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Surnames: Amos, Hogue, Wertz
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.
Typed by Lora Radiches: 2-25-2005
Surnames mentioned in the biography of Ora A. Amos are: Amos, Hogue, Wertz,
ROY AMOS is one of the progressive business men of the younger generation at Edinburg,
Johnson County. He is one of the principals of the Amos-Thompson Corporation, one of the
largest producers of veneer and lumber of its kind today. Roy Amos was born in Shelby
County, Indiana, January 28, 1891, son of Ova A. and Gertrude (Hogue) Amos. The career of
his father is sketched preceding. Roy Amos was educated in public schools in Shelby
County, graduated from the high school at Shelby, and then found expression for his
working energies in farming and raising of live stock (luring the early part of his life.
In 1912 he became interested in the lumber business and for the past twenty years has had
a prominent part in all the changes and broadening activities up to and in what is now
the Amos-Thompson Corporation. He is in active charge of the company’s business at
Edinburg, where the company has a very large and modern plant, covering considerable
ground. Mr. Roy!
Amos has been not only a capable executive, but has shown a genius for improving the
processes of the industry with which he has been connected. In 1918 he and his associates
invented a log loader for motor trucks. They organized a company known as the Amos Loader
Company, which was operated separately from the Amos Lumber Company, to manufacture log
loading equipment for motor trucks. In 1926 Mr. Roy Amos and Paul F. Boston invented a
basketball scoring machine. Their company, known as the Simplex Company, is manufacturing
this, one of the first, if not the first, basketball scoring machine on the market. Roy
Amos served in 1930-31 as president of the Indiana Hardwood Lumber Association. Mr. Amos
has always been very much interested in association work, and through his efforts there
has been some very important changes made for the betterment of the industry. He has given
fully five years of effective service as a member of the Edinburg Board of Education. He
is a memb!
er of the Presbyterian Church, is affiliated with the Scottish Rite bo
dy of Masonry, being a member of Murat Temple of the Mystic Shrine at
Indianapolis. He married, in 1910, Miss Elva Wertz, daughter of Henry Wertz. Her father
was associated with the formation of the Wertz & Amos firm in 1912. Mr. and Mrs. Amos
have three children, Maurice Dale, Betty Kathreen and Shirley Ann.