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William H. Guenther was born in Grand View, Ind., July 16, 1860. His father, W. A. Guenther, dealer in stoves and tinware, Owensboro, was born in Saxony, Germany, and came to America
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when a young man. He was married in Rockport, Ind., to Rachel Mann. They have had a family of nine children, six sons and three daughters. William H., better known as Harry, removed with his parents to Rockport, Ind., soon after his birth and re- mained there until fifteen years of age, when he removed with his parents to Owensboro. He worked in his father's tin and stove store until the spring of 1881 when he made up his mind to start a machine shop. He first started with a foot lathe, doing repair work. The people finding that he could do good work, he soon had more work than he could do, and he purchased an engine and boiler and employed a machinist and blacksmith and established his pres- ent business. He now manufactures shifting pulleys, repairs ma- chinery of all descriptions, and repairs boilers. He also does gas fitting and plumbing-from a foot-power he now has a ten horse- power engine, lathes, drill presses and other improved machinery, and three machinists, one engineer, two blacksmiths and two plumbers, and has all the work he can do, having to work at night to keep up. In November, 1882, Mr. Guenther built his present shop, 30 x 110, two stories higli, corner of Main and Crittenden streets. Mr. Guenther is a wide-awake, practical man and deserves much credit for his success. He is a member of the Fourth Street Presbyterian Church.
Frank T. Gunther, born April 1, 1836, in Bavaria, Germany, is a son of Nicholas and Sophia (Wien) Gunther. His parents came to the United States in 1846, and settled in Cincinnati. He was a professional wine-maker, and entered the house of Nicholas Longwith, the wine manufacturer in the West, and remained as foreman in his department for six years. In March, 1856, he came to Owensboro, and started a brewery. A year and a half later he moved into the country, and ran a vineyard with S. M. Wing, on his land, and in partnership with him, but shortly after sold his interest and moved to the city, where he has since lived a retired life. Frank T. Gunther, when he was thirteen years old, began life for himself. He was engaged as cabin boy, second clerk, etc., for nine years, on the Ohio and Mississippi rivers. He came to Owensboro in September, 1856, and, with his brother, Louis Gunther, opened a grocery and confectionery store. They got $2,800 between them from their mother's estate in Germany. In 1857 they broke up in business, owing to the panic of that year, and came out about $4,300 in debt, which was after settled up by Mr. Gunther entirely satisfactory. He then went back on the
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river, and remained till 1859, when he went to Pike's Peak, where he stayed about three or four months, when he returned to Owens- boro, and went back on the river. In 1860 he settled in business in Owensboro, with $1,200 in groceries and confectionery. In 1880 Mr. Gunther, with John G. Weir, L. M. Lancaster, and M. P. Mat- tingly, started a distillery, as the firm of L. M. Lancaster & Co., with a capital of $6,000; distillery situated below town about a mile and a half. The distillery was destroyed by fire in September, 1880; partly covered by insurance. He then sold out his share to the balance of the company, and in February, 1881, incorporated the John Hanning Distillery Company, and built the distillery about a mile below town. He has a partner, G. W. Crutcher. Mr. Gunther has always been a Democrat. He was married in 1859 to Miss Sophia Stubenrauch, a native of Louisville. They have three children,-Frank T., Jr., Belle J., and Daisy. They lost a son in 1869, aged five years.
