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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

David Ross, M. D., one of the skilled and successful surgeons of Indianapolis, with offices in the Medical Arts Building, was born in this city November 20, 1865, the son of Charles B. and Catherine (King) Ross, both of whom were natives of Scotland. Charles B. Ross was born in Rosshire, Scotland, in 1827 and emigrated to the United States in 1861, settling at Vicksburg, Mississippi. In 1863 he came to Indianapolis, and died in this city in August, 1902. His wife survived him until 1915, when she passed away at the age of seventy-nine years. Doctor Ross moved with his parents to Coatsville, Indiana, when he was four years of age, and there attended the public schools until 1877. In that year he accompanied his parents to Brazil, Indiana, where he completed his education in the graded and high schools of that town. After his graduation from the high school, he entered the Central Normal College, of Danville, Indiana, and in 1891 was graduated therefrom with the degree of Bachelor of Science. Having determined upon the practice of medicine as a life work, he later matriculated at the Indiana University School of Medicine, from which he received his Doctor of Medicine degree in 1895. After one year as an interne in the Indianapolis City Hospital, he established himself in the practice of his profession, specializing in abdominal surgery, in which he has gained distinction. He is a member of the staff of the City Hospital, as well as of the Methodist and St. Vincent's hospitals, during the World War, Doctor Ross served on the board for the physical examination, of drafted men, and his work in this was characterized by impartial and unerring judgment. Doctor Ross was united in marriage with Gertrude Goodhart, of Indianapolis, and they have one son, Andrew F., who is now a student in the Boys Preparatory School, of Indianapolis. Doctor Ross is a member of the county, state, American and Mississippi Valley medical associations and of the Phi Chi medical fraternity. He is a Thirty-second degree Mason and a Shriner, and he and his family affiliate with the First Presbyterian 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

Guy W. Rubush, M. D. Not only has Dr. Guy W. Rubush of Indianapolis, achieved a commendable success in the medical profession, but before he entered it, he had already made a name for himself in musical circles. He was born at Bloomington, Illinois, August 30, 1880, and was taken to Kansas, by his parents, when an infant. However, the stay in that state was a brief one for when he was a year old, the parents came to Johnson county, Indiana, and settled on a farm. Here the lad was reared amid healthful rural surroundings, and while he was making himself useful on the farm, he attended the local schools, and later the high school at Acton, Indiana, from which he was graduated in 1898. For two years thereafter he was a student of Butler College, and then began to cultivate his talent for music to such excellent purpose that for six years he was one of the instructors of the Indianapolis Conservatory of Music. While he has never lost his love for music, or his ability to produce it, he decided to study medicine, and, entering the Indiana University School of Medicine, after taking the regular medical course, was graduated therefrom in 1913. Immediately thereafter he secured offices at 1706 East Washington street, and here he has since remained. From the very beginning he has been successful, and his connections are many and valuable. His residence is at 1401 North Tuxedo street. In addition to his membership with the county, state and national medical associations, he belongs to the Masonic fraternity in which he has been advanced through the Thirty-second degree, Scottish Rite, the Mystic Shrine and the Mystic Tie. The First Baptist Church of Indianapolis has his name on its membership rolls. He married Miss Gertrude Prescott of Montgomery, Alabama, in 1905, and they have one daughter, Thelma Prescott, born April 15, 1906.

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

Karl R. Ruddell, M. D. During the time that he has been engaged in the practice of his profession at Indianapolis, Dr. Karl R. Ruddell has displayed the possession of marked ability, great sympathy and a real liking for and understanding of his calling, with a respect for its responsibilities. These qualities have served to raise him to a leading place in his vocation and to gain him public confidence and a large following. He was born at Robinson, Illinois, July 19, 1887, and received his education in the public schools of his native place. After graduating from high school at Robinson, he entered the medical department of the Indiana University, from which he was graduated as a member of the class of 1911, receiving the degree of Doctor of Medicine. His interneship of one year was served at the St. Vincent's Hospital, Indianapolis, after which he was made house physician of that institution, a post which he retained for seven years, and then engaged in private practice, with offices at No. 610 Hume-Mansur Building, where he specializes in surgery and has a large and prosperous practice. During the World War he did not enter active service but acted as house surgeon of St. Vincent's Hospital. He is at this time, a member of the staff of St. Vincent's, the Methodist Episcopal and Indianapolis City hospitals. He is an instructor in the Indianapolis University School of Medicine and belongs to the Marion County Medical Society; the Indiana State Medical Society and the American Medical Association. To his other qualities he adds an attractive personality. Fraternally, he is a Thirty-second degree Mason and a Noble of the Mystic Shrine, and likewise holds membership in the Indianapolis Athletic Club and the Highland Go1f Club. In 1913, Doctor Ruddell was united in marriage with Miss Margaret Hannon, of Marion county, Indiana, and they have three children: Mary Margaret, Keith and Robert. The pleasant home is at No. 2626 Meridian street.

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. Edward C. Rumpler, president of the Legislative Council of Indiana Women, enjoys a wide acquaintance throughout this and adjoining states as her work both as an editor and public speaker together, with the official positions she has held in the various women's organizations in the Middle West has brought her in contact with thousands of people throughout the Mississippi and Ohio Valleys. Maud Ellen (Lucas) Rumpler is a native of the state of Illinois, her birthplace being at Clayton, Adams county, in that state. Her father, the Rev. Daniel R. Lucas, D.D., was a well known divine in the Midd1e West and was the founder of Drake University of Des Moines, Iowa. He saw service during the Civi1 War as second lieutenant Company C, 99th Indiana Volunteer Infantry, was later made chaplain of his regiment and served with distinction throughout the war. He was a pioneer minister of the Christian Church and in 1883 was called to Indianapolis to fill the pulpit of the Central Christian Church of this city for seven years, and it was during that time that the present church building was erected. He never lost interest in his old comrades and for a number of years was chaplain and also commander of the George H. Thomas Post of Indianapolis, No. 17, G. A. R. He served as chaplain-in-chief for the G. A. R. for United States in 1899. He later served as Department Commander of the Grand Army of the Republic in 1904-5, and was secretary to the committee which erected the Oliver P. Morton Monument in the State House grounds and was author of the inscription placed upon the same. Doctor Lucas departed this life in 1907. He was married to the mother of our subject, Mary Ellen Longley, in 1861. She was a daughter of John Longley, also a pioneer minister of the Christian Church in Indiana and a veteran of the War of 1812, having served as chaplain during that short struggle. He was one of the founders of Butler College, of Indianapo1is. The mother is still living and makes her home with Mrs. Rumpler and is one of the few surviving daughters of the War of 1812. Mrs. Rumpler traces her line of descent back through a long line of pioneer families. The Lucas family descended from Sir Charles Lucas who was an officer in the Army of Charles I. When that unfortunate monarch was beheaded the entire family was banished from England and came to the Colonies in about 1666. Her great grandfather, Eber Lucas, was the first of the family to be represented in Indiana, having entered government land in Shelby county as early as 1820, and saw service in the War of 1812 and the Indian wars. Her maternal great grandfather, Daniel Roberts, was a native of Kentucky and came of English ancestry. He settled in Clark county Indiana, in 1818. Nine children were born to the parents of our subject, three of whom are now living, two brothers, Hugh L. and Max J. Lucas, who reside in Chicago, and our subject. Mrs. Rumpler. was educated in the public schools and at Shortridge high school of Indianapolis and completed a course in the Drake University of Des Moines of which her father was one of the founders. Her marriage occurred in Indianapolis in 1893. Her husband, Edward C. Rumpler, is a well known business man of Indianapolis, being the Indiana representative of the New York Coal company of Columbus, Ohio. He is identified with the Masonic Fraternity holding membership in the Mystic Tie Lodge and the Raper Commandery and Keystone Chapter. To them was born one daughter, Mary Louise, who is now the wife of John Paul Ragsdale of Indianapolis, a short sketch of whom will appear in this work. The environment in which Mrs. Rumpler passed her childhood days had much to do with stimulating in her a desire to be of service to mankind in general and the many discussions held in her father's home on the current topics of the day had much to do in shaping her life's work. She was one of the first to espouse the cause of woman's sufferage and has been one of the dominating spirits of all of the organizations in which she holds membership. Besides serving as president of the Legislative Council of Indiana Women she fills a like office in the Upper Mississippi Valley Conference of State Federations, which embraces ten states. She also served as president of the Indiana Federation of Clubs in 1920-1921 and is now General Federation Director for Indiana. She is now secretary of the National Past Presidents Club of the General Federation which is composed of women who have served as state presidents. She is at present president of the Indiana Association of Republican Women's Clubs, president of the Seventh District Women's Republican Club, ex-chairman of the Seventh District of Indiana Federation of Clubs and was for two years vice president of the latter. Mrs. Rumpler is a writer of note having served as editor of the "Indiana Club Woman" which is the official organ of the State Federation of Clubs. In addition to the organizations above mentioned Mrs. Rumpler holds membership in the Woman's Department Club of which she has served as chairman of the Musical Department and on its board of directors, and also a member on the board that incorporated the Local Council of Women. She has also found time to take an active interest in civic affairs and has served as a director of the Y. W. C. A. during the united war drive in 1918, and represented that organization as a member of its state committee. As state chairman of the Women's Division of the Near East Relief Committee she has done much valuable work, both with her pen and from the platform, having toured the entire state in the interest of that noble work. Mrs. Rumpler served for four years as corresponding secretary of the Caroline Scott Harrison Chapter of the D. A. R. She also holds membership in the Society of Indiana Pioneers and the Indiana Historical Society. Was twice president of the Internos Literary Club and a member of the Central W. C. T. U. In religious matters the family affiliate with the Central Christian Church in which she has served for the past sixteen years as secretary of the Ladies Aid Society of that denomination. She is a member of National Board of Education of the Christian Church, and is now president of the Indianapolis Musical choir, which presents the Messiah every Christmas.

