Biography of Louis G. Whitten, page 246 / 247.  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.

   Louis G. Whitten president and treasurer of the Auburn Post Card 
Manufactureing Company at  Auburn. This is an industry which serves to make 
this Indiana city widely known over the country, since the thousands of post 
cards manufactured at the plant has a national if not an international 
distribution and sale.   Mr. Whitten is founder, and chief owner of the 
business, though the company is incorporated, the other officers being W.H. 
Schaab, vice president, and C.P. Dennison, secretary.
   Mr. Whitten was born in the State of Maine March 10, 1873, a son of 
Charles W. and Rachel (Pottle) Whitten.  His father was a highly educated 
man spent much of his life as a teacher and school principal.  Louis G. 
Whitten, one of the family of five children, attended the public schools 
in his native state, graduating in 1896 from the Maine Central Institute 
of Pittsfield and took the regular collegiate course in Bates College of 
Lewistown, where he graduated with the Bachelor of Arts degree in 1900.  
The following year he pursued a post-graduate course at Harvard, and 
before engaging in the printing business was a well known educator in New 
England.  For two years he was principal of the Marshfield High School in 
Massachusetts, was principal of the high school in Stoughton, Massachusetts, 
four years, and left school work to begin the manufacture of post cards 
and general printing.  For three years he had his business at West Bethel, 
Maine, and in the fall of 1910 moved to Auburn.  Much of the business of 
the company is mail order business.  
   Mr. Whitten married Martha Dennison, who is also a graduate of Bates 
College, taking the Bachelor of Arts degree in 1901.  They have five 
daughters Esther, Ruth, Barbara, Elizabeth and Alice. Esther finished the 
work of the common schools of in 1919.  The family are members of the 
Presbyterian Church, Mr. Whitten being president of the Board of Trustees. 
He is president of the local Young Men’s Christian Association, has served 
as president of the Auburn Commercial Club, is a library trustee, and one 
of the men of influence in the civic and business affairs of the county 
seat. Fraternally he is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias and is a 
democrat in politics.

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