The schools of Tippecanoe City are certainly greatly indebted to Miss Brump for their marked advancement and the thoroughness and efficiency of the work done therein. She has spent her entire life here and has long been identified with the educational interests. Her parents were Joseph and Susan (Weaver) Brump. The father was born in Pennsylvania and in early life learned the tailor's trade. He removed to West Charleston, Ohio, and was there married to Miss Susan Weaver, daughter of Peter and Jane Weaver. Susan Weaver, the daughter, was married at an early age and afterward resided in West Charleston for many years. She later became a resident of Tippecanoe City and is still living, in her eightieth year. During the last sixteen years of his life Mr. Brump held the office of street commissioner in Tippecanoe City, and died in 1894, in his eighty-first year. In the family were seven children, all of which are living.

Clara Belle Brump, whose name introduces this review, was educated in the schools of Tippecanoe City and at an early age began teaching, to which work she has devoted her energies for nearly thirty years. During the periods of vacation she has frequently attended normal schools, county institutes and state associations, thus further preparing herself for her chosen work. For twenty-seven years she has been connected with the schools of Tippecanoe City, and has contributed in a very large measure to their efficiency. She has annually visited other schools and has not, as so many do, become content to follow certain plans and methods of work, but is continually alive to the influences of progress and makes a close study of the best methods for improving her work. She is a member of both local and state teachers' associations and is widely recognized as a most successful educator, having the ability to impart clearly and readily to others the knowledge she has acquired, and also of maintaining discipline. She is a member of the Progress Club, a literary society.

For many years Miss Brump has taught the primary department of the Lutheran Sunday-school, and it is a pleasing sight to watch the intense interest with which the little ones listen to her interpretation of the great truths and lessons of Christianity. She is also active in the various church societies, in mission work, and in fact is the advocate of progress, reform and improvement along all social, intellectual and moral lines. Since the organization of the Oriental Rebekah Lodge, of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, in Tippecanoe City, she has served as its financial secretary. Her true womanly qualities, courteous and kindly manner, combined with unfailing sympathy, have won for her the marked regard of all with whom she has been brought in contact, and many of her pupils entertain for her the warmest friendship and respect.