He was born at Dayton in Tippecanoe County, April 11, 1889, son of Capt. James Glenn, who was a captain in the One Hundred Thirty-fourth New York Infantry throughout the period of the Civil war. After the war he came to Indiana and followed the trade of carriage trimmer the rest of his life. While living at Dayton he was much interested in local politics. Captain Glenn married Salome Rumfelt, whose people were Pennsylvania Dutch and came from Pennsylvania to Tippecanoe County in the early days, traveling by wagon.

James H. Glenn was one of four children. After the death of his parents he lived in an orphans' home at Knightstown. His opportunities to attend school were limited, and after getting to a point where he could earn his own living he took correspondence courses in electricity, and thus qualified himself for a successful career in the electrical trades and profession. He has been on his own resources since he was fifteen and had an apprenticeship of several years that made him familiar with the practical work of an electrician.

In the closing months of 1916 he established the Randolph Glenn Koerner Company to provide a general electric service in Lafayette. From this business he resigned in June, 1918, to accept special Government service in the line of his experience and training as an instructor in the United States Army Vocational Training School at Purdue University. He acted as an instructor in electrical laboratory work at the university from June, 1918, to December of that year. The school was closed after the armistice, and Mr. Glenn then established the Glenn Electric Service Company.

Mr. Glenn is a member of the Lafayette Chamber of Commerce, is affiliated with Lodge No. 123, A. F. and A. M., the Royal Arch Chapter, Council degree, Knights Templar Commandery, and was monarch in 1929 of the Merou Grotto of Masons. He is a member of the Automotive Electric Association.

He married Margaret Kieffer, of Benton County, Indiana. They have two children: Margaret, a graduate of the Jefferson High School, and James Kenneth, in the Jefferson High. Mr. Glenn and family are Presbyterians.

The Glenn Electric Service Company is an organization with equipment and facilities and personnel enabling them to handle every type of contract and work embraced in the general automotive electric business. They act as distributors for a large line of nationally advertised electrical equipment over several counties of Indiana. The office, shop and store covers about 6,000 square feet of floor space. They carry a complete stock of automotive electrical parts and do an extensive repair business.

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

JOHN RUNA JONES, author of the state-wide primary law of Indiana, is a resident of Plymouth, and for many years has been prominently identified with 'the Marshall County bar and with the public interests of that section of the state.

Mr. Jones was born in Champaign County, Ohio, in 1867, son of Ezra T. and Harlena (Tyrrell) Jones, being the oldest of their four children. In 1872 the family moved to Indiana, John being then five years of age. During his boyhood he was presented with the opportunities of attending the common schools, afterwards took work in private normal schools, and the chief factor in his early education and advancement was will and determination to succeed and raise himself above the common lot. He taught school for nine years, studying all the time. For six years he held the responsible position of trustee of Greene Township in Marshall County. Six years of his life were devoted to farming, and at one time he was editor of the Argos Reflector at Argos in Marshall County. After being admitted to the bar he practiced for several years with Mr. Harry L. Unger and since then has carried on an individual practice. For four years he held the office of clerk of the Marshall Circuit Court. His work in the Legislature was during 1913-15, when for two terms he represented Marshall County. While in the Legislature it fell to him to draw up and perfect and supervise the passage of the state-wide primary law. For five years Mr. Jones has been one of the trustees of the Indiana State Farm at Putnamville.

He married Miss Cora M. McElfresh. They ha,ve four daughters: Marcelle Miller, Ethel Green, Agnes Lund and Louise Abair. After the death of his first wife Mr. Jones married Jennie E. Keen, of Culver, Indiana. Mr. Jones is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, the Masonic Lodge at Plymouth, Eastern Star Chapter, Kiwanis Club, and he served as Democratic county chairman from 1904 to 1906. He has lived a busy life, and at the same time has found time to cultivate literary and other intellectual interests. He has written a good deal of prose and verse and was manager and part owner of the magazine, Golden West, published at Waterloo, Iowa.

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

LOUIS POTTER HARSHMAN, M. D., has the technical knowledge and skill and is making a record of success that marks him distinctly as one of the representative physicians in the practice of psychiatry of the younger generation in the City of Fort Wayne, where his office headquarters are maintained at 110211z Calhoun Street.

