Judge McNutt was born on the parental home farm in Johnson County, Indiana, May 25, 1863, and is a son of James and Cynthia Jane (Hunt) McNutt, both likewise natives of Johnson County. Judge McNutt is a grandson of John and Mahala (Hensley) McNutt, and of William R. and Martha (Terhune) Hunt. John McNutt was born in Ohio but came to Johnson County, Indiana, from Kentucky about the year 1815. William R. Hunt was born in Kentucky and thence came to Johnson County, Indiana, in 1925. James McNutt passed his entire life in Johnson County, where he continued his activities as a farmer until his death, in 1867. His widow subsequently became the wife of Jacob M. Cooper, likewise a farmer in this county, as well as an exhorter in the Methodist Episcopal Church, his death having occurred two years after this marriage and his widow having long survived him.
Judge McNutt, who was about four years of age at the time of his father's death, was reared on a farm in his native county and after there attending district school in Hensley Township and the high school at Trafalgar one year he continued his high school work at Morgantown, besides which he availed himself of the advantages of summer normal schools and gave special attention to the study of philosophy. At the age of eighteen years he initiated what proved a specially successful service in the pedagogic profession. His first work as a teacher was in Brown County, the following year he taught in Johnson County, and the third year found him a popular teacher in the public schools at Morgantown. His service was continued a year in the rural district school and he thereafter taught in the schools at Providence, Johnson County. In the meanwhile he had given as much time as possible to the intensive study of law, and he was admitted to the bar in 1884, in the week that likewise recorded his twenty- first birthday anniversary. On the first of March, 1886, Judge McNutt engaged in the practice of law at Franklin, judicial center of Johnson County, and in 1888 he was elected prosecuting attorney for Johnson and Shelby counties, an office to which he was reelected in 1890. He continued his residence at Franklin until January 1, l893 when he was elected librarian of the Indiana State Law Library, an office of which he continued the incumbent six years. After retiring from this position at Indianapolis, Judge McNutt formed a law partnership with Charles G. Renner and engaged in active practice at Martinsville. This alliance continued until the death of Mr. Renner, June 23, 1910, and in the preceding year Alfred M. Bain had become a member of the firm. The law firm of McNutt & Bain was dissolved January 1, 1913, and Judge McNutt thereafter conducted an individual practice until June, 1914, when he admitted to partnership his son, Paul Vories McNutt, and this association has continued ever since. The son became assistant professor of law in the University of Indiana, of the law school or department of which he is now the dean. April 30, 1916, the subject of this sketch was appointed judge of the Appellate Court of the State of Indiana, and in this position he served out the unexpired term of Judge Joseph H. Shea. Judge McNutt conducted his law practice in an individual way during the period of his son's World war service, and since the son has been a member of the faculty of the law department of the university Judge McNutt has actively continued his law business independently. In earlier years he served as county attorney of Morgan County, and at the present time he is retained as a local attorney for the Big Four, Pennsylvania, Monon and the Illinois Central Railroads, for the Home Building Association and for the two largest sanitariums at Martinsville, this city being one of the foremost health resorts of Indiana. He is also attorney for the First National Bank of Martinsville, in which he is a stockholder and in the building of which he maintains his law office. The Judge is the owner of a well improved farm of 160 acres, in Owen County, and is a director of the Cantol Wax Company of Bloomington, Indiana, which manufactures floor waxes and polishes and a wax belt-dressing that constitutes its greatest output. Judge McNutt has been a staunch and effective advocate and supporter of the cause of the Democratic party, and in 1918 he was the party nominee for the office of judge of the Indiana Supreme Court, he having met defeat through normal political exigencies at that time, as did he also after being nominated, in 1924, for judge of the Indiana Appellate Court. Judge McNutt is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, the Morgan County Bar Association and the Indiana State Bar Association. He and his wife are zealous members of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Martinsville, and he has served continuously on its official board since 1910.
