This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Harden, Carmichael, West, Jordan, Gilmore, Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/lh.2ADE/2081 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: Harden, Carmichael, West, Jordan, Gilmore, ROBERT D. HARDEN, owner of the Harden Electrical Company at Columbus, was interested in everything electrical from early boyhood. He attended Purdue University for a time, but most of his education in a technical way has been acquired by practical experience and by long and continued study of a wide range of literature bearing on the general subject of electricity and particularly automotive engineering. Mr. Harden was born at Columbus, Indiana February 26, 1898. His grandfather, David Harden, came from Pennsylvania to Indiana and settled in Bartholomew County just before the Civil war. He was a farmer. Mr. Harden’s father is Benjamin F. Harden, a highly esteemed citizen of Bartholomew County. He is a farmer, served as road supervisor and for two terms was county highway superintendent. He married Minnie Carmichael, of Bartholomew County, whose father, W. T. Carmichael, was a well-known old-time physician and a veteran of the Civil war. Robert D. Harden is one of two! children, his sister, Naomi, being the wife of Harry West, of Indianapolis. Robert D. Harden attended school at Columbus, graduated from high school and was in Purdue University in 1917, and while there was enrolled in the Student Officers’ Training Corps. In 1918 he and Roy Jordan organized the Jordan Sales Company and for one year handled automobile trucks. In 1919 Mr. Harden established his electrical business, at 516 Third Street, and after three years bought his present location and constructed a new building in 1926. At this location 331 Franklin Street, he has 2,500 square feet of floor space, has complete installation of machinery and other equipment for electrical laboratory work, and for a general electrical service. He specializes in automotive electric service, handles automobile parts as a jobber and does radio service for 200 dealers in Indiana. He is a member of the Automotive Electric Association and is affiliated with the Fraternal Order of Eagles.! Mr. Harden married Miss Helen Gilmore, of Franklin, Johnson County, Indiana. They have two daughters, Betty Jean and Rose Mary, both attending school at Columbus.