ALFRED PEARMAN DRAPER. Among the younger generation of attorneys practicing at the bar of Lake County one who has made rapid strides in his calling and who has demonstrated the possession of the qualities which make for success therein is Alfred P. Draper, of Gary. During his comparatively short but prosperous career he has been identified with much important litigation, and as a citizen has attracted favorable attention by his readiness to support those movements which have been promulgated for the betterment of the community.

Mr. Draper was born at Baldwinsville, New York, December 29, 1891, and is a son of Russell J. and Ena (Pearman) Draper. This branch of the Draper family was founded in America by the great-grandfather of Mr. Draper, a native of England, who upon his arrival in the United States took up his residence at Hannibal, New York, where he passed the remainder of his life and where he and his wife are buried. Alfred Draper, the grandfather of Alfred P. Draper, was born near Hannibal, New York, where he was reared on a farm and received a country school education. At the outbreak of the war between the states he enlisted in a New York volunteer infantry regiment, with which he served valiantly until the close of the struggle, when he received his honorable discharge and returned to his home near Hannibal, where he passed the remaining years of his life in agricultural operations until his retirement to the town of Fulton, New York, several years ago. He has the reputation of being a man of integrity and high character and has always taken a good citizen's part in movements which have been beneficial to his locality. Mr. Draper married Miss Ena Pearman, who was born in England and was brought to the United States as a young woman by her parents, receiving her educated in the public schools of Fulton, New York. She as active in Baptist Church work and died in 1919, being buried in the cemetery at Mount Aduah, New York. Mr. and Mrs. Draper became the parents of two children: Alfred P., of this review; and Floyd S., an attorney, formerly of Gary, but now of Crown Point, Indiana, who in 1930 was the successful nominee for prosecuting attorney of Lake County on the Republican ticket.

Alfred P. Draper attended public school at Watertown, New York, where he was graduated from high school as a member of the class of 1911, and from 1913 to 1916 took a course in mechanical engineering at Providence, Rhode Island, with the Brown & Sharp Manufacturing Company. He followed that business until 1919, but during the World war was in the Government service, designing tools for the manufacture of such articles as Liberty motors, howitzers and other machines of war. In 1919 Mr. Draper entered Valparaiso University, from which institution he was graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Laws as a member of the class of 1922, but was admitted to the bar prior to his graduation, in November, 1921. On leaving college he established himself in the practice of law at Gary, where he has since built up a large and representative clientele, and maintains a suite of offices at 522 Broadway. He is a member of the America Bar Association, the Indiana State Bar Association and the Gary Bar Associaton. In addition to his large law practice he is interested in a number of business and financial ventures and is a member of the board of directors of the Fifth Avenue Bank and of the Character Finance & Thrift Corporation. Fraternally he is affiliated with Valparaiso Lodge no. 137, A. F. and A. M., and he likewise belongs to the University Club, the commercial Club and Chamber of Commerce and the Lake Hills Country Club. While he has always been interested in politics and civic affairs he has never sought the candidacy for any office, but exercises his right of franchise as a Republican. He is a member and elder of the Forty-third Avenue Presbyterian Church.

At Syracuse, New York, May 24, 1923, Mr. Draper was united in marriage with Miss Leontine Porter daughter of Frank and Louise (Fuller) Porter, of Syracuse, where for years Mr. Porter was prominent in business circles as a dealer in coal, building supplies, cement, etc., although now living in retirement. Mrs. Porter died in 1917 and is buried in the cemetery at Fulton. Mrs. Draper, who is a graduate of the Fulton High School, has been active in the work of the Forty-third Avenue Presbyterian Church and the Gary Woman's Club. There are two children: Donna Norene, who is attending public school; and Russell Porter.

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


JOHN LUCIUS SLICK is actively concerned with the directing of what is a virtual public-utility service in the City of Fort Wayne, where he is treasurer and manager of Slick's Family Washing & Ironing Company, the well equipped headquarters of which are established at 226 Dalman Street and the concern now ranks as one of the largest and most metropolitan of the kind in the city.

