F.W. Schmitz Lived on Earle Avenue?

Skimming through Cincinnati Enquirer articles and came across an October 19, 1913 article that states, "Mrs. F. W. Schmitz, daughter of Ernestine and son Karl, of South Dinmore Park, have returned home after a short visit with relatives in Aurora, Ind."

So F.W. Schmitz may have lived on Earle Ave. In an earlier post I mention how he was secretary of the South Dinmore Park Land Company for a period of time.

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1911 House on Leslie Ave. Between Earle Ave. and 38th Street - Building Permit

Found a building permit listed in the Cincinnati Enquirer for a house between Earle Ave. and 38th Street on Leslie Ave.

Building Permits

   Building permits were issued yesterday to Walker C. Hall to erect a frame residence on Leslie avenue, between Earle avenue and Thirty-eighth street, to cost $1,000.

Building Permits. (1911, December 9). Cincinnati Enquirer. Retrieved from http://ezproxy.kentonlibrary.org/login?url=http://search.proquest.com.ezproxy.kentonlibrary.org/docview/897288471?accountid=48

City Bonds to Pay for Local Road Improvements

Came across an article in the Cincinnati Enquirer about the City of Covington selling bonds to pay for road improvements on Leslie and Tracy Avenues on December 23, 1909.

Sealed Proposals

     Sealed proposals will be received at the City Clerk's office in Covington, Kentucky until 3 o'clock P.M. on Monday, January 3rd, 1910, for the purchase of $613.86 par value bonds of the City of Covington to provide a fund for the improvement of Leslie avenue, from the south side of Earle avenue to the Infirmary line, by grading. Said bonds to bear interest at the rate of six (6%) per cent and are of the denomination of $100.00 each.
     Bidders can obtain further particulars relative to said bonds from Harry G. Klostermann, Clerk of the City of Covington, Kentucky.
     H.G. KLOSTERMANN, City Clerk

Sealed Proposals. (1909, December 23). Cincinnati Enquirer. Retrieved from http://ezproxy.kentonlibrary.org/login?url=http://search.proquest.com.ezproxy.kentonlibrary.org/docview/895358461?accountid=48

Sealed Proposals

     Sealed proposals will be received at the City Clerk's office in Covington, Kentucky until 5 o'clock P.M. on Monday, January 3rd, 1910, for the purchase of $735.28 par value of bonds of the City of Covington to provide a fund for the improvement of Tracy avenue, from the north side of Earle avenue to the north line of lot No 166 of the South Dinmore Park Subdivision, by grading. Said bonds to bear interest at the rate of six (6%) per cent and are of the denomination of $100.00 each.

     Bidders can obtain further particulars relative to said bonds from Harry G. Klostermann, Clerk of the City of Covington, Kentucky.

     H.G. KLOSTERMANN, City Clerk

Sealed Proposals. (1909, December 23). Cincinnati Enquirer. Retrieved from http://ezproxy.kentonlibrary.org/login?url=http://search.proquest.com.ezproxy.kentonlibrary.org/docview/895356276?accountid=48

A similar article can be found on the same database for Leslie Avenue.

Attempt to Rob Judge Read - Earle and Glenn Avenues

This doesn't have much to do with the history of South Dinmore Park but is interesting nonetheless. The intersection of Earle and Glenn Avenues is just up the street from my home. A Covington Judge lived in a brick house at the intersection and a 1912 Cincinnati Enquirer article describes an attempted robbery there.

Covington

Attempt to Rob Judge Read.

    When Police Judge Read heard Van Friser, a negro, tell yesterday where he attempted to enter a house in South Covington, he leaned over and asked Patrolman Hall if it was the brick house at Earle and Glenn avenues. The Judge was informed that it was. Judge Read looked at the negro and told him it was his house that he tried to enter, and made Friser's eyes twinkle like an electrical sign. Patrolman Hall told the Court Friser acted suspiciously about the town and he had then followed him. Judge Read fined the prisoner $50 and costs and sentenced him to 50 days in jail for loitering.

Covington.: Attempt To Rob Judge Read. (1912, September 20). Cincinnati Enquirer. Retrieved from http://ezproxy.kentonlibrary.org/login?url=http://search.proquest.com.ezproxy.kentonlibrary.org/docview/895344175?accountid=48

Dinmore Park Springs Company & 1883 Map of South Covington

Was doing some online research and came across a Dinmore Park Springs Company incorporated on May 1, 1886. It was created by John S. Williams, Lewis Vanden, George Mason, J. O'Hara and D. A. Glenn. Here's a website that tells about its incorporation (mostly legal language) (http://archive.org/stream/actspassedatses15kentgoog/actspassedatses15kentgoog_djvu.txt).

I also ran across an 1883 map of South Covington that shows part of Dinmore Park. Doesn't quite cover all of South Dinmore Park but it gives a good layout of the houses in the area (http://kdl.kyvl.org/catalog/xt76ww76tb4h_36).

1937 Flood Map - NKY Views

I came across this map this evening on Northern Kentucky Views Facebook page (http://www.facebook.com/pages/Northern-Kentucky-Views/31539437245). It shows how Gilbert, Tracy, and Leslie Avenues were connected to Southern Avenue, much further than they are today. That would put them through the woods. Also, the woods sit a lot lower than the floodwaters show, so I'm wondering what the woods looked like then. They should have flooded if they were anything like today. They flooded in the 1997 flood when I was a kid. This map may not be 100% accurate but I thought it was interesting how it showed the street layout in the Dinmore Park area.

G.F. Boughner

While doing research today I found a March 23, 1900 deed in which Benjamin Graziani and his wife sold our home to G.F. Boughner. I found a small section written about him in History of Kentucky, Volume 5:

     "The only child of John W. Boughner and wife is G.F. Boughner, who was born at Berlin, Bracken County, Kentucky, April 25, 1864, and has lived since infancy in Covington, where he attended the public schools, graduating from high school in 1881. He then took up the study of law with the firm of Carlisle, Goebel & Carlisle, later with Theodore F. Hallam and still later with L.E. Baker. For some fifteen years he was engaged in the leaf tobacco business, but since his admission to the bar in 1898 has been busy in his chosen profession, and throughout those years has had offices with B.F. Graziani at 508-510 Madison Avenue, Covington.
     Mr. Boughner has been a member of the Scott Street Methodist Episcopal Church, South, for fifty years. He is a democrat but has never sought public office. He expressed his convictions during the war by putting all his available means at the service of the Government in the purchase of securities and in assisting committees to fill local quotas and gave a large amount of time to war work."

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On another website I found that he also had a law office at 65 East Front Street and during his fifteen years in the tobacco business he had a company called G.F. Boughner Tobacco Leaf Company. Can't find much online about it.