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CENTENNIAL HANDBOOK 
 INDIANA HISTORICAL SOCIETY 
 
 1830-1930 
 
 Edited by 
 CHRISTOPHER B. COLEMAN 
 
 Indiana Historical 
 
 Society Publications 
 
 Volume 10 
 
 Number 1 
 
 INDIANAPOLIS 
 
 PRINTED FOR THE SOCIETY 
 
 1930 
 
CONTENTS 
 
 PAGE 
 
 The Indiana Historical Society : A Hundred Years, 
 
 by James A. Woodburn 5 
 
 Roster of Officers, 1830-1930 43 
 
 Legislative Charter 47 
 
 Constitution . 49 
 
 Roster of Officers and Members, 1930 53 
 
 Publications . 76 
 
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"The care which a nation devotes to 
 the preservation of the monuments of its 
 past may serve as a true measure of 
 the degree of civilization to which it has 
 attained." 
 
THE INDIANA HISTORICAL SOCIETY 
 A HUNDRED YEARS 
 By James A. Woodburn 
 
 ORGANIZATION 
 
 The Indiana Historical Society was first organized on De- 
 cember 11, 1830. That was the fourteenth anniversary of the 
 admission of Indiana to statehood. The life of the Society 
 is a worthy part of Indiana history. 
 
 The minutes of the first meeting of the Society read as 
 follows : l 
 
 Indianapolis, December u, 1830. 
 
 At a large and respectable meeting of the members of the general 
 assembly and citizens of the state and town of Indianapolis, convened at 
 the court-house 2 on Saturday evening, the nth of December, 1830, for 
 the purpose of taking into consideration the expediency of forming an 
 historical society for the state of Indiana, Mr. Wm. Graham, of Jackson 
 county, was invited to the chair, and Mr. H. P. Thornton, of Washington 
 county, appointed secretary. 
 
 Mr. John H. Farnham, of Washington county, having in a few appro- 
 priate remarks stated the object of the meeting, presented the following 
 resolutions for consideration: 
 
 Whereas, This meeting is fully impressed with the importance and 
 necessity of collecting and preserving the materials for a comprehensive 
 
 ^'Proceedings of the Indiana Historical Society, 1830-1886," in In- 
 diana Historical Society Publications, Vol. I, No. I. The proceedings 
 as published in this volume are taken from the original minute books 
 of the Society with the exception of those of the meetings in 1859. The 
 book used that year was lost in removing possessions of the Society 
 from the State Bank building to the county courthouse. The first 
 volume also includes the papers read before the Society prior to 1886. 
 Not a single one of these was in the possession of the Society at the 
 time of its reorganization that year. The task of collecting them was 
 a difficult one and required ten years. 
 
 2 The building in which this first meeting was held was used both 
 as a Marion County courthouse and the capitol of the state. It fronted 
 on Washington Street in the present courthouse square. 
 
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 and accurate history of our country, natural, civil and political, many of 
 which are of an ephemeral and transitory nature, and in the absence of 
 well directed efforts to preserve them are rapidly passing into oblivion; 
 and whereas, the establishment of safe depositories for the keeping of 
 natural curiosities, manuscripts, public documents, etc., in the custody of 
 intelligent guardians interested in their accumulation and preservation, 
 has ever been found promotive of the public good and auxiliary to the 
 advancement of science and literature ; therefore, 
 
 Resolved, As the sense of this meeting, that it is expedient to form 
 ourselves into a society to be known and designated by the name of the 
 "Historical Society of Indiana." 
 
 Resolved, That a committee of seven gentlemen be appointed for the 
 purpose of drafting a constitution for the government of said society to 
 be submitted to the approbation of the meeting. 
 
 Which were read and unanimously adopted. 
 
 The following gentlemen were appointed a committee in pursuance 
 of the second resolution, viz. : Messrs. John H. Farnham, Jesse L. Hol- 
 man, Jeremiah Sullivan, Isaac Blackford, William C. Linton, James 
 Whitcomb and David Wallace. 
 
 After a retirement of a few minutes, Mr. Farnham, from said com- 
 mittee, reported a draft of a constitution. 
 
 He evidently had one prepared. The name given was the 
 "Historical Society of Indiana." 
 
 The objects of the Society were stated to be "the collection 
 of all materials calculated to shed light on the natural, civil, 
 and political history of Indiana, the promotion of useful knowl- 
 edge, and the friendly and profitable intercourse of such citi- 
 zens of the state as are disposed to promote the aforesaid 
 objects." 
 
 The constitution provided that the Society should meet 
 semiannually at the courthouse in Indianapolis "on the second 
 days of the sessions of the supreme court, and there shall be 
 an annual meeting of the same on the first Saturday succeed- 
 ing the meeting of the general assembly." 
 
 The officers were to be : president, three vice-presidents, 
 a corresponding secretary, a recording secretary, a treasurer, 
 and an executive committee of five members, three of whom 
 should constitute a quorum. This committee was to choose 
 subjects for public lectures and to appoint the lecturers for the 
 annual and semiannual meetings. It was also made the duty 
 of the committee to publish the lectures and communications ; 
 to take charge of all books, papers, specimens, models, curiosi- 
 ties, etc. ; and to make by-laws, direct disbursements, and to 
 carry out all measures not otherwise provided for. 
 
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 The officers were given the privilege of sitting with the 
 Executive Committee and of voting on all matters coming 
 before them. 3 Signing the constitution constituted membership. 
 Each member was to pay one dollar as annual dues. 
 
 FIRST OFFICERS 
 
 At a meeting four days later, December 15, 1830, Benjamin 
 Parke of Salem was elected as the first president of the So- 
 ciety. On motion of Judge John Law the three judges of the 
 Supreme Court were elected as vice-presidents : Judge Isaac 
 Blackford, of Knox County, as first vice-president, Judge Jesse 
 L. Holman, of Dearborn County, as second vice-president, 
 Judge James Scott, of Clark County, as third vice-president. 
 John H. Farnham, of Salem, was elected corresponding secre- 
 tary, Bethuel F. Morris, of Indianapolis, recording secretary, 
 and James Blake, of Indianapolis, treasurer. The following 
 were elected as the Executive Committee: Samuel Merrill, of 
 Indianapolis, George H. Dunn, of Lawrenceburg, James Whit- 
 comb, of Bloomington, John Law, of Vincennes, and Isaac 
 Howk, of Charlestown. 
 
 ANNUAL LECTURES 
 
 On motion of Judge Holman it was resolved that the annual 
 lectures should deal with: 
 
 i. The history of the Indian tribes within the state. 
 
 2. The civil and political history of the state from its earliest 
 settlement. 
 
 3. Ancient remains and natural curiosities within the state. 
 
 4. The natural history of the state embracing its geology, mineralogy 
 and botany, its soil, productions, and climate, its animals, birds and fishes. 4 
 
 CHARTER 
 
 The Society was chartered by act of the General Assembly 
 
 3 This was not changed until 1914, when an amendment was passed 
 providing that the Executive Committee should consist of the officers of 
 the Society and five others. For the year 1930 it was further changed to 
 include six others in order that the northern part of the state might be 
 better represented during the centennial year. 
 
 4 An idea quite in harmony with the recent policy of the Society in 
 promoting the study of the archaeology of the state. 
 
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 on January 10, 1831. The charter was a liberal one and has 
 needed very little revision in a hundred years. 
 
 The Society was made a body politic and corporate, under 
 the name, "The Indiana Historical Society" ; it was authorized 
 to "hold, purchase, receive, enjoy and transfer any property 
 real and personal, have and use a common seal, sue and be 
 sued, plead and be impleaded, defend and be defended in all 
 courts of judicature." 
 
 An annual meeting was required at which the Society was 
 to choose its officers for a term of one year, and until their 
 successors were elected. The Society was empowered to make 
 rules for its own government and to carry into effect the ob- 
 jects of the Society. The secretary of state was authorized to 
 deliver to the officers of the Society one copy of the laws of 
 the state and one copy of the journals of the Senate and House. 
 Four of its first officers were the incorporators, Parke, Farn- 
 ham, Morris, and Blake. 
 
 EARLY MEMBERS 
 
 It was stated that "nearly all the prominent men of the 
 state at that time became members of the Society" — a distinc- 
 tion which we may claim has characterized the Society through- 
 out its history. Fourteen governors of the state have held 
 membership in the Society, namely, Noah Noble, David Wal- 
 lace, James Whitcomb, Paris C. Dunning, Joseph A. Wright, 
 Ashbel P. Willard, Henry S. Lane, Thomas A. Hendricks, 
 Albert G. Porter, Claude Matthews, Ira J. Chase, James A. 
 Mount, Samuel M. Ralston, and Warren T. McCray. Among 
 the 161 names attached to the first constitution within the first 
 twenty years, we note the following, in addition to those already 
 named: Dennis Pennington, James Blair, George H. Dunn, 
 Calvin Fletcher, J. P. Drake, Henry P. Coburn, Albert S. 
 White, William B. Slaughter, Samuel Merrill, James M. Ray, 
 Tilghman H. Howard, William Conner, Daniel D. Pratt, 
 Thomas L. Sullivan, John Law, Ezra Ferris, Henry P. Thorn- 
 ton, Isaac Coe, John DePauw, Oliver H. Smith, Henry Ward 
 Beecher, John B. Dillon, John D. Defrees, John Tipton, James 
 
Indiana Historical Society 9 
 
 F. D. Lanier, Addison L. Roache, Daniel Mace, Jonathan W. 
 Gordon, Hamilton Smith, William T. Otto, Joseph G. Marshall, 
 Gordon Tanner, James W. Borden, John Coburn, James W. 
 Dunn, William S. Holman, and Thomas Dowling. 
 
 These are the names of men who were an important part 
 of the early history of Indiana, and it is fortunate that our 
 roster has preserved them. Many of these men were probably 
 members of the General Assembly of that day. Every one of 
 them deserves a memorial biographical sketch. Their lives and 
 the lives of others who were members were a part of Indiana 
 history. 
 
 BENJAMIN PARKE AND JOHN H. FARNHAM 
 
 Only fourteen years had elapsed since the life of the 
 state began when these thoughtful men came together for the 
 purpose of preserving the records and history of Indiana 
 pioneer life. These men were themselves pioneers. They were, 
 for the most part, with Indiana from the beginning. Some of 
 them had been here in territorial days. Benjamin Parke, the 
 first president of the Society, moved to Vincennes in 1801. 
 He was appointed by Jefferson as attorney-general of Indiana 
 Territory ; he served as a member of the first territorial legisla- 
 ture ; he was territorial delegate to Congress, 1805-8, and terri- 
 torial judge, 1808-16. He was a member of the state Constitu- 
 tional Convention of 1816 and United States district judge 
 during his last years. He was born in 1777 and died in 1835. 
 
 John Hay Farnham was especially active in organizing the 
 Society. He was born in Massachusetts in 1791, and attended 
 Harvard University where he received the A. B. degree in 1811, 
 and the A. M., in 1821. He was a classmate of Edward Everett. 
 Upon coming West be located at Salem, where he began the 
 practice of law. He was admitted to the bar in 1823. To a 
 profound knowledge of law, Mr. Farnham added a forceful 
 style of oratory. He was also a brilliant writer. Knowing the 
 value of education he was one of the few advocates of a common 
 school system. In 1831 he became a corresponding member of 
 the Massachusetts Historical Society. 
 
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 During the cholera epidemic of 1833, Mr. Farnham insti- 
 tuted a thorough investigation of the disease. He visited many 
 cases and in some instances nursed the patient in order that 
 he might become more familiar with all the details of the case. 
 Exhausted by his unceasing vigils, he became a victim to the 
 plague himself. In his death the state lost a valuable leader 
 whose services had only begun. 
 
 While acting as corresponding secretary of the Society 
 Farnham obtained the noted letter from Nathan Dane, of Bev- 
 erly, Massachusetts, setting forth the history of the Ordinance 
 of 1787. Dane's letter is in the first volume of the Publica- 
 tions. Farnham also obtained donations of books, and he him- 
 self added a set of House and Senate Journals, the Society's 
 collection at the time being the most complete set in existence. 
 Farnham may be said to have been the most active and effective 
 among the founders of our Society. 
 
 SUSPENSION OF ACTIVITY 
 
 From 1835 to 1848 the Society was inactive, except for one 
 meeting in 1842. Between 1848 and 1853 a few meetings were 
 held, and then, excepting one meeting in 1859, there was a 
 suspension of activity until 1873, when interest was revived 
 which lasted through several meetings. Renewed interest oc- 
 curred in 1877 which lasted two years, till 1879, and after that 
 the record is a blank until 1886. 
 
 JOHN B. DILLON 
 
 The most active spirit in keeping the Society alive in the 
 middle years of the last century was John B. Dillon, the early 
 historian of Indiana. Dillon is known as the "father of Indiana 
 history." He was a member of this Society from 1834 till his 
 death in 1879. In 1845 Dillon was elected by the legislature 
 as state librarian. He served in that office from 1845 to 1851. 
 In the history of Indiana for a third of a century few men are 
 of greater importance than John B. Dillon. He became a 
 member of this Society in 1834, the year before Parke's death. 
 As the one came the other departed. 
 
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 Dillon was born in Wellsburg, West Virginia, in 1808; he 
 became a printer in early youth. At 17 he moved to Cincinnati, 
 and lived there for ten years. He came to Indiana in 1834, 
 settled in Logansport and became the editor of the Logansport 
 Telegraph. He studied law but did not follow the practice. 
 He was interested in the history of the Northwest, and labored 
 for years with constant care and perseverance seeking out the 
 important facts relating to the history of Indiana. His work on 
 territorial Indiana up to 1816 is not especially readable or racy, 
 but it was the product of twenty-five years of hard labor. He 
 was not attempting to tell an interesting story. He dealt with 
 documents without appealing to the imagination. He did not 
 make it his business to comment, to estimate, to eulogize, or 
 detract, but he sought "a plain unvarnished tale," to collect and 
 relate the facts, truly and fairly. This he conceived to be the 
 true office of the historian, in which he was quite correct ac- 
 cording to scientific standards. Professor J. B. Bury of Cam- 
 bridge University has pointed out that history is not a branch 
 of literature. "The facts of history," he says, "like the facts 
 of geology or astronomy, can supply material for the literary 
 art ; they lend themselves far more readily to artistic representa- 
 tion than do the facts of natural science ; but to clothe the story 
 of a human society in a literary dress is no more the part of an 
 historian as an historian than it is the part of an astronomer to 
 present in an artistic shape the story of the stars." 5 This was 
 Dillon's idea of historical writing ; he dealt with facts, not with 
 dressing. 
 
 In 1843 Dillon published his Historical Notes of the Discov- 
 ery and Settlement of the Territory Northwest of the Ohio; in 
 1859 appeared his well-known History of Indiana? After six 
 years of service as state librarian, it is sadly recorded in General 
 Coburn's sketch, "being a Whig his [Dillon's] successor was 
 chosen from the Democratic party. The office was regarded 
 
 5 Bury, J. B., "The Science of History," in Selected Essays, p. g. 
 
 6 Dillon also published, in 1871, Notes . . . on the Origin and Nature 
 of the Government of the United States, and, in 1876, Oddities of Colonial 
 Legislation — a cabinet of curiosities. 
 
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 as a proper reward for partisan services." General Coburn also 
 says that no other man in the state was so well qualified in all 
 respects as state librarian. If he had been retained for thirty 
 years Indiana might have had a library with cabinets and collec- 
 tions rivaling that of Wisconsin. 
 
 For a number of years during the fifties Dillon was secre- 
 tary of the State Board of Agriculture and for two years was 
 assistant secretary of state under Judge Test. In 1863 he was 
 appointed to a clerkship in the Department of the Interior, 
 which took him to Washington where he resided until 1875. 
 In that year he returned to Indianapolis, where he died on 
 February 27, 1879. These dates indicate that there was some 
 relation between Dillon's life and the lapses and revivals of the 
 activities of this Society. 
 
 In 1842 Dillon was elected an honorary member of the 
 Indiana Historical Society, and on May 23, 1848 he addressed 
 an open meeting of the Society on "The National Decline of the 
 Miami Indians," a paper which may be found in the first 
 volume of our Publications. From 1859 until his death in 1879 
 Dillon was secretary of the Society, though active only from 
 1873. He had done much in its early years to increase the 
 Society's collection of documents and papers. The Society's 
 library carefully fitted up was placed in the building of the 
 State Bank, remaining there until the Bank closed up its affairs. 
 When the Bank was closed and its building was sold most of 
 the books were removed to the State House, but a large num- 
 ber, together with papers, manuscripts and documents, includ- 
 ing the minute book of 1859, were scattered, lost, or stolen and 
 have disappeared forever. The events of the Civil War were 
 absorbing public interest ; Dillon was absent, and it seems there 
 was no one to care to prevent this plunder and destruction. If 
 only Dillon had been in Indianapolis there would have been 
 some salvaging of this important material. 
 
