This business was established in 1905 and has had a quarter of a century of successful growth and development. It was founded at Lansdale, Pennsylvania, and the large factory and general offices are still located there. This company manufactures the Perkins Vegetable Glues, products nationally known and sold.
Since 1909 South Bend, Indiana, has been the general sales headquarters for the company. The founder of the business was the late Frank G. Perkins, who died September 5, 1910. The management of the business was then taken over by Mr. J. B. B. Stryker and Mrs. Gertrude S. Perkins, the brother-in- law and widow, respectively, of Mr. Perkins. Mr. Stryker is today the president of the company and Mrs. Perkins the first vice president.
INDIANA ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OF AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT Vol. 3
By Charles Roll, A.M.
The Lewis Publishing Company, 1931
HARRY GUNN, an Indiana business man, is a resident of Veedersburg, where for several years he has been manager of the plant of the Indiana Condensed Milk Company.
Mr. Gunn was born in Tipton County, Indiana, January 13, 1886. The family has been in Indiana since pioneer times. His father, James B. Gunn, was born in Orange County and was a Union soldier in the Civil war, being a member of the One Hundred Fifty- ninth Indiana Regiment, in service under Sherman and Grant. He was wounded in one battle, but lived for many years after the war, a prosperous and industrious farmer. He passed away May 9, 1913. James B. Gunn married Eva Alice Henderson, daughter of William H. Henderson. These parents had two children, Harry and Elizabeth. Elizabeth died in 1908.
Harry Gunn attended the public schools of Sheridan, Indiana, and it was in that community that he grew up and spent his early life, acquiring his experience in farming and in the milk industry. In 1925 he came to Veedersburg in Fountain County to take the management of the Indiana Condensed Milk Company.
Mr. Gunn is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Improved Order of Red Men and Modern Woodmen of America. He married, December 4, 1905, Miss Halcy Eaton, daughter of Charles Eaton, of Hamilton County, Indiana. Their family circle consists of seven children: Cyrus L., James B., Halton, John, Rosemary, Imogene and William Thomas. William Thomas was born in 1929. The other children except Cyrus L. are all in school, James, Halton and John in high school and Rosemary and Imogene in grammar school.
Cyrus L. Gunn has already taken his place in the ranks of workers. He graduated from DePauw University with the class of 1928 and is now teacher of history and director of athletics at Mount Vernon, Indiana. During his four years in high school he won eleven letters in athletics, three letters each year in track, football and basketball, except one year when on account of an injury he was unable to participate as a member of the basketball team. He belongs to the Masonic fraternity and at DePauw was a Phi Chi.
INDIANA ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OF AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT Vol. 3
By Charles Roll, A.M.
The Lewis Publishing Company, 1931
OLIVER D. BLAKELY, a retired resident of Covington, has lived in that Fountain County community all his life. At the age of eighty-four he is a picturesque and much loved figure and personality among the citizens, not least because of his remarkable record as a boy soldier in the Civil war. He is one of the last survivors of the Union veterans and was one of the youngest men who went to the front in Indiana.
He was born at Covington November 30, 1846. His father, Samuel Blakely, was a native of Sidney, Ohio, and was a stone mason and contractor, being one of the early settlers of Fountain County. Samuel Blakely married Mary Lacy, who was born at Whitewater, Indiana. These parents had two children, Oliver D. and Mary. The daughter died when twenty-one years of age.
Oliver D. Blakely acquired his education in the public schools of Covington. He was only a few days past fifteen years of age when he was mustered into the service and was assigned to Company G of the Fortieth Indiana Infantry, being the youngest soldier that went from Covington into the army. During part of his service he was under the command of General Rosecrans. He was the last of Covington's volunteers to return from the front, remaining with the army until December 21, 1865, when he had rounded out over four years of continuous service. He was also the first soldier from Covington to be wounded.
When the war was over Mr. Blakely fitted himself into the working duties of the community where he grew up, becoming a farmer, and for half a century was active in his business affairs. He has always been a staunch Republican, a member of the Grand Army of the Republic, and is commander of John C. Fremont Post No.4 at Covington, but has no church connection or affiliation with secret orders.
