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North 10th Street Note: This is the web-based incarnation of a brochure originally published in 1980. While the history is still very valuable, other information may no longer be accurate. Information updated by WayNet will be listed in this maroon color.
127 North 10th Street Dr. Marvel was a member of the Wayne County Medical Association and had his office at the north side of the house. The house became the Richmond City Schools Administration offices until they were moved into their present building on Whitewater Blvd. (Hub Etchison Parkway).
The Tudor home of Mrs. Leeds was razed in September of 1974 to make room for an expanded parking lot for Palladium-Item employees. Mrs. Jeannette G. Leeds, former president of the Palladium Publishing Co. and her son, Rudolph Leeds, editor and publisher of the Palladium-Item lived here until Mr. Leeds moved to his new residence on South 18th Street. That residence was also razed and the Masons' Temple is presently on the 18th Street site.
109 North 10th Street
In Richmond he was elected city attorney. In 1867 he married Josephine A. Hohre, they had two daughters, Elizabeth and Clara, who resided at this address until their deaths, and a son Paul. Further, he was elected and served as prosecuting attorney in 1872 and 1874, state senator in 1878, and Judge of the Seventeenth Judicial Circuit in 1884 and 1890. In 1896, he became Judge of the 4th District Appellate court and served there until 1911. Upon retiring, he practiced law with his son Paul and was a member of the Taconite Society. The house was torn down by the Palladium Publishing Co. in October of 1967 to make a parking lot.
In the 14 rooms that his irreplaceable home had, there were probably 8-10 fireplaces, ornate plaster work friezes and medallions, ornate woodwork in walnut, mahogany or oak, a ballroom on the third floor and many other no longer available features.
23 North 10th
Street Around 1891 Thomas Nixon of Thomas Nixon & Co. acquired the property. At the present time there is no picture available of this house.
The structure is situated on lot 167 and part of 168 in the Charles W. Starr Addition and believed to have cost $1,000 when built by W.W. Lynde some time between 1859 and 1864. In 1864 Mr. Curtis B. Huff, who was an original stockholder in the First National Bank of Richmond purchased the property. He then sold it to Dr. Verlin Kersey in 1878. Dr. Kersey was born in 1809 in Guilford County, North Carolina. He was one of the founders of the Indiana State Medical Society which held its first convention in Indianapolis in the year of 1849. He was elected president of the Society in 1866. Dr. Kersey also founded the Taconite Society, better known as the "Talk and Eat" which met mostly in the winter months. When Dr. Kersey died in 1875, the property passed to Richard Kersey, then to Folger P. Wilson and Henry J. Pohlemeyer to be used as a funeral home.
Text and illustrations © 1980, Old Richmond, Inc.
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Mr.
Comstock was born in 1840, and was graduated from Ohio Wesleyan
University, Delaware, Ohio in 1860. His father was Dr. James
Comstock and his grandfather was a soldier in the Revolution. In
1861 he was both living in New Castle and admitted to the Bar.
He was elected district attorney for the Eleventh Common Pleas in
1862. In 1865, he enlisted in the 9th Indiana Cavalry and was
promoted to 1st lieutenant of Company F and then discharged in 1865
whereupon he became a resident of Richmond.
