Doctor Leslie was born at Van Wert, Ohio, January 19, 1878, son of Dr. B. F. and Adelaide Leslie. His father as a very fine doctor of the old school, and the son at an early age made a definite choice of his profession. He was graduated from the high school at Convoy, Ohio, in 1895, and soon afterward entered the Fort Wayne Medical College, which held its classes and had its laboratories in the old McCulloch homestead. He graduated M. D. in 1898, at the age of twenty, and being too young to practice independently had the training of an interne with the staff of the old Hope Hospital for one year. In 1899 he engaged in practice, and in a few years had a reputation as one of the ablest younger members of his profession in Fort Wayne.

On May 14, 1903, Doctor Leslie married Miss Laura Grace Bass, daughter and only living child of John H. and Laura H. Bass. The name of Bass for many years has been a conspicuous one in Fort Wayne's industrial and financial life. Since his marriage Doctor and Mrs. Leslie have lived at the beautiful and dignified old country home of the Bass family, known as "Brookside."

John H. Bass at this time was growing old and was gradually seeking relief from the heavy business responsibilities he had long carried. He had first known Doctor Leslie as a capable family physician, and as son-in-law he placed in him his confidence as a trusted business associate. In time Doctor Leslie assumed more and more of the management of the extended Bass interests, and thus circumstances opened for him a career as one of the prominent Indiana industrialists. Doctor Leslie in addition to being president and treasurer of the Bass Foundry & Machine Company is president of the Fort Wayne Foundry & Machine Company, is president of the Rock Run Iron Company at Rock Run, Alabama, is vice president and director of the First & Tri-State National Bank & Trust Company of Fort Wayne, a director of the Old National Bank, and spends most of his business time at his offices at 1602 Hanna Street, where the Bass Foundry & Machine Plant is located.

Doctor Leslie through the years has willingly accepted a more than nominal part in Fort Wayne's vital community and civic interests. He has been vice president and assistant treasurer of the Lindenwood Cemetery Association and is a former president of the Fort Wayne Employers Association. He was a leader in the old Commercial Club and helped reorganize it as the Chamber of Commerce, with increased membership and broader scope. He was one of the team workers in the campaign of 1926 to build the new home of the Chamber. His principal work with that body has been with the Industrial Bureau. Doctor Leslie was a contributor of his personal leadership and means in the original Y. M. C. A. campaign of 1916 and again in the Enlargement Fund campaign of 1925. He is a member of the Credit Men's Association. He was a contributor to the Catholic Community Center Building fund in 1924, to the various Red Cross campaigns, the Christmas Seal Kiddie League, and all the Boy Scout and local hospital drives. He is a member of the National Aeronautical Association, the Fort Wayne Country Club, and a trustee of the Pixley Relief Home. During the World war Doctor Leslie was identified with the Fort Wayne Council for patriotic service, which preceded the Council of Defense, of which he was made a member of the citizens committee to provide war funds for carrying out the purpose of providing teachers for the Signal Corps and other purposes. He was in the different Liberty Loan drives, and was one of the executive committees of the Fort Wayne branch of the Fatherless Children of France. He was on the advisory board of the Officers Reserve Corps and had considerable to do with the local fuel administration. Some of his most valuable war service as given as one of the nine captains of the American Protection League, an auxiliary of the Federal Department of Justice. This league comprises a notable group of about 250 business and professional men at Fort Wayne. Doctor Leslie since boyhood has been interested in music and has been a member of numerous choral and similar organizations. He was one time president of the old Apollo Club, which during its existence included nearly all the male singers of note in the city. He is a director of the Fort Wayne Art School and Museum and has served as one of the trustees and a member of the music committee of the First Presbyterian Church.

Indianians all over the state comprising the Masonic constituency are familiar with Doctor Leslie's high attainments and great services to this ancient craft. He is affiliated with Summit City Lodge, A. F. and A. M., and in 1913 was awarded the supreme honorary thirty-second degree in Scottish Rite Masonry. For three years he was commander in chief of the Fort Wayne Consistory and in 1924 was grand commander of the Knights Templar of Indiana. He is a member of Mizpah Temple of the Mystic Shrine, a trustee of Fort Wayne Commandery No. 4, Knights Templar, on the board of trustees of the Scottish Rite Cathedral. He was appointed deputy for Indiana at the Boston session of the Supreme Council of Scottish Rite Masons in September, 1927, this being the highest honoe that can be conferred by state jurisdiction.

