Biography of Henderson M. Richey, page 188 / 189.  History of Northeast 
Indiana; LaGrange, Steuben, Noble, and DeKalb Counties, Vol. II, under the 
editorial supervision of Ira Ford, Orville Stevens, William H. McEwen, and 
William H. McIntosh.  The Lewis Publishing Co., Chicago and New York, 1920.

   Henderson M. Richey is a young man whose abilities and services have 
been much appreciated by the City of Auburn.  He is the present city 
treasurer, having been appointed by the City Council on May 1, 1919, a 
successor to E.E. Shilling, who resigned.
   Mr. Richey, who served the Government during the period of the war, is 
by profession a newspaper man.  He was born at Angola, Indiana, September 
20, 1894, a son of David H. and Luella A. (Moore) Richey.  When he was a 
year and a half old his parents moved to Auburn, where his father was 
buggy manufacturer and where he spent the rest of his life with the 
exception of several yeas in the newspaper business in Monroe, Michigan, 
and Fostoria, Ohio.  Henderson Richey's mother is still living.
   He was educated in the common schools of Auburn, graduating from the 
senior class of high school in 1915.  He had already made considerable 
progress in a business way, having worked in newspaper offices carrying 
papers before and after school. On leaving High school he was given a 
regular place as a reporter with the Evening Star at Auburn, and is the 
present city editor of that well known journal of DeKalb County.
   February 5, 1918, Mr. Richey enlisted in the Spruce Production Division 
of the Air Service, and for thirteen months was employed in that work in 
the states of Washington and Oregon.  He was discharges with the rank of 
master Electrician in the Air Service, the highest non-commissioned rank 
in that branch.  He returned home March 16, 1919, and has found an 
abundance of civil and business duties to employ him.
   Mr. Richey, who is unmarried, is a member of the Phi Delta Kappa 
Fraternity, is treasurer of the Men's Class of the Presbyterian Church, 
and is a member of the Red Cross Committee of DeKalb County.

Submitted by:
Arlene Goodwin
Auburn, Indiana
Agoodwin@ctlnet.com