Early Life and Artistic Foundations Walter Dorwin Teague, Jr., born December 18, 1883, in the quiet Indiana town of Pendleton, emerged from a background steeped in both practicality and artistic sensibility. His parents, Rev. M.A. Teague and Hettie Towell Teague, instilled in him a strong work ethic rooted in their Quaker community and his father’s life as a circuit-riding Methodist minister. This upbringing fostered an appreciation for simplicity and honest craftsmanship—values that would profoundly shape Teague's design philosophy later in life. Even amidst the modest circumstances of a ho…