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Andrew Friberg married at Rock Is- land, Illinois, November 20, 1854, Miss Louisa Peterson, who was born in Sweden in 1832 and died March 3, 1881. They had eight children, five sons and three daughters : Alfred Bertrand, deceased; Cassins D .; Edward Francis, deceased ; George Hodden; Ina Jane; Cornelia Louisa, Mrs. Taylor ; Minnie N., deceased ; and Oliver Philip.
Mrs. Taylor finished her education at
St. Catherine's Academy at Davenport, Iowa. For many years she has been active in literary and club circles in Lafayette, being a member of the Thursday Club, on the Board of the Home Hospital and on the Board of the Lafayette Industrial School.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry A. Taylor had two children, William Friberg, born May 20, 1892, and Mary Louise, born January 8, 1901.
William Friberg Taylor, who graduated from Purdue University with the class of 1913, has made a record of which all his family and friends are proud, and would do credit to his grandfather Maj. William Taylor. It might be said of him as of his grandfather that he has been "a gallant soldier in time of war and in peace a citi- zen without reproach." In September, 1918, word was received in Indiana that Capt. William F. Taylor, of Battery C, One Hundred and Fiftieth Field Artil- lery, in the famous Rainbow (Forty-sec- ond) Division, had been promoted to major. He first joined Battery C when that unit was first mustered into state service December 15, 1914, as part of the National Guard. He was advanced to the rank of sergeant, but was honorably dis- charged in the spring of 1915, when he left Lafayette to accept employment in Detroit. He returned to the Battery in June, 1916, reenlisting for Mexican border service. He was promoted to the rank of sergeant the day the Battery arrived at Llano Grande, Texas. When the Bat- tery was mustered ont of federal service in January, 1917, he again received an honorable discharge and returned to De- troit as consulting engineer for a large automobile concern. It was in this capac- ity that Major Taylor was acting when the United States declared war on Ger- many. He was immediately offered the captaincy of Battery C, which he ac- cepted, and shortly afterward he came to Lafayette to take charge of the work of recruiting the unit to war strength. The Battery commanded by Captain Taylor left Lafayette June 30, 1917, and the fol- lowing October went to a port of embarka- tion, sailing for France, where as one of the units of the Rainbow Division it had a share in the heavy and continuous work to which that noted National Guard Divi- sion was exposed. Captain Taylor was
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with his Battery during the critical and decisive action on the western front in the summer of 1918, and on July 15th Cap- tain Taylor was slightly gassed east of Rheims on the Champagne front. He was promoted to the rank of major soon after- ward, and until the armistice was signed was on duty with his division. As the Rainbow Division was retained for Persh- ing's Army of Occupation, Major Taylor and his battalion marched into Germany and did not leave there until April 15, 1919, when they embarked for the United States. The Rainbow Division paraded in New York and Washington, and afterward was demobilized at Fort Benjamin Harri- son, Indianapolis, Indiana. For a young man only twenty-six years of age Major Taylor has made a wonderful record that will stand out even more brilliantly as the events of the great war come to be better understood.
He was married on August 10, 1917, to Katharine Levering Vinton, daughter of Judge and Mrs. H. H. Vinton of Lafay- ette, Indiana.
CASE BRODERICK, a lawyer and congress- man, was born in Grant County, Indiana, September 23, 1839. In 1858 he removed to Kansas. He was a Civil war soldier, was a probate judge of Jackson County, a state senator, 1880-84, an associate justice of the Supreme Court of Idaho, 1884-88, and was a member of Congress in 1891-99, from the First Kansas District.
MICHAEL T. HANLEY went to Muncie along with one of the industries that were moved to that city thirty years ago, after Muncie had become an important center in the natural gas territory of Eastern In- diana. Mr. Hanley is now one of the very successful and prosperous business men of Muncie. He began his life career as a boy, earning small wages in a factory, and his success is due to that steady and persistent labor which is always seeking better things and creating new opportunities with new conditions.
Mr. Hanley was born at Bunker Hill, Illinois, September 7, 1860, a son of Thomas and Mary M. (Buckley) Hanley. His father, who was a native of Ireland, came to America in the '40s and lived at Bunker Hill, Illinois, for a time. Later he took
his family to New Albany, Indiana, where he was employed in the shops of a railroad. He worked in that position until his death. He was a very able mechanic, and was ad- vanced to the highest wages paid his class of service. He died in 1867. He left a widow and five sons, Michael being only seven years old. The mother died in 1885. Three of the sons are still living.
