Mr. Rybolt was born in Grant County, Indiana, June 25, 1903. His parents, Earl and Otha (Sharp) Rybolt, are also natives of Indiana, both born in the year 1877 and are residents of Grant County. There were two sons, Kenneth and Gerald. Kenneth, born in 1901, married Miss Avaline Haynes, of Howard County.

Gerald Waldon Rybolt attended the common schools of Swayzee in Grant County, graduated from the Summitville High School in 1918, and in the following year entered DePauw University at Greencastle. He completed his commercial training and law work at Indiana University in 1924, and immediately came to Kokomo, where he has rapidly built himself up into a profitable law practice. He is a member of the Lambda Chi Alpha college fraternity and has his Masonic membership in Swayzee Lodge No. 637.

Mr. Rybolt married, May 8, 1925, Miss Garmen Mason, who was born February 16, 1904, daughter of Roscoe and Edith (Griffith) Mason.

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

HENRY QUIGLEY, mayor of the City of Kokomo, is a native of Indiana, and most of his business and public experience has been in Kokomo, where he has lived for over twenty years.

Mr. Quigley was born at Logansport, Indiana, September 30, 1888. His father, Thomas M. Quigley, was also a native of this state, born at Madison May 25, 1856, and died June 1, 1913. Thomas M. Quigley married Margaret E. Newitt, who was born in England, May 20, 1858, and was nine years of age when her parents came to America and located at Evansville, Indiana. She died May 13, 1911. The other children of the family besides Henry were: Elizabeth, wife of Harry Rorebach, of Indianapolis; William H., of Tampa, Florida, who married Nellie Jester, of Logansport; George N., at Denver, Colorado; Miss Harriet, who died in 1906 at Chicago; Thomas M., unmarried, living at Pensacola, Florida; Miss Edna M., of Minneapolis; and Lawrence J., of Los Angeles, California.

Henry Quigley had his first educationa1 advantages in the Logansport public schools. In the fall of 1900, when he was twelve years of age, he went to Chicago and in 1905 was graduated from the Englewood High School of that city. Soon afterward he returned to Logansport and in August, 1909, came to Kokomo. He clerked in drug and book stores and in May, 1918, was nominated for the office of county clerk of Howard County. Soon after his nomination he joined the colors and was in training camp until after the armistice. In the meantime, in November, 1918, he had been elected county clerk for a four year term. After the conclusion of that term in office he served as deputy county clerk under Louis Middleton until 1929. Mr. Quigley was elected mayor of Kokomo in 1929, and on January 6, 1930, began his four year term, entering office with the complete confidence of the people and with a record that insures a businesslike administration of the city.

Mr. Quigley is a Republican in politics, a member of the Presbyterian Church, the American Legion Post, and is a Knight Templar Mason and member of Murat Temple of the Mystic Shrine at Indianapolis.

On September 21, 1918, just prior to leaving for training camp, he married Miss Ruth K. Collins. She is a daughter of W. T. and Margaret Collins, of Kokomo. Mrs. Quigley has one sister, Rhea, wife of Carl Kasten, of Kokomo.

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

MARTIN WARREN EIKENBERRY is probably as well known among the citizens of Howard County as any other resident. His has been a career devoted to business, farming, and for over twenty years he has been prominent before the public as a county official.

Mr. Eikenberry was born in Clinton County, Indiana, September 7, 1858. His parents, Peter and Margaret (Eaton) Eikenberry, were natives of Indiana, and both of them died in the early childhood of their son Martin Warren. Mrs. Margaret Eikenberry passed away in 1863 and her husband in 1865. There is one other surviving child, Daniel E. Eikenberry, whose home is Los Angeles, California.

Martin Warren Eikenberry was seven years of age when his father died and he grew up an orphan boy, largely dependent on his own resources and efforts. He was educated in the common schools of Clinton County. Mr. Eikenberry moved to Howard County in 1886 and for several years engaged in farming. Prior to that time he had been in the grocery business at Middlefork in Clinton County. Mr. Eikenberry in 1889 went to Nebraska, and spent about four years in that western state. On returning to Indiana ip1893 he engaged in business at Russiaville, Howard County, and was a merchant in that community until he moved to Kokomo in 1907.

