As a matter of record the following digest of the family genealogy is included. Sylvester Johnson was born November 28, 1800, near New London, Connecticut, and died in 1883 at Crystal Lake, Pennsylvania. He was a business man, interested in several enterprises, and also operated a. farm. He married in September, 1831, Miss Louisa Wood, born April 13, 1809, and died at Crystal Lake, Pennsylvania, also. Sylvester Johnson was the son of Stephen Johnson, born November 14, 1772, and died April 19, 1863, at the age of ninety. He married at Plainfield, Connecticut, October 31, 1798, Miss Experience Wheeler, who was born October 31, 1772 and died April 6, 1850. The Wheeler family is said to be the founders of the town of Stoninton, Connecticut. Stephen Johnson was the son of Sylvester Johnson, born September 21, 1728, and died January 2, 1815. The Johnson family had not distinguished themselves in history or in the business world until the generation of Mr. Mead Johnson and his brothers, but they were always of the hardy, true American stock of hard working, God-fearing, useful citizens that make the real back-bone of the development of our great nation. It is from the ranks of modest folks like these that true eminence springs.

The Wood family history, however, is a little more colorful. Louisa Wood, mother of Edward Mead Johnson, was the daughter of James Wood, who was born about 1777 at Goshen, New York, and died in 1836 at Newburgh, New York.

James Wood was the son of Joseph Wood, who was born December 1, 1744, and died September 13, 1825. Joseph Wood was the son of Timothy Wood, who was born at Huntington, Long Island; July 17, 1683, and died in 1780. Timothy Wood was one of the early settlers of Goshen, Orange County, New York. He was the son of Jonas Wood, Jr., who was born in 1.640 and died in 1712. Jonas Wood was a lieutenant of Suffolk County troops in 1684 and in 1690 he was elected one of three commissioners "to take care of all affairs rellaitting to ye publicke good of the towne," as recorded in the minutes of the town meeting. He held several other public offices at various times. His father was Jonas Wood., Sr., who was born in 1595 in Yorkshire, England, and came to Stamford, Connecticut, in 1630, thence to Hempstead, Long Island. He died in Huntington in 1689, at the age of ninety-four.

It was concerning Joseph Wood, great- grandfather of Mr. Johnson, that history has considerable to record, as he was a major in the Revolutionary war and one of the leading citizens of Goshen at that time. He married Elinor Tusten, daughter of Benjamin Tusten, Sr., another of the leading families of Goshen in Revolutionary times. The only brother of Elinor Tusten, Benjamin Tusten, Jr., was a physician and a lieutenant colonel in the Revolutionary war, and died in a terrible bloody battle of that war, in which his entire army was destroyed by a combination of British and Indians who outnumbered the Goshen defenders heavily. This was known as the Minisink Battle.

Edward Mead Johnson grew up on the farm as one of eleven children and received his early education in the country schools. His first job, outside the farm, was as a school teacher in a rural school. After a year of teaching he worked with the official engineering corps of a coal company at Carbondale. He financed his way through the University of Michigan by his own earnings in engineering work and graduated with a degree in law in 1876. He decided, however, to enter the business world instead of the legal. The opportunity soon presented itself when his brother, R. W. Johnson, who had started in the drug business in Poughkeepsie, New York, gave him employment with his firm. This business had operated under the name of Seabury & Johnson. He later joined with another brother, James W. Johnson, in founding, in 1893, the Johnson & Johnson Company, which has since become world famous as manufacturers of drugs and pharmaceutical supplies. Headquarters of this company were established in New Brunswick, New Jersey.

In 1900 E. Mead Johnson withdrew from the Johnson & Johnson Company to establish the Mead Johnson Company in Jersey City, New Jersey. By 1911 this firm began to specialize in infant diet materials, including Dextri-Maltose (malt sugar), the infant food for which the company is chiefly known today. During the war the demand for Dextri- Maltose was greatly increased and the Mead Johnson Company turned to wheat and corn to augment the supply, which made it more desirable for the factory to be located nearer the grain producing areas. Mr. Johnson selected Evansville as the best spot for his new factory, which he located here in 1915, production starting in May, 1916.

