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He left photography to engage in the commission business, his location being where the W. H. Blocks store now stands. He prospered as a commission man, and in 1882 bought the Udell Works. Since then he has given his chief attention to this fac- tory for the manufacture of furniture and specialties. The Udell Works had had a varied experience and had made many fail- ures, but Mr. Barnes was more than equal to the task of establishing it as one of the most substantial plants in the industries of the capital city.
His business energy and resources have been helpful in many of the institutions of the city. When the Union Trust Company was organized about a quarter of a century ago he became one of its directors and has been on the board ever since. In 1901 he was one of the purchasers of the old State Bank and assisted in organizing the Colum- bia Bank, of which he became vice presi- deut. He also took the lead in the reestab- lishment of Franklin College, now one of the leading educational institutions of In- diana. He was also vice president of the Claypool Hotel and assisted in building it. Mr. Barnes was converted in 1866 and joined the First Baptist Church. He has filled all the official positions in the church and is now both deacon and trustee. In 1916 he and his wife rounded out fifty years of continuous membership in the or- ganization. At the age of twenty-one Mr. Barnes cast his first vote for a republican president, and his record is one of unwav- ering fidelity to that party in all the sub- sequent years. He was deprived of the consolation and companionship of his good wife February 28, 1917. They had two children : Lena V., who died at the age of four and a half years; and Nellie E., who died when fifteen.
As this brief outline of facts shows Mr. Barnes has had a varied business experi- ence. The variety of the occupations in which he engaged in early life no doubt
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disciplined his mind and judgment and fortified his courage in assuming responsi- bilities and new ventures which were en- tirely unrelated to his previous lines of activity. He acquired the faculty of judg- ing things not from the estimate of others but through his own mind. His business associates long since learned that before undertaking an enterprise he gave it care- ful investigation and then decided firmly and unequivocally. When he bought the Udell Works at anction it had several times brought disaster to the previous owners and he was warned by men of sound judg- ment that it would prove unprofitable to him. He had the courage to do and dare, and results have justified his decision. His influence has always been on the side of morality and brotherly helpfulness. His purse has been opened to the needy in- dividual and also to the worthy public in- stitutions. At the organization of the Y. M. C. A. he was president of the Board of Trustees and chairman of the building com- mittee, and raised $140,000 in six days. His membership of fifty years with the First Baptist Church of Indianapolis and the long sustained and sweet companionship with the wife of his youth are among his fondest recollections. When the shadows of his life are gathering his consolation is the thought of having lived a well spent career, attached to which is no suggestion of taint or dishonor. The world is the bet- ter for the life of such a man as Albert A. Barnes.
REV. CHARLES R. ADAMS was born in Switzerland County, Indiana, January 5, 1874, a son of Thomas Leonard and Eliza- beth Harris Adams. After completing a thorough educational training the son taught in high school for two years, but his real life work has been the ministry, and since 1911 he has been the pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Cham- paign, Illinois. He has also identified him- self with ministerial affairs and has served as moderator of the Synod of North Da- ยท kota, 1910-1911, college visitor under com- mittee of General Assembly, 1910-12, and member of the Social Service Commission of the General Assembly, 1917.
The Reverend Adams married Annie Oldfather, a daughter of the Rev. Jeremiah M. Oldfather, for eighteen years mission- ary in Urumiah, Persia, where the daugh-
ter was born. Reverend and Mrs. Adams have four children, John Maxwell, Helen Miriam, Philip Rice, and Dorothy.
FRED ETHELL MUSTARD is cashier of the Citizens Bank of Anderson. Since he at- tained his majority this bank has been the center around which his activities and in- terests have revolved, and to the bank have gone in increasing numbers with passing years people who have learned to respect his judgment, admire his integrity, and re- pose important business trusts with him. Naturally he has acquired other interests than banking, and is officially identified with several of the large industrial and business concerns which made the name An- derson familiar throughout the country.
Fred Ethell Mustard was born at Ander- son November 15, 1873, son of Daniel F. and Adda (Ethell) Mustard. At the time of his birth his father enjoyed a fine posi- tion of esteem in the community, and he spent his boyhood days in a home marked by reasonable comfort and advantage. He was given the opportunities of the local public schools, and spent a year in two of the best known and most exclusive prepar- atory schools of New England, the Exeter and the Phillips Andover Academies.
