History of Johnson County, Indiana, Part 52

Author: Branigin, Elba L., 1870-
Publication date: 1972
Publisher: Indianapolis, B.F. Bowen, [Evansville, Ind.], [Unigraphic, Inc.]
Number of Pages: 981

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and operation of a water works system in the city. The water company's plant was completed in November, 1891, sixty-five water plugs being ordered by the city and one hundred and twenty-five private consumers availing them- selves of the privileges of the new utility. An electric light franchise was granted to the same company on June 9, 1891, the same to run for a period of eighteen years. The present expenditures of the city for stret lighting aver- aged about six thousand and twenty-five dollars yearly, and for water protec- tion about four thousand two hundred dollars.

On July 12, 1892, the first ordinance was passed for the improvement of a street with brick. The ordinance contemplated the improvement of Jefferson street from Jackson street east to the Pennsylvania railroad, and bids were invited during the months of August and September, but no contract was let until the spring of 1893, an injunction suit having been instituted in an effort to stop the improvement. The street was finished and accepted by the city on June 19, 1893.

EDINBURG.

Edinburg is situated in the extreme southeastern section of the county in the area cut off by Blue river, located on the line of the old Indian trails lead- ing from the Ohio to the north and west, and the first section of the county to be settled. Louis Bishop, William Hunt, Isaac Collier, John Campbell and Alexander Thompson were the owners of the lands included in the original plat of the town of Edinburg laid off probably as early as 1822, but the plat was not.recorded until about the year 1825. Among the very first merchants of the new town were Booth and Newby, who located there in the year 1822. This was the first stock of goods exposed for sale in Johnson county. Before the fall of the year 1822 the town contained but four families scattered over quite a considerable area. In the year 1825, Israel Watts kept a store on the west side of Main street, and in the year following Thomas Carter was granted a license to keep a "publick house" in the town, the board of commissioners having been satisfied that he had the necessary house room, bedding and stabling. Other early merchants of the town prior to the year 1830 were Otto Lyman, John Givens, George B. Holland, Austin Shipp and Timothy Threl- keld. Holland's license under date of July, 1828, reads as follows: "George B. Holland having produced the certificate of twelve freeholders of Blue River township that he is of good moral character, and that a grocery is wanted in the town of Edinburgh; it is therefore ordered that said George B. Holland have a license to vend foreign and domestic groceries in the town of Edin-

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burgh for one year from this date by paying the county treasurer five dollars and entering into bond and security required by law."

These mercantile establishments were quite successful, being at that time the only market between White river and Madison. The town grew very slowly, however, during the first twenty years of its history, its population in 1845 numbering not to exceed two hundred and fifty, but the construction of the Madison & Indianapolis railroad to that town about that time gave new life to the place and within a very short time the population was more than doubled. It carly became the leading grain and pork market of the central part of the state, the merchants coming to the railroad from towns as far distant as Knightstown, Danville, Gosport, Spencer and Bloomington. After the railroad was continued to Indianapolis in 1847, the growth of the town was checked somewhat, but it has always remained the principal manufactur- ing center of the county. Among the prominent industries of the town which contributed to its early prominence were the flouring mill which James Thompson built at the "State Falls" as early as 1826; a distillery built by Otto Lyman as early as 1835; and a second distillery built about the year 1850; a tannery established by Pulaski Runkle about 1837; a hominy mill erected in 1857 by Theodore Hudnut; a second hominy mill erected in 1871 by J. L. Toner; a woolen mill built in 1863 by a stock company ; a furniture factory also built by a stock company about 1868. All these, however, have long since been abandoned and a new line of industries have taken their place. Of the present factories, by far the most important is the Union Starch and Refining Company, owned by the heirs of Joseph Irwin, deceased, late of Columbus. This factory is the successor of the Blue River Starch Works, organized by a stock company in 1868. When the National Starch Company formed a trust and obtained control of this plant, it was closed down for many years, but when the Irwins started the street car line and obtained con- trol of the plant, ostensibly as a power station they converted the old starch works into a modern plant for the manufacture of syrup, glucose, starch and sugar, and the factory is now the largest manufacturing plant in the county, employing two hundred and fifty men. Among the other thriving industries of the town are the Edinburg Cabinet Company, manufacturing sewing machines and employing about one hundred men; the W. T. Thomp- son Veneer Company, employing twenty men in the manufacture of oak veneer ; the Muloda Veneer Company, employing fifteen men; the Maley saw mill, now owned and operated by Henry Wertz and Ora Amos, employing thirty-five men; the Naomi Canning Company. employing from one hundred (34)

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and fifty to three hundred men in season; the Wood Mosaic Company, manu- facturing hardwood flooring and employing twenty-five men. In addition to these manufacturing plants, the town is favored with a very enterprising and successful group of merchants.

