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The first steam fire engine ("Relief") was purchased by the common council in January, 1869, of Cole Bros., Pawtucket, R. I., and cost $4,200, second hand. The second steamer ("Knox") was built by the Ahren's Manufacturing Co., Cincinnati, and was received, tested and accepted on July 22, 1876. The purchase price of the last steamer was the same as for the first-$4,200. The "Relief," which was used for several years as a "re- serve" engine, was finally disposed of to an Illinois farmer, who utilized it as a motor in running a woodsawing machine. The "Knox" went out of commission soon after the installation of the water works system, and was sold in the year 1888 for a nominal sum to Kansas City, where it is still in service.
The Vincennes fire department, which is maintained at a cost of about $12,000 a year, now boasts of four first-class houses, nicely furnished and equipped with modern and up-to-date apparatus. House No. 1, located in Fourth, between Main and Vigo streets, designed by Campbell & Oster- hage, architects, and built by John Berry, contractor, is the department headquarters, and was recently completed at a cost of $15,400. The ap- paratus housed in this station-among which is an automobile engine, made by the Webb Manufacturing Co., this city-is quite as attractive as the building itself, and is inspected every day by many visitors. The permanent
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men of No. I, nearly all of whom have been in the service for fifteen years, are Jas. J. Anderson, assistant chief ; Alonzo Woodward, Robert Watson, John W. Dubois, Jefferson Fields and Archie Westfall.
House No. 2, corner Sixth and Harrison streets, was built as a one-story structure in 1875 by Wm. D. Brown, contractor, and cost $1, 184. A year or two later it was remodeled, and made a two-story building, and is still a very creditable-looking station. No. 2's men are Jesse Hedden and Charles Cullison, who are in charge of a beautiful span of dapple-grey horses and a four-wheeled hose carriage.
House No. 3, located at the intersection of Second street and Railroad avenue, over which George Cullison and Fred Waymeire preside, is pro- vided with a four-wheeled hose carriage and a team of prancing greys, which is the pride of North Vincennes equine enthusiasts. The plans for the building were made by Thomas Campbell, architect, and the house was built by Stephen Arnold, contractor, in 1897, at a cost of $3,020. It is a very neat and convenient station.
House No. 4, at the corner of Fourteenth and Vigo streets, is a new structure, having been completed last year. Campbell & Osterhage were the architects, and Albert Combs, contractor. The building, which was erected at a cost of $4,200, while not large, is modern in architectural style and finish, and has accommodations for four men. John Turner and Leo Joice are in charge of the station, which is equipped with a four-wheeled hose reel, which is drawn, when occasion requires, by a pretty team of jet black horses.
Each of the permanent men receive an annual salary of $750, with the exception of James Anderson, who is allowed extra pay for performing the services of electrician. The Vincennes fire department is among the best equipped and most efficient ones in the state. Its efficiency is due largely to the fact that nearly all of the members have had many years experience in fighting the fire fiend. The automobile service, the splendid system of water works, and the introduction of Gamewell's latest fire alarm devices are features contributing 'in no small degree towards the good results ob- tained. The water works plant, from which 250 fire hydrants are sup- plied, was built by the Vincennes Water Supply Co. (a private corpora- tion) in 1887, at a cost of $350.000. Several years after its completion a filtering system was added, costing $35,000. The plant is equipped with two of Dean's vertical pumps, high duty, having a pumping capacity of 4,000,000 gallons daily, and three 200 horse power boilers, built in Vin- cennes; besides a stand-pipe twenty-two feet in diameter, 210 feet high. with a capacity of 700,000 gallons and a pressure of seventy-five pounds to the square inch. The street mains range in size from twenty inches to six inches in diameter and are extended in all directions to the extreme limits of the city, affording not only complete protection against fire, but enabling
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every inhabitant to provide himself with the purest of water, uncontami- nated with chemical or bacterial substances.
RELICS OF BY-GONE DAYS.
