Indiana and Indianans - a history of aboriginal and territorial Indiana and the century of statehood (1919) (14764100785)

Identifier: indianaindianans04dunn (find matches)
Title: Indiana and Indianans : a history of aboriginal and territorial Indiana and the century of statehood
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Dunn, Jacob Piatt, 1855-1924 Kemper, General William Harrison, 1839-
Subjects: Medicine
Publisher: Chicago and New York : The American historical society
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
Digitizing Sponsor: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center



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dinary advantages of a countryschool. At fourteen he left school alto-gether and spent several years learningthe stone cutters trade. He followed thatoccupation and was also a farmer on theold homestead for his mother. In 1903Mr. McFall moved to Anderson and estab-lished a jewelry store on West EleventhStreet. A year later he moved to his pres-ent location at 918 Main Street, and hasdeveloped a very satisfactory business. Be-sides his interests as a merchant at Ander-son Mr. McFall owns farm lands. He hasbeen very active in the Independent Orderof Odd Fellows with Lodge No. 131, inwhich he has filled all the chairs and wasa member of the Grand Lodge in 1894. Heis a member of the United BrethrenChurch and a democratic voter. In 1901 Mr. McFall married Sarah C.Ponsler, of Jennings County, Indiana.They are the parents of seven children:Alta, born in 1902; Lottie, born in 1904;Bertha, born in 1906 : Leatha, born in 1908 ;George H., born in 1911; Hester, born in1913; and May, born in 1915.
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INDIANA AND INDIANANS 1765 F. E. Hart has been in the drug busi-ness in Indiana for thirty years or moreand is now proprietor of perhaps the larg-est and best equipped establishment of thekind in the City of Anderson. Mr. Hart is of English parentage andwas born near Kankakee, Illinois, in 1864,son of Esau and Julia (Cooke) Hart. Bothhis father and mother were natives of Eng-land, his father of Herefordshire and hismother of Worcestershire. The families formany generations have been principally en-gaged in mercantile pursuits. Esau Hartwas just twenty-one years of age when hecame to America and settled in Illinois,where he took up the vocation of agricul-ture. Mr. F. E. Hart attended common schoolsin Illinois and also high school at Reming-ton, Indiana. He was only fifteen yearsof age when he began work and acquiredhis first experience of the drug businessin a drug store at Remington. He spentthree years there learning the business, andafter that for two and a half years wasprescripti