Henry Rauh. Among the prominent men of Indianapolis who have left the impress of their individuality upon the business and social life of this community none is more worthy of mention in the history of Indiana than the late Henry Rauh; for forty-six years an honored resident of this city. His labors not only constituted a potent factor in the industrial affairs of Indianapolis, but his progressive spirit was evident in many ways, and during the many years of his residence here he wielded definite and benignant influence, both as a citizen and as a man of splendid business ability. In his home, in social and in business life he was kind and courteous, and no citizen of Indianapolis was more respected or more fully enjoyed the confidence of the people and more richly deserved the regard in which he was held. Mr. Rauh was born in GermersheimRhein Pfalz, Bavaria, Germany, March 21, 1852, a son of Elias Rauh and Hannah (Abrahams) Rauh, who came of prominent old established families of that country which date back many generations. In 1866 his parents emigrated with their family to the United States, settling at Dayton, Ohio, where the father engaged in the fur and hide business, in which he built up a large and successful enterprise and was numbered among the influential citizens of that community. Both he and his wife passed away in that city, he at the age of sixty-nine, and his wife at the age of sixty-five. His business at Dayton was subsequently incorporated under the name of E. Rauh & Sons company, with Elias, Leopold, Henry and Samuel E. Rauh as officers and directors, and became one of the notable enterprises of that city. In June, 1874, a branch house was established at Indianapolis, of which Samuel E. Rauh became manager. Two years later Henry Rauh became identified with the business and was, afterward one of the active factors and leading spirits of the enterprise until the time of his death. For half a century the name of Rauh has been one of prominence in connection with the industrial activities of Indianapolis, and the firm of E. Rauh & Sons company takes precedence over all other concerns of its kind in the city, both in prolonged period of operations and in the scope and importance of business controlled. During the ensuing years this great corporation has kept pace with the marvelous development and progress of the city, and its status has long been one of prominence in connection with the representative industrial, activities of the country. Henry Rauh was a man of marked initiative ability and resourcefulness and impregnated with the vital elements of worthy success every enterprise with which he was identified, and the success and popularity of this great corporation may be attributed in no small degree to his quiet faithfulness and untiring efforts. In other fields, too, he gave proof of his capacity for successful management, and his advice was frequently sought where sound judgment and business talents of high order were needed. Besides being president of the E. Rauh & Sons company, he was also vice-president of the Indianapolis, Abattoir company, a director in the Belt Railroad and Stock Yards company, the Live Stock Exchange Bank and the Indianapolis Jewish Federation, and was chairman of the endowment fund of the Sir Moses Montefiore Home for the Aged and Infirm Israelties at Cleveland. He was likewise a member ofthe Order of B'nai B'rith, the Columbia Club,. of which he was one of the organizers, the Indianapolis Club, and the Athenaeum, more commonly known as the German House, of which he was also one of the organizers. He had a great love for music, was a wonderful singer and was noted for his cultured and magnificent voice. Though not a politician, Mr. Rauh was a staunch Republican in his political affiliations and was always recognized as a strong factor in the best element of his party. He was elected a member of the City Council October 12, 1893, and though his ward was strongly Democratic, he ran far ahead of his ticket and was elected by an overwhelming majority. He filled this position until October 7, 1895, and his administration of municipal affairs was characterized by strict business principles, and he left the office with a character strengthened in the estimation of the public because of the obvious honesty of his intentions and the patient wisdom with which he met many trying situations. There were few movements of vital importance to the city with which he was not concerned as an active factor in his support of or opposition to, as the case might be, for he was as strong in his denouncement of a measure which he deemed inimical to the best interests of the people as he was firm in his allegiance when he believed that the interests of the public would be promoted thereby. Thoroughly appreciative of the city of his adoption, Mr. Rauh was loyal and public-spirited in his civic attitude, and gave generously of his time and means to charitable movements and all measures tending to the public good. His efforts were not confined to lines resulting in individual benefit, but were evident in those fields where general interests and public welfare are involved, and his activities meant much to Indianapolis in both civic and material progress. He was kind and helpful to the unfortunate, and, while he did not believe in an indiscriminate giving which promotes vagrancy and idleness, there were few who responded more readily to the needy. His honesty was of the type that would rather err to his own cost than do an injustice, and his high-minded conception of a man's duty to his fellow men and his quiet and unswerving allegiance to the principles of good citizenship were traits which especially distinguished him. In business life he was alert, sagacious and reliable; as a citizen he was honorable, prompt and true to every engagement, and his death, which occurred September 20, 1922, removed from Indianapolis one of its most valued citizens. Mr. Rauh was twice married, first to Miss Marie Sterne, who was a daughter of Charles F. and Eugenia (Fries) Sterne, and was a woman of refinement and much beauty of character. To this union were born two daughters: Gene Rauh, Mrs. B. B. Carlin, of Chicago, Illinois, and Marie Rauh, Mrs. William Kingdon, of Atlanta, Georgia. Mrs. Rauh died September 4, 1889, and on January 23, 1900, Mr. Rauh was united in marriage with Miss Flora Mayer, a daughter of Leopold and Rosa (Hexter) Mayer, of Cleveland, Ohio, and she still maintains her home in Indianapolis, where she is surrounded by hosts of warm friends and is greatly admired for her sterling qualities and beauty of character. Although prominent in social circles, Mr. Rauh was devoted to the pleasure of home life, and his happiest moments were always spent at his own fireside. His domestic life was ever most attractive in all of its various phases as husband, father and host, and his home was a hospitable one, where good cheer abounded, and was the social center of a wide circle of friends.

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History of Indiana From Its Exploration to 1922
With an Account of Indianapolis and Marion County Vol. IV
by Logan Esarey
Dayton Historical Publishing Co
1924

Calvin K. Ewing, M.D. who is a skilled and successful physician and surgeon of Indianapolis, with offices in the State Life Building is a scion of one of the prominent pioneer families of the state. He was born at Bloomington, Indiana, September 23, 1861, and is a son of W. C. and Rebecca (Shaw) Ewing, natives respectively of North Carolina and Ireland, and both now deceased. The father was engaged in the lumber business during the major portion of his active career, removing to Indianapolis about 1863, where he and his wife both passed away. Doctor Ewing obtained his early education in the public schools of this city and after completing his studies in the high school he entered Butler College, where he was a student for two years. Having early determined upon the practice of medicine as a life work, he matriculated at the Medical College of Indiana in 1881, and was graduated from this institution in 1884 with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. Soon after receiving his degree Dr. Ewing established himself in the practice of his profession at Malott Park, a suburb of Indianapolis, where he soon became prominent as a practitioner, and in the ensuing years his practice grew both in volume and importance. To further his education he went to Europe in 1887 and there availed himself of the special advantages of the leading medical colleges and hospitals of London, Paris, Berlin and Vienna, studying under some of the most noted physicians and surgeons of Europe. In 1891 he also did efficient post-graduate work in the Polyclinic in New York City. For many years Doctor Ewing has given special attention to the medicinal and surgical treatment of the diseases of the nose, throat and lungs, and he has been most successful in the treatment of this class of disorders. He has also made distinctive reputation in the field of electro-therapeutics, in which he has perfected a number of most valuable inventions for facilitating the application of electricity as a remedial agency. He keeps in close touch with all that research is bringing to light in the field of scientific knowledge, and as a man of marked intellectual activity, his labors have given impetus to the medical profession of this city. He has not only kept pace with the march of improvements, but his professional service has ever been discharged with a keen sense of conscientious obligation, and his labors have merited and received the homage of his professional colleagues as well as the general public. Dr. Ewing has served as attending physician in charge of the nose, throat and lung department of the Indiana Medical Hospital, and he was incumbent of the chair of clinical medicine in the American Medical College of Indianapolis and a valued and popular member of its faculty. He has also served as medical examiner for a number of the leading life-insurance companies and fraternal organizations; has served as treasurer of the American Association of Physicians and Surgeons, of which he is a member, and the Indianapolis Academy of Medicine. He has been established in the practice of his profession in Indianapolis for thirty-four years; has always maintained the highest standards of professional ethics and as a citizen his career has been loyal, energetic and circumspect. He is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Knights of Maccabees, the Independent Order of Foresters, and the Order of Toilers of the World, having served as high physician of the Indiana organization of .the Foresters, and as supreme medical director of the Toilers of the World. He is also affiliated with the Masonic fraternity, belonging to Monument Lodge, F. & A. M.; Indianapolis Chapter, R.A.M., Raper Commandery, Knights Templars and the Shrine. Doctor Ewing was married in 1892 to Miss Olive E. Smith, a daughter of William Smith of Arcadia, Indiana.

