CHARLES BEARY LANDIS
LANDIS, CHARLES BEARY, journalist, legislator, member of the United States house of representatives, was born in Millville, Butler county, Ohio, July 9, 1858, son of Abraham H. and Mary L. (Kumler) Landis. He is the grandson of Daniel Kumler, a descendant of one of seven brothers who came to America from Germany in the seventeenth century. During boyhood, he attended the public schools of Logansport, Indiana, and later entered Wabash college at Crawfordsville, in the same state, from which he was graduated in 1883.
He immediately took up newspaper work, and, from 1883 to 1887, edited the Logansport "Journal." From 1887 to 1897 he was editor of the Delphi "Journal" and in the latter year he was nominated, on the Republican ticket, for congress from the ninth Indiana district, and was elected. He has since served in the fifty-fifth, fifty-sixth, fifty-seventh and fifty-eighth Congresses, and has been reelected to the fifty-ninth Congress. In the fifty-eighth Congress he was chairman of the committee on Foreign Affairs. He has been much in requisition as a campaign speaker, and has delivered a number of addresses in various parts of the country on political, and economic themes, and on questions of public policy. During 1894-95, he was president of the Republican Editorial Association of Indiana.
On October 23, 1887, Mr. Landis married Cora B. Chaffin, daughter of J. B. Chaffin, of Logansport, Indiana.
