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How well do you know White County history
1) Pictured is Orson Archibald. What was his claim to fame in White County?
2) On September 20, 1934, near the Brookston fairgrounds, Gilbert Buhrow age 29 of Crawfordsville was killed. What happened?
ANSWERS
1) Pictured is Orson Archibald. What was his claim to fame in White County?
Answer: Orson Archibald in 1913 proposed building a home for the aged and infirm deaf in Indiana. This retirement home came to fruition in 1916 when $10,000 was raised and Archibald donated 20 acres of ground outside of Brookston on which it would be built. The last $500 in donations was credited to Helen Weaver of Brookston who was a pupil at the Indiana School for the Deaf at Indianapolis.
2) On September 20, 1934, near the Brookston fairgrounds, Gilbert Buhrow age 29 of Crawfordsville was killed. What happened?
Answer: On September 20, 1934, Buhrow, who was a parachute jumper, was killed when he fell 1,800 feet to his death as part of an exhibition for the Brookston Fair. The pilot of the airplane Marvin Hamble of Jackson, Wisconsin, noted that Burhrow had acted strangely nervous before the jump. Burhow was attempting to execute a “double drop” jump as part of the stunt. Buhrow jumped without warning two miles from the fairgrounds and his body landed in a field a mile and a half from the fairgrounds. Harry Anderson, of Fowler, found the body and stated that it was embedded 18 inches in a field of oat stubble. It was believed that Buhrow had committed suicide.
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