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: Garber, Goode, Hendricks, Clark, Hampton, Neal, MICHAEL E. GARBER. Among the newspapers of Indiana, which have contributed to the development and advancement of their various communities, one of the oldest and most important is the Madison Courier. Founded in 1830, since 1849 it has been the property of three generations of the Garber family, the present representative of which is Michael E. Garber, editor of the Madison Courier and owner of The Courier Company. Mr. Garber was born at Madison, June 14, 1880 and is a son of Michael C. and Blanche (Goode) Garber. His paternal grandfather, Michael C. Garber, was born at Staunton, Virginia. He operated a stage line in Virginia and also contracted on the C. & 0. Railway until going to Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania, and later to Lancaster, that state. In the spring of 1847, with his family, and his wife’s sisters and their husbands, he started for Missouri, but the party was broken up by death when they reached Florence, Kentucky, where they remained for some time. Mr. Garber then continued his journey as far as Rising Sun, Indiana, where he engaged in a general store business. On May 1, 1849, he arrived at Madison, and bought the Courier, which had been founded in 1830 by John Paul and William Hendricks, but which was being issued as a daily by Anon & Covington. Mr. Garber became one of the prominent and influential citizens of his community. He traded his store at Rising Sun, put the money into the newspaper, and continued to be connected therewith throughout his life. When the war between the states broke out he entered the Union army, in the quartermaster’s department, and was active in the Red River campaign and the siege of Vicksburg, was quartermaster under General Morgan at Cumberland Gap, and under Gen. W. T. Sherman on the march from Savannah. Later he was made postmaster at Madison. Michael C. Garber, father of Michael E Garber, was identified with the Madison Courier throughout his career, although he retired from active work in 1922. He was one of the best-known journalists in the state, and a member of the Associated Press and of Union Lodge No. 2, A. F. and A. M., at Madison He died July 14, 1930. Mr. Garber married Miss Blanche Goode, granddaughter of the founder of the City of Madison, and who with his son-in-law, William Hendricks, had brought the Courier into being. John Paul and his brother, Michael Paul, who were members of the party of George Rogers Clark, which assisted in the Conquest of the Northwest. Michael E. Garber had finished public school and was attending Hanover (Indiana) College when the Spanish-American war broke out He was but seventeen years of age at that time, but gave up his studies and volunteered for service, becoming a member of the One Hundred and Fifty-ninth Regiment, Indiana Infantry, with which he saw nine months of service. After receiving his honorable discharge he went to Chicago, where he was employed on the Chicago Record for a time, and later was with the Salt Lake City (Utah) Tribune. Returning to Madison in 1903 he joined his father on the Courier, with which he has been identified ever since, having been in active control since 1922. In 1882 The Courier Company was incorporated and has been the owner of the newspaper ever since It now has a daily circulation of 3,000, and since 1927 has been located in its own commodious plant, which has 4,500 square feet of floor space and all modern equipment of every kind, and gives employment to fifteen people in its various departments. Mr. Garber is one of the well-known and capable newspapermen of Indiana, and has various connections, local and otherwise, including membership in the Madison Chamber of Commerce. During the more than a quarter of a century that he has been identified with the Courier he has built it up not only as to circulation, but as a real force in public affairs, and in appearance, interest, make-up and contents it compares favorably with any of the large metropolitan dailies. Mr. Garber takes an active part in public movements both as a good citizen and a supporter of public-spirited enterprises, and his editorials have been quoted on various occasions when matters of national interest have occupied public attention. Mr. Garber was united in marriage to Miss Bessie Hampton, a native of Carroll County, Kentucky, and a member of an old-established family of that state. They are the parents of three children: Bess Hampton, who married Lloyd Neal, city editor of the Madison Courier, and has one child, Michael Garber; Mary Goode, attending Wellesley College; and Ellen, a student at Science Hill School, Shelbyville, Kentucky.