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Subject: [OHROOTS] Friesner, Myers, Ball, Miller,
Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2003 20:26:17 EST

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 of RAY C. FRIESNER are: Friesner,
Myers, Ball, Miller,

RAY C. FRIESNER is one of the able scholars who have been attracted to the
faculty of Butler University in recent years, contributing to the up building of
this Indiana school as an important center of research and original
scholarship. Mr. Friesner is head of the department of botany. He was born at Bremen,
Fairfield County, Ohio, February 8, 1894. His father, E. S. Friesner was born
at Bremen August 24, 1867, and has lived in that community all his life. He has
been a railroad man. E. S. Friesner married Sarah Myers, who was born at
Bremen in 1864, and died December 25, 1899. Ray C. Friesner attended the public
schools of Bremen and took his college work in Ohio Wesleyan University at
Delaware. He was graduated A. B. in 1916 and had his postgraduate and research
training in science at the University of Michigan, which bestowed upon him the
Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1919. During 1918-19 he was teaching fellow at
the university and held a research scholarship with that institution during
1917-19. Doctor Friesner joined the faculty of Butler University in September,
1919, and has been head of the department of botany since 1921. Doctor Friesner
is a member of the Botanical Society of America is a fellow in the Indiana
Academy of Science, member of the Michigan Academy of Science and the Ohio
Academy of Science, and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of
Science. He is a Pi Beta Kappa, Phi Sigma, Sigma Xi, Phi Kappa Phi and a
member of the Church of the Disciples. Alumni and students of Butler University
speak very highly of Doctor Friesner as a teacher, a man of inspiring
leadership, and through his work at this institution and through his writings
contributed to botanical and scientific magazines he has established his reputation as a
scholar. He married Miss Bessie Ball, of Williamstown, West Virginia, who
died April 2, 1920. Afterwards he married Miss Gladys Miller, of West Rockport,
Maine. Mrs. Friesner was educated in the Gorham State College of Maine and in
1924 was graduated with the A. B. degree from Butler University and in 1930
took the Master of Arts degree at the university. Her father is a minister of
the Baptist Church.

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