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: CRING, McGriff, Warren, Mallen, Doyle, Koons, Dolman, HOWARD T. CRING is a veteran insurance man of Eastern Indiana, and during an active experience of thirty-five years has contributed a large volume of business to several of the great life insurance organizations. He is now the active head of the H. T. Cring Company, a successful insurance agency at Muncie, in which his son is associated with him. Mr. Cring was born at Fort Recovery, Ohio, October 9, 1873, son of Theophilus and Abbie (McGriff) Cring. The Cring family came from Germany and first settled in Pennsylvania. Theophilus Cring was born and reared in Western Ohio, had a public school education and for many years was a druggist and later a contractor. He died in 1914 and in buried at Portland, Indiana, where he spent the last two years of his life. His wife, Abbie McGriff, was born and reared at Fort Recovery, Ohio. She was a member of the Methodist Church. She died in 1883 and is buried at Fort Recovery. Her father was Solomon McGriff. There were three children. William Fenton Cring is a newspaperman with the Muncie Star. Howard T. is the second. Blanche, now deceased, was the wife of John Warren, of Toledo, Ohio. Howard T. Cring attended school at Fort Recovery, Ohio, and Portland, Indiana. Soon after leaving school he began soliciting life Insurance for the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company in 1895. He was with that organization about two years, for eight years was a field worker for the Prudential Life Insurance Company, and then spent four years with the Mew York Mutual. Since then the H. T. Cring Company of Muncie has acted as general agents in this section of Indiana for the John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company of Boston. Mr. Cring is president of his company and his son, Kenneth W., is secretary and treasurer. In matters of politics Mr. Cring is an independent voter. He married at Alexandria, Indiana, March 2, 1895, Miss Madelyne R. Mallen, of Zanesville, Ohio, daughter of Frank and Margaret (Doyle) Mallen. Her father was born in England, was educated there and was a descendant of the family of Sir Robert Walpole. His wife was a native of Ireland. They met and married at Zanesville, Ohio, where Mr. Mallen for many years was a glass manufacturer. He became a soldier in the Union army and served as sergeant in a company commanded by Capt. William McKinley, who afterwards reached a grade of brigadier-general and eventually as President of the United States. Mr. Mallen for a time was a prisoner in the Libby prison of Richmond and was one of the prisoners who dug their way out from under the walls and escaped to the Union lines. He is buried in the Soldiers Cemetery at Lafayette, Indiana. Mrs. Cring attended parochial schools at Zanesville, Ohio, and since her marriage has devoted herself to her home and family. There were three children. The daughter Helen B. died December 30, 1926. The two living children are Kenneth W. and Nadine Katherine, the latter a graduate from Central High School of Muncie, class of 1929. Kenneth W. Cring was born at Portland, Indiana, October 8, 1900, and received his education at Kokomo, graduating from the high school there in 1916. For three years after completing his high school work he was in the drafting department of the Muncie Oil Engine Company, and since then has been associated with his father in the insurance business being secretary and treasurer of the H. T. Cring Company, with offices in the Wysor Building. Kenneth W. Cring is a member of the Officers Reserve Corps as second lieutenant of Third Battalion Headquarters Company of the Three Hundred Thirty-fifth Infantry Regiment. He is a member of Muncie Lodge No. I, B. P. 0. Elks, is a Phi Delta Kappa, was president of the Lions Club of Muncie, is a republican and a member of Saint John’s Universalist Church. He married at Muncie, October 18, 1924, Miss Mary Ashton Koons, who was born May 18, 1901, daughter of Thomas B. and Maude (Dolman) Koons. Her father has been a leading factor in the real estate business at Muncie for many years. Her mother is a member of the Universalist Church, the Daughters of the American Revolution and the War Mothers’ organization. Mrs. K. W. Cring attended school at Muncie, graduating from high school in 1919, and then attended what is now the Ball State Teachers College. She was a teacher in the kindergarten department of the public schools until her marriage and is a member of the Psi Iota Xi sorority.