medical Society and the American Medical Association. He was a stalwart in the ranks of the Republican party and as a citizen he was ever loyal and public-spirited.

Of the two children of Doctor and Mrs. Fanning the younger is Dr. Frank D., who is engaged in practice at Butler, where he was associated professionally with his father until the latter's death. The elder son, Charles R., was killed in a railroad accident, in 1925. Mrs. Caroline Myers Fanning for two years was Grand Matron of the Order of the Eastern Star for the State of Indiana and for seventeen years was state grand treasurer of this order. For one year she was Grand Chief of the Pythian Sisters of Indiana and also served two years as supreme representative for Indiana at the Supreme Temple, once at Denver, Colorado, and once at Winnipeg, Manitoba.

INDIANA ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OF AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT Vol. 3
By Charles Roll, A.M.
The Lewis Publishing Company, 1931

FRANK DUVERNAY FANNING, M. D., is established in the successful practice of his profession in his native village of Butler, DeKalb County, and the scope and character of his practice indicate the high popular estimate placed upon him and upon his technical skill.

Doctor Fanning was born at Butler, May 4; 1873, and is a son of Dr. Fred Walter and Caroline M. (Myers) Fanning, of whose two children he is the younger, the elder son, Charles H., having met his death in a railroad accident in 1925.

Dr. Fred W. Fanning was born at Belleville, Province of Ontario, Canada, in the year 1841, and received the advantages of Coburg College, at Coburg, that province. He later was graduated in the medical department of the University of Michigan, and after having been for a time engaged in the practice of his profession at Beaver Dam, Ohio, he removed to Butler, DeKalb County, Indiana, where he continued his loyal, able and kindly professional ministrations during the long period of thirty-seven years and where he and his wife continued to maintain their home until their death.

After completing his studies in the Butler High School Dr. Frank D. Fanning entered his father's professional alma mater, the medical department of the great University of Michigan, where he continued his studies three years. He then transferred to the medical department of the University of Illinois, this department being established in the City of Chicago, where he was graduated as a member of the class of 1897. After thus receiving his degree of Doctor of Medicine he returned to Butler and was admitted to partnership by his honored father, this effective professional alliance having continued until the death of his father, since which time he has continued the large and representative general practice in an individual way, with standing as one of the representative physicians and surgeons of his native county. He has membership in the DeKalb County Medical Society, the Northeastern Indiana Academy of Medicine, the Indiana State Medical Society and the American Medical Association. To the father of Doctor Fanning a memorial tribute is given in the preceding sketch. The Doctor is retained as local surgeon for the New York Central Railroad lines and has membership in the association maintained by the surgeons in such service. His political alignment is with the Republican party, he and his wife have membership in the Christian Church, in the Masonic fraternity he has received the thirty-second degree of the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite. He is a member also of the Knights of Pythias and is founder and organizer of the Samson Degree Team, celebrated among the Pythian Order everywhere, and he has affiliation with the Modern Woodmen of America, the Pennsylvania, Wabash and New York Central Railroad Surgeons Association, the Fraternal Order of Gleaners, and the Phi Rho Sigma medical fraternity. He enlisted in the Medical Corps of the U. S. A in 1918 and was given the rank of Captain, but the armistice was signed before he was inducted into the service.

August 19, 1922, recorded the marriage of Doctor Fanning to Miss Mina M. Dirrim, daughter of Lincoln and Lucy Dirrim, of Hamilton, Indiana, and the one child of this union is a daughter, Carolyn Lucee, who was born March 7, 1925, on the eighty-first birthday anniversary of her paternal grandmother.

INDIANA ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OF AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT Vol. 3
By Charles Roll, A.M.
The Lewis Publishing Company, 1931