 Dillon was never married. He lived alone ; he died poor ; 
 his estate did not pay his debts. There were a few dollars in 
 his pocketbook at the time of his death, and that was all. His 
 library, book by book, had gone to the second-hand store. He 
 
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 left only the legacy of a good name and the memory of an 
 enduring service, another illustration of the scripture which 
 saith that a man's life consisteth not in the abundance of the 
 things that he possesses. It becomes us to honor his memory. 
 At the meeting of 1859 it was recorded that the Society was 
 "reorganized and placed on a permanent basis," but as we have 
 seen, this did not mean regularity and continuity. The meet- 
 ings were only occasional and at long intervals until 1886 when 
 the present organization was established. Since that time 
 (1886) the Society has had a continuous uninterrupted exist- 
 ence, constantly pursuing the aims and purposes for which it 
 was originally organized. 
 
 members, 1873-1886 
 
 In October, 1873 we find the following names attached to 
 the roll : F. C. Holliday, Daniel Hough, Simon Yandes, Thomas 
 A. Hendricks, W. W. Curry, George Brown, John Collett, 
 state geologist, John Campbell, professor in Wabash College, 
 D. H. Oliver, M. D. Manson, and Henry B. Carrington. 
 
 In November of the same year (1873) the following came 
 in : David S. Gooding, Levi Ritter, E. C. Tuttle, Charles H. 
 Test, George W. Carr, Michael C. Kerr, later speaker of the 
 national House of Representatives, George W. Julian, and 
 John P. C. Shanks. 
 
 In February, 1877 came W. W. Woollen, William A. Bell, 
 and G. M. Ballard. 
 
 In April, 1886 we find William H. English, John R. Wil- 
 son, Jacob P. Dunn, Daniel Wait Howe — names that bring us 
 to the permanent and modern period. 
 
 HONORARY MEMBERS 
 
 During the first years of the Society it was the custom to 
 elect honorary members from among distinguished men of the 
 country, who had some interest in the Northwest. In 1830 the 
 following accepted honorary membership in the Society : Lewis 
 Cass, of Michigan Territory, William Henry Harrison, of Ohio, 
 Edward Coles, of Illinois, William M. McClure, of New Har- 
 
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 mony, Indiana, Andrew Wylie, of Bloomington, Indiana, James 
 Hall, of Vandalia, Illinois, John Badollet, and Francis Vigo, of 
 Knox County, Indiana. 7 
 
 By vote of the Executive Committee, December 18, 1830, 
 information concerning the Society and the names of its offi- 
 cers was sent to the historical societies of the country. Coop- 
 eration and information were solicited. Also, Indiana's sena- 
 tors and representatives in Congress were asked to obtain from 
 the general government such patronage as is customary to 
 bestow on similar societies. The Executive Committee was 
 authorized to receive donations, books, manuscripts, and curiosi- 
 ties, on such terms as the owners might designate. 
 
 On motion of Judge Law, the different counties of the state 
 
 7 The following is a copy of the letter written to Vigo informing 
 him of his election to honorary membership in the Society. The original 
 is among the Vigo Manuscripts owned by the Francis Vigo Chapter of 
 the D. A. R. 
 
 Indianapolis, December 20, 1830. 
 Col: Francis Vigo, 
 Dear Sir, 
 
 I have the honor to inform you that the first Historical Society 
 ever established in the State of Indiana was organized at this place on 
 Wednesday Even last the 15th inst that Benjamin Parke was elected 
 President, Judge Blackford, Holman & Scott Vice Presidents, J. H. 
 Farnham Corresponding Secretary Judge Morris Recording Secretary, & 
 James Blake Treasurer. — Judge Law, Samuel Merrill, Isaac Houk, 
 Judge Dunn and James Whitcomb were elected the Executive Committee 
 of said Society. One of the cardinal objects of the Society is to rescue 
 from oblivion events of an interesting character that transpired at an 
 early period of the settlement of what is now Indiana, and to collect all 
 interesting information respecting the aborigines, and the remains of 
 antiquity natural curiosities, habits and manners customs & curiosities of 
 the native inhabitants etc — Believing that you could materially con- 
 tribute to this important object of the society, and impressed with respect 
 & gratitude for your patriotic services in the early settlement of Indiana, 
 especially in pioneering the brave & gallant Clark & his intrepid soldiers 
 thro' the wilderness from Kaskaskia to St. Vincents, in consequence of 
 which the British Commander Hamilton & his men were captured, the 
 Historical Society of Indiana have elected you an Honorary Member of 
 the same and have directed me to communicate to you information of 
 the fact, and to request of you thro' Judge Law, or Judge Blackford 
 Officers of the Society to communicate to them any interesting informa- 
 tion respecting the early settlement & history of Indiana that may be in 
 your possession, assurring you that the same will be gratefully received 
 Any communication addressed to me at Salem Washington County In- 
 diana will be safely received. Your acceptance of the within appoint- 
 ment will gratify the public and your obt servant 
 
 John H Farnham 
 Corresponding Secretary of the Historical Society of Indiana 
 
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 were urged to furnish information on their history and that of 
 their county seats, and some account of their settlement, the 
 names of their first settlers, and some account of the rise and 
 progress of their communities. Here was the suggestion lying 
 at the origin of our local historical societies and of the work laid 
 out for them to do. 
 
 On motion of Mr. Farnham, the Reverend Isaac McCoy, 
 missionary to Indian tribes in Indiana from 1803 to 1820, 
 was requested to deliver a lecture upon "the ancient remains 
 of the aborigines and natural curiosities in the state." It is 
 claimed that Reverend McCoy was the first man in American 
 history to suggest a separate Indian territory — a policy which 
 was later put into operation by the United States government. 
 At this same meeting in 1830 it was voted that Dr. Andrew 
 Wylie, the new president of Indiana College, be requested to 
 deliver a public discourse at the next annual meeting of the 
 Society on the value and importance of historical societies. 
 
 On December 10, 1831, at the first annual meeting of the 
 Society after its organization, in the absence of the president, 
 the first vice-president, the Honorable Isaac Blackford, pre- 
 sided. President Wylie, of Indiana College, delivered the an- 
 nual address on the value of history and historical societies. 8 
 A week later, December 17, 1831, the following, among others, 
 were elected to honorary membership: Nathan Dane, Joseph 
 Story, Edward Everett, Jared Sparks, John Quincy Adams, 
 James Kent, of New York, and Edward Livingston, of Louisi- 
 ana. The influence of lawyers is seen in the early life and 
 action of the Society. 
 
 In December, 1835, Robert Dale Owen and Dr. James 
 Blythe, of New Harmony, and Elihu Baldwin, of Crawfords- 
 ville, were elected to honorary membership. 
 
 In 1842 the constitution was amended to reduce the annual 
 dues from one dollar to fifty cents. All arrearages against 
 members were cancelled. 
 
 George Bancroft, of Boston, John McLean, of Cincinnati, 
 
 'See the Publications, Vol. I, No. 3. 
 
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 William H. Prescott, of Boston, Calvin E. Stowe and Dr. Ly- 
 man Beecher, of the Lane Theological Seminary of Cincinnati, 
 were elected to honorary membership. 
 
 RESOURCES 
 
 The Society felt the need for money. It had little or none. 
 The members had not been paying their dues. No record is 
 found of money donations or life memberships. At this time 
 (1842) the treasurer of the Society, Mr. Cady, sent out a cir- 
 cular which was printed in the Indiana Journal and in such 
 other papers of the state as chose to print it. This circular 
 called the attention of the citizens of the state to the objects of 
 the Society. It was the hope that under its reorganization and 
 under the auspices of several of Indiana's "most distinguished 
 sons, every citizen of Indiana will hail its success as a matter of 
 personal pride and effort. If every citizen of moderate means," 
 said the circular, "would contribute his half-dollar fee for mem- 
 bership, how much could be done in a few years for the honor, 
 interest and good repute of the state? . . . Now is the critical 
 period for citizens to aid in the efforts begun by a few public- 
 spirited individuals to rekindle that lively interest in the past 
 circumstances and history of the state." Attention was called 
 to the "scattered materials of the rapidly receding past." 
 
 Money was needed for postage, for publishing the Society's 
 transactions, for transporting books and gifts as might be pre- 
 sented from outside the state ; and for fitting up a suitable room 
 for its library and collections. Gentlemen were urged in differ- 
 ent towns of the state (no notice whatever was taken of women) 
 to aid in calling attention to the objects and wants of the So- 
 ciety. "One question needs only to be asked, 'Shall Indiana, 
 whose importance is not least in comparison with that of her 
 sister states, be the last to appreciate the utility of collecting 
 and preserving the materials for her just history?' " 
 
 At the meeting of January 22, 1848, six years later, Isaac 
 IUackford, still one of the vice-presidents, presided. The 
 annual membership fee was restored to one dollar. Old mem- 
 bers were released from all past arrearages if the dollar was 
 
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 paid in January or February, 1848. A sub-committee was 
 appointed "to ensure a speedy collection of funds and of addi- 
 tional subscribers to the society." 
 
 On the same date the Executive Committee requested John 
 B. Dillon and John Law to address the Society at its next 
 annual meeting. Dillon's address on the Miami Indians was 
 delivered in May of that year. 
 
 A HOMELESS SOCIETY 
 
 We find here recorded (in the meeting of 1848) a long 
 standing need of the Society, an abiding place, a room which 
 the Society could call its own, where it could meet for the trans- 
 action of its business and where it could gather and preserve 
 its papers, documents and effects. From its very origin the 
 Society has been "cribbed, cabined, and confined," with but 
 little money and no home. From that day to this the need of a 
 home has not been satisfied, but fortunately it is now about 
 to be. 
 
 In the meeting of 1848 Judge Blackford secured the appoint- 
 ment of a committee to apply to the General Assembly for 
 authority to use one of the committee rooms in the State House. 
 Many years later, at the first State Historical Conference in 
 1919, Jacob P. Dunn said of the society, "We have never 
 been able to get a room where we could keep anything. We do 
 not have the money to rent a room, and have never been able 
 to keep a room in the State House or the Court House." 
 Through Mr. Dunn's effort a room was obtained in the City 
 Hall, but it was kept unlocked for years in spite of the protests 
 of the officers of the Society, and the room was used by the 
 colored janitor as a storeroom. The Society left some articles 
 in the State Library. "The only way to save anything is to put 
 it into print as quickly as possible," said Mr. Dunn. 
 
 In 1877 the Society met in a room of the State Department 
 of Agriculture. It was still seeking permanent quarters. It 
 asked for a room in the new courthouse of Marion County, but 
 the room assigned proved unsuitable and inaccessible. In De- 
 cember, 1886, it sought a room in the new state capitol building. 
 
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 Room 87 was obtained, and the Society's property was placed 
 there, but not for long. Other state needs took precedence. 
 Many valuable papers and books belonging to the Society had 
 been lost or stolen while deposited in the Marion County Court- 
 house. As late as December 27, 1917, Judge Howe, the presi- 
 dent, reported that the Society hoped to have a room in the 
 new Indianapolis library to be set apart for its books and rec- 
 ords, but no arrangements had yet been made. Some of its 
 records were still in the City Hall. 
 
 The meeting of January 31, 1853, after the lapse of another 
 five years, was held in the hall of the House of Representatives, 
 Isaac Blackford presiding. Guests were assembled. Nathaniel 
 Bolton, state librarian, addressed the Society on "The Early 
 History of Indianapolis and Central Indiana." 9 
 
 At the reorganization in 1859, it was announced that the 
 legislature had made a "liberal appropriation," which was not 
 to exceed $500, "to aid the Indiana Historical Society in mak- 
 ing purchases of books, maps, manuscripts and such other ma- 
 terials as may be calculated to throw light upon the manners, 
 customs, pursuits, and condition of the pioneer settlers of the 
 region now included within the boundaries of the state." 
 
 A circular prepared and sent out by Dillon in 1859 an- 
 nounced that the Society had prepared suitable rooms for the 
 reception and preservation of its material ; that the Society was 
 preparing to receive donations of all materials on western his- 
 tory, such as books, pamphlets, autograph letters, manuscripts, 
 maps, paintings, drawings of old forts, blockhouses, Indian 
 mounds, old houses, or public buildings, plans of towns, copies 
 of newspapers, etc. The Society was seeking the origin of 
 county names, and biographies of persons after whom the 
 counties were named. The circular announced as Wanted: 
 Biographical notices of early settlers, of the first preachers, 
 first schoolmasters, men who built the first churches and 
 schoolhouses, planted nurseries and set out orchards, publishers 
 of first newspapers, etc. In that circular of Dillon's we find 
 
 •See the Publications, Vol. I, No. 5. 
 
Indiana Historical Society 19 
 
 expressed a very good conception of the functions and possi- 
 bilities of the Society. 
 
 MEETING OF 1873 
 
 There is now another lapse in the record, this time of four- 
 teen years, to October 7, 1873. Then, in the hall of the House 
 of Representatives occurred a meeting to adopt such measures 
 as would enable the Society to carry out its objects. Henry S. 
 Lane presided, and it is stated that he "delivered an interesting 
 and eloquent address in reference to the history and objects 
 of the society." 
 
 The first constitution of the Society was read, and General 
 John Coburn spoke on the origin and progress of the Society 
 and on the necessity of increasing its usefulness. Judge Addi- 
 son L. Roache urged the importance of reorganization, and 
 citizens present were urged to sign the constitution and join. 
 Brief addresses urging the interests of the Society were made 
 by Reverend T. H. Lynch, Governor Thomas A. Hendricks, 
 General Henry B. Carrington, Professor John Collett, F. C. 
 Holliday, Professor John L. Campbell, of Wabash College, 
 Jacob B. Julian, Professor Daniel Hough, and W. W. Curry. 
 Curry, Yandes, and Hough were appointed a committee to exam- 
 ine the charter and revise the constitution of the Society. 
 
 A month later, on November 26, 1873 there was a notable 
 meeting of the Society in the Supreme Court room. The com- 
 mittee on the revision of the constitution reported some minor 
 and unimportant changes. Professor Campbell read a memorial 
 paper on Joseph G. Marshall. 10 
 
 Dillon offered a resolution to the effect that a monthly mag- 
 azine devoted to the collection of facts on the antiquities and 
 early history of the state and of the several counties might 
 meet with worthy popular support. He was looking forward 
 to something like the quarterly Indiana Magazine of History, 
 now happily a reality. 
 
 Henry F. Keenan of the Indianapolis Sentinel offered a 
 
 10 See the Publications, Vol. I, No. 6. 
 
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 resolution urging the Society to support the movement to re- 
 store to Indiana the remains of its first governor, General 
 William Henry Harrison. Keenan's resolution was passed 
 unanimously and with emphasis. A distinguished committee 
 was appointed with Governor T. A. Hendricks at its head, with 
 former Governors Conrad Baker and Henry S. Lane, and the 
 Honorable George W. Julian as members, to promote this end, 
 but the remains of the hero of Tippecanoe still rest at North 
 Bend on the Ohio side of the line. W. W. Curry spoke elo- 
 quently of the readiness of the people to cooperate heartily in 
 building a monument to the fallen heroes who lie buried on 
 the field of Tippecanoe. Our Society was one of the organs 
 of public opinion in bringing these Tippecanoe memorials to 
 pass. 
 
 JOHN LAW 
 
 A biographical memorial on Judge John Law was presented 
 by Charles Denby, of Evansville. 11 Law had just passed away 
 in the previous October. He was one of our charter members, 
 to whom the Society is under great obligations and who is 
 worthy of our highest honor. 
 
 John Law was born in New London, Connecticut, October 
 28, 1796; he died in Evansville, Indiana, October 7, 1873, aged 
 77. Law was a descendant of worthy "gentlemen of the old 
 school." Three generations of his ancestors sat in the Congress 
 of the United States. Denby and Woollen cite the Law family 
 of Connecticut as a parallel to the Adamses of Massachusetts for 
 family distinction. 12 Law's great-grandfather, Jonathan Law, 
 graduated at Harvard in 1695 ; he was a chief justice and 
 governor of the colony. His grandfather, Richard Law, was a 
 member of the Continental Congress from 1777 to the close of 
 the war. He was also a United States judge for Connecticut. 
 
 John Law's father, Lyman Law, was a member of the Con- 
 
 11 See the Publications, Vol. I, No. 7. 
 
 12 Ibid.; Woollen, William Wesley, Historical and Biographical 
 Sketches of Early Indiana, pp. 332-34. (Indianapolis, 1883) ; Dr. C. B. 
 Coleman's paper on Law read before the Southwestern Indiana Historical 
 Society, 1930. 
 
Indiana Historical Society 21 
 
 necticut legislature and became speaker of the Connecticut 
 House. From 1811 to 1817 he served in the Congress of the 
 United States. 
 