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

Christian Frederick Schmidt, president and manager of the Century Building company, was born in Indianapolis in 1886, the son of John William and Lillie Elizabeth (Schude1) Schmidt, the former of whom was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, and the latter in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1868. The paternal grandfather and grandmother of our subject were born in Germany. They immigrated from that country and first settled in Cincinnati, Ohio, but left there when John William, the father of our subject, was but a small boy and came to Indianapolis where he organized the C. F. Schmidt Brewing company. He died when his son, John W., was still young. John William Schmidt was a prominent figure in business circles of Indianapolis. After the death of his father, he and his brother operated the brewery until 1899, when the business was sold to an English syndicate to become a subsidiary of the Indianapolis Brewing company. He was a large property owner in Indianapolis and owned with his brother the building in which the Aetna Trust and Savings company now operates, of which concern he was a director, as well as being one of the directors of the German Fire Insurance company and they also owned the Century and Vonnegut buildings. He died in 1914 and is survived by his widow, who is now traveling in Europe. Christian Frederick Schmidt was educated in the Indianapolis public schools and high school and in the Phillips Exeter Academy at Exeter, New Hampshire. Following his graduation from that institution, he returned to Indianapolis where he went to work for the Indiana National Bank as a bank messenger. In a short time he was raised to the position of bookkeeper and from there his rise in the bank was rapid. He left the bank at the expiration of four and a half years to assist in the organization of the Beech Grove Traction company, of which he is now the president and a large shareholder. He was entrusted with the supervision of the construction of the line of that company whose success has been largely due to his ability as an executive. After the death of his father, Mr. Schmidt assumed the direction of the Century Building company of which he is now the president and manager. His work in this connection coupled with his efforts in behalf of the Beech Grove Traction company have marked him as one of the keenest business executives in Indianapolis, for he has placed the enterprises with which he is connected among the first of their kind in commercial circles. In 1916, Mr. Schmidt was united in marriage with Zola May Harlan, of Indianapolis, and both he and his wife affiliate with the Second Church of Christ Scientist, in whose affairs they take an active interest. Mr. Schmidt is a Thirty-second degree Mason and a Shriner and holds membership in the Indianapolis Athletic Club, the Athenaeum Club, the Indianapolis Board of Trade and is also active in several trade associations.

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

Bartholomew D. Brooks has been a resident of Indianapolis for fifty-five years and has been not only an eye witness of the wonderful growth and progress the city has made but has taken an active part in its industrial development. Mr. Brooks was born in Bristol, Pennsylvania, January 2, 1856, the son of Peter and Anna Brooks, the former a native of Virginia and the latter born in Delaware. Peter Brooks went to Delaware when a young man and engaged in the saw mill business and in that state was married. He became one of a party of fifty men who went to work as bridge carpenters on the Isthmus of Panama and was the only one of the whole number who remained the full time, six months, at the end of which time he received double pay for his faithfulness. He returned to Delaware and later lived, in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Illinois and then settled on a farm on the old National Road, two miles east of Putnamville, Indiana. Among the tasks that fell to the lot of young Brooks was hauling logs with a team of eight oxen. When he was thirteen years old he came to Indianapolis to attend school and when still only a boy he found employment with a construction company and helped in laying the first wooden block pavement in this city. He also worked for the Bee Hive Planing Mill company and while engaged at this work he built a home on Massachusetts avenue, which he still owns. Mr. Brooks remembers how his mother assisted in the erection of the house and recalls what a load they thought they had on their hands when the home was completed and they found themselves in debt to the extent of one thousand dollars. Mr. Brooks early became an expert in planing mill work and with others established the West Side Planing Mill company, which is now the Capital Lumber company, one of the oldest in the city. Later he began business for himself and established the B. D. Brooks Lumber company; which was a prosperous enterprise for many years. Several other lines of endeavor have profited by his keen business judgment and financial encouragement. He organized and for a time was secretary of the Home Insurance company. He was one of the organizers and served as first president of the Marion County State Bank, and was one of the founders of the American Mutual Insurance company. In 1914 he became secretary and treasurer of the United Ice company and to the conduct of this business he devotes most of his time. While in the lumber business he realized the rapid growth of the city and having abundant faith in its future and aware of the need of homes he bought lots and erected houses and today has over one hundred tenants. Always fair in his dealings with his fellowmen and possessed of a goodly share of human kindness he is proud of the fact that some families have rented from him for thirty years, and some of his employees have been on his pay roll for twenty years. Mr. Brooks married Miss Mollie Spiegel, who was born in Indianapolis in 1863 and died February 15, 1919. She was the daughter of August and Amelia Spiegel, early and prominent residents of this city. Mr. Brooks is known to be a liberal supporter of churches and all benevolent causes and his aid in worthy enterprises is seldom sought in vain. He attends the Roberts, Park Methodist Episcopal Church. In politics he is a Democrat and a staunch advocate of the principles of that party. Starting as a young man with no special advantages except a willingness to work the success that has come to him has been acquired through his own efforts accompanied by sound business judgment, and for many years he has been one of the influential citizens of his adopted city.

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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

Emmerich Schmid, was born in Budapest, Hungary, November 5, 1862, the son of Francis Joseph, a manufacturer of surgical instruments who died in 1882. From boyhood, Emmerich Schmid had played around his father's shops, and when he had reached an age where he could be useful in the business he began working in the plant. He started as a helper in the shops when he was but twelve years of age and learned the business in all its phases. With the excellent grounding gained under the expert supervision of his father, he decided to come to the United States, which he did after first working in various other shops in Vienna and other parts of Europe. In 1888 he landed in the United States with but nine dollars in his pocket. He secured employment in New York to get together enough money to take him to Chicago where he went in a short time and worked for two and a half years . In September, 1891, he came to Indianapolis as the foreman of the W. H. Armstrong company and remained in this capacity for ten years. Clearly seeing that true economic independence was not to be gained in filling such a position, he organized his own company for the manufacture of surgical instruments in 1901. Since that time he has been connected with the company although at different periods it has been through several changes. In 1920 Mr. Schmid organized an individual firm under the name of Emmerich Schmid. The business manufactures instruments for sale in the whole United States, and the excellent products of the firm are sold in all surgical instrument houses all over the country. Mr. Schmid's goods are widely known under the name of Schmid's hand-forged instruments. Mr. Schmid was married in 1891 to Mary Henkel, and she is the center of a wide circle of admiring friends. Mr. Schmid is a naturalized American citizen, securing his first papers in Chicago and taking out his second in Indianapolis. He is a member of the Indianapolis Turnverein in whose affairs he takes an active interest.

