AMOS CARTER, M. D., is an Indiana physician and surgeon with more than fifty years of service and practice to his credit. Doctor Carter's experience gives him many interesting recollections of the pioneer circumstances under which the older doctors practiced. There were no telephones, good roads or automobiles for a number of years after he received his medical license. He rode horseback or drove buggies over miles of rough country roads to attend his patients. Doctor Carter for the past ten years has been superintendent of the Indiana Tuberculois Hospital at Rockville, Parke County.

He was born at Plainfield, Indiana, September 28, 1852. His father, Newlin Carter, who was born in North Carolina, in 1829, came to Indiana at an early date and spent his active life as a farmer. He passed away in 1912. The mother of Doctor Carter was Beulah Hunt, also a native of North Carolina. She was two years of age when her family came to Indiana. The Carter family were Quakers, and both the Carters and Hunts were part of an extensive migration of Friends from the Carolinas to Indiana. Mrs. Beulah Carter died in 1902. She was the mother of eight children: Doctor Amos; Lydia wife of Townsend Cope, of Plainfield; Mord, of Indianapolis; C.H., of Plainfield; Margaret, wife of E. S. Mills, of Indianapolis; Sarah, wife of D. B. Elliott, of California; Alonzo, who lives at Yorba Linda, California; and one other child who is deceased.

Dr. Amos Carter had the early experiences of an Indiana farm boy. He attended school at Plainfield, continued his education in the Hopewell Academy and spent one year in the Ohio Medical College. On February 28, 1878, he was granted his M. D. degree from the Indiana Medical College at Indianapolis. For two and a half years he practiced at Crawfordsville and then returned to his old home community of Plainfield, where he carried on his work in town and country for over thirty-five years, from 1882 to 1919. In 1919 he accepted the appointment of superintendent of the State Hospital at Rockville, and in this work he rounded out a full half century as an Indiana physician.

Doctor Carter has very high standing in medical circles in Indiana. He is a member of the Parke County, Indiana State and American Medical Associations, is a member of the Hospital Medical Association, and during the World war did patriotic service as an examiner for the draft board. He is a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason, member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and Knights of Pythias. In politics he has always supported the Republican party and is a member of the Friends Church.

Doctor Carter married, February 21, 1878, Miss Elva Taylor, daughter of A. and Mary E. (Griest) Taylor. To their marriage were born four children, and the three living are Bertha, Helen and Charlton. Bertha is a college graduate and is engaged in library work in Illinois. Helen married D. B. Spradling. D. B. Spradling and Charlton Carter are associated in busines as public accountants at Indianapolis. Charlton Carter married Rell Scott, of Indianapolis.

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


WILLIAM CAMPBELL MITCHELL, of Lafayette, is a veteran member of the Indiana bar, having been in active practice for over forty years. His name has been identified with many activities outside his profession. For over forty years he has conducted the Mitchell Abstract & Title Company of Lafayette.

Mr. Mitchell was born in Montgomery County, Indiana, July 9, 1854. The family has been in Indiana for nearly a century. His great-grandfather, Robert Mitchell, served as a drummer in a Scotch regiment, and after coming to America settled in Virginia and during the Revolutionary war was drum major of Captain Peter Bruin's Company in the regiment of riflemen commanded by Col. Daniel Morgan. He was at different times in the Eleventh, Fifteenth and Seventh Virginia Regiments. The war records at Washington show that he enlisted November 27, 1776, and his name still appeared on the rolls in May, 1779. As a Revolutionary soldier he was issued warrants for western lands.

