Copyright USGenNet Inc., 2023 All Rights Reserved USGenNet Data Repository Please read USGenNet Copyright Statement on this page: Transcribed and submitted by Linda Talbott for the USGenNet Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ =========================================================================== Formatted by USGenNet Data Repository Chief Archivist, Linda Talbott All of the above information must remain when copied or downloaded. =========================================================================== Centennial History of Grant county, Indiana 1812-1912, Vol. II Compiled from the Records of the Grant county Historical Society, Archives of the county, Data of Personal Interviews, and Other Authentic Sources of Local Information pub. Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago and New York - 1914 Pg. 698-699 ANTHONY B. ROTHINGHOUSE Forty years of residence and business activity gave the late ANTHONY B. ROTHINGHOUSE an established position in the citizenship of Jonesboro, where his widow and one son still live, the latter being proprietor of the finest drug store of the city. The late MR. ROTHINGHOUSE had the solid virtues of his German forefathers, was prospered by years of work and business judgment and kept himself in public spirited relations with the community of which he was a part. At his death on May 8, 1911, the community lost one of its substantial older citizens. He was born at Minster, Ohio, June 24, 1840, and died at the beautiful home he had erected on north Main Street in Jonesboro in 1901. He was of German parentage, and both his father and mother died in Ohio, his father having been a cooper. The late MR. ROTHINGHOUSE grew up in Ohio, and after a somewhat limited education was placed under the direction of his father and acquired a skilled knowledge of the cooper's trade. When a young man he came to Indiana, and at Anderson, in Madison county, on July 28, 1864 was united in marriage to MISS ERNESTINE ROZELL. She was born in the state, February 4, 1842, a daughter of HAMLET and ELIZABETH (DAVIS) ROZELL, both natives of Indiana, and they were married near New Castle. They started life as farmers, at first in Delaware county, near Yorktown, and afterwards moved to the city of Anderson. MR. ROZELL had learned the trade of tanner and continued to follow it through most of his active years. His death occurred at Anderson when past fifty years of age, and his wife had passed way some time before. They had five children, two of whom died before the mother, and one, CHARLES, died not long thereafter. Those yet living are MRS. ROTHINGHOUSE and MILES M. ROZELL, who is a widower living in Anderson and with four living sons. After the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. ROTHINGHOUSE, they lived in Madison county at Anderson, where he continued his trade as a cooper. In 1869 they located in Jonesboro, and in 1871 bought their first home at the corner of Main and Third Streets. That was a frame house of modest proportions and comforts, and about thirty years later as a visible expression of the generous prosperity which had resulted from his labors, MR. ROTHINGHOUSE built the substantial eleven room brick home, where his widow now resides in comfort and plenty. The late Mr. ROTHINGHOUSE followed his trade a time in Jonesboro, but eventually entered the drug store of his son CHARLES, and finally took up the profession of pharmacy and was connected with the business until he retired. The late MR. ROTHINGHOUSE was an active Repub- lican, much interested in the success of his party and held several local offices. He was a member of the Jonesboro Lodge of Masons and a popular member of the local post of the Grand Army. His membership in that order followed upon a service for some time in the Union army. He worshipped in the Catholic faith, while MRS. ROTHINGHOUSE is a Presbyterian. Mr. and Mrs. ROTHINGHOUSE had three children: FRED, who is a druggist at Gas City, and is married; ALBERT, who married and lived in Gas City, was killed March 4, 1900, while performing service as a member of the Volun- teer Fire Department engaged in extinguishing a fire at the Gas City pottery, his death resulting from a falling wall; and CHARLES, who is still a resident of Jonesboro, and the druggist above mentioned. CHARLES ROTHINGHOUSE was born at Anderson, Indiana, May 30, 1865, and has lived in Jonesboro since 1868. When he was twelve years of age he received his first experience in a drug store, and has followed the business with such success as to place him in the first rank of Grant county druggists. For a time he was associated with his brother FRED, but the latter since 1892 has managed the Gas City store. the Rexall store of MR. ROTHINGHOUSE has been established at its present location since 1896, and he and his father were previously in business on Fourth Street. The ROTHINGHOUSE Block is one of the most substantial brick business structures of the town, and MR. ROTHINGHOUSE occupies a portion of it for his business. It is a large and commodious store, and its store furnishings are the best to be found in any similar establishment in the county. MR. ROTHINGHOUSE is a charter member of the Rexall Store Corporation, and stands in the tenth place of the United States for sales in towns of its population of Jones- boro, and thirteenth in amount of sales for any store in the state of Indiana, regardless of population. MR. ROTHINGHOUSE believes in selling staple and guaranteed goods, and his success is largely due to that policy. MR. ROTHINGHOUSE was united in marriage to MISS CARRIE LIVENGOOD, and they are the parents of two children: PORTER, who died at the age of two and a half years; and ERNEST, born in 1889, educated at Notre Dame, and in a school of pharmacy at New Orleans, and since 1909 has been in business with his father as a registered pharmacist. ================================================================================