Mr. List, whose widow maintains her home at Southport, in Perry Township, Marion County, was a son of Garrett and Elizabeth (Voris) List, his father having been born in Virginia, having thence removed to Kentucky and having come from the latter state to become a pioneer farmer in Johnson County, Indiana, he having later removed with his family to Marion County, but his mortal remains and those of his wife having resting place in the cemetery at Mount Pleasant, Johnson County.

The rudimentary education of Cornelius List had its inception in the pioneer rural schools of Johnson County, and he was a small boy at the time of the family removal to Marion County, where the home was established on a farm in Perry Township, on the Bluff Road. Here he early gained practical experience in connection with the work of the farm, and in the meanwhile he continued his educational discipline by attending the local schools of the period. He was twenty years of age at the inception of the Civil war and soon afterward, shortly after attaining to his legal majority, he enlisted as a soldier of the Union. He became a member of Company K, One Hundredth Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and with his command he had long and arduous experience and service with the Army of the Cumberland, he having taken part in many campaigns and having participated in twenty- seven battles, including a number of major importance. In later years he perpetuated his association with his old comrades by retaining active affiliation with the Grand Army of the Republic.

After the close of his military service Mr. List returned to Marion County, and here he was for many years actively engaged in farm enterprise, as the owner of one of the excellent farms of Perry Township. His civic loyalty was ever on a parity with that he had exemplified as a soldier of the Union, and he contributed his share of support to measures and enterprises that tended to advance the general communal welfare, the while he ever held secure place in popular confidence and esteem. His political allegiance was given to the Republican party, he was an earnest member of the Presbyterian Church, as is also his widow, and in addition to his membership in the Grand Army of the Republic he was affiliated also with the Masonic fraternity. His death occurred at his home in Marion County and his remains were laid to rest in the family plot in the cemetery at Greenwood, Johnson County.

On the 20th of May, 1868, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. List to Miss Martha J. Norwood, daughter of Axley and Martha (Dawson) Norwood, her father having come to Indiana from Knoxville, Tennessee, and having long been numbered among the representative farmers of Marion County. The children of the Norwood family were seven in number: Isaac (deceased), Martha J. (widow of the subject of this memoir), Mary (deceased), John and William (both deceased.), Sarah, and James (deceased). Mrs. List and her sister Sarah are thus the only surviving members of this family.

James, eldest of the children of Mr. and Mrs. List married Miss Flora Seigel and they reside in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Grace died in the year 1901. William married Miss Gertrude Coulter and they have four children- Alice, Helen, William and James. Herbert married Miss Edith Bailey, and they have four children, Margaret, wife of Homer Penrod and mother of one child, Joann; Catherine, the wife of Lewis Taylor; Irene; and Herbert. Cornelius, Jr., married Miss Bertha Hickman, and their children are: Harold, Cornelius III, Martha, Sarah Jane and Catherine. Robert married Miss Daisy Voris and they have two children: Robert Bruce and Frances. George married Miss Ruth Moore, and their children are Laura Alice and Ruth Leona. Albert is deceased.
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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

J. WESLEY WILLIAMS, sheriff of Sullivan County, was elected to that office November 4, 1928, and reelected in 1930. Over a long period of years Sullivan County has only twice elected a Republican candidate to this office, and Mr. Williams as a Republican received an unusual honor and one which he has fully justified by the vigorous administration he has given to this law enforcing agency of the county government.

Mr. Williams is well known in Sullivan County, where for a number of years he was engaged in the mining industry. He was born in Avoca, Pennsylvania, October 15, 1892, and is of Welsh ancestry. He is a son of William J. and Jennie (Blease) Williams, and grandson of William J. Williams, who spent all his life in Wales. William J. Williams, Jr., came to this country when a youth, accompanying a family named Baker. He entered the mines of Pennsylvania, was a superintendent for the Pennsylvania Coal Company at Avoca, and in 1907 moved to Indiana and settled at Carlisle in Sullivan County, where he was foreman in a coal mine for two years, then moving to Hymera, where he continued his coal mining operations until 1926. He is now an ordained minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church and has a church at Edgerton, Wisconsin. He and his wife had six children: Herbert M., J. Wesley, William L., Thomas E., Everett (who is deceased), and Elizabeth. Rev. William J. Williams was elected trustee of Jackson Township, Sullivan County, and all the time he lived there was active in local affairs.

J. Wesley Williams attended common schools at Avoca, Pennsylvania, had one year of high school work, and as a boy was employed in the mines. He was fifteen years old when the family came to Sullivan County and he worked in the mines at Carlisle, and also followed a mechanical trade for five years.

Mr. Williams is a World war veteran. He was in the One Hundred and Thirteenth Supply Train of the Thirty-eighth Division and was in France for thirteen months. After his discharge he returned to Sullivan County and resumed work in the mines, continuing until his election to the office of sheriff. Mr. Williams and family reside at Sullivan. He is a Methodist, takes an active part in Sunday School work, belongs to the Chamber of Commerce, to the A. F. and A. M. Lodge No. 544 at Hymera, to the Consistory at Gulfport, Mississippi, and Zorah Temple of the Shrine at Terre Haute, to the B. P. O. Elks No. 911, of Sullivan, and to American Legion Post No. 139, of Sullivan.

