Mr. Wheeler was born on a farm near Chillicothe, Ohio, August 11, 1879, and is a son of John and Emma (Barnhart) Wheeler, natives of Ross County, Ohio, the latter of whom, the daughter of William Barnhart, a native of Pennsylvania, died when Tom Wheeler was eight years old. John Wheeler is a retired farmer and building contractor, and still makes his home at Chillicothe, Ohio, being more than seventy-seven years of age. The Wheeler family came originally from England, and Thomas Wheeler, the grandfather of Thomas L., was a pioneer agriculturist of Ross County, Ohio. John and Emma Wheeler were the parents of four children, of whom three are living: Thomas L.; and William and Bertha, who reside at Chillicothe.

The early life of Tom L. Wheeler was passed on the home farm, and after he had attended district and high school at Kingston, Ohio, he entered the Agricultural College of Ohio State University in 1905. Upon his graduation therefrom he became associated with the United States Department of Agriculture in the Bureau of Soils and spent considerable time in this capacity. He then entered the field of agricultural journalism as agricultural editor of the Chicago Daily Drovers Journal, at the Union Stock Yards. Following his work with this publication he came to The Indiana Farmer's Guide of Huntington and has been with this publication since that time. As before noted, Mr. Wheeler is recognized as one of the most capable agricultural editors in the country today. His experience gained while identified with the Bureau of Soils, together with, his university training, equipped him with a thorough understanding of agricultural principles and problems. His long association with The Indiana Farmer's Guide has given him a particular understanding of the Indiana farmers' problems. In all circumstances Mr. Wheeler's opinion has been accepted as final, due to his long experience and authoritative knowledge . In the past Presidents of the United States have called on Mr. Wheeler for advice on agricultural problems peculiar to Indiana.

Tom L. Wheeler's knowledge and study of agricultural problems, however, are not limited to Indiana. He also knows and understands the agricultural situation throughout the United States and Europe. He has traveled extensively in this country and on the Continent and has made a thorough study of every branch of agriculture. His acquaintance with business men is such that he numbers among his friends some of the outstanding figures in the industrial world, as well as farmers in every section of the country. Mr. Wheeler for several years was secretary-treasurer of the American Agricultural Editor's Association. He served faithfully in this capacity until his work became so great that he was forced to give up his official position with the association, despite the fact that he was urged to accept reelection. In addition to his many other connections he is a member of the Kiwanis International and has served in every office of his local club. He is also a member of the agricultural committee of the National Fire Waste Council of the United States Chamber of Commerce. During the administration of President Coolidge he was appointed a member of a committee of three farm paper editors to study the Muscle Shoals problem for the American Farm Bureau Federation. He is a stockholder and a member of the board of directors of the Guide Publishing Company, owners and publishers of The Indiana Farmer's Guide. This publication, which represents the consolidation ofThe Indiana Farmer, established in 1845, and The Farmer's Guide, established in 1889, is the only weekly farm paper owned and edited by Indiana people in the interest of Indiana agriculture. The circulation of this splendid publication is more than 160,000 copies weekly. Mr. Wheeler is also a member of the Young Men's Christian Association and of the Presbyterian Church. One of the most popular departments in The Indiana Farmer's Guide is conducted by Mr. Wheeler, being known as "The Editor's Uneasy Chair," this department treating on various happenings in the news of the day and combining a rare combination of good common sense with a seasoning of wit and humor. Mr. Wheeler on his visits to gatherings of farmers is greeted as "The Man Who Sits in the Uneasy Chair." He is also well known for his many up-to-the-minute editorials which appear every week.

On March 30, 1905, Mr. Wheeler was united in marriage with Miss Anne Elizabeth Batterson, who was born in Ohio and is a graduate of Ohio State University. She is a daughter of Mrs. James S. Batterson, of Columbus, Ohio, her father being deceased. Mr: and Mrs. Wheeler are the parents of two children: Thomas Leroy, Jr., born in 1906, a graduate of Ohio State University, who now resides at Columbus, Ohio; and Jane Elizabeth, born in 1913, a student of Stephens College, at Columbia, Missouri. Mr. and Mrs. Wheeler reside in a pleasant and attractive home at 725 East Tipton Street.

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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

D. FRANK CULBERTSON, prominent Vincennes attorney, was born at Edwardsport, Indiana, August 6, 1878. He was educated in DePauw Academy and DePauw University and took his law degree from the Indiana Law School. He has been in active practice for over a quarter of a century and served two terms as prosecuting attorney of the Twelfth Judicial Circuit, and has been a member of the State Senate.

