Mr. Weaver was born in Hendricks County, Indiana, June 30, 1866. His father, A. C. Weaver, was born in the same county in 1844 and died in 1923. His active life was spent in farming and merchandising. A. C. Weaver married Mirian Wells, who was born at Clayton, Hendricks County, and lived to be nearly seventy-eight years of age, passing away February 5, 1919. These parents had three children. Besides Henry H. one son, Urban R., lives at Indianapolis, and Indianapolis is also the home of the daughter, Mrs. Grace Weaver Wood.

Henry Hollis Weaver was educated in the common schools of Hendricks County and largely through his own efforts gained a college training. He attended the Central Normal School at Danville and later Butler College at Indianapolis.

Mr. Weaver moved to Greentown in 1898 and has been continuously in business there as a clothing merchant. He is a Republican in politics, is a member of the Masonic fraternity, and Knights of Pythias. In the fall of 1899, soon after becoming established in business at Greentown, he married Miss Effie May Henderson. She was born in Ohio.

INDIANA ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OF AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT Vol. 5
By Charles Roll, A.M.
The Lewis Publishing Company, 1931

EDWARD SHIELDS GOODRICH. The Goodrich family of Randolph County have lived there for almost a century, and have been represented by some of the earnest and substantial pioneers by good citizens always, and one member of the family is particularly well known as a former governor of Indiana.

Mr. Edward Shields Goodrich, of Winchester, whose name is associated with many public utility and financial enterprises over the state, was born at Winchester, November 3, 1868, a son of John B. and Elizabeth P. (Edger) Goodrich. His grandfather, Edmond Goodrich, was a native of Virginia and settled in Randolph County, Indiana, in 1832. He is one of the early merchants of Winchester. John B. Goodrich was born at Parkersburg, Pennsylvania, and spent most of his active life on a farm a short distance northeast of Winchester. That old homestead has always been known as the John B. Goodrich farm. He was a very successful man and during the Civil war was employed as a special agent by Governor Morton. He died in 1872. He had also been in the mercantile business and for two terms was county clerk of Randolph County. His wife, Elizabeth P. Edger, was born in Randolph County, daughter of Edward and Jane Gray (Putnam) Edger. Her father was a native of County Tyrone, Ireland, while Jane Gray Putnam was born in Madison County, Ohio, and was a descendant of the famous Revolutionary family of Israel Putnam. Mrs. John B. Goodrich passed away December 31, 1917. During her lifetime she donated part of the old homestead farm to Winchester for park purposes. She kept her young children together during her widowhood, carefully educated them, and more that any one else provided them the inspiration for worthy lives. These children were: Ernest, who died in infancy; Percy P., of Winchester; James P., former governor of Indiana; John B., of Winchester; Edward S.; and William W., of Winchester.

Edward Shields Goodrich was educated in the grade and high schools of Winchester, and left school to clerk in a bank at Farmland, also clerked in the carpet department of the Knollenberger store for six months, after which he was back on the home farm until 1891. He then bought a half interest in a hardware store at Winchester, his brother Percy owning the other half.

Mr. Goodrich's broader business career began during the natural gas era. In 1894 he became a contractor, laying the natural gas pipe line from Union City into Delaware County, and in 1895 was the contractor for the building of the pipe lie from Sweetzer to Wabash. In November, 1895, he returned to Union City, where he operated the gas plant until 1905. Following that he was manager and director and a third owner of the Woodbury Company at Parker City, which later was dismantled and moved to Winchester. Mr. Goodrich in 1900 was one of the incorporators and became secretary, treasurer and manager of the Citizens Water & Light Company, now the Citizens Heat, Light & Power Company, and was active in connection with this public utility until it was sold in 1927. He has been a stockholder of the Randolph County Bank since 1898, subsequently becoming vice president, and since the death of S. D. Coats has been president. For a number of years he and his brothers have owned the Etna Trust & Savings Company of Indianapolis and he is chairman of its board of directors. The Goodrich brothers also owned the Goodrich Grain Company of Winchester. Mr. Goodrich is a director of the Union State Bank at Redkey, and was one of the incorporators and is vice president of the Interstate Telephone & Telegraph Company.