 John Law graduated at Yale in 1814, at the age of eighteen. 
 He was therefore acquainted with the Greek and Latin clas- 
 sics. He read law with his father and was admitted to the 
 Connecticut bar. He moved to Indiana in November, 1817 
 when the state was not quite a year old and here he spent 
 fifty-six years of his life. In December, 1817 he was examined 
 for admission to the Indiana bar by the Supreme Court judges 
 in open court. Judge Jeremiah Sullivan was admitted to prac- 
 tice at the same time. Sullivan settled in Madison, the rising 
 town of the state. Dewey, another legal light, settled in Paoli, 
 while Law settled in Vincennes. There were many men and 
 families of this type who gave tone and character to the popula- 
 tion of southern Indiana in the early days ; a few came from 
 New England, but mostly they were from Virginia, Kentucky, 
 and the Carolinas. Law became the historian of Vincennes, 
 recording the condition of the town as he saw it in those days, 
 and making known the valiant exploits of George Rogers 
 Clark and the pioneers of revolutionary days. 
 
 The year after his arrival in Indiana, Law was appointed 
 by the circuit judge as prosecuting attorney for the circuit. He 
 was a member of the legislature at Corydon in 1823-24. Again 
 for several terms he was prosecuting attorney, once being- 
 elected by the joint houses of the legislature. In 1830 he re- 
 ceived twelve votes in the General Assembly for the United 
 States senatorship, the year in which William Hendricks was 
 elected. In 1851 he moved from Vincennes to Evansville. 
 where he spent the rest of his life. In 1860 he was elected to 
 Congress, and was reelected in 1862. In early life he had been 
 a Whig, but in the last twenty-five years of his life he was a 
 consistent Democrat. He was in opposition to the Lincoln 
 administration during the Civil War. For that we have a more 
 ready tolerance now than our Union fathers had in Civil War 
 days. He supported the Union, but he opposed the confisca- 
 tion bills and national emancipation of the slaves, and he attacked 
 
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 the radical Republicans of the time. Although he stood for the 
 Democratic slogan "the Union as it was, the Constitution as it 
 is," which meant the retention of slavery and the full rights of 
 the southern states unimpaired, he was yet able to retain the 
 personal regard of that staunch old radical, Thaddeus Stevens. 
 Law was a man of fine personal and social qualities. In spite 
 of warm political differences Indiana people recall John Law 
 as an able lawyer, a faithful public servant, and a fine type of 
 citizen. 
 
 In those early days there were no trained historians working 
 in the state. John Law was the nearest to one. Sixty years 
 elapsed after the organization of this Society before there was 
 a professorship of history in Indiana. Law's Colonial History 
 of Vincennes was read before the Vincennes Historical and 
 Antiquarian Society on February 22, 1839. It appeared in 
 printed form in 1858. In that address Law showed the qualities 
 of the historical student. He pleaded for attachment to our 
 state, to our abiding place, our domicile, especially to the land 
 of our nativity, an attachment which forms "one of the strong- 
 est links of that chain which binds us to our common country." 
 
 Law placed a high estimate upon local history, especially 
 
 upon the local history of a place like Vincennes. 
 
 "The historian of our ancient borough," he said, "must gather for 
 his work more materials than I have been furnished with, to do full 
 justice to his subject. He should search the archives of other countries — 
 of France, of England, the colonial records of Canada, and the revolu- 
 tionary ones of Virginia." 13 
 
 Such was his true conception of the task of the historian. 
 
 Law, the Connecticut Yankee, very early and very rightly 
 
 looked upon Vincennes as a centre of Revolutionary history. 
 
 "In my opinion — ," he says, "and I have accurately and critically 
 weighed and examined all the results produced by any contests in which 
 we were engaged during the revolutionary war — that for bravery, for 
 hardships endured, for skill and consummate tact and prudence on the 
 part of the commander, obedience, discipline and love of country on the 
 part of his followers ; for the immense benefits acquired, and signal ad- 
 vantages obtained by it for the whole Union, it [Clark's conquest] was 
 second to no enterprise undertaken during that struggle" ; and he ventured 
 to add, nor "second to no undertaking in ancient or modern warfare." 14 
 
 13 Law, John, The Colonial History of Vincennes, p. 43 (Vincennes, 
 1858). 
 
 i4 Jbid., pp. 21-22. 
 
Indiana Historical Society 23 
 
 This is strong language but it is that of a trained and judicial 
 mind. 
 
 Such was John Law, a charter member of this Society, a 
 member of its Executive Committee, one of its vice-presidents, 
 and for fourteen years its president, from 1859 to 1873. 
 
 At a meeting of the Society, November 26, 1873, at eight 
 o'clock in the evening, George W. Carr gave an informal rem- 
 iniscent address on early life in Indiana. Carr had been born 
 in Indiana Territory in 1807. He was the president of the Con- 
 stitutional Convention of 1851. He told of Pigeon Roost, of 
 early log-rollings, and corn-huskings, forts and log cabins, 
 mills and schoolhouses. 
 
 Reverend F. C. Holliday presented a memorial of Calvin 
 Fletcher, an Indianapolis pioneer and an active and very helpful 
 charter member of this Society. Fletcher was born in Vermont 
 in 1798, was one of the founders of Indianapolis, and died here 
 in 1866. The Fletcher name has an honorable place in our 
 annals. 
 
 test on Indiana's great men 
 
 At this November meeting in 1873, Judge Test was called 
 on. He spoke of the great and capable men who had left Indi- 
 ana. Henry Ward Beecher was one, "who had no particular 
 character in this state, . . . but now he is one of the greatest 
 preachers in the world, and commands a salary almost equal to 
 that of the president of the United States." Another great man 
 was Bishop Matthew Simpson, who had been president of As- 
 bury College, now DePauw. Test said that he almost regretted 
 sometimes that he did not live in Kentucky, because there they 
 kept their great men and helped them along, so it was in Vir- 
 ginia and New England. But a kind of rivalry involves a 
 great man here until he gets away. He spoke of this to show 
 that they had men in early days who were men of eminence, 
 men of great powers. "If George G. Dunn had lived anywhere 
 but in Indiana," Test said, "he would have become one of the 
 great men of the nation." So of Joseph G. Marshall, a Whig 
 leader in the state who should have been elected to the United 
 
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 States Senate. The Whigs were able to elect the senator and 
 Marshall received the caucus nomination of his party, but as 
 Professor Campbell said, "by the wily tricks of pretended 
 friends, he was compelled to give place to the less gifted and 
 more unscrupulous." 15 Test expressed regret for all these 
 things and hoped for a remedy in the future. 
 
 Charles H. Test was president of the Society from 1877 
 to 1879. At a meeting in the agricultural room, on January 
 6, 1877, Judge Test presided. A committee was appointed to 
 promote the interest of the Society, consisting of General W. H. 
 H. Terrell, R. B. Duncan, Messrs. Ridenour, Blake, Evans, and 
 Dillon. 
 
 On July 8, 1879, "in pursuance of due public notice," a 
 meeting was held in the United States court room. Terrell was 
 elected secretary. The death of Dillon was noticed and a com- 
 mittee consisting of Colonel Blake, W. W. Woollen, and W. H. 
 H. Terrell was appointed to prepare a memorial. During these 
 two years the Society was still casting about for a room. 
 
 REORGANIZATION IN 1886: PUBLICATIONS 
 
 After its reorganization in 1886 the Society had but one 
 recording secretary for a period of nearly forty years. This 
 was Jacob Piatt Dunn, who was secretary from 1886 until his 
 death, June 7, 1924. To Mr. Dunn much credit must be given 
 for the continuance and present condition of the Society. In 
 this period of thirty-eight years I suspect he did not miss a 
 single annual meeting of the Society. Dunn had a versatile 
 mind and a facile pen. He was a penetrating critic and a nat- 
 ural historical investigator. He was the laborious editor of 
 many of the Society's publications, while he himself contributed 
 many of its papers. 
 
 15 Campbell, John L., "Joseph G. Marshall," in Indiana Historical 
 Society Publications, Vol. I, No. 6. In 1844 Marshall was the nominee 
 of the Whig Party for the United States Senate. The Whigs had a 
 majority on joint ballot of the legislature, but the Democrats refused to 
 go into an election. The next year the Democrats had a majority and 
 elected Jesse D. Bright A similar occurrence took place in 1854 when 
 Marshall was the candidate of the People's Party. Woollen, Biographical 
 and Historical Sketches of Early Indiana, p. 433. 
 
Indiana Historical Society 25 
 
 After 1886 the Society turned its attention chiefly to the 
 publication of historical materials. No paper read before the 
 Society prior to that date was in its possession in any form. 
 The task of piecing together the scattered minutes and of col- 
 lecting and publishing the papers read before the Society dur- 
 ing the first fifty-six years of its existence, fell largely to 
 Mr. Dunn. It was a laborious and painstaking labor rewarded 
 only by a sense of public service well rendered. It took ten 
 years to gather the material for the first volume. It is believed 
 that Volume I of the Society's Publications contains every paper 
 read before the Society prior to 1886 and the complete minutes 
 up to that time with the exception of a few meetings. The 
 original minute book of the Society, covering twenty-eight years, 
 has been preserved. The minute book of 1859 was lost in the 
 transfer of the Society's belongings from the old State Bank 
 building to the county courthouse. Material bearing on the 
 remaining years had to be gathered piecemeal from newspaper 
 articles and chance sources of information. At such a task of 
 discovery and collection Dunn was an adept. He had a his- 
 torical scent and could follow a trail to its source. What he 
 did for the Society's collections and for the state was of the 
 highest and most unselfish public service. His work deserves 
 our highest praise and his name will be enrolled among the 
 most important personal factors in the life of this Society. 
 
 NEW MEMBERS, 1886-1887 
 
 For the reorganization in 1886, on April 8, the Society met 
 at the State Library, southeast corner of Market and Tennessee 
 streets, at eight o'clock in the evening. On motion of General 
 Coburn, William W. Woollen was called to the chair. The So- 
 ciety then elected the following members : William H. English, 
 Daniel Wait Howe, Jacob P. Dunn, William DeM. Hooper, 
 John R. Wilson, Addison C. Harris, John H. Holliday, John 
 C. Shoemaker, William R. Holloway, Elijah Halford, John A. 
 Finch, George C. Hitt, and Byron K. Elliott. 
 
 At a special meeting on April 17, 1886, the constitution with 
 reference to membership was amended to read, "On application 
 
26 Centennial Handbook 
 
 of any person for membership, his name shall be balloted upon 
 by the members present, and if he receives a majority of three- 
 fourths of all the ballots cast he shall be declared elected." It 
 seems the Society was rather choice in the selection of members. 
 At this time Maurice Thompson, John C. New, Wade Ritter, 
 Hubert M. Skinner, F. M. Crouse, and Lewis Jordan were 
 elected to membership. 
 
 At a special meeting on June 16, 1886, other new members 
 were elected, namely, President David Starr Jordan, of Indiana 
 University, Albert Henderson, of Lafayette, Professor J. W. 
 Moncrief, of Franklin College, Professor J. J. Mills, of Earl- 
 ham, Joseph E. McDonald, J. W. Holcombe, state superin- 
 tendent of public instruction, William Wallace, Charles Martin- 
 dale, General Thomas A. Morris, and John T. Dye. General 
 John Coburn was requested to prepare a memorial address on 
 John B. Dillon, and John H. Holliday, an address on the jour- 
 nals of General John Tipton. 
 
 At a special meeting on September 18, 1886, there were 
 elected to membership Professor Cyrus Hodgin, of Earlham, 
 Superintendent J. N. Study, of Richmond, John Levering, of 
 Lafayette, Judge John Holman, Professor W. J. Craig, of Pur- 
 due, and former Governor Albert G. Porter. 
 
 At the regular annual meeting, December 31, 1886, a com- 
 mittee was appointed "to devise and report plans for awakening 
 public interest in historical matters and extending the work of 
 the Society." Coburn, Woollen, Jordan, Gordon, Holliday, and 
 Elliott constituted the committee. 
 
 At an annual public meeting on February 16, 1887, in the 
 Meridian Street Methodist Episcopal Church, Judge Thomas 
 M. Cooley of the University of Michigan, gave an address on 
 the "Acquisition of Louisiana." 16 
 
 At a meeting on July 29, 1887, in President English's office 
 on the Circle and Meridian, Professor W. H. Mace, of DePauw, 
 Judge D. D. Banta, of Franklin, and William A. Ketcham, of 
 Indianapolis, were elected to membership. General Lew Wal- 
 
 16 See the Publications, Vol. II, No. 3. 
 
Indiana Historical Society 27 
 
 lace was invited to address the Society at its next open meeting 
 on "Indiana and the Mexican War." 
 
 At the regular annual meeting, December 29, 1887, Rever- 
 end Matthias L. Haines, Morris Ross, David M. Geeting, and 
 Harvey M. LaFollette (the two latter in the Department of 
 Public Instruction) were elected to membership. 
 
 ADMISSION OF WOMEN 
 
 At the regular annual meeting of December 27, 1888, 
 Mr. J. P. Dunn offered a resolution that it was "the sense of 
 the Society that ladies were admissible to membership." This 
 motion was lost — without reason, or record of any discussion. 
 On December 27 ', 1906 Miss Eliza Browning was elected to 
 membership, probably the first woman to receive this honor. 
 Soon thereafter women came in in numbers and they have been 
 a valuable support to the Society. In 1909, Miss Browning 
 edited "Lockerbie's Assessment List of Indianapolis," published 
 by the Society in that year. 
 
 In 1890 owing to the destruction of most of the pamphlets 
 in the Bowen-Merrill Bookstore fire, publication was tem- 
 porarily discontinued. 
 
 At the annual meeting of 1891 (December 31) a long list 
 of members was added, including Colonel Richard W. Thomp- 
 son, President E, A. Bryan, of Vincennes University, Charles 
 E. Coffin, Volney T. Malott, Claude Matthews, Ira J. Chase, 
 Thomas L. Sullivan, William E. English, William E. Niblack, 
 and David Turpie. Judge Thomas M. Cooley, of Ann Arbor, 
 and George W. Julian were elected to honorary membership. 
 Julian's "The Rank of Charles Osborn as an Anti-Slavery 
 Pioneer," was published. 
 
 In 1893, the year of the Columbian celebration, Professor 
 John Clark Ridpath, of DePauw, gave his address on "The Man 
 in History," and Professor O. J. Craig, of Purdue, gave his 
 paper on "Ouiatanon, A Study in Indiana History." 
 
 At the regular annual meeting, December 27, 1894, Charles 
 E. Coffin became treasurer of the Society, and he has been the 
 faithful and efficient treasurer ever since, covering a period of 
 
28 Centennial Handbook 
 
 thirty-six years. 1 Ie has our tribute of appreciation and honor. 
 In the same year Professor James A. Woodburn, of Indiana 
 University, Professor C. A. Tuttle, of Wabash College, and Pro- 
 fessor Andrew Stephenson, of DePauw, were proposed for 
 membership and were elected the next year. 
 
 WILLIAM H. ENGLISH 
 
 At a special meeting, February 8, 1896, the death of Presi- 
 dent English was reported. He died on February 7, 1896. For 
 ten years he had been president and an earnest worker for the 
 Society. He had realized the importance of the preservation of 
 the historical records of the state, and by his personal efforts 
 he rescued from out-of-the-way places many official papers, 
 including the records of early legislatures which otherwise 
 would have been lost. It was fortunate for the state that he 
 lived when he did and that he found time to devote himself to 
 his unselfish work. Mr. English's monumental work, The 
 Conquest of the Northzvest, is well known. The Society put 
 itself on record as feeling a severe loss in his death before his 
 great work was completed, but it expressed gratitude that the 
 labor of collecting the material had been practically finished 
 and the work of preparing it for the press, in addition to the 
 two volumes already published, was well advanced. "We 
 feel," said the memorial record, "that this is a noble crown to 
 his life's work, and that future generations will appreciate its 
 benefits and unite with us in honoring the author." The me- 
 morial committee was Howe, Roache, and Coffin. Wilson, 
 Howe, and Dunn were appointed a committee to prepare a 
 biographical sketch of English for publication by the Society. 
 
 At a special meeting, February 25, 1896, the bequest of 
 Mr. English to the Society of twenty-five hundred dollars, as 
 contained in his last will and testament, was announced. It 
 was provided in the will that this sum was to be loaned out at 
 current legal interest on "unincumbered real estate in said 
 [Marion | county, of good title, and worth at least double the 
 amount loaned," the earnings to be used to defray the cost of 
 publications. The treasurer, Mr. Coffin, announced that the 
 
Indiana Historical Society 29 
 
 full amount had been paid to him and was now subject to 
 the order of the Society. 
 
 William Hayden English was a national character. He was 
 born at Lexington, Indiana, August 27, 1822. He was educated 
 at Hanover College, and was admitted to the bar in 1840. He 
 soon became interested in politics. In 1851 he was elected to 
 the state legislature from Scott County and became speaker of 
 the House. He was elected to Congress in 1852 and served 
 four consecutive terms, or eight years. He became the author 
 of the famous "English Bill" (1858), which referred the admis- 
 sion of Kansas back to the people of that Territory. This was 
 adopted and the people of Kansas voted against the admission 
 of the state under the Lecompton Constitution. 
 