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

CHARLES C. McFARLIN, M. D., is a native son of the Hoosier State, is a scion of one of its sterling pioneer families, and he has here been engaged in the practice of his profession nearly thirty years, he being now one of the prominent physicians and surgeons of Marion County, and his residence and professional headquarters being here maintained in the village of Castleton, which is in Lawrence Township.

Doctor McFarlin was born on the parental home farm in Orange County, Indiana, March 4, 1869, and is a son of George W. and Caroline (Dillinger) McFarlin. George W. McFarlin, who was born in Kentucky, was young when he accompanied his parents from that state to Indiana, where his father, George W., Sr., obtained land and became a pioneer farmer in Orange County and where the parents passed the remainder of their lives, the family name of the mother having been McNabb.

George W. McFarlin, Jr., father of Doctor McFarlin, had a full share of experience in connection with pioneer farm enterprise in Orange County and eventually became one of the substantial agriculturists and stock-growers of that county, where he owned a good farm estate and where he was an honored and influential citizen. He went forth as a loyal soldier of the Union in the Civil war, in which he became a second lieutenant of Company K, Fifty-third Indiana Volunteer Infantry. His regiment was assigned to the Army of the Cumberland and he had his full quota of participation in battles, skirmishes and campaigns, his service having included his taking part in Sherman's famous Atlanta campaign and the subsequent march to the sea. Mr. McFarlin continued in service until the close of the war and then resumed his active association with farm industry in Orange County, Indiana, he having in after years been actively affiliated with the Grand Army of the Republic. He and his wife were residents of Orange County at the time of their death, and their three children were Dr. Charles Co., of this review; John T., who married Miss Eva Mavity, and they reside in Lawrence County; and Lydia E., deceased, who became the wife of Albert Wilson.

Doctor McFarlin was reared on the home farm, and in the public schools of his native county he continued his studies until he was graduated in the high school at Paoli, the county seat. He put his acquirements to practical use by giving twelve years to successful service as a teacher in the schools of his native county, and through this medium he acquired the funds that enabled him to complete his course in the Kentucky School of Medicine, Louisville, in which he was graduated as a member of the class of 1902, and in which he later took effective post-graduate work.

After receiving his degree of Doctor of Medicine he was established four years in general practice at Abbey Dell, Orange County, and he then removed to Zenas, Jennings County, where he continued his practice until 1919. He passed the following year in Grant County, and in the meanwhile he had made a record of loyal service in the World war, he having established his residence at Castleton in 1920 and having here built up a substantial and representative general practice, as one of the leading physicians and surgeons of this district of Marion County.

April 20, 1918, Doctor McFarlin enlisted in the Medical Corps of the United States Army, in which he gained the rank of first lieutenant. He received preliminary training at Fort Benjamin Harrison, near Indianapolis, was later sent to Camp Upton, New York, and in August, 1918, he accompanied his unit to France, where he was in active service until the armistice brought the World war to a close, he having embarked for the home voyage July 20, 1919, and having soon afterward received his honorable discharge.

Doctor McFarlin has membership in the Marion County Medical Society, the Indiana State Medical Society and the American Medical Association. He is affiliated with the American Legion, the Masonic fraternity and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and he and his wife are zealous members of the Methodist Episcopal Church in their home community. His political alignment is in the ranks of the Republican party.

April 5, 1896, recorded the marriage of Doctor McFarlin to Miss Grace C. Dillard, daughter of Frank and Sarah (Martin) Dillard, of Washington County, where Mr. Dillard was long a prosperous farmer. Oliver, only child of Doctor and Mrs. McFarlin, remains at the parental home and at the time of this writing is attending the public schools.

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

JOHN E. VESTAL is in the most significant sense one of the representative agriculturists and stock-growers of Hendricks County, has ever been liberal and progressive in his civic attitude and is now serving as county commissioner. He is the owner of two valuable farms, with an area of more than 400 acres, and while he gives to these properties a general supervision he is now living virtually retired in the City of Plainfield, at 311 South Center Street.

On the parental home farm in Guilford Township, Hendricks County, the birth of John E. Vestal occurred May 9, 1863. He is a son of Benjamin and Anna (Moore) Vestal, he having been second in the family of five children, of whom the eldest was Willis, who is deceased, the other three being Benjamin C., Alice and Charles. Benjamin Vestal passed his entire life in Hendricks County, was here a successful farmer, and he and his wife were zealous and revered members of the Society of Friends, their mortal remains having been laid to rest in the Maple Hill Cemetery. The subject of this review is a grandson of Eli and Jemima (Hubbard) Vestal, the former having been born in North Carolina, and having become one of the early settlers in Hendricks County, Indiana, where he obtained Government land, under the administration of President James Monroe, and where he reclaimed his farm from the virtual wilderness, both he and his wife having been devoted members of the Society of Friends.

