This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Outland, Copeland, Waltz, Kepler, Dille, Davis, Parker, Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/RWB.2ACE/484 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. I do not want to sell this book. I am typing the biographies from it. Typed by Lora Radiches: Surnames in this biography are: Outland, Copeland, Waltz, Kepler, Dille, Davis, Parker, EUGENE LEE OUTLAND, principal of high school at Centerville, Wayne County, is the son of a veteran educator of Eastern Indiana, Joseph W. Outland, now retired. Joseph W. Outland was born in North Carolina, in 1861, and in 1863 his parents, David and Margaret (Copeland) Outland, came to Indiana and settled on a farm near Greenfield. Joseph W. Outland attended public schools, the Spiceland Academy, the Richmond Normal School, Butler College and Indiana State Normal at Terre Haute. In the meantime he began teaching, at the age of twenty, worked in district schools for three years in Hancock County, and in Wayne County was principal of the school at Greens Fork four years, at Webster seven years and at Milton five years. In Richmond he was principal of the Sebastopol schools for thirteen years. He gave up active schoolwork in 1924 and makes his home in the modern residence he built at 400 Lincoln Street. Joseph W. Outland married, in 1890, Miss Virgie M. Waltz, who was! born at Greens Fork, Indiana, daughter of Lee and Amanda (Kepler) Waltz. She died in January, 1920, leaving two children, Eugene Lee and Lloyd, the latter a student in Earlham College. Joseph W. Outland in 1923 married Anna B. Dille, who was born in Miami County, Ohio, and was the widow of Amos C. Dille, a machinist and farmer. Mrs. Outland attended school at Fountain City, was a student in Earlham College, the Terre Haute State Normal, the Teachers College at Indianapolis, and also has an interesting record as an educator, having taught four years in New Garden Township, four years in Fountain City, one year at Abington, one year in Greens Fork and two years at Williamsburg. Later she taught for five years in the public schools of Richmond. She is a member of the Ex-Teachers Club and the Current Events Club, the W. C. T. U. and is a member of the Central Methodist Episcopal Church. Joseph W. Outland is a member of the Society of Friends. He votes independ! ently and is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Eugene Lee Outland was born at Greens Fork in Wayne County, Indiana, June 13, 1896, and attended public schools in the different localities where his father was principal of schools. He is an A. B. graduate of Earlham College at Richmond and in 1924 was given the Master of Arts degree at the University of Chicago. His first work as a teacher was done in the schools of Orange in Fayette County. For six years he was principal of schools at Economy, Indiana, and since 1927 has been principal of the Center Township High School at Centerville. Mr. Outland in September, 1918, enlisted as a private and was made band sergeant in the Seventy-second Field Artillery at Camp Taylor, Louisville, Kentucky, later was at Camp Knox and received his honorable discharge in February, 1919. He married, June 10, 1920, Miss Iva S. Davis, who was born at Columbus, Indiana, daughter of Lewis E. and Cora Alice (Parker) Davis. They have! one daughter, Virginia Lee, born June 10, 1928. Mr. Outland is a member of the Christian Church, is an independent in politics, belongs to the Masonic fraternity and the Eastern Star, the Knights of Pythias, the American Legion and is a member of the Indiana and County Federation of Teachers. He is eligible to membership in the Sons of the American Revolution.