Mr. Worster is able to revert to his present home city as the place of his nativity, his birth having occurred at Montpelier on the16th of August, 1877. He was first in order of birth of the six children of Samuel G. And Elizabeth (Shideler) Worster, the former of whom was born in Wells County, this state, and the latter in Huntington County, she having been of Pennsylvania Dutch ancestry and a descendent of Aaron Shideler, who came from the old Keystone State to Indiana in the 1830 decade and made settlement in Huntington County, where he obtained Government land and instituted the reclamation and development of a farm, 150 acres of this old estate being still in the possession of the descendants of this sterling pioneer and the old log house that Aaron Shideler erected on the farm having there continued as a landmark during the course of many years.

Samuel G. Worster, who was a carpenter by trade and who devoted the major part of his active career to successful work as a contractor and builder, was a representative of one of the pioneer families of Wells County. He was a son of Robert and Diana (Marshall) Worster, the former of whom was born in Pennsylvania and the latter in Kentucky, she having been a member of a family that was founded in Virginia in the Colonial period of American history and representatives of the family having later removed from the Old Dominion into Kentucky. In the Bluegrass State the father of Mrs. Diana (Marshall) Worster became a prosperous agriculturist and slaveholder, and when he removed to Fayette County, Ohio, his slaves accompanied him and were there granted their freedom. Robert Worster came from Ohio to Indiana in the decade between 1830 and 1840, and was one of the early settlers of Wells County, where he became a substantial farmer. William, James, Lewis and Jeremiah Worster, uncles of the subject of this review, all served as loyal soldiers of the Union in the Civil war.

Lew E. Worster continued his studies in the Montpelier public schools until he was fifteen years of age, when he entered upon a practical apprenticeship to the "art preservative of all arts," by assuming the dignified position of "printer's devil" in a local newspaper office. He made rapid progress in acquiring knowledge of his trade and the newspaper business, and it may be recorded that in 1891 he assisted in the issuing of the first number of the Montpelier Herald. With that paper he continued his connection until 1905, when he went to Saratoga, Randolph County, and founded the Saratoga Independent, his equipment at the start having comprised an old hand press and fifty dollars' worth of type. He continued editor and publisher of this paper four years, and gained to it a circulation of about 700 copies weekly. In the meanwhile he had devoted leisure moments to the study of law, and in Randolph County he was admitted to the bar in 1907, upon examination before Judge Macey. He still retains membership in the Randolph County Bar Association. He finally sold his paper at Saratoga and in1908 returned to his native town of Montpelier, where he established a weekly paper to which he gave the title of Rural Tribune. This was a weekly paper that gained a circulation of 900 copies, its pages being from four to eight in number. The paper was started mainly as an advertising vehicle and was developed into a general community paper of eight pages. In June, 1913, Mr. Worster purchased the local plant and business of another paper, the Montpelier Daily Herald, he having consolidated the two papers and having still continued to publish the Tribune as a weekly edition in connection with the Daily Herald until the World war period, when economic conditions brought about such shortage in print paper and such increase in its price that Mr. Worster found it expedient to combine his two papers in a single semi-weekly edition. Under this plan he has continued the publication of the Montpelier Herald to the present time, the daily edition of the paper having had its inception in 1891.

For the accommodation of his newspaper and printing plant Mr. Worster purchased a building and installed equipment of the best modern order, and he has made the Herald a most effective exponent of local interests, as well as a purveyor of general news. The paper is one of eight columns and varies from six to eight pages, while its circulation is now fully 1,600. In the office of the Herald is retained a corps of six employes, and the paper is delivered by carriers in Montpelier and other communities of Blackford County, while its circulation has been extended appreciably also into surrounding counties, as it has gained secure prestige as one of the best newspapers in this part of Indiana.

Mr. Worster is found a staunch and effective advocate and supporter of the cause of the Republican party, and both individually and through the medium of his newspaper he has wielded much influence in public affairs in his native county. By the City Council he was appointed to fill out an unexpired term as a member of the city school board, his service under this condition having continued three years and he having thereafter been twice chosen for the office, in which he thus served three consecutive terms. In 1930 he was appointed a member of the Montpelier Board of Education, for a term of three years, this board having control of the schools of both the city and township, and he having previously given six years of service as a member of the county board of education. In August, 1930, Mr. Worster was again selected for the school board as the Republican member. He also served for a time as justice of the peace, in the second decade of the present century. His newspaper office figured as headquarters for the various communal drives in the World war period, and he was one of the most active and influential in furthering the publicity work and ultimate success of such war campaigns in Blackford County. He was representative of Harrison Township on the legal advisory board of the county during the period of the selective draft in the county.

