Doctor Thompson was born in Howard County, Indiana, November 20, 1866, and is a son of James Osmond and Gulie Elizabeth (Lee) Thompson, the former of whom was born in Orange County, North Carolina, and the latter in Orange County, Indiana, as a birthright member of the Society of Friends. The marriage of the parents was solemnized in Orange County, Indiana, and they made settlement in Howard County, where Mr. Thompson farmed. He later removed to Mooresville, and engaged in the general mercantile business. In 1868 removal was made to Morgan County, and here James O. Thompson gave many years of service as postmaster of Mooresville, besides which he had held the office of township trustee within the period of his previous residence in Brown Township, Morgan County. He was one of the venerable and honored citizens of Mooresville at the time of his death, in 1904, and his wife, Gulie E., mother of Doctor Thompson of this review, having passed to eternal rest in 1871. After being graduated in the Mooresville High School Doctor Thompson continued his studies in DePauw University. In Indianapolis he thereafter completed a course in the Indiana School of Medicine, in which he was graduated as a member of the class of 1889. In the year that thus marked his reception of the degree of Doctor of Medicine he resumed his residence at Mooresville, and here he has continued in the successful general practice of his profession during the long intervening years. In the early days he traversed poor roads and permitted no rigorous weather conditions to deter him from pursuing his humane mission, and in his early period of professional service in the Mooresville district of Morgan County he used Indian ponies to propel his two-wheeled professional vehicle, besides riding the animals at times, when roads were in poor condition. His service under modern conditions is far less arduous, but is rendered with the same loyalty, sympathy and fidelity as in earlier years, the while he has been guide and counselor in many homes, as well as revered friend and family physician. Doctor Thompson is now one of the veteran members of the Morgan County Medical Society, and he has membership also in the Indiana State Medical Society, the Ohio Valley Medical Association and the American Medical Association.

The political allegiance of Doctor Thompson is given to the Republican party, and while he has had no desire for public office his civic loyalty was effectively shown in his service as a member of the Mooresville board of education, as a member of the board of trustees of the local public library, and as a member of the examining board of the county in the World war period. He and his wife are zealous members of the Methodist Episcopal Church of their home city and he is serving on its finance committee. The Doctor is a member of the fine old Columbia Club in the City of Indianapolis, and in the time-honored Masonic fraternity he has received the thirty-second degree of the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite, besides being a Noble of the Mystic Shrine in Murat Temple, Indianapolis. He is affiliated also with the Improved Order of Red Men, and is a member of the Lions Club in his home community.

In the year 1891 was solemnized the marriage of Doctor Thompson to Miss Ida Dakin, who was born and reared at Mooresville, a daughter of Sylvester and Ann (Hadley) Dakin, both likewise natives of Indiana, and both having been born in Brown Township, Morgan County, members of prominent Quaker families here established in the pioneer days. Doctor and Mrs. Thompson have one child, Edith G., who is the wife of Edwin Harshman. Mr. and Mrs. Harshman reside in the home of Doctor Thompson, and their one child is a daughter, Lael Edwina. Mrs. Harshman has a son, William Edgar, by a former marriage.

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

GEORGE BALES BREED LOVE, M. D., has had long and exceptionally diversified experience in the work of his profession, is now established in practice at Martinsville, judicial center of Morgan County, and has rank as one of the veteran and honored physicians and surgeons of his native State of Indiana. He has been engaged in the practice of his profession fully forty years and now gives his attention largely to surgery, in which he has demonstrated marked skill and resourcefulness.

Dr. Breed Love was born in the City of Indianapolis, in the year 1868, and is a son of Bales and Sarah (Slaughter) Breed Love, the former of whom was born in Virginia, of Colonial ancestry, and the latter of whom was born in Indiana, where their marriage was solemnized. From his native state Bales Breed Love finally went to Ohio, and from the latter state he came to Indiana, where he became a succussful exponent of farm industry, though he was still a comparatively young man at the time of his death, in 1867, a few months prior to the birth of his son Dr. George B. In the early days he was a shipper of pork down the Ohio River, and after coming to Indiana he became owner of a large landed estate, he having had 560 acres in Morgan County, a tract which he had obtained from the Government and having accumulated 2,200 acres near Taswell, and near Pekin, Illinois. He gained prosperity through his own efforts, freed himself of indebtedness, but he eventually lost virtually all of his property through acting as security for other pioneers in their business relations. The paternal grandparents of Dr. Breed Love were Ezekiel and Mary Slaughter, the former having been born in the part of Virginia that is now included in West Virginia, and having become one of the pioneer settlers in Morgan County, Indiana, where he entered claim to Government land and instituted the reclamation of a farm. Dr. Breed Love is the younger of two children, and his brother was six years his senior.