His son, William Mitchell, was born in Winchester, Virginia, June 18, 1779, and at the age of sixteen years he left the parental home and journeyed into the Northwest Territory. In 1800 he secured a position as a helper on a flat-boat, in which he proceeded down the Ohio and the Mississippi Rivers to New Orleans, then up the Red River and into Texas. For four years he lived among the Indians, hunting and trapping. In 1804 he returned to Virginia, later coming to Ohio, where he met and married Sarah Myers, who was born in New Jersey, and had been brought when a child to the western country. In 1833 William Mitchell brought his family to Indiana, taking up land in Boone County, under a patent issued by President Jackson. He was a farmer, and in the early days before the building of railroads carried on a freighting business, hauling goods from Chicago to this section of Indiana. He was a soldier in the War of 1812 and was also with the volunteers in the war with Mexico.

Joseph Mitchell, father of William C. Mitchell, was born in Champaign County, Ohio, March 4, 1817, and while still but a boy accompanied his parents to Indiana in 1833. His early life was spent in Montgomery County but about 1858 he moved to Tippecanoe County. He was a prominent character among the pioneers and during the early days of railway construction was a contractor during the building of the Lafayette & Indianapolis, the J. M. & I. Railways and the New Albany & Salem Railway. He was a farmer and after moving to Tippecanoe County conducted a general store and during the Civil war was made postmaster of Battle Ground, an office he held until 1880. He was also a justice of the peace and was widely known as Squire Mitchell and was credited with marrying more couples than any other justice in the county. He was the first candidate elected in Tippecanoe Township on the Republican ticket. In Montgomery County, Indiana, January 30, 1845, he married Louise M. Kendall, and to them were born ten children. Joseph Mitchell died March 8, 1880, his widow surviving him until October 11, 1896. She was a native of Virginia, and had come West with her parents in the pioneer days.

William C. Mitchell was educated in one of the oldest schools of Tippecanoe County, later attended the Battle Ground Collegiate Institute and on going to Lafayette worked in the recorder's and clerk's offices at the courthouse, utilizing his leisure time to take up the study of law. In 1882 he was elected clerk of court, serving four years. At the close of his term in this office he was admitted to the bar and in 1887 began the practice that has been continued without interruption for the past forty-three years. In 1887 he started his abstract business, which he has conducted in connection with his law practice. Mr. Mitchell was the first police commissioner of Lafayette under the Metropolitan police law, holding that office for eleven years. Upon several occasions he was appointed and served a judge pro tem, of the Tippecanoe County Circuit Court.

For forty years he has served as a director of the First Merchants National Bank of Lafayette, being now the sole survivor of the original board of twenty-one directors of that institution. For a similar time he has served as a director of the Star City Building & Loan Company. He was one of the organizers of the Purdue State Bank and is still on its board of directors and is a director of the Purdue Building & Loan Company.

On April 4, 1883, Mr. Mitchell married Miss Amelia Schweitzer, of Lafayette, a daughter of Eugene and Adalaide Schweitzer. They have a daughter, Miss Roe Mitchell, who finished her education in Purdue University. Mr. Mitchell is affiliated with Lodge No. 123 of the Masonic Order, the Royal Arch Chapter and Council and Knights Templar Commandery, is a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason and member of Murat Temple of the Mystic Shrine at Indianapolis. For two years he was honored with the office of president of the Tippecanoe County Bar Association and is a member of the Indiana State and American Bar Association, the Episcopal Church and the Chamber of Commerce. He early became identified with the Indiana National Guard and still holds a commission as captain, issued by Governor Isaac P. Gray, in 1888. He also served for a time as military instructor at Purdue University, as professor of military tactics, and still maintains his interest in military affairs. During the World war he took an active part in the drives for the sale of Liberty Bonds and also did special work in the intelligence department of the United States army. Mr. Mitchell has always been a staunch and loyal Republican, has served as Republican precinct committeeman and was chairman of the central county and city committee.

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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


GUILFORD L. RYKER was born in Jefferson County, Indiana, April 13, 1900. Though under age he was in service with the colors during the World war, and after the armistice took up the study of law and is now well established in the work of his profession at Indianapolis.