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 G. Scifres, M. D., one of the leading figures in the medical profession in Indianapolis, was born in Little York, Washington county, Indiana, December 21, 1884, the son of George M. and Sarah (Munden) Scifres, both of whom were natives of Indiana. His great grandfather was Joseph Mathias Scifres, a native of Wales, but of Scotch-Irish descent. Joseph Scifres, the grandfather of Doctor Scifres, was a pioneer of Indiana, having been one of the early settlers of Washington county, where he owned a large amount of land. He was a minister of the Christian Church, and a physician, one of the most prominent and well liked men in his community. George M. Scifres, the father of John G., was a resident of Washington county throughout his life. He was one of the leading men in his section, and was always actively interested in politics. He served the people well as sheriff and auditor of Washington county, and was holding the latter office at the time of his death in 1904. John G. Scifres graduated from the high school at Salem, Indiana, and then entered Purdue University where he was in attendance for a time. He found that he was not interested in the work which he was taking at Purdue University and that he preferred to study medicine. He accordingly entered the Indiana University School of Medicine• and received his degree of Doctor of Medicine from that institution in 1908. He was an interne in the City Dispensary during the ensuing year. He then became associated with Doctor Eisenbeiss, a prominent physician of Indianapolis for years, and for three and a half years continued in this agreeable connection. With the expiration of that time, he engaged in the active practice of his profession for himself and has been so successful that he is considered to be one of the most able physicians in Indianapolis. Doctor Scifres maintains offices at 212 Stewart Place, and 157 N. Illinois street. Doctor Scifres was married February 7, 1923, to Marguerite Ratton, of Bridgeport, Indiana, and they reside at 3331 Guilford avenue. Doctor Scifres is a Mason and a member of the county, state, and American medical associations.

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

Albert Seaton, M. D., is a scion of an old established Indiana family which has been prominently identified with the development of the state since its pioneer epoch and has contributed much to its civic and material advancement. Doctor Seaton was born in Indianapolis, July 6, 1880, and is a son of William D. and Mahala A. (Howland) Seaton. His maternal grandfather, Charles A. Howland, was born in New York State, came to Indiana by way of the Erie canal, and was among the first settlers of Marion county. He was an extensive land owner and was a farmer by occupation. He built the old toll road between Indianapolis and Millersville and was an active factor in many ways in the development of the country in his day. William D. Seaton, who is now living retired in Indianapolis, was born in Centerville, Indiana, in 1846, and accompanied his parents when they crossed the plains to the far west in a covered wagon in 1849. He returned to Indiana shortly after the Civil War, and settled at Indianapolis, where he embarked in the hat and fur business on Pennsylvania street, continuing to be an active factor in the mercantile trade of this city for forty-three years. Dr. Albert Seaton obtained his early education in the graded and high schools of this city, and after his graduation from the latter entered the Indiana Medical Col1ege, from which he received the degree of Doctor of Medicine in due course of time. For two years he served as interne in the City Hospital, and was then assistant surgeon in the National Military Home two years. Later he went to Colorado, where he was surgeon in a mining camp for a time, but soon returned to Indianapolis and has since been in the practice of his profession in this city. For five years he served as medical director of the Meridian Life Insurance company, and for two years was with the State Life Insurance company in the same capacity. In 1917 he became medical director and vice-president of the Century Life Insurance company, of Indianapolis, which, in 1924, consolidated with the People's Life Insurance company of Frankfort, Indiana, with headquarters at that city. For a time he was also surgeon for Battery A, Second Infantry of the Indiana National Guard. His professional service has always been discharged with a keen sense of conscientious obligation, and he has filled various high offices, with ability, his work having merited and received the recognition of his professional colleagues as well as of the general public. Besides his membership in numerous professional organizations, Doctor Seaton belongs also to the Indianapolis Board of Trade and to the Hoosier Athletic and Marion clubs. He was married December 16, 1916 to Margaret Elvin, of Indianapolis, and they have one son, Elvin Howland Seaton.

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 Semmler, manager of the National Casket company at Indianapolis, has had his main interests centered here all his life. He was born at Indianapolis, Indiana, April 22, 1884, youngest of three children born to Henry and Elizabeth (Mueller) Semmler. Both parents were born in Germany, came to the United States in 1870, were married in the city of New York, and in 1876 settled permanently at Indianapolis. Here their children, two sons and one daughter, were educated in the public schools, William being a student in the Manual Training high school for a time. His first position in the business world was office boy with the National Casket company, with which large concern he has been identified ever since. He began work here when C. Vonnegut, Jr., was manager, gradually won advancement, and on January 1, 1921, received the appointment of manager. Mr. Semmler is recognized as a reliable, representative business man and good citizen. He is a member of the Chamber of Commerce and concerns himself with matters coming before the body that promise to increase the general welfare. He is a member of Oriental Lodge No. 500, F:& A. M., and belongs also to the Elks, Knights of Pythias, the Indianapolis Credit Men's Association; and the Hoosier Motor Club; January 28, 1909, he married Blanche, daughter of Harvey M. and Ella (Thomas) Thompson, of Indianapolis, and they have one daughter, Margaret M.; born July 12, 1911. Mr. and Mrs. Semmler are members of the Third Reformed Church. The family home is at No. 3239 Kenwood avenue, the headquarters of the National Casket company being at No. 902 Capitol avenue, 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

Charles W. Sharp, D. C. Numbered among the successful chiropractors of Indianapolis, Dr. Charles W. Sharp has not only won distinction in his profession, but is recognized as one of the city's useful citizens. He was born at Cambria,Clinton county, Indiana, November 27, 1886, and attended, for a time, the schools of that county. Later he was a student of the Frankfort high school, and still later of the high school at Amboy, Indiana, and was graduated from the latter in 1907. For eighteen months he was a student of the Indiana University School of Medicine, but then, becoming interested in chiropractic, entered the Davenport College of that science, and was graduated therefrom in 1915. That same year he established himself in practice in the State Life Building at Indianapolis. After two and one-half years of active work, he enlisted in the medical department of the United States army, during the World War, and was stationed at Camp Greenleaf, Georgia. Subsequent to his honorable discharge from the service he took post-graduate courses at the Palmer School of Chiropractic, at Davenport, Iowa, and then, October 14, 1920, opened his present offices at 3322 East Tenth street, Indianapolis, where he has since carried on a very successful practice, and won the position in his profession to which he is entitled. In other ways he has proved his worth, and for two years he was secretary of the Indiana Chiropractic Association, and for two years was a member of its board of directors. He is a member of Sigma Nu and Sigma Delta Chi, both college fraternities. Well known in Masonry he has been advanced through the Scottish Rite to the Thirty-second degree, and through the York Rite to the Chapter, and is a life member of Murat Temple of the Mystic Shrine.

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 A. Sharp of the Wangelin-Sharp Motor company dealers in Ford automobiles, was born in Meade, Kansas, February 3, 1891, the son of Alexander and Laura (Hoober) Sharp, both of whom were natives of Ohio. Alexander Sharp was born in 1848 and engaged in farming during his entire life. He died in 1894 and his wife is still living at the age of seventy years at Brook, Indiana, where she moved in 1895. The paternal grandfather of our subject was the first auditor of Newton county. Harry A. Sharp was educated in the graded and high schools of his home community and in DePauw University where he pursued an academic course from 1907 to 1910. He returned to Brook, Indiana, with the completion of his school days and remained there until 1912 when he came to Indianapolis to take a course of study in the Central Business College. His first position when he had completed this work was in the capacity of a shipping clerk for the Ford Motor company. His training and evident ability brought him quick- promotion through various departments, as bookkeeper, cashier, etc., and by 1917 he arrived at the conclusion that he had acquired a sufficient knowledge of the business to undertake a similar enterprise for himself. Accordingly he formed a partnership with H. T. Wangelin under the firm style of the Wangelin-Sharp company to handle Ford cars. The concern was started on borrowed capital, but the energies and abilities of the founders have more than justified the confidence of the original financiers of the organization. The year's sales for 1922 totaled 1,535 cars with a valuation of over a million dollars, while the sales for the year 1923 were in the neighborhood of two thousand. Though a bare six years have elapsed since the inception of the company, it has gained an enviable name as one of the most reputable business organizations in Indianapolis, and for this gratifying reputation, Harry A. Sharp and his partner are alone responsible. Mr. Sharp was married April 29, 1915, to Helen Greene, of Indianapolis, the daughter of Michael F. Greene who has been with the Indianapolis News for thirty years. To this union has been born one son, Donald. Mr. Sharp is a popular member of the various Masonic bodies, being a Scottish Rite Mason and a Shriner, and he also holds membership in the Indianapolis Athletic Club, Highland Golf and Country Club, and Columbia Club. He is a staunch Republican, always supporting the views of that party.

