its publication Mr. Noel was employed by the auditor of state to make a public investigation of the State Life Insurance Company of Indianapolis. All of this is a matter of public history, but it may be recalled that the president and vice president of the company resigned, and the governing board was completely reorganized.

Under the direction of the Merchants Association of Indianapolis Mr. Noel directed in 1908 an investigation of the affairs of Marion County. This was also followed by the indictment and trial of several officials and the recovery of a large sum of public money. An even more important result was effected when at the suggestion of Mr. Noel the Merchants Association and other commercial bodies in the state united in a demand for the passage of a law providing for uniform accounting and an annual audit of all public offices in Indiana. The Legislature passed such a bill in 1909, largely as formulated and revised by Mr. Noel.

Work of this kind requires more than a keen insight into human motives and highly trained knowledge of business technique. It demands determination which cannot be swayed by general clamor and a complete personal fearlessness. It was the possession of these qualities and the enviable record which he had made in Indiana which doubtless influenced the United States Attorney General in 1912 to select Mr. Noel as assistant United States district attorney to prosecute the famous "Dynamiters Case" in Indianapolis. The details of that trial, growing out of the blowing up of the Los Angeles Times Building and more than one hundred dynamite explosions throughout the country, are still fresh in the public memory. It was not an ordinary criminal case involving spectacular personal features, but its issues involved some of the fundamental elements in law and order, and as a trial of that kind perhaps none ever excelled it in point of gen, eral interest. A case that belonged in the same general category and perhaps more dramatic was the prosecution in Los Angeles in 1915 of M. A. Schmidt for murder in connection with the Times explosion. In that year Mr. Noel was employed by the State of California to take charge of the prosecution, which resulted in conviction and life sentence.

James W. Noel was born at Melmore, Seneca County, Ohio, November 24, 1867, son of William P. and Caroline (Graves) Noel. Well authenticated records trace the Noel ancestry back to the time of William the Conqueror of England. The family came to Virginia along with the Cavaliers. Mr. Noel's great-grandfather Loftus Noel, moved from Virginia to Lexington Kentucky, being one of the pioneers of the middle west. Albert Noel, the grandfather of the Indianapolis lawyer, moved from Kentucky to Ohio, and was a pioneer at Alexandria in that state. He married a descendant of the De Vilbiss family of French Hugenot stock resident in America from the time of the seventeenth century. William P. Noel, a son of their union, was born in Ohio and married there Miss Caroline Graves of Puritan ancestry. William P. Noel was a soldier in the Forty-ninth Ohio Volunteer Infantry from the first call for troops to the end of the war. 1880 he moved to Indiana, locating on a farm in Pulaski County, near Star City. He was a republican and a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

In

James W. Noel, the oldest of eight children, grew up in the environment of a farm and completed his early education in the schools of Star City. At the age of sixteen he began teaching in Pulaski County, and altogether was a teacher for about six years, the earnings from this profession enabling him to reach the real goal of his ambition, the law. In 1889 he entered Purdue University at Lafayette, and completed the regular four years course in two and a half years, graduating Bachelor of Science in 1892. While in university he was manager of the football and baseball teams, editor of the college paper and biennials and also class orator and active in the literary societies and in the Sigma Nu fraternity. For two years after graduating he was secretary of Purdue University.

Mr. Noel entered the law office of Byron K. Elliott at Indianapolis in 1894, and at the same time carried on his studies in the Indiana Law School, graduating LL. B. in 1895. Since that year he has been active in practice at Indianapolis and early gained a reputation as a keen and resourceful trial lawyer and one who went to the bottom of every case he undertook. Mr. Noel has studied many subjects not usually found

within the repertoire of a lawyer, and is esteemed as one of the most versatile intellects of the Indianapolis bar. In 1909 Mr. Noel was on the program of the International Tax Association, of which he is a member, reading before that body at Louisville a paper on "Taxation of Insurance.' Politically he is a republican, member of the Meridian Street Methodist Episcopal Church and of numerous civic and social organizations.

In 1895 he married Miss Cornelia Horton Humphrey of Patriot, Indiana. She was a graduate of Wesleyan College. Their happy companionship was terminated by her death, of typhoid fever, eleven weeks after their marriage. June 29, 1899, Mr. Noel married Miss Anne Madison Sloan, of Indianapolis. She was born and reared in Cincinnati, where her father, John O. Sloan was a business man. Through her mother she is a collateral connection of President James Madison and of Chief Justice John Marshall. Mrs. Noel is a graduate of the Wesleyan Female College of Cincinnati.

JOHN COMLY BIRDSELL, president of the Birdsell Manufacturing Company of South Bend until his death July 13, 1894, was born in Westchester County, New York, March 31, 1815. He was descended from a Quaker family, and began life's activities as a farmer. In 1864 he came from New York to Indiana and established his factory in South Bend. The company was incorporated in 1870, with his sons as officers and stockholders. Mr. Birdsell was one of South Bend's public spirited and influential citizens. He was a republican and later a prohibitionist, was a regular attendant of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and for many years affiliated with the Masonic order.

Mr. Birdsell married Miss Harriet Lunt, and they were the parents of five children.

JOHN M. BOWEN is one of the younger men engaged in business affairs at Richmond and is manager of the Sample Shoe Store at 610 Main Street.

He was born at Carlos in Randolph. County, Indiana, July 1, 1895, son of Charles E. and Josie (Nelson) Bowen. The Bowens are an old English family, and on October 14, 1914, as a family they celebrated the centennial anniversary of

their residence in America. They first established homes in Maryland, and Mr. Bowen's great-great-grand father was a pioneer in Randolph County, Indiana. Many of the family have been merchants and professional men. Charles E. Bowen is now proprietor of a general store at Carlos, Indiana.

