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Milton B. Pine, only son of Leighton Pine, returned to South Bend and took charge of the Singer Manufacturing Com- pany as successor to his father in 1903, and continued as works manager about eight years. Then after a trip to Europe he re- located in Chicago in 1908 and organized the Pine Sanitarium.
Doctor Pine is an old time active member of the Chicago Athletic Club, and during the '90s won many notable records as a
boxer. He had a boxing contest with James J. Corbett. He won the championship of the Athletic Club in 1896 in boxing and has the distinction of never having been knocked down. He has also been a member of the Chicago Yacht Club, the Chicago Motor Club and the Chicago Automobile Club, being one of the organizers of the latter. Doctor Pine owned the first steam automobile in Chicago.
JOHN FLETCHER LAWRENCE, a lawyer of commanding position at Peru, has been identified with the serious work of his pro- fession more than a quarter of a century. and is a man of wide experience in men and affairs.
He was born at South Bend, Indiana, January 21, 1858, son of John Quincy and Nancy Ann, (White) Lawrence. His father, of Scotch ancestry. was born at Beaver, Pennsylvania, in 1798, and died in 1861. His mother, of English ancestry, was born at Hagerstown, Maryland, in 1818, and died in 1898, at the age of eighty. The parents were married at Wooster, Ohio, and of their nine children John F. was the youngest and the only one now living. His father was a millright by trade and also a Methodist minister. On locating at Sonth Bend, Indiana, he owned and operated a planing mill, but after a year built a grist mill and saw mill on Eel River, where he lived one year, until his death. He began voting as a whig, and actively supported the formation of the republican party and Abraham Lincoln's candidacy for presi- dent.
John Fletcher Lawrence received his early education in the schools of Miami County, where he has spent most of the years of his life. He also attended the Cen- tral Normal College at Danville, and for nine years was a teacher and then became superintendent of schools of Miami County. While teaching he was diligently reading law, and in 1891 was admitted to the bar. Since then he has been in practice at Pern. He has held the offices of city and county attorney. He was associated with Walter C. Bailey under the firm name of Bailey & Lawrence for six years. He then became associated with David E. Rhodes under the name of Lawrence & Rhodes, and this part- nership continued until the year 1915. Mr. Lawrence then formed a partnership
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for the pratice of the law with Judge Joseph N. Tillett upon the latter's retire- ment from the Circuit Bench. Mr. Law- renee has always been interested in repub- lican politics and has served as delegate to national conventions and is a member of the State Advisory Committee. He is a member of the Episcopal Church and of the Masonic fraternity.
On June 11, 1883, he married Miss Alice Virginia Boggs, a native of Cass County, and daughter of Dr. Milton M. and Mary Ann (Penrose) Boggs. Doctor Boggs, who died in 1918, at the age of eighty-nine, was a pioneer, a soldier of the Mexican war and the Civil war, and greatly beloved physi- cian of Miami County.
Mrs. Lawrence was a small child when her mother died and second among three children. Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence have three children. Lucile, the oldest, is the wife of Ralph A. Fink, living at Oak Park, Illinois, Mr. Fink being the manager of the Latham Manufacturing Company of Chicago. Jean Marie, the second daughter, married Charles E. Steenman, now serving in the United States Ambulance Corps in France. Hugh Lawrence, the only son, married Marguerite Elliott Jett, of Clay City. He is now associated in law practice with the firm of Tillett & Lawrence. He was educated in Western Reserve Univer- sity at Cleveland and in the University of Chicago.
NOTE: Prior to the French and Indian war with the English colonies in 1755 the paternal ancestors of Mr. Lawrence had the misfortune to lose their family records in the disastrous Indian massacre in the Wyoming Valley, New York, thereby causing a break in the family genealogy leading back to England via Holland, the latter country being the refuge for dis- senters from the Established Church of Eng- land.
G. EDWIN JONES. As a member of the Indiana Society of Chicago G. Edwin Jones has the distinction of being the "oldest ex- ile Hoosier" in that city. He has been a Chicagoan since the first years of his life, but takes considerable pride in the fact that he was born in the famous Wabash Valley on the banks of the Wabash, and that his father, Col. Daniel A. Jones, was a big figure in the commercial and industrial life of that section of Indiana before he became even more prominent in the upbuilding of Lake Michigan's metropolis.
