commission business. At that date Mr. Minor bought a half interest in the Union Flour and Linseed Oil Mills at Detroit. That business did not prove congenial, however, and at the end of three months he sold out and reopened his grain office in Indianapolis.

Naturally Mr. Minor has had experience with all the vicissitudes and ups and downs of the grain dealer. A few years ago, in 1911, The Grain Dealers Journal in recounting some of Mr. Minor's fifty years' experience in the grain trade recorded some special incidents which may properly be woven into this sketch. "In 1893 he built an elevator at Muncie, Illinois, which soon mysteriously went up in flames at a considerable loss to its builder. This was soon replaced with another, and things ran along smoothly until 1899, when another fire burned the elevator and some 20,000 bushels of oats. Nothing daunted, he again went to work and built a still better house, which he is still running. In the meantime he built an elevator at Oakwood, Illinois, on the same railroad. He has been operating country stations for half a century and has maintained an office in the Board of Trade Building in Indianapolis for over thirty years. He has managed to make a living but has not gotten rich and never expects to in the grain business. He has made it a practice not to hedge anything to cover purchases in the country, and in this way has saved a great deal of worry and trouble."

The Grain Dealers Journal also quoted him as saying: "I do not know of any merchant who works on as small a margin as the average country grain shipper has been working on for the past few years. In former years when we bought a farmer's crop of corn it was a very rare thing to have a car that would fail to grade contract; now it is quite as rare to have one that will grade even No. 3, and in most cases it is not the fault of the farmer. In the past five years we have had good crops of corn, but not one crop of good corn."

Mr. and Mrs. Minor are the parents of seven children. George Page, born August 5, 1868, died November 5, 1885. Eugene Voorhees, born September 5, 1872, lives at Muncie, Illinois, and by his marriage on January 21, 1897, to Laura S. Willard has one son, Willard. Gertrude Emeline, the third child, was born December 5, 1874.

Mary Josephine, born March 27, 1878, married April 28, 1908, Dr. George Lincoln Chapman, and has three living children. Benjamin B., Jr., born October 10, 1880, married May 24, 1906, Grace Pendleton and has one son, Gray Pendleton. Benjamin, Jr., and wife live in San Francisco, California. Samuel Earl, born December 26, 1882, is now a first lieutenant in the Engineers somewhere in France." He married September 27, 1909, Margaret Wishard, and has one son. Freddie, the seventh child, was born December 22, 1888, and died in December, 1889.

OLNA HUTCHINS BRADWAY. While his business headquarters now and for several years past have been at Newcastle, where he directs the sales of several well known motor cars and motor accessories over Henry County, Mr. Bradway has been known as a commercial figure in a number of Indiana towns. The facts of his career speak for themselves and indicate his wonderful energy and enterprise in the handling of business situations. He started life with no special fortune or capital, and has always shown a willingness and an ability to meet emergencies as they came up.

Mr. Bradway was born in Henry County May 31, 1870, a son of William L. and Angelina (Cartwright) Bradway. His father was a farmer, had eighty acres of land in Henry County, and was also a Civil war veteran, having served with the Thirty-Sixth Indiana Infantry.

O. H. Bradway attended the Black Swamp country school and later the Dublin public school in Wayne County. His commercial experience began when he was only fourteen years of age as clerk in a dry goods store, selling merchandise at Dublin. He was paid $7 a month and board, and managed to save half of his salary for two years. salary for two years. In 1886, going to Indianapolis, he secured a position that offered him larger experience but hardly more actual money. As a worker in the New York store he was paid $5 a week, but out of that sum had to pay $4.50 board. He was there two years in the prints department and then went as a salesman in the prints department of the Boston Dry Goods Company, now the Taylor Carpet Company, at $10 a week. He was there about three years, and was ad