After having attended school in a log cabin in his native township John E. Vestal continued his education by availing himself of the advantages of the public schools at Plainfield. In the meanwhile he had continued to assist in the work and management of the home farm, and in 1887 he initiated his independent farm enterprise, which was made to include a well ordered dairy business. He has continued his allegiance to the basic industries of agriculture and stockraising during the long intervening years, and his energy and good management brought to him unequivocal success in the period of his active management of his farm operations. He is a Republican in politics and he served one term as county treasurer, his administration as a member of the board of county commissioners having now covered a period of fully eleven years and having worked greatly to the benefit of his native county and its people. He and his wife have been active and influential in the affairs of the Plainfield church of the Society of Friends, in which he is a birthright member, and he is a charter member of the Plainfield lodge of the Knights of Pythias.

December 28, 1887, marked the marriage of Mr. Vestal to Miss Antoinette Moore, who likewise was born and reared in Hendricks County and who is a daughter of the late John S. and Adaline (Hockett) Moore. Mr. Moore was born at Danville, this county, and his active life was marked by his successful service as a farmer and blacksmith, his early educational advantages having included those of the old Central Normal School at Danville. At the age of seventeen years he enlisted for service as a soldier of the Union in the Civil war, he having become a member of the Fourth Indiana Cavalry and by reenlistment having continued in service until the close of the war, with participation in many campaigns and battles. He and his wife died in this county and their remains rest in the Maple Hill Cemetery. He was a son of Jacob and Phoebe (Webster) Moore, the latter having been a direct descendant of Noah Webster, the great lexicographer. Jacob Moore came to Indiana from Tennessee and became prominent as a merchant, mechanic and influential citizen. The children of Mr. and Mrs. John S. Moore were seven in number: Addison W., Antoinette (Mrs. Vestal), Catherine, Jesse H., Esther P., John S., Jr. (who died in infancy), and Phoebe. Mr. and Mrs. Vestal have no children.

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

MORRIS B. PAYNTER, M. D., is a native son of the fine old Hoosier State and has here gained well won vantage place as one of the representative physicians and surgeons of the younger generation in Marion County. He is established in the successful general practice of his profession in the attractive little City of Southport, which is not far distant from Indiana's capital city.

Doctor Paynter was born at Salem, Washington County, Indiana, April 17, 1901, and is a son of Harry O. and Lotta (Holland) Paynter, who now reside in the City of Bloomington, this state, where Harry O. Paynter is decorator in a leading mercantile establishment, he having been born on his father's homestead farm near Salem, Washington County, and being a son of Jacob and Emma (Barnett) Paynter. Jacob Paynter was born and reared in Virginia, where the family was established in the Colonial period of our national history, and upon coming to Indiana he became a pioneer exponent of farm enterprise in Washington County.

Dr. Morris B. Paynter received the advantages of the public schools of Salem, Mitchell and Orleans, and his discipline included that of the Salem High School. In 1920 he entered the University of Indiana, and from that institution he received in 1924 his degree of Bachelor of Arts, while the year 1926 marked his graduation in its medical department, he having depended largely upon his own resources in defraying the expenses of his university courses. In earning requisite funds for this laudable purpose he found employment of varied order in Indianapolis, during vacation and other periods. After receiving his degree of Doctor of Medicine he here gained further fortification by giving one year of service as interne in the Methodist Hospital, and he then established his residence at Southport, where he has since continued in active private practice and where the scope and importance of his practice give evidence alike of his professional skill and loyalty and of his secure place in community confidence and good will. The Doctor is at the time of this writing the only physician and surgeon engaged in practice at Southport, and thus he is doubly looked upon as a distinct communal asset.

Doctor Paynter has membership in the Indiana State Medical Society and the Marion County Medical Society, held the rank of first lieutenant in the Medical Reserve Corps of the United States Army in the World war period, his political allegiance is given to the Republican party and he is affiliated with the Phi Beta Phi college fraternity.

On the 18th of June, 1927, Doctor Paynter was united in marriage to Miss Mary L. Judd, whose father died when he was a young man. Mrs. Paynter depended mainly upon her own earnings in meeting the expenses incidental to her course in the college at Oxford, Indiana, thereafter she was a student one year in Butler University, Indianapolis, and this was supplemented by her attending the University of Indiana. In the meantime she had taught two years in the public schools at Plainfield, and she was later a successful teacher in the Southport schools. The death of Mrs. Paynter occurred October 5, 1929, and her mortal remains rest in the cemetery at Plainfield, Hendricks County.

