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Surnames: Moss, Wilson, Stark, Pickens, Cox, Condor, Pleake, Curtis
Classification: Biography
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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: Moss, Wilson, Stark, Pickens, Cox, Condor, Pleake, Curtis,
GLENN E. Moss, B. S., has been principal of the Junior High School of the City of Hobart,
Lake County, since 1924, and has here proved notably efficient and loyal as an executive
and instructor. He is an enthusiast in his profession and translates that enthusiasm into
constructive and forward-moving service, besides having splendid ability to promote
enthusiasm and loyal cooperation among instructors and students working under his
administration. Mr. Moss was born on the parental home in Morgan County, Indiana, May 24,
1899, and is a son of Wesley E., and Eva (Wilson) Moss, the former of whom was born in
Morgan County, Indiana, and the latter in Owen County, Indiana, where she was reared and
educated, she being daughter of Joseph and Lucinda (Stark) Wilson and her paternal
grandfather having met his death in battle while serving as a soldier in the Mexican war,
he having been killed in an engagement that occurred on the banks of the Rio Grande River
in Texas, in the year 184!
5. Wesley E. Moss was reared and educated in Morgan County, where he now maintains his
residence at Martinsville, the county seat, he having in former years been a prosperous
farmer in his native county and having also followed the trade of carpenter. For the past
several years he has been successfully established in business as a contractor and builder
at Martinsville. His political alignment is with the Democratic Party, he is affiliated
with the Masonic fraternity, and he and his wife are earnest members of the Baptist
Church. Wesley E. Moss is a son of Ralph and Lucinda (Pickens) Moss, who were numbered
among the pioneer settlers of Morgan County, where his father became an extensive land
owner and a successful agriculturist and stock grower, his farm estate being still in the
possession of the family, though he passed the closing period of his life in Missouri,
where he died in 1925, his widow having thereafter returned to the old home farm in Morgan
County, Indiana, wh!
ere she still resides, at the age of eighty-eight years, in 1931. She is a representative
of one of the old and honored families of Indiana, the Pickens family, and among her
kinsmen is a prominent member of the Indianapolis bar—a member of the important law firm
of Pickens, Cox & Condor. The subject of this review is the first born in a family of
six children; Miss Gayle is a trained nurse and resides at Martinsville; Miss Hazel is a
popular teacher in the public schools of Morgan County; Venice is associated with the I.
G. A., Grocery Company at Hobart; Alva and Mary Marjorie remain at the parental home and
are students in the Martinsville public schools at the time of this writing, in the winter
of 1930-31. The public schools of his native county afforded Glenn E. Moss his early
education, and there he was graduated in the high school at Eminence, as a member of the
class of 1917. It was in that year that the nation entered the World war and in the
registration of!
prospective soldiers Mr. Moss was assigned to Class A, the signing of the armistice
having prevented his being called to active service. In 1928 Mr. Moss was graduated in the
Indiana State Normal School at Terre Haute and duly received the degree of Bachelor of
Science. In the meanwhile he had been doing successful work as a teacher in the Indiana
schools, and his pedagogic career has now covered a period of somewhat more than ten
years. He was a teacher in district schools in his native county during an interval of
three years, and since 1924, as previously noted, he has been principal of the Junior High
School in the City of Hobart. He is a member of the Indiana State Teachers Association, is
affiliated with the Masonic fraternity, he has given successful service as scout master of
the Hobart Troop of Boy Scouts during virtually the entire period of his residence at
Hobart, he is a deacon and elder of the Christian Church, of which his wife likewise is a
zealous member, b!
esides having membership in the local chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star. Since
coming to Hobart Mr. Moss has been responsible for the organizing and developing of the
athletic department of the Junior High School and has served as coach of its basketball
team. In politics he is a Democrat. At Martinsville, on the 28th of June, 1924,
was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Moss to Miss Gladys E. Pleake, who likewise was
born and reared in Morgan County, where her parents, Frank and Laura (Curtis)
Pleake, still maintain their home, at Martinsville. Mr. Pleake, who is now living retired,
was for many years one of the prominent exponents of farm industry in that county. In the
public schools of her native county, Mrs. Moss continued her studies until she was
graduated in the high school at Monrovia, in 1921, and thereafter she was a student in the
Central Normal College, at Danville. Mr. and Mrs. Moss have two children, Grayson Leon and
Linden Glenn. T!
he family home at Hobart is at 529 Main Street. Mr. Moss continues an enthusiast in
athletics and finds recreation through the medium of golf and all out-door sports.