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Dec. 17, Barna MeNamee and Mrs. J. H. Nelson died; 25, death of J. M. Rogers, an old citizen.
1865.
Jan. 10, Anselm Watkins died; 29, Jolin IIutchins found frozen to death; 24, Mrs. A. Imbler died.
31, Sam Trible died, very suddenly.
Feb. 5, first mail received in Owensboro since Jan. 25; 25, death of Mrs. Ben. Read (nee Mary Kerney) and of Mrs. Cox; 28, Wm. Bell died.
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March 6, Madame Berthoud died; 7, small-pox, erysipelas and spotted fever in the city; 12, Mrs. R. G. Moorman died.
April 7, the splendid steamer 'Ruth made her first trip on the Ohio; 12, Emma Queen died; 17, business suspended and crape on the doors, on account of Lincoln's death; 22, J. Bodine died.
May 2, Mrs. Clint. Griffith died; 15, J. Nelson's store burned. June 24, Masonic celebration.
July 6, Mrs. W. Berry died; 17, Miss Mollie Scott died; 22 Tom Monohan died; 23, Mr. Webb, the hotel-keeper, died.
Aug. 2, Colonel Ewing, an old citizen, died; 26, G. H. Yeaman appointed Minister to Denmark.
Sept. 8, death of Mr. Kennady, uncle of S. D.
Oct 9, Hon. G. H. Yeaman and family left for Denmark; 20, Mrs. Stewart, an old lady, died; 21; Mrs. Webb died, also John L. Goodrum; 25, death of W. B. Hall.
Nov. 3, Green Crabtree died; 30, death of Sam Beers.
Dec. 7, Thanksgiving; 3, Wash. Jones died.
1866.
Jan. 1, Mrs. Winchester found dead in bed; 7, J. R. Allen also found dead in bed.
Jan. 30, the steamer Missouri exploded her boilers, some ten miles above Evansville. Her hull sank instantly, while her cabin, full of water, floated off. Among the lost was Mr. George A. Peters, a well-known and respected citizen and merchant of Owens- boro. His state-room was immediately over the boiler. The nun- ber of deck-passengers and crew that was lost was seventy or eighty. The shock of the explosion was distinctly felt in Owens- boro, a distance of about thirty miles.
Feb. 3, Mrs. Noel killed by explosion of the W. A. Carter; 13, Mrs. Colonel Ewing died; 15, Mr. Johnson died, the result of wounds inflicted by a homicide; S. V. Rogers died; 25, death of Warner Crow.
March 3, Anthony Fuqua (col.) killed by a stage-driver; 10, death of Atlas Jones. Some floods this month.
April 18, death of Captain E. S. Ayres; 21, C. Hiller's house burned.
May 13, Mrs. Bell's barn burned by an incendiary, with three horses; 17, Cumberland Presbyterian Assembly convened; 21, "Tom," a negro boy, hung on the court-house square by a mob;
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27, death of "Jack" Ayres; 31, William Shelby's dwelling burned; 20, a negro named "Tom" was tried before City Judge Washburn for rape. On his way to the jail an unknown party placed one end of a rope over his head, and threw the other end over a limb of a tree in the court-house yard, and the father of the injured girl drew the prisoner up, where he was kept suspended twenty or thirty minutes, and until after he was quite dead.
June 25, death of John Hathaway.
July, wheat crop very fine, but not so large as the previous year; 21, Confederate tournament above town.
Aug. 19, Mr. Jones's death, from cholera; 23, Miss Warner died, of same.
Sept. 15, another ease of cholera; 20-27, very wet; great dam- age to railroads.
Oct. 26, the three stores of Messrs. Kendall, Moise and Oppen- heimer were burned; loss, $20,000; 29, John Pope died, of con- sumption.
Nov. 9, Tom Barron died; 30, James M. Smith died.
Dec. 5, death of Miss Nannie Ewing; 29, telegraph line to Louis- ville commenced.
1867.
Jan. 11, death of J. G. Harrison; 15, Lizzie Thomas died; 17 and 18, Admiral Semmes delivered two very fine lectures in Court HIall, on the cruise of the Alabama, physical geography of the sea, etc .; 31, Dr. Allen died, of cancer.
Feb. 7, Judge Stuart moved to Owensboro.
March, a cold, wet, backward spring.
April 25, 26, frost. Latest spring ever witnessed here.
May 18, body of G. Gossens found dead. Coldest May ever seen here.
