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Surnames: HAILWAY, Kitzmiller, Hailway, Windhorn, Spaugh,
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: HAILWAY, Kitzmiller, Hailway, Windhorn, Spaugh,
WILLIAM H. HAILWAY is one of the well-known and popular citizens of his native
County of Bartholomew, where he has held various offices of public trust and where he
is now giving a characteristically loyal and efficient administration as postmaster of
the vital little City of Hope. Mr. Hailway was born in Bartholomew County on the
11th of November, 1873, and the place of his nativity was the parental home farm in
Columbus Township. He is a son of Henry and Sarah (Kitzmiller) Hailway, both of whom are
now deceased. Henry Hailway was born and reared in Germany and settled in Indiana in the
year 1866, he having become one of the enterprising and successful farmers of Bartholomew
County and he and his wife having here remained until their death, their children having
been five in number. William H. Hailway early gained close fellowship with the varied
activities of the home farm and the rural schools in Flat Rock Township afforded him his
preliminary ed!
ucation. In the early stage of his independent career he continued his active association
with the farm industry, and in 1911 he turned his attention to the contracting business in
road construction. With this line of enterprise he continued to be identified
until 1922, he having in that year resigned his office of township trustee, to which he
had been elected in 1918, and January, 1922, having marked his appointment to the office
of county highway superintendent, a position that he retained four years and in which he
gave a well ordered and progressive administration. After his retirement from the office
he gave one year to the management of his farm and then, in 1926, he was appointed
postmaster of Hope, the office of which he has since continued the efficient and popular
incumbent. Mr. Hailway is a member of the Tn-State Postmasters Association and the
National League of District Postmasters; his political allegiance is given to the
Republican party, in the local!
affairs of which he has been active and influential, and he is essentially loyal and
public spirited in. his civic attitude, with a constant manifestation of his deep interest
in all that touches the welfare of his native county and state. He was for several years a
member of the board of directors of the Bartholomew County Fair Association. Mr. Hailway
married Miss Elizabeth Windhorn, born in Ripley County, and reared in Bartholomew County.
They have two children: Alma received the advantages of the celebrated Cincinnati
Conservatory of Music, is a talented musician and has been a successful and popular
teacher of music. She served as assistant postmaster of Hope, under the administration of
her father, until her marriage to Jasper Spaugh, who is one of the progressive exponents
of agricultural and horticultural industry in Bartholomew County. Miss Rema, the
younger daughter, remains at the parental home.