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House of Representatives in the session of 1905. He continued to be active in poli- tics and in 1906 was elected county clerk of Clark County. His term of office began February 24, 1908. He was re-elected in 1910,' and held the office eight years, until February, 1916.
On August 21, 1916, Mr. Ballard bought the Evening News and National Democrat of Jeffersonville, and has been publisher and proprietor of these well known and staunch old democratic organs ever since. The Evening News was established March 1, 1872, and the National Democrat in 1871, Both are democratic papers, the former being a daily paper and the latter a weekly. They serve as official papers in Clark County and have a large influence in molding public opinion all over South- ern Indiana. Mr. Ballard owns the build- ing, plant and offices at 25 Spring Street.
He is also a large property owner, own- ing a farm in Scott County, built one of the best private residences in Jeffersonville in 1913, and is owner of five other dwelling houses which he rents. Mr. Ballard is a member of the Methodist Church, is affil- iated with Jeffersonville Lodge No. 362, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, Clark Lodge No. 140, Ancient Free and Ac- cepted Masons, and Jeffersonville Lodge No. 268, Improved Order of Red Men. He is a past sachem of the Red Men and was a delegate to the National Conventions of the Order in 1913, 1914, and 1915.
July 15, 1911, at Indianapolis Mr. Bal- lard married Miss Fannie L. Williamson, daughter of John and Virginia (Quinkard) Williamson. Her father was a merchant and died at Louisville, Kentucky, where her mother is still living. Mrs. Ballard died at Jeffersonville November 12, 1918.
RICHARD LIEBER. At no time in half a century have such rigorous tasks been ap- plied to the quality and efficiency of Amer- ican citizenship. Citizenship formerly was largely a privilege, today it is a duty and responsibility. To be diligent in business, faithful in family and personal relation- ships, straightforward in action and pur- pose is not quite enough to expect of a loyal American. The admirable virtues of normal times must be supplemented by a positiveness in spirit, and a sacrifice of many other interests in behalf of the one
great and supreme need of the Govern- ment.
While Indiana has thousands of such self-sacrificing citizens there is much in- spiration and encouragement afforded by the case of Mr. Richard Lieber of Indian- apolis. Mr. Lieber is a native of Germany and represented one of the old families of Rhineland, and his father stood high in the confidence of both military and civil authorities in' the Fatherland. No coun- try in the world afforded more special ad- vantages and training to its selected class of youths, of which Richard Lieber was a 'privileged member. But he had a passion for individual development and expression of character, and from an early age could not be"in sympathy with a system, how- ever wonderful in its results, which super- imposed regulation of private life and con- duct from above.
As a boy Richard Lieber rebelled at the restrictions laid down for his guidance. He could not be restful under a system which planned the actions of his life in advance for him. Even at school he got into trou- ble with the authorities because he had ideas of his own which he dared divulge, and only the influence of his father saved him from punishment. As he grew up his views became more pronounced. He found it difficult to breathe freely under the en- vironment. He therefore went to England to pursue the English language and acquire a knowledge of the Government and social theories of that country. For a similar reason he came on to America. After due deliberation he decided that he had more talent as a "citizen than as a sub- ject." He therefore took out naturaliza- tion papers and foreswore his allegiance to the Kaiser. In America he found inde- pendence of thought and action that had been denied him as a boy. Possessed of a keen mind and indomitable energy, it was not long until he had become actively iden- tified with bettering the conditions of his adopted country. It has not been charac- teristic of Mr. Lieber as an Indianapolis citizen to adopt or be patient with half-way measures. He has given the full force of his energy to everything he has undertaken, and his career has been a most beneficial one to city and state.