June 28, Jo Dryer dicd, from gunshot wounds inflicted by Bradshaw.
July 14, D. Hamilton's cooper shop burned; 15, R. Patrick's mill burned.
Aug. 28, death of Mrs. Win. Moorman, and 29, of Mrs. C. B. Hicks.
Sept. 5, Pius Clark died.
Oct. 13, Mrs. M. Loyd died; 21, death of J. H. Blair. Exees- sive drought.
November, lovely Indian srammer.
December, commoditiesedioh, Microsof@rce and business dull.
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1868.
Jan. 13, Belle Lee's first trip down; 16, ice six inches thick; 18, "Jack" Bristow died; 21, Mr. Cate, an old man, died; 28, death of Mr. Pfister, from pneumonia; 29, coldest day this month-5°.
Feb. 4 and 10, good skating; 11, death of Mrs. Isham Allen, und 14, of Mrs. Holmes, an old lady; 19, death of J. A. Scott, the saddler.
March 21, Barna May, an old man, died; 24, death of Miss Josie Evans and Mr. Naumheim; 25, Mr. Shedigger's honse burned; 26, death of Mrs. E. Crook. Vegetation forward.
April 1, death of Mr. Nelson; 3-6, frost and ice; 19, death of Mrs. J. Metcalf.
May 14, Mrs. Eliza Watkins died, aged over forty-two years- disease of the heart.
June 7, John S. McFarland died; 14, death of Dr. H. B. Roberts; 18, Clint. Sweeney drowned; 21-23, cool enough for fire in the evening and morning.
July 6, new conrt-house ready for use, and the clerk's offices moved in; 17, one of the hottest days ever witnessed here-100°; a negro woman killed by lightning at the Bransford Institute; 18, 19, over fifty persons sick from drinking milk which had been poisoned with some antimonial preparation; no clue to the origin; none died; 30, James and Jay Mason died.
Sept. 2, Co-operative Association met; 19, death of Mrs. Stem- bridge, and 21, of Mrs. James Jackson.
Oct. 14, death of Mrs. Craycroft.
Nov. 10, death of Kitty Bell; 18, Dr. Mitcheson and W. Y. Cavin died.
Dec. 12, P. Lyddan fell off a horse and was killed; 25, part of the River Hotel burned; 28, some cases of small-pox, especially among the negroes.
1869.
an. 23, Mr. Crutcher's honse burned; 27, a negro man, com- uicted to jail for rape, was hung in the court-house yard.
Feb. 2, Mrs. J. S. McFarland died, of pneumonia; 3, Mrs. Wm. Owen and B. H. Triplett died.
March, cold weather and small-pox prevailing; 17, W. H. Mckay's warehouse burned.
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April 19, death of Mrs. Miles Lancaster, and 29, of Alf. Johnson.
May 6, Miles Lancaster died; 26, Miss Betsey Burgess died; 25, three barges loaded with ice landed at Owensboro for sale. D. Monarch bought 100 tons, at $10 a ton. The blocks of ice weigh- ing 300 to 400 pounds were curiosities to many of the citizens.
June 11, " Dick" Hutchison died; 13, high wind, -- blew down trees in some places.
Jniy 5. Sam Childers died; 7, Joseph Chatham, and 8, Eli Adams, died.
Aug. 25, Mr. Hickey's house burned; " Davis" died from sun- stroke.
Sept. 10, Mr. Lumpkin (the elder) died; 26, Mrs. Lucy Blincoc (nge Roberts) died.
Oct. 11, F. L. Hall's new dramatic hall opened; 28, death ot Captain Ellis and Win. Harl.
Nov. 3, death of Ed. Barber and Mrs. Venable. The whole month cloudy and chilly.
Dec. 31, parsonage of a colored church burned.
1870.
Jan. 21, roller skating rink opened,-Mr. France, manager; 23 Mrs. Sam. McClarty died. River very high this month.
Feb. 7, death of Harp. Higdon.
March 6, death of John W. Schenck; 19, of Mrs. P. F. Smith; 28, of Rev. Isham Howard, a colored ininister.
April 4, election of mayor, and negroes voted for the first time; 21, Dan McFarland died.
May 9, J. Matthews killed by a kick from a horse; 22, James Craig died; 30, Mrs. Enoch Allen died.
July 2, Mrs. A. B. Johnston died; 6, death of Mrs. Wm. Sharpe; 17, Mike Donahne was murdered by Link Ballard, at a small saloon a mile from the city; the murderer was aided by accom- plices; 19, of Mrs. "Dink" Read; 20, one of the heaviest rains ever witnessed
Aug. 6, W. Anthony died.
