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Index
Legislation in Indiana (Con.)
502; bribery, 499; care of orphans, 504, 506; centraliz- ing tendency of, 521, 522; child labor, 499; compulsory education, 442, 495; county administration, 502; county hospitals, 508; county poor asylums, 507, 518; criminals, 512 ; drugs, 498; elections, 499; epileptics' village, 507 ; factory inspection, 499; favorable to women, 494; family desertion, 506; feeble-minded, 508; fee andsalary, 499; franchises, 499; incorporation of cities, 498; industrial reform schools, 511, 512; insane, 509; insane crim- inals, 512 ; juvenile court, 504, 505; labor regulations, 499; for libraries, 495; labor regu- lations for women and child- ren, 499; marriage license, 506; out-door relief, 509; parole of prisoners, 514, 516, 517; police matrons, 507; prevention of crime, 510; pure food, 498; reformatory, 511- 514; results of reformatory laws, 513; savings banks, 501 ; soldiers' home, 509; soldiers and sailors'orphans, 509; State workhouse, 513 ; suspended sentence, 511; temperance, 495-498; tuberculosis, 509; women's prison, 512
Legislators sent to Assembly hold State's destiny in hands, 165
Lemcke, Capt. J. A., his political canvass, 144; on steamboat- ing, 201
Lesueur, Charles A., at New Harmony, 267
Levering, Mortimer, Secretary of Registry Association, 476 Liberty clubs, 400
Libraries, Maclure's, 261, 262; travelling, 397; Carnegie, 398 Library Commission, 397
Lincoln, Abraham, lived in Indiana, 260; Emancipation Proclamation, 304; signed ag- ricultural college bill, 466
Lincoln, Thomas, pioneer, 105
Literary development in Indiana, 351-353
Live-stock Registry Association, influence of, 476
Log Convention, 144
Log rolling, 75
Logan, chief, speech, 116
Looms in every house, 99
Lotteries, common form of rais-
ing funds in the early days, 148
Louisiana, held dominion over Southern Indiana, 18; was ceded to France, 34; to Spain, 34; re-ceded to France, 34; Napoleon ceded it to U. S. in 1803, 41
Lowell, James Russell, on gayer spirit of earlier times, 281; on the first American, 337; people of wide reading, 395 Lutheran Concordia School, 430
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McCulloch, Hugh, banker,
Secretary of Treasury and
author, 382; quoted, 163, 454 Mccutcheon, Ben, 391
Mccutcheon, George Barr, 387 Mccutcheon, John, great car- toonist, 392
Maclure, William, geologist, 2 58; established schools at New Harmony,259,260; established libraries, 261, 262
Madison, 274; bank, 160
Mails in early days, 83
Major, Charles, novelist, 387
Maple sugar, groves in Indi- anapolis, 154; Indians fond of, 481
Marest, Father, wrote of the French posts, 409
Marl beds in northern Indiana, 485
Marquette and Joliet discover the Mississippi 132 years after De Soto, 3
Martin, Edward S., on the spirit of the West, 447
Maumee River and portage, 4, 18 Merom College, 430
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Merrill, Catherine, quoted on the Civil War, 296; sketch of her work in Indiana, 375; paragraphs from her essays, 378 Merrill, Samuel, Treasurer of Indiana in 1824, 153
Methodist Church, early founded, 168; schools established, 428 Mexican War, 288
Miami Indians in Indiana, 10, 13
Milk sickness or "tires," 91
Miller, Elizabeth, writer, 388
Miller, Joaquin, the poet, born in Indiana, 456
Millerism in 1843, 175-177
Mills, Caleb, successful agitator for public schools, 433-436 Mills, old, 330
Mineral springs, 329
Mississippi River, discovered, 3; contention over its free navi- gation, 34, 35; commerce on, 40; contention settled in 1803, 135; battle of New Orleans in 1814, 136; element of dis- sension in the Civil War, 323. Monetary craze in the fifties, 162 Moody, William Vaughn, writer, 384, 390
Moore's Hill College, 428
Morgan's raid during Civil War, 308-323
Morton, Oliver P., great War Governor, 296, 299
Morton, Oliver T., writer, 395
Mosler, Henry, artist, 407; na- tive of Indiana, 456
