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Doctor Montgomery is a member of the St. Joseph County and Indiana State Med- ical societies, the Tri-State Medical So- ciety, and the American Medical Associa- tion. He is now serving as health com- missioner of St. Joseph County.
CHESTER RILAND MONTGOMERY, judge of the St. Joseph Superior Court, is one of the distinguished younger lawyers of Northern Indiana, and entered upon the duties of his present office well qualified both by experience and thorough knowl- edge of the law.
Judge Montgomery was born November 13, 1881, at Wakarusa, Elkhart County, Indiana. When he was a year old his par- ents moved to South Bend. He is the son
of Dr. Hugh T. Montgomery, whose long life and services are made a matter of rec- ord on other pages of this publication. As is told in that record Judge Montgomery is descended from a long line of Norman English ancestors, and his Americanism extends back over 212 centuries. Judge Montgomery represents some of the sturd- iest qualities of the old time pioneers of the wilderness who had the courage and the enterprise to blaze new trails into the west and stand guard on the frontiers of civilization.
Following his course in the South Bend High School Mr. Montgomery attended Wabash College at Crawfordsville and Knox College at Galesburg, Illinois. He , studied law in Washington University at St. Louis, and immediately after his grad- uation began practice in South Bend. He soon answered the call to public responsi- bilities in the line of his profession and in 1910 was elected prosecuting attorney for the Sixtieth Judicial Circuit. By re- election he held that office for eight years, and proved one of the most capable and courageous prosecutors St. Joseph County ever had. It was largely his splendid rec- ord in that office which brought him elec- tion as judge of the St. Joseph Superior Court in 1918. His term as judge began January 1, 1919.
Judge' Montgomery married Miss Jessa- mond Wasson of Galesburg, Illinois. They are the parents of two children, John Was- son and Jane Brownlee. Judge Mont- gomery is a democrat, is affiliated with South Bend Lodge No. 294, Free and Ac- cepted Masons, South Bend Chapter No. 29, Royal Arch Masons, and is an Elk, Knight of Pythias, and an Eagle. He be- longs to the St. Joseph County Bar Asso- ciation and also to the Indiana Bar Associa- tion.
GEORGE W. HARTMAN. It was from the soil and as an industrious tiller thereof that George W. Hartman of Westville won his prosperity, and by equally efficient re- lationship with the community has long enjoyed their regard as a citizen.
Mr. Hartman was born near the village of Kouts in Porter County, Indiana, March 6, 1857. His father, Christopher Hart- man, was born in Hesse-Darmstadt, Ger- many. December 31, 1824. He grew up on a German farm, had a common school
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education, and was a farmer in his native land until about 1850, when he came to America. He was on the ocean six weeks, and after a brief stay in New York went west to Milwaukee, from there to Chicago which was still a small city, and finding no prospects in the West returned to New York. Later he went to Michigan City, and for a time was employed by the Mich- igan Central Railway Company hauling wood for fuel, wood being burned by the locomotives instead of coal. Afterward for a time he was in the employ of the Pan- handle Railway. He worked at small wages, and by the greatest economy he ac- quired capital and equipment which enab- led him to start out as a farmer. From 1854 to 1866 he made his home in Porter County and afterward moved to Westville, where he died at the age of seventy-seven. He was reared a Lutheran and was always an adherent of that faith and in politics was a republican.
Christopher Hartman married Mary E. Barnes, who was born at Dexter, Maine, and died April 5, 1902, at the age of sixty- five. Her husband died October 29,:1900. She was member of one of the notable pio- neer families of LaPorte County. Her parents were Ivory and Elmira Barnes, who came from Maine to LaPorte County in early days. Ivory Barnes was an ex- pert axman, and when sawmills were not numerous he employed his skill in hewing timber, and no doubt worked out the tim- ber that entered into the frame of many huildings still standing in LaPorte and Porter counties. He spent his last days in Westville and died at the age of seventy- six. Mrs. Christopher Hartman, who died at the age of sixty-five, was a sister of George W. Barnes, who according to local histories was the first settler in Galena Township of LaPorte County, establishing his home there about 1833. The first town- ship election was held in his house. He was a man of uncommon nerve and force of character, and was one of the worthiest of the pioneers of that section of the state. Christopher Hartman and wife had three children : George W., Olive Jane, and Wil- liam T.