Mr. Slick was born in the City of South Bend, Indiana, March 13 1889, and is a son of Thomas J. and Laura A. (Whitten) Slick, the former of whom was born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania and the latter at South Bend, Indiana, where their marriage was solemnized. Thomas J. Slick was a boy at the time of the family removal from the old Keystone States to St. Joseph County, Indiana, where the home was established near South Bend, in the early 40's. He represented the Hoosier State as a gallant young soldier of the Union in the Civil war, and as a member of the Twenty-first Indiana Volunteer Infantry he participated in the various engagements in which that valiant command was involved, he having been actively affiliated with the Grand Army of the Republic in later years and having thus maintained his association with is old comrades of the Civil war. He founded and long conducted Slick's Laundry in the City of South Bend, and there his death occurred in 1919, his widow having passed away in 1926, and John L., of this review, being the youngest of the seven children, all of whom survive the honored parents.

John L. Slick supplemented the discipline of the South Bend public schools by there attending fine old Notre Dame University, in which he was a student about four years. He early gained practical experience in connection with his father's laundry business in South Bend, where he remained until 1911, when he became manger of the Slick Laundry at Gary, Indiana, in which city he was thus engaged until the nation entered the World war, in 1917, when he enlisted for service in the United States army and soon gained the rank of first lieutenant. He was assigned to the management of the Government laundry service at Camp Cluster, Battle Creek, Michigan, and was there stationed until he received his honorable discharge, in the early part of 1919. Thereafter he was identified with the laundry business in the City of Terre Haute, Indiana until January, 1925, when he came to Fort Wayne and founded Slick's Family Washing & Ironing Company, of which he has since continued treasurer and manager, the company still continuing the laundry business in South Bend and having also two laundries in the City of Gary. Mr. Slick is one of the progressive citizens and business men of Fort Wayne, is here a director of the East Creighton Avenue Trust Company, is president of the Fort Wayne Better Business Bureau is a loyal and valued member of the local Chamber of Commerce, is a director of the Fort Wayne Y. M. C. A. and the Rotary Club, and has membership in the Orchard Ridge Country Club. He is actively identified with the Indiana Laundry Owners Association and the National Laundry Owners Association his political allegiance is given to the Republican party, and he and his wife have membership in the Congregational Church in their home city. Mr. Slick is affiliated with the American Legion, and in the Masonic fraternity has membership in the Scottish Rite bodies, as well as the Mystic Shrine.

At South Bend, this state, in 1912, Mr. Slick was united in marriage to Miss Harriet M. Barber, who was born at Hanna, La Porte County. She was graduated in the high school at South Bend and the college at Goshen, and was, prior to her marriage, for two years a popular teacher in the public schools of South Bend. Mrs. Slick is a daughter of the late Daniel Barber, whose death occurred in 1919 and whose widow passed away in 1918. Mr. and Mrs. Slick have one child, John L., Jr. born September 26, 1914, and the attractive home of the family is at 4210 Drury Lane.

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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


JOHN BERNARD MONAHAN. Although he has been actively engaged in the real estate and insurance business at Gary for only four years, John B. Monahan has already made his name well known in reality circles as that of a shrewd operator of careful judgment and much acumen. His had been a career in which he has been engaged in a number of capacities in various sections of the country, and the variation of his employment and his numerous travels have served to add to his equipment and to give him a clear insight into human nature and character.

Mr. Monahan was born January 10, 1868, at Dwight, Illinois, and is a son of John B. and Bridget (Reynolds) Monahan. John B. Monahan, the elder, was born and reared in County Leitrim, Ireland, where he received his education in the public and parachial schools, and there met and married Bridget Reynolds, who was born and educated in the same community. Soon after their marriage, in 1860, they immigrated to the United States, landing at New Orleans, where they remained for about three years, and then going to Dwight, Illinois. In 1875 the parents removed with their family to Joliet, Illinois, where Mr. Monahan followed contracting and building, and several years later moved back to Dwight, where Mr. Monahan died in1878, burial being made at Dwight. Mrs. Monahan passed away in October, 1925, and was buried at Joliet, at which time her husband's remains were takento Joliet and laid beside her. They were honest and honorable people who had the fullest respect and esteem of the people of the communities in which they made their home. Mr. and Mrs. Monahan were the parents of six children: Edward, who died in 1929, at the age of sixty-eight years; James P., of Chicago, who carried on the business of Monahan Brothers, plastering contractors, his partner having been his brother, the late Edward, who died in August, 1930; John B., of this review; Frank J. and David D., who are partners in an automobile business at Chicago; and Miss Elizabeth, who resides at Joliet.