Dr. Breed Love received the advantages of the Indiana public schools and thereafter completed a course in Purdue University, in which he was graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. In 1890 he was graduated in Louisville Medical College, in the metropolis of Kentucky, and after thus receiving his degree of Doctor of Medicine he further fortified himself by the clinical experience he gained in eighteen months of service as an interne in the celebrated Bellevue Hospital in New York City. He then returned to Indiana and established himself in general practice at Brooklyn, Morgan County, where he remained five years. He thereafter took a nine months' post graduate course in the medical department of Cornell University, New York, and after returning to Indiana he was for five years in charge of a sanitarium at Montezuma, Park County. He then went again to Morgan County, but soon afterward went to Chicago, in which he took a post graduate course of seven months, in the Post Graduate Medical School. During the ensuing five years he had supervision of the Barnard Sanitarium at Martinsville, Indiana, and during the next five years he here had charge of the Colonial Sanitarium. He thereafter was two years in charge of the Highland Sanitarium, and from this position he withdrew to tender his service to the Government when the nation became involved in the World war. He sent a telegram to the surgeon general of the United States Army and made volunteering of his service immediately after the Government declared war against Germany. He thus volunteered in April, 1917, and at Fort Benjamin Harrison, near Indianapolis, he received commission as captain in the Medical Corps of the United States Army. There he remained seven weeks, and he was then transferred to Jefferson Barracks, Saint Louis, Missouri, where he was stationed seven weeks. He next passed nine weeks in service at Washington University in that city, and then was assigned charge of the base hospital at Fort Bliss, Texas. Seven months later went to Hoboken, New Jersey, whence, with his unit of twenty-five surgeons, five dentists and forty female nurses he embarked for France in the fall of 1917. He had eleven months of active base hospital service in France, and after the armistice brought the great conflict to a close he returned to the United States, he having received his honorable discharge in April, 1919, at Fort Bliss, and having in the meanwhile gained the rank of major in the Medical Corps.

Since the completion of his World war service Dr. Breed Love has been established in the practice of his profession at Martinsville, where he is specializing in surgery, his skill in which was enhanced by his active service as a military surgeon in France. The Doctor has active membership in the Indiana State Medical Society and the American Medical Association. He has given valued service as a member of the health board of Martinsville and also of the board of health of Morgan County, offices that he held over two years each. He has his office headquarters at 84 North Main Street and his residence at 260 North Sycamore Street.

The political allegiance of Dr. Breed Love is given to the Democratic party, and he is a deacon in the local Presbyterian Church, besides being president of the Church Club in his home city. The Doctor has passed the official chairs in each of the four bodies of York Rite Masonry, and is also a Noble of the Mystic Shrine. He was chairman of the committee that prepared the ritual under which all subordinate lodges of Indiana Freemasons operate at the present time, and he has taken deep interest in the history arid teachings of the time-honored fraternity. He is affiliated also with the Knights of Pythias and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He retains the rank of major in the Reserve Medical Corps of the United States Army.

In 1888 Dr. Breed Love was united in marriage to Miss Jessie Pointer, who was born in Morgan County, this state, a daughter of Benjamin and Nancy (Leathers) Pointer, and her death occurred in 1895. The one surviving child of this union is Lincoln B., who now resides in the City of Chicago.

Lincoln B. Breed Love has gained high repute in his connection with construction work of industrial order. He had charge of the building of all the Henry Ford blast furnaces at Dearborn, Michigan, and prior to the World war he had been a teacher in Roberts College in the City of Constantinople, Turkey. He was for thirteen months in overseas service with the American Expeditionary Forces in the World war. He married Elizabeth Albertine Platts, and they have two daughters, Betsy Jane, born in 1919, and Patricia Ann, born in 1921.

In the year 1912 Dr. Breed Love was united in marriage to Miss Callie McCracken, who was born at Martinsville, in 1870, and who is a daughter of Calvin and Mary (Matthews) McCracken. No children have been born of this union.

Doctor Breed Love is a director of the Martinsville Trust Company, and in Morgan County he is the owner of a valuable landed estate of 445 acres, constituting three well improved farms. In the central business district of Martinsville he is the owner of a brick block of two stories and 45 by 160 feet in dimensions.

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

JESSE JENNINGS MILLS LAFOLLETTE, of Indianapolis, is an Indiana lawyer who has been a member of the bar of the state for over half a century. He formerly practiced over Jay, Adams and Blackford counties, and his activities as a lawyer, in politics and public affairs has made his name well known throughout the state.