History of Indiana From Its Exploration to 1922
With an Account of Indianapolis and Marion County Vol. IV
by Logan Esarey
Dayton Historical Publishing Co
1924

Lawrence S. Fall, D.D.S. is not only an able dental surgeon and public-spirited citizen of Indianapolis, but he is a veteran of the World War, and a member of the American Legion, Paul Coble Post Number 26. He was born at Lebanon, Indiana, March 11, 1891, and there he was reared and attended the graded and high schools. During the year 1911-12 he attended Purdue University, and then, taking up the study of dentistry, was graduated from the Indiana Dental College in 1917, with the degree of Doctor of Dental Surgery. In the year of his graduation he enlisted in the dental corps, Two Hundred and Seventeenth Regiment Engineers, and was in the service for eight months. Following his honorable discharge he established himself in the practice of his profession at Indianapolis, and has built up a wide and valuable connection. He belongs to the county, state and national dental associations. Fraternally he belongs to the Masonic order, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. The Kiwanis Club, the Indianapolis Athletic Club, the Advertising Club and Psi Omega Greek Letter Dental fraternity hold his membership. In 1920 Doctor Fall was married to Miss Marian K. Haddow, of Indianapolis, and they have one daughter, Jane Sanders, who was born July 15, 1922.

History of Indiana From Its Exploration to 1922
With an Account of Indianapolis and Marion County Vol. IV
by Logan Esarey
Dayton Historical Publishing Co
1924

William H. Faust, whose entire career as a lawyer has been spent at Indianapolis, where he has also been. active in politics and in those movements which attract the interest of men of enlightened views and public spirit, was born at Indianapolis, October 23, 1889, a son of George H. and Minnie L. (Kleis) Faust. Michael Faust, the paternal grandfather of William H., came to this state in 1833 and took up barren land which he improved and farmed, this now being occupied by the school at Lincoln Lane. Later he was engaged in agricultural operations near Beach Grove and finally at Alexander and Sherman Drive. His first wife was buried at Greenlawn Cemetery, as was also Great-grandfather Cathauser, who had come,to Indiana shortly after the state was admitted to the Union. The maternal grandfather of Mr. Faust came from Germany in 1848, and was followed two years later by a Miss Christina Heiney, who became his bride, and who has resided in this state since she was sixteen years of age, being ,one of the highly respected old residents of this community. George H. Faust was born at Millersville, Indiana, March 7, 1863, and during his younger years was engaged in farming with his father. Later for two years he was engaged in the butcher business, but for the past thirty-six years has been identified with the Tripp warehouse. He has never cared for politics, but is a good citizen, an ardent churchman, and has numerous friends. He married Minnie L. Kleis, who was born at Wyoming and Virginia avenues, Indianapolis, March 11, 1872, and still survives, and they have had three children: Frieda, who is now Mrs. Homeier, of Indianapolis; Ruth, who resides with her parents; and William H. William H. Faust attended the log schoolhouse at Sherman Drive and Alexander Lane, following which he pursued a high school and manual training course, and graduated in 1907. Next he attended the Indiana College of Law, from which he was graduated as a member of the class of 1909, and while he had not yet attained his majority was allowed to practice in several cases through the special dispensation and courtesy of Judge Remster. He then formed a partnership, with George O. Lehman with whom he was associated for nine years, after which the combination was mutually dissolved and Mr. Faust has since been practicing alone in the field of civil and corporation law, with offices in the Hume-Mansur Building. He has a large and representative clientele and has been successful in a number of important cases. When he was but twenty-one years of age, Mr. Faust was precinct committeeman in the Eighth and Tenth wards, when H. Wallace was county chairman. When the contest arose between Colonel Roosevelt and Mr. Taft as to the presidential nomination, Joseph Kealing came out for Mr. Taft, while Mr. Faust, believing that the nomination was unfair and standing by his principles, resigned his position and joined the ranks of the new Bull Moose party under the leadership of Colonel Roosevelt. Prior to that time he had been a stanch Republican, particularly in local politics, but since then has given his support to the man he has regarded as best fitted for the office, regardless of party lines. He belongs to the Odd Fellows Lodge No. 465 and to the Encampment. September 10, 1913, Mr. Faust married Irene M., daughter of Henry R. and Elizabeth M. Hermann, who came to Indianapolis from Cincinnati in 1893. Mr. and Mrs. Faust are the parents of one son: William H., Jr.

History of Indiana From Its Exploration to 1922
With an Account of Indianapolis and Marion County Vol. IV
by Logan Esarey
Dayton Historical Publishing Co
1924

Rabbi Morris Marcus Feuerlicht. In all matters pertaining to the general betterment of civic and social conditions at Indianapolis, the name of Rabbi Morris Marcus Feuerlicht, of the Indianapolis Hebrew Congregation, has appeared importantly. Born January 15, 1879, the only child of Rabbi Jacob and Kate (Deutsch) Feuerlicht, he was only a few months old when brought by his parents from his birthplace of Tokay, Hungary, and acquired his early education at the Brimmer public school, Boston. Later he moved to Cincinnati, where he graduated from the Hughes high school in 1897, then attending the Hebrew Union College of Cincinnati, where he completed his course as a member of the graduating class of l901, receiving the degrees of B. H. L. and Rabbi, and also that of B.A. from University of Cincinnati in the same year. Later he took post-graduate work at the Chicago University, leading to the Ph.D. degree. From 1901 Rabbi Feuerlicht served as rabbi at Lafayette, Indiana, until 1904, since which time he has served in the same capacity at Indianapolis, as rabbi of the Indianapolis Hebrew Congregation, at the corner of Delaware and Tenth Streets, where he is greatly beloved by the members of his congregation. Rabbi Feuerlicht has linked his name with many good works, and has been indefatigable in his endeavors in behalf of the sick, unfortunate and oppressed of his own and other races. He is a member of the Central Conference for American rabbis, of which he was secretary from 1911 to 1913, and in which he has held other offices and has been a member of many committees. He belongs also to the American Oriental Society, the American Archeological Society and the American Sociological Society, and of the National Conference of Social Work. In 1920 he was appointed a member of the State Board of Charities by Governor Goodrich, and reappointed in 1923, and from 1905 to 1922 was president of the Children's Aid Association of Indianapolis, a position in which his inherent love for children made his services exceptionally valuable. He was President of State Conference of Charities and Correction, 1921-22. During the World War he was active as a member of many committees, including the Religious and Moral committee of the Council of Defense and the Executive Committee of the Indianapolis Red Cross. He was likewise chairman of the local Jewish Welfare Board, a speaker in seventh national district for the Liberty Loan and Red Cross drives, active in United War Work and War Relief drives, and had charge of activities among Jewish soldiers in three camps, Fort Harrison, Speedway and Deaf Mute Institute. He has served on different committees of reconciliation and arbitration during labor complications that have arisen in the community, and was on the flood relief committee and the committee for the unemployed at the time of the flood in 1913. Rabbi Feuerlicht holds membership in the Chamber of Commerce, the Indianapolis Literary Club, the Athenaeum, the Hoosier Athletic Club, the Indianapolis Club, Art Association and the Elks, and has tendencies toward supporting the Democratic party, although usually an independent voter. He is the author of: "Social Conditions of the Eighth Century, B.C.;" "Isaac M. Wise--Commander;" "Jewish Charity in Europe," in Charles R. Henderson's volume on "Modern Methods of Charity." He was editor of The Jewish Conservator, Chicago, from 1902 to 1904, and editor of The Indiana Jewish Chronicle from 1921 to 1922. He is frequently called for addresses and lectures in Indiana and various parts of the country on religious, civic and social topics. On October 26, 1909, Rabbi Feuerlicht was united in marriage with Mildred, daughter of Maurice Mayerstein, publisher of the Lafayette Daily Courier. Mrs. Feuerlicht attended the public and high schools at Lafayette, the May Wright Sewel Girls' Classical School, of Indianapolis, and Kenwood Institute, of Chicago. She belongs to the Council of Jewish Women and the Temple Sisterhood, and has assisted her husband materially in his numerous activities. They are the parents of two children: Maurice, Jr. and Catherine.

