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SADLER, WILLIAM SAMUEL: 1875-

William Samuel Sadler , son of Samuel Cavins and Sarah Isabele Wilson Sadler, was born at Spencer, Ind., on June 24, 1875, and was educated at Battle Creek College, Cooper Medical College, the University of Chicago, and American Medical Missionary College of the University of Illinois, receiving an M.D. from the last-named institution in 1906. He also studied in Europe. On Dec. 3, 1897, he married Lena C. Kellogg.

After 1906 he practiced medicine in Chicago , serving as director and chief psychiatrist of the Chicago Institute of Research and Diagnosis.

Information from Who's Who in America.

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SAGE, ELIZABETH: 1868-

Born in Buffalo, N. Y., on Feb. 8, 1868, Elizabeth Sage graduated from St. Margaret's in Buffalo in 1887 and received the B.S. degree from Columbia University in 1917. From 1913 to 1937 she was professor of economics at Indiana University.

Information from The University Libraries, Indiana University.

SANCHEZ, NELLIE VAN DE GRIFT (MRS. ADULFO): 1856-1935.

Nellie Van de Grift , daughter of Jacob and Esther Keen Van de Grift and youngest sister of Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson, was born in Indianapolis on Nov. 24, 1856. She graduated from Indianapolis High School in 1875 and studied at the University of California from 1905 to 1910. On Sept. 12, 1880, she married Adulfo Sanchez, who died in 1890.

Mrs. Sanchez engaged in historical research and the translation of original Spanish documents. She died on Jan. 4, 1935.

Information from Who Was Who in America.

SANDERS, NEWELL: 1850-1939.

Newell Sanders , son of John and Miriam Coffey Sanders, was born in Owen County, Ind., on July 12, 1850, and graduated from Indiana University in 1873, receiving the LL.D. degree in 1931. He married Corinne Dodds in 1873.

From 1873 to 1877 he was a merchant at Bloomington, Ind., and in 1878 moved to Chattanooga, Tenn., where he was engaged in the manufacture of plows. He was president and general manager of the Chattanooga Plow Company from 1882 to 1901 and again from 1915 to 1919. In 1919 the Chattanooga Plow Company was sold to International Harvester. He established the Newell Sanders Plow Company in 1901, of which he was sole owner, and served as an officer and director of other organizations.

Mr. Sanders was active in politics. He was a leader of the prohibition movement in Tennessee and from Apr. 8, 1912, to Feb. 2, 1913, served as U. S. senator from that state–the only Republican senator from Tennessee in sixty years.

He died at Chattanooga on Jan. 26, 1939.

Information from Indiana University, 1820-1904, and Who Was Who in America.

SAY, THOMAS: 1787-1834.

Thomas Say , son of Dr. Benjamin Say, a leading citizen of Philadelphia , and his first wife, Ann Bonsall, was born on June 27, 1787. His father was an enlightened doctor of medicine and apparently a patron of the arts and sciences in general and his mother was a granddaughter of the American botanist, John Bartram; consequently it is not strange that Thomas Say's interest turned to the biological sciences at an early age.

Nothing is known of Thomas Say's childhood. His was a Quaker family, and he was enrolled in the Westtown Boarding School at the time of its opening. He was then twelve years old. It appears that his education did not prosper greatly, and he was soon removed and put to work in the apothecary shop which his father operated in connection with his medical practice. Before long young Say became interested in natural history–a subject which was certainly not taught at Westtown School or any other in that day. He began to collect beetles and butterflies and was encouraged in his studies by his great-uncle, William Bartram, then still living. He found some other young men who were interested in the same studies and he was soon thinking of nothing else: Thomas Say had found his field.

He was one of the founders of the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences. His father had set him up in the drug business—munfortunately with John Speakman, another budding naturalistmand the firm failed dismally in a very short time. After the failure page: 280[View Page 280] young Say took up residence in the Academy's rooms, sleeping, it was said, under one of the displays, the skeleton of a horse, and eating, when it occurred to him, bread and milk. Such was to be Thomas Say's mode of life, except when someone took him in hand for a period now and then, until his death in 1834.

Say served briefly in the War of 1812, his total pay during the campaign amounting to $7.06. He then returned to haunt the Academy, now occupying new and commodious quarters.

In 1817 he published his first book on entomology; it consisted of ten pages, including six plates. In that same year the Academy elected a new president. He was William Maclure, a Scotch merchant who had come to Philadelphia after having amassed a fortune in London and who was now intent upon making a complete geological survey of North America. Maclure became, and continued until his death, the patron not only of the Academy but also of Thomas Say.

In 1819 Say was appointed zoologist to accompany the expedition on which the War Department had ordered Maj. Stephen H. Long and Col. Henry Atkinson to the Yellowstone, Long to make a scientific survey and Atkinson to intimidate the British fur traders who were encroaching on the upper Louisiana Territory. Through the report of this expedition Thomas Say gained his first national recognition as a scientist and, probably as a result, was appointed curator of the American Philosophical Society in 1821 and professor of natural history at the University of Pennsylvania in the following year.

In 1823 another government expedition was dispatched to the West with the same declared and undeclared purposes. Maj. Long commanded and Say was "Zoologist and Antiquary." This expedition visited the source of St. Peter's River, Lake of the Woods, etc. To the report of this expedition (Keating, William H.–Narrative of An Expedition to the Source of the St. Peter's River … Philadelphia , 1824) Say made considerable contribution.

He had now had opportunity to collect over a broader territory than any other American entomologist; and the result, in 1824, was his second book, American Entomology … Philadelphia , 1824. It received immediate, although not financially profitable, recognition.

The year 1824 was a significant period in Say's life. In December Robert Owen bought the Harmony Community on the Wabash River from the Rappites with the intention of setting up a communistic society, a "New Moral World" as he called it. His plans were grandiose, but the details had failed to interest him sufficiently, and when hundreds of hopeful thinkers began to flock to the new settlement he found that he had neither sufficient funds to care for them nor any concrete plan for carrying on the educational activities which were to be a main feature of the movement.

In this dilemma Owen sought out William Maclure in Philadelphia . Maclure's understanding of Owen's social plans seems to have been hazy, but his fanatical interest in education made him an eager investor, and he agreed to put $150,000 into the venture and to supply, from the Philadelphia teachers and scientists to whose support he was contributing, a faculty which he hoped would make New Harmony the educational center of America. The contingent of learned men and women who set out for New Harmony under Maclure's patronage in November, 1825, included Thomas Say, Charles Alexandre Lesueur, French artist and naturalist; Gerard Troost, geologist; John Chappelsmith, English artist and engraver; Madame Marie Louise Duclos Fretageot, who had operated a school for young ladies under Maclure's sponsorship and who acted as his representative in financial matters, and one of her teachers, Phiquepal d'Arusmont.

The party did not reach New Harmony until late in January, 1826, and by the following summer the community, as such, was in a state of complete anarchy. Early 1827 saw the departure of the last of the more visionary and irresponsible of the hundreds of members. A few more months, during which a bitter dispute raged between Owen and Maclure over financial responsibility, left New Harmony an ordinary capitalistic town, but a town with such a collection of learned citizens as existed nowhere else west of the Alleghenies.

Most of Maclure's people were still there and they continued, with him, their interest in education: Maclure's Seminary, The Orphan's Manual Training School, and the School of Industry opened their doors in 1827, with Thomas Say as superintendent of literature, science and education.

On Jan. 4, 1827, Professor Say married Lucy Way Sistare, a young lady who had come to New Harmony as a former pupil and an assistant to Madame Fretageot. Connubial bliss, however, could not compete with the charms of collecting entomological specimens, and the next fall Say seized the opportunity of Maclure's departure for Mexico to accompany him. Apparently Say did not return to New Harmony until the late summer or early autumn of 1828. His health, never good, was now distinctly poor.

The Says set up housekeeping in one of the Rappite houses but, both suffering from frequent illnesses, spent page: 281[View Page 281] much time with Madame Fretageot. That lady suspected Lucy Say of prolonging her illnesses to avoid housekeeping. Meanwhile Say taught, had charge of Maclure's school garden, the school press, the school paper, and, of course, found time to collect. Lucy Say, though she may not have fancied housekeeping, was certainly not idle, for she taught, spun and knit wool stockings, and made clothing for the students. In addition, she drew many of the plates for Say's later books and assisted Caroline Tiebout in coloring them.

Most of these works, published between 1830 and 1840 (the last book appearing after Say's death), represented a new field in writing, that of conchology. The year 1831 was Say's most productive.

So things went with the Says. Thomas's responsibilities increased even more when, after Madame Fretageot's death, he took over the entire management of Maclure's New Harmony property. His health was growing steadily worse, largely due to his extremely irregular habits, for he still ate only when someone suggested it and slept only when entirely exhausted.

Recurrent attacks of fever and dysentery finally accomplished their expected results upon his weakened constitution, and he died in New Harmony on Oct. 10, 1834. He left his wife, Lucy, who survived until Nov. 15, 1886, and who disposed of his collections in such an intelligent way as to preserve as great contributors to the natural sciences in America not only the name of Thomas Say but also her own.

Information from Weiss, Harry B., and Ziegler, Grace M.–Thomas Say; Walker, Mary Alden–Beginnings of Printing in Indiana; Lockwood, George–The New Harmony Communities.

  • American Entomology, or Descriptions of the Insects of North America. Illustrated by Coloured Figures from Drawings Executed from Nature …. Philadelphia, 1817.Search "American Entomology, or Descriptions of the Insects of North America. Illustrated by Coloured Figures from Drawings Executed from Nature …" by SAY, THOMAS: 1787-1834. in IUCAT, Google Books, OCLC WorldCat, or HathiTrust
  • American Entomology, or, Descriptions of the Insects of North America. Illustrated by Coloured Figures from Original Drawings Executed from Nature …. Philadelphia, 1824-1828. 3 vols.Search "American Entomology, or, Descriptions of the Insects of North America. Illustrated by Coloured Figures from Original Drawings Executed from Nature …" by SAY, THOMAS: 1787-1834. in IUCAT, Google Books, OCLC WorldCat, or HathiTrust
  • American Conchology; or, Descriptions of the Shells of North America. Illustrated by Coloured Figures from Original Drawings Executed from Nature …. New Harmony, Ind., 1830-1834. (Issued in six parts, with a seventh part, completed by T. A. Conrad, issued after Say's death.)Search "American Conchology; or, Descriptions of the Shells of North America. Illustrated by Coloured Figures from Original Drawings Executed from Nature …" by SAY, THOMAS: 1787-1834. in IUCAT, Google Books, OCLC WorldCat, or HathiTrust
  • Descriptions of New Species of Curculionites of North America, with Observations on some of the Species Already Known. New Harmony, Ind., July, 1831.Search "Descriptions of New Species of Curculionites of North America, with Observations on some of the Species Already Known" by SAY, THOMAS: 1787-1834. in IUCAT, Google Books, OCLC WorldCat, or HathiTrust
  • Descriptions of New Species of Heteropterous Hemiptera of North America …. New Harmony, Ind., 1831.Search "Descriptions of New Species of Heteropterous Hemiptera of North America …" by SAY, THOMAS: 1787-1834. in IUCAT, Google Books, OCLC WorldCat, or HathiTrust
  • Descriptions of New Species of North American Insects, Found in Louisiana by Joseph Barabino …. New Harmony, Ind., 1831.Search "Descriptions of New Species of North American Insects, Found in Louisiana by Joseph Barabino …" by SAY, THOMAS: 1787-1834. in IUCAT, Google Books, OCLC WorldCat, or HathiTrust
  • A Glossary to Say's Conchology. New Harmony, Ind., 1832.Search "A Glossary to Say's Conchology" by SAY, THOMAS: 1787-1834. in IUCAT, Google Books, OCLC WorldCat, or HathiTrust
  • Descriptions of Some New Terrestrial and Fluviatile Shells of North America, 1829, 1830, 1831 …. New Harmony, Ind., 1840.Search "Descriptions of Some New Terrestrial and Fluviatile Shells of North America, 1829, 1830, 1831 …" by SAY, THOMAS: 1787-1834. in IUCAT, Google Books, OCLC WorldCat, or HathiTrust

SAYLER, HARRY LINCOLN: 1863-1913.

Born in Little York, O., on Feb. 13, 1863, Harry Lincoln Sayler was brought to Shelbyville, Ind., in 1868. He graduated from De Pauw University in 1885, in 1887 was temporary editor of the WABASH TIMES, and moved to Chicago in 1888. In 1890 he became one of the managers of the City Press Association of Chicago .

Mr. Sayler married Nora H. Elliott in 1899. In addition to his books he was the author of many magazine articles and pamphlets. He wrote under several pseudonyms–"Ashton Lamar," "Elliott Whitney," and "Gordon Stuart"–all of these names being used by other writers after his death. He died on May 31, 1913.

Information from De Pauw University's Alumnal Record, 1920, and Burke and Howe–American Authors and Books, 1640-1940.

SCHELLING, FELIX EMANUEL: 1858-1945.

Felix Emanuel Schelling , son of Felix and Rose White Schelling, was born in New Albany, Ind., on Sept. 3, 1858. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1881, received the LL.B. degree in 1883, and the A.M. degree in 1884. He was later awarded honorary degrees by the University of Pennsylvania and other institutions. From 1893 until his death he was professor of English literature at the University of Pennsylvania.

Dr. Schelling was twice married: first to Caroline Derbyshire, who died in 1935, and second to Gertrude Bueb. He was an elder brother of Ernest Henry Schelling, noted composer and conductor. He died on Dec. 15, 1945.

His contributions to learned journals and serials are not listed here.

Information from Who's Who in America.

SCHERGER, GEORGE LAWRENCE: 1874-1941.

George Lawrence Scherger , son of Christian and Marguerite Rush Scherger, was born at Lawrenceburg, Ind., on Oct. 21, 1874, and graduated from Indiana University in 1894. From 1895 to 1898 he studied in Germany at the University of Leipzig and the University of Berlin and in 1899 received the Ph.D. degree from Cornell University. He married Bertha Mittelstaedt on Jan. 18, 1898.

From 1899 until his death Dr. Scherger was associated with Armour Institute of Technology in Chicago , as instructor, assistant professor, and, after 1903, as professor of history. He served as pastor and superintendent of the Armour Mission from 1905 to 1931 and as pastor of St. Paul's Evangelical Lutheran Church after 1929. He was the author of numerous papers and reviews.

He died on Mar. 31, 1941.

Information from Indiana University, 1820-1904, and Who Was Who in America.

SCHLEPPEY, BLANCHE BLOOR (MRS. JOHN H.): 1861-1927.

Born near Edinburg, Ind., in 1861, Blanche Bloor was educated there and at Oldenburg Academy. In 1893 she moved to Indianapolis with her husband, John H. Schleppey. She contributed stories and illustrated feature articles to Indianapolis papers and was among page: 283[View Page 283] the first in the U. S. to write such articles for newspapers. She died in 1927.

Supplied by the Indianapolis Public Library.

SCHNEIDER, FREDERICK WILLIAM: 1862-1941.

Frederick William Schneider , son of Charles and Philippine Hepp Schneider, was born in Boonville, Ind., on Dec. 28, 1862, and graduated from German Wallace College in Ohio in 1886, receiving the A.M. degree in 1888. In 1899 he graduated from Drew Theological Seminary. Baldwin University conferred the D.D. degree on him in 1906. He was twice married; first to Mary Anna Severinghaus in 1890, then to Emma Josephine Freyhofer on Aug. 15, 1899.