Mr. Johnson has been a resident of Evansville since 1916 and as such he has always shown a keen interest in the business and civic welfare of the community. Seeing the strategical position of Evansville as a river shipping point, the harbor there being free from ice the year round, he contributed a half million dollars to the building of what is known as the Mead Johnson Terminal for handling water, rail and truck freight, with warehouse and handling facilities of the latest design. This great civic asset was opened to the public with general celebration on February 27, 1931. On that day the Evansville Courier carried a ten-page special section devoted to the details of the event. The terminal was never planned by Mr. Johnson as a profit-making venture for his company or himself, as he hardly expected it to pay its own expenses, but to meet an urgent civic need. The use to which the terminal has been put since it was opened has more than justified Mr. Johnson's faith in constructing it as a means of enlarging the commerce of the city.

Another expression of his civic interest is to be found in his donation of the Public Health Nursing Association Building and much of its furnishings, and many other similar causes which he has assisted.

Besides his manufacture of baby food, of which 10,000,000 packages annually are distributed, Mr. Johnson is a stockholder in several banks and has property in Florida and Michigan.

Mr. Johnson married in 1884 Miss Francine Lambert, daughter of John Lambert, who was a native of France and who served in the Confederate army during the American Civil war. To this union were born three children: Edward Mead, Jr., born in 1890 and died November 2, 1930, was vice president of the Mead Johnson Company at the time of his death. He married Katherine Moran, of San Antonio, Texas, and had a son, Edward Mead III, born in 1917. The second son of Mr. Johnson, Sr., is Lambert D., born in 1892, who is now vice president and treasurer of the Mead Johnson Company and who married Evelyn Iglehart, of Evansville, and their three children are Lambert, Jr., born in 1921; Edgar Iglehart, born in 1924; and Gloria, born in 1926. The third son of Mr. Johnson is James Wood, who served with the Aviation Corps during the war but is now giving most of his time to literary work. He married Camille de Bullet, a French woman, and they purchased and occupy the house formerly occupied by Premier Clemenceau during the war, which was built during the reign of Louis XVI but recently modernized. They have two children: Francis, born in 1922, and Camille, born in 1929.

Mr. Johnson, Sr., subsequently married Helena Dalton, a native of Brooklyn, New I York, daughter of John and Helena Dalton.

Mr. Johnson has been an independent in politics. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity.

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INDIANA ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OF AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT Vol. 4
By Charles Roll, A.M.
The Lewis Publishing Company, 1931

JOSEPH DREHER, is a Vigo County citizen who early learned the lessons of self-dependence and self-help. He early realized that success is rarely a benefice but something to be earned and deserved. Mr. Dreher has been one of the county's ablest and most diligent public officials and is now serving in the office of sheriff.

He was born, January 29,1874, on a farm near Tecumseh in Fayette Township, Vigo County, son of Ottmar and Pauline (Miller) Dreher. Both parents were born in Germany.

His father came to this country in 1852, when about twenty-two years of age, while his wife accompanied her family from Wurttemberg. Ottmar Dreher learned the trade of cooper and brewer, and on locating at Terre Haute was employed by several firms and organizations. Later he moved to Tecumseh, and was identified with a large cooperage plant there. Tecumseh remained his home the rest of his life. He was interested in farming and developed a very valuable vineyard in that part of the county. He and his wife are buried in the Shepher Cemetery in Fayette Township. There were seven children: Freda, deceased, Sophia, William, Carl, deceased, Louis, Mary and Joseph.

Joseph Dreher attended just one school, the Hayes School in Fayette Township. Much of his early training was directed by his father, who was a man of intelligence and much learning and well read. All the time he was in school he was working on the home farm. Later he learned the trade of barber and all the time he followed that occupation he was employed in one shop, at Terre Haute.

Mr. Dreher since early manhood has been interested in politics. He had many friends all over the county as well as in the city, and in 1916 was for the first time a candidate for public office. He was elected sheriff of Vigo County and gave the county a very efficient administration during the next four years. This administration covered the World war period, when the sheriff had many extraordinary duties in addition to his routine work. Mr. Dreher in 1924 was again the object of the people's confidence when he was elected county auditor, holding that office four years. In 1928 he was again elected sheriff and his term in office expires in 1932.

Mr. Dreher married, June 17,1903, at Terre Haute, Gertrude Neukom, daughter of Jacob and Christina (Schulemeyer) Neukom. To their marriage were born six children: Carl, who married Madaline Mooter and has daughter, Mary Ann; Pauline, Josephine, Gertrude and Joseph; Jr. One child, Louis, died at the age of nineteen.

Mr. Dreher is an interested communicant at Saint Benedicts Catholic Church at Terre Haute. He belongs to the Knights of Columbus, Young Men's Institute, Improved Order of Red Men, Knights of Pythias, and B. P. O. Elks No. 86, of Terre Haute. His home has been at 804 South Fourth Street ever since moving to Terre Haute.

