This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Deming, Russell, Dorsey, Mitchell, Hartwell, Woodward, Anderson, Kauffman, Lutz, Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/3h.2ADE/2031 Message Board Post: 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. Typed by Lora Radiches: 2-25-2005 Surnames in the biography of Theodore Deming are: Deming, Russell, Dorsey, Mitchell, Hartwell, Woodward, Anderson, Kauffman, Lutz, THEODORE DEMING was especially well known in Southern Indiana, his residence during the greater part of his life having been at New Albany. He was born January 12, 1850, and died April 12, 1926, at the age of seventy-six. His parents were Theodore and Sarah (Russell) Deming. His father was a New York man who went south and taught school and later entered the shoe business and built up a very satisfactory trade at Knoxville , Tennessee. He left that city during the war and reestablished himself at New Albany, Indiana, where he continued his work as a shoe merchant until his death. He was the father of a large family of children, Mary A., Henrietta, Charles, James, Scott, Theodore, Sarah E., Oregon, James, George and William. The parents of these children are buried at New Albany. Theodore Deming had his first school advantages at Knoxville, Tennessee. He helped in his father’s store and also carried newspapers, at an early age learning the fundamentals of business. When he was fifteen years old he enlisted in the northern army, but the war soon ended and he returned to his home at New Albany. He was a merchant in that city and later took up insurance and became superintendent of The Prudential Insurance Company of Newark, New Jersey, doing business in Indiana. He had been retired from business for several years before his death, which came suddenly at Pittsburg while he was en route to the home office at Newark, New Jersey. He was a Republican and a member of the Christian Science Church for many years, filled all the chairs in the New Albany Lodge of Masons, and also filled chairs in the Knights of Pythias. He is buried in the Crown Hill Cemetery. Mr. Deming married Mary C. Dorsey, daughter of Frank and Eliza (Mitchell) Dorsey, who had liv! ed at Lebanon, Kentucky, before going to New Albany. Mrs. Deming now resides at 3244 Kenwood Street in Indianapolis. She has had six children. The youngest, Brent H., is deceased. Alice is Mrs. C. L. Hartwell. Lillian married Curt B. Woodward. Theodora is the wife of Dr. F. P. Anderson, and has a son, William T. Winfield S. married Zoe Kauffman. Shirley A. married Fern Lutz, a native of Ohio, and they have a son, John E. Deming.