New
Albany Daily
Ledger 3 May 1861 p 2 c 3:
A home guard has been organized at
Georgetown, in this county. The following are the names of the officers
elected at a meeting held last Wednesday:
Captain, D. E. Starr; 1st Lieutenant,
D. B. Starr; 2d Lieutenant, L:. S. Brown; 3d Lieutenant, J. R. Harman;
Orderly Sergeant, R. R. Kay, M. D.; 2d Sergeant,
T. Fullilove; 3d Sergeant, C. Mosier;
4th Sergeant, H. Duncan; 1st Corporal, H. H. Walts; 2d Corporal, J. R.
Fox; 3d Corporal, M. V. Fullilove; 4th Corporal, D.
Teaford. Various committees were
appointed to arrange the business for the company, which will report
Saturday, May 4th.
New
Albany Ledger Standard 8 Oct 1872 p 4 c1: Silver Creek Cemetery.
The advertisement of Mr. Beharrell, in another column, gives promise
that a need long felt in this city and neighborhood will be supplied.
The old cemetery grounds are full, and that our citizens must locate
another burying place is evident to all. As will be seen, Mr. B. has
set aside twelve acres, in a beautiful plat bordering on Silver Creek
and gently undulating from that stream. This he has divided into
suitalbe lots, which he offers for sale at an extremely low price. See
his advertisement.
(Submitted by Sue Carpenter)
New
Albany Ledger Standard 9 Oct 1872 p 4 c5 [paid ad] Silver
Creek Cemetery—The undersigned wishes to inform the
inhabitants of New Albany and vicinity that he has laid off in lots
about eight acres of his farm on Silver Creek, being a part of lot No.
29, Illinois grant, for the purpose of a Burying Ground, and that the
same is now ready to be disposed of in lots to suit any who may wish to
purchase. Distance from the Market-house about two miles. A plat of the
same may be seen by applying to the undersigned, or to Mr. Castle, who
will attend to burying the dead. Henry Beharrell, Sr.
(Submitted by Sue Carpenter)
New
Albany Ledger Standard 29 Oct 1879 p 4 c1:
Sheriff Sales.
Deputy Sheriff
Henry Myers
sold the following property at sheriffs sale
this afternoon:
Property of
Andrew Stites, at
Galena, to Thomas Hanlon, house and two
lots for $190.62
House and lot of
Henry Sterritt on
Lower Fourth street to Indiana
Griggs for $300. Farm of
Genl. W.
Daily, in Franklin township, 100
acres, to
Thomas Humphries
$875.
The farm of
Casper Weidman
near Irish Catholic graveyard, 120 acrees to
Dr. E. Newland $4,400.
House and lot of
Robert McCutcheon
on Lower Ninth street to
Wm. and
Elizabeth Broeker, executors of Conrad Broeker, for $55.07
House and lot of
George Burns,
on Upper Fifth street, sold to
Phillip
G. Schnieder, for $52765.
The
Morris Morris farm, 411
acres, in Greenvile township, sold to
Reuben P. Main for $8,000, and
three lots in Greenville to same
purchaser for $10, each.
(Submitted by Sue Carpenter)
New
Albany Ledger Standard 3 May 1876 p4 c4:
The following named persons took out their naturalization papers
yesterday and day before:
Frederick Pell, from England
;
Louis
Caroro, Italy; Chas. Schwartz, Germany
; John Buchiet, France
; James
Corbett, England
; Louis
Depurduain, France
; Joseph
Keehner, England
;
Joseph Jackson, England
; Thos.
Sedden, England
; Thos.
Leyland, England
.