It was in the old yellow tavern of Christian Graeter that John B. La Plante, who subsequently became one of the wealthiest men in Vincennes, got his start in life. His first venture in the commercial world was in the grocery business, on a capital of $82. He only had $17 of his own money to invest, and borrowed $65 from a fancy barber named Henry Rider, who had a "tonsorial parlor" in the tavern. Here it was that Captain Mass and Jacob Dunkle, respectively, at different periods, conducted auction stores. The tavern stood on Main street, near the northwest corner of Third, present site of S. & I. Lyons' stores, and was torn down about 1859.
On the site of the Flint Department Store, corner of First and Main streets, stood the American Hotel. It was built in 1824 and remained stand- ing until 1870, when John La Plante bought the property and razed it to the ground to make room for a more modern hostelry-the La Plante House, which came into the possession of its present owner about six years ago. The old hotel was conducted from 1825 until 1852 by John C. Clark, father of Mrs. Sheridan Isaacs. For many years it was the leading hotel of the city, and the meeting place for all prominent citizens to transact busi- ness of a public character. On June 11. 1831, a meeting was held there at which it was decided to celebrate the Fourth of July. It was further resolved, "That an oration be delivered, and that a public dinner and ball be prepared for all who wished to attend." The arrangement committee was requested to meet at the tavern at "sundown" to make preparations .* In 1848, on New Year's eve, the "old residents," as the program puts it, gave a swell ball at Colonel John C. Clark's Hotel. The names of the managers of the affair are familiar to many people in Knox county, and are as fol- lows: John Law, John Wise, Samuel Wise, John Moore, John B. Martin, Mech'r Richardville, IIiram Decker, John Ross, Pierre La Plante, Samuel Emison, Thomas Scott, Thomas Bishop, John Marney, Robert Buntin, Jr. In the accompanying engraving which presents a view of the foot of Main street, sketched in 1827, will be seen the American Hotel on the right. On the opposite corner is the grocery store of William Burtch, built several years before the hotel, and still standing in a good state of preservation. The above locality was the principal corner of the town in early days; and whenever the militia turned out on dress parade (which was daily) they did their best maneuvering in front of the American Hotel, which always furnished them large andiences.
The old cotton factory, erected in 1824 by Daniel S. Bonner, stands to- day as a monument to the energy and enterprise of its builder. It is located
*Western Sun's Centennial Edition, 1904.
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on the half square, facing southwest on Barnet between Second and Third streets, in the rear of the old cathedral. But few of the many church- going people who pass it daily and look up at its quaint windows have ever heard of its history. The windows and door frames, sash and doors, and many other portions of it, were brought from Trenton, New Jersey, where they had done like service for a factory, of which this is an exact model, in 1765. Through the little squares of glass in the window sashes human eyes upon a morning of December, 1776, looked out upon the dramatic "Crossing of the Delaware" and beheld the surrender of the thousand Hes- sians. What curious gatherer of relics will yet preserve the bits of glass .*
The Harrison House is supposed to have been the first brick building erected in Vincennes. The second one, it is said, was the old seminary, which was located in the center of four of the present city blocks bounded by Fourth, Sixth, Perry and Hart streets. The seminary was built in 1807 and was intended for common school purposes. It was sold by the school authorities in 1837 to Bishop Hailandiere, who established St. Gabriel's College there under the management of the Udist Fathers, who conducted the institution until 1844, when they left the diocese and went to New Orleans. It was then converted into an orphan asylum and so continued until the orphans were removed to Terre Haute. The seminary was then turned over to the Sisters of Providence who established St. Rose's Acad- emy there. Francis Silas Chatard, the present bishop of the diocese, sub- divided the square and opened Fifth and Seminary streets through it. The old seminary was torn down in 1883 and the lots of the subdivision have all been sold except the part reserved for St. Rose Academy, and are now held by private parties and for the most part occupied by fine residences.t
That section of the city out of which Judah's Addition has been carved, MFr. Cauthorn says, was enclosed with a rail fence and used for farming purposes as late as 1850. That portion of the town back of the court house at this date was unoccupied and was used as a race course. Extending back from Sixth street to the limits of the town was Marachall's field, cultivated in corn. This territory in 1855 was divided into lots and sold by Alvin W. Tracy, Marachall's executor. All that part of the city above Hart street was vacant, except the portion occupied by the Harrison mansion, the for- mer cottage of Judge Parke and the residence of Judge Law. between them and the Judah square, afterwards called "the Baty place." In 1857, when the Lutheran church on Eighth street was built it was the only structure of any character in that locality.