Jacob Gutapfel (Goodapple), born in Dearborn County, Ind., April 19, 1840, is a son of George and Mary Goodapple, natives of Alsace, France, of German descent. They came to America in 1833 and settled on a farm in Dearborn County, Ind. In 1838 they went to Cincinnati and engaged in the grocery business till his death, in 1848. In 1852 the family went to Lexington, Ky., where they lived till 1859, when they came to Owensboro. There was a family of five children, only two living. When the family moved from Lexington to Owensboro, Jacob went to Memphis, Tenn. In April, 1861, he enlisted in the Confederate army in Colonel Martin's regiment, General Bowen's brigade. Sunday eve, April 6, 1862, at the battle of Shiloh, he was wounded, and the next morning taken from the field to Memphis where he had his leg amputated. He was in the hospital a month, and then taken to the residence of his friends in the suburbs, where he remained two months. In July, 1863, he came to Owensboro and opened a gro- cery store. In 1882 he erected a fine business block on Fourth street, between Center and Pearl, at a cost of $3,250. May 9, 1868, he married Sarah F. Jones, a native of Alabama. They have six children-George Lee, James Thomas, Charles Jacob, Louisa, Josephine, and Mamie. Mr. Goodapple was one of the charter members at the organization of the Ancient Order of United Work- men, Owensboro, in 1874.
Charles J. Hager, of the firm of F. T. Gunther & Co., groceries and liquor dealers, Owensboro, was born in the city of Owensboro,
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July 18, 1850, son of Henry and Anna S. (Shune) Hager, natives of Bavaria, Germany, and Saxony. His father came to the United States when a young man and settled in Louisville, Ky., where he worked at the cooper's trade and was married. He came to Owens- boro in 1843, and died Feb. 2, 1872. His wife is still living with her youngest son, J. F. Hager. They had a family of four sons and two daughters, three sons living-Henry F., of the firm of Hager & Moore, dairymen, and dealers in fine stock; Charles J., subject of this sketch, and John F. Hager, who graduated from the Evans- ville Commercial College, and is now bookkeeper for the firm of F. T. Gunther & Co. Charles J. attended school until seventeen when he graduated from the Commercial School and engaged in the grocery business, and in March, 1882, formed his present part- nership. He married Bertha Spoerri, March 1, 1882. She was born in Highland, Ill., and is a daughter of John Spoerri, proprietor of Spoerri's Hotel in Owensboro. Mr. Hayes is a member of Star Lodge, No. 19, K. of P., Owensboro. In polities he is a Democrat.
Samuel H. Harrison, proprietor of Harrison's livery stable, and of the firm of Harrison, Milne & Todd, undertakers, was born in Shelby County, Ky., Dec. 14, 1834, and is a son of Samuel G. and Susan (Garner) Harrison. His father is still living in Boston Precinct. Samuel H. was the third son of a family of four sons and three daughters. He lived on a farm till October, 1869, when he moved to Owensboro and engaged in the livery business. In 1875 he added the undertaker's business. Jan. 17, 1860, he married Josephine Taylor, a native of Daviess County, Ky., and a daughter of Thomas R. and Mary (Shoemaker) Taylor. Mr. and Mrs. Harrison are members of the First Baptist Church. They have had a family of nine children, eight living-Elizabeth F., wife or J. D. Hayes; Flemming F., Robert H., Mary S., Walter G., Charles R., John T., James T. Anna D. died, aged two years. Mr. Harrison owns a fine farm of 319 acres in Upper Town Precinct.
Robert E. Haynes, manager clothing depot for Phillips Bros. & McAtee, was born in Whitesville, Daviess County, Oct. 2, 1856, son of F. W. and Cassandra (Miller) Haynes, natives of Ohio County, Ky. They had a family of six sons, five living, Robert being the fourth. He attended the private schools of Whites- ville and Georgetown until twenty. He engaged in farming on his father's farm one year, the tobacco business one year, and traveled in Texas five months; then came to Owensboro and engaged in the tobacco business one year; then was employed by the clothing
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house of Abe Hirsch until October, 1881, when he accepted his pres- ent position with Phillips Bros. & McAtee. Mr. Haynes mar- ried Lizzie Troutman Nov. 16, 1882. She was born in Owensboro, the daughter of J. P. Troutman. Mr. and Mrs. Haynes arc mem- bers of the church-he of the Baptist and she of the Methodist Episcopal church. In politics he is a Democrat.