He married in 1894 Miss Elizabeth Neff, of Winchester, daughter of Allen O. and Eliza (Foutz) Neff. They have one daughter, Florence, wife of Francis Wesley Dunn, of Marion, Indiana. Mr. and Mrs. Dunn have two children, Wesley A. and Edward G. Mrs. Goodrich is a member of the Presbyterian Church. Mr. Goodrich for many years was treasurer of the school board of Winchester. He is a Republican, a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason and Shriner, member of the Knights of Pythias, the Columbia Club of Indianapolis and the Winchester Rotary Club.

INDIANA ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OF AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT Vol. 5
By Charles Roll, A.M.
The Lewis Publishing Company, 1931

HON. MARMADUKE McCLELLAN STOOPS has in the course of thirty or forty years accumulated a great many responsibilities, both pleasant and burdensome, honors and symbols of achievement and experience in old Pike County. To set down some of these is not for the purpose of making Mr. Stoops well known in his home community, for that would be superfluous, but to give a record that is due to a more than representative Indiana citizen.

Mr. Stoops was born at Decatur, Adams County, in northern Indiana, January 7, 1862. His father, James Stoops, Jr., was born in Greene County, Pennsylvania, serving as a lieutenant in the Union army during the Civil war and twice was elected and served as sheriff of Adams County. He married Rebecca Flagg, a native Indiana girl.

Marmaduke McClellan Stoops was working in a printing office while learning the trade when only eleven years of age. His work as a newspaper man began at Petersburg in Pike County in 1892, when he bought the Pike County Democrat, and for thirty-three years he published this in the interests of the Democratic party and as a wholesome new organ for the city and county.

Mr. Stoops married, September 17, 1884, Mary Alice Parry, of an old Quaker family of Richmond, Indiana. She died December 22, 1926. Having no children of their own, they found additional incentive for many lines of work bringing them in contact with child welfare, health and civic organizations. Mr. Stoops during his many years of labor for the Democratic party of Indiana served as precinct committeman, secretary and chairman of the county Democratic central committee, was a delegate to the national convention at Baltimore in 1912, and also to the famous deadlock convention in New york in 1924, representing the First Indiana District. Mr. Stoops is president of the County Board of Charities, president of the American Red Cross Chapter, secretary of the Pike County Tuberculosis Association, president of the Pike County Historical Association. During the past year he has been a member of the Petersburg School Board, sat in the session of 1929 in the Indiana Legislature. He has been a stockholder in many business enterprises. For twenty-five years he was superintendent of the Sunday School of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Petersburg.

Mr. Stoops is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias and Pythian Sisters, the Masonic fraternity, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Lodge, Encampment and Rebekahs, Improved Order of Red Men, Haymakers Society, Modern Woodsmen of America, is an honorary member of Conrad Post of the American Legion, member of the Petersburg Art Club, Democratic Editorial Association, Packet Publishers League, Indiana Historical Society, Southwestern Historical Society, Pike County Fish and Game Club, Petersburg Kennel Club, Pike county Fox Chasers Association, Indiana Jefferson Club, Thomas Jefferson Memorial Association, National Geographic Society, and is a member of the Old Home Club at Decatur, Indiana.

INDIANA ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OF AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT Vol. 5
By Charles Roll, A.M.
The Lewis Publishing Company, 1931

MAURICE ROSENTHAL LOHMAN, M. D. For fifteen years an active practitioner at Fort Wayne, Dr. Maurice R. Lohman has won a leading position in his profession and during his career has been identified with numerous movements connected with the health and sanitation of the city. He comes by his vocation naturally, and during his practice has had the fortune to have been associated with two of Fort Wayne's most able and distinguished physicians.

