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Tyler Peck was no ordinary Hoosier farmer. Hot-headed Kentuckian, he had had to come home from college to work on the farm when his older brothers went off to fight for the North. Tyler had itched to enlist, but on the Confederate side. As a youthful revenge on his family for not letting him go to War he married the daughter of a no-account neighbor, emigrated to Indiana to his Uncle Lafe's farm. There he worked with erratic energy as husband & husbandman. Crops & children came, but Tyler wanted wilder oats. At the news of Lee's surrender...
...Clarence Gordon Campbell, 61. native Hoosier, is now serving his second year as President of the Association. Some 25 years ago he gave up the practice of medicine for sociological study with emphasis on biology, eugenics. He has roamed the world with a biological eye, has written many papers and books including Common Wealth (1925) in which he approached economics from a sociobiological viewpoint. Although he has but one child he delights in the fact that that child has four children and "would probably be gladder if she had six." He tramps, fences when he has time, prefers an evening...
Died. Lew Wallace, 70, Indianapolis barrister, nephew of the late General Lew Wallace, Hoosier author of Ben Hur; from a heart attack; in Indianapolis. Barrister Wallace's father was a law partner of President Benjamin Harrison. Ovid Butler, one of Barrister Wallace's grandfathers, founded Indiana's Butler University; Grandfather David Wallace was once Indiana's Governor...
...voted before he ever saw the sea or any Eastern city. Steeped in the Hoosier tradition, his 30-odd volumes of verse, essay, fiction, reflect the atmosphere of politics and pioneers...
President W. H. Settle of the Indiana Farm Bureau Federation, said that 50 or 75 Hoosier farmers would be taken to Kansas City in special Pullmans attached to the Indiana delegation's train...