Mr. Hinklin was born in Hardin County, Ohio, December 31, 1876, and was a lad of five years at the time of the family removal to Marion County, that state, where he was reared and educated and where, at the age of fourteen years, he initiated his virtual apprenticeship in connection with the undertaking business - a line of enterprise with which he has continued to be actively associated during the intervening years. His father, George W. Hinklin, a former engineer and farmer, is now living retired in the City of Toledo, Ohio. The mother, whose maiden name was Amanda Hoover, died February 6, 1929. Of the children the eldest is John H., who is a railroad yard conductor at to Marion, Marion County, Ohio; Leroy L. resides in Toledo, Ohio, and is a traveling salesman for a machine company; Dewitt L. is an automobile salesman in Toledo; Blanche is the widow of Otha White and resides at Ridgewood, Ohio; and Howard A. is the immediate subject of this sketch.
Save for the period of his service as a soldier in the Spanish-American war Howard A. Hinklin has continuously been identified with the undertaking business since his boyhood, and he established his present business at Garrett in the year 1904, the pronounced success of his industry here being based upon effective service and fair and considerate policies. He enlisted for service when the nation became involved in the Spanish-American war, and became a member of the Fourth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, with which he served nine months, he having received honorable discharge after the close of hostilities in Cuba. He is a member of the Commercial Club at Garrett, is a member of the local Lions Club, is affiliated with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and he has membership in the Methodist Episcopal Church.
August 24, 1899, marked the marriage of Mr. Hinklin to Miss Myrtle M. Cox, of Wabash, Indiana, where she was reared and educated, her father, the late John L. Cox, having been a prosperous farmer near that city and her mother, Elizabeth (Cutler) Cox, having passed her entire life in Wabash County. On February 17, 1929, Mrs. Hinklin was killed in an automobile accident. Mr. and Mrs. Hinklin had five children: Mary is the wife of Charles Roberts, a railroad man, and they reside at Garrett; Dorothy remains at the parental home; Mabel is a graduate of the Western College for Women at Oxford, Ohio, and is now a student in the University of Wisconsin; Robert is a student at Purdue University; Gaytha Annetta, the youngest of the children, is attending Garrett High School. On September 17, 1930, Mr.. Hinklin married Mrs. Helen Caslin, a widow, at Garrett. The family home is at 314 South Franklin Street.
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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
RALPH M. SPAAN has practiced law at Indianapolis for twenty years, and along with his activities of a professional nature he has been a leader in the Republican party and his name has been frequently associated with civic movements and undertakings in the capital city.
Mr. Spaan was born at Keokuk, Iowa, July 21, 1884. His father, Herman J. Spaan, and also his grandfather were brick manufacturers. His father was much interested in local politics, and from him Ralph M. Spaan derived a tendency to work with party and other organizations in a political and civic way.
Mr. Spaan attended grade and high schools at Keokuk. During four years of his early manhood he was in the service of the United States Marine Corps. During part of that time he acted as court-martial orderly, and it was his work in that capacity that gave him the idea of the law as profession. After the close of his term of service he entered the Tri-State College, where he studied law and also read under his uncle, Henry N. Spaan, who for the past fifty years has been one of the recognized and leading trial lawyers of Indianapolis, and with whom Ralph M. Spaan has been associated for the past twenty years.
Mr. Spaan came to Indianapolis in 1909, was admitted to the Indiana bar in 1910 and has enjoyed an extensive professional business, with many important connections. His offices are in the Indiana Trust Building. In 1915 he was appointed deputy prosecuting attorney and served six years, three years in the police courts and three years in the justice courts. In 1925-26 he was special assistant to the attorney general of Indiana. He is a member of the Indianapolis and Indiana State Bar Associations, the Lawyers Club and is chairman of the house committee of the Indianapolis Bar Association. He is a Sigma Delta Kappa, and has always been prominent in the Masonic fraternities, being affiliated with Logan Lodge at Indianapolis, Royal Arch Chapter and Knights Templar Commandery, the Scottish Rite Consistory and Murat Temple of the Mystic Shrine.
