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In 1888 he bought the teams and business of John Hamilton; the fol- lowing year he became the owner of a three-team transfer company operated by Everton & Yeaden between Louisville and New Albany; in 1891 he purchased the business of his father, which was his begin- ning in the coal trade; soon afterward he bought a piece of ground on West Second street, between Main and the Ohio river, for a retail coal yard; in 1895 he purchased the site, docks and elevator of Charles H. Fawcett, on East Fourth street and the river; purchased additional ground in 1896 that gave him railway connection with all the roads centering at New Albany; added lime, cement and sand to his business in 1898, and put on a line of pump boats; also the steam tug Louise; put on a steam coal digger the same year, the second machine of the kind below Cincinnati; in 1900 he purchased the property adjoining his yards, and fronting on the river, from the John Plotz estate; put on an additional "digger" to be used for lightening barges, etc .; built the harbor towboat, the E. T. Slider, and eight small barges for sand, crossties, etc., and began pumping sand on his own account; has the best equipped pumping outfit about the three falls cities, hav- ing a capacity of 800 cubic yards per day ; ships both by rail and water to all the surrounding towns; purchased the property of the Republic Iron and Steel Works, better known as the New Albany Forge and Rolling Mills, in March, 1902, and installed a $30,000 unloading plant, with a daily capacity of 25,000 bushels. This property is on East Water street, between Sixth and Eighth streets and adjoined his yards. Its purchase gives him better railway facilities, as it extends from the Pan Handle tracks to the Belt line. He has about 1,300 feet of siding along the former, enough to hold twenty-five cars at one time, and nearly a thousand feet of siding along the Belt line railroad. With his superior unloading facilities the coal can be dumped into these cars after being rescreened, or it can be loaded on wagons for local delivery or dropped in the yard, where he has stor- age for 1,000,000 bushels of coal and 20,000 tons of sand and gravel. Altogether he has one of the most complete coal, lime, sand and cement outfits on the river, and has the satisfaction of know- ing that he has built up this magnificent business by his energy, his strict attention to business, his square dealing and his general superb business qualifications. As he is a young man, with good health, it is more than likely that the future contains for him even greater pros- perity than he has enjoyed in the past. Mr. Slider was married in 1888 to Miss Anna Conner and they have six children living.
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CHARLES HEGEWALD, president of the Charles Hegewald Company, founder's and machinists, of New Albany, Ind., was born in Saxony, Germany, Sept. 18, 1832. He was reared and educated in his native land, there learned the trade of machinist and worked at it as a jour- neyman long enough to get money to pay his passage to America. About the time he reached his majority he came to this country, and in 1854 he located at New Albany, which city has ever since been his home. His first employment in New Albany was with the Louisville, New Albany & Chicago Rail- road Company in the shops. A strike caused him to lose his place there, and he went to work for the Union foundry. In 1856 he went to the American foundry, and was later employed in the works of Lent, South & Shipman, where he remained until the breaking out of the Civil war. He then returned to the American foundry as foreman and stayed with that concern until the year 1873, when he formed a partnership with the late W. C. DePauw, under the firm name of Charles Hegewald & Co. In 1878 N. C. DePauw purchased his father's interest and continued until 1889, when he retired, and the business was incorporated under the name of the Charles Hegewald Company, with the subject of this sketch as president, E. J. Hewitt as secretary, A. F. Hegewald as treasurer, and E. C. Hegewald as assistant secretary. The company does a large business in stationary and steamboat boilers and machinery, glass works machinery, all sorts of brass and iron castings, smokestacks, sheet iron and steel work, and mill supplies. The plant covers half a square of ground at the corner of Lower State and Water streets, and employs from 100 to 150 men, the annual business amounting to over $200,000. The goods turned out by the Charles Hegewald Company have a widespread reputation for being honestly and scientifically con- structed, and the name of the company on a piece of machinery is a guarantee of its workmanship. Mr. Hegewald was married in 1855 to Miss Catharine Meyer, and they have four children: Emma is the wife of Edwin Reiley, proprietor of the Boston Shoe Store in New Albany; John F. C. is a graduate of West Point, and now lives in Louisville, Ky., and Arthur F. and Edwin C. are both officers in the Charles Hegewald Company.