George W. Hartman attended a rural school taught in a one room building with home made furniture, and also had some of the advantages of the schools at West- ville. When only thirteen he chose to be- come self-supporting, and he has always
relied upon hard work and industry as the sure road to prosperity. The first farm he was able to acquire was a mile and a half northwest of Westville. He sold that and bought the Barr farm, which he occu- pied seventeen years, and then bought the place where he now lives on the Lincoln Highway a mile west of Westville. He has made many improvements on his land and has always borne the reputation of being one of the high class farmers of that com- munity.
April 10, 1894, Mr. Hartman married Elsie A. Chase. She was born in Polk County, Iowa, March 16, 1869, daughter of Charles and Mary A. (Herrold) Chase. Her father was born in New York State October 7, 1828, went to Michigan with his parents in 1840, moved to Iowa in 1859, and while there enlisted and served three years in the Union Army as a member of the Seventh Iowa Infantry. He was sev- eral times captured and was confined in both Libby and Andersonville prisons. He came of a military family, five of his brothers and two of his brothers-in-law being soldiers in the same war.
Mrs. Hartman died in 1910. In 1913 Mr. Hartman married Ida Ullom, of Cass Township, LaPorte County, daughter of William and Hannah (Dowd) Ullom. Her father was born in Athens County, Ohio, of early German ancestry, while her mother was of Scotch-Irish ancestry. Mrs. Hart- man is a member of the Methodist Episco- pal Church. Mr. Hartman is affiliated with Westville Lodge No. 309, Knights of Pythias, with Westville Lodge No. 136, In- dependent Order of Odd Fellows, and has filled all the chairs in the Odd Fellows Lodge and been a delegate to the Grand Lodge six times. He is a republican and has filled the office of road supervisor and served as a member of the Westville Town Council.
A HOOSIER'S WAR RECORD By Hector Fuller
The cities have been decorated ; triumphal arches have been erected; banners have flown and militant bands have played. North, South, East, and West the paved streets have echoed the steady rythm of the marching feet of the soldiers returned from a victorious war! Their duty is done; their honors are recorded, and still we mourn for those who shall return no more !
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But, as "the tumult and the shouting dies" we have time to look about and give thought to those soldiers of peace who "carried on" while the more obvious he- roes fought in Flanders Fields. Each city of them all claims-and with right-that it helped to win the war, but though the final verdict is not yet-it will take the mellow- ing hand of time to judge-Chicago's part is undisputed.
And, always, the spirit of any city is the spirit of a man! Some one shall al- ways dominate; the place of leadership shall always be filled. It was Ole Hanson who by his brave stand against the Bol- shevick tendencies of the Industrial Work- ers of the World made Seattle famous; it was Mitchel, mayor of New York, who, fly- ing to his heroic death, placed that metropo- lis on the map of the Great War. It was William H. Rankin and his "Chicago Plan' that placed Chicago in the forefront of American cities that did their noble part in making the world safe for democracy.
By now everybody knows him-William H. Rankin, the auburn-haired boy of New Albany, Indiana. His intimates call him "'The Lamplighter"? after the famous novel of our boyhood days, for he began his career by lighting the street lamps of his home, Hoosier, town; and like so many Hoosiers he has been spreading the gospel of light ever since.
You can't beat them, these Hoosiers; they are all of the same fighting and writ- ing stock. There was James Whitcomb Riley, who began life as a sign-painter and who cavorted like a clown with an Indian- medicine show, to end the great poet of his times and honored of all men. There is Meredith Nicholson, who began as a police reporter to arrive at the status of the pop- ular novelist of his day. - There was Lew Wallace, whom they shipped to Constant- inople only to have him come back with "Ben Hur," the greatest religious story of the ages. There are hundreds of oth- ers, but these stand out, and prominent in the galaxy of efficient Hoosiers stands the name of William H. Rankin.
When the war broke out Rankin had al- ready risen to a foremost place among the advertising experts of America. He had won it by hard-won knowledge and effi- ciency, He had handled millions of dol- lars, spent under his direction for advertis- ing space, and he was a firm believer in the
all-American doctrine of "It pays to ad- vertise."
So it was that when in the confusion of the early days of the war there had to be co-ordination of effort to help the govern- ment, it was William H. Rankin who evolved the ideas that saved the day. It was he who taught the government and the nation to advertise. It was the steady and persistent and well-placed advertising that made the people see and realize just what the nation required if the war was to be speedily and efficiently won.
