He was born in Michigan City, September 13, 1877, son of Richard Henry and Sarah Ann (Eastwood) Misener. His father was born on a farm near Niagara Falls, Canada, in 1847 and came to the United States when about eighteen years of age. His first home was at Joliet, Illinois. He became one of the earliest employees of the Michigan Central Railroad and for many years piloted a passenger engine for that company. He was married in September, 1876, and shortly afterward established his home at Michigan City and continued in railroad work until he was retired with a pension. He died at Michigan City in December, 1930, when eighty-three years of age. He was a member of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and for two terms represented the First Ward in the Michigan City Council. He and his wife are buried in the Greenwood Cemetery. His wife was born at Homewood, Illinois, and shortly afterward her parents moved to Lake Station, now East Gary, Indiana, where her father conducted one of the first stores, and among his customers were some of the Indians living here. She attended school at Lake Station and for many years was an active member of the Congregational Church and was worthy matron of Lake Michigan Chapter of the Eastern Star. She died in 1925.

Herbert R. Misener was the only child of his parents. He was graduated from the Michigan City High School in 1895, and had his first opportunity to get into business as an employee of the J. H. Winterpotham & Sons Cooperage Company. After a few months, though only eighteen years of age, he was transferred to Chicago, in charge of the company's warehouse at the Stock Yards. As a result of the unsettled business conditions he lost his job in 1896, and, returning to Michigan City, accepted work at five dollars a week as reporter for the Michigan City News. Its publishers at that time were Charles J. Robb and Ira S. Carpenter. Mr. Misener in this work discovered his real talents and later was advanced to the post of city editor, and in 1905 he acquired the interest of Mr. Carpenter. The paper was then published by Mr. Robb and Mr. Misener until the death of the elder partner on January 6, 1930, since which time Mr. Misener has had full charge of the paper. The Michigan City News is now one of the important daily newspapers in Northern Indiana, with an extensive circulation throughout LaPorte and Porter counties and in Berrien County, Michigan. There are forty employees in the various departments of the publication.

Mr. Misener is also a director of the Merchants National Bank. For two years he was president of the Chamber of Commerce and has been active in that organization in securing industries for Michigan City. He was president of the Rotary Club, for two years was president of the Y. M. C. A. and was captain of teams in the war drives during 1917-18. Mr. Misener enjoys travel and fishing and every year he makes tours to Michigan and Nova Scotia and over the West. He is a member of the B. P. O. Elks, Royal Arcanum, the Maccabees, Pottawattamie Country Club, and is a trustee of the First Congregational Church.

Mrs. Misener has for a number of years been one of the outstanding leaders in social, civic and political affairs in Northern Indiana and is one of the prominent Republican women of the state. Mr. and Mrs. Misener were married at Chicago, February 26, 1906. Her maiden name was Mary Zeola Hershey, daughter of .John and Carrie (Stephenson) Hershey. Her father was in the hardware business in Ohio and after his death her mother lived in Westerville, Ohio, where she died in 1917. Mrs. Misener attended public school in Ohio and the United Brethren College at Westerville, subsequently graduating from King's School of Oratory at Pittsburg. She employed her talents on the lecture platform and in Chautauqua work, and as a reader traveled widely over the United States. After her marriage she became prominent at Michigan City in home talent plays and later turned her ability as an organizer to the work of the League of Women Voters. She was for several years vice president of the state organization and is still active in its affairs as a member of the executive committee. Mrs. Misener was elected a representative from LaPorte County to the Indiana State Legislature in 1929-30, and was one of the four women in the Lower House at that time. Mr. and Mrs. Misener have two children, Dorothy Louise and Richard Hershey. Richard is in high school. Miss Dorothy is one of the most popular and prominent young women in Michigan City. She graduated from high school in 1926, and in 1930 received her diploma from the School of Journalism of Northwestern University at Chicago. She is now feature editor for the News. Her intellectual activities and work are varied by wholesome diversions and she rides horseback, plays tennis, enjoys swimming and allforms of athletic sports.

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

BEN H. KAPLAN, optometrist, is the leader of his profession at Michigan City, where he has hi" offices at 506 Franklin Street.

Doctor Kaplan was born in Russia, April 10, 1899, and was about six years of age when brought to America. His parents were Paul and Rebecca Kaplan, who were reared and educated in Russia, attending Hebrew schools there. His father came to America in 1904, the family joining him the following year. After two years in New York City they came to Indiana and settled at South Bend in 1907. Paul Kaplan worked as a carpenter and later engaged in the grocery business. In recent years he has given his time chiefly to the real estate business. He and his wife are active members of the Orthodox Church in South Bend. Their four children were: Dr. Ben H.; Eli, in the newspaper business at Plymouth, Indiana; Miss Ida, of South Bend; and Minnie, wife of Albert Seamon, of South Bend.

