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Surnames: ALHORN, Negele, Jones, Schafer, Smith,
Classification: Biography
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This book has no cover, and no index, and no author. I bought it on Ebay; it just has the
insides, but it is full of Indiana biographies. I am not researching this family, just
thought I would share. I do not know anymore about these families or these surnames. NOTE:
I don’t know if there is any additional mention of this family in the book, it has no
index. I do not want to sell this book. I am typing the biographies from it.
Typed by Lora Radiches:
Surnames in this biography are: ALHORN, Negele, Jones, Schafer, Smith,
CHARLES FRANK ALHORN, superintendent and general manager of the Dickson Mill, one of the
largest and most modern of the stone mills operated by the Indiana Limestone Company at
Bedford, has been connected with the chief industry of Bedford since boyhood. He entered
the business through an apprenticeship at the stone cutting trade, was a sculptor for some
years, but his most important work has been done as an executive and director of the
skilled labors of others. Mr. Alhorn was born at Morganfield, Kentucky, January 12, 1891,
son of Charles F. and Christiana (Negele) Alhorn. His father was a native of
Germany, came to this country when a young man, and after leaving Morganfield,
Kentucky, moved to Worthington, Indiana. There he became a brick and bile
manufacturer, and had retired from business about four or five years before his death.
He is buried at Worthington, and the widowed mother now resides with her son, Charles
Frank. There w!
ere two other children, both daughters. Minnie is the wife of Edward L. Jones and
has two children, named Lawrence and Margaret. Elizabeth is the wife of Carl
Schafer. Charles Frank Alhorn had the advantages of the grade schools only to the age of
fourteen. He is self educated and has employed his intelligent efforts along lines that
would be of greatest benefit to himself and the world at large. When he left school he
worked on a farm two years. At the age of sixteen he became an employee of the John A.
Rowe stone establishment. He learned his trade as a sculptor and remained with the
business for thirteen years. Leaving there, he became foreman in the Hunter Valley Mill at
Bloomington. When that plant was destroyed by fire two years later he returned to Bedford,
spent one year with the Furst-Kerber Cut Stone Company, and then became foreman of the
Bedford mill. Three years later he was made superintendent, in 1925, and with the general
merger and consolid!
ation of the stone mills under the Indiana Limestone Company, the Bedford Mill became the
Dickson Mill, of which he is superintendent and general manager. Mr. Alhorn married,
October 3, 1917, Henrietta Catherine Smith, daughter of Ernest Smith. Her parents lived at
Bedford, and both are buried in the Green Hill Cemetery there. Mr. and Mrs. Alhorn had
five children: Marion Edward, William Francis, (who died in infancy), Charles Frank, Jr.,
Mary Ellen and Martha Jeanette. Mr. Alhorn is a member of the Bedford Industrial Club, the
Knights of Columbus and B. P. 0. Elks, and he and his family are communicants of
St.Vincent de Paul Catholic Church.