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Picture of John C. Leffel (1850-1935). He is buried in Bellefontaine Cemetery in Mt. Vernon, IN. He was the owner/editor of the Western Star newspaper, founded in 1877. For ten years he also published a German language paper, Wochenblatt. He was the first in the county to install power presses, and the building that housed his newspaper was built according to plans he furnished. (http://mygenealogyhound.com/indiana-biographies/in-posey-county-biographies/john-c-leffel-genealogy-posey-county-indiana-mt-vernon.html)