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

Horace Whitehouse, president and director of the Indiana College of Music and Fine Arts, located at Meridian and Sixteenth streets, Indianapolis, is one of the foremost figures in the world of music . He was educated in Washburn College and Harvard University, and studied the various branches of music under leading instructors. He studied piano, harmony and counterpoint, under James H. Rogers, of Cleveland, Ohio; violin under a local teacher; is a graduate of the New England Conservatory of Music, Boston; and took post-graduate work in the same institution; studied organ with Wallace Goodrich and J. H. Rogers; piano with Charles Dennee and George Proctor; voice with A. Babcock; composition with George Chadwick, the director of the New England Conservatory; and conducting under Wallace Goodrich and George W. Chadwick. He became assistant organist and choirmaster of Trinity Episcopal (Phillips Brooks) Church, of Boston, with Wallace Goodrich, remaining there from 1904 to 1909. He conducted choir festivals, the last with two hundred men and boys of Trinity Church, and has conducted choruses and orchestras for twenty years. In 1911, he went to Europe to study organ with Widor. From 1909 to 1918, he was dean of the Fine Arts Department of Washburn College, Topeka, Kansas, and while in that city was conductor of the Topeka Musical Arts Society, which had a chorus of two hundred and fifty voices and an orchestra of fifty pieces. He conducted annual festivals with the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, at which times the Messiah, Elijah, Hiawatha, Verdi's Requiem Mass and other works were performed. At one time he was organ soloist with the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, of which Max Zach was conductor, and at Topeka was organist, playing upon a four manual Kimball organ. He managed concert series during his entire stay at Topeka. He was elected an associate of the American Guild of Organists in 1917, so much attention had his work attracted, and was dean of the Kansas chapter of the Guild. He served as secretary of the Kansas State Music Teachers' organization, and in 1917, was guest professor at the University of California. From 1918 to 1921, he was director of the music department of Ohio Wesleyan University, conducting the chorus and orchestra of that university. In 1919, he was assistant musical director and organist of Methodist Centenary Church, at Columbus, Ohio, and as such, trained a chorus of a thousand voices. Two years later, in 1921, he became vice-president and musical director of the Indiana College of Music and Fine Arts, at Indianapolis, and in 1923 was made president and musical director of the college, positions which he now holds. He is, in addition to his many duties at the college, organist and choirmaster of Christ Church Episcopal, of this city. In September and October, 1921, he received signal recognition for his work as a conductor by being called from headquarters to take charge of the music for the American Red Cross Convention and to conduct a chorus of fifteen hundred voices and also the orchestra in the Great Pageant, held at Columbus, Ohio, during those months. He has given organ recitals from coast to coast. He is a member of Sinfonia, Alpha Chapter (a music fraternity), affiliates with the Methodist Church, is a member of various Masonic bodies, and formerly was a member of the Topeka Rotary Club. He has many manuscript compositions to his credit, although he has not cared to have any of them published, and has taken several prizes for musical composition, the last having been awarded by the Ohio State Music Teachers in 1921, in a statewide competition. Indianapolis music has been enriched by the coming of Mr. Whitehouse, and it is ardently to be hoped that his stay in the city will be long.

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

The McCormick Family. Undoubtedly every fortunate resident of the imposing capital city of Indianapolis, recognize its superiority over many others; there are some who have deep reason to take unusual pride in its every feature, its wide streets and radiating avenues, its location and architectural beauty, its artistic bridges and verdant parks, and the evidences on every side of modern culture and thriving business. To the McCormick family this panorama is a companion piece presented by the double log cabin that was built in 1820, on the east bank of the White River, by their pioneer ancestors, James, John and Samuel McCormick, who were the first white settlers of Indianapolis. The McCormicks came to Indiana from Virginia, and at first found safe shelter from the Indians in the Fort at Connersville. The elder John McCormick, father of John, James and Samuel, was born in Virginia in 1754, married Katherine Drennen in 1785, and died at Connersville, April 18, 1837. He was a Revolutionary soldier, serving for eight years, having enlisted three times. The McCormick brothers arrived at the White River place of settlement, February 26, 1820. John was accompanied by his family, but the young wife of James, with her infant two weeks old, remained at Connersville awaiting the building of the double log house, which was hurried forward, on the east bank of the river, a few steps below where the National Road now crosses. When it neared completion, James McCormick went back to Connersville and ten days later returned on horseback with his wife and baby. It was a lonely spot for a time and then the Harding family came and built their cabin nearby, after which the men of both families interchanged work and gave more security from the Indians, a constant menace and at all times a source of alarm to the unprotected women. On one occasion, while the women were alone, a savage appearing Indian invaded the McCormick cabin, but fortunately one of the robust Harding men was working on the place and heard their cries. He gave the intruder an unexpected reception, shaking him almost insensible and later watched him slouching down toward the river bottom. On the following day, out in the clearing, the Indian's dead body was found by the men, who naturally concluded that the drubbing had caused his death, and fearing Indian revenge, for three nights afterward the families slept hidden in the underbrush. No attack came, however, and some time afterward, on meeting a peaceable Indian, Mr. McCormick asked him if he knew there was a dead Indian down in the clearing and received the reply "bad Indian fight and got killed," and that apparently was the truth for after that the settlers had no trouble. The McCormicks kept the first tavern, or public house, and later, when the commissioners came to this section for the purpose of locating the capital, they found a home and entertainment with the McCormicks for a time. In the meanwhile, they had built a second house farther removed from the dampness of the river bank. Still later, John McCormick built a sawmill on the east side of White River at the upper end of Riverside Park. James McCormick bought a farm on the present site of Crown Hill and reared his family of nine children there, one of whom, Mrs. Kate Eagle, still survives. Two of the sons of James McCormick, John and Jediah, spent their entire lives in Indianapolis. The only living member of John's family is a daughter, Mrs. Fannie Miller, and a great granddaughter, Mrs. Altie Gladden Wheeler, wife of Dr. H. H. Wheeler, a successful physician of Indianapolis. They have three children, Homer Henderson, Garver and Gladden. Jediah McCormick had a family of five children, all of whom are living, as follows: Mrs. Laura Barlow, Mrs. Jennie Brockway, Mrs. Cora Eppert, all of Indianapolis; Mrs. Alice Parker of Los Angeles, California; and Harry McCormick, of Dayton, Ohio. Jediah McCormick was born January 29, 1827, and died August 20, 1902. His wife was Elizabeth Chase Gorham, who was born May 14, 1832, and died August 24, 1910. Their daughter, Cora McCormick, was born at Indianapolis and married Frederick W. Eppert, of Indianapolis, a prominent citizen, for eight years a member and president of the city council. Mr. and Mrs. Eppert have five children: William F., who has charge of the Singer Sewing Machine office at Fort Wayne; Madge, who is the wife of Earl E. Temperly, and has a daughter, Bettie Jane; Geraldine, who is a graduate of Butler College, is a teacher; Katherine, who is deceased; Marion Randall, who is a student at Butler, was a member of the Lawton Guards during the World War. The family attend the Presbyterian Church and Mrs. Eppert has long been active in church work and a charter member of the Grace Presbyterian Church. She and her daughters are exceedingly prominent in the city's pleasant social life and all are members of the Caroline Scott Harrison Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution.