Mr. LaFollette was born in Jay County, Indiana, September 12, 1845, and among other distinctions of his career is a brief record of service as a Union soldier during the Civil war. The LaFollette family were originally French Huguenots. Driven by persecution from France, they went to Holland and from that country three brothers came to America, settling in New Jersey and later going to Virginia. All the American LaFollettes have been inclined toward political activities. Mr. LaFollette's grandfather, Joseph LaFollette, was born in New Jersey. He voted for Breckenridge in the campaign of 1860. Mr. LaFollette is a son of John and Amy (Mills) LaFollette, his father a native of West Virginia and his mother of Ohio. They were married in Ohio and, coming to Indiana, settled on a farm in Jay County. He taught school for many winters, was township clerk, was a Whig in politics until that party went out of existence at the close of the 1852 campaign, and he became one of the original Republicans. He died in Jay County in 1898 and his wife passed away in 1901.

Jesse Jennings Mills LaFollette grew up on a farm and most of his opportunities aside from the district schools were the result of his own efforts and an ambition that brought him an education and fitted him for the larger responsibilities of a professional career. He attended Liber College in Jay County. During the winter of 1863-64 he taught a district school in Randolph County and in May, 1864, enlisted in the One Hundred and Thirty-ninth Indiana Infantry. He was assigned to guard duty along railroads that supplied the Union forces in the South, and received his honorable discharge in October, 1864.

After returning to Jay County he entered upon a routine of teaching during winter terms, farming in the summer and attending school himself in the spring and fall. In the winter of 1870 he entered the office of Watson & Cheny, which later became the firm of Watson & Monks, when Mr. Cheny became common pleas judge, a firm of attorneys at Winchester. In the fall of 1872 Mr. LaFollette returned to Portland, Indiana, was admitted to the bar and continued teaching until the spring of 1873. At that date he began his long career as a practicing attorney. He practiced at Portland with Joshua Bishop for eighteen months, during which time he was appointed and served a year as deputy prosecutor under a Democrat who was head of the office. For thirteen years he practiced in partnership with John W. Headington at Portland, after which he became associated with Oscar Adair in a partnership which continued eight years. Mr. LaFollette was elected in 1894 and served in the session of 1895-97 in the Indiana State Senate, from the counties of Jay, Adams and Blackford, and while a member he introduced a bill to constitute Jay County one judicial circuit. He was offered the appointment of judge of the new circuit, but declined.

Mr. LaFollette was appointed assistant United States attorney for Indiana and for ten years was practically in entire charge of the work of that office, continuing until August, 1907. On January 1, 1908, he was appointed a member of the law faculty of the Indiana State University and continued as a teacher in the law department until the fall of 1923, when he resigned, and since then has been employed on the legal staff of the Carnegie Foundation. He has had his offices in Indianapolis since 1924 and he also carries on a general law practice.

Mr. LaFollette has always been a staunch Republican. While at Portland, Indiana, he served one term as mayor. He is a former commander of the Grand Army Post at Bloomington, Indiana, and is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.

He married, September 18, 1875, Miss Anna Wells, who was born in Jay County, Indiana, daughter of Jonathan R. Wells, a native of Pennsylvania and a farmer by occupation. Mrs. LaFollette died in May, 1927, leaving two children: Mildred Estill, of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; and Byron Evart, who died in November, 1927. Byron E. LaFollette was one of the organizers of the LaFollette-Tarpenning Manufacturing Company. He married Hazel Osborn and left a son, John Osborn. Mr. LaFollette on December 1, 1929, married Harriet S. Woodward, the widow of John T. Woodward, whose three children are: Iris, of St. Louis, Glen B., of Bloomington, Indiana, and Claude, of Chicago. Mr. LaFollette has his law offices in the Peoples Bank Building and resides at 4142 Guilford Avenue.
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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

VIRGIL WHITAKER, who was made county superintendent of schools of Morgan County in 1929, has given the best years of his life to educational work. He is a graduate of the Indiana State Teachers College at Terre Haute and the fruits of his individual experience as a teacher have been tested by constant contact with schools and organizations that represent cleaning houses of advanced school technic.

Mr. Whitaker was born in Adams Township, Morgan County, June 13, 1888, son of Henry and Rebecca (Cline) Whitaker. His parents were also born in Morgan County and his grandparents were Orville and Rebecca (Walters) Whitaker, natives of the same section of Indiana, and Peter and Anna (Hardy) Cline, the former a native of Morgan County and the latter of Hardin County, Kentucky. The Whitaker family lived in Pennsylvania in Colonial times, moving from there to Ohio and arrived in Morgan County, Indiana, early enough to secure Government land. The Cline family came originally from North Carolina. Henry Whitaker was a farmer and died in 1892, and his widow is now Mrs. Fletcher Walters, living in Hendricks County.

Virgil Whitaker attended school in the country district where he grew up, completed his high school work at Eminence, Indiana, and in 1920 completed the normal course of training in the Indiana State Normal at Terre Haute. In 1924 he completed the regular literary and art course and during 1927 spent a summer in the Columbia University Teachers College at New York. Mr. Whitaker began his career as a teacher in 1909. For eight years he was principal at Stilesville, for one year principal at Eminence, the place where he had attended high school, and for two years was principal at Broad Park and two years at Crown Center. On June 3, 1929, he was elected county superintendent of schools and thus became head of the public schools system of Morgan County. He returned to the Columbia University Teachers College at New York in 1930 and will remain there during 1931 and 1932.

