Mr. Boetticher was born in Evansville December 6, 1860, son of Edward and Amelia Boetticher. His father was born in Ohio, January 7, 1837, and came to Evansville in 1868. He had learned the hardware business in Ohio and in Evansville he joined the old hardware house of Wells, Kellogg & Company. Three years later he bought the interest of Wells and was actively associated with Mr. Kellogg in the business until 1903. He died in Germany, while on a tour, in 1912. His wife was born in Cincinnati and died in 1910. Of their family of eight children five died in infancy. The three living sons are: William H.; Oscar born in 1868, first vice president of the Boetticher - Kellogg Company, married Georgia Naas, of Evansville; and Carl F., born in 1872, vice president and sales manager for the company. William H. Boetticher attended public schools and Commercial College at Evansville and since early manhood his chief interest has been in the business built up by his father and Mr. Kellogg. He started as a clerk, later was a traveling salesman, and up to a few years ago, he continued business trips every third week. In that way he built up a large and loyal following all over the territory served by the Boetticher-Kellogg Company, wholesale dealers and manufacturers of hardware, automobile accessories, sporting goods and electrical goods. He became a partner in the business in 1897 and has been the directing head since his father retired.

Mr. Boetticher is a forceful busines executive and is regarded as the chief factor in the expansion of the prosperous business of the Boetticher-Kellogg Company. In addition he is also president of the Advance Stove Works of Evansville, vice president of the Monitor Furniture Company, a director in the Claimer Furniture Factory and a director of the National City Bank and the Lincoln Savings Bank.

He married at Evansville, February 27, 1890, Miss Ida Griener, daughter of Roman R. and Anna Griener . Her father was a leading furniture manufacturer of Evansville and both parents were born in Germany. Mr. Boetticher is a Republican but has steadfastly refused all political honors, none the less exercising an important influence in his home locality. He is a Presbyterian, a member of the Knights of Pythias and B. P. O. Elks, and for three years served with the Evansville Riffles in the Indiana National Guard.

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

ETHEL AMANDA GLASCOCK, Doctor of Chiropractic at Veedersburg, is an Indiana professional woman who has won success in her chosen vocation and enjoys the distinction of being secretary of the Indiana Alumni Association of the Palmer School of Chiropractic.

Doctor Glascock was born in Fountain County and is of Colonial Virginia stock, where several generations of the Glascocks were plantation owners and people of wealth and aristocratic connections. Her great- grandfather, Joseph Glascock, was born in Fauquier County, Virginia, December 24, 1791. Her grandfather was Harrison Glascock. The Glascocks came originally from Scotland, and the family was represented in the Revolutionary war.

Doctor Glascock's father, George Glascock, was a Fountain County farmer and for a number of years did a considerable business as a contractor for road work and street building. He was an influential member of the Democratic party. He died in 1913. Doctor Glascock's mother is Siddie Ellen Hesler, daughter of James Hesler, whose people came from Pennsylvania. Doctor Glascock has one brother, Dr. Clinton Harrison Glascock, who is a graduate of the Indiana University School of Dentistry, practices at Indianapolis and married Anna May Martin.

Ethel A. Glascock was educated in the grade and high schools of Fountain County. In the matter of getting a living and making a place of usefulness for herself in the world she entered the Palmer School of Chiropractic at Davenport and was graduated in 1924. For a short time she practiced in Indianapolis and then located at Veedersburg, where a large patronage has responded to her skillful ability. She owns a home and modern offices. She is secretary of the Sigma Phi Chi sorority, a Chiropractic organization, is a member of the Eastern Star, the Christian Church and a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution.

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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

LOLA NOLTE. The executive and cultural details involved in the practical management of the well equipped public library in the City of Mount Vernon, county seat of Posey County, are entrusted to an efficient and popular librarian, Miss Lola Nolte, whose study of library methods and policies, as combined with her keen literary appreciation, make her an ideal official and one who is doing admirable work in .directing and expanding the influence of the library.