Doctor and Mrs. Leslie are the parents of five children: Mary Laura, now the wife of John D. Haynes, Linda Adelaide, now the wif eof Edmund Seidel, John Bass, Grace Charlotte and Gaylard Franklin.

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INDIANA ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OF AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT Vol. 5
By Charles Roll, A.M.
The Lewis Publishing Company, 1931

DONALD WILLIAM SCHAFER, M. D. One of the younger professional men of Fort Wayne, Indiana, is Dr. Donald W. Schafer, physician and surgeon and a veteran of the World war. Doctor Schafer enjoys the universal confidence of his fellow citizens and medical associates because of his professional qualifications, his bravery as a surgeon-soldier, his sterling personal character and his steadfast citizenship as a native of the great State of Indiana. Reared on his father's farm during his boyhood school period, he later had still better educational advantages and early began to cherish hopes of a medical career. In the meantime, however, the spirit of enterprise that he has cherished all of his life led him to seek independence in business channels, and it was not until 1916 that he found himself able to enter the medical department of the University of Indiana. The World war then interrupted his career, but in 1923 he received his medical degree and since that year he has located at Fort Wayne in the enjoyment of an excellent practice.

Donald W. Schafer was born July 17, 1894, at Inwood, Marshall County, Indiana, and is a son of William L. and Jennie (Girard) Schafer, settlers of Marshall County, where from small beginnings he built up an extensive lumber business and was one of the substantial and highly-respected citizens of his community at the time of his demise. William L. Schafer was born in Marshall County, where he was reared and educated and spent his entire life. He was engaged in the lumber business for some years with his father, but eventually disposed of his interests therein and turned his attention and energies to farming, in which he is engaged at present, he and Mrs. Schafer living on a valuable and highly-developed property in Marshall County. They are the parents of three children: Mrs. C. W. Thresh of Fort Wayne; Mrs. J. O. Morgan, of South Bend; and Dr. Donald W.

After attending public school at Inwood Donald W. Schafer entered the high school at Argos, Indiana, from which he was graduated in 1913. Although he had yearnings for a professional career, his financial resources were limited, and in 1914 he accepted a position with a vacuum cleaner manufacturing concern, as Indiana State crew manager on the road. In 1915 he entered the office of the Grace Construction Company of Fort Wayne and in 1916-17 attended Indiana University. In the latter year he enlisted for service in the Medical Corps, and was assigned to Base Hospital No. 13, at Camp Taylor, Kentucky, and while serving there was the victim of an accident which incapacitated him from field service and he was given his honorable discharge. Later, he did work for the United State Government as a civilian, inspecting ammunition steel at Indiana Harbor, Indiana. In 1919 Doctor Schafer attended Valparaiso University, and in the fall of the same year entered the medical department of Cincinnati (Ohio) University, from which he was duly graduated with the degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1923. Coming immediately to Fort Wayne, he spent his interneship at Saint Joseph Hospital, and since then has engaged in a general medical practice here of an honorable and substantial character. Doctor Schafer maintains well appointed offices at 315 Wayne Pharmacal Building, and resides in his pleasant home at 1317 Maple Avenue, where he spends much of his leisure time in gardening and raising flowers, of which he makes a hobby. He stands high in the confidence of his professional associates and acquaintances and is a member of the Allen County Medical Society, the Indiana State Medical Society and the American Medical Association. He is a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason and has several other connections, and in addition has taken an active interest in progressive civic movement.

On September 18, 1917, the day before he enlisted for military service, Doctor Schafer was united in marriage with Miss Neoma Pontius, a graduate nurse of the Illinois Post-Graduate Hospital and to this union there have come two children: Donald W., Jr., born October 19, 1920; and George I., born August 9, 1922, both attending school.

INDIANA ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OF AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT Vol. 5
By Charles Roll, A.M.
The Lewis Publishing Company, 1931

ORVILLE W. McGINNIS, a member of the Evansville bar, where he has practiced his profession for over thirty years, was born at Owensville in Gibson County, Indiana, December 3, 1869. Mr. McGinnis is a highly educated attorney, and has practiced his profession largely to the exclusion of any political interests save that of good citizenship.

