NEWSPAPER ARTICLES
FLOYD COUNTY INDIANA
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.
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.
