He was born at New Paris, Elkhart County, Indiana, May 23, 1883, son of Lewis K. and Delilah (Immel) McClure. His father was born in Elkhart County, March 7, 1853, and now resides in Grant County, Indiana. His mother was born in Elkhart County April 11, 1851, and died in April, 1911. His parents were married September 9, 1880. Besides Lloyd there was one daughter, Maude, born January 10, 1882, now the wife of James Sweitzer, living at Linden, Washington.

Lloyd McClure attended the common schools of Elkhart County, was a student in the high school at Milford and taught in Jackson Township of that county during the winter terms of 1900-01,1901-02 and 1902-03. He took the scientific and classical courses in the Central Indiana Normal College at Danville and had a two-year law course under Judge Solon A. Enloe in 1904-05. In the fall of 1907 he entered Indiana University, taking work in the history department as well as in the law school, and was graduated LL. B. in 1908.

In July of that year he was admitted to practice and has devoted himself to the routine of the law at Kokomo for over twenty years. For a time he was a law partner of Judge James F. Elliott, who had been a soldier in the Civil war. In 1920 he became associated in practice with Judge Lex J. Kirkpatrick and Milton Bell, two pioneer attorneys of Howard County. Milton Bell died in 1924 and Judge Kirkpatrick in 1926, but the old law firm title of Bell, Kirkpatrick, McClure & Elliott is still retained on the door of Mr. McClure's officee in the Armstrong-Landon Building at Kokomo.

Mr. McClure is frequently referred to by Kokomo citizens as Kokomo's "Abe Lincoln." He bears a striking resemblance to Lincoln's early portraits. Mr. McClure was deputy prosecuting attorney of Howard County in 1910 and at various times filled the office of county attorney. By appointment of Mayor Isaac Wright he was city attorney of Kokomo during the years 1919-21. His experience has brought him qualifications for any office within the line of his profession, and the local and surrounding county bar associations gave him their endorsement as successor to Federal Judge Anderson. Mr. McClure is a Republican, is a member of the Methodist Church, and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and B. P. O. Elks. He is a charter member of the Kiwanis Club, is president of the Kokomo Y. M. C. A., is a trustee of the Y. W. C. A., and is a director of the Chamber of Commerce and one of the directors of the Howard National Bank. In the line of his profession he belongs to the Howard County, Indiana State and American Bar Associations.

His hobby has been Sunday School work. For sixteen years he has taught ac Bible class in the Grace Methodist Episcopal Church at Kokomo. In 1921 he started a mid-week Bible class, and largely through his individual methods of leadership has made that organization remarkably successful. The average attendance is now about 125 and on many special occasions fully 400 persons have come to this religious meeting in the mid-week. All denominations are represented in the class, including persons of the Jewish and Catholic faith and those without any regular church affiliations. Some of the Jewish and Catholic attendance have said that while they, do not agree with all his teachings they like Mr. McClure's style and the manner in which he conducts the meetings.

Mr. McClure married, December 12, 1912, Miss Margaret Estelle White, who was born July 5, 1882, daughter of Newman and Nativia White. Her father was born in Virginia and her mother in Indiana. Mr. and Mrs. McClure have four children: Marjorie Nativia, born December 4, 1914; Harriet Rachel, born December 25, 1917; Robert Lewis, born March 21, 1920; and Warren Newman, born October 13, 1923.

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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

MILTON BELL was for nearly sixty years a leader in the Howard County bar. His career was part of the record of a succession of the most important law partnership in the county. He was nearly eighty-nine years of age when he died, January 22, 1924. He had been devoted to his law work and less than three weeks before his death had made his last visit to the law office of Bell, Kirkpatrick, McClure & Elliott, of which he was the senior member.

