Doctor Stamets was born at Auburn, DeKalb County, Indiana, September 2, 1872, and is a son of Jacob and Anna M. (Smith) Stamets, who were born in Pennsylvania and both of whom were young folk at the time of the removal of the respective families to Ohio, where they were reared and educated. Jacob Stamets was born in 1830 and his wife in 1832. He was a farmer during the earlier period of his independent career, and thereafter was engaged in mercantile enterprise and in the hotel business. He was thirty-two years of age when, in the early '60s, he established his residence in DeKalb County, Indiana, and there he was long a leading citizen and business man of Auburn, the county seat, where he staged his activities as a merchant and also as owner and conductor of a hotel. He was a loyal and influential figure in the local ranks of the Democratic party, though he had no ambition for public office. He and his wife were zealous members of the Lutheran Church, and he was one of the organizers of the church of this denomination at Auburn, where, as early as 1873, he was the leader in the movement that resulted in the purchase of the old Presbyterian Church Building and, by making improvements, transforming it into a Lutheran house of worship. He continued his residence at Auburn until his death, in 1898, and there his widow passed away in the following year. Of their four sons and two daughters two sons and the two daughters are living.

Dr. Zeanith H. Stamets was graduated in the Auburn High School in 1890. In 1895 he received from Taylor University, at Upland, Posey County, the degree of Bachelor of Philosophy and also that of Doctor of Medicine, and he then engaged in the practice of his profession at Fort Wayne. In 1898-99 he further fortified himself by study and clinical experience in the Chicago Post-Graduate College of Medicine, and in 1902-03 he had the privilege of taking post-graduate work under the preceptorship of Dr. Nicholas Senn, Dr. John B. Murphy, Dr. John Oschner, Dr. C. Percy and Dr. M. Harris, who had rank as foremost physicians and surgeons in the City of Chicago, where likewise he studied under Dr. Byron Robinson, in 1903. Doctor Stamets likewise served as an interne in the great Cook County Hospital, Chicago, and in that city he gave service in fourteen different hospitals, including the Mercy Hospital. From 1903 until 1909 the Doctor was established in practice in his native City of Auburn, and he then passed a year in Philadelphia, where he was associated with Dr. John Dever. In 1910 he did post-graduate work in New York City and also in the medical department of Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland. He next gave characteristically effective service in connection with Harper Hospital and St. Mary's Hospital, Detroit, Michigan, and he then returned to Chicago and was engaged in clinical surgery in the Post-Graduate College and Hospital, under Doctor Reese, about eight months.

In 1912 Doctor Stamets again established his residence in Fort Wayne, which city has since continued the stage of his distinguished professional activities. In 1913 he here founded the hospital and sanitarium of which he is now owner and superintendent. The original function was that of maternity hospital, with headquarters in a building on Cass Street. In the following year larger quarters were obtained, at the corner of Wells and Superior streets, where fifty rooms were available for patients. There the hospital was continued until 1924, when Doctor Stamets purchased eight acres of land on Spy Run Avenue and here proceeded to initiate the development of a large and thoroughly modern hospital and sanitarium, the institution being unique in that it makes provision for the utilization of all schools or systems of healing and accords its privileges to all reputable representatives of these various schools of practice. This liberal policy makes the institution an exceptional valuable and versatile communal asset, and Doctor Stamets is worthy of commendation for the stand he has thus taken in giving the maximum of service in the alleviation of human suffering. He has membership in various professional associations and ranks among the representative physicians and surgeons of his native state. He and his wife are active members of the Presbyterian Church.

January 20., 1916, marked the marriage of Doctor Stamets to Miss Anna Williams, of Ohio City, Ohio, and they have two children: Anna Evelyn, born June 13, 1918, and Bessie Rosalind Kathlyne, born February 25, 1921.

INDIANA ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OF AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT Vol. 3
By Charles Roll, A.M.
The Lewis Publishing Company, 1931

VICTOR LEMME is a native of Gibson County, Indiana, whose career has been associated with the business and civic interests of his community for many years. Mr. Lemme resides at Mackey, where he is cashier of the Mackey State Bank.