(Submitted by Sue Carpenter)
New
Albany Daily Ledger 29 Aug 1863 p 2 c 2: Marriage Licenses
The following marriage licenses have been issued by the County Clerk,
Col. W. W. Tuley, since our last report:
James A. Agnew and Mary S. Gross;
Joseph Francke and Christena Werner;
Charles Herman and Mary Franklin; Samuel Penico and Joanna Lively;
Joseph McNeely and Margaret L. Barnett; Andrew Kempf and Katherine
Schnell; Alfred Farabee and Mary G. Hatton; Abram B. Rue and Nancy Rue;
Adam S. Cramer and Emma E. Wible; Jacob M. Stillwell and Christina
Plaiss; Herman Hipp and Carrie Gehlbach; Peter Herbst and Rosena
Shoemaker; Henry Johnson and Elizabeth Stone; George H. Biers and Mary
E. Straw; Samuel B. Rogers and Eliza M. McFall; Stephen H. Meeker and
Maria Rice; Francis Evans and Anna Young; James H. Allen and Susan
O'Neal; William McCoy and Amanda M. Gilechrist; John Preuss and Anna M.
Creceliuss; John S. Davis, Jr., and
R. Belle Russel.
(Submitted by Sue Carpenter)
New
Albany Weekly Ledger 9 Dec. 1914 P 8 C 4: Personals
Mr. George Goodbub is
laid up with an attack of grip.
Mrs. A.P. Hauss Jr., is able to
be out after a serious illness.
Manager
Frank Pennington of
the A. & P. Tea Company is ill.
Mrs. A.L. Harris and son
, Charles Harris, of Atlanta, are
visiting in the city.
Born to
Mrs. and
Mrs. Walter Daily, Franklin
township, a daughter named
Eva May.
Mrs. and
Mrs. Newton Gorden have returned
from a pleasant trip to relatives in Ohio.
Miss Laura O'Rourke, of Atlanta
who has been visiting in the city, has returned home.
Henry Boss of St. Louis, is
visiting his mother,
Mrs. Sophia Boss,
1512 East Oak Street.
Born to
Mr. and Mrs. William McAfee,
North Park, a daughter, named
Freda
Elizabeth.
Mrs. and Mrs. Jos. Roth, 1103
East Oak Street, are proud parents, of a ten pound baby girl.
Carl N. Smith and Miss Hazel Payton,
of this city, were married in Jeffersonville Thursday.
Chief of Police
Thomas Spence
who has been seriously ill for over a week is somewhat improved.
The marriage of Miss
May Christ,
of Louisville, and
John Hanafee,
this city, will take place in January.
Miss Ruth Lucket arrived
yesterday from Corydon to visit her aunt,
Mrs. F.J. Brown, 144 West Spring
Street.
Miss Ruth Rough of this city,
and
Leo Michals, of Milwaukee,
were secretly married at Chicago, Nov. 27.
(Contributed by Roberta Everett)
New Albany Ledger Standard
18 Jul. 1877 p 4 c1: Death in Greenville Township. The wife of
Mr. Wash. Morton, of
Greenville township, this county, died on Tuesday last, and her remains
were brought to the city for interment today. Mrs. Morton was favorably
known in this city and county as one of the best of women. After a long
and useful life, she has gone to her rest, with the lively hope that in
the morning of the resurrection she will be numbered with those who
will surround the great white throne. She was a faithful and loving
wife, a kind parent and excellent neighbor. Mrs. Morton had suffered
for a number of years from a disease of the left shoulder, which
baffled the physicians, and a short time previous to her death, she
requested an examination after she died. The shoulder was greatly
enlarged, and the pain arising from the disease was at times almost
unbearable.
Dr. Easley visited
the family residence this morning
to make the examination, but we have not heard the result.
(Contributed by Sue Carpenter)
New Albany Daily Ledger Standard
28 May 1874 p1 c1: Box Spring. One mile north of New Albany,
affords the best medical water for all diseases of the blood, liver,
and urinary organs ever discovered. It will cure dyspepsia,
indigestion, rheumtism, neuralgia, liver complaint, kidney diseases,
and all similar ailments, and is pronounced by physicians, after
analysis and trial, superior to any
mineral spring water as a remedial agent. This spring is on the farm of
Capt. John Box, who keeps a
full and fresh supply of the water constantly on sale at the office of
Huncilman & Cottom, in the Opear House, and at Hoffeld's Drug Store.