Mr. Worster has diversified his interests and activities in an interesting way by giving a general supervision to his fine stock farm of 103 acres. This is one of the show places of Wells County and here the owner specializes in the breeding and raising of O. I. C. hogs and Guernsey and Jersey cattle of registered order. Mr. Worster is vice president of the National O. I. C. Association and is publisher of the O. I. C. Monthly Bulletin. He was a trustee of the association ten years and was elected its vice president November 29, 1929. He is a member of the public affairs committee of the local Kiwanis Club, which functions as a veritable chamber of commerce in Montpelier, and he is looked upon for leadership in community sentiment and action. In the Masonic fraternity he is affiliated with Montpelier Lodge No. 600, A. F. and A. M.; Hartford City Chapter, R. A. M.; the Scottish Rite Consistory in Fort Wayne, where he is likewise a Noble of Mizpah Temple of the Mystic Shrine.

Mr. Worster married Miss Florence L. Sandhagen, of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, she being a daughter of the late Henry Sandhagen, who was president of the National Steel Casting Company. Mr. and Mrs. Worster have two children: Elizabeth is the wife of William M. Ball, who is engaged in the real estate business in Fort Wayne. Mrs. Ball supplemented the discipline of the public schools by completing a course and being graduated in the Indiana State Teachers College at Muncie. The younger daughter, Florence Leone, resides at the parental home.

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

BERT J. BARTLETT. During his residence of more than thirty years in the City of Huntington Mr. Bartlett has shown unwavering civic loyalty and progressiveness. It has been his to exert helpful influence in the various movements and enterprises that have tended to advance the general welfare of the community, especially along industrial and commercial lines, and while his interests have been and continued many and varied, he has shown good judgment by concentrating his individual activities in the developing of the now large and prosperous business of the Bartlett Transfer & Storage Company, of which he is the president and which constitutes in this community a virtual public utility organization.

Mr. Bartlett is a scion of staunch New England ancestry of Colonial prestige, and he is able to revert to the State of New Hampshire as the place of his nativity, his birth having occurred at Claremont, that state, in June, 1869. His parents, William P. and Lidona S. (Flower) Bartlett, passed their entire lives in the old Granite State, and William P. Bartlett was one of the substantial exponents of farm industry in New Hampshire during virtually the entire course of his active career, his death having there occurred in August, 1913.

Bert J. Bartlett had in his youth a full quota of fellowship with the stern and rigorous activities of the parental New England farm, and in the meanwhile he profited by the advantages of the public schools of the locality. He continued his association with the farm until he was twenty years of age, when in 1889, he came to Indiana, the state in which his activities have been staged during the long intervening years - years that have brought to him substantial success and secure communal standing. Within a short time after his arrival in Indiana Mr. Bartlett became identified with the lumber business at Columbia City, Whitley County. Six years later he disposed of his interest in this business and transferred his residence to Huntington where he became junior member of the firm of Perine & Bartlett. He was thus engaged six years, at the expiration of which he sold his interest and turned his attention to the trucking and transfer business, his initial operations having been of modest order, as compared with the large enterprise that has since been developed from this nucleus. Mr. Bartlett conducted his business under the title of Bartlett Trucking Company until 1920, when was adopted the present corporate title of Bartlett Transfer & Storage Company. Mr. Bartlett is president of the company, and the control of the business is vested in the Bartlett family, his son, Frederick L., being vice president, and his wife,Mrs. Frances (Severance) Bartlett, being the secretary and. treasurer. Mr. Bartlett is principal owner of this business that was established and developed by him, and he functions in a similar way with the Bartlett General Motors Truck Company, of which he is the president. The present large and modern fire-proof warehouse of the Bartlett Transfer & Storage Company was erected in 1929, at the corner of State and Warren streets, and the concern maintains four branch warehouses in the City of Huntington, the metropolis and industrial and judicial center of Huntington County. The company does a general transfer and storage business, and has metropolitan facilities for merchandise distribution by motor trucks, for the storage of furniture and other household effects, and for the general packing and shipping of household goods. The company maintains a private switch track connecting directly with the line of the Wabash Railroad. This progressive corporation now maintains a fleet of the most modern moto trucks, in which connection it is interesting to record that Mr. Bartlett had the distinction of placing in commission in his business, in 1907, the first motor truck thus to be placed in operation in the Wabash Valley. - The company controls also a substantial wholesale and retail business in the handling of coal. The Bartlett General Motors Truck Company has a slogan as follows: "A modern truck for every purse and purpose," and it has the agency for the Fruehauf trailers and semi-trailers, as well as for standard motor trucks. The Bartlett organization has the best of facilities for both local and long-distance moving, in connection with the service of its modern warehouses.

