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) (14759569601)

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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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IANA 95 Charles A. Lesueur, Gerard Troost and JohnChappelsmith. Say, a pioneer in zoology as Maclure was ingeology, was perhaps the greatest American zo-ologist of his day; Lesueur was a naturalist ofhigh repute and an artist; Troost was a geologist,at a later date State geologist of Tennessee. Chap-pelsmith, of lesser fame, was an artist and en-graver. Say and Neef are both buried at NewHarmony, and the former, during his life there,was the author of important works on natural their scientific and intellectual accomplishments,added to the fame of New Harmony through aperiod of many years, and made it a center ofinterest to scientists, philosophers and travelersabroad. Conspicuous among them were the foursons of Robert Owen, Robert Dale, William, Da-vid Dale and Richard Dale, all of whom had beenhighly educated in the schools of Europe. Rob-ert Dale Owen, the best known of these brothers inthe history of Indiana, was widely in touch withthe affairs of the State and did notable service

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Harmonic, 1816. history. That men of this stamp should have leftthe great centers and buried themselves in theremote wilderness is an evidence of the loftyhopes inspired by the social experiment. The Boatload of Knovi^ledge.—A literatesque•feature of this scientific exodus from the east(was that a good-sized party of men and women,with their equipment, traveled from Pittsburg toNew Harmony in a keelboat, and to this day theoutfit is humorously spoken of as The Boatload5f Khowledge. Other Characters; the Ov^^en Family.—Asidejfrom the Maclure group there was a list of menmd women,too long to be dealt with here, who by as a statesman both at home and as a representa-tive at Washington. As a pioneer in the move-ment for the extended rights of women that classowe him a debt of gratitude, which they acknowl-edged a few years since by placing a bronze buston the grounds of the State Capitol. As a mem-ber of the constitutional convention of 1850 hewas, perhaps, the ablest contributor to

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