Mrs. Fretageot was born in the fine old family homestead in which she still resides in New Harmony, and the date of her nativity was April 27, 1858. She is a daughter of James and Mary Foster (Piper) Chadwick, the former of whom was born in Manchester, England, in January, 1815, and the latter of whom was born at Royalston, Massachusetts, August 17, 1816, she having been a daughter of Luke and Betsy (Cole) Piper, the former of whom was born in 1793 and the latter in 1791. Luke Piper was a farmer by vocation, as was also his father, Josiah Piper, who was born in 1768.

James Chadwick was a son of James Chadwick and a lineal descendent of Jordan Chadwyk, who went from his native Normandy to England with William the Conqueror. James Chadwick was reared and educated in his native land and there learned the trade of saddler. In 1837, shortly after attaining to his legal majority, he became a resident of New Harmony, Indiana, and was a charter member of the Workingmen's Institute, which was organized in the following year, a noble institution that has continued that has continued to function effectively during the long intervening period of more than ninety years, and of which his daughter Nora has been the librarian fully twenty years. James Chadwick played a large and worthy part in the interesting civic and industrial history of the New Harmony community and here he and his wife remained until their death, secure in the respect and high regard of all who knew them. The staunch building that was provided by James Chadwick as the family home and that is still occupied by his daughter Nora, of this review, stands as one of the interesting landmarks of this section of the state, as the year 1930 marked the one hundredth anniversary of its erection. Of the three children who attained to maturity Mrs. Nora Fretageot is the youngest and now the only survivor. The son, Charles, was born at New Harmony, in the year 1842, and represented his native country as a gallant young soldier of the Union in the Civil war. His active career connoted his service as clerk and steamboat man, and he continued his residence at New Harmony until his death. In 1880 was solemnized his marriage to Miss Helen Robb, who likewise was born and reared in Posey County and their children are four in number: Charles Robb, an accountant; Maurice Foster, a draftsman; Nellie Browning, a dietician and social worker; and Mildred, wife of H. G. Ranger, of Indianapolis. Mary Elizabeth, elder daughter of James and Mary F. (Piper) Chadwick, was born at New Harmony in the year 1846, and in her native town her death occurred in 1878. In 1865 she became the wife of Louis Pelham, who was born in 1838 and died in 1912, and they are survived by two children, Caroline Creese Pelham, born in 1867, and died in February, 1931, and Charles Louis Pelham, born in 1874, and still a resident of New Harmony. Charles Louis Pelham married Miss Mary Etta Lichtenberger.

The earlier education of Mrs. Nora C. Fretageot was acquired through the medium of public and private schools at New Harmony and in the preparatory department of the University of Indiana. Thereafter she took library courses at Earlham College, Richmond, Indiana, and at Chautauqua, New York. She has been librarian of the Workingmen's Institute at New Harmony since 1908, and hers is deep and abiding interest in all that pertains to this old and historic institution of which her father was one of the founders. She has membership in the Women's Club of New Harmony, the Indiana State Historical Society, the Southwestern Indiana Historical Society and the Indiana Library Association, besides which she is vice president of the Posey County Historical Society at the time of this writing, in 1931. Mrs. Fretageot now assigns much of the detail service of the library of the Workingmen's Institute to the assistant librarian, Miss Louise M. Husband, who is represented in a personal sketch on other pages of this publication.

On the 5th of May, 1887, was recorded the marriage of Achilles Henry Fretageot to Miss Nora Chadwick, immediate subject of this review, and the one son of this union died in infancy.