His father, Otto Lieber, was born in Duesseldorf, Germany, March 24, 1825. He
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was reared and educated there, but com- pleted his higher training in Berlin. He was trained for the profession of surveyor and architect, and in that capacity, having entered government service, had the direc- tion of the building of roads, waterways, restoration of historic buildings and the general development of the country. In younger days he built the Saar Railway from Treves into Lorraine. While sta- tioned at St. Jean-Saarbruecken he was as- sociated with French officials in building the Rhine-Marne canal. He was a man of distinction in the matter of education, at- tainments, and culture. In civil capacity lie was privy counsellor to the interior government. He made only one visit to the United States, when he attended the World's Columbian Exposition at Chicago in 1893. His notes taken at the time are a classic on his observations of the United States. While stationed on the Moselle he met at Muelheim Maria Richter, whom he married in 1868. They had three children : Richard, Maria, and Hedwig. The two daughters and their mother still reside in Germany. Privy Counsellor Otto Lieber died in Germany August 8, 1897.
Richard Lieber was born at St. Jean- Saarbruecken, Germany, September 5, 1869. Much of his early education was under the direction of private tutors. As already indicated, this period of his life was a rather stormy one and he was more or less constantly in conflict with those in authority around him. In 1890, having reached the age of twenty-one, he went to England to live, but in 1891 came to the United States. During his stay in Eng- land his studies were directed toward ac- quiring a thorough knowledge of the Eng- lish language and theory of government. Mr. Lieber came direct to Indianapolis in February, 1891, and here for a time he was employed by the hardware firm of Francke & Schindler. Later he became interested in the development of coal tar products, and helped organize the Western Chemical Company. Possessed of a fine critical and literary ability he also engaged in news- paper work and was city editor of the In- dianapolis Tribune four years. His father- in-law, Philip Rappaport, was sole owner of that paper. Mr. Lieber was connected with the Tribune from 1893 to 1896. In the latter year he founded the firm of Richard Lieber & Company, importer of
wines and artificial mineral waters. . In the fall of 1905 this firm was merged with that of James R. Ross & Company, with which Mr. Lieber continued his active busi- ness connection until 1918.
As city editor of the Tribune Mr. Lieber made much of the May Music Festival, which gave a new and distinct impetus to the social life of Indianapolis. He was musical and at one time dramatic critic of the Indianapolis Journal in the days when what that paper said meant much in music circles. He also made many trips abroad and acted as foreign correspondent. As such he was the first to tell of the relief of Ladysmith during the Boer war. When Mayor Shank created an advisory commis- sion for the purpose of keeping the public and the mayor informed on the needs of the city, Mr. Lieber was a member of the commission, part of the time as secretary and chairman of the committee on public service. The result of his intelligent work brought about a saving of hundreds of thousands of dollars in the fire insurance bill of Indianapolis. This was attained largely through his efforts to create the Merchants and Manufacturers Bureau of Indianapolis, founded for the purpose of assuring equitable rates for policy holders and see that fire protection was thorough and adequate in the city. During his serv- ice Mr. Lieber succeeded in having motor vehicles introduced for the drawing of fire apparatus, and also led the movement for the establishment of the Salvage Corps. Many of his constructive plans have been the permanent model for subsequent muni- cipal activity. For three years he served as president of the old Indianapolis Trade Association, which later was merged with the Chamber of Commerce. He also served as executive member for the state on the currency commission. The value of his fight against national waste and his great interest in the commission of natural resources was acknowledged by his elec- tion as chairman of the local board of gov- ernors of the Fourth National Conservation Congress held in this city in 1912.
Mr. Lieber is a member of the National Executive Board of the North American Gymnastic Union, an organization that has accomplished a splendid work in educating American citizenship.
Governor Goodrich, the present Indiana executive, appointed Mr. Lieber secretary
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and executive officer of the State Board of Forestry of Indiana. Mr. Lieber not only has a broad knowledge of human cul- ture and the arts of music and literature, but for years has been an intimate com- panion of nature and the great out of doors. It was this interest and qualifications which made him peculiarly adapted for service on the State Board of Forestry. He resigned his own salary with that board in favor of a former expert member to perform the actual work. He is also mili- tary secretary to the governor and chief of his staff with rank of colonel. He and some of his associates have started a move- ment that has for its object the care of the soldiers who will come back from the war disabled. These men, to whom every Amer- ican community will owe so much, require exactly some such provision and foresighted care so that they may be reintegrated into society as self-sustaining and useful mem- bers.