Mr. Ryker, who is a son of David C. and Eva (Imel) Ryker, attended public schools and business college. In 1918, at the age of eighteen, he was enrolled with the colors and assigned duties in the field ordnance department of the United States Army. Mr. Ryker after the war entered the Benjamin Harrison Law School at Indianapolis, was graduated in 1927 and for the past three years has been steadily working our for himself a large and satisfactory measure of general law practice, with offices in the When Building.

Mr. Ryker lives in the country, on Rural Route No. 10, at Washington Place. He is a member of the Young Lawyers Club of Indianapolis, Warren Township Republican Club and is a member of the Modern Woodmen of America.

He married in 1920 Miss Mary L. Hawkins, of Shelby County, Indiana, daughter of Samuel A. and Nona (Barnett) Hawkins. They have one daughter, Mary Alice, born in May, 1921.

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


ALBERT JORDAN. In Pike County the Jordan family have been known as people of very substantial qualities of citizenship for many years. They have been identified with farming, have taken an interested part in educational work, and one of the present representatives of the family, Mr. Albert Jordan, is well known as a banker, being president of the First National Bank at Spurgeon.

He was born in Pike county May 25, 1881. His father, Thomas Jordan, was a native of Lincolnshire, England, and came to the United States in 1852. He possessed many of the industrious traits of the typical Englishman, and spent many years as a farmer in Southern Indiana. He died there in 1909. After coming to the United States he married Matilda Kitchen, who was born in Indiana, of Welsh ancestry. She passed away in 1924. Of their thirteen children one died in infancy and three when still young. The nine surviving children are William, a teacher in the Oakland City College; Elijah, of Indianapolis; John, connected with his brother's bank at Spurgeon; Albert; Martha, Mrs. Charles Green; Loualla, Mr.s L. H. Burdetet; Maggie, Mrs. H. W. Bryant, of Marshall, Illinois; Bennie, a teach in Oakland College; and Floyd, who served overseas in France during the World war and is now an instructor in Syracuse University in New York.

Albert Jordan grew up on a farm and completed his education in the grade and high schools of Pike County at Spurgeon and Oakland City. His business and financial talents were early in evidence, and a number of years ago he organized the First National Bank of Spurgeon and has been president of the institution from the beginning. He is also the owner of real estate and farm land and does business in insurance. Mr. Jordan is a Democrat in politics.

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


JOHN A. CAMPBELL, retired business man at Orangeville, is one of the most highly-esteemed citizens of Orange County. His life has been one of fair dealing and strict integrity in every relationship.

He was born in Martin County, near Natchez, Indiana, August 3, 1860, but grew up in Orangeville, attending school there. When a boy he found employment as clerk in a general store owned by his uncle. When his uncle died, in 1902, the store was taken over by the widow of Mr. Noblitt (his uncle) and was successfully continued by her under the firm name of Mrs. Van R. Noblitt, Mr. Campbell managing the business until her death in 1907, when our subject became the owner and successfully carried it on until he retired in 1924.

Mr. Campbell has always been interested in local affairs and for four years during the administration of President Harrison held the office of postmaster at Orangeville. He as appointed postmaster of Orangeville May 8, 1889, serving one term. He installed new equipment and boxes and other improvements. His successors from time to time continued the improvements. The postoffice was continued until March 30, 1907, when it was discontinued and rural service established. The quarter ending March 30, 1907, showed twenty per cent gain over the same quarter one year back and the quarter ending September 30, 1906, was forty-seven per cent gain in business over the same quarter one year back. But the will of the people for continuing the postoffice was overruled by politicians.

Mr. Campbell is a Republican. He has never married. His uncle was the late Van R. Noblitt, who was one of the very early settlers at Orangeville. In 1853 he established a store there, and conducted it for nearly fifty years, until his death in 1902. A while before his deth a look over the county tax records showed him to be the largest individual taxpayer in Orange County. His parents came from Virginia.

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


SANFORD FORTNER TETER during his active lifetime was one of the foremost business men and merchants of Bloomington, a man of fine commercial standing and high character as a citizen.

