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Since the days of his youth Mr. Akin has been an active worker in the ranks of the Democratic party, and during the campaigns from 1882 to 1890 was a member of the county committee. In municipal affairs, also, he has been vitally interested, having served on the school board and as a
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member of various organizations for the betterment of the community. He is a member of the Com- mercial Club of Carlisle-and has taken an active part in the work of the Masonic order since the year 1872.
Mr. Akin is known as a successful agriculturist and breeder of live stock, and is also largely in- terested in general merchandising. On December 18, 1890, he was united in marriage to Miss M. C. Brace.
JOSHUA H. ALLEN
Among the younger workers in the ranks of Wayne county Democracy, few are more enthusiastic or more loyal to the interests of the party than Joshua H. Allen, a leading attorney of Richmond.
Mr. Allen was born in Wayne county, Indiana, on the 31st day of January, 1882. He attended the common schools of his district and continued his studies in the high school of Hagerstown, from which he graduated with the class of 1900. A course in law was pursued at the University of Indi- ana Law School in Indianapolis, his graduation from this institution occurring in 1905. In the same year he was admitted to the bar of Wayne county and entered into the active practice of his pro- fession at Hagerstown. Here he remained until the year 1912, at which time he located in Rich- mond, his present home. From the 22nd day of August, 1912, to January 1, 1913, he served as pros- ecuting attorney of Wayne county, by appointment of the governor, and to this work his abilities and energies were conscientiously applied.
He is affiliated with the order of Knights of Pythias and is an active and enthusiastic worker in this organization.
Mr. Allen has been a stanch adherent to Democratic principles, and during the various campaigns through which he has passed his time and energies have been devoted without stint to the service of the party.
GEORGE ARTHUR ALLISON
Our present subject is a native of the state of Indiana, his birth having occurred on the 24th day of March, 1876, in Nashville, Brown county, where he still resides. His education was obtained in the common schools of Nashville. His father, Alonzo Allison, has for more than twenty years been the editor of the Brown County Democrat, and from him the son imbibed the principles of Democracy. His father taught him the printer's trade, and he has since proved an able assistant in the office of the Democrat.
When but thirteen years of age George Arthur Allison was page in the Indiana state senate. On the 4th day of January, 1907, he was married to Miss Helen Adams, and to them has been born one child.
Mr. Allison is a member of the Methodist church and is descended from a long line of Demo- cratic ancestors.
GEORGE RUST ALSOP, M. D.
Dr. George Rust Alsop, a well-known banker of Vincennes, is a native of the state of Virginia, born on the 19th day of December, 1851. He attended private schools in Rappahannock and Spot- sylvania counties, Virginia, and in 1873 entered the Indiana Medical College of Indianapolis. His studies in medical science were continued in 1874 and 1875 in the University of Louisville, and after his graduation from this institution he located in Knox county, where his interests have since centered. In April, 1878, he assumed the duties of township trustee and in this capacity served until 1882. Two years later he became clerk of the circuit court of Knox county, and in this position remained four years.
In the year 1888 he was instrumental in organizing the German National Bank of Vincennes, and since that date has been cashier and president of this institution.
Mrs. Alsop, to whom he was married April 20, 1875, was formerly Miss Nancy Jane McClel- land.
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T. WAYNE ANGLIN
The name of T. Wayne Anglin is familiar to the citizens of Kosciusko county as that of a leading attorney of the city of Warsaw.
Mr. Anglin was born in Kosciusko county on the 14th day of January, 1874, and received his schooling in the public schools of the county. Later, however, his studies were continued at North Manchester College and at Valparaiso Normal Institute. He taught in the public schools of the county four years, and finally took a course in law at the Indiana University Law School at Indianapolis, his graduation from this institution occurring in the year 1899. The same year he was admitted to the bar of Kosciusko county and entered into the active practice of his profession. His qualifications for success in his chosen work were marked, and in the year 1906 he was elected prosecuting attorney of the 54th judicial circuit for a term of two years; and again in 1912 he was re-elected to the same position (being the only Democrat elected on the county ticket that year), serving with great credit to himself and his constituents.
On the 25th day of December, 1902, his marriage to Miss Pearl V. Lehman was solemnized, and her companionship has since been of great worth to him in his career.