Mr. Blakely married, May 1, 1877, Miss Margaret Bodine, of Fountain County. Five children were born to their marriage: Ora, Avis, Nellie, Elizabeth and Frances, Ora, now deceased, was the wife of George La Tourette and had two children, one of whom was overseas during the World war and was killed in France. Avis is the wife of W. C. Crim, of West Frankfort, Illinois, cashier and stockholder in a bank, and they have four children. The daughter Nellie married James Neil and has one child. The daughter Elizabeth is deceased. Frances married Roscoe Lowe, an examiner in the patent office at Washington, D. C., and of their two children one of them is also an employee of the patent office.
INDIANA ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OF AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT Vol. 3
By Charles Roll, A.M.
The Lewis Publishing Company, 1931
GEORGE WEBSTER is a retired banker, a resident of Marion, in which city he was born October 28, 1849. Mr. Webster's career has been a notable one because of the efforts which have raised him to success in business and long standing prominence among his fellow men.
He represents a line of sturdy and patriotic American ancestors. His great-grandfather, Joseph Webster, was born in Lebanon County, Connecticut, in 1718. He enlisted as a private during the Revolutionary war and served in Washington's troops. He was with Washington at the crossing of the Delaware River. He was attached to a regiment of Connecticut militia and also served in Sheldon's Light Horse Brigade. A son of this Revolutionary soldier was Samuel Webster, who was born at Stafford, Connecticut, September 20, 1,767. He married Livina Hopkins, who was born March 1, 1772. They were the grandparents of the Marion banker. The latter's father was George W. Webster, who was born at Fairfax, Vermont, in 1811, and died February 13, 1892. Both he and his wife are buried in the Odd Fellows Cemetery at Marion. He was a carpenter and building contractor. He married Marie J. McKinney, who was born May 12, 1816, and died June 18, 1893.
Mr. George Webster attended a private school and the public schools at Marion, was also a student in the Marion Seminary, and at the age of twenty took a course in the Bryant and Stratton Business College at Chicago. He had become self-supporting before he finished his education. At the age of fourteen he was employed as sexton in the Marion Christian Church, being paid $2.50 a month for that work. When he was eighteen he was working in his father's grocery store, at five dollars a week. Mr. Webster after completing his business college course returned to Marion and served as deputy county clerk from 1870 to 1874. In 1875 he and his brother William opened a grocery store on the main square, but after a year he retired from the business and went to Northern Michigan, where he was manager of a shingle mill at Manistee, and then was appointed manager of the company store, at a salary of a thousand dollars per year.
On giving up this work he returned to Marion and became cashier in the Sweetser Bank, a private bank founded by James Sweetser and his two sons, George and D. B. Sweetser. The next chapter in his business experience was in Chicago, where in 1887 he bought an interest in the Western Leather Manufacturing Company, but sold out in 1889 and bought the Wabash Electric Company at Wabash, Indiana.
Mr. Webster in the fall of 1890 returned to Marion and bought a quarter interest in the Marion Bank, a private institution. He served as its cashier. In 1906 the bank was reorganized as the Marion State Bank, with a capital of $125,000 and surplus of $100,000. He still retains a twenty-five per cent interest in the bank. He was active as a banker until 1913, when he sold to Mr. Philip Matter.
Mr. Webster in 1908 was appointed by the governor of Indiana as a trustee of the Indiana Boys School and served in that office for ten years. He is a member of the Sons of the American Revolution, is a Mason, a charter member of the Knights of Pythias at Marion, and for five years was treasurer of the Indiana Grand Lodge. He is a member of the Commercial Club and the Marion Association of Commerce, has been a lifelong Republican and attends the Christian Church.
Mr. Webster married, February 11, 1884, at Wabash, Indiana, Miss Marie D. Daugherty. They have one son, Lawrence B. Webster, who was born October 28, 1884.
Lawrence B. Webster graduated from the Marion High School in 1902, the following year graduated from the Culver Military Academy at Culver, and in the fall of 1903 entered the Boston School of Technology. He transferred from the School of Technology to Harvard University at Cambridge and. in 1906 was graduated B. A. in mechanical engineering. Following his university career he had an interesting experience abroad, making a bicycle tour through Belgium and Germany. He carried a camera along and made many snapshots. On returning home in 1906, he was employed in a zinc smelter at Cary, Kansas, starting as a routine worker and was advanced to the position of draftsman. Later for five years he was a mechanical engineer with the American Gas & Electric Company of New York City.
