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Surnames: Headley Wells, Cratty, Wilkinson, Borrey, Walker, Chambers,
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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. NOTE:
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: Headley Wells, Cratty, Wilkinson, Borrey, Walker,
Chambers,
J. EDWARD HEADLEY. The reputation of the prominent corporation lawyers is not made in a
day, for special success in this difficult department of the law requires the possession
of knowledge and qualities that can only be acquired through long and steady training,
close application, varied and diversified experience and constant study of business,
commercial and financial problems. However, if the requisites are stern the rewards of the
successful corporation lawyer are commensurate, and among those who have found prosperity
in this most difficult and perplexing field is J. Edward Headley, who has been engaged in
practice at Warsaw, Kosciusko County, since 1916. Mr. Headley was born at Bellaire, Ohio,
October 1, 1875, and is a son of George and Hannah (Wells) Headley. His paternal
grandfather, Joseph Headley, was born in France, and was a farmer by vocation, but entered
the French army, and while stationed in Alsace-Lorraine met and married a German girl.
After his military s!
ervice was completed he immigrated to the United States and eventually took up his
residence at Zanesville, Ohio, where he passed the remaining years of his life. George
Headley was born December 24, 1851, at Zanesville, Ohio, and early in life learned the
trade of glassmaking, with which business he was connected throughout his career.
He began his experience as a manufacturer at Bellaire, and in 1887 became superintendent
of the Ohio Windoglass Company, a position which he occupied until 1892, in which year he
came to Pendleton, Indiana, and became associated with the Indiana Window Glass Company,
with David B. Cratty and Frank B. Wilkinson. Retaining his interests at Pendleton, in
1898, in partnership with Mr. Wilkinson and John Borrey, Mr. Headley founded the Bell
Window Glass Company at Fairmount, Indiana, and his son managed the latter until 1899,
when his interests in both plants were absorbed by the American Window Glass Company. Mr.
Headley, however, remaine!
d as manager of the Pendleton plant until 1901, in which year he established the Headley
Glass Company at Fairmount, Indiana, and in 1903 moved his plant to Danville, Illinois.
This he conducted until 1916, in which year he sold out, moved to Indianapolis, and there
lived in comfortable retirement until his demise, October 15, 1925. Mr. Headley was a man
who was held in the highest esteem in the various communities in which he carried on his
activities. One of his brothers served in the Union Army during the War Between
the States and was a participant in many of the heavy engagements of the Army of
the Potomac. Mr. Headley married Miss Hannah Wells, who was born at Kent, Ohio, where she
graduated from high school, and died December 4, 1884. She and her husband were the
parents of three children: J. Edward, of this review; Carl W., born May 3, 1881, a bond
salesman; and Mae, the wife of Samuel B. Walker, secretary of the William H. Block
Company, of Indianapo!
lis, who has two children, George and Horace. J. Edward Headley attended graded school at
Bellaire, Ohio, and high school at Findlay, that state, and then pursued a course at
Findlay College, from which he was graduated with the class of 1913. He pursued his
professional studies at the Indiana Law School, at Indianapolis, from which he was
graduated with the class of 1916, and immediately commenced practice at Warsaw, where he
has since remained in the enjoyment of a constantly increasing practice, making a
specialty of corporation law. He has a large and representative clientele and is justly
accounted one of the leaders of the Kosciusko County bar. He belongs to the Kosciusko
County Bar Association, the Indiana State Bar Association and the American Bar
Association. In addition to his law practice he has numerous business interests, and is a
director in the Indiana State Bank & Trust Company, is director and attorney for the
Warsaw Building, Loan & Savings Association, an!
d director and secretary of the Frazer Investment Corporation, and general counsel and
director of the Winona Railroad Company. He is greatly interested in civic affairs, and is
president of the Warsaw Chamber of Commerce and secretary of the local school board.
Politically he is a Republican and his religious faith is that of the Methodist Church,
while his fraternal connections are with Danville (Illinois) Blue Lodge and Vermillion
Consistory of Masonry, the latter of which he assisted in organizing. On August 3, 1898,
Mr. Headley was united in marriage with Miss Frances M. Chambers, a daughter of James T.
Chambers, who was born at Syracuse, New York, of English ancestors who assisted in the
laying out of Boston Commons. Joseph C. Headley, the son of J. Edward and Frances M.
Headley, was born January 6, 1903, and attended the grade and high schools. Later he took
courses at the University of Indiana and the law department of the University of Chicago,
and is now assistant !
sales manager of the Chicago group of Halsey & Stuart Company, investment bankers. He
has taken military training and is a first lieutenant in the Reserve Officers Training
Corps, and has been offered commissions in the regular army as an instructor. He is
unmarried. Helen Headley, daughter of J. Edward and Frances M. Headley, was born February
9, 1909, and attended the public and high schools of Warsaw. After a three-year course she
graduated in 1929 from the Sargent School of Physical Education, with the degree of
Bachelor of Science, and is a graduate of the University of Indiana, class of 1931.