From 1886 to 1894 he taught at German Wallace College, in 1894-95 was pastor of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Delaware, O., in 1895-96 was pastor of a church in Pittsburgh, and from 1897 to 1909 was again on the faculty of German Wallace College. He then occupied the pulpit of a church in Brooklyn for five years. From 1914 to 1918 he was with the Sunday School Board of the Methodist Episcopal Church, from 1918 to 1920 was engaged in editorial work in Cincinnati , and after 1920 was vice-president and professor of Bible and religion at Morningside College, Ia.

He died on Dec. 18, 1941.

Information from Who's Who in America.

SCHURMANN, HELEN: 1829-1896.

Helen Schurmann was a resident of Indianapolis . She was born on Apr. 16, 1829, and died on Apr. 28, 1896.

Information from Hilton U. Brown, Indianapolis .

SCOTT, ALVA ROY: 1863-

Born at Leavenworth, Ind., on Apr. 20, 1863, Alva Roy Scott graduated from De Pauw University in 1886, receiving the A.M. degree in 1889, and graduated from McCormick Theological Seminary in 1891. He received the Ph.D. degree from the University of Worcester in 1896 and the A.M. from Harvard in 1899.

In 1891 he was ordained to the Presbyterian ministry but in 1900 entered the Unitarian fellowship and after 1904 served as minister of the Unitarian Church at Bangor, Me. He was also a lecturer at the University of Maine. He married Alberta Garber on Aug. 21, 1901.

Information from De Pauw University's Alumnal Record, 1920.

SCOTT, CARRIE EMMA: 1874-1943.

Carrie Emma Scott , daughter of Robert R. and Lavicy Harvey Scott, was born at Mooresville, Ind., on Aug. 22, 1874, and graduated from Indiana University in 1898. For several years she taught in the high schools of Rockville and Mooresville, Ind., and in 1903-04 was with the Indiana State Library. She then studied at the New York State Library School and at the Carnegie Library School in Pittsburgh, Pa.

From 1907 to 1917 Miss Scott served as assistant state organizer for the Public Library Commission of Indiana and, after 1917, as supervisor of children's work at the Indianapolis Public Library. She was also an instructor at summer sessions of the library schools of the University of Iowa and the University of Minnesota. She compiled several collections of stories for juveniles.

She died on July 27, 1943.

Information from Who's Who in America.

SCOTT, FRED NEWTON: 1860-1931.

" Fred Newton Scott (Aug. 20, 1860-May 29, 1931), rhetorician, was born in Terre Haute, Ind., the son of Mary (Bannister) and Harvey D. Scott, a lawyer who was a congressman from Indiana in 1855 and for some years a county judge. After taking the page: 284[View Page 284] degrees of A.B., 1884, A.M., 1888, and Ph.D., 1889, at the University of Michigan, meanwhile serving as library assistant and later as assistant librarian, Scott became an instructor in English and for almost forty years was a member of the university faculty. As head of the department of rhetoric, 1903-21, and of rhetoric and journalism, 1921-27, he exerted a wide influence. He encouraged the establishment of schools of journalism in state colleges, modified the teaching of English composition in colleges … and was a stimulating teacher of graduate students … He was president of the Modern Language Association of America, 1907; one of the founders and the first president of the National Council of Teachers of English, 1911-13, president of the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools, 1913, and of the American Association of Teachers of Journalism, 1917. A member of several British learned societies as well, he had a wide acquaintance and a high reputation among foreign scholars. In 1887 he married Isadore Thompson, daughter of Prof. Bradley M. Thompson of the law school of the University of Michigan, by whom he had a daughter and two sons. A year after her death in 1922, he married Georgia Jackson of New York City, who with his three children survived him. Upon his retirement in 1927 as professor emeritus, he and his wife lived in Tucson, Ariz.; he died in San Diego, Calif.

"Although Scott's distinction rests particularly upon his influence as a teacher, his list of more than a hundred publications contains convincing evidence of his scholarly interests and attainments … he wrote numerous essays and technical articles that appeared in magazines ranging from the CLASSICAL JOURNAL tO the ATLANTIC MONTHLY on subjects that varied from the prosody of Walt Whitman to the psychology of speech. His chief concern was always with matters of style and with the fundamentals of literary effect and appreciation … His writing was smooth, polished, urbane, packed with implication … Modest and extremely reticent, with a grave courtesy, he was to many of his students an enigmatic figure, whose preference was always for questioning rather than for arriving at fixed conclusions. He was keenly sensitive and easily wounded, but he had a delicate wit and took great pleasure in good talk. He had some reputation as an after-dinner speaker. He was perhaps half the scholar, half the old-style journalist who could write excellent editorials in a style not so far from Addison and sometimes much better for the purpose in hand…"

His textbooks, compilations and works upon which he served as editor are not listed here.

Condensed from D. G–d., Dictionary of American Biography, Vol. XVI.

SCOTT, J. WALTER: ?-

" J. Walter Scott came to Lafayette [Ind.] from Oxford, Ind. Mr. Scott was a business man and his time and energies were given to his business affairs. Nevertheless he found time to write a novel …"

de Hart–Past and Present of Tippecanoe County, 1909.

SCOTT, JOHN: ?-

Although no biographical material on John Scott has been located, he was an early Indiana printer and a writer of considerable local importance. His little book, The Indiana Gazetteer, earliest scholarly description of the state, its people, its products, and its resources, had become scarce in the original edition by 1876, as witness the description of Dan Hough's collection of Indiana authors in an article by D. S. A. which appeared in the CINCINNATI DAILY GAZETTE of Dec. 7, 1876:

"Earliest and most valuable work in the collection … Scott wrote and published the book, acting as his own compositor and binder. He was a careful, painstaking author … Previous to publication he had prepared a map of the state … Mr. Hough experienced much trouble in tracing out a copy of this little work, and, when at last one was found he had to pay dearly for the privilege of owning it. He regards it as the gem of the collection and very properly …"

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Information from D. S. A. in the CINCINNATI GAZETTE, Dec. 7, 1876, and Walker–The Beginnings of Printing in the State of Indiana.

  • The Indiana Gazetteer; or Topographical Dictionary, Containing a Description of the Several Counties, Towns, Villages, Settlements, Roads, Lakes, Rivers, Creeks, Springs, Etc. in the State of Indiana, Alphabetically Arranged by John Scott. Centerville, Ind., 1826.Search "The Indiana Gazetteer; or Topographical Dictionary, Containing a Description of the Several Counties, Towns, Villages, Settlements, Roads, Lakes, Rivers, Creeks, Springs, Etc. in the State of Indiana, Alphabetically Arranged by John Scott" by SCOTT, JOHN: ?- in IUCAT, Google Books, OCLC WorldCat, or HathiTrust

SCOTT, LEROY: 1875-1929.

" Leroy Scott … author, was born in Fairmount, Ind., the son of Eli J. and Eleanor (Reader) Scott. After graduating from Indiana University in 1897, he worked for a few months on a Louisiana newspaper owned by his brother and then went to Chicago , where he was a reporter for the CHICAGO JOURNAL. In 1900 and 1901 he was assistant editor of the WOMAN'S HOME COMPANION. He had developed an interest in settlement work as a result of living at Hull House in Chicago, and in 1902 he became assistant headworker of the University Settlement, New York City . Here he met Miriam Finn, whom he married on June 24, 1904; they had two daughters and a son.

"When in 1904 he gave up settlement work to devote himself to writing, he did not give up his interest in social reform. His first novel, The Walking Delegate (1905), showed not merely his confidence in organized labor but also his hope for far-reaching social reorganization. In To Him That Hath (1907) he revealed the difficulties of a man who has been in prison, and in Counsel for the Defense (1912) he described a woman's struggle for economic independence. The Shears of Destiny (1910) was concerned with the Russian revolutionary movement and was based on Scott's observations, made during a visit to Russia with his wife in 1905-06. From 1904 to 1912 he wrote frequently for the magazines on such topics as unemployment, life insurance, and strike-breaking. After his return from Russia he contributed several articles to the OUTLOOK and to EVERYBODY'S on conditions in that country, and especially on the activities of the revolutionaries. In short, he is to be numbered among the muck-rakers. He was always moderate in his methods, but a strong social purpose informed what he wrote and is to be observed in his novels as well as his articles. It also found expression in other activities, for he was interested in organizing the Woman's Trade Union League, an active worker for child-labor laws, and one of the founders and an executive of the Intercollegiate Socialist Society. When the muck-raking movement declined, he took advantage of another form of popular fiction. In Partners of the Night (1916) he dealt with crime and its detection, and the success of the book encouraged him to write a series of stories about the activities of criminals and policemen. These novels were based on an exact knowledge of criminal methods, derived from careful investigation, and all of them indicated the need for changes in the social structure and in the handling of offenders against the law; although the moral may not have been plain to most of Scott's readers, it was constantly in his mind. His last novel, The Trail of Glory (1926), dealt with some of the problems of an amateur tennis champion. He was drowned at Chateaugay Lake, N. Y. At his best he was a skillful story-teller, but he commonly employed romantic and improbable plots, showed no great insight into character, and had no stylistic distinction. He frankly and successfully competed with writers whose sole aim was to divert their readers; his work is on a higher level than theirs only because of the sincerity and firmness of his social purpose …"

Condensed from G. H., Dictionary of American Biography, Vol. XVI.

SCOTT, NANCY ELNORA: 1879-

Nancy Elnora Scott was born in Fort Wayne, Ind., in 1879. It is believed that she was educated at the University of Pennsylvania.

Information from Federal Writers Project–Indiana Authors, 1937.

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SCOTT, SAMUEL W.: ?-

Born and reared in Elizabethton, Tenn., Samuel W. Scott served in the Civil War with the Thirteenth Regiment, Tennessee Volunteer Cavalry. In 1867, he settled in Owensville, Ind., where he resided until 1895, when he returned to Tennessee, making his home in Carter County.

Supplied by Owensville Carnegie Library.

  • History of the Thirteenth Regiment of Tennessee Volunteer Cavalry. Knoxville, Tenn., 1903.Search "History of the Thirteenth Regiment of Tennessee Volunteer Cavalry" by SCOTT, SAMUEL W.: ?- in IUCAT, Google Books, OCLC WorldCat, or HathiTrust

SCOVELL, JOSIAH THOMAS: 1841-1915.

Dr. Josiah Thomas Scovell (he held an M.D. degree although, apparently, his interests lay chiefly in the fields of natural history) was a long-time member of the faculty of Indiana State Teachers' College at Terre Haute . His death occurred in 1915. In addition to his other books, he was the author of several textbooks not listed here.

Information from the Emmeline Fairbanks Memorial Library, Terre Haute, Indiana.

SCRIBNER, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN: 1825–1900.

Benjamin Franklin Scribner , son of Abner Scribner (who, in 1813, with his brothers helped lay out the town of New Albany, Ind.), was born in that place on Sept. 20, 1825.

He served in the Mexican War in the Second Indiana Volunteers and during the Civil War was colonel of the 38th Indiana Volunteers, taking part in numerous campaigns, in one of which he was wounded in the leg. He was brevetted brigadier-general in 1864. He retired from service in that year because of ill health.

In 1865 he was appointed collector of internal revenue for the Second Collecting District of Indiana, a position he held for six years. He was half-owner of a large drug house in New Albany but sold his interest to his partner in 1878 and established a drug brokerage office in New York City, which he gave up several months later to become U. S. treasury agent in Alaska.

He married Anna Martha Maginness on Dec. 20, 1849, and died in Louisville, Ky., in 1900.

Information from Representative Men of Indiana, Vol. I, and the New Albany Public Library.

  • Camp Life of a Volunteer; a Campaign in Mexico; or, a Glimpse of Life in Camp, by One Who Has Seen the Elephant. Philadelphia, n.d. [1847]. (Described in a literary article in the CINCINNATI GAZETTE for Dec. 7, 1876, as "a vigorous defence of Indiana troops at Buena Vista.")Search "Camp Life of a Volunteer; a Campaign in Mexico; or, a Glimpse of Life in Camp, by One Who Has Seen the Elephant" by SCRIBNER, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN: 1825–1900. in IUCAT, Google Books, OCLC WorldCat, or HathiTrust
  • How Soldiers Were Made; or, the War as I Saw It Under Buell, Rosencrans, Thomas, Grant and Sherman. New Albany, n.d. [1887].Search "How Soldiers Were Made; or, the War as I Saw It Under Buell, Rosencrans, Thomas, Grant and Sherman" by SCRIBNER, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN: 1825–1900. in IUCAT, Google Books, OCLC WorldCat, or HathiTrust

SEEGMILLER, WILHELMINA: 1866-1913.

Wilhelmina Seegmiller , daughter of Frederick and Dolena Gordon Seegmiller, was born in Fairview, Ont., Canada, on Dec. 6, 1866. She had her elementary instruction in the public schools of Goderich, Canada; took art training in studios in Toronto ; trained for teaching in Grand Rapids, Mich., and graduated from Pratt Institute, Brooklyn , in 1899. From 1895 until her death, May 14, 1913, she was director of art instruction in the Indianapolis public schools. She was author of several textbooks in addition to the titles listed here.

Information from Who Was Who in America and the Indianapolis Public Library.

SELMAN, SQUIRE H.: ?-1873.

Squire H. Selman , one of the so-called "Indian Doctors," was a son-in-law of the greatest of this page: 287[View Page 287] school of healing–the fabulous "Dr." Richard Carter of Kentucky.

Young Selman, believed to have been reared in Kentucky , married a Carter daughter evidently after 1825, and studied under Carter. Selman settled in Columbus, Ind., after he had presumably absorbed what he considered a sufficiency of Carter's learning, and began to practice. During the Thirties he traveled from town to town in Indiana and surrounding states, advertising in the newspapers and treating the ailments of the communities visited for two or three weeks at a time.

Dr. Richard Carter's fame in Kentucky had been spread by the publication of his famous Valuable Vegetable Medical Prescriptions for the Cure of All Nervous and Putrid Disorders in Frankfort, Ky., in 1815. It was to be expected that his son-in-law, Selman, would make a similar bid toward establishing his scholarship as soon as an opportunity offered. He brought out his book, The Indian Guide To Health, in 1836, and in it he used many of Carter's prescriptions, with full credit therefor. He also praised his preceptor father-in-law in sincere, if ambiguous, terms in his preface, as a man "on whom all powers of ratiocination in possession of the faculty [by which he referred to regularly educated medical men] were expended without effect."

An increasing enlightenment of the public had made a general toning-down of the Carter formulae advisable, and neither Selman nor any other could expect to equal Carter in the color of his footnotes and the frankness of his comment. Selman's book is, nevertheless, a good example of its species.

Selman died at Columbus in 1873.

  • The Indian Guide to Health, or, a Valuable Vegetable Medical Prescription, for the Cure of All Disorders Incident to This Climate. Designed as a Guide to Families and Young Practitioners. Columbus, Ind., 1836.Search "The Indian Guide to Health, or, a Valuable Vegetable Medical Prescription, for the Cure of All Disorders Incident to This Climate. Designed as a Guide to Families and Young Practitioners" by SELMAN, SQUIRE H.: ?-1873. in IUCAT, Google Books, OCLC WorldCat, or HathiTrust

SEMBOWER, CHARLES JACOB: 1871-

Charles Jacob Sembower , son of Henry Frank and Sarah Ann Lackey Sembower, was born in Newburg, W. Va. , on Apr. 3, 1871, and graduated from Indiana University in 1892, receiving the Ph.D. degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1909. On June 26, 1901, he married Lois Alta Brunt.

