This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: DuSHANE, Anderson, McLelland, Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/lh.2ADE/2149 Message Board Post: 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: DuSHANE, Anderson, McLelland, DONALD DuSHANE has been prominently and constructively associated with the work of the Indiana public schools during the entire period of his service in the pedagogic profession, and he now holds the position of superintendent of public schools at Columbus, judicial center of Bartholomew County. Mr. DuShane was born in the City of South Bend, Indiana, June 5, 1885, and is a representative of a family whose name has been worthily linked with Indiana history since the year 1830, when his ancestor, Horatio Chapin, a native of Springfield, Massachusetts, became one of the early settlers in the northern part of Indiana, where he did well his part in pioneer development and progress. Donald DuShane is a son of James and Emma (Anderson) DuShane, and it is interesting to record that James DuShane likewise did effective service as a teacher in the public schools of his native state, his activities along this line having found culmination in his twelve years of service as s! uperintendent of the city schools of South Bend. He gave evidence also of exceptional business ability, as shown in priority in the movement that brought about the establishment of the Indiana-Michigan Electric Company, with headquarters at South Bend. His civic loyalty was shown when he assumed leadership also in founding the public library of South Bend. In the public schools of his native City of South Bend Donald DuShane continued his studies until he had completed his high school course, and thereafter he attended Hanover College until he was there graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Science, besides which he later received from this college the degree of Master of Arts. Through post-graduate work in the University of Wisconsin he gained there from the further degree of Master of Science. Mr. DuShane gave four years of service as a teacher in the South Bend High School, and in his native city he thus won success and prestige that set at naught any application in hi! s case of the scriptural aphorism to the effect that “a prophet is not without a honor save in his own country.” Upon leaving South Bend he held for one year the position of principal of the high school at Shelbyville, Illinois, county seat of Shelby County, and during the ensuing five years he was superintendent of the public schools of Madison, judicial center of Jefferson County. His next post was that of superintendent of the city schools of Clinton, Vermillion County, where he remained two years. He then, in July, 1918, was appointed to his present office of superintendent of public schools at Columbus. All of his work in his chosen profession has been in important cities of his native state, and in every position that he has held his service has been notably loyal, progressive and constructive. He has made also valuable contributions to educational literature and legislation. He is to be ascribed authorship of the bills that as enacted bear the followin! g titles: Indiana School Attendance Law,” “Lazy Husband Law,” “Teachers’ Tenure Law,” and Teachers’ Annual Contract Law.” He organized Indiana’s first opportunity school, Madison, 1913; Indiana’s first psychiatric school clinic (Columbus, 1922); and Indiana’s first school for exceptionally bright children, (Columbus, 1923). He is an influential member and a former president of the Indiana State Teachers Association, and in 1919 he became the founder of the Indiana School Men’s Club. He is a member and a past president of the Indiana Conference on Social work, is a member of the executive committee of the Indiana Society for Mental Hygiene, Is a member of the Indiana Crime Commission and the Indiana State Teachers Retirement Fund Board, and in 1929-30 is functioning with characteristic efficiency and constructiveness as editor of the official publication of the Indi! ana State Teachers Association, this being known as the Indiana Teacher. His capacity for service seems to have no limitations, and it is to be noted that he is president of the Bartholomew County Board of Children’s Guardians. He was the second to serve as president of the Rotary Club of Columbus, and he is essentially and emphatically a liberal, loyal and public-spirited citizen who takes deep interest in community affairs and in all things touching the welfare and progress of the fine old Hoosier State. In the World war period Mr. DuShane was instant and influential in patriotic service of communal order. He served as a member of the Indiana State Council of Defense, and in his activities in promoting the sale of Government war bonds he was a speaker at fully fifty meetings held for advancing such drives or campaigns. Mr. DuShane married Miss Harriette McLelland, of Jefferson County, and they have three children: Donald, Jr., is, in 1929-30, an instructor! in Columbia University, New York, City; Graham is a student in Yale University, and James is attending DePauw University, at Greencastle, this state.