John M. Bowen attended public schools at Spartansburg,. Indiana, high school at Lynn, and took the banking and commercial course at Valparaiso University. In the meantime he had a thoroughly practical business training, being manager of a shoe store for D. M. Anderson, also employed at his uncle's store at Lynn, and in 1916 he spent a term in the Koester Decorating School at Chicago. He then spent another six months at Lynn, was located at Kokomo a short time, and in 1917 came to Richmond, where he went to work for the Sample Shoe Store. He was made manager in November, 1917, and has rapidly developed the trade and other interests of business. Mr. Bowen is also interested in a 160-acre farm at Crete in Randolph County.

In 1916 he married Miss Anna Marie Ritz, daughter of Michael and Gretta (Bailey) Ritz, of Fountain City, Indiana. They have one son, William Freemont, born November 9, 1918. Mr. Bowen is a republican in his political affiliations and is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias and the Masons at Lynn, and is a member of the First Christian Church.

HENRY H. FARWIG by long experience and hard work has become an independently successful business man at Richmond, and conducts one of the leading bakery plants in eastern Indiana, supplying both the wholesale and retail trade.

He was born in Richmond November 18, 1872, son of Herman and Caroline (Bloemeyer) Farwig. The house where Mr. Farwig now lives was built by his grandfather, Frederick Farwig, in 1844, and is one of the oldest residential landmarks in the city. His grandfather also helped build the first railroad bridge over Whitewater River. He had come directly from Cincinnati in a wagon, before the era of railroads. Frederick Farwig died sixtythree years ago, and his wife Marie Lotten, has been dead about fifty years. Herman Farwig was one of three children and spent

forty-seven years in the employ of S. R. Wiggins & Son, tanners.

Henry S. Farwig was the second among four children. He attended St. John's parochial schools to the age of fourteen and then spent six years learning carriage blacksmithing. His employer was Philip Snyder. From blacksmithing he took up his present line of business as an employe of Seefloth & Bayer at 622 Main Street. He was with that firm consecutively for twenty-two years, as a wagon driver and in other capacities and mastered every branch of the business. Mr. Seefloth died in 1902, at which time the business was acquired by Mr. Bayer, the other partner, and when he passed away in August, 1916, Mr. Farwig bought the plant and has continued the old established business with every accompaniment of prosperity. He manufactures every class of bakery goods.

In 1900 Mr. Farwig married Bertha J. Fulgham, daughter of Zeri and Mollie (Lambert) Fulgham. To their marriage To their marriage have been born two children, Roland William, born in 1902, and Elizabeth Henrietta.

Mr. Farwig has been an active factor in the democratic party of Richmond for many years. He was candidate for mayor in 1912 and again in 1916. In 1910 Governor Marshall, now vice president, appointed him deputy oil inspector of Indiana. He has also served as a member of the City Council. Mr. Farwig is affiliated with the Loyal Order of Moose and the Fraternal Order of Eagles, and is a member of St. John's Lutheran Church.

JAMES ANDREW QUIGLEY is one of the younger rather than older business men of Richmond, but in a brief period of years has succeeded in establishing a very large and prosperous business known as Quigley Brothers, in which he is junior partner. This firm has five completely stocked and equipped retail drug stores in Richmond, and in aggregate volume the business done by these stores is among the largest in the city.

Mr. Quigley was born in Richmond in 1884, son of James and Julia (Horigan) Quigley. His parents were both natives of County Mayo, Ireland, came to the United States when young, were married in Richmond, and of their five children James A. is the youngest. He acquired

a public school education to the age of fifteen and then spent two years in the drug store of Dr. T. C. Teague and three years with Curme & Company, druggists. His practical experience and his study gave him an expert knowledge of pharmacy, enabling him to pass the State Board of Pharmacy examination at Indianapolis in 1904. He and Roy Babylon then bought the business of the Moore Drug Company on North Eighth Street, and for two years the firm of Quigley & Babylon was in existence. Mr. Quigley then sold his interests in that store and started for himself at 821 North E Street. Two years later he acquired another store at 1820 North E Street. He then joined his brother M. J. Quigley, who already had two well equipped stores in operation, and they have since comprised the firm of Quigley Brothers and have opened a fifth store at 806 Main Street. The firm does a business reaching out over a radius of twenty-five miles around Richmond. Mr. Quigley is a member of the National Association of Retail Druggists.

In 1904 he married May Rogers, daughter of George and Ella Rogers, of Indianapolis. apolis. Their one son, James, Jr., was born in 1906. Mr. Quigley is a democrat, a member of St. Mary's Catholic Church, is affiliated with the Elks and the Knights of Columbus and is a member of the South Side Improvement Association, the Ontre Nous Club and the Commerce Club.

FREDERICK HACKMAN has been a resident of Richmond nearly forty years, was first identified with the community as a cabinet maker, but for over thirty years has been in the coal business. He is now president of Hackman, Klehfoth & Company, dealers in coal and building supplies.

Mr. Hackman was born in the Province of Hanover, Germany, May 1, 1857, son of Frank and Elizabeth (Schnat meyer) Hackman. He attended the common schools at Melle, Hanover, to the age of fourteen, then spent a three years apprenticeship at cabinet making, and after that was employed as a journeyman. At the age of twenty he entered the German army and served two years. Mr. Hackman came to America in 1881, and after landing in Baltimore came direct to Richmond. He worked here five years at the cabinet making trade.