Doctor Shumaker was a son of David and Sarah (Seitz) Shumaker. His father, also a native of Darke County, Ohio, was a Union soldier at the time of the Civil war. Edward Seitz Shumaker received his early schooling at Greenville, Ohio, and during his boyhood his parents moved to Effingham County, Illinois, where his father resumed farming. Here he attended country schools, later engaged in teaching for three years, and his hard work, thrift and ambition enabled him to pay the expenses of his higher education. He entered DePauw University at Greencastle, Indiana, where he was graduated in 1895. Ten years prior to that he had been given a license to exhort by the Methodist conference, was licensed as a preacher in 1886, and in 1890 ordained by the conference. After graduating from DePauw he was pastor of a church at Plainfield, Indiana, was pastor of the Maple Avenue Church in Terre Haute, and then followed a pastorate at Williamsport.

He gave up his work as a Methodist minister in 1903 to enter the service of the Indiana Anti-Saloon League, at first as field secretary, in 1904 was made superintendent of the South Bend district, and in 1907 became superintendent of the Indiana Anti-Saloon League, the work to which he devoted twenty- two years. It is undoubtedly true that no other one man had so much to do with redeeming the State of Indiana from the liquor control. When he took up the work only two counties in the entire state were dry and there was not a dry city, while there were between 4,500 and 5,000 licensed saloons. The energy, originality and courage exemplified by Doctor Shumaker in the anti-saloon fight which culminated fourteen years after he entered the service in the state prohibition law, are well illustrated in what one of the officials of the league describes in commenting on the early years of Doctor Shumaker's service as field secretary and as superintendent of the South Bend district. "He had a stereoptican machine with many slides and in the remonstrance campaigns would put a screen up on a building in the most prominent place and show the pictures at night and lecture upon the evils of strong drink and the saloon. He was very effective and by this means carried many a remonstrance campaign successfully. It was spectacular and dangerous but won many a battle. In the county option fights and later in the city and township battles Doctor Shumaker was always an effective organizer and eloquent advocate. He was always ready to go any time, anywhere to any contest. The same writer, reviewing the story of Indiana's purging processes by which the worst menace of the liquor problem was removed, concludes his article on Doctor Shumaker by paraphrasing the famous words of Emporer Augustus, who claimed that he found Rome "of brick and left it of marble," by saying of Doctor Shumaker that "he found Indiana drunk and left it sober,"

During twenty-six years of public speaking Doctor Shumaker delivered 3,513 addresses to audiences aggregating over half a million people and traveled nearly 350,000 miles in the service. Doctor Shumaker in 1918 received the honorary Divinity degree from DePauw University. He was a member of the Sons of Veterans, at one time serving as division commander, was national patriotic instructor of the Sons of Veterans, and an honorary member of the American Commons Club. He was also a member of the Sons of the American Revolution.

Doctor Shumaker married, September 12, 1900, Miss Flora May Holliger, daughter of Albert and Mattie (Maurer) Holliger, and she survives him and resides at 2232 Broadway, Indianapolis. Mrs, Shumaker's parents were natives of Switzerland and were brought to America when children. Albert Holliger's father, Nicholas Holliger, settled at Trenton, Ohio, where he was a fruit grower and farmer. Albert Holliger at the age of seventeen volunteered for service in the Union army, serving in Company B of the Fifty-first Ohio Regiment in the Army of the Potomac. His army service did much to undermine his health and he died at the age of fifty-nine. Both he and his wife were buried in Arlington Cemetery near Washington. Mrs. Shumaker's two older brothers, Frank and Jesse, are deceased, and her only surviving brother is Charles B. Holliger.

Mrs. Shumaker has five childiren: Lois, wife of James Morrison; Albert E., a graduate of Butler University; Paul R., a medical student; Wayne, who graduated from DePauw University with high honors, having received one of the fellowships and Arthur W., who graduated from high school and is now attending DePauw University.

Among other tributes paid by distinguished temperance and religious leaders to Doctor Shumaker after his death one in particular commented upon his beautiful home life in the following words: "I wish to speak of the beauty of his home life, which I might be qualified to speak upon as well as any speaker here this afternoon. No one knew Doctor Shumaker well who did not know him in his home. His affection for his wife and his children will long linger with us in memory. It was in his home that the mildness of his temper, the tenderness of his heart, and the gentleness of his spirit appeared in all their strength and loveliness. He inculcated in his children, by example and precept, the fine and high ideas of the Christian life."

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

GEORGE P. STEINMETZ, who has practiced law at Indianapolis for twenty-two years, with offices in the Hume-Mansur Building, was born in Southern Indiana, at Manchester, Dearborn County, December 12, 1881.