He was born in Clinton County, Indiana, February 13, 1835, son of Nathaniel and Nancy (Endicott) Bell. His father, a native of Ohio, was of Scotch ancestry, several generations of the family having lived in the South. Nancy Endicott was born in Pennsylvania, of English stock. Milton Bell was educated in Indiana district schools, and subsequently enrolled as one of the students of Antioch College when it was opened in 1853 at Yellow Springs, Ohio, under the presidency of Horace Mann, whose influence on educational methods in America persist to the present day. After a year in college ill health caused Mr. Bell to return home and for two years he clerked in his father's store, taught school, and during that time determined upon the law as his profession and began his studies with a view to qualifying for admission to the bar. In 1856 his father became a member of the firm Degority, Franklin & Bell at Cincinnati, conducting a wholesale business in silks and millinery. Milton Bell was one of the salesmen of the firm for two years, after which he and his father returned to Clinton County, Indiana, and engaged in the mercantile business. On account of his ill health Milton Bell spent the winter of 1860-61 in the South, and while there witnessed the rising temper of the people following the fall of Fort Sumter. With the outbreak of the war he returned home and in 1862 raised a company for the Eighty-sixth Regiment of Indiana Volunteers. He was commissioned a captain, and accompanied his regiment when it joined the Army of the Cumberland. He was in the service until after the battle of Stone River, when his old malady returned, and he was obliged to resign his commission. For several years he maintained a very precarious hold on his health. In the meantime he resumed his law studies and at Indianapolis entered the law office of McDonald & Roache, the senior member being Joseph E. McDonald, at one time Indiana's United States senator. In 1865 Mr. Bell was graduated from the law department of Northwestern Christian University, now Butler University. A member of the same class was Addison C. Harris, who became a famous lawyer.

Mr. Bell in 1865 was admitted to the Howard County bar and began practice with Nelson Purdum, father of Judge W. C. Purdum. With the death of Mr. Purdum a few years later Mr. Bell took into partnership his younger brother, Arthur S. Bell. After his brother's death he was associated with Millard McDowell in the firm of Bell & McDowell until 1881. In 1882 W. C. Purdum became his partner and the firm of Bell & Purdum was one of the prominent ones at Kokomo until 1910, when Mr. Purdum was elected to the circuit bench, succeeding Judge L. J. Kirkpatrick, who then joined forces with Mr. Bell in the firm of Bell & Kirkpatrick. A third member came into the firm shortly afterward, Warren R. Voorhis. Judge Purdum on retiring from the bench, January 1, 1917, again joined his old law partner, thus constituting the firm of Bell, Kirkpatrick, Purdum & Voorhis. Mr. Voorhis retired in the spring of 1918 and Judge Purdum died in June, 1920, and in the reorganization that followed two junior lawyers, Lloyd McClure and Donald F. Elliott, helped constitute the firm of Bell, Kirkpatrick, McClure & Elliott.

The opinion of his fellow lawyers show that Mr. Bell was a man of most painstaking habits and investigation and study. He was so careful of his opinions, legally speaking, and so desirous of avoiding mistakes that he would seldom venture an expression of legal advice until he had completed study of the law books even though the ground was familiar to him. He was always a student and kept a minute record of his investigations for future reference. His mind was analytical and discriminating, both of which faculties were the foundation stones of his unusual success in the profession. In argument he was candid, logical and convincing; his personal integrity served him in good stead as he was never known to mislead a court or bewilder a jury. His methods before court and jury were fairness and courtesy itself and he carried great conviction as a consequence. He believed in his causes and convinced others of his sincerity. It was in the appellate tribunals that his full legal powers were manifested and he held the high esteem of leading jurists, who recognized his unusual ability as a practitioner.

It seemed that he completely satisfied his ambitions in attaining the position of a thoroughly successful lawyer. Public office had no attraction for him. In all matters he was tolerant, and not least so in politics, though he was himself an ardent Democrat. He had cast his first vote for president for Stephen A. Douglas in 1860 and he voted the Democratic national ticket for over sixty years. It was his tolerance, his kindly affection for his fellow men, his congenial personality, that won him loyal friends among all classes. He was willing to sacrifice himself for the public welfare, but at all times led a quiet and unostentatious life and exhibited the qualities of a perfect gentleman. Aside from his law office and his home his most active interests were centered in his church and in the circle of his former comrades in arms. For over half a century he had been a regular attendant at the Grace Methodist Episcopal Church in Kokomo. He was affiliated with T. J. Harrison Post, Grand Army of the Republic, practically from the date of its organization.

Mr. Bell married at Kokomo, February 26, 1867, a daughter of Nelson Purdum, Kokomo's first mayor. She was for many years prominent in the social life of her community and was an inspiring influence to Mr. Bell in his career. She passed away February 27, 1921, and Mr. Bell's attitude had seemed to be one of waiting ever since her death. Mr. Bell was survived by one daughter, Mrs. William C. Free.

