tary matters as repositories of the public trust, while a large number have had their beginning in life amid the atmosphere of the farm. In the last-named class is found Jacob Woolverton, president of the Saint Joseph County Savings Bank and vice president of the Saint Joseph Loan & Trust Company, of South Bend. Mr. Woolverton belongs to a family which originated in England, where the Town of Woolverton is named in its honor, but his ancestors have resided in America from colonial days. His paternal grandfather, John Woolverton, was the owner of a farm just outside of Cincinnati, Ohio, at Bond Hill, now a part of the corporation of Cincinnati, six miles from the courthouse. He died there and was buried in the vicinity, but the graveyard has since been built over. The father of Jacob Woolverton, Charles Woolverton, came from the above-named farm to Indiana in 1831, and after stopping for a time in Decatur and Parke counties, moved on to the historic region of Chain-O'-Lakes in Saint Joseph County, where he settled on a quarter section of land. The old homestead is now owned by the son, who bought out the other heirs and added forty acres to the property. During the early days cranberries were abundant on the low lands in the vicinity of Chain-O'-Lakes, and the young pioneer marketed some of them in Cincinnati. It was while on the way to the Ohio metropolis with a wagon-load of this fruit that he met Jane Lawson, who afterward became his wife, she being the daughter of one of the numerous tavern-keepers then operating establishments on the great state highway, the Michigan Road. This tavern was near Greensburg, and young Woolverton stopped there for rest and refreshment while on his way to Cincinnati. So well pleased was he with his entertainment that he again stopped at the Lawson tavern on his return, and these two first visits and the acquaintance formed ripened into a love match that culminated in a marriage in 1840. Following their union the young people started housekeeping on the Chain-O'-Lakes Farm, which is now one of the most attractive places on the Lincoln Highway west. Five children were born to them, of whom three, two sons and a daughter, grew to maturity. The daughter died in her young womanhood, but the two sons survive: Jacob, of this notice; and Charles, a resident of Edwardsville, Illinois. Charles Woolverton, the elder, was not only a skilled and energetic farmer, but also operated quite extensively in farm lands, buying and selling, and it is possible that the operation of this side line had an amount of influence upon the elder son, Jacob, whose tastes turned decidedly to commercial pursuits rather than to farming. Farm life did not agree with the son, and as it was not congenial, he decided to cast his lines in other directions. His subsequent success shows that even at an early age he gave indications of the excellent judgment and foresight which have since characterized and moulded his life: Jacob Woolverton was seven years of age when his father died, and his mother subsequently remarried. As is not infrequently the case, the stepfather and stepson did not harmonize in their relationship, and when the youth was only sixteen years of age he left his home to shift for himself. The older man freely predicted that he would soon return, but he underestimated the youth's spirit and initiative. During the summer of 1861 he worked on the farm of James Ray, receiving a wage of $11 per month, and in the next summer on the Ashbury Lindley farm, his salary having been increased to $15 per month, as his abilities were recognized. During the winter months he accepted such honorable employment as came his way, in this way earning his board and being able to attend school. The rudiments of an education secured in this way were supplemented by further study at the old Northern Indiana College at South Bend, which occupied the original building of the South Bend Chilled Plow Company's plant and which he attended in 1863. In his vacation period he spent his time in the office of Francis R. Tutt, deputy revenue collector, but before engaging actively in business took a course in Eastman's Commercial College at Chicago, which was then one of the famous institutions of the West. After graduating there he was associated with William L. Kizer, his boyhood friend, schoolmate and college chum, as a clerk in the revenue office, first under Mr. Tutt, deputy collector, and subsequently under Colonel Norman Eddy, district revenue collector, whose appointment brought the district office from Logansport to South Bend. The two clerks, Kizer and Wool and superintended the transtr After leaving this offer :: T.. was for a time a traveling for a Cleveland oil house. Howere: realized that he had not yet found his travocation and gave that position up ti taky a clerical post with Studebaker Brothers During a keg period he, with William Mack and Cem Studebaker, did all the office work for this concern, he and Mr. Mack looking 1er the books and