This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Other surnames mentioned in the biography of LLOYD S. NORTON are, Norton, Miller, Dashiell, Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Sh.2ADI/1958 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: Other surnames mentioned in the biography of LLOYD S. NORTON are, Norton, Miller, Dashiell, LLOYD S. NORTON was born in Bartholomew County, Indiana, March 9, 1894, and is now one of the progressive and representative business men of the younger generation in his native county, where he is successfully established in the retail drug business in the fine little City of Hope, his well equipped store being modern in appointments and service and its trade being of representative order, as marking the communal appreciation of the service given. Mr. Norton is a son of Simeon and Ida (Miller) Norton, and the latter’s father, August Miller, was a representative of one of the sterling pioneer families of Bartholomew County, he having become one of the influential citizens of the county. Simeon Norton achieved success as a farmer in this county, as he did also in his activities as a contractor in road construction, while his secure place in popular esteem was attested by his having been called upon to serve as county recorder and as postmast! er of Hope. The public-school discipline of Lloyd S. Norton culminated in his course in the high school at Hope, and after leaving school he became assistant postmaster of this city, under the administration of his father as postmaster. In 1916 he purchased a local pool room, and this he conducted until he assumed the position of assistant cashier of the Hope State Bank, an executive office to which he was appointed in January, 1918, and in which he served until the following May, when he responded to the call of higher duty and enlisted for World war service. He became a member of the Fortieth Infantry Regiment of the United States Army, and later was transferred to the Seventy-eighth Infantry, at Fort Sheridan, near the City of Chicago. He later was stationed with his command at Camp Custer, near Battle Creek Michigan, where he remained a few months after the armistice had brought the war to a close. He received his honorable discharge in March 1919, and then resumed his ! position with the Hope State Bank. He was associated with that institu tion until May 1921, when he was appointed postmaster of the city. He then resigned and turned his attention to the retail drug business, by purchasing the Dudding Pharmacy, which he has since successfully conducted under the title of Norton’s Pharmacy. This is one of the old and popular drug stores of Hope, it having been established about forty years ago and being now the second oldest store of its kind in the city. In addition to a complete line of drugs, sundries and other goods carried in the modern drug store Mr. Norton also keeps select stocks of wallpaper, paints, varnishes, etc. Mr. Norton is a stalwart in the local ranks of the Republican Party, has been active in its councils and campaigns in his native county and formerly served as a member of the junior Republican committee of the county. He is specially active, influential and popular as a member of the local post of the American Legion and has given prolonged service as its adjutant. He! is affiliated also with the Masonic fraternity. Mr. Norton chose as his wife Miss Mary Dashiell, who was born at Moores Hill, Dearborn County, this state, and who is a daughter of Rev. J. F. Dashiell, a clergyman of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. and Mrs. Norton have an attractive home at Hope and they are popular figures in the representative social activities of their home community. William Norton, great-grandfather of the subject of this review, was born and reared in Pennsylvania, thence he eventually removed to Ohio, and from the latter state he came to Indiana about the year 1830, and became a pioneer settler in Flat Rock Township, Bartholomew County, where he entered claim to a quarter section of Government land and reclaimed the same into a productive farm, this old homestead being still in the possession of the Norton family, whose holding thereof will have represented in 1930 a tenure of a full century. Rev. Jacob Norton, one of the eons of the Wil! liam Norton who was the founder of the family in Indiana, was long and zealously engaged in service as a clergyman of the Methodist Episcopal Church and was a resident of Bartholomew County at the time of his death. Dr. William J. Norton, a leading physician and surgeon at Columbus, county seat of Bartholomew County, and Dr. Fletcher D. Norton, likewise a representative physician and surgeon of that city, are uncles of the subject of this sketch. The family name was one of prominence in the early period of the history of Bartholomew County, and has so continued as one generation has followed another on the stage of life’s endeavors.