Muir, John, tribute to Catherine Merrill, 377 Muster day, great event in pioneer times, 88
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Natural gas, the first use in Indiana, 487; large area of, 487; added manufactures to State, 487; its waste, 489
Natural resources of Indiana, 479, 490
Negroes, slaves in Indiana, 22, 131, 139; Fifteenth Amend- ment passed, 165; free ones kidnapped, 295
Nesbit, Wilbur, writer, 391, facetious reference to Indi- ana's literary fame, 355
New Harmony, 240; location, 241 ; first in many movements, 255; principles in the Owen commune, 253; population attained, 254; variety of followers, 2 56; cause of failure, 264; after the passing of the commune, 266; the village at present, 266
New Orleans, founded, 34; the market place for the Missis- sippi and its tributaries, 40; ceded to U. S., 42
Newspapers in Indiana, 398; Elihu Stout establishes first one, 398; their influence and character, 398-40I
Nicholas, Anna, author, 389; editor of Sunday Journal, 400
Nicholson, Meredith, writer, 385; quoted, 325, 358, 366, 372 Nordyke's paintings, 407
Normal Schools, State, 438; at Angola, 438; Danville, 438; Manchester, 430; Marion, 438; Rochester, 438; Terre Haute, 438; Valparaiso, 438; control of certificates by Board of Education, 438
North Manchester College, 430 Northwest Territory, of which Indiana was a part, 44; Clark's conquest of, 44; value of, 58, 59 Notre Dame University, 429
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Oakland City College, 430 Ogg, Frederick, on favorable entrance of French into the continent, 15 Ohio River, discovered by La Salle, 4; open door to Southern Indiana, 60
Oil fields of Indiana, 483
Ordinance of 1787, 130, 140, 433 Ouabache (Wabash) River, first navigated by white explorers, 4
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Ouiatanon, first post in Indiana, 18: established in 1720, 18; location, 18; importance of, as trading station, 18; final dis- appearance of, in 1791, 24 Owen, David Dale, United States geologist, 267
Owen, Jane, married Robert Fauntleroy, 267
Owen, Robert Dale, State geologist, 268
Owen, Robert, sketch of, 248, 249; purchases New Harmony, 247; establishes a commune, 251; failure of community plan, 263; most valuable pio- neer, 264
Owen, Robert Dale, work at New Harmony, 268; subse- quent career, 269, 270; In- diana's chief citizen, 268; leg- islation secured by, 269; legis- lation for women, 269; Civil War record, 303
Ox teams in use, 213
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Painters of Indiana, 402, 406
Parker, Benjamin, author, 351; early pioneers, 351 ; collection of poets, 354 Parkman, Francis, 4
Peat beds in northern Indiana, 490
Pennington, Dennis, letter re- garding slavery, 139 Pershing, M.M., historical sketches, 382
Pestalozzian system of educa- tion introduced at New Har- mony, 255
Petroleum in Indiana, 483 Pigeon Roost massacre, 126 Pioneering in the blood, 100, 107 Pioneers, 60; their amuse- ments, 75-77, 79; agriculture, 460; bee-hunters, 87; build, ings. 64 ; cobblers, 87 ; crude im- plements, 67, 68; culture, 96, 449; dances, 78; defence, 107, 108; dress, 69; field sports, 79; going to mill, 70; games, 79; help each other, 75; hopeful- ness, 97, 99; hospitality, 75,
83; industry, 96, 98; journey to the West, 61, 62 ; marriages, 86, 90; modes of travel, 71, 72, schools, 88; scarcity of letters, 83; sickness, 91; re- ligious meetings, 86; women's part in pioneer life, 69, 97, 98, 105
Poetry by Hoosier writers, 353, 384, 385
Poets and Poetry of Indiana col- lected by Benjamin Parker and E. Hiney, 355
Poets, early, 352, 353
Political parties of Indiana, 494 Pontiac, Chief, warning, 106; war in 1764, 106
Poor whites from the South, origin, 359; character, 362; dialect, 362, 363
Portage at the head of the Wabash, 4, 18
Posey, Governor, message to the Territorial Legislature, 137 Posts established by the French in Indiana, 16, 17