Doctor Harshman was born in Clinton County, Indiana, February 20, 1892, and is a son of Alonzo E. and Lucinda (Potter) Harshman, the former of whom was born in Indiana, January 15, 1866, and the latter of whom was born in Ohio, February 10, 1862. Henry and Kate (Shockey) Harshman, grandparents of the Doctor, were pioneer settlers in Clinton County, Indiana, and the former was born and reared in Pennsylvania. Jonathan and Sarah (Addison) Potter, maternal grandparents of Doctor Harshman, moved from Ohio to Flora, Illinois, in 1868, and in that state they passed the remainder of their lives.

Alonzo E. Harshman was reared on the parental home farm in Clinton County, received the advantages of the public schools, and in that county he still continues his association with farm industry, of which he is a substantial and progressive exponent. His political allegiance is given to the Democratic party and he and his wife are active members of the United Brethren Church. Of the two children the elder is Mrs. Myrtle Thompson, of Frankfort, this state, and Doctor Harshman of this review is the younger. Mrs. Thompson was graduated in the Teachers College in the City of Indianapolis and prior to her marriage had been a successful and popular teacher in the public schools. She is the wife of Russel Thompson, and their one child is a son, Samuel, who was born in 1917.

Doctor Harshman early gained practical experience in connection with the activities of the home farm, and in the public schools of his native county he continued his studies until he was graduated in the high school at Mulberry, in 1911. In 1917 he was graduated in the University of Indiana, with the degree of Bachelor of Science, and in the medical department of that university he was graduated as a member of the class of 1919, he having there served in the Students Army Training Corps in the World war period. After receiving his degree of Doctor of Medicine he served eighteen months as an interne in the University Hospital, and thereafter he took effective post-graduate work in Washington University in the City of Saint Louis, Missouri. He was for two years resident physician at the Indiana State Normal School for the Feeble Minded, in Fort Wayne, and he has been assistant superintendent of that institution during a period of six years, a position that he still retains, besides which he has been engaged in private general practice since January, 1926. The Doctor has membership in the Fort Wayne Medical Society, the Indiana State Medical Association and the American Medical Association. He is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias, and the Theta Chi, the Nu Sigma Nu and the Alpha Omega Alpha college fraternities. His political support is given to the Republican party, and he and his wife have membership in the Presbyterian Church.

September 1, 1923, marked the marriage of Doctor Harshman to Miss Frances Thompson, who likewise was born and reared in Clinton County, where she was graduated in the Frankfort High School, she having been graduated in DePauw University, at Greencastle, as a member of the class of 1915, and her original degree of Bachelor of Arts having been supplemented by that of Master of Arts, conferred upon her by Indiana University in 1917. Prior to her marriage Mrs. Harshaman had been a popular and successful teacher in the public schools of Frankfort, and in her present home city she is a gracious figure in social, cultural and church circles. Doctor and Mrs. Harshman maintain their home at 2205 Crescent Avenue. They have no children.

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

WALDO EMERSON SMITH, M. D., finished his medical course in 1906, and in twenty odd years has enjoyed the prestige of an able family doctor and skilled surgeon in the City of Decatur, Indiana.

Doctor Smith was born at Dublin, Franklin County, Ohio, near the City of Columbus, December 30, 1871, son of Jasper and Flora (Case) Smith. Both the Case and Smith families represented pioneer families of Ohio. Doctor Smith's paternal grandfather was Nelson Smith and his great-grandfather was David Smith, who in 1801 was granted a license as a teacher in Franklin County. One of the ancestors of Doctor Smith was Peter Millington, who erected the second house in Franklin County and who was a witness to the execution of the Indian Leatherlips, who was condemned to death on a charge of witchcraft and the site of the execution is now commemorated by a granite monument standing on the banks of the Scioto River. The Case family came from New England, and were part of the colony that established the Town of Worthington, north of Columbus. Flora Case Smith was a daughter of Alvin Case and a granddaughter of Orlando Case. The Cases were noted for their skill as mechanics, and they discovered and developed the process of "Case hardening of steel.” Doctor Smith's father was a Union soldier with the Forty-sixth Ohio Infantry, but after the battle of Shiloh was sent home on sick leave and later was in the One Hundred Seventy-sixth Ohio Infantry.

Doctor Smith was one of a large family of children: Jean, a farmer at Lakeview, Michigan; Millie, wife of Abner Walcutt, of Columbus, Ohio; Dr. Waldo Emerson; Miss May, who lives with her brother Clarence on the old homestead farm at Dublin, Ohio; Florence, wife of Samuel Horch, a farmer at Dublin; Cordelia, a teacher in the city schools of Chicago; and Lou, wife of George Coleman, a member of the faculty of Cornell University at Ithaca, New York.