The Steinmetz family were in several interesting ways identified with the pioneer history of Dearborn County. The family was founded there about 1822, more than a century ago, by his great-grandparents, who came from Alsace-Lorraine. Mr. Steinmetz' grandparents were Joseph and Catherine Steinmetz, people noted for their hospitality. Joseph Steinmetz was a child when brought to this country. As a young man he bought an acre of ground on a crossroads where there was considerable travel in the days before railroads; and there he established the Steinmetz Inn. The locality subsequently was known as Steinmetz Corners. He conducted this tavern for many years.

The parents of George P. Steinmetz were George W. and Maria C. (Zimmer) Steinmetz, both of whom were born in Manchester Township of Dearborn County. His father was a trustee of that township, was for many years a representative for agricultural implement firms and later as a farmer.

George P. Steinmetz was one of a family of four children. He attended grade schools In Dearborn County and in 1899 entered the Central Indiana Normal College at Danville. After that time, in 1900, he began work as a teacher in Dearborn County. He was graduated from the school at Danville in 1905. During 1906-1907, he attended Indiana University Law School and in 1908 received the LL. B. degree from the Indianapolis College of Law. He was admitted to the Indiana bar that year, and also was admitted to practice before the Indiana Supreme Court and the Federal courts. He has enjoyed a successful relationship and activity as a lawyer at Indianapolis and while a man of influence in the Democratic party has concentrated his attention on his professional work without seeking the honors of public office.

He is a member of the Indiana State Bar Association and is a charter member of the Exchange Club. During the World war he was registered for service and did work for the legal advisory board. Mr. Steinmetz married Miss Alma Louise Busse, daughter of William F. Busse, of Dearborn County. Two children were born to their marriage: Orsa George, who died May 2, 1929, while a student in Indiana University; and William Frederick.

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

GUY RAYMOND COCKLEY is one of the foremost figures in consistent and important real estate operations in the City of Gary, has initiated and sponsored the development of the Gary Beach district, one of the most attractive of the Gary metropolitan area, and his other exploitations have made valuable contribution to civic and material progress in and about the great industrial city, in which he has been concerned with the real-estate business since its pioneer period and in which he has maintained his home since 1924. Here he is president of the Cockley Realty Company and also of the Gary, Lake Park & South Shore Realty Company, besides which he is president of the Hot Springs Development Company of Hot Springs, Arkansas. Special interest attaches to his career as a resourceful and loyal business man of Indiana by reason of the fact that he is a native son of this state and a representative of one of its sterling pioneer families. His paternal grandfather, George Cockley, was a native of Virginia, where the family was established in the Colonial period of our national history. From the Old Dominion State George Cockley eventually made his way to Indiana and became one of the pioneer settlers of Peru, the judicial center of Miami County. He utilized an old-time raft in voyaging to his destination by way of the Ohio and Wabash rivers, long before the era of railroad construction, and he was prominently concerned with the early development and progress of Miami County, where both he and his wife passed the closing years of their lives in Peru.

Guy R. Cockley was born at Peru, Indiana, December 10, 1877, and was the third in a family of seven children. He is a son of William H. and Amanda (Edmonds) Cockley, the former of whom was born at Peru and the latter at Dayton, Ohio, she having been a child at the time of the family removal to Peru, Indiana, where she was reared and educated and where her marriage was solemnized.

William H. Cockley received in his boyhood and youth the advantages of the Peru schools, and as a young man he entered the service of the Wabash Railroad. He became a locomotive engineer on the lines of that system and later gave similar service on the Lake Erie & Western Railroad. He finally engaged in the real-estate business in St. Louis, Missouri, where he passed the last twenty years of his life and where he died in July, 1928, his wife having there passed away in June, 1930, at the venerable age of eighty years. Both were earnest members of the Methodist Episcopal Church and he was affiliated with the Masonic fraternity and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.

After completing his studies in the Peru High School Guy R. Cockley further fortified himself by a course in the Bryant & Stratton Business College in the City of Indianapolis, and after becoming skilled in telegraphy he gave several years of service with the Lake Erie & Western Railroad in the capacity of train dispatcher and chief clerk to the division superintendent. Thereafter he was for some time associated with the stock and bond commission business in the City of Chicago, and in 1904, in St. Louis, Missouri, he made his initiation into the real-estate business. In 1906 he became a pioneer exponent of this important line of enterprise in the rapidly developing industrial City of Gary, Indiana, and he has continued one of the leaders in real-estate development and brokerage in this city and Chicago during the intervening years, he having maintained his residence in Chicago until 1924, when he erected the first permanent house at Gary Beach and there established the family home, this residence still being one of the finest in that attractive residential district, where he owns other realty and is effectively developing and exploiting the same. Mr. Cockley was not only the pioneer in Gary Beach development but is also developing the ideal Gary subdivision known as Indian Hills and situated on the Dunes Highway, between Broadway in Gary and Lake Street in Miller. In this subdivision he has been concerned in the erection of fully thirty-five beautiful houses, and has done the major service in making Indian Hills one of the most beautiful and desirable of the Gary residential districts.