vanced to $15 a week. Besides selling silks and black dress goods he was also employed as a window trimmer. Mr. Bradway on leaving this establishment went on the road as a traveling salesman representing the Price & Lucas Cider and Vinegar Company of Louisville, Kentucky, distributing their goods over Indiana and Illinois. He was on the road thirteen years. His starting salary was $20 a month and expenses. Sixty days later the firm, without consulting him, advanced his salary to $50 a month, and he was finally made general managing salesman with seventeen men under his direction, and had a salary of $3,000 a year, while a side line netted him $75 a month. In 1905, on leaving the road, Mr. Bradway bought out the furniture store of John F. Yates on West Broad Street in Newcastle, borrowing the money to buy the stock valued at $3,000. At the end of three years he sold out for $6,500, and also sold his home for $6,500 in cash. With these accumulations he went west and remained six months in Los Angeles. After this brief period of recuperation and rest he returned to Indiana and for six months was a salesman for the Badger Furniture Company. Resigning, he went to Rushville, Indiana, and paid $2,700 for the furniture stock of C. F. Edgerton & Son. Four years later he sold that store to take larger quarters, and installed a stock valued at $15,000 in a building containing three floors and 40 by 165 feet. After four years Mr. Bradway closed out the business at auction, on account of the building being sold, selling $13,000 worth of stock in six weeks, and netting a profit of about $1,200 from the transaction.

His next field of work was at Newcastle, where he engaged in the real estate business under the firm name of Bradway & Wilson. The firm handles both real estate and insurance. Mr. Bradway began selling automobiles in 1912 in Rush County, handling the Marion car for two years. In 1915 he opened a salesroom at 1217 Race Street, selling the Lexington and Interstate cars for two years. For a short time he had a partner in the same location, and after dissolution of the partnership moved to his present headquarters on Central Avenue and Main Street in 1917, and now has the exclusive selling agencies in Henry County for the Oldsmobile and Chevrolet cars, also represents the Miller

and Brunswick tires, and has a large stock of general motor accessories. Mr. Bradway has various interests, including much local real estate.

In 1895 Mr. Bradway married Miss. Bertha Brookshire, daughter of Eli and Edith (Draper) Brookshire, a well known family of farmers in Henry County. Mr. and Mrs. Bradway have two children: Pauline, the daughter, is the wife of Carl McQuinn, who is advertising manager of the Hoosier Kitchen Cabinet Company of Newcastle. The son, Otis Brookshire Bradway, was born in 1903 and is a schoolboy. Mr. Bradway is a republican, a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and has always been too busy to affiliate with fraternal organizations.

JOHN C. LIVEZEY has been a distinguished citizen of Henry County throughout a long and useful life. He was one of the brave soldiers and officers of a regiment of Union troops partly raised and recruited in Henry County, and for nearly half a century since the war has been in business at Newcastle as a hardware merchant. He is now head of the hardware house of Livezey & Son.

He was born at Newcastle in August, 1842, a son of Nathan and Abi (Piast) Livezey. His English Quaker ancestors came to Pennsylvania at the same time as William Penn. His grandfather, Nathan Livezey was born in Philadelphia April 5, 1775, and married Rebecca Jones, who was born in Maryland June 11, 1780. John C. Livezey's father, Nathan, Jr., was born September 4, 1813, and came to Henry County from Pennsylvania in 1839.

John C. Livezey attended the public. schools of Newcastle until the age of sixteen, and then learned the carpenter's trade with his father, who was a well known contractor and builder. He was not yet nineteen when Indiana and the entire North plunged into the struggle of the Civil war, and he was one of the most ardent among the youths of Newcastle in serving the cause of freedom both by influence and individual service. He took such a lively interest in the recruiting of what became Company C, Thirty-Sixth Indiana Infantry, and showed such practical ability in military technique that he was mustered in as sergeant of the company September 16, 1861. He was steadily pro