On completing his education Mr. Mus- tard returned home in 1894, and at that time took his place as a clerk in the Citi- zens Bank. He was promoted to assistant cashier, and on January 1, 1917, hecame cashier. The Citizens Bank of Anderson is an institution that has been practically under one management now for over thirty years. It has a capital stock of $100,000, surplus of $40,000, and its deposits in the fall of 1917 were $1,460,000.
The other active business interests of Fred E. Mustard are as secretary and treasurer of the Pierce Governor Company, an Anderson industry manufacturing gov- ernors for gasoline engines, the output of the factory being shipped to all parts of the world. Mr. Mustard was one of the organizers of this business. He is secre- tary and treasurer of the F. C. Cline Lum- ber Company, and was also one of the or- ganizers and first directors of this large business.
Mr. Mustard has given allegiance to the same political party as his father. In 1914 he was appointed president of the Ander- son Metropolitan Police Force. He is ac-
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tive in the Anderson Lodge of Elks, the Anderson Country Club, and he and his family have an enviable social position in that city. In 1899 he married Nelda Dick- son, of Indianapolis, daughter of J. B. and Emma (Butsch) Dickson. Mr. and Mrs. Mustard have one daughter, Janet Dick- son, who was born in 1900 and is now a student in Dana Hall, Wellesley, Massa- chusetts.
FREDERICK W. HEATH. Every commun- ity and county has its outstanding names, representing families of early residence, of substantial activities and character, and of that element in Delaware County undoubt- edly one of those best known is the Heath family.
When Delaware County was still with few exceptions a vast tract of government land, Ralph Heath entered a homestead in 1829 in Salem Township west of Muncie. Ralph Heath was a native of Guilford County, North Carolina. His grandfather with two brothers had come from London and settled in Maryland. In that colony Jacob Heath, father of Ralph, was born and reared and then moved to North Car- olina. Ralph Heath married in North Car- olina Mary Tomlinson. With the adven- turous spirit of the true pioneers this cou- ple brought their children to Indiana, making the overland journey with wagons and arriving in Wayne County in October, 1828. The family lived in Wayne County only about a year, and on December 25, 1829, Ralph Heath brought his family to occupy their little log cabin home in Salem Township of Delaware County.
It was during the brief residence of the family in Wayne County that Rev. Jacob W. Heath was born, and he was only about a year old when brought to Delaware County. He grew up in a good Christian home, and learned the lessons of purity, gentleness of manner and integrity of char- acter which distinguished him in after years. He grew up in typical pioneer sur- roundings, getting an education in the sub- scription schools. He also attended the Delaware County Academy and for a time was a teacher. He was a farmer until 1868, when he removed to Muncie and took up grocery, real estate, and life insurance busiuess. He is perhaps best remembered for his zealous work as a local minister of the . Methodist Church. He joined that
church at the age of sixteen and was suc- cessively class leader, trustee, steward, Sunday school superintendent, exhorter, and after 1877 a local minister. He was one of the early temperance advocates of the county and in national affairs voted as a republican.
Rev. Jacob W. Heath died in October, 1902, at the age of seventy-three. He mar- ried in 1850 Rhoda A. Perdieu, daughter of Rev. Abner Perdieu. To their marriage were born eight children, six sons and two daughters, six of whom are still living, five sons and one daughter. The living sons are John B., Frederick W., Perry S., Fletcher S., and Cyrus R.
Frederick W. Heath, whose family con- nections and ancestry have been thus briefly traced, was born in Delaware County May 5, 1854. He attended common schools un- til sixteen years of age, worked in a print- ing office, in a grocery store, and for a time kept a cigar store in the old Kirby House.
The business distinction which is most familiarly associated with the name of Mr. Heath is that he is the oldest real estate man in point of continuous service at Mnn- cie. There were of course many real es- tate transactions made in the city and county before he entered the field, but he was one of the early men to make the bus- iness a profession and study, and he has ontlived all his contemporaries and com- petitors. He engaged in the business when only nineteen years old. Mr. Heath orig- inated the plan a number of years later of building up a $200,000 fund for encourag- ing factories to locate at Muncie, and his friends subscribed $10,000 for that pur- pose. The first big deal Mr. Heath made was handling the large tract of 380 acres on the west side of Muncie on the site of which the Normal School has since been built. This tract was acquired for $62,000 and Mr. Heath sold it out for a total of $97,000. For many years he has been ex- tensively interested in the sale of South Dakota lands. This business connection came largely through the influence of Gov- ernor Millette of South Dakota. Governor Millette at one time lived in Delaware County and was a friend of Mr. F. W. Heath. That was the beginning of an in- timacy that continued even after he moved West and was elevated to the governorship of his state. When Governor Millette died he manifested his great confidence in his
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friend by making Mr. Heath an executor of his estate.
