HISTORY OF CLAY COUNTY                          7

of three Sons and three daughters, Mrs. Winklepleck being the third
child in order of birth, Mr. and Mrs. Winklepleck have two sons. Edgar
Sayer and Asa Elmer Winklepleck, both of whom are associated with
their father in business.
    Edgar S. Winklepleck was born in Knightsville, Indiana, in the
month of January, 1881, and received his education in the common
schools of that place and Brazil, as well as at the Commercial College,
Valparaiso, Indiana. After completing a full course at the latter institu-
tion he joined his father in the house—furnishing business, and is consid-
ered one of the bright, substantial young men of the city. His wife was
formerly Miss Hila A. Pell, daughter of Dr. George M. Pell, of Carbon,
Indiana, and they have one child, George E. Winklepleck. Mr. Winkle—
pleck is an active member of the order of Elks. Asa E. Winklepleck, his
younger brother and junior member of the firm of Winklepleck and Sons,
was born in Knightsville, Indiana, in 1883. He is also an earnest fra—
ternalist having membership in both the Elks and the order of Masonry
(Brazil Lodge, No. 264). He is popular in business as in social circles.

    Dr. Jacob FRANKLIN SMITH, whose medical and surgical knowledge
and skill is known throughout a wide radius about Brazil, Indiana,
where he has long been known as an eminent physician, and in whom the
people have the utmost confidence, is a native of Terre Haute, Indiana,
born March 12, 1858, a son of George Washington and Mariah (Shelley)
Smith, both natives of Ohio. The father died at the advanced age of
ninety-three years, seven months and ten days, in 1906. His wife died
aged thirty-three years, when Jacob F. was but one and a half years
old. Of the four children born to George Washington Smith and wife,
two are now living: Lucy A., wife of Joseph Stough of Brazil and Dr.
Jacob F. The father was a tobacconist and farmer, he was a pro-
gressive man, liberal in his views and highly intelligent, hence had a large
circle of friends and admirers. Politically, he was a Whig until the
formation of the Republican party when he supported that to the end of
his life. He had the distinction of casting a vote for the first standard-
bearer of that party—Gen. John C. Fremont.
    Dr. Smith was educated in the schools of Terre Haute, Indiana, and
at Brazil. When seven years of age he accompanied his father to a farm
where he remained three years, then removed to Brazil, Indiana, in 1875.
At the age of seventeen years, having chosen medicine as his profession,
he began the study of that science with Doctor T. A. Glasgo, a physician
and surgeon of Brazil, with whom he remained until about 1879, having
attended the Medical Department of the University of Michigan two years
at Ann Arbor. After his course at the University, he began the active
practice of his profession at Clay City, Indiana, where he soon achieved
success and enjoyed a lucrative practice in medicine and surgery, he
remained there two years and in 1882, sought out a wider field in which
to practice and selected Brazil, where he located. Here he has won a wide
and excellent reputation, especially in surgery and complicated cases,
in his general medical practice. He is a close student, and great reader
on modern discoveries in the science of medicine. He graduated with
the class of 1886 from the Central College of Physicians and Surgeons.
at Indianapolis. His skill and up-to-date knowledge enables him to suc-
cessfully treat many difficult cases. He performed the first successful
operation for gun-shot perforation of the intestines in Indiana ; also the