Adolph Helmke is a native of Prussia, born near the city of Ber- lin, April 8, 1837. He is the third of eight children of Christo- pher Helmke, a miller in Germany. In 1859 he came alone to the United States and worked at the tobacco trade in Fort Wayne, Ind .; thence to Evansville, and in 1860 came to Owensboro and established the first tobacco mannfactory in Owensboro. In May, 1862, married Mary Stoker, a native of Germany. She died in 1865, leaving one daughter-Lizzie, born Feb. 12, 1863. March 8, 1868, Mr. Helmke married Cary Seyfried, a native of Germany. They have two sons-George F., born Dec. 26, 1869, and Adolph L., born Jan. 1, 1871. The mother died Aug. 2, 1874. Mr. Helmke is a member of Harigari Lodge, Owensboro, and Lodge No. 2,525, K. of H., Owensboro. In politics he is a Republican.
James H. Hickman, M. D., tobacco merchant, was born in Bardstown, Ky., March 17, 1852, son of William A. Hickman, M. D., a leading physician at Springfield, Ill. He was about four- teen years of age when he moved with his parents to Daviess County. He attended the St. Joseph College in Bardstown, Ky., two years, then attended the University at Springfield, Ill., for one year. He then returned home to Daviess County, and began the study of medicine with his father, graduating at the Medical University at Louisville, Ky., in 1875. He practiced five years with his father, and then located in Owensboro and engaged in the drug business until 1880, when he engaged in tobacco business, forming his present partnership with F. J. Clark, under the firm name of Clark & Hickman. They have one of the oldest and largest factories in the city. Dr. Hickman married Adele H. Jack- son, in Owensboro, Oct. 1, 1877. She was born near Masonville, Daviess Co., Ky., a daughter of James S. and Sne (Hawes) Jack- son. Dr. and Mrs. Hickman are members of the Methodist Epis- copal church. They have two children-Virginia A., born May 28, 1878, and William Christopher Jackson, born April 18, 1881. Dr. Hickman is a member of Star Lodge No. 19, K. of P. He is Director in the First National Bank of Owensboro. In politics he is a Democrat.
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R. A. Higdon, chief clerk for Joseph Rothchild, Owensboro, was born in thecity of Owensboro, June 27, 1839. He attended school here until twenty when he commenced clerking for Solomon Kigel and remained with him one year. Then was with J. H. Millett and Taylor & Millett three years. He clerked for various parties until 1875, when he accepted his present position with Mr. Rothchild. Mr. Higdon married Miss Louella Mitchell Dec. 6, 1859. She was a daughter of J. B. Mitchell, deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Higdon are members of the Catholic church. They have had six children, five living-Joseph P., Anna M., John T., Robert and Wirt J. Manuel died, aged three years and three months. Politically Mr. Higdon is a Democrat. He was the eldest son of the six children of Thomas H. and Catherine M. (Mattingly) Higdon, five of whom are living.