Ben H. Kaplan began attending school in New York City and was graduated from the South Bend High School in 1916. In 1923 he was graduated from the Illinois College of Optometry and in the same year located at Michigan City, where he has found splendid opportunities for the work of his profession and has built up a splendid business. He is treasurer of the Indiana Association of Optometry.

Doctor Kaplan is a member of the Acme Lodge No. 83, A. F. and A. M., the Knights of Pythias, B. P. O. Elks, B'nai B'rith, Rotary Club, Michigan City Country Club and the Sinai Temple. He maintains an independent attitude in politics. Mr. Kaplan is a successful professional man, but with a wide variety of interests outside his immediate work. He has labored effectively in civic causes and he enjoys all the sports, including baseball and football, golf, and he and his wife are enthusiastic motorists.

He married in Chicago, May 27, 1923, Miss Fannie Fishman, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Sam Fishman, of South Bend. Her father for many years was with the Studebaker Corporation and the Singer Company at South Bend. His death was the result of an automobile accident in 1929. Her mother still lives in South Bend. Mrs. Kaplan was educated in the grammar and high schools of South Bend and became a skilled optician, a profession and business she followed in South Bend for several years, until her marriage, and then joined her husband in the same line of work at Michigan City. Mr. and Mrs. Kaplan have two children, Elaine Ethel, born December 7, 1926, and Sheila Mae, born June 11, 1930.

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

GEORGE AUGUSTUS KINGSLEY, of LaPorte, is a veteran railroad man. He has been with the New York Central lines in continuous service for forty-five years. Mr. Kingsley is agent for this road at LaPorte. He was born at Clayton, Michigan, March 15, 1869, son of Dwyght and Elizabeth (Hitchings) Kingsley. His father was a native of Massachusetts and came with his parents to Michigan about 1855. As a young man he learned the trade of carpenter. He served as a soldier in the Union army during the Civil war and among other engagements participated in the battle of Gettysburg. After the war he followed building work. He was a member of the Masonic fraternity and the Baptist Church. He died in 1910 and both he and his wife are buried at Clayton, Michigan. Elizabeth Hitchings was born and reared near Northampton, Massachusetts, attended school there, and her father, Timothy Hitchings, came to Michigan at an early date and is buried at Clayton. She died in 1886. There were five children: Nancy, widow of D. A. Bennett, of Lansing, Michigan; Frank, who died at the age of twenty-seven; Lizzie, deceased, wife of C. A. Lawrence, of Hudson, Michigan; Timmie, who died at the age of fourteen; and George Augustus.

George A. Kingsley attended the grade and high schools of Clayton and immediately after leaving school did farm work for a time, but in 1886 became an employee of the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway at Clayton. He was a baggage man for a time. He utilized his opportunities to study telegraphy, and for a number of years was a telegraph operator for the New York Central lines, being stationed at Whiting and Pine, Indiana, on the Western Division, at Miller and Blissfield with the Michigan Division. In 1912 he was transferred to LaPorte, Indiana, as local freight agent, and has been the chief business representative of the New York Central lines of that city for nearly twenty years.

Mr. Kingsley owns an attractive home in LaPorte and has other residence property. He has been active in the work of the Chamber of Commerce and in civic affairs, is a Republican and a trustee of the First Baptist Church.

He married at Clayton, Michigan July 14, 1888, Miss Hattie Losey, daughter of Harvey and Harriet (Lang) Losey. Her father was a blacksmith and wagon maker at Clayton, where he died in 1925. Her mother passed away about 1902 and both are buried at Clayton. Mrs. Kingsley attended the public schools at Adrian, Michigan, where her parents lived prior to their removal to Clayton. Her father owned a farm about half way between Adrian and Clayton. Mrs. Kingsley was an active worker in the Baptist Church at LaPorte. She died June 16, 1930, and was laid to rest at Clayton, Michigan. Mr. and Mrs. Kingsley had three children, Vinton, who died at the age of eighteen, Marguerite, who died when six years old, and George E., Jr.

George E. Kingsley, Jr., graduated from the LaPorte High School in 1923, and since then he has been in the service of the New York Central lines and is clerk in the operating department. He is a member of the Knights of Pythias. George E. Kingsley, Jr., married at LaPorte, August 2, 1930, Miss Laura Menzel, who is a graduate of the LaPorte High School.
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INDIANA ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OF AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT Vol. 3
By Charles Roll, A.M.
The Lewis Publishing Company, 1931

JOHN ALBERT KAHN, druggist, who has been in business in that line in Michigan City since early manhood, represents some of the pioneer families of this northern LaPorte County community.