Doctor Smith grew up on the home farm in Ohio, attended public schools and in 1896 was graduated from Ohio Northern University at Ada. He had taught a year in Franklin County, and in June, 1896, came to Indiana and taught four years in schools around Decatur, part of the time as principal of the Pleasant Mills School. Later he entered the medical department of Ohio State University at Columbus and was graduated M. D. in 1906. He returned to practice medicine at Decatur, where he had established some pleasant while engaged in educational work. He is a member of the Adams County, Indiana State and American Medical Associations, belongs to the Decatur Industrial Association, the Modern Woodmen of America, and is a Republican in politics.

Doctor Smith married, at Decatur, Miss Martha Cline, who was born in Union Township, Adams County, October 13, 1870. She attended school at Decatur and is also a graduate of Ohio Northern University at Ada. Her father, George Cline, was born March 26, 1842, and is now a retired farmer at Decatur. He married Lavina Luckey, of Decatur, of a family that were pioneers of Adams County. Mrs. Smith has one brother, Jacob D. Cline, who was born May 21, 1881, and is now principal of schools at Warsaw, Indiana. He married Daisy Cline, of the same family name, and they have a son, Eldred Cline, born April 3, 1905, now practicing dentistry at Fort Wayne.

Doctor and Mrs. Smith have three children, Lucile O., Genevieve I. and Lowell C. Lucile, who was born March 30, 1897, is the wife of Edison Eicher, a pharmacist at Rocky River, Ohio, and has three children, named Martha, Amogene and Waldo. Genevieve, born September 12, 1900, married Danilo Santini, an electrical engineer representing the Westinghouse Company of Pittsburgh in Argentine, South America. Mr. and Mrs. Santini have two children, Danilo and Emanan. Lowell Cline Smith was born September 3, 1905, was educated in the public schools at Decatur, and took his A. B. and M. D. degrees at the Ohio State University, where he was graduated in medicine in August, 1926, and is now located at the Henry Ford Hospital at Detroit, Michigan. He married Neva Graber, of Decatur, and has a son, Waldo Lowell Smith, born August 4,1927.

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

His father, William R. Flack, was a native of Warrick County, Indiana, and since 1888 has been an industrious and substantial farmer near Oakland City. His father, David Flack, was born in England and come to the United States when he was twelve years old. He served in the Civil war. William R. Flack married Amy Steele, who was born in Gibson County. Her father, James M. Steele, was a pioneer farmer there and also served in the Union army during the war. His six brothers all served in the Civil war.

Doctor Flack is the third in a family of five children, all of whom are living. During his boyhood he was trained to the work and duties of the home farm, at the same time attending the grade and high schools at Oakland City. Leaving Indiana, he went to Montana and worked in a retail shoe store for a short time. Returning, he took up the study of dentistry, and during the World war joined the colors and was assigned to Company E of the Three Hundred Thirty-fifth Infantry, in training at Camp Taylor, Kentucky. It was at Louisville that he attended dental college, the dental department of the University of Louisville. He acquitted himself well in his studies and work, was graduated in 1919, and during the following two years practiced at Osage City in Osage County, Kansas. Doctor Flack from 1921 to 1923 had charge of the dental work at the Indiana State Hospital at Logansport. Since the fall of 1923 he has been enjoying a very busy practice at Mishawaka. He has well equipped office and laboratory in the Major-Laing Building. Doctor Flack stands high in his profession and is now president of the Thirteenth District of the Indiana State Dental Association.

He is a member of the Mishawaka Board of Safety, is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity, Mishawaka Fellowship Club, Lions Club and the First Methodist Episcopal Church.

He married at Logansport, Indiana, August 29, 1924, Miss Ellen Moroney, daughter of Mr. Matthew Moroney, of Logansport. Mrs. Flack attended Valparaiso University and was a teacher in the schools of her native County of Cass. She is a member of the Catholic Church. Doctor and Mrs. Flack have one daughter, Mary Ellen, born May 27, 1928.

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

FRANCIS XAVIER GARTLAND, prominent in industrial circles in Indiana, is president and general manager of the Atlas Foundry.