In 1917 he entered service for the war, and was put in charge of a section of a munition plant at Baltimore. He turned over to the Government his numerous snapshots he had taken during his tour in Germany, and these were enlarged and it is said they proved a valuable source of information to the Intelligence Department of the army. After the war he located at Cleveland, where he became assistant to the president of the Cleveland Twist Drill Company. He was there five years, and at the present time he is secretary of the Ohio Manufacturers Association, with headquarters at Columbus, Ohio.
INDIANA ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OF AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT Vol. 3
By Charles Roll, A.M.
The Lewis Publishing Company, 1931
RALPH JOHN MILLER is a native son of Indiana, a highly equipped lawyer, and though a comparatively young man has achieved recognition and a volume of law business in his native City of Fort Wayne that ranks him among the foremost attorneys in that section of the state.
Mr. Miller was born at Fort Wayne, November 2,1893, son of Joseph and Catherine (Kinder) Miller. His grandfather, Joseph Miller, Sr., was one of the earliest settlers of Allen County, Indiana, coming from France and settling in Indiana in 1829. He was one of the sturdy pioneers in the development of the agricultural resources of the county. Joseph Miller, Jr., was born in Pleasant Township, Allen County, and left the farm to enter the railway service and for many years was an engineer. He died in 1915, at the age of sixty-eight. His wife, Catherine Kinder, was also a native of Pleasant Township, and spent practically all her life in Allen County, chiefly at Fort Wayne. She died at Fort Wayne at the age of seventy-three years. Her father, Paul Kinder, was another early settler of Allen County.
Ralph J. Miller was next to the youngest in a family of seven children, all of whom are living but one. He was graduated from public schools in Fort Wayne and attended the National School of Law at Indianapolis. As a young attorney it was his good fortune to come into association with one of Fort Wayne's leading attorneys, the late Phil B. Colerick. Later he was made a partner in the law firm of Colerick & Miller, and on the death of Mr. Colerick, in 1923, he succeeded to the large practice of the firm and has since carried on the business under his own name. The practice of law has provided an abundant satisfaction for his ambitions and energies, and he has participated in politics only as a good citizen and voter.
Mr. Miller married, May 25, 1920, Miss Edna Mae Baker. She was born at Antwerp, Ohio, daughter of George and Ella Baker, formerly of Fort Wayne.
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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
EARL D. ROBINSON, present postmaster of Attica, has been well known in that community for forty years, a successful merchant, a thoroughly efficient man in public office, and at all times a public spirited citizen.
He was born in Delphi, Indiana, August 17, 1871. His father, Samuel N. Robinson, came from Hamilton County, Ohio, where he was born, to Indiana in 1853 and was a merchant in Fountain County. He served four years as a Union soldier in the Civil war, being in the Ninth Iowa Infantry. He died in 1915. His wife, Jennie Julian, was born at Delphi in 1854 and died in 1928. They had four children: Clair, of Indianapolis; Pearl, Mrs. Guy Martin, of Lakeland, Florida; Harry, deceased; and Earl D.
Earl D. Robinson was educated in the grammar and high schools of Attica, and in 1892, when twenty-one years of age, engaged in business as a merchant, handling men's furnishing goods. He was in that business for over thirty years, selling out in 1924.
In the meantime, in 1922, he had been appointed postmaster of Attica, and in 1927 was reappointed by President Coolidge. He has given the patrons of the office a thoroughly systematic and efficient administration. He is a staunch Republican and has been secretary of the Chamber of Commerce and is a member of the Board of Children's Guardians. He is a Scottish Rite Mason and Shriner, member of the Knights of Pythias and Independent Order of Odd Fellows and is president of the Attica Kiwanis Club.
Mr. Robinson married in October, 1913, Miss Ruth Boord, daughter of Oliver Boord, of a pioneer family of Fountain County.
INDIANA ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OF AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT Vol. 3
By Charles Roll, A.M.
