Julia Elliott, youngest daughter of Gen. William J. Elliott. She was born at Indianapolis September 6, 1861. Her mother, Charlotte Tuttle Elliott, who was born at Watertown, New York, was also of a prominent Indiana family.

Julia Elliott was educated in the public schools of Indianapolis and at the Kappes Seminary, then the leading school for young ladies in the city. She was prominent in social circles and well known as a musical amateur-being one of the cast in "Fra Diavolo" as produced by Professor Pearson's Indianapolis Opera Company in May, 1883, with William Castle of the Abbott Opera Company in the title role.

October 3, 1883, she was married to Edwin H. Peck, of an old New York family, his father and grandfather being both natives of New York City. His father, William J. Peck, took an active part in the civic affairs of the city and served as president of the board of aldermen and as tax commissioner of the city. He is remembered historically as the man who approved the first fire engine ever used in the City of New York, at a time when the political power of the hand fire engine companies made such an innovation risky for a man in public life.

At seventeen, after receiving a grammar school education, Edwin H. Peck entered the employ of George S. Hart and Howell, butter and cheese merchants, and five years later went into the same business on his own account. After four years of successful operation in this he united with his brother, Walter J. Peck, in establishing a coffee jobbing and importing firm. It was successful from the start and has grown until the house of E. H. and W. J. Peck, which since the death of Walter J. Peck in 1909 has been conducted by Edwin H., is now well and favorably known to the coffee trade throughout the country. Mr. Peck was for twelve years one of the Board of Governors of the New York Coffee Exchange and is now a member of the Arbitration Committee of the Exchange.

He is also extensively interested in banking, being vice president of the Mount Vernon Trust Company and the Rye National Bank, and a director of the Coal and Iron National Bank, the Mutual Trust Company of Port Chester and the Westchester and Bronx Mortgage Company. Re

siding at Mount Vernon, he takes part in the social and political activities of New York City as a member of the Downtown Association, the New York Athletic Club, the Union League and the Republican Club.

Mrs. Peck is a member of the McKinley Chapter of the National Special Aid Association and of the American Red Cross. They have two children: Mary Whyland, wife of Daniel Webster Whitmore, Jr., a young New York banker and merchant; and Vivian Marguerite, wife of Walter H. McNeill, Jr., a young physician and specialist at Mount Vernon and New York.

WILLIAM B. BURFORD. Of the business men of Indianapolis few if any are better known personally to the business men of the State of Indiana than is William B. Burford. It has been largely through his untiring efforts and wise management that there has grown up in Indianapolis the largest and best equipped combined printing, lithographing, blank book, engraving, stationery and office outfitting establishment in the middle west. This establishment in addition to its large business with banks, commercial houses and individuals throughout Indiana and neighboring states has for many years supplied the state government and many of the counties and public institutions of Indiana with their printing, blank books and stationery. Mr. Burford as the sole head of this establishment and in his capacity as contractor for the state printing has not only become personally acquainted with many persons but has also had occasion to visit from time to time every county of the state, so that he knows Indiana as well as he is known to its citizens.

While he has been a resident of Indiana for more than half a century Mr. Burford was born at Independence, Jackson County, Missouri, in 1846, when Jackson County was far out on the western frontier and when the present metropolis, Kansas City, existed only as a river landing. His parents had moved from Harrodsburg, Kentucky, to Independence in 1839, and his father, Miles W. Burford, soon became well known there as a banker, general merchant and overland freighter of goods to Old Mexico.

William B. Burford came to Indianapolis at the age of fourteen on a visit, but came back to Indianapolis in 1863 and took

Julia Elliott, youngest daughter of Gen. William J. Elliott. She was born at Indianapolis September 6, 1861. Her mother, Charlotte Tuttle Elliott, who was born at Watertown, New York, was also of a prominent Indiana family.

Julia Elliott was educated in the public schools of Indianapolis and at the Kappes Seminary, then the leading school for young ladies in the city. She was prominent in social circles and well known as a musical amateur-being one of the cast in "Fra Diavolo" as produced by Professor Pearson's Indianapolis Opera Company in May, 1883, with William Castle of the Abbott Opera Company in the title role.

October 3, 1883, she was married to Edwin H. Peck, of an old New York family, his father and grandfather being both natives of New York City. His father, William J. Peck, took an active part in the civic affairs of the city and served as president of the board of aldermen and as tax commissioner of the city. He is remembered historically as the man who approved the first fire engine ever used in the City of New York, at a time when the political power of the hand fire engine companies made such an innovation risky for a man in public life.

