University. From school he went to Chicago to assist in his father's business, and upon the death of his elder brother became manager. He continued with the business until 1910, when he closed out the National Creamery Company, and in 1911 came to Michigan City, where he has conducted a large real estate and insurance business and is also an investment banker.

January 15, 1908, Mr. Cushman married Miss Caroline A. Leeds, a native of Michigan City.

Her grandfather was Offley Leeds, whose name has been given a first place among the pioneer founders of Michigan City in all local histories. He was born in New Jersey in 1798, son of a farmer in moderate circumstances, one of a family of twelve children. He was of Quaker ancestry. Out of the proceeds of his work as a teacher and as a farmer he entered the mercantile business at Egg Harbor, New Jersey, and in spite of several misfortunes he prospered and finally sold his business for a large valuation. He married Charlotte Ridgeway, whose relatives were among the honored families forming the first settlement in LaPorte County. Her father, Jeremiah Ridgeway was a native of England and after coming to America was a merchant in New Jersey. During the '30s Offley Leeds came west and after a brief stay at Chicago sought as a better location for his business enterprise Michigan City. He invested in thousands of acres of land in that vicinity, buying at $1.25 an acre and established a general store at Michigan City, which was greatly prospered and which he continued until 1852. It is said that his enterprise inaugurated and completed many of the most valuable improvements in Michigan City in the early days. He became intensely interested in flour mills and other businesses, and was one of the directors of the old State Bank of Indiana. He died in 1877, and his wife in 1857.

Walter Offley Leeds was born at Egg Harbor, New Jersey, February 21, 1833, and died at Michigan City December 13, 1896. He was reared and educated in Michigan City and followed in the footsteps of his father and handled the immense Leeds estate with consummate ability and success. In 1864 he enlisted in the Twenty-eight Indiana Infantry and served as a private for 100 days. He was reared

as a Quaker and in politics was in the main independent. The only office he ever cared to hold was that of city councilman. January 31, 1870, Walter O. Leeds married Harriet Amelia Dysart, daughter of John and Esther (Turner) Dysart, and granddaughter of John and Jane (Swan) Dysart. John Dysart, Sr., spent his life in Ireland and was of Scotch ancestry. His widow came to America and spent her last days in Michigan City. The father of Mrs. W. O. Leeds, John Dysart, was born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1808 and came to America in 1833. He was an early surveyor with the Erie Railroad, and in 1837 located at Michigan City and some years later was with a corps of engineers locating the line of the Lake Shore Railroad. He was also prominent in politics and one of the notable men of LaPorte County, where he died in 1899, at the age of ninety-one. He married Esther Turner, who was born in 1814, daughter of James Turner, a native of the North of Ireland. She died in 1882, at the age of sixty-eight.

Mr. and Mrs. Cushman have five children: Charlotte A., Frances J., Caroline Leeds, Andrew Leeds and Walter Moe.

Mr. Cushman is a director of the Citizens Bank of Michigan City and vice president of the Michigan City Building and Loan Association. He is a member of the Potawattomie Country Club and of Washington Lodge No. 94, Knights of Pythias.

JOHN EDWARD STEPHENSON. No family in Indiana is more representatively American than that of John Edward Stephenson -through his forefathers and later his three sons, all of whom enlisted in the late World war at the beginning.

Indiana had been a state only fourteen years when his father, William Henry Harrison Stephenson, a son of John E. and Jane (Stallcup) Stephenson, was born in Fountain County October 6, 1830-the birthplace also of his mother, Marzilla Hughes, daughter of John Edward and Mary Dutro Hughes.

The life of William Henry Harrison Stephenson brings the real pioneer epoch of Indiana into close and living touch with the present. His grandfather, after whom he was named, was a Scotchman and founded the Stephenson family in America. His father was born in Greenbrier County, Virginia, now West Virginia, in 1775, while