Doctor McQueen was born at Baltic, Tuscarawas County, Ohio, on the 3rd of September, 1880, and is a son of Cyrus and Louise (Diefenbaugher) McQueen, the former's father having also been born in Ohio. Cyrus McQueen became a prosperous farmer in the old Buckeye State and likewise made a successful record as a general salesman of farm implements and machinery, as manufacturers' representative.

The boyhood and early youth of Doctor McQueen found him compassed by the environment and vitalizing discipline of the farm, and in the schools of his native county he continued his studies until he was graduated in high school. In preparation for the profession of his choice he went. to the City of Chicago and entered the National Medical University. In this institution he duly completed the prescribed curriculum, and upon his graduation, June 30, 1906, he received therefrom his well earned degree of Doctor of Medicine. For a time thereafter he was established in the practice of his profession at Cataract, Owen County, Indiana, and he also practiced at Quincy, in the same county. There he remained about twelve years, and1n the World war period he entered service in the Medical Corps of the United States Army, in which he gained the rank of first lieutenant in Motor Company No. 17, at Camp Greenleaf, Georgia, he having continued in service until the armistice brought the war to a close and having received his honorable discharge at Camp Crane, Pennsylvania. He then resumed his professional activities at Quincy, Indiana, where he remained until he became associated with the Marion County Tuberculosis Sanatorium, of which he is now the assistant superintendent. From the 1918 published report issued by this institution are taken, with minor modifications, the following pertinent extracts:

"Sunnyside, Marion County's tuberculosis sanatorium, is located near Oaklandon, about fourteen and one-half miles northeast of Indianapolis, near the Pendleton Pike. It is a wooded tract of land admirably situated near the interurban and railroad lines. The view of the surrounding country, the wooded hills and ravines, with their amazing variety of bird life, make it an ideal place in which to rest and enjoy the open air. As it is far removed from the city and not directly on the pike, the patients are assured quiet. * * * A more beautiful spot, so ideally located and abundantly blessed by nature with trees, birds, flowers, water and beautiful drives and walks, could not have been found in Marion County for such an institution. * * * Its nearest station is Oaklandon, which is Sunnyside's postoffice, express and freight office, and which is about three-fourths of a mile east of the institution."

In the fall of 1914 the commissioners and council of Marion County took the first steps to "provide a place where the citizens afflicted with tuberculosis in its early stages could go for care and treatment." A tax levy was made for this purpose, and in January, 1916, a bond issue of $80,000 was made for buildings. The first structure consists of the main administration building, with a wing on each side, and the institution now has buildings, general equipment and service of the best modern type throughout. From the same source as that of the previous quotation is taken the following further statement: "It is felt, because of the expressions heard from many persons, that there is wide-spread satisfaction on the part of the public in Marion County over the policies that have been pursued by our county officials in making Sunnyside Sanatorium possible. There is a tendency at times on the part of public officials to forget the humane and philanthropic side of public work, but in founding Marion County's tuberculosis sanatorium our county officials were keenly alive to the necessity for this institution, which will accomplish so much to alleviate the suffering of the unfortunate. In this respect Marion County has shown itself to be far in advance of a vast majority of similar governing units in this country, and it is felt that as time progresses the public will be more appreciative of the policies pursued in making Sunnyside Sanatorium possible."

In his professional and executive association with Sunnyside Doctor McQueen is putting forth every effort to make the institution exemplar of the fine ideals on which it was founded and to make the service represent the best that medical and hygienic science can offer. The Doctor has membership in the Indiana State Medical Society and the American Medical Association, and he continues to give intensive study to the prevention and treatment of tuberculosis. He is a Republican in political alignment, his Masonic affiliations include the Knights Templar and he is a member of Murat Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S., Indianapolis. He and his wife have membership in the Baptist Church.

The maiden name of the wife of Doctor McQueen was Ruth McGill, and she is a daughter of David and Mary McGill. Doctor and Mrs. McQueen have one child, David W.

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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

MRS. MARGARET BUSSELL is librarian of the Greensburg Public Library. The Greensburg Library's history goes back to 1901, in which year Mayor A. M. Willoughby opened correspondence with Andrew Carnegie. The result was that this steel manufacturer and philanthropist gave money for the building on the usual condition that the City Council should accept the gift, provide the site and tax the community for its permanent maintenance. The gift was accepted by the City Council in 1902. Ground was secured on Michigan Avenue and other donations were made. The cornerstone of the library building was laid in 1903, and in 1905 the building was completed and opened. The original collection of books numbered two thousand, and the library now has thirteen thousand volumes, well selected and affording ample facilities for reference and research for the public schools and the general reading public.