(Contributed by Sue Carpenter)
NALS 8 May 1875 p4 c4: New Albany
in 1828 . . . mentions
Ben S.
Tuley; Benjamin Blackiston; Mathias Huncilman; Abram Brown;
William Stewart; James Davis; Mason C. Fitch; Elias Ayres; Obadiah Childs; Benjamin
Adams; Jonathan Gandy; John Nicholson; John Payton; B. S. Tuley; D.
Genung; J. Morton; Samuel G. Wilson; R. Comley; J. Lyon;
Thomas Sinex; D. M. Hale; Harvey Scribner; Lathrop Elderkin; Peter
Stoy; Edward Brown; H. B.; Shields; A. Abbey; H. Bogart; A. S. Burnett;
Levi McDougal; James Duncan; S. Marsh; Peter Tellon; Wm. Clark; Charles
Woodruff; Wm. Marsh; D. M. Hale; H. Scribner; Wm. Beeler; Benjamin
Adams;Harvey Scribner;James W. Lyons;Abraham Brown;Matthew W. Byrn;John
Stran;Richard Lonnon; Samuel Marsh;Charles Woodruff; M. M. Byrn;Ben S.
Tuley.
(Contributed by Sue Carpenter)
NALC 4 May 1876 p4 c4: New Albany
Reminiscences. In the year 1830, over a half century ago,
Apollos Hess kept tavern on Main
street, in New Albany. About twenty men, mostly engaged in mercantile
and manufacturing pursuits, in what was then a straggling and sickly
Western town, boarded with him. In one season of illness, more fatal
even than the average of the pestilences that were wont to sweep
over the miasmatic portion of the half civilized country of Southern
Indiana in those days, all the boarders died except five. Those five
were:
James G. Shields, Henry B.
Shields, Alex S. Burnett, Mason C. Fitch, and Christopher Cole.
There were then only three brick houses in the town.
Mr. Fitch kept store in one of
them, which had been built by Gen. Paxton, and the two Shields' clerked
for him.
Mr. Cole was clerking
for
Ebenezer Baldwin, who kept
about such a stock as is now found in stores at country cross roads. Of
the five named,
Mr. Jas. B. Shields,
of this city,
Gen. A. S. Burnett,
of San Francisco, and
Mr. Christopher
Cole, of Charlestown, are now living at a very ripe old age. At
the time referred to, there was a large pond at our near where the
Lower Market house now stands, and large lots could be bought in that
vicinity for from $23 to $75. They run along a very low price until the
old internal improvement system was sprung, when they went up rapidly,
and holders, who were wise enough to sell before the panic came, made a
pile of money.
Mr. Cole, who
gave us the above notes, spent several years here at about that period,
and finally chose Charlestown as a much more promising and healthy
point. Lots in the suburbs here, that would only bring the rates
quoted, could be sold, if similarly situated at Charleston, for from
five to ten times as much. But as steamboats and railroads were then
unknown, it did not look so foolish in that day as it does in this.
(Contributed by Sue Carpenter)
PP 2
Jan 1901 p 5 c4:
Charles H. Fitch
died Thursday at his residence, 1011 Upper Spring street. His
immediate illness was of short duration. Mr. Fitch was about
seventy-four years old and leaves a wife and three children,
Charles Fitch, of Detroit;
Mrs. Edward Burbank, of Chicago, and
Mrs. Edward King, of Corydon,
Ky., all of whom were at the bedside when he passed away. Mr.
Fitch was for several years an engineer on the old Tarascob and other
Ohio river steamboats. . . .Deceased was a member of Jefferson
Lodge of Masons and also of the Odd Fellows, Ancient Order of United
Workmen and Ivanhoe Lodge, Knights of Pythias. The remains were
taken to Evansville for interment.