Mr. Eikenberry was given his first official honor, when elected clerk of the Howard County Circuit Court. He held that office from 1908 to 1912. In 1922 he was elected county recorder for a term of four years, and in 1926 received a second term from the people of Howard County. He has given a splendid administration of his office.

Mr. Eikenberry is a Republican in politics and is a member of the United Brethren Church. He married Miss Angelina Bock. She was born at Dayton, Ohio, in 1862. They have four children: Roxie, wife of Earl Woody, of Russiaville, Howard County; Edna, wife of Scott Weaver of Fort Myers, Florida; Daniel H., of Columbus, Ohio; and Lorin W., of Greenfield, Indiana.

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

HON. JOSEPH CRIPE, judge of the Howard County Circuit Court, is a World war veteran, and it is within the decade since the close of the war that his notable achievements have been made in his professional career.

Judge Cripe was born in Carroll County, Indiana, March 17, 1885. His father, Samuel Cripe was born December 16, 1843, in Howard County, Indiana, just about the time that county was organized, his people having been pioneers in this section of Indiana. Samuel Cripe married Mary Winters, who was born in Preble County, Ohio, in 1847. Judge Cripe has three brothers, John, Bruce and Ellsworth, and his two married sisters are Mrs. Emma Wikle, of Cass County, and Mrs. Mary Barber, of Howard County.

Joseph Cripe received his early education in the public schools of Cass County, prepared for college in Marion College and from there entered Indiana University. The goal of his ambitions from an early age had been the law, but he was put to many shifts in reaching this goal. He taught in high schools and did other work, and finally, in March, 1915, was graduated from the law department of the University of Michigan. He continued teaching for a time after qualifying as a lawyer and on January 1, 1917, began practice at Kokomo.

He had barely won recognition as a capable member of the bar when he answered the call to the colors. On May 8, 1917, he enlisted in the army, was later commissioned a first lieutenant of infantry and assigned to Company H, of the Three Hundred Thirty-fifth Infantry. In the summer of 1918 he went overseas, and was put with the French and Beigian troops on the western front. He returned to the United States in the fall of 1919 and immediately resumed his career as a practicing lawyer. Public duties and responsibilities have taken a large part of his time since the war. In 1921 he was elected city judge of Kokomo, taking office January 1, 1922. He was reelected in 1926. In 1928 he was elected judge of the Howard County Circuit Court, resigning as city judge on December 31 in order to go on the circuit bench January 1, 1929, for a six-year term.

Judge Cripe is a Republican, a member of the Congregational Church of Kokomo and is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity, B. P. O. Elks and Fraternal Order of Eagles. He married at Kokomo, August 21, 1921, Miss Eva Brown, of Cass County, Indiana, daughter of Andrew and Mary Brown.

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

OSBORN HAVERSTOCK is a South Bend business man who through his business performs the duties of his profession as an embalmer and undertaker. Mr. Haverstock is known for his close attention to his work, and his earnestness, public spirit and willingness to serve are assets of any community.

He was born on a farm near Rolling Prairie in La Porte County, Indiana, March 8, 1896. La Porte County has been the home of the Haverstock family since pioneer days, when his grandfather, Jacob Haverstock, located there on moving from Ohio. Mr. Haverstock's maternal grandfather, Isaac J. Miller, was born in La Porte County. The parents of the South Bend undertaker are William and Lydia (Miller) Haverstock, both of whom were born in La Porte County and spent their active lives on a farm, and are now living retired in the City of La Porte.

Osborn Haverstock was the oldest of three children. He completed his grade and high school education in Rolling Prairie and in 1922 was graduated from the Chicago College of Embalming. He had practical experience in Chicago and from 1922 to 1924 was associated with Mr. A. M. Russell's undertaking establishment in South Bend. In 1924 he and Mr. Earl C. Hollis formed the firm of Hollis & Haverstock, and have built a fine funeral home and perfected a complete undertaking service in the River Park section of South Bend, their address being 2528 Mishawaka Avenue.

Mr. Haverstock married Miss Mary Elizabeth Rogers, a native of La Porte County. Her mother is Mrs. B. F. Rogers, of LaPorte. Her father is deceased. The three children of their marriage are Lawrence, Harriett Loraine and Roger William. Mr. Haverstock is a member of the Masonic Lodge, River Park Business Men's Club and the First Methodist Episcopal Church. When able, to get away from the responsibilities of business he finds his chief recreation in hunting and fishing.