He was born in Gibson County September 14, 1873. His father, William G. Lemme, came from Germany to the United States in 1857, locating near Evansville, and devoted an industrious life to his farm. He died in 1915. His wife, Maria Burton, was born in Gibson County and died in 1924. Of their three children Victor was the oldest. The son Charles, of Ogden, Utah, married Ada Shipp and has one child. Herbert, a civil engineer living at Jasper, Indiana, married Kingie Kumple and has two sons.

Victor Lemme was reared on a Southern Indiana farm, received his educational advantages in grade and high schools, and also attended the Oakland City College and the Central Normal College at Danville, Indiana. For fifteen years he was a school man of Gibson County, teaching in various localities, and his work set a high standard and contributed to the educational process of the county. In 1908 he was given a still more responsible post when elected township trustee, and for the next six years diligently administered his office in charge of the schools of the township and the roads and other community matters. Mr. Lemme was one of Gibson County's leading farmers from 1914 until 1922, and in the latter year he entered the Mackey State Bank as cashier and has given his best time and energies to that institution. He still owns farm lands in Gibson County. Mr. Lemme is a Democrat in politics and is a Royal Arch Mason and Knight of Pythias.

He married, April 6, 1898, Miss Minnie Miller, daughter of Samuel Miller. They have one son, Maurice M., born in 1905, a graduate of the University of Indiana.

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

WILLIAM C. MASON. From the time of his admission to the bar, in 1885, William C. Mason has been engaged in practice at Rocksport, where he has grown in prestige, prosperity and position to become one of the leading lawyers of his part of the state. Retained as counsel by large litigated interests at various times, he has fought his cases, usually with success, into the highest courts of the country, where he has shown a mastery of his profession that has decided the outcome of important contests against some of the most distinguished and eminent practitioners of the country.

Mr. Mason was born at Grandview, Spencer County, Indiana, September 28, 1863, and was a son of Dr. Ferdinand and Ada (Niles) Mason. His father was born, of English extraction, near Little Pigeon Church, Spencer County, Indiana, in 1827, and was trained in the medical profession. He was engaged in an excellent practice at the time of the outbreak of the war between the states, and volunteered his services, being assigned to the Medical Corps as a regimental surgeon. For three years he labored faithfully in the cause and his health then broke down, causing him to be paroled home on a furlough. Late in the war he rejoined the army, and at the close of the struggle resumed his practice at Grandview, but his army experience had undermined his constitution, and he died in 1870, when he was only forty-three years of age. He married Ada Niles, a native of Perry County, Indiana, of Irish extraction, and they became the parents of two children: William C. and Annie L. Annie L. Mason, now deceased, married the late Liggett Shannon, and they had two children, the eldest of whom, William C., was a rancher in Texas. The other child, Eloise, married Wallace Richardson, a garage owner of Washington. Mrs. Richardson is possessed of considerable literary ability, and prior to her marriage was on the staff of the Denver Post for several years, and is still a contributor of stories and special articles to magazines.

After attending the public schools of Grandview, William C. Mason entered the University of Indiana, receiving the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1885. At that time there was no established law school at the university but Professor Newkirk, an experienced lawyer conducted law classes as well as history and it was under his instruction that Mr. Mason received his initial training. Mr. Mason recalls with great satisfaction his associations with several famous members of the faculty under whom he studied, among them being Dr. Daniel Kirkwood, David Starr Jordan and Dr. Thomas Van Nuys. In 1885 he entered upon the practice of his profession at Rockport, where he has since been located, with a constantly increasing professional business. Unlike many of his professional contemporaries, Mr. Mason did not give up his studies when he left college, but has all of his life been a close student, and is the owner of one of the largest and most complete law libraries in the state. He is a member of the Spencer County Bar Association, the Indiana State Bar Association and the American Bar Association, and is held in esteem by his fellow members, who admire him for his undoubted talents and for his strict observance of the ethics of his calling. Politically he is a Republican, and his religious connection is with the Methodist Church. During his long career he has become acquainted with some of the most famous of Indiana's sons, including the beloved poet, James Whitcomb Riley. While he has not been a seeker after public honors, Mr. Mason has kept in close touch with affairs, and in 1896 was a McKinley elector. He belongs to Rockport Lodge No. 112, A. F. and A. M., the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Knights of Pythias, and also holds membership in the local Kiwanis Club. In addition to his law practice he is a stockholder and director in the old Rockport State Bank, the First National Bank and the Grandview Bank, and is financially interested in several local business enterprises at Rockport.