Maurice R. Lohman was born at Fort Wayne, September 15, 1889, and is a son of Joseph and Rebecca (Rosenthal) Lohman. His father, a native of Germany, was brought by his parents to the United States as a child, the family settling in Fort Wayne when he was seventeen years of age. Here he passed the remained of his life as a business man, and died in 1927, at the age of seventy-three years. Mr. Lohman married Rebecca Rosenthal, one of seven children of the late Dr. Isaac M. Rosenthal, one of the foremost physicians and surgeons of his day, whose name is held in the fondest memory by thousands of Fort Wayne people as well as members of the profession throughout the state.

The only child of his parents, Maurice R. Lohman graduated from the Fort Wayne Hign School and attended the University of Pennsylvania, following which he entered the University of Michigan, from which institution he received the degree of Bachelor of Arts i n1912 and that of Doctor of Medicine in 1915. During his early career he had the assistance, instruction and encouragement of his distinguished grandfather, and when he embarked in practice it was in association with his uncle, Dr. Maurice I. Rosenthal, also one of Fort Wayne's leading medical men and chief surgeon to the St. Joseph Hospital. Doctor Lohman has attained to a high place in his calling and has the full confidence and esteem of the people. During the World War he served as medical examiner on the draft board, and also had charge of the medical work on all troop trains that entered Fort Wayne. He likewise served as city health commissioner and as a member of the city board of health during that period, was health commissioner of Allen County from 1922 until 1926, and is now deputy commissioner on the health board and a member of the staff of the St. Joseph Hospital. Doctor Lohman is a fellow of the American Medical Association, a member of the Indiana State Medical Society and the Allen County Medical Society, and also belongs to the Masons, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and the Fort Wayne Country Club. He takes an active part in all movements for the benefit and advancement of his native city and is known as a citizen of public spirit.

On October 11, 1915, Doctor Lohman was united in marriage with Miss Bernice Bippus, who was born at Huntington, Indiana, a daughter of Fred Bippus, a capitalist and the owner of the La Fontaine Hotel, one of the finest and most modern hostelries in the state. Doctor and Mrs. Lohman are the parents of three children: Robert Maurice, Joan and James Frederick.

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INDIANA ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OF AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT Vol. 5
By Charles Roll, A.M.
The Lewis Publishing Company, 1931

REV. AUGUSTUS CLELAND WILMORE, of Winchester, one of the highest dignitaries in the United Brethren Church in Indiana, spent over half a century in the active ministry. For the past twenty-four years he has been a member of the Court of Appeals of the United Brethren Church of the White River Conference, this being the highest judicial body of the church.

He was born at Jackson, Ohio, June 2, 1849, son of Levi and Nancy Agnes (Golden) Wilmore. His father was born in Gallia County, Ohio, and his mother in Uniontown, Pennsylvania, and they were married April 6, 1848, and in 1849 settled near Portland, Jay County, Indiana. In August, 1860 they moved to Huntington County, near Warren. Levi Wilmore was a teacher and farmer, and died September 13, 1877, and his wife, on February 4, 1890.

Augustus Cleland Wilmore was educated in the Warren Academy, Liber College, Ridgeville College and DePauw University. From 1867 to 1877 he was engaged in work as a teacher in the public schools, spending eight years in Huntington County and two years in a high school in Wabash County. In August, 1877, he began his long service as a minister of the United Brethren Church, comprising forty-one years of duty as a pastor and nine years as superintendent of the White River Conference of Central Indiana. His many friends and fellow churchmen celebrated his golden jubilee in August, 1927. In May, 1880, he organized a summer school of theology at Honey Creek, Indiana, and that school has been kept going ever since, and from 1889 to 1929 Mr. Wilmore served as instructor of systematic theology. He resigned from the school June 6, 1929. Five general conferences of his church during the past forty years have enjoyed the wisdom of his counsel as a delegate. He was a trustee of the Indiana Central United Brethren College from 1912 to 1918, two terms, and from 1893 to 1897 was a trustee of the United Brethren Publishing House at Dayton, Ohio. He was secretary of the White River Conference from 1878 to 1886, resigning when made superintendent of the conference. From 1894 to 1920 he was president of the Conference Direction Society and since 1906 has been secretary of the Preachers Aid Society. He wrote in his own hand the articles of incorporation of the White River Conference in 1920, and these are filed with the secretary of state at Indianapolis. He was president of the board of trustees of the conference. One of his many services to his church is the authorship of a complete history of the White River Conference, a volume of 530 pages, covering the record of the church for 115 years, from 1810 to 1925. Since 1911 he has been conference registrar.