During the World war he was a member of the Legal Advisory Board and since the war has done his part in various drives for community funds. He is a member of the Columbia Club, the Highland Golf and Country Club and has served as chairman of the advisory committee of the Republican party.
Mr. Spaan married Minnie L. Joyce, of Indianapolis.
INDIANA ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OF AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT Vol. 3
By Charles Roll, A.M.
The Lewis Publishing Company, 1931
JAMES W. INGLES is practicing law at Indianapolis, a member of a prominent firm with offices in the Fletcher Savings & Trust Building.
Mr. Ingles is a native of Indiana, where the family has lived for three generations. His grandfather, James W. Ingles, was a native of Ohio, born near Millersburg, was of Scotch ancestry and came to Indiana about 1840. For many years he was active as a minister of the United Presbyterian Church. James W. Ingles of this review was born at Scotland, Indiana, March 14, 1899. His father, Edward I. Ingles, was born in the same locality and is now a retired business man at Indianapolis. His wife, Mary E. Haig, was born at Bloomfield, Indiana.
James W. Ingles was one of a family of three children. He was reared and educated in Indianapolis, attending grade and high schools there, also attended Indiana University, and in 1927 graduated with the law degree from the University of Illinois. Since his admission to the bar he has practiced in association with the law firm of Roemler, Carter & Rust. He is also an instructor in the Benjamin Harrison Law School, and in the Indiana Law School, both at Indianapolis. Mr. Ingles is an ex-service man. He enlisted in May, 1918, was first sent to Fort Sheridan, Illinois, where he was commissioned a second lieutenant in the field artillery, and later to Camp Taylor in Louisville, Kentucky, but did not get overseas. He was honorably discharged in December, 1918, being only nineteen years of age at the time and soon resumed his school work.
Mr. Ingles is a member of the Indiana State and Indianapolis Bar Associations, the American Legion, Kiwanis Club, is a Republican and a member of the First United Presbyterian Church. He married Miss Mary Helen Matthews, who was born in Chillicothe, Illinois, and her people also lived near Scotland. The two children are Jane N. and Mary Esther.
INDIANA ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OF AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT Vol. 3
By Charles Roll, A.M.
The Lewis Publishing Company, 1931
PAUL T. HURT, M. D., is an Indianapolis physician, and his individual career in that profession has supplemented the record of his father, who for many years was an outstanding physician and surgeon.
The Hurt family was established in Indiana by his grandfather, Absolom Hurt, a Virginian by birth who came to Montgomery County, Indiana, about 1818. The family have lived in the state for over a century. Dr. Paul T. Hurt was born in Montgomery County, Indiana, April 27, 1887. His father, the late Dr. William J. Hurt, was born in Montgomery County, was a graduate of Rush Medical College of Chicago and devoted all his active life time to the work of his profession, being an able country doctor. He passed away in 1919. His wife was Susan C. Thomas, of a pioneer family of Montgomery County. Paul T. Hurt was one of the three children of his parents. He received his grade school advantages in Montgomery County, attended the Crawfordsville High School and Wabash College and took his professional training in the Indiana Medical College at Indianapolis, where he was graduated with the class of 1913. After an internship in St. Vincent's Hospital at Indianapolis he went to New York for post-graduate work as a member of the class of 1915. In that year he returned to Indiana and established his office in Indianapolis.
Doctor Hurt in September, 1917 volunteered and was commissioned a captain in the Army Medical Corps, assigned to Base Hospital No. 32. He was later a medical officer in the famous Rainbow of Forty-second Division, being with the One Hundred Sixty-fifth Infantry Regiment, a regiment made up largely of New York National Guardsmen. He was with this regiment in the Baccarat sector in France and at other areas along the front line, and was in service from December, 1917, until May, 1918, a period of eighteen months.
