This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: SCHUMAKER, Seiler, Hutchins, Reeves, Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/lh.2ADE/2080 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: SCHUMAKER, Seiler, Hutchins, Reeves, ALBERT E. SCHUMAKER. Whoever, associating the name Schumaker with the delicate confections and delicious beverages which his skill has compounded for the delight of people of all walks of life, should deem the possessor of the name only an ice cream and soft drink manufacturer would greatly underestimate the qualities of enterprise which have made him something more than a prosperous business man. His career shows a man of more than passing versatility, of wide experience through contact with divers peoples, and in him will be found the persistence and thrift of the German and the enterprise of the middle-western Yankee. Albert E. Schumaker, proprietor of the Schumaker Bottling Works of Columbus, Indiana, was born at Columbus, April 6, 1891, and is a son of John and Magdalena (Seiler) Schumaker. John Schumaker was born at Baden, Province of Baden, Germany, where he received a public school education, and in young manhood came to the United States. About the year 18! 80 he took up his residence in Indiana and subsequently became a leading merchant of Columbus, where he spent the remainder of his career and was known as a public-spirited and progressive citizen. He and his worthy wife were the parents of three children. Albert E. Schumaker attended the parochial and high schools of Columbus, and was nineteen years of age when he entered upon his career as a clerk in the mercantile establishment of his father, with whom, however, he remained only a few years. He early became attracted to the automobile industry and for four years was connected as a clerk with several of the large manufacturing concerns, but in 1912 returned to Columbus, where he bought out the Kimsey Bottling Works. This business grew and prospered under his energetic direction and he soon bought out the Coca Bottling Works, at that time changing the name to the Coca-Cola Bottling Works, with the Coca-Cola franchise for Bartholomew, Jennings and Decatur counties. ! In 1916 he installed a new modern ice cream manufacturing plant, with the most up-to-date machinery and apparatus, and now supplies ice cream to the people of the three counties named. The plant, offices and storage warehouse cover about 10,000 square feet of floor space, eighteen people are employed, and eight motor trucks are utilized in making expeditious deliveries to the company’s patrons. This plant manufactures about 75,000 gallons of ice cream yearly and bottles about 60,000 cases of soft drinks of all kinds each year. Mr. Schumaker also operates a plant at Greensburg, Indiana, where four people are employed, the floor space being approximately 2,000 square feet. Mr. Schumaker is one of the leading men in the trade in his state and holds the office of secretary of the Indiana State Ice Cream Association. He belongs to the Chamber of Commerce, of which he was formerly, a member of the board of directors; the Kiwanis Club, of which he was the fourth p! resident; and the Bartholomew County Fair Association, of which he is vice president. He is widely and popularly known in fraternal circles and is exalted ruler of the local lodge of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. During the World war he was very active in all drives and was a four-minute speaker and generous contributor to all movements for the success of American arms. His Columbus office is situated at 816 Jackson Boulevard. Mr. Schumaker married Miss Josephine Hutchins, of Columbus, daughter of Benjamin Hutchins, a former secretary and treasurer of the Reeves Pulley Company, and to this union there have been born two children: Albert, who is attending high school at Columbus; and Helen, attending public school.