The town of Edinburg was not incorporated until the year 1853, but as early as March 3, 1834, an election was ordered held upon the question of its incorporation. The first record of the election of trustees relates to the election held in May, 1855. The town was incorporated under the name of "Edinburgh," but the final "h" has long since been dropped from the name.

Edinburg is the only town in the county owning its own water works and electric light plant. This was constructed under authority of the board of trustees by an ordinance passed April 19, 1897. This ordinance was fol- lowed by an ordinance bearing date of July 4, 1898, fixing the rates for domestic use of electric current at ten cents per light per month, and for com- mercial use at twenty-five cents per light per month. These rates were in- creased by an ordinance in 1901 to fifteen cents and thirty cents respectively, and again in 1902 by an ordinance increasing the rates to twenty-five cents and forty cents respectively. The flat rate not proving remunerative to the town, the light service was placed on a meter basis by an ordinance bearing date of April 4, 1910, fixing the rate at ten cents per kilowatt for the use of one to ten kilowatts per month, with a sliding scale down to six cents per kilo- watt when more than seventy-six kilowatts were used. This experience in municipal ownership has not been entirely satisfactory, largely for the reason, perhaps, that the management of the plant has been entrusted to one of the trustees and no accurate account has ever been kept as to the income and ex- pense of its operation. The town clerk, however, is authority for the state- ment that in the year 1912, when the town was using thirty-six water plugs and fifty arc and incandescent lights, the total cost of the water and light system to the town was about seventeen hundred dollars.

The town enjoys an excellent telephone service furnished by the Citizens Telephone Company, owned and controlled by a local stock company under a franchise granted in the year 1898. The town is bonded for a ten-thousand- dollar school debt entered into in 1912, and for a thirty-five-hundred-dollar cemetery debt entered into in 1911.

Among the recent members of the board of trustees of the town are the following: Samuel Haslam, Jr., William T. Butler, Charles Vandorn, W. D. Branigin, E. A. Sterzik Robert G. Porter, C. F. Otto. Henry Wertz, George R. Mutz, John S. Cox and John Sholler. During the same time the follow- ing have served as clerks of the town: M. Duckworth, 1902: J. H. Beal,

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1903-1906; H. M. Scholler, 1906-1907; W. N. Drybread, 1907-1910; John Payne, 1910-1912; Clarence Porter, 1912-1914. The town clerk receives a salary of fifty dollars per month, the town marshal a salary of sixty dollars per. month.

The town of Edinburg has an excellent school system and has had at the head of its schools many of the ablest educators of the state. Among them are remembered John H. Martin, John C. Engle, W. B. Owen, Charles F. Patterson, E. A. Humpke, and E. M. Crouch, the present superintendent. The present corps of teachers is as follows: Smith Brewer, principal of the high school; E. R. Phillips, Lenora M. Burnham, Fanny H. Cochran, Myrtle L. Zigner, instructors in the high school, with the following teachers in the grades : A. G. Murrey, Elsa Bowman, Hazel Pruitt, Maude Price, Gertrude Graham, Ada M. Wright and Minnie Mullen.

GREEN WOOD.

Much of the early history of the town of Greenwood is recorded in an- other connection (see chapter on Churches). The town was incorporated pursuant to an order of the county board of commissioners made on June 25, 1864, and the town government was organized on September 26th of the same year. Its first officers were E. C. Smith, T. S. Wilson, T. B. Hungate, S. Maxfield and A. W. Gilchrist, trustees : F. M. Tague, clerk; A. Holloway, treasurer ; James McGuire, marshal; W. H. Thornton, assessor. The follow- ing have served as clerks since that time : J. E. McGuire, 1866; William H. Bishop, 1867; A. M. Watson, 1871; L. P. Creasy, 1873; L. H. Hopkins, 1874; W. H. Bishop, 1876; J. B. Conrad, 1880; W. H. Bishop, 1881-1888; M. L. Justus, 1888; C. C. Henderson, 1888; J. T. Grubbs, 1890; W. H. Bishop, 1891-1896; George W. Carpenter, 1896-1907; E. M. Strauss, November 19, 1907-1910; Robert Fendley, 1910-1912; E. E. Henderson, 1912-1914.