He was born at. Michigan City, February 26, 1891, son of John F. and Anna (Walters) Kahn. His grandfather, John Kahn, brought his family to Michigan City from Germany and spent many years with the leading industrial establishment of the city, Haskell & Barker Car Company, where he followed his trade as an iron mixer. When he and his wife came to America they brought their oldest child, a daughter. John Kahn and wife are buried in the Greenwood Cemetery, as well as many other members of the family. John F. Kahn was born and reared in Michigan City and for many years has been an iron moulder in the plant of the Haskell & Barker Car Company, now owned by the Pullman Company. He is a member of the Knights of Pythias, the Platt Deutsche Guilde and the Royal Arcanum, and St. Paul's Lutheran Church. He is sixty-six years of age and a man still enjoying the vigor of life, and his favorite diversion is hunting. His wife, Anna Walters, was also born and reared at Michigan City, daughter of Fred and Wilhelmina Walters, who came from Germany. Her father followed the fishing business all his life. John F. Kahn and wife had five children, one of whom died in infancy, and the daughter Clara died at the age of twenty- five, the wife of William Leonard, of LaPorte. The living children are: John A.; Alfred J., an automobile mechanic at Michigan City; and Alice, Mrs. Frank Froelke, of Michigan City.

John A. Kahn attended public schools in his native town, graduating from high school in 1909. Immediately afterwards he began work along the chosen line he has followed. For two and a half years he was employed in the E. W. Lindemann Drug Store and on the death of Mr. Lindemann continued with his successor, H. W. Ohming, until 1919. In the latter year Mr. Kahn became associated with H. H. Westphal in the drug business, and their partnership has been maintained for the past twelve years. They own and operate one of the finest establishments of its kind in the city, located at the corner of Ninth and Franklin streets.

Mr. Kahn has always interested himself in civic affairs and proved a valued member of the Chamber of Commerce for a number of years. He is a member of the Acme Lodge No. 83, A. F. and A. M., is a Republican in politics and a member of St. Paul's Lutheran Church. At Michigan City, June 18, 1914, he married Miss Florence Dabbert, daughter of John W. and Lena (Ginther) Dabbert. Her father for many years has been with the Peters & Marshke Boiler Company of Michigan City, and both parents are members of St. John's Church. Mrs. Kahn finished her education in the Michigan City High School. She is a member of St. Paul's Lutheran Church. The three children of Mr. and Mrs. Kahn are June Marian, John Alfred and Marjorie Ann. June is a member of the high school class of 1932 and plans a career as a teacher. The two other children are in the grade schools.

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

WILLIAM B. MANNY, president of the Manny Realty & Investment Company, has been a prominent figure in the business and civic life of Michigan City for half a century. He was a leader in the development work which gave Michigan City greatly increased scope for expansion as an industrial and residential center.

Mr. Manny was born at St. Joseph, Michigan, August 3, 1862, son of William C. and Mary (Bloom) Manny. His maternal ancestry includes some famous names in New England Colonial history. His mother was a granddaughter of Jeremiah and Atossa (Nichols) Porter. Jeremiah Porter, who was an early settler at Waukegan, Illinois, was a descendant of Israel Porter, whose father, John Porter, was one of the first settlers at Salem, Massachusetts. Israel Porter was one of the grandfathers of Gen. Israel Putnam of the Revolutionary war. The wife of Israel Porter was Elizabeth Hawthorne, daughter of Maj. William Hawthorne, of the same family from which was descended the great American author, Nathaniel Hawthorne. A great-grandmother of Jeremiah Porter was Hannah Endicott, who was the great-grandchild of Gov. John Endicott of Massachusetts, and also great-granddaughter of Rev. Samuel Skelton, the first minister at Salem.

William B. Manny has lived at Michigan City since 1872. He graduated from high school in 1879, and following that for thirty-seven years was an employee of the Monon Railway, working in the accounting, operating and traffic departments. For many years he was general agent of the railway at Michigan City. Many years ago he and I. I. Spiro acquired large tracts of land on the east and west lake fronts of Michigan City. For many years a famous landmark that located Michigan City both to lake and land travel was the "Hoosier Slide," an immense sand dune. It was a picturesque attraction, but it interfered with Michigan City's expansion, and Mr. Manny was primarily responsible for the work of removing this great heap of sand. It was a project that went on for upwards of thirty years and its site is now covered largely with buildings representing one of the major projects carried out through Mr. Manny's firm.

The Manny Realty & Investment Company, of which Mr. Manny is president, has been one of the organizations handling real estate and other phases of financial operations in this district. Mr. Manny was formerly secretary and treasurer of the Producers Core Sand Corporation; was vice president of the Utilities Building Company and the Franklin Realty Company, and a director of the Michigan City Trust & Savings Bank and of the Home Building & Loan Association.