He married, September 27, 1925, at Terre Haute, Miss Reba Nicholson, daughter of James and Myrtle (Beckett) Nicholson, of Sullivan County. They lost their only child, Mary Jane.

INDIANA ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OF AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT Vol. 3
By Charles Roll, A.M.
The Lewis Publishing Company, 1931

JERRY A. CLAYTON, assistant postmaster of Linton, has earned a high reputation as a public official. He is a World war veteran and is one of the native sons of Greene County.

He was born on a farm in Stockton Township, August 27, 1891, son of George D. and Julia (Stahl) Clayton. The Clayton family were pioneers of this section of Indiana. His great-grandfather, George Clayton, came from England and acquired a section of land in Greene County. Part of this original farm is still owned by the family. George Clayton, the pioneer, was a minister of the Baptist Church. The grandfather of Jerry A. Clayton was also named Jerry A. and was a boy when the family came from England and settled in Greene County. He married Elizabeth Bowers. George D. Clayton was born on the old homestead and has spent an active life as a farmer and stock raiser, owning a farm of 140 acres, but is now living retired. He has always taken an active part in the Republican party and served as road supervisor several years. As a young man he did a great deal to develop a sound interest in music in his locality and has had a lifelong interest in music. He and his wife had a family of ten children: Ora D., who married Mayme Hossey; Ollie, who married Abbie Dunn; Lelia, wife of Ellisworth Corbin; Jerry A.; James E., who married Ellen Cox; Elmer, who married Mabel Hunt; Alma, the wife of Wayne Pope; Rose; Roy J., who married Esther Trueblood; and Francis, who married Faye Beasley.

Jerry A. Clayton was educated in the common schools in his native township, graduated from the Linton High School and also attended the Indiana State Normal at Terre Haute. After completing a business course he returned home and when the war came on enlisted in the Twenty-seventh Company of the Seventh Training Battalion; One Hundred and Fifty-ninth Depot Brigade, Eighty-fourth Division. He received his training at Camp Taylor at Louisville, Kentucky. After the war he returned to Linton and passed a civil service examination in 1919, since which time he has been in the postoffice service. At first he was money order and stamp clerk, and was appointed assistant postmaster in 1922, and has since continued to hold that office.

Mr. Clayton married, June 8, 1918, at Linton, Miss Flossie May Beasley, daughter of Oliver S. and Ida (Pigg) Beasley. They have two daughters, Miriam and Henrietta. Mr. Clayton is a member of the Masonic fraternity, A. F. and A. M. No. 560, of Linton, and B. P. O. Elks Lodge No. 866, of Linton, is affiliated with Frank Courtney Post No. 22, American Legion, of Linton, and is an active member of the Olive Branch Baptist Church near Linton.

INDIANA ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OF AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT Vol. 3
By Charles Roll, A.M.
The Lewis Publishing Company, 1931

ELMER W. SHERWOOD, county clerk of Greene County, is a member of one of the oldest and largest family connections in that section of Indiana.

His father, the late Dr. Elmer T. Sherwood, writing about twenty years ago, said that he was at the time one of sixty-two living descendants of the three Sherwood brothers who settled at Linton, and most of these descendents still live around Linton. The three pioneer brothers were Dr. William F., James S. and Benjamin S. Sherwood, who moved from Washington County, Indiana, to Greene County. Dr. W. F. Sherwood arrived in 1848, James S. in 1851, and Benjamin S. in 1854.

Dr. William F. Sherwood was one of the splendid pioneer physicians, one of the first medical men to locate at Linton. He rode horseback allover the country, and seldom did any difficulty or other reason deter him from the performance of his duty. He was one of the old-time fox hunters, loved fine horses and had a stable of his own. He married Catherine Ingersoll.

Their son, Elmer T. Sherwood, was born August 1, 1859, and was fourteen years of age when his father died in 1873. He spent his youth on a farm at North Linton, and after the death of his father devoted practically all his time to farming. However, he was inspired by the great success his father had made to take up medicine. On April 12, 1880, he entered the office of Dr. B. A. Rose, with whom he read for two years, and also had two terms of instruction in the Missouri Medical College, now Washington University, at St. Louis. He was graduated in March, 1882, and immediately located in Linton, where he carried on his professional work for nearly forty years, until his death in February, 1921. Dr. Elmer T. Sherwood was a very competent doctor, and above all he loved his fellow men. He well deserved a tribute written by a friend of long standing, who said: "'Doc Bud,' as he was intimately and familiarly known to a large circle of friends, was always and ever the same genial, jovial, cheerful, sunshiny man. He was a real friend. He was sincere and scrupulously honest in all things. He was true as steel, unwavering in his friendships as the everlasting hills. He worshipped his family, was devoted to his friends and kind to the world. He got the very most out of life and the world was kind to him."