Liberality and progressiveness have characterized Mr. Bartlett in all civic and business relations during the long period of his residence in Huntington. He was one of the organizers of the Huntington Factory Fund Association, February 22, 1907, and he was chosen the first president of this vital organization, which, with an available capital stock of $50,000, set on foot a vigorous campaign that resulted in brjnging many new and important manufacturing and commercial enterprises to Huntington. Mr. Bartlett still continues a director of this association, and he is likewise an influential member of the Huntington Chamber of Commerce. He is a past president of the Indiana Motor Truck Association, of which he is vice president at the time of this writing, in the autumn of 1930. His political allegiance is given to theRepublican party.

The year 1896 marked the marriage of Mr. Bartlett to Miss Frances S. Severance, daughter of Dr. LaGrange Severance and Henrietta (Drummond) Severance. Helen, elder of the two children of Mr. and Mrs. Bartlett, was graduated in Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio, thereafter was music instructor in the Huntington High School, and in her native city, as the wife of R. L. Morris, she continues a gracious and popular figure in the social and cultural circles of the community. Mr. and Mrs. Morris have two children, Dorothy Jean and Catherine Louise. The younger of the two children is Dr. Frederick L. Bartlett, who was graduated in the University of Indiana and who is now established in the practice of his profession, as a physician and surgeon, in the City of Chicago.

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

MARION A. EMSHWlLLER, M. D., is now one of the veteran and honored representatives of the medical profession in Blackford County, where he maintains his residence at Montpelier and where he has long controlled a substantial and representative practice that marks him as one of the leading physicians and surgeons of his native county and that likewise makes impossible any application to him of the scriptural aphorism that "a prophet is not without honor save in his own country."

On the parental home farm in Jackson Township, Blackford County, the birth of Doctor Emshwiller occurred October 25, 1869, and he is a son of John and Mary A. (Baer) Emshwiller, the former of whom was born in Virginia, of Colonial ancestry in the Old Dominion and the latter of whom was born in Indiana, a member of a sterling pioneer family.

John Emshwiller was born in Rockingham County, Virginia, and in that state was likewise born his father, Abraham Emshwiller, who came with his family to lndiana and settled on a pioneer farm in Jackson Township, Blackford County, about the year 1845, the original home of the family having here been a primitive log house. Abraham Emshwiller reclaimed from the forest wilds a productive farm and continued as one of the substantial and highly esteemed citizens of Blackford County until his death. The original American representative of the Emshwiller family came from Germany and became Colonial settlers in Virginia, members of the family having been patriot soldiers in the War of the Revolution.

John Emshwiller was young at the time of the family removal to Indiana, and though his early life here was marked by association with the activities of the pioneer farm, his major success was gained through his conducting of a drug store at Montpelier, where he was thus engaged fully twenty-five years, both he and his wife having here remained until their death and their children having been six in number.

Doctor Emshwiller profited by the advantages of the Montpelier public schools, thereafter continued his studies in DePauw University, and in preparation for his chosen profession he completed a course in the Indiana Medical College, Indianapolis, this being the medical department of the University of Indiana. He was graduated as a member of the class of 1891, and after thus receiving his degree of Doctor of Medicine he served an interneship in Saint Vincent's Hospital in Indianapolis, besides which, during the winter of 1891-92, he served as demonstrator of anatomy in his alma mater, the Indiana Medical College.

In the fall of 1892 Doctor Emshwiller established his residence in Montpelier, and here he has since continued in the active and successful general practice of his profession, save for the interval of his World war service. In December, 1917, he volunteered for service in the Medical Corps of the United States army, and in the same he gained commission as captain. He was assigned to Hospital Unit I at Fort Benjamin Harrison, and in March, 1918, he was given assignment to overseas service. He was stationed at Hursley, England, until April, 1919, and then was sent to the City of London and assigned duty at the chief surgeon's office, the following June having recorded his assignment to duty in France and having also marked his return to his native land, where he received his honorable discharge, at Camp Dix, New Jersey, in July, 1919. He now holds the rank of lieutenant colonel in the Reserve Medical Corps of the United States army.

Doctor Emshwiller is a valued member of the Medical Society of Blackford and Delaware Counties, the Wells County Medical Society, and the Indiana State Medical Society, besides being an honorary member of the Muncie Academy of Medicine. His political allegiance is given to the Democratic party, and he had the distinction of being the first Democrat chosen to serve as coroner of Blackford County. The Doctor controls a large and important general practice in Montpelier and its tributary district, and is essentially one of the representative physicians and surgeons of his native county. He has the unusual honor of being affiliated with William of Wyckham Masonic Blue Lodge at Winchester, England. His capitular affiliation is with Blackford Chapter of Royal Arch Masons, at Hartford City, where he is likewise a member of the Council of Royal and Select Masters. In connection with his general practice Doctor Emshwiller has served the past several years as local surgeon for the Union Traction Company of Indiana.

