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followed by a year in Professor Holbrook's Normal University of Lebanon, Ohio. There was still another year of teaching to his credit, and in the meantime he was studying medicine with his cousin Dr. Gudgel, and then entered the Louisville Medical College after having attended lec- tures for a year in Evansville Medical Col- lege.
Dr. Pritchett received his medical dip- loma at Louisville in 1889, and at once re- turned to Evansville, where he spent a year as interne in the Marine Hospital. He then began general practice with offices on Second Avenue, and has continued steadily in his professional labors ever since. He is a highly esteemed member of the County Medical Society, also of the Indiana and American Medical Associations. He Is affiliated with St. George Lodge, Knights of Pythias, and is a member of Bayard Park Methodist Episcopal Church. In 1889 he married Matilda E. Keuhn, a na- tive of Evansville and daughter of August Keuhn.
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CARL D. KINSEY. Indiana people who keep themselves informed on current mu- sical activities and organizations are aware that it is a native Hoosier who is vice pres- ident and manager of the Chicago Musical College, the largest institution of its kind in the United States, and he has perhaps even wider fame through his long service with the Chicago Apollo Club and more recently as manager of the North Shore Music Festival Association.
Mr. Kinsey was born at Fort Wayne in 1879, son of John F. and Emily (Zimmer- man) Kinsey. He took up the study of music when only six years of age. He was also liberally educated in science and literature, attending Purdue University at Lafayette. Mr. Kinsey is a graduate of the Chicago Musical College, where he spe- cialized in piano, with the class of 1898. After that he took up organ study with Harrison M. Wild, and subsequently be- came manager of the Chicago Apollo Club, a famous organization which had deserved national fame. Then some years ago Mr. Kinsey organized the North Shore Music Festival Association at Evanston, and as manager has supervised what for a num- ber of years has been perhaps the crowning musical event in the Middle West. This association, which has its annual program
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in May of each year, embraces a chorus of six hundred voices, with a children's chorus of fifteen hundred.
Though one of the younger men in mu- sical affairs Mr. Kinsey is undoubtedly one of those who have contributed most to the development of musical art and education in the country tributary to Chicago. It is a special tribute to his energies and abilities that he is vice president and man- ager and one of the directors of the Chi- cago Musical College. This institution, founded in 1867, by Dr. Ziegfeld, has had a continuous growth and development, scarcely impeded by the great fire of 1871, and for many years had its home in the famous Central Music Hall of Chicago, and is now housed in a special building of its own, one of the most conspicuous struc- tures fronting Michigan Avenue. In the half century of its existence the Chicago Musical College has trained and has in- finenced through both its pupils and its staff of teachers probably a larger section of musical taste in the Middle West than all other institutions combined.
Mr. Kinsey married Miss Edwina Du- plaine, of Chicago. They have two chil- dren, Myron and Letitia Kinsey.
SAMUEL A. HARPER is a native of In- diana and won his first cases as a lawyer at Auburn. For the past seventeen years he has practiced in Chicago, with a steadily growing fame as a lawyer and author, and particularly for his constructive work in the field of social legislation. He is one of the notable Indianans of Chicago.
Mr. Harper was born at Orland Septem- ber 7, 1875, a son of Chester S. and Emma (Taylor) Harper. He received his early education in the Waterloo High School of this state, attended the Kent College of Law at Chicago in 1895, and from 1896 to 1899 was a student in the literary and law departments of the University of Michi- gan. He received his LL. B. degree in 1899. From the latter year until 1901 he practiced at Auburn with Frank S. Roby under the firm name of Roby and Harper. Judge Roby, his associate, was later a justice of the Appellate Court of Indiana. Mr. Harper served as chief deputy prose- cuting attorney for the Thirty-fifth Ju- dicial District, Steuben and DeKalb coun- ties, in 1899 and 1900. He removed to Chicago in 1901.
He has specialized in the law of insur- ance and represents several insurance com- panies as general counsel. He served as assistant attorney, under Governor · Yates, of the Illinois State Insurance Department from 1901 to 1903, and was attorney for the Illinois Department of Factory Inspec- tion, 1904-08. In 1910 he was appointed attorney for the Illinois Commission on Workmen's Compensation.