History of Indiana From Its Exploration to 1922
With an Account of Indianapolis and Marion County Vol. IV
by Logan Esarey
Dayton Historical Publishing Co
1924

Charles T. Fewell, D.C. and Ph.C. Every branch of the healing art has its representatives at Indianapolis, and these men constitute a body which exerts a beneficent influence upon the civic life of the city. They are men of learning, carefully trained, and able to offer practical solutions of many of the problems which arise in the conduct of the affairs of a large municipality. One of these men worthy of special mention is Charles T. Fewell, D.C. and Ph.C., with offices at 406 State Life Insurance Building, who is recognized to be one of the most skilled chiropractors in Marion county. He was born at Madison, Jefferson county, Indiana, July 16, 1880, and his life has been spent in his native state. After being graduated from the Marion high school, he entered Marion Normal College, and was graduated therefrom with the degree of Bachelor of Science in 1911. Subsequently he took a course in the University of Indiana, and was graduated from that institution in 1913 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts, and took his degree of Master of Arts from that same institution the following year. Taking up the study of chiropractic, he was graduated from the Palmer School of Chiropractic, at Davenport, Iowa, in 1919, with the degrees of D.C. and Ph.C. After a few months at Baltimore, Maryland, he returned to his old home city of Indianapolis, and here he has since been engaged in the active practice of his profession, and has built up a large and valuable connection. He is a member of the local and national chiropractice associations. In the intervals of taking his different courses in colleges and university, Doctor Fewell was an educator, and. served as principal of several schools in different Indiana cities, and from 1907 to 1911, was county superintendent of schools for Jefferson. November 4, 1900, Doctor Fewell was married to Miss Maud Hostetter, and they have four children: Cecil J., who was graduated from Ben Davis high school of Indianapolis, is now attending the University of Indiana, after having taught school for four winters; Russell Walter, who is also a student of the state university; Raisula Audrey, who was graduated from the Shortridge high school, Indianapolis, is a reporter for Bradstreet & Dunn; and Mildred Esther, who is a graduate of the Shortridge high school. Doctor Fewell is a member of the Masonic order and of the Improved Order of Red Men. He owns his residence, a comfort., able home, at 2142 Broadway.

History of Indiana From Its Exploration to 1922
With an Account of Indianapolis and Marion County Vol. IV
by Logan Esarey
Dayton Historical Publishing Co
1924

Edward O. Snethen. It is seldom that such amazing energy and determination are displayed by any man as has been shown by Edward O. Snethen, of Indianapolis, whose life is an example of what can be accomplished by a man, be he possessed of will power and dynamic forcefulness. Born in a log cabin at Walkerton, Indiana, March 18, 1887, the son of Isaac and Amanda (Pollock) Snethen, Edward O. Snethen began life without any semblance of the proverbial silver spoon in his mouth. The father, born near Dayton, Ohio, in 1851, followed fruit farming nearly all of his life, but spent the last three years in operating a hotel and restaurant at Walkerton. His death occurred July 4, 1911. The mother, born near Fort Wayne in 1857, is still living. Her father, Charles F. Pollock, came to Indiana as a boy, and was a pioneer farmer near Fort Wayne, where he lived until his daughter was fourteen years of age, then moving to Walkerton. Edward O. Snethen's paternal grandfather, Thomas Snethen, died when his son Isaac was but seven years old. Mr. Snethen has two brothers and two sisters: Dr. E. L. Snethen, of Evansville, Indiana; Perry William, of New York City, head of the Bethlehem Steel Fabricating company; Daisy, now of Urbana, Illinois, the widow of David Edward Rupel; and Mildred, the wife of Guy B. Holmes, a merchant of Kingsbury, Indiana. Edward O. Snethen was educated in the common school of St. Joseph county and graduated from the commissioned high school of Walkerton, in 1905. When he left high school, he taught country school two years, and later was principal of the North Liberty, Indiana, high school. He was then principal of the Deedsville, Indiana, high school. His next position was as superintendent of the Converse, Indiana, schools for three years. During all this time, however, he was furthering his education by attendance at various schools. He spent the summers of 1905 and 1906 at the Marion Normal College, and after 1907 spent all his time at college, receiving the degrees of Bachelor of Oratory and Bachelor of Science in 1908. After teaching again for a time, he went to Winona College one term, and then re-entered Marion Normal, an institution which awarded him his Bachelor of Arts and Master of Oratory degrees in August, 1912. Beginning in the fall of that year, he was superintendent of schools at Converse, doing chautauqua work in the summers, but in 1915 he entered the University of Michigan law school, from which he was graduated in 1918 with the degree of Bachelor of Laws. He then went with the Brown Lyceum Bureau of St. Louis, Missouri, as impersonator and reader, reading Riley poems, and continued in this work during 1918 and 1919. In the summer of 1919 he covered the middle western states for the chautauqua as a circuit manager. In the fall of that year he came to Indianapolis, and was admitted to the Indiana bar in December. He is a member of the state bar association, and has an excellent practice. He is a member and on the board of directors of the Lions Club, a member of the Chamber of Commerce, is chairman of the smoke abatement committee of Indianapolis, is a Mason, a Knight of Pythias, and a member of the Democratic Club. He is president of the Indianapolis Federation of Community Civic Clubs and is very active in church work, being vice-president of the church council of the Methodists of Indianapolis, is a member of the board of directors of the North Methodist Episcopal Church, and is ex-president of the men's class of that church. Among his professional clients is the Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, he being general counselor for the states of Kentucky, Minnesota, North and South Dakota and Indiana. Mr. Snethen was married September 15, 1908 to Olivia P. Schrader, of North Liberty, Indiana, the daughter of Fred and Caroline Schrader, and to this union two children have been born: Lenore May, August 12, 1916, and Ruth Pauline, July 27, 1923. Mr. Snethen's record speaks for itself. It should be an inspiration to the rising generation.