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

OSCAR BRADFORD is known and valued as one of the progressive exponents of farm enterprise in Washington Township, Hendricks County, and his civic loyalty and his personal popularity need no further voucher than the statement that he is serving as township treasurer and as president of the board of trustees of the Washington Township Public Library. He was born in this township January 7, 1894, and is a son of John and Zula (Broyles) Bradford, of whose seven children he was the third in order of birth, the names of the others being as follows: Walter, Chester, Floyd, Rena, Helen and Paul.

John Bradford, who owns and resides upon his valuable Washington Township farm of 300 acres, was born and reared in Hendricks County, is a son of Henry Bradford and the family name of his mother was Hawkins, both parents having been members of the Society of Friends. Henry Bradford, member of a family of seventeen children, was born and reared in Virginia and became a pioneer settler in Hendricks County, Indiana, where he reclaimed a productive farm and where he and his wife passed the remainder of their lives.

Oscar Bradford was reared on the old home farm that was the place of his birth and in the meanwhile profited by the advantages of the local public schools, which discipline he supplemented by a course in Central Academy at Plainfield. He continued his active alliance with farm enterprise in his native township and at the age of twenty-one years he here had charge of the first Voters League in Hendricks County. He has since gained rank as one of the leaders in the council and campaign activities of the Republican party contingent in this county, he served four years as township assessor, and he is now serving as township trustee and township treasurer, besides which he is rendering most loyal and valuable service as president of the board of trustees of the township library. He and his wife are birthright members of the Society of Friends, and in the local church of this denomination he is active and influential, as have been his parents also.

June 30, 1915, recorded the marriage of Mr. Bradford to Miss Naomi Barker, daughter of William and Sarah Barker, who now reside at Danville, this state, where Mr. Barker is in the service of the Western Union Telegraph Company, he having long followed the vocation of telegraph operator and on his retirement from railroad service having been the oldest operator on his division of the Big Four Railroad. Mr. and Mrs. Bradford have a fine son, Paul Edward, who has somewhat autocratic sway in their attractive home.

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

OTHO S. POLLARD, who is giving loyal and efficient administration as trustee of Perry Township, Marion County, thus stands as one of the valued officials of the county in which is situated the fair capital city of the Hoosier State. He is favored in being able to claim this state as the place of his nativity, his birth having occurred at Campbellsburg, Washington County, October 15, 1879. He is a son of James M. and Amanda (Stanley) Pollard.

James M. Pollard likewise was born in Washington County and he still resides in Indiana, as one of its venerable native sons and as a representative of a sterling family that was founded in this state in the pioneer days. The Pollard family was established in Virginia in the Colonial period of our national history, and members of the family later gained pioneer precedence in turn in North Carolina, Kentucky and Indiana.

In the public schools Otho S. Pollard continued his studies until he was graduated in high school, and he early gained practical business experience. During a period of about eleven years he was identified with the general merchandise business in Orange County, and in August, 1918, he established his residence in Marion County, and he has become one of the progressive and substantial citizens of Indianapolis and Perry Township, his residence in the capital city being at 4961 Madison Avenue.

Although Mr. Pollard has manifested no ambition for political preferment there came a popular estimate of his eligibility for public office when he was elected trustee of Perry Township, the position of which he is now the efficient and progressive incumbent.

The year 1900 was marked by the marriage of Mr. Pollard, and to him and his wife have been born six children: Vernon, Wilson E., Otho, Robert M., Carl Henry and Patricia. The religious faith of Mr. and Mrs. Pollard is that of the Christian Church, and he is affiliated with both York and Scottish Rite bodies of the Masonic fraternity.

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

ENNO WILLIAM LANKENAU. From tool maker to local manager of the Decatur plant of the General Electric Company represents important progress toward the larger responsibilities of our industrial life. It is a brief statement of the career of Mr. Lankenau, a native son of Adams County, Indiana, and one of the most valued citizens of his home community at Decatur.

He was born April 28, 1886, and is the son of the late Henry Lankenau, a Civil war soldier and for many years a prominent educator. Henry Lankenau was born in Hanover, Germany, September 19, 1843, son of Frank and Catherine (Schumm) Lankenau. Frank Lankenau was a ship builder by trade. This was his occupation while living at Bremen, Germany. He came to the United States in 1844, about a year after his son Henry was born. The family landed at New Orleans and, finding no occupation at his trade in that city, Frank Lankenau came up the Mississippi River and eventually settled at Fort Wayne, Indiana. He did work as a boat builder, but chiefly followed the trade of carpenter. When the Wabash Railroad shops were established at Fort Wayne he entered them and was with the company for many years. He passed away at Fort Wayne in his sixty-fifth year, and his widow died at the age of seventy-nine.