 English opposed secession and he warned Southern con- 
 gressmen against that fatal policy. For eight years he was a 
 regent of the Smithsonian Institution. In 1863 he removed to 
 Indianapolis, where he became a banker and a capitalist. In 
 1880 he was nominated by the Democratic Party for vice-presi- 
 dent on the ticket with General Hancock. This Society was 
 fortunate to have such a man of affairs as its president during 
 the first ten years of its renaissance. Mr. English's services 
 and his legacy put the Society on a permanent basis with an 
 upward trend. After he passed from the scene Mr. William 
 Watson Woollen became his worthy successor. 
 
 MEETINGS, 1899-1915 
 
 On February 22, 1899, at a special public meeting in the 
 Meridian Street Methodist Episcopal Church, General Lew 
 Wallace addressed the Society on "The Battle of Buena Vista." 
 The Mexican War veterans attended in a body. 
 
 At the annual meeting, December 27, 1900, Daniel Wait 
 Howe became president. Deep regret was expressed at the 
 retirement of W. W. Woollen, who had been president for four 
 years. ( George S. Cottman was among those elected to mem- 
 bership. 
 
 In 1902, Dr. Frank B. Wynn became a member ; in 1903, 
 George B. Lockwood. The Executive Committee was instructed 
 
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 to cooperate with the patriotic societies of the state in the col- 
 lection and publication of matters relating to the revolutionary 
 soldiers of Indiana. 
 
 In 1904, Charles W. Moores, William A. Ketcham, Arthur 
 W. Dunn, and Thomas C. Whallon were reported for mem- 
 bership. Moores's "Caleb Mills and the Public School System 
 of Indiana" was reported for publication. 
 
 At the annual meeting of December, 1905, an unusually 
 large attendance was reported, and much interest was shown. 
 Mr. Cottman moved that the Executive Committee be requested 
 to prepare for a public meeting at the time of the meeting of 
 the history section of the State Teachers' Association, in April. 
 Here began the cooperation with the history teachers of the 
 state which has continued to this day. Among the new members 
 elected were Professor Thomas F. Moran, of Purdue, Profes- 
 sors U. G. Weatherly and S. B. Harding, of Indiana Uni- 
 versity, and Harlow Lindley, of Earlham ; also Delavan Smith, 
 Louis Ewbank, William Carter, Theodore Stempfel, Louis 
 Howland, and Francis Bacon, all of Indianapolis. 
 
 At a special meeting on April 27, 1906, the secretary revised 
 the list of members, removing a large number who had been 
 carried on the roll but had declined or withdrawn membership, 
 or were deceased. Among the last were D. D. Banta, John 
 Levering, Claude Matthews, S. E. Morss, Joseph E. McDonald, 
 William E. Niblack, Albert G. Porter, Addison L. Roache. 
 and Maurice Thompson — a distinguished list of veteran mem- 
 bers. 
 
 Alva O. Reser, of Lafayette, Amos W. Butler, A. C. Short- 
 ridge, and Virgil Lockwood, all of Indianapolis, were elected 
 to membership. The following were made honorary members : 
 David Starr Jordan, of Leland Stanford University, David 
 Turpie, Thomas A. Goodwin, M. L. Bundy, of Newcastle, 
 Oscar J. Craig, of Missoula, Montana, William H. Mace, of 
 Syracuse, New York, and Enoch A. Bryan, of Pullman, 
 Washington. 
 
 At the annual meeting in 1906, President Howe reported an 
 active membership of only sixty-eight. James A. Woodburn 
 
Indiana Historical Society 31 
 
 was authorized to act for the Society in inviting to Indianapolis 
 the American Historical Association, the American Economic 
 Association, and the American Political Science Association. 
 These national bodies accepted the invitation to hold their an- 
 nual conventions in this city. Among the new members this 
 year appeared J. W. Fesler, Demarchus Brown, Eliza G. Brown- 
 ing, Christopher B. Coleman, Hilton U. Brown, William W. 
 Thornton, and Meredith Nicholson. 
 
 At a special meeting, April 26, 1907, George S. Cottman 
 was elected corresponding secretary, and the Indiana Quarterly 
 Magazine of History, Cottman's creation, was recognized as 
 the official organ of the Society. 
 
 In 1907 the Society reported eighty -nine members. One 
 thousand copies of J. P. Dunn's "The Word 'Hoosier' " were 
 ordered printed. Professor Homer J. Webster's "William 
 Henry Harrison's Administration of Indiana Territory" was 
 accepted for publication. Dunn moved to ask the National 
 Bureau of Ethnology to preserve the Indian languages. In this 
 cause Dunn was persistent for a number of years. 
 
 There were still only eighty-nine members during 1908. 
 John Coburn died during this year (January 28) and Charles 
 W. Moores was elected first vice-president in his place. The 
 death of Cyrus W. Hodgin was reported this year (October 
 3). President Howe presented his "Making a Capital in the 
 Wilderness," which was published. The president recommended 
 the appointment of a committee to cooperate in any movement 
 to celebrate the centennial of the admission of Indiana to state- 
 hood. 
 
 At the regular meeting in 1909 (December 31) Professor 
 C. B. Coleman was made corresponding secretary. 
 
 At a special meeting, December 1, 1910, a committee was 
 appointed to promote the erection of a building for the State 
 Library and Museum as a suitable centennial memorial. Dunn 
 offered resolutions urging an adequate public building for such 
 purposes. Such a building was sadly needed for the preserva- 
 tion of historical material. All citizens of the state were urged 
 to use their influence to have such preparations made that the 
 
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 proposed centennial memorial building might be erected and be 
 ready for dedication by December 11, 1916. Alas, twenty years 
 elapsed before this project became a reality. There has been 
 no more constant and potent influence behind this worthy enter- 
 prise than that of the Indiana Historical Society. By an act 
 of the last legislature (1929) taxes are now being collected 
 for erection of a Library and Historical Building. We all re- 
 joice in this achievement, too long delayed. 
 
 At the regular meeting in 1910 there were ninety-four mem- 
 bers. The president announced for publication "The Scotch- 
 Irish Presbyterians in Monroe County," by James A. Wood- 
 burn. Mrs. Grace Julian Clarke, Colonel W. M. Cockrum and 
 Logan Esarey became members. James A. Woodburn became 
 third vice-president in place of Bishop O'Donaghue. 
 
 At the regular annual meeting of 1911 (December 28) it was 
 reported that the membership had dropped to seventy-one mem- 
 bers. President Howe read his annual report as his custom 
 had been for several years, a report which is now made by the 
 secretary of the Society, showing the condition, and member- 
 ship, and publications of the organization, with any happenings 
 of importance. The Society was now subsidizing the Indiana 
 Quarterly Magazine of History to the extent of fifty dollars a 
 year ; a year later the subsidy was one hundred dollars. 
 
 At a special meeting on February 20, 1913, it was decided 
 that the Executive Committee should have sole and final 
 authority to elect to membership. The annual dues were raised 
 to two dollars. The Publications and the Magazine were guar- 
 anteed to members. 
 
 In 1913 the Magazine, about to expire, was taken over by 
 the Department of History of Indiana University, to be pub- 
 lished in cooperation with the State Historical Society and the 
 State Library, The Society now allowed the Magazine two 
 hundred dollars. At the next annual meeting (December 31, 
 1914), on motion of Mr. John H. Holliday, one dollar was 
 voted to the Magazine for each member of the Society, and this 
 arrangement has since been continued. In this year the mem- 
 bership was only one hundred and two. The constitution was 
 
Indiana Historical Society 33 
 
 amended making the Executive Committee to consist of the 
 officers and five others selected by the Society. This is as it is 
 now constituted. 17 
 
 In 1915 at meetings of the Executive Committee, Professor 
 Albert L. Kohlmeier, of Indiana University, Professor Charles 
 Roll, of the State Teachers' College at Terre Haute, and Elmore 
 Barce were elected to membership. 
 
 centennial celebration of statehood 
 
 The first public proposal of a centennial celebration in 1916, 
 so far as I know, came from the History Club of Indiana Uni- 
 versity, in 1907. In 1911 the legislature created a Centennial 
 Commission, without any financial provision, authorizing it to 
 prepare and lay before the next legislature a plan for a centen- 
 nial celebration. Men of vision were looking forward to a 
 memorial building for library, historical, and educational pur- 
 poses. On May 3, 1912, a banquet was held at the Denison 
 Hotel. Dr. Frank B. Wynn was the moving spirit and he 
 presided on this occasion and explained its purpose. One hun- 
 dred and fifty people were present, prominent men and women 
 from over the state. That conference proposed a legislative ap- 
 propriation for a worthy educational memorial such as has been 
 suggested. I had the honor to make a plea for this cause in 1912 
 before the Indianapolis Literary Club, the Colonial Dames of 
 Indiana, the History Section of the State Teachers' Associa- 
 tion, and on other occasions, in an address which was widely 
 published. All the organized historical forces united their 
 weight of influence and service. 
 
 In 1913 the Commission recommended to the legislature 
 an appropriation of two million dollars for a centennial memo- 
 rial building. The Commission made out its case, the legislature 
 was duly impressed, but it side-stepped the issue and referred 
 the proposal to the people at a general election. It was voted 
 down four to one. The people were uninformed and misled. 
 
 LOGAN ESAREY 
 
 The movements of permanent value and influence are not 
 17 See note 3, p. 7. 
 
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 always those that will receive a majority vote on a popular 
 referendum. No great outpouring of popular interest need be 
 expected in these peaceful memorials prompted by such societies 
 as ours. As late as 1920, at the Second Annual Historical Con- 
 ference, Dr. Logan Esarey read a paper on "The Renaissance 
 of Indiana History Since 1912." There were fewer than 
 twenty persons present when Dr. Esarey read that paper. But 
 the paper was published and its weight and influence were not 
 to be measured by the number who heard it read. There is a 
 real though not always vocal response among intelligent people 
 to these messages of our Society. 
 
 Dr. Esarey named 1912 as the year marking the revival of 
 history in Indiana. No matter what date be chosen there are 
 always influences and beginnings that have gone before, pro- 
 moting the same end. A few years before 1912 the University 
 established its Indiana Historical Survey, with Dr. Esarey in 
 charge. The University gave him his opportunity, and he began 
 to lay stress on the permanent values. He emphasized investi- 
 gation, hunting up the facts in the case, verifying them, and 
 making them available for future writers. He sought to collect 
 and arrange the materials for written history. He encouraged 
 and directed graduate students in the preparation of masters' 
 theses on Indiana themes. Some of these he published in the 
 Indiana Magazine of History, which he opened to the worthy 
 productions of all our colleges, Wabash, DePauw, Earlham, 
 and others. Judge John E. Iglehart, Elmore Barce, George R. 
 Wilson, and others, offered to the Magazine their contributions, 
 which served as illustrations of what original local studies 
 might be. 
 
 The purpose of Dr. Esarey was the same as the purpose 
 of the intelligent leaders of this Society for one hundred years ; 
 namely, to make known what Indiana had to contribute to the 
 country at large, to collect the material scattered here and 
 there, to focus it, to make it available to historians from other 
 parts of the country, so that Indiana men, like Governor Wil- 
 liam Henry Harrison, might be known as no New England 
 historian could know him. Dr. Esarey produced a directory 
 
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 of the newspapers of the state, still lying in manuscript form. 
 Through the State Historical Commission he edited and pub- 
 lished a number of volumes of the messages of early Indiana 
 governors. These the Commission was able to place not only 
 in the public libraries of Indiana but in the libraries of the 
 United States. This Society gave constant encouragement to 
 this work and it brought out some of Dr. Esarey's early papers, 
 as his "Internal Improvements in Indiana." 18 Dr. Esarey's 
 History of Indiana, in two large volumes, entitles him in this 
 generation to be looked upon as the successor to John B. Dillon. 
 His services to Indiana history deserve state wide recognition. 
 
 INDIANA HISTORICAL COMMISSION 
 
 In 1915 the legislature created the Indiana Historical Com- 
 mission, charged with the duty of providing for a centennial 
 celebration of statehood in 1916. An appropriation of $25,000 
 was made to the Commission, $5,000 to be used for publications, 
 $20,000 for the celebration. 
 
 An educational campaign was inaugurated. Historical 
 pageants were held throughout the state, notable ones at Indiana 
 University, Corydon, and Indianapolis, these three under the 
 direction of the Commission. These and the local pageants 
 illustrated the beginnings and progress of the state and of 
 various cities and counties. There was a great revival of inter- 
 est in Indiana history. The organization for this cause became 
 state wide. Each county had its chairman, most of whom gave 
 much unselfish and devoted service in the preparation of local 
 celebrations. The state park system was inaugurated; the 
 Society of Indiana Pioneers was organized; the collecting of 
 the records of the participation of our state in World War his- 
 tory was begun ; the Gold Star Honor Roll was published ; local 
 historical societies were encouraged ; a state historical confer- 
 ence was called of all the agencies interested in Indiana his- 
 tory, a suggestion of John Holliday, the president of the 
 Pioneers. This conference has since been an annual event. 
 
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 Centennial Handbook 
 
 The result of all this activity was an increased membership in 
 this Society. 
 
 GROWTH OF MEMBERSHIP AND RESOURCES 
 
 At the beginning of 1916 we had one hundred thirty mem- 
 bers. By 1922 the Society had enrolled six hundred sixty-eight 
 dues-paying members. Much of this increase was due to the 
 work and enthusiasm of Miss Lucy M. Elliott, some time 
 assistant to the director of the Historical Commission, who 
 gave much of her time to the Society's interests and to the 
 solicitation of members. Each county was asked to obtain ten 
 members and most of them did so. Our active enrollment is 
 now 1,152. 
 
 This is gratifying but it should be remembered that our 
 strength is not in numbers. For twenty years following 1886 
 the membership was hardly over one hundred, often less, and 
 the annual meetings were attended by only a handful of de- 
 voted souls. There might come perhaps fifteen, more likely 
 only five or six. These would hear reports, elect the old offi- 
 cers, and lay plans for the coming year. The flame was kept 
 alive as long as three or four of the faithful were gathered 
 together. Howe, Dunn, Moores, Coffin, English, Eliza Brown- 
 ing, John H. Holliday, Grace Julian Clarke usually came ; occa- 
 sionally, a few others. Some of us were unable to attend be- 
 cause the meetings of the American Historical Association 
 came at the same time. 
 
 Small as it was, the Society was going on, it never again 
 ceased to function, and much effective work was done. In 
 testimony of this see the Publications and the later activities 
 that this little handful of people have brought to pass. 
 
 As our strength has not been in numbers, neither has it 
 been in money or financial resources. The Society throughout 
 its history has had a meager treasury. Nearly every other state 
 historical society in the country is supported by state money. 
 The Indiana Society is a voluntary organization, not a state 
 agency. It has received very little money from the state treas- 
 ury, and is receiving none now, except indirectly through the 
 
Indiana Historical Society 37 
 
 aid it receives from the Indiana Historical Bureau. A small 
 dole of three hundred dollars a year for a few years after 1907, 
 under President Howe, was allowed by the legislature to aid in 
 publications. It was fully accounted for, carefully conserved 
 and well spent, and at times some of it was returned to the 
 state treasury. It is surprising that so much has been done 
 with so little. 
 
 At the annual meeting in December, 1886, the year of the 
 reorganization, the treasurer reported collecting for the past 
 year $28.00. The expenditures were $20.40, leaving a balance 
 of $7.60. From this little acorn a worthy oak has grown, grad- 
 ually climbing year by year. In 1891 the treasurer reported 
 $21.50 on hands; in 1892, $35.00; in 1896, $81.80, in addition 
 to the English bequest of that year. In 1900 the Society had 
 $598, and of this it was voted to place $500 in the English 
 Endowment Fund. Then interest was coming in from $3,000. 
 
 DELAVAN SMITH BEQUEST 
 
 A few years later came a noble legacy from public-spirited 
 beneficence. In 1922, Delavan Smith left to the Society in 
 his will the sum of $150,000, the bequest being for the purpose 
 of endowment for building operation and purchase of books. 
 
 Also, Mr. Smith left to the Society his library at his home 
 in Lake Forest, Illinois, largely of Americana, to be the nucleus 
 of a permanent library for the Society, the whole to be a 
 memorial to his father, William Henry Smith. The books not 
 suitable to the Society might be disposed of and the proceeds 
 invested in other books. 
 
 This bequest was subject to four inheritance taxes — the 
 Federal inheritance tax, and a like tax in Illinois, New York, 
 and in New Jersey. Mr. Smith owned stocks in corporations 
 whose head offices were in these states. The bequest was there- 
 fore reduced by these various taxes to $122,000. The fund 
 has been kept intact for eight years and it is now restored by 
 interest to its original amount. In the years just ahead the 
 Society and the public will enter upon the benefits this fund 
 will provide. The Society will be handsomely housed in the 
 
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 War Memorial Building on the Plaza. An assembly room, 
 library room, stack room, museum room, and reading room will 
 be amply provided. The Smith bequest can be retained in full 
 for endowment. 
 
 society's services 
 
 I shall attempt a brief summary of what the Society has 
 accomplished during its history and cite some benefits that have 
 accrued to the state from its existence. 
 