Achilles Henry Fretageot, long a successful merchant and grain dealer at New Harmony, was here born October 16, 1842, and here his death occurred in 1906. He supplemented the discipline of public schools by instruction received under the direction of a private tutor, and by foreign travel and study. Four generations of the Fretageot family utilized the same business building at New Harmony, a structure dating back to 1822, when the historic New Harmony community was in its inception. Mr. Fretageot was a son of Achille Emery Fretageot and Cecelia (Noel) Fretageot, the former of whom was born in Paris, France, in 1813, and the latter of whom was born in that country in 1822, her death having occurred at New Harmony, Indiana, in 1853. Achille Emery Fretageot came to the United States in 1825, with his Paris school class and their teacher, and in the following year all made settlement in the New Harmony community, his mother, Madame Marie (Duclos) Fretageot, having become a teacher in the Maclure School of Industry in the Owen community, she having been a widow when she came to Indiana and her husband having been a colonel in the army of the great Napoleon in the historic march from Moscow. After the death of his first wife Achille Emery Fretageot eventually wedded Mary Alexander, who was born in Posey County, in 1833, and whose death occurred here in 1919. Of the children of the first marriage the first was Alexander Maclure Fretageot, who was born in 1840 and who died while serving as a Union soldier in the Civil war, in 1862; Eugene was born in 1845 and was drowned in the Wabash River in 1852; Oliver Noel, who was born in 1850 and died in 1922, was identified with steamboat navigation on the Wabash River and served as county clerk of Posey County, he having married Mary Ella Highman and their one child being a daughter; Eliza Sampson, who was born in 1847 and died in 1918, was the wife of Dr. Frederick Gundrum, and their two children are Frederick Fretageot Gundrum and Eloise Fretageot Gundrum. Six daughters were born in the second marriage of Achille Emery Fretageot: Louise, born in 1856, married Eugene V. Johnson; Frances, born in 1859, became the wife of Percy Bennett; Mary, born in 1860, married John Hale, an Indian agent; Nancy, born in 1862, married William Boren; Sarah, born in 1865, married Hiram Lamar; and Isabella, born in 1868, died in childhood.

In 1870 Achilles Henry Fretageot married Miss Mary Kate Bolton, and they became the parents of two sons: Frank Pooley, who was born in 1871, was graduated in the Miami Medical College, Cincinnati, Ohio, and was engaged in the practice of his profession at the time of his death, in 1895. Arthur Emery, the younger son, was born in 1873, and received the advantages of DePauw University and the University of Michigan, he being now established in the mercantile business at New Harmony and being here owner of the ferry line across the Wabash River, with ten boats of various kinds in commission. He is affiliated with the Phi Gamma Delta college fraternity, is a Knight Templar Mason, and has membership in the Knights of Pythias and other fraternal and civic-social organizations. He married Stella Spencer, of Mount Vernon, the county seat of his native county, and they had two children: Cecelia, who died at the age of three years, and Mary, who was born November 24, 1905, who received from DePauw University in 1928 the degree of Bachelor of Arts, and who had previously had a year of study, 1926-27, in the celebrated Sarbonne in Paris, France.

The late Achilles Henry Fretageot was a Democrat in politics, was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and was affiliated with the Masonic fraternity and the Knights of Pythias. He was one of the substantial citizens and business men of New Harmony, had valuable real estate holdings in his native town, as well as farm lands in Posey County, and gave loyal and constructive service in the upbuilding and civic progress of New Harmony.

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

ROBERT REED, who died January 12, 1929, was for over forty years identified with the stone industry around Bedford. He was a master craftsman, and also had exceptional gifts as an organizer and business manager and was associated with several of the largest plants in the Bedford district.

Mr. Reed was born in Carlisle, England, May 14, 1859, and he inherited some of the great traditions of the English stone workers. His parents were John and Jane (Bailey) Reed. The father was a sculptor who spent all his active life in the stone business. He made his home in England.

Robert Reed was educated in England and as sixteen years of age when he came to America in 1875. For a time he lived in Philadelphia and then joined his uncle, David Reed, at Chicago, where he learned his trade as a stone cutter. During his apprenticeship he attended night school and acquired a substantial education not only from books but from contact with men and affairs. For a time he was a student in the Valparaiso University of Indiana.

On coming to Bedford he was employed by the firm of Tomlinson & Reed, and soon took charge of the plant. In 1883 Mr. David Reed was given some stock in the company. Later they bought the quarries at Oolitic and Sanders and also acquired the Peerless mill. About that time David Reed died and Robert Reed assumed the full control of the various holdings. He was the leading spirit of the organization that built the Black Diamond Mill, one of the largest and most important, but subsequently sold out to Chicago interests. After being retired from active business for about two years he formed the organization known as the Reed & Powers Cut Stone Company and in 1922 built the Reed-Powers Mill, in the management of which he was active until his death. Mr. Reed was a Knight Templar Mason, a member of the B. P. O. Elks and the Episcopal Church.