(Contributed by Sue Carpenter)
PP, Tuesday, 15 Jun 1915 p 7 c 1:
Mrs. Mary Louise Bragdon, widow
of
Capt. Joshua Bragdon and a
former old resident of New Albany, died Thursday night at her home in
Washington, D. C. The body was accompanied to New Albany by Mrs.
Bragdon's son,
Marshal Bragdon,
and was taken from the depot to Fairview Cemetery. A funeral service
were held at the cemetery chapel. Mrs. Bragdon was eighty years old and
was a native of New Albany, where she lived until she moved to
Washington fifteen years ago. Before her marriage she was
Miss Mary Louise Fitch, and was a
daughter of the late
Mason Fitch,
a pioneer of New Albany. Her husband was a steamboat commander many
years ago and later was connected with the old New Albany Rolling Mills
Company. For many years
Mrs. Bragdon
was a member of the First Presbyterian church. Three daughters and a
son survive her. They are
Mrs. Louise
Schofield and
Misses Clara
and
Anna Bragdon of
Washington, and
Marshall Bragdon,
of Muskogee, Okla.
(Contributed by Sue Carpenter)
NALS 15 Jan 1875 p4 c3:
Local Personals . . .
Capt. Joshua
Bragdon, we are pained to lean, is seriously ill, his disease
having assumed the type of typhoid pneumonia. His daughter, who is at
Indianapolis, has been despatched to attend his bedside.
(Contributed by Sue Carpenter)
DLS 18 Jan 1875 p4 c5: The Death
of
Captain Joshua Bragdon. . .
. This sad event occurred at his late residence, on Upper Main
street, yesterday morning at 10 o’clock, after an illness of one week’s
duration. Captain Bragdon was born in the town of Wells, Maine, in the
year 1806, and was consequently 68 years of age at the time of his
demise. In early life the deceased followed the occupation of a sailor,
and finally settled at Mobile, Ala., where he took service on the
steamers plying between mobile and Montgomery, as mate, and on the
organization of the Alabama River Navigation Company, was chosen
General Superintendent. In 1837, he came to this city for the purpose
of superintending the building of two boats to be used on the Alabama
river, one of which it will be remembered by our old citizens was named
Washington. During the period elapsing between this time and the death
of the honorable deceased, he had always proved himself a firm friend
to the interests of the city in which he had located himself, and by
his influence caused a great number of boats to be built by the
merchants of our city. In September, 1849, he was married to
Miss Mary L. Fitch, daughter of
Mason C. Fitch, who survives him. Up
to the commencement of the war, Captain B. was engaged in the steamboat
business, and lost heavily on account of the war. When the New Albany
Rolling Mills were started, he became a partner in the enterprise and
was connected with it until his death. Much of the success of the
establishment has been due to the business tact, energy and popularity
of the deceased and his death will prove a great loss to the firm. . .
Captain Bragdon leaves to mourn his
death, a wife and four children, who will receive the sympathy of the
fellow citizens of the esteemed and honored dead. The funeral will take
place, from the First Presbyterian church, of which Captain B. was a
consistent and beloved member, Wednesday afternoon at 2 o’clock.
(Contributed by Sue Carpenter)
NALS 16 Mar 1875 p4 c1:
Mrs. Mary L. Bragdon has been
appointed administratrix of the estate of
Joshua Bragdon, deceased.
(Contributed by Sue Carpenter)
PP, Tuesday, 15 Jun 1915 p 7 c 1:
Mrs. Mary Louise Bragdon, widow
of Capt.
Joshua Bragdon and a
former old resident of New Albany, died Thursday night at her home in
Washington, D. C. The body was accompanied to New Albany by Mrs.