He was a son of Newton and Susan (Adkins) Teter and a grandsn of Thomas and Mary (Rockhold) Teter. His father was educated in Indiana University and spent the greater part of his life as a farmer. Sanford F. Teter attended school at Noblesville and in 1889 entered Indiana University at Bloomington, taking the full four years' course. After graduating in 1893 he entered the Showers Brothers Furniture Company, and to this organization he devoted the best years of his life. He retired about fifteen years ago, being at that time secretary and treasurer.

Mr. Teter was a Knight Templar and thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason and Shriner, was a member of the Phi Kappa Psi and the Methodist Episcopal Church. At one time he was president of the Bloomington Chamber of Commerce, was a member of the Rotary Club, served on the City Council and at all times was deeply interested in civic movements.

Mr. Teter married in 1895 Miss Nellie Showers, daughter of William N. and Hannah (Hendricks) Showers. Mrs. Teters resides at 528 N. Walnut Street in Bloomington. She is the mother of two children, Mary L. and William. Mary is the wife of C. W. Hare and has a son, William H.

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


ROBERT INGALLS. Among the many industries which are being extensively carried on in Indiana, not the least in importance is that of stone quarrying, which furnishes a prominent items of export and gives employment to a large number of people. A successful and very productive stone quarry is found at Romona in Owen County, which is advancing in productiveness and value under the expert superintendency of Robert Ingalls. Mr. Ingalls has been identified with this line of business all of his lief, and while he is still a young man is proving himself an excellent executive and one who can secure results.

Robert Ingalls was born November 29, 1902, at Binghamton, New York, and is a son of Charles C. and Mary (Walford) Ingalls. His father, a sketch of whose career appears elsewhere in this work, was for many years a prominent business man of Bedford, Indiana, now deceased, Mrs. Ingalls still surviving him there. Robert Ingalls attended the public schools of Bedford, Indiana, having been still a lad when brought by his parents to Bedford, where he attended the high school one year. He then pursued a course at the famous Culver Military Academy, at Culver, this state, and graduated at the end of three years, in 1921. In that year he became associated with his father's various interests, principally in mill work and quarrying, and worked at various places, thus obtaining firsthand knowledge and experience. After working for a time on the night shift at the McClaren Mill he was transferred to the Ingalls Mill, and finally to the main office at Bedford, where he was made assistant treasurer of the Ingalls Company. Leaving this position, he came to Romona as superintendent of stripping, and in October, 1928, was made superintendent of the Romona Quarry, one of the principal and most valued possessions of the company. Mr. Ingalls is known as an energetic and industrious business man and one who has won the full confidence and cooperation of his workmen and the friendship and esteem of the people among whom he has come to make him home. He is a Blue Lodge, Royal Arch and a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason and belongs to the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and the Lions Club. His religious faith is that of the Presbyterian Church. He has found little time for politics, but is a good citizen who supports all worthy measures.

On January 17, 1925, Mr. Ingalls was united in marriage with Miss Osie Alice McDowell, who was born, reared and educated in Indiana and is a daughter of Gurney and Iva (Cain) McDowell, the former of whom came from Oolitic, Lawrence County, Indiana, and is now a planerman in the employ of the Indiana Limestone Company. Mr. and Mrs. Ingalls reside in a pleasant and comfortable home at 358 North Main Street, Spencer, Indiana.

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


JOHN R. ROACH, proprietor of the Funeral Home at I and Tenth Streets, Bedford, represents the third generation of the Roach family in the undertaking business in Indiana. He and his father have made up a succession of able men in this line of work, and their experience has included every successive improvement in the practice of handling and caring for the dead during a period of more than half a century.

Mr. Roach was born in Martin County, Indiana, in 1876, son of George and Catherine (Sargent) Roach, and grandson of Isaac Roach. Isaac Roach was a farmer, and also owned and conducted a general store. He is buried at Owensburg in Greene County, Indiana. George Roach was born in Greene County and was a soldier all through the Civil war with the Thirty-first Indiana Infantry.

