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: Spurgeon, McKinney, Beck, Chute, Quick, Whitney, Worth, Gage William Albertus Spurgeon, M. D., was born at Salem, Indiana, February 1, 1852. He attended the common schools until the age of sixteen, at which age he entered Clear Springs Academy, where he continued his studies until qualified to obtain a license to teach. He taught several terms of school and earned most of the capital to put him through medical college. Between school terms he continued his studies in Clear Springs Academy, James May Academy of Salem, Indiana, and the Male and Female College of Bedford, Indiana, and Lebanon, Ohio. He began the study of medicine under a preceptor in 1869, and matriculated in the Physio-Medical Institute of Cincinnati, Ohio, in the fall of 1873. Returning to his preceptor, he practiced medicine for a short time. Realizing the necessity of further medical study, he entered the Physio Medical College of Indiana, from which institution he graduated with the degree of M. D. in 1875. After graduating he resumed practice in partnership with his preceptor, and for three years after graduation Doctor Spurgeon practiced at Freetown, Indiana. In 1878 he was elected a member of the medical faculty of his alma mater and for twelve years taught descriptive and surgical anatomy in that institution. In 1890 he located in Muncie, Indiana, and continued in the practice of his profession. In 1879 he was appointed a member of the Indiana State Board of Medical Registration and Examination by Governor Mount, and has since continued a member of the board until the present (1931), being reappointed by each successive governor at the terminus of each term of four years, and during much of his thirty-three years as a member of the State Medical Board has served as president, and holds that position at this time, 1981. As a member of the State Medical Examining Board he was frequently selected by the board as a delegate to represent the board at the annual meetings of the National Federation of Medical Boards. At the meeting of the National Confederation, June, 1900, at Atlantic City, he advocated the establishment of interstate reciprocity in medical licensure. Failing to induce the National Board both at the Atlantic City meeting and at the St. Paul meeting one year later to undertake this task on the theory that it was impractical, he formulated a tentative constitution and by-laws for the establishment of the American Confederation of Reciprocating Medical Licensing Boards, and called for a meeting of the executive officers of the medical examining and licensing boards for all the states. To this call for a meeting a considerable number of the states responded. In a meeting of a number of the representatives of state boards in the City of Chicago in the summer of 1901 the American Confederation of Boards was organized. The work of this confederation continued its efforts to establish medical reciprocity among the states until practically all of the states of the Union became members of the American Confederation of Reciprocating and Licensing Boards, and proceeded to work out the problem of interstate reciprocity in medical licensure. One year later Doctor Spurgeon was elected president of the confederation. He is still president of this confederation, which has proved successful in accomplishing the task of securing reciprocity between the state boards, so that a qualified physician in any state desiring to locate in another state can do so under reciprocity agreement between the states without re-examination. Doctor Spurgeon is a member of the county, state and national medical associations. He was selected by the National Association a delegate to the International Association of Physicians and Surgeons, which convened at Madrid, Spain, in 1903, and at the same time was selected by the National Association to write a textbook on the Theory and Practice of Medicine. Owing to other pressing duties this latter task was not completed. In 1914 Doctor Spurgeon relinquished the active practice of medicine and surgery and accepted the office of president of the Muncie Gear Works, Muncie, Indiana, which position he has held since, that date, and is now the president and active head of this company, which is one of the larger manufacturing establishments of Eastern Indiana. The subject of this sketch is the son of Wiley and Mary F. (McKinney) Spurgeon. He is a descendent of the Spurgeon family that came to America in Colonial times. There were three brothers that