Mr. Whitaker is a member of the Indiana State Teachers Association and National Education Association. He also belongs to the School Men's Club, is a Mason, a Democrat and his wife and family are members of the Christian Church.

He married Miss Edith E. Carter, daughter of Trent and Daisy (Crank) Carter, her father a native of Owen County, Indiana, and her mother of Morgan County. Mr. and Mrs. Whitaker have two children, Elmer, born November 2, 1912, and Virginia, born January 29, 1917. Elmer is a graduate of the Martinsville High School.

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

HARRY E. WELLS. One of the oldest families of Jefferson County is that bearing the name of Wells, which was founded in this locality in 1820, since which date its members have all been men and women of high and honorable character who have contributed greatly to the development, prosperity and prestige of this part of the state. A worthy representative of this fine old family is found in Harry E. Wells, who has served as county auditor since 1922 and in the discharge of his duties has lived up to the best traditions of the name he bears.

Mr. Wells was born on a farm in Jefferson County, May 23, 1893, and is a son of B. F. and Anna E. (Davis) Wells. His great-grandfather, Hon. Samuel B. Wells, was born in Pennsylvania, where he received a good educational training and was prepared for the law. In 1820 he traveled overland to Indiana and became one of the first (if not the first) settler in what is now Jefferson County, settling on an undeveloped tract of land, which he proceeded to improve and convert into a productive farm. Among the early settlers numerous disputes arose, which always has been the case in the early settlement of communities, and Mr. Wells, or "Squire" Wells, in his capacity of justice of the peace, and with his legal training and wise judgment, was invariably able to settle the differences of the disputants amicably, with the result that he became the leading citizen of his locality, to whom people came from miles around for counsel and advice upon not only legal, but agricultural business and even family affairs. He also served as township trustee and as the region increased in population built up quite a legal practice. He was one of the real builders of Jefferson County, and at all times was aided by his worthy and much beloved wife, who had been Miss Grace Dickerson.

William H. Wells, the grandfather of Harry E. Wells, was born in Jefferson County, where he passed his entire life in the pursuits of agriculture and stock raising and was a man of high character and public spirit. He was born in 1825 and lived to a ripe old age.

B. F. Wells was also a native and farmer of Jefferson County, and like his forebears took a prominent and constructive part in the life of his community, and served with ability in several local offices. He married Miss Anna E. Davis, of Trimble County, Kentucky, and they became the parents of four children: Harry E., of this review; Arty J.; Sharel B.; and Grace, the wife of Aren R. Lewis.

Harry E. Wells attended the country schools of Jefferson County, following which he pursued a course at Hanover (Indiana) College . He then taught school for one year in Saluda Township, and in January, 1915, was appointed deputy county auditor, a capacity in which he served until August, 1917, when he enlisted in the United States Army for service during the World war. As a volunteer he was assigned to Battery E, One Hundred and Thirty- ninth Field Artillery, stationed at Camp Shelby, Mississippi, but was transferred to the Student Officers Training Camp, at Camp Taylor, Kentucky, graduating therefrom August 31, 1918, with the rank and commission of second lieutenant. He was then sent to Camp Jackson, South Carolina, where he served as personnel adjutant of the Motor School until. receiving his honorable discharge at the close of the war.

Returning to the duties of the civilian, Mr. Wells was reappointed in January, 1919, as deputy auditor, but resigned in 1920 to engage in the real estate and insurance business, but in 1921 disposed of this business when elected county auditor, the duties of which office: he took over in 1922 for a four-year term. He was reelected in 1926 for another term of four years, and is discharging his duties with conscientious fidelity and great ability. He has always been active in the Republican party and is considered one of the younger leaders thereof in Jefferson County. He belongs to Union Lodge No.2, A. F. and A. M., and Madison Lodge No. 524, B. P. O. Elks, and is a member of the American Legion, in which he has held various offices.

Mr. Wells married Miss Jessica Copher, of Madison, a daughter of Henry and Kathryn Copher, and they have two daughters: Anna Kathryn and Juanita.

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

GEORGE F. SCHMIDT, mayor of Martinsville, where he has lived for many years and built up a number of business connections, is a veteran commercial salesman, in which line of work he has traveled over a large portion of Indiana and has gained friends in nearly every important town of the state.

Mr. Schmidt was born at Madison, Indiana. in 1865, son of Frederick and Elizabeth (Firedock) Schmidt. His parents were natives of Germany and were married in New York City, coming from the East to Madison, Indiana. Frederick Schmidt conducted a meat business there until 1870, when he moved to Indianapolis and was in business on North Penn Street, between Washington and Market Street. He died in 1873, his death being the direct result of illness contracted while a soldier with an Indiana regiment in the Civil war. His wife was a physician by profession and died in 1902.

