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:



Other surnames mentioned in the biography E. Walter McCord are, McCord, Hanna, Pentecost, Pickle, Jorden, Bolander,

E. WALTER McCord is a progressive citizen who has in a way transcended the usual limitation of farm enterprise, and though he has made a record of success as an agriculturist and stock-rower his more noteworthy prestige has been gained through his successful breeding and raising of fine harness horses. One of the show pieces of Marion County is the Haddon Hall Farm, which is owned and operated by Mr. McCord, the demesne comprising 160 acres, well improved in all ways, and this splendid farm estate being situated in Lawrence Township, about one mile distant from the village of Oaklandon. On the farm that is his present place of residence the birth of E. Walter McCord occurred January 30, 1870, and he reverts with a due sense of satisfaction to the fact that the domicile in which he was thus ushered into the world was a log house of the true pioneer type. He is a son of Aquilla and Lenora (Hanna) McCord, of whose three children he was the second in order of birth, the others being the late Mrs. Minnie Pentecost and David H., the latter of whom resides in Hancock County. Aquilla McCord likewise was born in Lawrence Township, and here he passed his entire life, his activities as a farmer having been supplemented by his successful conducting of a general store at McCordsville, He was one of the leading citizens of his native township at the time of his death, and his wife likewise is deceased. Aquilla McCord, Sr. Grandfather of the subject of this review, was born in the State of Ohio and thence came in an early day to Marion County, Indiana, where he gained no minor pioneer precedence and where he passed the remainder of his life, he having here reclaimed and developed a productive farm. E. Walter McCord profited by the advantages of the village schools of Oaklandon, and thereafter was graduated in the high school at McCordsville, Hancock County. He early began to assist in the general store conducted by his father, and from his youth to the present he has never abated his interest in farm industry, which began when he was a mere boy. He has along this line well upheld the prestige of the family name in Marion County, has proved a resourceful and successful agriculturist and stock-grower, and his has been a splendid achievement in the breeding of the finest type of harness horses. It has been authoritatively claimed that Mr. McCord is the only man in the world who has bred, raised, trained and sold horses whose average speed record has been better than a mile in two minutes, and these fine animals were thus matured on his present Haddon Hall Farm. One of his products is the fine stallion named Louis Direct, and this animal has a record of 1:58%. His bay gelding named Enoch Guy has a mark of 2:01%, and Mr. McCord has reason to be proud of these and other fine horses he has bred and raised for, turf exploitation. Louis Direct was sired by Braden Direct, 2:01W, with Red Chatham as dam. Enoch Guy was sired by David Guy, 2:05 1/4., dam Red Chatham. Mr. McCord has been a loyal supporter of the principles and policies for which the Democratic party stands sponsor, has been influential in public affairs of a local order, and the spring of 1930 marked him as Democratic candidate for the office of county commissioner, He and his wife are zealous members of the Universalist Church, and in the same he has given fully twenty-seven years of service as Sunday School Superintendent in the Masonic fraternity he is affiliated with the Blue Lodge, Chapter and Council of the York Rite, as well as with the Order of the Eastern Star and with the Grotto of Veiled Prophets. In the Independent Order of Odd Fellows his affiliations include his membership in the Daughters of Rebekah, of which his wife like-wise is a member, as is she also of the Order of the Eastern Star. Their beautiful rural home is widely known for its gracious and generous hospitality and is a center of much of the representative social life of the immediate community. December 6, 1908, marked the marriage of Mr. McCord to Miss Myrtle D. Pickle, daughter of Louis C. and Alice (Jorden) Pickle Louis C. Pickle was born in Lawrence Township, Marion County, a son of Henry and Julia (Bolander) Pickle, who came to this county from Clermont County, Ohio. Mr. And Mrs. McCord have no children.