The town had a population of but three hundred and fifty-four in the year 1869, but since the construction of the electric line the town has thriven until it is now one of the most important towns in the county. Its era of modern improvements dates from the year 1894, when a telephone franchise was granted to a local stock company. A water and light franchise was granted to Lewis K. Davis, of Indianapolis, on March 4, 1901, but Mr. Davis not fulfilling the terms of his contract, the ordinance was repealed and a fran- chise was granted on October Ist of the same year to Samuel V. Perrott and Henry Ulen under the name of the Greenwood Water Company. The plant was completed in the summer of 1902, and after a vote was had upon the ques-

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tion, the water plant was leased to the town for a term of thirty years at a rental of nine hundred and fifty dollars yearly, and the light plant included · in the same lease for the term of ten years at a rental of three hundred forty- six dollars and fifty cents yearly. This form of municipal ownership proved unsatisfactory, and on September 4, 1905, an electric light and water franchise was granted to James A. Craig and John W. Henderson, who, somewhat later, organized the Citizens Water and Light Company and obtained a new fran- chise under that name. Dr. Craig, president of the company, soon obtained control of a majority of the stock and continued to operate the same until the year 1913, when it passed under the control of the present owners of the interurban railroad. The town is now using thirty-four arc lights, at a cost of seventy-five dollars per light, and forty-nine water hydrants, at a cost of forty-two dollars and fifty cents annual rental.

The school affairs of the town are under the control of David E. DeMott, Ed Day and Dr. L. E. Cox, and the following corps of teachers: J. B. Lemasters, superintendent; Hazel Wishard, principal of the high school; Oma Fix and Robert Fendley,, high school instructors, with the following grade teachers : Kate Smiley, Flora Speas, Alta Fix, Lena Drake, Mary Hanahan, Charlotte Wishard, Walter Grass, Alice Bass, Rose Meredith, Elizabeth Mc- Clain and Ella Bass.

After the former school superintendents the following are remembered : William M. Chaille, W. T. Gooden, J. Ed. Wiley, John R. Owens, Professor Tripp, Charles F. Patterson, Professor Carnine, James Robinson and M. J. Fleming.

OTHER TOWNS.

The town of Whiteland was incorporated under an election held Decem- · ber 7, 1885, and has ever since maintained its corporate existence.

The town of Trafalgar was incorporated under an election held January 7, 1870, but after a few years the town organization ceased to exist, and the charter has never been renewed.

By order of the board of commissioners at the June term, 1866, the name "Hensley Town" was changed to Trafalgar, and shortly thereafter "Liberty" was also included within the limits of the town. On March 5, 1869, the county board also changed the name of Newburg to Samaria. All other towns whose names vary from the ones set forth in the town plats found in the appendix owe their change of names to the United States postoffice department. For example, Williamsburg is now known by the name of Nineveh; Union Village by the name of Providence : Clarksburg by the name

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of Rocklane; Brownstown by the name of Bluff Creek; and the inhabitants of all these villages, except Nineveh, being served only by rural free delivery from adjacent postoffices, it would seem fitting to return to the use of their legal names.

The towns of Far West, Flemingsburg, Plattsburgh, Lancaster, Mauks- port and Worthsville, sometimes mentioned in the early records, never pros- pered, most of them never existing except upon paper and all having been abandoned more than a half century ago.

The list of additions platted to all towns in the county, and the business directory of the county will be found in the appendix.

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APPENDIX.

OFFICERS OF CITY OF FRANKLIN.

Mayors-Benjamin Davis, 1861; Duane Hicks, 1862 to January 13, 1863; James Ritchey, January 27, 1863, to 1864; Jacob Seibert, 1864; Will- iam H. Henderson, 1864-1866; Isaac Rogers, 1866-died December 28, 1869; William G. Allison, January 14, 1870-1870; William H. Jennings, 1870- died January 30, 1873; Charles W. Poston, February 25, 1873-1876; G. M. Overstreet, 1876-1878; Silas W. Blizzard, 1878-1882; William C. Thompson, 1882-1884; H. H. Luyster, 1884-1888; G. M. Overstreet, Jr., 1888-1890; Samuel Harris, 1890-1892; Samuel P. Oyler, 1892-1895; James D. Mc- Donald, 1895-1902; John W. Dixon, 1902-1906; William A. Bridges, 1906- 1910; William G. Oliver, 1910-1914; George W. Wyrick, mayor-elect.