Mr. Heath has been active in Muncie's business affairs for half a century and has perhaps done as much as any other local citizen in building up the town and ex- panding its institutions and business op- portunities to keep pace with a population that has grown under his personal observa- tion from less than 5,000 to over 30,000. He has always been on hand ready to lend his assistance and encouragement to worthy causes. Mr. Heath is called by his friends a fund of tremendous human energy. In his earlier days he frequently began work at five o'clock in the morning and contin- ued on until midnight. That energy is perhaps a characteristic of the family, since his brothers have likewise in their respec- tive localities gained business success and are men of influence and means.
Mr. Heath did not marry until he was past thirty years of age, and as a result of his earnest business energy he had saved up what was then a fair fortune of $30,000, so that he and his wife began their home life with practically all the comforts and luxuries they desired. January 1, 1885, Mr. Heath married Miss Laura Bennett, daughter of William Bennett. Her father was the largest land owner in Delaware County. Their son, Bennett Heath, was educated in the public schools and college and his name is familiar in athletic circles because of his splendid performances as a golf player. He is now doing his part in the great war, with the rank of captain.
JOHN W. LORENZ, a veteran druggist at Evansville, has also for the past fifteen years carried on a large and growing busi- ness as a physician and surgeon. Doctor Lorenz has always stood high in commer- cial circles of Evansville, and has earned equal honors in the profession of medicine, for which he had an ambition when a boy, but did not succeed in realizing it for a number of years. Doctor Lorenz was born on a farm a mile from Highland, Madison County, Illinois. His father, Frank Lo- renz, was born in Hesse Cassel, Germany, in 1835. His grandfather, John Jacob Lorenz, also a native of Germany. brought his family in 1845 to America. They trav- cled on a sailing vessel, and after many weeks landed at New Orleans. They went up the Mississippi to St. Louis, where John
Jacob followed the business of market gardener until 1856. In that year he re- moved to the eastern part of Madison County, Illinois, and bought a farm near the old Swiss colony of Highland. Much of that country was still in a pioneer wild- erness, and he did much to improve from its virgin condition the land which he bought a mile north of Highland. He spent the rest of his life as a market gar- dener, and died when nearly ninety years of age. His wife passed away in 1857. Their four children were Frank, John H., Amelia Goetz, and Elizabeth Schmetter.
Frank Lorenz was ten years old when the family came to America, and he learned the habits of industry and thrift while living with his father and working as a truck gardener. Later he succeeded to the own- ership of the old homestead at Highland, and continued general farming and stock raising there on a very successful scale until 1882 when he moved into the city of Highland where he lived retired, enjoying the fruits of a well spent life until his . death in 1919 at the age of eighty- four. He married in 1857 Louisa Haeusli. She was born in Switzerland in 1839, daughter of Jacob and Elizabeth Haeusli, who came to America in 1850 and located among their fellow countrymen at Highland, Illinois. Her father was a baker and followed that occupation in Highland until 1870, when he sold out and lived retired until his death. Mrs. Frank Lorenz died in 1899. She was the mother of three children: John W., Edward and Lillie. The latter is the wife of Louis Metz, formerly a farmer, but now living retired at Highland. Edward took charge of the home farm when his father retired, and conducted it successfully until 1919 when he removed to Highland and after- ward lived retired.
