- Dan Burton
Danny "Dan" Lee Burton (born June 21 1938), American politician, is a member of the United States House of Representatives for. A Republican, his first term in the United States Congress began in January 1983. He was elected to his twelfth term in November 2006. Burton remains one of the most controversial members of Congress. The 5th District is in central Indiana and includes all of Tipton, Grant, Miami, Wabash, Huntington, Hamilton, and Hancock counties, … - Francis Vigo
Francis Vigo (1747-22 March, 1836) was an Italian-American who aided the American forces during the Revolutionary War and helped found a public university in Vincennes, Indiana, USA. Born in Mondovi, Italy, he served with the Spanish Army in New Orleans. In 1772 he established a fur trading business in St. Louis. In 1783 Vigo moved to Vincennes and operated a fur trading business there. Vigo often aided American forces during the Revolutionary War, … - Chief Pontiac
Pontiac or Obwandiyag, was an Ottawa leader who became famous for his role in Pontiac's Rebellion (1763–1766), an American Indian struggle against the British military occupation of the Great Lakes region following the British victory in the French and Indian War. Historians disagree about Pontiac's importance in the war that bears his name. Nineteenth century accounts portrayed him as the mastermind and leader of the revolt, … - Roger L. Eddy
Roger L. Eddy (born May 8, 1958, Ottawa, Illinois) is a Republican member of the Illinois House of Representatives representing the 109th district where he has served since 2003. Eddy, a lifelong educator, is a graduate of Northern Illinois University. He has been a teacher, coach, school principal and superintendent. His most recent educational position is as superintendent of Hutsonville Unit 1 school district in Crawford County. He and his wife, Becca, also a teacher, … - Melancton Smith
Melancton Smith (May 24 1810 - July 19 1893) was a United States Naval Officer who served in the Union Navy during the American Civil War. Melancton Smith was born in New York City. He was the son of Colonel Melancton Smith, an officer during the War of 1812, and grandson of Melancton Smith, a Continental Congressman. The third Melancton joined the U.S. Navy at a young age. He served in the navy during the Seminole Wars. - James Meredith Helm
Rear Admiral James Meredith Helm (16 December 1855 - 28 October 1927) was an officer in the United States Navy during the Spanish-American War. Born at Grayville, Illinois, Helm graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1875. He served in various ships and abroad until the Spanish-American War, when he commanded gunboat "Hornet". In the blockade of Cuba, he captured a Spanish steamer and three contraband schooners, … - Whitmore Knaggs
Whitmore Knaggs was an Indian fighter, linguist and spy. Whitmore’s parents were George Knaggs, who had been born in London, England, and Rachel Sly who had Dutch parentage. One of at least eight children, he was born in 1763 on his father’s farm by the Maumee River in Ohio. He was educated at home, being taught French, Latin and Dutch by his mother. He was friendly with the local Indian (Native American) people, … - Andrew J. Tomlin
Andrew J. Tomlin (15 March 1845 - 1 November 1906) was a United States Marine and a recipient of the American military's highest award - the Medal of Honor - for his actions in the Civil War. Corporal Tomlin's official Medal of Honor citation reads: <blockquote>As corporal of the guard on board the U.S.S. "WABASH" during the assault on Fort Fisher, on 15 January 1865. - Christopher Raymond Perry Rodgers
Christopher Raymond Perry Rodgers (4 November 1819 - 8 January 1892) was an officer in the United States Navy. He served in the Mexican-American War, the American Civil War, as Superintendent of the Naval Academy, and Commander-in-Chief of the Pacific Squadron. Born in Brooklyn, New York, Rodgers was the son of George Washington Rodgers and Anna Maria Perry. His maternal grandfather was Christopher Raymond Perry. Rodgers was appointed a midshipman in 1833. - Frederic Adrian Delano
Frederic Adrian Delano (1863-1953) was an American railroad president, born in Hong-Kong, China. After graduating from Harvard University in 1885 he was employed by the Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy Railroad in various capacities, rising from the position of civil engineer to be general manager at Chicago. For a time he was consulting engineer to the United States War Department in respect to the railroads of the Philippine Islands. - Louis C. Shepard
Lewis Capet Shepard (September 2, 1841 - April 27, 1919) was a sailor in the United States Navy and a recipient of the Medal of Honor for gallantry during the Second Battle of Fort Fisher during the American Civil War. He is the only Medal of Honor winner from Ashtabula County, Ohio. Shepard was born in Ashtabula, Ohio. He entered the U.S. Navy during the Civil War and was assigned as an ordinary seaman to the USS "Wabash". - Alexander Rhind
Alexander Colden Rhind (31 October 1821 - 8 November 1897) was an officer in the United States Navy. Born in New York City, Rhind was appointed midshipman, 3 September 1838. He served with the Home Squadron off the coast of Mexico and with both the South and North Atlantic Blockading Squadrons during the American Civil War. He was ordered to command "Crusader", 14 December 1861; and, while commanding her, … - John Henry Upshur