Of their eight children Henry Lankenau was the oldest. He grew up at Fort Wayne, attended common schools in that city, and was not yet eighteen years of age when the Civil war broke out. Early in the summer of 1862 he enlisted in Company D of the Fifth Indiana Cavalry and for two years he performed all the work of a gallant soldier, participating in many battles and skirmishes. During the siege of Atlanta he was taken prisoner, and endured the starvation diet and the other miseries and tortures so well known to those familiar with the history of the notorious Andersonville Prison, where he spent many months. Later he was transferred from there, subsequently was at Florence, South Carolina, and finally in the seaport prison at Wilmington, North Carolina. After being paroled he was forwarded to Camp Chase, Ohio, and, being disabled for further duty, was given an honorable discharge. It was a long time before he had recovered his health and strength sufficiently to resume active work. When he did so he entered a printing office, and later for four years was deputy sheriff of Allen County. In 1875 he moved to Van Wert, Ohio, and for four years taught school there. Returning to Indiana, he located in Adams County and was appointed teacher of Saint John's parochial schools in Preble township. He was in charge of this school for twenty-one years, a long and notable record, faithful not only to the routine work of the teacher but always loyal to the highest ideals of his profession and doing a work which has made his name venerated by all his former pupils. After resigning from the Saint John's School he was with a mercantile firm at Decatur for five years and in 1905 returned to educational work as teacher of the Zion Parochial School. He died December 12, 1911, and is buried at Fort Wayne.

Henry Lankenau and Catherine Schumm were married at Fort Wayne, July 18, 1867. She was born in Ohio, daughter of Jacob and Hannah Schumm. Her great-grandfather came from Germany and her grandfather was born at Reading, Pennsylvania. Mrs. Catherine Lankenau died March 3, 1929, and is buried in the Linnwood Cemetery at Fort Wayne. She was the mother of a large family of eleven children: Rev. Frank J., pastor of Saint Paul's Lutheran Church at Napoleon, Ohio; Ada became the wife of Louis Schust, a machinist, and both are deceased and are buried in the Concordia Cemetery at Fort Wayne; Clara is superintendent of Hospise Home at Chicago; Louise is a teacher in the Harrison Hill School at Fort Wayne; Flora is the wife of Herman Gerke, a retired farmer at Fort Wayne; August, who was a Wisconsin farmer, died July 2, 1929; Oscar and Adolph are twins, the former being owner of the Boston Store at Decatur, and the latter manager of the Columbia Hardware Company of Fort Wayne; Alma, who was born September 19, 1883, is the wife of Glenn Seipt, with the General Electric Company at Fort Wayne; Enno William, who is next in age; and Herbert, born April 16, 1889, a tool maker by trade, now with a department of the Pennsylvania Railway Company at Altona, Pennsylvania.

Enno William Lankenau attended the common schools of Preble Township in Adams County, high school at Decatur, and his education continued for a number of years after he entered industry, taking advantage of night school classes. He learned his trade as a tool maker with the Kerr-Murry Manufacturing Company, later was with the Western Gas Construction Company at Fort Wayne, then with the S. F. Bowzer Company, and in 1907 entered the service of the General Electric Company, at Fort Wayne, becoming foreman in the motor department and in 1917 was made general foreman. Since 1920 he has been manager of the Decatur plant of this great organization.

Mr. Lankenau is an active member of the Rotary Club, the Industrial Association, the Country Club, is a Republican, and, like other members of his family, is a member of the Lutheran Church. Perhaps his chief hobby is boy welfare work and he is chairman of the Boy Scout organization of Adams County and vice president of the Anthony Wayne Area Council Boy Scouts of America. He is one of the directors of the Decatur Rotary Club, a director of the Industrial Association, a director of the Provident Building & Loan Association of Decatur, and a director of the Peoples Loan & Trust Company of Decatur.

Mr. Lankenau married, October 19, 1904, Miss Rose M. Johnson, of Fort Wayne. She attended the Lutheran schools of this city, where she was born and reared. Her father, John Johnson, was born in Adams County, September 3, 1845, and for many years was in the grocery business at Fort Wayne. He died September 3, 1912. His wife, Henriette Welker, was born in Fort Wayne and died June 24, 1894.