The Lewis Publishing Company, 1931
CAPT. FRANK THOMAS ROACH. In any well- governed community one of the most important departments is that which has to do with the prevention of crime, the preservation of law and order and the protection of property rights and the rights of citizens. Gary is particularly fortunate in this direction in having as its chief executive law enforcer Capt. Frank Thomas Roach, who holds the double office of captain of police and captain of the detective bureau. Identified with police work since 1906, he is able and experienced, and since locating at Gary has given the citizens of this community no reason to doubt his ability or courage.
Frank Thomas Roach was born at Cincinnati, Ohio, November 20, 1868, and is a son of Michael and Mary (Mullin) Roach. His paternal grandfather, Martin Roach, was born in Ireland, whence he came in search of opportunity to the United States about the year 1830 and settled on a farm located between Lawrenceburg and Moores Hill, in Dearborn County, Indiana. One of the early pioneers of that then undeveloped region, he set about establishing a home and developing a farm, and eventually became a fairly prosperous and very highly respected citizen.
Michael Roach, the father of Captain Roach, was born in County Galway, Ireland, and was a child when brought by his parents to the United States. He grew up on the home farm in Dearborn County, in which community he received his educational training in the country schools, and as a young man learned the trade of stone mason, to which he devoted the remainder of his life. When about in middle age he moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, where he assisted in the construction of many business buildings, schools and residences, and where he was the object of esteem because of his fidelity, good workmanship and many sterling qualities of mind and heart. He died February 25, 1883, and was buried in Saint Joseph's Cemetery, Price Hill, Cincinnati. Mr. Roach married Miss Mary Mullin, who was born in Ireland, and was brought as a child to the United States, the family settling in the same community as the Roachs, where she met and married Mr. Roach. She was educated in the public schools and throughout her life was a faithful member of and active worker in the Catholic Church. She died in 1896 and was buried in Saint Joseph's Cemetery by the side of her husband. There were ten children in the family: Michael, who is deceased; Bridget; Maggie, who is deceased; Katie, who is deceased; Delia; Mary; Capt. Frank Thomas, of this review; Luke, deceased; Joe, also deceased; and Thomas, who died as a young child.
Frank Thomas Roach attended the public schools of Cincinnati, after leaving which he secured a position with Tripenderf & Hartley, Cincinnati shoe manufacturers, with which concern he remained six months. He then entered the steel mills of the Globe Rolling Mills and continued to work there until about 1889, in which year he removed to Anderson, Indiana, and for several years was in the service of the American Steel & Wire Company. Subsequently for one year he was located at Muncie, Indiana, and for another year at Alexandria, this state, with the rolling mills, and then began his police and detective career at East Chicago, in the service of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company. In 1916 Captain Roach came to Gary and joined the police inspection department of the Illinois Steel Company, and two years later joined the police department, serving as detective sergeant for one year. In 1919 he was promoted to the post of captain of police, and in 1930 assumed also the duties of captain of the detective bureau of Gary. Captain Roach is widely known as a brave and efficient officer. On numerous occasions he has demonstrated the possession of nerve, tact and executive capacity, all so necessary in the makeup of a successful police chief, and while his experiences have been many and thrilling, his incumbency has been notable for the manner in which he has preserved law and order and the small percentage of crime. He is admired by the law-abiding people and feared by the criminal element, and is widely and favorably known among police officials throughout the country. Captain Roach has always had faith in Gary property and is the owner of some valuable land, doing a real estate business in addition to taking care of his official duties. He is a member of Gary Lodge of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, was reared in the faith of the Catholic Church, and is a Republican in his political allegiance.
At Cincinnati, Ohio, January 12, 1905, Captain Roach was united in marriage with Miss Allie Davis, daughter of Abel and Harriet (Tinker) Davis, of Newport, Kentucky. For years Mr. Davis was connected with the Andrew Roller Mills at Newport, where he died about 1903, Mrs. Davis surviving until 1922, and both are buried in Evergreen Cemetery, Newport. Mrs. Roach attended the public schools of Newport, where she graduated from high school, and while she is a woman of superior accomplishments which would fit her for leadership in club and civic affairs, she has preferred to remain a home-maker and home-lover.
INDIANA ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OF AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT Vol. 3
By Charles Roll, A.M.
