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FORREST JESSE GARTSIDE is president, treasurer and general manager of the Dia- mond Clamp & Flask Company, one of Richmond's oldest specialized industries. It was established by the late W. W. Gart- side, who came to Richmond in 1876. He was a pattern maker by trade and was con- nected with the Richmond City Mill Works in charge of the pattern room until he be- gan manufacturing his own patent, a
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molder for snap flasks. That was the start of the present successful industry. Later other foundry supply products were added, and today the business is one of national proportions, its product being shipped all over the United States and many orders coming from Canada. W. W. Gartside was a Knight Templar Mason, a member of the Presbyterian Church, a republican in politics. He married Ella J. Bell.
Forrest Jesse Gartside was born in Knightstown, Indiana, October 1, 1894, and received his education in the grammar and high schools of Richmond. In 1913 he went to work for his father, serving an ap- prenticeship that gave him a practical and technical knowledge of all the features of manufacturing, first working at the drill press and later learning the wood working trade. In 1913 he became general manager of the business and after his father's death in March, 1917, the company was incor- porated with Mr. Gartside as president, treasurer, and general manager and Mrs. Ella Gartside, his mother, as vice president.
Mr. Gartside is affiliated with Lodge No. 196, Free and Accepted Masons, at Rich- mond, is a member of Company K of the Third Indiana Infantry and is a member of the Rotary Club. In 1917 he married Miss Bernice Puckett, daughter of Nelson and Martha Puckett of Richmond.
ELDON L. DYNES, president of the Dynes- Pohlman Lumber Company, is one of the leading lumbermen of the state of Indiana. Some men acquire their permanent tastes and vocations early in life. This was true of Mr. Dynes. His favorite playground as a boy was the old E. H. Eldridge lumber yard in Indianapolis. If there is any de- tail of the lumber business with which he is not thoroughly familiar, none of his as- sociates and friends have ever found out what it is.
Mr. Dynes is a native of Indianapolis, where he was born September 8, 1872, a son of Leonidas G. and Nannie (Leake) Dynes. He is a thorough American, both his paternal and maternal ancestors hav- ing come to this country during colonial days. His maternal ancestor, Edward Digges, son of Sir Dudley Digges, was gov- ernor of the Virginia Colony from 1655 to 1658. Other members of the family were prominent during the Revolution. Mr. Dynes father was born in Ohio in 1842, and
was well known to the newspaper profes- sion of a former generation. As a young man during the Civil war he published the Union City Eagle. Later he was interested in the publication of various papers in Indianapolis. He died in this city in 1904, and his widow is still living here. Leoni- das Dynes was an influential republican.
Eldon L. Dynes after attending the In- dianapolis public schools had a brief pe- riod of employment as a bookkeeper, and he also gained some considerable knowledge of law while a student in the offices of Dun- can & Smith. But he found himself in his real vocation when in 1898 he was made a member of the lumber firm of Hamilton & Dynes at 1100 East Maryland Street. In 1902 the business became the Dynes Lum- ber Company, and five years later the com- pany sold their yard in Maryland Street and built a new plant at Thirtieth Street and the Monon Railroad. In 1908 Mr. Dynes sold his interest in this company to H. M. Moore, and the plant is now operated under the title Indianapolis Lumber Com- pany. Mr. Dynes' next connection was as secretary and treasurer of the Anson-Hixon Sash and Door Company. In 1910 this was sold to the Adams-Carr Company, and is now known as the Adams-Rogers Company.
It was in 1911 that Mr. Dynes organized the Dynes-Pohlman Lumber Company, of which he is president. Mr. G. E. Pohlman is secretary and treasurer. The company's vards and planing mill are located between Twenty-Eighth and Twenty-Ninth streets, adjoining the Monon tracks, and it is one of the largest plants in the manufacturing and wholesale lumber district of the city. In point of efficiency and modern equip- ment there is no mill in the state that could justly be classed as superior to this one. Shortly after the plant was completed the American Lumberman, of Chicago, took a number of photographs of various parts of the plant and placed them on exhibition at the annual convention of the Indiana Re- tail Lumber Dealers. Every piece of ma- chinery is of the best type and each ma- chine is operated by individual electric motor. Its product is in keeping with the high degree of mechanical equipment of the mills. Mr. Dynes has built the business of the company by striving for high ideals.