Mrs. Bussell, the present librarian, is a native of Greensburg. She attended the grammar and high schools of Greensburg and took summer work in the Library School of Butler University at Indianapolis.

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

JERRY McOSKER, former sheriff of Jackson County, has played a prominent part in the official and business life of that county.

He was born in Jackson County, May 16, 1866, son of John McOsker, who came from Ireland in 1844, when fifteen years of age, and for several years was employed in the woolen mills of Massachusetts. On coming to Indiana he followed farming and was in the railroad service.

Jerry McOsker was one of a family of nine children. He attended grade schools, worked on a farm, and followed farming as a vocation until 1896, when he was elected assessor of Brownstown Township, and in 1900 was chosen township trustee. He went from that office into the courthouse as sheriff, having been elected in 1908, and was reelected in 1910. During 1913-14 Mr. McOsker was in the dry goods business at Brownstown. He left that to take over the local Ford agency, selling out in 1922. For several years he was busy with his duties as receiver of a mercantile enterprise. Since September, 1928, he has had the Chevrolet agency at Brownstown. He is doing a business handling three hundred cars annually and has a shop and sales room with over three thousand feet of floor space and equipped for every type of repair job. He has four persons in his employ.

Mr. McOsker has for years been one of the very influential Democrats of Jackson County. He married Miss Blanche Branaman, of Jackson County, daughter of Jacob Wells Branaman and a niece of Ex-senator Branaman. Jacob Wells Branaman, was born in Jackson County, son of Christian and Mary (Wells} Branaman, and grandson of Abraham and Susan (Kindred) Branaman. Christian Branaman was also a native of Jackson County, and was a Union soldier in the Civil war. Mr. and Mrs. McOsker have three children: Mary, wife of Hershall Virmilia; Robert Vance, district manager at Columbus, Indiana, married Jerlin Powell; and Miss Annette is a student in Franklin College.

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

EDWARD J. HANCOCK, business manager of the Greensburg Daily News and Rushville Daily Republican and Telegram, has been an active newspaper man since 1902. He was twice president of the Indiana Republican Editorial Association.

Mr. Hancock was born in Jennings County, Indiana, in April, 1874, and is a descendant of the Colonial family of Hancocks of Massachusetts. His grandfather, Jackman Hancock, was a pioneer itinerant Methodist minister who traveled allover Southern Indiana preaching the Gospel. He was a native of Ohio. Mr. Hancock's father, John W. Hancock, was born in Ripley County, Indiana, followed the contracting business at Batesville for many years, and married Lida St. Clair, of Ripley County.

Edward J. Hancock attended school at Batesville and from an early age was helping his father in the contracting business. Later he was appointed deputy clerk of the Ripley Circuit Court. In 1902 he became editor of the Rushville Daily Republican. In 1909 he bought the Brookville American and was its owner and editor. In 1915 he was made business manager of George B. Lockwood's Muncie Press and National Republican. For a time he was editor of the Ashtabula, Ohio, Beacon. While in Ohio he became an intimate friend of the late Warren G. Harding. Mr. Hancock in 1918, with L. D. Braden, bought the Greensburg Weekly News, the Review and the Standard, consolidating these three papers into the Greensburg Daily News, on January 1, 1918. The Greensburg Daily News now has the largest circulation in the United States for a city the size of Greensburg. Mr. Hancock has been manager of the Greensburg Daily News since that time and of the Rushville newspapers since 1929. The Greensburg Daily News has a circulation of four thousand copies daily. It is published in a modern newspaper plant, in a two-story building especially erected for its purpose in 1923. The Rushville Republican and Morning Telegram are published in a modern newspaper building erected in 1917.

Mr. Hancock married Ella M. Schwier, daughter of Henry Schwier, of Ripley County, a family that came from Germany and settled in Indiana before the Civil war. Mr. and Mrs. Hancock had one son, John, who attended the Greensburg High School and Indiana University, and is now assistant to his father. Mrs. Hancock passed away May 21, 1931.

Mr. Hancock from an early age has been a prominent worker in the Republican party. He was for a time secretary to former Vice President Charles W. Fairbanks of Indiana. He was manager of the Harding primary publicity campaign in 1920 and also in the Coolidge campaign of 1924. He was president of the Indiana Republican Editorial Association in 1920 and 1921, being the first man to hold that office two consecutive terms since 1895.

The Indiana Republican Editorial Association was organized in 1878, and is the second editorial association of the kind, the first having been started in 1857, a year before the party in Indiana had formally adopted the Republican title. The second editorial association was formed as a result of the disruption that had overtaken the party during the campaign of 1876, and for many years this association has been a powerful factor in promoting the efficiency of the Republican organization in general in Indiana. Calvin Coolidge, then vice president, was a guest of Mr. Hancock while he was in Indiana as a speaker before the annual convention of the editorial association. Mr. Hancock was publicity manager for Senator Watson in the campaign of 1916. He is a director of the Greensburg Chamber of Commerce, is a Rotarian, is affiliated with the Methodist Church and with several other organizations in the city.

