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 below are: Curme, Delong, Nicholas, Berg, Foote, Herrington, Feltman, Starr, Jackson, Witt, Carpenter, Mormon, Bosworth, Coleman, Taylor, Farlow, Barnes, Railsback. ARTHUR ALLEN CURME, JUNIOR, president of the Richmond Milling Company, is one of the sound businessmen of Richmond, Indiana, and is possessed of virile executive ability that has advanced him most materially. Under his wise and able management his concern has expended and his territory widened, and it is today one of the largest of its kind in this section. He was horn at Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1891, a son of Arthur Allen and Mattie M. (Delong) Curme, and grandson of Arthur and Elizabeth (Nicholas) Curme, he born in England and she at Dayton, Ohio. On his mother’s side Arthur Allen Curme, Junior, is a grandson of Daniel G. and Mary M. (Berg) Delong, the former of whom was born in Virginia. The paternal great-grandparents were Job and Elizabeth (Foote) Curme, natives of England, and the grandmother was a lady-in-waiting to Queen Victoria. When only eight years old Arthur Curme came to the United States, arriving about 1840, and settled at Cincinnati, Ohio, where, when he reached manhood, he became a parchment maker. Subsequently he came to Indiana and located at Richmond, buyi ng a farm in its vicinity and soon began operating a tannery under the name of Curme, Dunn & Company, and conducted it for a number of years. That business finally became John J. Herrington, Leather Supplies. In addition to his activities in a business line he was a leader in civic affairs, having been president of the board of public works at the time the municipal light plant was constructed, and alderman from the Third Ward in the City Council for a long period, and was one of the leaders of the local Republican party. During the latter part of his life he was a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and a man of great influence along uplift lines. Fraternally he belonged to the Ancient Free and Accepted Masons and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and was very prominent in the latter organization, rising in it to an official position in the Grand Lodge of the state. He died about 1907, only surviving his father by seven years. Arthur Allen Curme, Senior, was born at Richmond, Indiana, in 1870, and his wife was born at Clarinda, Iowa, in 1871. Deciding upon a professional career, he went to Kansas to study law, and while there was married, and subsequently located at Cincinnati, Ohio, as bookkeeper for the Dupont Powder Company. In 1895 he returned to Richmond, Indiana, and for the following seventeen years was court reporter, but at the expiration of that period he and Charles H. Feltman and Harry C. Starr went into the retail shoe business at Richmond, also conducting a chain of stores from coast to coast, although they reside at Chicago. A brother of Arthur Allen Curme, Senior, Prof. George Oliver Curme, was reared at Richmond, Indiana, and has become a member of the faculty of Northwestern University, holding the chair of languages. He has edited numerous translations, and recently was awarded a degree from the University of Heidelberg, Germany, for a book in German of which he was author. Arthur Allen Curme, Junior, was graduated from the Richmond High School in 1909, after which he had two years of work in Purdue University. When he left the university he went to Indianapolis, Indiana, where he was in the shoe business until 1914. Returning then to Richmond, he bought a farm nearby, and conducted it until 1924. In that year he and John Jackson bought an elevator at Hagerstown, and another at Boston, both in Indiana, and Mr. Curme had a half interest in Witt Station. After operating them until 1927 they formed a corporation, known as the East Indiana Elevator Company, and at the same time bought the elevator and mill at Richmond, known as the Richmond Roller Mill that was established in 1854 by Charles Carpenter. It has passed through several changes in ownership, and was the property of Mrs. Elizabeth Mormon at the time of the purchase just mentioned. Mr. Curme is president and manager of the Richmond Milling Company; Harvey Bosworth is vice president; and Harold G. Coleman is secretary and treasurer. On November 1, 1928, the company began manufacturing commercial farm feeds, this branch being conducted as the Richmond Feed Milling Company. While the company sold the Hagerstown plant to John Jackson, it maintains its interest in the others. In 1911 Mr. Curme was married to Miss Bertha L. Taylor, born in Wayne County, Indiana, in 1890, a daughter of Frank M. and Stella (Farlow) Taylor, he born in Wayne County; and granddaughter of Samuel and Jane (Barnes) Taylor, also of Wayne County; and of Omar and Eliza (Railsback) Farlow. Mr. and Mrs. Curme have one daughter, Dorothy Jane, who was born in 1918. They are consistent members of the Methodist Episcopal Church of Richmond, and Republicans in political faith. Mr. Curme is a Knight Templar Mason and Shriner and also belongs to the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and to Kappa Sigma Greek letter College fraternity. Mrs. Curme is a member of Forest Hill Country Club, the Woman’s Club and the Garden Club, and is very popular in all of these organizations. It has been the practice of Mr. Curme to live up to high principles, to be open and honest in all his dealings, contending that economical, upright, honorable living on the part of the individual is an excellent plan for advancing general interests. Few men are held in higher esteem in his neighborhood than he.