John Henry Upshur was an admiral in the United States Navy who served during the Mexican-American War and the American Civil War. Upshur—born in Northampton County, Virginia—was appointed a midshipman on 4 November 1841 and initially served at sea with the Mediterranean Squadron. During the war with Mexico, Upshur was assigned to "St. Mary's" as that brig participated in operations against Tampico. - Todd Rokita
Todd Rokita was elected as Indiana 's 59 th Secretary of State in 2002. Since then he has redefined and modernized the Secretary of State's office to provide Hoosier investors, businesses, and voters better service & to promote Indiana 's economic prosperity. more info A - Ezra Loomis Pound
Ezra Pound was born on October 30, 1885 in the small mining town of Hailey, Idaho . He had an average middle-class childhood in Wyncote, Philadelphia , where his father held the position of assistant assayer for the United States Mint . Pound left high school, and attended the University of Pennsylvania , where he befriended another notable poet of the twentieth century, William Carlos Williams , who was studying medicine at the time. - Andrea James
Andrea Jean James (born January 16, 1967), is an American transsexual woman, film producer, screenwriter, actress, LGBT rights activist, and consumer activist. - Charles Cruft
Charles Cruft (January 12, 1826 - March 23, 1883) was a teacher, lawyer, railroad executive, and a Union general during the American Civil War. Cruft was born in Terre Haute, Indiana. He graduated from Wabash College in 1842. He was employed as a bank clerk, lawyer, president of the St. Louis, Alton, and Terre Haute Railroad (1855-1858), and published the "Terre Haute Express" newspaper (1860). When the Civil War broke out in 1861, … - John Merle Coulter
John Merle Coulter, Ph. D. (November 20, 1851-December 23, 1928) was an American botanist and educator, brother of Stanley Coulter, born at Ningpo, China. He received his education at Hanover College in Indiana. He served in the Rocky Mountains for two years (1872-73) as botanist to the United States Geological Survey. He became professor of natural science at Hanover College, professor of biology at Wabash College (1879), president of Indiana University from 1891 to 1893, … - Ed Summers
Oron Edgar Summers, nicknamed "Kickapoo Ed," was an American right-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball who played five seasons with the Detroit Tigers (1908-12). Summers was born in Ladoga, Indiana, and attended Wabash College at Crawfordsville, Indiana. He began his baseball playing career in the American Association before joining the Tigers in the American League in 1908. In his rookie season, Summers emerged as the Tigers' best pitcher, … - Joseph Nelson Rose
Joseph Nelson Rose (January 11, 1862 - May 4, 1928) was an American botanist. He was born in Union County, Indiana. His father died serving during the Civil War when Joseph Rose was a young boy. He later graduated from high school in Liberty, Indiana. He received his Ph.D. from Wabash College in 1889. having received his B.A. and M.A. earlier at the same institute. He married Lou Beatrice Sims in 1888 and produced with her three sons and three daughters. - Thomas MacDonald Patterson
Thomas MacDonald Patterson (November 4, 1839 - July 23, 1916) was an American politician and newspaper publisher from the 1870s through the 1910s. Patterson was born in County Carlow, Ireland, but his family immigrated to the United States when he was a boy, and they settled in New York City in 1849. A few years later, they moved to Crawfordsville, Indiana, where the young Patterson found work in a printing office and with a watchmaker and jeweler. - Frederick Neuhouser
Frederick Neuhouser is the Viola Manderfeld Professor of German and a Professor of Philosophy at Barnard College, Columbia University. Before joining Columbia as a faculty member, Neuhouser taught at Harvard University, University of California, San Diego and Cornell University. Neuhouser graduated from Wabash College (Crawfordsville, IN), "summa cum laude", and received his Ph.D. from Columbia University. - John C. Black
John Charles Black (January 27, 1839--August 17, 1915) was a Democratic U.S. Congressman and Medal of Honor recipient. He was born in Lexington, Mississippi and moved to Danville, Illinois in 1847. His father was a minister of the Presbyterian Church. Black attended Wabash College until the outbreak of the Civil War. - Lawrence H. Gipson
Lawrence Henry Gipson (1880-September 26, 1971) was a U.S. historian, who won the 1950 Bancroft Prize and the 1962 Pulitzer Prize for History. A native of Greeley, Colorado, Gipson moved with his family to Caldwell, Idaho as a boy. After dropping out of high school, he worked at various odd jobs (such as mining and driving stage coaches), as well as at the family business, Caxton Press, which published "Idaho Odd Fellow", … - Ward Lambert
Ward L. "Piggy" Lambert (b. May 28, 1888 in Deadwood, South Dakota, United States - d. January 20, 1958) was a well-known college men's basketball coach. He played basketball (in addition to baseball) at Crawfordsville High School and Wabash College, both under coach Ralph Jones, who himself would go on the coach Purdue. Despite his short 5'6" size, he led the team in scoring his sophomore year - leading to his nickname "Piggy" for hogging the ball. - Lawrence Sanders