In 1900 Mr. Dynes married Miss Mae Stockton Wood, daughter of Mr. Henry Wood. Mrs. Dynes was born at Mays-
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ville, Kentucky. They have one daughter, Lillian Wood. Mr. and Mrs. Dynes are members of the Second Presbyterian Church and in politics he is a republican.
FREDERICK W. BALLWEG. This is the brief story of a successful business man and of a family of very earnest, substan- tial and patriotic citizens of Indianapolis. Indianapolis has a number of successful business men, and it should be said at the beginning that part of this story relates to the president and active head of the Fred Dietz Company at 1102 Madison Ave- nue, and of Ballweg & Company, wooden box manufacturers at 314 West Wilkins Street, both of them large and important concerns in the industries of the city.
The Fred Dietz Company manufactures packing cases and also a complete line of factory and warehouse trucks. The Ball- weg & Company makes wooden boxes and packing cases, and while the products are sold principally to the home market, they are distributed by means of the local whole- sale trade to practically every civilized part of the world.
What is now a very extensive business was begun on a small scale on old Mis- sissippi Street, now Senate Avenue, at the corner of Louisiana Street. One of the principal promoters was Ferdinand Zogg, who came from Switzerland. He sold his interest and Fred Dietz became a partner in 1878. After Mr. Dietz retired Frederick W. Ballweg assumed most of the executive responsibilities and has since been the head and manager of the two businesses and was the founder of Ballweg & Company.
One of the individual careers that In- dianapolis cannot afford to forget was that of the late Frederick Ballweg, whose work as a practical business man of Indianapolis brought him a comfortable fortune and whose honor and integrity and usefulness made him one of the most respected men of that community. He was born March 20, 1825, in Huntheim, a little village of about 120 inhabitants in Baden, Germany. His parents were Sebastiana and Marianna (Schnsler) Ballweg, both natives of Ger- many. The father was a cabinet maker and owned a little farm of twenty acres. He died in Germany in 1866, at the age of seventy-five. There were five children : Generosa; Cornelia; Frederick ; Joseph ; and Ambrose, who died at Indianapolis
September 9, 1881. Ambrose, it should be mentioned in this connection, was in com- mand of the arsenal at Indianapolis during the Civil war with the rank of captain. He married Amelia Engelman, and they had four children: Cornelia; Alfred, Charles and Emma.
The late Frederick Ballweg as a boy in Germany attended the public schools from the age of six to fourteen. The next five years was given to the thorough learning of the cabinet making trade, and when qualified as a master workman he left home and spent some years in France, traveling about as a journeyman through various cities and provinces, including Paris and Toulon.
He was about twenty-four years of age when on April 1, 1850, he embarked on a sailing vessel at Havre de Grace bound for the free land of America. It was a long journey over the ocean and he landed at New York City on June 7th. A few hours later he was at Rahway, New Jersey, and on the next day began working at his trade. At first he received $7 a month and board, and during the second year there from $10 to $12 a week. In the spring of 1852 he went to New York City, followed his trade for a year and on September 17, 1853, ar- rived at Indianapolis.
In Indianapolis he secured employment with John Ott, one of the first cabinet makers of the city. After five years of working for others Mr. Ballweg began an independent business career in the lumber trade at Indianapolis. He was one of the leading lumber merchants for about fifteen years. In 1878 he bought eighty acres of land in Perry Township of Marion County, paying $75 an acre for it, that being a very high price for that day. Upon this farm he erected a handsome two-story frame house and continued to live there in the enjoyment of its comforts and in the quiet routine of supervising his farm until his death on September 13, 1898. His widow is still living. Frederick Ballweg is remem- bered by the old time citizens of Indian- apolis as a wide-awake and progressive factor in city affairs and equally influential when he moved to the country and took part in the affairs of a rural locality. He was a republican and cast his first vote for General Fremont for president. He was born and baptized a Catholic, but through his mature life was liberal in religious mat-
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ters and was chiefly concerned with those principles and institutions calculated to raise and advance the moral standards of the community. For many years he was active in the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.
At Indianapolis January 1, 1854, less than a year after he arrived in the city, he married Miss Eliese Stanger, daughter of Gustav Stanger. They were married by Squire Sullivan. To their union were born twelve children : William, deceased; Fred- erick W .; Annie M., deceased; Louis G., who died May 29, 1869; Franklin A., who died June 4, 1864; Lena E., who died Sep- tember 22, 1892 ; Clara M. ; Lilly, who died in infancy ; Louis E .; Bertha A., who died in 1873; Robert M., deceased; and Otto, who died January 3, 1879.