To the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Lankenau were born seven children. Walter, born November 12, 1905, at Fort Wayne, attended the Lutheran parochial schools in that city, the Luther Institute at Fort Wayne, and learned the trade of toolmaker with the Fort Wayne plant of the General Electric Company. Margaret, born December 19, 1907, attended the Lutheran grade schools in Fort Wayne, a high school at Decatur, and is the wife of Robert Helm, junior partner in the Holthouse Schulte & Company, one of the oldest business organizations at Decatur. Herman Lankenau, born at Fort Wayne January 17, 1911, attended parochial school there, the Decatur High School, and is now in the General Electric Company's Training School at Fort Wayne. Erna, born at Fort Wayne July 24, 1913, was educated at the Decatur High School. Laura, born at Fort Wayne July 23, 1915, is in high school. Robert, born September 29, 1919, is a student in the Lutheran School at Fort Wayne. Flora Marie, the youngest, was born October 13, 1921, and is in the Lutheran parochial 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

CANADA C. GLIDEWELL. In Marion County is situated the fair capital city of Indiana, but during all the passing years the prestige thus gained has not overshadowed that presented through the medium of the great and basic industries of agriculture and stock-growing. The many fine farms of the county constitute one of its best assets, and one of these is that owned and conducted by Canada C. Glidewell, whose landed estate here comprises 300 acres in Pike Township, this well improved place being situated on the thoroughfare known as Dandy Trail and one mile south of the village of Traders Point.

Mr. Glidewell is a representative of a family long established in Indiana, and his birth occurred in Marion County on the 24th of December, 1858. He is a son of Thomas and Elizabeth (Hightshue) Glidewell and a grandson of Lewis and Jennie (Reynolds) Glidewell, Lewis Glidewell having come to Indiana from Guilford County, North Carolina, and having been one of the sterling pioneer farmers of the Hoosier State. Thomas Glidewell was born in Shelby County, Indiana, and was a young man when he accompanied his parents on their removal to Marion County, where he achieved substantial success in his well ordered operations as an agriculturist and stock-grower. Of his family of six children five are living, namely: Ellis, Amos, Marshall, Canada C. and Mancher.

The little schoolhouse in which Canada C. Glidewell obtained his rudimentary education, was a log structure in Hendricks County, in district No.1. Thereafter he attended school in district No. 3 of Marion County and also the rural academy at Traders Point, where he finished his education. In the meanwhile he continued to contribute his share to the work of the home farm, and he thus fortified himself in broad and varied practical experience that was to be of maximum value to him when he initiated his independent career as a farmer. At the age of twenty-one years Mr. Glidewell purchased his first land, a tract of forty acres, and this proved the nucleus around which he has evolved his present fine landed estate of 300 acres. He has been notably alert and progressive as a representative of farm industry in Marion County, and well earned prosperity has attended his endeavors. His farm is one of the show places of Pike Township and stands in evidence of his ability, energy and good management. He has won success through his own efforts, and in his earlier activities of independent order he attributed much of his advancement to the earnest counsel and encouragement of his devoted mother.

Mr. Glidewell has had no ambition for political preferment but has been signally loyal and liberal in his civic attitude and has given his support to measures that have tended to protect and advance the general communal welfare. He and his wife are zealous members of the Church of Christ, and Mrs. Glidewell has active membership in the local and national organizations of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union.

September 19, 1894, marked the marriage of Mr. Glidewell to Miss Mamie Parker, daughter of Thomas and Margaret (McCune) Parker. Thomas Parker was born in Preble County, Ohio and was a young man when he came to Indiana, in 1870, his father having here purchased a farm in Marion County and having employed a man to take charge of the place, while he himself remained on his farm in Ohio. Thomas Parker was a son of Lewis and Mary (Smith) Parker, his father been born in New Jersey and having become a pioneer settler in Ohio, where he reclaimed and developed a farm near Camden, his parents having been natives of England, and their children having been thirteen in number. Thomas and Margaret (McCune) Parker became the parents of four children: Alonzo, Mamie (Mrs. Glidewell), Richard O. and William C.

After profiting by the advantages of the rural district schools and the grade schools Mrs. Glidewell was a student two years in the academy at Traders Point. Thereafter she attended the high school at Augusta and the college at Oxford. She made a record of success as a teacher in rural schools, and she supplemented her education by a course in art at St. John's School in Indianapolis. Mr. and Mrs. Glidewell have no children of their own but have reared and educated several children and given them every advantage and opportunity in life.

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

SUMNER X. PALLARDY, D. D. S., is one of the prominent younger members of the dental profession in the Indianapolis metropolitan area and resides at 5725 West Morris Street. He is executive head and general manager of the Indiana Silver Fox Company, in which he is one of the three stockholders and which is developing near Indianapolis one of the most modern fox farms of the Middle West, buildings and other facilities being of the most approved order and the farm being situated in Wayne Township, on National Road 40 and about six miles distant from the focal center of the capital city - the Soldiers Monument Circle.