John B. Monahan of this review received his education in the public schools of Joliet and on leaving school secured a position with the Illinois Steel Company, by which concern he was employed nine years. He then entered the service of Robert W. Hunt & Company, of Chicago, as inspection engineer, and during the nine years that he was engaged in this capacity was in charge of inspection work for the Colorado Fuel & Iron Company, Pueblo, Colorado. Later he was with that corporation in charge of their merchant mills for five years, returning to Joliet to spend two years with his brothers in municipal contract work. Subsequently he rejoined Robert W. Hunt & Company, Chicago, in charge of the southern district, located at Birmingham, Alabama, for five years, an in 1912 came to Gary with the Illinois Steel Company as superintendent of the rail mill, a position which he held until November, 1926. At that time he resigned and embarked in the real estate and insurance business, with offices at 757 Broadway, and under the firm style of J. B. Monahan has built up a large and profitable enterprise and carried through to a successful conclusion a number of transactions of great importance. He is the owner of much land of his own, including some of the Ogden dunes and considerable city realty, particularly on Harrison Street. Mr. Monahan is a charter member of the Gary Country Club, in which he has been active for years, and belongs to the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and the Knights of Columbus. His religious connection is with the Holy Angels Catholic Church, and he has always been a generous supporter of worthy civic measures and enterprises which attract his enlightened views and good judgement.

At Pueblo, Colorado, November 28, 1906, Mr. Monahan was united in marriage with Miss Anna Dempsey, daughter of James K. and Mary (Garrity) Dempsey, the former of whom was for years a real estate operator of Pueblo, and was also interested in Democratic politics. Mr. Dempsey died in 1919 and his wife in 1907, and both are buried at Pueblo. Mrs. Monahan was educated in Loretta Convent, Pueblo, Colorado, and is active in Catholic Church work, in the Catholic Woman's League and the Woman's Club of Gary. She and Mr. Monahan have had six children: Marietta, a graduate of Emerson High School, who spent two years at Saint Mary's South Bend, Indiana, graduated from the University of Chicago with the class of 1929, and is now a public school teacher at Gary; David D., a graduate of Emerson High School, who is now a sophomore at Notre Dame University; Eleanor E., a graduate of Horace Mann High School, class of 1930, who is now a student in the University of Wisconsin; Anna R. and Dorothy, who are students in Horace Mann High School; and Katherine, who is attending grade school, at Holy Angels School, Gary.

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


WILLIAM JOHN SCHROEDER. The building of the City of Gary, Lake County, upon the sandy wilds of the Lake Michigan area has constituted one of the marvels in American industrial and urban development, and in the passing years the original spirit of constructive progressiveness has here continued in force, for the city has gained and retained men of thought and action and of noteworthy loyalty and initiative, so that the march of progress has not faltered. In the Gary metropolitan district today William J. Schroeder is a liberal and influential business man who has been able to make important contribution to civic and material advancement through his active association with real estate development and control, especially through the medium of organizations formed for the normal and direct encouragement of building operations. Thus it is to be noted that he is president of the Glen Park Building & Loan Association, and he is also general manager of Park Manor.

Mr. Schroeder was born in the City of Chicago, October 3, 1885, and is a son of Frederick and Albertine (Zahlmann) Schroeder, who were born and reared near Danzig, Germany, where their marriage was solemnized, and whence they came to the United States and established residence in Chicago, Illinois, in 1881. In his native land Frederick Schroeder had been an exponent of farm industry, but upon becoming a citizen of Chicago he effectively adjusted himself to urban conditions by turning his attention to contracting and building, of which important line of enterprise he continued a successful representative during the remainder of his active career. He died October 13, 1929, at his home in Elmhurst, one of the attractive suburbs of Chicago, and there his mortal remains rest in Mount Emblem Cemetery, which is maintained under the auspices of the Masonic fraternity, he having long been affiliated with that time-honored fraternal order. His widow now resides in the home of her daughter Clara (Mrs. John Zimmerman), at Lombard, Illinois. Of the children the following brief record is available: Albert and Frederick, Jr., still reside in Chicago; Anna became the wife of Herman Tapel, of Chicago, and in that city her death occurred; William J., of this review, is the next younger of the children; John resides at Lombard, Illinois; Otto died at the age of three years; Walter is a resident of Ontarioville, Illinois; Charles resides at Lombard, a virtual suburb of Chicago; and Clara is the wife of John Zimmerman, their home being at Lombard.

