has been building up an influential connection as a lawyer at Marion, and prior to that for ten years gave most of his time to school work. At the general election in 1918 he was elected a state senator from Grant County on the republican ticket.

He is a son of one of the old and substantial farmer citizens of Grant County, James I. Hogston. James I. Hogston was born in Randolph County, Indiana, February 10, 1850, only son of his father's second marriage to Mary Lacy. James' father was Alfred Hogston, a native of Iredell County, North Carolina. When he was three years old his parents settled in Wayne County, Indiana, being a part of that migration which came in large numbers from some of the Quaker colonies of Western North Carolina to the old Quaker settlement in Wayne County, Indiana. Alfred Hogston spent most of his active career as a farmer in Randolph County. James I. Hogston grew to manhood on his father's farm, attended district schools during the winter and by attendance at summer normal schools qualified for teaching, though he never followed that profession. He has been a successful farmer for forty years, beginning with practically only the labor of his own hands. November 30, 1878, he married Rebecca A. Mann, a native of Randolph County. They started farming as renters, lived for a time in both Randolph and Adams counties, but in 1882 moved to Franklin Township of Grant County. James I. Hogston has developed one of the large farms of that township. He and his wife had six children, including: Alfred; Anderson, deceased; Adaline, wife of John A. Patterson; Myrtle, who married Earl Cabe; and Richard, who married Bertha Babb.

Alfred Hogston was born while his parents were living in Adams County, Indiana, February 29, 1880. His early life was that of a typical Indiana farm boy, and while he had a good home and was encouraged to make the most of his opportunities, the means at hand did not allow him to secure a better education than was furnished by the local schools. He acquired a liberal education, but paid for most of it by his own work either as a farm boy or as teacher. He attended the Marion Normal College, and during his ten years of school work was at one time principal of the Jonesboro public schools. He

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completed his higher education in the Indiana State University, from which he received his A. B. degree in 1914 and his degree in law in 1916. Since his admission to the bar he has acquired a good general practice at Marion.

April 11, 1903, he married Miss Verna Jacqua, of Grant County, daughter of Caleb F. and Emma (Small) Jacqua. Her father has been a farmer and machinist. Mr. and Mrs. Hogston have two children, Frederick Landis and Lyndall Lenore.

Mr. Hogston is a republican voter, is affiliated with the Masonic Order and the Elks, and while in university was a member of the Gamma Eta Gamma fraternity.

JOHN D. OAKES, founder and proprietor of the LaPorte County Abstract Company, spent many years in the active service of railways prior to becoming a resident of LaPorte, where he is one of the most widely known business men and most esteemed citizens.

He was born at Magnolia in Putnam County, Illinois, and comes of old New England and Colonial American stock. His first ancestor, named John Oakes, was one of four brothers who came to America in colonial times. The line of descent from him is through David Oakes, whose son, John Oakes, was the grandfather of John D. Oakes. Grandfather John Oakes, born at Bennington, Vermont, in 1771, spent his early years close to the famous battlefield of the American Revolution, and later moving to Cambridge, Vermont, he became one of its founders and first citizens. Horatio J. Oakes, father of the LaPorte business man, was born at Cambridge, Vermont, January 1, 1830. He served a three years' apprenticeship at the carpenter and cabinetmaker's trade, and then moved to Illinois and followed his trade in that state for a number of years. In 1867 he moved to a farm near Blackstone in Livingston County, Illinois. In 1876 he went to Ingham County, Michigan, and lived there three years, when he returned to Blackstone, Illinois, where he remained until his death in 1893. He married Ann M. Calloway in 1856. She was born in Princeton, Kentucky, a daughter of William D. and Lucy (Barnard) Calloway and a great-granddaughter of Corporal Ephraim Warren, who was with Putnam in the American Revolution. The Calloways

were originally from Virginia and North Carolina, and some of them went over the Cumberland Mountains into Kentucky with Daniel Boone. Two of the Calloway girls were stolen by Indians during the frontier times of Kentucky. Mrs. Horatio Oakes died in Blackstone, Illinois in 1914, at the age of eighty-four. Their children were Ross D. Gregg, Byron J., John D., Etta L., James H., Mary Almeda and Fannie Oakes.

John D. Oakes as a boy attended the country schools in Livingston County, Illinois and later the high school at Pontiac, Illinois, and had a practical experience on the farm to the age of twenty-one. He learned telegraphy at the railway station at Blackstone. His first regular appointment in the railway service was as the station agent at Missal, Illinois, on what is now known as the C. I. & S. division of the New York Central lines. He was afterwards station agent at various other points, and in 1887 resigned from that railroad to become an employee of the Nickel Plate at Knox, Indiana. In 1889 he entered the service of the joint rate inspection bureau, and became a well posted and expert man in many of the details of railway traffic and transportation.