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

Edwin J. Smith, who with A. L. Millington is the proprietor of the oldest bakery in the city of Indianapolis, was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, April 17, 1879, the son of Lou W. and Laura C. (Al1en) Smith. The paternal grandfather of our subject, John W. Smith, was born in Maryland and removed to Danville, Indiana, in the early fifties and during his residence in that town Lou W. Smith was born, June 15, 1855. He had peen a baker in his old home in Maryland and he accordingly followed the same business in Danville. Shortly after the Civil War, he moved with his family to Anderson, Indiana. After a time spent in that city, he removed to Indianapolis where in 1878 he started the present business on the present site of the Stout shoe store on Massachusetts avenue. Here he and his son conducted a very successful baking business until 1893 when expansion made removal to the present place on Ft. Wayne avenue necessary. He was active in fraternal circles, being granted the Thirty-third degree of Masonry at Boston, Massachusetts, during the Civil War, and he died in 1904, at the age of seventy-two years. Lou W. Smith, the father of our subject, learned the baking business from his father with whom he was associated in business after he reached his majority. He was active in the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and was a strong member of that organization. He is still living at the age of sixty-eight years, and his wife, who was born in Pennsylvania, is also living, having attained her sixty-ninth year. They are the parents of two children: Edwin J., the subject of this review, and Laura, the wife of A. L. Millington, the business partner of Mr. Smith. Edwin J. Smith came to Indianapolis with his parents when he was but two years old and was educated in the graded schools and the Manual Training high school of that city. Upon the completion of his tuition days, he engaged in the typewriter business for six years at Chicago and Omaha, Nebraska. He returned to Indianapolis and purchased his grandfather's interests in the baking company soon after and has since continued in that work. His father's interests were later purchased by A. L. Millington, who is the junior partner of the firm. The firm continues to operate under the name of the J. W. Smith & Son Bakery, and its business is now confined to wholesale baking entirely. The concern has won an enviable reputation in Indianapolis, not only from the fact that it is the oldest company in its line in the city but also for its reliable products and the secure financial basis upon which it operates. December 25, 1902, Mr. Smith was united in marriage with Charlotte Hiddinger, the daughter of Peter J. Hiddinger, and to this union have been born two sons, Lou J. and Edwin J., Jr. In fraternal circles, Mr. Smith is a Thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason and a Shriner and he is a popular and valued member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Eagles, and the Chamber of Commerce.

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

Walter B. Smith. Among the men prominently identified with the hotel business of Indianapolis, few have gained so high a reputation for courtesy and politeness to their guests as has Walter B. Smith, one of the proprietors of the Denison, Lorraine and Stubbins hotels. He is a man of wide experience in this line and is one of the most popular in the city. His hostelries are conducted under modern and efficient management and are largely patronized by discriminating people. Mr. Smith was born at Petersburg, Indiana, December 29, 1886, and is a son of Emmett M. Smith and Ettie M. (Frank) Smith, the former of whom was born at Elberfield, Indiana, in 1857, and the latter at Petersburg, this state, in 1856. In young manhood Emmett M. Smith became identified in the banking business at Petersburg, Indiana, but later went to Muncie, Indiana, where he was made president of the Delaware County National Bank, and filled that position until 1900. In that year he removed to Indianapolis, and for the ensuing five years was prominently identified with the banking activities of this city. In 1905 he became one of the active factors in the construction of the Indianapolis & Martinsville Traction line, continuing in an official capacity in this enterprise until after the completion of the road, when he retired from active business. He also has other capitalistic interests and his progressive spirit is evident in many ways. Active in both church and philanthropic work his charities extend to all worthy enterprises, and he is recognized as a man of high ideals. To him and his wife were born two sons and two daughters: Hulbert J., Walter B., Helen O., and Mary E. Walter B. Smith obtained his education in the public schools of his native town and Indianapolis, and after completing his studies at Shortridge high school he secured a position with the Indianapolis Star, with whom he remained for two years. For the ensuing two years he was associated with his brother, Hulbert J. Smith, in the conduct of a grocery store. They later disposed of this enterprise, and took over the management of the Stubbins Hotel, then owned by their father. Later this property was turned over to the sons by the father, and they subsequently acquired ownership of the Denison and Lorraine hotels, and are now conducting all three of these hostelries. Mr. Smith is a member of the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce, the Lion's Club, the Grotto and the Hoosier Athletic dubs, being vice-president of the latter. He is also a Scottish and York Rite Mason, and is prominent in both business and social circles. He was married October 28, 1916, to Miss Etta Dee Matthew, a daughter of William H. Matthew and Edna (Toby) Matthew, and to this union have been born two children: Sarah Louise and James Bayard.

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 Quintin Bruce, one of the well-known real estate men in the city of Indianapolis, was born in that city May 31, 1872. William Bruce, the great grandfather of our subject, was of Scotch descent. His father and five brothers came to America in 1746 and first located in Virginia, where in 1791 he married Frances Lewis, a relative of Meriwether Lewis, of Lewis and Clark fame. William Bruce was born in Virginia in 1762. In 1771 the family removed to Redstone, Pennsylvania, near Fort Pitt (now Pittsburgh) where young Bruce found employment packing goods across the mountains. In about 1783 he and a brother-in-law emigrated to Kentucky, settling first at Cane Ridge, and later in Bourbon county. In 1793 he went to Warren county, and in June, 1806 moved to Eaton, Preble county, where he erected the first grist and saw mills. He purchased about two thousand acres where the town of Eaton now stands. This tract of land was entered by William Ragan, the great grandfather of our subject. George Bruce married a Ragan. He was a public spirited man and donated the land for the sites of many of the public buildings among which was the courthouse, the present building being built on the same site as the old ones. The ground for the Christian Church was also donated by William Bruce, who was well known as a charity worker and was one of the most respected men in the community where he died in 1832. His son, George Bruce, the grandfather of George Q. Bruce, removed to Indianapolis and inherited a tract of land, bounded north and south by Twenty-first and Twenty-fifth streets, east and west by Central avenue and Monon railroad. The family still has deeds in its possession which were signed by President Monroe. The subject of this review still lives on a part of the land bought by his great-grandfather. James Austin Bruce, the father of George Q. Bruce, was born September. 27, 1839, in the old Bruce homestead near the corner of Twenty-fourth street and Park avenue. He matriculated at the Northwestern Christian University from which he was graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. Addison C. Harris graduated same class. He became a professor in Indiana Law School and presented diploma to our subject. For several years thereafter he taught school and was one of the successful and popular teachers of the county schools. He then bought a valuable farm on Fall Creek in Center township, Marion county, but gave up the work at the end of ten years to return to the city and engaged in the florist and horticultural work. He became the owner of much valuable real estate and died at the age of fifty-three years. October 10, 1865, he married Margaret, the daughter of Quintin and Charlotte (Cathcart) Thomson, natives of Ayrshire, Scotland. The Thomson family came to America in a sailing vessel and went to Michigan, making the trip there by canal to Sanilac county. They settled in a place where there was only one other cabin and remained there for six years. At the end of that time, they removed to Put-in-Bay where Mr. Thomson followed the trade of fisherman. About 1863-64 he came to Indiana, settling in this county. At Howland's Station, now a part of Indianapolis, where the family settled, Mr. Bruce was employed as a school teacher and it was there that he met his future wife who was a pupil in his school. The Thomson family soon moved to Indianapolis where Quintin Thomson owned and operated a bakery, located on the present site of the Ayres store. The family lived over the bakery and it was here that Mr. and Mrs. Bruce were married. It is interesting to note that A. L Taggart learned his trade in the bakery of Mr. Thomson. Mr. and Mrs. Bruce were the parents of six children, of whom only three are now living. They are: George Quintin,. the subject of this review; Charles Levin; and Margaret Thomson, all of whom reside in Indianapolis. George Quintin Bruce received his early education in the Indianapolis public schools and then matriculated at the Indiana Law School from which he was graduated in 1897. For seven years thereafter he was engaged in the active practice of his profession. Seeing a great opportunity in real estate subdivision work, he gave up the practice of law to go into that work and operated from Syracuse, New York, to Grand Forks, North Dakota, and from Saginaw, Michigan, to Houston, Texas. He is a member of the firm of Tuttle Bros. & Bruce, which maintains offices at 233 E. Ohio street. The firm has done much subdivision work in Indianapolis and in this connection has come to be known as one of the most reliable as well as one of the most successful real estate firms in the city. November 19, 1897, Mr. Bruce married Sara Abbott, of Parkersburg, West Virginia. The great great great grandfather of Mrs. Bruce was a Methodist minister and came to the United States with Charles Wesley, the famous brother of John Wesley, the real sponsor of the Methodist movement in England. He was killed in the Revolutionary War but Mrs. Bruce has never joined the Daughters of the American Revolution. Mrs. Bruce completed her musical education in Marietta, Ohio, under the tutelage of Professor Saroni. She is greatly interested in Christian Science and they are educating their children in Principia College, St. Louis, Missouri. Mr. and Mrs. Bruce have three children, as follows: William Austin, born November 19, 1904; Charlotte Augusta, born May 2, 1908; and Robert Quintin, born October 5, 1910.