Governor Ralston appointed Mr. Lieber member of the Turkey Run Commission for the purpose of saving that wonderland from the woodman's axe. He reorganized this commission, which eventually came under the control of the State Historical Commission. Its purpose was to establish parks, and in the centennial year 1916 it erected a visible monument commemorat- ing that event, when two properties were bought, McCormick's Creek Canyon in Owen County and Turkey Run on Sugar Creek in Parke County. These properties were turned over to the state and have been accepted hy Governor Goodrich, who ap- pointed Mr. Lieber chairman of the State Park Commission.
August 28, 1893, Mr. Lieber married Emma Rappaport. They have three chil- dren : Otto Walther, Ralph Willard and Marie Jeanette, the latter a student at Wellesley College, Massachusetts. Mr. Lieber enjoys the distinction of being the first dollar a year man in the state, while Mrs. Lieber has divided her time be- tween Red Cross home service and auxil- iary work to the soldiers of Indiana. Their. son Walther, in service since June, 1917, is first lieutenant and attached to the Judge Advocate's office of the American Expedi- tionary forces at General Headquarters, Chaumont, France.
FRANK MARION JONES has been a busi- ness man of Richmond many years, a dealer in agricultural implements, and is now head of the Jones & Farmers Company, dealers in agricultural implements and fer- tilizers.
He was born at Hillsboro, Ohio, May 9, 1864, son of A. D. and Susan (Schooler) Jones. He is of Scotch-Irish ancestry. For several generations the family lived in Vir- ginia. His grandfather was John Jones, who settled at Hillsboro, Ohio, in early days. A. D. Jones was the youngest of three sons and six daughters, and after his marriage moved to Owen County, Ken- tucky, where he spent the rest of his life. Frank Marion Jones had three brothers and one sister. He was only fourteen when his father died, and for several years he worked during the summer and continued schooling in the winter. Later he began teaching in country schools, and followed that occupation a number of years. He also opened a dry goods and grocery at Monterey, Kentucky, and sold goods for nineteen years. From Kentucky he came to Richmond, Indiana, and became secre- tary and treasurer and general manager of the McConiha Company, holding that posi- tion for thirteen years. He then organized the Jones & Williams Implement Company, but after three years bought out his part- ner, H. E. Williams, and continued the business as Jones & Farmers Company. This firm are the local representatives at Richmond and over most of Wayne County for the International Harvester Company, the John Deere Plow Company, the Ameri- can Steel and Wire Fence Company, and the Glohe Fertilizer Company. Mr. Jones retailed more of the Globe Fertilizer prod- ucts in one year than any other represen- tative, his total sales for one season aggre- gating eighty-two carloads.
In 1884 he married Miss Roxie Bourne, daughter of John M. Bourne of Kentucky. To their marriage were born three daugh- ters and one son. Mr. Jones is a republi- can, is affiliated with Webb Lodge of Masons, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and the First Baptist Church.
LUTHER DANA WATERMAN, M. D., who at the time of his death was professor emeritus of medicine in the Indiana Uni-
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versity School of Medicine, was an In- dianan whom members of his profession and cultured citizens of all classes will most frequently recall in coming generations as a matter of gratitude for kindly and pur- poseful influences that emanated from his life and also for the foundation which he so liberally provided under the name of "The Luther Dana Waterman Institute for Scientific Research."
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Doctor Waterman in May, 1915, placed in the hands of the trustees of Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, deeds for property amounting in value to $100,- 000 on the condition that after his death the proceeds from the property should be devoted to the establishment and perma- nent maintenance of an institute for scien- tific research and that the trustees would annually appropriate an amount equal to the income from his property to a similar purpose. This generous gift was accepted hy the trustees, who pledged the faith of the institution to carry out the conditions.
This act of Doctor Waterman was hailed as being the largest gift for scientific re- search ever made in Indiana. The gift was made as the result of a long cherished plan on the part of Doctor Waterman, and with a minimum of restrictions which might interfere with its most effective use. He gave it with the understanding that the money was to be used for general scientific research covering as wide a field as possible, and that it should be spent in Indiana Uni- versity, but aside from this the trustees were to be left a free hand in the manage- ment of the fund.
