My GGgrandfather was Theodore Wilhelm Englehart or "T.W." as he was known
in the city of Brazil. He was a businessman in Brazil, founding the
Englehart Drug Company, and the East End Drug Store and the West End
Pharmacy. He was appointed Postmaster in 1917. He was one of the
organizers of the Citizens Telephone Company. He also went into the
automobile industry locally. These were just a few of his many endeavors
in Clay County, Indiana. He was a member of the First Presbyterian Church
of Brazil. T.W. was very involved in civic and fraternal circles. He
served from 1911 to 1914 on the City Board of Education. He was on the
committee to choose the site and construction of the Clay County Court
House. He was a member of the Masonic Blue Lodge, the IOOF lodge of
Harmony. He was born in New Philadelphia Ohio in 1863, and died in Brazil
in 1932.
T.W.'s daughter Lenore Catherine Englehart is my Ggrandmother, and she
died just months after I was born. Lenore married Wilbur Rogers. Their
daughter Rosemary Rogers (b: 1921 in Brazil and graduated 1938 from Brazil
High) married my grandfather Frederick McLaughlin (a 1937 Brazil High
graduate, but not a native Brazilian) in 1942.
T.W.'s other children were:
Bertie (born 1890, died at 6 yrs.)
Otto Theodore (born 1892, married Lucia Kerfoot)
Ira Holland (born 1894, married Virginia McNutt)
Maggie Harriet (born 1898, married Kenneth Wilson)
Ruth Lucille (born 1903, married Standiford "Henny" Shattuck - no
children)
I actually had the honor of meeting my great Aunt Ruth Shattuck around
Christmas of 1980 (when I was 5 yrs. old) before she died in 1982(???). My
grandmother Rosemary has fond memories of all her Aunts and Uncles, who
primarily lived in Brazil throughout her childhood.
I forgot to list my sources on the first biography, AND I messed up my
email address.
This is a mixture of information received from the Clay County history
book of my grandmother Rosemary Rogers, a family history compiled by my
Aunt Ruth Shattuck. I also have some info in here from talks with my
grandmother Rosemary Rogers McLaughlin.