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Mr. McDaniel, whose work since 1905 has been as superintendent of the Ham- mond public schools, was born at Craw- fordsville, Indiana, August 28, 1863, son of Owen W. and Catherine (Krug) McDaniel. His parents were both natives of Indiana, and his mother is still living. His father, who died at the age of sixty- nine. was a saddler by trade. He was a republican and a member of the Christian Church. His parents had only two chil- dren, one of whom died in infancy.
Charles M. MeDaniel was educated in the public schools of Crawfordsville, and in 1885 graduated from Wabash College. He also did post-graduate work in the In- diana State Normal, in the University of Chicago and in other schools.
In the fall of 1885, after leaving Wabash College, he taught his first term of school near Crawfordsville, and his early success in the profession encouraged him to remain and make it his life career. He was prin- cipal four years at Portland, was principal of the high school at Newtown one year, was principal of the high school at Edin- burg one year, was four years principal of
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the high school at Madison, and for nine years was school superintendent of Madi- son. In 1905 he was appointed superin- tendent of the public school system of Hammond.
During his administration as head of the public school system of one of Indiana's largest industrial centers four new school buildings have been completed, one of them being the industrial high school. He has constantly studied the local situation and endeavored to adapt the schools to the spe- cific needs of the community. He has done much to encourage continuation school work and vocational education, and in Sep- tember, 1912, established the first night school. During his superintendency the Hammond schools have increased their fa- cilities for manual training, domestic science, shop work, and commercial courses, and during the last two years the schools have also been an important me- dium for the inculcation of Americanism and patriotism.
For eight years Mr. McDaniel was the choice of the alumni as their representa- tive on the Board of Trustees of Wabash College. He has served as president of the Southern Indiana Teachers' Association, president of the Northern Indiana Teach- ers' Association, as president of the Town and City Superintendents' Association, as chairman of the State Teachers' Associa- tion Executive Committee, and has worked actively on many educational committees of different societies. He is vice president of the Boy Scouts of America and has served as chairman of the committee in outline of nature work of the National Educational Association. For several years he was principal of the Winona Lake Snm- mer School. He is vice president of the Hammond Chamber of Commerce, has been active as an official and Sunday School worker in the Christian Church, is a Knight Templar Mason and Shriner and is also affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Knights of Pythias.
At Crawfordsville, Indiana, January 1, 1889. Mr. MeDaniel married Miss Margaret M. Blair. a native of Indiana. They have three children, two daughters and one son : Wellie May, Paul Wallace and Ruth Louise.
FREDERICK RICHARD MOTT. More than forty years ago when the principal institu-
tion of the city of Hammond was the slaughter and packing house of the Ham- mond Brothers, a young man named Fred- erick R. Mott entered the service of the company and thus became permanently identified with the city for which he has done much in passing years and which has substantially honored him as a resident. Mr, Mott is a former mayor of Hammond, and in that city he has been allied by mar- riage with one of its first and most prom- inent families, the Hohmans.
Mr. Mott was born in Chicago July 29. 1857, a son of Jacob Henry and Marie (Bauch) Mott. His father was born in Germany in 1832 and in 1850, at the age of eighteen, set sail for the New World. He was seventy days on the ocean, and land- ing in New York City found employment there at his trade as carpenter. In 1852, after a varied experience at different points, he arrived in Chicago and soon took up the building trade. He became one of the prominent building contractors of the city, and among others he erected the first brew house for Conrad Seipp, an institu- tion still continued as the Seipp Brewing Company. He also erected many other houses along old Canal Street and else- where in the city. He continued in busi- ness until his death in 1879. In 1854, two years after his arrival in Chicago, he mar- ried Marie Bauch, who was born in Ger- many in 1836 and died in 1913. She had also come to America on a sailing vessel and was nine-one days in making the pas- sage. The same boat brought to this coun- try Conrad Seipp, and he and Marie Bauch had been schoolmates in Germany. To the marriage of Jacob H. Mott and wife were born two daughters and three sons.