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

HON. LEX J. KIRKPATRICK began the practice of law at Kokomo in 1875, and including his notable services on the bench his career as lawyer and judge covered a full half century. Judge Kirkpatrick died at St. Vincent's Hospital .in Indianapolis, March 21, 1926. Commenting upon his position as a lawyer and citizen the Kokomo Daily Tribune the following day said: "He was admirably fitted by temperament and ability for the practice and became recognized, and justly so, as one of the conspicuously strong lawyers of Indiana. He had high professional ideals, honored his calling, strove constantly to have it on the highest possible level and became in the truest sense one of its ornaments. He served several terms as president of the Howard County Bar Association and to his efforts is due much credit for the fine spirit that pervades that organization. In 1924 he was chosen president of the Indiana State Bar Association, a position he filled with great credit to himself and to the marked satisfaction of the organization's entire membership. It was while in that position that he made a trip to London, England, to attend a meeting of the International Bar Association.

"Judge Kirkpatrick's career had in it much that could engage profitable reflection. Without special advantages in youth, but with a determination to achieve things worth while, he made opportunities for himself. He determined to make of himself a good lawyer and a citizen of character and force. How well he succeeded the record shows. Always, too, there was a fine interest in and an unswerving loyalty to his home town and county. It is a record of worthy works and earned attachments - the kind of record that causes a man to be much missed and sincerely mourned."

He was in his seventy-third year when he died. He was born in Rush County, Indiana, September 6, 1853, son of Stephen and Rebecca J. Kirkpatrick, who the following year settled in Taylor Township, Howard County. Judge Kirkpatrick was an Indiana farm boy during his youth, was educated in district schools and afterwards spent a year in Oskaloosa College in Iowa, and also attended Howard College at Kokomo. While in Howard College he began the study of law with Hendry & Elliott. In June, 1875, he was graduated from the Central Law College of Indianapolis. His first law partner was Judge James F. Elliott, and they practiced as the firm of Elliott & Kirkpatrick until 1890. In that year Mr. Kirkpatrick was nominated by the Democrats and elected judge of the Thirty-sixth Judicial Circuit, comprising the counties of Howard and Tipton. He served six years, and then resumed private practice as member of the firm Kirkpatrick, Morrison & McReynolds. In 1909 the Howard Circuit Court was created as a separate judicial unit, and Gov. Thomas R. Marshall appointed him judge until the next general election. Thus he served nearly two years, until the close of 1910.

Early in 1910 Judge Kirkpatrick joined Milton Bell, then dean of the Howard County bar. The firm of Bell & Kirkpatrick was subsequently augmented by the admission of Warren P. Voorhis, and early in 1917 Judge William C. Purdum, after completing a term on the circuit bench, joined them in the partnership of Bell, Kirkpatrick, Purdum & Voorhis. Mr. Voorhis retired in 1918 and Judge Purdum died in 1920. A prominent young attorney, Lloyd McClure, soon joined the two senior partners. Mr. Bell died early in 1924, and soon afterward Donald F. Elliott, whose father had been Judge Kirkpatrick's first law partner, joined in the practice, and the old title of Bell, Kirkpatrick, McClure & Elliott was continued until after the death of Judge Kirkpatrick. Just a year before Judge Kirkpatrick's death the firm moved to offices in the new Armstrong--Landon Building.

In addition to his extensive law practice Judge Kirkpatrick was one of the organizers of the Indiana Railway & Light Company, which subsequently became one of the properties of the Northern Indiana Power Company. Much of his private fortune was due to his holdings in this public utility. He was a director and vice president of the Farmers Trust & Savings Bank of Kokomo, director of a bank at Bradenton, was active in the Kokomo Chamber of Commerce, a charter .member of the Kokomo Kiwanis Club.

Judge Kirkpatrick was deeply interested in the cause of education, and a few months prior to his death made a gift of $25,000 to Butler College of Indianapolis. He was for several years a member of the official board of the college. As a youth he joined the Main Street Christian Church at Kokomo, was for twenty- five years, 1883-1908, superintendent of the Sunday School, and was prominently identified with the Christian Endeavor Society, serving three years, from 1893 to 1896, as president of the Indiana State Union and as vice president of the World's Christian Endeavor Union. He was also liberal in the support of the Y. M. C. A.