Bragdon's son,
Marshal Bragdon,
and was taken from the depot to Fairview Cemetery. A funeral service
were held at the cemetery chapel. Mrs. Bragdon was eighty years old and
was a native of New Albany, where she lived until she moved to
Washington fifteen years ago. Before her marriage she was
Miss Mary Louise Fitch, and was a
daughter of the late Mason Fitch, a pioneer of New Albany. Her husband
was a steamboat commander many years ago and later was connected with
the old New Albany Rolling Mills Company. For many years
Mrs. Bragdon was a member of the
First Presbyterian church. Three daughters and a son survive her. They
are
Mrs. Louise Schofield and
Misses Clara and
Anna Bragdon of Washington, and
Marshall Bragdon, of Muskogee, Okla.
(Contributed by Sue Carpenter)
NADL 21 Mar 1862 3 21:p2 c4:
Died, in this city on the 19th inst.,
Mrs.
Electa O., consort of
Capt.
James Montgomery, in the 50th year of her age. Indianapolis
papers please reply.
(Contributed by Sue Carpenter)
NAL Monday 3 Feb 1872 p4 c2:
Death of
Capt. James Montgomery
. . . Born in Kentucky in the year 1799, and was, consequently, in his
seventy-third year at the time of his death. He removed to Aurora,
Indiana in 1818, and was married to
Electa
O. Wilson at that place in 1828. He then removed to Ripley
county, where he engaged in farming two years, removing to this city in
1830. . Deceased was engaged at one time with his brother,
Capt. Samuel Montgomery, in a
banking house in this city. . . Leaves a wife and two small children,
and a married daughter by his first wife, to mourn their irreparable
loss. . .was a member of Centenary M. E. Church, and was one of the
number that organized it in 1839 . . . . . . . [long article] New
Albany Daily Tribune, Monday, 5 Feb 1872 p4 c4; Funeral of Capt. James
Montgomery. The funeral of the late
Captain
James Montgomery yesterday afternoon was one of the largest
that has occurred in this city for several years. No citizen of New
Albany was more generally respected and highly esteemed. He had been a
member of the Methodist Church for forty-five years, and all the old
members of the several Methodist Churches of the city attended his
funeral. The sermon was preached by
Rev.
Henry R. Naylor, pastor of Centenary Church, in which church
Capt. Montgomery had his membership. It was a touching tribute to the
memory of a good man, and a most glowing and eloquent picture of the
joys of that better life upon which the Christian enters when death has
put an end to his labors. . . New Albany Daily Standard. Monday, 5 Feb
1872 p4 c2; Funeral ______ __
Capt.
James Montgomery. Yesterday the last solemnities were paid the
remains of capt. James Montgomery. the occasion was one of general
thought fullness and gloom. Promptly at 2½ o'clock, the hour
named for the funeral service, centenary M. E. Church was thronged with
people and many could not gain entrance. . . .[long article]
(Contributed by Sue Carpenter)
NAL Monday 3 Feb 1872 p4 c6:
Died. Montgomery—In this city, this morning, February 3d, about 7
o'clock, suddenly, of heart disease,
Capt.
James Montgomery, in the 73d year of his age. The funeral will
take place from Centenary M. E. Church, tomorrow, Sunday, afternoon at
2 ½ o'clock. The friends of the family are most respectfully
invited to attend without further notice.
(Contributed by Sue Carpenter)
NAL 5 Feb 1872 p4 c2: Funeral of
Capt. Montgomery. The funeral of
Capt.
James Montgomery, who died Saturday morning from heart disease,
took place from Centenary church yesterday afternoon. The church was
crowded to overflowing on the occasion, every friend of deceased who
could possibly get there attending. The funeral discourse was preached
by
Rev. H. R. Naylor, the
other services being conducted by Revs.
W. V. Daniel, W. M. Hester, and
John Tansey. At the conclusion of a
most impressive sermon by Mr. Naylor, the remains were borne to the
Northern cemetery, where they were tenderly deposited beneath the cold
and cheerless sod.
(Contributed by Sue Carpenter)
NADC 21 Aug 1868 p4 c 5: Died, on the 19th inst. at her
residence in this city,
Mary Williams,
aged fifty-five years. Her funeral will take place from the Second
Presbyterian Church today at ten o'clock a.m. The frinds of the family
are invited to attend without further notice.