It was in connection with securing mem- bers for the Red Cross and the sale of Liberty Bonds that Mr. Rankin came for- ward first with what he modestly called "The Chicago Plan"" of advertising, but which was-as all are willing to concede now-really the Rankin Plan. He was onel of the body of advertising men who called on Secretary of the Treasury Mc- Adoo and assured him that the advertising men of America were behind him to a man. Congress when it provided for the issue of Liberty Bonds made no provision for ad- vertising the sale of these bonds, and Wil- liam H. Rankin was keen enough to see that no such tremendous proposition in- volving billions of dollars could hope to be successful without advertising. As the government had no money with which to pay for the advertising some way had to be found. That was Rankin's way.
The business men of the country were asked to contribute millions of dollars in cash and part of their advertising space al- ready contracted for; to donate it to the service of the nation. The first page of copy was written by Mr. Rankin's partner, our own Wilbur D. Nesbit, and was in- serted in the Chicago Tribune May 2. 1917; it was paid for by Thomas E. Wilson, president of Wilson and Company. This was an advertisement calling for help for the Red Cross and it was answered by nearly 20,000 people, each of whom con- tributed from $1 to $100. Forty-five other Chicago business men followed Mr. Wilson's example, with the result that sub- scriptions 'came in for $650,000 in cash and 416,000 new members were enrolled.
This wonderful success in Chicago stim- ulated the rest of the country. The Asso- ciated Advertising Clubs of the World in convention in St. Louis adopted "The Chi- cago Plan," with the result that the Gov-
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ernment organized a Division of Advertis- ing patterned after the Rankin idea of getting the patriotic business men of the country to volunteer advertising space, or else pay for additional space to aid the Government in winning the war.
The plan created nearly $10,000,000 worth of newspaper, magazine, bill board, painted sign and trade paper advertising for the Government. As "The Fourth Es- tate" so aptly summed up this work: "The publishers and advertisers of the country owe a debt of gratitude to Mr. Rankin for this. It is a national object lesson, the ef- feet of this will be felt in all lines of busi- ness." And it has been!
In scores of governmental campaigns the influence of Mr. Rankin was felt. The pioneer work he did in the Red Cross and early Liberty Loan campaigns was felt through all that followed. It was the Ran- kin idea that put over the "Smileage Books" that brought delight and happiness to our fighting men even within reach of the shot and shell of the enemy. It was the Rankin idea that aided Provost Mar- shal General Crowder to get together the needed number of fighting men under the Selective Service Law, so that Carl Byoir, of the Committee on Public Information in Washington wrote:
"Only one man with an irresistible and confident optimism maintained against all objection that the thing could be done. It will be part of the everlasting glory of the advertising profession in America that the thing was done-that the greatest advertis- ing campaign of the war was the campaign for registration under the second Selective Service Law, and that instead of a deficit of names at the close of the campaign there were over 400,000 more men who had sig- nified their willingness to serve their coun- try under arms than the most optimistic estimate of the Provost Marshal General had called for.
"If I were asked to name the men who without title of honor or distinction de- voted himself most completely to the ser- vice of war time advertising I could not honestly mention any other name than that of William H. Rankin."
So, there can be no doubt but that an- other Hoosier has climbed the pinnacle to distinction.
Of course this does not tell the whole
story, for Rankin's activities in patriotic advertising touched practically every im- portant development of war times. Mr. Rankin prepared advertising under his "idea" for the War Savings Stamps; he designed and prepared advertising to aid in Hoover's campaign for conserving wheat; he made the great financiers, the largest advertising merchants, the leaders of the great industries see what wonders could be wrought by advertising courage. His own unalterable belief and bravery in the face of grim discouragements heart- ened up the entire business world and forced it to take a finer outlook and more courageous view.