On December 6, 1900, at Rockport, Mr. Mason was united in marriage with Miss Gertrude Feigel, a daughter of John and Barbara (Elzer) Feigel, natives of Germany, both of whom came to the United States as children. Mr. Feigel was for many years engaged in the livery business at Rockport, and he and Mrs. Feigel were the parents of three children, of whom Gertrude was the second in order of birth. MR. and Mrs. Mason are the parents of two children: Alice, born in 1904, a graduate at Monticello and of the University of Indiana, from which institution she received the degree of Master of Arts, and is now a teacher in the high school at Rockport; and Paul F., who received his law degree at Indiana University in 1931 and is now associated with his father.

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

JOHN WILLIAM McGOWAN, M. D., has been a representative of the medical profession at Oakland City since 1881, and since his father, who was also a doctor, located there before the close of the Civil war the name McGowan enjoys an especially high and honorable prestige in medical circles in Southern Indiana.

Dr. John William McGowan was born at Monticello, Kentucky, January 22, 1854. His father, William Jefferson McGowan, was also a native of Kentucky, studied medicine in early life, and during the Civil war had charge of a Government hospital at Vicksburg, Tennessee, during 1863. In 1864 he moved to Oakland City, Indiana, and practiced there and over a large part of the surrounding country until his death on March 13, 1895. He married Delilah Jane Ramsey, also a native of Kentucky. She died in1926. Of their four children two died in infancy and one at the age of nine years, leaving John William the only to grow up. The McGowan family is of Scotch and Irish ancestry.

John William McGowan attended school in Oakland City and Owensville and completed his medical course in the University of Louisville, at Louisville, Kentucky, in 1881. He at once returned to Oakland City, and in a few years had justified the confidence of a people who had long learned to respect the name McGowan in a professional capacity. With the exception of one year he has practiced at Oakland continuously. During that year he was at Deer Lodge, Montana, as physician to the state penitentiary. Doctor McGowan is a very able surgeon as well as a highly qualified physician. He is a Democrat in politics, a member of the Methodist Church, a Scottish Rite Mason and Shriner, and a member of the Knights of Pythias. He has membership in the Gibson County, Indiana State and American Medical Associations. Doctor McGowan has long been a lover of trotting horses, being a true Kentuckian in that respect. For some years he owned one of the best stables of trotters in this section of the state.

Doctor McGowan married Miss Audie May Traylor, daughter of Alvin and Ellen Traylor, of Winslow, Indiana, where Mr. Traylor, who died in 1917, was a farmer. They have one son, Paul, a radio operator on an oil ship operated by the Continental Oil Company between New York, Texas and Mexico. During the World war he served as a radio operator on a submarine chaser, having enlisted for service in the navy in the summer of 1917, being the first volunteer from Oakland City and on one of the first three submarine chasers to reach France.

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

ULYSSES S. LINDSEY. The career of Ulysses S. Lindsey, of Rockport, has been substantially free from the monotony that often occurs when an individual applies himself unrestrictedly to a given line of work. His activities have entered the fields of education agriculture, real estate and loans and public affairs, and at present he is publisher and editor of one of the thriving newspapers of Spencer County, the Rockport Journal. It has been his fortune to prosper in the varied enterprises with which he has been identified, and to hold the respect and confidence of his fellow-citizens.

