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Surnames: ENGLE, Patton, Lockhart, Davis,
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: ENGLE, Patton, Lockhart, Davis,
DUDLEY C. ENGLE since 1922 has been postmaster of Albany. He has lived the greater
part of his life in Delaware County, has been identified with several industrial
organizations and is a World war veteran. Mr. Engle was born in old Indian Territory,
January 11, 1894, but his father was an Indiana man and the family was early settlers in
Randolph County. His grandfather, William Engle, came to Indiana from the vicinity of
Marysville, Ohio, about 1835. He was a farmer by occupation and three of his sons,
William, James and Robert, were soldiers in the Union army in the Civil war. William Engle
and wife are both buried at Liberty in Randolph County. Price Engle, father of Dudley C.
Engle, was born and reared in Randolph County, and spent his active life as a farmer and
stock raiser. As a young man he left Indiana, went to Iowa, where he was married, lived
for a time in Kansas and for several years engaged in farming in Indian Territory, having
land under lease from its !
Indian owners. In 1906 he established his home at Albany and for several years was in the
grain business there. He retired from all business in 1914 and passed away in 1920, being
buried in the Albany Cemetery. His wife was born near Stevens Point, Wisconsin, and was
six years of age when her parents, Joel and Sarah Patton, moved to Dallas County, Iowa,
where she grew up and received her public school education. She was a member of the
Methodist Church at Albany. Price Engle and wife had ten children, named Howard, Herbert,
Harry, Jennie, Alice, Clayton, Dudley C., Henry, India and John. Dudley C. Engle was
about twelve years old when the family located at Albany, and he was graduated from the
Albany High School in 1912. On leaving school he was associated with his father in the
grain and flour business until 1916. At different times for several years he was with one
of the largest industrial organizations at Muncie, the Warner Gear Company. He left the
service of this comp!
any on September 4, 1917, to join the colors. He was sent for training to Camp Taor at
Louisville, Kentucky, and three months later was transferred to Camp Hancock, Georgia, in
training as a mechanic with the aviation forces. In February, 1918, he went overseas with
the First Air Service Mechanics Regiment and was on duty in France until after the
armistice. He returned home in June, 1919, and was honorably discharged at Camp Sherman,
Ohio, July 1, of that year. Soon after getting out of his uniform he resume work for the
Warner Gear Company, later spent a year in the Kentucky oil fields, and was with the
Warner Gear Company until March 1, 1922, when he was appointed postmaster of Albany. He
has served in that capacity now for eight years. Mr. Engle for many years has been
identified with the Masonic order, as a member of Anthony Lodge, No. 171, A. F. and A. M.
He belongs to the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and Kiwanis Club, and is a member of
Albany Post No. 167 of the !
American Legion. He is a Republican. He married, May 20, 1922, at Albany, Miss Pauline
Lockhart, daughter of Arthur and Iva (Davis) Lockhart, her father being head of the
Lockhart Insurance Agency. Mrs. Engle graduated from the Albany High School in 1917, after
which she studied for two years in the Albion College in Michigan. She taught for two
years at Albany and for one year was doing special educational work in Clarke University
at Atlanta, Georgia. She is an active member of the Methodist Church and is a past matron
of the Eastern Star Chapter. Mr. and Mrs. Engle’s only child died in infancy.