Baughmans Old and New
Store expansion brought brother Lee into the business
A note here about Frank Baughman’s store, and his family. I now have a better “after” picture (after the store was expanded), as well as information that fills in some of the timeline of his tenure as a Medaryville businessman.
As the caption in this picture says, by 1953 this building (as later remodeled) was known as Clark’s Drugstore. Later, it was the home of a restaurant owned by Marjorie Fulmer, known as “Marjorie’s Potpourri.” It was razed, unfortunately, and the new library sits on the site of both parts of the store.
Note that the building in the picture above is the western part of the “double” store shown on the next page and elsewhere. The new (east) part left the world first, in a fire on January 12, 1977. That fire is described in detail in the sesquicentennial book.
A newspaper clipping from November 10, 1906, tells us, “The large brick addition to Frank Baughman’s store will be under the management of his brother, Lee Baughman.” The frame building shown in the “non-1902” picture, covered in a previous article, was razed to make way for the addition.
The Baughman family has quite a number of ties in the area. Frank married Mary, the daughter of Medaryville businessman Cyrus L. Posey. His sister Mary Jeanette married James E. Low, proprietor of the Low Brothers store in Medaryville. His sister Emma married James H. Turpie, who became a large landowner in White County after his tenure in Medaryville. Both Henry Baughman, Frank’s father, and James H. Turpie have biographies in the 1883 White/Pulaski county history book. Lee Baughman, born in 1880, was the youngest of Henry Baughman’s eleven children.
And, to my surprise, Frank’s sister Emily (Emma) is the subject of a beautiful engraving in that same history:
Frank Baughman left Medaryville and moved to Royal Center, where he operated a store in his later years.
Posted by Brian Capouch on Wednesday, November 22, 2006