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

Otto J. Suesz, who has been identified with the upholstering and storage business for many years, was born in Indianapolis, August 12, 1869, the son of Godfred and Mary (Heck) Suesz, the former a native of Baden, Germany, and the latter of Cincinnati, Ohio. Godfred Suesz emigrated to the United States and came to Indianapolis when he was twenty-three years of age and where he followed his trade of shoemaker until his death. His first position in the city was that of making shoes for Christ Carley and with whom he was associated for a great number of years. He died when he had attained his fifty-fifth year, his wife surviving until April 9, 1919. They were the parents of six children: Charles M., who had been associated with our subject in the business and who died July 20, 1923; William, who died in 1914; Robert J., now in business with our subject; Mrs. Katie Weindel; Fred, with the Hogan Transfer company; and Otto J. Otto J. Suesz received his education in the public schools of Indianapolis and after completing his educational career engaged in the upholstering business with the George E. Krause company, where he remained for four years, learning every phase of the trade. After leaving the employ of that company, he led rather a nomadic existence, going to New Orleans, Louisiana, and other places during the busy fall seasons and returning to Indianapolis for the busy period in that season. For one year he conducted an upholstering shop in Kansas, returning to Indianapolis in 1895 to work in the upholstering business for Colonel Gray at the corner of Delaware and New York streets. When his employer died, he purchased an interest in the business and managed it for several years. For a period of fourteen years, he was established in the Halchorn Apartment Building, leaving there for a more auspicious location at 911 Massachusetts avenue. After a time he decided to go into the storage and transfer business, which he accordingly did. Two years ago he erected a fine, two story building at Walnut and Pine streets which is 6Ox150 feet in size. He also maintains another storage building which is l00xl90 feet in size. In conjunction with his thriving storage and transfer business he still does upholstering, and his work is recognized as some of the most reliable that can be found in Indianapolis. April 25, 1900, witnessed the marriage of Mr. Suesz to Katie Heinbo, a native of Indianapolis, who died in 1911. Mr. Suesz is a Scottish Rite Mason and a Shriner, and he also holds membership in the Loyal Order of Moose, the Knights of Pythias, and the Modern Woodmen of the Wood. As an old resident of the city of Indianapolis, Mr. Suesz is recognized as one of the substantial citizens of the community.

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. O. M. Pittenger, president of the Indiana State Federation of Clubs, is one of Indiana's foremost citizens, a woman of culture, committed to the expansive program of the Federation to the presidency of which she was elected in 1923, and all in all, a most useful person. Mrs. Pittenger was born in Parker's Landing, Pennsylvania. Her maiden name was Pauline Gibson. Her father, William Porter Gibson was a member of one of the first families of the state. His father was a professor in the University of Dublin and later a chaplain in the Revolutionary War. The mother of Mrs. Pittenger was Priscilla Huselton Gibson, born in Pennsylvania, of English ancestry on the paternal, and Dutch on the maternal side. Two children died in infancy. Pauline Gibson received her training at Parker's Landing and in private schools. She was graduated from the State Normal at Clarion, Pennsylvania, then came to Indiana University. Here she was made a Kappa Kappa Gamma and at the sorority house in Bloomington was united in marriage on June 18, 1896, to Mr. Pittenger. Oscar Morgan Pittenger was born in Albany, Indiana, the son of a Methodist minister. He is a graduate of the Delaware county schools, Indiana University (with the degree of A.B.), Columbia University (with the degree of A.M.), and Illinois Wesleyan (with the degree, Ph.D.). For the past five years he has been superintendent of the state school for the deaf and is nationally known as an educator. For nine years he taught in the grade and high schools at Anderson, was superintendent of the Frankfort schools and later professor of psychology and history in the Indiana State Normal at Muncie. The Pittengers have three daughters: Priscilla, aged fourteen, senior at Indianapolis Technical high school; Martha, twelve, freshman in the same school; and Portia, nine years old. Mrs. Pittenger lectures extensively before parent-teachers' associations, women's clubs and community organizations. A partial list of lecture subjects includes "Poured Out Lives" (missionary), "The Land of Memory," "Robert Browning," "Walt Whitman," "Richard Watson Gilder, Man and Poet," "The Modern Novel," "Louis Couperus," "A Bit of Sentiment," "The Women of the Bible," "Women in Education." "The Education of Women," and "Odds and Ends." She is past president of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Crawfordsville district, past district president of the Epworth League and past corresponding secretary of the Lafayette district of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society. Leadership is a part of her nature.