Oct. 4, death of Miss Amanda Weir; 16, of Charles Montgomery. Nov. 1. first biting frost; 18, Dan. Kennady died.
Dee. 8, O. S. Warner's honse burned; 19, Allen Yewell killed by a log at a house-raising; 21, first freezing weather; 26, ice six inches thick; 28, Mrs. "Ben" Abell chied about this time; 31, locomotive Jo Dareiss put on the track and tried; Mrs. Donaldson died.
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1871.
Jan. 17, John G. Holloway died; 22, Hon. G. H. Yeam. re- moved to New York City.
Feb. 3, death of Mrs. H. N. Davis; 4, of Captain Burge.
April 4, Mrs. James Kennady and Mrs. Ed. Hawes died; 15, Win. Berry's still-house burned; 23, heavy frost.
May 6, Elio Taylor died; 7, frost; 10, J. Villito killed by a saw- head; 16, O. Cain killed Summers and wife; 8, first " beer garden" in the county opened.
June 2, death of Wm. Cummins; 7, meeting of the Kentucky editors in Owensboro; 10, Catholic picnic below town to raise funds for an organ: raised $400.
July 4, mechanics' celebration and procession: J. Stuart, orator; 8, James Hathaway died; 27, death of Mrs. Murray, Nannie Shipp and two children.
Aug. 7, the circuit clerk's office was entered at night by a burg- lar, who cut out three slats of the shutters, and stole the docket for the ensuing terin of court. A similar robbery was committed at preceding term of court.
Aug. 19, death of Mrs. Adele Hagan; 28, of R. P. Aull.
Sept. 18, Mrs. Willis Field died; 24, Mrs. Ogden (old lady), and 30, Ezekiel Camborn died.
Oct. 5, Judge Botts died about this time; 18, death of John O'Brien.
Nov. 1, Judge McHenry died; 14, first wintry day.
1872.
Jan. 5, an actress died of small-pox, at River Hotel; also to-day Lally Conway died; 27, a negro died of small-pox in town; 30, Mrs. Lily E. Mitchell died of congestion of the lungs. Severe winter. On the 29th the river closed for the third time, and re- mained closed until Feb. 11.
Feb. 8, Ap. Spalding and Dr. J. Conway died; 21, another negro died of small-pox; 26, J. G. Delker's furniture factory burned; loss about $15,000; cause of fire unknown, but it origi- nated as if by an incendiary; 16, the railroad blacksmith shop was burned.
March 6, Maggie Ferguson died of consumption; a backward spring; some small-pox in town.
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April 3, J. P. Thompson died of brain fever; 14. a fire of mys- terions origin consnmed the buildings on Frederica street, between Third and Fourth, belonging to Amos R. Hathaway, and the grocery stock of Alvey Brothers; total loss, $8,000 or $10,000.
May 10, J. Vairian died; 27, Geo. Clements died.
Sept. 19, A. Mooreland died.
Dec. - , ice eight inches thick, and very clear; much ice on the roads, almost totally preventing travel; crops good this year; some time during 1872, Mr. Kincheloe killed Mr. Throckmorton, on a road a little west of Owensboro.
1873.
Jan. 29, 4 ° below zero; a hard winter and hard times.
Feb. 2, Henry Hager died; 4, Frank Hagan and Mrs. Hall died; a cold, disagreeable month.
March 3, E. P. Washburn died; spotted fever prevalent; 5, Mrs. L. P. Little and child died; 6, Mrs. Harlin (of spotted fever) and Mr. Johnson died; 16, death of "Jack" Jones and Mrs. Fisher; 21, boiler exploded at M. V. Monarch's distillery and flew into the river, 200 or 300 yards distant; two colored men were fatally injured; excitement in town on account of small-pox or varioloid; a backward spring; peaches not in bloom until April 6.
April 4, B. Trible died; 5, Miss O'Neal died; 10, death of John Sharp, Thomas Kincheloe and Mrs. Wm. Collins; 16, Mr. Incal died; 18, Barna Bunch died; 26, heavy frost.
May 26, boiler in Rouse's mill exploded, killing two men.
June 5, Jerome Mitchell died; 22, Catholic Temperance Union formed-25 members; 25. George Donaldson died of white swelling.
July 2, death of Athy And; 4, of Frank Donring; 5, of Miss Margaret Vairen; 15, Mrs. J. Mitchell died of cholera; 24, Miss Ann Hagan died of typhoid fever.