July 7, 1886, marked the marriage of Judge McNutt to Miss Ruth Neely, who was born in Brown County, this state, April 22, 1865, a daughter of Jacob M. and Sarah (Prosser) Neely. Jacob M. Neely was born in Brown County, was a harness maker by trade, and was long an influential citizen of Morgan County, he having served four years as county clerk and having also served as postmaster at Morgantown. He was a gallant soldier of the Union in the Civil war and in later years served as assistant adjutant of the Indiana department of the Grand Army of the Republic, while in the Masonic fraternity he received the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite. Of Paul V. McNutt, distinguished son of Judge and Mrs. McNutt, specific mention is made in an individual sketch following in this publication.
INDIANA ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OF AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT Vol. 5
By Charles Roll, A.M.
The Lewis Publishing Company, 1931
PAUL VORIES McNUTT; dean of the Indiana University School of Law, former National commander of the American Legion, and known and honored as one of the leading figures in the legal profession and its educational work in his native State of Indiana, is properly given individual representation in this history. He is a son of Judge John Crittenden McNutt, in whose personal sketch preceding in this publication is given adequate record of the family history, as well as his individual career.
Paul Vories McNutt was born at Franklin, Indiana, July 19, 1891, and his education along academic lines reached its student ultimate when he was graduated in the University of Indiana as a member of the class of 1913, with the degree of Bachelor of Arts and with high distinction. In 1916 he was graduated in the law school of Harvard University, but he had previously, in 1914, been admitted to Indiana bar and had become associated in practice with his father, at Martinsville. He continued to give his attention to his profession until the nation entered the World war, when he promptly volunteered for service in the United States Army, in August, 1917. He received preliminary training at Camp Benjamin Harrison, near Indianapolis, and thence he was sent as instructor in officers training camps in Texas, he having later been assigned to similar service at Columbia, South Carolina. He served not only as an instructor but also in turn as commanding officer of the Fifth Regiment, the Fifth Brigade and the Second Brigade, F. A. R. D. He has retained since August 9, 1919, commission and rank of a colonel of the Officers Reserve Corps of the United States Army. The Colonel has been commanding officer of the Three Hundred Twenty-sixth Field Artillery Regiment since 1924, has been a member of the advisory board of the Fifth Corps Area since 1927, and has represented Indiana as civilian aide to the United States secretary of war since 1927. He is national judge advocate of the Reserve Officers Association of the United States; was commander of the Indiana Department of the American Legion in 1927, and in 1928 came to him the honor and distinction of election to the office of national commander of the American Legion.
In 1917 Colonel McNutt was made assistant professor of law at the University of Indiana, and he has held a full professorship since 1919, the year 1925 having marked his advancement to his present office of dean of the law school of the university. The Colonel is a member of the editorial board of the Indiana Law Journal, was president of the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau in 1915-16, has been since 1924 a member of the Alumi Council of the University of Indiana, and he has membership in the American Bar Association, the American Law Institute, the Indiana State Bar Association, the Association of American Law Schools, and the American Association of University Professors. Colonel McNutt is a Democrat in political alignment, his religious faith is that of the Methodist Episcopal Church, he is affiliated with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and is a thirty-second degree Mason, and his collegiate affiliations are with the Order of the Coif, Phi Beta Kappa, Beta Theta Pi, Phi Delta Phi and the Acacia Society. He has membership in the University Club, the Rotary Club, the Martinsville Country Club and the Bloomington Country Club. At Bloomington, seat of the University of Indiana, Colonel McNutt and his family reside at 712 East Eighth Street.
April 20, 1918, recorded the marriage of Colonel McNutt to Miss Kathleen Timolat, who was born in Minnesota, a daughter of Harry N. and Louise (Merriam) Timolat. Colonel and Mrs. McNutt have a winsome daughter, Louise, who was born June 27, 1921.
INDIANA ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OF AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT Vol. 5
By Charles Roll, A.M.
The Lewis Publishing Company, 1931
ADOLPH H. ZWERNER, who is one of the representative younger members of the bar of Fayette County, is engaged in the practice of his profession in the City of Connersville, the county seat, where, on the 1st of January, 1929, he succeeded to the substantial and well established law practice of Judge G. Edwin Johnston.
Mr. Zwerner was born at Terre Haute, Indiana, October 14, 1905, and is a son of George L. and Elizabeth (Hesslein) Zwerner, who were born in Germany and who were young folk when they came to the United States, where their marriage was solemnized, George L. having been successfully established in the meat-market business in Terre Haute since 1890.