Miss Nolte was born at Mount Vernon, and thus her interest in the city and county is that of a loyal native daughter. Her father, Frederick Nolte, was in earlier years a traveling salesman for a wholesale dry goods house, and thereafter he was a representative exponent of farm industry in Posey County, his death having occurred at Mount Vernon, in the year 1899, and his widow, whose maiden name was Mary Ann Evison, being still a resident of this city, where she was born and reared. Frederick and Mary A. Nolte became the parents of six children, all of whom survive the honored father: Mary is the wife of Elijah M. Spencer, who is a prosperous farmer near Mount Vernon, and they have two children, of whom the elder is Mrs. Mark Crunk, of Indianapolis, and the younger is Jane, born in 1919. Lola, the subject of this review, is the second eldest. Lucy Belle, next younger of the children, is the wife of Kenneth Weyerbacher, a city official of Boonville, Indiana, and their two children are William and Gayle. Emily is the wife of Walter Thoma, who is in the service of the Standard Oil Company, their home being maintained in Mount Vernon and their children being Mary Ann and Walter, Jr. Frederick, elder of the two sons, who resides in Mount Vernon and is one of the progressive farmers of his native county, married Miss Evelyn. Wheaten, of Elberfeld, Warrick County, and their two children are Ellen and Frederick, Jr. James is employed as buyer for the firm of Belknap & Company, of Louisville, Kentucky ,and the personal name of his wife is Myrtle.

Miss Nolte continued her studies in the Mount Vernon public schools until she had duly profited by the curriculum of the high school, and thereafter she passed one year as a student in the Great Chicago Art Institute. Her special training for library work was received in the City of Indianapolis, and she has been librarian of the Mount Vernon public library since 1920. In addition to giving loyal and enthusiastic service as librarian Miss Nolte also has no minor leadership in general cultural and social activities in her home community, where her circle of friends is virtually coincident with that of her acquaintances. In 1928 Miss Nolte had the distinction of serving as president of the State Library Association of Indiana, she is president of the Tuesday Literary Club of Mount Vernon and of the Gamma Psi chapter of the Kappa Kappa Kappa sorority, a state organization.

The Mount Vernon public library,the corporate title of which is the Alexandria Free Public Library, was founded by Mrs. Mathilda Alexander, a cultured, gracious and public-spirited woman of Mount Vernon, and her private library was donated as a nucleus for the now large and well ordered library. The fine library building was erected through the medium of the Carnegie library fund, and the institution now has on its shelves fully 10,000, volumes.

The father of Miss Nolte was long prominent and influential in the Posey councils and campaign activities of the Republican party, and was a liberal and progressive citizen who commanded unqualified popular esteem. His widow is now the oldest native daughter of Posey County residing in Mount Vernon, and she is loved by all who ave come within the compass of her gracious influence.

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

ELISHA A. WILSON has been for more than thirty-five years actively identified with the mercantile business in the City of Boonville, county seat of Warrick County, and his successful achievement and secure civic and business standing are specially pleasing to note by reason of his being a native son to this county and a representative of one of its sterling and influential families. His venerable father, Rice Wilson, was long and prominently concerned with farm industry in this county. He was born in Kentucky and was a youth when he became a resident of Warrick County, where he now resides at Boonville and where in his years of retirement he enjoys peace and prosperity and the high regard of all who know him. His wife, whose maiden name was Charlotte Madden, passed her entire life in Warrick County and her death occurred in 1903. Rice Wilson gained status as one of the most progressive exponents of farm enterprise in Warrick County and was the founder of the Boonville Fair Association, which for sixty-five years maintained one of the largest and best county fairs in Indiana. In former years Mr. Wilson was influential in public affairs in his county and he gave eight years of service as county recorder.

Of the three children of Rice and Charlotte (Madden) Wilson the youngest, and only survivor, is Elisha A., of this review. James R., who died at the age of sixty-two years, became a prominent member of the bar of his native county and was engaged in the practice of law at Boonville at the time of his death, several years ago. He married Miss Natalia Brown, who survives him, as does also one child, John M., who is a salesman for the great mercantile house of Montgomery Ward & Company in the City of Chicago. John W., next older brother of the subject of this review, died in 1924, at the age of sixty-two years, the two having been partners in the dry-goods business at Boonville. John M. Wilson married Miss Flora Stuckey, who survives him, no children having been born of their marriage.