The first building used for court purposes was of logs. It stood on the north corner of Second and Broadway streets, and after its abandonment as a "temple of justice," was converted into a hospital for the sick and disabled federal troops then garrisoned at Fort Knox. The second build-
*Western Sun Centennial Edition, 1904.
tH. S. Cauthorn, A History of Vincennes, page 30.
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ing where sessions of the earlier courts were held stood on the west corner of Buntin and Fourth streets and was soll to the county by Robert Bun- tin. Across the street from the same, on the north corner, were the county jail and an inclosure for stray animals.
One of the oldest houses which, until thirty years ago, was located at the corner of First and Busseron streets, was built by Louis Barrois in 1790, and sold to Major Francois Busseron for five hundred livres. Major Busseron, upon the marriage of his daughter, presented it to his son-in-law. Judge Henry Vanderburgh, writing of the event, says: "It is the best house in the village." It contained three rooms, was a regular frame, sided with cypress boards, split and shaved, put upon the uprights with wrought nails. A block below, corner of Broadway and First streets, on the lot now occupied by the ruins of the Broadway Mills, in 1794 John Rice Jones built Vincennes' first theater-a one-story frame building. The house afterward became an academy for young ladies, under charge of Mrs. McGowen, whose husband (a butcher ) advertised in the Western Sun of 1808 (Indians and negroes except) "good beef." The Rev. Shaw after- ward taught a "classic school" and held services of the Church of England in the same building. In later years it was used as a gear-house for Wil- liam Green's livery stable.
In August, 1796, Fred Barger was appointed street commissioner for the village. In November of the same year Christopher Wyant and John Small procured a recommendation from the judges of the court to the governor of the territory for the privilege to conduct, respectively, houses of public entertainment. John Small was also granted license, in 1797, to establish a ferry across the Ouabache ( Wabash) river from Vincennes to the opposite shore. In February, 1805, Colonel Vigo was granted a license to run a ferry "from his land on the northwest side of the river, across the same, to the town of Vincennes," foot of Broadway street. Small and Vigo were the predecessors of Thomas Bailey and James Gibson, both of whom subsequently engaged in ferrying. A century ago there were two ferries -the landing of one being at the foot of Broadway street, and the other at the foot of Main street. The upper one was kept by Bailey and the lower one by Gibson.
By order of the court, in July, 1812, the treasurer of Knox county paid the following bills, viz .: To Wm. Dunnica, for the rent of a room for a prison, $38; to John Gibson, for the use of his house for general court, $12; to Mark Barnett, for same, $12.50, and to Christian Graeter, for same, $8.00.
During the year 1800 post routes were established between Vincennes and Louisville, Kentucky, and at a later date between Vincennes and St. Louis. 'Although for a time delivery was made but once a week, the primi- tive postal facilities gave the Old Post national recognition and brought her for the first time into prominence as the seat of government of a vast territory and the scene of a battle where American arms won for the na-
VIEW OF MAIN STREET SEVENTY YEARS AGO Showing the American Hotel and Vincennes Militia Directly in Front of Same
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tion an empire. Soon after coming to Vincennes (1816) Jolin Wise se- cured the contract for carrying the mail between the points named. In 1848 Colonel 1. N. Eastham, who conducted a livery stable and ran a line of coaches from Louisville to St. Louis, became the mail carrier for Uncle Sam, and continued on the job until after the old Ohio & Mississippi road was built. Main street in Washington, Indiana, was on the line of travel, and the Colonel always insisted that it was the most undesirable piece of road between St. Louis and Louisville, at times being almost impassable, on account of miry mud and water.
PIONEER MERCHANTS OF OLD VINCENNES.