Aug. 6, Joseph Allen killed by an unknown person; 18, Mrs. Gus. Talbott died; 21, death of L. L. Talbott; 27, Mrs. Chatham died.
Sept. 2, Mrs. Rarick and two others died of cholera; 5, Mrs. Charles Green died of same; 7, James Thomas died of typhoid ever; 15, death of Annie Mitcherson; 25, death of T. Greenwell; 27, Mary Carter died of typhoid fever; there were several other deaths among adults in Owensboro this month; the cholera cases were all in the upper part of town.
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Oct. 4, Jeff. Underwood shot and killed by Bnd Borie; 8, Miss Lou Davis died of typhoid fever; 17, R. G. Moorman died of typhoid pneumonia; 19, Miss Ada Thornton, and 20, John Todd; both died of typhoid fever; 28, Mrs. Thornton died of typhoid fever.
1874.
May 12, Burns's tobacco factory was burned, with 250,000 pounds of tobacco, and adjoining buildings. Sol. Wil and W. S. Brittain (of Louisville) were also losers.
First week in May, two large fires. Thomas O'Brien's stable, dwelling, etc., consumed; loss, $3,600; and the dwelling of W L. Mitchusson, on Railroad street.
Aug. 3, George W. Swoope shot and killed Perry Riley, in the court-house yard near the polls on election day. The deceased left a wife and five small children. Five days afterward Mr. Swoope was admitted to bail in the sum of $5,000, but was finally acquitted on the ground of self-defense.
Dec. 12, a block of buildings on the corner of St. Ann and Main streets was burned. Principal losers : W. N. Sweeney, D. M. Griffith, Charles Kahler and Mr. Driver.
1877.
Nov. 30, Henry McDonald, restaurant keeper, committed suicide by taking cliloroform.
May 12, St Joseph's Church (German Catholic) was burned; loss, about $3,000; insurance, $1,000. Fire probably incendiary.
1878.
Mr. Lavator, a " musical prodigy" as a violin-player, mysteriously appeared upon the streets of Owensboro in June, 1878, shoeless and shirtless, a wretched wanderer, gazing into vacancy and totter- ing along with nervous irregularity. Mr. Stone inquired into his case, and, being asked for a violin, furnished him one. Ile seized it and immediately astonished the bystanders with his powers. Prominent citizens then took up his cause and presented him on the stage two or three times.
Oct. 11, Nick Neal killed Henry Gearhardt, two miles from Grissom's Landing, by stabbing him in the abdomen. Three others were wounded in the affray; it vas a drunken spree. Neal was held to bail in a sum of $2,000.
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Oct. 25, Colin S. Throckmorton, formerly an officer in the U. S. navy, and widely known in this State, died in Owensboro, after a long illness.
Nov. 17, the livery stable and warehouse of Hon. H. D. Mc- Henry, worth $1,500 or $2,000, were burned, along with several other buildings, at or near the corner of First and St. Ann streets, aggregating a loss of about $7,000. Cause of the fire probably in- cendiary, or at best by the carelessness of a tramp.
Dec. 8, Dangerfield Hathaway, a colored boy sixteen years old, was stabbed and killed by Jesse Gibson, another colored lad six- teen or eighteen years old, on Fourth street, Owensboro. It was on Sunday, and Hathaway had just returned from church with a girl; 29, the frame cottage of A. G. Hawes, on Frederica street, was burned.
1879.
May 2, a $1,500 fire occurred, between Mulberry and Walnut streets, the loss falling upon Jolin Gillis, John Thixton, A. Rosen- feld and John Walt.
June 20, another loss of $1,500 by fire was suffered by J. D. Murphy, and Hughes & Alexander. Stable, eight horses and a mule burned. Two days afterward an incendiary burned the Southern Wheel and Handle Factory; loss, over $5,000, and throw- ing abont fifty hands out of . employment.
Sept. 13, a ferocious hog seized a child named Lela A. Hultse, while she was playing in the yard, and dragged the screaming sufferer a distance of fifty feet, almost killing her, before she was rescned.
1880.
April 10, the still-honse, corn and cattle-shed of the John Han- ning distillery were consumed by fire; loss, over $6,000; on the 13th, Hope Mill, on Bolivar street, a dwelling on Third street, and ( 11.er buildings were burned. J. B. Oruse & Co., on the mill, over $6,000. The Misses Green lost $1,500.