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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

JAMES JOSIAH SPECK, the postmaster of Greentown, is an ex-service man and was overseas during the World war, but otherwise has spent practically all his life in this Howard County community.

Mr. Speck was born near Greentown, March 13, 1891. Three generations of the family have lived in Indiana. His father, Harvey H. Speck, was born in Ohio, March 11, 1846, and was five years of age when his parents moved to Indiana and settled in Miami County. Harvey H. Speck was a highly respected farmer and one of Howard County's estimable citizens. He died in 1904. He married Sarah Richardson, who was born in Darke County, Ohio, June 23, 1851, and is now living, at the age of seventy-nine, at Greentown. The other children were: John, in the Federal prohibition service at Detroit, Michigan; Charles, of Kokomo; Walter, of Marion, Indiana; Mrs. Ada Johnson, widow, of Greentown; and Etta, wife of Homer Powell, a farmer near Greentown.

James Josiah Speck grew up on a farm, made good use of the opportunities of the local schools and is himself a practical farmer by experience.

When the World war came on he was trained in the Engineer Corps and spent fourteen months overseas with the engineers during 1918-19. Mr. Speck was appointed postmaster of Greentown in 1925. He is a Republican and a member of the American Legion Post.

He married, November 5, 1924, Miss Verlie Hamler, daughter of Ralph and Martha (Goyer) Hamler. Her parents were born in Howard County and her grandparents were among the pioneer settlers of the county. Mr. and Mrs. Speck have two children: a daughter, Bettie, born May 29, 1925; and a son, born March 17, 1927.

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

CLIFFORD E. CRAWFORD in the fall of 1929 was elected mayor of the City of Frankfort by the largest majority ever given a candidate for that office. It was a distinctive non-partisan tribute to a man admirably qualified in every way for this honor and responsibility. Mr. Crawford personally is a Democrat, and was elected in a city that has long been considered a stronghold of the Republican party.

Mr. Crawford is a native of Indiana and for many years has been in business at Frankfort. He was born in Carroll County January 17. 1877. His father was born in Carroll County February 25, 1853, and died in August, 1925, at the age of seventy-two. Mayor Crawford's mother is Rosa L. (Whiteman) Crawford. She was born in Clinton County, January 14, 1852, daughter of Abraham F. and Mary (Shaffor) Whiteman. The local history of Clinton County pays particular attention to Abraham F. Whiteman as one of the pioneers of the county. He was the first white settler in Warren Township. He located there in 1829 and it was a year before any other members of the white race joined him, his neighbors up to that time, such as they were, being Indians only. Clifford E. Crawford has three brothers and one sister: Charles E., born January 10, 1876, is a carpenter at Frankfort; Carlton E., born April 14, 1881, is a painter and decorator at Gary; Catherine Crawford was born July 2, 1886, and lives at Frankfort; Lee H., born in 1892, is a resident of Michigantown, Clinton County.

Clifford E. Crawford had his early educational advantages at Middlefork, Indiana. For three years he attended the high school at Michigantown and in 1896, when he was nineteen years of age, began teaching. Many of his old time scholars are still living in Clinton County and all speak of him in the highest terms as an efficient educator. This was his profession for nineteen years. From 1915 to 1919 Mr. Crawford was a clerk in the Frankfort postoffice. Since 1919 his active business connections have been as cashier of the Deming & Thompson Company, Incorporated, dealers in lumber and coal.

He served as secretary of the Frankfort School Board from 1925 to 1928. Mr. Craw- ford is giving Frankfort a thoroughly businesslike administration of its municipal affairs. He is a member of the Christian Church and is popular in various fraternal organizations and their auxiliaries, being a past great sachem of the Improved Order of Red Men, member of the Knights of Pythias, Masonic Order, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Modern Woodmen of America and Woodmen of the World. He also belongs to the Izaak Walton League.

Mr. Crawford married, September 22, 1898, Miss Jessie Dunn, duaghter of William A. Dunn, of Boyleston, Indiana. They have two children. Their daughter is Mrs. Freda Griffith, wife of Edward L. Griffith, agent for the Monon Railway at Frankfort.. Mr. and Mrs. Griffith have a daughter, Janet Lee, born January 25, 1927. The son, Maxwell L. Crawford was born January 7, 1907, was graduated with the A. B. degree from Wabash College in June, 1929, and is now a file clerk in the auto license bureau, State House, Indianapolis. Maxwell L. Crawford married Miss Lydia Linn, of Crawfordsville, Indiana, June 15, 1930.