Of this family Frederick R. Mott is the only survivor. He was the second child. He acquired his early education in the schools of Chicago and also attended school after coming to Hammond. At the age of seventeen he went to work as an em- ploye of the G. H. Hammond Company, and was with that industry during its most important period of development. He re- mained in the service of the Hammonds until thirty years of age, but in the mean- time had been promoted to head book- keeper and foreman of the beef depart- ment. In 1887 he entered the real estate business, and has been the medium of some of the largest transactions in real es-
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tate in Hammond and vicinity. He is pres- ident of the Lake County Title and Guar- antee Company and vice president of the Hammond Savings & Trust Company. and has long been one of the city's most sub- stantial citizens. He was elected mayor of Hammond in 1894 and served four years. In politics he is a republican, is a Knight Templar Mason and Shriner, and is affil- iated with Hammond Lodge No. 601 of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. Mr. Mott is a member of the Episcopal Church and has served as warden.
On June 24, 1884, Mr. Mott married Miss Emma Hohman. Mrs. Mott is a daughter of Ernest and Caroline (Sibley) Hohman. Both her father and mother were remarkable pioneer characters and their memory is held in great reverence at Hammond. Her father was born in Prus- sia in 1817, came of a good family, was well educated, and was trained to the trade of tailor. He participated in the German revolution of the '40s and became an exile to England. At Paris he married Caroline Sibley, a native of Wales, and a few days after their marriage in 1849 they set sail for America. Ernest Hohman conducted a trilor shop in what is now the loop dis- trict of Chicago for about two years, but in 1851 brought his family to the Calumet River, and his was the first family to locate where the city of Hammond now stands. Eventually he acquired a large amount of land in that locality. The Hohman home on account of its situation almost perforce had to furnish entertainment for the trav- eling public that came around the bend of Lake Michigan toward Chicago, and their hotel was really the first institution of the town. They sold the land to the business men who established the first packing plant, and it would be a long story to record all the benefactions which have been made by the Hohmans to Hammond. Ernest Hohmau died December 18, 1873, and was survived by his widow until June 15, 1900. Caroline Hohman was a greatly beloved woman of the city, and showed great ability in handling her husband's estate. One of the chief thoroughfares of Hammond is Hohman Street. She and her husband had six children, four daughters and two sons: Mrs. Otilia Johnson : Charles G .; Louis E .; Agnes, Mrs. Ben- jomin Bell ; Emma, Mrs. Mott ; and Lena, wife of Dr. T. E. Bell-all still living.
Mr. and Mrs. Mott are the parents of five children : Irene Rose, who died in De- cember, 1917, was the wife of Charles W. Wilson. Fred H. Mott married, August 15, 1913, Lucy Brochenbraugh, of Lafay- ette, Indiana, and they have two children, Pamela and Sarah Ann. Mr. and Mrs. Mott have a service flag of three stars, rep- resenting their three younger sous in the service of their country. These sons are Robert Edward, Louis and Walter Sibley. Robert E. is now with the Thirty-Fifth Engineers Corps in France. Corporal Louis William is with the Thirty-Ninth In- fantry. Ensign Walter S. is in the navy.
J. Ross TRACY, M. D., D. O. One of the best equipped men in Madison County to serve the wants and needs of the people in the medical profession is Dr. Tracy, who not only has the training and the thorough experience of the general medical practi- tioner of the regular school, but is also a well equipped Doctor of Osteopathy. Doctor Tracy has done some splendid work, and his reputation is rapidly growing all over the country around Anderson. His offices are in the Union Building.
He was born at La Clede in northeastern Missouri in April, 1887, but has spent most of his life in Anderson, whither his parents, Dr. F. L. and Laura (Ross) Tracy, moved when he was a small boy. His fa- ther has spent his career as a physician and is still in practice at Anderson. Dr. J. Ross Tracy is a graduate of the Anderson High School, spent two years in Butler College at Indianapolis, from which he has his A. B. degree, and is also a member of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity of that institution. Doctor Tracy began the study of medicine in the Indiana Medical College cf Indianapolis and was graduated M. D. in 1909. The next two years he spent in the famous osteopathic school at Kirks- ville, Missouri, from which he received his degree D. O. in 1911. Returning to An- derson, he was engaged in general prac- tice for two years, after which he pursued further post-graduate work in Northwest- ern University at Chicago. Since then he hos been largely engaged in an office prac- tice at Anderson, specializing in X-Ray work and in other lines in which his expe- rience and melinations have proved him most successful. In 1917 Doctor Tracy volunteered to join the Medical Officers
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Reserve Corps to render service with the American armies in France.