He is a son of Mathew Francis Gartland, who has probably had more to do with the Gray Iron Foundries in the Middle West than any other individual. Born in Naugatuck, Connecticut, March 13, 1857, he spent his early manhood in Ohio, at first at Cleveland and later in Springfield, where he engaged in business for himself as a grocery merchant. He left the grocery store to work in a malleable iron works, and that gave him his practical knowledge of the industry in which his genius as an industrialist has been most pronounced. In 1889 he moved to Marion, Indiana, becoming foreman in the core and cleaning room of the local foundry. He soon displayed his organizing ability, and during the past forty years has been the promoter and organizer of one of the largest chains of Gray Iron Foundries in the Middle West. In 1898 he and two associates started the Atlas Foundry at Marion. In 1926 the Atlas Company merged with the Marion Gray Iron Foundry, and the business of the two plants has since been operated by the Atlas Foundry Company. Mathew Francis Gartland a number of years ago became interested in the Gartland Foundry at Terre Haute, in 1900 he was one of the organizers of the Gray Iron Foundry at Kankakee, Illinois, the Gartland-Toledo Foundry at Toledo, Ohio, was established in 1913, the Gartland-Carroll Foundry at Sandusky, Ohio, in 1915 and in 1917 the Gartland-Haswell Foundry at Sidney, Indiana. About that time Mathew Francis Gartland became interested in the McCarthy Foundry at Chicago. He is a director .in the Dayton Malleable Iron Works at Dayton.

Mr. Gartland married Catherine Hyde, who was born in 1861 at Springfield, Ohio, daughter of James and Mary Hyde. She died at Marion February 27, 1927, and is buried in the I. O. O. F. Cemetery at that city. Both the Hyde and Gartland families came originally from Ireland. Mathew F. Gartland and wife had four sons and one daughter. The oldest son, James P., died at Marion in 1886; Ralph J. died in 1915; the daughter, Mary, died in 1912, at the age of nineteen, and these three children are buried in the I. O. O. F. Cemetery. The two living sons are Leo M. and Francis X. Leo was born at Marion October 16, 1895, and is now treasurer of the Atlas Foundry Company.

Francis Xavier Gartland was born at Springfield, Ohio, April 30, 1888, was a year old when his parents established their home in Marion. His early education was obtained from the grade schools and in 1905 he entered Saint Joseph's College at Rensselaer, Indiana. From there he went Saint Mary's College at Saint Marys, Kansas, in 1907.

On leaving college his father put him to work in the Marion Gray Iron Foundry as a coremaker at $4.50 a week. His father desired that his son master the business, and with that in view he transferred him from one department to the other until he had mastered all the technical processes. In that way he held successively the jobs of coremaker, moulder, straw boss and foreman. In 1913 he was transferred to the business offices as bookkeeper, in 1916 was elected vice president and since 1926 has been president of the two plants at Marion and is also officially identified with the Gartland-Haswell Foundry at Sidney, the Gartland-Toledo Foundry at Toledo and the Peru Foundry at Peru, Indiana.

Mr. Gartland is a director of the First National Bank of Marion. He is a member of the Knights of Columbus, the B. P. O. Elks, attends the Catholic Church and is a Republican and a member of the Country Club.

He married, June 14, 1911, Miss Anna Morrow, of Marion, daughter of James and Nora Morrow. She was graduated from the Marion High School in 1906. They have six children: Mary Lucile, born at Marion July 8, 1912, and Eleanor Ann, born March 7,1914, have been educated in the parochial schools at Marion and in Saint Mary's Academy at Notre Dame; Francis Xavier, Jr., born November 1, 1917, at Marion, is a student in St. Paul’s Parochial School; James Mathews, born May 16, 1919, also in school; Joan, born October 24, 1925; and John Patrick, born November 28, 1928.

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

CARL V. DAVISSON, M. D., specialist in in ternal medicine, with offices in the Lafayette Life Building at Lafayette, is a native of Tippecanoe County and member of a well known and substantial family of this section of Indiana, where they have lived for nearly a century.

The Davisson family came from Scotland, being represented by several brothers who settled in Virginia. One of these brothers left Virginia, moved to Ohio and changed the spelling of the family name Davidson to Davisson, a spelling that has been followed by his descendants. This ancestor was the great-great-grandfather of Doctor Davisson. It was a son in the next generation who moved to Tippecanoe County, during the 1830s. A son of that pioneer was David J. Davisson, who was born in Jackson Township, Tippecanoe County, was a well-to-do farmer, a justice of the peace and a minister of the Gospel. He married Miss Shephard. They were the parents of William C. Davisson, who was born in Jackson Township, was a farmer and county commissioner. He married Samantha Arnett, an aunt of Dr A. G Arnett of Lafayette.

