citizen is proud. In the fall of 1894, on account of the illness of her brother, Miss Dickson resigned, but Mr. McGilliard was fortunate in securing to take her place the services of Miss Alice Graydon, who proved to be one of the most competent and efficient workers in boys' work Indianapolis has ever had. After several years with the club Miss Graydon was selected to be assistant to Judge Stubbs in the Juvenile Court.

As will be noted, the founding of this club was almost coincident with the inception of one of the greatest financial panics the United States has ever known. His individual resources and the time he could spare from his own business became so limited that Mr. McGilliard had to seek other services and financial help in order to maintain the club. At that juncture came a happy surprise in the form of a gift of $1,000 from Mrs. John C. Wright, and that sum was really the salvation of the club. About 1894 or 1895 Mrs. John C. Butler, widow of a former prominent attorney of Indianapolis, gave the club a gift of $10,000 in the name of her son, who had been a cripple for a number of years before his death. This handsome donation enabled the club to purchase a two-story brick building at the corner of South Meridian Street and Madison Avenue. That has since been the home of the club. The building was fitted up with a large gymnasium, reading room and school room, and here are the main offices and gymnasium and school room of the Boys' Club, while the Lauter Memorial Building and Gymnasium and the George W. Stubbs Memorial Building in different parts of the city are larger and better buildings, and all owned and used by the Boys' Club.

The Indianapolis Boys' Club is the largest and most notable boys' club in the United States. It has property valued at over $100,000 and its officers and directors are drawn from some of the most distinguished of Indianapolis citizens. Its superintendent, Mr. Walter Jarvis, is probably the best equipped man in the country for that special line of work. As the founder of the club and its first president, Mr. McGilliard is now an honorary life trustee.

After the permanent home was acquired and equipped Miss Graydon proposed the idea of a Mothers' Club to work in connection with the Boys' Club. This Moth

ers' Club has been hardly secondary in importance as a source of invaluable service to the community. Mrs. Elizabeth Lloyd McGilliard was selected as the first president of the Mothers' Club and she remained very active and untiring in time and devotion to that field of work until ill health caused Mr. McGilliard to accompany her to another part of this fair land.

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M. V. McGilliard was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1842, a son of John S. and Abigail (Preston) McGilliard. The McGilliard family is of French Hugenot origin. France the name was spelled Gilliard. After the persecution of the Hugenots the Gilliards left France and went to Scotland, where during several generations of residence they acquired the familiar Scotch prefix.

When Mr. McGilliard was eight years of age his parents moved in 1850 to Liberty, Indiana, and in 1858 established their home at Kewanee, Illinois. In those communities M. V. McGilliard was reared and educated, and in 1863, at the age of twentytwo enlisted as a private in Company H of the One Hundred and Thirty-Fourth Illinois Infantry. He saw upwards of one year of active service, participating in campaigns in Kentucky, Tennessee, Missouri and Arkansas. As participant in a war in which freedom was a conspicuous factor, he is significantly an interested witness in the present great struggle, where the all dominant issue is a new freedom and new ideals of democracy.

At the close of the war Mr. McGilliard entered the fire insurance business, and soon afterward located at Indianapolis as special agent for an insurance company. He has been a resident of this city ever since with the exception of the four years from 1902 to 1906 when he had his offices and headquarters at Sioux Falls, South Dakota. He is a special agent and adjuster, of fire insurance, and that service, continued for fifty-three years, makes him one of the oldest men in fire insurance circles in the country. During his residence in South Dakota he was president of the State Sunday School Association, and at no time in his mature life has he ever failed to keep up a keen interest in church and Sunday school work.

At Indianapolis he has served as elder of the Memorial and Tabernacle Presbyterian Churches and in fact has assisted in or

ganizing four different churches of that denomination in Indianapolis. He was practically the founder of the Tabernacle Church which was organized in his home. He has been a leader in extending Sunday school influence, conducting mission Sunday schools and otherwise working as a pioneer in that field. He was superintendent of the East Washington Street Mission of the Presbyterian Church, of the West Washington Street Mission, now known as the Mount Jackson Methodist Church, and in this work and related interests he has always had a close and devoted associate in Mrs. McGilliard and latterly in their daughter. Mr. McGilliard is also associated with the Masonic Order, the Grand Army of the Republic and the First Presbyterian Church.