Clerks-John O. Martin, 1861-1868; Richard T. Taylor, 1868-1872; James F. Jelleff, 1872-1874; William M. Conner, 1874-1876; George C. Whitlock, 1876-1878; Charles Byfield, 1878-1880; W. C. Thompson, 1880- 1882; Edward Bany, 1882-1886; E. G. Barnhizer, 1886-1888; A. W. House, 1888-1890; W. D. Green, 1890-1895; John R. Owens, 1895-1899; C. L. McNaughton, 1899-1902; Arthur R. Owens, 1902-1906; Thomas House, 1906-1910; Thomas R. Moore, 1910-1914; Thomas R. Moore, clerk-elect.

Treasurer-William H. Henderson, 1861; William M. Davis, resigned February 10, 1863; W. C. Bramwell, 1863-1865; Samuel C. Dunn, Sr., 1865- 1866; William S. Young, 1866-1869; S. C. Brown, 1869-1874; Duke Hamil- ton, 1874-1878; Samuel H. Clem, 1878-1882; Elijah Sexson, 1882-1886; A. W. Mclaughlin, 1886-1890; Frank McCollough, 1890-1895; W. F. Seibert, 1895-1902; E. V. Bergen, 1902-1910. Office of city treasurer in cities of the fifth class which are county seats abolished by act approved March 2, 1909.

Marshal-William H. Myers, resigned January 26, 1862; Solomon Gerow, 1862; William Gillespie, resigned August 16, 1862, succeeded by B. J. Dickerson, who was shot and killed, and Solomon Gerow appointed his successor January 27, 1863; Gerow resigned February 10, 1863, succeeded by Duke Hamilton, who resigned April 21, 1863, succeeded by T. F. McEy, who resigned January 26, 1864, succeeded by Hiram Drake; William Car-

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son, elected May, 1864, resigned October 14, 1864, succeeded by Samuel Brown, who resigned February 14, 1865, succeeded by Thomas F. McEy, who resigned April 11, 1865, succeeded by C. C. Hamilton, who was suc- ceeded by John W. Peters, November 18, 1865; James C. Dunlap, 1866, resigned May 28, 1867, succeeded by appointment of G. S. Cockran, who re- signed August 13, 1867, succeeded by John W. Peters, who served until May election, 1870; James S. Roberts, 1870, resigned December 27, 1870, suc- ceeded by William Snyder; Snyder resigned November 1, 1871, succeeded by S. C. Dunn, Jr., who resigned June 10, 1873, succeeded by Frank M. Hay, who resigned December 9, 1874, succeeded by John F. Bullock until May election, 1876; S. C. Dunn, Jr., 1876-1878; Thomas H. Norris, 1878, re- signed August 12, 1879, succeeded by Leon Ritchey; Peter Ransdell, 1880- 1882 ; J. O. Rairdon, 1882-1884; H. G. Hopper, 1884-1886; W. B. Leiper, 1886-1888; H. E. Vandegriff, 1888-1890; John Adams, 1890-1892; H. H. Luyster, 1892-1899; James W. Baldwin, 1899-1902; Thomas Flinn, 1902- 1906; Ora Forsyth, 1906; Joseph Simpson, 1906-1910; Smith Kelley, 1910, resigned April 1, 1913; Thomas Bottome, 1913.

City Attorney-D. W. Howe, 1861 ; C. B. Byfield, 1862-1864; A. B. Hunter, 1864; D. W. Howe, resigned November 28, 1865, succeeded by C. B. Byfield to May election, 1872; Robert M. Miller, 1872- resigned December 28, 1875, succeeded by G. M. Overstreet, Jr .; William C. Sandefur, 1876- 1878; G. M. Overstreet, 1878-1880; S. L. Overstreet, 1880-1882: G. M. Overstreet, Jr., 1882-1887; Jesse Overstreet. 1887-1888; W. C. Thomp- son, 1888-1890; W. J. Buckingham. 1890; W. T. Pritchard, . 1891- 1897; John V. Oliver, 1897- died April 27, 1900; William Featherngill, 1900-1904; Ivory J. Drybread, 1904, resigned June 1, 1906; Elba L. Brani- gin, 1906-1910; Fred R. Owens, 1910-1914.

City Assessors-Chambers C. Hamilton, 1861 ; J. S. Able, 1862-1864; William H. Henderson, 1864, resigned and succeeded by C. C. Hamilton; Jacob Seibert, 1865-1869; Samuel C. Dunn, Sr., 1869-1872 ; R. L. Bone, Sr., 1872-1874; A. D. Whitesides, 1874-1876; James McGill, 1876-1878; John S. Martin, 1878-1882. (Office abolished 1881.)

