Mr. Flanagan was born at Lafayette, March 4, 1876. His parents, Patrick and Mary (Ryan) Flanagan, came from County Limerick, Ireland, and settled in Indiana about 1866. Daniel P. Flanagan was one of a large family of fourteen children and from childhood was impressed with his obligations to do for himself and help others, and those qualities have been dominant throughout his entire career. He was educated in St. Ann Parochial School and the Union Business College. Beyond that he had no opportunity to attend college or university, and he prepared himself for the law by study with William R. Wood and later in the office of Hanly & Wood at Lafayette. He was admitted to the Indiana Bar in 1897, and in April, 1898, started practice for himself. He has enjoyed a large clientage and among other business interests he has represented is the Tippecanoe Loan & Trust Company, of which he is attorney.
Mr. Flanagan was elected and served two terms, four years, as prosecuting attorney of Tippecanoe County. By appointment he was city attorney for one year, and for six years held the office of county attorney. He was also township attorney for Fairfield Township. He is affiliated with the B. P. O. Elks and Knights of Columbus, did important work for the legal advisory board during the World war and helped in all the war drives. Mr. Flanagan is a Republican and has been secretary of the central Republican executive committee.
He married Mary F. Straitman, of Lafayette. Their daughter, Mary Margaret, is attending school.
INDIANA ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OF AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT Vol. 3
By Charles Roll, A.M.
The Lewis Publishing Company, 1931
ELKANAH HULLEY is a retired business man of Marion. A few years ago he was mayor of that city. Marion has been his home for over half a century, and all his activities and relations have been those of a capable, hard working and attentive business man, and public spirited citizen.
Elkanah Hulley was born in Switzerland County, Indiana, in a log cabin, June 6, 1849. His father, William Hulley, and his grandfather, George Hulley, were natives of England. His grandfather was born in 1780. The father was born in Manchester, England, and came to America in 1832, settling on a farm in Switzerland County, Indiana. He lived to be eighty-six years of age and is buried near Moorfield, Indiana.
Elkanah Hulley was reared in a rural district, had the advantages of country schools and from his father's farm he came to Marion and found employment in a foundry and machine shop operated by a uncle and one of his cousins, Samuel and Joseph Hulley. The first year he was paid a dollar a day and the second year a dollar and a half a day. He was thrifty as well as industrious, and out of his earnings saved a modest amount of capital, with which he purchased the interest of Samuel Hulley, and after 1876 the firm was continued as the partnership of Joseph & Elkanah Hulley. Mr. Hulley retained his interest in this business for twenty years. In the meantime, in 1889, he became a traveling representative for Kruse and DeWinter, manufacturers of hot air furnaces, with headquarters at Indianapolis.
Mr. Hulley gave his first service to Marion in a public capacity in 1900, when he was appointed superintendent of the City Water Works under Mayor Abe Steele. This office he held for fifteen years. He was Mayor of Marion from 1917 to 1921. The administration was a very notable one in municipal history, including as it did the period of the World war, when public officials as well as all citizens were devoting much of their time to patriotic duties, and Mayor Hulley was a leader in the campaigns for the raising of funds. Mr. Hulley has acquired considerable real estate in Marion, and his time is now taken up with the supervision of his private affairs.
He is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, is a former member of the Junior Order United American Mechanics, Kiwanis Club and Marion Association of Commerce. Besides his other public service he was for fourteen and a half years member of the Marion City School Board. He is a trustee of the First Methodist Episcopal Church.
Mr. Hulley married Amanda Jane Neal, who was born at Marion February 25, 1853, daughter of Thomas J. and Elizabeth Neal. Mr. Hulley's oldest child, Louis Samuel, born at Marion March 6, 1874, married Mabel Katherine Heichert on September 15, 1895, and to that union were born three children, Philip, Katherine and Elkanah. The second child, Katherine, is the wife of Dr. Neil Loomis and the mother of two children, Mary Katherine and John Francis. The second son of Mr. Hulley was born at Marion February 25, 1877, married Stella Oliver at Allegan, Michigan, and has two children, Oliver Sommerville and Katherine Lorine. The youngest of the family is Edward Sommerville Hulley, who was born at Marion July 3; 1880, and married Margaret Frances Anderson, the two children of their union being Joanna Jane and Margaret Frances.
