| Clark Bros. Pottery, Interesting Business Charles Clark, son of Roan Clark and his sister built a warehouse and pottery on East Seventh Street near old coal bank railroad where they could get their clay shipped without much hauling with teams. Oscar Lee and sons were to help with the production but after being fairly successful for a few years Mr. Lee decided to go to Evansville to work for the Uhl Pottery there. The Clark brothers, Charles and Curtis, leased the plant for a year, and then bought it and been sole owners since. While bearing the same name as the original Clark Brothers, there is no relationship between the present Clark Brothers and those who began the pottery in 1861. Cannelton Telephone News, 1936 – 1937 |
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| PLUCHERS ONE OF PIONEER FAMILIES OF CANNELTON Since Cannelton is going to celebrate its one hundredth birthday anniversary soon and since my father, the late Squire David L Robinson, was born two years before Cannelton became a town, I thought some of the present residents might be interested in some of the early history of the community. Early in 1800 there came to this county from Amsterdam, Holland, a family name Pulcher. They first stopped in New Amsterdam, now New York City, but with the spirit of true pioneers, they pushed further west into the Northwest Territory of which Indiana was then a part. They took root in southern Indiana and when others joined them this new community was known as Coal Haven. There were in this Plucher family, two sons and four daughters. Barbara Plucher Mason, well known by old Canneltonians as Aunt Barbara Mason, lived and died on the old Mason homestead near the Walnut Grove School. Her descendants now living are Thomas and Edward Mason, Aunt Barbara’s grandson, and their descendants Betsy Plucher Gilman’s grandson Richard Gilman, was formerly ticket agent at Cannelton for the Southern railroad. Susan Plucher Purcell, has a granddaughter, Lola Purcell Grass, who now lives in Troy. Jacob and John Plucher both moved away, but Sophia Plucher, the youngest child, remained in the community to become my grandmother. About 1830 there came to Coal Haven from Carlisle, Pa., a young man Named Andrew Robinson. He met and Married Sophia Plucher, and finding a good quality of clay he established the first brickyard in the settlement which up to this time was known as a coal center. The Andrew Robinson fire-clay bricks were made near the Jake Fishback home on the Hufnagle farm and the first brick chimney erected in Cannelton was made from these bricks. The hewn log house with the first brick chimney was on the river front and is now the home of Walter May. At that time Coal haven was the wild and wooly west, visited at all times by deer, bear, pheasants and wild turkey. Pens to trap turkeys were built on the spot now occupied by the old town pump. The chief coal mine was in the hill between the present Catholic Church and Cliff cemetery and the coal was hauled down a hill from the mine to the head of Adams Street, then down that street between the Cotton Mill and Sewer Pipe factory to the waiting barges. After Coal Haven was organized as a community there came down the river from Louisville a group of men prospecting for coal. They discovered back of the one mine then working a fine grade of coal known as Cannel coal. A few years later when the community became a village it took its name from this coal and became Cannelton. When Cannelton become a town in 1837, my father was two years old, my uncle Thomas Robinson was four, and my uncle Daniel was a few weeks old. Uncle Thomas moved to Illinois, my Uncle Daniel stayed for a while, eventually moved to Tobinsport and then he too went to Illinois. My father David L. Robinson remained in Cannelton, Married Nancy Jane Means from Pittsburgh and I am the Oldest of their children. My grandmother, Sophia Plucher Robinson is buried on the knoll back of the Baptist church and my grandfather, Andrew Robinson, is buried on the banks of the Mississippi river near Natchez. On one of his boat trips to New Orleans he contracted yellow fever. And so our family has five generations born in Cannelton – Sophia Plucher Robinson; David L Robinson, her son and my father; my brother , Harry S Robinson, now of Louisville; his children, Nellie Robinson Franzman, Clara Robinson Gaynor and Robert Robinson, all of Cannelton, and Oscar, Charles, Ruth, Russel, Norman and Joyce Franzman and Delores Gaynor. Cannelton Telephone News, 1936 – 1937 (By Mrs. Sophia Robinson Payne) |
| Judge Wm. Taber, an old and well known public citizen of Hawesville and Hancock County, Ky. Died Friday night after several months of ill health. Funeral Sunday afternoon. Cannelton Telephone – Aug 31 1916 26th year |
| Mr C.I. Truempy conducts a jewelry business, engraves, - does jewelry and watch repairing because he knows how it is done. Mr. Truempy is a home boy who took a liking to the jewelry business and started in some twelve years ago to learn it. He did it, and in 1914 he disposed of a jewelry business he had built up in Kentucky and came back home and opened up a real up-to-date jewelry store with a line of well selected jewelry of highest quality. Cannelton Telephone |
| Miss Mary C Burke, of Oakdale, who impersonates Union Township in the county pageant, is visiting her cousin, Miss Eva Casper, and will remain during Home coming. Miss Adah Royal who takes the part of Anderson Township’s representative, Miss Theresa Dupaquier, will be entertained by her sister Mrs. Lawrence Kelly. Cannelton Telephone |
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| Cannelton Telephone first saw the light Oct. 25, 1892 |