George F. Schmidt attended the Second Ward school of Indianapolis, but his education ended when he was thirteen years old and he went to work, training himself for a business career and his first position on the road was as a traveling representative for Fred Reibel, cigar manufacturer. Later for two years he sold plug tobacco. He then joined the C. A. Schrader Company, wholesale grocers, and has been with that firm as a traveling representative for over forty years.

Mr. Schmidt has been a resident of Martinsville since 1894. After his sons grew up he took them into business with him and in 1919 established the local agency for the Willys cars, purchasing a building which he remodeled into an attractive sales room and garage. In 1929 he also became dealer for the Hupmobile cars.

Mr. Schmidt married in 1892 Miss Lettie Schneider, who was born at Martinsville, daughter of William and Maria (Miller) Schneider, her father a native of Hamburg, Germany, and her mother of Chillicothe, Ohio. Mr. Schmidt's step-daughter is the wife of Faith Mendenhall, of Westfield, Indiana, and she taught about five years in the Teachers College of Mrs. Blaker's School at Indianapolis. Mr. Schmidt's son, Wayne W. Schmidt, in charge of the real estate department of the Farmers Trust Company of Indianapolis, graduated from high school and Indiana University and during the World war became a first lieutenant in the Twenty-eighth Infantry and saw service overseas. He was wounded at the battle of Cantigny, being struck with three balls from a machine gun and was three times gassed. The second son, Clyde C. Schmidt, in charge of his father's automobile business, is a graduate of high school and went into the service with the Medical Corps in the Rainbow Division and later was an instructor in the air service in France. He married Katherine Kennedy.

Mr. Schmidt is a Presbyterian. He was a member of the Martinsville City Council from 1898 to 1902 and served his first term as mayor from 1918 to 1922. On January 1, 1930, he again took office as mayor. He has given the city a very efficient and economical administration. Mr. Schmidt is a Republican, a member of the Masonic fraternity, Knights of Pythias, B. P. O. Elks, Improved Order of Red Men. He resides at 189 North Main Street, Martinsville.

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

FRANK H. LANGSENKAMP is a coppersmith and canning machinery manufacturer, a man who is carrying on a business established by his father in Indianapolis. It is an industry of much more than local service and output. The Langsenkamp Company has supplied equipment for nearly every canning industry in the country.

Mr. Langsenkamp was born in Marion County, Indiana, May 21, 1878, and is a son of William and Helen (Hunt) Langsenkamp. His father was born at Osnabrueck and his mother in Baden Baden, Germany, but they were married after coming to Indianapolis. William Langsenkamp in his native land had learned the art of coppersmith. In 1868 he started a small shop of his own in Indianapolis and for forty years carried on the industry actively as a copper and brass founder. He finally retired from the business and passed away in 1923, at a good old age. His wife was born in 1839 and is still in good health, though past ninety years of age.

Frank H. Langsenkamp attended Saint Mary's parochial school in Indianapolis until thirteen years old. He began work early, was employed in a number of minor capacities by different firms and individuals, but at the age of fifteen took his place in his father's shop and foundry and applied himself to his apprenticeship until he had mastered thoroughly the various branches involved in the art of the coppersmith. He took an increasing share of the burdens of work and management of the plant until 1908, when he acquired the business from his father. The two-story brick building, 100 by 250 feet, was started by his father. In 1930 the Langsenkamp Company purchased the three-story building 88 by 195, at 229 East South Street, where they are engaged in the manufacture of copper work and canning factory equipment. It is the most complete concern of its kind in Indiana and has all the machinery for the turning, shaping and manufacture of copper kettles, coils, the various intricate appliances and mechanisms made of copper used in the canning industry, and it also makes pharmaceutical and candy making equipment. They do a general jobbing business in brass, copper, aluminum and bronze sheets, rods and tools. However, for many years the Langsenkamp foundry has specialized in a service for canning equipment. It is estimated, that fully ninety per cent of the canning industries of the United States at some time or other have used the special output of the Langsenkamp foundry.

Mr. Langsenkamp married, February 10, 1905, Miss Stella Stroup, who was born at Waldron, Indiana, daughter of Samuel P. and Maggie (Cotterman) Stroup. Her parents came from Pennsylvania. Mr. Langsenkamp has one child, Frank, Jr., who is now in the business, making the representative of the third generation of the family as coppersmiths. Mr. Langsenkamp and family are members of Saint Joan of Arc Church. He is an independent voter, member of the Knights of Columbus, Indianapolis Lodge No. 13, B. P. O. Elks, Indianapolis Athletic Club, Meridian Hills Country Club, Rotary Club, and is a member of the National Canning Machinery and Supply Association. His home is at 3828 Washington Boulevard.