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

GEORGE A. HOFMANN, well known Indianapolis attorney, who has offices in the Inland Trust Building, was born in that city September 19, 1886. The Hoffman family has lived in Indianapolis for over three-quarters of a century and have a record of sterling citizenship and useful service in their business and professional connections. Mr. Hofmann's grandfather, Michael Hofmann, a native of Germany, came to Indianapolis from St. Louis about 1852. He was a business man. Albert Hofmann, father of the Indianapolis attorney, was born in Indianapolis and for twelve years was a member of the city fire department and lost his life in the performance of duty, being killed March 17, 1890, during the Bowen-Merrill book store fire. He married Margaret C. Fox, who was born at North Vernon, Indiana, member of a family of pioneers of Jennings County.

George A. Hofmann is the only living child of his parents. He attended the grammar and high schools of Indianapolis, the old Indianapolis Business College, and studied law in the Benjamin Harrison Law School, formerly the Indianapolis Law School. In 1916 he received the LL. B. degree, and has been admitted to practice in all the state courts, before the Supreme Court, and also the Federal courts. He has done a considerable business as a patent office attorney, though his practice is a general one. In fifteen years he has thoroughly established himself in the esteem and confidence of the public. Mr. Hofmann is a member of the Indianapolis and Indiana Bar Associations.

He has been active in fraternal and civic affairs. He is a past chancellor commander of Capital City Lodge No. 97, Knights of Pythias, is a member of the Uniform Rank of that Order and the Pythian Sisters. During the World war he was a member of the registration board. He himself was put in class four by the board, but he made application for class lA, was accepted and was notified to report for duty just a few days before the signing of the armistice. He had served with the Home Guard in training all during the war period. He is Republican precinct committeeman of the Twelfth Precinct of the Fourth Ward in Indianapolis.

Mr. Hofmann married Hazel M. Minkner, who was born at Indianapolis, member of an early and prominent family of that city.

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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

LAWRENCE A. EBNER, president of the Ebner Cold Storage Company, Inc., is a native of Vincennes, where the Ebner family have been prominently connected in a business, civic and social way since 1850.

His father was John Ebner, a native of Alsace-Lorraine, France. Before leaving his native country he served in the French army during a campaign in Algiers. After coming to America he was a steamboat man on the Mississippi, and made voyages up the Ohio and several trips up the Wabash. Both brought him in touch with the ancient French settlement at Vincennes and he decided to locate there permanently. His first business in Vincennes was conducting a bakery, but a few years later he established a business which through various changes and modifications to adopt it to changing conditions is today the Ebner Cold Storage Company . John Ebner married Catherine Huhn, also a native of Alsace, and they were the parents of seven children. One of them, Joseph L., was for a number of years a member of the City Council of Vincennes.

Lawrence A. Ebner attended parochial schools and completed his education in Notre Dame University. From the age of sixteen to twenty-one he was an employee of his father. This business was known as the John Ebner Ice Company until 1906, when it was incorporated. His father had started a plant, in 1854, for the manufacture of beer and ice. After 1889 it was continued as an artificial ice plant and in 1893 the first cold storage facilities were opened. When the business was incorporated, in 1906, Joseph Ebner was president, Lawrence, vice president, and Harvey F. Pixley, treasurer. Lawrence Ebner has been president of the company since 1914 and the other officers are John M. Westerlin, vice president; Walter A. Stine, secretary, and Harvey F. Pixley, treasurer.

The company today represents the acquisition and consolidation of a group of other plants, eight in all, with a total capacity of 400 tons of ice per day and with storage capacity for 135,000 barrels. Much of the business of the company during part of the year is the storage of apples and other fruits. The business in the different plants employs about 100 persons. The ice plants are located at Seymour, Washington and Martinsville in Indiana, at Carmi, Flora and Olney in Illinois, with two plants at Vincennes.

Lawrence Ebner married Miss Mary A. Baker, of Illinois. He is vice president and several times has been a director of theVincennes Chamber of Commerce. He is also a director of the Indiana Chamber of Commerce, a director of the Indiana Ice Dealers Association, is on the advisory board of the Reciprocal Exchange of Insurance of Kansas City, Missouri. He is a director of the First National Bank of Vincennes. He is a member of the B. P. O. Elks and Harmony Society and during the World war took an active part in the Liberty Loan drives.