In 1921 Mr. Manny served nine months as city manager of Michigan City, resigning the office on account of his pressing business interests. At all times he has been a liberal and generous participant in civic enterprises. Mr. Manny is a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason, member of the Rotary Club, Chamber of Commerce, Pottawattomie Country Club, Traffic Club of Chicago, and the Indiana Society of Chicago. On Sheridan Beach he has a summer home, a log cabin, which he has preserved as one of the oldest landmarks in Michigan City.

Mr. Manny married Olive K. Priest. She died in 1902, leaving two sons, Norman P. and Carter Hugh. In November, 1903, Mr. Manny married Lula Moore Finley, daughter of Edwin and Harriet (Tibbets) Moore, of LaPorte. Her death occurred in January, 1927. In 1929 Mr. Manny married Miss Martha Deutcher, of Pasadena, California.

Mr. Manny's older son, Norman P. Manny, died in 1917. He left two children, Mary Jane and William Norman, who have been reared by Mr. William B. Manny.

Carter Hugh Manny was born at Michigan City, August 19, 1891. He graduated from the Michigan City High School in 1909, had two years of special work in the University of Pennsylvania, and since leaving school has been associated with his father in the sand and lumber business. He has offices in Michigan City and in the McCormick Building at Chicago. He is a member of the Michigan City Chamber of Commerce, the B. P. O. Elks, Pottawattomie Country Club, and was a charter member of the Rotary Club. He is a Republican.

Carter Hugh Manny married at Michigan City, September 9, 1914, Miss Ada Gage Barnes, daughter of Harry M. and Ella (Kimball) Barnes. Harry Barnes was formerly lumber agent for the Haskell & Barker Car Company. He died in 1926 and is buried in the Greenwood Cemetery, and his widow resides at Michigan City. Mrs. Manny attended the grammar and high schools of Michigan City. She is an active member of the First Methodist Episcopal Church and as a gifted singer takes a prominent part in musical affairs, particularly the Monday Musical Club. Mr. and Mrs. Carter H. Manny have one son, Carter R., Jr., born in November, 1918, now a student in the Junior High School.

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

FRANK SMITH BOGARDUS was one of Indiana's foremost educators. In the years immediately preceding his death, which occurred March 18, 1931, he had been head of the department of social studies, dean of the faculty and professor of history and economics at the Indiana State Teachers College at Terre Haute.

Less than fifty-seven years measured his life span, but the value of his work and influence could not be reckoned merely in terms of years. He was born at Springfield, Illinois, August 30, 1874, and attended the elementary schools at Springfield and graduated from the Springfield High School. Later he completed the work of the Illinois State Normal University at Normal and in 1904 received his A. B. degree at the University of Illinois. In 1928 he won the Master of Arts degree at Indiana University, and subsequently pursued graduate studies in the University of Chicago and Harvard University. His career as an educator began in the rural schools of Sangamon County, Illinois, after which he was principal of village schools at Metamora, principal of the graded school at Danville, Illinois, and for several years was a member of the teaching staff of the Illinois State Normal University, acting as principal of its training school and as teacher of history.

In 1904 he was called to the Indiana State Normal School at Terre Haute to become head of the department of European history. When the history courses were reorganized in 1916- 17 and the departments of United States and European history combined he became head of the history department. He was chosen dean of the faculty in 1921, when Dr. L. N. Hines became president of the Normal School.

During the World war Professor Bogardus was appointed a member of a committee of five to prepare a general course of instruction relative to war work and was also selected as district governor of war issues courses, enlisted and regular division, general staff. Later he was appointed educational consultant on the general staff.

He was interested in the reorganization of the college courses to meet the changing conditions, assisting both former President Parsons and President Hines in this work. As the Terre Haute Star said in an editorial: "Dean Bogardus was popular with the student body and with the faculty alike, and his great scholastic ability was recognized by all with whom he came in contact. While the teaching of history had been Dean Bogardus' life's work, he had found time to do considerable writing on historical subjects. Several years ago he and W. H. Mace brought out a history of the United States. Professor Bogardus made a complete revision of this book three years ago, which met with success throughout the Middle West. The dean also contributed many articles to magazines and to historical societies. His last article was on the life of Daniel Voorhees, read before the Indiana Historical Society at its meeting in Indianapolis in December, 1930." At one time he was president of the Exchange Club of Terre Haute and otherwise active in the civic life of the city.

What his career meant to the Indiana State Teachers College, with which he was so intimately identified for over a quarter of a century, is well expressed in the words of the resolutions read at the memorial services in Chapel Hall:

”Dean F. S. Bogardus was a great educator, a man of intellectual acumen and integrity. Himself a scholar, he graciously appreciated scholarship in his colleagues and courteously but firmly demanded it from the students. His lhand was always on the pulse of this college, and he gave himself unsparingly, we now know, to its work. As dean of this faculty for ten years he made a laudable record. To his devoted service the college owes much for its high place among the teacher-training institutions of our land. He stood for things fundamentally sound in education. His clarity of vision and his ability to penetrate quickly to the heart of a problem were outstanding characteristics. Through and through he was a teacher -a teacher among teachers, a man among men.