Mrs. McGilliard before her marriage was Miss Elizabeth Lloyd. She is also a native of Cincinnati. The only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. McGilliard is Edna M., wife of Dr. Wilmer F. Christian, brief reference to whom will be found on other pages as one of the leading physicians of Indianapolis. Mrs. Christian, like her mother, is a leader in philanthropic and welfare work. Especially within the last year or so she has become prominent in Red Cross and other forms of war activities. Her interests and efforts have been especially aroused and enlisted in looking after the welfare of those thousands of young women who are now employed in the industries, many of them as substitutes for men called to the front. Mrs. Christian is also a leader in the Women's Franchise League of Indiana, being president of the Indianapolis branch of the same.

ORANGE G. PFAFF, M. D., F. A. C. S. Of Indiana men who have achieved national distinction in the field of surgery, there is perhaps none whose attainments have had a wider and more beneficent influence upon the profession at large than Dr. Orange G. Pfaff of Indianapolis.

city of Winston-Salem. The community where the Pfaff family settled, about twelve miles west of Salem, became known as Pfafftown. The Moravians have always been the chief religious and social influence of that section of North Carolina, and they established at Salem a school that yet remains one of the most notable educational institutions in America.

He was born at Westfield in Hamilton County, Indiana, April 28, 1857. His ancestry is interesting. He is descended from Peter Pfaff, a Moravian who came from his. native land to North Carolina in 1741. He was one of the founders of the Moravian Church and community in Forsythe County, the activities of which centered around Salem, now a part of the modern industrial

Doctor Pfaff is a son of Dr. Jacob L. and Jane (Wall) Pfaff. His father was born at Pfafftown in North Carolina and came to Indiana in the late '30s, locating first at Mooresville in Morgan County and later removing to Westfield in Hamilton County. He was a pioneer physician in those localities. He died in 1859. Orange G. Pfaff came to Indianapolis with a married sister, Mrs. George Davis, whose husband was a wholesale shoe dealer here. He was then six years of age, and practically all his life has been spent in the capital city. The Pfaff home in former years was on Pennsylvania Street between Market and Washington, where the When department store now stands, in the heart of the business district,

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Doctor Pfaff received his preliminary education in the public schools and high school. He studied medicine in the Indiana Medical College, graduating M.-D. in 1882 After a year or two of hospital work he engaged in general practice. He has taken post-graduate work in New York and at the University of Berlin, and in 1907 Wabash College honored him with the degree A. M About 1903 he discontinued general practice to engage in surgery exclusively. He 15. has been a specialist in gynecological surgery, and in that field has achieved well earned distinction and is honored by the profession throughout the country.

During 1882-84 Doctor Pfaff was resident physician of the Marion County Infirmary. He has long been identified with the faculty of the Indiana University School of Medicine, lecturer and clinical professor of Gynecology, 1890-91, and professor of gynecology since 1892. He still holds this chair. He is gynecologist for the Indianapolis City Hospital and St. Vincent's Hospital.

Doctor Pfaff is a member of the Indianapolis and Indiana State Medical societies, the Mississippi Valley Medical Society, the American Medical Association, the American Association of Obstetricians and Gyne

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cologists, and is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons. He was president of the Indianapolis Medical Society in 1907. Doctor Pfaff is a republican, a member of the Phi Chi college fraternity, and belongs to the University, Columbia and Country clubs. In and..

He was a member of the old Medical Reserve Corps of the United States army, in which he held a commission. When the war started between the United States and Germany in April, 1917, he was one of the first surgeons to receive the commission of major and for several months was actively engaged in the work of Base Hospital No. 32 at Fort Benjamin Harrison.

November 25, 1885, Doctor Pfaff married Mary A. Alvey, of Indianapolis, daughter of James H. Alvey. They have a son, Dudley A. Pfaff, a young man of exceptionally brilliant promise. He was educated in the famous Hill Preparatory School at Pottstown, Pennsylvania, for five years, also in Yale University, has done special work in Indiana University and is a member of the class of 1920 in Harvard Medical College. Doctor and Mrs. Pfaff reside at 1221 North Pennsylvania Street.

DAVID E. WATSON. The law has claimed the energies and talents of David E. Watson for a full quarter of a century, and as a lawyer he is well known over his native state. Mr. Watson for several years has been located at Indianapolis, where he is legal counsel and trial lawyer for the Indianapolis Traction & Terminal Company. His offices are in the Traction Terminal Building.

He was born at Eminence in Morgan County, Indiana, February 4, 1870, a son of John and Belle (Brazier) Watson. His father was born on a farm in the same county in 1842. His grandfather, Simon Watson, was an early settler in Morgan County, locating there in 1836 and taking up land for which he secured a patent from the Government Land Office. He improved this land to some extent and then traded for another farm adjoining. He lived there until his death at the ripe age of eightyseven in 1895. He had a large family of eleven children, nine sons and two daughters, and seven of the sons and one of the daughters are still living. Simon Watson was a fine type of the pioneer Indiana citizen, a devout Baptist, a democrat in

politics, and a member of the Masonic Lodge at Eminence.