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

JOHN W. BARNES, of Kokomo, is an Indiana man whose career began in the stormy period of the Civil war, in which for a brief time he was a boy soldier of the Union. After the war he worked on his father's farm, in the timber and saw mill, became a school teacher, was county superintendent of schools of Howard County for a number of years, then went to Richmond and became one of the publishers of the Richmond Item, and altogether his career has been made up of more than ordinary experiences and attainments.

Mr. Barnes was born at Centerfield, Highland County, Ohio, January 10, 1847. The Barnes family came from England and settled in Connecticut as early as 1645. His father, William W. Barnes, was born near Danbury, Connecticut, in 1819, and lived to be past ninety years of age, dying in 1910. For many years he was a Howard County farmer. He married Eliza J. Littler, who was born in Ohio, in 1821, and died in 1890. Of their six children John W. was the oldest and is the only one now living. His two brothers were George D. and Stephen T. William W. Barnes was a school teacher in early life. He took an active part in the Grange movement in Indiana and was business manager of the local Grange for many years.

When John W. Barnes was nine years of age his parents moved to Martinsville, Ohio, and two years later to New Vienna in Clinton County in that state. In these localities the first seventeen years of his life were spent. In May, 1864, he enlisted in Company G of the One Hundred and Forty-ninth Ohio Infantry and was at once sent into the Shenandoah Valley, where the Ohio regiment became a part of Sheridan's command. He took part in the battle of Monocacy near Frederick, Maryland, and was mustered out in September, 1864.

About that time the Barnes family came to Indiana and settled on a farm of 360 acres five miles northeast of Kokomo. Much of this land was covered with heavy wood and his father set up a saw mill. John W. Barnes found his time and strength fully occupied with the heavy work of cutting the trees, rolling the logs and hauling them with an ox team to the mill. He was drawn out of that routine when a resident of the district, Thompson Drinkwater, solicited him to teach the local school. He had attended only the common schools of the Ohio communities where the family lived and he expressed his doubts to Mr. Drinkwater that he was sufficiently qualified for the task of teaching. He was familiar with the "three R's," and was especially good in arithmetic. Mr. Drinkwater said that arithmetic was the principal thing and the other branches could be absorbed as needed. Accordingly he took an examination, and passed satisfactorily except in grammar and physiology. He had never studied these subjects, being under the impression that grammar was a study for girls only and physiology for medical students only. He was requested to procure two or three books covering grammar and physiology, and after three months he returned for a second examination and had made such good use of his time that he was given a license. In this way his career changed from that of log roller to school teacher. For one year he taught in an old log school house and then went to Kokomo and in the following September entered a normal school conducted by Professor Fay and wife. These instructors left suddenly and Mr. Barnes, returning after a week end at the home in the country, was elected first assistant instructor. He had declined the principalship of the Kokomo schools. After three terms of teaching he entered Asbury, now DePauw, University, at Greencastle, in the fall of 1869, first taking the preparatory course, and in 1874 was graduated as a member of the largest class that had ever been sent out by the university up to that time. This class numbered thirty-five. For many years DePauw University has had annual graduating classes larger than the entire student enrollment in 1874. After leaving DePauw Mr. Barnes taught in the high schools of Greentown and Kokomo until 1878. In 1879 he became county superintendent of Howard County, and filled that office for nearly fourteen years, being elected every time he offered himself as a candidate. He was an educator of unusual vision and progressiveness, and while county superintendent he made the rather daring prediction that every township in the county would some day have a graded school with a central building, all of which has come to pass within his experience.

Mr. Barnes was also active in local politics and in 1818 was made chairman of the Republican central committee of Howard County. After two years he retired, since the position interfered with his duties as county superintendent. As county superintendent he was selected to assist in conducting an examination for cadets for West Point Military Academy. In 1883 he compiled the Civil war history of Howard County. Mr. Barnes in 1890 was candidate for the nomination of superintendent of public instruction of Indiana. After leaving the office of county superintendent he was for several years associated with his brother George in the saw and planing mill business in Saline County, Illinois. They worked out a tract of 1,200 acres of timber land in that state.

