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1. Title:   GEDCOM file imported on 26 Oct 1998.
Author:   Margie Etter
2. Title:   GEDCOM file imported on 28 Oct 1998.

Notes
a. Note:   Life is pleasant to live when we know how to make the most of it. Some people start on their careers as if they had weight s on their souls or were
 afraid to make the necessary effort to live up to a high standar
 d. Others, by not making a
 proper study of the conditions of existence, or by not having th
 e best of all trainers, good
 parents, are side-tracked at the outset and never seem thereafte
 r to be able to get back
 again on the main track. Much depends on the start, just as it d
 oes in a race. The horse
 that gets the best start, all other things being equal, will alm
 ost invariably win the race.
 So in the race of life; if you are properly started with suitabl
 e grooming, such as good
 educational and home training, you will lead in the race in afte
 r years and enjoy your
 existence. Such home influences were thrown about J. T. Frank La
 ughner, one of the best
 known and most capable of Boone county's young men, formerly con
 nected with the
 Citizens Bank at Whitestown, but now the able and popular treasu
 rer of the county. He
 came from a family noted for their sound principles and exemplar y habits, seldom any
 word of reproach being spoken against them since taking up thei
 r residence in this
 locality many years ago.
 Mr. Laughner was born in Worth township, Boone county, October 2
 7, 1874, on the
 home farm and there he grew to manhood, assisting with the gener al work when of
 proper age. He is a son of Ambrose M. and Ranna (Neese) Laughner
 , the father a native
 of Tennessee, where he spent his earlier years and from which st
 ate be came to Boone
 county when a young man, where he married our subject's mother
 , who was born and
 reared in this county. These parents received a common school ed
 ucation and established
 themselves on a farm in Worth township, acquiring a comfortabl e home by their thrift
 and perseverance. Our subject remained under his parental roof-tree until he was e
 ighteen years of age,
 when he went to Marion, Indiana, and there entered college, taki
 ng the scientific course,
 also bookkeeping and a commercial course, in all of which he mad
 e a splendid record and
 was graduated from the latter department in 1899, having spent t
 hree years there. He then
 became a teacher of penmanship, which he followed two years, aft
 er which he accepted a position with the Muncie Normal school, as principal of the comm
 ercial department,
 which he held most satisfactorily for two years. Later he purcha
 sed an interest in a drug
 store at Whitestown, Indiana, with his brother, Clyde O. Laughne r, July, 1901, but not
 long afterwards he sold his interest to his brother and accepte
 d a position as bookkeeper
 in the Citizens Bank at Whitestown, filling the same with satisf
 action to the officials and
 stockholders, and in June, 1905, was promoted to the position o
 f cashier of this
 institution, the duties of which responsible position he continu
 ed to discharge in an able
 and satisfactory manner until January 1, 1914, doing much the me
 anwhile to increase the
 prestige and success of this popular bank. Upon severing his con
 nection with the same he
 assumed his duties as treasurer of Boone county, which office h
 e is now filling in a
 manner that reflects much credit upon himself and to the eminen
 t satisfaction of his
 constituents and all concerned, being an able, careful, faithful
 , painstaking and courteous
 and obliging official, popular with all classes, irrespective o
 f party alignment
 Mr. Laughner was married on May 4, 1897, to Dora Scott, who wa
 s born in Worth
 township, Boone county, where she grew to womanhood and attende
 d the public schools.
 She is a daughter of Charles O. and Flora (Bartles) Scott, the f
 ormer born in Marion
 county, the mother a native of the state of Louisiana. The unio
 n of our subject and wife
 has been without issue.
 Politically. Mr. Laughner is a Democrat and has been more or le


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