Browse Items (2 total) Tags: Indiana Browse All Browse by Tag Search Items Sort by: Title Creator Date Added Clarence Sowers' Oral History This is the oral history of Clarence Sowers. He was interviewed by Betty Turnell. The interview includes his career in construction. Tags: 1st contract, 8th grade education, Amusement Park, automobile mechanic, bricklayer foreman, bricklayers trade, bull ring, casino, catholic schools, changes in construction, changes to Decatur, childhood, Churches, Construction, Cuba tour, customer loyalty, Decatur IL, Dreamland Park, Fairview Park, family, Florida, freight foreman, future of Decatur, garden, Great Depression, Hawaii, health issues, Indiana, interview, Jasper County IL, Juarez, Linn & Scruggs building, Lodge, Macon School, Mexico, Nassau Bahamas, oral history, Pennsylvania Railroad, photography, recording, retirement, Sarasota FL, shoveling coal, Staley Company, Streetcars, Travel, union, Wabash Railroad, wildcat whistle, World War I, World War II, WPA workers, WWI, WWII Philip Kayser Photograph of Philip Kayser (b. 5/23/1868, d. 1/24/1932). Kayser was the constable in Decatur Township, a city commissioner, and a member of the city council. He came to Decatur from Indiana in 1902 to help build the Decatur Bridge Co. plant, and… Tags: 1927, biography, city commissioner, City Council, constable, Decatur Bridge Co., Decatur Herald and Review, Decatur IL, Decatur Township, First United Brethren Church, Indiana, Ionic Lodge 312 AF&AM, Master, Philip Kayser, Photo File: Biography, street commissioner '' Featured Item Photos of the Demolition of the Empress Theatre. Photographs of the demolition of the Empress Theatre taken 11/25/1962.