At seventeen, after receiving a grammar school education, Edwin H. Peck entered the employ of George S. Hart and Howell, butter and cheese merchants, and five years later went into the same business on his own account. After four years of successful operation in this he united with his brother, Walter J. Peck, in establishing a coffee jobbing and importing firm. It was successful from the start and has grown until the house of E. H. and W. J. Peck, which since the death of Walter J. Peck in 1909 has been conducted by Edwin H., is now well and favorably known to the coffee trade throughout the country. Mr. Peck was for twelve years one of the Board of Governors of the New York Coffee Exchange and is now a member of the Arbitration Committee of the Exchange.

He is also extensively interested in banking, being vice president of the Mount Vernon Trust Company and the Rye National Bank, and a director of the Coal and Iron National Bank, the Mutual Trust Company of Port Chester and the Westchester and Bronx Mortgage Company. Re

siding at Mount Vernon, he takes part in the social and political activities of New York City as a member of the Downtown Association, the New York Athletic Club, the Union League and the Republican Club.

Mrs. Peck is a member of the McKinley Chapter of the National Special Aid Association and of the American Red Cross. They have two children: Mary Whyland, wife of Daniel Webster Whitmore, Jr., a young New York banker and merchant; and Vivian Marguerite, wife of Walter H. McNeill, Jr., a young physician and specialist at Mount Vernon and New York.

WILLIAM B. BURFORD. Of the business men of Indianapolis few if any are better known personally to the business men of the State of Indiana than is William B. Burford. It has been largely through his untiring efforts and wise management that there has grown up in Indianapolis the largest and best equipped combined printing, lithographing, blank book, engraving, stationery and office outfitting establishment in the middle west. This establishment in addition to its large business with banks, commercial houses and individuals throughout Indiana and neighboring states has for many years supplied the state government and many of the counties and public institutions of Indiana with their printing, blank books and stationery. Mr. Burford as the sole head of this establishment and in his capacity as contractor for the state printing has not only become personally acquainted with many persons but has also had occasion to visit from time to time every county of the state, so that he knows Indiana as well as he is known to its citizens.

While he has been a resident of Indiana for more than half a century Mr. Burford was born at Independence, Jackson County, Missouri, in 1846, when Jackson County was far out on the western frontier and when the present metropolis, Kansas City, existed only as a river landing. His parents had moved from Harrodsburg, Kentucky, to Independence in 1839, and his father, Miles W. Burford, soon became well known there as a banker, general merchant and overland freighter of goods to Old Mexico.

William B. Burford came to Indianapolis at the age of fourteen on a visit, but came back to Indianapolis in 1863 and took

employment in the job printing shop conducted by his brother-in-law, William Braden, little thinking that he would one day become the head of that establishment or that it would grow to its present proportions.

Having returned to Missouri, young Burford in 1864 joined a military company known as the Home Guard, and in the fall of 1864 became a member of the regularly organized body of Missouri Cavalry troops, which later actively resisted General Price and his 30,000 men in their raids through Missouri. But most of his active service as a Union soldier consisted in fighting guerrillas along the border.

At the close of the war Mr. Burford again attended college for two years and then in the fall of 1867 returned to Indianapolis and resumed employment with William Braden in the printing and stationery business. In 1870 he became a partner under the firm name of Braden & Burford. In 1875 Mr. Braden sold his interest in the firm to Mr. Burford, who has since that date conducted the business alone.

The business when Mr. Burford first acquired an interest in it and even when he first became sole owner was small compared to its present proportions, but its growth through the years has been steady and constant. New departments have been added from time to time, and at all times the equipment has been kept up-to-date and efficient. In fact, one of Mr. Burford's pronounced characteristics is his interest in any and all forms of new or improved machinery connected with the printing and lithographic trades. Not only has he endeavored to have quality and service characterize the work of his establishment, but has also taken pride in supplying as far as possible all the office requirements of any ordinary business and to that end he has adopted as his slogan "IF USED IN AN OFFICE BURFORD HAS IT."

In addition to his constant, every-day attention to his business Mr. Burford has at all times been greatly interested in the growth and welfare of his city and state. When he first saw Indianapolis its most boastful claim as to population was 18,000 and he has seen its steady increase until it has neared the 300,000 mark.

Both as an individual and as a member of the various civic organizations of the past fifty years he has had a part in many

of the movements which have promoted the growth and prosperity of the city, and today any wisely planned effort for the city's welfare will find no more active or persistent worker than William B. Burford.

DANIEL D. PRATT was born in Palermo, Maine, in 1813. He became identified with Indiana as a teacher in 1832, and in 1834 went to Indianapolis and studied law, and in 1836 located in Logansport, where he began the practice of law. He served in the Indiana Legislature from 1851 to 1853, was elected to Congress from Indiana, in 1868, but before taking his seat was chosen a United States senator and served until 1875. In that year he was appointed commissioner of internal revenue, which office he resigned in 1876. Senator Pratt died at Logansport in June, 1877.