INDIANA ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OF AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT Vol. 3
By Charles Roll, A.M.
The Lewis Publishing Company, 1931
RUSSELL JENNINGS GILL, president and general manager of R. J. Gill & Company, at South Bend was a boy enthusiast over motor mechanics and his entire business career has been an experience in connection with the motor industry. Mr. Gill was born at Wyatt, Indiana, October 12, 1896. He attended public schools of South Bend and was still a boy when he went to work for the Studebaker Corporation. He was in the service department of the corporation during 1916-17, and as a motor expert he was assigned during the World war to instruct a motor class at the Army Motor School at the old arsenal and later at state fair grounds at Indianapolis.
Mr. Gill in 1918 was employed as road service man with the Crow-Elkhart Motor Company and from 1919 to 1921 was vice president of the Elkhart Sales & Service Company, the Studebaker distributors in Elkhart County. In 1921 he opened the Lincoln Highway Paint & Trim Shop at Elkhart. His plant in 1922 was destroyed by a destructive tornado.
That caused his removal to South Bend, where he established a shop at 1804-06 South Main Street. Larger quarters were secured Ridge at 312 North Michigan Street, and the fast growing business soon made necessary another move, when a larger building was secured at the present location, at 914 East Sample Street. Mr. Gill has a modernly equipped shop, and the R. J. Gill & Company are widely known over Northern Indiana as specialists in work on wrecked automobiles, making and repairing fenders and bodies, have a Duco finish department and a curtain and carpet department. They also maintain a retail and wholesale automobile parts store and do a big business in supplying automobile fenders and running boards.
Mr. Gill is a popular member of the Lions Club and Chamber of Commerce at South Bend and is affiliated with the B. P. O. Elks and American Legion. Mr. Gill married, July 14, 1920, Miss Mildred J. Davidson, who was born at Elkhart, Indiana. Their two children are Elizabeth Annette, born August 10, 1921, and Mary Louise, born December 22, 1923.
INDIANA ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OF AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT Vol. 3
By Charles Roll, A.M.
The Lewis Publishing Company, 1931
FRANK EDWIN SCHOUWEILER is one of the more recent additions to the commercial leaders of the City of Fort Wayne, where he is secretary and general manager of the Old Fort Supply Company.
Mr. Schouweiler was born at Brookings in Brookings County, South Dakota, January 7, 1901, son of Frank J. and Ellen R. (O'Malley) Schouweiler. His father was born in Minnesota and his mother in Pennsylvania. The former was a merchant at Brookings and owned extensive tracts of land in the surrounding districts. He is now a resident of Sioux City, Iowa.
When Frank E. Schouweiler was eight of age his parents moved to Davenport, Iowa, where he grew up and attended school, graduating from high school. He finished his education in the University of Illinois, and after returning to Davenport was associated for a short time with a retail automobile sales company. Going to LaSalle, Illinois, he established an oil brokerage business, remaining there until 1923. Since August 1, 1923, he has been associated with the Old Fort Supply Company and in October, 1928, was made secretary and general manager. The Old Fort Supply Company has its plant and office buildings on some of the most historical grounds in the Northwest, with associations with important history running back for much more than a century. The Old Fort Supply Company was organized July 1, 1914, and its officers are: Frank A. Kintz, president; Paul K. Wehrenberg, vice president; Max Irmscher, treasurer; and Mr. Schouweiler, secretary and general manager.
Mr. Schouweiler married, September 24, 1921, Miss Velma Clark, of LaSalle, Illinois. They have two children, Edwin Clark, born May 4, 1923, and Warren Dale, born May 21, 1926. Mr. Schouweiler is a member of the Catholic Church and Knights of Columbus, the Chamber of Commerce, and the Orchard Ridge Country Club.
