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 are: LAUGHLIN, Cannon, Trueblood, Chambers, Thurman, Compton, Sear, Brown, Mayer, Hogan, CHARLES E. LAUGHLIN is an Indiana physician who has given the best years of his life to one institution, and that institution, a model of its kind, is in its service practically a monument to this broad-minded, capable and kindly doctor. Doctor Laughlin for over a quarter of a century has been superintendent of the Evansville State Hospital. He was born October 12, 1855, and his father, Edmund D. Laughlin, was also a member of the medical profession. His father was born in Ohio, and began his medical studies in books loaned him by Doctor Cannon, father of the famous Illinois statesmen, former Speaker Joe Cannon. He graduated from a Michigan medical college, practiced six years in Parke County, Indiana, and then moved to Orange County, where he carried on his professional work until his death in 1915, at the age of eighty-eight. Dr. Edmund Laughlin married Sarah Anna Trueblood, who died in 1915, at the age of eighty. Her grandmother was a noted Quaker minister, Deborah Chambers. Dr. Edmund Laughlin and wife had four children: Theodore, Charles Edmund, Martha and Luella. Theodore was a railway conductor for the Southern Railway Company nearly forty years, married Nellie Thurman and had two children, Grace and Eugene. Martha was married to William Compton, of Indianapolis, and had four children, and Luella is the wife of George Sear, of Orleans, Indiana, and has one child. Charles Edmund Laughlin attended school in Orange County, the Orleans Academy, began the reading of medicine with his father and in 1875 entered Miami Medical College at Cincinnati, where he was graduated M. D. in 1878. Doctor Laughlin has been a qualified physician for over half a century and for twenty-five years his home and work were at Orleans in Orange County. On January 1, 1903, Doctor Laughlin was called to his duties as superintendent of the Evansville State Hospital at Evansville. To this work he has brought a sound knowledge of medicine, especial skill in handling mental diseases, but most of all a kindly and sympathetic understanding and administrative ability. The institution itself is a record of his work, and there is much more to be said than mere routine administration. The institution itself has greatly grown and developed, in keeping with the increase of population and material wealth of the state. When he took charge the hospital had a tract of 159 acres. Since then the grounds have been increased to 880 acres, and the hospital now has a model farm with 500 acres in cultivation, permitting the growing of practically all the best fruits, poultry, hogs and cattle, supplying the greater part of the food used by the inmates. Doctor Laughlin has practically put the institution on a self-supporting basis. By judicious selection of those fitted for different kinds of work he has been able to eliminate most of the paid employees, and the work indoors, the cultivation of the fields, the operators in the laundry, the various shops and other departments are practically all from persons committed to the institution. Doctor Laughlin has not neglected the entertainment side, and has provided facilities for picture shows and other entertainment, and dances are a regular feature. The dining rooms seat 1,100 persons. Doctor Laughlin ‘has always kept in personal contact with the patients and knows all of them by their first names. Many of the patients show so much affection for the superintendent and the institution itself that even when cases have been cured there is much disinclination shown to leaving the institution. Doctor Laughlin has made almost a record of holding a political job for twenty-eight years, in the face of various changes in state government. He is himself a Democrat. There are approximately 1,100 patients under his charge at the present time. Doctor Laughlin is a member of the Vanderbilt County, Indiana State and American Medical Associations and the American Psychiatric Association. He married, January 26, 1878, Miss E. M. Brown, daughter of Rice M. and Emily Brown, natives of Lawrence County, Indiana. They have three children: Ruth, born July 18, 1879; Edmund, born September 2, 1881, and Genevieve, born October 24, 1884. Ruth is the wife of Michael Mayer and has three children, Charles, Margaret and Michael. Edmund, a dentist by profession and a lieutenant in the United States Navy, married Elizabeth Hogan. Genevieve has practically grown up with the institution under her father. Since 1903 she has been bookkeeper, and when her father is absent she practically takes charge of the institution.