third floor of the Tribune building, then on Main street, near Franklin. There its stay was quite prolonged, but in 1855 it changed once more, this time occupying the second floor of Conrad Suppes' “towering brick building,” as Mr. A. J. Hite records it. This building was the Hulbert House destroyed in the flood and which when erected in 1854-55, was the first four-story brick in the county. The Association was now quite progressive, its “library had 150 volumes and thirty chairs.”
April 3, 1857, the seventh annual anniversary of the Association was celebrated by removing its rooms to the Sons of Temperance Hall on Railroad street, and having a splendid programme of music, oratory and essays, in which many invited guests participated. At this stage of its existence membership was not limited to young men and many young ladies were enrolled. The anniversary meeting was an open one, and the first in the history of the association, although it had been the custom to celebrate the Fourth of July, with patriotic music, toasts, speeches, and feasting. These meetings were the social events of the time. Its members were among the leading men and women of the locality, some of whom were, Cornelia Harlan Vickroy, who married Edward Crueger ; Margaret E. Kern ; Susan Linton, who became Mrs. John H. Clark ; Annie E. Gayton, married Joe H. Gadd ; Sara Atlee Vickroy ; Sarah E. Harbison, who married a nephew of Gov. Ritner ; Virginia Roberts ; Hortense Kooken ; Lucy H. Roberts, whose husband was Powell Stackhouse ; Mary Ely ; Kate Young, intermarried with C. C. Smith ; Mary M. Swank, who became the wife of William Turner ; Jennie Snedden, who married Thomas Jones ; Mary E. Shaffer-Jones ; and Ellen Quinn. The Rev. B. L. Agnew, Gen. James Potts, John P. Linton, Abraham Kopelin, Henry Ely, George S. King, Sr., and George S. King, Jr., a nephew ; Dr. W. W. Walters, David Lamb, John Lamb, James N. Rea, M. P. Rindlaub, who lately was publishing a newspaper in Wisconsin ; Alpheus H. Sembower, Emanuel J. Pershing, S. B. McCormick, Samuel Horton, Thomas Myers, Thomas Vickroy, A. L. Guss, Jeremiah Marbourg, William Murphy, A. S. Prosser, James Irvin Steel, James Hartzell, George T. Swank, J. D. McConnell, G. M. Swank, P. C. Bolsinger, B. F. Bolsinger, D. S. Bolsinger, Joseph Edson and Henry A. McPike.
The discipline was exemplary as we find Mr. Myers fined for leaving the room without permission, and others, including
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