Mr. Cockley was one of the most enthusiastic and influential men concerned in preserving the beautiful sand dunes of this section of Indiana as a state park area, and none has been a greater admirer of the unique beauties of the far-sweeping and mystic dunes country. He is the owner of property near the border of the Dunes Park, at a point eleven miles east. of Gary, and this he purposes to develop into home sites within the near future. He and his wife find in the wondrous dunes a constant source of inspiration and a medium for their indulgence in outdoor life and their love of nature in its visible forms. They have done much to create in Chicago a popular appreciation of the Indiana dunes along the shore of Lake Michigan. Prior to the World war and long before the inception of the idea of making the dunes a state park, Mr. Cockley was a pioneer in advocating the establishing here of a national park, and he brought his influence into effective play when the project of making the dunes a state park was initiated. In his efforts to have the Government here establish a national park he brought various Government officials to the locality for the purpose of enlisting their support, and among the number was Philip Mather, secretary of the national parks commission. He advocated the establishing of a national dunes park extending from Lake County to Michigan City, and it is interesting to record that the United States Department of the Interior published a book of about 100 pages descriptive of this ideal area, with maps and further delineations of the entire dunes district, this book being available by application to the Secretary of the Interior, Washington, D. C. When the nation entered the World war the dunes project fell into abeyance but the matter was later taken up by the State of Indiana, which wisely made here a reservation of 2,000 acres, now known as the Dunes State Park. Mr. Cockley has been indefatigable and enthusiastic in exploiting the charms and working for the preservation of the dunes, and his service along this line has included the writing of beautiful prose and verses descriptive of and exploiting the beauties of the dunes area.

The political allegiance of Mr. Cockley is given to the Democratic party, and he and his wife have membership in the Presbyterian Church. His ancientcraft Masonic affiliation is with Kenwood Lodge, No. 800, in the City of Chicago, and he has membership also in the Knights of Pythias and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.

In Chicago, on the 26th of August, 1903, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Cockley to Miss Bessie McClure, daughter of Train C. and Ella McClure, of Wabash, Indiana, and a representative of one of the honored pioneer families of that section of the state. Train C. McClure was a gallant soldier of the Union during virtually the entire period of the Civil war, and was thereafter long in service as a locomotive engineer for many years. He is now one of the venerable and honored pioneer citizens of Wabash and celebrated in 1930 his eighty-seventh birthday anniversary, his wife having died several years ago. Mrs. Cockley was born and reared at Wabash, where she completed a high school course, and she is a gracious figure in social, cultural and church circles. Mr. and Mrs. Cockley customarily pass the winter months in Florida or in diversified travel, and during certain winters they are to be found at Hot Springs, Arkansas, where Mr. Cockley has important real-estate interests, as previously noted. They have visited Cuba and other resorts of the Southland and they pass the summer season at their beautiful home at Gary Beach, that home being known for its gracious hospitality and good cheer. They have one daughter, Ruth, the wife of Ralph H. Olson, and they have two sons, Raymond and Richard.

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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

HENRY A. CALDWELL, who is now living practically retired at his home, 3201 Broadway, in Indianapolis, has lived a most busy and eventful life, one in which the elements of adventure and the hard knocks were strongly emphasized.

Born October 17, 1853, he is now seventy-eight years of age. Maine is his native state. His parents were Seth C. and Eliza Ann (Cummings) Caldwell. His father conducted a contracting and transfer business at New Bedford, Massachusetts. He was a friend of James G. Blaine, who was candidate for president in 1884. Both the parents of Mr. Caldwell are buried at New Bedford.

It was long a matter of tradition that every boy at New Bedford would at least try to satisfy his cravings for the sea, and Henry A. Caldwell in 1869, at the age of fifteen, joined the crew of a whaling vessel. He spent three seasons under the Arctic Circle, with a fleet of whalers. During the last season the ships were caught in the ice floes off Point Barrow, and crews underwent the freezing and the other hardships of an arctic winter. Finally Mr. Caldwell and some of his companions were picked up by a vessel and all of them taken to Honolulu. There he worked long enough to secure the money to pay his passage to San Francisco. He was at Honolulu during the reign of Queen Emma, the predecessor of Queen Lil, who negotiated for the sale of the Hawaiian Islands to America at the time of the Cleveland administration. Mr. Caldwell spent one year in California, and returned to his old home in the East by the Isthmus of Panama.