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

WILLIAM MAHIN BUNCH, who died March 17, 1930, was a real estate operator at Newcastle, continuing a business which was established by his father many years ago. Mr. Bunch as a young man showed a special talent for music, and had thorough training both in this country and abroad. For a number of years he was a teacher and head of musical conservatories, and continued deeply interested in the subject and a leader in the musical affairs of Newcastle.

Mr. Bunch was born four and a half miles northwest of Hagerstown, Indiana, November 1, 1873, son of George W. and Jennie (Lind) Bunch. His father was born in Darke County, Ohio, and his mother in Wayne County, Indiana, and after their marriage they located at Connersville, three years later moved to Hagerstown, and in 1879 established their home at Newcastle. The old homestead of the Bunch family was at the corner of Fourteenth and Indiana Avenue. Not long ago this property, which is located a half block south of the postoffice, was sold to the Bell Telephone Company of Indiana for $15,000, as the site for the proposed modern telephone building. George W. Bunch had been a Union soldier in the Civil war and was brevetted captain in the Iron Brigade. He carried on the real estate business for many years and died at McPherson, Kansas, April 1, 1910. His widow passed away June 23, 1913, at Newcastle.

William M. Bunch was graduated from high school in 1894. He went to Berlin, Germany, to continue his musical studies on piano, pipe organ and composition. He was abroad three years and after returning to America was in concert, making a number of tours and filling engagements in some of the large cities of the country. In 1900 he took charge of the Bollinger Conservatory of Music at Fort Smith, Arkansas, and after a year continued the studies of pipe organ and composition at Cincinnati. For one year he was head of the piano department in the Indianapolis College of Music, for three years had charge of the music department in the Muncie Normal School, the new Ball State Teachers College, and had been head of the piano department of a college at McPherson, Kansas, for about a year when his father died, and he returned to Newcastle to take charge of the business, which he afterward owned and conducted.

Mr. Bunch married, August 1, 1906, Miss Clara Belle Arnold, who was born in Perry Township, Henry County, Indiana, daughter of Oliver and Mary Grace (Leath) Arnold. They had five children, Byram, George Oliver, Mary, Martha and Patsy Ruth. The son Byram, now a student in the military academy of West Point, graduated from the Government Air School at San Antonio, Texas.

Mr. Bunch was organist of the Methodist Episcopal Church from 1910 to 1915. He organized and was director of the Newcastle Apollo Club, one of the leading organizations of its kind in Eastern Indiana. This chorus has been thoroughly trained and for several years has given programs of magnificent music, ranging from the music of Bach to the chorals of modern composers. Mr. Bunch was a member of the Sons of Veterans, the Newcastle Chamber of Commerce, the Dynamo Club, and was affiliated with the Fraternal Order of Eagles and Loyal Order of Moose. After the sale of the old homestead he resided at 209 Eleventh Street, where he owned an attractive modern brick home.

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

JOHN W. BECKER, Indianapolis attorney, with offices in the Fletcher Savings & Trust Building, is a popular young representative of his profession and is one of Indiana's World war veterans.

He was born in Wayne Township, Marion County, Indiana, April 9, 1893, son of John and Martha (Hollingsworth) Becker. His father was born in the same locality, spent his active life as a market gardener and died November 26, 1921. The mother was born at Newport, Vermilion County, Indiana, and lives at Indianapolis.

John W. Becker was educated in the Manual Training High School at Indianapolis and graduated from the Indiana Law School in 1915. Before graduating and afterwards for a year and a half he was associated with Addison C. Harris, who died in the fall of 1916. Mr. Becker then engaged in an independent practice, but in May, 1917., volunteered and entered the First Officers Training School. He was commissioned a second lieutenant, was assigned to the Coast Artillery Corps., and on August 15, 1917, went to Portland, Maine. On January 8, 1918, he sailed for France and was made an instructor in the Officers Training Corps in France, and for two months was an instructor in artillery fire and fire control. Later he was transferred and made operations and training officer with the Thirty-sixth Artillery Brigade, and subsequently was put in the Third Infantry Brigade of the Second Division, where he served asaide-de-camp to Brig. Gen. Charles E. Kilbourne. He was in the Army of Occupation in Germany until July, 1918, when he sailed for home. He resigned with the rank of captain.

Captain Becker immediately after his return from abroad took up his interrupted law practice. He is engaged in civil practice.

Captain Becker is a member of the Universal Club, Columbia Club of Indianapolis, is a Delta Theta Phi, member of the B. P. O. Elks. He is a Republican in politics and a member of Zion's Evangelical Church. He married, December 27, 1927, Bernadette Bishoff, who was born at Corsicana, Texas, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Bishoff, her father a native of Indiana and her mother of Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Becker reside at 5853 Forrest Lane.
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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

DELL BROWNELL DAVIS is one of the very able and experienced civil engineers of Indiana. His home is at Richmond. He was for twelve years city civil engineer of Richmond, and was also executive secretary of the City Plan Commission, executive secretary of the Board of Zoning Appeals. He has done much work as a consulting engineer and is a widely known authority on highway and general construction projects.