Mr. Wilmore from 1920 to 1925 was chaplain of the Indiana Society of the Sons of the American Revolution. His membership in that body comes from the record of his great-great grandfather, John Wilmore, who was one of General Morgan's soldiers and fought at the battle of Saratoga on September 19 and October 7, 1777, and died in 1779, before the end of the war. This old Revolutionary soldier was a native of Virginia. Mr. Wilmore is a member of Winchester Commandery of the Knights Templar Masons and the Indianapolis Consistory of the Scottish Rite.

He married, August 14, 1870, Miss Julia A. Tremmel, a native of Randolph County, Indiana, daughter of James and Mary (Wagner) Tremmel, who came from Preble County, Ohio. Mrs. Wilmore passed away March 14, 1890. On March 9, 1892, he married Minnie Alice Rice, who was born in Marion County, Indiana, November 18, 1870, daughter of Archibald C. and Frances Ellen (Schofield) Rice, her father from Frederick County, Maryland, and her mother of Clark County, Indiana. Mrs. Wilmore has been secretary of the United Brethren Conference Missionary Women's Society and in 1921-22 was regent of Winchester Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, and was registrar of that chapter for nineteen years.

INDIANA ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OF AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT Vol. 5
By Charles Roll, A.M.
The Lewis Publishing Company, 1931

LEE BURNS, prominent Indianapolis architect, has for a number of years been deeply interested in the program of work of the Indiana Historical Society and Society of Indiana Pioneers and is a member of the executive committees of both of these organizations. While not a professional historian, he is author of two valuable contributions to the historical literature of the state, the National Road in Indiana and Life in Old Vincennes, both of which are publications of the Indiana Historical Society.

Mr. Burns was born in Bloomfield, Indiana, April 19, 1872, son of Harrison and Mary Constance (Smydth) Burns. He was educated in the public schools of Indianapolis, in Butler College, and for a number of years was connected with the law book department and afterwards with the general publishing department of the Bobbs-Merrill Company.

Mr. Burns in 1911 founded the Burns Realty Company, for the purpose of designing and constructing the better types of residences. This soon developed into a general architectural practice. Mr. Burns is now senior member of the firm Burns & James, architects. The work of this firm has been accorded many honors and in 1929 the firm was awarded a gold medal by the Indiana Society of Architects for the excellence of their work. Mr. Burns is an officer of the Indiana Society of Architects.

During the Spanish-American war he was a private in the One Hundred and Fifty-eighth Indiana Volunteers. Mr. Burns is a member of the board of trustees of Butler University, is a member of the Sons of the American Revolution, the George Rogers Clark Memorial Commission and other organizations. He married in 1909 Anna Ray Herzsch. They have two children, Betty Lee Burns and David Vawter Burns.

INDIANA ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OF AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT Vol. 5
By Charles Roll, A.M.
The Lewis Publishing Company, 1931

DAVID FOSTER is a man officially credited with the distinction of being the founder of Kokomo is a subject of considerable interest to Indianans in general, and particularly to the residents of the thriving center of commerce and industry in Howard County.

He was a pioneer of Indiana and was a native of Virginia, born in Albemarle County, July 20, 1808. His parents were farmers and he grew up with a liberal education and at the age of nineteen started out to make his own way in the world, having no capital but his determination and his industry. On coming to Indiana he first settled in Johnson County, where he learned the trade of cabinet making. After a short time he moved to Mooresville, where he met and on January 7, 1832, married Miss Elizabeth Grant. In 1835 another move was made, to Burlington in Carroll County. There he set up a little trading post, dealing with the Indians, and in March, 1840, moved to Ervin Township, where he also opened a trading post.

