Interior of Haynie's Drugs at 1022 SE 2nd St., formerly 1144 Upper 2nd St., at the corner with Parrett St. [George Washington] Haynie (1857-1939) was a well-known and respected business owner, public servant, and family man.... In addition to running his drug store from the late 1800s to 1928, he served as the commissioner of police, a board member of water works and safety, and president of the Indiana Druggist Association. President Grover Cleveland even appointed Haynie as surveyor of customs for the city. The local leader also was dubbed with the unique nickname, Mayor of Goosetown, in reference to the neighborhood's large population of geese. Haynie's drug store was situated on the first floor of a Second Street building designed by Weiss & Harris Architects, with his family home on the second floor above, where he lived with his wife Emma and their son Gilmore. Neighbors became Haynie's longtime customers, calling him by name, and vice versa. But after his retirement in 1928, he sold the business to fellow Evansville druggist H.A. Woods, and the store was destroyed twice: once by the Ohio River Valley Flood in 1937 and then by a fire in 1944. (http://www.evansvilleliving.com/articles/the-name-behind-the-corner) He is the great-grandfather to the originator of this collection.