Col. Daniel A. Jones was a rare and in- teresting personality, and widely known all over the middle west. Descended from one of the early New England families of North Adams, Massachusetts, he was born at Hartford, Connecticut, and came West about 1820. His first business venture was candle making at Louisville, Kentucky. Soon afterward he established his home at Newport in Vermilion County, Indiana. During the Blackhawk Indian War of 1832 he served as a colonel of Indiana troops. He was a business man, and his interests constantly took on enlarged scope. Before 1850 the main transportation trunk lines of the middle west were the rivers, including the Wabash, and at Newport Colonel Jones established a pork packing industry which made that town a rival of the later fame of Chicago. It is said that hogs were driven to the Jones packing house at Newport from as far west as Iowa. These hogs were con- verted into salt pork and were carried by flatboat and other conveyance down the riv- ers to New Orleans and other southern markets. This business grew and brought Colonel Jones a large fortune. He was also identified with, pork packing at Dan- ville, Illinois.
When Col. Dan Jones came to Chicago in 1857 he brought a capital of $250,000, then considered a large fortune. He was in fact one of the chief capitalists to come to Chicago with so much money. Both his money and his personal enterprise resulted in a great development. He was one of the founders of the old Merchants National Bank. In 1857 he built a packing house at State and Twenty-second streets, one of the first if not the first packing houses in Chicago which is still standing, and the nucleus of and forerunner of the industry which has since made Chicago the largest cattle market and packing house center in the world. Mr. G. Edwin Jones has some personal memories of that early industry. He recalls that the first stockyards were at the corner of West Madison Street and Ashland Boulevard, a short time later be- ing moved to State and Twenty-second streets, still later to Thirty-first Street and Cottage Grove Avenue, and finally to the present location. Colonel Jones was one of the group of packers and cattle men who built the present stockyards. He organized and was president of the Union Rendering Company, which for a number of years was
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a prominent industry in the stockyards dis- triet.
Col. Daniel A. Jones was one of the gen- uinely big men of his day in Chicago and the Middle West. The scope of his activi- ties and the result of his influence and en- terprise could not be told in a brief sketch. His was a long and well spent life, closing with his death in 1886. He built and was president of the City Railway of Chicago, was long prominent in the Chicago Board of Trade, and was one of that group of inen who rebuilded and reconstructed the greater Chicago after the fire of 1871. Col. Daniel Jones married Mary Harris, who died not long after the birth of her son G. Edwin.
G. Edwin Jones was born at Newport, Indiana, in 1854. He is still living at the old Jones home on East Twenty-Second Street, just off Prairie Avenue, and directly opposite the place where his father built his first home on coming to Chicago in 1857, and within a short distance of where his father erected, the first packing house at State and Twenty-Second streets. Mr. Edwin Jones was for some years one of the directors of the Union Rendering Company. During the past few years he has not been actively engaged in business. In his leisure time he has gained considerable fame in the field of invention, and among other things has perfected a hand grenade pos- sessing great value as an instrument in. modern warfare.
Mr. Jones married a daughter of the late Abner Price, whose name is also promi- nently identified with the early history of Chicago. Abner Price was a member of the firm C. & A. Price, who were the oldest contractors and builders in Chicago, having erected a great many of the structures now in the loop district. This firm was origi- nally established by Cornelius and William Price in 1848. Abner, a young brother, was admitted to partnership in 1857. I the old days of Chicago, before the fire they built such business houses as the Sherman House and Tremont House, and after the fire they erected many large blocks to take the place of those destroyed. During 1872 it is said their contracts amounted to up- wards of a million dollars, and they em- ployed a force of over 400 men. They built besides the hotels mentioned the Reaper Block, Field and Leiter's wholesale house. the old Northwestern Depot, the Kimball
Block, the Royal Insurance Block, and they also raised the old Sherman House, the first brick house ever raised in Chicago. Abner Price was born in New York State January 11, 1832. Besides being a business man he was noted as the champion amateur shot of the United States, and twice defeated Bo- gardus. Mr. and Mrs. Jones have one daughter, Ruth, widow of the late Raphael Fassett, of Chicago.
LEWIS L. BARTH. Of Indianans who have become residents and business men of Chicago, Lewis L. Barth has attained a na- tional prominence as a lumberman. He is vice president and one of the founders of the Edward Hines Lumber Company, and is identified with lumber milling concerns in both the northern and southern centers of manufacture.