It was in the fall of 1842 that he moved to Center Township of Howard County and took possession of a cabin that had been erected by the Indian Chief MacKokomo. This cabin stood not far from the corner of Main and High streets in the present City of Kokomo. With this cabin as his home he continued his dealings with the Indians, and as long as the Indians remained a considerable part of the population of this section of Indiana he remained their trusted friend and adviser. He had a fluent command of the Indian language.

David Foster continued to reside in Kokomo until his death on November 25, 1877, at the age of sixty-nine years. He was of Quaker birth and belief, and perhaps no other sect of people got along so well in their dealings with Indians. His only secret order was the Masonic fraternity. From those who knew him some of the characteristics of this pioneer Indiana man have been preserved. He belonged to a very sturdy, honest class of business men, possessed a sly vein of humor which all enjoyed, and he abhored fashion and finery and dressed in a manner after his own taste. He was generous to a fault, giving largely to public improvements and the advancement of religion and education. Every man and woman in Howard County kewn him at the time of his death. It was then said that his good deeds would live after him, and so they have.

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INDIANA ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OF AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT Vol. 5
By Charles Roll, A.M.
The Lewis Publishing Company, 1931

HENRY C. THORNTON was an Indiana citizen whose activities and personal character are worthy of every record and study. For nearly half a century his home was in Indianapolis, where he was one of the founders and president of the Thornton-Levey Company, printers and manufacturers of blank books for commercial, banking and government work.

Mr. Thornton was born at Bedford, Indiana, November 8, 1851, and his long and useful life was closed by death on December 29, 1930, when in his eightieth year. He was a son of Mr. and Mrs. George A. Thornton and he spent his early youth in Bedford, attending public school there. In 1871 he was graduated from Hanover College with the Bachelor of Arts degree. He was for many years a member of the Beta Theta Pi fraternity.

After leaving college Mr. Thornton was in the drug business at Bedford until 1875 and then established a general mercantile store in that city. I 1884 he removed to Indianapolis, where he participated in the establishment of the Thornton-Levey Company, and his energy and spirit went into that business and permeated it through the succession of years when it was building up as one of the largest concerns of its kind in the Middle West. At the time of his death Mr. Thornton was also vice president of the Bankers Trust Company, and his place on the board of that institution was filled by the election of his son, Henry C. Thornton, Jr.

A mere statement of the positions held tells little of his real work and influence. One of the eminent Masons of Indiana said that in his death "Scottish Rite Masons of Indiana has lost one of its finest characters. He was a very lovable man and I know he is going to be greatly missed in his community and more especially among the brethren in the Valley of Indianapolis, where he labored so faithfully and efficiently for so many years.

Of all the numerous contacts he made during his life perhaps the one that meant most to him was his church. He and his wife had joined the Tabernacle Presbyterian Church on October 7, 1892. On April 4, 1898, he was elected a trustee and served continuously in that capacity for over thirty years. He became a ruling elder April 11, 1918, and was at the time of his death president of the board of trustees. His friends and family will especially appreciate what a committee of the church wrote after his death: "Generally, in proportion as men become engrossed in business, their sphere of human interest is contracted and thoughts of spiritual life too often wane. Those of us on this board who have so many met with Mr. Thornton, know that it was not so with him. We know that he had a depth of Christian faith and an intensity of spiritual feeling such as few men possess. We know of his profound devotion to the church, his helpfulness to its pastors and his warm hearted interest in its membership."

Among other institutions that felt a deep debt of gratitude for his helpful service was the Indianapolis Home for Aged Women, of which he was a member of the board for many years.

Another quality of his life and character was noted by one of his close friends and fellow Masons, who said: "I came to marvel at his genuine spirit of youth - his understanding of men - freedom from criticism - his love of his fellow men and his belief and faith in the Divine Father. In spite of his actual years he was a young man, and such he would have been had he lived beyond a hundred years, for the spirit of youth - dignified youth - seemed to have been born in him."