 1. This Society has kept alive the spirit of history and has 
 constantly inculcated a spirit of loyalty to the state and its 
 achievements, past and present. Its constant aim has been that 
 our posterity in Indiana shall not be ignorant of its ancestry. 
 The collected Publications of the Society, now numbering nine 
 volumes, are one of the main sources of Indiana history. The 
 Society has constantly encouraged students to collect and save 
 and put into literary form these materials of our history. These 
 services cannot be accurately measured, but they are very posi- 
 tive and quite extensive. 
 
 2. The Society has been very effective in building up the 
 State Library and its department of Indiana Archives. 
 
 For several periods of years the secretary of the Society 
 has been the state librarian, as in the cases of Dillon and Dunn. 
 During the year 1888 a circular was sent out by the Society to 
 the members of the General Assembly asking better support to 
 the State Library. At a special meeting, April 2, 1889, the 
 Society's committee on legislation reported that they had se- 
 cured the passage of a bill making an appropriation of five 
 thousand dollars for the purchase and binding of books for the 
 State Library during the current year and two thousand dollars 
 per year thereafter. In 1900 the Society again urged an appro- 
 priation of two thousand dollars for the Library for buying and 
 binding books. 
 
 3. The Society was a vital factor in the creation of the 
 Indiana Historical Commission in 1915 (of which I have 
 spoken) and of the Historical Bureau which followed ten years 
 
Indiana Historical Society 39 
 
 later. The spirit and purpose of the Society have lived in these 
 commissions and their work. 
 
 4. It helped in organizing the State Department of Con- 
 servation and in the promotion of our system of state parks. 
 The purchase, restoration, and preservation of the Lanier Home 
 in Madison, and of the old State Capitol in Corydon are illus- 
 trations of its activities. 
 
 5. This Society helped to organize the Society of Indiana 
 Pioneers. Its officers were the leaders and main personal fac- 
 tors in bringing the new society into existence. The good work 
 the Pioneers have achieved in reviving an interest in the past 
 is a part of our work. 
 
 6. The Society has cooperated with the Pioneers and the 
 history section of the Indiana State Teachers' Association in 
 sponsoring the annual history conferences. The first of these 
 was held in 1919, and one has been held every year since, at- 
 tended by men and women from various parts of the state. 
 They have served as rallies for the cause. These conferences 
 are held in connection with our annual meetings, as near as pos- 
 sible to the anniversary of our statehood. Through influence 
 exerted by these conferences the General Assembly has made 
 December 11 "Indiana Day," and on that day throughout the 
 schools of Indiana our admission to statehood and events of 
 Indiana history are celebrated. A two-day program is pre- 
 pared for the state conference and the proceedings are pub- 
 lished and preserved. The conference closes with the annual 
 dinner of the Society of Pioneers. 
 
 7. The Society was instrumental in founding and sustain- 
 ing the Indiana Magazine of History. But for the Society in 
 the early years of this Magazine it could not have lived. Indiana 
 University has supplied its main support in recent years, a 
 service for which the Society is under obligations. The Maga- 
 zine is a valued organ of the Society. 
 
 8. The Society has promoted the work of archaeology in 
 Indiana. The last few years have marked a new era in this 
 field of study in our state, for which the Society has been 
 largely responsible. 
 
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 9. In December, 1925, the Society took the initiative in 
 the promotion of the celebration of the one hundred fiftieth 
 anniversary of George Rogers Clark's conquest of the North- 
 west. It voted money out of its treasury for this cause, and its 
 officers defrayed their own expenses in attending various meet- 
 ings in Indianapolis and Vincennes to promote this end. It 
 prepared the way by full two years for the creation by the 
 legislature of the official Clark commission of Indiana. Be- 
 fore the official commission was created this Society in connec- 
 tion with agencies in Vincennes arranged for the purchase of 
 the site of Fort Sackville and laid out plans for the erection of 
 a memorial to George Rogers Clark. Two years later the state 
 and the United States appropriated money generously for the 
 execution of these plans. Results must take account of their 
 beginnings, and the results at Vincennes must look back to their 
 origins in this Society. 
 
 10. The Society had for several years a committee in con- 
 nection with the history section of the State Teachers' Associa- 
 tion for promoting the study of Indiana history in the public 
 schools. This committee had the ready cooperation of the 
 State Board of Education, and through the committee leader- 
 ship of the late Herbert Briggs, of Terre Haute, a good deal 
 was accomplished in this direction. The school children of 
 Indiana today are much better informed on Indiana history than 
 they were a generation ago. We have had a part in that work. 
 
 MIDYEAR TOURS AND MEETINGS 
 
 Of late years the Society has conducted a wide program to 
 acquaint the people of the state with its work. In 1923, under 
 the present regime, the Society began the policy of holding sum- 
 mer meetings in parts of the state outside of Indianapolis. The 
 first summer meeting was held in Madison (1924), and in 
 other years meetings were held in South Bend, Fort Wayne, 
 Vincennes, Terre Haute, and Lafayette. For these meetings 
 we joined with the Society of Indiana Pioneers in pilgrimages 
 to various parts of the state. These experiences helped us to 
 become acquainted with Indiana. In some years two pilgrim- 
 
Indiana Historical Society 41 
 
 ages were made, one in the spring and one in the fall. This 
 gave opportunity to hold brief meetings at various county seats 
 through which the pilgrimage passed. The members of county 
 historical societies and the directors of local museums received 
 the members of the Society with interest and hospitality. The 
 public meetings were largely attended and these pilgrimages did 
 much to arouse interest in local history, to give impetus to the 
 cause, and to make the Society state wide in its interest and 
 membership. 
 
 NEW LEADERS 
 
 In the past hundred years this Society has had a distin- 
 guished membership, with many worthy leaders. I have been 
 able to mention but a few. I cannot even call the roll of all our 
 worthy workers, but I cannot forego calling to mind some of 
 our colleagues and co-workers who have been long in the har- 
 ness, constantly lending their aid to the forces that are striving 
 to arouse public interest and to make our history known to the 
 coming generation. There have been men and women like the 
 Fosters and Bert J. Griswold, of Fort Wayne ; Otto Knoblock, 
 Miss Virginia Tutt, and Dr. H. T. Montgomery, of South 
 Bend ; the Newsoms, of Bartholomew County ; Clarence H. 
 Smith, at Newcastle ; Thomas James de la Hunt, of Cannelton ; 
 Harlow Lindley and Miss Esther McNitt, of the Department 
 of Indiana History and Archives of the State Library ; E. Y. 
 Guernsey, of Bedford ; George R. Wilson, of Dubois County ; 
 Miss Alice Greene, of New Albany; Harry Stoops, of Brook- 
 ville ; Charles Sansberry, of Anderson ; Arthur Mitten, of 
 Goodland ; Mrs. Beck, of Franklin ; Dr. Wetherill, of Lafayette ; 
 Judge Roscoe Kiper, in Boonville ; Judge Iglehart and Daniel 
 Snepp, of Evansville ; Mrs. Harvey Morris, in Salem ; Miss 
 Permelia Boyd, of Scottsburg ; the Dooleys, in Rockville ; Miss 
 Genevieve Williams, of Huntingburg ; Mrs. Frank J. Sheehan, 
 of Gary ; Mrs. Elizabeth Claypool Earl, of Muncie ; Charles N. 
 Thompson, Amos Butler, Lee Burns, Evans Woollen, Dr. C. B. 
 Coleman, and Mrs. Kate Milner Rabb, of Indianapolis; Lin- 
 naeus Hines and Augustus R. Markle, of Terre Haute. These 
 
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 are a few of of the names among many others worthy of men- 
 tion as active in the recent life of the Society. 
 
 I cannot forego calling again to mind my immediate worthy 
 predecessors, Daniel Wait Howe and Charles W. Moores. I 
 have already put in print my appreciation of these men and 
 I need not repeat that estimate here. 19 Judge Howe served the 
 Society as president for twenty-one years. I have personal 
 knowledge of the care, patience, and devotion which he gave to 
 its work. In these years, with faithfulness and efficiency he 
 did as much as any one else to carry its burdens. His name and 
 his historical writings reflect honor upon the Society. The 
 work of Howe and Moores is in the record — the record of their 
 private publications and in the Publications of the Society. 
 Their names deserve a place on our roll of honor. 
 
 But after all, the success of this Society has depended, not 
 on the few, not on a handful of managers, but on the rank and 
 file of its membership. Their interest and faithfulness have 
 made possible the work that has been accomplished. We still 
 hope that our membership may reach into the thousands, and 
 that the people of Indiana in the hundred years to come may 
 find more and more interest and pride in their history and be- 
 come even more constant in their support of the agencies that 
 are seeking to preserve this history and to make it known to 
 future ages. 
 
 19 See Indiana Magazine of History, Vol. XI, pp. 70-76; Proceedings 
 of the Sixth Annual Indiana History Conference (1924), pp. 7-8. 
 
ROSTER OF OFFICERS 
 1830-1930 
 
 Presidents 
 
 Benjamin Parke, 1830-35 
 Samuel Merrill, 1835-48 
 Isaac Blackford, 1848-59 
 John Law, 1859-73 1 
 Charles H. Test, 1877-84 2 
 William H. English, 1886-96 
 William W. Woollen, 1896-1900 
 Daniel Wait Howe, 1900-20 
 Charles W. Moores, 1920-23 
 James A. Woodburn, 1923- 
 
 First Vice-Presidents 
 
 Isaac Blackford, 1830-35 
 Jeremiah Sullivan, 1835-48 
 George H. Dunn, 1848-54* 
 A. B. Line, 1859-86 
 William W. Woollen, 1886-96 
 John Coburn, 1896-1908 
 Charles W. Moores, 1908-20 
 James A. Woodburn, 1920-23 1 
 Evans Woollen, 1924- 
 
 ^ohn Law died in 1873 leaving the presidency vacant. A successor 
 was not chosen until the reorganization in 1877, when Test was elected. 
 
 2 Charles H. Test died in 1884. The Society was inactive and no 
 successor was appointed for two years. 
 
 3 Dunn died in 1854. 
 
 4 James A. Woodburn was elected president at the annual meeting 
 
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 Second Vice-Presidents 
 
 Jesse L. Holman, 1830-35 
 
 Charles I. Battell, 1835-42 
 
 Charles Dewey, 1842-48 
 
 John Law, 1848-59 
 
 Reverend George Upfold, 1859-72 5 
 
 John Cobum, 1886-96 
 
 Daniel Wait Howe, 1896-1900 
 
 William E. English, 1900-26 
 
 Harlow Lindley, 1926-28 
 
 Charles T. Sansberry, 1928-30 
 
 Third Vice-Presidents 
 
 James Scott, 1830-35 
 Abner T. Ellis, 1835-42 
 Isaac Blackford, 1842-48 
 Jeremiah Sullivan, 1848-59 
 Hamilton Smith, 1859-75 6 
 Daniel Wait Howe, 1886-96 
 William E. English, 1896-1900 
 Bishop D. O'Donaghue, 1900-10 
 James A. Woodburn, 1910-20 
 Harlow Lindley, 1920-26 
 Miss Sue Howe, 1926-27 
 Charles A. Sansberry, 1927-28 
 Richard B. Wetherill, 1928- 
 
 Recording Secretaries 
 
 Bethuel F. Morris, 1830-35 
 George H. Dunn, 1835-42 
 William Sheets, 1842-48 
 Thomas L. Sullivan, 1848-59 
 
 on December 7, 1923. The vacancy thus created in the vice-presidency 
 was not filled until a meeting of the Executive Committee on January 
 4, 1924. 
 
 8 Upfold died in 1872. 
 
 e Smith died in 1875. 
 
Indiana Historical Society 45 
 
 John B. Dillon, 1859-79 7 
 William H. Terrell, 1879-86 
 Jacob P. Dunn, 1886-1924* 
 Christopher B. Coleman, 1924-26 
 
 Corresponding Secretaries 9 
 
 John H. Farnham, 1830-35 
 Isaac Blackford, 1835-42 
 John Law, 1842-48 
 Charles W. Cady, 1848-59 
 William W. Woollen, 1886-96 
 George S. Cottman, 1906-8 
 Christopher B. Coleman, 1908-19 
 Frank B. Wynn, 1919-21 
 Miss Sue Howe, 1924-26 
 
 Secretary 10 
 
 Christopher B. Coleman, 1926- 
 
 Treasurers 
 
 James Blake, 1830-42 
 Charles W. Cady, 1842-48 
 James M. Ray, 1848-81 11 
 William DeM. Hooper, 1886-94 
 Charles E. Coffin, 1894- 
 
 Assistant Secretary and Treasurer 
 
 Miss Lucy M. Elliott, 1921-24 
 
 Members of Executive Committee. 12 Samuel Merrill: 
 1830-35; George H. Dunn, 1830-35, 1842-48; Isaac Howk, 
 1830-33; James Whitcomb, 1830-35, 1848-59; John Law, 1830- 
 
 7 Served as both corresponding and recording secretary. Terrell also 
 served both offices. 
 
 8 Served as recording and corresponding secretary, 1896-1906. 
 
 9 This office was combined with that of recording secretary from 
 1859-86, and from 1896-1906. Left vacant, 1921-24. 
 
 10 The two secretaryships were combined in 1926. 
 
 ^Ray died in 1881. 
 
 12 The officers of the Society with other elected members constitute 
 the Executive Committee. 
 
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 35; Henry P. Coburn, 1835-54; James Farrington, 1835-42; 
 Charles Denby, 1835-42; James McKinney, 1835-42; James M. 
 Ray, 1835-48; Henry Ward Beecher, 1842-48; Douglass Ma- 
 guire, 1842-48; James Blake, 1848-59; George W. Mears, 1848- 
 79; John B. Dillon, 1848-59; Calvin Fletcher, 1859-66; John 
 Coburn, 1859-86; Addison L. Roache, 1859-1906; Henry S. 
 Lane, 1859-81 ; John R. Wilson, 1886-1907; Addison C. Harris, 
 1886-1916; William DeM. Hooper, 1886-94; Jacob P. Dunn, 
 1886-1910; Charles Martindale, 1894-1920; Charles W. Moores, 
 1907-10; John H. Holliday, 1906-21 ; Eliza G. Browning, 1910- 
 21; George S. Cottman, 1910-16; Mrs. Frank A. Morrison, 
 1916-25 ; Logan Esarey, 1916-21 ; Lee Burns, 1920- ; Evans 
 Woollen, 1921-24; Linnaeus N. Hines, 1921- ; Herriott C. 
 Palmer, 1921-25 ; Amos W. Butler, 1924- ; Mrs. Harvey Mor- 
 ris, 1925- ; Mrs. Eva Neal Beck, 1925- ; Otto M. Knoblock, 
 1929-. 
 
LEGISLATIVE CHARTER 
 
 An Act to Incorporate the Indiana Historical Society 
 Approved January 10, 1831 
 
 Corporate Style and Powers 
 
 Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state 
 of Indiana, That Benjamin Parke, John H. Farnham, Bethuel 
 F. Morris and James Blake, with their associates, are hereby 
 created and constituted, a body politic and corporate, by the 
 name and style of the "Indiana Historical Society," and by such 
 name may have perpetual succession, hold, purchase, receive, 
 enjoy and transfer any property, real and personal, have and 
 use a common seal, sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, 
 defend and be defended in all courts of judicature whatever. 
 
 Annual Meetings and Elections 
 
 Sec. 2. There shall be an annual meeting of the members 
 of said society, at the time and place appointed by their con- 
 stitution ; at which time and place the officers of said society 
 named in said constitution, shall be elected, who shall continue 
 in office until the next annual meeting, and until their succes- 
 sors are elected. The members of said society, at such meet- 
 ing, may alter and amend their constitution, change the time 
 of the annual meeting, and frame such laws for the govern- 
 ment of said society as they shall think proper, the same not 
 being inconsistent with the laws and constitution of this state. 
 
 By-Laws for Society | 
 
 Sec. 3. The officers of said society may make such rules 
 for their own government, and for carrying into effect the 
 
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 objects of the society, not inconsistent with its constitution, as 
 they shall think proper; all which, together with their receipts 
 and disbursements, shall be reported to the annual meetings of 
 the society. 
 
 Society Entitled to Laws, Journals, Etc. 
 
 Sec. 4. The secretary of state shall deliver to the officers 
 of said society one copy of the laws of this state, and one copy 
 of the journals of the senate and house of representatives, 
 which may hereafter be published, and also copies of the laws 
 and journals of former years, where more than five copies of 
 the same for any one year remain in his office. The secretary 
 shall also deliver to the officers of said society, all books and 
 other articles which have been or may be transmitted to his 
 office for the use of said society. 
 