The public-school discipline of Elisha A. Wilson culminated in his graduation in the Boonille High School, in 1884, and he continued to be associated with the work and management of the old home farm until he was nineteen years of age, when he married and also initiated his independent career as a farmer. He was thus engaged three years, during the ensuing two years he was employed coal mines of this locality. In 1893 he and his brother John established themselves in the drug-goods business at Boonville and fair and honorable methods and effective service resulted in the upbuilding of a substantial and representative business. Upon the death of his brother, in 1924, Elisha A, assumed individual control of the prosperous business, but he soon admitted William L. Roth to partnership in the enterprise, which has since been continued under the firm name of Wilson & Roth.

Mr. Wilson has ever taken loyal .interest in all that concerns the welfare of his home city and native county, his political allegiance is given to the Democratic party, he is affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and in their home city he and his wife are zealous members of the Presbyterian Church, in which he is an elder.

December 31, 1886, marked the marriage of Mr. Wilson to Miss Nannie Gough, who likewise was born and reared in Warrick County and who is a daughter of the late Robert and Elizabeth Gough, her father having been a coal-mine operator in this county. Helen, first born of the two daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Wilson, died at the age of sixteen years. Robert R., who was born August 2, 1887, is one of the principals in the George J. Roth Company, which conducts a leading department store at Boonville, he having married Miss Ida Roth, daughter of his partner, George J. Roth, and the one child of this union being Charlotte, who is fifteen years of age at the time of this writing, in the summer of 1929. Ruth, youngest of the children of the subject of this sketch, was born September 20, 1893, and is now the wife of Thomas C. Mullins, who was born in Arkansas, and who is now associated with coal-milling operations in Warrick County, with the Sunlight Coal Company, the headquarters of which are maintained at Boonville. Mr. Mullins was in active service in the United States Army in the World war period, was commissioned captain of the Thirty-fourth Engineers, and now has the rank of major in the Officers Reserve Corps of the United States Army. He is affiliated with the American Legion and also with the Masonic fraternity, including the Temple of the Mystic Shrine in the City of Evansville. Robert R. Wilson, son of the subject of this sketch, likewise is a noble of this temple of the Mystic Shrine, his York Rite affiliations being in his home City of Boonville. Mr. and Mrs. Mullins have three children: Jean, Thomas C., Jr., and William W.

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

LOUISE M. HUSBAND. One of the finest libraries of the State of Indiana is that maintained at New Harmony, Posey County, in connection with the historic Workingmen's Institute. Here Mrs. Nora C. Fretageot has held the office of librarian somewhat more than twenty years, and she counts herself fortunate in having as her efficient, popular and valued coadjutor Miss Louise M. Husband, who has been the assistant librarian since 1909. On other pages of this work individual recognition is given to Mrs. Fretageot, and to that personal sketch reference may be made for further record concerning the library.

George Husband, a native of Albion, Illinois, .came to Indiana in the early '40s and established his residence at New Harmony, the center of a remarkable community whose history has been one of marked interest in the annals of the Hoosier State. Mr. Husband was a speculator along real estate and industrial lines, and; he long figured prominently and worthily in civic and business activities in this community, where his death occurred in 1886, he having been born in the year 1825. Here was solemnized his marriage to Miss Elizabeth Williams, who was born and reared at New Harmony, a representative of one of its sterling pioneer families, she having been born in 1839 and her death having here occurred in 1917. Of the three children of this union one died in infancy; Mary, elder of the two daughters, was born March 18, 1870, and her death occurred in 1895, she having been the wife of Rev. William H. Newkirk, who was born in Illinois, who is a clergyman of the Methodist Episcopal Church and who now resides at Tampa, Florida, no children having been born of the union; Louise M., of this review, is now the sole surviving member of the immediate family. By a former marriage George Husband had a son, Harry Carrol Husband, who, was active many years in the grain and merchandising business at New Harmony and died in April, 1910. He married Miss Lena Robb, daughter of a pioneer Posey County family, and they had one daughter, Mrs. Hazel C. Daily, who lives in Chicago. His comradeship is among his sister Louise's most pleasant memories.