In addition to the practice of medicine Doctor Sherwood in 1900 established the Elkhorn Drug Store at Linton, which he continued for many years. He was a staunch Republican in politics and in 1880 became a member of the Masonic fraternity, taking the work of the Lodge, the Royal Arch Chapter, the Scottish Rite degrees, and became a member of the Mystic Shrine. He was also a member of the Uniform Rank of the Knights of Pythias, the Order of Ben Hur, Modern Woodmen of America, and B. P. O. Elks. Doctor Sherwood possessed the native Indiana gift of poetry and fondness for literature. He frequently wrote for the press, and in his writings as well as in his life he was profoundly influenced by the mystical quality derived from living in a world of constant change in the personal and material relationships.

Dr. Elmer T. Sherwood married, September 28, 1882, Miss Hattie Price, who survives him and resides at Linton. She still is prominent in the social life of the state and is one of the leaders in work of a charitable and patriotic nature. Mrs. Edith Hanger, Mrs. R. D. Landrum and Elmer W. Sherwood are the children of the marriage.

Elmer W. Sherwood was born at Linton February 22, 1896. He was graduated from the grade schools in 1910, completed his high school course in 1914 and then taught for a year. For one year he attended Western Reserve University and was a student in Indiana University at Bloomington when America declared war on Germany. Within a week he had enlisted in Battery F of the First Indiana Artillery. This became the One Hundred and Fiftieth Field Artillery when it was mustered into the National army, and was one of the units of the famous Forty-second or Rainbow Division. He was trained at Fort Benjamin Harrison, and from Camp Mills, Long Island, after being reviewed by the secretary of war, Newton Baker, embarked on October 15, 1917, for France. They went over on the transport Lincoln, which on the return voyage was sunk. Mr. Sherwood was with his regiment and division in its glorious record in France, which included the battles of Chateau Thierry, Saint Mihiel, Champagne, Lorraine and Argonne Forest, and spent three months in Germany with the Army of Occupation. After the war he came back home and resumed his studies at Indiana University, graduating in 1921.

In 1920, during his senior year at the university, he was elected a member of the Legislature, and during the following session was the youngest member of the House of Representatives. He was especially interested in sponsoring a bill in behalf of the World War Memorial Plaza, another for liberalizing the Workmen's Compensation Law, and also supported appropriations for colleges for higher education. After his university career Mr. Sherwood had the agency at Linton and Jasonville for the Buick and Chevrolet cars and continued in that business until he was elected county clerk in 1926.

He married on September 27, 1925, Miss Lucile Smith, daughter of W. M. and Jane (Lance) Smith, and they have two children, Joan, born September 1, 1926, and Robert Elmer, born December 28, 1928.

Mr. Sherwood is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Knightstown Soldiers and Sailors Orphans Home, is a thirty-second degree Mason, a member of Beta Theta Pi fraternity, the B. P. O. Elks, the Columbia Club of Indianapolis, and his family are affiliated with the Methodist Episcopal Church. He has inherited his father's literary gifts, and is author of The Diary of a Rainbow Veteran, wrote a monograph on American citizenship, and is also author of The Rainbow Hoosier, and has written numerous short stories and articles for the Indianapolis Star, the Columbus, Ohio, Citizen, Evansville Courier, Fort Wayne News-Sentinel and other newspapers and magazines. Booth Tarkington, General Summeral and other national figures have praised Mr. Sherwood's literary productions. Mr. Sherwood is one of the prominent Republicans of the state. He has been president of the Rainbow Division of Indiana and has filled a number of state offices in the American Legion.

INDIANA ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OF AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT Vol. 3
By Charles Roll, A.M.
The Lewis Publishing Company, 1931

DALE C. BILLMAN, who holds a Master of Arts degree from the University of Wisconsin, is an Indiana school man and for ten years has been identified with the schools of his native town of Sullivan. He is now the city superintendent.

Mr. Billman was born in Sullivan, April 1, 1897, son of Dr. G. G. and Belle (Campbell) Billman, and grandson of Jacob and Sarah (Goodwin) Billman. His grandfather, who was born in Ohio, died about 1925, when ninety years of age. Mrs. Sarah (Goodwin) Billman is still living, being one of the oldest surviving natives of Sullivan County. Dr. G. G. Billman graduated from the Indiana Dental College at Indianapolis and has been one of the capable representatives of his profession in Sullivan for many years. He is a native of Sullivan County. To the union of Dr. G. G. and Belle (Campbell) Billman were born one son and two daughters: Dale C., Jeanette and Blanche.