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. Peter C. Reilly, born at Asheville, North Carolina, is proud to be known as a "Tar Heel." She has, moreover, a rather unusual family history. Mrs. Reilly's maiden name was Ineva Gash. The father, Ervin Gash, came of a family that had much to do with the political life of Germany. They were of a Moravian group. One was a signer of the Mecklenburg independence. Part of the family became the Spanns of Virginia, others the Weavers and Erwins of Pennsylvania, and were Quakers. Mrs. Reilly's grandfather was a devout Quaker but nineteen of his grandsons were in the Civil War. Ervin Gash was one of ten sons, all in the great conflict. Three were lost and seven injured. For three years Mr. Gash was with General Lee and served in the 16th North Carolina infantry under Stonewall Jackson, participating in twenty-one battles. He was an expert bayoneteer, the best in the regiment. The family suffered heavily through the depredations of the bush-whackers after the war. The family possessed numerous slaves but their treatment of them was kind and considerate. Mrs. Reilly's mother was Tuluah Schuford, of another fine Southern family, which acquired large grants of land two and a half centuries back. Mr. and Mrs. Gash were married in Ashland, Kentucky, and had three girls: Mrs. McWhorter, of Chattanooga, and Mrs. Reilly, the other having died. Mrs. Reilly was educated in Asheville College, the institution her mother attended and in 1895 was graduated from the University of Nashville, since reorganized. She went to New York, studied art, taught seven years in southern cities and in 1903 was united in marriage to Peter C. Reilly in Nashville. Mr. Reilly was born in Providence, Rhode Island. Both parents were born in Ireland. The father, John Reilly, came to this country at the age of twenty, joined the regular army and was wounded in the Civil War. Peter C. Reilly was educated in Providence, being graduated from high school there. He is in the creosoting business, the field covering chemicals, dyes and coal tar products investigations. He came to Indianapolis twenty-eight years ago. He is president of the Republic Creosoting company, member of the Commercial Club, Columbia Club, Highland Golf Club, Indianapolis Athletic Club, Athenaeum and National Creosoting Association. The Reillys have four children: Ineva Frances, Peter c., Jr., George A. and Thomas E. Mrs. Reilly has always been interested in civic and philanthropic services . She belongs to the League of Women Voters, Democratic Club and has aided materially in the Community Chest. She belongs to a number of other organizations, is of the Catholic faith and attends the Cathedral.

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 O. Bates, newspaper man and playwright, was born September 19, 1852, near Harrisburg, Fayette county. His father, John Bates, was also born in Fayette county and was an extensive land owner and breeder of fine stock. His grandfather came to Indiana from Kentucky in 1820, and was a descendant of a Virginia family. Mr. Bates' mother was Angeline Woodworth Bates, nee Thomas, daughter of Elder Minor Thomas, a Baptist evangelist, who came to Indiana in 1830 and established a number of churches in the Whitewater valley. The parents were married December 4, 1851, in Fayette county, and had two children, Emma Lorena, who married James A. Buchanan. William O. Bates attended a crossroads school in Fayette county, the Quaker high school at Milton, Indiana, Fairview Academy, the Northwestern Christian University and was graduated from Cornell University in 1875, he is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, was class poet at commencement and was one of the founders of the New York Alpha Chapter of Phi Delta Theta and first editor of "The Scroll," of Phi Delta Theta, the first Greek letter fraternity paper. Returning to Indianapolis he engaged in newspaper work on The Journal and was subsequently connected with the St. Paul Pioneer Press, the New York World and other newspapers. On October 23, 1893, Mr. Bates married Clara Nixon, in New York. Miss Nixon was born in Ireland of noted ancestry. She descended from Captain Thomas Nixon, one of King William's officers at the Battle of the Boyne. Three children were born of this union: Angeline, born April 1, 1901, who was married on June 7, 1923, to Albert L. Dougherty, now of Chicago; John Nixon Bates, born 1904, and died in 1909 at Ft. Worth, Texas; and Lydia Creswell Bates, born 1903, a student at Butler College. During the World War Mrs. Bates was business manager of Little Theatre. She did much to provide entertainment for the soldiers at Camp Benjamin Harrison. She is a charter member of the Women's Rotary Club. Mr. Bates is the author of the Indianapolis Pageant, produced in 1920, and of several plays, including, Uncle Rodney, Jacob Leisler, Polly of Pogue's Run, Asaph, The Dryad and the Deacon, Where do we go from Here?, Our Foreign Correspondent, variously produced by professional and Little Theatre organizations. He and Mrs. Bates reside at 756 Middle Drive, Woodruff Place. He is a Swedenborgian in religious faith.

