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Subject: [INDEARBO] Cass, Everett, Kline, McGuire, Everett, McKee, Duwelius, McMichaels, Dunn, Russell, Gregg, Culley, Ziegler, Hastings, Glenn, Lancaster, Root, Bowers, Sibley, Nelson, Cobb, Pedersen, Fehrman
Date: 15 Mar 2004 18:51:56 -0700

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Surnames: Cass, Everett, Kline, McGuire, Everett, McKee, Duwelius, McMichaels, Dunn, Russell, Gregg, Culley, Ziegler, Hastings, Glenn, Lancaster, Root, Bowers, Sibley, Nelson, Cobb, Pedersen, Fehrman
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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:



Other surnames mentioned in the biography of ROBERT BARR CASS are, Cass, Everett, Kline, McGuire, Everett, McKee, Duwelius, McMichaels, Dunn, Russell, Gregg, Culley, Ziegler, Hastings, Glenn, Lancaster, Root, Bowers, Sibley, Nelson, Cobb, Pedersen, Fehrman,

ROBERT BARR CASS. The newspapers of the smaller cities of the country represent to their readers much more of interest than do those of metropolitan origin because they give the incidents in the lives of neighbors, people who have grown up together and who have the same background, identical interests and projects. These local journals represent the people of the neighborhood in which they circulate; they do not have to meet the requirements of so many foreign elements, nor do they seek to bolster up those who are utter strangers to the majority of the readers. The Aurora Bulletin, owned and issued by Robert B. Cass, and the official organ of Dearborn County, is one of the oldest newspapers in Indiana, and, although it has passed through several hands, still represents the high principles of its founder, Eugene Everett, and in many cases has been delivered to subscribers continuously from its first issue to the present day. Robert B. Cass, the present owner, was born at Ott!
awa, Ohio, in 1876, a son of George H. and Catherine Ann (Kline) Cass. George B. Cass was a merchant and realtor of Ottawa for many years, and had the advantage of being very well educated, as he was at one time a student of Wooster University. After years of successful business operations, in 1909, he came to Aurora, Indiana, and entered the dry goods business, and later the printing industry, and was always regarded as a man of his word, and one in whom implicit faith might be placed. Before coming to Aurora Robert B. Cass was engaged in the newspaper business at Toledo, Ohio, as part owner of the Toledo Commercial, a morning newspaper, and maintained that connection for six years. Selling his interest in it, Mr. Cass then went to Warsaw, New York, and was engaged in the manufacturing business with his brother, but subsequently came to Aurora to become owner of the Aurora Bulletin. Mr. Cass was married to Miss Nina McGuire at Aurora, Indiana, a daughter of John and Margu!
erite McGuire, the former of whom was some years ago a distiller, and
always a man of prominence in this city. Fraternally Mr. Cass affiliates with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks; and professionally with the American Newspaper Association and the American Press Association. As the Aurora Bulletin is the largest as well one of the oldest newspapers in Dearborn County, with its plant occupying 10,000 square feet of floor space, it is but proper that a record be here made of its history, and what it is accomplishing today. Perhaps no better account could be written than the one which appeared in the Aurora Bulletin under date of April 11, 1929, following its thirty-sixth birthday, and it is therefore quoted herewith: “Anniversary week has just been celebrated by the Aurora Bulletin. With this issue the Bulletin embarks on its thirty-sixth year of continuous publication. In closing the book of the old year and turning the page for the beginning of another, we believe a brief history of the Bulletin!
s birth, life and growth is appropriate and will be found of interest to the large family of readers who have been responsible for the successful career that has been the happy lot of this publication. “Thirty-five years is in many ways only an impressive interval, but measured in life’s scale of achievement it covers a long procession of events. Though the Bulletin is young in years it is old in experience, old in purpose, old in service, and old in the hearts of the people. “In the beginning the Bulletin suffered the birth pangs attendant upon the beginning of new life. The growing pains were severe, the outward appearance gave the impression of a smoothly flowing current but the early life was far from an easy tranquil sailing. The early struggles of the paper are matters of history. When first issued the Bulletin was called the Saturday Bulletin. It was started in 1893, by Eugene Everett. It !
contained four pages, about eight by fifteen inches in size. The paper
was distributed free, the only charge being made for its advertising. A year later Mr. Everett enlarged the size of the sheets and entered it at the Aurora post office. The paper was printed on an old Washington hand-press and issued from what was known as the Mitchell Building, Second and Mechanic streets, located on the present site of the Aurora State Bank. Later the plant was moved to the West Building on lower Second Street. “Mr. Everett made the following salutatory statement: “‘Alter careful investigation we come to the conclusion that there was, by the use of economy, a living for myself and family in the publication of a small paper in this city one that would be cheap in price, but good in quality. Such a paper I propose to make the Saturday Bulletin. While our paper may not be as large as some, we shall use our best endeavor to so crowd its columns with live reading matter, short and crisp accounts of curr!