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

ARTHUR B. SUTTON. The entire career of Arthur B. Sutton, president of the Sutton Motor Company, Inc., of Vincennes, has been identified with the automobile industry, in which he has won recognition and success through good business judgment, unfailing application and quick grasp of opportunities. He has attained his present prosperity through legitimate channels of trade, and in addition to being head of the firm above mentioned, has other large interests, principally in the motor field.

Mr. Sutton was born at Kansas City, Missouri, in 1892, and is a son of Frank C. and Marguerite (Foulkeshouver) Sutton. Frank C. Sutton was born at Swindelin, Wilkeshire, England, and during the late '70s came to the United States and took up his residence at Kansas City, Missouri, where he resided for some years. An architect and contractor he built a number of large structures in that city, and subsequently followed both callings in Illinois and Indiana, being for a time a resident of Chicago. He was an able man in both lines, and many beautiful and substantial structures still stand as monuments to his good workmanship and sound construction. He married Miss Marguerite Foulkeshouver, who was born at Wadsworth, Surrey, England, and to this union there were born two children: Arthur B., of this review; and Gladys, the wife of Guy G. Graham, a graduate of Purdue University, and an agriculturist of Indiana.

Arthur B. Sutton acquired his early education in the public schools of Chicago and Indianapolis, and then pursued a course at Rose Polytechnic School, Terre Haute, Indiana. After his graduation from this institution he commenced his career in the automobile business, as purchasing agent for the old Overland Automobile Company, at Indianapolis, with which he remained for four and one-half years. Later he held a like position with the Pathfinder Automobile Company for three years, at the Indiana capital, and subsequently was purchasing agent for the Mais Motor Truck Company, in the same city, for three years. At the end of that period Mr. Sutton was given a highly important assignment, being appointed to purchase the material for the manufacture of the Nash Quad Special trucks for war purposes, under the supervision of the Ordnance Department of the United States Government, a position which he held for eight months, and then became general sales manager for the Spacke Machine & Tool Company, which concern was engaged 100 per cent in war production. After the war he continued in the position of general manager of sales until 1921, at which time he resigned and moved to Evansville, Indiana, where he became general manager in charge of service for the A. L. Maxwell Company, with which he continued three years. Coming then to Vincennes, he took over the Ford agency for Vincennes and a part of Knox County, and in 1925 organized and formed the Sutton Motor Company, Inc., of which he is president; F. W. Bristow, vice president; and E. S. Snow, secretary and treasurer. Under Mr. Sutton's able and astute guidance this has become a large and important enterprise, handling exclusively Ford and Lincoln products, with a large and modern office and display room at Fourth and Busserton streets. He is widely known in the industry and is a member of the board of directors of the American Automobile Association. He belongs also to the Chamber of Commerce, the Rotary Club, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, the Loyal Order of Moose and the Columbia Club of Indianapolis, and is greatly interested in the work of the American Legion . Mr. Sutton takes an independent stand upon political questions and gives his support to the man rather than to the party. He is a citizen of enlightened views and progressive ideas, and a supporter of all good movements. His religious faith is that of the Episcopal Church. He still maintains an interest in the A. L. Maxwell Company, of Evansville, and in Harry Lang, Inc., of Terre Haute, both of which are Ford and Lincoln agencies.

Mr. Sutton married Miss Lillian Trinkle, of Indianapolis, and they reside in a pleasant and attractive home at 1508 Burnet Lane.

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

WILLIAM E. THOMAS, prominent Greensburg physician, has been a consistently earnest worker in his profession for nearly thirty years. In addition to his private practice he has been a leader in the public health movement, particularly during the World war period, when he held the rank of captain in the United States public health service.

Doctor Thomas was born in Decatur County, Indiana, May 24, 1877, son of Samuel and Elizabeth (Kelley) Thomas. His mother was a native of Virginia and his father was born in Liberty Township, Union County, Indiana. Doctor Thomas' grandfather came to Indiana and settled in Union County, buying a section of land located in the timber, about 1818, two years after the admission of Indiana into the Union.

William E. Thomas was one of a family of ten children. He attended the grade schools in Decatur County, high school in Greensburg, and Franklin College. He was graduated M. D. from the Indiana Medical College in 1901. For two years he practiced at Clarksburg, then three years at Greensburg, after which he resumed his work in the Clarksburg community, remaining there until 1916. Since that year he has been a prominent resident of Greensburg. Doctor Thomas took three different courses in the Chicago Polyclinic and has been a constant student of his profession.

He married Miss Pearl Shaw, of Decatur County, and they have two children: Richard, who finished his education in Indiana University; and Miss Mary, a graduate of DePauw University, now teaching at Greensburg.