In 1892 he became an instructor in English at Indiana University, from 1895 to 1897 was an assistant in English at Cornell, and after 1897 was again a member of the faculty of Indiana University, serving, successively, as assistant professor of English, associate professor, and, after 1909, as professor.

Information from Who's Who in America.

SEWALL, MRS. MAY WRIGHT (MRS. THEODORE L.): 1844-1920.

" May Eliza Wright Sewall (May 27, 1844-July 22, 1920), feminist, was born in Milwaukee, Wis., the daughter of Philander Montague and Mary Weeks (Brackett) Wright. A precocious child, she was reading Milton at the age of seven. After studying in the public schools and with her father she taught in Waukesha, Wis., to earn money for a college education. Graduated from Northwestern University in 1866, she taught in Corinth, Miss., Plainville, Mich., and Frankfort, Ind. In Frankfort she married Edwin Thompson, the principal of the school, and with him removed to Indianapolis, where both of them taught in the high school until Mr. Thompson's death, about 1876. On Oct. 30, 1880, she married Theodore Lovett Sewall, a graduate of Harvard who had established a classical school for boys in Indianapolis . Not long after, she established with him the Girls' Classical School; after his death she was its principal for many years.

"A feminist from the beginning of her life, she began as soon as she went to Indianapolis to gather groups together to work for public purposes. She was a charter member of many Indianapolis clubs and a founder of the Indiana Association for Promoting Woman's Suffrage. Following the visit of Pundita Ramabai to America, she formed the Ramabai Circle to assist in freeing the women of India from their ancient bondage. One of the first members of the Association of Collegiate Alumnae when it was organized in 1882, she helped in 1883 to organize the Western Association of Collegiate Alumnae, which later joined with the older association. From the outset of her association with these university women she had a vision of a world federation which in 1919 came to completion. From 1883 to 1912 she assisted in suffrage campaigns from Nebraska to Wisconsin and was for many years chairman of the committee which arranged and carried through the first meeting of the National Council of Women in Washington, where she presented a plan for forming an International page: 288[View Page 288] Council as well; from 1888 to 1899 she held various offices in the National Council. In 1891-92 she traveled abroad to awaken an interest in the World's Congress of Representative Women, at which she presided, held in Chicago in 1893 as a part of the program for the Columbian Exposition. From that time she was a prominent figure in the International Council of Women. She had been a delegate to its meetings in 1889 and in 1899 she became its president, succeeding Lady Aberdeen. She assisted in the formation of fifty women's clubs of various sorts; in 1889, when the Federation of Women's Clubs was formed, she rightly became its first president… Soon after her husband's death in 1895 she became profoundly interested in psychical research. In 1920 she published Neither Dead Nor Sleepiny, an account of her personal experiences …"

Condensed from L. K. M. R., Dictionary of American Biography, Vol. XVI.

SHAFER, SARA ANDREW (MRS. CARLTON): ?-1913.

Sara Andrew , daughter of Dr. George Lafferty and Catherine Piatt Andrew, was born in LaPorte, Ind., and was educated privately. She was married to Carlton Sharer on Nov. 19, 1884, and died in 1913.

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SHARPE, MARY ELLEN GRAYDON (MRs. JOSEPH KINNE): 1825-1914.

Mary Ellen Graydon , daughter of Alexander Graydon, a Pennsylvania abolitionist and a friend of William Lloyd Garrison and Wendell Phillips, was born in Harrisburg in 1825. She was educated at Mount Joy Seminary near Philadelphia. In 1843 she came to Indianapolis and in 1847, in a ceremony conducted by Henry Ward Beecher, was married to Joseph Kinne Sharpe. She and her husband were active in church, social, and charitable work in Indianapolis.

Mrs. Sharpe began writing at an early age. In addition to her books she also had work published in the ATLANTIC MONTHLY, CENTURY, INDEPENDENT, ST. NICHOLAS, and other magazines. She died in 1914.

Information from Dunn–Indiana and Indianans, Vol. III, and the Indianapolis Public Library.

SHAW, JAMES BYRNIE: ?-

James Byrnie Shaw , a Civil War veteran, apparently spent most of his life in Remington, Ind. His wife was the former Martha Jane Morgan, and they were the parents of James Byrnie Shaw, college professor and author of several mathematical textbooks.

Information from Who's Who in America.

  • History of the Tenth Regiment, Indiana Volunteer Infantry, Three Months and Three Years Organizations. Lafayette, Ind., 1912.Search "History of the Tenth Regiment, Indiana Volunteer Infantry, Three Months and Three Years Organizations" by SHAW, JAMES BYRNIE: ?- in IUCAT, Google Books, OCLC WorldCat, or HathiTrust

SHERIDAN, WILBUR FLETCHER: 1863-1920.

Wilbur Fletcher Sheridan , son of the Rev. Andrew Jackson and Mary Anne Merrill Sheridan, was born in Rossville, Ind., on Dec. 5, 1863, and graduated from De Pauw University in 1885, receiving the A.M. degree in 1888. He was ordained to the Methodist Episcopal ministry in 1887. In 1891 he received the S.T.B. degree from Boston University.

The Rev. Mr. Sheridan was pastor of churches in Indiana and other states until 1912, when he became general secretary and executive of the Epworth League of the Methodist Church, a position he held until his death in Winnetka, Ill., on Mar. 10, 1920. In addition to his books he was a frequent contributor to magazines and to the church press.

He married Effie L. Lamar of Richmond, Ind., on June 21, 1893.

Information from De Pauw University's Alumnal Record, 1920, and Who Was Who in America.

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SHIEL, ROGER.: 1843-?

Of Roger R. Shiel , author of the intriguing title, Twenty Years in Hell with the Beef Trust, little is known. He was born in the old Indian village of Strawtown, Ind., in 1843, served in the Civil War and moved to Indianapolis in 1892, while still maintaining his home in Strawtown . In 1882, he married Julie Elizabeth Pope.

Information from the Indiana State Library.

  • "Early to Bed and Early to Rise." Indianapolis, 1908.Search "Early to Bed and Early to Rise" by SHIEL, ROGER.: 1843-? in IUCAT, Google Books, OCLC WorldCat, or HathiTrust
  • "Early to Bed and Early to Rise." Twenty Years in Hell with the Beef Trust. "Facts, Not Fiction." Indianapolis, 1909.Search "Early to Bed and Early to Rise." Twenty Years in Hell with the Beef Trust. "Facts, Not Fiction" by SHIEL, ROGER.: 1843-? in IUCAT, Google Books, OCLC WorldCat, or HathiTrust
  • Comparative Discussion on the Lack of Improvement in Agriculture, Live Stock, Poultry, Etc. For the Commission on Country Life (with others). Indianapolis, 1918.Search "Comparative Discussion on the Lack of Improvement in Agriculture, Live Stock, Poultry, Etc. For the Commission on Country Life (with others)" by SHIEL, ROGER.: 1843-? in IUCAT, Google Books, OCLC WorldCat, or HathiTrust

SHIELDS, CHARLES WOODRUFF: 1825–1904.

" Charles Woodruff Shields (Apr. 4, 1825-Aug. 26, 1904), clergyman, university professor, author, was born at New Albany, Ind., the son of James Read and Hannah (Woodruff) Shields… He was prepared for college at the Newark Academy, graduated from the College of New Jersey in 1844, and from Princeton Theological Seminary in 1847. On Nov. 22, 1848, he married Charlotte Elizabeth Bain of Galway, N. Y. … on Nov. 8, 1849, he was ordained to the Presbyterian ministry and became pastor of a church at Hempstead, Long Island. The year following he accepted a call to the Second Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia , in the service of which he remained for fifteen years. His first wife died in 1853, and in 1861 he married Elizabeth Kane, of Philadelphia , sister of the Arctic explorer, Elisha Kent Kane…

"In 1861 he published a little book, Philosophia Ultima, which changed the course of his life. All his subsequent writing and lecturing was really an effort to substantiate the challenge uttered in the pages of that pamphlet. It advocated as an attainable and desirable object of intellectual endeavor the production of a work which should be a survey of the whole field of science, a statement of Christian theology, and a reconcilement of their apparent conflicts. This project attracted much attention … in 1865, he was made professor of the harmony of science and religion in the College of New Jersey, at Princeton . The subject had been taught more or less irregularly in many institutions, but the chair was new and created expressly for Shields. His lectures were finished literary productions, and it was not long before they took shape as a book, The Final Philosophy (1877)…

"His two great ideals, the reconcilement of science with revealed religion, and the reunion of Protestantism on a basis of ancient practices, Shields pursued with a passion which could not be discouraged. Though he frequently conducted the plain religious services which were traditional in the college chapel, he found ritual more congenial, and on Dec. 14, 1898, he was ordained deacon of the Protestant Episcopal Church, and on May 28, 1899, priest. He held his active professorship from 1865 to 1903, when he became professor emeritus. For thirteen years, 1869-82, he conducted courses in history, while continuing to lecture in philosophy.

"… He died at his summer home in Newport, R. I. , survived by two sons and a daughter; his second wife had died in 1869…"

Condensed from G. M. H., Dictionary of American Biography, Vol. XVII.

SHIPP, MAY LOUISE: ?-

May Louise Shipp was an Indianapolis resident who contributed to newspapers and periodicals in, at least, the Nineties.

Information from Williams–Indiana Authors and the Indiana State Library.

SHIRTS, AUGUSTUS FINCH: 1824-?

Augustus Finch Shirts , son of George Shirts, was born in Hamilton County, Ind., on Nov. 26, 1824. The second child in a large and poor family, he had to work from an early age until he was fifteen years old to support himself and help his family. Following the death of his father he was apprenticed to a farmer. He married Nancy Barnhill in 1849.

From 1854 to 1856 he was engaged in the cattle business, and from 1856 to 1860 he ran a store. In 1858 he began the study of law, starting his practice in 1861. Mr. Shirts wrote many articles on pioneer history.

Information from the Noblesville Public Library.

  • A History of the Formation, Settlement and Development of Hamilton County, Indiana. From the Year 1818 to the Close of the Civil War. n.p., 1901.Search "A History of the Formation, Settlement and Development of Hamilton County, Indiana. From the Year 1818 to the Close of the Civil War" by SHIRTS, AUGUSTUS FINCH: 1824-? in IUCAT, Google Books, OCLC WorldCat, or HathiTrust

SHIVELL, PAUL: 1874-

Born in Indianapolis on Sept. 25, 1874, Paul Shivell was educated in the public schools of Dayton and Springfield, O., and at Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass. During the Columbian Exposition in 1893 he acted as special guide and lecturer on fine arts criticism. He was lay pastor of the Methodist Episcopal Church, Broad Cove, Me., in 1901-02 and spent the years 1903-15 in farming at Pleasant Hill, O. He was known as a lecturer, a reader and interpreter of poetry, and a designer and maker of handmade books.

Information from Who's Who in America and the Indianapolis Public Library.

SIHLER, ERNEST GOTTLIEB: 1853-1942.

Ernest Gottlieb Sihler , son of the Rev. William S.and Susannah Kern Sihler, was born in Fort Wayne, Ind., on Jan. 2, 1853. He studied at Concordia College ( Ind. ), Concordia Lutheran Seminary at St. Louis and at the universities of Berlin and Leipzig, 1872-75. He received his Ph.D. in Greek from Johns Hopkins University in 1878 and the Litt.D. from Lafayette College in 1915. He married Emily Birkner on Sept. 5, 1881. After teaching the classics in New York from 1879 to 1891, he became a member of the Concordia College (Wis.) faculty. The following year (1892) he joined the New York University faculty, where he remained as a professor of Latin and a lecturer in the graduate school until 1923. He resided in Mt. Vernon, N. Y.

Dr. Sihler died on Jan. 7, 1942.

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SIMS, CHARLES N.: 1835-1908.

Charles N. Sims , president of Valparaiso College (1860-62) and the chancellor of Syracuse University (1881-93), was born in Fairfield, Ind., on May 18, 1835. His parents were John and Irene Allen Sims.

After attending local schools he enrolled in Indiana Asbury (now De Pauw) University, from which he graduated in 1859, having taught in his home county and at Thorntown, (Ind.) Academy at intervals during his study. He married Eliza A. Foster, of Tippecanoe County, Ind., on Aug. 12, 1858.

He was made president of Valparaiso College in 1860 but left after a short time and took up active work as a Methodist minister, first in Indiana and Illinois , and later in Maryland, New Jersey, and New York .

He became chancellor of Syracuse University in 1881 and succeeded, during his twelve years in office, in putting it in a sound financial position. He resigned in 1893 and accepted the pastorate of the Meridian Street Methodist Episcopal Church in Indianapolis , which he held for two years.

The Rev. Mr. Sims died at Liberty, Ind., on Mar. 27, 1908.

Information from the Dictionary of American Biography.

SIMS, NEWELL LEROY: 1878-

Newell LeRoy Sims was born near Fremont, Ind., on December 3, 1878, the son of Charles Newhook and Elizabeth McClew Sims.

He attended local schools, entered Tri-State College and received the A.B. degree in 1901: he received a second A.B. from the University of Kentucky in 1905 and studied at the College of the Bible, Lexington , Ky. He received the A.M. in 1910 and the Ph.D. in 1912 from Columbia University and the B.D. from Union Theological Seminary in the latter year.

Dr. Sims married Florence Anna McNutt on Sept. 25, 1912.

He had been ordained a minister of the Christian Church in 1904 and, before he took up his teaching career, occupied pulpits in Carthage, Mo. (1905-08), Scarsdale, N. Y. (1912-14), and Columbus, O. (1914-15). He became head of the department of sociology and political science at the University of Florida in 1915, professor of sociology at the Massachusetts Agricultural College in 1920 and head of the department of sociology at Oberlin College in 1924. He received many distinctions in his field of interest.

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SKINNER, HUBERT MARSHALL: 1855–1916.

Hubert Marshall Skinner , son of John N. and Joanna Marshall Skinner, was born in Valparaiso, Ind., on Jan. 15, 1855, and was graduated from De Pauw University in 1874, receiving the A.M. degree in 1877. He was awarded the Ph.D. degree by Chattanooga University in 1902 and by Valparaiso University in 1907.

From 1874 to 1880 he was a teacher and journalist, and he served as superintendent of the Brookville, Ind., schools from 1880 to 1883, when he became Deputy State Superintendent of Public Instruction of Indiana . From 1886 until 1911 he was associated with the American Book Company.

He married Emily S. Ogden in 1880 and died on June 4, 1916.

In addition to the books listed below, he was the author of several texts.

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Information from Who Was Who in America and De Pauw University's Alumnal Record, 1920.

SMART, JAMES HENRY: 1841-1900.

James Henry Smart was a son of Dr. William H. and Nancy Farrington Smart, prosperous residents of Center Harbor, N. H. He was born on June 30, 1841.

After graduating from Concord (N. H.) High School he taught for four years and served on the staff of THE JOURNAL OF EDUCATION. He came west and became superintendent of the Fort Wayne, Ind., schools in 1865, marrying Mary H. Swan on July 21, 1870.

He was made president of Purdue University in 1883 and saw that institution through some of its most difficult years. Purdue had been a plaything of the Indiana Legislature in its first years (see sketch of Richard Owen) and, while Smart found it a going concern, he left it a distinguished one.

He was active in teachers' and educational associations throughout his life, serving in 1880 as president of the National Education Association. He died on February 21, 1900.

Information from Who Was Who in America and the Dictionary of American Biography.