After the death of the father the chil- dren were kept for a time at home by their mother, until she found it impossible to pro- vide for them, and then four of the boys, including Michael, were placed in the Orphans Home at Vincennes, a Catholic in- stitution. Somewhat later provision was made that two of the sons should remain at the Home and two should go back to their mother. Michael Hanley spent three years in the institution at Vincennes, then returned to New Albany, where as a boy he went to work in the rolling mills at 55 cents a day. He proved diligent, reliable and responsible and gradually promoted himself by his efficiency to larger wages and bigger work. He was finally made a pud- dler and was paid the then high wages of $8 per day.
From New Albany Mr. Hanley went to Greencastle, Indiana, and became connected with the nail works of the Darnell Mills. Through the efforts of the Muncie Board of Trade this large nail factory was obtained for Muncie and moved to the city in 1889. Here it was renamed the Muncie Nail Works, with Mr. Frank Darnell as presi- dent. Mr. Hanley continued in the employ of the company at Muncie, but later went with the Muncie Republic Steel and Iron Company, and was its manager in 1892. After the gradual failure of the natural gas in the Muncie territory the steel and iron works went out of business. Mr. Han- ley then became an operator in the oil and gas fields, and acquired a number of leases and drilled a number of wells. As the oil business did not offer large prospects for the future in Delaware County, he was con- stantly looking out for some new opportun- ity, and thus became one of the pioneers in the automobile field when that vehicle was just coming into its share of popular- ity. Mr. Hanley began the automobile . business in a very small way, having a small shop near his present extensive and handsome quarters. His work and facili-
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ties found appreciation and his business has grown apace with the enormous expan- sion of the automobile.
Today the Hanley automobile building alone cost over $75,000 and it is one of the best constructed and designed buildings of the type in Indiana. It has salesrooms, accessories department and garage with a capacity for storing 200 cars. Mr. Hanley makes a specialty in his sales department of the Hudson and Interstate cars. It is estimated that today he has property inter- ests valued at $200,000 or more, which is ample evidence that he has made excellent use of his time and energies since he left the Orphans Home at Vincennes. He is also one of the leading publie spirited citi- zens of Muncie, ever ready to lend a hand in building up local enterprises and in doing his share as an individual. He is a stanch democrat in politics and has been honored with a number of places of trust and responsibility. He served as a member of the Board of Public Works in Muncie four years, was appointed and served eight years as a member of the Park Board and for two years was on the Board of Safety. He is affiliated with the Knights of Co- lumbns.
April 23, 1883, at New Albany, Indiana, Mr. Hanley married Miss Catherine Con- nell. Her people came from Dublin, Ire- land. They are the parents of five chil- dren, four sons and one daughter, Mary, William, Edward, Frank and Leo. The daughter, Mary, is the wife of Dr. W. J. Molloy. All the children were liberally educated in the parochial schools and in the higher institutions of learning.
JACOB SCHUSTER. Few business men of Anderson, Indiana, have traveled so far and seen so much of real adventure as has Jacob Schuster, an important commercial force in this city, the senior partner in the firm of Schuster Brothers, clothiers. Mr. Schuster has not yet reached middle age, yet he has traveled to far countries, has participated in a great war and has proved himself able not only in military but also in business life.
Jacob Schuster was born in 1874, at Har- risburg, Pennsylvania. His parents were Myer and Lina Schuster, who came to America some fifty years ago from one of the border towns of old Poland. They set- tled in the capital City of Pennsylvania, Vol. V-15
and the father conducted a store. Jacob attended school in his native place until he was fourteen years old, and then began to be self-supporting, his first employer be- ing a Mr. Katz, a clothing merchant, for whom he was a clerk for eighteen months. He remained at home until he was twenty years of age, and then went to Toronto, Canada, and worked in a clothing house for " a time and then decided to see something more of the world, his attention having been directed to South Africa. Family affection in the Schuster family was strong, and the young man returned to Harrisburg to see his parents before he started.
