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Surnames: STUCKY, Shaw, Campbell, Heaton, Kleckner, Otto,
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 donât 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: STUCKY, Shaw, Campbell, Heaton, Kleckner,
Otto,
CHARLES C. STUCKY, president and manager of the Evers Soft Water Laundry
at Muncie, took up laundry work after completing his education. He has had
thirty years of experience in a business, which has gone through a
remarkable period of development and expansion in this time. In thirty
years the scope of laundry establishments has grown from limited
equipment, serving only a small part of the demand for laundry work, until
every progressive community has laundry establishments that take away from
the home the ancient institution of âfamily wash day,â and relieve a
large percentage of housewives of this long standing drudgery. Mr. Stucky
was born at Muncie, May 1, 1879, son of A. L. and Mary (Shaw) Stucky,
grandson of Christian Stucky. His grandfather was from Alsace-Lorraine,
France, and on locating at Muncie pursued his trade as a tanner and
leather goods and harness manufacturer. He and his wife are buried in the
Beech Grove Cemetery. A. L. Stucky was born and reared at Muncie, had a
public school education, and during his active life was a dealer in
harness and leather goods. He has been retired from business for some
years and is now seventy-three years of age. His wife, Mary Shaw, was born
and reared in Wells County, Indiana, and was a devout Methodist. She died
in 1904 and is buried in the Beech Grove Cemetery. These parents had four
children: Charles C.; Walter, who died at the age of forty-four; Grace,
Mrs. H. M. Jenny, of Cincinnati; and Earl, who died in 1903, at the age of
twenty-one. Charles C. Stucky attended the grade and high schools of
Muncie, completed a business college course at Washington Court House,
Ohio, and then went to work for the Cottage Steam Laundry at Muncie. It
has been his good fortune to be with one business institution through all
these years. The Cottage Steam Laundry is now the Evers Soft Water Laundry
Company, an old established business, but in equipment and service equal
to any institution of its kind in the state. Mr. Stucky and H. P. Campbell
in 1921 bought the laundry, and since that time Mr. Stucky has been
president and general manager, and Mr. Campbell, secretary and treasurer.
Mr. Stucky is a member of the Laundry Owners National and State
Associations and the central Indiana Laundry Owners Club. He votes as a
Republican, is a member of the Masonic Order, the Knights of Pythias and
the Optimist Club, and for a dozen years has been on the official board of
the Lutheran Church. He married at Muncie, June 24, 1900, Miss Bessie M.
Heaton, daughter of John W. and Annie (Kleckner) Heaton. Her father was a
farmer and merchant in Delaware County and is buried at Gas City. Her
mother resides at Muncie. Mrs. Stucky attended public schools in Muncie,
and, like her husband, is active in the work of the Lutheran Church. They
have one daughter, Sarah, who graduated from the Muncie High School in
1924, and on July 15, 1925, was married to Mr. Walter H. Otto, of
Washington, Missouri, where they reside. Her husband is in the furniture
and undertaking business. Mr. Stucky has always done his part as a
public-spirited citizen, and during the World war used his influence and
personally went into the work of the war drives.
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