His father, the late Richard P. McGinnis, who died in 1905, was born in Illinois and from early manhood lived in Indiana. He was a farmer, merchant and banker. His wife, Margaret Pollard, was born in Indiana. There were two children, Orville W. and Roscoe C. McGinnis, who died February 16, 1906, was a banker at Princeton, Indiana.

Orville W. McGinnis attended public schools in Gibson County, and was graduated with the A. B. degree from DePauw University at Greencastle, Indiana, in 1892. Soon afterward he began the study of law in Cornell University of New York, but his course was interrupted by ill health and he spent considerable time recuperating on the home farm. He then returned to complete his law studies and about the time he was ready to practice his father's associate died and Orville McGinnis spent about two years with his father in the bank. In 1897 he formally began the practice of law at Evansville. For some time he acted as United States referee in bankruptcy. Much of his work as a lawyer has been as legal counsel for business organizations, and among others he is now general counsel for the Citizens National and the Citizens Trust & Savings Banks of Evansvile, and is a director in both institutions. Mr. McGinnis is a Republican in politics and a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

He married at Owensville, Indiana, June 27, 1900, Miss Anna Robinson, daughter of James A. and Louisa (Benson) Robinson. They have three children, Richard R., born April 17, 1901; Allan O., born July 5, 1903, and Rosanna, born December 30, 1905. Richard, who is unmarried, graduated with the A. B. degree from DePauw University in 1922, took his law course at Harvard Law School, and has been associated with his father in practice since 1926. The son Allan, who is connected with the Postum Food Company of New York City, married Dorothy Campbell, of Columbus, Ohio, and has a daughter, Dorothy Ann, born in 1928.

INDIANA ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OF AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT Vol. 5
By Charles Roll, A.M.
The Lewis Publishing Company, 1931

JOHN WALLACE CASWELL. No minor degree of the marked precedence now held by the City of Huntington, judicial center of the Indiana county of that name, as one of the industrial and commercial centers of major rank in the Hoosier State, has been gained through the medium of the Caswell-Runyan Company, of which John Wallace Caswell was the organizer and of which he has been the secretary-treasurer from the time of its incorporation, in 1907. This was the first industrial concern to be established in Huntington after the city made available its factory fund and adopted as its municipal motto "Opportunity's Gateway," - a motto that has been amply justified in practical results.

It is not within the province of this personal review to outline the history of this splendid industrial-commercial organization of Huntington, but it may be stated that the company now ranks as one of the nation's foremost in the manufacturing of cedar chests and radio cabinets of the highest grade. Under normal conditions the company retains a large force of employees, including many highly skilled mechanics, and the plant itself has gained recognition as one of model order as gauged by the best modern standards. The diversified products of this splendid Huntington institution find demand in all arts of the United States, shipments are made in carload lots, radio cabinets have become an important feature in the manufacturing activities of the company, and the operations of the corporation are based on a capital stock of $1,000,000.

John Wallace Caswell, who has translated constructive thought into constructive action that has made him a representative American captain of industry, is a native son of the Hoosier State, to which his loyalty has never faltered, as it is based on his full appreciation of the manifold advantages and attractions of this commonwealth. He was born in the City of Fort Wayne, Indiana, October 6, 1870, and there he continued his studies in the public schools until he had profited by the advantages of the high school. There he gained his initial experience in practical mechanics and in business through his association with the Bass Foundry & Machine Company, and later he was one of the principals of a company engaged in manufacturing wooden novelties at North Manchester, Wabash County. His next forward venture was made in his organizing, in 1907, the Caswell-Runyan Company, of Huntington, of which he has since continued the secretary-treasurer, Winfred Runyan being president of the company, John A. Snyder, vice president, Frank J. Book, vice president and superintendent, while Mr. Caswell functions not only as secretary-treasurer but also as general manager.

Mr. Caswell has not only been a potent figure in the development and upbuilding of the substantial industrial and commercial enterprise now controlled by the Caswell-Runyan Company, but is also president of the Women's Wear Service, Inc., another important Huntington commercial organization; is a director of the First National Bank of Huntington; and in his native City of Fort Wayne is a director and vice president of the Capehart Corporation. He is chairman of the Board of Utah Products Company, Chicago, Illinois. His civic and business progressiveness is further indicated in his being president of the Huntington Auto Transit Company, the Huntington Specialty Company, and the Firetuff Manufacturing company. He was vice president of the Michigan & Erie Barge Canal Association, the object of which is to effect the construction of a barge canal between the cities of Toledo and Chicago. He is ever at the forefront in supporting measures and enterprises that are projected for the civic and material advancement of his home city.