C. P. DONEY. The exigencies of our national economy and revenue administration have produced practically a new profession, that of specialist and counsel and adviser to private individuals and business firms in settling the complex and innumerable questions connected with the filing of schedules and other matters to satisfy the laws and regulations regarding the income and other federal taxes.

For this work as an income tax specialist C. P. Doney, of Indianapolis, has some unusual qualifications. He formerly served as deputy collector in charge of the income tax department of the Sixth Indiana Revenue District, and his wide experience has enabled him to furnish an expert and highly appreciated service to many patrons in settling the intricate questions that arise under the administration of the Income Tax Law.

Mr. Doney was born August 15, 1884, in Wayne County, Indiana, a son of George and Sarah A. (Hain) Doney. His grandfather, William Doney, was born in Pennsylvania and in an early day went west to Seven Mile, Ohio. He was a cigar maker by trade and that business he followed until 1900, when he retired. His death occurred December 15, 1908. He was a democrat and a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Of his five sons only two are now living. George Doney, father of C. P. Doney, was educated in the common schools at Seven Mile, Ohio, and in early life followed the trade of his

father. He later engaged in the real estate and insurance business and is now living retired at Cambridge City, Indiana, at the age of sixty-six.

Mr. C. P. Doney is third of his father's six children. He was educated in the common and high schools of Cambridge City, Indiana, and at the age of nineteen took up railroad work as clerk in the Pennsylvania Railway offices. In 1906 he went into the real estate and insurance business with his father, and remained at Cambridge City in that line for eight years. In 1914 he came to Indianapolis as deputy collector of internal revenue, and was put in special charge of the Income Tax Department at the outset of the administration of that new law. Since retiring from this office he has developed a practice as income tax specialist, and his services have been availed by a number of firms and individuals on yearly contracts. He is secretary of the Federal Income Tax Bureau, and in his offices in the Hume-Mansur Building has developed an organization capable of attending to all matters involving corporation income, individual income, war excess profits, and emergency taxes.

Mr. Doney is a Knight of Pythias and a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason, a member of the Indianapolis Democratic Club, and in 1912-14 was chairman of the Wayne County Democratic Central Committee. He is a member of the Methodist Church. August 7, 1915, he married Miss Grayce Cartwright. Mrs. Doney was educated in the public schools of Lewisville, Indiana.

W. B. PAUL is a lawyer by profession, and he and his father together have represented the law in this state for half a century. W. B. Paul in recent years, however, has become best known as a banker and financier, and is president of the Federal Finance Company of Indianapolis, one of the strongest financial organizations of the city.

He was born in Montgomery County, Indiana, March 25, 1877, son of George W. and Lizabeth (Carr) Paul. His father, a native of Ohio, grew up at Vevay, Indiana, and began the practice of law there. After ten years he moved to Crawfordsville, and was active in the work of his profession until 1905. During his active years he was a member of the Crawfordsville bar

and an associate of many of the famous lawyers of that city, including Peter Kennedy and Tom Patterson, later governor of Colorado, and James McCabe. George W. Paul was successful both as a civil and criminal lawyer, and had a practice and reputation by no means confined to his home county. He is still living at the ripe age of eighty-two. He has always been a stanch democrat. In the family were three sons and one daughter, all of whom are living.

W. B. Paul was reared in Crawfordsville, attended the public schools there and Wabash College, and read law under his father. He practiced law at Crawfordsville from 1898 to 1906, and after removing to Indianapolis kept in touch with the profession until about three years ago. He has found his time more and more taken up with banking, and is one of the organizers of the Federal Finance Company, which is now doing a business of a $1,500,000 a year. The other officials of the company are some of the best known and most responsible business men and bankers of Marion County.

Mr. Paul is a democrat, and a Royal Arch Mason. He was the first president of the Fountain Square Bank of Indianapolis, and his name has been associated with a number of local business enterprises. November 12, 1897, he married Miss Daisy M. Curry, who was reared and educated at Crawfordsville. They have one daughter, Lydia S., born February 3, 1912.

DAVID F. SWAIN is one of the prominent figures in life insurance circles in Indiana. Since 1909 he has been special loan agent in the State of Indiana for the Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company of Milwaukee. He succeeded Mr. Frank M. Millikan in that office. His management has had much to do with the increasing investments of this large insurance company in Indiana. Through his office loans have been placed in the state until they now approximate over $10,000,000, but the most gratifying feature of the record is not the volume but the quality of the business. Since Mr. Swain became special loan agent in 1909 there has not been a foreclosure of any loan.

Mr. Swain was born at Indianapolis April 29, 1884, a son of David and Hattie (Gordon) Swain. His father was also