accounts and it State er attending to the corresponent. De ompany's office was in a mal trane miting on South Michigan Stovat, amreste he present site of the Audinoza Ve left this office Mr. Weron ritet nto the real estate business with us ormer fellow-clerk. Mr. Kizer. Lei hat Andrew Ander son was it hate gerating the abstracts of time low wei V. 1.31gbee. He offerai in Voorterton in opportunity to ecniuer he a state nd of us abstract missness, at Ir. Tolverton vas drawing for nonth at the Stadebaker ofer and nouent at t Vas 100 food thing are worn meertainty. He Scrapt o Jr. Lzer. to vas aveng fete na e Asurance ompany Div for more i osition. Sat be that the Ita Se venn min H b. E assista County Savings band, 1986! mary, a brother bank B since organization w nain factor, in 1900 Thos his x are: Rome C tent. lis A. Burber George. Bingham sporet, Harriet E. E». Cartes A. Burns and En issistant treasurer and ass simil Tapeet, ly. The directors tenar. Jacob Wo. T Fish, W. A. Bure". der, R. C. Stephens a g. The statement of ** of business August 201 isa: Resources, loans and discounts, 444: bonds, $1,068,097.32; cash and due from banks and trust $584,342.19; trust securities, 256; real estate, $4,000.00. LI Capital stock, $200,000.00; 100; undivided profits, Gebrats. $2,693,858.05; due $1.571.409.01. The e Con Decen J. C. E... named He himself is the owner of a number of business buildings and dwellings at South Bend, including his own home at 313 Lafayette Avenue, which was originally built in 1877 and remodeled in 1893; and also has two farms in Saint Joseph County, one situated four miles from the courthouse on the Lincoln Highway west, consisting of 157 acres, and the other a 200-acre tract, being located two miles further from the city. While a student at Northern Indiana College Mr. Woolverton became acquainted with Miss Alice M. Ruple, daughter of John J. Ruple, one of the pioneer farmers of the county, and October 6, 1870, they were married. To this union there were born four sons: Earl, a young man of great promise who died a few years ago; John J., residing at No. 307 South Lafayette Avenue, South Bend, assistant treasurer and manager of the Malleable Steel Range Manufacturing Company; Howard A., also a resident of South Bend, who is sales manager for that company; and Hugh L., who was formerly purchasing agent for the same concern, now a resident of Washington, D. C., where he is connected with the quartermaster general's department as purchasing agent of hardware and steel for the United States Government. The Woolverton family, including the sons and their families, have a summer home at Sandy Beach, Diamond Lake, where they spend much time together and maintain the affectionate home associations of earlier years when the sons were children. Mr. Woolverton is an active member of the South Bend Chamber of Commerce and of the Rotary Club and is a leader in many movements having for their object the betterment of business and financial conditions. He belongs also to the Country Club and the Knife and Fork Club, and has shown a great and helpful interest in the work of the Young Men's Christian Association, of which he has been a generous supporter. With his family, he belongs to the Presbyterian Church. In his political views Mr. Woolverton is a republican, but public life has not appealed to him, and politics has attracted his attention only insofar as it has affected the welfare of the country and its people. During the half a century in which he has been engaged in business at South Bend he has built up a reputation for unquestioned integrity in business, for honorable participation in public-spirited movements, and for probity in private life. HON. ROME C. STEPHENSON. The extent and importance of the interests with which Hon. Rome C. Stephenson has been identified within his career, and particularly since locating at South Bend in 1908, stamp him as one of the leading of the city's financial representatives. A lawyer by profession, and at one time a member of the State Senate, he gave up his professional vocation for the field of finance, and at this time is president of the Saint Joseph Loan & Trust Company and vice president of the Saint Joseph County Savings Bank, brother banks of South Bend with combined assets of more than $8,000,000. Mr. Stephenson was born at Wabash, Indiana, February 19, 1865, and is a son of Hugh M. and Maria J. (Thompson) Stephenson. He is a member of a family which had its origin in the north of Ireland and which first emigrated to Maryland and subsequently went to Carolina during colonial days. Hugh M. Stephenson was born December 29, 1818, in Iredell County, North Carolina, and when he was a youth was taken by his parents to Indiana, where he was educated in the public schools and reared to manhood. There he also met and married Maria J. Thompson, who was born May 22, 1825, near Paris, Bourbon County, Kentucky, and some time later they removed to Rochester, Indiana, where they rounded out