Councilmen, First Ward-William Bissett, 1861, resigned May, 1864. succeeded by G. W. Branham, who resigned January 25. 1866. to be succeeded by Thomas W. Woollen; Frank M. Furgason, 1861-1864; J. W. Rand. 1864- 1866; Thomas W. Woollen, 1866-1868: W. J. Mathes, 1866-1869: Nicholas Brown, 1868 (seat declared vacant March 23, 1869) ; John Beall, 1869: Armstrong Alexander, 1869 (seat declared vacant July 19, 1870), succeeded by Thomas W. Woollen August 24, 1870, to May election, 1873: W. J.

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Mathes, 1870-1874; R. T. Taylor, 1873-1877; R. S. Sturgeon, 1874-1876; William I. Peters, 1876-1880; I. H. Mclaughlin, 1877-1879; Charles Riker, 1879-1881 ; B. M. Stansifer, 1880-1882; W. T. Pritchard, 1881-1883; R. C. Wood, 1882-1886; F. H. Hieronymus, 1883-1887; James B. Payne, 1886- 1888; J. D. George, 1887; Frank McCollough and George Griffith, 1888- 1890; Bennett Jacobs, 1890-1892; H. E. Vandegriff, 1890; D. M. Crowell, 1891-1894; William T. Stott, 1892-1896; A. B. Lagrange, 1894; O. I. Jones, 1895-1900; Lloyd Adams, 1896-1902; Strother Herod, 1900-1902; J. M. Brown and Riley Riggs, 1902-1906; Dudley Hunter, 1906-1910; H. M. Fisher, 1910-1914; W. M. Burgett, elect.

Note-The municipal code of 1905 provides for election of one council- man from each ward, and two councilmen at large.

Councilmen, Second Ward-B. W. Clark, 1861-1865; Samuel C. Dunn, 1861 ; A. J. Tucker, 1862-1864; Leland Payne, 1864-1877; William C. Crow- ell, 1865-1868; T. W. Woollen, 1868 (seat declared vacant March 23, 1869) ; A. B. Colton, 1869-1872; W. H. McLaughlin, 1872-1876; I. I. Covert, 1876- 1878; M. Walker, 1877-1881 ; William A. Davis, 1878-1880; James Jacobs, 1880-1882; W. H. Mclaughlin, 1881-1883; I. M. Thompson, 1882-1886; S. W. . Blizzard, 1883-1885; William Jackson, 1885-1889; I. M. Crowell, 1886-1888; John Scholler, 1888-1892; Otis Bice, 1889; J. A. Schmith, 1890; D. W. Mullendore, 1891-1894; William Jackson, 1892-1894, (Jackson's seat declared vacant July 4, 1893, succeeded by R. A. Kelley to 1896) ; W. H. McClanahan, 1894-1898; I. M. Thompson, 1896-1902; Andrew Ferguson, 1899-1902; Taylor Ballard and John Jackson, 1902-1906; Elijah Sexton, 1906-1910; H. N. Dunlap, 1910-1914; Irwin S. Valentine, elect.

Councilmen, Third Ward-Anderson B. Hunter and George King, 1861 ; James Wilson, 1862-1870: Charlton, 1862, resigned August 26, succeeded by N. M. Scholfield January 27, 1863, to 1864; Robert Hamilton. 1864, resigned December 12, 1865, succeeded by William S. McCaslin, Janu- ary 23, 1866, to 1867; A. B. Hunter, 1867-1869; George F. Herriott, 1869- 1874; John R. Fesler, 1870-1874; L. P. Ritchey, 1874; Robert A. Alexander, 1874-1876; William B. Ellis, 1875-1881 ; L. P. Ritchey, 1879; R. M. Miller, 1880-1882 ; Charles Day. 1881-1885: John Pettiford, 1882-1886; R. M. Lee, 1885-1888; George W. Voris, 1886-1888; A. G. Vance and Richard M. Cun- ningham, 1888; H. E. Vandegriff, 1889: J. N. Dooley, 1889-1891; John Ryker, 1890-1892; W. C. Thompson, 1891-1894; N. M. Pittman, 1892- 1896; A. Dunlap, 1894-1898; F. C. Crowell, 189611906; R. M. Lee, 1898- 1896; C. E. Hemphill, 1906-1910; J. W. Judah, 1910-1914; William G. Van- divier, elect.

