Centennial history and handbook of Indiana - the story of the state from its beginning to the close of the civil war, and a general survey of progress to the present time (1915) (14760389424)

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Title: Centennial history and handbook of Indiana : the story of the state from its beginning to the close of the civil war, and a general survey of progress to the present time

Year: 1915 (1910s)

Authors: Cottman, George S. (George Streiby), 1857-1941 Hyman, Max R. (Max Robinson), 1859-1927

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Publisher: Indianapolis : M. R. Hyman

Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center

Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive

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, and arequest that he appear before the committee inhis own defense; but he declined to do so in per-son, appointing, instead, Charles Dewey to rep-resent him as counsel. The upshot of it all wasthat after the committee had taken the testimonyof various persons to prove that Jennings hadacted as a United States commissioner (which,of course, evervbody knew beforehand), and after this was duly reported to the Legislature,that body passed a resolution that it was inexpe-dient to further prosecute the inquiry into theexisting difficulties in the executive departmentof the government of the State, thereby recog-nizing Jennings as the rightful governor. Thisresolution, however, was carried by only twovotes and our first administration came just thatnear to a sudden and rather ignominious ending.Lieutenant-Governor Harrison resigned his of-fice in a pique, and in the next gubernatorial cam-paign ran for the governorship against Jennings,but received less than a fifth of the total votecast.

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(jreasy Creek, Brown County.—rholocjraph by fnvik M. 11oliciibcrgcr. CHAPTER VII THE STATES DEVELOPMENT TO 18:30 i Explanation of This Period.—Any division of the States history into distinct periods is apt: to be more or less arbitrary. Some division, how-ever, facilitates grouping of the elements to bedealt with, and helps to an understanding of thesocial development and the chronological order.The period between the admission to the Unionand the year 1836 may for these purposes be con-sidered as a distinct chapter in the development,because the growth of activities up to that dateare a continuous and normal unfolding, and be-cause the internal improvement law of 1836 in-augurated a new departure and introduced an-other very distinctive chapter. General Character of Period.—The periodcomprised the administrations of GovernorsJonathan Jennings (1816-1822)*, William Hen-dricks (1822-1825), James B. Ray (1825-1831),and part of that of Noah Noble, who servedfrom 1831 to 1837. This

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