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

Dr. Ada E. Schweitzer. Peculiarly fitted by training and by genuine love of children, is Doctor Schweitzer, director of the division of infant and child hygiene of the Indiana state board of health. She is a splendid example of what wonderful results can be obtained by the devotion of a lifetime to the interests of children whom she loves. The doctor was a school teacher before assuming the state position and from the standpoint of pedagogy as well as medicine, understands child life. Doctor Schweitzer was born in La Grange county, Indiana. The father, George Schweitzer, was born in Wittenburg, Germany, came to America at the age of seven, grew to manhood, was naturalized and cast his first vote for Abraham Lincoln. Her mother was Olive A.Kilpatrick, a native of LaGrange county, whose family came from New York and the New England states. She attended the old seminary in Ontario and Albia College, then taught school, came back to La Grange county and in 1870 was married. There were two children born to Mr. and Mrs. Schweitzer, Ada E. and Willard. The latter lives in Howe, Indiana, and is one of the leading members of the community. He taught school, served as a township trustee and is in the real estate and grain business. He married Bernice Smith and there is one child, Katherine, attending Howe high school. Ada Schweitzer attended the common schools of Howe, was graduated from high school and attended Indiana Medical College from which she was graduated in 1907, with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. She taught school in northern Indiana several years and became associate professor of bacteriology in her alma mater. Post-graduate work has been done in different high grade medical schools in Boston, St. Louis, New York and other cities. For a number of years she has been with the state board of health. In 1906-1908 she did microscopic work in the state laboratory. She was medical editor of the Purdue Exponent. Special studies in infectious diseases of children, epidemiology, diphtheria, typhoid, history of malaria, etc., having brought her special credits and recognition. She planned and executed an exhibit on typhoid before the American Medical Association in San Francisco in 1915. In 1918 she had an appointment in the United States Children's Bureau and made a pre-school survey in Gary, then took full charge of special work in that city. In October, 1918, Doctor Schweitzer was sent South to take charge of an important survey to determine the normalcy of children of the South, physically and mentally, and worked in the mill towns of Alabama and South Carolina. At the time of a grave flu epidemic, Doctor Schweitzer was in the U. S. Public Health Service and rendered distinguished service in South Carolina. In 1919 she became attached to the state health department and was made director of the child hygiene division, the work growing rapidly and now necessitating the service of twenty persons operating under her. Under her direction, health conferences have been held throughout the state and forty-seven maternity and infant centers have been established, and a considerable amount of other prophylactic and educational work has been carried out. Doctor Schweitzer is an active member of local, state and national medical societies; is a Fellow of the American Public Health Association; Fellow of the American College of Physicians ; board member of the American Congress of Internal Medicine; member of American Child Health Association, of the Mental Hygiene Association and of the Central States Pediatric Association. She is a frequent contributor, to the medical press, Doctor Schweitzer is a member of the Methodist Church and foreign and home missionary societies of the church; Chamber of Commerce ; Woman's City Club; American Association of University Women; Nature Study Club; Herron Art Institute ,and the Indianapolis Social Workers' 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

Mrs. Eliza A. Blaker. Dedicating her life to the cause of education and the promulgation of the highest community ideals and standards, Eliza A. Blaker has probably exercised a greater influence and molded more lives in Indianapolis than any other person who has lived in the community. This brief sketch, therefore, rather than be devoted to mere dates and biographical incidents, can but point out certain outstanding services that have been rendered in the distinguished career of Doctor Blaker, who is a Doctor of Laws. To have served a community creditably and unselfishly for more than forty years, and to have influenced the future ideals of thousands of young men and women and little children for good is indeed to have constructed a lasting monument. Mrs. Blaker's name is a benison. She is the founder and superintendent of the free kindergarten system of Indianapolis and president of the Teachers' College, this city. Eliza A. Blaker is the eldest daughter of Jacob L. Cooper and Mary Jane Cooper and was born in Philadelphia. Her father was a native of Lambertville, New Jersey and served in the Civil War. The mother was born in the Quaker City. Mrs. Blaker was educated in the schools of Philadelphia and was graduated from the Girls' Normal school on June 25, 1874, and from Centennial Kindergarten school in May, 1880. Mrs. Blaker taught in the Philadelphia primary and grammar schools and in the Artisans' night school. She was married to Louis J. Blaker of Philadelphia, September 15, 1880. Mr. Blaker died in Indianapolis in 1913. Mrs. Blaker taught in the Vine street kindergarten, Philadelphia, in a house especially equipped for the purpose by a benevolent woman of that city. After her marriage she was called to Indianapolis, in 1882, by A. C. Shortridge, to establish a kindergarten in the Hadley and Roberts Academy, which stood on what is now the site of the Indianapolis Athletic Club. She had been recommended for the work by Miss Elizabeth Peabody, who introduced the Froebel, system into the United States, as a kindergartner of superior qualifications, both by nature and training. Mrs. Blaker, in 1882, was called to become head of the Indianapolis Free kindergarten and Children's Aid Society, including the superintendency of the kindergartens. She suggested the establishment of a training school for kindergartners, founded such, later changed the name to that of the Indiana Kindergarten and Primary Normal Training school and in 1893, it evoluted into the Teachers' College, which name is retained. In vocational training and guidance, Mrs. Blaker is a pioneer. A system, also, of friendly visiting in connection with the Friendly Inn, established by Rev. Oscar McCullough, was developed by Mrs. Blaker, who is pre-eminently a woman of vision. In her view, the home is the center from which must come the chief influences for good in our civilization. Impair or vitiate home life, and the nation is doomed. In June, 1917, Hanover College, Hanover, Indiana, conferred on Mrs. Blaker the degree of Doctor of Laws. The first kindergarten legislation in Indiana was inspired by the effective work of a graduate of the Teachers' College and the first bill was prepared by W. Dudley Foulke, of Richmond. The Free Kindergarten Society was formed in 1884. The present home of the college was erected in 1903, at Alabama and Twenty-third streets. This is called the William N. Jackson Memorial in memory of a well-known citizen of Indianapolis. In 1915, the Armenia B. Tuttle Building was erected just east of and adjoining the main college building. This was named in memory of Mrs. Blaker's mother, Armenia B. Tuttle. Mrs. Blaker opened the first summer school at Winona, in 1892, before it was purchased by the Presbyterian denomination. It is declared that Mrs. Blaker has been to Indianapolis what Jane Addams has been to Chicago. She has remarkable executive ability, vision, sympathy, faith; is never discouraged; is modest and self-effacing; kind and complaisant. She has published no books or papers, a matter of regret to her innumerable friends. In the fifty odd kindergartens in Indianapolis, each of which is a community house, Mrs. Blaker is leaving a heritage, the value of which is beyond computation.