Doctor Thomas has been president and secretary of the Decatur County Medical Society and is a member of the Indiana State Medical Association and the American Medical Association. He is on the city health board, was its secretary for seven years, and during the World war the governor appointed him a member of the State Board of Medical Examiners. He was appointed to the public health service by Surgeon General Blue, and during that time was called for active duty to the states of New Hampshire, Maine and Pennsylvania. Doctor Thomas is a member of the Masonic fraternity, Knights of Pythias and B. P. O. Elks.

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

JOHN E. CHRISTY has held since 1921 the office of deputy collector of internal revenue for Indiana. His executive headquarters in this Government service are maintained in the Postoffice Building in the City of Vincennes, and his field of jurisdiction comprises Knox, Daviess, Martin, Gibson, Pike and Dubois counties.

Mr. Christy was born in Daviess County, this state, in the centennial year, 1876, and is a son of William B. and Dolly Lucinda (Tomey) Christy, the latter a representative of one of the old established French families of Indiana. William B. Christy, a farmer by vocation, passed his entire life in Indiana. He was a son of John Christy, who likewise was born in Indiana and who was a direct descendant of the pioneer Christy who settled in Owen County, Indiana, within a short time after the close of the War of the Revolution. John E. Christy is the eldest of the five survivors in a family of seven children; Viola is the wife of John Blakeley; William I. is a substantial farmer in Knox County; Joseph H. and Louis are engaged in farm enterprise in the State of Illinois.

John E. Christy remained on the home farm until the death of his mother, and his public school education terminated when he was a lad of twelve years, his broader education having been acquired through self-discipline and association with the practical affairs of life. After leaving the paternal home Mr. Christy was employed a few years at farm work, with which he continued to be identified until he was twenty-two years of age. Thereafter he passed a number of years in the West and found varied employment in different states that he visited. In 1904 he returned to Indiana and entered the employ of the Vandalia Coal Company. In the following year he became a clerk in a general store, and he then became a member of the police force at Linton, Greene County, where he was thus engaged until 1911. He next gave two years to the management of a farm in that county, and he then engaged in the insurance business at Linton. On June 26, 1921, Mr. Christy was appointed United States deputy collector of Internal revenue for the district of Indiana, and with headquarters in the Government Postoffice Building in Vincennes. Here he has since continued his efficient administration in this office, with jurisdiction over the six counties previously mentioned.

Mr. Christy is a stalwart in the ranks of the Republican party, he and his wife are members of the United Brethren Church, and he is affiliated with the Fraternal Order of Eagles, the Loyal Order of Moose, the Knights of Pythias and the Modern Woodmen of America, in which last mentioned fraternity he has passed the official chairs. He was loyally active in furthering local patriotic movements during the period of the nation's participation in the World war, and his special service was under the supervision of the Government Department of Justice.

In January, 1905, Mr. Christy was united in marriage to Miss Anna H. Meredith, of Washington County, Indiana, where she was born and reared and where her father, who was a gallant soldier of the Union in the Civil war, passed his entire life on the old home farm that he inherited from his father, the latter having: obtained title to the land directly from the United States Government. Mr. and Mrs. Christy have five children: William M., John E., Jr., Delvis E., Roqua B. and Robert. At the time of this writing, in the summer of 1929, all of the children are still attending school with the exception of the eldest, William M., who is associated with business affairs in Vincennes.

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

JOHN H. McCARTHY is one of the substantial business men of his native City of Vincennes, where he is owner of the prosperous business conducted under the title of Vincennes Galvanized Iron Works and with well equipped headquarters at 113 North Eighth Street. In control of this old established and important business Mr. McCarthy is the successor of his father, who here established the business more than half a century ago.

John H. McCarthy was born in Vincennes in 1875, and is a son of Patrick R. and Mary O. McCarthy, whose marriage was solemnized in this historic old Indiana city. Patrick R. McCarthy was born in County Cork, Ireland, and was a youth when he came to the United States. He was for a time a resident of Leavenworth, Kansas, and was still a young man when he came to Indiana and established his residence in Vincennes. Here he was identified with railroad work for a time and he was a member of the city fire department several years. In 1875 he engaged in the sheet-metal and hardware business, and in this connection was the founder of the Vincennes Galvanized Iron Works, of which he continued the executive head until his death. Mr. McCarthy held secure place in popular confidence and good will during the years of his residence in Vincennes, as attested by the fact that he served four years as city treasurer and for an equal period held the office of township trustee. His political support was given to the Democratic party and he and his wife were earnest communicants of the Catholic Church. Of their ten children John H., of this review, was the third in order of birth and was the eldest son.