The political alignment of Mr. Caswell is with the Republican party, in the Masonic fraternity he has completed the circles of both the York and Scottish Rites, in the former of which he retains affiliation with the Commandery of Knights Templar in Columbia City, and in the latter of which he has received the thirty-second degree, in the Consistory of the Valley of Fort Wayne. He is affiliated also with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, is a former president of the Huntington Commercial Club, is a loyal and influential member of the local Chamber of Commerce and the Rotary Club and was its first president, is a trustee of the Huntington Y. M. C. A. and raised the first funds for the first building erected. He is president of the Masonic Realty Company, which raised the funds and built the Masonic Temple at Huntington.

On the 13th of March, 1894, Mr. Caswell was united in marraige with Miss Ruth Hemmick, of Columbia City, and they have two children: Mary Minot is the wife of Basil Brewer, a representative newspaper editor in the City of Lansing, capital of the State of Michigan, and their two children are John C. and Alice C. David, the younger of the two children is a student of the Principia College, St. Louis, Missouri.

Mr. and Mrs. Caswell are not only popular figures in the representative social and cultural life of their home city but have also indulged in extensive travel. Their attractive home in Huntington is known for its gracious hospitality and also for its fine flowers, lawns and gardens, in which Mr. Caswell takes the deepest interest and through which he finds much of recreation.

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INDIANA ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OF AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT Vol. 5
By Charles Roll, A.M.
The Lewis Publishing Company, 1931

ANDREW F. GUGSELL, M.D., has not found it necessary to go forth from the boundary of his native county to find a field for long and successful service in the work of his profession, and as one of the able and representative physicians and surgeons of Dubois County he has here been engaged in practice somewhat more than twenty years, his residence being now maintained in the attractive little city of Ferdinand.

Doctor Gugsell was born in Jasper on the 30th of June, 1876, and is the only survivor of a family of nine children born to Matthew and Margaret (Melchir) Gugsell, the former of whom was born in Germany and the latter at Jasper, Dubois County, Indiana, where their marriage was solemnized. Matthew Gugsell was a child when his parents came from Germany and made settlement in Dubois County where they passed the remainder of their lives. Matthew Gugsell was here reared and educated and here he was long engaged in the retail shoe business, of which he continued a representative until his death, in 1902. His widow still resides at Jasper, the county seat, and she celebrated on July 20, 1929, her seventy-ninth anniversary of her birth. Her parents were born in France and her paternal grandfather was a soldier in the army of the great Napoleon, in which connection he participated in the historic siege of Moscow and was one of the 10,000 Napoleonic soldiers who escaped death in that great conflict.

Doctor Gugsell acquired in the public and parochial schools of Jasper his early education, and in the medical department of the University of Louisville, Kentucky, he was graduated as a member of the class of 1907. After thus receiving his degree of Doctor of Medicine he continued in the active general practice of his profession at Jasper until 1916, when he transferred his residence to Ferdinand, where he now controls a substantial and representative practice. At the county seat he served nine years as city health commissioner and there he held the office of postmaster under the administration of President Taft. When the nation entere the World war Doctor Gugsell enlisted for service in the Medical Corps of the United States Army in August, 1917, and he had the distinction of becoming a member of the Fifty-eighth, one of the oldest organized regiments of officers in the entire United States. He was commissioned captain in the Medical Corps and was the senior medical officer in his regiment. He continued in service until the armistice brought the war to a close and received his honorable discharge in the early part of the year 1919. The Doctor is now affiliated with the American Legion and also with the famed World war organization known as the Society of the Forty and Eight. He has membership in the Dubois County Medical Society, Indiana State Medical Society and the American Medical Association, is a stalwart in the local ranks of the Republican party, he and his wife are communicants of the Catholic Church, and he is affiliated with the Knights of Columbus.

On the 30th of June, 1896, was solemnized the marriage of Doctor Gugsell to Miss Nora Berger, of Jasper, and their one child, Evangeline, who was born in September, 1897, is the wife of Edwin Schlegel, D. D. S., who is engaged in the practice of his profession at Ferdinand. Doctor and Mrs. Schlegel have one child, Richard.

INDIANA ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OF AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT Vol. 5
By Charles Roll, A.M.
The Lewis Publishing Company, 1931