Dale C. Billman first attended school at Evansville, Indiana, to which city his father had moved in 1901. After doing two years of his high school work there the family returned to Sullivan and he was graduated from the local high school in 1915. He then entered Wabash College, and his war service interrupted his studies there. He was in the hospital service of the United States Navy, at first at the Great Lakes Naval Station near Chicago and subsequently at the United States Naval Hospital at Washington, D. C. He was relieved from duty there at the time of the armistice and at once returned to Wabash College, where he took his A. B. degree in 1919. During 1919-20 Mr. Billman was a student in Harvard University and in the intervals of his teaching work took a normal course in 1921, and in 1925 began work for his Master's degree at the University of Wisconsin. He received this degree in 1927.

Mr. Billman was made teacher of science in the Sullivan High School in 1920 and from 1924 to 1928 was high school principal. He was elected city superintendent by the board of education in August, 1928.

Mr. Billman enjoys high standing among Indiana school men. He is a member of the Department of Superintendence of the National Education Association and also belongs to the Indiana State Teachers' Association. He is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity, Phi Delta Theta and the American Legion.

He married, December 26, 1920, Miss Maude Allen Harris, daughter of James and Maude (Allen) Harris, of Sullivan County. They have two children, Dale, Jr., and Richard.

INDIANA ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OF AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT Vol. 3
By Charles Roll, A.M.
The Lewis Publishing Company, 1931

JOHN B. FALVEY, chief of the Terre Haute fire department, is rounding out thirty-eight years of constructive service as a fire fighter. He entered the organization when it comprised only a few paid men and the apparatus was drawn by horses. He has been retained in the department on the basis of efficiency and merit, and has witnessed its growth and development until Terre Haute is now protected by a force of about 116 trained firemen, assigned to different parts of the city, and nine fire houses, and all the equipment is completely motorized and maintained at a stage of utmost efficiency.

Mr. Falvey was born at Terre Haute, January 8, 1871, and is a son of Bartholomew and Ellen (Sullivan) Falvey. Bartholomew Falvey came from County Kerry, Ireland, to America when a young man, and after working for a time around Boston moved to Terre Haute about 1860. He was a farmer and also spent a number of years in the service of the Big Four Railway Company. At the time of his death he owned two farms in Vigo County. Ellen Sullivan, the wife of Bartholomew Falvey, was also a native of Ireland. Their six children were: Nora, wife of James Donnelly; John B.; Nellie, who married Theodore Price and both are deceased; Patrick; Margaret, wife of Henry Clute and the mother of three children, named Florence, Mary and Agnes; and Michael, deceased.

John B. Falvey all the time he was in the common schools of Vigo County assisted his father in farm work. At the age of seventeen he moved to Terre Haute and for several years was an employee of the Pennsylvania Railway Company. At the age of twenty he was given a place in the local fire department and has been in that service without interruption. For thirty odd years he served with the rank of captain and on January 1, 1930; reached the culmination of his career as a fire fighter when appointed chief of the department, under the administration of Mayor Wood Posey.

Mr. Falvey married, July 16, 1906, Miss Clara May, daughter of Jacob and Julia May. They are members of the German Catholic Church. Mr. Falvey is also a member of the B. P. O. Elks, No. 86, of Terre Haute.

INDIANA ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OF AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT Vol. 3
By Charles Roll, A.M.
The Lewis Publishing Company, 1931

ELMER E. SCOTT, of Indianapolis, was admitted to the Indiana bar in 1903, and while his name has been well known in general practice, his professional association for over a quarter of a century has been with the Indianapolis Power & Light Company and its predecessor organizations, and of which first named company he is a director, also secretary, and performs the duties of legal counsel.

Mr. Scott was born in Indianapolis, April 11, 1879, son of John E. and Mary A. (Crist) Scott. His father, who long enjoyed an enviable place at the Indianapolis bar, was born in St. Clair County, Illinois, and came to Indiana in 1875. The Scott family were Virginians, of Scotch ancestry, and were active in Colonial and Revolutionary times. John E. Scott's wife was born in Illinois.

Elmer E. Scott graduated from what is now the Shortridge High School at Indianapolis in 1897, this being followed by three years in Indiana University, and one year at the University of California. In 1903 he graduated from the Indiana Law School, and after being admitted to the bar he joined his father in practice. His father passed away in 1913 and since then he has been alone. In addition to his official and professional relations with the Indianapolis Power & Light Company he maintains a private law office in the Fletcher Savings & Trust Building.

Mr. Scott is a member of the .Indianapolis and Indiana State Bar Associations, is a Republican and belongs to the Columbia Club, the Hoosier Motor Club, B. P. O. Elks, is a Scottish Rite Mason and Shriner and is a member of the college fraternity Phi Gamma Delta. He is a Methodist.

Mr. Scott married Miss Edith S. McMaster. Her father was the late Judge John L. McMaster, long a prominent figure at the Indianapolis bar. Mrs. Edith Scott passed away in 1908, leaving one son, John E., now a student in Indiana University. On January 31, 1914, Mr. Scott married Phoebe D. Hill, of Bruceville, Indiana. They have three children, Eugene H., Theodore and Florence J., all of them attending school in Indianapolis;
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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

GEORGE P. CRABTREE, postmaster of Clay City, has been a resident of Clay County for thirty-two years and was born and reared in this section of the Lower Wabash Valley of Indiana.