John W. Lorenz received his preparatory education in the public schools of High- land. As a schoolboy he was very profi- cient in figures and the county superin- tendent considered him the brightest pupil in that branch in the county. In 1881 he graduated from the Southern Illinois State Normal University at Carbondale, standing second in scholarship achievements in a class of ten. While he was at Carbondale the students received instruction in mili- tary art and tactics under Captain Spencer of the United States Army and later under
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Lieut. Hugh R. Reed, of the United States Army. Mr. Lorenz became a member of a branch of the National Guard, Company C, and rose to the rank of captain and sub- sequently commanded the company. Prior to entering the University he had taught two terms in the district schools. While thus engaged the parents were so pleased with the result of his work after the scholars had been publicly examined for promotion, that they held a meeting and passed resolutions giving a vote of thanks to Mr. Lorenz for efficient work done. After his graduation he was connected with the schools of High- land until 1885. That year brought him to Evansville, Indiana, where he entered the drug business, and continuously for over thirty years has been conducting one of the best appointed drug stores in the city. It was not until 1900 that he had his business affairs in such shape that he was able to realize his ambition to study medicine. In that year he entered the Louisville Medical College and graduated M. D. in 1903. Since then he has been in active practice. He is a member of the Vanderburg County and State Medical So- cieties, and the American Medical Asso- ciation.
Outside of his profession Doctor Lorenz has always taken a deep interest in every- thing pertaining to the welfare of his home city and the public schools. He is an active member of the Chamber of Com- merce, the West Side Civic Improvement Association and is a member of the execu- tive board of one of the prosperous build- ing and loan associations through the ac- tivities of which quite a number of thrifty families have been enabled to live in their own homes.
In 1882 he married Sophia A. Wehrly, of Edgewood, Effingham County, Illinois. They have two daughters, Julia and Irene. Julia, a graduate of the Evansville High School, is the wife of Charles T. Pelz, who is the manager of the Lorenz Drug Store. They have two daughters, named Irene Amelia and Charlotte Lucille. Miss Irene Frances Lorenz graduated from the Evans- ville High and the Evansville Normal Schools, and later from the State Normal at Terre Haute. She is now doing very efficient work in the Delaware School at Evansville. Doctor Lorenz is affiliated with Reed Lodge No. 316, Free and Ac-
cepted Masons, and Evansville Chapter No. 12, Royal Arch Masons, and his family attend the Simpson Methodist Episcopal Church.
ALFRED LEWIS REED is a veteran of the glass making industry, at which he gained his early experiences in Western Pennsyl- vania, and was one of the founders of the glass industry in Indiana. He was con- nected with various glass companies in this state until about ten or twelve years ago, since which time his chief financial and executive responsibilities have been with the Ideal Manufacturing Company of An- derson, of which he is now proprietor.
Mr. Reed was born at Zelienople, Butler County, Pennsylvania, in 1859, a son of Lewis and Mary (Wolfe) Reed. He is of Scotch-Irish stock. His great-grandfather Reed came from the north of Ireland and was an early day settler of Pennsylvania and later moved to Steubenville, Ohio. Mr. Reed's grandfather and father were both tanners at Zelienople, Pennsylvania.
Alfred Lewis Reed was well educated, attending public school and the Consquenes- sing Academy at Zelienople and also the Harmony Collegiate Institute at Harmony, Pennsylvania. During vacations from the age of fifteen he helped his father in the tannery, grinding bark and doing other du- ties. He had the talent of business enter- prise, and even when a boy bought and sold furs. At the age of eighteen he be- came a messenger in the Harmony State Bank for one year. Among other early experiences was work as individual book- keeper at the German National Bank of Millerstown, Pennsylvania, where he re- mained three years, was also a paying tel- ler, and for one year was bookkeeper with Tinker & Duncan at Bradford, Pennsyl- vania. Later for six months he had charge of the oil well supply stock for J. W. Humphreys & Company at Ricksburg, New York. He then returned to Tinker & Dun- can for six months more, and for three years was bookkeeper for the Craton Glass Works at Newcastle, Pennsylvania. For two years he was manager of the' Meadville Window Glass Works at Meadville, Penn- sylvania.
This rather extensive experience in the glass industry he brought with him to In- diana in 1891 and as a partner built the Spiceland Window Glass Works in Henry
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County. He was identified with its man- agement until July, 1892, when the plant was removed to Fairmont in Grant County and the name changed to the Big Four Window Glass Works. He sold his inter- ests in that company in 1899, but continued its management for the purchasers for sev- eral years.