INDIANA ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OF AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT Vol. 4
By Charles Roll, A.M.
The Lewis Publishing Company, 1931

CHARLES WINGATE CULBERTSON, now post-master of the City of Brazil, is a native of Indiana and has had a great deal of experience in public office, particularly as a Federal employee.

He was born in Putnam County, December 8, 1872. His grandparents, James and Emma (Lowry) Culbertson, came to Indiana from Pennsylvania and settled at Bedford, where his grandfather was a farmer and stock raiser. Robert H. Culbertson, father of the Brazil postmaster, studied medicine and during the Civil war was a surgeon in the Eightieth Indiana Regiment, with the rank of major. He saw service in the Army of the Cumberland. After the war he located at Bowling Green in Clay County and practiced medicine there until 1877, when he moved to Brazil. He possessed a thorough knowledge of medicine, and his experience brought him to a position where he was regarded as one of the ablest doctors in Central Indiana. He was still in active practice at the time of his death, September 30, 1899. He is buried in Crown Hill Cemetery in Indianapolis. Dr. Robert H. Culbertson married Eliza Wingate, and Charles W. was their only child.

Mr. Culbertson was educated in the grade and high schools, spent one year in Wabash College and in 1896 was graduated from Butler University. It was his desire to follow the profession of his father, and with that end view he entered the Bellevue Hospital Medical College of New York City. He gave up his studies to return home when his father died, and taking charge of his father's estate required several years. Eventually he abandoned his intention to follow a professional career and has been occupied with business and public duties. In 1921 he was appointed to a position in the internal revenue service at Terre Haute, resigning to become postmaster of Brazil in 1925. He has served as county chairman of the Republican party of Clay County and is a man who readily gives his support to civic undertakings. He is a thirty-second degree Knight Templar Mason and member of Murat Temple of the Shrine at Indianapolis. He is a member of the Chamber of Commerce, the Christian Church, the Phi Kappa Psi college fraternity, and B. P. O. Elks No. 762, of Brazil.

He married, November 30, 1905, Miss Frances M. Campbell, daughter of Alexander C. and Katherine (Barnhardt) Campbell. Her father came from Pennsylvania and for many was in the drug business at Brazil. The three children of Mr. and Mrs. Culbertson are named Katherine, Mary and Alice. Katherine is the wife of Dr. James F. Spigler, of Terre Haute. Mary is a graduate of Saint Mary of the Woods with the class of 1931 and Alice is a student in the Gulf Park School for Girls at Gulfport, Mississippi.

INDIANA ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OF AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT Vol. 4
By Charles Roll, A.M.
The Lewis Publishing Company, 1931

FLOYD B. DECKARD represents the third generation of the Deckard family in Sullivan County. It is a name that has been spoken with honor and respect in this section of Indiana for many years. Mr. Deckard is a prosperous farmer, a man of substantial civic character, and has been honored by his fellow citizens with the office of county commissioner of the Third District. Mr. Deckard's home is a farm of 142 acres, about nine miles southeast of Sullivan and near the Park Schoolhouse.

He is a son of George W. and Nancy (Robertson) Deckard. His father was born and reared on the same farm, being a son of John Wesley and Mahala (Butcher) Deckard. John Wesley Deckard moved to Sullivan County from Monroe County, Indiana. George W. Deckard spent his active life as a farmer and stock raiser. He and his wife are buried in the Hickory Cemetery in Sullivan County. They had six children: Alonzo, who married Eva Smith, is a farmer in Sullivan County; Floyd B.; Ina, wife of Frank Creager, of Sullivan, Indiana; Anna, wife of Ora Wolf, of Sullivan County; Elsie, who married George Boone, of Sullivan County; and Tilda, wife of Cornie Willis, of Sullivan County.

Floyd B. Deckard completed his education in the Park Schoolhouse, and after leaving school took up farm work. All during his school days he had an increasing share of duties and responsibilities on the home farm. When he was twenty-three years of age he bought his first land and later acquired his present farm, part of which was his father's old place, and he devotes his time to farming and stock raising. In addition to farming Mr. Deckard has worked in the coal mines, and usually has spent part of every winter in such work.