Mr. Crabtree was born at Linton, February 11, 1872, son of Isaac and Sarah (Beasley) Crabtree. His father was a Union soldier at the time of the Civil war, being a member of Company E of the Fifty-ninth Indiana Infantry, in the Army of the Potomac. Disease contracted during his service caused his death a few years after the war. His widow still survives, residing at Linton, Indiana. Isaac Crabtree is buried in Bethel Cemetery, Linton. Their six children were Frank, George P., Elizabeth, Thomas N., Anna and Mina.

George P. Crabtree attended the common schools of Greene County, completed a normal course at Linton, and was also a student in the Northern Indiana Normal School at Valparaiso. For four years he engaged in teaching, and later he was a piano salesman traveling over portions of the South. In 1899 he established his home in Clay County and was in business until appointed to the office of postmaster in July, 1924. On December 13, 1928, he was reappointed and has given a very thorough and business-like administration of the office. During the World war he was deputy food commissioner of Clay County and has also served on the school board and as a member of the Clay City Council. Mr. Crabtree is a member and president of the board of trustees of the Methodist Episcopal Church and is a member of the A. F. and A. M., Clay City Lodge No. 562, and also holds membership in the Royal Arch, Brazil, Chapter No. 59, Brazil Council No. 40, Royal and Select Masters, the Clay County Past Masters Association and the Order of the Eastern Star.

He married February 11, 1899, Miss Catherine Schauwecker. They have three children: Donald L. is a graduate of Purdue University and is a civil engineer. He married Helen Clark, of Richmond, Indiana, and they have one child, Virginia, born August 11,1930. Edgar C. attended Purdue University. He married Frances Steers, of Joplin, Missouri, and they have one child, George Ann, born December 17, 1929. Herbert C., the youngest son, is a student in Purdue University.

INDIANA ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OF AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT Vol. 3
By Charles Roll, A.M.
The Lewis Publishing Company, 1931

J. W. CLIFFORD, M. D. Some of the unusual service and distinctions of the medical profession have been achieved by Doctor Clifford in Greene County. He assumed the duties of coroner of the county January 1, 1929, elected on the Republican ticket, and served one term.

Doctor Clifford was born at Oakland City, Indiana, on a farm, February 9, 1863, son of. Jesse H. and Tasa (Davis) Clifford. His grandfather, Allen Clifford, came to Indiana from North Carolina in the pioneer period. Jesse H. Clifford was an Indiana farmer, but spent his last years in Kansas and is buried at Eldorado in that state. His first wife, Tasa Clifford, died when their son, Doctor Clifford, was eleven years of age, and she is buried in Pike County, Indiana. Jesse Clifford married his second wife, Ruth Lane, and to their union were born six children. By his first marriage there were also six children, two of whom died in infancy. Dr. J. W. Clifford is the oldest; Mary Emily married Edward Redmond; and Charles W. married Ann Mullens and has two children, Florence and Ralph.

Dr. J. W. Clifford attended country schools in Pike County, was a student in the National Normal University at Lebanon, Ohio, two terms, then attended Vincennes University at Vincennes, Indiana, and the Oakland City College at Oakland City, Indiana, a school that had been founded by his uncle, Leeright Houchins, a Baptist minister. During all these years .in the winter months he was teaching school, earning the money to complete his higher education . He began his medical studies in the Eclectic Medical Institute at Cincinnati and was graduated from the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Atlanta, Georgia, in 1895. Doctor Clifford first practiced at Dale, Spencer County, Indiana, from 1896 to 1898, then at Holland from 1898 to 1902, then returned to Dale, where he continued in practice one year, and in 1903 moved to Worthington, where his name has been an honored one in the medical profession for over a quarter of a century.

Doctor Clifford married Miss Louise Peck, and they have two children. Floyd C. married Blanche Morgan. Mary Tasa married Robert M. Love and has two children, Louise and Barbara. Mrs. Love is now in charge of music of the public schools at Kendallville, Indiana. Doctor Clifford is a member of the Masonic fraternity, Lodge No. 577, Worthington. He is secretary of the board of health and is president of the town board of Worthington. He holds membership in the Greene County, Indiana State and American Medical Associations, and is local surgeon for the Pennsylvania and Big Four Railroads. He is also examining medical officer for the U. S. Veterans Bureau for the Worthington district.

INDIANA ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OF AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT Vol. 3
By Charles Roll, A.M.
The Lewis Publishing Company, 1931

JOHN ASBURY PHILLIPS was born in Greene County, Indiana, and here the major portion of his earnest and useful life was passed, his death having occurred at his home in Bloomfield, the county seat, April 16, 1921, after he had attained to the age of sixty-three years and twenty-seven days. Mr. Phillips ordered his life on a high plane of integrity and honor, his ability and well directed activities along business lines enabled him to achieve substantial financial success, and in all the relations of life he commanded the confidence and esteem of his fellow men.