SMILEY, AMANDA JANE: ?-

" Amanda Jane Smiley was a teacher in the Lafayette, Ind., public schools for many years."

de Hart–Past and Present of Tippecanoe County, 1909.

SMITH, BENJAMIN WILSON: 1830-1921.

Benjamin Wilson Smith , son of Abel Timothy and Deborah Spencer Wilson Smith, was born in Harrison County, Va. (now W. Va.) on January 19, 1830. He was educated in the common schools and in 1846 moved to Indiana , where he began teaching school in White County. He later taught in Jasper, Warren, and Fountain counties. In 1851 he entered De Pauw University, receiving the A.B. degree in 1855 and the A. M. in 1858.

For two years after his graduation he taught at Cornell College in Iowa , then returned to Indiana as head of Manchester Collegiate Institute. From 1858 to 1860 he was superintendent of schools at Aurora, Ind., and during this time was licensed to preach by the Methodist Church. In 1862 he became professor of ancient languages in Valparaiso Male and Female College and two years later was made president of the institution. From 1867 to 1869 he was a Methodist pastor in Terre Haute , being forced to retire because of ill health.

He moved to Brookston, Ind., in 1877, where he took charge of the academy and preached. For several terms he served as a member of the Indiana State Legislature, and from 1890 to 1893 he was postmaster at Lafayette, Ind. In 1909 he was state examiner of public accounts.

Mr. Smith married Ruth Ann Rankin of Greencastle, Ind., on Nov. 27, 1855.

Information from Representative Men of Indiana, Vol. 11, and De Pauw University's Alumnal Record, 1920.

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SMITH, CHARLES W.: 1846-1921.

Born at Hendricks City, Ind., on Feb. 3, 1846, Charles W. Smith , son of Morgan Lewis and Margaret Iliff Smith, grew up on his father's farm, attended the common schools and Danville (Ind.) Academy, and graduated from Indiana Asbury (now De Pauw) University in 1867. He received the A.M. degree from the same institution in 1870. He was an officer in the Union Army during the Civil War.

Graduating from Indiana Law School in Indianapolis in 1868, he was admitted to the bar in the same year and practiced law in Indianapolis until his death in 1921. He was a member of the faculty of Indiana Law School from 1895 to 1898. In 1869 Mr. Smith married Mary E. Preston of Greencastle, Ind.

Information from Dunn–Indiana and Indianans, Vol. V, and De Pauw University's Alumnal Record, 1920.

SMITH, FREDERICK GEORGE: 1880-

Born in 1880, Frederick George Smith became attached to the Church of God as a young man and served both as editor of THE GOSPEl. TRUMPET (published at Anderson, Ind.) and as editor-in-chief of all publications in English of the Church of God.

Information from Indiana University manuscript bibliography of Indiana authors.

  • The Revelation Explained: Exposition, Text by Text of the Apocalypse of St. John. Anderson, Ind., 1908.Search "The Revelation Explained: Exposition, Text by Text of the Apocalypse of St. John" by SMITH, FREDERICK GEORGE: 1880- in IUCAT, Google Books, OCLC WorldCat, or HathiTrust
  • Evolution of Christianity; or, Origin, Nature and Development of the Religion of the Bible. Anderson, Ind., 1911.Search "Evolution of Christianity; or, Origin, Nature and Development of the Religion of the Bible" by SMITH, FREDERICK GEORGE: 1880- in IUCAT, Google Books, OCLC WorldCat, or HathiTrust
  • What the Bible Teaches; a Systematic Presentation of the Fundamental Principles of Truth Contained in the Holy Scriptures. Anderson, Ind., 1914.Search "What the Bible Teaches; a Systematic Presentation of the Fundamental Principles of Truth Contained in the Holy Scriptures" by SMITH, FREDERICK GEORGE: 1880- in IUCAT, Google Books, OCLC WorldCat, or HathiTrust
  • Missionary Journeys Through Bible Lands; Italy, Greece, Egypt, Palestine, Syria, Asia Minor and Other Countries, Including a Description of Religious and Social Conditions in Palestine and Syria, Personal Missionary Experiences, and a Discussion of Missionary Methods. Anderson, Ind., 1915.Search "Missionary Journeys Through Bible Lands; Italy, Greece, Egypt, Palestine, Syria, Asia Minor and Other Countries, Including a Description of Religious and Social Conditions in Palestine and Syria, Personal Missionary Experiences, and a Discussion of Missionary Methods" by SMITH, FREDERICK GEORGE: 1880- in IUCAT, Google Books, OCLC WorldCat, or HathiTrust
  • The Last Reformation. Anderson, Ind., 1919.Search "The Last Reformation" by SMITH, FREDERICK GEORGE: 1880- in IUCAT, Google Books, OCLC WorldCat, or HathiTrust
  • Brief Sketch of the Origin, Growth, and Distinctive Doctrine of the Church of God Reformation Movement. Anderson, Ind., 1926.Search "Brief Sketch of the Origin, Growth, and Distinctive Doctrine of the Church of God Reformation Movement" by SMITH, FREDERICK GEORGE: 1880- in IUCAT, Google Books, OCLC WorldCat, or HathiTrust
  • Heart of the Money Problem. Anderson, Ind., n.d.Search "Heart of the Money Problem" by SMITH, FREDERICK GEORGE: 1880- in IUCAT, Google Books, OCLC WorldCat, or HathiTrust
  • Prophetic Lectures on Daniel and the Revelation. Anderson, Ind., 1941.Search "Prophetic Lectures on Daniel and the Revelation" by SMITH, FREDERICK GEORGE: 1880- in IUCAT, Google Books, OCLC WorldCat, or HathiTrust

SMITH, FREDERICK MILLER: 1870-

Frederick Miller Smith , son of James W. and Abbie F. Miller Smith, was born in Richmond, Ind., on June 16, 1870, and graduated from Indiana University in 1899.

From 1900 to 1905 he was assistant editor of WOMAN'S HOME COMPANION. After 1910 he was a member of the faculty of Cornell University as, successively, instructor in English, assistant professor, and, after 1931, professor. He contributed to magazines.

Information from Who's Who in America.

SMITH, GEORGE W.: ?-

George W. Smith was a resident of Indianapolis in 1855. According to a testimonial by Gov. Joseph A. Wright, in his second book, the governor had "known Elder George W. Smith for a number of years; he is a respectable man, a quiet, orderly good citizen, his statements may be relied upon. He is worthy of the support of all good men."

In Smith's preface he mentions a trip to Texas in 1851 to bring a "venerable old man home" [John Proctor, Sen.] to "his son's in Elkhart county Indiana ." He says that he kept notes of the journey "and was solicited to publish the Journal, which I did in 1852. It was badly printed, but it sold…" He adds that he has written the following work in the hope of selling enough copies to finance a trip to Washington with "the venerable old man" for the purpose of getting a pension for him.

Information from Smith's second book.

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SMITH, HUBBARD MADISON: 1820-1907.

" Dr. Hubbard Madison Smith was born at Winchester, Ky., Sept. 6, 1820, and educated in the schools of that county.

"He left school at fourteen and learned the saddler's trade, which he followed for five or six years, and then took up the study of medicine. In 1844 he attended the medical department of Transylvania University. He practiced at New Liberty and at Warsaw, Ky. He then entered Starling Medical College at Columbus, O., from which he graduated with honors in 1849. Immediately upon leaving this college he came to Vincennes , where he remained. In 1846 he married Nannie W. Pendleton of Clark County, Ky. Three sons and two daughters were born to them. In 1861 he was appointed postmaster by President Lincoln and held that office until 1869. He was on the board of trustees of Vincennes University. Having a taste for literary pursuits, he wrote much for periodicals, and in 1898 he published a little volume of poems, entitled At Midnight and Other Poems. Later he wrote a history of Vincennes . He was a Republican and a member of the Presbyterian Church. He died on Dec. 23, 1907. Two daughters, Miss Mary and Miss Alice Smith survived him many years."

From Hodge–Vincennes in Picture and Story.

  • At Midnight and Other Poems. Indianapolis, 1898.Search "At Midnight and Other Poems" by SMITH, HUBBARD MADISON: 1820-1907. in IUCAT, Google Books, OCLC WorldCat, or HathiTrust
  • Historical Sketches of Old Vincennes Founded in 1732. Its Institutions and Churches, Embracing Collateral Incidents and Biographical Sketches of Many Persons and Events Connected Therewith. Vincennes, Ind., 1902.Search "Historical Sketches of Old Vincennes Founded in 1732. Its Institutions and Churches, Embracing Collateral Incidents and Biographical Sketches of Many Persons and Events Connected Therewith" by SMITH, HUBBARD MADISON: 1820-1907. in IUCAT, Google Books, OCLC WorldCat, or HathiTrust

SMITH, ISAAC: ?-?

Of Isaac Smith , author of one of the most rare and valuable works on the Mexican War and the Rio Grande Valley, no biographical information has as yet been located.

From the fact of his having enlisted in the Indiana Brigade of Volunteers for service in that war, and from the fact of his having published at least one book in Indiana in 1844 and another after his return from the war, it may be assumed that his residence in the state was of a substantial length.

Information from Walker–The Beginnings of Printing in the State of Indiana; McMurtrie–Indiana Imprints, 1804-1849; and Littell Auction Sale Catalog–The Distinguished Collection of Americana.

  • A Brief Inquiry into the Banking System; Containing Some Historical Facts, Gathered from the Most Authentic Sources. Indianapolis, 1844.Search "A Brief Inquiry into the Banking System; Containing Some Historical Facts, Gathered from the Most Authentic Sources" by SMITH, ISAAC: ?-? in IUCAT, Google Books, OCLC WorldCat, or HathiTrust
  • Reminiscences of a Campaign in Mexico: an Account of the Operations of the Indiana Brigade on the Line of the Rio Grande and the Sierra Madre. And a Vindication of the Volunteers Against the Aspersions of Officials and Unofficials [sic]. Indianapolis, 1848.Search "Reminiscences of a Campaign in Mexico: an Account of the Operations of the Indiana Brigade on the Line of the Rio Grande and the Sierra Madre. And a Vindication of the Volunteers Against the Aspersions of Officials and Unofficials [sic]" by SMITH, ISAAC: ?-? in IUCAT, Google Books, OCLC WorldCat, or HathiTrust
  • Political Chart of Indiana … Indianapolis, [1849]. (2nd ed.)Search "Political Chart of Indiana" by SMITH, ISAAC: ?-? in IUCAT, Google Books, OCLC WorldCat, or HathiTrust

SMITH, JAMES C.: 1809-?

James C. Smith was born on Apr. 17, 1809, in Madison County, Ky. He accompanied his family to Indiana in 1820, settling near Madison; there he received his early education in country subscription schools and at the academy kept in Madison by Beaumont Park.

Becoming a Methodist minister in 1830, he occupied a pulpit in 1834 in Bloomington , where he studied for a time at Indiana University. He continued his ministry in Indianapolis, Greencastle and other Indiana towns for many years.

Information from Nowland–Sketches of Prominent Citizens of 1876.

SMITH, JAMES M.: 1819-?

Born in Fayette County, Ky., on Oct. 19, 1819, James M. Smith was a son of William and Margaret Smith. The family moved to Shelby County, Ind., in 1827, where, as Smith says, he "grew up to be a very wicked young man, without religious training."

In 1841 he changed his way of life and joined the Baptist Church. He was ordained a minister in 1844, afterwards studying at Franklin College for two years, teaching and preaching meanwhile. He preached in Indiana about twenty years, the same in Iowa and for about ten years in Missouri . His service to the church ended with his retirement in 1893.

James Smith married Elizabeth [?] in 1840. They were the parents of six children.

Information from Smith–Work on Revivals, Sermons and Sketches …

SMITH, JEREMIAH: 1805-1874.

Jeremiah Smith was born in South Carolina in 1805. He came to Indiana with his family in 1817, settling in what was later to become Winchester. He had already received a thorough grammar school education, and he now studied surveying and read law, practicing as an attorney for thirty years and acting as county surveyor, prosecuting attorney and, for eight years, judge of the circuit court of Randolph County. By 1858 he had become active in railroad promotion, being then president of both the Cincinnati, Union & Fort Wayne and the Evansville, Indianapolis & Cleveland railroads.

Mr. Smith died in 1874.

Information from Smith–Early Indiana Trials and Sketches.

SMITH, JOHN LAWRENCE: 1860-

John Lawrence Smith was born at Bridgeport, Conn., Nov. 30, 1860, the son of John and Mary Elizabeth Smith. His father was killed while serving with the Union Army in 1865, and his mother died in New York in 1866.

The two children, John Lawrence and Kate, were taken to the House of Refuge and later, with a number of others, were sent west to Williamsburg, Wayne County, Ind. The two Smith children were taken by a young lawyer of that town but were soon separated, John being sent to a baker and soon after to live on a farm. Here the boy's life was one of extreme hardship. He remained for a number of years but ran away when he was sixteen.

In order to attend school he worked for room and board, eventually entering the Indiana State Normal School at Terre Haute, Ind. After a short period of teaching he began his newspaper work as publisher and editor of the Dana DAILY NEWS. He was postmaster for a time and was later connected with newspapers in Richmond and Winchester, Ind. In 1887 he married Kate Jordan of Vermillion County, Ind.

He contributed verse and prose to THE FORUM and other magazines, as well as to state and local newspapers. In 1896-97 he served as secretary of the Western Association of Writers.

Information from Roll–Indiana, Vol. IV, and Smith and Driver–Past and Present of Randolph County.

SMITH, JOHN THOMAS: ?-1908.

John Thomas Smith received the LL.B. degree from De Pauw University in 1860. During the Civil War, from 1861 to 1865, he served in the Union Army and was mustered out a full colonel. From 1865 to 1870 he was clerk of the Greene County (Ind.) Circuit Court. He married Mary C. Armstrong of Greene County on Nov. 30, 1854, and died at Bowling Green, Ind., on Feb. 28, 1908.

Information from De Pauw University's Alumnal Record, 1920.

  • A History of the Thirty-First Regiment of Indiana Volunteer Infantry in the War of the Rebellion. Cincinnati, 1900.Search "A History of the Thirty-First Regiment of Indiana Volunteer Infantry in the War of the Rebellion" by SMITH, JOHN THOMAS: ?-1908. in IUCAT, Google Books, OCLC WorldCat, or HathiTrust

SMITH, LAURA ALEXANDRINE: ?-1935.

Laura Alexandrine Smith was born in Waterloo, N. Y. , but spent most of her life in Indianapolis , where she wrote feature articles for the INDIANAPOLIS NEWS and the INDIANAPOLIS STAR. She also contributed poetry and essays to magazines. During the first World War she worked with the American Committee for Devastated France, and following the war she was Washington correspondent for the INDIANAPOLIS STAR for some years. She died in 1935.

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  • The Music of the Waters. A Collection of the Sailors' Chanties, or Working Songs of the Sea, of All Maritime Nations … London, 1888.Search "The Music of the Waters. A Collection of the Sailors' Chanties, or Working Songs of the Sea, of All Maritime Nations" by SMITH, LAURA ALEXANDRINE: ?-1935. in IUCAT, Google Books, OCLC WorldCat, or HathiTrust
  • Through Romany Songland. New York, 1889.Search "Through Romany Songland" by SMITH, LAURA ALEXANDRINE: ?-1935. in IUCAT, Google Books, OCLC WorldCat, or HathiTrust

SMITH, OLIVER HAMPTON: 1794-1859.