Mr. Frederick W. Ballweg was born at Indianapolis February 4, 1857. Most of his early education was acquired in that famous institution the German English Independent School, and he also took a business course in the C. C. Koerner Busi- ness College. For nearly forty years he has devoted himself energetically and suc- cessfully to the promotion of the business enterprises above noted.
In 1901 he married Wilhelmina C. Straub. They are the parents of three chil- dren : Pauline Elizabeth, Frederick Straub and Virginia Katherine. The family are members of the Second Presbyterian Church of Indianapolis.
WILLIAM M. BRYANT, educator and au- thor, was born in Lake County, Illinois, March 31, 1843. His first work after com- pleting his educational training was as a teacher, and his work as an educator brought him success and prominence. His last work was as instructor in psychology, ethics and history in the Central High School, St. Louis, and he retired in 1912. As an author he has also placed his name prominently before the public, and he is the creator of many standard works.
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SAMUEL JAMES TAYLOR, who is of a prominent Scotch family and spent his early life in Scotland, has for thirty years or more been identified with the Middle West, principally at Michigan City. Mr. Taylor has been a leading factor in the larger business life of Michigan City and
has been equally prominent in many of its civic activities.
He was born at Ivy Place in the town of Stranraer in Wigtonshire, Scotland. The family at one time bore the name McTald- roch, and generation after generation of them was devoted to the tending of their fields and flocks. They were Covenanters, Lowlanders and Presbyterians. Samuel Taylor, grandfather of the Michigan City business man, was a timber and slate mer- chant at Stranraer. He imported large quantities of timber from the United States and Canada and also from Norway and Sweden. His business frequently took him to London. He happened to be in that city June 18, 1832, when a mob attacked the Duke of Wellington, and Samuel Tay- lor had the honor of opening a gate through which that great general passed to safety. Samuel Taylor died March 21, 1888, at the age of eighty-two.
Major Samuel H. Taylor, father of Sam- nel J., was apprenticed to the firm of Bonchier and Cousland, leading architects at Glasgow. After completing his appren- ticeship he was associated with his father under the firm name of Samuel Taylor and Son, and besides the lumber and slate bnsi- ness they also used their resources in im- proving real estate in and around Stran- raer. Samnel H. joined the militia, was made ensign of the Second Company of Wigtonshire Volunteers June 16, 1863, and was commissioned captain of the company August 6, ' 1870. This company became Company C of the Galloway Rifle Volun- teers, and was attached to the Territorial Regiment of the Royal Scotch Fusiliers. He was made honorary major, and bore that title in private life. He was selected by the government to rep- resent the British volunteers at a confer- ence held in Belgium in 1869, and a medal presented him by King Leopold at the time is now carefully preserved by his descend- ants. Major Taylor died March 17, 1890, and was buried with military honors. He was prominent in public affairs and for twenty years was in the town council and was also a magistrate. His wife was Jane Ramsay, daughter of James and Jane (Campbell) Ramsay. Her parents moved from Scotland to Australia, where they spent their last years. She went to Aus- tralia with her parents about 1860, taught
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school at Geelong, but returned to England to be married, returning on a vessel that reached port six weeks behind schedule time. Jane Ramsay was born at Dunoon in Argyleshire, Scotland, and was educated at the Normal School in Glasgow. While there she met the young architect appren- tice whom she afterward married. They were married at St. Margaret's Church in Faulkner Square, Liverpool. She died February 27, 1887, the mother of six chil- dren: Henry Ramsay, Charles Warden, Samuel James, Ernest Campbell, Arthur Robertson, and Jane Barton.
Samuel James Taylor was educated at Stranraer Academy. From early youth he was very fond of athletics, being a member of the Association Football team and of the Rowing and Cricket Clubs. For six years he was in a local military company as sergeant. This company was known as Company C, Galloway Rifle Volunteers. He was secretary of the shooting committee of the company and arranged the first match between the Ulster and Belfast Rifle Associations. As the scores of those asso- ciations show he was one of the best marks- men in the South of Scotland. Mr. Taylor was a member of the Guard of Honor se- lected to receive the Prince of Wales, later King Edward, when the prince visited Stranraer April 27, 1885.