After completing his studies in the Terre Haute High School Adolph H. Zwerner went to the City of Indianapolis and was matriculated in the Indiana Law School, in which institution he was graduated March 30, 1927. After thus receiving his degree of Bachelor of Laws, with virtually coincident admission to the bar of his native state, he continued in the practice of his profession in Indianapolis until January 1, 1929, when, as previously noted, he succeeded to the practice of Judge G. Edwin Johnston in the City of Connersville.
Mr. Zwerner is a staunch advocate of the principles of the Democratic party, and while residing in Indianapolis he was a candidate on the party ticket for representative of Marion County in the State Legislature, this candidacy having been, in the primary election of 1928. Mr. Zwerner has membership in the Fayette County Bar Association, is affiliated with the Modern Woodmen of America and the Delta Theta Phi college fraternity, and his religious faith is that of the Presbyterian Church. His name is now enrolled on the roster of eligible and popular young bachelors in Fayette County. He maintains his law office in the building of the First National Bank and resides at 514 Eastern Avenue.
INDIANA ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OF AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT Vol. 5
By Charles Roll, A.M.
The Lewis Publishing Company, 1931
HARRY E. BUCKINGHAM, landscape gardener, sexton of the Union City Cemetery, in this latter position represents a very unusual succession of almost continuous service by members of one family through three generations, since the establishment of the cemetery sixty years ago.
His grandfather, Benjamin F. Buckingham, was one of the organizers of the cemetery and in 1869 became its sexton. He performed the duties or that office until 1893, when he was succeeded by his son, Jefferson Monroe Buckingham. The latter held the office for twenty years, until he retired in 1913. During the next two years a Mr. Hinkle served as sexton, but in 1915 the work returned to the Buckingham family, when Harry E. was appointed to the office, and one of his sons assisting him in the work carries this honor of long official relationship still further.
Harry E. Buckingham was born in a log house at Union City, July 8, 1881, and is a son of Jefferson Monroe and Sarah (Mason) Buckingham, his father a native of Darke County, Ohio, and his mother of Pitt, Ohio. His grandfather, Benjamin F. Buckingham, was born in Maryland, and married Martha Hiatt, a native of Preble County, Ohio. Sarah (Mason) Buckingham was a daughter of Milton and Angeline (Dixon) Mason, the former a native of Wayne County, Indiana, and the latter of Randolph County. Milton Mason was a son of Thomas Jefferson and Jane Mason, who came from North Carolina in the early years of Indiana statehood. They were very early settlers in Wayne Township, Randolph County, locating near what is now Union City. They took up land from the Government and developed a farm.
The Buckingham family is of English ancestry. Harry Buckingham's great-grandfather, William Buckingham, was a native of England and arrived at Baltimore, Maryland, in 1808. Five brothers started across the Alleghany Mountains. Three of them drifted away, and the other two settled at a fort in Ohio on the Ohio River, and later moved to Randolph County, Indiana, and took up and developed land.
Harry E. Buckingham was educated in the grade and high schools at Union City and when eighteen years of age began learning the trade of tinner. This trade was his chief occupation until he took charge of the Union City Cemetery in 1915. This is one of the very old cemeteries of Randolph County, comprising seventeen and a half acres of ground. Over five thousand persons are buried there, and among other eminent citizens for whom it provides the last resting place was Gov. Isaac P. Gray.
Mr. Buckingham, in August, 1927, built a greenhouse, with an acre and a quarter under glass, located at 1335 West Oak Street. He has done a great deal of competent work as a landscape gardener and has laid out one cemetery and done the landscaping for additions to three others. He is a Presbyterian, a Democrat, and is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Lodge and Encampment, and the Junior Order United American Mechanics.
Mr. Buckingham married, in 1905, Miss Viola L. Imel. She was born in Jay County, Indiana, daughter of John W. and Rebecca Margaret (Bontrager) Imel. They have four children, Ray, Ethel R., Ralph B. and Harold E. Ray, who is associated with his father in business, married Edith Wagner.
INDIANA ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OF AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT Vol. 5
By Charles Roll, A.M.
