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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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