He married, December 21, 1887, Miss Anna Thedora Reath, daughter of Jacob and Thedora (Hoffman) Reath. Her father was one of the earliest merchants of Bedford and for many years carried on a banking business there. In the Reath family were seven children: Henry, Theodore and Albert, all deceased; Miranda, wife of Sewell Avery; Lula, a widow, whose first husband was Frank Owens and her second husband, D. Leforce; Mrs. Anna Reed; and Charlotte, wife of Albert Dunihue.

Mrs. Reed, who resides at 1228 West Sixteenth Street in Bedford, is vice president of the Reed-Powers Mill, though not active in the business. She is a graduate of Bedford High School. She is the mother of four children, Anna E., Thedora R., Mary Ellen and David. Anna is in the Reed-Powers Company. Mary Ellen was first married to Clifford Dean and is now the wife of Carlton Klaus. By her first marriage she has four children, Robert R., Clifford Henry, David Neal and Annabelle.

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

BERNARD D. McCARTNEY, who has been a stone worker for thirty years, came to Indiana about 1907, and has filled many responsible positions in the great stone working industry around Bedford. He is now general manager and superintendent of the Donato Mill of Heltonville.

Mr. McCartney was born a Rahway, New Jersey, June 17, 1882, son of James B. and Margaret (Casey) McCartney. His father was a native of Boston, and both he and his wife were of Irish parentage. James B. McCartney learned the trade of spring maker, but for many years, until his death, was in the mail service with the Pennsylvania Railway. He and his wife are buried at Rahway. They had seven children: Bernard D., Lucy, John, Mary, William, Margaret, who became the wife of Thomas Trotter, and James.

Bernard D. McCartney attended St. Mary's School at Rahway through the grades and at the age of eighteen went to New York City, learning the trade of stone cutting with the John Henline Cut Stone Company. After his apprenticeship he spent two years in Texas and Mexico, being located at Monterey, Mexico, one year. As a stone cutter he did work at various places in the South, Nashville, Louisville and Memphis, and then went back to New York. On coming to Bedford in 1907 Mr. McCartney first worked at the old Salem Mill as a planer foreman. After two years he joined the Black Diamond Bill of Shea & Donnelly and in 1926, after a brief period at Detroit, became general manger and superintendent of the Donato Mill. He stands in high favor among the executives in the stone industry around Bedford.

Mr. McCartney married, June 1, 1908, Catherine Cluhan, a daughter of James and Kate (Murphy) Culhan. Her father was one of the old time stone workers in this district. Her parents are buried in the Green Hill Cemetery. Mr. and Mrs. McCartney have two children, Mary and Gertrude, both attending school at Bedford. The family are members of Saint Vincent de Paul Catholic Church and Mr. McCartney is affiliated with the Knights of Columbus and B. P. O. Elks.

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

ELIAB PATTISON learned the stone cutter's trade while a boy in England. For the past twenty years he has been in the Bedford district of Indiana, where he is now superintendent and general manager of the Ingalls Mill No. 3.

Mr. Pattison was born at Leeds, England, October 16, 1882. His parents, William and Emma (Mouldin) Pattison, still live in England, where his father for many years has followed the business of merchant tailor. There are four children in the family, Florence, Eliab, Harry and Jack.

Mr. Pattison had only the advantages of grade school and was twelve years of age when he began his apprenticeship to learn the stone cutting trade. This apprenticeship was served through four years, and as a journeyman he went about to different places in England for about five years.

Mr. Pattison arrived in America in 1904. Failing to find work at his trade, he spent the next four years working on the docks in New York Harbor and was promoted to the responsibility of dock stevedore. In 1910 he came to Bedford, Indiana, and his first job here was with the Ingalls Company. Later he spent a short time with John A. Rowe and then returned to the Ingalls organization. He was a stone cutter, later was promoted to foreman, and has had a practical experience in nearly every line of the industry at Bedford. As general manager and superintendent of Ingalls Mill No. 3 he has the distinction of being in charge of the largest individual cut stone plant in the Indiana limestone district.

Mr. Pattison married, June 6, 1909, Miss Nellie Summerville. She came from the North of Ireland and they were married in Fall River, Massachusetts. They have seven children, Ethel, a graduate of the Bedford High School, Emma, Edith, Helen, William, Harry E. and John D. All the younger children are attending school at Bedford. Mr. Pattison is a member of the Masonic Lodge and for a number of years has been an influential worker in Saint John's Episcopal Church at Bedford.

