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Another business man goeth into politics-Evans Woollen, Indianapolis Bank President-a man to whom President Wilson offered a place on the Federal Reserve Board; who is Chairman of the Economic Policy Committee of the American Bankers' Association; who is or has been chairman, president or director of a railway, a life insurance company, any number of charitable and welfare associations, a college, an historical society, an art association, a fuel administration and memorials ranging from Benjamin Harrison to James Whitcomb Riley. He is besides a Democrat, and once ran for Congress-in 1896 on the Gold Democratic ticket...
...Evans Woollen has a reputation for counting ten before he speaks. When he cried "bourbon" to the banker it was received more as an indictment than as a figure of speech...
Indiana "Hoosiers" known to every proverbial schoolboy include Authors Tarkington, Nicholson, Ade; Politicians Marshall, Beveridge, Ralston, New, Hays, Watson. But when the banker thinks of Indiana he thinks of Evans Woollen, a banker whose fortune is moderate, whose perspicacity unsurpassed. Friend of authors and confidant of politicians, Mr. Woollen is an expert in Midland* diagnosis...
...father was a rich woollen merchant, but owing to a certain youthful folly with a girl of fifteen I was sent abroad. He allowed me £400 a year and on his death that was increased to £600. . . ." (Humanist answered: " My opinion is that £600 a year is exactly £600 a year too much...
Scroll and Key:--Seymour H. Knox, William D. Whitney, Charles L. Faherty, Nelson J. Smith, Elisha Fisher, John G, Husted, Blake Lawrence, Charles S. Hemingway, Robert L. Hammell, Evans Woollen, Jr., John Crosby, Jr., Benjamin B. Jennings, George P. Lawrence, Ralph P. Hanes, and Wingston Schrieber...