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Felix Tony McWhirter (1853-1915) was a banker from Indianapolis (born in Tennessee); also a newspaper editor, college professor, and politician. His wife was Luella Frances Smith (b. 1859) of Indiana; she served on the board of directors for the People's Deposit Bank, along with Sallie Lemon, another partner's wife--apparently they were the first two women bank directors in Indiana. Felix and Luella had three daughters and a son; both Felix and Luella were active in the Temperance movement. www.godeke.org/Psi_Phi/Ancestors_FelixMcWhirter.htm The Luella McWhirter Martin of Indianapolis in this story must surely have been a daughter (or granddaughter?) of the photo's subject: newground.iufoundation.iu.edu/articles/issue02/alt_layout...

Luella Frances Smith www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q107701065

www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/pietown.html?c...
Great article with the history of Pie Town inspired by these photographs.

gosh, i love this!

it's so hard not to comment on every picture!

Well, guess the rest of my day is spoken for- this is an amazing collection-

I really love this photo... the detail in the man's face is great.

The facial detail is amazing.....and speaks volumes

Another Bain Collection photo of Federal League officials:

Weeghman's name is spelled correctly on the negative, but is misspelled several times in the LOC notes. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Weeghman en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_League See also: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_A._Gilmore

artlog: Thanks for pointing out our spelling error. We'll correct the mistakes next time we update.