This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Auman, Gross, Senour Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/Bi.2ADI/571.1 Message Board Post: "Shelbyville Wardrobe Manufacturing Company first at 120 East Elizabeth and later at 227 East Locust began operation in the early 1890s. Owned by the Chris Auman family and Milton Senour, it made sideboards, buffets, and other dining room furniture. In the Depression years it discontinued business and Russell Gross purchased the building for his NuKraft company in 1946." Source: Shelby County, Indiana History and Families, Compiled by the Shelby County Historical Society 1992, p. 86. From the Shelbyville Democrat of November 28, 1914, it was reported that the second fire that year damaged parts of the Shelbyville Wardrobe Company. In early September (1914), the entire plant was nearly destroyed by fire. The November fire, like one a few years before, burned the office, a faulty furnace being the cause. Furniture and records were saved, but the November fire caused $150 damage. Original article copied by Phyllis Miller Fleming for INSHELBY-L@rootsweb.com From the Grand Rapids (Michigan) History and Special Collections Center at the Grand Rapids Public Library, Shelbyville Wardrobe Mfg. Co. is listed twice under the heading "What Manufacturers are Doing" first on Sept. 1, 1914, page 162, column 2; and May 1, 1915. page 280, column 1.