He is a Democrat in politics and has always been an influential factor in the party. The first time he was made a candidate for the office of county commissioner he made no special effort in the campaign, but in 1929 be entered heartily into the campaign and was elected by a good majority, taking his office on January 1, 1930. Mr. Deckard married, March 3, 1909, at Sullivan, Miss Ivy Boone, daughter of George P. and Belle (Mason) Boone, pioneers of Sullivan County, where George P. Boone was identified with farming until his death in 1906. His widow still survives and resides on the old Boone farm. To the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Deckard were born six children: George W., Neville E., Mildred L., Lester D., Frank B. and Raymond. All are living except Raymond, who died in infancy. Mr. and Mrs. Deckard are members of the Methodist Protestant Church at Hickory, and Mr. Deckard is serving on the board of trustees and served as superintendent of the Sunday School for a number of years.

INDIANA ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OF AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT Vol. 4
By Charles Roll, A.M.
The Lewis Publishing Company, 1931

ROBERT P. WHITE is postmaster of the City of Sullivan in Indiana. While he has held that office for several years, the community has chiefly associated his name with the local newspaper business. He is one of Indiana's prominent newspaper owners and publishers.

Mr. White has lived most of his life in Sullivan but was born in the City of Terre Haute, September 23, 1876. On both sides of his family he represents pioneer stock of Indiana. His grandparents, George and Naoma (Gunn) White, came to Indiana from Pennsylvania. His father, Samuel A. White, was reared in Terre Haute, and was in the grocery business there. From Terre Haute he moved to Carlisle, where he entered the general mercantile business. Subsequently, in 1882, he moved to Sullivan, where for many years he was in the drug business and where he helped organize the National Bank of that city and the Sullivan Loan & Trust Company and served as a director in both institutions several years. Samuel A. White was living retired at the time of his death, in 1913. His widow still survives him and is living at the old place in Sullivan. Samuel A. White married Rebecca M. Pearce and they had two children, Gertrude and Robert P. Gertrude is the wife of Niles Foster, of Chicago, Illinois. Rebecca M. Pearce was a daughter of Richard W. and Virginia (Haddon) Pearce. Richard W. Pearce was a Virginian, but lived for a time in Kentucky before coming to Indiana. Virginia Haddon was also from Virginia. She was born in 1816 and was a young girl when her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Haddon, settled in Sullivan County, Indiana. John Haddon was a soldier in the War of 1812 and one of the conspicuous pioneers of Sullivan County. Haddon Township was named for him and also the old community of Fort Haddon, a block house erected for protection against the Indians.

Robert P. White received his common school education at Sullivan, graduated from high school in 1896, and for several years was clerk in his father's drug business. However, mercantile life did not appeal to him so much as newspaper work. He spent a number of years in all branches of service with the Sullivan Democrat. In 1904 he and Dirrelle Chaney bought the Sullivan Union. He is now sole owner of that old established and influential weekly paper, which has continued strong in the cause of the Republican party since its inception just at the close of the Civil war, in 1866. Mr. White as a newspaper man has been interested in all phases of community life, politics as well, and has done some work in district and state affairs of his party, but has never sought active leadership as a party man. He was first appointed postmaster in 1922, during President Harding's administration. His commission was signed by Mr. Will Hays, Sullivan's most conspicuous contribution to the celebrities of the nation. Mr. Hays signed the commission just before he retired from the office of postmaster-general. Mr. White is now serving his third term, having been reappointed in 1926, by President Coolidge, and by President Hoover in 1930.

Mr. White is a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason, member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and B. P. O. Elks No. 911 of Sullivan, and 1930-31 served as exalted ruler. He married, June 16, 1906, at Sullivan, Miss Bertha Briggs, daughter of Dr. Charles F. and Josephine (Hinkle) Briggs. The Briggs and Hinkle families are of early pioneer stock of Sullivan County and prominent in public life.

INDIANA ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OF AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT Vol. 4
By Charles Roll, A.M.
The Lewis Publishing Company, 1931

FRANK YOHO is a merchant and business man of long and successful experience in Greene County. His home is at Solsberry. Mr. Yoho is also well known over the county as one of the present board of county commissioners of the First District..

He was born in Noble County, Ohio, October 28, 1866, and his parents came to Indiana the following year, settling in Monroe County. He is a son of Isaac M. and Sarah E. (Stephens) Yoho. His father was a son of Samuel and Jane (Cain) Yoho, and a grandson of Peter and Sallie (Morris) Yoho. PeterYoho was a native of Pennsylvania and moved across the mountains to Ohio at an early date. Samuel Yoho, an Ohio farmer, enlisted for service in the Mexican war, but saw no active duty. Isaac M. Yoho was born in Ohio, December 19, 1840. He was a Union soldier, enlisting in Company H of the One Hundred and Sixteenth Ohio Infantry, and later was with the Sixty-second Regiment. He was in the campaigns with the eastern armies. Isaac Yoho and wife had a family of eight children: Frank; Jennie, deceased wife of John R. Johnson; Dellie, who became the wife of Harry Orchard; Walter, who married Mary Campbell; Mayme, wife of Alfred Corwin; William, who married Bell Thompson; Oscar, who married Ola Cox; and Myrtle, who became the wife of Orville Barnes.