In 1911 he married Miss Vera Harring- ton, daughter of F. M. and Martha (Dutcher) Harrington. They have two children : Martha Elizabeth, born in 1913, and Mary Catherine, born in 1917. Doctor Tracy is an independent democrat and is affiliated with the Benevolent and Pro- tective Order of Elks.
DANIEL FASIG. A resident of Terre Haute for fifty-five years and now retired, Daniel Fasig has been one of the most familiar figures in the life of that city both in a business way and in politics and pub- lic affairs. For a number of years he was connected with the police department, much of the time was superintendent of police, and he was also at one time county sheriff.
He was born at Marshall in Parke County, Illinois, January 29, 1850, a son, of Henry and Eliza (Taggart) Fasig. His father, a native of Ohio, came to Illinois about 1846, locating in Parke County, where he died at the early age of twenty- four. His wife, also a native of Ohio, lived to be seventy-one years of age. The father died in 1852 and the mother in 1879. Of their two sons Daniel was the only one to grow up.
Daniel Fasig came to Terre Haute with his mother at the age of ten years. After a limited schooling he began earning his own living at the age of eighteen. He learned the trade of harness maker, and followed that business for about ten years. He finally formed a partnership with Os- car Froeb, and the firm of Froeb & Fasig built up a large trade in the harness and saddlery business at Terre Haute. Later he entered other lines of business and finally became a wholesale commission merchant until selling his interests in 1900 to the Vigo County Commission Com- panv.
His prominence as a business man has nearly always been accompanied by some activity in politics. The first office for which he was ever a candidate was that of town marshal, in 1877. He failed to be elected, but soon afterward went on the city police force as a lientenant, serving four years, nntil he resigned. In 1883 he was appointed chief of police, and held that office two years. In 1896 he was the
unsuccessful candidate for state senator, was also candidate for county auditor in 1898, and in 1900 was elected sheriff of Vigo County. He filled that office two terms, a period of four years and forty-one days. After retiring from the sheriff's of- fice Mr. Fasig engaged in the general real estate business, and through that and his private investments has become one of the large property owners of Terre Haute, be- ing landlord of fourteen houses in the city.
On April 10, 1908, Mr. Fasig was ap- pointed chief detective, and on November 10, 1910, was appointed chief or superin- tendent of police. He gave an active and vigilant administration of this office until January 15, 1915, since which date he has been permanently retired.
Mr. Fasig is one of the prominent Ma- sons of Terre Haute, is a charter member of Paul Revere Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, belongs to the Mystic Shrine, and is also a member of the Uni- formed Rank of the Knights of Pythias, has been identified with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows for forty years, a member of the Improved Order of Red Men, and of Elks Lodge No. 86.
Mr. Fasig's first wife was S. A. Sea- schultz, daughter of Samuel and Mary (Love) Seaschultz. In 1885 Mr. Fasig married Emma Kissner, whose father, Al- pheus Kissner, was at one time proprietor of a pioneer Terre Haute hotel. the old Boston Honse. Mr. Fasig has two sons : Armand A., who now lives at Anna, Illi- nois, and Curtis O., who is in the laundry business at Nevada, Missouri.
GAVIN L. PAYNE, of Indianapolis. has been a journalist, banker and soldier in his time, but elings more fondly to recoller- tions of his days as a "newspaper man," his chief experiences in that profession coming about the time Indianapolis was changing from a fledgling city to a metrop- olis.
Mr. Payne is from as pure bred Indiana stock as can be registered. since Hoosier breeding dates from statehood. All of his grandmothers and grandfathers were liv- ing at or near Madison during the cradle period of the state. One grandfather, Horatio Byfield, who came down the Ohio River on a flathoat, climbed over the hill at Madison and settled near Dupont. He made the first wooden plow used in creating
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an Indiana road. This implement. hung for many years on the wall of the State Museum, having been presented by the late William Wesley Woolen. The other grandfather was a pioneer maker of fan- mills, an important agricultural accessory at that period, and maintained a sizeable factory at Madison.
Gavin L. Payne was born September 3, 1869, and was brought to Indianapolis a child in arms by his parents. His father, John Godman Payne, had gone from Madison in April, 1861, at the age of four- teen, as a drummer boy of the Thirteenth Indiana, and ended his volunteer service in 1865 as a seasoned veteran of eighteen years of age, having participated in Sher- man's march to the sea.