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REV. EDWARD M. FALLER, dean of the New Albany district and rector of the Church of the Annunciation of the B. V. M., is one of the oldest and most notable ecclesiastics in the diocese of Indianapolis. He was born at Barr, in the province of Alsace, now a part of the German Empire, Jan. 3, 1824; educated at Strasburg until his sixteenth year; embarked for America, Jan. 19, 1840, and landed at New Orleans on the 11th of April; reached Vincennes on the Ist of May; in the autumn of the same year entered the diocesan seminary there, where he took a course of six years, and was ordained priest by Bishop Hailandiere, July 5, 1846. Since then the life and work of Father Faller have been a part of the warp and woof of the diocese. For nearly threescore years he has followed his holy calling without faltering, though at times the out- look was anything but propitious. His first mission was at Lanes- ville, Harrison county, Ind., where he began two days after his ordina- tion and continued until October 7th following; then at St. Augus- tine's, at Fort Wayne, until 1848, when he organized the Mother of God congregation in that city; left this congregation with fairly good buildings and out of debt, in March, 1857; then came to New Albany and took charge of the Annunciation congregation; remained there ten years and one month, during which he paid $2,200 of the debt he found on his arrival, and built the main part of the present church at a cost of $20,000, every dollar of which he paid; next he went to St. Benedict's, Terre Haute, where in four years he improved the grounds, paid a debt of $8,000, half of which was his personal contribution; from St. Benedict's he went to Cannelton, Ind., taking charge there on March 3, 1871, of St. Michael's congregation; here he found a debt of $9,000; paid $4,000 of it in a few months, and with $10,000 of his own money built a new parsonage and improved the church. He remained at Cannelton until November, 1878, also having charge of St. Paul's, at Tell City, during the last twenty-one months of that time. He then removed to Tell City and there remained until Oct. 12, 1882. In that time he finished a church that had been commenced, and paid the debts hanging over his congregation, in all amounting to $21,000. From Tell City he went to St. Michael's, at Madison, Ind. Here Father Faller found a congregation that was under an apathy he was unable
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to dispel. After nearly three years there he asked for another mission, and in July, 1885, was sent to St. Ann's, in Jennings county. Here he paid a portion of the $1,100 indebtedness, built a new school house, added to the parsonage, and improved the church, all amounting to about $8,000, of which he paid $7,000. On July 14, 1886, he returned to New Albany as rector of the Church of the Annunciation. His predecessor, Father Klein, had commenced the work of enlarging the church, and Father Faller carried out the original designs, later build- ing a new rectory at a cost of $7,500, and spending $5,000 on paint- ings, statues, organ, etc. At the Fourth Synod of the diocese of Vin- cennes, November, 1886, he was appointed dean of the New Albany district, composed of the counties of Floyd, Clark, Harrison, Craw- ford, Washington and Scott. He was not present at the time, and his appointment came unsought and unexpected. Fourscore years have passed since Dean Faller first saw the light of day in the little Alsatian town beyond the sea. Nearly three-fourths of that time has been spent in the business of his Master. As he looks back over the long life he awaits the words of approbation, "Well done, thou good and faithful servant."
THE DAY LEATHER COMPANY of New Albany, Ind., is the oldest concern of its kind in the vicinity of the Ohio Falls, and is gen- erally spoken of as the "Pioneer Tannery." It was founded in 1838 by Theodore Day, who was born in Prussia in 1812 and came to the United States in 1837. It was first located at Lanesville, ten miles from New Albany, but in 1851 was removed to the city. In 1883 the business was incorporated as the Day Leather Company, with Theo- dore Day as president, and Anthony T. Day, secretary and treasurer. Upon the death of Theodore Day in 1885 the official personnel of the company was changed to Anthony T. Day, president; John I. Day, vice-president, and Charles Day, secretary and treasurer, and has thus remained ever since. The tannery is located at the corner of Fourth and Oak streets, employs about sixty workmen, and has a capacity of 600 heavy hides per week, the product being sold all over the United States. The founder learned the business of leather making in Prus- sia, Austria and France, and the technical knowledge he acquired has been imparted to his sons, the result being that the leather turned out by this concern has no superior in the markets of the country.
Anthony T. Day, the president of the company, was born near New Albany, May 15, 1844. He was educated in the public and private schools of that city and for two years in his early manhood he con-
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ducted a leather store in St. Louis, Mo. In 1871 he sold out this store and returned to New Albany, where he has since been connected with the company of which he is now the official head, most of the time as its active manager. He was married on July 18, 1875, to Miss Eliza- beth Poole, a native of Iowa, and they have three children. George H. is a physician of Louisville, Ky .; Clarence C. holds a responsible position with the firm of Hanna & Co., in their extensive saw and planing mills and lumber yards of Cincinnati, and Nellie B. is at home with her parents.