Judge Kirkpatrick married, September 22, 1881, Miss Emma Palmer, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Palmer, of Adrian, Michigan. Their domestic life was an ideal one, and during their companionship of forty-five years Mrs. Kirkpatrick was undoubtedly the strongest single influence in her husband's professional and public success. Judge Kirkpatrick left no brothers nor sisters living and no children.

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

DONALD F. ELLIOTT, of Kokomo, has practiced law since 1912. There was no difficulty of choice of profession in his case, since his father had been a prominent Indiana lawyer for over thirty years. Mr. Elliott is a member of the law firm McClure & Elliott, carrying on a practice that was started at Kokomo by Milton Bell in 1865 and was continued by partnership associations including some of the most eminent men of the Howard County bar, Judge Lex J. Kirkpatrick, Judge W. C. Purdum and others. It has been rather characteristic of the members of this firm that they have been steadfastly devoted to the law and have avoided politics, though at least two members served terms on the circuit bench. Mr. Elliott himself gives his entire time and energies to his law practice.

He was born at Kokomo March 15, 1887, son of Judge James F. and Sarah Ann (Connaroe) Elliott. His father was born in Preble County, Ohio, May 6, 1840, and died in May, 1909. He located at Kokomo in 1869, for many years practiced law there and served from 1902 until his death as judge of the Howard County Circuit Court. His wife, Sarah Ann Connaroe, was born in Preble County, Ohio, February 20, 1841, and died in August, 1911. Donald F. Elliott has a sister, Mary D., wife of Fred L. Trees, of St. Petersburg, Florida; a brother, Earl C., president of the California Water Service Company at San Francisco; and Paul S. El1iott, vice president of a water company at Marysville, Ohio.

Donald F. Elliott was educated in the public schools of Kokomo, graduated with the A. B. degree from DePauw University in 1909, and took his LL. B. degree at Columbia University of New York in 1912. He is a member of the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity of DePauw and the legal fraternity Phi Delta Phi of Columbia. During 1912-13 he remained in New York, associated with Charles Thaddeus Terry, one of America's great lawyers. In 1914 he returned to Kokomo and during 1915- 17 was in practice with J. C. Blacklidge. During 1917-22 he was associated with a glass company at Clarksburg, West Virginia, and then returned to Kokomo and became junior partner of the law firm Bell, Kirkpatrick, McClure & Elliott.

Mr. Elliott is a member of the Howard County, Indiana State and American Bar Associations, is a member of the Indiana Society of Chicago, the Columbia Club of Indianapolis, is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity and B. P. O. Elks, and a member of the Kokomo Country Club and the First Presbyterian Church. He is a Republican voter.

Mr. Elliott married, September 23, 1916, Miss Pauline Hoss, who was born at Kokomo June 13, 1892, daughter of Lora C. and Estella (Bernard) Hoss. They have four children: Sally, born February 23, 1918; Richard Hoss, born December 31, 1919; Donald F., born October 8, 1921; and Emily, born June 13, 1926.

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

MISS ELIZABETH CANDY is an Indiana woman with an interesting service record in the profession of nursing. During the greater part of the last ten years she has been connected with the Robert Long Hospital on East Michigan Street in Indianapolis, where she is now superintendent of nurses.

Her father, U. S. Candy, was born in Richmond, Wayne County, Indiana, son of Jacob and Hannah (Schaeffer) Candy. Jacob Candy's father came from Holland and settled on a farm near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Uriah S. Candy was a small boy when his parents moved to Grant County, Indiana, and he grew up on a farm which has since been taken into the townsite of Gas City. He worked as a farmer, attended local schools and later completed a two year course in the Valparaiso Normal School. Teaching was his profession for twelve years and after that he engaged in farming until he retired and moved to Clayton, Indiana, where he died and where his widow still resides. There were three children: Charles Candy, who married Jessie Sipe and has a son, Richard; Miss Elizabeth; and Cora Belle. The two daughters reside with their mother at Clayton, though Miss Elizabeth spends most of her time at Indianapolis.