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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

W. C. Smith, secretary and treasurer of the Marion County Construction company, with offices at No. 1600 South West street, Indianapolis, is one of the leading business men in his line in this section of the state. He is widely and favorably known as for years he has been active in business and somewhat prominent in public affairs in the county, whereby he has built up a reputation for sterling character and sound business judgment. He was born in Shelby county, Indiana, January 4, 1865. His parents were George M. and Delphina (Barnard) Smith, the former of whom died in 1916 at the age of eighty years, and the latter, seven weeks later at the age of eighty years. They removed from Shelby to Marion county and settled on a farm in Warren township, on which their son, W. C. Smith spent his boyhood. He enjoyed educational advantages, becoming a student in Butler University after completing the public school course, and was graduated from that institution in 1884. For two years afterward he taught school in Marion county and then was elected county surveyor, in which public capacity he served from 1886 until 1890. He then turned his attention and talents to civil engineering and during the period between 1891 to 1898, was concerned with a large amount of public contracting. In 1902 Mr. Smith organized his present business medium, the Marion County Construction company of which he has been secretary and treasurer from the beginning. His attention is largely occupied with the affairs of this corporation, but, as a public-spirited and watchful citizen, he never fails to find time to show his interest in all movements that show promise of being of substantial benefit to his city and county. May 21, 1902, he married Miss Elizabeth Burt, of Indianapolis, and they have one daughter, Rosemary, aged fifteen years. They attend the Central Christian 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 Franklin Spaunhurst, D.O., one of the followers of Doctor Abrams, Electronic Reactions, the most recent discovery in the medical profession, is one of the prominent citizens of Indianapolis, and a very successful practitioner. He was born in Fulton, Callaway county, Missouri, April 3, 1867. After attending the public schools of his home locality, he became a student of Westminister College, at Fulton, Missouri; later attended the University of Missouri and the State Teachers College at Kirksville. For nine years he was engaged in teaching school, serving during a portion of that time as principal or superintendent of schools, and in the meanwhile took up the study of osteopathy at the American School of Osteopathy, Kirksville, Missouri, from which he was graduated in June, 1900. In July of the same year he came to Indianapolis, and established himself in his present offices, 527-530 State Life Building, and here he has been engaged in an active practice, holding the record for continuous practice in the same location. He is a member of the Indianapolis Osteopathic Association, the Indiana State Osteopathic Association, the American Osteopathic Association, the Central States Electronic Medical Association, the Middle States Electronic Association and the American Electronic Research Association, which was organized in 1923, Doctor Spaunhurst being one of the active factors in its formation. Very high in Masonry he has been advanced through all the bodies of both the Scottish and York Rites, and he also is a life member of the Mystic Shrine. He is a member of the Kiwanis Club, the Indianapolis Athletic Club and the Hoosier Motor Club. August 25, 1896, Doctor Spaunhurst was married to Miss Harriet S. Miller, who was educated at the State Teachers College at Kirksville, Missouri, her birthplace. Mrs. Spaunhurst was a well-known figure in club life, and belonged to the Woman's Club and the Monday Club. She was a poetess of more than local repute, was past president of the Monday Club and matron musicale. The diversity of her talents is shown in the fact that she had set a number of her poems to music. The death of this talented, beloved lady occurred July 31, 1923, at the age of fifty-one years, at the family residence, 4631 Boulevard Place, Indianapolis. Her untimely demise was mourned by her numerous friends as well as by her immediate family. There were no children.

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

Arthur Stanworth, president and general manager of the Stanworth Tool Manufacturing company, Incorporated, is not only a sound business man, but an inventor, and several of his devices have attracted world-wide attention. His present company was organized by him in September, 1922, to handle his patents. He was born in County Shropshire, England, September 7, 1887, son of Charles and Mary (Cooper) Stanworth, both natives of England. After receiving what was the equivalent of a high-school education, Arthur Stan worth took a technical training as an engineer, and served an apprenticeship from the age of fourteen to twenty-one years, to the engineering trade. His wages at the commencement were seventy-five cents a week, and at the termination they had only been increased to $2.50 a week. However, so thoroughly had he been trained that when he was released from his apprenticeship he was able to assume the duties connected with the position of chief inspector of the plant, and a little later was made machine-shop superintendent, which latter position he held until his removal to Montreal, Canada. After his arrival in the Dominion he held the position of foreman for the Grand Trunk railroad, from 1913 to 1915. At the termination of that period his services were required by the government, and he went with the Munitions Board as district inspector of munitions, and so continued until 1917 when he was advanced to be general superintendent for the William Hamilton company. In 1919 he left that company to become manager of the Eclipse Counterbore company of Detroit, Michigan. Still later he was manager of the Gairing Tool company of Detroit, but resigned to establish his present company. Some idea of the splendid training Mr. Stanworth received with the Lilleshall Company, Limited, of Oakengates, Shropshire, England, may be gained when it is stated that he studied draughting, patternmaking, moulding, structural work, both machine shop and, erecting, and other matters. While he was thus acquiring a practical knowledge, he was taking up technical training in night school, and was graduated therefrom as a mechanical engineer. The company above mentioned is a very important one, and does work all over the world, and he was sent to different points to install sewer pumps. He installed the 4-2200 horse-power gas engines for generating power for Tokio and Yokohama, Japan; four sets of sewage pumps for Bombay City, India; and turbines and centrifugal pumps in Canada. As before stated he is an inventor, and one of his devices, the interchangeable holder, can be used any machine shop. Well known in Masonry he has been advanced through the different bodies of the Scottish Rite. He also belongs to the Mystic Shrine; the Rotary Club the Indianapolis Athletic Club. A Church of England man he long served as a chorister and later was warden. June 3, 1914, he was married to Miss Elizabeth Ann Allen, also a native of England, who during the late war took a very active part in war work at Montreal, Canada. She is a very capable lady, and, as secretary of the Stanworth Tool Manufacturing company, Inclorporated, she is, a great help to her husband, and an important factor in the conduct of the company's business.

