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Title: Indiana and Indianans : a history of aboriginal and territorial Indiana and the century of statehood
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Dunn, Jacob Piatt, 1855-1924 Kemper, General William Harrison, 1839-
Subjects: Medicine
Publisher: Chicago and New York : The American historical society
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
Digitizing Sponsor: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center

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In December, 1901, Mr. Schlegel mar-ried at Indianapolis Miss Margaret Staen-del. They have one son, Frederick G.,born December 16, 1909. Janet Scudder. Terre Haute claimsthe well known sculptor, Janet Scudder,among her native daughters. She was edu-cated in the public schools of Terre Haute,and afterward attended some of the mostcelebrated art institutes of this countryand Europe. She was awarded the BronzeMedal in the Chicago Exposition in 1893,the prize medal at the St. Louis Exposi-tion in 1904, received honorary mentionin the Salon, Paris, and her works arenow exhibited in this country and abroad.She resides in New York City. Ira A. Minnick. Twenty years ago IraA. Minnick selected Indianapolis as thecenter of his business activities. For sev-eral years he occupied a very inconspic-uous role, quietly and industriously per-forming his duties, but he has made a,steady climb to the heights of achievementand is now widely known as president ofthe National Dry Kiln Company of thatcity.
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$<s.i&L^ INDIANA AND INDIANANS 1727 He belongs to a pioneer Indiana family.His great-grandfather was born in Ger-many and founded the family in this coun-try. The first two generations retainedthe old spelling of the family name as Min-nich. The grandfather of Ira A. Minnick,William Minnick, a native of Virginia,moved from that state to Pennsylvania andthen brought his family to Wayne County,Indiana, when this was one vast wilder-ness inhabited mostly by Indians and wildanimals. William Minnick finally locatednear Somerset in Wabash County, wherehe had his home the rest of his life. Hewas the father of seven children. Jacob Minnick, father of Ira, was bornin Pennsylvania, but grew up in Indianain close touch with pioneer scenes. As aboy he helped denude the land of its heavygrowth of timber, to grub stumps, to plantthe grain by hand, to reap and thresh inthe old fashioned way, and thus had a partin making Indiana what it is today. Hewas a man highly esteemed for his up-right li

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