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Compiled by John H. Wheeler Published in 1903 by B. F. Bowen Biography Page 110 |
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ROBERT M. WADDELL
| Robert M. Waddell was born in North Manchester, Indiana, on
the 25th day of September, 1874, twenty-nine years ago. His father is Charles
Waddell, a practicing physician in North Judson, Indiana, and a veteran of the
Civil war. His mother, who died in 1879, was a member of the Ohio Hosmer family.
During the time the subject of this sketch was acquiring his education he became
interested in newspaper making, and for fifteen years has been connected in
various capacities with a half dozen newspapers in Indiana and in Michigan. Mr. Waddell came to Cadillac in the fall of 1898 to accept a position in the editorial and business departments of the Cadillac News and Express and the Cadillac Daily News, Perry F. Powers' two newspapers, and has since remained with Mr. Powers. Mr. Waddell was married in 1895, in La Grange, Indiana, to Miss Bradford, a daughter of Captain and Mrs. Samuel P. Bradford. Captain Bradford served nearly five years as a soldier in the Civil war, was a lawyer, and for eight years was clerk of the La Grange circuit court. He died in 1890. Mrs. Waddell was educated in the La Grange schools and in St. Mary's of the Notre Dame University, near South Bend, Indiana, and in the Westminster Academy in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Mr. and Mrs. Waddell are the parents of one living daughter, Ruth, who was born on the 3d of June, 1902. |