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 W. Staub, prominent in commercial circles as president of the Crescent and Indianapolis Oil companies, was born in Indianapolis, December 17, 1858, the son of Joseph Staub. The father who is now deceased, came to Indianapolis in 1852 and engaged in the tailoring business in which he continued for a great many years. He was active in the politics of the city, and served the people as councilman. John W. Staub was educated in the graded schools and the Shortridge high school of Indianapolis. With the completion of his education, he took up tailoring in partnership with his father the concern assuming the name of Staub & Son at that time. The business was operated successfully until, 1903 when it was discontinued. About a year later, Mr. Staub bought an interest in the Crescent Oil company and became the president of the organization, a position which he still fills. The firm deals in wholesale and retail lots of lubricating oils of all kinds. Under the direction of Mr. Staub the firm has come to be known as one of the most reliable of its kind in the city of Indianapolis, and this reputation has been maintained through the efforts of Mr. Staub since he became connected with the enterprise. He is also the president of the Indianapolis Oil company. In addition to his oil interests in Indianapolis, he is also a director of the Diamond, Chain & Manufacturing company, one of the strong units in the commercial life of the city. January 7, 1920, Mr. Staub was united in marriage with Mrs. Ella V. Kromer, of Cleveland, Ohio. Mr. Staub is a member of the various Masonic bodies, he being a Thirty-third degree Mason and a member of the Shrine. He also holds membership in the Columbia Club and the Rotary 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

Nathan Stern, M. D. Engaged in general practice and one of the well-known and capable members of his profession, Dr. Nathan Stern has passed his entire career in Indianapolis, of which city he is a native, born November 10,1880. He was given his primary education in the public schools and was a member of the first graduating class at the Manual Training high school, following which he spent two years at Butler College. He then entered upon his professional studies at the Indiana University School of Medicine, and was graduated therefrom in 1904, with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. To further prepare himself, he spent a year as an interne at the City Hospital, then commencing practice at Indianapolis, where he has well appointed offices at No. 217 Bankers Trust Building. His practice is general in character, as Doctor Stern is equally at home in all departments of his calling, and he has been successful in building up a large and important professional business. During the World War he saw fourteen months of service as a member of the Medical Corps. He holds membership in the Marion County Medical Society, the Indiana State Medical Society and the American Medical Association, in all of which he has numerous friends. A man of progressive spirit he has allied himself at various times with movements which have had for their object the betterment of his city. Doctor Stern has one daughter, Elizabeth, aged fourteen years.

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

Edwin A Stickney, the president of the Stickney Color company, was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, January 25, 1860, the son of Albert C. and Anna C. (Steele) Stickney. Albert C. Stickney was born in Henneker, New Hampshire, and was a structural worker, dying when his son was but seven years of age. The mother was a native of Sacc, Maine, and died in 1918. Edwin A. Stickney was educated in the public schools of his home community, and then learned the trade of carriage building, being so successful in this work that by the time he was nineteen years of age he was in charge of fifty men. He continued in this line of work until 1899, when he accepted a position as traveling salesman with a varnish manufacturing concern, continuing as such for five years. While he was a member of that organization he conceived the idea of making paints for use on automobiles. With this in view he began in Cincinnati with practically no capital. After a time he moved his plant to Evansville, Indiana, and at the end of four years he moved it to Indianapolis. In November, 1909, he located on Davidson street, which was the home of the plant for twelve years, but by January, 1922, the business had grown to such proportions that it was necessary to move to larger quarters. At the present time the building is in process of being enlarged to accommodate the business which is constantly expanding under the expert direction of Mr. Stickney. June 20, 1905, he married Alice D. Wooderman, of Cincinnati, and to this union have been born five children, Albert E., Frank B., Grace L., Esther J. and Anna M. Mr. Stickney is a member of the various Masonic bodies, being a York Rite, a Scottish Rite Mason and a Shriner. The Stickney Color company is the only one in the city which manufactures paint for automobiles, and its product is recognized as one of exceptionally high grade.

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 M. Stitle. The oldest hide company in the state of Indiana is the distinction held by the concern operating at 226 Kentucky avenue, under the name of the H. M. Stitle company, successor to Joseph Allerdice & Company, and which is widely known through its extensive operations and the importance of its transactions. The principal stockholder in this concern at the present time is Harry M. Stitle, who, since coming into the concern as a partner in 1905, has, through his aggressiveness, ability and sound business policies, advanced its interests materially in the business world. Mr. Stitle is a native of the Buckeye state, and was born at Canfield, Ohio, July 22, 1872, the son of John and Elizabeth (Harding) Stitle. After graduating from high school at Canfield, Ohio, he pursued a course at Northeastern Ohio Normal School and at once entered upon his career as a tanner and dealer in hides, a business to which he has devoted his commercial career. For three years he was located in Minnesota, and in 1905 he came to Indianapolis and became a partner in the well-known and old-established firm of Joseph Allerdice & Company, in which he has since secured a controlling interest. At present he deals in all kinds of hides, fur, wool, greases and tallows, and the territory covered by his concern is a large one. He is a Republican in his political views, but takes only a good citizen's interest in public affairs. As an active member of the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce he contributes of his ability and means to the furtherance of worthy movements. Fraternally he is a Mason. Mr. Stitle married Miss Grace Ida Linn, of Youngstown, Ohio, a daughter of George and Laura (Brickley) Linn, and they became the parents of five children, two of whom are living: Harry, who is attending school; and Linn, an infant. The family belongs to the Methodist 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

Joseph Thomas Stokes. The success which has attended the career of Joseph Thomas Stokes, pharmacist of Indianapolis, is all the more remarkable inasmuch as he has progressed in his profession without seeking assistance from the different lines of business generally gone into by the modern druggist. He specializes on prescriptions, and the physicians of the city have the utmost confidence in his skill and integrity. He was born at Cambridge City, Wayne county, Ind., March 7, 1870, and received his preliminary education in the schools of his native City and those of Richmond, Indiana. He was graduated from the Chicago School of Pharmacy, in 1889, and immediately thereafter came to Indianapolis, and for the subsequent five years was in the employ of Dill & Matlock, druggists, corner of Massachusetts and Delaware. From that firm he went to the J. N. Hurty Pharmacy company, and continued with it for three years. J N. Hurty of the above company was at one time secretary of the Indiana State Board of Health, and he was president of the company. During his last year with it Mr. Stokes was its vice president, and Richard Francis was its secretary. In the meanwhile the federal government commenced work on the new post office building, and realizing that his company would lose their lease on their store, in 1900, he took over the drug store in the Willoughby Building for the physicians who were members of the Marion County Medical Society. This building, which had been built by Dr. Willoughby Walling, and named after his son, Willoughby Walling was bought in 1920 by Mr. Stokes and the twenty-two physicians who occupied the offices in it. Mr. Stokes sells no patent medicine in his store in this building, and he also owns a drug store, 607 Hume-Mansur Building where he handles prescriptions only. This building contains 165 physicians and dentists. The Hume-Mansur drug store is one of six in the United States devoted solely to prescriptions, but he proposes to open similar ones in Pennsylvania and Michigan. Four boys on bicycles and one man in an automobile are required to deliver the prescriptions. In 1916, at the suggestion of the leading opticians of the city, Mr. Stokes founded the Indiana Optical company, with headquarters on the fourth floor of the Stokes Building, where prescriptions are filled, but no examinations are made. High in Masonry Mr. Stokes has been advanced through the various bodies of the Scottish and York Rites, and also belongs to the Mystic Shrine. He is a member of the Rotary Club, the Indianapolis Board of Trade, the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce, the Indianapolis Athletic Club, of which he is a charter member, and the Marion Club, of which he has been president.