He then made up for his neglected earlier education by attending the Bryant Stratton Schools in Boston. For a time he was employed in the New York offices of a Produce Company, and leaving there, went to Chicago, where he entered the service of the wholesale department of Marshall Field & Company. He remained with that organization until 1889, starting at six dollars a week, and was promoted to head of one of the departments, and as a buyer traveled all over this country and Europe. On leaving Chicago Mr. Caldwell moved to Indianapolis and engaged in the retail dry goods business, from which he retired after a long and successful career only a few years ago. He now gives his attention to his private affairs and has indulged in some activity in handling real estate in his own neighborhood.

Mr. Caldwell married in November, 1877, Miss Rebecca J. Cribben. Her father, the late Major Henry Cribben, was for many years a prominent manufacturer in Chicago, one of the firm of Cribben, Sexton & Company, stove and enameled bath tub manufacturers. Henry Cribben was born on the Isle of Man, September 19, 1834, and three years later his parents, Thomas and Jane (Carran) Cribben, came to America and settled at Rochester, New York, where he grew up, learning the trade of iron moulder. In 1862 he enlisted in Company F, One Hundred and Fortieth New York Infantry, was promoted to second lieutenant of Company H and afterwards became captain of Company I and was breveted major for meritorius service at the battle of Bethesda Church in Virginia. Later he was captured, escaped from a prison at Charlotte, North Carolina, and, rejoining his regiment, served until the end of the war. On returning to Rochester he organized in 1867 the Cooperative Foundry Company, which after the Chicago fire of 1871 acquired a business that for several years had been conducted by the Sextons in that city. They built up a large industry in the district now known as the Near North Side of Chicago, manufacturing thousands of stoves and ranges annually. Major Cribben married Maria Robinson, daughter of Robert Robinson, and they were the parents of four children, William H., Rebecca J., Mabel and Edward W. Major Cribben was a member of the New York Legislature shortly after the Civil war.

Mr. and Mrs. Caldwell have three children. Their daughter Mabel is the wife of H. J. Shannon and the mother of three children, named Henry, Herbert C. and Reba A. Robert C. Caldwell is married and has a daughter, Margaret. Mildred is the wife of Gale H. Moorehead.

Mr. Caldwell and family are affiliated with the First Presbyterian Church of Indianapolis. He is a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason, a Republican, and is known in Indianapolis civic circles, as a man always willing to do his part in public enterprises and especially associated with the welfare of his home locality.

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

EZRA H. STEWART was born in Indianapolis, March 12, 1886, and since 1913 has been enrolled among the attorneys of the capital city. He has an extensive general law practice, with offices in the Fidelity Trust Building.

Mr. Stewart is a son of William G. and Ida S. (Mankedick) Stewart, and is a member of a family that has been in Indianapolis since pioneer times. His father was born in Indianapolis and was a nephew of John McCormick, who, history says, acquired the original land from the Government and built the first log cabin on the site of the modern City of Indianapolis. William G. Stewart spent all his active life as a railway man. His father was William A. Stewart, a native of Philadelphia and member of a family of carpet weavers. The Stewarts were Scotch Irish and settled in the colony of Pennsylvania before the Revolutionary war. The McCormick branch of the family supplied a soldier to the war for independence. Ezra H. Stewart's paternal grandfather came to Indianapolis about 1835 and was chief of police of the city when he was killed in the performance of his duty, about 1885.

Ezra H. Stewart was the oldest in a family of fourteen children. He attended grammar and high school, studied law in the office of E. L. Rankin and John W. Kealing, and his broadening experience has brought him a reputation and a practice ranking him among the leaders of the local bar. He is a member of the Indianapolis and Indiana State Bar Associations.

Mr. Stewart married Miss Bertha Gaalema, who was born in Holland. They have three children: Herbert W. was educated in Harrison College and Butler University, graduated from the Indianapolis Law School and was admitted to the bar in 1929. The second son, Ezra K., is a graduate of the Indianapolis Manual Training High School. The youngest child, Marvin L., is still in school.

Mr. Stewart is a past master of Lodge No. 564, A. F. and A. M., member of Keystone Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, Indianapolis Commandery, the Scottish Rite bodies and Murat Temple of the Mystic Shrine, and also belongs to the Modern Woodmen of America and the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen. During the World war he was commissioned a colonel in the Home Guard and spent a great deal of time working with the committee for the sale of Liberty Bonds and in the other patriotic campaigns.