Since the war Doctor Hurt has given his undivided attention to his growing volume of general practice. His offices are in the Hume Mansur Building and he resides at 4151 North Pennsylvania Street. He is a member of the Indiana State and American Medical Associations and in 1924 was honored with the office of commander of Paul Coble Post No. 26 of the American Legion. In Masonry he is affiliated with the Scottish Rite bodies and Murat Temple of the Mystic Shrine. He is a member of the Columbia Club and the Highland Golf and Country Club.
Doctor Hurt married Miss Mary Arndt, a native of Germany. They have two children, Paul T., Jr., and Nancy Susan, both of whom are attending school in Indianapolis.
INDIANA ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OF AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT Vol. 3
By Charles Roll, A.M.
The Lewis Publishing Company, 1931
PHILIP ZOERCHER. From the year 1889 Philip Zoercher has been almost continuously before the public as the incumbent of one or another important public office, and during four decades his record as a public servant has remained spotless and his integrity has never been questioned. First a teacher and then a lawyer, he early demonstrated the possession of qualities which fitted him preeminently for the discharge of public duties and responsibilities calling for a high order of ability, and at present is a member of the Indiana State Tax Board, with headquarters at the state capitol.
Mr. Zoercher was born October 1, 1866, at Tell City, Indiana., and is a son of Christian and Mary (Christ) Zoercher. His father, who was born at Potsbach, Germany, in 1832, came to the United States as a youth of sixteen years and settled at Cincinnati, Ohio, where he learned and followed the trade of cabinet-maker. In 1858 he married Miss Mary Christ, who was born at Cincinnati, and subsequently they removed to Tell City, Indiana, where Mr. Zoercher passed the remainder of his life working at his trade and was one of the highly-esteemed men of his community. He and his worthy wife were the parents of five sons and two daughters, and of these children six are living.
Philip Zoercher attended the public school at Tell City, Indiana, following which he worked on a farm and learned the trade of cabinet-maker under the preceptorship of his oldest brother. He worked in the Cabinet- Makers Union until September 1, 1885, when he entered the Central Normal College, at Danville, Indiana, to take a teacher's course, but after about seven months was forced to give up his studies because of ill health. However, he returned in 1886 and completed his course, graduating in 1887, in which year he began teaching school at Tell City. In the meanwhile he had become greatly interested in politics and public affairs, and was made the candidate of the Democratic party for representative in the State Legislature, to which office he was duly elected and served capably during the session of 1889. Having witnessed the abuses of the election methods in his home community, he was very active on the committee on election and through his efforts assisted in having conditions remedied to a large extent. At the conclusion of his term he again entered the Danville Normal School, where he took a course in law until 1890, in which year he was sent back to the Legislature and served in the session of 1891. Returning to Tell City, Mr. Zoercher founded the Tell City News, of which he was publisher until 1900, when he turned the paper over to his brother, having become candidate for the office of prosecuting attorney of Warrick, Spencer and Perry counties. He was elected to this office, and the vigorous and able manner in which he prosecuted his duties may be seen in the fact that out of thirty-seven cases on in one county he secured thirty-two convictions. In 1902 Mr. Zoercher engaged in the practice of law, and during the ten years that he was thus engaged had several partners. In 1912 he was elected reporter of the State Supreme Court, and during his incumbency of that office accomplished six years' work in four years, as the work was far behind when he took up his duties. In 1917 Mr. Zoercher returned to the practice of law with his first assistant, and in March of the same year was appointed to fill a vacancy as a member of the state board of tax commissioners, holding that office until September. In 1918 he was reappointed and has continued in office to the present. Mr. Zoercher is a recognized leader of the Democratic party in this part of the state and was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention of 1892. He also served four years as postmaster of Tell City, and in all of his offices has had the confidence of the people. Fraternally he is affiliated with the Masons, the Knights of Pythias and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and his religious connection is with the Presbyterian Church.