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. English. It has been said that the sons of great men seldom attain to distinction, implying that more or less of a handicap is entailed through standing in the shadow of greatness. The annals of our own as well as of other nations show such to be the fact, but in contradistinction are found so many instances where sons have added laurels to honored names of fathers that there can be naught but perversity of spirit and obliquity of view when it is maintained that the above premise is invariably well taken. An instance is afforded in the career of William Eastin English, who is numbered among the representative citizens of the state that was honored and dignified by the life and services of his distinguished father. Major Elisha Gale English, father of William Hayden English, and grandfather of William Eastin English, the subject of this sketch, was the founder of the family in Indiana and one of the earliest settlers in Scott county, where he took up his abode in 1818. He was a man of great prominence in his day and generation and no pioneer of the state was held in higher popular esteem. For nearly a score of years he was in almost continuous service as a member of either the House of Representatives or the Senate of the Indiana Legislature; and later he held the office of United States Marshal for the district of Indiana. He also served as Major of Militia and Sheriff of Scott county. When he first removed to Scott county that section of the state was still the rendezvous and habitation of a large number of Indians, and only a few years previous had occurred in that county the brutal Indian Massacre, known as the Pigeon Roost Massacre. Coming into the state shortly after its admission into the Union, Major English had an important part in the making of its early history. His name was known and respected over a wide territory and his influence in the formation of the early life and institutions of the state is felt to this day. Major English married Mahala Eastin, a native of Kentucky, whither her parents, Lieutenant Philip (of the Revolutionary War) and Sarah (Smith) Eastin, removed from their native state of Virginia. William H. English was a direct descendant of two notable characters in the colonial history of the nation -Louis DuBois, the French Huguenot paten.tee, historically known as "Louis the Walloon," who with his Huguenot colony settled in 1678 on 40,000 acres of land near Kingston, N. Y., which had been granted them by the King of England, and Baron Jost Hite from Strasburg, Alsace, who established the first settlement west of the Blue Ridge Mountains in Virginia, where he received from King George II of England, a grant of more than one hundred thousand acres of land upon which he located his colony of Alsatian-German emigrants. William H. English was born at Lexington, Scott county, Indiana, on August 22, 1822, and died at his home in Indianapolis, February 7, 1896. His was a life conspicuous for the magnificence and variety of its achievements. His influence permeated the national life and he rendered services to the state and nation alike to the fullest extent of his powers; his labors were unsparing and his honesty of purpose beyond cavil. The reflex of the high honors conferred upon him was the honor he in turn conferred. Born and reared under the conditions and influences of early pioneer days, his specific advantages for gaining an advanced education were meager. But he was ambitious and after attending the primitive district school was enabled to complete a three years' course of study at Hanover College, one of the early and prominent educational institutions of the state. He possessed an ambition to study law and upon completion of his college course gave all possible attention to delving into such legal books as could be obtained. His splendid powers of absorption and assimilation may be realized when it is stated that when only eighteen years of age he proved himself eligible for and was admitted to the bar. At that time the examinations in law were very rigorous and the young man must have possessed a thorough knowledge of his subject to have secured the requisite grade for admission to practice. At no time in the life of William H. English did he reach the point of satiety and his ambition was not content with the limitations of his field, he applied to the U. S. Supreme Court for examination and after successfully passing that rigid test was admitted to practice before that tribunal. One who knew him well has said:
"He possessed a mind noted for its logic and clearness of reason, and his marked success at the bar could not but have been insured had he remained in that profession." For a time he was associated in the practice of law with the famous Joseph G. Marshall of Madison, but his ambitions were always in the line of politics and he soon accepted an office in one of the departments at Washington, where he remained for four years. After returning to Indiana he commenced a very active interest in politics, always identifying himself with the Democratic party. During the presidential canvass in which Henry Clay and James K. Polk were pitted against each other Mr. English took the stump in behalf of Polk. In the Democratic convention of 1848 Mr. English's father and his uncle, Revel W. English, were vice presidents, and two other uncles of the English name were delegates. At the same period these four brothers were members of the state legislature in four different states. During the memorable session of Congress in 1850 Mr. English was clerk of the Claims Committee in the United States Senate and listened to the famous speeches made by Webster, Benton, Calhoun, Cass and Clay. At the close of the session he returned to Indiana where at the time the question of revision of the old State Constitution was being agitated and to that end the people of the state decided to call a Constitutional Convention. In October, 1850, the representatives chosen for that purpose met in Indianapolis and Mr. English had the honor of being elected Principal Secretary of the Convention. At the adjournment of the Convention he was delegated to the important duty of supervising the publication of the Constitution, the Journal and Addresses. At the first election following the adoption of the new Constitution Mr. English was elected to the legislature from Scott county. The new Constitution provided that no limit should be placed on the length of the first session under it, and this was the longest session of the legislature ever held in Indiana, and Mr. English having been elected Speaker of the House, presided during the entire session that followed without an appeal being taken from any of his decisions. Mr. English was thoroughly familiar with legislative procedure, having been previously elected Principal Clerk of the House of Representatives at the session of 1843. From the foregoing it will be seen that Mr. English, though not yet thirty years of age, had been an important factor in the political affairs of Indiana. Due to the admirable record made by Mr. English in the state legislative assembly he was marked for higher honors and in 1852 he was elected to represent his district in Congress and entered the national legislature at the beginning of the administration of President Pierce. During the time that he was active in Congress the question of slavery and of secession was the cause of bitter debates and of bitter hatreds. He at that time was the pronounced champion of the popular sovereignty idea, leaving to the inhabitants of the territory the privilege of determining such laws as they desired to make in relation to the institution of slavery. "I am a native of a free state," he said in one of his speeches upon the floor, "and have no love for the institution of slavery." He used every means in his power to reconcile the opposing elements in the North and South, but his efforts, as well as those of all the peacemakers in those troublous times, were unavailing, and the distinguished Indianian seeing only bloody conflict ahead, after a memorable speech in which he said, in speaking of his constituents in Indiana, that they "would march under the flag and keep step to the music of the Union" determined to retire from active participation as an official, and his successor, who was a close personal friend, was chosen in his stead after he had declined renomination. He took no active part in the war but was at all times a firm and consistent supporter of the Union cause. He was offered command of a regiment by Governor Morton but personal and business demands compelled him to decline. At the Democratic national convention in 1880 he received the unanimous nomination for vice-president of the United States, he at that time being Chairman of the Democratic State Central Committee of Indiana. The official notification was delivered to him at the home of General Winfield Scott Hancock, the nominee for President, at Governor's Island, N. Y., and in a letter of acceptance he formed the keynote of the campaign. The record of the gallant campaign made by the nominees -Hancock and English- is an integral part of the history of the nation. After the close of the campaign which resulted in defeat of the Democratic party by a narrow margin on the popular vote Mr. English did not again take active part in political affairs although his counsel continued to be sought by the leaders of his party during the remainder of his long and useful life. Mr. English was a man of prodigious application, fine literary taste and appreciation, and an avidious reader of all that is best in classical and modern literature. Two of his own historical works, a history of Indiana and a history of The Conquest of The Northwest; entitle him to a place of distinction among the writers who have won repute as chroniclers of Indiana and national history. It was not until the evening of his life that Mr. English took up literary work and in this he was greatly assisted by his son, Captain William E. English, the subject of our sketch, who ably assisted in the completion of the volumes, a history of the Northwest, in border and in scope the most comprehensive work of that kind yet written, and as a part of the History of Indiana, will comprise a lasting monument to the author when his political and business life shall be lost to memory. Concerning the personality of this distinguished son of Indiana, the following words are apropos: "He had a strong personality, but never forced his convictions upon anyone. He was notably reserved and undemonstrative, though both positive and aggressive and quick to show spirit when necessary. Mr. English's tastes were quiet and as averse to display of his material possessions as he was of his remarkable resources of character. He had fine presence and personal address al1d pre-eminent among his qualities was that sound judgment which is ordinarily called common sense." Captain William E. English was born at the old English homestead "Englishton Park," near Lexington, Scott county, Indiana, the only son of William H. English. Captain English has one sister, Rosalind, who married Doctor Willoughby Walling, a distinguished physician and surgeon of the city of Chicago, and at one time United States consul to Edinburgh, Scotland. Their two sons are: William English Walling, a well known writer and lecturer upon socialistic and economic subjects, and Willoughby G. Walling, President of the Morris Plan Bank of Chicago, and actively connected with other important business interests of that city. William Eastin English spent the earlier years of his life in his native county where he received instruction in the public and private schools of the locality. He then removed with his parents to Indianapolis where he continued his studies in various schools and later in Northwestern Christian University, now known as Butler College. From this institution he later received the degree of Bachelor of Laws. He was admitted to the bar of his native state and entered into professional partnership with Hon. John R. Wilson, under the firm name of English and Wilson. After several years of practice in his profession he retired and went abroad for a visit of some three years. He traveled in every country of Europe as well as in portions of Asia Minor, Egypt and North Africa. Thoroughly receptive and of fine observative powers, he gained full value of his extended sojourns in foreign lands and wrote a series of letters for Indianapolis newspapers which, because of their general interest, individuality and fine literary merit won wide and favorable comment. After many years as a close student of the teachings and history of the ancient and time-honored craft of Masonry he published a History of Early Masonry in Indiana which has perpetuated much data that otherwise would have been lost, and which has gained special favor and endorsement on the part of the members of the great fraternity in his state, as well as many others. His standing in that fraternity has been shown by his having been called to the highest office in its gift, that of Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Indiana. He has also filled the highest office in the Order of Elks, that of Grand Exalted Ruler of the Grand Lodge of the United States. Captain English has long maintained high vantage ground as a leader in the politics of his home city and state. Reared in the faith of the political organization of which his father and his grandfather were influential members, he naturally began his political life with the same early affiliations. He began to take active interest in political affairs at an early period and before he had attained his legal majority held various official posts in connection with party organizations. He served as a member of his party's state executive committee, chairman of its city central committee of Indianapolis, as well as chairman of the Marion County Central Committee and while an incumbent of the last position was nominated for and elected as Joint Representative of Marion and Shelby counties in the State Legislature, and at that time held the distinction of being the youngest member of the House of Representatives. It is worthy of note that both his father and grandfather had served in this branch of the state legislature. Following his legislative terms Captain English was the nominee of his party for Congress and despite a large majority which he was compelled to overcome was elected and made a useful, capable and attentive representative, introducing a number of important bills, including those providing for an International Copyright Law and 'the increase of pensions' of crippled soldiers and sailors. While in Congress he was the youngest member of the House of Representatives. Following this• valued service to his native state Captain English refused to allow his name to be considered for re-election. His next official service was at the following national convention of his party held at Chicago in which he was selected to make the speech to that convention on behalf of the delegation from the state of Indiana presenting its choice for the presidential nomination. Four years later he was again elected a delegate to the national convention of his party which again assembled in Chicago. In the national campaign of 1900 he was a valiant worker in behalf of the platform and candidates of the Republican party. He made a canvass of the state and his influence was widely felt in all parts of Indiana and no speaker was in greater demand at Republican meetings. In the presidential conflict of 1904 in which his comrade of the Santiago Campaign, Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, was Republican nominee for president, and his fellow-townsman and neighbor, Charles W. Fairbanks, the nominee for vice-president, he was especially zealous and canvassed Indiana from one end of the state to the other. In the exciting campaign of 1908 he was once more on active participant and again canvassed Indiana for the Republican National ticket, accompanying President Taft on his speaking tour of the state. He has actively participated in every national campaign during the succeeding years and in 1912 was elected as a delegate from the Indianapolis District to the national Republican Convention at Chicago. In the interim he has served actively on party committees, as a delegate to party conventions, etc. In 1916 he was unanimously nominated as the Republican candidate for State Senator from the counties of Marian, Hamilton and Hendricks and was elected to that office by a majority of 9188 in the election that followed. In view of his distinguished services in that body he was unanimously renominated by his party from the same district in 1920, and re-elected by the over-whelming majority of 24,035 votes. During his ten years of service in the Indiana Legislature Captain English has been the author of many important Indiana laws. Among the more important now in force are the Absent Voters law, a Congressional Apportionment law, the law fixing the age for jury service, the law providing that applicants for voter's registration shall not be required to state their age, the law prescribing severe imprisonment penalty for drunken auto drivers, the law providing that honorably discharged soldiers shall have the preference in appointments to civil offices, the law providing for the admission to the Soldiers' Orphans' Home of orphans of the deceased soldiers of the World War, the law prescribing imprisonment for life for second conviction for robbery with violence, the law providing for the destruction of Court Records against Reformed Juvenile offenders, etc. Senator English has for years been a recognized authority in the Indiana Legislature on constitutional questions, serving as Chairman of the "Committee on Constitutional Revision" of the Senate for the past eight years, and being the author of the ten Constitutional Amendments submitted to the voters at the special election of 1921, and the author of the three amendments passed by the last Legislature and now pending awaiting action by the next Legislature. Captain English has recently been again unanimously nominated by his fellow Republicans as their candidate for the State Senate from Marion and Johnson counties at the coming election of 1924, being his fifth successive unanimous nomination for this office. Previous to his State Senatorial service Senator English had served the city of Indianapolis with credit as President of the Board of Park Commissioners, and later, as President of the Board of Safety (or Board of Police and Fire Commissioners), serving in both positions without pay. Relative to his service in the Spanish American War, no more adequate data could be given than that which we quote from a previously published sketch. "Upon the outbreak of the Spanish-American War, notwithstanding his large business interests and the sacrifices incident thereto, Captain English promptly tendered his services to Governor Mount of Indiana and through the Governor was offered an appointment by President McKinley as paymaster in the army with the rank of major. This tender he promptly declined, stating he desired active service. Following this he was later appointed by President McKinley to the rank of Captain of U. S. Volunteers and assigned to the Quartermaster's Department. Not desiring to serve in that department, for the reason before given a desire for more active service at the front at his own request he was transferred from that department and assigned to duty as an aide upon the personal staff of Major General Joseph Wheeler commanding the Cavalry Division, and so served throughout the Santiago campaign, refusing to draw pay for his army service. In the bombardment of EI Paso Hill during the battle of July 1 before Santiago he was disabled by his horse falling backward and upon him as the result of a Spanish shrapnel shell which wounded the horse, killed and wounded several soldiers about him and gave a wound to Colonel Theodore Roosevelt upon the arm. Captain English was crushed beneath the falling horse and was found to be dangerously injured internally. He was ordered removed from the climate of Cuba and returned to the United States as the only hope of saving his life. Together with many other sick and wounded he was placed on the hospital transport "Seneca" for removal to the United States. The transport sailed from Cuba on the day the surrender of Santiago occurred. The transport was refused a landing at both Tampa and Fortress Monroe, because of yellow fever aboard, but was finally permitted to land in New York Harbor, but the passengers were held in quarantine. Relatives of Captain English who had persistently followed to each of these ports finally secured his release and after necessary rest and recuperation he returned to Indianapolis where his many enthusiastic friends of the G. A. R., the Columbia Club, Masonic fraternity and others received him with public and official congratulations and rejoicing." Following the close of the war Captain English was one of the three founders of the society of "United Spanish War Veterans." He selected that name for the association and was honored by his comrades- by being chosen as the first elected Commander-in-Chief of the organization for the United States. He is also a member of the "Veterans of Foreign Wars" and is a Past Department Commander of the "Naval and Military Order of the Spanish War." He has also served as a colonel upon the staff of four Indiana Governors. Captain English is one of the large property holders in the city of Indianapolis, being the owner of English's Opera House, the Hotel English, the Crystal Theater Block and other large properties, and the greater portion of his time and attention is given to the supervision of his extensive interests in that city where he makes his home. Captain English's only child, his daughter Rosalind, resides with him and a considerable part of their time is passed at their beautiful country home, "Englishton Park" in Scott county, Indiana, the old family homestead which has sheltered five generations of the English family. Of a kindly, genial disposition, always thoughtful of the comfort and happiness of those in his employ and surrounding him, he is naturally the possessor of the good will and best wishes of a host of friends and business and political associates. His zealous and loyal interest in public affairs never abates and his progressiveness and civic enthusiasm have made him a valuable factor in connection with the upbuilding of "Greater Indianapolis." Captain English is an ex-president of the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce, vice-president Indiana Historical Society, member Board of Trade, Society of Indiana Pioneers, Bar Association, Society of Colonial Wars, Sons of Revolution, Society of the Cincinnati, Nature Study Club, Country Club, Woodstock Club, Gun Club, Indianapolis Athletic Club, Columbia Club, Marion Club, University Club, Indianapolis Army and Navy Club, Army and Navy Club, Washington D. C., Lambs Club, New York, etc.