Frank Yoho grew up in Monroe County, Indiana, attended the Big Springs School, and after the family moved to Greene County finished his education in the Law School in Center Township. He had a regular assignment of duty on the home farm all the time he was in school. For four years he was a mail carrier, and in 1904 he bought from John H. Johnson a general store at Solsberry. He has been in business there for twenty-seven consecutive years. Mr. Yoho has always been interested in local affairs. He is a Republican in politics and is now serving his second term as county commissioner. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity, Solsberry Lodge No. 411, A. F. and A. M., and with the Improved Order of Red Men.

He married Miss Effie Frane, daughter of Jacob and Martha (Torrence) Frane. Mrs. Yoho died in 1912 and is buried in the Solsberry Cemetery.

INDIANA ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OF AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT Vol. 4
By Charles Roll, A.M.
The Lewis Publishing Company, 1931

WILLIAM EDWARD RAUCH was for a term of years actively identified with railroad service, in a clerical and executive capacity, and he has been since 1908 a resident of Anderson, the vital city that is the judicial center and industrial metropolis of Madison County. Here he was identified with manufacturing enterprises until 1924, when he purchased the business of Anderson News Company, which he has since continued under that title, his well equipped headquarters constituting the leading newspaper and periodical depot of the city and being situated at 901 Meridian Street.

Mr. Rauch, who is of staunch German ancestry in both paternal and maternal lines, was born at Arlington, Hancock County, Ohio, on the 21st of December, 1881, and is a son of Michael Catherine (Miller) Rauch, the former of whom was born and reared in Germany and the latter in Hancock County, Ohio, her father, Augustus Miller, having been born in Pennsylvania and his parents having been natives of Germany.

Michael Rauch received the advantages of the excellent schools of his native land and there also served the characteristically thorough German apprenticeship to the trade of boot and shoe maker. In accordance with the apprenticeship custom then in vogue in Germany he supplemented his technical training by working at his trade at various places, at each of which he duly received a certificate attesting his excellent character and his skilled workmanship. After this experience he returned to the place in which he had served his apprenticeship and there received his apprentice discharge, which marked him as a capable journeyman at this trade. He then, at the age of twenty years, came to the United States, and he was the only member of his immediate family to here establish residence. He soon made settlement at Arlington, Ohio, where he established himself in business as a custom boot and shoe maker, all work of this kind having in that period been done by hand and his honorable methods and superior products having enabled him to build up a very prosperous business. He continues as one of and influential citizens of Arlington, where he lives retired. Mr. and Mrs. Rauch became the parents of five children: William Edward, Martha, William Augustus, Mary Verlie and Roy.

William Edward Rauch received the advantages of the public schools of his native town, Arlington, Ohio, and thereafter completed a course in a business college at Lima, that state. He then entered the service of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, in the capacity of clerk in its offices at Elwood, Indiana, where he continued his service until 1908, when he removed to his present home City of Anderson, where, as previously stated, he was identified with manufacturing enterprise until he purchased his present newspaper and magazine agency, the business of which he has since continued successfully under the title of Anderson News Company. His agency handles local and outside daily papers, a full line of current magazines and also the various merchandise usually to be found in similar establishments.

Mr. Rauch has had no ambition for political activity of preferment but is a loyal supporter of the cause of the Democratic party. He is affiliated with Fellowship Lodge No. 681, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, in his home city, is a member of the local Rotary Club, and he and his wife are zealous members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

On the 19th of May, 1904, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Rauch to Miss Della Graffmiller, who was born in Hardin County, Ohio, a daughter of Rudolph and Caroline (Price) Graffmiller. Mr. and Mrs. Rauch have two daughters, Vera and Kathryn.

INDIANA ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OF AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT Vol. 4
By Charles Roll, A.M.
The Lewis Publishing Company, 1931

EARL EVERETT, of Muncie, is a native of that Indiana city and for the past ten years has carried on a successful insurance business, being owner and proprietor of the Everett General Insurance Agency.