Mr. Phillips, a representative of one of the sterling pioneer families of Greene County, was born on the parental home farm in Center Township, this county, March 20, 1858, and was a son of Alfred F. and Catherine (Fulk) Phillips. His father served as a gallant soldier of the Union in the Civil war, and after receiving a severe wound while participating in the battle of Vicksburg he was incapacitated and was accorded an honorable discharge, both he and his wife having passed the remainder of their lives in Greene County, where he was long and successfully engaged in farm enterprise and as a merchant.

John A. Phillips was reared on the old home farm and received the advantages of the public schools of his native township. As a youth he became associated with his father in conducting a general store at Cincinnati, this county, and later he was employed for a time on a farm in Illinois, besides having there engaged in the dry-goods business. He had experience as a merchant at Solsberry and Hobbieville, both in his native county, and later he established a fruit-tree nursery near the latter village. This enterprise proved successful, and in 1896 he removed to Bloomfield, the county seat, where he erected an attractive house on West Main Street, there established the family home, and with amplified provisions he continued in the nursery business at the county seat until 1905. From that time until the close of his life he gave his attention largely to his farming and manufacturing interests. From an appreciative estimate published at the time of the death of Mr. Phillips are taken the following extracts: "He was a man of unusual business ability and his ways of thrift and industry had made him wealthy. He was a good citizen and loyal friend, and he had made substantial additions to Bloomfield in the erection of good homes and business buildings. . . . . He was honest and square with his fellow men and he will be greatly missed by his relatives and acquaintances. . . . . He lived a very active life and enjoyed good health until the last five or six years, during which he has been a brave and patient sufferer, and although he knew he could not live long, he was always cheerful, and interested in people and activities of this life."

After establishing his residence in Bloomfield Mr. Phillips, who had in the meanwhile given up the management of his store at Jonesboro, was on the road as a traveling salesman one year. He then engaged in the clothing business in partnership with a man whose interest he later purchased, and his activities included also the manufacturing of lifting jacks, a line of enterprise in which he was very successful and with which he was still connected at the time of his death. He won success through his own ability and efforts and made that success a means for expressing more fully his civic loyalty and liberality. He was the owner of a fine farm estate of 418 acres in Greene County and gave to the same a general supervision. His political allegiance was given to the Democratic party, and while he was not formally a member of any church he affiliated with the Methodist Episcopal Church and lived a life that showed the secure faith that he had in the deeper spiritual faith of Christianity.

April 19, 1879, marked the marriage of Mr. Phillips to Miss Lydia J. Holtsclaw, a daughter of William and Elizabeth (Stalcup) Holtsclaw, her father having spent the greater part of his active life on his farm of 400 acres in Greene County. He represented Indiana as a soldier in the Mexican war, for which he enlisted when he was but eighteen years of age, and for this service he later was awarded a Government pension. His father was one of the sterling Indiana pioneers who came to this state from Kentucky. Mrs. Phillips survives her husband and still maintains her home in Bloomfield, and has been a loved figure in the social. life of this community many years. Mr. and Mrs. Phillips became the parents of three children: Jesse Ora died in infancy, and Wendell Lester died October 19, 1919. Leona Etna, the only living child of Mr. and Mrs. John A. Phillips, a graduate of DePauw University, and married Reed Letsinger, of Bloomfield, who is also a graduate of DePauw University. They have five children: Catherine, John, Richard, Robert and Elizabeth.

INDIANA ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OF AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT Vol. 3
By Charles Roll, A.M.
The Lewis Publishing Company, 1931

WILLIAM EMERY AMY, physician and surgeon, is secretary of the Harrison County Medical Society and is one of the ablest representatives of his profession at Corydon. He is county health commissioner and also health commissioner of the City of Corydon. Doctor Amy is a member of a family that has lived in Harrison County four generations, all his forefathers having been farmers by occupation.

Doctor Amy was born in that county September 9, 1880, son of George N. and Emma (Pittman) Amy. His great-grandfather, Joseph Amy; was the founder of the family in Harrison County. He came from Pennsylvania about 1820. The grandfather, Jesse Amy, a Harrison County farmer, married Cassie Mingle. George N. Amy was a farmer by occupation. Emma Pittman, who was his first wife, was a descendant of Joseph Pittman, who came to Indiana from Virginia in 1825.

Dr. William E. Amy was the only child of his parents. His boyhood was spent on a farm, with the advantages of the country schools, and later he attended normal school. In 1903 he was graduated M. D. from the Kentucky School of Medicine at Louisville. For seven years Doctor Amy practiced at Bicknell in Knox County, Indiana, and in April, 1910, located at Corydon, where for twenty years he has been doing splendid work as a physician. He has always been a close student and a hard worker. He was absent one year from his home routine of practice in consequence of the World war. He enlisted in June, 1918, was commissioned a first lieutenant in the Medical Corps and assigned to an infantry regiment in the Ninety-first Division. He went overseas, was with the Army of Occupation in Germany and Belgium, and later was assigned to the Sixth Sanitary Train of the Sixth Division. He was discharged, with the rank of captain, at Camp Dix, New Jersey, in June, 1919.