The Lewis Publishing Company, 1931
WILLIAM JOHN MLODOCH. Among the men who have been important factors in the building up and development, of the great industrial City of Gary, to few should be given greater credit for lasting and substantial accomplishment than to William John Mlodoch, secretary and auditor of the Gary Heat, Light & Water Company, and auditor of the Gary Land Company. Coming to this city as an accountant for the above companies, in 1908, he was chosen by his superiors for important work in the rapidly growing community, and has met each rising responsibility with energy and ability, developing his own resources and fitting them to the needs of his growing duties.
Mr. Mlodoch was born December 17, 1884, at Chicago, Illinois, and is a son of John and Charlotte (Schaale) Mlodoch. His parents, natives of Prussia, Germany, were reared and educated in their native land, where they were married, and immigrated to the United States about the year 1880, settling at Chicago. There the father established himself in the custom tailoring business and conducted an establishment of his own for a number of years. He was active in the Baptist Church, in the faith of which he died in 1896, and was laid to rest in the Forest Home Cemetery, Chicago. Mr. Mlodoch married Charlotte Schaale, who was born in 1848, and who was for years active in the Baptist Church in Chicago, where she still resides, at the age of eighty-three years. Her mother was a Lekunde, of Alsace-Lorraine, France. There were twelve children in the family, several of who died in infancy and several in Germany of the black diphtheria or black death. Eight of the children lived to maturity: Martha, who is deceased; Emma; Adolph M.; William John, of this review; Dorothy; Edward E., Irving A., a veteran of the World war; and Lillian.
William John Mlodoch attended the public schools of Chicago and the Chicago Business College, and upon leaving the latter secured a position with the well-known firm of Brothers, commission merchants on South Water Street. After five years with this concern he resigned to join the Illinois Steel Company, November 1, 1905, and in 1906, when the Steel Company, the Gary Heat, Light & Water Company and the Gary Land Company were organized he became identified with those organizations and in 1908 came to Gary in the capacity of accountant. By hard and efficient work, integrity and loyalty he gradually advanced himself in the confidence and esteem of his employers, and in 1913 was made secretary and auditor of the Gary Heat, Light & Water Company, positions which he still retains, and in June, 1928, was made auditor also of the Gary Land Company. He has various other official positions which place him high in the business world, being a director of the Gary Land Company, secretary, treasurer and a member of the board of directors of the Northern Indiana Investment Company, director of Ogden Dunes, Inc., vice president and a director of the Ogden Dunes Realty Company and a man highly esteemed in business and civic circles for his probity and integrity. He is a member of the board of trustees of the First Methodist Episcopal Church of Gary, director of the Young Men's Christian Association and a prominent Mason of the thirty-second degree, belonging to Roosevelt Lodge No. 716, A. F. and A. M.; the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite, Valley of Fort Wayne, and Orak Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S. of Hammond. He likewise belongs to the Gary Commercial Club and Chamber of Commerce, Gary Country Club, and in politics is a stanch supporter of the principles and candidates of the Republican party. Fishing and golfing are his chief diversions, although he is also an ardent reader of literature.
At Chicago, Illinois, September 22, 1908, Mr. Mlodoch was united in marriage with Miss Othelia Louise Vogt, daughter of George J. and Roslie (Weber) Vogt, natives of Wurttemberg, Germany, where they were reared, educated and married. For a time after coming to the United States they made their home at Albany; New York, whence they removed to Chicago, where Mr. Vogt was engaged in the tannery business up to the time of his death in 1923, his widow surviving him until 1929, being buried in Forest Home Cemetery, Chicago. Both were active and consistent members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Mrs. Mlodoch was educated in. the public schools of Chicago, and is prominent in Methodist Episcopal Church work, the Order of the Eastern Star, the Ladies Relief Corps, auxillary of the Grand Army of the Republic and the Woman's Club. Her brother, A. W. Vogt, is assistant comptroller of the United States Steel Corporation, with offices at New York City; and another brother, Charles A. Vogt, was auditor of the American Steel & Wire Company at the time of his death. To Mr. and Mrs. Mlodoch there has been born one daughter: Alice Helen, a graduate of Emerson High School, Gary, class of 1927, who spent two years at Rockford (Illinois) College for Women, and two years at the University of Illinois, Champaign, from which she graduated with the class of 1931, she is a member of the Alpha Phi sorority.