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INDIANA ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OF AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT Vol. 3
By Charles Roll, A.M.
The Lewis Publishing Company, 1931
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN STICKLER, M. D., is engaged in the practice of his profession at Columbia City, judicial center of Whitley County, and has secure vantage place as one of the representative physicians and surgeons of his native county. His birth occurred on the parental home farm near Columbia City, September 7, 1885, and he is a son of Charles D. and Lydia Ellen (Egolf) Stickler, the former of whom was born in Starke County, Ohio, February 5, 1848, and the latter of whom was born in Whitley County, Indiana, October 8, 1853. Charles D. Stickler was long numbered among the substantial farmers and honored citizens of Whitley County, and here his death occurred January 7, 1929, his wife having passed away December 8, 1912, and both having been earnest members of the Lutheran Church. Mrs. Stickler was a daughter of Henry Egolf, who was born in the eastern part of Ohio, in 1801, and in 1825 he became one of the first white settlers in Whitley County, Indiana, where his three brothers and one sister likewise established residence, two years later. His son Israel was the first white child born in Whitley County, and the Egolf family name was closely and worthily associated with the civic and industrial development and progress of this county.
The maternal great-grandfather of Doctor Stickler was born in Ayrshire, Scotland, came to America in 1776 and became a colonel under General George Washington in the War of the Revolution. The paternal grandfather of Doctor Stickler was born in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, where his father established residence upon coming from his native province of Alsace, Germany, and the family gained pioneer precedence in Pennsylvania, in Ohio and in Indiana.
Doctor Stickler was afforded the advantages of the district schools of his native county and of the Washington Center High School, and his boyhood and early youth gave him experience in connection with the activities of the old home farm. That he profited by his educational training is attested by the fact that when he was but fourteen years of age he became a successful teacher in a rural school, his service as a teacher having continued six years, and he having been for a time a student in Tri-State College, at Angola. In preparation for his chosen profession he completed a course in the medical department of the University of Indiana, in which he was graduated as a member of the class of 1911. After receiving his degree of Doctor of Medicine he was engaged in practice in the village of Laud, Whitley County, until 1917, since which year he has continued in successful general practice at Columbia City, the county seat. In the year of his removal to Columbia City Doctor Stickler here formed a partnership with C. J. Whitney in the undertaking business, and four years later he formed a similar partnership with Rev. L. A. Luckenbill, they having continued as representative funeral directors at Columbia City until 1921, and having then engaged also in the furniture business, which was continued until the death of Mr. Lukenbill, May 12, 1928. Doctor Stickler then sold his interest in the business, and soon afterward he erected the modern brick office and apartment building in which his office is now established, on the second floor, the lower floor, being used for a mercantile establishment.
When he was a child of four years Doctor Stickler met with an accident that resulted in the fracturing of bones in his right leg and he was compelled to move about with crutches during the ensuing four years. Not until he was twenty-four years of age did he have the major operation that fully restored the use of his injured leg.
In 1914 Doctor Stickler was elected county coroner, which office he retained two years. He was then elected county treasurer, as candidate on the Democratic ticket, the original tally having given him a majority of seven votes, but the recount demanded by his opponent having resulted in his defeat by only one vote. The Doctor has membership in the Whitley County Medical Society and the Indiana State Medical Society, as well as the American Medical Association, and he is treasurer of the First Baptist Church of Columbia City, of which his wife likewise is a zealous member. He has affiliation with the Masonic fraternity, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, Knights of Pythias, Modern Woodmen of America and Improved Order of Red Men. The Doctor is a practical as well as theoretical prohibitionist, as he has never indulged in intoxicating liquors, while his is likewise the enviable distinction of never having uttered a profane oath.
January 27,1913, recorded the marriage of Doctor Stickler to Miss Alice A. Shearer, who was born in Huntington County, March 12, 1888, and who supplemented the discipline of the rural schools by a course in the high school at Washington Center. Doctor and Mrs. Stickler have no children, but in their attractive home they delight in welcoming the young folk of the community as well as the friends of their own generation
INDIANA ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OF AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT Vol. 3
By Charles Roll, A.M.