their lives, Mr. Stephenson dying April 25, 1889, and Mrs. Stephenson November 8, 1913. The father followed the business of abstracting titles, and was accounted a business man of shrewdness and ability, with a reputation for absolute integrity. A republican in his political views, he was interested in the success of his party, and at various times was elected to offices of a public nature, being at one time in the early days sheriff of Wabash County. He and Mrs. Stephenson were members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. They had the following children: Amos L., who for years practiced dentistry and is now a retired resident of Wabash; William H., who was a retired dental practitioner, and died at Marion, Indiana, in 1913; Joseph T., who was a printer by vocation and died at Rochester, November 8, 1893; Frank M., a resident of Indianapolis, who has been probation officer of the Juvenile Court of that city since its organization; and Rome C. Rome C. Stephenson received his early education in the public schools of Wabash and Rochester. He chose the vocation of law for his life work, and began the study of his profession in the law offices of George W. Holman, an attorney of Rochester, being duly admitted to the bar May 1, 1886. He began practicing the first day of the following year, and was associated in partnership with his preceptor until November, 1914, when he retired from the practice of his calling. In the meantime, in November, 1908, he had removed from Rochester to South Bend, and the latter city has since been his home and the scene of his activities and success. On coming to this city he became vice president of the Saint Joseph County Savings Bank, of which he was also treasurer, and took like positions with the Saint Joseph Loan and Trust Company. His duties with these concerns rapidly grew in scope and importance until finally he found that he could not serve two masters, and in November, 1914, ceased the practice of law to give his entire time to his banking duties. On May 1, 1916, he was elected president of the Saint Joseph Loan and Trust Company, succeeding J. M. Studebaker. This bank, which was organized in 1900, is one of the strongest institutions of the state, and with its brother bank, the Saint Joseph County Savings Bank, has combined resources of $8,403,363.93. The latter institution, of which Mr. Stephenson is vice president, was established in 1869 and is also one of the best known banking houses in Indiana. In his political views Mr. Stephenson is a republican and for some years was a more or less important figure in the ranks of his party. In 1904 he was the successful representative of his ticket for the State Senate and subsequently served in the sessions of 1905 and 1907 and the special session of 1908, representing Wabash and Fulton counties. He was one of the energetic and working members of the Senate, and in the session of 1905 was chairman of the committee on insurance and of the judiciary "A" committee. In the session of 1907 he was on the committees on corporations, telegraph and telephone, railroads, and codification of laws. Senator Stephenson is a member of and elder in the Presbyterian Church. He is prominent frater nally, belonging to South Bend Lodge No. 394, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons; South Bend Chapter No. 29, Royal Arch Masons, and Indianapolis Consistory, thirty-second degree of Masonry; also to the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and Crusade Lodge No. 14, Knights of Pythias. He also holds membership in the Indiana Country, Rotary and Knife and Fork clubs and in the Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Stephenson was married October 16, 1889, at Upper Sandusky, Ohio, to Miss Ella J. Maxwell, daughter of Joseph J. and Martha (Edwards) Maxwell, both of whom are now deceased. Mr. Maxwell was for many years a dry goods merchant at Upper Sandusky and later cashier of the First National Bank of that place. Mr. and Mrs. Stephenson are the parents of two children: Joseph M., a resident of South Bend and a rising young journalist, being manager of the South Bend News-Times; and Hugh R., who is an ensign in the U. S. Navy. The Stephenson family resides in a handsome modern residence at No. 201 North Shore Drive. In addition, Mr. Stephenson is the owner of a handsome farm located three and one-half miles northwest of South Bend, on the Portage Road. This consists of 200 acres in an excellent state of production, the property being cultivated by the latest approved methods and with the most up-to-date machinery manufactured. JOHN B. DILLON, historian, was born in Brooke County, Virginia, in 1807; and while he was a small child his father removed to St. Clairsville, Belmont County, Ohio. Here his father died when John was a lad of ten years, and the orphaned boy went to Charleston, West Virginia, where he learned the printer's trade. In 1824, at the age of seventeen, he went to Cincinnati, and became a compositor on