CONSTITUTION 
 
 Article I 
 
 The name of this Society shall be The Indiana Historical 
 Society. 
 
 Article II 
 
 The objects of the Society shall be the collection and preser- 
 vation of all materials calculated to shed light on the natural, 
 civil, and political history of Indiana ; the publication and cir- 
 culation of historical documents ; the promotion of useful knowl- 
 edge ; and the friendly and profitable intercourse of such citi- 
 zens as are disposed to promote these ends. 
 
 Article III 
 
 (As Amended December 28, 1922) 
 
 There shall be an annual meeting of the Society on the 11th 
 day of December, or approximately thereto, at such hour and 
 place as may be designated by the President of the Society in 
 the notice thereof, which notice shall be sent to each member 
 and published in the daily papers of Indianapolis. A private 
 meeting of the Society may be called at any time by the Presi- 
 dent, or, in case of death or absence of the President, by any 
 officer of the Society at the request of any three members, and 
 there shall be the like power to call a public meeting at any time 
 on the request of five members. At any meeting six members 
 shall constitute a quorum to transact business. 
 
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 Article IV 
 
 (As Amended December 30, 1915, December 9, 1927, 
 and December 13, 1929) 
 
 The officers of the Society shall be: 
 
 1st. A President, who shall preside and preserve order at 
 all meetings of the Society. 
 
 2nd. Three Vice Presidents, one of whom, in the order 
 of election, shall preside at all meetings in the absence of the 
 President. 
 
 3rd. A Secretary, who shall record and preserve the min- 
 utes of the Society, keep a list of members, and be in charge 
 of the correspondence of the Society. The executive committee 
 may appoint such assistants as the work of the office of secre- 
 tary may require. 
 
 4th. A Treasurer, who shall receive all monies due the 
 Society, and hold the same subject to its order, and make an 
 annual report of all receipts and disbursements. 
 
 5th. An Executive Committee consisting of the President, 
 Vice-Presidents, Secretary and Treasurer and five others to be 
 elected as other officers are chosen, except that for the year 
 1930 six others besides the president, vice-presidents, secretary 
 and treasurer, shall be elected as the executive committee, whose 
 duty it shall be to meet on the days upon which the Society 
 holds its sessions or at such other times as they deem expedient ; 
 to select subjects for public lectures and appoint the individuals 
 by whom the same shall be delivered at the annual meetings of 
 the Society; to attend to the publication of such lectures and 
 other documents as they may deem expedient; to take charge 
 of all books, papers, specimens, models, curiosities, pictures, 
 etc., belonging to the Society, and to submit reports of their pro- 
 ceedings at the meetings of the Society. They shall have power 
 to make by-laws not inconsistent with the Constitution ; to 
 direct and superintend all disbursements, and generally to carry 
 into effect all measures not otherwise provided for. Three 
 shall constitute a quorum. 
 
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 Article V 
 
 (As Amended February 20, 1913) 
 
 Applications for membership shall be upon written petition 
 and shall be referred to the Executive Committee. The Execu- 
 tive Committee shall have sole and final authority to elect to 
 membership in the Society. 
 
 Article VI 
 
 Officers shall be elected by ballot at the annual meetings 
 of the Society and shall continue in office for one year, and 
 until their successors are elected. Vacancies in any office may 
 be filled by the Executive Committee until the next meeting of 
 the Society, at which time the vacant office shall be filled by 
 ballot. Any officer may be removed from office for malfeas- 
 ance or misconduct injurious to the Society, under the regula- 
 tions prescribed for the expulsion of members. 
 
 Article VII 
 
 (As Amended February 20, 1913) 
 
 Sec. 1. Each member shall pay into the hands of the Treas- 
 urer two dollars ($2.00) annually as dues. On failure to pay 
 such dues within thirty (30) days after December 31 of each 
 year, or after the delinquent's election to membership, such de- 
 linquent shall be suspended from all privileges of membership, 
 without motion, and after thirty (30) days delinquency during 
 the suspension, after notice by the Secretary, it shall be the 
 duty of the Secretary to strike his name from the rolls, and he 
 shall be no longer a member, nor shall any such person be again 
 eligible for membership until his arrearages are paid. 
 
 Sec. 2. Every member in good standing in the Society shall 
 be entitled to receive without charge to himself a copy of each 
 publication of the Society, which shall have been issued during 
 the period of his membership, and the Executive Committee 
 shall have authority to authorize the issuance to members of any 
 periodical publication or magazine over the publication of which 
 
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 the Society has control, or to the support of which the Society 
 contributes, without cost to such member. The provisions of 
 this section may be made retroactive only upon formal action by 
 the Executive Committee of the Society, and only as to publica- 
 tions of which, in the judgment of the committee, the Society 
 may have a sufficient number to justify such free distribution. 
 
 Article VIII 
 
 Any member of the Society shall at any time have the right 
 of withdrawing, upon filing with the Secretary a notice in writ- 
 ing of such intention, accompanied by the Treasurer's receipt 
 in full for all dues. 
 
 Article IX 
 
 This constitution shall be subject to amendment at any meet- 
 ing of the Society by a vote of three-fourths of the members 
 present: Provided, that an amendment offered at any meeting 
 shall lay over to the next meeting before being adopted. 
 
INDIANA HISTORICAL SOCIETY 
 
 ROSTER OF OFFICERS AND MEMBERS 
 
 November 15, 1930 
 
 [Key: * deceased, n new 1931, h honorary, / life, s sustaining, i insti- 
 tutional.] 
 
 Officers, 1930 
 
 James A. Woodburn, President 
 Evans Woollen, First Vice-President 
 *Charles T. Sansberry, Second Vice-President 
 Richard B. Wetherill, Third Vice-President 
 Charles E. Coffin, Treasurer 
 Christopher B. Coleman, Secretary 
 
 Executive Committee : The officers of the Society and Lee Burns, 
 Chairman, Mrs. Eva Neal Beck, Amos W. Butler, Linnaeus N. Hines, 
 Otto M. Knoblock, Mrs. Harvey Morris. 
 
 Honorary Members 
 
 Bowers, Claude G New York, N. Y. 
 
 Bryan, Enoch A Pullman, Wash. 
 
 Cottman, George S Indianapolis 
 
 Dunn, Mrs. Jacob P '. Indianapolis 
 
 Mace, William H Norfolk, Va. 
 
 Moores, Mrs. Charles W Dayton, Ohio 
 
 Life Members 
 
 Brady, Arthur W Anderson 
 
 Fauvre, Frank M Indianapolis 
 
 Fortune, William Indianapolis 
 
 Howe, Sue Indianapolis 
 
 Lilly, Josiah K Indianapolis 
 
 Marmon, Mrs. Elizabeth C Indianapolis 
 
 New, Harry S Bethesda, Md. 
 
 Robinson, Mary Yandes Indianapolis 
 
 Shaffer, John C Chicago, 111. 
 
 Woodburn, James A Bloomington 
 
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 Sustaining Members 
 
 Coleman, Christopher B Indianapolis 
 
 Daniels, J. J Indianapolis 
 
 Planner, Frank B Indianapolis 
 
 Guedelhoef er, Bernard Indianapolis 
 
 Insley, William H Indianapolis 
 
 Levey, Mrs. L. H Indianapolis 
 
 Lieber, Herman P Indianapolis 
 
 Lynn, Charles J Indianapolis 
 
 Reilly, Peter C Indianapolis 
 
 Sheerin, Thomas D Indianapolis 
 
 Taylor, Blair . -. Indianapolis 
 
 Taylor, Harold Indianapolis 
 
 Thompson, Charles N Indianapolis 
 
 Annual Members 
 
 Adams, Dr. C. F Indianapolis 
 
 Adams, Robert A Indianapolis 
 
 Adams, Shelby C English 
 
 Adamson, Wendell W Indianapolis 
 
 Ade, George Brook 
 
 Aikens, W. W Franklin 
 
 Alexander, Mrs. W. E Bedford 
 
 Aley, Robert J Indianapolis 
 
 Allen, R. A Frankfort 
 
 Allerdice, Martha S Indianapolis 
 
 Alsop, George R Vincennes 
 
 Alsop, W. M Vincennes 
 
 Alter, Lewis S Goodland 
 
 Alvord, Katharine S Greencastle 
 
 Anderson, Mrs. S. M Bloomington 
 
 Andrew, Abram Piatt La Porte 
 
 Andrews, John R Bedford 
 
 Andrews, Kate F Hanover 
 
 Appel, Mrs. John J Indianapolis 
 
 Arbuckle, Mrs. May A Elizabethtown 
 
 Armstrong, Nellie C Indianapolis 
 
 Arnold,, Walter R South Bend 
 
 Ashbaucher, Mrs. Ida Bluf fton 
 
 Askew, Mrs. Harry E Bedford 
 
 Askin, Ruth A Columbus 
 
 Atkinson, Mrs. Dayton C Chicago, 111. 
 
 Auf derheide, R. C Indianapolis 
 
 Austin, Edwin A Topeka, Kans. 
 
 Austin, E. R South Bend 
 
 Ayres, Frederic M Indianapolis 
 
 Backman, Mrs. J. J Aurora 
 
 Badet, Harry S South Bend 
 
 Baer, Frank L Washington, D. C. 
 
 Baer, Dr. S. W South Bend 
 
 Bailey, G. L Ridgeville 
 
 Bailey, George M Indianapolis 
 
 Bailey, Louis J Indianapolis 
 
 Baker, Albert Indianapolis 
 
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 Baker, Ethel G South Bend 
 
 Baker, Mrs. Fannie Indianapolis 
 
 Baker, George Bramwell Chestnut Hill, Mass. 
 
 Baker, Hugh J Indianapolis 
 
 Baker, Maysel O Worthington 
 
 Baker, Thaddeus R Indianapolis 
 
 Ball, E. Arthur Muncie 
 
 Ball, Mrs. Frank C Muncie 
 
 Ball, George A Muncie 
 
 Barker, W. L Boonville 
 
 Barkley, Merrill B Indianapolis 
 
 Barnaby, Charles H Greencastle 
 
 Barnett, John T Indianapolis 
 
 Barnhart, Dean L Goshen 
 
 Barnhill, Dr. John F Miami Beach, Fla. 
 
 Barrett, E. Clifford Indianapolis 
 
 Barry, Charles L Indianapolis 
 
 Bartholomew, H. S. K Goshen 
 
 Bartlett, Charles H Lake Forest, 111. 
 
 Bash, Mrs. C. E Huntington 
 
 Bass, William H Indianapolis 
 
 Basye, Taylor Coleman Rockport 
 
 Bates, Mrs. W. O Indianapolis 
 
 Bauer, Rev. Joseph T Indianapolis 
 
 Baxter, Mrs. Alice Indianapolis 
 
 Baxter, Arthur R Indianapolis 
 
 Beardsley, Mrs. A. H Elkhart 
 
 Beck, Mrs. Eva Neal Franklin 
 
 Beeler, A. D Indianapolis 
 
 Bell, Lydia Lebanon 
 
 Bennett, Henry W Indianapolis 
 
 Benns, F. Lee Bloomington 
 
 Benson, Mrs. A. O Bridgeton 
 
 Bernhardt, Mrs. Ada L Richmond 
 
 Bertermann, Irwin Indianapolis 
 
 Bertsch, Harry D Centerville 
 
 Bishop, Mabel Brazil 
 
 Bishop, Richard E Indianapolis 
 
 Black, George E Greencastle 
 
 Black, Glenn A i, Indianapolis 
 
 Black, James C Anderson 
 
 Blair, George W Mishawaka 
 
 Blake, Bishop Edgar Indianapolis 
 
 Blessing, Mrs. E. M Danville 
 
 Blish, Mrs. Tipton S Seymour 
 
 Blumberg, Benjamin Terre Haute 
 
 Blunk, Dr. S. M Virden, 111. 
 
 Bodemer, Lena Indianapolis 
 
 Bogardus, Frank S Terre Haute 
 
 Bohn, Arthur Indianapolis 
 
 Bold, John D. T Evansville 
 
 Boone, Franklin M South Bend 
 
 Borden, W. W South Bend 
 
 Boulden, Dr. Melville F Frankfort 
 
 Bowen, Crate D Miami, Fla. 
 
 Bowen, Mrs. Nathaniel W Delphi 
 
 ABowers, Claude G New York, N. Y. 
 
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 Bowman, L. S Indianapolis 
 
 Bowsher, Delevan D South Bend 
 
 Boyd, Permelia Scottsburg 
 
 Boyer, Mrs. Pearl W New Harmony 
 
 nBracken, L. L Muncie 
 
 /Brady, Arthur W Anderson 
 
 Branson, George Brazil 
 
 Bray, Ida Columbus 
 
 Bray, Perry A Noblesville 
 
 Breen, William P Fort Wayne 
 
 Brengle, Adeline Salem, 111. 
 
 Brewer, Mabel New Lebanon 
 
 Britt, Margaret Glenwood 
 
 Brooks, Daisy Indianapolis 
 
 Brooks, Elwood E Salem 
 
 Brooks, Emily Indianapolis 
 
 Brooks, Susan Shoals 
 
 Brooks, Mrs. Thomas J Bedford 
 
 Brouillette, Maurice A Vincennes 
 
 Brown, Mrs. Agnes Fletcher Philadelphia, Pa. 
 
 Brown, Austin H Indianapolis 
 
 Brown, Mrs. Edgar A Indianapolis 
 
 Brown, Hilton U Indianapolis 
 
 Brown, Hiram Indianapolis 
 
 Brown, John F Brazil 
 
 Brown, Marshall Indianapolis 
 
 Brown, Mrs. Martha C Frankfort 
 
 Brown, Mrs. William J Indianapolis 
 
 Browne, Chester G Indianapolis 
 
 Bruner, Alfred W Paoli 
 
 Bruner, Henry L Indianapolis 
 
 Bruns, Joseph New Albany 
 
 /zBryan, Enoch A Pullman, Wash. 
 
 Bryan, William Lowe Bloomington 
 
 Buck, George Indianapolis 
 
 Buck, L. Talbert Evansville 
 
 Buckley, Mrs. Charles Delphi 
 
 Buechner, Cecelia B South Bend 
 
 Burgess, M. L Indianapolis 
 
 Burget, Eugene O Frankfort 
 
 Burnet, H. B Indianapolis 
 
 Burnett, Howard R Monroe City 
 
 Burns, Lee Indianapolis 
 
 Butler, Amos W Indianapolis 
 
 Byers, Russell T Indianapolis 
 
 Bynum, Mrs. Cora Lebanon 
 
 Calvert, George C Indianapolis 
 
 Campbell, Mrs. Gertrude Quick Redkey 
 
 Campbell, Mrs. John B South Bend 
 
 Canis, Edward N Indianapolis 
 
 Caperton, Woods A Indianapolis 
 
 Carey, Mrs. John N Indianapolis 
 
 Carlin, Clyde C Angola 
 
 Carlisle, Mrs. Charles A South Bend 
 
 Carpenter, Walter N Indianapolis 
 
 Carr, Arthur B Indianapolis 
 
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 Carson, W. W Greencastle 
 
 Carter, Mrs. John V Indianapolis 
 
 Carter, Vinson Indianapolis 
 
 Cartwright, Mrs. Mary J Indianapolis 
 
 Cauble, Mrs. Elizabeth E Salem 
 
 Causey, Mrs. Adelaide Fairbanks Newport, R. I. 
 
 Chaff in, Charles L New Harmony 
 
 Chamberlin, Harry O Indianapolis 
 
 Chamness, Ivy L Bloomington 
 
 Chandler, Charles V Indianapolis 
 
 Chaney, John C Sullivan 
 
 Chappel, Mrs. Eugenia Braman, Okla. 
 
 Chase, Charles W Gary 
 
 Chenoweth, Merl Winchester 
 
 Chesterson, Mrs. Maud J Waynetown 
 
 Clark, Dr. C. P Indianapolis 
 
 Clark, Meribah Mount Sterling, 111. 
 
 Clark, O. S Attica 
 
 Clarke, Annette L New Albany 
 
 Clarke, Mrs. Grace Julian Indianapolis 
 
 Clayton, Helen E Indianapolis 
 
 Clearwaters, Rev. John F Crawf ordsville 
 
 Clifford, Mrs. George S Evansville 
 
 Cline, Mrs. L. C Indianapolis 
 
 Clouse, Dr. Bertha A Columbus 
 
 Clow, Mrs. E. L Attica 
 
 Coapstick, P. T Frankfort 
 
 Coate, Alvin T Indianapolis 
 
 Coats, Mrs. Roy K Indianapolis 
 
 Coburn, Mrs. Harry Humbert Indianapolis 
 
 Cockrum, John B Indianapolis 
 
 Coffin, Mrs. Annie R Beverly Hills, Cal. 
 
 Coffin, Charles E Indianapolis 
 
 Coffin, Charles F Indianapolis 
 
 Coffin, Florence Worth Beverly Hills, Cal. 
 