The Lewis Publishing Company, 1931
DOSTER BUCKNER, M. D., is one of the representative physicians and surgeons of the younger generation in the City of Fort Wayne, where his office headquarters are maintained at 1118 Calhoun Street.
Doctor Buckner was born at Poneto, Wells County, Indiana, April 7, 1892, and is a son of Francis Marion Buckner and Stella (Doster) Buckner, both likewise natives of Wells County, where the former was born October 9, 1867, and the latter on the 19th of the same month and year. The Buckner family has been established in this country since the early Colonial period, and representatives of the same made settlement in Kentucky within a short time after the close of the Revolutionary war. William N. Buckner, grandfather of the subject of this review, was born and reared in Kentucky and thence came to Indiana and settled in Wells County about the year 1852. He became one of the substantial exponents of farm industry in Wells County, and there he and his wife passed the remainder of their lives, both having been earnest members of the Baptist Church. William N. Buckner was one of the honored pioneer citizens of Wells County at the time of his death in 1904, he having attained to the age of seventy-eight years. His wife, who likewise was born in Kentucky and whose maiden name was Amelia Yelton, died in 1915, after she had passed the eightieth milestone on the journey of life. Dr. Hezekiah Doster, maternal grandfather of Doctor Buckner, passed his entire life in Indiana, and his parents, George and Jane Doster, natives of England, were numbered among the early settlers of Wells County, where they passed the remainder of their lives. Dr. Hezekiah Doster was long numbered among the progressive physicians of Wells County, and he and his wife were specially zealous members of the Baptist Church.
Francis Marion Buckner received the advantages of the public schools of Wells County, including the high school at Bluffton, the county seat, and thereafter he gave ten years of effective service as a teacher. He has never severed his allegiance to the basic industries of agriculture and stock growing, of which he continues a representative in Wells County, where he has also been and continues a prominent and successful breeder of standard-bred horses, in which connection he has been active in turf events. His political allegiance is given to the Democratic party and he is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity. He and his wife are well known citizens of the county that has represented their home from their birth to the present time. Of their children Dr. Doster Buckner, of this sketch, is the eldest; Dale is the wife of Archibald Davis, of Bluffton, Wells County; and Dr. Joy Buckner, youngest of the children, is now a successful young physician and surgeon in Fort Wayne, the maiden name of his wife having been Winifred Terrey.
Dr. Doster Buckner was graduated in the high school at Bluffton as a member of the class of 1911, and thereafter he continued his studies in the University of Indiana until he received therefrom, in 1916, the degree of Bachelor of Arts. He then became a student in the medical department of the university, and in 1919 he was graduated therein and duly received his degree of Doctor of Medicine. In the meanwhile, however, he served in the Student Army Training Corps at the university, and he also volunteered for World war service in the Medical Officers Reserve Corps of the United States army. He received his honorable discharge December 14, 1918, and thereafter he continued his studies until he completed his course in the medical department of the university. After receiving his degree of Doctor of Medicine he further fortified himself by clinical experience gained in one year of service as an interne in Saint Vincent Hospital, Indianapolis, and two years of service as resident physician at the Irene Byron Sanitarium in that city. Since 1922 he has been established in the general practice of his profession in Fort Wayne, and the constant expansion of his practice indicates alike his technical ability and his personal popularity. The Doctor has membership in the Fort Wayne Medical Society, the Indiana State Medical Society and the American Medical Association. He is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity, the Fraternal Order of Eagles, the American Legion, the Society of Forty and Eight, and the Sigma Alpha Epsilon college fraternity and Nu Sigma Nu medical fraternity. He is a member of the Lions Club of Fort Wayne, is a Democrat in politics, and he and his wife attend the Presbyterian Church.
June 24, 1920, recorded the marriage of Doctor Buckner to Miss Marie Lewis, of Frankfort, this state, who that year had been graduated in the training school for nurses maintained at the University of Indiana. The two children of this union are George Doster, born August 7, 1921, and Susanne, born December 13, 1926.