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. Hugh H. Hanna. Anna Hester Sharpe Hanna, residing in Indianapolis, is the widow of Henry Hugh, or commonly written Hugh Henry Hanna, one of Indiana's most distinguished citizens. Mr. Hanna was the seventh son of Joseph Smith Hanna and Hester Ann Sumwalt, and was born September 19, 1848, in Lafayette. He was educated in the common schools of Lafayette, Wabash College and the University of Berlin and was united in marriage to Miss Sharpe at the home of her parents, October 22, 1873. Three children were born of the union: Hugh Henry Hanna, Jr., born February 27, 1876; Elizabeth Wilson Hanna, born February 20, 1882, who died May 15, 1886; and Katherine Wilson Hanna, born March 18, 1889, who died October 27, 1892. Mr. Hanna became internationally famous by virtue of his championship of the cause of the gold standard. He was acclaimed the hero of a great financial victory and received the laudation of Ex-President Benjamin Harrison, William E. Dodge and others high in political and economic circles. In other ways, however, Mr. Hanna's influence was felt. He had much to do with the organization of the charities of Indianapolis, aided the Art Association and promoted its objectives and gave himself whole-heartedly to the beautification of the city. His readiness to help in all good causes and his deep, lasting interest in whatever concerned the well being of the community-spiritual or material-were long recognized by his townsmen and there was no one who stood higher in their esteem. His antagonism to the free and unlimited coinage of silver during the days of distress preceding the Republican state convention of 1896, when Indiana was regarded a pivotal state, brought crystallization of sentiment in that convention and yielded an official expression, the convention declaring that "we favor the use of silver as currency, but to the extent only and under such regulations that its parity with gold can be maintained and in consequence are opposed to the free, unlimited and independent coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1." Mr. Hanna was instrumental in the formation of a national committee and the calling of a convention leading to the formulation of a currency reform plan which was incorporated in desired federal legislation. He became a national figure. Harvard conferred on Mr. Hanna the degree of Master of Arts and Wabash College gave him the degree of Doctor of Laws. Mr. Hanna passed into eternal life on October 31, 1920. The father of Mrs. Hanna was Thomas Hindman Sharpe, second son of Ebenezer and Elizabeth Lake Sharpe. Mr. Sharpe was an ardent Whig and became a devoted adherent of the Republican party upon its formation. His first education was received at Transylvania University and in 1826, at the age of eighteen, came to Indianapolis with his parents. Physically, he was well knit, and sturdy, with great swiftness and elasticity of motion. Mentally he was keen and possessed a mind of great perspicacity. He aided his father in school work and became county school commissioner. On November 2, 1837, Mr. Sharpe was married to Elizabeth Catherine Wilson, daughter of Dr. John Wilson, of Uniontown, Pennsylvania. There were eleven children, seven living to maturity. Mr. Sharpe was ordained an elder of the First Presbyterian Church. He was active in benevolent efforts and died February 12, 1893, with the profoundest respect of the city as tribute to his worth. His father, Ebenezer Sharpe, the grandfather of Mrs. Hanna, was born in Cecil county, Maryland, in 1777. At eight, his father died. Ebenezer Sharpe was gifted in "The Humanities," and a master of Latin and Greek. He taught school and became a professor in Transylvania College, Lexington, Kentucky, the first college in the valley of the Ohio River. In 1826, he came to Indianapolis and established schools among them the first classical school in Indiana. He was distinguished as a classicist. Ebenezer Sharpe died in the fall of 1835, at the age of fifty-eight 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

