Age: 43
Served: 3 years
1935 to September 20, 1938
OFFICER
Pete was born August 7, 1895 in Lawrenceburg, the fifth child born to Charles, a carpenter by trade, and Sarah E. Cunningham. He was a lifelong resident of Lawrenceburg. During 1900, they lived at 308 St. Claire Street near the Ohio River. By 1910, at 14-years-old, Pete was already working as a machinist in a saw factory. At 21, January 1917, he was working at the Bauer Cooperage Company in Lawrenceburg.
Pete enlisted in the United States Army to fight in World War I. He served in Company F of the 22nd Engineers. By May 1918, he had been promoted to Corporal. He left France after the war on June 30, 1919 bound for home. He was honorably discharged on July 21, 1919 and went back to work as a laborer.
Pete married Ruth Ellen Kitchell on January 28, 1922. On April 9, 1922, they had a baby, Evelyn Louise Cunningham, but she died within a year on March 5, 1923 of meningitis. They had no more children.
About 1935, Pete joined the Lawrenceburg Police Department as a Patrolman.
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