(Contributed by Sue Carpenter)
New
Albany, IN. Dec. 6, 1899. Special Judge
Cook, of Corydon, occupying the
bench of the Floyd Circuit Court, has rendered a decision which affects
holders of paid –up stock in building and loan associations. In the
suit of Joseph Cheatham
against the defunct Acton Building and Loan
Association on the claim of $500 for money borrowed by the association
the court held that the association had no right under the law to
borrow money and that any obligation for such transaction was null and
void. The decision has occasioned much comment, as nearly all the
associations in which local people are interested have been outstanding
bonds on which money had been borrowed.
Henry Boeker, a New Albany
dairyman, keeps aconite in the barn of his cows and whisky for other
purposes. He drank aconite by mistake Monday night and the doctors
worked over him 24 hours before they were certain he would pull through.
10/13/1897..
New Albany, IN, Oct. 7, 1897.
The 23rd Indiana Regimental Association elected the following officers
at its reunion at Corydon; President, John
J. Hardin of Salem, Vice president, W.J. Cearnes of this city,
Secretary, W. S. McClune, of
this city, Treasurer, John W.
Edwardson, of this city, Chaplain, Charles Wood, of Waverly, Executive
committee, E.B. Stephenson of
Livonia; J.O. McPheeters, of Hardinsburg, Isaac Houston, of Martinsburg; and J.O. Edmondson, of this city.
New Albany, IN,
May 24, 1899. The last 2 smallpox patients at New Albany were
discharged today from the pest-house and it has been closed. All of the
12 cases were of a mild form and no deaths resulted.
New Albany, IN.
May 28, 1899. Smallpox, which was thought to have been stamped out in
this city, again made its appearance today. Two cases, one an adult,
Mrs. Clinton Conner, and the a
daughter of
Mrs. Ella Lewis
developed. The Lewis girl will be taken to the pest-house, which was
closed last week after the last of a dozen cases had recovered and been
discharged. Mrs. Conner cannot be moved at present as she gave birth to
a child today while the Board of health was at her home.
3-14-1906
MINISTER ON TIRAL CHARGED WITH MURDER OF HIS WIFE.
(by Associated Press) New Albany, IN. May 13, 1906
The case of the State of Indiana against
Rev. Ulysses G. Sutherlin,
charged with the killing of his wife,
Mrs.
Geneva L. Sutherlin, in Oct. 1904, at their home is Silver
Grove, was take up today in the Floyd Circuit Court.
4-19-1821 A MURDER DETECTED.
In the month of August last,
John
Dehman, alias Dahman, broke from the Gaol of New Albany, IN.
,where he was confined, with 2 others, on suspicion of having murdered
2 men. The Detroit Gazette of the 16th of March, contains a detailed
account of the apprehension of Dehman, from which is selected the
following:
“One of the persons who escaped with Dehman, accompanied him to near
Man’s Lick, Ky, having stolen a horse shortly after their escape.
Another, named Linticomb, a horse thief, was found dead a few days
after his escape, his body was mistaken for that of Dehman, and it was
asserted in several newspapers, that it supposed Dehman had wandered to
the spot, where he died through weakness and disease, the state in
which the body was found, greatly disfigured by birds, etc. led to the
mistake, as it could not be recognized. Dehman made his way for Malden,
where he arrived about the 10th of October, and was there employed as a
distiller.
Soon after, he wrote a letter to his wife at New Albany,
requesting her to join him. This letter, written in the German
language, was enclosed to John Brindley, who handed it to a
Schoolmaster to read. The latter communicated its contents to the
Officers of justice, and the Sheriff went in pursuit of him. After much
difficulty, The Sheriff with his party, too him by stratagem. On seeing
the Sheriff, Dehman, in the language of one of the company, “wilted
down” but when they seized him, in order to tie and carry him to the
canoe, he cried murder lustily, and his calls for assistance could only
be stopped by choking him.