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

GEORGE O. HILL, member of an old and prominent family of Miami County, is a lawyer by profession, and has had a successful career of practice at Indianapolis, where his offices are in the People's Circle Tower Building.

He was born at Deedsville, Indiana, November 6, 1886. The Hill family were Colonial Americans, early settlers in New York, and contributed men and other services to the war for independence. His grandfather, George Hill, was born at Tipton Springs, New York, and came to Indiana about 1838. He bought land in Miami County. He had served with the rank of captain in the New York Militia, being appointed to that office by President Martin Van Buren. George Hill married Sarah Cool, who founded the First Baptist Church, the Wesaw Church, in Miami County, Indiana, during the 1830s. George Hill's farm was on one of the well traveled roads in Miami County and during the early days he also operated a tavern.

Ephriam H. Hill, father of the Indianapolis attorney, was a native of Miami County and about 1867 established a store which became the nucleus of the town of Deedsville. He was postmaster of that town. He married Lucy Marburger, a native of Huntington County. They had three children: Hazel S., wife of Herbert W. Fillmore; Verna F., wife of Jesse F. Grimes; and George O.

George O. Hill attended grade school at Deedsville, was graduated from the Peru High School in 1904, and acquired his higher education in the University of Minnesota and Indiana University, completing his law course in the Indiana College of Law, in 1908. He was admitted to the bar the same year and has found his time and talents fully engaged in a growing law practice for over twenty years. He served as deputy prosecuting attorney from 1910 to 1914.

Mr. Hill is a member of the Indianapolis, Indiana State and American Bar Associations. During the World war he enlisted, May 10, 1917, and entered the First Officers Training Camp. After his discharge, in July, 1917, he served on the legal advisory board, helped with the Liberty Loan drives and stamp drives, and in raising funds for the Red Cross and other purposes. Mr. Hill was president of the Indianapolis Lions Club in 1927, has been a leader in the Democratic party of Marion County and is a member of the Christian Church.

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

CHARLES H. HEATON, Indianapolis attorney, with offices in the New City Trust Building, lived for a number of years at Dugger, one of the prominent mining towns in Southwestern Indiana, and in his law practice much of his time has been taken up representing mining and labor interests.

Mr. Heaton was born at Mattoon, Illinois, March 7, 1886, son of William and Mary (Dowse) Heaton. William Heaton, who died in 1913, was a distinguished figure in labor circles in England as well as in America. While in England he had a leading part in building up the Independent Labor Party, which is now in control of the parliamentary government of Great Britain. He acted as chairman of a committee in 1905-06 when the labor party made its first successful campaign for seats in Parliament. He was a coal operator and business man, and after coming to this country he took an active part in organizing the United Mine Workers of America. He lived in Southern Illinois and in 1880 located in Sullivan County, Indiana.

Charles H. Heaton was one of a family of six children. He is a native American, has lived in this country most of his life, but went back to England twice to attend school. He began his education in Sullivan County, Indiana. He attended school in County Durham, England. In 1906 he returned to Indiana but in 1909 again went to England. Mr. Heaton studied law with Guy H. Humphreys, former professor of law at Indiana University. He was admitted to the bar in November, 1913, and for thirteen years practiced in Sullivan and Greene counties. Mr. Heaton moved his home and law offices to Indianapolis in 1926. He was city attorney of Jasonville, Greene County, from 1922 to 1924. During the World war he was detailed for special service by the department of justice, was a member of the legal advisory board and was licensing agent for explosives.

Mr. Heaton married Miss Lottie Robinson, of County Durham, England. They have two children, George D. and Keith K. George is a graduate of the Shortridge High School of Indianapolis. Mr. Heaton is a member of the Greene County Bar Association, attends the Episcopal Church and is a Republican.

He and his wife had a prominent part in starting a library service in the community of Dugger. They undertook this in 1921. Through the influence of Mr. Heaton 1100 volumes were contributed as a nucleus for the local library. He was appointed chairman of the movement and he permitted the community to occupy a part of his office. His wife was one of the librarians. Later Mrs. Heaton sponsored a number of theatrical and other entertainments, as a result of which the fund was started for the enlargement and permanent establishment of the library. In 1923 the Dugger library was taken over by the state, and in 1928 was housed in an attractive brick building. It now contains several thousand volumes. Mrs. Heaton in addition to her part in the library movement at Dugger was chairman of the Dugger Chapter of the Red Cross.

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