The Lewis Publishing Company, 1931
DAN PYLE, lawyer, South Bend, was born of pioneer stock on a farm near Attica, Indiana, April 19, 1875. His grandfather, Zachariah Pyle, came into the state in the early part of the 1820s. He is the son of Francis M. and Marilla (Young) Pyle. His father was born in Tippecanoe County, Indiana, December 31, 1838, and spent all his life in Tippecanoe and Fountain counties, Indiana. His mother was born at Attica, Indiana, March, 1842, and died in that city in 1918. Nine children were born to Francis M. and Marilla Pyle, of whom three others are living: Miss Mary, George B. and Mrs. Cary Foster, all of Attica. A sister, Mrs. Schuyler Marks, died at Lafayette, Indiana, in November, 1923.
Dan Pyle attended the district schools, and after finishing them continued his education at Greencastle, Indiana, first in DePauw Academy and then in DePauw University, from which institution he graduated in June, 1900, with a degree, A. B., after majoring in political science and public speaking. At the time of his graduation he was president of his class. In the fall of the same year he enrolled in the Indiana Law School of Indianapolis, and was graduated there in 1902, with the LL. B., degree. At the time of his graduation from the law school he was president of his class. Mr. Pyle in the fall of the same year began the practice of law at South Bend, St. Joseph County, Indiana.
Mr. Pyle was county attorney of St. Joseph County from 1912 to 1914, and again for a short period in 1930. In 1922 he was appointed as the Democratic member of the board of public safety of the City of South Bend, under Mayor Eli F. Seebirt, a Republican, and served in that position for a period of four years. He has used his influence and ability as a speaker in many civic movements and campaigns for public improvements.
During the World war he was a member of the State Council of Defense and devoted much time to speaking for Liberty Loan, Red Cross, Thrift, Boys' and Girls' Reserves, Y. M. C. A. and ship-building and other drives.
Governor Leslie, appointed him a member of the Indiana Conference on Law Observance and Enforcement, held at Indianapolis October 11-12, 1929. He spoke on the subject "Circumventing the Law."
On November 4, 1930, he was elected judge of the Circuit Court of St. Joseph County, the Sixtieth Judicial District, for a six-year term, beginning January 1, 1931, and is serving in that capacity at the present time.
As a lawyer he was known as one who believed in and practiced according to the ethics of the profession, and had the reputation of being careful, capable, conscientious and pains-taking.
Mr. Pyle married, August 17, 1907, Mrs. Zula Johnson Uncapher, the only child of Francis J. and Irene (Turner) Johnson. She is a graduate of the South Bend High School and the Rochester (N. Y.) School of Music. She taught in the public schools of South Bend and in Tennessee.
Mr. and Mrs. Pyle have two children, Francis J., a graduate of Oberlin University, Oberlin, Ohio, now professor of music in the State Normal School at Ellensburg, Washington, and Marilla Irene, graduate of the South Bend High School. She is a harpist and entertainer.
Among the organizations of which Mr. Pyle is a member are the Indiana Historical Society, the St. Joseph County Historical Society, the Knights Templar and the Scottish Rite Masons, Methodist Church, St. Joseph County, Indiana State and American Bar Associations and the American Judicature Society.
INDIANA ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OF AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT Vol. 3
By Charles Roll, A.M.
The Lewis Publishing Company, 1931
JOSEPH J. STROUP is one of the progressive representatives of the automobile business in Blackford County, where he is the authorized distributor of the Hudson and Essex cars, with a modern establishment at 301 West Washington Street in Hartford City, the county seat. In the sale of these popular motor cars he has developed a most substantial and prosperous enterprise, the scope of which offers the best evidence of his business discrimination and energy.
Mr. Stroup was born in Huntington County, Indiana, February 1, 1886, the second in order of birth in a family of five children. The place of his nativity was the homestead farm of his parents, Henry F. and Mary (Moriarity) Stroup, his father having been a prosperous farmer and having died when comparatively a young man, leaving to his widow the responsibility of rearing their five children. Henry F. Stroup was a son of Joseph and Sarah (Oldaker) Stroup, both representatives of families that were founded near Hillsboro, Ohio, in the pioneer days. Joseph Stroup came with his family to Indiana about the year 1830 and made settlement two miles north of Warren, Huntington County, where he purchased 160 acres of land, at $1.25 an acre, and where he reclaimed and developed the fine farm that continued the stage of his activities during the remainder of his life. The Stroup family was of staunch German lineage, the first American representatives having come from Germany and settled in Pennsylvania in 1775, the ancestor of the subject of this review having thence removed to Ohio after the close of the Revolution and having become an early settler in the vicinity of Hillsboro, Highland County, where he contributed his share to civic and industrial development and progress and lived up to the full tension of frontier life.