He was taken to Detroit, and being well secured in irons,
was sent off to Indiana. he is 5 feet , 6 or 7 inches high, and appears
to be about 20 yrs of age, his limbs are formed for strength, and
activity, and from the thickness of his wrist, and the peculiar
pliability if his joints in his hands, he can disencumber himself of a
pair of handcuffs, with great ease. His mind appeared totally depraved,
and he declared “that he knew he would be hung a hundred times if he as
many lives, if his keepers succeeded in getting him to Indiana.
Dehman, gave the following statement, to one of the Editors of
the Detroit Gazette:
“he was born on the Banks of the Rhine, his father was distiller. At
age 10 yrs, he joined the army of General Moreau, and remained from the
that time in the French service, until Bonaparte was exiled to Elba,
after which he entered the Prussian service, and remained in it until a
short time after the Battle of the Waterloo. After leaving the Prussian
service, he proceeded to Amsterdam, from which place he sailed, in
company with a number of German redemptioners, and arrived at
Annapolis, Md. Where his services were purchased by General Fletcher,
of KY. Who also purchased a German woman, to whom D. was afterwards
married, after the expiration of his service, he took his wife to
Indiana, where he resided until his escape.”
He converses fluently in the English, French, and German
languages.
New Albany, IN. Dec
29,1898.
Thomas Smith, a
well known citizen, was arrested this afternoon on an indictment
charging him with forgery. He was unable to give bond and went to jail.
Smith was, for many years, treasurer of the endowment rank and master
of finance of Friendship Lodge, Knights of Pythias, of this city. About
a yr ago, it is reported, he was short nearly $400 in his accounts.
When his bondsmen were notified it is alleged one of them
George S. Hice, claimed he had not
placed his name on the bond and that it had been forged Smith was
expelled from the lodge and the last grand jury returned an indictment.
His arrest created great surprise, as it was thought the mater had been
settled.
New Albany Ledger Standard 3 May
1876 p4 c4:
The following named persons took out their naturalization papers
yesterday and day before: Frederick PELL, from England; Louis
CARORO [?] , Italy; Chas. SCHWARTZ, Germany; John BUCHIET, France;
James CORBETT, England; Louis Depurduain, France; Joseph KEEHNER,
England; Joseph JACKSON, England; Thos. SEDDEN, England; Thos. LEYLAND,
England.
9/6/1899
New Albany citizens are working vigorously against a proposed ordinance
extending the franchise of the Walter Company, which expires in 17
years, to 1928. Petitions are in circulation.
New Albany, IN. Feb.
4,1898.
An audience of nearly 2 thousand greeted Gov. Mount at the Lyceurn
(?)Theater tonight at the celebration of the 26th anniversary of the
organization of Young men’s Christian Association of this city. He
presided over the meeting. The program consisted of a series of songs,
under direction of D.R. Gebhart; and short speeches. Address were made
by C.B. Willis, of Milwaukee, and T.,J. Kirkpatrick, of Springfield,
Ohio, and Gov. Mount. The executive arrived at Jeffersonville at noon
and visited the Indiana Reformatory, and at 4 o’clock came to this
city, and was entertained at the residence of Hon. Jesse J. Brown,
where he was tendered a reception.
New Albany, IN. Feb.
2,1898.
The First Presbyterian Church was destroyed by fire at 7 o’clock
tonight. The fire originated from a defective flue while the church was
being heated tonight for choir rehearsal. Before the fire department
arrived the entire roof and steeple was ablaze and the firemen directed
their efforts to saving the surrounding property. The steeple nearly
200 feet high, fell on the First National Bank building and the roof
was crushed in at one end. Loss on the church is estimated at $40,000,
with insurance of $20,000. Seven thousand dollars worth of improvements
were placed in the interior last year. Rev. J. W. Clokey has been
pastor for the past 20 years. The building was erected in 1852.
New Albany, IN. Oct. 6, 1896.