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

CHARLES M. WILHELMUS, M.D. has proved in his ability, loyalty and effective service the integrity of his professional purpose, and his success is attested in the substantial and representative practice that he retains at Newburg, an attractive and prosperous little city in Warrick County.

Doctor Wilhelmus was born in Spencer County, Indiana, October 4, 1880 and is a son of Michael and Frances (Meyers) Wilhelmus, both natives of Germany, where the former was born at historic Bingen-on-the-Rhine and the latter in Baden. Michael Wilhelmus was a lad of twelve years when he came with his parents from Germany to the United States, the family home having been established in Spencer County, Indiana, and the father having continued to follow his profession, that of architect, during the remainder of his life, besides becoming a farm owner in the county mentioned. Michael Wilhelmus completed his youthful education by attending the schools of Spencer County and also learned much of architectural art and science by assisting his father along that line and in building enterprise as a stone mason. He eventually gave his attention to farm industry, was long owner and active manager of one of the fine farm estates of Spencer County, and there he died in 1900, at the age of sixty-four years. His children by his first marriage are three in number: Emma is the wife of George Herr, a farmer in Spencer County; Edward likewise is a prosperous farmer; and Simon is employed as a salesman. The second marriage of Michael Wilhelmus was with Mrs. Frances (Meyers) Kaiser, who came from Germany to the United States when she was twenty-two years of age, her first husbnad having bee Martin Kaiser and one child having been born of that union, Frances, who is the wife of Jacob Raibley. Of the seven children of Michael and Frances Wilhelmus, Dr. Charles M. was the second in order of birth; Otto, a farmer by vocation, died at the age of thirty-four years; Katie died as a child of eleven years; Clara is the wife of Porter Brown, who is identified with the mining industry; Miss Mary resides in the home of her sister Clara; Fred was engaged in farm enterprise and died at the age of thirty-eight years; Henry is a dentist by profession and is established in practice in the City of Evansville.

In the public schools of Spencer County Doctor Wilhelmus continued his studies until he had duly profited by the advantages of the high school, and in preparing for his chosen profession he went to the metropolis of Kentucky and completed the prescribed course in Louisville Medical College, in which he was graduated as a member of the class of 1907. After thus receiving his degree of Doctor of Medicine he was engaged in practice at Raywick, Marion County, Kentucky, two and one-half years, and he then returned to Indiana, where he has been established in successful general practice at Newburg since March 15, 1910. He is serving as health officer of his home community at the time of this writing, and his is distinct prestige as one of the representative physicians and surgeons of Warrick County. The Doctor has membership in the Americal Medical Association, The Indiana State Medical Society and the Warrick County Medical Society. His political allegiance is given to the Democratic party, he and his wife are communicants of the Catholic Church, and he is affiliated with the Knights of Columbus. The interests of Doctor Wilhelmus include his ownership of farm property and his association with agricultural and horticultural industry.

On the 12th of August, 1902, was solemnized the marriage of Doctor Wilhelmus to Miss Myrtle Meyers, who was born and reared in Spencer County and who is a duaghter of the late Lemuel and Sarah (Oldham) Meyers, her parents, who were farmers, having died when she was very young. Beatrice, eldest of the children of Doctor and Mrs. Wilhelmus, was born February 13, 1905, and is a successful and popular teacher in the public schools of Newburg, having graduated from Evansville College in 1929. Irene, born April 10, 1907, was graduated in the University of Indiana as a member of the class of 1929, and is a teacher at Owensboro, Kentucky. Coriene, born December 27, 1908, is a graduate in the class of 1930 from the University of Indiana and is also a teacher. Kenneth, born September 6, 1914, is a student in the Newburg High School, in the class of 1933, and the two younger sons, Gilber, who was born November 8, 1920, and Robert, who was born March 8, 1922, are in the grades.

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

PETER MARIA LA CAVA, well known Mishawaka attorney, is a man of very interesting accomplishments and talents. He had gained a substantial clientage as a lawyer, but many thousands outside of Mishawaka have heard and enjoyed the rich qualities of his singing voice.

Mr. La Cava was born at Hartford, Connecticut, May 4, 1896. His parents, Rocco and Rose (Montano) La Cava, came from Italy and located at Hartford, Connecticut, in 1884. They are still living in that city, his father retired. Peter La Cava was the thirteenth in a family of fifteen children, six of whom are living.