Mr. Davis was born at Richmond, February 24, 1888, son of Everett L. and Mary (Brownell) Davis. His paternal grandfather, Thomas Henry Davis, was born on Nantucket Island, Massachusetts, and married Louisa McDonald, a native of Oxford, Ohio. His maternal grandparents were Charles and Eliza (Sterns) Brownell, natives of New York. Mrs. Eliza Brownell after the death of her husband came to Richmond, Indiana, where she lived out her life. Everett L. Davis was born at Richmond, Indiana, and is now chief clerk in the office of the city engineer in that city. His wife was born at Hillsboro, Ohio, and died in 1927.

Dell Brownell Davis had the normal advantages of the average American boy. He was educated in the public schools of Richmond, later attended Earlham College, and acquired his technical education in the International Correspondence Schools, the Wilson's Course in Reinforced Concrete Design, and the American University of Commerce.

Mr. Davis is a man of wide experience. He was assistant city engineer of Richmond for six years, contractor's superintendent of general contracting for four and a half years, and assistant field engineer for A. Bentley & Sons Company at Camps Sherman and Johnson during 1917. In 1918 he became city engineer for Richmond and held that office until January 1, 1930, when he retired from public office to engage in general contracting, specializing in public construction work. He is a member of the firm of E. A. Mariani Company, Incorporated, of which he is secretary and treasurer.

Among other technical societies to which Mr. Davis belongs may be mentioned the following: American Society for Municipal Improvements, and in 1920-21 was a member of its specification committee on broken stone and gravel roads; brick pavements; concrete pavements; in 1921-22 was chairman of the specification committee on broken stone and gravel roads with or without bituminous surface treatments, during which period he rewrote the entire specifications; 1922-23 member specification committee on bituminous pavements; 1923-24 member of cement concrete pavements. He is also a member of the American Society for Testing Materials and an associate member of the American Society of Civil Engineers.

Mr. Davis married in 1911 Miss Marguerite Price. She was born at Richmond, daughter of L. E. and Roxy (Hodge) Price, also of Richmond. Mr. and Mrs. Davis have two children, Theresa Brownell and Roderic Charles. The family are members of the Society of Friends. Mr. Davis is a Mason and a Republican. His home is at 1915 Reeveston Road.

Still a young man, he has traveled far on the road to success. He has always been a close student, and while most of his time has been devoted to work in connection with his profession, he is a lover of general literature. Broad-minded, progressive, enterprising and devoted to his profession, Mr. Davis is an able man and one of those who have helped to make Richmond more prosperous and her people more healthy, and consequently happier.

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

BURLING BOAZ, JR., commercial artist, has had a successful business of his own in Indianapolis for a number of years. His studio and shop are at 40 Virginia Avenue in that city.

Mr. Boaz was born in Indianapolis, in 1891, son of Burling and Carrie (Simmons) Boaz. His father was born in Southport, Indiana, in 1854. His mother was a native of Dayton, Ohio, and a daughter of George B. and Sarah (Boys) Simmons. She passed away in March, 1924. Burling Boaz, Sr., is now living retired, having spent many years in the railway mail service.

Burling Boaz, Jr., was educated in public schools at Indianapolis, attended high school at Cincinnati and when eighteen years of age began his art apprenticeship with a firm in Pittsburgh designing hardwood floors and ornamental iron work. After four years of training he returned to Indianapolis, was with the advertising department of the Pathfinder for three years and in February, 1914, established a business of his own. He has specialized in outdoor and general sign work. He has a well equipped studio for his creative and designing work. His first location was in the Hume Mansur Building, and after two years he moved to 46 North Pennsylvania Street and then for four years was located in the Arcade. In addition to his regular business as a commercial artist Mr. Boaz since 1922 has been one of the art instructors in the John Herron Art Institute.

He married, June 10, 1914, Miss Catherine Louise O'Leary, a native of Indianapolis, daughter of Bert and Sarah Ellen (Curr) O'Leary. Her father was born in Ireland and her mother at Hillsboro, Illinois. Mr. and Mrs. Boaz have two children, Bettie Gale and Robert. They are members of the Central Christian Church. Mr. Boaz is a Royal Arch and Council degree Mason and in politics is an independent voter. He and his family reside at Seventy-first and Central Avenue.

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

GEORGE P. BORNWASSER, grand secretary of the Indiana Odd Fellows, has been prominent in that fraternity for a number of years. Mr. Bornwasser was a traveling, salesman during the greater part of his active business life, and as a good fraternity man made friends among Odd Fellows throughout the State of Indiana and thus built up a tremendous following of well-wishers and supporters before he was honored with his present duties and responsibilities. Mr. Bornwasser as the chief administrative official of the order in Indiana has his headquarters in the Odd Fellows Building at Indianapolis.

