Indiana, Past and Present

shelving up on every hand to undulating sky lines. Little laps and valleys here and there seem flush with summer fulness, and grazing cattle dot the hills, while thrifty-looking farm houses, basking in the summer silence, look across from slope to slope. This lake and Lake James, with their different kinds of beauty, are indeed worth going afar to visit, in the fulness of time, when their charms are sung in appreciative verse or prose, the wonder will be that they remained so long obscure.

In addition to the diverse attractions offered by Steuben County to the sojourner who loves to wander by land or water, it is one of the very richest botanical fields in the State, by reason of the variety of soils and conditions. In marsh and on upland alike the rank growths of vegetation are tropical in their

luxuriance.

Along the county roads dense masses
of sassafras and button bush, elderberry and wild
rice, all overrun by the riotous wild grape vine,
line the way with walls of living green, and the
butterfly weed flecks the grassy spaces with bright
splotches of orange; in the woods, where the fra-
grant cedar and toothsome huckleberry are also
indigenous, a wealth of yellow and blue and laven-
der flowers bloom the summer long, and on the hill-
sides the delicate cerulean harebells in countless
numbers begem the sward. Mr. Elbert Bradner
has made a catalogue of the flora of the county.
This list he presents as a "partial catalogue," yet
in it are recorded 100 orders, 366 genera and 729
species, which will convey some idea of the floral
wealth of the locality.
G. S. C.

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WHO'S WHO

IN INDIANA

Autographs and Brief Biographies of

LIVING MEN AND WOMEN OF INDIANA

Who Have Acquired Distinction in Various Activities that Have Contributed to the State's Progress

TO BE PUBLISHED IN

The Centennial Hand Book of Indiana

NOW IN PREPARATION

SAMUEL M. RALSTON, born in Ohio Dec. 1, 1857. Sank first coal shaft at Fontaney, Ind., and operated mine; taught school several years; grad. Central Normal Coll. 1884; read law; admitted to the bar 1886; elected Governor of Ind. Nov., 1912.

WM. P. O'NEILL, born South Bend, Ind., Feb. 7, 1874; grad. Notre Dame, B. S., LL. B.; journalism, Mishawaka and South Bend, 13 years; city att'y Mishawaka 1906-1913; resigned; elected Lt. Gov. of Ind., 1912.

L. G. ELLINGHAM, born Wells county, Ind., Feb. 23, 1868; grad. Bluffton High Sch.; began work as printer's devil, Bluffton Banner; at 19 years old pub. Geneva Herald, 1887; Winchester Democrat, 1891-94; Decatur Democrat, 1894; Dem. dist. ch. 1906-08; elected Secy. State of Ind., 1910; reelected 1912.

WILLIAM H. VOLLMER, born and reared on a farm near Vincennes, Ind.; attended com. sch.; instrumental in organization and pres. Citizens' Trust Co., Vincennes, 1902; elected Treas. State of Ind., 1910.

W. H. O'BRIEN, born Lawrenceburg, Ind., Aug. 22, 1855; grad. Asbury Univ. class 76; editor and prop. Lawrenceburg Register, 1877-94; banking business 1890-1914; mayor Lawrenceburg 1885-87-89-91-98; Jt. State Sen. Dearborn, Franklin, Ohio counties, 1902; Ch. Dem. State Com., 1902-4-6; elect. State Auditor, 1910 and 1912.

CHARLES A. GREATHOUSE, born Posey Co., Ind., 1870; attended Central Normal Coll., Danville, Ind., two years; Ind. Univ. three years; principal Mt. Vernon High School, 1894; supt. Posey County Sch., 1895-1905; elect. supt. Pub. Inst. 1900; renom. 1914.

THOMAS W. HONAN, born Seymour, Ind., Aug. 8, 1867; grad. Ind. Univ., A. B., 1889; city att'y Seymour, 1892: pros. att'y Jackson, Wash. and Orange Co., 1895 to 1901; elct. Ind. Legis., 1905-7-9; Speaker of House, 1909; elected Att'y Gen., 1910-14.

J. FRED FRANCE, born Mercer Co., Ohio, May 12, 1861; attended High Sch., Decatur, Ind.; admit. bar, 1884; city att'y Huntington, Ind., 18981904; Mayor Huntington, Ind., 1904-06; elct. Clerk Sup. Court, 1910; renom. 1914.

Nor. Coll., Danville, Ind., 1890; elected Legis. 1888-90 (youngest mem. botand

PHILIP ZOERCHER, born Tell City, Ind., Oct. 1, 1866; grad. Cent.

sessions); newspaper bus., 1891-1900; editor-prop. Tell City News; began practice law, 1897; elected Pros. Att'y Perry, Spencer, Warwick counties, 1900; elct. Rep. Sup. Ct., 1912.

THOMAS W. BROLLEY, born Newport, Ky., Feb. 10, 1854; attended common schools and St. Mary's, North Vernon, Ind.; Jt. Rep. Scott and Jennings counties, 1906-08; author Brolley's Baseball Bill; elct. State Statis., 1910-12.

EDWARD BARRETT, born Indianapolis, Feb. 6, 1859; attd. Central Nor. Coll., Danville, 1879-82-85; State Nor., Terre Haute, 1883; DePauw Univ., 1887-8; asst. supt. Reform Sch., Plainfield, 1894-98; mem. bd. trust. E. Ind. Hosp. Ins., 1907-10; resigned; eleet. State Geologist, 1910-14.

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