Having completed his academic course Mr. Taylor became associated with his father in business, and was thus engaged for six years, until 1888, when 'he came to the United States. He brought with him numerous letters of introduction and rec- ommendation from bankers and magistrates in Scotland. During the voyage the ves- sel encountered a terrific blizzard and he landed three days late, on March 15th, find- ing New York almost buried in snow. He came directly west to Chicago, and on March 27th was employed as a clerk by the A. G. Spalding & Company, the great sporting goods house. Soon afterward the Western Arms Company bought the gun department of that store, and Mr. Taylor went with the new firm and remained un- til the fall of 1889. He then entered the wholesale house of Marshall Field & Com- pany, the following year became book- keeper for the Amazon Hosiery Company, and on Angust 17, 1890, was sent to Mich- igan City by the firm, and was connected with it until the plant was moved to Mus-
kegon in 1896. During that year Mr. Tay- lor was appointed deputy chief of the In- diana Bureau of Statistics in the State House by John B. Conner, and was busy with his official duties until November 1, 1897.
At that date, at the personal solicitation of the late John H. Barker, Mr. Taylor re- signed his public office to become actuary at the Haskell and Barker Car Works in Michigan City. Upon the death of Mr. Barker he was elected auditor of the Has- kell and Barker Car Company. In that position he was held responsible for the delivery of all material except lumber and small supplies. It is a well known fact that during all the time he held the office the plant was never retarded for lack of material. Mr. Taylor finally resigned be- cause of impaired health, and has since de- voted his time to his private interests. He is a stockholder in a number of industrial plants and is president of the Pinkston Sand Company, shippers of foundry, core, grinding, and glass sand from the Hoosier pits. He is also a stockholder in the First National Bank of Michigan City.
December 21, 1893, Mr. Taylor married Miss Julia Adaline Leeds. She was born in Michigan City, a daughter of Alfred W. and Minnie (Lell) Leeds, of a well known old family of the county. Mr. and Mrs. Taylor have three daughters: Margery Leeds. a student in the University of Illi- nois; Julia, a student in Rockford College at Rockford, Illinois; and Charlotte Ridg- way. Mr. and Mrs. Taylor are active members of the Presbyterian Church, he being a member of the Board of Trustees and she assistant superintendent of the Sunday School. He was a member of the Board of Trustees that had charge of the erection of the Young Men's Christian Association building in Michigan City, and has served as president of the association and now as a director. He is active in the Chamber of Commerce, and for twenty years or more has been identified with every movement for the advancement of Michi- gan City. He is a member of the Michi- gan City Rotary Club, a member of St. Andrews Society, the oldest charitable so- ciety in Illinois, is a member of the Chi- cago Traffic Club, of the Potawattomie Country Club, and in 1888 was secretary of the Caledonian Society of Chicago. He was made a Master Mason in the place of
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his birth in February, 1888, and is now affiliated with Acme Lodge No. 83, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, with Michigan City Chapter No. 25, Royal Arch Masons, Michigan City Council No. 56, Royal and Select Masons, Michigan City Commandery No. 30, Knights Templar, and Fort Wayne Consistory of the Scottish Rite. He is a charter member of Lake City Court No. 520 of the Independent Order of Foresters, and a member of the Benevolent and Pro- tective Order of Elks No. 432, and of the Ahksahewah Canoe Club.
As a republican in politics Mr. Taylor has at different times been identified with party affairs, and was especially active dur- ing McKinley's campaign. He was a mem- ber of the first county council established after the passage of the Legislature for that purpose about 1901. This council ef- fected a reduction of $105,000 in the county taxes. In the primary elections in 1917 Mr. Taylor was the choice of his party for mayor. He has also been instrumental in bringing about legal procedure to cause the authorities to cease to-levy illegal taxes against the citizens of the county. During the recent war Mr. Taylor served as vice chairman of the committee for the sale of War Savings Stamps and secretary of the Liberty Loan Committees.
ROBERT JOHN LOGAN. Business, like war, is constantly recruiting younger men to positions in the ranks or as lieutenants and captains, and among the younger busi- ness men of Anderson one who might prop- erly be considered at least a lieutenant in rank is Robert John Logan, head of the firm Logan & Morrison, plumbing and heating.