Mr. Harper is a recognized authority on workmen's compensation insurance and systems. He studied these systems abroad in 1910. He originated the present form of elective system of workmen's compensa- tion, with the coercive provision abolishing common law defenses, a plan that has since been adopted in most of the states of the Union, and which, despite the earlier opin- ion of some noted authorities, has been sustained by all the courts. As attorney for the Illinois Commission on Occupational Diseases, Mr. Harper drafted one of the first occupational disease laws ever adopted in America. He has been identified with · the preparation of most of the laws of Il- linois for social and industrial betterment. He was associated with Louis D. Brandeis, now of the United States Supreme Court, in representing the State of Illinois in the Supreme Court in the test case of the Illinois Woman's Ten-Hour Law. This was one of the early cases which sustained legislation enacted for the protection of women workers.
In 1909 Governor Deneen appointed him secretary and attorney for the Illinois In- dustrial Commission. Mr. Harper is a man of very wide interests and activities. He is a director of the Illinois Society for Mental Hygiene; member of the Board of Managers of the Chicago Law Institute, 1909 to 1912: is a member of the Ameri- can, Illinois State and Chicago Bar Asso- ciations, the Illinois Audubon Society, the Indiana Society of Chicago, is a Knight of Pythias, and belongs to the Hamilton Club, being one of the directors from 1917 to 1920, the Prairie Club, and the Maywood Club, which he served as president in 1910- 11, the Maywood Bird Club, of which he is president. These latter memberships in- dicate Mr. Harper's chief recreation aside from his profession. He has studied bird life for many years, and by the same token is a lover of all outdoors and when out to enjoy nature he prefers walking to mo-
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toring. Mr. Harper is author of "Harper on Workmen's Compensation," (Callag- han) of "Twelve Months with the Birds and Poets," (Seymour), and of numerous contributions to legal and literary journals. His home is in the attractive wooded suburb of Chicago, River Forest, and his offices are at 220 South State Street. March 30, 1904, he married Miss Mary C. McKibbin, of Mckeesport, Pennsylvania. They have one son, Samuel, Jr.
GILBERT H. HENDREN. While his legal residence is in Greene County, where he has lived since boyhood and where he still owns a good farm, Gilbert H. Hendren for the past eight years has been an official resident of Indianapolis. He was for six years state examiner of the State Board of Accounts and also state examiner for the Department of Inspection and Supervision of Public Offices.
Mr. Hendren is the type of official whose personality and ability are broader than his office. He has in fact achieved national distinction in devising and standardizing accounting systems for state, municipal and county offices, and his writings and reports on these subjects are found in almost every library in this country and abroad devoted to municipal and public accounting. Since taking his position as state examiner in 1913 it has been estimated that his work in devising and standardizing accounting systems and bringing about reforms in the method of expenditure of public moneys has saved millions of dollars to the State of Indiana.
Mr. Hendren has been indefatigable in his labor in this work. Much of the time he has worked both day and night, and only the strong physical and mental organiza- tion with which he is endowed could with- stand such a strain. He has made ex- tensive compilations of reports on various phases of state and county expenditures in every department of government, to which he has added valuable and instructive monographs, and his writings on these sub- jects have brought world wide attention. He has perfected the present uniform sys- tem of bookkeeping and the examination of county officials' accounts, carried out under his direction by a staff of competent and experienced examiners. His efforts have also brought about uniformity in the fees of the public officials and uniform construc-
tion of the laws by the various officials of the state.
Mr. Hendren was born at Caual Win- chester in Franklin County, Ohio, March 29, 1857, a son of Lewis C. and Joanna (Dorsey) Hendren. When he was fourteen years of age his parents moved from their Ohio farm to a farm near Marco in Greene County, Indiana. Mr. Hendren grew up as a farm boy, had a local school education, and at the age of eighteen qualified and taught his first term of school. Later he worked as a telegraph operator and railroad agent. He was a student of the Central Law School of Indianapolis in 1879-1880. For seven years he was a merchant at Marco. His first public office was that of township trustee, and for eight years he was deputy clerk of the Circuit Court of Greene County. When he gave up mer- chandising he went into the real estate and mortgage loan business at Bloomfield and continued that as his leading interest for a number of years. For two years he was also editor and publisher of the Bloom- field Democrat. Mr. Hendren first came to Indianapolis as chief clerk of the State Building and Loan Department, an office he filled for 21/2 years. In that time he was the principal author of and helped secure the passage of the present state law govern- ing building and loan associations. This law is regarded as a model of its kind and has done away with many of the evils of building and loan practice.