Elizabeth Candy was born at Jonesboro, Grant County, Indiana, September 28, 1893. She attended the country schools at Bethel for six years, until the family moved to Clayton, where she graduated from high school. Later she entered the Indiana University Training School for Nurses and was graduated in June, 1919. Her first professional work was in the Long Hospital. For one year she was head nurse, for four years night supervisor, and then left the Long Hospital to become night-superintendent of the Riley Memorial Hospital. After a year she returned to the Long Hospital, where for two years she was assistant superintendent, and since then has been superintendent of nurses.

Miss Candy's mother is Mrs. Mary (Mitchell) Candy, daughter of Columbus and Elizabeth (Wills) Mitchell. Columbus Mitchell was captain of Company C of the Seventieth Indiana Infantry in the Civil war, enlisting in Hendricks County, and served in the Army of the Cumberland.

Miss Elizabeth Candy is a member of the State and National Nurses Association, State and National League of Nursing Education, and is a member of the Presbyterian Church.

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

JOHN A. GRANDE. What is at once a landmark and an important business institution of Wayne Township, Marion County, is the Grande greenhouses, located just outside the city limits of Indianapolis, on Grande Avenue.

The active head of this business for the past twenty-one years has been John A. Grande. The business itself was founded by his father, the late August Grande. August Grande was born in Silesia, in Southeastern Germany, son of August and Rose (Hoheisel) Grande, who were people of means and considerable influence in Silesia and who finally came to America and spent their last years in this country. August Grande was eighteen years old when he left Germany to come to America in 1887. While in Germany he had learned the trade of weaver. At Indianapolis he found employment as a gardener, and experience and training developed in him a high degree of judgment and skill in all phases of horticulture and floriculture. After some years he bought a small tract of land, cleared part of it and on this land instituted the business of growing flowers for the Indianapolis market. When the road was cut through it was named and is still known as Grande Avenue. August Grande died in 1909. He married Anna Rolley.

John A. Grande was born on the old homestead, December 11, 1896, and was only thirteen years old when his father died. However, while attending school he had learned something of his father's art as a flower gardener. He graduated from the Catholic parochial schools in 1909 and from that time took active charge of the business. He has made a thorough study of the florist's business, has introduced new methods, some of them learned from other sources and some his own, and has made the business on Grande Avenue one of the best equipped and largest institutions of its kind in the vicinity of Indianapolis.

He married in 1916 Miss Helen Kauffman, daughter of Adam and Cristina (Steib) Kauffman. She is of German ancestry. They have one daughter, Alfreda, born in 1917. Mr. Grande is a member of the Gardener's Society and the Florists Association, has interested himself in civic affairs in his locality and he and his family worship in the Catholic Church.

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

DR. GEORGE W. GILLIE, a citizen of Fort Wayne, Allen County, Indiana, has always been keenly interested in the civic welfare of his city and county. He has served in several capacities both electoral and appointive. During his three terms as sheriff of the county he has sustained a reputation for ability and honorable and conscientious service.

Doctor Gillie was born in Woollands, Berwickshire, Scotland, August 15, 1880, and is the eldest of the family of ten children of James (deceased) and Janet Taylor Gillie, who were also born and reared in the land of "hills and heather." The father, James Gillie, became a successful agriculturist and stock grower in his native land, and there continued his residence until June 1882, when he came with his family to the United States. He located at Kankakee, Illinois, but in 1884 came to Allen County, Indiana, where he became a successful dairyman and stock raiser both in St. Joseph and Washington townships. Mr. Gillie was greatly interested in community affairs. He was the organizer of the Allen County Plowing Association and Scottish Caledonian Society and was affiliated with the Plymouth Congregational Church, Summit City Lodge, A. F. and A. M:, Fort Wayne Commandery, Knights Templar and Scottish Rite Masonry. His death occurred October 29, 1911.

Dr. George W. Gillie, the subject of this sketch, attended the public schools and International Business College of Fort Wayne, Indiana. In 1901 he completed a course in dairy industry at Purdue University. In 1907 he graduated from the Ohio State University at Columbus, Ohio, with the degree of Doctor of Veterinary Surgery and in 1908 was appointed as chief inspector of food in the department of public health of Fort Wayne, a position which he held until 1914. He engaged also in the general practice of his profession and was deputy state veterinarian until 1917. On January 1, 1917, he became sheriff of Allen County, a position which he held until 1921. In 1928 he was recalled to the office of sheriff and has continued to give his county conscientious and faithful service. During the World war he assisted his country in various civic capacities in war risk insurance and as chairman of the Red Cross and the various Liberty Loan drives.