Charles Day, the secretary and treasurer of the company, was born in the city of New Albany, June 13, 1863. After graduating from the New Albany business college he became connected with the business founded by his father, and since 1885 has held his present position. The Day brothers have a high standing in the commercial circles of New Albany, and are regarded as among the representative citizens of the city. Public-spirited, progressive and charitable, they have won a prominent position in the estimation of their fellow-men.
GEORGE M. CLARK, president of the Ohio Falls Iron Company, New Al- bany, Ind., was born in the city of Cin- cinnati, March 4, 1855. His father, George W. Clark, was formerly a banker of that city, but at the close of the Civil war moved across the river to Covington, Ky., where the son was reared and edu- cated, graduating from the Hughes high school in Cincinnati at the age of eighteen years. He then went into a brass foundry and supply house, the firm of William Kirkup & Son, Cincinnati, and remained with them until 1881, when he withdrew to become a member of the firm of Clark & Hawley, lead pipe and sheet lead works, and dealers in plumbers' and steamfitters' supplies, in Cincinnati. This business is still carried on under the name of Crane & Hawley. In 1891 Mr. Clark sold out his interest and bought a large share in the well known Mitchell-Tranter Company, manufacturers of iron and steel. Of this concern he was president until 1899, when it was merged into the Republic Iron and Steel Company, Mr. Clark continuing with that corporation as a director and district manager. A little later he severed his connection with the company, however, came to New Al-
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bany; bought the idle plant of the Ohio Falls Iron Works; organized the company of which he is now president, and Henry Green vice- president; expended $50,000 in a little over a month in putting the plant in good working condition; and in the latter part of 1899 com- menced business. Within less than two years the volume of business had increased to such an extent as to make necessary the erection of a new rolling mill just west of the old one, and since then both mills have been running to their full capacity, the plant employing about 900 men and having an annual capacity of 40,000 tons of bar iron, most of which finds ready sale in the railroad shops and car works of the country, because of its superior quality. Mr. Clark is vice-presi- dent of a large mercantile concern in Cincinnati, known as the Cincin- nati Iron Store Company, which he was instrumental in organizing in 1901. This company deals in iron and steel and all kinds of structural materials. He is also a director in the First National bank of Coving- ton, Ky. In the business life of Mr. Clark the young man may find an example worthy of the highest emulation. Realizing that we live in a commercial age, he caught in early life the spirit of the time, and has gone steadily forward from one enterprise to another, turning his attention to that which the demands of the day seemed most to justify. By his close observation of the market conditions, he has been able to embark in lines of business that were certain to yield returns; by his industry and well directed efforts he has made those undertakings suc- cessful; by his sound judgment and conservative methods he has avoided everything like speculation and confined himself to legitimate schemes; and by his sterling integrity he has made friends in the busi- ness world who know that he can always be relied on to carry out his contracts to the very letter. Mr. Clark is a prominent member of the Masonic fraternity, being a thirty-second degree member of the Scot- tish Rite and a Noble of the Mystic Shrine. He was married Dec. 20, 1876, to Miss Ada Tranter of Covington, Ky., and they have three children: Lucy is now the wife of William F. Streich of New York, and the two sons, Clifford E. and James T., are associated with their father in business.
WILLIAM A. M'LEAN, vice-president and general manager of the Wood-Mosaic Flooring Company of New Albany, Ind., and Roches- ter, N. Y., and also vice-president of the Hugh McLean Lumber Com- pany of Buffalo, N. Y., was born near Montreal, Canada, May 31, 1868. He was reared and educated in Canada, and at the age of six- teen years began his business career. At the age of twenty-one he
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went to Buffalo, N. Y., and secured a position in a hardwood lumber concern, remaining there for three years, in which time he learned the details of the business. In 1892 he formed a partnership with his three brothers, Hugh, Angus and Robert D., under the firm name of the Hugh McLean Lumber Company, with headquarters in Buffalo. It carries on an extensive lumber business all over the country, with branch offices at Louisville, Ky .; New Albany, Ind .; Chattanooga, Tenn .; Bedford, Ind., and Rochester, N. Y. Angus McLean is presi- dent and general manager of the Hugh McLean Lumber Company, Hugh is treasurer, William A. is the vice-president, and Robert D. is the secretary. At the New Albany branch of the company they are operating a large plant known as the Wood-Mosaic Flooring Com- pany, of which C. E. Rider of Rochester is president, William A. McLean vice-president and general manager, Angus McLean secre- tary and treasurer. Besides the plant at New Albany, the company has factories at Buffalo and Louisville. Mr. McLean came to New Albany in 1900. He is fond of sports, particularly hunting, and every autumn he joins a party of friends for a deer hunt in Canada, where the four brothers have a game reserve of 121 square miles. He is a Knight Templar.