Mr. Reed came to Anderson in 1903 as office manager of the Anderson Glass Works, a branch of the American Window Glass Company. He resigned in 1905, and for a short time was custodian of receivers of the Alexandria . Electric Light and Power Company. About that time he be- came financially interested in the Ideal Manufacturing Company, and about eight or nine years ago acquired from his asso- ciates all the stock. He has brought this industry to highly successful proportions, and manufactures an output that is now shipped all over the United States and to the Canadian provinces. The chief output of the Ideal Manufacturing Company in recent years has been computing cheese cutters and cabinets, and postage stamp vending machines. Mr. Reed has other financial interests at Anderson and else- where.
In 1884, at Newcastle, Pennsylvania, he married Miss Armada Howe. She died in 1901, and in 1903 he married Marie Major, daughter of Stephen Major of Indianap- olis. Mr. and Mrs. Reed have two children, Alfred M., born in 1905, and Jane Marie, born in 1907.
Mr. Reed has at different times played an influential part in republican politics. During the Blaine campaign of 1884 he was secretary of the Lawrence County Penn- sylvania Republican Committee, and also organized the Young Men's Blaine and Lo- gan Club at Newcastle. He is a York and Scottish Rite Mason, a member of the Lodge and Chapter at Anderson, and of Murat Temple of the Mystic Shrine at In- dianapolis. He is also affiliated with the Modern Woodmen of America, the United Commercial Travelers, and the Presby- terian Church.
CHARLES FRIENDLY WILEY by his achieve- ments at Elwood has demonstrated the real qualities and genius in merchandising. A few years ago he opened a stock of goods in this line which was by no means the
largest and most pretentious, and in the face of vigorous competition has built up a business that is now second to none in Madison County. He is sole proprietor of the Charles F. Wiley Company, and the notable features of this establishment are not merely the extensive stocks of goods and their display in several well organized departments, but the personnel of the or- ganization, of which Mr. Wiley is the head. He has developed a remarkable esprite de corps, and every working member is de- voted heart and soul to the support of the business.
Mr. Wiley is a native of Indiana, born at Bluffton in Wells County June 26, 1872, a son of Benjamin Franklin and Susan (Evans) Wiley. He is of Scotch-Irish an- cestry. His father was a merchant and farmer and died in 1906. The mother is still living at Bluffton.
When Charles F. Wiley was fifteen years of age he decided that his schooling was sufficient for his needs, and he went to In- dianapolis and secured a position in the dry goods store owned by his brother under the name W. T. Wiley & Company. He re- mained a salesman there two years, and after other varied experiences he came to Elwood in 1906 and bought a small stock of goods, though without a dollar of capi- tal, assuming a big debt. He soon had the store in working operations, making money and establishing a credit with the whole- sale houses and earning the confidence of a widening circle of patronage. He has developed and organized a complete de- partment store, with four branches. His trade now comes from over all that section of Indiana. Mr. Wiley has a number of people employed and has seen his annual sales develop from $40,000 to $300,000, the mark reached in 1917. He has never in- creased his capital but has kept the busi- ness growing and has sought the complete allegiance and loyalty of his employes by a splendid system of promotion and by en- couraging and bestowing proper and ap- propriate awards on diligent and honest work. He organized the Wiley Booster Club, which is a social organization among the employes for their mutual benefit as well as for the welfare of the business at large. Annually a big banquet is served, and there are many occasions during the year when the employes meet in a social
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way. Efficiency is encouraged by efficiency medals and also by substantial bonuses in the way of cash.
The Wiley store is at 102-106 North An- derson Street. Mr. Wiley is a republican, a member of the First Methodist Episcopal Church, and is affiliated with the Benevo- lent and Protective Order of Elks, and the Knights of Pythias at Elwood. He has ac- quired much local real estate, and all the ground and building occupied by his busi- ness is owned by him personally.
RICHARD LAWRENCE LEESON is an Elwood business man whose career well illustrates the power and influence of the younger generation in American life and affairs. Mr. Leeson is only twenty-four, but is president and head of the R. L. Leeson & Sons Company, one of the largest depart- ment stores in Eastern Indiana and a busi- ness that requires more than ordinary ex- ecutive ability and judgment in its direc- tion. It is a business that has been devel- oped as a result of many years of straight- forward and honest merchandising by the Leeson family. The original store, erected more than forty years ago, was established by grandfather R. L. Leeson, and it has gone through the successive management of the Leeson family to the present time.
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