Charles Goldman Hits the Big Time

It's the autumn of 1923 and our former storekeeper, Charles Goldman, has well and truly shaken the dust of Ainsworth from his feet as he now moves to Gary to become a real estate mogul.


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Hobart News, Nov. 1, 1923.

Their nieces were still living with them, and doing well, it seems:


"Local Drifts," Hobart Gazette, Nov. 9, 1923.

701 Connecticut is a vacant lot now.

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The page from the November 1 News, above, includes a "Births" column that shows the population of Ainsworth increasing.



The boy born to Otto and Louise (Buhr) Foreman would be named Leroy. His father had also been born in Ainsworth. A descendant tells me that Louise Buhr was from Illinois (the 1910 Census shows her living with her family in the village of Beecher, Will County); if I remember the story right, she was visiting in Indiana in 1922 and met Helmuth and Otto Foreman, who happened to be looking for someone to keep house for them after the death of Mary Mau Foreman. So Louise came to Ainsworth as the Foremans' housekeeper, then she and Otto fell in love and were married on June 10, 1923 (per this descendant; I can't find the record on Ancestry.com). In October, along came Leroy. You do the math.

The other Ainsworth baby in this "Births" column was little Leroy's cousin — John Fasel had married Anna Foreman, Otto's sister, in 1916 (Indiana Marriage Collection). Their Halloween baby would be named Marie. We've already seen a photo of her as a schoolgirl.