Oliver Hampton Smith has, besides his good record as a citizen and statesman, one distinction not at all common to writers of books about their contempo- page: 296[View Page 296] raries: his work, Early Indiana Trials and Sketches, appears immediately to the reader to be a faithful recording of the whole truth, hurt though it may.

Most such works, written by retired gentlemen in their last years, charitably gloss over the eccentricities and errors of their fellow men. Not so with Oliver H. Smith. If one of his contemporaries, a distinguished citizen in later life, had erred in his youth in the matter of appropriating a horse not his own, Smith says (in effect): "He was an excellent father and husband; he was a successful business man and a leader in the church, but in his eighteenth year he was indicted as a horse-thief." After the fulsome praise of one and all in other such works, Smith's manner is a bright relief to the reader.

According to the Dictionary of American Biography: "Oliver Hampton Smith (Oct. 23, 1794-Mar. 19, 1859), lawyer, representative and senator, was of Quaker descent. His ancestors accompanied William Penn to America; his grandparents occupied Smith's Island in the Delaware River about twelve miles above Trenton ; and here, in Bucks County, Pa., Oliver, the son of Thomas and Letitia Smith, was born. He had six brothers and two sisters. He obtained an elementary education at a neighboring country school. When he was in his nineteenth year his father died, and Oliver soon lost the small fortune which he had inherited. In 1816 he set out for the West, and at Pittsburgh engaged to take two coal boats to Louisville . He struck a snag and lost one of them, but succeeded, in the spring of 1817, in reaching Rising Sun, Ind., where he engaged in a small business with seventy-five dollars as his capital. A year later he was in Lawrenceburg, studying law, and in Mar. 1820 he was admitted to the bar.

"He commenced to practice at Versailles , but soon removed to Connersville , where he rapidly rose to prominence. In Aug. 1822 he was elected to the Indiana House of Representatives. He was made chairman of the judiciary committee and served until 1824, when the governor appointed him prosecuting attorney for the third judicial district. During two years of service in this capacity he successfully prosecuted four notorious frontiersmen charged with the murder of Indians. [See the sketch of Sandford Cox.] In 1826 he was elected to Congress as a Jackson Democrat. He rode to Washington on horseback and took his seat at the opening of the Twentieth Congress, Dec. 3, 1827. He was a member of the committee on Indian affairs, and on Feb. 19, 1828, made a vigorous plea for an Indian policy 'marked with justice, humanity, and a magnanimity of purpose, that will atone, as far as possible, for the great injustice which we have done them.' In another address, Jan. 28, 1829, he presented cogent arguments in favor of appropriations for the construction of the Cumberland Road. Defeated for re-election to Congress, he was engaged in the practice of law and in farming when, in Dec. 1836, the General Assembly elected him as a Whig to a seat in the U. S. Senate. He was a member of the committee on the militia in 1837, and of the committee on the judiciary in 1839, and was made chairman of the important committee on public lands in 1841. His principal speeches in the Senate were on measures relative to the public lands, banking, bankruptcy, the Cumberland Road, and the abolition of slavery in the Territories. He rose to leadership in evolving a federal land policy in the interest of the actual settlers … and supported the Whig plan for the federal assumption of state debts to the extent of the proceeds of the sales of the public lands within the states.

"Failing of re-election to the Senate, Smith retired to private life in Indianapolis , projected the Indianapolis & Bellefontaine Railroad, became its first president, and subsequently participated in a project for a line from Indianapolis to Evansville . In July 1857 he commenced writing for the INDIANAPOLIS DAILY JOURNAL a series of sketches and reminiscences of frontier life in Indiana which in the following year was published in book form … Although crude in style, the volume is a vivid presentation of various phases of early Indiana history.

" Smith was a rough-hewn frontiersman, five feet ten inches in height, with standing black hair, shaggy eyebrows and a strong voice; he was diffuse but convincing in speech, and one of the most respected of Indiana pioneers. He married Mary Bramfield, a Quaker, in 1821, and they had three children. He died in Indianapolis and was buried in Crown Hill Cemetery."

From the Dictionary of American Biography, Vol. XVII, and Smith–Early Indiana Trials and Sketches.

SMITH, ORLANDO JAY: 1842-1908.

Orlando J. Smith was born near Terre Haute, Ind., June 14, 1842, and died in 1908. He was educated in rural schools and at De Pauw University.

Enlisting in the Union forces for the Civil War as a private, he rose through the ranks and, at the time of his discharge, held a commission as major.

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Returning to Terre Haute after the war, he edited the TERRE HAUTE MAIL and the TERRE HAUTE EXPRESS. Later he became editor of the CHICAGO EXPRESS. He was a great influence for the development of the American press along sound and responsible lines and was instrumental in the organization of the American Press Association.

Information from the Emmeline Fairbanks Memorial Library, Terre Haute, Ind.

SMITH, WILLIAM C.: 1809-1886.

William C. Smith was born near Richmond, Indiana Territory, on Sept. 14, 1809.

He married Phoebe E. King on July 17, 1828, upon which event she was disowned by the Society of Friends, Smith being a Methodist.

Smith was licensed to preach in 1839 and held pastorates in many southern Indiana towns, becoming a distinguished member of his denomination. After his retirement he lived in Martinsville, Ind., and toward the end of his life he lived with his children.

The Rev. William C. Smith died on Apr. 27, 1886.

Information from the Indiana State Library.

  • Indiana Miscellany, Consisting of Sketches of Indian Life, the Early Settlement, Customs, and Hardships of the People … Together with Biographical Notices of the Pioneer Methodist Preachers of the State. Cincinnati, 1867.Search "Indiana Miscellany, Consisting of Sketches of Indian Life, the Early Settlement, Customs, and Hardships of the People … Together with Biographical Notices of the Pioneer Methodist Preachers of the State" by SMITH, WILLIAM C.: 1809-1886. in IUCAT, Google Books, OCLC WorldCat, or HathiTrust

SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY: 1839-1935.

William Henry Smith , son of William Carlyle and Phoebe King Smith, was born at Noblesville, Ind., on Dec. 17, 1839. His father was a Methodist minister.

Before the Civil War he became a printer and reporter and reported one or more of the speeches made by Lincoln in his first campaign. For about a year during the war he served with the 11th Indiana Volunteers, the Zouave regiment commanded by Lew Wallace; for the remainder of the war he was engaged in secret service work and in training recruits at Camp Morton.

After the war he returned to newspaper work. He published the LOGANSPORT STAR in the late Seventies and about 1880 removed to Indianapolis , where he was connected at various times with the JOURNAL, TIMES, NEWS, and SENTINEL. For a number of years he was Indiana correspondent for the CINCINNATI COMMERCIAL GAZETTE.

Mr. Smith was active in state politics and was one of those who had charge of the campaign of Benjamin Harrison in 1888. He was Harrison's biographer for the campaign, as he was later for Charles Fairbanks when Fairbanks ran for the vice-presidency. He served as secretary of the Indiana State Senate about 1876 and was chief cleric of the Indiana House of Representatives in 1886. During Harrison's administration he was in the PostoffIce Department and was active in helping organize the ocean mail postal system. Later he represented Fitzgerald and Vajen, Indianapolis pension attorneys, in Washington .

About 1894 he returned to his newspaper work on the COMMERCIAL GAZETTE in Cincinnati . He then edited an Indiana periodical, THE INDIANIAN, and engaged in newspaper work in Indianapolis until 1905, when he returned to Washington . He was active in newspaper and magazine work until he was ninety-three years of age, writing for the WASHINGTON POST, the WASHINGTON STAR, several New York papers, the INDIANAPOLIS NEWS, the CHICAGO TRIBUNE, and others. His last article to attract attention was on Lincoln and was written when he was ninety-three.

Smith's mother had come to the state in a covered wagon when she was a child, and his paternal grandparents had settled there even earlier. On a trip back to Indianapolis (for the purpose of voting) in 1932, when he was ninety-four years old, Mr. Smith fell down stairs at the English Hotel, and an account of the mishap in an Indianapolis paper (the INDIANAPOLIS STAR, Nov. 8, 1832) comments that the most serious injury was to the cane he carried.

He was twice married: first to Clara Innes Wolff, who died in 1888, and second to Minnie Frybarger, who survived him by about a year. Mr. Smith died on Feb. 12, 1935.

In addition to his books, he was the author of many short stories for magazines and newspapers (under the pen name of "Randolph Wharton"). He also wrote a page: 298[View Page 298] chapter for John Jay Knox's History of Banking, several chapters for Marshall Cushing's Story of Our Post Office, and a chapter for Historic Towns of the Middle West. He prepared most of the material for four of the seven volumes of the encyclopedia of Information for Farmers.

Information from the William Henry Smith Memorial Library of The Indiana Historical Society.

  • History of the State of Indiana from the Earliest Explorations by the French to the Present Time; Containing an Account of the Principal Civil, Political and Military Events from 1763 to 1903. Indianapolis, [1897]. 2 vols.Search "History of the State of Indiana from the Earliest Explorations by the French to the Present Time; Containing an Account of the Principal Civil, Political and Military Events from 1763 to 1903" by SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY: 1839-1935. in IUCAT, Google Books, OCLC WorldCat, or HathiTrust
  • The Life and Speeches of Hon. Charles Warren Fairbanks, Republican Candidate for Vice-President. Indianapolis, 1904.Search "The Life and Speeches of Hon. Charles Warren Fairbanks, Republican Candidate for Vice-President" by SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY: 1839-1935. in IUCAT, Google Books, OCLC WorldCat, or HathiTrust
  • History of the Cabinet of the United States of America; from President Washington to President Coolidge; an Account of the Origin of the Cabinet, a Roster of the Various Members with the Term of Service, and Biographical Sketches of Each Member, Showing Public Offices Held by Each. Baltimore, 1925.Search "History of the Cabinet of the United States of America; from President Washington to President Coolidge; an Account of the Origin of the Cabinet, a Roster of the Various Members with the Term of Service, and Biographical Sketches of Each Member, Showing Public Offices Held by Each" by SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY: 1839-1935. in IUCAT, Google Books, OCLC WorldCat, or HathiTrust
  • Speakers of The House of Representatives of the United States, with Personal Sketches of the Several Speakers, with Portraits. Baltimore, 1928.Search "Speakers of The House of Representatives of the United States, with Personal Sketches of the Several Speakers, with Portraits" by SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY: 1839-1935. in IUCAT, Google Books, OCLC WorldCat, or HathiTrust

SMITH, WILLIAM WRIGHT: 1845-?

William Wright Smith , careful custodian of Owensville, Ind., statistics, left no biographer to preserve a record of his own life. Minnie P. Boren, of the Owensville Carnegie Library, says that he lived alone in Owensville for almost all of his life, that he had no near relatives and that he did common labor for a living.

Perhaps it was his own lack of home and family which attracted his interest toward the births, deaths and marriages of those who lived around him, and to the storms, fires, accidents and other events which affected their lives. At any rate his little book (the original date of publication of which is not known) went through four editions and is prized as an accurate local history.

Information from the Owensville Carnegie Library.

  • A True Record; of the Marriages, Deaths, Accidents, Fires, Storms, Etc. of Owensville and Its Vicinity. Owensville, Ind.Search "A True Record; of the Marriages, Deaths, Accidents, Fires, Storms, Etc. of Owensville and Its Vicinity" by SMITH, WILLIAM WRIGHT: 1845-? in IUCAT, Google Books, OCLC WorldCat, or HathiTrust

SMYTHE, GONZALVO CORDOVA: 1836-1897.

Born in Putnam County, Ind., on Oct. 31, 1836, Gonzalvo Cordova Smythe graduated from De Pauw University in 1858, receiving the A.M. degree in 1861, and graduated from Rush Medical College in 1863.

From 1863 until his death on Feb. 9, 1897, he practiced medicine in Greencastle, Ind. He was for several years a professor at Central College of Physicians and Surgeons in Indianapolis and served as dean of the same institution. In 1890-91 he was president of the Indiana State Medical Society.

Dr. Smythe was first married to Margaret Allen, who died in 1870, then to Janie F. Black, who died in 1874, and, in 1876, to Jennie Hartley.

Information from De Pauw University's Alumnal Record, 1920.

  • Medical Heresies Historically Considered; … Sketch and Review of Homeopathy Past and Present. Philadelphia, 1880.Search "Medical Heresies Historically Considered; … Sketch and Review of Homeopathy Past and Present" by SMYTHE, GONZALVO CORDOVA: 1836-1897. in IUCAT, Google Books, OCLC WorldCat, or HathiTrust

SNEDEKER, CAROLINE DALE PARKE (MRS. CHARLES HENRY): 1871-

Caroline Dale Parke , daughter of Charles Augustus and Nina Dale Owen Parke and granddaughter of Robert Dale Owen, was born at New Harmony, Ind., on Mar. 23, 1871. She graduated from the College of Music in Cincinnati and before her marriage was a concert pianist and an instructor of music. She married Charles Henry Snedeker on Apr. 29, 1903. In her writing she used the pen names Caroline Dale and Caroline Dale Owen.

Information from Who's Who in America.

SNOW, JOHN F.: 1854-1933.

Born at Portland, Ind., in 1854, John F. Snow was a graduate of Ridgeville College. He was a teacher and lawyer and died at Decatur, Ind., in 1933.

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SOMMER, DANIEL: 1850-1940.

Born near Baltimore, Md., in 1850, the Rev. Daniel Sommer moved to Indianapolis in 1894. From 1887 to 1939 he was editor of the AMERICAN CHRISTIAN REVIEW. He retired after sixty-nine years in the ministry of the Church of Christ and died in Indianapolis on Feb. 18, 1940.

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SOMMER, DANIEL AUSTEN: 1878-

Daniel Sommer , son of the Rev. Daniel Sommer, was born in Chester County, Pa., in 1878, and lived in Indiana for nearly fifty years. An evangelist and author, he was also the publisher of MACEDONIAN CALL, a religious periodical.

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  • Meditations in Bible Lands. Indianapolis, 1910.Search "Meditations in Bible Lands" by SOMMER, DANIEL AUSTEN: 1878- in IUCAT, Google Books, OCLC WorldCat, or HathiTrust
  • The Church of Christ. Indianapolis, 1913.Search "The Church of Christ" by SOMMER, DANIEL AUSTEN: 1878- in IUCAT, Google Books, OCLC WorldCat, or HathiTrust
  • Guide Through Bible History; for Private Study. Indianapolis, 1915.Search "Guide Through Bible History; for Private Study" by SOMMER, DANIEL AUSTEN: 1878- in IUCAT, Google Books, OCLC WorldCat, or HathiTrust
  • Wright-Sommer Debate, Between J. Roy Wright, of Unionville, Missouri, and D. Austen Sommer, of Indianapolis, Indiana; Questions Discussed–Instrumental Music and the Societies; Held at Livezey Hall, Unionville, Missouri, March 7-10, 1916. Unionvtlle, Wlo., 1916.Search "Wright-Sommer Debate, Between J. Roy Wright, of Unionville, Missouri, and D. Austen Sommer, of Indianapolis, Indiana; Questions Discussed–Instrumental Music and the Societies; Held at Livezey Hall, Unionville, Missouri, March 7-10, 1916" by SOMMER, DANIEL AUSTEN: 1878- in IUCAT, Google Books, OCLC WorldCat, or HathiTrust
  • The Fight of Faith. Indianapolis, 1918.Search "The Fight of Faith" by SOMMER, DANIEL AUSTEN: 1878- in IUCAT, Google Books, OCLC WorldCat, or HathiTrust

SPAHR, JOHN: ?-

The chatty, frank county history, Early Life and Times in Boone County, Indiana , was written and compiled by "Harden & Spahr , Lebanon, Ind.," Otherwise the authors do not identify themselves (although Harden is known to be Samuel Harden, then of Anderson, Ind., the author of at least two other books). Casual mention in the text states that the first brick house built in Boone County was owned in 1886 by John H. Spahr. It is presumed that both men resided in Boone County at the time of writing.

