The Forget-Me-Not creek ran through the Kuehn property. Kuehn’s mother-in-law lived in the home with Kuehn and his wife and bought the forget-me-not seeds from Europe to plant on the banks of the creek. During the Civil War Kuehn invested his own money, along with the banks, in Confederate bonds. This ended tragically for Kuehn, as well as those who placed their faith in his Manitowoc and Two Rivers banks.

Theodore Churchill Shove was born in 1831 in New York and came to Manitowoc with his family in 1850. Shove studied to be an attorney and soon turned his focus to the growing banking industry. He began as a teller at the Wollmer Bank and opened his own bank, the T.C. Shove Banking in 1858. The bank operated until tragedy struck in 1892.