"He was, moreover, a man of large and generous soul. He had a gift for friendship. We gratefully remember the amiable light in his eyes and the overflowing warmth of his response to any matter of common personal interest. He loved children and knew how to win their affection. His fatherhood was a source of constant wonder and unfailing satisfaction to us all. He spoke a language pure and concise, and adorned our English speech with clear and original patterns. He was an indomitable fighter to the last; moral courage and outspoken honesty marked him everywhere he went and lighted the torch of leadership in his hand."

Dean Bogardus married Minnie Weyl, and their home was at 2312 North Tenth Street, Terre Haute. There are three children: Franklin Forden,. who graduated with the degree of Mechanical Engineering from the Rose Polytechnic Institute in 1924, is a resident of Connersville, married Helen Eikenberry and has one son, John Franklin; Dr. George Stephen, a dental surgeon at Indianapolis, married Stella Lamb; and Frederick James, a member of the class of 1932 in the mechanical engineering course at Rose Polytechnic Institute.

Mrs. Bogardus has also been well known in the educational life of Indiana. During 1920-22 she was head of the history department at the Ball Teachers College at Muncie. She is a member of the Woman's Department Club of Terre Haute, the Faculty Wives Club of the Indiana State Teachers College, and was president of the Terre Haute Y. W. C. A. in 1929.

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

JAMES A. VAN OSDOL is an Indiana lawyer, a former president of the Indiana State Bar Association, and is general attorney for the Indiana Railroad, successor to the Union Traction Company of Indiana.

Mr. Van Osdol was born on a farm in Ohio County, Indiana, and the family have been identified with Indiana since the beginning of its statehood. His great-grandfather, Benjamin Van Osdol was born in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, August 9, 1777, and came to Indiana the year before the territory was admitted to the Union, being one of the first settlers in that portion of Dearborn County subsequently set aside as Ohio County. Nathan Allen Van Osdol, grandfather of the Anderson attorney, was born in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, May 25, 1813, and spent his active life as a farmer in Southern Indiana. He died December 10, 1887. His wife, Elizabeth Crowley, was born in Clark County, Virginia, September 26, 1818, and they reared a family of nine children.

Boston W. Van Osdol, father of James A., was born in Ohio County, and was a Union soldier in the Civil war, serving in Company E of the Fiftieth Indiana Regiment. He was with his command three years and three months, and after his honorable discharge resumed the threads of civilian activity as a farmer in Ohio County, where he lived until his death at the age of eighty-one. He married Rachel Jenkins, who was born in Ohio County, daughter of John and Melinda (Cooper) Jenkins, who came to Indiana from Pennsylvania. John Jenkins acquired a tract of land seven miles west of Rising Sun, developed a fine farm and erected one of the first brick houses in that vicinity. Mrs. Rachel Van Osdol lived to be sixty years of age.

James A. Van Osdol grew up on a Southern Indiana farm, attended a one-room country school, but the horizon of his opportunities was not limited by his environment. At the age of seventeen he qualified as a teacher and for seven years taught school part of the year and the rest of the time worked on the home farm. He also took up the study of law, and in 1883 was admitted to the bar. He began practice at Vevay in Switzerland County, in 1884. While practicing law there he served a term as county superintendent of schools. In 1893 Mr. Van Osdol moved to Elwood, Madison County, and since 1895 his home has been in Anderson. He was one of the incorporators of the Union Traction Company, and has been the general attorney of that corporation and its successors. Mr. Van Osdol has been honored with many positions testifying to his standing as a lawyer and public spirited citizen. He has been president of the Indiana State Chamber of Commerce, was the first chairman of the Madison County Chapter of American Red Cross, from 1917 to 1930; was first president of the City Plan Commission of Anderson; was a member of the Indiana Education Survey Commission, created by the 1921 General Assembly; is chairman of the Governor's Law Enforcement Commission, and has served as vice president of the National Association for Constitutional Government, with headquarters at Washington. He is a Republican, a Rotarian, is president of the Maplewood Cemetery Association, member 6f the Anderson Tourist Club, the Columbia Club of Indianapolis and the Knights of Pythias.

He married in June, 1894, Mrs. Mary F. (Gould) Goodin, who was born at Osgood, Ripley County, Indiana, daughter of Sylvester and Rebecca Gould. They have one son, named Gould, who is a graduate of Indiana University and now in the insurance business. Mr. Van Osdol by a former marriage has a son, Robert, while Mrs. Van Osdol by a former marriage had a son, Donald Goodin.

