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: Cery, Ayers, Puskur, Beckman, Edbeck, HAROLD Cery. Many of the biographies appearing in this work are of men of mature years who have reached their goal only after long years of arduous struggle. These men, by the very reason of their labors in building up their own fortunes and at the same time advancing the interests of their community, occupy a permanent place in the history of the cities in which they reside. Of the younger generation there are many who have achieved in a much shorter time the success that came to their elders, and probably in their way have done as much for their respective communities. In the latter class is found Harold Cery, a self-made man who in 1920 established the business known as the Cery Cleaners, and has built it up to be the leading establishment of its kind in the city. Mr. Cery was born at Anderson, Indiana, September 27, 1897, and is a son of William and Emily (Ayers) Cery. His parents, natives of England, were reared, educated and married in that country, and came to the United States in 1895, settling at Anderson, where Mr. Cery obtained employment in the tin plate mill. A man of industry and energy, he was a stable and reliable workman, but did not live long enough to gain success, dying four years after his arrival in this country, in 1899, and being buried at Wheeling, West Virginia, where he had gone to take employment. His widow is still living and a resident of Elwood, Indiana, where she is held in the highest respect and esteem. There were three children in the family: Edith, the widow of Michael Puskur, of Pennsylvania, who now makes her home at Gary; Harold, of this review; and Carl, who is manager of the Cery Cleaners. Harold Cery was only two years of age at the time of his father’s death and his educational advantages were limited to attendance at the public schools of Elwood, Indiana. On completing the graded schools he secured employment in the steel mills, in a humble capacity, and for the next thirteen years worked faithfully and industriously, always saving a part of his earnings with the end in view of some day being the owner of a business of his own. In 1917 he came to Gary as an employee of the Illinois Steel Company, and soon decided that this city furnished the opportunities for success that he had sought so long. However, he did not immediately embark in business, for he wished pl enty of time to make all preparations and to look the ground over carefully. Accordingly, he continued to work for the steel company for three years longer, but by 1920 had his plans completed, and in that year opened the Cery Cleaners in a modest manner. Good workmanship, faithful service, courteous treatment of all customers, reasonable prices and expeditious soon gained him recognition, and from that time forward his career was and has been one of continued success and development. He is now the owner of the largest business of its kind at Gary, situated in a modern plant at 625 West Eleventh Avenue, and his patronage covers the entire city. While his business has grown to great proportions, Mr. Cery still maintains the policy that started him on his way to success, and keeps the personal element in his work, supervising everything that passes through his establishment in order that there be no dissatisfied customers. While he is a busy man, engrossed in the affairs of his personal enterprise, he finds time to give attention to civic matters, and is an enthusiastic and working member of the local Rotary Club and the Commercial Club and Chamber of Commerce. Fraternally he is affiliated with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and the Loyal Order of Moose. Politically he is a Republican, and his religious connection is with the First Presbyterian Church. At Crown Point, Indiana, July 26, 1923, Mr. Cery was united in marriage with Miss Margaret Beckman, daughter of Albert and Emily (Edbeck) Beckman, of Chicago, Illinois, the former of whom for years has been a machinist connected with the Marks Manufacturing Company of that city, where the parents still reside. Mrs. Cery was educated in the grade and high schools of Chicago and is a business college graduate. As bookkeeper for the Cery Cleaners she is of great assistance to her husband, but she also finds time to be active in the work of the First Presbyterian Church, the Woman’s Club and the Vivian Society.