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Surnames: Sills, Gaylord, Bowser, Ramsey
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: Sills, Gaylord, Bowser, Ramsey
ADDISON K. SILLS, one of the attorneys of the La Fayette bar, with offices in the Loan
& Trust Building, came from White County, where the name has long enjoyed an enviable
prominence in the legal profession. Mr. Sills was born in White County May 31, 1887. His
father, Addison K. Sills, was a native of Kentucky, settled in White County in 1864 and
married Lovina E. Ramsey, daughter of a pioneer physician of Tippecanoe County. Addison K.
Sills was an able lawyer and served four years as special counsel to the secretary of the
interior in the cabinet of President Harrison. For several years he was a member of the
Republican state committee and twice was national committeeman from Indiana. Addison K.
Sills, of La Fayette, is one of the seven children of his parents. He attended the grade
and high schools of Monticello, read law with his father and Judge Alfred Reynolds, and in
May, 1908, was admitted to the Indiana bar on reaching the age of twenty-one. Soon
afterward he was ma!
de a junior partner with his father and Judge Reynolds, and in 1919 joined in partnership
with Thomas Gaylord, of La Fayette, veteran member of the Indiana bar, who has been in
practice since 1875. Mr. Sills is active in Republican politics and for six years was
chairman of the White County Republican committee, and for a number of years on the state
advisory committee. He is a member of the Indiana State and American Bar Associations and
is director in the Tenth District Bar Association. Mr. Sills married Thura Bowser, a
native of Indiana, and they have two sons, Robert R., H attending Wabash College, and
Addison K. III, a student in the Milford Military Preparatory School. Mr. Sills has been
admitted to practice in the Federal courts. During the World war he was a four-minute
speaker, assisting in the Liberty Bond drives. He has made an enviable record as a lawyer
and as a convention speaker and public leader.