On June 26, 1892, at Plainfield, Indiana, Mr. Zoercher was united in marriage with Miss Martha J. McAdams, who was born July 15, 1868, in Guilford County, North Carolina, and is a graduate of Central Normal School of Danville. Mrs. Zoercher is active in the Order of the Eastern Star, of which she is a past grand matron. Three children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Zoercher: Mrs. Mary Carr, of Buffalo, New York; Mrs. Martha Robinson,. Jr., deceased, of Indianapolis, who left one child; and James, who is connected with the Indianapolis Power & Light Company. The pleasant Zoercher home is at 68 Whittier Place.
INDIANA ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OF AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT Vol. 3
By Charles Roll, A.M.
The Lewis Publishing Company, 1931
THE MACKENZIE FAMILY. Perhaps the residents of the Calumet region know the members of the Mackenzie family best as the owners and executives of the well-known Gary Engineering Company. They have been prominent in the development of the city and have rendered notable service in the field of their profession, and thus have won universal respect and esteem. However, they have been active in a larger sense and have contributed more to the general welfare than a professional contribution, for this family was very active in the World war activities. One son died gloriously on the blood-stained fields of France, another was maimed for life, and still others contributed manfully to the allied cause.
The head of the family is Alexander Mackenzie, who, despite his many years as an active seaman and sea master, and later as a construction engineer, is still prominent in the affairs of the local company. He is a son of Scotia, born at Elgin, Scotland, in 1862, a son of Collin and Sarah (McClennan) Mackenzie. After attending the Mills Institute at Fochabers, Scotland, he completed his nautical studies at the South Shields Nautical Academy, England, and then joined the merchant marine and sailed the seven seas, visiting almost every port in the world and having experiences that were both thrilling and educational. In 1889 he was advanced to master and thereafter was in command of many sea traders in many climes. On his retirement in 1889 he was awarded the coveted "extra master's ticket," an unusual honor bestowed only for exceptional service on the sea. In the same year Captain Mackenzie came to America and engaged in construction work and eventually located at Joliet, Illinois, whence he removed to Gary, Indiana, in 1909, as rigging inspector and superintendent of the coke plant of the Illinois Steel Company. On the completion of this plant he served in a similar capacity in the construction of the hydro-electric power plant at Keokuk, Iowa, with his three sons. In 1913 he decided to locate permanently at Gary because of the opportunities presented in the building trade, and two years later acquired the engineering business of Lukins & Lukins, which he operated under the style of A. Mackenzie & Son until 1919, when the firm name was changed to its present style, the Gary Engineering Company. The original founders of this concern were Melton & Cutler, and it was the first institution of its kind in the city.
As his sons completed their technical educations they were admitted to the firm, and at the time of the opening of the World war the business had assumed extensive proportions. However, there came a call from the Government for old seamen who were able-bodied to man the transports. Alexander Mackenzie at once offered his services, which were accepted, and he was commissioned lieutenant, senior grade. He at once entered the army transport service, later serving in the navy transport branch, and was mustered out in August, 1919, but, having had another taste of good salty air, decided to remain for a time, and accordingly entered the merchant marine, as chief officer of the Hewitt, in the Atlantic trade. The Hewitt will be remembered as the ship which mysteriously disappeared in 1921 between Jupiter, Florida, and Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, being last heard from 160 miles north of Jupiter. Captain Mackenzie was waiting at New York City to take charge of that ship, and upon her loss was assigned master of the Herman Frasch. Previously he was master of the C. A. Snider, and then sailed the Frieda and his last command was as master of the Herman Frasch in the Atlantic and Pacific trade. During these voyages he again visited many ports, but in 1925 bade goodbye to the sea forever and returned to Gary, where he is now one of the active officers in the Gary Engineering Company.
