The Waterloo Times
December 3, 1915

RECOVERS HIS SIGHT AT AGE OF 91

Leonard Kaffenberger of Red Bud, who, it is claimed is the second oldest 
citizen of Randolph county, has recovered his eyesight after being operated 
upon for cataracts, by Dr. E. C. Spitze in the Deaconess Hospital in East 
St. Louis.  He left the hospital last Friday, thankful at having recovered his 
sight.  He had been blind the past eight months.

Mr. Kaffenberger is 91 years old and has always been a hard worker.  He 
has been in the baker business all his life and forty years ago as a little boy, 
we remember him as conducting a baker shop in Columbia.

Up on this day he still works.  He believes that exercise is necessary for 
maintaining health.  He advises those who seek long lives to take plenty of 
exercise and not to drink too much whiskey.  Miss Barbara Kaffenberger, 
his daughter, boarded close to the hospital during his three weeks stay there, 
and says she never knew of her father being ill.

Michael Faherty, father of Hy. Faherty of this city, who lives with his son Austin 
on a farm near Red Bud, is said to be the only man in Randolph county who is 
older than Mr. Kaffenberger.  He was six months of age when Mr. Kaffenberger 
was born.