Doctor Amy married Miss Elizabeth Faith, daughter of Edward Faith and of an old Kentucky family. Doctor Amy is a member of the Indiana State and American Medical Associations and is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity and Knights of Pythias. He was secretary of the Town of Bicknell and health officer while there. Doctor Amy organized Harrison Post No. 123 of the American Legion and served as its first commander, in 1920.
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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

CHARLES E. COMBS is a native son of Greene County and his secure place in popular confidence and esteem is shown by the fact that he is now serving his tenth consecutive year as postmaster of the City of Bloomfield, the county seat, his original appointment having been made under the administration of President Harding.

On the parental home farm in Greene County, Indiana, the birth of Charles E. Combs occurred June 25, 1870, and he is eldest of the children of William H. and Isabella (Faucett) Combs. Concerning the other children the following brief data are available: Minnie is the wife of Joseph Crabb; James E. married Miss Nellie Mays; Charlotte is the wife of John De Vilvis; Margaret is deceased; Oliver P; married Miss Cora Hasler; Emma E. is the wife of Allred Isenogle; Mary A. is the wife of Alonzo Carroll;. Carrie E. is the wife of George Denny; John L. married Miss Blanche Edwards; and William H., Jr., is deceased.

The late William H. Combs, Sr., was born June 25, 1840, in Greene County, Indiana, and was a representative of one of the sterling pioneer families of this part of the state. Here he was reared to maturity and from this county he went forth as a gallant young soldier of the Union in the Civil war. He enlisted in Company H, Thirty-first Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and with this command he took part in the battles of Shiloh, Fort Henry, Fort Donelson and Corinth. His active service covered a period of two years and he then received his honorable discharge. In later years he maintained affiliation with the Grand Army of the Republic and thus perpetuated his association with his old comrades. His active career in civic life was marked by close and productive association with farm industry, and he was one of the venerable and honored pioneer citizens of Greene County at the time of his death, January 14, 1926.

Charles E. Combs was reared to the sturdy discipline of the home farm, in Taylor Township, and he supplemented the training of the district school by attending normal school in his native county and by a course in a leading business college in Indianapolis. He taught three terms of school, and thereafter he held for three and one-half years the office of deputy county auditor of. Greene County. He then turned his attention to the real-estate, farm loan and fire insurance business at Bloomfield, and with those lines of enterprise he here continued his active alliance fully twenty years. He is still a director of the Southern Indiana Building & Loan Association.

Mr. Combs is a stalwart in the local ranks of the Republican party, and prior to becoming postmaster of Bloomfield he had served as a member of the City of Bloomfield Board of Trustees. He is affiliated with the Modern Woodmen of America.

September 21, 1892, marked the marriage of Mr. Combs to Miss Icadore D. Edington, who likewise was born and reared in Greene County and who is a daughter of the late William W. and Rebecca (Hayes) Edington, her father having been a representative farmer in this county, having served two terms as county sheriff, and also having owned and operated a saw mill and thus was an active representative of the lumber business in Greene County, where he lived retired during the closing period of his life. Mr. and Mrs. Combs became the parents of two children, one of whom, Dale, died in infancy. Earl, the surviving child, is a district salesman for the Capital Motors Company of Indianapolis, and in that city he and his wife, whose maiden name was Mary A. Kopesky, maintain their home.

INDIANA ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OF AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT Vol. 3
By Charles Roll, A.M.
The Lewis Publishing Company, 1931

THOMAS J. JACKSON. In Thomas J. Jackson is found one of Floyd County's able and worthhile men. As postmaster of New Albany his sound judgment and public spirit have served to place this thriving, prosperous city in the list of well-governed communities, and in commercial circles his business sagacity and known trustworthiness have attracted widespread patronage. He is well known all over the county, for he has spent his entire life here, a busy one since his sixteenth year, when he began to make his own way in the world in a spirit of personal independence and determination that has been a factor in insuring a successful career.

Mr. Jackson, who is of Irish and Scotch descent, was born at New Albany, Indiana, April 25, 1880, and is a son of Moses L. and Belle (Parrish) Jackson. His paternal grandfather, William Jackson, was born in Virginia, where he entered the ministry of the Methodist Church, and as a young man came to Indiana, where for many years he filled pulpits in Crawford County. He was known for his earnestness, piety and zeal, and had the sincere confidence of all who knew him. Moses L. Jackson was born in Crawford County, Indiana, and in early life was an ironworker. During the war between the states he served as a member of the Home Guard and assisted in repelling the raids in Indiana of the Confederate General Morgan. For some years he held the rank of sergeant of the New Albany police department, and during the latter years of his life was engaged in the general merchandise business, having an excellent reputation in commercial circles. He was active in politics as a Republican. Mr. Jackson married Miss Belle Parrish, a Dative of New Albany, and they became the parents of five children, the sons all becoming substantial business men of Indiana.

