The final issue of the Pantagraph in 1915 featured a story about a party at Dr. F O Jackman's home at 507 W Locust Street. Two hundred and fifty ladies came to this party to celebrate the coming new year. Part of the entertainment was a Duo Art Pianola. This was a piano that was capable of duplicating the player's performance. While playing the piano, a mechanism made a paper roll of the performance. To read about the Duo Art Pianola use this link: http://www.pianola.org/reproducing/reproducing_duo-art.cfm#top_menu
Dr. F O Jackman was the Bloomington forestry manager in 1917. He was a naturalist who spoke frequently on the subject of trees, birds and astronomy. His other occupation was physician. Fred Jackman worked at the Kansas State Asylum in Topeka, Kansas early in his medical career. He had a summer home at Bass Lake, Indiana with notable gardens. Fred Jackman was born in Ohio to John and Sarah Jackman, who moved to Bloomington before 1864 (per his mother's obituary in 1900). Fred Jackman never married and lived with his mother and widowed sisters in his home. Carrie Kimball and Georgia Soper were his sisters. Carrie Kimball was a librarian at the Bloomington Public Library and her daughter was a proof reader at a printers.