He was born at New Albany, Indiana, July 23, 1865, son of Peter and Fredericka (Smith) Bornwasser and grandson of Philip Bornwasser and George Smith. His parents and grandparents were natives of Germany. The Bornwasser family settled in Indiana when they came from the Fatherland, while the Smiths first located in Pennsylvania. Peter Bornwasser and wife after their marriage located at New Albany, where he was in business as a tanner. He was also an active fraternity man.

George P. Bornwasser had the advantages of common schools for three winter terms and at the age of eleven became self supporting, working as bundle boy in a dry goods store. He had the steady routine of work in the dry goods business until he was twenty years old. Then for the benefit of his health he sought a change of climate and moved to Orange County, where he bought and for three years conducted a general store. After returning to New Albany he was a letter carrier for the postoffice five years, and then went on the road, representing a wholesale grocery house for twelve years, and for five years traveled for a Chicago dry goods house.

Mr. Bornwasser's first official responsibilities in the Independent Order of Odd Fellows of Indiana aside from positions in his home lodge were as supervisor of lodges for the state, an office he filled five years. In 1922 he was elected grand secretary and grand scribe for the State of Indiana, being accorded that honor by the largest majority ever given a candidate. He has filled all the chairs in local lodges. In addition to his general duties as secretary he is editor and publisher of the sixteen-page newspaper, the Indiana I. O. O. F. Bulletin. He is a member of the International Press Association.

Mr. Bornwasser married in 1892 Martha Condra, who was born in Orange County. By this marriage Mr. Bornwasser has two children, Maude, Mrs. Ferd Kahler, of New Albany, and Carl, who is in the automobile and radio accessory business. In 1922 Mr. Bornwasser married Maude Funk, who passed away June 11, 1931. She was born at Corydon, Indiana, daughter of Joseph P. and Eliza (Borland) Funk, the former a native of Harrison County, Indiana, and the latter of Monroe County, Indiana. Her grandparents were Henry and Delilah (Cox) Funk and Edward and Margaret (Caldwell) Borland. The Borland family came from Pennsylvania and were pioneers of Monroe County, where they entered Government land, part of which is still owned by descendants. Mr. Bornwasser is also a member of the Masonic fraternity and is a Methodist.

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

ULYSSES GRANT LIPES, M. D., has had over thirty years of active experience in his profession. He is a resident of Indianapolis, and most of his time is taken up with practice as a specialist. His offices are in the State Life Building.

Doctor Lipes was born in Allen County, Indiana, September 19, 1864, son of David Dell and Mary Jane (Summers) Lipes, his father a native of Bottetourt County, Virginia, and his mother of Ohio. The paternal grandfather, Christopher Lipes, moved from Virginia to Indiana in 1832 and settled on Government land in Allen County. David Dell Lipes grew up there, and after his marriage settled on a farm and lived on the same place for over fifty-two years. He finally moved to Fort Wayne, where he died in 1894, at the age of seventy years. His wife passed away in 1914, aged eighty-five.

Ulysses Grant Lipes was reared on a farm, was educated in district schools and township high school, spent one year as a student in Valparaiso University and was a teacher for two years. Doctor Lipes for eleven years, before and after graduating from medical college, was a traveling salesman for a wholesale drug house, and during this time he covered in his business trips the greater part of the United States. In 1883 he began his preparation for medicine in the Fort Wayne Medical College, from which he was graduated March 3, 1885. For a year and a half he practiced at Lima, Ohio, and two years at Toledo. Doctor Lipes on June 1, 1901, located at Indianapolis and resumed his medical practice. He has a reputation throughout the state for special success and skill in the treatment of chronic cases.

Doctor Lipes outside of his profession is widely known for his activities in the Knights of Pythias Order. He has filled all the chairs of the lodge, has been a member of the Grand Lodge and from 1908 to 1912 served as chief-of-staff of the Indiana Brigade of the Uniform Rank of the Knights of Pythias. He joined the order in 1887. Since 1921 he has been a member of the Imperial Palace of the Dramatic Order of the Knights of Khorassan. He is a Royal Arch and Council Degree Mason and an independent Republican.

Doctor Lipes resides at 318 Seventh Avenue in Indianapolis. He married, October 14, 1892, Adaline Magee, who was born at Warsaw, Indiana, and passed away in October, 1907. She left a son, Russell, who is with the Big Four Railway Company at Indianapolis, married Mary Carn, and is the father of two children, Russell, Jr. and Jack. Doctor Lipes in 1909 married Rosetta Hudson, who was born at Elizabethtown, Indiana. They have a son, Carl D., born February 3, 1917.

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