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Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Howard County, Indiana. Official Website This county was organized in 1844 and was first known as Richardville County. Its first name honored Jean Baptiste Richardville, a chief of the Miami. Richardville's name was Pe-che-wa, which translates to “Wildcat". In 1846, the name was changed to Howard County, in honor of Gen. Tilghman H...
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Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Lake County, Indiana. Official Website Originally inhabited by the Potawatomi and generations of indigenous ancestors, Lake County was established by European Americans on February 16, 1837. It was named for its location on Lake Michigan. Inland Steel Company established a plant in East Chicago in 1903 and U.S. Steel founded one i...
Wikipedia Indiana University (IU) is a multi-campus public university system in the state of Indiana, United States. Indiana University has a combined student body of more than 110,000 students, including approximately 43,000 students enrolled at the Indiana University Bloomington campus and approximately 31,000 students enrolled at the Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI...
Wikipedia Valparaiso University, known colloquially as Valpo, is a regionally accredited private university located in Valparaiso, Indiana, United States. The university is a coed, four-year, private institution that enrolls about 4,500 students from over 50 countries. Covering 350 acres, Valpo’s campus is approximately one hour southeast of Chicago. The city of Valparaiso is part of the Chi...
Wikipedia The University of Notre Dame du Lac (or simply Notre Dame /ˌnoʊtərˈdeɪm/ noh-tər-daym) is a Catholic research university located near South Bend, Indiana, in the United States. In French, Notre Dame du Lac means "Our Lady of the Lake" and refers to the university's patron saint, the Virgin Mary. The school was founded by Father Edward Sorin, CSC, who was also its first president. T...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Knox County, Indiana. Official Website In 1790, Winthrop Sargent, Secretary of Northwest Territory, organized Knox County, the first in the Northwest Territory. It was named for Major General Henry Knox, who had completed his term as second U.S. Secretary of War. Adjacent Counties Greene County Sullivan County Daviess Cou...
Kokomo Memorial Park Cemetery Also known as Memorial Park Kokomo, Howard County, Indiana, USA
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Jackson County, Indiana. Official Website Jackson County was formed in 1816. It was named after General Andrew Jackson. The county was the site of the first recorded train robbery of a moving train in the United States. On October 6, 1866 the Reno Gang robbed an Ohio and Mississippi Railway train, making off with over $10,000. Ad...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Hancock County, Indiana. Official Website The county was formed in 1828 and was named for John Hancock, president of the Continental Congress, who had signed his name prominently to the Declaration of Independence in 1776. Adjacent Counties Henry County Madison County Hamilton County Marion County Shelby County Rush Co...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Tipton County, Indiana. Official Website The county was officially established in 1844 and was named for John Tipton, a soldier of the Battle of Tippecanoe, who later became a United States Senator. Adjacent Counties Clinton County Howard County Grant County Madison County Hamilton County Townships & Communities Ci...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Cass County, Indiana. Official Website Cass County was formed in 1828. It is named for Gen. Lewis Cass, 2nd Territorial Governor of Michigan and afterward U.S. Secretary of War. Adjacent Counties Fulton County Miami County Howard County Carroll County White County Pulaski County Cities, Towns, Townships & Communities
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Shelby County, Indiana. Official Website The Indiana State Legislature passed a bill on 31 December 1821 that authorized the creation of four counties, including Shelby. The new county was named for Gen. Isaac Shelby, who defeated the British at the Battle of Kings Mountain in the Revolutionary War. Shelby then became the first Gov...
Wikipedia =DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana, US, is a private, national liberal arts college and School of Music with an enrollment of approximately 2,400 students. The school has a Methodist heritage and was originally known as Indiana Asbury University. DePauw is a member of both the Great Lakes Colleges Association and the North Coast Athletic Conference. The Society of Professional...
Please add profiles of current and past members of the Indiana General Assembly to this project. The Indiana General Assembly is the state legislature, or legislative branch, of the U.S. state of Indiana. It is a bicameral legislature that consists of a lower house, the Indiana House of Representatives, and an upper house, the Indiana Senate. The General Assembly meets annually at the Indiana ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Randolph County, Indiana. Official Website The Indiana General Assembly authorized the formation of Randolph County on January 1818, to take effect in August 1818. The county was almost certainly named for Randolph County, North Carolina, where the area's first settlers came from. That county was named for Peyton Randolph, the first...
This project is used to relate all units from Indiana who served in the Union Army. Indiana in the American Civil War on Wikipedia See also on the Internet:* Civil War - Indiana : Indiana's role in the Civil War, including a Soldier Search and Indiana Regimental Histories.* Civil War Regiment Recruitments by Indiana Counties : Placement of recruitment of Indiana's Civil War regiments and batter...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Clinton County, Indiana. Official Website Clinton County officially came into existence on March 1, 1830, and was named in honor of DeWitt Clinton, the seventh Governor of New York State and architect of the Erie Canal, which opened up the Upper Midwest to settlement. The act forming the county was approved by the Indiana General As...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Marshall County, Indiana. Official Website The Indiana State Legislature passed an omnibus county bill on 7 February 1835 that authorized the creation of thirteen counties in northeast Indiana, including Marshall. It was named for U.S. Chief Justice John Marshall, who died in 1835. The government of the county was organized in 1836,...
Wikipedia Purdue University Purdue University, located in West Lafayette, Indiana, is the flagship university of the six-campus Purdue University system. Purdue was founded on May 6, 1869, as a land-grant university when the Indiana General Assembly, taking advantage of the Morrill Act, accepted a donation of land and money from Lafayette businessman John Purdue to establish a college of scienc...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Washington County, Indiana. Official Website On December 21, 1813, the state legislature of Indiana passed the act creating Washington County. This act took effect on January 17, 1814, making this date the official birth date of the county. It was named for George Washington, the first president of the United States. For a compl...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Grant County, Indiana. Official Website Grant County was formed in 1831 by settlers from Kentucky and Virginia. It was named for Captains Samuel and Moses Grant of Kentucky, who were killed fighting indigenous warriors north of the Ohio River. On 7 August 1930, a mob of an estimated 5,000 people took three young black men, Thomas ...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Marion County, Indiana. Official Website Marion County was created on April 1, 1822, from part of the "New Purchase" lands that had been obtained from its inhabitants, the Lenape, by the Treaty of St. Mary's. It is named for Francis Marion , a Brigadier General from South Carolina in the American Revolutionary War. Adjacent Count...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Clark County, Indiana. Official Website Clark County lies on the north bank of the Ohio River. A significant gateway to the state of Indiana, Clark County's settlement began in 1783. The state of Virginia rewarded General George Rogers Clark and his regiment for their victorious capture of Forts Kaskaskia, Cahokia, and Vincennes fro...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Madison County, Indiana. Official Website Madison County was created in 1823 from the New Delaware Purchase and was named for James Madison , co-author of The Federalist Papers and the fourth President of the United States Adjacent Counties Grant County Delaware County Henry County Hancock County Tipton County