came to America in 1760. One of these brothers was Joseph Spurgeon, the great-grandfather of Doctor Spurgeon. He settled in Rowan County, North Carolina. He gave his attention to agriculture and stock raising, and acquired quite a fortune for that time. He had eight children: Joseph, John, Jane, Isaiah, Aaron, Josiah, Agnes and Cloah. From the names he gave his children he was evidently a religious man, or at least a close reader of the Bible. Josiah Spurgeon, the grandfather of Doctor Spurgeon, was born November 13, 1777, in Rowan County, North Carolina, and died January 15, 1857, in Salem, Washington County, Indiana. Elizabeth Johnson Spurgeon, the grandmother, wife of Josiah Spurgeon, was born near Salem, Washington County, Indiana, September 22, 1785, and died November 10, 1858, at Salem, Washington County, Indiana. Both were members of the Church of Christ, formerly the “Baptist Church.” Josiah Spurgeon left North Carolina for Indiana in 1811. He remained for a while in a fort on the Ohio River, from where he finally moved and settled near Salem, Indiana. Josiah Spurgeon was an abolitionist and on leaving North Carolina he freed all of his slaves. Wiley Spurgeon, the father of the subject of this sketch, was born and reared in Washington County, Indiana. He obtained his education in the public schools. He was a farmer and stock raiser. For some years he was employed as a teacher in the common schools of the state. He was an elder in the Church of Christ. He acquired a large tract of land in the picturesque region of Southern Indiana and it was here that he spent his last years. He served as a soldier in the Mexican war, and shortly after the war married at Salem, Indiana. Wiley Spurgeon died March 12, 1910, and is buried in Beck’s Grove Cemetery, Brown County, Indiana. His wife, Mary F. McKinney, was born and reared at Salem, Indiana, and was also a devout Christian. Her death occurred March 8, 1914, and she is buried beside her husband. Of the seven children of this marriage one died in infancy. The others were: William Albertus; Miranda Jane, deceased; Elizabeth Elnora, deceased; Charles Wayman; Mary Filene; and Harriett Ann, deceased. Doctor Spurgeon is a member of the Church of Christ, Muncie, Indiana. He is interested in literature, chiefly religious literature. For a number of years he has been a close student of the Bible. During the years 1929 and 1930 he broadcasted a series of thirty lectures on the Apocalypse of the New Testament Scriptures. These lectures are now ready for publication in book form, entitled “The Great Conflict Between Truth and Falsehood.” He is affiliated with Muncie Lodge No. 433, A. F. and A. M., is a member of the Chamber of Commerce, and in politics is a Republican. Doctor Spurgeon was married at Freetown, Indiana, August 29, 1869, to Miss Elvira Chute, of Freetown, daughter of Dr. George H. and Mary Chute. Mrs. Spurgeon’s father was for many years one of the leading physicians and surgeons in Southern Indiana. Mrs. Spurgeon attended school there and was a member of the Church of Christ. Her death occurred August 25, 1876, and she is buried at Freetown. Of their four children Dr. Orville E. is a practicing physician and surgeon and is located at Muncie, Indiana; Wiley and Alva A. died in infancy, and are buried beside their mother at Freetown, Indiana; Mary A. is the widow of Dr. James M. Quick, of Muncie, Indiana. On August 29, 1883, Doctor Spurgeon was married to Miss Minerva A. Whitney, daughter of Lafayette and Mary (Worth) Whitney. Her father was a widely known citizen of Delaware County, a farmer and stock dealer. Mrs. Spurgeon was educated in the common schools. She is a member of the Church of Christ and the Federation of Women’s Clubs. By this marriage there are five children. The daughter, Elnora F., died when twenty-three years of age. Kenneth A. is a graduate of the Muncie High School, continued his education in DePauw University and Purdue University and is now general manager, secretary and treasurer of the Muncie Gear Company. William Chase Spurgeon was educated in the Muncie schools and in Indiana University, and is vice president of the Muncie Gear Company. The daughter Olive F. lives at Butte, Montana. The youngest of the family is Wiley W. Spurgeon, who attended the Muncie High School and Indiana University and is now assistant general manager of the Muncie Gear Company. The surviving descendants of Doctor Spurgeon are all married and with their families live at Muncie, Indiana, except Olive S. Gage, whose home is at Butte, Montana.