This book has no cover, and no index, and no author. I bought it on Ebay; it just has the insides, but it is full of Indiana biographies. I am not researching this family, just thought I would share. I do not know anymore about these families or these surnames. I don’t know if there is any additional mention of this family in the book, it has no index. I do not want to sell this book. I am typing the biographies from it. Typed by Lora Radiches: Surnames in this biography: ROTTGER, Entriken, Schurz, Wilbur, Freeborn, Smith, CURTIS H. ROTTGER is a former chairman of the board of the Bell Telephone Company of Indiana at Indianapolis. A complete story of his experience in the telephone industry would be a notable contribution to the history of this distinctly modern method of communication. The first official recognition of the telephone instrument was given at the Philadelphia Centennial in 1876, but even after that several years passed before it was anything more than a toy. Consequently Mr. Rottger when he became night operator of a little exchange at Jacksonville, Illinois, was unconsciously getting into a business whose tremendous future development no one could predict. Mr. Rottger was born at Jacksonville, Illinois, January 16, 1864, son of John and Emma L. (Entriken) Rottger. His father was born in Germany, son of John R. and Wilhelmina Rottger, who left Germany at the time of the failure of the liberal movement in 1848 and came along with Karl Schurz and other distinguished German Americans to this country. Emma L. Entriken was born in Pennsylvania, daughter of Thomas C. and Millicent Entriken, who moved west to Morgan County, Illinois, settling near Murrayville. Mr. Rottger’s grandfathers were farmers. His parents were married at Jacksonville, where his father for many years carried on a successful business as a furniture dealer and undertaker. For one term he was coroner of Morgan County and he served in the Home Guard during the Civil war. John Rottger died in 1904 and his wife and the mother of Curtis H. Rottger passed away in 1872, when her son was eight years old. Curtis H. Rottger attended grade and high schools in Jacksonville and the Brown Business College. On May 8, 1883, immediately after completing his business college course, he accepted a position, which in his most sanguine moments he hardly regarded as opening a career into the larger world of business. A local citizen of Jacksonville, Dr. W. H. H. King, in 1881 had secured from the Bell Telephone Company of Boston five telephone instruments, which served as the nucleus of the first telephone exchange started at Jacksonville. It was a telephone service of extremely limited facilities when Mr. Rottger became night operator in 1883. In time it became one of the units of the organization known as the Central Union Telephone Company, in whose service Mr. Rottger has had many interesting promotions. In March, 1884, he was made manager of the exchange at Paris, Illinois, in January, 1885, was transferred to Muncie, Indiana, in June, 1885, accepted the offer to return to Jacksonville, Illinois, as manager there. In April, 1892, he was made manager of the exchange at Springfield, Illinois, and in 1896 became district manager, with supervision over the telephone exchanges in five counties in Central Illinois. Mr. Rottger in April, 1904, was made general manager of the Central Union properties in the State of Illinois. He has been a resident of Indianapolis since 1920, when he became vice president of the Indiana Telephone Company, and in October, 1921, was advanced to president, serving in that capacity until April 24, 1930, when he was elected chairman of the board of the Indiana Bell Telephone System. Mr. Rottger was also president of the Lebanon Telephone Company, director of the Clay County Telephone Company, director of the Princeton-Indiana Telephone Company, and director of the Sullivan Telephone Company. His long experience and important services make him one of the outstanding men in the telephone industry in the Middle West. Mr. Rottger married, June 30, 1887, Miss Agnes J. Wilbur, who was born at Exeter, Scott County, Illinois, daughter of William and Ruth L. (Freeborn) Wilbur. Her father was born in Illinois, and her mother came from Maysville, Kentucky. Mr. and Mrs. Rottger have a son, Russel Curtis, now vice president of the Indiana Bell Telephone Company at Indianapolis. Russel C. Rottger married Florence Smith, of Oak Park, Illinois, and has a daughter, Rosemary Jane. Mr. Rottger is a member of the Central Christian Church of Indianapolis. While living at Jacksonville, Illinois, he was a member of the board of aldermen for two years, 1890-91. He is a Republican, a Knight Templar and thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason and Shriner, member of the Knights of Pythias and B. P. 0. Elks, is a director of the Columbia Club of Indianapolis, and a member of the Woodside Country Club and the Rotary Club.