July 10, death of Jonn A. Faulds, tobacconist, and a business man of high order. He was a native of Perthshire, Scotland; came to this country in 1855, at the age of eighteen.
Ang. 26, about midnight, Johnson & Cottrell's tobacco factory, P. J. Miller's residence, cottages belonging to Messrs. Woolfolk & Tharp, and other buildings were consumed by fire; loss, over $30,000.
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Sept. 5, N. M. Lancaster & Co.'s large new distillery was de- stroyed by fire; loss, about $25,000; 9, J. S. Pottinger's large cooper-shop, at the west end of the city, was burned, throwing twenty-two men out of employment.
Dec. 4, on account of some exeavation near it, the old Wecker Hotel building fell with a terrible crash, accompanied with cries and shrieks of men, women and children; and, although there were three men, one woman and three children in the building, not one of them was seriously injured; total loss, about $900. It was built in 1850, at the foot of Frederica street, and occupied as a hotel until recently, when it was purchased by the People's Wharf Boat Company.
1881.
June 22, death of Joseph Rothchild, Sr., a prominent and suc- cessful merchant, and founder of the I. O. B. B. of Owensboro.
July 13, a storm so severe as to unroof the court-house, damage many other valuable buildings and destroy thousands of trees.
Sept. 5, W. E. Hubbard accidentally killed by the falling of a derriek near Grimes's coal bank, a mile and a quarter from town.
Oct. 8, Henry Nelson, colored, was shot down in cold blood at a negro dance in Owensboro.
Nov. 13, death of Thomas Monareh, one of the most prominent pioneers of Daviess County. He lived to be eighty-one years of age. A biographical sketch of him is published in tlie Daviess County Atlas and in the Messenger and Examiner of Nov. 16, 1881.
Oct. 15, Jack Luekett was killed by Dick Vowells, in Herron & Co.'s saloon on Main street.
1882.
On the evening of Jan. 6, 1882, the building known as Hall's Opera House was discovered to be in flames. Intense excitement prevailed, which was increased by a rumor that there were people in the building who had failed to escape; this, however, was untrue, as every one had left the theater upon the first alarm of fire. The following is a list of those who suffered losses; Robert Nunn, grocer, lost everything his establishment contained; insured for $4,000. Parish's bookstore was pretty well consumed; loss cov- ered by insurance. H. Washburne, propi or of the Planters' House saloon, was a great loser; loss also nearly covered by insur-
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ance. The Planters' Hotel was almost torn to pieces; it was saved from entire destruction by a fire-proof wall that intervened between it and the fire. The job office of O. T. Kendall, the barber shop of Elijah Hathaway and the dwelling of L. M. Ogden were badly crushed by the falling of the north wall of the Opera House. The Georgia Minstrels, who were to have played that night, sustained great losses.
The Opera House was owned by Alexander Hill, and was built in 1870, at a cost of $22,000. There was an insurance of $10,000 on the whole building. The fire appeared to have originated in the basement, under the grocery of Robert Nunn.
April 16, death of Thomas Moreland, in his forty-first year. He was a Captain in the Confederate army.
:June 30, Madison Jessup shot and killed George Smith, a re- spectable citizen; both were colored. Jessnp got away, and Artie, the wife of the deceased, was arrested for complicity in the act, found guilty and sentenced to imprisonment for life; but the Court of Appeals reversed the decision, and the case now stands continued in court.
Sept. 1, 1882, C. W. Roby arose from his bed in a somnambulistic fit, precipitated himself from a second-story window, near Spoer- ri's Hotel, and killed himself.
Oct. 16 occurred the death of Jacob Arnold, the oldest resident of Owensboro at the time, aged ninety-one years. He was a native of Alton, Switzerland, and the father of Theo, Godfrey and H. Ar- nold, all business men of Owensboro. Although he had been for some years a resident in this country, he never abandoned the language and dress of his native land; and it was a familiar sight on warm, bright mornings to see him for hours in the sunshine by the river, while his little grandchildren played near by. He never acquired the English language, and in his old age he lived a quiet, uneventful life. In his death he left a wife, with whom he liad lived threescore years, and who is now in her eighty-second year.
Nov. 1, death of Benedict D. Coomes, in his seventy-fourth ycar, after a tedious illness. He was born in Nelson County, Ky., and came to this county about 1840.
Dec. 25, a young, negro named Chat. Weit killed Jim Mont- gomery, a white man, in a beer saloon in Owensboro. Weir and two negro girls were drinking beer, when Montgomery commenced a scuffle with him; on being ordered out of the saloon the negro
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ran, followed by Montgomery, when the former shot and killed the latter. Self-defense was claimed.