 Cole, Mrs. James L Charlestown 
 
 ^Coleman, Christopher B Indianapolis 
 
 Coleman, Mrs. William H Indianapolis 
 
 Collins, Mrs. Caroline Vajen Indianapolis 
 
 Collins, James A Indianapolis 
 
 /Columbia University Library New York, N. Y. 
 
 Comstock, Paul Richmond 
 
 Condon, Chalmer Logansport 
 
 Conklin, A. P Indianapolis 
 
 Conner, Mrs. Annie K Wabash 
 
 Conner, Mrs. S. D Lafayette 
 
 Constable, Mrs. R. L Goodland 
 
 Cook, Mrs. J. Russell Danville 
 
 Cook, Mrs. John W Indianapolis 
 
 Cooper, Brown Fort Wayne 
 
 Coquillard, Alexis South Bend 
 
 Coquillard, Joseph A South Bend 
 
 Corboy, Catharine Valparaiso 
 
 Corya, Mrs. Norma Brookville 
 
 ACottman, George S Indianapolis 
 
 Coultas, Dr. P. J Tell City 
 
 Coulter, Stanley Lafayette. 
 
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 Cox, John S Terre Haute 
 
 Cox, Mary E Elwood 
 
 Cox, R. A Seymour 
 
 Craig, Mrs. Robert C Indianapolis 
 
 Crain, J. E Logansport 
 
 Crampton, Col. A. B Indianapolis 
 
 nCrandall, A. W Greencastle 
 
 Crankshaw, James B Fort Wayne 
 
 Cravens, Drusilla B Madison 
 
 Cravens, John W Bloomington 
 
 Crawford, Clif ford E Frankfort 
 
 Creel, Mrs. Thomas J Indianapolis 
 
 Creigmile, Robert A Osgood 
 
 Critchlow, W. W Indianapolis 
 
 Crow, Hamlin Sherman La Fontaine 
 
 Crowder, C. H Indianapolis 
 
 Crumpacker, Dr. C. B South Bend 
 
 Crumpacker, Grant Valparaiso 
 
 Culbertson, D. Frank Vincennes 
 
 Cunningham, C. Frederick South Bend 
 
 Curtis, A. E Cincinnati, Ohio 
 
 j'D. A. R., National Society Washington, D. C. 
 
 Dahmen, Mrs. Corinne Schenck Los Angeles, Cal. 
 
 Dakin, Mrs. Norman G South Bend 
 
 ^Daniels, J. J Indianapolis 
 
 Danner, Mrs. A. V Vevay 
 
 Darrah, Bernice Scottsburg 
 
 Davidson, R. F Indianapolis 
 
 Davis, Elmer New York, X. Y. 
 
 Davis, Lawrence B Indianapolis 
 
 Davis, Walter A Vincennes 
 
 Davis, William J Benton Harbor, Mich. 
 
 Day, Bertram Indianapolis 
 
 Deal, Mrs. Samuel M Indianapolis 
 
 Deam, Charles C Bluf fton 
 
 DeBruler, Eva Anderson 
 
 de la Hunt, Thomas James Cannelton 
 
 DeMoss, Mrs. Karl S Indianapolis 
 
 * Denny, Mary Adaline Indianapolis 
 
 Denton, Mrs. George K Evansville 
 
 zDetroit Public Library Detroit, Mich. 
 
 Devol, Brenton A Frankfort 
 
 Dick, Mrs. Jacob Huntington 
 
 Dickerson, L. L Indianapolis 
 
 Dickey, Marcus Nashville 
 
 Dickhaut, Alvin R Evansville 
 
 Dickover, Mark L Valparaiso 
 
 Dickson, Fred C Indianapolis 
 
 Diel, Harry R Brazil 
 
 Dif fenderf er, Katie Covington 
 
 Dillan, Florence Eva Indianapolis 
 
 Donnan, Emma Indianapolis 
 
 *Donnan, Laura Indianapolis 
 
 *Dooley, Mrs. Ruf us Rockville 
 
 Doran, Mrs. M. A Muncie 
 
 Dorsey, Robert L Indianapolis 
 
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 Duckwall, Mrs. Grace Watson Indianapolis 
 
 Duden, Margaret K Indianapolis 
 
 Dunbar, James W New Albany 
 
 Duncan, W. C Columbus 
 
 Dunlevy, Suzette Evansville 
 
 /tDunn, Mrs. Jacob P Indianapolis 
 
 Earl, Elijah J Attica 
 
 Earl, Mrs. Elizabeth Claypool Muncie 
 
 Ebbinghouse, Mrs. A. F Wabash 
 
 Eckert, R. E Jasper 
 
 Eddy, Mrs. Eugenia S Montevallo, Ala. 
 
 Edwards, Mrs. Edith Dille Indianapolis 
 
 Edwards, R. A Peru 
 
 Edwards, Mrs. R. A Peru 
 
 Ehrmann, Mrs. Calder D Rockport 
 
 Elabarger, Alford L Muncie 
 
 Elbel, Fred South Bend 
 
 Eldredge, H. W South Bend 
 
 z'Elkhart Public Library Elkhart 
 
 Eller, Zenith May Indianapolis 
 
 Elliott, Byron K St. Louis, Mo. 
 
 Elliott, Mrs. Charles New Harmony 
 
 Elliott, Dr. Harry Brazil 
 
 Elliott, James H Danville, 111. 
 
 Emmert, P. J Lawrenceburg 
 
 English, Henry K Indianapolis 
 
 English, Thomas F South Bend 
 
 >iEngstrom, Mabel M Michigan City 
 
 Epstein, Moses Frankfort 
 
 Erskine, Albert R South Bend 
 
 Evans, Edgar H Indianapolis 
 
 Evans, Edward D Indianapolis 
 
 Eveleigh, C. F Indianapolis 
 
 Ewbank, Louis B Indianapolis 
 
 Fairchild, F. T Indianapolis 
 
 Fassnacht, Christian South Bend 
 
 Fauvre, Francis M Indianapolis 
 
 /Fauvre, Frank M Indianapolis 
 
 Fauvre, Mrs. Frank M Indianapolis 
 
 Feallock, Mrs. W. J Michigan City 
 
 Feeger, Luther M Richmond 
 
 Feightner, Milo N Huntington 
 
 Fenstermaker, J. Ralph Indianapolis 
 
 Ferger, Mrs. Edward Indianapolis 
 
 Ferguson, Russell J Johnstown, Pa. 
 
 *Fernald, Mrs. Willmont L Logansport 
 
 Fesler, James W Indianapolis 
 
 Feudner, Will O Rushville 
 
 Feuerlicht, Rabbi Morris M Indianapolis 
 
 Fiers, James Walter Redkey 
 
 Fif er, Orien W Indianapolis 
 
 Fifield, Otto G Indianapolis 
 
 Finley, Dr. George W Brazil 
 
 Fischer, Laura E. R Chicago, 111. 
 
 Fish, Julia Indianapolis 
 
 Fitch, Mrs. Clara Heaton Fort Worth, Texas 
 
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 Fitzgibbon, Russell H Hanover 
 
 ^Planner, Frank B Indianapolis 
 
 Planner, Mrs. Mary H Altadena, Cal. 
 
 Floyd, Eugene Frankfort 
 
 Flynn, Mrs. Adelbert P Logansport 
 
 Fogle, Mrs. Louise Tyrrell Redmond, Ore. 
 
 Follett, Mrs. R. E West Lafayette 
 
 Foltz, Herbert W Indianapolis 
 
 Ford, Carolyn Madison 
 
 Ford, Mrs. Edwin H Wabash 
 
 Forrey, George C, Jr Indianapolis 
 
 Forsyth, Mrs. Clarence Indianapolis 
 
 Forsyth, Edgar T Indianapolis 
 
 Forsyth, William Indianapolis 
 
 /Fortune, William Indianapolis 
 
 Foster, David N Fort Wayne 
 
 Foster, Eugene C Indianapolis 
 
 Foster, Glen E Rushville 
 
 Foster, Hiram Deputy 
 
 Foster, Samuel M Fort Wayne 
 
 Foulke, William Dudley Richmond 
 
 Foulks, Frank D Vincennes 
 
 Fouts, L. N Washington, D. C. 
 
 Fowle, Frank F Chicago, 111. 
 
 Fowler, Frank B Indianapolis 
 
 Fox, David E Indianapolis 
 
 Frazer, Harriet D Warsaw 
 
 Fredrick, J. E Kokomo 
 
 Free, Albert Spencer 
 
 Fretageot, Mrs. Nora New Harmony 
 
 Friedley, Harmon H. Indianapolis 
 
 Fuhrer, Mrs. Charles W Evansville 
 
 Fultz, Charles N Indianapolis 
 
 Furnas, Miles J Winchester 
 
 Gaar, Mrs. W. W Richmond 
 
 Gaesser, Theobald T Evansville 
 
 Gallaher, Mrs. James F Michigan City 
 
 Gamble, Alice Jeannette Scottsburg 
 
 Garber, William S Indianapolis 
 
 Gardner, A. M Richmond 
 
 Garman, Harry O Indianapolis 
 
 Gary, Abraham L Rushville 
 
 t'Gary Public Library Gary 
 
 Gates, John E Columbia City 
 
 Gaul, Rev. Cyril (O. S. B.) St. Meinrad 
 
 Gavin, Frank E Indianapolis 
 
 Gavisk, Monsig. Francis H Indianapolis 
 
 Gerould, J. T Princeton, N. J. 
 
 Gill, P. H Pekin 
 
 Gilpin, Levi L Portland 
 
 Gladden, Elijah A Scottsburg 
 
 Gladding, Nelson Augustus Indianapolis 
 
 Glass, Mary Madison 
 
 Glossbrenner, A. M Indianapolis 
 
 Glossbrenner, Harry W Indianapolis 
 
 Goodwin, Clarence L Greensburg, Pa. 
 
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 Goodwine, Mrs. Dora B West Lebanon 
 
 Goosens, Rev. Emile J Indianapolis 
 
 *Grau, Mrs. Lydia Kokomo 
 
 Graves, C. E Frankfort 
 
 Gray, Albert R Indianapolis 
 
 Gray, Mark R Indianapolis 
 
 nGray, Mrs. Ralph T Indianapolis 
 
 Graydon, Ellen D Indianapolis 
 
 Graydon, Katharine Merrill Indianapolis 
 
 Green, Clarence Auburn 
 
 Greene, Alice L New Albany 
 
 Greene, Frank W Syracuse 
 
 Greist, O. H Indianapolis 
 
 Gresham, Otto Indianapolis 
 
 Griffin, Jennie Corydon 
 
 Griffith, Theodore B Indianapolis 
 
 Griggs, C. C Rockville 
 
 Griswold, R. C Indianapolis 
 
 Grubb, Bern B West Lafayette 
 
 Grubb, Emily M Linden, Iowa 
 
 j-Guedelhoef er, Bernard J Indianapolis 
 
 Guernsey, E. Y Bedford 
 
 Gunnison, Mrs. Gerna Brazil 
 
 Guthrie, W. A Indianapolis 
 
 Gwin, Mrs. John I Rensselaer 
 
 Haas, E. M Richmond 
 
 *Habbe, John F Indianapolis 
 
 Hackelman, Ward H Indianapolis 
 
 Hackett, Roger C Evansville 
 
 Haerle, George C Indianapolis 
 
 Haigerty, J. M Loogootee 
 
 Haigh, Rachael E Madison 
 
 Haines, Rev. Matthias L Indianapolis 
 
 Halberstadt, Loring C Terre Haute 
 
 Hall, Albert R Marion 
 
 Hall, Arthur F Fort Wayne 
 
 Hall, Dr. Homer J Franklin 
 
 Hamer, Homer G Indianapolis 
 
 Hamilton, Edward C Greencastle 
 
 Hamilton, Dr. Frank A Indianapolis 
 
 Hamilton, R. I Vincennes 
 
 Hammer, F. E Indianapolis 
 
 Hammerschmidt, Louis M South Bend 
 
 Hanan, John W Lagrange 
 
 Hanley, Mrs. C. W Rensselaer 
 
 Hanley, William A Indianapolis 
 
 Happ, William South Bend 
 
 wHardy, James S Glencoe, 111. 
 
 Hare, Mrs. Marea Fletcher Indianapolis 
 
 Hargrave, Frank F West Lafayette 
 
 Harris, E. H Richmond 
 
 Harris, Edward W Indianapolis 
 
 Harris, Florence Evansville 
 
 Harris, Mrs. India La Jolla, Cal. 
 
 Harrison, Mrs. E. E Angola 
 
 Harrison, Mrs. F. M Danville 
 
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 Hartley, Harry D. . Indianapolis 
 
 /Harvard College Library Cambridge, Mass. 
 
 Hasselman, Mrs. W. J Indianapolis 
 
 Hassmer, Joseph A Lawrenceburg 
 
 Hastings, Mrs. P. A Washington 
 
 Haswell, Burton S South Bend 
 
 /rHatcher, Sadie Bacon Fort Wayne 
 
 Hatfield, Mrs. Frank H Evansville 
 
 wHavvorth, C. V Kokomo 
 
 Ha worth, Paul L West Newton 
 
 *Haymond, Claude J Waldron 
 
 Hays, Arthur H Boise, Idaho 
 
 Hays, Mrs. B. F Los Angeles, Cal. 
 
 Hearn, Ora B Nabbs 
 
 Heath, Mrs. Agnes R Indianapolis 
 
 Heavilon, Harry A Frankfort 
 
 »Hecker, Edward J Indianapolis 
 
 >z.Heineman, J. L Connersville 
 
 Hendricks, Allan Indianapolis 
 
 Hendricks, Thomas A Indianapolis 
 
 Hendrickson, Harry C Indianapolis 
 
 Hendrickson, Robert Indianapolis 
 
 Henley, Eunice D Indianapolis 
 
 Henley, Faye Indianapolis 
 
 Henley, Frank H Indianapolis 
 
 Henley, Lt. Col. Manford G Indianapolis 
 
 Henley, William P Carthage 
 
 wHenning, Cleta Indianapolis 
 
 Henry, Mrs. Lora A Connersville 
 
 Hepburn, William M West Lafayette 
 
 Hering, Frank E South Bend 
 
 Heron, Kate Connersville 
 
 Herron, Josephine Indianapolis 
 
 Hess, George A Oxford 
 
 Hester, Mrs. Francis O San Angelo, Texas 
 
 Heun, Robert E Richmond 
 
 *Heywood, Henry B Indianapolis 
 
 Hibben, George Chicago, 111. 
 
 Hibberd, Carl L South Bend 
 
 Hibberd, John A South Bend 
 
 Hickman, Russell La Porte 
 
 Higgins, William R Indianapolis 
 
 Hiigel, W. S Covington 
 
 Hilles, Mrs. Howard Bourbon 
 
 Hillis, C. B Frankfort 
 
 Hines, Linnaeus N Terre Haute 
 
 Hisey, Stella Corydon 
 
 Hittle, Mrs. Mary Ann Milton 
 
 Hitz, Benjamin D Indianapolis 
 
 Hitz, Mrs. Benjamin D Indianapolis 
 
 Hobbs, E. M. C Indianapolis 
 
 Hobbs, Mrs. Lenora N Bloomingdale 
 
 Hobbs, Mrs. Martha L. Sayles Salem 
 
 Hockett, Mrs. Leola Wabash 
 
 Hoffman, John H Ligonier 
 
 *Hogate, Jessie M Bloomington 
 
 Hogate, Mrs. Julian D Danville 
 
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 Hohenberger, Frank M Nashville 
 
 Hoke, Fred Indianapolis 
 
 Holcomb, J. I Indianapolis 
 
 Holliday, Alex R Indianapolis 
 
 Holliday, Elias S Brazil 
 
 Holliday, James R , Corydon 
 
 Holliday, Joseph Cincinnati, Ohio 
 
 Holman, George Rochester 
 
 Holmes, C. O Gary 
 
 Holycross, Isaac R Indianapolis 
 
 Honig, George H Evansville 
 
 Hoover, D. M Elkhart 
 
 Hopkins, A rthur H Rensselaer 
 
 Hornbrook, H. H Indianapolis 
 
 Houser, M. L Peoria, 111. 
 
 /Howe, Sue Indianapolis 
 
 Howe, Thomas C Indianapolis 
 
 Howell, Florence W Indianapolis 
 
 Hubbard, Arthur L South Bend 
 
 Hubbard, Mrs. J. J Brazil 
 
 Hubbard, Walter J Indianapolis 
 
 Hugg, Martin M Indianapolis 
 
 Hughes, Mrs. Caroline Leighton Indianapolis 
 
 /Huntington Library & Art Gallery San Marino, Cal. 
 
 Hurlburt, Mrs. F. W Detroit, Mich. 
 