After the long journey by land and sea was concluded, this being in 1895, Mr. Schuster found himself in Johannesburg, and after he had looked around a bit he started a general store on the Rand at Germantown, Transvaal, South Africa. He was diligent and attentive, qualities needed for success in any land, and soon found himself in a prosperous way, but his plans were all disarranged by the breaking out of the Boer war. He accepted condi- tions as he found them, and with the friends he had made in his new home joined the South African Territorials at Cape Town in October, 1899, the command being known as the South African Light Horse. He participated in the relief of Ladysmith, and was in other battles under the command of General De Wet, and be- cause of his bravery was promoted to a first lieutenancy after fifteen months of service, and was honorably discharged and mustered ont twenty-eight months after en- listment.
When Mr. Schuster returned to German- town he found his business affairs in a had way and his stock almost destroyed but later the British government re-imbursed him on account of his services in the war, his entire period of service having reflected credit on him. He re-established his husi- ness at Germantown, and success again at- tended him, and when he grew homesick for his native land he was able to sell out at a profit.
In 1907 Mr. Schuster returned to America and reached Anderson, Indiana, February 18, 1908, and after establishing a clothing store at Louisville, Kentucky, opened his present store in this city and has condneted the two stores ever since. The Anderson city store is the largest in
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Madison County, and his customers come from every part of it, as Mr. Schuster car- ries so complete and satisfactory a stock of clothing, hats and furnishings for men and boys, and his business methods are honor- able and upright. In addition to his stores he has other important business interests.
Mr. Schuster was married in 1908 to Miss Elizabeth Jacobs, who is a daughter of Abraham Jacobs, now of Louisville, Ken- tucky, but formerly of Harrisburg, Penn- sylvania, the Jacobs family moving to the former city in 1903. Mr. and Mrs. Schuster have three children: Simon, Harry and Mae, born respectively in 1909, 1910 and 1913. Mr. Schuster is liberal minded in the religious field and is not active in politics, being willing to support good and able men of whom his own ex- perienced judgment can approve in the interest of good government and the gen- eral welfare. He is identified with the Masons, the Odd Fellows and the Eagles at Anderson.
OMER D. BULLERDICK is head of some of the important business enterprises of Richmond, including the O. D. Bullerdick Coal Yards, and also an extensive business as a wholesale flour merchant.
Born at Richmond May 15, 1886, Mr. Bullerdick started in life with only the average training and equipment, but with the energy and determination to make the best of his circumstances and opportunities, and what he has accomplished stands as evidence of his ability and success. His parents were H. C. and Anna (Knollman) Bullerdick. His grandfather came from Germany and was an early settler in Indiana.
Mr. Bullerdick after attending grammar and high schools became an apprentice at the jewelry trade with the Jenkins Jewelry Company. He gave up that and after tak- ing a course in bookkeeping with the Rich- mond Business College became associated with his father in the Richmond Canning Company. He turned his resources from that into the coal business, and for three years his father owned a half interest in the plant, but since 1917 Mr. Bullerdick has been sole proprietor and has a large amount of capital employed, a well equipped plant and requires the services of abont twenty men. He is also owner of the Cambridge City Coal Company at
Cambridge City. Mr. Bullerdick has a large warehouse used in his wholesale flour business. He keeps two men on the road selling flour and deals in two widely known stable brands, "Mother Hubbard" and "Kaws.'
Mr. Bullerdick is a member of the Rich- mond Commercial Club, the Masonic Order, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and the Rotary Club. He is also a member of the First English Lutheran Church. In 1908 he married Miss Eliza- beth Cook, daughter of George Cook.
SIDNEY L. HOLMAN is a veteran insur- ance man of Michigan City, but the insur- ance business has not been his restricted field of activities, since for a number of years he was identified with the develop- ment and progress of Nebraska territory and state, and was a means of founding the most prosperous towns in that part of the west.
Mr. Holman has had a long and active career. He was born in Genesee County, New York, November 13, 1838. His father, Thomas Holman, was born in Sussex County, England, and learned the trade of tailor in his father's shop. His first wife died in England and in 1831 he came to America, bringing his only daughter. They were six weeks in making the voyage, and he soon located at Pittsford in Monroe County, New York. A few years later he moved to Genesee County, and that was his home until 1839. From that time until 1851 he again resided at Pittsford, and then started for the west. The railroad had been completed as far as New Buffalo, Michigan, and he traveled by rail to that point, thence coming by wagon and team to Springfield Township in LaPorte County. He bought a small farm there and located on the Plank Road between Michi- gan City and South Bend. At that home he not only supervised the cultivation of his fields but also followed his trade and kept toll gate. He died at the advanced age of eighty-five. In New York he mar- ried for his second wife Miss Margaret Brown, who was born at Woodhull in Steuben County, New York. Her father, John Brown, was a native of Ireland and came to America at the age of seven years and lived at Woodhull and afterward in Monroe County, New York, where he died. John Brown married Miss Shear, and they
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had five sons and five daughters. Mrs. Margaret Holman survived her husband and for a few years lived in Tioga County, Pennsylvania, but subsequently returned to Indiana with her son Sidney and con- tinued to live among her children in this state to the age of eighty-five. She was the mother of eight children, two of whom died in early childhood and the six to grow up were Roxie, Alfred, Sidney L., Arthur J., Emeline and Martha.