Mrs. J. Newton Lambert, of 2225 Capitol Boulevard, is of Revolutionary descent and herself for many years in the cause of civic righteousness, has displayed the same valor and courage. Mrs. Lambert was before marriage, Amelia Longstreth, and was born on a farm near Lebanon, Warren county, Ohio. Her father was George Field Longstreth, born in Philadelphia, of English Quaker ancestry. Mr. Longstreth resided in the home he established, fifty years, dying there at the age of seventy-nine. Mrs. Lambert's grandfather, Benjamin Longstreth, was a soldier of the Revolution and brother of Captain Isaac Longstreth, of Revolutionary fame. Mrs. Lambert's mother was Elizabeth Young, who came of a pioneer family of North Carolina, engaged in cotton culture. Mrs. Lambert was married in 1868, in Lebanon. Mr. Lambert died on June 2, 1922. His folks were Virginians. Mr. Lambert was a veteran of the Civil War, serving in the 146th Ohio Infantry. He was a merchant in Lebanon, but changed his business to that of coal, coke, grain, etc., and came to Indianapolis in 1904, and founded the Lambert Coal and Coke company, which, business has, since his death, been carried on by the son, Clifford, whose wife was Jennie Louise Rice, of Georgia. They have one son and one daughter, Rice Waldo Lambert and Daisy Pauline Lambert. Rice Waldo married Florence Hite of Indianapolis. They have two children, Jane and William L. Lambert. Mrs. J. Newton Lambert also reared a nephew and niece, children of her brother. He is George F. Longstreth, associated with Lambert company. He married Florence Beard of Winchester, Indiana. There is one child, Paul Lambert Longstreth. Mrs. J. Newton Lambert is a pioneer W. C. T. U. worker, was extremely active in Warren county, Ohio, and attended many state and national assemblages of the Union. She was in attendance at the first national meeting of the organization when, the sainted Frances Willard brought up the question of woman suffrage. She is a pioneer suffrage worker and a stout, proponent of Christian women's participation in politics. Mrs. Lambert belongs to the League of Women Voters, is a charter and life member of the Women's Department Club, is an organizer and member of the Granville Thurston Relief Corps auxiliary of Lebanon and was president four terms. She was president of the George H. Thomas Post Relief Corps, a member of the Daughters of the Union and of the Daughters of the American Revolution. She is a zealous worker in the First Baptist Church and allied bodies. A brother of Mrs. Lambert, Morris Longstreth, lost his life in the Civil War.

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

Dr. Frank Barbour Wynn. It has been said of Doctor Frank Barbour Wynn, deceased, that "he found companionship in mountains because he was like them. His spirit soared beyond the peaks. His convictions were as well founded as the bases from which the mountains tower." Doctor Wynn's eminence extended beyond medical practice. He was a man of great culture, an active, useful citizen, a philanthropist. He was founder of the scientific exhibit of the American Medical Association, of which he served as director seventeen years. In recognition of his distinguished service the association presented him with a loving cup at the convention in Boston in 1906. Doctor Wynn was born near Springfield, Indiana. His father was James M. Wynn. The grandfather, John Wynn, came to Indiana in 1822, and located near Brookville. The family was a mixture of English and Welsh. One of Doctor Wynn's ancestors fell at Bunker Hill. The doctor's mother was Margaret Wynn, nee Barbour. Her family located near Oxford, Indiana. A brother of the doctor, John G., lives in Madison, Wisconsin, and three sisters reside in Indianapolis, Mrs. Harry W. Meredith, Mrs. Stewart Milligan and Mrs. Daniel Boone Clapp. Doctor Wynn attended Asbury College, studied at medical college in Cincinnati, took post-graduate work in Berlin, Paris and Vienna and served interneships at Dayton, Ohio, and Ft. Wayne, locating in Indianapolis in 1893, gaining renown as a specialist in diagnostics and internal medicine. On June 25, 1895, Doctor Wynn married Carrie Louise Arnold, of Dayton; Ohio, native of Columbus. Her people were New Englanders. Two ancestors, Elder John Cook and Richard Warren were Mayflower passengers. Israel Arnold, soldier of the Revolution, was a great grandfather. Her mother, Elizabeth Childs, was a daughter of Hon. John G. Childs, legislator and lieutenant governor of Rhode Island. The old family homestead has become a public domain. Also on the paternal side "Chad" Brown was an ancestor of Mrs. Wynn. He was one of the founders of the state of Rhode Island. One son was born to Doctor and Mrs. Wynn, Dr. James Arnold Wynn, an honor graduate of the Indiana University. He has done much special research and post-graduate work in eastern medical centers, and has succeeded his father's practice following his father's death. In 1922, he married Louise Agnes Wolfe, of North Manchester, Indiana. They have one daughter, Barbara Louise Wynn. Doctor Wynn, senior, was a former president of the Indiana Medical Association and the Mississippi Valley Medical Association, and in 1921 was vice-president of the American Medical Association, and a heavy contributor to medical journals. In 1922, he received the degree of Doctor of Science. Mrs. Wynn is a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution and the Fortnightly Club. Doctor Wynn was member of the official board of the Meridian Street Methodist Episcopal Church at the time of his death.