Mr. Barnes in February, 1894, became business manager of the Richmond Evening Item, and. on April 1, 1896, bought a half interest in the paper. On July 1, 1898, J. B. Gordon became his partner and the Item was published by the firm of Barnes & Gordon, with Mr. Barnes as business manager, until July, 1901.

Mr. Barnes on July 10, 1901, sailed with his wife to Europe and spent five months visiting many of the cities of interest in the old world. His first knowledge of the assassination of President McKinley was gained by reading a French morning paper in Paris in September, 1901. On October 26, 1901, he stood on top of the Campanile Bell Tower at Venice . The following July 2, 1902, he read in the Indianapolis Journal that the same Campanile had fallen after having stood on wooden pilings for eleven centuries. On his return to America in November, 1901, he visited his son Earl, then a student at Harvard University. Mr. Barnes after returning from abroad engaged in banking at Kokomo, but for the past twenty years has been practically retired. Much of his time has been spent in travel and he has been in every state of the United States and every province in Canada, has also been through the Panama Canal, and he spent the winter of 1927-28 in Honolulu, and in 1930 traveled in Europe, Asia and Africa. Mr. Barnes is a member of the Masonic fraternity and the Knights of Pythias and is a past post commander of Thomas J. Harrison Post, Grand Army of the Republic, at Kokomo.

Mr. Barnes married, January 9, 1879, Miss Wyoma A. Brandon, who died in 1917. They had two sons, Earl B. and Creston W. Creston W., for a number of years has been a traveling representative of the Excelsior Steel Furnace Company of Chicago. Earl B. Barnes was born March 17, 1881, graduated as the youngest member of the class of 1898 from the Richmond High School, in 1899 was delegate at large from the Indiana colleges to the Republican Lincoln League Convention at Fort Wayne, and while a student in Earlham College represented that school in joint debate with Indiana University. Later he graduated from Harvard University and for many years has enjoyed very high rank among Indiana attorneys, being engaged in practice at Indianapolis.

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

HARRY H. GOLDSBERRY, a business man at Dayton, Tippecanoe County, is a sales engineer and expert on pumping machinery.

He was born on a farm in Sheffield Township, Tippecanoe County, November 8, 1885, and is descended from one of the first families to settle permanently on what was then the Northern Indiana frontier. He is a descendant of old American stock. One of his ancestors was a frontier and Indian fighter during the Revolutionary war from Hardy County, Virginia, now West Virginia. Thomas Goldsberry was a soldier in the War of 1812. A son of Thomas Goldsberry was Peter Goldsberry, who was born in Ross County, Ohio, in 1813, and in 1831 settled in Tippecanoe County, Indiana. He held. the office of justice of the peace and was one of the most prominent men in his township. Peter Goldsberry married Margaret Rycraft. Their son, Peter Goldsberry, father of Harry H. Goldsberry, was born on the old homestead in Sheffield Township and married Lizzie A. Slayback.

Harry H. Goldsberry attended the Wyandotte School and the Elliott School in District No.4, where he completed the sixth grade studies. He graduated from the high school at Dayton and completed his technical education in Purdue University at Lafayette, graduating in 1909 in electrical engineering. During the World war he was enrolled with the Engineering Corps at Portsmouth, Virginia, until the armistice. After finishing at Purdue in 1909 Mr. Goldsberry spent three years with the General Electric Company at Fort Wayne, Indiana. For a number of years he has conducted a store and shop for electrical and plumbing goods at Dayton, but most of his time is spent on the road as a traveling engineer. He resides with his mother at Dayton. Mr. Goldsberry is a member of Dayton Lodge No. 103, A. F. and A. M., and the Methodist Church.

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

JACKSON COCHRAN is a resident of Wea Township, Tippecanoe County. His life has been spent there in the effective prosecution of his interests as a farmer and stock man, and he has long enjoyed the confidence of his fellow citizens, who frequently have called him to positions of trust and responsibility.