EDWARD AUGUST AUBRY
Edward August Aubry has served as city comptroller of Hammond, has been identified with Lake county in various capacities for a number of years, and always has enjoyed a reputation for integ- rity and good service in whatever relation he has sustained, either to private business or public affairs. He was born at Canton, Ohio, December 24, 1871, a son of August and Mary Aubry. His parents were substantial farming people. In 1890 the family moved to White county, Indiana. After a public school education, which was finished while he lived in Ohio, Mr. Aubry followed various lines of work until August, 1895. He then entered Valparaiso University, where he spent one year in the department of pharmacy, and graduated in 1897. His home has been in Lake coun- ty since 1902. After coming to Indiana he worked for two years in the drug business, taught school from 1892 to 1896 and again from 1898 until 1902, and in the latter year once more entered the drug business as a pharmacist. In 1903 he became a clerk for the railway company at Chicago Junction, and in 1905 went with the Indiana Harbor R. R. at Calumet Park, remaining until March 9, 1911. On the latter date Mayor Smalley appointed Mr. Aubry city comptroller, and in 1914 he was again confirmed in this position. During 1913 Mr. Aubry, as a side-line, built the Aubry thea- tre at 253 Hohman street. This is one of the small but handsome and well-equipped places of amuse- ment of the city, seating 300 persons.
Mr. Aubry married Miss Mary Paschall of Rochester, Ind., a daughter of Rachel and Henry Paschall, a farmer. Mr. and Mrs. Aubry are members of All Saints church. Since 1898 he has been affiliated with the Knights of Maccabee, belongs to the Knights of Columbus and is an active member of the Hammond Chamber of Commerce.
JUDGE H. CLARENCE AUSTILL
Holding a position in the front rank of the legal profession of Madison county and having spent many years in the service of the commonwealth, Judge H. Clarence Austill has fairly won the high reputation which he holds throughout the county of Madison and in the legal profession of the state.
Judge Austill is a native of this state, born in 1876. He attended the public schools of Elwood and continued his studies in the legal department of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. Fol- lowing his graduation from that institution in the year 1898, he was admitted to the bar of Madison county and entered into the active practice of his profession. In the following year his marriage to Miss Gloy L. Anderson was solemnized, and the home then established by them has extended hos- pitality to many friends throughout the county.
In the year 1898, soon after his admission to the bar, Judge Austill was appointed deputy prose- cuting attorney, a position he occupied for two years. Four years later he was elected city attorney of Elwood. He has also served as judge of the superior court and in all these positions of trust he established a reputation for conscientious service.
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LEONARD MORGAN BANE
Leonard Morgan Bane is a prominent young attorney of Ft. Wayne, who, though he has practiced but six years in this city, has won for himself a place in the front rank of the legal profession of the community and is permitted to practice in the various state courts and the United States circuit court for his district.
He is a native of the State of Pennsylvania, his birth having occurred on the 8th day of November, 1880. There his childhood was spent, and he attended the common schools of his locality, later graduating from Madison Academy at Uniontown, Pa. The ensuing six years were spent as a teacher in the common schools of that State, and at the close of his period he entered the university at Valparaiso, Ind., for the purpose of studying law. After his graduation from this institution he located in the city of Fort Wayne, and here his practice has been built up and his interests centered.
He has proved an active citizen, zealous in his support of the various movements which have risen for the betterment of the community, physically and morally, and at all times a loyal worker for the best interests of the Democratic party. In the year 1914 he was candidate for the nomina- tion for state senator from Allen county.
Mr. Bane is an attendant of the Christian church and an active member of the Ft. Wayne Commercial Club, and is affiliated with the Order of Moose, the Knights of Pythias and the Buffalos.
Mr. Bane is unmarried, but is well known socially in the city and has among his many ac- quaintances a large circle of friends.
ELMORE BARCE
Elmore Barce was born in Will county, Illinois, on the 5th day of De- cember, 1872, and his parents, Lyman M. Barce and Rebecca F. Barce, were of the old Puritan stock of Massachusetts. The grandfather came west in the year 1857 and settled on the prairies of Illinois, having lost four sons who were followers of the sea. Two of his remaining boys entered the Union army in the 100th Illinois Volunteer Infantry at the outbreak of the Civil war.