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

FRED C. MARTIN is vice president of the Boyd-Martin Boat Company, an interesting and prosperous industry at Delphi, manufacturing a line of products that has served to make Delphi widely known as a manufacturing center.

Mr. Martin was born at Logansport, Indiana, May 20, 1886, son of James P. and Zeura (Booth) Martin. His father was 'born in 1836 and for many years was in the stoneware business in Logansport. Fred C. Martin grew up at Logansport, graduated from high school there and completed his education in the University of Chicago. When he was twenty-four years of age he entered a business career which has brought him an interesting diversity of experience. For three years he was with F. S. Bowse & Company, handling oil tanks and pumps. Next he spent four years as an employee of Roberts, Johnson Rand Shore Company of St. Louis. In 1912 he took a Ford car agency, and was in the automobile business five years. He left that to establish the American Top & Body Company and during the next nine years operated this business, manufacturing a custom line of automobile bodies and tops.

Mr. Martin has been a boat manufacturer since 1926. He has been vice president of the Boyd-Martin Boat Company since it was incorporated. At Delphi this company has a plant with 17,000 square feet of floor space, employing about 75 persons, and turning out 1,500 boats of different types and kinds annually. The Boyd-Martin boats are a very superior type of water craft, and the company does a considerable business. exporting as well as with the domestic trade.

Mr. Martin is a Knight Templar Mason and Shriner. During the World war he was identified with the Liberty Bond campaigns.

He married Miss Mary Frances Boyd, who was born and reared at Delphi. Their two children are: Boyd, born in 1915, a student in the Junior High School, and Barbara, born in 1925.

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

LEON FRANCIS BARBAZETTE was born at Terre Haute, February 22, 1890, and died May 1, 1931, at Phoenix, Arizona. In his native city he achieved distinction in the medical profession, and as a specialist his fame extended well over Western Indiana.

Doctor Barbazette's' parents were John Louis and Anna (O'Brien) Barbazette. His mother lives at Terre Haute. His father was born in that city, son of a Frenchman, who on coming to Indiana first settled at Vincennes and then at Terre Haute. John Louis Barbazette was a live stock dealer and feeder, and for many years was a leader in the Republican party of Vigo County. He was always active in civic and public affairs and was on the ticket as presidential elector in 1920, during the Harding campaign. John Louis Barbazette died May 3, 1926.

Leon Francis Barbazette was educated in the Wiley High School at Terre Haute, was graduated with the degree of Pharmaceutical Chemist from Notre Dame University in 1911, and received his M. D. degree at St. Louis University in 1915. He had his training and experience as an interne in St. Anthony's Hospital of Terre Haute and in September, 1917, was commissioned a first lieutenant and sent to the Medical Officers Training Corps at Fort Benjamin Harrison. In November of the same year he was transferred to Vancouver Barracks in Washington and remained on duty in the Northwest until December, 1918, when he was sent to Camp Dodge, Iowa, and honorably discharged. Doctor Barbazette following his service with the colors went to New York City for special post-graduate work in the New York Skin and Cancer Hospital and the New York Polyclinic. From the time he took up active practice at Terre Haute he limited his work largely to dermatology and urology, and was the leading specialist in those lines in the city.

After beginning practice he attended many clinics. He was a member of the Terre Haute Academy of Medicine, the Vigo County, Indiana State and American Medical Associations, belonged to the Esculapian Society, and was on the staff of St. Anthony's Hospital. He belonged to the Exchange Club, Knights of Columbus, was a Republican and a member of St. Joseph's Catholic Church. Doctor Barbazette married at Terre Haute, July 26, 1916, Miss Anne W. Larr, daughter of Frank and Iva (Wheeler) Larr, both natives of Clay County, Indiana. Frank Larr for many years was a locomotive engineer and is now living retired at Terre Haute.

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

REV. DONALD CAMERON FORD since August, 1920, has been pastor of the First Christian Church of Michigan City. He has labored there with splendid results and for the accomplishment of the higher ideals of the organization for nearly half the period of the existence of the church.

This church was organized August 11, 1907, in a tent meeting, and when G. E. Groves began his ministry as the first pastor, on September 1 of that year, the congregation held services in the Maccabee Hail. Following the resignation of Mr. Groves, on March 1, 1908, W. H. Knapp was pastor until R. C. Snodgrass became the regular pastor. During the ministry of Mr. Snodgrass the church home was an old saloon building and "the church in a saloon" continued to grow nevertheless. Afterwards services were held in the K. C. Hall, and the first permanent building was the old Swedish Methodist Church. Following the resignation of Mr. Snodgrass, on August 1, 1909, Doctor E. T. Murphy and J. H. Clark were the pastors. George F. Chandler began his notable ministry as pastor in 1912 and served until June, 1916. In the meantime the church had built the edifice at 1411 Pine Street. B. F. Nickerson was pastor for two years, being followed by John F. Bellville, who resigned in August, 1920, at which time the church called Rev. Donald C. Ford.