INDIANA ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OF AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT Vol. 5
By Charles Roll, A.M.
The Lewis Publishing Company, 1931
CLAUDE YOUATT ANDREWS became a resident of Miami County, Indiana, in September, 1901. He was born in Vermilion County, Indiana, October 12, 1873; was educated with a degree of A. B., Franklin College, 1898; LL. B., University of Michigan, 1901; admitted to practice law in the U. S. District Court and the Michigan Circuit Courts in June, 1901; to the Miami County Bar later in that year and ever since has been engaged in the active practice of his profession at Peru. He was prosecuting attorney for the Fifty-first Judicial Circuit of Indiana, 1902 - 1904, attorney for Peru School City, 1929, and is now city attorney for Peru. He was Democratic candidate for judge of Miami Circuit Court in 1926 and is a member of the Indiana State Bar Association.
His grandparents were among the early settlers in Vermilion County. James Andrews and Reuben Puffer, both farmers, developed a considerable acreage which has been preserved by succeeding generations. William P. Andrews, his father, was a teacher and building contractor, who, with his mother, Editha V. (Puffer) Andrews, were born in Vermilion County. Reuben Puffer, his maternal grandfather, came to Indiana in 1837, with his widowed mother, from Braintree, Massachusetts. Claud Y. Andrews is one of two children. His sister, Oakie Quest, is now Mrs. William C. Collier, who is a dealer in real estate and insurance in Dana, Indiana.
In 1901 Mr. Andrews married Laura Lukens, of Wabash County, a graduate of Franklin College with a degree of B. M., 1899. There was born to them one son, Francis Puffer Andrews, who graduated from the Peru High School in 1929, with distinguished honors, but who died July 25 of that year. No other children survive. His resting place is marked by a beautiful family monument in Mount Hope Cemetery. Mrs. Andrews' family, the Lukens, were early settlers in Wabash County, Lukens Lake bearing its name from the family. On the maternal side, Cornelius and Saphrona Lowe, early settlers in the north part of Miami County, came from Wayne County, Ohio, by way of the Wabash and Erie Canal.
Mr. Andrews has a practical philosophy of life which has impelled him to find time for many civic activities in addition to his professional career. Among his many community interests he has been a director of Peru Chamber of Commerce and its president for a period of thirteen years and was chairman of its reorganization committee after the World war. For fifteen years he has been president of the local Y. M. C. A. and part of that time a member of the State Board. He was trustee for a time of Dukes Miami County Memorial Hospital, trustee of Mount Hope Cemetery Association, moderator of Logansport Baptist Association, trustee of Franklin College, his alma mater, the promoter and by ten years of persistent effort created public opinion finally consummated in the purchase and development of Peru's beautiful two hundred acre park adjoining the city on the south. He is now president of the City Park Board. His greatest delight is in this achievement, for, as he says, "This park makes Peru a place where people like to live."
Mr. Andrews has an artistic temperament. His hobby is painting pictures in oil, not as a profession but for recreation. The new City Park bears evidence of his art in its layout and cultural development. He created and executed an historic pageant entitled, "Ma- con-a-quah," first exhibited in the athletic bowl of the City Park at the centennial anniversary of Indiana's admission to statehood in 1916. This pageant was reproduced in 1927 and remains a classic exhibit of the pioneer history of Peru and Miami County and probably will be repeated at intervals by succeeding generations. Mr. Andrews is vice president of the Miami County Historical Society.
Mr. Andrews has served as a deacon of the First Baptist Church of Peru for many years, also as a teacher in its Sunday School. He is a member of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity and of the Grand Lodge, Knights of Pythias. During the World war he was chairman of the executive committee of the local Red Cross and of the Four Minute Men Speaker's Bureau of Miami County. He delivered the address of the community to the departed soldiers and was a member of the War Educational Committee. He was a charter member of the Peru Kiwanis Club and has continuously for ten years served that organization in some official capacity, being alternately its president, trustee, director, also lieutenant governor for the Second Indiana Division and is now candidate for governor of the Indiana District, pending decision at the West Baden convention, 1931. The subject of this sketch is in the prime of life, with achievement yet in process.
