Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 61, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 March 1919 — FAMOUS BIRTHDAYS. [ARTICLE]

FAMOUS BIRTHDAYS.

, Although the numeral 13 in the month of March may not be emblazoned in red ink on the calendar, it should be, for it is the anniversary of the 'birth of one of Rensselaer’s best known young men—Van R. Grant. Mr. Grant confesses to thirty-sev-en years of life, having first viewed this planet on the thirteenth day of March in the year eighteen eightytwo. Those thirty-seven years of life, except for short intervals, have been spent in Jasper county, hence Mr. Grant has had the pleasure of seeing Rensselaer rise from a small village to the present flourishing city. The fact that the subject of this brief sketch was born on the thirteenth and Friday, at that, has been no drawback to him and fortune has smiled on him in more ways than one. His thirty-seven years have been busy ones and have been characterized by ambition and hustle. The outstanding features of Mr. Grant’s career have been his ascendency to the president’s chair of the Van Rensselaer club, an office which he is capably filling at the present time; his piloting of the Rensselaer Athletics, a base ball team that was recognized as one of the best in the state ©under his regime; the prowess he has gained as a truck grower, and the fact that he hhs three of the finest youngsters in the state <d Indiana. When interviewed by a reporter, Mr. Grant staged that he was well pleased with the wonderful weather on his anniversary and that instead of feeling older that he felt quite the contrary.