local banks.and is also a director in the Henry County Building and Loan Association, having filled that office for fifteen years. December 31, 1890, he married Mary E. Pickering, daughter of Irvin and Sarah Jane (Block) Pickering, of Henry Township. They have two children: Horace E., born in 1894, and George W., born in 1903. Horace graduated from Wabash College with the A. B. degree in 1917. On December 26th of the same year he enlisted. After a six weeks' course of training at the University of Chicago he was appointed to the Ordnance Department, and is now a sergeant with the American Expeditionary Forces in France. Mr. Stout is a democrat and served four years on the city council, from 1902 to 1906. From 1906 to 1910 he was a member of the school board. Since 1891 he has taken an active part in the Christian Church, and was president of the church board in 1902. He has also attended some state conventions of his church. Mr. Stout has held all the chairs in the Improved Order of Red Men, and is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias and the Masonic Order. ALONZO PHILIP GREEN, of Attica, is one of the largest land owners of the state, his property possessions embracing large amounts of farm land both in Indiana and in other localities. He was left an orphan in early life and has made his way through the world with a great deal of energy and enterprise, and his success is a matter of constant alertness to opportunity and a faculty of doing things himself and getting things done. Mr. Green is now engaged in the real estate and loan business at Attica under the name A. P. Green & Sons. tine (Rudy) Green. His father was born at Terre Haute, Indiana, February 14, 1821, a date that indicates the early establishment of the Green family in the western part of the state. The parents of Conant C. Green were Ormsby and Rebecca (Prescott) Green, both of whom were natives of England. Conant C. Green was a saw mill man in early life and lived in several different localities. He is remembered as having built and operated the first ferry over the Wabash River at Attica. That was during the '40s, and his home was at Attica from 1830 to 1848. He then removed to Myersville, Illinois, where he was one of the early settlers and was a merchant and farmer. He died April 20, 1862. On September 27, 1851, Conant C. Green married Christine Rudy, who was born in Pennsylvania March 25, 1826, a daughter of Jacob Rudy, a native of Switzerland. She died January 12, 1874, at Bismarck, Illinois. She was the mother of five children, two sons and three daughters, two of whom, twins, died in infancy, and Thomas also died in infancy. Those to grow up were: Alonzo P. and Alice A., the latter being principal of the Attica schools. Alonzo P. Green was only nine years old when his father died and a few years later he had to take up the business of life as a matter of serious responsibility and necessity. While attending public school he also clerked in the store of an uncle at Attica and did similar service at Bismarck, Illinois. In 1877 Mr. Green entered the grocery business on his own account, and for eighteen years was one of the successful merchants at Attica. merchants at Attica. The surplus of his business he invested in land, and it is the shrewdness and good management he has shown in handling such investments that have brought him the bulk of his fortune. In 1901 he bought an island in Alexander County, Illinois, comprising 1,136 acres. This he has done much to improve and develop, and it is now a highly productive farm. He also owns valuable farm lands in Indiana, Illinois and North Dakota. While interested in the welfare of his community, a stanch republican voter, Mr. Green has never sought any official honors. He is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias. June 28, 1883, at Rossville, Illinois, he married Miss Esther Thompson, who was His parents were Conant C. and Chris- born at Rossville August 20, 1863, daugh He was born at Myersville, Illinois, August 12, 1853, but represents a very early family in Fountain County, Indiana. His ancestry goes back to Sir Henry Green, a member of the nobility in England. Another ancestor was General Nathanael Greene, the great leader of Revolutionary Forces in the southern colonies in the War for Independence. Mr. Green and his sister Alice are both eligible to membership in the Sons and Daughters of the American Revolution. ter of Lewis M. and Judith A. (Burroughs) Thompson. Her father was born in Indiana in 1828 and died in 1913 and her mother was born in Kentucky in 1828 and died at Rossville, Illinois, in 1890. In the Thompson family were eight children, six daughters and two sons, and six are still living, Viola, Mary, John G., Esther, Lena and Harriet. Mrs. Green is very prominent musically at Attica and is well known in other parts of the state. She is a trained and talented vocalist and instrumentalist has taught both branches of music, and was a student under Frederick W. Root at Chicago. She is now president of the Musical Art Society of Attica, and as a club and literary woman is doing much to promote the relief and other causes of the war. Mr. and Mrs. Green have five children, three sons and two daughters. Conant Lewis, the oldest, was born May 16, 1884, graduated from the Attica High School in 1902 and received his degrees A. B. and LL. B. from the literary and law departments of the University of Michigan in 1907. He is now a successful lawyer at Attica. He married June 26, 1909, Miss Edna Glen Simison, who was born at Romney, Indiana. Their children are Esther Glen and Enid Gwendolin, twins, Addi Miriam, Doris Elizabeth and Edward Simi son. Edward Alonzo, the second child, was born January 1, 1887, and lost his life by drowning September 3, 1904, having graduated from the Attica High School the preceding spring. Lena Christine, the third child, was born April 21, 1891, and died the following day. The two younger children are Philip Thompson, born November 8, 1901, and Esther Alice, born July 23, 1904. VIRGINIA CLAYPOOL MEREDITH (Mrs. Henry Clay Meredith) was born in Fayette County, Indiana, November 5, 1848, a daughter of Austin B. and Hannah (Petty) Claypool. She graduated at Glendale College in 1866, with the degree A. B.; and in 1870 was married to Henry Clay Meredith-a son of Gen. Sol. Meredithwho died in 1882. After the death of her husband, Mrs. Meredith took personal charge of his stock farm, in Wayne County, and devoted her attention to breeding Shorthorn cattle and Southdown sheep, in which she has been notably successful. Mrs. Meredith is widely known as a writer and lecturer on farm and home topics. She was professor of home economics at the University of Minnesota from 1897 to 1902; has engaged largely in Indiana Farm Institute work; and has contributed extensively to agricultural and stock journals. She was a member of the Board of Lady Managers of the World's Columbian Exposition at Chicago, in 1893; and in the same year was President of the Indiana Union of Literary Clubs. She has been president of the Indiana Home Economics Association since 1913. MAJOR HENRY W. JOHNSON, who for many years was actively identified with those interests which made Michigan City an important center of furniture manufacturing enterprise, was born in 1834 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and was reared on a farm in Middlefield Township, Geauga County, Ohio, son of James E. and Emily B. (Burke) Johnson. His grandfather, Hugh Johnson, was a native of Virginia and moved to Ohio about 1802, being one of the first settlers in Geauga County, where he bought 600 acres of timbered land. He volunteered his service at the time of the War of 1812, and contracted fever and died soon after its close. His wife bore the maiden name of Jane Erskine. James E. Johnson, who was born on a farm near Charleston, West Virginia, in 1800, was one of six children, and in early. life learned the trade of carpenter. For several years he was in the contracting and building business at Philadelphia, until his partner absconded with all the capital of the firm. He then returned to Ohio and took the management of the farm which he inherited, and later continued in business as a contractor and builder. He died at Cleveland at the age of seventyfour. His wife was a native of Philadelphia and died at the age of eighty-four. On her mother's side she was of Holland Dutch ancestry. Henry W. Johnson was one of a family of eight children, and all the six sons except one served as Union soldiers. He was well educated and spent four years in what is now known as Hiram College in Ohio, of which James A. Garfield was at that |