In Chicago the public-school education of William J. Schroeder culminated when he was graduated in the Holden High School, as a member of the class of 1902, his studies there having included a commercial course. In 1904 Mr. Schroeder enlisted in the United States Army, and at the expiration of his three years' term of enlistment he received his honorable discharge and passed two and one-half years in the purchasing department of the Nebraska Bridge Supply & Lumber Company, with headquarters in the City of Omaha. He then, in the spring of 1909, came to Gary, Indiana, and engaged in the real-estate and building business. His initial service was in the selling of realty for the First State Bank of Hobart, another of the cities of Lake County, and he then became sales manager in connection with the real-estate operation of George and William Earle. With this firm he remained eleven years, and he then, in 1920, effected the organization of the American Pure Paint Company, which erected a factory on Park Road and the tracks of the Michigan Central Railroad, Gary, where for the ensuing two years the company manufactured natural paint pigments. Mr. Schroeder then resumed his alliance with the real-estate business, organized a syndicate by which was purchased the Park Manor subdivision of Gary, at Broadway and Thirty-fifth streets, and proceeded to exploit and develop this tract of eighty acres. The best type of modern improvements was installed, in the matter of streets, sidewalks sewerage and lighting systems, etc., and a restrictive provision was made that none but brick or stone buildings were to be erected. On this tract about $2,500,000 was eventually expended in the erection of buildings and the making of general improvements, and Mr. Schroeder has continued as general manager of the Park Manor corporation. In the fall of 1922 he became associated with the organizing of Glen Park State Bank, of which he was the first secretary and of which he became a director. In 1925 he was concerned in organizing the Glen Park Building & Loan Association, of which he became vice president, and two years later he was elected its president, the office which he still retains. The offices of this association are established at 3662 Broadway. Mr. Schroeder is a director of the Gary Commercial Club and Chamber of Commerce. He was influential in effecting the reorganization of the Chamber of Commerce, and served two years as its secretary.

The political allegiance of Mr. Schroeder is given to the Democratic party, and he has shown his civic loyalty in effective service in various avenues of service. He was a member of the city park board of Gary in 1914, the preceding year having marked his candidacy for membership in the City Council. In 1917 he was Democratic candidate for city clerk, and in 1928 as his party's candidate for the office of county recorder he ran more than 2,000 votes ahead of the party ticket, normal political agencies having compassed his defeat for this and the other positions, as the Democratic party is in the minority in Gary and in Lake County in general. In November, 1930, he was elected a member of the Lake County Council and when the Council was organized, he was elected president.

In 1927 Mr. Schroeder was deputized to organize the "Vigilantes of Lake County," and this body did successful service in capturing a number of desperadoes who were preying on banks and commerce in Indiana and Illinois. Mr. Schroeder is now chairman of the Lake County Protection Association and the Lake County Bankers Association. His basic Masonic affiliation is with Gary Lodge No. 677, A. F. and A. M., and in the Scottish Rite Consistory at Fort Wayne he has received the thirty-second degree, while as a Noble of the Mystic Shrine he has membership in Orak Temple at Hammond. In his home city he is a member of the representative organization known as the Sand Fleas, and in Chicago he has membership in Medinah Athletic Club.