The father of the subject of this sketch came to Benton county in the spring of 1875, settling on the prairies north of the present town of Fowler. He was a tiller of the soil, an honored and respected man in his community and became trustee of Union township.
Elmore Barce received a common school education and later graduated from the high school in Goodland. After some apprenticeship served in a law office, and after teaching in the public schools of Newton and Benton counties for six years and being editor of the Fowler Republican for three years, he entered the practice of law, in the fall of 1903, at Fowler, where he has resided ever since.
About eight years ago he entered the Democratic ranks and was later selected as chairman of the Democratic party of Benton county.
Mr. Barce is a Mason, a Knight of Pythias, a member of the Indiana Historical Society and the American Historical Association, and is a contributor at times to the Indiana Magazine of His- tory. He is married and resides at Fowler. His only son, Joseph Edward Barce, is now in Culver Military Academy.
JOSEPH K. BARCLAY
Descended from a long line of Democratic ancestors and being the nephew of nine illustrious Democratic uncles, Joseph K. Barclay has maintained the traditions of the family and is recognized as a leader in the Democracy of the state. He was born in Vernon, Indiana, on the 18th day of Sep- tember, 1883, and received his schooling in the city of Bloomington. Following his graduation from the high school he entered Indiana University for continued study, taking a four years' course and graduating in 1905. The following year he entered the University of Minnesota, but in 1908 re- turned to Indiana University for a course in law and was admitted to the bar in the year following. Immediately thereafter he engaged in active practice in Bloomington, and at once evinced marked ability and zeal in his work. In the year 1912 he was elected prosecuting attorney for Monroe county, running six hundred votes ahead of his ticket and carrying the county by nearly thirteen hundred votes.
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Mr. Barclay has ever been active in the service of the party, and was secretary of the county com- inittee in 1908 and 1910, and chairman of that body in 1912. During his college days he was a noted athlete and champion mile runner for the Chicago and Philadelphia clubs.
On September 17, 1913, Mr. Barclay was united in marriage to Miss Eleanor Bowles.
FRED BARNETT
Mr. Barnett has served with credit as city judge of Hammond. He is one of the most active workers, not only in the ranks of the Democratic party, but in municipal affairs as well. He was born in Hallsville, Dewitt county, Illinois, March 19, 1881. His legal education was received at the Illinois College of Law of Chicago, from which he graduated in the year 1907. On the 29th day of October, of the same year, was solemnized his marriage to Miss Edna Mckinney, and their home was established in Hammond. In 1909 he was elected city judge of Hammond for a four-year term, and at the expiration of this period was re-elected, his present term to expire with the close of 1917. He is an active member of the chamber of commerce and is affiliated with the Modern Woodmen of America, Free and Accepted Masons, Chapter, Knights Templar and the Mystic Shrine. Is a member of the Christian church.
COLONEL JOHN T. BARNETT
Col. John T. Barnett, while born in Hendricks county, is really claimed by Marion county on account of his residence and various business interests in Indianapolis. The colonel was the first man in Hendricks county to graduate from the United States Military Academy at West Point, N. Y .; the second to command a regiment in a war, and the only Demo- cratic colonel in the Spanish-American war from the State of Indiana. He has had a long and varied career in the serv- ice of his country, and since his retirement, on account of physical disability, he has been no less active in civil life.
The colonel was born three miles west of Danville, Sep- tember 2, 1851, on the farm which his father, William Bar- nett, entered from the Government. His parents were Wil- liam and Nancy (Buchanan) Barnett, his father a native of Virginia and his mother a direct descendant of George Bu- chanan, the eminent Scottish scholar, historian and poet. His father lived to the age of 71 and his mother 79.
Colonel Barnett received his early education in the dis- trict schools of his township and the old Danville Academy. After teaching school a year he entered Asbury (now De- Pauw) University in 1871, completing the freshman year with the class of 1875. Receiving an appointment to the U. S. Military Academy at West Point, N. Y., upon the recommendation of Gen. John Coburn, then Congressman, he entered the academy June, 1873, graduating in June, 1878, number fourteen in his class, standing especially high in mathematics and allied subjects. Colonel Barnett was obliged to remain out of the academy for one year on account of severe illness from typhoid fever. He was assigned to 5th U. S. Cavalry as 2nd lieutenant.