With the exception of several years as a reporter and editor in the South, Gavin Payne has spent his entire life in Indianap- olis. He attended the public and high schools and carried newspaper routes in various parts of the city. At nineteen he secured his first berth as a reporter, taking employment with the old Sentinel. There being no telephones, a good pair of legs was a fundamental equipment of a news gatherer. An offer coming from Memphis, Tennessee, Mr. Payne went there to find himself in the midst of a journalistic storm center. He became the right hand man of the late United States Senator E. W. Car- mack, a noted figure in the history of Ten- nessee who was killed in a sensational man- ner on the streets of Nashville several years ago by the Coopers. Carmack was a brilliant, virile fire eater, afraid of nothing human, and with a high chivalrous sense of honor. He gathered about him a staff of young journalists who adored him. Memphis was more or less of a wild, un- ruly town, and the youth with a love of adventure found it in abundance. Mr. Payne was in the mountains of East Ten- nessee for quite a period during the well remembred mountaineers' war. He cov- ered many fascinating assignments, as newspaper men rate them. Among others was a trip up the Mississippi River on the "Concord," the first modern man-of-war to come up that stream. Later he was em- ployed at New Orleans on the New Delta, a paper organized to wipe out the Louisiana lottery, and did what it set out to accom- plish. For this newspaper Mr. Payne also "covered" the famons Mafia, which, after
several years, ended with the lynching of a prison full of Sicilians. During this wanderlust season of his youth he occupied the post of city editor of the Louisville Commercial, and was a roommate and chum of James Keeley, recently editor of the Chicago Herald and in Mr. Payne's es- timation America's leading journalist.
In 1893 Mr. Payne was invited to come back to Indianapolis as city editor of the Journal. He held that post six years, a record breaking term for city editors in; those days, as the exasperating require- ments of. the post had a tendency to put city editors in asylums, hospitals or ceme- teries. The Journal was a truthful, con- servative daily conducted on a high plane, and while without the huge circulation of present day newspapers it is doubtful if any paper in the state has ever had a greater hold on the confidence of its readers.
During his service on the Journal Mr. Payne was elected to the City Council from the third ward, and also was an active member of the Citizens Advisory Com- mittee of the Public Library when branch libraries were established over the city. During the palmy days of the old Indiana May Musical Festival, when all the great artists of the earth were brought to In- dianapolis, Mr. Payne was a director and vice president of the institution. The Spanish-American war came on during the last great festival given and Mr. Payne went out as a war correspondent for the Journal, spending the summer at the camps at Chickamauga and at Tampa, Florida. When the Indianapolis Press was established in 1899, he was invited to act as city editor of the publication, and remained under John H. Holliday until the presses stopped for the last time.
The collapse of the Press led Mr. Payne to conclude that a change of occupation into more permanent and more profitable lines was due. The opportunity came when he was offered the post of secretary of the newly organized Security Trust Company. Thus he entered banking, and in a few years became president of the company. About that time there was a development of investment banking, offering excep- tional opportunities, and Mr. Payne estab- lished the house of Gavin L. Payne & Com- pany on the first day of the panic of 1907.
For the last ten years Mr. Payne had
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been identified with the financing of many prominent enterprises in Indianapolis. He has been particularly active in the gas sit- uation and is now a director of the In- dianapolis Gas Company. He was asso- ciated with Messrs. V. T. Malott, L., C. Boyd and others in organizing the syn- dicate which bought the Indianapolis Gas Company of Commodore E. C. Benedict of New York,, and thereby consolidated the gas interests of Indianapolis. Mr. Payne had been a leader in the financing of the Citizens Gas Company. He was a syndi- cate manager in the building of the In- dianapolis and Martinsville traction line. His house was the first to exploit the Porto Rican government bonds, a bit of pioneer- ing in the financial field which resulted in Indianapolis becoming the best market in the country for United States territorial bonds. The financing of the Severin Hotel, the magnificent Circle Theater and other enterprises has been entrusted to Mr. Payne.
