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- Gordon L. Drollinger believes Gabriel's middle name could possibly be Shuyler after Noah's brother. I believe his middle name is more likely Samuel after his mother's older brother, Samuel. Noah and Sarah were virtuous people. With that comes fairness. As a result and because Gabriel received his first name in honor of his father's father, I believe it was quite possible Sarah gave him his middle name of Samuel. Hopefully, a close family member will come forward with the actual answer. (David H. Drollinger 11 Jul 2021)
FIRST ANNUAL COMMENCEMENT LAPORTE COUNTY COMMON SCHOOL,
FRIDAY, MAY 24, 1895 - 8th Grade
File contributed by Fern Eddy Schultz and typed by: Christine Scott
CLASS OF 1895
GABRIEL DROLLINGER
1900 United States Federal Census
Name: Gabrile S Drollinger
[Gabriel S Drollinger]
Age: 17
Birth Date: Jul 1882
Birthplace: Indiana
Home in 1900: Wills, La Porte, Indiana [La Porte]
Race: White
Gender: Male
Relation to Head of House: Son
Marital Status: Single
Father's Name: Qumby Drollinger
Father's Birthplace: Indiana
Mother's name: Sarah C Drollinger
Mother's Birthplace: Indiana
The following were taken from the wreck dead:
CHARLES H. GRUBE, substitute player, Butler, Ind.
CHARLES FURR, guard, Vandersburg, Ind.
E. C. ROBERTSON, assistant coach and captain of the team two years ago, Indianapolis, Ind.
WALTER L. ROUSH, substitute player, Pittsburg, Pa.
R. J. POWELL, an Indian player, Corpus Christi, Texas.
W. D. HAMILTON, centre, Bridgetown, Illinois.
WALTER ROBERTSON.
GABRIEL S. DROLLINGER, substitute player, Lafayette, Ind.
SAMUEL SQUIBB, substitute player, Lawrenceburg, Ind.
JAY HAMILTON, substitute player, Huntington, Ind.;
N. R. HOWARD, president of the Indiana Laundrymen's association, Lafayette, Ind.
PATRICK McCLAIR, assistant coach, Chicago;
SAMUEL TRUITT, substitute player, Noblesville, Ind.
G. L. SHAW, Indiana Harbor, Ind.
W. S. McMILLEN, Indianapolis.
BERT PRICE, substitute player, Spencer, Ind.
J. C. COATS, Berwin, Pa.
WALTER BAILEY, of New Richmond, Ind., substitute player on the Purdue University football team, died on the afternoon after the accident from internal injuries received in the Big Four wreck. This is the sixteenth death.
The Cranbury Press New Jersey 1903-11-06
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Tragedy at Purdue
Purdue football teams have been struck by tragedy on two occasions: The famous 1903 train wreck that cost 16 lives, and again in 1936 when a locker room fire killed two athletes.
About 9:45 a.m., Oct. 31, 1903, a special 14-car train carrying the Purdue team, band and fans to Indianapolis for the annual clash with Indiana crashed into a 10-car section of steel-construction coal cars being backed down the track inside the Indianapolis city limits.
Newspapers of the day reported the first car (of wooden construction) of the Purdue train was halved with the floor lying under the tender and the roof resting on the second car of the section of coal cars.
Killed in the collision were assistant coach Edward Robertson, trainer Patrick McClaire and players Thomas Bailer, Walter Hamilton, Gabriel Drollinger, Walter Roush, Russell Powell, Joseph Coates, Charles Furr, George Shaw, Samuel Truitt, Samuel Squibb, Wilburt Price, Jay Hamilton and Charles Grube. Lafayette businessman Newton Howard, who was with the team as a special honor for his fan interest and favors extended, also died in the crash.
Injured in the wreck included coach Oliver Cutts and manager-player Harry G. Leslie, who was later to become governor of Indiana. The Purdue band, riding in the second car of the special train, miraculously escaped serious injury when the car left the rails and plunged down an embankment.
Memorial Gymnasium on the Purdue campus is named in memory of those fatally injured in the wreck.
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