Margaretha (Patterson) Emshwiller, the first wife of Doctor Emshwiller, died in 1895, and. is survived by two children: John P. is a graduate of the Tri-State Engineering and Correspondence School and is now a consulting engineer in the service of the United States Government; Emily Marie is the wife of R. G. Davis, of Montpelier. The second marriage of Doctor Emshwiller was with Miss Leota E. Adams, who likewise was born and reared in Blackford County, and she is the popular chatelaine of their attractive home at Montpelier.

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

JAMES MORRIS TRIGGS is one of the loyal and progressive citizens who have made major contribution to the industrial and commercial advancement and prestige of the City of Huntington, judicial center and metropolis of the Indiana county of the same name, and further than this he stands well to the front as one of the prominent and influential captains of industry claimed by the fine old Hoosier State. At Huntington Mr. Triggs is president of the Majestic Company, an important concern engaged in the manufacturing of furnaces, coal chutes, garbage receivers, and varied lines of building specialities, and his prominence in this special field of industrial enterprise is signified in his being, in 1930, president of the National Warm Air Heating Association of America. Aside from his large and important business interests he stands forward also as one of the most liberal and public spirited citizens of Huntington.

Mr. Triggs was born in Jackson County, Michigan, June 4, 1871, and is a representative of one of the old and honored families of that county. His father, William M. Triggs, died in the year 1918, and his mother, whose maiden name was Innocent Fuller, passed away in 1928, at a venerable age. The public schools of his native county were the medium through which James M. Triggs acquired his youthful education, and while he completed a partial high school course, his broader education has been gained under the direction of that wisest of all head-masters, experience. He was a lad of fourteen years when he took a clerical position in a hardware store in the little City of Morenci, Lenawee County, Michigan, and that his loyalty and resourcefulness brought to him advancement is indicated in the fact that he was later retained several years as a traveling salesman for a wholesale hardware house in the City of Cleveland, Ohio, with assignment to territory in Ohio and Indiana. He finally retired from this service and assumed management of the retail hardware establishment in which he had originally been employed at Morenci, Michigan.

After having gained broad and varied experience in connection with the hardware business Mr. Triggs found a wider field of action by entering the field of manufacturing. In the year 1907 he effected in the City of Huntington, Indiana, the organizing of the present Majestic Company, which was incorporated with a capital stock of $30,000 and which is now capitalized at $200,000. Here the company has a large and modern plant with the best of equipment in all departments, the main structure being 132 by 140 feet in dimension and two stories in height. Machinery and accessories have been kept up to the highest standard at all times, the force of employees has an average of 100 persons, including many skilled artisans, and the products find demand in the most diverse sections of the United States, for the company's best commercial asset, its reputation, has basis on superiority of output and effective service. The concern has constituted one of the most noteworthy contributions to the industrial and commercial precedence of the City of Huntington. Mr. Triggs has served from the beginning as general manager of the company and he held also the dual office of secretary and treasurer until 1915, when he was advanced to his present office, that of president. William D. Redrup is vice president of the company; Donald A. Purviance is treasurer, and Kenneth F. Triggs is secretary.

In his civic relations, through which he has found expression of his communal and social loyalty, Mr. Triggs has not confined his interests to his home city. Thus it is to be noted that he is vice president of the Methodist Hospital in the City of Fort Wayne and a trustee of the Methodist Hospital in Indianapolis; that he is a director of the John Wesley Foundation in the City of Lafayette; that he is president of the Indiana state organization of the Y. M. C. A., besides being a member of the board of directors of the Huntington Y. M. C. A.. He is a director and a past president of the Huntington Chamber of Commerce and is a past president of the local Rotary Club. His political allegiance is given to the Republican party, and in this connection it is interesting to recall that the best authorities agree that the Grand Old Party had its inception in the historic meeting held "under the oaks" in Jackson County, Michigan, the county in which Mr. Triggs was born and reared. He is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity and he and his wife are zealous members of the Methodist Episcopal Church in their home city, where Mrs. Triggs is a gracious and popular figure in social, cultural and church circles.

The year 1892 recorded the marriage of Mr. Triggs to Miss Myrtle Datesman, daughter of the late Jesse Datesman, of Morenci, Michigan. Of the three children of this union the eldest is Kenneth F., who is now secretary of the Majestic Company, of which his father is the president. Kenneth F. Triggs was graduated in Purdue University, at Lafayette,Indiana, and in the World war period he was in the aviation service of the United States army. He married Miss Marie Poucher and they have one child, Mary Roseland. Helen, only daughter of the subject of this review, received the advantages of De Pauw University, Greencastle, Indiana, served as a nurse with the American Red Cross in the World war period, and is now the wife of Donald Kellum, of Indianapolis, their one child being a son, John R. Lawrence, youngest of the children, was graduated in the University of Illinois and now maintains his residence in the City of Chicago, Illinois. The maiden name of his wife was Florence Shrout, and their one child is James M. II, named in honor of his paternal grandfather.

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