Doctor Pallardy was born at Clayton, Adams County, Illinois, on the 30th of May, 1894, and is a son of E. E. and Viola (Vancil) Pallardy, who now maintain their home at Quincy; Illinois. E. E. Pallardy was born at St. Charles, Missouri, received the advantages of the public schools, and in his earlier youth he followed various vocations. He finally entered railroad service, and he has been for more than forty years a locomotive engineer in the service of the Wabash Railroad. As a young man he married Miss Viola Vancil, of Liberty, Illinois, and later they resided some time in Kansas, but they eventually returned to Illinois, where they have since continued to reside. Mr. Pallardy is a Republican in political alignment and is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity and the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers.

In the Illinois public schools Doctor Pallardy continued his studies until he was graduated in high school, and in that state he was thereafter a student three years in Millican University, where he took a course in engineering. Thereafter he was employed as a chemist with a wall paper concern at Joliet, Illinois, where he was thus engaged until the nation entered the World war, whereupon he responded to the call of patriotism by enlisting for service in the medical department of the United States Navy. He received his training at Norfolk, Virginia, and at that naval base he continued to be on duty until the armistice brought the war to a close, his honorable discharge having been granted at the Great Lakes Naval Training Station near Chicago, where he was duly mustered out.

In preparation for his chosen profession Doctor Pallardy completed the prescribed course in the dental department of the University of Indiana, in which he was duly graduated on the 23d of June, 1923. He depended upon his own resources in meeting the expenses of his university course, and it may be noted that he supplemented his income by serving as elevator operator and restaurant waiter. After receiving his degree of Doctor of Dental Surgery he was retained as an instructor in the dental school of the university until 1926, and in that year he effected the organization of the Indiana Silver Fox Company, to the affairs of which he has since given the major part of his time and attention. The company has established a fox farm of ten acres and has provided the best of facilities for the raising of the celebrated silver foxes, the fur of which commands a ready market demand, so that this enterprise is assured of cumulative success.

Doctor Pallardy is a Republican in politics, in the Masonic fraternity he has affiliation with the four York Rite bodies, the Blue Lodge, Chapter, Council and Commandery, and he is also a Noble of the Mystic Shrine. He has membership also in the American Legion and the Delta Sigma Delta college fraternity, and he and his wife are members of the Unitarian Church.

The year 1922 marked the marriage of Doctor Pallardy to Miss Beatrice Wandrei, daughter of M. J. and Clara (Snider) Wandrei, and the one child of this union is a winsome daughter, Patricia Anne.

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

PETER WILLIAM DELANEY was a citizen of Indianapolis whose distinctive service was with the fire fighting organization, and he rose to the rank of captain in the fire department.

Captain Delaney was born in Indianapolis, January 11, 1870, and was only forty-three years of age when he died, January 3,1913. His parents were Peter and Catherine Delaney. He was educated in St. Johns parochial schools. His love for horses determined the first choice of his business career. He attended a veterinary college, and was an expert judge of horses as well as capable in treating their diseases. His first service for the fire department was as horse buyer, and even during his years of active connection with the force he had charge of the buying of horses. It was not until after his death that the fire department was motorized.

Captain Delaney was a very popular man among his associates in the fire department and in the city in general. He was a Democrat, was a member of St. John's Catholic Church, and he was laid to rest in the Holy Cross Cemetery.

He married in 1901 Miss Kathryn Scanlon, daughter of Anthony and Anna (Sullivan) Scanlon. Her father was born at Madison, Indiana, and was a boy when his parents moved to Indianapolis. He was educated in common schools, and is still a resident of Indianapolis, being retired from business. Anthony Scanlon had four daughters, Kathryn, Anna, Gertrude and Margaret. Mrs. Delaney who resides at 1915 North Meridian Street, is the mother of five children, Harold, James, Kathryn, Marie and Gertrude.

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

NOBLE MALOTT, chairman of the Republican county committee in Lawrence County, is a resident of Tunnelton and has had a conspicuous part in the business and public affairs of that locality for many years.

Mr. Malott was born December 22, 1879. The Malotts came from Kentucky and were early settlers in Lawrence County, Indiana. His parents were James H. and Melvina (Guthrie) Malott. His father was born in Kentucky, and while living in Lawrence County conducted a store at Mitchell and owned three farms in the county. In 1893 he moved to Indianapolis, and carried on a successful real estate business in that city until his death in 1910. He received a good education at Louisville and took a business course at Indianapolis. His wife, Melvina Guthrie, was born at Tunnelton, attended the common schools there, graduated from the Southern Indiana Normal School at Mitchell and was a capable musician and also exercised her talents in oil painting. She died at Indianapolis in 1922.