Pottawattomie Indians, 118 Powers, Hiram, sculptor, born in Indiana, 456
Prairies in northern Indiana, 94; prairie fires, 95
Preachers of early times, 86, 87 Prentice, George D., publisher of early Hoosier poems, 353 Presbyterians, first church was organized in 1806, 168 Priests of the French settle- ment, 16
Prophet, the, received pension from the British, 121 ; at battle of Tippecanoe, 124 -
Purdue University, 445, 446, 466, 475
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Quakers in Indiana, 169; objec- tion to slavery, 284; connec- tion with the Underground Railway, 284; their schools, 426
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Races, conflict of, 128, 129
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Railroads, first in the State, 221 ;
later, 231; 233, centre at Indianapolis, 234
Ralston, Alexander, laid out the city of Indianapolis, 152 Rapp, Frederick, assisted in the commune at Harmony, 241, 244
Rapp, George, with his followers, founds settlement at New Harmony, 241; returns to Pennsylvania, 245; death, 246 Rawles, W. A., 382; on central- ization of State administra- tion, 521
Reading circle of State teachers, 438
Reeves, Arthur Middleton, 395
Reforestation urged, 481
Registry Associations, secre- taries, 476
Regulators, 188
Republican party formed, 291, 299
Richards, William, marine paint- er, 407
Richmond, Dr. Corydon, 102
Richmond, Dr. John L., 102, 340, 426 Richmond, Rev. Nathaniel, writes of multiplicity of sects, 172; one of the founders of Franklin College, 426
Richmond's Art League, 406 Riley, James Whitcomb, 331, 355, 384; quoted, 70, 77, 236, 386; dialect, 367, 388; ap- preciated, 369, 370; reader of his own poems, 371; style, 372; degree of M.A., 372; humor, 390; characteristics, 39I
Rivet, Father, held first school in the territory of Indiana, 409 Rose Polytechnic Institute, 429, 492
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Saddle-bags, 202 Salt, scarcity of in pioneer times, 74; expedition to evaporate, 74; cost of, 184
Sample, Henry T., on the Wea, flatboating to New Orleans, 200
Sand of lake shore, valuable for building material, 485
School gardens, 444
Schools, early, 88, 411, 412; for blind, deaf and dumb, 439; books used in, 416; circulating teachers, 410; consolidated schools, 439; county semi- naries, 422, 423; denomina- tional, 425, 426, 428; in- dustrial, 512; " loud " schools, 412; public, 432-436; at New Harmony, 259, 422 Scientific writers, 401
Shale deposits, vast and valu- able, 484
Slavery in Indiana, 22; negro, 22, 130, 131; efforts in behalf of fugitives, 283, 284, 285
Slocum, Frances, story of her being kidnapped by the In- dians, IIO
Smith, Oliver H., riding the cir- cuit, 147; writes of early preachers, 173 ;of horsethieves, 186, 187, 188; recalls pioneer gentlemen, 453
Smith, Roswell, founder of Cen- tury Magazine, 457 Smith, Wm. H., history of In- diana, 382
Snakes in early days, 79
Snow, Alpheus, writes of colo- nial possessions, 355
Social life before the war, 281 Sons of Liberty, 307
Southern settlers in the State, 228, 293, 363; many of them came because of disapproval of slavery, 131
Spanish money in Indiana, 32; dominion over the Mississippi, 33; goods confiscated, 34, 36; efforts to divert West to dis- loyalty, 37 Spinning in early times, 98 Squatters, a peculiar class, 101 Stage-coach days, 215, 216 Stark, Otto, artist, 407 State institutions of Indiana,
502; benevolent, 507, 509; reformatory, 511, 513
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Steamboats, first in Indiana wa-
ters, 203; offence to Indians, 204 ; importance to commerce, 204, 207 ; passengers on, 207; route of commerce, 207; Mark Twain's description of, 209; cause of decline, 232; decline of traffic, 233
Steel, manufacturing in north- western Indiana, 489
Steele, T. C., artist, 407, 408 Stein, Evaleen, quoted, 331, 334, 335; stories, 355, 356 Stephenson, Henry T., 387 St. Mary's-of-the-Woods school, 428