Mr. Hendren married Miss Anna M. Hadley of Mooresville, Indiana. Her father, Rev. Jeremiah Hadley, was a promi- nent minister of the Friends Church and for several years represented his denomina- tion in religious work among the Indians of Southeastern Kansas.
On June 1, 1919, Mr. Hendren was ap- pointed a member of the Indiana Industrial Board at the same salary he received as state examiner. The ultimate object of this board is, first : To prevent accidents, or to reduce those that do occur to the inevitable class. Second: To furnish to the injured employes and their dependents an abso- lutely certain indemnity in case of injury.
The Workmen's Compensation Laws are distinctively a product of modern and eco- nomic conditions. The first Workmen's Compensation Law adopted by any of the states was in 1910, and now thirty-eight states have the law in some form. The
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Federal Government has enacted a law pro- viding for compensation for disability and death of Government employes by acci- dent arising out of their employment.
The human part of the equipment of a railroad train should bear even a closer re- lationship to the cost of the operation of the railroad than the mechanical part of the equipment, and for this reason should become a part of the cost of the construc- tion and maintenance of the road.
After Mr. Hendren's years of service as state examiner, in which he dealt with men of all political departments and with all units of Government-county, township, town, city and state, he will begin his work as a member of the State Industrial Board with a most valuable experience that will greatly aid him in his new work.
With the great social and industrial un- rest prevailing in Russia, Germany, Austria and other European countries and with a general propaganda movement being spread by the Bolshevist element of these coun- tries, the other countries of Europe and to a considerable degree the United States, the Industrial boards of Indiana and other states will be the logical instruments, clothed with power by law to do vastly more in the interest of good government and for the employers and employes than all other departments combined.
FRANK H. KNAPP spent his boyhood on a farm in Elkhart County, but since 1884 has been a resident of Chicago. He has long been prominent in fraternal affairs and is now national representative at Chi- cago of the American Insurance Union.
He was born in Ontario County, New York, on his grandfather's farm, Septem- ber 15, 1849. His father, William Henry Knapp, was born on the same farm in 1818. That land has been in the possession of the Knapp family for more than a cen- tury, and only three transfers have been recorded since the government patent was issued. A cousin of Frank H. Knapp is Hon. Walter H. Knapp, who is now excise commissioner of the State of New York by appointment from Governor Whitman and with headquarters at Albany.
William H. Knapp came to Elkhart County in April, 1849, and seenred a farm a mile and a half south of the village of Middlebury. He spent the rest of his life there, was a very practical farmer, a horse-
man and breeder of many fine animals on his farm. He was a member of the Bap- tist church and was first a whig and later a republican. It is said that while he never cared for public office he worked energetically in behalf of the candidates of his party, and frequently visited the homes of his neighbors on election days, where he would fill in with a helping hand in the work of the farm in order that they might go to the poles and vote. He was well known all over Elkhart County for his in- tegrity and honorable dealing, and with that reputation he died in 1870. In New York State he married Miss Catherine Eliza Mattison. She was born in Ontario County, New York, on an adjoining farm, in 1820 and died also in 1870. Her mother was a Parkhurst of the well-known New York family of that name. William H. Knapp and wife had two sons, Leonard A. and Frank H. Leonard, who was born October 15, 1842, enlisted in May, 1861, in Company E of the Twenty-Eighth New York Infantry, and served until fatally wounded at Antietam September 17, 1862. He died two weeks later and was buried at Middlebury, Indiana.
When Frank H. Knapp was two months old his mother took him to the farm in Elkhart County. As a. boy he attended the district schools, worked in the fields and around the home, attended high school at Middlebury and Goshen, and from the age of twenty-one was engaged in the prac- tical work of a farmer for five or six years. But most of his active career has been spent in some form of public service or business. He served as assistant deputy under Colonel Alba M. Tucker, county auditor of Elkhart County, and was later deputy county treasurer and assistant in the county elerk's, county recorder's and sheriff's offices.
In 1884 Mr. Knapp went to Chicago as private secretary to W. G. Wilson, presi- dent of the Wilson Sewing Machine Com- pany. Ten years later, at Mr. Wilson's death, he was employed by the Illinois Trust & Savings Bank as assistant in set- tling the Wilson and other estates. This work ocenpied his time for about four years.