John Watson, who was second oldest of his father's children, had a common school education and was one of the boy soldiers of the Union army. He enlisted in 1861 in the Fifty-Ninth Indiana Infantry and was in service three years and eight months. He fought at Shiloh and in many of the campaigns led by General Grant in the Mississippi Valley until 1864. For a time he was an orderly. He received his honorable discharge in 1865, and returning to Morgan County took up the trade of house painter, which he followed at Eminence and in the surrounding district for a number of years. Later he engaged in the hotel business, and kept hotel at Eminence until 1910. He is retired at the age of seventysix. He has always been active in the interests of the democratic party and is affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He and his wife had four children.

The only surviving child is David E. Watson, who grew up in Morgan County and attended the grammar and high schools there. Later he entered DePauw University at Greencastle, where he first took the teachers' course and in 1892 graduated from the law department with the degree LL. B. Mr. Watson practiced at Greencastle from 1892 until 1896, and then removed to Martinsville, where he accumulated a large clientage and was busily and successfully engaged until July, 1912. At that time his duties as attorney for the Indianapolis Traction & Terminal Company brought him to Indianapolis, where he has since had his home. Mr. Watson is affiliated with the Masonic Order, Modern Woodmen of America, and bestows his franchise with the democratic party. September 25, 1893, he married Miss Effie Foster.

JACOB TAYLOR WRIGHT was one of the distinctively useful and prominent citizens of Indianapolis during the last century. He represented the pioneer element, was a leader in the Quaker Church, and for many years had an influential part in local and state politics.

He was born at Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1816, son of Joel and Elizabeth (Taylor) Wright. He was a descendant of William Wright, who fought at the battle of the Boyne in

1690 with King William's army, was knighted for bravery, and given a grant of land in Ireland. His grandfather, Jonathan Wright, settled in Philadelphia and afterwards near Ellicott's Mills in Maryland. He was a millwright by trade. He finally went to Cincinnati, and established the first Quaker Church in that city and was one of its pastors.

When Jacob Taylor Wright was a child his parents moved to Fayette County, Indiana, where his father was a Government surveyor. During his youth he learned the trade of millwright, and at the age of twenty-one left the farm to establish a mill at South Richmond. On the invitation of Robert Underhill he finally came to Indianapolis to take charge of the foundry and flour mill here. He became prominent in local industries, establishing the first rolling mill at Indianapolis, known as the Indianapolis Rolling Mills. Later he was in the real estate business, and he built a number of houses in this city. Mr. Wright retired from business in 1873, and the next five years he lived in Kansas, giving his leisurely attention to a sheep ranch. He then returned to Indianapolis, and was retired until his death in 1879.

In 1861 Mr. Wright was called from the operation of the mill and foundry to the duties of public office, being elected auditor of Marion County. He held that office two successive terms, being elected on the republican ticket. During the war he was also chairman of the State Central Committee. He was one of Governor Morton's most active and useful lieutenants in raising funds and recruiting men during the early days of the war. He also had a personal acquaintance with President Lincoln. It was largely through Mr. Wright's untiring efforts that Governor Morton was finally sent to the United States Senate. Mr. Wright stood high among his fellow citizens, was a recognized leader in power and capabilities, and yet during his youth he had a very meager common school education. Much of his knowledge was absorbed in the home library which his mother had gathered together. In the early days it was customary for the people of the neighborhood to come into the Wright home and read.

Jacob Taylor Wright married for his first wife Matilda Butler, of Fayette County, Indiana. Her people came originally

from Lynchburg, Virginia. She died soon after removing to Indianapolis. Her children were Benjamin C. and Granville S. In 1861 Mr. Wright married Sallie Anne Tomlinson, who was born in 1828 on a farm south of Indianapolis. Mrs. Wright, who is still living, is doubtless one of the very oldest natives of Marion County, and the City of Indianapolis had been established only two or three years before her birth. She is now living with her only daughter, Anna M. Wright, at 4150 Central Avenue.

ALVA CHARLES SALLEE has been the means of giving a great deal more publicity to other men and to institutions than to himself. He is by training and experience and by profession a publicity expert, and has long and active experience as an advertising man. Much of his work has been done in the realm of politics, and for fifteen years he has been a figure in the Indiana democratic party.