He has served as president of the Indiana Veterinary Medical Association, also as Potentate of Mizpah Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S. He is serving as president of the District Reserve Officers Association, also as president of the Kiwanis Club. He is a member of the Chamber of Commerce, Fort Wayne Historical Society, Y. M. C. A., Plymouth Congregational Church, Summit City Lodge, A. F. and A. M., Scottish Rite Masonry, Mizpah Temple, A. A. O. N. M, S., Odd Fellows, and Woodmen of America, as well as several local clubs.

The marriage of Doctor Gillie to Miss Grace Nanette Merion, who was born and reared at Columbus, Ohio (a daughter of Charles and Emma Kienzle Merion), was performed by Dr. William Oxley Thompson, the president of Ohio State University, on June 24., 1908, which was also the date of Miss Merion's graduation from that institution.

Doctor and Mrs. Gillie have two daughters, Jean Merion, a student at St. Mary's College, Notre Dame, Indiana, and Charlotte Merion, a senior in high school.
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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

CLANCY C. VANDIVIER is the owner of one of the pioneer undertaking firms of Johnson County, a business conducted under the firm name of A. V. Vandivier & Son, at 156 East Jefferson Street in Franklin.

Mr. Vandivier was born in Johnson County, May 24, 1890. His father, Ara V. Vandivier, was also born in Johnson County and was the active head of the A. V. Vandivier & Son business until his death in 1927. He was the son of James Madison Vandivier, whose father came to Indiana and settled in Johnson County about a century ago. A. V. Vandivier was for several years a deputy sheriff of Johnson County. He married Josephine Kerlin.

Clancy C. Vandivier was one of two children. He attended public schools, including the Franklin High School, and in 1910 graduated from the Askins School of Embalming at Indianapolis. He at once became an assistant to his father and in 1916 was made a member of the firm and took active charge of the business. This business is a logical successor of one of the oldest organizations of the kind in Johnson County. It was started in 1869, by W. S. Brown. E. G. Barnhizer was for many years a partner. In 1905 A. V. Vandivier bought a half interest, and the business was continued as Barnhizer & Vandivier until 1916, when Clancy C. Vandivier entered the firm, the name of which became A. V. Vandivier & Son, and that title is still continued, though the senior partner is deceased. Mr. Vandivier though proprietor of a business established sixty years ago, has maintained it with a service in fun accord with the most modern ideas and technique.

Mr. Vandivier married Frances Marie Fuller, of Evansville, Indiana, and they have a daughter, Elizabeth Ann, attending school at Franklin. Mr. Vandivier is affiliated with Franklin Lodge No. 107, A. F. and A. M., the Royal Arch Chapter and Council, Knight Templar Commandery and Murat Temple of the Mystic Shrine at Indianapolis. He is also a member of the Mineola Tribe of Red Men, and is a member of the Franklin Christian Church. Mr. Vandivier did his part during the World war, working and promoting the success of the Liberty Bond sales and the Red Cross campaigns.

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

ARTHUR V. WILLSEY is one of the progressive men who are well upholding the standards of agricultural and live stock industry and enterprise in Marion County, where he rents the old Hockensmith well improved farm estate situated on the Salt Lake road and on rural mail route No. 18 from the City of Indianapolis. This is one of the well ordered farms of Wayne Township, and he has the distinction of being a native son of Marion County, where his birth occurred January 27, 1887. He is a son of Eugene and Daisy (Martin) Willsey, who now reside near their old home farm in Franklin Township, Marion County, this farm having been the birthplace of Eugene Willsey, who was long and actively identified with agricultural and live stock enterprise in the county and who is now living virtually retired. Of the children of the family Arthur V., of this review, is the eldest, and the names of the others are here recorded in the respective order of birth: Roy, Alice, Ruth, Elmer and Elsie. Lewis Willsey, grandfather of the subject of this sketch, came in an early day from the State of New York to Indiana, in company with one of his cousins. He made the overland journey with teams and wagons, much of the country en route having then been little more than a wilderness, so that Lewis Willsey thus gained his share of pioneer experience in blazing trails. He made settlement in Marion County, where he did well his part in the work of development and progress along both civic and industrial lines, and he and his wife were honored pioneer citizens of the county at the time of their death. The original American representatives of the Willsey family came from Scotland.