For over twenty years Mr. Knapp has been prominent in fraternal circles. · For thirteen years, until 1911, he was advisory scribe of the Royal League for the State
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of Illinois, and in 1911 became supreme scribe of the Vesta Circle, one of the high- est offices in the Society. This fraternal insurance organization was later merged with the American Insurance Union, the headquarters of which are at Columbus, Ohio. Mr. Knapp is now national repre- sentative, with headquarters in the Masonic Temple at Chicago. He is a member of many other fraternities and has been a lifelong republican.
September 14, 1872, he married Miss Jenny Lind Chamberlain. Mrs. Knapp was born at Goshen, Indiana, February 21, 1851, and died at Chicago December 27, 1893. Their only daughter, Christine Nilsson, is the wife of Joseph H. Hender- son. She is the mother of two sons, Frank L. and Lucian F. Mr. Knapp's grandson Frank L. is now in the army.
Mrs. Knapp was a daughter of Judge E. M. Chamberlain and a cousin of Ex- Governor General Joshua L. Chamberlain of Maine. Judge Ebenezer M. Chamber- lain was one of the distinguished lawyers and jurists of early Indiana. He was born in the State of Maine August 20, 1805, son of a shipbuilder and an officer of the War of 1812. Judge Chamberlain as a boy had an experience on the farm and in his father's shipyards. He studied law in Maine and acquired something more than a local reputation there as an orator. With only a few dollars he had earned teaching school he came to Indiana in 1832, secured a position as teacher in Fay- ette County and also studied law at Con- nersville until admitted to the bar in 1833. He at once moved to Elkhart County and was one of the early resident members of the bar. He was elected to the Legislature in 1835, his district covering nearly a fifth of the entire area of the state. In 1842 he was elected prosecuting attorney of the old Ninth Judicial District and in 1843 became presiding judge of the same dis- triet, and was re-elected without opposi- tion in 1851. His service of nine years as judge was testified to by the entire bar as "creditable, dignified, courteous and sat- isfactory." In 1844 he was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention, and in 1848 was a candidate for presidential elector. He resigned from the bench in 1851 to become democratic candidate for Congress, and was elected by nearly a thousand majority. He served in Congress
two terms and won many honors both as a statesman and orator. Judge Chamberlain married in 1838 Phebe Ann Hascall, daughter of Amasa Hascall and member of a family long prominent in Elkhart County and Ontario County, New York.
WILBUR D. NESBIT, who served his lit- erary apprenticeship in Indiana and chose a daughter of the Hoosier state for his wife, is one of the Indiana school of liter- ature. Although much of his mature career has been largely centered in Chi- cago, he has maintained his close touch with Indiana and consistently acknowl- edges Indiana's influence upon his work.
He was born at Xenia, Ohio, September 16, 1871, son of John Harvey and Isabel (Fichthorne) Nesbit. After a public school education he became a printer and in 1889 located in Anderson, where he soon became city editor of the Anderson Times. From there he went to Muncie, then to Indianapolis, where he worked on the Journal until he went to Baltimore to con- duct a feature column on the American. In 1902 he went to Chicago, where he wrote features for the Tribune until he left that paper to manage a syndicate which han- dled his work. In Indianapolis he did a great deal of advertising work, and after a few years in Chicago he was induced to give part of his time to what was then the Mahin Advertising Company. Three years ago he joined with William H. Rankin, an- other Indiana man, and other associates, in buying out the agency which is now known as the William H. Rankin Company. Mr. Nesbit is vice president of the company and director of the copy staff.
Mr. Nesbit's writings have appeared in most of the magazines of the country. Among his books may be mentioned "The Trail to Boyland," 1904; "The Gentleman Ragman," 1906; "The Land of Make-Be- lieve," 1907 ; "A Friend or Two," "Your Flag and My Flag," and various gift pub- lications. Mr. Nesbit wrote. the book of "The Girl of My Dreams," a musical com- edy which ran for five seasons, and has written several other theatrical features.
Mr. Nesbit lives in Evanston, Illinois. He is a member of the Little Room, Chi- cago Athletic Association, Midday, Forty and Cliff Dwellers Clubs of Chicago, as well as of the Indiana Society of Chicago. He is president of the Forty Club and a
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past president of the Indiana Society. In Evanston he is a member of the University Club and Glen View and Evanston Coun- try Clubs. He is a non-resident member of the Columbia Club of Indianapolis.