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History of Indiana From Its Exploration to 1922
With an Account of Indianapolis and Marion County Vol. IV
by Logan Esarey
Dayton Historical Publishing Co
1924

Henry Fink, retired, who is one of the well known residents of Indianapolis, was born in Hancock county, Indiana, May 14, 1856, the son of Henry and, Louisa Elenora (Miller) Fink, the former of whom was born in Leisel, Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany, in 1822 and the latter of whom was a native of Tiedersheim, Koenigreich Prenfsen, Germany. Andrew Fink, the grandfather of our subject, came with his family to the United States when his son, the father of our subject, was but a boy of ten years. He settled in Hancock county, Indiana, near New Palestine and was one of the early residents of that county. He was one of the organizers of the German Methodist Church of New Palestine. Henry Fink, father of the subject of this review, came to Indianapolis in 1885 where he purchased a tract of land on East Washington street. This land he later platted and it became known as the Fink Addition, part of which is now occupied by the Blackstone apartments and part was used to complete the site for the Orphans' Home. Henry Fink received his education in Hancock county in what was known as the Swamp school. He helped in the work on the farm and attended the short terms of school during the winter months. When he had completed his education, he engaged in farming. He developed his place into one of the finest pieces of farm property in the community and was one of the most successful farmers of the section. On March 16, 1892, he married Anna K. Ruschaupt, who was born in Indianapolis in 1867, the daughter of Henry Ruschaupt, who removed to Shelby county, Indiana, when his daughter was a year old. Mrs. Fink was educated in the Fort Sumter School in Shelby county. In 1893, Mr. Fink removed to Indianapolis where he purchased ten acres of land on East Washington street and where he built a beautiful home. Their home burned in 1916 but was immediately rebuilt. Mr. and Mrs. Fink are the parents of three children, two boys who died in infancy, and the daughter, Hazel Julia, and she and Mrs. Fink are members of Zion Evangelical Church. Mrs. Fink died February 26, 1924. Although Mr. Fink formerly adhered to the Democratic party, he now votes independently, wishing to exercise his franchise as he sees fit.

History of Indiana From Its Exploration to 1922
With an Account of Indianapolis and Marion County Vol. IV
by Logan Esarey
Dayton Historical Publishing Co
1924

Asa M. Fitch (Deceased). The cross currents of life very often carry a man far from his life's work as he had planned it. No better illustration of this fact could be chosen than the career of the late Asa M. Fitch of Indianapolis. He began his business life as a general merchant in a small town and would undoubtedly have continued as such but for the fact that a few simple experiments conducted in the kitchen of his home opened to him a new field of endeavor which was destined to make him one of the most widely known manufacturers in the United States. Asa M. Fitch, who was known throughout the United States, was born in Charleston, Indiana, February 22, 1850. He received his education in the public schools of his home community and began his business career in Lexington, Indiana, where he conducted a general store. He was the inventor of chewing gum, as a confection, the manufacturing of which has become one of the most thriving industries in the United States. In 1870, after much experimenting and mixing of the ingredients in a tea cup in his own kitchen, he produced a chewing gum which he believed to be satisfactory and which he placed on the market under the most discouraging circumstances. The druggists of the time were not interested in anything like chewing gum and did not believe that such a product would ever become a big seller. The lack of trade-mark laws at that time caused many difficulties for it was exceedingly hard to prevent unscrupulous manufacturers from infringing on his rights. Mr. Fitch first perfected and produced a gum which was known as "Taffy-Tulu", and he traveled throughout the country introducing his discovery during the period from 1870 to 1882. The business grew so rapidly that the factory at Lexington could no longer accommodate the needs of the new industry by 1882, and in that year Mr. Fitch moved his enterprise to a new factory in Seymour, Indiana, where the concern operated under the name of the A. M. Fitch company. The business grew with leaps and bounds so that by 1890 he had an enterprise that was valued at $30,000. The territory of the company was one of national scope, including the New England states and New York. At this time a fire occurred in the building adjacent to the factory of the A. M. Fitch company, and owing to the fact that the water works of the town was then undergoing repairs it was unable to supply water to control the blaze and as a result the entire plant of the Fitch company was totally destroyed. This disastrous fire occurred in the days of wildcat insurance and Mr. Fitch was able to collect only a small portion of the insurance which he carried on the plant. A suit to recover damages was carried to the Supreme Court, and the decision "Water Works to Individual Liability," which was handed down established a precedent for similar cases throughout the country. During the year 1891 Mr. Fitch gave his attention to the introduction of his attachment for plows. His first invention of this nature which ran on wheels and which regulated the depth of the furrows was exhibited by the government at the World's Fair in 1892. These plows were manufactured and sold throughout the United States and Canada. After successfully placing his plows on the market Mr. Fitch again turned his attention to the manufacture of chewing gum. His new plant he established in Indianapolis at No. 66 South Pennsylvania street. The business grew with such rapidity that he was soon obliged to purchase a new building at 715-17 Ft. Wayne avenue, which he remodeled into one of the best chewing gum factories in the country. He continued operations in this factory until 1918 when he retired, selling the business to the A. M. Fitch Manufacturing company. In 1872 Mr. Fitch married Josephine Harlan, and to this union were born three sons: Doctor F. M., Charles G. and Robert V. Fitch. Dr. F. M. Fitch married Dr. Emma Collop and they have three children: Josephine, Virginia and Frank M., Jr. Charles G. Fitch married Jessie G. Barkley and they reside at 2317 North Delaware street, Indianapolis. Robert V. Fitch married Margaret C. Cooper and to this union were born two boys: Richard C. and John C. The Fitch family is one of very old origin and traces its line back to Germany where the name first existed as "Fytche" and bore the coat of arms with the motto, "Spes Juvat". Asa M. Fitch died October 20, 1923, and with his passing Indianapolis lost one of its ablest and shrewdest business men.

History of Indiana From Its Exploration to 1922
With an Account of Indianapolis and Marion County Vol. IV
by Logan Esarey
Dayton Historical Publishing Co
1924

Daniel Foley, well and favorably known in business community and political life at Indianapolis, has been a resident of this, city for more than a half century and has been connected with many of its growing enterprises. He was born in Ireland and was educated in his native land. In 1867 he came to America and at Indianapolis; then a city of 28,000 population, found the business opportunity he was seeking, for even then this was a railroad center. Mr. Foley became a railroad man, starting as a section hand, later becoming section master and finally telegraph operator. He remained with different railroad systems for sixteen years and still takes pride in the fact that he did his hard work well and commanded the respect of both associates and employers. After leaving the railroad, Mr. Foley embarked in the grocery business and conducted a store for six years on the corner of Bates and Noble streets. In the meanwhile he had shown so active and intelligent an interest in the city's development, that civic offices of responsibility were offered him and he became a justice of the peace, and later was called to the office of prosecuting attorney of Marion county. In 1886 he was elected on the Democratic ticket, a member of the Indiana state legislature, and proved so acceptable to his constituents as a statesman, that he had the further distinction of election to the state senate and served in that august body as senator from Marion county, from 1889 to 1891. Mr. Foley retired then more or less from active participation in politics and turned once more to business life. In 1891 he organized the important corporation with which he has been identified ever since, the American Contracting company, which engages in asphalt street and bridge work. He married Jessie Fish, and they have two children, Eugene Daniel and Inez. Eugene Daniel Foley was graduated from the Manual Training high school in 1903 and since then has been officially connected with the American Contracting company, of which he is secretary and vice president. He is active in civic life, a Democrat in politics, a member of the Chamber of Commerce, the Indianapolis Athletic Club and the Hoosier Motor Club. He married Louise, daughter of James Madison, who was the inventor of the roll-top office desk. They have three children, James, Eugene and Frederick, aged respectively fifteen and thirteen years, and eighteen months. The one daughter in the Foley family, Inez, is the wife of Carl Wallerich, who is in the automobile business on Meridian street, being agent for the Dodge cars. Mr. Foley and his family are members of the Roman Catholic church.