Mr. Barth was born in South Bend, In- diana, in 1850, son of Henry and Lisetta (Korn) Barth. His parents located at South Bend in the early '40s. Mr. Barth finished his education in Notre Dame Uni- versity. Some years ago he endowed a room at Notre Dame in memory of his de- ceased sister, Miss Alice Barth.
His early experience and training was as bookkeeper for his father in the lumber and grain business at South Bend, begin- ning in 1869. Ten years later, in 1879, he came to Chicago, and was first associated with T. M. Avery & Son, lumbermen. Later he was with the S. K. Martin Lum- ber Company, and while there became as- sociated with Mr. Edward Hines. He and Mr. Hines founded the present Edward Hines Lumber Company in 1892. For over a quarter of a century Mr. Barth has been a factor in the upbuilding of this great corporation, making it one of the largest manufacturing and distributing or- ganizations for lumber in the middle west. He is still the active vice president of the company, and is also an officer in the fol- lowing organizations : The Park Falls Lum- ber Company, vice president and director ; the St. Croix Lumber Manufacturing Com- pany of Winton, Minnesota, vice president and director; Winton State Bank, stock- holder ; Jordan River Lumber Company at Kiln, Mississippi, vice president ; The Ed- ward Hines Yellow Pine Lumber Company at Lumberton, Mississippi, vice president ; John E. Burns Lumber Company of Chi- cago, stockholder and director; Edward
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Hines Farm Land Company at Winter, Wisconsin, vice president; Winter State Bank, vice president. All the lumber com- panies mentioned are extensive manufac- turers of lumber. The Edward Hines Company has fifteen retail lumber yards in Chicago.
Mr. Barth is a former president of the Lumbermen's Association of Chicago. He is a republican, a member of the Union League Club, Mid-Day Club, Builders' Club, Traffic Club, South Side Country Club, and the Flossmoor Club.
His first wife was Carrie Hahn. She was the mother of two children, Helena and Hattie. Mr. Barth's present wife was Margaret O'Reilly.
CHARLES FRANCIS THOMPSON, though a resident of Chicago over thirty-five years has always regarded himself as an Indiana man, and has spent most of his boyhood in Logansport, where members of the family have been residents since pioneer times.
Mr. Thompson himself was born in Lake County, Illinois, in 1864, son of Charles F. and Elizabeth H. (Twells) Thompson. The Thompsons are of original Connecticut stock. From that state some of the family went to Central New York more than a cen- tury ago. From New York State Mr. Thompson's paternal grandfather came West to Willoughby, near Cleveland, Ohio. Charles F. Thompson, Sr., moved from Northern Ohio to Illinois. James S. Twells, maternal grandfather of Charles F. Thompson, was of Pennsylvania ances- try and was one of the earliest pioneer settlers of Logansport, Indiana, establish- ing his home there when Northern Indiana was still the home of Indians. He owned a large amount of land around that city. His daughter, Elizabeth H. Twells, was born at Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and was brought as a child to Logansport, where she grew up.
His paternal grandmother was a Gil- lette, and through her Charles F. Thomp- son is a cousin of William Gillette, the famous actor.
During the early childhood of Charles Francis Thompson his parents moved from Illinois to Logansport, Indiana, where he grew up and attended school. In 1881, at the age of seventeen, he removed to Chicago, and that city has since been his home. Continuously since that time
he has been identified with the lumber in- dustry. He was first a clerk in the office of his father, who had lumber interests in Chicago with Mr. Perley Lowe. In 1900 Mr. Thompson became associated with Mr. Lowe naming earlier business associations begun by his father, which still continues. During the past he has been an extensive lumber manufacturer and distributor, has organized several successful lumber com- panies, but at the present time has retired from some of his larger holdings, and is now vice president of the C. L. Gray Lumber Company of Meridian, Missis- sippi, and president of the Meridian Wholesale Company.
Mr. Thompson, whose business offices are at 332 South Michigan Avenue, is a member of the Chicago Athletic Club, South Shore Country Club, Glen View Club, Flossmoor Club, Olympia Fields Golf Club, the Duck Island Preserve, a hunting elub, and in politics is a republi- can. He has served three successive years as president of the Western Golf Associa- tion, being first elected to that office in. 1909 and again in 1917, 1918 and 1919. He married Miss Emma M. Adams, who was born and reared in Chicago, and they have one daughter, Elizabeth.