Mr. Oakes left the railway service in 1904 and coming to La Porte founded the La Porte County Abstract Company, and has made this one of the best equipped organizations of the kind in the northern part of the state. He was one of the organizers and charter members of the "American Association of Title Men," and was also the promoter of the "Indiana Association of Title Men," and its first president. Until these associations were organized the title business in Indiana was largely conducted by clerks in the law. offices and deputy officials in the court house. The work was crude and unreliable, but since the organization of said associations the business has risen to the dignity of a profession and is usually conducted by some of the most respected men in each county. Mr. Oakes was always an ardent temperance worker and can claim the distinction of being the one man who put Indiana in the dry column. It was he who furnished the votes that elected the man who made the constitutional majority, and when that man wavered it was he who obtained a statement from him that he

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would vote for prohibition. In July, 1917, Mr. Oakes was appointed a member of the local exemption board, acting as its secretary until the close of the war. He is affiliated with the Modern Woodmen of America and the Knights of the Maccabees, and he is a member of the Presbyterian Church. On June 25, 1890, he was married to Miss Attie E. Bender, daughter of Robert H. and Elvira J. Bender, of Knox, Indiana. They have one daughter, Elvira M. Oakes.

IRA GROVER. Several generations of the Grover family have played successful roles in manufacturing, mercantile and other business lines in Indiana, chiefly in the cities of Terre Haute and Indianapolis. Arthur B. Grover, of the third generation of the family in Indiana, is a well known real estate operator at the capital city.

His grandfather, Ira Grover, was born in Vermont in 1799. The neighbors saw much promise in the boy because of his unusual energy and ambition. He was always busy, and from his earnings outside the work required of him at home he accumulated a sum which enabled him to "buy his time" of his father. It was customary for the wages of boys to go to their parents until they were twenty-one, and he secured release from this moral obligation by paying a stated sum in advance.

Having accumulated a few commodities, when about seventeen he set out on horseback peddling his wares along the road as he journeyed south, getting as far as Virginia. He thus proved his ability to support himslf and make a living. Later, in Massachusetts, he married Miss Lydia Hersey, who was in the eleventh generation of the direct descendants of Governor William Bradford.

On leaving New England Ira Grover and family came west by stage and canal boat, and after two weeks of travel reached Columbus, Ohio, where he became proprietor of a hotel. Removing to Cincinnati, he conducted a store for several years. In the meantime two of his older brothers, Joseph and Edmund, had located at Terre Haute, where they were instrumental in establishing one of the first iron foundries in the Wabash Valley. This foundry, it may be mentioned, is still in operation, and until recently was known as the Parker foundry.

has been building up an influential connection as a lawyer at Marion, and prior to that for ten years gave most of his time to school work. At the general election in 1918 he was elected a state senator from Grant County on the republican ticket.

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He is a son of one of the old and substantial farmer citizens of Grant County, James I. Hogston. James I. Hogston was born in Randolph County, Indiana, February 10, 1850, only son of his father's second marriage to Mary Lacy. James' father was Alfred Hogston, a native of Iredell County, North Carolina. When he was three years old his parents settled in Wayne County, Indiana, being a part of that migration which came in large numbers from some of the Quaker colonies of Western North Carolina to the old Quaker settlement in Wayne County, Indiana. Alfred Hogston spent most of his active career as a farmer in Randolph County. James I. Hogston grew to manhood on his father's farm, attended district schools during the winter and by attendance at summer normal schools qualified for teaching, though he never followed. that profession. He has been a successful farmer for forty years, beginning with practically only the labor of his own hands. November 30, 1878, he married Rebecca A. Mann, a native of Randolph County. They started farming as renters, lived for a time in both Randolph and Adams counties, but in 1882 moved to Franklin Township of Grant County. James I. Hogston has developed one of the large farms of that township. He and his wife had six children, including: Alfred; Anderson, deceased; Adaline, wife of John A. Patterson; Myrtle, who married Earl Cabe; and Richard, who married Bertha Babb.

Alfred Hogston was born while his parents were living in Adams County, Indiana, February 29, 1880. His early life was that of a typical Indiana farm boy, and while he had a good home and was encouraged to make the most of his opportunities, the means at hand did not allow him to secure a better education than was furnished by the local schools. He acquired a liberal education, but paid for most of it by his own work either as a farm boy or as teacher. He attended the Marion Normal College, and during his ten years of school work was at one time principal of the Jonesboro public schools. He

completed his higher education in the Indiana State University, from which he received his A. B. degree in 1914 and his degree in law in 1916. Since his admission to the bar he has acquired a good general practice at Marion.