The name of the Buckner family bas been worthily linked with American history since its first representatives in this country came from England and became Colonial settlers in Virginia. The paternal great-grandfather of Doctor Buckner was Thomas Buckner, and the latter's father, Philip Buckner, was the pioneer settler in Kentucky, where he established residence soon after the close of the War of the Revolution.
INDIANA ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OF AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT Vol. 3
By Charles Roll, A.M.
The Lewis Publishing Company, 1931
JOHN C. BURKLE, M. D., has had a heavy burden of professional activities in Tippecanoe County. He is recognized as a progressive man in his profession, always a student, affiliated with organizations that are working for the advancement of higher standards and a broader scope of service.
Doctor Burkle was born in Tippecanoe County, Indiana, January 12, 1881. His grandfather, Christian F. Burkle, settled in Shelby Township of that county in 1860. Christian Burkle married Margaret Kaufmann, and both came from Germany and settled in Illinois in 1854. George P. Burkle, father of Doctor Burkle, was a native of Illinois, but from early childhood lived in Tippecanoe County, where he was a substantial farmer. George P. Burkle married Hattie Ann McFarland, of a pioneer family of Tippecanoe County.
Dr. John C. Burkle is one of a family of nine children. He attended grade schools in Tippecanoe County, the Montmorenci High School, and taught in Shelby Township for three years. On taking up the study of medicine he spent two years in the Kentucky School of Medicine at Louisville and did his junior and senior work in the Indiana Medical College, where he was graduated M. D. in 1906. Doctor Burkle for seven years practiced at New Ross in Montgomery County and since July, 1913, has been a resident of Lafayette. He has attended the Chicago Post Graduate School of Medicine, is secretary of the Tippecanoe County Medical Society and has been chairman for two years of the state organization of county secretaries. He is a member of the Indiana State and a Fellow of the American Medical Associations, and an associate member of the American College of Physicians, a Fellow of the American Public Health Association, a member of the American Heart Association and the Association for the Study of Internal Secretions. For the past seven years he has been secretary of the board of health of West Lafayette. During the World war he was a member of the Medical Examining Board and the Volunteer Medical Reserve Corps.
Doctor Burkle married Miss Elizabeth Williamson, of Tippencanoe County. Four children were born to their marriage, Harriett Elizabeth, Roberta Eleanor, now deceased, John Christian, deceased, and Esther Louise. The daughter Harriett Elizabeth, a graduate of Purdue University, was engaged in educational work, and is now the wife of E. L. Rankin, civil engineer for the Pennsylvania Railroad, Indianapolis; Esther Louise is a junior high school. Doctor Burkle is affiliated with the West Lafayette Lodge No. 724, A. F. and A. M., and Lodge No. 51, Knights of Pythias. His wife is local corresponding secretary of the Tippecanoe County Historical Society, and a member of an Indiana Pioneer family. Doctor Burkle for sixteen years has been secretary of the board of the First Methodist Episcopal Church and is secretary of the Paul Tincher Smith Memorial Choir.
INDIANA ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OF AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT Vol. 3
By Charles Roll, A.M.
The Lewis Publishing Company, 1931
RICHARD B. SAMPLE, president of the Lafayette Savings Bank, carries on the tradition of a family that have been prominent in Indiana financial affairs for three generations.
Mr. Sample was born at Lafayette, November 3, 1868. His grandfather was Henry T. Sample, who was one of the organizers of the First National Bank of Lafayette in 1863, the year that the National Banking Act was passed as a war measure. Henry T. Sample was born in Butler County, Ohio. He was a child when in 1810 his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Sample, moved to Randolph County, Indiana. Henry T. Sample was a pioneer settler of Tippecanoe County, locating there in 1825. For many years he carried on a pork packing business and in 1833 organized the Sample Pork Packing Company. He was a notable figure as a citizen as well as a business man.