He was born in Muncie April 14, 1890, son of Elias M. and Alice (Gray) Everett. His grandfather, William F. Everett, spent most of his life in Ohio. He died in 1925, and he and his wife are buried at the Allison Cemetery near Muncie. Elias M. Everett was born near Sidney, Ohio, had a public school education, and has lived in Delaware County since 1879. He was a farmer and stock raiser and still supervises his farming interests in Center Township. His wife, Alice Gray, was born in Delaware County, and was reared and educated there. She has always been much interested in the Methodist Episcopal Church. These parents had four sons, all of whom live at Muncie, Carl M., Earl, Roy A. and Lloyd.

Earl Everett was educated in the public schools when a boy on the farm, and his first occupation after leaving school and the farm was in the barber business. He has been an insurance man since 1920, has made a study of the whole field of insurance, has built up a very successful business, and the Everett General Insurance Agency today represents his efforts in that line. His business is located at 109 South High Street.

Mr. Everett has been interested in local affairs and in 1929 became a candidate for councilman at large. He is a Democrat, is a member of the Chamber of Commerce, the Optimist Club, is affiliated with Delaware Lodge No. 46, A. F. and A. M., the Masonic Grotto, Lodge No. 245, B. P. O. Elks, and the Fraternal Order of Eagles. He belongs to the Normal City Methodist Episcopal Church.

He married at Hartford City, Indiana, November 25, 1909, Miss Ethel Hutchins, of Blackford County, Indiana, daughter of Columbus and Ruth Hutchins. Her father died in Los Angeles, California, in 1926 and is buried in the West, and her mother continues to make her home in Los Angeles. They formerly lived in Muncie and her father was a farm owner in Blackford County. Mrs. Everett attended school in Muncie. She is a member of the Eastern Star, the Woman's Club, and is active in her church. Mr. and Mrs. Everett have two children, Alice V. and Mary Jane. Mary Jane is attending the public schools of Muncie. Alice graduated from high school in 1928 and is now a student in the Ball State Teachers College at Muncie, and is also a talented violin pupil of Professor Schaffer of Indianapolis.

INDIANA ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OF AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT Vol. 4
By Charles Roll, A.M.
The Lewis Publishing Company, 1931

Earl was born 4 14 1890 and died Nov. 1972 in Muncie, (SSDI) His wife Ethel Hutchens was born July 29, 1891 in Indiana, and died Nov. 1977 in Hollywood, Broward County, Florida-(SSDI) She was the daughter of Columbus F.Hutchens b. 8 24 1863 in Yadkin County, NC and died Jan. 11 1925 in Los Angeles, California, and Ruth Lucretia Hinshaw b. April 19 1864 in Yadkin County, NC and died Dec. 26, 1931 in Los Angeles, California.

Ruth was the daughter of Isaac Hinshaw b. 1829 in Surry County, NC died 1917 in Henry County, IN. and Hannah Matilda Huff b. 1830 in Surry County, NC and died 1917 in Henry County, IN.

ssac Hinshaw was the son of John Hinshaw b. 1801 Surry County, NC, died January 31, 1885 in Yadkin County, NC., and Hannah Carter b. abt 1805 and died June 22, 1885 in Yadkin County, NC.

Submitted by: Ron Collins
Yadkin County, NC

WILLIAM CRAIG, one of the leading merchants of the City of Muncie, was born in the City of London, England, April 27, 1886. His active business experience for many years connected him with hotels. From England Mr. Craig went to South Africa, and after his sojourn in that country came to the United States and soon afterward located in Muncie.

He is a son of George and Marian (Melville) Craig. His father was born and reared in Scotland, attended school there and, going to London, worked at his trade as cooper, this being his business through life. He died in 1906 and is buried in the Brockley Cemetery of London. Mrs. Marian Craig is still a resident of London. She was born in the United States and was a small child when her parents moved to London, where she grew up and attended school. She is a communicant of the Church of England. These parents had a large family of eleven children, two of whom died in infancy. Rose is Mrs. John P. Jackman, of Nutley, New Jersey; Frances, now Mrs. Dennis, lives in London; George Craig, also of London; John Patterson, of London; William; Frederick, of London; Elizabeth, wife of George Lord, of London; Arthur, of London; and James Wilson, who left London at the time of the World war, became a captain in the British forces, and after the war remained in the army, serving with the rank of adjutant, and was sent to India and later to Australia, where he died in 1927, as a result of the black water fever.

William Craig attended school at London and his first training for a business career was as a molder's apprentice. After three years he left that trade and for six years was in hotel work in his native city. About 1911 he went to South Africa, and for twelve years was in the hotel business at Droagveld.