From 1811 to 1840 the following persons were engaged in the merchan- dizing business : Peter Jones, John D. Hay, Samuel Hays, G. R. C. Sulli- van, Elias McNamee, Elkana Babbitt, Henry C. Mills, Wm. Mieure, M. Brouillette, Samuel Thorne, Frederick Watson, George Davis, M. Jones, Christian Graeter, Tomilson & Rose, John R. Kurtz, H. D. Wheeler, Burtch & Heberd, Wm. J. Heberd, J. & S. Wise, Smith & Carson, Rose & Harper, B. Shelmeire & Co., Francis Bayard, Wm. G. Foulks, Brouillette & Van- derburgh, M. Cromalin, J. & W. Hay, Wm. Lindsey, Samuel Brunner, David L. Brunner, C. Clark, Rose & Ewing, Thorn & Tracy, L. C. Langton, G. Cruikshank & Co., Philander Fellows, Clark & Brown, Fyfield & Bor- dalin, Wheeler & Bailey, Robert Smith & Co., J. G. Crow, John W. Moore.
Nicholas Smith, father of Edward H. and John A. Smith, came to Vin- cennes in 1817 from New Jersey, where he was born in 1790. Like his sons, he was a valuable citizen and did much toward building up the town and giving character and stability to its commercial life. Before locating in Vincennes Mr. Smith visited both Cincinnati and St. Louis, preferring the Old Post as a business point to either of them. He engaged in the hardware and tinning business, combining therewith trading between Vin- cennes and New Orleans; and at the time of his death, in 1871, possessed a fortune, accumulated through his commercial ventures. William Burtch, who was at one time the wealthiest man in Vincennes, was born in Rut- land, Vermont, in 1793. He came here in 1814, embarking in business the same year of his arrival. His first commercial venture was selling con- fections and refreshments. Afterward he engaged in general merchandis- ing, extending his trade to the south and east. He died in August, 1880. The Wises, who were natives of Pennsylvania, came to Vincennes in 1816. In connection with a general store, which was conducted on a large scale, they engaged in the pork packing business, and became immensely rich. The firm, under the style of J., S. & W. J. Wise, shipped nearly all their pork to New Orleans by means of flatboats, and afterward by steamboats. Colonel I. N. Eastham at the same time was engaged in porkpacking and shipped by flatboats to New Orleans.
Between 1840 and 1850 the business and professional representatives
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of Vincennes were: Druggists-A. W. Morris, Luck & Lander; dry goods -Adam Gimbel, Worman & Koster, W. J. Wise & Co., M. D. La Croix & Bro., Charles Graeter, M. L. Edson, John Caldwell, Win. Hays, J. W. Mad- dox, Theodore Huslage; clothiers-Isaac Joseph, John H. Massey, Moses Gimble; grocers-J. B. La Plante & Bro., Chas. A. Weisert, Frederick Graeter, Garrett Reiter, L. B. Smith, Jas. T. Cox, W. & R. Owens; at- torneys-Allen, Usher & Palmer, Cauthorn & Wise, J. W. Booth, R. M. Curran, A. T. Ellis, Judah & Denny, W. A. Jones, John Law, John Baker ; physicians-Jule Baty, Hiram Decker, H. M. Smith, J. R. Mantel, R. S. Coe, R. B. Jessup, W. W. & W. M. Hitt, J. S. Sawyer, Joseph Somes ; furniture dealers-Curry & Coons, Gardner & Sons; boots and shoes- Frank Horsting, Henry Soete; manufacturer blankets-Henry D. Wheeler ; stoves and tinware-N. Smith & Sons, Wilkins & Robinson; harness, saddles, etc .- Page, Orr & Co., Thing & Potter, W. J. Heberd & Sons, P. R. Bishop; clocks, jewelry, etc .- Wm. Stalz; merchant tailor-H. P. Brokaw.
