As I just sent to Frank - my great grandfather was D. C. Cogdell - and I see where Frank said he had the first automobile registration. Well, to add another first (but not entirely sure if it was the first) - my great grandmother, his wife, Lucy Norfleet Duke Cogdell was the first to die as a result of an automobile accident - if she wasn't the first, she was real close to being first. joann in Alaska