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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

Mary Angela Spink, M.D. Among the residents of the capital of Indiana few have contributed in greater degree to the general welfare in the alleviation of disorders and the obviation of abuses than Dr. Mary Angela Spink. As physician, pathologist, student of affairs and active participant in club and civic matters her services have been valuable and valued, and she is justly considered one of the leading figures in the busy life of Indianapolis, where she has been a resident since 1887. Doctor Spink was born November 18, 1863, in Daviess county, Indiana, a daughter of Urban and Rosanna (Morgan) Spink. Her early education was acquired in the public schools of Washington, Indiana, following which she attended St. Simon's Academy, arid then enrolled as a student at the Indiana Medical College, at a time when only a few women were adopting medicine as a profession. Graduating in 1887 she started practice at Indianapolis. She practiced one year and then took a post-graduate course in mental and nervous diseases at the New York Post-Graduate School. With this equipment she had secured the position of pathologist at the Central Indiana Hospital for the Insane, which post she held during 1886 and 1887. In 1888, in company with Dr. W.B. Fletcher, she founded the Dr. W. B. Fletcher Sanatorium, an institution which was developed into a large and permanent success. At the time of the demise of Dr. William Baldwin Fletcher, in 1907, Doctor Spink became the superintendent, and at the present time holds the office of president of the sanatorium. She has been active in various other ways. In 1893 she became a member of the Indiana State Board of Charities, of which she still is a member, being on the committee of prisons. She belongs also to the Progressive Club, the Woodstock Club, the American Medical Association, the Indiana State Medical Society and the Marion County Medical Society.

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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