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Mary ``Mayme'' Bannister
Mary C. ``Mayme'' Bannister, daughter of traveling salesman William H. Bannister of Terre Haute and Elizabeth Gaines Bannister, married Anton Hulman on Oct. 27, 1887; she was 19, and he was 23. The Rev. B. Zoller married the couple in the old St. Benedict's Catholic Church in a ceremony her younger sister Grace and Anton's friend Clark Tuttle witnessed. The couple moved in with Herman Hulman in his mansion at 657 Ohio St. A devout Catholic like her father-in-law, she and Herman both wrote ``letters to the future'' and placed them in the cornerstone of the current St. Benedict's, laid in an elaborate ceremony Oct. 4, 1896. The couple lived with Herman until Anton filed for divorce. They divorced Aug. 15, 1898.Euguene V. Debs
Eugene Victor Debs, co-founder of the American Socialist Party and organizer of the first industrial union in the United States, became acquainted with Herman Hulman and his sons through his parents' grocery store. He eventually was a friend of three generations of the Hulman family. During World War I, Herman Hulman Jr. unsuccessfully tried to sell Debs a war bond. Herman Hulman's grandson, Anton Hulman Jr., in 1974 donated $25,000 to help complete renovation of Debs' home at 451 N. Eighth St., the attic of which is named the Herman Hulman Memorial Auditorium and features his picture.Will Kadel
William ``Will'' Kadel, a boyhood friend of Anton Hulman and Herman Hulman Jr., was an avid baseball player along with the Hulman brothers. One summer day in 1884, Anton was supposed to pitch a game and the players were getting frustrated because he was nowhere to be found. Will headed to Hulman & Co. and a stern Herman Hulman told him Anton had to work on inventory along with all the other employees. Short of help, Herman hired Kadel on the spot. When Anton died unexpectedly on Feb. 9, 1942, Kadel was so upset, he retired just a few days later, says the history A.R. Markle and Gloria Collins wrote to mark the 100th anniversary of the company.John Ludowici
John Bernhard Ludowici was the man who persuaded the first Hulman to move to Terre Haute. Ludowici was born in Westphalia, Germany, on June 7, 1809, and emigrated to Cincinnati, a Midwestern mecca for German immigrants, in the early to mid-1840s; he owned a wholesale grocery store there. He became acquainted with Francis T. Hulman and persuaded him to move to Terre Haute, a city he had never seen, to open a wholesale grocery business with Ludowici. Their partnership lasted only a few years after their arrival in 1850. Later, Ludowici became moderately successful with a downtown shoe and boot store. He is buried in an unmarked grave in Woodlawn Cemetery.William T. Hertfelder
Herman Hulman sued William F. Hertfelder on Aug. 17, 1886, in Vigo Circuit Court. Hulman alleged that Hertfelder, a grocer in business with Annie E. Wurster, a widow, at 100 N. Fourth St., promised by Aug. 15 to pay back a $3,103.66 loan made by Herman on Aug. 14, at 8 percent interest. Hertfelder later paid Herman $3,255.72, plus court costs.Chauncey Rose
The grandson of a man who emigrated from Scotland, Chauncey Rose was born on Christmas Eve in 1794 in Connecticut. He moved to Terre Haute for good in 1825 after passing through the frontier town previously. Rose, who built the Prairie House -- later renamed the Terre Haute House -- in 1837-38, would become wealthy beyond his wildest dreams with property development and investment in the city's railroads. By 1866, Rose had wearied of the hotel business and considered giving it away for educational purposes; in response, the Terre Haute Hotel Co. formed and bought it. Stockholders of the company included Rose and Herman Hulman.