Mr. Sallee was born at one of the most interesting old towns of Southern Indiana, Carlisle, Sullivan County. His life began there in 1881. His parents, William H. and Rebecca (Ford) Sallee, are both now deceased. His paternal grandfather was a native of France, and on coming to America first located in Illinois and afterwards moved to Sullivan County, which was primarily a French settlement, though very few of that original stock still remain there.

Alva Charles Sallee was eleven years old when his father died. That loss undoubtedly had much to do with his subsequent experiences. In fact it threw him upon his own resources, and the possibilities and opportunities of success and service he has earned one by one. He educated himself and after he was twelve years of age removed from Carlisle to Evansville, attending public school and commercial college there. His business career began at Evansville as a stenographer with a local manufacturing concern, and during the four years' connection with this firm he took up the study of advertising. He moved to Indianapolis in 1902 and became interested in newspaper and publicity work, serving as special correspondent for Chicago, Louisville and Indianapolis papers.

It was his abilities in this field which brought him into touch with Mr. Thomas Taggart, who had just come into posses

sion of the great French Lick Springs Hotel and associated properties. Mr. Sallee had considerable to do with the early publicity methods which brought these properties to nation wide appreciation having assisted in devising and preparing the original literature and general publicity technic. Mr. Taggart made a new use of Mr. Sallee's services as his secretary, and in that capacity many arduous duties were assigned to him during the presidential campaign of 1904, when Mr. Taggart was national chairman. He has been more or less associated with this great democratic leader and organizer since that time, and his own entry into politics and campaign management is largely due to that association.

Since 1911 Mr. Sallee's home has been in Indianapolis. Here he has conducted a successful advertising and mail order business. He was assistant secretary to the Democratic National Committee in 1908 and has served as secretary to the Indiana Democratic State Committee for three consecutive terms, having been chosen first in 1914 and re-elected again in 1916 and 1918. Mr. Sallee is also chairman of the Seventh Congressional District Committee.

Mr. Sallee married in 1905 Miss Mabel Lett, of Evansville. He is a member of the Masonic order, the Elks, the Indiana Democratic Club, Indianapolis Athletic Club and other civic and social organizations.

RT. REV. JOHN HAZEN WHITE, D. D., whose episcopal residence is at South Bend, is the Fourth Bishop of Indiana and the First Bishop of Northern Indiana, and has given over forty years of his life to the consecrated service of the Protestant Episcopal Church and the cause of humanity.

While the record of his career is an impressive one in itself, it also stands as evidence of the sturdy qualities of the old American stock. Bishop White is in the ninth generation of the White family in America, and it is fitting that some record of the other generations should precede the story of his own life.

He is a direct descendant from William and Mary White. Tradition says that William White came from County Norfolk, England. He was born in England in 1610 and landed at Ipswich, Massachusetts, in

1635. In that year the General Court ordered the bounds of Ipswich and Quasacunquin (now Newbury) to be laid out when some of the chief people of Ipswich desired to leave to remove to Quasacunquin to begin a settlement. This petition was granted them. Among those who removed to Newbury were Rev. Thomas Parker, Nicholas Noyes, Henry Sewell, William White, William Moody and Richard Kent. In 1640 William White moved to Haverhill, where he was one of the first settlers and one of the grantees of the Indian deed of Haverhill dated November 15, 1642, which instrument was, it is said, both written and witnessed by him. He acquired a large estate there and the Haverhill town records show that he held a very respectable position among the early settlers. He died in 1690.

His only child was John White, born about 1639 and died at Haverhill at the age of twenty-nine. He married Hannah French of Salem.

Their only child, also named John White, was born in 1663-4 and died in 1727. He was a man of much consequence both in civil and military affairs of the colony and as a merchant and land owner. He married Lydia Gilman, daughter of Hon. John Gilman of Exeter, New Hampshire, and granddaughter of Edward Gilman, who came from Norfolk, England, and settled first at Hingham and later at Ipswich.

The fourth generation was represented by Deacon William White, born in 1693-4 and died in 1737. He was a clothier at Haverhill, was also a captain and justice of the peace, and is said to have planted the first potato crop in that town. He married Sarah Phillips, daughter of Samuel and Mary (Emerson) Phillips of Salem, a granddaughter of Rev. Samuel Phillips of Rowley and great-granddaughter of Rev. George Phillips of Watertown.

In the fifth generation was John White, who married Miriam (Hoyt) Hazen and both lived at Hav.. hill, Massachusetts. A son of this couple was Maj. Moses White of Rutland, who for several years was a clerk in the store of Joseph Hazen of Haverhill, the father of his mother's first husband. At the age of twenty he entered the army and became the aide of Gen. Moses Hazen and served through the Revolutionary war with untarnished character. He married