When Rev. Mr. Ford took the pastorate the church had a membership of about 200. During the past decade the church has grown and strengthened and under Mr. Ford plans were matured for a new and more adequate building, at the corner of Cedar and Eleventh streets, where a splendid church has been built.

Rev. Mr. Ford when he came to Michigan City had been in the ministry for eight years. He is a man of broad scholarship, and is not only a minister of the Gospel, but a civil and construction engineer. He was licensed as an engineer in 1922 and during the first year of his pastorate at Michigan City he served as city engineer.

Rev. Mr. Ford was born in Clark County, Illinois, June 14, 1890. From Illinois he moved to Oklahoma and lived at Tulsa, where his mother owns several farms and other property. The parents of Mr. Ford were Methodists, and in Tulsa they are active members of the Pentecostal Church. Of their four children one died in infancy. Roy Ford, an oil man at Tulsa, is married and has four children. Mrs. Bertha Rockwell is deceased.

Donald C. Ford attended the Northwestern Oklahoma State Normal at Alva and in 1912 was ordained a minister of the Church of Christ at Gary, Indiana. For two and a half years he was pastor of the Tolleston Christian Church in Gary. On resigning he entered the Tri-State Normal College at Angola, Indiana, where he spent four years and graduated with the A. B. degree in 1918. ln the fall of 1918 he was graduated from the Chaplains Training School at Louisville, Kentucky, and was assigned duty at Camp Taylor, but while at home at Angola was stricken with the influenza and the war was over before he had recovered and was in readiness for active duty. He returned to Louisville, where he received his honorable discharge. ln 1922 Mr. Ford received the degree Bachelor of Sacred Literature from the International Christian Bible College at Minneapolis and in 1923 earned the Master of Arts degree at the university at Eugene, Oregon. After the war he was pastor of the Christian Church at Ashland, Kentucky, for two years, leaving there to accept the call of the church at Michigan City.

Rev. Mr. Ford for several years has given all his time and energies to the great work of building up and administering the affairs of his church. He formerly took an active part in clubs and other local organizations, including the Rotary Club, the Masonic fraternity, Knights of Pythias, Loyal Order of Moose and the American Legion. In 1927 he was elected a delegate to the Republican State Convention.

At St. Joseph, Michigan, November 27, 1909, he married Miss Dimple Fay Sanford, daughter of William and Hattie (Warner) Sanford. Her parents were farmers near Buchanan, Michigan. Her mother died in 1927 and her father now lives with Mr. and Mrs. Ford. Mrs. Ford was educated in the rural schools near Buchanan. She is an active worker in the Christian Church and a member of the Ladies' Aid Society. Mr. and Mrs. Ford have six children, Lester Hiram, Donald Raymond, Harold Warren, Helen Fay, Ruth Eleanor and Betty June. Lester H., born December 9, 1910, graduated from the Michigan City High School in 1929 and is now a sophomore in Butler University at Indianapolis, studying for the ministry. On August 15, 1931, Lester Hiram Ford was united in marriage with Alice Ray, of Indianapolis, Indiana. Donald Raymond, born June 27, 1913, is a member of the high school class of 1932. Harold Warren, born September 1, 1915, is in the class of 1933. The younger children are in the grade schools. Helen F. was born November 8, 1919, Ruth E., June 26, 1922, and Betty J., July 26, 1924.
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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

CHARLES WARREN FAIRBANKS, former vice president of the United States, was born near Unionville Center, Union County, Ohio, May 11, 1852, son of Loriston Monroe and Mary Adelaide (Smith) Fairbanks. The boy was a strong and vigorous youth with a predominating love for books. At the age of fifteen he was ready to enter the Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware, and was graduated there in 1872. With the help of his uncle, William Henry Smith, who was general manager of the Western Associated Press, he secured a position as agent of the press association at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; and later at Cleveland, Ohio. Here he found ample time while agent to pursue the study of law, and after spending one term in the Cleveland Law School, was admitted to the bar by the Supreme Court of Ohio in 1874. He began the practice of his profession in Indianapolis. He is said to have had but one criminal case during his whole law experience, his conspicuous bent being in the direction of industrial, transportation and commercial affairs. Large institutions in Indiana and the surrounding states became his clients and he conducted their suits and guided their operations with wise and farseeing judgment.