Mr. Lindsey was born November 24, 1869, a native of Spencer County and a son of James and Lucinda (Overall) Lindsey, the latter likewise born here. His paternal grandparents were born in Kentucky and took up their residence in Spencer County about 1820, spending the rest of their useful, active and honorable lives in the development of a farm. James Lindsey was reared on his father's farm and received a district school education, following which he took up the vocation of farming, although he also worked at flat-boating to some extent when that occupation was in to some extent when that occupation was in its hey-day. At the outbreak of the Civil war he and three brothers enlisted for service in the Union army, and for three years James Lindsey was a private in the Forty-second Regiment, Indiana Volunteer Infantry, under Capt. Alfred Myler. He saw some of the hardest fighting of the great struggle and after being wounded in the neck and being seriously injured in the back, received his honorable discharge at the close of the war, and returned to his home, where he passed the remainder of his life in farming and became a well-to-do and highly respected citizen of his locality. In 1866, in Spencer County, Mr. Lindsey was united in marriage with Miss Lucinda Overall, and they became the parents of eight children, of whom three died in infancy, the others being: Dora A., born in 1867, who married Charles Deschler, a farmer of Spence County; Ulysses S., of this review; Ollie, born in 1872, who married Emanuel Wallace, a farmer of Posey County, Indiana; Lola B., born in 1876, who married Eugene Hartley, a farmer of Warrick County, this state; and John W., born in 1881, an insurance man of Washington, Daviess County, Indiana.

Ulysses S. Lindsey attended the public schools of Grass Township, and subsequently completed a teacher's course at the Central Normal School at Danville, Indiana. He began his career in 1890, as a teacher during the winter terms, while farming during the summer months, and became well known as an educator served two terms of four years each, as superintendent of schools of Spencer County. In the meantime, in September, 1919, he purchased the Rockport Journal, of which he has since been editor and publisher. He has developed this into one of the leading country papers in his part of the state and has a large circulation throughout Spencer, Warrick and Vanderburg and the adjacent counties. Mr. Lindsey furnishes his subscribers with a clean, reliable, newsy and interesting paper, which contains the latest national and local news, snappy editorials on timely subjects and important issues, feature matter, etc. It is well printed and well edited and has its full share in forming or swaying public opinion. Mr. Lindsey is a Republican in his political views, and this is the policy of his paper, although he endeavors to give his readers an unbiased and accurate view of the political situation, both local and national. He is a consistent member of the Methodist Church, and as a fraternalist is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. In addition to owning his modern newspaper plant and equipment he possesses a well-developed farm situated near Chrisney, is the owner of extensive city real estate, and is interested in a building and loan enterprise.

On October 2, 1901, in Spencer County, Mr. Lindsey was united in marriage with Miss Grace Atwood, a daughter of Jefferson and Amanda (Woodward) Atwood, the former a native of Ohio. Jefferson Atwood was reared in the Buckeye State, where he began life as a teacher, and as such moved to Missouri, from which state he enlisted for service in a volunteer infantry regiment during the war between the states. Following the war he settled in Spencer County, Indiana, where for a time he was engaged in teaching and farming, but finally removed to Gentryville, this state, where he followed general merchandising until his death in 1918. Mrs. Atwood survived him until 1921. To Mr. and Mrs. Lindsey there have been born two children: James J., born October 12, 1903, a clerk in the post office at Rockport, who married Maude Ritchie, a native of Spencer County and has two children, Dorothy Ellen, born in 1923; and Sydney R., born in 1925; and Warren F., born October 19, 1908, a graduate of the University of Kentucky (class of 1929), who majored in journalism. He is now editor and business manger of The Rockford Journal.

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

JAMES R. MONTGOMERY, M.D., has spent a quarter of a century in a professional capacity and relationship with his native community in Gibson County. Doctor Montgomery is a man of education, has had a long and successful experience in his work, and has won civic esteem as well as business and professional success.