It is only rarely that a man comes to the close of a long life with character and serv- ices that justify such a tribute as was paid to Doctor Waterman by President Bryan, who took Doctor Waterman's life as the theme of his address to the senior class in June, 1915. Everything spoken by Doctor Bryan at that time was echoed responsively and sincerely by all who knew the simplic- ity and nobility of Doctor Waterman's life. The address of tribute by Doctor Bryan was as follows :
"I wish to say a few words to the oldest member of our faculty-Dr. Luther Dana Waterman, professor of medicine emeritus. "Surgeon in the Federal Army, prisoner of war at Macon and Charleston, in civil life physician and professor of medicine, you have in eighty-four years won position
and honors and fortune such that many would for them sacrifice everything else in the world. But I wish these, my children, to see that you have made your way up to a great practical success without sacrific- ing everything else in the world. You have not sacrificed your interest in the worlds that lie outside your vocation as physician. Most men of every calling are caught with- in the trap of their own business. Not you. You have escaped that trap. You have traveled far among men and books and ideas,. You are not of those who bear a title from the college of liberal arts and are yet aliens from its spirit. In the world of the liberal arts you are a citizen. You are friend with Plato and Virgil and Dar- win and their kind. You know that these are not dead names in the academic cata- logue, but living forces and makers of society: In that world you have spoken your own word in verses which are reso- lutely truthful, discriminating and brave. The joy of living as you have done in the wide, free and glorious world of the liberal arts is such that many for it have sacrificed everything else, including that practical success which you have not sacrificed.
"But besides your successes inside and beyond your calling you have had another fortune. Long ago there came to you an idea. You had lived from the days of the tallow candle and a thousand things which went with that to the days of the electric light and a thousand things which go with that. Within your lifetime you had seen an incredible access of power, enlighten- ment and freedom, from the discovery of truth of which all preceding generations had been ignorant. You had then the in- sight, the conviction that the Great Charity is the discovery of truth, which is thence- forth light and power and freedom for all men. This conviction became your deepest purpose. Thirty-two years ago you wrote : He who would make his life a precious thing
Must nurse a kindly purpose in his soul. These lines were your confession. There was a secret purpose- which you were cher- ishing. You worked for that, You saved for that. For that you had the secret joy. of living sparely, austerely as a soldier.
"""Sir, you have no son. But the scholars who work upon the foundation which you have established here shall be your sons. Far down the years when all of us are in
Joe Beatty Burtt
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the dust your virile sons shall be here keep- ing alive your name and your hope. And so shall be fulfilled your saying that-They live longest in the future who have truest kept the purposes of life."
With these things to serve as an interpre- tation of his life and spirit the ordinary facts of biography can be, simply and briefly, told., Doctor Waterman was born November 21, 1830, at Wheeling, Virginia, now West Virginia, From 1832 to 1855 he lived in Ohio, and during that time was a student at Miami University four years. He also taught school, studied medicine, and graduated from the Medical College of Ohio at Cincinnati in 1853. Coming to Indiana in 1855, his home was at Kokomo ten years. However, during that time he went to what was then the northwest fron- tier, and at Mankato, Minnesota, estab -. lished the first newspaper, The Independ- ent. In August, 1861, he was commissioned. surgeon of the Thirty-Ninth Regiment, In- diana Volunteers, by Governor Morton, , and was with the army as surgeon over three years. During that time he was medical director of the Second Division of the Twentieth Corps, Army of the Cumber- land, then medical director of the First Division of the same corps, and for one month, owing to the absence of superior officers, was medical director of corps under Gen. Phil Sheridan. His two months as a prisoner of war was spent at Macon, Geor- gia, and Charleston, South Carolina.