Arthur V. Willsey passed the period of his childhood and early youth on the old home farm in Franklin Township, this having been the place of his birth, and as a boy he began to assist in the various operations of the farm, in which connection he gained practical experience that was destined to fortify him admirably for his later and independent activities as an agriculturist and stock-grower. His youthful education was obtained through the medium of the local district school and the Indianapolis public schools. He has never severed his appreciative allegiance to and active association with farm industry, and at the present time he is known as one of its vital and successful exponents in his native county, the fine old county in which is situated the beautiful capital city of Indiana. Mr. Willsey is well fortified in his convictions concerning political policies, takes lively interest in community affairs of public order, and is a stalwart advocate and supporter of the cause of the Democratic party. He is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity and the Improved Order of Red Men, and he and his wife have membership in the Christian Church, as do also his parents.

The year 1913 recorded the marriage of Mr. Willsey to Miss Myrtle Toon, daughter of Ira and Clara Toon, of Indianapolis, where her father gained success and prestige as a successful contractor, a line of enterprise with which he is still identified in the capital city. Mr. and Mrs. Willsey have two fine sons, Harold and Willard. The attractive rural home of the family is known as a center of generous and gracious hospitality, and Mrs. Willsey is a popular figure in the representative social activities of her home community.

Mr. WIllsey has consistent recognition of the enduring importance of the basic industries of agriculture and stock-growing, and is glad to do his part in maintaining and furthering the high standards of these industries in the county in which he was born and which is endeared to him by many gracious memories and associations.

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

AUSTIN FLINN is senior partner of the firm Flinn & Henderson, undertakers and funeral directors at Franklin. This is one of the oldest established business organizations of the kind in Johnson County. Mr. Flinn has lived all his life in that county, and both as a business man and citizen has fully earned the respect and esteem of the people.

He was born May 27, 1879, son of Thomas and Elizabeth (Jones) Flinn, and grandson of Thomas Flinn, a native of Hamilton County, Ohio, who came to Fayette County, Indiana about 1830. Thomas Flinn, Jr., was born in Fayette County, Indiana, and during the Civil war was a volunteer in Company I of the Eighteenth Indiana Infantry. He served all through the war. Afterwards he was a farmer, was in the real estate business at Franklin, and for a time was city marshal there.

Austin Flinn was one of a family of nine children. He attended grade schools and was a student in Franklin College, and for one year taught school. In 1899 he became a clerk in the Franklin postoffice and for eleven years was chief clerk of the office.

Mr. Flinn in 1913 bought an interest in the business of Henderson McDaniel Brown Company, Franklin undertakers. This business was organized about 1910. Since 1913 the firm Flinn & Henderson has carried on and perfected the service, introducing new equipment and modernizing the facilities. Mr. Flinn in 1913 graduated from the Askin School of Embalming at Indianapolis and is a member of the Indiana Undertakers Association. Flinn & Henderson have all the equipment motorized, including an ambulance, employ nurses, and they carry a complete stock of caskets and other supplies. For the four years Mr. Flinn has also been interested in the firm of Flinn & Gosney at Edinburg, Indiana. This business was started in 1891.

Mr. Flinn was township trustee of Franklin Township from 1914 to 1922, for two terms. During the World war he was active in all the Red Cross and other drives and has been a supporter of every movement and innovation for the good of the city and county. He was the tenth president of the local Rotary Club, is a member of the Chamber of Commerce, is affiliated with Franklin Lodge No. 107, A. F. and A. M., the Royal Arch Chapter, Council and Knights Templar Commandery, and Murat Temple of the Mystic Shrine at Indianapolis. He is also a member of the Knights of Pythias and Improved Order of Red Men, and has served as secretary of the county Republican committee and as city chairman. Mr. Flinn married Susan Richardson, of Johnson County, and they have a daughter, Betty Jane, now attending school.

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

ROY C. BRYANT, mayor of Franklin, has been a capable business man in that city for the past twenty years. He is the owner of a firm that have done building work allover Southern Indiana, but his principal attention is now devoted to a builders' supply organization.

Mr. Bryant was born in Illinois, May 13, 1887. His father, Robert Bryant, was born at Murfreesboro, Tennessee, and in 1881 moved to Booneville, Indiana, and later went to Illinois. The Bryant family came originally from Pennsylvania. They were of English ancestry and were of early Colonial stock.