Lawrence Sanders (March 15, 1920 - February 7, 1998) was an American novelist. Lawrence Sanders was born in Brooklyn. After public school he went to Wabash College where he obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree. He returned to New York and started to work at Macy's Department Store. In 1943 he joined the United States Marine Corps and was discharged in 1946. Sanders was a former magazine editorial writer and later turned to a full-time fiction writer. - Goethe Link
Dr. Goethe Link (1879-1980) was a noted Indianapolis surgeon who specialized in the treatment of Goitre and thyroid problems, developing many innovative surgical techniques for these conditions. He was born in Pike County, Indiana and went to high school in Petersburg, Indiana. After two years at Wabash College he transferred to Indiana University and received the M.D. degree in 1902. - Raymond E. Willis
Raymond Eugene Willis (August 11, 1875 - March 21, 1956) was a United States Senator from Indiana. Born in Waterloo, Indiana, he attended the public schools and graduated from Wabash College (Crawfordsville in 1896. He learned the printer's trade in Waterloo and moved to Angola, Indiana and engaged in the newspaper publishing business in 1898. - Stan Parrish
Stan Parrish is a college football coach. He was head coach at Wabash College, Marshall University and Kansas State University. He is currently offensive coordinator at Ball State University. Parrish had a highly-successful 42-3-1 stay as head coach at Division III Wabash College from 1979-1982, where he coached future NFL player Pete Metzelaars. Parrish next coached one year as an assistant at Purdue University, where he tutored future NFL quarterback Jim Everett. - John L. Wilson
John Lockwood Wilson (August 7, 1850-November 6, 1912) was an American lawyer and politician from the U.S. states of Indiana and Washington. He served in the U.S. House of Representatives (1889-1895) and U.S. Senate (1895-1899) Wilson was born in Crawfordsville, Indiana, the son of James Wilson, a U.S. Representative. He attended the common schools and was a messenger during the American Civil War. - Chris Denari
Chris Denari is the television play-by-play announcer for the Indiana Pacers and Indiana Fever on FSN Indiana. He is also a member of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Radio Network. Prior to joining the Pacers broadcast team in 2006, he was Sports Director at WXIN-TV and the radio voice of Butler University basketball. Denari is the graduate of Wabash College, and he and his wife are the parents of three sons. - Century Milstead
Century Allen "Wally" Milstead (1900-1963) was a collegiate and professional American football player. He played at Wabash College and at Yale University, where his play earned him All-America recognition. He went on to play with the professional Philadelphia Quakers and New York Giants. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1977. - Amos Lawrence
Amos Lawrence, (b. 22 April 1786, Groton, Massachusetts - d. 31 December 1852, Boston, Massachusetts) was the son of Samuel Lawrence, a Revolutionary War officer, and the founder of Groton Academy, (now Lawrence Academy at Groton), where his son, Amos, was educated. In 1799, Lawrence became a clerk at a country store in Dunstable, Massachusetts. In 1804 he moved to Boston and founded a dry-goods mercantile, which became extraordinarily successful. - Joseph E. McDonald
Joseph Ewing McDonald was a United States Representative and Senator from Indiana. Born in Butler County, Ohio, he moved with his mother to Montgomery County, Indiana in 1826 and apprenticed to the saddler’s trade when twelve years of age in La Fayette, Indiana. He attended Wabash College, (Crawfordsville) and graduated from Asbury University (Greencastle, Indiana; now DePauw University) in 1840. He studied law in La Fayette and was admitted to the bar in 1843, … - Wilbur Cortez Abbott
Wilbur Cortez Abbott (1869-1947) was an American historian and educator, born at Kokomo, Ind., and graduated from Wabash College in 1892. Afterward, he studied at Cornell University (1892-95 and at Oxford in 1897 where he received the degree of B. Litt. In the United States, he worked at various institutions of higher learning (Cornell, University of Michigan, Dartmouth, University of Kansas, Yale). - T. C. Steele
Theodore Clement Steele (December 11, 1847-July 24, 1926) was an American Impressionist painter known for his Indiana landscapes. Steele was born in Owen County, Indiana and later moved to Indianapolis after study in Cincinnati, Chicago and Munich. He is considered to be the most important of the Hoosier Group of painters and his work is widely collected by museums and individuals. - Caleb Mills
Caleb Mills (1806-1879) was an American educator and the first principal of Wabash College. He helped to construct the public education system of Indiana. - Glenn Albert Black
Glenn Albert Black was an influential archaeologist of the United States. He was born 18 August 1900 in Indianapolis, Indiana and died 2 September 1964. He began serious archaeological work before there were many training opportunities in archaeology in the United States, and did not receive a college degree until the award of an honorary degree from Wabash College in 1951. - Robert Eugene Allen
Robert Eugene Allen (born 1935) was a U.S. telecommunications businessman. He was the president of AT&T between 1986 and 1988. He also served as its CEO and chairman from 1988 until 1997. Robert Allen graduated from Wabash College in Crawfordsville, Indiana with his bachelors degree in political science in 1957. From 1990 he served on the board of Pepsico. - Wabash
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