And high as William H. Rankin stands in the business world of Chicago, it is still a young man who has won such success for himself and for his city. He has only just celebrated his forty-first birthday- the celebration was held in his native town of New Albany, and telegrams from all the world arrived there to do him honor on the occasion. As has been said, he be- gan to earn money by lighting the street lamps of New Abany, then he sold news- papers ; then he drove a grocery wagon for $2 a week. Then he became a stenogra- pher, but not a very good one; that is per- haps why he is, with the firm of Rankin and Company, of which he is president, employing about 100 good stenographers. Next he tried to be a railroad man, and here he came into contact wiht the Young Men's Christian Association, for which, since, he has done so much. It was in handling the Young Men's Christian Asso- ciation exhibitions that he first realized that the only way to get people to support a canse was through advertising and he published a paper, "The Young Men," in which he always insisted on giving the ad- vertiser full value for his money.
This minor newspaper experience led him to Indianapolis and the Star League of newspapers, which he left to become ad- vertising manager for the Bobbs-Merrill Company, the publishers of all of James Whitcomb Riley's works. His debut in Chicago was made two years later when he became western manager of the Street Rail- ways Advertising Company. It was in 1908 that he was made vice president of the Mahin Advertising Company, and when John Lee Mahin wanted to move to New York Mr. Rankin with his associates,
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Wilbur D. Nesbit, H. A. Groth, and Rob- ert E. Rinehart, bought the Mahin busi- ness and it turned into the William H. Rankin Company, now one of the staunch- est advertising companies in America.
But it is not alone in the measure of his own success that William H. Rankin counts ; the work he has done counts as a success for Chicago; it is his individuality backing up his creative "ideas" that en- titles Chicago to so large a credit in its work of winning the war.
And the gain that has been made to Chi- cago through the work of Mr. Rankin is all the finer because it has always been a gain of high and lofty ideals. He might take for his motto that line of Robert Louis Stevenson : "The salary in any business un- der heaven is not the only nor, indeed, the' first question. But that your business should be first honest and, second, useful, are points in which honor and morality are concerned."
Mr. Rankin is a member of Chicago Ath- letic, Midday, Chicago Yacht Club, Chi- cago Advertising Association, Skokie, Evanston and Olympia Fields Country Club; also the Manhattan Club of New York and Columbia Club of Indianapolis.
He is happily married, the proud father of three boys and two girls. His residence is 1100 Judson Avenue, Evanston; busi- ness addresses, 104 South Michigan Ave- nue, Chicago, 50 Madison Avenue, New York, and 610 Riggs Building, Washing- ton.
F. H. BADET. There was a time, un- doubtedly now past, when the bulk of all the toys that make a happy make-believe world for American children of all ranks were manufactured in European countries. The industry was neglected in the United States hecause the cheapness of foreign la- bor halted competition, rather than a lack of native inventive and executive talent. New England, however, finally led the way into toy manufacturing, and an extensive business along this line is now being done, being greatly accelerated in the past few years. South Bend can claim one of the largest factories in this industry in the United States, operating under the name of the South Bend Toy Manufacturing Company, of which F. H. Badet is presi- dent.
F. H. Badet is of New England birth
and of French ancestry. His great-grand- father, Capt. Pierre Badet, was the com- mander of a French merchantman when his vessel was captured off the New Eng- land coast by an English man-of-war near the close of the Revolutionary war. Cap- tain Badet was released at New London, Connecticut, and finding his surroundings agreeable, decided to establish his perma- nent home there, where he subsequently married and became a man of consequence. He was the founder of a family that has been honorably represented here ever since.
F. H. Badet was born at New London, Connecticut, August 30, 1848. His par- ents were Henry S. and Elizabeth H. (Par- melee) Badet. Henry S. Badet was born at New London in 1819, and died there in March, 1905. He was a son of Thomas S. and Harriet (Butler) Badet, both natives of Connecticut, dying at New London about 1855. Henry S. Badet spent his en- tire life in his native place and there en- gaged in the grocery business. In his po- litical life he was a republican and frater- nally he was a Mason. He was a man of sterling character, honest and upright, and was a member of the First Congregational Church. He married Elizabeth H. Parme- lee, who was born at Durham, Connecticut, in July, 1822, and died at South Bend, In- diana, in 1909. They had the following children : F. H .; Evelyn, the wife of W. A. Bngbee, who conducts an abstract and title business at South Bend ; Caroline, who died at New London; Jennie, the widow of J. Vanden Bosch, who was a manufac- turer of furniture at South Bend; and Alice W., who resides at South Bend.