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. Isaac Born, who is president of the State Temple Sisterhood, is one of more commanding figures in the Jewish religious and social life of Indianapolis, a woman of capability, zealous in the performance of civic duty and a paradigm of modern, progressive and aggressive womanhood. Mrs. Born was born in Rockport, Spencer county, Indiana. Her maiden name was Bertha Weil. Her father, Ferdinand Weil, born in Germany, came to America about 1850. Her mother was Mathilde Schoenfeld, born in France. Her maternal grandfather was a soldier in the legions of Napoleon. Ferdinand Weil was one of the best known and most beloved citizens of Spencer county, a gentleman of culture. Bertha Weil was graduated from Rockport high school, attended a finishing school, studied music and in Indianapolis married Isaac Born, the son of an intimate friend of General Lew Wallace. Mr. Born is the son of Samuel Born, grain dealer and respected citizen of Tippecanoe county. Isaac Born attended the Lafayette schools and Purdue University and as an attorney, specializes in traffic problems. His offices are in the Occidental Building. Eleven years ago Mr. and Mrs. Born came to Indianapolis to reside. She is a pioneer suffrage worker, was president two years of the Franchise League and has been on the board of the League of Women Voters. Mrs. Born is chairman of the Seventh district of the League; is a staunch Democrat; active in the Girl Scout movement; member of the Women's Department Club; director of the Little Theatre Society; member of the Monday Club and is alert in the study of literature. During the World War she served War Camp Community Service; aided in the distribution of food cards; was chairman of the Franchise League Red Cross shop at the William H. Block store. She is chairman of the Americanization committee of the State Federation of Women's Clubs; fired the first gun in the food conservation campaign; was state chairman of the women's foreign division of the Victory Loan campaign and is a member of the Women's Post-War Council. Mrs. Born, while holding membership in other organizations, has concentrated on the work of the Jewish Temple and is state president of the Sisterhood and a member of the national board ten years. Mr. Born is a member of the Chamber of Commerce, Indianapolis Athletic Club, Hoosier Athletic Club, Indianapolis Club, Melichoir Club, Broadmoor and Country Clubs. The Borns have two children, Therese Mathild, graduate of Tudor and Bryn Mawr, married in 1922 to Herbert Salus, of Philadelphia, and Ferdinand Born, a graduate of the University of Illinois.

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 R. Treat, son of Atwater J. and Isabella L. (Laidley) Treat, was born at Indianapolis, September 16, 1869, was the only son. His early education was received in the city and private schools of Indianapolis and afterwards attended Westminster schools at Dobbs Ferry, New York, preparatory to entering Harvard University in the class of 1895. In 1893, however, Mr. Treat, returned to Indianapolis in the view of the retirement of Edward C. Eagen from the partnership of Eagen & Treat, and here became associated in business with his father, under the firm name of A. J. Treat & Son, which has since continued under the same name to the present writing, Mr. Treat assuming entire charge of the business since the death of his father on April 22, 1902. The enterprise is the oldest of its kind in the city, haying originally been established here in 1867, and has for many years held distinctive precedence as one of the leading merchant tailoring establishments, not only of Indiana, but also of the Middle West. He supports the Republican party, and is a member of the Indianapolis Athletic Club, Marion Club, Kiwanis Club, and in the Masonic fraternity is a member of Ancient Landmarks, No. 319, F. & A. M., and Keystone Chapter, Royal Arch Masons. Mr. Treat was married to Eva Pauline Henderson of Kokomo, Indiana, January 11, 1900, and they have one daughter, Virginia Pauline.

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. Thomas Henry Mullins, nee Alice Foster, president of the Indianapolis League of Women Voters, was born in Fort Wayne, Indiana, where the Foster family has long been one of great prominence. Her father, Samuel M. Foster, moved to Fort Wayne, in 1879, from his native county of Orange, New York, where he was born in 1851. He has been a leader of city affairs as a banker and a manufacturer, having been president of numerous business concerns, a member of the school board, president of the Commercial Club, one of the promoters of the Home Telephone & Telegraph company, and one of the men instrumental in obtaining the public library for the Summit City. Until recently he was president of the Lincoln National Bank, of Fort Wayne. He and his brother, D. N. Foster, made the most considerable gift of park land in the history of their city, donating a beautiful tract of sixty acres of wooded country bordering the St. Mary's river, and now called Foster Park. Samuel M. Foster is a graduate of Yale, class of 1879. His great grandfather, Jesse Foster, was a revolutionary soldier, and through descent from him, Mr. Foster is a member of the Sons of the American Revolution. In 1881, he married Margaret Harrison, a Canadian by birth, and they have one child, Alice. Alice Foster, was educated in the public schools of Fort Wayne, and at Smith College, from which she was graduated in 1906. In the following year she was married td Fred H. McCulloch, a grandson of Hugh McCulloch, who was secretary of the treasury under three presidents and the first controller of United States currency. To this union one child, Bettie Foster McCulloch, was born September 5, 1908, at Fort Wayne, and she is now a student at Elmhurst, preparing herself for Smith College. In 1923, Mrs. McCulloch married Thomas Henry Mullins, of Camhridge, Massachusetts, who attended the University of Maine, studied law at Boston University, and is now associated with the Fred P. O'Brien Motor. Mrs. Mullins has always been extreme1y interested in public service work, and her first efforts in this direction were as a member of the civic department of the Woman's Club League of Fort Wayne, in 1916. At that time Fort Wayne, became the center of interest as a city in which was executed one of the most unique plans of modern civic advancement, following a "city planning" exhibit held under the auspices of the Woman's Club League. In her capacity as chairman of the civic department of the League, Mrs. Mullins worked in conjunction with the city health board and the management of the public schools to carry forward a "Backyard Campaign" which inspired hundreds of children and their parents to create attractive home surroundings. Another work with which Mrs. Mullins was identified in the League was an anti-fly campaign which brought publicity from all over the state and accomplished much good. Becoming interested in equal suffrage, Mrs. Mullins served as president of the Fort Wayne Franchise League, and in 1919, was a director and vice-president of the Women's Franchise League of Indiana. In the same year she was elected chairman of the State Democratic Woman's Committee, and in 1920, was chosen a delegate-at large to the National Democratic Convention, having been the first woman in the state so honored. She went with Ralston, Taggart and Marshall to Washington, and following this took an active part in the campaign. Since this was the first campaign after the legislature had given women suffrage in presidential elections, there was much organization work to be done. The mass of women had to be interested in voting before party loyalty could be aroused, and Mrs. Mullins became a pioneer party worker. From 1918 to 1920, she was General Federation Secretary of the Indiana Federation of Women's Clubs. Her World War work was exemplary. She was chairman of the Woman's Liberty Loan Committee of Indiana, for the Second, Third and Fourth loans, and of the Northern section of Indiana for the Fifth, when the state was divided into two sections. This automatically made her a member of the executive committee of the War Savings Stamp drives, and she also found time to do local war work in Fort Wayne. Mrs. Mullins is a member of the Indiana Smith College Club and the Woman's Department Club, and in Fort Wayne maintains her membership in such organizations as the Fortnightly Club, the College Club, Morning Musical Club, Sick Children's Aid Society, and is affiliated with the First Presbyterian Church. Mr. Mullins is a member of the Columbia Club, the Hoosier Athletic and the Fort Wayne Country clubs, and although they have but recently become residents of Indianapolis, both he and his wife are making a place for themselves among the leaders of the community.