ents events, correct accounts of the doings and contemplated doings of our citizens. “‘We shall endeavor to avoid all interference in private or business affairs not pertaining to the general welfare of our city or citizens. While we expect to improve with each issue of the Saturday Bulletin, we trust this one will meet with your approbation, and that you will at once express yourself as being pleased with it by enrolling your name as a subscriber—even if it be but a quarter of a dollar, which will entitle you to one copy each week for three months. Lend us a helping hand by becoming a supporter of the Bulletin and by speaking a good word for it to your friends and neighbors.’ “Mr. Everett continued publishing the paper for thirteen years, when he sold it to E. A. McKee, who after about two years’ work in the newspaper field of Aurora, sold out to a Mr. Walter E. Duwelius, who came from Cincinnati. He s!
oon grew tired of the ups and downs experienced in editing and publish
ing a weekly paper and sold to Charles McMichaels, who in turn disposed of the plant to his brother-in-law, Mr. Robert B. Cass, the present owner. “Mr. Cass soon brought about a revolution in the printing industry in both Aurora and Dearborn County. He bought new and up to date equipment; purchased the present home of the Bulletin, on Mechanic Street, and today has one of the largest and most complete printing plants in the whole of Indiana and Ohio. “The Bulletin is a protégée of the people. It does not belong to the owner but rather to the readers. It is a true representative of the time, of the changed conditions in Aurora, it correctly registers the pulse beats of activity, it responds to the march of time as no other single business in the city does. We challenge the world to deny that statement. Other industries have made rapid strides in commercial lines, but a newspaper’s life is more closely allied to the life, interests a!
nd progress of the community than other forms, for in the columns of the weekly press is found an expression of the life of the people who live and have their being within the sacred precincts of the ‘home town.’ “The Bulletin has grown, has prospered, has kept pace with the times and now, with the future bright in prospect, goes forward into the lap of another year with vision of bigger and better things to be accomplished.” In connection with the above it should be mentioned that the Gas Printing Company has thirty people employed doing a high grade of printing color work in catalogues and publications. The slogan of the company is “If it is printed we can, do it.” While not partisan, the Bulletin is Democratic in its political policies, and Mr. Cass exerts a strong influence both locally and throughout the county. In the same article already quoted Mr. Cass gives some very entertaini!
ng facts relative to newspaper history in Dearborn County, and it is s
o pertinent to the subject that it, too, is included in this record. “Journalism in Dearborn County dates back to the year 1817, when the newspaper was established in Lawrenceburg by an easterner, a man of the name of Brown. He issued the paper from a little brick building, calling the sheet the Dearborn Gazette. History records that the first printer to wield a compositor’s stick was a certain Steel Sampson. Two years later another newspaper, the Indiana Oracle, made its appearance. It was published by the firm of Dunn & Russell, two able writers, newspapermen of the old school. In 1828 this paper consolidated with the Gazette under the name of the Oracle-Gazette. After a rather trying existence the Indiana Palladium, under the ownership of Milton Gregg and D. V. Culley, succeeded this. This paper was a professed Republican publication and enjoyed many distinct benefits of the party for a number of years. The editor, however, receiving a political jo!
b more remunerative than the newspaper business, the paper was discontinued. “In those early days the people were poor, post offices were scarce and it became the duty of the publisher to act as his own carrier. Riding on horseback over the route, delivering the papers at twenty or thirty points along the way, these to be called for at the earliest convenience of the subscriber, did this. “In 1830 Mr. Gregg again felt the urge of the print shop and started the Western Statesman. Then comes in quick rotation the Political Beacon, the Indiana Whig, and in 1834 the Dearborn County Register was born in the county seat at Walmington. The Independent Press was established at Lawrenceburg in 1850. This paper is now the Lawrence burg Press, published by Mr. Ziegler. “Aurora’s first newspaper was edited by L. C. Hastings. Its span of life was bust. After playing local politics in the election of Martin Van Buren it succumbed to the p!
revalent malady of newspaper ills and passed quietly out of existence.
In 1839 the Dearborn Democrat was established Printing Company, edited by Alexander E. Glenn, and the paper lived and prospered until 1840. “In 1846 Nimrod Lancaster started the publication of a paper, called the Western Republican, in Lawrenceburg. The following year this was moved to Aurora. The name was changed to that of the Western Commercial in 1848. In 1851 it was taken over by Messrs. Root & Bowers and its name changed to the Aurora Standard. They sold to Ed F. Sibley, who continued the publication until 1857, when it also suspended. “In 1859 the Aurora Commercial was issued by W. H. Nelson. He sold to E. F. Sibley, who in turn sold to John Cobb in 1868. The business was organized into a stock company and the name changed to the Dearborn Independent. In 1873 L. W. Cobb purchased the plant and continued its owner until his death in 1912. Mrs. Cobb and daughter, Miss Inez Cobb, were its owner and publishers until 1925, when they sold to a comp!
any headed by A. G. Pedersen, and a year later the plant was taken over by William Fehrman, the present manager.

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