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Surnames: Smithers, Stidaham, Thompson, Lauchner, Wilson,
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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: 3-24-2005
Surnames in this biography are: Smithers, Stidaham, Thompson, Lauchner, Wilson,
SAMUEL C. SMITHERS is one of Tippecanoe County's leading farmers and stock men, a
specialist in the horse business, and has produced some of the finest Percherons in
Northern Indiana. Mr. Smithers' home and farm are near Clarks Hill in Lauramie
Township. He is a son of Cassius and Jennie (Stidaham) Smithers. His father is a
well-to-do retired farmer of Tippecanoe County, a man who started with nothing and has
long been a man of influential character and citizenship. Cassius Smithers is a Methodist,
a member
of the Masonic Order and Independent Order of Odd Fellows. There were two children, Mae
and Samuel C. Mae is the wife of W. T. Thompson and has a daughter, Mildred. Samuel C.
Smithers was educated in country schools and finished in a town grade school. He was
taught to work, and industry and close attention to business have been the secret of his
success. As a young man he acquired a working capital of three horses and one cow, and for
seven years lived as a farm renter. In 1913 he bought his present farm of 100 acres, and
after his marriage he began specializing in the horse business. He has been showing at the
State Fair, and with two mares that represent some of the finest points in the Percheron
strain he is ambitious to win a grand championship. Mr. Smithers for four years was
president of the Farm Bureau. He is interested in all community matters, is superintendent
of the Sunday School of the Methodist Church, and has held chairs in the lodges of the
Masonic Order and!
Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Mrs. Smithers is a member of the Eastern Star Chapter.
He married Miss Nancy Lauchner, daughter of Paul N. and Ruana (Wilson) Lauchner. Her
father came from Allentown, Pennsylvania. Mr. and Mrs. Smithers have one daughter, Beulah
E., a student in high school.