John H. McCarthy gained his early education by attending parochial and public schools in his native city, and as the eldest son in a large family he early began to assist in the support of that family. As a young man he became associated with his father's business, and upon the death of his father he assumed full charge of the Vincennes Galvanized Iron Works, the business of which he has since continued, he being now its sole owner and having developed the same into one of the important industrial enterprises of his native city. It should be noted that his father was prominently concerned in forming the local organizations of the Fraternal Order of Eagles, the Loyal Order of Moose and the Improved Order of Red Men.

Mr. McCarthy takes deep and loyal interest in all that concerns the welfare of his native city, and he is now a member of the City Council, to which he was elected in 1926. His political allegiance is given to the Democratic party, he and his wife are communicants of the Catholic Church, he is affiliated with the Knights of Columbus, and his is the distinction of being a charter member of Vincennes Lodge, B. P. O. E.

The Vincennes Galvanized Iron Works now has status as one of the old-established business concerns of the city, and its record has been one of consecutive expansion in its field of service. The original headquarters were at the corner of Broadway and seventh Street, in the Noble Building. There two stories were added to the first, and there the business was continued until 1888, when removal was made to a building on Ninth Street. In 1890 still larger quarters were occupied, and since 1894 the business has been conducted in its present location, 113 North Eighth Street, where is utilized a floor space of 4,200 square feet. The concern controls a large and representative business in the manufacturing and installing of all kinds of sheet metal work, and its contracting business is one of major importance in this line of enterprise in Vincennes.

In May, 1899, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. McCarthy to Miss Ella G. King, of Sandborn, Knox County, the marriage ceremony having occurred in the historic old Catholic Cathedral in Vincennes. Mrs. McCarthy is a daughter of Edward and Mary King, who were well known and highly esteemed citizens of Knox County. Mary O., only child of Mr. and Mrs. McCarthy is the wife of L. D. O'Donnell, of Vincennes, and they have two children: Lawrence D., Jr. (Larry), and Mary Ellen.

H. H. DuBois, maternal grandfather of Mr. McCarthy, was a son of Tusant DuBois, who was a member of the old French colony established in Vincennes in the early period of Indiana history, long before the state was admitted to the Union.

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

MARTIN EDWARD KLINGLER, M. D., not only controls a substantial and representative private practice at Garrett, DeKalb County, but is also a valued associate in the conducting of the excellent communal clinic that is maintained in this progressive little city. The Doctor is a native son of the old Buckeye State, and he supplemented the discipline of the Ohio public schools by attending the Ohio Northern University, at Ada. Later he was graduated in the Indiana College of Medicine, at Indianapolis, and he further fortified himself by a course in the Postgraduate Medical College in New York City, from which likewise he received the degree of Doctor of Medicine. He has made a, record of loyal and successful service as a skilled physician and surgeon and has been established in the practice of his profession at Garrett since 1904. The Doctor has membership in the DeKalb County Medical Society, the Northeastern Academy of Medicine, which he founded in 1923 and for two years was its president, the Indiana State Medical Society and the American Medical Association.

Doctor Klingler was born in Hardin County, Ohio, July 2, 1875, and is a son of Adam F. and Charlotte (Fisher) Klingler, both natives of Perry County, that state, where the former was born February 22, 1847, and the latter October 10, 1841, their marriage having been solemnized in their native state and the death of Mrs. Klingler having there occurred, in Paulding County, March 13, 1896. Adam F. Klingler, who gave his active life mainly to farm industry, is now a venerable and retired citizen of Somerset, Perry County, Ohio. Francis L.,first born of the children, was born January 13, 1871, and is now deceased; Samuel O., born August 3, 1872, resides in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and is a division engineer on the lines of the Pennsylvania Railroad; Dr. Martin E., of this review, was next in order of birth; Arwilda, born February 4, 1877, is the wife of George A. Driblebies.

Doctor Klingler is loyal and progressive as a citizen and is a valued.member of the Chamber of Commerce in his home city and is its president. He is a Knight Templar Mason, and his Masonic affiliations extend also to the Mystic Shrine and the Order of the Eastern Star, besides which he is affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and with its adjunct organization, known as Daughters of Rebekah. He has long held membership in the Methodist Episcopal Church, of which his wife likewise was a zealous member.