April 11, 1903, he married Miss Verna Jacqua, of Grant County, daughter of Caleb F. and Emma (Small) Jacqua. Her father has been a farmer and machinist. Mr. and Mrs. Hogston have two children, Frederick Landis and Lyndall Lenore.

Mr. Hogston is a republican voter, is affiliated with the Masonic Order and the Elks, and while in university was a member of the Gamma Eta Gamma fraternity.

JOHN D. OAKES, founder and proprietor of the LaPorte County Abstract Company, spent many years in the active service of railways prior to becoming a resident of LaPorte, where he is one of the most widely known business men and most esteemed citizens.

He was born at Magnolia in Putnam County, Illinois, and comes of old New England and Colonial American stock. His first ancestor, named John Oakes, was one of four brothers who came to America in colonial times. The line of descent from him is through David Oakes, whose son, John Oakes, was the grandfather of John D. Oakes. Grandfather John Oakes, born at Bennington, Vermont, in 1771, spent his early years close to the famous battlefield of the American Revolution, and later moving to Cambridge, Vermont, he became one of its founders and first citizens. Horatio J. Oakes, father of the LaPorte business man, was born at Cambridge, Vermont, January 1, 1830. He served a three years' apprenticeship at the carpenter and cabinetmaker's trade, and then moved to Illinois and followed his trade in that state for a number of years. In 1867 he moved to a farm near Blackstone in Livingston County, Illinois. In 1876 he went to Ingham County, Michigan, and lived there three years, when he returned to Blackstone, Illinois, where he remained until his death in 1893. He married Ann M. Calloway in 1856. She was born in Princeton, Kentucky, a daughter of William D. and Lucy (Barnard) Calloway and a great-granddaughter of Corporal Ephraim Warren, who was with Putnam in the American Revolution. The Calloways

were originally from Virginia and North Carolina, and some of them went over the Cumberland Mountains into Kentucky with Daniel Boone. Two of the Calloway girls were stolen by Indians during the frontier times of Kentucky. Mrs. Horatio Oakes died in Blackstone, Illinois in 1914, at the age of eighty-four. Their children were Ross D. Gregg, Byron J., John D., Etta L., James H., Mary Almeda and Fannie Oakes.

John D. Oakes as a boy attended the country schools in Livingston County, Illinois and later the high school at Pontiac, Illinois, and had a practical experience on the farm to the age of twenty-one. He learned telegraphy at the railway station at Blackstone. His first regular appointment in the railway service was as the station agent at Missal, Illinois, on what is now known as the C. I. & S. division of the New York Central lines. He was afterwards station agent at various other points, and in 1887 resigned from that railroad to become an employee of the Nickel Plate at Knox, Indiana. In 1889 he entered the service of the joint rate inspection bureau, and became a well posted and expert man in many of the details of railway traffic and transportation.

Mr. Oakes left the railway service in 1904 and coming to LaPorte founded the La Porte County Abstract Company, and has made this one of the best equipped organizations of the kind in the northern part of the state. He was one of the organizers and charter members of the 'American Association of Title Men," and was also the promoter of the "Indiana Association of Title Men," and its first president. Until these associations were organized the title business in Indiana was largely conducted by clerks in the law offices and deputy officials in the court house. The work was crude and unreliable, but since the organization of said associations the business has risen to the dignity of a profession and is usually conducted by some of the most respected men in each county. Mr. Oakes was always an ardent temperance worker and can claim the distinction of being the one man who put Indiana in the dry column. It was he who furnished the votes that elected the man who made the constitutional majority, and when that man wavered it was he who obtained a statement from him that he

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would vote for prohibition. In July, 1917, Mr. Oakes was appointed a member of the local exemption board, acting as its secretary until the close of the war. He is affiliated with the Modern Woodmen of America and the Knights of the Maccabees, and he is a member of the Presbyterian Church. On June 25, 1890, he was married to Miss Attie E. Bender, daughter of Robert H. and Elvira J. Bender, of Knox, Indiana. They have one daughter, Elvira M. Oakes.

IRA GROVER. Several generations of the Grover family have played successful roles in manufacturing, mercantile and other business lines in Indiana, chiefly in the cities of Terre Haute and Indianapolis. Arthur B. Grover, of the third generation of the family in Indiana, is a well known real estate operator at the capital city.