Miss Husband was born at New Harmony, September 16, 1877, and here she continued her studies in the public schools until she had profited by the advantages of the high school. Later she completed a course in library training, at a leading Indiana school. Hers has been a place of prominence and influence in connection with social and cultural affairs in her native city and state, and her activities have been of diversified order. As a staunch advocate of the principles of the Republican party Miss Husband was chairman of the Hoover Club for Posey and Gibson counties in the national campaign of 1928. She is a member of the Woman's Library Club of New Harmony, is treasurer of the Posey County Historical Society, is a member of the Southwestern Indiana Historical Society, was incumbent of the office of guardian for Camp Fire Girls, and she has gained reputation as a writer of marked literary ability, in which connection she has been associated with the New Harmony Times fully seventeen years. She is an earnest communicant of Saint Stephen's Church, Protestant Episcopal, and is an active and popular member of the parish Guild. She was president of the Woman's Library Club in 1904-05, and again from 1918 to 1920. At the age of thirteen years Miss Husband was made an honorary member of the Posey County Teachers Association, in appreciative recognition of her extraordinary analysis of a poem presented by Professor Dodson in illustrating his method of normal instruction. Miss Husband has taken active part in amateur theatrical productions, and she is in the fullest sense persona grata in the community in which she was born and reared and in which she owns and occupies the home in which her birth occurred, a place endeared to her by many hallowed memories and associations. She is a life member of the Indiana Library Association and in her native commonwealth she stands forth as a gracious and cultured gentlewoman.

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

GEORGE W. WARD is one of the efficient and popular officials of his native county, where he is giving a characteristically loyal and effective administration as sheriff, with executive headquarters in the courthouse at Boonville, the vital little city that is the judicial center of Warrick County.

Mr. Ward was born on the parental home farm in Lane Township, this county, July 26, 1888, and is a son of George W. Ward, Sr., and Margaret Angeline (Bass) Ward, both likewise natives of Warrick County, where the respective families gained much of pioneer precedence. George W. Ward, Sr., who was familiarly known as "Wash" Ward, from an abbreviation of his second personal name, Washington, passed his entire life in Warrick County and was long numbered among its substantial farmers and popular and enterprising citizens, his political allegiance having been given to the Democratic party and he and his wife having been members of the Baptist Church. Of their eleven children eight are living, and all of the number attained to maturity. James W., who died at the age of thirty years, was a farmer by vocation and was survived by his wife and their two children. Clara A., who died at the age of forty years, was the wife of Thomas B. Taylor, who is still engaged in farm enterprise in Warrick County, his wife being survived by four children. Audie became the wife of Arlos Siebe, a farmer in this county, and was twenty-five years of age when she died, at the birth of her only child, which likewise died. Frank, eldest of the surviving children, is a progressive farmer in Gibson County. He married Ludie Welty and they have six children. Pervis, who is one of the enterprising farmers of Warrick County, married Sarah Oxley, who died in 1928 and who is survived by two children. Cardie is the wife of Norman Fisher, a farmer in Warrick County, and they have two children. Dora is the wife of James Williams, who is engaged in the blacksmith business at Madison, Illinois, and they have two children. Ida is the wife of Rudolph Ruble, who is engaged in the furniture business at Boonville, and they have one child. Minnie is the wife of Frederick Edwards, who is now engaged in ranch enterprise in Colorado, and they have two children. Jennie is the wife of Clifford Julian, of Boonville, and they have no children. George W., Jr., of this review, is the youngest of the children. His early education was acquired in the schools of his native township, where he continued to be associated with the work and management of the old home farm until he attained to his legal majority, when he there engaged in the same line of enterprise in an independent way.