Sidney L. Holman was educated in the public schools of New York State, and after the age of fifteen attended school in Spring- field Township and at LaPorte. His inde- pendent business career began at the age of twenty-one. He had the gift and genius of a business man, and at the outset of his career he stocked a wagon with Yankee notions and drove about the country sell- ing from house to house. Among his stock was also some patent medicines. He was on the road two seasons and then taught three winter terms in school. In the mean- time he had taken up the study of law in the office of J. A. Thornton at Michigan City, and Judge Ferran at LaPorte. Mr. Holman in 1864 became an insurance solici- tor at LaPorte. It soon developed that he was an unusually resourceful solicitor of insurance, and his company soon assigned him to more important tasks than individ- ual work, especially the opening up of new territory and the establishment of local agencies. Mr. Holman first went to the Ter- ritory of Nebraska in the spring of 1866, at a time when that now great state was un- occupied government land, much of it cov- ered with immense herds of buffalo. He spent the summer season there and in the fall of 1866 entered the law department of the University of Michigan, where he received his degree as a lawyer in 1868 and was concurrently admitted to the bar of Michigan and Nebraska. He was a pioneer member of the bar of Columbus, Nebraska, and practiced law and also sold insurance. In company with George Graves he bought a tract of land in Stanton County, and they then formed a partnership with Lud- wig Lehmann, who owned an adjoining tract where he platted the Town of Stan- ton. In 1872 Mr. Holman returned to Michigan City and resumed the insurance business a year, and then established head- .quarters at LaPorte for another year. Go- ing back to Nebraska to look after his inter-
ests he made his home in Stanton for a time. In 1879 the Fremont and Elkhorn Valley Railroad, now a branch of the Northwestern, was projected and Mr. Hol- man returned to Nebraska to get the route laid through Stanton. The three proprie- tors gave the company the right of way through the town, also one half of the town lots, and thus put their town on the line of railway. Mr. Holman continued to reside in Stanton until 1882, when he returned to Michigan City and since then for a period of over thirty-five years has been engaged in the insurance and real estate business.
In 1872 he married Miss Rachel S. Stan- ton. She was born in LaPorte County, daughter of Aaron and Martha (Boyer) Stanton. Aaron Stanton was a native of Virginia and of Nantucket ancestry and was one of the very earliest settlers in what is now La Porte County, arriving in 1830. Mr. and Mrs. Holman have one son, Scott Stanton. He married Gladys Schutt, and they have two children, Vir- ginia and Harrison.
Mr. Holman served twenty-three years as secretary of the Insurance Board of Michigan City. He is affiliated with Acme Lodge No. 83, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons.
S. EARL CLARK. Indiana had no glass making industry to speak of until the era of natural gas, inaugurated ahout thirty years ago. One of the oldest men in the Indiana glass industry is S. Earl Clark, superintendent and general manager of Plant No. 7 of the Pittsburg Plate Glass Company at Elwood. Mr. Clark has been connected with this industry practically thirty years in Indiana.
He was born at West Richfield in Sum- mit County, Ohio, in 1856, son of Samuel S. and Caroline (Prickett) Clark. He was the only son, and the three danghters are now deceased. The family is of Scotch and English descent, and has heen in America for many generations. The Clarks have been chiefly farmers and merchants. Sam- uel S. Clark was a druggist at West Rich- field, Ohio, many years. He died in 1906 and his wife in 1907.