After the customary graduating leave of absence he joined the 5th U. S. Cavalry, October 1st, 1878, at Fort D. A. Russell, near Cheyenne, Wyo. He was in active service during the next eight years and served at various posts and on detached duty in Wyoming and Texas.
In 1886 he was compelled to retire from active service on account of disability incurred in the line of duty, and is now on the retired list of the U. S. Army.
After his retirement he settled in Danville, and in 1893 removed to Indianapolis. His health having somewhat improved, he moved to Piqua, Ohio, in the spring of 1894; and, engaging in the hardware business, became the principal owner, president and manager of the Barnett Hardware Co. at Piqua, remaining as such until 1899, when he disposed of this business and returned to In- dianapolis, where he has since resided. Upon his return to Indianapolis he engaged in the pharma-
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ceutical business until a return of his old disease caused him to give it up. Improving again in health, he engaged in his present real estate, loan and insurance business at 50 North Delaware street, Indianapolis.
In 1893 he was appointed by Governor Matthews assistant inspector-general of the Indiana Na- tional Guard, with the rank of major, which position he held until 1894, resigning on account of absence from the state.
At the beginning of the Spanish-American War, Colonel Barnett offered his services to the Secretary of War and the Governors of Indiana and Ohio. The Governor of Indiana gladly availed himself of his valuable services, appointing him colonel and commander of the 159th Indiana Volun- teer Infantry in May, 1898, and he at once took his regiment to Camp Alger, Va. The regiment was stationed at Camp Alger, Va., Thoroughfare Gap, Va., Camp Meade, Pa., and was mustered out of service at Camp Mount, Indianapolis, about the middle of November, 1898. While at Camp Al- ger, Colonel Barnett commanded the 2nd Division of the Second Army Corps for a short time and his brigade for about half of the time he was in the service.
On December 18, 1879, Colonel Barnett married Emma Charlotte Piersol, the only daughter of Isaac and Elizabeth Piersol, a prominent family of Hendricks county, Isaac Piersol being a suc- cessful merchant and banker of Danville, Indiana. To Colonel and Emma C. Barnett two children were born, Wm. P., who died at birth, and Chester P., born January 14, 1887. Emma C. Barnett died in May, 1892, and the following year Colonel Barnett married Cora B. Campbell, daughter of L. M. Campbell, a prominent lawyer of Danville, Indiana.
Chester P. Barnett, son and only child of the colonel, is following in the footsteps of his father, having graduated at the U. S. Military Academy at West Point, N. Y., and is now a 2nd lieutenant in the 15th U. S. Cavalry, stationed at Fort Bliss, El Paso, Texas. Chester commanded a battalion, with the rank of major, in the 1st Indiana National Guard in the border warfare with Mexico. He has an estate of some sixty thousand dollars in Hendricks county. He was married in 1911 to Kath- erine Davis Brown, granddaughter of ex-Senator Henry Gassaway Davis of West Virginia. To their union a son, Davis Piersol Barnett, was born in February, 1913.
Colonel Barnett was a member of the Sigma Chi Greek letter fraternity while in DePauw Uni- versity, and was president of the Alumni Chapter at Indianapolis, for one year. He is a member of the Sons of Revolution and served as its president and has been on the board of managers since 1899; has belonged to the Masonic fraternity since he was 21 years of age. As a member of the cham- ber of commerce he is chairman of its military committee. He is a member of the Military Order of Foreign Wars, Spanish War Veterans and Spanish War Camp, of all of which he has been the com- mander. In politics the colonel has always been identified with the Democratic party and is a member of the Democratic club. He is a member of the Central Christian church. Colonel Barnett leads a very busy life and useful career and has made a name for himself in his profession.