moted, becoming second lieutenant, later captain, and on March 2, 1864, was made captain and commissary of subsistence. In that capacity he was attached to the staff of General William Grose, commanding a brigade in the First Division, Fourth Corps, Army of the Cumberland. Later he was transferred to the staff of General Joseph G. Knipe, commanding a brigade in the First Division, Twentieth Army Corps, then operating in front of Atlanta. After the fall of Atlanta he was made division commissary of subsistence and placed on the staff of General Alpheus C. Williams, commanding a division of the Twentieth Corps under General Henry W. Slocum. In this position he went through with Sherman to the sea, and continued the victorious march north from Savannah through the Carolinas and Virginia to Washington, where he took part in the Grand Review of the Federal Army. His was a most varied and useful service, and in the three and a half years from the date of his enlistment until the Confederate armies under Johnston surrendered April 26, 1865, he performed every duty with credit and on March 13, 1865, was made a brevet major, United States Volunteers, for "gallant and meritorious service." He resigned from the army July 7, 1865, and of the veterans of that war still living in

Indiana more than fifty years later Major Livezey has one of the most distinguished records. The honors of the soldier have been accompanied by useful work and valued dignities in times of peace. After the war he entered the hardware business at Newcastle, and for many years had his store in one location on Main Street. In 1900, the business was moved to Main and Center streets, and the active details of the management are largely in the hands of his son.

August 27, 1866, Major Livezey married Mary McCall, of Newcastle. She died March 22, 1900, the mother of two children. The daughter, Gertrude, is the wife of Charles H. Johnson, of Newcastle. Frank, his father's business partner, married Mary Pickering, of Anderson, Indiana, and they have one daughter, Mary Alice. In 1902 Major Livezey married. Mary P. Waldron, daughter of Holman W. Waldron, a Maine soldier. Major Livezey is a republican, an active member of the First Methodist Episcopal Church, and for a number of years served as trustee of South Mound Cemetery. He is a grand lodge member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows of Indiana, and a member of George W. Lennard Post, Grand Army of the Republic, of Newcastle, Indiana.

moted, becoming second lieutenant, later captain, and on March 2, 1864, was made captain and commissary of subsistence. In that capacity he was attached to the staff of General William Grose, commanding a brigade in the First Division, Fourth Corps, Army of the Cumberland. Later Later he was transferred to the staff of General Joseph G. Knipe, commanding a brigade in the First Division, Twentieth Army Corps, then operating in front of Atlanta. After the fall of Atlanta he was made division commissary of subsistence and placed on the staff of General Alpheus C. Williams, commanding a division of the Twentieth Corps under General Henry W. Slocum. In this position he went through with Sherman to the sea, and continued the victorious march north from Savannah through the Carolinas and Virginia to Washington, where he took part in the Grand Review of the Federal Army. His was a most varied and useful service, and in the three and a half years from the date of his enlistment until the Confederate armies under Johnston surrendered April 26, 1865, he performed every duty with credit and on March 13, 1865, was made a brevet major, United States Volunteers, for "gallant and meritorious service." He resigned from the army July 7, 1865, and of the veterans of that war still living in

Indiana more than fifty years later Major Livezey has one of the most distinguished records. The honors of the soldier have been accompanied by useful work and valued dignities in times of peace. After the war he entered the hardware business at Newcastle, and for many years had his store in one location on Main Street. In 1900, the business was moved to Main and Center streets, and the active details of the management are largely in the hands of his son.

August 27, 1866, Major Livezey married Mary McCall, of Newcastle. She died March 22, 1900, the mother of two children. The daughter, Gertrude, is the wife of Charles H. Johnson, of Newcastle. Frank, his father's business partner, married Mary Pickering, of Anderson, Indiana, and they have one daughter, Mary Alice. Mary P. Waldron, daughter of Holman W. In 1902 Major Livezey married Waldron, a Maine soldier. Major Livezey is a republican, an active member of the First Methodist Episcopal Church, and for a number of years served as trustee of South Mound Cemetery. He is a grand lodge member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows of Indiana, and a member of George W. Lennard Post, Grand Army of the Republic, of Newcastle, Indiana.