Robert W. Sample, father of Richard B., was also a banker, holding the office of president of the First National Bank of Lafayette. He was born in that city and married Elizabeth Anderson, a native of Ohio.
Richard B. Sample was one of seven children. He attended the grade and high schools of Lafayette, completing his education in Purdue University. About 1887 he engaged in the lumber business, and kept his active interest in that line until 1903, in which year he was elected president of the Lafayette Savings Bank and has served in that office now for nearly thirty years.
Mr. Sample is a member of Lafayette Lodge No. 492, A. F. and A. M., the Royal Arch Chapter and Council degrees, the Scottish Rite bodies and Murat Temple of the Mystic Shrine at Indianapolis. He has also been active in a civic way and in 1901-02 served as mayor of Lafayette. He is a director of the First Merchants National Bank of Lafayette.
Mr. Sample married Miss May Culver, of Lafayette. They have two adopted Richard and John, both of whom are in school. Mr. Sample did his share in promoting the success of the bond drives during the World war and was treasurer of the Red Cross Chapter. He is a member of the Rotary Club. Mr. Sample has many of the ideal qualifications of the banker, being a man of conservative temper and outlook, quick to grasp business conditions, and in his personal career is guided by a high degree of public spirit and charitable character.
INDIANA ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OF AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT Vol. 3
By Charles Roll, A.M.
The Lewis Publishing Company, 1931
LLOYD S. HARTZLER, prominent Fort Wayne attorney, was appointed in March, 1929 assistant United States district attorney under District Attorney Oliver M. Loomis, of South Bend, and, while retaining his law offices at Fort Wayne, assisted in the prosecution of Federal cases throughout the Northern Indiana district of the United States Court. He resigned from this office September 1, 1929.
Mr. Hartzler is a native of Ohio, but his people have been in Indiana for several generations. He was born at Hicksville in Defiance County, Ohio, June 25, 1897, son of Henry Morton and Clara May (Swilley) Hartzler and a grandson of Jacob Hartzler. His grandfather served with an Indiana regiment in the Civil war. Henry Morton Hartzler was born at Cambridge City, Indiana, and has lived at Hicksville, Ohio, since the early 1890s. He is a merchant and banker. His wife was born at Hicksville, daughter of John Swilley, an early settler of Defiance County.
Lloyd S. Hartzler is the only child of his parents. He graduated from high school at Hicksville, attended Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware and in 1922 was graduated from the law school of Columbia University, New York. In the same year he removed to Fort Wayne and was admitted to the Indiana bar. During 1922-23 he was associated with the law firm of Vesey & Vesey, in 1923 was made trust officer for the Tri-State Loan & Trust Company and from 1924 to 1926 was again associated with the law practice of Vesey & Vesey. In 1926 he was admitted a partner of the firm, which became Vesey, Vesey & Hartzler, but in May, 1928, withdrew to join the law firm of Teeter & Hartzler.
Mr. Hartzler is a member of the Allen County Bar Association. He has been active in Republican politics, and was manager of the Hoover campaign in Allen County in 1928 and had previously been chairman of the Allen County Hoover for President Club and chair- man of the Republican Speakers Bureau. Mr. Hartzler is a past president of the LL. B. Club of Fort Wayne, is a member of the American Legion and Forty and Eight Society and is on the legal committee of the Chamber of Commerce for the circum-urban highway. He is a past president of the Lions Club, a past master of Maumee Lodge No. 725, A. F. And A. M., and a past president of the Wayne Street Methodist Churchmen's Club.
He married at Fort Wayne, February 25, 1926, Miss Willa Maxine Lower, who was born at Milford, Indiana, daughter of William I. Lower. Mrs. Hartzler graduated from the Music School of Tri-State College at Angola and also attended Purdue University at Lafayette, Indiana. They had two children: Lloyd, S., Jr., born February 19, 1927, and died February 23, 1927; and William Henry, born June 19, 1928.
INDIANA ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OF AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT Vol. 3
By Charles Roll, A.M.
The Lewis Publishing Company, 1931