On July 5, 1890, Mr. Mackenzie was united in marriage with Miss Elizabeth Stephenson, at Newcastle-on-Tyne, England. She was born in Durham County, England, a daughter of William Waller Stephenson, who was a descendant of the famous inventor of the steam locomotive, George Stephenson. To this marriage there were born three sons: Colin So, James A. and Thomas G., all born at Newcastle-on-Tyne.
James A. Mackenzie was born in 1895, attended Emerson High School, Gary, and graduated from Keokuk (Iowa) High School, subsequently joining the Keokuk National Guard. He enlisted for service in the Tenth Scotch Rifles (Cameronian Highlanders), at Liverpool, England, in 1915, and served until killed in action, May 3, 1917, having participated in some of the fiercest engagements of the World war. He was wounded at Loos, September 25, 1915; wounded in action on the Somme; decorated on the field of battle for bravery, and reported missing May 3, 1917, but his body was never found.
Colin S. Mackenzie, one of the most highly respected citizens and business men of Gary, was born August 9, 1892, and graduated from the Emerson High School, Gary, class of 1911. He then attended the University of Cincinnati, being graduated in 1916. Early in 1917 he went to Canada and enlisted in the British army. His first services were with the Royal Engineers, from which he was subsequently transferred to the Seaforth Highlanders, the Mackenzie family regiment of England. He received his honorable discharge in July, 1919. On his return to Indiana he became president of the Gary Engineering Company, but later acted as its vice president and general manager with offices at 452 Broadway. Mr. Colin S. Mackenzie died February 28, 1931. His funeral services were held in the Christ Episcopal Church at Gary. He had been active in civic affairs, was an honorary member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, was a Sigma Alpha Epsilon, member of the Gary Country Club, and Gary Memorial Post of the American Legion.
On July 16, 1921, Mr. Colin S. Mackenzie married Miss Harriet Clark, daughter: of O. D. Clark, of Garrett, Indiana, formerly an agriculturist and later engaged in the drug business, who is now retired. To Mr. and Mrs. C. S. Mackenzie were born four children: Elizabeth Jane and Constance Stephenson, who are attending school; Alexandrina, who died at the age of one year; and Colin Stephenson, Jr.
Thomas G. Mackenzie was born February 28, 1898, and attended Emerson High School, Gary, the Lewis Instiute of Chicago, and the University of Michigan. He enlisted in the United States Army during the World war and was assigned to the Seventy-seventh Field Artillery, Fourth Division, with which outfit he went overseas. On October 6, 1918, he was seriously injured during the Argonne offensive, his wound incapacitating him for further active service, and he remained in the hospital until August 20, 1919. There was more than a touch of sentiment in the action of the boys who enlisted in the British army. The United States had not entered the war, but from time immemorial the Mackenzies had been fighters, first and for centuries as a clan, and later in all the wars in which Britain was involved. The name had traditions behind it, and it was one of the few Scotch families to be honored with their own regiment, this regiment distinguishing itself on every field of battle on which the flag of Britain was unfurled.
The active members of the Gary Engineering Company were Alexander Mackenzie, president; Thomas G. Mackenzie, secretary and treasurer; and Colin S. Mackenzie, vice president and general manager. The company has platted many additions, including Ogden Dunes, Grand Boulevard, Godwin's Lake View, Fern Oaks and Beverly Heights. They also handled the construction work on the Palace Theater and the new $1,000,000 City (Methodist Episcopal) Church of Gary.
Thomas G. Mackenzie married at Madison, Wisconsin, in 1926, Miss Helen H. Skinner, daughter of Professor Skinner, head of the department of mathematics, University of Wisconsin, and they are the parents of two children: Helen Coe and James Alexander. Thomas G. Mackenzie is a Mason and an Elk, and a member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, Gary Memorial Post of the American Legion, and of the Drum and Bugle Corps of that post. Alexander Mackenzie is a member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars and the Gary Burns Club, and the entire Mackenzie family has been active in civic affairs.