Mr. Craig came to the United States in 1923 and for a few months was located at Anderson, Indiana. In December of that year he moved to Muncie and in March, 1924, bought the Central Meat Market, at 115 East Charles Street. This is a very prosperous business and is probably the largest enterprise of its kind in Muncie. Mr. Craig has impressed his tremendous business energy and progressive ideas as a merchant on his market, which is unsurpassed in point of equipment and service. He does both a wholesale and retail business and has a fleet of delivery trucks for prompt service. He is sole owner of the business.

Mr. Craig has identified himself with the progressive element in the civic affairs of Muncie, is a member of the Chamber of Commerce and Dynamo Club and the Grace Episcopal Church. He married in London, August 10, 1906, Miss Blanche Golding, of that city, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Golding, both of whom are deceased. Her father is buried in London and her mother died in 1919 and is buried in South Africa. Mrs. Craig attended school in London. She is a member of the Episcopal Church, but her chief interest is in her home and family. They have one son, William Arthur.

INDIANA ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OF AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT Vol. 4
By Charles Roll, A.M.
The Lewis Publishing Company, 1931

OSCAR CARR, farmer and real estate dealer at Newcastle, was a teacher for several years, and at all times has been a man respected for his character and the quality of his working relationships with his community.

Mr. Carr was born near Anderson in Madison County, Indiana, in 1875, son of Jasper L. and Amy L. (Stephenson) Carr. His father was born in Warren County, Ohio, and his mother in Madison County, Indiana, and he now lives at Anderson, at the age of seventy- eight. His father was an Indiana farmer and died in 1924, when eighty-two years of age.

Oscar Carr attended the grade and high schools at Anderson, was a student in the Spiceland Academy, and after normal training took up school work in country districts. He taught for seven years in district schools, and for six years was principal of the grade and high school of Markleville.

The intervals between his teaching terms were spent in farming in Madison County. In 1916 he moved to Henry County and bought his farm of eighty acres on rural route No. 8 out of Newcastle. He still owns this land, renting out the cultivated portion. He lives in his country home and in addition to farming was rural mail carrier until 1920, when he resigned. During the next four years his entire time was devoted to his farm and since 1924 he has operated a real estate office in Newcastle, in the Union Block. He deals in farm lands as a specialty and also handles a considerable business in city property.

Mr. Carr married in 1903 Miss Blanche Ritter, who was born in Madison County, Indiana, daughter of John and Aylsie (Simpson) Ritter. They have one son, Marquard, born November 4, 1912, now a student in the Newcastle High School. Mr. Carr is a member of the Modern Woodmen of America. He has been active in Democratic politics and in 1926 was county chairman of Henry County.

INDIANA ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OF AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT Vol. 4
By Charles Roll, A.M.
The Lewis Publishing Company, 1931

ORA C. NORTON is president and acting head of the Norton Agency, an old established and reliable organization at Muncie, offering a complete service in real estate and insurance. Mr. Norton is a native of Delaware County, and is known not only as a successful business man but also as a broad minded and public spirited citizen. He worked his way through school, left the farm to get into business and his record at all times has been such as to command respect and admiration.

He was born in Delaware County November 9, 1879, and is a son of Albert and Eva (Harbough) Norton. Both his grandfathers were Union soldiers in the Civil war. His father was born in Ohio, came to Indiana when a young man and lived his active life as a farmer and stock man in Delaware County. He was a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and both he and his wife were Methodists. He died in 1887, his wife surviving him until 1918, and both are buried at the Tabor Cemetery near Muncie. His wife was born and reared in Delaware County. His father was a pioneer of that county. Ora C. Norton has two brothers, both of whom are farmers near Selma in Delaware County, Otis, and Charles.

Ora C. Norton after attending district schools worked his way through normal college and business school at Muncie. All of his experience since leaving school has been in the real estate and insurance business. He was with the Hartley Agency at Muncie for eleven years. On the death of Mr. Hartley in 1911 he bought the business, and has since conducted it as the Norton Agency. Many of its clients have been placing their insurance through this organization for more than twenty years. The agency has a brokerage service in real estate and also a building department, which has been putting up about forty-five homes each year in and around Muncie. Mr. Norton is a member of the Muncie and Indiana Realtors Associations.

He has had working relationships with the Chamber of Commerce, and is a trustee of the First Baptist Church. He is affiliated with Muncie Lodge No. 433, A. F. and A. M., and has been for a number of years a trustee of Muncie Lodge No.7 4, Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He was formerly a member of Lodge No. 245, B. P. O. Elks. Politically he acts independently.