Information from Harden and Spahr–Early Life and Times in Boone County …

  • Early Life and Times in Boone County, Indiana, Giving an Account of the Early Settlement of Each Locality, Church Histories, County and Township Officers from the First Down to 1886; Histories of Some of the Pioneer Families of the County. Biographical Sketches of Some of the Prominent Men and Women. Communications from Well-Informed Citizens Throughout the County; List of Soldiers Who Went to the Late War of 1861-5 (withSamuel Harden). Lebanon, Ind., 1887.Search "Early Life and Times in Boone County, Indiana, Giving an Account of the Early Settlement of Each Locality, Church Histories, County and Township Officers from the First Down to 1886; Histories of Some of the Pioneer Families of the County. Biographical Sketches of Some of the Prominent Men and Women. Communications from Well-Informed Citizens Throughout the County; List of Soldiers Who Went to the Late War of 1861-5" by SPAHR, JOHN: ?- in IUCAT, Google Books, OCLC WorldCat, or HathiTrust

SPANGLER, WILLIAM WESLEY: 1855-1922.

Born near Auburn, Ind., on Nov. 15, 1855, William Wesley Spangler graduated from Indiana Universityin 1880, receiving the A.M. degree in 1886. On June 10, 1885, he married Ida Smell.

Associated with Indiana University, he was librarian from 1880 to 1893, registrar from 1884 to 1889, and secretary of the board of trustees from 1880 to 1891. He also served as assistant director of five European tramping tours.

Mr. Spangler died on June 26, 1922, and was buried at Auburn, Ind.

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SPARLING, SAMUEL EDWIN: 1866-1941.

" Mr. Sparling was the son of Joseph B. and Addaline (Hammond) Sparling who came to Rensselaer page: 300[View Page 300] in an early day from Ohio and settled on a tract of land that is now a part of the St. Joseph College property. It was there that Samuel was born.

"As a farm boy, he attended Rensselaer High School. Following his graduation, he sought higher education and after being graduated from Indiana University [in 1892] he taught school for a time in Rensselaer High School. He later studied at the University of Berlin and then returned to America …

"The name of Sparling once shone brightly among the educational leaders as a member of the faculty of the University of Wisconsin, where he was an instructor for many years. Closing his teaching career, he returned to Rensselaer for a brief stay and after disposing of his property interests, he located in Alabama near Gallion on a plantation where he resided until his death April 18, 1941 …"

From THE RENSSELAER REPUBLICAN, April 24, 1941.

SPRINGER, REBECCA RUTER (MRS. WILLIAM MCKENDREE): 1832-1904.

Rebecca Ruter , daughter of Calvin W. and Harriet C. Ruter, was born in Indianapolis , on Nov. 8, 1832. From 1840 to 1848 she was educated in private schools in New Albany, Ind., and she graduated from Wesleyan College, O. , in 1850. On Dec. 15, 1859, she was married to William McKendree Springer. Mrs. Springer died in Washington, D. C., in 1904.

Information from Who Was Who in America.

SPRUNGER, JOHN A.: 1852-1911.

John A. Sprunger , son of Abraham B. and Elisabeth Zuercher Sprunger, was born in Raeh, Switzerland, Aug. 12, 1852. With his parents, brothers and sisters he emigrated to the U. S. in 1854, the family settling in Adams County, Ind. John was married to Katherine Sprunger on Feb. 15, 1880.

As a young man Mr. Sprunger engaged in various business enterprises but later entered the Mennonite ministry and became active in various spheres of Christian service. He traveled widely on evangelistic missions, both in this country and in Switzerland , founded a deaconess home and an orphanage, and also founded the Light and Hope Publishing Company of Cleveland, O.

The Rev. Mr. Sprunger died near Birmingham, O.–then site of the orphanage he had founded–in Oct., 1911. He was buried at Berne, Ind.

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SPRUNGER, SAMUEL FERDINAND: 1848-1923.

Samuel Ferdinand Sprunger , son of Abraham and Magdalena Rüffenacht Sprunger, was born near Muensterberg, Canton Bern, Switzerland, on Oct. 19, 1848. His mother died fifteen months after his birth. With his father and a number of relatives he came to the U. S. in 1852 and settled in Berne, Ind. His young manhood was spent at farming.

In the early years the ministers of the Mennonite Church at Berne were elected by lot, the last election of its kind being held on Aug. 23, 1868. In a songbook was placed a slip of paper on which was writ ten in German, "Lord, who knowest all hearts, designate whom Thou hast chosen." As the young men passed by a table each one picked up a book. When young Samuel Sprunger passed by, something prompted him to exchange books; his final selection changed the entire course of his life as well as the future history of the Mennonite Church at Berne , for by selecting the second book he was chosen as the new minister.

Samuel Sprunger had had little opportunity for study, and he now insisted on more education. The church did not believe in an educated ministry, and most of the church members did not approve of his plans, but the retiring minister upheld him in his desire. After a few years in the Mennonite School at Wadsworth, O., he returned to Berne and began his Christian ministry. All told, he served the Mennonite Church at Berne more than thirty-three years.

Mr. Sprunger was married on Oct. 2, 1872, to Katharlne, daughter of Peter and Barbara Steiner Luginbill. They became the parents of ten children. page: 301[View Page 301] The Rev. Samuel Sprunger died on Nov. 16, 1923, and his wife on Nov. 18, 1945.

Information supplied by Eva F Sprunger, daughter.

  • Geschlechts und Namens-Register der Familie Sprunger (withAbraham J. Sprunger). Berne, Ind., 1890.Search "Geschlechts und Namens-Register der Familie Sprunger" by SPRUNGER, SAMUEL FERDINAND: 1848-1923. in IUCAT, Google Books, OCLC WorldCat, or HathiTrust

STARBUCK, EDWIN DILLER: 1866-

Edwin Diller Starbuck , son of Samuel and Luzena Jessup Starbuck, was born at Bridgeport, Ind., on Feb. 20, 1866, and graduated from Indiana University in 1890, receiving the A.M. degree from Harvard University in 1895 and the Ph.D. from Clark University in 1897. In 1904-05 he studied at the University of Zurich. He married Anna M. Diller on Aug. 5, 1896.

From 1891 to 1893 he was a professor of mathematics at Vincennes University, from 1897 to 1904 assistant professor of education at Stanford University, and from 1904 to 1906 professor of education at Earlham College. He was professor of philosophy at the State University of Iowa from 1906 to 1930, serving as head of the department from 1927 to 1930 and as director of the Institute of Character Research from 1923 to 1930. From 1930 to 1939 he was professor of philosophy and director of character research at the University of Southern California, becoming, in 1939, professor of psychology. From 1912 to 1914 Dr. Starbuck was consulting psychologist for the Beacon Press.

The many works which he compiled and edited are not listed here.

Information from Indiana University, 1820-1904, and from Who's Who in America.

STEALEY, ORLANDO OSCAR: 1842-1928.

Orlando Oscar Stealey , son of John O. and Mary A. Stealey, was born at Jeffersonville, Ind., on Jan. 4, 1842, and was educated in the common schools of the state. He married Lollie Sherley on Dec. 8, 1874.

For forty years Mr. Stealey was a member of the staff of the Louisville COURIER-JOURNAL, filling, during that time, all chairs at the home office except that of editor-in-chief and serving after 1881 as Washington correspondent of the paper. At the time of his death, which occurred on Dec. 29, 1928, he had been retired on a pension.

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  • Twenty Years in the Press Gallery: a Concise History of Important Legislation from the 48th to the 58th Congress. Washington, D. C., 1906.Search "Twenty Years in the Press Gallery: a Concise History of Important Legislation from the 48th to the 58th Congress" by STEALEY, ORLANDO OSCAR: 1842-1928. in IUCAT, Google Books, OCLC WorldCat, or HathiTrust
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STECHHAN, OTTO: 1851-1922.

Born in Prussia in 1851, Otto Stechhan came with his family to Indianapolis in 1857. He was a resident of that city until about 1920, when he went to California to live with his son.

He was a furniture upholsterer and manufacturer and was for a time a member of the city council and a representative in the Indiana State Legislature. While a member of the latter body he introduced and saw passed a law making possible the establishment of trade schools as part of the public school system.

Mr. Stechhan died in California in 1922.

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STEIN, EVALEEN: 1863-1923.

Evaleen Stein , artist, poet and writer of stories for children, was born at Lafayette, Ind., on Oct. 12, 1863. Her father, John Andrew Stein, a native of Pennsylvania , came to Lafayette in 1851 at the age of nineteen, became a successful lawyer and participated page: 302[View Page 302] prominently in public affairs. He was a member of the Indiana Senate in 1869, where he introduced the act that established Purdue University. Later he became a trustee of that institution and was secretary of the board during its formative years. Miss Stein's mother was Virginia Tomlinson of Logansport, a cultured woman, and both she and her husband wrote verse, essays and stories that were published in local newspapers. A brother, Orth Harper Stein, also had considerable literary gifts, which he exercised in the field of journalism. He is credited with being one of the first to obtain extensive fame as a columnist.

Miss Stein was educated in the local schools, graduating from the Lafayette High School at the age of seventeen. Later she attended classes at the Chicago Art Institute, as her first interest was in this field, and she became an able illuminator, a form of decorative design then much in vogue. Just when she began to turn her attention to poetry is not certainly known, but her first verses appeared in print in 1886, chiefly in Indianapolis and Lafayette newspapers. Her first book of verse appeared early in 1897 and was entitled One Way to the Woods. Five years later it was followed by Among the Trees dyain. Her only other volume of original verse, the collection called Child Sonys of Cheer, appeared in 1918.

She wrote also a long narrative poem commemorating the Battle of Tippecanoe (1911) and in 1916 the centennial ode entitled Indiana . There also exist a few unpublished poems. Two other volumes of verse consist of English versions of poems by foreign authors, Poems of Giovanni Pascoli, 1923, from the Italian, and Little Poems from Japanese dntholoyies, 1922.

Her original poetry deals largely with nature, of which she was a keen and accurate observer, describing with meticulous detail its varying moods and the great variety of form and color the seasons bring. She confined herself to traditional forms of rhythm and rhyme and made extensive use of alliteration. She could, on occasion, stir the deeper emotions or take the mind on broad flights of fancy, but for the most part she preferred to portray the softer and less spectacular features of nature and of human life. She was remarkably skilled in versification, on a lower level and for her friends only, turning out with the greatest of ease verses on anniversaries, accompanying or in acknowledgement of gifts, or giving humorous descriptions of current news and events. She was also an effective reader of her own poetry and that of others.

James Whitcomb Riley was an admirer of her poetry and gave both advice and encouragement. In May 1907 he, together with George Ade, Meredith Nicholson and Charles Major, gave a benefit reading for Miss Stein on the campus of Purdue University. The proceeds of this reading, together with other gifts from friends, enabled her and her mother to spend several happy months in her beloved France, visiting the scenes and reliving the events which she used with such effect in her stories. She left an unpublished manuscript on her travels describing her visits to various scenes and shrines in romantic France.

While continuing throughout her life to compose in verse, she developed about 1900 a third talent which was to become her major interest, namely story telling for children. This first took the form of short stories, which were published in 1903 under the title of Troubadour Tales. From that time until her death a new story appeared on the average of every two years. They were not novels but rather long short stories. They took their subject matter and their atmosphere chiefly from European sources and mainly from those romantic regions of France , Normandy and Provence. The most successful of her stories were Gabriel and the Hour Book, The Little Count of Normandy and the Christmas Porrinyer. Three books appeared after her death, Pepin: d Tale of Twelfth Niyht, Children's Stories and The Circus Dwarf Stories.

In her poetry Miss Stein was realistic and spontaneous. Her phrasing and choice of words were remarkable, and she showed great descriptive power. Her observations of nature were of necessity colored by human emotions and attitudes, but they remained essentially and even scientifically true, being sometimes almost microscopic in their accuracy. But she preferred nature in its higher, more peaceful and joyous manifestations and for the most part ignored the "tooth and claw" aspects.

As a story teller, however, she chose to live in an unreal world. She was fascinated by the romantic tales and legends of periods remote in time and of places remote in space from those in which she lived. In this she was a part of that romantic movement in literature that in Indiana produced Ben HuG When Kniyhthood Was In Flower, Monsieur Beaucaire and other popular works. In the case of other writers this was but a phase through which they passed or was a case of making the supply meet the demand. But with Miss Stein it was not a passing mood but amounted almost to a consecration of her powers to the re-creation for modern readers of the far distant past. Her stories have a vital and imaginative quality that sustains the interest of the reader. Perhaps one must admit that her books are about children rather than for children, as they are equally suited for adult reading. They are not great page: 303[View Page 303] stories, but they produce an effect of reality and are true to the circumstances of the times and the people about whom they were written.

Miss Stein was not one of the top flight authors of Indiana , but her talents were of a high order and her fame has not been commensurate with the quality of her output. She died at Lafayette on Dec. 11, 1923. Good collections of her books may be found at the Indiana State Library, the Lafayette Public Library and the Tippecanoe County Historical Museum, the last two named having also considerable collections of clippings, letters, unpublished poems and other memorabilia.

By William Murray Hepburn, Librarian Emeritus, Purdue University.

STEIN, THEODORE: 1858-1927.

Born in Indianapolis on Nov. 7, 1858, Theodore Stein was the eldest of the five sons of E. C. Frederick and Catherine Elizabeth Stein. He attended the German-English Independent School, then started in business as bookkeeper and manager of a lumber business. In 1887 he created an abstract of title company, which was the nucleus of the Indiana Title Guarantee and Loan Company, and he became one of the leaders in this work. At one time his efforts were responsible for saving the German Fire Insurance Company of Indiana from financial ruin, and he later became president of the company. Mr. Stein died July 17, 1927.

Information from Dunn–Indiana and Indianans, Vol. V, and the Indianapolis Public Library.

  • Historical Sketch of the German-English Independent School of Indianapolis, "Our Old School." Indianapolis, 1913.Search "Historical Sketch of the German-English Independent School of Indianapolis, "Our Old School" by STEIN, THEODORE: 1858-1927. in IUCAT, Google Books, OCLC WorldCat, or HathiTrust

STEMPFEL, THEODORE: 1863-1935.

Theodore Stempfel was born in Ulm , Wurttemberg. Germany , Sept. 20, 1863. He attended school in Germany and became a clerk in the Ulm bank; but after completing his military service and becoming assistant cashier in the bank, he decided to come to the U. S. to study banking methods and came to Indianapolis in June, 1883. He was connected with the Indiana Trust Company, the American National Bank, and the Fletcher-American National Bank. Among his other interests were civil service reform in government and assistance in the Americanization of foreigners. He was president of the North American Gymnastic Union and served on the board of school commissioners from 1916 to 1920. He published many pamphlets and contributed to leading magazines. Mr. Stempfel died in Indianapolis on Dec. 24, 1935.

His first wife, Flora Koster, died in 1900, and five years later he married Anna Lieber.