Upon the founding of the post of the Veterans of Foreign Wars it was named in honor of James A. Mackenzie, who was killed in France. His brother, Thomas G., was its first commander, and his father, Alexander Mackenzie, was elected its permanent chaplain.
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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
GRIER M. SHOTWELL, attorney at law in the Fletcher Savings & Trust Building at Indianapolis Board of Trade and a former chaircomplishments and connections. Before he completed college he had given his bit of service to the nation at the time of the World war. He is very popular in professional, fraternal and civil organizations and has earned a high measure of respect and esteem in his profession.
Mr. Shotwell was born in Marion County, Indiana, December 23, 1896. His grandfather, Eli Shotwell, was a resident of New York City, extensively engaged in the grain and flour manufacturing business. Charles A. Shotwell, father of Grier M., was born in New York City and has also followed the grain business. He is an active member of the Indianapolis Board of Trade and a former chairman of the Grain Appeals Committee. Charles A. Shotwell married Clara W. Moore, of a prominent Virginia family, her ancestors having been Colonial patriots and soldiers in the Revolution.
Grier M. Shotwell was one of three children. He attended School No. 57 in Irvington, a. suburb of Indianapolis, and graduated from the Shortridge High School at Indianapolis. After high school he went to Easton, Pennsylvania, where he entered Lafayette College. His college career was interrupted by the war. He became a first class sergeant and master signal electrician, and served with the American North Russian Expedition until July, 1919. He returned to the United States in August, 1919, and was commissioned a first lieutenant in the Officers Reserve Corps.
In 1920 he graduated from Lafayette College with the Bachelor of Philosophy degree and subsequently took up the study of law, attending the Law School of Northwestern University, where he was graduated with the degree Doctor Juris, in 1925. He was admitted to the Marion County bar in February, 1925, first practiced with L. Roy Zapf, then with Barnes and Johnson, and since October, 1928, has been associated with Charles N. Thompson and Herman W. Kothe.
Mr. Shotwell is a member of the board of managers of the Indianapolis Bar Association, is secretary of the Lawyers Club, a member of the Service Club, and is secretary of the Indianapolis Phi Beta Kappa Association. His college fraternities are the Delta Tau Delta, Tau Kappa Alpha, Phi Beta. Kappa and Phi Delta Phi, and he was also a member of the Order of the Coif. He is active in the American Legion. Mr. Shotwell began his training for the war in February, 1918, with the U. S; School of Cinematography at Columbia University in New York City. He was sent overseas in July, 1918.
INDIANA ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OF AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT Vol. 3
By Charles Roll, A.M.
The Lewis Publishing Company, 1931
JOHN E. KIEFFER, president and owner of the Kieffer Paper Mills, at Brownstown, is a native of Virginia, but has spent most of his life in Indiana. He has been interested in the paper manufacturing industry for over twenty years.
He was born at Dayton, Rockingham County, Virginia, son of L. R. and S. Virginia Kieffer. His father was a soldier in the Confederate army during the Civil war and in 1884 came to Indiana and spent the rest of his life as a farmer and stock raiser at Lafayette.
John E. Kieffer, one of six children, attended school in Virginia and finished his education after coming to this state. When he was eighteen years old he started his business career at Lafayette. In 1907 he came to Brownstown and with others bought what was then known as the Brownstown Straw Board Company, a paper mill with a capacity of six tons daily. It was operated as a partnership until 1912, was then incorporated as the Kieffer Paper Company, but in 1919 the corporation was dissolved and it has since been a common law trust estate. Many improvements have been made during the ownership of Mr. Kieffer and his associates. It is a thoroughly modern mill, with 55,000 square feet of floor space, and does a large business manufacturing special and patented papers. It has a capacity of thirty tons daily, with sixty employees, and the output is shipped allover the United States and to Mexico, Cuba and Canada.