December 25, 1897, recorded the marriage of Doctor Klingler to Miss Martha Oliver, who was born. in Darke County, Ohio, and reared in Paulding County, that state, and whose death occurred June 18, 1923. Mrs. Klingler was a daughter of James A. and Sarah (Arnold) Oliver, the former of whom died, at South Whitley, Indiana, March 12, 1904, and the latter of whom died August 14, 1926, her birth having occurred February 4, 1846. Miss Delia, eldest of the children of Doctor Klingler, remains at the paternal home, she having been graduated in the University of Ohio. Neva, a graduate of Columbia University of New York City, is the wife of Dr. W. G. Symon, a specialist in diseases of the eye, ear and nose at Garrett, and they have one child, William Edward, born July 2, 1924. Dr. Maurice O. Klingler, born December 12, 1904, graduated from the Garrett High School in 1922, then entered Indiana University School of Medicine at Indianapolis, graduating in 1928, after his graduation was an interne in the Gorgas Hospital at Anton in the Canal Zone and is now taking his Ph. D. in medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. He married, July 13, 1929, Miss Winona Winsey, of Appleton, Wisconsin. They were married at Fort Clayton in the Canal Zone. Mrs. Maurice Klingler is a graduate of the high school of Appleton, the University of Wisconsin, and took the nurses training course in the Cook County Hospital in Chicago, and it was while serving as a nurse in the Gorgas Hospital in the Canal Zone that she became acquainted with Maurice O. Klingler.

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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

ALLEN J. HYLTON, M. D., has been engaged in the practice of his profession nearly thirty years and his service has included his supervision of several important institutions, in Indiana and in other states of the Union. He is, now engaged in general private practice in the City of Mooresville and is distinctly one of the able and representative physicians and surgeons of Morgan County.

Doctor Hylton was born in Hendricks County, Indiana, in the year 1862, and is a son of Abraham and Minerva (Powers) Hylton, the former of whom was born in North Carolina, and the latter of whom was a daughter of Allen Powers, who came from North Carolina and became a pioneer farmer in Indiana, where he passed the remainder of his life. Abraham Hylton became a stationary engineer by vocation, and both he and his wife were still young at the time of their death.

Doctor Hylton was an infant at the time of the death of his parents, and was taken into the home of William Conn, a substantial farmer near Danville, Hendricks County, where he was reared to the age of fifteen years, he having assisted in the work of the farm during the summer seasons and having attended the local schools during the winter terms. His ambition for higher education was not to be denied, and in obtaining the same he depended mainly upon his own resources. At the age of twenty-one years he was graduated in the Indiana State Normal School at Danville, and for three years thereafter he was a teacher in the Indiana State Reformatory at Plainfield, he having then been advanced to the position of assistant superintendent of the institution and having retained his executive office seven years. In 1894 he assumed the position of superintendent of the Montana State Reformatory, at Miles City, and he held this position until 1897, when he returned to Indiana and in its capital city completed a course in the Medical College of Indiana. From this institution he received in 1901 his degree of Doctor of Medicine, and he then engaged in the practice of his profession at Mooresville. In 1905 he went to Colorado, where he served fourteen months as superintendent of the Telluride Hospital, and he then resumed his residence at Mooresville, Indiana, where he has since continued in the active general practice of his profession, that practice having a scope and importance that testify to the high popular estimate placed upon him. The Doctor has his office at 43 West Main Street, and his home at 63 West Main Street.

Doctor Hylton has membership in the Morgan County Medical Society, Indiana State Medical Society and American Medical Association, his political allegiance is given to the Democratic party, and he is affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Knights of Pythias and the Modern Wocidmen of America.

In the year 1907 Doctor Hylton was united in marriage to Miss Mabel Mills, who was born and reared at Mooresville and who was a daughter of Amos and Eliza (Bowman) Mills, the former a native of Indiana and the latter of North Carolina. The death of Mrs. Hylton occurred in the year 1927, and she is survived by one child, William Madison, who was born in 1909.

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

CLAUDE H. WHITE, M. D., has to his credit nearly thirty years of loyal and able service as a physician and surgeon, and in the World war period he gained the rank of captain in the Medical Corps of the United States Army and served in field hospital. He is now established in active and successful general practice at Mooresville, Morgan County, and special interest attaches to his civic and professional prestige by reason of the fact that he was born and reared in this county and that he is a scion of sterling pioneer ancestry in Indiana.

Doctor White was born at Monrovia, Morgan County, October 5, 1874, and is a son of Caleb F. and Margaret C. (Mays) White, the former of whom was born in Washington County, this state, and the latter of whom was born in North Carolina. Maximillian and Martha (Miles) White, paternal grandparents of the Doctor, were born in England and upon coming to America they first became residents of North Carolina, from which state they eventually came to Indiana and gained a goodly measure of pioneer precedence, Mrs. Martha White having been a sister of John Miles, who became an early settler in Indiana, who here assisted in the construction of the old National Road and Vandalia Railroad, and who eventually became a wealthy agriculturist and stock grower in Hendricks County, where he was long an influential citizen. Stephen and Fannie (Tate) Mays, maternal grandparents of Doctor White, likewise gained pioneer honors in Indiana, whither they came from North Carolina and where Mr. Mays became a successful manufacturer of carriages and wagons, virtually all work in this line having at that time been done by hand. Mrs. Mays was a member of an old and influential family of North Carolina. Stephen Mays eventually established the family home in Belleville, Hendricks County, where he and his wife passed the remainder of their lives, he having been known as a skilled mechanic, particularly as a blacksmith and carriage maker. Of the eleven children in the Mays family the mother of Doctor White was the eldest.