HENRY A. BARNHART
Henry A. Barnhart, Democrat, of Rochester, was born at Twelve Mile, Ind., September 11, 1858, the son of a German Baptist minister, and his family consists of two sons, Deal L. Barnhart, editor and publisher of the Rochester Sentinel; Lieut. Hugh A. Barnhart, of the Regular Army; and a foster daughter, the wife of Attorney Henry Stewart Bailey, of Peru, Mrs. Barnhart having died in 1916. After finishing his education he taught school several years, was then elected surveyor of Fulton county, and a year later, in 1886, purchased the Rochester Sentinel, of which he is still owner. He has been president of the Rochester Telephone Company since its or- ganization in 1895; president of the National Independent Telephone As- sociation; director of the Indiana Bank and Trust Company; director of the Indiana State Prison; trustee of the Northern Hospital for the Insane; president of both the Democratic and the Northern Indiana Editorial Asso- ciations; and was long a member of the Democratic State Central Com- mittee and executive committee thereof. He was elected in 1908 to fill a vacancy in the Sixtieth Congress, caused by the death of Hon. A. L. Brick, and was re-elected to the Sixty-first, Sixty-second, Sixty-third, Sixty-fourth and Sixty-fifth Congresses, and for six years of this service was chairman of the Committee on Printing and always active in progressive legislative endeavor. He never had opposition for any of his seven nominations for Congress and was defeated
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in his party disaster in 1918, although he ran considerably ahead of his party ticket in the district which has always been largely Republican. In addition to his newspaper, telephone and political activities, Mr. Barnhart has always been interested in farming and is the owner of a farm near Rochester to which he gives a good deal of his time and attention. He is a member of the Baptist church and of the orders of Knights of Pythias and Knights of the Maccabees, for the latter of which he was long a member of the state board of auditors. He has always been active in public affairs and constantly an advocate for better conditions in the public service and better possibilities for the people generally.
H. S. K. BARTHOLOMEW
H. S. K. Bartholomew was born in Elkhart county, October 8, 1862. He attended the district schools until he was sixteen. He also attended Middlebury high school two winters and three terms of ten weeks each at Valparaiso normal school, after which he taught school several terms.
From 1887 to 1899 he engaged in farming and from August, 1899, to March, 1901, was a member of the editorial staff of the South Bend Times. From March, 1901, to June, 1904, he was the owner and editor of the Warsaw Union, Warsaw, Ind. From September, 1905, he served about six years on the staff of the Goshen Democrat. At the present time he is engaged in farming.
For twelve years Mr. Bartholomew has been president of the Elkhart Historical Society.
JUDGE PLINY WEBSTER BARTHOLOMEW
For more than a score of years the name of Pliny W. Bartholomew has been a familiar one to the citizens of Indianapolis, and his reputation as a jurist and judge is so firmly established that no introduction is needed.
He is a native of the State of Massachusetts, his birth having occurred in that State on the 4th day of August, 1840. In 1864 he lived in Saratoga county, New York. His education was received in the schools of the East, and he attended Union College, Schenectady, N. Y., where he graduated, receiving the degrees of A. B. and A. M.
In the year 1866 he came to Indianapolis, and on the 30th day of January, 1873, he was united in marriage to Miss Sarah Belle Smith of Crawfordsville, Ind. Since 1866 he has engaged in the practice of law, and so successful has he been that in the year 1890 he was elected judge of the superior court, a position which he held until October 26, 1896. In November, 1908, he was again elected judge of the superior court, and served in this capacity until December, 1914. He is an elder in Memorial Presbyterian church, past grand representative and past chancellor of Marion Lodge No. 1, Knights of Pythias; on the committee of education in the Indianapolis Cham- ber of Commerce; a member of the American and Indiana State Bar associations, Indiana Demo- cratic Club; past grand dictator and grand treasurer of the Knights of Honor.
FRED E. BARRETT
It was not until Fred E. Barrett of Indianapolis began his work of obtaining state-wide recog- nition for the Indiana Democratic Club that he became known in the circles of Democracy, but it was only a short time thereafter until he had fought his way to the position of Democratic county chair- man. And the future holds much in store for Mr. Barrett and for Democracy in Indiana, for Mr. Barrett is one of the aggressive young Democrats of the state.
Fred Barrett got his first peep at the world in Greenfield, Ind., on January 12, 1882. His life was that of the average boy of the small city, but he had determined to become an attorney, and it was with this determination that he fought his way through school. As is the result of such am- bition and endeavor in most instances, Mr. Barrett was successful, and success has continued to shine upon him in his private law practice in Indianapolis.
Probably the most distinctive work for which Mr. Barrett has become known is his work with the Indiana Democratic Club. Until his election to the presidency the club had not obtained general recognition as a state-wide organization and Indiana Democracy suffered to this extent in its fight with the opponents of the great cause. But Mr. Barrett went to work, gave his time, his study and his effort to the club and concluded an administration as president which started the club forward.
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