J. T. Higgins, born in Knottsville Precinct, Daviess Co., Ky., Aug. 31, 1840, is a son of John B. and Eliza (Higdon) Higgins, His father was born at Greenbrier, Va., in 1812 and died in November, 1882. His mother was born in Nelson County, Ky., and is now living with her son in Owensboro aged sixty-one years. There were two children-J. T. and Henry, both residents of Owensboro. Mr. Higgins came to this city with his parents when small and was educated here and at St. Joseph's College, Bards- town, Ky. In 1855 he commenced the study of medicine with Dr. J. W. Compton, now of Evansville, Ind. The next year he went into the drug store of S. J. Howard, to learn the trade of a druggist. He was there a year and then went to St. Joseph's College and remained a part of two years. He then returned to Owensboro and resumed the study of medicine with Drs. J. W. Compton and J. F. Kimbley, with the intention of becoming a physician. Hc remained with them a year and a half when the war broke out, and he went with Dr. Kimbley, as a medical cadet, in the Eleventh Kentucky Volunteer Infantry. In the spring of 1862 he was com- missioned Assistant Surgeon of the regiment and served until October, 1864, when he was discharged at Bowling Green, Ky. After his return to Owensboro he was appointed Depnty Sheriff, under J. G. Harrison, and held that office a year. In 1866 he went into the sewing-machine business, having four counties under his supervision. In 1874 he formed a partnership with V. P. Wells in the drug business, under the firm name of Wells & Higgins. At the end of the year Mr. Wells retired, J. W. Carter taking his place and changing the name to Carter & Higgins. Feb. 1, 1876
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they sold the business to J. C. Schrader. In August, 1876, Mr. Hig- gins opened a store in Knottsville, but only remained there till October, 1877. Jan. 3, 1878, he opened a store in Owensboro on Third street, where he remained two years and then removed to his present location, known as the Planters' House drug store. Dec. 20, 1865, he married Kate N., daughter of Richard S. and Mira (Riley) Windsor. She was born in Daviess County, and educated at Lonisville, Ky., and St. Francis Academy, Owensboro. They have three children-Eloise, John K. and Robert P. Two children, Ida M. and Joseph, died in infancy. Mr. Higgins has been connected with the Catholic church from his infancy. Mrs. Higgins's father died in 1848 and her mother in 1858.
J. H. Hodgkins, born in Nelson County, Ky., April 15, 1821, was a son of James H. and Mary Elizabeth (Emerson) Hodgkins. His father was a farmer and came to Daviess County in 1832, settling in the upper part of the county, but afterward removed to the lower part, where he died in 1862. His mother died in 1869. J. H. was the second of seven children. He was educated in Bullitt County, Ky., and assisted his father on the farm till twenty-three years of age. He then farmed for himself a few years, after which he engaged in the mercantile business, near Knottsville. He re- mained there three years, and has since been engaged in merchan- dising in different parts of the county. He conducted a merchant mill in this county four years. Mr. Hodgkins has served as Con- stable, and in 1863 was elected Justice of the Peace. He has held that office sixteen years, and is at present an incumbent. He was married Jnly 2, 1844, to Margaret A. Adams. Seventeen children were born to them. seven now living-James A., John T., Joseph H., Rosetta A., Lon B., Marion A. and Henry. Mrs. Hodgkins died in 1876. Mr. Hodgkins is now living in Owensboro, and at the age of sixty-two is apparently in the prime of life, enjoying good health, and commanding the respect of all who know him. He is a member of the Catholic church, as was also his wife. Polit- ically he is a Democrat.
W. H. Johnson, proprietor of Johnson & Palmer's sample room and billiard parlors, Owensboro, Ky., was born in Owens- boro, Nov. 18, 1849, and was a son of W. J. and Eliza (Briston) Johnson, both natives of Kentucky. His father died in 1875, and his mother in 1880. She was a member of the Baptist church: They had a family of ten children, two sons and two daughters living-Henrietta, wife of J. C. Ashburne; IIarriet, wife of Thomas
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Palmer; George W. and W. H. W. H. worked with his brother- in-law, J. C. Ashby, in the hotel and saloon business, in Owens- boro, until June, 1882, when he formed a partnership with Robert Bailey and opened Johnson's sample rooms, in Monarch building on Frederica street. In October, 1882, Thomas Palmer bought Mr. Bailey's interest. They are fitted up in first-class order. They have a first-class sample room and keep a full line of imported and domestic wines and liquors. They also have a fine billiard hall. Messrs. Johnson & Palmer pride themselves on keeping the best sample rooms in the city.