Caleb F. White was reared and educated in his native State of Indiana and represented the same as a gallant young soldier of the Union in the Civil war, he having enlisted when he was but sixteen years of age and having served three years, first in the Twenty-first Indiana Heavy Artillery and thereafter with the One Hundred Seventeenth Indiana Volunteer Infantry. He was a birthright member of the Society of Friends and his wife held membership in the Methodist Episcopal Church. After settling at Monrovia, Morgan County, he followed the trade of blacksmith which he learned under his father-in- law, and he followed his trade until fifty years of age. He then engaged in dealing in farm implements and the operation of his farm. The remainder of his active career was marked by his close and successful association with farm industry in Morgan County, he having been one of the venerable and highly esteemed citizens of this county at the time of his death, in 1927, and his wife having passed away in the preceding year. Of their children Dr. Claude H., of this review, is the elder, and the younger is Weber E., who is engaged in the grocery and farming business at Monrovia.

In the Monrovia public schools Doctor White continued his studies until he was eighteen years of age, when he was graduated in the high school. Thereafter he gave four years of effective service as a teacher in the public schools, in the meanwhile having attended the Indiana State Normal. School at Terre Haute during two terms and for a similar period having been a student in the Central Normal School, at Danville. In 1897 he was matriculated in the Indiana Medical College, Indianapolis, and in the spring of 1901 he received therefrom his degree of Doctor of Medicine. During the ensuing six years he was established in general practice at Cataract, Owen County, and he then formed a professional partnership with Dr. Charles A. White, at Danville, where he continued his practice two years. He then purchased the practice and home of Dr. Frank Horton at Monrovia, and there he continued his professional activities until the nation entered the World war, when he made prompt response to the call of patriotism. In April, 1917, the month in which America entered the war, Doctor White enlisted in the Medical Corps of the United States Army, and at Fort Benjamin Harrison near Indianapolis, he gained commission as first lieutenant. Thence he was sent to Bismarck, North Dakota, in the capacity of examiner of recruits, and there he assisted the vaccination and examination of members of the various National Guard units that were entering service. After his return to Fort Benjamin Harrison he was assigned to the field hospital of the Eighty-fourth Division, in November, 1917, with the rank of captain in the Medical Corps. While in this service he was one of the first there to contract the influenza, at the time of the memorable epidemic, and this resulted in such physical disability as to cause his honorable discharge, in February, 1918. After he had partially recuperated he attempted to reenlist, but his physical disability still remained such that he was rejected.

Within a short time after completing his World war service Doctor White removed from Monrovia to Mooresville, in which latter city of his native county he has since continued in the active general practice of his profession, his being secure and well earned status as one of the representative physicians and surgeons of Morgan County. At Mooresville he became well established, and his practice has become one of substantial and important order. He has his office in the Rooker Block, on South Indiana Street, and his residence is at 47 West Main Street. The Doctor is a member of the Morgan County Medical Society, the Indiana State Medical Society and the American Medical Association, and he is a member of the staff of the Medical Hospital in the City of Indianapolis. He gave three consecutive terms of service as coroner of Morgan County.

Doctor White gives his political allegiance to the Republican party and he and his family have membership in the Methodist Episcopal Church. He is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity and the Knights of Pythias, and has membership in the Lions Club of his home city.

In the year 1902 Doctor White was united in marriage to Miss Marie Martin, who was born in Hendricks County, this state, a daughter of John F. and Julia (Hunt) Martin, the former a native of Kentucky and the latter of Indiana. Kenneth M., eldest of the children of Doctor and Mrs. White, is a graduate of Purdue University, is an electrical engineer and now holds the position of consulting engineer with the Chicago headquarters of the Westinghouse Corporation; Claude Alden likewise resides in the City of Chicago, where he is associated with a leading firm of public accountants, that of Arthur Anderson, he being a graduate of the School of Commerce of the University of Illinois; Margaret Julia, who remains at the parental home, was graduated in the Mooresville High School and is now a student in Northwestern University, Evanston. The wife and mother died August 15,1930. Doctor White married on March 13, 1931, Mary A. Randall, of Mooresville, Indiana.

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