The annual reunion of the 53rd Indiana Regiment Association was held in
this city yesterday. The election of officers resulted as follows:
President, J.W. marshall, of Corydon; voce president, Dr. J.D. Homer,
of Lanesville; J. Engkemen, of Georgetown and Boone Miller, of
Indianapolis Secretary and Treasurer, George H. Pennington of New
Albany. The next reunion will be held Oct. 5, 1897 at Corydon. General
W. G. Gresham was the first colonel of the 53rd Regiment. His widow and
son Otto Gresham, of Chicago, attended the meeting today. Mr. Gresham
is collecting data for a history of the regiment and for a life of his
father.
New Albany, IN. Aug.15,1897.
Joseph & Joseph proprietors of the New Albany Forge works,
employing nearly 100 men, yesterday announced that the reduction of 10
per cent in the wage scale made about 2 yrs ago would be restored
tomorrow.
New Albany, IN. Aug. 11,1897.
Roy Messick, a natural –gas expert, has caused considerable excitement
by his assertions that gas could be found in paying quantities in this
county. he is very secretive in his movements and this has caused all
sorts of rumors. One report was in circulation today that Messick had
quietly sunk a well in the low land along the river, about 5 miles from
this city, and had struck and enormous pressure of gas. It is said
several citizens will furnish Messick with funds to sink a well and
that the derrick and other necessary apparatus will be shipped here
this week. Although great secrecy is maintained regarding the location
of the proposed well, it will probably be in Franklin Township, where
Messick has been prospecting.
New Albany, IN. Aug.
14, 1897.
The post office at Galena, on the Paoli pike, 8 miles north of this
city, was destroyed by fire this morning. The flames spread to the
adjoining dwelling, occupied by peter McDaniels, which was also burned,
with its contents. None of the effects of the post office was saved
except for 435 worth of stamps, which had been taken by the Post
mistress Florence McDaniels to her home. The loss was about $500, with
no insurance. The fire was undoubtedly in incendiary origin. Mr.
McDaniels, the Republican post master, has been persecuted by his
political opponents and he believes some of his enemies started the
blaze. Temporary quarters have been secured for the post office.
New Albany, IN. June 22, 1898.
W.F. Moore, special pension examiner for Floyd, Harrison, Washington,
Crawford and Orange counties, will be removed June 30. The New Albany
and Jeffersonville districts are to be consolidated. George W. Faucett,
of Paoli, was today appointed traveling deputy revenue collector for
the New Albany district by Collector Henry, of Terre Haute.
New Albany, Sept.7,1898.
Thomas Bauman, of English, IN is under arrest at that place on a charge
of bigamy. About 40 yrs ago Bauman married Delilah Ott, of Harrison
County, and located in Texas. Three years ago he sold his fame and came
to Indiana, leaving his family behind. His family did not hear from him
until recently, when his wife heard he had located in English and had
married a woman named Dora Ray. She at once came to Corydon, and filed
and affidavit charging her husband with bigamy. Bauman gave bond in the
sum of $300 (?smeared) for his appearance. Sept. 24.
Indiana Notes.9,14,1898
The special pension examiner’s district composed of Floyd, Orange,
Washington, Crawford and Harrison Counties, has been divided. R.T.
Powell, of Marietta, Ohio, is assigned to Harrison and Crawford
Counties, and Charles D. shanks to Floyd, Washington & Orange
Counties. The division was necessary on account of the numerous cases
to be examined.
NAET 17 Sep 1912 p4 c3:
MAY BE SOLD New Location for Modern Y. M. C. A. Building.
The Young Men’s Christian Association building at
Pearl and Main streets may be sold within the next few weeks. While no
direct offer for the property ahas been received, it is understood
buyers have had it under consideration.
If the building is sold the association will
erect a new and modern building in another location and it will be on a
site nearer the central part of the city, probably as far uptown as
some point between Sixth and Tenth streets.
The present building, which was erected in 1892,
cost over $35,000, but it is understood it can be purchased at a figure
less than one-half of that amount.