 Hurst, Lawrence Muncie 
 
 Hutchison, X. F Salem 
 
 Hutchison, Thomas W Brazil 
 
 Iglehart, John E Evansville 
 
 Ihrig, Herbert L Columbia City 
 
 Indiana University Extension Division Bloomington 
 
 jlnsley, William H Indianapolis 
 
 Irwin, Nettie New Albany 
 
 Irwin, William G Columbus 
 
 Isom, Warren R Indianapolis 
 
 Jackson, Grace Indianapolis 
 
 Jacobs, Mayme Indianapolis 
 
 Jameson, Mrs. Haute Booth Tarkington Indianapolis 
 
 Jarvis, Walter Indianapolis 
 
 Jay, Dr. Milton T , Portland 
 
 Jef f ers, Phebe M Indianapolis 
 
 Jenckes, Mrs. Virginia E Terre Haute 
 
 Johnson, Mrs. Charles T Mt. Vernon 
 
 Johnson, Harry Valparaiso 
 
 Johnson, Herbert E New Harmony 
 
 Johnson, Mrs. Winf ield S Indianapolis 
 
 Johnston, William M Valparaiso 
 
 Jones, Frankie I La Porte 
 
 Jones. Mrs. Gladys White Connersville 
 
 Joseph, Mrs. Edna Harvey Jasper 
 
 Judah, John M Indianapolis 
 
 Kabel, Philip Winchester 
 
 Kackley, Mrs. T. R Indianapolis 
 
 Kaiser, W. L Franklin 
 
 iKansas City Public Library Kansas City, Mo. 
 
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 Kardokus, Mrs. David Evansville 
 
 Kautz, F. R Indianapolis 
 
 Keister, Mrs. N. H Indianapolis 
 
 Keith, Robert B Indianapolis 
 
 Keller, Charles P Brazil 
 
 Keller, Mrs. Emil F Los Angeles, Cal. 
 
 Kelley, L. E Montpelier 
 
 Kelly, Daniel E. Valparaiso 
 
 Kelly, Dr. Walter F Indianapolis 
 
 Kemmerling, Charles M New Harmony 
 
 Kennedy, Mrs. Bernays Indianapolis 
 
 Kennedy, Mrs. Mary C Lafayette 
 
 Kenower, Clara I Huntington 
 
 Kent, A. S Chicago, 111. 
 
 Kent, Ella Danville, 111. 
 
 Kershner, Mrs. Jessie C Indianapolis 
 
 Ketcham, Mrs. Flora McD Indianapolis 
 
 Kettleborough, Charles Indianapolis 
 
 Kimble, H. V South Bend 
 
 Kingsbury, Edward D Indianapolis 
 
 Kinneman, Mrs. J. G Goodland 
 
 Kirk, N. Glenn West Baden 
 
 Kiser, Sol S Indianapolis 
 
 Knight, Mrs. Alice C Redlands, Cal. 
 
 Knisely, Alexander Columbia City 
 
 Knisely, Mrs. Alexander Columbia City 
 
 Knoblock, George A South Bend 
 
 Knoblock, Otto M South Bend 
 
 Knox, Julia LeClerc Crawf ordsville 
 
 wKohlmeier, Albert L Bloomington 
 
 Kolf f , Mrs. Dirk H. A Bridgeport 
 
 Korbly, Mrs. Margaret Crim Indianapolis 
 
 Kramer, Mrs. L. G Michigan City 
 
 Kraus, Milton C Kokomo 
 
 nKrueger, Mrs. Albert J Michigan City 
 
 Krull, Mrs. Frederic Indianapolis 
 
 Kryter, Charles C Indianapolis 
 
 Kurtz, Richard A Indianapolis 
 
 Lacey, Mrs. Arthur R Indianapolis 
 
 Lairy, Mrs. John S Logansport 
 
 Lamson, Frank B Peru 
 
 Landers, W. F Indianapolis 
 
 Landis, Mrs. Paul Urbana, 111. 
 
 Lapenta, Dr. Vincent A Indianapolis 
 
 Lathrop, Louis E Indianapolis 
 
 Lauf man, Mrs. Alberta B Ann Arbor, Mich. 
 
 Laut, William F Indianapolis 
 
 Lawson, Mrs. W. D Miami, Fla. 
 
 Layman, Katherine Indianapolis 
 
 Leak, Roscoe R Lizton 
 
 Lee, Mary E Indianapolis 
 
 Lee, Wallace O Indianapolis 
 
 Leech, Leona Columbia City 
 
 Lemcke, R. A Indianapolis 
 
 Lemon, Fred H Richmond 
 
 Lesh, Mrs. Charles P I ndianapolis 
 
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 Lesh, Perry W Indianapolis 
 
 jLevey, Mrs. L. H Indianapolis 
 
 Lewis, Montgomery S Indianapolis 
 
 Lichtenberger, Homer New Harmony 
 
 Lieber, Albert Indianapolis 
 
 jLieber, Herman P Indianapolis 
 
 Lieber, Col. Richard Indianapolis 
 
 Lilly, Eli Indianapolis 
 
 /Lilly, Josiah K Indianapolis 
 
 Lilly, Josiah K., Jr Indianapolis 
 
 Lindley, Harlow Columbus, Ohio 
 
 Lindley, Stacey B Indianapolis 
 
 Linebarger, John A Indianapolis 
 
 Link, Alfred J La Porte 
 
 Llewellyn, S. B DeMotte 
 
 Locke, Anna M Indianapolis 
 
 Lockridge, Ross F Bloomington 
 
 Lockwood, Virgil H Indianapolis 
 
 Long, B. F Logansport 
 
 Long, Fritz New Harmony 
 
 Loucks, Kenneth Indianapolis 
 
 Louderback, Levi A Brazil 
 
 Luckett, George Bruce Crawf ordsville 
 
 Ludlow, Louis L Indianapolis 
 
 Lynch, William O Bloomington 
 
 j-Lynn, Charles J Indianapolis 
 
 Lyons, Rev. M. W Indianapolis 
 
 McAdams, Emily Indianapolis 
 
 McAdams, Mrs. Lulu Wiley Hawesville, Ky. 
 
 McBride, Bert Indianapolis 
 
 McBride, Mrs. Bert Indianapolis 
 
 McBurney, James E Chicago, 111. 
 
 McCann, Bernard Lawrenceburg 
 
 McClamrock, H. C Kirklin 
 
 nMcClintock, Charles Salem 
 
 McCollough, Ethel F Evansville 
 
 McComb, E. H. Kemper Indianapolis 
 
 McCormick, Maj. David I Indianapolis 
 
 McCoy, Dailey E Indianapolis 
 
 McCulloch, Dr. Carleton B Indianapolis 
 
 McCulloch, J. R Fort Wayne 
 
 McCullough, Mrs. Daisy Martin Scottsburg 
 
 McDonald, Mrs. A. J Miami, Fla. 
 
 MacDonald, Dr. John A Indianapolis 
 
 MacDougall, Eva F Indianapolis 
 
 McEwen, Mrs. Peter ' Knightstown 
 
 McMaster, William S Indianapolis 
 
 McNamee, Thomas W Wabash 
 
 McNamee, W. A. Wabash 
 
 McNitt, Caroline N Logansport 
 
 McNitt, Esther U Indianapolis 
 
 McNitt, James D Logansport 
 
 McWhirter, Mrs. Luella F Indianapolis 
 
 /tMace, William H Norfolk, Va. 
 
 *Madden, John J Indianapolis 
 
 Malott, Macy W Indianapolis 
 
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 Manhart, George B Greencastle 
 
 Mann, Mary Abegail Urbana, 111. 
 
 Markle, A. R Terre Haute 
 
 /Marmon, Mrs. Elizabeth C Indianapolis 
 
 Marsh, Mrs. J. R Muncie 
 
 Marshall, Mrs. C. W Mecca 
 
 Martin, Gary Indianapolis 
 
 Martin, H. B Indianapolis 
 
 Martin, Mrs. John L Fredericksburg 
 
 Martin, Mrs. Minnie M Bourbon 
 
 Martindale, Charles Indianapolis 
 
 wMartindale, Harry H Oxford 
 
 Mason, Augustus L Indianapolis 
 
 Mason, William Clark Vincennes 
 
 ^'Massachusetts State Library Boston, Mass. 
 
 Masters, Robert J Indianapolis 
 
 Matchette, James H Bourbon 
 
 Matthew, William H Gary 
 
 Matthews, Mrs. Sam J Tipton 
 
 Mavity, Joseph Haller Lafayette 
 
 Maxwell, Howard Rockville 
 
 May, Blanche Allen Indianapolis 
 
 Mayer, Mrs. Charles Sr Indianapolis 
 
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 Mering, C. Augusta Indianapolis 
 
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 Morris, Donald S Indianapolis 
 
 Morris, Ernest M South Bend 
 
 Morris, Mrs. Harvey Salem 
 
 Morris, John H Newcastle 
 
 Morrison, Mrs. Claire G Frankfort 
 
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 Orth, Albert A Terre Haute 
 
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 Raphael, Rev. Mother M St. Mary-of-the-Woods 
 
 Rappaport, Leo M Indianapolis 
 
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 Vanier, J. Olias Sullivan 
 
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 Membership Enrollment by Counties 
 
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 Floyd 6 
 
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 Gibson 4 
 
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 Howard 8 
 
 Huntington 4 
 
 Jackson 3 
 
 Jasper 5 
 
 Jay 5 
 
 Jefferson 11 
 
 Jennings o 
 
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 Knox 21 
 
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 Lake 9 
 
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 Madison 6 
 
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 Montgomery 10 
 
 Morgan o 
 
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 Ohio o 
 
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 Porter 8 
 
 Posey 11 
 
 Pulaski o 
 
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 Randolph 7 
 
 Ripley 5 
 
 Rush 6 
 
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 Scott 8 
 
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 Spencer 3 
 
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 Steuben 4 
 
 Sullivan 3 
 
 Switzerland 5 
 
 Tippecanoe 18 
 
 Tipton 1 
 
 Union 2 
 
 Vanderburgh 20 
 
 Vermillion o 
 
 Vigo 15 
 
 Wabash 14 
 
 Warren 1 
 
 Warrick 1 
 
 Washington 15 
 
 Wayne 15 
 
 Wells 4 
 
 White o 
 
 Whitley 9 
 
 Out of State 89 
 
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 No. 2 Northwest Territory : Letter of Nathan Dane concerning the 
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 No. 3 The Uses of History ... By President Andrew Wylie, D. D. 
 
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 No. 5 Early History of Indianapolis and Central Indiana . . . 
 
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 No. 8 Archaeology ... By Professor E. T. Cox (1897) 
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 Dr. Ezra Ferris (1897) 
 
 VOLUME II 
 
 No. 1 The Laws and Courts of Northwest and Indiana Terri- 
 tories ... By Daniel Wait Howe (1886) 
 
 No. 2 Life and Services of John B. Dillon ... By General John 
 Coburn (With a Sketch by Judge Horace P. Biddle) 
 (1886) 
 
 No. 3 The Acquisition of Louisiana ... By Judge Thomas M. 
 Cooley (1887) 
 
 No. 4 Loughery's Defeat and Pigeon Roost Massacre ... By 
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 ... By Daniel Wait Howe (1800) 
 No. 6 The Rank of Charles Osborn as an Anti-Slavery 
 
 Pioneer ... By George W. Julian (1891) 
 No. 7 The Man in History, an Oration for the Columbian 
 
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 No. 8 Ouiatanon, a Study in Indiana History ... By Oscar J. 
 
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 No. 9 Reminiscences of a Journey to Indianapolis in the Year 
 
 1836 ... By Judge C. P. Ferguson 
 Life of Ziba Foote ... By Samuel Morrison (1893) 
 No. 10 "Old Settlers" ... By Robert B. Duncan (1894) 
 No. 11 Documents Relating to the French Settlements on the 
 
 Wabash ... By Jacob Piatt Dunn (1894) 
 No. 12 Slavery Petitions and Papers ... By Jacob Piatt Dunn 
 
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 VOLUME III 
 
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 Lodge ... By William E. English (1895) 
 
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 No. 3 Executive Journal of Indiana Territory, 1800-1816 . . . 
 
 Edited and Annotated by William Wesley Woollen, Daniel 
 
 Wait Howe, and Jacob Piatt Dunn (1900) 
 No. 4 The Mission to the Ouabache ... By Jacob Piatt Dunn 
 
 (1902) 
 No. 5 Fifty Years in Pharmacy ... By George W. Sloan (1903) 
 No. 6 Caleb Mills and the Indiana School System ... By 
 
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 VOLUME IV 
 
 No. 1 Diary of William Owen from November 10, 1824, to April 
 20, 1825 . . . Edited by Joel W. Hiatt (1906) 
 
 No. 2 The Word "Hoosier" ... By Jacob Piatt Dunn 
 
 John Finley ... By Mrs. Sarah A. Wrigley (1907) 
 
 No. 3 William Henry Harrison's Administration of Indiana Ter- 
 ritory ... By Homer J. Webster (1917) 
 
 No. 4 Making a Capital in the Wilderness ... By Daniel Wait 
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 and Their Early Travelers ... By W. E. Henry (1908) 
 
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 No. 8 The Scotch-Irish Presbyterians in Monroe County, Indi- 
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 No. 9 Indianapolis and the Civil War ... By John H. Holliday 
 (1911) 
 
 VOLUME V 
 
 No. 1 Lincoln's Body Guard, the Union Light Guard of Ohio, 
 With Some Personal Recollections of Abraham Lin- 
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 No. 2 Internal Improvements in Early Indiana ... By Logan 
 Esarey (1912) 
 
 No. 3 The Sultana Disaster ... By Joseph Taylor Elliott (1913) 
 
 No. 4 An Indiana Village — New Harmony ... By John H. Hol- 
 liday (1914) 
 
 No. 5 The Pioneers of Morgan County — Memoirs of Noah J. 
 Major . . . Edited by Logan Esarey (191 5) 
 
 No. 6 Life and Military Services of Brevet-Major General Rob- 
 ert S. Foster ... By Charles W. Smith (1915) 
 
 VOLUME VI 
 
 No. 1 Proceedings of the Tenth Annual Meeting of the Ohio 
 Valley Historical Association Held at Indianapolis 
 October 4-5, 1916 . . . Edited by Professor Harlow Lind- 
 ley (1917) 
 
 No. 2 Journal of Thomas Dean, A Voyage to Indiana in 1817 
 . . . Edited by John Candee Dean, Annotated by Randle 
 C. Dean (1918) 
 Early Indiana Trails and Surveys ... By George R. Wil- 
 son (1919) 
 Minutes of the Society, 1886-1918 (1919) 
 
 VOLUME VII 
 
 Sieur de Vincennes Identified ... By Pierre-Georges Roy 
 Morgan's Raid in Indiana ... By Judge Louis B. Ewbank 
 Marion County Bar ... By William Watson Woollen 
 The National Road in Indiana ... By Lee Burns (1919) 
 Early Indianapolis ... By Mrs. Laura Fletcher Hodges 
 One Hundred Years in Public Health in Indiana ... By 
 
 Dr. W. F. King (1921) 
 Fort Wayne in 1790 . . . By M. M. Quaife (1921) 
 Washington County Giants ... By Harvey Morris (1921) 
 The Science of Columbus ... By Elizabeth Miller (Mrs. 
 
 Oren S. Hack) (1921) 
 No. 10 Abraham Lincoln, Lawyer ... By Charles W. Moores 
 
 (1922) 
 
 VOLUME VIII 
 
 No. 1 Judge James Lockhart ... By George R. Wilson (1923) 
 No. 2 Indiana's First War . . . Translated by Caroline and Eleanor 
 
 Dunn (1924) 
 No. 3 The Environment of Abraham Lincoln in Indiana, With 
 
 an Account of the DeBruler Family ... By John E. 
 
 Iglehart and Eugenia Ehrmann (1925) 
 No. 4 Early Navigation on the St. Joseph River ... By Otto 
 
 M. Knoblock (1925) 
 No. 5 The Journey of Lewis David von Schweinitz to Goshen, 
 
 Bartholomew County, Indiana, in 1831 (1927) 
 No. 6 The Northern Boundary of Indiana ... By Mrs. Frank 
 
 J. Sheehan (1928) 
 No. 7 Evansville's Channels of Trade and the Secession Move- 
 ment, 1850-65 ... By Daniel W. Snepp (1928) 
 No. 8 Indiana Coverlets and Coverlet Weavers ... By Kate 
 
 Milner Rabb (1928) 
 No. 9 Life in Old Vincennes ... By Lee Burns (1929) 
 
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 VOLUME IX 
 
 Lucius B. Swift ... By William Dudley Foulke (1930) 
 
 VOLUME X 
 
 No. 1 Centennial Handbook . . . Edited by Christopher B. Cole- 
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 An annual membership in the Society ($2.00) entitles the members 
 to the current Publications of the Society as issued in pamphlet form; 
 the Indiana Magasine of History; and the Indiana History Bulletin pub- 
 lished monthly by the Indiana Historical Bureau. All communications 
 in regard to memberships should be addressed to 
 
 Christopher B. Coleman, Secretary, 
 
 334 State House, 
 
 Indianapolis, Indiana