S. Eorl Clark acquired his early educa- tion at West Richfield in the public schools, and for three years attended a general course at Oberlin College. He left college to go to work at Akron, where he remained
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some five years, and then about thirty years ago joined the Pittsburg Plate Glass Com- pany in its plant at Kokomo, Indiana. For ten years he was foreman at Kokomo, also assistant superintendent and was then ap- pointed superintendent. In 1898 he was sent to Elwood as superintendent of No. 7 plant, and has been supervising head of this industry ever since with the exception of five years when the company sent him to Crystal City, Missouri. There under his direct superintendence the largest glass plant in the world was constructed. Mr. Clark was in Missouri from 1904 to 1909. He lost his health in that state and in 1909 the company bore the expense of a re- cuperating trip through Europe, during which he toured England, Belgium and France.
Mr. Clark married Lucy C. Viall, daugh- ter of Burrell and Jane Viall. They have one child, Louise E., now fifteen years old.
Mr. Clark has been a prominent republi- can in Indiana. In 1904 he represented the Eighth District in the Chicago National Convention when Theodore Roosevelt was nominated. He has been a member of a number of state conventions. Mr. Clark is affiliated with Elwood Lodge of Elks.
MENDLE SAFFER is junior member of the firm Neremberg & Saffer, a firm of very enterprising and aggressive merchants who have already established and built up a chain of hat and haberdashery stores known as Progress Stores. Mr. Saffer is in charge of the business at Richmond, and the home city where the business was' started is Kokomo, but there is also a store at Terre Haute.
Mr. Saffer was born at Richmond in 1895, son of Solomon and Esther (Libo- witz) Saffer. He acquired a thorough education, attending the Manual Training School at Indianapolis and had a commer- cial course in the Central Business Col- lege. For a year and a half he was em- ployed as assistant chemist in the labora- tory of the Citizens Gas Company. He then formed a partnership with Frank Neremberg at Kokomo in 1916, and they opened a shoe and men's furnishing goods store on Main Street, known at that time as the Progress Store. They soon after- ward opened another store at Kokomo, then one at Terre Haute, and on Decem-
ber 1, 1918, Mr. Saffer established the branch on Main Street in Richmond.
Mr. Saffer, who is unmarried, is an inde- pendent republican, a member of Rich- mond Lodge No. 196, Free and Accepted Masons.
CHARLES L. BUSCHMANN is vice president and general manager of the Lewis Meier & Company, one of the chief commercial organizations at Indianapolis.
The earlier generation of the Buschmann family was represented by the late Wil- liam Buschmann, who was born at Biele- feld, Germany, in 1824, and died at In- dianapolis in 1893. He was reared and educated in his native land, had some serv- ice in the war of 1848 there, and in 1852 came to America and almost immediately located at Indianapolis. Here he began that association with Henry Severin, Sr., which remained unbroken between them for over forty years and which through their respective sons is a business alliance of great power and dignity in Indianapolis today. The elder Buschmann and Severin established a retail grocery store on North Street, and from that location moved to Fort Wayne Avenue. In 1892 William Buschmann, Sr., turned over his interest to his son William F. and enjoyed retired life for a year before his death. He is re- membered by his contemporaries still liv- ing as a man of mature judgment, of splen- did civic loyalty and of personal integrity that could never be doubted or questioned. He married Caroline Froelking, who was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, and died in 1880, at the age of thirty-seven. They married at Indianapolis and were the parents of six sons and one daughter, five of the sons and one daughter still living.
Charles L. Buschmann, who was the third among the children of his parents, was born at Indianapolis September 5, 1867, was educated in the local public schools and for one year attended Capitol University at Columbus, Ohio. In 1885, at the age of eighteen, he returned to his home city and after a course in the Indianapolis Business College he became bookkeeper in the office of William Buschmann & Com- pany. In 1887 he entered the employ of Lewis Meier and Company, in which his brother, Louis Buschmann, was an inter- ested partner. The business was founded
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by Lewis Meier. Charles L. Buschmann took a keen interest in every department of the business, familiarized himself with its details, and on merit was advanced from one responsibility to another until in 1901 he was made vice president and general manager. In that year the business was in- corporated. Louis. Buschmann, brother of Charles L., died in 1898, and Lewis Meier passed away in 1901. In 1901 Henry Severin bought the Meier interests, and Mr. Charles L. Buschmann and his broth- ers acquired the remaining interests, though the original title was retained and its prosperity has continued to advance. The president of the company is Henry Severin, Charles L. Buschmann is vice president and general manager, and Theo Seuel is secretary and treasurer.
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