John R. Roach attended the common schools in Martin County and as a boy went to work for his father in the general store and undertaking establishment. After the death of his father he carried on the business. His establishment was completely ruined by the great flood in 1913, but as soon as possible he put in new stock, and on December 23, 1915, opened his present place of business, one of the largest in Lawrence County. He has complete facilities, including funeral home and morgue, complete motor equipment, including ambulance.

Mr. Roach married Miss Leona McCormick. They have three children, Catherine, George and John C. John is now in the business with his father, making the fourth generation of the family in the work. They all attend the Baptist Church. Mr. Roach in addition to his practical experience attended the Barnes Embalming School of Chicago, and both he and his wife are graduates of the Askin Training School at Indianapolis.

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


LEROY C. HANBY, who was overseas during the World war with the Motor Transport Corps, joined the colors soon after getting his college degree. After his return home he studied law and for the past seven years has made an enviable record in his profession in Connersville. He is now prosecuting attorney of Fayette County.

Mr. Hanby was born at Middletown, Indiana, February 26, 1896, son of Elisha and Matilda E. (Wisehart) Hanby. His father was born in Butler County, Ohio, and his mother in Henry County, Indiana. Elisha Hanby was with an Indiana regiment in the Union army during the Civil war and spent his active life as a farmer and cement contractor. He has served as justice of the peace and postmaster.

Leroy C. Hanby attended grade and high schools at Middletown, graduating in 1914 and was awarded the A. B. degree at Butler University, Indianapolis, in 1917. After the war he completed his law course in the Indiana Law School, graduating L.L. B. in 1922. He was admitted to the bar February 26, 1921. While in law school he was employed at a salary in an Indianapolis law office. He entered private practice in 1922 at Connersville.

Mr. Hanby married, June 15, 1921, Miss Ida Gustin, who was born in Henry County, Indiana, a daughter of Smith and Sally (Hupp) Gustin. They have a daughter, Sarah Eleanor, born August 25, 1922. Mr. Hanby and family are members of the Disciples of Christ Church, of which he is one of the board of deacons and a Sunday School teacher.

He has enjoyed various public responsibilities in connection with his private practice, having served by appointment as judge of the City Court in 1925. On January 1, 1928, he entered upon his duties as prosecuting attorney of Fayette County, to which office he was elected in 1926, and in the fall of 1928 was reelected for a second term, which expires January 1, 1932. He has been secretary of the Democratic party central committee. Mr. Hanby is a Royal Arch and Council degree Mason and member of the Square and Compass Club.

While working in a bank at Middletown he enlisted in October, 1917, and was mustered in at Fort Thomas, Kentucky, November 1, 1917. He was in training at Camp Johnston, Jacksonville, Florida, became a corporal and truck driver with the Motor Transport Corps and on May 26, 1918, sailed from New York for overseas. He was employed in emergency work in Champagne-Marne defenses, the Aisne-Marne offensive and the Aisne-Oise drive at Fisne. After the armistice he was kept in France, assisting in burying the dead and in constructing cemeteries, including one of the largest in which the dead of the American Expeditionary Forces were buried. He was a member of Motor Truck Company Four Hundred and Eleven, but during most of the time was with the Second Army Corps. Mr. Hanby arrived in New York, July 26, 1919, and was mustered out with the grade corporal at Camp Sherman, Chillicothe, Ohio, August 5. While at Middletown he was an adjutant of American Legion Post No. 216 and has been adjutant of Post No. 1, at Connersville. He is a member of the auditing committee of the Loyal Order of Moose, is a member of the Lambda Chi Alpha national college fraternity, the Sigma Delta Kappa law fraternity, the Connersville Country Club, the Kiwanis Club, is president of the Fayette County Bar Association, a member of the Indiana State Bar Association, and the Commercial Law League of America. Mr. Hanby and family reside at 1800 Indiana Avenue.