He was educated in the grade and high schools at Hartford and during the World war served thirteen months overseas with the Three Hundred Tenth Field Artillery in the Seventy-ninth Division. After having fulfilled his patriotic duty he took up the study of law, spending one year in New York University and in 1922 came to South Bend to enter Notre Dame University, where he was graduated L.L. B. in 1926. Mr. La Cava practiced law in South Bend two years and on February 1, 1928, was appointed justice of the peace at Mishawaka. On November 4, 1930, he was elected for a full term of four years as jsutice of the peace on the Democratic ticket.

He is a member of the St. Joseph County, Indiana State and American Bar Associations, and is eligible to practice before the Supreme Court of Indiana. He belongs to the Mishawaka Exchange Club. He has been an ardent devotee of music since boyhood. Radio fans familiar with his singing know him as the "silver-toned tenor of the East," as he is usually introduced that way. For several years he has organized church choirs and since 1925 has been director of St. Mathew's Catholic Church choir at Mishawaka. Mrs. La Cava is organist at this church.

Mr. La Cava amrried, January 31, 1924, Miss Ann Elizabeth Arnot. She was born at South Bend, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Asbury Arnot, deceased. They have three children: Rose Marie, born November 10, 1924; Betty Lou, born August 4, 1926, and Roxy Ann, born June 17, 1928.

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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

JOSEPH L. QUINN, superintendent and general manager of the McLaren Mill of the Ingalls group in the Independent Limestone Mills of the Bedford district, learned his trade as a stone worker in the East, and his experience has been with a number of notable stone working organizations over the country.

Mr. Quinn was born at Newark, New Jersey, November 15, 1878, and is a son of Hugh T. and Catherine (McKee) Quinn. His father came from Scotland to America in 1872. He had grown up in the famous district of Paisley, Scotland, where he learned the trade of calico printer. He followed his trade at Newark for many years and is buried in the Holy Sepulcher Cemetery in that city. His wife, Catherine McKee, was a daughter of James and Sallie (Toner) McKee, who came to America in 1880. James McKee was a shoemaker living at Brooklyn, New York, and both he and his wife are buried in the Calvary Cemetery in that city. The children of Hugh T. Quinn and wife were: Hugh and James, now deceased; Rose, of Newark; Sarah, William, John, Mary, all deceased; Joseph L.; Stephen, of Newark, who married Alice Brennan; and Catherine, deceased.

Joseph L. Quinn was a student in Saint Michael's School at Newark form the age of seven to fourteen. His people were in very modest circumstances and for that reason and because of his self reliant spirit he was working to earn money as a small boy, carrying and selling papers when not in school. After leaving school he became an employee of the Street Railway Company, being what was known as tow boy, having charge of the extra horse used to pull the street car up a hill. Mr. Quinn by attending evening classes made up many of the deficiencies of his education resulting from his leaving school so early. He began his apprenticeship as a stone cutter with Barney Gerberich, being with him two years, then spent a year with J. J. Spurr & Sons, and when that plant went on a strike he finished his apprenticeship with the Passaic Quarry Company of Avondale, New Jersey. After two years there he was employed as a journeyman by William Gray & Sons of Philadelphia, returned to Newark and was with the George Brown & Company there from 1903 to 1913, and during the last eight years of this period was planer foreman.

Mr. Quinn came to Bedford, the capital of the Indiana limestone region, in January, 1914. His first work here was as planer foreman in Mill No. 3, and from there he was transferred to the McLaren Mill of the Ingalls group as superintendent and general manager.

Mr. Quinn married, June 24, 1903, Miss Anna Muir Mackechnie, daughter of George and Mary (Allen) Mackechie. Her parents are buried in the Arlington Cemetery in New Jersey. Mr. and Mrs. Quinn have had four children: Joseph L., Jr., who after graduating from Bedford High School spent two years in Purdue University and is now assistant engineer of the City of Bedford; Miss Kathryn, a graduate of high school, is an employee of the Indiana Limestone Company; Russell is deceased; and James is a student in the Bedford High School. Mr. Quinn is a member of the Independent Order of Forresters and the Catholic Benevolent Legion, and the St. Vincent de Paul Catholic Church.

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