Among the later business firms, actively engaged in business during the fifties, were: Dry goods-\V. J. Heberd & Sons, J. B. La Plante (general store), B. Kuhn, J. S. Sawyer, Adam Gimbel,* R. Koster, J. W. Maddox & Co., Lemuel Gimbel, Decker & Chadwick, W. E. Brenne & Co., Charles Graeter; clothing-Isaac Joseph, B. Kuhn (wholesale and retail), Moses Gimbel, Frank Soudriellette, H. T. Roseman; groceries-Henry Hauser, J. S. Sawyer, Decker & Chadwick, W. E. Brenne & Co. (wholesale and retail), J. T. Cox ; boots and shoes-D. H. Johnson, Frank Horsting & Co., George Kerchoff & Co., Harvey, Mason & Co .; artist-J. P. Elliott ; furniture-Joel Gresh ; wagons-J. R. Bishop, John Collins; agricultural implements-S. W. Adams, Wm. Burtch; livery stables-Wm. Green, Sam- uel Emison, I. N. Eastham; dentist-J. Flager ; physicians-J. R. Mantel, J. Baty, R. B. Jessup, H. M. Smith, Jos. Somes, M. Picquet, J. C. Bever, Hiram Decker; attorneys-John Law, William Denny, John Baker, A. T. Ellis.
In 1860 the official roster of the county was as follows: Judge of the circuit court, M. F. Burke ; judge of court of common pleas, R. A. Clem- ents, Sr .; clerk, H. S. Cauthorn ; auditor, John B. Patterson ; sheriff, Mar- tin Anthis; recorder, Richard Y. Caddington ; treasurer, A. L. Cornoyer ; surveyor, M. P. Roberts; coroner. F. J. Meyers; commissioners, William Raper, William S. Milam, James L. Culbertson. Among those engaged in
*Adam Gimbel came as a pack-peddler to Vincennes in 1842. In 1847 he erected at the corner of Second and Main streets a large, three-story brick and iron build- ing (now occupied by Gimbel, Haughton & Bond) and opened a dry goods store. Here he laid the foundation of a fortune which he bequeathed to five sons, of whom the older three are Jacob, Isaac and Charles, proprietors today of three of the largest merchandizing establishments in the United States, located in New York, Philadelphia and Milwaukee The New York store is said to be the largest in the world, while the one in Philadelphia is an enterprise of greater magnitude than the concern con- ducted in the Quaker City by John Wanamaker.
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commercial, professional and industrial pursuits at that time were: Dry goods-J. W. Maddox, J. S. Sawyer ( dry goods and groceries), James Gardner, A. Gimbel, B. Kuhn & Co .; grocers and produce dealers-M. D. La Croix, John A. Louis, H. T. Roseman, J. S. Sawyer, C. A. Weisert, Rethin & Bro .. W. E. Meek, Fitzgerald & Denny ; clothiers and merchant tailors-H. P. Brokaw, William Iluey, I. Joseph & Co .; J. 11. Shepard & Co., William Watson, E. B. Ramsdell; hardware and tinware-John H. Clark & Bros., N. Smith & Sons; photographer-O. Thayer ; woolen goods manufacturer-H. D. Wheeler. James Reynolds was agent for the Adams Express Co. Edward Beach was a music teacher and dealer in toys, con- fections and musical instruments ; Bascom & Co., wholesale and retail deal- ers in clocks, watches and jewelry; William H. Beatty, steel plow and carriage manufacturer : William Beckman, blacksmith; A. M. Benjamin & Co., importers and wholesale dealers in foreign and domestic wines ; D. MI. Bishop, sash, doors and blinds; Emil Bobinet, baker ; Ferdinand Bote, am- brotype and photograph gallery; J. Brenhaus, manufacturer of and dealer in jewelry ; Misses Brett & Orr, milliners ; J. 11. Bridges, painter ; F. Broach, dry goods; S. Buckley, boot and shoe manufacturer; George Bultman, blacksmith ; Wm. Burtch, dry goods; Wm. Bultman, dry goods and gro- ceries; Wm. Busse, baker; John Caldwell, dry goods, boots, shoes, etc .; J. W. Canon, cabinet maker ; W. P. Chandler, saloon ; Charley Clark, drug- gist ; John Convery, shoemaker ; John