Roy C. Bryant attended college in Illinois, and in 1908, at the age of twenty-one, became an employee of the contracting firm of J. M. Green & Son Company at Franklin. In 1911 he bought an interest in the business, and since 1914 has been sole owner and general manager. His firm has handled large contracts of state government work as well as the building of homes and work for private business organizations. Among the important public buildings erected were the State Epileptic Hospital Village at Newcastle, comprising nine buildings, buildings on the State Fair Grounds at Indianapolis, the Masonic Home at Franklin, a Friends Church at Richmond, the Hiberd School of Richmond, the Science Hall of Central Normal College at Danville, and the Science Hall of Franklin College, and Science Hall, Honover College. They also built a high school for the Indiana Boys School.

Since 1924 most of the capital and energies of the organization have been centered in the builders' supply business. The organization specializes in providing material and other service for contractors. At Franklin is a plant covering two and a half acres of ground, with an immense stock of builders' materials and mills for the manufacture of general mill work and special materials for contractors. The firm employs about ninety-five persons.

Mr. Bryant is a member of the Indiana Builders Supply Association, is a member of the Franklin Chamber of Commerce and the Kiwanis Club. He was elected mayor of Franklin in 1929 for the term 1930-34. During the World war he was commissioned a first lieutenant in the Engineers Corps and was called to duty only three days before the armistice. He is affiliated with Franklin Lodge No. 107, A. F. And A. M., the Royal Arch Chapter, Council, Knights Templar Commandery and Murat Temple of the Mystic Shrine at Indianapolis.

Mr. Bryant married Miss Lola Green, of Johnson County, member of a pioneer family of the county. They have five children: Mark, a student in Franklin College; Robert, in high school; Leah, Frances and Roger, all in the grades.

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

EDMUND JAMES LUTHER, one of the prominent younger members of the South Bend bar, was born and grew up in that city, and his family on both sides have lived since pioneer times in Northern Indiana.

Mr. Luther was born at South Bend, April 12, 1901, and is a son of James N. and Cecelia R. (Kintz) Luther. His paternal grandfather, Elisha Luther, was also born in St. Joseph County, Indiana, and married Margaret Talbot, who came from County Cary, Ireland. Elisha Luther died March 4, 1926, at the age of ninety-two, and his wife passed away November 15, 1923, aged eighty-two. James N. Luther was born at South Bend, October 14, 1869, and for many years has been an outstanding business man and public spirited citizen of South Bend. He was educated in the grade and high schools, spent one year in Notre Dame University, and after leaving school engaged in the dairy business. He built up a large establishment, which he sold to the South Bend Creamery in 1917. After leaving this business he was for four years superintendent of water works, and was sales manager for the Independent Oil Company, which company is now the City Service Corporation. His name has been well known in public affairs. He served on the board of safety, as an alderman of South Bend, and as a county commissioner of St. Joseph County. He is a Republican in politics and a member of St. Joseph's Catholic Church. Cecelia R. Kintz, wife of James N. Luther, was born April 30, 1869, daughter of Peter J. and his wife, Margaret (Adlesperger) Kintz. Her parents were born at Tiffin, Ohio, and they came to St. Joseph County about the time of the Civil war. Peter J. Kintz died in 1922, at the age of eighty-six, and his wife in 1920, when eighty-four years of age.

Edmund J. Luther was one of a family of eight children, seven of whom are living. He graduated from the St. Joseph parochial school in 1916, following which he was for four years a student in the preparatory department of Notre Dame University. He was graduated from the Hoynes College of Law, of Notre Dame, June 9, 1925, and was admitted to the Indiana bar on the 25th of June, and has also been admitted to practice in the Federal and the Supreme Court of Indiana. He has used his qualifications as a lawyer to gain a secure place in his profession. In 1926 he was elected justice of the peace and filled that office from December 1, 1926, until December 1, 1930. He is a member of the Knights of Columbus, the Loyal Order of Moose, Fraternal Order of Eagles, the St. Joseph County Bar Association and the University Club of South Bend. Mr. Luther resides at 330 Tonti Avenue. He married, March 3, 1927, Miss Phoebe J. Welch, of Robinson, Illinois.
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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