The Indianapolis Star said editorially: "A certain characteristic crispness of expression and dignity of manner could not mask the genial comaraderie which marked the relationship with a host of friends and acquaintances. Mr. Thornton was a warm supporter of every movement involving community uplift. In all of his various contacts with Indianapolis life he was an ideal citizen."

Perhaps best of all as a brief character sketch is the following in memoriam tribute: "He as strong, serene, clear minded, and charitable in all his relations in life. He fulfilled the duties of his long life with rare dignity and becoming fidelity. As a scholar and student of affairs he was learned and discriminating in his approach and judgment. He wore his honors lightly, with becoming poise and gentleness. These he forgot entirely in his daily life with all sorts and conditions of men, for he was ever, in the truest sense, a brother to his fellow men. He also exemplified the highest type of friendship. Everyone, capable of love, loved him. He stood for the noblest type of Christian character, but in it all he exercised a far-seeing type of Christian leadership."

Mr. Thornton married at Hanover, Indiana, June 12, 1873, Miss Nancy Hines Speer. She died before his removal to Indianapolis. In 1890 he married Miss Harriet Emma Hall, who survives him and continues to reside in their old home at 1609 North Delaware Street.

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INDIANA ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OF AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT Vol. 5
By Charles Roll, A.M.
The Lewis Publishing Company, 1931

AARON GRIGSBY ROGERS, of Parker City, an active physician for over half a century, was born in Stony Creek Township, Henry County, Indiana, August 18, 1849. Doctor Rogers is a son of Thornton F. and Eliza (Luellen) Rogers. His ancestors on both sides come from Indiana, where his grandparents, Aaron Grigsby and Elizabeth (Baumgardner) Rogers, settled on a farm in 1830. His maternal grandparents, David and Abigal (Jones) Luellen, came from Virginia in 1835 and settled in Prairie Township of the same county. Doctor Rogers' great-grandfather, Joseph Rogers, was shot through the left shoulder at the battle of Bunker Hill and a brother of this Revolutionary soldier, John, was killed at the battle of Brandywine. The Rogers family has supplied soldiers to every war since America became a nation. Doctor Rogers' grandfather, Aaron G. Rogers, served as a soldier in the Indian campaigns under General Wayne and later was with William Henry Harrison at the battle of Tippecanoe. The father of Doctor Rogers was an Indiana farmer and was honored with various township and road offices.

Doctor Rogers attended school at Middletown, Indiana and graduated from the Miami Medical College at Cincinnati. He practiced as an undergraduate at Farmland from 1878 to 1880 and then located at Parker City, where he carried on his work until 1902. For three years he practiced medicine at Terre Haute and then yielded to the persuasions of his old friends and clients and resumed his practice at Parker City. Doctor Rogers volunteered on October 8, 1918, as a member of the United States Medical Corps and is still on the reserve list. He is a member of the Randolph County, Indiana State and American Medical Associations.

Doctor Rogers married in 1879 Mary E. Carter, a native of Wayne County, Indiana. She died in 1892, leaving a daughter, Sylvia May, who is the wife of Thomas Swan, a merchant at Muncie, Indiana. Doctor Rogers in 1897 married Nancy Dorsey, a native of Henry County, Indiana, and widow of Cornelius Dorsey, by whom she had two children, Arthur and Edward. In January, 1925, Doctor Rogers married Ada Taylor McProud, who was the mother of a daughter, Luta, now Mrs. Robert Meeks, of Delaware County, Indiana.

Doctor Rogers has served as a member of the school board and board of charity. He is a Republican and a member of the Masonic fraternity. Since he was a boy he has been interested in acquiring Indian relics and is a noted authority on Indian archeology. He has one of the largest private collections of such relics in Indiana.

INDIANA ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OF AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT Vol. 5
By Charles Roll, A.M.
The Lewis Publishing Company, 1931