History of Indiana From Its Exploration to 1922
With an Account of Indianapolis and Marion County Vol. IV
by Logan Esarey
Dayton Historical Publishing Co
1924

John P. Franz, M. D. , one of the older members of the medical profession at Indianapolis, is a man who stands very high in public esteem, and who has a long record of useful service, both professionally and as a public-spirited citizen. He has been eminently successful, and much of his large means is invested in city property now very valuable. He was born at Indianapolis, October 7, 1860, and its public schools grounded him in the fundamentals of an education. He began the study of medicine with his brother, the late Dr. Harry Franz, and completed it in the American Medical College of Indianapolis, from which he was graduated in 1897, although he had been engaged in practice for some time prior to that date. The distinction of being the first candidate to take the medical examination before the Indiana State Board, belongs to him. His parents, John P. and Margaret (Lorhman) Franz, came to Indianapolis in 1846, when the city had only a population of 20,000 and from then on until their demise, were numbered among the worthwhile residents of the Hoosier capital. Doctor Franz has always been very active in the local Democratic party, operating with Tom Taggart whom he knew from the time he was a poor and friendless boy. From 1893 to 1897 Doctor Franz served as deputy revenue collector, but aside from this office has worked in behalf of his party and not for personal honor. In spite of his interest in politics he has never permitted it to interfere with his practice, and has arisen in it to a high position. Within recent years he has confined his professional labors to an office practice. Outside of his membership with the Order of Staggs, he has no fraternal affiliations. December 24, 1882 he was married to Miss Minnie Wernbech, and they became the parents of two children: Lillian, and Pearl G. His second wife bore the maiden name of Ada Millspaugh, and at the time of her marriage to Doctor Franz she was the widow of Benjamin Veatch.

History of Indiana From Its Exploration to 1922
With an Account of Indianapolis and Marion County Vol. IV
by Logan Esarey
Dayton Historical Publishing Co
1924

Mrs. Alice Moore French. During the World War there were numerous agencies which contributed their encouragement and moral support to the fighting forces of our country. Of these, one of the most potent was the organization known as the American War Mothers, which was founded at Indianapolis, September 29, 1917, spread rapidly through the state, became a national body, and worked effectively throughout the period of the great struggle. The credit for the founding of this body of brave and loyal women must be given to Mrs. Alice Moore French, ex-National War Mother and one of Indianapolis' most distinguished residents. Mrs. French was born December 2, 1861, in a cabin in Hensley township, near Trafalgar, Johnson county, Indiana, a daughter of Joseph J. and Ermina (Forsyth) Moore, natives of the same community. Her grandmother Moore was Elizabeth Jefferson, a cousin of Thomas Jefferson. Joseph Moore was a pioneer merchant of Indiana and prominent in political affairs and public life, having been a member of the state senate. His father, Hon. Robert Moore, occupied an associate judgeship. Mrs. Moore was of the Hughes family of Virginia and a descendant of the Order of the Cincinnati's founder, John Hughes, a soldier of the Revolution. Her father was John Hume Forsyth, a son of David Forsyth, also a Revolutionary soldier. The parents of Mrs. French were married in 1856, at which time Mr. Moore was conducting a typical country store of the day, in which he sold anything from calico to liquid spirits. Later he removed to Trafalgar and conducted a department store for many years. With excellent foresight he invested the profits of his little establishment in farm lands, and at the time of his death was one of the largest landholders of Johnson county. Perhaps he profited by the example of his father-in-law, John Hume Forsyth, who was one of the earliest settlers of Indiana, and who also had faith in the future of the state. At this time Mrs. French holds a deed for the land which he entered, said document bearing the signature of Andrew Jackson. Some part of this land has never been out of the family possession. On this farm are nine bearing apple trees that were bearing eighty years ago when the house was erected, and which are supposed to have been planted by the character known as "Johnny Appleseed." Joseph J. and Ermina Moore had four children, of whom two died in infancy. Mrs. French's brother, Frank F. Moore, is a well-known Indianapolis attorney. Alice Moore passed her girlhood at Trafalgar and attended common school in a store building before the present handsome school edifice was erected. She then entered Franklin College, where she was a member of the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority and a charter member of Nu chapter, and graduated in 1882. Next she spent two years at Boston, attending the Boston School of Art and Design, and developed her talents in wood carving and painting. In 1887 she was united in marriage with Ely M. French, of Frankfort, Indiana, and they became the parents of one son, Donald Robert French. He was born at Frankfort, Indiana, was graduated from the Shortridge high school of Indianapolis and then pursued a law course at the University of Michigan, at Ann Arbor, later attending the state university. He had just opened a law office at Indianapolis when the United States became involved in the great struggle raging in Europe and he joined the 334th Infantry, going into training at Camp Taylor. He was commissioned a Second Lieutenant, but when his division went across he was seriously ill with influenza at Camp Arthur, Texas. In 1917, not long after the entrance of this country in the war, Don Herold, publicity man for the Indiana Food Conservation Bureau, was sent by Dr. Harry E. Barnard, Indiana food commissioner, to the Woman's Civic League of Indianapolis, to request their assistance. Mrs. French was asked to consult with him, and plans were almost immediately put into execution that eventually resulted in the organization of the Indiana War Mothers. Mrs. French conceived the idea of sending letters to the mothers of boys in the service asking them to sign cards agreeing to a certain amount of food conservation, and Doctor Barnard, seeing the worth of the idea, sent a copy of the letter to Washington, D. C., September 29, 1917. Immediately thereafter Mrs. French received a telegram from the capital requesting her to mobilize the war mothers of Indiana. Her reply was in the affirmative, and as a result the date mentioned is considered founders' day. At the first meeting Mrs. French was made president of the Indiana body, which was founded by counties, ninety out of the ninety-two Indiana counties having a war mother at the head, and May 18, 1918 the Indiana Chapter of the American War Mothers was incorporated. Inquiries began to come in from other states regarding this worthy movement and arrangements were duly made for the holding of a national convention, Mrs. French writing letters to the governors asking them to appoint a war mother where none existed and to exert their influence to have them attend the convention. This convention was held in the James Whitcomb Riley Room of the Claypool Hotel on August 16, 1918, and Mrs. French was the choice of the convention, unanimously, for the post of National War Mother . Only mothers of sons and daughters in the service are admitted to membership. Mrs. French was unanimously elected to succeed herself at the second convention, held in Washington D. C. the following year, but retired at the convention at Sacramento, 1921 and was made a life member of the body, as well as a life member of the National Board of Directors. Mrs. French worked indefatigably to make a success of the body and her efforts were not in vain. Through her able management the organization became self-supporting, and as a presiding officer she used such diplomacy and tact that there was practically no dissension in the ranks and the body was firmly knitted into a solidified whole. As a well-known artist and designer she was commissioned to design the charter of the body, a work for which she was eminently qualified not only by her own talents but possibly through family relationship to Thomas Jefferson. During the summer of 1921, at her own initiative and expense, she visited the battlefields and cemeteries of France, and visited with the War Mothers of that country, Italy and England. She hopes to see an international organization of War Mothers, having returned from abroad firm in the conviction that a league of this nature could and would find a way whereby our national and international differences would be settled other than by the blood of our precious sons. She is a member of the State Pioneer Society and the Monday Club, is a charter member of the Woman's Department Club and a Baptist in her religious belief. True to the Jeffersonian principles she is a staunch Democrat. Her grandfather John Hume Forsyth was an architect of exceptional ability, designed some of the early homes and Straat's Creek Baptist Church of his county. The family home is still standing.