Thomas J. Jackson attended the public schools of New Albany until he was sixteen years of age, at which time he went to work in the iron roller mills as a lever boy. By fidelity and industry he rose in position, and when eighteen years of age was yard clerk for the Air Line Railway, with which he was connected for twelve years, advancing to freight clerk, then to chief clerk and finally to assistant trainmaster of the Louisville-Princeton division. Resigning his position, he became a merchant, and for twelve years was the owner of a wholesale and retail millinery store. On January 9, 1923, Mr. Jackson was appointed postmaster of New Albany during the administration of President Harding, was reappointed by President Coolidge, and still occupies this post. During the time that he has been the incumbent of the office he has discharged his duties in a highly commendable and conscientious manner and has accomplished much for the good of the service. He has been active in politics as a Republican, and has served as chairman of the county committee and as a member of the state central committee. During the World war he took a prominent part in all of the drives, and contributed generously to all war causes. Mr. Jackson belongs to Jefferson Lodge No. 104, A. F. and A. M.; Royal Arch Chapter; New Albany Commandery, K. T.; Indiana Council No.1; Indianapolis Consistory, thirty-second degree, and Murat Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S.; and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks.

Mr. Jackson married Miss Sophie A. Dean, a native of Crawford County, this state, and a member of a family which settled here prior to the war between the states, in which struggle a number of its participants took part. Mr. and Mrs. Jackson are members of the Evangelical Church and reside in their pleasant home at 317 East Spring Street.

INDIANA ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OF AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT Vol. 3
By Charles Roll, A.M.
The Lewis Publishing Company, 1931

EDWARD J. BUHNER. Since 1889 the business now known as the Buhner Fertilizer Company has been located not far from Seymour, Jackson County, and the present extensive plant is situated not more than 200 yards from the modest building in which the business was founded. More than forty years have passed and changes have been numerous, but the same straightforward business policy that laid the foundations for the building up ora successful business enterprise at its inception are still in force today, which perhaps accounts in large measure for the fact that this is a going and still growing concern and that it has outdistanced many of its competitors. Several generations of the Buhner family have been identified with this enterprise, among whom is Edward J. Buhner, the present secretary and treasurer, a man of broad judgement and considerable experience who likewise is generally acknowledged to be a far-sighted of public spirit and civic pride.

Mr. Buhner was born in Jackson County, February 13, 1901, and is a son of Ferdinand F. and Mary (Eggerman) Buhner, the latter being a member of the pioneer Eggerman family which settled in the Sauer section of Jackson County when the country was still new. The great-grandfather of Edward J. Buhner, Rudolph Buhner, was born in Germany and was a young man when he immigrated to the United States, first settling in Cincinnati, Ohio; and shortly thereafter removing to Jackson County, where he took up a farm in 1825 and there passed the remainder of his life in agricultural operations. John R. Buhner, the grandfather of Edward J. Buhner, was born in Jackson County, and, like his father, was principally employed in agricultural operations, although he also was interested to some extent in the manufacture of fertilizer as one of the founders of the little business that was the nucleus for the present concern. He was also a stanch Democrat in politics and took an active part in party affairs. He married a Miss Seifker. Ferdinand F. Buhner, the real organizer of the Fertilizer company, and its present president, was born in Jackson County, where he has passed his entire life. He received his education in the public schools and was engaged in farming until 1889, when he utilized a small mill on his farm and began the manufacture of fertilizer. Through great industry, good management and honorable business methods the business increased with the passing of the years, and the present modern plant, located about 200 yards from the original mill, covers about five acres of ground, employing about sixty people and producing 1,000 car-loads a year, shipping principally to the Middle Western states. In 1923 the Buhner Fertilizer Company was incorporated, with the same officers as today: Ferdinand F. Buhner, president; Mary Buhner, vice president; and Edward J. Buhner, secretary and treasurer. To Ferdinand F. and Mary {Eggerman) Buhner there were born four children: Edward J., of this review; Martin and Carl, twins; and Christine.

Edward J. Buhner attended the graded schools of Jackson County and the high school at Seymour, following which he pursued a course at Purdue University, and during his vacation periods worked in his father's fertilizer plant. Upon the completion of his education he was made secretary and treasurer of the concern, in which capacities he still acts, and has contributed largely to the success of the business, as have his brothers, Martin and Carl, who hold positions at the plant. The last named married Edna Wasson. Edward Buhner married Norma Wahrenburg, of Fort Wayne, Indiana, and they are the parents of one child, Joan. Mr. Buhner has a number of connections and interests and is a member of the Rotary Club and the Beta Sigma Psi college fraternity. His offices are located in the First National Bank Building, at Seymour, and he has a pleasant and attractive home on Garden A venue.

INDIANA ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OF AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT Vol. 3
By Charles Roll, A.M.
The Lewis Publishing Company, 1931