HENRY GREEN, vice-president of the Ohio Falls Iron Company, was born Dec. 16, 1846, in Shropshire, England, on a farm which had been in the possession and the residence of some of his family name for two hundred and forty-five years. Upon the death of his father Henry decided to learn the business of iron making, and at the age of sixteen years he entered a rolling mill, where he served as an apprentice until he was twenty-three. He then left his mother country and drifted into foreign lands. First he went to St. Petersburg, Russia, but not understanding the language he made but a short stay and came to America, landing in New York in June, 1869. Mr. Green went direct to Pittsburg, where he took charge of the roll turning department of the Phillips & Jor- dan mills; then to the Fulton rail mill of Cincinnati; next the Swift Iron and Steel Works of Newport, Ky., and in 1873 he assumed the charge of the Mitchell & Tranter rolling mills, in Covington, Ky. For
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some time he continued in charge of all four of these plants, and in 1876 became one of the organizers of the Anchor Iron and Steel Works of Newport, remaining a stockholder in the concern during the period of its existence. About the same time he became interested in some coal mines near Terre Haute, Ind., but as they were eighteen miles from a railroad the project was abandoned. In 1890 Mr. Green severed his connection with all the mills except the Mitchell-Tranter Company, in which he then became a stockholder, and remained with the company until it was merged into the Republic Iron and Steel Company in 1899, and he still retains his stock in the latter corpora- tion. While with the Mitchell-Tranter Company, Mr. Green formed the acquaintance of George M. Clark, president and general manager of the company, and has ever since been closely associated with him in business. (See sketch of Mr. Clark.) In 1899, in connection with Mr. Clark, he assisted in organizing the Ohio Falls Company and has been vice-president from the incorporation of the company. His com- pany makes a specialty of bar iron, used by railroad shops and car works, and of special iron and steel machinery used in such works. For some time they have run night and day to keep up with their orders, and finally built a second rolling mill to supply the demand. In 1870 Mr. Green took the degrees of Masonry in Colonel Clay Lodge, No. 159, of Covington; was made a Royal Arch Mason in Covington Chapter, No. 35, the same year; received the degree of Knight Templar in Covington Commandery, No. 7, in 1876, and in 1893 became a member of Syrian Temple, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, in Cincinnati. He still holds his membership in these different Masonic bodies, and is a Knight of Pythias, being one of the charter members of Myrtle Lodge, organized at Covington in 1874. The fol- lowing year he became an Odd Fellow in Kenton Lodge, No. 24, of Covington, and in 1901 he joined New Albany Lodge, No. 270, Benev- olent and Protective Order of Elks. Mr. Green has never married. He is a bachelor from choice, though he enjoys the society of refined ladies and has the highest respect for womanhood. Although a resi- dent of New Albany but for a short time, he is frequently spoken of as one who has done more to put new life into the city than any one else. He is a stockholder in a number of business enterprises and is a thorough-going business man-one of the twentieth century kind. Genial and generous, he is popular with his acquaintance and associ- ates, and his well established reputation for honesty and integrity only adds to this popularity.