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Councilmen at Large-John C. Scholler and John H. Woolley, 1906- 1910; A. A. Blizzard and R. S. Williams, 1910-1914.

Civil Engineers-Peterson K. Parr, 1862; John S. Hougham, 1862- 1868; G. M. Overstreet, Sr., 1868 -- resigned June 22, 1875; S. C. Brown, 1875; R. M. Miller, 1876; David A. Leach, 1878-1884; Thomas Hardin, 1884; Jesse Ovorstreet 1885-1887; R. A. Brown, 1887; William Feathern- gill, 1888-1890; B. R. Ransdell, 1890; W. B. Johnson, 1891-1894; R. A. Brown, 1894-1897; W. B. Johnson, 1897; E. F. Middleton, 1898-1904; Otis B. Sellers, 1904-1906; John E. Jolliffe, 1906-1910; Thomas House, 1910- 19II ; C. C. Newsome, 1911-1913; W. A. Miles, 1913.

POPULATION.

Johnson County-1870, 18,366; 1880, 19,537: 1890, 19,561; 1900, 20,223; 1910, 20,394.

Population per square mile, 63.3.

Rural population per square mile, 49.4.

Per cent. increase, 1900-1910, urban population, 12.4.

Per cent. increase, 1900-1910, rural population, 2.

Negro population, 1890, 342; 1900, 418.

Foreign born population, 1910, 140.

Illiterates of voting age, 1910, 185.

Illiterates over ten years, 1910, 383.

Not in school, six to nine years, 413.

Not in school, ten to fourteen years, 138.

Not in school, fifteen to seventeen years, 451.

Attending school, six to fourteen years, 83.7 per cent.

Number of voters in county, 1900, 5,776: 1910, 6,166.

Townships.

1910

1900

1890

Blue River, with Edinburg

2,815

2,589

2,792

Edinburg

2,040

1,820

2,031

Clark

1,209

1,316

1,295

Franklin and City of Franklin

5,490

5,060

4,873

Franklin

4,502

4,005

3,781

Hensley

1,526

1,640

1,655

Needham

1,279

1,360

1,254

Nineveh

1,288

1,393

1,523

Pleasant and towns

3,425

3,410

2,724

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Greenwood

1,608

1,503

862

Whiteland

343

334

212

Union

1,298

1,360

1,373

White River

2,064

2,095

2,072

JOHNSON COUNTY BUSINESS DIRECTORY.

FRANKLIN.

Automobiles-Van Vleet Brothers (Gilbert and Lewis), W. F. Preston, George Forsyth.

Agricultural Implements-David A. Forsyth, Pritchard & Mullendore, (J. A. and Louis), W. D. Pritchard.

Banks-Franklin National Bank, Citizens' National Bank.

Barbers-The Cozy (W. R. Winchester), Riehl & Green (John and Ray), Brown & Allen (Sime and William), John H. Boyd, Terhune & Tucker (John and Lloyd), James Larmore, Jeff Robinson, John Fossett, Ed. Nash.

Bakeries-John Ohlrogge, Balser Brothers (J. W. and A. E.)."

Buggies and Autos-Flanagan Brothers (William and Richard).

Building and Loan Associations-Mutual, Franklin.

Candy and Confectionery-The Greek (George Voivondas).

Cigars and Pool Room-George F. Freeman, J. M. Haymaker, Charles Legan, Milford W. Tilson.

Clothing-Nort Whitesides Company (F. N. Whitesides, Fred S. Staff and Edward C. Bailey), Payne & Son (James B. and Hugh A.), Edward Keilhorn.

Coal-A. B. Colton, Dundap-Vandegriff Coal Company (J. M. and W. T.).

Cobblers-James Gibson, William Simpson, At. Johnson.

Dentists-William H. Schlosser, James H. Dean, W. L .. Hamar, Theo- dore Douglas, John Henderson, James Richardson.

Dry Goods-M. J. Voris & Company, R. V. Ditmars, Frank .. Wallace. Dry Cleaning-Prutchard & Mullendore (Floyd and. Edward) ,Franklin Tailoring Company, Samuel Rosenthal.

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History of Johnson County, Indiana, Part 52

Author: Branigin, Elba L., 1870- Publication date: 1972 Publisher: Indianapolis, B.F. Bowen, [Evansville, Ind.], [Unigraphic, Inc.] Number of Pages: 981

Author: Branigin, Elba L., 1870-
Publication date: 1972
Publisher: Indianapolis, B.F. Bowen, [Evansville, Ind.], [Unigraphic, Inc.]
Number of Pages: 981