Mr. Norton married at Muncie, May 31, 1903, Miss Sylvia M. Thomas, of that city, daughter of Richard and Martha Thomas. Her father was a molder by trade and for many years was with the Whitely Malleable Casting Company. He died in 1909 and her mother passed away in 1919, both being buried in the Beech Grove Cemetery. Mrs. Norton attended school at Muncie, is a member of the Rebekah Lodge and has been devoted to the rearing of her children. The three children of Mr. and Mrs. Norton are Kenneth A., Margaret and Dean O. Kenneth graduated from the Muncie High School in 1923, taking vocational work and special business course there and is now vice president of the Norton Agency. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity and Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and married Miss Caphine Rollins, of Muncie, and has a daughter, Nada. Miss Margaret Norton since completing her high school work has assisted her father in the Norton Agency. The son Dean graduated from the Muncie High School, was in his father's business for a time and is now with the Indiana General Service Company of Muncie. Another associate of the Norton Agency is Mr. Norton's nephew, J. Henry Norton.

INDIANA ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OF AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT Vol. 4
By Charles Roll, A.M.
The Lewis Publishing Company, 1931

EARL SELLS. One of the old time establishments of the City of Anderson is located at 1228 Meridian Street, the Earl Sells undertaking firm. Mr. Sells has been an embalmer and undertaker for many years, having learned the profession when a youth, and through his business has made himself an indispensable factor in the community.

Mr. Sells was born at Springfield, Ohio. His father, John Wesley Sells, was a native of Pennsylvania. When a boy his parents settled near Solon in Cuyahoga County, Ohio. His parents died soon afterward and at the age of ten years John W. Sells went to live with an uncle in that locality. He made the best of his opportunities to acquire an education and fit himself for a useful career. Growing up on a farm, he followed the occupation of farming for some years. He married Elizabeth Correll, of South Solon. Her father, John Correll, was one of the large land owners in that section of Ohio. While living in Northern Ohio John W. Sells served as deputy sheriff. Later he moved to Springfield, Ohio, where he bought property and erected a large warehouse and engaged in a wholesale and retail business as a dealer in hay, grain and feed. For several years he had the contract to furnish the city fire department with its hay and grain.

Selling his business interests in Springfield in 1889, he moved to Anderson, Indiana, and for eight years conducted a livery business. He then retired and continued to live in Anderson until his death in 1906. His wife passed away in 1902. They reared a family of seven sons and one daughter, the youngest being Earl.

Earl Sells was educated in public schools and was only fourteen years of age when he began his apprenticeship with an undertaker. The following year he performed a successful operation as an embalmer. He made a careful study of all the details of his profession, and in 1900 was graduated from the Clark College of Embalming at Cincinnati. In the same year he was appointed a member of the Indiana State Board of Embalmers.

Mr. Sells in 1906 joined his brother Jesse in the undertaking business, and they were in partnership until the death of his brother, since which time he has carried on the business alone.

Mr. Sells has had an important part in the public affairs of Anderson and Madison County. In 1917 he was elected coroner. When the sheriff died, in 1919, Mr. Sells for three months performed the duties of both offices. He was coroner for four years and in 1925 was again elected to that office and by reelection has continued to the present time. At the end of his present term he will have served ten years as coroner. In 1906 he was president of the Indiana State Board of Embalmers, serving the unexpired term of Crit Condo.

Mr. Sells is a member of the Anderson City Club and the Columbia Club of Indianapolis, and has taken an active part in fraternal organizations. He is a member of Fellowship Lodge No. 681, A. F. and A. M., at Anderson, Anderson Chapter No. 52, Royal Arch Masons, Anderson Commandery No. 32, Knights Templar, Murat Temple of the Mystic Shrine at Indianapolis. He is an honorary member of Anderson Lodge No.9, B. P. O. Elks, and also belongs to the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Anderson Aerie No. 174, Fraternal Order of Eagles, the Knights of Pythias. He has been a director and member of the Anderson Kiwanis Club for many years and general chairman of the Kiwanis State Convention held at Anderson, July 15-16-17, 1931. He and Mrs. Sells are members of the First Methodist Episcopal Church.

He married, in 1900, Miss Keturah Rudy, who was born at Hagerstown, Indiana, daughter of Charles and Rebecca Rudy.

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INDIANA ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OF AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT Vol. 4
By Charles Roll, A.M.
The Lewis Publishing Company, 1931