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Surnames: COURTRIGHT, Kerr, Daugherty, Evans,
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.
Typed by Lora Radiches:
Surnames in this biography are: COURTRIGHT, Kerr, Daugherty, Evans,
DEAN K. COURTRIGHT is now in active charge of the substantial and important business
controlled at Gary by the Courtright Construction Company, leading contractors in street
and road paving and general road construction service in this part of Indiana. This
business was founded by his father, Adrian L. Courtright, who is still an interested
principal, though he is now virtually retired from active executive association with the
enterprise. Of the career of Adrian L. Courtright specific record is given in the
preceding sketch, so that it is not here necessary to give further data concerning
the family history or the inception and development of the well ordered contracting
business of which the son is now the active and efficient manager. Dean K. Courtright was
born at Knox, Starke County, Indiana, May 9, 1901, and is a son and the one surviving
child of Adrian L. and Sylvia (Kerr) Courtright, whose home is now maintained in Gary.
Dean K. Courtright was a child at th!
e time of the, family removal to Lake County, where the home was established at Crown
Point, the county seat. In the public schools of that place he continued his studies
until he was graduated in the high school, as a member of the class of 1920, and
thereafter he took a special course in chemistry at Iowa State College, Ames, Iowa. He
then became actively associated with his father in the latter’s contract operations in
road construction and street paving, and in this connection he ran the full gamut of
practical and executive experience. In 1923 he became his father’s partner in the
business, which was thereafter continued under the title of A. L. Courtright & Son
until 1926, when the senior Member of the firm decided to retire from active business, it
having been at this time that he and his son effected the organization of the present
Courtright Construction Company, of which Dean K. Courtright has since continued the
active manager, though his father s!
till continues to give resourceful counsel and advice in the direction of the varied
operations of the company. This representative concern has its headquarters at 890 Chase
Street in the City of Gary, while its manager maintains his residence at 1725 West Fifth
Avenue. Mr. Courtright is an equal partner with his father in the ownership and conducting
of the business, which was established in 1910 and which has involved the handling of many
large and important road construction and improvement projects in this part of the state,
as well as contracts for city street paving. Dean K. Courtright is a loyal and popular
member of the Gary Chamber of Commerce and the local Commercial Club, in politics he
maintains an independent attitude, and his basic Masonic affiliation is with Lake Lodge
No. 157, A. F. and A. M., at Crown Point, his business headquarters having been maintained
at that place until his marriage, in September, 1925, when he established a home in Gary,
where also hi!
s business interests are now centered. In the City of Chicago, on the 5th of September,
1925, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Courtright to Miss Hester A. Daugherty, of Crown
Point, Indiana. Mrs. Courtright was born and reared in Lake County and is a daughter of
Charles J. and Katherine (Evans) Daugherty. Mr. Daugherty was long engaged in the
real-estate business in the City of Hammond, this county, was a leader in the councils of
the Republican party in the county and after serving a number of years as chief deputy
sheriff of the county he gave two terms of able administration as county sheriff, with
official headquarters at Crown Point, the judicial center of the county, where he is now
successfully established in the real-estate business. Mrs. Courtright was graduated in
the Crown Point High School as a member of the class of 1920, her future husband
having been a member of the same class. Thereafter Mrs. Courtright completed a course in
the University of Mich!
igan, in which she was graduated as a member of the class of 1924 and from which she
received the degree of Bachelor of Arts. At Gary she became affiliated with the Beta Gamma
Upsilon sorority, and prior to her marriage she was for one-year teacher of French and
English in the high school at East Chicago, Lake County, Indiana. She is a gracious and
popular figure in the representative church, social and cultural circles of her home City
of Gary. They have one daughter, Hester Ann, born March 18, 1931.