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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 H. STIER, senior member of the Stier & Williams Undertaking Company, half owner of the Aurora Floral Company with H. E. Williams and the Lawrenceburg Woman's Shop, and interested in numerous other enterprises, is one of the solid business men of Dearborn County, and a man widely and favorably known over a wide region. He was born in Dearborn County, Indiana, in 1866, a son of John P. Stier, the latter being a native of Mississippi. During the war between the states he served in the Confederate army, and after its close, finding business conditions unfavorable in his state, came, in 1866, to Indiana. The same vim and determination which made him a dashing and gallant officer of the Southern forces made him successful in his new home, and he was a traveling salesman and later became interested in several local enterprises. Four children were born to him and his wife, and John H. Stier's brother Willard was mayor of Aurora for one term, but refused reelection.
Growing up in Dearborn County, John H. Stier attended its public schools and learned the trade of a woodcarver, which he followed for a few years, but in 1895 he entered upon the undertaking business. For a year previously he had been with Addison Sanks, under the name of Sanks & Stier, but it was not until 1895 that he became sole owner of the business. Mr. Williams entered the business in 1922, and the two have since continued together. Their art is not of recent date, for embalming, which is the act of preserving the body after death, was probably invented by the Egyptians, about 4000 B. C. However the methods used by those ancient people and those who came after them were entirely different from the ones of today. In 1800 a chemist by the name of Chaussier discovered the preservative power of corrosive sublimate by which animal matter becomes rigid, hard and grayish, but this did not prove satisfactory because, owing to desiccation, the features did not retain their shape. The discovery by Gannel, another chemist in 1834, of mixing equal parts of acetate and chloride of alumina, or of sulphate of alumina; or arsenic by another chemist; pyroxilic spirits, and the antiseptic nature of chloride of zinc, have led to the application of these salts, and others, to the embalming of bodies. At present the most efficient agents are mercuric chloride, arsenic and zinc chloride, and the method is to inject the fluid into the femoral artery and the cavity of the abdomen. However, the service of the undertaker does not end with the preparation of the body, but has a broader scope. Under his skilled and experienced direction dignified and soothing services are held that cannot: help but alleviate the sorrow of the afflicted, and lift the burden of responsibility from the shoulders of the family of the dead at a time when grief renders them incapable of acting for themselves. The above firm is well-known all over Dearborn and adjoining counties, and are recognized as competent practitioners.
Mr. Stier is part owner of the Aurora Floral Company, one of the best of its kind in the county; the Woman's Shop, Incorporated, the Woman's Shop of Lawrenceburg, both of Indiana, and the Woman's Shop of Oxford, Ohio.
One of the forceful members of the Commercial Club of Aurora, Mr. Stier served it for one term as president, and is one of its directors. Fraternally he belongs to the Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Knights of Pythias and the Improved Order of Red Men. Professionally he belongs to the Hoosier State Undertaking Association and the Auto Association of Dearborn County, and is now president of the first named. For some years he has been on the board of Children’s Guardians.
Mr. Stier was married to Miss Mary Kassebaum at Aurora, Indiana, a native of this city, and they have four children: Donald, who was graduated from Purdue University, with the rank of first lieutenant during the World war in the One Hundred and Twenty-fourth Field Artillery being active during the last four months of the war, and was raised to the rank of captain, is now a chemical engineer, married Miss Hayes, of Chicago, and they have one child; Rachel, who married Donald Stoops, has two children, and she is a graduate of the University of Indiana. Marjorie, who was graduated from Oxford, Ohio, College, married Kenneth White, a member of a pioneer family, and they have one child, Robert; and Eleanor, who is a student in the University of Indiana.
During the World war Mr. Stier was very active in all of the Liberty Loan drives, and he was also a generous contributor to all war organizations. Mrs. Stier was on the Mothers' Board of Dearborn County, and both she and her husband were members of the Dearborn County Chapter of the American Red Cross. She is president of the Woman's Research Club of Aurora, and a member of the Aurora library board. Both Mr. and Mrs. Stier are Republicans in political faith. It would be difficult to find people more thoroughly representative of the best element of their community than the Stiers.
INDIANA ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OF AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT Vol. 5
By Charles Roll, A.M.
The Lewis Publishing Company, 1931