Samuel D. Kennady, the oldest male citizen born in the city now living, was born July 3, 1823. His father, Isaac Kennady, a native of Bullitt County, Ky., was one of the oldest merchants of the city, and a brother of Peter Kennady, of whom Collins gives an account in his " History of Kentucky," as being captured by the Indians and kept a prisoner ten years. He married Lydia Dysou, a native of Bullitt County, in 1821. Samuel D. is the oldes of their five children, three of whom are living. His father died Aug. 8, 1844. His mother is still living. He received his educa- tion in Owensboro. He was married Nov. 19, 1846, to Melvina, daughter of J. H. McFarland. To them have been born seven children, three now living. In the spring of 1856 he commenced in the mercantile business, at which he continued twenty years. Since 1876 he has been President of the Owensboro and Evans- ville Telegraph Co. Since the fall of 1878 he has been actively engaged in life insurance. Mr. Kennady was first Chairman of the Board of Trustees before the city was incorporated. He was Mayor of Owensboro six years. He was one of the first Directors of the Owensboro & Russellville Railroad ; was President of the road a year, and associated with it six years. He has been a member of the First Baptist Church since 1848. Mr. Kennady has always been prominently and actively engaged in the business interests of the county. .
Major W. E. Kilgore, United States Ganger, Owensboro, is a native of Virginia, and was born in Scott County, July 20, 1847. Ifis father, Charles G. Kilgore, was born in Scott County, Va., where he was married to Elizabeth Bevins, daughter of Captain James Bevins, a Representative to the Virginia Legislature a number of years. Charles G. Kilgore was a practicing physician for twenty years. In 1849 he removed to Lawrence County, Ohio, and settled near Irontown, where he practiced until his death,
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which occurred April, 1865. His wife died in 1857. Major W. E. Kilgore was the second son and third child of their eight children. Ile was but three years old when he removed with his parents from Virginia to Lawrence County, Ohio. He remained on his father's farm, attending school until fifteen, when on June 2, 1861, he enlisted in Company D, Eighty-sixtli Ohio Infantry; served' as private in the company until 1862, when he re-enlisted in Com- pany B, Thirty-ninth Kentucky Mounted Infantry Volunteers, as First or Orderly Major; and in July, 1864, was commissioned Sergeant; remained in this company and regiment actively in the field until Aug. 9, 1864, when he was wounded with a musket ball in the right knee at the battle of Burning Springs, Magoffin County, Ky. He was then in the general hospital at Ashland and Coving- ton, Ky., until June 12, 1865. IIe was in the battles of Buchanan, Gauly Bridge, Cheat River, Horse Shoe Bend, Saltville, Hazel Green, Lexington, and Burning Springs, Ky., and several others. At the close of the war he returned to Lawrence County, Ohio, and finished up his academic course and read law until March, 1874, when he began to read law with the IIon. E. W. Bagby, at Paducah, Ky., and was admitted to the bar soon after; formed a partnership with him and Judge Marshall and engaged in the practice of law until January, 1881, when he wasappointed United States Gauger at Owensboro. He is at present Commander of James S. Jackson Post, No. 3, G. A. R., headquarters at Owensboro. Major Kil- gore married Mary E. Collier, Dec. 8, 1876. She was born in Me Cracken County, Ky., and was educated and reared in Padu- cah. Her father was C. C. Collier, for many years a wholesale merchant of Paducah, Ky. Major Kilgore is a member of the Methodist Episcopal, and his wife of the Christian church. They have three children-Mousie, born Feb. 24, 1877; Zola and Blaine. In politics he is a Republican. He is of Scotch and English descent.