Noble Malott attended school at Mitchell, finished the course in the Manual Training High School at Indianapolis and had some business experience in Indianapolis clerking in a grocery store. On returning to Tunnelton he took charge of the general store owned by his grandfather and later engaged in business for himself, building up a large enterprise at Tunnelton and giving his close attention to its management for eleven years. Mr. Malott also bought the old home farm of his grandfather. The house on this farm is one of the finest in Lawrence County. It was built of stone and brick, the stone being quarried on the land and the brick burned there. It contains ten large rooms and faces to the west, just at the edge of Tunnelton. Mr. Malott is also a director in the Stone City Bank of Bedford, Indiana.

When, in 1904, he was elected township trustee, at the age of 24, he had the distinction of being the first Republican elected to office in that township for forty years. For six years he served as postmaster of Tunnelton, being appointed by President Taft. He was then again elected township trustee, and served two terms as a representative in the Indiana Legislature. He was a member of the Legislature when some notable measure came before it, and he voted to ratify the prohibition amendment and the woman's suffrage amendment, and also supported the legislative program for the creation of a state highway commission. He was chairman of the Southern Indiana delegation that carried through the State Aid Bill, of such untold benefit to the common schools. He has been president of the County Council for the past eight years. Mr. Malott has been Republican county chairman of Lawrence County since 1928. He is a Mason, has filled many chairs in the Knights of Pythias Lodge and Improved Order of Red Men and is a leading member of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Tunnelton.

He married, March 7, 1904, Miss Mary Standiford, daughter of John and Eliza (Simpson) Standiford. The Simpsons are one of the old families of Lawrence County. Mr. and Mrs. Malott have three children. The daughter, Mary Ozella, is the wife of Elisha Simpson and mother of two children, Fay and Rachael. Raymond Emery Malott died in 1912, at the age of eighteen months. The other son, James Claude, born in 1913, is now a pupil in the Tunnelton High School.

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

BYRON D. HOCKENSMITH is a resident of Wayne Township, Marion County, a prosperous farm owner, banker and citizen of the Speedway community. His home is at 4957 West Fifteenth Street, Indianapolis.

Mr. Hockensmith was born on the old Hockensmith farm in Wayne Township, May 5, 1874, son of Thomas and Sarah (Hoover) Hockensmith, and a grandson of Benjamin and Nancy (Halley) Hockensmith. His grandparents settled on a farm near Clermont in Marion County and lived out their lives in that community. They are buried in the Union Cemetery of Wayne Township. Thomas Hockensmith taught school for a time, but his main career was that of a "dirt" farmer. He and his wife are buried in the Crown Hill Cemetery. They had two sons, Byron D. and Wallace R. Wallace is deceased. Thomas Hockensmith was nine years old when his parents moved from Montgomery County, Indiana, to the old farm near Clermont.

Byron D. Hockensmith was educated in common schools, and always worked at some task on the farm suited to his age and strength. The first school he attended was a frame school on the Salt Lake Pike. Later he was in school on the Kissel Road, and he finished his education in the Ben Davis School. He also attended a business college and spent three years in Indiana University. After the death of his father he rented the old homestead and later moved to the farm he now occupies at Speedway. He owns two farms, comprising about four hundred acres, and the foundation of his successful career was laid as a practical farmer.

Mr. Hockensmith married, January 20, 1912, Miss Clara E. Wells, daughter of Dr. Merritt and Morincie (Robertson) Wells. Her father was born on a farm in Jennings County, Indiana, had no opportunities outside his immediate environment and he worked and paid his way through dental college at Cincinnati, after which he practiced for many years at Indianapolis. Mrs. Hockensmith's mother is now in her ninety-second year and a resident of Speedway. There were six children in the Wells family: Flora M., wife of Paul H. Chapin; Minnie E., who became Mrs. William L. Harris, and is deceased; Nellie G., wife of Woodburn Masson; Bessie Barnett, wife of John M. Barnett; Mrs. Hockensmith; and Merritt, who married Daisy Nagle. Mrs. Hockensmith is eligible for membership in the Daughters of the American Revolution.

Mr. Hockensmith for a number of years has been interested in business and civic affairs. He is a director in the bank at New Augusta and devotes much of his time to the management of the Speedway State Bank, of which he is vice president and a director. He and his wife are members of the Clermont Christian Church, of which he is treasurer, and he holds the offices of deacon and trustee, and he formerly was a member of the board of the Christian Hospital.

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