Mr. Cochran, whose farm of 140 acres lies on the state road about four miles south of Lafayette, was born January 13, 1851. He is a son of Joseph and Maria (Carr) Cochran and grandson of John Cochran. Mr. Cochran's great-great-grandfather was a native of Boston, Massachusetts, moved to Virginia and served as a soldier in the War of the Revolution. The great-grandfather, William, was born in Hardy County, in what is now West Virginia. John Cochran spent his active life as an Ohio farmer. Joseph Cochran was born in Ross County, Ohio, and came to Tippecanoe County and settled in Wea Township in 1836. He was one of the prominent pioneers of the township. He and his wife had seven children: William, Martha Jane, Jackson, David, Elizabeth, Nettie and Dora.

Jackson Cochran as a boy on the farm attended country schools, the Reser School, and completed a course in Lafayette Business College. He chose farming as his vocation, began his career as a renter, and later acquired the very valuable farm on which he is now living practically retired from the responsibilities of its management.

On April 20, 1881, Mr. Cochran married Elizabeth Jackson, daughter of Simon and Louisa (Bowsher) Jackson. She was born in Wea Township, Tippecanoe County, September 26, 1857. Simon Jackson was born in Ohio and was sixteen days old when his parents, John O. and Betsy (Doyle) Jackson, moved to Indiana. John O. Jackson was a native of Pennsylvania. Mrs. Cochran was reared and educated in Tippecanoe County, attending country and city schools. She is the mother of two children. The son, Robert, is at home. Elizabeth is the wife of Walter Viol and has two children, Walter and Jackson.

Mr. Cochran has been a member of the advisory township board and has freely responded to the call for cooperative effort and assistance in civic matters. He is treasurer of the Methodist Episcopal Church, a member of the Knights of Pythias, and Mrs. Cochran is active in the Ladies' Aid Society of the church.

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

JOHN FURMAN RAUCH, of Randolph Township Tippecanoe County, represents the third generation of a family that has provided pioneers, substantial citizens and business men to Indiana through a period of more than three quarters of a century.

Mr. John Furman Rauch was born on the farm where he now resides, near Romney, September 17, 1876. He is a son of John and Martha E. (Jackson) Rauch. His grandfather was Mathias Rauch, who in 1852 brought his family to this country from Germany. Mathias Rauch had three children: John; Mary, who married Joseph Cretors; and Anna, who became the wife of Daniel Kessinger.

John Rauch was born in Germany, April 4, 1842, and was about ten years of age when the family came to America, first locating at Sidney, Ohio. He was educated in Germany and in Ohio, attending country schools at Sidney, and on moving to Indiana settled in Tippecanoe Township. After his marriage he rented land, and long before his death was one of the large land owners and prosperous citizens of the county. For forty years he was an elder in the Presbyterian Church. He and his wife are buried in the Romney Cemetery. They had seven children, six of whom grew up. Henry L. married Flora Fox Leaming and had two children, Christine and Martha; Charles M. married Manette Cale, and their children were Evelyn, Furman, Algernon, Dutro and Bradford; Mary C.; John Furman; George S. married Letitia Flaugher, Holmes and had three children, Charles, Kenneth and Leland; and Martha E., became the wife of Verlin Payne.

John Furman Rauch grew up on the home farm, attended school at Romney, and remained on the farm during the life of his parents, and afterwards he bought out the other heirs in the homestead, which he operates as a general farm and stock ranch.

Mr. Rauch is an elder in the Presbyterian Church, is a past master of the Masonic Lodge at Romney and a member of the Eastern Star. He served four years on the advisory board. He has indulged himself in travel and has made one trip abroad.

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

JAMES LOUIS WYATT, M. D. In all the relations of life the law of succession holds good, and the City of Fort Wayne has been favored in the successive movement that has given to her in the younger generation physicians and surgeons of fine attainments, sterling character and unbounded professional loyalty. Among the prominent younger' physicians and surgeons in this historic old city of Indiana stands Dr. James L. Wyatt, who is a native of this state, and who has here been engaged in the active general practice of his profession since 1924.

Doctor Wyatt was born in Noble County, Indiana, April 15, 1893, and is the second of the four children of James L. and Joanna (Hall) Wyatt, the former of whom likewise was born in Noble County, and the latter of whom was born in Knox County, Kentucky. James L. Wyatt was reared and educated in Noble County and there he eventually became a leading merchant at Laotto, from which village he removed with his family to Fort Wayne, in 1924, he having since been established in the real estate business in this city. His wife died March 17, 1923.