During this month an itinerant family stopped a few days in the suburbs of the city, one member of which was said to be 122 years old! Her hair was turning dark, her fingers plump and soft, and several other features of youth seemed to be returning. She is now dead.
1883.
Jan. 16, death of Major John H. Smith, at the age of seventy- three. He built the first tobacco factory in Owensboro-probably the first west of the Allegheny Mountains; was a high-toned busi- ness man, wealthy, well-known and highly respected.
BIOGRAPHICAL.
Albert F. Alms, born in Evansville, Ind., July 23, 1851, was a son of Henry and Johanna (Holtz-Lossie) Alins, natives of Ger- many. His mother died in 1873. His father still lives in Evans- ville. In 1864 Albert F. came to Owensboro and shortly after began to learn the tinner's trade, with H. Alms & Co. He worked with them two years when the firm changed, Mr. Alms going out and the business being carried on by Mr. Lossie. He worked for Mr. Lossie until 1872 when he entered the firm as a partner with Wm. Lossie and John C. Frederick, under the firm name of Wm. Lossie & Co. Mr. Alms was married in 1881 to Kate, daughter of Henry Keller, and a native of Daviess County. The firm of Wm. Lossie & Co. is one of the leading firms of the city. The store and salesroom is in charge of Mr. Frederick and the work- shop is under the general supervision of Mr. Lossie and Mr. Alms.
Thomas Sidney Anderson was born July 8, 1842, in Daviess County, Ky. His father, James B. Anderson, was a native of Fay- ette County, Ky., and died in Owensboro, Oct. 17, 1864. He had been a merchant in Louisville and Brandenburg Ky., and a farmer in Daviess County up to 1849 when he was appointed Cashier of the Bank of Kentucky, and at the time of his death was Cashier of Planters' Bank. His mother, Mary Ann (Robertson) Anderson, was a native of Franklin County, Ky., and died in Owensboro, Sept. 18, 1878. Mr. Anderson was educated at a pri- vate school and at Ann Arbor University. While at Ann Arbor he was summoned home by the death of his father. IIe was ap- pointed Cashier in the bank in his father's place, and being also one of
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the executors of his father's estate was unable to finish his course at Ann Arbor. In February, 1871, heand his brother, W. K. Anderson, organized the Owensboro Savings Bank, he remaining the Cashier the Planters' and his brother having charge of the new bank. Business increasing so fast at the new bank, T. S. Anderson thought best to help his brother in the new enterprise, and resigned his position at Planters' Bank in the fall of 1871. In January, 1876, Mr. Anderson bought his brother's interest, his brother going to Detroit, Mich. In April, 1882, he completed his new building at a cost of $15,000. He has been engaged in the insurance business since 1864, having the agency of two companies. In November, 1879, he formed a partnership with J. C. Rudd. He is President of the Owensboro Steam Ferry Company, President of the Owens- boro Coal Company, and is one of the Owensboro Warehouse and Feed Company recently organized. He was married May 29, 1867, to Sneie Harris, of Petersburg, Va. They have three daughters. Mr. Anderson is a member of the Presbyterian church. Politi- cally he is a Republican.
G. M. Arnold, a native of Switzerland, was born Nov. 12, 1844, and came to America with his parents at the age of eleven, settling in Lapole Township, Perry Co., Ind., in 1856, where young Arnold learned the trade of shoemaker. His father, Jacob Arnold, died Oct. 16, 1882, at the ripe old age of ninety-one. His mother, whose maiden name was Burry, resides with her son, at the age of eighty-one. They were both of Switzerland nativity. In 1863 G. M. Arnold moved to Cannelton, Ind., and in 1865 came to Owensboro and en- gaged at his trade of shoemaker. He went West in 1867 but soon re- turned to Owensboro where he engaged as a merchant's clerk. He and Mr. Schwab purchased his employer's business in 1869, estab- lishing his present business of confectionery, toys, notions and queen's-ware, under the firm name of Arnold & Schwab. In 1876 Mr. Arnold purchased his partner's interest and is now conducting the business alone, enjoying at the present time a lucrative trade. Mr. Arnold was married Ang. 19, 1873, to Miss Caroline Gopp. Their fonr interesting children, Jacob, Edward, Cornelia and George, are all living. Mr. and Mrs. Arnold are members of the Catholic church.
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