Mr. Ward continued to give his active attention to the management of his farm until 1924, when he was; appointed deputy sheriff. He made an excellent record in this position and thus was recognized as the most eligible candidate for the office of sheriff in the election of 1926, when he was made the candidate on the Democratic ticket and was elected by a majority that attested his secure place in popular esteem in his native county. His administration as sheriff has fully justified this popular confidence. Sheriff Ward has been active and influential in the councils and campaigns of the Democratic party in Warrick County, he and his wife are members of the Baptist Church, and he has passed various official chairs in the local lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of which he is warden in 1929. He still retains ownership of valuable farm property in his native county. At Spurgeon, Pike County, on the 4th of June, 1910, Mr. Ward was united in marriage to Miss Emma Lance, and their one child is a daughter, Imogene, who was graduated in the Boonville High Schlool as a member of the class of 1929, her birth having occurred April 30, 1911.

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

WALTER ALONZO HALL, M. D. The medical profession at New Albany, Indiana, or elsewhere could scarcely be more ably represented by a general practitioner than in the case of Dr. Walter A. Hall physician and surgeon, a man of long and comprehensive medical experience and an ex-president of the Floyd County Medical Society. Interested from boyhood in books and study rather than in work on his father's farm, Doctor Hall chose preferably the life of the physician, applied himself closely and was graduated with honors from the medical department of the University of Kentucky. After several years of country and village practice he located at Borden, Indiana, where he continued for sixteen years and then came to New Albany, seeking a wider field of opportunity and usefulness. He belongs to many representative medical bodies, frequently contributes to their literature and has served as an official at times.

Doctor Hall was born at Becks Mill, Washington County, Indiana, January 2, 1880, and is a son of William A. and Laura E. (Mitchell) Hall. The Hall family originated in England and during Colonial times came to America and settled in North Carolina, while the Mitchell family were Colonial settlers in Virginia. William A. Hall, the grandfather of Doctor Hall, was born in Virginia, and came to Indiana among the pioneers of 1825, subsequently passing his life here in the pursuits of farming, in which he was engaged during the remainder of his life. He was a man of ability and judgment, and through good management and great industry built up a considerable competency. William A. Hall, the son of William A. and father of Doctor Hall, was born in Indiana, and early in life adopted the vocation of farming, to which he devoted his entire career. At the time of his wife’s death, in 1902, he was superintendent of the county poor farm and was a man of high integrity who had the well earned confidence of the people of his community. He married Laura E. Mitchell, daughter of John and Camilla Mitchell, the former of whom was a captain in the Union army during the war between the states and assisted in suppressing the raids of General Morgan and his Confederate troops into Salem, Indiana. He was a farmer who had settled in Indiana about 1825.

One of five children, Walter A. Hall attended the public schools of Livonia, Indiana, and then entered the medical department of the University of Kentucky, from which he was graduated with the degree of Doctor of Medicine as a member of the class of 1904. Following this he spent two years at the Louisville City Hospital, and later at Upland, Indiana, where he practiced two years, his next location being at Borden, where he remained for sixteen years, built up a large and representative practice and became widely known as well as greatly popular. In 1923 he settled permanently at New Albany, where he has become a leader in his profession. Doctor Hall is known as a man who is capable in every way in his profession. He is an expert surgeon, thorough practitioner and a diagnostician of highly trained faculties, and is frequently called into consultation by his fellow physicians in difficult cases of obstinacy and long standing. During the World war he tendered his services to the United States Medical Corps, but was not called to join the colors, although he assisted in .many ways in making sure the cause of American arms. He is a member of the Floyd County Medical Society, of which he was formerly president; the Third District Medical Society, of which he was secretary; the Indiana State Medical Society and the American Medical Association. A Democrat in politics, he served for some time as health officer of Ward Township, Clark County, Indiana, and while at Borden was postmaster at that place during a part of his residence. He has several business and civic connections and as a fraternalist is a popular member of the Masons, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Junior Order United American Mechanics and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. His well-appointed offices are situated at 511 Elsby Building.

Doctor Hall has been twice married. His first wife was Miss Olive Genevieve McKinley, who is deceased, a member of an old family of Indiana. The present Mrs. Hall was before her marriage Miss Anna Josephine Day, of New Albany, a member of a prominent Southeastern Indiana family.

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