His grandfather, Ira Grover, was born in Vermont in 1799. The neighbors saw much promise in the boy because of his unusual energy and ambition. He was always busy, and from his earnings outside the work required of him at home he accumulated a sum which enabled him to "buy his time" of his father. It was customary for the wages of boys to go to their parents until they were twenty-one, and he secured release from this moral obligation by paying a stated sum in advance.

Having accumulated a few commodities, when about seventeen he set out on horseback peddling his wares along the road as he journeyed south, getting as far as Virginia. He thus proved his ability to support himslf and make a living. Later, in Massachusetts, he married Miss Lydia Hersey, who was in the eleventh generation of the direct descendants of Governor William Bradford.

On leaving New England Ira Grover and family came west by stage and canal boat, and after two weeks of travel reached Columbus, Ohio, where he became proprietor of a hotel. Removing to Cincinnati, he conducted a store for several years. In the meantime two of his older brothers, Joseph and Edmund, had located at Terre Haute, where they were instrumental in establishing one of the first iron foundries in the Wabash Valley. This foundry, it may be mentioned, is still in operation, and until recently was known as the Parker foundry.

About 1848, upon representations and inducements made by his Terre Haute brothers, Ira Grover removed to that city, going by boat on the Ohio and Wabash rivers. For a time he was associated with his brothers in their enterprise, but later entered the agricultural implement business, which he continued for a long period of years, in fact until three or four years before his death, which occurred in 1881.

He was a man of unbounded energy, was brusk in manner but kindly at heart, and his industry and character put him among the men whom a community chooses to respect and esteem. He was a Baptist. Five children grew to maturity, three sons and two daughters: Timothy Cressy; Ira; Abbie, who married Dr. John Irons; Jennie, who became Mrs. Henry Rickard; and George. Timothy was a soldier in an Indiana regiment during the Civil war.

Ira Grover, Jr., who was born in Columbus, Ohio, in 1840, was reared at Terre Haute, and when a young man went to Boston, where he clerked in a book store and formed some very congenial connections. While there he married Ellen Davis, of Hingham, Massachusetts. The Civil war had not yet closed. One brother was in the army, and another had just died. Responding to the plea of his parents, young Ira and his wife went back to Terre Haute, where he engaged in the drug business. This business he continued after his removal to Indianapolis in 1883, and it was indeed his life occupation. He was sixtyfour when death took him in 1904. He was unobtrusive, and while successful from a business standpoint had the interests and manners of a scholar. He was in fact a student of philosophical and religious subjects. He was generous to a fault, and extremely kind and courteous to those with whom he was associated. His wife, who survived him, was the mother of two children, Arthur B. and Edith.

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Arthur B. Grover was born at Terre Haute in 1867, and was about sixteen when the family removed to Indianapolis. His public schooling was supplemented with a brief course at Harvard University. active career has been chiefly occupied with the real estate business, and he is rated as a specialist in subdivision work, which he has handled in various cities of the United States. He is a member of the firm Grover

and Layman. Mr. Grover married Zerelda Wallace Leathers.

BURTON E. PARROTT. One of the most honored names in Indianapolis business circles was that of Burton E. Parrott, who became widely known throughout the Middle West as one of the active heads of a great baking business.

He was a native of Indianapolis, where he was born March 13, 1861. He was a son of Horace Parrott, a noted business man of Indianapolis at an early day, a member of the firm of Parrott & Nickum. His son, Burton E. Parrott, attended the public schools and later entered the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, from which he graduated. After his graduation he entered the offices of Parrott & Nickum, where he remained until Horace Parrott retired, and also the other member, Mr. Nickum, when the firm of Parrott & Taggart was formed. The bakery products of this firm were widely distributed all over the State of Indiana, and it is one of the best remembered of the older combinations of industry and business affairs at Indianapolis. The firm continued in existence for eighteen years, when the business was taken over by the National Biscuit Company.

Mr. Parrott was also interested in the Miller-Parrott & Company of Terre Haute, and was financially identified with various other concerns.

He achieved a high prominence in business affairs when he was still a comparatively young man, and his death occurred at the age of fifty-one on August 10, 1912. He left a widow and three children: Mary is the wife of Robert B. Failey and they are the parents of two sons, Robert B., Jr., and James F., 2nd; Josephine is the wife of Capt. Lew Wallace, 2nd now in France, and they have one child, Lew Wallace, 3rd; and Robert. Mrs. Parrott bore the maiden name of Lusa Comingore and was born in Indianapolis. She still lives in Indianapolis, at 2900 North Meridian Street.

MICHAEL CRAWFORD KERR became identified with Indiana in 1852, at the age of twenty-five years, and began the practice of law at New Albany. He afterward became prominent in the public life of this state as a legislator and congressman, and supported democratic principles. Mr. Kerr