WILLIAM WATSON WOOLLEN. For that increasing number of people who believe that the "durable satisfactions" of life are to be found in living as well as in action and in service as well as achieve- ment, there is a constantly recurring in- spiration in the carcer of such a man as William Watson Woollen of Indianapolis. He is one of the few lawyers still living who prepared their first briefs before the open- ing guns of the Civil war and he has always enjoyed the highest standing in the Indiana bar and his work as a lawyer brought him a large share of the means that enabled him to pursue his intellectual diversion. He has contributed much to the literature of the profession. Perhaps the largest number of people in Indian- apolis and Indiana associate his name with the splendid gift of Woollen's Garden of Birds and Botany to the city. As a nat- uralist he ranks high among the authori- ties in America in several distinctive fields.
The Woollen family has been conspicu- ous in the history of Indianapolis for more
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than eight decades. William Watson Woollen was born at Indianapolis May 28, 1838, a son of Milton and Sarah (Black) Woollen. One reliable authority on the family genealogy says that the ancestry is traced to Sir John Woollen who was buried in the new choir of White Friars Church, London, in 1440. The founder of the American branch of the family was Richard Woollen, who came from England probably in 1644 and settled near Balti- more, Maryland. He was one of the household of Leonard Calvert, proprietory governor of the colony. This pioneer was the father of a son named Philip and the grandfather of Richard Woollen. This Richard Woollen was a soldier of the American Revolutionary War.
Leonard Woollen, son of the Revolu- tionary soldier, was born near Ellicott's Mills, Maryland, in June, 1774. When he was eight years old his father died, and he was then bound out to a Quaker in Maryland, who treated him so cruelly that he ran away. After making his escape he worked on a farm two or three years, and then went into the Far West and was em- ployed in one of the pioneer iron works at Nashville, Tennessee. Six years later he went to Kentucky and for a number of years lived at Bowman's Station near the Mammoth Cave. While there he became acquainted with Sarah Henry and thev were married June 19, 1802. Of this union there were twelve children.
In 1835 Leonard Woollen became a pio- neer resident of Indianapolis, then hardly more than a village, with its chief dis- tinction the seat of government for the state. Leonard Woollen bought a lot at the corner of Capitol Avenue and Ohio Street, where he built his residence and occupied it until his death February 21, 1858. His occupation was that of farmer, and as such he purchased a farm which is now part of Riverside Park. He was a charter member of the First Christian Church of Indianapolis. In politics he was a democrat. His wife died November 3, 1856.
Milton Woollen, father of William Wat- son Woollen, was born in Kentucky and after moving to Indianapolis was for a number of years engaged in his trade as a blacksmith. An injury received during his work caused him to abandon that voca- tion and move to a farm in Lawrence Town-
ship abont eight miles northeast from the center of Indianapolis. In 1861 he re- turned to Indianapolis and lived there until his death in 1868. He had an inventive mind and was an excellent mechanic. His wife Sarah Black was a daughter of Joshua Black, who was born near Ellicott's Mills, Maryland, October 3, 1788, and died at In- dianapolis December 4, 1879. His father Christopher Black came from Germany and was a soldier of the Revolutionary war. Joshua Black served as a lieutenant in the War of 1812 and in spite of his advanced years was a member of the Home Guard during the Civil War. He became an In- dianapolis pioneer in 1826, moving from Maryland over the old National Road and locating at the southwest corner of Illinois and Ohio streets. He was a car- penter and cabinet maker, and did some of the work on the first State Capitol as well as other prominent public buildings, in- cluding some of the pioneer churches. Dur- ing the '40s he also represented the First Ward in the city council.
William Watson Woollen grew up on his father's farm northeast of Indianapolis, and first attended the district schools. After this for four years he was a student in Northwestern Christian University now Butler College at Indianapolis, taking a special course. He graduated from the law department of that institution with the de- gree LL. B. in 1860 and then began the practice of law independently. He was admitted to the Marion County Bar April 1 of that year and long ago rounded out more than a half century of continuous work in the profession and is now (1919) the senior member of the Indianapolis Bar. He has been a partner in various law firms, and in 1888 became senior member of the firm Woollen & Woollen, with his son Evans as junior partner. His brief official record is merely a part of his legal career. He was district prosecutor of the Common Pleas Court for the District of Marion, Boone and Hendricks counties during 1862- 65 and was county attorney for Marion County during 1882-85.