History of Indiana From Its Exploration to 1922
With an Account of Indianapolis and Marion County Vol. IV
by Logan Esarey
Dayton Historical Publishing Co
1924

George E. Stevenson, the president of the Stevenson Gear company, was born in Zionsville, Indiana, April 4, 1872, the son of George and Jane (Gregory) Stevenson. The Stevenson family is of Scotch origin while the mother of our subject is a representative of the Carroll family of Maryland. George Stevenson, our subject's father was born in Ohio, in 1824, and engaged in farming throughout his entire life. He had a penchant for machinery, and on his farm he kept a small machine shop in which he conducted many experiments. He perfected and patented several inventions of minor importance. He died on the farm in 1911, his wife, who was born December 5, 1831, preceding him in death in 1904. They were the parents of nine children of whom George E. was the youngest. George E. Stevenson received his elementary education in the graded and high schools of Boone county and then matriculated in Indiana University. Following his graduation from that institution, he took a post graduate course at the University of Chicago, completing which he accepted a position as superintendent of schools for several years. Like his father before him he had a strong bent in a mechanical direction and maintained a home machine shop. Here it was that he developed the Stevenson Multiple Shaper and the Stevenson Multiple Miller for cutting steel gears in 1917. George E. Stevenson has been twice married. His first wife was L. Jackson whom he married in 1895 and by whom he had two children, G. R. and J. R. He was again married in 1906 taking for his second wife Edna Hickson, and to this union have been born four children, Julia Mary, Charles Albert, Margaret and Robert William. The Stevenson Gear company was organized in 1920 and was incorporated under the laws of Delaware with a capital stock of $10,000,000 of preferred stock and 700,000 shares of common stock of no par value. The first home of the Stevenson Gear company was in a small, concrete one-roomed, leased building at 16 North Cruse street in Indianapolis. These first quarters were soon outgrown and the plant was moved to 942 Daly street where an increase of 2,100 square feet of floor space over the old building was obtained. It was here that the first real gear production work started. In April, 1921, the present plant at the corner of Cornell and 11th streets was occupied. The plant has a total floor space of 55,000 square feet and offers plenty of room for the present needs of the company. The officers of the company are: George E. Stevenson, president; C. G. Wood, W. W. Wise, Thomas B. Hasler, H. C. Callon and B. A. Worthington, vice-presidents; G. R. Stevenson, secretary; and J. F. Haines, treasurer. Unlike the standard milling machines now in general use throughout the country, the Stevenson Multiple Shaper and the Stevenson Multiple Miller cut all the teeth or a multiple number of teeth at one time instead of one tooth at a time as do the standard milling machines. The Stevenson machine will do as much work in a given time as will from five to thirty machines of any other make. Such improvement in the methods of gear production is destined to revolutionize the industry, and from all indications the meteoric career of the company will become more rapid as the manufacturing world becomes more fully aware of the labor saving and money saving machines built by the Stevenson Gear company.

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History of Indiana From Its Exploration to 1922
With an Account of Indianapolis and Marion County Vol. IV
by Logan Esarey
Dayton Historical Publishing Co
1924

William S. Frye, is one of the progressive and public-spirited citizens of Indianapolis, who maintains a strong interest in all civic affairs. He has built up, from very small beginnings, through faithful service and honorable methods, a large hauling and transfer business, and is connected with a number of solid concerns in the city and county. His birth occurred at Gallatin, Tennessee, April 13, 1871, and he is a son of Henry and Anna E. Frye, both of whom were born in Pennsylvania, from which they went to Tennessee following the close of the Civil War, in which his grandfather, Abraham Frye, had served as a Colonel in the Union army. Henry Frye died when William S. was six years old, and the mother is also deceased. There were the following children born to him and his wife: Thomas A., Woodson H., and Charles O., all of whom are in California; and William S. After the death of the father, the widowed mother went back to Pennsylvania, and lived for eight years at Charleroi. When he was twenty-five years old William S. Frye, who had accompanied his mother to Pennsylvania, came to Indiana. He attended the public schools at different places, and is a high school graduate. After some experience in farming, he took charge of a department in the plant of the Pittsburgh Plate Glass company, and still later had charge of a department for a shovel factory. Finally he located at Indianapolis, and for a time was a starter for the street railway company, but soon left that corporation to become a salesman for Van Camp's Packing company, and he remained with the latter until he established his present business in 1907, with one team. From that small initial beginning has grown his present equipment of fifteen trucks and a fleet of horse-drawn wagons, all suited for heavy hauling. As a Republican he takes an active part in local politics, and is one of the recognized leaders of his party. He is a Scottish Rite Mason, and belongs to the Mystic Shrine, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Knights of Pythias, the Indianapolis Athletic Club, the Marion County Club, the Traffic Club, and the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce. With others he organized the Indiana State Chamber of Commerce; he is ex-treasurer of the Humane Society; vice president of the Indiana Transfer & Warehouse Men's Association, and belongs to the Allied Commercial Men's Association of Indiana. October 9, 1901 he was married to Ella M. Cox, daughter of Gillian and Emma (Simmons) Cox, of Madison, Indiana, and they have one daughter, now Mrs. C. K. Eiler of Indianapolis.

History of Indiana From Its Exploration to 1922
With an Account of Indianapolis and Marion County Vol. IV
by Logan Esarey
Dayton Historical Publishing Co
1924

Leroy E. Fuller D. C. Although one of the newly developed sciences, that of chiropractic spinal adjustments for the cure of various diseases has made such rapid progress that today its exponents are to be found in every community, and the profession has been accorded a well-merited recognition. Of the many who are practicing today in Indianapolis, none stands higher in public regard than does Dr. Leroy E. Fuller and none is more intimately connected with the history and growth of chiropractic in Indiana. Dr. Fuller has offices at 404 Kahn Building. When he entered the State of Indiana to practice his profession in April, 1911, there were but seven other chiropractors in the state. He was one of the organizers of the Indiana State Chiropractic Association July 15, 1911 and at that time the association did not have enough members to fill up its official roster. Dr. Fuller was elected an officer at this meeting and remained an officer in some capacity until in 1917 he retired after three successive terms as president of the association. Between 1911 and 1917 the chiropractic population of the state had grown from 7 to 250, of which approximately 160 were members in the year when Dr. Fuller retired as an officer. Today Dr. Fuller is known as the oldest established chiropractor in Indiana. There were others who entered the state before he did, but none who established an office and remained in uninterrupted practice as he has done. Dr. Fuller's connection with the history of chiropractic in Indiana would be incomplete without mention of the effort of the State Board of Medical Registration and Examination to disqualify chiropractors from practice in Indiana. The only charge which the State Board can make against chiropractors is that of "practicing medicine without a license," a charge that is obviously so untrue when made against those who practice by the use of chiropractic spinal adjustments only, that such prosecutions have uniformly failed and have been abandoned almost completely in Indiana. Yet in the earlier days the issue was not so clearly defined and when Dr. Fuller was arrested in 1912 it took two trials of his case to get a decision. At the first trial the jury disagreed but the second resulted in Dr. Fuller being assessed the minimum fine of $25. He thus goes down in the Indiana history of chiropractic as one of the very few chiropractors convicted of "practicing medicine." Though he continued in practice after the trial he was never molested again. It was Dr. Fuller's work and experience in the organization of the chiropractors of Indiana that called him in 1913 to duty as a director of the Universal Chiropractors' Association, the national organization of the chiropractors of the United States and Canada. He is now serving in his eleventh year of continuous service as a director of the U. C. A. The U. C. A. has grown steadily ever since its organization, but probably the greatest period of growth it has enjoyed up to this time, has been in those years in which Dr. Fuller has been one of the directors who helped to shape its conduct and its policies. Today it has a membership of more than 5,000 chiropractors and is the organization that is back of the great national publicity campaign for the education of the public in the broad principles of the chiropractic health method which is now running in some forty national magazines. During this period legal recognition of the chiropractic profession was obtained in twenty-six states. Dr. Fuller was born on a farm near Jackson, Michigan, July 15, 1886, a son of William and Chloe (Luther) Fuller. After completing his public school education he took a business course at Lansing, Michigan, where he went at nineteen years of age. While a resident of Lansing he decided to take up the study of his present profession in the Michigan College of Chiropractic at Grand Rapids, and was graduated therefrom in 1910. For the next six months he practiced in Dayton, Ohio, and then established himself in Indianapolis with a subsequent history already related. He was married to Miss Jane Whitaker, of Indianapolis, June 2, 1914, a daughter of Charles and Cora Whitaker, of Indianapolis . Dr. Fuller is an active member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce, the Indianapolis Better Business Bureau, and the Indianapolis Athletic Club.