F. H. Badet was about sixteen years old when he left the New London High School to go into his father's grocery store, and he remained in that connection for nine years. In 1874 he came to South Bend and with J. W. Teel embarked in the busi- ness of manufacturing croquet sets and baseball bats. The venture proved very successful and soon their helping force of one employe grew to eight and then to ten, and in 1883 the business was incorpor- ated as the South Bend Toy Manufactur- ing Company to cover the widened field of their products. In addition to their first manufactured articles the factory now turns out boys' wagons, shoe-fly horses, children's tables and chairs and doll car- riages and numerous other toys for which
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there is an increasing demand. The facil- ities of the factory have been greatly in- creased and 'both offices and plant are on High Street, the, latter occupying seven acres of land along the New York Central tracks. About 400 workmen are employed and toys are shipped all over the United States and provision is being made for heavy business abroad. The officers of the company are: F. H. Badet, president ; H. S. Badet, treasurer; and F. S. Chrisman, secretary.
F. H. Badet was married at New Lon- don, Connecticut, September 5, 1876, to Miss Harriet Spencer, a daughter of the late John O. and Mary J. (Winchester) Spencer. The father of Mrs. Badet was mail agent for many years on the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad. Mr. and Mrs. Badet have one son, Harry S., who is treasurer of the South Bend Toy Manufacturing Company. After being graduated from the high school of South Bend he spent two years in Purdue Uni- versity and then entered into his present business. He married Miss Edna Prass, and they have two children, Barbara, who was born November 7, 1915, and Harry, Jr., born March 7, 1918.
F. H. Badet is one of South Bend's leading business men. In addition to his manufacturing interests he is vice presi- dent and a director of the South Bend Na- tional Bank and a director of the First National Bank. Among his valuable pieces of property at South Bend is his handsome modern residence on South Main Street, which was built in 1890. In politics he is a republican but has never been unduly active outside of good citizenship, and the only public capacities in which he has con- sented to serve have been as vice president and a director of the Riverview Cemetery Association. He is a valued member of the Chamber of Commerce and the Commer- cial Athletic Club. Since youth Mr. Badet has been a member of the Presbyterian Church, and belongs to the First Presby- terian at South Bend, in which he is a member of the board of elders. His busi- ness career at South Bend has covered forty-four years and is one that not only reflects credit upon his ability and enter- prise, but has brought capital and desir- able notoriety to his city.
CURTIS W. BALLARD has been a resident of Jeffersonville over thirty years, and in
that time has come to represent as many important interests in the city and in Clark County as probably any other one individual.
Mr. Ballard was born in Shelby County, Kentucky, October 13, 1868. His paternal ancestors came originally from France and settled in Virginia in colonial times. His grandfather, Camdon Ballard, was a native of Oldham County, Kentucky, and died at LaGrange in that state at the age of sixty years. He was a man of more than local prominence, served as a member of the State Senate, and helped write one of the constitutions of Kentucky. He mar- ried Lavinia Raley, who also spent her life in Kentucky and died, at LaGrange at the age of eighty-eight.
W. J. Ballard, father of Curtis W., was born in Oldham County, Kentucky, in 1847 and is now a resident of Chicago. He grew up in Oldham County and when a boy enlisted in the Union army, in the Fifteenth Kentucky Infantry. He was all through the war, and among other engage- ments was at Shiloh, Lookout Mountain, and Missionary Ridge and at Gettysburg. After the war he returned to Shelby County, was married there, and for four years served as deputy under his brother, John T. Ballard, county clerk. Later he was in the mail service at Washington, D. C., and has been connected with the postal service ever since. He is now mail agent for the United States Government and has had his home and headquarters at Chicago for the past six years. In politics he is a sterling republican. W. J. Ballard mar- ried Mary Moody, who was born in Shelby County, Kentucky, in 1847. Curtis W. is the older of their two children. John A. is a farmer in Jeffersonville Township, In- điana.
Curtis W. Ballard was reared in Shelby County, Kentucky, and at the age of eight- cen graduated from a collegiate institute at Shelbyville. Up to the age of twenty he farmed with his grandfather in Shelby County, and in 1887 moved to Jefferson- ville, Indiana, where his interests have since' been centered. Mr. Ballard for' up- wards of twenty years was connected with the American Car and Foundry Company at Jeffersonville. In 1904 he was elected a representative to the Legislature on the democratic ticket, being chosen in a year which was predominantly republican. "He was one of the nineteen democrats in the
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