Indiana’s Centennial Record of National Figures
Indiana’s first century produced presidents and vice presidents, lawmakers, soldiers, authors, and entrepreneurs. Notable names include Benjamin Harrison, Schuyler Colfax, Oliver Morton, Booth Tarkington, James Whitcomb Riley, Elwood Haynes, and Henry W Lawton, with leaders in law, education, and finance shaping national life.
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Indiana
Benjamin Harrison
Schuyler Colfax
U.S. Grant
William Henry Harrison
United States
George Chapman
A. D. Streight
John Coburn
R. S. Foster
George F. McGinnis
Alvin D. Hovey
James R. Slack
Robert H. Milroy
Willis A. Gorman
Lew Wal
America
John Clark Ridpath
Booth Tarkington
Meredith Nicholson
Charles Major
Maurice Thompson
Gene Stratton Porter
Juliet Strouse
James Whitcomb
Charlies W. Fairbanks
United States Senate
John W. Kern
Senate
David Starr Jordan
Leland Stanford University
Indiana University
Robert J. Aley
University of Maine
Uncle Joe Cannon Reflects on U S Growth at Eighty
Washington. In a relaxed interview, Uncle Joe Cannon, aged eighty, recounts changes since 1873. He notes U S population and wealth expansion, the rise to 48 states, and wealth spread across the land. He calls the general welfare clause a key shift enabling federal funding. He avoids party talk and stresses broad friendships.
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Washington
Chamber
House of Representatives
Joe Cannon
United States
Ufe
Congress
Joe
Sam
Hawaii
Porto Rico
Philippines
Wall Street
Prairies
Phains
Mississippi River
New York
New England
Uncle Sam
Uncle Joe
South
Lincoln
Seeing the Heavens and Star Counts Rise
An old estimate puts visible stars at 125 million with a modern count around 219 million brighter than magnitude twenty. Professor Hale notes the 100 inch telescope could reveal nearly 100 more faint stars, many beyond current universe boundaries, with a reflector in North America within a year.
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Hale
North America
Made Him Suspicious and the Father's Consent
A dialogue from the Houston Post quotes a man claiming his father in law refused his hand in marriage, then reveals the father was actually willing. The piece plays on misunderstanding and social expectations in a humorous tone. It is cited as Bell Boy from a 2014 entry, with a hotel proprietor and society ladies referenced in a Broadway style vignette.
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Houston Post
A. D
Bell Boy
Puck
Also Mentioned on This Page
State
By Ellis Searles
Commonwealth
Jonathan Jennings
Jennings
Wayne County
John Paul
Madison
Isaac Blackford
Vincennes
James Noble
Walter Taylor
Caleb Mills
Joseph A. Wright
State Board of Agriculture
Hugh McCulloch
Fort Wayne
the Treasury
Grant
McCulloch
Walter Q. Gresham
Arthur
Cleveland
William A. Woods
John H. Baker
Francis E. Baker
Albert B Anderson
Oliver P. Morton
Morton
Riley
Mary
George Abe
Kin Hubbard
Abe Martin
Albert J. Beveridge
Beveridge
John Marshall
United States Supreme Court
William H. H. Miller
Indianapolis
Henry Ward Beecher
Abraham Lincoln
Spencer County
Kentucky
Nancy Hanks Lincoln
Illinois
Andrew Carnegie
Thomas A. Edison
Elwood Haynes
Kokomo
Gen
Lew Wallace
James Whitcomb Riley
Oliver P. Morten
Charles W. Fairbanks
U.S
American Press Association
Uncle Joe Cannon
GLOBE
Sullivan
H. C. Steel
Prop
The
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