For some time he kept aloof from politics, except to take part in the caucuses and movements of his party in his immediate neighborhood, but in 1888 he took charge of the presidential campaign of his friend, Walter Q. Gresham. Mr. Fairbanks was an influential participant in every campaign of his party since that time. He was a delegate to all of the national conventions after 1896, except those of 1908 and 1916, when he was a candidate. He secured the Indiana delegates for McKinley in 1896 and at the latter's personal request was made temporary chairman of the St. Louis convention at which he delivered what is known as the "keynote" speech of the campaign. In 1892, in a speech before the Indiana state convention, Mr. Fairbanks warned his party and the country against the tendency of both parties toward free silver, and in 1896 he prepared and pushed through the convention of his state one of the first anti-free silver platforms adopted in this country. The party leaders attempted to induce him to omit any reference to silver, fearing that an anti-silver plank would defeat the ticket, but he carried it to a decisive victory; recovering the Legislature of his state from the Democrats and receiving the election to the United States Senate on January 20, 1897, by a unanimous vote of the Republican members. He took his seat while Major McKinley was being sworn in as President, and always remained a firm supporter of the national administration. In the convention which met in Philadelphia in 1900 he was made chairman of the committee on resolutions which reported the platform on which McKinley was re-nominated and re-elected by a triumphant majority. In 1902 he was a candidate to succeed himself and carried the Legislature by the largest majority but one in its history and was unanimously re-elected on January 20, 1903. In the Senate he served as chairman of the committee on immigration and on the committees on census, claims, geological survey and public buildings and grounds and a member of the committees on the judiciary Pacific Island and Porto Rico, relations survey. In 1903, while continuing as chairman of the committee on public buildings changed to the judiciary, foreign relations, Canadian relations, coast and insular survey, geological survey and immigration. His first speech in the Senate was in opposition to Senator Morgan's resolution directing the President to recognize the belligerency of the Cuban insurgents. When the bill that provided for constructing the Panama Canal was under consideration he gave it his earnest support, and offered an amendment which provided for the issuance of bonds to partially defray the expense of the enterprise, thereby, eliminating the danger of having to suspend the work of construction for the want of ready funds and spreading the cost over the future instead of loading the entire burden upon the people of today. Under the protocol of May, 1898, a joint high commission was to be appointed by the United States and Great Britain for settling the Alaska boundary djspute and eleven other matters that had been irritating the two countries, such as the fur seal, Northeastern fisheries, reciprocal mining rights, bonding goods for transit through each other's territory, the Rush-Bagot agreement of 1817 restricting armed vessels on the Great Lakes, reciprocity, etc. President McKinley appointed Senator Fairbanks a member and chairman of this commission.

In the Republican party convention of 1904 Mr. Fairbanks was unanimously nominated vice president as the running mate of Theodore Roosevelt. He was elected by a large plurality and discharged the duties of his office with dignity and a true sense of fairness. In 1908 his name was prominently mentioned for the presidential nomination. After his retirement from office, accompanied by Mrs. Fairbanks, he made a tour of the world. In 1916 he was again nominated for vice president on the ticket with Judge Charles E. Hughes.

Mr. Fairbanks married in 1874 Cornelia, daughter of Judge P. B. Cole of Marysville, Ohio. She was a graduate of Ohio Wesleyan University and active worker in the affairs of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution and its president for two terms, 1901-1905; a promoter of the Junior Republic movement and prominent in benevolent activities. She died in 1913. Mr. Fairbanks died at his Indianapolis home June 4, 1918.

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

BENJAMIN HARRISON, President of the United States 1889-93, was the grandson of William Henry Harrison. His father, John Scott Harrison, was born at Vincennes, October 4, 1804. He was born August 20, 1833, and passed his childhood on his father's farm, getting his rudimentary education at a log school house in the neighborhood. After two years at Farmers College, at College Hill, near Cincinnati, he entered Miami University, from which he graduated in 1852. He at once entered on the study of law, and was admitted to the bar in 1853. In the same year he married Caroline, daughter of Rev. J. W. Scott, and in the year following located at Indianapolis. Here he soon attained standing and in 1860, was elected Reporter of the Supreme Court. Soon after, he had a political debate with Thomas A. Hendricks, which gave him a State reputation as a speaker. He entered the United States service as second lieutenant, in July, 1862, and assisted in organizing the Seventieth Indiana, of which he was made Colonel in August. He gave satisfactory service in Kentucky and Tennessee; led a desperate charge at Resaca, on May 15, 1864, in which one-third of his command were killed or wounded; commanded a brigade at Kenesaw Mountain, and Peachtree Creek, and on January 23, 1865, was brevetted Brigadier- General "for ability and manifest energy and gallantry in command of brigade." He was reelected Reporter in 1864; was the unsuccessful Republican candidate for Governor in 1876; member of the Mississippi River Commission in 1878; and United States Senator 1881-87. e was easily the most prominent man in his party during this period, in Indiana, and had the enthusiastic support of the Indiana Republicans for the Presidential nomination in 1888. Blaine was named as a candidate, but withdrew, and threw his support to Harrison, who was nominated. After his term he returned to Indianapolis, where he died in 1901.

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