M. Cook, flouring mill and tannery : John Coons, attorney ; J. A. Davidson, boot and shoe manufacturer ; Charles Dawes, lumber dealer ; F. W. DeLang, variety store ; Jere Donovan, marshal of the town ; G. H. Duesterberg, cabinetmaker : John Dubois, brick mason ; Dubois & Clinton, barbers; S. R. Dunn, tailor; John Dunkle, furniture ; Thomas Eastham, livery; John Ebner, saloonist; W. W. C. Emison, flour- ing mill; G. Feltman, tailor; George Fifield, baker and confectioner; E. Foreman, grocer : Abraham Gimbel, clothier: A. Gimbel, dry goods; P. G. Godley, proprietor Commercial Hotel; Charles Graeter, wholesale and re- tail dealer in dry goods; F. Graeter & Sons, livery and feed stable; F. Graeter & Sons, dry goods and groceries ; Wm. Green, livery and proprietor railroad and omnibus line and Green's hall; Henry Hausser, J. Ilartz, sa- loonists ; Hasselbach, Stone & Co., wholesale and retail dealers in dry goods, groceries, flour and whiskey ; F. Hasaling, saloon; Herrsher & Bro., cloth- ing; Hesse & Bro., fancy and staple dry goods; W. W. Hitt, physician ; Frank Horsting & Co., boot and shoe makers and dealers; Adam Huffman, butcher ; C. S. Hurd, dentist; Theodore Huslage, dry goods; George Irr, tailor ; R. B. Jessup, physician ; W. A. Jones, lawyer; J. T. Jones, at- torney ; Judah & Denny, lawyers; O. P. Julian, dealer in American and Italian marble ; Joseph Kapps, saloonist ; Kellogg & Smith, hardware ; Wil- liam Kimmerly, manufacturer of beer, ale and rye whiskey, corner Water and Church streets. T. Knopp, fancy and staple dry goods; Kramer & Eschbach, boot and shoe makers and dealers; Anton Lahr, saloonist ; La Plante Bros., hats, caps, boots, shoes, hardware, queensware and groceries ;
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W. D. Lewis, grocer ; W. F. Lindley, merchant tailor ; M. Laakman, saloon ; John Loten, house, sign and ornamental painter; W. J. Luck, druggist ; Owen McCone, dry goods, groceries, etc .; Wm. R. McCord, wholesale and retail grocer; W. W. McDowell, dry goods ; C. P. McGrady, railroad con- tractor and president gas company ; John Mallet, blacksmith ; J. R. Mantle, physician ; Isaac Mass, auctioneer ; John H. Massey, ambrotype and pho- tograph gallery; Fred. Miller, butcher ; C. A. Moffat & Co., cabinet makers; August Momince, saloon; A. Montgomery, city clerk; John Moore, post- master ; Henry Meyer, cigar manufacturer ; G. S. Nelson, commission mer- chant; M. Nierdest, proprietor Prairie Hotel; J. & A. Ostendorf. watchrand clock makers and jewelers; Page & Orr, saddles, bridles, etc .; Patterson & Mattress, carriage and wagon makers; H. E. Peck, wholesale and retail ilruggist ; W. F. Pidgeon, attorney; Pidgeon & Terrell, real estate stocks and insurance ; J. M. Pursoil, physician and surgeon ; Robert Potter, saddles, harness and collars ; M. Richardville, livery ; H. Rickhoff, vinegar factory ; Fred. Reilag, dry goods, hats and caps, etc .; Andy Rogers, grocer ; M. Schel, butcher ; F. Schill, locksmith; Fred Seitz, baker; J. A. Skinner, physician ; 11. P. Ghee & H. M. Smith, editors Gazette; L. B. Smith, wholesale grocer ; Jos. Somes, physician ; Henry Strattman, boat and shoe maker; Martin Stricker, carpenter; Oliver Thayer, melainotype artist; M. Tyler & Son, dry goods, groceries, sash, doors and blinds; John Ulmer, butcher ; Thad. S. Updegraff, oculist and aurist ; F. Washburn, silversmith; Asa Wash- burn, silversmith; John Watson, dry goods; I. N. Whittelsey, watch and clock maker; D. Whestedt, hair dresser; Wm. Williamson, grocer ; Ernest Wilmet, tobacconist; Jacob Woessner, painter; Jos. Woodman, baker and confectioner ; J. D. & W. J. Wise, pork packers.
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