This book has no cover, and no index, and no author. I bought it on Ebay; it just has the insides, but it is full of Indiana biographies. I am not researching this family, just thought I would share. I do not know anymore about these families or these surnames. I don’t know if there is any additional mention of this family in the book, it has no index. I do not want to sell this book. I am typing the biographies from it.

Typed by Lora Radiches:

Surnames in this biography are: HARGRAVE, Bishop, Moore, McCabe, Fletcher, Ayres, Tyler, Jr,



ARTHUR A. HARGRAVE is one of the veteran newspaper publishers and editors of Indiana. Since 1888 his editorial sanctum has been with the Rockville Republican. In more than forty-three years not a single issue of the Republican has appeared which has not contained something written by Mr. Hargrave, and that is probably an interesting record in the annals of Indiana journalism and is evidence of his fidelity to his duties as an editor. Mr. Hargrave is a man of interesting experience at home and abroad. He was born at Portland Mills, Putnam County, Indiana, August 15, 1856, son of William H. and Susan (Bishop) Hargrave. Two years after his birth his parents moved to a farm in Putnam County, and when he was a boy of thirteen the family moved to Rockville. Thus his youth was divided between the attractions and routine of a farm and rural life and one of the progressive small towns of the state. He began his education in a country school, finishing the public schools of Rockville, and when seventeen entered the office of the Rockville Republican as a printer’s apprentice. After gaining a good knowledge of his trade he decided that his future career required a better education and in 1876 he entered Wabash College at Crawfordsville. He made a splendid record as a student and in extra curricular activities, being one of the Baldwin prize essayists. In 1881 he was graduated with the Bachelor of Arts degree and subsequently was given the Master of Arts degree by that college. For a year after his college career Mr. Hargrave grave was a reporter for the Kansas City Journal and in the spring of 1883 went on the reporting staff of the Terre Haute Express. After a short time he resigned to accept an offer made by the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions for work in foreign lands. He was chosen by the board not for missionary service, but as a practical newspaperman and printer. He was sent to Oroomiah, Persia, where he was put in charge of the board’s printing establishment and treasury. The printing was done in the Syriac language, and he had to master that as a preliminary to handling the business efficiently. For some time he also edited the monthly publication Rays of Light, also printed in the Syriac language; While in Persia Mr. Hargrave met Miss Marion S. Moore, daughter of the late Rev. E. G. Moore. They were married at Oroomiah, July 9, 1885. In consequence of the ill health of Mrs. Hargrave they returned to the United States two years later. They first located at Terre Haute, where Mr. Hargrave was assistant editor of the Expres8. Then, in the spring of 1888, he returned to Rockville and bought the Rockville Republican, to which he has given his unceasing devotion and all his talents as a newspaper publisher and manager. The Rockville Republican under his management has grown in influence and circulation, has become a substantial business, represents a large investment in plant and equipment, and measures up to the highest standards of weekly journalism in Indiana. Mr. Hargrave has made the Republican a reflection of his own views as a Republican in politics, but above all he has published a hometown paper supporting all measures and movements for the welfare of the community. Mr. Hargrave is a member and president of the board of trustees of the Indiana State Sanitarium at Rockville, and vice president for Indiana of the National Editorial Association. He has served as a trustee of the Rockville public schools, is a member of the Masonic fraternity, Knights of Pythias and Modern Woodmen of America, and is a member and elder of the Presbyterian Church. To the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Hargrave were born five children. Their son, Palmer W., a businessman in Los Angeles, California, married Miss Anna McCabe, of Crawfordsville, and has two daughters. Clarence M., who is in business at South Bend, Indiana, married Miss Hellen Fletcher, of Detroit, Michigan, and has one daughter. Miss Ethel Hargrave is connected with the social service department of the Indianapolis public schools. William B., also in business at Los Angeles, married Mrs. Warren Ayres, of Crawfordsville, who has two children by a former marriage. The youngest of the family, Marjorie, was married to Wilson G. Tyler, Jr., of Birmingham, Alabama, and they now live in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and have one daughter.