Dr. Carl V. Davisson, one of a family of nine children, was born in Jackson Township, January 31,1881, and grew up in that rural locality. He was educated in grade and high schools and studied in the Indianapolis Medical College, now the medical department of Indiana University. He was graduated M. D. in 1908 and for two years had the experience and training of an interne in St. Elizabeth Hospital at Lafayette. He has been engaged in a successful practice since 1910 and was located in West Lafayette until 1923, when he moved to his present offices. Doctor Davisson since 1919 has been secretary of the Saint Elizabeth Hospital staff and is also is a member of the staff of the Home Hospital. He served four years as county health officer of Tippecanoe County, from 1926 to 1930, and in 1930 was reappointed for another term of four years. He is a member of the Tippecanoe County, Indiana State and American Medical Associations.

Doctor Davisson did work as medical member of the local draft board in the early part of the war, and in June, 1918, he enlisted for active service, being commissioned a first lieutenant in the Medical Corps. He was sent for duty to the camp at Hattiesburg, Mississippi, and later to the base hospital at Camp McArthur, Waco, Texas, and from was transferred to Base Hospital No. 32 at Chicago, in March, 1919. He was discharged from the service in June, 1919. Since the war Doctor Davisson has given particular attention to practice along the line of internal medicine. He is a member of the American Legion, the Kiwanis Club, and is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity, Knights of Pythias and B. P. O. Elks. He married Miss Ida Margaret Bals, of Lafayette, daughter of Frederick and Katherine Bals. Her father was a business man and building contractor.

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

JOHN S. MORRISON, of La Fayette, has long been prominent in the medical profession of Indiana, having been engaged in practice in La Fayette for more than thirty years following the Spanish-American war and Philippines insurrection, in which he served gallantly as a surgeon in the fever-ridden marshes of the archipelago. A leader in patriotic work and community affairs, he found time during the World war to devote many months to special service, his previous army experience having made him particularly valuable in this field.

Born in St. Louis, Missouri, May 16, 1869, he is a son of John Morrison, native of Stirling, Scotland, whose father, John Morrison, Sr., for a number of years had charge of the Drummond Nursery Company's interests in Scotland, England, France and other European countries. Both father and grandfather had large responsibilities in the florist and nursery business. In 1864 John Morrison, Sr., sent his son, John, Jr., to the United States to represent the Drummond Company in this country.

He lived at Indianapolis until 1867, when he was transferred to headquarters at St. Louis to take charge of Drummond developments in that section. He acquired a master's knowledge of the nursery business in America. In 1887 he went to Cheyenne, Wyoming, and was engaged in the florist business there until his death. He married Martha Falloon, a native of Belfast, Ireland, and Doctor Morrison is one of their seven children.

Doctor Morrison attended the grade and high schools of Cheyenne and studied medicine at the University of Cincinnati, at Cincinnati, Ohio. He was graduated in 1897. Soon after coming out of medical college he was appointed a surgeon in the First Wyoming Infantry Regiment and went with this regiment to the Philippines in 1898, holding the rank of first lieutenant. He served during the Spanish-American war and the insurrection that followed, having been in active service for a year and a half and spending a year in the Philippines.

In September, 1899, he returned home and soon afterward took up his residence in La Fayette, Indiana, where his abilities have ever since been at the command of a large general practice. In recent years much of his practice has been devoted to children's diseases, in which field he has had outstanding success. In public life he has served his community well, as coroner of Tippecanoe County and a member of the board of pension examiners.

During the World war he sought the opportunity of active duty again with the Army Medical Corps. From October, 1917, to February, 1918, he was acting post surgeon at an army camp, secretary of the medical advisory board and the volunteer medical service. He rendered the most valuable assistance to those in charge of war activities with whom he came in contact.

Doctor Morrison married Caroline Blackstock, member of one of the oldest and best known pioneer families of Tippecanoe County, her people having settled there as early as 1843. Doctor and Mrs. Morrison have one daughter, Mary Ruth, a graduate of Tudor Hall, Indianapolis, and now the wife of Winston H. Robbins, of La Fayette. They also have one granddaughter, Patricia Robbins.

Doctor Morrison is a member of the American Medical, Indiana State and Tippecanoe County Medical Associations and has served as president and secretary of the county organization. He is on the staff of Saint Elizabeth and Home Hospitals at La Fayette, is a member of La Fayette lodge No. 492, A. F. and A. M., also a Rotarian, a member of the United Spanish War Veterans, American Legion and the Tippecanoe County Historical Association.

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