George A. Kollenberg, manufacturer and dealer in stoves and tinware, corner of Second and Triplett streets, was born in Evansville, Ind., Aug. 26, 1846, and is a son of August and Christina (Schultze) Kollenberg, natives of Germany, who came with their parents to America when children. They are both living at Owensboro, and have had a family of eight children- three sons. George A. was the eldest. He remained in Evans- ville, Ind., until three years of age, when he came with his parents to Owensboro. When about sixteen years of age he went
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to San Antonio, Texas, and remained till 1865. when he returned to Owensboro, and learned the tinner's trade. Jan. 16, 1868, he married Lotta E. Brown, a native of Owensboro, and a dangh- ter of Preston II. and Matilda (Leaman) Brown. After his mar- riage Mr. Kollenberg opened a grocery store, and engaged in that business eighteen months; then opened a tin and store store in Morganfield, Union Co., Ky., where he remained until 1876, when he and his brother-in-law, George Brown, took a tour down the Ohio and Mississippi rivers to Memphis. Tenn. Thence to Little Rock, Ark., Kansas City, St. Louis, Mo., Keokuk, Ia , and Edwardsville, Ill., where Mr. Kollenberg worked seven months; then traveled for a wholesale tin, store, and house-furnish- ing house, through Illinois, Kentneky, and Indiana, until Novem- ber, 1882, when he established his present business in Owensboro. Ile occupies a building 70 x 20 feet, and carries a complete stock of stoves and tinware. Mr. and Mrs. Kollenberg have four chil- dren-Frederie G., born Feb. 20, 1869; Samuel A., born Jan. 6, 1872, died Sept. 26, 1874 ; Artie M., born Nov. 9, 1875; Harry P., born Dec. 10, 1877. Mr. and Mrs. Kollenberg are members of the M. E. church. Ile invented the little family " apple cutter " which he patented and still owns. Ile was quite a sportsman in base-ball eireles, and received the prize as thrower in left field, and various other prizes as a base ball player.
Charles K. Lehrberg, son of Kaufman and Celia (Rosenfeld) Lehr- berg, was born in Albany, N. Y., April 27, 1852. At sixteen years of age he graduated at the Albany Academy, and then entered the mercantile business in his native city, and subsequently was with Stern Bros., of New York City, and at other points. October, 1876, he removed to Owensboro, where his parents had preceded him. IIere he formed a partnership with his brother in the clothing business, under the firm name of C. & S. Lehrberg. They dis- solved in 1879, since which date Mr. Lehrberg has been managing the gents' furnishing and hat bu iness for J. Wily, corner of Main and Frederica streets. Mr. Lehrberg was married Oct. 17, 1876, to Miss Bertha Wily, of Vinton, Iowa. They have one child-Edna, born Oet. 8, 1877. Ile and wife are members of the Congrega- tion Adath Israel. IIe has passed the chairs in the order of K. of P .; is a member of the Independent Order of Workingmen, and of the B'nai Brith, a Jewish organization.
S. W. Long was born in Breckinridge County, Ky., in 1839. His father was Rev. William (. Long, a clergyman in the Cumberland
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Presbyterian church. He was a native of North Carolina. In the war of 1812 Wm. Long fought nnder General Andrew Jackson. He moved to Kentucky in an early day and settled in Breckinridge County, where he died in 1834. The mother of our subject was Elizabeth Crutcher, a native of Jessamine County, Ky. After the death of her husband Mrs. Long moved from Breckinridge County to Louisville. At this time S. W. Long was but seven years of age. It was here he spent his boyhood days and was reared to ma- turity, or to the age of about twenty. During the war Mr. Long served in the Confederate service under General John H. Morgan. He served until the close of the war, and was one of the escort who accompanied President Davis and his cabinet from Charlotte, N. C., to Washington, Ga. Mr. Long was married Jan. 23, 1866, to Annie A. Weeks, at Lonisville, Ky., and in 1877, in company with Mrs. Long, went to Grahamtown, Ky., and engaged as machinist and engineer at the cotton factory there, remaining three and a half years, when, in 1872, they moved to Owensboro, where he bonght the interest of J. A. Castlen in the Owensboro City Foundry and Machine Shops, in which he continued under the firm name of Guthrie & Long until Mr. Bransford was taken in as partner, the style of the firm now being Guthrie, Long & Bransford. Mr. and Mrs. Long have five children, who were born in the order given-Effie Lee, William Foree, Courtney Austin, Bessie Christ- man, Herbert Steele. In his religious convictions Mr. Long worships in the faith of his father, and is now an Elder in the Cumberland. Presbyterian church, in Owensboro.
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