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. Edmond Warren Stockdale, nee Mary Eleanor McCaslin, Transportation Chairman of the Indiana Federation of Women's Clubs, is one of the torch bearers of Indiana, among the women. Born in Zanesville, Ohio, she is the daughter of Edmond F. and Mary E. (Maxwell) McCaslin, the latter of whom was a daughter of Louis Maxwell, one of the pioneers of Ohio, in which state occurred the marriage of Mrs. Stockdale's parents. They had four children, of whom Mary Eleanor was the eldest She was graduated from the Zanesville high school, and attended the Normal school at that place, after which she taught for one year. In 1895, she was married to Edmond Warren Stockdale, likewise a native of Zanesville, and the son of Stephen E. Stockdale, the family being originally from England, where it was one of the old and honored members of the landed gentry. E. W. Stockdale's mother was Susan (Lawson) Stockdale, and she was born at Taylorsville, Ohio, of which state her forbears had been pioneer settlers. Her father, John Lawson, was a soldier in the Civil War, and died in Andersonville prison. Mr. Stockdale has been in the music business for many years, having spent twenty-two years with H. D. Munson & Sons. Starting with that concern as a chore boy, his duties as such including washing windows and other unpleasant jobs, his integrity and industry won him advancement to the positions of assistant general manager and vice-president of the company. In 1913, he came to Indianapolis, as general manager of the Pierson Piano company, "Indiana's Largest Piano Store," which has branches in all the larger cities of the state. Mr. and Mrs. Stockdale had four children: three daughters and a son, Kenneth, the second child, who died at the age of fourteen years. Beulah Marde Stockdale, the eldest daughter, is a graduate of Shortridge high schools, and of Butler College, where she was a member of the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority, vice-president of her class in the senior year, vice-president of the college Y. W. C. A., and president of the Pan-Hellenic Council. She married George Hooker Cornelius, of the Cornelius Printing company, Indianapolis, and they have two children; George Stockdale Cornelius and Edmond Warren Cornelius. Mary Louis Stockdale, another daughter, also graduated from Shortridge high school, and attended Butler College, and Northwestern University, being also a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma. Mildred Elizabeth, is a graduate of the same high school, and is now in her senior year at Butler, where she is a member of the same sorority. Mrs. Stockdale, in addition to her being Chairman of Transportation for the Indiana Federation of Women's Clubs, is Chairman of the Old Fauntleroy Home Committee of the Seventh District; vice-president of the Magazine Club, of which she was chairman of the program committee for two years; a member of the Friday Afternoon Reading Club, being chairman of the program committee; and is chairman for the 1924 convention of the State Federation of Women's Clubs. She is a conscientious worker, and what she does must invariably be done to her complete satisfaction. She is a member of the Kappa Mother's Club, of Irvington, and she and her husband are members of the Central Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church, in the affairs of which they are much interested. She has been president of the Woman's Bible Class, of two hundred members, for three years, and for a like period has been president of one of the Church Circles, with forty-five members. She is a member of the Finance Committee of the Sunday school and a member of the W. C. T. U., while Mr. Stockdale is Superintendent of the Children's Department of the Sunday school, a member of the Finance Committee, and is much interested in the music of the church. He is a member of the Knights of Pythias and the United Commercial Travelers, and both he and his wife are counted among those citizens of Indianapolis, who have ever the good of the community at heart.

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

Frank Brown Shields, was born in Seymour, Indiana, and educated in the public schools and high school, of Seymour, graduating in 1907, after which he went to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He did research work with the General Electric company for three years, and then took up the manufacturing of an extract in the south for another three years. In 1911, Mr. Shields came to Indianapolis, where he was the founder of the glue industry, and manufactures that product from a vegetable imported from the Java Islands. The Mapco Corporation manufactured most of the waterproof glue used in France and Italy, during the war, and is practically the only company which manufactures lit. Then, in 1920, he founded the Barbasol company, and started the manufacturing of glue on a large scale which is distributed over the whole world. Mr. Shields is a Democrat. He married Mary Mather of Indianapolis, and to this union has been born one child, Madeline, who is attending school. He belongs to the Indianapolis Country and Indianapolis Athletic clubs.

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