the Cincinnati Gazette. In this paper his first literary ventures were published, but Cincinnati was then the literary center of the Ohio Valley, and the merit of his work gave him the entree to The Western Souvenir, Flint's Western Review, and the Cincinnati Mirror. He wrote poetry at that time, and his "Burial of the Beautiful" and "Orphan's Harp" deservedly gave him lasting recognition. In 1834 he removed to Logansport, Indiana, where he read law and was ad mitted to the bar; and where he also wrote the first volume of his "History of Indiana," which was published in 1842. The fame of this work caused his election as state librarian in 1845, which position he held for six years. In 1851 he was appointed assistant secretary of state, and continued in this office for two years. He also served as secretary of the State Board of Agriculture in 1852, 1853, 1855, 1858, and 1859. In 1853 he published for some months a semi-monthly agricultural magazine called "Farm and Shop." In 1863 he was appointed a clerk in the Department of the Interior, serving as superintendent of documents and librarian of the department. He resigned this position in 1871, and became for two years clerk of the Committee on Military Affairs of the House. In the spring of 1875 he returned to Indianapolis, where he resided until his death on February 27, 1879. Mr. Dillon joined the Indiana Historical Society in 1842, and was its only secretary from 1859 until his death. He always continued his historical researches, and in 1859 published his "History of Indiana,' which was an extension of his original volume. His other publications were "The National Decline of the Miami Indians, read before the Indiana Historical Society May 23, 1848, and published in Vol. 1 of the society's publications; "Letters to Friends of the Union," 1861-2; "Notes on Historical Evidence in Reference to Adverse Theories of the Origin and Nature of the Government of the United States, New York, 1871; and "Oddities of Colonial Legislation in America," published in 1879, after Mr. Dillon's death, with a memorial sketch by Ben Douglass. Another sketch will be found in Vol. 2 of the Indiana Historical Society Publications. L. A. SNIDER, a mechanical engineer of many years successful experience and now a partner of the firm of Snider & Rotz, consulting engineers, with offices in the Merchants Bank Building at Indianapolis. Mr. Snider was born in Marion County, Indiana, December 17, 1883, a son of Theophilus and Fanny C. (Center) Snider. The Snider family was one of the first to establish homes in Putnam County, Indiana. His great-grandfather, Jacob, took his family, including his son Lewis, grandfather of L. A. Snider, and traveled by wagon from Tennessee, to the midst of an unbroken wilderness in Putnam County, Indiana, establishing their home six miles north of Greencastle. Jacob Snider spent all the rest of his days on that farm. He came to Indiana at such an early time that the party was attacked by Indians while en route. He was a farmer, hunter and trapper and a splendid type of the rugged pioneer settler. Theophilus Snider, who died in 1908, was born at Greencastle, Indiana, and spent all his active career as a railroad man. He became a brakeman, later a conductor, and was finally made a yardmaster with the Big Four Railway Company. He was at first with the Peoria Division, afterwards was made yardmaster at Terre Haute, and at the time of his death had given thirty-seven years of faithful work to the Big Four Railway Company, being regarded as one of its most trusted employes. He was a member of the Masonic order for many years. In the family were four children, all of whom are still living. L. A. Snider, oldest of these children, was educated in the public schools of Terre Haute, attended high school at Indianapolis, and took his professional course in the Rose Polytechnic Institute at Terre Haute. He graduated Bachelor of Science with the class of 1905 and then spent another year of post-graduate work, receiving the degree Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering in 1906. Since then he has given all his time to professional work. In 1912 he was granted the degree of Mechanical Engineer because of his professional record. For a year he was with the Fairbanks and Morse Company, assigned to duty at Beloit, Wisconsin, and after that was employed as a mechanical engineer and traveled over several states for the Fairbanks and Morse people. Later he had full charge of the mechanical equipment and engineering work of Paul Kuhn and Company throughout Indiana and Illinois, with headquarters at Terre Haute. After three years he resigned and on March 1, 1910, became connected with McMeans and Tripp as their mechanical engineer. Some years ago Mr. Snider formed his present partnership with J. M. Rotz, and as consulting engineers they have handled many important contracts. Their chief specialty is heating and ventilating, and they have done an extensive business in iustalling appara |