Mr. Kieffer is an active member of the Brownstown Chamber of Commerce. He is a director of the Brownstown Loan & Trust Company, is president of the Southern Indiana Flyers, Inc., is a director of the Building & Loan Association and the Jackson Saw Mill Company, Jackson Tennessee. He is a member of the Elks Lodge at Seymour, is a Methodist, is on the town board of Brownstown and during the World war was a member of the county draft board and did a helpful part in putting all the Liberty Bond drives "over the top." Mr. Kieffer married Miss Ora Sheets, of Ripley County, Indiana. They have two children, Virginia and Gene.
INDIANA ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OF AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT Vol. 3
By Charles Roll, A.M.
The Lewis Publishing Company, 1931
REX P. YOUNG. Among the men who have been prominently identified with the financial interests of Indianapolis during the past two decades, one who has come prominently to the forefront through native and acquired ability and great industry is Rex P. Young, assistant secretary of the Fletcher Trust Company. Mr. Young commenced his connection with this institution when he was twenty-five years of age, and his various promotions have come about through fidelity to the institution and to the interests of its patrons, no less than through his personal ability to accept or create or accept opportunities.
Mr. Young was born on a farm in Jefferson County, Ohio, January 16, 1887, and is a son of Plummer P. and Virginia (Jones) Young. His father, a native of Ohio, joined Dan McCook's Fifty-second Ohio Volunteer Infantry and fought valiantly as a soldier of the Union during the war between the states. For some time he was engaged in agricultural pursuits in Jefferson County, Ohio, but in 1887 moved to Marion County, Indiana, where he engaged in merchandising and contracting and became one of the substantial citizens of his community, where he was greatly respected for his personal integrity and high order of citizenship. He and his wife were the parents of two sons: Max J. Young, a prominent politician of Indianapolis, who is identified with the Farmers Trust Company; and Rex P., of this review.
Rex P. Young attended the grade and high schools of Indianapolis, and at the age of eighteen years began his career as bookkeeper for the A. Metzger Agency, which, eight months later, became the German-American Trust Company. He was only twenty-five years of age when he was entrusted with the highly important position of general cashier, and in 1912, when this company was merged with the Marion Trust Company and became known as the Fletcher Savings Interest Company, he was placed in charge of the time deposits. This latter institution on May 5, 1931, became the Fletcher Trust Company. When he was thirty years of age he was made head of the foreign travel department of this institution, the Fletcher Trust Company, and of which he has steadily been advanced to his present post as assistant secretary. Mr. Young is probably one of the most extensively traveled young business men of Indianapolis, having, during the past ten years, journeyed to all parts of the world in the interest of his company. He is known as a man of sterling business and financial ability, and has the complete confidence of his associates and all of those who have come into contact with him. During his travels Mr. Young has lectured from many platforms in various cities, being gifted not only with business ability, but with the capacity for presenting subjects to his audiences in an interesting and at the same time authoritative manner. Mr. Young is a Republican in his political allegiance, but has not cared for public office, nor has he found time to engage actively in political campaigns, although always a supporter of good men and worthy measures. He belongs to the local Kiwanis Club, is interested in the Indianapolis Amateur Baseball Association, and is a member of the Central Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church. He is also a member of the Indianapolis chapter, Sons of the American Revolution and a member of the Sons of Union Veterans. During the World war he was active in the sale of Liberty Bonds and in all campaigns for the raising of funds for the success of American and allied arms. He is a director of the boards of the East Washington State Bank and the Roosevelt Avenue State Bank.
In 1925 Mr. Young married Miss Florence Staub, a native of Indianapolis, and a member of the well-known Indiana pioneer family of Staub, and they reside in a pleasant and attractive home in Forest Hills, at 5734 Guilford Avenue.
INDIANA ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OF AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT Vol. 3
By Charles Roll, A.M.
The Lewis Publishing Company, 1931