History of Indiana From Its Exploration to 1922
With an Account of Indianapolis and Marion County Vol. IV
by Logan Esarey
Dayton Historical Publishing Co
1924

John D. Garrett, M. D., specialist in diseases of the ear, nose, and throat, was born in Hillsboro, Highland county, Ohio, January 9, 1873. He attended the public schools of his home community and the Hillsboro Normal school. He later matriculated at Miami University, of Oxford, Ohio, and in 1898 he received the degree of Bachelor of Arts from that institution. He then entered the medical department of the University of Illinois and was graduated therefrom in 1902 with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. During the ensuing two years, he practiced in Illinois, but in 1904, he removed to Indianapolis where he has since been in active practice. He conducted a general practice for twenty years but since then he has specialized in diseases of the ear, nose and throat. He is a member of the staff of the City Hospital in the ear, nose, and throat department. Doctor Garrett was on the Board of Health during Jewett's administration and served the people well in that capacity. He maintains offices at 57 Stokes building. In 1907, Doctor Garrett married Mary S. Pierson, of Spencer, Indiana, and they have two sons: John Pierson, born April 5, 1913; and Robert Austin who was born January 25, 1919. Doctor Garrett is a member of the county, state, and American medical associations, the Alpha Kappa Kappa medical fraternity, and the Sigma Chi fraternity. He is a Thirty-second degree Mason and a Shriner.

History of Indiana From Its Exploration to 1922
With an Account of Indianapolis and Marion County Vol. IV
by Logan Esarey
Dayton Historical Publishing Co
1924

William Gale, prominent banker of Indianapolis, was born in Marion county, Indiana, April 22, 1864, the son of Charles and Louisa (Drager) Gale, both of whom were natives of Germany. Charles Gale was a miller by trade, and in 1860, he came to Marion county and worked in a mill on White River, Indianapolis; later, in 1862, went to Cumberland, thus becoming one of the first millers in the county. William Gale attended the schools of his native township and then completed his education in the Bryant and Stratton Commercial College of Indianapolis. During this time, he helped his father in the operation of the mill, and after finishing his education, he went into the mill with his father. He continued in this work until 1898 when he bought the property, and the plant ran for ten years. In 1908, he became one of the organizers of the Cumberland bank, the first institution of its kind in Marion county outside of Indianapolis, and is now vice-president of the bank which is capitalized at $15,000. He has done much to make this bank what it is; namely, a thriving concern operated on a secure and conservative policy. His success in this venture encouraged him to participate in the organization of the Irvington State bank, of Indianapolis, which is located at 5501 East Washington street. The original capitalization was $25,000, but the increase of the amount of business handled necessitated an increase to $50,000. In 1922 he was elected president and manager. The office force, too, having been increased from four employees to nine. Mr. Gale has always been active in Democratic politics. For three years, he served as township trustee for Warren township and succeeded, during his incumbency, in wiping out a heavy indebtedness without raising the tax rate, indeed it was lowered. In addition to this, the schools which were in need of rehabilitation were reconditioned. He played a leading part in closing the saloons in Warren township, a work which was accomplished in five days. May 20, 1890, Mr. Gale married Mary Wessling, the daughter of Henry and Katherine (Meyers) Wessling, and to this union were born three children: Freda, Otto, and Hugo. Freda Gale was born in 1891. She has travelled extensively in this country and in Europe, at times acting as chaperon on trips to the Yellowstone National Park and to Europe. For a time she was in the employ of the Dallas Trust company of Dallas Texas, and was also employed by the Federal Reserve Bank, of Los Angeles, California. Otto Gale was born in 1893 and is now a machinist with the Atkins Saw Manufacturing company of Indianapolis. Hugo Gale was born in 1897 and is a teacher and coach at Bluffton, Indiana. Mr. Gale and his family attend the Baptist Church of Cumberland.

History of Indiana From Its Exploration to 1922
With an Account of Indianapolis and Marion County Vol. IV
by Logan Esarey
Dayton Historical Publishing Co
1924

William E. Garritson, D.D.S. Since his arrival at Indianapolis in 1919, Dr. William E. Garritson has not only built up a large and lucrative practice in the profession of dentistry, but likewise has established himself as a man of sound• principles, reliability and good citizenship. He was born on a farm at Bennett's Switch, Miami county, Indiana, November 25, 1874, and after attending the schools of that community pursued a course at the Galveston high school in Cass county. He then studied his calling at the Indiana Dental College, from which he was graduated as a member of the class of 1909, and then returned to Galveston, where he was engaged in practice until 1919. While residing there he took a hand in the local government, being a member of the town board and the school board. In 1919 he took up his residence and practice at Indianapolis, where he has since made rapid strides in the confidence and esteem of the people, as well as in reputation and prosperity. He has accumulated Indianapolis realty, and maintains well-appointed offices at 1706 1-2 East Washington street. Doctor Garritson belongs to the Marion County Dental Society, the Indiana Dental Society and the American Dental Association, and as a fraternalist holds membership in the Knights of Pythias. Doctor Garritson was united in marriage, December 25, 1911, to Miss Jessie M. Wilson, of Miami county, whose father's farm adjoined that of Doctor Garritson's father. Four children have been born to this union: Esther Margaret, Edward Reed, Dorothea Anna and Paul William, the first three of whom are now attending graded school.

History of Indiana From Its Exploration to 1922
With an Account of Indianapolis and Marion County Vol. IV
by Logan Esarey
Dayton Historical Publishing Co
1924

William E. George, M. D. Indianapolis gave many of its most able physicians and surgeons to the service during the World War, and one of them, who rendered a faithful service in behalf of the sick and disabled soldiers for twenty-three months, is Dr. William E. George, with offices 212 Pennway Building. He was born at Madison, Jefferson county, Indiana, May 13, 1863, on Friday. Until he was fourteen years old he attended the public schools of his native county, but at that time went to Memphis, Tennessee, and subsequently was a student of the Danville Normal College of Danville, Indiana, where he was a classmate of Charles A. Greathouse, ex-superintendent of public instruction for the state of Indiana. Doctor George was graduated from this institution in 1887, and in 1889 was graduated from Hahnemann Medical College, Chicago, Illinois, with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. For the following six years he was engaged in the practice of his profession at Franklin, Indiana, and then, in 1895, he permanently established himself at Indianapolis, where he has since resided, with the exception of the time he was in the army. He has done considerable postgraduate work in the New York Post Graduate College, and at the University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany. The local, state and national Homeopathic societies have his membership. He belongs to the Second Presbyterian Church of Indianapolis. September 15, 1917 he was commissioned a Captain of the Medical Corps of the United States army, and was sent to base hospital at Camp Sevier, Greenville, South Carolina, where he was retained for twenty-three months, being during the second year, assistant commanding officer of the hospital. His honorable discharge from the army bears the date of September 1, 1919. Doctor George was married to Dr. Rebecca Rogers, a well known physician of Indianapolis, and daughter of Elijah and Ellen Rogers, both practicing physicians, and members of the Society of Friends, who came to Indiana from Westchester, Pennsylvania. Mrs. George died in 1914. April 30, 1919 Doctor George was married to Mrs. Camille (Pope Smith) of Memphis, Tennessee.

