This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Dickey, McCullough, Noelke, Richards, Gysie, Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/lh.2ADE/2077 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: Dickey, McCullough, Noelke, Richards, Gysie, RICHARD J. DICKEY. In Richard J. Dickey, president of the R. J. Dickey & Sons, Inc., owner and manufacturer, at Columbus, Indiana, is found an individual who receives a ready welcome from other clear-visioned, practical business men in any community in which he may choose to locate. Such men bear with them the inspiring spirit of enterprise and the ability to plan well and substantially. Richard J. Dickey was born in Bartholomew County, Indiana, December 7, 1879, just forty years after his father, David Dickey, a native of County Cork, Ireland, arrived at Madison, Indiana. He was a sturdy, industrious youth who immediately found employment in a starch factory, but in later years, after the war between the states, in which he won praise for his soldierly conduct as a private in the Union army, he became a successful agriculturist in Bartholomew County, developing a valuable property through the exercise of great industry, the use of modern methods and the application! of good business judgment In all of his affairs. He was a man of high character who had the confidence and esteem of his fellow-citizens. Mr. Dickey married Elizabeth McCullough, a native of Hamilton, Ohio, and to this union there was born five children, among whom Richard J. was one of the younger. From the country schools of his native neighborhood Richard. J. Dickey entered the Columbus High School and his educational record from there gave him superior standing when he became a student at Purdue University. At first he devoted much time to civil engineering, but later found himself more interested in structural engineering and finally made it his specialty. This opened up a long period of high class work, for he became an Expert, first, for ten years, with the Caldwell and Drake firm of ironmasters at Columbus, Indiana; subsequently for three years with the Noelke-Richards Iron Works at Indianapolis; and then, for ten years, was with the Republic Struct! ural Iron Company at Cleveland, Ohio. During this long period in a dangerous occupation it is probable that Mr. Dickey gained knowledge of industrial accidents that might have been prevented by the use of reliable safety devices, and possibly an interest was thus first aroused which after careful investigation led him, in April, 1928, to invest a large amount of capital and become the proprietor and manufacturer of Everfast Window Cleaning Safety Devices. He located his main plant and headquarters at Columbus, Indiana, and has established branch offices in all the large cities of the country. The business has grown enormously, the sales territory covering the entire United States, and a large export trade has been built up, the company placing approximately $75,000 worth of material on the market annually, their manufactured articles including nineteen basic patented devices, all approved by the Underwriters Association of America. At Columbus, Indiana, Mr. Dickey was unite! d in marriage with Miss Hazel Gysie, and they have two sons: John R., a graduate of the University of Michigan, who is associated in business with his father and accounted one of the energetic young men of the community; and Robert M., who graduated from the same institution as a member of the class of 1930. Richard J. Dickey became a member of the Sigma Chi Greek letter fraternity while at Purdue University and belongs to the Detroit Athletic Club, being greatly fond of all manly out-door sports and a golf enthusiast and player of no mean ability. During the World war he was engaged in shipbuilding with the United States Emergency Fleet Corps. He is a member of the Columbus Chamber of commerce and is interested in every civic movement that promises to be of substantial benefit to the city.