Doctor Waterman removed to Indian- apolis in May, 1865, and that city was ever afterward his home. He was in his eighty- eighth year when he died June 30, 1918. Doctor Waterman was a charter organizer of the old Indiana Medical College, served four years as professor of anatomy and was then professor of the principles and practice of medicine. For two or three years he was one of the surgeons of the Indianapolis City Hospital. He was for a time secretary of the State Medical Society, and in 1878 was its president. His address on "Economy and Necessity of a State Board of Health" started the state wide movement, which led to the establishment of that board. The Medical Society printed 5,000 copies of the address for public dis- tribution. Doctor Waterman retired in' 1893, after forty years of practice of medi- cine and surgery, and for the twenty-five years following his life was remarkable for
its activities both physical and mental. His many varied interests in the field of litera- ture and scholarship have been previously referred to. His work as a poet is best known to the public through his book of verse, entitled "Phantoms of Life," pub- lished in 1883.
JOE BEATTY BURTT was born in Indiana and lived in this state until he went to Chicago to practice law thirty years ago. Mr, Burtt is not an ordinary lawyer. The interest attaching to his career is due not merely to his successful handling of a large volume of practice nor to the conventional affiliations, most good and able lawyers form. Mr. Burtt is one of that increasing number of lawyers who recognize their profession not as a privilege but as a re- sponsibility. One of the greatest Ameri- can law teachers has recently, called atten- tion to the fact that too many young men preparing for the profession adopt the at- titude that the law is no more than a trade, an occupation, a business, like any other means of livelihood ... He brands. this a fundamental error. "The law," he says, "as a pursuit is not a trade. It is a pro- fession. It ought to signify for its follow- ers a mental and moral setting apart from the multitude-a priesthood of justice." The recognition of this principle has been the long and consistent attitude of Mr. Burtt, and in the fact that he is what might be called a "practical idealist" in his pro- fession and has devoted and is devoting the best efforts of his life to humanitarian movements, particularly in fraternal edu- cation, crime prevention, conciliation, and arbitration, and in prevention of injustice and oppression, his career has a genuine distinction.
Mr. Burtt was born in Clark County, Indiana, in 1862, son of Eli and Paulina (Hardin) Burtt. His character seems re- flected from the personalities of his ances- tors. The Burtts came originally from Lincolnshire, England, and first located in Maryland. Since pioneer days the family has lived in Clark County, Indiana. Mr. Burtt's grandfather, Amasa Burtt, before his death requested that no tombstone be erected over his grave, and that the money for that purpose be used to educate some child. Mr. Burtt's father, though never having had school advantages, was in real- ity a man of genuine education and a firm
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believer in schools and useful training, and made every sacrifice to give his children all the advantages in his power. In dif- ferent generations the Burtts have lived long and useful lives, and left an impress for good on their respective communities.
Joe Beatty Burtt grew up on a farm a mile and a half from Utica. He attended the Franklin schoolhouse at Utica and at the age of nineteen entered Oberlin Col- lege, Ohio, where he spent four years as a student. In 1886 he entered the Univer- sity of Michigan, taking the junior and senior years of the literary department, graduating in the class of 1888 and finish- ing his law course in the same institution in 1889. He left the farm with barely the equipment of a common school educa- tion, and completed his college work of nine years in seven years.
Unlike many young college graduates he knew where he was going and what he was going to do before his diploma from the University of Michigan was in his hands. On June 28, 1889, he arrived in Chicago, and his home has been there ever since. His first employment was in a law office at a salary of six dollars a week. About the middle of September, 1889, he was given a place at forty dollars a month in the law office of Mr. Sidney C. Eastman, since then referee in bankruptcy. In March, 1890, Mr. Burtt married Anna H. Gurney, of Hart, Michigan.
March 1, 1891, he formed a partnership with Mark R. Sherman, and their interest- ing and profitable association continued for over eleven years, until May 1, 1902. On May 19, 1903, after a period of practice alone, Mr. Burtt formed a law partnership with Frank L. Kriete. In October, 1907, George H. Kriete, a brother, was taken into the firm, under the name Burtt, Kriete & Kriete. In September, 1908, Charles L. Mahony came into the partnership, the title being changed to Mahony, Burtt, Kriete & Kriete. Since October, 1912, Mr. Burtt has practiced alone.
As already noted, Mr. Burtt has put most value upon those things he has been able to accomplish through his profession for the general good of humanity. Like the good physician who willingly prevents disease and thereby lessens the financial returns from his work, Mr. Burtt's long continued activities in crime prevention and the prevention of needless or unjust
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