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FRANK MANUS, head of the firm of Frank Manus & Son, beef and pork pack- ers, New Albany, Ind., was born in that city, Feb. 25, 1856. His father, whose name was also Frank, was a native of Germany, a butcher by trade, and fol- lowed that occupation for several years in New Albany. The son received his education in the New Albany public schools and the business college there, and then learned the butcher business before he was twenty-one years of age. In the fall of 1876 he started in the busi- ness for himself. Being young, ambitious and desirous to please, he soon came to be one of the most popular butchers in the city, many a woman advising her neighbors to try "the Dutch boy" if she wanted to get good meat. As the years went by his popularity did not wane, as he had learned that it paid to give the best meats to his customers for a reasonable price. In more recent years he has turned his atten- tion more to the wholesale meat trade. He has a well equipped slaughter house on State street, where he slaughters about one hun- dred hogs a week, besides a number of cattle. Not far from his pack- ing house he has a comfortable residence, one which he has paid for out of the proceeds of his own labor and which is one of the modern homes of the city. Mr. Manus was married on April 29, 1879, to Miss Eva C. Endres of Lanesville, Harrison county, Ind., and they have three children living and three deceased: Frank, Jr., is the junior mem- ber of the firm, and the other two living are John L. and Lulu May. Those deceased were Rudolph, Andrew and Lorena. Mr. Manus is a member of the Improved Order of Red Men and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. In his lodges, as well as in the commu- nity, he has a high standing, and is regarded as one of the reliable and substantial citizens of New Albany.
GEORGE MOSER, senior member of the firm of George Moser & Co., tanners and leather manufacturers, New Albany, Ind., was born in Germany in the year 1850. In 1867, at the age of seventeen years, he came to the United States and shortly after his arrival in this coun- try he located at New Albany, which city has ever since been his home. For over ten years he was employed in the tannery of August Barth, but in 1878 he decided to embark in the business for himself.
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He accordingly purchased the tannery of Lockwood Brothers, on East Eighth street. This tannery was established in 1848 and has therefore been in existence and active operation for over half a cen- tury. Upon taking hold of the concern Mr. Moser set about enlarg- ing and improving it, and during the time that he has been in posses- sion he has added greatly to the efficiency of the plant by the introduc- tion of improved machinery, new buildings, etc., and it is now an up- to-date tannery in every respect. The business was carried on under the name of George Moser until 1891, when his nephew, John M. Moser, was admitted to partnership and the firm of George Moser & Co. came into existence. In 1900 John M. Moser withdrew from the firm, his interest being taken by his brother, Charles E. Moser. George Moser is a tanner of the best kind. What he does not know about making leather, according to present established processes, is hardly worth learning. His firm makes a specialty of high grade col- lar leather, and while there may be larger tanneries, there are none whose products command a better place in the market. Mr. Moser is married and has a family of four children, three sons and a daughter. Charles E. Moser, the junior partner, was born in New Albany, March 31, 1874; was educated in the public schools and the New Albany busi- ness college. He is a fine representative of the younger school of business men and has a high standing in commercial circles. He is married and has two children.
FRANK ENSLINGER, of the firm of Schueler & Enslinger, butchers and deal- ers in meats, New Albany, Ind., was born on a farm near that city, June 24, 1863. He is a son of Frank Enslinger, a farmer, born in Germany in 1813, who came to America and settled in Floyd county about 1840. He died there in 1876, his wife, the mother of the subject of this sketch, having died in 1869. Frank is the youngest of their ten children, the others being Pauline, now the widow of Philip Scharf; Joseph; Adam; Mary, now Mrs. John Lich; Fannie and Frank, living, and Helena, Catharine, August and Eva, deceased. The last named died as the wife of Joseph Fein. At the age of seventeen years Frank left the farm; came to New Albany and clerked in a grocery to the age of twenty-four; then
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learned the butchers' trade with the late John Shueler, the father of his present partner, and upon the death of Mr. Shueler in 1893 formed the partnership with his son Joseph, which arrangement still exists. The firm of Shueler & Enslinger commands a good portion of the retail meat trade of New Albany and vicinity, and they have one of the best appointed meat markets to be found anywhere. Mr. Enslinger was married on Jan. 24, 1888, to Miss Anna Barbara Shueler, the sis- ter of his partner, and to this union there have been born three chil- dren: John Frank, Herman Joseph and Karl Edward. Mr. Enslinger is a member of St. Joseph's Society of the St. Mary's Catholic church and of the Improved Order of Red Men. His partner, Joseph Shueler, was born in New Albany, March 16, 1869, his father, John Shueler, having been born in Germany in the earlier part of the nineteenth cen- tury, and locating in New Albany about the close of the Civil war. Joseph learned the butchers' trade with his father; at the tender age of sixteen he embarked in the business for himself, and since 1893 he has continued in it, as the partner of Mr. Enslinger. He is one of the best known butchers in the city, and one of the most proficient in his line of work.
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