Submitted by Sally Gordon
Leroy Clarkson Hanby was named for 2 uncles: Leroy Peed, husband of his mother's sister, Mag Wisehart, and Clarkson Bland, husband of his father's sister, Mary Hanby. The first lawyer in Connersville, Fayette Co. Indiana, with both a college degree and a law degree, he was in private practice for 40 years, as well as serving in public attorney positions. He sat on the Fayette County circuit court bench for 10 years beginning 1962. His civic activities for 50 years included leadership in the Knights Templar, the Kiwanis, American Legion Post One and other veteran organizations. He organized the Connersville Credit Bureau and Fayette Co. Abstract Company. He was an active Democrat and was nearly always available to deliver a patriotic holiday speech. And he loved golf, practicing his swing until his final months.

His first wife, Ida Margaret Gustin, died in Connersville, IN January 1960. In 1961 in Sanford, Florida, he married Olive Edwards, widow of Wm. Nelp. They enjoyed retirement in Florida until she died in May 1988 in Florida after some years of Alzheimer's.

Judge Hanby died April 5, 1989 in Bradenton, Manatee Co. Florida. He was predeceased by his father, Elisha Marion Hanby (1845 Marion Co. IN - 1932 Henry Co. IN), his mother, Matilda Wisehart Hanby (1852 Henry Co. IN - 1937 Henry Co. IN) and his half-sister, Mayme Hanby Dyke (1876 - 1955). He was survived by his only child, Sarah, and by a grandson, and a granddaughter, Sally Gordon, the writer of this note.

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


ROBERT ARVIL SMITH, physician and surgeon at Newcastle, is doing capable work in a profession which has been honored by successive representatives of his family in Indiana since pioneer times.

Doctor Smith was born at Greensboro, Indiana, in 1902, son of Dr. George H. and Laura V. (Cook) Smith and grandson of Robert A. and Mary Jane (Evans) Smith. His great-grandfather, John Cook, was born in Henry County, Indiana, and was a son of Levi Cook, who established the family in Indiana, coming from Ohio and as a pioneer claimed a tract of Government land and improved a farm. Doctor Smith's father and grandfather were physicians and both of them were born in Hancock County, Indiana. Dr. Robert A. Smith, the grandfather, served with an Indiana regiment in the Union army during the Civil war. Dr. Robert A. Smith married Mary Jane Evans, who was born in London, England, while her parents were on their way from Wales to the United States. Dr. George H. Smith, who died in 1925, became widely known as a specialist in eye, ear, nose and throat. During his career as a physician he practiced at Greensboro, Knightstown and Newcastle. He was at one time county coroner of Henry County, an office which his father, Robert A. Smith, had also held.

Dr. George H. Smith's wife, Laura V. Cook, who died in 1904, was born at Greensboro, Indiana, daughter of Seth and Minerva (Hiatt) Cook, natives of Henry County.

Dr. Robert Arvil Smith has two brothers, George Murray, who was overseas during the World war with the Eleventh United States Marines, and Dudley A., who is associated with the Indianapolis News,

Robert Arvil Smith was educated in the grade and high schools at Knightstown and Newcastle, took his Bachelor of Science degree at Indiana University and was graduated from the medical department in 1926. He had one year of hospital training and experience as an interne in the Methodist Hospital in Indianapolis, and for two years was connected with the Indiana Village for Epileptics. In September, 1929, he began eye, ear, nose and throat practice at Newcastle, where his offices are at 1205 Race Street. He is a member of the Henry County, District and Indiana State Medical Associations and has kept in close touch with medical science ever since leaving college.

Doctor Smith married at Newcastle, November 28, 1929, Miss Margaret Carpenter, who was born at Newcastle, daughter of Orville and Myrtle (Hewitt) Carpenter, both natives of Henry County. Doctor Smith is a birthright Friend and Mrs. Smith is a Methodist. He is a Republican, a member of the Phi Delta Theta and Phi Rho Sigma college fraternities and belongs to the Newcastle Rotary Club.

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


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