Joseph J. Stroup received the advantages of the public schools of Huntington County, thereafter attended Valparaiso University, and finally he was graduated in the Indiana State Normal School at Marion. As a young man he became concerned in the real-estate business at Fargo, North Dakota, where he remained until 1911, when he returned to his native county. In the fall of 1914 he engaged in the automobile business at Hartford City, though his original enterprise was confined to the operation of a tire shop. From this modest inception he has built up his present flourishing automobile business, with a well equipped establishment of most modern facilities, and he now has standing as one of the veterans in the motor-car business in Blackford County, where as before stated, he has the agency for the Hudson and Essex automobiles. Mr. Stroup is a loyal and valuable member of the local Chamber of Commerce, his political support is given to the Republican party, and he is affiliated with Blackford Lodge of Ancient Free and Accepted Masons. His wife, who was born in the State of Massachusetts, bore the maiden name of Mildred B. Cronin, but is a representative of a family that settled in Blackford County, Indiana, in the third decade of the nineteenth century, about 1835. William Joseph, only child of Mr. and Mrs. Stroup, remains at the parental home and is attending the public schools of Hartford City at the time of this writing, in 1930.
INDIANA ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OF AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT Vol. 3
By Charles Roll, A.M.
The Lewis Publishing Company, 1931
KERN ARMSTRONG has given the best years of his life to the operation of the farm in Lawrence County where he was born and reared. His name is held in high esteem in that community as leader in his work, in community affairs, and his business ability has been drawn upon for valuable service in the office of county commissioner.
Mr. Armstrong was born on the old Armstrong farm three miles from Springville, on the Bedford-Bloomfield Road, August 14, 1873. His parents were Ari and Sarah Ann (Pitman) Armstrong and his grandparents were John and Letitia (Dye) Armstrong. John Armstrong came from North Carolina and was one of the early settlers in this section of Lawrence County. He was a member of the Baptist Church. Ari Armstrong lived all his life as a Lawrence County farmer, served in the office of county commissioner and was a member of the Christian Church and a charter member of the Masonic Lodge. He and his wife had seven children: Lizzie, who became the wife of Harley Jackson; Grant, who married Emma Whisamand; Bradley, deceased, who married Gertrude Dodd; Frank, deceased, who married Jennie Norvell; Ellis, deceased; Kern; and Curtis who married Maud Bennett.
Mr. Kern Armstrong was as a boy attended the Beattie School in his neighborhood and for two years was a student in the public schools at Springville. Since the age of fifteen his working experience has been that of a farmer. He has always lived on the place where he was born, and has given his property a reputation for thoroughness of cultivation and general management. He has always been a stock raiser.
Mr. Armstrong was first elected a member of the board of county commissioners in 1924 and was reelected in 1927. This board has been chiefly responsible for the good roads constructed in Lawrence County during the past six years. Mr. Armstrong is a director of the Stone City Bank at Bedford and is a member of the Christian Church. He was the oldest man in Lawrence County registered under the second draft law in the World war.
He married, May 16, 1895, Miss Elizabeth Giles, daughter of Caswell and Eliza (Butcher) Giles. Her people came from North Carolina to Indiana, where they were pioneers. Mr. and Mrs. Armstrong have three children. Their daughter Bessie is the wife of Joseph Bauchman, a farmer and land owner at Brooklyn, Indiana, and they have three children, Ernest B., Elizabeth, and William K. John Frank Armstrong, a graduate of Purdue University and a resident of Heltonville, Indiana, married Maud Pafford and has one child, Marion. The youngest of the family is Miss Mary Ione, a graduate of Purdue University. She married Ovan Walker and they live in Lawrence County.
INDIANA ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OF AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT Vol. 3
By Charles Roll, A.M.
The Lewis Publishing Company, 1931