After completing his studies in the high school at Laotto Doctor Wyatt was a student one year in the Tri-State College at Angola, Indiana, and in 1913 he attended the International Business College in Fort Wayne. Thereafter he was associated several years in the management of his father's general store at Laotto, and he then became a student in the University of Indiana, from which he received in 1921 the degree of Bachelor of Science and in the medical department of which he was graduated as a member of the class of 1923 and in 1924 he received his Doctor of Medicine, Cum Laude, degree. After thus receiving his degree of Doctor of Medicine he further fortified himself by the clinical experience gained through his service as an interne in St. Joseph's Hospital, Fort Wayne, and in July, 1924, he here initiated the independent practice of his profession, in which he has achieved both success and prestige of no minor order. He is a member of the staff of physicians and surgeons of St. Joseph's Hospital, and has membership in the Allen County Medical Society, the Indiana State Medical Society and the American Medical Association. His office is established at 308 East Jefferson Street, and his home is at 1845 Kensington Boulevard. The Doctor is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity.

Doctor Wyatt married Miss Mildred Mumaw, who was born at Butler, Indiana, and who was graduated in Valparaiso University, at Valparaiso, this state, her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Mumaw, being now residents of Edon, Ohio. Doctor and Mrs. Wyatt's twin sons, Richard J. and James Louis, Jr., were born June 25, 1915, the former having died five days later and James L., Jr., being now a student in the Fort Wayne public schools.

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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

RALPH H. SCHAUPP, a popular Lafayette attorney, well known for his public spirited relationship with the community, has had a very interesting career, one in which his ambition and energy have accounted for every successive step of advancement.

Mr. Schaupp was born near Linngrove, Adams County, Indiana. He is a member of one of the old families who came from Switzerland during the 1840s and made a prominent colony in Adams and adjoining counties, where the influence of these Swiss people is still dominant in several communities. His grandfather, John Schaupp, was a native of Berne, Switzerland, and married a Miss Sutter. After settling in Indiana he joined the Union army for service in the Civil war. He was both a business man and land owner and farmer and developed a fine property at Linngrove in Hartford Township. The father of Ralph H. Schaupp was Levi Schaupp, who was born in Adams County, spent his life as a farmer and carpenter and had a number of active relationships with the religious, political and fraternal affairs of his home community. He served as township assessor. He was born on the same farm as his son Ralph H. Levi Schaupp married Mary Hill, a native of Adams County.

Ralph H. Schaupp was one of four children. His father died when he was sixteen years of age, and after that his educational advantages were such as his determination and industry enabled him to secure. He attended public schools in Adams County. In 1910 he was graduated from the old Marion Normal College, attended the Muncie Normal and in 1916 graduated from the Indiana State Normal at Terre Haute. During all this time he was engaged in teaching, and attended school usually in the summer sessions. He taught for eight years in Adams, Monroe, White and Jasper counties. In 1918 he graduated with the A. B. degree from Indiana University.

The next important chapter in his career is his World war service. He went to France with the Three Hundred Forty-fifth Field Artillery in the Nineteenth Division, and was overseas five months before the armistice and then was in the Army of Occupation in Germany for several months. For four months he was in England and while there was detached to attend the University of London, where he carried on special studies in economics and history. While in the army he was a non-commissioned officer.

In August, 1919, Mr. Schaupp returned home and resumed teaching for a year at Rensselaer, in Jasper County. Following this came his formal preparation for the bar. He graduated in 1923, with the LL. B. and J. D., degrees from the Indiana University School of Law, was admitted to the bar and in September, 1923, established his law offices at Lafayette. He is a lawyer of very scholarly habits, systematic in his investigations, and has shown a great deal of resourcefulness in handling business entrusted to his care. Mr. Schaupp was secretary of the county central Republican committee. He is a member of the Izaak Walton League, is a Rotarian, member of the Chamber of Commerce, American Legion and West Lafayette Lodge No. 156 of the Masonic fraternity. He belongs to the Tippecanoe County and Indiana State Bar Associations, the Indiana Farm Bureau, the Hoosier State Automobile Association, is a member of the Grotto of Masons, and the West Lafayette Country Club. The social service activities of the community have made a strong appeal to him. He is a Presbyterian.

Mr. Schaupp married Gertrude Vanatta, a native of White County, Indiana. They have three children, Mary Virginia, Beth and Helen.

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