Stone of Indiana unrivalled, 486; easily quarried, 486, many varieties, 486
Stout, Elihu, established first newspaper in the State, 399; his fine character, 399 Studevant, counterfeiter, 190
Stump speaking, 143 Sulgrove, Berry, journalist, 383 Sunday-schools, 178, 179, 180 Superintendent of Public In- struction, 437
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Tarkington, N. Booth, writer, 271,387 Tarkington, William, quoted, 205
Taverns of old times, 84; primi- tive accommodations in, 85; unique sign-boards, 85
Taylor, Dr., poem, The Theng, 362 Taylor, Zachary, elected Presi- dent, 290
Teachers, early, 414, 416; high standard the aim, 437; read- ing circle, 438; debt of State to, 446
Teaming an occupation in early times, 156, 212
Tecumseh, Shawnee chief, 117, 122, 123; great leader, 121; opposed the advance of white race, 121; visits General Har- rison to protest, 121; de- parts for the South, 122;
battle of Tippecanoe fought while he was gone, 124; died in the British service, 121 Terre Haute, the French bound- ary line between Louisiana and Canada, 18; early fire protection, typical, 286; school centre, 429
Text-books in pioneer times, 416
Thompson, Maurice, writer, 351, 352, 374; quoted, 357 Thompson, Col. Richard, Recol- lections of Sixteen Presidents, 382
Thompson, Will H., 375, 384 Thornton, W. W., writer, 382 Timber found in the State, 480
Tinder-box in every house, 72 Tippecanoe, battle of, in 1811, 121, 124, 125
Tippecanoe River, beauty, 326 Tipton, General John, passages from his journal, 149
Tomahawk right, 66
Tonty, Henri de, appreciation of La Salle's explorations, 7 Training for teachers, 438, 439 Travelling in the olden times, 208-215
Twain, Mark, description of steamboat traffic, 209 Tyler, ex-President, as a road- master, 473
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Underground Railway, 284; ex- tent of the movement, 284, 295; numbers of slaves helped to Canada, 284; work ceased, 286
Universities of Indiana, at Bloomington, 430; Purdue, at La Fayette, 445 V Valparaiso College, 430, 438 Vevay scenery, 329 Viele, Hermann, writer, 390 Vigo, Col. Francis, acquaints Clark with condition at Vin- cennes, 53
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Vincennes post established, 18;
French life there, 19; Fort, 19; captured by American forces, 51; recaptured, 57; territorial capital, 147; university estab- lished, 148, 420; capital re- moved from, 148
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Wabash College founded, 425 Wabash River, explored by La Salle, 3; highway of com- merce, 204, 207
Wallace, Gov. David, quoted, 403 Wallace, General Lew, author, 373; quoted, 291, 424, 453 Wallace, Susan, author, 374
Water-power of the State un- developed, 491
Waterways of Indiana, 237
Wea Plains, 225
Weaver, Col. Erasmus, 456
Western characteristics, 452
Whiskey used in early times, 74, 91,92 Whitcomb, Gov. James, 460 White River declared navigable, 209
Whitewater Valley and other settlements of Friends, 131 Whittaker, Wm. H., quoted, 513, 516, 520
Wickersham's novel, 389 Wild fruits in the State, 73 Wild game found in Indiana, 63, 73
Wiley, Harvey W., 457
Wilkinson's treachery, 37 Willing, the, built for Col. Clark's expedition, 53 Willson, Forsythe, poet, 384
Wilstach, John A., translations, 386
Wilstach, Paul, author and play- wright, 386
Wilstach, Walter, biography, 386 Winona Institute, 430; address quoted, 478
Winona Lake, 430
Winsor, Newton, quoted, 59
Winter, George, description of Frances Slocum, 110; painted Miami Indians, 402
Wishard, Dr., description of early practice of medicine, I54
Woman's suffrage, backward in the State, 519
Woods-Ulman, Alice, stories, 389; pictures, 406 Woolen, Wm. W., historical sketches, 382; natural history articles, 382
Wright, Frances, at New Har- mony, 396; organized the first woman's club, 396
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