During the street car strike of several years ago, when this city was in the hands of a mob, Mr. Payne was called upon to serve with other citizens as deputy sheriff. He was put in charge of one of the two platoons by Major Robert H. Tyndall, who had general oversight of the situa- tion. This service led Major Tyndall, who commanded the Indiana Field Artillery, to urge Mr. Payne as a patriotic duty to take command of the old Battery A, a famous organization which had been the city's pride for a third of a century, but which had been run down through the general apathy of the citizens and from other causes. Mr. Payne then took up field ar- tillery as a hobby, and when the call came for troops for the Mexican border in 1916 Captain Payne took the battery to the Rio Grande for a seven months' stay. The old battery gained new laurels in the border service and stood high in the firing prac- tice and conduct during maneuvers. On his retirement from the battery at date of muster out, January 19, 1917, the enlisted men presented him with a silver service, which Captain Payne regards as his most precious possession.
In 1904 he married Miss Bertha Fahn- ley, daughter of Frederick Fahnley. Mrs. Payne died in 1918, leaving two children, Ada and Frederick, aged respectively twelve and eleven. Mr. Payne is a Scot-
tish Rite Mason, and a member of the Co- lumbia Club and of other organizations. He is an enthusiastic horseman. In his early days he also devoted time to writing for magazines and did his "bit" in verse writing.
At the outbreak of the war with Ger- many the governor of Indiana offered Cap- tain Payne command of a new regiment of field artillery of the National Guard, and he bent all his efforts to the perfection of this Second Indiana Field Artillery Regi- ment for service. This regiment was twice inspected by regular army officers and fa- vorably reported for service, but the secre- tary of war obstinately held to a policy of taking in no more National Guard regi- ments. With no prospect of service abroad Captain Payne became a major in the American Red Cross and was sent to Porto Rico and assigned to Brigadier General Chrisman, who had command of 15,000 Porto Rican troops ready to go abroad. The armistice blocked this prospect of serv- ice abroad. Mr. Payne served four months in Porto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Dur- ing that time Porto Rico had several visi- tations of earthquakes, one of which de- stroyed Mayaguez. Mr. Payne was no stranger to earthquakes, having been in the midst of the quake which destroyed Kings- ton, Jamaica, in January, 1907, with a frightful loss of life.
On his return from Red Cross service Mr. Payne became vice president of the new Fletcher American Company at In- dianapolis,
DR. MILTON B. PINE. Of the prominent Indiana men in Chicago, Dr. Milton B. Pine is a native of South Bend and for a number of years was in business in that city.
Doctor Pine is founder and president of the Pine Sanitarium, devoted exclusively to the institutional treatment of alcoholism and drug addiction. It is one of the few institutions of its kind conducted on purely ethical principles, and without resort to the temporary expedients which so frequently have been practiced in such sanitaria, re- sulting only in substantial profits to the proprietors and no permanent good to the patient. It is easy to credit the assertion that the Pine Sanitarium is the most luxuri- ous institution of its kind in the world. The building and its equipment represent
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an outlay of $250,000. No expense was spared in the construction of the establish- ment, which was built for and formerly oc- cupied as a home by the late Marshall Field, Jr. It is located in the old aristo- cratie section of Chicago, at 1919 Prairie Avenue. All the facilities and arrange- ments that made it a perfectly appointed private home of a millionaire are now con- verted to the use and comfort of its patient guests. The Sanitarium has a resident physician and a staff of consulting sur- geons and specialists that insure every re- source of medical science.
Milton B. Pine was born at South Bend in 1873, son of Leighton and Maria C. . He was a teacher before he was a lawyer,
(Barmore) Pine. He was reared and re- ceived his early education at South Bend. He studied dentistry in the Chicago Col- lege of Dental Surgery, graduating in April, 1894, and practiced his profession until 1900.
Judge Howard in his History of South Bend published some years ago makes many references to his father, Leighton Pine, es- pecially in connection with the building of the city waterworks. Judge Howard says : "Mr. Pine was not only the untiring genius of the Singer Sewing Machine Company of South Bend; he was in addition one of the most valued citizens of the city, always foremost in what pertained to the welfare of the community of which he was so highly honored a member. Leighton Pine was born in New York City in 1844, at an early age learned photography, and during the Civil war was an official photographer. He entered the service of the Singer Sewing Machine Company in the early '60s, and in 1868 brought a branch of that great in- dustry to South Bend. He also helped or- ganize and establish the Oliver Chilled Plow Works in South Bend, and was con- nected with many other institutions of that great industrial center. He died Novem- ber 15, 1905."
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