At Huntsville, Alabama, on November 10, 1907, Mr. Schroeder was united in marriage to Miss Anna L. Harley, daughter of Russell and Louise (Cole) Harley, her mother having been in line of kinship with Daniel Boone, the historic Kentucky frontiersman. Russell Harley was born in Ohio and represented that state as a gallant young soldier of the Union in the Civil war, he having participated in many engagements and having been wounded in the battles of Winchester and Stone River. After the war he gained pioneer honors in Arkansas, where he obtained land and where, as a skilled civil engineer, he was prominently concerned with railway building and general surveying work of important order. His death occurred about 1905 and that of his widow about 1922. Mrs. Schroeder received her youthful education mainly at Judsonia, Arkansas, and Huntsville, Alabama. Like her husband, she is deeply interested in the affairs of the Masonic fraternity, as a member of the Order of the Eastern Star and of the White Shrine of Jerusalem, besides which she is a popular figure in the social life of her home community. Mr. and Mrs. Schroeder have two fine sons: William Russell Schroeder was born at Huntsville, Alabama, January 13, 1909, and in 1928 he graduated in Onarga Military School, with the rank of major. He thereafter was a student in the Chicago Art Institute and he is now a talented commercial artist. Earle, the younger son, was born at Hobart, Indiana, October 1, 1910, and received the advantages of the Glen Park public schools of Gary, where he had also two year of high-school work. In 1928 he was graduated in Onarga Military School, with rank of first lieutenant, and he is now a member of the class of 1932 in DePauw University. Both sons are affiliated with college fraternities, William R. being a member of Theta Chi Phi and Earle of the Phi Delta Theta.

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


JOHN CHRISTIAN PERRY, formerly secretary and treasurer of the Glen Park Building & Loan Association, which is on of the well ordered, progressive and valuable concerns of the City of Gary, with headquarters at 3662 Broadway, is able to claim the historic old Keystone State as the place of his nativity, for his birth occurred at Norristown, Pennsylvania, September 28, 1883. He is a son of William E. and Emma (Stump) Perry, both of whom were born and reared at Norristown, where they passed virtually their entire lives, the death of Mrs. Perry having there occurred in 1887 and her husband having survived her more than thirty years, his death having there occurred in the year 1921. William E. Perry was a son of John Perry, who was born and reared in the North of Ireland and who was a youth when he came to the United States and established residence at Norristown, Pennsylvania, where he was engaged many years in the livery business and where both he and his wife remained until their death, their marriage having there been solemnized. In the earlier part of his active career William E. Perry was associated with his father in the livery business at Norristown, and thereafter he passed many years in the service of the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad. Of the two children John C., of this review, is the elder, and the younger is Miss Jane M. Perry, a popular teacher in the public schools of her native City of Norristown. The mother was a devoted communicant of the Lutheran Church, in the faith of which she had been reared.

In the high school at Norristown, Pennsylvania, John C. Perry was graduated in 1901, and thereafter he completed a course in chemistry and mechanic arts in Drexel Institute, Philadelphia, in which institution he was graduated as a member of the class of 1906. Thereafter he held for three years a position in the laboratories of the Allen Wood Iron & Steel Corporation, in Pennsylvania, an din 1909 he came to Gary, Indiana, and became an assistant to H. C. Thomas, who was then chief chemist for the Illinois Steel Company. Mr. Perry continued his service with this great industrial corporation until 1912, when he assumed the position of deputy city comptroller of Gary, he having later become deputy city treasurer and having served in this capacity until 1922, when he engaged in the real-estate and insurance business, to which he continued to give his attention until 1925. He then became one of the organizers of the Glen Park Building & Loan Association, of which he continued as secretary and treasurer until January, 1931. At that time he became general agent for the Fidelity Health & Accident Company for Lake County.

A Knight Templar Mason, Mr. Perry has received also the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite, in the Consistory of the Valley of Fort Wayne, while as a Noble of the Mystic Shrine he has membership in Orak Temple in the City of Hammond. He is a charter member of Roosevelt Lodge No. 716, A.F. and A.M., of which he as the first secretary, and he is a past high priest of Gary Chapter, R.A. M. His political allegiance is given to the Republican party and he and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

In Los Angeles, California, January 26, 1923, Mr. Perry was united in marriage to Mrs. Daisy D. (Cross) Perry, daughter of Christopher Cross, who was for many years engaged in the meat market business at Tuscola, Illinois, where both he and his wife died. Mrs. Perry was reared and educated in Illinois and there occurred her marriage to Floyd Perry, who there died when he was a young man, no children having been born of this union. Mrs. Perry has been a popular figure in church and social circles in Gary, is a member of the Phi Sigma Pi college sorority and is an active member of the Gary Woman's Club.

Mr. Perry was animated by utmost loyalty in his association with patriotic activities in the World war period, and was influential in furthering the drives for sale of Government war bonds, the advancing of Red Cross work, etc. He is one of the progressive and loyal citizens and business men of Gary and is always ready to give his influence and cooperation in the furthering of civic movements and enterprises of value to the community.

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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