Every Indiana lawyer is familiar with some of the standard works to which Mr. Woollen has contributed as an author. He is author of "Indiana Topical Annota- tions," 1892; "Indiana Digest" two vol- umes, 1896; "Special Procedure," 1897; "Trial Procedure" 1899; and was joint
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author with W. W. Whornton of "The Law of Intoxicating Liquors," published in 1910.
As a nature lover Mr. Woollen has trav- eled and explored some of the most inter- esting and little known sections of his own state and of the American Continent. Much of his distant traveling was done in the Northwest and in Alaska. These travels gave him the material for a volume not yet published but for which he designed the title "Vancouver's Explorations Re-ex- plored." He finds his chief recreation in tramping, and is much interested in the study of outdoor life and natural history, about which he has written much for the local press. Throughout Indiana Mr. Woollen is regarded as an authority on everything pertaining to the phenomena of the state. Bird lovers everywhere know Mr. Woollen's work entitled "Birds of Buzzard's Roost," which is an account of the life history of fifty-two of our common birds.
A few miles northeast of Indianapolis is a tract of forty-four acres known as Wool- len's Garden of Birds and Botany, set aside in 1897 as a sanctuary for wild bird and animal life, and one of the first, if not the first, of the kind established by private enterprise in the United States. In 1909 this was deeded to the City of Indianapolis by Mr. Woollen to be maintained perpetu- ally as a publie park where wild bird and animal life shall be carefully protected and as a place for nature study for the schools of Indianapolis. It consists of twelve acres of cleared and cultivated land and the remainder of heavily wooded hills and ravines.
His varied interests and enthusiasm have brought Mr. Woollen a wealth of associa- tions with people and organizations well out of the usual acquaintance of the aver- age lawyer. He assisted in the organiza- tion and has thrice been president of the Indiana Audubon Society. In 1908 he was the organizer and has since been president of the Nature Study Club of Indiana. He was an organizer and is past president of the Indianapolis Humane Society ; organ- ized the Original Indianapolis Civic As- sociation and has served as its president ; is an honorary member of the Chamber of Commerce of Indianapolis in recognition of the gift of Woollen's Garden of Birds and Botany to the city; is honorary mem-
ber of the Marion County Bar Associa- tion, by reason of having donated to it a full set of the " Acts and Laws of Indiana" since the organization of the state; is a Fellow of the Indiana Academy of Science and a member of the American Academy of Science; a member of the American Bar Association, Indiana Bar Association, Na- tional Humane Society, John Herron Art Institute, Contemporary Literary Club, of the National Parks Committee of the American Civic Federation. Mr. Woollen's dominating personal characteristics have been described as perseverance, persistence and patience for results. He is a Baptist but for many years a communicant with his wife of the First Presbyterian Church.
February 5, 1863, he married Mary Allen, daughter of Henry B. Evans, de- ceased. Her father was a physician and surgeon of Marion County. Four children were born to their marriage : Evans, a law- yer for many years associated with his father and president of the Fletcher Sav- ings & Trust Company of Indianapolis; Harry, a real estate man at Seattle, Wash- ington ; Maria, wife of Harlow Hyde of In- dianapolis, and Paul who died in infancy.
JOHN E. BOSSINGHAM is president of the Indiana Tank & Boiler Company at 1123- 1129 East Maryland Street, Indianapolis. Mr. Bossingham not merely supplies the financial and executive management to this firm, but is a thoroughly expert and widely experienced boiler maker, had all sorts and conditions of experience from journeyman workman to superintendent of some of the leading plants in the Middle West, and it is his personal ability and experience that have given the Indiana Tank & Boiler Company its present prosperity and insure a continuingly prosperous future.
Mr. Bossingham was born January 20, 1863, in the famous English manufactur- ing City of Leeds. He is a son of Edward and Elizabeth (Snushall) Bossingham, the former a native of Leeds and the latter of Peterborough. In 1868 the family came to the United States, locating at East Troy, Wisconsin, and in 1876 moving to Eagle, Wisconsin. Edward Bossingham was a tailor in business. For twelve years prior to his death, which occurred at Eagle October 31, 1910, at the age of sixty-eight, he had served his town as president of the board. On the day of his burial all the
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