HISTORY OF HENDERSON COUNTY, KY.



fully remembered, was his benevolence. No charitable cause, at home
or abroad, ever sought his aid in vain. While on an inspection tour
over his Union County plantation, he was taken sick, and died Octo-
ber 31st, 1872. His remains were brought to Henderson and interred
in Fernwood Cemetery, and a very handsome and imposing marble
shaft erected to his memory. Mr. Burbank was twice married. His
first wife was Ann Isabella Terry, daughter of Major Robert Terry.
She died not quite two years after her marriage, leaving one son,
Robert T., who, at the age of sixteen, left college and joined General
Walker, at Nicaragua, where he died. He was a talented, adventur-
ous boy, and aspired to military fame, but fell gallantly at the outset
of his career. He was aid-de-camp to General Henningsen, who
complimented him highly for gallant deportment on the field. In 1851
Mr. Burbank married Miss Mary Frances Taylor, the only daughter
of Colonel Charles Mynn Thruston Taylor. Unto them were born
six children, four of whom are now living, Annie, Charles M., Mary
Taylor, and Breckenridge. David, the eldest son, now dead, married
Miss Kate J., only daughter of Governor and Mrs. Archibald Dixon.
    HON. JACOB HELD was born in Betzenger, County of
Rentlingen, District of Black Forest, Kingdom of Wurtemberg,
Germany, and was educated at the common schools of that country.
On the first day of September, 1834, he sailed for America, and ar-
rived at New York on the fourth day of November, of the same year.
From New York he removed to Philadelphia, and served an appren-
ticeship as baker, up to April, 1838, when he removed to Evansville,
where he remained until April, 1839, at which time he removed to
Henderson. On the twentieth day of May, 1839, he married, in
Evansville, Miss Louise Lohmever, and. as a result of that union,
twelve children have been born, seven sons and five daughters.  Of
that number two sons and two daughters have died. After coming to
Henderson, Mr. Held carried on a bakery store and was the first to
establish a daily delivery of breads, etc., to families in the town. In
1852 he built the three-story brick storehouse, corner Water and
Second Streets, and, for a number of years, carried on a large business
therein. He was mostly instrumental in building the Henderson 
Evansville Telegraph Line, and was its first President. He served as
Councilman of his ward, and, in 1874, was elected Mayor and served
one term with credit to himself and city.  He is one of the oldest
Odd Fellows living in the city, and served his lodge as Noble Grand
in 1844 and 1857. In religion he is a Lutheran; in politics a
Republican. He is the owner of HIeld's Park, including six and a



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