Kentucky: A History of the State, Perrin, Battle, Kniffin, 8th ed., 1888,
Jefferson Co.

W. T. PYNE, one of the prominent and successful business men of Louisville,
was born in 1838, in Mount Vernon, Ind., and is a son of W. B. and Eliza
(Thomas) Pyne, the former a native of Philadelphia, Pa., and the latter of
Virginia.  The father was of English and Scotch ancestry.  He was a
millwright, an expert mechanic, and brought up his son to the same
business.  He removed West in 1829, and built the first mill put up in St.
Louis, Mo., for a man named Chouteau.  He also built the first flour-mill
in the territory, now the State of Illinois.  He finally located in Mount
Vernon, Ind.  W. T. Pyne, the subject of this sketch, is a natural
mechanic.  At the age of thirteen years he began to learn the trade of a
millwright under his father's instruction, and continued with him until he
was nineteen years old.  During his apprenticeship he attended school about
three months each winter, and by careful reading obtained a good practical
education.  Upon leaving his father he served one season at Shoals, Ind.,
with John Sloan, a millwright from this city, and the following year, 1859,
he apprenticed himself to J. T. Wilder, at Lawrenceburg, Ind., for two
years.  He operated as foreman until the breaking out of the civil war,
when his apprenticeship terminated, and he began business for himself.
Since having mastered his trade, and launched out for himself, Mr. Pyne has
never worked a day as journeyman for any one.  His personal success from
the first has been marked.  Going at once to Indianapolis, he began his
millwrighting business, and carried it on until 1864, when he accepted a
situation as superintendent of the flouring-mill of T. & J. W. Gaff, at
Columbus, Ind., retaining that position for about two years, when ill
health compelled him to resign.  Mr. Pyne's next business enterprise was
the establishment of a foundry and machine shop, which was carried on under
the firm name of Kerr, Pyne & Co., changing to Pyne, Bush & Co., and later
to Columbus Machine and Millwright Co.  He left the business, and in 1871
established himself in Louisville, Ky., where he still carries on an
extensive and constantly growing mill furnishing business.  The continual
development of the "New South" owes much to such men as Mr. Pyne, who with
a firm belief in the great future of the country South of the old "Mason's
and Dixon's line," have settled there and bent their energies toward
hastening its advancement.  Already they begin to see the fruits of their
labors.  Mr. Pyne is in the full vigor of life, with a fair prospect before
him of living many years to enjoy the returns to which his energy and
integrity entitle him.  He was married in 1862 to Miss Laura L. Brown, of
Jeffersonville, Ind.  She died in 1886.  Mr. Pyne has two children living:
Harry B. and Ella M.

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