Whitewash

A.E. Huls was a broken man. He built his fabulous new fire-proof Huls Printing building at

A.E. Huls

 51 E. Main Street in Logan (which still stands and is currently used for county records) in 1923 in anticipation of Charley's graduation and joining the family business. 

Now Charley was dead. (1925 was a doubly bad year for Great-grandpa Gene when his younger brother, William Miller Huls, died unexpectedly on July 16, 1925 in California.)

At some point after Charlie's death he wrote and published am extremely long, maudlin, almost Victorian eulogy, "To Our Boy." Not surprisingly I cannot find it online.

I also know that he was furiously writing letters. I don't know if he typed, but I can see him churning out letter after letter. (See all the responses that were saved under Additional correspondence.)

I do not know when my great-grandfather finally became convinced that Charley had died from strychnine poisoning, but it wasn't until December 15, 1926 when Great-grandpa Gene started complaining about a "whitewash" and filed a $15,000 claim against the state of Ohio, according to newspaper reports.

        "My son's death was purely the fault of the university and the State Board of Pharmacy. They were running a cut-rate drug store there with a clientele of 10,000. It was not Inspected by the state. Had it been Inspected my son would not have died."

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