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  • Fllnfzig Jahre Unermlldlichen Deutschen Strebens in Indianapolis: Festschrift zur Feier der Vollendung des Deutschen Hauses in Indianapolis. Indianapolis, 1898.Search "Fllnfzig Jahre Unermlldlichen Deutschen Strebens in Indianapolis: Festschrift zur Feier der Vollendung des Deutschen Hauses in Indianapolis" by STEMPFEL, THEODORE: 1863-1935. in IUCAT, Google Books, OCLC WorldCat, or HathiTrust
  • Americanization; Read Before the Indianapolis Literary Club, April 19, 1920. n.p., n.d. [1920].Search "Americanization; Read Before the Indianapolis Literary Club, April 19, 1920" by STEMPFEL, THEODORE: 1863-1935. in IUCAT, Google Books, OCLC WorldCat, or HathiTrust
  • Ghosts of the Past. Indianapolis, 1936.Search "Ghosts of the Past" by STEMPFEL, THEODORE: 1863-1935. in IUCAT, Google Books, OCLC WorldCat, or HathiTrust

STEPHENS, DAN VOORHEES: 1868-1939.

Dan Voorhees Stephens , son of Richard Lewis and Martha Lamkins Stephens, was born in Bloomington, Ind., on Nov. 4, 1868, and attended Valparaiso University in 1886-87. He married Hannah Boe on June 24, 1890.

In 1889 Mr. Stephens went to Nebraska , where he spent the remainder of his life. He was in business in page: 304[View Page 304] Fremont, Nebr., in 1889 and served as county superintendent of schools for Dodge County from 1890 to 1894. He was connected with various Nebraska business firms. He served three terms in the U. S. House of Representatives and in 1933 was a member of the Board of Public Works for Nebraska . He died on Jan. 13, 1939.

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  • Silas Cobb; A Story of Super Vision. Fremont, Nebr., 1901.Search "Silas Cobb; A Story of Super Vision" by STEPHENS, DAN VOORHEES: 1868-1939. in IUCAT, Google Books, OCLC WorldCat, or HathiTrust
  • Phelps and His Teachers. Fremont, Nebr., 1902. (2nd ed.)Search "Phelps and His Teachers" by STEPHENS, DAN VOORHEES: 1868-1939. in IUCAT, Google Books, OCLC WorldCat, or HathiTrust
  • Cottonwood Yarns; being Mostly Stories Told to Children about Some More or Less Wild Animals that Live at the Cottonwoods on the Elkhorn River in Nebraska. Fremont, Nebr., 1935.Search "Cottonwood Yarns; being Mostly Stories Told to Children about Some More or Less Wild Animals that Live at the Cottonwoods on the Elkhorn River in Nebraska" by STEPHENS, DAN VOORHEES: 1868-1939. in IUCAT, Google Books, OCLC WorldCat, or HathiTrust

STEPHENSON, ANDREW: 1856-

Born at Metamora, Ill., on Sep. 26, 1856, Andrew Stephenson graduated from De Pauw University in 1882, receiving the A.M. degree in 1885, and received the Ph.D. degree from Johns Hopkins University in 1890. He married Julia Root on Aug. 17, 1883.

After serving as principal of the public schools of Sparland, Ill. , and teaching at Upper Iowa University and Wesleyan University (Conn.), in 1894 Dr. Stephenson returned to Indiana to become professor of history at De Pauw University, a position he held until 1913.

Information from De Pauw University's Alumnal Record, 1920.

  • A Syllabus of Lectures in European History. Middletown, Conn.Search "A Syllabus of Lectures in European History" by STEPHENSON, ANDREW: 1856- in IUCAT, Google Books, OCLC WorldCat, or HathiTrust
  • A Syllabus of Lectures in European History from the Fall of Rome to 1890. Terre Haute, Ind., 1897.Search "A Syllabus of Lectures in European History from the Fall of Rome to 1890" by STEPHENSON, ANDREW: 1856- in IUCAT, Google Books, OCLC WorldCat, or HathiTrust
  • A Syllabus of Lectures and Library Guide in Church History. Greencastle, Ind., 1900.Search "A Syllabus of Lectures and Library Guide in Church History" by STEPHENSON, ANDREW: 1856- in IUCAT, Google Books, OCLC WorldCat, or HathiTrust
  • History of Roman Law, with a Commentary on the Institutes of Gaius and Justinian. Boston, 1912.Search "History of Roman Law, with a Commentary on the Institutes of Gaius and Justinian" by STEPHENSON, ANDREW: 1856- in IUCAT, Google Books, OCLC WorldCat, or HathiTrust

STEPHENSON, CORA ESTELLA BENNETT (MRS. FRED CLARE): 1872-

Born in Jeffersonville, Ind., on Nov. 2, 1872, Cora Estella Bennett graduated from De Pauw University in 1894. She married Fred Clare Stephenson on Jan. 24, 1899.

From 1894 to 1898 she taught Latin in the Marion, Ind., High School, in 1910-11 she was a teacher of biology in the University of Porto Rico, and in 1913-14 she was principal of the Modern School Settlement. From 1914 to 1917 Mrs. Stephenson was an editorial writer for and a contributor to SMART SET. She served as head of the biology department in a Louisville high school from 1917 to 1919.

Information from De Pauw University's Alumnal Record, 1920.

STEPHENSON, HENRY THEW: 1870-

Henry Thew Stephenson was born in Cincinnati, O., Apr. 22, 1870, the son of Reuben Henry and Louisa Wright Stephenson.

He received the B.S. degree from Ohio State University in 1894, the A.B. from Harvard University in 1898 and the M.A. from Indiana University in 1911. He married Agnes Reynolds, of Richmond, Ind., on Nov. 28, 1900.

He joined the Indiana University faculty as an instructor in 1895 and became head of the English department in 1919.

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STEVENS, WARDER W.: 1845-1927.

Warder W. Stevens , son of Henderson and Catharine Hayden Stevens, was born Sept. 30, 1845, at Cecilia, Hardin County, Ky. He was educated in the common schools and at Corydon, Ind., High School, and received the bachelor of laws degree from Indiana page: 305[View Page 305] University in 1867. In the same year he located at Salem, Ind., and in 1868 he was appointed deputy auditor and later was elected prosecuting attorney. He purchased the SALEM DEMOCRAT, which he edited for twelve years. He was president of the State Board of Agriculture in 1899 and the Indiana State Horticultural Society for four years. On May I, 1879, he married Alice Caspar of Salem : they were the parents of two children. He died in 1927.

Information from the Salem Public Library.

STEVENSON, AUGUSTA: ?-

Born in Patriot, Ind., Augusta Stevenson moved with her family to Indianapolis when she was a child. After attending Butler University she became a teacher in the Indianapolis public schools. She was a pioneer in the writing of dramatizations of historical events for children. For twelve years she lived in the East, working for the Houghton Mifflin publishing company, but she returned to Indianapolis and taught again in the schools until she retired from teaching in June, 1941.

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STEWART, JAMES HERVEY: 1809-1876.

James Hervey Stewart , long time resident of Carroll County, Ind., published one of the good "early crop" of Indiana county histories.

Information from the Indiana State Library and from D. S. A. in the CINClNNATI GAZETTE, Dec. 7, 1876.

  • Recollections of the Early Settlement of Carroll County, Indiana. Cincinnati, 1872.Search "Recollections of the Early Settlement of Carroll County, Indiana" by STEWART, JAMES HERVEY: 1809-1876. in IUCAT, Google Books, OCLC WorldCat, or HathiTrust

STICKNEY, IDA STEARNS: ?-1932.

Born in New Hampshire , Mrs. Ida Stearns Stickney came to Indianapolis when she was a girl. After graduating from Shortridge High School and the old Indianapolis city normal school, she taught school in Indianapolis for fifty years before she retired from service in 1928. She died Nov. 9, 1932.

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STONE, RICHARD FRENCH: 1844-1913

Born near Sharpsburg, Ky., in 1844, Richard French Stone came with his parents to Indiana when he was eight years old. His mother, whose maiden name was Sally Lane, was a sister of Henry S. Lane, first Republican governor of Indiana . Young Stone attended the common schools and Bainbridge, Ind., Academy.

In 1863 he entered Rush Medical College but in 1864 tendered his services to the U. S. Government and was appointed a medical cadet. He later attended the University of Pennsylvania and received the M.D. degree.

After serving a time as assistant surgeon general in the U. S. Army, he established himself in southern Indiana , removing to Indianapolis in 1880. Until 1886 he served as a professor in the Central College of Physicians and Surgeons.

Dr. Stone died on Mar. 3, 1913.

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Information from the Indiana State Library.

  • Elements of Modern Medicine, Including Principles of Pathology and Therapeutics. New York, 1885.Search "Elements of Modern Medicine, Including Principles of Pathology and Therapeutics" by STONE, RICHARD FRENCH: 1844-1913 in IUCAT, Google Books, OCLC WorldCat, or HathiTrust

STORMONT, GILBERT R.: 1843-1930.

Gilbert R. Stormont was born in Gibson County, Ind., in 1843. His father was William Stormont, who came from South Carolina in 1832. His early life was spent on the farm. He enlisted for the Civil War in Company B, 58th Indiana Infantry, in October, 1861.

After the war he was engaged in teaching in Oakland City and Princeton . In 1873 he moved to Albion, Ill., bought old equipment and founded the ALBION JOURNAL. This venture, though at first it did not appear very promising, proved to be a financial success. After three years Mr. Stormont sold the JOURNAL plant and returned to Princeton , and in 1877, he bought the PRINCETON CLARION, which he continued to publish for nearly twenty-five years. In addition to his newspaper work, Mr. Stormont engaged in other work of literary character.

Mr. Stormont was married to Kate Keys in Princeton on Mar. 16, 1870.

Information from the Princeton , Indiana, Public Library.

STOTSENBURG, JOHN HAWLEY: 1830-1909.

Born at Wilmington, Del., on Dec. 13, 1830, John Hawley Stotsenburg graduated from Trinity College (Conn.) in 1850 and studied law for three years at Wilmington. In 1854 he came to New Albany, Ind.

From 1856 to 1859 he served as city attorney, and in 1861 he was elected to the Indiana General Assembly. From 1879 to 1881 he was one of the commissioners appointed to revise the Indiana laws. For twenty-two years he was city commissioner of New Albany .

In addition to his books (one is on law–not listed here) Mr. Stotsenburg wrote for newspapers and for religious and scientific publications. He was married to Jane F. Miller. He died at New Albany on June 7, 1909.

Information from the New Albany Public Library.

STOTT, ROSCOE GILMORE: 1880-

Roscoe Gilmore Stott , son of William Taylor and Arabella Ruth Tracy Stott, was born at Franklin, Ind., on Oct. 29, 1880, and graduated from Franklin College in 1904, receiving an honorary A.M. degree in 1916. He also received degrees from Lenox College, Ia. , and from the University of Chicago. He married Isabel Porter on Oct. 2, 1907.

After teaching at Drury College and at Michigan Agricultural College, in 1910 he became head of the English department at Eastern Kentucky State Teachers College, a position he held until 1916. After 1910 he was a lyceum and Chautauqua lecturer and after 1917 an extension lecturer for Lenox College. From 1930 to 1933 he served as a member of the faculty of the Ohio School of the Air.

In addition to his books he is known as a writer of songs and magazine articles.

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STOTT, WILLIAM TAYLOR: 1836-1918.

William Taylor Stott , son of the Rev. John and Elizabeth Vawter Stott, was born in Vernon, Ind., page: 307[View Page 307] on May 22, 1836, and grew up on a farm near the town. He was educated in an academy at Sardinia, entered Franklin College, and graduated in 1861.

When the Civil War broke out he enlisted as a private with the 18th Indiana Regiment, serving for three and a half years and being discharged with the rank of captain. He then entered Rochester Theological Seminary, from which he graduated in 1868, and was ordained to the Baptist ministry in the same year. He married Arabella Ruth Tracy on May 21, 1868.

In 1868-69 the Rev. Mr. Stott served as pastor at Columbus, Ind., in 1869-70 as acting president of Franklin College, and in 1870-72 as professor of natural sciences at Franklin . From 1872 to 1905 he was president of Franklin . He died on Nov. 1, 1918.

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STOUT, ANDREW PEARCE: 1844-1905.

Andrew P. Stout , for many years an evangelist in the Christian Church, was born at Eagletown, Hamilton County, Ind., on Dec. 11, 1844. His parents were Robert and Jane Pearce Stout.

After attending local schools and studying with Dr. Pair of Jolietville, Ind., he was engaged in the drug business for a time but eventually began study for the ministry and was ordained at the age of thirty-four. He engaged in evangelistic work throughout the entire West.

He was married in 1864 to Eliza A. Bowman of Hamilton County, Ind. He spent his last years in Sheridan, Ind., where he died in 1905.

Information from the Indiana State Library.

STOUT, J. W.: ?-?

D. S. A., writing in the CINCINNATI GAZETTE for Dec. 7, 1876, in describing the collection of books by Indiana authors belonging to Daniel Hough, mentions J. W. Stout as an Indiana man who had seen service in the Mexican War. Hough had not then been able to purchase a copy of his book, which was described as "a spirited and racy account of the services of the Fourth Indiana [Regiment] while serving in Mexico ."

FROM D. S. A. in the CINCINNATI GAZETTE, Dec. 7, 1876.

STRAIN, RODNEY: 1841-1910.

Rodney Strain , son of Dr. William A. and Mary Gettys Strain was born in London, O., Feb. 14, 1841. As a young boy he helped in his father's office and later learned the drug business. During the Civil War he enlisted in an Ohio company.

In 1866 he went to Logansport, Ind., and opened a drug store, in which business he continued until 1885. He then became a mortician and continued until his death in 1910.

Mr. Strain was married to Susan McMillen of Logansport in 1867.

When Mr. Strain first went to Logansport , he transferred his membership to the First Presbyterian Church of his chosen city. He was elected trustee and later was made an elder, being Clerk of the Session at the time of his death.

As clerk, Mr. Strain realized the need of a church history which would be available as a record for present and future generations. With untiring effort he searched records, and by correspondence and personal contacts with older church members and citizens collected materials. When this was organized and published, the First Presbyterian Church of Logansport was provided an authentic record of its past.

Information supplied by the Logansport Public Library.

STRAUSE, ISAAC RICE: 1859-1934.

Isaac Rice Strause , son of Samuel and Mary Frances Baker Strause, was born at Rockville, Ind., on Dec. 12, 1859, and was educated in the Rockville public schools.

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At the age of sixteen he entered the office of the INDIANA PATRIOT (now the ROCKVlLLE TRIBUNE), of which he later became owner and editor. For eight years he was associated with John H. Beadle in the ownership and management of the paper and at the end of that time purchased Beadle's interest and became sole proprietor.

As a member of the State Hospital Board in 1907 Mr. Strause has been credited with the establishment of the Indiana Tuberculosis Hospital at Rockville , and he was always interested in its welfare and management. He also served as a trustee for the Indiana Institute for the Blind and as collector of internal revenue for the Terre Haute district.

During the first World War he was a captain of Company E of the First Indiana Infantry.

On Dec. 22, 1881, Mr. Strause married Juliet Virginia Humphries, well-known Indiana writer and journalist.

He was a contributor of articles on history and education to eastern papers and to magazines.

He died on Dec. 5, 1934.

Information from Dunn–Indiana and Indianans.

STRAUSS, JULIET VIRGINIA HUMPHRIES (MRS. ISAAC): 1863-1918.

Juliet Virginia Humphries , whose easy humor and common sense eventually made her famous as "The Country Contributor," was born in Rockville, Ind., on Jan. 7, 1863. She was the daughter of William and Susan Humphries and received her education in the local schools of the town in which she was born and spent her life.