History of Indiana From Its Exploration to 1922
With an Account of Indianapolis and Marion County Vol. IV
by Logan Esarey
Dayton Historical Publishing Co
1924

William H. Gerke, the president of the Sargent-Gerke company, manufacturers of paint, was born in Chicago, Illinois, August 31, 1873, the son of Louie H. and Johannah (Schaare) Gerke, both of whom were natives of Hanover, Germany. Louie H. Gerke immigrated from Germany when he was a young man of twenty-five years, and came to the United States, settling at Chicago where he remained for the rest of his life. He was a carpenter by trade, a calling which he always followed in his adopted country. Both he and his wife died in 1919 at the ages of eighty-two and seventy-eight years respectively. They were the parents of eleven children, of whom only seven, four boys and three girls, are still living. William H. Gerke received his education in the public schools of Chicago, but gave up his schooling at an early age to go to work. After a time spent in earning his own living, he realized that a good education was necessary to the achievement of any lasting success and he accordingly went to a night business college, following which he matriculated in the Lewis Institute of Technology. In this institution, he studied chemistry in preparation for a position in some paint manufacturing concern. Upon the completion of his course, he entered the employ of a paint manufacturing concern when he was twenty years of age. His work with this firm was signalized by such close application to his duty and by his ability, that in January, 1921, he came to Indianapolis to be the president of the paint manufacturing company which now bears his name. Although he has been associated with the firm but a relatively short time, he has helped to greatly increase its volume of business and territory embraced in its sales districts. November 30, 1906, Mr. Gerke was united in marriage to a Miss Carpenter, of Chicago, and to this union has been born one son, William R., Jr. In fraternal circles, Mr. Gerke is a Scottish Rite Mason and a Shriner, and he also holds membership in the Illinois Athletic Club, of Chicago, and the Hoosier Athletic Club. Politically, he supports the Republican party in local as well as state and national issues.

History of Indiana From Its Exploration to 1922
With an Account of Indianapolis and Marion County Vol. IV
by Logan Esarey
Dayton Historical Publishing Co
1924

Patrick J. Glenn. The comparatively recent development of the automobile and the still more recent perfection of the automobile truck has opened a field of service for these machines that was almost undreamed of. The new business has made more rapid strides since its inception than has any other, and one of the men who has helped to prove the now indispensable part that the motor truck plays in modern commerce is Patrick J. Glenn. He was born in Hendricks county, Indiana, August IS, 1877, the son of John and Winifred Glenn, both of whom were natives of Ireland. The father of Mr. Glenn came to the United States when he was a young man and settled in Indiana where he farmed until his death, which occurred when Patrick J. was fifteen years of age. His wife is still living in Indianapolis, she being the mother of nine children, eight of whom are still living: William, Patrick, Frank, Thomas, Timothy, Michael, Edward, and Mrs. McMahon, of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Patrick J. Glenn was educated in the common schools of his home community, until the death of his father necessitated the abandonment of his educational career to help support the family, for he was the second of the children born to his parents. He first worked on the farm. When the family moved to Indianapolis, he secured employment with Kingan & Company and remained with that company for the ensuing fifteen years. After leaving the employ of that firm, he accepted a position in the water works of Indianapolis, continuing there during the next seven years. In 1917, he decided to go into business for himself for he was not satisfied to be a mere wage earner throughout his life, and he accordingly entered the trucking business, his equipment at the time being one Ford truck. Since that time he has built up an excellent business and one that has a sound financial backing.

History of Indiana From Its Exploration to 1922
With an Account of Indianapolis and Marion County Vol. IV
by Logan Esarey
Dayton Historical Publishing Co
1924

Harry C. Stutz. In the firmament of automobile manufacture there are many names which have shone like stars, some more brilliantly than others. Some have come like meteors to blaze their paths across the sky, only to disappear into the outer darkness, but of all these names none has cast a more brilliant or more steady light upon the realm of automotive engineering than has that of Stutz. Synonymous with dependability and achievement, Stutz built cars have long held a foremost position in a field so strongly competitive that only the strong can live, and the man whose products have gained this enviable reputation, the man whose name these products have borne, is Harry C. Stutz, one of the leading manufacturers of Indianapolis. Mr. Stutz was born in Darke county, Ohio, September 12, 1876, the son of Henry J. and Elizabeth (Spitler) Stutz. The father was born near Dayton, Ohio, June 2, 1848, has spent his active life as a general farmer, and is now living in comfortable retirement at New Carlisle, Ohio. The mother was born in Montgomery county, Ohio, of which Dayton is the seat of justice, and is a representative of the old Spitler family of that county. Harry C. Stutz was able to have but a few years of schooling in the graded institutions of Clark and Montgomery counties, and remained on the home farm until he reached the age of eighteen years. He then went to Dayton to work for the Davis Sewing Machine company, with which he remained two years, and then was employed for an equal period by the National Cash Register company of that city. Being naturally of a mechanical and inventive turn of mind, he then opened a machine shop for himself, experimenting on gasoline engines and motor cars. In September of 1902, he came to Indianapolis with the Lindsay Russell Axle company, was next with the J &G Tire company, and was later employed with the Wheeler-Schebler Carburetor company. In 1905, being now possessed of much valuable business experience; he associated in the organization of the American Motor Car company, of which he was chief engineer and factory manager. He next formed a connection with the Marion Motor Car company as chief engineer and factory manager, and in 1910 organized the Stutz Auto Parts company, the forerunner of the Stutz Motor Car company. Out of the auto part company grew the Ideal Motor Car company, the name of which was subsequently changed to Stutz Motor Car company, which took over the old Stutz Auto Parts company. In 1911, Mr. Stutz entered his first racing car, and since that time the speed and endurance of his cars have been bywords in the trade. At the time of the reorganization of the company on July 1, 1916, he was made president and general manager, positions which he held until he severed his connections with the concern. On November 1, 1919, he organized the H. C. S. Motor Car company, the factory of which is located on North Capitol avenue, and of this new company he has since been president and general manager, manufacturing a car which found instant favor with the buying public, and which has retained that favor by living up to all expectations formed for an automobile bearing the name of Stutz as its manufacturer. Mr. Stutz was married in 1898 to Clara Dietz of Dayton, Ohio, and they have one daughter, Emma Belle. He is prominent in the fraternal and social life of this and other cities, being a member of the Masonic Order and the Mystic Shrine, as well as belonging to the Highland Golf and Country Club, the new Indianapolis Athletic Club, of which he is chairman of both the building and the house committees, the Detroit Athletic Club, the Detroit Yacht Club and the Chicago Yacht Club. His name is writ large on the Nation’s scroll of business fame.

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History of Indiana From Its Exploration to 1922
With an Account of Indianapolis and Marion County Vol. IV
by Logan Esarey
Dayton Historical Publishing Co
1924