Mr. Logan was born at Akron, Ohio, March 15, 1889, son of J. R. and Mary (Waldschmidt) Logan. He is of Scotch- Irish and German ancestry. His grand- father, Robert J. Logan, was born in Scot- land and on coming to America settled at Fredericksburg, Ohio. For a number of years he was engineer on an old line railway, now the C. A. & C. Railway. J. R. Logan also developed his talents as an engineer. As an employe of the great match king, Ohio C. Barber, of Akron and Barberton, he came to Wabash, Indiana, and constructed the United Boxboard and Paper Company of that city, and has been with that firm continuously now for over
thirty-one years. He and his wife are both living in Wabash.
Robert John Logan was only a baby when his parents moved to Wabash, and he grew up there, gaining his education in the public schools. In 1907 he graduated from high school, and in the same year en- tered DePauw University at Greencastle, where he spent two years. Leaving col- lege in 1909, he found a position with an industrial plant at Wabash, at first as roustabout and trouble shooter, gradually worked up to the duties of bookkeeper and commercial manager. Two years later he was made manager of the local office. In 1913 he resigned, and removing to Ander- son began the sale of gas appliances under the name The Anderson Gas Appliance Company at 1033 Main Street. When the supply of natural gas was exhausted he gave up that business and in March, 1917, established a corporation with a former em- ploye, E. D. Morrison, under the firm name of Logan & Morrison, Incorporated. Mr. Logan is president. They bought the plumbing establishment of John H. Em- mert, 46 West Ninth Street, and have con- tinued at the same location but have greatly improved the service and facilities for handling all forms of heating and plumb- ing contracts, including electric heating. They have done a large amount of work for private individuals and also some con- tracts for the city and county.
In 1912 Mr. Logan married Helen H. Johnson, daughter of George B. and Alice (Greeson) Johnson, of Wabash, Indiana. Politically his vote is east independently. Mr. Logan is affiliated with Wabash Lodge No. 61, Ancient Free and Accepted Ma- sons, and also with the Royal Arch Chap- ter. He is a member of the Presbyterian Church.
LEON B. SCHUTZ is president and gen- eral manager of the Credit Apparel Com- pany, a business that has had a rapid growth and prosperous career during the last four or five years, and has expanded until it now includes three large stores, at Anderson, Richmond, and Muncie.
A simple statement of the facts and ex- periences in the career of Leon B. Schutz needs no special comment, and the story stands by itself as a most inspiring and encouraging one, proving what a young man of much resourcefulness can accom-
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plish in spite of difficult circumstances aud even of repeated failures.
Mr. Schutz was born in Lithuania, Rus- sia, July 15, 1887, a son of Benzion and Agee (Chones) Schutz. His parents are still living in the old country. His brother Moses was a soldier in the Russian army and is now a prisoner of war in Germany.
Mr. Schutz came to America alone in November, 1903, at the age of sixteen. For eight years he lived in New York City. His first opportunity to gain a foothold in that busy metropolis was as errand boy il: a store. At the end of three weeks his employer committed suicide and he was out of a job. At that time three dollars a week paid his board and lodging. As stockboy in a cloak and suit factory he en- dured conditions only a short time, since he was subjected to menial tasks by his superiors that he felt it beneath him to con- tinue longer. In the meantime he was ac- quiring some training in American ways, and his next work with better pay was in the woolen business. He kept working to- ward larger responsibilities, and finally was made a city salesman. He remained with that firm several years, until in the panic of 1907 he was displaced. He then went west to Chicago, and worked as a clothing salesman, a line of which he was totally ignorant, but where his ready adaptability and quick observation enabled him to become a fixture, and he was there about four years.
On returning to New York City Mr. Schutz married in 1910 Mary Gross, of Heightstown, New Jersey, daughter of Wil- liam and Angie (Muekler) Gross. They have two children, Herbert born in 1913 and Emeline Dorothy, born in 1917.
Having gradually accumulated a small capital amounting to about $1,000 Mr. Schutz after his marriage set up in the woolen business for himself on Worth Street in New York City. He was there a year and a half and then sought a better location for a business in Los Angeles, California. In the meantime he had spent his capital, and on returning to New York City went to work for the Regal Shoe Com- pany as salesman at fifteen dollars a week. In two months time his record of sales was the best of any similar employe of the company. But he was not content to re- main an employe, and in 1913 he came to Anderson and accepted the position of
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