On Dec. 22, 1881, she married Isaac Strause, editor and publisher of the ROCKVILLE TRIBUNE–whose name she insisted upon spelling as in the original German, after she had taken it, although her husband continued to use the anglicized form.

Juliet Strauss taught school and contributed to THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, as well as to the family paper, her writing for the latter eventually taking the form of a column, "Squibs and Sayings." In 1908 she began the series of articles for THE INDIANAPOLIS NEWS signed "The Country Contributor," which, with her articles for the WOMAN'S HOME COMPANION and THE LADIES HOME JOURNAL ("The Ideals of a Plain Country Woman") gained national attention. Her book was a collection of her articles from the latter periodical.

Mrs. Strauss continued as associate editor of THE ROCKVlLLE TRIBUNE and as writer of her Saturday feature in THE INDIANAPOLIS NEWS until her death. In her later years she enjoyed a highly successful career as a lecturer.

The best of her work coincided with the greatest fame of Tarkington, Ade and Kin Hubbard, and she made an entirely appropriate fourth in interpreting Hoosierdom to the world.

Mrs. Strauss died on May 22, 1918.

Information from the Rockville Public Library.

STREIGHTOFF, FRANCES ELIZABETH DOAN (MRS. FRANK HATCH): ?-

Frances Elizabeth Doan , born at Westfield, Ind., about 1885, was married on June 10, 1915, to Frank Hatch Streightoff, who was, successively, a member of the faculties of De Pauw, Butler and Indiana universities. The couple resided in Indianapolis .

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  • Indiana, a Social and Economic Survey; with a Chapter on Charities and Corrections by Cecil Clare North (withFrank Hatch Streightoff). Indianapolis, 1916.Search "Indiana, a Social and Economic Survey; with a Chapter on Charities and Corrections by Cecil Clare North" by STREIGHTOFF, FRANCES ELIZABETH DOAN (MRS. FRANK HATCH): ?- in IUCAT, Google Books, OCLC WorldCat, or HathiTrust

STREIGHTOFF, FRANK HATCH: 1886-1935.

Frank Hatch Streightoff was born in Brooklyn, N.Y. , on Feb. 23, 1886, the son of C. Frank and Jennie D. Hatch Streightoff. He received his A.B. and A.M. degrees from Wesleyan University, Conn. , in 1909 and 1910 and his Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1913. After serving on the faculties of De Pauw University and the College of Emporia, he came to Indianapolis in 1920 as a member of the staffs of Butler and Indiana Universities. On June 10, 1915, he married Frances Elizabeth Doan. He died in Indianapolis on Jan. 13, 1935.

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SULGROVE, BERRY ROBINSON: 1828-1890.

Born in Indianapolis on Mar. 16, 1828, Berry R. Sulgrove , the son of James Sulgrove, was educated in private schools and at the old Marion County Seminary. For a time he worked for his father in the harness and saddle making business, then entered Bethany College (now W. Va.), from which he graduated in 1848. He read law and from 1851 to 1855 practiced in partnership with John Caven. In 1855 he took charge of the editorial department of the Indianapolis JOURNAL, having previously written for newspapers, usually under the name of "Timothy Tugmutton." He soon acquired a major financial interest in the JOURNAL but sold out in 1863 with the intention of going to Europe. The Civil War prevented his departure, so he stayed on as editor of the paper.

During the war he acted as Gov. Oliver P. Morton's private secretary, and in the fall of 1865 he went with Morton to Europe, returning to Indianapolis in the early part of 1867 to resume his work as head of the editorial department of the JOURNAL. Mr. Sulgrove contributed to other papers and for several years was Indiana editor of the CINCINNATI GAZETTE. He died in 1890.

Information from Nowland–Sketches of Prominent Citizens of 1876 and the Indianapolis Public Library.

SULLIVAN, MARY E.: ?-

Mary E. Sullivan , daughter of Jeremiah H. and Catherine Kenny Sullivan, was born in Greencastle, Ind., and moved with her family to South Bend when she was a child. She taught school for many years in South Bend .

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  • Picture Action Method in Reading and Phonics for Non-English and English Speaking Children Both Normal and Defective. South Bend, Ind., 1915.Search "Picture Action Method in Reading and Phonics for Non-English and English Speaking Children Both Normal and Defective" by SULLIVAN, MARY E.: ?- in IUCAT, Google Books, OCLC WorldCat, or HathiTrust

SUTTON, GEORGE: 1812–1886.

Born in London, England, on June 16, 1812, George Sutton emigrated with his parents to the U. S. when he was seven years old. The family lived in Cincinnati until the spring of 1820, when they removed to a farm in Franklin County, Ind.

George attended a country school and in 1828 entered Miami University. His mother had died in 1827, and in 1832 his father moved to Cincinnati , where two years later George began the study of medicine. In 1836 he graduated from Ohio Medical College and began his practice in Aurora, Ind. He married Sarah Folbre of Aurora on June 7, 1838.

In addition to handling a large practice, Dr. Sutton engaged in medical research, contributed papers on his findings to various journals, and was a student of geology, on which he often lectured. During the Civil War he was elected mayor of Aurora . He also served as president of the Indiana State Medical Society. For over thirty years he kept a meteorological journal and furnished the Smithsonian Institution with regular meteorological observations.

Dr. Sutton's purely technical medical books are notlisted here.

Information from Representative Men of Indiana, Vol. I.

  • On the Danger of Dissolution of the Union from the Question of Slavery.Search "On the Danger of Dissolution of the Union from the Question of Slavery" by SUTTON, GEORGE: 1812–1886. in IUCAT, Google Books, OCLC WorldCat, or HathiTrust
  • Report on Cholera in Indiana. n.p., 1868.Search "Report on Cholera in Indiana" by SUTTON, GEORGE: 1812–1886. in IUCAT, Google Books, OCLC WorldCat, or HathiTrust
  • On Man's Power Over Nature and Medicine as Means by which He Aids and Controls the Law of Life. Indianapolis, 1870.Search "On Man's Power Over Nature and Medicine as Means by which He Aids and Controls the Law of Life" by SUTTON, GEORGE: 1812–1886. in IUCAT, Google Books, OCLC WorldCat, or HathiTrust
  • Report to the Indiana State Medical Society on Asiatic Cholera as It Prevailed in this State in 1849-1852. Indianapolis, 1854.Search "Report to the Indiana State Medical Society on Asiatic Cholera as It Prevailed in this State in 1849-1852" by SUTTON, GEORGE: 1812–1886. in IUCAT, Google Books, OCLC WorldCat, or HathiTrust
  • A Review of the Epidemics that Have Occurred in Southeastern Indiana during the Last Fifty Years.Search "A Review of the Epidemics that Have Occurred in Southeastern Indiana during the Last Fifty Years" by SUTTON, GEORGE: 1812–1886. in IUCAT, Google Books, OCLC WorldCat, or HathiTrust

SUTTON, JOHN EDWARD: 1863-1900.

" John E. Sutton , son of Andrew J. and Barbara Horn Sutton, was born in Fulton County, Ind., on Oct. 21, 1863. He was educated in the public schools of Logansport and served as city editor of the LOGANSPORT PHAROS for three years. After this experience in journalism he went West, worked on many metropolitan papers and became publisher of the REAL ESTATE REPORTER in Los Angeles . In 1887 he married May Stanley of Los Angeles and they had two children, Psyche and Lindley. He returned to page: 310[View Page 310] Logansport and, on Oct. 1, 1889, founded the LOGANSPORT REPORTER. Later he also published the GALVESTON SUN and the LOGANSPORT ADVANCE.

"While on a trip abroad he wrote a series of letters for the LOGANSPORT REPORTER and these were afterwards published in book form under the title Across the Sea. He died Jan. 6, 1900."

From Powell–History of Cass County, 1913.

SWAFFORD, MARTHENA FUNKHOUSER (MRs. BENJAMIN F.)- 1845-1913.

Marthena Funkhouser was born in Indiana in 1845 and married Dr. Benjamin F. STafford of Terre Haute on May 8, 1862. A writer of poetry, she was a charter member and one of the foremost workers of the Western Association of Writers. In her work she often used the pen name Belle Bremer.

She died in Indianapolis in 1913 and was buried in Terre Haute .

Information from Parker and Heiney–Poets and Poetry of Indiana and Representative Men of Indiana, Vol. II.

SWAIN, JOSEPH: 1857-1927.

Joseph Swain , son of Woolston and Mary A. Swain, was born at Pendleton, Ind., on June 16, 1857, and graduated from Indiana University in 1883, receiving the M.S. degree in 1895. He was later awarded the LL.D. degree by Wabash College, Lafayette , the University of Pennsylvania, Indiana University, and Swarthmore College. He married Frances M. Morgan on Sept. 22, 1885.

From 1883 to 1891 he was associated with the mathematics department of Indiana University, and from 1891 to 1893 he was professor of mathematics at Leland Stanford Junior University. He returned to Indiana in 1893 to become president of Indiana University, a position he held until 1902, when he became president of Swarthmore . He served in the latter capacity until 1921.

Dr. Swain died on May 19, 1927.

Information from Indiana University, 1820-1904, and Who Was Who in America.

SWEENEY, ZACHARY TAYLOR: 1849-1926.

Zachary Taylor Sweeney , son of G. E. and Talitha Campbell Sweeney, was born at Liberty, Ky., on Feb. 10, 1849. He graduated from Scottville Seminary (Ill.) and studied at Eureka College (Ill.) and De Pauw University. On Mar. 10, 1875, he married Linnie Irwin.

A school teacher in 1866, he was from 1869 to 1897 a minister of the Christian Disciples Church, occupying a pulpit in Paris, Ill., from 1869 to 1871 and in Columbus, Ind., from 1871 to 1896. From 1889 to 1893 he served as U.S. consul general at Constantinople. After 1897 he was a lyceum lecturer.

He died on Feb. 4, 1926.

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SWEETSER, DELIGHT (MRS. FRANCIS FLEURY PRENTISS): 1873-1903.

Delight Sweetser , daughter of James Vermilyea and Emma Harter Sweetser, was born at Hartford City, Ind., on Jan. 21, 1873.

She was a student at Wellesley College, studied drawing and music in Boston , and lived in Europe for several years where she studied languages. In 1897 she made a trip around the world.

In addition to her books, she was a translator and wrote for Chicago and Indianapolis newspapers.

She married Francis Fleury Prentiss on Jan. 3, 1900, and died in 1903.

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SWIFT, LUCIUS BURRIE: 1844-1929.

Lucius Burrie Swift was born on a farm in Orleans County, N. Y., July 31, 1844. He received his early education at Yates Academy near his home. At the opening of the Civil War, when he was only sixteen years old, he enlisted in a New York regiment and served for three years, being twice a prisoner of war. He returned to school after his discharge and prepared for college. Upon his graduation from the University of Michigan in 1870 he returned to Medina, N.Y., where he spent two years in a law office, then he came to LaPorte, Ind., as a teacher in the public schools. While he taught, and subsequently when he was superintendent of schools, he continued to read law in his leisure time, and in 1879 he came to Indianapolis , passed the bar examination, and began the practice of law.

Becoming interested in civil service reform, he took an active part in politics. He started publication of the CIVIL SERVICE CHRONICLE and was counsel, then vice-president, of the National Civil Service Reform League. His support of Theodore Roosevelt led to a lifetime friendship between them. In 1919 he received an honorary LL.D. degree from his alma mater for his work for civic betterment. He died July 3, 1929.

Information from Nicholson–Old Familiar Faces and the Indianapolis Public Library.

  • Civil Service Reform; an Address … January 18, 1885. Indianapolis, 1885.Search "Civil Service Reform; an Address … January 18, 1885" by SWIFT, LUCIUS BURRIE: 1844-1929. in IUCAT, Google Books, OCLC WorldCat, or HathiTrust
  • American Feudalism; an Address… at Bloomington, April 24, 1888. n.p., n.d.Search "American Feudalism; an Address… at Bloomington, April 24, 1888" by SWIFT, LUCIUS BURRIE: 1844-1929. in IUCAT, Google Books, OCLC WorldCat, or HathiTrust
  • Military Situation of the United States; Read Before the Economics Club of Indianapolis, May 25, 1915. Indianapolis, 1915.Search "Military Situation of the United States; Read Before the Economics Club of Indianapolis, May 25, 1915" by SWIFT, LUCIUS BURRIE: 1844-1929. in IUCAT, Google Books, OCLC WorldCat, or HathiTrust
  • Germans in America. Indianapolis, 1915.Search "Germans in America" by SWIFT, LUCIUS BURRIE: 1844-1929. in IUCAT, Google Books, OCLC WorldCat, or HathiTrust
  • Outline Pamphlet on the Foundations of American Liberty; "No Taxation Without Representation." Indianapolis, 1920.Search "Outline Pamphlet on the Foundations of American Liberty; "No Taxation Without Representation" by SWIFT, LUCIUS BURRIE: 1844-1929. in IUCAT, Google Books, OCLC WorldCat, or HathiTrust
  • William Dudley Foulke of Indiana in the Contest for the Merit System; an Address Delivered … November 20, 1925. Indianapolis, 1927.Search "William Dudley Foulke of Indiana in the Contest for the Merit System; an Address Delivered … November 20, 1925" by SWIFT, LUCIUS BURRIE: 1844-1929. in IUCAT, Google Books, OCLC WorldCat, or HathiTrust
  • How We Got Our Liberties. Indianapolis, 1928.Search "How We Got Our Liberties" by SWIFT, LUCIUS BURRIE: 1844-1929. in IUCAT, Google Books, OCLC WorldCat, or HathiTrust

SWIGART, FRANK: 1840-1912.

" Frank Swigart was born in Ohio in 1840. When he was two years old his family moved to Cass County, Ind., where he grew to manhood. In 1865 he married Margaret I. Cline and they had five children. He enlisted with the 46th Indiana Regiment during the Civil War and rose to the rank of captain. He was a presidential elector in 1888 and chief of the law division of the Treasury Department from 1889 to 1893. He also served as referee in bankruptcy for eight years. He died in 1912. He was the author of many short stories and articles for the NATIONAL TRIBUNE and New York and Philadelphia papers …"

From Powell–History of Cass Country, 1913.

SWINDLER, MARY HAMILTON: 1884-

Mary Hamilton Swindler , daughter of Harrison Turley and Ida M. Hamilton Swindler, was born in Bloomington, Ind., on Jan. 1, 1884, and graduated from Indiana University in 1905, receiving the A.M. degree in 1906 and LL.D. in 1941. In 1912 she received the Ph.D. degree from Bryn Mawr College. Miss Swindler also studied in Berlin and Athens .

After 1912 she was on the faculty of Bryn Mawr College, serving as professor of classical archaeology after 1931. In 1938 she was a visiting professor at the American School of Classical Studies in Athens . She was also a contributor to and editor-in-chief of the AMERICAN JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGY.

Information from Who's Who in America.

  • Cretan Elements in the Cults and Ritual of Apollo. Bryn Mawr, Pa., 1913.Search "Cretan Elements in the Cults and Ritual of Apollo" by SWINDLER, MARY HAMILTON: 1884- in IUCAT, Google Books, OCLC WorldCat, or HathiTrust
  • Ancient Painting, from the Earliest Times to the Period of Christian Art. New Haven, Conn., 1929.Search "Ancient Painting, from the Earliest Times to the Period of Christian Art" by SWINDLER, MARY HAMILTON: 1884- in IUCAT, Google Books, OCLC WorldCat, or HathiTrust
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