Mr. Nesbit married Mary Lee Jenkins, an exceptionally talented musician of In- dianapolis. They have three sons, Rich- ard, Robert and Wilbur, Jr.
SARAH NEGLEY MCINTOSH was one of the splendid mothers of a former generation of Indiana citizens, and in giving space in this publication to the prominent women of In- diana none could be more worthily consid- ered than this well known character of Greene County. Her most familiar title was "Aunt Sally" McIntosh.
She was born in Ohio September 22, 1810, a daughter of Peter Negley, whose name is conspicuously identified with the very earliest history of Marion County, In- diana. Peter Negley was a grandson of Caspar Negley, who in 1739, then a young boy, had come with other members of the Negley family from Germany to America. The Negleys have long been prominent in Pennsylvania and in other central western states.
Peter Negley arrived in Marion County, Indiana, and established his home at the town of Millersville in 1819, when Aunt Sally McIntosh was only nine years of age. His settlement here antedated by six years the establishment of Indianapolis. He was an important figure in the early affairs of Marion County, and was a farmer, miller and distiller.
Thus while Sarah Negley's early life was spent amid primitive surroundings she grew up with the mental and physical strength of her sturdy ancestors and al- ways manifested much of that independ- ence of will and judgment which had caused her forefathers generations back to espouse the cause of the protestant religion when it was by no means popular.
On May 10, 1829, Sarah Negley married William J. McIntosh, and she became the mother of eleven children. In 1837 the Me- Intoshs moved to Greene County, Indiana, and it was in that county that this woman became so widely known. Like the woman of the Bible she was diligent and faithful in ordering her household affairs and in bringing up her children, and at the same time she found abundant energy and exer-
cised her ready sympathy in acts of kind- liness and love throughout a large com- munity. Her death occurred November 12, 1890.
PRESTON C. RUBUSH. On the basis of work accomplished it may be properly claimed by the firm of Rubush & Hunter, architects, that it represents the best ideals of the profession and has contributed some of the most satisfactory and distinctive ex- amples of modern architecture found in Indianapolis and other cities.
The head of this firm is a native In- dianian, born at the village of Fairfield, Howard County, March 30, 1867. William G. Rubush, his father, came from the vicin- ity of Staunton, Virginia, to Indiana about the close of the Civil war. For a time he operated a shingle factory at Fairfield, later moved his factory some six miles northwest of Martinsville, and finally aban- doned that industry to engage in farming. He afterward removed to Indianapolis, where he died February 18, 1914. He was a very industrious man, had ability to make money, but his generous disposition distributed it so rapidly that there was never a time when his accumulations repre- sented more than a bare margin above the necessities of life. He was for years a stanch member and supporter of the United Brethren Church. He married Maria E. Wyrick, who was born near Zanesville, Ohio. Five of their six children are still living.
Preston C. Rubush lived with his parents until he reached years of manhood and dis- cretion. After leaving the common schools he worked at the trade of carpenter and also as a cabinet maker, and has an expert skill in these mechanical arts and industries which are almost fundamentals to the sci- ence of architecture. Later he took a spe- cial course in architecture at the Univer- sity of Illinois, and on returning from that school was employed in the offices of archi- tects at Peoria, Illinois, and Indianapolis.
Mr. Rubush has practiced architecture as a profession for twenty-five years. In December, 1893, he became a member of the firm Scharn & Rubush. In 1895 this be- came P. C. Rubush & Company, and ten years later was succeeded by the present firm of Rubush & Hunter.
Mr. Rubush stands deservedly high in his profession. One of the reasons why his
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business has prospered is that in all con- tracts he or his partners give a personal supervision to the work in hand, and this personal service has been appreciated by the owners.
Some of the more important buildings designed and constructed by the firm of Ru- bush & Hunter, and which are landmarks in the city of Indianapolis, are the Indiana State School for Deaf, the Odd Fellows Temple, the Masonic Temple, the City Hall, the Hume-Mainsur office building, the Coliseum at the State Fair Grounds, Buck- ingham Apartments, Public School No. 66, First Church of Christ, Scientist, Fidelity Trust Building, Marott Department Store, Circle Theater and the Hotel Lincoln.
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