He was born at Owensville, September 16, 1879, son of S. N. and Melissa (Redman) Montgomery. His father was a native of Gibson County and his mother of Posey County. S. N. Montgomery followed farming all his active life. He died in 1916 and his wife in 1913. There were five children: Essie, wife of C. M. Wilkenson, and mother of one child; Otis L., unmarried, living at Owensville; Dr. James R.; Ruby, wife of Willis E. Roe, of East Chicago, and they have a family of three girls; and David, a doctor of dental surgery at Owensville, married Ethel Williams and has three children.

James R. Montgomery attended the grade and high schools of Owensville, graduated Bachelor of Science from Valparaiso University, and in 1904 took his medical degree at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of the University of Illinois. He at once returned home and has steadily practiced at Owensville for a quarter of a century. For four years he held a commission in the Reserve Corps of the United States Navy.

Doctor Montgomery is a member of the Gibson County, Indiana State and American Medical Associations. He is a director of the old State Bank of Owensville, is a Republican, a Presbyterian and a York Rite Mason and Shriner. His father was a Union soldier, being a member of Company F of the Eightieth Indiana Volunteers, and was wounded in the battle of Perryville, Kentucky.

Doctor Montgomery married in August, 1905, Miss Cora A. Knowles, daughter of I. N. and Martha (Cantrell) Knowles. Both her parents were born in Gibson County. They have one child, Arvid N., born August 11, 1909, a graduate from Purdue University at Lafayette, Indiana, in the class of 1930. He is now associated with the American Telephone & Telegraph Company at New York City, in the research and development laboratory.

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

ARTHUR DAILY SAYLER. Although he began his career as a newspaper man and life insurance salesman, Arthur Daily Sayler has been engaged in the practice of law at Huntington since 1920 and has gained a high standing in his profession. He is a lawyer by inheritance and training, by experience and by native ability, and since applying himself to this vocation has, through industry and application, drawn to himself a large and representative clientele and has been identified with much important litigation that has come before the courts.

Mr. Sayler was born at Huntington, Huntington County, Indiana, January 18, 1894, and is a son of the late Hon. Samuel M. Sayler, whose death occurred April 12, 1920. Mr. Sayler's mother is still living and a resident of Huntington. Arthur Dailey Sayler attended the grade schools of Huntington, and after spending three years in high school, completed his high school course at Phillips-Andover Academy, Andover, Massachusetts, in 1911. He next attended Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio, and received the degree of Bachelor of Arts from Beloit (Wisconsin) College in 1915, after which he pursued his law course at the Indiana Law School, Indianapolis, Indiana, and was graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Laws in 1917.

From 1917 until 1920 Mr. Sayler was identified with the Indianapolis News and with the Travelers Insurance Company for two years, but at the time of his father's death returned to Huntington, where he has since been engaged in the practice of his profession, having taken over his father's clientele and added greatly there to, his offices being situated in the Citizens State Bank Building. He has won recognition as a sound, reliable and practical lawyer, and is well grounded in principles and precedents, being a constant student, well versed in all branches of his profession. During 1925 and 1926 he served as prosecuting attorney of Huntington County, and discharged the duties of that office in a highly capable manner. He is a member of the Huntington County Bar Association, the Indiana State Bar Association and the American Bar Association, and in his profession is respected for his adherence to the best ethics and tenets of his calling. He belongs also to the La Fontaine Country Club, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and the Knights of pythias, and is an Episcopalian in his religious faith. Mr. Sayler has one brother, Oliver M., a resident of New York City.

On December 30, 1915, at Minneapolis, Minnesota, Mr. Sayler was united in marriage with Miss Helen Knight Stout, who was born at Minneapolis and is a graduate Bachelor of Arts of Beloit (Wisconsin) College, class of 1915. She is a daughter of the late William O. Stout, and her mother still survives and is a resident of Idaho. Mrs. Sayler, who is a woman of superior intellect and talents, taught school several years after her marriage. Mrs. Sayler is active in church and charitable work and is popular in club circles of the city. She and Mr. Sayler had one daughter, Mary Knight, who died at Birth, November 12, 1927. They have an adopted son, David Knight who was was born June 7, 1929.

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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